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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death. However, in 2013, Professor Urban Alehagen, a Swedish cardiologist, demonstrated that giving supplements of selenium and Q10 to seniors could strengthen their hearts and reduce their cardiovascular mortality rate by over 50 percent. In follow-ups of his research, it was seen that the two supplements had a long-term effect on lifespan, but there is more to the story. In a whole new study that is published in European Journal of Nutrition, Alehagen manages to show in detail that selenium and Q10 have a positive effect on oxidative stress and inflammation at the same time as improving a number of biomarkers of heart health. He also explains why it can be a challenge to get enough Q10 and selenium through an entire life.
Q10 is a unique coenzyme that appears in two essential forms. One is needed for cellular energy turnover, while the other is a powerful antioxidant that protects cells, organs, and the circulatory system against free radical damage. The body uses both forms interchangeably and converts one form into the other, and vice versa, with help from a selenium-containing enzyme called thioredoxin reductase. Selenium is also an integral part of other antioxidants and enzymes with a number of different functions. In other words, there is a synergy between Q10 and selenium.
The body synthesizes most of the Q10 for its own needs, but our endogenous production of the compounds gradually starts to decrease when we reach an age of around 20 years. This mainly affects the heart, which is especially energy-dependent. At the age of 60, our Q10 content in heart tissue has been reduced by 50 percent
Selenium is also a challenge because it is difficult to get enough of the nutrient from our diet. This is primarily a result of European farmland being low in selenium. This is a problem that affects the entire food chain.
Supplements of Q10 and selenium halved mortality rates
Because cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death and because the risk of them goes up with increasing age, it was rather obvious to investigate the effect of giving these two compounds to a group of seniors. Professor Urban Alehagen, a Swedish cardiologist, and his team of scientists carried out the groundbreaking KiSel-10 study that involved 443 healthy, older Swedes. One group got 200 micrograms of selenium yeast and 200 milligrams of pharmaceutical-grade Q10 daily, while the other group got matching placebo. The participants took the supplements for four years, and the study revealed the following changes in the supplemented group:
54% lower cardiovascular mortality
Increased heart muscle strength (shown with ultrasound scans)
Improved quality of life
The study was published in the International Journal of Cardiology in 2013.
Follow-ups of the study after 10 and 12 years showed that supplementation with Q10 and selenium had a long-term effect on heart function and lifespan. This effect was not observed in the placebo group. Because these two supplements had such a surprising impact on health and lifespan Alehagen and his team continued to analyze the more than 50,000 blood samples that had been collected from the two groups in the original study and stored in special freezers all along.
Multiple biomarkers reveal selenium's and Q10's positive effects
The purpose of the new study was to analyze how the combination of selenium and Q10 affects different biomarkers and to get a better understanding of how these two nutrients can support the circulatory system, improve heart function, and increase lifespan. The scientists used a so-called SEM (Structural Equation Modelling) analysis that measures the exact relation between changes in the biomarkers and improvements of different health parameters. The analysis generally showed that supplementation with Q10 and selenium has a positive effect on the following:
Oxidative stress and inflammation
It lowers blood levels of fructosamine, sP-selectin, and CRP (C-reactive protein), all of which are markers of inflammation and oxidative stress. Conditions with inflammation and oxidative stress are characterized by an overrepresentation of free radicals that can set the stage for cellular damage, atherosclerosis, and ageing processes. Selenium and Q10 have antioxidant properties and have the ability to neutralize free radicals.
Epithelial cells
It lowers blood levels of Willebrand factor and D-dimer, which indicates healthier epithelial cells and less presence of blood clotting or smaller blood clots.
Fibrosis
It lowers blood levels of seven biomarkers that reflect blood vessel fibrosis. This indicates that selenium and Q10 counteract the type of fibrosis that is normally seen with ageing and cardiovascular disease.
IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor)
It increases blood levels of IGF-1, which normally tend to drop in connection with ageing. IGF-1 has a number of different functions such as cell rejuvenation and anti-inflammatory processes
Micro-RNA
It improves the expression of 90 different types of microRNA. We still don't know much about microRNA, but we know that it is associated with multiple functions such as the regulation of genes and protein codes. MicroRNA's functions are also linked to the circulatory system, heart function, and repair of damaged tissue.
It lowers levels of NT-proBNP, a hormone that is released by the heart when it works under duress. Lower levels of this biomarker mean improved systolic function and improved heart muscle strength
Compared with placebo, supplementation with Q10 and selenium has a positive effect on cardiovascular health and lifespan, and this is reflected in the positive effect of this combo on the many biomarkers. The new study is published in the European Journal of Nutrition.
Make sure to use bioavailable supplements
The KiSel-10 study was carried out with pharmaceutical-grade selenium yeast and Q10 to ensure high bioavailability and nutrient utilization. This is only possible with products that have documentation for their quality and absorbability.
Urban Alehagen et al. Improved cardiovascular health by supplementation with selenium and coenzyme Q10: applying structural equation modelling (SEM) to clinical outcomes and biomarkers to explore underlying mechanisms in a prospective randomized double-blind placebo-controlled intervention project in Sweden. European Journal of Nutrition. 2022
Alehagen U, et al. Cardiovascular mortality and N-Terminal-proBNP reduced after combined selenium and coenzyme Q10 supplementation. Int J Cardiol. 2012.
Pernille Lund. Q10 – fra helsekost til epokegørende medicin. 2013
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Poll: Rushern Baker Starts With Solid Base at Home
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A poll conducted last month help explains why Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker (D) appears to start with an advantage over his opponents in the Democratic primary for governor: He has solid ratings in his home county — which has the biggest Democratic registration in the state.
The poll of 407 Prince George's County Democrats, obtained this week by Maryland Matters, showed that Baker is popular with his constituents: 69 percent approved of the job he's doing, while 19 percent disapproved. Significantly, 61 percent of Prince George's Democratic voters said the county was moving in the right direction, while only 21 percent said things are off on the wrong track. Eighteen percent provided no response.
Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker gets good marks at home.
The survey also showed Baker with a solid home-field advantage over his likely opponents in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Fifty-one percent of Prince George's Democrats said they would vote for Baker; 15 percent said they would vote for former NAACP President Ben Jealous; 1 percent would vote for Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and 1 percent would vote for state Sen. Rich Madaleno. Six percent said they'd support someone else, and 26 percent were undecided.
This poll was taken Sept. 1-7 by Gonzales Research & Media Services for the Greater Prince George's County Business Roundtable. It had a 5-point margin of error.
"Elected officials trying to evolve from a countywide office to a statewide office, such as
governor, need an abundance of support within their geographic political base to propel the endeavor," pollster Patrick Gonzales wrote in a memo accompanying the survey. "Rushern Baker satisfies this essential requirement."
But solid as Baker's showing in Prince George's is, it pales in comparison to former Gov. Parris Glendening's (D) performance at home in the 1994 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Glendening, the last Prince George's executive to seek the state's top job, received 83 percent of the vote in his home county in the seven-way primary, en route to winning the governorship in the general election.
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Which of these bell pepper colors is not like the others?
Bell peppers at the Dallas Farmer's Market, by joe beasley, on Flickr
Although the history of pepper cultivation goes back at least six thousand years, bell peppers didn't show up very often in American recipes until domestic cultivation began around 1925. Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion about the different colors of bell peppers on the market and the significance of those colors. Let's talk first about what goes on with the colors of bell peppers, then what that information means to us in the kitchen.
But to understand this conversation better, be aware that peppers are a lot like guys: just because we're fully grown doesn't mean we're fully matured. That is, a pepper can have a fully-developed shape but not actually be ripe yet.
All bell peppers–and all peppers, in fact–start out in some shade of green between greenish-yellow and full-on "it-ain't-easy-bein'-green." From there, there are three possibilities:
The pepper is green, grows to full size, and then ripens and turns a different shade of green.
The pepper is green, grows to full size, and then ripens and turns a different color–for example, a green pepper that turns yellow when ripe.
The pepper is green, grows to full size, starts to ripen in one color and then turns a third color–for example, a pale green pepper that turns whiteish-purple and then finally red.
Once a pepper has entered the final stage of ripening, it can be picked and will continue to ripen off the vine, but a fully-developed but not-at-all-ripe pepper won't ripen once picked.
So what does this mean to consumers? It means you should instantly be suspicious of green peppers that cost less than yellow or red peppers. All yellow and red peppers either are ripe or are entering the final stage of ripeness and are going to have sweeter, less fibrous flesh and double the vitamin C than unripe fruits.
Given that, you'd think that growers wouldn't pick unripe green peppers. Unfortunately, peppers, like tomatoes, are botanically fruits.
Bell peppers growing near Blanco, Texas by G F, on Flickr, on Flickr
This is unfortunate because all fruiting plants have what's called a "fruit load." A healthy plant will continue to bud new fruit throughout the growing season until a certain amount of fruit is on the plant–at which point, it'll stop fruiting until some fruit is removed. This is why vine-ripened tomatoes are often two to three times the price of other tomatoes; leaving the fruit on the vine costs the grower the opportunity to sell one or two more tomatoes that would've grown had they been removed.
The way to get the most peppers out of your plants, then, is to harvest them at the earliest possible moment. For yellow and red peppers, the earliest moment is in that final stage of ripeness–but for green peppers, harvesting when they're developed, but not ripe, maximizes profit.
So it's not that green peppers are bad, it's that unripe peppers are bad, and many of the ones you find in a supermarket aren't ripe. But there are exceptions; talk to your produce manager and see what he or she can tell you about the growers.
From the box of F.J. from Sun City, Arizona. Some cards suggest a family history in Missouri and Kansas.
medium cabbage
1 green pepper
1 cup diced celery
Cut cabbage and place in bowl. Place other ingredients on top. Do not stir.
Sprinkle with 1/2 cup sugar. Mix 1/2 cup oil, 1/2 cup vinegar, 2 tablespoons prepared mustard, salt, 1 teaspoon celery seed (optional).
Boil three minutes. Pour at once over salad. Cover and place in refrigerator. Stir when ready to serve. Best if set overnight. Keeps for several days in refrigerator.
Recipe from the kitchen of Hilda Hoadley.
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How to Follow a Raindrop
Raytheon technology tracks the weather from space to the sidewalk
A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from Raytheon's VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA/NASA Earth-observing satellite – Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP). This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken Jan. 4, 2012. Courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
With every major storm, a steady stream of information known as "environmental intelligence" flows to government, the military, businesses and citizens throughout the U.S.
The information travels from satellites in space to ground networks to data processing systems that use complex software applications to issue forecasts and warnings. Raytheon makes much of the technology, from sensors on the satellites to the software that makes sense of the images beamed from space.
Space-based Sensors
Raytheon's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite captures an infrared image of Hurricane Irma, Sept. 7, 2017. Photo courtesy of NOAA/NASA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III
The first signs of a storm are captured by a Raytheon instrument on a joint National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Raytheon's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, or VIIRS, captures the photons in space – the first stop on forecasting the weather.
The Svalbard, Norway, Ground Station is a part of the global network of receiving stations linked to NOAA, which distributes satellite data and derived products to users worldwide for the JPSS mission. Raytheon's JPSS ground system delivers fresh data from the next generation of polar-orbiting satellites to users more quickly than ever before. Photo courtesy of NOAA
Raytheon's VIIRS satellite sensor is one of the primary sensors on the satellites that will eventually be part of a constellation named the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). It's connected through Raytheon's JPSS Common Ground System, which receives the images of the storm.
Raytheon's AWIPS ingests and analyzes data, creates useful visualizations and distributes time-sensitive weather statements such as watches and warnings.
On Earth, the images of the storm will be added to a library of more than nine petabytes of data that can be can be analyzed for long-term, practical environmental insights. More immediately, the image can be used by the Raytheon-supported systems at the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration to inform military and commercial flights of important weather information.
The National Weather Service (NWS) uses another Raytheon product to provide forecasts. The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) translates a photon in space into actionable weather intelligence, further analyzing the space-based data, overlaying it with data from other ground-based and airborne sensor systems and creating visualizations for weather forecasters. The more than 140 local NWS offices release regular forecasts and can issue alerts when the weather is severe enough to threaten life and property.
Raytheon systems build predictions that we all depend on, from photons in space to raindrops hitting the ground.
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Republican Carbon Pricing op-ed
Big News! The Deseret News has published an op-ed supporting carbon pricing, authored by 25 current and former legislators from Utah. This is a sea-change in conservative climate politics. Please share far and wide.
Deseret News contributors - Republicans need to engage in climate politics
Enormous gratitude to all of you who worked on this. Many of the signers are legislators we've been talking to for years. It's especially notable that the list of signers goes well beyond the clean air crowd and includes some strong conservatives from the reddest districts in the state.
Please reach out and thank these legislators directly. It's best if it's from constituents, but thank-yous are always ok regardless of where they come from. If you do thank all of them, please write to one at a time. (Contact information is only shown here for those with publicly available information.)


