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Bangaluru-based nutrition consultant Atraeyee Niharchandra is the Founder of ReviseDiet, a platform to discover, develop and share scientifically proven information about the benefits of eating food and help you eat guilt free.
She is an expert trainer in weight loss and a follower of naturopathy, helping people lose weight (on an average 10-12 kgs in 3-4 months) the healthy way without ditching their favourite snack. Atraeyee Niharchandra, Founder and Nutrition Consultant based in Bangaluru provides relief, preventionand cure of specific diseases through food therapy throughReviseDiet. Wellness India talks to this self motivated, nutrition expert who is helping people lose upto 10-12 Kgs without ditching their favourite food.
According to this young Nutritionist, food plays a vital role inNaturopathy, as it says 'you are what you eat'. The ReviseDiet help people equip to handle food during stress and overcome the stress that invariably comes in their way, thus avoiding both mental and physical illness. Since ReviseDiet is not-for-profit, she offers an independent perspective that is not influenced by commercial interests.
Brief us about your diet and nutrition consulting work? How do you help Indian consumers improve their diet, keeping intact the indulgence part?
I work on the Nutrition Principles and Naturopathy and help people to juggle and play with Indian and modern food to create a balance in healthy food. I help them to learn and play with the food, whether fried, sweet, junk and healthy. We eat everything at ReviseDiet and we lose weight. That's why we don't need cheat days as we eat everything and work on weight loss. I have patients on bed rest, multiple fractures, who can't exercise, but need weight loss as bed rest or no exercise is causing weight put on. When you learn to play with food - weight loss becomes easy.
The 'Tridoshas' balance in human body is much essential for maintaining health. Depending on our doshas or constitutional type, some foods could be beneficial, while some should be avoided. These foods may have the opposite effect on another dosha.
The science of Ayurveda teaches that right diet is the foundation of healing. For maximum health and vitality, ideal diet is the key that balances our doshas. Our Indian meals from generations are designed on the law of Tridosha and panchamahabhootas (5 elements of Ayurveda and Yoga).
Certain food at certain time of the day can help to cure and avoid chronic diseases. The equation of five elements with body types create our likes and dislikes towards food and may also impact the nature of a person.
Each one of us acts as per our Prakruti (physical constitution). The food combinations for a certain time of the day created at ReviseDiet are designed on the science of food equations to give you the right diet for healing, health and fitness.We follow the traditional combinations of ideal meals such as biryani and raita, paratha with dahi and pickle, rajma rice, raggi mudde with curd or sambar or rasam, etc are done tobring balance in the body and to maximise health and vitality in the Indian climate.
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I think everyone needs a bit of nutrition consulting these days. There is a huge disconnect between food and health. When I say eat three aloo parathas - the first reaction I get is 'OMG, I can't eat three parathas'. People have stopped eating food, have reduced sleep and don't give attention to water intake. Everyone wants to eat oats or corn flakes or breadsfor breakfast and eating parathas or rotis looks like a mad talk. Conflict with food is causing imbalance in health.
What are the current nutritional trends you are witnessing inIndian market?
There was a time of consuming hot water with lemon and honey in the morning, and then came Green tea for health after that it was apple, cider and vinegar, next was the era of flax seeds. Now, I see Chia seeds and Detox water in fancy mason jars which is a new fad diet. However, the usual problem I've come across with my patients is - they don't have energy in the morning and they eat less, sleepless, usually late at night and remain unhappy.
Today, exercise has become regular part of our lives. It's great to see people doing yoga, cycling, running, cardio and sometimes zumba. But, the food balance is missing. I hope people eat on time. Personally, I am not a fan of either of them. Luke warm water or normal water is great in the morning. Drinking Vinegar or eating flax seeds can't give health. I do see people being confused about healthy and unhealthy. Thus, I keep telling them to eat, as when you eat food - you get energy and the chances of constipation and gas, reduces in the body.
What kind of nutrition does an Indian consumer need?
Indian body type needs energy giving food, which may helpin reducing constipation and gas. Also, a balance between puri, parathas, rice, burger, pizza and sleep is essential.
Where does India stand in terms of diet & nutrition on scale of 0-10 in comparison with other European countries? Whatkind of initiatives may bridge the gap?
