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Super antioxidant is natural fertility treatment
22-Sep-2002 - Last updated on 18-Jul-2008 at 17:32 GMT
Related tags: Pycnogenol, Fertility, Antioxidant, Sperm
Natural Health Sciences, the makers of the natural antioxidant
Pycnogenol, said that new research shows the supplement to be an
effective fertility treatment in men.
The antioxidant Pycnogenol improved the quality and function of sperm in men with fertility problems by a mean of 38 per cent and 19 per cent respectively after only 90 days of use, according to a new landmark clinical trial, said Natural Health Science, the North American arm of Horphag Research who developed the product.
The trial results, published last week in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, offer a new alternative to more invasive procedures of treating infertility.
"Up to 60 per cent of infertile couples have difficulty conceiving due to abnormalities in the male's sperm. By taking Pycnogenol to increase normally functioning sperm naturally, couples may be able to (or potentially) avoid in-vitro fertilisation and either enjoy improved natural fertility or undergo less invasive and less expensive fertility-promoting procedures,"said Dr Scott Roseff, author of the study and director of the West Essex Center for Advanced Reproductive Endocrinology (W.E. C.A.R.E.) in West Orange, New Jersey.
The seminal fluid surrounding the sperm is normally rich in antioxidants and protects the sperm from oxidative damage, according to Dr Roseff, "but in sub-fertile men the seminal fluid, for unknown reasons, may not be protected by these antioxidants."
"We chose Pycnogenol for the study because it is one of the richest natural sources of bioavailable and bioactive antioxidant compounds known. Pycnogenol has been found to be many times more potent than other known antioxidants like vitamin C and vitamin E. The biological precursors of the oligomeric procyanidins such as catechin and taxifoline are effective and well-known free-radical scavengers," he said.
According to Dr Roseff, the study clearly shows that taking daily doses of Pycnogenol resulted in improved sperm quality and function because the natural antioxidant protection was supplemented.
Pycnogenol is a natural plant extract which comes from the bark of the Maritime pine that grows along the coast of southwest France. It contains procyanidins, bioflavonoids and organic acids, making it a super antioxidant.
Pycnogenol is currently available in a large range of dietary supplements and multi-vitamin formulas worldwide.
The study was supported by Horphag Research, the original developers of Pycnogenol.
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Our Descendants of Marie Ferree Reunion 2014 got off to a great start on Wednesday night with a "meet and greet" in the Welcome Center. Guests checked in, picked up reunion packets, visited with Madame Ferree, viewed videos of past reunions and shopped our Ferree store. Each guest was ask to help with a special Ferree family dispersion project by placing a pin on a United States map to indicate their present home location.
Our "Cousin Circles" day on Thursday focused on family history and genealogy. During the morning session we were favored with Huguenot hymns and learned about their history. We also learned about Amish life and customs and heard about Ferree family migration from Pennsylvania. The circle discussion groups provided opportunity to share history and research with others in the same line of descent. A buffet lunch was served at noon in the hotel dining room. The afternoon session began with a presentation on research done in Europe where the Ferree family had lived and worked. There was also a presentation pertaining to an Irish side of the family and a presentation on genealogical DNA research.
"Irish Side of the Family"
Friday morning we boarded buses for a trip to the newly renovated Lancanster Historical Society facility. While there we had opportunity to view the LeFevre Bible, walk through the museum galleries, and given a tour of Wheatland, home of James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States and the only President from Pennsylvania.
On Friday afternoon it was "all aboard" for a ride on the Strasburg Railroad. A reserved coach took us through some of the beautiful countryside once owned by the Ferree family. We were given a warm welcome aboard and as we went along the engineer pointed out different sites pertaining to the Ferree family. Following our train ride we visited the Rail Road Museum of Pennsylvania where we learned about Pennsylvania's rich railroad heritage.
Saturday was a fun day at Cherry Crest Farm. There were over fifty activities for all ages including the "Amazing Maize Maze". We had our own private tent area where we gathered for a delicious catered "corn field picnic" lunch.
Cherry Crest Farm is located on land once owned by Cornelius Ferree. His house can still be seen on the property.


