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Q: $L^2$ norm and $L^{\infty}$ inequality for periodic smooth functions Let $\varphi \in C^{\infty}(\mathbb{T}^n,\mathbb{C})$ (i.e. just smooth periodic complex-valued function) and $f \in C^{\infty}(\mathbb{T}^n,\mathbb{C}^m)$. Then I was wondering if the following is true:
$$
\|\varphi f\|_{2} \leq \|\varphi\|_{\infty}\|f\|_{2}
$$.
Where the $\|\cdot \|_{2}$ is $L^2-$norm and $\|\cdot\|_{\infty}$ is the sup-norm which are defined in this case to be
$$
\|f\|_{2} := \frac{1}{(2\pi)^{\frac{n}{2}}} \Bigg(\int_{\mathbb{T}^n} f \cdot f \Bigg)^{1/2} \quad \text{where $'\cdot'$ represents the Hermitian product.}
$$
and
$$
\|f\|_{\infty} = \sup_{\mathbb{T}^n}\{|f|\}
$$
also we denote $|f| = (f \cdot f)^{1/2}$.
I managed to prove the following
$$
\|f\|_2 \leq \|f\|_{\infty}
$$
as follows
$$
|f| \leq \sup_{\mathbb{T}^n} |f|
$$
$$
\implies |f| \leq \|f\|_{\infty} \implies |f|^2 \leq \|f\|_{\infty}^2
$$
hence
$$
\int_{\mathbb{T}^n} |f|^2 d\mu \leq \int_{\mathbb{T}^n} \|f\|_{\infty}^2 d\mu = \|f\|_{\infty}^2 \int_{\mathbb{T}^n} 1 d\mu = \|f\|_{\infty}^2  \mu(\mathbb{T}^n)
$$
and taking square roots on both sides,
$$
\Bigg(\int_{\mathbb{T}^n} |f|^2 d\mu \Bigg)^{1/2} \leq  \|f\|_{\infty}  \mu(\mathbb{T}^n)^{1/2}
$$
which gives
$$
\Bigg(\int_{\mathbb{T}^n} f \cdot f \quad d\mu \Bigg)^{1/2} \leq  \|f\|_{\infty}  \mu(\mathbb{T}^n)^{1/2}
$$
multiplying $\frac{1}{(2\pi)^{n/2}}$ both sides, we obtain
$$
\frac{1}{(2\pi)^{n/2}}\Bigg(\int_{\mathbb{T}^n} f \cdot f \quad d\mu \Bigg)^{1/2} \leq  \frac{1}{(2\pi)^{n/2}}\|f\|_{\infty}  \mu(\mathbb{T}^n)^{1/2}
$$
and hence by using the fact that $\mu(\mathbb{T}^n) = (2\pi)^n$, we have
$$
\|f\|_{2} \leq \|f\|_{\infty}
$$
But this seems not so useful.
I was proceeding by showing
$$
\|\varphi f\|_2 \leq \|\varphi\|_{2}\|f\|_2
$$
which I think is False even with the given conditions and hence the above work seems useless.
Summary : I need to prove
$$
\|\varphi f\|_{2} \leq \|\varphi\|_{\infty}\|f\|_{2}
$$.

A: Remember that integrals are monotonic, so if $f\leq g$ a.e. then $\int f\leq \int g$. Thus if $g\geq 0$ a.e. and $f_1\leq f_2$ a.e. you get $f_1g\leq f_2g$ a.e. and thus $\int f_1g\leq \int f_2 g$.
So now see that $|\phi|\leq \|\phi\|_\infty$ a.e. and $(\phi f)\cdot(\phi f) = |\phi|^2 |f|^2$ and $|f|^2\geq 0$.
So using this we get
$$ \|\phi f\|_2 \leq  \Big\|\|\phi\|_\infty f\Big\|_2$$
and as $\|\phi\|_\infty$ is a scalar this is
$$ \|\phi\|_\infty \|f\|_2$$

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Im trying to test the ball kicker coil going to the shooter lane. I need to put the the neutral wire on the transformer to the non power side of the coil. The transformer isnt clearly labeled can someone id the neutral 28v lug?
Can someone also tell me what switch on the Score motor fires the ball trough coil? I'm missing the schematic. The ball trough coil is very weak when it's fired and it cannot send the ball all the way to the shooter lane.
The solenoid 25V supply doesn't strictly have a neutral side since neither transformer lug is grounded, but the red wire from the transformer goes through a fuse before connecting to the various switches that control the solenoids and relays. The black wire usually ties directly to the solenoids and relays.
If your wire colors don't match this schematic you should be able to trace back to the transformer from the ball return solenoid through the O relay switch, score motor switch and the fuse.
The brown zip cord in your photo looks like a replaced power cord which would make the fuse shown the line (120V) fuse.
I'd guess that the black wire is on one of the 25V lugs (as shown on the schematic) which goes to most of the relays and solenoids. The red-white wire to its left is probably on the other 25V lug. A quick check with a meter would tell you for sure. Be extra careful since there is exposed 120V in the area.
The red-white wire probably goes to the 25V fuse before going to the switches that control the game relays and solenoids.
Yep, this looks like its set up for 5v lighting as well as the 6v. Top right is return for both 5v and 6v, black white 5v, white with red tracer 6v feed.
And for shame your game is set to high tap! Move the top left red white over 1 lug to the right (labeled as start). As mentioned in another thread line voltage is now 123v, literally on high tap anyway.
The ball will always trigger the coil and it kicks the ball but it's not enough and the ball returns to the out hole. The coil # a1468. Is this the correct coil?
Your picture shows A-1496, which is the correct Ball Return coil for Gottlieb Sure-Shot, so almost certainly, yes. The schematic lists the coil part numbers if you want an even more definitive answer.
The ball will always trigger the coil and it kicks the ball but it's not enough and the ball returns to the out hole.
It could be a mechanical problem instead of an electrical problem. Is there wear, slop or friction in the motion of the kicker between the solenoid plunger and the kicker itself? If you hold he plunger fixed in place, can you move the kicker at all due to a loose linkage or an elongated hole? Are you getting the full range of motion of the kicker or does it bind up somewhere so you only get half a kick? Is the coil sleeve dirty? Is the plunger mushroomed at the end, or does it have a burr that's dragging inside the coil sleeve? Is the return spring too strong?
It could be a mechanical problem or an electrical problem. Here are a couple ways to find out which.
- With the machine unplugged you should be able to reach in the coin door and sharply activate the ball return solenoid. If that moves the ball to the shooter lane, you probably have an electrical problem. If not you probably have a mechanical problem.
- You can activate the ball return solenoid with Alligator clip jumper wires. If that moves the ball to the shooter lane, you probably have an electrical problem. If not you probably have a mechanical problem.
It's almost always a mechanical issue with the kicker arm, the ball hitting the underside of the apron, or the score motor switch that is in the outhole kicker circuit.
All you need to do to test the coil is check the resistance. No need to try and make the coil fire in any way. And there is no "power" side to the coil in any case. It will work with either wire on either solder lug. If you've got resistance in the 2-5 ohm level, you're good.
I was having a similar issue on a Big Indian, ball not always making it to the shooter lane... I bent the bracket that holds the coil to give the solinod rod a little more travel, worked great. No more issue.


