Using Facebook Multiple Text Optimization For Responsive Ads
Using Facebook Multiple Text Optimization For Responsive Ads
Do you want to decrease your cost per conversion?
Are you finding yourself updating ads all the time?
In this article, I'll walk you through how to use Facebook's new Multiple Text Optimisation feature to improve your ability to test and consequently increase your results.
Why testing your ads is so important
There are two main aspects of Facebook advertising: the setup and the management.
The setup phase makes us the foundation of your advertising and is comprised of activities such as audience research and creation, Facebook pixel and conversion event tracking setup and of course creating your actual campaigns in your Ads Manager dashboard.
What few marketers realise is that when it comes to success with Facebook ads and generating the highest possible return on ad spend, the key to success is not the setup but in fact the management of your campaigns.
Facebook ad campaign management includes all the activities you do once your campaigns are set to Live and your ads start to be delivered to your target audiences.
Some of the most important post-creation campaign maintenance includes analysing your results and then testing new variables, with the aim of improving your performance. However, they are unfortunately some of the most time-consuming tasks related to running successful campaigns and is often the thing which separates the good advertisers from the great.
What is Multiple text optimisation?
Multiple Text Optimisation is a new feature found at the ad level of the campaign structure, where you create the ads you want to show your target audience.
The Multiple Text Optimization feature gives you the ability to include multiple text variations of several components of ad copy, such as primary text (copy that appears above your creative), headline and link description. Facebook's ad algorithm using machine learning will then choose from all the options you've entered when displaying the ad to your audience.
Multiple Text Optimisation displays different combinations of your ad components to your audience, similar to how Campaign Budget Optimisation finds optimal audiences. Both of these features are determined by the Facebook ad algorithm, which optimises to serve ads to those who will be most interested and responsive to it.
This expands the potential ad combinations and allows you to test more text variations more quickly than you could create them individually, therefore, driving better results, faster.
Multiple text variation reduces the impact of ad fatigue
The main outcome of using this feature is to improve your results through the use of multivariant testing. This allows you to find the optimal ad copy, headline and description combination.
However, it's worth noting that there's an additional benefit of using multiple text optimization and having more variations in that it actually works to reduce ad fatigue; this is significant since ad fatigue will negatively impact your campaigns. Multiple text variation also reduces the amount of time you spend managing your campaigns as it removes the need for manual copy refreshes.
Let me explain.
If you were to just create a single ad with one copy, headline and link description you can hit ad fatigue quickly, especially when your target audience is small, such as website custom audiences. This can also happen if you are aggressively spending with big budgets to reach your audiences faster and speed up the time it takes to get results.
When identifying ad fatigue and the negative impact it has on your campaign, such as a decline in your return on ad spend (ROAS), you'd routinely need to make sure you're implementing manual refresh changes, which involve creating a new ad variation.
However, when using the Multiple Text Optimisation feature, instead of having to manually create a new ad and change one of the ad variables, you've already pre-loaded your campaign with more variations that Facebook can test as soon as one variation starts to decrease in performance.
How to create responsive ads using the Multiple Text Optimisation feature
In your ads manager dashboard click on Create. This will open the campaign creation window and will present one of the two ways to create campaigns, guided or quick creation workflow. The specific one you see will depend on which one you use the most.
In this example, we are going to use the quick creation workflow as it allows for faster campaign creation.
In the quick creation window, name your campaign something appropriate and that you will recognise at a glance, saving future-you from having to trawl through several ad sets at any one time to work out which each one is. Next, select your objective. For this campaign example, we are using the Conversion objective. With Facebook's improvement in their machine learning over the last 12 months, this is now the most effective objective to generate sales or leads for your business when targeting any temperature of audience, cold warm or hot.
Make sure to check that Split Test and Campaign Budget Optimisation are toggled off. Name your ad set and ad and then click on Save to Draft. This creates a draft campaign in Ads Manager which we are now going to edit.
Once your campaign draft loads, you'll see the campaign edit window appear from the right of the screen. Select the ad set level of your campaign by either clicking on your ad set name at the top of the edit window or from the main navigation in the pop-out menu on the left.
Now at the ad set level, select your optimisation condition. Here, we are using it to market a lead magnet to our audience so want to optimise for the Lead event action. This is the event action that will be triggered when someone hits the thank you page after they have opted-in for the lead magnet.
NOTE: Multiple Text Optimisation can be used by all advertisers across multiple verticals. I'm going to cover a full breakdown of different use cases later in the article.
Now set your budget and schedule. In this example, we are targeting a cold Lookalike audience and can, therefore, set a higher budget due to the larger size.
How much of your audience you reach on a daily basis is determined by your budget allocation and therefore the time it takes to reach a statistically significant sample of your total target audience.
If you're able to have a larger budget, you'll be able to reach more of your audience faster and will generate results quicker. However, it's definitely worth noting that setting too high a budget can result in over delivery. This can be determined if you have a sharp increase in ad frequency and hit ad fatigue fairly early, which will work negatively to reduce the effectiveness of your campaign.
As a rule of thumb for setting budgets, cold audiences such as Saved interest audiences and Lookalikes are the largest in size and will therefore usually require a higher budget. When targeting audiences further down the funnel, such as warm audiences of engaged video consumers or page/Instagram engagers and hot audiences of website visitors, a smaller budget can be utilised since your audience size has typically decreased.
Next, you want to move onto defining your target audience. Where in the funnel you are using Multiple Text Optimisation will heavily determine what audience temperature and therefore type your target.
In this example, we are targeting a Lookalike audience of previous lead magnet opt-ins. This type of cold audience targeting is one of the most effective strategies for an audience of this temperature when running lead magnet campaigns. With a Lookalike audience, as we've controlled the source we don't need to narrow down the audience anymore via detailed targeting or even age or gender demographics.
NOTE: Lookalike audience creation is changing. Facebook is removing the country condition at the time of creation, instead, you now set it during campaign creation by the location targeting in your ad set.
Finally, set your placements and conversion window.
From historic data, we know that the highest quality traffic for this audience comes from Feeds placements on Facebook. If your new to Facebook ads or to marketing as a whole and don't have any previous data you can use to inform your placement decision making, then choose Automatic placements. You can use Auto placements with the Conversion objective as Facebook will optimise for a specific action further down your funnel than just website visitors.
If you are using any other campaign objective, I'd recommend using Edit placements and Feeds, otherwise, Facebook will push the majority of your reach to high volume low-quality placements such as the audience network. For a breakdown of the different placements and when best to use them click here.
With our aim being to drive lead magnet opt-ins, which has a low barrier to action since it's free, we can shorten the conversion window to 1 day after clicking. This is of course in reference to trying to drive a purchase conversion, which of course will naturally have a higher barrier to entry. This means that with the higher budget that we've set, Facebook will focus on optimising based on the people who have opted-in in the last 24 hours.
Now move on to creating the ad variations using Multiple Text Optimisation. First things first, select your Facebook page and Instagram business profile in the identity section.
In the create ad section, select your ad format. Single image/video, carousel or collection. This sets how your creative is displayed. Then choose the image or video you want to show your target audience.
In this example, we've created a piece of video content that first educates our target audience about common mistakes and then introduces the lead magnet.
Of course, your specific business, branding and niche will determine the creative you use, as well as what stage in the funnel you are targeting. For example, if you are an eCommerce company and you are targeting warm audiences positioning a sale on a product of yours, then your creative could be a slideshow video of product images or a single lifestyle product image.
Scroll down to the primary text, headline and description section. Here you'll notice that you can see the text "Add another option" which is where we'll add more variations of each of these ad elements. First add in your


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Proof of Income Letter | Editable | PDF
Proof of Income Letter: Income letter defines the total income of any person and proof of the income letter will help to prove anybody that you have that income and source of the income.
Here is our new letter which is proof of income letter.
- Completely Editable format with word file.
- PDF downloadable file
- PNG image downloadable file.
You will be able to change Logo, Tagline and all the written text inside the file.

