Once domesticated, camels greatly facilitated travel over the rough, arid terrain of the Near East and North Africa. Carrying up to 1,000 pounds on their backs, camels can walk some 25 to 30 miles in a day and go for weeks without drinking water. A thick lining in their mouths enables them to eat almost anything digestible, even thorny bushes—and a special, nearly transparent eyelid allows them to see while protecting their eyes from blowing sand. Camels also provide their owners with milk (females can produce more than a gallon a day for up to 18 months after giving birth) and fuel (dried dung).
Using such perfectly adapted creatures, desert peoples carried out lucrative trade in frankincense, myrrh, saffron and cinnamon—a commerce completely dependent on camel caravans traveling through Arabia to the Mediterranean coast.
Camels were also important beasts of war. The fifth-century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus recounts how camels played a decisive role in the Persian Achaemenids' victory over the Lydians of Anatolia in 546 B.C.: "The reason for confronting the Lydian cavalry with camels was the instinctive fear which they inspire in horses. No horse can endure the sight or smell of a camel. This is the fact upon which the stratagem was based, and its object was to render useless Croesus' cavalry, the very arm in which the Lydians expected to distinguish themselves. The ruse succeeded, for when the battle began, the horses turned tail the moment they smelt and saw the camels—and Croesus' chief ground of confidence was cut from under him" (The Histories2.80).
For Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen examined evidence from copper production sites in the southern Levant. Radiocarbon dates suggest that domesticated camel bones in the Aravah Valley—the oldest known domesticated camel bones in the region—date to the late 10th century B.C.E. or later, corresponding with changes in smelting practices. The researchers believe that Egyptians revised smelting operations while importing domesticated camels from the Arabian Peninsula.


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Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies advanced to the NLCS with an 8-3 victory over the Braves on Saturday in Game 4 of their best-of-five Division Series. It's the first NLCS appearance for Philly since 2010.
They'll open Tuesday at San Diego in an all-wild card NLCS after the Padres stunned the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 to win their Division Series in four games. San Diego is in the NLCS for the first time in 24 years.
THOMSON'S STORY
Philadelphia was 22-29 when it fired Joe Girardi on June 3 and promoted Rob Thomson from bench coach to interim manager.
The 59-year-old Thomson, who had been a career coach for the Yankees and Phillies, directed Philadelphia to an 87-75 finish and an NL wild card. Now the Phillies are in the NLCS for the first time since they were eliminated by San Francisco in 2010.
"Once we hit June, the schedule kind of lightened up a little bit and we started winning, and guys started getting confidence and believing that they could win and believing that, OK, now this is the team that we thought we were," Thomson said. "And just kept going."
Thomson is the first Canadian-born manager to lead a team to the postseason. He had his interim tag removed on Monday when the club announced his new two-year contract.
San Diego sends the Dodgers home 5-3 to win the NLDS 3-1.
Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers dropped three straight to the Padres in a painful NLDS defeat after the best regular-season record in club history (111-51) and manager Dave Roberts' prediction during spring training that they'd win the World Series.
"Shock factor, very high. Disappointment, very high. It's crushing," Roberts said. "Each guy gave everything they had all year long, and a tremendous season. The great thing about baseball is the unpredictability, and the tough thing about it is the same thing.
"Nothing I can say is going to make it feel any better. Obviously we didn't expect to be in this position," he added.
The Dodgers are left with an empty feeling. They won the NL West for the ninth time in 10 seasons and finished 22 games ahead of San Diego. The Dodgers went 14-5 against the Padres in the regular season and had won nine straight regular-season series against them.
"These guys dominated us all year long, but we got hot at the right time," Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove said. "It's a good feeling."
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This announcement should be big news to sailboat racers around the Pacific Northwest. Read on for my take, as well as the press release from Race Week. For another take, be sure to check out my 48° North colleague, Kurt Hoehne's, post on the same subject at his website, www.sailish.com.
After years of careful consideration, Whidbey Island Race owner, Schelleen Rathkopf, has made a decision about the future of Race Week. At this very moment, she is in the new home of Race Week – Point Roberts, WA – beginning the plans for the 2020 event in this location. This is an exciting development and, though not perfect, I believe it will be a smashing success and a net gain for sailboat racing in the PNW.
It's no secret that I love Whidbey Island Race Week. It is one the most important events of the year for its fun factor, the quality of racing, and for the ways that it strengthens the sailing community. I have served on the WIRW Advisory Board for several years; and in spite of my affinity for WIRW, I have been a pretty enthusiastic supporter of the "Leave Oak Harbor" side of the Whexit debate. I'm excited to see what this new venue can do to redefine the defining PNW racing event.
Point Roberts is a beautiful location that provides the draw and the intrigue of being an entirely new race course for most attendees. More often than not, the first beat in Penn Cove was a matter of execution, not interpretation. This will not be the case for at least the first few years in Point Roberts. In fact, I don't know anybody that has raced out of Point Roberts before, and I think that's fun!
Given the location on the northwest side of Boundary Bay, it is fair to expect more boats from Canada will join the Race Week fleet. Delivery distances are in the 30-46 nautical mile range for boats based in Vancouver, Sidney, Nanaimo, and Victoria. Not only would it be great to see the fleet grow in numbers, but I love the idea that its going to take on more of an international feel. I've always enjoyed my interactions with Canadian sailors over the years, and I love the idea that this event can make us all feel like a more cohesive regional sailing community.
Point Roberts will be a vastly better venue for boats that are bigger and smaller than the current Race Week fleet. Exciting to me personally, considering how much time I've spent racing in the fleet, Point Roberts is a deep enough marina that it could accommodate the ORC fleet. Their estimated depth at a -3 tide is 11 feet. There are now five TP52s in the area (four in Seattle and one in Vancouver) plus a number of other big, fast boats with drafts too deep for Oak Harbor. It puts my stoke meter in the red to imagine a week of terrific summertime racing within that fleet.
More important to the event's success, and more likely to promote the growth and accessibility of sailing in a broader sense, Race Week can now bring dinghies back into the fold. Despite efforts from all sides, the realities of getting dinghies from Oak Harbor out to Penn Cove were untenable. Launching in Point Roberts should be easy using the boat ramp that will be installed in the marina facility before the event in 2020. There will be essentially no delivery to the race course, a key for the small boat fleet. As you will read in the Race Week press release, there are already plans in the works to tie in a youth sailing event.
The local intel about the venue indicates that, similar to Penn Cove, the breeze tends to fill in the early afternoon. Any mid-summer regatta on the Salish Sea will have the risk of no-wind days, but because of its proximity to the racing area, Point Roberts should be able to facilitate shore postponements if the conditions require it. I have some fond memories of bobbing around in Penn Cove waiting for breeze, but if that becomes less of a feature of Race Week, yahtzee!
As someone who has (cough) never been one of those heads-in-beds that supports the local tourism economy, the camping scene has always mattered deeply to me and my sailing buddies. Point Roberts will offer on-site camping, and there's a full service campground nearby with electricity for RVs.
The biggest compromises with Race Week in Point Roberts have to do getting there. For Seattle-based Race Week regulars, the delivery distance is roughly twice as far. It will be a haul to get up there, and I expect that the fleet will lose a few boats that are unwilling to make the trip. The gears are already turning on the idea to give the delivery crews a planned half-way stopover, which could ease the burden a bit. This distance, of course, is balanced by the closer proximity from many of the Canadian sailing hot spots.
With the infrastructure to support it in the form of a 35-ton travel lift, a 3,000-pound hoist, and the boat ramp – I think growth in the dinghy and trailerable sportboat fleets is likely. Boats coming from Seattle on trailers only increase their drive time by about 45 minutes compared to Oak Harbor, but any boat coming from Washington state must now go through two border crossings to get to the venue.
Over the next few years, I'll be curious to better understand what kind of support the local Point Roberts boats and community can offer the event and attendees. The friendly volunteers and leadership at Oak Harbor Yacht Club have always gone above and beyond at Race Week, serving on the Advisory Board and helping with Race Committee, merchandise sales, food service, and support of the Kids Camp. The folks in Point Roberts have already shown gusto in partnering with Race Week, and I'm sure they will continue to be awesome, but they've got big shoes to fill!
I'm in support of this move. While it is genuinely bittersweet considering how many fabulous memories many of us have from Whidbey Island Race Week, Oak Harbor's challenges of depth, camping, and a broken hoist (with no plan for repair) are well known. The move to Point Roberts gives Race Week a whole lotta new: new location, new fleet make-up, new race course, and new appeal. I sincerely hope that the Race Week stalwarts won't shy away from the longer delivery, because I think big participation and big fun is in our future.