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The Folio Book of Children's Poetry
Illustrated by Lesley Barnes
Introduced by Penelope Lively
The Folio Book of Children's Poetry is an eclectic and thought-provoking collection chosen to amuse, entertain and challenge young readers – from classic Wordsworth to the inimitable Dahl.
'It is in poetry that the child discovers the possibilities of language – its range, its flexibility, its infinite variety.'
From Penelope Lively's introduction
Winner of the 2019 British Book Design and Production Award for Literature
CHIDRENS POETRY
As Penelope Lively says in her insightful introduction: 'Children savour language – words, new words, unfamiliar words, challenging words'. The 88 poems in this anthology have been carefully selected to introduce younger readers to the infinite possibilities of language through a broad range of themes, all beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Lesley Barnes.
Bound in blocked cloth with glow-in-the-dark varnish
Set in Bembo Book with Latin display
Colour title-page spread and 54 integrated colour illustrations
Printed endpapers
Blocked slipcase with glow-in-the-dark varnish
10˝ x 7 ½˝
The power of words explored through poetry
The selection includes poetry written specifically for children, by writers including Spike Milligan, Roald Dahl and Russell Hoban, as well as entries chosen to appeal to their naturally enquiring natures. The poems vary dramatically in length, style and subject to engage readers and listeners of all ages and interests – from the epic tales that unfold in Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott' and Browning's 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', to Edward Lear's 'The Owl and the Pussycat' and the quirky single-stanza 'I Saw Esau':
I saw Esau sawing wood,
And Esau saw I saw him;
Though Esau saw I saw him saw,
Still Esau went on sawing.
Introducing children to wide-ranging topics
The poems cover a broad range of themes – nature, revelation, animals, experiences and morals – and there is light-hearted humour, rhyming and wordplay aplenty. However, the collection doesn't shy away from challenging themes: grief is subtly referenced in Mary Coleridge's 'Gone'; while John McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields' introduces children to war through poignant juxtapositions: 'The larks, still bravely singing, fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below.'
Alphabetically arranged, the anthology moves fluidly between centuries and styles, from A. E. Housman's 'The African Lion' through to Sir Walter Scott's 'Young Lochinvar'. No writer has more than one entry so the collection is wide and varied and offers a wonderful introduction to poetry in a beautiful gifting edition that will be a companion for life.
A treasury for children in a fine edition
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We have no time to stand and stare.
W. H. Davies, from 'Leisure'
Our fine edition includes 38 illustrations by Lesley Barnes, an award-winning animator and illustrator whose work appears regularly in children's magazines Anorak and OKIDO. Motifs and smaller illustrations are woven throughout the poems to visually engage children as they explore the edition, and Barnes has also designed the distinctive animal-themed blocked binding that features glow-in-the-dark varnish. Our collection is introduced by Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively who shares her passion for and extensive knowledge of poetry.
The African Lion - A. E. Housman
The Arrow and the Song - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bed in Summer - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Bird Came Down the Walk - Emily Dickinson
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Thayer
Casabianca - Felicia Hemans
Colour - Christina Rossetti
Ducks' Ditty - Kenneth Grahame
The Despot - E. Nesbit
The Devil in Texas - Anonymous
Eletelephony - Laura E. Richards
Eldorado - Edgar Allan Poe
Epitaph on a Hare - William Cowper
The Elf and the Dormouse - Oliver Herford
The Fairies - William Allingham
The First Tooth - Charles and Mary Lamb
Gone - Mary Coleridge
The Garden Year - Sara Coleridge
The Hag - Robert Herrick
Horrible Song - Ted Hughes
Habits of the Hippopotamus - Arthur Guiterman
I Saw Esau - Anonymous
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth
I Think I Could Turn and Live with Animals - Walt Whitman
In Flanders Fields - John McCrae
The Ivy Green - Charles Dickens
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Lady of Shalott - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats
The Law of the Jungle - Rudyard Kipling
Leisure - W. H. Davies
Lines and Squares - A. A. Milne
Little Fish - D. H. Lawrence
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf - Roald Dahl
London Snow - Robert Bridges
Little Trotty Wagtail - John Clare
maggie and milly and molly and may - E. E. Cummings
Macavity: The Mystery Cat - T. S. Eliot
Matilda - Hilaire Belloc
The Migration of the Grey Squirrels - William Howitt
Monday's Child - Anonymous
The Mountain and the Squirrel - Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Every Morning - Susan Coolidge
Night Mail - W. H. Auden
A Night with a Wolf - Bayard Taylor
Nightmare - W. S. Gilbert
On the Ning Nang Nong - Spike Milligan
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat - Thomas Gray
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear
The Owl - Edward Thomas
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Past, Present, Future - Emily Brontë
Patience - Harry Graham
Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning
The Railway Children - Seamus Heaney
Reindeer Report - U. A. Fanthorpe
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Round About the Cauldron Go - William Shakespeare
Sea Fever - John Masefield
Scarborough Fair - Anonymous
A Scherzo - Dora Greenwell
Seven Times One - Jean Ingelow
Sir Smashum Uppe - E. V. Rieu
Solomon Grundy - Anonymous
The Song of the Mischievous Dog - Dylan Thomas
The Spider and the Fly: An Apologue - Mary Howitt
The Story of Fidgety Philip - Heinrich Hoffmann
Summer Goes - Russell Hoban
The Star - Jane Taylor
The Tale of Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash
Tartary - Walter de la Mare
Timothy Winters - Charles Causley
There Isn't Time - Eleanor Farjeon
To a Baked Fish - Carolyn Wells
To a Mouse - Robert Burns
To Autumn - John Keats
To Every Thing a Season - Ecclesiastes
True Love - Sir Philip Sidney
Topsy-Turvy World - William Brighty Rands
The Tyger - William Blake
Weathers - Thomas Hardy
The Wind and the Moon - George MacDonald
The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies - Anonymous
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Eugene Field
Young and Old - Charles Kingsley
Young Lochinvar - Sir Walter Scott
About Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for her novels The Road to Lichfield (1977) and According to Mark (1984). She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
About Lesley Barnes
Lesley Barnes is an award-winning illustrator and animator based in Glasgow. Her distinctive work spans the worlds of fashion, music, children's literature, film and product design. Barnes has created exclusive product ranges for the V&A and Tate museums in London. Other clients include Scottish band Belle & Sebastian, Clinique, Glamour magazine, Sunday Times Style, Random House, Puffin Books, and children's magazines Anorak and OKIDO. She is the author and illustrator of three children's books.
A lively collection of nursery rhymes, both familiar and little known, collected by Andrew Lang, the acclaimed folklorist and editor of the Rainbow Fairy Books.
The Nursery Rhyme Book
Andrew Lang
Illustrated by Debra McFarlane and L. Leslie Brooke
This Folio edition, a facsimile of the British edition of 1909, contains 60 of The Brothers Grimm's most famous tales, including 'Snow White', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Red Riding Hood'.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Margery Williams's affectionate tale of enduring love, The Velveteen Rabbit, has been faithfully reproduced in this beautifully designed new Folio collector's edition.
Illustrated by William Nicholson

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text:
Q: Common Errors while writing Android Project What are the Common Errors which should be taken care of, while working on Android project?
These can be

*

*Android Specific Error

*Java Specific Error

A: *

*Forgetting to register new activities in the manifest.

*Casting to the wrong type on findViewById() when getting references to the ui widgets

A: Another typical beginner's error is not clean the project after having had a bug in the xml...

A: Though cannot be called an error (but mistake) Most of the time I forget to add the permissions (i.e. CAMERA, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) in the AndroidManifest file.

A: *

*declaring the <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" /> in the wrong place within the manifest.

*forgetting to show() a toast.

*(Added 2011/05/28) db adapter that relies on a _id column . See this thread
Also not directly an error but a misconception:

*

*That the SQLite database (so a file) is located in the hard disk. It is located in the emulator image file.. More info here

A: I will list some errors i m always getting.
Article - Top 10 Java Errors

*

*NullPointer error

*

*when i use un initialized variable or object we are creating. (Java)

*when we use some layout out view that is not in xml what we set in context.(Android)

*

*ClassCast Exception

*

*when a program attempts to cast a an object to a type with which it is not compatible.
(eg: when i try to use a linear layout which is declared as a relative layout in xml layout).

*

*StackOverflowError

*

*it can also occur in correctly written (but deeply recursive) programs.(java and android)

*when a program becomes infinitely recursive.

*we create layout (deep and complex) that exceeds that stack of platform or virtual machine . recursive or too much of layout will create Stack overflow error in Android

*Too many inner layouts.

*

*ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class exception

*

*The activity is not declared in manifest.

*

*Android securityException

*

*You need to declare all permission in the application Manifest that your application
check this link
(internet, access to contact,gps,wifi state,write to SDCard, etc).

*

*OutofMemoryError

*

*when a request for memory is made that can not be satisfied using the available platform resources . mainly using bit map, gallery , etc.

*

*Application Not Responding (ANR)

*

*Mainly comes when you are making network function,or some long process.

this will block UI Thread so user can not do any work. to avoid ANR read this & this

This are thing i mainly get while creating Android Project.

