Today's Inside Xbox was chock full of info. You can watch the full broadcast here. But if you don't have time to watch, then we have a recap just for you!
We have all seen the recent studio acquisitions from Xbox. So it was only a matter of time before we saw a name change! Microsoft Studios is now known as Xbox Games Studios. It is comprised of all 13 studios at Microsoft, including 343 Industries, The Coalition, Compulsion Games, The Initiative, inXile Entertainment, Minecraft, Ninja Theory, Obsidian Entertainment, Playground Games, Rare, Turn 10 Studios, Undead Labs and the Global Publishing group. Currently, Xbox will have a few exclusive titles in 2019, including Crackdown 3, Gears of War 5, and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It's only a matter of time before we see more titles from these 1st party studios.
There are lots of quality games coming to Game Pass in February, including Crackdown 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the 1st season of Walking Dead, Pumped BMX Pro, de Blob, and Batman: Return to Arkham.
For a limited time (February 6th – 13th), everyone who owns Sea of Thieves or has played it through Game Pass can invite 3 friends to play for free You simply need to go to SeaofThieves.com/friends-play-free, sign in to your Microsoft account, and get your codes. There is a limited time Mercenary Voyage that gives you a solid look at what Sea of Thieves has to offer, so get your codes and play that mission with your friends that have never played Sea of Thieves.
What did you think of the show? Let us know in the comments below!


The Philadelphia Order of Malta Chapter will host a pilgrimage for those in need of healing at Our Lady of Lourdes parish. The day will include, rosary, adoration, lunch, and confession.
All who are ill are encouraged to attend this day of healing.


