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Imaging of the Human Brain in Health and Disease
Author : Philip Seeman,Bertha Madras
Summary : Brain imaging technology remains at the forefront of advances in both our understanding of the brain and our ability to diagnose and treat brain disease and disorders. Imaging of the Human Brain in Health and Disease examines the localization of neurotransmitter receptors in the nervous system of normal, healthy humans and compares that with humans who are suffering from various neurologic diseases. Opening chapters introduce the basic science of imaging neurotransmitters, including sigma, acetylcholine, opioid, and dopamine receptors. Imaging the healthy and diseased brain includes brain imaging of anger, pain, autism, the release of dopamine, the impact of cannabinoids, and Alzheimer's disease. This book is a valuable companion to a wide range of scholars, students, and researchers in neuroscience, clinical neurology, and psychiatry, and provides a detailed introduction to the application of advanced imaging to the treatment of brain disorders and disease. A focused introduction to imaging healthy and diseased brains Focuses on the primary neurotransmitter release Includes sigma, acetylcholine, opioid, and dopamine receptors Presents the imaging of healthy and diseased brains via anger, pain, autism, and Alzheimer's disease
Magnetic Source Imaging of the Human Brain
Author : Zhong-Lin Lu,Lloyd Kaufman
Summary : This book is designed to acquaint serious students, scientists, and clinicians with magnetic source imaging (MSI)--a brain imaging technique of proven importance that promises even more important advances. The technique permits spatial resolution of neural events on a scale measured in millimeters and temporal resolution measured in milliseconds. Although widely mentioned in literature dealing with cognitive neuroscience and functional brain imaging, there is no single book describing both the foundations and actual methods of magnetoencephalopgraphy and its underlying science, neuromagnetism. This volume fills a long-standing need, as it is accessible to scientists and students having no special background in the field, and makes it possible for them to understand this literature and undertake their own research. A self-contained unit, this book covers MSI from beginning to end, including its relationship to allied technologies, such as electroencephalography and modern functional imaging modalities. In addition, the book: *introduces the field to the non-specialist, providing a framework for the rest of the book; *provides a thorough review of the physiological basis of MSI; *describes the mathematical bases of MSI--the forward and inverse problems; *outlines new signal processing methods that extract information from single-trial MEG; *depicts the early, as well as the most recent versions of MSI technology; *compares MSI with other imaging methodologies; *describes new paradigms and analysis techniques in applying MSI to study human perception and cognition, which are also applicable to EEG; and *reviews some of the most important results in MSI from the most prominent researchers and laboratories around the world.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Healthy and Diseased Brain Networks
Author : Yong He,Alan Evans
Summary : An important aspect of neuroscience is to characterize the underlying connectivity patterns of the human brain (i.e., human connectomics). Over the past few years, researchers have demonstrated that by combining a variety of different neuroimaging technologies (e.g., structural MRI, diffusion MRI and functional MRI) with sophisticated analytic strategies such as graph theory, it is possible to noninvasively map the patterns of structural and functional connectivity of human whole-brain networks. With these novel approaches, many studies have shown that human brain networks have nonrandom properties such as modularity, small-worldness and highly connected hubs. Importantly, these quantifiable network properties change with age, learning and disease. Moreover, there is growing evidence for behavioral and genetic correlates. Network analysis of neuroimaging data is opening up a new avenue of research into the understanding of the organizational principles of the brain that will be of interest for all basic scientists and clinical researchers. Such approaches are powerful but there are a number of challenging issues when extracting reliable brain networks from various imaging modalities and analyzing the topological properties, e.g., definitions of network nodes and edges and reproducibility of network analysis. We assembled contributions related to the state-of-the-art methodologies of brain connectivity and the applications involving development, aging and neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and mood and anxiety disorders. It is anticipated that the articles in this Research Topic will provide a greater range and depth of provision for the field of imaging connectomics.
Advanced Brain Neuroimaging Topics in Health and Disease
Author : Dorina Papageorgiou,George Christopoulos,Stelios Smirnakis
Summary : The brain is the most complex computational device we know, consisting of highly interacting and redundant networks of areas, supporting specific brain functions. The rules by which these areas organize themselves to perform specific computations have only now started to be uncovered. Advances in non-invasive neuroimaging technologies have revolutionized our understanding of the functional anatomy of cortical circuits in health and disease states, which is the focus of this book. The first section of this book focuses on methodological issues, such as combining functional MRI technology with other brain imaging modalities. The second section examines the application of brain neuroimaging to understand cognitive, visual, auditory, motor and decision-making networks, as well as neurological diseases. The use of non-invasive neuroimaging technologies will continue to stimulate an exponential growth in understanding basic brain processes, largely as a result of sustained advances in neuroimaging methods and applications.
Chronobiology: Biological Timing in Health and Disease
Summary : This special volume of Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science focuses on chronobiology. Contributions from leading authorities Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
Transmitters and Modulators in Health and Disease
Author : Seiji Shioda,Ikuo Homma,Nobumasa Kato
Summary : Prominent international researchers contributed to this volume of reports advancing the study of brain function and morphology. Comprising investigations in several areas of neuroscience, the book includes research in neurodegenerative diseases and in neuroregeneration in adults. Described here are the effects of neuropeptides and biogenic amines on feeding, respiration, and other autonomic functions as well as on behavior. One chapter focuses on regulation of the blood brain barrier function by various neuropeptides, proteins, receptors, and transporters. Another is concerned with the modulation of higher brain functions by neuropeptides and biogenic monoamines. Yet another chapter presents research on ischemic neuronal damage and hippocampal neurogenesis in the adult mouse. Morphological or physiological techniques to study neuropeptides and neuromodulators influencing higher-order or brain-stem functions are given particular attention. The use of bio-imaging tools such as brain navigation systems and fMRIs with patients in a clinical setting creates new possibilities for investigation of human brain function and specialization of treatment.
Magnetic resonance imaging of disturbed brain connectivity in psychiatric illness
Author : Alex Fornito,Ben Harrison
Summary : The widespread application of brain imaging to the study of psychiatric disorders has led to a revolution in our understanding of the neural basis of psychiatric illness. In particular, the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has provided an unprecedented capacity for quantifying diverse aspects of brain structure and function in vivo, and has been used to identify brain changes associated with the full spectrum of psychopathology. With respect to major psychiatric disorders, it is now abundantly clear from this literature that focal brain dysfunction is rare. Rather, most disorders are associated with abnormalities in large-scale networks of spatially distributed and interconnected brain regions; i.e., they are disorders of brain connectivity. Such considerations highlight the need to understand brain dysfunction in psychiatric illness from a network-based perspective. This goal is starting to be realized through recent advances in the use of MRI to map the brain's complex connectivity architecture. In this special edition, we invite contributions that address brain network dysfunction in psychiatric illnesses. Specifically, the work must be concerned with understanding interactions between brain regions, and how their alterations are affected by psychiatric disease. These interactions can be studied at the level of anatomy using diffusion-MRI or function using functional MRI (fMRI), with the full range of methods available (e.g., tractography, seed-based correlations, independent component analysis, graph analysis, dynamic causal modeling, etc.). Contributions can be either reviews of recent, relevant literature addressing brain network dysfunction in psychiatric disease, or experimental papers describing novel insights into brain network disturbances in such illnesses. Contributions will be invited covering a broad spectrum of psychiatric disease, including mood and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and neurodegenerative conditions. It is intended that this volume will provide important insights into how brain networks are perturbed by psychiatric disease, and allow identification of commonalities and differences across diagnostic categories.
Medical Imaging Physics
Author : William R. Hendee,E. Russell Ritenour
Summary : This comprehensive publication covers all aspects of image formation in modern medical imaging modalities, from radiography, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography, to magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound. It addresses the techniques and instrumentation used in the rapidly changing field of medical imaging. Now in its fourth edition, this text provides the reader with the tools necessary to be comfortable with the physical principles, equipment, and procedures used in diagnostic imaging, as well as appreciate the capabilities and limitations of the technologies.
Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease
Author : Victor R. Preedy
Summary : Growth is one of the human body's most intricate processes: each body part or region has its own unique growth patterns. Yet at the individual and population levels, growth patterns are sensitive to adverse conditions, genetic predispositions, and environmental changes. And despite the body's capacity to compensate for these developmental setbacks, the effects may be far-reaching, even life-long. The Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease brings this significant and complex field together in one comprehensive volume: impact of adverse variables on growth patterns; issues at different stages of prenatal development, childhood, and adolescence; aspects of catch-up growth, endocrine regulation, and sexual maturation; screening and assessment methods; and international perspectives. Tables and diagrams, applications to other areas of health and disease, and summary points help make the information easier to retain. Together, these 140 self-contained chapters in 15 sections [ok?] cover every area of human growth, including: Intrauterine growth retardation. Postnatal growth in normal and abnormal situations. Cells and growth of tissues. Sensory growth and development. Effects of disease on growth. Methods and standards for assessment of growth, and more. The Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease is an invaluable addition to the reference libraries of a wide range of health professionals, among them health scientists, physicians, physiologists, nutritionists, dieticians, nurses, public health researchers, epidemiologists, exercise physiologists, and physical therapists. It is also useful to college-level students and faculty in the health disciplines, and to policymakers and health economists.
Brain Imaging in Behavioral Neuroscience
Author : Cameron S. Carter,Jeffrey W. Dalley
Summary : This volume highlights the remarkable new developments in brain imaging, including those that apply magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), that allow us to non invasively study the living human brain in health and in disease. These technological advances have allowed us to obtain new and powerful insights into the structure and function of the healthy brain as it develops across the life cycle, as well as the molecular make up of brain systems and circuits as they develop and change with age. New brain imaging technologies have also given us new insights into the causes of many common brain disorders, including ADHD, schizophrenia, depression and Alzheimer's disease, which collectively affect a large segment of the population. These new insights have major implications for understanding and treating these brain disorders, and are providing clinicians with the first ever set of biomarkers that can be used to guide diagnosis and monitor treatment effects. The advances in brain imaging over the last 20 years, summarized in this volume, represent a major advance in modern biomedical sciences.
