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Reaching Out: Rolanda Robinson of It's Your Birthday Inc.
Reaching Out: Rolanda Robinson of It's Your Birthday Inc.	October 12, 2015By: Karyn Meyer Town Talk Features0 Comments
it's your birthday inc.: To create fun and memorable birthday experiences for children ages 5 through 12 who live in domestic violence or award winner homeless shelters.
Q| When did you start this organization?
A| It officially launched in September 2014.
Q| What made you interested in this particular cause?
A| I was volunteering several years ago with Our Fathers House, feeding the homeless at the Emmanuel House shelter. I noticed all these kids running around and asked the executive director what he did for them on their birthdays. I have always been very fortunate to have great birthdays and I still celebrate like crazy! He said they didn't have the funding or the resources to do anything, so I started throwing parties once a month at the shelter for kids who had a birthday that month. The shelter closed several years ago. Fast forward to last year, when I was trying to figure out a way to give back to the community. I remembered those parties and how the kids were so excited to have a couple hours where they could forget about where they were living. They would always run out to my car and scream, "The birthday lady is here!" I decided to try doing the same thing and started with a pilot to see if it would work. It was successful, so I filed for the 501(c)3 designation and got my official name.
Q| What kind of volunteer work are you involved with?
A| Currently, we are in nine shelters, domestic and homeless, and 11 schools. We do three different types of parties. The first is hosting a party at a shelter, usually once a month, for about an hour. We have volunteers who offer to perform, like a great guy who makes amazing balloon creations. Or we'll do a game or activity. I'm very conscious about anything we make because of the kids' living conditions, so we might decorate pillowcases or a picture frame. And we always have goodie bags and cake and ice cream! Second, we do 'birthday in a box' for those shelters worried about confidentiality. I send program managers a checklist asking what items they want in the box so families can host a more private event. We fill boxes with decorations and a gift card to get cake and drinks. The third option is a classroom party at the child's school. We ask school districts to give us a list of kids living in shelters, and we drop off cupcakes for them to bring to class on their birthday. And Maxine Clark of Build-A-Bear donates a bear to every birthday child. Oftentimes the moms really want to do something but just can't. They are in survival mode, and I want to take this burden off of them. The first few parties, I think I cried more than the moms!
Q| If you could do anything for the organization, what would it be?
A| More funding and donations. I'm a one-woman show and everything is based on private donations. A few companies have given me grants, businesses donate items, and I've had friends host party drives where guests bring items from the party wish list on the website. Nothing is too expensive and, except for the cake, it all can be found at the dollar store! I want to be able to give parties without worrying about how I'll pay for everything. I recently lost my job, but the organization keeps growing. I just got calls from another school district and more shelters asking me to help. The word is out, and I'm not going to say no. I do have volunteers at the parties who help decorate, clean up and play with the kids, but I do everything behind the scenes. I'm exhausted and don't know when I'll sleep again, but I'm having so much fun!
In the Words of volunteer Angela Rhone: "Hosting a birthday celebration for your child during a very difficult time in life is almost impossible to think of for many parents. A celebration sponsored by It's Your Birthday makes this task easier. There is no better reason to smile than for your own birthday, and thanks to Rolanda, children in shelters across St. Louis are smiling again. The impact of this service on our community has been great!"
It's Your Birthday Inc. applauds its sponsors for their involvement.
Photo: Colin Miller of Strauss Peyton
Strauss Peyton is a proud sponsor of the T&S Reaching Out Awards.
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"Fundamentally the handling of a pandemic is the concern of the public health services, a spokesperson for health insurance alliance VDEK told the paper, warning that otherwise costs would be transferred to their customers.
The cost, estimated at some €600 million, is an "amount that was not factored in and that can't be compared to petty cash," head of AOK Plus health insurer Rolf Steinbronn, adding that such a sum can ruin an insurer.
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Tripura to witness its first ever grand photo festival 'Amiya Prabha Choudhury Photography Exhibition'
Dr. Swapan Choudhury who is a NRI and serving in USA has started a photography exhibition in Tripura just to encourage the young and passionate Photographer of Tripura.
Choudhury who is a NRI has born and brought up in Tripura but living in USA and started arranging Photography exhibition named after his mother ''Amiya Prabha Choudhury Photography Exhibition'.
Dr. Swapan Choudhury who is a doctor serving in USA is told Tripurachronicle.in that one day about 5 years ago 2014 he was driving back from work, suddenly a idea of Photography exhibition came into his mind.
"I drive around 200 KM every day to go to work. I am a very passionate photographer. So I thought in Tripura there is no platform in Photography and one times there was no one to organise it in the state. So I thought maybe I should start a photography competition to encourage the young photographer of the state, instead of doing drugs and alcohol and they can use their energy in something creative", he said.
He also said that physically he lives in USA but mentally he lives in Tripura.
"I really Love India. I am so much attached to it. I am so engaged to it with mentally, I am very deeply rooted to India. That is why I work hard for such things. I do hard work and whenever there is vacation I do come here once in a year, sometime I come in Tripura twice. I love India and Tripura. I was 10 year old when my brother old when he gave me my first camera which was a gift when I stood first in the Fourth standard. Still I do have the camera. That is how it's all started", he added.
He said that his mother was a very supportive over his photography so I thought why not I name it on my mother to start a photography competition. This is how Swapan Choudhury have started the photography exhibition in the state.
"Initially I have started it in a very small but people said that nobody would come and going to participate but we received good responses from the people and I didn't have that much of money to advertise about it. And it now started growing up and this year the total price money is over Rs. 3 Lakhs and we got around 3 thousands submissions of pictures came from different people. There are categories for women photographer, school children photographer. Now I believe everyone is well aware if this competition named on my mother 'Amiya Prabha Choudhury Photography Exhibition'", he told this correspondent.
