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Majel Barrett (1932–2008)
Actress | Producer | Writer
Known for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Westworld (1973), Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Feb 23, 1932 (died Dec 18, 2008) | 5' 9" (1.75m)
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One of the best ways to get a quick sense of what different telescopes are like and how to use them is to attend a star party hosted by your local amateur astronomers. These links will help you find them.
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Founded in 1889, the Society is the largest national organization devoted to astronomy education and outreach. They have programs and materials for families, teachers, amateur astronomers, museum guides, and even professional astronomers.
Founded by the late Carl Sagan and others, this group works to encourage planetary exploration and the search for life elsewhere.
Astronomical League
You can join The League—the umbrella organization of American astronomy clubs—as a member at large or as part of a local club.
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Unites professional and amateur astronomers around Canada; has 26 centers with local activities.
American Association of Variable Star Observers
A group for serious amateur astronomers who want to make a contribution to the science of astronomy, particularly in the area of observing stars whose light is not steady, but varies. Includes a group working on gamma-ray bursts.
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Vers la tendresse est un film documentaire français de Alice Diop de 2016, moyen métrage d'une durée de 38 minutes.

Il obtient le César 2017 du Meilleur court métrage.

Synopsis
Quatre garçons de la « banlieue » française s'expriment sur leurs relations amoureuses.

Genèse
Alice Diop s'intéresse aux relations hommes-femmes dans les « banlieues », et indique, pour ce film :

Le moyen métrage a été tourné en Seine-Saint-Denis, et à Bruxelles.

Accueil critique
Le magazine Marianne indique :

Le magazine Télérama conclut, dans un article sur le moyen métrage :

Prix et distinctions
 2016 : Festival du Cinéma de Brive - Rencontres du moyen métrage - Brive (France) - Grand Prix France
 2016 : FIFF-Festival International de Films de Femmes - Créteil (France) - Prix du public - Meilleur court métrage français & Prix Ina réalisatrice créative
 2016 : Festival Silhouette - Paris (France) - Prix du jury jeune et Prix du jury documentaire
 César 2017 : César du meilleur court métrage (ex-æquo avec Maman(s), de Maïmouna Doucouré)

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film français sorti en 2016
Court métrage français
Moyen métrage français
César du meilleur court métrage
Film sur la banlieue française
Film tourné dans la Seine-Saint-Denis
Film tourné à Bruxelles

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Ex-President Jonathan, PDP, Exalts Wike At 50
Former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party have felicitated with the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyeson Wike, on his 50th birthday.
Jonathan described him as a leader who had made outstanding contributions to national development.
The ex-President in a goodwill message in Abuja on Wednesday, described the governor "as a listening leader who attends to the everyday needs of his people."
A statement by Jonathan's spokesman, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, quoted Jonathan as expressing satisfaction with Wike's performance both as a minister in his government and as the governor of Rivers State.
The statement added, "You are a notable democrat whose responsive and transformational pattern of leadership positively affects the lives of your people.
"As the peoples' governor, you have made a mark for yourself, by shunning the convenient highway of political acceptability and opting to spend more time with the good people of Rivers State, listening to their hopes and aspirations, and attending to their everyday needs.
"Through your visionary leadership, you have raised the bar in accountable governance with the unparalleled delivery of social and physical infrastructure; a commitment that has earned you a fitting epithet, 'Mr. Projects.'
"Your Excellency, I pray that God Almighty will preserve and protect you as you continue to improve the fortunes of Rivers State and transform the lives of the people."
The PDP in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, praised Wike for his political sagacity that he said propelled the party to greater heights.
Specifically, Ologbondiyan said that Wike, who he claimed had earned the sobriquet of "Mr. Project" because of his alleged outstanding performance in the development of his state, "is a jewel and pride not only to the PDP and Rivers State but also to the nation at large."
He added that the PDP "is very proud of Wike for his exceptional leadership qualities and outstanding performance."
He urged the governor to remain steadfast in his determination to bring the dividends of democracy to the people of Rivers State and good governance to Nigerians.
"The PDP also prayed that God in His infinite mercies will grant Governor Wike good health, peace and courage in the years ahead," he added.
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STURGIS, S.D. – Sturgis city leaders passed first reading this week of changes to their Downtown Overlay project.
The overlay is part of a long term project focusing on enhancing growth in business activity and events in the downtown corridor.
The overlay was meant to establish several design guidelines to ensure that future development would be significantly positive to the unique pedestrian-oriented retail environment. In addition, the overlay granted several additional uses that were previously prohibited.
Sturgis City Manager Daniel Ainslie says this was meant to strengthen the economic potential of downtown real estate.
"The overlay was established in or around 2013 and came out of the downtown strategy task force and the chamber started. It was kind of a year long process and in that there is a lot of design guidelines. In those guidelines, they try to make sure downtown is maintained and in a better position for future growth."
Ainslie says The Planning and Zoning Commission has been working through a couple of different situation they have in downtown, and they've recommended some changes.
In addition there were some changes to strengthen it as well.
"We also don't want outside storage or outside buildings or metal storage containers, things like that to improve the aesthetics of downtown."
Ainslie says the continued development of the downtown area has a significant enhancement in both property and sales tax revenue. In addition, the provisions are designed to protect the investments that have already been made.