Brain Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease
Summary : In the central nervous system, extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules, including hyaluronic acid, chondroitin and heparan sulfate proteoglycans, tenascins, reelin and agrin, along with their remodelling enzymes, such as neurotrypsin, neuropsin, plasminogen activators, and metalloproteinases, are secreted by neural and non-neural cells into the extracellular space to form the ECM and signal via ECM receptors. Despite recent advances in the ECM field, the importance of neural ECM for physiological and pathological processes is currently less widely recognized than that of other CNS elements. This book will enlighten recent progress in our understanding of mechanisms by which neural ECM, its receptors and activity-dependent ECM remodeling regulate neural development, synaptic plasticity, and contribute to pathological changes in the brain. In the first part, the roles of ECM signaling and proteolytic modification of ECM in neurogenesis, neural migration, axonal pathfinding, synaptogenesis, synaptic and homeostatic plasticity will be discussed. The second part will focus on the emerging ECM-dependent mechanisms associated with CNS injury, epilepsy, neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. For further development of neural ECM field, a very important contribution is the third part of the book, which is devoted to neural ECM-targeting tools and therapeutics. The concluding fourth part will highlight advances in development of artificial ECM and ECM-based systems suitable for multisite recording and stimulation of neural cells. Authors are the leading experts in the field of brain extracellular matrix in health and disease Book covers the most important aspects of brain extracellular matrix in health and disease Interesting for both scientists and clinicians
(NAS Colloquium) Neuroimaging of Human Brain Function
Author : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Summary : The colloquium on "Imaging of Cognitive Function" speaks to the many audiences whose interests relate to efforts to map cognitive processes in the human brain. There are things of great interest in this collection of papers for specialists in cognition and neuroscience and imaging science as well as in disciplines interested in human development through education and training and others with intrinsic interest in the latest information on how the human brain supports thought. The papers were presented at a meeting sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences in its western home the Beckman Center at the University of California, Irvine.
Angelo Mosso's Circulation of Blood in the Human Brain
Author : Marcus E. Raichle,Gordon M. Shepherd
Summary : Modern brain imaging is revolutionizing the study of brain function in health and disease. However, few realize that its origins began in the nineteenth century with Dr. Angelo Mosso's pioneering experiments. A foremost Italian physiologist and scientist, Angelo Mosso studied several patients brought to him with head injuries that exposed their live brains to direct, long-term observation. He took advantage of these rare opportunities to document, for the first time, changes in cerebral blood flow in response to different stimuli, behaviors, and emotions, the very same changes that are now the basis for the measurements underlying modern functional brain imaging. Mosso was widely recognized by his contemporaries for his highly original studies, published both in Italian in 1878 and in German in 1881. Yet there has never been a translation through which this groundbreaking work could be appreciated by the English-speaking world. Indeed, Angelo Mosso's sophisticated experiments were to neuroscience what surgeon William Beaumont's in vivo observations were to gastric physiology fifty years earlier. This unique monograph establishes Mosso's rightful role as the pioneer of brain imaging. Through it, the modern reader, whether expert neuroscientist or interested student, can gain a new perspective on the author's remarkable insights: how behaviors as subtle as thinking about a subject or feeling an emotion produce the changes in pulsations of the brain that he observed and recorded for posterity. Special features of this volume include first a brief summary of Mosso's life. Two pioneers of modern brain imaging, Marcus E. Raichle (winner of the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience) and Gordon M. Shepherd (Yale University Professor of Neurobiology) then review Mosso's work and provide extensive commentary to explain its relevance to modern brain science. The authors not only emphasize Mosso's pioneering role in brain imaging, but also his fundamental contribution to the rise of cognitive neuroscience. The English translation (by historian of medicine Christiane Nockels Fabbri) follows, together with all of the plates and illustrations of the original volume. The result is a classic of neuroscience, now available for wide appreciation by neuroscientists, neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, historians of science and medicine, and the general public.
Magnetoencephalography: an emerging neuroimaging tool for studying normal and abnormal human brain development
Author : Christos Papadelis,Patricia Ellen Grant, Yoshio Okada,Hubert Preissl
Summary : Research on the human brain development has seen an upturn in the past years mostly due to novel neuroimaging tools that became available to study the anatomy and function of the developing brain. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) are beginning to be used more frequently in children to determine the gross anatomy and structural connectivity of their brain. Functional MRI and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) determine the hemodynamics and electroencephalography (EEG) the electrophysiological functions of the developing human brain. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) complements EEG as the only other technique capable of directly measuring the developing brain electrophysiology. Although MEG is still being used relatively rarely in pediatric studies, the recent development in this technology is beginning to demonstrate its utility in both basic and clinical neurosciences. MEG seems to be quite attractive for pediatric use, since it measures the human brain activity in an entirely passive manner without possessing any conceivable risk to the developing tissue. MEG sessions generally require minimal patient preparation, and the recordings are extremely well tolerated from children. Biomagnetic techniques also offer an indirect way to assess the functional brain and heart activity of fetuses in humans in utero by measuring the magnetic field outside the maternal abdomen. Magnetic field produced by the electrical activity in the heart and brain of the fetus is not attenuated by the vernix, a waxy film covering its entire skin. A biomagnetic instrument specifically designed for fetal studies has been developed for this purpose. Fetal MEG studies using such a system have shown that both spontaneous brain activity and evoked cortical activity can be measured from outside the abdomen of pregnant mothers. Fetal MEG may become clinically very useful for implementation and evaluation of intervention programs in at-risk populations. Biomagnetic instruments have also been developed for specifically measuring the brain activity in newborns, infants and older children. MEG studies have shown the usefulness of MEG for localizing active regions in the brain and also for tracking the longitudinal maturation of various sensory systems. Studies of pediatric patients are beginning to show interesting functional pathology in autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and other types of neurological and psychiatric disorders (Down syndrome, traumatic brain injury, Tourette syndrome, hearing deficits, childhood migraine). In this eBook, we compile the state of the art MEG and other neuroimaging studies focused on pediatric population in both health and disease. We believe a review of the recent studies of human brain development using MEG is quite timely, since we are witnessing advances not only in the instrumentation optimized for the pediatric population, but also in the research based on various types of MEG systems designed for both human fetuses in utero and neonates and older children.
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2014
Author : Polina Golland,Nobuhiko Hata,Christian Barillot,Joachim Hornegger,Robert Howe
Summary : The three-volume set LNCS 8673, 8674, and 8675 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014, held in Boston, MA, USA, in September 2014. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 253 revised papers from 862 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The 53 papers included in the third volume have been organized in the following topical sections: shape and population analysis; brain; diffusion MRI; and machine learning.
Stress in Health and Disease, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America,
Author : Daniel L. Kirsch
Summary : Stress in the DSM is referred to only in the sense of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, some research studies estimate up to two thirds of illnesses seen by general practitioners are 'stress related'–GI problems, sleep disturbance, mental concentration, headaches, fatigue, shortness of breath, high blood pressure, dermatitis, illnesses from lowered immune system, and vague aches and pains – all can be symptoms and outcomes of the elusive stress factor. This issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America discusses the scientific medical facets of stress, written by mental health and medical practitioners. It looks at the brain-body connection of stress – what the body does to result in stress and varying results stress has on the body. This fascinating cross-discipline look at stress is intended for psychiatrists, general practitioners, cardiologists, GI specialists, neurologists, sleep medicine specialists, respiratory specialists, and others who diagnose and treat patients with stress suspected as part of the illness equation or with self-reported stress. Topics include: Measurement of stress; Anxiety and stress-how they work together; Relationship between genetics and stress; Role of glia in stress; Sleep and stress; Diet and stress; Supplements and stress; Effect of severe stress on early brain development, attachment, and emotions; Role of stress and fear on the development of psychopathology; Expressions of stress in psychiatric illness; Dermatologic manifestations of stress in normal and psychiatric populations; Humor and the psychological buffers of stress; Stress expression in children and adolescents; Stress in service members; Stress in the geriatric population.
Casting Light on the Dark Side of Brain Imaging
Author : Amir Raz,Robert T. Thibault
Summary : Most people find colorful brain scans highly compelling—and yet, many experts don't. This discrepancy begs the question: What can we learn from neuroimaging? Is brain information useful in fields such as psychiatry, law, or education? How do neuroscientists create brain activation maps and why do we admire them? Casting Light on The Dark Side of Brain Imaging tackles these questions through a critical and constructive lens—separating fruitful science from misleading neuro-babble. In a breezy writing style accessible to a wide readership, experts from across the brain sciences offer their uncensored thoughts to help advance brain research and debunk the craze for reductionist, headline-grabbing neuroscience. This collection of short, enlightening essays is suitable for anyone interested in brain science, from students to professionals. Together, we take a hard look at the science behind brain imaging and outline why this technique remains promising despite its seldom-discussed shortcomings. Challenges the tendency toward neuro-reductionism Deconstructs hype through a critical yet constructive lens Unveils the nature of brain imaging data Explores emerging brain technologies and future directions Features a non-technical and accessible writing style
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"Spaceship One" contains all of the technical guitar prowess any fan would expect in a context of well crafted songs and reveals why Paul Gilbert remains one of the most gifted musicians in the guitar-oriented music market. There has been a resurgent interest in musician oriented records, the Shrapnel back catalog and Racer X/Paul Gilbert. The release of this record is perfectly timed with a legion of young players who are just now discovering the origins of high performance shred guitar of which Paul Gilbert is one of the true innovators.