He also claimed that this is the first grand photography festival in the North East and whoever wins the grants will win Rs. 1 Lakhs. This year Raghu Rai and Megh Roy Choudhury would be here in the exhibition.
He also hoping to arrange photography workshop for the young minds in the state.
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Pseudolithophyllum Lemoine, 1913  é o nome botânico  de um gênero de algas vermelhas pluricelulares da família Corallinaceae, subfamília Corallinaceae.

Espécies
Apresenta 16 espécies taxonomicamente válidas, entre elas:
Pseudolithophyllum hyperellum (Foslie) Adey, 1970
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Referências
Yoon, H.S., Muller, K.M., Sheath, R.G., Ott, F.D. & Bhattacharya, D. (2006). Defining the major lineages of red algae (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 42: 482-492.
Guiry, M.D. (2009). Pseudolithophyllum. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2009). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Ligações externas
 Defining the major lineages of red algae (Rhodophyta), Yoon, H.S. et al
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  Gênero Pseudolithophyllum em  World Register of Marine Species
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Gênero Pseudolithophyllum em The Taxonomicon
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that President Trump was not speaking in "code" about Dreamers when discussing MS-13 gang members in his State of the Union address.
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University of Wisconsin: UW team among winners of Musk Foundation's XPRIZE for Carbon Removal Student Competition
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By iednewsdesk On Nov 11, 2021
A team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of the top winners in the $5 million XPRIZE for Carbon Removal Student Competition. The contest is kickstarting projects that could mitigate the impacts of climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, ground and oceans.
The UW–Madison team will receive $250,000 — the largest available award in the student competition — to fund further work on their plan to take carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas, out of the air and seal it away where it can't contribute to rising global temperatures.
"We are really excited about our technology, and it's cool to be working on something that has the potential of scaling up in a big way and actually have an impact," says team leader Keerthana Sreenivasan, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering.
The prize announced today is part of the larger $100 million XPRIZE for Carbon Removal supported by the Musk Foundation, a nonprofit research foundation established by entrepreneur Elon Musk. The multiyear global competition is designed to fund early-stage carbon removal concepts and encourage teams to "build real systems that can make a measurable impact and scale to a gigaton level," Musk says.
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With its new funding, the UW group can develop its project for future rounds of the competition.
"This is just the first step. We have great hopes for the next phase of the XPRIZE for Carbon Removal competition," says Rob Anex, a professor of biological systems engineering who co-advises the team with Bu Wang, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
The team is developing a two-part system that consists of a direct air capture (DAC) unit that traps carbon dioxide from the air, plus a carbonization component that converts the captured CO2 into limestone particles. It's an idea Anex and Wang have long discussed.
"Bu and I had been working on the basic concept for a while, and then XPRIZE for Carbon Removal came around, which is really about taking an idea and being able to turn it into an engineering system that works and scale that up," says Anex. "Then we talked to some of our students, and they decided that they should come up with a team."
Team member Seunghyeon Jung, a graduate student in biological systems engineering, has been focusing on building the team's lab-scale DAC unit, which relies on specialized materials and a simple chemical reaction to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.
"We flow a hydroxide solution over the packing material while blowing air over the surface in a horizontal way," says Jung. "The chemical reaction on the surface captures carbon in the form of carbonate ions."
From there, the carbonate solution goes into the carbonization component, where it is combined with ash or slag, byproducts of industrial furnaces like those in coal-fired power plants or steel mills. What comes out is a carbonated powder that includes fine limestone and activated silica particles, which can be used in construction to replace cement. A hydroxide byproduct of the limestone-forming step is recycled back into the DAC unit to capture more carbon dioxide.
"In essence, we're converting carbon dioxide from the air into carbonate minerals that can be upcycled into construction materials, all under ambient conditions," says Wang, who holds a patent related to the carbonization part of the system.
The DAC unit resides in Anex's lab in the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the UW–Madison campus, while the carbonization component is housed in Wang's College of Engineering lab, which means shuffling reaction products back and forth between buildings. It won't always be that way. The plan is to combine the parts, hooking them together to close the loop.
As the team moves forward in the XPRIZE contest, which runs through Earth Day 2025, members will further refine their system, figure out how to scale it up, and develop a plan for its implementation.
"To succeed will require a variety of skills like data modeling, public policy, social science and science communication," says Sreenivasan. "So we need different people with different areas of expertise to get what we need done."
This need is reflected in the composition of the team, which includes six graduate students from across UW–Madison's campus, representing the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Letters & Science, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. The team recently added two undergraduate students to help with lab work and data analysis. For those involved, notes Anex, there's a value beyond competing and succeeding in the XPRIZE competition.
"Students learn a lot about building things, running experiments, working in teams and making presentations. And they gain a lot of experience and maturity," he says. "Some of these students might make a career out of this. It's an important problem and I'd love to see a bunch of them work on solving some of the big environmental problems that face the world."
That's Sreenivasan's goal. She took an entrepreneurship course through the UW Discovery to Product program, and she is bringing the lessons she learned to the team's efforts.
"The goal is to commercialize the process," she says. "We're trying to get it to a start-up."
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Project-Based Learning Takes on a New Form at HBHA: Podcasts
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In a room filled with books of Torah and a class time devoted to Jewish Studies, ninth-grade students stare at their screens and discuss statistics, musicians, and technology. You might be asking, "What's happening here? I thought this was Jewish Studies class?" But Jewish Studies class it surely is, and the answer is that these students have been working on Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy's (HBHA) first ever student-led podcast, titled, "The Good Jew Project." This podcast not only takes project-based Learning to a whole new level, but it also carries with it an entirely new way to look at Jewish Studies.
