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Here you will find this Office 365 to pst converter tool to allows migrating Office 365 to PST in just a few minutes. Export Office 365 mailbox to PST completely and secure without any hindrance or difficulty. This application export office 365 to multiple file formats like:- PST, MBOX, MSG, EML, EMLX. A safely take your Mac Office 365 Backup. The software also supports migration of contacts, calendar, and tasks from Office 365 to Outlook PST.
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If you want to backup your Office 365 then you should this Office 365 backup software, This Office 365 to PST Converter tool easily works on windows. And it allows you to backup Office 365 emails, contacts, and calendar to PST, MSG, EML, EMLX, MBOX Gmail, IMAP Server, Exchange Server, or another O365 account.
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MCTC Discusses Reorganization, Plans for Exotic Cannabinoids in Exclusive Audio Interview
Cannabis Global Chairman and CEO Arman Tabatabaei joined NNW's Stuart Smith to discuss the Company's rebranding strategy (http://nnw.fm/lE8dL) to take advantage of opportunities in the cannabis industry while avoiding overcrowded niches within the market. Led by a group of experienced cannabis and hemp entrepreneurs, Cannabis Global's rebranding focuses on developing unique hemp-related intellectual properties, products and technologies.
" The interview can be heard at http://nnw.fm/im3jQ. "
"The area we are targeting is the middle part of the market, specifically the post-processing of the refined hemp and cannabis products. Our aim is to take refined products, such as isolates and distillates, and process those technologies via our enhanced product into more advanced products that can be sold through food, beverage and consumer brands. We are doing this through a science-based approach, and we have already filed five patents that are pending in these areas," Tabatabaei explained.
Discussion then moved to the innovations within Cannabis Global's growing patent portfolio and the Company's plans for its "Hemp You Can Feel" brand.
"With Hemp You Can Feel, the consumer gets a relaxed feeling that in some ways mimics an alcohol beverage, but, of course, there are none of the downsides of consuming alcohol. Probably the most remarkable feat we have accomplished in the laboratory is that while the products are based on hemp extracts, the levels are so low that they are undetectable in industry tests," said Tabatabaei, noting that the brand is just getting started and the Company plans to soon introduce new consumer products and license opportunities, where appropriate.
In 2020, the Company's achievements in the lab will guide its research into exotic and lesser-known cannabinoids. Tabatabaei hinted at exciting areas of focus and application but stopped short of providing specific details.
"We don't want to divulge too much about the research direction, but we're going to be producing some delivery systems that we think will be extremely innovative. A lot of research needs to be done in these areas. We are surprised that the current body of research is limited, but we have the science to at least investigate these two exotic cannabinoids moving forward," he concluded.
Listen to the full interview with Cannabis Global Chairman and CEO Arman Tabatabaei at http://nnw.fm/im3jQ.
About MCTC Holdings Inc.
MCTC Holdings, doing business as Cannabis Global Inc., is focused on delivering long-term shareholder growth and results. We invest with confidence and determination to be the forefront of the cannabis and CBD revolution. More information can be viewed at www.CannabisGlobalInc.com.
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A newly opened "temporary" facility to house unaccompanied migrant children could cost up to $300 million and stay open through January 2020, the Trump administration says.
The Carrizo Springs facility in Texas officially opened June 30, and currently houses about 225 children. It is eventually expected to hold up to 1,300, which would make it one of the largest facilities for unaccompanied minors in the country, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Carrizo facility is run by the non-profit firm BCFS, which HHS will pay $50 million for its first 60 days of operation, according to recent federal filings. Supplemental funding of up to $250 million will be paid if the facility is open through Jan. 31, 2020.
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Josh Butler - Strut Ableton Remake (Tech House Template)
A detailed deconstructed Ableton Remake version of Josh Butler´s great hit song, Strut, released by Origins Records. A track with a lot to learn about Drum Sounds, Build-ups, Drops, Sub Basses, Lead Synths, Song Structure, and many more of modern Tech House Music Production Elements.
The Template was made for Ableton Live 10.1, using Xfer´s Serum v1.217 or higher, and Nicky Romero´s Kickstart Vst Plugin. Also making use of, Stock FX and Stock Instruments. Tech House Style samples for beginners are included, with a full arrangement Beat. Both fully Mixed and Mastered, ready for you to download and start playing it!
Josh Butler - Strut Ableton Remake Audio
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This study of mysticism in Hebrew Gematria is dedicated in the loving memory of Mrs. Ethel Sakash Belk, may she rest in peace.
The morning paper recently carried the following story by Denver Post Sports columnist Mark Chisel which began with the following quote of NBA Nuggets General Manager, Dan Issel from March 25, 1998:
"If I can't get this thing turned around in three years, then somebody else needs to do it."
Khisel went on to say, "It was far easier for Dan Issel to smile two unsuccessful NBA seasons and 92 Nuggets losses ago. Now, it's crunch time, and Issel has no choice but to deliver his own strong words, uttered the first day he took command of this franchise.... Entering his crucial third year with a longtime hoops laughingstock, Issel's status as coach and general manager is under scrutiny from new team owner Stan Kroenke.
The column concluded by stating, "...Issel can only blame the general manager in the mirror for a team unable to make any significant personnel upgrades after finishing with a 35-47 record last season."
Decades ago I stopped palming bucks to the ushers because it is wrong! Yet I have remained a loyal fan of the Rockets / Nuggets and of Dan Issel through the years.
This story about Dan Issel is significant because it portrays what the writer of the Denver Post column considers ownership. His concluding remarks were that Issel can only blame the general manager {HIMSELF} in front of the mirror... This is what our discussion is about. Our discussion is about ownership. We read in the parsha: "The Rock! - Perfect is His work, for all His ways are just; A G-d of faith without iniquity, Righteous and fair is He. Corruption is not His - the blemish is His children's a perverse and twisted generation." Deuteronomy 32:4,5
This is the Torah's way of saying, 'Look at the person standing in front of the mirror.' It is so convenient to blame others when the responsibility for the mistake is the person standing in front of the mirror. Countless times I have heard comments like, 'How could a G-d of love allow suffering in the world? How could G-d permit war, murder, death and other such tragedies? These questions are so common to human nature. They want Hashem to take the blame for human consequences. They want Hashem to shoulder responsibility for human error. They conveniently fail to acknowledge that human beings make choices that are wrong. I often wonder if everything in the world went right would G-d get the credit for that too? I think not!
Holy reader, how is it that we as human beings are so eager to neglect our responsibility and our ownership for our poor choices ... for our mistakes? Why is it that we blame the Creator when the fault is ours? The fact is there are consequences for our mistakes. Many of us choose to weasel out of our responsibility for making those choices. This is called "GOOD TIME OWNERSHIP." When something goes wrong we want to place the responsibility on someone else's shoulders. Some us will stand in front of the mirror and acknowledge our ownership. Others will pass the blame along to someone or something else ...
I hope the Nuggets do well this year but I truly believe Dan will stand in front of the mirror and accept ownership for his choices. His past record supports his proactive position!
