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FCC Grants Petitions Latest Industry News | by Nick Hohman - Admin September 01,2021
The Federal Communications Commission or the FCC oversees the United States rules in reference to radio use. Recently, the FCC approved several petitions posed to them. On August 17, 2021, the FCC approved petitions from Cobra, Motorola, and Medtronic; the approvals will certainly have an impact on communications technology and the surrounding community going forward.
Read this article to become informed on the changes these prominent companies influenced the FCC to make within the communications industry.
The FCC:
The Federal Communications Commission issued a new ruling for the Personal Radio Services as follows:
"The Personal Radio Services governed by Part 95 includes various short-range, low-power services, with operation authorized by rule rather than by individual license"1
Throughout Part 95, the FCC essentially outlines rules that personal radio users need to follow to get rid of the need for any licenses. Unfortunately, many of the rules outlined were considered outdated or misrepresented by prominent companies related to the communications industry.
Cobra, Motorola, and Medtronic decided to come to the FCC with petitions to make a variety of changes and additions to Part 95. Below, we break down each company request and if the petition was granted.
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Who is asking for changes and why:
Cobra, a prominent critical communications technology company, is one of the organizations that petitioned to make changes to Part 95 of the FCC's rulings. Cobra is a top producer of CB radios. Therefore, they petitioned for the FCC to allow frequency modulation as an "optional modulation scheme in the CB Radio Service"1.
CB or citizens band radios are not used often anymore; however, they remain integral for specific industries. For instance, long-haul drivers and highway patrol workers tend to rely on CB radios because they can work in remote areas with low signals.
Cobra is requesting the FCC to allow CB radio users to access both AM and FM. "Cobra and others suggest that an FM option will benefit the CB radio user—both professional and recreational—in that it will provide better quality and clarity of communications"1.
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Adding an FM option for CB radio users can prove to be extremely beneficial for a variety of reasons. For instance, this addition makes CB radios more useful and closer aligned to amateur or ham radios. Those who are interested in purchasing a ham radio, with the addition of FM communication, may be more inclined to purchase a CB radio because it does not require an operating license.
The FCC approved Cobra's petition and amended Section 95 to state that CB radio users can "transmit FM voice emissions along with AM"1. An emission designator is a code associated with a frequency that gives information about the frequency's bandwidth and the nature of the signal on the frequency.
For scanner users, it can be useful for determining whether a frequency is analog or digital, and even whether the frequency transmits voice and/or data. This is beneficial for CB radio users because it expands the usage of the radio itself. Adding FM voice emissions brings CB radios closer to a ham radio's abilities without the bells and whistles.
The passing of Cobra's petition is beneficial to CB radio users since they are able to communicate UHF FM channels which provide superior audio clarity and reduce interference issues that may be present with AM CB radio channels.
Motorola:
Motorola, another prominent production company in the critical communications community, also had issues with the FCC's new rulings. Motorola petitioned for the commission "to allow automatic or periodic location and data transmissions on GMRS and FRS frequencies"1.
GMRS or general mobile radio service and FRS or family radio service are radios used for emergency purposes and to stay in contact with close-range individuals. Motorola, a manufacturer of these radios, wants GMRS and FRS radios to legally be able to do more things, specifically, send consistent location data and text messages.
The FCC originally ruled against this petition because they felt the extra data transfers would create interference problems. Motorola persisted and contested this ruling to go on to claim that the change will enhance public safety.
This change will improve public safety because it will allow for almost real-time tracking, which is beneficial for backpackers, hunters, skiers, and more. After Motorola's repetition on September 28th, 2017, the FCC decided to grant Motorola's petition.
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Users will benefit from this approval because they will be able to utilize GMRS and FRS devices like walkie-talkies, and headsets with built-in radios to be able to improve communications. GMRS and FRS devices will be developed in the future with the ability to be able to text message and receive live GPS tracking of other users.
Medtronic:
Medtronic, like Cobra and Motorola, is prominent within its assigned industry. Medtronic is a global leader in medical technology. Although its petition is less impactful to all radio users, it still shows how they have an influence on the FCC.
Medtronic petitioned for the FCC to fix typos and "rule changes that inadvertently altered the substance of the Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio) rules"1. The FCC granted Medtronic's petition by redefining certain terms and rewrote portions to match the language of other rules already set for Medtronics.
Big Corporation's Influence on the FCC:
Cobra, a top CB radio manufacturer, Motorola, a top telecommunications company, and Medtronic, a "global leader in medical technology, services, and solutions" are all companies at the top of their respective industry.
Each of these organizations has extreme influence over the FCC and the communications industry. Why? The simple answer—they are the providers. These companies know what the critical communications communities are looking for so they can bring these inquiries and requests to the FCC with the power of influence.
How will these petitions impact the communications community—explained:
Due to the above petitions, CB radios will be more desirable because they will be legally allowed to access more frequencies. This positive impact will lead to more customers for Cobra CB radios.
Moreover, the petition by Motorola will allow for GMRS and FRS radios to receive text messages and automatically send location data every 30 seconds. This addition is beneficial for those in emergency rescue for it cuts out the need for the person who is lost to manually enter their location and risk making a mistake. Consequently, just like the CB radio petition, this technology becomes more useful and competitive with other communications technologies.
The petitions brought to the FCC by Cobra, Motorola, and Medtronic were based on a need to create ease and bring modern technology back into the critical communications community.
CB, GMRS, and FRS radios are valuable pieces of technology; however, with the new regulations the FCC has approved—that were influenced by top communications companies—these radios are more competitive and helpful to modern users. Moreover, these petition acceptances set a precedent for the future of the FCC. It shows that large communications companies will be heard and can have a great influence on the FCC.
It is clear prominent companies like Motorola, Cobra, and Medtronic are able to influence policymakers within the FCC to gain a competitive advantage over smaller companies. These large corporations are able to use their legal influence and power to be first to the market with new innovative products that are created by power and influence to the policy that regulates the products they develop.
1. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-21-90A1.pdf
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Nokia's comeback has been the talk of the town recently. Ever since HMD Global announced the Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 at MWC 2017 back in February, fans have been clamouring to get their hands on the devices. The wait is now finally coming to an end as HMD Global is set to launch the three Android powered smartphones in India tomorrow.
The three smartphones are one of the most hotly anticipated handsets of the year and rightly so as they mark the comeback of the once iconic Nokia brand in India. A few weeks ago, HMD Global had launched the new Nokia 3310 in India, a re-incarnation of the legendary Nokia 3310 for Rs 3310.
All three Nokia smartphones are set to come with 100 percent stock Android out of the box and the promise of timely updates. This is the differentiating factor that will set the three smartphones apart from the crowd. In fact, HMD Global has already confirmed that the smartphones will be updated to Android O as and when it becomes available.
The Nokia 6 is the top of the line model in the line-up an features a 5.5-inch fullHD display with Gorilla Glass 3 on top, the Snapdragon 430 processor, 3GB of RAM, a 3,000mAh battery, a fingerprint sensor and 32GB of internal storage which can be expanded via a microSD card (of up to 256GB). On the imaging front, the smartphone comes with a 16MP rear camera with phase detection auto focus alongside an 8MP camera at the front. Nokia 6 price in India will be between Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 16,000.
The Nokia 5 slots in the middle of the line-up and comes with a 5.2-inch 720p HD display with Gorilla Glass on top, the same Snapdragon 430 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 3,000mAh battery, a fingerprint sensor and 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded via a microSD card (of up to 256GB). The smartphone features a 13MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus and an 8MP front shooter. The Nokia 5 likely to cost around Rs. 12,000.
The Nokia 3 is a budget smartphone that comes with a 5.0-inch 720p display, the MediaTek MT6737 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 3,650mAh battery and 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded via a microSD card (of up to 256GB). On the imaging front, the device comes with an 8MP primary camera alongside an 8MP front shooter. The Nokia 3, cheapest of the three, is expected to cost about Rs. 9,000.
There is also a special ARTE black version of the Nokia 6 which comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage for 299 Euros (approximately Rs 21,000). It is unknown at the moment if this special version will be launched in India.
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The 10th Annual Irish conker championships was held in Freshford on bank holiday weekend 28th and 29th of October. Drawing in many competitors and spectators each year this year was no different.
The event is held on the village green in freshford and is supported by a team of 60 helpers who both construct the tents and the conker arena and practice areas, not to mention judging the conker games.
Both local schools and helpers collect many hundreds of conkers in the weeks before the competition each year and help select the best conkers to be used. The strings used for all the conkers are donated by Rossiters shoe repairs on the butter slip, Kilkenny. No competitor knows or sees which conker they will get until they make a selection before their match.
All competitors pay to enter and must make good use at the practice area before they enter the main arena for their actual match. The competition is split into age groups from under twelve's to adult.
The prize for the adult winner this year was 500 euro's and was won by Aileen Dooley, the under twelve's winner was Jude Mc kinley.
The tents contained areas for craft stalls, local food producers and a refreshments area along with a marquee used for music events during the weekend.
The craft tent included crafts people selling clothes, wooden ornaments and garden furniture . One stand was run by two transition year students Kieran power and Darren Walsh, who have setup a company making ornaments out of slate. These included mirrors and garden sculptures.
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Q: Circular dependency between functions in Common Lisp Is it possible to define two functions calling each other in Common LISP without receiving style warning? My best idea to solve that problem is to give one of those functions the second one as an argument, but I don't find that idea to be very elegant.

