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Priests de la Resistance!
The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century
By The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
Whoever said that Christians had to be meek and mild hadn't met Father Kir – parish priest and French resistance hero, immortalised by the Kir Royale. And they probably weren't thinking of Archbishop Damaskinos who, when threatened with the firing squad by the Nazis, replied, 'Please respect our traditions – in Greece we hang our Archbishops.'
Wherever fascism has taken root, it has met with resistance. From taking a bullet for a frightened schoolgirl in Alabama to riding on the bonnet of a tank during the liberation of France, each of the hard-drinking, chain-smoking clerics featured in Priests de la Résistance were willing to give their lives for a world they believed in – even as their superiors beckoned them to safety.
In this spellbinding new collection, the Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie, bestselling author of A Field Guide to the English Clergy, presents fifteen men and women who dared to stand up to fascism, proving that some hearts will never be conquered.
The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
Publisher: Oneworld Publications (January 14, 2020)
History > Military > World War II
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'… this book is a gripping story of bravery, derring-do and cunning in the face of Fascism… vividly told tales of 15 people who became caught up in the struggles against Fascism in Europe in the 1930s'
– Tablet
'15 short, engaging essays… The reverend is a good writer with a light touch, and a natural storyteller.'
– New Statesman
'… it is refreshing to read an unashamedly admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line… readable and moving.'
– BBC History Magazine
'A fascinating and entirely benign book, imbued with a surprisingly muscular Christianity and full of stories you may not know but which need to be heard'
– Spectator BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'[T]his winter's best title is Fergus Butler-Gallie's work on wartime heroics by the clergy'
– Patrick Kidd, The Times
'A timely and uplifting book… An hugely enjoyable if slightly eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil… [Butler-Gallie] achieves an inspiring effect through the sheer cumulative impact of so many brave decisions.'
– Julian Coman, Observer
'Here the Reverend Butler-Gallie wittily profiles 15 "loose cannons" who stood up against fascism'.
– Strong Words
'Butler-Gallie serves them and their stories well with background information, a fluent narrative style, and a fine eye for the quirky and telling personal or historical detail.'
– Church Times
'As entertaining as it is erudite, this enthralling anthology presents a cornucopia of quirky, courageous Fascist-fighting clerics.'
– LoveReading
'A field guide to 20th-century priests, monks and nuns from all over the world who were prepared to die for their faith and to die saving others... He proves it true that comedy and tragedy run side by side, and that some of the most unlikely people turn out to be saints and martyrs... Bracing and lively.'
– The Times
'Deserves a wide readership. It could be argued that it took allegiance to a higher power than secular Messiahs to support resistance to the most hateful regimes of the 20th Century.'
– Church of England Newspaper
5* review: 'a joyful and funny book, about some fascinating, brave and at times eccentric characters, who did what was right because it was right, regardless of the potential personal cost… I was left wanting to know more about all of them.'
– Sorted
'The history of Christianity during World War II is not pretty, as many leading Church figures collaborated with the Nazis and gave succour to anti-Semitism. A handful of religious people stood tall and met the challenge – the little-known men and women vividly described in these fascinating pages opposed both fascism and religious authority to fight the true good fight. If only there had been more like them!'
– Matthew Cobb, author of The Resistance
Praise for A Field Guide to the English Clergy:
'A group biography of ecclesiastical nuttiness… All gloriously mad.' The Times, Books of the Year 2018
'Eye-popping tales of lunacy, debauchery and depravity…Butler-Gallie knows whereof he writes, being a curate himself, and he has done a splendid job presenting a smorgasbord of most peculiar parsons.' Sebastian Shakespeare, Daily Mail
'We have…always kept a special haven for oddballs in the Church of England, as Fergus Butler-Gallie demonstrates in this entertaining compendium…Their foibles cover all bases from absentmindedness to epic drunkenness…I'm glad I read this one. It's a lot of fun.' The Times
'Entertainingly erudite…But it is also a surprisingly profound work…For all its mischief, Butler-Gallie's work of lightly worn erudition is a paean to a great English institution, finely tuned to the temper of its representatives, good, bad and indifferent. We should treasure it more.' Literary Review
'A humorous compendium of some of the oddball clergy who have served the Church over the centuries...These thumbnail portraits reveal a very broad church indeed.' New Statesman
'The Church of England has produced some real oddballs in its time, and this is an entertaining gallop through several centuries' worth of them…Butler-Gallie has done his homework, digging out some rare gems…This is the story not just of eccentrics, but also of a leisured age that is no more.' Harry Mount, Spectator
'Wonderfully entertaining…A hilarious yet thoughtful reminder that the Christian faith wasn't always thought incompatible with a sense of humour or a healthy bolshiness.' Sunday Times
'It may have the makings of a modern classic…Butler-Gallie chronicles not just Anglican follies, but also human weaknesses which we all share and with which we can perhaps sympathise.' The Catholic Herald
'This is a ridiculously enjoyable book: funny, compassionate, and wonderfully well-written.' Tom Holland
'A delightful, sympathetic, humorous and earthed cocktail of quirky English clergy.' The Rt Revd David Wilbourne
Book Cover Image (jpg): Priests de la Resistance!
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Metabolic Engineering of Yeast to Maximize Precursor Formation and Polyketide Production
Author(s): McTaggart, Tami Lee
Advisor(s): Da Silva, Nancy A
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Increased demand for petroleum resources coupled with political, environmental and supply-chain concerns has increased the investment and interest in bio-based chemical production. In particular, polyketide production in microorganisms facilitates the expansion of sustainable, local and scalable chemical production due to the versatility of polyketides as precursors in catalytic conversion to a range of high-value chemicals including pharmaceuticals, food additives and plastics. For these reasons, optimization of polyketide production in yeast aids the sustainability and affordability of various consumer products. This work engineers and evaluates the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces marxianus for the production of triacetic acid lactone (TAL), a platform chemical precursor to 1,3-pentadiene, sorbic acid and other commodity and high-value products. When considering the production of a specific product, one fundamental choice is host selection. In conjunction with traditional host S. cerevisiae, we explore development of the TAL production platform in a thermotolerant, rapidly growing and industrially relevant yeast K. marxianus. Prior to metabolic engineering, we demonstrate production of 1.24 g/L TAL from xylose, a low-cost substrate. The yield of this process on xylose (0.0295 mol TAL/mol carbon) is comparable to the state-of-the art in other hosts from glucose and demonstrates a breakthrough for xylose utilization in yeast.
To build on this versatile K. marxianus platform, and to improve the S. cerevisiae one, CRISPR-Cas9 was utilized to introduce two heterologous enzymes that divert carbon away from CO2 production, resulting in a 60% improvement in TAL yield. This pathway was then introduced into a genome scale model and flux balance analysis was performed using OptKnock, resulting in new gene knockout targets that are complementary to this new pathway. In parallel to both rationally designed and computational-based metabolic engineering strategies, we developed a novel growth selection method which is built from a genome-wide CRISPR-dCas9 library and a FapR/FapO malonyl-CoA sensor native to Bacillus subtilis. This method couples growth rate with intracellular malonyl-CoA levels such that over many generations, yeast strains with improved malonyl-CoA are enriched within a population and can be identified through next generation sequencing (NGS).