The class teacher, Adam Tilove, who also happens to be HBHA's head of school, shares his inspiration for the project. He talks about the majority of the students' first semester that was devoted not strictly to Torah study (although Torah study was included), but to learning different views people have towards Judaism.
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This eventually turned into an idea; "[w]e could interview different people that had different perspectives on Judaism and see what it means to them, and think about what it means to be a Good Jew," says Tilove.
Now don't get the idea that the reason Tilove chose this non-traditional course for student learning was due to his dislike of Torah, for this is certainly not the case. He even testifies to his deep love and passion for it.
Tilove's reasoning is as follows, "[a]s painful as it is, MeAymatai Omrim Et HaShma (the first words of tractate Berakhot of the Talmud) is not going to be how we reach them," he says, "The question is what's the access point."
He understands that in our current world, knowledge of and passion for Judaism among Jews has greatly decayed as time has gone by. He seeks to reignite that spark of pride and passion for Judaism. Tilove says that for some people, their access point to learning more about Judaism might even start from a Hanukkah song written by Adam Sandler. He stresses how important it is for Jews to love and be proud of their religion, aside from just having knowledge of Torah.
"I hope that I can have a school where the kids come out and feel so proud to be Jewish whether they're observant, whether they're not observant," Tilove says, "Judaism is big enough that we all can choose something that we find fascinating and learn it. In the end, I think one of the most important things is what are you able to bring to the Jewish people."
The podcast has helped improve the interaction skills between students and adults. Image by Ava Gortenburg.
Two students in the class, Noah Bergh and Noa Levine, recently interviewed Rabbi Elan Babchuck for the podcast. They reflect on their experience.
"We learn a lot of people skills, a lot of communicating with people much older than us, important people. And also all the skills of contacting people and writing formal emails, and just a wide variety of communication skills," says Bergh.
Levine also had thoughts on the importance and value of the project. Aside from learning important life skills, she is grateful for the opportunity to learn and be exposed to different opinions people might have, as well as the opportunity it provides for people who don't do as well with the traditional way of how subjects are taught to succeed and learn in a unique way.
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a new addition to many classes at HBHA. Many different paths have been taken, this one surely the most daring. The positive feedback from students as well as the life-lessons acquired could change the way these projects are thought about, and the idea of making PBLs meaningful instead of simply a class requirement could be revolutionary for the future of PBLs at HBHA.
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Bangladesh have named fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza as captain for the forthcoming tours of West Indies and Zimbabwe. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has decided to relieve Mohammad Ashraful of his captaincy duties to allow him to focus on his batting. Shakib Al Hasan, the world's No.1 allrounder in ODIs, has been named the vice-captain.
"The board wants to sincerely thank Mohammad Ashraful for his contribution as skipper," Mohammed Jalal Yunus, the BCB's Media & Communications Committee Chairman, said. "The decision to replace him was taken with the intention of relieving the load on Ashraful so that he can play his natural game.
"We all know his quality and what he is capable of as a batsman and we are confident that without the burden of captaincy his batting would flourish and he would contribute more to the team."
Bangladesh faced plenty of flak on returning home from the ICC World Twenty20 in England where they failed to qualify for the Super Eights. The under-fire Ashraful had insisted he had no plans of quitting the captaincy.
Ashraful took over the captaincy from Habibul Bashar in June 2007 at the age of 22, but his journey was far from smooth. In 38 ODIs under his leadership, Bangladesh managed to win only eight games, with a majority of those against the minnows. The significant victories were against Sri Lanka and New Zealand. The team also failed to win a Test under him, losing 12 out of 13. He also under-performed as a batsman in both forms, averaging 22.58 in Tests and 25.60 in ODIs.
Perhaps his most noteworthy contribution as captain was leading his team to the group stages of the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa in 2007. Despite that, Bangladesh won only two out of 11 games.
Mortaza has been Bangladesh's strike bowler over the last few years and has turned in match-winning performances in ODIs. His four-wicket haul all but knocked India out of the World Cup in 2007 and he returned similar figures in the team's only victory against New Zealand, in Mirpur last year.
The tour of West Indies begins on July 3 with a three-day match against West Indies A. The team will play two Tests, three ODIs and a Twenty20.
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He was born in Brunswick, Oct. 31, 1912, the son of Frank C. and Mattie (Hodgon) Morang.
On Aug. 1, 1931, he married Edna B. Swift.
For many years, he worked as a carpenter building homes in the local area.
His hobbies included playing cards, gardening and fishing.
He is survived by his wife of Brunswick; sisters, Roberta Dykes of Indiana, Bessie Allen of Texas and Sandra Gray of Florida; and several nieces and nephews.
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Memorial donations may be made to Parkview Adventist Medical Center, 329 Maine St., Brunswick, ME 04011. Arrangements are by Stetson's Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.


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A Pillar of Hope for New Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics
Paul J. Tesar
Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. E-mail: paul.tesar{at}case.edu
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Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. E-mail:
For correspondence: paul.tesar@case.edu
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic neurological disease among young adults. MS is thought to result from an autoimmune-mediated attack of myelin-producing cells called oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS). Current therapies for MS include at least 10 anti-inflammatory drugs that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Many of these drugs show substantial disease-modifying activity for patients by modulating the inflammatory components of the disease. However, none of these current drugs promote regeneration of lost myelin in the CNS, and therefore they are largely ineffective at preventing disease progression and ultimately disability. Now, using an innovative high-throughput screening assay, Mei et al. offer a new approach to discover drugs that may directly enhance remyelination in diseases such as MS.
