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The Vanishing Jesus
Martens' summarizes the heart of his disagreement with what he takes to be Yoder's stance (and my reading of Yoder), namely, that the particular Jesus becomes codified into the grain of the universe such that "Jesus comes to be an invisible vanishing point."[xix] The result is that "Yoder seems to leave us with a Jesus who has become merely an ethico-political paradigm that opens the door for a supersessive secular ethic."[xx] So, for example, the truth in Gandhi and Havel is true not because of its relation to Jesus but to the logic of the universe. The grain of the universe is defined by "select ethical criteria which, in this process, become the meta-criteria for holding all things together, for determining the entirety of Christianity, including the man named Jesus born in Bethlehem and biblical interpretation."[xxi] This pertains to Martens' definition to orthodoxy, which he sees Yoder violating: "My criterion is the Christian affirmation of the particularity or uniqueness of Jesus Christ as a historical person and as a revelation of God."[xxii] Yoder distills Jesus (at best) into a paradigm/example of ethical monotheism.
For a full discussion of this issue, readers can consult my forthcoming book on Yoder; this issue is just too large to address in this format.[xxiii] However, I will briefly note four points. First, Martens' definition of orthodoxy is not an orthodox definition of orthodoxy, at least in the sense of echoing the Apostles' or Nicene creeds (which Yoder does affirm in content). Martens' book spells out that he operates with a very particular definition of what constitutes "particularity" and "uniqueness." That is fine, but to then label someone "heterodox" based on one's very particular and personal (and not ecclesially-defined) definition of orthodoxy seems rhetorically misleading. Further, Jesus' uniqueness and particularity do not preclude him from being a paradigm; rather, they undergird it. Martens is right that if Jesus were nothing more than a paradigm of universal principles, it would be a problem. But then, affirming that Jesus is paradigmatic for all humanity (not merely those who confess him as Lord) does not contradict the fact that he is also unique. There is no heterodoxy in asserting that precisely because Jesus is the unique Word made flesh, he is also the paradigmatic human.[xxiv]
Second, something cannot be related to the logic of the universe but not to Jesus. Jesus is not just an exemplar of the logic/logos of the universe. As divine Word/Son, who assumes human nature in the incarnation, Jesus is the logos (or grain if you like) of the universe. There is no logic/logos of the universe apart from Jesus. So, to say that Gandhi and Havel "enter into a relation not to Jesus but to the logic of the universe"[xxv] does not make sense within Yoder's framework (which I take to be both biblical and compatible with the creeds). The point here is not that Gandhi is somehow an anonymous Christian; it is that Gandhi is unintelligible apart from Jesus and that Jesus is the ontological basis for whatever effectiveness Gandhi might have.
This is where it would be helpful to have an idea of Martens' own constructive project. For example, if we should not explain Gandhi by looking to Jesus, then how should Christians account for whatever goodness we see, within or outside the church? In my view, Yoder's worry is that our accounts of Gandhi on extra-biblical or extra-Christological grounds inevitably open up a kind of natural theology that appeals to "nature" or "reason" that can be divorced from Jesus, the logos who is creator of both nature and reason.
Third, Martens acknowledges that he is not trying to discuss what Yoder meant in terms of "authorial intent," but in terms of the unintended consequences of the "fundamental mode of reasoning" that Yoder used, despite Yoder's best intentions otherwise.[xxvi] In other words, Yoder operates with the modern, Kantian theology/ethics divorce despite his stated intentions and his actual definitions of theology, ethics, and politics.[xxvii] If, however, as Yoder says, "ethics is also theology,"[xxviii] ethics is not an "autonomous discipline,"[xxix] and ethics "is not separable from theology without denaturing both,"[xxx] then Martens' use of the term "ethics" or "ethical" as something that is separable from theology, ontology, doxology, etc., is problematic. Further, if "appropriation of governmental language (the language of politics and the description of the church as polis)"[xxxi] is a problem, then it is not Yoder but the Bible itself that goes awry, for terms such as "kingdom," "Lord," "Messiah," and "king" are integral to the biblical message. If by ethics or politics, Martens means a discipline that is fundamentally disconnected from theology, then that is not what Yoder means by ethics or politics.[xxxii] If theology and ethics are fundamentally interconnected (as in the two great commands), such that one's ethics are always integrally related to theology, then Martens' critique seems to dissipate. I fully affirm Martens' having an axe to grind with those who divorce theology and ethics and then prioritize practical reason; I just disagree that Yoder provides a good place to grind that axe.
Fourth, we might ask, how does Yoder get his "select ethical criteria"? From Jesus. The person of Jesus is not reducible to ethics, however, but the presupposition for ethics. This differs from a natural theology where one simply uses Jesus to reaffirm the ethical position one reaches on other grounds. For example, some pacifists might affirm Jesus or Scripture so long as they are compatible with a pacifism that is already accepted and independent of Jesus or Scripture. For Yoder, this type of pacifism is in fact a natural theology.[xxxiii] In his view, we are pacifist because of the theological confession that Jesus is Messiah, Son of God, and Lord. Jesus, not pacifism, is Lord.[xxxiv] Where shall we get our ethical criteria for judging the relative goodness or evil of Gandhi, Havel, Nazism, or nationalism? Not from natural theology (even one that approves of pacifism), but from Jesus.
That being said, if Jesus loves his enemies, then the confirmation of our confession is not merely mental assent to the statement "Jesus is Lord," but our love for enemies. This is why Yoder claims to take Nicea and Chalcedon with absolute seriousness (and perhaps even more seriously than creedally orthodox traditions): ontology/theology and ethics go together. This does not reduce theological propositions, such as "the Son is preexistent," "there is one God," "Jesus is the Word Incarnate," to an ethical payoff. But it demands that our account of what it means to follow Jesus uses the same measure as Scripture; namely, that we are not just hearers of God's word but doers.
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"Unnecessary preparation beats being caught unprepared by a flu pandemic." [Hilzoy]
But seriously, folks, we all know that a stitch in time saves nine, fortune is infatuated with the efficient, etc., so unless you've already stocked up in preparation for Armageddon or the Give All The White People's Guns To The Black People Program, this is a great time to stockpile everything from Acetaminophen to Pedialyte®. Water, check... manual can opener, check... And don't forget the dogfood!