Today I have a yummy variation to traditional falafel. This is made with quinoa and lentils instead of chickpeas and fava beans. I bookmarked the recipe from Food52. Original recipe used whole mung beans but I subbed them with some French lentils.
These falafel are baked and are healthier than the traditional deep fried version. Adding quinoa makes them more substantial and filling. Along with quinoa and lentils, chickpea flour or besan is added to bind the falafel and also to impart a nutty flavor.
Food52 article lists a whole week of recipes using these falafel. Make a yummy romesco sauce along with the falafel on the weekend and you have meals for the whole week sorted out. You can make tacos, tiny sliders or even salad with them. I used these homemade dinner rolls to make my sandwich.
Another great thing about these is that they can be frozen in a ziploc bag for upto 2~3 months. Lay them in a single layer on a baking sheet and freeze until firm, then transfer them into a ziploc bag. Take out as many falafel as you want in a microwave safe plate and reheat for 1~2 minutes. Enjoy!!
Delicious variation to traditional falafel -- these are made using Quinoa and lentils. They are baked instead of fried and are great on a salad or in a sandwich.
Cook Quinoa with 11/2 cups of water for 16~18 minutes or until tender. Let cool slightly.
Cook lentils or mung beans in 2~21/2 cups of water until tender, about 20~25 minutes. Let cool slightly. Soaking mung beans before hand will make cooking them much easier.
Whisk 3tbsp water in the egg replacer or flax seed meal and set aside for 5~10 minutes.
In a food processor, combine quinoa, cooked lentils or mung beans, chickpea flour, parsley, onion, garlic, egg replacer mixture, red chili powder, ground cumin, lemon juice and salt. Process to incorporate all the ingredients well. Taste and adjust salt and lemon juice.
Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour to overnight.
Preheat the oven 375F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Pinch off a golf ball size pieces and arrange them on the prepared baking sheet. Brush the falafel with extra virgin olive oil on top and bottom. Bake for 20~25 minutes, turning the baking sheet around halfway through and flipping the falafel over. When done, falafel should be browned and firm to touch.
wow baked quinoa falafel love it.. amazing clicks pavani.
I love to add quinoa in everything! This definitely gives me another recipe. Loved this post Pavani!
Feel like munching some falafel, nice variation from the usual one.
Baked quinoa falafel look awesome and a wonderful healthy recipe.
Such a healthy falafel recipe.Nice way to include quinoa and lentils in diet.


