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The 1950sI wish I was born in the 1950s, so that I could live the life I see in movies. You know, where people go to a diner and dance to juke boxes, where girls wear those long school dresses, guys are so romantic and well-mannered and pick you up in their cadillac, girls had those amazing updo hairstyles with the cutest curled bangs, you weren't allowed out past 8, a date was actually the two of you sitting awkwardly on your parent's couch, and so much more. Gosh, I wish I was born then, the only thing I'd change was the segregation and Jim Crow laws, other than that things would be swell.
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I agree, but I wish I was born during the 1930's.. People today laugh at me, because I listen to music that is from another generation!


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We have been through foreigners referring to Africa as a country. Usually implied in subtle statements. For example;
Person A: Hi Chloe, what did you do last summer?
Foreigner B: Oh nothing much, my family decided to go visit Africa.
We're pretty sure said person did not visit all 54 countries in our beloved continent. These remarks are usually more bewildering when they come from people who are supposed to have more knowledge about this.
Vice president of America, Joe Biden once made this ignorant statement when he said "There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead."
Also last year, Raven Symone, a prominent American celebrity referred to Africa as a super continent in a statement where she said she's from "all the continents in Africa." While it caused a spark from her fans, most of us could only smile tightly being grateful that she had already disowned her heritage so we could overlook the fact that she's not 'black'
However, recently in a Twitter rant, pop icon Kanye West called Africa a country, and our reaction is well encapsulated in the picture below;
In the Twitter rant, the rapper tweeted that he was $53 million in debt. He called on tech gurus; Larry page Google co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg the Facebook co-founder. Rather than talk about why Kanye called out the Facebook founder on Twitter rather than on Facebook, or why Kanye who is supposedly worth $100 million is broke, we just want to know why Kanye thinks Africa is a country.
you'd rather open up one school in Africa like you really helped the country…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 15, 2016
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I arrived in Ireland in 1999 almost by chance during one of my trips I thought it was a very interesting place, so I decided to stay, to start working and get to know the country and the culture After years spent working in Ireland I thought I was ready to open my own business to express myself and my ideas about Italian cuisine and in particular through the cuisine from Sardinia, the region where I am from.
So, It was not planned at all.
At the beginning I actually wanted to open a restaurant.
I have always worked in this business, both in the kitchen and on the floor and I have always dealt with both food and wines.
We came here with the idea of opening a restaurant but we didn't get the planning permission.
However I decided to stay here a couple of weeks, make a wine selection.
then weeks became months, then years.
This is how I ended up here today, doing something I had never planned.
This is about bringing our culture abroad, trying to make it famous beyond the Italian borders and making foreign people appreciate it.
At least this is what i think.
Of course, we try our best.
Obviously we had to "adapt" some dishes to the Irish culture.
But we have a policy of preparing and serving food, the Italian way I think that wine has one main purpose, fostering socialization I was raised in Venice.
I remember going to pick up my grandpa from work, and he would always stop in a tavern to drink a glass of wine Of course he would then bribe me with soda to keep the secret with my grandma.
This is what I'm talking about.
I have this picture in my head of people sitting around the table with a glass of wine.
And to me wine has still that function.
Honestly I think there's many of them.
We've served many different dishes, some even quite complicated You wonder, will they like it? But then it's a success I'm also happy because most people are able to actually enjoy some dishes such as fregola -Something that they'd never seen – Or bottarga Of course carbonara, Bolognese and lasagne will never come out of fashion but also something like gnocchetti sardi, the malloreddus, they're really appreciated What is the most popular product in Ireland? Nice question.
Well, if you want to buy and sell according to what Irish people like the most then the wines of choice are strong wines such as wines from Puglia, or Valpolicella.
However this is changing I was talking about it yesterday with some colleagues, The wines I sell in Dublin are different from the ones I sell here.
In Ireland, people's taste is changing.
As I said before, we've tried to build up a market for our wines rather than adapt ourselves in the already existing market.
– So, outside there are two flags.
One is the Italian flag, easily recognizable.
And the other one? The Sardinian flag, the Four Moors The Italian flag is there because of him, the Sardinian one for me.
– Actually there's a Torino FC scarf there- OK, I hadn't noticed – But outside we have the Sardinian one -What if a customer comes in wearing a Juventus jersey? – Well, we'll treat him the same, but.
– But we won't offer Sambuca at the end! The word I like the most, when it comes to describing wine, is not an enological term.
It's Eleganza.
What is the elegance of a wine? Well, If you have a spare hour, we can open a couple of bottles and talk about it! Elegance is when all the components of a wine, such as acidity or tannin are in perfect harmony.
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Conceived and designed the experiments: AS MG JD MSR DK. Performed the experiments: AS JD. Analyzed the data: AS MG JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS MG MP MSR. Wrote the paper: AS MG JD MP MM MSR DK.
We propose a network representation of electrically coupled beta cells in islets of Langerhans. Beta cells are functionally connected on the basis of correlations between calcium dynamics of individual cells, obtained by means of confocal laser-scanning calcium imaging in islets from acute mouse pancreas tissue slices. Obtained functional networks are analyzed in the light of known structural and physiological properties of islets. Focusing on the temporal evolution of the network under stimulation with glucose, we show that the dynamics are more correlated under stimulation than under non-stimulated conditions and that the highest overall correlation, largely independent of Euclidean distances between cells, is observed in the activation and deactivation phases when cells are driven by the external stimulus. Moreover, we find that the range of interactions in networks during activity shows a clear dependence on the Euclidean distance, lending support to previous observations that beta cells are synchronized via calcium waves spreading throughout islets. Most interestingly, the functional connectivity patterns between beta cells exhibit small-world properties, suggesting that beta cells do not form a homogeneous geometric network but are connected in a functionally more efficient way. Presented results provide support for the existing knowledge of beta cell physiology from a network perspective and shed important new light on the functional organization of beta cell syncitia whose structural topology is probably not as trivial as believed so far.