Due to significant developments in CRISPR-Cas9, metabolic modeling and sequencing affordability, metabolic engineering can advance via many different approaches including rational, computational and genome-scale methods. In this work, we incorporate each of these strategies to improve the understanding of both the S. cerevisiae and K. marxianus platforms for the production of polyketides and to develop a framework for enhanced production of other acetyl- and malonyl-CoA based products.
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Nabil Ayouch; Morocco's Award-winning Writer and Film-Maker
Jennifer Nkem-Eneanya
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Nabil Ayouch is one of the most respected filmmakers of North Africa and the Middle East and his latest film has garnered him nominations around the world including the Oscars and Golden Globes.
Born April 1, 1969 in Paris, Nabil Ayouch spent most of his growing years in Sarcelles in a modest home. His mother was a French teacher, and his father was the founder of the Zakoura Foundation, a bank on the model of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh which lends to the poor at very low interest rates.
After three years of acting classes in Paris from 1987-1990, Nabil started his career as a scriptwriter and director with the advertising agency Euro-RSCG. An experience he now considers as "a good observation platform to understand how a shoot works."
The young Nabil cut his directing tooth by internships which brought him even closer to implementing his dreams and before long, he was sailing the seas, from one side to the other of the Mediterranean, seeking and handling multiple projects.
In 1992, he directed the 'Blue stones of the Desert'; his first short film with Jamel Debbouze which tells the story of a young man convinced that there are large blue stones in the desert. The success of his first short, assured Nabil of a truth he had known all his life; he was born to weave stories and bring them to life!
In 1997, Nabil directed his first feature film, 'Mektoub' about an uncompromising cop who uncovers the grimy underbelly of the Moroccan society; rife with corruption, abuse of power, inequality, and drug abuse. The film was a hit at the Moroccan box office and represented Morocco at the Oscars.
In 1999, despite the challenges of film-making in his native country of Morocco, Nabil Ayouch created his own production company in Casablanca (Ali N'Productions) to discover new local talent and through which he helps young directors to launch their careers with initiatives such as the Mohamed Reggab Award, a script and production competition for short films.
creit: wikipedia.com
His filmography includes:
As Director:
Pierres bleues du désert, Les (1992)
Mektoub (1997)
Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue (2000) aka Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (USA)
Une minute de soleil en moins (2003) (TV) aka A Minute of Sun Less (International: English title)
Whatever Lola Wants (2007)
God's Horses (2012)
As a Writer:
Whatever Lola Wants (2007) co-written with Jane Hawksley
As a Producer:
Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue (2000) (associate producer) aka Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (USA)
Asides from directing and producing films, Nabil is also interested in the development of the filmmakers and so he founded the G.A.R.P. (Group of Authors, Directors, Producers) in 2002 and the Moroccan Coalition for Cultural Diversity in 2003.
In 2006, he launched the Meda Films Development programme – with the support of the European Union and the International Film Festival Foundation of Marrakech, a structure to accompany producers and scriptwriters from the ten countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranean in the development phase of their films.
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Unfazed by opposition, Nabil participated in the creation of the Moroccan Anti- piracy Association, in 2008.
In 2009, he created and directed the closing show of the World Economic Forum of Davos, after having directed several live shows such as the opening of "Temps du Maroc" in France at the Palace of Versailles in 1999.
In 2011, Nabil released his first documentary feature film, MY LAND, which was filmed in the Middle East, and in 2012, Nabil Ayouch finished Horses Of God, a tragic film inspired by the Casablanca suicide bombings of May 16th 2003.
Kino Lorber has since acquired all United States rights to Nabil Ayouch's "Horses of God," which was Morocco's foreign-language Oscar entry, for the 2013 Oscars for U.S. distribution.
"We were immensely impressed by Nabil Ayouch's filmmaking artistry, fusing sensitivity and brutality in this terrifyingly authentic portrayal of the making of a suicide bomber," said Richard Lorber, CEO of Kino Lorner. "It's a profoundly compelling work of cinematic fiction that reveals more truth than any news report." Variety.com
In an interview with huffingtonPost.com concerning his film, 'Horses of God' Nabil opined certain reason for the presence of suicide bombers in our societies.
"The first thing the film is saying is that there's not one reason why a young boy can turn into a suicide bomber. There are many of them.
Of course, poverty is a fertile ground for that, but I guess what I felt was most evident when I spent some time in the shanty town is that those people felt totally abandoned. Those young boys, it's like they're cut off, cut off from the rest of the society.
The family doesn't play its part anymore. There is no father authority. There is no family structure around them to give them care, love and authority. And the State doesn't play its part anymore, either.
So when those fanatic people come to them and tell them they have a future, even if this future isn't bright, even if this future is to become a martyr, they jump into it because the fruit is already mature."
Do you agree? Is the family structure in African societies dysfunctional? How can that malaise and other factors be rectified to stem this disturbing trend of suicide bombing and terrorism?
Kudos to Nabil for making a film that highlights these issues in order to cause change.
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Is a CD burned on a MAC, readable on a PC?
Discussion in 'Apple/Mac' started by Jeff Mims, Jul 29, 2009.
For example if I burn a series of images on CD/DVD disc, using my MAC, would someone else be able to open the images on a PC computer?
I prefer Macs, but the majority of people seem to have PCs.
I don't want to sell a disc, they can't open. I don't want to buy a PC either.
Yes, by default all CDs are burned with the ISO9660 filesystem. You can format a CD with another filesystem, but you'd have to try to do it.
JPEGS are what I was concerned about.
Works for me using a burn folder, no problem.
i use toast 10 and it gives you the option for mac only, or mac/pc discs.
I recently created a disk image of a CD I can read on both my PC and Mac but after I burned the image on the Mac I couldn't read it on my PC. So what is the best way to copy a disc on the Mac using standard or free software?
So you just want to duplicate a CD? If it didn't work in the PC the first time around, a copy probably won't help -- but, you can duplicate a CD using OS X's Disk Utility, instructions here. There are software programs that make this easier, but this uses OS X's native features.
Art, it sounds like you use a PC, the Mac system works nothing like this and has no finalisation. Mac does have verification and as I have stated earlier burning on a Mac using the OS "burn" is fine!!
Kees, I just dump the contents of the CD I want to copy into a folder on the desktop and burn from there - save a burn folder if you want to burn multiple CDs. It's all worked for me for 15 years!!
I can read the original CD on both my PC and Mac. And I've used that specific set of instructions to copy the CD as I'm still a Mac newbie.
I will try that just to see if I can get it to work.


