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Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (13 April 1794 – 6 December 1867), father of Gustave Flourens, was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain science, and a pioneer in anesthesia.

Biography
Flourens was born at Maureilhan, near Béziers, in the département of Hérault.  At fifteen he began studying medicine at Montpellier, where he received the degree of doctor in 1813. In the following year he went to Paris, carrying an introduction from A. P. de Candolle, the botanist, to Georges Cuvier, who received him kindly, and took an interest in him. In Paris, Flourens engaged in physiological research, occasionally contributing to publications; and, in 1821, at the Athénée, he gave a course of lectures on the physiological theory of the sensations, which attracted much attention amongst men of science.

In 1815, Flourens pioneered the experimental method of carrying out localized lesions of the brain in living rabbits and pigeons and carefully observing their effects on motricity, sensibility and behavior. His intention was to investigate localisationism, i.e., whether different parts of the brain had different functions, as the Austrian physician Franz Joseph Gall, the founder of phrenology, was proposing. The trouble was that Gall did not use a proper scientific approach to his affirmations. In 1825, Flourens was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.

Flourens was able to demonstrate convincingly for the first time that the main divisions of the brain were indeed responsible for largely different functions. By removing the cerebral hemispheres, for instance, all perceptions, motricity, and judgment were abolished. The removal of the cerebellum affected the animal's equilibrium and motor coordination, while the destruction of the brainstem (medulla oblongata) caused death. These experiments led Flourens to the conclusion that the cerebral hemispheres are responsible for higher cognitive functions, that the cerebellum regulates and integrates movements, and that the medulla controls vital functions, such as circulation, respiration and general bodily stability. On the other hand, he was unable (probably because his experimental subjects have relatively primitive cortex) to find specific regions for memory and cognition, which led him to believe that they are represented in a diffuse form around the brain. So, different functions could indeed be ascribed to particular regions of the brain, but a finer localization was lacking.

Flourens, by destroying the horizontal semicircular canal of pigeons, noted that they continue to fly in a circle, showing the purpose of the semicircular canals.

Flourens was chosen by Cuvier in 1828 to deliver a course of lectures on natural history at the Collège de France, and in the same year became, in succession to LAG Bosc, a member of the Institute, in the division "Economic rurale." In 1830 he became Cuvier's substitute as lecturer on human anatomy at the Jardin du Roi, and in 1832 was elected to the post of titular professor, which he vacated for the professorship of comparative anatomy created for him at the museum of the Jardin the same year.  In 1833 Flourens, in accordance with the dying request of Cuvier, was appointed a perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences; and in 1838 he was returned as a deputy for the arrondissement of Béziers. In 1840 he was elected, in preference to Victor Hugo, to succeed Jean François Michaud at the French Academy; and in 1845 he was created a commander of the légion d'honneur, and in the next year a peer of France. In 1841, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In March 1847 Flourens drew the attention of the Academy of Sciences to the anesthetic effect of chloroform on animals.

On the revolution of 1848 he withdrew completely from political life; and in 1855 he accepted the professorship of natural history at the Collège de France. He died at Montgeron, near Paris on 6 December 1867.

Opposition to Darwinism

Flourens was an opponent of Darwinism and criticized the idea of natural selection. In 1864, he authored Examen du livre du M. Darwin sur l'Origine des Espèces. He refuted the arguments of spontaneous generation.

He was a creationist and defended the fixity of species. Flourens criticized Charles Darwin for personifying nature. He argued that natural selection is a contradictory term as nature does not select. Flourens' book was never translated into English and no reviewers attempted to refute his arguments in detail. However, Thomas Henry Huxley took issue with his criticism of Darwinism, noting that "his objections to details are of the old sort, so battered and hackneyed on this side of the Channel, that not even a Quarterly Reviewer could be induced to pick them up for the purpose of pelting Mr. Darwin over again."

Bibliography
Besides numerous shorter scientific memoirs, Flourens published:

Essai sur quelques points de la doctrine de la revulsion et de la derivation (Montpellier, 1813)
Experiences sur le système nerveux (Paris, 1825)
Cours sur la génération, l'ovologie, et l'einhryologie (1836)
Analyse raisonnée des travaux de G. Cuvier (1841)
Recherches sur le développement des os et des dents (1842)
Anatomie générale de la peau et des membranes muqueuses (1843)
Buffon, histoire de ses travaux et de ses idées (1844)
Fontenelle, ou de la philosophie moderne relativement aux sciences physiques (1847)
Théorie expérémentale de la formation des os (1847)
Œuvres complètes de Buffon (1853)
De la longévité humaine et de la quantité de vie sur le globe (1854), numerous editions
Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang (1854)
Cours de physiologie comparée (1856)
Recuesi des lloges historiques (1856)
De la vie et de l'intelligence (1858)
De la raison, du genie, et de la folie (1861)
Ontologie naturelle (1861)
Examen du livre du M. Darwin sur l'Origine des Espèces (1864).

References

Further reading

 Sabbatini, R.M.E. Phrenology, The History of Brain Localization. Brain & Mind Magazine, March 1997. An excerpt was transcribed here by permission of the author.