There is a lot of research being done on European food like the calorie count, time to eat, etc. There is a high awareness on European food. Even in India, people know more about European food than Indian food. The gap between everyday Indian food and health has to fill.
Can you comment on nutritional consideration on mobility and cardiovascular health in India?
Food plays a pivotal role in coronary heart disease and is evident from its pathological process, which involves the formation of arterial plaques, alterations in endothelial function (which, in turn, influence blood pressure) heightened risk for thrombosis, and inflammatory processes. Food and timing can help in regulation of blood lipids and by influencing endothelial function and the underlying inflammation that causes disease progression.
A disciplined food timing habit, particularly if combined with regular exercise can prevent delay or reverse the progression of atherosclerosis and development of CHD, with subsequent reduction in cardiovascular events. Social Isolation has become a major challenge in today's life. It's difficult to talk to people or go and meet people, but it's easier to chat, whatsapp and call. Maintaining a healthy body needs interaction with people, a good laugh and feeling the good Mother Nature. It may reduce the risk of many chronic diseases, help with flexibility and mobility, and aid in mental alertness.
How do you create awareness among people about healthy and nutritious diet?
I often conduct workshops on spreading health awareness with local communities. Most of the workshops are free of charge. Give me a bunch of people and I am ready to talk about health and everyday lifestyle habits.


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A lot of homeowners in the local region contemplate performing their own landscaping in Woodcliff Lake NJ instead of hiring an experienced landscaper. When it comes to pulling weeds or mowing the lawn, many homeowners feel it is better to take care of these tasks on their own rather than hiring a professional. You will find many reasons why this may be the case, whether it is saving money in the long run, wanting to spend time outside, as well as a combination of the two. However, a lot of people don't take into consideration how many services are capable of being done by a professional landscape service which are essential to the long term wellbeing of your property. Instead of being looked at as an expense, taking care of your property should be considered an investment, and it is in fact not as out of reach as you might think it will be. There's a broad range of jobs that call for a professional with a great deal of landscape care experience, along with the fact that more and more individuals are finding they lack the time to devote to proper landscape maintenance. When you take into account the fact that your property value is not only going to be protected but increased, calling a professional landscape company in Woodcliff Lake NJ with the appropriate experience as well as reputation will actually pay for itself in the long run. This is why more and more customers are making the wise choice and calling Raymond Brothers Landscaping.
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International Snooker Pro THD is Now Available for NVIDIA Tegra Devices
NVIDIA Tegra Zone has now two new additions to the list of games available for Tegra device owners. One is Expendable: Rearmed – where you have to fight using mini-guns, rockets, grenades and other weapons, against a bio-mechanical alien race that plans on taking over our planet. The second is International Snooker Pro, also available on the Play Store.
International Snooker Pro is designed for hardcore pool and snooker fans as well as amateurs of this type of games. Taking advantage of the Tegra platform the game provides detailed graphics and advanced physics engine to make the experience somewhat unique. There are multiple gameplay modes, including a Carrier selection that will take you through 15 tournaments in 14 locations around the world. There are also the Quick Play modes including UK 8-Ball, US 8-Ball and US 9-Ball.
Filling your trophy cabinet with some of the 16 trophies from 7 major and 7 minor events and more will not proove itself an easy task and will require some effort to get used to the gameplay. There are also other features that the game provides, such as:
- All new graphics and physics engine optimized for Tegra-devices for an even greater level of detail, realism and physics simulations.
- A Career Mode places you in a full 'rolling' year on year professional snooker career, playing 15 tournaments in 14 locations around the world competing to be world number 1.
- Includes three Quick Play Pool modes: UK 8-ball, US 8-ball and US 9-Ball.
- Fill your trophy cabinet with 16 trophies from 7 major and 7 minor events, 1 invitational event plus the coveted 147 trophy.
- Referee voiced by Michaela Tabb the world's favourite referee of snooker and pool competitions.
- Stats and Achievements with full Scoreloop integration.
International Snooker Pro is now available for purchase on the Play Store or NVIDIA Tegra Zone.


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SpaceX Successfully Launches Koreasat-5a Mission.
On a chilly Monday on October 30, SpaceX successfully launched the Koreasat-5a Mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Blasting off from launch complex 39A, the SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at 3:34 pm local time.