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Wait, the house with a what? With a clock in its walls? Don't most houses have clocks in the walls? Okay, maybe on their walls, but still… a house with a clock in its walls doesn't sound terribly weird or frightening or anything that The House with a Clock in Its Walls would appear from the outside that it wants to be. But this movie is based on the acclaimed-at-the-time 1973 young-adult novel by John Bellairs, and it's very plain that someone in Hollywood demanded, "Get me the next Harry Potter!" so probably Hollywood figured that retaining the name of the book was a good idea. On the other hand, I — as dorky and bookish and in love with all things weird as a child (and still) as House protagonist Lewis Barnavelt — would have been the prime grade-schooler audience for this book in the late 70s and early 80s, right when the book was new and fresh in its acclaim, and I don't think I've ever heard of it. I would have sucked this book right out of the kiddie section at the library when I was eight years old and possibly might have considered never returning if I were the sort of bad girl who'd do that. But that didn't happen. So what sort of name recognition does this series — which *checks Wikipedia* runs to 12 books — have, anyway?
Cate Blanchett as a witch is not only a new aesthetic but a new sexuality.
Now, obviously, my subjective experience of the novel is not an objective determination of how popular this series may be. So please don't write in to tell me that you/your niece/your odd little cousin/your rugrat loved/loves these books. I get that there will be lots of people to whom that applies. But it's still not like there's enormous name recognition for The House with a Clock in Its Walls, and it also kinda fails as movie marketing. It's not an evocative title. A name change might have been a good idea.
And I say that because dang if an order to find the next Harry Potter for movies didn't pretty much succeed, because this charming little flick offers genuinely appropriate entry-level spookiness for budding fright fans and plenty of pleasingly fun Halloweeny scares. If you want to get a kid into horror without freaking them out too much, this would be a good movie to show them. If you've got a kid who loves Harry Potter and craves more, this is it. I fear the blah title will put people off, and it shouldn't, because we really do need more good movies for kids these days. There are so few.
Someone in Hollywood demanded, "Get me the next Harry Potter!" and dang if they didn't get pretty close.
Gentle humor of this sort is what House sings with. And also a mild uncanniness and a good-natured subversion. This is a stepping-stone to counterculture notions of alt-fantasy — Lewis's world is just the teensiest bit steampunk; he favors goggles, which I approve of — and to living your best life even if that means you're gonna be an outcast eccentric. If there's one overarching theme here, it's "Embrace your weirdness," which Lewis is invited to do — and does! — via his new life with his uncle and his uncle's delightfully strange friends. And Lewis makes his own strange new friends! House is sadly lacking in feminine energy — even the mad power of Cate Blanchett cannot pull that off on its own — but at least Lewis has a new pal at school, Rose Rita Pottinger (Vanessa Anne Williams), who is very sweetly peculiar and who has an inordinate fondness for insects. She doesn't have a large part to play here, but if there's a sequel — which I would be very happy to see, even though I typically feel that sequels are generally uncalled for — she could play a larger role. She can make weird little girls feel seen in a way that we– er, they don't often get.
You don't need steampunk goggles to appreciate the animated stained-glass window, but you'll look cooler while doing so.
Perhaps the most sublime aspect of The House with a Clock in Its Walls — the title refers to another warlock, a very bad-as-in-evil one, who literally put a doomsday-counting-down clock in the walls of Jonathan's house — is the fact that it is directed by Eli Roth. Horror schlockmeister Eli Roth, he of the appalling Hostel movies, and other downright sociopathic gorefests like The Green Inferno, movies that are about the worst that humanity can do to itself. House is — surprisingly, once you know who directed it — about good human impulses. Roth here hits an unexpected (from him) sweet spot between cloying and spooky, one that finds joy and acceptance for an oddball child in magic and mystery. I'm most definitely not a fan of crude humor and grossouts, especially aimed at children, whom we adults are meant to be training away from finding all things potty hilarious, but even I have to concede that there are some grossouts here that are clever and fresh: I mean, jack-o'-lantern vomit! That's funny stuff. And Roth manages to blend some deeply unsettling (though still only PG-creepy) imagery with nicely old-fashioned eerie: foggy cemeteries, esoteric books.
Roth crams a lot of stuff into this movie — the production design alone is bulging with giddy opulence — but somehow it all works together, particularly thanks to the terrific cast: while Blanchett vamps it up deliciously, Black tones down his mania, and they meet in a comic middle that is perfectly pitched. (The kid is much better than many child actors, too.) Somehow, probably in spite of itself, The House with a Clock in Its Walls ends up totally enchanting.