Complex network theory has provided new tools for studying the structure and function of complex systems. A particularly attractive avenue in this context is the analysis of biological systems, since structural principles of complex networks have been identified at all scales of functioning of living organisms. In the present paper, we propose a construction of a complex network representation of pancreatic islets of Langerhans. In this microorgan, interconnected beta cells produce and secrete insulin, an anabolic hormone that controls the level of nutrients in the blood. We determine the functional connectivity on the basis of patterns of correlations between experimentally measured calcium dynamics in individual beta cells. The extracted pattern of pairwise interactions between network elements, i.e. beta cells, is then scrutinized with conventional tools for network analysis. Our findings are largely reconcilable with known structural and functional properties but also point to the presence of unexpected small-world attributes that appear to represent a general organizational principle of the functional connectivity between beta cells. We argue that complex network analysis applied to islets of Langerhans is a valuable new tool in the physiologist's analytical repertoire, and in the future it could help deepen our understanding of their physiology.
Over the last decade, a new field of network science has emerged and distinguished itself from preceding work in the realm of graph theory by focusing on real-world networks and by understanding networks as structures that can evolve in time and as frameworks upon which dynamical systems can be distributed
Employing it, we are beginning to understand structural properties and functional behaviors of systems at scales inaccessible to more classical approaches that handle complexity by explaining structure and function of individual parts. Beyond that, we are discovering common properties of real-world systems as diverse as biological, computer, technical, communication, and social networks
The presence of a small-world topology implies particular dynamic properties, such as stability, local and global efficiency in the interaction of their vertices, e.g. high signal-propagation speed and a high degree of synchronizability
However, with the exception of some of the neurophysiological endeavors, so far all of the above applications gave only snapshot-like insights into complex systems. Due to the very nature of experimental methods they intrinsically missed out a system's temporal evolution and the fact that the nodes
Functional studies on other tissues and at the lowermost level, where individual cells are the nodes considered, are only beginning to emerge
Considering the advantages conferred by small-world properties and emerging evidence on their presence in real biological systems, our aim here is to extend and apply basic ideas of graph theory and to seek for evidence of small-world-ness in beta cells from islets of Langerhans. These endocrine cells reside in the pancreatic tissue, synthesize and release insulin, and play a pivotal role in normal and pathological whole-body nutrient homeostasis
In the present report, we first extract beta cell functional networks by means of intracellular calcium signals from a population of beta cells, obtained by confocal laser-scanning microscopy of fluorescently labeled acute pancreas tissue slices. Next, we statistically characterize them with diagnostic tools from graph theory in view of the current understanding of complex networks. To implement the theoretical framework and measures of network theory for discernment of the organization of beta cell network, a strategy to represent physiological data in the form of graphs is required
The study was carried out in accordance with all national and European recommendations pertaining to work with experimental animals, and all efforts were made to minimize suffering of animals. The protocol was approved by the Veterinary Administration of the Republic of Slovenia (permit number: 34401-61-2009/2).
Tissue slices (140 µm) were prepared from pancreata of 10–20 week old NMRI mice killed by cervical dislocation as described previously
Imaging was performed on a Leica TCS SP5 AOBS Tandem II upright confocal system using a Leica HCX APO L water immersion objective (20×, NA 1.0). OGB-1 was excited by an argon 488 nm laser and fluorescence detected by Leica HyD hybrid detector in the range of 500–650 nm (all from Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany). 8-bit 512×512 pixels images were acquired at a frequency of 0.5 Hz. To avoid recording from cells at the potentially damaged cut surface, cells at 15 µm depth or more were imaged. Optical section thickness was 4 µm which gave a reasonable trade-off between satisfactory signal strength at lowest acceptable laser power (to avoid photobleaching and prolong the maximum time of recording) and the need to keep the section thickness as thin as possible to assure recording from a single cell only. Before and after recording each time series, a higher quality fluorescence image (1024×1024 pixels) was taken and used as a reference to assess motion artefacts and regions of interest (ROIs) during analysis. Calcium kinetics was measured off-line from ROIs and exported employing Leica Application Suite Advanced Fluorescence software (Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany). Further analysis was performed using custom-made scripts in MATLAB program (The MathWorks, Inc., Massachusetts, USA). Photobleaching was accounted for by a combination of linear and exponential fit. Traces were rejected if extensive motion artefacts were observed. The fluorescence signals of OGB-1 were expressed as
Beta cells were distinguished from other cells on the basis of previous reports showing that cells within islets of Langerhans can reliably be identified by their type-specific calcium responses to stimulation with high glucose
To obtain a graph from temporal traces of a large number of cells, we first define that two cells (ROIs) be functionally connected if the Pearson product-moment correlation between their signals over a certain time window exceeds a positive predetermined threshold value
The significance of obtained correlation coefficients was estimated using the t-test
To convert the full connectivity matrix to a sparsely connected undirected unweighted graph, we chose a threshold
In order to characterize the level of synchrony of [Ca2+]i dynamics in the islet, we calculated the average correlation coefficient for all possible pairs of cells,
We first calculated the linear correlation coefficient between all pairs of
Upper row: correlation matrices for low glucose before stimulation (A1), activation (A2), sustained activity in high glucose (A3), deactivation (A4), and low glucose after stimulation (A5). The color mapping is linear, values of
Evidently, the highest overall correlation between beta cells was attained during the phases of activation (ON) and deactivation (OFF). Furthermore, in the HG regime the coherence of [Ca2+]i activity was obviously larger than in either of the low glucose regimes (LG1 and LG2) and lower than during activation and deactivation. To quantify this visual assessment, we calculated the average correlation coefficient
To find out whether network analysis can provide evidence for [Ca2+]i waves as the mechanistic substrate of beta cell synchronization, we examined the relationship between the Euclidean distances
From left to right, histograms illustrating the distribution in low glucose before stimulation (A), during activation (B), during sustained activity in high glucose (C), during deactivation (D), and in low glucose after stimulation (E) are presented. The color profile is linear and the same in all panels. Blue depicts 0 and red 520 pairs of connected cells in a given interval.
Next we explored how the characteristics of the functional network evolved with time. A visualization of the rewiring process of functional connections within an islet throughout different phases can be found in Video S2. Furthermore, we calculated the evolution of
In this figure, temporal changes of the average correlation coefficient (A), average degree (B), the global network efficiency (C) and the average clustering coefficient (D) are presented on a background of the mean-field calcium signal. Parameters calculated for network architectures obtained at different thresholds
In order to strengthen the reliability of our findings, the calculations that follow rely on 9 functional networks having alltogether 562 nodes, that were constructed in 9 islets of Langerhans (from 6 animals). In all slices comparable [Ca2+]i activity patterns were detected (the protocols of stimulation with glucose were as similar as practically achievable), so that the same five regimes could be identified in all of them.
