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Festival director wants guests to step outside comfort zone by Beth Reed | October 18, 2018 at 12:42 p.m.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The 27th annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival begins Friday at the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa. This is the third of four articles highlighting the longest-running, all-documentary film festival in North America.
When guests map out their plans for viewing various films at the 27th annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, which kicks off Friday, Executive Director Jennifer Gerber said she hopes they will step outside their comfort zone.
"The main thing I would just encourage is for people to be open minded and maybe try a film that they wouldn't necessarily think is an obvious fit for them," she said. "That's been my greatest journey in watching the films this year is that there's some thinking 'I don't know if this is going to be for me,' and then you watch it and are a bit moved by the movie."
A lot of care and consideration goes into choosing the opening and closing night films, but Gerber said there are a few that have stood out to her that she is excited for viewers to take on.
"One that's really popping for me right now is 'Dons of Disco,'" she said of the film showing at noon Saturday. "We will have its U.S. premiere at our festival. It has a world premiere in Rome and then it comes straight here, and it is about this Italian pop star and the film illuminates a scandal where he was lip syncing all his career.
"It has the guy who's the voice and then the guy who's the face, so it's a really entertaining film. It's getting a lot of buzz right now, and the filmmaker will be here so it's one of those films that if you don't know about, you may not know how great it's going to be. I think it's going to be fantastic."
Another personal favorite, she said, is "The Last Race," which will be screened at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
"It's about the last stock car race track in Long Island and we'll have one of the drivers from the film," Gerber said. "It's just incredibly beautiful the way they were able to get this footage right next to the drivers right next to the track. It's action-packed, it's emotional and something you want to see on the big screen."
"Gospel of Eureka" has been creating a lot of buzz across the state, Gerber said, for its backdrop in Eureka Springs.
"'Gospel of Eureka' deals with a drag community in Eureka Springs and parallels it with the performances of the passion play in Eureka Springs," she said. "It's not as controversial as it sounds. The ultimate message of the film is about love and acceptance, and how for everyone to get along and encourage an open-minded attitude of love. It's really beautiful. Some of the drag performers are coming and they'll be performing after the screening at our after party."
Another after party will take place at the skating rink following the screening of "United Skates" at 7 p.m. Oct. 26, which Gerber said is one of the committee's favorites of the festival.
"It's certainly a standout and for me it was an early front-runner in our screening process," she said. "It's about adult night skating, primarily in African-American communities, and it's about skaters that come to skate rinks late at night from midnight to 5 a.m. They're dancing and it's this incredible art form of skating, but it also deals with racial issues and how the skaters are perceived within the various communities that they're attending. It's just one of those films that on the big screen is going to be incredible."
Several film screenings will be available free of charge to students, but Gerber insists these selections are entertaining for all ages.
"'Bethany Hamilton' is one of our family friendly screenings and if you don't know who Bethany Hamilton is, she's the world championship surfer who had her arm eaten off by a shark, but she's still a championship surfer and it's part of her story," Gerber said. "It's incredibly inspirational and also cinematic. It's incredible to watch on the big screen because she's chasing the biggest wave of her career and it's incredible to watch."
Following that screening at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Emergent Arts will host a mixed media workshop geared toward children in hopes of extending the film's conversation of overcoming obstacles. In that same theme, Gerber said "Pick of the Litter," showing at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, follows a litter of puppies on their way to becoming guide dogs.
"The opening is of them being born," she said. "It's the Olympics of guide dogs because you're watching this incredible process of them going through the training and not all dogs can make it to that final cut. It's interesting; it's not just training, but learning intelligent commands and having to learn when to not listen to their owner because the owner doesn't realize that they're being led into traffic or led into danger. So, the way they train these dogs is pretty fascinating to watch, but also inspirational."
With 127 films in the festival, Gerber said she has made it a goal to ensure there are films that interest everyone who attends. There are certain themes that span the wide range of films; however, beyond the content, Gerber said she is really seeing a trend in changes for the genre as a whole.
"I'm really seeing a trend in documentaries to be more than just educational and informational," she said. "We are now in a day when documentaries can be box offices hits. We see Mr. Rogers in 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' and 'RBG' about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and we don't traditionally see films like that doing as well as they have in the box office this year, so I think because of that we're seeing the form is elevated with style, with visual. I think looking forward with the form we're seeing the educational with the cinematic."
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Dredging of the lead channel, and opening the new mouth in September 2000, have significantly changed the lagoon's hydrology, returning it to a more natural state than existed before excessive silttation affected the tidal flows in and out of the lagoon.
Because of third peripheral and island villagers were not affected by floods and water-logged land after 2001. Opening of new mouth had dramatically positive effect of fish catchers.
The lagoon is home for wide variety of plants in the aquatic and terrestrial islands of known medicinal properties. These plant resources provide a vital base for the local community, as well as for birds and fishes.
Lovely scenes and good to see the terns. Let me know if you crossed the bridge today with me!. Have a wonderful weekend.
i'm glad they've restored it to a more natural area for all!
A very interesting post, and super looking Terns.
That's some size of lake and good to know it's valued by the local people.
Excellent info and wonderful photo shares Rajesh.
It's good to hear that the improvements have benefited both the ecology and local inhabitants.
A birder's paradise with so many different species.
It's beautiful and I'm pleased to learn of all the good things that have been done to make it more natural and more beneficial to the people!
Lovely scenery. Did you go for a ride on that boat?
a long way from home so very interesting to see..
Lovely shots. And so nice to hear of the positive effects for nature as well as the community.
Great sequence!! Boom, Bobbi and Gary.
Wonderful photos of the lake!
It is encouraging to see that resources were expended to improve the habitat. Looks like a marvelous place.
It looks like a sunny day on the water, very pretty.
So interesting post about the stupa (not sure if I understood, but it looks like a religious place) and such beautiful views at the Chilka LAke and the lagoon with all the details!!
Lovely places as always shown on your blog!!
Lovely scenes and a great series of shots!
A good thing to restore nature! And great to see all the terns and other birds returning, not to mention the fish.
Nice pics. I especially love the second photo with the man on the boat.
Great views! Have a nice weekend!