1794 births
1867 deaths
People from Hérault
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French physiologists
History of neuroscience
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83,072. And now to explain colours. I suppose that as bodies excite sounds of various tones and consequently vibrations, in the air of various bignesses, so when rays of light by impinging on the stiff refracting superficies excite vibrations in the ether, these rays excite vibrations of various bignesses. (Newton & Light & Colour) ibid.
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August 30/14 14:00 pm - Amateur World Cycling Championship News
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The team photo is in Ljubljana Slovenia at the Amateur World Cycling Championship taken just prior to the team relay demonstration event on Friday Aug 29th
L to R: Andre Lamarche, Shelly Mckee, Zeina Loutfi (did not compete in the 4 person relay but did place 3rd in the TT women 35 to 39 category on Aug 28th), Stephane Demers, Bruce Bird
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The 156km road race is Sunday Aug 31st starting at 9am
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1 Italy (Alois Vigl, Valentina Mabritto, Stefano Nicoletti, Andrea Nicosia) 0:32:00.1
2 Australia 1 (Bruce Snell, Laurelea Moss, Andrew Patten, Tim Dalgliesh) 0:32:28.0
3 Slovenia 4 (Irena Tekavec, Ljubo Car, Grega Tekavec, BlazaBonca) 0:32:28.2
4 Poland 1 (Jarek Gorecki, Agnieszka Sikora, Lechoslaw Michalak, Maciej Rogulski) 0:32:29.0
5 Slovenia 1 (Danijela Svetik, Bosatjan Slak, Tomi Curk, Dusaan Hajdinjak) 0:32:29.5
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17 Slovenia 8 (Leopold Cencelj, Maja Rokavec, Borut Drnovaek, Peter Drnovaek) -1 Lap
DNF France (Gerald Bremaud, Patrick Francois, Cyril Cheno, Martin Faure)
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Women 35-39, 18.6km
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2 Cathrine Grage (DEN) 0:26:53.9
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2 Bauer Alexander (GER) 0:23:27.1
3 Richard Feldman (USA) 0:23:35.4
4 Robert Nunes (CRC) 0:23:47.2
5 Andrew Patten (AUS) 0:23:51.8
6 Ishchenko Hryhoriy (UKR) 0:23:56.4
7 Jesper Nielsen (DEN) 0:24:02.5
8 Snorre Lorgen (NOR) 0:24:13.8
9 Faupel Holger (GER) 0:24:17.2
10 Bruce Bird (CAN) 0:24:21.1
11 Bjorn-einar Nesengmo (NOR) 0:24:22.7
12 Marko Baloh (SLO) 0:24:29.3
13 Anders Boel (DEN) 0:24:30.0
14 Viktor Petrovych (UKR) 0:24:30.7
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16 Frank Erk (GER) 0:24:38.2
17 Klaus Pedersen (DEN) 0:24:44.8
18 Miroslav Pechous (CZE) 0:24:47.1
19 Marco Prezzi (ITA) 0:24:51.0
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24 Lucjan Premrn (SLO) 0:25:41.3
25 Koppensteiner Adolf (AUT) 0:25:42.8
26 Alesandro Freschi (ITA) 0:25:44.2
27 Craig Hobart (AUS) 0:25:49.5
28 Mats-orjan Pogen (SWE) 0:25:50.3
29 Vialettes Patrick (FRA) 0:26:04.0
30 Kim Gotfredsen (DEN) 0:26:12.9
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32 Andrej Sulic (SLO) 0:26:31.8
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3 Luciano Pasquini (ITA) 0:24:06.7
4 Gwyn Pine (RSA) 0:24:18.2
5 Endres Torsten (GER) 0:24:24.4
6 Hugo Strand (NOR) 0:24:40.2
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The past month's been a rollercoaster to say the least and having a baby is truly life changing. Today I'm excited to share Adeline's birth story with you. I remember when I was pregnant, all I did was read birth stories to mentally prepare. People will say you can't compare too much or expect yours to be the same experience. Which is true, so I would suggest the same if you're obsessively reading stories like I did, haha! But I did enjoy hearing other peoples' stories, so I'm sharing mine.
Giving birth was one of the hardest and emotional things I went through, second to postpartum recovery (more on this on another blogpost). Looking back, I would say my labor experience ended up being good considering how I started emotionally. I'm so glad I had a safe and uncomplicated vaginal delivery with a healthy baby girl. In the end, that really is what matters.
Let me just start by sharing what my ideal birth "plan" was. What I really wanted was to labor at home as long as I could. The only medication I was open to was the Epidural and even then, I wanted to wait it out. My husband I took labor/delivery classes that emphasize natural pain management and I've talked to several other moms that gave birth naturally, so I wanted to give natural birth a try. At least go as long as I could.
But I say "plan" because in my case, everything went out the door.
On September 29th, we went in for what we thought was our normal weekly doctor's appointment. At the end of our appointment, he told us that I had high blood pressure (for the 2nd week in a row) and protein in my urine. I didn't know what that meant. But turns out that could mean I have preeclampsia, and the doctor seemed concerned enough to send me to the hospital next door to get checked and monitored for the next 2-3 hours. When you have preeclampsia, there is a possibility for the mom to get seizures and pose risks for both the baby and mom. The only way to fix this is to deliver the baby. The worst part of that appointment was that he uttered the words I didn't want to hear would happen. He told me "if your numbers don't improve or stay the same, we would induce you tonight." Induce? My heart dropped because I REALLY wanted to at least start labor naturally. I knew what that meant - getting Pitocin to speed up the process and I really didn't want Pitocin. We headed over to Hoag next door and on the way there I started sobbing. I was scared. My husband tried to calm me down and reminded me to breathe since we were getting monitored for my blood pressure.
We arrived at Hoag at around 11am. After monitoring me for 2 hours, at 1pm, I was diagnosed with mild preeclampsia. I was told I would get induced that evening as soon as a delivery room opens up. They then hooked me up to an IV (which was annoying because it makes you less mobile). From 1-5:30pm, we waited. For 4 hours I laid there feeling mentally unprepared and like I couldn't/didn't want to do this yet. My mind went back and forth between "why's this happening? I don't want this" and "everything happens for a reason. It'll be okay." But overall, I wasn't in a good mental state at this point.
At 5:30pm, a delivery room opened up. They checked my cervix and I was 2cm dilated. We immediately started the induction process with Cytotec (a drug to soften the cervix) and they said they would check back at 9:30pm to see how dilated I was. I had contractions but they were light. Hopeful that my contractions would progress more after the Cytotec so I wouldn't need Pitocin, I did whatever I could in the room to speed it up naturally. Took walks, sat and rocked on a yoga ball, stretched and moved my hips, etc. But when they checked me at 9:30pm, I was still at only 2cm. My heart dropped again, knowing that we'd be starting Pitocin. Which they did.
Once I got the Pitocin, my contractions started to get more intense. I had to concentrate more and breathe through them with the help of my husband coaching me. This continued until 12:30am. When they checked me at 12:30am, I was 3cm dilated. I was happy to hear that. But then my nurse told me she was going to need to break my water now to "speed up the process" so if I wanted to get the epidural, now would be a good time. I was caught off guard. Now they were going to break my water too? I tried to be strong and ask if it was necessary. The nurse said it was to help speed the process and suggested I get the epidural because breaking the water would feel really intense. I felt somewhat cornered. I wish I was stronger but felt vulnerable considering I had preeclampsia. That was the bigger concern. My contractions were getting stronger and I felt mentally unstable, so I agreed to get the epidural.
Side note: you're probably wondering what do contractions feel like? It feels like really deeeeep pressure pains. The good news is the actual painful part of a contraction is a few seconds when it's at its peak. At the beginning of the contraction, you feel it come on gradually. I don't know if you'd call it "pain" but it's definitely uncomfortable. But when the contraction is at its peak, it almost feels like a Charley Horse in your lower abdomen. It does hurt and you need to breathe through them. DEEP breaths and have your husband or whoever is your "coach" to remind you and actually do them with you. Then you feel the pain subsiding and gone after. It's like a wave. I read a lot about how to get through contractions, and it's true that it's a mental battle as much as it's physical. When you're going through a contraction, you can't let the contraction get stronger than your mind. You have to focus, accept it, and breathe into the pain. Keeping in mind some affirmations helped too. I really liked this one - "the power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you." I can probably go on and on, but that's in a nutshell what contractions feel like, and how you get through them.
Ok, back to the story!
The epidural only took about 20 minutes but it felt like forever because I was having more intense contractions at the same time and had to wait in between contractions to administer the epidural. I remember it pinching and hurting for a split second, but overall it was uncomfortable. I was leaning on my husband, breathing deeply and heavily until it was over. Right after it was done, I started shaking uncontrollably. Must of been the hormones and adrenaline. They called it the "mama shakes" and is completely normal for it to happen.
I remember getting the epidural was the turning point during my labor.
From there, it was smooth sailing. Up until that point, my mind felt all over the place but once I got the epidural, I felt SO much better not only physically, but mentally too. I was able to relax. The irony is that during my pregnancy, I was so iffy about getting the epidural. But it ended being the one and only thing that helped me relax and push me through the rest of labor.
At 2:30am, I was 6cm dilated.
By 7am, I was pushing. I only pushed for about a total of 20-25 minutes and all the nurses were so surprised at how well and how fast I did. I even surprised myself haha. Especially because they warned us it might take awhile since this was my first time. What I found interesting is that the epidural will take away the pain of the contractions, but you can still feel the pressure from it. This pressure helps you to know when to push. Funny story: the nurses had to tell me to stop pushing during my 2nd "practice" push so they can call my doctor. She was coming out! We waited about 20 minutes for my doctor to arrive and my legs were still up on the stirrups and everything exposed haha. Modesty really goes out the window.
And on September 30th, 2017, 7:47am, Adeline was born!
I can't exactly describe what the feeling was like when she was put on my chest. There was a huge sense of relief, love, and joy. But also this feeling like... "here we go..!" Feelings of doubt and insecurity of being a new parent rushed over me, but equally an excitement of being a mom to this girl. That really is a blessing, and gift from God.
My labor experience wasn't what I intended/wanted but I had to trust my doctors, nurses and ultimately God, that whatever happened was for a good reason. It's been one month since, and I still can't believe I did it...give birth! Haha. All this time I was worried about how I was going to do it, but our bodies really do know what to do. This experience taught me that nothing's in your control and that you have to trust the process. You have to keep an open mind going into it. I'm so thankful for a safe delivery of our girl.
Welcome to the world, Adeline Airi Viray!