*

*Try to use

Try - Catch

block in All Place of program. Dont leave your catch block empty as this can hide errors:

Yes:
 try{
    // try something
  } catch (Exception e) {
      Log.e("TAG", "Exception in try catch", e);
      return false;
  }
  return true;

No:
  try{
    // try something
  } catch (Exception e) {
    return false;
  }
  return true;

Use proper  Naming conversion  for all variable and ID's in Layout.*

I read one article from net it contains some error now i am adding that alos if it have redundancy please forgive me.
Issue :
My previously nice RelativeLayout is making an ugly heap or some elements aren't visible anymore...What's going on ??? I just moved an element in it...
Solution :
Never forget that in a RelativeLayout, elements are referenced and placed in relation to their neighbours. Maybe there is something wrong in the hierarchy of relationship between your element. Try opening the outline view in Eclipse and clicking each element to see where there is a rupture.
Issue :
Circular dependencies cannot exist in RelativeLayout
Solution :
You have probably written the same dependency in two different way. For instance an ImageView as the attribute android:layout_toRightOf a TextView and the TextView has android:layout_toLeftOf the ImageView. Only one of them is necessary
Issue :
I wrote a style for one of my view/layout, but when I apply it in my xml, I have no display in the layout viewer of Eclipse
Solution :
Unfortunately, this seems to be a bug of the android ADT, I reported it but no news so far. Anyway, no panic, styles are working well, but they aren't displayed properly in Eclipse. Just build the app and launch it on the emulator or phone and you will see if everything is fine or not.
Issue :
Toast is written properly but nothing is displayed
Solution :
This is a common error of use : just add the .show() method to show the Toast and see if it is working well
Issue :
I tried to display a String from strings.xml but I just had a number like 0x7f060001
Solution :
This is not a bug, just a display due to the way android deals with resources. When you want to retrieve a resource, you have to use a method like getString(R.id.something), getDrawable, …Otherwise, you just display the reference written in the R class
Issue :
Some change in code doesn't have any effect in the application
Solution :
there are 2 options, either you have forgotten something like the .show() of the Toast, or the emulator is not updating properly your application. In that case, you have to check the option "Wipe user Data" in your launch configuration of the emulator in Eclipse.
Issue :
How to display borders on my table?
Solution :
There is no direct way to do that in android, you have to use a trick :http://www.droidnova.com/display-borders-in-tablelayout,112.html
Issue :
the emulator is writing in japaneese withtout you having changed any parameter
Solution :
This happens sometimes, quite easy to fix, just long click in any EditText field, and change the input type to what you want
Issue :
I can't get the Context Menu to appear in the emulator
Solution :
long click on emulator does not seem to register on every kind of view, you have to push the button in the center of the 4 directionnal arrows
Issue :
I'm following a tutorial about map route but I can't get it work, android does not find a package
Solution :
You might have been following a tutorial written for 1.5 SDK. At this time, there was a package to display route in android, but it was removed in the next SDK and is not available anymore. It just not possible anymore. There seems to be a trick with KML files but nothing official
Issue :
Sending coordinates to the emulator gives wrong position
Solution :
ensure that you wrote the coordinate like 51.16548 and not 51,16548 nor 5116548
Issue :
Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views.
Solution :
You must have tried to update a view content from another thread than the UI thread. 2 options to patch this : either create a handler in your UI thread and post your Runnable to this handler OR use the method runOnUIThread to run the lines of code that are doing the update
Issue :
accessing localhost 127.0.0.1 doesn't work
Solution :
it works, you are just not doing it the right way : use 10.0.2.2

A: Monster error
OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

A: Another common error or mistake is:
While we extend our Activity with the ListActivity
public class ListViewDemo extends ListActivity
{
    // some code here
}

And always forgot to add id android:id="@id/android:list" to the ListView tag in XML layout.
And adapter throws NullPointerException because of default id android:id="@+id/ListView01

A: The most common error or problem is occured when we create a project in Eclipse and we have to give a pakage name which contanis atleast one dot (.) , but most of beginner's not aware of this.
Like Android application package name must have two levels.
e.g. - com.myapp
but every beginner stuck at that point.

A: java.net.SocketException if user not define permission for internet in mainfest file while using webservice

A: one common error is nullPointerException...

A: One mistake that I make over and over again is trying to set a colour property using a resource identifier.
I can set my view's text by providing an integer resource ID,
view.setText(R.string.my_text);

but if I try the same thing for a colour I will end up with some shade of dark grey, regardless of the actual colour value specified:
view.setBackgroundColor(R.color.my_colour);

The problem is that in Android colours are represented as 32-bit ARGB integer values, so that's what is expected in the int parameter.  It should be:
view.setBackgroundColor(context.getResources().getColor(R.color.my_colour));

A: We have to properly close Sqlite Database and Cursor .
Else memory leak and exception to close cusror and database will come

A: Application crash without any notice when phone is rotated (auto-rotation is enabled in phone).
This has to do with "orientation". There are some solutions, the simplest one is to have android:preferedOrientation="portrait" set in manifest file for each activity. Also, set in code this if you are dynamically creating activities.
Other solutions include proper treat of onPause,onRestart ... and so on, methods for activity (like saving state & stuff).


text:
/*
 * Interface adapter for Rijndael implementation (for use by NIST SP 800-90 CTR_DRBG)
 */

#ifndef NIST_AES_RIJNDAEL_H
#define NIST_AES_RIJNDAEL_H

#ifndef __RIJNDAEL_H
#include "rijndael.h"
#endif

#define NIST_AES_MAXKEYBITS		256
#define NIST_AES_MAXKEYBYTES	(NIST_AES_MAXKEYBITS / 8)
#define NIST_AES_MAXKEYINTS	(NIST_AES_MAXKEYBYTES / sizeof(int))

#define NIST_AES_BLOCKSIZEBITS	128
#define NIST_AES_BLOCKSIZEBYTES	(NIST_AES_BLOCKSIZEBITS / 8)
#define NIST_AES_BLOCKSIZEINTS	(NIST_AES_BLOCKSIZEBYTES / sizeof(int))

typedef struct {
	int Nr;			/* key-length-dependent number of rounds */
	unsigned int ek[4*(AES_MAXROUNDS + 1)];	/* encrypt key schedule */
} NIST_AES_ENCRYPT_CTX;

static __inline void
NIST_AES_ECB_Encrypt(const NIST_AES_ENCRYPT_CTX* ctx, const void* src, void* dst)
{
	rijndaelEncrypt(ctx->ek, ctx->Nr, (const unsigned char *)src, (unsigned char *)dst);
}

static __inline int
NIST_AES_Schedule_Encryption(NIST_AES_ENCRYPT_CTX* ctx, const void* key, int bits)
{
	ctx->Nr = rijndaelKeySetupEnc(ctx->ek, (const unsigned char *)key, bits);
	if (!ctx->Nr)
		return 1;