Instead of continuing with my design posts, I'll pause to rave about the Fate System Toolkit, Evil Hat Productions' supplement for the Fate system. I have read it twice in its entirety now, and I've thumbed through a lot as well.
This book was designed for people like me: people who like to understand why things work a certain way, and how you can adjust them to suit your needs or whims.
The layout is the same clear and crisp one used in Fate Core and Fate Accelerated; like in these two books as well, the illustrations are excellent. The art is also kept thematic by having a given artist illustrate an entire section rather than mixing and matching throughout. As a result, not only does the book get a nice unified feel but you get a sense of the stories or campaigns behind a collection of illustrations that just make you want to find out more about the game they evoke.
As for the physical item, I'm a sucker for the high-quality finish of the hardback book, the same as Fate Core hardback; yes, I like to handle the cover and pages.
The writing style is clear, direct, conversational, and I found it easy to grasp the explanations. The examples provided throughout pull the double duty of providing clarity and generating sparks of ideas for your own games.
This is a brilliant, comprehensive, well-explained collection of ideas for adjusting the Fate rules to do all sorts of wonderful things for you. It provides the why, why not, and how of a ton of adjustments that will allow you to implement just about any genre or flavour in your own campaigns. What if you want to play a dark, gritty setting? What if you want to play Doc Savage-style high pulp, or superheroes, or low fantasy, or horror? Here are the dials for you to adjust, and here are the base settings.
As you thumb through, you will keep finding new ideas and getting flashes of the cool games you could run with them. Most of the ideas can be readily implemented in both the Core and Accelerated builds. In combination with one of the Fate rulebooks, it is tremendously useful in order to fine-tune a campaign. Perhaps what I like best is that the reasoning behind every rule is explained so that you can get a sense of how changes will impact the game. This is similar to another toolkit I dearly love, Steve Kenson's Mastermind's Manual for Mutants & Masterminds (Green Ronin Publishing).
I'm at a loss to find something to criticize, except on the order of "You omitted a topic I have a question on" or "I wanted this section to be longer." Given that the possible topics are nigh-infinite and the entire book issued from the Fate Kickstarter like Athena from the forehead of Zeus when it was only supposed to be a chapter of Fate Core, I don't know how I could find fault there.
Since it's available in PDF, ePub and mobi formats on the pay-what-you-like model, I see no reason a Fate gamemaster would deprive herself of this resource. If you tinker with your games and you like a toolkit approach, you need this book.
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Henry, 22, of Archdeacon Street in Gloucester and Alistair Walker, 27, of Sheldon Court in London are both charged with manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a person under 16. Both have denied the charges.
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Two half-brothers plot the murder of a waitress in order to prove their intellectual superiority.
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Charles and Thomas have a plan – to commit a murder that demonstrates their superiority over the rest of the human race. Half-brothers with the same bedridden drunk mother who shares their home with them, they spend their days plotting the murder over breakfast at their local diner. Like some sort of skewed odd couple they finish each other's sentences and food, spend all their time together and are seemingly inordinately pre-occupied with each other's lives. Each finds taunting lesser humans entertaining, as witnessed by the opening sequence in which they bet paltry sums of money to see if a junkie in their employment will crush one of his fingers for a bigger 'fix'. Bachelors ostensibly by choice, they are each other's closest companion, the co-dependence obvious from the first frame.
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In 1941, convinced of their superior intelligence, and in an effort to commit the 'perfect crime', Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and murdered a 14-year-old boy in Chicago. This true story is the inspiration behind Blood Brothers (formerly 'The Divine Tragedies'), and though it only bares the slimmest of connections, the inspiration is enough to inform the rest of the movie and give it an edge over other indie horrors of the same ilk.
It is the same true story that inspired Hitchcock's Rope in 1948, the horror behind coldly intellectual killers clearly a fascinating one to film-makers if not film-goers (Rope was an unfortunate commercial failure, despite its excellence).
Though obviously not of the caliber of Hitchcock, there is much to enjoy here. Director Jose Prendes (The Haunting of Whaley House) makes excellent work of rendering intriguing characters that are nuanced and whole – not that common in a horror. His film is stylistically lush, what with the comic book lighting and framing giving certain scenes an almost surreal feel. He is happy to be interpretive rather than literal; less exposition, more mood. The soundtrack is hilariously melodramatic and muscular, adding to the strange theatricality of some moments.
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As performances go, the acting is top notch. Hannah Levien as Genevieve is sweet and convincing as the selected 'victim', and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) does some nice work as the mother who's just that little bit more off-kilter than originally suspected; but the film relies, as it must, on the brothers and how well they are cast. Luckily, Prendes has found two powerhouses in Graham Denman (Charles) and Jon Klondelik (Thomas). Both actors excel here, bringing their A game in committed performances that breath life into these maniacal, frivolous, sociopathic killers. They are fully engaged, excellent turns, and the film would not work as well as it did without them.
All in all, I found this little movie to be odd, stylish, funny, gory and cool, much better than some other higher-budget genre films.
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Power Women of Asia Taking Over the Business World
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There is a common Western belief of being more progressive than the East on many subjects, including the subject of women. However, Asian businesses are now making us question this belief, with power women flourishing in their own business pursuits.
An article in The Guardian stated that there are more men named John at the helm of USA and UK's biggest companies compared to all women. This statistic highlights the starkness of the gender divide within the western corporate world; however, in Asia, the story of the power women is quite different. More women are climbing the rank of the business world and are widely being recognised for their achievements.
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Previously, many Asian countries have prevented women in the corporate world owing to religion, familial and sociocultural customs. The limited education for many young women led to limiting opportunities for their later lives. However, the gender bias that drove the majority of these restrictions is slowly dissolving worldwide. The results of this in Asia are incredibly promising, with women achieving their ambitions. This leaves us, in the West, of great examples of power women of business.