First, we verified if the abovementioned findings can be generalized to other islets. For that purpose we calculated the distribution of pairs of cells that fall within a given range of
Extremely high correlations in the ON and OFF phases which were found in signals from all slices led to very densely connected networks (see lower row in
To describe the average properties of the functional networks (9 datasets) in more detail, we calculated for the LG1, HG, and LG2 regimes the respective average correlation coefficient
To determine the scale of our networks we plotted the cumulative degree distribution (
Values obtained from all 9 islets are plotted in different colors and the larger black circles indicate their average for low glucose prior to stimulation (A), high glucose (B), and low glucose after stimulation (C). The node degree distributions decay roughly linearly before a drop-off in the tail, thereby indicating a broad-scale nature of the networks.
Since in the HG regime a clear increase in correlation between the nearest cells was visible, we further checked whether clustering in this regime was also related to the physical distance between cells. For this purpose we calculated the average length of connections <
Plotted are the values obtained for the HG regime.
Finally, to diagnose small-world properties in the networks we compared
Median values of statistical parameters indicative of small-world properties in 9 islets from 6 animals, for the functional networks obtained for low glucose before stimulation (LG1), high glucose (HG), and low glucose after stimulation (LG2).
A number of previous studies employing tools developed in the frame of complex network theory have suggested a strong global structure-function correlation and the importance of small-world features for optimal functional connectivity
Qualitatively, the dynamics of calcium responses we obtained were in good agreement with what has been described in isolated islets
In short, previous studies employing calcium imaging with subsequent identification of types of cells by immunocytochemistry have shown that cells can reliably be identified by their type-specific calcium responses to stimulation with high glucose
Upon stimulation with glucose, the cytosolic calcium increased and after lowering the glucose to basal concentration, it rapidly returned to the prestimulatory level. Both activation and deactivation were manifested as a prominent rise of the average correlation between cell responses, with more cells reaching the threshold value of
The larger correlation during deactivation in comparison with activation is due to shorter time delays observed during this phase. In an electrically coupled syncitium, the efficiency of spread of electrical signals is expected to be determined by the gap junctional and membrane conductance, such that the higher the gap junctional conductance and the lower the membrane conductance, the more efficient the transmission of stimuli. Therefore, it is not surprising that deactivation, starting from a well coupled state, was more synchronous than activation that started from a state where membrane conductance of cells that were not yet metabolically activated was high due to open KATP channels. The high correlation during deactivation supports the experimentally observed rapid termination of insulin secretion in face of lowering glucose which probably helps prevent hypoglycemic episodes. The level of synchronization seemed independent of Euclidean distance for both activation and deactivation. This is probably due to poor coupling during activation with cells in different parts of an islet responding independently from each other, and due to deactivation starting simultaneously in more than one part of the islet.
In contrast, during HG regime when cells displayed sustained regular oscillations, the level of synchronization strongly depended on physical distance, with correlation almost linearly falling with increasing distance between cells. Obviously, this finding practically excludes the possibility that beta cells in different parts of an islet show completely synchronous activity and strongly supports the idea that calcium waves spread across the islet with a speed sufficient to allow for the presence of oscillations in the mean field signal, occurring with practically the same frequency as in individual cells
In contrast to neurons that possess cellular processes encompassing a whole range of possible lengths and enable these cells physical contact with nearest neighbors as well as with cells in more distant parts of an organ or even body, beta cells are typically of a polyhedral shape and make direct physical contact with their nearest neighbors only. From a graph-theoretical perspective, at first glance an islet of Langerhans might seem to be an example of a regular network where all cells are only coupled to their nearest neighbors
Another possible explanation for the small-world-ness of a structurally regular network is that our preparation spares some parasympathetic ganglia and postganglionic nerve fibers and that the synchronization of distant parts is mediated via nerve endings. Also, the possibility of a paracrine, fast-acting synchronizing mediator is worth exploring further.
Finally, we wish to emphasize that the presence of functional connections between remote cells does not imply the existence of direct physical connections between them but merely a high degree of similarity between their [Ca2+]i signals. The latter can be the consequence of a high degree of gap junctional coupling between all the cells interposed between the observed pair of cells, the presence of neuronal connections between cells or some other as yet unidentified mechanism.
Some technical constraints encountered during this study merit additional attention, since they provide a fertile ground for future improvements, and more importantly, because they influence the interpretation of results. During staining the dye molecules reached the cells via diffusion, consequently the outermost cell layer was stained best. Unfortunately, this is also the layer that was separated from the rest of the islet by the razor blade and therefore experienced most of mechanical trauma during the cutting step. An acceptable trade-off between maximum dye uptake and minimum mechanical damage was achieved by setting the focal plane so as to record from the second or third layer of cells below the outermost one. Here, not all of the cells covering the cross-sectional surface had taken up the calcium dye and second, of those that showed stable basal calcium signals, not all responded to elevated glucose. This could be attributed to suboptimal dye concentration or time of incubation. Also, even in this somewhat deeper layer, some residual damage due to mechanical trauma, hypoxia, temperature susceptibility, toxicity of the detergent or the dye itself etc., cannot be excluded.
An islet of Langerhans is made up of at least five different types of endocrine cells (alpha, beta, delta, epsilon, PP) and non-endocrine cells that include nerves, dendritic cells, macrophages, fibroblasts, vascular endothelial cells, and pericytes
Moreover, due to the rather homogeneous and radially symmetrical islet architecture regarding distribution of endocrine cells as well as capillaries, we believe that the findings obtained from a certain transversal section do not importantly differ from the ones we would obtain in a given islet in any other possible transversal section of a comparable diameter. Due to this and due to the consistency of findings from different islets, we strongly doubt that the presented results were significantly influenced by the technical limitations of our study.