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SmartSurfaces
SmartSurfaces offers an integrative, hands-on learning experience where cross-disciplinary teams design, build and test interactive surfaces that have the capacity to adapt to information and environmental conditions. The course operates as a cross-disciplinary, hands-on think-tank where participants pool their knowledge and skills to work together to produce environmentally sound and socially responsible projects.
Heliotropic SmartSurfaces
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SmartSurfaces (Fall 2009) offered a collaborative, project-based learning experience in which undergraduate artists, designers, architects and engineers came together to build physical systems and structural surfaces that have the capability to adapt to information and environmental conditions.
The course was broken into two phases: an introductory / skill building phase, and the final project. For the first part of the course, participants focused on problem and constraint definition, structured brainstorming and skill building. Final teams were assigned in week six and the rest of the semester involved the production of the fully realized, funded projects shown below. Both phases focused on multidisciplinary, collaborative teams to carry out the assignments and projects. An important aspect of this course was the manner in which useful cross-fertilization emerged in the application of different disciplinary methodologies in response to concrete problems in practice.
Course participants had the opportunity to gain experience with using diverse tools and processes. Where possible, learning made use of practical problem solving through experimentation. All participants were challenged beyond their usual intellectual and disciplinary boundaries and had to negotiate and manage differences between the cultures of three university units (Art & Design, Architecture and Materials Science Engineering).
Each team was required to design, build, program and test a 'heliotropic smartsurface' that makes use of:
• Solar energy harvesting
• Microcontroller programming (Arduino) and circuit building
• Parametric modeling (Digital Project)
• Digital fabrication
Teams had to consider and negotiate what makes a surface smart, and why we would be interested in a smart surface that follows the Sun. They had to engage a methodology of defining explicit relationships, complex behaviors, and unforeseen responses in a context of distributed authorship.
University of Michigan, Fall 2009
Fridays, 11am-5pm
Design Lab 1, Duderstadt Center
TCAUP: kmdaub@umich.edu
A&D: johnjm@umich.edu
MSE: mshtein@umich.edu
Fall2009_Task1 - Introduction: Deposit sand in specified locations using only the provided materials and tools. Max Shtein sets up the topic for the semester.
Fall2009_Task2 - Arduino: Design, build, program and test a device that tracks a handheld flashlight. John Marshall reviews Arduino workflow.
Fall2009_Task3 - Digital Project: Make a heliotropic field that is responsive to the movement of the sun. Karl Daubmann introduces parametric modeling with Digital Project.
Fall2009_Task4 - Two-week Heliotropic SmartSurface: Propose, develop, deconstruct and implement an idea based on the principles of an interactive, heliotropic smartsurface.
Fall2009_Task5 - Advanced Arduino: A grab bag of exercises that extend what can be done with Arduino, motors and sensors.
Fall2009_Task6 - Seven-week Heliotropic SmartSurface: Design, build, program and test a 'heliotropic smartsurface'. Julian Bleecker helps set up the scope of the final project.
Fall2009_Task6a - Eugene Shteyn talks about finding high quality problems that are implementable and diffusable.
Fall2009_Task6b - Michelle Addington talks about discrete systems and technology transfer.
Fall2009_Final - Presentations and reviews.
The Shy Solar Array: An Adaptive Solar Array That Responds To Weather
Arrays of solar cells are vulnerable to their surroundings, do not maximize the sunlight-collecting surface area, and are unattractive. Inspired by the Mimosa Pudica plant and its tendency to shy away from external stimuli, our shy solar array was created. Our solar array protects itself from damaging elements such as snow or rain by flipping away from them. This will allow the solar array to be implemented in less than ideal weather locations, such as Michigan. Our solar array also maximizes the sun collecting surface area through its unique shape. The form of the array lends itself to a more efficient use of surface area by avoiding shadowing when the cell is rotated towards the sun. Also, the array stands out as a more desirable object that can serve as a stand-alone artifact as well as a useful solar array. Outside of the gallery this solar array would be implemented onto the rooftop of Michigan Engineering buildings as an alternative energy source. To further maximize the collected energy, the solar array should contain solar cells that are specially shaped to the design.
Team Fabric + Super J
Alyssa Ackerman – School of Art and Design
Johanna Brand – Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Yuming Jiang – Material Science and Engineering
Chris Johnson – Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Mat Schwartz - School of Art and Design
Michelle Svetkoff - Material Science and Engineering
The iWall Modular Light-Filtration System
The wall you see here is a modular, scalable, self-adjusting multi-aperture window, designed to optimize light flow into a room by manipulating the position of rotating wood panels. You could call it an 'automatic venetian blind', as that is the gist of the purpose. The system consists of 30 individual modules, with one panel per module, which allow a variable amount of light to pass through. The structural elements are built modularly, but circuitry elements - such as wiring - are set up in a non-modular fashion. Individual module apertures open and close in reaction to the intensity of the light that passes through the wall as detected by light-dependent resistors (LDRs), seen on the projection side, holding a relatively constant light level on the 'interior' of the wall at all times - this gives 'heliotropic' and 'smart' characteristics to the wall - 'surface', fitting it into the premise of the SmartSurfaces course. The actual actuation is by a grid of servos powered externally and controlled through inputs from an Arduino Mega and the LDRs. The materials used in the assembly of the individual modules were 3/16" cast acrylic cut by laser and 3/16" 6061 aluminum sheet cut by water jet.
Team iWall
Westley Josiah Burger - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Peter Hall - School of Art and Design
Brieana MacDonald - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Michael Mathieu - Material Science and Engineering
Taylor McKenzie-Veal - School of Art and Design
Neil Poulin - Material Science and Engineering
Simon is a heliotropic, feel-good machine. He interacts with a user through motion and LED color mixing and enters a default solar-tracking mode when not in use. Face recognition technology, a simple joint system, and a flexible LED array make possible a wide range of movement and interaction while photovoltaic panels provide the power. By fusing emotional connections with the user, we hope to transform the concept of sustainability from a condition of sacrifice to that of pleasure.
Team Softcore
Rachel Boswell - School of Art and Designn
Eric Harman - School of Art and Design
Marc Maxey - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Lindsey May - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Damien Stonick - Material Science and Engineering
Zilin Wang - Material Science and Engineering
Rather than using solar cells to convert sunlight into electrical energy, we are concerned with using the power of the sun in a more direct way. Exposure is a biological, heliotropic lighting system powered by photosynthesis. Living inside the piece are several Dinoflagellates, Pyrocystis fusiformis, aka bioluminescent algae. The bioluminescence of the organisms are set to a biological clock quite similar to our sleep cycle. During 12 hours of daylight Pyrocystis use the available light to photosynthesize, producing their own food and oxygen. At sunset the cells produce the chemicals that cause the luminescent reaction. If agitated during their 12-hour dark cycle, the algae give off a glowing blue light. In Exposure we have harvested several bioluminescent algae organisms, and embedded them into an architectural array. Within the array, varying panel heights correspond to the density of algae organisms contained in each unit. Infrared sensors located below the panels detect human presence, and trigger a motor. Attached to the motors, a cam makes contact with the panels creating enough motion to agitate the algae and expose their bioluminescent glow.
Team Slime
Ivan Adelson - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Aidan Feldman - Computer Science Engineering & Department of Dance
Isaac Krauss - School of Art and Design
Laura Ligeski - Material Science and Engineering
Allison Sturm - School of Art and Design
David Theisz - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Alyssa Ackerman
Alyssa Ackerman is junior at the School of Art and Design. She is intrigued with the problem-solving aspect of design and explores both graphic and industrial design. She is also studying the Programs in the Environment, with a focus on agriculture. She hopes to fuse these topics and use design to help solve environmental problems of today and the future.
Alyssa is taking this class to better her understanding of Design. She loves the multi-discipline aspect of the class and time spent working in groups filled with very different perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas.
Alyssa will be studying this following semester at the Shrishti School of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India. Here, she will again be working in a multi-discipline setting, with a great emphasis on design and technology.
Ivan Adelson
Ivan Adelson is a senior in the undergraduate architecture program at University of Michigan's TCAUP. He is interested in exploring functional and practical solutions to design problems, while experimenting with different ways to create social engagement and proactive resolutions. It is about creating a specific experience for a specific space, and to understand the relationships between the ways people interact within. Architecture, to Ivan, is meant to generate change; change the way people live, the way people gather information, the way the world looks, the way we function.
Over the years Ivan has worked for a couple architecture firms. During his senior year of high school and parts of his freshman year of college, Ivan was an intern at Neumann Smith Architects in Southfield, Michigan. Following this Ivan was offered the opportunity to intern at a smaller architecture firm in New York City, Guerin Glass Architects. Both provided valuable experiences, exposure to immense knowledge and encouragement to pursue the field of architecture.
Rachel Boswell
Rachel Boswell is a senior at the School of Art & Design. With a focus on product design, specifically furniture, she has been exploring aspects of sustainability and the conscious use of materials.
Rachel spent the whole of last year studying Scandinavian product design and sustainable design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where much of the work was collaborative and team oriented. Because this kind of learning environment was so enriching and fun, she decided to join the Smartsurfaces team to further her design and real-world cooperative experience.
This year, Rachel hopes to hone her 3D design skills and expand her knowledge of environmentally friendly construction methods and materials. Smartsurfaces seems to be the perfect way to do this and to exchange ideas, skills, and working methods with fellow students and other disciplines.
Johanna Brandt
Johanna is a senior in the undergraduate architecture program. She is interested in interdisciplinary design problems relating to cultural and environmental issues. She is interested in the way that people from different fields approach various problems and how different methods of problem solving achieve a final result.
Over the last summer, Johanna interned at an architecture firm in Germany. She has also worked in the testing department of an automotive supplier.
After graduating, Johanna plans to get go to grad school abroad in Germany or Switzerland or taking some time off to travel and/or volunteer.
Westley Burger
(Westley) Josiah Burger is a senior at TCAUP. He is interested in interactive and responsive architecture, and in form creation. Josiah is currently working for Clark Construction Company in order to better understand building construction and structure. He is planning on working for an architecture firm for a few years before returning to school for his M. ARCH.
Aidan Feldman
Aidan Feldman is currently a super-senior at University of Michigan, pursuing a double-major in Computer Science and Dance. Originally from Chicago, he is interested in human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, physical theater, web design and dance choreography, performance and improvisation.
He is the Co-Outreach Chair for BLUElab, an engineering student group focusing on sustainable design, where he is working on a hybrid-hydraulic bicycle with regenerative braking. Currently, Aidan is choreographing the musical Hair, performing in Wild Swan Theater's Hawk, I'm Your Brother for children throughout Southeast Michigan.
He hopes to someday get a master's degree in New Media, and get a job teaching interdisciplinary courses just like this one.
Pete Hall is a junior in the School of Art & Design studying industrial design and is interested in multi-use, collapsible and space saving design. He has a background studying mechanical engineering at Michigan Engineering before discovering his calling in the design field. He is taking Smartsurfaces because of his belief that engineering and design are not mutually exclusive and must collaborate for both fields to move forward.
During his junior year of study, Pete is focusing on sustainable design and has catered his course selection around design, technology and the environment and is specifically using less and more-renewable materials for prototyping.
Eric Harman
Eric Harman is a junior in the School of Art and Design, focusing in Industrial Design, and dislikes speaking of himself in the third-person.
I want to change the world. I am in the SmartSurfaces studio because I am interested not only in "what" we will do to save the planet from environmental cataclysm, but "why" and "how"? What makes our ways of thinking superior to the natural order nature has established vis-a-vis Evolution? I hope to observe and partake in solutions to lessen our environmental impact, as well as the processes that lead to group innovation and essentially, the justification of human existance when we appear to be at the root of our own growing catastrophe.
Yuming Jiang
Yuming Jiang (friends also call him Jason) is a senior in Materials Science and Engineering with a dual degree program in mechanical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He works in Prof. Goldman's research group on nano-semiconductor materials which have novel applications in solar energy, thermoelectric (from heat to electricity) and invisible materials (negative refractive index). Publications on nanostructure evolution under ion irradiations are in progress.
Having investigated the growth mechanism and synthesis of novel materials in a nanometer scale, he is interested in implementing sustainable energy solutions in a level of commercial devices. Also, based on his education experience in China, Germany and US, he believes energy crisis should be addressed internationally, which is what he wants to learn and get inspired from Smartsurfaces.
Other internships and research experiences are expected to be helpful in Smartsurfaces, including testing superhard composite material (artificial diamond based), working on credit loans at a small financial institution, 3D modeling and analysis of carotid divarication.
Christopher is a senior in TCAUP working towards his Bachelors of Science in architecture. His explorations have shifted during his tenure in Ann Arbor from writing and journalism to architecture and interactive design. He currently works in the 3D lab at the Duderstadt and enjoys working with a multitude of 3D modeling programs as well as digital fabrication practices. He is currently learning parametric modeling and hopes to explore more computational design during his final year.