	return 0;
}

#endif /* NIST_AES_RIJNDAEL_H */

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A focus on fibrosis research at the University of Oulu
Research related to fibrotic diseases is one of the profiling themes of research conducted at the University of Oulu. The Academy of Finland decided to fund a research entity called Fibrosis Diseasome in summer 2017. This entity is managed by the Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu Professor Johanna Uusimaa.
The University of Oulu has strong traditions in the research of extracellular matrix, one example being the Center of Excellence in Cell-Extracellular Matrix Research in 2012–2017 coordinated by our university.
"Fibrosis-related research is already at a very high level at our university. Another strengths of ours are the unique population and patient cohorts," says Uusimaa.
Incurable disease
A phenomena where previously healthy tissue turns into scar tissue, as the result of either infection, tissue damage or some other reason, which often remains unknown, is called fibrosis. In the worst case, this may result in organ damage and even death.
Fibrosis plays a significant role in several chronic diseases. These include obesity, diabetes, pulmonary and cardiac diseases, fatty liver, chronic kidney disease, musculoskeletal diseases, different skin diseases and degenerative neurological diseases. Many of these diseases are becoming increasingly common with the ageing of the population, which creates challenges for the health care services.
For now, there is no preventative or curing treatment available for fibrosis and medication at best only slows down its progression. In some cases, an organ transplant may be an option where the fibrotic organ, such as the liver or lungs, is replaced with a healthy organ coming from a donor.
Reasons leading to the development of fibrosis vary according to patient groups and, in practice, the disease of every single patient is very unique.
"Since the development mechanisms of fibrotic diseases are very different, very diverse multidisciplinary research is also needed," Uusimaa says.
The research will generate data on the molecular biological and epidemiological background of fibrosis in complex chronic diseases. The goal is to learn to understand the development mechanisms of fibrosis and to recognise fibrosis at a very early stage.
"This way we will be able to develop markers of the early stage that will enable the follow-up of the clinical situation and treatment response, more individualised treatment and the development of completely new treatments," says Uusimaa.
Scattered research as a challenge
Currently at the University of Oulu, fibrosis-related research is conducted in 11 different research units at three faculties, which are the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Humanities. In addition, research is conducted at two strategic focus institutes of the university, Biocenter Oulu and Eudaimonia, as well as at the Medical Research Center (MRC) Oulu, which is a collaborative organisation of the Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu.
The outpatient clinics of Oulu University Hospital treat and examine, for example, cardiac and liver fibrosis, fibrotic lung diseases and many rare diseases involving tissue fibrosis.
According to Uusimaa, clinical fibrosis research in particular has been scattered, and bringing fibrosis researchers of different fields together is among the key future objectives.
"The challenge is to strengthen both research coordination and cooperation among researchers, thus enabling the creation of increasingly multidisciplinary research entities."
Funding to enable top-level recruitment
Since January 2019, profiling funding from the Academy of Finland has been used to recruit experts for two tenure track positions. Professor Vesa Kiviniemi operates in the field of clinical neuroradiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Professor Zhi Jane Chen in the field of immunology at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine. In addition, two experts will start in tenure track positions in August, Professor Aki Manninen at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and Associate Professor Reetta Hinttala at the Faculty of Medicine.
The fibrosis profiling theme has also been taken into account in many other new recruitments and appointments of professors to emphasise the subject area.
Four tenure track researchers
The fibrosis research of Functional Neuroimaging Professor Vesa Kiviniemi involves operational changes in the brain's waste clearance pathway, i.e. glymphatic system, due to brain gliosis, which is a condition similar to fibrosis in the brain. Kiviniemi is known as a pioneer in the MRI imaging of spontaneous activation of the brain. The independent component analysis (ICA) that he was the first to apply in the differentiation of the brain's spontaneous activation from the physiological pulsations in the late 1990s has become the object of increasing research in the past years.
Kiviniemi is one of the pioneers in the MRI imaging of spontaneous activation of the brain in the world. His research group demonstrated that, in addition to the human brain artery pulsation, respiratory pulsation and slow vasomotor waves also serve as power sources in the glymphatic system of the brain.
Associate Professor Jane Chen's objective is to learn to understand the immunological mechanisms related to fibrosis. Her interests involve the role and activity of the so-called helper T cells in chronic inflammation and in the development of fibrosis. Understanding the function of the cells is important, for example, in the development of new medications.
Chen arrived to Oulu in January. She originally graduated from Beijing Medical University (currently Peking University Health Science Center). Chen completed her doctor's degree at the University of Turku. Since then, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health of the USA and as an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Turku.
The research group of Professor Aki Manninen is investigating abnormal interactions of prostate cancer cells with the surrounding tissue. Fibrotic changes of the interstitial tissue, i.e. stroma, surrounding the cancer cells play a key role in the regulation of prostate cancer cell growth and activity. On the other hand, cancer cells also actively modulate stromal cell behaviour and the surrounding extracellular matrix. According to Manninen, understanding this bidirectional communication will bring about new possibilities to prevent the progression of prostate cancer.
Manninen investigates changes in the prostate epithelial cells.
The research of Associate Professor Reetta Hinttala involves the recently described severe childhood multiorgan disease, which has been named, according to the main discoveries made in the patient tissue, as FINCA (Fibrosis, Neurodegeneration and Cerebral Angiomatosis). The disease is caused by mutations of the NHLRC2 gene. The objective of Hinttala's research is to solve the function of the protein produced by the NHLRC2 gene and to establish how the mutations in the gene lead to pulmonary fibrosis, destruction of nerve cells and regeneration of blood vessels in the brain.
Hinttala investigates the function of the protein produced by the NHLRC2 gene with the help of cell and mice models. Hinttala also serves as Coordinator in Transgenic Core Facility of Biocenter Oulu.
"Grand Opening" seminar in October
The first joint scientific seminar of fibrosis researchers will be held at the University of Oulu on 15 October 2019. On that occasion, key researchers of the project will give presentations together with a group of top Finnish and foreign experts on the field.
The seminar also celebrates the long traditions of the University of Oulu in extracellular matrix research with the theme of "Over 50 years of extracellular matrix research".
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Team USA Basketball: London Olympics Might Not Be Last Run For NBA Stars
By Matt Conner Aug 9, 2012, 11:33am CDT
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While Team USA men's basketball is on a winning streak that most sports fans believe will take them to yet another gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, many are also wondering whether or not it will be the last run of its kind. The team is comprised of NBA All-Stars and has been since the Dream Team in 1992, but rumors have been floating that an age cap could kill things and make the Americans far less dominating.
Apparently that's now being challenged or at least postponed long enough to give Team USA another run in Rio in 2016. Sports Illustrated's Ian Thomsen has the story:
It had been assumed that the new rule would take effect in 2016, which would have made these Olympics the last to feature teams led by the biggest NBA stars. The upcoming Olympic final four of the U.S. vs. Argentina and Spain vs. Russia -- which will conclude with the gold-medal final Sunday -- was being viewed as the likely culmination of the highly successful era that began with the original Dream Team's appearance at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
But the source stressed that quick action on an age limitation is highly unrealistic for FIBA. Passage of the new rule will require the ratification of 213 national basketball federations around the world -- the sporting equivalent of the United Nations. The involvement of the IOC will further complicate the talks.
This year's team is incredibly young and should be able to retain many of its stars -- from LeBron James to Kevin Durant - in 2016.
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Speaking ill of the dead
By The Sea: Part I, Chapter 7
Henry Gee 1 July 2007
I never expected to be actually discovering things. Totally new things. Sometimes it fills me with amazement, on the days when it doesn't terrify me.
Editor's note: We are pleased to continue the weekly serialization of an original novel by Henry Gee, By The Sea. Set in present-day Norfolk, Gee blends science, murder, sex and Victorian secrets into a dark, gothic thriller.
Sheepwool wonders which kind of interview is better: the one in which the interviewee says too much, or the one in which she says nothing at all. In Alex Beach's lab, a mote of relative neatness in this efflorescently horrible place, she realizes that this is a false dichotomy. No, the most problematic interviews are those in which the answers are ambiguous. Or, worse still, in which the interviewee seems entirely, readily cooperative with the answers she gives to straight questions, but her eyes, her whole body, seem locked in a titanic scream of contradiction.
Dr Alexandra Beach seems to belong in this latter category. Sheepwool, who finds it hard to order the parallel thoughts that rattle round inside her brain into a coherent line of argument, wishes (not for the first time) that Fitch were here to do the talking. Any questions she asks seem to falter, half-done, into nothingness, and if there is one thing Sheepwool dislikes, it is incomplete sentences. But Beach is just there, impassive. Whether Beach is standing, or leaning, or sitting, all Sheepwool sees is a tall, voluptuous young woman who, in another age, and except for her eyes, blue-gray rather than brown, would have made a good model for Renoir. She has the same pale, clean limbs, the same curves, and, most pertinently, the same vacant expression. Yes, it's her expression. That's it, thinks Sheepwool. That's what's so, well…so disturbing. Perhaps some sympathy would be in order here. Here is a woman who lives in what passes these days for a haunted castle, who has gone down to the dungeons at some godless hour and stumbled over a body.
Vacant.
It's a coping strategy, she knows. She looked like that once, not so very long ago. If Sheepwool softens her hitherto somewhat businesslike and yet abortive line of questioning, she might begin to get results.
"Dr Beach, I know it's hard. Really, I do. You've had a terrible, terrible shock. And, as far as I know, no support. Would you like me, or DS Fitch perhaps, to arrange for some counseling? Someone you could talk to?"
Breakthrough.
Beach sits down on a squashy sofa in one corner of the lab, the sofa, with its coffee table cantilevered with journals, reprints and general paperwork, that would serve as a communal relaxation area for the lab's three residents, were there to be three, and not just Beach, alone. No, not so much sits, but slumps, her empty eyes now populated with a fleeting wetness.
"Thank you, Inspector. That would be nice. And would you mind, please, if you called me 'Alex'? I've only just got my PhD, you know." A pause. A shy laugh. The hum of machinery in the background. "Sometimes I think I haven't really earned it. Or that it's so new they still might come along and take it away. Oh, this place…" Beach's voice is the calm, assured contralto of a newsreader, but it is, Sheepwool suspects, merely a rainbow-skin of oil on troubled depths.
"This…place? The Institute, you mean?"
"Yes, Inspector, that's exactly what I mean. When I simply hated it, the specimens, the crowding, the damp, the feeling that you couldn't move anywhere without knocking something over. Well, that was easy. But now, now that I've been here a few months, it's more difficult."
"It's hard to put into words, and I've never really tried, but I guess it's like this. I am beginning to fall in love with it. You know, like those hostages, who fall in love with terrorists, or whatever?"
"Stockholm syndrome."
"Yes, Inspector, that's it. And now…now you're here…do you know that you're the only person I've had a real conversation with for weeks?" Beach is all smiles now, and talks, and talks, like a rescued castaway, and Sheepwool begins to think that perhaps the most difficult interviewees are in fact the most voluble. Beach talks of science, and of her fascination with the improbable variety and abundance of marine creatures, and of how little we know about them. And without even waiting to be prompted, Beach answers the question that she had asked Morrison.
"My job! Well, I'm just trying to learn about things called carnostomids, they're a kind of marine worm. This place has the best collection of carnostomids in the world. Problem is, nobody really knows anything at all about them, so I am starting from scratch. At first I thought it was frightening, but now, well, I'm getting over it. Yes, it's still frightening, but everything I find out about these things, every little thing, might be completely new. I've just had this idea, you know, that carnostomids aren't adult animals, but larvae…"
"Larvae?"
"Yes, immature creatures. Babies. Things that might grow up into something else."
"Do you have any idea what?" Sheepwool is now as far from any plausible line of questioning as Timbuktu. But to have Beach talking, even if too much, might be better than her not talking at all. Sheepwool admits that her classification of interviewee difficulty might require yet further revision. And as Beach talks, Sheepwool can cast a surreptitious eye over the journals and papers before them, on the coffee table. Her eyes take in some letters. A letterhead. She has seen that letterhead before. At first, she cannot place it.
"No! That's just it. The larvae of marine animals can grow up into just about anything. That's the problem, Inspector, and, really, the thrill of it all. You know, Inspector, when I got my PhD, I thought I'd be working on some problem that had already been mostly sketched out. I'd be working in industry, you know, refining things, filling in gaps, making drugs whose properties were already pretty well known, work slightly better. I never expected, not in a million years, to be actually discovering things. Totally new things. Sometimes it fills me with amazement, on the days when it doesn't, frankly, terrify me." Beach deflates again, her torrent stopped, her expression blank once again. It is as if a light has gone out.
"Alex?"
"That larvae thing. It came to me, that idea, moments before, before I…"
"Before you discovered Dr Bland?"
A long pause. Alex had mostly been talking into space, releasing a flood of words as if Sheepwool were only the catalyst, not an interlocutor. But now Alex turns her head, looks directly at Sheepwool, and, with an almost imperceptible movement, nods.
"Of course I don't mind, Detective Sergeant, come right in."
The exceptionally tall, elderly man with the swirl of white hair (Fitch can't help but think of an ice-cream cone) stoops, offers a winning smile and ushers her into his office. This is almost, but not quite, as small and cramped as Janice Squearn's glory-hole. It does, at least, have a window, overlooking the sea. And that's all it overlooks: there is no land, no foreshore to give it scale. Now after dark, the view is of utter blackness, or, rather, it is a view more audible than visible, for the surf can be heard to scour the cliffs directly beneath them. For an instant Fitch imagines she's lost her moorings and is in fact on a ship far out at sea. Or it could simply be a tremor in the building. She holds on to the back of a chair, as if to steady herself. She must have let something slip, for the man proffers a solicitous arm and guides her to a simple, pine chair.
"Yes, Detective Sergeant, it can be somewhat disconcerting, can it not? Believe me, it is even more so in daylight!" His accent is foreign but unplaceable (Fitch knows from her dossier that he is originally from Sweden), but his English is as clipped as a box hedge. "One feels that it is a little, one might say, romantic? Up here, with nothing but my own thoughts and the great sea out of the window, I am on a voyage of discovery! Might I offer you some tea?" Fitch nods, palely, remembering at the last minute to murmur a thank-you. She decides to let Dr Lars Johansson make his own way into this interview.
