Yesterday, I started reading a blog written by a medical resident. He's I think two years in, and while I loved reading it, there was a strong current of "I hope that's not me in 4 or 5 years" coursing through my thoughts. I'm incredibly thankful for the life that I'm cultivating outside of my medical career – my ever-changing hobbies, my parrot, my friends, my boyfriend, my family – and I hope that come residency, I'm still nurturing those sides of me.
Right now my core story is certainly that I'm a medical student. I have been for 1.5 years, and I will be for2.5 more years. But my core story is not my entire story, and it wouldn't be a very good one if it was, and that I think is the thread that runs through my posts. That I am a medical student but that I refuse to let it be an all-consuming part of my life.
How I share my story with the world is a bit of an obvious question to ask a blogger, or maybe it's only an obvious question to ask an introverted blogger. At the rate that I open up to people in person, my story won't get very far or be very deep, but writing in this blog, I'm able to share more deeply, and with more people.
And so ends Reverb 10! I hope I haven't bored anyone with this never-ending onslaught of daily(!) posts. I've had a lot of fun, but I'm happy to return to my more occasional posting schedule. I suspect that this blog will begin to focus more and more on medicine and less and less on my creations; my education is becoming increasingly more interesting (I'm starting to feel like I'm actually learning about medicine as a field and career and not just as a classroom science) and my time and energy for making things will be shrinking.
But through it all, I hope my posts will still be good reading, infrequent as they may be. I'm determined to try to blog through third year though, because I'm so curious what it's like and was always disappointed when I'd read through archives of other medical bloggers and third year was mostly undocumented. I know it's for good reason, but I'm up for the challenge! Even if I only manage to write one entry per rotation, that's something.
Thank you everyone who's stopped by and read my Reverb 10 posts! You've helped me stay the course and finish, and also helped make this feel like a worthwhile experience. Happy New Year!
This prompt would have been much more fun had I not already done the first half several times.
Next year I most want to achieve being a smart medical student, which encompasses getting a good Step 1 score, but also doing well in my classes, and being able to have and follow intelligent discussions about the material we're learning.
How will that make me feel? Smart. Less stressed. Less anxious about being put on the spot during my rotations. A good Step 1 score will have me feeling giddy and accomplished and like my future's a bit more secure.
I'm not sure what I can do today to specifically capture those feelings, but I can think of things I can do today that will make today a good day.
1. Not have to go anywhere.
4. Rework my travel plans for February. I need to visit my parents the weekend I was planning on visiting Ahmet that month, and I was also planning to have my best friend come to the US that weekend so we could go visit him together, so now I need to reschedule everything, and it takes me forever and is a bit stressful, but it needs to be done and I'll feel much better when it is.
6. Play some video games.
Instead of working on this post some more, I'm going to go ahead and work on number 7. Breakfast time! Might come back later and do some retouching, but as you can see, writing a good blog post is not on this list!
I have a strong dislike of alarm clocks, but they are a necessary evil. For years I used the same, simple clock radio, and woke up to its loud, blaring beeps. More recently, I switched to my phone, still using an alarm that was not kind to my ears (to this day if I hear someone using my old alarms as a ringtone, it gets the adrenaline pumping for a second or two). And then this past March, I came across an app for my phone that allowed me to use a song (Fireflies, by Owl City), and even to allow the volume to slowly ramp up, which was a much kinder way to wake up.
But oh, the joy of waking up without an alarm clock! Not on the mornings where it's because I'm anxious and can't sleep, or because I was just awake enough that the squeak of my roommate's door hinge has pierced through my dreamy haze, or because I'm too hot or too cold.
No, these are the mornings where, do I even need to get out of bed right now? No, not really. But I will. Soon. On my own time. I wake up comfortable, no pain in my neck or arm from sleeping on them wrong, no too bright light assaulting my eyes. I wake up because I'm ready to, not because I have to.
Waking up without an alarm is a luxury I am now used to, but waking up content and relaxed? It happens, and it happens on days just like any other, just days where I happen to have my act together a little bit more than others, and I know that I do, and I'm not worried right from the get go.
It's a simple joy, a joy to stretch and close my eyes again sans guilt, a joy to look at the time, think that I've had enough sleep but some more won't hurt, and wriggle back under my covers without second thoughts.
And it's an ordinary joy that I'm voluntarily allowing to become an extraordinary joy, in no more than six months, most likely fewer. There are major sacrifices that one makes for many career choices, but there are also minor ones. I won't ever be returning to my old, faithful ten plus year old alarm clock, or to the grating ring of my cellphone, but I think that waking up with a lazy smile is going to become quite the luxury all too soon. It will fall victim to either anxiety, or to chronic sleep deprivation, or an on and off combination of both.
From what I've gathered, a number of people at my school either currently take, or have taken sleeping pills. They have trouble falling asleep, and I'm going to bet they don't wake up well either. I admit, I've had trouble falling asleep on occasion, but I'm determined to avoid medication (fine, non-over the counter medication. Benadryl has been my friend in the past).
Speaking of sleep, it's past midnight here and I've been woken up every morning. I don't think I can quite aim for a joyful morning (too many things rattling around in my head that need to be done) but I can aim for pleasant, and that's a very close cousin. Goodnight!
First I wanted to share a blog post from a blog called Mothers in Medicine. It's just a nice cute story about turning working on Christmas into a not so bad experience.
And now onto my reverb 10 post!
I've had a lot of good food this year. Food I've made, food friends have made, food made by strangers who are paid to make it.
Most of the food I've made is posted about in this blog already, like my Thai inspired Coconut & Lemongrass Fish Soup which was almost perfect except for the tough bits of lemon grass but which I loved nonetheless and can't wait to make again. Each meal of the leftovers made me just as happy as the last. Or the Olive Oil Orange cake. Or my strawberry jam. Or my mead, which isn't really a food, but is as it surely packs quite a caloric punch.
And then there are the meals that aren't quite worth posting about, but which I loved anyway, like the fish I bake and eat with yellow rice with maybe a tiny bit too much butter. Or the mug of chai tea I made the other day with the tea bags my friend Amrita gave me and it was seriously the best chai I've made at home. Or making myself a bowl of ramen with just a bit of the packaged seasoning but really making up my own broth, and cracking two eggs into the pot (my tiny little ikea pot which I happily eat directly out of) and poaching them to the perfect point where the yolk is still a bit runny but not so runny that it completely dissolves into the soup.
Oooh, the little jar of fish one of my friends gave me. I love sardines, but I admit they're generally without much flavor. These were packed with spices and just… absolutely delicious on their own or with saltines. Runners up in this category would be Trader Joe's canned smoked herrings. So good with rice as a quick, pre-exam night meal.
There was a lot of good food over my summer break, in Ghana and in Turkey. I meant to post about it separately but I never got around to it… And right now I'm not about to pull up the pictures, but the two dishes that come to mind first are Seafood Pizza (in Ghana, which I just had again today) and this… ground beef/yogurt/veggie dish in Turkey that I really want to learn how to make.
I don't eat out at restaurants often any more, but I took Ahmet out to dinner for his birthday and we went to this little restaurant called The Stone House and… wow. I am often unimpressed by restaurant food, but I loved every single thing we had there (well, I liked the truffle mac and cheese) and I didn't have any "Meh. I could've made this just as well at home!" thoughts because I really probably couldn't, and that, in my mind, makes for a very successful restaurant outing.
Oh! And the shrimp and grits in Charleston! Oh the shrimp and grits in Charleston… That's definitely up there in my list of top meals this year.
Then there's the pumpkin bread Hao made (the first time was the best), and the buttermilk cake with raspberries that Amrita made, and the ribs that Ran makes, and hm, I can't right now think of anything that Joe specifically made that I loved but I'm sure there was something because I've had many meals in his and Ran's apartment and he has to have been responsible for something I really liked.
And now I'm hungry and I need to stop writing this post.
It's easy to get the impression that I don't love food, because I don't eat a lot and I often can't really be bothered to put anything elaborate together because why on earth do I need to eat so many times a day this is ridiculous I have better things to do! And of course I don't actually need to eat that often, so, well, I don't. But good food is good food! How can you not appreciate good food? Even okay food is worth appreciating. And great food, well, great food you remember forever.
There's a magnet on my mother's fridge that says "Never trust a skinny cook." You can't trust me to whip up a homecooked meal every day, but you can trust that every now and then, I'm going to get inspired and make something really tasty. Without strictly following a recipe*, of course. Pssh.
*(Unless I'm baking or making candy).
December 25 – Photo – a present to yourself. Sift through all the photos of you from the past year. Choose one that best captures you; either who you are, or who you strive to be. Find the shot of you that is worth a thousand words. Share the image, who shot it, where, and what it best reveals about you.
This photo won out over four others because it's a better picture of me and a better picture in general. The others included me reading (while clearly chewing on the inside of my cheek, a longstanding habit), me curled up with my laptop in a "I am not expecting company or to see the sun" outfit, another me shut in with laptop picture, and a picture that was taken just after this one, but of me staring directly at the camera and smiling openly.
This picture is me out on a date with Ahmet, in Turkey, at a fancy restaurant named Sunset that had a beautiful view, and he took it. Somehow, a lot of the pictures he took that night came out really well, and I was tempted to post a series of three of them (including this one). I'm not quite sure what this picture reveals about me, but it's one of those pictures that really clicks with how I see myself.
Those pictures are rarely of me looking straight at the camera. They're also rarely of me doing my full on photo-smile. It's the pictures of me looking off to the distance, at most, glancing sideways at the camera. The pictures of me with a slight smile or no smile at all. The pictures of me where I'm in my head and not directly interacting with anyone. The pictures of me not posing for a picture, but interacting with the photographer as a person, or being completely unaware of the camera and the world outside my head.
Everything isn't going to be alright. Life will be alright in the end, I think, because a lot of what makes life okay is attitude and outlook. Moving on and embracing life in the face of failure, tragedy and death.
But everything? No, every little thing isn't going to be alright. What's alright is that I'm going to keep trying to be okay even though every little thing isn't. And some big things too.
There's been a lot of moments this year that had the "Everything is definitely going to be okay!" feeling. Moments wrapped in feelings of love and safety and pride and accomplishment. Passing a class I really struggled with. Getting honors in a class I studied thoroughly for and actually understood. Realizing that I definitely can do this whole medical school thing, and well!
But then later comes the realization that it was just a moment. School is a tangible thing, but other aspects of life are murky. A few good hours are in no way a promise that things will always be that way. You can fall in love and get married, but no one can tell you how long you will have together, no one can tell you that when they walk out that door, they're coming back. (I went through a phase in life where every time someone left the house, I wondered if that was the last time I'd see them. I didn't panic each time; I was just coming to terms with the concept).
For me, it's not about moments giving me a false sense of security. It's about moments motivating me to keep going. Maybe later in life I will have some proof moments, but right now my life is all about earning the state of okay. Okay is taking work. Okay is taking commitment. Okay is taking trust and faith. Okay is not a pre-defined equation just waiting to be solved. I'm still figuring out what the equation is.
This post brought to you by the realization that I couldn't use the moments I wanted, those happy fuzzy warm moments, as proof that everything will be okay, not only because some are too personal for the direction of this blog, but because I don't believe that they're proof.
In other news, my niece's adorableness factor has increased by like a thousand now that she can walk. I didn't think she could get that much cuter, but I was so, so wrong.
I suppose I would go with Coco. Coco was one of the names in the running for me, after Coco Chanel, but it, and Paige, lost out to a very traditional Ghanaian name, Aba (If you follow me on twitter, that's my full name but next to no one calls me that). I was in theory named after someone (I always forget who), but it was somewhat a naming after of convenience.
See, in Ghana, most (all?) of the tribes have names that are associated with the days of the week. Obviously, not every one actually uses those names, and many people have them but go by one of their other names. My three older brothers, for example, were all born on Wednesday and share the same day name, but only the eldest is referred to by it. I don't have any other official names, and have always gone by Aba, which is my name because I was born on a Thursday. Hence, the name of my blog. I've been meaning to thoroughly explain that for a while.
I used to not like my name. I didn't exactly dislike it, but it just… it didn't sound pretty to me. Perhaps it's because most media I read and watched was Western, so I had a westerner's ear for what names should sound like. And not too many people I knew went by their day names. I was actually the only person I knew in my school in Ghana who went by Aba. And it wasn't that I wanted a Western name. There are plenty of Ghanaian names that I thought were prettier.
Then somewhere along the line, I started to make peace with my name. A few people I told that I disliked my name, non-Ghanaians, were surprised and said they really like my name. But I think it all came together as I myself came together, more fully accepted who I was, and a part of that was accepting how I am called. I learned to like my name, and much more recently, I think I can say that I love it.
Having struggled for so long with my name, I can't spend an entire post on a different one. No, this name, my given name, the name I have responded to all my life, that is the name that deserves a post.


