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The incumbent will oversee the Post Closing Functions, processing and monitoring of loan modifications, records management, and perform day to day operational related activities which will include : Perform post close review of mortgage closing documents (for all channels such as CORE, RIA etc.) to ensure all necessary documents have been received and are properly executed. Works closely with closing agents on exception conditions and documents as noted in post-closing review while performing background research for all post-closing requests. Incumbent is responsible for the processing and monitoring of all modification requests (for all channels such as CORE, RIA etc.) which includes preparing documents, producing and distributing of reports, and working with outside counsel to ensure all documentation is received and executed accurately and timely. Working with Mortgage Banking Officers, Account Executives and Client Service Analysts, the Post Closing Account Executive must ensure that all modification requests are executed by the loan servicing department. Incumbent oversees the records management function for the business unit by updating and maintaining the database. S/he handles all vault requests including the accurate maintenance, retrieval and dissemination of mortgage loan documentation. S/he works closely with offsite vendor in the shipping and receipt of files. Monitors and controls record retention with offsite vendor, while serving as the main point of contact within the records management vendor. Incumbent will work with management in the completion of any on-going audit requests in addition to time sensitive special assignments pertinent to the business unit. The incumbent will assist in the compliance management area of the department by completing monthly audits and aiding in monthly file review, support the Client Risk Analysts in the vendor management area, while working closely with loan servicing department on the tracking, execution and completion of loan modifications, loan payoff and CEMA requests. The incumbent must have the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment, and complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner, work independently and have the capability to determine if an issue requires escalation for resolution. Incumbent will regularly interact with internal Mortgage Banking Officers and Account Executives to ensure maximum customer service and adherence to strict compliance regulations.
BA/BS or equivalent experience is preferred. 3-5 years related mortgage experience, including experience in post-closing and mortgage file review required. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong interpersonal skills are necessary. Proven work history of overseeing all aspects of individual mortgage post closings on a national basis.
BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
Primary Location: United States-Massachusetts-Boston
Internal Jobcode: 33112
Job: Wealth Management
Organization: WM Private Banking-HR14968
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High profile health trade unionist Yunus Bakhsh could be sacked this week after health bosses decided to press ahead with a disciplinary hearing against him – despite Yunus not being well enough to attend.
Yunus's GP and the trust's own occupational health specialists have all agreed that Yunus needs time to recover before being able to sit before such a panel.
Nevertheless bosses at Northumbria, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust decided to continue in his absence – rendering their hearing little more than a kangaroo court.

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By Holly Jo Linzay, Regional Reporter
LAFAYETTE (LBM) – A group of Louisiana attorneys believe the time has come to band together in order to actively preserve, protect and promote Christian values as the fundamental basis for the laws in the country.
"It is time to take a stand and be a voice," said Kent Aguillard, a lawyer from Eunice.
Aguillard, along with 60 other lawyers, have formed the Louisiana Association of Christian Lawyers, Inc., the first of its kind in the state, according to a statement provided to the Baptist Message.
These lawyers are organizing to answer to a higher power and a greater authority than the political whims of a society brimming with moral decay, he said. The Louisiana Association of Christian Lawyers, Inc. was created, according to Aguillard, for the purpose of providing a forum and opportunity for group participation by individual attorneys who are dedicated and biblically inspired to uphold and promote those laws which are based on Christian values and principals, and which confirm the country's "trust in God."
"There's an erosion of the strong, moral code we had in this country. There used to be standards that just weren't crossed. Now the lines are getting blurred," Aguillard observed.
"For more than 200 years, certain moral values were the norm in the country," he added. "Historically, the Bible was very important in government in the United States," noting that John Jay, the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who also was president of the American Bible Society, advocated reading and studying the Bible.
According to Aguillard, the lawyers in the LACL believe the Bible is the inherent, infallible Word of God and they want to be able to inform the public about laws which might affect their personal liberty.
It is mandatory all Louisiana lawyers belong to the Louisiana State Bar Association to be able to practice law in the state, and the group tried to get the LSBA to establish a section for the preservation of Christian values. But multiple attempts failed, Aguillard said, due to liberal influences.
"It was very evident Christian lawyers in this state needed an organization, not controlled by the Louisiana State Bar Association, that existed to preserve Christian liberties," said Aguillard. "Therefore, the Louisiana Association of Christian Lawyers Inc. will establish a forum of its own and will be independent of the LSBA this June."
A kickoff meeting of the Louisiana Association of Christian Lawyers, Inc. is slated for June 3-8 in Destin, Florida during the annual meeting of the LSBA.


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Hariri stepped down from his post during a televised address more than a week ago from Riyadh and has remained there, sparking rumours he was under de facto house arrest.
But he pledged during a television interview on Sunday night that he would be home within days, a development welcomed by Aoun.
"I was happy with Prime Minister Hariri's announcement that he would return to Lebanon soon," Aoun said on Twitter.
"I am awaiting this return to discuss with the prime minister the issue of the resignation, the reasons for it and the circumstances, issues, and concerns that need to be resolved," he added in an emailed statement.
Aoun had said on Sunday that Hariri appeared to be "restricted" in his movements and demanded Riyadh clarify why he had not returned to Beirut.
In Sunday's interview with his party's Future TV, Hariri, 47, said he was free to travel and would return to Lebanon in "two or three days".
"I will return to Lebanon very soon to initiate the necessary constitutional procedures," he said with reference to his resignation.
Lebanese fear that a new power vacuum in their country could put it in the crosshairs of rising regional tensions between Riyadh and Tehran.
And France's Foreign Minister on Monday said his country was "worried by the situation in Lebanon" and wanted to see the government there "stabilise as quickly as possible".
A fragile balance has ruled over Lebanon since a complex political deal a year ago brought Aoun to the presidency and Hariri to the premiership.
"It will still be possible to save this political settlement if the government truly and practically commits to the disassociation policy," said Samir Geagea, a Christian ally of Hariri, on Monday.
"Especially when it comes to Hezbollah's withdrawal from Syria and the crises of the region," Geagea wrote on Twitter.
The "disassociation policy" refers to an agreement among political factions that Lebanon would not get involved in regional conflicts.
Hariri has blasted Iran and its Shia ally Hezbollah -- an ally of Aoun and a member of the Lebanese government -- for intervening militarily in Syria and Yemen.
He said he could walk back from his resignation if Lebanese factions seriously committed to keeping out of these conflicts.
Aoun -- who has yet to formally accept the premier's resignation -- said on Monday he "acknowledged" Hariri's comments on reversing the decision.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry categorically denied interfering in Lebanon's politics.
"Lebanon's internal affairs concern Lebanon, and we never intervene in the internal affairs of other countries," Bahram Ghassemi said.
"Hariri's resignation was sudden and suspect, but we hope that with his interview last night, he will return to Lebanon as soon as possible so that the legal process of his resignation can be applied," he added, in quotes reported by state media.
Hariri was still in Riyadh on Monday, where he met with the German and British ambassadors to the kingdom.
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Cyber Shield HELPS PREVENT DISASTER
Hacked devices, crashed websites, breached networks, denials of service, copied emails, and other cyber incidents have become commonplace. Most organizations have developed some level of cyber incidence response capabilities.
Avoiding a cyber crisis often comes down to properly managing a cyber incident before, during, and after it unfolds. A core component includes an enterprise data protection solution that has a holistic view of the entire datacenter/s with the appropriate features and functionality tightly woven into the core architecture, not another add-on feature.
Preparation is essential to avoiding exposure. Compass readiness includes vigilant 24/7 monitoring, proactive problem avoidance, and automated software currency to ensure that enterprise data protection is battle ready at all times.
Proper technology response can dramatically limit the negative impact of a cyber attack. Compass' rapid, coordinated execution to resolve incidents minimizes downtime, data loss, cost, and reputation damage.
Quickly returning to normal operations is only the beginning. Compass delivers rapid restore functions as well as analytics-driven insights to fortify data protection against future attacks.
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1.5 million cyber attacks occur every year, which translates to over 4,000 attacks every day, 170 every hour, or nearly three every minute.