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690 F. 2d 56 - De Los Santos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
690 F2d 56 De Los Santos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
690 F.2d 56
63 A.L.R.Fed. 513
Domingo Antonio DE LOS SANTOS, Plaintiff-Appellant,
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 847, Docket 81-6258.
Second Circuit.
Argued April 5, 1982.
Decided Sept. 30, 1982.
Antonio C. Martinez, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.
Thomas H. Belote, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty. for the S. D. of New York, Peter C. Salerno, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.
Before KEARSE and PIERCE, Circuit Judges, and LEVAL, District Judge.*
KEARSE, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Domingo Antonio de los Santos ("Domingo"), a citizen of the Dominican Republic and a lawful permanent resident of the United States, appeals from a final judgment1 of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Robert J. Ward, Judge, dismissing his complaint seeking reversal of a ruling by defendant Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") that denied preferential immigration status for Enmanuel de los Santos ("Enmanuel") as Domingo's son under §§ 101(b)(1)(C) and 203(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("Act"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101(b)(1)(C), 1153(a)(2) (1976). Section 203(a)(2) grants preferential status to, inter alios, the legitimate and legitimated children of lawful permanent residents of the United States. Enmanuel, a citizen and resident of the Dominican Republic, was born in 1957 out of wedlock. On the basis of undisputed facts, the district court concluded that Enmanuel had not been legitimated within the meaning of § 101(b)(1)(C) of the Act and granted summary judgment dismissing Domingo's complaint. We affirm substantially for the reasons stated in the opinion of the district court, reported at 525 F.Supp. 655.
Under the complex statutory scheme governing the admission of aliens seeking to immigrate to the United States,2 one of the groups given immigration priority is composed of "the spouses, unmarried sons or unmarried daughters of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence." 8 U.S.C. § 1153(a)(2). Although the Act contains no definition of "son" or "daughter," these terms are construed to mean that the prospective immigrant must be the "child" of the permanent resident alien. See, e.g., Lau v. Kiley, 563 F.2d 543, 545 (2d Cir. 1977). The statutory definition of "child" includes certain illegitimate offspring. Section 101(b)(1)(C) of the Act provides that an individual born out of wedlock is a "child" if he or she has been
legitimated under the law of the child's residence or domicile, or under the law of the father's residence or domicile, whether in or outside the United States, if such legitimation takes place before the child reaches the age of eighteen years and the child is in the legal custody of the legitimating parent or parents at the time of such legitimation.
8 U.S.C. § 1101(b)(1)(C).3 INS has interpreted the word "legitimated" to refer to a child born out of wedlock who has been accorded legal rights that are identical to those enjoyed by a child born in wedlock. See, e.g., Matter of Reyes, Interim Decision No. 2822 (BIA 1980); Matter of Clahar, Interim Decision No. 2643, 16 I&N 484 (BIA 1978); Matter of Remy, Interim Decision No. 2160, 14 I&N 183 (BIA 1972).4
The law of the Dominican Republic provides two means by which the illegitimate status of a child born out of wedlock may be altered. First, in a process called "legitimate filiation," the child may be legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents if they have acknowledged the child prior to or in the act of their marriage:
Children born out of wedlock who are not the offspring of incestuous or adulterous unions, may be legitimated by the subsequent marriage of their parents in the cases where they have legally acknowledged them prior to or in the act of their marriage.
Dominican Civil Code (DCC) art. 331. DCC art. 333 provides that children legitimated in this fashion "shall enjoy the same rights and benefits of legitimate children." Second, an illegitimate child may be "naturally filiated":
With respect to the mother a natural filiation is established by the sole fact of birth.
With respect to the father, it is established by acknowledgment or by judicial decision.
Law 985 of Aug. 1, 1945, art. 2. However, Law 985 art. 1 provides as follows:
Natural filiation established pursuant to the provisions of the law produces the same effects as legitimate filiation with the exception of the distinction made in matters concerning successions.
(Emphasis added.) The exception referred to provides that in the event the parent also has a legitimate child or children and dies intestate, the naturally filiated child will inherit only one half the share attributable to a legitimate child. Law 985 art. 10.
In the present case, Domingo and Enmanuel's mother have never been married to each other, and Domingo does not contend that Enmanuel has been legitimated under DCC art. 331. Rather, he asserts that he "acknowledged" Enmanuel eight days after Enmanuel was born, thereby naturally filiating Enmanuel under Law 985 art. 1, and that Enmanuel was thus legitimated under Dominican law for purposes of the United States immigration laws.
INS rejected Domingo's petition, concluding, as it had previously in Matter of Reyes, supra, that natural filiation under Dominican law does not establish rights identical to those enjoyed by legitimate children, and hence a "naturally filiated" Dominican child cannot be deemed "legitimated" within the meaning of § 101(b)(1)(C) of the Act. Domingo challenges here, as he did in the district court, INS's interpretation of legitimation as unreasonable and unduly narrow.DISCUSSION
We affirm the judgment dismissing Domingo's complaint substantially for the reasons given in Judge Ward's thorough opinion, reported at 525 F.Supp. 655, and add only the following observations.
First, there is no serious question of Dominican law that is unresolved in any material respect.5 The district court implicitly construed Dominican law as according to children naturally filiated under Law 985 rights that are less extensive than those of legitimate children and children legitimated under DCC art. 331. This determination, which we review as a question of law, Fed.R.Civ.P. 44.1, was eminently correct. Domingo recognizes that under Dominican law naturally filiated children do not enjoy inheritance rights as extensive as those of legitimate children. The only serious question he poses is whether the naturally filiated child's lesser right of inheritance is a permissible basis for INS's refusal to deem such a child legitimated within the meaning of the immigration laws.
As to the matter of the correct interpretation of § 101(b)(1)(C), while this too is a question of law subject to full review by the appellate court, Tovar v. INS, 612 F.2d 794, 797 (3d Cir. 1980), in general we must give deference to the construction accorded to a statute by the agency charged with its administration. See, e.g., North Haven Board of Education v. Bell, --- U.S. ----, 102 S.Ct. 1912, 1918 n.12, 72 L.Ed.2d 299 (1982), aff'g North Haven Board of Education v. Hufstedler, 629 F.2d 773, 777 (2d Cir. 1980); United States v. Rutherford, 442 U.S. 544, 553-54, 99 S.Ct. 2470, 2475-76, 61 L.Ed.2d 68 (1979). Thus, if INS's interpretation is reasonable, in that it is consistent with the statutory language, legislative history, and purpose of the statute, we will not invalidate it.
We agree with the district court that INS's interpretation of "legitimated" as requiring the acquisition of rights coextensive with those of a legitimate child is consistent with the language of the Act. The plain meaning of the word is discussed in greater detail in the district court's opinion, 525 F.Supp. at 661, and need not be explored further here. The district court also reviewed at length the legislative history of the Act and of related statutes, id. at 663-68, to determine whether INS's interpretation is consistent with Congress's intent. Although the legislative history is not dispositive, we see in it no indication that Congress intended the word "legitimated" to denote the acquisition of fewer rights than those enjoyed by a legitimate son or daughter. Accordingly, the history, to the extent that it sheds light on this question, supports the view that INS's interpretation is not inconsistent with Congress's intent.
The closest question is whether INS's interpretation, as applied in the present case, is consistent with the purpose of the statutory scheme. Immigration preference categories were created as a means of allocating visas when the demand for them exceeds the number lawfully available. See 8 U.S.C. § 1152. In general, insofar as is pertinent here, the Act grants preferential status to close relatives of United States citizens and permanent residents in order to facilitate the reunification of families. See Lau v. Kiley, supra, 563 F.2d at 545; H.R.Rep.No.1365, 82d Cong., 2d Sess. 2780 (1952), reprinted in 1952 U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 1653, 1680.
INS contends that since the number of available visas is limited, the goal of family reunification requires that the Act be strictly interpreted in order to minimize the number of successful fraudulent claims. INS's narrow interpretation is thus based on the belief that a claimant will be less likely to claim as his child a person with whom he does not have a bona fide parent/child relationship if he must confer full filial rights on that person than if he may successfully assert such a claim while conferring fewer rights. We think this belief farfetched as it is applied to the provisions of Dominican law at issue here. Here the difference between the rights of naturally filiated children and legitimate children is slight: if the parent of a naturally filiated child dies intestate, and if there are legitimate children, the naturally filiated child will inherit only half the share attributable to a legitimate child. It hardly seems likely that a rule based solely on such a small difference-especially one that disappears if the parent dies testate or without legitimate children-would have any efficacy in deterring fraud. See, e.g., Reyes v. INS, 478 F.Supp. 63, 66 (E.D.N.Y.1979); Delgado v. INS, 473 F.Supp. 1343, 1348 (S.D.N.Y.1979). INS's interpretation of "legitimated," however, is a general one requiring complete identity of rights, not one focusing solely on rights of inheritance. Further, the rule is designed for worldwide application; it has not been fashioned with reference to particular distinctions drawn by the laws of any one country. In the context of rights such as financial support and use of the family name, and indeed in the context of other differences in rights of inheritance, INS's interpretation may well have the effect of reducing fraud.
It is not the province of the courts to insist that INS's interpretations of the Act result in the perfect immigration scheme, or even that they be the best interpretations possible. Rather INS is given a fair amount of latitude to exercise its judgment as to what interpretations will best effectuate the goals of the Act. See Unemployment Compensation Comm'n v. Aragon, 329 U.S. 143, 153, 67 S.Ct. 245, 250, 91 L.Ed. 136 (1946); Nazareno v. Attorney General, 168 D.C.App. 22, 512 F.2d 936, 940, cert. denied, 423 U.S. 832, 96 S.Ct. 53, 46 L.Ed.2d 49 (1975). Since INS's strict interpretation is consistent with the language and history of the Act and is, as a general matter, reasonably calculated to serve the purposes of the Act, it is entitled to deference, and we will not invalidate it because in the present instance its usefulness may be tenuous.
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
The Honorable Pierre N. Leval, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation
By the terms of his notice of appeal Domingo appealed from the order of the district court dated October 28, 1981, granting defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing his complaint. A final judgment embodying the court's October 28 order having been entered in the district court, we treat the appeal as having been properly taken from the judgment
In general, the Act imposes restrictions on the total number of immigrant visas that may be issued annually, on the number of aliens born in the Western Hemisphere who may enter, and on the number of visas issuable to natives of any single foreign state, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1151(a), 1152, and establishes a six-tier preference system within this overall scheme, 8 U.S.C. § 1152(e)
Section 101(b)(1) restricts the term "child" to persons under 21 years of age. Enmanuel was under the age of 21 when Domingo filed his petition with INS
In Matter of Lee, Interim Decision No. 2606, 16 I & N 305 (BIA 1977), INS gave a contrary interpretation; but it overruled Lee in Matter of Reyes, supra
Domingo asserts that the district court left unanswered a number of basic questions. We find no merit in this contention. To the extent that the questions listed by Domingo were material to the proceedings before the district court, they were answered, either explicitly or implicitly

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Q: Is it possible to send an mp3 file to IceCast via a script from a webpage? Can someone please tell me if its possible to have a server send an mp3 to our own Icecast server (running on linux). Could this be achieved in Perl or PHP?
Maybe there is a better way to push audio clips remotely to other computers though?
Here is the complete idea or hope:

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*A user visits a website where they reorder audio clips.

*These clips are then joined together to make a single mp3 file (using mp3cat for example) which can then be sent to an IceCast server to be broadcast.