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How an Army of Bots is Fueling a Digital Divide on Wikipedia
A combination of bots and geographic limitations may be hampering the crowdsourced editing system often considered Wikipedia's strength.
By Kimberlee Morrison
Wikipedia is the go-to website for settling arguments about the speed of a cheetah or the capital of Zimbabwe. Unfortunately, a combination of bots and certain geographic limitations may be hampering the crowdsourced editing system often considered Wikipedia's strength.
According to an Oxford University paper, many nations around the world, particularly those in Africa and the Middle East, suffer under representation on Wikipedia largely due to a poor Internet infrastructure.
The paper makes note that the location of the site's users and editors is tied to more wealthy, Western countries, which can lead to the histories and cultures of nations being written by outsiders. "[I]t remains that the encyclopedia is characterized by uneven and clustered geographies," the paper says.
Broadband access isn't the only problem. According to the paper, other factors such as "Social, economic, political, regulatory and infrastructure" drove down engagement in North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America. The worry is that this digital divide could turn Wikipedia into a Western-led knowledge source, despite its multitude of language translations.
The paper also indicates that Wikipedia's bot army could bear some of the blame. A great deal of the grunt work on the site is done by bots — they create basic pages about towns, they format links correctly and they check sources. Since the bots don't show up in the change log, Thomas Steiner, a customer solutions engineer at Google Germany, created a solution for monitoring these bots.
To wit, Wikidata now has a live-updating stream of sliders that show how many bots vs. users are editing at any one time. And the data shows a lot of interesting trends. At the time of this writing, English Wikipedia pages showed six bots and 329 humans — a two percent bot editing rate — while Vietnamese Wikipedia had 53 bots and zero humans.
If Wikipedia hopes to maintain its position as a highly referenced, trusted and democratic platform, it may have to tackle these issues. It's difficult to invest time and energy into a free service without access, and it's even harder when bots are piecing together your national history before you get a chance.
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Demos from the 'Commodities Trading with MATLAB' webinar - July 25, 2013.
It is recommended that you watch the webinar to see how the trading strategy is built.
Are there more CSV files available? The download only seems to contain BO1.csv.
love how you can the scrip was written, was thinking to even make a GUI op top of it so that i could deploy and review how to strategy changes. good stuff Anshuman!!