Lastly, it needs to be acknowledged that we studied a two-dimensional cross-section of a three-dimensional organ, which implies that our findings may not firmly reflect the functional connectivity between beta cells in the whole Islet. Unfortunately, with the existing technology whole-islet calcium imaging is hardly feasible. However, if we take into account that we scrutinize a system with a rather isotropic cytoarchitecture and that in complex networks with long-range connections (such as small-world networks) the dimension of the space is more or less irrelevant
Employing a novel approach to
Authors thank Ines Kavčič and Rudi Mlakar for their skillful technical assistance and Sara Tement for helping with statistical analyses.


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Actually, it's almost here. Today and yesterday, I've been baking and cooking all afternoon to get ready for the big day. So far I've made:
pumpkin pie
chocolate cake
cranberry sauce
bread (both cornbread and white) for stuffing
wheat bread to eat
dressing for the salad
toasted pecans for the salad
sweet potato casserole
turkey brine
a birthday cake (somehow at Jeff's work he was responsible for bringing birthday cake in today for a coworker, so I made it for him.) :)
All this work really makes me appreciate my mom, who always seems to pull together these beautiful, elaborate and tasty meals quite easily. With at least 2 kinds of meat. But as for me, I'm tired. I still need to make baked oatmeal for tomorrow morning. Yum. With pears on top. Even yummer.
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The 'Civil Society Report on SDGs: Agenda 2030' of INDIA 2017 will be released on 12th July 2017 at Baha'i International Community Center, 866 UN Plaza, New York from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. The launching will be held in the framework of the HLPF 2017
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Global spotlight report challenges the notion that "trillions of private finance" are needed to advance SDG implementation and highlights the centrality of public policies and investments, pointing out how developed countries' refusal to any meaningful democratization of global economic governance remains the key obstacle to unlocking the necessary means of implementation
As the SDG 17 is under review today at the HLPF 2017, civil society groups express their concern for the inadequacy of the combined MoI/AAAA framework to match the ambition of the 2030 Agenda. The worrying slogan of 'making the business case for sustainable development', clearly exemplifies how private finance, rather than public policies and investments, is being portrayed as the fundamental key to SDG implementation, says the Spotlight Report, a comprehensive independent assessment released in New York on the opening day of the High Level Political Forum 2017.
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World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) saw unusually-high trading volume on Thursday . Approximately 299,648 shares were traded during mid-day trading, an increase of 101% from the previous session's volume of 149,078 shares.The stock last traded at $43.93 and had previously closed at $43.81.
WRLD has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Jefferies Group reiterated a "hold" rating and issued a $37.00 price target on shares of World Acceptance Corp. in a research note on Friday, July 15th. Zacks Investment Research lowered World Acceptance Corp. from a "hold" rating to a "strong sell" rating in a research note on Saturday, July 30th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets reiterated a "hold" rating and issued a $41.00 price target on shares of World Acceptance Corp. in a research note on Friday, July 29th.
The firm's 50-day moving average price is $47.15 and its 200 day moving average price is $39.99. The stock has a market capitalization of $384.04 million and a PE ratio of 4.75.
World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 28th. The company reported $1.89 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.22 by $0.33. The firm had revenue of $127.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $130.91 million. World Acceptance Corp.'s revenue was down 7.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $2.71 earnings per share. Equities research analysts forecast that World Acceptance Corp. will post $8.37 EPS for the current year.
A number of hedge funds and institutional investors have bought and sold shares of the stock. Weber Alan W increased its position in World Acceptance Corp. by 2.6% in the fourth quarter. Weber Alan W now owns 168,069 shares of the company's stock worth $6,235,000 after buying an additional 4,230 shares in the last quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System increased its position in World Acceptance Corp. by 14.5% in the fourth quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System now owns 66,200 shares of the company's stock worth $2,456,000 after buying an additional 8,400 shares in the last quarter. Morgan Stanley increased its position in shares of World Acceptance Corp. by 63.1% in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 32,023 shares of the company's stock worth $1,189,000 after buying an additional 12,390 shares during the period. Finally, First Trust Advisors LP increased its position in shares of World Acceptance Corp. by 80.8% in the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 93,299 shares of the company's stock worth $3,461,000 after buying an additional 41,703 shares during the period.
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The newly-developed AMD Ryzen CPU series makes octa-core devices affordable, opening brand-new performance areas that many couldn't access before.
For many years, the development of PC processors laid stagnant. Although Intel eventually realised that its annual tick-tock evolutionary steps could not continue in the same manner, it felt no pressure due to its overwhelming market dominance. On the other camp, AMD's 'Bulldozer' architecture steered the company into a dead end – of inefficiency and poor performance per core – at the end of 2011. When that happened, the company was no longer competitive, while Intel could keep its prices high despite a lack of innovation. However,
AMD's processor division is now back in business and is using a newly developed CPU generation to rock Intel's throne. And it's doing so with enough momentum to threaten Intel's market dominance, using its highly affordable yet power AMD Ryzen CPUs.
What's special about Ryzen is the high number of processor cores, which also – and this is a first for AMD – process two threads per core. Instead of the four cores and eight threads of Intel's Kaby Lake i7, the Ryzen 7 CPUs that were unveiled in March offer eight cores and 16 threads for normal home PCs. In addition, the prices and the power consumption levels of the new AMD processors are very reasonable. Furthermore, AMD has also caught up with Intel in terms of the performance per clock cycle. All of this adds up to a lot of power for multi-threading and parallel applications, such as game-streaming.When it comes to streaming games, the CPU must encode and pass the content of the screen while a CPU-intensive game is running. Thanks to a new 14-nm production process, as well as numerous sensors, precise controlling of cycles and performance, AMD's Ryzen has the ability to do all of this very efficiently.
Since we were able to test the platform and CPUs in recent months, we decided to once again give an overview of both, show you the performances that are achievable through them, and touch on some of its key characteristics.
AM4 motherboards include all interfaces
Ryzen requires a motherboard with an AM4 socket and a 'promontory' chipset. All the desktop CPUs that are scheduled to be released by 2018 feature the AM4 socket, which has 1331 pins. Unlike Intel, the Ryzen models have integrated the controllers and interfaces that are required for operation. This is, for example, supposed to facilitate an optimal performance for NVMe SSDs and graphics cards. Every Ryzen PC needs the latter, because there are no graphics solution integrated into the CPU. The motherboard chipset – which is connected to the processor through a four-fold PCIe 3.0 speed – is only required for additional interfaces. There are three variants: X370, B350, and A320. The X370 comes with all the latest features, while the B350 is actually a trimmed down version that lacks four USB-3.1 gen. 2 ports. Furthermore, it also has two fewer SATA ports and does not support the use of CrossFireX or SLI. Both the X370 and B350 can be overclocked and are already available globally. On the other hand, the announced A320 has relatively meagre
features, lacking additional USB and SATA ports.
