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PCO enjoying rare wrestling renaissance
Jan Murphy
Published on: April 3, 2019 | Last Updated: April 3, 2019 1:28 PM EDT
PCO and Brody King. (RING OF HONOR/Joe DeFalco)
The life of a professional athlete follows a pretty standard script. Whether it's that of a hockey player, baseball player, football player, mixed-martial arts star – even a professional wrestler to a degree – their story goes something like this: fall in love with sport at a young age, chase a dream, and through a combination of skill, hard work, timing and good health, then by their 20s, they're plying their trade at the only sport they've ever loved. Then by their mid-30s, they're winding down their amazing careers, followed by retirement.
Of course, there are exceptions and every person's path, different circumstances being what they are, but generally speaking, it's a standard formula.
It's the exceptions that stand out.
There are the Jaromir Jagrs, the Tom Bradys, the Cal Ripken Juniors and the Tiger Woods, those who defy age, who excel well past their primes.
In pro wrestling, there is not a better example of this than current Ring of Honor star, the Canadian-born Pierre Carl Ouellet, commonly known as "PCO."
The native of St. Catharine, Que., is enjoying a renaissance in pro wrestling that is not only rare, but inspiring.
But to fully appreciate PCO's current success, you have to delve into his past to understand just how unlikely it was and how special it.
Ouellet was born Dec. 30, 1967, meaning he'll be 52 years old by the time the calendar turns on 2019.
It wasn't, Ouellet said, until he was a teenager that his infatuation with pro wrestling kicked in.
"I was 14 years old," the current IWGP tag team and ROH World tag team champion said in a telephone interview promoting his appearance at ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. "Right in the Golden Era," he added proudly. After having seen Hulk Hogan appear in Rocky III, Ouellet said he, like so many others, was swept up in Hulkamania.
As a teenager in Quebec, a province rich in wrestling history, Ouellet was able to get a taste of the action thanks to Lutte Internationale, a longtime wrestling promotion that ran out of Montreal. There, Ouellet said, he saw the likes of Rick Martel, the Rougeaus, Dino Bravo, Pat Patterson and many others.
"My big influences were Martel, King Tonga, the Road Warriors," PCO said, adding that the muscular, violent Road Warriors were a huge draw.
But ultimately, PCO said, it was Hulkamania that captured his imagination. "At 14 years old, I knew right then that I wanted to be the next Hulk Hogan of pro wrestling. That was my goal, my dream. That was what I wanted to become."
Exposure to wrestling was not an issue, Ouellet said.
"The history of wrestling in Quebec is so vast, so immense," he said. Ouellet broke into the sport in Montreal, and worked in the Atlantic provinces early on. "I was working every night, seven days a week twice on Sunday in the Maritimes for Emile Dupre."
There, he also got to see the superstars of the future in guys like Randy Savage, Leo Burke and the aforementioned Martel, whom he would later travel with.
"Rick Martel had a huge influence on me," PCO said, adding that he was also blessed to have worked with and become close with the Rougeau brothers, Jacques and Raymond, icons in Quebec. Jacques and Ouellet later formed a very successful tag team in World Wrestling Entertainment.
Ouellet cut his teeth in Eastern Canada and Quebec learning from some of the very best talent Canada has ever produced, all while overcoming not only his greenness in the business, but a language barrier, which proved difficult at times, he said.
He remembers some of the struggles he faced while working the East Coast one summer early in his career.
"The booker at the time was Bulldog Bob Brown," Ouellet said. "I didn't feel like I got along that great with him. My English was really, really poor. I screwed up a lot of spots in the ring because I misunderstood the spots." In those days, you couldn't talk to your opponent at all during matches, good ones on one side of the arena, villains on the other. "It was kind of tough for me. I failed a lot before I was able to take off."
But Ouellet's love for the business, the influences of so many iconic wrestlers, and his hard work and dedication paid off and he began to find success. But it took time. Besides Canada, Ouellet also wrestled in England, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Germany before his big opportunity came.
And while today there are more wrestling companies than ever and the WWE has expanded its developmental system around the globe, Ouellet says there is no substitute for hard work.
"The process is almost the same," he said, "Having a vision and a goal, working hard and and setting a goal every day to grab those smaller goals until you get to a medium goal and get toward your bigger goal. It's a long process."
PCO did concede that it's easier to be seen today, with social media having replaced mailing in tapes and CD-Roms of matches to wrestling companies, but added that while the platform has changed, the effort and need to be different remains the same.
"Back then, it was sending CDs, sending resumes and pictures," he said of early in his career. "You had to be organized. You had to make yourself look as busy as you could. When I was touring in South Africa, I would send packages out of South Africa, if I was touring Puerto Rico, then I was sending packages out of Puerto Rico, if I was touring in England and I wanted to get booked in Germany, I was sending my packages from different places in the world other than the place I was living. I was trying to avoid sending my packages from home because that would make me look like a guy who is not booked anywhere. By the time I got booked in Puerto Rico, I had been so many other places."
Ouellet said sometimes it was necessary to send out as many as 10 packages to get a booking.
"One day, I got a call from Carlos Colon," he recalled, referring to the main promoter in Puerto Rico, a star in his own right. "I couldn't believe it. They're calling me now and asking me if I wanted to fly in the next. I got there and I was working main events with Carlos, with Abdullah the Butcher, with Jose Gonzalez, and it was quite an impressive thing for me as I was still a kid."
If overcoming all the obstacles that pro wrestling in the 1980s could throw at someone weren't enough, Ouellet also had to overcome a physical challenge that few others in the business have faced: he lost an eye as a child.
"I had played a lot of sports when I was a kid .. football, baseball, hockey … so when I got in wrestling, I had already (become accustomed to playing with one eye)."
Ouellet talked openly about the accident that cost him his eye as a child.
"I lost my eye when I was 12 years old," he said, clarifying that he lost the sight in his eye, not the eye itself. "I kept my eye, but it's an eye without the iris, it's an eye without many pieces. It's basically what's left of it."
He recalled playing a game called pickup sticks with friends that fateful day. The game involved using pellet guns to shoot your opponent below the waist before they could retrieve all of the pickup sticks. They'd run out of pellets and were using the sticks themselves, which had rounded ends, Ouellet said.
"I was hiding behind a counter in the kitchen in my house — and my parents weren't home when I got shot," Ouellet said. "I was hiding on my knees and I turned around to shoot my friend, but since I was on my knees, I got it in my eye."
What happened next, Ouellet warned, should be a lesson to anyone out there who suffers a similar injury.
"When I was shot in the eye, I was so surprised, I didn't think it was in my eye, but I pulled out the rounded edge and that caused all of the damage."
His family was mortified.
"It was something I had to overcome," he recalled. "My family was depressed. They were surrounding me at the hospital and they were crying and they were real sad. I was pumping them like, 'No, I'm going to be OK.'"
Unfortunately, pulling the stick out of his eye damaged it beyond repair. The physical and emotional healing that followed was tough, Ouellet admitted.
"Looking at myself in the mirror and going through my childhood, trying to get girlfriends and things like that, it became a little bit of a handicap for me," he admitted. "I became shy."
Rather than being the cool star athlete he knew he could be, Ouellet said, he was the guy with one eye.
"It slowed me down as far as meeting girls, things like that," he said. "For two years, I had to wear my sunglasses to go to school because the wind and the dirt would get in my eye and it would get really red. The first year was really, really tough."
But Ouellet refused to let his injury prevent him from playing the sports he loved.
"I had to fight with the hockey league because they wouldn't let me play because they said it was too dangerous for my health. I had to sign waivers and things like that."
Then there was re-learning how to play sports with only one eye.
"You lose that third dimension," he said. "Especially for football or a baseball coming at you, you're running at the ball thinking you're going to catch it and the ball falls like 20 feet behind you. It took a couple months to adjust my vision and trying to get that depth perception back. I had to work really hard on the craft of doing sports with one eye."
Ouellet continued to play sports and eventually became an independent wrestling star. And then, after eight years of working around the world, living in a caravan, taking cold showers, not knowing from one day to the next where his life would take him, his life changed forever, he got the call to come to the big time, WWE.
Jacques Rougeau brought Ouellet to WWE as his tag team partner; they were The Quebecers. For all intents and purposes, the new team was an overnight hit, winning the tag titles almost immediately after Ouellet joined WWE.
The Quebecers eventually became three-time tag team champs and a headline act.
"A lot the guys were jealous of my spot," Ouellet said. "I pretty much instantly became the new WWF tag team champion for eight months."
And while Ouellet said he was excited to be in WWE and working with Rougeau, it wasn't long before he became disillusioned with the team.
"At first, I was super excited," he said. "But it kind of faded away. I was not happy with the way they were using us." Ouellet grew up a fan of Hogan and the Road Warriors and Demolition, strong, powerful characters, while the Quebecers were portrayed as anything but. "Playing cowards and trying to cheat behind the ref's back and crawling on your knees to your partner and getting that cheap heat, it was too much," he said.
Looking back, Ouellet admitted that he viewed and approached his time in WWE poorly.
"It feels like you're always running after a carrot. When you get that carrot, you think you're going to be happy, but when you get that carrot, there are other problems that come up. And you're never happy."
The unhappiness continued after Rougeau retired (the first of many retirements, as it turned out), facing Ouellet on his way out. PCO was repackaged for a WWE singles career as Jean-Pierre LaFitte, the descendant of a pirate.
Today, in the midst of arguably the greatest work of his career, Ouellet can see where he went wrong.
"My goal was to become the next Hulk Hogan because he's the one who impacted my life," Ouellet said, adding that simply lost sight of that.
"You're making more money but you're not happy. You've got girls waiting for you at the hotel, you feel like a rock star, you feel like you're someone … but you lose your sense of humility. You start to think that maybe you're better than others. You start to believe that now that you're a celebrity, now that you're famous, that you're on TV and that you're making money … you lose sight of what made you make it there and your focus."
