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Q: Question on acoustics.(Wine glasses) I have seen wine glasses being filled up with water and played as an instrument. I would like to know the physics behind how these are played. Links and explanations are much welcome. Thanks!

A: A musical wine glass is a complex system, but here is a simplified explanation. The wine glass will ring like a bell if you strike it. the frequency at which it rings depends (primarily) on the stiffness of the glass, its density, and its thickness. If you drag your finger around the rim of the glass, your skin sticks to the glass and stretches until the force you are applying exceeds the maximum that can be sustained by static friction against the glass, and then your finger slips while your skin contracts. This stick-and-slip behavior happens many times a second, and if its frequency is close to the ringing frequency of the glass modeled as a bell, then the act of dragging your finger around the rim causes the vibration of the glass to grow until it begins radiating sound waves that you can hear. adding water to the glass alters the frequency at which it rings and allows you to tune the glass to a specific pitch.

A: Sure, i'll explain it. Have you ever noticed how places like theaters or places where singing or opera is done, the room is shaped kind of weird. especially the ceiling and walls. Its because the shape and thickness of walls and surfaces creat certain tones, and changes to sound. In the case of a wine glass, the curved very thin glass creates it's own effect on sound, so when you tap it, it makes a certain noise. Flinging it to various levels with fluid is the easiest was to change how the "room" is shaped, there fore, changing pitch.


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I began a regular meditation practice in earnest during a time of intense crisis and upheaval in my life after moving to Austin, Texas. I had left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and then the traumatic breakup of a long-term relationship. It felt like my life had been turned upside down and shaken, leaving me feeling battered, bruised, and terribly alone. I experienced extreme anxiety, including panic attacks, along with intense feelings of anger and bewilderment. Though a longtime student of Eastern religions, I really began to appreciate the power of meditation during this time. I now understood in a very raw way the First and Second Noble Truths of Buddhism; that life is suffering, and this suffering is based in our grasping after permanence and stability when in fact everything is always changing.
Fortunately, I had nowhere to hide and nothing to do but to confront my situation directly and sit with my pain, experiencing it fully. That's when I walked into a local meditation center and requested meditation instruction. There, I learned how to sit with myself and my experience just as it was, even in the midst of a panic attack. Thus, I discovered a powerful realization: I was ok, just as I was, in all my anger and anxiety and existential angst; in all my messiness and confusion.
Even with years of therapy under my belt, mindfulness meditation practice allowed me to begin to slow down, notice my habitual patterns and mental tendencies that exacerbated my suffering. It allowed a little bit of peace to open up. As Victor Frankl famously observed, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." I discovered for myself that tiny space between action and reaction. It helped me to see how I could begin to make different choices my life, including how I wanted to respond in any given situation.
As I delved deeper into the practice of meditation and the study of Buddhist philosophy, my sense of well-being began to grow. I felt a new sense of meaning and purpose in my life. I became a poster-child for post-traumatic growth. As I began to see the tangible benefits of meditation, I aspired to share these insights with others. I trained to become a meditation instructor and teacher and eventually began working on a Ph.D. to study the psychology of mindfulness and creativity. I am currently completing my dissertation focusing on how mindfulness techniques can support creativity and collaboration among organizational teams.
Let the pain be your guide, they said.
to the awful pull of gravity.
even dance to the sweet sounds of gypsy jazz.
I simply could not attend to the basic necessities.
all registering deeply within my marrow.
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Melinda holds a B.A. in Biopsychology from Vassar College, as well as Master's degrees in Religious Studies from Indiana University and Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a current Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology with a Specialization in Creativity Studies at Saybrook University, where her research focuses on mindfulness techniques to facilitate organizational creativity and collaboration. She is also a certified meditation instructor and teacher of contemplative arts and photography with Shambhala International, and she regularly leads workshops and retreats on mindfulness, creativity, and contemplative arts.


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Warriors lose a KAT fight as Towns leads Minnesota to 129-114 win
Golden State ran out of gas in the 4th quarter, after running out of size a month ago.
By Sean Keane@seankeane Mar 2, 2022, 2:56pm PST
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Karl-Anthony Towns takes it to Kevon Looney Tuesday night.
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There was a time not too long ago when Andrew Wiggins used to go off against his old team. He scored more points against the Minnesota Timberwolves than any other team, and seemed to delight in dunking on his old teammate, Karl-Anthony Towns. That seemed like a distant memory Tuesday night in Minneapolis, when Towns scored 39 points to Wiggins' 12, and the Wolves ran away from the Golden State Warriors late in a 129-114 win.
Wiggins scored eight points in the game's first 3:08, and in his next 27 minutes, he scored four more. Meanwhile KAT came out strong with 15 points in the first quarter, and never eased up the rest of the way, drawing fouls, pulling in nine rebounds, and making more three-pointers than anyone not named Steph Curry on the Warriors. He literally beat up on the Warriors all night, sending Moses Moody to the locker room with an elbow to the eye - no foul, no video review.
Steve Kerr said Moses Moody's eye is swollen shut after taking this blow from Towns in the first half. "Pretty bad," Kerr said. pic.twitter.com/Htf004xM8I
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Curry had 34 points for the shorthanded Warriors, who were down to nine players when Moody left for good after seven minutes. Klay Thompson remained out with an illness, Nemanja Bjelica was out with a thigh contusion, and the two-way players didn't make the trip. They had to rely on the reserves, and only Gary Payton II truly stepped up, with 14 points and a game-high +15 in other start as the de facto power forward. Kevon Looney led the team with five assists and seven rebounds, but the team cratered when he hit the bench. That's not a surprise when facing a 6'11" All-Star center - Jonathan Kuminga and Juan Toscano-Anderson simply aren't going to be able to check KAT.
Jordan Poole finished with 12 points, but he had another rough game off the bench. Rumor has it that Poole is upset that he wasn't starting with Klay Thompson out, in favor of the Payton/Moody combination, and it's affecting his play. Poole had an extremely rough sequence after entering the game six minutes in. He immediately gave up a three-pointer to Patrick Beverley, fouled Beverley on the next possession, then got his shot blocked, and fouled Beverley again. Overall he committed three fouls in his first three minutes. He went 1-6 from three-point range, including a few incredibly wide-open looks, and is now down to 33% from deep on the season.
On defense, the Warriors weren't stopping Minnesota at all in the first half, where the Wolves shot 50% from the field and made all 14 of their free throws. Former Warrior D'Angelo Russell had 15 before halftime and even Patrick "The Next Five Years Are Mine" Beverley was in double digits at the half. For a while, the Warriors kept pace by bombing away from deep, thanks to Payton and Damion Lee, who had nine in the quarter. Payton even cleaned off a court side fan's Jordans when he accidentally scuffed them.
The hot shooting kept things close, and when Looney's effort forced a steal that led to a transition three, the lead was just 58-54.
Loon didn't give up on the play
& the reward was an SC30 #SPLASH
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And then the Warriors missed their next seven shots. For the remainder of the quarter, their lone bucket came when Gary Payton II put back a missed layup by Curry. Minnesota closed the half on a 10-2 run, ending with a three-point play from Russell after a Curry foul.
Curry managed to single-handedly keep the Warriors connected during the third quarter, scoring 11 of the Warriors points in a row, and assisting on both buckets that bracketed his flurry. He finished the quarter with 16 points plus three assists, meaning he was directly responsible for 22 of the Dubs' 31 third quarter points, and 22 of 24 when he was in the game. Very impressive! But also, can someone give Steph some help?
What else does Steph want? Some consistent rotations. "We have a lot of different rotations and lineups and we try to make adjustments on the fly. We have to be more in sync as a five-man unit," Curry said, in a statement that comes as close to criticizing Steve Kerr as the Chef ever will. Kerr sort of concurred, but chose not to talk strategy or his own adjustments. Instead, he channeled the spirit of Phil Jackson with this peyote-flavored quote:
"It's not just a tangible thing as much as it is just a feeling and an energy — a collective spirit. I didn't like the energy or the spirit tonight."
So Kerr might try to adjust the lineups, or he might just sage the visiting locker room in Dallas before Golden State's game on Thursday. Are "vibes" also ramping up for full-contact practices?
Like the loss to Dallas, the Warriors fell apart in the 4th quarter, particularly on defense. It wasn't just the Wolves scoring, but the way they were scoring - layup after layup. Maybe it's communication or maybe it's the lack of a rim protector, but the Dubs looked unmotivated and disconnected on defense near the end. They could score with Minnesota for a while, but simply couldn't get any stops, so when they missed four shots in a row at one point, the Wolves pulled away, effectively clinching the game when Naz Reid dunked to make it 108-90 with eight minutes left. When a three from Malik Beasley - who had six threes off the bench - made it 113-94 with six minutes left, Kerr cleared the bench.
Speaking of the bench, the Warriors reserves did score 36 points, but most of that was in garbage time. Jonathan Kuminga had 11 of his 13 points in the final six minutes, and Poole had five of his 12 points. They simply couldn't defend a decent but by no means astounding Timberwolves bench, who had 30 points in the competitive portion of the game, compared to Golden State's 16. Obviously Thompson, Moody, and Bjelica would have helped, but whether it's combinations, communications, or effort level, the bench simply needs to play a lot better down the stretch, because this is looking like a very tired team.
Golden State has lost six of eight, and they head to Dallas for a rematch on Thursday night.