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Опунции распространены на обширных территориях Северной и Южной Америки, включая Вест-Индию. В Мексике, являющейся главным районом произрастания рода, сосредоточена почти половина видов опунции. Согласно легенде ацтеков, Теночтитлан (нынешний Мехико) был основан на месте, где росла опунция, на которой сидел орёл, поедающий змею. Эта сцена из легенды отображена на гербе Мексики. Как интродуцированные растения некоторые виды опунции распространились в тропических и субтропических регионах всего мира.

История
Использование некоторых видов опунции в хозяйстве прослеживается вплоть до культуры Паракас. Наряду с использованием побегов и плодов в пищу, одной из самых важных целей выращивания опунции является получение красителя кармина. В последние годы в ряде стран опунция всё шире разводится для использования на корм скоту. Некоторые виды опунции оказались агрессивными неофитами и настолько широко распространились в новых для них районах, что возникла необходимость применять биологические средства для борьбы с ними.

Применение у ацтеков
В своём фундаментальном произведении «Общая история дел Новой Испании» (1547—1577) Бернардино де Саагун, опираясь на сведения ацтеков о свойствах растений, привел различные сведения о нопале (и о множестве его разновидностей), в частности о том, что:
Есть деревья в этом краю, которые называют нопалли — это общее название для всех нопалей, что означает смоковница или дерево, на котором растут фиги. Это уродливое дерево, ствол укрыт листьями, а ветви растут из них. Листья широкие и крупные, в них много сока, и они липкие, есть шипы на самих листьях. Плод, растущий на этих деревьях, называется фига; они хороши для еды; это ценный фрукт, и лучшие из них, как кальвиль. Листья этого дерева едят сырыми и вареными.
У него есть волокна, крепкие жилы, очень крепкие жилы; он наполнен жилами; полон множеством жил. Дает ветви; дает много ветвей; образует листья. Этот нопалли — съедобен, съедобен сырым, варёным в котелке. Только немного его можно съесть. Название плода этого нопалли — ночтли. Он круглый, имеют форму округлой верхушки, с краями на своей верхушке; он как шар, узкий у основания, полон мелких шипов, усыпан шипами; у него есть кожица; у него есть семена; его мякоть мясистая, водянистая; его семена как галька. Выходят |плоды| круглыми; образуются; толстеют; наполняются верхушками; они созревают; созревают во множестве. Я отрезаю фиги. Я ем фиги. Я разламываю внутренность. Я делю их внутреннюю часть. Я чищу их. Есть много видов нопалли; во многих местах они растут; во многих местах прорастают.

Ботаническое описание
Стебли-побеги овальной, уплощённой формы ветвятся и образуют куст в 2—4 м.

Растение покрыто колючками, в том числе мельчайшими глохидиями, которые легко отделяются от кактуса.

Цветки жёлтого или красного цвета.

Виды

По информации базы данных The Plant List, род включает 194 вида. Некоторые известные виды:

 Opuntia fragilis
 Opuntia aurea

Применение
Опунция возделывается ради своих плодов, а также в качестве корма для скота и живой изгороди, его также могут мариновать, что и делают в Испании.

На острове Мальта из плодов опунции производят ликёр (Ambrosia Bajtra 21 % vol.), являющийся национальным алкогольным напитком.

Опунции как декоративные растения в средней полосе России

Опунции в средней полосе России выращиваются как декоративные растения, так как обладают большой резистентностью к изменению почвенно-климатических условий и хорошей зимостойкостью. По литературным данным, более 40 видов могут произрастать в умеренной зоне без укрытия. Многие виды способны переносить экстремальные условия с резкими температурными колебаниями в течение года, а также жесткие засухи до 3–4 лет подряд, так как в совершенстве приспособились накапливать и удерживать влагу.

Опунции в декоративном садоводстве ценят за её необычный, несвойственный растениям средней полосы России вид, а также крупным и красивым цветкам. Цветки бывают от желтых до красных оттенков: желтые, оранжевые, лососевые, цвета фуксия, красные. И различные их производные. У опунций не бывает синих цветков. Встречаются также зеленые цветки (у некоторых цилиндропунций).