From dKos via Obsidian Wings, here is an excellent [pdf] Pandemic Influenza Preparation and Response Guide. Check out the Appendix:
A. World Health Organization and Pandemic Phases - 48
B. World Health Organization Advice for Travelers - 49
C. Items to Stockpile for an Influenza Pandemic - 50
D. Items for Treatment of Severe Influenza - 51
E. Homemade Oral Rehydration Solution - 52
F. Possible Roles for Community Volunteers - 53
G. Example: Home Patient Medical Record - 54
H. Overview of Influenza Surveillance in the United States - 55
I. A Doctor's Letter during the Height of the 1918 Pandemic - 57
It's as thorough and sobering as I suppose a guide for citizens in a pandemic ought to be, and I am totally printing it all out for when the Intertubes go down. Off to the fallout shelter —
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text: Flow'ers Thanks so much for your advice on how to sharpen PI cvs when staining for DNA content and intracellular proteins. Here is a compendium of the responses: From: R.Knuechel, MD Institute of Pathology University of Regensburg <ruth.knuechel-clarke at klinik.uni-regensburg.de> First of all PI staining quality is dependent on cellular fixation, as you probably know, and fixation in methanol (cold 70% ) gives the nicest results for a lot of people including us. When nuclear antibodies are included, we have good experience with a paraformaldehyde/Tween protocol For your nuclear antibodies, you probably stain after you have prepared nuclear suspensions? The quality of this also effects the CV, and also, although it may be trivial the cell number you have availabel for your analysis. From: jim phillips univ. of miami jphillip at mednet.med.miami.edu Check your fix. ethanol at 70% in water for a min. of 18 hrs. Put the pi into the sample only 20 min to an hour before you run the sample. Make sure the tip and the machine are clean, run some 20% bleach through the system to clean the nozzle and get rid of protein. run your sample on low or at a slow rate. do some live gating on width and area plots. this gets rid of the doublets. I hope that this helps some. From: Lisa Adams LAADAMS at am.pnu.com It may be dependent on cell type and/or your fixation protocol. I have found there is a trade-off between good antibody binding and good DNA histograms when I use paraformaldehyde as a fixative (which is what works best in my hands). It has been my experience that when I start doing 2- or 3-color analysis, I can't have my cake and eat it too. From: "Martin, Jill V." <martin.jill at mayo.edu> (Jill Martin) I am sure that you have checked for doublets, and that you have a low flow rate, but these would be two sources of CV error. From: tom_frey at bdis.com You don't mention whether you are using an ethanol technique or one of the now-more-common PFA/detergent methods or products. Length of PFA fixation and length of time in PFA free buffer after staining can both alter PI CVs. See Cytometry 12:279 for example. ******************************* Albert D. Donnenberg, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh W1056 BST 200 Lothrop St. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 624-9596 *******************************


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Scene #1: Sunday in Alo Presidente none other than President Hugo Chavez
proudly that conversations were very advanced to reach an agreement with Agropecuaria
Agroflora, the Corporation that holds the Vestey Holdings in Venezuela.
According to Chavez Agroflora would hand
over part of the more than 300 thousand hectares of farmland the company
owns. In fact, Chavez said that there was a meeting to define what those areas
Next day, my friend Alek Boyd looked into the matter in London and found out
that no agreement has been reached and in fact few conversations have taken
place. Moreover, today Vestey said that they are still fighting in the Courts
to defend their rights, but have reached no agreement on the matter (Tal Cual page 12).
Scene #2: The former President of the National Assembly said
that if the Supreme Court bans the so called "Morochas" or
"twins" by which Chavez' party MVR will get more positions for the
Assembly by registering a fake political party and field candidates by name for
one and by slate for the other one, then, they will field candidates on their
own recognizance rather than any political party and ordering their supporters
to vote for them.
I see, he is saying: "If we are not allowed to cheat one way, we will find
another way of bypassing the law and the Constitution and take advantage of our
majority as well as our funding". Walks, like one, looks like one…
Scene # 3: Last night Hugo Ch�vez himself went haywire, saying
that he was considering re-nationalizing
steel company Sidor if they did
not do what he wanted. Sidor was privatized in the 90's after decades
losses and sold to a consortium of Argentinian, Mexican and Venezuelan
companies. Basically, Sidor exports part of its steel production but
Chavez wants
them to sell mostly in Venezuela
even if prices are lower. Chavez left no doubt about his intentions: "I am
tired of talking, if we don't reach an agreement within a week, we will issue a
Tonight the President of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce said
as he left a meeting with Chavez: "The Executive guarantees respect
for private property". Hello? Who did he meet with? Did he read the papers today? Can he trusts these guys? Is this guy stupid?
You can read more scenes here
or here,
where Chavez told a reporter in response to a question about Tascon's list:
"That�s totally false. Those who say that are the very people who were
trying to demonize my government. We have a fully democratic country."
Oh yeah! I made up everything I put
here, but wait! Didn't Chavez himself tell Tascon to put away the list?
Didn't Chavez himself authorize
Tascon to get the list of those that signed against him?
So much for demonizing, we all know where the professional liars and cheaters
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Covered California pushing for more Latinos
Ledy Ordoñez isn't surprised that Latinos in California have been slow to sign up for coverage under federal health law, even though they've been a top priority for enrollments in the state.
"They're scared," the 43-year-old Fremont woman said as she worked at her imported clothing and jewelry stand at a farmers' market in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. "They're afraid if they put in an application for their children ... they'll get deported."
Disappointing enrollment figures for Latinos are causing Covered California officials to rethink they way they reach out to this population, which is considered key to the success of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in the state.
Latinos account for more than half the state's nearly 7 million uninsured residents, but they accounted for only about 13 percent of the enrollees in Covered California during the first two months of operation. They are important to the success of the Affordable Care Act in the state because they tend to be younger and healthier than the average population, and their participation will help create a balanced and affordable insurance pool.
"The numbers are not ideal," said Santiago Lucero, spokesman for Covered California. "We knew from the beginning this was going to be a slow process for people in general, but especially Latinos."
Monday was the deadline to sign up for coverage for those who want it by Jan. 1, but the enrollment period continues through March 31.
Deportation fears aside, there are several reasons for the lagging enrollments among Latinos, Covered California officials say. Among them is confusion. Many Latinos new to the country may not understand what health insurance does and why it's needed, let alone grasp how to navigate the various policy options and the terminology used in the signup process.