In the more immediate future, the announcement makes this summer's trip to Oak Harbor to bang the beach in Penn Cove and raise a rum punch to Oak Harbor exponentially more special.
SEATTLE, Washington, March 28, 2019 – Whidbey Island Race Week LLC is pleased to announce Point Roberts, Washington as the new venue for Race Week beginning in the year 2020. The event will be called Point Roberts Race Week and the 2020 dates will be July 13-17, 2020. Point Roberts Race Week will be a 5-day race event, Monday through Friday which allows for the weekends before and after for boat deliveries.
The vision is to create the largest sailboat racing event on the west coast of North America that includes sailors from the USA and Canada. In addition to big boat and dinghy racing, race organizers also want to tie in a US Sailing National Championship as well as a youth event which the size of the venue supports. Plans have already commenced to have Point Roberts Race Week included in VARC (Vancouver Area Racing Circuit) Society in an effort to build participation from Canada.
For the first year, there will be 3 race circles in 2020, each with their own US Sailing certified PRO and race committee: big boats, dinghies and a cruising class for those who want to enjoy the event with one casual distance race per day. Awards will include daily and overall awards for the top 3 finishers in each class. Additionally, Point Roberts Race Week will continue the Whidbey Island Race Week tradition with two perpetual awards that include the Philip Wise Sportsmanship Award for the crew that exhibits exemplary sportsmanship and the Molly Kool Cup Award that recognizes the overall achievement of a female skipper.
Point Roberts, Washington is a beautiful seaside community that is just 4.9 square miles and overlooks the Strait of Georgia north of the San Juan Islands and south of Tsawwassen and Ladner, British Columbia. It offers a protected 920 slip marina that sits on 155 acres and can easily accommodate an influx of sailboats of all sizes and their tenders for a week every summer in July. The marina also has a 3,000-pound small boat dinghy lift in addition to a 35-ton travel lift, a full-service chandlery and mechanic shop. There is gas, diesel, propane and water available at the marina in addition to RV and tent camping, laundry and shower facilities. There is also a US customs agent on site to assist with racers coming to Point Roberts Race Week from British Columbia or other provinces in Canada.
The Point Roberts Marina includes Breakwaters Bar and Grill, a full-service restaurant and bar that is fully equipped to handle 500-600 people for indoor/outdoor post-race parties on site. There is a grocery store nearby, and the marina is secure, pet friendly and has ample parking for trailers and cars.
There are 1300 full time residents in Point Roberts and in the summertime, this number doubles due in large part to the number of vacation and 2nd homes located there. Referred to as "Vancouver's Weekend Playground" by Seabright Farms, the largest developer of new custom cottages built on lots along the south beach shores, Point Roberts caters to those interested in getting away from it all for R & R and memorable outdoor activities and experiences.
By Car: Point Roberts is located in Washington state, but to get there by car from the US requires 2 border crossings in Blaine and then again in Tsawwassen.
By Air: There is a grass landing airport in Point Roberts that offers service by San Juan Airlines.
By Sea: 48 degrees 58' 23.91" N, 123 degrees 03' 52.20" W / NOAA Chart 18241. As Point Roberts is located in Washington state, there are no border crossing requirements for those travelling from the US waterways.
Point Roberts is an undiscovered gem that will be well worth the delivery to get there. Recognizing that border crossings might be challenging for some crew, and the venue may require a two-day boat delivery for some Seattle boats, there are plans in the works to address these concerns. Point Roberts Race Week will arrange for a water taxi to transfer walk on crew from Blaine Harbor Marina in Washington to Point Roberts Marina in Washington. This crossing through Semiahmoo and Boundary Bay is 12.7 NM, and will take approximately 20-30 minutes.
There are hundreds of VRBO and Airbnb offerings in Point Roberts for crews looking for house shares. Plus, RV and tent camping will be available at the Point Roberts Marina and also at Lighthouse Park Campground, a full-service campground near the marina that will be reserved annually for Point Roberts Race Week participants. There are also several comfortable hotels nearby in Tsawwassen.
2019 marks the 37th year that Race Week has called Whidbey Island home. It was brought to life by Northwest Yachting magazine back in the early 80s and the traditions continued with Bob Ross and Stan Stanley, followed by Gary Stuntz and then Schelleen and Charley Rathkopf and now Schelleen Rathkopf. Whidbey Island Race Week has enjoyed many years of hospitality, support and engagement in the City of Oak Harbor. But the marina's only lift has been broken for 2 years and the plans to address a solution won't begin until the year 2024. Additionally, the channel into the marina is in desperate need of dredging to accommodate larger boats that would like to attend Race Week but cannot due to their risks of running aground.
In order to provide the best event experience on the west coast, attract boats from the US and Canada, expand our offerings to the region's growing fleets, the event needs to be in a deep-water, full-service marina and unfortunately, that is not in Oak Harbor. The Oak Harbor Marina is owned by a tenant association (not the City of Oak Harbor) and the costs for the needed repairs and dredging is too cost prohibitive. Whidbey Island Race Week will celebrate its final event in Oak Harbor, Washington July 24-27, 2019.
Whidbey Island Race Week will be rebranded as Point Roberts Race Week and additional information will be available on the new event website, PointRobertsRaceWeek.com that will launch July, 28, 2019. Registration for Point Roberts Race Week will open January 1, 2020.
Schelleen Rathkopf is a Seattle native and grew up in a power boat family. She taught sailing at Malibu Club in Canada, a popular youth summer camp near Canada's Princess Louisa Inlet during her summers in college. A graduate from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, Schelleen majored in Art History and then pursued a career in marketing and promotions in Seattle area media houses including KING TV and Seattle Magazine for over 20 years. Schelleen served as the Sponsors Coordinator for the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition on Mount Everest in 1999, where she worked on sponsor procurement and fulfillment on Mt. Everest. Schelleen has raced on a variety of boats including J24s, SJ24s, C & C 32, Olson 30, Cookson 12M, and a Star. She also owned and skippered her own boat, Isaura, a San Juan 28 for several years. From early 2000, Schelleen's interests turned towards race management as this was a way to be involved with racing while raising two small children. For 16 years, Schelleen served on race committee as the scorekeeper and timekeeper at Corinthian Yacht Club in Seattle and also at Whidbey Island Race Week, prior to taking over ownership of Race Week in 2015. In addition to her work on Race Week, Schelleen is a certified professional organizer through NAPO (National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals) and in 2017, created her own home organization business, Stuffbusters of Puget Sound. She lives in the Ballard/Crown Hill neighborhood in Seattle with her two children.
Theresa Coe, General Manager of the Point Roberts Marina, has been a resident of Point Roberts since 2008. She brings extensive management experience, a diverse background and a passion for boating to her position. She has worked in air traffic control in both Canada and the US, is a licensed PADI Dive Master and has been a volunteer member with the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary SAR team operating out of Point Roberts. She has a plethora of boating experience in both sail and power and bought her first boat at age 16 in Florida, where she taught herself how to sail. Theresa has raced lasers, catarmarans, and a 50' Beneteau out of Davis Island Yacht Club in Florida and later raced a 31' Evetts in the Pacific Northwest with the Deep Cove Yacht Club and Point Roberts Yacht Club. Currently, she enjoys boating on DevOcean, her Bayliner 38 that she keeps at the Point Roberts Marina.
David Jackson has lived and raced in Point Roberts for 19 years and has a long history of sailboat racing since he was a young boy. He sailed sabot prams, lasers, fireballs and tornados before landing on his favorite big boat, Mad Dash – a Dash 34. Mad Dash has been in David's family since 1984 when his parents and his sister (who were all on Olympic sailing teams) wanted a boat that the entire family could race and cruise on. His parents have since retired from racing, but David and his kids have continued the family tradition and have enjoyed a lot of success on the podium. As a longtime Whidbey Island Race Week racer (and the Overall Winner at Whidbey Island Race Week in 2018), David has also participated in club races, J24 Worlds and Vic-Maui.


Books are the most effective means of igniting interest in language.
Our Outreach Executive Khyati Datt writes about how v-shesh is using books to help develop language skills amongst children with hearing impairments.
Kanchan and Tabassum have always enjoyed interacting with children. They work with v-shesh Learning Services, an award winning impact enterprise that assists persons with disabilities (PwD), with socio-economic inclusion. v-shesh works in the training and education space to assist PwD in accessing formal sector jobs.