Chris took Malcolm McCullough's responsive surfaces course last winter and chose to enroll in Smartsurfaces to further his education in this interesting arena. By adding students from multiple disciplines, there is an incredibly dynamic conversation that can be had during the course of the semester. Chris wants to utilize interactive design while creating some pretty cool stuff.
Isaac Krauss
Isaac Krauss is a senior in the School of Art and Design and is largely interested in fabrication, design and sculpture. Isaac spends most of his academic time sketching, working with clay, and 3D modeling. He watches a lot of movies, South Park, Mad Men and the crap circling the Internet. Isaac is interested in designing for himself as fine artist in the future, but would love to work in set design or special effects for entertainment.
Laura Ligeski
Laura Ligeski is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering department. She has been doing research in Professor Jones and Pollock's research group focusing first on ultrasonic fatigue testing of ductile cast iron during the Winter '09 semester. Currently, she is working with AZ61L magnesium sheets that have been through a variety of processes including as molded, rolled and annealed. The material is going through a special process of called thixomolding, which is done in order to decrease particle size and make the sheet more uniform. For both metal research projects, she preformed fractography and microstructural anaylsis.
There are two reasons that Laura decided to take this class. To begin with, this class allows her to learn how to use a variety of new tools and machines in order to accomplish the task at hand. However, the main reason is that she loves working with people, not only for the social aspect but for the difference in opinions. Over her past three years of schooling, she has come to realize that different opinions and points of views are what make a truly good concept great. Having this opportunity to work with not only other students, but students from different majors, will allow her to truly experience what it is like to work in a more real world atmosphere and will allow her to better understand and appreciate how other people think and work towards the same goal.
Brieana MacDonald
Brieana is a senior in TCAUP's undergraduate architecture program. She began her collegiate education in engineering, switching to architecture after finding that her interests lean more toward visual rather than virtual concepts of space. At first being frustrated with the differences she found in the way engineering and architecture teach designers to think, she has learned to begin to hone this difference as a mediator between pragmatic and conceptual thinking.
Her reasons for taking this course are many, but her main interests lie within documenting and experimenting with the process in which engineers, artists, and architects learn to work together as well as observing how the educators learn to teach and control the dynamic of such a mixture. More actively in this course, she is interested in collaborating to design original strategies of solving problems that perhaps haven't been re-thought or reinvented since their original construct.
Michael Mathieu
Michael Mathieu is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering department, focusing primarily on metallurgy, though with a strong interdisciplinary interest in the mineral resources industry. He also has a minor in Classical Civilization, specifically the Roman Empire, and is meshing his interests into survey of the history of ancient Roman mining for his senior year research. He is an active member in the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, as well as various materials-oriented societies.
Mathieu has spent the past two summers working as a metallurgical intern at ArcelorMittal Riverdale, a steel mill in Riverdale, IL. His primary projects there involved process improvement, working with both liquid and solid steel. He felt that the experience was vastly rewarding, both technically and from learning to interact with union and non-union employees, and he is considering a career in the steel industry.
Mathieu's reasoning for joining SmartSurfaces was twofold. First, the idea of multidisciplinary education intrigued him, and the opportunity to work with people from other walks of life was not one to pass up. Second, he felt that he lacked significant experience in solar and open-source technology, and that the experience he will gain will be important in the future, with the evolution of modern industry towards sustainability.
Marc Maxey
Marc Maxey completed TCAUP's undergraduate architecture program in 2009. He received several awards for his academic work in the Wallenberg competition, Wilike Portfolio competion, and the 2009 Taubman College student show.
He is currently studying an additional year as an Undergraduate to pursue a curriculum outside the lens of accreditation. Marc is focusing on digital technology and fabrication, as well as land art and product design.
Marc studied auto mechanics after high school at Universal Technical Institute in Illinois. After apprenticing for a year at a small import repair shop, he was accepted into BMW of North America's Service Training Excellence Program (STEP) in New Jersey. Marc worked as technician for several years, lastly at BMW of Manhattan. His interest in mechanical things still persists through his love for vintage cars and scooters.
Marc's professional design work has consisted of several design-build projects, most recently he and his partner completed a set of home-office furniture for a resident in Detroit's Lafayette Park. Other projects inlcude an office and retail interior for Être Design in Kerrytown, and custom cabinetry.
Lindsey May
Lindsey May is a senior in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is interested in networked systems and the management of programatic fields. This results in work that pursues evolving and opportunistic understandings of place, boundary, and the role of the individual. The interdisciplinary structure of Smartsurfaces explores the notions of role and exchange through the deconstruction of antiquated ideas of segregated interdisciplinary work.
This past summer she studied in Beijing at Beijing Architecture Studio Enterprise (B.A.S.E.) and worked in Shanghai at Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects. After graduation, she hopes to work in the architecture or
design industry and develop her skills and interests.
Taylor McKenzie-Veal
Taylor McKenzie-Veal is a senior in the School of Art & Design where he has focused his studies on Industrial Design. He is interested in how design can affect people's lives and create change. He believes that environmental responsibility is a criterion of good design
Taylor is taking this class because he believes that working in an interdisciplinary environment is a crucial component to progress. This approach will be necessary in a future where all people and their respective disciplines must work towards mutual goals of sustainability and innovation.
Neil Poulin
Neil is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is interested in biomaterials and would like to work on making medical devices such as artificial organs or other prosthetics. He is also interested in metamaterials after he worked with them for the miniaturization of patch antennas for micro radio applications at his internship with BAE Systems in Merrimack, NH, this past summer.
Mathew Schwartz
Mathew Schwartz is a junior in the School of Art and Design. He is interested in 3D technology with a focus on human and computer interaction.
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Damien Stonick
Damien Stonick is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering program at the University of Michigan. Throughout her college curriculum she has had a strong interest in the development of solar energy technologies, particularly solar cells. She has participated in research with Max Shtein in developing a solar cell system involving polar CdTe quantum dots.
As an individual who is more of a multi-disciplinary student than most engineers seem, with a lifetime of art, theater, writing, and scientific interest, Damien felt this was a course that applied very strongly to her interests and would hopefully provide the opportunity to collaborate with other disciplines to create products and systems that have the potential to change and improve the way our society looks at solar energy.
Allison Sturm
Allison Sturm is a senior in the School of Art and Design.
Michelle Svetkoff
Michelle Svetkoff is a senior in the Materials Science Engineering department. She loves knowing about and creating the cutting edge of things. She became a Materials engineer because all technology has physical limitations and its expansion is highly dependent upon the progression of materials, both in the discovery of materials and in the design of materials. A famous saying of materials is 'the structure affects the properties'. She considers materials to be the epicenter of all technology.
Svetkoff joined this class for various reasons. The first is that she realizes how important this class is for the evolution of technology. No problem can be solved with one type of thinking, and so being able to communicate and work cross-disciplinary is vital to effective solutions to match the world's growing technological demands. Another reason she joined this class was so she could physically make something. All of our engineering classes teach us the concepts, but very few classes actually use these concepts to construct anything. As everyone knows, the theoretical and the actual results are VERY different, and she believes that to be a good engineer you need to be aware of both. In class when you learn that Al has an elastic modulus of 70 GPa, what does this really mean for real-life use? There are many more reasons, but the reasons are less important when compared to what else is on this website (i.e our experiences and our projects).
Last summer Svetkoff interned at IMRA America. IMRA is a highly technical research company that creates femtosecond lasers and metal nanoparticles (using a non-chemical method). She thoroughly enjoyed this internship because her primary project was to find how these metal nanoparticles could be applied to real-life. So she got to study the feasibility of hundreds of different cutting-edge possibilities. This was very exciting to see because in the classroom we aren't ever asked to think about how materials can be manipulated/utilized for the real world.
David Theisz
David Theisz is a senior at The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. His disciplinary interests polarize between architectural design as a process of rigorous drawing buttressed by theories of representation and as a medium for utilizing emerging technologies for progressive cultural production; two areas of focus often considered to be in conflict. Having originally planned to pursue a career in fine arts, David is an advocate of inter-disciplinary work and is excited to be working in a collaborative setting utilizing not only the talents, but different methods of conceptualization and implementation that are used to define professional boundaries.
Zilin Wang
Zilin Wang is a senior undergraduate student studying Materials Science and Engineering at University of Michigan. Zilin is also an entrepreneur who co-founded a web 2.0 startup: http://www.skoogo.com/ in 2007.
From his working experience at Microsoft, MySpace, Nano-mechanical Engineering lab at Northwestern University, to his own company, Zilin realizes what multidisciplinary collaboration means to a successful commercial product, which not only depends on technology but also on excellent design, concept, marketing, etc. His reason to participate in project Smartsurfaces is to collaborate with experts from different fields to solve real world problems and to better understand how to transform a cutting edge technology into a humane product that really solve customers' problems and make people's life better.
Having been worked as a marketer, product designer, research assistant and entrepreneur, Zilin is very familiar with solving problems under real world scenarios and acquainted with what factors, pressures from real world market must be considered.
Julian Bleecker
Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and co-founder with Nicolas Nova of the Near Future Laboratory, their design-to-think studio. He lectures and leads workshops on the intersections of art, design, technology and the near-future possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals. He has taught interactive media at Parson's School of Design and the University of Southern California. Julian has given talks and exhibited many of his emerging technology projects, designs and concepts in venues such as SIGGRAPH, LIFT, Xerox PARC, O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and Where 2.0 Conference on Location-Based Technology, Ubicomp, Ars Electronica, ACM SIGCHI, ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment, Banff New Media Institute, American Museum of the Moving Image, Art Interactive, Boston Cyberarts Festival, SHiFT, Reboot, Eyebeam Atelier, and SK Telecom's Art Center Nabi.
He has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a Master's Degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in Computer-Human Interaction, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz where his dissertation is on technology, culture and entertainment. He was formally a Professor of Interactive Media at the University of Southern California. He serves as an adviser to the US Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, and is on the board of advisors the Lift Conference and can often be found jurying international art-technology conferences. He is presently conducting a research study on the relationships between art, technology and innovation practices under a grant from the University of Southern California's Provost's Office and completing a book on "New Interaction Rituals" and a pamphlet for the Architectural League on urban networks. His current interests include: Design, Science Fiction, Film, Urban Space, Future Things and strategies for thinking about and creating conversations that lead to more habitable near future worlds.
Eugene Shteyn
Eugene Shteyn is Director of Intellectual Property and Standards, at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California. He also teaches model-based invention and innovation at Stanford University. Shteyn holds twenty-four US patents and is a named inventor on more than forty patents pending (in software architecture, digital entertainment, internet services, nanotechnology, and other areas). At Hewlett-Packard, Shteyn works on identifying potential markets for technology transfer and intellectual property licensing strategies. His experience includes invention development, establishing standards alliances with major global companies, guiding and motivating high-impact interdisciplinary teams. Much of his work is represented in high-tech products and industry standards. Shteyn received degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science. He is the author of the forthcoming book 'How to Invent: A Guide for Technologists, Innovators, and Engineers'.
Michelle Addington
Prior to teaching at Yale, Ms. Addington taught at Harvard University for ten years and before that at Temple University and Philadelphia University. Her background includes work at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, where she developed structural data for composite materials and designed components for unmanned spacecraft. Ms. Addington then spent a decade as a process design and power plant engineer as well as a manufacturing supervisor at DuPont, and after studying architecture, she was an architectural associate at a firm based in Philadelphia. She researches discrete systems and technology transfer, and she serves as an adviser on energy and sustainability for many organizations, including the Department of Energy and the AIA. Her chapters and articles on energy, environmental systems, lighting, and materials have appeared in many books and journals and she recently co-authored Smart Materials and Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions. She received a B.S.M.E. from Tulane University, a B.Arch. from Temple University, a M.Des.S. and a D.Des. from Harvard University.