(Note that I'm still flying a lot myself, particularly for work, offsetting, but feeling uneasy about it).
Hmm - and then there's this.
The Times IS doing something... they are taking advantage of global misfortune and running pictures that will, they hope, increase readership and profits.
In terms of doing something more than this.... hmmm, not seein' it.


Over the past few years, press freedom conditions in Ukraine have gone from promising to precarious, if not dangerous. Although the number and variety of media outlets has continued to grow, attempts to manipulate their content by the administration of President Leonid Kuchma, his political rivals, local officials, and related business interests have caused a profound erosion of press freedom in the country.
The most serious symptom of the decline has been the rising tide of violence against journalists, most notably the murders of reporters and editors for their professional activity. Beatings of journalists have become routine. Few of these cases are investigated properly by police, and they generally go unsolved and unpunished.
On August 11, the veteran editor of a popular newspaper in Odessa, Borys Derevyanko of Vechernyaya Odessa, was shot and killed on a city street in broad daylight. The regional prosecutor swiftly concluded that Derevyanko was assassinated because of his editorial work. Derevyanko's murder generated considerable publicity and outrage because of his prominence as a journalist and critic of Odessa Mayor Eduard Gurvits. Police arrested a suspect who confessed to the contract killing of Derevyanko. Reflecting a long-standing rivalry, city and regional officials exchanged accusations, each group attempting to link the other to the murder.
Derevyanko's murder was typical of many violent incidents against journalists, but atypical in that it produced an arrest. Following Derevyanko's murder, Ukraine's acting general prosecutor Oleh Lytvak acknowledged that violent crimes against journalists were on the rise. He said 29 journalists reported they were victims of assault between April 1996 and October 1997, but insisted that most cases were random muggings and reflected the overall spread of crime in Ukraine. Lytvak accused journalists of seeking sensational stories, implying that reporters may provoke such incidents. Journalists groups protested his remarks and contested his statistics, blaming the authorities' poor record of prosecuting attackers for journalists' reluctance to report crimes against them.
CPJ investigated the suspicious death of Petro Shevchenko, a correspondent in Luhansk for the popular tabloid, Kievskiye Vedomosti, who was found hanged in an abandoned building outside Kiev in March. Although police said they found a suicide note at the scene, Shevchenko's colleagues hesitated to accept this explanation, citing the reporter's recent troubles with local security service officials in Luhansk. Shevchenko had complained of pressure from officers from the local branch of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) who were angered by his articles about their conflict with the mayor of Luhansk. His case, as well as a number of assaults against journalists documented by CPJ last year, revealed a disturbing trend of reporters and editors in the perilous midst of political and commercial rivalries.
Independent and opposition news organizations faced other forms of intimidation as well, and they fear more such harassment in the run-up to parliamentary elections in March 1998. Libel suits filed against publications and journalists by political and business figures have proliferated. Most are civil cases punishable with fines, but the officials and business people often seek huge amounts of damages to bankrupt and silence media outlets. Perhaps the most visible case last year was a libel suit filed by Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko against Kievskiye Vedomosti, which bore the brunt of official harassment for its investigations of corruption and organized crime. The minister is seeking damages worth about US$4.5 million from the newspaper, and about US$1 million each from two reporters, Serhiy Kiselev and Henadiy Kirindyasov, for a series of articles alleging impropriety and corruption. The trial has repeatedly been postponed. The paper lost another civil suit in the spring filed against it by the Kiev city administration, paying about a half million U.S. dollars in damages. The paper's publisher, Mykhailo Brodsky, a wealthy entrepreneur and critic of President Kuchma, claimed the cases were politically motivated. Many journalists, particularly those working for struggling publications outside major urban areas, have resorted to using pseudonyms to avoid prosecution.
Kievskiye Vedomosti and a host of other opposition and independent newspapers also suffered a series of random tax and fire inspections throughout the year. A number of Brodsky's bank accounts were frozen in the process.
The struggle for control of Ukraine's airwaves intensified in the run-up to the national elections. The leftist-dominated Ukrainian parliament voted in November to regain some air time for itself by setting up a public television network under its control. Most of Ukraine's national airwaves have been split up among pro-Kuchma State Television and private broadcasters viewed as loyal to the president, and little time has been available to the president's political rivals. Most Ukrainians still rely on television as their chief source of news because they cannot afford subscriptions to periodicals. Private broadcasters loyal to the president, such as Studio 1+1, viewed the parliament's decision to establish its own Public Broadcasting of Ukraine as an attack on independent broadcasting because it would ultimately take air time away from them. The lawmakers claimed they were in effect breaking a monopoly because top officials in the presidential administration and government held financial stakes in Studio 1+1 and other private broadcasters as well as controlling State TV. But the deputies failed to indicate how they would pay for their public television programs, especially as the cash-strapped government owes months' worth of back wages to workers in the still-huge public sector.
The privately produced popular weekly news magazine show "Pislyamova" was taken off the air by Studio 1+1 on two occasions last year for segments deemed inappropriate. Private program producers are expected to censor themselves on politically sensitive topics if they want even private broadcasters like Studio 1+1 to air their shows.


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Jaźwiny ist der Name folgender Dörfer in Polen:
 Jaźwiny (Biała Podlaska), Dorf der Gmina Biała Podlaska in der Woiwodschaft Lublin
 Jaźwiny (Czarna), Dorf der Gmina Czarna in der Woiwodschaft Karpatenvorland
 Jaźwiny (Kraszewice), Dorf der Gmina Kraszewice in der Woiwodschaft Großpolen
 Jaźwiny (Mstów), Dorf der Gmina Mstów in der Woiwodschaft Schlesien
 Jaźwiny (Połczyn-Zdrój), Dorf der Gmina Połczyn-Zdrój in der Woiwodschaft Westpommern
 Jaźwiny (Trzebnica), Dorf der Gmina Trzebnica in der Woiwodschaft Niederschlesien
Dörfer in der Woiwodschaft Masowien:
 Jaźwiny (Borowie), Dorf der Gmina Borowie im Powiat Garwoliński
 Jaźwiny (Pilawa), Dorf der Gmina Pilawa im Powiat Garwoliński
 Jaźwiny (Szczutowo), Dorf der Gmina Szczutowo im Powiat Sierpecki


A new drug compound named ML351 was discovered to treat chronic pain without any addictive effects of opioids by researchers from the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience along with the University of California San Diego and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
It is designed to inhibit the naturally produced enzyme 15-Lipoxygenase-1, which synthesizes bioactive lipids that contribute directly to chronic pain not relieved by common over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen.
This lack of relief can lead patients to resort to more powerful drugs including opioids such as Oxycodone and other narcotics.
"Our goal is to demonstrate the preclinical efficacy of ML351 for chronic pain that does not respond to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and might otherwise be treated with opioids," said Ann Gregus, a research scientist with the School of Neuroscience, who is working on the drug compound with Matt Buczynski, an assistant professor of neuroscience who specializes in drug addiction.The School of Neuroscience is part of the College of Science at Virginia Tech.
A paper published on the drug and its likely impact on treating certain types of chronic pain appears in this month's issue of the medical journal PAIN.
The paper was written by Gregus and Buczynski, with coauthors Tony Yaksh, a pain expert at the University of California San Diego, and Anton Simeonov, scientific director of NIH's and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Ganesha Rai, Dave Maloney, and Ajit Jadhav, all of the NIH, co developed the drug compound.
Acute pain that occurs from touching a hot stove helps protect us from severe self-injury, but chronic activation of these pain signaling pathways can be debilitating, Buczynski said. Presently, only a limited number of drugs exist for effectively treating chronic pain, such as that caused by autoimmune diseases.
Current anti-inflammatory drugs such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids help relieve pain by reducing inflammation, but for many types of chronic pain they are less effective.
ML351 targets a novel signaling pathway believed to be responsible for the development of chronic pain that does not respond to anti-inflammatory drugs. "ML351 may be effective for multiple types of pain, and our future studies will investigate its utility in other models of chronic pain," said Gregus.
Treatment for unmanaged pain is the primary motivation for seeking medical care, Buczynski said. Issues with chronic pain affect more than 40 percent of the U.S. population, resulting in costs exceeding $100 billion per year.
The misuse of pain killers has contributed to the ongoing opioid crisis, which was declared a National Public Health Emergency in 2016. The problem has grown so wide that fatal overdoses from opioid use are now the leading cause of unnatural death, and some of the highest per capita opioid abuse in the country occurs in rural western Virginia, where Virginia Tech is based.
"Chronic pain is extremely challenging to treat due to a lack of effective first-line therapies," Buczynski said. "While opioids are highly effective medications, concerns regarding danger of their misuse have reached a fever pitch. Thus, there is critical need of novel nonopioid treatments for the effective management of chronic pain."
The need for a nonopioid, non-addictive pain medication is paramount, added Gregus. "Serious issues with long-term usage or misuse/diversion of opioids necessitate the development of alternative treatments to expand the options available to patients with chronic pain," she said.
"ML351 shows promise as a non-opioid therapeutic to treat pain states not relieved by over-the-counter medications. Future studies will determine how we can translate these findings into novel therapeutics for clinical use."
It will be several years before the drug enters clinical trials in humans, much less reaches pharmacy shelves. For now, Gregus and her team will continue to test ML351 in other animal models.
"The next step is to evaluate its effectiveness in reversing established pain states of arthritis or diabetic neuropathy," Gregus added. "If this target has broad applicability for treating pain states, the compound can be optimized chemically and tested for safety and efficacy in larger animal species and then humans."
Pain after surgery can be effectively managed with minimal or no opioids, stated new research.