"I am, however, directly above the kitchen. Sometimes the smell of chips on a Friday afternoon destroys my cheerful maritime fantasy, but one cannot have everything. And, believe me, I have quite a lot! I am blessed with, as you might say, independent means, so I can do what I like. Come and go as I please."
"Were you…?"
"I am pleased to say not! No, I was not here when the unfortunate Dr Bland met his untimely end. No, I have been spending Christmas with my parents in Umeå, that's in Sweden, you know, and arrived back only this morning."
Fitch ticks the mental box marked 'alibi', this one should be easy to verify, and suppresses amazement that Dr Johansson, who looks to be at least sixty, has both his parents. But then, Swedes, don't they live practically for ever? Not like her Dad, hacked to death by cigarettes before his fifty-third birthday. And her Mum, who is barely fifty-five but looks seventy, poor love.
"What do you do here, Dr Johansson?" Fitch asks as a way of making conversation, and immediately regrets it. For this is Dr Johansson's cue to expound on his favourite subject, the marvellous diversity of creatures that live their entire lives inside barnacles, a subject for which he clearly has an obsessive love.
"Darwin, you are familiar with Darwin, yes?"
Fitch nods gamely. She remembers vaguely having heard of Darwin in biology lessons in school, when she wasn't too busy making sheep's eyes at Jason and giggling whenever the teacher mentioned sex.
"Ah! Darwin, like me, loved barnacles. His work on barnacles still stands as the definitive treatise. But about the societies, kingdoms, empires, inside the barnacles, the man had no knowledge! Imagine, had he been privy to such information, he could have based his 'Origin of Species' entirely on examples drawn from within the valves of his beloved barnacles.
"It is the barnacles and their little friends that keep me here. The Institute has possibly the best collections of the parasites and commensals of barnacles anywhere in the world. I would not be here otherwise. In this place." His voice darkens for an instant, as if a small black speck has temporarily occulted the sun. Daylight is soon restored: "But enough of that! The kettle. See? It boils. We must have tea. Milk and sugar, yes?"
Fitch nods assent and, her equilibrium restored, decides to venture a toe into the conversation. "Pardon me for asking Dr Johansson, if it's not too rude, but did you say 'independent means'?"
"Not at all, Detective Sergeant. Not at all! You will know of course how this Institute is funded? None of the scientists who work in places like this receive any money from the Institute. It is, in fact, the other way round. They bring money from other sources, government grants, for instance, or universities, or philanthropic organizations, or even corporations, and buy time and space here, so they can use the Institute's unmatched collections. This money pays all the support staff at the Institute, and keeps the building from falling down, inasmuch as it can…as anything can." He laughs, Fitch thinks it polite to join in. They are, by now, both familiar with the precarious state of the Institute, perched on the very cliff-edge of an eroding coastline.
Johansson continues: "You did not, of course, imagine that it got much from visitors! This is what we in science call 'soft' money. But some money is softer than others, and I have the softest, or should that be the hardest? It is perhaps hard to say. For I am blessed with what is, I believe, called inherited wealth. My grandfather was a chemist who with my great-uncle founded Johansson and Johansson, which eventually came to be a very large and very profitable drugs company. It is still a private company, not quoted, and as a family member I am ashamed to say that I live off its profits. Although, I have to say, that these aren't as great as they once were, and the company is currently being pursued by the jackals of the marketplace. One particular jackal, in fact." Worry streaks his countenance. "Did you hear of a company called MagusPharm?"
Fitch confesses that she hasn't.
"Few people have, outside the pharmaceuticals industry itself. It appears to have come straight out of nowhere. Nobody seems to have any idea how it rose to prominence, or on which product." There is a pause. Fitch has a hard time reading Johansson's face, but for an instant she could have sworn that she saw in it a flash of agony.
"But still, no matter, I have plenty of funds to indulge my modest cirripedophilia."
Fitch has no idea what he is talking about. She sips her tea, and, putting it down on a corner of Johansson's desk, decides to steer the conversation back to the shores of relevance.
"Dr Johansson, what were your impressions of Dr Bland?"
"Bland? Not much. One does not like to speak ill of the dead, but I confess I thought him foolish. He did little work of any scientific merit, and that long ago, and he tended to let the administration of the building slip. You know, Detective Sergeant, much as one appreciates this building as a picturesque folly, it is a death trap, and the Institute should really have moved to somewhere more secure years ago. I am amazed that the authorities haven't forcibly closed it down. One reason I spend so much time here, rather than, oh, I don't know, playing golf, is that I wish to research the Institute's collections, and believe me, Detective Sergeant, these collections are priceless…before they fall into the sea. Bland should have been moving the Institute to a place more secure. He was not a bad man, far from it, he was always pleasant enough, but he was too easily distracted."
"Distracted? By what?"
"By…well, there is no sense in being coy…by women. It was, if I might say so, his great failing." Fitch has been here before, Bland's form is well known to her. But suddenly she thinks of her conversation with Sheepwool, their brainstorm in the car before she almost ran over that toddler. Of how it was that Bland happened to be in his lab at an unaccustomed hour, and just up the hall from Beach.
"Do you think, Dr Johansson, that this…er…distraction…had anything to do with his death?"
"I could not possibly answer that, Detective Inspector. After all, I was not here!"
"But would it interest you know that when he died in his laboratory in the early hours of the morning, Dr Alex Beach was working just along the hall?"
A small fracture appears in the scientist's polished poise.
"Yes, Detective Inspector. I regret to say, on reflection, that it should. Dr Beach is a pleasant young woman. And, now I come to think of it, Dr Bland did spend an inordinate amount of time pursuing her. I can understand why he might, but at his age, as at mine, one should exercise some decorum, should one not?"
Fitch senses that this rhetorical flourish marks the end of the interview, at least for now. She thanks Dr Johansson and rises to go. Just as she is about to gather her coat and bag, there is a soft knock at the door.
"Ah! Please excuse me, Detective Inspector." Johansson rises and shambles for the door. "Nothing for ages, and then it is like Victoria Station in here!" The door opens to reveal the neat, middle-aged woman with the rather sour expression Fitch and Sheepwool had met alighting from a cab.
"Ah, Maureen! Please come in. This is Detective Sergeant Fitch. About this terrible news. Have you met?"
The woman mumbles something inaudible.
"We have met, but not actually introduced," says Fitch.
"Allow me. Detective Sergeant Fitch, this is Dr Maureen Boynton, who is, like me, a visiting fellow of this Institute. Do you…have you…?"
Fitch, moving to the door, looks at the expression on Boynton's face. The sourness is sharpened with what looks like urgency. And conspiracy. Whatever it's about, Fitch thinks, she'll have to find out later. Boynton enters as if Fitch had been nothing more than a stuffed animal in a glass case.
"That's fine, Dr Johansson. I really must be going now. Thank you for your…"
The door closes behind her.
Really. Some people are so rude! And Johansson seemed such a nice person, very polite. Like something out of an old movie. No, it was that sourpuss, Maureen Boynton. She looked like she had to say something soon or she'd burst.
Fitch has hardly gone five yards along the narrow, shadowy corridor when she realizes that she's left her purse in Johansson's office.
"Who else is on our list?"
Fitch pauses as she slips up into third and looks keenly around into the encroaching night that the yellow-white beam of the lighthouse seems powerless to penetrate, as if her own eyes can do any better. Her face looks ghastly, pallid in the beam, cut up into shards of darkness by the fractured illumination, her hair pale and stringy like the dead-men's-fingers that is all that passes for seaweed on this part of the coast. Sheepwool is cast back to the shock of Pickled Lily, hair floating and awry in that horribly amniotic medium. Abruptly, Sheepwool turns away, looking through the windscreen at the blankness ahead, picked out by the car's too-weak headlights.
"Just two, Ma'am. I checked in with Janice Squearn while you were with Dr Beach. There's an American, a Professor Garrison Williams, and a Dr Heather Franks. Apparently, from what Janice told me, Williams got back from America last night, so we need to check his alibi. He sounds like a live one…"
"Hmm?" Sheepwool hears Fitch's voice as if through static, or from a long way off.
"Well, Janice says he, that's Williams, was due back yesterday, but didn't actually show up. This means, she says, that Professor Williams probably went straight from Heathrow to the Dazed Haddock. And Ma'am, get this, that's where he lives."
"What? At the Dazed Haddock?" Sheepwool sits up, incredulous: Fitch's voice swims back into focus. Perhaps Williams is one of those canonical Americans who'd look at a tumbledown ruin or, in this case, some seedy dive, and see only olde-worlde charm.
"I know. Unbelievable. A place like that. He's a bit of a shark apparently. Of the pool-playing variety." Fitch sounds disapproving.
"Is that a crime, Fitch?"
"No, Ma'am, it's…well, Janice said he's well in with Bob Honeypott, and you know what she thinks of him. And, well, you know what I think of him, and what Gerry Rammell, and, well, just about everyone else! Anyway, I thought we could go there now."
"Good idea, Fitch. I think we deserve a drink." Sheepwool turns to Fitch to read her expression, but Fitch's face is now out of range of the Light. Only the set of her jaw is visible, reflected from the pale strip of the track.
"And what of Franks?"
"Ah. Well, Ma'am, she might be harder to pin down. Janice says that the last time she saw her it was December the twenty-first. Franks seemed in a great rush to leave the Institute. Janice says she wanted to get some idea of her plans, you know, when she was going to return in the New Year, just to write down in case anybody wondered, but Franks seemed distressed or worried about something, so…"
"So we have no idea of where Franks went, or when she might be back?"
"No, Ma'am, I mean, yes, I'm afraid so. There's certainly been no sign of her."
Sheepwool sits back, drawing a shroud around herself with her own thoughts, letting Fitch pilot the car, a tiny mote in this vast and active darkness. Like all city dwellers, she finds the intensity of the rural night threatening. She is a creature of light. Unlike Fitch, who seems born and bred to this murk, as sharp a driver at night as by day. Even if she herself still drove…even if, by day, she…
No, Percy. Keep your mind on the present.
So, what do we have? Still-life with corpse, by Peter Brueghel the Elder, at the very least, although she'd settle for Matthias Grunewald. The grisly extravagance of the Isenheim altarpiece would have suited the Institute nicely. But the corpse itself? Could be heart failure. In fact, could be anything. No obvious foul play.
So why are we interested? Because Bland was acting out of character. Why was he in the Institute at night? Nobody knows. Though she thinks Morrison knows something and isn't saying.
And was it coincidence that Alex Beach was just yards away from Bland in his last moments, in that worm-casting of a cellar, surrounded by the purr of machinery (which would have driven Sheepwool round the bend) and the too-still air? She feels sure that the ever-reliable Fitch will be able to find rock-solid alibis for everyone, even this Williams person and the elusive Dr Franks. Of all of them, only Beach was there at the time.
That is, in fact, she thought, the only thing we know for certain.
And then, there's Morrison. He has an alibi, too. Only…well, Sheepwool trusts him no further than she can spit.
Percy, she says to herself: it's just a feeling. No more than that. There's no crime in slime, she'd reminded Fitch (she warms to the memory). But this feeling nags her because it's something she can't place. She rummages in the heaving handbag of her mind, the outside world quite forgotten. Ah, that's it. This goes way back, before she ever heard of Deringland, or the Institute, or Morrison.
It started on that school run, pieced together later, vicariously experienced. A car, zooming from right to left, carrying…what was it carrying? Machinery in Sheepwool's head, buried beyond awareness, grinds into life. It seems like only a moment later when the rasp of a handbrake pulls her back into wakefulness.
"How is it you live here, Professor Williams, here at the Haddock?" Fitch's voice is high, strained, but makes it clear that the Dazed Haddock is a place she'd rarely want to visit, much less call home.
"Oh, Detective Sergeant, may I call you Elaine? Please, just call me Garry." Williams flashes a big, cheesy all-American smile at Fitch and eases his frame into a more comfortable leaning position on the bar. He is standing, bottle of German lager in hand, while Sheepwool and Fitch perch on stools.
Sheepwool feels uncomfortable, exposed, here at the bar. She'd have preferred a table in some quiet corner. But quiet corners at the Haddock have an intensity of purpose which their occupants are often reluctant to share, swathed half in shadow, whispering furtively between themselves in nameless transactions, and glancing towards the bar with obvious resentment. Sheepwool feels as if she has a sign saying 'police!' written in flashing neon on her head. Only the prevailing gloom, softened by cigarette smoke, offers any kind of a shield. That, and the appalling noise, the ping and clang of the fruit machines; what sounds like a particularly lively pool tournament in the adjoining bar; and the juke box, provide a curtain against what would otherwise be an aggressive silence.
Sheepwool takes what solace she can in the jukebox. Hardly classical, but then again, nothing very much later than the mid-seventies, either. The sound of the juke is muffled, sodden, a result either of the acoustics of the pub, with their general conspiracy against easy conversation, or because the treble speakers have been shot as a result of three decades of playing 'Smoke on the Water'.
It's now playing 'Hotel California'. The song's atmosphere of enigma and loss strikes Sheepwool as apposite. It takes her back, and back, and back. She shakes herself once again into the present, but remains, for all that, detached, watching the drama of the world evolve, unseen, as if from an upstairs window.
Fitch, back half turned to her, is talking energetically to Williams, struggling to be heard against the ambient surge. Williams does not seem to find the atmosphere uncomfortable in the least. In contrast, he seems quite at home. He is lean and grizzled, in jeans and faded black leather jacket, face very pale and somewhat scarred beneath a full head of silver-gray hair. His eyes, beneath white brows, are pale blue and a little watery, but sparkle with a dangerous intelligence. Something about his face: he doesn't look burned, exactly, but perhaps a lifetime spent in labs turns one's complexion to driftwood. That, and smoking, Williams has a pack of Marlboros at his elbow and is never without a lit cigarette.
"Hey, well, you know, it's a place. And cheap. Sure, I could've afforded to rent or even buy somewhere, but when I first got off the train and pitched up here, a couple of years back, I came here for a drink, and…well…. I never left. They do food here, and beer, and I like pool, y'know? And the surfing, here at Deringland. It's just fine."
"But the cold? And the fog?"
"It gets real foggy at Half Moon Bay, too. And inland, the woods, with those big, big trees and the moss just hanging down, like rags." He laughs. "After that, the Institute is nothing to be frightened of. That mermaid though, Pickled Lily. She's scary! Scares the living crap out of me. Wooooh!" He hams it up as a pantomime ghost. "Do you ladies want another drink?"
Fitch declines, regretfully. She drives a police car, she explains. Sheepwool nods a polite refusal, thinking that being a disembodied mind, watching the scene from far, far away, is sufficient excuse. From this distance she can see now, quite clearly, that at least some of Williams' demeanor is an act of bravura. People confront their grief in different ways.
"I am sorry that you lost your wife," she says. "And might I change my mind, Professor? I'd very much like a white wine spritzer."
The change in Williams' face is remarkable. His cheeks sink, his skin turns a weird, pale green. He stands straighter, but looks much older and exhales from every pore the memory of the stink of death. Fitch turns to Sheepwool, looking shocked, mouth open as if to say something that doesn't quite emerge.
"My…wife?"
"Yes. I'm sorry. Terrible, terrible shock, losing her like that, just when you first returned to England."
Williams crumples. His eyes flicker towards the bar. The barman seems not to notice, but to Sheepwool's eyes, this nonchalance is entirely theatrical. "Let's find ourselves a corner, okay?" Williams says.
Other articles by Henry Gee
Hunting unicorns
Hunting unicorns - Part I
Blinded by the rain
A pale simulacrum
© 2007 Henry Gee. Henry is a Senior Editor at Nature and the author of several books, including The Science of Middle-Earth


