Later this week, a new DVD and BluRay will be digitally and physically stacked on the shelves. It's a new documentary called Road and tells the story of the Dunlops, the first family of motorbike road racing. Yes, it's about a film about life on two wheels, not four. But that doesn't mean it isn't brilliant. Because it is, as you can see from Top Gear's exclusive clips above.
Narrated by man of a very particular set of skills, Liam Neeson, Road is (a) improbably fast (b) very crashy in parts and (c) entirely worth a watch if you're into racing or speed or simply a delve into the psyche of men who pilot motorbikes at 180mph along country roads, eyeballing death time and time again until, at last, they run out of luck.
Road combines archive clips with some properly fearsome modern race footage - like the ones below. There are also interviews with Murray Walker - a former road racer himself - and John McGuinness, the only current racer with a realistic chance of overhauling Joey Dunlop's TT title haul.
We watched the film earlier this year and found that Road is worthy of its place among modern racing classics Senna and Closer to the Edge. At Road's heart lurks the curious, conflicted relationship between racers and mortality, be it their own or others. What pushes them to go faster and harder, time after time, when fatal accidents aren't so much a risk as an occupational hazard?
After all, it's no spoiler to note that Joey Dunlop lost his life to a racing crash in Estonia in 2000, with his brother Robert dying in a road race in Northern Ireland eight years later, incidents Road deals with in unflinching fashion. Why, if you'd lost your uncle and father to the same sport, would you keep coming back for more?
Road is available on DVD, Blu-ray and digitally from 29 September 2014 but you can watch the full trailers here.


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Condition and Treatment Options
Clinical Experts
Stephanie Moore
How to deal with acid reflux
Updated Friday, February 10, 2017 - 22:29
Published Thu, 01/19/2017 - 14:32
Plenty of us live with the discomfort of digestive problems, which can manifest in many ways from bloating, feeling heavy and tired after eating, irregular bowel movements and stomach cramps. For many, these issues can be down to issues with stomach acid. The most obvious symptom of stomach acid issues is heartburn, where radiating, intense burning pain is felt in the middle of the chest, often after eating a big meal, when lying down and/or when eating on the go / while rushing and distracted. Heartburn refers to the sensation when acid splashes up and out of the stomach. More specifically, acid Reflux is when the acid rises up from the stomach into the oesophagus, and you get that sour taste.
A common name for the large and/or small intestines. Full medical glossary
A viral infection affecting the respiratory system. Full medical glossary
The gullet, the part of the gastrointestinal system that extends down from the mouth cavity to the stomach. Full medical glossary
the organ or the body where food is stored and broken down Full medical glossary
Hydrochloric acid and digestion
The pain is being caused by hydrochloric acid (HCl acid), which is made by cells in the wall of the stomach, escaping from the top of the stomach and burning the delicate lining of the oesophagus (your throat), resulting in inflammation and pain. The solution may seem obvious, to take something that stops the burning by neutralising the acid. But for the vast majority of cases this is actually only going to make the matter worse.
The basic unit of all living organisms. Full medical glossary
The body's response to injury. Full medical glossary
Taking Omeprazole
There are many over-the-counter remedies for heart-burn, which neutralise the acid in the throat, thus reducing the pain. When these antacid medications stop working, the next step is usually a prescription from the GP for a type of drug called proton-pump inhibitor (PPI). These drugs (Omeprazole or Lansoprazole) reduce the output of HCL acid made in the stomach, greatly reducing levels of HCl in the stomach, hence no reflux.
Backflow of a bodily fluid in the wrong direction Full medical glossary
Why we need stomach acid
Taking medication doesn't address the real problem. We absolutely need stomach acid as without it we cannot digest our food properly and vital nutrients like iron, B12 and others cannot be absorbed. What is needed is better management of the stomach acid. Usually this requires more stomach acid to be made, not less. If acid levels are high, the top of the stomach automatically clamps tightly shut, ensuring the acid cannot pass up in to the throat. It is, ironically, when we have too little stomach acid, that the top of the stomach remains partially open, allowing seepage of the acid upwards, resulting in pain
An element present in haemoglobin in the red cells. Full medical glossary
Eliminate heartburn
Understanding this mechanism is crucial to not only eliminating heartburn without drugs, but also ensuring full and proper digestion takes place throughout the whole of the intestinal tract, allowing good absorption of nutrients and a well-functioning, pain-free digestive system from top to bottom, quite literally! Being stressed is one of the main causes for too little stomach acid to be made. When we are in stress mode, the body is not expecting you to eat. Stress is our action, doing, busy mode.
relating to the intestines, the digestive tract between the stomach and the anus Full medical glossary
Relating to injury or concern. Full medical glossary
The vital role of HCL
It's important to really appreciate the vital role HCl acid plays in digestion. When we start to think about food when we're hungry and certainly once we smell food and anticipate eating, our brain activates the stomach cells to make acid in preparation of food coming down. Once we start chewing, this system kicks in even more strongly ensuring plenty of acid is in the stomach when you swallow your food. The food passes down the oesophagus in to the stomach where the now highly acidic environment begins the process of breaking down the protein in your food. This can take between two or three hours if the system is working well. With plenty of stomach acid, the top of the stomach allows nothing to come back up, keeping your food and your acid tightly contained.
Compounds that form the structure of muscles and other tissues in the body, as well as comprising enzymes and hormones. Full medical glossary
Neurotransmitters and protein
Proteins needs a lot of breaking down to become the critically important end products of protein digestion, called amino acids. Different amino acids have many different jobs in the body and if we don't get adequate amounts of amino acids our ability to heal and repair starts to suffer. Amino aids mend tissues, heal muscles and provide the main ingredients for the manufacture of neurotransmitters, namely serotonin, our feel-good brain chemical, which is also essential for the manufacture of our sleep hormone, melatonin.
An organic compound that is the basic building block of all proteins. Full medical glossary
A substance produced by a gland in one part of the body and carried by the blood to the organs or tissues where it has an effect. Full medical glossary
Tissue made up of cells that can contract to bring about movement. Full medical glossary
A chemical that helps the communication between nerve cells (neurons). Full medical glossary
A group of cells with a similar structure and a specialised function. Full medical glossary
Fatty acids and digestion
Low acid levels means that the food leaving the stomach is not at a high enough acid level to trigger the production of yet more digestive enzymes, made by the pancreas, required for further break-down of our food. These should be excreted as the food passes out of the bottom of the stomach. Similarly, if our food leaves the stomach with inadequate acid levels, the gall bladder does not get triggered to release adequate bile in to the intestine. Bile breaks down our dietary fats in to fatty acids. Fatty acids have many vital jobs in the body, including hormone manufacture, transporting oxygen around the body and providing energy when glucose levels are low. So, without proper acid levels, the digestive activity is further impaired.
A fluid produced by the liver, which helps the fat ingested in food to combine with the digestive juices in the gut. Full medical glossary
The organ that stores urine. Full medical glossary
A protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body without being used up itself. Full medical glossary
One of the three main food constituents (with carbohydrate and protein), and the main form in which energy is stored in the body. Full medical glossary
A simple sugar that is an important source of energy in the body. Full medical glossary
The section of gut, or gastrointestinal tract, from the stomach to the anus. Full medical glossary
A gland behind the stomach that produces digestive enzymes and the hormones insulin and glucagon, which together regulate glucose levels in the blood. Full medical glossary
A glandular organ that secretes digestive enzymes and hormones. Full medical glossary
Bugs, parasites and bacteria
Stomach acid has a second important job. It kills off nasty bugs, parasites and bacteria that are on and in all of our food. Low acid levels can result in some of these undesirable bacteria and parasites passing in to the intestine. These bugs then feed on the food that is not being well digested, allowing the nasty bugs to thrive. As they eat and grow, these bugs produce lots of gas, resulting in painful bloating but also, these gases can cause a backpressure that forces its way back up in to the stomach and through the top of the stomach, allowing acid to leak up in to the delicate oesophagus, hence more burning. The stomach contents need to exit the stomach at a strong enough acid level to have broken down the proteins, killed off these nasty bugs and to turn on the biological switch for the rest of the digestive system to be fully activated. So, as you can see, reducing your HCl acid levels is a seriously bad idea.
A group of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye, which are usually made up of just a single cell. Full medical glossary
HCl acid supplements
To improve your digestive processes, you need to have good levels of HCl acid kicking in as soon as you start to eat. There are HCl acid supplements that can be taken to increase acid levels and they are often combined with digestive enzymes to provide your digestive system with the key ingredients that it can't make while acid levels are impaired. It is highly advisable to seek professional advice on what supplementation to take to ensure you are taking appropriate levels to ensure complete digestion. Over time, if you improve your focus on chewing, eating consciously and not while rushing around and distracted, your body will begin to increase its own production of HCl acid and enzymes and supplementation can then be gradually reduced and eventually stopped
Tips to boost your HCl acid
Take a tablespoon of raw apple cider vinegar in a little water at the beginning of meals. This special kind of apple cider vinegar has to be unpasteurised and unfiltered. It contains enzymes and beneficial bacteria to support digestion but crucially, it also triggers stomach acid production, ensuring the top of the stomach clams tight shut when food enters. It also therefore improves your whole digestive capacity.
Chew, chew, chew and chew some more. This triggers acid and enzyme production.
Eat small amounts of protein at every meal.
Manage stress – when we are stressed, our production of HCl acid reduces. The body isn't prepared for digesting, it's in fight or flight mode. Eating while stressed is a really bad idea.
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As a kid and sometimes even as adults, we can all wonder what it would like to be a super hero. We all would love to have some sort of incredible super power and be able to go around the world saving people and showing off our super talent. It's funny how we all think on such a big scale as to what those super powers would be. We all would want super strength, the ability to fly, the ability to run fast or maybe move things with our minds. I am assuming all these things would be great for the two reasons I already mentioned, helping others and showing the world how unique we are. Well we may not be able to fly and do all the things we see in the movies but we can all be super heroes. Every day we can help others and every day we can show the world how unique we are. Spend the day as if you were a superhero waiting for a cry for help and when that call comes, jump up and be off to the rescue. When someone calls with a flat tire, jump up from wherever you are and run to their rescue. When your mom calls and just needs someone to talk to, be there for her. When your children cry out for help, sacrifice yourself as a true superhero would. Whatever it may be, no matter how silly you may think the task is, you can be some ones super hero every day of your life.
So quit sitting around and get to work, the world needs you.
You have definitely come to my rescue more than once! Of course the timing of when I read this last night was just so perfectly ironic. I'm sure you gave it a few head shakes yourself. Love you!!! Hope you're feeling better.
You actually inspired me to be a mini-hero today to someone who did not have a ride to bible study. In the process I, myself, was blessed by getting to spend time with someone I hadn't seen in a long time. Thanks again Alex!