The duo are closely involved in the implementation of a project which aims to assist children with hearing impairment develop English language competency. When they joined v-shesh in 2016, the project had just started, but overtime, being in the field made them realize the needs of the children.
"Most of our students were either pre-teens or teenagers. We found a lot of interest and enthusiasm amongst the students to learn the English language, but most teaching learning material and methodologies available were not age appropriate to teach basic concepts. This led to the need for continuous innovation and to build upon existing material to make it relevant for students and simultaneously address the core challenge of assisting them with the basics", Kanchan shares.
Kanchan and Tabassum have always believed that stories are an important tool in igniting interest in learning a language. They started looking for books that were simple, colorful and had captivating illustrations. While Kanchan decided to divide the children in groups and asked them to read to each other, Tabassum started giving out books as rewards to the children.
v-shesh is a big believer of the PVR (Preview, View, and Review) method of teaching. In this method, a book is introduced to children by giving them a general description of the topic. As a next step, they read the book with the students using some visual effects and end the discussion by asking the children to review the book and share their learnings with each other. Simple videos were also made to explain the concept to the teachers and parents as well.
Kanchan and Tabassum's advice to the parents at the workshop ensured that learning did not stop once the children exited the classroom. The parents of Khushi, one of the students at the center, were the first to read a book to their child. Kanchan and Tabassum noticed a remarkable change in Khushi's confidence and were happy to see that despite not knowing sign language, Khushi's parents were able to connect with their child through books.
Kanchan feels that, "Books are the most effective and the most important means of igniting interest in language among the students . A beautifully illustrated book helps motivate children to read and learn a language like no other".
Kollegala Sharma is a scientist by profession, but a science communicator by passion. He teaches translation, science communication and science teaching through workshops, and has also been writing and translating science books from English to Kannada for the past three and a half decades. We spoke to him about multilingualism and how he uses the StoryWeaver platform in his interactions with children.
Q: How do you think multilingualism benefits children?
A: I believe that we are inherently multilingual. We speak a colloquial language and learn a standardized version in schools. However, it all depends on the age of the speaker and how he/she interacts with the language. Wider interactions with a language make the speaker adept at working with it anywhere. StoryWeaver provides an opportunity to learn different languages. I visualize a classroom where a teacher uses a story to teach Tamil to Kannadiga students with a Tamil translation in her hand. Why not? Also, I believe that learning a local language along with English is important.
Q: How and for what do you use Storyweaver?
I use StoryWeaver to excite young students to read and write and also to help adults who may not be very conversant in English learn the language by using translation as a tool. I ask participants at workshops to translate stories from English to Kannada to help them to understand the nuances of the language. Since the text is limited and is accompanied with pictures, it becomes easy for them to comprehend and then try translating. Long texts can put off beginners from learning a new language. I have worked with the teachers in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay. Even the teachers who aren't familiar with computers and technology take to the platform easily as StoryWeaver makes it easy for them to type both English and Kannada.
I have also used StoryWeaver to teach nuances of translation to participants of workshops on translation at the National Translation Mission. The participants were from various states and to find examples of translation in all the languages was difficult. In this case I turned to StoryWeaver, as it is a repository of stories in several Indian languages. This helped the participants appreciate both the translation process and also the differences in the process when translating in different languages. I also encouraged participants, whose language is not represented on StoryWeaver, to collaboratively translate and practice online in the open class. This serves well for both the language and the participants. StoryWeaver allows for a very active and collaborative interaction. Some potential translators for StoryWeaver will also hopefully be born. They can practice translation here, revise, review and upload without any hesitation.
I'd also like to explore ways to use the platform to enthuse students with different competencies. For example, I would like to excite students with drawing and painting skills to develop themes for future stories. And I also plan to use the stories on StoryWeaver and encourage versioning them to audio formats.
Mr. Sharma's colleague's daughter reads a story in Kannada, and makes herself the main character!
Q: How do you see StoryWeaver benefitting children?
The online stories are freely available both for teachers and students alike. Such a reading resource is unimaginable in any school, especially the Government schools.
Mr. Kollegala Sharma at a recent story telling session organised by Pratham Books to celebrated National Science Day.
Q: What are the challenges around translating?
Translation poses many challenges. For example, character names might work in one language but will be very funny or strange to Kannada readers when translated. If the name is essentially part of the cultural ethos it can be retained, but in some stories where the ethos is general and can be applied anywhere in India, the strange names may sound unattractive. Secondly, spelling them in Kannada may not be appropriate for certain reading levels.
Q: What can be done to effectively make children learn a new language?
Reading and retelling stories is a wonderful way to introduce children to a new language.


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Fire Ant Meets Its Match in Texas
By Elizabeth Pennisi Feb. 13, 2014 , 2:00 PM
For 60 years, imported red fire ants have terrorized people, livestock, and other ants as they spread across the southeastern United States, aggressively stinging those who got in their way and proving nearly invincible. But in Texas, these invasive pests have met their match—there, the tawny crazy ant is taking over. New research has revealed this newcomer's secret weapon: a built-in antidote to the fire ant's deadly venom.
Like the fire ant, the tawny crazy ant hails from South America. Pest controller Tom Rasberry first spotted it in the United States in Houston, Texas, in 2002, and entomologists soon determined the same species was also invading Florida. They dubbed it "crazy" because of the ant's erratic movements. Like the fire ant, the tawny crazy ant builds nests with lots of queens, so "it reaches really astronomical densities in the environments it invades," says Edward LeBrun, an ecologist at the University of Texas, Austin.
Unlike the fire ant, however, which stays outdoors, the tawny crazy ant is a "tramp" ant willing to take up residence almost anywhere—under logs, inside walls, and in circuit boxes, where they become so numerous they can short out electronic and electrical equipment. "From a societal perspective, it's a real nuisance," LeBrun says. Outdoors, tawny crazy ants decimate the populations of other invertebrates and have even been known to take over fire ant nests.
LeBrun wondered how these upstart invaders were able to beat the fire ants, whose sting emits a toxin more potent than the insecticide DDT. To study how the two species duke it out, he ventured into the field and placed a dead cricket at the boundary between fire ant and tawny crazy ant territories. He noticed that after a fire ant swipes its opponent with its venom-filled stinger, the tawny crazy ant walks off, brings the tip of its abdomen up to its head, and squirts a drop of liquid onto its mouthparts. Then the ant runs its legs across its mouth and uses them to spread the liquid along its body.
Suspecting an antidote to the fire ant venom, LeBrun tested the compounds secreted by the two glands at the tip of the tawny crazy ant's abdomen. He took each compound and wiped it on a similar-sized ant that was subjected to the fire ant's sting. When it came to neutralizing the fire ant venom, the key compound appeared to be the formic acid in the tawny crazy ant's own less powerful venom, which it usually sprays out of a pore during battle, LeBrun and his colleagues report online today in Science. Synthetic formic acid also has the same protective effect.
Fire ant venom contains not just toxic compounds but also proteins that help get those compounds inside cells. LeBrun suspects the formic acid destroys these proteins, so the toxins can't reach their targets. A few other animals are known to counter the effects of the toxins of their competitors, predators, or prey, but they do so by preventing the toxin from binding to their target molecules, not by chemically breaking down the poison, says Ashlee Rowe, an evolutionary neurobiologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing who was not involved in the work. "I think this example is unique."
LeBrun suspects that this detoxification behavior evolved in the tawny crazy ant in South America, where the two ants have been in close contact for a long time. Jules Silverman, an entomologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the work, isn't so sure. "It's possible that this same mechanism that these researchers observe in the U.S. occurs in the native range, but maybe not. Maybe it's new."
One study did show, however, that while the fire ant usually dominates its native landscapes, it can still be laid low by the tawny crazy ant, suggesting that their detoxification defense is used there as well. "It would be fascinating to go back to South America and watch these interactions more carefully," says Michael Kaspari, an entomologist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Meanwhile, it looks like "this 60-year dynasty of the fire ants [in the United States] is coming to a close, and it's coming to a close in a fairly unusual way."
Elizabeth Pennisi
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Leduc Physio; Our Staff: 2 Truths, 1 Lie - Kailie C.
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Kailie's Lie is #3! She met her husband in Red Deer, and they worked together during university. They were married just last year, August 2017.
Kailie is the pelvic health physiotherapist at Leduc Physio. She treats men and women for a variety of different pelvic conditions. Women can be treated in the prenatal period and postpartum, as well as pre- and post-operatively for any pelvic-area surgery, hysterectomy, urgency/frequency issues, pelvic pain, or anything that just doesn't feel right – regardless of how long symptoms have been present. Kailie also provides prenatal baseline assessments for pregnant mothers.