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Arthur, T.S. "American Characteristics; No. V.-- The Daguerreotypist." Godey's Lady's Book, vol. XXXVIII, May 1849, pp. 352-55
An article, in the style of the time, relating anecdotes about the studio -- in this case, that of Marcus Aurelius Root. The author, T.S. Arthur, was a popular journalist and the author of a manual for young women. The gentle humor poked at the hapless customers seems designed to calm cultural anxieties about the daguerreotype: fear of the physical truth, fear of sitting in front of the contraption.
Burns, Stanley B., M.D. Sleeping Beauty; Memorial Photography in America. Twelvetrees Press, 1990.
A graphic but highly effective look at post-mortem photography through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Burn's eye is unflinching; we are treated to bloody and bloated corpses as well as the conventional funeral shot. This difficult reading is necessary, though, for a complete view of the genre.
"The 'Daguerreotype,'" The Knickerbocker, vol XIV, December 1839, pp. 560-61.
A review of the first exhibition of Daguerre's work in New York, and a source of early impressions of the daguerreotype. This article shows the adoring awe that greeted the daguerreotype.
"Daguerreotypes," Littell's Living Age, vol IX, no. 110, June 20, 1946, pp. 551-52.
A very badly written, but telling contemporary source. This article connects the daguerreotype explicitly to phrenology.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836- 1838. Emerson, Edward Waldo, and Waldo Emerson Forbes, eds. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841- 1844. Emerson, Edward Waldo, and Waldo Emerson Forbes, eds. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ed. Ralph Rusk. Vols. 3 & 4. New York: Columbia, 1939.
"A Few Photographs," The Knickerbocker, vol. XLII, August 1853, pp. 137-42.
Like the Godey's article, these tales from a French daguerreotype studio seems to be intended to calm anxiety about the accuracy of the medium by portraying the less fortunate subject -- in this case, an ugly woman. There is also an excitement about the honest look at the physiognomy that the daguerreotype provides, though.
Haber, Samuel. The Quest For Authority and Honor in the American Professions, 1750-1900. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1991.
The portion of this book that deals with our period argues convincingly that the professions suffered a loss in status at mid-century as a wave of egalitarianism swept the country. Taken with Wilentz and Hirsch on the artisan and the working class, forms part of a good summary of nineteenth-century occupation.
Halttunen, Karen. Confidence Men and Painted Women; A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870. New Haven: Yale, 1982
Halttunen uses magazines and other middle-class sources to support a wide-ranging theory of mid-century culture. Among other things, she argues for the dominance of a "sentimental" culture in response to the market, expressed in fashion and etiquette and spread, or at least reflected, in women's magazines like Godey's Lady's Book, her major source.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. New York: Modern Library, 1961.
This oft-cited novel has a daguerreotypist as a major character, and the daguerreotype's ability to reveal character is central.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Letters, 1813-1843. Ed. Thomas Woodson et al. Ohio State, 1989.
Hirsch, Susan E. The Roots of the American Working Class; The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860. University of Pennsylvania, 1978.
Hirsch uses quantitative data, for the most part, to show how the factory-employed worker replaced the artisan as the primary urban worker in Newark in the first half of the nineteenth century. Her intention, as her title implies, is to present Newark as a test case for a national movement.
Jensen, Oliver, Joan Paterson Kerr, and Murray Belsky. American Album. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co./Simon and Schuster, 1968.
A sentimental collection of nineteenth century photographs, with a few daguerreotype portraits.
Johnson, Robert Flynn and Robert Harshorn Shimshak. The Power Of Light; Daguerreotypes from the Robert Harshorn Shimshak Collection. San Francisco: Achenberg Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1986.
This is a little book published for an exhibition in San Francisco. The photographs are joined by beauty more than anything else. The collection is most useful for the attention paid to anonymous photographers and subjects. The reproductions are excellent, if small.
Kasson, John F. Rudeness and Civility; Manners in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990
Using magazines, fiction, etiquette manuals, letters and other sources, Kasson argues that manners and other formal gestures of the nineteenth century were crucial expressions of culture. Far from rote displays of virtue, manners often served as tools of privilege and class domination.
Newhall, Beaumont. The Daguerreotype in America. Greenwich, CT : New York Graphic Society, 1968.
Newhall is the author of The History Of Photography, the standard overall history. This book provides a solid and picturesque history of the daguerreotype and its introduction to America, especially in the business of photography and galleries. It has a decent selection of prints, though they are weighed toward the famous subject, and away from the private portrait.
Pfister, Harold Francis. Facing the Light: historic American portrait daguerreotypes : an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, September 22, 1978-January 15, 1979. Washington: Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
A collection of portraits, mostly of the famous, with accompanying text. A remarkably thorough piece of scholarship, with a section noting every known extant portrait of each person included.
Pike, Martha V. and Janice Gray Armstrong, eds. A Time to Mourn; Expressions of Grief in Nineteenth Century America. Stony Brook, New York: The Museums at Stony Brook, 1980.
This anthology includes several articles of interest, but most notably, Phoebe Lloyd's "Posthumous Mourning Portraiture." Lloyd argues that the posthumous mourning painting was widespread in the nineteenth century, and that many paintings of children that appear to be from life were, in fact, painted from corpses. She provides an important context for the posthumous daguerreotype portrait.
Prime, Samuel Irenaeus. The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D.. New York: Appleton and Company, 1875.
The only complete source for Morse's letter introducing the daguerreotype to America; even his Letters and Journals, edited by his son, leaves out most remnants of his work with daguerreotypes.
Root, Marcus Aurelius. The Camera and the Pencil; or, The Heliographic Art. Pawlet: Helios, 1971. Originally published in 1864.
Rudisill, Richard. Mirror Image; the influence of the daguerreotype on American society. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971.
Rudisill's full-length treatment is much more theoretical than Newhall's, laying out a theory of a cultural "climate of need" that was satisfied by the photograph. Though his argument is occasionally forced, and he neglects the photographs themselves too often, this book was probably the first to analyze the body of photographs as I have -- in terms of broad anxieties, needs, reactions, etc. The annotated bibliography is broad and useful. Rudisill has a better range of prints than Newhall's, but some reproductions are terrible.
Sobieszek, Robert A. and Odette Appel. The Spirit Of Fact: The Daguerreotypes Of Southworth and Hawes, 1843-1862. Boston: David R. Godine, 1976.
Southworth and Hawes's Boston studio was one of the most famous, and judging by these photographs, the best. These are gorgeous and fascinating pictures of the famous and not-so-famous, beautifully reproduced. The text is usually good, if gimmicky and over-clever.
Trachtenberg, Alan, ed. Classic Essays on Photography. New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980.
Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Matthew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990.
Trachtenberg, an English and American Culture professor, has a very broad range of sources, and he has an entirely original view, based around the idea that the photographer, like the historian, has a highly selective memory. He blends literature, magazine articles, and photograph collections together well to argue for a national construction of public image using the daguerreotype. Unfortunately, he does not turn his multi-disciplinary eye toward the private portrait; most of his chapter on the daguerreotype, "Illustrious Americans," centers around representations of the famous. When he does analyze a photograph, furthermore, his reading is so broad as to make it suspect as social history; that is, he often fails to consider the role of photographer and subject, considering instead, each photograph as literature, as a text independent of its creators.
Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic; New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850. New York: Oxford, 1984.
Williams, Hermann Warner, Jr. Mirror to the American Past; A Survey of American Genre Painting: 1750-1900. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973.
Wood, John, ed. America and the Daguerreotype. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991.
This is a collection of essays. Wood's "The American Portrait," the opening essay, centers around the reaction of twentieth century viewers and avoids historical analysis. David Stannard's "Sex, Death, and the Daguerreotype" provides a useful connection between painted death portraits and mourning daguerreotypes; it is sometimes inspired but haphazard. Brooks Johnson's "The Progress of Civilization," the only scholarship that I could find on occupational daguerreotypes, is superficial and unconvincing.
This book does have a fine photograph collection. It is the only source that I had for color reproductions of tinted photographs, and has generally strong reproductions.