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HomeDeliSt Pierre Belgian Waffle Wins Gold sofi Award in Breakfast Category
St Pierre Belgian Waffle Wins Gold sofi Award in Breakfast Category
Carrs Foods International Deli September 9, 2020
St Pierre Belgian Waffle with Butter has won the gold award in the Breakfast Food category as part of the Specialty Food Association's 2020 sofi™ Awards, distinguishing it from nearly 2,000 entries across 39 product categories.
"It's an incredible honor to be recognized among our peers within the specialty food industry," said Paul Baker, co-founder of St Pierre Groupe. "When we launched the brand to the U.S. in 2012, we had no idea what to expect. It's been a truly humbling and rewarding experience. And we are so proud of moments like this."
This is the first time St Pierre has won a sofiTM Award. As the number one brioche brand and one of the fastest-growing bakery brands in the U.S.1, St Pierre has experienced positive year-over-year growth, with sales jumping more than 70% in 20192 and another 60% in 20203. The Belgian Waffle with Butter is part of a range of more than 20 products including sliced brioche bread, croissants and filled crepes.
St Pierre products are made from authentic recipes in France and Belgium, inspired by European café culture, to elevate every meal experience and make every day magnifique. St Pierre can be found in the bakery department at national and regional retailers like Target, Kroger, Meijer and Food Lion.
The Specialty Food Association's sofiTM Awards have been honoring the best in specialty food for 48 years. A panel of expert industry judges selected the sofiTM Award winners through a blind tasting process. Products are judged on taste, including flavor, appearance, texture and aroma, ingredient quality and innovation. For the complete list of the winners, visit https://www.specialtyfood.com/
To learn more about St Pierre, visit www.stpierrebakery.com.
About St Pierre
St Pierre is the No. 1 brioche brand and fastest-growing bakery brand in the U.S.1 Based in the U.K., St Pierre was introduced to the U.S. market in 2012 to bring the European bakery experience to the mainstream U.S. consumer. St Pierre is part of U.K.-based St Pierre Groupe, an international market leader in the bakery sector with a brand portfolio that also includes Baker Street and Paul Hollywood.
About the Specialty Food Association
Founded in 1952 in New York City, the Specialty Food Association (SFA) is the leading advocate for the $158.4 billion specialty food industry. Representing makers, importers, entrepreneurs, retailers, distributors and others in the trade, the SFA aims to champion, nurture and connect its members to deliver traditional and innovative new products to consumers that expand consumption of specialty foods. With over 4,000 member companies, the Association helps its members through providing information, research, educational events, and celebrating the industry through its awards programs. The SFA is known for hosting the Winter and Summer Fancy Food Shows and presents the sofi™ Awards honoring excellence in specialty food. Learn more at specialtyfood.com
1 Nielsen, ACN Report, February 2018 AOC
2 Nielsen, ACN Report, December 2019 AOC
3 Nielsen, ACN Report, August 2020 AOC
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Monthly Journal of Research and Production
ISSN 0409-2961 (Print) ISSN 2658-5537 (Online)
Founded in (January) 1932
Listed VAK
Development of Protective Barrier Model for Reducing the Load from the Shock Wave on Buildings and Structures
The method is proposed concerning the reduction of the blast load on the buildings and structures from the incident blast wave when implementing scenarios of emergency explosions at the objects of oil and gas industry by creating the protective barrier. It is established that gas permeable barriers or screens have the greatest efficiency in reducing the shock loads. When the shock wave passes through the layers of the gas-permeable screen, the pressure at its front decreases and the wave profile changes. Such protective screens should be located along the path of the shock wave in the immediate vicinity from the source of the explosion. It is shown that multilayer screens made of steel sheets in combination with the layer of porous material have the best dissipative properties. Use of several protective screens can vary the parameters of the incident shock wave, which effects buildings and structures.
The configuration of the device model was developed on reducing the incident shock wave intensity during explosions of fuel-air mixtures at hazardous production facilities in the form of a combined damper — attenuator of the shock wave of the explosion. The main function of the attenuator is to reduce the blast load due to its absorption of the shock wave energy. The model of the device is a protective barrier located between the source of the explosion and the protected object, which serves as an obstacle to the effect of the shock wave and helps to dissipate its energy.
Using numerical modeling, thanks to which it was possible to evaluate the efficiency of the developed design of the attenuator, the blast load, which influences the operator building during the implementation of the emergency explosion scenario, will decrease from 40 to 2 kPa. Thus, the protection measure in the form of the attenuator allows to minimize the magnitude of the blast load on the buildings and structures.
Gelfand B.E., Silnikov M.V. Blast effects of explosions. Saint-Petersburg: OOO «Izdatelstvo «Poligon», 2002. 272 p. (In Russ.).
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DOI: 10.24000/0409-2961-2019-8-57-65
Issue num: August
Keywords : excessive pressure accident explosion fuel-air mixture динамическая нагрузка protective barrier shock wave attenuator
Nevskaya E.E.
Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Senior Research Assistant, e.nevskaya@safety.ru ANO «Industrial Risk Research Agency», Moscow, Russia
Glebova E.V.
Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Prof., Department Chairman FGAOU VO «RGU of Oil and Gas (NIU) named after I.M. Gubkin», Moscow, Russia
Volokhina A.T.
Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor of the Academic Department FGAOU VO «RGU of Oil and Gas (NIU) named after I.M. Gubkin», Moscow, Russia
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Children and Youth Services Review 76 (2017), pp. 59–64.
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While many homeless youth use cell phones to stay socially connected, and maintaining positive social ties can contribute to pathways out of homelessness, little is known about how using cell phones for data collection can improve these young people's lives. We conducted baseline and follow-up interviews with 150 homeless youth as well as provided them with a cell phone for 30 days to gather daily data using short message service (SMS) surveying. This paper examines youths' opinions about study participation and how they used the cell phone. Results revealed that youth liked participating in the study because the SMS texting portion, for example, made them feel that someone still cared about them, prompted them to self-reflect on their life, and allowed them to make a difference (e.g., educating the public about homelessness). Despite numerous benefits of study participation, improvements that youth discussed for future studies included changing the format of our text questions to allow for explanations and the use of higher-quality phones. In terms of study phone usage, youth reported using the phone to schedule appointments, contact employers, and to keep in touch with family and friends. Finally, we highlight ways in which cell phones via SMS could be used with homeless youth to provide informational resources along with educational and employment opportunities, all of which are important intervention strategies in improving life situations for this population.