Наиболее декоративными и зимостойкими являются следующие виды: Opuntia polyacantha (различные формы и культивары), Opuntia fragilis (различные формы и культивары), Opuntia phaecantha var. camanchica, а также виды и культивары Opuntia aurea.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Opuntia в Энциклопедии кактусов
 Мальтийские ликёры

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Опунция

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How Mice Help Cure Leukemia
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CAR-T Mouse
Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, reporter Sarah Gantz informs us:
"The first two recipients of a groundbreaking cancer treatment developed at the University of Pennsylvania remained cancer-free a decade later, leading researchers to utter a word that's typically taboo in cancer circles: cure. Penn researchers in 2010 treated their first chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with CAR-T therapy, which uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer. In a paper published Wednesday [last February] in the journal Nature, researchers report that their first two patients were still cancer-free 10 years after their treatment. What's more, the cells were still present, protecting against future lymphoma invaders."
"….The therapy's effectiveness and longevity are "beyond our wildest expectations," one of the doctors told reporters Tuesday."
So: What exactly is CAR-T therapy?
"Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T therapy genetically modifies the body's T-cells — the white blood cells that play a lead role in the body's immune response to foreign particles — to attack cancer." In this therapy, the body's own T-cells are removed, genetically modified (with the help of mice – see below) to create a kind of combined T-B cell, and then re-injected into the body. These cells are primed to attack leukemia cells in the blood and kill them" – like Special Forces sent on a mission.
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Q: Calculating $\lim_{x\to2^+}\frac{3x}{\ln(x-2)}$ I am trying to understand limits with natural logarithms:
$$\lim_{x\to2^+}\frac{3x}{\ln(x-2)}$$
Consider that $2^+$ is a "number that is slightly larger than $2$":
$$2^+ > 2$$
So we have that
$$2^+-2 = 0^+$$
That is, a number that is slightly larger than $0$.
Since we have a number greater than $0$ but obviously lower than $1$, the natural logarithm will result in a negative value. What happens the closer we get to $0$ from the right? The negative number gets more and more negative. In other words: $-\infty$.
So we have that
$$\frac{3\cdot2^+}{-\infty} = \frac{6}{-\infty} = 0$$
As any number divided by either $+\infty$ or $-\infty$ will be $0$.
Is this correct?

A: The heuristic reasoning in the OP is fine.  I thought it might be instructive to see a rigorous approach to showing that the limit is indeed $0$.
Note that for $2<x<3$, we have
$$\left|\frac{3x}{\log(x-2)}\right|<\frac{9}{-\log(x-2)}$$
Now, given any number $\epsilon>0$,
$$\frac{9}{-\log(x-2)}<\epsilon$$
whenever $0<x-2<e^{-9/\epsilon}$.
Therefore, we have that given any $\epsilon>0$
$$\left|\frac{3x}{\log(x-2)}\right|<\epsilon$$
whenever $0<x-2<\delta=\min\left(1,e^{-9/\epsilon}\right)$.  And this completes the proof!

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The fun peaks in the run-up to Halloween with the Corn Maze and the Pumpkin Patch itself, but there's fruit picking and hayrides all summer long, alongside other attractions.
Farmer's market and a smallish animal barn open all year long.
Blueberry, raspberry and marionberry picking, hayrides and cafe in the summer.
Augmented by pumpkin picking, hay rides, the iconic corn maze, a cow train and hay bales to climb upon in the fall.
Long lines to get back off the island on fair autumn days.
Bella Organic is right next door, aka Portland Pumpkin Farm come autumn.
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Life Unexpected: Who took my baby?
Leo is fastly approaching 11 whole months old, and he will be 1 before I know it. I sit here wondering where that tiny baby boy has gone...You know, the one I brought home from hospital all those months ago.
He has just disappeared. He was there one day and the next he had been replaced with this beautiful boy with a larger than life persona. The most cheekiest chappy you could hope to meet, with nothing but trouble on his mind.
Leo has taken to climbing, much to my horror of course...If he can escape the living room he makes a bee line for the stairs, and he has no problem getting all the way to the top (watched very closely by myself), if he can't quite escape...Well he can climb everything he likes these days, even me if the need arises.
This morning I caught him climbing on the side of his ball pool, just so he could reach the television on/off button. He knows he shouldn't be doing it as when I ran over to him, he shot me a smile that spoke a thousand words, pretty much telling me he was going to do it despite my reservations.
Leo is becoming more confident on his feet everyday, he would much rather stand than sit and there have been a few instances over the past few days, where he has even stood un-supported for a couple of seconds. He just seems to take everything in his stride and he is always on the look out for the next new thing he can do. I guess he is finally seeing the world the right way up and walking will be the best way to see the wonders that await him.
Next month is Leo's birthday, June the 27th. I find it hard to believe a year has almost passed since Leo made his way into our lives. He has enriched every single day, and I find it incredibly hard to remember a time before Leo. It is amazing seeing how he has developed and grown over the past 10 and a bit months...and I can't believe I am going to be Mummy to a One year old.
Daddy and I have started making birthday preparations, and hastily getting lot's of special presents together. What I really want for Leo is a wooden playhouse. I know I am perhaps re-living my childhood through my beautiful boy, as this is something I always wanted...and never got, but I am so excited at the prospect!
This playhouse is going to be something Leo can grow into and play make believe games, while enjoying the great outdoors. It is going to look amazing. It is going to be something he can share with his cousin as he or she grows up. At 12 months he may be a little young for it, but as he has demonstrated, he is growing up so quickly and it won't be long before he is ready to play!
I of course don't have the money for such a extravagant present at this moment in time, so until that first pay cheque comes in July, Leo will be busily enjoying all of his other presents that we have put to one side. Watch this space though...As Leo will be happily playing in his play house before you know it.
I am going to kit this house out, and it is going to be a toy haven. The walls will be wall papered and the floor will be carpeted. It will have a little sofa inside on the upper floor and a John Crane Kitchen at the heart. Yes I know...I really am re-living my childhood, but I think as Leo grows he is going to get so much play value out of this. I would much rather encourage his imagination and help him make his own games, than sit him in front of the television all day long. I grew up playing outside and using my imagination, and I want to give Leo this gift too.
It will be great fun, and I know I am going to love making it all look fab inside! Cannot wait to furnish it. I am the biggest kid at heart!
Aw that is so cute, must have been great fun!
I love make believe play where they can make up their own games and use their imaginations. There is so much electrical stuff today that they don't get outside to play enough. So I cannot think of a better plan!
We are all kid's at heart! I think we would get just the same amount of play value out of it as them!
I love your playhouse idea! I've had birthday gifts on my mind too as Elsie's birthday is fast approaching too. I can't believe how quickly its all gone!