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Shortly after handing this book to my son, I heard him giggling with glee. He then came up to me and shared what he thought was so funny. This went on throughout most of my son's reading of this book, which delighted me because my son doesn't read too much fiction as he'd rather be reading a book filled with facts on turtles, frogs, lizards, geckos or whatever other creature he fancies that week.
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates is similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate in its genre--a kid's wacky journal full of personal and comic stories. It's definitely a book that appeals to reluctant readers. Tom is a fifth grader who loves to draw, skip out on homework, tease his older sister and play his guitar with his friend. The book is filled with his doodles, scribbles and drawings that weave between the text, making reading this book very easy and fun.
This is a funny book filled with silly boy humour. Although Tom is in fifth grade, he could easily have been in third, judging by his actions (he comes across as much younger) and simpleness of the storyline. My son who is in third grade was able to relate to him. No way would my daughter who even in fifth grade was well beyond her years. So even though it's marketed for kids 9-12, I think it more appropriate for kids 7-10 years of age.
We found Tom's glossary of English words at the end of the book useful since this book is written by a British author. My son thought it funny that a jumper is a sweater and that a loo roll is toilet paper. Of course, he would! My son had a lot of fun with this book. Recommended for the reluctant boy readers in your life.


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Mr. David Earl Rowland was called home on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at the age of 71 years.
Mr. Rowland was born in Pike County, Ohio on January 30, 1949 to Elmer Rowland and Helen Drew Rowland. David Retired from Piggly Wiggly after an extended career as the meat market manager. He enjoyed golfing, taking care of his farm and spending time with his family. He was married to his loving wife Carolyn for 43 years and blessed with a beautiful daughter, Melinda Tanner and son, Casey McWhorter. The lights of his life were his granddaughter Kiersten Ferguson and great granddaughters Averie and Aliza Parker.
Mr. Rowland will be forever remembered by his brothers, Cliff Rowland (Heather) and Marvin Rowland (Phyllis); sisters, Mary Smart (Darell) and Sadie Grindstaff (Donnie).
Proceeding David in death are his parents; Elmer Rowland and Helen Drew Rowland; siblings, Jim Rowland, Leona Ferguson, Diane Pelopid, Margrett Lawrence and Janice Miller.
Visitation will be held at Arab Heritage Memorial Chapel on Monday – July 27, 2020 from 1:00p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Funeral Services will be at Arab Heritage Memorial Chapel on Monday – July 27, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. with burial to follow at the Arab Memorial Cemetery.
Pallbearers will include: Ray Larue, Steven Larue, David Evans, Hunter Parker, Michael Evans and Aaron Pelopid.
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USL Week 10 Preview
Date: May 26, 2017Author: txsoccerjournal 0 Comments
San Antonio is the only Texas USL team in action this weekend. Rio Grande Valley FC is on one of its very strange early season breaks, which seem to come every other week. The Toros are now off until next Saturday when they begin a two game road trip at Sacramento Republic.
Swope Park Rangers vs. San Antonio FC (SAFC)
Children's Mercy Victory Field, Kansas City, MO-7:30 p.m. CDT, Friday, May 26, 2017
Record and Standings:
Swope Park Rangers: 4-3-0-12 points (Tied for Seventh in Western Conference) Home: 4-0-0
San Antonio FC: 8-0-2-26 points (First in Western Conference) Away: 4-0-0
SAFC travels to Kansas City for the first of back-to-back meetings with Swope Park Rangers. The return fixture comes a week from tomorrow in San Antonio. Two streaks are in play tonight….Swope has won nine consecutive home games and SAFC remains the only undefeated team in USL.
Swope Park, who are the USL team of MLS side Sporting Kansas City, will be missing highly regarded on loan center-back Eric Palmer-Brown, who is currently in South Korea with the U.S. U-20 team playing in the FIFA U-20 World Cup. They also will play tonight without Mark Anthony Gonzalez, the team's 2016 Offensive Player of the Year, who is injured. The Rangers, who were on a bye last week, lost their last game in the Valley to RGV FC 1-0….the first time they had been held scoreless all year. Kharlton Belmar, the 2015 USL Rookie of the Year who joined Swope this season, leads the team with 4 goals.
SAFC won two of three in their just concluded home stand, shutting out their opponents in all three matches. Reserve goalkeeper Diego Restrepo is working on a streak of four consecutive shutouts. AJ Ajeakwa's game winner against Phoenix last Saturday was selected as the USL's Fan Choice Goal of the Week, the second time an SAFC player has been selected for this honor (the other was Devin Vega in week 6). It was also announced this week that left-back Greg Cochrane was named to the USL Week 9 Team of the Week. Tonight's game marks the return of SAFC midfielder Kris Tyrpak, a key contributor in Swope Park's journey to the USL Cup Final last year, to Kansas City to face his old teammates.
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Q: running boost: lock free queues globally across multiple files I would like to run a variant of example 46.3 from this website
http://theboostcpplibraries.com/boost.lockfree. I am on a linux system.
I would like to have the queue q be defined in a header file. I would like to have the produce and consume functions be in different files. So I would like to have global.h contain
    static boost::lockfree::queue<int> q{100};
    static std::atomic<int> sum{0};
    void *produce (void*);
    void *consume (void*);