Will Barbados save St. Michael's and All Angels Cathedral?
…When it comes to reminders of British sovereignty and slavery, some folks in Barbados have the same goal.
You watch the comments for this article. Every time Barbados Free Press talks about preserving some old building or plantation house, more than a few otherwise intelligent and well-meaning Bajans come online and say "Let it rot" – or as in the case of Sam Lord's Castle, "Let it Burn".
These folks who want to remove every vestige of British history on this island are not just a few on the fringe. Although this feeling, attitude or undercurrent isn't spoken about in the news media, it is real, widespread and it influences the actions of our so-called leaders too. And that's a shame because the end result is we are losing our history and our heritage because whenever there is a choice to be made about preserving our history, we as a society willfully let it rot and fade away.
Neglect is just as effective as a bulldozer, except that using a bulldozer is a more honest action.
When I walk these fields and these hills and see the burned out remnants of plantation houses and the fallen walls, I touch the now-crumbled marl and think of the men and women who built the walls and the houses. Slaves, or freed slaves but still in slavery of a sort, ripped from their home countries and shipped like cattle to Barbados. Dying, starving, whipped and raped along the journey – only to arrive as possessions in a strange and brutal world.
They built St. Michael's Cathedral. They built the plantation houses and the windmills and the signal towers. These buildings are monuments to British Imperialism it's true, but moreso they are monuments to our ancestors named and unnamed who sleep in unmarked mass graves.
We need seven million dollars to restore and save St. Michael's and All Angels Cathedral. Open your wallet or purse and say "save it", or keep your money to yourself and say "Let it rot".
Above photo: Barbados: South Coast Boardwalk yesterday.