A: Yes, of course it is, and it does not require any special magic.
Simply define one, and then the other.  If you do this at the REPL or by selectively evaluating individual definitions from a file, or by loading the source of a file, then you may receive a warning as the first function is defined, until the second function has been defined (so you'll only get this the first time you define the first function):
cl-user> (defun foo (x)
           (if (null x)
               1
               (bar (rest x))))
; in: defun foo
;     (BAR (REST X))
;
; caught style-warning:
;   undefined function: common-lisp-user::bar
;
; compilation unit finished
;   Undefined function:
;     bar
;   caught 1 STYLE-WARNING condition
foo
cl-user> (defun bar (x)
           (foo x))
bar
cl-user> (foo '(1 2 3))
1
cl-user>

In practice you will probably only get warnings like this in compiler-only implementations like SBCL & CMUCL.  There is no reason why other implementations should not warn as well: they typically don't because such warnings tend to be annoying.  They're merely not easy to avoid in compiler-only implementations, assuming you want to see warnings when there really is a missing definition.
If you merely put the two functions into a file, and compile them:
cl-user> (compile-file "/tmp/x.lisp" :load t)
; Evaluation aborted on #<unknown-keyword-argument {100219F653}>.
cl-user> (load (compile-file "/tmp/x.lisp"))
; compiling file "/tmp/x.lisp" (written 21 APR 2020 04:35:27 PM):
; compiling (defun foo ...)
; compiling (defun bar ...)

; wrote /tmp/x.fasl
; compilation finished in 0:00:00.002
t
cl-user> (foo '(1 2 3 4))
1

You won't get any warnings.
In SBCL specifically (and CMUCL probably) you can prevent warnings when loading source files using with-compilation-unit:
cl-user> (with-compilation-unit ()
           (load "/tmp/x.lisp"))
t

This defers warnings from the compiler until the end of the form, at which point all there are none.  I don't think this can be relied on (I think it's harmless in other implementations, but they could still warn).
(Note that each excerpt above is from a fresh SBCL.)

A: Common Lisp defines compilation units, and you can even specify manually the scope of a compilation unit using WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT.
For example when you call COMPILE-FILE, the whole file represents a compilation unit: compilers generally defer warnings at the end of the file, meaning that if you correctly define two mutually recursive functions, there won't be a warning.
Another possibility is to perform a forward declaration:
(declaim (ftype function f))
(defun g () (f))
(defun f () (g))

The first declaim indicates that f is to be considered fbound (the symbol is bound in the function namespace), suppressing warnings at the point of use during compilation.

