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Kristen Bell Performs 'Frozen' Tunes for Families Stranded by Hurricane Irma
While Hurricane Irma left parts of Florida and the southeastern United States in shambles, it has truly brought out the best in Kristen Bell.
The Frozen star, who was unable to evacuate from the state before the massive storm made landfall, decided to make lemons into lemonade, and performed fan-favorite songs for kids and their parents at a shelter for those affected by Irma.
"I hope maybe some of these songs are running through your head the rest of the day and will take your mind off [Irma]," Bell told the crowd.
And they seemed to do precisely that. "This was today's wonderful surprise from Kristen Bell to Meadow Woods Middle School shelter! She's amazing!," the host school —Meadow Woods Middle School — wrote on Facebook.
And Irma has brought out even more of Bell's kinder side. On Friday, she invited Frozen co-star Josh Gad's entire family — his mom, dad, brothers, sister-in-law, niece and nephew — to stay with her in her hotel as they braced for the storm.
"They don't make them like this girl. Thank you Kristin," Gad wrote. "You are truly an angel sent from above."
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Although infrequent, injury to adjacent neurovascular structures during posterior approaches to lumbar intervertebral discs can occur. A detailed anatomical knowledge of relationships may decrease surgical complications.
Ten formalin-fixed male cadavers were used for this study. Posterior exposure of the lumbar thecal sac, nerve roots, pedicles, and intervertebral discs was performed. To identify retroperitoneal structures at risk during posterior lumbar discectomy, a transabdominal retroperitoneal approach was performed, and observations were made. The distances between the posterior and anterior edges of the lumbar intervertebral discs were measured, and the relationships between the disc space, pedicle, and nerve root were evaluated.
For right and left sides, the mean distance from the inferior pedicle to the disc gradually increased from L1–2 to L4–5 (range 2.7–3.8 mm and 2.9–4.5 mm for right and left side, respectively) and slightly decreased at L5–S1. For right and left sides, the mean distance from the superior pedicle to the disc was more or less the same for all disc spaces (range 9.3–11.6 mm and 8.2–10.5 mm for right and left, respectively). The right and left mean disc-to-root distance for the L3–4 to L5–S1 levels ranged from 8.3 to 22.1 mm and 7.2 to 20.6 mm, respectively. The root origin gradually increased from L-1 to L-5. The right and left nerve root–to-disc angle gradually decreased from L-3 to S-1 (range 105°–110.6° and 99°–108°). Disc heights gradually increased from L1–2 to L5–S1 (range 11.3–17.4 mm). The mean distance between the anterior and posterior borders of the intervertebral discs ranged from 39 to 46 mm for all levels.
To avoid neighboring neurovascular structures, instrumentation should not be inserted into the lumbar disc spaces more than 3 cm from their posterior edge. Accurate anatomical knowledge of the relationships of intervertebral discs to nerve roots is needed for spine surgeons.

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MEA-MFT had a huge impact on making this program a reality.
Montana Digital Academy picking up steam
West High School associate principal Jeril Hehn is a site coordinator for the Montana Digital Academy. Casey Page/Gazette staff photo |
by Rob Rogers, Billings Gazette, 1-18-13
The obvious appeal — taking a required math class in your pajamas — is trumped only by the fact that almost any class, from Chinese to oceanography, is available upon request.
The Montana Digital Academy, or MTDA, is 3 years old, and as leaders from School District 2 have learned to utilize it, they've seen good things happen in the lives of their students.
"MTDA is a great supplement," said Jeril Hehn, associate principal at West High and one of the district's MTDA representatives.
The trick, she said, has been finding a way to make the digital academy work within the confines of the school district.
The digital academy was created by the state Legislature to be an online learning resource for Montana's far-flung high school students.
"I credit the Legislature," said Denise Juneau, state superintendent of schools. "It was a visionary thing for them to be able to see down the road."
Classes range from remedial math and English courses that get students caught up to grade level, to language, honors, Advanced Placement and dual college credit classes such as Latin and oceanography that students can take to get ahead.
In a state where much of the population is spread out in rural areas, MTDA has become a way to level the educational playing field.
Hehn's husband, who teaches a class for MTDA, is a science teacher at Columbus High School. His school is small enough that advanced language, honors and AP classes aren't offered there.
So MTDA has become the way for Columbus High students to be able to take those advanced and specialty classes.
In Billings, that's not the case.
"We are the biggest high school in the state," Hehn said of West, and SD2 is the biggest school district. "We have all those classes. We have the Career Center. It's different for our students here."
As a result, SD2 began to use Montana Digital Academy as a way to help failing students recover lost class credits. MTDA's credit recovery program means students can take make-up classes whenever they need to, getting them caught up and keeping graduation in reach.
Doing that, SD2's participation in the Montana Digital Academy has steadily increased over the past year and half, and Juneau hopes it continues. She's watched the popularity of the academy rapidly increase across the state.
"If School District 2 gets more involved, we're going to see tremendous growth," she said.
For that reason, her office is requesting that Gov. Steve Bullock set aside $1.5 million for MTDA in the budget he sends to legislators this season. MTDA is free for all Montana high schoolers, and Juneau wants to keep it that way.
"MTDA is awesome," she said.
SD2 has been careful about how it has used MTDA as a resource. Leaders don't want students taking biology online simply because they don't like their biology teacher at school.
As such, Hehn said the district has set up criteria for students who want to participate in MTDA.
The district will sign up students if they need to make up a class or if they can show that they have a legitimate schedule conflict with the classes they need to take to graduate.
They can also take a MTDA class if it's one the district doesn't offer. Latin, which was taught up until 2010 at Senior High, is now offered through MTDA. SD2 students interested in Latin are free to take it online.
"I still feel there's a value to that (classroom) teacher," Hehn said. "I don't think (MTDA) can replace classroom instruction."
But it can certainly augment a high school education, she said, and that's what she hopes it will continue to do.


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The government's plans to allow landlords to use the cash basis for tax purposes were confirmed in the 2017 Spring Budget, but although the proposed legislation was included in Finance Bill 2017, it did not appear in the much reduced Finance Act 2017, which received Royal Assent on 27 April 2017. It is likely that the proposals have been temporarily shelved, pending the outcome of the General Election, and are expected to reappear in a second Finance Bill later this year. If the provisions are subsequently enacted, they are expected to apply retrospectively from 6 April 2017, i.e. for the current tax year.
Up to and including 2016-17, profits of a property business must be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice (GAAP), commonly referred to as the accruals basis. Although this remains the case for certain landlords (including companies, LLPs, corporate firms, and trustees of trusts), if the Finance Bill 2017 provisions are enacted, the position for 2017-18 onwards will be more complicated. The general rule is that the cash basis must be used. However, this is subject to some exceptions and there will be scope for the individual to elect to continue using the accruals basis if they so wish. The new property allowance will remove some landlords from income tax, whilst for others, it will provide a deduction from profits of £1,000.
Property allowance
The property allowance works as follows:
- if income from a property business for the tax year is equal to or less than £1,000, no income tax will be payable in respect of that property business for that year. Individuals may elect to use the rules normally applying to calculate profits.
- if income from a property business for the tax year exceeds £1,000, the individual may elect to deduct £1,000 from his income – rather than the expenditure actually incurred – in arriving at the profits of the property business.