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Deploy an AWS server with a cloud account
This topic explains how to deploy an Ubuntu or Debian Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server with systemd to your Advanced Server Access team. You may need to modify this process to fit your specific needs.
Creating a cloud server with user data means installing the Advanced Server Access server agent when you create a server with a cloud provider. Using user data to install software on a new cloud server can be done through any cloud provider, though the user data that is used helps dictate the specific software that's needed. For Advanced Server Access, user data is used is to install the Advanced Server Access agent on your cloud server. Installing the Advanced Server Access server agent on a cloud server doesn't need to be done when the cloud server is created, but running the installation as user data alongside a server's creation ensures that your cloud deployment is as safe and secure as possible.
- Create a server from the AWS Management console
- Enroll your server in Advanced Server Access by attaching your cloud account
- Next steps
Amazon Web Services
|Amazon Web Services Account||An Amazon Web Services account is needed to access the AWS Management console, where you create virtual machines for your team.|
Advanced Server Access
|Advanced Server Access team||The top-level object that represents an Okta org within Advanced Server Access.|
|Advanced Server Access project||The authorization-scope of your team, organizing your users, groups, and servers.|
- Sign in to the AWS Management console.
- Click the Services tab at the top of the console and select the EC2 option in the Compute category to create a new EC2 Server.
- Click Launch Instance.
- On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image page, scroll down and select Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type.
Doing this sets your new instance as an Ubuntu/Debian Server with systemd.
- On the Choose an Instance Type page, click Next: Configure Instance Details.
- Select the Advanced Details box on the Configure Instance Details page to access the User Data field.
- Enter the following text into the User data field: #!/bin/bash echo "deb _URL_ linux main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list curl -C - _URL_ | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y scaleft-server-tools
- Click Review and Launch, then click Launch.
The Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair dialog appears.
- Select the Proceed without a key pair option from the dropdown menu.
- Confirm and acknowledge your choice by selecting the relevant checkbox, then click Launch Instances.
- Click View Instances.
You should see the new server being initialized on the Instances page.
- In the Amazon Web Services management console, select the dropdown menu next to your profile name at the top of the page and click My Account.
- Copy your account ID number under Account Settings.
- Navigate to your team's dashboard within the Advanced Server Access console.
- Click the Projects header at the top of the console and select a project for your server.
- Click the Enrollment tab within your project's console.
- Click Add Cloud Account.
- Paste your Amazon Web Services account ID number in the Account ID field, and add a description if needed.
- Click Submit.
- Go to the Servers tab and confirm that your new server is listed.
Confirm that your new servers are listed in the Server tab of your Advanced Server Access project before you attempt to connect to them.


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A New Method for Measuring X-ray Optics Aberrations
MARCH 31, 2011
In a new report, scientists from the University of Rochester, Cornell University, and the Brookhaven and Argonne national laboratories carrying out research at national laboratories including the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source at Argonne describe phase retrieval methods to measure wavefront aberrations produced by imperfect or imperfectly aligned hard x-ray optics. The authors demonstrate an accurate and easy-to-implement technique that allows both optimized positioning of existing optics and provides quantitative feedback that can guide improved fabrication procedures for future optics.
One application of existing and new high-brightness x-ray sources is to focus x-ray beams into small, nanosized spots. The small spots can then be used to make spatially resolved measurements of samples in order to better understand the unique properties of materials at the nanoscale. To create such small spots requires an x-ray optic to modify the phase profile of the x-ray beam in a specific way. Imperfections or aberrations in the realized optic will, however, prevent the user from obtaining the smallest spots possible.
Measuring the wavefront (a surface of points having the same phase) is a common method at optical wavelengths for testing the quality of surfaces and evaluating the overall performance and alignment of complicated imaging systems. If accurately measured, the deviation of the wavefront from an ideal sphere provides a quantitative map of the aberrations induced by manufacturing errors and/or misalignment.
Aberrations are deviations from the perfect phase profile and can distort and broaden the focused spot. They arise from either the misalignment of the optic or they can be "baked-in" as a result of imperfect fabrication of the optic or from these two effects combined. As desired spot sizes become smaller, the aberrations need to be made correspondingly smaller. Clearly, the ability to accurately measure these aberrations is critical to realizing the full potential of bright x-ray sources to investigate materials at the nanoscale.
Currently, the most widely used method of x-ray-optics performance characterization is a series of knife-edge scans at different distances from the optic. From such measurements, one can extract the best focal spot size and distance. This method, however, does not contain direct information on the aberrations and is slow. In a recent publication, the authors describe a new application of so-called phase retrieval methods to determine the aberrations of hard x-ray optics. The authors used a phase retrieval method called "transverse translational diversity" or TTD that has been very successfully used in X-ray imaging applications. In TTD, the x-ray field of the focusing optic is perturbed with a known object placed at a diversity of transverse positions. At each position, the corresponding diffraction intensity pattern is measured. The resulting data allows for a more robust resolution of the ambiguities typically present in phase retrieval data, with the ambiguities being especially severe for the one-dimensional case of conventional phase retrieval. The measured data is quickly processed using a computer algorithm to obtain the x-ray wavefront aberrations. This, in turn, can be used to optimize the alignment of the existing optic on-line or to improve the manufacture of future optics.
To test this new method, the researchers deliberately introduced an aberration into their focusing set-up by rotating a one-dimensional-focusing kinoform x-ray optic away from its optimal position. Since the aberrations created by the rotation can be accurately predicted, the authors had a tool to evaluate the accuracy of their wavefront measurement. As described in detail in their paper, the new method is found to be rapid, accurate, and robust.
As well as providing quantitative information on the wavefront aberrations produced by imperfect x-ray optics, the authors' approach has other key advantages. First, the measurements can be performed at the desired operating wavelength for the x-ray optic. Consequently, the new method is a direct measurement of actual optics performance, rather than an extrapolation derived from other measurement methods which are more constrained in choice of wavelength. Second, the new method facilitates the alignment of samples. Instead of making iterative measurements of the field profile at different distances from the focusing optic in order to find the optimum location for the sample, the phase retrieval measurement can be done at one distance. Computer-based propagation methods can them be used to predict the field at all other distances and, hence, predict the distance where the best focus occurs, and the size and profile of this best focus. A third advantage is that the known perturbing object can be located far from the focus. This allows optimization of the focusing optic without the need to disturb sensitive samples and sample environments located at the x-ray-beam focus.


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The explosion of touchscreen devices have not made the mouse obsolete. But what if you could use your finger as a mouse on any surface? That's the point of Magic Finger, a concept device made by a team from Autodesk Research and the University of Toronto that can sense touch, motion and texture.
The Magic Finger is basically a micro RGB camera, an LED and an optical mouse sensor cobbled together. Talk about ripping off the mouse. Contrary to its name, the magic here seems to be in the software. Aside from letting you point and click on any surface, the camera can also recognize different textures, which the researchers use in a variety of ways, such as reading data, launching applications and controlling other devices. Watch the dorky demo in the video below:
I'm not too sold on the Magic Finger for a couple of reasons. First of all the Magic Finger is intrusive; the finger or hand wearing the device will be of limited use because you don't want to damage the Magic Finger. Second, I don't think the data matrix or the Morse code transfer is practical. That said, the shortcuts and its use as a mouse could be very practical. Perhaps those two functions could be integrated in a less intrusive device like Google Glass or Digits.
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Difference Between Similar Terms and Objects
Difference Between Mosquito and Bed Bug Bites
Mosquito vs Bed Bug Bites
Mosquitoes and bed bugs are common insects that are not only annoying but can also bite and cause infections and diseases.
Mosquitoes thrive in standing water like a puddle, marsh, or any stagnant water container. Male mosquitoes feed on nectar and plant juices but female mosquitoes need the nutrients they get from blood before they can produce eggs although they also feed on nectar like the male mosquitoes.
Bed bugs are usually found in beds or other areas where people sleep. They are not strictly nocturnal but are very active at night when they feed on their hosts. They feed exclusively on all warm-bloodied animals, including humans.
Both insects are health risks and ways have been tried and proven ineffective in totally eradicating them. Bed bugs were successfully eradicated in developed countries in the 1940s but due to foreign travel and the use of second hand furnishings, it came back after a few years.
While getting mosquitoes out of the ecosystem will not have any negative effects on it, efforts at eradicating them has been unsuccessful. They continue to feed on humans and infect people with diseases.
They locate their victims through the carbon dioxide and organic substances that they can detect even from a distance. They inject saliva into their hosts to coagulate the blood first before they suck it into their systems.
They usually rest in a cool place during the day and wait for dusk to feed until dawn. Their bites would appear in areas not covered with clothing and itch and swell immediately. The itching and swelling will disappear after a few days.
Bed bug bites on the other hand can be found on the stomach or the back because they usually bite when you are lying down. The bites will take time to show until you will feel the itching and notice the swelling which worsens every day.
Bed bug bites are often large and may look like welts or hives but some are as small as mosquito bites. Some may have red dots in the center and feel very itchy. The swelling is also worse in bed bug bites than in mosquito bites.
Bed bug bites do not usually require treatment but may lead to secondary infections that will need an antiseptic lotion or antibiotic cream or ointment with corticosteroids. If there is incidence of allergic reactions, oral antihistamines can be taken.
Mosquito bites are often treated with calamine lotion and vinegar. For severe cases, antihistamines and corticosteroids may be needed.
1. Mosquito bites are small, while bed bug bites are larger.
2. Mosquito bites itch and swell immediately, while bed bug bites itch and swell after a few hours.
3. Mosquito bites are usually found on exposed skin, on parts which are not covered with clothes, while bed bug bites are found on the stomach or back.
4. Both are active during the night, but while all bed bugs are blood suckers, only female mosquitoes feed on blood.
5. Bed bug bites itch and swell more than mosquito bites, but both are health risks.
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Student Research Projects - Biology
Title of Project
Investigating Temporal Variation in the Stress Response and Protein Catabolism of the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
The glucocorticoid stress response is designed to respond to extended, long-term threats, such as predators and environmental changes, in order to ensure the survival of an animal. The catecholamines of the adrenal medulla (i.e. epinephrine and norepinephrine) are an integral part of the fight or flight response. These hormones are released rapidly and increase metabolic rate and vasoconstriction. Concurrently, a cascade of hormonal signals travels along the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis translating external stimuli into a longer-term physiological response. These hormones, glucocorticoids, are released from the adrenal cortex and promote escape behavior and gluconeogenesis. The acute effects of glucocorticoids are beneficial to the organism, but long-term chronic levels can be detrimental to an organism's health and potentially lethal.
The aim of this study is to measure seasonal variation of both corticosterone, as an indicator of the stress response, and 3-methylhistidine (3-MH), as an indicator of muscle protein breakdown, in the Northern Cardinal and compare the two in search of trends. Four time periods of interest were chosen coinciding with important annual events in a cardinal's life cycle: 1) fall molt, 2) winter, 3) spring nest initiation/egg laying, and 4) summer chick rearing. Many studies have explored seasonal variation of corticosterone in birds, but corticosterone has been shown to be elevated at several different times throughout the course of the year.
While numerous studies have investigated temporal variation of corticosterone in migratory birds, few have examined variation in non-migratory birds and none have done so with the Northern Cardinal. Additionally, although a connection between increased glucocorticoids and protein breakdown has been made, little research has been done on seasonal variation of muscle protein breakdown in non-migratory birds. It is interesting to consider not only how the avian stress response and protein catabolism fluctuate seasonally, but also how the two interrelate.
Ongoing Work of Research Project
The total stress response (F=3.48, p=0.03) and baseline corticosterone levels (F=3.35, p=0.03) were determined to be significantly different between seasons. Post hoc analysis revealed that summer cardinals had a less robust total stress response and a lower starting baseline compared to spring. Analysis showed no sex differences in total (F=1.23, p=0.28) or baseline (F=1.71, p=0.20) corticosterone levels. These results show that there is significant variation in the stress response of C. cardinalis over the course of the year, particularly between spring and summer.
3-methylhistidine analysis is ongoing. Currently, we are in the process of validating a gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy method for detecting 3-MH.
Jonathan Haskins '10