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The Success of "Avatar" Is Nothing to Celebrate
By Titus Techera — 1 day ago
Intellectually, the Avatar stories seem worthless, beneath contempt, indeed, beneath argument. This leads people to underestimate them but also to feel themselves somehow disarmed. One looks ridiculous if one complains that the stories are anti-American. It takes a certain courage to deal with that problem, and courage is in very short supply in our times.
The biggest box office success in cinema history, strictly in dollars taken in, is Avatar, the 2009 movie that made 3D a technology audiences would finally flock to. The movie made some $785 million in America, more than another $2 billion in the rest of the world, adding up to about $2.9 billion. Since then, it's sold an additional $430 million in DVDs (including 3D Blu-ray editions). We have to use our imaginations when it comes to how much the movie was watched online in pirated copies. One is tempted to say that everyone has seen it. If there's globalization, Avatar is it.
In 2022 we finally got a sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, which is also an incredible success, having grossed more than $620 million in America in its first month, with another $1.5 billion in the rest of the world. I'm confident it will make more than $700 million in America. Very few movies attain this kind of success, fewer still since the COVID panics have crippled the movie theater business. Three more of these movies are slated to appear and perhaps rather quicker than the 13 years between the first two, given the astonishing success and the technological achievements involved in the production so far.
James Cameron is the man who made this franchise, which married his interest in science fiction, going back to Terminator (1984), and his interest in blockbuster success—that is, strong appeals to American passions—for example, Titanic, the movie he made before Avatar, which also became the most popular movie of its time (1997). One thing that has changed is that Cameron started out trying to appeal to men, then changed to appealing to women, but found astonishing success with a sentimentality missing from his early works, and now wants to appeal to families, to children especially. Some of the more perceptive critics pointed out how simpleminded the original was, even how it functioned as a kind of faux religion all its own. The sequel has also been panned by others as stunningly unoriginal and "full of itself." This suggests to me they think the Avatar movies themselves to be childish.
The arrival of Avatar: The Way of Water at least makes clear what it is Cameron wants America's children and, by extension, the world's children to see and to believe. The first movie was an obvious retelling of Euro-American conflicts with Native Americans in the 19th century. The story summarizes, of course, but it also focuses on a simple teaching: Americans are evil and possibly monstrous. The Natives were innocent and, though proud warriors, peaceful. One may say this is nonsense and historically dubious; one may add that it is unpatriotic. But it may nevertheless be rather persuasive, especially because Cameron makes no arguments and starts no fights—he merely uses images that speak to things most kids are ready to believe.
What is Marxism?
By Kevin Flatt — 1 day ago
Wherever Marx's ideas have been implemented, collective ownership has given a few people immense, unchecked power over every aspect of life—ironically, one of Marx's accusations against capitalism. The failure of utopia to materialize means that the "dictatorship of the proletariat" becomes permanent, and can only be maintained through brutality and terror.
To borrow a phrase from C.S. Lewis, there are two equal and opposite errors one can fall into concerning Marxism. One rightly identifies Marxism as a powerful and pernicious influence in modern Western culture, but then comes to the mistaken suspicion that anything that talks about oppression or justice is "Marxist" and needs to be exposed as such. The opposite error, which can stem from naïveté or nefarious intent, is to ignore or deny blatant signs of Marxist influence in contemporary ideologies and movements.
The two errors feed on each other: the more one side sees Marxism under every bush and uses the word as a club to beat down any opponent that is in some sense to their "left," the more the other has an excuse to dismiss all charges of Marxism as so much spin and propaganda. In order to help the church avoid both of these errors, this article provides a factual account of Marxism's origins and character. A subsequent article will look at the long-term influence of Marxism in communist societies and the West.
Marxism takes its name from the German thinker Karl Marx (1818–83). Western European society was changing rapidly in Marx's day. The French Revolution of a few decades earlier had unleashed tremendous political upheaval. The Industrial Revolution was leading to the growth of cities and the emergence of a large urban working class. A growing belief in the inevitable progress of science and culture was taking hold of educated people.
Rapid change created new social problems. The new class of wage labourers in the mines and factories were vulnerable to dangerous working conditions, low pay, and insecurity—which seemed all the more unjust in comparison with the spectacular wealth and power amassed by the entrepreneurs who owned these mines and factories.
Marx was not the only thinker to criticize these conditions, and propose a society based on a different, more egalitarian economic system. What set him apart from other "socialist" thinkers was his all-encompassing vision of the hidden laws governing human history and society.
In contrast to the prevalent philosophies in Germany at the time, which saw ideas as the driving force in history, Marx concluded that material factors are everything. There is no realm of spirit and no God, he claimed—all that exists is the material world. The economic basis of life, how we feed and clothe and house ourselves, determines every aspect of a society, even its ideas. In particular, Marx argued, the class that owns the "means of production" in a society is able to dominate and exploit everyone else.
For Marx, this simple principle explained historical change. Changes to the means of production led to changes in the identity of the ruling class and therefore the leading values. The feudal nobility of medieval Europe had derived their power from their control of the land, and exploited the serfs whose labour made them rich. But as economic power shifted to commercial and industrial activities, the nobility and their values were thrust aside by the urban merchant class, the "bourgeoisie." In this new dispensation, which Marx called "capitalism," the exploitation of serfs by nobles gave way to the exploitation of industrial workers (the "proletariat") by the bourgeoisie.
Wise Pastors Understand Emotions
By Nathan Williams — 1 day ago
The perceptions that stand behind our emotions have been twisted by sin. Our values are aimed at lesser things, and the members of our body habituate sinful patterns and tendencies that we struggle to even recognize. And yet, emotions are a pathway to what's truly happening in us. The wise pastor will recognize this and seek to understand the emotions of those he shepherds.
I've lived and pastored near Detroit, Michigan for almost six years now. It's a city that has rightly earned the moniker "The Motor City." The automobile industry dominates our economy, and this goes well beyond the Big 3 automakers: Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Thousands of smaller companies supply the Big 3 with everything they need to build a new car or truck. From parts to marketing and everything in between, nearly everyone's job is connected to the auto industry.
With this comes a genuine love for cars and a deep understanding of how they work. I've walked through the lobby of our church early on a Sunday morning and heard 3–4 guys engaged in a deeply passionate conversation about brake pads. We had friends from out of state come visit a few years ago, and their van started making some unusual sounds on the way to church. One of our guys went outside with them after the service, listened to the sound for a couple of seconds, and said, "You should be fine to drive home." They were.
I envy this thorough knowledge of cars. I don't have it and most likely never will. I can put air in my tires and, I think, if everything was on the line and I had no other option, I could probably change a flat tire. I couldn't name all the parts that make up an engine and certainly couldn't explain how they work together to move my car forward. Now, imagine for a moment if I applied to work for a local mechanic here in Detroit. I clearly wouldn't be very effective, and if I imagined myself to be a competent mechanic, despite my lack of basic understanding of cars, I could cause significant problems for people.
Now, human beings are not automobiles. We aren't mechanical creations; we are embodied souls. It's also true that serving in pastoral ministry isn't quite the same as working as an auto mechanic. We don't simply assess a person's problem and apply the right fix to make sure everything is running again. However, I believe that as pastors seeking to faithfully shepherd God's flock, we need to have a thorough grasp of the human beings we shepherd. This means understanding one of the basic features of our humanity: emotions.
What are Emotions?
This is a question pastors need to ponder both as they shepherd others and as they keep watch over their own souls (1 Timothy 4:16). I would guess that, in recent years, most pastors have seen an increase in the number of people grappling with their emotions and how to handle them. We can't counsel and shepherd those struggling if we don't have a basic grasp of this important feature of our humanity.
The discussion over the nature of human emotions goes back to the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle and has typically swung between two poles. On the one side, emotions are defined as simple bodily impulses. We have little to no control over them and they are illogical. A modern example of this would be those who see emotions as nothing more than chemical reactions that produce physical results. On the other side, emotions are viewed as cognitive, coming from our perceptions and judgments concerning ourselves and the world around us.
Christians have generally understood the Bible to teach the cognitive view of emotions, and yet, Scripture presents human beings as complex creatures where mind, emotions, and body all work together to shape and influence one another.
Author Jeremy Pierre puts it like this, "No one should treat people as merely rational beings in need of instruction, nor as merely emotional beings in need of healing, nor as merely decision-makers who need the right motivation. The truth is broader than each of these."1
The Bible describes humans as embodied souls (Gen. 2:7). We think, reason, feel, and act with our bodies and simply cannot do otherwise in this life. Matthew Lapine explains, "Because we are embodied beings, physicality always qualifies our agency. God formed us from the ground and enlivened us with his breath. We are not mere souls, but embodied beings. Our entire agency is qualified by physicality."2
Living, Unique, Valuable, Unborn Human Beings
By Jonathan Noyes — 1 day ago
Human beings aren't valuable because of a function they perform, how conscious they are, whether they feel pain, or any other extrinsic quality. These things come in degrees. Humanity doesn't come in degrees.
I shocked a faculty member at the University of California while conversing with him in the middle of campus. He was defending abortion using the reasons popularly offered to justify it. He said, "It's a decision between a woman, her doctor, and her God." He brought up the idea that if abortion were made illegal, women would be forced into dangerous, back-alley abortions. He emphatically said, "Woman should have the right to choose." Then I shocked him.
I agreed. I said, "Of course we shouldn't interfere with a woman, her doctor, and her God. We shouldn't force any woman into a dangerous, back-alley abortion." I said, "A woman should have the right to choose…if…." "If what?" he asked. I knew this was where the conversation really started.
Often, we lose sight of the main issue in the abortion debate. The fundamental question we must ask is, "What is the unborn?" Abortion involves the killing and discarding of something that's alive. We all know it's alive because it's growing. That's the "problem" abortion seeks to address. And whether it's right or not to intentionally take the life of this living being depends entirely upon the answer to one question: "What kind of being is it?"
Most defenses of abortion assume the unborn is not a human being. Think about it. Privacy and choice are not valid reasons to kill born human beings. This means that if the unborn is a human being just like you and me, you can't kill her for the same reasons you can't kill a born human being. If the unborn is not a human being, there's no issue to debate. If the unborn is not a human being, no justification for abortion is necessary. However, if the unborn is a human being, no justification for abortion is adequate. That's why we have to first answer the question "What is the unborn?" To answer this, we'll turn to embryology.