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(1) By campaigning for segregation, we are surrendering to what antismokers call 'denormalisation': the idea that smoking cannot, anywhere, ever, be tolerated by nonsmokers, and that there is no place for smokers in 'normal' society.
(2) By campaigning for segregation, we are implicitly endorsing the myth that 'secondhand smoke' kills innocent bystanders. Those of us who have done our homework know that this is a fraud. Unless we say so – over and over again – then we really don't have a leg to stand on.
(3) By campaigning only for exemptions or amendments to smoking bans, we are implicitly accepting that authorities are entitled to overrule property rights by enacting them in the first place.
(4) We are also turning our backs on, for instance, publicans whose premises are not big enough to have separate rooms.
(5) Campaigning for separate rooms is a tactical mistake, since it is so close to the 'Anti' position that it leaves no room for compromise.
(6) By volunteering to be confined to separate rooms, we are implicitly accepting another antismoking myth: that modern ventilation systems – which are deemed good enough for infectious disease wards and laboratories working with toxic chemicals – are not 'good enough' to make the air in a pub perfectly comfortable for everyone.
(7) Separate rooms don't always work so well in practice. It's naïve to think, even if we win this concession, that it won't come with a lot of onerous conditions attached. In various countries, these have included: room must be completely sealed; room must have prohibitively expensive air-cleaning system; room cannot be the main room of an establishment, and must be smaller, or not above a specified size; staff cannot work in or even enter room; access to toilets must not be through smoking room; and so on. Such conditions can have two unfortunate effects. One is that the sheer hassle of creating a smoking room is too much for many publicans. The other is that smoking rooms are so artificial, sterile, cut-off and unwelcoming, that no one wants to use them. Either way, antismokers can then claim that no one really wants smoking rooms - not even smokers.
(8) Campaigning for segregation is illogical, inconsistent, and cowardly, and I don't believe, as some people seem to, that it is 'realistic' or makes us look good. We are currently an unfairly stigmatised minority. Our arguments should therefore be clear, principled, logical, persistent, and dignified. All these things may not end smoking bans tomorrow, but they must, over time, command respect. Bending over backwards, on the other hand, to compromise with our enemies, agreeing with most of their propaganda, and begging them to just give us a break, can only invite contempt.
For all these reasons, I'm convinced that a campaign limited to asking for separate rooms is doomed to failure. There is no reason why antismoking authorities – some of the most arrogant people on the planet - should 'give us a break' just because we've asked nicely. Even if such a campaign succeeds, we will still be second-class citizens, shunted out of sight into prison-like back rooms, having gained nothing except the 'privilege' of a roof over our heads when it rains. It's just not good enough.
If we believe that authorities have no right to ban the use of a legal product by adults on private property, and that their reasons for doing so are spiteful and dishonest, then this is what we should be saying. And if this is what we're saying, then we should be campaigning to scrap bans altogether and to restore freedom of choice and tolerance. If nothing else, this leaves room for some sort of compromise. And if we are to actually campaign for a compromise, the Spanish Solution is a much better one: only establishments over 100 sq. m. are obliged to have separate rooms, while smaller places can set their own policies, with no strings attached.
In the meantime we should continue to pressure the hospitality industry into supporting us by boycotting places where we can't smoke, party at home, and set our sights a bit higher.


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Grand Prix Singapuru 2012 (oficjalnie 2012 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix) – czternasta runda Mistrzostw Świata Formuły 1 w sezonie 2012.

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Zolang je bij me bent is een lied van de Nederlandse zanger Jan Smit. Het werd in 2021 als single uitgebracht en stond in 2022 als zesde track op het album Boven Jan.

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Zolang je bij me bent is geschreven door Alain Clark, Jan Smit en Thomas Tol en geproduceerd door Tol. Het is een lied uit de genres nederpop en palingsound. In het lied vertelt de liedverteller hoe veel hij van zijn geliefde houdt en dat wat voor ergs er ook gebeurt, als hij met haar is het allemaal niet uitmaakt. Het was voor het eerst in drie jaar tijd dat de zanger nieuwe muziek uitbracht, nadat hij lange tijd met een burn-out kampte. De single was de voorloper van een nieuw album van de zanger, welke eind 2022 werd uitgebracht.

De videoclip is opgenomen in Hoenderloo en toont een vakantievierende Jan Smit. Dit werd gedaan om het gevoel van een vakantie in eigen land na te bootsen.

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De zanger had weinig succes met het lied in de Nederlandse hitlijsten. De Single Top 100 werd niet bereikt en er was ook geen notering in de Top 40. Bij laatstgenoemde was er wel de dertiende plaats in de Tipparade.