A: You can define two mutually recursive functions without a style warning in a little convoluted way, given the fact that defun is not required to appear at top-level (see Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition):

X3J13 voted in March 1989 (DEFINING-MACROS-NON-TOP-LEVEL)   to clarify that, while defining forms normally appear at top level, it is meaningful to place them in non-top-level contexts; defun must define the function within the enclosing lexical environment, not within the null lexical environment.

An example is to use the special operator labels (manual), that allows the definition of mutually recursive functions:
CL-USER> (labels ((f (x)
                    (cond ((> x 0) (g (1- x)))
                          ((= x 0) x)
                          (t (g (1+ x)))))
                  (g (y)
                    (if (= y 0)
                        0
                        (f y))))
           (defun f(x) (funcall #'f x))
           (defun g(x) (funcall #'g x)))
G
CL-USER> (f 3)
0
CL-USER> (g 3)
0

A: That is of course possible. You just have to be careful not to create an infinite loop. So the same applies here as for recursion (you need a termination case).
By the way, SBCL warns when a function calls an undefined function.
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Hailing from Athens, Greece, Potergeist consists of five tough-looking dudes who know how to churn out the classic rock sound. On Swampires, the band's third major release, the majority of the tracks hit heavy with a clean sound promoting crisp chords and polished drumming. Vocals are a highlight, standing as tall as well-known voices like Howard Jones (ex-Killswitch Engage) and Phil Anselmo (Down). Keep in mind, this is a well-produced album that sounds like it's had a lot of work put behind it, but the end product speaks volumes as Potergeist creates an "arena rock" vibe for the 21st century.
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Obviously the band has found their stride as strong support, having opened for such bands as Monster Magnet and The Haunted, but, with enough time and exposure to the masses, Potergeist could quickly become a force all its own.