We know from embryology—the study of the earliest stages of life—that human life comes into existence when two gametes (sperm and egg) fuse to form a living zygote. The science of embryology tells us the unborn is a living, unique, human being.
Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
By Tim Challies — 2 days ago
This week the blog is sponsored by The Gospel Coalition. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation is the story of the people, the books, the lectures, and ultimately the God who formed and shaped the life of Timothy Keller. With access to Keller's personal notes and sermons—as well as interviews with family members and longtime friends—Collin Hansen offers a deeper understanding of one of the 21st century's most influential church leaders. Visit www.timothykellerbook.com to purchase the book and access bonus content, including lectures, sermons, timelines, photos, and interviews.
If you woke Tim Keller in the middle of the night and asked him to quote any author because his life depended on it, he'd pick C. S. Lewis.
"It would be wrong not to admit how much of what I think about faith comes from him," Keller wrote in The Reason for God.
His other primary influence, Jonathan Edwards, didn't have the same gift for pithy insight. But no one outside Scripture contributed as much to Keller's overarching theological framework as Edwards.
Keller coined the term "ecclesial revivalism" for how he tries to bring the spiritual dynamics of renewal inside the church. It's a term that also applies to Edwards. Both sought to combine cutting-edge apologetics with pastoral ministry while preaching for changed hearts.
Keller openly admits how much he borrows from others, whether Lewis or Edwards or anyone else. Grounded in the gospel, Keller branches out for insight wherever he can find it. He'll grab from John Stott's preaching over here and Abraham Kuyper's worldview over there. He'll reach for new urbanism from Jane Jacobs and existentialist philosophy from Søren Kierkegaard. Leading up to 1989, when he planted Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, Keller assembled building blocks from Jack Miller and R. C. Sproul, Elisabeth Elliot and Barbara Boyd, Richard Lovelace and Harvie Conn, not to mention little-known pastors such as Kennedy Smartt. They helped convince him Redeemer could have it all: small groups with vocational training with evangelistic preaching with mercy ministry. The church could be intellectual but also pious, Reformed but not sectarian.
In a 2014 conversation with Don Carson and John Piper for The Gospel Coalition, Keller explained why it's important to draw on multiple influences:
I would say if you don't appreciate any of the Puritan writers, you're missing out. There are some tremendous Puritan writers. But I also know people who only seem to care about the Puritans. They went into the Puritan forest, and they've never come out. It's the only thing they read. And when they speak, and when they preach, they start, "Methinks." I think the fact that you (Piper) and I have really learned so much both from C. S. Lewis and Jonathan Edwards, two people who almost certainly would not have gotten along, they're so different, I think that has corrected me at a number of places where I get too much into one guy the other guy comes in and reminds me, "No, he's not the only way." It's almost like if you cut a person, a good minister for example, like a tree, there should be a lot of rings.
Having one role model would be derivative. Having 100 means you've drunk deeply by scouring the world for the best wells. Keller himself has now become a role model to many church leaders. But future generations will honor Keller better by reading his library than by only reading the books he wrote. How ironic if the pastor who gathered from such varied tributaries became a solitary river flowing down the years.
Who Is the Man of Lawlessness? 2 Thessalonians 2:3–5, Part 3
By John Piper — 2 days ago
http://rss.desiringgod.org/link/10732/15960599/who-is-the-man-of-lawlessness
The Resilient Mother: How We Bend Without Breaking
By Michele Morin — 2 days ago
Along the wooded trail behind my home, a birch tree arches in a graceful curve as it stretches across the pathway. It's a veteran of a good many northern New England ice storms and knows what it is to bow low under a weight of snow and frozen rain. Even though its tip-top branches have bent to mere feet above the frozen ground, it has not broken under its load. Today, with the remnants of broken maples and oaks all around, it stands, and my imagination construes a doorway as I walk the path beneath its welcome.
James labels this brand of gritty perseverance as steadfastness in the life of a believer. He's writing to Christians who have felt the icy blast of persecution, resulting in "trials of various kinds," and he urges them to cooperate with God's bending and shaping methods embedded in those trials (James 1:2–3).
God works the sanctifying miracle of becoming "perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" according to his own wise design, and for me, mothering four rowdy sons (who have grown into godly men) has been the force God has used to produce the bent-birch resilience I long for. Two vital components of my Christ-following life have been involved as God works in me to "let steadfastness have its full effect" (James 1:4).
Theology Empowers Resilient Moms
When mothers are brittle and fragile, we snap, and the sharp edges of our breaking wound our families and leave us full of regret. Perseverance in strong habits of holiness keeps us connected with God's word and rooted in what is true about God's character. He's in control. He's good. He's never taken by surprise.
Good theology enables moms to interpret our circumstances according to what we know and believe about God instead of drawing false conclusions about God based on our circumstances. The understanding that God is as near to us as our next breath, and that his motives toward us are absolutely pure, comes from immersion in God's self-revelation.
Of course, we can claim the huge and generous promises of Scripture only if we know them. God has said he will "keep [us] in perfect peace" when we fix our minds on him (Isaiah 26:3). He has said his "grace is sufficient" and his "power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). God's promises of faithfulness to his much-loved children are the foundation for our own steadfast faith. He promises to use Scripture to encourage and sustain us, but we cannot claim what we do not know (Psalm 19:7–9).
Furthermore, a right understanding of God's nature and character yields a right understanding of my own value and identity. If I am not defined by an impressive job title or a flashy résumé (or by the lack of it), I can bend to perform the lowliest tasks without complaining. Like Christ, I can take up the basin and the towel and serve others without being (or feeling) diminished.
I'm inspired by the example of pioneer missionary Amy Carmichael. She left a role she loved — traveling throughout India with a team of itinerant evangelists — when God called her to establish an orphanage for children who were being trafficked. In her new role as "mother" to hundreds of children at a time, she washed diapers by hand, mixed baby formulas, and over the course of her career must have clipped thousands of tiny fingernails and toenails.
The way we think about the work of motherhood shapes the hope we bring to each day's workload, and it is crucial to our ability to overcome discouragement. When I was hanging little socks and, eventually, very big socks on the clothesline, I put my mind to the business of praying for the boys who would wear those socks to rags.
"God is the first and best Homemaker. Therefore, homemaking is holy work."
When I wondered if I would survive the monotony of homeschooling and housework, I tried (imperfectly) to remember that I was creating a home and a life for the people I love. God is the first and best Homemaker. Therefore, homemaking is holy work.
Good theology also schools resilient moms in the truth that there's a time to bend and there's a time to persevere, unbending, in the face of temptation or the lure of false teaching. We are "elect exiles," immersed in a hostile society that invites us to bend the knee to its false gods (1 Peter 1:1). The Spirit of God travels with us, imparting wisdom for life and assuring us that resilient mothering may wear a different look every day.
On one particularly hard mothering morning, the baby was cranky, the toddler was fractious, and my two homeschooled students seemed determined to squander their opportunity to receive a solid Christian education. Then the phone rang. My friend Susan was calling with a quick question about something at church. I answered her question, and we said goodbye.
Seconds after I hung up, the phone rang again. Susan had been prompted by the Holy Spirit to check on me, and I'm not proud of the conversation that followed.
Susan [warmly concerned and following Christ's command to love her neighbor]: "Are you okay? I thought I heard something in your voice just now. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to help."
Michele [embarrassed and lying to preserve the appearance of competence]: "Thank you so much for your concern. [Using my best, pulled-together church-lady voice] I'm actually fine — but I sure appreciate your checking on me."
Choosing to soldier on alone, I forfeited the gift of community.
My friend was a seasoned mother of four who could have spoken wisdom to my tired soul. Her own children were all older than my oldest son, and she would have welcomed the opportunity to hold my baby or read to my toddler.
Friendship is a school, a place of formation and cultivation, but being in school requires time and work. Resilient mothers will allow friends into their brokenness because, sometimes, in order to have the gift of comfort from fellow believers, we have to take the emotional risk of letting them know how we're really doing.
This includes seeking and valuing input from our husband as well. As "heirs together of the grace of life" (1 Peter 3:7), we are called to parent together. So seek your husband's counsel. Let him care for you as Christ cares for his church.
"Resilience is not her claim on Christ, but, rather, the evidence of his claim on her."
As moms, we tend to have our fingers on the pulse of our families. It can feel very risky to let go of your white-knuckle control of the schedule, activities, and tone of your home, but what a lonely and overwhelming assignment to try to be and do all things when we have been given the gift of a husband and fellow parent.
Weathered Motherhood
Today, as an older woman, I am called to nurture resilience in the young women God has placed within my circle of influence (Titus 2:3–5). Alongside them, I continue to scale the learning curve of resilience and to take God's grace for the glad surrender of obedience.
The resilient mother knows that godly mothering is a byproduct of the slow burn of faithfulness. She is well aware that resilience is not her claim on Christ, but, rather, the evidence of his claim on her.
The bent birch here on my wooded path is not as tall or as straight as a tree that has never weathered a Maine winter, but its arching perseverance schools me in the hope that follows a weathered storm. In its deeply rooted resilience, I see the wisdom of bending.
Blessings to you today, my friends.
(Yesterday on the blog: Tell Your Anxieties To Ask Permission)
Shepherds Feed the Sheep
Jared Wilson: "Many of these churches – philosophically – operate more like parachurches. And the result is this: it is the sheep, the very lambs of God, who basically become the outsiders. And so you will have leading practitioners of these churches saying things to believers like, 'Church isn't for you.' For example…"
Unshockable Parenting
"What will you do when your 17-year-old tells you that his girlfriend, the one you counseled him not to date because she is not a Christian, is pregnant? How will you react when you find out from another parent that for the past six months, your daughter has been going by a different name and using the boys' restroom at her middle school? What will be going through your head when your teen proudly displays her new tattoo or eyebrow piercing at church?"
Do Humans Have Free Will? The Answer (Of Course) Is: It Depends!
Justin Taylor answers a good question. And, like so many questions, it really depends on what you're actually asking.
The Devil is Blinding You to Glory
"Have you ever felt cold towards the gospel? Have you heard that Christ died for your sins and was raised from the dead and just felt blah. If that is you, because I know it has been me at times, then I want to alert you to something. This is more than just unfortunate; this is war. And this coldness to Christ is a direct attack from the enemy."
Is Every Occasion an Occasion for Mom Guilt?
Sometimes it seems like every occasion can be an occasion for a mom to feel guilt, doesn't it?
Andy Naselli does a good job expositions what he calls the most important paragraph in human history.
Flashback: It Takes Two
Gossip is not only a sin of the mouth, but also a sin of the ears. It takes two: the one who speaks and the one who listens…It's as sinful to hear it without protest as to speak it without apology.
The further you go in obedience, the more you see of God's plan. God doesn't often tell us the end from the beginning. He prefers to lead us on step-by-step in dependence upon Him. —Iain Duguid