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Q: Converter Perl script fix I am trying to use a small Perl script in order to convert SQL INSERT statements from MySQL syntax into SQLite syntax. But the script has a bug and can't convert the string constants properly in some corner cases.
Here is the script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>){
    s/\\'/''/g;                # Use '' instead of \'
    s/\\"/"/g;                 # Use " instead of \"
    s/\\r\\n/\r\n/g;           # Convert escaped \r\n to literal
    s/\\\\/\\/g;               # Convert escaped \ to literal
    s/ auto_increment//g;      # Remove auto_increment
    s/^[UN]*?LOCK TABLES.*//g; # Remove locking statements
    print;
}

The problem is that in the case of the following MySQL string:
'It doesn\'t work :-\\'

It generates wrong SQLite string:
'It doesn''t work :-\''

instead of the proper:
'It doesn''t work :-\'

What is wrong in the script?
EDIT:
And how to fix it?

A: It's because you're processing \' before \\. You need to handle backslashes in the order they are encountered, so you need to do everything in one pass.
#!/usr/bin/perl

my %escapes = (
   n => "\n",
   r => "\r",
);

while (<>) {
    s{\\([\Wrn])}{ $escapes{$1} // ( $1 eq "'" ? "''" : $1 ) }eg;
    s/ auto_increment//g;
    next if /^(?:UN)?LOCK TABLES/;
    print;
}

Note the proper way of optionally matching UN.

A: The first substitution s/\\'/''/g; replace the last \' by '', so
'It doesn\'t work :-\\'
#                    ^^

becomes
'It doesn\'t work :-\''

I guess you want to replace \' only when it is not followed by a non-word character \W.
I'm using here only the 2 relevant substitutions for this case
my $str = <<'EOD';
insert into tbl values ('it doesn\'t work :-\\', 42, 33, 'and this doesn\'t work as well :-\\', 1024);
EOD
say "before: ",$str;
$str =~ s/\\'(?!\W)/''/g;
$str =~ s/\\\\/\\/g;
say "after: ",$str;

Output:
before: insert into tbl values ('it doesn\'t work :-\\', 42, 33, 'and this doesn\'t work as well :-\\', 1024);

after: insert into tbl values ('it doesn''t work :-\', 42, 33, 'and this doesn''t work as well :-\', 1024);

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Jon Pardi Shares New Single, 'Heartache on the Dance Floor' [LISTEN]
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Jon Pardi has released a new single, "Heartache on the Dance Floor," the third release off of his latest album, California Sunrise.
Pardi co-wrote "Heartache on the Dance Floor" alongside Bart Butler and Brice Long. The song tells the story of love at first sight, beginning with the first glimpse of a beautiful girl on the dance floor at an out-of-town bar "out by the sand" in "some little West Coast town."
"First thing that caught my eye, like nothin' I'd ever seen / Sunburnt auburn hair, a California dream," Pardi sings in the first verse of "Heartache on the Dance Floor." "Yeah, she was shakin' them hips to some 'ol Motown song / I couldn't say a thing, so I sang along."
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Pardi never reveals if the girl's dance moves lead to long-term romance, but he does say that they made him stick around: "I just hung around this little West Coast town / I drop by every night, I stay 'til closin' time," Pardi sings -- he's presumably hoping to find his redhead again.
"Heartache on the Dance Floor" is Pardi's third single from California Sunrise; it follows the successful releases of "Dirt on My Boots" and "Head Over Boots," which both hit No. 1. "Head Over Boots" was the singer's first-ever No. 1 hit.
California Sunrise is available for download via iTunes.
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There is no outlook for linux users. Setting up email, calendar, contacts etc in linux with office 365 (or exchange) account could be painful.However there is a little known fact that office 365 also have SMTP feature for configuring non exchange compliant client like Mozilla Thunderbird.
Since office 365 is a cloud hosting by Microsoft which is multi-tenant, setup configuration is pretty much same unless the company decides to override anything.
For calendar you have to install the following addon.
Install the latest version of the Lightning add-on.
Download the latest version of the Exchange Calendar and Tasks Add-on.
Click on Check server and mailbox.
You will be prompted for your password. Enter the password for the account you are configuring and click OK.
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Read the instructions. Usually they have a cover your but statement such as supplemental heat only, or not for sleeping areas. I am very experienced in the plumbing/heating/gas field, and there is NO WAY I would have one of these units in a sleeper house, O2 sensor or not. They put a ton of humidity in the air and they do require ventilation.
Be careful & have fun in your "new house"
I'm with MNice, I've had fish houses for years and I'd never have one without a vented heater. I also have screened vents at the ceiling line as well as down near the stove.
Well I have had a ventless heater in my fishhouse for the the past oh 3 years or so with out a problem I all so have c0 alarm thats not on the heater just to play it safe I had the same worriers so thats my two cents put also we I sleep at night a always mke sure to have a window open two at least a crack.
Do you ever wake up in the morning groggy? A slight headache? Very dry mouth? Do your eyes ever feel dry or burning? I've been in a fish house with a ventless heater and all of the above have occured to me.
For all of the reasons listed above so far, I decided to go with an Empire direct vent furnace. My opinion, the extra $300 or so is worth peace of mind to me. I'm not going to possibly mess with my life over that amount of money. Just my 2 little cents.
You may want to look into a camper style forced air model. Very nice to have that air flow to keep things dry. Need a reliable source of power is the drawback. Heating a 8 x 16 with I believe a 15000 btu. 2 deep cycles wired together will get me 2-3 days.
Thanks for all the info, I will be checking with my local gass man about this issue, but I wanted to get some info from all of you.
Any of you have a good suplier of a vented heater that you would recomend me purchasing?
I am almost finished building my new 6X14 fish house on wheels. It has come to the point where I need to decide which heater to put in it. I have talked to lots of people and they have been telling me that the ventless heaters are the best. They have an O2 depletion shut off valve in case the O2 is gone in the house. This is my biggest worry. I don not want to find one of my clients stiff when I check on them.
Your input is very important to me while I finish my home away from home!
menards has a ventless heater for around 150 bucks box says made for a fish house with a picture of a fish house on it. mounts to the side of the house, out of the way. 10,000 btu.
OLE 1855 I HAVE NEVER WOKE UP LIKE THAT IF I DID MY HEATER WOULD BE IN THE GARBAGE!!
Ya I did last year it was the way It was sitting on the wall if you look on the back you will see the termastat and above that I think you will see two things sticking out two keep it spaced from the wall I put a block of wood back there to make sure the heater is sitting stright up and down because it was sitting at a angle a little bit and it made it all better either that or you have a draft!!
Keep the thoughts comming guys.
Have any of you used an old pop up camper direct vent heater in your ice hoouse? I have a friend that has one that I may have to trade a couple days of fishing for.
Kevfish- do you get any condensation running down your walls or dripping off the ceiling with a ventless?
I guess I have a few questions for all the guy's that use the ventless heaters and say they have no CO.
When you burn propane doesn't that create CO? Maybe I'm missing something here??? Maybe I don't completely understand how ventless furnaces work??? But every year we hear stories on the news or read them in the news paper about people dying because of a improperly vented gas furnace or water heater in their home.
The byproducts of the ventless heaters are H2O and CO2, so if everything is working properly you should have no CO.
Edited to add: I'm certainly no chemist, I just found this info on the web so who really knows for sure if it's right. I'd add vents and a CO detector for getting rid of the added moisture and for if the unit stops working "properly".
I also have a vent free. When I installed it I took a plug in co detector and ran the heater for three days, not a trace. I have the ceramic style, they are supposed to be more eff. I got it at Northern. I've slept in it probably 50 times I also run a battery powered co detector all the time.
Just out of curiosity, if both ventless and vented heaters running efficiently, don't they both produce the same thing? And isn't moisture more present with ventless heaters because they don't produce circulation like most vented heaters do?
Just wondering because I used to only use a Mr. Heater in my sleeper, and yes I had a window cracked open about 6 inches from my face. But at first I had lots of moisture, but once I put fans in I didn't have any problems.
Any feed back is welcome. Even my stupidness for sleeping with a Mr. Heater.
Ventless heaters exhaust 100 percent of their combustion products into the house.
carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and water vapor enter the house air.
Depending on your house charectoristics (insulation,paneling,windows,ventilation,air movement) you can only "limit" the safety concerns, moisture and house damage with a "ventless" heater.
On the other hand all the "VENTED" produce dry consistant heat/air.. We cook in my Dads alot and can boil water (spaghetti, hot dogs) and within five minutes the windows are free and clear of any condensation. Five different house and three different heaters. Both "Ventless" in the dumpy houses create the same problems. They are insulated good but donot have the high buck windows which sweat condensation constantly even with a 12V fans moving the air..
VENTED is the only way to go for many reasons !!
Ok, I know that I want a vented heater for the reasons stated in this thread ie. condensation and waking up dead, but is there a cheaper LP vented heater out there. I have been to the Empire site but there a little more than I was wanting to spend. It wouldnt have to be anything fancey just something to make heat.
You can find a simple stove/heater with a 3" vent requirement for about $150.
Your Empire or any other type will all be $450 minimum for a 10,000 btu but they are by far the common application in fish houses and well worth the $$$ in a nice house..
H20, 2 parts hydrogen, 1 part oxygen.
CO2, 1 part carbon, 2 parts oxygen.
The problems arises when the oxygen gets consumed, then the carbon molecule can only grab one oxygen molecule.
CO, 1 part carbon, 1 part oxygen.
CO & CO2 are only one little oxygen molecule away from each other. Please, if anybody puts a ventless in their house read the directions very carefully!!! I personally don't every want to read about some ice fisherman dieing this year.