Men also experience pelvic pain and incontinence, and can be treated for symptoms occurring in isolation, or post-operatively (most commonly following prostatectomy).
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911Researchers Taken Down
GeorgeWashington Mon, 07/09/2007 - 7:18pm
911Researchers.com
UPDATE: Rick Siegel has moved his website to a new server. The CURRENT administrator is currently taking action to have it removed.
John Albanese sent me an email today informing me that he caused the website 911Researchers.com to be taken down.
Mr. Albanese's decision was a result of the harassment of 911 widow Ellen Mariani - including the publishing of her personal address and contact information.
Mr. Albanese made the following statement to me by email:
"911Researchers has accused a great many people of a great many things. IN recent days they accused me of being a member of Al Qaeda and a homicidal lunatic planning murder. The FBI and police are aware of this. The tags associated with these stories included 'gas chamber' - 'torture' - 'hanging' - 'murder' etc etc. All of this I quietly tolerated. But after a lengthy conversation with 911 widow Ellen Mariani last night I decided the time to act was now, and I decided to pull the plug on Mr. Siegel's operation. It is my hope that Mr. Siegel and the 'researchers' who support him will reevaluate their lives and consider the pain and suffering they have brought into so many people's lives with their irresponsible accusations and harassment campaigns. Simply put, attacking witnesses, first responders and 911 widows is off limits and is does not occur in a vacuum. People are indeed watching and prepared to act when that sacred line is crossed."
"Forwarding absurd theories to intentionally discredit this movement is your right under the Constitution. Claiming space beams and little green men brought down the towers is protected speech. But - harassing people, defamation of character, slander and threats is NOT protected speech - and only a fool would believe that Americans are not prepared to live and die defending those principals."
"I am sure we have not heard the last of Mr. Siegel and his team of 'researchers.' I would suggest they make the smart choice and leave widows, 911 victims, witnesses and first responders out of the equation."
911Researchers.com was Rick Siegel and Nico Haupt's site, and promoted theories such as no hijacked Boeings at the World Trade Centers (which they call "TV fakery"). Rick Siegel recently sued the makers of the movie "911 Mysteries" for copyright infringement, and has allegedly made death threats against several prominent 9/11 truth activists (some of them in were purportedly made in email form).
Poetic Justice...
.....after hearing about Siegel's all-to-telling lawsuit against the makers of "911 Mysteries".......
altruist on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 7:42pm.
I'm not familiar with the
I'm not familiar with the backstory here, is 911researchers Siegel's site or 911 Mystery's site?
Somebigguy on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 7:52pm.
It is Siegel's
GeorgeWashington on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 7:53pm.
In that case, I'd guess this
In that case, I'd guess this is a positive turn of events!
Check this...
http://www.911weknow.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Ite...
PUBLIC STATEMENT RE: RICHARD SIEGEL AND "911 RESEARCHERS"
We have been asked to make a statement about the attacks being launched against "911 Mysteries" by Richard Siegel, member of a group that calls itself "911 Researchers." The principal complaint is one of copyright infringement: Mr. Siegel alleges that the makers of "911 Mysteries" stole his footage without permission and incorporated it into their video, while altering it and misrepresenting it. In addition, Mr. Siegel and his group are creating and posting defamatory videos and articles on several websites which seem primarily dedicated to discrediting "911 Mysteries," its creators and some of the prominent 911 figures who have endorsed it.
The facts of the matter are that I, Sofia of "911 Mysteries" (and Avatar, LLC), first contacted Mr. Siegel and his partner Dave Shaw in the fall of 2005, after learning that they needed help to promote and circulate their new video "911 Eyewitness." I proposed to them in an email that I include a couple of clips from their DVD in a video I was creating called "911 Mysteries." At that time I was contacting a number of 911 filmmakers for permission to use clips from their work in my project -- as a way of exposing viewers to related videos they might not have heard of. Upon watching "911 Eyewitness" myself, I felt it contained some very interesting information that should be further exposed. All the filmmakers I contacted were agreeable, including Mr. Shaw, who responded on behalf of "911 Eyewitness." No compensation was offered other than crediting the film and filmmaker when the clip appeared.
In the winter of 2006 I met Jim Brewster, third partner in the "911 Eyewitness" trio and a principal of Blue Star Media Group, the entity that managed the "911 Eyewitness" business and website, located in Washington state. As Mr. Shaw and Mr. Siegel lived overseas, I began to communicate mainly with Mr. Brewster by both email and telephone in discussing use of the "Eyewitness" footage and arrangements to sell the "Eyewitness" video in the Avatar online store. Mr. Brewster informed me in many conversations that Blue Star Media Group "owns the copyright to 911 Eyewitness" and that he was the person who handled business affairs for "911 Eyewitness."
There is no formally registered copyright to "911 Eyewitness." The disk, packaging and video proclaim the copyright to be held by Richard A. Siegel and Blue Star Media Group. I acted on the information given to me by Mr. Brewster -- that he and his company were the designated business management agent and copyright holder to the work and it was correct and proper to make all business arrangements with Blue Star Media Group...
All ya ever needed to know.
Reprehensor on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 7:55pm.
Is it the same site as
Is it the same site as http://911research.wtc7.net ?
Governement:"I know nobody support my politics, but this is for the good of the country. I am right and they are wrong."
911blogger:"I know nobody support the new moderation system, but i think this will be better for the community. People are all wrong"
Roger on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 8:04pm.
No--different site
No--different site.
rm on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 8:54pm.
No, they're not affiliated
No, they're not affiliated with one another.
coconut on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 8:58pm.
Show "If you create a blog, advertise it here." by Caveperson
If you create a blog, advertise it here.
A lot of people support the "new moderation system." You don't own the site and you don't have a vote, unless the owner institutes a voting system. You are free to invest your time and money in creating a blog that meets your requirements..
Caveperson on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 9:59pm.
a lot? i would refer you to
a lot? i would refer you to the 2 threads that announced this new policy for a staggering amount of evidence proving otherwise. just look at the point totals on the comments dissenting for starters. some of them have like 50 or more points. and i dont wanna argue this thing all over again, but a thread like this would have had at least 25 comments by now. take a look around.......
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA
Chris on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 10:20pm.
It's the QUALITY of comments that counts, now the quantity.
I took a look around and I find NO SHORTAGE OF COMMENTS. I do find a quantum leap in the positive QUALITY of the comments and of the atmosphere. Here's hoping your buddies "the good ones" have found other places to practice their disruption and disinformation, and stay GONE.
Caveperson on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 2:01pm.
I too was informed about this
The site was taken down due to Rick Siegel spreading false allegations about a fairly well known 9/11 widow. I was going to write a story about this, but since GW is covering it, I'll let him do it.
"We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."
Arabesque on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 8:13pm.
I've frankly gotten sick to death of all the people on that site.
Xenomorph911 on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 8:41pm.
Wsn't Haupt resp. for St. Mark's Church debacle 9/11/06?
It sounds like the guy is several short of a six-pack, and probably GOP-sponsored disinfo.
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." - Benjamin Franklin
Styve on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 1:50am.
Yes, he did that
Nico Haupt was responsible for posting images of excrement and swastikas in a church, and then later called it "nazi-satire".
Organized Disruption Hits NY911Truth
http://www.911blogger.com/node/6370
Arabesque on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 12:31pm.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
My dentist was a first responder and my wife still hasn't overcome the fear that she felt that day. She was in the Century 21 across from the towers when the first plane hit.
She went into her office on Maiden lane and called me in New Jersey to tell me what was going on. Being at work we had no news of it. While on the phone I heard an explosion and told her to leave her office go east and north. she commented that some of the people in her office thought that the Path train was still running. I again said in a firmer voice. go east & north. Just go.
I had previously offered to pick her up at the GWB but that was before they closed the Bridge. She still has trouble with thunder and wakes up screaming at night. She has developed Rosche (spelling ?).
I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
By the way - Does anybody know what happened to the website where 9/11 videos and other videos could be downloaded for free ? I can't access it tonight for some reason.
http://www.question911.com/linksall.htm
NJcpaTOM on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 10:15pm.
Show "what gives you the right to" by truth911.net
what gives you the right to
what gives you the right to take down his site? what happened to freedom of speech?
truth911.net on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 10:26pm.
Since you don't know all of the facts...
Siegel was spreading false allegations about a 9/11 widow and then gave out her contact info resulting in people harassing her. Death threats have also come from this site (read the post). Free speech does not include the freedom to do these things.