A number of restrictions apply. The property allowance will not apply:
- to income on which rent-a-room relief is given; or
- where the 'alternative method' is not elected, but instead the actual allowable expenses are deducted.
Cash basis
The cash basis operates by reference to the tax year. This means that profits are calculated for the tax year by adding or subtracting:
- all income received in connection with the property business in the tax year;
- any income that is not taxable and for expenses which are not allowable.
Reform of capital expenditure rules
To date, the cash basis rules have prohibited a deduction for expenditure of a capital nature unless such expenditure would qualify for plant and machinery capital allowances under the ordinary tax rules. However, if the Finance Bill 2017 proposals are enacted this general disallowance of capital expenditure rule will be replaced from 2017/18 onwards with a more limited disallowance of capital expenditure incurred in relation to assets which are not used up in the business over a limited period.
So, if enacted, from 2017/18 onwards, relief will be prohibited only in relation to costs incurred in relation to the provision, alteration or disposal of:
- any asset that is not a 'depreciating asset' (to be defined as having a useful life of up to 20 years);
- any asset not acquired or created for use on a continuing basis in the trade;
- a car (but of course business mileage-based relief is available);
- land (as defined);
- a non-qualifying intangible asset, (as per Financial Reporting Standard 105) including education or training; and
- a financial asset.
Costs in relation to the acquisition or disposal of a business, or part of a business, will also be excluded.
On entering the cash basis, which many taxpayers will do for 2017-18, it will be necessary to adjust for:
- amounts which, applying the cash basis, would have been brought into account for a period before the change and were not brought into account; and
- amounts which, applying the cash basis, should be brought into account for a period after the change and were brought into account for a period before the change.
These adjustments are designed to ensure that no amounts are either left out of account or double counted. The adjustment income/expense is brought into account on the last day of the first period of account under the cash basis.
Similar rules apply where a taxpayer leaves the cash basis with the exception that adjustment income is automatically spread over six years unless an election is made to accelerate the charge.
Given the uncertainty of the current situation, clients are encouraged to ensure that all income and expenditure is recorded, particularly where clients are intending to make use of the property allowance. If the proposals are not enacted, or are delayed to a future tax year, the client will need to report their actual income and expenditure and so it is important that adequate records are kept.


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by Nancy Uon for viewzone Ask yourself... Is there a favorite room or spot in your home to which everyone seems to gravitate? What about an area that looked promising when you took the space, but turned out to be unused or uncomfortable to be in? Also... Is your business prospering, or is money going out, not coming in? These situations, which I encounter frequently on initial visits with clients, can be solved using the art and science of ancient Chinese Feng shui principles (pronounced fung shway). We often hear the saying, "as goes our environment, so we go." Feng shui teaches us how to create harmony and balance around us. By taking a hard look around and opening up our environment to healthy energy (Chi), we can make changes in our work and living space that will create corresponding changes in our life. Feng shui, which translates to "the wind and the water," is the Chinese art of correct placement. Practitioners believe that by arranging our furnishings and decor in a way that aligns with nature, we draw harmony and good health into our lives. According to this ancient philosophy, the placement of everything from the front door to the toilet plays in our overall well being. The Chinese actually employ a Feng shui master before building or buying a home. Most Feng shui experts stress the use of aesthetics and common sense in achieving the desired results and many new home builders seem to be incorporating elements of feng shui into their communities. There are many stories that can be told about putting Feng Shui to use, but the following is a favorite since it created a favorable change in my own life.
My restless bedroom Several years ago, I purchased an in-town condominium. I was immediately taken with the master bedroom suite, which had beautiful mahogany book shelves built around the closet door on an end wall. I also loved the owner's choice of Hunter Green on the opposite wall, and purchased the gold-faced, deep paisley window blinds which had been custom made for the oversized window. This, I thought, will be the perfect haven for sleeping, working and reading; a comfortable space to which I can retreat. In order to get a restful sleep and keep unwelcomed forces from entering the room while you sleep, place your bed where you can see the entrance. After living in the space for several months, I found myself uncomfortable in the room. The cozy retreat I had envisioned had actually become a cold, unwelcoming space. I began migrating to the guest room on several nights to work and sleep. I never felt rested in the morning, and I started to develop a negative feeling about my home. A few weeks later, after learning about the ancient Chinese philosophy of Feng shui, I was able to understand why the room didn't work, and why it was affecting my life. The ideal placement is within sight of the door but off to one side for maximum protection. The bookcases and placement of the heating elements had eliminated the best areas for the location of the bed, forcing it to be positioned immediately to the right of the door. The problem could have been solved simply by hanging a mirror on the wall opposite the bed to reflect engery and provide a view of the entry. However, a few days work with a carpenter and electrician allowed proper placement of the bed (in a position with a clear view of the door) [above]. The Hunter Green, too dark for a sleeping area, was changed to a much warmer shade of persimmon, a color of luck. After making the necessary changes in color and furniture placement, I began sleeping soundly, started feeling happy and comfortable at home, and experienced an increase in business.
Need to make some changes to your home? Do you need an expert to begin putting these principles to work for you? Not really. With a positive attitude, you can get a good start by using some of the following tips. All of us respond to colors subjectively, yet the use of some colors seem to work with more success than others. As an example, the Chinese believe that red brings luck, probably the reason that Chinese brides wear scarlett. They paint their front doors red as an invitation to happiness. Pinks, plums and purples would have the same effect. Green is considered to be a color of freshness, growth and peace, which makes it ideal for a bedroom. Dark greens, and other dark colors, are considered too heavy for indoor use. (Thus, the dark green wall of my bedroom made it a very bad choice, particularly off-balance against the stark white of the remaining walls.) Light blues work well, but dark blue shades are thought to make one too introspective. Yellow, the color of the sun signifies longevity. White is a symbol of death for the Chinese. Overuse of white can cause what is referred to as a "white occurence," delivering too much cold energy. It is important to add pots of colorful flowers and other touches of color to offset this effect. Room settings Our homes and offices, in line with Feng shui philosophy, can be thought of as a metaphor for or lives. A cluttered house is a cluttered mind. Get rid of the old and make room for the new! Therefore, according the Feng shui, the perfect entry is one that is clear of clutter and obstruction. Trim back all hedges and make sure that the path to your door is clear, open and well defined. Kitchen The stove is a central focus in a Chinese kitchen. If your back is to the door when you are cooking, place a mirror behind the stove to give you a view of who is entering the kitchen. The chef's energy is imparted into the food, so for this reason, pay special attention to your mood when you cook. Rotate your use of burners for prosperity. Bedroom Bedrooms are sanctuaries for privacy, peace, protection and intimacy. Placing objects in pairs in this room is thought to increase marital harmony and balance (candlesticks, vases, etc.). Be sure to place the bed in the position that has the most commanding view of the doorway (the mouth of Chi). We are in a vulnerable state while sleeping and it is important that this area affords our being safety and support. Office Your work environment should be treated the same as your home. Is your back to the door? If so, reposition your work area to face the door. Clear your environment of clutter to make room for new business. Your work environment should be treated the same as your home. Is your back to the door? If so, reposition your work area to face the door. Clear your environment of clutter to make room for new business."A client, who worked as a travel agent, came to me for help with her office. She had rented a beautiful, one-room space. The entrance wall had a long, narrow window at each side of the door. The opposite wall held glass patio doors leading to a large stone balcony with a spectacular city view. She had chosen to leave the window clear and had placed her desk to left of the patio door, so that she could enjoy the view while working. She arranged a sitting area off center right to the door. Since moving into her office she felt her business had dropped off. People checked prices and arrangements with her, but then, for some reason, booked with an agent across town. Upon entering her office, a few problems were clearly visible. Her back exit was visible from the front entrance, allowing money and energy to flow straight through her office. She had also placed herself with her back to the entry. The solution was simple. We set a trifold screen, with a wide center panel in the center of the large room and covered it with a red print. We placed her desk in front of the screen, facing the entry so that she could greet her clients. The opposite space created by the screen provided a sitting area where clients could browse material and enjoy the beautiful view. We placed a large mirror in the corner to the right of the door so she could continue to enjoy the beautiful view. Not only did she experience a large increase in business, but also found that she accomplished a lot more with her desk in this position. Start putting a few of these simple practices into effect in your own home and work environment. You'll find, as others have, that whether you believe wholeheartedly or not, these simple treatments of space and energy can make a difference in your life and work. More? Go to part 2... This is a three part article on Feng Shui. Nancy Uon is an interior designer, specializing in corporate settings in New York. She recently relocated to Litchfield County in Connecticut. |


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Things on this site
- It's no longer possible to defect or leave the Catholic Church
- Deleting Hackerspaces from Wikipedia? - Someone's suggestion deleting loads of hackerspace articles from Wikipedia
- Hackerspaces in OpenStreetMap - I made this auto-updating map of all the Hackerspaces in OSM.