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Dance is Research
We can define science as the systematic study of the natural world through observation and experiment, yielding an organized body of knowledge on a particular subject. The human [body] is undeniably a suitable subject for scientific study, and one purpose of [dance] is careful observation of one's own [body]. This observation reveals consistent patterns that [dancers] share with one another and with teachers who direct their practice. Master [dancers] weigh these observations against their own experience and knowledge passed down from previous generations of [dance] masters, thereby generating models of the [body]. Over thousands of years, [dancers] have tested, refined, and reworked their models of the [body] based on new insights as later generations developed new [dance] techniques. Thus, over time, an organized body of knowledge has accumulated describing the nature and behavior of the [body] at a very fine level of resolution. This is one sense in which certain forms of [dance] qualify as science.
excerpted and altered from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/your-brain-as-laboratory-the-science-of-meditation/
Dance ≥ Emotion
It could be argued that dance has its origins in emotions. Movement (dance) coming from the need for survival (Sheet Johnstone 1966). The need to move towards food, towards mother, away from danger, predator, fire, etc. Similarly food could be seen as the stuff that satisfies the need for nourishment.
Food, however, has ceased to be simply nourishment. Think of all the cooking shows, and kinds of food that people eat that have little or no nutritional value. Food as entertainment and enjoyment. Also the food geeks who research how to do different processes and aren't directly interested in food as nourishment. Think of Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's first CTO, who made that huge cookbook. Food as a means of epistemology.
So why is dance still so heavily associated with movement's origin, emotion, and seen less as a means of epistemology?
Seeking Change
"Improvisational performance in dance (like improvised performance in other media) fundamentally seeks to change the audience's assumptions about what a dance piece might be." Sophie Lycouris BA, MA, Destabilising dancing:tensions between the theory and practice of improvisational performance, 1996, pg 177-8.
I would propose that was merely one goal for western white concert dancers early on, when they "discovered/invented" improvisation.
Such a "goal" could be said to be the first step for many dance-makers. "Oooh, look at me I'm improvising!" Great, now what? What about improvising are you going to reveal to me? What are you going to do with it? Is it a means? Then what are you meaning? Is it a tool? Then what can you show me about the tool?
I think many people use an improvisational approach to time and the creative process for many other reasons. To ascribe a goal to a temporal tool seems a bit much.
Subjectively objective and vice versa
An Empirical Definition
The absence of an empirical definition of what is meant by improvisation has been an obstacle to conceptual clarification.
To paraphrase Duke paraphrasing Quantz
An increase in the number of people performing reduces the proportionately the freedom to improvise – Quantz
Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute. Edited with introduction and notes by Edward R. Reilly. New York: The Free Press, 1966.(First German edition by Johann Friedrich Voso, Berlin, 1752.)
Labor and Dance
the edited phrase
"Lukács emphasizes that in the course of history, the [critical], [theoretical] understanding of [dance] becomes more and more detached from the labor process, and less and less immediately bound to the immediate material constraints of the [dance]."
the original phrase
"Lukács emphasizes that in the course of history, the abstract, scientific understanding of reality becomes more and more detached from the labor process, and less and less immediately bound to the immediate material constraints of the real." – Henry Staten
"However, for interdisciplinarity to have any meaning, it must be based on competency in at least one discipline." – B. Spatz
Visual Presentation
"I think that, maybe unlike a lot of other improvisational people, I'm very visually oriented and very interested in presentation."
from Kent De Spain's thesis quoting one of the dancers in his study