A wildfire "wall of fire." Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service.
Until the 1870's, wildfires (as today, mostly human-caused) in the mountains north of Los Angeles were considered more picturesque than threatening, especially at night. They were fondly described as "tongues of flame licking the Sierra Madre." Since few people lived on or near the mountains, fires there caused no great alarm. In fact, two cattlemen were reported to annually ignite big fires in the mountains that raised no concern. Wildfires only became a concern in 1884 when flooding from fire-denuded hillsides destroyed some of the Southern Pacific Railroad's track system in the Los Angeles area. Authorities finally banned needless fires and threatened to prosecute offenders. By the late 1880s, as fires and subsequent flooding from fire erosion increasingly threatened property, Angelenos lost their fondness for "beautiful" wildfires and called for fire suppression. After the disastrous wildfire season of 1896 in the San Gabriel Mountains (including a fire that burned 11,000 acres over nearly three months) was followed by destructive flooding, B.F. Allen was appointed as Special Forest Agent and Supervisor over federal forests in Arizona, California and New Mexico and assigned responsibility and funding for forest fire suppression.
Table continues after image below.
Image of Station Fire, mid-morning, August 30, 2009, from NASA's Terra satellite. Plumes had risen 4.3 miles above sea level. Courtesy of NASA.
1) The Clampitt and Wright fires were initially two of four independent fires that ultimately merged (the other two started in Simi Valley and Fillmore) into a single gigantic 147-mile perimeter blaze, burning a total of 435,000 acres.
2) All but one of these firefighter victims were teenagers. Five teenage firefighters were also killed in the 1955 Hacienda Fire (see table below). The practice of using teenage probationer firefighters ended after the 1968 Canyon Fire.
3) With little means of fire suppression against large fires at the time, this fire was reported to burn for nearly 3 months.
4) Combination of the Reservoir and Fish Fires.
Sources: U.S. Forest Service, Cal Fire, Los Angeles County Fire Department, City of Los Angeles Fire Department, City of Malibu, Los Angeles Times, Malibu Times, Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, Fire Archeology.
Wildfire near San Gabriel Peak as seen from Martin's Camp, August 1898. Photo from Forest and Water by Abbot Kinney.
The La Tuna Fire in 2017 is reported to be the largest fire (by acres burned) ever to blaze within Los Angeles City limits.
The largest wildfire on record in Los Angeles County, the Station Fire of 2009, ranks as California's 15th largest wildfire.
5) Victims were brush clearance and construction workers diverted into fighting the Griffith Park fire.
6) All but one of these firefighter victims were teenagers. The practice of using juvenile probationer firefighters ended after the 1968 Canyon Fire.
Until the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, the Griffith Park Fire of 1933 was California's deadliest wildfire and the third deadliest firefighter tragedy in U.S. history.
Since 1933, of the reported 88 fatalities from Los Angeles County wildfires, 60 were firefighters and 12 of those were teenage probationer firefighters.
A burning structure in the 2017 Creek Fire. Photo courtesy of Harry Garvin & Los Angeles Fire Department.
The most destructive wildfire recorded in Los Angeles County (and Ventura County), the Woolsey Fire of 2018, ranks as California's 7th most destructive wildfire.
On August 5, 1957, pilot Roland Barton of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (photo from Los Angeles County Fire Department archives) began pioneering the use of helicopters in forest fire-fighting. That year, seven Bell 47-B helicopters were used to move more than 3,000 firefighters and 1,000 pounds of freight over 10 days against the Gale Fire in the Angeles National Forest. The helicopters were also used to evacuate sick, injured and trapped firefighters, conduct reconnaissance and "hover jump" firefighters, This was the first, fully operational, extended use of rotary-wing aircraft in fighting a U.S. forest fire and, possibly, in any forest fire in the world. Source: U.S. Forest Service.