In this new study, the authors describe the design, fabrication, and implementation of a screening platform called BIMA (binary indicant for myelination using micropillar assays). During the process of myelination in the CNS, oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) mature into oligodendrocytes, which physically wrap around neurons to create the myelin sheath. The authors had previously shown that oligodendrocytes will even wrap around pseudo-neuronal substrates in vitro. They leveraged this key finding to engineer arrays of compressed silica micropillars that could be incorporated into cell culture microplates. Upon addition of rodent OPCs, ~10% of the cells would wrap around the micropillars, and this could be quantified in an automated fashion by staining for "rings" of myelin markers such as myelin basic protein (MBP). The authors' major advance was their ability to test a 1000-drug library in their assay in order to evaluate whether the extent of micropillar wrapping could be enhanced. They identified a cluster of eight antimuscarinic drugs, which have previously been approved for use in other diseases. The authors functionally validate one of these drugs, clemastine, in an in vivo rodent remyelination assay.
The ability to enhance remyelination is a major unmet clinical need. New screening platforms such as the one in this paper provide a mechanism to identify promising candidates for clinical testing in MS and other myelin disorders. Given its oral bioavailability and known safety profile, clemastine is currently being tested in a phase II clinical trial for MS. However, the ability to accurately measure remyelination is not currently feasible in the context of a clinical trial, and major advances must be made in order to accurately test the plethora of remyelinating therapeutics that are likely to emerge in the near future.
F. Mei et al., Micropillar arrays as a high-throughput screening platform for therapeutics in multiple sclerosis. Nat. Med. 10.1038/nm.3618 (2014). [Full Text]
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by: Marvis Herring, 24 Hour News 8 web staff
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Federal and state agencies are committed to finding solutions to the PFAS contamination in private wells in the Rockford area, representatives assured residents Tuesday.
In a town hall meeting at Rockford High School, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality shared updates on their 2018 PFAS research with hundreds of attendees. The officials said that after looking over soil and water samples for months, they found concerning levels of the likely carcinogen on the property of Rockford-based shoemaker Wolverine Worldwide and in surrounding areas, including on private properties.
Residents said it's comforting to hear the agencies have been busy and that they want to better involve residents.
"We live right in the middle of it. We're not going anywhere, so we're in this for the long haul," Plainfield Township resident Jennifer Carney said.
Carney said she has been talking with the EPA and DEQ officials about a community advisory group expected to form this spring.
"I think this is going to take years (to clean up). This is definitely not going anywhere anytime soon, so that's why when we develop this CAG, we will definitely need to have people who are affected one way or another because they will be invested in this," Carney said.
The group will present residents' concerns to the federal and state agencies and communicate updates back to neighborhoods where PFAS was discovered in 2017.
DEQ officials said that soil and drinking water tests found PFAS levels at thousands of times higher than the state and national safety thresholds in some areas. The EPA also found hazardous levels of certain metals.
"PFAS is always going to be a concern for this area," said Abigail Hendershott of the Grand Rapids office of the DEQ.
More tests will follow.
"There's a lot of data to go through. There's a lot of evaluation to be done and more data to collect. so we're not done yet," Hendershott said.
The issue of PFAS — a chemical class that been used in everything from Scotchgard (which Wolverine used to waterproof shoes) to Teflon to airport firefighting foam — is international. Members of a Japanese public television channel were at Tuesday's meeting to cover how other areas are tackling PFAS contamination, saying Michigan is on the leading edge.
"I do think that is a bigger story than any of us had realized when we began to cover it," said Megan Devir, a Brooklyn, New York-based researcher and producer for NHK, adding it was "happening everywhere."
There were lots of geological terms and data thrown out at the meeting, but most residents' questions remain forthright:
"At top of mind for everybody is when is this going to get taken care of, what are the next steps as far as cleanup," Carney said.
Hendershott said officials identified PFAS sludge on more than half of the Wolverine's property in Belmont, which was at the center of the first drinking water contamination alerts.
"That was pretty surprising. I don't think we expected to see quite that much waste material still at the House Street site," she said.
Wolverine Worldwide officials were at the open house, but declined an interview with 24 Hour News 8.


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Q: Existential and universal Quantifiers in AI I have just started first order predicate logic.
Why does universal quantifier and single implication go together?
Similarly existential quantifier and conjunction go together?
Take the statement: Some frogs are green
Why then is this an incorrect translation: ∃x (frog(x) → green(x))?
Also, for the statement: All frogs are green (∀x)(frog(x) → green(x)) does not seem a correct translation; as in the cases where frog(x) becomes false the expression (∀x)(frog(x) → green(x)) will be always true.
Explaining with truth table will be helpful

A: I suppose that by "go together" you mean the following:
All frogs are green means the same as for all things, if they are a frog, they are green, or, as a formula of first order predicate logic:
(∀x)(frog(x) → green(x))

Some frogs are green means the same as some things are both frog and green i.e.
(∃x)(frog(x) ∧ green(x))

Then you ask:

Take the statement: Some frogs are green  Why then is this an incorrent translation: (∃x)(frog(x) →  green(x))

Now, if some frogs are green, indeed (∃x)(frog(x) →  green(x)) is true! But the converse is not true: As soon as there is one non-frog in your domain,
(∃x)(frog(x) →  green(x)) is true, even if there is no green frog to be seen, ie. even if Some frogs are green is false.
So (∃x)(frog(x) →  green(x)) doesn't mean the same as some frogs are green
(see also this discussion at philosophy.stackexchange.com)

Also, for the statement: All frogs are green (∀x)(frog(x) → green(x)) does not seem a correct translation; as in the cases where frog(x) becomes false  the expression (∀x)(frog(x) → green(x)) will be always true.

I think you want to say here that if there are no frogs  (∀x)(frog(x) → green(x)) is true, while in your (and Aristotle's)  opinion All frogs are green is not, in that case. This is the old and venerable question of the existential import of universal propositions. It has a long and fascinating history; suffice to say that modern logicians and philosophers hold that in a world without frogs All frogs are green is true (as is All frogs are red)

A: If some frogs are green, then:
∃ x : Frog(x) => Green(x)
Sounds correct to me...