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The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary
Cross-posted from The Anglican Communion Institute
The announced resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church of England's rejection of the Covenant promises a new free-for-all period among Anglican churches. Meetings are promised in London, Toronto, and elsewhere. Who knows where all this will lead.
The moment, however, does provide a good opportunity to rethink and restate what conservative Anglicans like myself, who have remained in The Episcopal Church, are really after. It's worth reminding ourselves of our goals. I speak only for myself here, of course; although I imagine my views are shared by many. And what it comes down to is this: what we want is to be left alone, canonically and legally, to witness to the Gospel in worship, teaching, and deed in hope of God's truth in Christ triumphing over our divisions and disobedience.
This is not a complicated desire really. But it seems to be deeply misunderstood. Some traditional Anglicans who have left TEC seem to think that our staying is a form of treason with regards to the truth (and their own needs). I have little to say on this front, other than that I consider the witness of our Lord with respect to his own people and his own troubled apostles sufficient justification for our choice to stay. God gave himself to the godless — and we must include ourselves and our churches in this latter category as much as anybody.
There are others who seem to think that, given our rejection of the gay agenda of TEC and elsewhere, our larger desire embodies a coercive homophobia and a will to destroy TEC from within. It is worth briefly saying something here, since these critics are in fact those with whom we often share a local church.
On the first matter, such coercive antipathy has never been the case, unless of course one defines a rejection of the inclusive gay agenda as ipso facto homophobic and oppressive. Many progressives have in fact set in motion a zero-sum game of tolerance by reducing the Gospel to an application of the justice of human rights. Having done so, however, what then has been the point of any discussion and discernment in the first place? For with such a definition, there are no minds to be "changed," only silenced.
Still, we have never sought to excommunicate self-identified gay members of the church. Rather, we have resisted the claim that individual priests, bishops and the General Convention can enact changes in the traditional teaching of the Church catholic on this matter by legislative majority voting, let alone by individual fiat. These are instead matters that demand engaged consensus, founded on agreed Scriptural teaching. Such a consensus was always impossible, however, once permission was granted to ignore teaching and discipline before decisions were ever made together, both in TEC and in the Communion. The longer this contradiction between practice and actual consensual decision-making was permitted, the more irrelevant and indeed destructive of common life many ecclesial structures of TEC and the Communion became. That was hardly the fault of conservative Episcopalians!
And that is one of the reasons we have been committed to upholding the traditional Episcopal polity of diocesan sovereignty with respect to General Convention: i.e. that dioceses and their bishops have the power to remove themselves from General Convention and that the decisions of Convention are subject locally to diocesan ratification. This is not an "anti-TEC" outlook; it is, rather, a considered understanding of what TEC and its members are about and how we are organized for our mission. In the end, we realize that such a diocese-based polity is profoundly incomplete: it makes sense only to the degree that dioceses and their bishops engage one another in the work of apostolic witness, understood in its traditional catechetical and evangelistic accountabilities. In theory, the House of Bishops and General Convention were meant to serve such common apostolic practice, but the opposite has happened, as legislative processes controlled by politically-organized interest groups have short-circuited the mutual restraint, consultation, and finally patience — understood literally — of common life. We have no desire to destroy TEC; rather we want to see our common life strengthened on the basis of the apostolic trust our church was given and for which we are responsible. And to do that, we need the uncontested space, within the national church and also within dioceses, in which to let our ministries function honestly.
Given this general desire, let me speak more positively to some of the commitments a conservative Episcopalian like myself will hold, insofar as they might inform the coming discussions that are rushing towards us from the horizon of the Communion's volatile condition.
The word "synodality" refers simply to "walking together," as along a "single way." And a "synod" — the "way together" — is a formalized space for focusing such a practice by Christians. It is not first of all a decision-making — or a legislative — gathering. It is rather the place where the ongoing character of Christian common life is reiterated, articulated, strengthened, and directed. Hence, synods are not about making rules, in the first place, but about finding ways to discern the common mission of the Church in a manner that is faithful to the Lord whom together we follow as disciples. The Lambeth Conference is appropriately called a "synod" in this regard. And all the debate over the 1998 Lambeth I.10 resolution was appropriately a part of its synodality, neither to be taken as a "law," nor to be dismissed or ignored or avoided as an irrelevance. General Convention is also appropriately called a "synod" in this sense, if — as with any gathering — its purposes are rightly pursued.
Synodality is essential to the church because of the nature of the Church as the Body of Christ, among other things. One might think that small groups can be "synodical" better than large groups — a congregation as opposed to a Communion. But history tells us otherwise: the Body of Christ is a challenge with "two or three gathered" or with millions. And to be faithful as the Body of Christ, we must be faithful synodically as small groups, congregations, dioceses, national churches, and global communions (and finally the Church catholic). They are all part of a single network of "walking together" behind and with Christ Jesus, "one flock," one "way," the "Way" that is the "way together" in Christ, because of course He is "the Way."
Conservative Episcopalians like myself have promoted and continue to champion the Anglican Covenant because it is the only concrete proposal that lies before us that is truly synodical in this sense. It is shaped by concrete commitments, acknowledged foundations, and common practices and hopes regarding such "life-together." Of course, it makes no sense to adopt a Covenant whose commitments one either cannot accept or enact. We recognize that TEC as a whole is not ready to do this. But we think that there are those in TEC — and surely in the Church of England, not to say around the world — who are ready for such a synodical life. Furthermore, we believe that if we are able to pursue it freely, its own value will be sufficiently attractive to provide the basis for some change of mind. Those who will not adopt the Covenant must not impede those who wish to do so. How the two groups work things out after that is not clear. But the very encouragement such openness involves will go a long way to permitting a fruitful way forward.
Shortly after 2003 General Convention, I submitted my resignation from TEC's ecumenical committee. I did so for two reasons: first, I felt that our discussions with other churches had been subverted by having adopted decisions at variance with previous promises we had made: how have a dialogue with a church that could so easily change its mind? Second, I simply wanted to lodge a protest. I now consider my action to have been a mistake. One should try to walk with others even when one is wounded and incapacitated; even when one is mistrusted and when one has sinned or been sinned against. In the end, synodality is meaningless without the reality of the great Physician behind it. Second, "protests" are a dime a dozen, and can be made without destroying the capacity to speak together. Granted, the pressures to walk apart in this era are both enormous and persuasive.
Peaceableness
For who needs the fighting? To say that conservative Episcopalians want peace is an understatement. When I say we want "to be left alone" that is not to be understood in terms of rejecting peaceful engagement; it is, in fact, a code-word for such peace. Peace is a goal for the Scriptures; but it is also a way of life, part of the "way together" (Mat. 5:9; Ps. 34;14; Rom 14:17). The "fruit" of the past years is sufficient witness against how we have gone about our business and the decisions we have made.
Discipline can form the context for peaceableness. This is what I have always argued with respect to the larger Church's need to hold one another accountable for the decisions we make or wish to make. But "discipline" within the context of utter disorder rarely rises above arbitrary violence. And this is what we have seen more and more of, at least metaphorically, as the past ten years have evolved. I have always considered the lawsuits among or by Christians to be deadly, and so they have generally proved. Not only are they contradicted by our Lord's own teaching, their fruit has been bitter in practice. Again, the lashing out against bishops and clergy, whether formally or informally, in the midst of partisan arguments; or similar browbeating within dioceses or congregations has been a wounding sorrow for many. Who would not wish to be free of this?
But as the acts of disorder are from the Evil One, so are the temptations to throw up one's hands in their face. True peace, as Jesus himself taught us, comes with a cost — the "sword" aimed at one's own heart. So be it. And given that fact, it is worth living into this peace by walking Jesus' Way, and not simply conceding its impossibility. We believe that this too, and especially this, will bear the fruit of synodality in the long run. Let us live our Christian lives in peace, and let us be willing, in so doing, to bear the burden of that commitment.