I would then like to have a produce.cpp contain:
     void *produce( void*)
         {
            for (int i = 1; i <= 10000; ++i)
q.push(i);

         }

and I would like to have a consume.cpp contain
         void *consume (void*)
         {
                int i;
         while (q.pop(i))
            sum += i;

                     }

I would then like to have my main.cpp contain
         #include iosteam
         #include iomanip
         #include global
         #include pthread

         int main ()
                  {pthread_t t1;
                  pthread_t t2;
                 pthread_t t3;

                           int t1_iret;
                   t1_iret = pthread_create( &t1, NULL, produce, NULL);
          if(t1_iret)
         {
                fprintf(stderr,"Error - pthread_create() return code:  %d\n",t1_iret);
     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 }

         int t2_iret;
       t2_iret = pthread_create( &t2, NULL, consume, NULL);
     if(t2_iret)
 {
     fprintf(stderr,"Error - pthread_create() return code: %d\n",t2_iret);
     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 }

          int t3_iret;
      t3_iret = pthread_create( &t3, NULL, consume, NULL);
      if(t3_iret)
  {
     fprintf(stderr,"Error - pthread_create() return code: %d\n",t3_iret);
     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }

        pthread_join( t1, NULL);
        pthread_join( t2, NULL);
       pthread_join( t3, NULL);

                       return 0; }

Additionally, I was wondering if it would be possible to do what I have described with strings rather then integers.
edit1: when I try and make the queue be queue of strings I get::
/usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/queue.hpp: In instantiation of 'class boost::l                                                                                ockfree::queue >':
             /home/ubuntu/Project/src/main.cpp:15:37:   required from here
/usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/queue.hpp:87:5: error: static assertion failed                                                                                : (boost::has_trivial_destructor::value)
     BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT((boost::has_trivial_destructor::value));
     ^
/usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/queue.hpp:91:5: error: static assertion failed                                                                                : (boost::has_trivial_assign::value)
     BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT((boost::has_trivial_assign::value));
     ^
     In file included from /usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/queue.hpp:21:0,
                 from /home/ubuntu/Project/src/main.cpp:5:
/usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/detail/copy_payload.hpp: In instantiation of '                                                                                static void boost::lockfree::detail::copy_constructible_and_copyable::copy(T&, U                                                                                &) [with T = std::basic_string; U = int]':
/usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/detail/copy_payload.hpp:49:25:   required from                                                                                'void boost::lockfree::detail::copy_payload(T&, U&) [with T = std::basic_string                                                                                ; U = int]'
/usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/queue.hpp:402:61:   required from 'bool boost:                                                                                :lockfree::queue::pop(U&) [with U = int; T = std::basic_string; A0 = boost::parameter::void_; A1 = boost::parameter::void_; A2 = boost::par                                                                                ameter::void_]'
/home/ubuntu/Project/src/main.cpp:21:24:   required from here
/usr/local/include/boost/lockfree/detail/copy_payload.hpp:38:11: error: invalid                                                                                cast from type 'std::basic_string' to type 'int'
         u = U(t);

A: You need to declare, but not define, your variables in global.h:
extern boost::lockfree::queue<int> q;
extern std::atomic<int> sum;

Then you need to define them in a separate file, global.cpp:
boost::lockfree::queue<int> q{100};
std::atomic<int> sum{0};

I think this should fix your issue.  For details, see How do I use extern to share variables between source files?

As for the second part, asking why you can't make a lock-free queue of strings, well, that is answered by the error message: has_trivial_destructor is false for std::string, because it's a dynamically-sized string which allocates memory.  You won't be able to use it in this sort of lock-free queue.  You can try using a fixed-size string class instead, or std::array<char, N>.

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The leaders of the Muslim world will assemble in Istanbul today to take action after the United States inaugurated its embassy in Jerusalem and Israelis butchered at least 62 unarmed Palestinians and wounded 2,000 others in Gaza.
Turkey has led a campaign to bring together Muslim leaders in Istanbul as the term president of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Now they have an opportunity to display to the world their strong opposition to the U.S. move and their deep disgust in the killing of unarmed Palestinian protestors by Israeli soldiers.
Turkey has taken an active role to oppose this matter, thus drawing the wrath of the Zionists of the world. Ankara has called back its ambassadors in Washington and Tel Aviv for consultations and has sent the Israeli ambassador back home to consult his own people in Israel.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again emerged as the leading statesman to rally for the defense of Jerusalem and the Palestinian people. In line with Turkey's foreign policy principle of "defending the oppressed of the world" Ankara is now raising hell in defense of the Palestinian people. The president is not only rallying support among the Muslims but also among European leaders including the Pope.
It is sad that Israel has managed to inflict cracks among the Arabs regarding the Palestinian issue. The fact that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and countries like Bahrain have turned their backs on the Palestinians has been an eye opener. Yet even these countries have fallen into line when the issue is Jerusalem, the third holiest city in Islam, because they are fully aware that the Arab nation will never forgive them if they become the part of a sellout on Jerusalem.
U.S. President Donald Trump has created more discord in the Middle East by moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He has further complicated the existing mess in the Middle East and has deepened enmities and mistrust.
The task for Muslim countries is first to forge a united front and stand tall against the U.S. and Israel. Then we have to take practical decisions to counter the U.S.'s move and make sure that the world sees the carnage that the Americans have created. After that we need to attend to the plight of the 2,000 Palestinians who were wounded by the Israelis in Gaza.
Israeli authorities are not allowing the transfer of these people to other countries for urgent medical care. Israel has to be pushed to allow the wounded to be transferred to Turkey or any other country where they can receive decent medical attention.
It is sad that we are getting news that the Egyptians are also reluctant to intervene.
The Muslim world should effectively address this issue and, unlike the Arab League, show to all friends and foes that we will not abandon the Palestinian people and Jerusalem.
The Turkish people will also hold a massive rally in the Yenikapı district of Istanbul, with millions of people expected to join, and show to the world their solidarity with the Palestinian people and their anger regarding the U.S. Embassy's move to Jerusalem.


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[Gc] time for an alpha release?
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Sorry.  I think it would be a good idea to get an Alpha release out asap.  If you have time, please do so.  Otherwise I will do so when I get back.  We can fix test.c afterwards.
By the current numbering scheme, this should be alpha4, and the tree should become alpha5 afterwards.
> Subject: Re: [Gc] time for an alpha release?
> the tarball yourself (when back to home).
> reason to prevent the combination in the test code.
> parallel collection.  But I'm sure we could do better than we are now.
> > > Subject: RE: [Gc] time for an alpha release?
> > > parallel mark turned on.  Why is that again?
> > > > Subject: RE: [Gc] time for an alpha release?
> > > > That sounds like a good idea.
> > > issue a bit more.
> > > > some, parallel mark disables it, as do some other features.
> > > that quickly.
> > > > > Subject: [Gc] time for an alpha release?
> > > > > to fetch the source from the CVS).