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88mm kanón Flak 18/36/37/41 je německý protiletadlový a protitankový kanón ráže 88 mm vyvinutý ve 30. letech. Během druhé světové války se dočkal rozsáhlého nasazení a stal se jednou z nejuznávanějších německých zbraní tohoto konfliktu. Vývoj původního modelu vedl k širokému spektru zbraní a našel různé uplatnění. FlaK je zkratkou německého slova Flugabwehrkanone anebo Flugzeugabwehrkanone (tj. protiletecký či protiletadlový kanón, doslova kanón protiletecké či protiletadlové obrany).

Název se vztahuje na řadu spolu souvisejících zbraní, první oficiálně nazývaná 8,8 cm Flak 18, vylepšená 8,8 cm Flak 36 a později 8,8 cm Flak 37. V angličtině se slovo "flak" stalo obecným pojmem pro pozemní protiletadlové zbraně. Němci byly neformálně všeobecně nazývány "Acht-acht" ("osm osm") a "osmdesát osm" (eighty-eight) spojenci.

Jednotky protivzdušné obrany byly obvykle rozmísťovány buď s počítačem řízení palby nazývané Kommandogerät ("velitelské zařízení"), nebo s přenosným radarem Würzburg, které byly odpovědné za jeho vysokou úroveň přesnosti proti cílům.

Všestranný podvozek umožňoval vystřelit kanonu, když byl ještě na kolech, v omezeném protitankovém režimu a mohl být zcela pevně ukotven za pouhé dvě a půl minuty. Jeho úspěšné použití jako improvizovaného protitankového děla vedlo k vývoji na něm založeného tankového kanonu 8,8 cm KwK 36, kdy zkratka "KwK" znamená "Kampfwagen-Kanone" (doslova "kanon bojového vozidla"). Tato zbraň sloužila jako hlavní výzbroj těžkého tanku Tiger I.

Kromě těchto Kruppových návrhů Rheinmetall později vytvořil silnější protiletadlové dělo - 8,8 cm Flak 41, které vzniklo v relativně malém počtu. Krupp reagoval dalším prototypem děla ráže 8,8 cm s dlouhou hlavní 8,8cm Pak 43, která byla dále vyvinuta v protitankový kanon a výzbroj stíhačů tanků jako Elefant a Jagdpanther a 8,8 cm KwK 43 pro věž těžkého tanku Tiger II.

Vývoj
Vývoj kanónu sahá až ke konci první světové války, kdy tehdejší protiletadlové kanóny přestávaly mít účinnost vůči stále se zdokonalujícím letounům. Mírovými dohodami z Versailles však mělo Německo vývoj a výrobu těžkého dělostřelectva zakázánu. Přesto se firmě Krupp podařilo vyslat skupinu techniků do švédské společnosti Bofors, která byla jedním z předních výrobců protiletadlových kanónů. Ta vyrobila na základě projektové dokumentace z roku 1931 několik vzorků, které byly tajně dodány do Německa. V roce 1933 se zde kanóny začaly vyrábět sériově. Dostaly vzorové označení "18", a to podle roku 1918, aby byl utajen jejich vývoj po prohrané válce.

Nasazení
Poprvé byl protiletadlový kanón testován během španělské občanské války, kde měl uspokojivé výsledky. Zde byl také zkoušen pro použití k boji proti tankům. Po vypuknutí druhé světové války byl používán prakticky na všech frontách. Po přepadení Sovětského svazu, kde se Němci poprvé setkali s novými tanky T-34, KV-1 a KV-2, začal kanón sloužit stále ve větší míře k boji proti těmto obrněncům, protože žádný stávající německý tank nedokázal moderní sovětské tanky v boji přímou střelbou zničit. Nevýhodou kanónu v přímém boji proti tankům však byla vysoká silueta a poměrně velká hmotnost zbraně. Pro svou účinnost byl kanón v pozměněné podobě instalován pod označením 8,8cm-KWK 36 L/56 do tanků Tiger. FlaK však byl zejména používán k tomu, k čemu byl původně určen, a to byla protivzdušná obrana. Stal se páteří protivzdušných baterií, které chránily německá města, průmyslové podniky a infrastrukturu před bombardováním Spojenců.

Varianty

 FlaK 18 – první verze
 FlaK 36 – první modernizace, umožňovala rychlejší manipulaci a lepší ovládání, některé kanóny byly vybaveny ochranným štítem pro obsluhu.
 FlaK 37 – další modernizace, byl vybaven systémem přenosu cílových údajů
 FlaK 41 – výrazná modernizace, zvýšen dostřel, zvětšena rychlost střelby

Kromě stávajících verzí FlaKu došlo k vývoji dalších kanónů. 88mm kanón PaK 43 byl používán jako protitankový kanón a jeho obměny byly montovány do stíhačů tanků Ferdinand, Nashorn a Jagdpanther. 88mm kanón KWK 43 byl zase montován do tanků Tiger II.