Fayose launches one hundred and twenty-two million naira projects for fourteen Ekiti communities – Royal Times of Nigeria.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose will present cheques worth one hundred and twenty-two-point-three million naira to fourteen communities in the state for the various projects under the Ekiti State Community and Social Development Agency, EKCSDA today, the sixth of September, 2017.
According a statement issued on Tuesday by the Special Assistant to the governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the communities are: Okebedo in Ilawe Ekiti, Erijiyan, Otun, Igogo, Okeiro in Afao Ekiti, Ire, Oloje, Odo Oja in Ikere, Fulani/Aba Egbira in Orun and Oke Odi/Iwoye in Ise Ekiti.
Others are; Oketoro in Iyin Ekiti, Iropora, Ogba Afoju in Ikere and Aaye Ekiti.
Expected to attend the ceremony are Local Government Chairmen of the listed communities, as well as traditional rulers, Chiefs, House of Assembly members, Community Project Implementation Committee members and community leaders.


This is cool, in a "people spying on my country" kind of way: Gizmodo reports that the recent break-up of a supposed Russian deep cover spy ring included the FBI discovering their use of Steganography. As a security and crypto guy, this is very interesting.
Steganography is the hiding of information in plain sight, much like the lemon juice you used to use to write secret messages when you were a kid. Digital steganography alters computer files, usually pictures or audio files, to hide information within them. This is the first case that I'm aware of that uses real stego as part of real espionage. Assuming it's really espionage that is.
For the technically minded, one way that digital steganography works is by altering the low-order bits of photos or music files. If we change the least significant bit of a pixel in a digital photo, the difference between it's original value and the new value that encodes information is likely unnoticable by the human eye. The same can be said of digital photos.
Detecting steganography is difficult: you need to know the program used, or you need to perform complicated statistical analysis to stand a chance of detecting it. It's remarkable to me that we've at last seen this technology in the wild.