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When I was seven years old the bishop sent our church a new pastor. Almost immediately I transferred my intense loyalty from the outgoing pastor to the new pastor. It was not that I did not love the former pastor anymore; it was simply that Rev. Adams was so loving and friendly that this seven-year-old quickly found a new and good friend. He was tall and thin, had already lost most of his gray hair, and wore glasses that only served to magnify the perpetual twinkle in his eye. While moving through his busy schedule each week, and in the midst of a large and growing congregation, he always seemed to find time for the children around him. When I was with him I felt as if I were the most important person in the world, and under his leadership my own faith life was nurtured and deepened.
One Sunday when I was eleven years old I attended church with my family as was our custom. I can still recall watching Rev. Adams move about the front of the church that day during the worship service. At one point he walked across the altar area from his chair to the communion table. While he was walking I said to myself, "If I could be just like Rev. Adams, I would be a minister." Although I immediately chided myself for having such an impossible dream, a new idea had taken root in my soul—I could be a minister!
Two years later I was reading a book by James Bishop called The Day Christ Died and suddenly felt a Presence in the room with me. In a twinkling I felt the Presence wash over me in an indescribably beautiful way. In those moments, so different from the moments just before and just after, I knew with a deep, deep certainty that I was loved and that God wanted me to be an ordained minister.
As I look back across the years to that time in my life, I realize that Rev. Adams not only was a tremendous support to me as I matured in the faith, he remains to this day the first and the most influential model I had for ministry.
No doubt you also have models for ministry who have shaped your desire to enter seminary and pursue a life of service to others in the name of Jesus Christ. Our models come from the ranks of both clergy and laity to be sure. Some of our most precious and powerful memories of church are those we have of our Sunday school teachers, who helped us memorize Bible verses, gave us juice and cookies, and talked to us about what was important in our lives.
Who were the people who became your models for ministry? Perhaps it was your pastor who, like Rev. Adams, radiated a joy that seemed unending and showed how much fun it could be to serve others. Perhaps it was your grandmother who taught you to surround each day with prayer and had an intimacy with God that was both beautiful and contagious. Perhaps it was a layperson in your church, or a neighbor in your community who was always looking for the next person to help and the next social ill to ameliorate.
We know that our initial sources for learning about God are our parents. Through them we learn early on about trust and love and consistency; through them we learn powerful and lasting lessons about how friendly the world is and how easy (or hard) it is to survive. Through our parents we learn about creation and its Creator, as well as about ourselves and our value in the grand scheme of things.
If we are fortunate enough to have parents who take us to church when we are young, we may begin to know God in a special way through our pastor. I recently codirected an elementary church camp with my sister. One day during lunch I was told by a camper who had just finished third grade that for the longest time ("when I was little") he thought that his pastor was God. When he went to church and saw that the pastor was there he would say to his parents "God is in today." This camper was voicing a profound truth, for in a very real way, the pastor of the church is Christ's ordained representative on earth. And although it is equally true to say that all Christians are Christ's representatives in the world, there is a distinction to be made between laity and clergy.
By virtue of the education, training, supervision, and evaluation that precede ordination, clergy become the church's representative ministers in a special way. In a later chapter I will discuss the difference between being called to general ministry and to representative ministry. Suffice it to say here that from the birth of the church, those who are set apart for representative ministry have been viewed as people with especially close ties to God through Christ. Needless to say, that closeness does not make them better or more valuable human beings. It does, however, serve to potentially draw their congregants closer to God.
Think back over the years to pastors you have known. What did they teach you about the joys of spending a lifetime in service to others in the name of Jesus Christ? Were they outgoing and friendly or quiet and reserved? Were they good preachers who seemed to radiate the love of God with every word or did they convey more uncertainty and doubt than faith? What kind of a public stance did they take against injustice, and how did they inspire others to do the same? How important did you feel when you were with them? Were they happy and content, or were they restless and burdened by sorrows? What did they teach you about the day-to-day work of the ordained pastor and what it is like to be in ordained ministry? Is there anything in them that you want to emulate in your own life?
When a student told his dad that he was thinking seriously about becoming a pastor himself, his dad told him that if he could do anything else he should do it. The father did not mean to discourage the student or talk him out of his pursuit. Rather he was telling him that ministry is hard work across the years, full of joy but also full of sorrow. It is a tremendous responsibility to be concerned with the care of souls, and the daily work of leading others to "do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with... God" (Micah 6:8) can be a heavy and lonely burden to bear.
Such work requires intense and thorough preparation. It requires intimate knowledge of God and oneself, along with openness to others and willingness to be proved wrong and to change. It requires a flexibility and humility of spirit, an intellectual curiosity about the world, and a healthy sense of humor all at the same time. And it requires a love of God and God's creation that is as wide as the sky and as deep as the ocean.
A very wise rabbi told me shortly before I was due to give birth to our first child that when the baby was born and forever after I would know the highest highs and the lowest lows it is possible to know. Such was the landscape of parenthood. In the thirteen years since my friend made that prediction I have found the truth of his words over and over again. I have found similar highs and lows in ministry as well.
It is a great privilege to serve others in Christ's name and to have such ready access to people. Clergy are called upon at times of great celebration and great sadness, of great joy and great sorrow, of decision making and reconciliation. They are present by invitation and expectation at all of the great crossroads of life. They are looked to for leadership in facing society's ills head-on with courage and grace and for inspiration for others to do the same. No other professional is as welcomed and expected to drop by unannounced for a visit at home or in the hospital. No other professional is expected to be willing to face and wrestle with life's biggest questions and challenges with courage and wisdom and to walk fearlessly with others to the edges of this life while helping them to make their peace with God.