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Disabled applicants wanted for out of this world position with the European Space Agency
TOPICS:astronautesaEuropean Space AgencyTim Peake
Posted By: Enable Magazine 16 February, 2021
The European Space Agency (Esa) is looking to recruit a member of the team that identifies disabled, as part of their call for new astronauts.
Do you have a master's degree (or higher) in Natural Sciences, Medicine, Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Sciences? Or are you qualified as an experimental test pilot?
Then this breakthrough opportunity to become an astronaut with the Esa could be for you.
The agency has already asked the International Paralympic Committee to advise on the selection process.
Barriers in the past, including people with lower limb deficiency or those who have restricted growth are now actively being encouraged to apply.
A post shared by ESA – European Space Agency (@europeanspaceagency)
Speaking to BBC News, Dr David Parker, the director of Esa's robotics and human spaceflight programme, said: "To be absolutely clear, we're not looking to hire a space tourist that happens also to have a disability
"To be very explicit, this individual would do a meaningful space mission. So, they would need to do the science; they would need to participate in all the normal operations of the International Space Station (ISS).
"This is not about tokenism," he added.
"We have to be able to justify to all the people who fund us – which is everybody, including people who happen to be disabled – that what we're doing is somehow meaningful to everybody."
Esa is looking to modernise, and ensuring that all members of society are visible in the organisation.
Applications are being accepted to join the Esa from 31 March to 28 May – you can find out more on how to apply here.
At least four individuals will go straight into the ESA astronaut corps, based in Cologne, Germany. A further 20 candidates will be placed as reserves.
The training will also include lessons on learning Russian, which is the other language used on the space station.
UK astronaut, who joined the Esa corps in 2009, Tim Peake told BBC News: "We're involved in the Artemis programme, which will send humans back to the surface of the Moon, and that's a gateway to Mars. So, this [draft] could be recruiting the first Europeans who will set foot on Mars."
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Los lagos de Kamysh-Samarskiye ( son un sistema de lagos en la provincia de Kazajistán Occidental, en Kazajistán, situados en dos hileras, separadas por una cadena de colinas arcillosas con cúpulas salinas.

Están situados en la parte sudeste de la provincia, en la frontera del óblast de Astracán de Rusia. Se extienden por 100 km de este a oeste y de  en la frontera con la región de Astraján Rusia. Los lagos extienden del este al occidente 100 kilómetros y de norte a sur 60 kilómetros, están unidos por canales. Tienen las orillas limosas, fangosas, cubiertas de espeso junco. Alrededor de los lagos existen prados de pasto. En los lagos desembocan los ríos Mali Uzen y Bolshói Uzen. El agua de los lagos es ligeramente salada. Ricos en peces, eran explotados para la pesca en época soviética.

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Your knowledge of the Indian Ridge market as well at the entire Desert Market is amazing. It is evidenced in your quarterly publications as well as your in-depth statistical analysis.
When you asked for listing modifications, you presented measurable and documented stats that thoroughly justified the need for listing modifications . . . no frivolous changes requested that would make it easier for you and would end up reducing the value proposition for us.
Your Staff is very well trained and has that same "can-do-attitude" that you carry with you to each meeting . . . this is very important. You nor your team ever rejected our ideas about changes to your marketing. Ideas were always treated respectfully and thoroughly discussed and implemented with mutual understanding and agreement.
Your involvement and knowledge of the "ins and outs" of Indian Ridge was extremely helpful to both us and the potential buyers.


There are many therapeutic activities to ease your mind at Genting Highlands. Its not just about gambling away your money or play some games at the theme park. You can pay a visit to English Garden to balance up your weekend getaway. I don't know this place exist until my recent trip to Genting.
After a short trekking into the Fashion Forest and lunch at Awana, we were led to take Sky Way up to visit English Garden.
They even have maze nearby to play around and get lost. Don't worry even your kids can find their way out from this maze.
Here at English Garden you can enjoy variety types of Pitcher Plant. This is my first time see huge pitcher plant which is also part of conservation project of Treks. They even rescue pitcher plants from roadsides , hill slopes and pieces of land earmarked for development.DAEBAK!!!!!
They are rehabilitated and available for public viewing at the Treks Nepenthes Conservation and Display Wall at the English Garden near Theme Park Hotel or you can also visit Treks outlet in Awana Genting.
Love the idea of conservation the nature is part of mega development by Genting Highlands. Really, don't know that Pitcher Plant can be this colorful and beautiful too. New things for me. I am glad to join this trip. Bring your kids here to educate them with nature rather than a weekend at Shopping Complex walking and fooling around.
For those who looking for some informative weekend activities , you can go ahead to Treks Nature Enterprise fb. They are more than happy to plan your short gateway up to Genting Highlands.
If you need some ideas on what kind of activities you can do in Genting Highlands. Please visit my other link which I share on my experience visit to Fashion Forest.
Visit me again on Monday for my story on how I get a chance to mingle around with reptilian and amphibian.
Very beautiful photos there with the effect of the weather. I wish to return to English Garden when the weather clears. That would show me a different perspective of the garden, I believe.
never go this place before!!The view is so beautiful!!
I would say I love the cold weather if I was in KL, but now I am experiencing winter in Australia. I am beginning to appreciate the heat.
SO pretty.. I want to visit there too... long time no go genting... was at this English garden when I stumbled across it a during a visit and loved it there..
Wow~ It's been awhile since I visit Genting Highlands! Guess I should revisit soon.
Beautiful place! Kids would love it too...So close to nature.
Oh didn't know got this place at Genting! Thanks for sharing, can plan here instead of going Genting Casino. Lol.
I have never visit this place before and it looks nice and the air so fresh.
I didn't know about this place!! I only knew of the mushroom farm. Definitely checking this place out next time!
Waaa...shiok ohh! Looks like a romantic place. I will enjoy coming here.