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Idul Adha is already passed and the vibe of that sacred moment is also gone, but I still want to post my pics from that Eid Day.
Here are some pics from that Big Days.. enjoy!
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Caspian games: Central Asian "stans" vie for connectivity market
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"Pipelineistan" has a long history, but with its Belt and Road Initiative, China is set to be the top game-changer
The Caspian Sea is an important hub in a Eurasia-wide system of gas pipelines and trade corridors.
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Azerbaijan held a presidential election this month. Predictably, incumbent leader Ilham Aliyev won his fourth consecutive term with a Kim dynasty-esque 86% of the votes.
International monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) stressed "widespread disregard for mandatory procedures, numerous instances of serious irregularities and lack of transparency"; the Azeri electoral commission replied that such observations were "unfounded."
Then the whole issue simply vanished. Why? Because, from a Western strategic perspective, Azerbaijan's post-Soviet petro-autocracy is simply untouchable.
Much has to do with the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, facilitated by the late Zbigniew "Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski during the first Bill Clinton administration to bypass Iran. The BTC de facto unleashed the energy chapter of the New Great Game that I have called Pipelineistan.
Now, Baku is harboring great hopes for its new port at the desert wasteland of Alat ("Your hub in Eurasia!"), simultaneously connected to the West (Turkey and the European Union), the South (Iran and India) and the North (Russia).
Alat is also designed as a top logistics/manufacturing/connectivity hub of the New Silk Roads, aka Belt and Road Initiative. Its top strategic location straddles the BRI's central connectivity corridor; links to the newly opened Baku-Tblisi-Kars railway, connecting the Caucasus with Central Asia; and also links with the International North-South Transport Corridor that connects Russia to India via Iran.
Transportation corridors are all the rage. For Azerbaijan, oil and gas may only last up to 2050. So the priority from now on is to engineer the transition toward becoming a logistics hub; actually, the premier Caspian Sea hub.
Do (Caspian) opposites attract?
Baku's drive revisits and propels to the forefront the role of Pipelineistan and connectivity corridors in Eurasia integration. The overall picture may finally point to a "third way," Europe-bound, for Caspian energy exports, for the moment mostly concentrated on Russia and China.
Turkmenistan is actively promoting itself this year as "the heart of the Great Silk Road." Yet that's centered more on reviving Ancient Silk Road sites than on digital connectivity.
Still, Ashgabat did anticipate the BRI when the 1,800-kilometer Central Asia-China gas pipeline, from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, carrying 55 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year, was inaugurated in 2009.
Ashgabat and Moscow have had a tortuous spat that eventually led to Gazprom completely ceasing imports of Turkmen gas into Russia more than two years ago.
And that's how Beijing, and not Moscow, ended up being configured as Central Asia's top energy customer -- and trading partner.
Because of its idiosyncratic practices, Turkmenistan in the end never managed to diversify its export markets. It operated the switch from Russia to China but could not land the lucrative European market.
It has been a mantra in Brussels for ages now that the EU needs energy diversification away from Gazprom -- even as member nations are incapable of agreeing on the mere lineaments of a common energy policy.
European companies at best are developing major oil fields in Kazakhstan. But on the "blue gold" Pipelineistan front, so far no gas from Central Asia is flowing to Europe.
The traumatic experiences of the past are epitomized by the Nabucco soap opera -- a pipeline from Turkmenistan via the Caspian to Turkey and beyond that in the end will never be built.
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are actually stiff competitors on opposite shores of the Caspian. Baku was delighted with Nabucco's failure because that boosted the prospects of its own gas from the sprawling Shah Deniz field hitting Europe. The key Nabucco problem was the mystery surrounding Turkmenistan's real gas-production capability, considering that most of its gas is now directed toward China.
A complicating factor is that any pipeline that crosses the still legally undefined Caspian (is it a sea or is it a lake?) is also not exactly welcomed by either Russia or Iran.
Gazprom has its own plans to increase its share of the European market via Nord Stream and Turk Stream. Iran would aim finally to crack European markets via a possible pipeline from the massive South Pars field in cooperation with Qatar, a revamped version of the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline that was one of the key reasons for the war in Syria.
TAP meets TANAP
So in the end the only realistic Pipelineistan gambit in terms of Caspian gas connections to European markets is bound to be the small, 4,5 billion (US$5.55 billion) Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), carrying 10bcm of gas a year from Baku.
TAP, only 878km long (northern Greece 550km; Albania 215km; Adriatic Sea 105km; southern Italy 8km), is supposed to come online by March 2020.
TAP will be a sort of extension of the way more ambitious, $8 billion Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), which will ship gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz 2 to western Turkey, as configured by the so-called Southern Gas Corridor. TAP and TANAP will connect at the Greek-Turkish border.
It's enlightening to compare how Azerbaijan is betting on Europe while Turkmenistan bets on China.
And then there's Kazakhstan -- which deploys its own, branded, "multi-vector" foreign policy involving Russia, China, the US and the EU.
At the same time that Astana is a key node of the BRI, a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), it welcomes investment from EU majors and US oil giants.
Going forward, the trend is Beijing enjoying a strategic advantage as the top trading partner of every Central Asian "stan" except Kazakhstan, while Moscow maintains its multiple roles as security provider, trading partner, source of foreign investment, employer to millions of Central Asian expats, and Soft Power Central (Russian is the lingua franca in Central Asia, and Russian TV and culture are ubiquitous).
And this will all play within the framework of interpolation between BRI and the EEU.
But what about Iran and Turkey in the Big Picture?
Azerbaijan, as a Caspian nation, maintains deep ethnic and linguistic links with Turkey. Yet Baku prizes secularism in an Ataturk vein -- which sets it at odds with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-tinged neo-Ottomanism.
The major complicating factor is that Ankara and Moscow are collaborating on Turk Stream -- in essence a Pipelineistan move from Siberia to Europe under the Black Sea directly competing with Azerbaijan's own gas exports.
Iran for its part deploys ample cultural and linguistic influence all across Central Asia. In fact Persia, historically, has been the top organizing entity across Central Asia. Iran is as much a Central Asian power as Southwest Asian (what the west calls the Middle East).
But in a BRI environment shaped by the building of roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, pipelines, and fiber-optic networks, the real game-changing player in Central Asia will continue to be China -- allegedly more than Turkey, Iran and Russia.
Chinese companies already own roughly 25% of Kazakhstan's oil production and practically all of Turkmenistan's gas exports. And they have their sights on Baku as a major BRI node.
Call it a sort of digital revival of the Tang dynasty, when Chinese imperial influence extended across Central Asia all the way to northeastern Iran. Any bets on the Caspian soon becoming a Chinese lake?
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Addressing the Nuclear Ban Treaty
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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), a bedrock of international security, had the 50-year anniversary of its signing in 2018. While the existence of the treaty has not been able to prevent a handful of states from seeking nuclear weapons, for half a century the NPT has promoted norms of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Only nine states possess nuclear weapons today, far below the number predicted early in the nuclear age. Nonetheless, a second nuclear treaty, adopted in 2017, represents a significant and growing crack in the foundation of the NPT and suggests that relations among its members need to change if the treaty is going to survive another 50 years.
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Former U.S. Ambassador: Trump Had No Leverage Going Into North Korea Summit
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The summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, ended Thursday without any deal. The two sides failed to reach an agreement due to a standoff over U.S. sanctions on the reclusive nation.
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Iran's economic reforms in retreat
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If the intended aim of the new round of U.S. sanctions were to change Iran's behavior, it already has. Just not the behavior the Trump team had in mind—Iran abandoning its pursuit of pro-market economic reforms. President Hassan Rouhani, who was elected twice, in 2013 and 2017, on a platform of liberal economic reforms, has piece by piece put aside his reform agenda. Because of the economic havoc wreaked by the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions, he finds himself in the odd position of overseeing price controls, punishing commodity hoarders, subsidizing imports of a variety of goods, including mobile phones, and has lost the most liberal members of his economic team
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Ongoing Russian violations of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty need to be effectively addressed because they defy a longstanding bilateral agreement and directly threaten our NATO allies. However, the Trump administration's move to pull out of the treaty is misguided; instead, we should launch a major initiative to strengthen strategic stability between the United States and Russia, writes Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.
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Ban Ki-moon Discusses North Korean Denuclearization and American Leadership
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Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former top U.S. diplomat Susan A. Thornton discussed America's role in the political future of the Korean peninsula before a packed audience at an Institute of Politics event Monday.
The event — entitled "Negotiating for Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula" — was moderated by Harvard Kennedy School Professor R. Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO.
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"The partial budget blueprint released by the White House recently will put U.S. leadership in science and technology at serious risk if Congress goes along. In addition to the obvious damage that would result from the proposed $5.8 billion cut at NIH, the $2 billion cut in applied energy R&D, the $900 million cut in DOE's Office of Science, the abolition of ARPA-E, and the research cuts at NOAA and EPA, a less immediately obvious potential casualty would be U.S. scientific cooperation with a wide variety of other countries on a wide variety of topics."
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On 24 and 25 November 2016 experts from politics and academia, including FDP Executive director Cathryn Clüver, discussed the impact of Brexit on several policy areas in a series of workshops at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. All events took place under Chatham House rules.


In today's digital landscape, security has to be a top priority for organizations. With cyberattacks and information breaches happening every day, it's important to have the right strategy in place to protect your data and your organization. According to Fernando Montenegro, Senior Analyst at 451 Research, organizations need to transform their security programs and focus on three basic principles: consistency, reliability, and predictability.
Learn about the bigger picture of security and get some practical security advice from Fernando Montenegro, Senior Analyst at 451 Research in the video below.