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Eastern panoramic view as seen from the tower of Kyrkoköpinge Church, Trelleborg, Sweden
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Fru Alstad is a small village in the southern most part of Sweden (Scania). The village is situated about 15 kilometres north of Trelleborg between Malmoe and Ystad. Today (2001) Fru Alstad, Domme and Aamossen have about 170 inhabitants but here have been as much as 870, about the year 1865.
The name Fru Alstad (Fru=Mrs., Al=Alder tree, Stad=city or place) is thought to come from the time when Scania was Danish and the church was consecrated to the Virgin Mary, like Notre Dame in Paris. In Danish the Virgin Mary is called Vaar Frue (= "our Mrs." or "our wife") The village has a long history, in pagan days here was and still is a sacrificial spring (sw. Offerkaella) and in the 14th century is the first record of a village here, called Alestaedhae Oestrae (= East Alstad, there is a west Alstad too). The late medieval church is from the 15th century and has a christening font that is from the 12th century. In the middle of the village there is a street well which used to supply parts of the village with fresh water.
The Church of Saint Peter, or St. Petri Kyrka. Construction began in 1319
and its 105 metre tower is a well known landmark in Malmö, Sweden.


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1990 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 790-793
The effect of hot water extract of green tea on the collagen-induced aggregation of washed rabbit platelets was examined. The extract lowered submaximal aggregation and prolonged the lag time in a dose-dependent manner. After fractionation of the extract, it was revealed that the tea catechins (tannins) are active principles for inhibition and that ester-type catechins are more effective than free-type catechins. One of the ester type catechins, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), suppressed the collagen-induced platelet aggregation completely at the concentration of 0.2 mg/ml (=0.45 mM). Compargin CI50 values of EGCG and aspirin it was found that the potency of EGCG is comparable to that of aspirin. Thrombinand platelet activating factor (PAF)-induced aggregation was also inhibited by EGCG. The elevation of cyclic adenosine 3', 5'-monophosphate (cAMP) level was not observed in EGCG treated platelets.


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Generating Even and Odd PostgreSQL Databases for Replication
I was recently faced with a problem of replicating two PostgreSQL databases with bucardo. The replication was to be in a master-master fashion so that the databases could be updated on both ends. Although this task can easily be handled by bucardo it requires that the two different systems generate completely different sets of primary keys. According to the Bucardo website (_URL_ there are three ways of achieving this difference. Their approaches were:
If you are using a swap sync, the best practice is to not replicate sequences, but to make sure that they are different on both sides, such that an insert on database A will never conflict with an insert on database B. There are three general ways to do this:
 1. Use interleaving sequences. On database A, define the sequence as START WITH 1 INCREMENT BY 2. On database B, define the sequence as START WITH 2 INCREMENT BY 2. Thus, the two sequences will never have the same value.
 2. Use different ranges. For example, database A would use a sequence of START WITH 1, while database B uses START WITH 100000000. This is not foolproof, as A can eventually catch up with B, although you can define A as MAXVALUE 99999999.
 3. Use a common sequence. This relies on one or both of the databases using a function that makes a call to an external sequence
After reading this I decided to go by the first approach so I wrote a script to alter the sequences.
// Add the sequences you dont want affected here. The schema doesn't
// really matter.
$exclude = array(
for ($i = 1; $i < $argc; $i++)
 if(substr($argv[$i], 0, 2) == "--")
 $parameter = substr($argv[$i], 2, strlen($argv[$i]) - 2);
 $$parameter = $argv[$i];
 $tables[] = $argv[$i];
$conn = pg_connect("host=$host port=5432 dbname=$db user=$user
$sequences_result = pg_query($conn, "SELECT * FROM
$sequences = array();
while($sequence = pg_fetch_assoc($sequences_result))
 if(array_search($sequence['sequence_name'], $exclude)!== false)
 echo "Skipping ". $sequence['sequence_schema']. '.'.$sequence['sequence_name']. "\n";
 $sequence = $sequence['sequence_schema']. '.'. $sequence['sequence_name'];
 $value = pg_query($conn, "SELECT last_value from $sequence");
 $value = pg_fetch_assoc($value);
 pg_query($conn, "ALTER SEQUENCE $sequence INCREMENT BY 2");
 if($value["last_value"] % 2 == 0 && $mode == 'odd')
 pg_query($conn, "ALTER SEQUENCE $sequence RESTART WITH ".($value['last_value'] + 1));
 elseif(($value["last_value"] % 2 == 1 || $value["last_value"] == 1) && $mode == 'even')
This script takes five required parameters. The parameters are not validated so if it is wrongly specified the consequences are unknown. PLEASE BE CAREFUL! The parameters are:
 1. The hostname
 2. The username
 3. The password
 4. The database name
 5. The mode of the change (even or odd)
An example usage could be
php update_sequences.php --host db1.accra.srv --user postgres --password somepass --db appcore --mode even
Hope that helps. Happy Programming!