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The next 3 days are pretty pivotal in the history of the island nation that is the United Kingdom. This is a country that less than a year ago was disparaged by some unnamed Russian bureaucrat as just "a small island no one listens to". Which begs the question that if the UK is a small island what do the Russians think of Scotland if they think of them at all?
It is an interesting co-incidence that if you scratch the surface of the big geo-political stories dominating the news headlines right now you end up discovering an oil or gas coloured boil either festering beneath the surface or proudly on display. Whether we are talking sanctions and the Russian gas stranglehold on Europe; or Scotland and the divvying up of the North Sea oil and gas resources; or ISIS and their drive for a medieval caliphate atop the Middle East's oil reserves; what links all these things together is energy, the money (and therefore power) it represents and the fear of losing it.
The Russian and ISIS based energy conundrum has been picked over and dissected more often than the shortcomings of the English national football team; but perhaps less interrogated by the media or the public at large is what, if any, impact a Yes vote in the Scottish referendum would have on electricity and gas suppliers, costs, regulations, markets and prices both North and South of the border.
The UK government has produced a wide ranging and comprehensive paper on the subject http://bit.ly/1utXMHS which at 101 pages makes for a somewhat soporific read but the main thrust of the paper is pretty easy to digest. Broadly speaking Independence is not too good for electricity and gas costs north of the border but has very little impact (possibly even a beneficial one) to those households south of the border. This is principally due to two aspects of energy in the UK; the first is around the nature of subsidies and the second is to do with how the markets are integrated.
As it stands at the moment the whole of the UK subsidises the Scottish Highlands electricity infrastructure because of the population density needed to justify reasonable costs for electricity delivery simply doesn't exist in these remote geographies. In the absence of the rest of the UK, hereinafter referred to as the rump Kingdom or RK for short, the lowlands will need to pick up this subsidy on their own. This will add £36 additional cost per Scottish householder in the event of independence. The other point to appreciate is that renewable energy investments in the UK are funded through a system of government regimes that are paid for, in the end, by the bill payers. I specifically refer here to the Renewable Obligation, the Feed-in-Tariff and the new Contracts for Difference (CFD's). The important point to note is that much of the generation benefitting from these various regimes and schemes is located, or is planned to be located, in Scotland. Indeed the "Yes" campaign has made the strength of Scotland's renewables sector a pretty fundamental economic plank along with North Sea oil and financial services.
However this all relies upon having a customer or group of customers across which you can spread the cost subsidy for utilising renewable energy sources rather than traditional ones. So it works (leave aside for the moment the scale and frequency of the complaints that have already been documented highlighting the economic costs of the carbon neutral agenda) with 62 million households bearing the burden but I doubt it would stack up spread over only 5 million.
Moreover it is highly risky to simply assume that RK will happily pay their subsidies to a foreign country. The strategy is likely to be re-focused upon RK based renewable generation with any shortfall being ruthlessly market tested for best value. So Scotland may then have to compete with French Nuclear Power, French renewables, Irish Renewables, international carbon offsetting schemes and other as yet untested options. This is because whilst Scotland is part of the UK it makes sense to become as self-sufficient in these technologies as possible, even if that means we incur a "home-grown" premium; that logic no longer applies if they are a foreign country.
The second worrying aspect for an independent Scotland is infrastructure investment in the brave new world. Scotland currently has £6billion earmarked for its high voltage electricity infrastructure in the years 2015 – 2020 which represents a third of the planned electricity infrastructure upgrade already approved. Now it will be able to maintain some of this investment due to the fact that RK will undoubtedly continue to buy significant volumes of gas from Scotland and will need to pay the gas transportation costs and investments associated with that. However we need always bear in mind that they will nonetheless be competing with Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian and dare-we-say-it Russian pipeline gas as well as North American Shale gas, Middle Eastern LNG and quite possibly RK shale gas. This all points to a potential funding deficit on infrastructure that might need to be covered by a price rise to consumers.
Almost as an aside quite what will become of Scottish and Southern Electricity – a business headquartered in Scotland but who will post independence have the majority of their customers in RK – is an interesting question to ponder. Then there are the capacity payments which currently favour Scottish generators but which would undoubtedly be renegotiated post-independence. So much of the debate has been about who owns the North Sea Oil revenues and how much oil actually sits in reserve under Scottish waters; which is a perfectly sensible question and to which there are a wide range of answers. However there is a separate question in the electricity markets, which is important if you believe renewables to be an important part of an independent Scotland's future, and that is who owns the customers? And it is to understanding the implications of this irrefutable fact that I fear no-one north of the border has fully applied their thinking. You can have all the wind and waves you like, but without a customer base prepared to pay an artificial premium for the electricity it generates then Scotland's renewable bonanza is simply a utopia built on fool's gold.


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A diet that provides you with 30 percent less energy than you burn each day works better if you use cod as your source of protein. Researchers from the University of Iceland have published an article on the matter in Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases. A low-calorie diet with lean fish works better than an identical diet in which the protein source is lean meat.
Fish is good for your heart and blood vessels, and for your body composition. Maybe it's because fish contains n-3 fatty acids, maybe it's because fish contains lots of vitamin D, maybe it's because fish protein contains relatively high amounts of the amino acid taurine, which raises the metabolic rate, or maybe it's because of the interaction between all of these factors. It's a fact, people lose weight more quickly if they eat a lot of fish. Animal studies have shown that a low-calorie diet that contains a lot of fish protein maintains the muscles' glucose reserves better than a diet based on other sources of protein.