Technické údaje

FlaK 18, 36 a 37
 Délka v palebném postavení: 7620 mm
 Šířka: 2305 mm
 Výška: 2418 mm
 Délka hlavně: 4930 mm
 Ráže: 88 mm
 Hmotnost v bojovém postavení: 5000 kg
 Hmotnost během přepravy: 7400 kg
 Odměr: 360 °
 Náměr: -3 ° až +85 °
 Úsťová rychlost: 820 m/s
 Úsťová rychlost protitankového granátu: 795 m/s
 Dostřel dálkový: 14 860 m
 Dostřel výškový: 10 600 m
 Rychlost střelby: 15-20 výstřelů/min.
 Nábojnice 88 x 571R (R111) byla společná i s 8,8cm KwK36 L/56 v PzKpfw V Tiger, jen zápalkový šroub pro FlaK byl perkusní C12, pro KwK byl elektrický C22

FlaK 41
 Délka v palebném postavení: 9658 mm
 Šířka: 2400 mm
 Výška: 2360 mm
 Délka hlavně: 6548 mm
 Ráže: 88 mm
 Hmotnost v bojovém postavení: 8000 kg
 Hmotnost během přepravy: 11 200 kg
 Odměr: 360 °
 Náměr: -3 ° až +90 °
 Úsťová rychlost: 1000 m/s
 Úsťová rychlost protitankového granátu: 980 m/s
 Dostřel dálkový: 19 800 m
 Dostřel výškový: 14 700 m
 Rychlost střelby: 20-25 výstřelů/min.
 Nábojnice 88 x 855R (R123), pro 8,8cm PaK 43 L/71 nábojnice 88 x 822R (R146)

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 Historie 88 mm serie kanonů