Clergy are concerned about the health and well-being of their congregation as a living, breathing, effective witness for Jesus Christ in the world. The multiple roles of the ordained pastoral leader require a vision that is clear and realistic yet flexible.
Ordained leaders are called to be pastors, priests, prophets, and administrators. Often these roles complement each other; sometimes they are in conflict. They are present in the expectations of the church and the parishioners; they are always called for in response to a broken and needy world.
"Healing" in this connection means binding up wounds in the precise sense of the good-Samaritan story. "Sustaining" means "comforting" in the original sense of "with courage," upholding or standing with one who suffers even if the situation cannot be altered except perhaps by change in the person's attitude. "Guiding" within the perspective of shepherding means helping to find the paths when that help has been sought.
Communicating the gospel both to those within the faith and those not in the faith community is a vitally important part of the pastoral office.
As interrelated aspects of the function of communicating the gospel, therefore, we can accept: (1) learning, understanding, or instructing; (2) realizing, deepening, or edifying; and (3) celebrating, reminding, or commemorating.
(1) nourishing, feeding, or aiding its development; (2) protecting or purifying from threats within or without it; (3) relating it, positively or negatively, to other bodies such as institutions, cultures, or states. All of these aim at the organic wholeness, integrity, and welfare of the fellowship; but each is dominantly relevant in a different kind of situation.
In these perspectives Hiltner shows the range of skills and sensibilities necessary in one who is ordained. To focus on one aspect of ministry, such as preaching, to the neglect of other aspects means that the church will be weakened. A pastor who puts the majority of time into preparation for preaching and who fails to visit members will risk preaching irrelevant sermons because he will be out of touch with people's concerns, joys, and sorrows. Such a pastor will become a threat to the organization as people feel increasingly neglected.
Likewise, the pastor who concentrates on pastoral care and counseling to the neglect of her own personal study and devotional time and disregards the administrative structure of the church may be beloved by the congregants but will run the risk of not offering informed leadership that results in the moving along of the vision of the church. Without careful and ongoing attention to the infrastructure of the church, it will become vulnerable.
The Communication and Education aspects of ministry include the many ways that pastors teach the body of material that forms the corpus of the Judeo-Christian heritage. Their teaching and preaching of scripture, doctrine, and theology of the church is accomplished in many ways, some more obvious than others. On Sunday morning, for example, it is clear when the pastor is leading worship and teaching a class that the communicative and educative aspects of ministry are in the ascendancy. It is also the case, however, that when the pastor begins each meeting with a prayer, or gives leadership to the building of an affordable housing complex in town, that he or she is likewise teaching a lifestyle that is consistent with the gospel and being prophetic about the Christian's responsibility to others who may be less materially fortunate. Teaching, preaching, and prophecy, then, are included in the communication and education aspects of ordained ministry.
When the pastor is visiting in homes or hospitals, counseling troubled families or individuals, or helping couples think about marriage within the Christian context, the caring and reconciliation aspects of ministry are predominant. These situations are, of course, obvious ones in relationship to this aspect of ministry. Making sure that meetings have agendas and therefore are not meandering exercises of endurance is also an expression of care.
In my many years at Drew I have heard very few students say that they looked forward to the administration that is so much a part of the pastoral office. In response I have tried to help students see that behind every piece of paper there is a person.
When I was seriously ill some years ago a woman in my church wrote to tell me that members of the church wanted to help my family in any way they could. They offered to cook meals, do laundry, help with child care, and clean the house. The writer of the note asked me to please let them help us in these ways and to allow her to "organize the love." I have never heard a better definition for administration than the one Mrs. Lorraine Giffin gave me in that note. The administrative and organizational aspects of ministry do just that. They are the myriad ways in which the pastor sets about to "organize the love" of the gospel evidenced in that particular congregation. Preparing reports and bulletins are obvious examples of these aspects. Taking time to see that the right people are in key leadership roles and that segments of the congregation do not feel neglected and disenfranchised are also related to these aspects, which protect the body "from threats within and without" by helping the organization to remain healthy and whole.
Finally, the theological and ethical aspects of the pastor's work are evident throughout all of the above. We are called to be theologians and ethicists everywhere we go. The truth of this is easily seen when we are called upon to help a family think about the withdrawal of life support from a loved one who is terminally ill or when we help a young unmarried woman wrestle with whether or not she will have an abortion. We are also theologians and ethicists, however, when we make up our visitation list, work to put together the annual budget, and follow through on the details of the newsletter. In everything we do our theology can be seen. Everything we do shows our deepest ethical decisions about how we will treat people and what our values and priorities are in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The question is not, Will I be a theologian and ethicist when I am a pastor? The question is instead, What kind of theology and ethics will my ministry reflect?
Having read the above paragraphs about the nature and work of the ordained pastoral leader, stop and ask yourself what your reaction is. Do you find yourself eager to engage in this kind of work? Can you imagine yourself preaching Sunday after Sunday with a word from the Lord for your people? Do you want to spend your days and your nights thinking about ways to help your people fall more deeply in love with God and become more faithful to God's claim upon their lives? Are you ready to face the conflicts that will inevitably arise within the church over things that may not seem important to you but may threaten to split the congregation? How do you feel about working with budgetary processes, and how easily are you able to see that budgets are ethical exercises as well as fiscal ones? Do you long to visit your people, counsel them, and offer them God's grace liturgically and every way you can?
As my student's father asked him, I ask you: Is there anything else you could do with your life? Ministry is a rewarding and demanding vocation. It requires considerable physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual energy. To be an effective pastor one must stay fit on every level, remain curious and intellectually alive, be willing to do the ongoing work of self-reflection in order to offer authentic and helpful leadership, and maintain a spiritually disciplined life.
Excerpted from What to Expect in Seminary by Virginia Samuel Cetuk. Copyright © 1998 Abingdon Press. Excerpted by permission of Abingdon Press.