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Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:MYGN) has earned a consensus recommendation of "Hold" from the ten brokerages that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, three have given a hold recommendation, two have issued a buy recommendation and two have given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $27.96.
A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Needham & Company LLC assumed coverage on shares of Myriad Genetics in a report on Friday, January 3rd. They issued a "strong-buy" rating and a $36.00 price objective for the company. Piper Jaffray Companies dropped their price objective on shares of Myriad Genetics from $40.00 to $22.00 in a report on Tuesday, November 5th. Bank of America lowered shares of Myriad Genetics from a "neutral" rating to an "underperform" rating and dropped their price objective for the company from $30.00 to $28.00 in a report on Thursday, September 26th. Barclays dropped their price objective on shares of Myriad Genetics from $22.00 to $18.00 and set an "underweight" rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, November 5th. Finally, Leerink Swann dropped their price objective on shares of Myriad Genetics from $37.00 to $28.00 and set a "market perform" rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, November 5th.
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NASDAQ MYGN traded up $1.17 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $29.30. The company's stock had a trading volume of 690,500 shares, compared to its average volume of 643,578. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $26.57 and a 200-day simple moving average of $28.30. The stock has a market cap of $2.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.71, a P/E/G ratio of 3.32 and a beta of 0.92. Myriad Genetics has a 52 week low of $20.10 and a 52 week high of $48.40. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27, a current ratio of 2.86 and a quick ratio of 2.61.
Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ:MYGN) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November 4th. The company reported $0.08 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.26 by ($0.18). The business had revenue of $186.30 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $202.34 million. Myriad Genetics had a negative net margin of 1.83% and a positive return on equity of 6.48%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 7.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.43 EPS. On average, research analysts expect that Myriad Genetics will post 0.73 earnings per share for the current year.
In related news, Director John T. Henderson acquired 5,250 shares of Myriad Genetics stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 7th. The stock was bought at an average price of $23.46 per share, with a total value of $123,165.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 64,353 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,509,721.38. The purchase was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director Walter Phd Gilbert acquired 5,860 shares of Myriad Genetics stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 13th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $25.60 per share, with a total value of $150,016.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 54,150 shares in the company, valued at $1,386,240. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Company insiders own 5.90% of the company's stock.
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Neuburgh Advisers LLC lifted its stake in Myriad Genetics by 4.5% during the 2nd quarter. Neuburgh Advisers LLC now owns 7,040 shares of the company's stock valued at $196,000 after acquiring an additional 304 shares in the last quarter. Riverhead Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Myriad Genetics by 5.3% during the 2nd quarter. Riverhead Capital Management LLC now owns 7,898 shares of the company's stock worth $219,000 after purchasing an additional 400 shares during the period. Glen Harbor Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Myriad Genetics by 4.5% during the 2nd quarter. Glen Harbor Capital Management LLC now owns 9,680 shares of the company's stock worth $269,000 after purchasing an additional 418 shares during the period. Comerica Bank raised its stake in shares of Myriad Genetics by 0.4% during the 3rd quarter. Comerica Bank now owns 109,680 shares of the company's stock worth $3,585,000 after purchasing an additional 463 shares during the period. Finally, Texas Permanent School Fund raised its stake in shares of Myriad Genetics by 1.0% during the 3rd quarter. Texas Permanent School Fund now owns 50,276 shares of the company's stock worth $1,439,000 after purchasing an additional 480 shares during the period.
About Myriad Genetics
Myriad Genetics, Inc, a molecular diagnostic company, focuses on developing and marketing novel predictive medicine, personalized medicine, and prognostic medicine tests worldwide. The company offers molecular diagnostic tests, including myRisk Hereditary Cancer, a DNA sequencing test for hereditary cancers; BRACAnalysis, a DNA sequencing test to assess the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer; BRACAnalysis CDx, a DNA sequencing test for use as a companion diagnostic with the platinum based chemotherapy agents and poly ADP ribose inhibitor Lynparza; riskScore, a clinically validated personalized medicine tool; GeneSight, a DNA genotyping test to optimize psychotropic drug selection for neuroscience patients; and Tumor BRACAnalysis CDx, a DNA sequencing test that is designed to be utilized to predict response to DNA damaging agents.
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Paula Keaveney is a member of the Liberal Democrats and a former Liverpool City Councillor.
Next year will see the election of England's "metro mayors", in Greater Manchester, the Liverpool City Region, the North East, Sheffield City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands, and the West of England. The role has been created by the Conservative Government and will see powers from Whitehall handed over to regional leaders – who will be accountable to voters as to how these powers are used.
The move will put one individual at the head of an area covering several local authority patches. But the mayoral powers that person will have, will differ from place to place. This is because each area has a different agreement with the Government concerning what the mayor will or won't oversee.
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Currently, we have only seen Labour's selections, voted for by party members. In the West Midlands, the party elected former Birmingham MP and current West Midlands MEP Sion Simon to stand. In Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham has been announced as Labour's candidate, and in Merseyside – also known as the Liverpool City Region – Steve Rotheram will stand for election on the Labour ticket.
Of the three Labour party selections made this week, Liverpool City Region is perhaps the most significant, partly because the candidates represented different camps within the party and partly because of the region's complex geography.
Liverpool City Region is in fact made up of six local authority areas, only one of which is Liverpool City. The other areas are Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral. All have their own very specific local concerns and fears about resources being "dragged to the centre". This is also significant for other metro mayor areas, such as Sheffield – which also includes Doncaster and Barnsley, both areas with their own unique identity and issues.
In Liverpool, the selection process saw three main candidates vying for the role. Joe Anderson is already the elected mayor of the Liverpool City part of the area and chair of the Combined Authority. Luciana Berger is MP for Liverpool Wavertree and was Shadow Spokesperson on Mental Health until she resigned in protest against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. And Steve Rotheram is MP for Liverpool Walton and parliamentary private secretary to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Steve Rotheram was named the winner, with a 72% member turnout.
What we can take home from the recent results is that Labour members are not always satisfied with those already in post. In both Manchester – where former MP Tony Lloyd was effectively acting as mayor – and Liverpool, voters have turned against someone who was effectively already doing the job. This of course could simply mean that post holders can make enemies through their decisions while challengers do not carry that baggage.
That said, party candidate selections are unusual elections. Candidates need to make themselves distinct from the other challengers but must also be careful not to criticise them too heavily. The need to be seen as loyal to the party pulls in the opposite direction to the need to seem different. This means candidates need to identify issues on which criticism can be made without seeming disloyal.
In Merseyside, where campaigners from other parties have highlighted threats to park land, Rotheram made good use of the whole "open space" issue. He managed to talk about his commitment to protect open space in a way that effectively criticised mayor Anderson's record – or the appearance of Anderson's record – while not implying disloyalty to the party.
All of this also arguably demonstrates members' continuing support for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Of the candidates, Berger was one of those who resigned her post, while Anderson has generally been noncommittal. This is in sharp contrast to the victorious Rotheram, who is associated with Corbyn through his role as private secretary, alongside his appearance with Corbyn at a rally in Liverpool shortly before the close of ballot.
The Liverpool outcome may well have an effect on shortlisting and internal campaigning in those areas yet to select, such as Sheffield – particularly as the announcement of the Liverpool result provoked some comment on social media about gender balance. All Labour's selections to date for this role – or for the earlier comparable London and Bristol roles – have been men. And of the three recent selections, only Liverpool even had a woman on the shortlist.
Of course as shortlists are drawn up individually, it is quite possible for Labour to end up with no female candidates at all. But given how bad this looks, I would imagine the senior players such as Harriet Harman will want to think about how to persuade more women to consider one of these roles role. A discussion for the forthcoming Labour women's conference perhaps?
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Q: fullcalendar : updating option function callbacks after init Ok, so I have a problem with setting options whose values are callback functions when trying to set them after plugin initialization.  I think this would be a common behavior, to dynamically set event callback after init'ing the calendar.
Here is a snipit of code:

 $(document).ready(function() {
  $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
   editable: false
   ,events:[{"title":"meeting.title","start":"2010-05-21 15:58:16 UTC"},{"title":"meeting.title","start":"2010-05-24 15:58:16", "url":"http://google.com"}]
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              }
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          }
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});

You can see that setting the eventClick function as an init option commented out.  If I do it that way, it works fine.  However if I try to set it after the init, it doesn't work :(
Is the some other way to do this?  Or am I stuck with having to set the behavior upfront?