Inspired by movies and television, PLANET HOLLYWOOD DINING ROOM is one of the most popular culinary experiences anywhere.
Parmesan Spinach Dip - Creamy Parmesan cheese dip with spinach and mushrooms served with crisp tortilla chips.
Bruschetta - Diced roma tomatoes blended in basil olive oil accompanied by tomato aioli and toasted garlic bread.
World Famous Chicken Crunch - Tender strips of chicken breast with a crunchy sweet coating served with Creole mustard.
Potato Skins - Crispy skins filled with bacon, mozzarella and Monterey Jack cheeses. Served with sour cream.
Texas Tostadas - Crispy mini tortillas topped with barbeque chicken, sautèed onions, Monterey Jack and sharp cheddar cheeses with sour cream and pico de gallo.
And for dessert - How about their White Chocolate Bread Pudding?
Planet Hollywood, a theme restaurant inspired by the history and iconic images of Hollywood, was first launched in 1991. It had the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Its menu and fine cooking have made its reputation.
1. Coarsely grind or crush the two cereals and set aside. Beat the egg with milk and set aside. Stir together the flour, onion and garlic powders and black pepper. Set aside.
2. Dip the chicken: pieces in the seasoned flour. Move around to coat well, then shake off the excess flour. Dip in the egg wash, coating well, then dip in the cereal mixture, coating well.
3. Heat oil in a large heavy skillet to 325. Drop coated chicken tenders carefully in the hot oil and cook until golden brown and fully cooked, 3 to 5 minutes depending on size. Drain and serve immediately with creole mustard sauce.
On the side -- Hoisin sauce.
1. In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients except the egg, wrappers and oil.
2. Add 1 tablespoon of the beaten egg. Save the rest of the egg for later. Preheat oil in a deep fryer or a deep saucepan to 375 degrees. Use enough oil to cover the pot stickers - 1 to 2 inches should be enough. Invert a small bowl or glass with a 3-inch diameter on the center of a wonton wrapper and cut around it to make a circle.
3. Repeat for the remaining wrappers Spoon 1/2 tablespoon of the turkey filling into the center of one wrapper. Brush a little beaten egg around half of the edge of the wrapper and fold the wrapper over the filling. Gather the wrapper as you seal it so that it is crinkled around the edge. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Deep-fry the pot stickers, six at a time in the hot oil for 3 to 5 minutes or until they are brown.
4. Drain on a rack or paper towels.Serve with hoisin sauce for dipping. If you want some crushed red pepper or cayenne pepper to the sauce. Serves 3 to 4 as an appetizer.
NOTE: If you can't find wonton wrappers, you can also use eggroll wrappers for this recipe. Eggroll wrappers are much bigger, so you will be wasting more of the dough when you trim the wrappers to 3-inch diameter circles. But in a pinch, this is a quick solution. Pot sticker wrappers can also be found in some supermarkets, but I've found the wonton wrappers and eggroll wrappers, when fried, taste more like the restaurant version.
Coarsely-ground black pepper to taste Panko bread crumbs as needed.
1.Saute onions, peppers, garlic in olive oil, add meats and brown ensuring all meat is broken up finely.
3.Add tomato puree, tomato sauce, black pepper and salt. Simmer 10 minutes; add parmesan cheese and simmer 10 minutes longer. Cool mixture in refrigerator at least 2 hours.
4.After cooling add in panko bread crumbs (just enough to bind), a pinch of salt, Italian seasoning and black pepper. Refrigerate 1/2 hour.
Mix all ingredients together until well combined and refrigerate.
1. Lay out pasta sheets and scoop 4 ounces of Bolognese Mixture onto pasta sheets spreading evenly leaving a 1-inch lip on top, then spread the Cheese Mixture on top of the meat mixture in the same manner. Brush the top edge of pasta sheet with egg wash and tightly roll lasagne up and seal. Refrigerate until cold.
2. Take roll and dip in tempura batter and then roll in the bread crumbs until completely coated.
3. Dip each end back into the batter and seal with more bread crumbs.
4.Fry in hot oil at 350 degrees for approximately 8 minutes. Carefully remove from oil and place on a cutting board. Slice off both ends of roll and discard. Cut the roll in half and cut each piece on the bias.
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This recipe yields 5 servings.
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Procedure for issuance of central statutory declaration forms (C, F, H, E-1 and E-2) for the year prior to 2012-13 i.e. FY 2011-12 and the period before that.
Filing up the details such as name, amount, TIN etc. of the selling parties to whom forms are to be issued.
Filing of requisition with complete details.
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i) From the menu go to "Online Form"
iii) Select select the "Financial Year" and relevant "Period"
B. Now a "Requisition Account" appears which shall be as per the details filled by us earlier in the previous step.
Bill wise, against each form.
· The requisition for forms shall now be sent to the VATO's login, automatically.
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ii) Upto date returns are filed by the dealer.
iii) No amount unstayed is due against the dealer.
iv) Items of purchase are mentioned on the RC of the dealer.
v) Conditions specified in Rule 5(4) of CST (Delhi) Rules are fulfilled.
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Combining -Omics to Unravel the Impact of Copper Nutrition on Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Stem Metabolism
Copper can be found in the environment at concentrations ranging from a shortage up to the threshold of toxicity for plants, with optimal growth conditions situated in between. The plant stem plays a central role in transferring and distributing minerals, water and other solutes throughout the plant. In this study, alfalfa is exposed to different levels of copper availability, from deficiency to slight excess, and the impact on the metabolism of the stem is assessed by a non-targeted proteomics study and by the expression analysis of key genes controlling plant stem development. Under copper deficiency, the plant stem accumulates specific copper chaperones, the expression of genes involved in stem development is decreased and the concentrations of zinc and molybdenum are increased in comparison with the optimum copper level. At the optimal copper level, the expression of cell wall-related genes increases and proteins playing a role in cell wall deposition and in methionine metabolism accumulate, whereas copper excess imposes a reduction in the concentration of iron in the stem and a reduced abundance of ferritins. Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) analysis suggests a role for the apoplasm as a copper storage site in the case of copper toxicity.
[…] Proteomics extraction, labeling, migration and spot detection were performed as described previously ().Spot selection for multivariate analysis. Following spot detection using the DeCyder software (v7.0, GE-Healthcare), normalized spot volumes were extracted and standardized according to the spot volumes measured on the internal standard. All volumes were log(2) transformed. Only spots for which a value was obtained on at least three out of every four gels were conserved for statistical analysis. In cases where one missing value was reported, the fourth value was mathematically imputed by implementing the mean log(2)-transformed volume of the 10 spots having the nearest profile of expression on all other gels. Data were finally median normalized (Supplementary Table S3A).Further processing was performed using R (v3.1.2). Homoscedasticity was tested and, depending on this test, an ANOVA or a test of equal means in a one-way layout in the case of unequal variances were applied. This procedure was performed on (i) the global data set and separately on (ii) the apical samples and (iii) the basal samples (Supplementary Table S3B).In cases where a treatment effect was reported for a spot (P < 0.05) in at least one of the three statistical processings (treatment effect on the global data set, treatment effect on the apical samples, treatment effect on the basal samples), the spot was checked using the Decyder (v7.0, GE-Healthcare) spot view and selected for picking.Spot picking, digestion and MS/MS analysis. Selected spots were picked with an Ettan Spotted Picker (GE Healthcare). Digestion was carried out using a Freedom EVO II workstation (Tecan). Briefly, gel plugs were washed for 20 min in a 50 mM ammonium bicarbonate solution in 50% (v/v) MeOH/MQ water and dehydrated for 20 min with 75% acetonitrile (ACN). After dehydration, proteins were digested with trypsin Gold (Promega), 8 µl of a solution containing 5 ng µl–1 trypsin in 20 mM ammonium bicarbonate (overnight, 37°C). After digestion, peptides were extracted from the gel plugs with 50% (v/v) ACN containing 0.1% (v/v) trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and dried.Peptides were then solubilized in 0.7 µl of 50% (v/v) ACN containing 0.1% (v/v) TFA and spotted manually on MALDI-TOF (matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight) targets. A volume of 0.7 µl of 7 mg ml–1 α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid in 50% (v/v) ACN containing 0.1% (v/v) TFA was added. A MALDI peptide mass spectrum was acquired using the AB Sciex 5800 TOF/TOF (AB Sciex), and the 10 most abundant peaks, excluding known contaminants, were automatically selected and fragmented. MS analyses were carried out as described previously (). MS and MS/MS spectra were submitted for NCBInr database-dependent identification using the taxonomy Viridiplantae (2,471,722 sequences) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) downloaded on October 30, 2014 and containing 51,656,746 sequences on an in-house MASCOT server (Matrix Science, www.matrixscience.com). A second search was carried out against an EST (expressed sequence tag) Fabaceae database downloaded on December 17, 2013 and containing 19,932,450 sequences. The parameters used for these searches were mass tolerance MS 100 p.p.m., mass tolerance MS/MS 0.5 Da, fixed modifications cysteine carbamidomethylation, and variable modifications methionine oxidation, and double oxidation of tryptophan and of tryptophan to kynurenine. Proteins were considered as identified when at least two peptides passed the MASCOT-calculated 0.05 threshold scores (respectively a score of 53 for all NCBI Viridiplantae queries and 58 for the EST Fabaceae queries) (Supplementary Table S3C, D). Determination of the subcellular location of proteins was performed using TargetP 1.1 (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TargetP) with the standard search parameters for plants. [...] Results from ionomics, RT-qPCR and proteomics were analyzed by multivariate analyses using the freeware R (v3.1.2) with the additional packages FactoMineR v1.0 and the functions 'PCA', 'HCPC' and 'dimdesc'. PCA axes were characterized, and high contributors to the PCA axes were identified with the 'dimdesc' function (P < 0.05) as presented in the Results. For proteomics, the multivariate analysis was performed on the spots for which the calculated P-value for multiple comparison of means was inferior to 0.05 and in which one unique significant protein was identified. In particular, this procedure allowed extraction of 78 and 40 proteins that differentiated low, optimal and high Cu availability, and that were further clustered according to their standardized abundance in nine and six groups, respectively, using the 'HCPC' R function.Analyses were performed on four replicates per condition and per stem region for RT-qPCR and proteomics, and on four replicates per organ for mineral content analysis. […]
2016 Plant and Cell Physiology
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw001
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Miscellaneous, MS-based untargeted proteomics, Protein sequence analysis
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Copper, Iron, Methionine, Molybdenum, Zinc
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Il Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB), abbreviato in Rotfrontkämpferbund, in italiano Lega dei Combattenti del Fronte Rosso, fu l'organizzazione armata del Partito Comunista di Germania (KPD), creata il 18 luglio 1924 durante la Repubblica di Weimar. Il primo leader dell'organizzazione fu Ernst Thälmann. Il compito dell'organizzazione era quello di essere il braccio militare della KPD, e per questo motivo spesso si scontrava nelle strada delle città tedesche con altre forze paramilitari di destra ed in particolare con l'organizzazione paramilitare del Partito Nazionalsocialista, conosciuta con il nome di Sturmabteilung (SA). La RFB fu sciolta nel 1932 con la messa fuorilegge della KPD.