Added to that is Covered California's difficulty in finding an adequate number of enrollment counselors and certified insurance agents to help Spanish-speaking residents understand what they have to do, an especially difficult problem for a community that for cultural reasons generally prefers face-to-face contact over online navigation.
"The lack of knowledge in computers makes it difficult for the Latino population," said Jorge Najera, a bilingual insurance agent in San Francisco's Mission District.
The cost to buy coverage is another hindrance for people who have never had health coverage, Najera said, although a large percentage of California's Latinos - about 46 percent - are eligible for federal financial assistance to help cover the cost of premiums purchased in the exchange.
The immigration fears loom large. People who are not living in this country legally are prohibited from buying coverage though the state or federal health exchanges created by the health law, but they fear they will get noticed by immigration officials if other members of their family sign up for coverage.
Immigration not issue
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has sent out notices to assure people that personal information submitted by members of a household as they apply for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act would not be used for immigration enforcement.
Daniel Zingale, senior vice president with the California Endowment, said that message may not be enough. "I think something from the president himself would be helpful," he said.
The California Endowment, which advocates and invests in health equity issues, has committed to spending $25 million on outreach to community groups and $20 million more on Spanish-language media to get the word out.
More direct outreach
The organization's efforts have involved helping to get people trained by Covered California so they can talk to Latinos at soccer games, farmers' markets, churches, neighborhood events and even at consulate offices.
But, Zingale said, "the first order of business is fixing the systems that have failed to open the doors to Latino applicants," he said.
Peter Lee, Covered California's executive director, said the agency is working to get more in-person help to Latinos as well as make it easier for people to find that help. He said the "find help near me" feature on the website is being made more prominent in Spanish, and additional changes are on the way.
At the Oakland farmers' market, Ordoñez admitted she's been slow to sign up for coverage, even though she hasn't had insurance for more than five years. But she said she has an excuse; she just returned from visiting friends and family in her native Ecuador this past month.
Carmen Joachin, who operates a kettle-corn stand and is bilingual, said she's fortunate to have health insurance through her husband, but she intends to encourage her brothers to get coverage. She said her brothers pay cash whenever they go to a doctor, but she's worried about the costs if they ever need to be hospitalized.
"It is on their minds to buy this insurance," said Joachin, who is originally from El Salvador. "My brothers, it's difficult for them to speak English. It's a big barrier for them ... but I'm happy there's this opportunity."
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429. Does Morality Care What You Think?
Another dialogue about meta-ethics between Subhan and Obert. It concludes with:
Subhan: "Look, there's a perfectly normal and non-mysterious chain of causality that describes where morality comes from, and it's not from outside humans. If you'd been told that killing was right, or if you'd evolved to enjoy killing—much more than we already do, I mean—or if you really did have a mini-stroke that damaged your frontal lobe, then you'd be going around saying, 'Killing is right regardless of what anyone thinks of it'. No great light in the sky would correct you. There is nothing else to the story."
Obert: "Really, I think that in this whole debate between us, there is surprisingly litle information to be gained by such observations as 'You only say that because your brain makes you say it.' If a neutrino storm hit me, I might say '2 + 3 = 6', but that wouldn't change arithmetic. It would just make my brain compute something other than arithmetic. And these various misfortunes that you've described, wouldn't change the crime of murder. They would just make my brain compute something other than morality."
The big difference between arithmetic and morality is that (most) alien species probably would have (almost) the same arithmetic as we do, whereas, according to Yudkowsky, this doesn't hold true for morality which makes it in my view kinda arbitrary.
But maybe alien-morality is (or will be) similar to our own because there is some universal attractor (or game theory, crazy stuff like acausal trade, evolutionary pressures for kin-selection, empathy, and thus altruism, etc.) which is "baked into" the structure of the universe?
An excellent post containing summaries of the last ~20 posts about morality. I'll just quote heavily
cuz' I'm really lazy today because it's really a very useful overview:
If you say, "Killing people is wrong," that's morality. If you say, "You shouldn't kill people because God prohibited it," or "You shouldn't kill people because it goes against the trend of the universe", that's metaethics.
Just as there's far more agreement on Special Relativity than there is on the question "What is science?", people find it much easier to agree "Murder is bad" than to agree what makes it bad, or what it means for something to be bad.
…Clearly a good number of people, if they are to make philosophical progress, will need to shift metathics at some point in their lives. You may have to do it.
At that point, it might be useful to have an open line of retreat—not a retreat from morality, but a retreat from Your-Current-Metaethic.
..So the most important line of retreat is the one given in The Moral Void: If your metaethic stops telling you to save lives, you can just drag the kid off the train tracks anyway.
..The point being, of course, not that no morality exists; but that you can hold your will in place, and not fear losing sight of what's important to you, while your notions of the nature of morality change.
Other posts are there to set up lines of retreat specifically for more naturalistic metaethics. It may make more sense where I'm coming from on these, once I actually present my metaethic; but I thought it wiser to set them up in advance, to leave lines of retreat.
Finally, he'll explain his actual views on meta-ethics! Some of the last post really seemed to pussyfoot around.
…Joy in the Merely Real and Explaining vs. Explaining Away argue that you shouldn't be disappointed in any facet of life, just because it turns out to be explicable instead of inherently mysterious: for if we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.
No Universally Compelling Arguments sets up a line of retreat from the desire to have everyone agree with our moral arguments.
..If a mind doesn't contain that which is moved by your moral arguments, it won't respond to them. But then isn't all morality circular logic, in which case it falls apart? Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom and My Kind of Reflection explain the difference between a self-consistent loop through the meta-level, and actual circular logic. …It's not like you can step outside the brain evolution gave you: Rebelling against nature is only possible from within nature.
Posts such as Does Your Morality Care What You Think? and its predecessors, Math is Subjunctively Objective and Probability is Subjectively Objective, set up the needed line of retreat: Just because a quantity is computed inside your head, doesn't mean that the quantity computed is about your thoughts.


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Eilenne-Elspeath spent her whole life honing her artistic skills, and created many works of art, be they sculptures, illusions or songs that could make a demon shed tears, yet one thing marred the inner joy and balance she derived from creating and playing with the muses: few, very few could really appreciate her poems, music or visionary thoughts in their full beauty and even fewer comprehend the true feelings behind them. Long has she travelled the world, seeing wonders and adding those of her own making, yet failed to find a way to reach out to others with her art.
Wizards and sages, priests and demons she consulted, asked the spirits of the four winds and braved the riddles of a sphinx to find a way, any way, yet to her despair, her art was still too sophisticated and ethereal to be grasped by but a few chosen minds.