A: Obviously I am sure you have already worked around this issue, but for anyone who may come across this problem, here is how I worked around it.
 $(document).ready(function() {
  $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
   editable: false
   ,events:[{"title":"meeting.title","start":"2010-05-21 15:58:16 UTC"},{"title":"meeting.title","start":"2010-05-24 15:58:16", "url":"http://google.com"}]
   ,eventClick: function(event) {eventClickCustom(event)}
  });

var eventClickCustom = function(event)
{
    //do what you want here, you can can update this function all you want.
}

//then later
var eventClickCustom = function(event)
{
   //updated version of the function
}

A: The fullCalendar eventClick is a callback method. After looking through the code, I don't think you are able to add this option after the calendar has been initialized. I even tried adding the eventClick function to the calendar's data (where it stores public functions). So, the only alternative I can think of would be to attach your own event handler. You could try this:
$('#calendar').find('.fc-event,.ui-event').find('a[href]').live('click', function(){
 window.open( $(this).attr('href') );
 return false;
})

Oh and the reason I'm targeting both the .fc-event and .ui-event classes is because it changes depending if you are using the theme option.


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The Songs of Harold Arlen – Broadway Close Up
Kate Baldwin, Matthew Scott
by Linda Amiel Burns
The Broadway Close Up Series at Merkin Concert Hall honored the music of legendary composer Harold Arlen with a first rate cast.
On December 7, 2015, The Broadway Close Up Series at Merkin Hall paid tribute to one of the towering composers of the American Songbook, Harold Arlen. Host Sean Hartley (Director of Theater @ Kaufman, musical theater division) served as a charming and knowledgeable host. He assembled a first rate cast of singers led by music director David Loud on piano, who wrote many of the special arrangements.
Harold Arlen was born Hyman Arluck in 1905 in Buffalo, NY, the son of a cantor. He wrote over 500 songs and collaborated with some of the best lyricists in the business, such as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Truman Capote and Yip Harburg who is quoted as saying, "His songs live. His songs seep into the heart of a people, a nation, of a world, and stay there." George Gershwin said, "Harold Arlen is the most original of all of us."
Billy Stritch
The show opened with Billy Stritch on piano singing "Get Happy" from The Nine-Fifteen Revue, a song Arlen wrote with Ted Koehler that helped to put them on the map. Kate Baldwin and Matthew Scott sang the clever "Let's Take a Walk Around The Block" from Life Begins at 8:40 with lyrics by both Yip Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Marveling that it took two geniuses to write the words, Kate and Matthew sang an amusing updated version i.e. "The Apple Store is hopping with people who are shopping, etc."
Liz Callaway has been hosting the series for many years but had to leave for another gig, and said that it felt good to just sing and not be responsible for the evening. She sang a poignant, slow version of the classic song "It's Only a Paper Moon" arranged by David Loud. Billy Rose, the producer of The Great Magoo, was listed as one of the writers and it bothered Yip Harburg that Rose didn't write one word, but in order to get published in those days, songwriters had to agree to these conditions. Eric Comstock performed the brilliant "Lydia, The Tatooed Lady" written for Groucho Marx and was joined by his wife Barbara Fasano to sing two songs with lyrics by Koehler, "Let's Fall in Love" and a song from the Cotton Club Parade, "As Long As I Live" introduced by a 16 year old Lena Horne.
Allison Blackwell made her series debut with a sassy "Legalize My Name" from St. Louis Woman, and later tore the house down with "The Man That Got Away." The beautiful Kate Baldwin was flawless on "Old Black Magic" and "A Sleeping Bee" from House of Flowers. The first act ended with the trio of Matthew Scott singing "When The Sun Comes Out," Allison on "Stormy Weather" and Kate with "Right as the Rain" each singing separately and together in a complicated David Loud arrangement that was simply thrilling and jaw dropping at the same time.
KT Sullivan
The dynamic Adam Jacobs (Aladdin) scored with "Buds Won't Bud" from Hooray for What? and "Ridin' on the Moon" from St. Louis Woman. Singer KT Sullivan (Artistic Director of The Mabel Mercer Foundation) with Jon Weber on piano, sang a comic "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz and a lovely dream medley "This Time The Dream's On me" and "Hit the Road to Dreamland" both with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
The remarkable Marilyn Maye, accompanied by the renowned pianist Tedd Firth, came on stage for the finale in a stunning blue sequined top to thunderous applause, and the applause grew even louder after she performed four Arlen standards. "I've Got The World on a String," "Happiness is Just a Thing Call Joe," an exciting "Come Rain or Come Shine" and ending with a dazzling rendition of "Blues in the Night."
Marilyn Maye with Tedd Firth on piano
No Arlen show could be complete without the song that the Studio wanted cut from The Wizard of Oz. Arthur Freed, head of MGM's Musicals Unit, threatened to leave if the song did not remain in the film. Can you image The Wizard of Oz without Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow?" It became one of the most beloved and popular songs of all time. The sign of a great song is that everyone can put his or her own twist on it, and Joshua Henry performed it to perfection to end the show. The entire cast came back on stage to take many well-deserved bows!
For more info on The Kaufman Music Centre/Merkin Concert Hall
KaufmanMusicCenter.org/MCH. Phone: 212 501-3330
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Infection of visceral fat cells may contribute to severe COVID-19, study suggests
Experiments conducted in Brazil by researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the University of São Paulo (USP) showed that visceral fat – fat around the liver, intestines and other organs, considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and high blood pressure – contributes more to severe COVID-19 than subcutaneous fat (under the skin, as in "love handles").
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To reach this conclusion, Marcelo Mori, a professor at UNICAMP's Institute of Biology and one of the leaders of the study, infected in the laboratory two types of adipocytes (fat cells): one obtained from human stem cells isolated from subcutaneous tissue and the other differentiated from stem cells taken from visceral fatty tissue.
"It was possible to observe that visceral adipocytes are more susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2. Viral load increased far more in this fat cell type than in subcutaneous adipocytes. We believe this was due mainly to higher levels of the protein ACE-2 [ to which the virus binds to invade cells] on the cell surface," Mori told Agência FAPESP.
The researchers also found that when visceral adipocytes were infected, they produced a larger amount of pro-inflammatory cytokines, which warn the immune system of the existence of a threat to be combated.
An article on the study is published in Nature Communications. Several research groups at UNICAMP collaborated with the group at USP, alongside colleagues at the Brazilian Bioscience National Laboratory (LNBio-CNPEM), National Cancer Institute (INCA) and D'Or Research and Education Institute (IDOR). The principal investigators were Luiz O. Leiria (USP), Mariana Osako (USP) and Daniel Martins-de-Souza (UNICAMP). The study was funded by FAPESP via 20 projects (17/08264-8, 20/05040-4, 20/04746-0, 19/00098-7, 19/05155-9, 20/04583-4, 20/15959-5, 19/26119-0, 16/00194-8, 20/04558-0, 20/04579-7, 21/10373-5, 20/08716-9, 13/07607-8, 20/04919-2, 17/01184-9, 17/23920-9, 16/24163-4, 19/04726-2 and 18/21635-8).
Viral reservoir
Mori's team at UNICAMP was the first in the world to show – in July 2020 – that SARS-CoV-2 can infect human fat cells and to suggest that adipose tissue serves as a reservoir for the virus (read more at: agencia.fapesp.br/33729).
"After that, other studies confirmed that adipocytes can indeed be infected, and when we analyzed samples from patients who died of COVID-19, we found the presence of the virus in adipose tissue to be relatively frequent, corresponding to about 50% of cases," Mori said.
The group then decided to investigate whether there were differences between the way visceral and subcutaneous adipose cells responded to infection. As far as metabolic diseases are concerned, the evidence in the scientific literature shows visceral fat to be the main villain, while subcutaneous fat tends to be neutral or even beneficial.
"We wanted to see if there was a similar association in the context of COVID-19," Mori said. "And in fact our model suggests that the more visceral adipose tissue there is in obese individuals, the more the virus can replicate, and this amplifies the inflammatory process."
In subcutaneous adipocytes, on the other hand, the group observed a decrease in lipolysis, the breakdown of fats and other lipids by hydrolysis to release fatty acids, which can be used as a source of energy during physical activity or fasting periods.
"Our hypothesis is that this represents an antiviral cellular response," Mori said. "There are studies showing that inhibition of lipolysis lowers the replicative capacity of SARS-CoV-2, which can be explained by the fact that the virus needs lipids to produce its envelope, as well as energy from cells to make copies of its genetic material." Reduced lipolysis in subcutaneous adipose tissue, therefore, could be positive for the patient and bad news for the virus.
Contrasting responses
Visceral adipocytes were exposed to different strains of SARS-CoV-2: the ancestral lineage originally from Wuhan, China, and isolated from one of the first Brazilians diagnosed with COVID-19; and the gamma variant (P.1.), which emerged in late 2020 in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state in Brazil. The difference in susceptibility compared to subcutaneous adipocytes was observed only in response to the ancestral virus.
"We concluded that the Manaus variant is less effective at infecting visceral fat cells than the ancestral strain," Mori said. "A proteomic analysis [of all the proteins produced by the cells] showed that the Wuhan strain led to a reduction in several proteins associated with the cellular response to interferon [ an immune system mechanism to combat viruses], whereas the gamma variant led to an increase. In other words, the Manaus strain made adipocytes produce more proteins that promote an antiviral response."
Recent research points to a downtrend in the number of severe cases of COVID-19 due to novel variants among people with obesity. "But this could be influenced by other factors, such as vaccination or prior infection. Or these individuals may have been taking extra care because they knew they belonged to a high-risk group," Mori explained.
To try to deepen their understanding of all these processes, the group plans further experiments involving adipocytes cultured with the delta and omicron variants.
Another plan for future research is to investigate possible medium- to long-term metabolic impacts of infection by SARS-CoV-2. "We want to find out whether infection changes the risk of developing diabetes or cardiovascular disease, for example," Mori said. "One way of doing so could be to analyze samples from patients who had COVID-19 and were later submitted to bariatric surgery, in order to see if morphological and functional alterations occurred in visceral adipose tissue as a result of the infection."
About São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) is a public institution with the mission of supporting scientific research in all fields of knowledge by awarding scholarships, fellowships and grants to investigators linked with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. FAPESP is aware that the very best research can only be done by working with the best researchers internationally. Therefore, it has established partnerships with funding agencies, higher education, private companies, and research organizations in other countries known for the quality of their research and has been encouraging scientists funded by its grants to further develop their international collaboration. You can learn more about FAPESP at www.fapesp.br/en and visit FAPESP news agency at www.agencia.fapesp.br/en to keep updated with the latest scientific breakthroughs FAPESP helps achieve through its many programs, awards and research centers. You may also subscribe to FAPESP news agency at http://agencia.fapesp.br/subscribe
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Q: How to make IBus input method for Chinese work for sudo-ed apps on Debian Linux? I've installed IBus and IBus Pinyin on Debian Linux to be able typing Chinese into the apps.
But what I see is that if any app is run in Gnome or LXDE on Debian as root, the input method does not work.
I'm able to type Chinese only on regular apps launched as current user.
So there seems to be an issue with privileges, or the user accounts under which the applications are launched.
To be more specific, I used Qupzilla browser to test this (apt-get install qupzilla).
Also I installed the following IBus packages: apt-get install ibus, ibus-pinyin, ibus-gtk, ibus-qt4
When I launch Qupzilla as regular user from Gnome or LXDE terminal (through > qupzilla &), everything works fine. I'm able to switch to Chinese input through Super+Space press, and I see Chinese characters showing up in little window, as I choose them, they properly show up in Qupzilla screen content.
But when I launch the same app as root ( through > sudo qupzilla &), Chinese input does not work. I see in the tray icon that pressing Super+Space switches the input language to English or Chinese, but the Chinese characters do not show up at all.
It's important for my application to be launched through sudo, as it requires special privileges on the system.
Can anyone help with an advice on how to make it possible inputting Chinese into app running as root under Gnome/LXDE?
I'd appreciate any help and feedback on this.