Recently some 8th grade students visited our historic Park in Georgetown. One of the boys placed a roll of tissue paper in the commode along with other immature and irresponsible acts. Undoubtedly this student was playing what he thought to be a harmless joke on his friends. This resulted in all of the commodes in the men's room being out of order. Now this poor and tasteless joke was not funny to the custodial staff, nor to the plumber and all the people imposed upon as a result.
The staff, teachers, and parents were confronted about this problem. Can you imagine what their first comment was? How can you be so sure that it was one of our students that did this? Originally they attempted to shuck their responsibility until it was clear that one of their students was responsible. Their response was, 'I can't believe one of our students would do such a thing. Maybe it was one of the seniors {men in their 70's} from the bus tour.'
Eventually the students were confronted. Again, no one was willing to step forward and take ownership for this incident. Students began blaming each other for this problem. Why??
It is because most human beings are reactive. We are reactive to popularity, how others feel and react toward us. We are reactive to our physical environment, hot, cold, wind, rain and snow. We are reactive to our spiritual experience, a powerful message, a miracle or a supernatural experience. In other words we subconsciously place good sound judgment under the hazardous auto control of popularity, physical environment and spiritual experience.
First we do this in opposition to conscience. Because it is more important to be popular, we submerge and drown our conscience. If popularity requires stealing then we steal. If popularity requires lying then we lie. If popularity requires cover-up then we cover-up. If popularity requires looking the other way then we look the other way. To us it is more important to be popular... to be accepted than it is to follow what G-d gave us as a guide, OUR CONSCIENCE!
Seeking popularity is like a bright flashing neon sign of 'INSECURITY"!
In this instance our conscience is representative of our good inclination and popularity is representative of our bad inclination. So when we blame G-d for all the problems in our world we fail to acknowledge the fact that our conscience is submersed because we are insecure and cling to popularity instead of what is righteous, our conscience.
Second we do this in opposition to well thought out choice. The benefit / advantage of freedom is choice. We have the choice to submerge our conscience or to follow the dictates of our conscience. When we submerge our conscience we are placing our feelings on the hazards of auto control. Then our feelings are subject to the dictates of our physical environment instead of a well thought out choice. In other words we automatically feel bad because the weather is too hot or too cold or not just right as opposed to a conscious choice.
Third we do this in opposition to G-d's commandments. Hashem gave us the Torah as a spiritual road map to avert emotional highs and lows. Following the Torah in careful observance establishes consistency. It places boundaries upon tilted emotional messages. It prevents giving serious credence to miracles. It teaches us to view supernatural experiences in view of the Torah.
The point to this is people who are reactionists fail to take ownership for their misdeeds. Unfortunately on Yom Kippur they will attend the services and participate because it's the popular thing to do. Others will speak well of them because they are there. Approval is more important to them than the Torah's intention of Yom Kippur. Then there is the group of physical environmentalists, Yom Kippur could be very difficult for them if their physical environment is sub par. Finally there are those that will rate Yom Kippur on an emotional Richter scale.
While it is important to participate in Yom Kippur, it is so much more important to do it for the correct reasons. Yom Kippur is our last opportunity to accept ownership of our misdeeds and to repent before the gates of repentance close! Each of us must look at the person in the mirror and take ownership and responsibility and accept consequences for our misdeeds. Hashem will hold us accountable regardless of our reactionism!!
The reactionists blame Hashem for their problems... for the world they live in... for the difficulty of their environment... for their lack of popularity. They are affected by mood swings. They allow themselves to be affected instead of making clear, distinct choices. This is why the Gematria for Baw Nawv - Moo Mawm, meaning "It is His children's defect {fault}" is the same Gematria as Tzaw Dahk, {Tzedek} meaning " To Be Right, Correct, Just, Righteous and Innocent" which is exactly what G-d is! Both share the Gematrial of 194. One is Perfect without any fault. The other is without any desire to accept ownership of their fault.
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Tzaw Dahk {Tzedek}
I wish you the best of everything this year including physical health, mental health, stability, Torah study with great learning advancements, financial prosperity and may you be inscribed and sealed in the book of Life.!!
Dr. Akiva G. Belk
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Strongsville GOP Leads Effort To Force Gonzalez To Quit His Failing Re-election Bid
Strongsville, Ohio
On February 8th, The Strongsville GOP was the first organization to stand united against the unthinkable actions taken by Congressman Anthony Gonzalez and call on him to resign.
Last night, Gonzalez took to twitter to announce that he was quitting his failing bid for re-election. Every single Strongsville GOP member should stand tall today knowing that their hard work contributed significantly to his departure from the race. The 16th district is a better place now that there is an opportunity to conduct the important conversation about the future of our district without the toxic presence of the #BetrayalCaucus member, Anthony Gonzalez in the race.
Statement by Shannon Burns, President of Strongsville GOP: "The members of Strongsville GOP were steadfast in their opposition to Anthony Gonzalez after he voted to impeach our sitting President with no proof and no due process. In the end, Congressman Gonzalez realized that without the support of the base of the party represented by Strongsville GOP and in the face of the Trump endorsement of Max Miller, he had no pathway to victory in the Republican Primary."
Anthony Gonzalez on January 13th 2021, betrayed his Constituents, The 400+ Strongsville GOP Membership and it's thousands of Followers when he voted with Nancy Pelosi and The Democrats in their unconstitutional pursuit to impeach President Trump, without fact and without due process and side with Leftist, Anti-American Democrats. Traitorous Gonzalez resorted to emotional conclusions that misplaced blame on the President of Law and Order and America First policies.
Gonzalez's decision, whether shaped by Democrat rhetoric and coercion or his belief that he could lead the post Trump Republican Party - was misguided and antithetical to the will of his Conservative and America First loving district constituents.
The Strongsville GOP stepped into a national leadership role to unanimously call for a vote of no confidence and the resignation of Anthony Gonzalez on February 8th, 2021. The Strongsville GOP could not take a weak approach to addressing Gonzalez's turn-coat actions. So, with the overwhelming support of our 16th District community- The Strongsville GOP set-up to remove Anthony Gonzalez from office.
Our leadership on the issue prompted the Ohio Republican Party in May to also pass a vote of no confidence and call on the resignation of Congressman Gonzalez.
We now turn to the future as we elect a Strong, America First, Constitutional Conservative to represent the 16th Ohio District in Congress in the November 2022 Mid-term Election.
The Strongsville GOP Board
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Shannon Burns, President
The Fight Against Gonzalez Impeachment Vote
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'You did the unthinkable': Ohio's Anthony Gonzalez faces fury over impeachment vote
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez defends vote against former President Trump on podcast
U.S. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez focused on doing his job after Ohio GOP's rebuke and censure: 'Everything else is just noise'
Anthony Gonzalez wants voters to focus on everything but his impeachment vote. Trump is trying to make sure they never forget.
The Toughest Route of Anthony Gonzalez's Life
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Resilience programming
- 20 percent
- increase in the risk of hunger and malnutrition is expected by 2050 if people's climate resilience is not improved
- 40,000 households
- in Ethiopia, Senegal, Malawi and Zambia are reached through the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative
- 80 percent
- of the world's food insecure live in countries prone to natural shocks, where land and ecosystems are degraded
International humanitarian and development organizations have embraced resilience as an overarching theme. This means that programming for resilience is a multi-actor pursuit; it also means that enhancing resilience may indirectly enhance a range of other capacities.