*The computers will be left running and remain listening to the station 24/7. We do not want them to disconnect from the station during moments of silence on the station. The computers will playback silence for a lot of the time until a web visitor makes an audio file to be broadcast. If there is no audio to be played by IceCast would that force the radio playback to disconnect or would it just playback silence until it received an audio clip?
Is this possible?
Would websockets or some push framework be another or better option to achieve the same thing?

A: The way to do this project would be to do your Icecast source connections server-side.  Write an application that accepts control commands from the browser client (AJAX, WebSockets, anything) and then encodes all of the audio for the correct codec and bitrate server-side, sending this final stream to Icecast.  This server is also responsible for generating silence while nothing is playing.
I've actually built something similar to this awhile back.  I used Node.js and Socket.IO for the browser part, and a loopback audio driver for the rest.  If I were to do it again, I would probably utilize FFMPEG or VLC for the playback/encoding server-side.

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Tagged: Jose Dominguez
The offense gives Cliff Lee some much needed runs support as the Phils four hits the Dodgers, 7-0.
The Phils' offense supports a four hit performance by Cliff Lee, as they blank the Dodgers, 7-0.
The Phils took the lead in the top of the first as, with two men on, and with one man out, Carlos Ruiz hits a two-run double, scoring Tony Gwynn, Jr., who had started the game off with a walk, then moved up to second base on Jimmy Rollins' single, and Rollins, who had earlier singled, giving the Phils a quick 2-0 lead. The Dodgers tried to get on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first as, with a man on second, and with two men out, Adrian Gonzalez hits an infield single to second baseman Chase Utley, near the second base bag, who was unable to make a play to first, but who then threw home as he saw Yasiel Puig, who had started the inning off with a single, then moved up to second base on Justin Turner's fly out to center field, and had just moved up to third base on the play, tried to score. Catcher Ruiz, after he had caught the throw from Utley, ran Puig back to third base, before tagging him out as Puig attempted to slide bag into third base, head first, for the inning's final out, 4-2, which would turn out to be the Dodgers' best chance to score a run during the game. The Phils increased their lead in the fifth as, with a man on, and with two men out, Ryan Howard hits a two-run home run, his fifth home run of the season, and his second home run in two games, knocking in Ruiz, who had just walked, giving the Phils a 4-0 lead. The Phils then made it a 5-0 lead three batters later as, now with two men on, via singles by John Mayberry, Jr., and Dom Brown, moving Mayberry up to second base, and with still two men out, Mayberry would score on pitcher Paul Maholm's throwing error of Freddy Galvis' grounder near the mound, as Brown moved up to third base, while Galvis would stop at second base. The Phils then made it a 7-0 lead in the top of the ninth as, with one man on, and with one man out, Ruiz hits a two-run home run, his first home run of the season, knocking in Utley, who had just doubled. That would end up being the final score as Antonio Bastardo pitched a scoreless ninth inning, getting Gonzalez to hit into a force out, 6-unassisted, as Turner, who had just walked, is forced out at second base for the game's final out.
Cliff Lee (3-2, 3.09) gets the win as he pitched eight scoreless innings, giving up four hits, while he strikes out ten. Antonio Bastardo pitched a scoreless inning, as he gave up a walk, while striking out a batter. Paul Maholm (0-2, 5.60) took the lost as he went five innings, giving up five runs, four of which were earned, on eight hits and three walks, while he struck out two. Brandon League pitched two scoreless innings, giving up a hit, while striking out a batter. Jose Dominguez pitched two innings, giving up two runs on two hits, while striking out two.
The Phils had eleven hits in the game, with Carlos Ruiz (Single, Double, Home Run, 4 RBIs) leading the ballclub with three hits, followed by Ryan Howard (Single, Home Run, 2 RBIs) and Dom Brown (Singles) with two hits each. Tony Gwynn, Jr. (Single), Chase Utley (Double), John Mayberry, Jr. (Single) and Cliff Lee (Single), had the other four Phils' hits, while the final Phil run came in on an error. The Phils also had three walks (Gwynn, Ruiz, Mayberry) in the game.
The Phils (9-10, 4th East) continue their series with the Dodgers (12-8, 1st West) with a night game tonight. The game will be played at Dodgers Stadium, and is scheduled to start at 10:10 pm EDT (7:10 pm PDT). The Phils will send to the mound A.J. Burnett (0-1, 2.74), who is coming off a no-decision against the Braves on April 17, as he threw seven scoreless innings, giving up three hits and a walk, while striking out five, in the Phils' 1-0 win. He will be trying once again for his first win of the season, while trying to add on to his previous good start. The Dodgers will counter with Hyun-Jin Ryu (3-1, 1.93), who is coming off a win against the Giants on April 17, as he pitched seven shutout innings, giving up just four hits and a walk, while striking out three, in the Dodgers' 2-1 win. He'll be going for his fourth win of the year, while hoping to even up the series. The Phils will be going for their third straight win while trying to give another of their starters a win.
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I've created a copy of a website and upgraded to the latest CMS and modules.
I see that the error mentions the 'extra' field, which I've removed from the template, as it wasn't being used. The error appeared both with the field and without.
It sounds like the column 'extra' was perhaps added in an interim upgrade step and wasn't accounted for in later versions. You may be able to manually add that column. If you haven't made significant changes you could also revert to backup and upgrade the Orders module version by version.
Probably a bug, but would be good to narrow it down to something reproducible before you file a bug report.
Thanks for the reply DIGI3, it seems from reading the module release notes (http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/fi ... ackage-493) that in release 1.18.2 there was a field added to the table and other additions relating to the Extra field.
Unfortunately I've made significant changes now that the CMS has been upgraded and so I can't really carry out a new install.
Does anyone have any ideas what may need to be added to the database etc.?


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Aligarh: UP Govt To Set Up University Named After Jat King Mahendra Pratap Singh Who Donated Land For AMU
by IANS - Nov 28 2019, 11:33 am,
UP CM Yogi Adityanath (@GorakhnathMndr/Twitter)
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh will set up a state university named after Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh in Aligarh.
Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh had donated land for the construction of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and BJP leaders had earlier raised a demand that the AMU be renamed after the Jat king.
However, to avoid any political controversy on the issue, the Yogi government has decided to build a new university in his name.
The Yogi government had passed a resolution to this effect in a Cabinet meeting and an ordinance was subsequently issued on Tuesday (25 November).
Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who also holds the higher education portfolio, said, "Now that the ordinance has been tabled, work on the university will begin soon."
The Yogi Adityanath government's move to set up the university named after Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh is being seen as a move by the BJP to win over Jats who are slowly drifting away from the party.
This was evident in the UP Lok Sabha election where the BSP scored over BJP in western UP and then in the recent Haryana election where the BJP failed to secure a majority though it formed the government with the support of the fledgling JJP.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
Aligarh Muslim University,
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,
Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh,


Adam Hunter was a man on the run, and he knew he had to get to a district where he could fade into the background. A district where no one cared about his past, about his criminal record. It felt as if he had been running his whole life. At age 12 he got caught stealing food from the mart to feed him and his mom, and it wasn't the first time he'd done it nor the last. Being the head of his house was inevitable after his father left, and his mother's failed suicide attempt which made her non-responsive. She couldn't feed herself, dress or bathe herself. At the meager age of seven, Adam Hunter had to grow up. He couldn't work, because the law said he was too young. So without a penny to their name, he took to taking what was needed for the Hunter home.