A: Got an answer to this question in Debian forum, see here for more details:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=130383
If the app is launched with sudo -E, the environment variables from session are passed on to the app and it thenmanages to use IBus properly.

A: To resolve this problem temporarily you could follow the following setps:
*DO NOT TRY THIS IF YOU ARE NOT USING Fcitx AS YOUR INPUT METHOD

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*sudo vi /etc/sudoers_env #vi can be any text editor

*Add the following text in the empty document

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
QT_IM_MODULE=xim
QT4_IM_MODULE=xim

*sudo visudo

*Add the following text under Default...

Defaults env_keep += "XMODIFIERS"
Defaults env_file="/etc/sudoers_env"

*Run any program as root and switch input method ither by click on the taskbar icon or press ctrl+space

reference: https://www.jianshu.com/p/902fc5b2fa4d


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by Christian Herrera | May 30, 2019 | Celebrities, Community, Events, Interviews, Music, News, Tour Dates, Uncategorized, X1069
Original Tool bassist Paul D'Amour has joined the legendary industrial band Ministry, according to Revolver. D'Amour will make his live debut with the pioneering act on a summer European tour that starts on June 16th in Austria. He has also been in the studio with the act recently. D'Amour replaces Tony Campos, who is taking a leave of absence for a 20th anniversary trek with his band Static-X. A founding member of Tool, D'Amour was part of the band from 1990 until 1995, when he left reportedly because he wanted to play guitar instead of bass. He appeared on the group's first two releases, 1992's Opiate EP and 1993's full-length debut LP Undertow. His replacement was Justin Chancellor, who is still with the group. Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen told Revolver that he first met D'Amour at Lollapalooza in 1992, when he accidentally let D'Amour and Tool singer Maynard James Keenan drink from a bottle of whiskey laced with LSD. He recalled, "They drank it and they were tripping balls for, like, two or three days. They didn't know what was going on and they were freaking out." D'Amour's former band, meanwhile, is preparing to release its long-awaited fifth studio album — its first in more than 13 years — on August 30th.


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Göwe is a river of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It flows into the Warnow near Kuhlen-Wendorf.

See also
List of rivers of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Rivers of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Rivers of Germany