Plunged deep into her despair, forming the words of her own requiem as she strode along a lonely road, she was more than surprised by a voice trembling yet powerful, like a moutain shattered and thundering into the sea. She turned around and saw him, an old dragon, lying at the end of a long swathe he had cut into the surrounding forest during his descent, the gold-red scales dotted with crimson stains and the glistening hide perforated by many ugly wounds, several ballist bolts protruding from his side…
"I surely seem bad off, elfling, but say, what is plaguing you, lying heavily upon your soul? For you seem closer to death than me…"
She approached the great beast, almost tangibly feeling its pain.
"I am but an artist .... misunderstood, doubting her talent, but do not let that bother you, ancient one."
"If you an artist be, then sing to me, so that battle-cries and the breaking of bones be not the last thing I hear…"
And sing she did. The broken trees around them blossomed again, and birds fell out of the skies for having forgotten to fly, such was the beauty of the song. The army that slew the dragon and was closing on its landing site to plunder the corpse for trophies paused, and the men dropped their weapons. And sing she did.
"For you…"
And the dragon spoke, a single crystalline tear in its eye: "I understand now. Sing for me more, my angel of music, sing!"
And sing she did.
The dragon's chest heaved less, more slowly, and with its last will, it forced the metal of the broken blades, arrows and lances out of its wounds, the embedded gold from its scales and the mithril from its jewelry, and it flowed, mixed with the dragon's blood, to form something like a thin metal net strapped onto a cage of wire, open on one side.
"You can use this to create, but it can also make others understand what it is like to be a ... dragon ..." the wyrm smiled "for you are a dragon amongst your kind, a creature of fantasy and dreams" and then, he exhaled for a last time, his will focused on the space in the heart of the cage, and out of thin air, something appeared in the construction's midst - a frozen flame made of glass, with barely discernible figures and faces inside. Eilenne knew what it was.
Trembling, she took the fragile creation out, and approached the standing army. All men were still like petrified, their general riding a great armored warhorse at their front, a huge figure clad in dark steel and gold, a grim and fierce man, battle-hardened and battle-scarred, with a frown that petrified over the years.
Still Eilenne-Elspeath walked straight up to the warlord, dignified and self-confident, and said: "Stretch out your hand" And he obeyed.
She placed the flame in his armored hand, and it looked frail and tiny against the steel gauntled, and then ... it melt.
The warlord's stare went blank, as if he was seeing a place far, far away, and tears crept into his eyes, for he was overwhelmed with the beauty and majesty of a dragon's life, a light of eternity he dared to snuff out, a depth of being a mere human cannot attain, a dream of ascension and a longing after a long-lost home…
With a gesture of his hand, he ordered the army away, and they marched from whence they came, but the warlord put away his arms shortly after that, and is said to have become the founder of schools and a keeper of peace.
Meanwhile, Eilenne knew what was her task, and she learned to work with her new tool, making her art accessible to many, and rejoicing at this, creating many more works previously undreamt of…
Magical Properties:
The Ephemeral Cage has many purposes, of those the foremost is to make sound, light and thought into something ... else.
*If music is played by an artist concentrating at the cage, a crystal will form. This can release the music later, but combined with the artist's emotions and inspiration that lead him to create.
*Likewise, with song and poetry, not only is the wording captured, sounding into minds nearby when released, but also what the artist felt and what had sparked the particular piece will be carried along - thus a poem about a beautiful sunset will be coupled with the vision of the sunset, how the artist himself experienced it.
*A dancer can bind the essence of his dance, the joy and elegance of movement, the wetness of grass beneath his feet and the gliding of the wind along his skin into a solid form, to be preserved and understood, while a sculptor can create a crystal that makes the wiever of one of his works to be filled with the artist's emotion.
More than this, the cage can soldify the essence of someone's existence, so that his motivations, view of the world and character a merged into a whole, a resonant testimony to him, able to overwhelm someone with the intensity of existence.
One can use to forge light, sound and feeling into solid matter, thus, given a truly strong-willed individual with an artistic streak, it would be possible to forge armor out of pure defiance, or warm someone in a cold night with naught but the strength of his passion, or sing threads into existence that could be woven into garments of naught but sound.
If a sleeper with a wild and beautiful mind sleeps close to the cage, at waking he might find his dreams solidified into sculptures - a nightmare might become something black and spiky, while a beatiful dream a vortex of rainbows, and an erotic dream a sculpture of fluid luscious red.
Many more uses can be found for this item - one must just think ... eh ... dream of one.


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- Methodology article
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Intravital imaging of fluorescent markers and FRET probes by DNA tattooing
- Adriaan D Bins†1,
- Jacco van Rheenen†1, 2Email author,
- Kees Jalink3,
- Jonathan R Halstead4,
- Nullin Divecha4,
- David M Spencer5,
- John BAG Haanen1 and
- Ton NM Schumacher1Email author
© Bins et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007
- Received: 13 September 2006
- Accepted: 03 January 2007
- Published: 03 January 2007
Advances in fluorescence microscopy and mouse transgenesis have made it possible to image molecular events in living animals. However, the generation of transgenic mice is a lengthy process and intravital imaging requires specialized knowledge and equipment. Here, we report a rapid and undemanding intravital imaging method using generally available equipment.
By DNA tattooing we transfect keratinocytes of living mice with DNA encoding fluorescent biosensors. Subsequently, the behavior of individual cells expressing these biosensors can be visualized within hours and using conventional microscopy equipment. Using this "instant transgenic" model in combination with a corrected coordinate system, we followed the in vivo behavior of individual cells expressing either FRET- or location-based biosensors for several days. The utility of this approach was demonstrated by assessment of in vivo caspase-3 activation upon induction of apoptosis.
This "instant skin transgenic" model can be used to follow the in vivo behavior of individual cells expressing either FRET- or location-based probes for several days after tattooing and provides a rapid and inexpensive method for intravital imaging in murine skin.