Do you think that isn't good enough reason to take down a site?
Arabesque on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 1:17pm.
Free speech is always the rallying cry for attacks and disinfo. We aren't in the business of free speech, we're trying to expose a cover-up and the other side (be that agents, mentally ill, or a combo of both) have lots and lots and lots of free or paid time to abuse everyone if we let them.
Good for John Albanese for taking action of a different kind.
Victronix on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 11:42am.
I expected this
When Nico Haupt wrote a defaming piece against our Hero William Rodriguez- Rodriguez mentioned that he was going to expose them everywhere. After that, Rodriguez legal adviser found the website was registered under Rick Siegel's name.
Next step, William contacted Siegel and threatened lawsuit ( well, if he sued the president and his cabinet this was easier for him to achieve!). Aparently he (Siegel) defended Nico's ranting but not his story. William , currently in tour in Europe, directed all the local groups not to show or introduce him with anything related to Siegel's video or it to be sold at his presentations as part of retalationand exposed Nico and his followers as an embarrasment of the movement. They forgot that he gets millions of listeners everywhere he goes!!!!
Bravo for Ellen Mariani, The responders and of course... our Willy!
mensa123 on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 10:36pm.
How did John Albanese get
How did John Albanese get the authority to make the decision to shut it down?
R Rod on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 11:29pm.
Good for Albanese
Siegel is doing us no favours.
Kevin Fenton on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 1:07am.
You wouldn't BELIEVE the photo Rick sent around
OMG, it was the most disgusting thing I've ever SEEN! Gag! It's that one with the woman in a bathtub wearing a mask, with her ass in the air, clasping her feet and ejecting a stream or fountain of diarrhea into the air and onto her face - sorry, but it's important that everyone knows about it. He's a very very sick lad. Sophia made it available to Phil Jayhan who sent a well written letter to Blue Star Media, Rick's distribution company for 9/11 Eyewitness. They have not replied. If you want to send him a further message, send a letter to Blue Star.
Siegel and Haupt, and a handful of others, who are into the no planes stuff, and the space beams, they are not well, to say the least. Very strange brew that crew.
On the 11th day, of every month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9nRs8cu5Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftruthaction...
Robert Rice on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 2:32am.
Did the email actually have one of Siegel's email address in the "from" line? Or was this proven to come from Siegel in some other way?
Reprehensor on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 5:28am.
Perhaps Siegel and his ilk
Perhaps Siegel and his ilk are what the NSA calls "DDT"? ( Decoy Distract Trash.)
Shigawire
"To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will its true nature be seen."
-The Amtal Rule, DUNE
Shigawire on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 5:34am.
It is a form of paranoia to suggest someone in particular is disinfo. What's wrong with using the term misinfo? Gene Sharp, the "Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare" advises that the primary danger of police agents is not their lying or their spying, it's their ability to generate mistrust between genuine activists.
To use the term disinfo implies you know what is going on in another person's head.
Sharp's The Politics of Nonviolent Action is worth the read.
David Slesinger on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 6:38am.
A voice of reason
dave mann on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 9:44am.
Yes, usually it is difficult to discern intent.
However, attacking people, name calling, disruptive behavior, pretending to represent 911blogger, spreading false allegations, putting pictures of excrement in a church, calling everyone who disagrees with you an agent, inventing an entire taxonomy of ad-hominems, etc. requires a certain amount of intent. Spending an inordinate amount of time doing this without apparently holding a real job is a further indication of intent. Spending even more time doing this than researching "tv fakery" and "exotic weponry" tells us that yes, it's probably intentional. There is more evidence if you care to look.
If you spend more time attacking people than 9/11 activism, it's a pretty good sign of where your motivations lie.
It is extremely important to differentiate misinformants from
DISINFORMANTS. The former's mistake(s) can be corrected by presenting them with argument and evidence. The disinformation agent must obviously be exposed. THERE'S all the difference in the world between misinfo and disinfo!!!
911Researchers.com is now
911Researchers.com is now back up....
....unfortunately....
coconut on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 7:17am.
There...
Is a rumor being circulated by Luke Rudkowski that I am the one responsible for this. That is not the case. I had absolutely nothing to do with it, and found out about it from John Albanese just like everyone else.
Donate To 9/11 First Responders
Jon Gold on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 8:43am.
911 Eyewitness
I purchased the 911 Eyewitness DVD because I thought the audio of the explosions prior to the collapse was some of the best evidence.
Based on these developments, any researcher genuinely interested in the truth must consider
the possibility the audio of the explosions prior to the collapse on the 911 Eyewitness video were faked.
Regardless, the footage of the first collapse in 911 Eyewitness is valuable because it establishes
an accurate time of the initiation of the first Tower collapse.
honway on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 9:53am.
i couldnt agree more. when
i couldnt agree more. when it first came out i was pretty impressed and excited, but based on how Seigel has been acting for some time now ive long stopped using 9/11 Eyewitness. the guy couldnt be more obvious now but even before he showed a lot of "bad signs".
Chris on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 10:36am.
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Two tickets sold in Iowa came close to being winners in Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot. The Iowa Lottery says tickets bought in Shenandoah and Coggon were each one number away from claiming part of the 400 million dollar jackpot. Those tickets are worth $15,000 each for their owners.
Those two prizes were the high end of the over 50,000 tickets the lottery says won some kind of prize in what was the third largest Mega Millions jackpot. Tickets sold in Florida and Maryland matched all six numbers drawn and their owners will split the big prize.


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Matt Moore Signing, A No Risk Win-Win For Tigers
Shaneo42 / December 5, 2018
Admittedly, it's been a minute (or season) since I've last written and am finally coming to grips with the Tigers being terrible for some time. With that, it can be challenging to find things to blog about, however, I'm going to give it another shot!
Let's first start off with what could be the "major" move of the off-season for our Detroit Tigers, in signing left handed Matt Moore to the starting rotation for a measly $2.5mm 1-year contract with a $1mm tied up in incentives.
It's no secret the Tigers are in rebuilding mode and aren't going to go after the big free agents but do need to address holes on the roster and will do so with one and two-year deals with guys who are looking to hang on or prove they deserve a bigger/longer contract. This pretty much sums up Matt Moore, as he will be entering his 9th year and age 30 season.
Moore, once one of the top prospects in baseball for Tampa, started out as a promising starter, where he was an All-Star by his second full season and finished 9th in Cy Young voting that season (2013). From there things went downhill, as Moore torn an elbow ligament in 2014, had TJ surgery and came back to pitch mid-way through the 2015 season.
In 2016, the Rays were out of the playoff race and traded Matt to San Francisco, where he pitched in the postseason. A combined 4.08 ERA between Tampa and San Fran may be scoffed at but looking closer at a WHIP of 1.291 and 8.1 K/9 rate were solid numbers to build on going in to 2017.
In 2017, the wheels came off, where Moore was 6-15, with a 5.52 ERA and a bloated 1.532 WHIP and declining K rate and increasing H/9 (10.3) and HR/9 (1.4) rate.
The Giants traded Moore to Texas, who was looking for a left, but the performance wasn't there, and Matt eventually ended up in the bullpen mid-season.
Now with the Tigers, I see little risk with a small 1-year contract, and the potential to turn this in to another Mike Fiers situation, where Moore performs and becomes valuable to Al Avila come July and the trade deadline. It could also turn in to a Francisco Liriano situation and has no value, but the risk is worth the reward
December 5, 2018 in MLB Hot Stove, Tigers Rebuild. Tags: Detroit Tigers, Matt Moore
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I was shown this poem earlier today, and disliked it immediately.
In part, because it stands in such stark contrast to the grace-filled message of welcome in the Easter sermon of John Chrysotom that I just posted.
Chrysotom reassures all that there is a place at the table. A place for those who are committed in their religious devotions, and a place for those who are negligent. A place for those who a rich, and those who are poor. A place for those who are weary of doing good, and a place for those who are weary of failing again and again.
I see this too often. Christians find it hard to believe that others might have deep reasons for their own religious convictions, and so assume that they must be rejecting Christianity out of stupidity or spite.
But how would it feel to be on the receiving end of this? How would I feel if, say, a member of the Jainist faith started threatening me with punishment and death because I didn't believe the same things that he did? What if he accused me of being stupid, of being inconsistent, of deliberately choosing to ignore the plain truths revealed in their doctrines?