The USB-3.1 gen. 2 USB chip for four 10 GB/s peripheral devices that is integrated into the CPU represents a noticeable advantage that Ryzen has over all Intel CPUs. Its 20 free PCIe 3.0 lanes leave very little elbow room; a graphics card with 16 lanes and an NVMe SSD with four lanes would exhaust its capacity. Even the dual-channel DDR4 RAM controller is more in line with the mainstream class than high-end ones (Intel's X99 platform offers four channels, while Kaby Lake offers two).
Designed For Multi-Tasking
In terms of the micro-architecture, AMD has done everything in its power to ensure that many cores can work simultaneously at a high speed. The biggest flaw in the previous Bulldozer technology was that it connected powerful computing cores in such an unfavorable way that the act of waiting took up a lot of their (energy-intensive) computing time. In
Ryzen's case, the new 14-nm production process has greatly reduced the energy and heat wastage, while also providing the completely-separate cores with sufficiently large caches. Just like Intel CPUs, this also facilitates efficient multi-threading. With Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT), each Ryzen core can now process two computing threads at the
same time. AMD has also improved the so-called 'branch prediction' feature, which uses circuits to examine programme code that has been executed and pre-emptively load the expected data queries in the caches. In order to simplify scalability up to server platforms, a pool of 8-MB level-3 caches is used to connect each group of four cores to a 'CPU Core
Complex' (CCX). In the octa-core processors that were recently presented, two CCX are connected to each other via the 'Infinity Fabric' data transport and control structure.
CPUs already on the market
The 1800X, 1700X and 1700 of the 'Ryzen 7' series of processors were first
launched in March, then April saw the official launch of the 'Ryzen 5'
series. Ryzen 5 consists of quad-core to hexa-core processors (see table
on page 70) and are significantly cheaper when compared to their higherend
With clock speeds that are similar to those of Ryzen 7 CPUs, they are particularly well-suited for applications that use less cores.
Regardless, there is one rule that all Ryzen CPUs follow. And that is the fact that when all the cores are fully utilised, the CPU runs in conjunction with its nominal clock pulse. If only one or two cores are subjected to a load, they may go up to the 'boost' frequency. The temperatures and energy levels are monitored by numerous sensors. At the same time, the XFR technology converts upward latitude (e.g. in case of a particularly strong cooling system) into performance. In case of the 'X' Ryzens, it's an additional 100 MHz (Ryzen 5 1500X: 200 MHz) in clock speed, while the models without an 'X' in their names can only add 50MHz. Just like Intel's 'K' processors, all the Ryzens (5 and 7) feature afreely-selectable multiplier. Consequently, if you're using a motherboard featuring an X370 or B350 chipset, you can run a few tests and determine the highest clock speed possible, which facilitates even more stable operations in the presence of a separate cooling solution.
Ryzen Performance Under A Magnifying Glass
We got to put the three Ryzen 7 CPUs through their paces recently and can safely say that they open up brand-new performance dimensions, within a price framework that is quite reasonable for home PCs. If you want to squeeze a similar amount of power out of an Intel device, you will have to go for its costly Broadwell CPUs, which are supposed to target
enthusiasts. The biggest strength of the AMD Ryzen involves applications that benefit from multiple threads (like video coding, rendering and encryption) and scenarios in which multiple applications run simultaneously; that's the distinct advantage of having eight fast cores. In
most cases, you can keep working normally no matter what kind of CPUintensive tasks the Ryzen is performing at the moment of time.
The situation is different when it comes to games, which benefit more from higher clock speeds as opposed to CPU core count. Although there is currently no game that can push the Ryzen 7 1700 or its big brother all the way up to the limits, Intel's mainstream Core i7-7700K CPU does have an edge in this department due to its higher clock speed.


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As advised to parents via letter, a Parent Hotline is in place in the event of Arden closing due to inclement weather. This is a one number telephone service in which we will leave a message to confirm if Arden is open or closed.
Parent Hotline Number: 08447 70 75 76* and enter our School ID: 10259
*This is a low call rate - max 5p per minute from a BT landline (approx. 1p per minute more than a BT standard local call). Other service provider charges will vary, but in some cases these calls are often included in a call plan contract and are likely to be free.
We will also advise Solihull MBC regarding Arden closures and information will be posted on their website.
In the event of school closing part way through the day due to inclement weather, we will leave a message on this hotline, in addition to emailing parents using schoolcomms. If you do not currently receive schoolcomms emails and wish to, then please contact Mrs Butcher-Johns via [email protected].


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The end of the year is a pretty great time to reflect on the previous year and think about what we'd like to work on in the New Year - maybe personally, professionally, or as a community.
As much as I love travelling - on my own and also touring with the Riveters - sometimes it feels like by the time I get home to Saskatoon, I just don't have the time or energy to put into my community. It's can be pretty easy to feel isolated, alone, and disconnected from my own city, so, my New Year's Resolution is to become more active in my city and to help other people feel welcome in this community.
As you probably have heard, there will be 25,000 Syrian refugees arriving in Canada by the end of February 2016. Approximately 10,000 people will be arriving in their new home before December 31, 2015, and about 1600 people will be settling in the communities Saskatoon and Regina.
Many, if not most, of these families have been waiting for years to arrive in Canada and have spent the last few years in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon after fleeing the civil war in Syria.
The Saskatoon Open Door Society & the Regina Open Door Society provide resettlement services for newcomers to both cities. These services can include information and access to healthcare, banking, language & translation, education, jobs, and and housing, among other things and are vital for the newcomers to start their lives in Saskatchewan.
There are a million ways to get involved and help our new neighbours feel welcome. Check out the websites of the Saskatoon Open Door Society and the Regina Open Door Society and learn how you can donate time, clothes, housewares, or money. The MCC has also set up a webpage where you can donate money to help sponsor and support a Syrian family coming to Canada. You can donate through the MCC HERE.