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Sahand Communications in Mathematical Analysis (SCMA) - Keyword Index
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Arens regularity; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 67-74
Banach algebra; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 107-115
Basic reproduction number ($R_0$); Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 1-11
Bernoulli polynomials; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 37-51
Bernoulli's inequality; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 21-27
Biholomorphic mapping; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 63-70
Category of probabilistic normed space; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 25-32
Category of topological vector space; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 25-32
Collocation method; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 37-51
Composition; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 13-24
Compound matrices; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 1-11
Convergence; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 47-65
Copson matrix; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 1-12
Delay integral equations; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 47-65
Difference sequence space; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 1-12
Dirichlet series (VVDS); Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 29-35
Disease-Free equilibrium state; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 1-11
Doubly stochastic matrix; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 91-106
Entire functions; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 13-24
Fredholm integral equation; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 13-20
Fuzzy continuous operator; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 25-32
Fuzzy real number; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 21-27
Generalized Mittag-Leffler function; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 33-45
Generalized relative lower order; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 13-24
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Generalized Wright hypergeometric function; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 33-45
Global stability; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 1-11
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Matrix domains; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 1-12
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Multiplicative map; Volume 03, Issue 2, 2016, Page 91-106
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Real number; Volume 03, Issue 1, 2016, Page 21-27
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Review — Degrees Of Separation
We sit down and review Degrees Of Separation. A fun little platformer game that forces a split screen. Here is our review of Degrees Of Separation
It is always nice to get a break from the normal triple-A titles out there and get a fun little thing like Degrees Of Separation mixed into the gaming loop. This is the latest title from Moondrop that takes the traditional platforming model and turns it on its side a bit. Not too drastically, but enough to catch the eyes of many and make Degrees Of Separation stand out from other titles. At least that is the idea behind it all. Here is our review on just how well this all worked for the game and if you should pick it up on your PS4, Xbox One, Switch, or PC.
Get ready to be whisked away to a new world where two people, Rime and Ember, find themselves where their own worlds are colliding. That is, Ember comes from a world dominated by warmth and vibrancy and Rime from a cold world that freezes everything instantly. Something that keeps them separated in this new land as they traverse the worlds set forth using remnants of their own worlds to affect the current one. One freezes them while the other thaws. Hence the name Degrees Of Separation…
Degrees Of Separation — Review
One of the basic gameplay elements in Degrees Of Separation has you solving puzzles and platforms to collect magical scarfs in the different worlds. Pretty straightforward and a nice little core gameplay element here. The reason this is all in the "hated" section is that there is never a good and easy way to keep track of the ones you have already collected along the way. Not the biggest of issues, but when progression through Degrees Of Separation is based on how many you have found, it makes it a bit too much of a crunch to remember where to go back to. That is unless you aim to collect them all along the way. Something that can be difficult as sometimes you need to complete puzzles, further along, to understand how to complete some of the earlier ones.
The next big thing that ground my gears in Degrees Of Separation here is also something that could be a boon to the game in the longer run. That would be that this game was fully designed to be played as a couch co-op title and not a single player game. Moondrop does give you the option to play the game single-player, but that is much more difficult than you may think. At least if you want to be able to collect everything and do everything. Most puzzles were manageable fairly easy in both lights, but it was almost a nightmare in some instances. One, in particular, would require you to jump back and forth between characters insanely quickly to try to complete whereas playing with a partner made it too easy. It felt like Degrees Of Separation never found that perfect balance between the two along the way.
To start off, the art style and audio for Degrees Of Separation is absolutely amazing given what the game is. At times I would want to take in the scene or just swap between characters to see how the world changed for each. Each world and level was crafted to keep the different abilities of Ember and Rime in mind. Something that could have been easily done by just placing an overlay atop the screen, but the artists and team took care to make sure everything had an effect based on where the characters were on the screen. This added even more to the experience of Degrees Of Separation as I would look for all of these when coming across major and minor landmarks in the world. Just as a great game should be.
While Degrees Of Separation would have been easier to play co-op, I played only single-player, I will have to throw some love to the puzzle and challenge designs that were in the game. Some of them were huge head-scratchers, but always had that feeling of accomplishment once you figure it out. Even the trickier ones that pretty much require two players. Most of them took a lot of skill and timing to pull off and never felt like they were made hard just to slow the player down. If you could not figure things out in Degrees Of Separation it was most likely because you are not looking at all of the different angles and possibilities. This is something many games do not get right but it was done insanely well here that I was sad to see the game come to a close.
Degrees Of Separation is a solid platforming title that will make couch co-op a great experience again. I would have liked to see a few UI or option tweaks to happen in the game to make being a completionist a bit easier, but that never truly detracted from the core of the game. If you are looking for a great new puzzle/platforming title then you cannot go wrong with Degrees Of Separation. Just be ready to be perplexed a bit more when going at things solo. You will see how it all would be easier with a friend most certainly.
I give Degrees Of Separation a 36 Magic Scarfs on the Magic Scarf scale.
Degrees Of Separation — Launch Trailer
Degrees Of Separation was developed by Moondrop and published by Modus Games for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC on February 14th, 2019. A PS4 copy of the game was provided by the publisher for reviewing purposes.