Poor Apple - everyone seems to want to take the company to court over stuff right now, trying to squash the company's iTunes sucess story. Now, only just after fighting off an attack from Apple corps over their use of the Apple logo on iTunes, now Creative Technology is taking a pop at them too.
Creative has requested that the U.S. court block sales of Apple Computer's iPod devices, on the grounds that they violate a patent held by Creative. They claim to have been the inventor of the user interface software used by most portable digital media players, including the iPod.
Additionally, Creative claim that Apple has been in violation of U.S. trade law by importing the players into the U.S., and they believe that this justifies a halt of iPod sales in the U.S. Therefore, their lawsuit seeks to stop Apple from selling iPods and seeks unspecified financial damages.
Apple was not available for comment.


The scenery and seeing the country away from the usual tourist trail. Following the Mekong gave the theme to the journey through the country and meant we saw different aspects of the country.
Don't expect 5 star accommodation and comfort but getting away from that is part of the experience - everything is of a good standard albeit in some places a bit more basic.
Yes - the approach was to engage local people not just stare at them - we saw investment in communities and were able to contribute and donate in a positive way - Mines Action Group for example.
The tour exceeded my expectation, we saw amazing parts of the country without the usual tourist trail with packed days at a doable pace that allowed the tour group to dwell on the points of interest to them. I truly think that this is the best tour I have been on, not just because of the amazing country and their people but because of the management and tour approach. I would recommend it as a must do if you love Asia.
Canoeing on the Mekong and watching the river dolphins.
As we were the only people on the tour for 75% of the time I felt that we probably didn't reduce environmental impacts considering the distance we covered.
Amazing. Some of the hotels were out of this world. The people of Laos were friendly and the guides very helpful. We had some great experiences.
Every day was something different, we walked through jungle; rode elephants; explored caves and sailed in wooden boats, sometimes we used a wooden plank, sometimes we were knee deep in the river! We saw amazing temples and wooden huts that the locals lived in, we saw how people lived and how they dried peppers in their satellite dishes! There were sad parts too, understanding the legacy of the Vietnam war, unexploded bombs everywhere and maimed people. However, the people were great fun, as curious about us as we were about them.
This was our first trip to S.E. Asia, so we were unsure about what to expect. The hotels were all ok or good, with showers and proper toilets, but when you are out and about it's mainly squat toilets. The guides and drivers wouldn't let us carry our bags, the staff in all the hotels were all helpful and the guides couldn't do enough to help. Everything was well organised, and the guides and transport were always on time. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday? Just book it, and have an amazing time, we did!
The guides used local restaurants, transport and services, so it looks like most of our money went into the local economy. It didn't feel like a normal corporate style package holiday, there was time to enjoy the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of local markets.
Brilliant.....we're planning the next trip!


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UK: This year the Brick Development Association (BDA) will further promote the merits and benefits of brick with the launch of yet another exciting and comprehensive marketing campaign, as it continues to increase the awareness and recognition of brick as the material of choice for all key decision makers in the UK construction industry.
Continuing with the 'Think Brick' brand supporting one of the construction industries' most highly respected trade associations, the main purpose of this campaign is to focus on the natural virtues of brick and with the aim to dispel common misconceptions.
Brick is better for the environment: Brick supplies local communities and is manufactured using local resources, minimising impact on the environment.
Brick is built to last: Brick resists the worst weather conditions and has been proven to last for centuries. Building in brick guarantees low maintenance and long-term building performance.
Brick is low cost: Brick costs less than you might think. A study by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has proven that brick is more cost-effective than any of its rivals.
With a targeted advertising campaign running alongside a dedicated PR programme and the annual Brick Awards event, not to mention direct mail and promotional material, you will not fail to see the BDA's dedication and commitment to the brick and construction industries.


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What is Neutralisation short answer?
Definition: Neutralisation is a reaction where an acid reacts with an alkali to form a neutral solution of a salt and water. Acid + Alkali → Salt + Water.
What is Neutralisation with example?
A neutralization reaction is when an acid and a base react to form water and salt and involves the combination of hydrogen ions and hydroxyl ions to generate water. The neutralization of a strong acid and strong base has a pH equal to 7. Example – 1: When Sodium hydroxide is added to hydrochloric acid.
What Neutralisation means?
verb (used with object), neu·tral·ized, neu·tral·iz·ing. to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization. to make (something) ineffective; counteract; nullify: carelessness that neutralized our efforts. Military. to put out of action or make incapable of action: to neutralize an enemy position.
What is Neutralisation Byjus?
A neutralization reaction can be defined as a chemical reaction in which an acid and base quantitatively react together to form a salt and water as products. In a neutralization reaction, there is a combination of H+ ions and OH– ions which form water.
What is Neutralisation give two examples?
A neutralization reaction is when an acid and a base react to form water and salt and involves the combination of hydrogen ions and hydroxyl ions to generate water. Example – 2: Milk of magnesia, which is a base, is given as antacid in the case of indigestion, to neutralize the more acid produced in the stomach.
Where is Neutralisation used in everyday life?
Using neutralisation Your stomach contains hydrochloric acid, and too much of this causes indigestion. Antacid tablets contain bases such as magnesium hydroxide and magnesium carbonate to neutralise the extra acid. Bee stings are acidic.
What is a real life example of neutralization reaction?
Sodium hydroxide: used in the production of soaps, paper, and synthetic fibres. Magnesium hydroxide: used as an antacid to neutralise the acid in the stomach. Ammonium hydroxide: manufacturing of fertilisers. Calcium hydroxide: used for manufacturing bleaching powder.
How is Neutralisation used in toothpaste?
Neutralisation is an important chemical reaction. It occurs when an acid is mixed with an alkali until a neutral solution is obtained. However, if we brush our teeth with toothpaste, the alkaline in the toothpaste will neutralise the acids produced by the bacteria in our mouth. Tooth decay can be prevented.
Where do we use neutralisation?
In the body, neutralisation can be used to stop the stomach from producing too much hydrochloric acid. This can be done by ingesting antacid tablets which contain bases such as magnesium carbonate. In nature, bee stings are acidic, and baking powder can be used on them to neutralise the acid in the sting.
What is neutralisation for Class 7th?
The reaction in which an acid reacts with a base to form salt and water is called neutralisation. Some heat is always evolved (or produced) in a neutralisation reaction. This heat raises the temperature of reaction mixture due to which the reaction mixture becomes hot.
What is called neutralization reaction?
In chemistry, neutralization or neutralisation (see spelling differences) is a chemical reaction in which acid and a base react quantitatively with each other. In a reaction in water, neutralization results in there being no excess of hydrogen or hydroxide ions present in the solution.
What are the three types of neutralization?
To explain juvenile delinquency, they proposed five major types of neutralization techniques: denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of the victim, condemnation of the condemners, and appeal to higher loyalties.
Where is neutralisation used?
Neutralisation is the reaction of an acid with a base that results in the pH moving towards seven. It is a useful process that occurs in everyday life such as in the treatment of acid indigestion and the treating of acidic soil by adding lime. When an acid is neutralised, its pH increases towards seven.
What is neutralisation explain neutralisation in everyday life?
When an acid and a base react together to form salt and water as the products of their chemical reaction, the process is termed as a neutralisation reaction. Hydrogen ions from the acid combine with hydroxide ions of the base to form water. Neutralisation in our daily life plays an extremely important role.
What is the neutralization equation?
When an acid and a base react, the reaction is called a neutralization reaction. Let's see how a neutralization reaction produces both water and a salt, using as an example the reaction between solutions of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide. The overall equation for this reaction is: NaOH + HCl → H2O and NaCl.
Is neutralisation reversible?
A neutralisation reaction is a irreversible reaction as products (salt and water) can not be converted back to the reactants (acid and base).
Why is toothpaste alkali?
Toothpaste is normally slightly alkaline, which neutralises the acids in your foods, and stops the enamel protecting your teeth from eroding and keeps your mouth at the correct pH for enzymes to work.
What is neutralization give two examples?
What happens in neutralisation?
Neutralisation is the reaction of an acid with a base that results in the pH moving towards 7. Neutralisation also moves the pH of an alkali down towards seven. Several different bases can neutralise acids, and water is always produced as a result of these reactions.
How does neutralisation occur?
A neutralization reaction is when an acid and a base react to form water and a salt and involves the combination of H+ ions and OH- ions to generate water. When a solution is neutralized, it means that salts are formed from equal weights of acid and base. …
What is Neutralisation used for?
Neutralisation is the reaction of an acid with a base that results in the pH moving towards seven. It is a useful process that occurs in everyday life such as in the treatment of acid indigestion and the treating of acidic soil by adding lime.
Why do we use Neutralisation?
A neutralization reaction can be important for many reasons. Neutralization reactions are when an acid and base react, typically forming water and salt. These processes will help return pH levels to more neutral levels. Soil can sometimes become more acidic (under 5.5).
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Q: Checkbox with Result from Database in PHP I have a record fetch from database based on a dropdown selection.The result is shown as a table, in which the user is expected to tick his choice.After the selection,the user clicks a button which will automatically add his selection to a table.Now the issue is: the id that is fetched for each item changes when the button is clicked by turning it to ascending number.see image below:
For instance, in the table below, id 773,774,777,895 and 901 are selected.When Add to Float Button is cliked, the Id now becomes: 773,774,775,776,777(arranged ascending). See code below:
for Displaying Table