The researchers wanted to know what the effect of a high-lean-fish diet would be on overweight men and women. They did a trial with 126 fat people aged between 20 and 40, and put them on a fairly strict diet for 8 weeks. The control group was given lean meat every day, another group was given 150 g cod 3 times a week instead of meat, and the last group ate 150 g of cod 5 times a week. All test subjects got their energy for about 35 percent from fat, 17 percent from proteins and the rest from carbohydrates.
The figure below shows the changes in the 3 groups after 8 weeks.
The more cod the test subjects ate, the greater the effect of their weight-loss diet. The effect of the cod diet was significant for both total weight loss and waist measurement reduction. Eat cod instead of meat five days a week and you'll lose 1.7 kg more in 8 weeks.
There's just one 'but' about this study: it was paid for by the Icelandic Research Fund AVS. In other words: the Icelandic ministry of fisheries. Fishing is of vital importance to the Icelandic economy: fish accounts for 63 percent of Iceland's exports. You could say the sponsor had a vested interest in the research outcome.
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2009 Dec;19(10):690-6.
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A phenomenon called Sachin Tendulkar
By 1998, after a decade of cricket writing, I was wanting to move on. I had watched India win the World Cup in 1983, Kapil Dev make his scintillating 175 not out against Zimbabwe, Sunil Gavaskar break S ir Donald Bradman's record of Test centuries at Madras in 1984, Mohammed Azharuddin make three hundreds in his first three Tests in 1984-85, Javed Miandad hit a last ball six off Chetan Sharma at Sharjah in 1986 to win the most spectacular victory in one- day cricket, the tied Test between India and Australia in Madras later that same year, then India and Pakistan lose heart-breaking semi-finals in the 1987 World Cup. By early 1988, Gavaskar and Gundappa Vishwanath had retired, Kapil Dev seemed to be taper ing off (who was to know of his amazing stamina and resolve then), Dilip Vengsarkar had plateaued and Mohinder Amarnath was going distinctly downhill. The near simultaneous departure of so many old heroes and friends created a depressing scenario. There s eemed to be little incentive to continue with cricket.
Then Sachin Tendulkar happened, giving a jaded cricket writer a second wind, a second innings.
Sometime in late April 1988, Dilip Vengsarkar and I drove down to the Cricket Club of India to watch a schools cricket match. Ordinarily, this would be seen as irregular occupation during office hours, even for a cricket correspondent; for Vengsarkar, it would have been rank indulgence, even if he was the cricket captain of India.
But this was no occu pational extravagance. Earlier in the month, a pair of precocious schoolboys from Shardashram High School had clobbered the hapless bowlers from St Mary's High School in the Giles Shield for 664 unbeaten runs in cricket's highest recorded partnership. The buzz in cricketing circles told of the impishness and impetuosity of the 15-year-old Vinod Kambli and 14-year-old Sachin Tendulkar: of how they were reluctant to declare (Tendulkar was captain then) until admonished by their guru Ramakant Achrekar via a public booth-to-maidan-tent phone call that the match could not be won till the other team was bowled out twice. But it was the recognition from Wisden Crickter's Almanac that turned them into heroes. Soon, the cricketing fraternity, the media, almost eve rybody was zeroing on them on the various maidans of Bombay.
That late April day in 1988 at the CCI, Kambli was not on view but Tendulkar was batting with another double hundred against his name by the time Vengsarkar and I had parked ourselves. The oth er notable presence there was of Raj Singh Dungarpur, a man of many parts in Indian cricket, but none more interesting than as a passionate follower of the game. Watching Tendulkar, Dungarpur erupted frequently into undisguised ecstasy. "Have you seen tha t boy's intelligence?" he prodded us. "When the field is set deep, he pushes for singles, drawing the fielders in. When they are in, he blasts boundaries." From buff, Dungarpur was to recover his wits and don the hat of cricket administrator quickly. Tend ulkar had inspired a new vision in him. The 'Team of the 90s' was beginning to crystallise.
My first 'encounter' with Tendulkar came towards the end of that year. The Indian team for the West Indies tour had been announced, but he was not included, in s pite of a hundred on debut in the Ranji Trophy. Tom Alter, film actor and great sports enthusiast, was the anchor for Sportsweek's maiden (and alas only) sports video called Grandstand in which featured some of the major luminaries of Indian sport then. The only newcomer in it was Sachin Tendulkar.
We were shooting skipper Dilip Vengsarkar just outside Hindu Gymkhana on Marine Drive. A biggish crowd had assembled, and under a tree in the shade stood Tendulkar, kit bag in hand, with brother Ajit for almo st two hours as Vengsarkar's footage was being shot. He as short and slender with fuzzy hair, barely the hint of a moustache, a shy smile and a voice that cracked periodically and spoke in the multiple tones that can be so embarrassing to post-adolescents . Tendulkar looked an innocent, reticent, patient 15-year-old.
That was till he faced the camera and Tom's probing queries, one of which was whether he was disappointed at having missed out on the West Indies tour. Tendulkar even then spoke with amazing self-confidence, thoughts and words well measured. Yes, he was disappointed because he had done well enough in domestic tournaments. But didn't he think that the selectors had been kind by not exposing him to the fearsome fast bowlers? Wasn't he worried about being hit by Malcolm Marshall and Co?
Tendulkar's eyes smouldered even before Tom had completed his question. "I am not afraid of being hit," he said, picking up the gauntlet. "And it would have been a great experience playing these bowlers." Ther e was defiance and bravado in his visage and voice. There was undiluted ambition. There was raw passion for the game. I was hooked. Even if sports journalism was not be my preoccupation for long, there was no escaping following cricket, writing about it.
I (and of course the whole world) saw the same intense look in Tendulkar's eyes 10 years later when he was bashing up Australia in his tour de force in a league match of the Sharjah Cup between thunderstorms in April 1998. It was the expression of a man racing against himself to reach a higher level of excellence. It was also a reassuring sign that his passion for the game had remained undiminished and unspoilt despite the great fame, glory and unforeseen wealth which hounded him now.