May 2016 (EBACE, Geneva):Dubai-based Empire Aviation Group (EAG) subsidiary - Empire Aviation San Marino–is building its registered fleet in San Marino, following the award in 2015 of an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) for aircraft management and charter by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of San Marino. EAG currently has two managed aircraft registered in San Marino with four further managed business jets in the pipeline for mid year registration.
In September 2015, EAG became the first aviation company from the Middle East to be awarded an AOC by San Marino, where the company now has a dedicated office supporting tworegistered aircraft – Dassault Falcon 7X and a Bombardier Challenger 300.
The San Marino AOC enables Empire Aviation's registered aircraft to perform worldwide commercial air operations, regardless of the aircraft base. EAGalso holds a United Arab Emirates AOC and the company currently manages a fleet of 25business jets with bases in the UAE,Oman, Nigeria, India and Hong Kong.
The Republic of San Marino is a member State of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, created to promote the safe and orderly development of international civil aviation throughout the world. San Marino is also member state of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC).
Empire Aviation Group has rapidly expanded its international operations over the last three years, with the group's first fully fledged overseas branch in Bangalore, India; a dedicated US aircraft sales office in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; and new operations setup in Hong Kong.


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Larry Joe Ehlers
March 21, 1940 ~ May 25, 2013
Larry Joe Ehlers passed away peacefully at his home on May 25, 2013, following a long illness. He was born on March 21, 1940, to Walter and Lucille (Heizer) Ehlers in Caldwell, Kansas. He was the third born of the family of four children. He attended Caldwell Schools, where he graduated in 1958. Upon graduation, he worked at various jobs on farms and service stations until he joined the local telephone company. During his time with the phone company, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Following basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, he was stationed at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, where he was trained in weather observation and forecasting. His final year and a half of active duty was spent at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona serving as a weatherman for the Ft. Libby Army Air Field. Until his dying day, he thoroughly enjoyed watching the weather and keeping track of what was happening around the world. After completing two years of active duty service, he received an honorable discharge in June of 1965.
After his discharge, Joe returned to Caldwell and went back to work with the telephone company. On July 4, 1965, he married Mary Jeannette Buresh. To this union, two children were born. Jeffery Dale and Jolene Marie. His career in the telephone company led the family to move to Sterling, Kansas, Gallup, New Mexico, and Grandview, Texas. During these years away from Caldwell, Joe worked for Continental Telephone Company, and was the youngest supervisor the company had ever had. He was especially proud of the work he had completed in New Mexico with the design and construction of the first telephone system brought into the Navajo Indian Reservation.
As his career had progressed, he grew dissatisfied facing life sitting behind a desk and longed to get back to using his skills working with his hands. In 1972, he started the Make-R-Mend Shop, which he owned and operated in Caldwell until 1989. Initially, he intended this to be primarily an interior remodeling company, but as the business evolved and needs in the community were realized, it became more service oriented and he helped many in the Caldwell area with plumbing, locksmithing, electrical, HVAC and other building and remodeling needs. It seemed if it needed to be fixed, Joe was called on day or night. He was an avid student and completed many correspondence courses over the years as he was not afraid to take on new challenges and learn how to work on things that he had never tackled before.
Joe then worked for the City of Caldwell, supervising the street and water department for two years followed by accepting a position with Builder's Square in Wichita, designing kitchens in 1991. In Caldwell, Joe was active in the First Presbyterian Church where he held many offices of leadership throughout the years. In 1994, Joe and Jeannette fulfilled a dream they'd had all of their married life and moved to Nixa, Missouri. (She passed away in 1995.) He finished out his career designing kitchens at the Lowe's Home Improvement store in Springfield, Missouri, where he earned many "gold star" awards for customer satisfaction and retired in 2002.
On June 21, 2000, he married Barbara Hough of Marshfield, Missouri. They purchased a new home in rural Marshfield, where they loved to fish, watch the birds, and just enjoy the beautiful nature around them. Many hours were spent feeding the fish in their stocked pond, refilling bird feeders, planting and tending flower beds, watching ducks and geese nest around the pond, and just enjoying time with nature all around them. Joe was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Marshfield, Missouri, a member of the Webster County American Legion Post # 142, and was an active member of the Webster County Missouri Military Honor Guard for as long as his health allowed. Joe will always be remembered for his undeniable work ethic, creative problem solving abilities, ability to fix just about anything and most of all – his sense of humor that remained intact to the end.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother William Milton (Bill), brother-in-law Richard King, and his wife, Jeannette. He is survived by his wife of the home, Barbara, his son, Jeff (Diane) of Sherwood, Arkansas, daughter, Jolene (Jim) of Zambia, Africa, stepson Sanford (Tammy) Hough of Fort Worth, Texas, stepdaughter Tanya (Tim) Newkirk of Atchison, Kansas, 5 grandchildren, 10 step-grandchildren, and 1 step-great-granddaughter, sister Lori King of Charlotte, Michigan, brother Eddie (Claudia) Ehlers of Caldwell, sister-in-law Diana Ehlers of Medford, Oklahoma, sister-in-law Linda (Jess) Newkirk of Columbia, Missouri, brother-in-law James Allen (Vonette) Buresh of North Richland Hills, Texas, and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
Services to celebrate the life of Joe Ehlers will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, May 30,2013 at the Marshfield United Methodist Church, Marshfield, Missouri, followed on Friday, May 31, 2013 with a 10:00 AM visitation at the Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, Kansas and an 11:00 AM graveside service at the Czechoslovakian Cemetery, Caldwell, Kansas.
In lieu of flowers, Joe requested that memorial contributions be made in his memory to any of the following:
Marshfield United Methodist Church
220 S Elm Street
Marshfield MO, 65706
American Lung Association
1118 Hampton Avenue
on the web at http://www.lung.org/associations/charters/plains-gulf/donate
Czechoslovakian Cemetery
c/o Schaeffer Mortuary
6 N. Main
Caldwell, Kansas 67022
Gil & Connie Traverse
Joe was very special to our family. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you in your time of loss.
Alan Kubik
As a classmate and friend of Lori's I remember Joe well and send my sincere condolences on his passing.
Tammy (Oathout) Ford
I am so very sorry for your loss. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. Take comfort in all your wonderful memories.
Michael D. Schmidt
You are in our family's thoughts and prayers.
Dan Goodman
We were neibhor hood kids for many years... i got Joe into more touble... i rode the horse across their porch and Mr. Ehler really got mad at Joe. We are neibhors of Eddies now... lots of fond memories up on Webb street.