Motto e giornale
Il motto della RFB era: Rot Front! ("Fronte Rosso!") che veniva pronunciato mentre veniva effettuato il saluto con il braccio destro alzato ed il pugno chiuso nel tipico gesto di saluto socialista e comunista.
Oltre a ciò l'organizzazione era provvista anche di un inno le cui parole furono composte da Erich Weinert e messe poi in musica da Hanns Eisler che scrisse il motivo musicale nel 1928.

Il Rotfrontkämpferbund possedeva inoltre un proprio organo ufficiale di stampa dal nome Die Rote Front.

Era inoltre presente anche una giovanile per i ragazzi dai 16 ai 21 anni dal nome Rote Jungfront (in italiano: "Fronte giovanile rosso").

Bibliografia
(In ordine cronologico)
 Hermann Weber, Die Wandlung des deutschen Kommunismus. Die Stalinisierung der KPD in der Weimarer Republik, 2 Bände, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main, 1969.
 Kurt G. P. Schuster, Der rote Frontkämpferbund 1924-1929. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Organisationsstruktur eines politischen Kampfbundes, (Beiträge zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Bd. 55), Droste, Düsseldorf 1975; ISBN 3-7700-5083-5. (Zugleich: Göttingen, Univ., Diss.).
 Kurt Finker, Geschichte des Roten Frontkämpferbundes, Dietz, Berlin (Ost) 1981.

 Werner Hinze, Schalmeienklänge im Fackelschein. Ein Beitrag zur Kriegskultur der Zwischenkriegszeit, (Tonsplitter, Archiv für Musik und Sozialgeschichte, Bd. 1). Tonsplitter, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-936743-00-2. (Zugleich: Bremen, Univ., Diss., 2002).
 Carsten Voigt, Kampfbünde der Arbeiterbewegung. Das Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold und der Rote Frontkämpferbund in Sachsen 1924–1933, Böhlau, Köln - Weimar - Wien 2009, (Geschichte und Politik in Sachsen, Bd. 26); ISBN 978-3-412-20449-5.
 Günter Bers, Düren in Rot, Die Demonstration des Roten-Frontkämpfer-Bundes (RFB) anläßlich des "Roten Tages" in der Stadt Düren im Jahre 1926. Eine Dokumentation, Joseph-Kuhl-Gesellschaft e.V., Jülich 2011, 49 Seiten; ISBN 978-3-932903-50-2.

Voci correlate
 Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus

Altri progetti

Organizzazioni paramilitari nella Repubblica di Weimar
Partito Comunista di Germania
Organizzazioni antifasciste

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Here's how your tablet might finally "get" you
My ZDNet colleague James Kendrick wrote about a desire for a tablet that "gets" him. We might be building some of the systems to support that today...
By Matt Baxter-Reynolds for Post-PC Developments | November 4, 2013 -- 10:00 GMT (02:00 PST) | Topic: Tablets
Google Now doesn't have the marketing cachet of Google, but it's likely to be the more successful product over the long-term.
We all have our routines for connecting into our digital lives.
For me, I pick up my iPad and see how my Hay Day farm is getting on. I used to check my email, and then Twitter. Now, I've become so obsessed with managing the day-to-day business of managing a digital, make-believe farm, a routine that's been going on for the best part of fifteen years has now been changed. Checking my email now comes second.
My ZDNet colleague James Kendrick wrote a fab piece last week on " a better way for tablets ". In it, he talks about a desire for a tablet that "gets" him.
He cites his morning routine (compared to mine: less simulated cows and goats, more RSS and email), and he talks about wanting his tablet to be "aware" -- i.e. to understand what his morning routine is, where he physically is, who or what is around in the environment and so on.
I completely agree with this, but we may already be seeing signs of this stuff coming. Although you have to look carefully and mind the dust associated with the future's construction.
Every technology era has spots of technology in it that's ahead of its time. Eight years before the post-PC era BlackBerry foresaw key elements of post-PC in that it provided always-available, always-connected access to one's digital life. The way that a BlackBerry user could key into their work relationships whilst on the move was exactly the same as how post-PC devices work today across the entirety of a user's relationships.
Today there's a possibility that in two products -- Apple's Siri and Google Now -- show us what's going to happen after the post-PC era ends. And those products both presage James's desire for a device that "gets" him.
I've found Siri grossly disappointing since I first started using it. I've also found that I've become even less impressed with it as time goes on. It just doesn't do the things that it's supposed to do well enough.
But like BlackBerry, Siri does things that are unique, and that will become critical in the future technologies that could replace post-PC. Siri isn't clever because it can send an email to your spouse, it's clever because it knows who your spouse is.
It's this contextual data that is key to creating a system that "gets" the user in the way that James wants.
Google Now also looks at context and tries to make decisions based on it. The idea of Google Now is that not only does it know where your spouse is, it knows where you are, where they are, where you're supposed to be that evening, what the traffic is like, and whether you're going to make that appointment.
The promise of Google Now is not that you can ask it to email your spouse, it's that it will just go ahead and do that for you without you asking.
You might find the idea of Google emailing your spouse to tell them you're running late without any intervention from you a bit scary. It's likely that the next generation of computer users won't. Traditionally, the next generation has the stomach for things that the current generation finds unpalatable.
All of this is about relationships, and it's this relationship-centric aspect that makes me confident that this sort of technology will replace post-PC. You can think of it a "human-computer relationships" (HCR).
The idea of post-PC is that it connects you through into your digital life via relationships with the things or the people that you love. This connecting is relatively dumb, and significantly siloed off. Twitter and Facebook have their own social graphs that understand you and relationships within each one's scope, but there's no sharing or crossing over of that data.
But there's a major problem with HCR, in that everything has to be opened up in order for it to work. By delegating a computer system to have responsibility over aspects of your life, all of these silos need to be collapsed down.
Imagine the Google Now "auto-emailing one's spouse" example from above but with one partner using Google Apps for their calendar and the other partner using Office 365. Whatever HCR system is driving the connection between those two individuals, it has to see into the calendar systems of both in order to build a complete picture.
On a human level this works because each partner would tell the other what their movements were even if they couldn't see into each other's calendar. Or, to put it another way, they create another more open layer in which data is more readily exchanged. That layer, in this case, is not digital.
Where we're going at the moment though is a place where everything is become less open and more closed off, rather than more open. The free-and-easy internet that we've been used to is getting more siloed off as those making investments get more savvy about realising their returns. There's no point making massive investment in something if all you're doing is making your competitor stronger. You can only control that model by holding your user's closer to you, and that means more walls and less freedom.
So coming back to James's original point -- creating a tablet that "gets" him I don't think is a lack of imagination, I think it's just an issue of time and attitude. We'll gradually see systems like Siri and Google Now improve -- or more likely we'll see new disruptive systems that make those two look like clockwork curiosities.
Of those two though, consider how strongly Google is placed giving how good it is at amassing personal data and mining it for meaning. If HCR is the next big thing, it's poised to screech into it from the post-PC era leaving everyone else for dust.
To create competition in the space though, we have to open things up. We used to be more open, now we're becoming more closed. As a society, we tend to repeat things in cycles. Hopefully we'll go back to systems that are more open and we'll really start to see some interesting stuff.
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The Brydge Pro+ is an iPad Pro keyboard with an integrated trackpad and it looks amazing
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Apple's change of plan: iPhones and iPads will use Imagination chip designs after all
The Cupertino giant rebuffed Imagination's GPU tech two years ago but now the two firms have signed a new deal.