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Isaiah 22:1 The heuy burthen, apon the valley of Visions. What hast thou there to do, that thou clymnest vp in to the house toppe, Isaiah 22:2 o thou citie of miracles, sedicious and wilfull? seinge, thy slayne me are nether killed wt swerde, ner deed in batel? Isaiah 22:3 For all thy captaynes gat them to their horses from the ordinaunce, yee they are altogether rydden awaye, and fled farre of. Isaiah 22:4 When I perceaued yt, I sayde: awaye fro me, yt I maye wepe bytterly. Take no laboure for to coforte me, as touchinge the destruction of my people. Isaiah 22:5 For this is ye daye of the LORDE of hoostes, wherin he will plage, treade downe, and wede out the valley of Visios, and breake downe the walles, with soch a crack, that it shal geue a sownde in the mountaynes. Isaiah 22:6 I sawe the Elamites take the quyuers to carte and to horse, and that the walles were bare from harnesse. Isaiah 22:7 Thy goodly valleys were ful of Charettes, the horse men made them soone to besege the gates.
Isaiah 22:8 Then was the coueringe of Iuda put from thence, and then was sene the sege of the tymbre house. Isaiah 22:9 There shal ye se the riftes in the walles of the cite of Dauid, wherof there shalbe many. Ye shal gather together the waters of the lower pole, Isaiah 22:10 and tel the houses of Ierusale, and break of some of the to kepe ye walles. Isaiah 22:11 And ye shal make a pyt betwyxte ye twayne walles of the water of the olde pole, and nothinge regarde him, that toke it in honde and made it. Isaiah 22:12 And at the same tyme shal ye LORDE of hoostes cal me to wepinge mourninge, to baldnesse and puttinge on of sack clothe. Isaiah 22:13 But they to fulfil their lust and wilfulnes, slaugter oxe, they kyll shepe, they eate costly meate, & drynke wyne: let vs eate and drinke, tomorow we shal die. Isaiah 22:14 Neuertheles whe the LORDE of hoostes herde of it, he sayde: yee, yf this wickednes of yours shalbe remitted, ye must die for it. This hath ye LORDE God of hoostes spoken.
Isaiah 22:15 Thus sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes: Go in to the treasury vnto Sobna the gouernoure, and saye vnto him: Isaiah 22:16 What hast thou here to do? & from whece comest thou? that thou hast made the a graue here? For he had caused a costly tombe of stone to be made for himself, and a place to lye in to be hewen out of a rock. Isaiah 22:17 Beholde the LORDE shal cast the out by violence, he will deck the of another fashion, and put vpon the a straunge clothe. Isaiah 22:18 He shal carie ye in to a farre coutre, like a ball with his hondes, There shalt thou die, there shal the pompe of thy charettes haue an ende: thou vylleyne of the house of thy LORDE: Isaiah 22:19 I wil shute the out of thine office, and put the from thine estate.
Isaiah 22:20 After this wil I cal my seruaunt Eliakim, ye sonne of Helkia, Isaiah 22:21 and araye him with thy cote, and gyrde him with thy gyrdle, and I wil geue thy power in to his honde He shalbe a father of the citisens of Ierusalem, and of the Kynred of Iuda. Isaiah 22:22 I will also laye the keye of Dauids house vpon his shulders, and yf he open, no man shal shit, and yf he do shyt, no man shal open. Isaiah 22:23 I wil fasten him to a nale in the place of the most hie faithfulnesse, and he shalbe vpon the glorius trone of his fathers house. Isaiah 22:24 They shal hage vpon him all the glory of his fathers house, of the children and childers childre, all apparel small and great, all instrumentes of measure & musike. Isaiah 22:25 This shal come to passe, (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) when the nale, yt is fastened to the place of the highest faithfulnesse: shalbe pluckt of, And whe the weight that hangeth vpon it, shal fall, be broken, and hewen in peces. For the LORDE himself hath sayde it.


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Put your clocks forward and celebrate the start of long evenings in Victoria in October. Get your annual dose of high art during the thought-provoking Melbourne International Arts Festival, mixing it up with Spring Racing Carnival glamour. Take advantage of more daylight hours to head into Victoria's regions. Get the motor running at the Phillip Island Motorcycle Grand Prix. Gippsland plays host to Victoria's first Ballet Under the Stars, with The Australian Ballet performing the much-loved classic Giselle.
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Aubergines Nutrition: What is it? Amazing Health Benefits
Aubergines: history and origins
Aubergine's origins are not yet certain, but it seems that this vegetable spread firstly in the hot regions of Southern Asia and more precisely in India, as well as in China.
Where it is likely that this fruit and vegetable product was already cultivated in the Stone Age.
Aubergines are not mentioned for a long time and Greek or Roman names that indicate the etymology of this fruit and vegetable product are not known: for this reason it is more likely that aubergines were not known in Europe during the Greek-Roman era.
However this fresh vegetable is mentioned in the XIII century, when aubergines began to be cultivated in Northern Africa.
It is only around 1400 that aubergines were introduced by Arabs in the Western regions and in Europe.
Even though only in the areas that for climatic reasons were more favorable to their growth.
It is certain, in fact, that in the XV century aubergines were introduced by Arabs, firstly in Spain and then in Italy.
And more precisely in Sicily, where still today there is the largest cultivation of aubergines in Italy.
Since its introduction in Europe, the name of this fruit and vegetable product came from the Arab word "badingian": in Italy was added the prefix "melo", becoming "melo-badingian", later "melangiana" and then "melanzana", name that traditionally was interpreted as "mela non sana" (not healthy apple).
Because the aubergine is a fresh vegetable that is not eatable raw, but only after being cooked (aubergines, are unpleasant and slightly poisonous when raw because they contain solanine).
Curiously, in some Italian regions the Arab word "badigian" was instead preceded by the prefix "petro" and for this reason.
Until the first years of 1800 in some texts where aubergines were mentioned, this vegetable was called "petronciano".
For a long time
Aubergines did not have a great success: in the Middle Ages, it was thought that this vegetable could cause madness. However, aubergines are mentioned in a text dated 1550 (Treat above the cultivation of kitchen gardens) written by the Italian scientist Soderini.
In the past, aubergines were stored and consumed pickled, adding some flavoured and hot spices; more recently, during the WWII (1939-1945).
The leaves of aubergines were dried at the sun and used by farmers instead of tobacco, that was difficult to find, to produce cigarettes and cigars.
The history of aubergines, even though turbulent and non-continuative.
Has very old origins that are traced back to the Stone Age until aubergines have increasingly rooted in modern culture gaining, thanks to their great versatility.
A lot of space in the modern fruit and vegetable market.
In the world fruit and vegetable sector countless different varieties of aubergines are produced and nowadays the aubergine is one of the fresh vegetables with more varieties produced and traded on the international fruit and vegetable market.
Nowadays, there are many companies that produce aubergines, certified companies for the production of aubergines, producers of aubergines, companies that produce organic aubergines, companies that deal with the trade of aubergines and packaging of aubergines, retailers of aubergines, importers of aubergines.
Exporters of aubergines and wholesalers of aubergines: such a range of varieties has increased competition among world countries (EU-members and not) for the production of aubergines and the trade of aubergines.
Health Benefits Of Aubergines
Aid in Digestion
Eggplants, like many other vegetables, are great sources of dietary fiber, a necessary element in any balanced diet.
Fiber is essential for gastrointestinal health, as well as for regular bowel movements.
It bulks up your stool so they pass more easily through the digestive tract.
While also stimulating peristaltic motion, the contraction of the smooth muscles that help food pushed out of the body.
Finally, fiber stimulates the secretion of gastric juices that facilitate absorption of nutrients and the processing of foods.
Fiber has also been linked to the reduction in heart diseases as well, since it eliminates some of the bad LDL cholesterol that can clog arteries and veins.
Resulting in atherosclerosis, heart attacks, and strokes.
Helps prevent anemia
A rich source of iron, eggplants increase the production of red blood cells in the body and thus help fight anemia or iron deficiency which is common in females.
Now that you know all the health benefits of eating eggplants regularly, don't shy away from this wonderful vegetable.
There are several ways in which they can be made appealing and easier to consume for those who detest eating them.
For instance, adding it to a simple sandwich or a whole grain burger does wonders.
You can toss them with pasta or bake with cheese and other vegetables. Smokey, roasted eggplants are lovely with some light sauce.
These are just few options to get you going.