For these reasons, the aim must be to involve as many stakeholders as possible, in as many sectors as possible, and to ensure that the approach is informed by shared experience. The World Food Programme (WFP)'s reach and convening power compel it to act as a system player, shaping the way actors interact and interrelate.
Our regular partners in resilience-programming include Oxfam, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF and the World Bank. Above all, we collaborate closely with our sister UN food agencies in Rome, FAO and IFAD. Together, we have developed a conceptual framework aimed at strengthening resilience for food security and nutrition, setting the stage for greater collaboration as vulnerabilities and risks deepen and multiply.
In particular, the framework guides our efforts to:
- support governments as they roll out social transfers and productive safety nets;
- act with our partners to restore a depleted asset base, through natural resource rehabilitation, and productive and financial capacities;
- and promote innovation, by working closely with the private sector and academic and research institutions.
Central to our efforts is the so-called three-pronged approach (3PA), a consultative process that includes government, multi-sectorial partners and communities. Its tools are converging analyses, consultations and consensus building. The approach relies on:
- integrated context analysis – the mapping of national historical trends in food security and nutrition, shocks, and exposure to risks;
- seasonal livelihood programming -- a participatory process of coordination and partnership under local government leadership;
- and community-based participatory planning – a community-level exercise that identifies needs, adapts responses to contexts, and promotes local ownership of the programme.
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2017 - Three-pronged Approach (3PA) factsheet
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Delhi: No extra cost for buying power from Waste to Energy plants
Now, any open-access consumer wanting to buy from WTE plants will only have to pay for the cost of the power. All other infrastructure-related costs will be borne by discoms.
Delhi: Multiple consumers can benefit from a single solar plant at one location
The current move focuses on how more than one consumer can benefit from a single solar plant, either through surplus solar energy for self-consumption or pro-rata credit in the electricity bill by their respective discoms.
Delhi will use less coal power this winter
The power department has informed National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) that the city will not need power from the Dadri-I thermal power station for the winter power load
Shutters down, polluter Badarpur power plant to return in green avatar
After generating electricity for over 40 years, the power plant is now proposed to be an ecological park, specially designed to create a space that acts as a breathing lung for the capital.
DERC seeks opinion on revising charges for migrating customers
This revision will benefit those who wish to source power from another distribution utility than those operating in their jurisdiction.
Discoms in face-off with NTPC over coal quality
Delhi's power distribution companies are headed for a face-off with NTPC over the price of the power supplied to them.
Power tariff revision unlikely to happen this year
DERC chairperson Krishna Sahni declined to give a timeline on tariff announcement saying, "will try and release revised tariffs as soon as possible."
Now, discoms in Delhi will pay you if they fail to fix outages in time
Last week, the Delhi government had directed DERC, under section 108 of the Electricity Act, to finalise penalties in the regulations within a week.
Over 900 acres at Badarpur plant, ash flies in face of pollution fight
Spread across nearly 900 acres, the fly-ash pond at Badarpur thermal power plant is a green anomaly.
Delhi: Power subsidy set to be extended
With the power subsidy -launched with much fanfare last year - due to lapse on March 31, the AAP government is expected to announce an extension
Discoms bound by purchase terms, says power ministry
The ministry has stated that the move to terminate a power purchase agreement would affect investment in the infrastructure.
NTPC disagrees with govt, won't shut plant
NTPC is yet to reply to the showcause notice served by Delhi government this week over suspending operations of Badarpur thermal power station till mid-March.
Delhi: Three power plants to be shut, but govt says backup ready
To tackle the rising pollution levels in the capital, Delhi government has decided to temporarily shut down three thermal power plants, which include the coal-based ones at Rajghat, Badarpur and Dadri.
DERC seeks more funds from government to hire extra staff
DERC is looking at much busier days ahead after being designated as the sole authority to audit the capital's power distribution companies by HC.
Government puts coal block for Delhi plan on backburner
Months after it announced plans of getting a coal block allocated to set up a pithead plant in another state that would supply power to the national capital, Delhi government has admitted that it was unlikely the project would follow through.
DERC tells discoms not to renew power purchase agreements nearing end
Agreeing to the stand taken by Delhi government, the regulator said that they concur with the discoms that these PPAs contribute to higher tariffs.
Delhi government proposes surrendering 2,255MW worth of power to lower cost
To reduce cost of electricity in the capital, Delhi government has written to Union power minister proposing to permanently surrender 2,255MW.
DERC shoots down power amnesty scheme
Delhi government's ambitious amnesty scheme to provide a one-time settlement for consumers with electricity theft cases against them has been shot down by power regulator Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC).
Distribution companies launch power-saving measures to meet electricity demand
From June 1, an LED scheme will be launched, under which each registered consumer can get up to four LEDs at a subsidized rate, thereby saving 125 kWH per year.
Delayed LED scheme to start from June 1
Delhi that was supposed to implement the ambitious LED bulb scheme from April 1 will finally roll out the same from June 1.
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For the purpose of most companies, both big and small, finding a good CEO is definitely not really an easy task. A large plethora of reasons why this continually proves true. Picking the proper chief executive officer can either make or perhaps break an organization. Moreover, the choice will unavoidably, have a direct affect (either positively or perhaps negatively) on all of the staff members associated with the corporation. This can be not to note that the specific is going to also have got a temible effect concerning each of the business investors. It really is nearly a great unarguable stage that, as the position can be so crucial, choosing a chief manager officer should require a wide range of very careful, tactical pondering for the employing company's part. Despite the fact that, for times businesses are overly cautious and burn potential CEO after CEO due to doubt to commit to any kind of particular individual.
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Witold Filipowicz
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Mechanisms and regulation of microRNA function and metabolism in mammalian cells
Epigenetic control of gene expression and post-transcriptional silencing of genes by RNA interference (RNAi) and miRNAs have emerged recently as extraordinarily important and interesting areas of molecular biology. These reactions greatly contribute to the developmental and tissue specificity of gene expression, and also exemplify a key role of hundreds of novel non-coding RNAs in the regulation of gene expression. Our research is focused on mechanistic and regulatory aspects of miRNA function and miRNA metabolism in mammalian cells. miRNAs are ~21-nt RNAs involved in the regulation of development, differentiation, and many other fundamental processes; hundreds of different miRNAs are encoded in the genomes of metazoa. miRNAs generally imperfectly base-pair to the mRNA 3'-UTR and inhibit protein synthesis by either repressing mRNA translation or causing mRNA deadenylation and degradation.
miRNA-mediated regulation is a complex process involving many different proteins and intersecting with other cellular pathways. miRNAs function in the form of miRNPs (also known as miRISC), with Argonaute and GW182 proteins being the most important protein components. Biogenesis of miRNAs is also a complex reaction. It involves two enzymes of the RNase III family, Dicer and Drosha. In addition, many accessory factors regulate miRNA biosynthesis at different steps. miRNAs are generally assumed to have a very long half-life but our recent studies indicate that in some cells, in particular in neurons, miRNAs turn over very fast and that miRNA turnover is a subject of sophisticated regulation.