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Crime Scene Investigator Breaks Down During Bever Murder Trial Testimony
Thursday, April 26th 2018, 11:14 AM CDT
Thursday, April 26th 2018, 3:57 PM CDT
By: Lori Fullbright
TULSA, Oklahoma - The judge in Michael Bever's murder trial ruled the jury will not be allowed to see autopsy photos of the five Bever family members murdered in 2015. The judge said the fact victims were stabbed to death is not in question.
Jurors will not see each individual stab wound - 48 wounds for the mother, April; 28 wounds for father, David; 11 for 12-year-old Daniel; 6 wounds for 7-year-old Christopher, and 18 for 5-year-old Victoria.
The judge said the autopsy photos would only inflame the jury. The District Attorney's Office had 100 photos ready to present. The jury will still see more than 200 crime scene photos showing the victims covered in blood and showing where they were killed in the home.
However, the judge also refused to let jurors see photos of the upstairs portion of the Bever home since no murders happened there. Prosecutors wanted the jury to see where the baby was found unharmed in a crib upstairs. Prosecutors also wanted to show how David Bever, Michael's father, could be upstairs asleep through the beginning of the stabbings before waking up, coming downstairs and being killed in a lower floor bedroom.
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The jury did see photos of the surviving sister's numerous injuries from photos taken while that girl was in the hospital.
A crime scene investigator walked the jury through photos of each room in the Bever home, showing blood on the floors, walls, and furniture, blood in a pair of glasses, alarm box and a picture of a broken cell phone.
He also reviewed some of the evidence collected like knives, a hatchet and the helmets and body armor Robert and Michael Bever were wearing when taken into custody.
The investigator testified he was inside the crime scene for 17 hours and took around 600 photos. He said he has processed an estimated 1,500 crime scenes.
When a photo of 7-year-old Christopher and 5-year-old Victoria came on the screen, he couldn't go on. The photo showed the siblings huddled on the floor of the bathroom in what appeared to be their pajamas, covered in blood.
He had to step out of the courtroom to collect himself before he could resume testifying.
It appears the murder trial of Michael Bever may go into next week as prosecutors call their 13th witness Thursday, April 26. They still have more to go, possibly including the medical examiner, the detective who took Michael Bever's videotaped statement and evidence of the accused's jail journal.
Then, the defense can call witnesses.