- My Anki decks - Anki is a spaced repition software to help you learn things. I've made some custom decks
- Google Suggest Venn Diagrams - Google suggest lets you see what people are searching for. Explore the overlap of various queries in a venn diagram
Technology & Gadgets
- Kindle stuff - I got an Amazon Kindle, this is how to do stuff with it
- Android Phones - Android the mobile phone operating system
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) stuff
- Galea - Easily stitch & composite videos together on the command line
- OpenStreetMap, including bendy roads analysis, and religions of the world map
As a professional programmer, I have learned many things. I'm putting things online so others can learn from them.
- Networking, TCP, ports, internet
- Python stuff - As a professional (and hobbiyist) python developer, I've found programmes and scripts and things
- HTML & CSS tips and tricks
- XML processing and interacting
- Linux and command line bash stuff for the modern programmer sysadmin
- GStreamer media framework for linux.
- Apache Pig - Map Reduce / Hadoop / Cloud library
- Food recipes (including Amanda Pizza).
- Ideas for projects - Ideas for software projects I've had
- My Reviews - Some reviews for services/shops/companies I've dealt with
My Other Sites
One of my side projects is a Celtic Knot Creator - Software to make Celtic Patterns.
Kindle Maps - More maps and ebook stuff.
Sites from other people
The awesome Tom Salmon has a blog, where he talks about linux and software development
Also just for the record, this is a book published by someone close. Never a Heap of Earth


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Sealed and guarded since the end of WWII at Arolsen, Germany, the Official IRC records reveal the actual Concentration Camp total death toll was 271,301
For years, people around the world – "the West" in particular – have been told that "six million Jews were systematically murdered by Germans in 'Concentration Camps' during World War 2."
Thousands of honest people disputing this claim have been viciously smeared as a hateful anti-Semite. Several countries around the world have jailed and heavily fined people for disputing the claim that "6 Million" Jews were killed.
Provided here is a scanned image of an Official International Red Cross document, proving the so-called "Holocaust" [the long-and-often-claimed-6-million Jews] is just plain wrong. Jews around the world have intentionally exaggerated and perpetually lied for the purpose of gaining political, emotional and business advantages for themselves.
They committed willful, criminal FRAUD upon millions of trusting people around the world!
Please NOTE that the truth has been known since long before 1979! The above compiler, replying to a letter, had to rely on information that was already in existence!
Tax-payers of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Latvia, Poland and other nations have had multiple millions of dollars taken from their wages to be paid out to "holocaust survivors" and their descendants for something that DID NOT HAPPEN.
The tax-payers of these United States of America spend Billion$ each year in direct, indirect and military support of the State of Israel (which is not Biblical Israel).
This is intentional, criminal fraud on a scale so massive as to be almost incomprehensible.
Red Cross and East German government figures put the total deaths at every camp as 272.000, and 282,000 respectively which includes homosexuals, communists, gypsies, murderers, paedophiles etc. The 6 Million figure is a Kabbalist number, a magickal figure which featured in newspapers in the early 1900's.
Where do the innocent Germans, Americans and others go to get a refund?
I call for criminal prosecution of individuals and groups who filed false lawsuits to obtain holocaust reparations and financial damage awards and perpetrating deliberate fraud upon Courts.
I call for the removal of Holocaust references in History books and educational materials.
I call for the removal of Holocaust Memorials worldwide.
It is long overdue that this intentional fraud be halted and those who perpetrated it be brought to justice for over 60 years of National Blood Libel against Germany and other nations through vicious lies and financial fraud.
Two of the most important surveys of the Jewish question in Europe during World War II are David Irving's examination of the Russian archives after the wall came down. Irving published his findings in his book, "Hitler's War" and said not one word about gas chambers.
When questioned about this omission he said that there was no reference to gas chambers in the archives and therefore he did not discuss the question of gas chambers. Irving was arrested in several countries for hate speech for his scholarly omission.
The International Red Cross published their analysis in a three volume "Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War" published in Geneva in 1948. This analysis expanded findings of two previous publications: "Sur L'activite' du CICR en faveur des civils detencus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946) and "Inter Arma Caritas: The Work of the ICRF during the Second World War" (Geneva, 1947).
In 1949 the International Red Cross interviewed prisoners in the German camps. They were not allowed to interview prisoners in the Russian camps which were far more harsh.
The German camps held both political prisoners (Schutzhaflinge) and those convicted of crimes. The Germans allowed the Red Cross to distribute food, medicine and clothing to the prisoners.
Grateful prisoners sent letters of thanks from Dachau, Buchenwalk, Sangerhausen, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Flossenburg, Landsberg-am-Lech, Fibha, Ravensbruck, Hamburg-Neuengamme, Mauthausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and others.
"The principal recipients were Belgians, Dutch, French, Greeks, Italians, Norwegians, Poles and stateless Jews" (Vol. III, p. 83).
Regarding Theresienstadt, the Red Cross said, "where there were about 40,000 Jews deported from various countries, was a relatively privileged ghetto" (Vol. III, p. 75).
"The Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin) which was used exclusively for Jews and was governed by special conditions … From information gathered by the Commitee, this camp had been started as an experiment by certain leaders of the Reich … These men wished to give the Jews the means of setting up a communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing almost complete autonomy … two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6, 1945. They confirmed the favourable impression gained on the first visit" (Vol. I, p. 642).
The ICRC also had praise for the regime of Ion Antonescu of Fascist Rumania where the Committee was able to extend special relief to 183,000 Rumanian Jews until the time of the Soviet occupation.
The aid then ceased and the ICRC complained bitterly that it never succeeded "in sending anything whatsoever to Russia" (Vol. II, p. 62). The same situation applied to many of the German camps after their "liberation" by the Russians.