Today on Instagram, our friends at CNN iReport are sharing one of my latest creations -- the mac-and-cheese bun burger! To make the burger yourself, you can find the recipe here.
The burger features a bun made entirely out of mac-and-cheese then panko coated and deep fried, plus a cheese stuffed burger topped with bacon. For more great Instagram photos, be sure to follow @CNNireport and @grillocracy!


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Q: What happed if some one make an object of the action class in another class in struts 2? In our code new freshers had made object of the action classes and used the methods.
How system affected if action class object used throughout the system.

A: There's nothing special about an S2 action class.
Turn this question around: since you're (apparently) not a "fresher", what do you think happens when a class is instantiated? How do you think S2 process a request? (Hint: it instantiates an action class, which is then eventually used to process the request.) How might an instantiated class, given that an S2 action can be a POJO, affect the rest of the system?
All this said:
From an architectural standpoint this is a bad idea, because logic used across classes should be properly extracted into a service/utility/etc. class and not tied up with a specific action.
It's also confusing from a cognitive load viewpoint: there's no reason to expect mainline code to manually instantiate an action--actions are instantiated by the framework for the sole purpose of processing requests.

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The fire burns near homes in the canyon at the Wagon Wheel Gap Fire on Friday morning.
A police man a roadblock at Lee Hill Drive and Wagon Wheel Gap Road at the Wagon Wheel Gap Fire on Friday morning.
A police roadblock at Lee Hill Drive and Wagon Wheel Gap Road at the Wagon Wheel Gap Fire on Friday morning.
Smoke billows near a home at the Wagon Wheel Gap Fire on Friday morning.
Firefighters and equipment are seen on the roadway at the Wagon Wheel Gap Fire on Friday morning.


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Virtual Lab School Momentum boosts childcare professional development
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By Ben Lewis, Director of Communications
A faculty-led program at Ohio State is partnering with the community to raise the level of childcare in central Ohio. Virtual Lab School (VLS) Momentum is a pilot project focused on providing high-quality, accessible professional development to the Columbus early childhood workforce. By participating in VLS Momentum, childcare professionals can learn research-based, developmentally appropriate practices for working with young children and earn professional development hours toward a credential.
Sarah Lang, assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology, and Cynthia Buettner, now an emeritus faculty member, started the program in the summer of 2019 with partners including the City of Columbus, Future Ready Columbus, Action for Children and childcare centers across Franklin County. Around that time, changes to state regulations led to a point where some centers might not be able to provide publicly funded childcare if they didnt have enough credentialed teachers.
"There were some avenues to help people work on their Childhood Development Associate (CDA) credential, but there werent enough," Lang said. "That led to us asking if we could help a broader set of teachers if we did this project together."
Lang said her community partners were critical in planning as well as identifying and recruiting the appropriate childcare centers for VLS Momentum.
"When we faced challenges, they were great about collaborating on how we could solve them together," she said.
VLS Momentum leveraged the training system of the Virtual Lab School, a decade-plus long partnership between Ohio State, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Agriculture that focuses on military-affiliated childcare, and adapted it to the local community.
"Every course is set up for teachers to build the base knowledge that they need in child development and quality early care and education practices," Lang said. "As part of that, a coach helps them make sure they know how to do the critical practices in the classroom."
The coaches play an important role in ensuring the teachers can apply what they learned. This sets VLS Momentum apart from other types of professional development, which might include going to a workshop to get their hours without the additional support of a coach.
So far nine teachers have earned their CDA after completing the VLS Momentum program.
"It's those moments when you know it makes a difference in teachers' lives and children's lives that's why you do the work," Lang said.
The team is planning to evolve the program for next year to work with three childcare centers where they can train someone to be the in-house coach.
"We think this is a more sustainable model going forward," she said. "Its similar to how military childcare operates their programs."
Lang said that the VLS Momentum team, which includes eight staff members, three undergraduate and two graduate research assistants, and a post-doctoral scholar, has made two international and one national presentation on the program and has two papers in development that will be submitted to academic journals.
VLS Momentum received a Community Engaged Program Award as part of Ohio States 2021 University Outreach and Engagement Awards.


I've been on the Tsu social network since it started in late 2014. Their main feature was that you get paid based on the views you get for your content. Their concept was that those creating original content (artists, photographers. writers, musicians) should get rewarded for their work. That content could be shared from other sites (e.g. Youtube) so that you would earn on Tsu as well as any income you got elsewhere.
People have asked if Tsu could host video themselves. I expect there are some issues with that in cost of hosting, as well as ensuring it does not breach copyright, but some new video functionality is coming in May. To promote this they have launched a contest for original music. Musicians can submit a track (linking to it on Youtube, Soundcloud etc) and if selected to progress should create a short video (up to three and half minutes). Songs will be judged in 6 categories with winners getting $1000 and then play off for a grand prize of an additional $8000.
I assume that videos will use the new features. They are obviously hoping to recruit more musicians to use Tsu to promote their music. I know that some on the site have done very well from it by bringing in their fans. There's an incentive to recruit musicians as those who invited the winners of the categories will also receive $1000.
It's tough to be a musicians, so any extra income should be welcome. Help to bring musicians to Tsu and they could benefit and you will too through their network scheme that passes a share of income to the 'parent'. Once you have joined you can use the Invite button.
I've only written a few original songs, but I'm tempted to submit one.
It's been a while since I updated this blog. There just never seems to be enough time. I'm trying to play as much guitar as I can. That includes a weekly acoustic session and a monthly open mic at the local pub. That gets me playing, but I need to find time to work on songs in between.
The big news is that I finally had a custom guitar built by Steve Benford. It's a modified Telecaster with a few special features. I'm really enjoying it and it was a pleasure working with Steve even though it was all via email.
I cover some of the details of this guitar in my latest podcast. It's taken me about a year to get around to episode 3, but I wanted to keep it going and will try to do more this year. This episode includes the latest song I wrote. I'm hoping some friends will contribute so it's not just me rambling on.
I intend to continue with writing songs. I have a few ideas I need to work on.
A while back I noticed that I had a lot of guitar plectrums around the place. I only use a few of them, but they do look nice, so I have stuck them along my shelf above the desk. There's about 30 of them now. This latest piece was contributed by someone at the acoustic session. The Foo Fighters ones came as a set bought at the Milton Keynes gig last year.
I've started a group on Tsu for people to swap picks. It's yet to really take off. I have offered to send people money from my Tsu bank to cover their costs and will also donate to charity. I have built up a fair bit there and want to make use of it.
I've also been doing a little bit of guitar repair on behalf of a friend who runs a charity shop. Some of the guitars that get donated need a bit of work. It's fairly basic stuff like stringing them up, replacing bridges and tuner buttons. All useful experience.


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Q: Bash script to Import Multiple Databses using Loop I have a folder with many DB.sql.gz files, i want to import them all into a new installation of MySQL Server in one go.
I thought using bash script would be a good idea.
So Far, I have this file as an executable.
#!/bin/sh
for filename in *.gz;
do
tempfile="${z##*/}";
database_name = "${tempfile%.*}";
echo database_name;
mysql -pPASS -u USER;
CREATE DATABASE database_name;
unzip z | mysql -pPASS -uUSER database_name;
done

Whats going wrong is that when taking the 'filename' in the for loop, i cant string
manipulate to to remove the extension, I want to do this because the database files are named as the database. ( just want to remove the .sql.gz to get the db name )
Help appreciated

A: #!/bin/sh
for filename in *.gz;
do
    tempfile="${filename##*/}"
    database_name="${tempfile%%.*}"
    echo $database_name
    mysql -pPASS -u USER -e "CREATE DATABASE $database_name"
    gzcat $filename | mysql -pPASS -uUSER $database_name
done

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*$z should be $filename.