It's been heartwarming to see the signs of welcome as the Syrian refugees arrive at airports across Canada. What a beautiful & diverse country we live in & what a great way to start a new year. Happy 2016!
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You may recall Pope Francis' statement this past May concerning God's love. First, the pope said: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! Even the atheists. Everyone!"
That statement shook a lot of people up. And it is true: the Church has always taught that Jesus died and redeemed all of God's children. But a lot of people drew several incorrect conclusions: "Well, if atheists are redeemed, it really doesn't matter what we do, right? We're home free."
No, sorry, that is not only incorrect, but that's not what Pope Francis meant or said. The pope used the word redeemed and not justified. Only God can redeem, and that redemption takes place because of Jesus' death on the cross. No human can redeem himself. Only through Jesus do we have a chance at salvation. That means everyone—including atheists—have the opportunity to reach a perfect union with God.
God's Map
There are two aspects to the question of salvation. One is God's role (which is what Pope Francis was talking about), but the other is our role. That role is our response to God and his plan for salvation, which is why Jesus taught as he did in the Gospels. He did this not just by words and instructions, but also by his own lived example.
The Gospels are God's map—our GPS, if you will—as we all walk our pilgrimage on this earth. God, in fact, says to every person, "Come to me." But only we, given our free will, can say "Yes, God, here I come." It is amazing that some humans say no to God. He will not force anyone, no matter how much he wants us with him.
Achieving Salvation
Even though we must say yes, the Lord is abundant with grace to help us. The truth is that if anyone is not saved, it is his fault and not God's.
Another important factor is that God alone understands perfectly the circumstances of everyone's life. We have to admit that we are truly blessed to have been given the gift of faith. But imagine someone who, through no fault of his/her own, doesn't know who God is. Consider a native in central New Guinea. God will not demand something of someone who is incapable of meeting that condition.
What about a person raised in an evironment where he/she has been influenced away from God, but who still chooses to have faith? God knows it is a great responsibility to believe and follow the Gospels of Jesus. That's why it is unchristian and imprudent for some of our brothers and sisters in faith to determine who is saved and who is not. That's why the Church has never said that any particular person is in hell. A person's response to God can only be known by God. He alone knows every human heart.
And that is why bishops of Vatican II said so wisely in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their own actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation" (847).
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Dear Friar Jack: Your latest e-newsletter, "I See His Blood upon the Rose," was really inspiring. Thank you! Augusta
Dear Friar Jack: Thank you, Friar Jack, for your truly poetic insights and enthusiasm! Max
Dear Friar Jack: Thank you for this meditation on the poem "I See His Blood upon the Rose." Fifty years ago, when I was in my senior year in high school, I memorized this poem for a class project. I may not remember much of those years, but I do remember this poem and think of it often. Your e-newsletters will be a great source of reflection for me. Mary Ann
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We can learn to live on purpose and for a purpose. We can learn how to live our life with intention each day rather than just play each day by ear and see what happened at the end of the day. Many times we start out with a goal and by the end of the day have no idea what we did and why we did not accomplish that goal.
Ephesians 5:15-17 (AMP) 15 Therefore see that you walk carefully [living life with honor, purpose, and courage; shunning those who tolerate and enable evil], not as the unwise, but as wise [sensible, intelligent, discerning people], 16 [a]making the very most of your time [on earth, recognizing and taking advantage of each opportunity and using it with wisdom and diligence], because the days are [filled with] evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish and thoughtless, but understand and firmly grasp what the will of the Lord is.
Too often we let the circumstances of the day seize us rather than us seizing the day. We do not have to let everything and everyone around us dictate what we do and the outcome of our day. It is time to take your life back! The devil will always put people and circumstances in front of us each and every day to keep us from fulfilling our God-given destiny. It is up to us to recognize these road blocks and not let the road block keep us from doing what we set out to do each day. The devil does not want us to be successful.
We can learn to live purposefully and make the most of our time on earth. Don't ever let the miracle of the day pass you by without noticing it. We let so many opportunities to be used by God pass us by each day. Every day that goes by is a day that we will never get back. We can choose to invest our time in each day or waste our time. Every day we feel sorry for ourselves or feel angry is wasting time in our day. Worry is a waste of time.
If you feel like you don't know what your purpose is in life is just keep moving and doing things until you have found something that you have a gift for. It's better to continue moving forward than to sit around and wonder what the heck God wants you to do. God is not going to be upset if we are doing great things and realize that it is not our gift – at least you are doing something rather than nothing. It can take a long while to know what our purpose and gifts are. And our gifts develop, mature, and sometimes even change or morph into something else in our lifetime.
God has a will for us but He has also given us free will – freedom of choice of what we want to do each day. This means we are going to do dumb things once in a while and deal with dumb things that other people do each day. It is our responsibility to not let those dumb things derail us from the direction God wants us to take.
God will provide us with the wisdom, strength, and power to do what we need to do each day, but he does not do the doing for us. For example, God provided trees, and people build houses. It is up to us to use what He gives us to carry out what we can with what He has given us.
Psalm 138:8 (ESV) 8 The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
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5 Year Fixed Rate Remortgage (up to 80% LTV*) - F430
The interest rate for this product is fixed for five years, this means you can plan your finances with more certainty. At the end of the fixed rate period the interest rate will revert to our Standard Variable Rate.
Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage. Think carefully before securing other debts against your home.