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The Greatest Baseball Championship Series Ever Played
Posted in From the Archives, tagged baseball, Chicago, Hoo-Hoo, International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, lumber companies, sports history on October 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The debate can now be settled. We know what the greatest championship series in baseball history is. It's certainly not the 2014 San Francisco-Kansas City match-up, though that's been entertaining.
What championship am I talking about? The year was 1908. Theodore "Big Stick" Roosevelt was finishing his second term as president. "Big Bill" Taft was running on the Republican ticket to succeed his friend and was taking on William Jennings Bryan, aka "The Great Commoner." (This may have been the Progressive Era, but it was also the era of the best sports nicknames. Who could ever forget players like "Wee Willie" McGill, "Handsome" Griffin, or "Postscript" Fletcher? Even the head umpire of the series was nicknamed "Dusty"!)
The teams hailed from Chicago and Indianapolis and met on a sun-baked field in Michigan City, Indiana, for the first game. It had all the trappings of the modern game: two teams loaded with stars, two umpires, clean uniforms. See for yourself.
Oh, did I mention that this was the Hoo-Hoo's World Series? After all, lumber mills were big sponsors of teams back then. Nevertheless, there were bragging rights on the line. We'll let our intrepid reporter take it from here:
At 1 o'clock the invading army of black cats took Michigan City without a struggle, the natives firing only one shot, that being from the artillery of a photographer. Immediately upon the landing of the steamer a brass band headed the line and the cavalcade proceeded to the park, where it was successfully photographed, and then steered to a great refreshment hall, where it was very successfully fed. The local accommodations for caring for the big crowd were found to be excellent and the hunger of all was satisfied without serious difficulty.
The chief event of the afternoon was the baseball game. Immediately after the luncheon the Hoo-Hoo and their ladies proceeded in a body to the b.p., meaning not baseball park but boiling point. The Northern Indiana penitentiary formed an appropriate background to this travesty on a baseball field. The sun turned all its calcium effects upon two inches of red hot sand, in which the athletes were compelled to disport themselves. The game itself was a contest between two teams selected from the lumbermen of Indianapolis and Chicago. They were made up as follows:
Two more formidable teams have never taken the field to battle for a title.
Just before the teams took the field E. F. Dodge, of Chicago, called [umpires] C. D. Rourke, of Urbana, Ill., and George Palmer, of Indianapolis, Ind., to the plate and presented one with a horse pistol and the other with a shotgun. Some of the decisions later proved that this was a wise precaution, undoubtedly saving both umpires from the fury of the populace.
Indianapolis won the game in the first inning, the Chicago team going up in the aeroplane a la Wright Bros. The procession of Indianapolis runs took ten minutes to pass a given point.
Pitcher Fox appeared to be a stranger in the neighborhood and was unable to locate the plate. He gave Mercer and Geisel, the first two men up, passes to first, and then Johnson started a grounder to first, which got through Saye's legs and caromed into right field, Mercer and Geisel scoring. Avery struck out, but a passed ball assisted Johnson to third, from which he scored when Pritchard singled. Pritchard stole third, but expired there on infield outs of West and Maas.
In the third inning Giesel drew a base on balls, but was forced at second, McGill to Larson, on Johnson's grounder. Avery's single advanced Johnson a base and he scored when Lewis threw over Fletcher's head. Pritchard grounded, McGill to Saye. West struck out.
Chicago got its lone tally in this inning and might have had more but for some bad base running. Larson opened with a beautiful two-base hit and went to third on a wild pitch. Matthias struck out, but Dodge singled through the box, scoring Larson. When Fletcher flied to Mercer, Dodge led away off and was easily doubled, Mercer to Pritchard.
During the four succeeding innings the two teams played airtight baseball, but thirteen Indianapolis men and twelve Chicago men going to bat. Fox opened the fifth inning with a single, but was nailed at second when he attempted to steal with the ball in the pitcher's hands. Hamilton singled in the seventh with two out and was left at first.
The fielding features of the game were supplied by Fox, McGill, and Pritchard. W. H. Johnson, who besides being a good ball player is president of the Indiana Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, gave a fine exhibition of backstopping. Wee Willie McGill accepted three chances at second without error. Postscript Fletcher did not have a chance at third, or undoubtedly would be included in the special mention column. The managing of Handsome Griffin was also a conspicuous feature. The score:
Immediately after the ball game the Hoo-Hoo and their ladies, many of whom had entertained themselves about Michigan City rather than swelter at the ball park or approach so dangerously close to the penitentiary, again boarded the [steamer] Theodore Roosevelt and enjoyed a beautiful twilight and moonlight trip homeward to Chicago. On the way they were entertained with music by talented vocalists and with explanations from members of the Chicago team.
That's right. The Chicago players spent part of the trip home making excuses for the loss. I wonder what they said after Game 2, played ten days later in Indianapolis.
The losers from Chicago.
Because once again, the Windy City Boys turned in a poor performance, this time getting shellacked 23-3, committing 12 errors, and not scoring their first run until the 7th inning. Let's go back to our reporter, who appears to be making excuses for the Chicagoans:
Because of the wide difference in the score there was not much excitement, but what the game lacked in excitement was made up in fun. The local team is composed largely of big men who do not often indulge in such exertion as playing ball, most of them being office men. Until noon Monday part of the local team had not reported at their offices for work.
The victorious team from Indianapolis.
The third and final game was played in Chicago. By then, the Hoosiers had already won the 3-game series, so their incentive to play all-out was not very great. Still, Chicago had to rally from 3 runs down to win 8-4.
A week later the Chicago Cubs won their last World Series title. Perhaps instead of a billy goat, their fans should bring a black cat to Wrigley Field to break the curse.
What we like to think might have been the pennant won by the Hoosiers!
Chicago's not-so-lovable losers.
Forgotten Characters from Forest History: Abel Woodman
Posted in Forgotten Characters, tagged Arkansas, artwork, company newsletter, Crossett Lumber Company, Forest Echoes, forgotten characters, lumber companies on March 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Everyone knows Smokey Bear, Woodsy Owl, and maybe even Ranger Rick Raccoon, but there are many other forest and forestry-related fictional characters that long ago fell by the wayside. Peeling Back the Bark's series on "Forgotten Characters from Forest History" continues with Part 14, in which we examine Abel Woodman.
"A Character is Coming to Crossett."
This was the headline on a small announcement item greeting scrupulous readers of the December 1947 issue of Forest Echoes. As our faithful Peeling Back the Barkers know, Forest Echoes was the popular local monthly magazine published by the Crossett Lumber Company of Crossett, Arkansas, between 1939 and 1962. But who was this new character being teased in the magazine's final issue of 1947? Curious readers were assured of an answer in the new year: "Don't miss next month's Forest Echoes, you owe it to yourself to meet this character."
As promised, the mysterious new character made his debut in the January 1948 issue. Found in a one-panel comic in the back of the magazine was a well-built man with beady eyes, smoking a pipe and holding a large axe. The man was dressed in traditional lumberjack garb (boots, suspenders, flannel shirt) and there was no doubt about his location—a large Crossett smokestack was visible in the background.
First-ever appearance of the man who would become Abel Woodman, January 1948 (click to enlarge).
The only problem was he had no name. To rectify this, the Forest Echoes editorial staff created a contest, inviting readers to submit their name ideas for the new character. As seen under the cartoon above, the best entry would win a $25 U.S. Savings Bond (side note: The "I ain't Mr. Hush…" comment references a famed 1946 contest on the Truth or Consequences radio game show, where host Ralph Edwards phoned random people and asked them to identify a mystery voice known only as "Mr. Hush").
The following month a winner was announced. Thanks to the entry of William "Bill" Preston Haisty, the new character was officially christened "Abel Woodman."
Click to view the full February 1948 Abel Woodman cartoon.
Abel Woodman immediately became a regular monthly feature of the magazine. At the back of every issue readers would find Abel delivering a message on forest conservation, job safety, or some other local topic, always in his own humorous way. Like the Forest Echoes publication itself, the Abel Woodman cartoon was a reflection of life in Crossett and Crossett's view of the world (in this case through the eyes of artist Lee Davis). Abel Woodman cartoons provided a unique commentary on issues specific to Crossett (a new town jail, Crossett High football, a redesigned company logo, the joys of Crossett bleached food board!) as well as more general concerns (taxes, the dangers of drinking and hunting, anxiety over the atomic bomb).
Abel remained a permanent fixture on the inside back cover until the final issue of Forest Echoes in June 1962 (the year Georgia-Pacific purchased the Crossett Lumber Company). For this fourteen-year run, the Abel comic was drawn by artist Lee Davis. In his final year Davis found a way to put himself in the action alongside Abel.
Davis did get help from the public along the way. In 1958 Forest Echoes held a "Cartoon Editor" contest, inviting the public to submit "a situation and appropriate remark for an Abel Woodman cartoon." Ten winners won $10 each and had their cartoon ideas drawn by Davis and printed. The first winning entry (from Lloyd Gardner) was published in March 1958, and is notable in that it foresaw "Moon Trees" a good thirteen years ahead of Stuart Roosa's journey into space.
The final Abel Woodman cartoon ran in the last issue of Forest Echoes in June of 1962. His glory years seemingly already behind him, Abel had been reduced to company shill—touting the benefits of charcoal made by the Crossett Chemical Company. Despite this inauspicious end, Abel Woodman lives on in Crossett. In 2002 an "Abel Woodman" statue was erected in a small park in the middle of town. The original Abel Woodman also lives on here at FHS in our collection of Forest Echoes magazines, and our other materials documenting the history of the company town of Crossett, Arkansas.
Continue below to view a few more Abel cartoon classics. (more…)
From the Louisiana Swamps to Major League All-Star
Posted in Current Events, tagged baseball, lumber companies, mill towns, sports history on July 13, 2010| 5 Comments »
This week's Major League All-Star Game in Anaheim, California, brings to mind baseball history as seen through the FHS Library. In the early 20th century, in addition to the two major leagues in the Northeast and the numerous minor leagues around the country, semi-pro baseball teams were sponsored by business owners—including lumber mill owners—and business organizations like the Hoo-Hoos. Baseball was the national game in America, played in towns big and small. In addition to trade publications like American Lumberman, local papers like the New Orleans Times-Picayune covered baseball games between company teams as thoroughly as the large urban daily newspapers did games on the senior circuit. And baseball at this level was big business. In 1908, the trade publication American Lumberman reported rumors of the formation of a "national league of lumbermen" teams. With its collection of trade publications, the FHS Library and Archive is a great resource for investigating this neglected aspect of baseball history.
We're particularly intrigued by one team, the Patterson Greys (sometimes spelled "Grays") of Patterson, Louisiana, the "crack amateur baseball team of the F.B. Williams Cypress Co.," as a 1921 article called them. Built by Frank B. Williams, the F.B. Williams Cypress Co. dominated the cypress logging and milling business in the region and helped establish a national market for cypress. Williams may have built the town of Patterson, but his son's baseball team put it on the map. The Patterson Greys dominated the sport on a regional level but also had a national impact.
One of Frank's sons, Harry "H.P." Williams, described as "an ardent sportsman and particularly addicted to baseball," organized and managed the team for many years (we're not sure when the team started or disbanded). The team regularly competed for the Louisiana state championship against other "amateur" teams, and also traveled the Deep South playing other semi-pro teams and even college squads. His players received $150 a month plus room and board. Williams paid bonuses for outstanding plays at the plate and in the field.
The Patterson Greys, in 1921, with manager H.P. Williams. (from American Lumberman, click to enlarge)
What's most fascinating is that the quality of players was such that Williams sold a number of them to the New York Giants and other clubs. This same 1921 article claims that he did not stock his Greys with experienced professional players "but fill[ed] up his string with promising Louisiana boys, some of whom are college students." Given that F.B. Williams Cypress Company (now Williams, Inc.) was one of the largest lumber companies in the United States in the early 20th century and paid its players well, it wasn't too surprising that the company team attracted such high-caliber talent from across the South. The article lists the handful of players Williams had sent to the major leagues who lasted about two years each: Ivy Griffin, Johnnie Monroe, John Paul "the Admiral" Jones, Dick Humphries, Sammie(?) Hale, and a shortstop name Doty. Eddie Morgan and Carl Lind lasted seven and four years respectively with the Cleveland Indians. The one who did have a long, successful career? Hall of Famer and 12-time All-Star Mel Ott (1934-45), perhaps the greatest right fielder of his era. For Williams, it was an impressive achievement just to send players from his mill-town team to the senior circuit, let alone the man they called "The Little Giant."
So how did this player pipeline that stretched from rural Louisiana to New York get established? According to Fred Stein, Met Ott's biographer, Harry Williams was old friends with the Giants' long-time manager, John McGraw, as well as Philadelphia Athletics' owner-manager Connie Mack. It's possible that Harry was introduced to these men by his wife, the famous stage and screen actress Marguerite Clark, one of the most popular actresses of her day. Or scouts working for McGraw and Mack came through Louisiana looking for the next "Georgia Peach", a.k.a. Ty Cobb, and they met that way. We don't know. We're still trying to find out.
We do know that after the F.B. Williams Company exhausted its cypress holdings (their employees are seen logging cypress in this footage), Harry and his brothers (who took over operations from their father by 1913) started closing down their four mills in 1929 and were out of the lumber and milling business by 1933. As luck would have it, oil and gas were discovered on company land during this time, and the company quickly shifted into those fields along with real estate development. As the mills were winding down, Harry—long fascinated with airplanes—entered the airplane design business with airplane mechanic and designer Jimmie Wedell. Together they built some of the fastest airplanes of the era and became pioneers in the airline industry in Louisiana. Harry died in an airplane accident in 1936. Today Williams, Inc., is owned and operated by the decedents of his brothers.
Enjoy this slide show of some of the teams highlighted in American Lumberman from that era. Note how the various uniforms rarely incorporate a logo.