In the decade si nce our first encounter, I have doggedly followed Tendulkar's career, mostly with a combination of awe and delight, sometimes even in despair. Given his fantastic performances, most people accept the first feeling and cannot fathom the second. But how doe s sustain writing about a player who was described as a genius since he was 15? What superlatives beyond that six-letter word which is must be ascribed only as a finality?
Nevertheless, cricket writers are a hardy lot, and we have tried. Having moaned a bout the difficulty of writing about Tendulkar, I must confess also to the sheer joy of watching him play, and the unceasing opportunities he has provided for newsbreaks, stories, features and interviews. For a coy, modest,
retiring individual not give n to controversy or extravagance, Tendulkar has kept the sports hacks pinned to their laptops, and the world rivetted to the idiot-box by his wizardry with he bat alone.
Looking back a decade at Tendulkar is a kaleidoscopic experience for me, 10 years o f unending achievement and high drama. It seems only yesterday that he made an undistinguished Test debut at Karachi. Many people were then wont to dismiss as hype the big reputation which had preceded him. But in the next Test he had a half-century again st Imran, Akram and Waqar and in the fourth, at Sialkot, came a telling moment of cricket history.
Waqar, bowling at his fastest, hit Tendulkar on the face with a snorter. His nose bloodied, the Indian dressing room worried, the Pakistanis intent on sle dging, Tendulkar refused to retire hurt, waved away excessive concern from the 12th man and team doctor, and got into his stance again. The stands were baying for more blood as Waqar walked up to the top of his run up, the atmosphere was electric. The nex t ball was crucial to the fate of the match. It was a ball of goodish length delivered at express pace, which was sent screaming past cover for a boundary. Tendulkar had arrived.
He almost became the youngest ever century maker for India, but, after bel ting two successive boundaries to reach 88, fell trying to belt the cover off the ball in the first over of the day from Danny Morrison in 1988. Critics called him flashy, impetuous and naive. Three months later, he was battling for over five hours to sco re his maiden Test century and save India from defeat at Old Trafford.
Against Australia in 1992, he made a patient 148 at Sydney, and on the marble top surface at Perth, where the ball frequently bounced at chest and ear level, leaving his team-mates s hell-shocked, bruised and dismissed, Tendulkar scored a century in the company of nine, 10 and jack, the sheer audacity and brilliance of which had the normally placid John Woodcock of the London Times hopping about the press box orgiastically shouting 'Y o-ho-ho' like a Long John Silver with a crate of rum inside him. There have been countless such innings, a few of which the Australians, especially, will recall with both pain and admiration.
But being a genius is not an easy act to live up to. The exp ectations are higher than the Manhattan skyline, and in India, never ending. If Tendulkar has managed to live up to these it is as much credit to his talent as his temperament. He has kept his head on his shoulders, feet firmly on the ground and let his b at do the talking.
He is not flawless. His penchant for the pull sometimes makes him play the shot early which on lively wickets can be fraught with more risk than on the friendlier sub-content tracks. He has also been 'found out' a few times by quick in-swing bowlers, leaving a gap between pad and bat as he attempts an off-side drive.
Nevertheless he is an exemplar where technique is concerned, and a maestro when it comes to transcending it. His batting derives its brilliance from his superb eye and hand co-ordination and great sense of balance. Timing and power both find residence in his batsmanship, and he meets the ball usually with the full face of the bat. He has all the shots, and some specalities. The straight drive is in the Sunil Gavaskar c lass, the flicks and on-side drives would do justice to Viv Richards. He also he has a cover drive played off the back-foot which is distinctly his own.
In the 10 years since his debut, he has rapidly evolved from Boy Wonder to Master Blaster and on to Boss, which is how I prefer to call him now: a four-letter word which is more explicit in its definition than the more famous one, and certainly more comprehensive. Brian Lara can be more scintillating in phases, Mark Waugh and Azharuddin more stylish, S aurav Ganguly more elegant, Steve Waugh more rugged and dogged in a crisis, Aravinda De Silva with a ounce more of derring do. But nobody bats quite as exhilaratingly, nobody with as much authority, nobody as productively. Sachin Tendulkar is peerless.
But is he better than Sunil Gavaskar? Viv Richards? The three Ws? Hutton, Hobbs, May and Compton? Would he have succeeded if he was playing the dreaded West Indian fast bowlers of 15 years ago? Just how great is Sachin Tendulkar in the perspective of 200 years of cricket?
Such debate is the staple diet of critics and cricket followers, and it could have ground on endlessly, academically till an invitation from Adelaide from cricket's most renowned denizen last August changed the premise of the discussi on. Sir Donald Bradman not only granted him a private audience on his 90th birthday and called him a delightful bonzer, but also told the world that the little Indian reminded him of himself as a batsman.
With that simple quote from, Sachin Tendulkar pa ssed on from being a mortal into a legend.


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Adam Sharp and Josh Knights testifying.
COLUMBUS — Everyone depends on clean, safe water and a group of individuals and organizations, ranging from industry to academia, are hoping this shared resource will lead voters to support a state bond issue, to help fund statewide water quality improvement.
During a meeting of the Lake Erie Legislative Caucus, representatives from the Healthy Water Ohio report, and a separate proposal by state Sen. Joe Schiavoni, D-Boardman, cast their support of a $1 billion statewide bond initiative that could come before voters as early as March.
Adam Sharp, director of legislative policy at Ohio Farm Bureau, said the Healthy Water Ohio report was put together by a diverse coalition of farmers, businesses, universities, and municipal leaders.
The coalition first met in November of 2013, with the goal of identifying a long-term, "20-30-year resource management plan," that would "benefit all of Ohio, from Lake Erie to the Ohio River."