The Marshall Project – " It's been nearly 25 years since Michigan adopted a controversial visitation policy. Families have been fighting it ever since. Looking Back at the stories about, and excerpts from, the history of criminal justice. In 1995, Michigan prison officials implemented a controversial new policy: Any inmate found guilty of two substance-abuse violations would lose all rights to visits, except from their lawyer or minister. The state prison population had grown significantly in the early 1990s, as had the use of drugs inside. Guards worried contraband was being smuggled into facilities and wanted to limit the number of outsiders coming in. Families were outraged. Thousands wrote letters, and hundreds testified in public hearings. In addition to the punishment for drug use, the state had banned any minors from visiting prisoners who weren't their parents. That meant nieces, nephews, siblings, cousins and godchildren were cut off entirely. While prisons often take away visits for disciplinary reasons, this ban was uniquely severe and long-lasting. People in Michigan prisons and their loved ones have been fighting the rule ever since.
A group of incarcerated women sued the corrections department five months after the policy was announced. They contended it violated their right to "intimate association" with young family members, and that the substance-abuse rule was cruel and unusual punishment. The lead plaintiff, Michelle Bazzetta, was not going to see her nephew, who had just been born, until his 18th birthday. Others in the suit would never get to see their young children who had been adopted by friends or family members…" [Note – this posting, and all my postings on criminal justice, are in honor of my late colleague and friend, Ken Strutin].


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"Taps" Originated during the Civil War
The museum has received a copy of "Taps" that tells the story of the simple bugle call consisting of only 24 notes. This bugle call has been a source of comfort to many --- from Boy Scouts on field trips to men and women serving our country in foreign lands and to those who have lost loved ones. Author Richard H. Schneider, a veteran of ~J II, is senior editor and writer for Guideposts magazine. After hearing "Taps" many times at funerals following the terrorists' attacks on September 11, 2001, he began to search for the origin of the bugle call. It was first played on a hot July night in 1862 when 140,000 Union soldiers were encamped in soggy mud at Harrison's Landing on the Berkeley Plantation in southern Virginia. These men had been a part of the Union's Army of the Potomac commanded by General George B. McClellan (for whom McClellan Creek was named). McClellan had expected to take Richmond (the Confederate capital) and end the Civil War quickly. But the Union forces had been repelled by the Confederate forces of General Robert E. Lee and had retreated to the protection of the Union gunboats at Harrison's Landing. Brigadier General Daniel Adams Butterfield, a scholarly thirty-one-year-old former law student from Utica, New York, was deeply concerned about his wounded and dying men. Sitting on a chair outside the tent where he camped, he sent for his bugler, Private Oliver Willcox Norton, and asked Norton to play some notes written in pencil on the back of an envelope. Butterfield changed the length of some of the notes and when he was satisfied with the result, instructed Norton to play the new bugle call instead of the regulation call for "extinguish lights." (The regulation call, "Tattoo," was a derivation of the Dutch "Tap Toe," a drum beat signaling tavern keepers to close their taps so that soldiers would return to their barracks. The melody of "Taps" is similar to the last five and a quarter bars of what was known as the "Scott Tattoo.") The bugle call played by Norton on that hot July night was beautiful and reached far beyond the limits of Butterfield's brigade. The next day buglers from other brigades asked Norton for copies of the music and the bugle call began to spread throughout the Union and beyond. There is a report that it was played ten months later at the funeral service for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. For a time the melody was known as "Butterfield's Lullaby." "Taps" was first played at a military funeral after a Confederate shell exploded and killed a Union cannoneer, traditionally, three volleys were fired over the grave, but the Union captain feared that the sound of rifle fire so close would cause the Confederates to believe that the Union was advancing to renew fighting. Then the captain thought of the new call recently sounded by Butterfield's bugler, and the strains of "Taps" sounded over the grave of a soldier for the first time in history. An early reference to the official use of "Taps" can be found in the U. S. Army Infantry Drill Regulation for 1891. The story of `Taps" is summarized on a marker at Harrison's Landing and the sound of the bugle call can be heard when a button is pressed. The first sounding of "Taps" at a soldier's funeral is memorialized in a beautiful stained-glass window in a chapel at Fort Monroe, Virginia. The bugle has limited notes --- C, E, and G and G an octave lower are used in "Taps." A trumpet may be used --- and sometimes is --- to play a bugle call, but a trumpet can play many notes that a bugle cannot. During WW II some bugles were made of olive colored tenite, a product of Eastman Kodak. A bugler explained that a tenite bugle is two pounds lighter than brass it can withstand extreme temperatures it is almost indestructible and --- it does not have to be polished. Various writers have alluded to "Taps:" Mark Twain (~ Horse's Ta1e"~. Willie Morris ("Taps"), James Joyce ("From Hereto Eternity"), F. Scott Fitzgerald ("Taps at Reveille"),~esse Stuart (" Taps for Private Tussie"). Traditionally, bugle calls do not have words, but the touching melody of "Taps" has inspired many lyrics. Oddly, none of these lyrics have been ascribed to any particular author. The best known verse is this: "Day is done, gone the sun From the lakes, from the hills, from the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh."


The Krkonoše Mountains (the Giant Mountains) are the highest and the most visited mountain range in the Czech Republic. They are located along the border with Poland, in the West they connect with the Jizerské Mountains. They stretch over 38 km in length, and their greatest width is 25 km. The highest peak of Krkonoše, and at the same time of the whole of the Czech Republic, is the Sněžka Mountain. The Krkonoše Mountains provide the opportunity of year-round attractive and active leisure. In winter, it is, of course, downhill and cross-country skiing.
The Krkonoše Mountains have a rich skiing history and currently offer many modern ski resorts - Špindlerův Mlýn, Pec pod Sněžkou, Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Harrachov, Benecko, Jilemnice, Vítkovice, Paseky nad Jizerou, Vysoké nad Jizerou, Vrchlabí, Janské Lázně, Malá Úpa, Černý Důl, Žacléř, Svoboda nad Úpou, Mladé Buky, and more. Kilometres of maintained cross-country skiing trails are prepared for cross-country skiers so that they can literally criss-cross the Krkonoše Mountains. Ski buses and winter buses make transfers in the mountains easier for skiers.
But the Krkonoše Mountains are attractive in every season. In the summer months, they offer ideal conditions for hiking, the fitter ones can ride through the mountains on a bicycle, and will appreciate the well functioning cycle buses. The dense network of hiking trails will lead visitors of the Krkonoše Mountains to the most beautiful and most attractive places. Examples include the Mumlava waterfall close to Harrachov, Labská dam below the Špindlerův Mlýn resort, the springs of the Elbe River, the lookout towers Štěpánka, Žalý and Černá Hora and many museums.
In addition to skiing and hiking, Krkonoše offer a variety of other activities. Your adrenaline level will be raised by the bobsleigh track or rope climbing center offered in Harrachov, Špindlerův Mlýn and Pec pod Sněžkou. You can also try paragliding, snowmobiling, snow tubing, mountain scooters or quads. You can play a game of bowling, golf, tennis and a variety of other traditional and non-traditional sports.
The Krkonoše Mountains offer plenty of accommodation in all categories, here you can choose from hotels, guest houses or mountain chalets. You will find suitable accommodation to suit your needs directly in the tourist resorts, where you can spend your holiday really actively, as well as in places more remote providing peace and privacy.


is an easy day anywhere. Walk a couple of miles. Splash in the pool. Eat a delicious lunch. And so on.
Aside from reviewing the page proofs for my story in Onward, Drake!, I did nothing productive.
I look forward to more days like it.
Any other writing projects forthcoming? Jon & Lobo?
Oh, yes. I am working on the sixth Jon & Lobo book, and Bill and I have a little something in development. Much to come!