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Weather and Meteorology - Glossary
Included in this glossary you'll find terms related to our public forecasting program, weather observations and unique terminology that is of Environment Canada's hurricane centre and ice service products.
Region of the atmosphere where the pressures are high, relative to those in the surrounding region at the same level. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds around a high move in a clockwise fashion.
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views to sort and filter your list of tasks, view tasks with due dates on a Calendar, or filter for only attachments. If there is a specific way you and your team prefer to sort tasks in a project, you can save it as the default view for everyone. Asana provides a variety of ways to sort and filter your list of tasks. Some people like to manually set the order, while others want tasks to be automatically sorted by a characteristic like due date or assignee.
An essential view in Asana is Boards. Boards let you organize your work like sticky notes, and you can move them across sections.
11. Trello
You can use Trello as a collaboration tool to organize your projects. You split your projects into boards. It is easiest to visualize Trello like a giant electronic whiteboard with lists of sticky notes, albeit a whiteboard you can stick in your pocket if you're using the mobile Trello app. Although different firms use Trello differently, you can think of each column (list) on your board as representing a significant milestone. You then create a series of cards on each list, representing the specific tasks you need to perform to reach each milestone. Trello's boards, lists, and cards enable teams to organize and prioritize projects easily.
You can add comments, attachments, due dates, and more directly to Trello cards. Trello includes automation with Butler. You can use Butler to remove tedious tasks from your to-do lists with rule-based triggers, custom cards & board buttons, calendar commands, and due date commands.
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One of my observations during my lunch walk is that my characters are somewhat intelligent, but they in different ways. The three main characters of Flight of the Scions are probably the best example and I would say Rutejìmo is probably the least intelligent character I've had as a main character.
Sand and Blood 13: Breaking Up
A long time ago, in a book I haven't read for decades, I read an interesting discussion about angels. In that book, it discussed how angels didn't have free will which made them functions of the universe (god, Bob, whatever you want to call it). The angels' purpose wasn't to evolve themselves but to be way points and beacons to guide others.
This influenced how the clan spirits work in my world. They don't really have free will and they are not capable of enlightenment. They can get more powerful, but it is based on rules that mortals don't understand, but Shimusògo will never become one of the Great Triad.
This chapter actually demonstrate a tiny bit of this internal cosmology. Shimusògo, the spirit, provides power to Rutejìmo because he is in the right place, has the right mental state, resonance, and is ready to accept his power. It wouldn't matter if the clan (the social structure) accepted it or not, the clan spirit connected to Rutejìmo and he is spiritually part of the clan.
Now, being accepted socially into the clan, that's a much bigger difficulty for Rutejìmo's case and probably the subject of the entire novel.
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Flight of the Scions 19: Travel Partners
Intelligence, this is a hard one to talk about. While I was walking, I realized that even Maris was rather intelligent despite her lack of education and her innocent nature.
There are many types of intelligence (generically speaking). The three main character of Flight of the Scions demonstrate different aspects of that.
Ruben is the easiest. He knows things and has a vast repository of useless knowledge (just like it says on my website). Internally, he has a copy of Wikipedia for my world, though it is a few years out of date. However, knowing details doesn't mean comprehension. Maris mentions that in this chapter about how Ruben knows how to speak Miwāfu but can't teach it.
He could easily tell you the details of every magical system in the world, the lineage of every politician, and the history behind the units of measure. What he doesn't know is how they relate to each other. While teaching Miwāfu, he can only say if Maris is right or wrong, not how to speak it.
Maris, on the other hand, is efficient in her intelligence. For someone who didn't learn how to write until a year before, she has advanced far beyond what most teenagers learning how to write for the first time. She learned numbers without formal education. She also has social skills and a better handle on how people work (for example knowing that Pahim wanted to fuck Kanéko and giving Kanéko the contraceptive tea).
Her limitation is when she figures out something, she doesn't push herself to improve. She figures out something and then uses it.
And then we come to Kanéko. She doesn't have magic, but her "power" as I envisioned it, is tied into her ability to adapt, comprehend, and learn. She can also visual and capable of building up three-dimensional models in her head to help understand physical constructs.
She also has a body of knowledge and trivia. That helps drive her need to improve beyond "what works."
Put together, this gives her on par with a telepath and… whatever Maris becomes.
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Sand and Ash
Sand and Ash has gotten through the first editor of two. Shannon Ryan did a good job of development and line edits and I think it is a much strong piece (coupled with the beta readers at the same time). I noticed I had a couple new trouble spots, mainly "But " and " as " so I'm going through a quick round or two to work on those before passing it to the copy editor.
If I didn't have hopes of getting it done for Wiscon, I would have done the beta readers first and then passed it on to Shannon. I'll probably do that for Sand and Bone once Ash comes out.
I think I've also finalized the cover for the book. I still need to redo the cover for Sand and Blood but I'm pretty happy with the results. It is more "literary" than the illustrated version, but maybe that's okay? Either way, it is what I'm working with now.


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 As part of NASA's Alternative Aviation Fuel Experiment II (AAFEX II), a chicken fat-based jet fuel was tested. The fuel, called Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel, was to be used as fuel in a NASA DC-8 aircraft. Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel was not developed by NASA, however; it has been used successfully in various other aircraft, including by an F-16CM Fighting Falcon, one of which recently used a 50/50 mixture of regular jet fuel and the biofuel.
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American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women have made important advances socially, economically, and politically—they are starting their own businesses, getting elected to congress, and serving essential roles in their families and communities. Despite their efforts, they continue to face a range of obstacles to their and their family's economic wellbeing and overall economic security. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the overall inequalities facing AIAN women into sharp relief— particularly for AIAN women who live on reservations where economic opportunities may be especially limited, relying heavily on casinos and public sector employment. Poor quality and overcrowded housing, a lack of access to quality health care, nutrition, and sometimes even basic access to running water make it more difficult to keep families safe.


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Ballistic breakthrough could lead to molecular logic gates
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The first highly-conductive connection between a single organic molecule and a metal electrode has been made by an international team of physicists. This achievement could lead to the development of'molecular electronics' devices with the potential to be smaller and faster than conventional transitors and logic gates.
The majority of electronic devices are made from just a handful of semiconductor materials — the most common being silicon. However, some organic molecules such as DNA appear to have electronic properties similar to traditional semiconductors and some researchers believe that some types of molecules could be used to make electronic devices.
A potential benefit of such devices is that molecules are extremely small compared to semiconductor structures, which could help manufacturers pack more and more circuits onto a chip.
However, it has proven very difficult to connect single molecules to a metal electrode such that electrons are conducted easily between the two. These junctions are essential for making real-world devices like transistors and logic gates.
Previous attempts at making single-molecule junctions involved using "anchoring groups" such as thiols to bind organic molecules to metal electrodes like gold. However, the metal-molecule link creates a significant potential barrier across the junction and electrons end up tunnelling across the molecule when a voltage is applied between the electrodes. This inevitably leads to a low conductivity, and thus poor performance in the finished devices.
A higher conductance would be possible if electrons were allowed to travel 'ballistically' across the metal-molecule junction – whereby every electron that enters the junction travels straight through more or less unhindered. This occurs in many carbon nanotube devices or single-atom contacts, which reach the quantum of conductance — the maximum conductance possible for a single electron channel. However, this has never been achieved in single-molecule junctions before.
Now, Jan van Ruitenbeek of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands along with colleagues in Australia, Germany and Spain may have solved this problem by making the first highly conductive molecular junctions. This involved binding benzene molecules directly to platinum metal electrodes, and the team found that the conductance of these devices reaches the maximum value possible for a single electron channel.
The physicists showed that it is possible to couple the metal electrodes, in their case platinum, 'directly' to the carbon backbone of an organic molecule (benzene), which allows the electrons to travel more easily across the junction. Indeed, the conductance of the junction has a value of G0, which equals 2e2/h, where e is the charge on the electron and h is Planck's constant. This is the maximum conductance possible for a single electron channel — around 7.7 x 10-5 ohm-1 (Phys Rev Lett 101 046801).
The researchers say that they regard benzene as a "starting point" for building such molecular junctions and they will soon be investigating more advanced organic compounds. Benzene is ideal for such early work because it is a simple system that can be easily studied using techniques like vibration mode spectroscopy, isotope substitution, shot noise measurements and local density functional computations.
The team achieved its results using mechanically controllable "break junctions", which allowed them to produce atomic-sized junctions of any metal at liquid helium temperatures. Once the scientists had verified that the junction was clean, they introduced benzene vapour through a capillary tube onto the structures. They observed the molecules arriving at the junction by measuring the change in conductance properties of the device. The junction was then stretched to nearly breaking point so that a molecular bridge spontaneously formed across it.
"The most important property of these junctions is that their conductance is at least an order of magnitude higher than comparable junctions made using thiol anchoring groups," van Ruitenbeek told physicsworld.com. "Under our experimental conditions, the junctions can be held stable for a very long time, which, when combined with the cryogenic temperatures used, allows us to make detailed investigations."
The team now plans to study metals other than platinum, which is expensive, for use in molecular electronics applications.
"What makes this work stand out is that [the scientists] have presented a new way to attach organic molecules to metal electrodes, by forming a direct metal-carbon bond, and have proven conclusively that their devices have a strong metal-molecule link," commented Latha Venkataraman of Columbia University in an American Physical Society Viewpoint article on the research. "This enables them to overcome a major barrier in molecular based devices," she said.
About the author
Belle Dumé is contributing editor to nanotechweb.org


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(Nov 03, 2011) On October 28, 2011, James Anaya, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, advocated the rejection of a proposal made by one political party in Norway that laws and policies that now protect indigenous peoples be repealed. Anaya stated that such a repeal would be an "enormous setback for the recognition and protection of human rights in the country." (Proposed Norwegian Law Puts Indigenous Peoples' Rights at Risk – UN Expert, UN NEWS CENTRE (Oct. 28, 2011); Norway Could Lose Lead in the Recognition and Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Rights – UN Expert, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) website (Oct. 28, 2011).)
The change is advocated by the Fremkrittspartiet, the Progress Party (website in Norwegian (last visited Oct. 28, 2011)), but opposed by Norway's current government. The proposed revisions would affect the rights of land ownership, self-determination, and other protections of the Sami people, the largest indigenous group in the country. There are also Sami living in Finland, Russia, and Sweden. (UN NEWS CENTRE, supra.)
Among the actions proposed by the Progress Party are the abolition of the Sami Parliament and the administrative area for the Sami language; the repeal of the Finnmark Act, under which the Sami manage their own land independently; and the denunciation by Norway of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, which allows such peoples to choose whether or not to remain culturally and politically distinct. (Id.; Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (adopted on June 27, 1989, in force from Sept. 5, 1991), ILO website.)
The Special Rapporteur noted the position of the Norwegian government on the matter, stating, "I am pleased that the Government of Norway has taken a firm position against the proposal." He went on to say that he urged
members of the standing committee on local government and public administration, members of the Norwegian national Parliament, and... the Norwegian people as a whole, to likewise strongly reject the proposal of the Progress Party, as well as any future proposals that may undermine the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Sami people in Norway. (UN NEWS CENTRE, supra.)
Anaya, who is James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, was appointed a U.N. Special Rapporteur on March 26, 2008. Initially he was to serve for three years, but the U.N. Human Rights Council renewed his appointment for three more years. In January 2011, he completed a report on the conditions of the Sami people in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. (OHCHR website, supra.)
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Brain scans detecting a sound processing delay common in children with autism could lead to earlier diagnosis of the developmental disorder, researchers said Friday.
In a study of children with and without autism, researchers monitored brain activity while the children listened to various sounds. They found that it took children with autism an average of 11 milliseconds longer for their brains to respond, researchers report online Friday in the journal Autism Research.
"This delayed response suggests that the auditory system may be slower to develop and mature in children with ASDs," said study leader Timothy Roberts of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "An 11-millisecond delay is brief, but it means, for instance, that a child with ASD, on hearing the word 'elephant' is still processing the 'el' sound while other children have moved on."
The finding is significant because it could lead to a single, measurable tool for diagnosing autism as early as infancy, researchers say. Currently autism is diagnosed using clinical observation and the disorder can take years to manifest. If diagnosed at younger ages, experts say treatment could be more effective.
"More work needs to be done before this can become a standard tool, but this pattern of delayed brain response may be refined into the first imaging biomarker for autism," Roberts said.