- Fluorescent Resonance Energy Transfer
- Yellow Fluorescent Protein
- Cyan Fluorescent Protein
- Intravital Imaging
- Overview Image
The introduction of fluorescent proteins (FP) and the ability to visualize molecular events using fluorescence microscopy have been of substantial value for understanding intracellular signaling events. FP-based biosensors, and especially those based on Fluorescent Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), can report on cellular processes such as apoptosis or cell division, the levels of second messengers such as Ca2+, PtdIns(4,5)P2 and cAMP, or the activation status of proteins such as RhoA [1]. To date, the vast majority of analyses utilizing FP-based biosensors have been carried out on cells in tissue culture. However, for cellular processes that are controlled by cellular interactions or by the microenvironment, it would clearly be preferable to perform such analyses in vivo. Indeed, the small number of studies that have analyzed the behavior of single cells in vivo, have been informative with regard to the intracellular interactions of immune cells and early events in tumors formation [2–5]. Intravital images of whole mice or tumors can readily be acquired with macroscopical resolution using simple instrumentations (e.g. LED flashlight, filters and a digital camera [6]). However, for imaging with subcellular resolution, sophisticated equipment and expertise (e.g. two-photon microscopes [7] or whole-mouse imaging systems [8]) are required, which are only available in few specialized laboratories. Furthermore, the generation of biosensor-transgenic mice is a lengthy process and thereby hampers the use of this technique in settings where a number of different biosensors are tested or combinations of biosensors are required. A few studies have previously described fast and simple techniques to target selective genes to specific sites. For example, Li and Hoffman have targeted reporter genes to hair follicles in mice using liposomes [9]. However, it will be important to extend such approaches to other cell types. Here we present a rapid and inexpensive DNA tattoo method to target FP-genes to keratinocytes in the skin of mice. The behavior of these keratinocytes expressing fluorescent or FRET markers were followed for multiple days with subcellular resolution using a standard confocal microscope. The utility of this tattoo-approach was demonstrated by in vivo imaging of caspase-3 activation upon apoptosis induction.
Results and Discussion
Prior experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of introducing transgenes in murine skin cells by use of a rapidly oscillating tattoo machine [10]. In an effort to determine the number of cells that express the introduced transgene upon this type of skin application (see Methods), we tattooed a small area (10 × 15 mm) of the abdominal skin of mice with DNA encoding a GFP reporter protein driven by the CMV immediate early (CMV-IE) promoter. 3 hours thereafter, mice were anesthetized and analyzed for DNA tattoo-induced GFP expression by intravital imaging using a conventional confocal microscope. Expression of the GFP reporter gene was observed in approximately 160 cells per 10 mm2 tattooed skin, showing that the transfection efficiency of DNA tattooing was sufficient for imaging purposes. The majority of fluorescent cells obtained after a GFP-encoding DNA tattoo were keratinocytes (see Additional file 1).
Mouse transgenesis in combination with intravital imaging is time-consuming and can only be performed in specialized laboratories. Here we have presented a tattoo-based intravital imaging assay using techniques that are generally available. Clearly, this new approach that is based on the intradermal delivery of fluorescent reporters by DNA tattoo has its limitations. First, transgene expression obtained by the 'instant-transgenic' method as used here is confined to the epidermis and second, the expression of fluorescent reporters is restricted to a few days. In future studies, the duration of expression may be prolonged by enabling integration [19] or episomal maintenance of the plasmid used for transfection [20]. Furthermore, in vivo transfection using naked DNA can be achieved by various means in other tissues, including hepatocytes [21], myocytes [22] and lymphocytes [23]. More importantly, for many applications the abovementioned drawbacks are balanced by the substantial advantages provided by intravital DNA tattoo imaging. Firstly, mice expressing multiple cellular reporters can be generated in a time span of hours instead of months to years. Secondly, because it is possible to restrict expression of transgenes and reporters to a subset of cells amidst a population of unmodified cells, it is feasible to follow the behavior of gene-modified cells in isolation. In addition, this allows the retracing of individual cells in order to study these cells over a period of days. Thirdly, several tattoos with different combinations of transgenes and reporters can be compared within the same animal, thereby reducing experimental variation. Finally, imaging can be performed on widely available confocal or epifluorescent microscopes. These features suggest that intravital DNA tattoo imaging can form a highly rapid and versatile system to analyze cellular processes such as cell cycle progression, cellular differentiation or apoptosis in an in vivo setting.
DNA tattoo
The abdomen of the mouse was shaved and subsequently treated with depilation cream (Veet, Reckitt&Colmann, France). The nude abdominal surface was thoroughly rinsed to remove remaining cream, and a droplet of 20 μg DNA in 10 μl water was applied to the skin. Using a sterile disposable 11-needle bar (fine magnum 15, "challenge in colors" China) mounted on a rotary tattoo/permanent make-up device (Cold skin, B&A trading, Lijnden, the Netherlands) the DNA was tattooed in the skin over a surface of approximately 30 mm2[10]. During the 15 second tattoo, the needles oscillated at 100 Hz to a depth of 0.5 mm. Following application of the DNA, reference points were tattooed with black permanent make-up ink using a single point needle cartridge (Nouveau contour BV, Weert, Netherlands) mounted on a permanent make-up device (fine magnum 15, Aella, Medium-Tech, Berlin, Germany). All animal experiments were approved by the relevant institutional ethical committee (DEC) and performed in accordance with the local guidelines.
Anesthetized mice (GFP-MHC class II mice [24] were a kind gift of R. Offringa) were transferred to a 37°C heated cage, mounted to an inverted TC-SP-AOBS confocal microscope (Leica, Mannheim, Germany). A 5× dry objective (0.15 HC PL Fluotar) and a 20× dry objective (0.7 HC) were used to collect overview images, and a 63× water objective (1.2 PL APO) to collect high resolution images.
In vivo FRET imaging
in vivo FRET was measured by three independent methods; measurement of sensitized YFP emission, measurement of emission spectra, and measurement of the gain in CFP fluorescence upon YFP photo bleaching. For sensitized emission (YFP fluorescence upon CFP excitation), three images were collected: a CFP image excited at 405 nm and detected between 430 and 480 nm, a sensitized emission image excited at 405 nm and detected between 528 nm and 603 nm, and a YFP image excited at 514 nm and detected between 528 nm and 603 nm. Sensitized emission (FRET) was calculated from these images by correcting the sensitized emission image for leak-through of CFP fluorescence and fluorescence due to direct YFP excitation as described in [16]. Correction factors for leak-through of CFP and indirect excitation of YFP were determined on-line from cells expressing CFP or YFP only at different locations on the same animal. For every collected FRET image, images of cells expressing CFP or YFP only were collected subsequently to re-determine correction factors for laser fluctuations. Emission spectra were measured by collecting series of xyλ-images at 405 nm excitation and at 10 nm bandwidth emission starting at 430 nm and ending at 650 nm. No significant YFP emission was observed in emission spectra of cells expressing only YFP. Moreover, FRET observed by spectrum imaging was confirmed by the gain of CFP fluorescence after photo-destruction of YFP. The CFP gain was not a result of photo conversion of YFP during photo bleaching as described in [25], because YFP bleaching of skin cells expressing YFP only did not result in a significant increase in fluorescence at CFP wavelengths.