The ICRC received a voluminous flow of mail from Auschwitz until the period of the Soviet occupation, when many of the internees were evacuated westward. But the efforts of the Red Cross to send relief to internees remaining at Auschwitz under Soviet control were futile.
However, food parcels continued to be sent to former Auschwitz inmates transferred west to such camps as Buchenwald and Oranienburg.
One of the most important aspects of the Report of the ICRC is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps towards the end of the war.
Says the Report: "in the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims.
Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1, 1945 … In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results.
Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp .I." (Vol. III, p.83).
Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able.
The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Armet Caritns, p. 78). B
By October 2, 1944, the ICRC had warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.
In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatsoever of 'gas chambers'.
The original 1946 edition did not even talk of 'extermination' or 'death camps' but after the emotional impact of the Nuremberg trials the Red Cross felt compelled to introduce into the expanded 1948 Report several, very cursory references to 'death camps' (Vol. 1 p. 641) and 'extermination camps' (Vol. I p. 645). However, no means of'extermination' is indicated.
In all its 1,600 pages the three-volume Report does not even mention such a thing as a 'gas chamber'. It acknowledges that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but' its complete silence on the subject of 'gassings' is ample refutation of the 'Holocaust' legend.
Volume III of the Report of the ICRC, Chapter 3 (I. Jewish Civilian Population) deals with the "aid given to the Jewish section of the free population" and this chapter makes it quite plain that by no means all of the European Jews were placed in internment camps but remained, subject to certain restrictions, as part of the free civilian population.
This conflicts directly with the "thoroughness" of the supposed "extermination programme", and with the claim in the forged Hoess memoirs that Eichmann was obsessed with seizing every single Jew he could lay his hands on," In Slovakia, for example, where Eichmann's assistant Dieter Wisliceny was in charge, the Report states that "A large proportian of the Jewish minority had permission to stay in the country, and at certain periods Slovakia was looked upon as a comparative haven of refuge for Jews, especially for those coming from Poland.
Those who remained in Slovakia seem to have been in comparative safety until the end of August 1944, when a rising against the German forces took place. While it is true that the law of May 15, 1942 had brought about the internment of several thousand Jews, these people were held in camps where the conditions of food and lodging were tolerable, and where the internees were allowed to do paid work on terms almost equal to those of the free labour market" (Vol. I, p. 646).
Not only did large numbers of the three million or so European Jews avoid internment altogether, but the emigration of Jews continued throughout the war, generally by way of Hungary, Rumania and Turkey. Ironically, post-war Jewish emigration from German-occupied territories was also facilitated by the Reich, as in the case of the Polish Jews who had escaped to France before its occupation.
"The Jews from Poland who, whilst in France, had obtained entrance permits to the United States were held to be American citizens by the German occupying authorities, who further agreed to recognise the validity of about three thousand passports issued to Jews by the consulates of South American countries" (Vol. 1, p. 645).
As future U.S. citizens, these Jews were held at the Vittel camp in southern France for American aliens. The emigration of European Jews from Hungary in particular proceeded during the war unhindered by the German authorities. "Until March 1944," says the Red Cross Report, "Jews who had the privilege of visas for Palestine were free to leave Hungary" (Vol. 1, p. 648). Even after the replacement of the Horthy Government in 1944 (following its attempted armistice with the Soviet Union) with a government more dependent on German authority, the emigration of Jews continued.
The Committee secured the pledges of both Britain and the United States "to give support by every means to the emigration of Jews from Hungary, " and from the U.S. Government the ICRC received a message stating that "The Government of the United States… now specifically repeats its assurance that arrangements will be made by it for the care of all Jews who in the present circumstances are allowed to leave" (Vol. 1, p. 649).
Official International Red Cross Records Released
Sealed And Guarded Since The End Of WWII At Arolsen, Germany,
The Official IRC Records Reveal The Actual Concentration Camp Total Death
Toll Was 271,301
The Source of the six million figure is a Talmudic (Jewish Talmud) reference to a future holocaust in which six million Jews die.
The reason why they are claiming six million deaths in Nazi camps, even though that number vastly exceeds the number of Jews in Europe at the time, is because this reference in their scripture is something they fear deeply and wish to prevent at all costs.
The Ashkenazi Jews, which I have experience with honestly believe that prophecy is real, but can be manipulated.
They believe that prophets see into the future, and see what was believed and said, and then write that down as much as they reveal the word of GOD.
SO there is a group of Ashkenazi Jews who wish to make the six million figure HISTORY to prevent it from ever happening in the FUTURE by repeating this number over and over and over into the social concience, in the hope that prophets of old will also latch onto this, and report it as a factual event in the future, which would now be history.
In other words, they believe they can lie themselves a new future. I don't think so – I think their hardest days are ahead and one thing is certain, the genie is out of the bottle and through the word, the real truth of Fukushima may be like silly putty slowly sinking into the carpet, eventually it will be TOTALLY sunk in the carpet and nothing will get it out.
THIS could cause the six million Jewish deaths the prophecy speaks of, and No, I do not believe they can lie their way out of it.
TG: "This appeared in Ireland in the Kilkenny Journal and was sent to me by a friend. Here is the link to the original article which I have pasted in full here below:"


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Dr. Weeks' Comment: Is it prolonged formula feeding to less breast milk which is operative here?
Study Sees Link Between Prolonged Formula Feeding, Leukemia Risk
But the research only uncovered an association, it didn't prove cause and effect
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) — When the introduction to solid foods is delayed and babies are fed formula for a prolonged period of time, it may place them at increased risk for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a new study suggests.
But the study, which is considered preliminary, only found an association between prolonged bottle feeding and ALL; it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, ALL is a fast-growing cancer of white blood cells called lymphocytes. It is also the most common acute childhood leukemia, typically affecting children between the ages of 3 and 7.
In the new study, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin found that children's risk for this cancer seemed to increase the longer they were fed formula and not solid foods. They said the benefits that breast milk has on babies' developing immune systems may help explain their findings.
The study was scheduled to be presented Wednesday at the annual cancer prevention conference of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Anaheim, Calif.
"For every month that a child was fed formula, taking into account other feeding practices, we found that the risk for this type of cancer was higher," explained Jeremy Schraw, a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin in an AACR news release. "If a baby is fed only formula, he or she will not be getting any immune factors from the mother, which could be leading to this greater risk."
In conducting the study, the researchers surveyed 142 ethnically diverse children with ALL and 284 similar children who did not have this disease. They found the children diagnosed with ALL began eating solid foods much later than those who did not have this form of cancer. A greater number of children with ALL were also fed formula for a prolonged period of time and had mothers who smoked during their pregnancy, the study said.
The study showed that for each additional month of formula feeding, the children's risk of cancer increased by 16 percent.
SOURCE: American Association for Cancer Research, news release, Oct. 17, 2012


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Global warming led to atmospheric hydrogen sulfide and permian extinction
Volcanic eruptions in Siberia 251 million years ago may have started a cascade of events leading to high hydrogen sulfide levels in the oceans and atmosphere and precipitating the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, according to a Penn State geoscientist.
"The recent dating of the Siberian trap volcanoes to be contemporaneous with the end-Permian extinction suggests that they were the trigger for the environmental events that caused the extinctions," says Dr. Lee R. Kump, professor of geosciences. "But the warming caused by these volcanoes through carbon dioxide emissions would not be large enough to cause mass extinctions by itself."