*No spaces around = in assignments

*You were missing $ before many variable uses.

*To execute the CREATE DATABASE command, use the -e option to mysql

*Use gzcat to expand a .gz file to stdout.

*${tempfile%.*} should be ${tempfile%%.*}. % removes the shortest match of the pattern, %% removes the longest match. This will remove all the suffixes.


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FINAL DISSEMINATION EVENT
The Final Dissemination Event of STEP-2-SPORT project took place on 21st February 2017 in Brussels at the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the European Union. It was an open public event with the objective to disseminate the STEP-2-SPORT results to a wide variety of stakeholders: sport associations, EU associations, construction sector and experts in the sustainability field.
The welcome speech was delivered by Mr. Amadeu Altafaj i Tardio, Representative of Government of Catalonia to the EU. It was followed by the presentation of Mr. Philippe Moseley, Project Advisor of the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), who presented the Commission's "Clean Energy for All Europeans" proposals as well as the Horizon 2020 Budget and topics for developing energy efficiency projects. In 2017 there are 700 million EUR for Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy, of which 104 million EUR for energy efficiency. Mr. Alex Rivera, the Manager of INDESCAT (Catalan Sports Clusters), talked about the role of the Cluster and the different initiatives conducted by the Cluster at a regional level to promote the energy reduction in sports facilities.
Afterwards, the main results achieved in STEP-2-SPORT project were presented by the partnership:
Ms. Neuza Rosa from JesusFerreira Consultores-energyconsulting presented the Roadmap elaborated in the framework of the project to support the energy renovation process for achieving Nearly Zero Energy Sport Buildings.
Mr. Josep Mª Granollers from ICAEN presented the benchmarking tool, an on-line platform that enables sport owners and sport facility managers to assess their current energy performance and determine their energy improvement potential.
Mr. Athanasios Petsopoulos from SPEED Development Consultant, SA informed about the lessons learnt and policy recommendations extracted from the project, highlighting that additional energy policies and appropriate financial mechanisms are needed to achieve the necessary depth of deep energy renovation in sport buildings.
Mr. Marcin Dluzewski from the Polish National Energy Conservation Agency (KAPE) presented the deep energy renovation project that will be conducted in Stalowa Wola sport complex during 2017.
Mr. Marc Torrentellé from LEITAT Technological Center presented the package of energy improvement measures that were implemented in 4 Catalan sport buildings as well as the savings achieved.
Besides showcasing the main results achieved during the lifetime of the STEP-2-SPORT project, additional speakers were invited to enrich the discussion. The results achieved in a similar NZEB project, but this one focused on the field of hotels, was presented by Ms. Stavroula Tournaki (Technical University of Crete). Mr. Lieven Vanstraelen from Energinvest talked about the role of ESCOs and facilitators in Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) projects, and presented two successful EPC projects implemented in sport buildings: 1) CAR Sant Cugat (Spain) and ASVÖ Gymnasium Graz (Austria). The last presentation was made by Ms. Theodora Petroula from the Climate Action Network-Europe, who highlighted that there is a high potential to reduce CO2 emissions in the building sector.
The Final Dissemination Event of STEP-2-SPORT project allowed stakeholders to debate and share views on the perspectives of NZEB and energy efficiency in sport buildings.
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USEFUL TOOLS FOR SPORT OWNERS AND SPORT FACILITY MANAGERS
Within STEP-2-SPORT project, a benchmarking tool and an advisory platform have been created with the aim to promote the energy renovation of sports facilities.
The Benchmarking tool enables sport owners and sport facility managers to assess their current energy performance and determine their energy improvement potential.
Top benefits of the Benchmarking tool:
Determine the energy improvement potential of your sport building
Compare the energy performance of your sport building with an energy-efficient building of the same typology
Provide recommendations of energy improvement measures that can be implemented to achieve a Nearly Zero Energy Sport Building, reducing your energy expenses up to 60%
A tutorial video is available to support users on how to use the benchmarking tool. Click "CC" to see the subtitles in your language.
An Advisory Platform is available on the project website to advice owners and sport facility managers that wish to implement a deep energy renovation. Through the advisory platform, the sport sector has the possibility to contact the technical experts of STEP-2-SPORT project to ask their questions concerning the implementation of energy efficiency measures and renewable energies, Measurement & Verification of energy savings, funding opportunities, energy performance certification and other aspects related to the energy renovation of sport buildings. The sport sector has the possibility too to consult the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about energy renovation in sport buildings.
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The Actions Plans defined during STEP-2-SPORT project have revealed that with a total investment of €9.3 million in the 27 pilot sport buildings, more than 12000 MWh/year can be saved through the implementation of energy efficiency measures and more than 3000 MWh/year can be produced with renewable energies. The energy improvement measures proposed are being implemented through a step-by-step renovation approach, which is an effective strategy for achieving Nearly Zero Energy Sport Buildings (NZEB) in cases when there is a shortage of financial resources.
Until February 2017, the investment made in the 27 EU pilot sport buildings has been around €1.1 million, achieving energy savings around 2000 MWh/year. A wide variety of energy improvement opportunities have been implemented so far, such as building envelope solutions (e.g. wall and roofs insulation, more energy-efficient windows), stratified storage tank system for hot water, energy-efficient pumps, LED lighting systems and occupancy sensors, efficient HVAC solutions and heat recovery systems for indoor swimming pools, and condensing and biomass boilers. By the end of 2017, almost €4 million will have been invested to improve the energy performance of pilot sport buildings, delivering energy savings higher than 6000 MWh/year, avoiding more than 1800 tonnes of CO2/year and saving more than €506000 per year.
This figure below shows the potential of energy savings detected in each one of the pilots. The bar in blue colour represents the final energy consumption before the renovation and the bar in green colour is the expected final energy consumption of the building after implementing all the measures proposed.
To support the energy renovation of sport buildings, STEP-2-SPORT consortium has elaborated useful resources and tools which can be used and consulted through the project website.
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Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in human articular chondrocytes
Issue title: Selected papers of the 4th International Symposium on Mechanobiology of Cartilage and Chondrocyte, Budapest, 20–22 May, 2006
Authors: Shimazaki, A. | Wright, M.O. | Elliot, K. | Salter, D.M. | Millward-Sadler, S.J.;
Affiliations: Osteoarticular Research Group, Division of Pathology, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh University, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
Note: [] Current address: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-4-3 Asahimachi Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan.
Note: [] Current address: Division of Laboratory and Regenerative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Dr. SJ Millward-Sadler, Tel.: +44161 275 1818; Fax: +44161 275 5289; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Mechanical stimuli are known to have major influences on chondrocyte function. The molecular events that regulate chondrocyte responses to mechanical stimulation have been the subject of much study. Using an in vitro experimental system we have identified mechanotransduction pathways that control molecular and biochemical responses of human articular chondrocytes to cyclical mechanical stimulation, and how these responses differ in cells isolated from diseased cartilage. We have previously shown that mechanical stimulation of normal articular chondrocytes leads to a cell membrane hyperpolarisation. Within 1 hour following mechanical stimulation there is an increase in aggrecan mRNA levels. These responses are mediated via α5β1 integrins, the neuropeptides substance P and NMDA, and the cytokine interleukin-4. In OA chondrocytes mechanical stimulation leads to cell membrane depolarisation, but no change in aggrecan mRNA at 1 hour. The depolarisation response is mediated via α5β1 integrins, substance P and interleukin-4, but the cells show an altered response to NMDA. Having identified that the NMDA receptor is present in human articular cartilage and may play an important role in a chondroprotective mechanotransduction pathway, we were interested in whether other components associated with NMDA signalling may be involved in the chondrocyte mechanotransduction pathways. One such component is calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII). CaMKII mediates many cellular responses to elevated Ca2+ in a wide variety of cells and tissues. It is involved in the regulation of ion channels, cytoskeletal dynamics, gene transcription, neurotransmitter synthesis, insulin secretion, and cell division. CaMKII also shows a broad substrate specificity and is abundant in brain tissue, indicating that this kinase may play a number of roles in the functioning of the central nervous system. This kinase has been studied extensively in brain, but there is only a limited understanding of CaMKII in other tissues. CAMKII has four subunit isoforms (α,β,γ,δ). The α- and β-isoforms have narrow distributions restricted mainly to neuronal tissues, but the γ- and δ-isoforms are ubiquitously expressed within neuronal and non-neuronal tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of CaMKII in normal and OA cartilage and chondrocytes, and whether this enzyme is involved in the response of chondrocytes to cyclical mechanical stimuli. Reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT–PCR), using primers specific for the different CaMKII isoforms, was carried out to assess which isoforms are expressed in human articular chondrocytes. To assess whether CaMKII is expressed in human articular chondrocytes at the protein level, cultured chondrocytes were extracted and analysed by Western blotting using a pan-CaMKII antibody. Immunohistochemistry was carried out to investigate whether CaMKII is expressed by human articular chondrocytes in vivo. Frozen sections of normal, OA and ankle cartilage were incubated for one hour with CaMKII antibody and visualised using ABC and DAB. To assess the role of CaMKII in the mechanotransduction responses of normal and OA chondrocytes, human normal and OA articular chondrocytes were mechanically stimulated at 0.33 Hz, or by addition of recombinant IL-4 for 20 minutes. Cell responses to these stimuli, in the absence or presence of an inhibitor of CaMKII were assessed by measuring changes in cell membrane potential or changes in relative levels of aggrecan mRNA compared with the housekeeping gene GAPDH. Normal, OA, and ankle chondrocytes expressed the γ and δ isoforms of CaMKII mRNA, but not the α and β isoforms as demonstrated by RT–PCR. Western blotting showed a band at ∼60 kDa consistent with the expression of CaMKII. Immunohistochemistry revealed the positive staining in the middle and deep zones, but not the superficial zone, of normal, OA, and ankle cartilage. The presence of a CaMKII inhibitor inhibits the membrane hyperpolarisation response and upregulation of aggrecan mRNA in normal chondrocytes following mechanical stimulation, but has no effect on the hyperpolarisation response to recombinant IL4. The depolarisation response of OA chondrocytes to mechanical stimulation is unaffected by the presence of the CaMKII inhibitor. The CaMKII isoforms γ and δ are expressed in both normal and OA chondrocytes, both in vitro and in vivo, but are only involved in the response of normal chondrocytes to mechanical stimulation. This response is upstream of the effect of IL4. These findings are consistent with previous findings for the NMDA receptor, and suggest that dysregulation of NMDA-CaMKII signalling may be important in onset and progression of osteoarthritis.
Keywords: Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, chondrocyte, cartilage, NMDA receptor, osteoarthritis, mechano- transduction
Journal: Biorheology, vol. 43, no. 3-4, pp. 223-233, 2006
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Q: Subtracting data frames in Python returning NaN I'm trying to subtract the second columns of two csv files(mycsv.csv, mycsv2.csv), while keeping the first columns of both the same. It does the latter perfectly fine as you can see below, but the prices columns (2 and 4), just give back NaN.
     col2  col4
col1
MMM    NaN   NaN
WBAI   NaN   NaN
WUBA   NaN   NaN
EGHT   NaN   NaN
AHC    NaN   NaN