That, he said, applied to his life both inside and outside of the ring.
"You still have that focus where you want to be the next Hulk Hogan but you not doing what you have to do to be the next Hulk Hogan," he said. "You're not in the gym at 6 a.m., you're not in the bed after a show, you're not in bed on your nights off, when you're back home and you have days off, you're going out. You fall into that trap. Eventually, you kind of drift away from your goals and then things start to go wrong."
Ouellet said he simply wasn't mature enough to see it that way back then.
"You feel it's unfair. It becomes such a negative environment that everything starts to go wrong and bad things happen."
Ouellet was released by WWE in 1995. He joined rival World Championship Wrestling in 1996, returned briefly to WWE in 1998 and by the year 2000, was back to working the independent scene. In 2011, he retired (or so he thought) after a nearly a quarter century in the business.
The years that followed offered Ouellet a chance to reflect. In that time he came to understand and acknowledge the mistakes he made along the way.
"When you're young, you're ego driven," Ouellet said. "As you grow older, it becomes a must-do situation for yourself, to prove to yourself that you're capable of doing something, not to prove that you're better than others, but for yourself. There was a lot of working on myself, trying to figure out what went wrong. You start to blame yourself for your failures and you stop blaming others. That's the biggest step that I made in the resurgence of my career."
By then, he said, he'd run out of places to work, as well.
"I came to the conclusion that all the doors that I had opened, they had all closed on me," he said.
It was only after leaving the business that he began to understand what had happened, and to work on fixing himself.
"I just had to let go a little bit," he said. "It took a few years before I saw a chance, a good chance. I kept on working on myself, doing things that were going to improve my game. The dream had always stayed there. Even though it was in the back of my mind, I wanted this so hard and so bad for all of my life. I had so many failures and so many setbacks and trials and rough times, getting fired a lot for different reasons that sometimes I couldn't even put my finger on it."
He could have simply given up. No one would have blamed him. And no one could take away all he had accomplished in more than two decades in the business. But, just as he had overcome losing his vision at the age of 12, Ouellet set out to prove to himself once again that he wasn't finished in pro wrestling.
"I kept on working on myself to have better thoughts and better words and a better way of thinking," he said. "To become a better human being, a better version of myself, the highest version of myself that I could become."
Ouellet's journey freed him from the constraints of what could have been and led him to the place where he thought instead about what could still be. And at more than 50 years of age, PCO, as he's now known, reinvented himself and his wrestling persona.
After resurfacing in the independent scene, Ouellet said he was spotted during a Hannibal online TV appearance and it eventually led to a booking at Joey Janela's Spring Break 2, where he faced Austrian behemoth Walter.
While prepping for that match, which he won, PCO developed a French Frankenstein-like character that he debuted in a series of bizarre YouTube videos in which he would be shocked, lit on fire or various other acts of torture. They were instantly a hit.
Since then, PCO has continued to develop the character and become one of the hottest independent talents in all of wrestling, signing an exclusive contract with Ring of Honor late in 2018, when he turned 51.
PCO admitted that he's particularly proud of the fact that not only has he resurrected his wrestling career, but he did so on his own terms, and with a fresh approach.
"This character is not running on nostalgia, he's not running on an old gimmick," he said. "He's running on a new character that is getting over on social media, which is the new way of doing things. We're onto something big. I'm getting close to where I've always wanted to be."
This weekend, that will be on a stacked card that will take over the famed Madison Square Garden in New York, as Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling combine to present G1 Supercard.
There, PCO and Brody King defend their IWGP tag team and ROH World tag team championships in a winner-take-all fourway tag team match against Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tango Loa), Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil and Sanada) and Jay and Mark Briscoe.
Being featured on card that boasts many of the top wrestling talents in the world is both daunting and inspring, PCO said, adding that his goal is to steal the show.
"Expect the unexpected," he said. "That's what's going to happen. It's going to be insane. I'm so proud being a part of Ring of Honor, at Madison Square Garden."
And though it may be closer to the end of his career than the beginning, PCO said he still hasn't stopped chasing that Hulk Hogan dream.
"It's damn close to that goal … sold out show at Madison Square Garden," he said.
But even better this time around, Ouellet said, is that he's living in the moment and more at peace than he's ever been.
"I'm so happy," he said. "Every time I take off for a tour, I have got my suitcase, my carry-on with me at the airport and I'm thanking God. I'm thankful for living my goals and my dreams. It makes me so happy. Everybody in my family and my entourage, they see how happy I am and it makes them happy in a way. It's good to feel like that.
"I embrace everything."
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What: Ring of Honor & New Japan Pro Wrestling present G1 Supercard.
When: Saturday, April 6.
Where: Madison Square Garden in New York City.
What time: Live at 7:30e/4:30p on traditional pay-per-view and streaming FREE for all HonorClub members. HonorClub content can be streamed via the ROH and FITE apps and at ROHHonorClub.com.
Tickets: Sold out.
https://www.rohwrestling.com/live/events/4619-g1-supercard-new-york-ny
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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
GDPR and HCL Commerce
HCL Commerce provides documentation and functions that your organization can use to help it on the journey to GDPR readiness. If your store operates within the European Union (EU), sells products or services to those people in the EU, or monitors the behavior of EU data subjects, your site likely needs to be GDPR compliant from May 25, 2018.
Privacy and consent
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Consent management refers to the process of obtaining consent from shoppers to collect and process their personal and behavior data.HCL Commerce provides a combination of store pages, content, and business user functions that your organization can use to customize your store to request and obtain consent from shoppers. For instance, your store can request and obtain consent from shoppers for collecting and processing personal and behavior data from the shoppers, such as for marketing purposes.
Store pages for requesting and obtaining consent
(Business user) Add the Privacy Policy content that is provided by the Data Protection Officer as e-Marketing Spot content.
HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
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Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
Migrating
Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration. During the migration process, you can also upgrade editions.
Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
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HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
Privacy policy acceptance
Privacy policy acceptance refers to the process of informing shoppers about the privacy details for your site and prompting shoppers to accept the privacy policy. HCL Commerce provides a combination of sample store pages, content, and business user functions to help your organization create the privacy policy pages for your store. Your organization can use the pages as a method to inform your shoppers about the privacy policy details for your site and to prompt shoppers to agree to your policy when they first visit the store. If needed, you can use the privacy policy pages to request and obtain consent from shoppers for collecting and processing personal and behavior data from the shoppers, such as for marketing purposes.
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(Business user) Enable shoppers to opt-in or opt-out of having their shopping behavior tracked.
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Right to erasure, in accordance with the GDPR, is the right for an individual to require that their personal data is deleted when the individual requests it. To help support this requirement, HCL Commerce provides a set of SQL queries. If your site uses custom tables or columns to store personal data, customize the queries as needed. It is your responsibility to define a GDPR-compliant process for handling right to erasure requests.
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If you are including a privacy policy page or just-in time privacy policy notice within your custom store, create the content that needs to display on the pages.
If you are copying and using the sample privacy policy pages that are provided with the Aurora store, replace the sample content with your store's privacy policy content. The content that is included on the store pages is provided as a sample only for demonstrating how to display content on the page. Do not use this content as-is within your custom store.
Your organization is responsible for ensuring that any sample page that your store uses is customized to disclose the correct information to your shoppers. Your organization is also responsible for ensuring that your legal counsel has completed any required reviews of your store pages and privacy policy.
A Privacy Policy page
The main Privacy Policy page is a store page that is always accessible by shoppers of the default Aurora store by clicking a link within the footer of any other store page. The Privacy Policy page is intended for the display of the privacy policy details for the store.
A Just-in-Time Privacy Policy page
The page does not display by default. You can enable the page to display with the Store Management tool in Management Center for an environment.
The Just-in-Time Privacy Policy page is displayed as a pop-up window when a shopper first visits any store page after the display of the Just-in-Time Privacy Policy page is enabled. The page is displayed to shoppers again whenever the store privacy policy is changed. The page is also displayed when a shopper visits the store with a browser that does not include the cookie that indicates that the shopper previously accepted the current privacy policy.
A Registration page
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If a shopper provides consent, the registration data that is captured on the page can be used for adding the shopper to customer segments and for targeting the shopper with precision marketing features. For example, you can use gender and birthday field data to build customer segments, and then personalize marketing messages based on gender and age.
A Personal Information page
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If a shopper provides consent, the personal data that is entered on the page can be used for adding the shopper to customer segments and for targeting the shopper with precision marketing features.