About 8:32 minutes after launch SpaceX landed the Falcon 9 first stage on the droneship "Of Course, I Still Love You" that was approximately 400 miles off the Florida coast.
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Improved modeling of gross primary productivity (GPP) by better representation of plant phenological indicators from remote sensing using a process model
作者:Wang, J (Wang, Jian)[ 1,2 ] ; Wu, CY (Wu, Chaoyang)[ 2,3 ] ; Zhang, CH (Zhang, Chunhua)[ 4 ] ; Ju, WM (Ju, Weimin)[ 5 ] ; Wang, XY (Wang, Xiaoyue)[ 1,2 ] ; Chen, Z (Chen, Zhi)[ 3 ] ; Fang, B (Fang, Bin)[ 6 ]
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.01.042
Phenology is a significant indicator of ecosystem functioning and is one of the most important controllers of gross primary productivity (GPP). The Integrated Terrestrial Ecosystem C-budget model (InTEC) predicts carbon cycling by modeling a number of ecosystem processes, and in particularly, phenology derived from a degree-day metric. However, empirical temperature thresholds may not well represent ecosystem growth at low latitudes. Here, using 30-year Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) normalized difference vegetation index 3rd generation (NDVI3g) data (1983-2012), we obtained the start (SOS), end (EOS) and length of growing season (LOS) with three algorithms from time series of NDVI for forests ecosystems of China. The phenology module was then incorporated into the InTEC model before validation using ground observations from eddy covariance measurements. Our results showed that compared with temperature-based phenology of the original model, using NDVI-based phenology improved modeling of GPP. The modified InTEC model was used to analyze the spatial and temporal patterns of GPP for forest ecosystems of China during 1983 to 2012. We found that remote sensing-based phenology was more reliable than temperature-based phenology for large-scale analysis. Using the modified InTEC model, we revealed that the GPP of China's forests ecosystems increased over 1983-2012 with high spatial heterogeneity, with a mean of 1.31 Pg Cyr(-1). Our results demonstrated the significance of remotely sensed phenology for improving the accuracy of GPP modeling with ecosystem models, which is enlightening for the large-scale evaluation of carbon sequestration.
通讯作者地址: Wu, CY (通讯作者)
Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
[ 1 ] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Remote Sensing & Digital Earth, State Key Lab Remote Sensing Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
[ 2 ] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[ 3 ] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
[ 4 ] Ludong Univ, Sch Resources & Environm Engn, Yantai 264025, Peoples R China
[ 5 ] Nanjing Univ, Int Inst Earth Syst Sci, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[ 6 ] Columbia Univ, Dept Earth & Environm Engn, 500 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027 USA


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This is an excerpt from "FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?" (Macmillan, 2019) by Bill McKibben.
If you viewed Earth from far above (and for better or worse, this book will often take a high, wide perspective), roofs would probably be the first feature of human civilization you'd notice. A descending alien would see many shapes, often corresponding to the local weather: A-frames for shedding snow, for instance. There are gambrel roofs, mansards, hipped and gabled roofs. Pagodas and other Asian temples often sport conical tops; Russian churches come with onion domes; Western churches sit beneath spires.
Palm leaves probably topped the earliest houses, but as humans began to grow grain in the Neolithic era, the leftover straw became a reliable roofing material. Some homes in Southern England have thatch roofs 500 years old; new layers have been added over centuries till, in some cases, the roofs are 7 feet thick. Though it is harder to find good stuff to work with — the introduction of short-stemmed wheat varieties and the widespread use of nitrogen fertilizer have weakened straw — thatch is now growing more popular with rich Europeans looking for green roofs; in Germany, for instance, you can now get a degree as a "journeyman specialist thatcher." But at least since the third century B.C. (perhaps beginning with Greek temples deemed valuable enough to protect from fire) humans have been tending toward hard roofs. Terra-cotta tiles spread rapidly around the Mediterranean and to Asia Minor; slate roofs became popular for their low maintenance; where trees are plentiful, wood shakes and slabs of bark work well. Given that the average human being currently resides in an urban slum, it is possible that corrugated iron shelters more sleepers than anything else.