That warming, however, could set off a series of events that led to mass extinction. During the end-Permian extinction 95 percent of all species on Earth became extinct, compared to only 75 percent during the K-T when a large asteroid apparently caused the dinosaurs to disappear.
Volcanic carbon dioxide would cause atmospheric warming that would, in turn, warm surface ocean water. Normally, the deep ocean gets its oxygen from the atmosphere at the poles. Cold water there soaks up oxygen from the air and because cold water is dense, it sinks and slowly moves equator-ward, taking oxygen with it. The warmer the water, the less oxygen can dissolve and the slower the water sinks and moves toward the equator.
"Warmer water slows the conveyer belt and brings less oxygen to the deep oceans," says Kump.
The constant rain of organic debris produced by marine plants and animals, needs oxygen to decompose. With less oxygen, fewer organics are aerobically consumed.
"Today, there are not enough organics in the oceans to go anoxic," says Kump. "But in the Permian, if the warming from the volcanic carbon dioxide decreased oceanic oxygen, especially if atmospheric oxygen levels were lower, the oceans would be depleted of oxygen."
Once the oxygen is gone, the oceans become the realm of bacteria that obtain their oxygen from sulfur oxide compounds. These bacteria strip oxygen from the compounds and produce hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide kills aerobic organisms.
Humans can smell hydrogen sulfide gas, the smell of rotten cabbage, in the parts per trillion range. In the deeps of the Black Sea today, hydrogen sulfide exists at about 200 parts per million. This is a toxic brew in which any aerobic, oxygen-needing organism would die. For the Black Sea, the hydrogen sulfide stays in the depths because our rich oxygen atmosphere mixes in the top layer of water and controls the diffusion of hydrogen sulfide upwards.
In the end-Permian, as the levels of atmospheric oxygen fell and the levels of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide rose, the upper levels of the oceans could have become rich in hydrogen sulfide catastrophically. This would kill most the oceanic plants and animals. The hydrogen sulfide dispersing in the atmosphere would kill most terrestrial life.
"A hydrogen sulfide atmosphere fits the extinction better than one enriched in carbon dioxide," says Kump. "Carbon dioxide would have a profound effect on marine life, but terrestrial plants thrive on carbon dioxide, yet they are included in the extinction."
Another piece in the puzzle surrounding this extinction is that hydrogen sulfide gas destroys the ozone layer. Recently, Dr. Henk Visscher of Utrecht University and his colleagues suggested that there are fossil spores from the end-Permian that show deformities that researchers suspect were caused by ultra violet light.
"These deformities fit the idea that the ozone layer was damaged, letting in more ultra violet," says Kump.
Once this process is underway, methane produced in the ample swamps of this time period has little in the atmosphere to destroy it. The atmosphere becomes one of hydrogen sulfide, methane and ultra violet radiation.
The Penn State researcher and his colleagues are looking for biomarkers, indications of photosynthetic sulfur bacteria in deep-sea sediments to complement such biomarkers recently reported in shallow water sediments of this age by Kliti Grice, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, and colleagues in the Feb. 4 issue of the journal, Science. These bacteria live in places where no oxygen exists, but there is some sunlight. They would have been in their heyday in the end-Permian. Finding evidence of green sulfur bacteria would provide evidence for hydrogen sulfide as the cause of the mass extinctions.
Source: The Pennsylvania State University


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Life is full of miracles, big and small. Unfortunately, this cake recipe is not among them.
Now, this is a perfectly fine chocolate cake recipe, but a miracle shortcut it ain't. In fact the only shortcut I could see is that one need not wait for the butter to soften. Instead, the cold butter is "cut in" to the flour, similar to the method for making pie crust.
What I found most interesting -- and why I made this -- is the idea that even back in the day, housewives were searching out miracles, and shortcuts. I imagine that this baker had a true eureka moment when boxed cake mixes debuted.
If you want try for a miracle, instructions are below.
These days, I use a food processor to cut the fat into the flour. It makes short work of a tedious process, which is kind of a miracle right there.
Add the liquid ingredients all at once.
Next, add the melted chocolate.
I frosted this with a mocha chocolate frosting, left over from another baking adventure. You can make your own by making this recipe from the Magnolia Bakery, adding cocoa powder and brewed coffee to taste.


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§Essential Action
§What is EssentialAction?
The EssentialAction is the simpler type underlying Action[A]. To understand EssentialAction we need to understand the Play architecture.
The core of Play is really small, surrounded by a fair amount of useful APIs, services and structure to make Web Programming tasks easier.
Basically, Play's action API abstractly has the following type:
RequestHeader -> Array[Byte] -> Result
The above computation takes the request header RequestHeader
, then takes the request body as Array[Byte]
and produces a Result
Now this type presumes putting request body entirely into memory (or disk), even if you only want to compute a value out of it, or better forward it to a storage service like Amazon S3.
We rather want to receive request body chunks as a stream and be able to process them progressively if necessary.
What we need to change is the second arrow to make it receive its input in chunks and eventually produce a result. There is a type that does exactly this, it is called Accumulator
and takes two type parameters.
is a type of arrow that will take its input in chunks of type E
and eventually return R
. For our API we need an Accumulator that takes chunks of ByteString
(essentially a more efficient wrapper for a byte array) and eventually return a Result
. So we slightly modify the type to be:
RequestHeader -> Accumulator[ByteString, Result]
For the first arrow, we are simply using the Function[From, To] which could be type aliased with =>
RequestHeader => Accumulator[ByteString, Result]
Now if I define an infix type alias for Accumulator[E,R]
type ==>[E,R] = Accumulator[E,R]
then I can write the type in a funnier way:
RequestHeader => ByteString ==> Result
And this should read as: Take the request headers, take chunks of ByteString
which represent the request body and eventually return a Result
. This exactly how the EssentialAction
type is defined:
trait EssentialAction extends (RequestHeader => Accumulator[ByteString, Result])
The Result
type, on the other hand, can be abstractly thought of as the response headers and the body of the response:
case class Result(header: ResponseHeader, body: ByteString)
But, what if we want to send the response body progressively to the client without filling it entirely into memory? We need to improve our type. We need to replace the body type from a ByteString
to something that produces chunks of ByteString
We already have a type for this and is called Source[E, _]
which means that it is capable of producing chunks of E
, in our case Source[ByteString, _]
case class Result(header: ResponseHeader, body: Source[ByteString, _])
If we don't have to send the response progressively we still can send the entire body as a single chunk. In the actual API, Play supports different types of entities using the HttpEntity
wrapper type, which supports streamed, chunked, and strict entities.
Note that Play's built-in helpers like Ok(myObject)
convert myObject
to an entity using an implicit Writeable[E]
instance that creates an HttpEntity
from the entity E
§Bottom Line
The essential Play HTTP API is quite simple:
RequestHeader -> Accumulator[ByteString, Result]
or the funnier
RequestHeader => ByteString ==> Result
which reads as the following: Take the RequestHeader
then take chunks of ByteString
and return a response. A response consists of ResponseHeaders
and a body which is chunks of values convertible to ByteString
to be written to the socket represented in the Source[E, _]
Next: HTTP filters


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Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike ... Undergraduate teaching, in particular, offers a critical link in offering more data science exposure to students and expanding the supply of data science talent.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018
Educators teach data science with MATLAB by drawing on available course modules, onramp tutorials, and code examples. MATLAB offers a notebook environment, toolboxes, and apps for developing analytic models.