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The New Kid (Hardcover)
By Mavis Jukes
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 9780375858796, 288pp.
Paperback (12/11/2012)
Newbery Honor Award—winning author Mavis Jukes is back with a lovable new character named Carson. His father moves him to a new town in Northern California, where he'll be the new kid in class—friendless and alone, except for his beloved stuffed moose (named Moose, of course). As Carson settles into his new surroundings, a series of delightful mishaps start to occur: the class pet, a rat named Mr. Nibblenose, gets lost to surprising results; the culprit of a mysterious lunch theft might actually be something that's not human at all; and when his beloved Moose goes missing, Carson makes his first new non-stuffed animal friend. Told with childlike charm and wit, The New Kid is perfect for newly independent readers.
MAVIS JUKES is the award-winning author of several books for children and teenagers, including the picture books No One is Going to Nashville, Blackberries in the Dark, I'll See You in My Dreams, You're A Bear, and Like Jake and Me, which earned a Newbery Honor Award. Other titles include several nonfiction books in a series for adolescents, including Be Healthy! It's A Girl Thing: Food, Fitness and Feeling Great, cowritten by Lilian Cheung, DSc.
Mavis taught school for several years, then became a lawyer before writing her first book for children. She recently returned to the classroom full-time, currently teaching computer class to 900 enthusiastic students in three different public schools a week. It is from this job that she has drawn inspiration for the ideas and antics featured in The New Kid.
Mavis lives with her husband, the artist Robert Hudson, in Sonoma County, California. They share their small ranch with four cats, a dog, numerous hawks, owls, raccoons, opossoms, skunks, and other mysterious critters whose eyes twinkle in the dark. Mavis and Bob are the parents of four children, all artists.
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Q: Non-existent Excel Worksheet, but Formulas and Defined names still work? I have an Excel file that is referencing a non-existent worksheet. But the formulas and stuff still work just like nothing is broken (no "#REF" appear). How is this possible?
E.g. Worksheet A! has a VLOOKUP formula referencing a Defined Name in Worksheet B! which is a table range. Except Worksheet B! is nowhere to be found. Yet, the formula still works even as other variables in the formula are updated.
Some additional info:
1) All workbook / worksheet / macros are unprotected
2) There are no hidden worksheets
3) When you open the VBA editor, under MS Excel Objects, the other "ghost" worksheets appear. If you right click on them, you can "View Code". But "View object" option is blanked out. But there are no VBA code for these "ghost" worksheets
4) When you open name manager, the defined names still show Worksheet B! as if it was still there and nothing was wrong.
Anyone knows how this happened?