We are in Perequê-Açu beach, close to the northern beaches of Ubatuba (the best), public transport and the city center. It is an oasis of tranquility in Ubatuba, even in the high season. You will love it because of the environment, the external area, the more than 100 beaches of Ubatuba. Our space is good for couples, solo adventures, business travelers, and events. We are a pousada that only has a suite at the time and one shared room of Hostel for travelers who want tranquility.
We organize social gatherings and artistic events, dinners and barbecues.


Trading is about odds and putting the odds in your favour. Although with Pips Predator we don't add fundamentals, supports, resistances, candlesticks (except you could argue they are already all incorporated into the price) you can add the odds in your favour by examining other factors before trading.
The reason we only look at the indicator is that we balanced the additional benefits with the additional time costs and found the indicator alone was great.
But what if you want to use the signal only when the broader trend is in the direction of the trade? Spotting the trend is easy enough, but remember that the longer a trend is in place the more significant it is. Also, a trend line, is really a support line and so the rule is the more often it is 'touched' but not broken, the more significant its relevance too.
As mentioned, I do not use trends when using the Pips Predator because I created it to help us make our trading more efficient, effective in terms of return on time. If we continue to look at too many other factors, the dangers are that we get too few signals and also take up too much of our time.


One of the jumbo social networking site, Facebook will soon track your sleeping habits. Facebook plans to develop a database based on the last person you were chatting and you're last seen status to detect the same.
Yes, Facebook can be used to track people's sleeping habits by building up a database of when your friends were seen last online busy chatting or "liking" posts on Facebook.
Louv-Jansen used "time stamps" from Facebook's Messenger service to see when his friends were asleep. He was curious to see where the "last seen" data was coming from and after doing some research, he found a list of his Facebook friends' user IDs and last activity "time stamps".
This System is embedded in the initial mark-up of Messenger.com and can be viewed by simply visiting the website and clicking "View Source" to see for yourself.
By creating a simple service that checks Facebook every 10 minutes, I'm able to get an accurate picture of my friends' Facebook usage," said Louv-Jansen, who published the program's source code onto GitHub.
GitHub is used by many developers and hackers to put large amounts of information for developer communities to see and take advantage of.