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What type of education is required to become a licensed Chiropractor?
After undergraduate studies, today's chiropractic physician completes an additional four-year curriculum of over 4,500 college classroom hours of health sciences.
Today's Doctor of Chiropractic is well educated. The science of chiropractic requires a special emphasis on anatomy, physiology, pathology, neurology, biomechanics, X-ray, spinal adjusting techniques and related subjects. This demanding curriculum prepares chiropractic doctors to locate the Vertebral Subluxation Complex and help correct the resulting nervous system dysfunction.
To graduate with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, each candidate passes the demanding National Board Examination. Then, doctors apply to a governmental or state professional licensing board and pass a still more difficult test before being granted a license to practice in their particular state.
A chiropractic education never ends. Doctors complete postgraduate instruction for license renewal every year to stay current on the latest scientific research.
Proper rest, exercise, life style changes and good nutrition are especially important during the healing process.
The body needs time to heal. By doing all the right things, you not only speed up the healing process, you can truly improve the quality of healing and hopefully reduce the chance of flare-ups.
What part can I play at home in the assistance of my pain management?
Chiropractic treatment obviously serves an important role in patient care but can be limited based on the activities or lack of activities outside the office. It is extremely important that care also includes in home activities such as strengthening, coordination, endurance and posture exercises. By combining rehab exercise and chiropractic treatment you will maximize your body's chance to heal and function properly.
Regardless of your age, chiropractic care can help improve flexibility and help decrease joint pain. Most all people over the age of 50 have some sort of degenerative arthritis. Improving mobility and function of the joints in these patients can increase quality of their life. There are also many chiropractic techniques for older individuals who have osteoporosis (bone loss).
If I already crack my own back and neck, will a chiropractic adjustment do anything more for me?
Many people that come into my office perform their own brand of chiropractic to themselves by "popping" their own neck or back. They do this to relive spinal pressure and pain that is being caused by an underlying spinal condition. As time goes on they find themselves doing it multiple times throughout the day because this pressure continues to build up. Eventually they find the relief is just not the same as it used to be. Having a true chiropractic adjustment is much different than randomly twisting your spine to cause popping. Since a chiropractic adjustment is a specific force, applied in a specific direction, to a specific spinal joint, it is virtually impossible to adjust oneself. An adjustment typically feels very different than popping your own back and gives much greater relief.
Trauma or injury to the spine can cause discs to tear, bulge, herniate, or even worse, rupture. This can be quite painful, as the soft center of the disc leaks, putting pressure on the adjacent nerve roots and spinal cord. Typical symptoms with a disc condition can be one or more of the following: numbness/tingling, pain and weakness into arms or legs, groin pain, lower back pain, neck pain and in serious cases bowel or bladder dysfunction.
While results cannot be guaranteed, many patients have avoided needless surgery or a dependency on pain pills, by choosing chiropractic care for their disc-related health problem. Disc conditions are primarily diagnosised using a MRI or CAT scans, which are routinely ordered by office for patients who display the above symptoms.
If you're visiting Dr Pelton with upper-neck pain or headache, be very specific about your symptoms. This will help him to offer the safest and most effective treatment, even if it involves referral to another health care provider.
Yes, we see children benefit from chiropractic care. Children generally are more physically active and experience a wide variety of falls and injuries from their daily activities, as well as from sports paticipation. Injuries such as these may cause many symptoms including back and neck pain, stiffness, soreness or discomfort. Dr. Pelton utilizes Chiropractic care uniquely adapted to each individual patient. His is a highly skilled treatment, and in the case of children, very gentle.
The hands-on nature of the chiropractic treatment is essentially what requires patients to visit the chiropractor a number of times. To be treated effectively, a patient needs to be treated by Dr. Pelton here in the office. In contrast, a course of treatment from a medical doctor often involves a pre-established plan that is conducted at home (i.e. taking a course of antibiotics once a day for a couple of weeks). A chiropractor may provide acute, chronic, and/or preventive care thus making a certain number of visits sometimes necessary. In most cases, Dr. Pelton can to tell you the extent of treatment recommended for you and how long you can expect it to last.
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Today, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed historic legislation making the Garden State the fourth state in the country—after New York, Massachusetts, and California—to adopt a $15 minimum wage.
The agreement calls for gradually raising the state's minimum wage to $15 by 2024 for most workers, and by 2026 for seasonal workers and small businesses with less than six employees—with full parity by 2028. Farmworkers will be entitled to a $12.50 minimum wage by 2024, with the possibility of reaching $15 by 2027, and full parity by 2030. Tipped workers will receive a raise from $2.13 to $5.13, also by 2024.
"Today's victory is the result of successful organizing by low-wage workers in New Jersey who, over the course of two years, turned out for rallies, appealed to the public, and directly petitioned their representatives in Trenton to adopt a $15 minimum wage," said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project.
Many minimum wage workers in the state, currently earning $8.85, will see an increase of $1.15 as soon as July. For a full-time worker, that represents a $2,392 annual increase. Other workers will not see an increase until next year. "While this deal marks an important step toward greater economic security for many New Jersey workers, it unfortunately leaves farmworkers, seasonal workers, and employees of small businesses behind by delaying their much-needed increase to $15 per hour," said Owens.
Legislators set an important precedent for other states that are considering minimum wage increases by rejecting corporate lobbyists' efforts to leave young workers behind. Approximately 107,000 workers under the age of 20 work in New Jersey, and many depend on every dollar they earn to pay for college or help support their families. "Including young workers in this historic raise shows that states can and should make all work pay," said Owens.
Unfortunately, New Jersey's minimum wage deal fails to fully eliminate the tipped sub-minimum wage. The tipped wage will rise from the federal minimum of $2.13 per hour to $5.13 by 2024, however. Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute of data from states with no tipped minimum wage—so-called "one fair wage" states—shows that service workers in these states earn more and suffer lower rates of poverty. Eliminating the tipped minimum wage entirely in the future will be essential to ensuring that no worker in New Jersey is left behind.
A $15 wage in New Jersey shows that the Fight for $15 campaign continues to gain momentum. Since workers in New York first walked out of fast-food jobs in November 2012 to demand a $15 minimum wage and a union, more than 20 states and 40 cities and counties have raised their minimum wage, with raises amounting to more than $68 billion. Additional campaigns to raise the minimum wage are underway at the federal level and in more than 15 states, including Connecticut, Vermont, Maryland, Minnesota, and Hawaii, all of which are considering minimum wages of $15 or more per hour.
The benefits for low-wage workers and their families from raising the minimum wage have been significant. In the face of broader economic trends that have led to stagnant and falling wages across the bottom of our economy, raising the minimum wage has reduced economic hardship, lifted workers out of poverty, and improved other life and health outcomes. Raising the minimum wage increases consumer spending and so can boost demand for goods and services, keeping money circulating in the economy and creating a virtuous cycle that benefits workers, businesses, and communities.
The National Employment Law Project is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts research and advocates on issues affecting low-wage and unemployed workers. As a national intermediary and back-up resource for many minimum wage campaigns around the country, NELP was pleased to be able to support the work of the coalition that fought to raise the minimum wage in New Jersey. For more information about NELP, visit www.nelp.org. Follow NELP on Twitter at @NelpNews.


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The Trail Went Cold
A true crime podcast hosted by Robin Warder
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 247 – Charles Walton
October 13, 2021 October 13, 2021 Magill Foote
February 14, 1945. Lower Quinton, England. 74-year old farm labourer Charles Walton leaves his home in order to spending the day slashing hedges on the slopes of Meon Hill. Later that evening, Charles' body is discovered next to the hedgerow and he has been beaten with his walking stick, had his throat slashed with a billhook, and been stabbed with a pitchfork. While the original investigation turns up a potential suspect, there is not enough evidence to implicate him, but as the years go on, Charles' death becomes surrounded with stories involving witchcraft and the occult. Was Charles Walton's murder some sort of ritualistic killing? If not, what could the actual motive have been? On this month's first Halloween-themed episode of "The Trail Went Cold", we explore an infamous unsolved cold case from the United Kingdom which has been clouded by sensationalistic urban legends.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Walton_(murder_victim)
"The Case That Foiled Fabian: Murder and Witchcraft in Rural England" by Simon Read
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8662635.stm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/weird-warwickshire/1945-witchcraft-murder.shtml
https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/articles/2006/06/26/weird_witchcraft_murder_feature.shtml
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/gory-valentines-day-murder-remains-12600398
http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htm
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The concept pursues this universal idea that we are all, indeed, pretenders in the way we portray ourselves in a world where we hide our insecurities.
Two time Grammy-nominated DJ and producer Steve Aoki teamed up with multi-platinum selling hip-hop recording artist Lil Yachty and certified platinum pop group AJR to release their hit anthem on insecurity titled "Pretender" first performed on Good Morning America earlier this month. Today, they release the priceless visual to accompany it!
The video, directed by Tyler Yee, known for both his unique narrative approach as well as his witty, often outlandish imagery, emphasizes how we create scenarios on social media to showcase ourselves 'living our best life' when it comes to the personas we create for everyday consumption.


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Home People Detroit Area School-Based Golf Program Honored
Detroit Area School-Based Golf Program Honored
DETROIT — The Michigan Golf Course Owners Association has honored Dave Robinson, owner of three TGA Premier Junior Golf franchises in metro Detroit, for his efforts in growing the game of golf through TGA's successful school-based golf programs and summer camps.
Robinson received the 2012 Dul Family Player Development Leadership Award from the MGCOA during its recent annual conference in Frankenmuth. The award, which comes with a $1,500 grant, recognizes "the best on-going program that overcomes the non-golfer's perceived barriers to playing golf such as: time, cost and intimidation … and "demonstrates creativity and success in growing the game." Robinson will use the grant to provide scholarships for youth who otherwise could not afford the summer golf camps.
TGA of Macomb and Grosse Pointes has partnered with Sycamore Hills for the past four years, and owner, Tom Schwark, nominated TGA for the award. TGA runs 10 sessions of weeklong camps every summer at Sycamore Hills, plus parent-child events every May and September.
"I am humbled and honored by this recognition from the Michigan Golf Course Owners Association," said Robinson. "We have developed a terrific working relationship with Sycamore Hills Golf Club, running summer camps and parent-child events. I am very grateful to owner Tom Schwark for his nomination, and to the entire staff at Sycamore Hills for being such wonderful hosts for the TGA kids."
Robinson, a former sports editor and deputy managing editor at the Detroit Free Press, currently owns three TGA franchises in the metro-Detroit area — Macomb and Grosse Pointes, East Oakland County, and West Wayne County. His fast-growing programs are impacting over 70 schools and nearly 2,300 students annually through TGA's unique after-school programs and summer camps.
Through an innovative youth sports franchise model that implements a progressive five-level after-school enrichment curriculum, TGA Premier Junior Golf has become the first and largest national after-school golf program. Through school-based and community center programs, TGA has developed the infrastructure at the grass roots level to introduce the game of golf to the masses including youth ages 5-13 and their families capturing adults 25-45. Students and their families become vested in golf, giving TGA the ability to dictate the next steps in their golf career and transition them to golf courses.
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The aim of the Bedford School Association (BSA) is to work with all alumni groups in order to create a sense of attachment and an active network which positively supports Bedford School.
In recent years the School has taken a more inclusive approach in attempting to make all alumni feel most welcome. In simple terms, with a more 'joined up' approach we feel that more can be achieved.
The following organisations are represented within the BSA:
Bedford Prep Parents' Guild
Upper School Parents' Guild
Past Parents' Association
Alumni:
Old Bedfordians Club
Bedford School Foundation
The BSA works closely with all these groups and helps to support them so that they flourish. It also aims to build strong relationships with Friends of the School, particularly within the local community. We are thrilled that more and more people want to be associated with Bedford School and join us at a variety of events and gatherings.
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Bir Günün Hikâyesi (en turc Història d'un dia) és una pel·lícula turca de 1980 escrita i dirigida per Sinan Çetin. És el primer llargmetratge dirigit per Çetin.