Using MATLAB students can combine statistics and machine learning with application specific techniques such as signal processing, image processing, text analytics, optimization and controls
Below is a curated list of course curricula, textbooks, online courses, industry applications and case studies, and resources for teaching data science with MATLAB at the undergraduate level. For resources specific to deep learning and machine learning, see:
Course Curricula
- Nathan Kutz, University of Washington: Scalable Integration of Scientific Computing and Data Science in Flipped, Open-Source Classrooms (.pptx, 353.3 MB)
- University of Washington: Data Science for Biologists
- Williams College: Linking Environmental Science Field Methods to Interpretable Results through MATLAB-Based Analysis
- City University of New York: Teaching Environmental Data Analysis Fundamentals in MATLAB
- University of Arizona: Developing an Introductory Data Analysis Class Using MATLAB
- Stanford University: Signal Processing for Machine Learning
- Colorado School of Mines: Introduction to Computer Vision
- Computational and Statistical Methods for Analysing Big Data with Applications
- Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB
- Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control
- Measurement and Data Analysis for Engineering and Science
- Statistics in MATLAB: A Primer
- Text Mining with MATLAB
Online Courses
- Practical Data Science with MATLAB specialization on Coursera (4 course specialization)
- Machine Learning from Andrew Ng (Stanford University) on Coursera
- Machine Learning for Engineering and Science Applications from Prof. Balaji Srinivasan and Prof. Ganapathy (IIT Madras) on NPTEL
Industry Applications
- Electricity Load Forecasting
- Human Activity Recognition
- Predictive Maintenance
- Algorithmic Trading
- Image Classification (Machine Learning)
- Heart Sound Classifier
Industry Case Studies
- Battelle Neural Bypass Technology Restores Movement to a Paralyzed Man's Arm and Hand
- Detecting Oversteer in BMW Automobiles with Machine Learning
- ASML Develops Virtual Metrology Technology for Semiconductor Manufacturing with Machine Learning
MATLAB Resources
- MATLAB Onramp (two-hour introductory tutorial)
- Deep Learning Onramp (two-hour introductory tutorial)
- MATLAB Online (use MATLAB in your browser)
- MATLAB Grader (automatically grade MATLAB coding assignments)
- Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox (Documentation)
- Deep Learning Toolbox (Documentation)
- Latest features and resources for data science, deep learning, and machine learning (recent release product features)


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Mattel releases Dash foldable robot bugs
Mattel has launched a line of biologically inspired foldable robot bugs designed in collaboration with Dash Robots, a spin-off of the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab (BML). The researchers at BML, under the direction of Prof. Ron Fearing, draw inspiration from nature to build more efficient robotics. The new toys, called Kamigami, let kids build their own robotic bugs, like mantises, ladybugs and scorpions. Each $50 kit contains parts of a six-legged robot (with an accelerometer, gyroscope, and IR transmitter/receiver) and foldable plastic origami sheets to transform each robot into a different creature.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 30, 2015 – Today, Cisco announced its intent to acquire OpenDNS, a privately held security company based in San Francisco. OpenDNS provides advanced threat protection for any device, anywhere, anytime. The acquisition will boost Cisco's Security Everywhere approach by adding broad visibility and threat intelligence from the OpenDNS cloud delivered platform.
The burgeoning digital economy and the Internet of Everything (IoE) are expected to spur the connection of nearly 50 billion devices by 2020, creating a vast new wave of opportunities for security breaches across networks. The faster customers can deploy a solution, the faster they can detect, block and remediate these emerging security threats. OpenDNS' cloud platform offers security delivered in a Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) model, making it quick and easy for customers to deploy and integrate as part of their defense architecture or incident response strategies. By providing comprehensive threat awareness and pervasive visibility, the combination of Cisco and OpenDNS will enhance advanced threat protection across the full attack continuum—before, during and after an attack.
Typically devices and people connected to the network are easier to identify and track for potential security threats. However in a world in which devices and people can connect from anywhere at anytime, enterprise IT teams have increasingly limited visibility into potential threats from these unmonitored and potentially unsecure entry points into the network, creating tremendous security risk. Combining OpenDNS' broad visibility, unique predictive threat intelligence and cloud platform with Cisco's robust security and threat capabilities will increase awareness across the extended network, both on- and off-premise, reduce the time to detect and respond to threats, and mitigate risk of a security breach.
"As more people, processes, data and things become connected, opportunities for security breaches and malicious threats grow exponentially when away from secure enterprise networks," said Hilton Romanski, Cisco chief technology and strategy officer. "OpenDNS has a strong team with deep security expertise and key technology that complements Cisco's security vision. Together, we will help customers protect their extended network wherever the user is and regardless of the device."
The OpenDNS team will join the Cisco Security Business Group organization led by David Goeckeler, senior vice president and general manager. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay $635 million in cash and assumed equity awards, plus retention based incentives for OpenDNS. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, subject to customary closing conditions.
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Partial Dentures – Solution for Missing Teeth
After a tooth is lost, dental patients must determine the best technique for tooth replacement. A dental specialist will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each tooth replacement option, as well as an estimate of the cost after dental insurance coverage is applied. Many people prefer complete or partial dentures since they are inexpensive and frequently covered by insurance.
If the patient does not require full dentures, the dentists can create partial dentures. Many people might learn about suitable tooth replacement choices by researching partial dentures.
What Exactly Are Partial Dentures?
"What is a partial denture?" dental patients may inquire. Partial dentures are recommended by dentists for those who have lost a segment of their teeth due to extractions. Whatever the reason for the person's tooth loss, the parts could be an effective approach to replace the missing teeth and restore the patient's smile.
A partial denture or bridge is made by a dentist using a mold of the teeth and gums, and it is attached to the gums with adhesives. A removable partial bridge can be provided by a dental practitioner, or the bridge can be permanently installed. If the partial is removable, the individual will utilize adhesives to glue the components to their gums in regions where the teeth are lacking in order to restore their smile.
Assume the dentist permanently installs a partial or bridge. The bridge is connected to the crowns by the dentist, who makes a crown at either end of the device. In addition, the dentist uses abutments and professional-grade adhesive to secure the rest of the bridge to the gums.
What to Know About Partial Dentures
The teeth on the partial denture will be white and appear natural. Before the extractions, the dentist will try to build a mold of the teeth if possible. A new set of dentures or bridges, on the other hand, can offer the person teeth that are more aesthetically beautiful than their natural teeth.
Partial dentures and bridges may be covered by the individual's dental insurance. Before scheduling an appointment for dentures, the individual can schedule a consultation for an examination and receive a detailed estimate for tooth replacement services based on the coverage offered by the dental insurance.
With a partial, the client must return to the dentist for an examination to establish whether the partial is still in good condition or whether it needs to be replaced. The dentist will examine the present state of the permanently installed bridge or partial and evaluate whether repairs are necessary.
Why Would Someone Require Partial Dentures?