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Survival and death causes of patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway _PHONE_: a retrospective cohort study
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Original versionBrekke LK, Fevang BTS, Diamantopoulos A, Assmus J, Esperø EL, Gjesdal C. Survival and death causes of patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway _PHONE_: a retrospective cohort study. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 2019;21:154 _URL_
Background: Our objective was to determine the survival and causes of death in a large and well-characterized cohort of patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Methods: This is a hospital-based, retrospective, observational cohort study including patients diagnosed with GCA in Western Norway during 1972–2012. Patients were identified through computerized hospital records using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-coding system. Medical records were reviewed. Patients were randomly assigned population controls matched on age, sex, and geography from the Central Population Registry of Norway (CPRN). Date and cause of death were obtained from the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry (NCoDR). The survival was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier methods with the Gehan-Breslow test and the causes of death using cumulative incidence and Cox models for competing risks. Results: We identified 881 cases with a clinical diagnosis of GCA of which 792 fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 classification criteria. Among those fulfilling the ACR criteria, 528 were also biopsy-verified. Cases were matched with 2577 population controls. A total of 490 (56%) GCA patients and 1517 (59%) controls died during the study period. We found no difference in the overall survival of GCA patients compared to controls, p = 0.413. The most frequent underlying causes of death in both groups were diseases of the circulatory system followed by cancer. GCA patients had increased risk of dying of circulatory disease (HR 1.31, 95% CI 1.13–1.51, p < 0.001) but lower risk of dying of cancer (HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.42–0.73, p < 0.001) compared to population controls. Conclusions: We found no difference in the overall survival of GCA patients compared to matched controls, but there were differences in the distribution of underlying death causes.


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Can you spot the asteroid in the star photo below?
|The asteroid Vesta moving among the stars of Eastern Capricornus in June-July 2011.
|The "East dome" Newtonian telescope at Brazos Bend State Park imaging the asteroid "Pratchett".
Here is a photo of a telescope at Brazos Bend State park imaging the asteroid "Pratchett". Can you identify what constellation is visible through the dome slit? Note the stars here are streaked because we
used a stationary camera, fixed to the Earth... which is rotating! The images of Vesta at the top of the page were taken with
a camera fixed to the telescope, which turns to track the stars... keeping a fixed orientation in space as the Earth turns
The red streaks were made by people moving around during the
exposure using very dim red flashlights to see their way in the dark. The red "bullseye" on the dome ceiling is
from the Telrad finder scope used to point the telescope. It projects a red bullseye onto the sky when you look through it,
and that's part of how the astronomers using the telescope get it pointed at just the right spot in the sky. But it also projects
a very dim red bullseye onto the inside of the telescope dome!
Was Vesta too easy? See if you can find the asteroid "Pratchett" in the images that were taken by the telescope above.
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What is California Refund Value?
Where can I find the nearest recycling center?
What other recycling options are there?
 - Donate recyclables to a community service program.
 - Utilize available curbside recycling programs.
How can kids get involved in recycling?
How much do recycling centers pay per pound?
Recycling centers are allowed to pay by weight as a matter of business efficiency. The Beverage Container Recycling Program establishes the minimum per-pound rates for each container type: aluminum, glass, plastic and bi-metal. Recycling centers pay the CRV to consumers for their redeemed beverage containers. In addition to the CRV, recyclers may also pay a scrap value, which fluctuates according to current demand for the recycled material. Find out the latest per-pound rates. Consumers also have the option of being paid on a per-container basis simply by making a request to receive payment on a per-container basis. Recycling centers are required to comply with this request and thus, pay on a per-container basis for up to 50 containers of each material type delivered.
California law allows you the option of being paid based on count instead of weight for up to 50 empty beverage containers of each material type. This means you can bring your CRV load and request to receive payment on a per-container basis verses having your containers weighed. Recycling centers are required to comply with this rule, found in the California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 5, Section 2535(b), and thus pay you the full CRV redemption of 5 cents or 10 cents on each container for up to 50 containers of each material type delivered. Just be sure that you inform the site attendant of your load content and how you would like to receive payment before you hand over your load. Any consumer who has been denied this right by a recycling center can file a complaint via email or by calling 1-800-RECYCLE.
Do I need to crush my cans?
Do I need to remove the caps from my bottles?
When recycling, we suggest you empty your bottles and put the caps back on the bottles. Note, however, your recycling center may ask that caps be off.
What happens if I remove the labels from my containers?
One of the requirements for a container to be eligible for CRV payment is that the container is labeled with the CRV message. For plastic and glass containers, this messaging will be included on the label. If you remove the label, the container has no refund value and is not eligible for CRV payment.
Do I need to separate my beverage containers by material type?
It would be in your best interest to have your CRV load pre-sorted before arriving at the recycling center. Generally speaking, it will save you time spent at the recycling center. Also, attendants typically pay the minimum per pound rate based on the material type. Therefore, since your load will already be separated by material type the recycling center can quickly weigh your material and calculate proper payment based on the material type. And if your intent is to request payment based on count, pre-sorting will make it easier for the attendant to count your material.
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Dialogue in a Rapidly Changing World: Practitioner Assessments of the Potency of Intercultural Dialogue for Improving Social Cohesion
AbstractIn 2008, the Council of Europe Ministers of Foreign Affairs set out a new framework for approaching ethno-religious diversity within member states. As a direct response to expressed concerns about the failure of multiculturalism, or at least of multicultural policies, Intercultural Dialogue was promoted as a better way of connecting communities. However, critics claim it is unclear how the approach differs from previous integration frameworks; furthermore, they argue that ICD contributes towards unequal platforms for exchange between minorities and the majority group and can reinforce exclusion. This paper examines such concerns by exploring practitioners' understanding of the concept. Structured interviews were conducted with 52 delegates at the World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue held in Baku in 2015 These distinctive findings demonstrate that participants frequently discussed ICD interchangeably with other concepts and frameworks, most commonly multiculturalism and inter-faith dialogue, supporting claims that it has been difficult to define, even among practitioners attending a global summit on the topic. In addition, delegates from outside of Europe were more likely to highlight issues related to power imbalance when engaging with dialogue processes. The paper provides an important addition to empirically informed literature on both the conceptualisation and utility of ICD as a framework for engaging with diverse societies.
|REFLECTION: Promoting and Advancing Multicultural Dialogues in Education|
|Faith, Peace Building, and Intra-Community Dialogue in South Yorkshire, UK|


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Manufacturing Engineering and Technology
Manufacturing Engineering and Technology is the study of the planning, organisation and operation of manufacturing methods, processes, facilities and systems.
The main purpose of this narrow field of education is to develop an understanding of the design, selection, development and operation of manufacturing processes and systems, and the planning, control and management of production functions.
Courses in Narrow Field 0301 Manufacturing Engineering and Technology develop skills in:
- assembly and joining
- operating manufacturing systems to produce a product
- printing technology and production
- textile technology and production
- wood product technology and production
This narrow field comprises the following detailed fields:
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Textile Making
- Garment Making
- Footwear Making
- Wood Machining and Turning
- Cabinet Making
- Furniture Upholstery and Renovation
- Furniture Polishing
- Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, n.e.c.
Thinking about a job in this field?
Check out the courses available in this field at various Australian universities and alternative study pathway options. If you'd like to speak with someone, discuss with your Career Advisor at school, or contact the Indigenous Education Unit at any of the Australian Universities, and they'll be able to offer advice on available local information and student support services.