Improve Bone Health
There are a number of benefits to bone health that come from eggplants. Which is very good for people at higher risk of bone degradation and osteoporosis.
Phenolic compounds are what give eggplants and many other fruits their unique coloration.
These compounds have also been linked to reduced signs of osteoporosis, stronger bones, and increased bone mineral density.
Eggplants also have significant amounts of iron and calcium, which are integral to bone health and overall strength.
Finally, the amount of potassium in eggplants helps in the uptake of calcium.
Making eggplants a comprehensive and highly useful booster for osteoporosis and bone health.
Improves Nerve Function
Eating eggplant on a regular and moderate basis is very beneficial for improving our brain function because of the presence of phytonutrients in them.
These phytonutrients boost our brain activity and also improves our general mental health.
Being a good source of antioxidants, eggplant is also useful for protecting our brain cells from the oxidative damage caused by the free radicals of our body and reduces the risk of cognitive diseases like Alzheimer's diseases, dementia etc.
The iron present in eggplant improves the flow of oxygenated blood to our nerve cells and thus improves their functionality.
They are also a good source of potassium which is a vasodilator that reduces stress from our brain and improves its functionality.
Reduces The Risk Of Cancers
Eating eggplant on a regular and moderate basis is very beneficial for reducing the risk of several types of cancer because of the presence of antioxidants like vitamin C in it.
These antioxidants fight with the free radicals of our body and prevents them from causing damage to our body cells.
Generally speaking, free radicals are nothing but the unstabilized ions that get formed due to the oxidation of food in our body.
As they are unstabilized so they steal electrons from the molecule of our body cells and thus cause damage to them and this gives rise to premature aging, weakened the immune system, increased risk of cancer and so on.
The antioxidants present in eggplant prevents these free radicals from causing oxidative damage to our body.
In addition to this, eggplant also contains some unusual antioxidants like nasunin and chlorogenic acid which prevents free radicals damage.
Improve Brain Function
Eggplants are wonderful sources of phytonutrients. Which have long been known as boosters for cognitive activity and general mental health.
They not only defend against the free radical activity and keep your body and brain safe from toxins and diseases but they also increase blood flow to the brain.
By delivering more oxygen-rich blood to the brain. They stimulate neural pathways to develop, boosting the powers of memory and analytic thoughts.
The potassium in eggplants also acts as a vasodilator and a brain booster, so overall, they should definitely be called "brain food".
Differences Between Aubergine And Eggplant
What is an aubergine?
Aubergine is a word that is commonly used in British English.
Almost all of the native British English speakers know about this word.
And this word means an eggplant in American English. So basically, aubergine and eggplant refers to the same thing.
If you are living in London or some places in Europe, you might be very familiar with aubergine.
Just like the eggplant in the American English, aubergine is also widely used in cooking food menus in some European countries.
One of the famous recipes for aubergine is Melanzane alla Parmigiana which is very much popular as an Italian food. Aubergine got its name from its color.
They call it aubergine because in European countries. Aubergine means a purple-brownish color, which is similar to the color of an eggplant.
Aubergine vs Eggplant
You may have heard the word aubergine or the word eggplant in different parts of the world.
The word eggplant is very widely used in American English.
Al`most all native speakers of American English would understand what an eggplant is. It is a dark purple fruit that is typically used in cooking.
It got its name from its shape, which looks like an egg, thus making it an eggplant. But not all people in different parts of the world know about the word eggplant.
They may have eggplants in their place but they never named them eggplants.
How do aubergine and eggplant differ from each other?
The truth is aubergines and eggplants are one and the same thing.
The only difference between the two is that the word aubergine is widely used by the people living in the European countries, while eggplant is widely used by the people living in United States.
So if your chef comes from the European countries then he will call it an aubergine. And if your chef comes from the United States, he may call it an eggplant.
If you are wise enough to know both words you will realize that both words refer to the same thing.
Sometimes the language barrier is a factor in whether you can understand a word. Most of the times, the word from other languages is different.


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Project Description
The client liked their existing cabinet work and we needed to created bathroom vanities to match.
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Two small bathrooms meant a small working space. We also had to match materials from a previous construction and match grains and finishes to keep a consistent look and feel throughout the home.


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Midlothian Council and Police Scotland are warning local residents against buying fish from rogue traders, following the arrest of five men in Bonnyrigg on Tuesday (December 6).
The men, all from the north of England, were arrested as part of a dedicated operation to tackle food-related crime involving police, trading standards, Food Standards Scotland and local authorities across the country.
The men, aged 18, 31, 45, 46 and 54, have been charged with trading standards and licensing offences and are expected to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on January 27, 2017.
The operation was set up after an increase in unscrupulous doorstep sellers using aggressive sales tactics to off-load fish which is of questionable quality as it is neither packaged or stored properly.
Councillor Jim Bryant (SNP), who has responsibility for trading standards and environmental health, said:
"The council's general advice would be not to buy anything from doorstep sellers who are unknown to you. If anyone feels uncomfortable with a trader's presence, they should politely ask them to leave or close the front door and contact a relative, friend or neighbour for support. These traders are not only a nuisance to local residents but also to the legitimate businesses that they undercut with their inferior goods. If in doubt just say 'No' - do not be intimidated by cold callers."
Sergeant Michele Lindsay based at Penicuik Police Station said: "These incidents have caused considerable concern for the community, and following a social media appeal we issued on Monday we were contacted by a large number of people who had been approached by rogue doorstep sellers or had seen suspicious activity in their area.
"I want to thank everyone who came forward as this information was vital in helping us develop our operation this week and take the action that resulted in five arrests. If anyone does have any concerns about potential rogue traders, please contact police or the Council's Trading Standard's Team immediately."
The Council can provide local residents with 'No Doorstep Sellers' signs to tell traders that they are not wanted at the property. Anyone wanting a sign should contact the Council on 0131 271 3549. Anyone wishing to report suspicious rogue traders can also contact the council on this number, or the Police on 101, or the Citizens Advice Consumer Service 03454 040506.


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Crashed plane's voice recorder useless to probe
THE cockpit voice recorder from the Air Algerie flight that crashed last month in northern Mali, killing all 116 passengers and crew, is unintelligible, investigators said yesterday.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft, en route to Algiers, smashed into the ground on July 24 south of the town of Gossi, near the border with Burkina Faso.
Experts in Paris have been examining the two "black boxes" retrieved from the wreckage of the plane.
The team has been unable to extract information from one, Remi Jouty, president of France's BEA air accident investigator, told a news conference.
The voice recorder on the 18-year-old aircraft used magnetic audio tape, a system replaced in more recent aircraft by digital technology.
The tape was broken or crumpled in places and had to be repaired but the pilots' conversations still could not be understood.
"There is sound on the tape but it is unintelligible," said Jouty, whose agency has been asked to support Mali's investigation.
"The device seemed to be recording but we don't yet know why it did not work, except that this was not a result of the crash itself," he told reporters, adding that first indications were that it was a "simple technical problem".
The pilots had asked for permission to alter their route because of a storm after taking off from the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou.
The jet made a detour to steer around the storm cell, but as it did so it gradually lost some height and speed, according to data from the other black box presented at the news conference yesterday.
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The Crescent
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands
The Brooklyn Pizza + Pasta is an Italian-American restaurant located in the mixed-use community of Camana Bay in the Seven Mile Beach area of Grand Cayman. The Brooklyn offers diners a modern and trendy interior dining room and outdoor seating with waterfront views along the Crescent of Camana Bay. The cuisine is a fusion of traditional American comfort food and Italian cuisine with wood-fired oven pizzas, salads, sandwiches, and pastas on the menu.
Good For
Pizza and pasta, family meals, people watching
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You May Be Being Angrily Smothered
Boundary Crossing is Going On
Advice: It's your life, when are you going to start living it?
Your score suggests that you may have a relative in your life who is overstepping your boundaries and weakening your personal power. There is a possibility that your relative uses rage attacks as a means to control you.
When you experience an attack of rage it is an assault to your dignity. To disrespect another person in this way can never be justified. If someone in your life is treating you this way, it is vital for you to reclaim your personal power by establishing healthy boundaries.
While your relative may love you, it is not a healthy kind of love. The kind of love you experience is conditional and smothering.