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In response to growing demand for low-cost fuel, Hamilton-based fuel supplier Waitomo Group has confirmed it will open a Waitomo Fuel Stop in Wellington soon.
"We'll be hitting the capital like a hurricane when we open our first Fuel Stops in Upper Hutt and Wellington in the next few weeks. Wellingtonians – who've been paying some of the highest fuel prices in New Zealand for some time – can expect us to cause a stir," said Waitomo Group Chief Operating Officer Simon Parham.
Waitomo's sixth new site for 2019 will be up and running in New Plymouth by mid-July .
Waitomo's first mainland site, in central Christchurch, will open before the end of the year, and the company is actively looking for new sites in other regions.
After the monopolies' almost weekly increases in the price of Wellington fuel, which was done with no explanation. The tax on it is also highway robbery.
Bring it on Waitomo, I am so sick of being ripped off to subsidise other areas. I cannot understand how these companies have been allowed to get away with it all this time. I note BP has started have mulitple 10cents a litre off days – must be starting to worry as like many, I will go out of my way to support Waitomo.
There is a fuel monopoly michael, that's how they get away with it. Ten cents discount will not reverse the last months' increases.


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» Who's got the bottle?
Lots of helpful comments from people on my question about what to use as a good identifier of chemicals? I thought it might be useful to re-phrase what it was that I wanted because I think some of the comments, while important discussion points don't really impinge directly on my current issue.
I have in mind a special type of page on our LaBLog system that will easily allow the generation of a post that describes a new bottle of material that comes into the lab. From a user perspective you want to enter the minimum amount of necessary information, probably a name, a company, perhaps a lot number and/or catalogue number to enable reordering. From the system perspective you want to try and grab as many different ways of describing the material as possible, including where appropriate SMILES, InChi, CML, or whatever. My question was, how do I provide a simple key that will enable the system to go off and find (if possible) these other identifiers. This isn't really a database per se but a collection of descriptors on a page (although we would like to pull the data out and into a proper database at a later stage). CAS numbers are great because they are written on most bottles and are a well curated system. However I thought that the only way of converting from CAS to anything else was to go through a CAS service. Therefore I thought PubChem CID's (or SID's) might be a good way to do this.
So from my perspective a lot of the technical issues with substances versus chemicals versus structures aren't so important. All I want is to, on a best efforts basis, pull down as many other descriptors as possible to expose in the post. For some things (e.g. yeast extract) the issues of substances versus compounds (not to mention supplier) get right out of hand (I am slightly bemused that it has a CAS number, and there are multiple SID's in PubChem). Certainly it ain't going to have an InChi. But if you try and get nothing it doesn't really matter. Also we are dealing here with common materials. If as Dan Zaharevitz points out, we were dealing with compounds from synthetic chemists we would get into serious trouble, but in this case I think we could rely on our collaborating chemists to get InChi's/SMILES/CML correct and use those directly. In the ideal Open Notebook Science world we would simply point to their lab books anyway.
So the fundamental issue for me; is there something written on the bottle of material that we can use as a convenient search key to pull down as many other descriptors as we can?
Now I am with Antony Williams on this, if CAS got its act together and made their numbers an open standard then that would be the best solution. It is curated and all pervasive as an identifier. Both Antony and Rich Apodaca have pointed out that I was wrong to say that CAS numbers aren't in PubChem (and Rich pointed to two useful posts ,  on how to get into PubChem using CAS numbers). So actually, my problem is probably solved by an application of Rich's instructions on hacking PubChem (even if it turns out we have to download the entire database). The issue here is whether they will stay there or whether they may in the end get pulled.
I do think that for my purposes that PubChem CID's and SID's will do the job in this specific case. However as has been pointed out there are issues with reliability and curation. So I will accept that it is probably too early to start suggesting that suppliers label their bottles with PubChem IDs. This may happen anyway (Aldrich seem to have them in the catalogue at least; haven't been able to check a bottle yet) in the longer term and I guess we have to wait and see what happens.
Peter Murray-Rust has also updated with a series of posts , ,  around the issues of chemical substance identity, CAS, Wikipedia et al. Peter Suber has aggregated many of the related posts together. And Glyn Moody has called us to the barricades.
I disagree on a few things. First, CAS numbers function best as an index into the work done by CAS to extract information from the chemical literature. The work is very valuable and many people will find it quite worth the price they have to pay to access it, but I think there are too many practical and political problems in trying to make them serve more global (and open) purposes.
Second, I really don't understand the supposed problem with curation if substance IDs are used. You would be saying I obtained the compound from X and X has claimed the structure is Y and that fact is recorded in a publicly accessible database. Of course X could be wrong about the structure or use names or other identifiers that are inconsistent with other usages, but at least you could see that if it was in PubChem. Also, X could upload at least summaries of of analytical data on lots of the compounds and a host of other data that is only relevant to the actual samples they distribute, not to the compound globally. I think it is vitally important that we get suppliers of compounds involved because they are the ones in the best position to provide the details of what exactly is in the bottles they ship. (Speaking of which, we are starting to get a reasonable amount of analytical data, so I should upload that as proof of principle). I also think it is very important for researchers to recognize that what's in the bottle doesn't always line up with what is supposed to be in the bottle and I think it is hard to understand that if you think of what's in the bottle only by its chemical representation. For a brutal example of how wrong things can go, Google "MDMA retraction".
Couldn't agree more, that is why we are planning to log every bottle of stuff into our system individually. Each bottle gets its own URI. Part of our aim is actually to be able to make a precise (and machine readable) assertion when something in that bottle is not what someone else asserts it to be.
I take your point that using a system for something its not built for can cause problems. I think the concern that people had with PubChem is that there are misattributions and ambiguities but as you say as long as you can point at something that makes the assertion. The key point is being able to do that pointing (and that the assertion can be pinned down to an authority of some description – the triple has to be a 'quad'). For my purposes the substance ID's are perfectly adequate I think, especially as we use many things, like yeast extract, that aren't identifiable chemicals.
If we go down the SID route we will need buy in from both suppliers and PubChem.