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Filipowicz W. (2017) Traversing the RNA WorldJ Biol Chem 292:8122- 8135
Krol J, Krol I, Alvarez CP, Fiscella M, Hierlemann A, Roska B, Filipowicz W. (2015) A network comprising short and long noncoding RNAs and RNA helicase controls mouse retina architectureNat Commun. 6:7305-17
de la Mata M, Gaidatzis D, Vitanescu M, Stadler MB, Wentzel C, Scheiffele P, Filipowicz W, Grosshans H. (2015) Potent degradation of neuronal miRNAs induced by highly complementary targetsEMBO Rep. 16:500-11
Ozgur S, Basquin J, Kamenska A, Filipowicz W, Standart N, Conti E. (2015) Structure of a Human 4E-T/DDX6/CNOT1 Complex Reveals the Different Interplay of DDX6-Binding Proteins with the CCR4-NOT ComplexCell Rep. 13:703-11
Mathys H, Basquin J, Ozgur S, Czarnocki-Cieciura M, Bonneau F, Aartse A,j Dziembowski A, Nowotny M, Conti E, and Filipowicz. (2014) Structural and biochemical insights into the role of the CCR4-NOT complex and DDX6 ATPase in microRNA-mediated repressionMol Cell 54, 751-765
Busskamp V, Krol J, Nelidova D, Daum J, Szikra T, Tsuda B, Jüttner J, Farrow K, Scherf BG, Alvarez CP, Genoud C, Sothilingam V, Tanimoto N, Stadler M, Seeliger M, Stoffel M, Filipowicz W, Roska B. (2014) miRNAs 182 and 183 are necessary to maintain adult cone photoreceptor outer segments and visual functionNeuron 83: 586-600
Loedige I, Gaidatzis D, Sack R, Meister G, Filipowicz W. (2013) The mammalian TRIM-NHL protein TRIM71/LIN-41 is a repressor of mRNA functionNucleic Acids Res. 41:518-32
Doyle M, Badertscher L, Jaskiewicz L, Güttinger S, Jurado S, Hugenschmidt T, Kutay U, Filipowicz W. (2013) The double-stranded RNA binding domain of human Dicer functions as a nuclear localization signalRNA 19(9):1238-52
Bethune J, Artus-Revel C, and Filipowicz W. (2012) Kinetic analysis reveals successive steps leading to miRNA-mediated silencing in mammalian cellsEMBO Reports, 13:716-23.
Krol J, Loedige I, Filipowicz W (2011) Regulation of miRNA Biogenesis, Function and DecayNat Rev Genet 11, 597-615
Chekulaeva M, Mathys H, Zipprich JT, Attig J, Colic M, Parker R, Filipowicz W (2011) MicroRNA repression involves GW182-mediated recruitment of CCR4-NOT through conserved W-containing motifsNat Struct Mol Biol 18:1218-26
Fabian MR, Sonenberg N, Filipowicz W (2010) Regulation of mRNA translation and stability by microRNAsAnnu Rev Biochem 79:351-79
Krol J, Busskamp V, Markiewicz I, Stadler MB, Ribi S, Richter J, Duebel J, Bicker S, Fehling HJ, Schübeler D, Oertner TG, Schratt G, Bibel M, Roska B, Filipowicz W (2010) Characterization of microRNAs induced by light adaptation in mouse retina reveals rapid turnover as a common property of neuronal microRNACell 141:618-31
Fabian MR, Mathonnet G, Sundermeier T, Mathys H, Zipprich JT, Svitkin YV, Rivas F, Jinek M, Wohlschlegel J, Doudna JA, Chen CA, Shyu AB, Yates III JR, Hannon GJ, Filipowicz W, Duchaine TF, Sonenberg N (2009) Mammalian miRNA RISC recruits CAF1 and PABP to effect PABP-dependent deadenylationMol Cell 35:868-80
Trabucchi M, Briata P, Garcia-Mayoral M, Haase AD, Filipowicz W, Ramos A, Gherzi R, Rosenfeld MG (2009) The RNA-binding protein KSRP Promotes the Biogenesis of a Subset of miRNAsNature 459:1010-1014
Sarasin-Filipowicz M, Krol J, Markiewicz I, Heim M, Filipowicz W (2009) Decreased levels of microRNA miR-122 in hepatitis C patients with poor response to interferon therapyNature Med 15:31-33
Filipowicz W, Bhattacharyya SN, Sonenberg N (2008) Mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation by microRNAs: Are the answers in sight?Nature Rev Genet 9:102-114
Sinkkonen L, Hugenschmidt T, Berninger P, Gaidatzis D, Mohn F, Artus-Revel C, Zavolan M, Svoboda P, Filipowicz W (2008) MicroRNAs control de novo DNA methylation through regulation of transcriptional repressors in mouse embryonic stem cellsNature Struct Mol Biol 15:259-267
Bhattacharyya S, Habermacher R, Martine U, Closs EI, Filipowicz W (2006) Relief of microRNA-mediated translational repression in human cells subjected to stressCell 125:1111-1124
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Ford Kuga Hybrid interior & comfort
While standard equipment in the Kuga is good, its interior continues to lack the flair or personality it needs to liven it up and keep up with rivals
Much like the plug-in hybrid version of the Kuga, the full hybrid lacks the sense of personality that other models in this class offer. Quality in Kuga is still good, with the cheaper-feeling plastics hidden away and everything you touch regularly feeling well damped and sturdily screwed together.
Ford Kuga Hybrid dashboard
While it may be logically laid out and boast strong build quality, the Kuga lacks the flair you find in some of its rivals that can liven up an interior. In better news, all Kuga FHEV models come with Ford's fantastic 12.3-inch digital driver's display.
Equipment, options & accessories
All Kuga FHEV models come as standard with a Bang & Olufsen 10-speaker audi system, a 12.3-inch instrument cluster and an eight-inch infotainment screen, plus Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone connectivity, as well as hands-free tailgate and selectable driving modes.
The Kuga Hybrid is available in three trim levels: ST-Line Edition, ST-Line X Edition and Vignale. ST-Line Edition comes with 18-inch alloy wheels, the ST-Line styling kit and sports seats. ST-Line X Edition builds on that with 19-inch alloy wheels, a panoramic sunroof, heated seats and a heated steering wheel. The Vignale comes as standard with different exterior styling, 19-inch alloys, a leather interior and a 10-way adjustable driver's seat.
The options list includes a driver's assistance pack, which brings adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, active parking assistance and a front-facing camera. The technology pack includes upgraded LED headlights and a head-up display. You can upgrade to 20-inch alloy wheels if you choose the ST-Line X Edition trim, and you can add a retractable tow bar on all models.
Infotainment, apps & sat nav
As mentioned above, all Kuga Hybrids get an eight-inch infotainment touchscreen that features Apple CarPlay and Android Auto if you prefer using your smartphone's apps over Ford's. The system is good, as responsiveness is quick and the graphics are decent, but the size of the unit itself is our biggest gripe; it isn't as big as what's on offer in the Kuga FHEV's rivals.