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Posted on June 29, 2019 by jgood
From the National Post:
A century after the Treaty of Versailles, its anniversary passes largely unobserved
The treaty that formally ended the First World War was widely seen as a failure, but to forget about it is to risk romanticizing the war
One hundred Junes ago, the world had a go at ensuring peace for Europe. Heads of state convened in a palace in the suburbs of Paris and tried to resolve 51 months of war. One of the products of the meeting, the Treaty of Versailles, is now treated as a failure.
"I think that Versailles is tinged almost forever with this kind of air of disillusionment and sorrow that all that suffering didn't lead to something more conclusive and inspiring," says Ian McKay, director of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University. "So maybe that's why we're not celebrating the anniversary."
June 28 marks the centennial of the signing of the treaty, the document that formally ended the First World War. It was a product of the Paris Peace Conference, which also created the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations. The treaty focused on Germany, to which it assigned new borders and — most controversially — blame for the war.
Other centenaries of the Great War have attracted great ceremony. For the Armistice in November 2018 and the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined other world leaders in France.
The prime minister is not marking the anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles; his office says Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will post about it on social media. The lack of celebration could be explained by the treaty's failures. It is criticized for being too harsh on Germany and contributing to its aggression in the 1930s and '40s. The treaty also did not prevent wars in the Balkans, Turkey and Eastern Ukraine. Still, some historians urge people to remember the treaty not so much to learn from it as to prevent them from romanticizing the war's legacy.
"What Versailles really did was humiliate Germany," says McKay. "I really appreciate people who want to say, 'Okay, thank goodness our boys died for something heroic and noble, and the world is a better place as a result of it.' I would really love to believe that, but when you look soberly at the history of the 20th century, maybe 90 million deaths caused as a direct application of warfare, it's hard for me to draw that optimistic conclusion."
Tragic or not, the Treaty deserves to be remembered.
Normally the Canadian media never misses an opportunity to play up the Canadian angle, and I'm surprised that this article did not mention Canada's participation at the Paris Peace Conference. From Wikipedia's entry on Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden:
Convinced that Canada had become a nation on the battlefields of Europe, Borden demanded that it have a separate seat at the Paris Peace Conference. This was initially opposed not only by Britain but also by the United States, who perceived such a delegation as an extra British vote. Borden responded by pointing out that since Canada had lost a far larger proportion of its men compared to the U.S. in the war (although not more in absolute numbers), Canada at least had the right to the representation of a "minor" power. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George eventually relented, and convinced the reluctant Americans to accept the presence of separate Canadian, Indian, Australian, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South African delegations. Despite this, Borden boycotted the opening ceremony, protesting at the precedence given to the prime minister of the much smaller Newfoundland over him.
Not only did Borden's persistence allow him to represent Canada in Paris as a nation, it also ensured that each of the dominions could sign the Treaty of Versailles in its own right, and receive a separate membership in the League of Nations. During the conference Borden tried to act as an intermediary between the United States and other members of the British Empire delegation, particularly Australia and New Zealand over the issue of Mandates. Borden also discussed with Lloyd George, the possibility of Canada taking over the administration of Belize and the West Indies, but no agreement was reached.
At Borden's insistence, the treaty was ratified by the Canadian Parliament.
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Congratulations to Prof. Kenneth Wheeler and his students in IDS 317, whose article, "Black Student Experiences in the Racial Integration of Reinhardt College, 1966-1972," published this spring in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, has won the 2019 John C. Inscoe Award. From Reinhardt's Jordan Beach:
"I am surprised and thrilled to hear the news that I and my students have been awarded the John Inscoe Award by the Georgia Historical Society for the best article to appear in the Georgia Historical Quarterly in 2018," said Wheeler, professor of history. "I'm so proud of my hard-working students. The award is a happy reminder of how talented our Reinhardt students are, and what a wonderful course we had together that led to the article."
The award honors the legacy of Dr. John Inscoe, an editor of GHQ from 1989-2000, a professor at the University of Georgia and a mentor for historians in the South. The award presents the authors with a framed certificate and a $500 cash prize.
Wheeler previously co-authored articles published in GHQ in 2009 and 2013, however, this is the first time an article received an award.
"We were delighted to have that article accepted by and, after review by a number of historians, published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly. Winning this award from the Georgia Historical Society is the cherry on top," Wheeler said.
The publication and award are just several of many examples that showcases the benefits of Reinhardt University's low student-professor ratio.
"In a multitude of ways, Reinhardt professors provide opportunities for our students to go above and beyond," said Wheeler. "This article and the John Inscoe Award are just one manifestation of how our students seek excellent educational experiences at Reinhardt."
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History In and Out of the Classroom
From The Federalist:
Americans have a hunger to understand, explore, and connect with their history. Richly sourced, intellectually demanding accounts of the country's defining moments and characters do more than break through the noise.
Indeed, historians are probably the scholars most celebrated outside the confines of the academy. They are among the few who shape our cultural landscape—from a place of learning. As though to prove the point, Chernow's 832-page 2005 biography of Alexander Hamilton, also a New York Times best-seller, inspired the most talked-about Broadway musical in a generation. Only on the American college campus is American history on retreat.
How strange it is that U.S. colleges and universities are abandoning the study of American history and, at some institutions, the study of history altogether. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni evaluates the general education programs of more than 1,100 colleges and universities every year. The 2018–19 report found that only 17 percent of them required any kind of foundational course in American history or government. As of 2016, only four out of the top 25 national universities (as ranked by U.S. News and World Report) required a course in U.S. history in their history majors.
In this light, it is perhaps unsurprising that history programs in the United States are struggling to generate student interest. When the American Historical Association drew attention to cratering undergraduate degree production last year—the number of history degrees awarded annually has fallen almost 34 percent since 2011, more steeply than any other discipline in the liberal arts.
This is true even at my alma mater Dartmouth College, where I attended my 25th reunion last weekend.
Previous thoughts on the matter.
UPDATE: This is the 1000th post published on FFT since the blog's inception in September 2014!
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Crusading
• Philip Jenkins reviews Jay Rubenstein's Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History (OUP, 2019)
By their own lights, the Crusades were remarkably successful. In a series of military struggles that had the church's blessing, armed expeditions extended and reinforced the influence of Latin Catholic Christianity and of the Catholic Church. They conquered Muslim kingdoms in Spain and Sicily, subjugated pagan realms in the Baltic lands, and smashed heretical movements in southern France. For each outburst of militant zeal, warriors expected to receive all the spiritual benefits they would have received had they traveled to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, however, was the Crusades' one region of conspicuous failure. Christian forces could hold neither that holy city nor the territorial footholds they had secured throughout the Levant. In a brilliant and thoughtful book, Jay Rubenstein shows how that exception proved important to Latin Christian Europe and traces the legacy of that searing disappointment.
See Steve Donoghue's review also.
• According to French forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier, King Louis IX died on crusade in 1270, not on account of dysentery, but on account of scurvy:
Caused by a lack of vitamin C, the painful and potentially fatal disease was the scourge of sailors until the turn of the 19th century.
While the local food in Tunisia where the Eighth Crusade landed in 1270 contained lots of vitamin-C rich salads and citrus fruit, the crusaders' meat-heavy diet and Saint Louis' extreme piety appears to have been his undoing.