Do you find this a little dull? Good. What I want to talk about is the human game — the sum total of culture and commerce and politics; of religion and sport and social life; of dance and music; of dinner and art and cancer and sex and Instagram; of love and loss; of everything that comprises the experience of our species. But that's beyond my powers, at least till I'm warmed up. So, I've looked for the most mundane aspect of our civilization I can imagine. Almost no one thinks about her roof from one year's end to another, not unless it springs a leak. It's a given. And so, it will illustrate my point — even the common and boring roof demonstrates the complexity, the stability, and the reach of this human game.
Consider the asphalt shingle, which tops most homes in the West and is itself, doubtless, the dullest of all forms of roofing. The earliest examples date to 1901, and the first manufacturer was the H.M. Reynolds Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, which sold its product under the slogan "The Roof That Stays Is the Roof That Pays." Asphalt occurs naturally in a few places on Earth — the tar sands of Alberta, for instance, are mostly bitumen, which is the geologist's word for asphalt. But the asphalt used in shingles comes from the oil-refining process: it's the stuff that still hasn't boiled at 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Vacuum distillation separates it from more valuable products such as gasoline, diesel and naphtha; it then is stored and transported at high temperatures until it can be used, mostly for making roads. But some of it is diverted to the plants that make shingles, where manufacturers add granules of some mineral (slate, fly ash, mica) to improve durability. The CertainTeed Corporation, the world's biggest shingle manufacturer, has produced a video showing what it rightly calls "this underappreciated process" at its plant in Oxford, North Carolina, one of 61 facilities it operates around the country. The video shows a ballet of pouring and dumping and conveying, as limestone arrives by rail car to be crushed and mixed with hot asphalt and then coated onto hundreds of thousands of miles of fiberglass mat. A thin mist of water is sprayed, and as it evaporates, the sheet cools, ready to be cut and then bundled onto pallets in a giant warehouse, to await distribution.
Marvel for a moment at the thousands of events that must synchronize for all this to work: the oil drilled (maybe deep undersea, or in the equatorial desert); the pipelines and rail lines laid; the refineries constructed (and at each step, the money raised). The limestone and the sand need mining, too, and the miles of fiberglass net must be fabricated on some other production line. The raw materials are all sucked into the North Carolina factory, and then the finished shingles must be spewed back out again, across rail lines and truck routes and into a network of building supply stores, where contractors can haul them to building sites, confident that they've been rated for resistance to wind, fire and discoloration. Think, again, of the sheer amount of human organization required for the American Society for Testing and Materials to produce directive D3462-87 ("Asphalt Shingles Made from Glass Felt and Surfaced with Mineral Granules") and then to enforce its mandates.
We could, clearly, repeat this exercise for everything you see around you, and everything you hear, and everything you smell — all the infinitely more interesting activities always underway beneath all those roofs. As I write, for instance, I'm listening to Orchestra Baobab on Spotify. It was the house band at a Dakar nightclub in the 1970s, where its music reflected the Cuban beats that came with sailors to West Africa in the 1940s; eventually the group recorded its best album at a Paris studio, and now it somehow resides on a computer server where 196,847 people from across the planet listen to it each month. Try to parse the play of history and technology and commerce and spirituality and swing that make up the sound pouring into my headphones — the colonialisms layered on top of one another; the questions of race, identity, pop, purity. Or consider what I'm going to have for dinner, or what you're wearing on your back — everything comes with strings attached, and you can follow those strings into every corner of our past and present.
What I'm calling the human game is unimaginably deep, complex and beautiful. It is also endangered. Indeed, it is beginning to falter even now.
I'll spend this book explaining that danger and, at the end, pointing to some ways we might yet avert it. But I think it's best to begin by stressing not the shakiness of the human game but, instead, its stability. For humans, all of us together, have built something remarkable, something we rarely stand back and simply acknowledge. The sum of the projects of our individual lives, the total of the institutions and enterprises we have created, the aggregate of our wishes and dreams and labors, the entirety of our ceaseless activity — it is a wonder. I call it a game because it has no obvious end. Like any game, it doesn't really matter how it comes out, at least in the largest sense of Our Place in the Universe, and yet, like any game, it absorbs the whole concentration of those involved. And even if it has no ultimate aim that doesn't mean it lacks rules, or at least an aesthetic: by my definition, the game is going well when it creates more dignity for its players, and badly when that dignity diminishes.