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Events in the year 2012 in Burkina Faso.

Incumbents

 President: Blaise Compaoré
 Prime Minister: Luc-Adolphe Tiao

Events

January
January 16 – The government of Tajikistan creates formal diplomatic relations with Burkina Faso.
January 20 – 3 People are imprisoned for killing vultures, a protected species, in order to gather materials for voodoo rites, with the courts looking to set an example of the consequences of vulture killings.

March
March 7 – The IRC and FIU come to an agreement to expand sustainable water delivery in the country.
March 8 – 136 police officers in the capital are fired for a mutiny committed by the perpetrators the previous year.

May
May 25 – 25 people in total are killed along the Burkina Faso-Mali border as the Fulani nomads and Malian Dogon farmers fight over use of land.
May 26 – Throughout the country, thousands of people protest against the rise in the cost of basic necessities, such as food and petrol.

September
September 18 – The Cities Alliance plans for urban upgrading projects for the capital city, Ouagadougou.

November
November 22 – 400 child trafficking victims, involved in a plot to source child labor, are rescued by Interpol.

December
December 5 – 2 prominent journalists are sentenced to prison by the Burkinabé government for reporting on a claim of obstruction of justice by the state prosecutor.
December 20 – The British government sets to send aid to ease hunger crisis of countries in the Sahel region.