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Donor-Advised Funds: Save on Taxes and Make a Difference
For individuals who seek to save on their taxes while still being charitable and making a difference in their communities, donor-advised funds (DAFs) are a strong possibility to consider.
Understanding donor-advised funds
Simply put, a DAF is a charitable investment account. DAF accounts can be funded with liquid and/or illiquid assets such as cash, publicly traded securities, patents/royalties, C-corp stock or even artwork and life insurance policies. Once made, the donor contribution is irrevocable. In other words, the donor is no longer the legal title holder of the assets transferred into the account.
 - What are some notable advantages of donor-advised funds?
 - The donor receives an immediate charitable contribution deduction for the fair market value of the assets transferred into the account, the deductibility of which depends on the nature of the assets transferred and the taxpayer's specific tax situation.
 - The donor can grow their account by making additional contributions, and they can choose from a variety of investment options, including alternative investments, to grow their donation tax-free.
 - When a DAF is funded with appreciated illiquid assets, such as stock market securities, the account administrator is responsible for cashing out enough of the assets to fund the donor's charitable giving directives. Since the donor is no longer the legal title holder of the assets, the gain on the sale of the assets is not taxable to the taxpayer, allowing the charitable giving to go farther.
 - The donor retains the ability to recommend donations to IRS-approved 501(c)(3) organizations. They also control the frequency and the amounts of the charitable disbursements.
 - The account administrator is responsible for mailing checks to charities, keeping track of charitable giving, account values and earnings, and compiling annual donation reports. This eases the administrative burden on the donor.
 - Unlike private foundations, DAFs do not have reporting/compliance requirements at the account level and do not pay excise taxes on their investment income. Again, this eases the administrative burden.
 - Donors have the ability to create a legacy and extend their philanthropy beyond their lifetime by naming successors and beneficiaries to their account.
 - DAFs typically incur administrative/management fees in the vicinity of one percent of the fair market value of the assets held in the account.
To summarize, if you're looking to apply your assets toward charitable causes you hold dear, and do so in ways that are advantageous from a tax standpoint, DAFs are a tactic you should consider.
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Outside the Law
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French Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb spoke to Simon Assaf about his new film on the Algerian war of independence, Outside the Law
The Algerian national liberation struggle plunged France and its Algerian colony into a bloody war that has scarred both countries. Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law is the story of Algerian immigrants to France who were drawn into the National Liberation Front (FLN), the Algerian national movement. The war, and the scale of the repression recently admitted by France, is part of a history France attempted to bury.
Bouchareb told Socialist Review, "It has been 50 years since the end of the war, when Algeria gained its independence. Yet there are many people alive today whom this war was only yesterday. So there are many sensitivities. Many of them suffered in a war that had many victims. Even in Algeria the war is a sensitive subject."
The film revolves around the fate of three brothers who are drawn into the revolution. Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila) rises to the leadership of the FLN's military campaign inside France. He is recruited into the independence movement, ostensibly to raise money, and eventually launches attacks and assassinations.
Abdelkader is tormented by the results of actions he initiates, among them ordering the execution of political opponents and those who disobey FLN instructions. The film does not shy away from the reality of these killings.
Bouchareb says, "Abdelkader is cold and ideological because he understands that there is little room for sentiment in revolutions. He knows there have to be victims, and that many ordinary people will suffer. He knows that revolution demands discipline, and that he is taking part in political violence. For him it was about the revolution's victory."
His older brother, Messaoud (Roschdy Zem), is drawn into the struggle after his experiences serving in the French army in French Indochina (now Vietnam) in the 1950s. It convinces him that national liberation struggles can succeed, but that the price will be heavy. Recruited into the FLN to help his brother, he becomes an assassin.
"Messaoud's experience in Indochina prepares him for the reality of revolution, and as we are witnessing today, these revolutions are violent. His military experience makes him the striking arm of the FLN in France. The tragedy for Messaoud is that his experience in Indochina also made him weary of war."
Said (Jamel Debbouze), the third brother, is drawn into the revolution against his will. He sets out to make his fortune in the seedy Paris underworld, but cannot escape the bloodletting. He is torn between his self-interest and commitment to his brothers.
"There were many Algerians who at the time were neutral in the war. But this did not mean they escaped its consequences. Despite the humiliations, injustice and destitution faced by Algerian migrants to France during this era, Said is driven by a desire for success and dignity. He manages to escape poverty, but not the revolution."
The film is a historical sequel to Bouchareb's 2006 film Days of Glory, a powerful story of the indigènes, colonial troops formed to liberate France from the Nazi occupation in the Second World War. The line of shifting loyalties acts as a backdrop to Outside the Law as former comrades become deadly enemies.
During the FLN campaign of bombings in France, Messaoud finds himself confronting his former officer from Indochina, now charged with suppressing the FLN in France. The officer draws on his experience in the French Resistance to track down FLN cells. The Algerians find themselves the target of the French secret service, and its "Red Hand" campaign of murder and torture. They respond with mass bombings and assassinations.
Outside the Law is framed by two massacres - at Setif, Algeria on 8 May 1945 and the mass murder of Algerian demonstrators by French police in Paris on 17 October 1961.
"The massacre at Setif marks the day when Algerians who fought for France returned home and began to demand independence. These soldiers wanted to share in France's victory, and the freedoms they helped to bring to Europe. The mass demonstration in Setif was brutally crushed.
"Setif marked the beginning of the independence movement, which nine years later became an armed struggle. The 1961 Paris massacre marked the last act of this war. Algeria gained its independence soon after."
The timing of the film, released against a backdrop of the revolutions in the Arab world, makes it poignant. "Then, like now, these revolutions are about injustice," Bouchareb said.
Outside the Law is released in the UK on 6 May


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The constant movement in arbitrators' lives and activities requires regular adjustment in both formulation and application of contours for acceptable and unacceptable arbitrator behavior. Legal claims should be decided on their merits, rather than according to a predisposition or interest in the outcome. A reasonable measure of arbitrator integrity remains both desirable and attainable. However, in a world of stubbornly heterogeneous legal cultures, each with its own divergent view of proper conduct, elaborating one common ethical plumb line for international arbitration poses special challenges. Fair-mindedness and intelligence remain the most sought after qualities in arbitrators. To reduce the risk of having cases decided by either pernicious or precarious arbitrators, those who establish and apply ethical guidelines walk a tightrope between the rival poles of (i) keeping arbitrators free from taint, and (ii) avoiding maneuvers that interrupt proceedings unduly. If arbitrators must be completely sanitized from all possible external influences on their decisions, only the most naive or incompetent would be available. Consequently, notions such as "proximity" and "intensity" will be invoked to evaluate allegedly disqualifying links or prejudgment. The search for balance in ethical standards compels a constant reevaluation of the type of relationships and predispositions likely to trouble international arbitration. Arbitrator conflicts of interest usually fall into one of two categories: lack of independence and lack of impartiality. The common assumption is that an arbitrator in international disputes must be both impartial and independent. Neutrality generally encompasses both independence and impartiality. One intriguing question relates to the extent that either independence or impartiality may be waived by fully informed litigants. The right to a fair hearing could be waived, or at least objections must be raised in a timely fashion. Although some behavior patterns provide per se evidence of impropriety, other types of conduct take on radically different ethical overtones depending on the circumstances. To promote confidence in the international arbitral process, party input into the selection of arbitrators has long been common practice. To some extent, concerns over issue conflict and role confusion intersect with what is sometimes called "institutional bias." A particular arbitral institution might be perceived as tending to appoint arbitrators likely to favor one category of litigants over others. In most instances, public and private goals will coincide, with each having a very real interest in the systemic integrity of the arbitral process.
William W. Park,
Arbitrator Integrity: The Transient and the Permanent,
San Diego L. Rev.
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It's hard to walk down the aisle of a liquor store without running across a bottle bearing someone's name. We put them in our cocktails, but how well do we know them? Here's some biographical detail on the men behind your favorite tipples.
1. Captain Morgan
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The Captain wasn't always just the choice of sorority girls looking to blend spiced rum with Diet Coke; in the 17th century he was a feared privateer. Not only did the Welsh pirate marry his own cousin, he ran risky missions for the governor of Jamaica, including capturing some Spanish prisoners in Cuba and sacking Port-au-Prince in Haiti. He then plundered the Cuban coast before holding for ransom the entire city of Portobelo, Panama. He later looted and burned Panama City, but his pillaging career came to an end when Spain and England signed a peace treaty in 1671. Instead of getting in trouble for his high-seas antics, Morgan received knighthood and became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
2. Johnnie Walker
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Walker, the name behind the world's most popular brand of Scotch whisky, was born in 1805 in Ayrshire, Scotland. When his father died in 1819, Johnnie inherited a trust of a little over 400 pounds, which the trustees invested in a grocery store. Walker grew to become a very successful grocer in the town of Kilmarnock and even sold a whisky, Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky. Johnnie's son Alexander was the one who actually turned the family into famous whisky men, though. Alexander had spent time in Glasgow learning how to blend teas, but he eventually returned to Kilmarnock to take over the grocery from his father. Alexander turned his blending expertise to whisky, and came up with "Old Highland Whisky," which later became Johnnie Walker Black Label.
3. Jack Daniel
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Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel of Tennessee whiskey fame was the descendant of Welsh settlers who came to the United States in the early 19th century. He was born in 1846 or 1850 and was one of 13 children. By 1866 he was distilling whiskey in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Unfortunately for the distiller, he had a bit of a temper. One morning in 1911 Daniel showed up for work early and couldn't get his safe open. He flew off the handle and kicked the offending strongbox. The kick was so ferocious that Daniel injured his toe, which then became infected. The infection soon became the blood poisoning that killed the whiskey mogul.
Curious about why your bottle of J.D. also has Lem Motlow listed as the distillery's proprietor? Daniel's own busy life of distilling and safe-kicking kept him from ever finding a wife and siring an heir, so in 1907 he gave the distillery to his beloved nephew Lem Motlow, who had come to work for him as a bookkeeper.
4. Jose Cuervo
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In 1758, Jose Antonio de Cuervo received a land grant from the King of Spain to start an agave farm in the Jalisco region of Mexico. Jose used his agave plants to make mescal, a popular Mexican liquor. In 1795, King Carlos IV gave the land grant to Cuervo's descendant Jose Maria Guadalupe de Cuervo. Carlos IV also granted the Cuervo family the first license to commercially make tequila, so they built a larger factory on the existing land. The family started packaging their wares in individual bottles in 1880, and in 1900 the booze started going by the brand name Jose Cuervo. The brand is still under the leadership of the original Jose Cuervo's family; current boss Juan-Domingo Beckmann is the sixth generation of Cuervo ancestors to run the company.
5. Jim Beam
Jim Beam, the namesake of the world's best-selling bourbon whiskey, didn't actually start the distillery that now bears his name. His great-grandfather Jacob Beam opened the distillery in 1788 and started selling his first barrels of whiskey in 1795. In those days, the whiskey went by the less-catchy moniker of "Old Tub." Jacob Beam handed down the distillery to his son David Beam, who in turn passed it along to his son David M. Beam, who eventually handed the operation off to his son, Colonel James Beauregard Beam, in 1894. Although he was only 30 years old when he took over the family business, Jim Beam ran the distillery until Prohibition shut him down. Following repeal in 1933, Jim quickly built a distillery and began resurrecting the Old Tub brand, but he also added something new to the company's portfolio: a bourbon simply called Jim Beam.
6. Tanqueray
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When he was a young boy, Charles Tanqueray's path through life seemed pretty clear. He was the product of three straight generations of Bedfordshire clergymen, so it must have seemed natural to assume that he would take up the cloth himself. Wrong. Instead, he started distilling gin in 1830 in a little plant in London's Bloomsbury district. By 1847, he was shipping his gin to colonies around the British Empire, where many plantation owners and troops had developed a taste for Tanqueray and tonic.
7. Campari
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Gaspare Campari found his calling quickly. By the time he was 14, he had risen to become a master drink mixer in Turin, and in this capacity he started dabbling with a recipe for an aperitif. When he eventually settled on the perfect mixture, his concoction had over 60 ingredients. In 1860, he founded Gruppo Campari to make his trademark bitters in Milan. Like Colonel Sanders' spice blend, the recipe for Campari is a closely guarded secret supposedly known by only the acting Gruppo Campari chairman, who works with a tiny group of employees to make the concentrate with which alcohol and water are infused to get Campari. The drink is still made from Gaspare Campari's recipe, though, which includes quinine, orange peel, rhubarb, and countless other flavorings.