Dignity, in the context of the human game, can be measured in many ways: enough calories, freedom from fear, clothes to wear, useful work. And by plenty of those measures, we're on a roll. Extreme poverty (life on $2 a day or less) is far rarer than it used to be. Many of the diseases that poverty helped spread have lessened, too: worms in your gut, say. Even compared to the 20th century, violence is now far less likely to kill us — of the more than 55 million people who died around the world in 2012, war killed just 120,000 of them. Eighty-five percent of adults can read now, a staggering increase inside two generations. Women, with more education and at least a modicum of equality, have gone from having more than five kids apiece on average in 1970 to having fewer than 2.5 today, probably the most rapid and remarkable demographic change the planet has ever witnessed. In the year 1500, humans managed to produce goods and services worth $250 billion in today's dollars — 500 years later, that number is $60 trillion, a 240-fold increase. The chorus of affirmation swells, from Steven Pinker insisting we're in an age of unprecedented enlightenment to Donald Trump tweeting, "There is an incredible spirit of optimism sweeping the country right now — we're bringing back the JOBS!"
We're quite accustomed to this idea of progress, so accustomed that some can't imagine anything else: the former chief economist of the World Bank, Kaushik Basu, recently predicted that, in 50 years, global GDP will be growing 20 percent a year, meaning that income and consumption will be doubling every four years or so. There are, each day, more ideas hatched, more songs sung, more pictures taken, more goals scored, more schoolbooks read, more money invested.
And yet. There are other authorities almost as highly placed as the former chief economist of the World Bank. Pope Francis, in his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment and poverty, said, "The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth." Don't consider popes sufficiently authoritative? Consider this: In November 2017, 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issued a stark "warning to humanity." Just like Pinker, they had charts, but theirs depicted everything from the decline in freshwater per person to the spread of anaerobic "dead zones" in the world's seas.
As a result, the scientists predicted, we face "widespread misery and catastrophic biodiversity loss"; soon, they added, "it will be too late to shift course away from our failing trajectory." (Within six months, that warning was already the sixth-most-discussed academic paper in history.) The worries have grown severe enough that a NASA-funded group recently created the Human and Nature DYnamics (HANDY) program to model the fall of the Roman, Han, Mauryan and Gupta empires, and when they pushed the button, it spit out a disquieting forecast: "Global industrial civilization could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution." (The fact that I'd never even heard of the Mauryan Empire gave me a quiet shiver.) In this model, by the way, one of the greatest dangers came from elites who argued against structural change on the grounds that "so far" things were working out.


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Today was an unseasonably warm day, so we took the boys out back to swing. This was Nathan's first time swinging, and he LOVED it! Please excuse the dirty swings (they got pretty dirty with all the yucky weather we've had lately). I have a great video, but can't seem to get that to work today... I'll try to post that another time!
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Literature Circles Session Seven
Short Book Review:
For next Monday's seventh and final Literature Circles session we will be preparing a short book review instead of doing a prediction. To do so you need to write your review as a comment to this post.
Your short book review will only need to include:
The title and author of your book.
Whether you enjoyed the book and WHY?
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Any other information you wish to add.
I look forward to reading your short book reviews. Remember that you still need to complete your Literature Circles task in your lit circles work books.


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A healthy result should fall into the range 2 - 17 %.
Why use the CD57 test?
The CD57 test is offered in some clinical laboratories and is being used by some health practitioners to evaluate and follow patients diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease.
What is Lyme disease?
Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in the United States, is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the bite of the Ixodes sp. tick (the deer tick).
The disease usually begins with erythema migrans, an expanding skin lesion at the site of the tick bite. Within several days or weeks, there is hematogenous dissemination of the spirochetes, and patients may present with dermatologic, neurological, cardiac, and rheumatologic involvement.
What is chronic lyme disease?
Chronic Lyme disease is a controversial term applied to a broad spectrum of patients, including individuals with Lyme disease and those with post-Lyme disease syndrome (PLDS), as well as patients with no evidence of current or past Borrelia burgdorferi infection. PLDS is defined as the persistence or relapse of nonspecific symptoms (such as fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and cognitive complaints) in patients who have had Lyme disease and have received an adequate course of antibiotic therapy.