The frustrating thing about this is that it's not even hard to find out why some folks reject Christianity in North America. Thanks to books like 'unChristian', we know that a majority of young people consider the church to be homophobic, judgemental, hypocritical, overly political and exclusionary.
Poems like this one that accuse sceptics of Christianity of being ignorant and stubborn do not help at all.
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To many new mums Kate Campbell is a national hero, and now she has the award to prove it. Catherine Scott caught up with the midwife who goes above and beyond the call of duty.
Thursday, 28th March 2013, 11:10 am
Kate Campbell with mums and babies
Kate Campbell, midwife at Jessops Hospital in Sheffield and antenatal and postnatal fitness expert, is a "national hero".
Kate, 38, from Fulwood, received the Tommy's and Danone Baby Nutrition "Hero" award at a star-studded ceremony in London on Friday after supporting and inspiring hundreds of mums and mums-to-be to have the healthiest pregnancy possible, through her passion for pregnancy health and wellbeing.
Kate was nominated by class member, Sarah Watson, from Sheffield.
"Kate is a hero in so many ways. Not only is she a fabulous midwife but she is also extremely passionate about antenatal and postnatal health, fitness and wellbeing," says Sarah.
"Kate offers great advice on all areas in pregnancy, and I believe that it is because of Kate's class that I had a healthy and fantastic pregnancy and labour. We all attended Kate's postnatal 'return to exercise' class which helped us all return to fitness safely and really helped us understand how we could exercise. Kate's classes have been a real lifeline for all of us. Kate has been a huge inspiration to us, and everyone that has attended her classes."
Kate's passion for pregnancy health led her to set up and run her own 'Keep Mums Fit' antenatal aerobics and Pilates classes, giving mums-to-be the opportunity to exercise safely and gently – a key factor to maintaining a healthy pregnancy. Kate has been running the classes for five-and-a-half years.
"It was amazing to win this award, but I don't know about being a national hero," says Kate. "I am passionate about helping mums keep fit both before and after pregnancy. I think if children see their mums exercising then it really encourages them to do so. I would really like to see more done to encourage pregnant women to exercise from the GP to the health visitor. It can really help.
"She stays in touch, offers personalised advice for each pregnancy and is there whenever you need it.
"She's even attended all our little ones' first birthday parties. She is always smiling and makes her classes so much fun because she loves doing them."
As a midwife, Kate goes the extra mile for her patients, offering them support and advice outside of her working hours whenever they need it.
"When classmate Janine suffered with complications at birth and her little boy was in intensive care, Kate often took the time to visit her when she wasn't on shift, to reassure her, to be a shoulder to lean on and talk her through any questions she had. I know Janine found her support invaluable."
Tommy's Health Campaigns Manager, Beckie Lang says: "With approximately one in five women being obese at the start of their pregnancy, and half of women of childbearing age being either overweight or obese, managing one's weight during pregnancy has never been more important.
"We are thrilled to be able to recognise such great practice and congratulate Kate on her successful contribution to pregnancy health, and both antenatal and postnatal care."
Tommy's is a national charity, funding medical research into pregnancy complications – such as premature birth, miscarriage and stillbirth.
As well as providing support for anyone who has suffered the trauma of a pregnancy loss or complication, Tommy's also provides free pregnancy health information for all parents-to-be.
Tommy's Five Point Pregnancy Plan – covering nutrition, weight, exercise, smoking and mental health – is part of the charity's drive to support mums-to-be have the healthiest pregnancy possible.
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Patsy Dalton, 75, of Circleville passed away on January 30, 2019. She was born on November 21, 1943 in Debord, Kentucky to Christopher and Molly (Crum) Smith. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband William Dalton and brothers William and John Smith. Patsy is survived by her children Billy (Colleen) , Gregory (Michelle) Dalton, grandchildren Dana Wood, Derek and Dylan Dalton, great grandchildren Dalton and Waylon Wood and Harper Dalton and by sisters Gladys Robison, Delores Birchfield and Innis Coffey. Cremation has been observed. Wellman Funeral Home, Circleville is handling the arrangements. Online condolences can be made to www.wellmanfuneralhomes.com.


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Araştırma Çıktıları | TR-Dizin | WoS | Scopus | PubMed
The role of AQP3 and AQP4 channels in cisplatin‑induced cardiovascular edema and the protective efect of melatonin
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Koral, Lokman
Ovalı, Mehmet Akif
Tüfekçioğlu, Nezahat Kübra
Karakılıç, Ersen
Adalı, Yasemen
Uzun, Metehan
Koral, L., Ovali, M. A., Tufekcioglu, N. K., Karakilic, E., Adali, Y., & Uzun, M. (2021). The role of AQP3 and AQP4 channels in cisplatin-induced cardiovascular edema and the protective effect of melatonin. Molecular Biology Reports, 48(11), 7457–7465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-021-06763-6
Background The present study evaluates the development of edema, the change in the AQP3, AQP4, p53 and Bax gene expressions, and the protective efects of melatonin in rat hearts administered with cisplatin. Methods and Results A total of 28 Wistar albino rats were divided into four groups. The vehicle was administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) to the rats in the control group. The melatonin group (Mel) received melatonin at a dose of 10 mg/kg for 13 days. The cisplatin group (Cis) received cisplatin on days 1, 5, 9 and 13 at a dose of 4 mg/kg. The rats in the cisplatin + melatonin (Cis+Mel) group underwent the procedures both in the Mel and Cis groups. Blood and left ventricular samples were taken and analyzed on day 14 of the study. AQP3, p53 and Bax gene expressions were found to be signifcantly increased following cisplatin administration compared to the control, while melatonin administration signifcantly decreased the expression of these genes (p < 0.05). Melatonin administration also signifcantly decreased the level of AQP4 gene expression compared to the cis. On histological examination, congestion, hemorrhage, extracellular and intracellular edema, and degenerative changes were signifcantly more common in the Cis than in the control. Melatonin administration signifcantly decreased intracellular edema (p = 0.010) and degenerative changes (p = 0.010), and the improvement in extracellular edema was close to statistical signifcance (p = 0.051) in melatonin. Conclusions These results indicate that melatonin had an ameliorative efect on myocardial edema and AQP channels, and that it may be used as a protective molecule against myocardial edema secondary to cisplatin administration.
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Tag Archives: Best Bollywood Films
New Bollywood Movies on Amazon Prime Page
I'm excited to introduce a new page at Access Bollywood that features a list of all of the Bollywood movies streaming for free with an Amazon Prime membership. You can find links to the new page in the header menu and in the left sidebar. If you're not already an Amazon Prime member, click here to try it for free for 30 days.
Amazon's Instant Video catalog is a challenge to navigate. Within the Prime Video: Bollywood subcategory, sort options are limited to "Featured" and "Newest Arrivals." Also, titles are frequently misspelled, and the dates listed are often the date the film released digitally, not its theatrical release date. I've streamlined the (at present) 90+ titles into an alphabetical list, with correct spellings and release dates.
Amazon Prime's Bollywood catalog skews older than the Netflix Bollywood catalog, though some recent releases like 2013's Kai Po Che! are available. There are great older titles like Dil Se and plenty of movies featuring early performances by some of today's biggest stars. If you're in the mood to marathon some of Akshay Kumar's late '90s Khiladi films, you're in luck.
Creating this page and making sure all of the information is correct has been a massive undertaking, months in the making. Keeping the information current will likewise require painstaking work. If you appreciate the work I've put into this and would like to leave me a tip via PayPal, please follow this link.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
This entry was posted in Streaming Video and tagged Amazon Instant Video, Amazon Prime, Best Bollywood Films, Bollywood, Bollywood Movies on Amazon Prime, Desi Movies on Amazon Prime, Hindi, Indian, Indian Movies on Amazon Prime, Movie, Streaming Video on May 27, 2016 by Kathy.
Best Bollywood Movies of 2011
2011 was a standout year for Bollywood in terms both experiments with storytelling style and elevating the status of women in the film industry. Here are my picks for the best movies of the year. (Click on the title of each movie to read my original review.)
There were some good examples of familiar narratives — including the family drama Patiala House and the romantic comedy Mere Brother Ki Dulhan — but plenty of films pushed the envelope. Ra.One lead the Hindi film industry's foray into 3D technology. Rockstar experimented with making a movie feel like an extended music video.
The most successful experiments of the year were created by Aamir Khan Productions. The company released two intriguing films — Dhobi Ghat and Delhi Belly — with runtimes that clocked in at under two hours long, uncharacteristically brief for Indian movies. Further, the company insisted that the films show in theaters without the standard intermission break, paving the way for future success in international markets.