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Parent Resource Library – Where do I Begin
Even when parents and school officials try their best to develop and provide an appropriate program for a child, disagreements can occur. If you do not believe your child's special education program is working, you should first talk to your child's teacher. You can request an IEP meeting to discuss your child's program and to explain why you think a change is necessary. You can also reach out to the special education director of the school district or charter school to identify and discuss your concerns.
CADRE, the national Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education, has created the Working Together Online Learning Series. These self-directed courses provide families and educators with a number of strategies for working together and through conflict. Using these strategies may be helpful in working with your school.
If the concerns about your child's special education program can not be resolved at the school district level, there are other options available to help reach agreement. Some of these options are required by the special education law and described in the Procedural Safeguards Notice. There are other dispute resolution processes available for resolving disagreements. Although not mandated by the special education law, these have been found to be beneficial in resolving special education conflicts. All of these processes are provided by the Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR) and each process involves a neutral, third-party participant.
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IEP Facilitation: A voluntary process that can be used when all parties to an IEP meeting agree that the presence of a neutral third party would help facilitate communication and the successful drafting of the student's IEP.
Mediation: A voluntary and confidential meeting in which an impartial mediator helps parents and the school discuss the issues and when possible, reach an agreement about the child's special education program. The mediator helps the parties draft a mutually agreed upon resolution. The special education law states that the Mediation Agreement is considered legal, binding, and enforceable in a court of law.
Due Process Hearing: A formal hearing that is similar to a trial in front of a Hearing Officer who is an administrative law judge. The Hearing Officer writes a decision based on their analysis of the information presented during the hearing.
Resolution Meeting Facilitation: A voluntary process during a Resolution Meeting where a trained facilitator works with both parties to resolve disagreements, which could eliminate the need to move forward with due process.
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Hi, looking for some advice about raw feeding.
I currently feed my almost 2 year old mastiff/rottie natures menu complete county hunter nuggets.
I made the change almost a year ago just from advice from my trainer as I mentioned she is always acratching and I'm pleased I did, her behaviour changed dramatically and she came a lot calmer, less itchy and seems to enjoy it.
Problem is, before we switched she was never an early riser and would sleep in until whenever we got up and didn't really pester to be fed. But now she is up barking waiting by the oven(she knows it's in there defrosting) by 6am every morning and is usually sitting by the oven by 3/4pm wanting to be fed again which I try to hold out until 6pm. My issue isn't waking up early it's that she's obviously starving and will then only last until late afternoon before she's starving again. She has 30 cubes per feed twice a day.
I don't know if she's just being demanding and we're falling for it or she's not getting enough food but she has just over the recommended amount for her size.
I wouldn't say she's underweight, she is small considering her breed (she's 33kg) and her mum was very large. In comparison her brother is a lot bigger and weighs in at almost 50kg and is fed supermarket tinned wet food and pedigree or other branded dry food- just seems strange the difference?
Has anyone else experienced this and if so what did you do?
I'm considering swapping brands or even doing home made but I'm not very clued up on everything raw and also assume it's more time consuming as I use the nuggets for convenience.
Hello and welcome to the forum. Although I raw fed for a short while some time ago, I don't now so I am hoping that someone who has experience of this will come along to advise.
One of the products I used was the same as you are using. I recall some weight loss and having to increase the amount. However, since then the company has made some changes to their lines. It might be worthwhile weighing the defrosted nuggets to see exactly how much your dog is getting - IIRC some dogs need as much as 3% of body weight.
Regarding a dog's weight, body condition scoring is a useful guide - there are plenty of videos on YouTube about this.
* Talk to Natures Menu advisors about this to see what they suggest.
* Try giving a topper that will provide some bulk and satisfy the hunger. I am thinking of well cooked brown rice/oatmeal or cooked and mashed sweet potato. However, I appreciate that as a raw feeder you might not feel that this is acceptable.
* Try a different raw complete.
* Increase number of feeds - some hungry dogs may do better on small, frequent meals. That is what I have had to do with my two.
Hello and welcome to the forum. I have fed the nuggets for a while and found exactly the same. My dog was hungry and lost weight. She is on nutriment now and doing fine. Her stools are much smaller than they were on natures menu. When she was having that, she had large stools that always seemed to be full of hard peas. I emailed the company, and at that time they were adding dried peas. I would have had to have fed her well over the RDA to keep her sated and her weight stable as so much of it was not being digested.
I recall that when Tinyplanets and I gave the nuggets the fat percentage was lower than it is now so maybe that was a factor in our findings. The review of the current Country Hunter nuggets is here and it shows the fat is now 28.1%. This should theoretically help to satisfy hunger and prevent weight loss. My friend has fed this product for some time and had to reduce the quantity when the new recipes came out because the dog began to gain weight.
As Tinyplanets says, another complete raw food could be worth trying. It would be interesting to know if this makes a difference. Whatever you decide, would you let us know how you get on please?
Edit: Just found a similar thread here. Unfortunately the OP did not respond to her or his thread so we do not know the outcome.
I am going to try and get her weighed this weekend as I haven't actually done that for a while but she is on over 3% for what she weighed last time she went to the vets.
I did speak to the person that supplies my food but they suggested adding kibble but obviously this makes her scratch so not ideal either.
I am going to look into some other brands this weekend so will let you know what I end up doing.
Thank you for the update. I can quite see your point about the cost escalating when feeding more of the nuggets, especially as she is at the top end of the RDA anyway . They are convenient but expensive when feeding a larger dog. My feeling is that they are more suitable for toy and small breed dogs because you don't have to thaw a tub which might not be used up within the prescribed time. DIY raw is possibly going to be cheaper but needs a bit of study to get the proportions right, particularly the calcium/phosphorous. Also it is less convenient. Companies like DAF Pet Foods sell raw with the bone added then all you have to do is add carbohydrate/fruit/vegetables as required.
Have you tried cold pressed food? It is advertised as suitable for raw feeders and should help to sate your dog's appetite. However, I don't know whether there are ingredients that might trouble your dog. There are grain free varieties and the ones that are not grain free contain brown rice. Personally, I don't care for mixing food, particularly raw so if you went down this route I would advise to maybe give a small meal last thing at night in an attempt to stave off the morning hunger. You could reduce the raw to take account of this.
Hello kmf1990 and welcome to the forum!
I've not fed the Country Hunter nuggets, though I have fed that range from tins and found all was fine. However, I've also fed the Original Raw Nuggets (from the same brand) which are recommended in their "sensitive stomach" range. These have grain, be that either, brown rice or sweet potato, and may, for that reason, be of help to the 'hungrier' dog to feel fuller.
If you do decide to change his diet, then you might examine the particular ingredient of the food he was eating, the 'culprit' that seemed to be a cause of his itching, and then avoid feeding that ingredient as much as is possible.
Very late update but thought it might help someone else.
I switched to a new food called they love it raw.
Honestly the best thing I could have done. It's completely natural and no additives, the hunger pangs have definitely stopped and I now don't get woken up at stupid o'clock for breakfast!
And an extra bonus it's costing me about a third of the price including bones and treats!
Thank you very much for this useful update. It's good that the problem is now solved. I hadn't heard of the company.
Here is the link to their website: They Love It.


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Our guilty pleasure in our household is deep fried food. Every once in a while, we'll break out the vegetable oil and batter just about anything we can get our hands on: Shrimp, chicken tenders, drumsticks, vegetables… you name it. But one of our absolute favorites is deep fried pickles.
The batter is always light and perfectly crispy and the pickles are always chock full of flavor. These pickles are perfect for party appetizers and if you like pickles, you'll fall in love with this recipe.
These are one of my favorites to throw together for the Super Bowl and other events where wings and other bar foods are appropriate. They're always a crowd pleaser!
These fried pickles are delicious and fried to a golden brown perfection.
Begin heating vegetable oil in a large frying pan.
In a shallow bowl, mix two egg whites, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, and whipping cream.
In another shallow bowl, mix flour and panko bread crumbs.
Take out 15 or so pickles and dry them off.
Coat pickles in egg white mixture.
Coat pickles in flour mixture.
Shake off excess flour and begin placing the pickles in the oil, creating a single layer.
Turn pickles after two minutes or golden brown. Take them out of the heat after another two minutes.
Salt to taste and enjoy!