To replace missing teeth in a row or region, a partial is required. Instead of replacing the teeth one at a time, the dentist might provide a partial or bridge to replace numerous teeth at once and restore the smile. Dentists can discuss the best possibilities for replacing the client's teeth and provide the person with everything needed for a tooth replacement process.
Advantages of Partial Dentures
First, the partial replaces a segment of teeth all at once, eliminating the need for the user to worry about subsequent humiliating occasions caused by tooth loss. The teeth will appear natural and will remain in place. Because these teeth replacement goods are not considered aesthetic or elective, most people receive at least 80% coverage for them. Teeth replacement can help a person regain the ability to chew and talk properly.
What Kinds of Partial Dentures Are There?
There are two kinds of partials: removable partials and permanent partials. With detachable partials, the patient must rely on adhesives to hold the bridge in place. The adhesives can be recommended by the dentist to reduce the possibility of the appliances falling out of the mouth at inconvenient times. The person does not have to worry about the gadget falling out with permanent partials or bridges. From the middle to the gums, the dentist places a crown on each side of the partial and bones.
How To Choose the Right Partial Dentures
The dentist fashions the portion from a mold of the gums, attempting to mimic the appearance of genuine teeth. Following the completion of the partials' construction, the dentist can exhibit all available partials as well as digital photos of the result.
Partial dentures are advantageous tooth replacement choices that are perfect for replacing lost tooth portions. After completing many extractions, the dental expert might supply partials. Furthermore, by receiving the partial, the individual can regain their ability to chew and talk appropriately.
The individual can choose between a removable item and a permanent installation with a portion. These alternatives are equally effective as dental implants in replacing teeth. Nonetheless, the gadgets are less expensive than implants or implant surgery. The partial will also appear to be natural teeth, restoring the smile. Dental patients who have lost many teeth can now learn more about partial dentures by scheduling an appointment with their favorite dental professional.
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text: Evan Thomas is the author of nine books: The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson), The Man to See, The Very Best Men, Robert Kennedy, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, The War Lovers, Ike's Bluff, and Being Nixon. John Paul Jones and Sea of Thunder were New York Times bestsellers. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years (1986–96) as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, where, at the time of his retirement in 2010, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award. He wrote Newsweek's fifty-thousand-word election specials in 1996, 2000, 2004 (winner of a National Magazine Award), and 2008. He has appeared on many TV and radio talk shows, including Meet the Press and The Colbert Report, and has been a guest on PBS's Charlie Rose more than forty times. The author of dozens of book reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Thomas has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism.


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A courageous leader of the Jerusalem Church during the Islamic conquests of the seventh century, Patriarch Saint Sophronius I has his liturgical memorial on March 11.
Though he is acknowledged and celebrated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, St. Sophronius is more commonly venerated among Eastern Catholics and within the Eastern Orthodox churches. All of these traditions commemorate him on the same date, the purported date of his death in 638.
Born in Damascus, Syria, around the year 560, Sophronius came from an esteemed family and received a deep philosophical education. His early devotion to God grew into an inclination toward monastic life, and while still young he entered a monastery in Palestine. He became a friend and student of John Moschus, his fellow monk who would become an important spiritual writer in the Eastern Christian tradition.
The Zoroastrian Persians – long-standing military rivals of the Byzantine Empire, hailing from present-day Iran – invaded Palestine in 605. As a result the two monks fled first to Antioch and then Egypt. But their flight became a spiritual quest, taking John and Sophronius to many monasteries throughout the Middle East. Moschus' memoir of their travels, entitled "The Spiritual Meadow," survives and is still read in the Church to this day.
The two monks' foremost patron was Saint John the Almsgiver, patriarch of Alexandria, with whom they stayed for a time until the Persians conquered the city in 614. The Zoroastrian invasion of Egypt forced the kindly patriarch back to his homeland of Cyprus, while Sophronius and John Moschus took refuge in Rome along with a group of other monks. Moschus, regarded as a saint by some contemporary Eastern Christians, died in Rome during 619.
Jerusalem, the future site of Sophronius' patriarchate, was the subject of violent disputes even before the rise of Islam. Captured by the Persians in 614, it was not retaken by the Byzantines until 628. The Christian reconquest of the city was triumphant, after the long wars with the Zoroastrian empire. But the triumph would be short-lived: By that time the Islamic founder Muhammad had begun his conquests, which would continue under his successors the caliphs.
Eastern Christendom also suffered internally during the 620s, with a recurrence of doctrinal controversy over the person of Christ. During the 630s, Sophronius prominently opposed the "monothelite" heresy – whose adherents supposed Jesus had only one will, the divine. This error denied Christ's human will, making him less than "true God and true man." Saint Maximus the Confessor, the greatest opponent of monothelitism, was taught and mentored by Sophronius.
Chosen to lead the Church in Jerusalem during 634, Sophronius continued to oppose the monothelite heresy. But he soon faced a more tangible threat from Caliph Umar and his army of followers. The Muslims beseiged Jerusalem for two years during Sophronius' patriarchate, forcibly depriving the city's residents of food. The patriarch could only save the lives of his people by negotiating a surrender with the caliph. Thus, Jerusalem fell to Islam for the first time in 637. Heartbroken, St. Sophronius died the following year.
Patriarch St. Sophronius' stand against Monothelitism was vindicated near the end of the seventh century, when the heresy of "one will" in Christ received formal condemnation at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in Constantinople. But the Jerusalem Patriarchate remained vacant for many decades after St. Sophronius' death: a successor was not appointed until 705. Jerusalem, meanwhile, would not pass back into Christian hands until the First Crusade of 1099.
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«Good Morning, Mr. Orwell»
In «1984», the novel he wrote in 1948, George Orwell sees the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother in a totalitarian state. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik was keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends such as the intercontinental exchange of culture combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris and hooking up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even (including the later repeat transmissions) 25 million. The broadcast carried forward Paik's videotape 'Global Grove' of 1973 – an early, pioneering concept aimed at international understanding through the vehicle of TV – by expanding the concept with the possibilities of satellite transmission in real time. Although abundant technical hitches sometimes rendered the results unpredictable, Paik deemed that this merely served to increase the 'live' mood. The mixture of mainstream TV and avant-garde arts was a balancing act typical of Paik and met with more misgiving from art-oriented viewers than the audience Paik termed «the young, media oriented peiple, who play 20 channels of New York TV stations like piano keys». The artist personally invested a large sum in the project in order to realize his vision. Asked what he would say to St. Peter at the gates to the Kingdom of Heaven, Paik instantly replied that this live show was his «direct contribution to human survival and he'll let me in.»


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We think Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is great, and beats other forms of online communication like AIM, MSN, and Yahoo without a doubt. We have compiled this list to illustrate why:
Everything needed to run a full IRC network is available under the GPL License. Open Source IRC clients like xchat, irssi, and bitchx; IRC server software like Evilnet Nefarious, and Inspircd, and finally the services software that runs upon it like X3 and GNUWorld.
Why does this matter? If you don't agree with how AOL runs their IM servers, what are you gonna do about it? But, if you think you could run an IRC network better, you can make changes, and even start your own.
Most IM tools don't offer any kind of encryption. However many IRC servers (such as afternet) support SSL encryption, so you can bitch about your boss without fear he is listening in.
Because of IRC's open nature, you can run whatever software you want to connect. There are literally thousands of programs capable of connecting to IRC, from bots to clients. You aren't tied to one IM client that you don't like. And you aren't generating profit for the owner of the IM client by being subjected to their advertisements.