<input type="text" value="<?php echo $r['item_code'];?>" name="itmcode[]"  readonly="readonly"/>
    <?php echo $r['description'];?>
    <?php echo $r['qty'];?>
    <?php echo $r['price_per_qty'];?>
    <input type="text" value="<?php echo $r['total_value'];?>" name="tvalue[]" readonly="readonly" />
    <?php echo $r['preferred_supplier'];?>
   <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx[]"  value="<?php echo $r['id'];?>">
   <input type="hidden" name="gid[]"  value="<?php echo $r['id'];?>">

Processing Script:
<?php
if(array_key_exists('chkbx', $_POST)&&(!empty($_POST['chkbx']))&&(isset($_POST['floatBtn']))){
    foreach($_POST['chkbx'] as $rec=>$value)
      {
        $itm = $_POST['itmcode'][$rec];
        $tval = $_POST['tvalue'][$rec];
        $t = $_POST['gid'][$rec];
        $apno =$_POST['aNo'];
        $fno = $_POST['fno'];
        echo "itm:".$itm." tval: ".$tval." t:".$t." appno:".$apno."fno:".$fno."
";
      }
    }
?>

How can I correct this, so that it can display the correct id when the button is clicked after selecting.

A: Change your code like this

 <input type="text" value="<?php echo $r['item_code'];?>" name="itmcode[]"  readonly="readonly"/>
 <?php echo $r['description'];?>
 <?php echo $r['qty'];?>
 <?php echo $r['price_per_qty'];?>
 <input type="text" value="<?php echo $r['total_value'];?>" name="tvalue[]" readonly="readonly" />
 <?php echo $r['preferred_supplier'];?>
<input type="checkbox" name="chkbx[]"  value="<?php echo $r['id'];?>">

 //change gid[] to gid[<?php echo $r['id'];?>]

  <input type="hidden" name="gid[<?php echo $r['id'];?>]"  value="<?php echo $r['id'];?>">

in processing
<?php
   if(array_key_exists('chkbx', $_POST)&&(!empty($_POST['chkbx']))&&   (isset($_POST['floatBtn']))){
foreach($_POST['chkbx'] as $rec=>$value)
  {
    $itm = $_POST['itmcode'][$rec];
    $tval = $_POST['tvalue'][$rec];

    $t = $_POST['gid'][$value]; //--> changed from $_POST['gid'][$rec] to $_POST['gid'][$value]

    $apno =$_POST['aNo'];
    $fno = $_POST['fno'];
    echo "itm:".$itm." tval: ".$tval." t:".$t." appno:".$apno."fno:".$fno."
";
  }
}
 ?>

The issue when you post the data with the checkbox checked, you get an array like this
Array
(
  [itmcode] => Array
    (
        [0] => 1"
        [1] => 1"
        [2] => 1"
    )

[tvalue] => Array
    (
        [0] => 5
        [1] => 5
        [2] => 5
    )

[chkbx] => Array
    (
        [0] => 1
    )

[gid] => Array
    (
        [0] => 1
        [1] => 2
        [2] => 3
    )
)

so when looping the $_POST['chkbx'], the value for
   `$_POST['gid'][$rec] always loops with the keys of $_POST['chkbx'] which is 0,1,2 etc always. So you get values of $_POST['gid'][0], $_POST['gid'][1],$_POST['gid'][2], etc which is 773, 774, 775 respectively.