It has been reported that people with "chronic Lyme disease" have a decreased number of natural killer cells (NK cells), as defined by the CD57 marker.
Although acute infections can be treated with antibiotics, failure to treat may result in a chronic, debilitating illness characterized by musculoskeletal and neurologic symptoms. Chronic Lyme disease may be difficult to treat, but also to diagnose
What are white blood cells?
White blood cells (=leukocytes) help the body to fight infections and other diseases.
The human immune system consists of several different types of white blood cells with one category being called Lymphocytes.
Lymphocytes attack antigens (foreign proteins).
Lymphocytes consists of 3 subcategories of white blood cells known as B-Cells, T-Cells, and Natural Killer Cells.
Natural killer cells versus T-cells:
Natural killer cells are the first line of defense against foreign pathogens and they belong to the innate immune system. They are not specific in their immune response and recognize a wide variety of pathogens.
T-cells, on the other side, belong to the adaptive immune system. They are much more focused and highly specialized.
What are CD markers?
CD stands for cluster designation. CD is a glycoprotein molecule on the cell surface that acts as an identifying marker. Each different marker (or CD) on a cell is named with a number, which signifies the order in which the CD was discovered. Cells that have a certain kind of CD present on their surface are denoted as "+" for that CD type (e.g., a cell with CD57 markers on its surface is "CD57+".
What are CD57 cells?
What are CD8 cells?
The CD8 cells are generally referred to as T-cells, not to be confused with natural killer cells.
Controversy around using this test:
Possible treatment options:
There are various stages of Lyme infection, and treatments differ according to the stage of infection. It's important to be aware of the various treatment options so that you can help your doctor determine what's right for you. Treatment options include one or multiple rounds of antibiotics (oral, intravenous, intramuscular, etc). When a patient is diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease, doctors work to develop an extended treatment plan. Treating Chronic Lyme can last months, years or even longer. Decisions about the treatment of the patient with chronic Lyme disease need to be individually shaped by the clinician's experience, the patient's clinical profile and history of antibiotic responsiveness, and the emerging medical literature.
The information on healthmatters.io is NOT intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice.
Reference Range(s):
|CD57+/CD3- of % Lymphs
|1-10 % Lymphocytes
|CD57+/CD3- of % WBC
|CD57+/CD3- Cells/uL
20-258 Cells/uL
|CD57+/CD3-/CD8- of % Lymphs
|1-5 % Lymphocytes
|CD57+/CD3-/CD8- of % WBC
|CD57+/CD3-/CD8- Cells/uL
|20-114 Cells/uL
|CD57+/CD8- of % Lymphs
|1-15 % Lymphocytes
|CD57+/CD8- of % WBC
|20-248 Cells/uL
insert the value from you CD8-CD57 + Lymphs (Percent) test result.
The number of CD57 cells is decreased in chronic Lyme disease patients, particularly those with pronounced neurologic symptoms. Patients with low CD57 have significantly more co-infections and persistent immunologic defects than patients with higher counts. In patients that respond to antibiotic therapy, the number will come back to normal following treatment, but in patients with persistent Lyme disease, CD57 levels remain low.
Possible treatment options:
There are various stages of Lyme infection, and treatments differ according to the stage of infection. It's important to be aware of the various treatment options so that you can help your doctor determine what's right for you. Treatment options include one or multiple rounds of antibiotics (oral, intravenous, intramuscular, etc). When a patient is diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease, doctors work to develop an extended treatment plan. Treating Chronic Lyme can last months, years or even longer. Decisions about the treatment of chronic Lyme disease need to be individually shaped by the clinician's experience, the patient's clinical profile and history of antibiotic responsiveness, and the emerging medical literature.
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New Web Resource on Evolution ... EvolverZone
Looks like T. Ryan Gregory, who writes the GenoMicron blog has evolved ... he has released a new web resource on evolution - Evolver Zone. Clearly still a work in progress, it has some good collections of links to videos, journals, books and other materials about evolution. Worth checking out.
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From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be The Best You Can Be
1. "The Boy Who Had Everything" on page 329 teaches a lesson about being grateful. What is the difference between a want and a need?
2. "My Abilities" is the title of the story on page 335. Why is Ben grateful for his learning disabilities?