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These drugs including https://pillintrip.com/medicine/noranelle are the most common form of hormonal contraception in the world. Since the beginning of their use, OCs have undergone significant changes in steroid dosage. Doses of ethinyl estradiol and mestranol (estrogens used in OCs) have been greatly reduced over the past three decades from 150 to 30 mcg. The newest preparations contain 20 mcg of ethinylestradiol. The dose of the gestagenic component has also been reduced. The tablets produced today contain 0.4-1 mg of norethisterone, 125 mg of levonorgestrel or even smaller doses of the most potent and selective progestins. A change in the type of gestagens in OCs has allowed three generations to be distinguished. The first generation of OCs includes preparations containing noretinodrel acetate. The second generation of progestins contains levonorgestrel, whose progestin activity is 10 times higher than that of noretinodrel.
The third generation includes OCs containing desogestrel (Marvelon), norgestimat (Cilest), gestoden, which is part of the drug Femoden. These gestagens are used in micrograms, do not cause disturbances in lipid metabolism, have less androgenic activity, do not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Depending on the dose of the estrogenic and type of gestagenic components, OCs can have predominantly estrogenic, androgenic or anabolic effects.
The mechanism of action of oral contraceptives. The mechanism of action of OCs is based on the blockade of ovulation, implantation, changes in gamete transport and corpus luteum function.
Ovulation. The primary mechanism of ovulation blockade is the suppression of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GTR) secretion by the hypothalamus. The secretion of gonadotropic hormones of the pituitary gland (FSH and L) is inhibited. An indicator of hormonal suppression of ovulation is the absence of estrogen, FSH and LH peak in the middle of the menstrual cycle, inhibition of the normal postovulatory increase in serum progesterone. Throughout a menstrual cycle, estrogen production in ovaries remains at the low level corresponding to an early follicular phase.
Cervical mucus. Thickening and thickening of cervical mucus becomes evident 48 h after the start of progestin administration. Mobility and ability of sperm to penetrate cervical mucus is impaired due to thickening and thickening; cervical mucus becomes reticular and characterized by reduced crystallization.
Implantation. Implantation of the developing blastocyst occurs approximately 6 days after fertilization of the egg. Sufficient maturation of the superficial endometrial glands with adequate secretory function and appropriate endometrial structure for implantation is required to ensure successful implantation and development of the blastocyst. Changes in the levels and disruption of the ratio of estrogen and progesterone lead to impaired functional and morphological properties of the endometrium. All this disturbs the implantation process. Transport of the fertilized egg is altered by the effects of hormones on the secretion and peristalsis of the fallopian tubes. These changes disrupt the transport of sperm, egg or developing embryo.
Efficacy and acceptability of OCs. OCs are the only means of preventing pregnancy with 100% efficacy. A distinction is usually made between theoretical efficacy, which is the use of the method without errors or missed pills, and clinical efficacy, which is calculated on the basis of the number of pregnancies that have occurred in real life, taking into account the errors made by women. The most objective measure of clinical efficacy is the Pearl Index, which measures the number of pregnancies that occur in 100 women per year. The Pearl Index is defined by the number of pregnancies per 100 women who used a contraceptive method within 12 months, by the following formula: number of pregnancies x 1200/number of menstrual cycles. For OC the Perl index is 0.2-1.
Thus, OCs meet all the requirements for modern contraceptives:
high effectiveness in preventing pregnancy;
ease of use (coitus-independent);
Reversibility of the effect.
Principles of use of oral contraceptives. Despite the fact that modern contraceptives contain low doses of sex hormones and are well tolerated, they are still medicines whose use has various limitations. The basic therapeutic principle is that each woman should be prescribed the lowest dose of steroids that can provide optimal contraceptive security. For continuous use in healthy women, OCs containing no more than 35 mcg of ethinylestradiol and 150 mcg of levonorgestrel or 1.5 mg of norethisterone are recommended. The most important task of the doctor is to identify women for whom hormonal contraception is contraindicated, which makes a thorough collection of medical history and careful examination of each patient necessary.
Absolute contraindications to the use of OCs are the following diseases that the patient currently has, or has a history of them:
confirmed or suspected pregnancy;
Cardiovascular disease;
A history of thromboembolism;
varicose veins with a history of thrombophlebitis;
diseases of the cerebral vessels;
malignant tumors of genitals and mammary glands;
liver diseases;
sickle-cell anemia;
severe forms of gestosis in the anamnesis;
Blood pressure over 160/95 mm Hg.
diseases of the gallbladder;
smoking; – trophic ulcers of the lower leg;
Long-term plaster casts;
prediabetes;
severe headaches;
significant headaches;
significant excess weight;
Age 40 or older;
epilepsy;
hypercholesterolemia;
kidney disease.
Oral contraceptives and fertility. After stopping OCs, ovulation is quickly restored and more than 90% of women are able to become pregnant within two years. The term "post-pill" amenorrhea is used to describe cases of secondary amenorrhea for more than 6 months after stopping OC. Amenorrhea for more than 6 months occurs in about 2% of women and is especially common in early and late reproductive periods of fertility. Oral contraceptives and pregnancy. Women who have used OCs do not have an increased incidence of spontaneous miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or fetal abnormalities. In those rare cases where a woman accidentally took OCs during early pregnancy, their damaging effects on the fetus have also not been identified. Oral contraceptives and age. An important issue is the age at which a woman can start taking OCs to prevent unplanned pregnancy. Previously, there was a prejudice against the prescription of oral contraception for adolescent girls. Nowadays, such notions are rejected. In any case, taking the contraceptive pill is the best alternative to pregnancy and even more so to teenage abortion. OCs have been proven to have no effect on body growth and do not increase the risk of amenorrhea. The need for effective contraception is also evident in the period leading up to menopause. In those cases when other methods of contraception are unacceptable for the woman and her partner, when the risk factors of cardiovascular and metabolic complications, such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia are excluded, OC can be taken before the menopause. A woman's age is not as important in the absence of risk factors. The development of modern OCs with low doses of hormones allows women under 45 years of age and older to use them. The drug of choice at this age may be preparations containing only gestagens. Duration of OC use. With constant medical supervision, the absence of contraindications, women can continue taking OCs for many years. There is no sufficiently justifiable reasons for periodic abstinence from taking oral contraceptives. Interaction of OCs with medications. In case of prescription of OC it is necessary to take into account the possibility of their drug interaction with a number of drugs, manifested in weakening of the contraceptive effect, in case of their simultaneous use.
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Chris LaFon watched as comedian Daniel Tosh called him a morbidly obese Jedi on national TV in reaction to a lightsaber fight video LaFon created.
He heard the Comedy Central star, host of the Tosh.0 show, refer to him as Obese-Wan-Kenobi and Jabba the Gutt, and heard him say that he was using The Force to hold up his shorts.
But the 427-pound LaFon took it all in stride. He knew the jabs were just part of Tosh's comedy routine. Plus, it made him a YouTube sensation.
"(Tosh) reacted to it and then was just making funny jokes," LaFon said. "Eventually, he was, like, "Hey, you know, this kid's named 'airsoftfatty' and I've got to give him guts. He's out there wearing no shirt."
More than 1.3 million people have watched LaFon's lightsaber fight video since Tosh singled him out in May during season 10, episode 8 of Tosh.0. Most of his videos, LaFon said, are for people over 17.
Known as "airsoftfatty" on YouTube, LaFon says Tosh's humorous bit will give him a brighter future after he graduates from Calhoun Community High School. He is one of 64 CCHS students picking up a high school diploma Thursday in the Lakeview Middle School auditorium.
The 21-year-old LaFon attended Lakeview High School for nearly two years before transferring to CCHS in 2014. He said it took him a little more than four years to graduate because he struggled with depression, health issues and other challenges.
His father, Laird LaFon, passed away from lung cancer in 2008. His mother, Susan LaFon, is in remission from renal cancer and cirrhosis of the liver.
Chris LaFon said that by graduating, he's fulfilling one of five promises he made to his dying father 10 years ago.
"It's crazy," he said. "It's humbling and it's an honor. It's a very big thing."
LaFon also promised his father that he would have his own family some day, protect the family he now has, earn a decent living, and "always try to be happy, even if I'm sad."
"I'm thrilled to death," said Susan LaFon. "If it hadn't been for the school, if it hadn't been for (CCHS Superintendent Tim Allard), he wouldn't have finished school.
"I hope he becomes big on YouTube," she added. "I hope he stays humble and I hope he gets his college degree in computer repairs or programming."
Allard is proud of LaFon and his school's 63 other graduates. Around 150 students attend CCHS every year. The school had a graduation rate of 33% in the 2016-17 school year, 17% lower than similar schools and 47% below the stage average, according to MI School Data.
"Like many of our students, he's overcome a lot of difficulties," Allard said. "He's good example of somebody who's taken advantage of what the world has offer right now, which is social media.
"Like so many of our kids, I just give them credit for perseverance," he added. "He's not a traditional student age-wise; it's been a struggle for him, but he hung in there."
LaFon, who expects to make at least $2,500 a month from YouTube if his monetization application is approved this month, said he believes people like his videos because of his personality and because he doesn't edit them much.
His classmate, Michael Ramey-Sands, who is also graduating Thursday, helped him produce more than 20 of his videos.
"He's a fun-loving guy, very artistic, especially when he gets to sitting down (and) thinking about it all, very professional," Ramey-Sands said on Thursday.
LaFon said he hopes people aren't watching his videos because of his weight. He's now trying to lose a few pounds.
His advice for others is to stay in school.
"Even if you're struggling and cannot get the work done, work your tail-end off 'cause I'm telling you, it is worth it in the end. That moment when you're finally told, 'Hey, you're finished, you're done, you've got no issues to worry about anymore, no need to wake up early,'" LaFon said.
"That's a very powerful moment, especially for someone like me who's struggled with school a lot," he added.