Public survey
The group worked with a 16-member steering committee, and Columbus-based Gallagher Consulting Group, to conduct a public survey about people's opinions toward water quality.
The survey was conducted from July 15-Aug. 6, 2014, coincidentally at the same time as the Toledo water crisis.
The results, according to Sharp, showed that 88 percent of participants felt safe drinking water was their top concern, followed by things like fishing and wildlife habitat, repairing aging water systems, tourism and recreation. More than half said the state government should take the lead on water quality, with 30 percent responding that local government should lead, and 13 percent, in favor the federal government leading.
The Healthy Water Ohio report calls for $250 million a year, with a combination of bond and private contributions. The money would be used to create a clean water trust — similar to the voter-approved Clean Ohio Fund.
The trust would target such things as agricultural nutrient management, drinking and sewage water infrastructure improvements, additional research and education.
"We are blessed with abundant water and that's good for our state," Sharp said. "We want to make sure it's quality, it's healthy, it's safe…"
Josh Knights, executive director of The Nature Conservancy, said the water trust would help address the "root causes" of harmful algae blooms, and help improve the state's water in general.
Knights said a trust "could be a vehicle to help administer new funding … from public and private resources."
He said the trust would help fund agricultural improvements, and also nature-based projects such as wetlands, floodplains and riparian structures.
He said agriculture is a known contributor to the problem, but he said even if agriculture did everything it could to control its own nutrients, there would still be a state water quality issue.
"It's important not to single out agriculture in the nutrient loading challenge," Knights said.
Sen. Schiavoni's plan, known as Senate Joint Resolution 3, would provide about $1 billion in bond funding, over 10 years, for underground water quality improvements to public infrastructure.
Sen. Joe Schiavoni, testifying about his water quality bond proposal.
He said water quality is a statewide issue, from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, and requires a statewide solution. He said he thinks voters would be supportive, as long as they see the benefits in their own communities.
"It's got to be equally dispersed and represent the entire state, and I think that voters who would go to the ballot, they would have to understand that," Schiavoni said.
Although his plan focuses on underground infrastructure, he told Farm and Dairy, prior to the caucus meeting, that he is open to amendments and working with agriculture on water quality improvements.
Sen. Randy Gardner, R-Bowling Green, and a co-chairman of the caucus, said a $1 billion bond is a significant amount, but is worth the investment.
"When you compare it to the tens of thousands of jobs — the billions of dollars of economic activity — the hundreds of businesses directly affected by the health of (Lake Erie) … We know that this amount of money is relatively small. …," he said.
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At the beginning of Sean Christopher Lewis's harrowing solo play Dogs of Rwanda, now playing at Urban Stages, David (Dan Hodge) describes a particular custom in Rwanda: Individuals guilty of a crime appear before the villagers and explain what they did, to whom they did it, and why they did what they did. Accountability and eventual clemency can only be affected in the sharing of one's culpability. Summoning the audience as his witnesses and villagers, David declares, "I need to tell you a story."
David has been steeped, to use one of his favorite words, in his story for more than twenty years. He recently published a book about his experiences in Africa, and he has received a note from a Rwandan named God's Blessing, who is a key figure in the account. The note simply reads, "There are untruths here." A good part of the seventy-minute monologue is an attempt to root out and resolve those untruths.
We learn that David had gone to Uganda in 1994 as a Christian missionary. He admits that at sixteen years old his reasons for going were not based on high-minded pious beliefs, but out of puppy love. He was smitten with Mary, a young woman from his church, and for whom he would go to the ends of the earth.
He was not in Africa long when he realized something was terribly, terribly wrong. Dead bodies were floating down the river from Rwanda, which was not far from the missionary village where David and Mary resided. Before he knew it, David, drawn in by Mary and God's Blessing, became an unwitting participant in the Rwandan civil war between the Hutus and Tutsis and an eyewitness to the genocide.
The title of the play refers to the fact that the country's dogs had to be shot and killed because they were feasting on the slain victims. As is no doubt evident, David's chronicle is gripping, violent, and ultimately quite moving, and Hodge gives a riveting performance. As the emotionally traumatized character, Hodge appeals to the audience directly, not to seek our forgiveness for what he may or may not have done, but for us to actively receive his story. Hodge bares the depths of the character's pain effectively, and he convincingly shows that healing occurs in the telling of one's experiences.
Hodge shares the stage with Abou Lion Diarra, a terrific West African musician. Playing a variety of percussion instruments, Diarra provides dramatic and thematic underscoring and punctuates some of the key moments with sound effects from found objects on stage. The accompaniment helps establish mood and setting, but more importantly Diarra serves as a powerful onstage presence and arbiter as he moves in and out of the action.
The play, which is co-directed by Frances Hill and Peter Napolitano, is enhanced by its notable design elements. Scenic designer Frank J. Oliva evokes the starkness of an African plain with a dry dirt floor and visual references to the surrounding grasslands. The façade of a thatched hut suggests an African village that David sees as both a refuge and a trap. John Salutz's lighting is particularly evocative, offering a sense of the African sun with a warm orange wash and the puniness of humanity under a dark and vast, star-filled night sky.
A large screen hangs above the stage, and Ryan Belock's projections onto the surrounding walls and screen contribute to the sensory impact. At one point a flock of birds in shadow fly over the scene, and at other times, segments of the text are reprinted above the actor. The effect heightens the feeling that the character cannot escape from his story, and the oppressive words hover above, threatening to crush him under their weight.
I will admit I was a little uneasy about the piece when it began. There is something instinctively off putting about a white male character confronting the psychological torment of the Rwandan genocide. Indeed, African characters are relegated to supporting parts. In the end, though, Dogs of Rwanda shows that cultural scars are not limited by racial or national origins. We are all implicated in historical traumas by the narratives we hear and the stories we receive.