One of the great victims of Episcopal and Anglican disorder over the past few years has been our larger synodical life, that is, our search for the healing of Christian division among separated churches. To be sure, this and that "dialogue" continues; but most participants will tell you privately, if not in public, that a shadow of wariness and even cynicism hangs over most of them. But conservative Episcopalians are committed to the ecumenical vision of the past 100 years precisely because we believe that synodical peaceableness is the proper mode in which the truths of the Gospel can be rightly articulated and heard. We shall seek ways to further this vision no matter how difficult it may appear, and no matter what resistance is offered. We are appalled by the easy dismissal of Roman Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and so on by many TEC leaders, seeing them as reactionary impediments to their agenda. That is exactly what they are not: they are the bulk of the global Christian family with whom our future is bound, and anything that dissolves these bonds must be countered somehow. And, obviously, the same is true of those more conservative Anglicans within the world who form the majority churches of the Communion, and those who have chosen to leave TEC in particular.
It was a grave mistake, I believe, to have successfully pressured, at the 2009 ACC meeting, for the revision of the final section of the Anglican Covenant, largely because one of the concrete ecumenical openings the Covenant offered — the adoption of the Covenant by "other churches" — was thereby removed. "Other churches" is what Jesus is about, in part; other sheep, other sinners, other "children" scattered in the world. In itself, revising the text by removing the reference to "other churches" adopting it, is not fatal. Silence is not prohibition. But the message that was sent by this revision seemed mean-spirited and hostile. In 1920, Anglican leaders at Lambeth courageously issued a sacrificial call to Christian unity that remains unequalled in its clarity and evangelical passion. Sadly, it remains unfulfilled, and in fact increasingly disdained by Anglicans themselves. But that is to undercut the very mission we have to proclaim the Gospel.
Conservative Episcopalians aim especially at such proclamation. And we deeply desire the freedom and fervor in our own churches to engage such proclamation. Little needs to be said about the centrality of preaching the Gospel to the world, and to those who do not believe in Christ as God's own Son given in sacrificial love on our behalf. That preaching is itself the means of peace and of common life. One thing that we know is that this Good News is less and less heard in countries like the United States and Canada. Not because there are no Christians to speak, but because the very tenor and character of the message has been so compromised by disordered Christian life.
Conservative Episcopalians desire the free and peaceable space to train, equip, send out and support evangelists of all kinds — not just those who fit the expectations of certain social and ideological traditions that have weighed our church down for too many years. In fact, we have the resources to do so, and are doing so, although the suspicions and obstructions of many dioceses render such work limited in large parts of TEC. Yet perhaps, if we can at least convince others of the genuineness of our commitments, the fears that have hemmed us in can bit by bit dissolve. Church planting, alternative forms of ordained leadership, and the rest need more as well as different formative preparation than in the past, and need recruitment of a wide variety of personalities. The current hostile suspicions in the church have actually ended by limiting formation and personnel to what were once "safe" modes that are now simply inadequate ones. We are ready to do far more than the past few years suggest is possible.
One distinguishing mark of conservative Episcopalians — and here I speak about others especially whom I know — is the deep hopefulness with which they approach the Church's life. We have learned that carefully strategic and political positioning is a weak tool when it comes to pursuing the purposes of our common life as we have discerned it. The Church belongs to God, who has claimed it for the glory of His Son. And this is true of the disparate pieces of the Church, like TEC as well. Ordering local and national convention legislation, organizing partisan allies at meetings, pressuring budgets and secretly preparing legal maneuvers — sometimes this can provide short-term 'gains" for a position, but in the long-term it is actually a toxic form of Christian life. The most we can and the most we are asked to do is to speak clearly and openly about what we know, and to do so gently — "the truth in love."
To be sure, that itself is often viewed as a "political act," but that cannot be helped. For the Church belongs to God, and given the strange mystery of God's own exercise of power in the world — a mystery embodied in Jesus — we cannot be sure if God's purposes may not counter everything we had thought to count as success. Paul's ecclesiology can be neatly summed up in his words from Romans 15:13: "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." At least, this is a true — and sufficient — vision of the Church of Christ for times like these.
I think it fair to say that many conservative Episcopalians like myself look to the coming days of Anglicanism with some trepidation. Most of this unease, however, comes from residual anxieties over ongoing hostilities such as we have experienced from the past few years. At the same time, such learned patterns of feeling are not good gauges of the present or future. We know that. Far more important are the things we value, pray for, lift up in our ministries, and thus know in hope to be promised in the real grace of God's work in Christ. To look upon these realities is in fact to be deeply encouraged. It is, therefore, worth reaffirming who we are in this time. For as objects of God's grace in Christ, we are in just the right place.
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Ephraim Radner
Ephraim Radner is a priest in the Episcopal Church (Diocese of Colorado) and professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College, an Anglican seminary affiliated with the University of Toronto. His doctorate from Yale University is in theology.
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Murray and Annie have created such a remarkable event that it would be a shame to not continue on with their vision! Therefore, a committee… with their blessing, has been formed and we are working away to make 2019 another incredible event for you all!
Come Easter 2019, 60 Mini's will gather in Kaitaia for the sixth running of the Pork Pie Charity Run.
After 6 days and 7 nights only the best prepared, the fittest, the strongest, the desperate, cunning and most courageous will arrive in Invercargill!
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Episode 254 Aired: Thursday, June 11th 2015
Celebrate Dairy Month!
June is National Dairy Month and The Farm Report is celebrating as host Erin Fairbanks chats with Beth Chittenden of Dutch Hollow Farm. Dutch Hollow Farm is owned by the Chittenden family and is a Registered Jersey Dairy Farm that milks about 600 cows and has about 1,000 cows total. Beth shares the details surrounding the breed of cows used on the farm as well as how their milk is used once it leaves the farm. Beth goes on to explain how Dutch Hollow Farm holds animal husbandry in high regard and how they try to breed for polled cows (naturally born without horns). Also, Beth recently took a group of teen and pre-teen dairy farmers into NYC where they explored Beecher's Handmade Cheese to watch cheese being made and how NYC people see dairy in the dairy case, plus checked out the dairy case competition in "milk" (soy, almond milk, etc). NYC, as Beth elaborates on, is the most important and largest market for fluid milk for NY dairy farmers so it is necessary to educate the city on the benefits of dairy milk. After the break, Erin welcomes Mark Doyle of Fishkill Farms to the program as a highlighted adventure from our friends at EscapeMaker.com. Mark gives listeners a brief history of the farm and how Fishkill Farms has grown from a conventionally farmed apple orchard in need of new trees and new tractors, into a diversified, ecological farm with new orchards and infrastructures. This program was brought to you by EscapeMaker.com.
"We are the largest or second largest herd in Jersey State. Our milk is primarily used for making dairy products like cheese... rather than being consumed as whole milk."
"If we don't have a market then why do we need a farm?"
"When you ask somebody between milk they don't really know the differences between dairy milk and milk alternatives and where it all comes from... we need to convey that to [customers]."
--Beth Chittenden on The Farm Report
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From Harvest to Vinegar
Episode 431, Aired: February 4, 2022
Humans have used fermentation to preserve crops and add flavor and health benefits to their diets for thousands of years. Since 2015, Sarah Conezio and Isaiah Billington have been putting their own stamp on that age-old tradition with Keepwell Vinegar. Together, they partner directly with small...
Butter and Meat—from the Same Cows
Episode 430, Aired: January 28, 2022
Whether they've grazed on grass their entire lives, been raised in an organic system, or lived on a conventional dairy farm, the vast majority of dairy cows get sold into the commodity beef system when they're retired and get integrated into the same cheap meat supply. With Butter Meat Co, Jill...
One Million Acres for the Future
The Farm Report explores pressing issues faced by young farmers and the fight for equitable land access.
Growing Biodynamic Botanicals for Skin Care
Episode 428, Aired: December 15, 2021
Adrien de Botin and his wife Carolina Prioglio are the husband-and-wife founders of Maison/Made, and to make the certified biodynamic skin-care products that they sell, they grow their own medicinal herbs on a family farm in Burgundy and have built a network of small farm suppliers around the world...
The (Regenerative) Chickpea Connection
Episode 427, Aired: December 8, 2021
The Farm Report looks at one hummus brand pushing the envelope on climate-friendly farming.
Cornucopia Institute and the State of Organic
Episode 426, Aired: November 17, 2021
While USDA-certified organic food still accounts for a small fraction of total U.S. food sales, it's now big business. In 2020, data from the Organic Trade Association showed sales of organic food rose at a record rate to a new high of $56.4 billion, and as the industry has become more lucrative...
The Beauty of Edible Insects
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How Your Money is Funding Meat Industry Research
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I am truly blessed and highly favour, when God talk about dancing all through out this month, I didn't know it will start very soon. My people help me thank God, who has made me laugh and dance for joy, again by giving me another double Blessing of twins again.
Abba father I am grateful. I don't know why you love me so much ,welcome my bundle of joy, God bless both of you for me in Jesus name.