Coordinate system to image the same cells for several days
Cells of interest were retraced using a coordinate system. The coordinate system is based on two black ink reference points, which are tattooed on the mouse abdomen: an origin and a reference. The distance L(ref) and the angle a(ref) between the origin and the reference are determined by a custom-made Visual Basic (v6.0) program by calling commands from the Leica macro tool package. For every cell coordinate, the distance L(cell) and the angle a(cell) between the cell and the origin are determined and saved. During the next imaging session, the re-anaesthetized animal is re-positioned on the confocal microscope. While L(ref) and L(cell) will be similar (but not identical, see below) at subsequent time-points, the reference a(ref) and all cell angles (a(cell)) will vary because of small rotations in the position of the mouse. To correct for this, a(ref) is re-determined, and all cell angles (a(cell)) are corrected for changes in a(ref). The positions of the cells are then recalculated from the corrected a(cell) values and L(cell). Stretching of the skin does result in small deviations in L in subsequent imaging sessions and therefore can result in misalignment of the position of cells up to 0.5 mm. To avoid this issue we use an overview image at low (5×) magnification to determine the exact coordinate of each cell (Figure 4). Once a single misalignment has been resolved, all positions (within a radius of 5 mm) are corrected for this misalignment.
We would like to thank Drs J. Segall, W. Wang, D. Kedrin, S. Goswami and J. Wyckoff for helpful discussions, Dr. L. Oomen for assistance with confocal microscopy and Dr. G. van der Krogt for technical assistance. We would like to thank ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA) for the generous supply of AP20187, and R. Offringa for providing the MHCII-eGFP mice. JvR was supported by a fellowship from the Dutch Cancer Society.
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SoMo is headlining the first Club 93.7 'UP NEXT' concert series Saturday, and The Flint Local 432 will be crazy packed! Are you going to be there?
If you still aren't sure who SoMo is, it's OK. He has been working hard lately, and his work is starting to pay off as he is picking up fans all over the country with his new single 'Ride.'
SoMo also put out a series of covers on YouTube that his fans loved.
Now SoMo will hit the stage in Flint with 810 Local Flow winners, Pistol Bricks and Lando Skyy on Saturday January 18th. Tickets for Club 93.7's UP NEXT concert are almost gone, but you can get them online here, or at the door on the night of the concert (if there are any left).
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Eric Williams <firstname.lastname@example.com> reveals all: It is confusing to spec the clock frequency for the R4000 and R4400 because they are so flexible. There are four interesting numbers: - internal clock - external clock - secondary cache access cycle - SYSINT frequency Let's start by specifying the processor internal frequency. e.g. 150 MHz. All other frequencies are specified with respect to this one. For programs that get good primary cache hit rates this number will determine the performance. The clock input to the R4400 (i.e. the crystal you buy) is always half the internal frequency. In this case 75 MHz. This is generally the number used by the chip manufacturers, to specify the speed of the part. However from a system point of view, it is the least visible to the user, and therefore IMHO the least interesting. The secondary cache read and write access cycles are programmable in terms the internal clock frequency (e.g. 150 MHz cycles). This allows you to trade off the cost/speed of secondary cache rams with system performance. When upgrading from 100 MHz to 150 MHz you can either keep the same rams and increase the SCache access cycle or install faster rams and keep the number of cycles constant. The first option keeps the cost to a minimum while the second maximizes performance. Finally the interface that talks to the system (SYSINT) can run at a programmable fraction (1/2, 1/3, ...) of the internal frequency. For the example 150 MHz processor, this could be 75 MHz, 50 MHz, etc. This puts an upper limit on the bandwidth to memory and affects some latency parameters. Typically you would program the system interface to run synchronously with the memory controller. From what I've heard here about the Indy R4400 upgrade (I'm not involved with it) I think you could say the following: - the internal clock (primary cache, instruction execution, etc) increases from 100 MHz to 150 MHz - the clock crystal increases from 50 MHz to 75 MHz - the secondary cache access times stays the same in absolute terms (but increases in terms of internal clock cycles) - the system interface to memory stays at 50 MHz (100 MHz div 2, vs. 150 MHz div 3) BTW, the Indy upgrade example illustrates why IMHO the 75 MHz external frequency of the R4400 is not an interesting number to quote. Performance of real programs will be determined by the internal 150 MHz clock, the secondary cache timing and the system interface/memory speed, not the 75 MHz external clock. The Jan/Feb 1996 Pipeline has a table of Indigo, Indy and Indigo^2 processor types and the versions of IRIX which support them.
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Barry Stone's "DAILY, IN A NIMBLE SEA, is an anagram of "BAILEY ISLAND, MAINE," where a tiny stretch of coastline is incessantly transformed by the interactions of fog, sun, and tides. When the tide goes out, a rocky field of seaweed is revealed. To walk across it is to traverse the ocean floor in the open air. It is a magical place, and for seven summers I have watched my girls grow and change against this backdrop. Photographs put a feeble defense against the passage of time: the still image halts the waves from breaking, only to paradoxically heighten our awareness of their inevitable movement forward." 37 color plates printed on matte paper. Cloth-wrapped hardcover with photographic tip-in, beautifully printed and packages as all Silas Finch books are made. Check out their several other titles: Silas Finch


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Online Taxes
Feb 03, 2010
As the general public has increasingly become comfortable with online bill paying, Uncle Sam has provided easier avenues for electronic money moving. Last year, almost 80 million taxpayers filed electronically, many because they were due refunds that were processed more quickly because their tax data was sent online. Now the IRS has entered into partnerships with the private sector, including the banking industry, tax software developers and credit card processors, to make tax e-payments more appealing. Here are the ways you can electronically move your money when the time comes.