Project description:In order to identify potential new biomarkers of atherosclerotic plaque composition we performed a large scale analysis of gene expression patterns in human atherosclerotic lesions. Whole genome expression analysis of 101 peripheral plaques identified a robust gene signature (1514 genes) dominated by inflammatory processes, and cholesterol metabolism and storage genes. Specific pathways enriched in this signature included activation of the Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, T-cell activation, cholesterol efflux, oxidative stress response, inflammatory cytokine production, vasoconstriction and lysosomal activity. Analysis of gene expression in plaque micro-dissected material revealed that the signature is strongly up-regulated in macrophage-rich regions and down-regulated in regions with high smooth muscle cell content. A smaller qPCR biomarker panel and inflammatory composite score (ICS) were developed to facilitate clinical translation of discoveries from gene expression profiling. We found that ICS correlates with histological features related to plaque vulnerability. In addition, ICS is able to separate groups of plaques obtained from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid endarerectomy. In summary, we identified a robust mRNA biomarker panel associated with histo-pathological as well as clinical hallmarks of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque. This panel may be used as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in clinical setting to evaluate novel anti-atherosclerotic therapies. Total RNA from peripheral plaque (n=101) profiled in the Merck/Agilent 44k v1.1 against a reference pool of total RNA from 7 carotid plaques.
Project description:In order to identify potential new biomarkers of atherosclerotic plaque composition we performed a large scale analysis of gene expression patterns in human atherosclerotic lesions. Whole genome expression analysis of 101 peripheral plaques identified a robust gene signature (1514 genes) dominated by inflammatory processes, and cholesterol metabolism and storage genes. Specific pathways enriched in this signature included activation of the Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, T-cell activation, cholesterol efflux, oxidative stress response, inflammatory cytokine production, vasoconstriction and lysosomal activity. Analysis of gene expression in plaque micro-dissected material revealed that the signature is strongly up-regulated in macrophage-rich regions and down-regulated in regions with high smooth muscle cell content. A smaller qPCR biomarker panel and inflammatory composite score (ICS) were developed to facilitate clinical translation of discoveries from gene expression profiling. We found that ICS correlates with histological features related to plaque vulnerability. In addition, ICS is able to separate groups of plaques obtained from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid endarerectomy. In summary, we identified a robust mRNA biomarker panel associated with histo-pathological as well as clinical hallmarks of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque. This panel may be used as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in clinical setting to evaluate novel anti-atherosclerotic therapies. Laser captured smooth muscle cells and macrophages from carotid plaque sections (n=3) profiled in the Merck/Agilent 44k v1.1. The reference sample was a pool RNA from whole sections.
Project description:In order to identify potential new biomarkers of atherosclerotic plaque composition we performed a large scale analysis of gene expression patterns in human atherosclerotic lesions. Whole genome expression analysis of 101 peripheral plaques identified a robust gene signature (1514 genes) dominated by inflammatory processes, and cholesterol metabolism and storage genes. Specific pathways enriched in this signature included activation of the Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, T-cell activation, cholesterol efflux, oxidative stress response, inflammatory cytokine production, vasoconstriction and lysosomal activity. Analysis of gene expression in plaque micro-dissected material revealed that the signature is strongly up-regulated in macrophage-rich regions and down-regulated in regions with high smooth muscle cell content. A smaller qPCR biomarker panel and inflammatory composite score (ICS) were developed to facilitate clinical translation of discoveries from gene expression profiling. We found that ICS correlates with histological features related to plaque vulnerability. In addition, ICS is able to separate groups of plaques obtained from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid endarerectomy. In summary, we identified a robust mRNA biomarker panel associated with histo-pathological as well as clinical hallmarks of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque. This panel may be used as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in clinical setting to evaluate novel anti-atherosclerotic therapies. Overall design: Total RNA from peripheral plaque (n=101) profiled in the Merck/Agilent 44k v1.1 against a reference pool of total RNA from 7 carotid plaques.
Project description:In order to identify potential new biomarkers of atherosclerotic plaque composition we performed a large scale analysis of gene expression patterns in human atherosclerotic lesions. Whole genome expression analysis of 101 peripheral plaques identified a robust gene signature (1514 genes) dominated by inflammatory processes, and cholesterol metabolism and storage genes. Specific pathways enriched in this signature included activation of the Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, T-cell activation, cholesterol efflux, oxidative stress response, inflammatory cytokine production, vasoconstriction and lysosomal activity. Analysis of gene expression in plaque micro-dissected material revealed that the signature is strongly up-regulated in macrophage-rich regions and down-regulated in regions with high smooth muscle cell content. A smaller qPCR biomarker panel and inflammatory composite score (ICS) were developed to facilitate clinical translation of discoveries from gene expression profiling. We found that ICS correlates with histological features related to plaque vulnerability. In addition, ICS is able to separate groups of plaques obtained from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid endarerectomy. In summary, we identified a robust mRNA biomarker panel associated with histo-pathological as well as clinical hallmarks of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque. This panel may be used as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in clinical setting to evaluate novel anti-atherosclerotic therapies. Overall design: Laser captured smooth muscle cells and macrophages from carotid plaque sections (n=3) profiled in the Merck/Agilent 44k v1.1. The reference sample was a pool RNA from whole sections.
Project description:In order to identify potential new biomarkers of atherosclerotic plaque composition we performed a large scale analysis of gene expression patterns in human atherosclerotic lesions. Whole genome expression analysis of 101 peripheral plaques identified a robust gene signature (1514 genes) dominated by inflammatory processes, and cholesterol metabolism and storage genes. Specific pathways enriched in this signature included activation of the Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, T-cell activation, cholesterol efflux, oxidative stress response, inflammatory cytokine production, vasoconstriction and lysosomal activity. Analysis of gene expression in plaque micro-dissected material revealed that the signature is strongly up-regulated in macrophage-rich regions and down-regulated in regions with high smooth muscle cell content. A smaller qPCR biomarker panel and inflammatory composite score (ICS) were developed to facilitate clinical translation of discoveries from gene expression profiling. We found that ICS correlates with histological features related to plaque vulnerability. In addition, ICS is able to separate groups of plaques obtained from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid endarerectomy. In summary, we identified a robust mRNA biomarker panel associated with histo-pathological as well as clinical hallmarks of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque. This panel may be used as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in clinical setting to evaluate novel anti-atherosclerotic therapies. Overall design: 290 human peripheral plaques were excised using the FoxHollow silverhawk catheter and stored in RNAlater. RNA was extracted, amplified and hybridized to Affymetrix/Merck custom 1.0 arrays (GPL10687).
Project description:Small non-coding microRNAs (miRs) have emerged to play critical roles in cardiovascular biology. Monocytes critically drive atherosclerotic plaque formation, and can be subdivided into a classical and non-classical subset. Here we scrutinized the miR signature of human classical and non-classical monocytes, and compared miR expression profiles of atherosclerotic plaques from human carotid arteries and healthy arteries. Overall design: This study includes cell samples from human sorted classical and non-classical monocyte subset, as well as pooled sample from carotid artery plaque and Ae. mammaria.
Project description:We used microarray analyses in human atherosclerotic plaque to identify network imply in the maintenance and progression of the pathology. To obtain a wide dynamic range we used the scanning method proposed by Skibbe et al. (Bioinformatics. 2006;22(15):1863-1870) performing three subsequent scansions for the same slide. We performed before low than medium and high PMT and laser intensity scansions to permit to detect differences in expression of high expressed genes from the first scansion and from low expressed genes from the last scansion. Data were total and lowess normalized, filtered and used to detect differentially expressed genes separately (low, medium and high). Differentially expressed genes were than integrated. Our data enhance the importance of both the inflammatory stress responses, controlled by central node STAT1 (inducing also the over-expression of the heat shock proteins HSP47 and HO-1), and caveolae system related to steroid hormone receptors. Since atherosclerosis affects aorta, coronary, carotid, and iliac arteries most frequently than any other body vessel there may be common molecular pathways involved in sustenance of this process. We integrated our DNA microarrays data with plaque carotid gene expression (Array Express databases E-MEXP-268) by meta-analysis method. We identified a series of common potential human atherogenic genes and were able to integrate them in functional networks involved in atherosclerosis. Activation of the JAK/STAT pathway was confirmed by the up-regulation of IL-6, STAT1, ISGF3G and IL10RA genes in coronary and carotid plaques. These results and constructed functional network could be related to a central role for STAT protein and caveolae system to regulate the hypertension state. Keywords: disease state analysis, Plaque atherosclerotic, LAD coronary Overall design: 18 left anterior descendent (LAD) coronaries were dissected from diseased hearts immediately after surgical removal, cleaned from fatty and cardiac muscle tissues and starved in RNAlater Solution (Ambion) for further analysis. Patients were divided in 8 atherosclerotic with plaque (stenosis = 75%) and 10 pooled controls without plaque. At least 2 microarray experiments were performed for each patient (technical replicate) and for patients with sufficient biological material we performed also a biological replicate with its own technical replicate. Each slide was scanned three times at low, medium and high PMT and laser intensity producing three data batch (low, medium and high) related to the same patients. Each data batch was normalized and analyzed separately. Detected differentially expressed genes were integrated to produce plaque differentially expressed genes (see Supplementary files below). Meta-analysis supplementary files also linked below. GSE3526-GSE7307-asym-symp-Meta-analysis.txt is result file of the analysis of Carotid data. From this file, we extracted specific and common carotid and coronary plaque differentially espressed genes comparing lists of differentially expressed genes using EntrezGene symbol. All files with starting name with Specific word fill in the specific category and the other in the common one.