Establishing boundaries with your angry martyr does not mean fighting them back with rage. To shift your relationship into a more healthy space, you will need to learn the power of saying a firm 'no' to acts of control that are put upon you. It's your life, and you get to choose how you are going to live it.
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VR video cameras consist of anywhere from as few as 2 lenses and sensors, to as many as 20+. In all cases, VR cameras produce raw videos that need to be analyzed and "stitched" together to form the raw video elements that are then used to edit together a final 180/360 degree, mono or 3d, VR video.
Most commercial camera systems are often bundled with software that will perform a high-quality stitch for that camera. But many stitchers offer additional functionality, performance, and quality. Let's review some of the leading stitchers on the market.LEARN ABOUT SPIN STUDIO STITCHER
Let's review the core steps that a video stitching software must go through in order to analyze, arrange, composite, and produce a high-resolution master. All VR video stitchers go through theses steps; some present each of these functions in their UI and workflow, while others more fully automate the process. Depending on the level of control you need for a given set of videos you may need more intervention (and thus cost/time) to "stitch" your video to the quality you need. Generally, more automation, with less intervention, will be a faster, higher value/lower-cost, workflow and allow you to focus on telling your story with less post-production hassles.
VR video cameras produce a lot of video data. If the VR camera writes all of the VR video footage captured for a 360 degree video onto 1 single memory card, that means that the absolute data-rate for the entire scene will be relatively low! Some cameras produce multiple streams onto multiple cards, which leads to a lot of data management and organization challenges, but yields more raw data from which to gather a high-resolution VR video. Getting all the videos off the camera's media, and onto a local computer where it can be organized is the first step of stitching video. For Live streaming, you'll be receiving video signals into a central input switch where the stitching software can receive the signals.
With the videos in one place, the next step for VR video stitching is for the software to analyze the individual video streams and compare each of them to one-another, in search of the common features found between the videos. These overlapping features allow the software to "solve" for how the cameras were set up and how their images relate to one-another. With this "camera solution", the software can orient and distort each video so that they can be aligned and composited together, usually as a equirectangular projection map that represents the full 360 degree video, as a rectangular image. Some stitching software offer a set of templates for known cameras, but do not inherently have the features to analyze and "solve" for camera rigs they are unfamiliar with.
VR video stitching software will tend to solve the camera alignment elegantly, but have no good guesses as to where the horizon is in a scene, and where you will want to place the "center" of the scene (where the viewer will be gazing by default). This is an inherent challenge since the cameras are often rotated on several axis during the shoot, in order to better align the key action being filmed, against the center of as many of the lens and sensors in the VR camera rig. Interactive click/drag gestures, along with Yaw/Pitch/Rotation sliders are used in combination to balance out the horizon and then rotate the field-of-view to center the gaze in the clip. Some stitchers accomplish these steps with a few clicks, others require more wrestling with the controls.
The camera solution aligns all the images, but an additional analysis to create a "scene graph" where the images can be cut/blended together, must be evaluated and applied so that "seems" and clear cuts between the edges of each of the videos are less apparent. Depending on the camera setup, there may be a wide-range of overlapping areas between the cameras, allowing for more flexibility in choosing the graph/cut. With fewer cameras, there is less image area to choose from. Most stitching software will try to solve this problem fully automatically for the user; others will offer several tools to manually adjust these boundaries, which is accomplished with spline/area editors that are similar to rotoscoping tools for compositing and visual effects.
The individual cameras in the VR rig are often set to differing exposure settings–for example, one camera may be pointed directly into the sun in an outdoor setting, while the opposite camera will be directly away from the sun. These exposure differences mean that clear color and brightness/contrast variations need to be normalized across each video stream, so that the overall balance of the final rendered stitched video is uniform and appears to have been photographed with a global exposure balance. Further grading and color correction and effects may be added afterwards–but if the original stitch is not balanced, it will be very hard to salvage the shot later in post-production.
Most VR video cameras will be used with the camera firmly balanced and leveled to horizon on a tripod or stand which will appear in the shot, along with possible rigging or crew members that need to be removed from the scene. The process for cleaning these elements out of the plate is identical to rig-removal in traditional video, and involves either inserting a clear-patch that has been photographed for this purpose, or using cloning/patching tools in image editors like Adobe Photoshop, and then compositing these into the scene. Most VR video stitchers do not consider this step directly as part of the stitching process, rather, they leave this to post-processing software later in the production.
Pixvana's SPIN Studio includes a integrated "Prep" module that can stitch both mono and 3d/stereo footage from a variety of cameras. Just upload the raw videos directly from your camera's memory cards to our cloud. SPIN Studio will analyze, stitch, color correct, and output at the maximum resolution possible (ranging from 4-10k depending on your camera configuration).
Cloud stitching has tremendous "elastic computation" advantages over any desktop software, as dozens or even hundreds of GPU servers can be spun-up in parallel. If your project has 20 shots that are each 3 minutes long, all 60 minutes of footage can be stitched at the same time, divided across several hundred machines in our data-centers. Welcome to super-stitching!
Post-production software for VR video stitching has an emphasis on handling different camera configurations and on prioritizing high quality output and flexible workflows. These stitchers tend to have more control, produce higher resolution outputs at 8k and above resolution, and have built-in ability to make corrections and re-render the stitching. Post stitching can be done either on desktop computers or in elastic cloud grids where many more computers can be assigned to a single stitching job, greatlly accelerating performance.
Stitchers that handle "live" stitching focus on taking video input from multiple video streams and applying a camera solve, color balance, and output to 4k or lower resolution, which can then be uplinked to a data-center, encoded into various streaming resolutions, and then in as little latency as possible, connect that stream to VR headsets or Youtube or Facebook web-pages. The above image is from Suphersphere's set-up for live production. Live stitchers will always be desktop based, as stitching is done in a production rig on-location–there is currently too much data generated from the VR video camera to send all of that data to the cloud. Stitching happens locally at the event, then the 4k stream is uploaded for simul-broadcast.
Choosing between VR video stitching software for either Live or Post-Production workflows is easy, as no packages on the market do both well. Post oriented stitchers are great at what they do and will have more control and output higher quality results including at 8k and above resolutions necessary to achieve maximum immersion. Live streaming stitchers are awesome at what they do, including sending streams to Youtube and Facebook's live 360 video players where large audiences can be reached. So choosing which application is right for your project will lead your considerations for Live or Post stitching options.
Mistika VR is a desktop based stitcher that is part of a larger family of compositing and effects tools from Spanish company SGO. Mistika VR focusses on offering a fine level of manual control and correction for rotoscoping edges, applying optical flow analysis between seems of cameras, and high performance on a single desktop workstation. Mistika VR includes support for over 40 camera configurations, which come as presets that can be loaded for a given camera system.
Mistika VR produces high quality stitched VR video that can be uploaded and integrated with Pixvana SPIN Studio for editing and publishing.
Kolor Autopano Video is a 15 year-old desktop software product that was originally developed for still photography panoramas and was later adapted to 360 video. Since the acquisition of Kolor by GoPro in 2015 its development has focused on integration with GoPro cameras and consumer media efforts. It should be noted this package also requires Autopano Giga to actually edit the stitch–the two apps worked together, and require jumping back-and-forth between the apps depending on what configuration/step is being applied.
Kolor Autopano Video produces stitched VR video that can be uploaded and integrated with Pixvana SPIN Studio for editing and publishing.
Nuke is an advanced visual effects desktop software application used primarily to manipulate and combined multiple images. It has a steep price and learning curve but has established itself as the leading high-end visual effects package for feature film films VFX work. In 2016 Foundry, the company that makes Nuke, added a specialized plugin package to work with VR videos to make the process more controllable and flexible.
Cara VR Plugin is NOT a "press the button and stitch" type of solution and was not designed to be. A skilled VFX artist who is already familiar with Nuke can refine every step in the stitching process with tremendous specific control. Cara exposes the camera solver, adjustments, warping and compositing functions–and all individual parameters and values can be manipulated using the entire suite of Nuke features. Cara also includes a stabilizer and 3D tracker designed to work with VR and is flexible enough to deal with any camera rig, including custom rigs. Stereo controls are incorporated. For high-end VR video projects with the budgets and trained VFX experts on the team that will be required–this is perhaps the most configurable VR video stitching solution on the market. Nuke pricing starts at ~$4,500, and Cara VR will add another $4,000+ USD to the package.