The Pumpkin Patch is an annual fundraiser that benefits the Navajo Indians in New Mexico. A portion of every purchase provides medicine, clothing, education, work and hope for the Navajos. The Patch is OPEN every day from 11am - 7pm from now until November 2nd. Stop by and pick up some of the most beautiful pumpkins and mums along with delicious home baked pies and treats. UUCCN's pumpkin patch is a wonderful place to visit and we encourage people to stop by and enjoy the lovely fall weather, take pictures and make some new friends. Admission is free, all are welcome.


As the size of the business increases it becomes difficult for the top management to keep a contact with every single worker and that's why every company needs HRD department.
The procedure of Human Resource Development includes the advancement of ability in the worker through Training and development and through hierarchical improvement. The purpose of human resource management system is to enhance the execution of the representatives. The three principle zones of human asset advancement are human asset administration, quality change and vocation improvement.
If the workers are furnished with appropriate preparing and advancement openings, they will feel focused on the work and the association goals.
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Saying "no" to a project - delicious link!
Brave New Words: Saying No Now -- and Forever?
This is an excellent article for us, translators. It teaches how to say "no" to a client and not lose him/her. As a freelancer, sometimes I have a lot of projects (usually I'm doing fine as soon as there are no more than 3 of them going on simultaneously), and sometimes there are scarcely any or no projects at all! So, like many other translators I prefer to take more assignments from my clients when they have them. I pay special attention to quality of my work no matter how many translation assignments I am doing at once, but I tend to get really stressed and overworked. So saying "no" to a project without saying "no" to a client for ever is something I've been learning for over 3 years now. I planned to touch upon this subject in one of my next articles, but I found this excellent blog entry that sums up everything! So enjoy! Hope it is useful to you, too!
When you are overloaded with work, you can always share the load with another translator you trust to do a good job.
Yeah, I occasionally do that. But there can be other reasons for declining a job offer: the rates are too low, the project in not in my specialty field etc.


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Are video games glamorizing tobacco use?
New Truth Initiative® research underscores concern about the glamorization of smoking in video games with a survey that shows tobacco use is rarely portrayed negatively in video games.
Participants in a Truth Initiative study of video game players said that they felt tobacco, or nicotine, was portrayed negatively in only 6.5 percent of games where tobacco use appeared. The survey respondents — 200 video game players aged 18 and over — reported that 93.5 percent of video games showing tobacco use portrayed it in a positive or neutral light.
This research supplements the annual Truth Initiative report "Played: Smoking and Video Games," which details why smoking in video games is a public health problem.
Tobacco use is widespread in video games, but tobacco warnings are not.
Tobacco use can be found in many video games, including those rated appropriate for teenagers. (For example, see these six, popular teen-rated games that glamorize smoking.)
A 2015 survey by the University of California, San Francisco verified tobacco content in 42 percent of the video games that participants reported playing; however, only 8 percent of these games had received tobacco warnings from the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the gaming industry's self-regulatory organization that rates video games and apps. With video game content descriptors often failing to mention tobacco use, it can be difficult for parents to monitor games for tobacco imagery.
Exposure to smoking imagery causes youth smoking.
Teens rank playing video games as their second favorite media activity, and 56 percent of teens play video, computer or mobile games on any given day, according to the 2015 Common Sense Census.
Research shows a correlation between exposure to smoking imagery and the likelihood to smoke among young people. In fact, 44 percent of adolescents who start smoking do so because of smoking images seen in movies. Tobacco use in video games is likely to promote youth smoking in similar ways, and video games are much more popular with teens than going to the movies. Teens spend an average of 25 times more time playing video games, which are more active and intense experiences.
Smoking is often portrayed positively in video games.
In video interviews with 44 teen and young adult "gamers," all 44 recalled seeing smoking in games on a regular basis, with some describing tobacco use as making a character "cooler," "tougher" or "grittier."
Participants in the recent Truth Initiative survey reported that they perceive most video game characters that use tobacco — 77 percent — as not experiencing any health effects from their tobacco use. Participants also said that characters can even be shown benefiting from tobacco use.
Not all games include tobacco imagery. Earlier this year, truth® partnered with World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. on the release of the newest game in its popular wrestling series, WWE 2K18, which debuted on Twitch, a community gaming platform with three famous gamers.
"Anyone in the public eye, whether a Twitch streamer or a professional wrestler, needs to understand that people look up to them and that their actions have both consequences and influence," said one of the gamers involved in the launch, who goes by the name Fairlight Excaliber. "It was great to work with truth in an atmosphere where we can show people that being as tough or as cool as a WWE superstar doesn't require smoking."
Vaping quadruples chance of smoking cigarettes in young adults, Pitt study says
Teens who start vaping are more likely to end up smoking, UCSF study finds