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Q: Can WSGI load several flask application In WSGI file, we would import a py file as
from <pyFile> import app as application

but is it possible to load several py file into a single wsgi file by doing something like this:
from <pyFile1> import app1 as application
from <pyFile2> import app2 as application

I've tried the above, and it doesn't work.
Is there a different way to achieve this?

A: If uwsgi is your implementation of choice, consider this:
import uwsgi

from <pyFile1> import app1 as application1
from <pyFile2> import app2 as application2

uwsgi.applications = {'':application1, '/app2':application2}

A: You can't import various modules as the same name, e.g.
from moduleX import somevar as X
from moduleY import othervar as X

Results in X == othervar.
But anyway you can't have multiple applications running in the same instance of Python. That's because

The application object is simply a callable object that accepts two arguments [PEP 333].

Now, a simple WSGI application is something like:
def simple_app(environ, start_response):
    """Simplest possible application object"""
    status = '200 OK'
    response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain')]
    start_response(status, response_headers)
    return ['Hello world!\n']

As you can see, there is no place here to make multiple applications working at the same time, due to the fact that every request is passed to ONE particular application callback.


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Latest CPP additions to cost $900 million by 2050: chief actuary
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A suite of additional features planned for the Canada Pension Plan will mean an extra $900 million in costs by 2050, Canada's chief actuary is estimating.
Earlier this week, chief actuary Jean-Claude Ménard released a new report on the state of the Canada Pension Plan in light of additions agreed to by Canada's finance ministers late last year. Since the ministers agreed to the suite of changes in December, the federal government has moved to implement them through its budget legislation, Bill C-74. The latest document on the CPP is a supplement to the chief actuary's two earlier reports on the state of the public pension plan as at Dec. 31, 2015.
The changes addressed in the new report are in addition to the 2016 deal to enhance the CPP more generally by raising contributions by a combined two per cent by 2025, boosting the income replacement rate provided by the plan and introducing a new earnings threshold for pension coverage. They include removing the reductions in survivor benefits for people who neither have a disability nor have dependent children and who became survivors before age 45, introducing child-rearing and disability drop-in provisions to the enhanced component of the CPP and making the death benefit a flat $2,500 for all eligible deceased contributors. Under the current framework, the death benefit is equal to six months of the deceased contributor's CPP pension at age 65, up to a maximum of $2,500.
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On the issue of survivor benefits, the report predicts the removal of the age restriction and benefit reductions related to it will affect 40,000 people in 2019. By 2050, the change will increase survivor benefits related to the base CPP by $170 million. That's in addition to the $38 million in added survivor benefit expenditures in 2050 related to the overall enhancement to the CPP, which the government is phasing in starting next year.
When it comes to the death benefit, the change to a flat amount will mean increased payments to the estates of about 29,000 contributors in 2019, resulting in added expenditures of $21 million that year.
Overall, the report predicts the 2017 agreement will boost expenditures on the base CPP by $230 million in 2050 and by $679 million on the enhanced component. The added amount for the enhanced component rises quite quickly, to about $8 billion, by 2090. While the projections for 2050 total more than $900 million, the report notes the amounts represent a small share of CPP expenses: 0.1 per cent for the base component and 2.4 per cent for the enhancement. It also projects the current legislated contribution rates are sufficient to finance the projected expenditures over the long term.