In the month of July 2018, Dandelion Renewables installed community solar systems near Nelson, British Columbia.
We built three solar PV systems on community buildings in Balfour, BC, near Nelson, with a combined solar capacity of 67KW DC. These three projects complement Nelson Hydro's own 60KW DC community solar garden project that was built to showcase a potential for solar virtual net-metering in 2017.
Three community-owned buildings include Balfour Community Hall, Balfour Senior's Center, and Balfour Golf Club. To contain the power costs, the three buildings have undergone detailed energy assessments and retrofits beginning in 2014. Today in all three buildings the temperature is maintained by efficient air-source heat pumps.
Solar panels on the Balfour Golf Course.
The ultimate goal of solar is to cover the power consumption of the building. For example, the power that is used on a hot summer day when air-source pumps are cooling down the buildings. The summer operation of the golf course and the building electric loads fits well with solar production. As solar power generation is an intermittent resource and does not exactly follow the load profile, the excess solar energy will be exported to the Nelson Hydro grid for a credit.
By generating their own electricity and selling the excess solar energy back to the Nelson Hydro grid, the communities buildings will offset their power bill costs and in the long run, will reduce their operating costs. Current electricity rates and pricing structure in the area around Nelson create a compelling solar business case for the distributed solar generation.
Another benefit of residential and commercial-scale solar systems is that they are installed close to where the energy is consumed, thus they rely less on the distribution system.
The Regional District of Central Kootenay successfully managed to secure funding from the Columbia Trust Basin and the Federal Tax Community Works Fund, which made these three community solar systems near Nelson possible.
Nelson is the only city in western Canada with its own hydroelectric generation and distribution plant making power for 2c/kWh(from the Hydro manager) and selling for an average of 12c/kWh(res. + comm. avg). Any solar panel installed in a NH area with public money eliminates the profits otherwise earned from their hydroelectric power helping to reduce hydro rates. Balfour residents buy Nelson hydro power. Presently Nelson Hydro pays full retail for this solar power while losing the income from otherwise cleaner greener waterpower now spilling down the river. So tax dollars paid for this, residents lose the income otherwise earned from waterpower while paying full retail for solar power! Would you call this absurd? I do.
Hi Norm, thank you for your honest opinion about financial viability of solar in your area. You correctly mentioned a large difference in the hydro energy generation cost and the sale price. It would be fantastic for Nelson Hydro, which is City-owned, to capture that whole difference as a profit. However, the most of the difference covers the energy delivery costs, maintaining the distribution system and ancillary services. Roof-top solar systems that we installed are located at the point of the energy consumption. Their primary function is to offset the buildings own power consumption first. At certain times, these systems will generate more energy than the buildings can consume.
Under the existing Nelson Hydro net-metering regulation, that excess of solar will be sold at the retail rate to the grid. The exported generation will be consumed by the next neighbour on the line, so that minor amount of excess energy barely uses the existing distribution system. The energy generated at the point of consumption is called distributed generation. Due to delivery charges that are built-in into the consumers rate, distributed generation has a higher value than the energy generated by the utility located further away from the load.
Also, there is a positive impact to the area from the generation source diversification. If you consider the costs of building a new hydro plant, compared to the dropping costs for solar PV, the value of solar will become more apparent. Currently solar generation is not widely utilized in the Nelson area. Keeping the current Nelson Hydro net-meeting framework is detrimental for solar PV deployment in the Nelson area. In the long run, solar energy, being the diversified, distributed and one of the cheapest source of new generation capacity will help to improve reliability of the entire electric system and to lower the consumer power rates. Last, but not the least is that we employed and trained one local person on the installations, while the community organizations employed a local project manager.
The Nelson hydro bylaw states 25kWp at any one location. You installed 40kW? The other bidder Skyfire clearly stated they would install 25kW at that location to meet the bylaw. Was this oversight or a sneaky way to sell more solar panels, use more public money and cause Nelson hydro customers to pay even more for excess solar sent to the grid when we make power in our own hydroelectric plant and a huge profit now gone. I will try and stop nelson hydro from paying full retail for ANY Balfour phoney feelgood greenwashing solar power wasting our public money.
According to 6.4 of the City of Nelson bylaws, Independent Power Producers projects fell in two categories 0-25KW or 25KW-250KW of rated capacity per project.
I assume you refer to the golf course site, which has two services. We have connected 12KW AC or 20KW DC of solar per service, which is less than 25 KW of rated capacity regardless if the solar "rated capacity" is defined as KW AC or KW DC.
Please note that solar projects over 25KW and less than 250KW are also permitted by Nelson Hydro. If Balfour Golf project would fall in to this larger project group, we would just need to negotiate the terms with Nelson Hydro specific to this project.
Based on our experience, electric utilities more often refer to KW AC as the solar PV system rated capacity. If you could confirm that with Nelson Hydro and provide that information here in this blog, it will be much appreciated.
Insanity, Nelson hydro is owned by the public. Yet some misinformed greenwasher gets public grant money to put solar panels on public buildings for their warm fuzzy feeling while clean green water that should make power and a huge profit in our own hydroelectric plant spills down the river with the profits. Solar only works in summer when our reservoirs are full, we don't need it, in winter when we could use help, solar doesn't work, its worthless!
Let me ask you if your electricity is free in the summer? Distributed generation that is located right where it is consumed is very valuable. Given that Balfour Golf Course operates in the summer, it greatly matched the profile of the solar generation.
On a larger utility scale, I agree with you, solar profile could present interesting challenges.
Nobody will answer my questions at Nelson hydro. The bylaw clearly states anyone installing over 25kWp solar needs special authorization, the Balfour GC is 40kW divided between two meters. Cleverly your on line monitoring only shows 24.8kW for the GC? The public media info suggests this was installed for about $2/watt. Impossible!! The truth is begining to come out. Fortis's application for public solar in Kelowna was DENIED by the BCUC as of NO benefit to anyone. The BC Retired persons submission to this showed it was purely a risk and expense taken by ratepayers, also it said there was no GHG benefit, solar is not GREEN here although the solar sales mantra always says it is.
The SMA solar inverters installed are rated for 6.2KW (max usable DC power) each and we have total 4 of them installed in the Balfour golf course. Thus, the combined rated capacity for the two systems is determined as 24.8KW.
Norm, just noted that Stanfield and Barnes are posting from the same IP address as you are. Are you guys sharing the same household or attending the same public library? Regardless, I am encouraging you to provide more comments and your thoughts.
Also Norm, I just came across your blog about BC solar scam. Can you allow me to contribute to your blog, the same as I welcome your input to our blog? I promise, I will not input too much, as I do not have much time to spare between the family and running the solar business.
One point in your blog I certainly would like to touch on, is calling us as an AB company. Please note that have 3 people working for us and residing in BC. Projects like Balfour and many other allow us to have more and more local BC resources to work on these projects. I strongly support you in bringing local resources for BC solar projects.
You may note there is little benefit in treating these Kootenay solar trolls with anything but the back of your hand (metaphorically speaking). Falling cost margins and the benefits of localized, distributed generation, along with other facts and benefits, make little to no difference to these sentence-mangling, solar-hating "gentlemen". Norm Yanke I'll be seeing you.
Just read this, so where can we meet Randolph? I would be more than happy to discuss what is going on here, because there is a LOT more than meets the eye that needs explanation.
Hi Randolph, thank you very much for your input and support. I agree with you that distributed generation, whether it is solar or biomass or small hydro has a great future potential. I just returned from Solar Power International where I was amazed on how quickly the storage technology develops as well.
"Solar trolls" huh? Name calling is the last refuge of those trying to maintain a weak position. The correct response to critical comments is honest appraisal followed by appropriate counter information, not fake indignation.