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10 Unique Things to Do in Cleveland that Really Rock
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You've probably heard this phrase before: "Cleveland rocks!"
And you may have raised an eyebrow, emitted a scoff, or otherwise emoted your disbelief that this moderate-sized Midwestern city could really be that cool.
But here's the thing: Cleveland really DOES rock, and has a lot more going for it than many travelers realize.
To prove this to you, I'm going to tell you about some of the unique, interesting, and downright weird things you can see and do here in Cleveland, Ohio. Some are on the well-trodden tourist trail, while others are decidedly not. But they all will (hopefully) convince you that Cleveland is cooler than you originally thought.
Unique things to do in Cleveland, Ohio
1. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame appears on just about every "things to do in Cleveland" list – but it's still super unique as one of the top museums of its kind in the world.
Back in 1954, disc jockey Alan Freed coined the term "rock and roll" while working for a Cleveland radio station, and was one of the first to begin heavily promoting the new genre of music. It was largely because of this that the Rock Hall is now located in Cleveland.
Along with being an excellent museum covering rock music along with all its influences and off-shoots, the museum building itself is also unique, having been designed by I.M. Pei.
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2. Shop at West Side Market
Over in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood (one of in the city!), you'll find the West Side Market, Cleveland's oldest indoor-outdoor market. There's been a market here for more than 100 years, and some of the vendors inside have been manning their stands for generations.
You can find everything from freshly-butchered meat to cheese to falafel to bubble tea at the West Side Market – and it's all located inside a super-photogenic brick building on W. 25th Street.
While local Clevelanders often shop here like they would at any regular grocery store, you can also purchase cooked food, pastries, and drinks. Or, go all-out and book yourself a food tour of West Side Market, where you can taste everything from olive oil to hummus to Michael Symon's favorite beef jerky.
3. Visit the "A Christmas Story" House
If you're a Millennial who grew up in America, chances are you've seen the classic Christmas movie "" – probably multiple times if you grew up with cable TV, where it plays for 24 hours straight on Christmas Eve each year!
Well, while Ralphie Parker's house in the film was located in Indiana, the actual house that was used in the film is located in Cleveland, Ohio. The 19th-century Victorian home in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood was only used for exterior shots in the film, but the house was purchased by a private developer in 2004 and transformed into Ralphie's house, inside and out.
Today, you can visit and tour the "A Christmas Story" house year-round. The house is filled with fun details, from the bar of red Lifebuoy soap in the bathroom to the infamous leg lamp sitting in the front window.
4. Wander through Lake View Cemetery
This may sound strange to some people, but I'm a huge fan of visiting cemeteries when I travel. They are often filled with history and beautiful sculptures, and can just be really peaceful places to spend a couple of hours.
Cleveland has a cemetery like this on the city's east side called Lake View Cemetery. Dating back to 1869, the cemetery has some notable architectural elements, along with some fairly prominent people buried there.
James A. Garfield Memorial
You can visit Wade Chapel with its Tiffany glass windows and elaborate mosaics; the James A. Garfield Memorial, where the 20th U.S. President is interred; the Haserot Angel, a famous sculpture that appears to "cry" black tears; and the graves of people like Alan Freed, Eliot Ness, and even John D. Rockefeller (yes, THAT John D. Rockefeller).
5. See the Playhouse Square chandelier
Cleveland has a pretty great theater district, with touring Broadway shows and local productions being put on nearly every day of the week in 10 different performance spaces. Playhouse Square is actually home to the largest performing arts center in America outside of Lincoln Center in New York City!
And these days it has a pretty unmissable attraction in its 20-foot-tall outdoor chandelier covered in 4,200 crystals.
Come to see the chandelier, and then stay to see a show or eat at one of the area's great restaurants (one of my favorites is District!).
6. Stroll through the Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Part of the Hungarian Garden
Community gardens aren't generally a unique concept, but the Cleveland Cultural Gardens in the city's University Circle neighborhood are different. Located in Rockefeller Park along Martin Luther King Boulevard, the Cleveland Cultural Gardens are a collection of more than 30 small gardens that are designed and cared for by different cultural/ethnic groups in Cleveland.
There's an Italian Garden, a Hungarian Garden, a Syrian Garden, and more! The Gardens were begun in 1916, and the unique concept showcases Cleveland's multiculturalism beautifully.
7. Strike a pose at the Cleveland Arcade
Downtown Cleveland is home to some incredible architecture, but you often have to know where to look in order to find it. My favorite architectural marvel is the Cleveland Arcade, located between Euclid and Superior avenues.
This Victorian-era structure was completed in 1890, at a cost of $867,000 (which was insane at the time!). It was built to resemble an Italian galleria, and is said to be one of the first indoor shopping malls in the United States.
Today, the Arcade is often quiet with several empty storefronts, but its details are as opulent as ever. If you're looking for an excellent place for some Instagram photos, don't miss the Cleveland Arcade.
8. Visit a unique museum
The Infinity Mirrors exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art
When it comes to museums, Cleveland has some top-class ones, including the Cleveland Museum of Art (which is FREE to visit!), the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland, and the Great Lakes Science Center.
But if you're looking for something a little more unique, you can check out one of these museums:
Dittrick Medical History Center
International Women's Air & Space Museum
Learning Center and Money Museum (at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Buckland Gallery of Witchcraft & Magick
Temple Museum of Religious Art
And if you want to see some unique things at Cleveland's more "typical" museums, you can find things like Andy Warhol's Marilyn x 100 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the NASA Glenn Visitor Center at the Great Lakes Science Center, and the taxidermied body of Balto (the famous sled dog honored with his own Disney movie) at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
9. Go mural-spotting in Hingetown and Gordon Square
Find these at the corner of Detroit and W 28th in Hingetown
Like in many cities across the U.S. that are currently going through revitalization efforts, several of Cleveland's neighborhoods have been spruced up using murals and street art. You can find some of the largest concentrations of murals in the Hingetown (part of Ohio City) and Gordon Square areas, with new works still going up all the time!
Some of my favorite Cleveland murals include the Pizza Mural in Hingetown, a new mural of a falling couple in Gordon Square, and the Cleveland postcard mural in Ohio City.
Street art is always a unique window into any city, so be sure to keep your eye out for it in Cleveland.
10. Eat a hot dog with Froot Loops
A Happy Dog with nacho cheese and Cheetos
Lastly, I have to include a Cleveland institution on this list: Happy Dog. When you walk into its Detroit Avenue location, you feel a bit like you've entered a time warp; the place doesn't look much different than it did when it was the local "corner bar" back in the '40s and '50s.
Happy Dog isn't actually a dive bar, though – it only opened in 2008. But its owners went out of their way to preserve that dive bar vibe.
Happy Dog is known for its live music (and other live performances, from comedy to academic talks), huge beer selection, and of course hot dogs. Hot dogs and tater tots are pretty much the only food served here, but you can choose from dozens of toppings for those hot dogs. Throw anything on top from Cheetos to peanut butter to Froot Loops.
This is a place that locals love to hang out at just as much as visitors.
Unique places to stay in Cleveland
Cleveland doesn't have any converted jails or cozy treehouses to sleep in, but it does have quite a few historical hotels and B&Bs that are worth considering. For a non-cookie-cutter stay in Cleveland, check out these options:
– A 100+-year-old mansion in University Circle that's now a boutique hotel.
– A cozy B&B in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood, located in a house from 1868!
– This isn't your average DoubleTree hotel; it's located in a stunning historic building dating from 1933.
– A downtown boutique hotel.
Which of these things would you most like to see or do in Cleveland?
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18 Comments on "10 Unique Things to Do in Cleveland that Really Rock"
Ryan Biddulph 10 months ago
The Happy Dog combo is high on my list Akatuki. Along with a Rock and Roll visit.
Akatuki Williams 10 months ago
Both excellent choices!
Riana Ang-Canning 10 months ago
I'll be honest: Cleveland has never been on my must-visit list. But you're making it look really cool! The West Side Market and those murals look amazing – two of my favourite things to discover in a new city are markets and street art.
I'll sell you on Cleveland yet! 😉 It has a lot of cool neighborhoods – and also LOTS of good food!
Kuniko Poole 10 months ago
I don't think you're strange for liking to visit cemeteries – I enjoy it, too! I had no idea the Christmas Story house had been revamped. One of my favorites during the holidays!
And it's super fun to visit around the holidays, too!
Dominique | dominiquetravels.com 10 months ago
Yes! I also really enjoy visiting cemeteries! I don't think it makes us weird at all 😉 That hotdog looks delicious by the way! There are so many amazing looking foods I'd like to try in the US! I don't visit your country enough!
The US definitely comes up with some interesting food trends – and Cleveland is definitely turning into a food-lover's city, too!
Ryan Smith @MrAbroad.com 10 months ago
My favorite would be a walk in Cleveland Cultural Gardens, then Happy Dog 😀
Excellent choice.
Traci Morrison 9 months ago
Food and music..we do it best! Look up the local and national acts playing clubs like the Grog Shop, the Beachland Ballroom, Happy Dog, Now That's Class, the Foundry, the Five O'Clock and the Agora. Our city is doing it right!
That's right, food and music! Cleveland has a lot more going on than a lot of people realize!
Toby Dore' 8 months ago
I am totally bookmarking this page! So strange. I was thinking about Cleveland the other day as being one of the only major cities in the US that I have not visited. I also came across your site while doing the Nomadic Matt Travel Blogging Business Course. I can't wait to visit now and use this as a resource.
It's clearly fate! 🙂 Cleveland is awesome and you should definitely check it out sometime!
Patti 5 months ago
My hometown! So proud of it, and glad you're promoting the cool places it offers. Thanks
I like Cleveland so much that I started a whole 'nother blog about it!
Lou 2 months ago
Beautiful job! I'm so proud of my hometown! When you show pictures of the West Side Market you should include the outdoor section also!
Thanks, Lou!
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Q: R - Serialize R models as JSON Is there some good R package that can convert prediction models and other complex object to and from JSON? I have linear regression model from this example:
eruption.lm = lm(eruptions ~ waiting, data=faithful)
newdata = data.frame(waiting=80)
predict(eruption.lm, newdata)