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Nicolai Ouroussoff, former architectural critic for The York Times, put the experience into words: "The result is a building that doesn't challenge the past so much as suggest an alternate world view that is in constant shift. Seen from the north plaza, the addition's main entrance gently defers to the old building, the crystalline form suggesting a ghostlike echo of the austere stone facade. From there, the eye is drawn to the distinct yet interconnected translucent blocks, which are partly buried in the landscape".
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Rigmar Services has been awarded a contract by Maersk Drilling to support its operations in the UK Sector of the North Sea. The company is already providing maintenance services on board the Maersk Highlander, which is currently drilling in the Culzean field.
The contract is being managed from Rigmar's offices in Aberdeen, with support from the company's engineering department, which specialises in design and structural analysis, and its fabrication facilities located on the quayside in the Port of Cromarty Firth.
CEO Keith Nelson said 'we are delighted with this award, which allows us to deliver safe, cost-effective and efficient services through deploying our multi-skilled personnel who have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience over many years in the oil and gas industry'.
Rigmar Services Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Rigmar Group, headquartered in Aberdeen, UK.


The current sun is becoming quieter as we limp toward Solar Cycle 25, which is projected to be even quieter. This could bring on the next grand minimum, which is still looking for an official name.
Usually, the minimum is named after the person that first discovered the solar cycle minimum coming. I could start calling this minimum, The Archibald Minimum or The Bellamy Minimum The Casey Minimum or The Sharp Minimum or how about The Steele minimum? Yes, you have known for a while now, that is why you started your old blog web site called The Dalton Minimum Returns, that was back in 2006. And it's people like you, and the other's that I have named above that should get the recognition of being named after this coming minimum whoever that may be.
I am flattered, but doubt it will happen. There were others that went before me, especially Archibald.
I think Leif Svalgaard has suggested the Eddy Minimum fo solar physicist Jack Eddy.
I bought some carbon credits at rock bottom prices just in case the worse possible outcome happens. … A law gets passed that's limits the amount of carbon a household can produce while we descend into an a much colder world.
Should I invest in orange juice futures? Only half-kidding.


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The Effect of Resistance and Sprint Training on Plasma ANP of Non-Athlete Men
Sasan Naghizadeh 1
Ali Asghar Ravasi 2
1 M.Sc. of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Heart produces and secretes a hormone called atrial natriuretic peptide. The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of eight weeks of resistance and sprint training on ANP of non-athlete men. 36 non-athlete healthy men were randomly divided into three groups (12 subjects each group): resistance (mean age ± SD: 33.1±2.9 years), sprint (mean age ± SD: 32.1±2.5 years) and control (mean age ± SD: 32.6±2.6 years). Training program of resistance group was 8 weeks, 3 days per week, 5/5 set motion, 50-80 1RM) and sprint group was 8 weeks, 3 days per week, 5 times 10 m --- 4 times 20 m --- 3 times 30 m --- 3 times 60 m --- 2 times 100 m --- 1 time 200 m and control group had no training during this period. Two blood samples were collected before and after the training period in order to measure ANP. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18, descriptive statistics, paired t test, one-way ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc test at P≤0.05. The results showed that the resistance and sprint training for eight weeks significantly increased plasma ANP (P≤0.05). There was an insignificant difference in plasma ANP between resistance and sprint groups (P=0.106) and a significant difference between the control group and two groups of resistance and sprint (P=0.000). Based on the findings of the present study, it could be concluded that resistance and sprint training change the level of ANP hormone and that the beneficial effects induced by exercise training in healthy individuals might be due to changes in these parameters.
Non-Athlete Man
Plasma ANP
Resistance and Sprint Training
Receive Date: 08 July 2012
Revise Date: 16 November 2014
Accept Date: 27 February 2013
Naghizadeh, S., & Ravasi, A. A. (2014). The Effect of Resistance and Sprint Training on Plasma ANP of Non-Athlete Men. Journal of Sport Biosciences, 6(3), 301-315. doi: 10.22059/jsb.2014.51992
Sasan Naghizadeh; Ali Asghar Ravasi. "The Effect of Resistance and Sprint Training on Plasma ANP of Non-Athlete Men". Journal of Sport Biosciences, 6, 3, 2014, 301-315. doi: 10.22059/jsb.2014.51992
Naghizadeh, S., Ravasi, A. A. (2014). 'The Effect of Resistance and Sprint Training on Plasma ANP of Non-Athlete Men', Journal of Sport Biosciences, 6(3), pp. 301-315. doi: 10.22059/jsb.2014.51992
Naghizadeh, S., Ravasi, A. A. The Effect of Resistance and Sprint Training on Plasma ANP of Non-Athlete Men. Journal of Sport Biosciences, 2014; 6(3): 301-315. doi: 10.22059/jsb.2014.51992