Electronic Funds Withdrawal
Individuals who file via computer, either on their own or with the help of a paid preparer, can use electronic funds withdrawal, or EFW. This basically is the reverse of direct deposit that the IRS recommends for those getting refunds. This option allows you to provide your checking account number, the type of account it is (savings or checking) and the financial institution's routing number. If you don't know which set of numerals is the routing number, check with your bank before you e-file, especially if you're planning to file and pay late on the April deadline day. At 11:50 p.m., there won't be anyone at the bank branch to answer your call for help.
In most instances, electronic funds withdrawal is free. But when you call about the routing number, it wouldn't hurt to confirm that your bank or credit union does indeed allow such transfers at no cost. One nice thing about EFW is that you can schedule when your tax payment comes out of your bank account as long as it's by the April due date. That means you can get the filing paperwork out of the way early and hold on to your cash until the last minute.
Credit Card Payments
Taxpayers can, of course, still charge it when Uncle Sam comes calling. And this year, debit cards are part of the mix. Official Payments and Link2Gov remain the two IRS-approved plastic processors. Both companies accept payments from electronic as well as paper filers, either via phone or the Internet. Payments are accepted using either American Express, Discover, MasterCard or Visa. If you want to avoid potentially costly interest charges, Link2Gov also accepts debit or check card payments as long as your card carries the NYCE, Star or Pulse logos.
Keep in mind, however, that this electronic payment method will cost you more than just your tax bill. Each company has its own fee schedule. For credit card payments it's 2.35% of your tax bill with a minimum processing fee of around $4. And if you don't pay off your original credit card in full, you'll start racking up interest charges on your account.
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Electronic Federal Tax Payment System
You can avoid credit card vendor fees by using the federal Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, known as EFTPS. EFTPS has been established for years to directly transfer various taxes to the IRS. Now the agency is stepping up efforts to get individual taxpayers to use the system. EFTPS is a free service and is available year-round. Business and individual taxpayers can make use of EFTPS to pay taxes associated with more than two dozen tax forms, including the family of 1040 forms. To get started, you enroll and get a personal identification number and password to use the service. It's a two-step process that involves a confirmation sent through the postal service, so don't wait until the last minute if this e-payment option appeals to you. Once again, check with your bank to see if it charges an electronic transfer fee.
As with electronic funds transfers, EFTPS users can make payments 24 hours a day, seven days a week and schedule payments in advance. The online system also lets taxpayers review their last 16 months of tax-payment history and search, print or download the data by date, tax type, amount, tax form and other factors. In addition to paying an annual tax bill, filers who pay quarterly estimated taxes also can use these e-payment methods.
With one of these online methods, hopefully you can electronically file your return and pay any tax due, at least while making the payment a little less stressful.


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Our Psychotherapy West Australia is a professional relationship process that provides a safe, supportive, and confidential space where you can discuss your deeper and longer-standing concerns with us. Psychotherapy is a longer-term process. The process explores the deeper meaning, vision and the purpose of your life. It involves a deeper journey and insight of how your conscious and unconscious mind works together to contribute to the creation of your life. Psychotherapy addresses the automatic and habituated thoughts, feelings, physiological responses, and behaviours developed in the earlier times of your life. We have specialist skills to assist you in developing more choiceful, authentic, and creative ways of Being. Psychotherapy brings freedom from the limitation of the past resulting in more presence and engagement in the immediacy of life. It brings lasting positive changes.
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Manager unfriendly and rude! Prices are through the roof. I would not recommend this place to anyone.
My vehicle was in need of some repairs. I went to many auto repair shops near my home, all of them more than willing to provide a free estimate of repair costs. 'Avenue Experts' the final shop. I asked for a free estimate for the cost of repairs on my car. They avoided the word "free," but gave me a rough idea of the costs for repairs. The man told me it would be easier for him to give me an idea if he had the car to look through, so I brought the car in the next day.
He called me after checking out my car. The verbal estimate he gave me was far higher than any other price I had been given. I returned to the shop to get the key and take my car.
He handed me a bill for $53.50, stating the estimate took him two hours and he was charging me for it. He did no work to my car, nor did he repair any part of the vehicle. He did not notify me of this charge beforehand. He gave me no upfront warning of the cost.
It is dishonest to charge a person for an estimate without telling him or her the price beforehand. Customers need know the cost of car repairs before they agree to have the repairs done. 'Avenue Experts' can charge them how they see fit, but it's only right to give prior notice before doing so. While they did not state that the estimate was free, they did not notify me of the cost prior to doing the estimate.
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The place is never open, the owner skipped out on many many loans, dont want to risk leaving my car with them and not getting it back.
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― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
- #25 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy > Arthurian
- #45 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy > Myths & Legends
Emotional impact - check.
Are those your rankings right now? That is awesome!!
Yes, those are my rankings now. I just idly checked this morning. And wow! Nice surprise, right?
Latest wips? The second novel in my scifi story, and an alternate history novel. The scifi story originated from my imagination and after reading every hard scifi book that appealed to me, I read the old scifi masters, I read new scifi.
The alternate history novel is one that's been brewing and I keep adding to it. It's one of the reasons I went to Paris.
Congrats on the rankings! Word of your great stories must be getting around.
Great that you have a Sci Fi series going. Hard Science Sci Fi is challenging since Hard Science theory tends to evolve like a roller coaster sometimes!
Your alternate history novel involves Paris? That's intriguing.
It would be nice if word of my stories does get around. Cross your fingers. :-)
Congrats on the rankings, Roland!
I think Elmore Leonard had it right. To engage readers, leave out the boring stuff. My latest WIP deals with a protagonist struggling to chose between the life he always thought he wanted—the life that's expected of him, and the need to be free of those expectations.
Of course I accidentally shredded all my notes for the book so instead of a WIP it's more of an WIR (Work in Reverse). :)
VR Barkowski
I blinked my eyes and they changed! :-)
Shredded all your notes for the book!? OUCH!! You are a trooper for continuing on.
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Like most Canadians my life is greatly influenced by weather. Knowing the forecast helps me make decisions on what I need to wear, what to pack when I travel and where to select a vacation destination. On the business side, I have always been fascinated with weather because it is one of those really boring businesses (nothing sexy about it), has high user frequency and is a pretty decent way to sell targeted advertising.
In fact, after I sold KS2 Solutions in 2005 I almost joined Pelmorex (known for TheWeatherNetwork.com or MetroMedia.com) to head up their sales in Western Canada. I ultimately decided to join Yellow Pages Group in early 2006. In January 2010 I ended up striking a partnership between YellowPages.ca and TheWeatherNetwork.com, read the post here – The Weather Network add Local Search and YellowPages.ca adds Weather – A Deeper Look at this Partnership.