I would like to serialize eruption.lm model as JSON store it somewhere or send it to some external system, and later deserialize it and do prediction.
I have tried with jsonlite R package:
json<-serializeJSON(eruption.lm)
lin.model<-unserializeJSON(json)

predict(lin.model, newdata)

However, jsonlite cannot handle complex objects - deserialized model returns an error in prediction:
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : could not find function "list"

Is there some better package that can serialize/deserialize objects.

A: You just need to help it remember the environment for terms:
attr(lin.model$terms, ".Environment") <- .GlobalEnv

predict(lin.model, newdata)

##       1
## 4.17622

I'd file this as an enhancement request over at http://github.com/jeroenooms/jsonlite/issues
Alternatively, you can use native R binary serialization:
saveRDS(lin.model, "lin.model.rds")

predict(readRDS("lin.model.rds"), newdata)

##       1
## 4.17622

unless you absolutely need a text serialization method, in which case you can do:
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predict(readRDS("lin.model.txt"), newdata)

##       1
## 4.17622

The ascii=TRUE makes a text hex representation of the object:
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that can be stored in places where binary blobs can't.
If you need a readable text serialization method, filing the above suggested enhancement request is prbly the way to go.


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La proteina plasmatica A associata alla gravidanza, conosciuta anche come PAPP-A (dall'inglese Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A) è una proteina che nell'uomo è codificata dal gene PAPPA. Essa viene utilizzata per un test di screening per la sindrome di Down.

Funzione

Questo gene codifica per una metalloproteinasi secreta che si unisce con il fattore di crescita insulino-simile. Si pensa che essa sia coinvolta nei processi proliferativi locali come la guarigione delle ferite e il rimodellamento osseo. Un basso livello plasmatico di questa proteina è stato suggerito come un possibile marker biochimico per le gravidanze con feti aneuploidi (feti con un numero anomalo di cromosomi). Ad esempio, un livello basso può essere riscontrato nello screening prenatale per la sindrome di Down. Bassi livelli possono inoltre prevedere problemi con la placenta, causando complicanze avverse come il ritardo di crescita intrauterino, la preeclampsia, il distacco di placenta, il parto pretermine o la morte fetale.

Interazioni

La proteina plasmatica A associata alla gravidanza ha mostrato di interagire con la proteina basica maggiore.

Note

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