"His diet wasn't very balanced," said Charlier… "He put himself through all manner of penances, and fasting. Nor was the crusade as well prepared as it should have been," he told AFP.
"They did not take water with them or fruit and vegetables."
More at the link.
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History graduate Hannah Mayo Harris '13 writes: "This is coming a few days late, but I am so humbled and honored to be recognized by Fellowship of Christian Athletes women's ministry and Mandy Ledford, who is one of the most loving, awesome, kind, Godly people I have had the pleasure of knowing. I am so glad that God knows what he is doing (far more than I know) because he placed me in career at a school with a program that was exactly where I needed to be. I have been blessed with the very best girls on the planet to coach since I have been at Murray High School, and I am so fortunate to have been surrounded by them! Coaching and walking with God is all about relationships, and I try to demonstrate the importance of those daily. It was even more special to have Jordan speak about me. I pray I get to continue to coach/influence, demonstrate unconditional love and grace, and to help girls find their strength as well as to root their identities in something solid for many more years to come."
Well done, Hannah!
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Posted on June 6, 2019 by jgood
A post in commemoration of a significant event that took place 75 years ago today.
Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia: "A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of Company E became casualties."
Posted in Anniversaries, World War Two
Thirty years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party massacred thousands of student protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The most iconic photograph of the event was taken by American photographer Jeff Widener the next day.
The soldiers driving the tanks were not so evil that they were prepared to run over the protestor, but the man was spirited away and has never been seen since.
For many other photographs of that fateful day follow this link from Business Insider. It deserves to be remembered, especially given how China, and its Western flunkies, have tried assiduously to throw the whole thing down the memory hole.
When they do acknowledge its existence, they will say, well, we were right to crack down. China has a history of revolutions starting from seemingly innocuous events (e.g. the Railway Rights Protection Movement), and the students of 1989 were allegedly trying to do the same thing. So by asserting its authority, the CCP maintained the regime, which could then institute reforms on its own terms and its own schedule, setting up China to be the economic juggernaut it is today. Compare this to the rest of the formerly Communist world, particularly Russia, which was looted by oligarchs (in cahoots with the Harvard Boys), and even now is in demographic free fall, with much less global influence than it once had.
There is something to be said for this critique.
But real countries don't massacre their own citizens.
Posted in Anniversaries, Atrocity, China, Communism, Twentieth Century
The Hunt for Silver
Posted on May 31, 2019 by jgood
From Priceonomics (hat tip: Instapundit), a bit of interesting business history:
Until his dying day in 2014, Nelson Bunker Hunt, who had once been the world's wealthiest man, denied that he and his brother plotted to corner the global silver market.
Sure, back in 1980, Bunker, his younger brother Herbert, and other members of the Hunt clan owned roughly two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. But the historic stockpiling of bullion hadn't been a ploy to manipulate the market, they and their sizable legal team would insist in the following years. Instead, it was a strategy to hedge against the voracious inflation of the 1970s—a monumental bet against the U.S. dollar.
Whatever the motive, it was a bet that went historically sour. The debt-fueled boom and bust of the global silver market not only decimated the Hunt fortune, but threatened to take down the U.S. financial system.
The panic of "Silver Thursday" took place over 35 years ago, but it still raises questions about the nature of financial manipulation. While many view the Hunt brothers as members of a long succession of white collar crooks, from Charles Ponzi to Bernie Madoff, others see the endearingly eccentric Texans as the victims of overstepping regulators and vindictive insiders who couldn't stand the thought of being played by a couple of southern yokels.
In either case, the story of the Hunt brothers just goes to show how difficult it can be to distinguish illegal market manipulation from the old fashioned wheeling and dealing that make our markets work.
More at the link. Stephen Green comments that: "Anyone 'smart' enough to try to get rich cornering the market for a natural resource ought to have a long talk with these guys. In the long run, it never works, as high prices cause people to find substitutes or new sources."
Posted in Business History, Commerce, Twentieth Century, United States
Hermits and Anchorites
Mary Wellesley in the London Review of Books revisits a distinctive aspect of medieval piety:
The cell was the size of a large cupboard. There wasn't enough room to lie down. I'd come late on a winter afternoon; the light was seeping away. What light there was came through the 'squint' – the small window that looked onto the sanctuary. It was a cruciform shape and through it I could see a single candle standing on the altar. I turned on the torch on my phone. In front of the squint was an oak shelf with a dark circle on its edge where the wood had been rubbed smooth. Above it was a notice that read: 'Please put nothing on the ancient sill. This was the prayer-desk of the anchorites for several centuries.' I knelt in front of it. If the floor had been at the same height in the medieval period, the desk would have been too high for an anchorite to rest their elbows on. Had the indentation been made by pairs of hands gripping the edge of the ledge? I wondered at those pairs of hands. This cell had been a coffin to its inhabitants – once inside, they were never to come out. They may have been buried beneath my feet, in this tiny anchorhold in the church of St Nicholas in the village of Compton in Surrey.
An anchorite or anchoress permanently encloses themselves in a cell to live a life of prayer and contemplation. The word comes from the Greek ἀναχωρεῖν ('anachorein') meaning 'to retire or retreat'. Anchoritism emerged in the late 11th century in tandem with a monastic reform movement and a growth in spiritual enthusiasm that is sometimes referred to as the Medieval Reformation. In the Middle Ages in England, as elsewhere in Europe, the practice was not uncommon – there were around a hundred recluses across the country in the 12th century; over the 13th century, the figure increased to two hundred. Women significantly outnumbered men, by as much as three to one.
I came out of the church into the empty churchyard. Except for the sound of passing cars, I was alone. The anchorites who had lived in the cell probably rarely felt that. Anchorites withdrew from the world in one sense, but anchored to their church, they were at the centre of community life. Anchorholds were often situated in prominent places in medieval English towns – sometimes along the routes of liturgical processions. In London there were many cells along the old city walls. As Claire Dowding has noted, they formed a 'ring of prayer' encircling the capital.
Life as an anchoress began with a death. On entering their cell for the first time, the recludensus (novice recluse) would climb into a grave dug inside the cell. The enclosure ritual is a piece of macabre high drama. In places the liturgy is indistinguishable from a funeral service. When the moment for enclosure arrived, the anchoress-to-be would process with the celebrant, choir and others out of the church and into the graveyard, as the choir sang 'In paradisum deducant te angeli' – traditionally sung as a body is conveyed to a grave. The procession would arrive at the cell built onto the side of the church, usually – in England – on the north side, where the wind was most biting and no direct sunlight fell. Some ordines (liturgical directions) state that the recludensus should pause at the opening of the cell and the bishop should say, 'Si vult intrare, intret' ('if he/she wishes to go in, allow him/her to go in'). An antiphon drawn from the Book of Tobias was sung, concluding with the words, 'Be of good courage, thy desire from God is at hand.' The anchoress would then climb into the grave, where she was sprinkled with earth – ashes to ashes, dust to dust – and the door of the cell was bolted.
Posted in Books, Christianity, Church History, England, Middle Ages
Pleased to learn that Reinhardt history major Caleb Land '06 was named Teacher of the Year at Utopian Academy for the Arts Charter School, where he teaches social studies.
The photo shows Caleb with his wife Emily Land '06, who writes that he "has been accepted to the University of Georgia and already started on his Masters Program, and this Sunday was installed as a Pastor at our church."
Wonderful news – congratulations, Caleb!
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IMAM Ro.5, také někdy označovaný jako Romeo Ro.5, byl sportovně-turistický a cvičný hornoplošník vyráběný italskou společností Industrie Meccaniche Aeronautiche Meridionali (IMAM) na konci 20. let. Přestože se jednalo o letadlo určené pro civilní letectví, bylo v malém počtu následně použito jako spojovací a výcvikové letadlo v italském královském letectvu Regia Aeronautica.