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- 1Ford Kuga Hybrid reviewThe full-hybrid version of the Ford Kuga SUV is as practical and good to drive as the rest of the range, but like them, its interior lacks personality and its transmission is a weak point
- 2MPG & CO2 emissionsWhile it isn't capable of the same pure-electric range or fuel economy as the plug-in hybrid Kuga, the full hybrid still offers better fuel economy and lower emissions than a diesel
- 3Running costsThe latest Kuga comes with an extensive warranty and is also available with a selection of servicing packages from Ford; company-car tax rates are almost as high as a diesel's, though
- 4Engines, drive & performanceThe Kuga is still one of the best family SUVs to drive, with precise steering and good grip, however this full-hybrid version is slightly let down by its CVT transmission
- 5Interior & comfort - currently readingWhile standard equipment in the Kuga is good, its interior continues to lack the flair or personality it needs to liven it up and keep up with rivals
- 6Practicality & boot spaceWith plenty of interior space and lots of room in the boot, the Kuga is as practical as ever, even with the hybrid powertrain under the bonnet
- 7Reliability & safetyThe Kuga had strong crash-test results, but owner-reported reliability hasn't been perfect


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Faced with the business transformation required to keep up with managed services, Cloud Computing, IoT and more, Channel Partners gathered in Vancouver to attend the ChannelNext community of industry leaders. This exchange produced lively discussion between MSPs, CSPs, vendors and channel coaches around the topic of how to future proof Channel Partners.
The event kicked off with a panel of experts moderated by Julian Lee, CO TEchnoPlanet. The panelists included CRM Coach Rick McCutcheon; Tara Landes, Founder of Bellrock; Randal Wark, co-founder of VARMasterMind; and Dan Shapero, Founder of ClikCloud. Here is the advice from the experts:
Don't Leave for Work Without an Operating Plan
Tara entered the panel discussion emphasizing "there is no way to future proof your business." However, having a solid business plan with metrics you can track and measure is a step toward ensuring your business will be around for a while. Do you know how many new customers you need each month to stay on plan?
Social Selling to Future Proof your Business
Rick provided solid recommendations for sales professions."Hire sales people with a proven track record of success." He added that Linkedin was the tool to turn to for building a pipeline. Social selling is a key skill to future proof your business. Randal added to the conversation, "Don't hire one salesperson, hire two. After six months keep the best salesperson and fire the other! "
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ClikCloud's own Dan Shapero added three tips to leverage digital marketing to future proof your business. First, use permission-based email to stay top of mind with your customers, prospects and business partners to drive warm referrals. Second, recycle and upcycle content to work smart. For example, transcribe webinars to write blogs, and use those blogs to drive an email newsletter, social media, and microblogs. Lastly, Shapero added "consider a strong call to action to engage your digital visitors." Cloud readiness assessments, onsite troubleshooting and network assessments are all great ways to engage.
Julien Lee acknowledged that it is all easier said than done. Channel partners need to focus on the activities suggested by experts in the field, and encouraged the audience to connect individually with the panel of experts, in order to gain the insights and priorities that meet the specific needs of each channel partner. Sound advice to future proof your business, for sure.


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Wow! Thank you everyone for the huge support since our re-opening! It has been so busy at the shop that we are modifying our hours so that we can focus on backlog of repairs we currently have! Please note that until further notice, we will be closed on Thursdays. Thank you all for you understanding.
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This script allows you to rotate the deformation of one object relative to another. This can be useful when you model a combination dataPoint for a BCS setup and you want to redirect a certain movement into a different direction.
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Transformation of oil and gas markets
In the last few years the situation in the global oil and gas markets has been changing rapidly. It takes much time to follow the developments, and we have decided to make life easier for those who are interested in this subject by providing free monthly monitoring. We also research individual aspects of the transformation in these markets and the implementation of new forms of interaction between market players.
Decarbonization of Oil & Gas: International Experience and Russian Priorities
This study focuses on how the oil and gas sector can remain a significant part of the global energy system in net-zero paradigm. This study aims to review the structure of GHG emitted by the oil and gas industry and to systematize potential methods for reducing these emissions, using cases of leading oil and gas companies. The methodology of this study was based on the analysis of a broad range of sources, case studies, and in-depth interviews with representatives of international oil and gas companies focused on their strategies and methods for reducing GHG emissions.
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ONE YEAR TO ZERO HOUR: in search of a compromise on the Ukrainian gas transit.
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Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade dates back more than half a century ago, but it is not until recently that the market has truly globalized, by undergoing a profound transformation of all of its fundamentals.
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The new sanctions imposed in the summer of 2017 in relation to the Russian oil industry combined with an objective decline in the quality of Russian reserves pose a question on the future of oil production in Russia and the reliability of budget revenues generated by the industry in the long term.
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German-Russian Gas Relations. A Special Relationship in Troubled Waters
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There are hundreds of sweat lodges run all over the world. Their impact on one's life is evident by the fact that people continue to seek them out for deep healing. It's important to point out if you have never been to a sweat lodge, not all lodges are the same. Having attended lodge ceremonies for more than eight years (and continue to do so monthly, I've had the privilege to sit and experience many different ways in which they are run from traditional Lakota to non-denominational styles.
The variety of lodges and discussing lodge with first timers has brought me to realize the value in sharing my experience to help those first timers navigate their way through ceremony. This article is my view of the beautiful and powerful sweat lodge ceremony. I'll share some of my understandings of this ceremony and things to be aware of to present oneself with respect and presence.
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What is a Sweat Lodge?
Who's Pouring?
What Tradition/Lineage?
Who are the Firekeepers?
Where are you at?
What is a Sweat Lodge?
First off, for those of you who have never experienced what a sweat lodge is, or don't even know what it is, here's more about it.
An amazing, multidimensional question….what is a sweat lodge like?
The first part of the answer to this question is … it depends. It's always different. As anything non-linear is. It's like asking, what is a kiss like? Or, can you tell me exactly what painting is like? Or watching a sunset …. you get the idea.
I've found that there are a few main factors that influence what a sweat lodge is like ~ ~ ~
Let's break it down….as best we can.
Who's Pouring?
"Who's Pouring" means – who is leading the sweat lodge ceremony. You'll often hear people say – who's pouring water today? It will make more sense once you enter the lodge and see the process. I've heard one pourer refer to a sweat lodge as a multidimensional spaceship, another as a living medicine wheel.
I've found that it makes a huge difference on what the lodge is like by who is leading it. I encourage you to be cautious in attending a lodge by someone you have never met before. Find out about who will be leading it and what traditions they follow. Many good pourers are willing to – often even request – that you engage in a conversation with them before attending. In this age of many teachings being shared, it's important to be careful with your energy. This ancient ceremony is very powerful – treat it as such.
I've been to lodges where the pourer has quite a bit of ego, and the ceremony will reflect this – it will be very very hot, and they will do their best to try to get you to stay inside, as if it's a competition, even if your body is telling you it's time to leave. I've been to lodges where the pourer has not cared who the firekeepers are, and again the experience inside will reflect this.