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Simon Fraser University (SFU) worked with a variety of partners to host Town Hall meetings, produce videos and factsheets to increase awareness of elder abuse in the LGBT community.
Produce short videos illustrating mistreatment of older adults in the LGBTQ community.
Increase awareness of elder abuse, and its prevention and services among LGBTQ youth and seniors, and increase sensitivity among elder abuse workers to LGBTQ persons' needs.
Develop factsheets in English, Chinese and Punjabi and post to SFU website.
Host Town Hall meetings across the province in each of the five health authority regions.
Alzheimer Society of BC; Haro Park Centre; Health Initiative for Men; Quirk-e; GAB Youth; Youth for A Change; QMUNITY; Health Authorities; West End Seniors Network; AIDS Network, Outreach and Support Society; Seniors First BC; BCCRN; Better at Home & Seniors Outreach; Nelson & District Union; MOSAIC; Living Positive Resource Centre; Network to Eliminate Violence in Relationships; PGT; Senior Gay Men in Kelowna; Trans Health Information Program; UNBC School of Social Work; UVic Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health (former Centre on Aging); Vancouver Coastal Health PRISM Services; Vancouver Older Adults Addiction Program.
Brought together queer older adult creative writers (Quirk-e members), queer youth activists (Youth for A Change members) and SFU elder abuse/intimate partner violence researchers (from Gerontology Research Centre & Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Dept.) to produce LGBTQ older-adult relevant posters, fact sheets and videos.
Created a Community Partners Advisory Group, with roles such as suggesting topics for the videos, reviewing the resources produced and assisting with outreach and dissemination.
Held Town Halls in Surrey, Nelson, Vancouver, Prince George, Kelowna, Victoria.
Engaged in numerous outreach activities: workshop at BOLDfest; presentations at colleges and universities; speaking events; 5 radio interviews; blog entries; newspaper and newsletter articles; scholarly contributions and academic conferences.
Launched elder abuse page on LGBT End of Life Conversations website (www.sfu.ca/lgbteol).
Held an elder abuse/LGBT Dialogue Session with Chinese and Punjabi service providers.
Posters and videos on display at Roundhouse Community Centre City's Seniors' Week Exhibition.
Brought together service providers and advocates who work in the area of elder abuse with those who work with/for the LGBTQ community; raised awareness in both sectors of the special vulnerabilities for abuse and neglect of LGBT older adults, and of the services each had to offer locally and provincially, and laid the ground work for further cooperation and collaboration.
The project expanded knowledge of elder abuse and the special vulnerabilities of LGBT older adults and their service needs among NGOs and government agencies that provide services to seniors and their families (e.g. Alzheimer's Society; Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee).
Brought together health authority staff who work with elder abuse, with staff who work with diversity training and/or LGBT issues.
Raised awareness of the needs of marginalized sub-groups in general and LGBT older adults in particular within the Chinese and South Asian communities.
Raised awareness about elder abuse among queer youth through intergenerational partnership.
Produced posters, fact sheets and videos about elder abuse that are directly relevant to LGBTQ older adults – materials that previously did not exist in Canada.
Three video clips (emotional abuse, physical abuse, financial abuse).
5 posters/fact sheets (emotional/physical/financial/sexual abuse, neglect) in Chinese/Punjabi.
Website: Elder abuse section on LGBT End-of-life Conversations website www.sfu.ca/lgbteol; posted resources – posters, video clips, video of full Vancouver town hall, Power Points.
Because LGBT is still a taboo topic, proposed Town Halls were modified to target the Chinese and South Asian communities in three ways: 1) target service providers; 2) call them Dialogue Sessions; 3) place the main emphasis on elder abuse not on LGBT. Recommended to not directly translate English poster because it could discourage dialogue; be culturally insensitive.
Important that the partner is the organization, rather than the person designated to participate in the project, because some individuals left their jobs.
Must work closely and co-host town halls with Elder Abuse Specialists in each health authority.
Recommend having a mix of seniors and service providers participate in the town halls.
Increased the size of the images/fact sheets from letter size to poster size and added SAIL phone number on the front. As people used materials as posters rather than handouts, information on the back, the facts about elder abuse, and where to go for help, would be lost.
The first challenge was finding who within each Health Authority worked with LGBT seniors – a largely invisible group both within and outside their community.
Some of the organizations that presented at the town halls had no programs in place that were specifically targeted to LGBT older adults and their presentations were too general.
Resources are posted on the LGBT EOL Conversations website and may be downloaded free of charge. SFU Gerontology Research Centre is committed to hosting website at no cost.
A volunteer webmaster is in place for the Conversations website until 2018.
Posters and one of the videos was shown at a national gathering of LGBTQ seniors and human rights activists. These resources have also been distributed to colleagues in Scotland.
Abstract submitted to 2016 Gerontological Society of America (GSA) annual meeting.
A second abstract submission is planned for the 2017 Abstracts published by GSA in a special issue of the Gerontologist and by IAGG in searchable database on their website.
Posters at Pride Street Party exhibition spaces; advertising in Pride Festival Official Magazine.
Developing a Discussion guide for the videos with questions targeted to each topic.
Follow-up of people who attended the town halls.
Write up the project for publication in learned journals, popular press and/or as a book chapter highlighting its inter-generational and inter-sectoral nature and the learnings from both the production and dissemination phases [e.g., see chapter by Shecter & Fleischmann in G. Gutman (ed.) Aging, Ageism and Abuse – published by Elseview Insights, 2010].
Dissemination of the remaining posters and promotion of videos.


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Agustín Camilo Barán Flangini (Montevideo, Uruguay, 12 de enero de 1995) es un futbolista uruguayo. Juega de volante o delantero y su equipo actual es el IA Sud América de la Segunda División de Uruguay.

Trayectoria
Luego de hacer las divisiones formativas en Peñarol, fue ascendido al plantel principal en la primera mitad del 2013. Debutó el 6 de abril de 2013 frente a Cerro Largo.

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Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Ficha en www.peñarol.org
 Ficha en www.transfermarkt.es

Nacidos en Montevideo
Futbolistas de Uruguay
Futbolistas del Club Atlético Peñarol
Futbolistas del Club Atlético Boston River
Futbolistas del Central Español Fútbol Club
Futbolistas del Club Atlético Atenas (San Carlos)
Futbolistas del Arka Gdynia
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Countermeasure
I perform with Countermeasure, a 12-voice group a cappella based in Toronto. We sing in every genre, though if I had to describe our music it is often jazz-inspired covers of older pop or rock songs.
We've gone on several wildly successful Canadian and international tours, most recently to Japan in May 2018, B.C. in March 2017, and to the Edinburgh Fringe and Italy in August 2016. We've recorded two albums, Made to Measure and 14 Characters, which you can find on iTunes or Spotify.
You can also check us out on Youtube where we have several music videos, two of which have hundreds of thousands of views.
For more media or information booking, visit our website or contact us on social media.
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Travel and Tourism crucial to Saudi Arabias economy
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Travel & Tourism crucial to Saudi Arabia's economy
Travel & Tourism contributed 9% of the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in 2018, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council's (WTTC) annual review of the economic impact and social importance of the sector released today.
In 2018, Travel & Tourism contributed SAR244.6BN (US$65.2BN) to the country's economy. The sector now represents 9% of the Saudi Arabia's total economy; this means that one in every eleven Saudi Riyals is now generated by Travel & Tourism.
The research by WTTC, which represents the private sector of global Travel & Tourism, compares the sector across 185 countries, and shows that in 2018 the Saudi Travel & Tourism sector:
Supported 1.1 million jobs, or 8.5% of total employment, which means that over one in every 12 jobs in Saudi Arabia is supported by Travel & Tourism
Contributed SAR244.6BN (US$65.2BN) to the country's economy
Was strongly driven by leisure travellers: 85% of the Travel & Tourism spending was generated by leisure visitors and 15% from business travellers
Is roughly balanced between international travel: 45% of the Travel & Tourism spending came from international travellers and 55% from domestic travel
Commenting on the numbers, Gloria Guevara, WTTC President & CEO said: "Travel & Tourism contributes strongly to the economy of Saudi Arabia and has long been recognised as a driver of economic growth, job creation and the development of remote rural areas."
"We commend wholeheartedly the role of Travel & Tourism as a central pillar of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 strategy under the leadership of HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. The Kingdom has seen tourism increase by more than 60 per cent under Prince Sultan's leadership and we acknowledge his efforts to highlight the Kingdom's cultural heritage as an important attraction for tourism."
For any media enquiries or interview requests, please contact
Chloe Wynne Assistant Communications Manager
chloe.wynne@wttc.org