Andrew Wexler (leading) and Dylan Taylor reaching a 4,500-foot pass between the Capps and Triumvirate glaciers. The towers ahead rise above the Triumvirate Glacier. Photo by Joe Stock.
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El Castigador: Tordrillo Traverse	Over nine days in May 2008 Andrew Wexler and Dylan Taylor and I made a 100-mile, full-length ski traverse of the Tordrillo Mountains in Alaska. Our traverse traveled from south to north through the Tordrillos, climbing 38,000 vertical feet and making ski descents off the four highest peaks including Mt. Spurr (11,069 feet), Mt. Torbert (11,413 feet), Mt. Talachulitna (11,150 feet), and Mt. Gerdine (11,258 feet).
Andrew Wexler near the summit of Mt. Spurr (11,069 feet), above the smaller peaks surrounding the lower Capps and Triumvirate glaciers. Central Alaska Range (Denali, Foraker, etc.) in the distance. Photo by Joe Stock.
The Tordrillos are well-documented in Tordrillo—Pioneer Climbs and Flights in the Tordrillo Mountains of Alaska, by Rodman Wilson and Paul Crews Sr. The most significant traverse in that book was by the burly team of Scott Woolums and Mark Jonas in March 1982. Aiming for tower climbing in the Kichatna Mountains, they left from Beluga Lake, climbed the Triumvirate Glacier, and descended the Hayes Glacier. Because of frozen toes, they finished their trip at Rainy Pass, shy of the Kichatnas, after covering 80 miles.	After waiting six days in Anchorage, the weather cleared on May 16 and Dylan, Andrew, and I drove three hours to the Alaska Air West hanger in Kenai. Doug Brewer flew us in three Super Cub flights across Cook Inlet to a 2,400-foot ash bench on the south slopes of Mt. Spurr. We started up Crater Peak with 12 days of supplies packed into agonizing 65-pound loads.	Dylan had climbed Mt. Spurr, the Tordrillos fourth-highest peak at 11,069 feet, in 2004. What had been a rounded summit had become a 300-foot-deep crater lined with crevasses and venting lung-burning sulfur gasses. After summiting, we camped in splitter weather at 10,000 feet on the Spurr Plateau, overlooking the Hidden and Neacola mountains.	Traversing the Tordrillo Crest from the Spurr Plateau to the Torbert Plateau is a technical, unclimbed route so we chose to descend from the Spurr Plateau through the Southeast Cirque of the Capps Glacier via a 4,000-foot icefall. After several attempts that ended in a maze of gapping crevasses, we climbed onto a cleaver that splits the icefall and belayed each other to ski steep powder above open crevasses to the valley floor. From the Capps Glacier we climbed the Triumvirate Glacier to a 7,000-foot camp below the Torbert Plateau. The next day we day-toured 20 miles and 8,000 vertical feet to the low-angle summits of Mt. Torbert and Mt. Talachulitna. The next crux was downclimbing the Great Wall, a 14-mile-long serac-ridden barrier that straddles the range and had stopped our traverse attempt in 2007. Using a route scoped in 2007, we downclimbed four, 150-foot pitches (100-foot rope tied together with three 20-foot cordelettes) on snow-covered ice above a bergschrund to another lobe of the Triumvirate Glacier.	After summiting Mt. Gerdine, we continued another two days under cloudy skies over lower-elevation passes and valleys to the north end of the Tordrillos. Then we descended to the Skwentna River at the confluence with the Happy River and found the gravel-bar landing strips covered with two feet of snow. Since Chugach pilot Mike Meekins had his Piper Super Cub equipped with tundra tires for moose surveys in the area, he directed us to a snow-free gravel bar two miles downriver, from which he shuttled us 30 miles to home-cooked burgers at the Skwentna Roadhouse. The following day, Spernack Airways took us to Merrill Field in Anchorage.