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I am a mum to two boys at Orchard Vale, Ezra in Nursery and Ernest in Year 3. I am a Clinical Psychologist and have worked for the NHS for 18 years. I have a passion for teaching and learning and throughout my educational and working life I have represented the views of others.
My boys enjoy the variety of activities on offer at school and particularly the library facilities. I have been very impressed by the creativity that the staff at Orchard Vale employ in their teaching methods and how this inspires the children, shown in the exciting and colourful classroom displays which help us as parents to understand at a glance what the children are working on. Staff demonstrate great care towards the pupils and are welcoming towards parents. The enthusiasm of the staff is reflected in many ways, the most recent and memorable being their full involvement in the Christmas time entertainment and their commitment to ensure that the children are involved in all aspects of the productions.
Forest School is helping our children to develop an appreciation for the environment and understanding sustainability, which will be so important for their futures.
I am committed to ensuring that the school continues to support the pupils to reach high standards and to build on this. Well-being is as important as educational attainment and I would encourage this by ensuring the pupils and staff feel part of the school and wider community.
My professional work shares many parallels with school governance, such as developing procedures to meet standards, engaging with change and providing high-quality services with limited resources or finances, which is particularly relevant given the funding challenges announced recently. These require many skills, including the ability to understand different perspectives and to be flexible in problem solving.
Mrs Samantha Clarke
Health and Safety Governor/Vice-Chair
I live and work in Whiddon Valley, and love the strong feeling of community. The residents, school and local businesses are all striving to get the best out of the area and focussing for a positive future. Our future is the young people who attend Orchard Vale, and since my daughter began school, I have been impressed at every turn by the high standards, commitment and passion from all at the school. I feel that being a school governor would be a perfect opportunity for me to give back to the school and community as well as being a privilege.
My husband and I have lived in Whiddon Valley for 14 years and have two young children who both attend Orchard Vale, in year 1 and nursery. I work at Actavis, and my husband owns a heavy plant and groundworks company in Bideford.
At 13 I joined the Army Cadet Force, became an adult volunteer instructor at 18, was commissioned as an officer at 22, and left in 2014 to focus on my family. The Army Cadet Force has a strong focus on developing young people, teaching life skills and building confidence. Through this I earned various outdoor pursuits qualifications such as Sailing, Mountain Biking, Walking and Archery, as well as First Aid, safeguarding and data protection.
I feel that my interest in the school and community, along with my strong background in a major youth organisation, will make me an effective and beneficial member of the School Governor team.
Mr Paul Cooper
Co-Opted Governor/ SEND Governor
I was invited to become a school governor in 2012 shortly after retiring from the job of Chief Pharmacist at NDDH, a post I had held since 1979.
I am fortunate to be the governor with a special responsibility for those with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND). It is both a joy and a privilege to see how with the necessary extra support children can be helped to achieve their full potential.
From class visits I am always impressed at how everyone's energies are focused on the children and their education and how well behaved and attentive the children are.
Dr Alan Bosley
Co-opted Governor
Local consultant paediatrician for 28 years but now retired. Loved the work and the people. I am of West Country stock, born in Minehead, Somerset just a few weeks before Bevan set up the NHS. Have a great love affair with Exmoor and West Somerset and North Devon. Enjoy the sea, the countryside and my own woodland. Also love old machinery, old cars and tractors. Just a boy at heart really.
Asked to join LGB in 2010, and now realise what a privilege that was. Proud to have been a governor of such a happy unit and LGB with a range of skills. I have seen the school change from LEA control to become part of an academy trust. I am sure that we had to move this way and the recent election shows that the political direction has not changed. There are pros and cons I guess but the support of the PAT can be evidenced and be a benefit to pupils.
My own family is now adult and working, my son an equine vet and my daughter an anaesthetist in Hampshire. I am lucky to have seen them do well and now be independent.
Pastor Kay
Community Governor
After 10 years in the Royal Air Force and 20 years in the NHS teaching Nurses, my wife and I moved to Barnstaple when I was appointed the Minister of Whiddon Valley Evangelical Church, in 1993. We have 4 grown up children and 14 grandchildren.
I have served as a governor for 22 years firstly at another Primary School in the area. In 1999 I was asked to lead and Chair a Temporary Governing Body to oversee and support the beginnings of Orchard Vale. Foundations were laid both physical and community and the ethos that continues today was inaugurated.
It has been a privilege and delight to be involved and watch as the school community was born, grew and developed.
As the minister of the Church on the estate I have been delighted to observed the high standards set and maintained amongst all who work in the school, the parents and the children. And I have been welcomed not only as a Governor but also as a friend and Pastoral helper to the School community.
Mrs Louise Gordon
Staff Governor
I have been a Governor since 2010 and have been fortunate enough to hold a number of roles within the Local Governing Body. I have two children at Orchard Vale, and as a parent I felt that I'd like to give something back to the school, however, with work constraints at the time, my days were busy so I put my name forward to become a Parent Governor. It has always been very important to me as a parent, to know that my children are both happy and enjoying their learning whilst at school and being a Governor has not only given me a fantastic insight as to what happens at OV, but I also feel that I can help with making good decisions to ensure all the children at Orchard Vale have a positive primary education.
I then became Chair of the LGB in 2013, a role which I enjoyed, and led to me applying for a vacancy within the school at the beginning of 2015. I began as a Teaching Assistant in Reception shortly after this and am now happily working alongside my colleagues in the Staff Governor Role.
I moved to Devon from Corby, Northamptonshire in 2002 after meeting my husband. I had a career in Retail Management focusing on Personnel, which then led into Pharmaceutical Sales. I then decided to take a break so that I could be with my children in their younger years and in this time I retrained as a Swimming Instructor which I enjoyed, as it fitted in with my family. I really enjoyed working with children which led to more retraining which has led to my current job in the school. I enjoy music, holidays and love Formula One motor racing.
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Costa Rica estuvo representada en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta 1996 por un total de 11 deportistas, 6 hombres y 5 mujeres, que compitieron en 6 deportes.