Vznik a vývoj
Neapolská společnost s názvem O.F.M. (Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali) byla založena v roce 1927. Hned první letoun z této společnosti Romeo Ro.1 byl velmi úspěšný. Po výrobě 227 letadel Romeo Ro.1 postavila i 72 dvojplošníků Ro.1bis. Krátce na to byla společnost reorganizována na I.M.A.M. (Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche Meridionali).

V roce 1928 italské Ministerstvo letectví zadalo specifikaci pro stavbu lehkých letadel, která mají být použita jako základní výcvikové stroje pro letecké školy. Vyhlášené soutěže se zúčastnily téměř všechny italské letecké společnosti, mj. Breda Ba.15, Caproni Ca.100 a přestože letoun IMAM Ro.5 nebyl vítězem soutěže, dosáhl v únoru 1929 při srovnávacích testech velmi uspokojivých výsledků. I proto byla tato letadla později vyráběna ve velkém množství.

Na jaře 1929 byl letoun vystaven na letecké výstavě v Miláně a ve dnech 16.-27. července 1929 letoun s imatrikulací I-FIDO byl vystaven v pařížské Olympii na aerosalonu. Zprvu byly montovány sedmiválcové vzduchem chlazené hvězdicové motory Walter NZ-85 (1926) o nominálním výkonu 63 kW (85 k), později o něco slabší italské motory Fiat A.50 (1928) s výkonem 80 k (60 kW).

Inovovaný typ IMAM Ro.5 bis (1930) měl prosklenou kabinu.

Popis letounu
Jednalo se o dvoumístný jednomotorový turistický a výcvikový hornoplošník s pevným podvozkem. Křídlo bylo umístěno nad kokpitem a s trupem bylo spojeno trubkovou konstrukcí (vzpěrami). Křídlo (výztuže z duralu) a trup byly vyrobeny ze dřeva a potaženy plátnem. Trup obdélníkového průřezu byl vyroben ze svařovaných ocelových trubek a látkového potahu. Kabina byla dvoumístná, vpředu seděl cestující a za ním byl kokpit pilota. Dvoukolový podvozek byl dělený, zatímco ocasní ostruha byla tvořena listovým pérem (pružina). Křídlo bylo dělené a obě poloviny byly sklopné směrem vzad. V křídle byly umístěny dvě palivové nádrže.

Dvoulistá pevná vrtule byla ze dřeva. Motorové lože bylo konzolového typu v přední části trupu. Za motorovou přepážkou byla vlastní kabina. Obdobně, jak bylo v té době zvykem u ostatních vyráběných letounů, bylo na letoun Ro.5 možné na přání zákazníka instalovat různé typy motorů. Hlavně se využívaly na radiální motory Fiat A.50 s výkonem 80 k (60 kW) a československé motory Walter NZ-85 s výkonem 85 k (63 kW).

Uživatelé

 Regia Aeronautica
 civilní aerokluby (např. Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali, Aero Club 'G Miraglia, Aerocentro da Turismo/Taliedo, Aeroturismo /Milano, RUNA)
  (letoun původní imatrikulace I-FOFO byl 21.7.1930 zapsán jako M-CAAL, později EC-AAL, nepřežil španělskou občanskou válku, vymazán 12.11.1940)
 Španělské letectvo
  (letoun původní imatrikulace I-AAVF byl 19.3.1932 zapsán jako G-ABVD)

Specifikace
Údaje dle

Technické údaje

 Osádka: 2 (pilot, cestující)
 Rozpětí: 10,00 m
 Délka: 6,94 m
 Výška: 2,16 m
 Nosná plocha: 16,00 m2
 Plošné zatížení: 42,50 kg/m2
 Hmotnost prázdného letadla: 400 kg
 Vzletová hmotnost: 680 kg
 Pohonná jednotka:
 hvězdicový vzduchem chlazený sedmiválcový motor Fiat A.50 s nominálním výkonem 80 k (60 kW)
 hvězdicový vzduchem chlazený sedmiválcový motor Walter NZ-85 s nominálním výkonem 85 k (62,5 kW) při 1400 ot/min
 Vrtule: pevná dřevěná vrtule

Výkony

 Cestovní rychlost: 150 km/h
 Max. rychlost: 175 km/hod
 Přistávací rychlost: 65 km/h
 Praktický dostup: 4000 m
 Dolet: 1000 km
 Vytrvalost: 6,5 h

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura

 TAYLOR, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. str. 768.,
 Italian Aircraft 1920-1929: Italian Airliners 1920-1929, Italian Civil Utility Aircraft 1920-1929, Italian Experimental Aircraft 1920-1929. (2010), LLC Books, s. 204, ,

Související články

 Walter NZ-85

Externí odkazy

  IMAM Ro. 5 na cmpr.it
  IMAM Ro. 5 na aviadejavu.ru

Ro.5
Italská průzkumná letadla
Italská cvičná letadla

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"Trees make good messengers/ in both directions."
would have been born here.
Could tell a Dublin car from a Tip.
words together for a plot: where, because.
and the short of it.
like a book. Spine cracked.
in the field. Looking at the sky.
an owl called. Eerily an owl. My first Irish.
The story way. The way here.
grow on trees. Where's she from?
Prayers can be to. They can also be of.
the sea'd get in here somewhere.
Inlets.) It's an island. He can't swim.
Then invented block prints for faster copies.
Two short stories don't make a long one.
(You say everything twice.) Not everything.
(More than twice.) There are reasons.
--no, listen to—the telly. It speaks English.
and bees. Now we walk in the road.
or a song? Anybody join in.
and let bees walk on him. Their feet were cold.
he and I sing later, in the car.
sprayed a blue that brightens the dun fields.
with an identity. Country, county, field.
How successfully I am neither here nor there.
With him and not. With her.
Hay in black plastic cubes or cylinders.
private prayer and public address.
standing, afield. A sign of.
Air: two angels holding gospel books.
scrutinized by two cats with mice on their backs.
The Book of Kells looked grimy in the dim light.
The cost of memory. Cost of prayer.
Water: an otter with a fish in its mouth.
the form of her speaking.
in the sun. Antenna glistening above it.
Something about its being spoken, you know.
The timing, the timbre, the presence of a voice.
how many wars? Has held its place.
Orthography changed by fiat. Whose.
Not everyone does what everyone does.
as it flows. The Liffey in a jar. The Charles.
is that? Someone made up, make believe.
Western coast again, a room above the rocky edge.
green. Cows low, now and then a dog barks.
Wait. Try again. The waves.
No, the sea is oily, bread sour.
various and vast and anonymous.