Other visual effects software packages that can handle 360 video images for manipulation and adding motion graphics include Adobe After Effects which now incorporates a number of specialized functions, and Black Magic Design Fusion 9 VR.
Most VR camera manufacturers bundle basic stitching functionality with their cameras so that. footage shot can be stitched into a usable panoramic 360 video. In some consumer cameras the stitching may happen inside the camera during recording, or through a companion application running on a mobile smartphone that is connected via wifi to the camera.
For higher-quality stitching a dedicated desktop software is included for Mac/Windows. The quality and features of these stitchers varies greatly, which is why there are many 3rd party stitcher solutions that add advanced features, higher quality and more atomic control over behavior of the stitching, or cloud support for vastly improved speed and throughput when stitching lots of footage simultaneously on multiple servers.
Here are some of. the bundled sofwtare that are included with various cameras:
Pixvana's SPIN Studio includes a advanced, highly automated, highly scalable VR video stitcher. Here are some of the top capabilities:
Our production team shares their production notes from producing VR video at Comicon San Diego. Read Blog Post
Unless XR creators shoot high-resolution video masters, their media will become obsolete when headset and camera resolution improve. Read Blog Post


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Monday 11 March: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
St Catharine's College, McGrath Centre, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RL
The recently-discovered super-heavy elements with atomic number 114-118 completed the 7th row of the Periodic Table of Dimitri Mendeleev. Professor Yuri Oganessian, after whom the very last of these elements was named, discusses how these new elements were synthesised in the laboratory, and exactly what he and his colleagues saw during their discovery.
He will also speculate on future work, including how many chemical elements might yet be made, and how the Periodic Table will cope with these new elements as their nuclear charge increases.
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Date: 10 Feb 2010 16:15:10 +0100
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I admit to being as compulsive. I have a little book where every bit of data from my bike computer is noted at the end of every trip. Since September 1988 I have cycled 165854 km - which is more than four times round the world. Bully for me! AD --- messvilleto@xxxxxxxxx wrote: From: Joe Hendry <messvilleto@xxxxxxxxx> To: Messenger list <messengers@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [messengers] Cyclist getting his klicks Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 03:58:32 -0800 (PST) Cyclist getting his klicks Spins toward million mark By: Geoff Kirbyson Winnipeg Free Press, February 9, 2010 Lindsay Gauld is no astronaut but the mileage he has piled up over the past four-and-a-half decades is out of this world. His odometer has just passed the 919,000-kilometre mark and at his current pace of about 30,000 km a year, he hopes he'll pass the magic million some time before his 65th birthday in May 2013. Those numbers might be common for airplanes or a space shuttle but Gauld, 61, has done it all on a bicycle. (Actually, 50 or 60 bicycles.) If you're not a numbers person, Gauld has essentially gone to the moon and back and then nearly half-way to the moon again. Gauld knows how far he has gone because he has tracked his road work since he took up cycling in 1966. As a competitive cyclist, he started graphing his mileage to plan his training properly so he could peak at the proper times. Today, he does it out of habit as a bike courier with Sierra Courier. "It's easier now because I've got a bike computer. I have that goal of one million kilometres now so I do it to keep track. I've always been a compulsive-obsessive," he said. Gauld said he didn't want to put his feet up four years ago after selling Olympia Cycle & Ski, which he founded in 1981, and being a bike courier seemed like a logical thing to do. "It's a healthy way to spend my life. Somehow it feels righteous to keep one car off the road. It's a way of going out riding all day with my wife (Lynne's) blessing," he said. Gauld puts in about 650 km during the work week and then goes for a few "shorter" rides on the weekend. "I'm the opposite of most working people," he said. "They sneak in a little ride during the week and go for longer rides on the weekend. I need a rest by then." Gauld said he believes he is still the only road cyclist from Manitoba ever to make the Olympic team. (During his 208-km race in Munich, he was one of 24 cyclists involved in a crash. He ended up crossing the finish line in 61st place.) "It's more about the journey than the destination," he said. As disappointed as he was to have crashed, Gauld said he quickly realized the relative insignificance of his race, which came three days after 11 Israeli athletes and coaches plus one West German police officer were killed by terrorists in the Munich Massacre. He said the athletes' village consisted of townhouses and the Canadians were only two rows away from where the Israelis were staying. "We could see the police commanders on the roof of the South Koreans' building with machine guns. We were all evacuated from the village at that point. We went through a large parking lot. It was lined with soldiers in trucks with large guns. They weren't sure what was going to happen or where," he said. "The terrorists cut their way through the fence right by the end of our building (when they broke in). I felt really badly for the Israelis. That was the end of innocence in sport." Nearly 40 years after his Olympics, Gauld still races competitively. He completed a 135-mile race on snowmobile trails in Minnesota last weekend. Riding on "big fat-tire bikes" he clocked in at 23 hours and 28 minutes, good for 11th out of 102 riders. He even takes a bike with him when he goes on holidays. Sometimes, if it's going to be too much hassle, he arranges to rent a bike at his destination, as he's doing in Houston later this month. "I'll probably just ride 90 minutes a day. We have other things we want to look at there. If I was just going to ride all day, I might as well stay here," he said, before adding hastily, "if it was a race, though, I'd take my own bike." ------------------------------- Mess media Bryant Watch ================== _______________________________________________ Messengers mailing list Messengers@xxxxxxxxx http://ifbma.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/messengers _____________________________________________________________ email services provided by trackbike.com, your source for alleycat and trackbike photos. submissions welcome.


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AAA Students Step Away to Step Up
Fourteen peer-selected students from Auburn Adventist Academy spent a day away from campus as they sought God's will in a new way.
Along with their Bible teachers, Karyle Barnes and Katelyn Campbell, the students spent a day of reflection at Sunset Lake Camp in Wilkeson preparing for their roles in student week of prayer.
The first questions the students grappled with were why they thought God had chosen them to speak and, of equal consequence, why they said yes to the call. For several students, it was an answered prayer. They had been asking God to give them the opportunity to serve Him and specifically praying that God would make them uncomfortable.
Next, the participants read Scripture passages relating the story of how the disciples were called to service, dissected each calling, and discussed how and why God calls people from all different walks.
To continue their introspection, students were sent outside to partake in a 20-minute discipline of silence with an exercise criterion to be alone with their Bible, notebook and pen out in nature. They were to take time for God to speak, take time to be quiet and listen to God. Students were told to stay alone and not talk or listen to music. The most common reaction to this activity was that the students did not realize how much impact just being still and quiet, alone and thoughtful can have on a person.
"I loved how we went out in nature to talk to God on our own," says Hayden Watson, a senior. "It really spoke to me a lot. I usually think of hearing God through the Bible, but it made me realize that nature is a new way to look at God."
Various activities also helped students bond, like one activity where students had to line up in birthday order.
"We had to do it without talking," says Madlyn Ellis, sophomore. "It took us some tries before putting ourselves correctly, but we learned to rely on each other and that all of us were there for support."
Finally, prayer partners were randomly selected, and students were asked to write one thing they thought the school family most needed. After reading each paper spread over the floor, students stood on the piece of paper they felt most connected to and prayed.
Each student took their paper with them, their footprints a reminder of their commitment to be God's feet, to seek His leading and watch what wonders He performs this year through them.


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Mitochondrial diseases can be classified in a number of different ways.
Often clinicians will refer to 'mitochondrial syndromes', which are names given to a group of patients with similar symptoms and presentation of disease.
The following section gives detailed information on specific mitochondrial syndromes and has been taken directly from the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research website. It is not an exhaustive list but covers the most common syndromes.
This guidance is intended as general advice and it is important to remember that symptoms of mitochondrial disease vary hugely from person to person, even within the same mitochondrial syndrome.
Alpers' syndrome is a mitochondrial disease that is part of a larger group of conditions collectively known as mitochondrial DNA depletion disorders. It is most often caused by mistakes in the DNA of a gene called POLG (pronounced "pawl-gee") and is part of a spectrum of POLG-related diseases. There are a number of other, extremely rare, genetic causes of Alpers'syndrome. The three major clinical features associated with Alpers' syndrome are severe epilepsy, loss of developmental skills (developmental regression) and liver failure.