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Guest Post | Writing from the Land by Lee Murray
I'm excited to welcome Lee Murray to Book Den today!
Writing from the Land by Lee Murray
Much of my writing, including Into the Mist and now Into the Sounds, is derived from, and embedded in, the land. That deep connection to our landscape and our geography is true for many New Zealanders, not just writers. It is our 'turangawaewae' – which translates as 'the place where we stand'. When I set Into the Mist in the North Island's Urewera forest, 2100 square kilometres of drifting mist and craggy grey-green mountains and swift-flowing rivers, I had hoped to conjure some of the richness of its character, to reveal some of its mysteriousness and its beauty. So, it was interesting when, about the time I was writing the story, the Te Urewera Act was passed, making the land, once a national park, a legal entity with "all the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of a legal person." Sometimes a setting will pay such a powerful role in a story that its readers say it became a character in its own right, but in New Zealand we've enacted that idea into law. The landscape has its own identity. But what if that landscape, that character, is known historically to be unpredictable and dangerous as Blood Related author William Cook points out: "The Kiwi Gothic constructs New Zealand not as a place of some pastoral idyll but rather as an environment where danger and horror lurk everywhere. The Antipodean gothic is generally considered to be an expression of the settler anxiety that derived from the confrontation with a hostile and alien environment, such as the native New Zealand bush. Unlike the European gothic, which often tells ghost stories set in old castles, the Kiwi version of the gothic often deals with alienation, family traumas and uncanny experiences in very familiar places." Uncanny experiences in familiar places. This is how we write from the land because our writers, particularly horror writers, know that darkness and monsters are an everyday occurrence in New Zealand, that the land has its own power, and mythology is a living breathing thing.
"Cinematic and evocative, Into the Mist is a tension-packed expedition into primordial terror. Murray's writing had me feeling the damp of the forest, seeing the mist curling through the fern fronds, and sensing the danger lurking there. Ancient myths, military men and scientists placed in remote, primordial locations – it had all the right ingredients for me, and it didn't disappoint for a moment." — Greig Beck, best-selling author of the Arcadian series
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/world/what-in-the-world/in-new-zealand-lands-and-rivers-can-be-people-legally-speaking.html
Lee Murray is a multi award-winning writer and editor of fantasy, science fiction, and horror (Australian Shadows, Sir Julius Vogel). Her titles for adults include the acclaimed Taine McKenna series of military thrillers (Severed Press) and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra co-authored with Dan Rabarts (Raw Dog Screaming Press). Among her titles for children are YA novel Misplaced, and best-loved middle grade adventure Battle of the Birds, listed in the Best Books of the Year 2011 by New Zealand's Dominion Post. Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse, the first book in a series of speculative middle grade antics, is forthcoming from IFWG Australia. An acquiring editor for US boutique press Omnium Gatherum, Lee is a regular speaker at workshops, conferences and schools. She lives with her family in New Zealand where she conjures up stories for readers of all ages from her office overlooking a cow paddock.
Into The Sounds by Lee Murray
On leave, and out of his head with boredom, NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna joins biologist Jules Asher, on a Conservation Department deer culling expedition to New Zealand's southernmost national park, where soaring peaks give way to valleys gouged from clay and rock, and icy rivers bleed into watery canyons too deep to fathom. Despite covering an area the size of the Serengeti, only eighteen people live in the isolated region, so it's a surprise when the hunters stumble on the nation's Tūrehu tribe, becoming some of only a handful to ever encounter the elusive ghost people. But a band of mercenaries saw them first, and, hell-bent on exploiting the tribes' survivors, they're prepared to kill anyone who gets in their way. As a soldier, McKenna is duty-bound to protect all New Zealanders, but after centuries of persecution will the Tūrehu allow him to help them? Besides, there is something else lurking in the sounds, and it has its own agenda. When the waters clear, will anyone be allowed to leave?
Thank you so much for sharing, Lee!
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BiblioSanctum August 10, 2018 at 9:05 PM
New Zealand has such a gorgeous, interesting landscape, it's no surprise to me that the people who live there have a deep connection to it. Awesome post and fascinating looking book :D
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This work questions our habitual "standards" from another angle. Centimeter, inch and cun all are conventional standards in our society. As an artist, I try to experience these standards with my hands, meanwhile break or bend these standards in my own way. In the series work of "Inch of Time", the key word is the relationship between "time and distance" and "standard and deviation". Roughly speaking, I processed a batch of old teak from a demolished house to pieces of wood of different length, width and thickness; then carved "millimeters" on a piece of wood according to subjective feeling until a "false ruler" with a margin of error is produced. The technique of inlaying copper wire or nail in traditional Chinese ruler is also used to make fake Chinese measurement.
On these "rulers", each "millimeter" slowly came into being based on the feeling of the very split second and in the end a certain "numerical length" was formed. However, each ruler has a certain amount of error with its actual length. For example, the deduced length of the ruler appears to be "207cm" while the actual length of the object is 200cm. The whole process of production is similar to a monk knocking the temple block or copying scriptures-subjectively, the graduation is much carefully set, but objectively, everything is make-believe and inaccurate. Eventually each ruler produced in this way is a subjective ruler.
Besides, the artist made an upright trigonal ruler according to his own height (172cm). Each facet is a "standard". Among them, one facet has new standards "MN" and "SN", which are obtained by dividing the artist's height into 1000 equal parts. The other two facets are respectively "centimeter" and "cun" deduced through hand measurement. Putting three different standards onto one ruler is like racing within a fixed range. Different standards and deviations form different contradictions.
Video "Inch of Time" , which was filmed based on this series of work, is the first micro documentary directed and acted by the artist himself. The four-minute black-and-white silent film documents Ni Youyu's process of making a ruler at Three on the Bund, Shanghai.