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Antigen-binding lymphocyte receptors.
Published 1970 by Munksgaard in København .
Lymphocytes -- Reactors.,
Antigen-antibody reactions.
Includes bibliographies.
Series Transplantation Reviews,, v. 5
LC Classifications QR182 .A56
Pagination 166 p.
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Lymphocyte antigen receptors are multiprotein complexes made up of variable antigen-binding chains and invariant chains that transmit the signal that antigen has bound. The cytoplasmic tails of the invariant chains contain amino acid motifs called ITAMs, each possessing two tyrosine residues, that are targeted by receptor-associated protein Author: Charles A Janeway, Paul Travers, Mark Walport, Mark J Shlomchik.
Additional Physical Format: Online version: Antigen-binding lymphocyte receptors. København, Munksgaard, (OCoLC) Document Type: Book. Lymphocyte antigen receptors, in the form of immunoglobulins on B cells and T-cell receptors on T cells, are the means by which lymphocytes sense the presence of antigens in their environment.
The receptors produced by each lymphocyte have a unique antigen specificity, which is determined by the structure of their antigen-binding site, as described in Chapter by: T and B Lymphocytes: Recognition and Function is the 16th volume of the ICN-UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology.
This book is organized into seven sections, encompassing 74 chapters that summarize molecular level progress in the field of immunobiology. Abstract. Antigen-binding lymphocyte receptors.
book concept that activation of immunocompetent cells by antigen depends upon the presence of specific antigen-binding receptors on the cell surface has been central to immunologic theory since it was originally proposed by Paul Ehrlich ().Cited by: Start studying Antigens, Receptors, and Lymphocytes.
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. -has an antigen binding site. MHC I-expressed by all nucleated cells -each mature lymphocyte will possess a single antigen receptor specifically+ gene segments.
Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs) CAR T-cells are produced by genetically engineering an antigen-binding cell surface scFv into cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Costimulatory molecules including CD28, BB, OX40 fused internally to the scFv can enhance the function and persistence of second-generation CAR T cells during the tumoricidal process.
A T-cell receptor (TCR) has only one antigen-binding site, and is composed of two chains, each possessing two respective domains, a Variable-region (V) domain, and Constant-region (C) domain. The alpha and beta chains are joined by a disulfide bond between their stalk segments which extend through the transmembrane region connect to the.
The B-cell receptor (BCR) is composed of immunoglobulin molecules that form a type 1 transmembrane receptor protein usually located on the outer surface of a lymphocyte type known as B cells.
Through biochemical signaling and by physically acquiring antigens from the immune synapses, the BCR controls the activation of the B cell. B cells are able to gather and grab. Introduction to Immunology Antigen Receptors and Generation of Antibody and T-Cell Receptor Diversity Antigen-binding lymphocyte receptors.
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At the single-cell level, however, both B and T lymphocytes express antigen-binding receptors with extreme restriction (Raff et al., ; Binz and Wigzell, a).
It would seem likely that in fact all receptors for antigen on a single B (Raff et al., ) or T Antigen-binding lymphocyte receptors. book and Wigzell, a) lymphocyte express the same antigen-binding by: The T-cell receptor (TCR) is a protein complex found on the surface of T cells, or T lymphocytes, that is responsible for recognizing fragments of antigen as peptides bound to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules.
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Clonal selection is the process of antigen binding only to those T cells that have receptors specific to that antigen.
Each T cell that is activated has a specific receptor "hard-wired" into its DNA, and all of its progeny will have identical DNA and T cell receptors, forming clones of the original T cell.
Antigen binding is composed of one constant and one variable domain of each of the heavy and the light chain, and these domains shape the antigen binding site.
Recent studies on the structure of the B cell antigen receptor demonstrate that the membrane-bound and antigen-binding immunoglobulin molecules are noncovalently associated with a heterodimer of two novel transmembrane proteins.
The B cell antigen receptor is thus a multicomponent receptor complex whose structural features are similar to those of the T cell Cited by: As in B-cell maturation, the process of T-cell maturation includes random rearrangements of a series of gene segments that encode the cell's antigen-binding receptor (see Chapter 9).
Each T lymphocyte cell expresses about receptors, and all of the receptors on the cell and its clonal progeny have identical specificity for antigen. Antigen Receptors Both B cells and T cells have surface receptors for cell has thousands of receptors of a single specificity; that is, with a binding site for a particular epitope.
T-cell receptors (TCRs) enable the cell to bind to and, if additional signals are present, to be activated by and respond to an epitope presented by another cell called the antigen. Lymphocyte antigen receptors B cell antigen receptor is a membrane-bound antibody, i.e.
surface immunoglobulin which binds intact antigens; recognises surface of protein, therefore antigen must be in native conformation. Here are the various kinds of lymphocytes: B cells (B lymphocytes) are lymphocytes that originate and mature in the bone antigen receptors of B cells bind to freely circulating antigens.
When B cells encounter antigens that bind to their antigen binding sites, the B cells proliferate, producing two kinds of daughter cells, plasma cells and memory cells. An antigen binding signal at the membrane results in the mature B lymphocyte changing its. antigen-binding specificity.
color. Ig V-D-J gene rearrangement. gene expression. signal transduction molecules. Signal transduction is the process of converting. a B cell to a T cell. a binding signal to a chemical signal. The first step of B cell maturation is an assessment of the functionality of their antigen-binding receptors.
This occurs through positive selection for B cells with normal functional receptors. A mechanism of negative selection is then used to eliminate self-reacting B cells and minimize the risk of autoimmunity.
Variability of the antigen-binding regions is required for the specificity of antibodies for antigens. Thus, it is the Fab region of an antibody that provides a specific site for bonding with a particular antigen (fig. B lymphocytes have antibodies on their plasma membrane that serve as receptors for antigens.
Clonal selection The fundamental basis of lymphocyte activation in which antigen selectively causes activation, division and differentiation only in those cells which express receptors with which it can combine.
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Upon antigen binding to a B cell receptor, a signal is sent into the B cell to turn on an immune response. Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): B cell receptors: B cell receptors are embedded in the membranes of B cells and bind a variety of antigens through their variable regions, or antibodies.
The signal transduction region transfers the signal into. Answer applies to both T and B cells. Briefly. Cross-reactivity (Its Wikipedia page is better ignored). Slightly longer answer: Clonal expansion and antigen-specific receptors are hallmarks of T and B cells. Tolerance is a developmental process wh.
Overview; As discussed in B-cell Development and T-cell Development, lymphocytes whose antigen-receptor can bind self-antigen are "eliminated".Elimination of auto-reactive lymphocytes can occur by one of four mechanisms discussed below.
Deletion; Deletion is the most straight-forward mechanism of tolerance and involves induction of cell death in auto-reactive. A mature B lymphocyte can be activated by the binding of an antigen to cell surface receptors. This induces proliferation of the cell, resulting in a clone of cells specific for that antigen.
These cells can then differentiate and begin to secrete immunoglobulin (Ig) molecules; this step involves interaction with helper T lymphocytes.
Chapter 4 Antigen Recognition in the Adaptive Immune System In the general sense, a receptor is sensitive to some form of input and induces a signal.
Each individual encounters many many many different antigens. In the adaptive immune system, each lymphocyte (and the clones derived upon its activation & proliferation) displays only receptors of a unique specificity.
T and B Lymphocytes: Recognition and Function is the 16th volume of the ICN-UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology. This book is organized into seven sections, encompassing 74 chapters that summarize. antigen [an´tĭ-jen] any substance capable, under appropriate conditions, of inducing a specific immune response and reacting with the products of that response; that is, with specific antibody or specifically sensitized T lymphocytes, or both.
Antigens may be soluble substances, such as toxins and foreign proteins, or particulates, such as bacteria. C1q Receptor. Human Receptor for C3b/C4b: Complement Receptor Type I.
The Complement Receptor Type 2 and Factor H Receptors. Human Complement Receptor Type 3. C5a Receptor. Antigen-Specific T Cell Receptors.