Who does it affect?
Dr Bernard Alpers first described this very rare condition in young children under the age of 3 years. Since his first description, it has now been reported to also affect older children, adolescents and young adults.
What are the clinical features?
Typically, a young infant develops normally at first and gains weight and skills appropriately. Between 6 and 12 months old seizures begin, which are often very difficult to control with anticonvulsant drugs. Seizures may be generalized, where they involve all four limbs, or focal, where a single limb or one side of the body jerks repeatedly. The jerks are sometimes referred to as 'myoclonic jerks'. The onset of these seizures is associated with a slowing in development and often there is loss of previously gained skills.
What causes Alpers' syndrome?
Alpers' syndrome is most often caused by a genetic mistake in a gene called POLG. This gene provides the instructions needed to make a protein called polymerase gamma, which is responsible for "reading" sequences of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and using them as a template to produce more mtDNA within the mitochondria. If the polymerase gamma doesn't work properly due to mutations within the POLG gene, this can lead to a reduction in the amount or quality of mtDNA in affected tissues. In Alpers' syndrome, the faulty polymerase gamma does not make sufficient mtDNA in liver or brain meaning that these organs are depleted of mtDNA. Other, much rarer causes of Alpers syndrome have been reported including genetic mistakes in genes involved in the process of making mitochondrial proteins such as FARS2, NARS2 and PARS2.
How is Alpers' syndrome inherited?
Alpers' syndrome is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, meaning that an individual must inherit two copies of the faulty gene to develop the condition. Typically, each parent carries one copy of the faulty gene but they do not show signs or symptoms of the condition because they also have a second, normal copy of the POLG gene, which is sufficient to maintain health. There is a 1 in 4 chance of these parents having an affected child who inherits both copies of the faulty gene (one from each parent).
Can Alpers' syndrome be treated?
There is no specific treatment for Alpers' syndrome but symptoms can be relieved, to an extent, with anticonvulsants. It is important that sodium valproate is avoided as this commonly used anticonvulsant can bring on liver failure in Alpers' syndrome. Liver transplant has proved unsuccessful in patients with Alpers' syndrome.
Can Alpers' syndrome be prevented?
If the genetic mistakes are present, then there is nothing that can be taken during pregnancy or given to the infant that will prevent Alpers' syndrome occurring.
However, once a genetic mistake in POLG has been identified, there are reproductive options that can be offered to prevent Alpers' syndrome in the next pregnancy. One option is prenatal testing. This form of prevention is only suitable for those people who would consider termination and would usually be done after 10-12 weeks of the pregnancy by chorionic villus biopsy.
The POLG gene is examined in DNA from the biopsy to see which copies have been inherited. If both faulty copies have been inherited then termination of the pregnancy is offered. This type of prenatal testing is also available for other genetic causes of Alpers' syndrome.
Another reproductive option is preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This is an IVF-based technique that involves examining the POLG gene in DNA taken from early embryos grown in the lab to see which copies have been inherited. The aim is to identify an embryo that does not carry the genetic mistakes that cause Alpers' syndrome. If such an embryo is identified, it can be transferred to the womb to try and establish a pregnancy.Back to top
The term depletion refers to the markedly decreased amount of mitochondrial DNA found in muscle, liver and brain tissues in these disorders. These are severe disorders presenting in early infancy or childhood with profound weakness, encephalopathy, seizures and liver failure.
In one form of 'hepatocerebra' depletion known as Alper's disease or Progressive Neuronal Degeneration of Childhood (PNDC), explosive onset of seizures, developmental delay and spasticity are followed some variable time later by catastrophic liver failure. In the 'myopathic' form of depletion, profound weakness impairs mobility and eventually involves respiratory muscles leading to severe difficulty in breathing.
A number of genes have been associated with specific variations of the depletion syndromes: myopathic (TK2); hepatocerebral (DGOUK, POLG1) and encephalomyopathic (SUCLA2). If a fault in one of these genes is identified as the cause of disease, it could then be identified during future pregnancies by testing a small number of cells removed from the placenta (known as chorionic villous biopsy) or amniocentesis.Back to top
Leigh disease (syndrome) is named after the pathologist (Denis Leigh) who first described the disease. The condition can be due to a variety of genetic faults in either nuclear or mitochondrial DNA and so Leigh's disease can be inherited in many different ways.
All of the mutations disrupt the primary aim of the mitochondrion, which is to convert energy into a form that the cell can use. Characteristic patterns of brain involvement on an MRI scan, along with typical clinical findings, usually suggest the diagnosis, and a lumbar puncture may be helpful in confirming a disorder of mitochondrial function (raised cerebrospinal fluid lactate).
Muscle (and skin) biopsy may be helpful in further identifying the cause, but sometimes no biochemical defect of the mitochondria can be demonstrated.
Children with Leigh disease are often weak and floppy, but this may not be obvious until they are several months old. Swallowing, breathing, movement and posture may be particularly affected, as the disorder involves parts of the brain responsible for these functions.
Characteristically, development is said to regress, that is acquired skills such as independent sitting are lost. Sometimes this occurs in conjunction with an otherwise minor illness such as a 'cold', sore throat or 'tummy upset'. Following recovery from the illness there may be recovery of some of the skills lost. Children with Leigh disease may deteriorate in this way over many years, or they may follow a more rapidly progressive decline over a period of months.Back to top
This is the commonest of the Mitochondrial Diseases. Ninety five percent of patients carry one of three specific genetic faults (called point mutations) in their mitochondrial DNA. In the majority, this is inherited from the mother but sometimes the mutation arises for the first time in the patient. Although both men and women can have the mutation, more men go on to have symptoms.
The disease primarily affects the optic nerve. This is the large nerve that leaves the back of each eye to carry visual information to the brain. Patients usually first notice problems with their vision in their twenties or thirties. The first symptoms are of blurring of central vision and loss of colour vision.
Often this starts in just one eye, but in the vast majority the other eye will also be affected within six months. The eyes are not usually painful. Eventually vision may be limited to being able to make out rough shapes or to count fingers only.
No specific treatment exists but there is thought to be an increased risk of patients with LHON developing blindness if they also smoke and drink excess alcohol. The main thrust of treatment is therefore to identify those family members who carry the mutation to advise them to avoid these extra risks. For patients who already have symptoms treatment involves the provision of visual aids.Back to top
This is one of the most common causes of mitochondrial disease. Patients with this genetic fault (mutation) have variable disease manifestations ranging from no symptoms at all, to being quite severely affected with the syndrome called MELAS, the short name for a collection of symptoms called mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes. Less than 10% of people with the m.3243A>G mutation will have MELAS. Often patients present with diabetes and deafness due to this mutation and a syndrome known as MIDD (maternally inherited diabetes and deafness).
Why is it so variable?
Patients with this mutation in their mitochondrial DNA have the mutation present in heteroplasmic form. This means that there is a mixture of good and bad mitochondrial DNA within your body and it tends to be the ratio of good to bad mitochondrial DNA that decides the severity of your symptoms. In other words, if you have a lot of good mitochondrial DNA you are unlikely to develop severe symptoms.
If you have a lot of bad mitochondrial DNA then you do tend to develop more symptoms and the disease might be more serious. However, it is only a guide and it has been stressed throughout this website that there is an enormous amount of variation between different individuals even with the same level of mutation and even within families.
Is the m.3243A>G mutation passed down through families?
In some patients, this mutation seems to be a sporadic event, in other words there is no family history of the mutation and the mutation cannot be detected in any of the relatives. However, in most patients, this is an inherited disorder, which is only passed down from mother to child (maternal inheritance).
There is no history of any transmission through the father, and so males with the m.3243A>G mutation cannot pass this to their children. Mothers who carry the mutation are also heteroplasmic (the mixture between good and bad mitochondrial DNA) and are at risk of transmitting the mutation to their children. The real difficulty here lies in the fact that it is currently very hard to predict what level of good and bad mitochondrial DNA will be in the child.
This is because of a complicated process called the mitochondrial bottleneck, which happens during development of a woman's eggs. This bottleneck means that there is considerable variation between different children from the same mother. We urge mothers who are concerned about transmitting mitochondrial DNA mutations to their children, to seek specialist genetic counselling to discuss this in more detail.