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: "Entry 6: I rolled my eyes so hard at The Revenant" by Amy Nicholson
Posted on January 8, 2016 January 8, 2016 by blablablaandgabbler
"I rolled my eyes so hard at The Revenant that I hallucinated I was sitting next to Mad Max's Imperator Furiosa, who'd take one glance at these goofballs and sneer, "You wanna get through this? Do as I say."
…I'm the goofball who didn't adore Carol. You're all bear wrestling over who's the biggest fan, but I merely admired it, though I worshiped Todd Haynes' previous feature, the slippery and cerebral Bob Dylan anti-biopic I'm Not There. Yet, to me Carol felt airless. It was all chilly good taste, as impeccable as Cate Blanchett's closet. Dana, which outfit was your fave? I'd trade my whole wardrobe for her steel-blue suit with salmon scarf and fur coat, even though I'd look like a real weirdo at the grocery store.
The problem could just be that I feel like Rooney Mara hasn't shaken off the shackles of David Fincher. He gave her a great cameo as a normal, real world girl in The Social Network. And then he bleached her eyebrows, pierced her nipples, and drained her blood for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. His unrecognizable creation slouched across red carpets like a goth Barbie doll, and ever since she's conflated acting with dressing up and looking blank.
For my money, she's out-acted by Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in any scene in American Ultra, another movie about true love in a treacherous world. (Ducks to avoid David's spitball.) Their stoner CIA action-comedy shouldn't work. It's the tonal opposite of Carol: bright, messy, sweaty, and loud. Stewart and Eisenberg are surrounded by chaos. They're hunted, gassed, strangled, stabbed, and stun gunned. But their romance radiates off the screen, especially in the quiet moments where Stewart curls next to Eisenberg in bed like they've spooned for a thousand nights. Even better, they're dimensional characters who accept each other's weaknesses. Stewart knows he's self-sabotaging and lazy, and she still wants to fight for their future. So did I. David dismissed it as "Pineapple Express without the laughs and The Bourne Ultimatum without the thrills." I think it's a love story first, and I'll flat-out say it's the best love story of the year.
Since I hear the schick-schick of David sharpening his knives—c'mon, at least cook me first!—let's keep talking about the best use of violence.
This year's most ghastly deaths weren't in The Hateful Eight. They were in PG-13 blockbusters like Jurassic World, which murdered a babysitter for a punch line. We're supposed to laugh when she's swallowed by a mosasaur, because her character is a pain. In The Avengers: Age of Ultron, armies of aliens are laser-blasted for thrills. No wonder Ultron concludes that the best way to save the planet is eliminate all the humans. "Yippee!" we hoot when Iron Man and Hulk smash up a city center. But what about the civilians cowering in the shrapnel? The drivers of the cars that get flung around like Nerf footballs? Hollywood seems to shrug, "No blood, no foul," but death isn't a romp. Bloodless CGI casualties are numbing, and that mentality is starting to feel increasingly dangerous.
At least when Quentin Tarantino cold-cocks Jennifer Jason Leigh, he wants us to squirm. His bruises hurt. Mark and David are right to argue that Tarantino has a conscience. I'd even say that extends to his use of the N-word in Django Unchainedand The Hateful Eight. A Civil War–era movie where white racists didn't use the word would be as sanitized as a Marvel massacre. Like his physical blows, Tarantino means us to feel it.
Of course, I get the skepticism. Tarantino's been obsessed with that word for two decades, often incorrectly. Remember in Pulp Fiction when the character he played groaned that his house wasn't "dead [N-word] storage," a bad line made worse because he said it himself? He's grown up since then, and I'd rather give him the space to bushwhack through America's racial angst—and maybe even make mistakes—than reward tidy, safe spectacles that simply pretend that everything's fine."
Read the rest. [Boldface and photo curation mine]
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Gamification is a term that was recently invented. When your automated spell check runs, it lists it as an error unless you add it to your personal dictionary. Gamification is not fully defined, even by those selling its services. So what then is gamification and does it really motivate and/or inspire customers into action with your product?
Does Gamifying Work on Everyone?
I will start with a hard hit for the "gamifiers": If a consumer or lead does not actually have interest in your specific product or service, gamifying it will not change that. People will not use your product if they don't have an interest it, with or without games.
On the other hand, if you use gamification to remind people why the do have an interest in your product. Adding a game aspect can make something your customers actually want, more fun and encourage continued and elevated participation or use.
Motivation almost always has a time limit, while inspiration reflects real wants which are much more timeless. Thus, gamifying your products and offers has to be for the people who first actually want them, and then inspire them to move ahead. The motivation must come from the inspiration.
You will find in the developing gamification market a trend of telling people the reason a lead or potential consumer doesn't use your product is because it is boring. This is a great sales lead for the gamification providers, and you should question it.
Here's why you should question the above: Remember the age old method of gamifying used in the military. It is awarding medals. Now this isn't really a game for many of the medals. They are earned, and generate motivation through the inspiration of the stories of why and how the service member earned the medal.
When a military member receives many of these medals, they feel real pride and inspiration because they know it was earned as a result of achieving or performing some act of great importance, that most of their peers likely will not do or achieve.
The bottom line is, the medal reminds the military member and their peers that the recipient achieved something important to success. It wasn't just fun. The job didn't get easier It did not provide the sole motivation for performing.
Does Gamifying Have a Chance for Me?
So how do you know your gamification has a chance? First, you must know what inspires your target consumers. Simply offering points for tasks is not enough. You must be rewarding them for what actually inspires them.
Build your "game" around core inspirations. Remind your users why the game is important. Refer to fears they have regarding the reasons they purchased your product or service initially. Relate them to how the fears are removed, and the goals are achieved.
All of this must be focused around the real insprirations. With real inspriation, the motivation is sustained, and your gamification will be powerful.


Anne Golon, if she had to die, did so on a historic date in the French Calendar. We learned of her death in the early hours of Friday, 14th July, 2017. Celebrated throughout France as 'Bastille Day' an event that occurred after the life and adventures of Angélique, Marquise des Anges, Countess Peyrac.
Harvey Adkins, President of Friends of Angélique, died on Saturday, June 23, 2007.
Harvey, a lifelong admirer of Anne Golon's work, leaves a wife and two children, and will be missed by all those who knew him - including those members of the Angélique fraternity who never actually met him face-to-face.
Please read our tribute to him.
Anne Golon has won her battle over publishing rights to her Angélique stories.
After a legal battle in France lasting nearly a decade, she has finally reached an agreement which makes her the sole owner of the works.
Details are still being clarified, but the way now seems clear for Anne to re-publish the books and publish previously unpublished works - and be assured of income from sales.
... to the official English language Angélique website, a celebration of the 13-book series of stories credited to Sergeanne Golon - one of the pen names adopted by the great French authoress, Anne Golon (right).
This website is an exciting new chapter in the remarkable story of Angélique, the heroine who took historical fiction to new heights when the books were first published in the late 1950s.
Now her epic adventures in 17th century France are all set to propel Anne Golon back into the bestseller lists.
Readers who have enjoyed reading the Angélique stories over the years will be pleased to know that the author is alive, although not in the best of health, and living near Paris - ironically a stone's throw away from the Palace of Versailles, which features in some of the Angélique stories.
Her husband Serge, who collaborated on the first books, sadly died in 1972 when Anne was beginning research on the tenth book in the series.
The Angélique books proved an international success of gigantic proportions. Estimates of the total number of Angélique books sold worldwide are upwards of 150 million, and they have been published in at least 63 countries, by at least 320 different publishers.
Sadly, in more recent years Anne has fought a battle with French agents and publishers over the rights to the stories, and the fight went to court.
But Anne has remained in good spirits thanks to the support of her daughter, Nadia, and of Nadia's friends and colleagues Iva Garo and Régile. The three friends and colleagues are painters, sculptors, stage managers and cultural events organisers who have sacrificed their careers for almost 20 years to help Anne protect her rights to the Angélique books in her battle with her publisher, which is falsely claiming to own the rights.
In November 1995 the court duly restored the rights to the author but the ex-agents (mainly Hachette Livres, part of the giant Aerospatial group that dominates French industry and the French media) appealed. They have been using a variety of legal manoeuvres to repeatedly delay the final appeal ever since.
In March 1996 Archange International was founded to manage the rights of the Angélique books and other works by Anne Golon, the founding members being Anne herself, Iva, Régile and Nadia, who have worked day and night for Anne's cause.
They have taken on the might of Hachette and other organisations that have exploited Anne's work, involved themselves in civil actions, defended Anne's work, and are planning new publications and ways to expose Anne's work to a new public.
In 1997 Nadia discovered Harvey Adkins' Angélique web pages (see the Angélinks section) and sent a message there explaining Anne's plight. That has led to this website where, at last, the true facts can be revealed.
Anne has also been greatly encouraged by the Angélique readers who have formed an official 'fan club' and regularly contribute to the Web-based mailing list (see the link in the menu, left).
With the new company, Archange International, now handling the stories on behalf of Anne Golon and acting as her literary agent, working with subagents in several countries, there is every reason to look forward to the future.
That future will include the publishing of the new Integral, a new 'author's cut' version of the first two Angélique books (Marquise of the Angels and The Road to Versailles) which corrects errors and reintroduces essential sections of the original book that were cut or changed by the French publisher.
It also includes translations of the final three books in the series, which have never previously been published in English, and a new version of one of those books correcting major changes made to the book by the publisher without Anne Golon's consent.
These are currently in the process of being translated - a task which should be complete soon. Expect to see at least part of them available as e-books in the near future.
Another project is an animated film, based on the books, and Anne has been busy editing the script for this.
But the good news doesn't end there. Anne is not only currently working on the fourteenth book in the series, but has also promised a fifteenth.