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Low Cost Function Generator Amplifier DIY | DMC, Inc.
A majority of function generators are only capable of driving a couple of hundred milliamps, which is fine for most applications. If you want more output current, you can shell out $400 dollars for a professional signal generator amplifier, or you can do what I did and hack one together for under $40.
A signal generator is an indispensable tool for developing and testing electronic designs. You may find yourself wishing yours could output more current. You could test your power supply design by feeding in a noisy supply voltage, or you could see how it will handle a specific amount of input ripple. If you do this sort of thing regularly, you may want to invest in professional equipment. But, if you are on a budget, or only need this sort of thing occasionally, then keep reading.
When I first started learning electronics in grade school, I had dreams of being able to build anything I wanted. After purchasing components in single quantity from Digi-Key for my first few projects, I learned a disheartening lesson.
It almost always costs more to make something yourself than to buy a finished product.
So, before embarking on this project, I checked to see if there were any low-cost units on the market. The least expensive option I could find was the Siglent SPA1010 at just under $400. This unit would work for most cases, but only has a max output current of 1.1Amps, which just wasn't enough for me.
Unable to find a low-cost option, I resolved myself to designing my own signal generator amplifier.
I hoped that I could design the amplifier around a high-power OP Amp. Searching for the highest output OP Amp on Digi-Key revealed the OPA541 and OPA549.
The OPA541 can handle +/- 35V rails, whereas the OP549 can only handle +/- 30V rails.
Since More Voltage = More Better, I went with OPA541.
I felt good about this selection, and I felt even better when I heard on their podcast that the guys at Macrofab were designing a power supply using this same OP Amp. Now, I just needed to whip up a schematic and layout a PCB (with a monster heatsink) to handle the OPA541.
Wait, Tim! Don't forget about your golden rule!
Before embarking on my design, I decided to see if there were any breakout boards available for the OPA541 (preferably with a heatsink). I couldn't find anything from the usual suspects (Adafrut, Sparkfun, etc.), but I did find something on Aliexpress.
Like most things on Aliexpress, it looked too-good-to-be-true. I found an OPA541 breakout board with free shipping for $35. The OPA541 alone costs almost $22 from Digi-Key in single quantity. So, I ordered one plus a few SMA to BNC cables for $3 each.
A few weeks later, the unit arrived and looked to be as advertised.
As expected, the amplifier came with zero documentation. The circuit looked simple, so I knew I could reverse engineer it if necessary. Instead, I decided to power it up and see what happened. It was immediately apparent that it used capacitive AC coupling because it only amplified AC signals while ignoring any DC offset applied.
I sent him my email address, and he sent me a link and a password to a Chinese file-sharing site which yielded a PDF schematic of the device. Awesome!
I noticed values for many components were not correct, so I marked up the schematic to show the actual values. The schematic is a little messy by my standards, but it was easy to see how it works. It is a two-stage amplifier. Both stages are set up as non-inverting with the first having a gain of 3 and the second a gain of 11 for a total gain of 33.
The most insane thing I discovered was that the first stage OP Amp is an OPA445, a high voltage OP Amp that costs over $10 in single quantity!
This, plus the OP541 (which costs $21), means I got $31 in chips alone for $35. Assuming these parts are legit, that's a good deal in my book. Even if the OP Amps are counterfeit, the PCB, heatsink, and connectors are still worth $35 when considering that my alternative was to design and make my own from scratch.
Below are side-by-side comparisons of the parts from China and ones purchased directly from Digi-Key. They don't look identical, so I'm not sure if the parts from China are genuine.
There are two variants of the OPA541AP. One has a G3 suffix. Perhaps this explains the difference between the packages.
If anyone knows more about these ICs, please feel free to write in the comments.
To allow the device to amplify DC, I replaced C4 and C5 with 0 Ohm resistors. See below where I removed C4 enabling me to solder a 0 Ohm resistor in its place.
I changed the overall gain to 10 to simplify the mental math required.
Upgraded the main Sanyo brand capacitors with Panasonic 63V rated caps because the original caps were only rated for 35 volts despite the schematic calling for a 50-volt rating.
Below is the final schematic including all of my modifications.
With the modifications complete, it was time to test the performance.
I connected the amplifier to our Rigol DP832 and configured the DP832 to provide +/-30 volts as shown in the diagram below.
For the first test, I fed in a constant DC signal voltage of 2.5 volts. As expected, the amplifier output a constant voltage of 25 volts thanks to our 10x gain. We fed the output to our BK Precision 8600 programmable load and set it to pull 2.9 Amps, which is close to the maximum of 3 Amps for our Rigol DP832 Power Supply. We were able to source over 72 Watts to the programmable load! Sweet!
Our power supply was running close to its maximum output of 3 Amps and supplying 87.7 Watts. Since it was providing 87.7 Watts and our load is pulling 72.3 Watts, the amplifier would have been dissipating the difference between those two values, or 15.4 Watts.
The thermal image (and the burn on my hand from touching the OPA541) confirms the amp was getting hot.
To minimize heat dissipation, we have to remember to set our power supply voltage just a few volts above our desired max voltage output from the amplifier. Doing so will reduce the voltage differential and hence reduce the power dissipated by the amp.
Next, I connected two 12v automotive light bulbs in series to act as a load and connect our differential Oscilloscope probe across the load.
I then connected the function generator and set up a 1kHz sine wave set to 2.5 volts peak to peak.
The Oscilloscope shows a ~25-volt peak sine wave at 1kHz as expected.
Below is a video showing the same setup but at 0.5Hz instead.
Overall, I'm quite pleased with my $40 investment. A few weeks of waiting followed by a few minutes of soldering yielded a nice addition to the test bench. It will come in handy for testing future electronic designs.
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thanks a lot Tim for sharing your experience.
I have ordered a couple of this as well. As mentioned here they also came with 0R instead of DC isolation capacitors which is fine for my application. As I want to run two modules in parallel I followed TI datasheet for connection diagram - this didn't work great for high frequencies - two modules had quite a difference in the slew rate so I ended up driving both OPA541 from one preamplifier (with some modification).
I also found that having lower gain on OPA541 makes rising/falling time better so I have gain=5 on preamp and gain=2 on final opamp.
and you have to change the thermal pad! the standard one is not very good. I found a sample kit around with 0.1C*/W pad and it significantly improved thermal performance.
Thank you for a fantastic tutorial. I have ordered a couple of OPA541 boards to use as high current function generators, and look forward to see see how they work out.
As I am new to SMD soldering I wanted to ask you what size the resistors are so I can stock the appropriate values before the boards arrive. Is it 0805?
Great post, One question. What is the frequency response like? I was hoping to use this module to amplify the output of a DDS signal generator module. The datasheet for the OPA541 is unclear about its operational bandwidth.
Thanks a lot for publishing your work. This was exactly what i was looking for as an addition to my function generator.
Thanks for sharing this information. I sometimes use a simple class A audio amplifier to amplify the output of a signal generator (up to 24V, 3A) but it is AC coupled. And to save some work and money I bought it from AliExpress (for 15 USD). It works pretty well up to 100KHz. Also, I have to put a fan on its heatsink because it was getting above 120 °C. My main problem with the AC coupling is the output capacitor as I cannot use a DC offset in the signal and low frequency (below 300 Hz) square waves or custom signals get distorted.
Now, following the advice from an application note from Syscomp (titled Increasing the Output Current from a Signal Generator) I decided to test an OPA541AP. So I started searching the net for OPA541 breakouts and Google showed this page in the first page of my search results. So I think I'll buy one and give it a try.
By the way, the amplifier I'm using now use two 2N3055 transistors and the seller was candid enough to publish that all components were new except those transistors which were used. That may explain the price.
Regarding the concern of Mark about the short circuit current, the OPA541 has a short circuit limit but pin 8 should be connected to a current sense resistor in series with the load and I think in the schematic you received that pin is not connected.
Also, the G3 suffix in Texas Instruments parts is for the "green" rating of the part (G3 = no lead, no halogens, no antimony, and tin finish). There is a paper somewhere in TI's website about the suffixes being aligned with JEDEC J-STD-609 markers (G3 = E3, G4 = E4, etc.). But electrically it should work the same.
Thank you Tim for your great tutorials. I was wondering what the package/case of the resistors are so that I could order the right parts to adjust the gains.
Thanks so much for your post and all of the off-line help you've given. I'm currently using 2 of these function generator amplifiers to power solenoids for creating a rotating magnetic field for some magnetic nanoparticle dynamics research. As a PhD student in a university lab, this post really enabled me to try a risky research idea at low cost (though it took a little while to get an order from AliExpress approved by the university).
I went ahead and shunted R1 and R7 to try to get to unity gain - it looks like I'm getting about 1.01X gain right now, but I'll try inverting the first stage as you suggested to see if that improves things.
Also as a side note, perhaps your blog post made its way over to the sellers at AliExpress - the two large capacitors you upgraded to 63V were actually to spec at 50V on the three units I purchased.
Thanks again, I've found a new side hobby learning about electronics due to your blog posts!
The challenge is achieving unity gain since both amplifier stages are configured as non- inverting which must have a gain greater than one. Because of this, I don't think we can easily just swap some resistors to get an overall system gain of 1. Instead we need to convert at least one stage into an inverting configuration. I'd start by reconfiguring the OPA541as a unity gain buffer. Change R7 to a zero ohm resistor (or just short some solder across it). Remove R4 and R3. Make C5 a zero ohm (or short across it). At this point the OPA541's output should be feeding directly back into its negative input. The output signal from the first stage should be feeding directly into the OPA541's positive input. This is a standard unity gain buffer configuration.
Alright, now for the first stage. We want to make the gain adjustable between 1 and ~10. To do this, we need to reconfigure it as an inverting amplifier. Remove R1, R2, R6 and R9. Replace C4 with a 10k resistor. Now solder a small bodge wire between the empty pad of R6 closest to C4 and the empty pad of R2 closest to R1. Finally, replace R1 with a 100k potentiometer in series with a 10k fixed resistor. You will have to solder some more bodge wires onto the pads where R1 used to be then attach the other ends to the pot and 10k resistor. You should now have an inverting stage with a variable gain between 1 and 11. Since the 100k pot is in series with a 10k resistor, the combined resistance ranges from 10k to 110k depending on the potentiometer setting.
Remember your final output signal will be inverted now. Good luck, and please keep in mind that I have not tested or simulated any of this, so there may unforseen issues with this strategy.
Greeting from France, and thanks for the good work.
Can you give me some feedback ? How would you do if this sign generator amplifier project had to be variable ?
Wow! Haven't seen such a detailed article about electronics in a while. It just reflects the amount of effort you took and the research you did to complete this project. Just amazing. Keep up the good work.
Sorry for the confusion. The notations next to the schematic components are showing the actual values of the resistors on the board when it arrived. The table shows my modified component values. Use the values in the table to get an overall 10x gain. I chose 10x to simplify the mental math required to operating the amplifier. R7 should be 10.2k, R4 should be 2.55k.
Yes, you can just jumper out the components with the 0R resistors. I used 0R resistors because they just look nicer.
Thank you so much for publishing this. Saves lots of money and gives better power than commercial units.
R4 in the table says 2.55K but the schematic shows 1K, (which is the actual original value) and is not changed or not marked up in red on the modified schematic.
Also, can I just jumper out the components marked 0R, rather than replacing them with actual resistors?
Also, do I need a load on the output to test?
Thanks for your comment. I have the same concern about short circuits so I always run this device from a current limited lab power supply. Our Rigol DP832 can be configured to limit the supply current and it can also shut off the output completely if the current exceeds a configurable threshold. These two features have saved me from destroying expensive electronics on more occasions than I'd like to admit.
I have not extensively tested the high frequency performance of this device, but it would depend on the amplitude of your signal as well as the frequency. I'll post an update next time I use the device with some high frequency signals.
First of all, is the amplifier reasonably resilient to low ohm / short circuit conditions or does it need some form of protection as far as you are aware - I don't mean long term / thermal damage, just "oops, didn't mean to do that" shorts for a couple of seconds or so.
Secondly, with the design as you modified it, what sort of frequency does it work up to before starting to really have issues - I am hoping to be able to go to around 300 Khz ideally?
I have tried to find these answers but I am guessing the circuit values have a fair effect on controlling the bandwidth - irrespective of the theoretical max of the IC - and unless the rest of the circuit looks after short circuit conditions, it seems (a little vaguely) that it depends on the voltage of the output signal as to whether it would survive.
I have no intention of deliberately giving it a short circuit but for my use, it will be driving (hopefully) some fairly low impedance coils (1 - 2 ohms hopefully) but I know that every few hours of playing around with test gear, sooner or later I have an "oops" moment.
Hope you have time to answer if you already know - either way thank you for putting this page up - at the very least it is an awesome starting block for others like me.