Any limited company based in the UK is liable to pay corporation tax on their annual profits. The amount is calculated and paid annually and is based on the company's accounting period, which usually matches dates of the financial year in which the company operates.
Corporation tax is a specific tax that is payable from all the taxable profits of any UK based company, regardless of where the profit was generated. If the company is based outside of the UK, it is liable to pay corporation tax on all taxable profits that were made in the UK in a financial year.
Corporation tax also applies to PLCs and unincorporated associations, plus some clubs and membership organisations.
How is corporation tax calculated?
Corporation tax is calculated and charged as a percentage of the annual profits of a company.
A company accountant will typically oversee the task of ensuring the correct amount of corporation tax is paid, but the company directors are ultimately responsible for ensuring tax is paid in full and on time.
Each tax year, a company must complete a corporation tax return (Form CT600), plus any required supporting documents. All corporation tax returns must now be filed with HMRC online.
Who is exempt from paying corporation tax?
A company accountant can submit the complete CT600 return any time between the date of the company's financial year end and the statutory filing date. This is typically the latest of 12 months after the end of the financial year end, or 3 months after the delivery of a notice to deliver a return.
If the company has made a taxable profit of up to £1.5 million, the corporation tax must be paid by 9 months and 1 day after the end of the accounting year.
For example, if the accounting year end is 31st December, then your corporation tax payment will be due by 1st October of the following year.
What are the penalties for paying corporation tax late?
A company must pay their corporation tax liability to HMRC electronically. If the payment is late, interest will be applied to the figure.
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Practice math (addition and multiplication skills) and logic with these fun beach logic puzzles. The beach theme is fun and the practice is engaging. Do you ever get caught up in those Facebook debates over seemingly simple math problems? There's always some little trick or they make the use of PEMDAS confusing. Naturally, they're meant to get people arguing.
No lie – I love those puzzles. I try not to engage in the petty bickering over a math problem (full disclosure, sometimes I get very involved in the petty bickering) but the puzzles are interesting. They're never hard, in a math sense. It's more about being observant.
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I love logic games. Learning the art of deduction was something I found fun in school and it's been a valuable tool. So I've been trying to provide opportunities for my kids to work on logic puzzles, too.
These ones mimic the tricky puzzles you see on social media, except they aren't tricky. These puzzles are pretty straightforward although you do have to keep an eye on the math symbols. Each card is slightly different.
I made two sets of cards for this. One set is all addition and subtraction. The other set also includes multiplication and division.
The idea on the cards is to figure out the final equation. But to do that, you must first determine the values of each of the pictures. I intended for them to be worked from the top down. The first equation is solvable. Then, the second equation can be solved.
With both of those, the last equation can be solved.
On each card, the same picture represents the same number. For instance on the picture below the pink pail is worth 4. And in every other equation on that same card, the pink pail is worth 4.
The cards come two to a page. For a one time use, just print on regular paper, cut the page in half, and you're go to go.
These can be printed and laminated for use in a group setting. Every person can use a dry erase marker to write on them and then wipe off the answers when they are done.