2011 was a tremendous year for women working in the Hindi film industry. Director Zoya Akhtar struck box office gold with Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Actresses Vidya Balan and Kalki Koechlin played gritty, compelling main characters in The Dirty Picture and That Girl in Yellow Boots, respectively.
My favorite movie of the year also features a strong, complex woman as the lead character, in a story surprisingly macabre for Bollywood.
The Best Bollywood Movie of 2011 is 7 Khoon Maaf.
Talented director Vishal Bhardwaj puts his unique stamp on this dark comedy about a black widow and her seven husbands. In the lead role, Bhardwaj cast Priyanka Chopra, an actress who's made a point of choosing a diverse array of characters throughout her career. Chopra manages to make the serial killer Susanna calculating yet sympathetic. Better still, the movie is often quite funny as the grim tale unfolds.
7 Khoon Maaf isn't quite like any other Hindi movie released in recent years. Look past the dance numbers and cast of Indian A-listers, and it could easily transcend the "Bollywood" label — and instead be considered a "Foreign Film" (a genre with more critical cachet here in the US).
The movie is available for streaming on Netflix, making it accessible to an audience who may have missed it in theaters early last year. If you haven't seen 7 Khoon Maaf, I encourage you to check it out.
Previous Best Movies Lists
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The Student Council is responsible for introducing two new programs to our school this year. The officers and class delegates work hard at improving student activities. The students at PS 47 have a voice, the officers and class delegates make sure they are heard.
Under the supervision of Mr. Peay, the student council has started a school wide recycling program. They made sure each classroom was equip with a paper recycling pail. Council members also gave teacher's materials to help them teach their students the importance of recycling and "Going Green."
The student council members have taken it upon themselves to help struggling students. Members of the student council are lending their tutoring services to their fellow students that need a little help. We love sharing. Why not share our knowledge?


Whether you're looking to purchase your first home or your fifth home, you instinctively want to get the most for your money. In order to make sure that the house of your dreams comes with the right price tag, it's important to go into the negotiation process well-informed.
Of course, the price of every home is at least somewhat negotiable, but what really matters is your negotiation style and plan of attack. By incorporating the following strategies into your home search, you'll have a much better chance of landing the perfect deal.
Enter the home search process financially prepared. In other words, know your finances inside and out before you even think about calling a real estate professional. Getting yourself pre-approved for a mortgage loan in the amount you're ultimately willing to pay. Negotiations will sway in your direction if you have a pre-approval in your hand because the sellers know there is a low chance that the deal will fall through.
Do your research. Have a solid idea regarding properties in the surrounding area and how much they have recently sold for. Be sure to compare homes that are similar in size, age and amenities to the home(s) you're most interested in. Tap your realtor's brain for more information about nearby "comps" (properties that are comparable).
Remain as unemotional as possible. As soon as the seller and/or their agent picks up on the fact that you've become emotionally attached to a property, they'll know they have the negotiating edge. Rather than getting too attached to any home, think of the process in business terms until you know you've nailed down the price you want.
Use your real estate agent (it's why you hired him)! Sometimes it can be tempting to communicate directly with a home's sellers – especially if you happen to know them in any capacity. Although it is much more time consuming, ask any questions and make all requests through your agent to the seller's agent. This will further help you to keep emotion out of the process, and will keep misunderstandings to a minimum.
Be ready to move quickly. You want to get the best deal possible, but if you wait too long to make an offer, you'll see properties whisked right out from under you. Competitive markets mean that you have to be willing to make your best offer straight away. If the seller doesn't want to accept your best offer, you haven't had time to get too attached and you can move on to another listed home that you like.
Make it worth their while. If you are able to pay in cash, you'll knock weeks off the waiting period for the sellers. Not having to wait for you to be approved for a mortgage is a big plus for some people – especially those who have already purchased another home and need things to speed along. If you can't pay in cash, have that mortgage pre-approval letter handy. A personal statement from your mortgage broker and the option of a quick close are two extra ways to convince the seller that your offer is worth considering.


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Spatial structure
March 21, 2012 by Marcel Montrey 22 Comments
In evolutionary game theory, the spatial structure of a game can be as important in determining the evolutionary success of a given strategy as is the strategy itself [1]. This is intuitive if we consider that strategies do not work in a vacuum: An agent's payoff is a function of both its strategy and the context in which that strategy was executed. In light of this, a brief discussion concerning the role of spatial structure in simulations is warranted. Additionally, several common network types (random graphs, small-world and scale-free networks), as well as network properties (degree, clustering and path length) are considered. Readers are also encouraged to consult Albert and Barabási's review, as it forms the basis for the latter summary [2].
To understand what is meant by spatial structure, something should first be said about what it means to lack one. It is interesting to note that the earliest applications of evolutionary game theory often favored a non-spatial approach [3], and that many continue to do so to this day. In such settings, populations are treated as inviscid (free-mixing), meaning that any agent can potentially pair with any other agent in an interaction; agents are, in other words, inherently unconstrained in their pairings. This extends to reproduction as well: Because new agents are not "placed" anywhere in particular (e.g., next to their parents), reproducing successfully has a more quantitative rather than qualitative effect on the population (e.g., there are more agents of your type, but you are not helping to generate a homogeneous neighborhood).
Reasons for preferring a non-spatial approach may be numerous, but one of the most apparent is the relative simplicity of analysis. Often, only the strategy proportions and the payoff matrix, which describes how fitness changes when these strategies interact, need be considered in order to predict population trends [4]. Nevertheless, spatial structure remains interesting both due to its potentially strong effect, as well as for theoretical reasons. Psychological research, for instance, has shown evidence for adaptive biases that lead to the formation of particular social networks, and it is often argued that such biases are a product of evolution [5]. Therefore, if we wish to use evolutionary game theory to reason about behavior, understanding spatial structure may, in certain cases, be a necessary first step.
At its simplest, spatial structure is a set of constraints on how agents interact. These constraints are typically described in terms of a graph, where agents form the vertices (i.e., nodes) of the graph, and potential interactions are represented by the edges connecting them. The lack of an edge indicates that the given agents cannot pair up for an interaction, and thus a simulation which does not impose a spatial structure may be described as a complete (i.e., fully-connected) graph. When spatial position matters, reproduction is also affected: The researcher must decide where an offspring is placed (e.g., next to the parent, far from the parent, at random?) – and even this decision may have a significant effect. Typically, the same spatial structure is applied to both interactions and reproduction.
To describe how graphs vary, several key terms must be defined. The first of these is degree, represented by k. The degree of a vertex is the number of connections it forms, and as such represents an agent's connectivity. The higher the degree, the more potential partners the agent has for interaction, and the more spaces it has to potentially place an offspring. In most cases, it is not the degree of a given vertex, but the average degree or the degree distribution of the whole graph that is of interest. Next, clustering, as captured by a clustering coefficient, reflects the extent to which local, highly interconnected groups form. Another way to characterize this is as a measure of agent "cliquishness". Finally, path length is the number of edges that must be traversed to move from one particular vertex to another. A low average path length suggests that long distance connections are common, whereas a high average path length implies that connections tend to be strongly localized.
Unfortunately, real-world networks often have sophisticated topologies that lack clear design principles. As a result, it is commonly thought that the simplest way to represent such networks is to treat them as random graphs. The most straightforward approach is described by the Erdõs-Rényi model: Here, we start with an empty graph, then consider every pair of points, connecting each with some probability p. The result is a graph of n vertices, degree k and approximately pn(n – 1)/2 randomly distributed edges. Though the underlying principle is simple, in practice, such graphs are more complicated than they first appear. For instance, there are threshold phenomena whereby, as p varies, various properties (e.g., every pair of vertices being connected at least indirectly) emerge very suddenly, yet with remarkable consistency. Variations on this approach are abundant and frequently used [2].
Though the random graph paradigm remains common, others have emerged as well, such as a cross between random graphs and highly clustered regular lattices: the small-world network. These networks are defined by a low average path length between any pair of vertices, a concept that was famously captured by Stanley Milgram's "six degrees of separation" experiment, where he argued that, on average, any two individuals in the United States are only separated by approximately six social relationships. The implications of this property are that, while local, highly connected groupings are possible, long distance connections make it easy to move anywhere on the graph. This is worth noting, since virtually all real-world networks have a higher clustering coefficient than random graphs do, yet small-world properties abound; examples include various social networks and the Internet. Nevertheless, these properties in and of themselves are not sufficient to specify any particular organizational structure, and, in fact, even random graphs may be regarded as a type of small-world network [2].