Bottom line – weather has been an important part of my business and personal life.
My latest venture into weather is an investment in a new Montreal based start-up that is taking precipitation forecasting to a hyperlocal level, called SkyMotion Research. You can learn more about the company at SlideShare. They recently had some write-ups in popular blogs, check them out here:
Sky Motion for iOS lets you know what weather is coming on a very local basis
The Verge –
Sky Motion's up-to-the-minute weather tracking app comes to the web
Mobile Syrup –
SkyMotion launches mobile web app to predict hyperlocal precipitation
Currently the application is iOS based with an Android version coming soon. See screenshot below which was a short-term forecast at my office in Calgary. You can download the iOS app here. You can also play with the online version at SkyMotion's website, just enter your address.
I can definitely say that I am not alone when it comes to the importance of weather. Exactly how big is the weather market in Canada? Here are some stats you might find interesting.


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Magic 95.9 2nd Minority Business Exchange was held this past Wednesday, March 30th at the Reginald F.Lewis Museum. This month theme was all about the power of social networks and how to use technology to build your business.
The Internet has become an essential marketing and advertising tool for businesses. It is important for a business to exist on the internet because it makes it very easy for consumers to find you and learn more about your company.
The presenters for this month MBE were the top digital minds in the MD area. There presentations were filled with insightful tools on how to grow and maintain your on-line community. Here is some of the knowledge they shared:
- Companies should be utilizing the "The Big 5" in social network: Blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Twitter
- If you're building a business or you are a business make a personal and business page
- Knowing your target audience is the first thing you do before launching a project.
- Build the Buzz to any project that you're launching before, during and after.
- Be available to your online community by answering all their inquiries in a timely manner.
- Never use personal data on the web
- Although we live in a social network age, those old school principles are still in effect.
The "Minority Business Exchange" is a chance for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals to network and learn from some ofMaryland's top business minds. The event happens the last Wednesday of the month throughout the summer.
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|SACTWU requests urgent meeting with Steinhoff
|Thursday, 07 December 2017 12:23
Press Release: Immediate
The COSATU-affiliated, SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU), has taken note of the events currently unfolding within Steinhoff.
We are deeply concerned about the implications of this matter on our members. SACTWU has thousands of members who work in companies ultimately owned by the Steinhoff Group. These include companies such as Pepclo, Dunns, Shoe City, Pep Stores and Ackermans (under Steinhoff) and Deslee Mattex and Feltex (under KAP Industrial Holdings in which Steinhoff International is a major shareholder).
We have today written to Jayendra Naidoo, the chairperson of Steinhoff African Retail (which employs many of our members) and also a board member of Steinhoff International, and Pieter Erasmus, part of the leadership at Steinhoff International who have replaced the previous CEO, to call for an urgent meeting in order for us to be briefed on the implications of these recent developments on our members.
SACTWU will do everything in its power to ensure that the interests and job security of our members are under no circumstances jeopardised in any manner whatsoever.
Issued by
Andre Kriel
General Secretary
For further comment contact SACTWU's Etienne Vlok on 021 447 4570 or 082 448 0506.


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The design-point dehumidification performance (i.e., at ARI conditions) of a rotary dehumidifier wheel depends on its rotational speed, the sorption properties of the desiccant, the heat and mass transfer characteristics of the matrix, and the size of the dehumidifier. However, the real operating conditions of a rotary dehumidifier can vary significantly from the design point, given the large variations in operating conditions (i.e., the outdoor, indoor, and regeneration temperatures and humidities) for various locations during different times of the year. This paper investigates the variability of the dehumidification performance of a rotary dehumidifier and its dependence on operating conditions. Also, the effect of the operating conditions on the optimum rotational speed of a rotary dehumidifier, where the performance of a rotary dehumidifier is optimized, is described.
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Description: The classic
Time: 25-30 minutes prep
Preparation: Prepare a glass 9x13 pan by spraying with cooking spray
- 16 ounces macaroni noodles, cooked
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 1/4 cup sharp white cheddar
- 1 1/4 cup yellow cheddar
- bread crumbs, about 1 cup
- 4 cups milk
- medium onion (or 1 Tbsp minced onion)
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 8 ounces ham, cut into bite sized pieces
- Cook the noodles according to directions, drain.
- Sautee the onion in the butter
- Whisk in flour to coat onion
- Whisk in milk, making sure there are no lumps, cook for 6-8 minutes until thickened, or until back of wooden spoon gets coated, stir/whisk frequently
- Remove from heat, add 1 cup of each kind of cheese, stir. Add in noodles and ham. Stir to coat.
- Pour into baking dish.
- Take reserved cheese (1/4 cup of each) and toss with bread crumbs
- Top with bread crumb mixture
- Bake for 20-30 minutes @ 375
As an alternative, I used Canadian Bacon instead of ham.
To make sure it's not grainy, make sure you remove the milk from the heat. I'm pretty sure the graininess comes from the cheese separating.


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'Truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't lapse into oblivion"
-José Saramago, Nobel Prize winning novelist and journalist.
Over the last 12 weeks, newspapers, television media and brokerage reports have been breathless in reporting the adverse impacts of demonetisation. Nearly every brokerage cut earnings estimates. However, the Indexes have crossed the levels they were before demonetisation was announced. Even companies that supposedly should have been severely impacted by demonetisation (e.g. TITAN in Jewellery) have crossed their price levels as of the day of demonetisation.
Certain truths, which we have written about earlier, deserve repetition
- Bad news sells. The financial media's interest is in Advertising revenue through more eye balls. Their mission is not to look after your retirement nest egg.
- Forecasting short term movements is a mug's game. We do not have wisdom to comprehend what makes sentiment change on a dime. Those who claim to do so seldom publish their track record.
- Every time an uncertainty is confronted, we feel fear. However, what many people overlook is that we have always lived amidst uncertainty. The present always feels more uncertain than the past.
- Markets undergo a pull-back regularly. The ability to bear this pain is an inescapable part of the wealth creation journey.
- It is critical to define what will be your guiding principles and then shut out the noise. Understanding the behaviour of other market participants creates a significant behavioural advantage.
It looks like the slide-on cases that are prone to dirt getting caught between glass back panel of the iphone and the case can cause scratches and in some cases can also result in shattering the rear pane of glass