What are the clinical features of the m.3243A>G mutation?
The clinical features associated with this mutation can, as stated above, be very variable. We have a number of individuals who clearly carry the mutation who are completely asymptomatic. Other patients have very, very mild symptoms, such as very mild deafness requiring no treatment. It is important that carriers of m.3243A>G have regular checks for diabetes which can be arranged through their GP.
These patients might not be aware that they had the mutation apart from the fact that they were family members of somebody who had more serious disease. Some people with the m.3243A>G mutation also develop diabetes and deafness, ultimately requiring the use of a hearing aid or requiring insulin to control their diabetes, a condition known as MIDD.
Other patients have more severe involvement with muscle weakness, sometimes affecting the peripheral muscles and sometimes affecting the muscles around the eyes. Finally there is a group of patients who do develop the MELAS syndrome, which is associated with episodes of encephalopathy.
Encephalopathy is the medical term for an episode that disturbs brain function. These disturbances can take the form of stroke-like episodes and/or seizures. This is a much more troublesome and difficult group of symptoms to control and clearly have a significant effect on people's lifestyle.
Are other tissues involved other than those for which we see a neurologist?
Yes, other tissues can be involved. As indicated above diabetes is a very common symptom in patients with the m.3243A>G mutation and it is advisable that patients see a diabetologist (doctor specialising in diabetes).
Other common problems that we see in our patients are poor bowel function, which often leads to either the irritable bowel disease or severe constipation. This can be quite uncomfortable for patients and we do recommend a good diet, adequate fluid intake and regular laxatives.
Patients can also develop problems with their heart where they get a slightly enlarged heart or a heart that does not function properly (cardiomyopathy) or changes in the rhythm of their heartbeat. This is something that should be monitored on a regular basis and if carefully monitored can probably be helped by early intervention with drugs which slightly lower blood pressure, lower the load on the heart or regulate the heart rhythm.
Treatment of m.3243A>G Is there anything that can be done to help patients with the m.3243A>G mutation?
A key point is for patients to know that they harbour the mutation and to carry information about it with them, in case they need to consult out-of-hours medical services who are unfamiliar with the disorder. Treatment takes several forms in patients with this condition. One of the most important aspects is to make sure that we pick up any complications of the illness at an early stage. For example, referral to an audiology department for hearing assessment may be appropriate and it is extremely helpful to have hearing aids in patients that are suffering from deafness.
It is also worth patients being aware that they have a tendency to develop diabetes and therefore having a good diet and monitoring of blood sugar is an important component of trying to prevent the development of diabetes. If diabetes does develop, then it should be treated as with other patients with diabetes although probably without the early use of a drug called Metformin.
For the bowel symptoms, we do suggest good diet and laxatives as discussed above. We suggest early intervention with drugs for heart problems, which lower blood pressure and reduce the load on the heart.
If patients develop seizures, then these should certainly be treated. There are many different anticonvulsants and no specific anticonvulsant has been shown to be more effective. However, there is good reason to not use the anticonvulsant drug called Sodium Valproate or Valproic Acid.
For the episodes of encephalopathy or stroke-like episodes, there is no really well defined way to treat these conditions at present. There have been trials of a drug called L-Arginine in Japan but it is still uncertain as to whether or not this is beneficial to patients.
In our own centres we try to ensure that patients have adequate fluids, that any infections are treated promptly and that seizures are treated aggressively. An EEG and brain MRI should be performed if possible.Back to top
This is also a common genetic fault causing Mitochondrial Disease. When present it frequently runs in families, showing a pattern of maternal inheritance. In patients with this particular mitochondrial DNA mutation, there are very variable clinical features.
It is important to recognise that there are patients who carry this mutation who are clinically unaffected, whereas others might develop much more severe disease associated with epilepsy, muscle weakness and unsteadiness.
The reason for the difference between the clinical symptoms relates to the fact that there is a mixture of good and bad mitochondrial DNA in all patients with the 8344A>GMERRF mutation. In the presence of high amounts of faulty or abnormal mitochondrial DNA, patients are much more likely to develop symptoms compared to those that only have a very small amount of this particular mitochondrial DNA mutation.
The clinical features that patients experience with this mutation are predominantly neurological. Patients often develop myoclonic epilepsy. Myoclonus is a brief jerk that often happens first thing in the morning and can be a run of jerks. These jerks are sudden in onset and not necessarily associated with a loss of consciousness.
In some patients there is also seizures and thus they have not only myoclonic epilepsy, but generalised tonic-clonic seizures. Patients may also develop quite a lot of muscle weakness such that they will have difficulty getting up from a squatting position or difficulty drying or washing their hair. Patients also develop symptoms of unsteadiness (ataxia).
This unsteadiness can make walking quite tricky and certainly it makes it difficult performing fine tasks at home. This can be quite a disabling feature in some patients but certainly is not present in many patients with the MERRF mutation. Patients may also develop symptoms associated with a slight loss of memory. This is particularly troublesome for patients in terms of short- term rather than long-term memory. Again, this is a feature which is only present in patients who tend to have severe disease.
Some patients develop a curious phenomenon, which is associated with the development of fat deposits (lipoma) in and around the back of the neck. This is a feature which is usually only seen in patients with the 8344A>G MERRF mutation.
Treatment for patients with the 8344A>G MERRF mutation really involves trying to make sure that we minimise the impact of the disease on people's lives. Certainly it is important to make sure that people have adequate treatment for their seizures, both the myoclonic jerks and the tonic clonic seizures.
The myoclonic jerks are probably best treated with a drug called Lamotrigine or Levetiracetam. We do not advise patients to take a drug called Sodium Valproate which is used in the treatment of myoclonic seizures due to other conditions. Lamotrigine and Levetiracetam may well be valuable in controlling the generalised tonic clonic seizures although other drugs used to treat epilepsy might also be helpful.
At present there is relatively little that we can do to help with the unsteadiness and the muscle weakness. It is important that people get appropriate aids in their home to make life somewhat easier.Back to top
This is a rare mitochondrial condition which is due not to a defect in mitochondrial DNA but due to a defect in an enzyme called thymidine phosphorylase. As this is not inherited through the mitochondrial DNA, the disease only occurs if both parents carry a faulty gene, giving the patient two bad copies of the thymidine phosphorylase gene. This is called an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance and more information on this can be found in the Q&A section of this website.
MNGIE presents predominantly either with disturbances of bowel function or with weakness that is largely due to damaged nerve supply. It is quite variable in the severity of the illness with some patients developing quite severe disease early in life, whereas others may develop symptoms much later in life. The disturbance of bowel function can be quite severe, as can the muscle weakness and it may lead to significant difficulties with memory.
The diagnosis of MNGIE is made by measuring thymidine levels in the blood and urine. This is often then confirmed by direct measurements of the enzyme thymidine phosphorylase and possibly even finding the genetic faults in DNA samples.
At present this condition remains very difficult to treat, although a series of innovative experiments are being performed at Columbia University in New York by Dr Michio Hirano and in London by Dr B Bax to determine whether or not specific treatments are possible for this condition.
It is likely that if you do have this condition, your doctor would be in touch with these doctors about any new therapy for this condition and it may be that you will be asked to take part in any clinical trials if you felt this would be helpful for your condition.Back to top
"Multiple mitochondrial DNA Deletions" refers to different sized pieces of mitochondrial DNA that are missing. The genetic problem here is often inherited, but is not due to a genetic fault (mutation) in mitochondrial DNA.
The defect can occur in one of a number of nuclear genes that control the maintenance, repair or supply of building blocks for mitochondrial DNA. Faults occur quite frequently in mitochondrial DNA, but are usually quickly corrected.
If they are not corrected, then breaks or "deletions" can occur. Currently mutations in three different genes (POLG 1, ANT 1and Twinkle ) are known to cause multiple deletions and are associated with a particular syndrome known as Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia Plus (CPEO+).
Patients with this syndrome have difficulty with eye movement and drooping eyelids and in this respect are very similar to patients with single deletions. Complications with swallowing, heart problems, weakness and exercise intolerance may also occur. Additional problems include difficulty with balance and sometimes altered or absent sensation in the hands and feet.Back to top
This syndrome describes a group of patients who have a combination of features including weakness, unsteadiness of movement, impaired sensation (neuropathy) and visual disturbance. The weakness is usually found in the muscles around the large joints such as the hip and shoulder, rather than the hands or feet (proximal myopathy).