I've also had the fortunate experience to go to lodges where the pourer is extremely caring, integrous and honoring of the power of the ceremony. They know how to track each individual person and how they are doing energetically – yes, even in the dark womb of the lodge. They check in on people, and they do not treat it as a competition. They lead the ceremony from the standpoint of the "weakest link", i.e., whomever is having the hardest time, they adjust the lodge to this person.
My advice is: check out the person who will be leading you in this ancient purification ceremony. Talk to them beforehand, see how they respond to your questions. If you have the opportunity, ask others who have sat with them before to tell you of their experience. It matters.
What Tradition/Lineage?
I've been to very traditional Lakota lodges, non-traditional Lakota lodges, Rainbow lodges, Mexica, and non-denominational lodges. Each lodge is very different in how they are led, who is accepted in, the etiquette, what songs are sung, who is allowed to sing, what instruments are allowed in, what herbs are used, if mooning (i.e., bleeding women) are allowed in, etc. etc.!
Generally, a sweat lodge ceremony will have four rounds of prayer. These rounds are based around an intention, and usually songs are sung in each round for specific purposes. You can imagine how different each lodge can be!
KiAtswn and I highly recommend to have an idea of what tradition you are following if you are invited to a sweat lodge ceremony. There are protocols to follow in native traditions that many Westerners are not aware of, and can be extraordinarly offensive to the people leading the ceremony if they are not respected.
One safe rule is to always bring tobacco with you when attending a sweat lodge. Tobacco is a very sacred plant to native peoples. It shows respect and honor to the pourer when you give them tobacco before the ceremony. It's also a way of giving the spirits who show up for the ceremony"food" and of asking permission to be part of the ceremony.
You may have heard a sweat lodge ceremony called "Inipi", which is a Lakota term meaning purification. The word can be broken down to give a deeper meaning. "Ni" refers to the life force we are given at birth. "Pi" means abiding or perhaps continuing. So we could say (from this Lakota term) it's the ceremony to help continue our life force.
Even if the lodge you attending is not Lakota, this way of explaining it is a lovely way of describing it, and something to anchor to.
Who are the Firekeepers?
I've been to lodges where, when I arrived a couple hours ahead of time, the pourer was looking for people to help keep the fire and carry rocks. This is a huge signal to me if I see this – to me, it means that the pourer is not in relationship with the fire and the people who will be with the fire, and that the ceremony will reflect this.
"Keeping fire" is another ceremony in itself, and I know many firekeepers who take this role extremely seriously. "Carrying rocks" loosely means gathering the rocks from the fire and transporting them to inside the lodge. Again, this is a very sacred duty, and I have observed often not truly honored.
At a lodge we regularly attend, the water pourer is very connected with all of her firekeepers, and keeps a close watch on how they treat the fire, how they carry the rocks (Grandfather Stones), how they deliver the rocks, etc. The firekeepers are honored especially in each ceremony, where she invites them in at a certain point and honors them with gratitude & prayers for their lives. She knows that by taking care of them, they take care of the ceremony. It's a beautiful example of a living & reciprocal exchange of energy. She knows that being a firekeeper is a very hard duty and service – and a calling.
Where are you at?
Like pretty much anything, your state of being will determine how you will experience something. This is true of this ceremony also. KiAtswn and I have found over the years that how "hot" a lodge was and how "hard" the experience was was based on our level of resistance. I remember one lodge that I barely experienced as being warm KiAtswn found to be suffocatingly hot. And vice versa!
How is that possible? We have found the explanation to be about what our state of being is inside the lodge. What are we praying for in our lives? Who are we praying for? Are we resistant to something we are praying for? Are we resistant to something or someone in the lodge? Our experience will reflect this.
One pourer I have learned from speaks about letting the steam from the rocks go through you, instead of shrinking away from the steam. What a metaphor for our lives – how can we go through something, standing tall and looking it straight in the eye, instead of shrinking away from it?
In Conclusion (for now)
A sweat lodge ceremony is an individual experience that is challenging to pin down or describe. As part of my role on the planet is being a bridge, it feels necessary to share what I've learned for those who don't know where to start on a more earth-based ceremony path. I've attempted to give a brief description to help my fellow Westerners who are new to this sacred and beautiful ceremony an introduction. Feel free to reach out if you have more questions.
We Were Made For These Times
We Were Made For These Times
"My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.
You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking. Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly. because the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.
I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.
Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.
We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; is an act of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do. There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.
The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for."
By Clarissa Pinkola Estes
American poet, post-trauma specialist and Jungian psychoanalyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.
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|Jeffs Bike Tour: Mediterranean Zig Zag
tour started April 2013, submitted 14 October 2013
I´m biking all the Mediterranean countries over a period of nine months. I spend about one month in each country. I have used the train or bus to help move the show down the road. I´m currently in Albania. I´m mostly camping, though hostels and hotels are always great too.


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The Powerpuff Girls undoubtedly played a crucial role in shaping our childhood with its memorable characters: Bubbles, Blossoms, and Buttercup, alongside Professor Utonium and the evil Mojo Jojo. The animated series' massive popularity made it a global phenomenon for its unparalleled humor and spot-on pop culture.
As a result, it was only natural that the show was lined up for a live-action adaptation. Picked up by CW last year in August, the show had cast Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stars Chloe Bennett and Dove Cameron, as well as Yana Perrault as Blossoms, Bubbles, and Buttercup respectively. Produced for television by Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody (Finding Juno, Jennifer's Body), Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and David Madden served as executive producers for the show. Interestingly, Craig McCracken, who was the original creator and director of the animated series was not involved in the process. Nonetheless, he was 'curious' to see the modern-era adaptation of the series under Berlanti's guidance. However, if recent reports are to be believed, the pilot of the series was taken off-air for re-work after the script was leaked. If the script is to be believed, the live-action adaptation surely attracted a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons.
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The modern take on the classic animated series was obviously expected to cater to teenagers and young adults considering that the Powerpuff Girls are supposedly in their twenties in the series. Disillusioned with their current life and resentful towards their past for losing their childhood to fighting crime, an extraordinary event was required to bring the band back together once again to save the world.
While the premise surely sounds promising, the reportedly leaked script hinted at something which would have surely made a lot of fans sign petitions to cancel the show for its over-indulgence in sex, adult content, and overall confusing setting. It's normal to expect the heroes to have a few moments of intimacy with their partners, but including sex marathons, sharing each other's private pictures, and walking on your sibling while sharing an intimate moment was surely a cheap trick to gain traction. Don't believe us? Check out this thread:
The script leaks for this Powerpuff Girls reboot are the worst thing I've read this month pic.twitter.com/I7CrPewGc4
— Xavier's Online (@xaviersonline) May 25, 2021
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Thanks to modern technologies, transaction costs are falling dramatically. But transaction costs are the entire reason for vertical integration. So, in many instances, vertically integrated business definitions are breaking up. This redefines not just businesses, but entire industries.