El portador de la bandera en la ceremonia de apertura fue el yudoca Henry Núñez.

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Elizabeth Gaskell's Inbox
by Fran Baker
We recently entered our Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project for one of this year's Digital Preservation Awards.
Each institution was asked to supply up to three images to accompany their entry. We chose to submit one of the beautiful network graphs featured in a previous blog post about the project, and a photograph of the project team (which I won't inflict on the readers of this blog), but we struggled to come up with a third.
Carcanet Press's email was created using Microsoft Outlook, so a straightforward screenshot of an Outlook inbox seemed to be the obvious choice. However, issues of data protection and privacy prevented us from submitting a shot of a live, current mailbox from one of the Carcanet staff.
The solution: with kind permission from Microsoft to use a screenshot of Outlook, and the Photoshop skills of Carl Jeffreys from the Library's Marketing and Communications team, we produced a snapshot of what the writer Elizabeth Gaskell's inbox might have looked like in September 1854.
Click on the image above to view the contents of Elizabeth Gaskell's inbox
The archive of Carcanet Press is our most important literary collection dating from the recent and contemporary period, but Gaskell's is our most significant nineteenth-century literary archive. The editors of her published letters call her 'one of the great letter-writers of the Victorian period', and as a prolific correspondent there is no doubt that Gaskell would be fully engaged with email communication were she alive today. In fact, her email account would certainly have looked much busier than the one shown here. Around 1,500 of her letters survive, and this is only a tiny fraction of the total she would have written. She took full advantage of the Victorian postal reforms, which from 1840 guaranteed a very fast nationwide service. It is probably only with the advent of email that our correspondence has begun to far exceed that of Gaskell's day in quantity and frequency.
The editors of her letters also comment on how most of Gaskell's letters were very hastily written, only a minority being formal, deliberately composed epistles – so her preferred style of correspondence would have been well-suited to the medium of email. She also had few scruples about sharing letters written by other people who interested her, and little respect for privacy; for instance, on one occasion she forwarded a highly personal letter from her friend Charlotte Brontë (in which she announced her engagement) to the biographer and critic John Forster in order to make up for her own 'dull letter' which contained little news. The ability to forward emails to one or many correspondents would have been greatly appreciated by Gaskell – although the ease with which this can be done (and the scope for accidentally sending messages to unintended recipients) could well have landed her in hot water.
First page of a letter of introduction sent by Gaskell to her friend, the American writer and art historican Charles Eliot Norton. She introduces the journalist Edward Dicey, and quotes extensively from a letter Dicey sent to her. Today she could simply have forwarded Dicey's email and added her own comments.
If email had existed in Gaskell's day, it is likely that her surviving archive would be much fuller. The way that most email clients retain strings of exchanges – with original messages included in replies – means that we might now have greater access to both sides of her correspondence. Charles Dickens was a key figure in her writing career, and while over 20 of the letters he sent to her survive, frustratingly only three of her replies are extant today. We might also have more of her literary manuscripts: the Rylands holds the holograph manuscript of Wives and Daughters, but this is the only one of her novels for which a manuscript survives. Similarly, we have no proof copies of her work, and it was on the proofs that Dickens tended to make his (sometimes extensive) editorial changes. If manuscripts and proofs had been exchanged as email attachments (and Dickens had made use of the 'track changes' facility), those interested in the textual history of Gaskell's works would have a wealth of additional material to work with.
On the other hand, it is hard at this point in time to imagine that an email will ever have the same magical aura of a letter written in the hand of a famous writer. Gaskell herself was an avid autograph collector, and would no doubt have regretted the demise of the hand-inscribed signature, which can be so revealing about a person's character.
Charles Dickens's signature from a letter to Gaskell dated 16 June 1854
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11 comments on "Elizabeth Gaskell's Inbox"
conviction19c
Lovely post! Elizabeth Gaskell's Inbox is genius! Please can we have EG tweeting too!
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Grace @ Cultural Life
How interesting! 🙂 It would be fun to see 'inboxes' of other literary figures…Jane Austen perhaps.
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Arguably, she might have written a more balanced biography of Charlotte Bronte if email had existed then too!
Stuart M. Perkins
So interesting!
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Awesome idea and photos…thanks
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DATE: SATURDAY. 30.11.2019
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On Saturday, Annabel's nightly hours will be occupied by some of The Netherlands' most popular names in the hip-hop scene. Get ready, cause Sevn Alias, Kevin and Cho are coming to REC. Vol. 4.
It has only been four years since Sevn Alias made his national debut on 101Barz (officieel). In the mean time, the rapper has run miles and miles to jump past his colleagues. It is for a good reason that Het Parool reviewed is his latest album Sirius beneath the (loosely translated) headline: "Rapper Sevn Alias operates on one extraordinary high level".
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With the studies proving the benefit of fast tracking in adults by reducing the postoperative morbidities, intensive care unit (ICU) stay and cost, many practitioners found it attractive to apply in pediatric congenital cardiac surgery. The authors evaluated the feasibility of early extubation, its effect on outcome and looked for predictors of prolonged ventilation in children's aged <1 year that underwent a wide variety of cardiac surgical procedures with or without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). They could achieve early extubation within 6 h of surgery in 33.8% of children's with comparable mortality and reintubation rate. Those extubated early had a significant lower incidence of sepsis and duration of ICU stay. Age <6 months, RACHS category ≥3, duration of CPB ≥80 min, duration of aortic cross-clamp (AXC) ≥60 min, and vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) >10 were independently associated with prolonged ventilation. This report differs from other previous similar reports by the fact that the author did not use any fixed anesthesia protocol, particular type and dosage of anesthetic drugs, or fixed CPB management and transfusion protocol. Rather they choose to reverse opioid and muscle relaxant effect following completion of surgery after ensuring satisfactory transesophageal echocardiography finding and hemodynamic stability. The author did not report the duration of hospital stay and reduction cost of treatment, which is the ultimate goal of fast tracking. This commentary discusses the effects of the use of fixed anesthesia protocol, regional anesthesia, normothermic CPB, ultrafiltration, and restrictive transfusion protocol on fast tracking in children's undergoing repair for congenital heart disease.