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Q: CSS @keyframes animation keeps flickering on hover
When I create an @keyframes animation and assign it to an image on hover, it keeps flickering at random times. As you can see in the GIF, it only works properly a few random times.
I've already tried all of the following and prefix vendors for each:
backface-visibility: hidden;
animation-fill-mode: forwards;
transform-style: preserve-3d;
Why does this occur, and how can it be fixed?
This can be replicated in the this jsfiddle

A: The problem is the image moves away from your mouse, which causes it to lose its animation.
Illustration (# = the mouse cursor):
First, you focus it with your mouse animating it:
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Next render, it loses the mouse focus and thus loses its animation:
         -------
    #    |     |
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Next render, it goes back to its original state because it no longer has the :hover state:
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And again, it will animate:
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    #    |     |
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If you instead hover the parent element, it will keep focus on that parent element. You can then use parent:hover > child { animate }:
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One way to fix this is by setting the hover on the parent element:

.imgwrapper > img {
  height: 100px;
  background-color: red;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
  animation-fill-mode: forwards;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  display:inline-block;
}

.imgwrapper:hover > img {
  animation: move 1s;
}

@keyframes move {
  0% {
    transform: translateX(100px);
  }

  100% {
    transform: translate(0);
  }
}

A: As @Randy explained in the comment The second you move it, your mouse is no longer on the image. and that causes the bug. you can simply solve this by wrapping the image with a
 and use : hover on the

Here is a sample code for you:

div {
  display: inline-block;
}

img {
  height: 100px;
  background-color: red;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
  animation-fill-mode: forwards;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
}

div:hover img {
  animation: move 1s;
}

@keyframes move {
  0% {
    transform: translateX(100px);
  }
  100% {
    transform: translate(0);
  }
}

  Sometimes a strange flicker occurs on hover.

Hope this was helpful for you.

A: Use transition speed for the Image, so you can get smooth effects.
Use this following code.
img{
    -webkit-transition: .3s ease-out;
    transition: .3s ease-out;
}

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Michael L. Lipton, MD, PhD, FACR, is the Medical Director of MRI Services and an Attending Radiologist at Montefiore. He is also a Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Lipton has been a member of the Montefiore team since 1997, with a clinical focus on developing advanced quantitative MRI to enhance characterization of brain diseases. He works primarily with patients who suffer persistent symptoms related to traumatic brain injury and other disorders that are not easily identified with conventional imaging approaches.
Dr. Lipton received his Doctor of Medicine from Boston University in 1990. He continued his studies by attending our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he received his Master of Science with Distinction and his Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience. His postgraduate training began with an internship in internal medicine at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center completed in 1991. Over 5 years, Dr. Lipton completed a residency and chief residency in diagnostic radiology, followed by a 2-year fellowship in neuroradiology at Montefiore, completing his postgraduate training in 1997.
Dr. Lipton has completed substantial research on repeated subconcussive head impacts in sports, particularly in soccer players. His work on this topic has been reported on extensively in the press worldwide. Dr. Lipton's other research focuses mainly on the brain and has been shared in a number of presentations internationally, as well as published in numerous books and papers.
In 2017, Dr. Lipton received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. Dr. Lipton is board certified by the American Board of Radiology, is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and is a member of numerous professional societies, including the the American Medical Association, and the American Society of Neuroradiology.


The Penguin Hunting Area is an area for players to hunt penguins and can only be accessed after the completion of the quest Hunt for Red Raktuber. It can be accessed by travelling to the Iceberg using Larry's boat located near the Rellekka Hunter area,and then jumping across the ice blocks east of Jim the polar bear. Jim can be found north-east from the docks at the iceberg.
If players are able to summon an Arctic bear, then they will obtain Hunter bonuses that the familiar provides for hunting here. They also provide a teleport just above the fairy ring.Here, players may catch agent penguins from the KGP and give them to the PBJ Agent across the ice.
The penguins may be caught using many of the hunting techniques: tracking, deadfall traps, box traps, and net traps. Penguin hunting areaThe stepping stones leading to the penguin hunting area.The Kgp agents may be given to the polar bear for interrogation. The reward for this is more Hunter experience. Players receive 2 Hunter experience per KGP penguin returned to the polar bear.
This is not recommended due to the low amount of experience given compared to catching a penguin with a trap.Tracking: gives 250 experience and requires a Hunter level of 45.Net trapping: gives 250 experience and requires a Hunter Level of 50.Deadfall trapping: gives 210 experience, requiring a Hunter level of 51.Box trapping: gives 150 experience, requiring a Hunter level of 56.
Raw cod can be used as bait for all of these techniques, except tracking. Baiting is not required, however.There is a Ruined boat on the southeast side of the Iceberg that gives items for deadfall and net trapping, but players will have to bring their own items for box trapping and tracking. The boat provides the player with 4 Driftwood, 5 Ropes, 5 Small fishing nets, 5 Box traps, and 2 knives.
The update on 24 June 2010 made it much easier to obtain hunting supplies from the boat. Penguins are the only hunted creature not killed by a deadfall trap. However, they can be alchemised with Low or High Level Alchemy, which could be considered a form of death for the penguins.The only thing you can do with the regular penguins is release them or alchemise them.
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The law firm of Miller Canfield announces that health lawyer Michele B. Bush, a principal in the Chicago office, was recently named to the board of trustees of the State Board of Investment by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. Bush's appointment was part of Governor Quinn's announcement of 11 new members to the Teachers' Retirement System Board and State Board of Investment. Bush also serves as chairperson of the Illinois State Board of Investment's Audit and Compliance Committee, and is a member of its Investment Policy Committee.
Recently Governor Quinn signed legislation to reform Illinois' top pension boards by implementing needed structural changes and ensuring the boards are more open and accountable to the people. The State Board of Investment manages the investments of the State Employees' Retirement System, General Assembly Retirement System, Judges Retirement System, and the Public Employees Deferred Compensation Plan. The Teachers' Retirement System Board provides retirement pensions and other benefits for teachers and beneficiaries.
At Miller Canfield, Bush's practice focuses on general corporate and health care issues, including transactional, regulatory, non-profit corporate, tax and governance matters. Prior to joining Miller Canfield, Michele served as associate general counsel for one of the largest vertically integrated health systems in the United States. She is also a former general counsel and corporate secretary for one of the top pension funds in the United States and former general counsel to the board of education of the third largest public school system in Illinois.
She received her LL.M. in Health Law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. Her B.A., with honors, is from Northwestern University.


Jurgen Klopp apologised for racing onto the pitch amid scenes of ecstasy after Liverpool's freak late victor against Everton at Anfield kept them on the coat-tails of Premier League pacesetters Manchester City.
Divock Origi scored the 96th minute victor against Everton, which prompted Klopp to sprint onto the pitch and celebrate with goalkeeper Alisson. I don't know if we had scored in that moment what would be my reaction.
Liverpool claimed a 1-0 win over their local rivals at Anfield thanks to a late Divock Origi goal, which moved them back to within two points of pacesetters Manchester City.
Xherdan Shaqiri squandered his team's best opening, played clean through by Mo Salah after 33 minutes but taking an extra touch that allowed Pickford to block his effort. I did immediately afterwards to Marco Silva; I didn't want to be disrespectful but I couldn't stop myself.
"I'm always thinking around that nine or 10 mark when you really get that grounded fitness and you get your eye in and get used to what's going on again in the Premier League. There are a lot of emotions in those moments", he said.
"I don't know if I would have gone to Jordan (Pickford), if I would have gone to our fans or if I would have stayed in the same position". When Lookman has the ball at his feet you get the feeling anything can happen, and I hope we keep hold onto him and see him flourish. The 20-year-old added that the last-gasp win over Everton has given the Reds much-needed momentum heading into a busy month of footballing action.
"Last season was January 1, for me it was maybe the game of the season, we won that with a late goal after playing December 30".
There is nothing negative in winning late against Everton from our point of view.
"The more important things happened during the 95 minutes".
"I don't think anybody thought it's massively wrong or whatever, not even the ref, they were probably surprised themselves".
"Today he is not ready but we will see later".
A person familiar with the deal says the Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to trade veteran forward Kyle Korver to the Utah Jazz . The Cavs, however, have only won four games this season and are now in last place in the Eastern Conference.
Negotiations between the players' representatives and West Ham over a new deal have become hard in the past few months. This year Manchester United was again named Europe's most valuable football club, according to accountancy giant KPMG.