Within any value chain, you typically have different functions with different characteristic economies of scale: intense in some functions, negligible or even negative in others. But because they were tied together in a single business definition, these effects tended to offset each other: the big company might enjoy economies of scale in its factory, but the small competitor might be advantaged in being closer to the customer, both physically and emotionally. This is why, averaged across the value chain, we have typically seen only gently increasing returns for corporations as a whole. Moreover, small operations close to the customer are characteristically most nimble and innovative; large operations with scale economies and standardized processes are most efficient. With the two kinds of activities tied together, corporations have lived with a trade-off between innovation and efficiency, a trade-off that no amount of clever internal organization can finesse.
The relentless downward pressure on transaction costs brought about by technology, however, melts the glue that holds value chains together. Increasingly, businesses can and must exit disadvantaged functions. The result is "deconstruction": the breakup of value chains and the redefinition of businesses. When businesses deconstruct themselves, we call it outsourcing or divestment. When deconstruction is done to them, we call it disruption.
When the value chain breaks apart, each activity can operate at the scale that suits it best. If an activity is scale-intensive – running a data center, for example – it can be outsourced to a specialist with economies of scale beyond the dreams of most businesses. Hence cloud computing, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
On the opposite end of the continuum are activities with no economies of scale, or even negative ones. Liberated from the transaction-cost-driven need to be part of a larger enterprise, these activities can now be performed by very small enterprises or by individuals. Often these congregate in large communities connected by a platform provider. The members may compete with each other or they may collaborate. Like a swarm, they massively duplicate each other's efforts, blindly try things, and pile onto successes. Their collective behavior is rarely efficient, but it is extraordinarily adaptive, experimental and innovative.
In all of these examples, the members of a community are individuals or small enterprises, the smallest units of economic organization. But the community itself can be extraordinarily large. This is possible because of the development of global internet platforms. It also is possible because communities are not constrained by the need for complex, non-scalable hierarchical coordination, as would be true of corporate employees. A community also is advantaged because of "network effects"; the larger the community, the greater its value to each member. Thus, for certain tasks, globally scaled communities not only get things done but are economically advantaged over traditional corporate organizations.


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It has been an eventful year for Taylor Swift fans. The 31-year-old singer-songwriter has been busily re-recording her old albums in response to a messy legal battle with record executive Scooter Braun.
Recently, Swift took to Twitter to announce the forthcoming release of her Red album.
Swift originally released Red in 2012, and it features the hit songs We Are Never Getting Back Together, Begin Again, and I Knew You Were Trouble.
Her new version is expected to drop on all music streaming platforms on November 19, 2021. Most recently, it was announced that there would be 10 unique tracks on the album written at the time of the album's original release.
Among these tracks include her charity single "Ronan," which was written for four-year-old Ronan Thompson, who passed away due to complications related to cancer. Other songs include collaborations with singers Pheobe Bridgers, Ed Sheeran, and Chris Stapleton.
What does Jake Gyllenhaal have to do with this? Well, included in Swift's "vault songs" is a 10-minute recording of her song "All Too Well" — which was rumored to be written for the actor.
What are fans saying?
Country-singer-turned-pop-singer Taylor Swift gave fans a sneak peek into her re-recording of her emotional album Red. This album is filled with songs about heartbreak, betrayal, and rediscovery. As Swift is known for her narrative lyrics, she takes her fans on a journey about being a lively 20-something year old.
Featured on Red is the song All Too Well, which is rumored to be about Brokeback Mountain actor Jake Gyllenhaal. This song contains heavy lyrics such as, "Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it."
Teasing her forthcoming re-recording of the album, Swift referred to the song's lyrics in a post on Twitter. She wrote, "casually cruel in the name of being honest," while sharing some code words that reveal hints about what's coming next.
Fans instantly gained momentum, spending the following hours solving the puzzles that Swift revealed from her "vault." Some collaborated on social media accounts. They were also quick to share their excitement about the updated version of "All Too Well," pulling Gyllenhaal into the conversation.
Entertainment writer Cole Delbyck wrote, "Jake Gyllenhaal trying to decode Taylor's clues to see if he's going to get dragged again on the new version of All Too Well."
Another fan added, "Jake Gyllenhaal watching that Taylor will release #alltoowelltaylorsversion in the next weeks."
A third fan chimed in, speaking directly to the actor. They penned, "Jake Gyllenhaal, you made this mess now you have to figure it out, I won't take responsibility for your mistakes."
What happened between Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift?
As depicted in "All Too Well," things ended quite messily between the celebrity couple and is still a sore spot for Swifties. Gyllenhaal and Swift dated for roughly a year, according to Billboard.
The outlet also suspects that her song The Last Time is about their relationship. In this song, Swift sings, "This is the last time I'm asking you this, put my name at the top of your list. This is the last time I'm asking you why you break my heart in the blink of an eye."
While not much has been confirmed about the relationship between the two, Swift has confirmed that Red is predominately a heartbreak album. On an Instagram post, she wrote, "I've always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly."
Swift continued to add, "Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end."
Red (Taylor's Version) is expected to debut on November 19, 2021.


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- Analog, Genenc, and Pilot Studies and Treatment of a Project as an Expenment INTRODUCTION The previous five chapters emphasized the application of ecological knowledge of many general types, but they did not deal directly with knowledge specifically applicable to particular problems. However, eco- logical systems often respond to perturbations in a site-specific fashion, and large or novel perturbations can produce effects not predictable from basic ecological principles, so specific knowledge is often necessary for the understanding and prediction of many environmental effects. This chapter briefly discusses the value and limitations of using specific in- formation and of treating projects and other environmental actions as experiments when potentially serious effects cannot be adequately pre- dicted from information acquired in advance. Observation of the actual effects of an action can sometimes be the only source of information for management decisions. ANALOG STUDIES An analog study concerns an action similar to one of immediate interest. The most useful analog study would be conducted in the same area, on the same species or ecosystem, on a similar scale, and under similar conditions and would be thoroughly analyzed. Even if the analogs are not perfect, study of them can be useful in scoping a problem, identifying major potential effects, and designing appropriate studies. 75
76 KINDS OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AD THEIR APPLICATIONS When a project is similar to many others, analog studies typically accumulate, especially if they are legally required. For example, in the legally mandated Maryland Power Plant Siting Program for managing cumulative impacts, study of the environmental effects of each power plant should increase the ability to predict the effects of future power plants (e.g., Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 19841. But the use of data on one power plant to predict effects of another also requires knowledge of the differences between the receiving ecological systems and the differences between power plants. Variations in physical and ecological conditions between areas can lead to serious errors in extrap- olation. For example, in the Southern Indian Lake project (Chapter 21), no specific analog studies dealt with changing of the level of a shallow lake in a permafrost zone. Because the best analogs-deep lakes in Siberia- differed in important respects from Southern Indian Lake, investigators failed to predict the magnitude of bank erosion that occurred and the consequent changes in water turbidity and mercury release. In the Lake Washington case (Chapter 20), valuable analogs were avail- able from experience with nutrient enrichment in temperate lakes in Eu- rope. In the derelict lands case (Chapter 18), no studies of methods for diversifying plant communities on previously mined land were available, but attempts to diversify roadside vegetation informed and motivated the research studies. Analog studies were of value in the caribou case (Chapter 16) in identifying the major issues, developing field techniques, formu- lating a study strategy, and locating important resource people who were familiar with the problem. Some cases not only relied on analog studies for their design, but were designed so that they became valuable analogs themselves. The Lake Washington experience now serves as a model for many lake eutrophi- cation studies and has contributed importantly to our understanding of nutrient loading in lakes. The comprehensive review and analysis of the Southern Indian Lake project increased its instructional value. Analog studies are most valuable if their results are analyzed and summarized in an easily accessible form. GENERIC STUDIES A generic study is designed to increase knowledge of the physical and biological phenomena common to a group of environmental problems. It might be designed to reveal the processes that underlie ecological responses to manipulations in a particular environment e.g., a study of the effects of marine oil pollution along coastal beaches or of oil pollution in aquatic