Interest Rates:
For Remortgage
|Period of loan
|Rate Payable
|Additional Information
|Months 1-60
|2.10% Fixed Rate
|No Product Fee - One Free Standard Valuation (terms apply) - Assisted Legal Fees**
|Month 61 onwards
|Standard Variable Rate Currently 4.74%
|The overall cost for comparison is:
Product Code: F430
Key Features:
|Product Fee
|No Product Fee
|Maximum Loan to Value %
|The maximum loan to value is 80% throughout England & Wales.
|Loan Size
|£30,000 to £500,000
|Repayment Type
|Mixed Repayment/Interest only mortgages will be allowed but the interest only element cannot exceed 50% LTV. The latter only applies to new borrowers. Existing borrowers will be allowed to switch into a new product and port their interest only loan if they move house. If they wish to borrow more than their current interest only element this must be on a repayment basis. Where borrowers wish to continue with an interest-only loan Society staff must establish how they intend repaying this and where possible encourage those that are able to do so to convert all or part to a repayment basis.
|Early Repayment Charge
|During the first 5 years any additional amount repaid above the 10% permitted will be subject to an Early Repayment Charge of 5% of the amount repaid in year 1, 4% of the amount repaid in year 2, 3% of the amount repaid in year 3, 2% of the amount repaid in year 4 & 2% of the amount repaid in year 5.
|Valuation Fees
|One Free Standard Valuation (On Properties up to £1 Million in Value)
|Legal Fees
|Assisted Legal Fees**
|Regular overpayments are not permitted during the first 5 years from completion. Regular overpayments are amounts collected with, and in addition to, your monthly mortgage payments. You may make capital repayments of up to 10% of the original sum borrowed in each of the first 5 years without an early repayment charge.
Further Information:
- *The maximum Loan to Value is the amount of a mortgage loan expressed as a percentage of the purchase price or valuation, whichever is the lower.
- Available across England & Wales
- **You will not have to pay the usual legal fees in securing your new mortgage if our appointed solicitors are used. Our solicitors act for the Society only to ensure we have good legal claim over your property. You will have to pay for any additional legal work that the solicitors do which is beyond the usual scope of a simple remortgage, for example, change of your name, transfers of equity, deeds of postponement, merger of freehold and leasehold, remedy of any title defect, etc.
- If you move house during the fixed rate period you may be able to transfer these product terms, up to the amount of this loan. You can only transfer these terms if you occupy the new property and it is within England and Wales. The loan to value must be no greater than 80%. The new loan must complete at the same time you redeem this loan and you must still meet the Society's lending criteria at that time. An Early Repayment Charge will apply if: you do not take out a new loan with the Society; the new loan does not meet the criteria for this product; or the new loan is for less than this loan.
- For loans greater than £500,000 please contact us.
- Mortgage interest is calculated on a daily basis.
- Our Tariff of Mortgage Charges gives details of the charges payable in connection with mortgage applications and additional administration following completion of your loan.
- Loans available to persons aged 18 or over and are subject to status and valuation of a suitable property, over which security will be required. All lending will be subject to appraisal of the financial standing of the applicants.
Representative example:
A mortgage of £127,279 payable over 22 years initially on a fixed rate for 5 years at 2.10% and then on our current variable rate of 4.74% for the remaining 17 years would require 60 monthly payments of £602.45 and 204 monthly payments of £738.30.
The total amount payable would be £186,885.20 made up of the loan amount plus interest (£59,481.20) and mortgage exit fees (£125).
The overall cost for comparison is 3.6% APRC representative.
Links to further important information and details of how to apply can be found on the top right-hand-side of this page.
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Tel: 01633 844444
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- Jan 31, 2004NATAP - www.natap.org
Vitamin E Benefits Improve With Enhanced food Intake
Vitamin E is poorly absorbed when consumed with a low-fat meal and
that bioavailability can be enhanced by food fortification with
vitamin E
Vitamin E bioavailability from fortified breakfast cereal is greater
than that from encapsulated supplements
Scott W Leonard, Carolyn K Good, Eric T Gugger and Maret G Traber
1 From the Linus Pauling Institute (SWL and MGT) and the Department
of Nutrition & Food Management (MGT), Oregon State University,
Corvallis, and theBell Institute of Health and Nutrition, General
Mills, Inc, Minneapolis (CKG and ETG).
2 Supported by a grant from General Mills, Inc. The purchase of a
liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer was supported in part by the
Natural Source Vitamin E Association. Unlabeled -tocopherol (used as
a standard)and RRR--5,7-(CD3)2-tocopheryl acetate (d6--tocopheryl
acetate, used as an internal standard) were gifts from James Clark
(Cognis Nutrition and Health, LaGrange, IL).
Background: Conflicting results from vitamin E intervention studies
suggest supplemental vitamin E malabsorption.
The authors said: [results of this study] suggest that unless
subjects are carefully instructed to consume encapsulated vitamin E
supplements with a meal containing fat, the subjects may not benefit
from such supplements.
Objective: We compared vitamin E bioavailability from a supplement
with that from a fortified breakfast cereal.
Design: Vitamin E bioavailability was evaluated by using
deuterium-labeled all-rac--tocopherol in three 4-d trials (2 wk
apart). Five fasting subjects sequentially consumed the following
(with 236 mL fat-free milk): 400 IU d9--tocopheryl acetate (400-IU
capsule), 41 g ready-to-eat wheat cereal containing 30 IU
d9--tocopheryl acetate (30-IU cereal), and 45 g cereal containing 400
IU d9--tocopheryl acetate (400-IU cereal). Five months later (trial
4), they consumed a 400-IU capsule with 41 g vitamin E-free cereal.
Blood was obtained up to 72 h after the start of each trial.
Results: The mean (��SD) vitamin E bioavailabilities of the 30-IU
cereal and the 400-IU cereal were 6 �� 2 and 26 �� 8 times,
respectively, the vitamin E bioavailability of the 400-IU capsule.
The areas under the o72-h d9--tocopherol curves for the 400-IU
capsule, the 30-IU cereal, and the 400-IU cereal were 30 �� 7, 153 ��
43, and 765 �� 164 ��mol �� h/L (all trial comparisons, P < 0.0001).
In trial 4, 3 subjects barely responded and 2 subjects had areas
under the curve that were similar to their 400-IU cereal responses.
Conclusion: The low bioavailability of vitamin E from the 400-IU
capsule and the variability observed when the capsule was consumed
with cereal suggest that encapsulated vitamin E is poorly absorbed
when consumed with a low-fat meal and that bioavailability can be
enhanced by food fortification with vitamin E.
Controversies have surrounded vitamin E since its discovery in 1922
and the subsequent description of forms other than -tocopherol that
had some vitamin E biological activity. Currently, only -tocopherol
has been shown to reverse human vitamin E deficiency symptoms, and
-tocopherol is the only form of vitamin E that meets the year 2000
vitamin E recommended dietary allowance.
In addition to the prevention of deficiency symptoms, the potential
of antioxidants, especially vitamin E, to decrease the risk of
chronic disease has been a popular topic in the nutrition field.