I don't know where this error is coming from, so I apologize for some much code. Thank you for any help you can give!
I'm trying to subtract the second columns of two csv files(mycsv.csv, mycsv2.csv), while keeping the first columns of both the same. It does the latter perfectly fine as you can see below, but the prices columns (2 and 4), just give back NaN.
     col2  col4
col1
MMM    NaN   NaN
WBAI   NaN   NaN
WUBA   NaN   NaN
EGHT   NaN   NaN
AHC    NaN   NaN

I don't know where this error is coming from, so I apologize for some much code. Thank you for any help you can give!
data_sheet1 = pd.read_excel('C:\\Users\\sss\\Downloads\\Book1.xlsx')
data_impor = data_sheet1['DDD'].tolist()

def get_ohlc(symbols):
    data = get_quotes(symbol=symbols)
    symbols_and_lastPrices = [] #create empty list
    for symbol in symbols:
        symbols_and_lastPrices.append([symbol, data[symbol]['lastPrice']]) #append [symbol, lastPrice]-pairs to list.
    return symbols_and_lastPrices #return list

csv_data = get_ohlc(data_impor) #save returned list

#write csv

with open ("mycsv.csv", "w" , newline='' ) as f:
    thewriter = csv.writer(f)

    thewriter.writerow(['col1', 'col2'])
    thewriter.writerows(csv_data) #write all data rows at the same time

with open('mycsv.csv', 'r') as f:
    reader = csv.DictReader(f)
    for row in reader:
        print(row)

time.sleep(2)

csv2_data = get_ohlc(data_impor) #save returned list

#write csv

with open ("mycsv2.csv", "w" , newline='' ) as f:
    thewriter = csv.writer(f)

    thewriter.writerow(['col3', 'col4'])
    thewriter.writerows(csv2_data) #write all data rows at the same time

with open('mycsv2.csv', 'r') as f:
    reader = csv.DictReader(f)
    for row in reader:
        print(row)

df1  = pd.read_csv('mycsv.csv', index_col = 'col1')
df2  = pd.read_csv('mycsv2.csv', index_col = 'col3')
df3 = df1.sub(df2)
print(df3.head())

A: Pandas does most operations using index alignment, see this example.  Both the row indexes in a dataframe and the column headers are pd.Index so pandas will align the data both horizontally (rows) and vertically (columns).
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from io import StringIO

file1 = StringIO("""No,col2,col4
MMM,10,10
WBAI,20,20
WUBA,40,40
SCOT,50,50""")

file2= StringIO("""No,col1,col4
MMM,5,5
WBAI,15,15
WUBA,35,35
N300,50,50""")

df1 = pd.read_csv(file1, index_col=0)
print(df1)
#       col2  col4
# No
# MMM     10    10
# WBAI    20    20
# WUBA    40    40
# SCOT    50    50

df2 = pd.read_csv(file2, index_col=0)
print(df2)
#       col1  col4
# No
# MMM      5     5
# WBAI    15    15
# WUBA    35    35
# N300    50    50

print(df1 - df2)
#       col1  col2  col4
# No
# MMM    NaN   NaN   5.0
# N300   NaN   NaN   NaN
# SCOT   NaN   NaN   NaN
# WBAI   NaN   NaN   5.0
# WUBA   NaN   NaN   5.0

Note, you have both col1 and col2 in the result and are NaN because alignment
print(df1 - df2.rename(columns={'col1':'col2'}))
#       col2  col4
# No
# MMM    5.0   5.0
# N300   NaN   NaN
# SCOT   NaN   NaN
# WBAI   5.0   5.0
# WUBA   5.0   5.0

Here, we have correct column alignment but there are two indexes that don't line up