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Bioactive Proteins and Peptides
Proteins provide nutritional benefit as essential components of a healthy diet. The body metabolizes proteins to make hormones, antibodies, enzymes and various tissue/organ components includ-ing muscle. Proteins consist of long chains of amino acids – building blocks linked to-gether with peptide bonds. In their natural form, proteins are not easily absorbed from the digestive tract into the blood stream. Digestive enzymes in the stomach and in-testine must first break apart the peptide bonds. The process of digestion breaks proteins into shorter chains of amino acids called peptides, which the body can easily absorb. Nutritional efficiency (the percent-age of protein in our diet that is used for nutritional benefit by the body) depends on the ability of our digestive enzymes to split peptide bonds and release peptides.
Peptides released during protein digestion may also serve a therapeutic purpose (1). For example, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are toxic compounds that are produced during periods of metabolic or environmental stress. Peptides carry free electrons that neutralize ROS, which require an extra electron to become unreactive. The toxic side effects of ROS include damage to DNA (cancer-causing effects) or damage to structural components of the brain (neurodegenerative effects, e.g. Alzheimer's disease). By accepting free electrons from peptides, the ROS are neutralized and their toxic side effects may be prevented (an effect referred to as scavenging).
Due to their therapeutic effects, some peptides are deemed to be 'bioactive' and could serve as tools to prevent or treat various human diseases (1). However, bioactive peptides in the diet are usually not concentrated enough to be absorbed into the blood stream at sufficiently high levels in order to produce their bioactive effects. To address this issue, bioactive peptides are made in concentrated form through a process called in vitro digestion. In vitro digestion uses digestive enzymes to break apart (digest) proteins, forming specific types of bioactive peptides. This method can be customized with the use of microbial enzymes that are more efficient than the digestive enzymes normally present in our digestive tract.
Pea Protein Hydrolysate (PPH)
In my research program, we have taken advantage of in vitro digestion to convert yellow field pea protein into bioactive peptides, referred to as pea protein hydrolysate (PPH). Yellow field peas are a legume crop grown for human and animal consumption. Yellow field pea proteins are subjected to in vitro digestion and, after three hours of digestion with microbial enzymes, any undigested proteins are separated from the bioactive peptides. In the final step of the process the isolated bioactive peptides are dried to form PPH (2).
Animal and human trials have demonstrated that PPH has blood pressure lowering (anti-hypertensive) effects (2).We have tested PPH as an inhibitor of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). The RAS is the main metabolic pathway that regulates human blood pressure (Figure 1). Under in vitro conditions, we found that PPH was able block the function of (inhibit) the two main enzymes that operate the RAS: renin and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). Spontaneously hypertensive rats (which closely model hypertension [high blood pressure] in humans) were fed PPH over acute (24-hour) and long-term (five-week) periods. Over the acute and long-term feeding periods, spontaneously hypertensive rats fed PPH had reduced systolic blood pressure (SBP) (2,3).
The so called Han:SPRD-cy rat is an animal model of human chronic kidney disease (CKD) which was also used for testing PPH as an anti-hypertensive agent. The kidneys of Han:SPRD-cy rats contain large numbers of cysts, which are known to activate the RAS and contribute to hypertension. Hypertension is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. We indeed found that PPH was effective at reducing SBP in Han:SPRD-cy rats. During an eight-week feeding experiment, PPH was added to the feed of Han:SPRD-cy rats and caused a reduction in SBP by 29 mmHg and a reduction in diastolic blood pressure (DPB) by 25 mmHg (3). PPH also significantly increased urine production when compared to Han:SPRD-cy rats not fed PPH. In addition to anti-hypertensive effects, our data suggested that PPH may also improve kidney function and enhance urine production under conditions of CKD.
These animal experiments provided the rationale for testing PPH as an anti-hypertensive agent in human volunteers. PPH was added to orange juice that was consumed by mildly hypertensive human volunteers with normal kidney function. During a three-week feeding test, there was a significant decrease in the SBP of human volunteers who consumed PPH when compared to a placebo (orange juice only). Another potential health benefit of PPH was demonstrated as an immune-modulating agent. For example, activated immune cells (macrophages exposed to lipopolysaccharides) produced 80% less pro-inflammatory agents when treated with PPH (4). When PPH was orally administered to mice, there was increased activity of their peritoneal macrophages in addition to enhanced stimulation of the immune response in the gut mucosa.
Hemp Seed Protein Hydrolysate (HPH)
Research has also investigated the anti-hypertensive effects of peptides produced from the enzymatic digestion of hemp seed proteins (HPH) (5). It has been found that when provided to young systemic hypertensive rats, HPH prevented the development of hypertension. Young systemic hypertensive rats fed HPH maintained normal systolic blood pressure (120 mmHg) during the eight-week experiment (6). In comparison, young systemic hypertensive rats not fed HPH (control diet) developed hypertension with systolic blood pressure of 158 mmHg.
In adult systemic hypertensive rats with full-blown hypertension, incorporation of HPH into the feed led to significant reductions in SBP. Plasma analysis confirmed HPH reduced blood levels of renin and ACE, which underpinned the observed reduction in SBP. Therefore, the HPH had both preventive and therapeutic effects in the systemic hypertensive rat.
In addition to these anti-hypertensive effects, HPH had anti-oxidant properties, including the ability to neutralize highly reactive species (free radicals and metal ions) and inhibit the production of peroxyl radicals (peroxidation of unsaturated fatty acids) (7). HPH also significantly decreased plasma lipid peroxides and boosted levels of anti-oxidant enzymes (8). Together, these results suggested that HPH acted as a multifunctional agent with the ability to simultaneously reduce blood pressure, plasma lipid peroxides, and toxic free radicals.
Figure 1: Effect of PPH and HPH on the Renin-Angiotensin SystemOn sensing reduction in blood pressure, the kidneys release renin which converts angioten-sinogen (secreted by the liv-er) to angiotensin I. ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme), released by the lungs, converts angiotensin I to angiotensin II. Angiotensin II acts on blood vessels, stimulating vasoconstriction (narrowing) which increases blood pressure. Angiotensin II also stimulates the adrenal gland to secrete aldoster-one, which stimu-lates the kidneys to reabsorb salt and water. PPH (pea protein hydrolysate) and HPH (hemp seed protein hydro-lysate) are able to normalize high blood pressure (hypertension) by reducing the levels of renin and ACE, thus blocking the conversion of angiotensinogen into angiotensin II.
Hemp seed protein hydrolysate (HPH) is the term for bioactive peptides produced from hemp seed (of the Cannabis sativa plant species) using the process of in vitro digestion. HPH has been found to have anti-hypertensive and anti-oxidant effects
Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is a global problem that afflicts close to one quarter of the world's population. IDA contributes to the development of several conditions, including an abnormally fast heartbeat (tachycardia), heart failure and, in the female population, a higher risk of complications before or after childbirth. Current approaches to treatment involve the use of inorganic iron salts, which are consumed orally at very high doses. Very high doses of inorganic iron are used because inorganic iron has relatively poor solubility within, and low absorption from the gastrointestinal tract. The problem is that there are always high amounts of unabsorbed iron, which can cause negative side effects such as constipation and other gastrointestinal ailments.
My research program has focused on developing a protein alternative to inorganic iron as a treatment for IDA. Phytoferritins consist of an iron core enclosed within a protein cage. These organic forms of iron are soluble and readily broken down in the gastrointestinal tract to release their iron payload. Therefore, ferritins could serve as a more efficient iron source for the treatment of IDA when compared to inorganic iron supplements currently in use.
To achieve this goal, we have developed a method for producing a phytoferritin concentrate from legume seeds. The extraction process is wholly aqueous-based and produces phytoferritin concentrates
providing up to 50 mg of iron per 100 g. We estimate that an adult dose of only 300 mg of phytoferritin concentrate per day (which could be supplied in a single capsule) would provide sufficient iron to meet the daily iron requirement and prevent or treat IDA. Plans are underway to test the efficacy of this phytoferritin in a suitable animal model of IDA before moving on to human intervention trials.
The market for natural therapeutic products continues to grow rapidly due to strong demand from increasingly health conscious consumers. This demand is driven by the reduced risk of negative side effects associated with natural therapies. Within the natural products market, the use of proteins and peptides has gained significant interest due to their ease of production and the safety of the products. Whole proteins can be used to provide bioactive effects, but prior digestion into smaller sized peptides seems to be the optimal route for developing naturally therapeutic products. In general, peptides produced from hydrolyzed proteins are more readily absorbed and provide beneficial effects on the human body. Such health benefits include the reduction of high blood pressure, the neutralization of oxidative stress, and the support of the normal function of the immune system. While these health benefits have been demonstrated in animals, there is a drive for human intervention trials to support the market adoption of bioactive proteins and peptides as effective and safe therapeutic agents.
1. Udenigwe CC, Aluko RE. Food protein-derived bioactive peptides: production, processing and potential health benefits. J. Food Sci. 2012;71:R11-R24.
2. Li H, et al. Blood pressure lowering effect of a pea protein hydrolysate in hypertensive rats and humans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2011;59:9854-9860.
3. Girgih AT, et al. Antihypertensive properties of a pea protein hydrolysate during short and long term oral administration to spontaneously hypertensive rats. J. Food Sci. 2016;81:H1281-H1287.
4. Ndiaye F, et al. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating properties of an enzymatic protein hydrolysate from yellow field pea seeds. Eur. J. Nutr. 2012;51:29-37.
4. Girgih AT, et al. Kinetics of enzyme inhibition and antihypertensive effects of hemp seed (Cannabis sativa L.) protein hydrolysates. J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 2011;88:1767-1774.
5. Girgih AT, et al. Preventive and treatment effects of hemp seed (Cannabis sativa L.) meal protein hydrolysate against high blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Eur. J. Nutr. 2014;53:1237–1246.
6. Girgih AT, et al. In vitro antioxidant properties of hempseed (Cannabis sativa L.) protein hydrolysate fractions. J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 2011;88:381-389.
7. Girgih AT, et al. A novel hemp seed meal protein hydrolysate reduces oxidative stress factors in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Nutrients. 2014;6:5652-5666.
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Morgan Stanley CEO to receive $10.5 million
Lauren Tara LaCapra
(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS.N) Chief Executive James Gorman was awarded a $10.5 million bonus for 2011, down 25 percent from the previous year, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman (L) is seen leaving after a meeting with lawyer Davis Polk in New York in this January 13, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
All of Gorman's bonus will be deferred for a period of two to three years, including a $5.1 million restricted stock award detailed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday evening.
The lower bonuses with tighter restrictions reflect weak performance at Morgan Stanley in 2011, as capital markets reacted to the European sovereign debt crisis and a downgrade of the U.S. bond rating. Clients pulled back sharply on trading and investment banking activity, hurting profits across Wall Street.
Morgan Stanley lost money in two of four quarters and had difficulty meeting profitability targets that were earlier outlined by senior management. Its return on common equity - a key measurement of profitability - was a meager 3.9 percent from continuing operations for the full year.
Morgan Stanley, like other rivals including Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), responded to rough market conditions by cutting staff and salaries.
The bank capped cash bonuses at $125,000 for employees, an unusually low amount for a workforce accustomed to multi-million dollar paydays. In mid-December it announced plans to lay off 1,600 employees, which comes in addition to hundreds of underperforming financial advisers dismissed from its wealth management business earlier in the year.
Overall, Morgan Stanley paid out $16.4 billion worth of compensation and benefits in 2011, which translated into $264,996 per employee. The figures were higher than the previous year because of severance costs from recent layoffs, higher pay for financial advisers and an unusually large amount of deferred compensation from previous years that came due in 2011.
Gorman and other members of his operating committee have been given a 21 percent cut in bonuses collectively, all of which will be deferred, said the source familiar with top-level pay.
In Form 4 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Morgan Stanley detailed $24.5 million worth of restricted stock to nine top executives on Thursday as part of their 2011 bonus payments.
Greg Fleming, the head of Morgan Stanley's wealth management business, and Paul Taubman, an investment banker who is co-head of institutional securities, each received restricted stock worth $3.4 million on Thursday, using the bank's closing price of $18.28. Colm Kelleher, the bank's other co-head of institutional securities, who has a background in trading, received a $2.6 million award.
Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat received $3.2 million worth of restricted stock and her deputy, Paul Wirth, received $1.1 million in RSUs. Chief Operating Officer Jim Rosenthal received $2.9 million worth, while Chief Risk Officer Keishi Hotsuki received $1.8 million in RSUs.
Newly promoted Chief Legal Officer Eric Grossman was the only executive to receive an award under $1 million, at $975,000.
The restricted stock units, as well as other performance-based stock awards, will vest over a three-year period, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
In addition to those awards, Gorman will also receive a cash bonus over a period of two years. The $10.5 million total bonus comes in addition to the $800,000 salary he received for 2011 and is down from $14 million in 2010.
Reporting By Lauren Tara LaCapra; editing by Andre Grenon