Non-MHC-Restricted T Cell Antigen-Binding Proteins. Human Interleukin 2 Receptor. Receptors of Insulin and Growth Hormone on Lymphoid Cells. An antigen is a chemical structure on the surface of a pathogen that binds to T or B lymphocyte antigen receptors.
Once activated by binding to antigen, B cells differentiate into cells that secrete a soluble form of their surface antibodies. Antibody, a protective protein produced by the immune system in response to the presence of a foreign substance, called an antigen.
Antibodies recognize and latch onto antigens in order to remove them from the body. Learn more about the function and structure of. The two tips of the "Y" monomer are referred to as the antigen-binding fragments or Fab portions of the antibody and these portions provide specificity for binding an epitope on an antigen.
Early in its development, each B-lymphocyte becomes genetically programmed through a series of gene-splicing reactions to produce a Fab with a unique 3. T cell receptors bind to specific antigens which initiates an immune response from BIOL at University of Pennsylvania. Other articles where Antigen-binding site is discussed: immune system: Basic structure of the immunoglobulin molecule: is an area called the antigen-binding, or antibody-combining, site, which is formed by a portion of the heavy and light chains.
Every immunoglobulin molecule has at least two of these sites, which are identical to one another. "Obviously the T cell receptor is a fine-tuned molecular machine, which acts as an individual entity and translates antigen-binding events into intracellular signaling with an impressive degree of.
The T H lymphocytes function indirectly to identify potential pathogens for other cells of the immune system. These cells are important for extracellular infections, such as those caused by certain bacteria, helminths, and protozoa.
T H lymphocytes recognize specific antigens displayed in the MHC II complexes of APCs. There are two major populations of T H cells: T H Author: Charles Molnar, Jane Gair, Molnar, Charles, Gair, Jane.
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Voters who expects to be unable to visit their regular polling place on election day for any of the reasons outlined in the preparation section below are eligible to apply for Absentee Ballot.
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Voters who expects to be unable to visit their regular polling place on election day for any of the following reasons, are eligible to apply for absentee ballot:
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d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier (1.5L Magnum) 2007
Syrah/Shiraz from McLaren Vale, Australia
1500ML / 14.5% ABV
Very dark rich looking appearance suggesting with a black-crimson hue suggesting a complex youthful dry red. The aroma is intense and still quite undeveloped with a floral mix of peach stone, jasmine and cranberry juice overriding dark maraschino cherries, star anise, and spiced fruit cake. A vigorous decanting reveals, amongst the floral and vegetative earthy notes, a dominance of white pepper and plum notes mixed with root vegetables such as parsnips and beetroot, along with hints of roasted black tea, black olives and edges of fragrant garden herbs. The palate is full flavored with ripe juicy soft mouth-filling flavors suggesting beetroot juice, blueberries blackcurrants and red cherries with herbaceous edges that keep the palate in check. Overall a slightly lighter wine than previous years but the oak is showing a greater impact due to its youth, with lovely cedary notes which compliments the abundant tea like tannins and edgy mineral acidity that gives the wine excellent definition. The concentration of this wine suggests it will greatly benefit further bottle aging for the medium term and in 10 years or so, depending on storage, it should be at its drinking best.
Shiraz-Viognier blends have become quite the ticket in recent years (what to do with all that so-so Viognier) but one of the first and still one of the best is the Laughing Magpie. The opaque purple-colored 2007 The Laughing Magpie Shiraz (90%)-Viognier (10%) offers up an expressive bouquet of smoke, mineral, violets, and wild blueberry. Medium-to full-bodied on the palate, it has tons of ripe blue fruits, spice notes, and enough structure to evolve for 2-3 years. This lengthy, pleasure-bent effort will be at its best from 2010 to 2020.
d'Arenberg
d'Arenberg is one of the undisputed kings of Australian Shiraz and other Rhone varieties that have historically defined the region. A century on, their vineyards have grown to some 450 acres in McLaren Vale, including Shiraz dating back to d'Arenberg's first plantings in 1912, and nearly one-third of McLaren Vale's old bush-vine Grenache. Fourth generation winemaker, Chester Osborn, recently converted all of the family's vineyards to organics and biodynamics and moved to solar energy in the winery. All the while, in terms of winemaking, not much has changed--all the wines are basket-pressed, the reds foot-trodden during fermentation; everything is done in small batches, leading to an impressive array of bottlings every year, each showing a different facet of McLaren Vale terroir. Having been inducted into Wine & Spirits Magazine's Hall of Fame for earning a place on its Top 100 Wineries nine times, this accolade is a reflection of d'Arenberg's revered reputation worldwide.
Known for opulent red wines with intense power and concentration, McLaren Vale is home to perhaps the most "classic" style of Australian Shiraz. Vinified on its own or in Rhône blends with Grenache and Mourvèdre, these hot-climate wines are deeply colored and high in extract and alcohol with signature hints of dark chocolate and licorice. Cabernet Sauvignon is also produced in a similar style. Whites, often made from Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc tend to be opulent and full of tropical, stone and citrus fruit.
Marked by an unmistakable deep purple hue and savory aromatics, Syrah accounts for a good deal of some of the most intense, powerful and age-worthy reds in the world. Native to the Northern Rhône, Syrah still achieves some of its maximum potential here, especially from Hermitage and Côte-Rôtie.
Syrah also plays an important component in the canonical Southern Rhône blends based on Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, adding color, depth, complexity and structure to the mix. Today these blends have become well-appreciated from key appellations of the New World, namely Australia, California and increasingly, with praise, from Washington.
In the Glass
Syrah typically shows aromas and flavors of purple fruits, fragrant violets, baking spice, white pepper and even bacon, smoke or black olive. In Australia, where it goes under the name Shiraz, it produces deep, dark, intense and often, jammy reds. While Northern Rhône examples are typically less fruity and more earthy, California appears increasingly capable of either style.
Flavorful Moroccan-spiced lamb, grilled meats, spareribs and hard, aged cheeses are perfect with Syrah. Blue cheeses are perfect with a dense and fruit-driven Australian Shiraz.
Sommelier Secret
Due to the success of Australian "Shiraz," winemakers throughout the world have adopted this synonym for Syrah when they have produced a plush and fruit forward wine made in the Australian style. As an aside, Australians are also fond of tempering their fruit-forward Shiraz by blending with Cabernet Sauvignon, which adds depth and structure.
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Q: Physically, what meaning have Taylor series which have their lower order terms equal to zero, but their higher order terms non zero? Usually, when using a Taylor series to describe a function (which may itself be a model of some physical phenomenon), we often throw out the higher order terms, as they are quite small relative to the lower order terms which really govern behaviour around the point of interest.
However, there are cases where we cannot throw out the higher order terms, because all the lower order terms are zero, and it is the higher order terms that are non-zero, thus governing behaviour.
I think one example of such a phenomenon is the 2D "elastic buckling beam" -- the beam (under the action of a force) can buckle either left or right, or simply be crushed straight down, and thus the "bifurcation diagram" for its behaviour has a so-called three-pronged "pitchfork bifurcation", corresponding to: buckling to the left, buckling to the right, and crushing. In the case of the elastic buckling beam, the ODE governing its behaviour has a Taylor series approximation where the order 0, 1 and 2 terms are zero, but the order 3 terms and above are non-zero. Thus, the ODE can roughly be written as a cubic curve, with at least 3 "solutions" corresponding to buckling to the left, right, and crushing.
What are some other physical examples corresponding to situations where only the higher order Taylor series terms survive?

A: A function is also $\,f(z)=a\,z^{14}+b\,z^{15}+c\,z^{16}$ is just $z^{14}(a+b\,z+c\,z^2)$. And if you do a taylor expansion of $z^19+3z^6$ around $z_0=5$, you will find a linear term as well.
Regarding the physics aspect with quantities where the minimum matters: Take any partition function of the form $z$ times something, average a couple of quadratic quantities with it, and you're there.
Consider Planck's law... Planck showed that the spectral radiance of a body at absolute temperature is given by
$$B(\nu) = \frac{ 2 h \nu^3}{c^2} \frac{1}{e^\frac{h\nu}{k_\mathrm{B}T} - 1}\propto \nu^2+\dots$$
Or from it... the Stefan–Boltzmann law states that the total energy radiated per unit surface area of a black body across all wavelengths per unit time $j$ is directly proportional to the fourth power of the black body's thermodynamic temperature
$$j \propto T^{4}.$$