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Solving Problems as an Engineer in Vietnam and an Expert on the Cold War
John Sloan
John Sloan graduated from West Point in 1955, and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He served in Korea and Vietnam, and taught European and Russian history in the Department of Social Sciences at USMA. While deployed to Vietnam, Mr. Sloan served in the U.S. Army II Field Force Headquarters in Long Binh as an engineer intelligence officer (1967-8), tracking the progress of construction projects across the country. Upon returning from Vietnam, Mr. Sloan spent much of the remainder of his career studying the Russian language and history, becoming a recognized expert on the Soviet Army. In 1976, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. In this interview, Mr. Sloan discusses his Cadet experiences, teaching in the Department of Social Sciences, serving in Vietnam, and his post-military career in the intelligence and history fields.
conflicts Vietnam War
topics Military Techniques
date 18 May 2015
name John Sloan
institution USMA
graduation year 1955
unit US Army II Field Force
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With no resolution by the 11:00 deadline, Bettman announced the cancellation of the 2004-05 season on February 16 , 2005 , making the NHL the first major professional sports league in North America to cancel an entire season because of a labour dispute. However on February 18 , The Hockey News reported that a deal with a $45 million cap had been reached "in principle" with the help of owners Wayne Gretzky , a former player, and Mario Lemieux , a current player. Both camps immediately denied this report. A 6½-hour meeting took place on February 19 , 2005 , but no agreement was reached.
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What exactly is "nice cream"?
Nice cream is everything you love about ice cream, but just a little nicer on your gut.
A basic nice cream recipe simply uses frozen bananas and blends them until a smooth, soft-serve like consistency is created. It can be eaten right away, or frozen for a few minutes then scooped for a thicker, ice cream like consistency.
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Is banana nice cream any good?
Banana nice cream is surprisingly delicious. Yes, it tastes like bananas, but the flavor combinations are endless. The final product doesn't have to taste like bananas at all. It's smooth, creamy, and totally satisfies that ice cream craving.
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If the strong banana taste isn't your thing, you should probably try out a few flavor combinations. My current recommendation is to try this 4 Ingredient Mango Lime Nice Cream – it tastes like summer in a bowl! I also really need to try this 5 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cup Nice Cream from Pinch of Yum. OMG.
How do you freeze bananas for nice cream?
There's no real "wrong way" or "right way" to freeze the bananas for nice cream, since they all get blended up in the end. But I do have some tips to make your bananas easy to use from frozen.
Start with overripe bananas. They're sweeter and will give your final nice cream more sweetness without added sugar.
Peel and then cut the bananas into smaller, 1 inch pieces before freezing. Your blender or food processor will have an easier time with several small pieces rather than a large hunk of frozen banana.
To avoid a huge hunk of frozen bananas (even if you cut them small), freeze all the bananas in a single layer on a flat baking sheet lined with parchment paper for at least 4 hours. This will ensure every piece of banana freezes separately. This method is best when freezing lots of bananas at once.
After the initial freeze, move all your frozen bananas to a freezer friendly storage container or Ziplock bag. This way you can grab only what you need and leave the rest in the freezer.
So how do you make banana nice cream?
You'll want to start with frozen fruit to ensure a thicker consistency. Follow the steps outlined above for freezing your bananas.
It's important to use a either a food processor or high powered blender to make the nice cream. I like to use my food processor for nice cream because my Vitamix requires a bit more liquid than I want to add to this recipe for it to blend properly. However, it's definitely worth a try and would probably work if you used the tamper.
I used the Cuisinart 8-Cup Food Blender (affiliate link!) to make this recipe, but any food processor or high powered blender should be doable. Remove the lid and scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary to make sure everything is completely blended.
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IMPORTANT: After blending well, make sure to do a taste test! Too chunky? Keep blending. Too thick? Add more almond milk. Too thin? Add another chunk of banana.
My recipe (Mango Lime Nice Cream) calls for frozen mango chunks, juice from one lime, and a couple tablespoons of unsweetened almond milk to help blend. Easy!!
If you want, you can eat it now. It's going to be a soft-serve like consistency. Alternatively, spread out the mixture in a 9×5 loaf pan and stick it in the freezer. Remove after 20-30 minutes, and guess what? It's now scoopable!!
Most importantly, it tastes like SUMMER. And also mango sherbet.
It's great for using up leftover bananas (even just freezing the bananas is a great way to avoid wasting them).
I've been keeping frozen mango on hand for smoothies, and I'm glad to find another use for it.
No added sweeteners. For real, I would probably guess there was a TB of maple syrup or something, but NOPE.
Easy ingredients you can buy anywhere.
Wait are you waiting for? Go buy some bananas, let them ripen, and freeze away. You're well on your way to nice cream for dessert!
AMAZING 4 Ingredient Mango Lime Nice Cream is made with just bananas, mango, lime juice and a little bit of unsweetened almond milk! Easy to make, smooth and creamy, and completely dairy free!
Add all ingredients to a food processor or high-powered blender. Blend on high for about 1 minute, or until completely blended with no chunks. Remove lid and push down the sides of the bowl as necessary to help blend. Add additional almond milk one tablespoon at a time as necessary to help blend.
You can eat the nice cream at this point – it will have a smooth, soft-serve like consistency.
OR – transfer the nice cream mixture into a freezer friendly flat pan (such as a 9×5 loaf pan). Freeze for 20-30 minutes. Remove from freezer and use an ice cream scoop to serve. The nice cream will have a thicker, sherbet like consistency at this point.
Store in the freezer for up to 4 days. To serve from frozen, remove from freezer and let thaw on the counter for 20 minutes until scoopable. Alternatively, place the nice cream in the microwave for 30 seconds, then scoop and serve (be sure to use a microwave safe container).
For the mango, I generally use precut organic frozen fruit from Costco. Nutrition information estimated with My Fitness Pal.
Thanks for checking out the 4 Ingredient Mango Lime Nice Cream! Please tag me or use #projectmealplan on social media to share your nice cream creations!
What a great looking nice cream!! love this combination of flavours and that beautiful colour.
Thank you Bernice! Just ate some as an afternoon treat… loving it so much!