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Home Culture
Burton's creative genius on show
Walt Disney Studios.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Crispin Glover.
Directed: Tim Burton. Rated PG (Fantasy violence and scary scenes). 108 min.
Reviewed by Peter W. Sheehan
THIS is an iconic fairy-tale brought fancifully to the screen by Tim Burton.
Many versions of Alice's adventures have been brought to the screen before.
Burton, however, has a pocket piece of imagination especially set apart for him, and he brings his unusual style to the filming of a story loved and known by all.
The film combines Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with his "Through the looking-glass" and mixes together live action and animation.
The fit with Burton is not perfect.
Although this is not his best film, and the movie is a little disappointing overall, there are clear moments of imaginative brilliance.
Alice Kingsley (Mia Wasikowska, who is an Australian, Canberra-born actress) attends a planned engagement party for her after the death of her beloved father.
At the party, she sees a white rabbit talking to itself, wearing a waistcoat and holding onto a pocket watch.
She pursues him through a maze and falls down a hole in the ground.
At the end of the hole is a locked door that leads to a world, which is now much more barren than the way she found it as a young child many years before.
She drinks and eats to change her size and fits through the door to find herself in Wonderland populated by familiar creatures such as the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the March Hare, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Alice is expected to slay the Jabberwock, which is the dragon terrorizing the inhabitants of Wonderland under the reign of Iracebeth (Helena Bonham-Carter), the mean Red Queen.
Johnny Depp energetically plays the role of the Mad Hatter, and he helps Alice, who is initially reluctant to take on the task of slaying the Red Queen's dragon.
Anne Hathaway is the White Queen, who aspires to the throne.
She is attracted by the dark side, being the sister of the Red Queen, but tries to make everything bright, cheerful and looking happy.
Eventually, after incredible adventures, the dragon is slain, and Alice steps out of her dream to return to the world of reality as a more mature person.
The film is about a series of incidents that involve Alice, but the movie also is a story about Alice discovering who she really is, and taking control of her life.
Like James Cameron's Avatar, this film is best seen in 3-D, which is clearly what Burton intends; currently, it shows in both 2-D and 3-D versions.
The imaginative props in the movie, when live action is employed, are eye-catching and the clothes and wigs of Carroll's characters are amazingly quirky and fanciful.
The talents of Colleen Atwood as costume designer are especially well used, except for some awful costuming of Alice.
The result is a visual spectacle that tries, a little erratically, to capture Burton's unique style.
Colours abound (even more than in Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), body proportions (such as the Red Queen's head), are way out of kilter, and all the characters behave oddly, adding to the impact of who they are and what they do in Carroll's original stories.
The film is outrageously whimsical, but Burton is dark and he decides to pursue popular taste by mimicking other spectacle adventure films that typically conclude by vigorous battle scenes between the warring factions.
In the end, the slaying of the dragon becomes a surprisingly clumsy affair.
This is an enjoyable film that pays reasonable reverence to Carroll's stories.
It is well directed and well acted, especially by Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen.
The film's classification warns that some scenes are scary, but Burton has never directed a movie where that was not so.
Many scenes are dark and weird and will worry young children.
Parents should accompany their children to the movie so that they can monitor the effects on their children of what they see and think.
Carroll's books are funny and inventive, and Burton adds to those qualities by giving us a film that stamps Carroll's work in his own inimitable way.
Carroll's crazy characters are even crazier in this movie, and the film shows Burton's darkly-inspired creativity at work almost all of the time.
Peter W. Sheehan is an associate of the Australian Catholic Office for Film & Broadcasting.
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As part of my general Be More Healthy resolution for 2014 I've managed to force myself to the gym a little more than usual lately and I'm sure I'm not the only one so I decided to share the products I've been reaching for post-workout to help me keep convincing myself that this working out lark is actually doing good things for my body and not just leaving me in pain.
Since I usually come out all sweaty (gross but really, what's the point in going if you're not there to work hard and get sweaty?!) the first thing to do is clean my face and I've been going in with the Clinique Take The Day Off Balm(£21.00) and a Liz Earle Muslin Cloth(£4.25 for 2) to properly clean my face. I read somewhere that actually sweat is good for clearing out blocked pores but I don't know if that's totally true. What I do know is that the Origins Clear Improvements Mask(£22.00) does deep clean so a few times a week after cleaning my face I've been slathering that on for ten minutes to keep my face feeling fresh.
I then like to jump into the shower and scrub off the mask or balm, depending on what day it is, then make a start on my body. After a really heavy gym session which has left me tired and sore I've been reaching for the Elemis Revitalise Me Shower Gel (℅ Debenhams) (£17.00). I've had this shower gel since the summer but it's only just making its way onto the blog as I thought £17 was a really high price for a 'fresh' shower gel when you can get a lot of citrus/fresh shower gels to awaken you in the morning for a lot less. However if you're a gym bunny and finding your body is just exhausted at the end of the day then this shower gel does actually seem to revitalise the body rather than just awakening it, so definitely worth looking into. For exfoliating Soap & Glory scrubs are always my go to ones and after a workout the Sugar Crush(£8.00) version with it's lime fragrance leaves my body feeling cool and fresh.
There's nothing worse than that thick, sweat soaked feeling in your hair so the Phyto Phytoneutre Detox Shampoo(£10.50) has been reached for once a week to give my hair a proper clean that leaves it feeling totally weight free. To keep that light feeling rather than weighing it down with conditioner I've been reaching for my It's A Ten Miracle Leave In + Keratin(£21.00) which I've only been using for a short period of time but can already tell is the sort of product I'll never want to be without. At £21.00 for 60ml it's not cheap though and perhaps the Unite 7 Seconds Conditioner(£14.85) for 236ml is a better buy, I haven't personally tried it but haven't heard anything but good things about it!
In keeping with the spray on conditioner theme for the body I've been reaching for the Vaseline Spray + Go(£4.99) to keep me moisturised. It's quick and easy whilst still being effective and that's the main pull for me post workout shower when I just want to get into my pyjamas and relax with some youtube videos and a cup of tea. The last product I apply in this little routine is my Caudalie Beauty Elixer(£32.00). It's not my go to toner and actually I was recently trying to find a use for it, but it's now having its moment. Following a workout it's a lovely refreshing toner that soothes and revitalises a red (verging onto purple if it's been a Metafit night) and sticky face and it comes in a travel size(£11.50) as well to pop in your gym bag if you prefer.
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Skin biopsy codes are changing.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an updated version of the second installment in a two-part series on the 2019 CPT® codes released recently by the American Medical Association.
For many years we have used two codes to report skin biopsies. CPT® 11100 for the first lesion and 11101 for each additional lesion biopsied after the first lesion on the same date of service.
Biopsies are used to obtain tissue for diagnostic histopathologic examination performed independently, or unrelated or distinct from other procedures/services. When a skin lesion is entirely removed, either by excision or shave removal and sent to pathology for examination, it is not considered a biopsy for coding purposes but an excision and should be reported with the excision codes not biopsy CPT codes. When a biopsy is performed on different lesions or different sites on the same day, each biopsy may be performed separately as they are not considered components of other procedures.
The CPT Guidelines state: "Partial-thickness biopsies are those that sample a portion of the thickness of skin or mucous membrane and do not penetrate below the dermis or lamina propria, full-thickness biopsies penetrate tissue deep to the dermis or lamina propria, into the subcutaneous or submucosal space.
Sampling of stratum corneum only, by any modality (e.g., skin scraping, tape stripping) does not constitute a skin biopsy procedure and is not separately reportable. An appropriate biopsy technique is selected based on optimal tissue-sampling considerations for the type of neoplastic, inflammatory, or other lesion requiring a tissue diagnosis".
Prior to the new CPT codes for 2019, biopsies were reported with CPT code 11100 for the first lesion and 11101 for each additional lesion biopsied regardless of method of removal.
A tangential biopsy (11102/11103) includes removal via shave, scoop, saucerization or curette. This type of biopsy is performed with a sharp blade such as a flexible biopsy blade, obliquely oriented scalpel or curette. A sample of epidermal tissues is removed with our without portions of the underlying dermis. This type of biopsy does not involve the full thickness of the dermis. When the full thickness of the dermis is involved the procedure reported is 11300-11313 (removal of epidermal or dermal lesions).
A punch biopsy required a punch tool to remove a full thickness cylindrical sample of the skin. The intent of the biopsy is to remove a sample of a cutaneous lesion for a diagnostic pathologic examination. Simple closure is include and cannot be billed separately.
An incisional biopsy requires the use of a sharp blade (not a punch tool) to remove a full-thickness sample of tissue via a vertical incision or wedge, penetrating deep to the dermis, into the subcutaneous space. An incisional biopsy may sample subcutaneous fat. A simple closure is included with an incisional biopsy even though closure is typically performed. When the entire lesion is excised report the excision codes, 11400-11646 depending on type of lesion (benign or malignant).
Biopsies are selected by method of removal. If more than one biopsy is performed on the same date, only one primary biopsy code is reported. When more than one biopsy is performed using the same technique, the appropriate primary biopsy code is reported for the first biopsy and the add-on code is reported for each additional lesion.
When two biopsies are performed using two different techniques, report the primary code and the add on code based on the type of biopsy performed.
Example #2: A physician performed a punch biopsy of the chest and an incisional biopsy of the left arm.
Example #3: A physician performed a shave biopsy on the left arm and leg and a punch biopsy on the chest.
Make sure you document the method of removal and anatomic site. Remember all excision codes include a biopsy so a separately biopsy code on the same structure is not appropriate. If an excision is performed even if the specimen is sent to pathology report an excision code. Report one code per lesion biopsied. When multiple biopsies are performed via different methods, report one primary code and use an-add on based on biopsy method for each additional biopsy on the same date.


"Christian Galvez is a very inventive, sensitive musician who if given the right musical information, can make a modest musical offering into a musical banquet." Billy Cobham.
Thanks to his original virtuoso style, colorful and musical, where the use of harmony and chords at highest level are a key part of his own language; style that comes close to great geniuses of the "chord melody" as Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, George Benson and Pat Martino.
He's member of the Masters of Bass with Gary Willis, Dominique di Piazza and Hadrien Feraud, of the Frank Gambale Quartet and recently of Paolo di Sabatino Trace Elements, alongside with drummers as Peter Erskine, Dennis Chambers and Jojo Mayer.
He is currently part of the Billy Cobham Band, touring Europe with the legendary drummer.
Many years has passed since the "Pat Martino of the bass". At today Galvez is for sure the best bass player in Latin America and makes part of the selected small group of the best bass virtuosos of the planet.