text: Turtle Diary's adjective games for 2nd grade is designed to help second grade students test and develop their knowledge of adjectives, a basic building block of grammar. In this adventure game, players are given a sentence with an adjective at the bottom of the screen. Then, they will have to identify the adjective in the given options and click the correct one in order to win the race! Not only will students come to better be able to recognize and identify adjectives, this adjective game for 2nd graders will also help them to understand adjective conjugation and how to use them properly in the context of a sentence. This adjective game is time-sensitive and adventurous which will motivate students to accelerate their problem-solving skills. Our 2nd grade adjective game is and exciting complement to a classroom lesson or a thrilling game to play in the comfort of your home.


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The Magic of Money and Banking
This chapter analyzes the banking system in the wizarding world of Harry Potter and compares it to the salient features of the banking system in the Muggle world. The chapter begins with a brief history of money. Although the economies in both the wizarding world and the Muggle world use money, there are striking differences between those worlds on this point. We can only speculate on why these differences exist, but it appears that the wizard concept of money stopped evolving in the Middle Ages, when bankers were really just trusted keepers of valuables. The chapter concludes that although Muggle banking and wizard banking are not the same things, but they share some important characteristics. Apparently, wizards do not manage their money supply the way Muggles do by using the slight of hand of fractional reserve banking to create money out of thin air. Instead, the money supply in the wizard world seems stagnant, creating social problems that emphasize disparities in wealth. Even so, the money that does exist is subject to security measures in both worlds that are designed to instill confidence in the banking system. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of banking in both the magical and the Muggle worlds is the crucial place in the balance of power occupied by those who control the money supply be they the goblins who run Gringotts or the MBAs who run the Federal Reserve. Political power and economic power often go hand in hand. The United States took a long time to adopt a system of central banking and when the Federal Reserve Act was finally passed the structure of the system was intentionally diffuse so that it would be difficult for the central bankers to exercise too much power over the economy. Policymakers know that economic power and political power are closely related and that economic turmoil can lead to political unrest. That dynamic is likely true in the magical world as well.
The Magic of Money and Banking, in The Law and Harry Potter (Jeffrey E. Thomas and Franklin G. Snyder, eds., Carolina Academic Press 2010)


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In observance of Passover and Easter, millions of Jews and Christians are retelling ancient stories of faith from the Holy Land. But when it comes to day-to-day life in that ancient world — what people ate, how they flirted, how they stayed clean — how much do we really know? Religion scholar Scott Korb takes on that question, and the real nitty-gritty of that existence, in his latest book, Life In Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine.
A historical travelogue of sorts, Life In Year One details the tumultuous era in which Jesus lived. Korb, a professor at New York University and The New School, draws from ancient texts, archaeology, and ancient and modern historians' often contradictory accounts, to paint a picture of that ancient world — when the Jewish people chafed under Roman rule, when bandits and assassins roamed the countryside, and when entire economies and belief systems were being transformed.
A Catholic himself, Korb makes clear in his very first chapter: this is a book about who Jesus' neighbors and contemporaries might have been, not a book about Jesus. "Today we still can't seem to agree about who he was," Korb writes. "It's worthy of a lively debate, to be sure — just not here."


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Could Your Phone Tell If You Have COVID-19?By Jorge Ramos Zwanziger | Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:03
Can AI diagnose COVID-19? Stanford's COVID-19 Response Innovation Lab and One Young World are leading an initiative that is looking to identify the symptoms of SARS-CoV-2, through artificial intelligence and cough sounds, reports Business Insider Mexico. Over 50 researchers from 20 different countries, from universities such as Berkeley, Oxford, Harvard and Princeton, are developing Virufy, a mobile app that is designed to diagnose COVID-19 through a user's cough sounds. "The sounds of breathing and coughing could be analyzed with machine learning to find patterns in COVID-19," explained Virufy Founder, Amil Khanzada, to Business Insider Mexico. The app's goal is to gather as much information as possible to train its algorithm to be more precise and to better understand what COVID-19 sounds like.
"This is the first worldwide organization that has this many students trying to find a possible digital tool for an easier COVID-19 diagnosis," explained Carlos Madrigal, in an interview with Forbes Mexico. Madrigal explained to Forbes that the platform's objective is to identify variations in coughs between people testing positive and negative to COVID-19, believing the lung damage caused by the virus could alter the way coughs sound. However, he mentions that "this app does not pretend to be the sole method to diagnose COVID-19 but a way to detect how necessary it is for a person to get properly tested or not." Khanzada called on people from countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms to visit Virufy's website to donate a couch sample through an audio message to improve the program and to put an end to the pandemic, reports Business Insider Mexico.
Virufy is only one of the attempts made to use technology as a way to track or diagnose COVID-19. Last year, the Mexico City government created a tracking system for people to know if they had been in contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19, as previously reported by MBN. Other apps that have been created for contact tracing in Mexico include:
- DENUE, an app developed by INEGI that shows COVID-19 information on different maps.
- Sickweather, which works both in Mexico and the US as social media and focuses on tracing places that people presenting symptoms for any disease, not just COVID-19, have visited to update the app and let other users know if they have been exposed.