Additional features include developmental delay or dementia and those children with very high levels of mutated mitochondrial DNA develop Leigh syndrome.
The mutations responsible for NARP are found in the ATPase genes of mitochondrial DNA (maternally inherited) and two of the most commonly reported sites are8993T>G/C and 9176T>G/C.
These mutations affect complex V, responsible for the final step in the energy conversion process. Routine testing of muscle will often not reveal any abnormality, because activity of complex V is difficult to demonstrate in the tests that we do. If we suspect NARP from the information we gather by talking to and examining the patient, then we identify the coding sequence in the ATPase genes and compare it to normal.Back to top
The term single deletion describes a piece of DNA that is missing from lots of copies of mitochondrial DNA in each cell. This is usually not an inherited condition, but one that occurs by chance (sporadic).
The rare families with more than one affected member almost always have additional more complex DNA features. Most often, patients with single deletions experience difficulty with eye movement (chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia or CPEO) and develop droopy eyelids on one or both sides, beginning in early middle-age.
Occasionally, patients may also have swallowing problems, palpitations and in common with other Mitochondrial Diseases, weakness and fatigue.
In a minority of patients with single deletions, the onset of disease is much earlier and may even occur in infancy or the newborn period. When this occurs, the condition is known as Pearson's syndrome and this is quite different from the adult onset disease.
Development of droopy eyelids, difficulty with eye movement, swallowing difficulties and heart problems before the age of 20 years is yet another form of this disease, known as Kearns-Sayre Syndrome (KSS). In both Pearson's syndrome and KSS, the amount of deleted mitochondrial DNA is very high in proportion to the amount of remaining normal mitochondrial DNA.Back to top


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Connie travels to Venice by way of London, Paris, and the overland route through the Alps. She finds herself awakened to sensuality in peoples' bodies, noticing how few people have truly alert bodies, and how few places have any appreciation of sensuality. She longs to be back in Wragby, away from the cloud of tourists bent single-mindedly on enjoying themselves. In Venice, she and Hilda join her father, Sir Malcolm and several others, including Duncan Forbes, as guests in the home of a rich Scotsman, Sir Alexander. Connie has a pleasant but not fabulous time in Venice, bathing with Hilda on remote beaches across the lagoon, ferried by the gondoliers Daniele and Giovanni.
Soon, however, she gets letters from Clifford and Mrs. Bolton, telling her that Bertha Coutts, Mellors' wife, has come back to him. He expelled her from the house, but she broke in again, and he has gone to live with his mother, abandoning the house to Bertha. Bertha apparently found perfume in the house, and the postman also recalls hearing a woman with Mellors one morning; they do not, of course, know that this woman was Connie, but Mellors is suspected of adultery, and Bertha is spreading rumors accusing him of sexual deviancy. Connie's first reaction is a revulsion against Mellors. She feels humiliated to be associated with a commoner like him, with somebody who would marry Bertha Coutts. But she comes around, remembering his tenderness to her and how he awakened her sexually. She sends a note of support to Mellors through Mrs. Bolton. With a second letter from Clifford, and one from Mellors, Connie learns that the situation has gotten worse. Bertha Coutts has begun to spread the rumor that Connie herself was Mellors' paramour. Coutts has been silenced by an injunction from Clifford. When Clifford confronted Mellors with questions about his sexual conduct, Mellors responded disrespectfully; Clifford then fired Mellors, who went to London. Meanwhile, Connie is now certain that she is going to bear Mellors' child.
Connie and her family return to London, where she meets up with a dejected Mellors. Mellors says that they should call their relationship off: he has nothing to offer her, and he is too proud to live on her money, as a consort to an aristocrat. But they go back to her room and make love, and she tells him that she admires the courage of his tenderness, his ability to ignore shame and appreciate the physical. She urges him to trust the tenderness between them, and to disregard the worldly differences. He agrees to stay with her, and even to love their child, despite his fears about the future of society.
Connie discusses her situation with her father, who, despite his happiness that she has found sexual satisfaction, is outraged that her lover is a commoner. But Sir Malcolm agrees to meet Mellors, and they get along well, discussing sex earthily: they have a common ground in sensuality. Between Hilda--who still hates Mellors--Connie, Sir Malcolm, and Mellors, they develop a plan. Mellors will lay low and pursue his divorce with Bertha. Connie will pretend that she is having an affair with Duncan Forbes, who will be named as the father of the child and the co-respondent in the divorce (if Mellors is named as father, his admission of adultery will complicate his own divorce). Clifford is more likely to accept Connie's having an affair with Duncan, a member of the leisured class, than with Mellors, a gamekeeper. Duncan agrees to pose as the father, despite Mellors' insulting his art by calling it soulless and self-indulgent.
Connie sends Clifford a letter, telling him that she loves Duncan, and asking for a divorce. Clifford, despite having inwardly anticipated this, goes into shock. Mrs. Bolton comforts him and tends to hi; more than ever, he becomes like a child in her arms. They enter into a perverse relationship, both sexual and parental. She cares for him, and even loves him, but also despises him for his weakness. Clifford refuses to divorce Connie, demanding that she come to Wragby. She does come, and in a confrontation is forced to admit that her paramour is not Duncan but Mellors. Clifford is outraged, and, furious, accuses her of depravity; he continues to refuse to divorce her. She leaves Wragby, and goes with Hilda to Scotland. Mellors, meanwhile, works on a farm, making money and waiting out the six-month divorce proceedings.
The novel ends with a letter sent from Mellors to Connie, summing up the message of the novel about the social blight upon England. The masses of men are emasculated, poor, hopeless, devoted only to getting and spending money. Without a radical change, the future is bleak. Only with a mass transformation, a realization of the power of sensuality, will people restore humanity and joy to their lives. Mellors comforts himself with thoughts of Connie, and the passion that exists between them: "we fucked a flame into being."


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Pharmaceutical manufacturers looking to focus their research and development (R&D) in the treatment of arthritis must be fully aware of this drug discovery landscape. Understanding which therapeutic areas are having more patents filed, which geographic territories are being targeted by competitors, which are the key players in this space nad which are the new contenders will be instrumental in determining a long-term, successful innovation strategy.
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There was a typo. The correct quantity is 1/3 cup of milk. We haven't tried it with almond milk however, I see no reason why it shouldn't work. Let us know your results :)
I'd like to try your recipe but I am not clear on how much milk is needed. Is it 1 cup, 3 cups or 1/3 cup? Also could I use almond milk in place of dairy milk. Thank you.


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librarians--we're everywhere
PopMatters now has a column called "Bad Librarian," written by a library paraprofessional (a bibliotechnician, in his words, or a librarian in all but respect and pay, in others). Here's his take on Section 215 of everybody's favorite act:
Mr. Fed: Gimmee that.Enjoy!
Librarian 1: Sir, this is private information! You've no warrant!
Mr. Fed: I said gimmee.
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Development of Social Media Network for Living Building Challenge
The Living Futures Institute is in the early stages of building a global network to advance the overall cause of global sustainability and to further the adoption of the set of green building standards embodied in the Living Building Challenge. The institute has formed in the past couple of years as a hub for the Living Building Challenge, Cascadia Green Building Council, the Natural Step Network USA and Ecotone Publishing.
In the past few years, the building challenge has inspired some of the most innovative green building projects in the world and is based on the most comprehensive and some of the most rigorous building standards in the trade. The challenge is outcome oriented, and obligates builders to honor 20 imperatives in their site selection, their use of water and energy, the impact of their building on human and environmental health, their sourcing of building materials, the project's social justice implications, and the project's beauty and natural aesthetic. Buildings do not receive certification unless they meet these imperatives.
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We are back for our second Hilary/Haylie Duff movie for "BROcast Presents" Movie Night: We've Made a Huge Mistake! In February, it was Hilary Duff's The Perfect Man, but for June, it's time for The Wedding Pact starring Haylie Duff. Joining me as always for these "specific movies" are Jared Shafer and Nick Cullen! We...
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