Talk for PerconaLive 2016 by Brendan Gregg. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbmEDXq7es0 . "Systems performance provides a different perspective for analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your databases, applications, and the kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this topic. This talk summarizes six important areas of Linux systems performance in 50 minutes: observability tools, methodologies, benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning. Included are recipes for Linux performance analysis and tuning (using vmstat, mpstat, iostat, etc), overviews of complex areas including profiling (perf_events), static tracing (tracepoints), and dynamic tracing (kprobes, uprobes), and much advice about what is and isn't important to learn. This talk is aimed at everyone: DBAs, developers, operations, etc, and in any environment running Linux, bare-metal or the cloud."
5. How	do	you	measure	these?
20. Where	do	you	start?...and	stop?
37. For any given benchmark result, ask: why isn't it 10x?
42. perf_events	•  Introduced earlier: multi-tool, profiler. Provides "perf". usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS] The most commonly used perf commands are: annotate Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated code archive Create archive with object files with build-ids found in perf.data file bench General framework for benchmark suites buildid-cache Manage build-id cache. buildid-list List the buildids in a perf.data file data Data file related processing diff Read perf.data files and display the differential profile evlist List the event names in a perf.data file inject Filter to augment the events stream with additional information kmem Tool to trace/measure kernel memory(slab) properties kvm Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os list List all symbolic event types lock Analyze lock events mem Profile memory accesses record Run a command and record its profile into perf.data report Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile sched Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies) script Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output stat Run a command and gather performance counter statistics test Runs sanity tests. timechart Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload top System profiling tool. trace strace inspired tool probe Define new dynamic tracepoints See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.
58. jrace:	perf-‐tools	uprobe	•  Dynamically trace user-level functions; eg, MySQL: –  Filter on string match; eg, "SELECT": •  Ok for hacking, but not friendly; need perf_events/BPF # ./uprobe 'p:dispatch_command /opt/mysql/bin/mysqld:_Z16dispatch_command19enum_server_commandP3THDPcj +0(%dx):string' Tracing uprobe dispatch_command (p:dispatch_command /opt/mysql/bin/mysqld:0x2dbd40 +0(%dx):string). Ctrl-C to end. mysqld-2855  d... 19956674.509085: dispatch_command: (0x6dbd40) arg1="show tables" mysqld-2855  d... 19956675.541155: dispatch_command: (0x6dbd40) arg1="SELECT * FROM numbers where number > 32000" # ./uprobe 'p:dispatch_command /opt/mysql/bin/mysqld:_Z16dispatch_command19enum_server_commandP3THDPcj cmd=+0(%dx):string' 'cmd ~ "SELECT*"' Tracing uprobe dispatch_command (p:dispatch_command /opt/mysql/bin/mysqld:0x2dbd40 cmd= +0(%dx):string). Ctrl-C to end. mysqld-2855  d... 19956754.619958: dispatch_command: (0x6dbd40) cmd="SELECT * FROM numbers where number > 32000" mysqld-2855  d... 19956755.060125: dispatch_command: (0x6dbd40) cmd="SELECT * FROM numbers where number > 32000"
59. perf_events	•  Powerful profiler (covered earlier) and tracer: –  User-level and kernel dynamic tracing –  Kernel line tracing and local variables (debuginfo) –  Kernel filtering expressions –  Efficient in-kernel counts (perf stat) •  Intended as the official Linux tracer/profiler •  Becoming more programmable with BPF support (2016) –  Search lkml for "perf" and "BPF"