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Wood as An Engineering Material: Adhesives with Wood Materials
This online engineering PDH course presents the types of adhesives and their properties, bonding processes, bonded joints, testing and performance. It discusses how adhesives can effectively transfer and distribute stresses, thereby increasing the strength and stiffness of the composite.
Adhesive bonding of wood plays an increasing role in the forest products industry and is a key factor for efficiently utilizing our timber resource. The main use of adhesives is in the manufacture of building materials, including plywood, oriented strandboard, particleboard, fiberboard, structural composite lumber, doors, windows and frames, and factory-laminated wood products. Adhesives are also used in the assembly of furniture and cabinets, manufacture of engineered wood products, and construction of residential and commercial structures.
This 3 PDH online course is applicable to civil, structural or geotechnical engineers, as well as design and construction personnel who are interested in gaining a better understanding in adhesive bonding of wood materials.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the physical properties of wood for bonding
- Learning about the different types of adhesives and their composition, strength, durability and selection
- Understanding the bonding process
- Learning about the various types of bonded joints
- Understanding the testing methods and performance of polymers and bonded assemblies
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review Chapter 10, "Adhesives with Wood Materials" of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Publication, "Wood Handbook - Wood as An Engineering Material", FPL-GTR-190.
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Evaluation of pulmonary volumetric morphometry at the light and electron microscopy level in several species of passerine birds.
The lungs of 3 small passerine species, having similar body mass but different diurnal activity patterns, were analysed morphometrically to assess the relationship between diurnal activity and pulmonary volumetry at the light and electron microscope levels. The percentage volumes of the major lung and exchange tissue components of the 3 species--an aerial insectivore, a foliage gleaner/nectarivore and a ground forager--were strikingly similar, and consistent with literature values for other passerine species. The only significant difference found was exchange tissue plasma volume and pulmonary haematocrit, with the ground-foraging, low activity Malurus splendens having significantly lower values than the other 2 species. This may indicate that cardiovascular parameters are more important determinants of metabolic activity in small passerines than aspects of pulmonary anatomy. (+info)
2,3 diphosphoglycerate in Parkinson's disease.
The red cell 2,3 DPG, the most important factor for oxygen delivery in the tissues, was found to be increased in Parkinsonism patients compared with controls. The aging process seems not to be a factor in the increased 2,3 DPG concentration. Other factors relevant to raised 2,3 DPG level such as physical activity, increased oxygen requirements, and metabolic changes are discussed. (+info)
Lactate kinetics at rest and during exercise in lambs with aortopulmonary shunts.
In a previous study [G. C. M. Beaufort-Krol, J. Takens, M. C. Molenkamp, G. B. Smid, J. J. Meuzelaar, W. G. Zijlstra, and J. R. G. Kuipers. Am. J. Physiol. 275 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 44): H1503-H1512, 1998], a lower systemic O2 supply was found in lambs with aortopulmonary left-to-right shunts. To determine whether the lower systemic O2 supply results in increased anaerobic metabolism, we used [1-13C]lactate to investigate lactate kinetics in eight 7-wk-old lambs with shunts and eight control lambs, at rest and during moderate exercise [treadmill; 50% of peak O2 consumption (VO2)]. The mean left-to-right shunt fraction in the shunt lambs was 55 +/- 3% of pulmonary blood flow. Arterial lactate concentrations and the rate of appearance (Ra) and disappearance (Rd) of lactate were similar in shunt and control lambs, both at rest (lactate: 1, 201 +/- 76 vs. 1,214 +/- 151 micromol/l; Ra = Rd: 12.97 +/- 1.71 vs. 12.55 +/- 1.25 micromol. min-1. kg-1) and during a similar relative workload. We found a positive correlation between Ra and systemic blood flow, O2 supply, and VO2 in both groups of lambs. In conclusion, shunt lambs have similar lactate kinetics as do control lambs, both at rest and during moderate exercise at a similar fraction of their peak VO2, despite a lower systemic O2 supply. (+info)
The physiological strain index applied to heat-stressed rats.
A physiological strain index (PSI) based on heart rate (HR) and rectal temperature (Tre) was recently suggested to evaluate exercise-heat stress in humans. The purpose of this study was to adjust PSI for rats and to evaluate this index at different levels of heat acclimation and training. The corrections of HR and Tre to modify the index for rats are as follows: PSI = 5 (Tre t - Tre 0). (41.5 - Tre 0)-1 + 5 (HRt - HR0). (550 - HR0)-1, where HRt and Tre t are simultaneous measurements taken at any time during the exposure and HR0 and Tre 0 are the initial measurements. The adjusted PSI was applied to five groups (n = 11-14 per group) of acclimated rats (control and 2, 5, 10, and 30 days) exposed for 70 min to a hot climate [40 degrees C, 20% relative humidity (RH)]. A separate database representing two groups of acclimated or trained rats was also used and involved 20 min of low-intensity exercise (O2 consumption approximately 50 ml. min-1. kg-1) at three different climates: normothermic (24 degrees C, 40% RH), hot-wet (35 degrees C, 70% RH), and hot-dry (40 degrees C, 20% RH). In normothermia, rats also performed moderate exercise (O2 consumption approximately 60 ml. min-1. kg-1). The adjusted PSI differentiated among acclimation levels and significantly discriminated among all exposures during low-intensity exercise (P < 0.05). Furthermore, this index was able to assess the individual roles played by heat acclimation and exercise training. (+info)
Exercise-induced alterations in skeletal muscle myosin heavy chain phenotype: dose-response relationship.
This study investigated the effects of exercise training duration on the myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform distribution in rat locomotor muscles. Female Sprague-Dawley rats (120 days old) were assigned to either a sedentary control group or to one of three endurance exercise training groups. Trained animals ran on a treadmill at approximately 75% maximal O2 uptake for 10 wk (4-5 days/wk) at one of three different exercise durations (30, 60, or 90 min/day). Training resulted in increases (P < 0.05) in citrate synthase activity in the soleus and extensor digitorum longus in both the 60 and 90 min/day duration groups and in the plantaris (Pla) in all three exercise groups. All durations of training resulted in a reduction (P < 0.05) in the percentage of MHCIIb and an increase (P < 0.05) in the percentage of MHCIIa in the Pla. The magnitude of change in the percentage of MHCIIb in the Pla increased as a function of the training duration. In the extensor digitorum longus, 90 min of daily exercise promoted a decrease (P < 0.05) in percentage of MHCIIb and increases (P < 0.05) in the percentages of MHCI, MHCIIa, and MHCIId/x. Finally, training durations >/=60 min resulted in an increase (P < 0.05) in the percentage of MHCI and a concomitant decrease (P < 0.05) in the percentage of MHCIIa in the soleus. These results demonstrate that increasing the training duration elevates the magnitude of the fast-to-slow shift in MHC phenotype in rat hindlimb muscles. (+info)
Early occurrence of respiratory muscle deoxygenation assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy during leg exercise in patients with chronic heart failure.
The mechanisms of respiratory muscle deoxygenation during incremental leg exercise with expired gas analysis were investigated in 29 patients with chronic heart failure and 21 normal subjects. The deoxygenation and blood volume of the respiratory muscle and exercising leg muscle were assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). To evaluate the influence of the leg exercise on the blood volume of the respiratory muscle, 10 normal subjects also underwent a hyperventilation test with NIRS. The respiratory muscle deoxygenation point (RDP), at which oxygenated hemoglobin starts to decrease, was observed in both groups during exercise. The oxygen consumption (VO2) and the minute ventilation at the RDP in the patients was lower (p<0.01). At the same VO2, the respiratory rate was higher in patients (p<0.01). During exercise, the blood volume of the leg muscle increased, while that of the respiratory muscle decreased. During a hyperventilation test, the minute ventilation was higher than that of the RDP during exercise, the blood volume of the respiratory muscle did not decrease, and the RDP was not detectable. In conclusion, a limited ability to increase perfusion of respiratory muscles during exercise combined with the greater work of breathing results in early respiratory muscle deoxygenation in patients with chronic heart failure. (+info)
Determinants of exercise-induced ST-segment displacement in the aVL lead in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
Although the aVL lead in exercise electrocardiography is reported to be helpful in identifying a significant narrowing of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), its role in exercise testing has not been fully evaluated. Accordingly, 821 patients who underwent both standard exercise testing and coronary angiography were evaluated. In patients with aVL lead ST elevation, the incidence of a significant narrowing of the LAD (124/165 vs 348/656; p<0.001) was higher than in those without. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that the 2 most important variables that correlated with aVL lead ST elevation were a greater number of leads with ST depression in the inferior leads and a smaller amplitude of R wave in the aVL lead. In contrast, variables correlating with aVL lead ST depression in the majority of cases were a greater number of leads with ST depression in all leads and the presence of inferior


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Motion Graphic Animation
TydenBrooks is a global leader in the design, manufacturing and supply of high security and tamper-evident seals and devices. As a company, they needed an online video that could visually explain how conventional seals could be broken and demonstrate the advantages, as well as the technology, behind their secure cable seals.
- Produce a visually strong demonstration of exactly how cable seals work and the ways in which traditional seals could be tampered
- Highlight TydenBrooks' sophisticated technology and how it prevents tampering and increases security
Revolution Production's Role
- To effectively visualize how a cable seal is manufactured and to demonstrate how it functions, Revolution implemented a motion graphics video alongside a descriptive narrative
- To highlight the effectiveness of TydenBrooks cable seals, scriptwriters implemented a comparison of each product that clearly pointed out the weakness of a conventional seal and the sophistication behind a TydenBrooks seal