3. The story on page 342 is called "The Color of Gratitude." Why do you think Bailey chose this title for the story?
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But Steve Laut, with Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ), warned damage could still be inflicted, especially when there are so many changes happening at once.
"We're assuming that the royalty, regulatory and environmental burdens will be reasonable, allowing for investment and job creation," Laut told a conference call to update investors on the company's strategy.
But, he said, "adjusting the royalty, taxation and regulatory burdens is complex and the risk of getting it wrong is high."
The call was held in lieu of Canadian Natural's annual day-long investor open house event, which the company delayed last month. By way of explanation, Canadian Natural said at the time that with royalties and environmental rules up in the air, it couldn't lay out long-term spending plans for shareholders.
In an interview, Laut denied that Canadian Natural was aiming to send a message to Alberta's new left-leaning government with the move.
"It's hard for us to tell investors where we're going to invest our money and which projects are going to be developed and which ones are the best if we don't know the regulatory and fiscal regime going forward," said Laut.
He added he's met with Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd. And Premier Rachel Notley has spoken to Canadian Natural chairman Murray Edwards, an influential oilpatch financier.
"The conversations we've had with the government to date, as well as the public statements that they have made, lead us to believe the government will be pragmatic when they address the issues up and coming and they made it clear that they want a strong and viable oil-and-gas industry, and it's important to all Albertans and Canadians," said Laut.
But the last Alberta royalty review in 2007 and a U.K. tax increase in 2011 serve as cautionary tales. In the U.K., for instance, Laut said the industry may have been irreparably harmed by the changes, even though the government has since reversed course on many of them.
"We don't think (the NDP) want to see job losses out of this whole thing. And I think that's the important thing," said Laut.
"We can easily get to a tipping point here and go into a spiral where you lose revenue, you lose jobs and actually get yourself in a worse position. I don't think they want to do that. They've learned from the last government and the last royalty review what happened there."
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It was the fourth consecutive loss for the Impact, which has been shut out in each of those games.
Montreal Impact wilt 2-0 against United in sweltering Minneapolis
Life isn't getting better for the Montreal Impact after dropping a 2-0 decision to Minnesota United on Saturday in Minneapolis.
It was the fourth consecutive loss for the Impact, which has been shut out in each of those games. Montreal, which has lost eight of its last nine starts, remained in 10th place in the 11-team MLS Eastern Conference with a 3-10-0 record. The Impact is nine points out of a playoff spot and the team holding the final berth, the Philadelphia Union, has a game in hand.
A critical mistake by Alejandro Silva opened the door for Minnesota United, which grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 52nd minute. Silva's pass was intercepted in the midfield by Ibson and he sent Christian Ramirez off on the counter. Impact goalkeeper Evan Bush challenged Ramirez, but he didn't get enough of the shot.
Miguel Ibarra extended the lead to 2-0 when he scored in the 58th minute. A Minnesota shot from outside was blocked in the box, but Ibarra managed to get position on defender Daniel Lovitz and his shot from just outside the box went in over Bush's head.
The Impact's best chance to get back into the game came in the 65th minute, but Minnesota goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth dove to his right to stop a drive by Raheem Edwards. Shuttleworth made four saves for his second shutout of the season as Minnesota improved its record to 5-7-1.
The Impact had the initial scoring chances in the first half. Edwards worked his way into the box in the 26th minute, but lost control of the ball. Moments later, he was set up by Samuel Piette at the top of the box, but his shot was stopped by Shuttleworth.
A minute later, Ignacio Piatti launched a shot from 20 yards out, but he hit the crossbar.
"We had opportunities, but there was a lack of skill, talent and willpower tonight," said Impact head coach Rémi Garde.
"We weren't efficient with our passing in the first half," said goalkeeper Evan Bush. "We had opportunities, but the mistakes we made were costly. Defensively, we weren't bad, but you need to be perfect when you don't score."
Minnesota had two chances in the latter stages of the first half. Darwin Quintero made a strong run in the 41st minute, but rushed his shot and fired wide. In the 43rd minute, Ibarra delivered a ball to Alexi Gomez in the six-yard box, but Gomez's volley shot hit the crossbar.