ANALOG, GENERIC, AND PILOT STUDIES 77 environments in general. It might deal with a restricted subset of envi- ronmental perturbations, such as the uses of DDT, or try to provide a - model of the effects of a large class of perturbations, such as pollution by organochlorides in general. Because ecological effects vary with the environmental manipulation or insult, the location, the biological com- munities present, the scale, and other factors, a major question concerning the usefulness of generic (and analog) studies is the extent to which their results can be applied to a particular site and problem. The most useful generic studies identify, characterize, and explain the major ecological effects of a particular environmental insult or manipulation and provide a framework for understanding the effects of variations in location and other factors. The distinction between analog and generic studies is not always clear. So much was learned from the Lake Washington experience, for example, that it might serve as a generic model. A major practical difference between analog and generic studies is that generic studies are usually well known to biologists, whereas analog studies are often buried in government or industry files. Also, generic studies are usually designed to address a specific question, which means that the postproject monitoring is often good enough to provide comparative data. When government and industry cooperate in addressing problems of mutual concern, studies can be coordinated and research resources used efficiently. For example, before issuing a permit for exploratory drilling in state-owned offshore lease areas, California requires extensive studies designed by a committee of representatives of academe, government, and industry. Coordination of studies among a number of applicants for leases in the Santa Barbara Channel allows each to conduct studies on specific problems common to all drilling programs, such as the effects of discharge fluids on hard-bottom organisms; results from all the studies can be used to develop permit stipulations for other applicants. The advantage of such coordinated endeavors is that duplication is minimized, so more research is possible. Environmental studies, for practical reasons, cover limited areas, rel- atively short periods, and conditions dictated by the time and place chosen. Moreover, many generic studies involve simulation of the environmental change of interest, often on a smaller scale and with a narrower range of variables and variation than encountered in the actual situation. For ex- ample, the aquatic effects of thermal effluents from a nuclear power plant might be studied by injection of hot water into a river (if the appropriate permits required by the Clean Water Act were obtained first). But such an injection would be made over a much shorter time and a much smaller
78 KINDS OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS area than the usual discharge of effluent, and the injected water might lack some contaminants present in the normal effluent. Some other limitations of generic studies are discussed in the review of clearcutting studies (Chapter 231. The Hubbard Brook clearcutting experiments of the 1960s (Bormann et al., 1968) were for a long time accepted as general models of the effects of clearcutting on stream eutro- phication, soil nutrient loss, and the regeneration potential of land. How- ever, herbicides were applied after the clearcut in the Hubbard Brook experiments, whereas rapid revegetation is encouraged in many forestry operations. Errors in extrapolation from a generic model to a specific situation can be reduced if generic studies focus on a particular application and location. Generic reviews can yield ecological knowledge of great potential value. They might focus on various topics of potential use to environmental managers: a group of related problems; natural history and ecology of particular species, areas, or communities; general approaches to problems; and broadly useful methods or techniques. A list of useful generic reviews and related literature can be found in the annotated bibliography on eco- logical impact assessment prepared by Duinker and Beanlands (19831. PILOT-SCALE EXPERIMENTS Pilot-scale experiments are designed to investigate the effects of specific kinds of environmental perturbations on time and space scales much smaller than those of a planned project or action. They are appropriate when there is little confidence in the hypotheses underlying the prediction of effects and when realistic simulation of the perturbation is possible. The major uncertainty in connection with pilot-scale experiments is whether their results can be generalized to similar large-scale phenomena (Hilborn and Walters, 19811. Although the overall effects of large de- velopments, such as hydroelectric dams, cannot be realistically simulated on a small scale, some individual effects of large developments can be studied experimentally with the traditional scientific procedure of dividing a problem into its components for analysis. Experiments were used to advantage in the derelict lands case (Chapter 18), to investigate the performance of groups of plants under different soil conditions; there is no obvious reason why the results of these studies cannot be generalized to larger-scale applications. Pilot-scale experiments were conducted to study the potential effects of the Alaska pipeline on caribou movements (Cameron et al., 19791. A variety of small-scale experiments were conducted on the effects of DDT (Chapter 241. Labo
ANALOG, GENERIC, AND PILOT STUDIES 79 ratory and field experiments were used to investigate toxicity in several species and to determine residence time of DDT under different environ- mental conditions. Field and laboratory experiments confirmed the oc- currence of bioaccumulation. The Atomic Energy Commission program for studying the effects of nuclear radiation (Chapter 22) is a good example of the combination of a variety of laboratory and field experiments to improve understanding of a complex problem. TREATING ~ PROJECT OR ACTION AS AN EXPERIMENT If reliable prediction of the ecological effects of a project or action is not feasible, even with extensive field investigations, the limits of pre- dictive ability should be openly recognized, so that planners, decision- makers, and managers can take into account the uncertainty of the eco- logical outcomes of particular actions (Paine, 19811. Viewing a project or action as an experiment can aid in designing a program to monitor effects. Such monitoring can have two major advantages: the detection of unexpected effects can be used as a basis for altering procedures (Holling, 1978), and the monitoring information can be used in the planning and design of similar projects or actions. The idea of a project as an experiment can be applied to a variety of environmental problems, particularly in impact assessment and resource management. As Beanlands and Duinker (1983) pointed out, however, most impact assessments concentrate on the prediction of impact almost to the exclusion of followup studies to determine actual impact. Even in postproject studies, little effort is spent in determining whether predictions were incorrect and why (Larkin, 19841. An attempt by a study group to audit the results of a large number of impact assessments in the United Kingdom revealed several major impediments to learning from such ex- periences (Anonymous, undated): predictions were absent or vague, mon- itoring schemes were inadequate, documentation was poor, and relevant parties were unwilling to cooperate. Chapter 10 offers some general sug- gestions for designing monitoring studies to make them more useful for planning projects or actions. Among the projects described in case studies, the best examples of the idea of a project as an experiment are the Garki malaria project (Chapter 15), the project to raise the level of Southern Indian Lake (Chapter 21), the eutrophication and cleanup of Lake Wash- ington (Chapter 20), and the efforts to protect caribou during development of a hydroelectric dam in Newfoundland (Chapter 161.
80 KINDS OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Walters and Hilborn (1976) and Walters (1984) have suggested that natural resources can be managed experimentally, not only by following up the consequences of management actions, but by basing management decisions on the need for increased knowledge. In that paradigm, managers must weigh the trade-offs between the value of potential immediate yield and the value of information. The value of information is greatest when understanding of the system is poor and the consequences of incorrect decisions most severe.