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Home/Business/Cryptographic enthusiasts want to buy the NBA team after failing to buy the U.S. Constitution
Cryptographic enthusiasts want to buy the NBA team after failing to buy the U.S. Constitution
Thousands of crypto investors these days Raised For over $ 40 million, buying a copy of the US Constitution was almost — but ultimately inadequate —.
Now, another group of crypto fans is gaining momentum with another acquisition target, the NBA franchise.
In both cases, crypto enthusiasts organized under Decentralized Autonomous Organization, or an organization known as DAO, an online group with collective banking accounts and mission statements.
Calling himself the Clause House DAO, a reference to the late Chicago Bulls general manager Jerry Cluse, a group of about 2,000 members. Raised Equivalent to $ 4 million in cryptocurrency Ethereum in 6 days. Crowdfunding in the form of NFT sales ended Thursday morning.
The idea isn't exactly slam dunk yet.
For one thing, the group is the least valuable NBA team (Memphis Grizzlies, Estimated Worth about $ 1.3 billion).
Second, persuading the NBA to accept collectively managed crypto investments may not be the easiest marketing.
The organizers of Krause House DAO ask the general public not to laugh.
"We understand that the reader's first instinct is to ridicule this, and the owner will never cause it." reading The group's so-called "flight papers" are in favor of more traditional white paper research reports.
"It's important to understand that it wasn't too long ago that players were in the same place on the totem pole with today's fans," he says. "There's no reason fans can't do the same if it's organized correctly."
The co-creator of Krause House DAO spoke to NPR solely under the pseudonym of social network Discord, and the money raised so far will be invested in future projects focused on becoming a bidder for a serious NBA team someday. Said. However, accurate planning of all new cash is not easy in detail.
Members of the group vote on where to spend their money. The ultimate goal is to be able to prove to franchise owners that DAO is an effective way to run a professional basketball team.
In that Discord community, organizers use "WAGBAT," which means "buy a team," to approve up-to-date information about the group.
The pandemic heralded a new generation of crypto investors, but there was little way to use the newly discovered wealth. Some have turned to NFTs (a type of limited edition digital collection), but now there is a growing movement to move to more sophisticated ideas, such as trying them out. Support creation The next version of the internet. this, Dubbed Web3Aims to give the masses of cryptocurrencies collective control over major online sites. DAO is part of that utopian dream and, like the NBA team, wants to co-own things in the real world.
Investor Michael Lewkowitz, who invested $ 100,000 in the Krause House DAO, rejected the question of whether the effort was a promotional stunt for the latest crypto community.
"Klaus House is absolutely serious," Lewkowitz said in an interview. "We're used to thinking of millionaires buying a team as a one-off event, but this isn't the case. It's something people get together and they're really passionate about. Is to take ownership of the sport. Sports should be in the hands of those who care most about it. "
In some respects, the DAO community is still licking its wounds from the Constitution DAO flop.
The group, who bid on a rare copy of the US Constitution, Decided to dissolveInvestors are now trying to get back as much money as possible, some of which is swallowed up by the infamous transaction costs known as gas charges.
But Lewkowitz, who invested in Constitution DAO, sees a silver lining. Cryptographic fanatics tend to be enthusiastic and optimistic, so it's not surprising.
"It can be seen as a lost bid, or it can be seen as thousands of people gathering around a common purpose and doing almost amazing things," Lewkowitz said. increase.
The crypto fans who dominate the NBA franchise may be a dream for now, but of course, the members of the group now have NFTs.
Using the image NFT Similar to a ticket The fictional Klaus House basketball game gives the community voting rights in the form of $ KRAUSE tokens.
However, we acknowledge that the proverbial proverbs on this page may be the final result of this movement.
"Neither this ticket NFT nor $ KRAUSE promises future ownership of the team," said the group's site.
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Chapter 1731 - Lord of Fire!
Inside the five intersecting rings, the scene was a complete blur. It was very difficult to see inside from the outside. One could only see the distorted ripples coming from the five rings.
Wang Lin was deep inside these five rings, and he was very calm. In his right hand was a small pile of dirt that was moving. It constantly changed to various different shapes.
It tried to break out of Wang Lin's hand, but in the end, Wang Lin clenched his fist. The handful of dirt collapsed and was unable to reform. It dissipated from Wang Lin's palm.
The dirt was formed by the earth element and contained a trace of earth essence. Now that Wang Lin had put it away, there were two piles of dirt in his storage space.
The other had been given to him by the All-Seer!
"They are worthy of being from the Immortal Astral Continent to put an earth spirit inside this formation. After tens of thousands of years, the spirit might have grown into a third step earth spirit body!" Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he looked at the Five Element Formation with passion in his eyes.
Wang Lin became very interested in this formation.
"I have the fire essence among the five elements. If I can obtain the other four, my cultivation level will increase greatly. If all five elements fuse into one, I wonder if it will give birth to a new essence!" Wang Lin smiled as he looked around at the Five Element Formation. His smile became even brighter.
Wang Lin would not talk about morals with enemies, especially with people not from the cave world. Strength was everything! If the other party had the power to keep Wang Lin here, he would give up.If not, then these people were mere robbers to Wang Lin. Wang Lin would be even more ruthless towards robbers!
After taking away the earth spirit, Wang Lin stepped forward. After this step, what appeared before Wang Lin was a world of fire.
This sea of fire filled the entire world. Wang Lin saw that the sky was red and the earth was red, and all this red was fire. The sky was burning and the earth was also burning. His vision distorted due to the ripples created by the terrifying heat.
There were no signs of life in this heat, only fire!
The monstrous fire roared and released popping sounds that entered Wang Lin's ears. However, this had no effect on Wang Lin. In fact ,Wang Lin felt more comfortable here than outside.
In planet Five Elements, in the middle floors, the black-robed man and the middle-aged man's group of four had just managed to suppress the horror in their hearts. They stared at the mirror and saw Wang Lin within the fire.
"Although the power of the fire spirit is similar to the earth spirit, fire itself has the power to burn the body and soul. Although this Wang Lin has taken away the earth spirit, he absolutely won't have an easy time with the fire formation!" The black-robed old man naturally didn't know about Wang Lin's fire essence. He seemed to be talking to the three people around him or muttering to himself.
In truth, it wasn't their fault that they didn't know anything. Planet Five Elements had been closed off from the outside for a long time. Even Wang Lin's identity and cultivation level were only known due to the Outer Realm cultivators that had accidentally broken in.
They didn't know enough and had only sent a few people out after the fact to investigate a bit more. They had learned more, but they didn't know about Wang Lin's essences.
"That's right, the earth spirit is gentler and not as fierce as the fire spirit. I'm sure he will be injured by the fire spirit!" The middle-aged woman's eyes were vicious. She hated Situ Nan and hated anyone that knew Situ Nan.
The other two people silently pondered. They looked at the mirror with fear in their eyes. These two were still rational and no longer dared to speak.
Inside the fire formation, the fire raged. The moment Wang Lin entered, the sea of fire roared and a wave of fire rushed toward him.
It closed in on him in an instant and nine fire qilins appeared. These fire qilins were thousands of feet tall and were made of fire. There were also several balls of fire under their feet.
These nine qilins had fierce expressions and rushed at Wang Lin from nine different directions. This was a shocking scene! There was also a monstrous wave of fire behind the nine qilins, making them look even more fierce!
Every cultivator on planet Five Elements revealed a cruel smile. Aside from the mirror that the black-robed old man was using to watch, there was also a vortex in the sky. The vortex revealed everything that was happening inside the formation.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Wang Lin was being viewed by tens of thousands. All the cultivators that had come out of the tower were looking at him.
The black-robed old man clenched his fist as he looked at the mirror before him and said, "I want to see how he will resist! This time he will definitely be injured!"
However, just at this moment, the old man's expression changed greatly. At the same time, the middle-aged woman let out a sharp cry.
"It's impossible!! He.. He…"
Shortly after, all the Gui Yi Sect cultivators watching the vortex in the sky exclaimed loudly.
Inside the fire formation, Wang Lin calmly looked at the nine fire qilins charging at him. The qilins stopped 100 feet away from Wang Lin with doubt in their eyes, and they soon began to shake. They knelt down on the ground and began to whimper.
They no longer looked like qilins but like kittens. They even looked happy, as if they had met their master!
Even the fire behind it happily rotated around Wang Lin. The entire fire formation let out a thunderous roar as Wang Lin waved his right hand.
Rumbles echoed and all the fire in the world gathered like crazy. In an instant, aside from the nine qilins and Wang Lin, all the fire gathered to form a giant tens of thousands of feet tall before Wang Lin!
This giant wore a suit of armor made of fire and had a cape of fire. Its body gave off a powerful feeling. It was made completely out of fire, even its hair
After the fire giant appeared, it knelt down toward Wang Lin with one knee and its hands on its chest. Its expressionless face revealed a feverish amount of respect!
"What is the hell is going on… The fire spirit… The first spirit is actually kneeling before him!!!!" The black-robed old man in the tower turned pale as he looked at all of this, and his mind turned blank.
There was also the middle-aged woman. Her face directly turned pale. She opened her mouth but ended up saying nothing. As she looked at Wang Lin through the mirror, her eyes were already filled with lingering fear.
The two of them weren't the only ones in a daze. All the cultivators from the Gui Yi Sect looked at the scene before them and were dead silent.
They were shocked when Wang Lin captured the earth spirit, but now they were seeing the fire spirit actually worshipping him. Wang Lin hadn't even said a word since he entered, he had just stood there. He stood there like a king that had just returned to his own kingdom, and with just a gaze, all of the people of the land knelt before him.
This was beyond their imagination and was outside of their understanding, causing a powerful sense of fear and uneasiness.
Na Duo and the middle-aged man silently pondered in the 10th floor. Na Duo's eyelids twitched and his expression gradually became gloomy. They looked at each other and saw the dread in each other's eyes.
Others may not see the problem. but the two of them could.
Na Duo slowly said, "Fire essence!"
"Also, it has already reached its peak, allowing him to become the lord of fire! Otherwise, the fire spirit wouldn't worship him and reveal such a degree of reverence!"
"The Five Element Formation can't hold him…"
"However, it doesn't seem like he will come out himself. I see that his intention is to take away the five spirits!!" Na Duo's gaze became cold.
"We should lure him out. We can't afford to lose the other three spirits!" The middle-aged man took a deep breath and stood up. He looked outside the tower.
"I summon the ancestor's battle armor!" the middle-aged man roared, then a ray of blue light shot out from the top of the 10th floor. The light condensed around him and formed a water blue armor around him.
"The next formation is the water formation. I'll see if I can force him out from the formation into the Nine Cycles." The middle-aged man raised his right hand and reached at the void. Water appeared and formed a lance in his hand.
"Help me suppress the formation, I'll go first!" The middle-aged man armed with the lance moved and disappeared into a mist of water vapor in the 10th floor.


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The Advisory Board meets monthly on the first Wednesday and steers St. Croix Valley Alliance NOW's agenda.
The board consists of the President, Administrative Vice President, Action Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, as well as Action Team Chairs for the human rights, education, healthcare, political engagement, and the environment teams. The Advisory Board is chaired by the Action Vice President.


In Ukraine, the port of Odessa has revealed its development strategy in respect of grain transshipment. Up to 2038, it expects to increase volumes handled from 8.8mt (million tonnes) at present to 12.5–13mt.
In total, five terminal operators handling grain in the ports are involved in the implementation of this policy.