"I thought the first 25 minutes were as bad as we've played all season," said Minnesota coach Adrien Heath. "We lacked energy and we lacked desire. If you look at the first half, Darwin could have had two goals through his own little bits of creativity. If we can consistently get the ball to him in the final third, he will score many goals."
"We knew we weren't having our best game at the beginning," Ibarra said. "It was on us to wake up and make sure that we put them on the back foot because we weren't pressing at all. Our second half was to make sure to press them, press them, press them and make sure they give the ball away. I think we did a great job in the second half and it worked."
The extremes in weather that affect the Twin Cities were in play. While the Canadiens are accustomed to experiencing bitter cold in the winter, there was a heat advisory in Minneapolis on Saturday with the thermometer hitting 34 Celsius at kickoff. As a result, referee Alan Kelly stopped play for a water break in the 31st minute.
The Impact's next game is Saturday, June 2, when the Houston Dynamo visits Saputo Stadium at 7:30 p.m.


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HOW-TO:Backup the video library
| Video library
|HOW-TO:Backup the video library
This guide will show you how to backup the video library using NFO files and local images. These NFO files are little text files that save all the "metadata" (summaries, credits, playcount, and other library data) for each individual video that are then placed along side the actual video files. These act as a backup for each entry, and can also be used as a way of changing library information or for scanning files that are not recognized by a scraper website. This also saves any changes you've made in Kodi, such as changing the title, sort title, selecting specific images/artwork, movie sets, video library tags, watched history, and resume points.
Backing up the video library is a good idea for several reasons: rebuilding your library in case of damage to your main HTPC, mistakenly removed library entries, duplicate the same library on other Kodi installs, or let you to easily move your video files without losing special changes or your watched history. It also allows for off-line library scanning or if a scraper website goes away.
1 Moving the library
The steps in this guide include how to use the backup to move video files to a new location.
When you scan video files into the library, Kodi will remember the exact location of the files used. If you'd like to move the video files, say from a local hard drive to a NAS or changing the file sharing protocol you use, then you will need to update paths stored in Kodi's library. Exporting NFO files will preserve your Kodi library when you move the location of your video files and ensure that all of the "metadata" (summaries, credits, etc) is preserved, along with your watched history and resume points.
2 Steps
| Backing up
Export the video library to individual NFO files and local images.
Note: If you've already exported your library (or created NFO files with another program) then you will still need to re-export and tell Kodi to overwrite old files. This will make sure that your watched history, resume points, and any other changes you've made gets saved. However, in that situation you can probably skip re-exporting images.
| Restoring
If you only wish to backup your library then you don't need to go any further. The rest of the steps will show you how to rebuild your library using the NFO files and local images you just saved.
|Close Kodi.
| Optional
If you are moving the library then you can now move those video files to their new location.
| You'll want to add the import watch and resume tags to an advancedsettings.xml file.
3 What is not backed up
Main page: Backup
This guide only covers the information stored for the video library. It doesn't include the following, which is covered in Backup:
4 Why "multiple files" and not single-file export?
You can use a single-file export for backup or library migration, but there are some added complication involving images:
5 Notes
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OSS: Cole Hamels strikes out nine in his Cubs debut.
Three up:
- It wasn't the most efficient start, but Cole Hamels struck out nine Pirates in five innings in his first appearance in a Cubs uniform. He also picked up his first hit as a Cub as the team jumped all over the Pirates pitchers early. Hamels allowed one unearned run on three hits and two walks.
- Willson Contreras went 3-4 with a two run bomb to LF and a RBI walk.
- Kintzler managed an uneventful 1.1 innings in his Cubs debut. When I looked him up I was shocked to see that he spent parts of six seasons with the Brewers, and yet I have zero memory of him on that team (dying laughing).
Three down:
- The Dodgers have only scored two runs off of Chase Anderson as I write this.
- CJ was used in a game with a giant lead, but I guess Joe just wanted him to get some work in with the off day earlier this week.
- Relief deuce Tyler Chatwood still managed to issue a walk in while pitching the ninth inning of this one.
Next up: The Cubs open a four game series against the Padres. Hopefully the Cubs can take care of business. Monty takes on Robbie Erlin at 7:05 PM CT tomorrow. Erlin is a swingman who has been good in relief but terrible in the rotation.