Sinopsi
Mustafà està enamorat de Zeynep, però segueix les costums i s'ha de casar amb la vídua del seu germà, que alhora és la germana de Zeynep. Per acabar-ho d'adobar, el seu amic Nizam també està enamorat de Zeynep

Repartiment
 Nizamettin Ariç - Nizam Ali (veu. Mustafa Alabora)
 Fikret Hakan - Mustafa (veu. Kamran Usluer)
 Nur Sürer - Zeynep
 Sherif Sezer - Emine (veu. Güler Ökten)
 Erdogan Akduman
 Erdinç Bora - Erdinç (veu. Gökhan Mete)
 Ahmet Fuat Onan - Treballador de mines
 Ihsan Tebret
 Aslan Ariç

Premis
"Bir Günün Hikâyesi", va guanyar el premi a la millor pel·lícula al Festival Internacional de Cinema de Hyères, i el premi a la millor actriu per Nur Sürer al Festival Internacional de Cinema d'Antalya de 1982.

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 ''Bir Günün Hikayesi  a sinematurk.com

Pel·lícules del 1980
Pel·lícules dramàtiques de Turquia
Pel·lícules de Turquia
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Torres Small said the power of the economic growth in the district she's running for must be harnessed by Congress.
Xochitl Torres Small said her bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representative is based on the diversity of the Second Congressional District – especially underrepresented, rural communities.
A native of Las Cruces and southern New Mexico, the Democratic candidate recently took a tour of southeast New Mexico where growth in the oil and gas industry led to increased revenue for the state and federal government.
Torres Small said the power of economic growth in the district she's running in must be harnessed by Congress to plan for the area's future, amid a volatile boom and bust cycle.
That could take the form of support for the federal Bureau of Land Management, which manages the tracts of federal land that much of the region's oil and gas development takes place upon.
Revenue generated in southeast New Mexico must return to the communities that host the developments, she said, and regulations should encourage companies to come New Mexico, rather than neighboring Texas, which she said has less government oversight.
The BLM's backlog of applications for permits to drill (APDs) must be addressed to encourage further development in New Mexico with the recent boom of the Permian Basin.
Encouraging ongoing growth in the industry is what's best for her potential constituents, she said.
Locally, Carlsbad's BLM office is considered a field office with the main office in Roswell. Torres Small said this creates an issue with staffing further south, where federal lands are being developed at increasing rates.
Low staffing could be blamed for long wait times for permits, she said, and the federal government must address the issue so that southeast New Mexico can continue to grow while oil prices continue to grow.
But with the increased revenue and development, comes risk.
The industry is booming right now, but could bust in the future if oil prices fall.
Torres Small said it is important for communities to invest in the future, and diversify local economies to survive the volatility of the extraction industry.
That can be achieved by partnering with the private industry, she said, to gain investments in local communities to ensure the quality of life is maintained.
"We've got to make sure we're preparing for what the future holds, and that we're continuing to diversify, we're continuing to find other ways to support our community here," she said. "We're using this time to invest, so that we have responsible, efficient production now and a future as well.
Surviving the bust also means addressing one of the most basic, contested and scarce resources in the American Southwest: water.
Torres Small said local communities must come together to create effective water plans, and the federal government can help by providing the information needed.
She pointed to Interpid Potash, a potash mining company in Carlsbad, that uses byproducts from its operations to relieve some its freshwater needs.
"One of the things that I love about water is you have to believe in science to work on it," she said. "The other thing that I love about water, is people have to be vulnerable enough to identify their needs and share that information, where people are competing over that finite resource. So water plans are essential.
Water isn't the only area where the federal government can implement regulations, and help constituents navigate the complex bureaucracy, she said.
So a focus on constituent services is crucial.
"In general, government has just become so impossible to navigate," Torres Small said. "I know the importance of the constituent services part of it. I know the importance of a really robust state team. That's how you're helping people navigate this complex process.
But in Washington, while congressional politics have seemingly become polarized, and either party accuses the other of "obstructionism," Torres Small said she hopes to work across the aisle – regardless of affiliation – to bring rural issues to the forefront.
"We've got to make sure that instead, we're building relationships," she said. "That's also investing time with people who don't necessarily come from the same party, but I agree with on a lot of things.
"And it means that making sure I am always putting the people of the second congressional district ahead of the party, any party."
The problems rural communities with lack of services such as access to healthcare, quality education and communications such as internet and cell phone service go under appreciated, she said, without strong representation for rural communities.
Torres Small is facing Republican Yvette Herell in the general election scheduled for Nov. 6.


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Applegate sent my family and I on a stress free picnic. Why was it stress free? Because I didn't have to decipher the label of each package of their cold cuts and cheeses.
The ingredients were simple and natural: roasted turkey, ham, salami with provolone cheddar cheese. Antibiotic free, artificial ingredients free, and preservative free... meats and cheeses.
"The American" Roasted Turkey with avocado, salsa, mayo and melted cheddar cheese.
Here are the sandwiches we created using Applegate cold cuts and cheese, Rudis's multigrain gluten-free bread and Sir Kensington all natural mustard and mayonnaise.
"The German" Black Forest Ham, mustard, sauerkraut, with melted blue cheese.
"The French" Smoked Turkey, mustard, apple and melted brie cheese.
"The Italian" Salami, roasted tomatoes, pesto, and melted provolone cheese.
It was a fine day for a picnic... everyone was enjoying their sandwiches... everyone except our dog Lila, who felt tremendously left out!
She was loving her new bandanna... but then she got a whiff of something?
Someone realizes she has been deceived. All this meat and Lila was not invited.
She begged me for just a taste.
My daughter is much kinder than me and gave Lila a piece of turkey.
In the end everyone enjoyed the good food from Applegate.
Sunday: Mother's Day Dinner out!
Friday: PJ's Graduation Picnic: Slow Cooker Pulled Pork, Grilled Chicken, Cole Slaw, Potato Salad with Brownies and Lemon Squares.
Saturday: Surprise Birthday for my 16 year old!
Your puppy is beautiful! Thanks for sharing the fun pictures!
Thank you. We love her, even though she's a beggar.
mm those look so good Diane! I'm jealous of your picnic weather.
It was only one day.
I want the German! Thanks for posting. Hello from Menu Plan Monday.
Me too... that was one the best ones.
all those sandwiches look delicious!
These all look so tasty. Love your daughters Thor t-shirt too!
My son got the Captain America Shield. Love Marvel!!!
Thanks Joy, They are a wonderful company with products you can trust to be healthy.
Very nice clicks, thanks for sharing info on Applegate products to Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning.
Diane, I just love Lila she is just adorable! I love Picnic sandwiches looks like a great time. Thanks so much for sharing your post with Full Plate Thursday and have a great day!
This looks like such a wonderful picnic, Diane! The food looks delicious - I was interested to learn about Applegate's products. Thank you for sharing with us at the Hearth and Soul hop.


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Queens of Tech is a podcast series about raising the voice of workplace role models – 60+ questions in around 30 minutes with female influencers about their journey into STEM.
Voices of impact!
I, Jasmine Moradi, started the "Queens of Tech Podcast" initiative in May 2022 because I would like to retain more women in the tech industry. Female talent is out there, but the work environment needs to improve for women, non-binary and transgender to feel safer, stay authentic, get equal opportunities, and be valued for their contribution.
My goal is to raise the voices of female tech influencers around the world and together with companies, investors and politicians raise the challenges and opportunities around Equality, Inclusive Diversity, and Belonging in our workplaces. Enough is enough!
The podcast talk is built around 60+ questions regarding upbringing & education, career path, DEIB, and advice. The purpose is to get to the heart of the guest's life and career journey to inspire other girls and women, non-binary and transgender to unleash their full potential in tech to reach top leadership roles.
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