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Music / "Vespers for Kings and Cardinals", CORO Chamber Ensemble, at Wesley Uniting Church, November 3. Reviewed by TONY MAGEE
PRESENTING two different settings of "Dixit Dominus", one by Handel, the other by Charpentier, as well as two other pieces by the latter, CORO Chamber Music Ensemble presented an outstanding, finely polished and refined performance. It was one of the classical music concert highlights of the year.
"Dixit Dominus" is a setting using the Latin text of "Psalm 110", from "The Book of Psalms", part of the third section of the Hebrew "Bible" and thus from the Christian Old Testament. Versus 1 and 4 are also quoted in the "New Testament".
Translating as "The Lord Said", the psalm has also been set to music by Victoria, Monteverdi (twice), Pergolesi, Vivaldi (three times), Michael Haydn and Mozart amongst others.
Peter Young conducts CORO Chamber Ensemble. Photo: Peter Hislop
Richard Rogers composed a partial setting in 1959, using versus 1, 5 and 7 for the opening sequence of his musical "The Sound of Music".
One of the most impressive things about the interpretation of the three Charpentier works, which opened the concert, was the accurate, authentic and tasteful use of French Baroque ornamentation, from both choir and orchestra, starting on the note above.
Musical director Peter Young, who also played organ and harpsichord, has put in a massive amount of research into the preparation for this concert. In particular his transcription of Charpentier's "Lauda Jerusalem", was impressive, this being the Australian premier performance.
Also contributing greatly to the success of the Charpentier works, was the excellent solo continuo playing by cellist Sam Payne, delivering a solid bass foundation with superb intonation, aided by Peter Young's sensitive organ playing, which served to accompany the many beautifully sung solo and duet vocal passages which are a hallmark of this era of music.
Composed and first performed in 1707, when Handel was aged just 22 and living in Italy, his setting of "Dixit Dominus" it is one of his earliest substantial works, showcasing his incredible talent, skill and musical understanding as well as fresh new compositional ideas, which would influence other composers of the Baroque era over the next 50 years.
The choir and orchestra, led with precision by Barbara Jane Gilby, were much more voluminous during the Handel, rich and beautifully balanced, with superb pitch and intonation and with greater attention to dynamic range.
Throughout the Handel, one could hear sections, particularly the versus "Juravit Dominus" and "Judicabit", which seem to have greatly influenced Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, particularly in his setting of the "Gloria in D", RV589.
During the verse "Dominus a dextris tuis", an unusual combination of the two cellos in unison with double bass supported two soprano soloists with tenor and bass in a fascinating and complex musical interplay.
Wesley Church is one of the most beautifully acoustically balanced venues for this kind of music. It allows for great clarity of sound, enhanced by a gentle cathedral resonance.
At the conclusion of the Handel, CORO and the orchestra had the audience on its feet, deservedly receiving rapturous applause for this superlative and highly professional performance.
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Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen so he might be eligible under legal restrictions to purchase additional U.S. television stations. He has built a large media empire in the U.S. (with holdings in other countries) which includes the Fox Cable News network. As far as I can tell, Murdoch has not made any public comment on the events in Charlottesville or the position taken concerning those events by Donald J Trump.
But his son James, CEO of 21st Century Fox (a Murdoch property) has, as reported in the New York Times, Washington Post and other news organizations.
Here is a link to the text as reported in the Times of an email James Murdoch sent friends.
I urge you to read it in its entirety but here are some highlights.
Now, do Donald J Trump or "Fox & Friends" dare to label James Murdoch's email "fake news?" Will the Fox Cable News Network even report his email?
Remember, it was Rupert Murdoch's two sons who reportedly pressed to fire Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly and other Fox Cable Network personnel for alleged sexual assaults on women. Will they now clean out the stable further?
The ground is shaking at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fox Cable News Network and elsewhere where bigotry has been exposed and called out.
If any good can be said to have come out of the events in Charlottesville it is that more and more Americans are pushing back against the Nazis, Klansmen and various other bigots in general and against the man who, in putting their actions on an equal plane with Americans who oppose them, has hastened his own departure from the Oval Office.
The "ill wind" in Charlottesville may, indeed, turn out to blow us all some good!
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John Pighini, Vice President of the Pararescue Association.
John spent 21 years as a Pararescueman with various assignments starting in SEA and culminating at HQ 23rd Air Force.
Subsequently, he was handpicked by the Commanding General as the first Pararescue Superintendent to establish the roles and missions for Pararescue within the Joint Special Operation Command. After retiring from the Air Force in August, 1987, he worked as a consultant for orthopedic reconstruction surgery. He then established Pighini Medical, an orthopedic consulting and implant distributorship.
Retiring from that in 1998, he went on to live his dream of working with horses. John has a BS in education from the University of Illinois. He has numerous sales awards to include "Distributor of the Year".
Military awards include the Silver star, the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism, the Airman's Medal, Air Medals, and numerous other awards and decorations.
Also the 1979 recipient of the Cheney Award, John presently continues to live his dream with his wife, Sue, at Livin' the Dream Ranch in Virginia where he trains horses and teaches their human partners.


We geeks like to do a lot of the same things non-geeks do, just with a bit of a geeky spin to them. Lots of people like to put stickers for the college(s) they attended on their cars — geeks do that, too, only they'll sometimes add one for Miskatonic University or Starfleet Academy.
So we want to do our part for Earth Day, too. After all, Earth's the only planet we've got — for the time being, anyway — and as The Tick said, it's where we keep all our stuff. Here, then, from all of us at GeekDad, are ten ideas (in no particular order) for how to celebrate this 40th Earth Day, each with a bit of a geeky spin.
1. Charge your handheld devices in a greener way - The site localcooling.com has some good suggestions.
2. Install a programmable thermostat in your home - It's really simple, not that expensive, and is pretty well guaranteed to save energy, and to reduce your utility bills drastically. It can be a bit of a chore to get the programming just right to keep your family comfortable, but the prospect of doing some experimentation has never yet scared off a true geek.
3. Implement Wake-on-LAN on your home computer(s) - You know how it is: you want to be able to access your home computer from wherever you are, whether it's to get to your music library, or just to grab a document. But of course leaving the computer on all day is a huge waste of energy. Get Wake-on-LAN to work on it, and you can have the best of both worlds: get access when you need it without leaving it powered up when you don't.
4. Buy and use an energy-saving surge protector / power strip - These are devices that act like regular old surge protectors, but with an added feature: it helps eliminate "phantom power" waste. "Phantom power" is the little bit of power many devices draw even when they're switched off. Some, like this one from Belkin , are highly configurable and even have a remote control, for extra geek points.
5. Install solar panels on your roof - Obviously this won't work for everyone, but if you can do this and you live somewhere where you get a decent amount of sun, this can really reduce the amount of electricity you draw from your utility company. Unfortunately, solar panels aren't efficient enough yet that you're likely to see a drastic difference (especially in winter), but without solar panels it really is just perfectly good energy going to waste, right?
__6. Find and fix air leaks in your home __- Houses, and especially older houses, tend to have a lot of little air leaks, any one of which isn't too bad, but which together can be a huge energy sink. How is this geeky, you ask? Because it's a great excuse to buy yourself a Black & Decker Leak Detector , which in addition to having a rhyming name just looks like a lot of fun to play with use.
__7. Get a convection oven __- We know that many geeks love to cook, so this is really a no-brainer. Not only do convection ovens cook food more evenly than conventional ovens, but they do it more quickly and at lower temperatures. There are even some newer ovens that combine microwave cooking with convection and/or halogen light cooking, which are supposed to save even more energy. We haven't seen reliable information on how good a job they do actually cooking the food, though.
8. Track your energy usage online - An excellent, and free, online web application called "WattzOn" is a tool for estimating your energy usage, comparing it to other people's, and helping you plan to reduce it. It's still in alpha, so you may run into a few bugs here and there, but it's certainly worth trying out, and it's even more certainly geeky.
9. Turn off screen-savers, and encourage your friends and family to do the same - Time was that screen-savers were useful, even necessary. Unless you're still using a CRT monitor, your screen doesn't need saving, and even if you are all modern operating systems have power management functionality which will do the same thing, only better. It's much better to have your monitor switch to power-save mode or simply shut off after a certain period of non-use, especially if it's a CRT (as CRTs draw much more power than LCDs do). Once you've done it yourself, it's time to use your status as Free Tech Support Provider for your friends and family to convince them to do the same.
__10. Recycle cardboard, cans, and bottles as game terrain __- We're sure you already recycle, but usual recycling efforts are only somewhat effective due to the resources required to gather the recyclable materials, separate them, and do the actual recycling. So why not find another use in your own home, and a geeky use at that? A little creativity, a pair of scissors, some paint and some glue, and you've got yourself some nifty terrain for a miniatures campaign, or maybe as a playset for your kids' action figures.
Any other ideas? Please leave a comment. Have a happy Earth Day! Remember, think globally, act locally (we can't stand the ungrammatical way that's usually said)!


Mary Ann Wymore's knowledge of the fast-changing communications and media industries allows her to represent clients in a range of legal issues. She handles an array of general commercial litigation, representing media organizations, businesses, advertising firms and individuals in the areas of defamation and privacy, advertising, constitutional and technology law, unfair competition and intellectual property law. Her intellectual property work includes matters related to trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and patents. She regularly litigates lawsuits arising under the Lanham Act and various state advertising and consumer protection laws in trial and appellate courts.
Mary Ann frequently assists with pre-publication review, evaluating legal issues ranging from clearance rights to the avoidance of privacy or defamation liability. She also helps clients ensure they are in compliance with the widely varying state and federal regulations on sweepstakes and promotions.
Among her areas of emphasis is the defense of claims brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. In her TCPA practice, Mary Ann has represented a spectrum of more than 80 clients in defense of more than 240 private individual and class action lawsuits in at least 28 judicial venues nationwide. She also has represented clients in defense of governmental TCPA enforcement actions in federal courts and before the FCC.
Mary Ann is a mediator certified for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and serves as a panel mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri and United States Arbitration & Mediation. A former journalist and instructor of journalism and communications at UCLA, she has been an adjunct professor of media law and electronic media law at Saint Louis University School of Law and a member of the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law. She has written and lectured on communications and media-related issues including social media and the TCPA.
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