The third and final paradigm is the scale-free network. Whereas the degree distribution of a random network is a Poisson distribution, scale-free networks are defined by the fact that their degree distribution has a power-law tail. In other words, vertices with very high numbers of edges are uncommon, and such vertices tend to form "hubs" around which less-connected vertices then gather. Unsurprisingly, scale-free networks have small-world properties, since traversing from any vertex to another is often as simple as connecting to the nearest hub and then using this to access a hub near the target vertex. Like small-world networks, scale-free networks are also quite prevalent across a variety of contexts, ranging from the Internet to metabolic networks [2].
One spatial structure that has proven particularly useful from the point of view of evolutionary game theory is a variation on the random graph: the random k-regular graph. Although random, in that the vertices are randomly connected, these are also regular, in that each vertex has the same degree k. This offers several advantages: First, the random nature of the graph means that no deliberate assumptions about properties such as clustering or average path length are made, which makes them easier to justify at a theoretical level (e.g., if we don't know what a particular network should look like, this is a relatively neutral place to start). Second, the graph's regularity means that agents always have an equal number of neighbors, and thus an equal number of interactions and consistent structural constraints on reproductive potential. This precludes scenarios where a more highly connected agent receives higher or lower fitness payoffs, or reproduces more or less, simply as a result of its level of connectivity, rather than the effectiveness of its strategy. One final advantage is that Ohtsuki and Nowak have proposed a means by which more traditional ways of reasoning about non-spatial models may be applied to random k-regular graphs [6]. This has the potential to make games on such graphs more mathematically tractable than other models.
Creating a random k-regular graph is theoretically quite straightforward: We simply consider the entire possible set of graphs with n vertices and k degree, and then pick a graph at random. The question of how this is done in practice is more difficult however, since computational constraints almost always necessitate the use of a faster algorithm. The practical considerations of generating such graphs will be discussed in a future entry.
Killingback, T., & Doebeli, M. (1996). Spatial Evolutionary Game Theory: Hawks and Doves Revisited. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 263(1374), 1135–1144.
Reka Albert, & Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (2002). Statistical mechanics of complex networks Reviews of Modern Physics, 74 (1), 47-97 arXiv: cond-mat/0106096v1
Smith, J. M. (1982). Evolution and the theory of games. Cambridge University Press.
Nowak, M. A. (2006). Evolutionary dynamics: exploring the equations of life. Harvard University Press.
Henrich, J., & Broesch, J. (2011). On the nature of cultural transmission networks: evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 366(1567), 1139–1148.
Ohtsuki, H., & Nowak, M. A. (2006). The replicator equation on graphs. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 243(1), 86–97.
Filed under Technical Tagged with Joseph Henrich, Martin A. Nowak, networks and graphs, spatial structure


"Is God all He says He is?"
If you're anything like me, a home-grown church kid, that question is pretty easy. "Yeah of course, He's GOD!". That's what we're suppose to say right?
Ok, so can I ask you another question then?
"Do you believe you are the amazing person you say you are?"
What if I told you that the answer you gave for the first question affects the way you answer the second? You're probably confused so let me explain myself.
Lots of times the way we view GOD can affect the way we view ourselves. If we believe GOD is an awesome being Who created all things and called them good (Genesis 1:31), then we'll believe that we are HIS good creations because HE made all things "good". But if we don't believe that GOD makes things "good" then we'll view ourselves as a mistake.
"I am GOD's one exception"
I knew GOD was an amazing God who created all things good and that HE loved us beyond measure. But for some reason I believed that HE made an exception when it came to me.
Do you see a pattern here? And the sad thing was, I lived it out! I would tell people all the time that GOD loves them and has a purpose for their life, all the while silently adding to myself "everyone but me that is".
"Susan, if you believe that you are MY one exception in life, then you believe I have contradicted MY Word."
GOD revealed to me that when I believed that I was HIS one exception, in reality I was believing that GOD repudiated what HE said in the Bible. If I was going to preach to others that GOD loved them and that GOD had a plan for their life, I had to believe the same thing in regards to myself and stop condemning myself when HE already loves and forgave me.
I'm telling you this because ever since that moment I have discovered that all my insecurities are secret lies about GOD that the Devil has told me. When I stopped trying to fix myself with all the "self-help" rules I had learned, I began to see that all this was truly about GOD and HIS image, not mine.
Think about it, Who is the Devil's enemy?
attack the things/people they love.
I am not loved. GOD doesn't love.
I am useless. GOD makes useless things.
I am ugly. If we are made in HIS image, then GOD must be ugly.
Now, I am not saying that you are irrelevant and that your insecurities have nothing to do with you. Your fears and insecurities are very real and important to you and how you walk through life. I'm just suggesting that we're looking at this all wrong. Instead of focusing on how we feel, we should be asking ourselves "what is the ultimate battle here?"
Pray and ask GOD to reveal HIMSELF to you and then spend some time just listening. The Bible says that those who wait on The LORD will not be ashamed (Psalms 25). It will be a challenge, quieting your mind, but it will be rewarding.
GOD does not always answer us in a booming voice from the heavens. Sometimes HE allows other things or people to speak for HIM. I remember one time GOD revealed a lie I had been believing by letting me literally speak it out loud! I was talking with a friend (and by talking, I mean I was talking she was simply listening not saying a word) and before I even knew what I was saying I heard myself say the lie I had believed and why I had even believed it! So don't expect an answer in a specific way. GOD sometimes likes to surprise HIS children!
You can do this by asking someone, or a group of people, to pray for you and keep up with you during your time of searching. I would like to encourage you to leave a comment in this post so that I and others reading this can pray for you. You don't have to say anything specific, just that you've accepted the challenge. Also I encourage you to comment on other people's posts encouraging and praying for them! Please remember though that there are real people behind those comments and treat them with the kindness, love, and respect that Jesus offers to us all.
Are you ready? Nervous? Excited? Feeling a little bit of a lot of different emotions? Me too. I know the lie I'll be working on this week is "GOD can't fulfill me in my everyday longings and desires". Doesn't that sound selfish? So be praying that GOD will reveal to me how HE is the only Messiah and I am not. I'll be praying for you all too!
Blessings on your epic quest!
My dear friend, I completely understand. Having gone through this struggle myself, I was often confronted with the question of how I first came to conclusion that I was "the one exception" when it came to G-d and His love for His people. Now that I have finally awakened to the beauty of this reality, that G-d loves us, and He definitely loves me, I see with hindsight that perhaps my belief stemmed from the idea that perfection and grace was something to be earned: "To have G-d's love is something I must work for", or something of that nature. Is it any wonder that I persistantly had existential crisis throughout my middle school and young adult life?
But like you, I too had a moment of realization of who G-d is, and who I am to Him. Picture stars exploding and colors running rampant in the sky! It was an amazing discovery! And by G-d's grace, it is something that I will hold onto forever.
I know right! When I finally realized that GOD extended the same amount of mercy and forgiveness HE gave to others I almost cried! I'm still working to overcome old habits and thinking patterns that I had when I believed that lie. But now that I know the truth it makes all the difference! It's like getting a new pair of glasses and realizing you couldn't see clearly until you had the glasses on!
I believe all of us at one time or another believe the lies of the evil one- Satan. The danger of letting them overcome us is very real. It's a daily battle. Our number one armor is the Lord. My dear Susie Chris, you are amazing. Thank you for the reminder and the challenge.
That's exactly why I posted this! When I realized I had been deceived my whole life, I realized that other people had/were being deceived as well! I wanted to post this to #1 expose this lie that I had believed and #2 let people know that they are not alone in there struggle. I will be praying that GOD reveals to each of you Who HE truly is in a way that knocks your socks off and sweeps you off your feet!


How do I know if I can have Implants? I did not take care of my gums because I was too embarassed at their appearance.
My upper teeth have been replaced with ill fitting dentures and now I have very few lower teeth left. If I have bone loss, is it still possible to to get implants?
With todays implant advancements and success rates it may very well be possible to receive implant dentistry and to get rid of those ill fitting dentures.
The other huge advantage besides having upper and lower teeth that do not come out is that implants placed in the jaws will function like natural tooth roots and help you prevent continued bone loss over the years.
The titanium implants stimulate the jawbone just like natural teeth roots and in doing so prevent your jawbone from resorbing away over the years.
To determine if you are a candidate for implant therapy and to evaluate the condition of your bone levels you need to consultl with your dentist. Sedation medications are available with some dental practices that can help you to comfortably get your care done in just a few appointments.


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