The concept of fast tracking essentially involves early extubation, mobilization, and hospital discharge with ultimate goal of reduction in postoperative morbidity and cost of treatment. It requires multidisciplinary management strategies including proper patient selection, modification in anesthesia and surgical techniques, and modifications in CPB management and postoperative care. Since early extubation is an essential component of fast tracking, most anesthesiologists use modern inhalational anesthetics such as sevoflurane and low-or-moderate doses of short-acting opioids. Although high-dose opioid techniques are mostly avoided, the ultrashort-acting remifentanil has made the high-dose opioid technique also possible for fast tracking. Dexmedetomidine is another very useful drug for fast tracking. Apart from its sedative property, it has opioid-sparing effect by activating α-2 receptors in spinal cord and reduces the release of substance P from dorsal horn, thereby reducing the transmission of nociceptive signals. Although its use in children is not recommended by the Food and Drug Administration, its minimal or no respiratory depressant effect in addition to the above beneficial effects makes its very useful drug for achieving early extubation. The use of neuraxial techniques such as caudal, spinal, or epidural opioid with or without local anesthetics has also shown to be beneficial in reducing the intravenous opioid requirement and helps in achieving early extubation. In addition to providing superior analgesia, neuraxial opioid has shown to blunt the stress response to surgery, improve postoperative pulmonary function, and decrease duration of mechanical ventilation and cost associated with it. Author reversed the opioid and muscle relaxant effects using antagonist to achieve early extubation, rather than using short-acting drugs or neuraxial technique. Although author did not report any untoward effects, this approach may be associated with side effects for the use of naloxone and neuromuscular reversal agents. The nonavailability of short-acting opioids or its cost may be a reason for its not use; however, neuraxial technique may be used easily in this situation. In fact, this commentator and team use caudal morphine with or without local anesthetic agent in conjunction with low doses of fentanyl and sevoflurane in all cases planned for fast tracking.
Fluid balance forms an important role in the lung mechanics, particularly in children, where the blood volume is low. There is increased chance of fluid overload during cardiac surgery involving bypass, thereby affecting extubation. The CPB management strategies like the use of normothermic CPB, miniaturized circuit, anti-inflammatory agents, and ultrafiltration techniques are useful in reducing the inflammatory response and minimizing net fluid balance., The beneficial effect of normothermic CPB in early extubation after adult cardiac surgery is proven, but there is not much evidence in pediatric cardiac surgery due to the frequent use of some degree of hypothermia in congenital corrective cardiac surgeries. At least in relatively simple congenital heart surgeries where normothermic bypass is feasible, its use is expected to be beneficial in achieving early extubation by avoiding the complications associated with hypothermic bypass such as the increased release of catecholamines, activation of complements, neutrophils, active rewarming, and associated after drop in the postoperative period. Various studies have shown the beneficial effect of ultrafiltration strategies in achieving early extubation in children after cardiac surgery by removing the pro-inflammatory cytokines, maintaining better fluid balance with higher level of hematocrit, thereby reducing blood transfusion and improved pulmonary function.
Aside from anesthesia management, essential components for the safe execution of fast tracking would be good surgical correction preferably using minimally invasive approaches and reduced postoperative bleeding.
The author demonstrated younger age, prolonged CPB and AXC time, higher VIS, and increased complexity of surgery as predictors for prolonged ventilation requirement. Besides these, other factors shown to affect the duration of mechanical ventilation that includes intraoperative transfusion, net fluid balance, pulmonary hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, prematurity, syndromic child, and preoperative mechanical ventilation.
Similar to adults, fast tracking has been associated with significant reduction in the ICU stay and cost of hospital treatment in children undergoing cardiac surgery. The author demonstrated reduction in the ICU stay and sepsis in children who were extubated early; however, they did not evaluate its effect on the duration of hospital stay and cost of treatment. Largely the process of postoperative care in addition to early extubation determines the hospital length of stay. Hence, for the optimal success of fast or ultra-fast track model in cardiac surgery, the most important element is to facilitate the process of postoperative care coupled with intraoperative early extubation anesthesia.
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Broadband Deals » Blog Posts » The best video chat platforms
The best video chat platforms
Neil Cumins Monday, 6 July, 2020
It's hard to escape video calls at the moment.
The technology underpinning services like Skype has been around for many years, but the lockdown has led to an unprecedented explosion in its deployment.
Departmental meetings, social worker appointments, family gatherings…they're all increasingly reliant on a laptop or tablet resting on a table or desk.
The phenomenon has even taken over television, from Gillette Soccer Saturday to Have I Got News For You.
As such, it's important to make informed decisions about the best video chat platforms, so you and your fellow callers can communicate reliably and affordably across any platform.
A beginner's guide to video calling.
If you've managed to avoid the video calling revolution thus far, there's little to fear.
This web-based communications technology is essentially a phone call accompanied by a video feed running (roughly) in tandem with the audio.
Instead of dialling a number, you tap a button to instigate a call, or click on a weblink to access a secure 'meeting' – effectively joining your computer to other people's.
You can have a one-to-one conversation, or join a group discussion with multiple participants.
The latter scenario can be complicated by latency – the delay between an action being made and a response being recorded.
This may lead to people accidentally talking over each other, or one person missing a chunk of dialogue because their internet bandwidth momentarily fell away.
The best video chat platforms work hard to minimise the impact of latency. Unlike the early years of this technology, you can usually make out what everyone's saying.
Video calling etiquette includes ensuring your webcam and microphone work prior to a call, avoiding garish or offensive backdrops, and positioning yourself centrally in the camera's view.
Having covered the basics, it's time to choose the optimal platform for your specific needs.
We've chosen several options, all of which will work equally well on a PC or Mac, Android or iOS device.
Any discussion about the best video chat platforms has to include the daddy of this industry – Microsoft's Skype, founded back in the dial-up days of 2003.
Skype has a polished and customisable interface. Anyone can call anyone else through the platform, which is additionally compatible with landline and mobile numbers.
Key benefits: Dovetails with Office 365, real-time translation service, supports screen sharing.
Zoom.
Beloved by everyone from celebrities to Conservative politicians, this video conferencing platform involves logging into an online meeting set up by a host.
Meetings can be 'attended' by 100 participants, though anything more than a one-to-one chat becomes chargeable after 40 minutes. Zoom's security is also attracting some industry criticism.
Key benefits: Every participant is visible on-screen at once, equally suitable for business or personal calls, can record meetings to replay later for annotation or review.
Google Duo.
Pre-installed on most new Android handsets, Google has also made its software available to Apple users to challenge Facetime (which isn't on our list because it's platform-exclusive).
Specialising in one-to-one video calls, Duo is a sister app to Google's more workplace-focused Meet platform. Both are very reliable, since they use Google's vast global servers.
Key benefits: Pre-installed on many smartphones, shows live video of the person calling you before you answer for greater security, easy to use.
Viber.
Former Skype rival Viber has evolved in parallel with its major competitor, expanding into WhatsApp-style text chats and introducing emojis.
It also offers useful features like file-sharing, while it's compatible with platforms from Windows 8 to BlackBerry handsets.
Key benefits: Works on pretty much any hardware, supports file sharing, strong IM utility.
Facebook Messenger.
It's no surprise that the world's most popular social media platform should have its own video calling platform, permitting unlimited video calls between eight participants.
Facebook Messenger is more playful than other platforms. Its profusion of stickers, chat message tools and emojis means you probably wouldn't use it for a job interview.
Key benefits: Huge user base, intuitive to use, appeals to younger consumers.
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by Jay Clemens July 7, 2016, 12:35 pm
Serco Group's North American subsidiary has received a four-year, $12 million contract to install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence infrastructure for a new U.S. Air Force command and control facility in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Der Wirtschaftsausschuss ist seit seiner Einrichtung im Jahr 2021 während der 20. Legislaturperiode ein ständiger Bundestagsausschuss.