Nonetheless, many Americans do not consume vitamin E-adequate diets.
Vitamin E has been touted for decades as "heart protective," but
credible scientific evidence has been lacking. In the 1990s,
epidemiologic evidence and a relatively small (2002 subjects),
randomized, placebo-controlled intervention study gave credence to
the concept that vitamin E supplements could decrease heart attack
risk. Subsequently, larger vitamin E intervention trials failed to
show cardiovascular-protective effects. Moreover, dietary, but not
supplemental, vitamin E has been reported to be associated with
beneficial outcomes in heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer disease.
The lack of consistency in the outcomes of vitamin E supplement
studies prompted us to consider the hypothesis that the
bioavailability of supplemental vitamin E is highly dependent on the
way in which the supplement is consumed. It is well known that fat
malabsorption syndromes (eg, cholestatic liver disease) and genetic
abnormalities in lipoprotein synthesis (eg, abetalipoproteinemia) or
in the -tocopherol transfer protein (eg, ataxia with vitamin E
deficiency) result in vitamin E malabsorption or abnormally low
plasma transport. Indeed, supplemental vitamin E bioavailability is
highly influenced by prandial status. Despite the requirement for
normal fat digestion and absorption, it is generally assumed that
vitamin E malabsorption does not occur in healthy humans. However,
the amount of dietary fat needed for optimal vitamin E absorption is
The possibility of vitamin E malabsorption from supplements led us to
devise a trial to compare supplements with vitamin E-enriched foods.
Vitamin E-fortified, ready-to-eat breakfast cereals are a major food
source of -tocopherol in the American diet. Therefore, using
stable-isotope-labeled -tocopherol, we tested whether encapsulated
vitamin E consumed with fat-free milk was as effective in raising
plasma -tocopherol concentrations as was vitamin E-fortified,
wheat-based cereal eaten with fat-free milk. The doses used were
equivalent to the US recommended dietary allowance for vitamin E (30
IU) or those in a typical vitamin E supplement (400 IU). The form of
vitamin E used was synthetic (all-rac--tocopheryl acetate) because
this is the form that is routinely used to fortify breakfast cereals.
To estimate vitamin E bioavailability, plasma labeled and unlabeled
-tocopherol concentrations were measured, and areas under the curves
(AUCs) for deuterated tocopherol were approximated.
The bioavailability of vitamin E (400 IU d9--tocopheryl acetate) from
a fortified breakfast cereal was 25-fold that from a supplement when
both the cereal and the supplement were consumed with fat-free milk.
Indeed, the 30-IU cereal had greater vitamin E bioavailability than
did the 400-IU capsule: the 30-IU cereal, which was approximately
one-tenth of the dose of the 400-IU capsule, resulted in a maximum
plasma d9--tocopherol concentration that was 5-fold that observed
with the 400-IU capsule. (Note that these comparisons do not take
into account differences in administered dose.) When the 400-IU
capsule was consumed with cereal and milk (trial 4), plasma
d9--tocopherol concentrations increased in only 2 of the 5 subjects.
The findings of the present study have important public health
implications. When encapsulated vitamin E supplements are consumed
with fat-free milk, -tocopherol absorption is minimal at best. The
fat-free milk consumed with the breakfasts contained only 0.5% fat by
wt (21), which may have contributed to the limited vitamin E
absorption from the 400-IU capsule. This result was expected because
vitamin E absorption requires biliary and pancreatic secretions, as
well as chylomicron synthesis.
However, the breakfast that contained <5% fat (consisting of vitamin
E-fortified cereal plus fat-free milk) unexpectedly increased vitamin
E bioavailability. Hydrolysis of -tocopheryl acetate and absorption
of tocopherol were probably aided by the fine dispersal of vitamin E
on the surface of the cereal flakes, in contrast to the capsule, in
which the vitamin E was concentrated in a globule.
These findings are significant because fortified breakfast cereals
are a major source of vitamin E in the American diet. It should be
emphasized that the 30 IU in the breakfast cereal did not increase
total -tocopherol concentrations, and this result is consistent with
the findings of Hayes et al, who used unlabeled vitamin E and found
that plasma-tocopherolconcentrations did not differ whether 30 IU
vitamin E was provided in capsules or as a fine emulsion in milk.
Importantly, Hayes et al found that the vitamin E bioavailability, as
estimated from plasma concentrations, of -tocopheryl acetate (100-200
mg/d) provided as a microdispersion in milk was double that of the
same dose provided in capsules or orange juice. Again, these results
emphasize that the physical properties involved in how vitamin E is
presented to the intestinal absorptive surfaces have great bearing on
its bioavailability.
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Life Groups occur throughout the week in a wide range of settings. They're an opportunity to connect with likeminded and like-aged people to share life and share faith. A major part of our personal growth and faith journey happens through community and inparticular, small groups.
You don't have to be a member or even part of Springwood Church of Christ to connect into a life group. You're welcome to come along and see if you feel comfortable in the group. Or maybe visit will two or three different groups to find where you fit. Jesus lived most of his ministry years in the context of a small group – a group of people who shared a journey of faith and experience together. So what are life groups all about?
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- Growing and learning together
- Reaching and serving others together
- Meeting new friends
- Learning leadership skills and caring for others
Life groups allow you to outwork the five purposes for your life together with others.They are the most effective way to receive (and provide) pastoral care. If you haven't been in a group before, now is a great time to join. You don't need to be a super Christian, just real.
We have various life groups operating throughout the week:
Springwood 9.30am Women Lyn Culverhouse
Springwood 7.30pm Women Louise Jackson
Springwood 7:30pm Y/Adults Jimin Dragut
Kuraby 9.30am Mixed Graham Goodhew
Shailer Park 7.30pm Mixed John Marshall
Springwood 7:30pm Y/Adults Jake Owen
Springwood 7:30pm Y/Adults Matt Trivett
Rochedale 7pm Mixed Craig Middleton
Springwood 7.30pm Men David Kuhl
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Springwood 7.30pm 20's&30's Phil Thomson
Springwood 7:30pm Y/Adults Dan Foster
Springwood 7:30pm Y/Adults Luke Wiles
Jimboomba 7.30pm Mixed Scott Davis
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