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It was August 19, 1985, when Arturo Licenziati took over the reins of the Ticino company Institut Biochimique SA. From that day on, he redefined the company's vision and strategy, conferring on it an increasingly international scale and promoting its exponential growth.
Antonio Melli was among the protagonists of this incredible transformation: he joined IBSA in 1986, as Chief Financial Officer, and last year he became Group Vice President. From the very beginning, when IBSA had only 40 employees, Dr. Melli was at the forefront of the success of a multinational company which today employs around 2,000 people in 16 subsidiaries around the world.
Here are some nice considerations on his career at IBSA and on the company's extraordinary evolution.
DR. MELLI, WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT QUALITIES THAT SHOULD NEVER BE MISSING IN THE PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH YOU?
In general, I like to surround myself with People with very different personalities from one another – as well as from mine – because I think that diversity is a great wealth. However, there are some characteristics that I consider to be unmissable. The first of these is certainly integrity, intended as honesty and morals. Being able to trust your People is essential in every area of life, not least in the professional one.
In addition to being trustworthy and reliable People, my collaborators should have a healthy dose of resourcefulness, dictated by motivation and fighting spirit. In fact, I believe that even at work it is essential that People "believe in it", have ideals, aim to do well and get involved, without fear of making a mistake.
Ultimately, however, also common sense is essential, to act somehow as a "strict controller" of an excessive resourcefulness: indeed, it's a quality that I believe is critical in order to find the right balance and keep at bay impulsiveness or (too much) self-confidence, which is always a good thing until it becomes exaggerated, or "blind".
HOW IS THE PERSON CENTRAL FOR IBSA?
Our company places the Person at the centre, and by Person I mean patients, doctors, collaborators, stakeholders… In this sense, listening becomes fundamental. Listening on the one hand to the daily needs of patients and doctors and, on the other, to our collaborators and our community.
As for the People who work with us, we do everything possible to give everyone the opportunity to express their uniqueness. IBSA is attentive to the enhancement of talent: we invest in young people, and at the same time we promote internal growth. Therefore, we have collaborators of different ages, a factor that I consider very valuable. In fact, I believe that dialogue and intergenerational exchange are a source of enrichment for the People and for business in general, since each generation has its own strengths in terms of knowledge, skills, sensitivity and aspirations. In my opinion, the generational "contamination" can create a greater understanding and awareness of one's own professionalism, as well as others'.
Participation in shared values is also an aspect to which we pay the utmost attention. We want to make sure that every Person feels an integral part of the company, and is always placed in the best conditions to act, to be creative and to contribute to something important. I think our employees have a strong sense of identification in our corporate values, and for a manager knowing they can rely on their people is a great strength – as well as a priceless source of gratification.
SUSTAINABILITY IS AN INCREASINGLY COMMON WORD. WHAT DOES IT REPRESENT FOR IBSA?
IBSA is a pharmaceutical company whose identity goes far beyond the mere production of drugs. For us, manufacturing drugs means taking care of collective health and well-being. IBSA strives every day to become an increasingly attentive manufacturer, one which develops its industrial activities in harmony with the environment and with the social and institutional context. Responsibility towards people and the environment is a strongly felt value, at every level and within every Function.
Our philosophy relies on a cardinal principle, very dear also to our founder Arturo Licenziati: the wealth deriving from the development of an economic activity makes sense only if it is shared. At IBSA, we firmly believe in the social function of the company. Turnover should not only be synonymous with corporate prosperity, but also with actual energy, to be invested to create more wealth. To communicate our commitment in this area, we regularly draw up a Sustainability Report, that collects and describes data on the company's performance and approach, together.
Personally, I believe that sustainability is also a promise to future generations. Indeed, we have the duty to leave them a better world, and this is a commitment that we should carry out with all the resources we have at our disposal.
THE PAYOFF THAT ACCOMPANIES THE IBSA BRAND IS "CARING INNOVATION". WHAT DO THESE TWO WORDS MEAN FOR THE COMPANY?
It's a payoff as simple as it is powerful, just like the goal that IBSA sets itself. Our company develops innovative pharmaceutical formulations, easy to take and quick to assimilate. Our idea of care and health expresses the real needs of patients. Once again, we find the centrality of the Person, which is always the starting and ending point of our every activity.
Our research and development starts from respecting the specificity of the individual, and aims to offer the patient therapeutic solutions in the best possible form, that is, that are increasingly closer to the daily needs of liveability and comfort. Innovation in IBSA is therefore mainly aimed at the treatment of conditions which – although not life-threatening – have a strong impact on daily activities. Here, for us Caring Innovation means just that.
WHAT ARE THE NEXT CHALLENGES IN SIGHT?
The Group now consists of as many as 25 companies, in addition to the three Foundations. Over the next few months, we will finalise other important acquisitions, following which we will be able to consider completed the phase of establishment and opening of IBSA subsidiaries around the world, which began over 25 years ago.
Currently, our subsidiaries and distributors ensure the presence of IBSA products in over 90 countries, and this widespread and structured network forms the basis that will allow the commercial expansion of the company in the years to come. From a production point of view, important investments are underway in Switzerland and Italy, which will allow us to continue to meet the demand for our products.
With so many changes in sight, there are however things that must not – and will never – change. For example, the essence of our vision and our mission, the attention to the People and to the social and environmental context... these are IBSA's real DNA; they are the reasons for us all to be proud to work for this company; and finally, they are what motivated me to do my job better, every day for the past 36 years.
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Zone Healing was researched and developed by Dr. Thurman Fleet. Dr. Fleet divided the body into six systems:Glandular, Eliminative, Nervous, Digestive, Muscular, and Circulatory.
Each system is controlled and directed through specific neurological associations in the brain and brainstem. He taught that all diseased conditions, aches and pains, and other discomforts experienced by the body can be attributed to disturbances in one or more of these six systems or "Zones."
His theory was that a disturbance in one or more of these systems affects the brain's ability to direct the system to perform normal functions. Although a person might not notice the disturbance right away, given enough time and enough dysfunction the body eventually manifests disease instead of health.
The most advanced medical thought today validates Dr. Fleet's ideas.
As far back as 1976 the president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Palmer, theorized that the overwhelming majority of disease stemmed from a functional cause and was stress-related. Some medical experts are now estimating that as much as 90% of ALL DISEASE is caused by the body's inability to adapt to stress.
The patient is examined in order to determine which of the brain centers are not in harmony with the systems they control. This is done by palpating attachments of ligaments on the back of the patient's head. These points are related to the six brain centers by nerve connections and therefore serve as reliable neurological indicators for the brain centers. As the body may be properly classified as an ELECTRICAL MACHINE, these 6 brain centers represent the POSITIVE POLE of the body, and specific related points in the spinal cord represent the NEGATIVE POLE of the body.
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The closest example of what these manipulations are like is that they are similar to traditional chiropractic manipulations, with the important difference that they are used to stimulate the spinal cord instead of aligning the spine.
There are six sets of four points in the spinal cord (negative pole) that are related to the six brain centers (positive pole). Stimulation of the proper points sends energy in the form of an afferent signal up the spinal cord to the brain centers that need balancing. The balanced brain centers are then able to send out the proper signals to the body's systems and the body is better able to heal itself.
Diagnosis has always been very inaccurate. Dr. C. Everett Koop has been quoted as stating that well over 50% of all medical diagnosis made in this country is made in error.
Zone Healing offers a method that eliminates the inaccuracy of the diagnostic process by enabling the patient to know exactly what is happening in their body at a causative, neurological level.
Instead of guessing the causes of specific symptoms, the ZONE method allows the doctor to know what messages the brain is sending to each one of the broad systems of the body, thereby arriving at an accurate diagnosis.


Olivier Sarkozy, born as Pierre Olivier Sarkozy, is a popular French banker based in America. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about his life.
Olivier Sarkozy, born as Pierre Olivier Sarkozy, is a popular French banker based in America. He is best known for being the half-brother of former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy as well as for being the husband of actress-turned- fashion designer, Mary-Kate Olsen. He is also famous for enabling Sallie Mae's (publicly traded corporation) $3 billion recapitalization. Starting his career in 1990, Sarkozy has come a long way as a banker. He has worked for several renowned corporations and organizations such as Dillon, Read & Co., UBS Investment Bank, The Carlyle Group LP, The TCW Group and Credit Suisse First Boston, to name a few. Currently, he is a trustee of University of St. Andrews American Foundation Scholarship. He also serves as one of the members of the Board of Directors of BankUnited. Talking about his personal life, the father of two is happily living with his kids and wife Mary-Kate Olsen.
Olivier Sarkozy starred his banking career in the year 1990 with an appointment in Dillon, Read & Co, an American investment bank. He worked there for three years and then quit the job to join Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). At CSFB, he served as the managing director of the Financial Institutions Group and the Depository Institutions Group. Then in 2003, Sarkozy joined the UBS Investment Bank and became the Global Co-Head of Financial Institutions Group. At UBS, he enabled Sallie Mae's $3.0 billion and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's $2.9 billion recapitalization respectively.
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