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Der Ausschuss ist federführend oder beratend an allen Gesetzentwürfen, Anträgen, Berichten sowie EU-Vorlagen beteiligt, die Wirtschaftspolitik tangieren.

Ein Unterausschuss Regionale Wirtschaftspolitik und ERP-Wirtschaftspläne befasst sich speziell mit dem jährlichen Rahmenplan für die Gemeinschaftsaufgabe Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur und dem ERP-Sondervermögen; er analysiert die Ergebnisse der Förderung.

Vorgängerausschüsse

Die Namensgebung des Ausschusses vor 2013 spiegelt wider, wie sich seine Inhalte und Kompetenzen im Laufe der Jahre gewandelt haben:
 seit 2021: Wirtschaftsausschuss
 2013–2021: Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Energie
 2005–2013: Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Technologie
 2002–2005: Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
 1998–2002: Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Technologie
 1969–1998: Ausschuss für Wirtschaft
 1965–1969: Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Mittelstandfragen
 1957–1965: Wirtschaftsausschuss
 1949–1957: Ausschuss für Wirtschaftspolitik

Mitglieder

20. Deutscher Bundestag

19. Deutscher Bundestag
Der Ausschuss hat 49 Mitglieder (16 Mitglieder der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, 10 Mitglieder der SPD-Fraktion, 6 Mitglieder der AfD-Fraktion, jeweils 5 Mitglieder der FDP-Fraktion, der Linksfraktion und der Fraktion von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, 1 seit März 2021 parteiloser Abgeordneter). Ausschussvorsitzender ist Klaus Ernst, sein Stellvertreter Matthias Heider.

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18. Deutscher Bundestag
Die Ausschuss hatte 46 Mitglieder (22 der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, 14 der SPD-Fraktion, 5 der Linksfraktion und 5 der Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen).

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Ausschussvorsitzende
 2014–2017: Peter Ramsauer (CSU)
 2017–2021: Klaus Ernst (Die Linke)
 seit 2021: Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU)

Siehe auch

 Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klima

Weblinks

 Webseite des Wirtschaftsausschusses

Einzelnachweise

Wirtschaft und Energie
Wirtschaftspolitik (Deutschland)
Energiepolitik (Deutschland)