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Great video with great examples of some of the behaviors of narcissistic mothers.
It is nice to know other women like you who have compassion for other victims.
The cooperative effort is important and it is beginning to shed more light on the wolves in sheep's clothing that have gotten away with blame shifting and making the victims look like we are abusing the actual abusers.
All I want to do personally is to get far far away from my abusive ex in laws. But they keep pulling me back and entangling me. ….then calling me "the difficult one"…." the emotionally unbalanced one"….
If we are so bad to them then why do they keep pulling us back? When you are actually the victim, you just want to get away….far away…..you dont pull the people back towards you…or manipulate them into being entangled with you….
The victim blaming and blame shifting needs more light shed onto it. I believe it is intentionally covered up and hidden….just like the fact that abusers can appear nice and normal in public.
People think they could tell an abusive parent if they saw one. They believe the act they see and then accuse the emotionally broken victim of being unbalanced and not able to tell reality….so the victim is seen as the crazy one who is making up stories about their abusers.
You are most welcome Annie. I agree. The cooperative effort is important in bring about awareness of the ill effects of narcissism and emotional abuse. I'm honored to be able to piggyback off people like you–the frontrunners in this race as we endeavor to shed light on this insidious form of abuse.
"People think they could tell an abusive parent if they saw one." Right. They put on award-winning performances in public, appearing to be loving and caring, but in private they're just the opposite. It is jus an act to discredit their victims, and it's sad, but it works. People are quick to accuse the victims of being the crazy one when it's really the other way around. Most people, I've learned, believe what they want to believe and the truth has nothing to do with it.
This video covers many important traits of a narcissistic mother and she does a good job of giving examples or reasons. Reading and listening to a video are two different things, and sometimes the videos by psychotherapists in person explains it much easier to understand. You can see yourself as she is speaking.
The list goes on and on. It was nice that she offered discounted therapy for this issue also. Thanks for this posting.


BOSTON (CBS) – New England fans have become accustomed to life with the Patriots as Super Bowl champions. That usually comes with a banner ceremony and the NFL spotlight on a Thursday night during the first week of September.
The NFL is keen to have Chicago host the first game of the season as part of its 100 season celebration, allowing it to showcase the league's oldest rivalry. The Bears and Packers played for the first time in 1921 and faced 198 times.
So where does that leave the Patriots and their next banner ceremony? They would probably open Sunday night on football on September 8, becoming the first defending Super Bowl champion not to appear in the first NFL game since 2006.
Possible rivals in the 2019 first game at Gillette Stadium are the Cleveland Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers or an AFC Championship Game rematch with the Kansas City Chiefs.
The NFL will release its full calendar in the next two months.


New Dell Precision Workstations and monitors in Rapson 33 and 71 (with dual monitors now available in Rapson 33).
New laser printers to replace the four laser printers in the Rapson 71 and McNeal 69 labs.
Upgrades to major software applications, including the latest version of Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk, and Sketchup.
The cost tracking process started in the Fall 2017 semester will remain in place. Students are required to provide the class for which they are printing to the lab attendant managing the print job.
We revised our DDR processes and updated our DDR computers over the summer to better meet the needs of the College. Visit the Digital Design Review webpage for more information, including checkout processes for DDR equipment.
Looking to purchase Rhino? Make an appointment with the lab manager by emailing Greg Lockhart at glockhar@umn.edu! Cost is $72 and we can only accept GopherGold.


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U.S. scrambles to define new policy on Pakistan
The Bush administration tries to determine the impact of Bhutto's passing.
WASHINGTON � The Bush administration scrambled Thursday with the implications of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination after investing significant diplomatic capital in promoting reconciliation between her and President Pervez Musharraf.
While awaiting formal confirmation of Bhutto's death in an attack on an election rally, U.S. officials � who had labored to promote stability in the nuclear-armed country that has been an anti-terrorism ally � huddled to assess the impact of Bhutto's passing just two weeks before legislative elections in the turbulent nation in which her party was expected to do well.
"Certainly, we condemn the attack on this rally," said deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey. "It demonstrates that there are still those in Pakistan who want to subvert reconciliation and efforts to advance democracy."
A U.S. official speaking on grounds of anonymity confirmed that Bhutto was assassinated. No person or group has claimed responsibility for her death, the official said.
In Crawford, Texas, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said that vacationing President Bush "has been informed about the situation in Pakistan. He was told about it this morning during his regular briefing."
Bhutto served twice as Pakistan's prime minister between 1988 and 1996. She had returned to Pakistan from an eight-year exile Oct. 18. Her homecoming parade in Karachi was also targeted by a suicide attacker, killing more than 140 people. On that occasion she narrowly escaped injury.
The United States had been at the forefront of foreign powers trying to arrange reconciliation between Bhutto and Musharraf, who under heavy U.S. pressure resigned as army chief and earlier this month lifted a state of emergency, in the hope it would put Pakistan back on the road to democracy.
Bhutto's return to the country after years in exile and the ability of her party to contest free and fair elections had been a cornerstone of Bush's policy in Pakistan, where U.S. officials had watched Musharraf's growing authoritarianism with increasing unease.
Those concerns were compounded by the rising threat from al-Qaida and Taliban extremists, particularly in Pakistan's largely ungoverned tribal areas bordering Afghanistan despite the fact that Washington had pumped nearly $10 billion in aid into the country since Musharraf became an indispensible counter-terrorism ally after Sept. 11, 2001.
Irritated by the situation, Congress last week imposed new restrictions on U.S. assistance to Pakistan, including tying $50 million in military aid to State Department assurances that the country is making "concerted efforts" to prevent terrorists from operating inside its borders.
Under the law, which provides a total of $300 million in aid to Pakistan and was signed by President Bush on Wednesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also must guarantee Pakistan is implementing democratic reforms, including releasing political prisoners and restoring an independent judiciary.
The law also prevents any of the funds can be used for cash transfer assistance to Pakistan, but that stipulation had already been adopted by the administration.
Despite the congressional move, Richard Boucher, the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs who had been instrumental in engineering the Bhutto-Musharraf reconciliation, said he had little doubt that the administration would get the money.