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Born c. 1958 in Scarborough, England; married Kathy (a nurse), c.
Born John Wendell Thompson, April 24, 1949, in Fort Dix, NJ; married (divorced); married Sandi Thompson (an attorney), 1998; children: a son and a daughter (from first marriage). Education: Florida A&M University, B.
Born June 25, 1956, in Strumica, Yugoslavia; died in a plane crash, February 26, 2004, near Stolac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. President of Macedonia.
Born Peter Alexander Ustinov, April 16, 1921, in London, England; died of heart failure, March 28, 2004, in Genolier, Switzerland. Actor and writer.
Born in 1969, in Albuquerque, NM; daughter of Nelson P. Valdes (a sociologist) and Maxine Conant (a poet); married Patrick Rodriguez (a writer), 1999; children: Alexander.
Born November 5, 1906, in Red Oak, IA; died August 30, 2004, in Cambridge, MA. Astrophysicist.
Born May 22, 1941, in Los Angeles, CA; died March 7, 2004 in Los Angeles, CA. Actor.
Born Tobias Jonathan Ansell-Wolff III, June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, AL; son of Arthur (an aeronautical engineer) and Rosemary (Loftus) Wolff; married Catherine Dolores Spohn (a clinical social worker), 1975; children: Michael, Patrick, Mary Elizabeth. Education: Oxford University, B.A.
Born Jakob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer, April 3, 1948, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; son of the general secretary of a stockbrokers' association; married Jeannine de Hoop Scheffer-van Oorschot (a French teacher); children: Caroline, Stephanie. Politics: Christian Democratic Alliance.
Born Andrea Donna de Matteo, January 19, 1973, in New York, NY; daughter of Albert (a furniture manufacturer) and Donna (a playwright) de Matteo. Education: Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, B.F.A.