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SPRING 2018 • VOLUME 25: NUMBER 2
Berber Government
The Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria
by Hugh Roberts
London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 329 pp. $45, paper.
Reviewed by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
https://www.meforum.org/7228/berber-government
The modern Berber (Amazigh) identity movement has recently achieved constitutional recognition of Amazighité as an integral component in both Moroccan and Algerian national identities, with Tamazight being recognized as an official language, alongside Arabic. But translating these achievements into real change faces formidable obstacles.
Kabyle Berbers in Algeria and the French diaspora continue to play crucial intellectual and cultural roles in Kabyle and Berber identities. Kabyles, two-thirds of Algeria's Berbers (who altogether make up approximately 20-25 percent of the country's total population), have played a part at key junctures of Algerian history: French colonial rulers and scholars recognized their distinctiveness, viewing them as less "Islamic" and more "European," and thus candidates for association with Algérie francaise. Kabyles also played outsized roles in the Algerian war of independence and make up a good portion of the country's professional classes and some of the political elite; their home territory in the mountains east of Algiers has also been the focus of repeated unrest and opposition to the ruling military-bureaucratic oligarchy.
Roberts, a foremost authority on Algerian history and politics, rejects both essentialist "timeless Berber" and colonialist manipulation explanations of Berberité in favor of historical and anthropological analyses. He situates the evolution of collective Kabyle identity and political culture in the centuries pre-dating France's conquest of Algeria in 1830. Roberts uses a variety of sources—field experiences; a deep understanding of Kabyle village and tribal-based society; French colonial ethnographies; contemporary Arabic and Ottoman perspectives, and the writings of intellectual luminaries including Ibn Khaldun, Durkheim, Masqueray, Gellner, Bourdieu, and a number of Kabyle scholars, including Si Amar Boulifa and Mouloud Gaïd—to produce his own synthesis.
The author methodically unpacks historical episodes and politicized controversies—for example, the decision in 1748-49 to abolish women's inheritance rights, against Qur'anic strictures— that were
deemed as "proof" in French eyes, and among some Muslims, that the Kabyles' attachment to Islam was superficial. He advances the argument that the Kabyle Muslim polity that grew in the century before the French conquest was a republic with functioning institutions, "founded on consent, [with] a mode of legitimation predicated on a principle of political representation, a procedure of public deliberation and decision-making that was respectful of public opinion, a corpus of man-made law that carried authority, and rudimentary political parties."
Roberts argues that periodic Kabyle resistance and opposition to the autocratic, independent Algerian state have been based on the constitutional tradition that originated in the pre-colonial Kabyle polity and survived the ravages of French colonialism. He suggests that modern Kabyle activists place too much emphasis on identity issues, which Algerian authorities grudgingly accommodate, and not enough on their own tradition of democracy and law-bound government.
Berber Government is a tour de force, a major and valuable piece of scholarship.
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
The Moshe Dayan Center
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Desert Valley Times
The Best of Fest Film Festival launches tonight at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception in Redd Hills Cinema 8, 790 W. Pioneer Blvd., and runs until Friday evening.
During the festival, 12 documentaries will be screened at Redd Hills Cinema as part of the St. George DOCUTAH International Film Festival.
Redd Hills Cinema has donated all its screens for the event, which is being sponsored by DOCUTAH and the Eureka Casino Resort in Mesquite.
After the cocktail reception, there will be a special free showing of "My Father's Highway," a 60-minute feature that tells the story of making the part of Interstate 15 that runs through the Virgin River Gorge.
After the film, Tuffy Ruth, a Mesquite resident who, for six years, worked on the construction of I-15 in the gorge, will be recognized.
He said last week he's hoping the documentary will tell the "real" story of the construction project.
"I've been involved with several different stories that media has put out that kind of wasn't the way it was," Ruth told the Desert Valley Times. "I'd like to see what they make of it."
Ruth said the actual building of the road was "like any other construction job."
"Just the pioneering of it was the challenge," he said. "It was an engineer's worse nightmare come true. We had to build the road from the top down."
The film festival has grown substantially from four documentaries last year to the 12 showing this week. The documentaries playing in Mesquite this week will compete for three Best of Fest awards.
Viewers will have a chance to see every film over the three days due to special scheduling.
Admittance to the festival is $5 per film, or $40 for a festival pass to all films, or $50 for a patron pass that includes all the films and the "It's a Wrap" party Sept. 12 at the Eureka. Passes are available at J.S. Merchant in the Eureka.
This year, all festival proceeds go to the Mesquite Reads, a local reading program partly sponsored by the Eureka Community Initiative.
A complete schedule of movie times can be found at eurekacommunityinitiative.com/index.php/events/past-events.
The films being shown are:
"One Year Lease" — This is an 11-minute film that tells the story of three people enduring a one-year lease in a tiny, expensive New York apartment beneath an awful landlord. The story is told almost entirely through voice mail messages left by the landlord.
"America's First All-Women Town Council" — The 18-minute film showcases the nation's first woman council in Kanab, Utah, in 1911. The women ran unopposed and were sworn into office Jan. 2, 1912.
"Beyond the Divide" — The films runs 85 minutes and follows a Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, a peace advocate who has been rejected by veterans and their community's reaction to a graffiti peace symbol that inflames decades of animosity between veterans and peace advocates. The film forces viewers to look beyond the differences or view the polarization as a way of life.
"Beyond all Boundaries" — The 97-minute feature shows the life of three men seeking to escape from their difficult lives through their passion of cricket. This documentary won Best Editing for Documentary Feature at the DOCUTAH festival last week.
"Catalina Island" — In just 22 minutes the film showcases the ecosystem and conservation strategies on Catalina Island. "Catalina Island" was deemed Best Cinematography for Documentary Short in the DOCUTAH film festival.
"Farewell to Hollywood" — The 90-minute feature is a nonfiction fairytale on love, death, art, holding on and letting go.
"Garwin" — This 68-minute feature profiles Richard Garwin, the scientist who brought us every thing from the hydrogen bomb to the touch screen.
"Herd in Iceland" — This 28-minutes film documents the annual horse round-up in Iceland and was declared to have the best music for the short in the DocUtah lineup.
"Into the Canyons" — The film runs 28 minutes and is a coming-of-age portrait of two first-time wilderness volunteer rangers living, working and exploring in Zion National Park.
"Moo" — Running just eight minutes, Moo details the importance of family farms, technology, and the milk and ice cream-making process.
"My Father's Highway" — The one-hour feature tells about making the section of Interstate 15 that runs through the Virgin River Gorge. The film promises to be packed with interesting information such as the $61million cost of the project that equals out to be $100 an inch.
"My Shanghai" — The 56-minute documentary allows 92-year-old Virginia Lumsdaine McCutcheon to tell her story of being captured by the Japanese in World War II.
"Poverty Inc." — Awarded Best Picture in the DOCUTAH festival last week, this film is constructed of more than 150 interviews from 20 countries over four years. The 99-minute documentary explores the butterfly effect of well-intentioned efforts such as TOMs shoes, adoptions and agricultural subsidies. It takes a look at the "poverty industrial complex." Are the poor staying poor and the rich getting hipper?
"Prima" — This film runs 58 minutes and walks the audience through the life of Boston Ballet prima ballerina Larissa Ponomarenko.
"Roaming Wild" — This film discusses the government's controversial horse round ups and explores the options three men face to protect life and land. It runs 64 minutes.
"See: An Art Road Trip" — "See" is about just that, seeing things. The 74-minute feature takes the audience on a road trip through America with Bo Bartlett and Besty Eby as they try to make a film about seeing.
"Solar Mamas" — The 58-minute feature wows audiences by taking a woman in Jordan and moving her to India to learn how to be a solar-engineer so she can help her village be sustainable and self-sufficient. "Solar Mamas" took home Best Direction for Documentary Feature last week for the DOCUTAH festival.
"Sriracha" — Dedicated to the sauce's fans, the 33-minute documentary reveals the origin of the sauce.
"The Sax Man" — DOCUTAH's Audience Choice features an aging street musician who gets an opportunity to play on the big stage after 40 years of hard luck. This documentary runs 84 minutes.
"Train of Pearls" — The 14-minute film shows women who clean houses for a living in Germany socializing while on the long train ride to their homes in Western Pomerania. The women quickly transition from quiet and anonymous to confident bread-winners.
"White Earth" — The 20-minute film shows North Dakota's oil boom through the eyes of children who are working on oil fields. This film received the Best Direction for Documentary Short honor during last week's DOCUTAH festival.
The trailers for the videos can be found on docutah.com.


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