Tired of the A/S/L chat on AIM? Each channel on IRC has its own culture, so you can easily find the people who want to talk about the same things as you.
Because IRC started as a UNIX tool for geeks and university mainframe users, IRC has a tradition of technical chat. You can often find groups of people talking about anything from Linux and the software that runs on it, to designing games, to hobby electronics.
Finding new friends who can help you learn and grow on AIM is nearly impossible. All the conversations take place between two people who already know each other. In contrast, on IRC most conversations happen out in public, so you can get to know people even just by watching. By becoming a regular of a channel, you meet all sorts of other members who you would not have known to IM directly.
Chat goes on all the time on IRC, about many different subjects. Often, you will find people discussing topics you didn't know existed, or discussing a position you don't agree with. Just hanging out on IRC can lead to a much broader understanding of the world.
Shy? Not sure what to say? Some people just don't feel comfortable IMing friends just to listen. However on IRC, you can watch other people chat if you don't feel like talking, you might even learn something while you do!
Nothing facilitates people building a trust relationship over the internet quite like IRC. Because of the inherent structure and culture on IRC, you can really get to know others and grow to be friends. Over time, regular IRCers grow large networks of people they know and trust. Try doing THAT over AIM!
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If you already have IRC software installed, read our Connecting to AfterNET pages for details on how to get here.
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Human IL10 DIY ELISA Kit
- Product Type:
- ELISA Kit
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- ELISA Type:
Human IL10 DIY ELISA Kit
The Human IL10 DIY ELISA Kit is an ELISA kit for the detection of IL-10 in a range of sample types. DIY ELISA Kits are a range of specially designed ELISA Assays with the pharmaceutical and biotech research industries in mind. Focusing on the high quality monoclonal antibodies and purified standards, DIY ELISA Kits are key tools for immunology research. Each kit contains a highly optimised antibody pair as well as a purified recombinant protein for the detection of your analyte in cell culture supernatants. The DIY ELISA Kits can also be used for the detection of analytes in more complex matrices such as serum and plasma.
DIY ELISA Kit Key Features
- Highly optimised monoclonal antibody pair for highly specific and sensitive analyte detection.
- High quality purified recombinant protein to generate consistent standard curves.
- Accuracy and reliability are guaranteed as all reagents have been validated according ISO 9001:2000 quality systems.
- Recognises both Natural and Recombinant antigen Specificity.
- No cross reactivity with other cytokines tested.
- Standard Calibration to NIBSC.
- ELISA Kits developed with pharmaceutical and biotech research sectors in mind.
Size: | 1,5,10,15,20 x 96 Discovery |
Alias: | CSIF; CSIFMGC126450; Cytokine synthesis inhibitory factor; IL10; IL-10; IL10A; IL-10MGC126451; interleukin 10; interleukin-10; TGIF |
Assay Range: | 12.5 pg/ml - 400 pg/ml |
Sensitivity: | 5 pg/ml |
Target Species: | Human |
Specificity: | Recognizes both natural and recombinant human IL-10 |
Incubation: | From sample to end 2h45 |
SampleType: | Serum, Plasma, Cell culture supernatant |
Sample Size: | 100 µl |
Cross Reactivity: | No cross reactivity with other human cytokines. Cross reactivity with simian IL-10. No cross reactivity with viral IL-10. |
Kit Contents: | DIY ELISA Kits include capture and biotinylated detection antibody, one standard per plate, Streptavidin-HRP, TMB, and detailed procedure including buffer composition. |
Materials required but not provided
- 96 well Microtiter plates: e.g. Nunc Maxisorp Cat # 468667 * Note: the use of ELISA plates which are not high affinity binding will result in lower performances.
- Reconstitution Buffer: 1xPBS, 0.09% Azide *
- Coating Buffer: 1xPBS, pH 7.2-7.4 *
- Wash Buffer: 1xPBS, 0.05% Tween20 *
- Blocking Buffer: 1xPBS, 5% BSA *
- Standard Dilution Buffer: 1xPBS, 1% BSA *
- Secondary Antibody Dilution Buffer: 1xPBS, 1% BSA * Note: Supplementation with 10% Animal Serum e.g. FCS for assaying serum, plasma or other body fluids samples may be necessary.
- HRP Dilution Buffer: 1xPBS, 1% BSA, 0.1% Tween20 *
- Stop Reagent: 1N Sulfuric Acid
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- 50-300µl multi-channel micropipette with disposable tips
- Multichannel micropipette reagent reservoirs
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This is where Ronald Reagan's famous quote comes into play when he famously said, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left me."
Wonder if Bolling ever feels that way? Seems from feedback that a large section of Republicans in the Commonwealth are feeling that way about the Republican Party for a variety of reasons not the least of which is this: a conservative is not a libertarian, and vice versa.
The News-Virginian editorial appears to join others in their appreciation of the LG's even-keeled governing style. He may not be the flashiest man in the room but he can rally a crowd with that booming voice that was heard at October's Mitt Romney rally in Fishersville, "HELLO, SHENANDOAH VALLEY!"
In the editorial, the News-Virginian wrote:
The reason it seemed unfortunate that Bolling was dropping out was that he has been heavily involved in a success of Gov. Bob McDonnell's administration: drawing jobs to Virginia.While the Lieutenant Governor talks with supporters about funding for an independent run -- no easy task considering he's going up against McAuliffe aka Bill Clinton aka Barack Obama and the multi-millions they can bring to the race -- the voices continue from editorial boards around the Commonwealth. They suggest that Bolling could be the middle-ground candidate needed in a state that has turned purple and now boasts two Democratic U.S. Senators after twice voting for a Democratic president. The shining light has been Republican leadership at the top of state government along with a House of Delegates majority and a tied State Senate.
And he has been particularly supportive of Waynesboro. For a time, it seemed that barely a week went by when Bolling wasn't here, either to announce grant funding for the city or to celebrate with a business in the community that was hiring, which is obviously no small feat in this economy.
These days, though, Bolling is known for a question: Will he, or won't he?
That is, the gentleman from Hanover County is weighing an independent bid for the governor's mansion.
He got out of the race last year because it appeared he was at a competitive disadvantage to Republican rival Ken Cuccinelli. The state GOP chose to select its gubernatorial nominee in a convention rather than in a primary election, and Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general, was seen as the favorite in a convention setting, where fewer people would decide the winner. Bolling, on the other hand, would have more luck in a primary, the thinking went.
Without Bolling's challenge, Cuccinelli has become the Republican standard bearer to the Democratic Party's Terry McAuliffe.
But supporters have urged Bolling to make an independent run. He's seen as the moderate alternative to Cuccinelli's more extreme brand of conservatism, and as a longtime public servant in the Old Dominion whereas McAuliffe is viewed by some as a carpetbagger.
Bolling has said he will announce a decision two weeks from today on March 14. It cannot be an easy decision. Running as an independent is tough when the Party demands loyalty of its candidates and grassroots leaders. However, some areas of the Commonwealth have seen the rise of the independents in the past few years. If Bolling ran, he would become a leader for independents to rally around, sending fear down the spines of other candidates.
The News-Virginian noted they would welcome Bolling into the race. I have a feeling there are many others who would, too.