To continue his investigation into the physicality of time is the unifying thread of this ongoing project. Simply titled as Ruler, Ni harnesses a meditative-oriented approach to making the sculptural installation. And challenging the viewers to discover their allure only after a period of contemplation. The centerpiece comprises 9 strips of different wood in varying lengths of 90 – 200 cm, where the artist has approximated and carved, via his own naked eyes and instinct, lines to measure distances. While an affinity for artifice fuels a great deal of what he does here, knowingly that these error-marked pieces will not do what they are supposed to do, the function of being a real ruler, a penchant for disclosure the structure of artifice underpins his artistic operations.
He treats a piece of wood (ruler) as a kind of expanded composition, to be articulated through freestanding elements, with correspondences of shape, surface and material inspiring trajectories of thought and narrative across the space. Countering the idea of viewing sculptures as autonomous objects, Ni also captures the passing of time as a material so that it may not be overlooked. In bringing time into the work, its instantly there, fully noticed and active in the experience. Time, not as social, but sculptural construct, the sculpting of the 'rulers' have emerged from intense concentration and patience as the work also charts his psyche, directing our attention to a tactile sensibility and in part by the painstaking labor. This process is also about private experience, the barely perceivable, and the incommunicable. It brings to mind art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss's description of the late artist Eva Hesse's Continent (1969) as "delivering the message of privacy, of a retreat from language, of a withdrawal into those extremely personal reaches of experience that are beyond, or beneath speech … a declaration about the expressive power of matter itself, of matter held down to a level of the sub-articulate." Ni's work also inhabits this realm of the sub-articulate. His interest is as psychological as it is material.
The apparent simplicity and economy with which Ni operates in this project can be pleasantly deceiving, and to take him at face value is to fall, at least to a certain degree, right into his trap. Which is to say that this work is as rich in personality and concealed narratives as it is humble in material and awareness. Also there is a sensation to "one at a time" viewing method as we take our time with the 'rulers'. While they look at first glance like ready-mades, in closer look, the surface details of certain pieces depict intricate formations reminiscent of interstellar multi-star systems, and their spatial distribution has something of the typographic – almost hieroglyphic – about it. The small variations in configuration and surface appearance register gradually on the viewers walking across the pieces, noting the shifts in achieving increasing assurance and fluency. Each piece has an ingrained purpose and spirited sensitivity honoring a workmanship that is both as familiar and as foreign as the recognition of our own breath.
Put together, the 9 pieces constitutes an immersive installation, all the works reinforcing one another even as they successfully stood alone. A display either as a long straight row alongside each other or in stacked arrangement vertically, as one reflects on the underlying interface between ritual repetition and material, internal perception and external stimulus, all sorts of measures emerge – your place in time, your place in reference to the world, your awareness of the patience and difficult labor of creating something from mere scratch and it become apparent the extent to which the work captures the artist's own language of altering familiar constructions and shaping it into new narratives.
The project is also accompanied with an independent and mood-altering component, in the form of a video work - filmed within a gallery space as well as featuring shots of the outdoor environments, essentially the sceneries around the Bund in Shanghai. The 4-min silent work acts as a landscape simultaneously reflecting both a metropolis' skyline and the interior of a room where the artist is seen sculpting the wooden pieces in private, multiplied by the layering of windows, and other reflective surfaces within the filmic space. Impeccable shot compositions, and production values transcended the dialectics between the visual representation of the real and the real as a physical yet temporary phenomenon. Architectural interference in natural environments as well as visual interventions in the dynamics of interiors led to an interplay between reality and fiction. Thus, Ni forges a sequence that in turn creates an unfolding of narratives. When viewing, the slowness of the VDO reduces the rate of our perception, or being hyper-perceptive. Film is designed to operate very quickly, but in this production, Ni lets the narratives live a little, because that way, it absorbs more experience, in finer details. So if we think of landscape as also absorbing experience, a longer and unhurried exposure allow us to receive more emotion from the landscape. The artist is interested in the amount of thought the VDO can evoke. And a quality best described as intellectual nerve.
It's the kind of a nuanced intertwining of the identical and the difference played out almost simultaneously – in and out of time – hand in hand and hand on hand by which the filmed projections reveal or conceal their intentions, hide or exhibit their subjects, in order to reflect themselves in each other, casting light on the spaces in between. So while Ni's ruler-like sculptures are conceptually tight as an entity, it is also sensitively attuned to the specifics of characteristics. With a video adding a documentary-like dimension, this project plays upon viewer interaction and is dependent on memory and connective combinations as well as individual interpretation. It is, by turn, an ocular pleasure where there's a lot more going on here in related ways.
At the same time, it is intended to be the reconfiguration of the relationship between the viewers and the art object within the exhibition space. By playing with the domains of sculpture and video, this installation resists the static quality that flat compositions can have, embracing, rather, the dynamics of movement that link time, space and material. At hand is a notion of duality – of the object that lives and of the living being that is an object – which recurs throughout the video. Through this deeply felt project, the keen edge of which derives from a dense layering of quietude and focus, Ni is on his way to creating visual forms that demand new modes of physical and perceptual interaction. On the whole it is elegant, and most important, intelligent work.(By Zhu Zhu)
Inches of Time I(17.3h)
Old wood, copper wires, copper nails, paint
49.8x3.4x0.35cm
Inches of Time II(40.3h)
155.6x4.5x0.6cm
Inches of Time III(46.5h)
128.45x3.95x0.6cm
Inches of Time IV(42.7h)
Inches of Time V(50h)
Inches of Time VI(17h)
Inches of Time VII(13h)
Inches of Time VIII(18.5)
78.6x5.85x0.65cm
Inches of Time IX(71h)
167.25x7x0.6cm
Inches of Time XI
Old wood, copper wires, copper nails, paint, steel
172.5x34cm
Inches of Time XII
Three Steps Ruler
560x8cm (Arranged according to the space )


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Mental Health Facilities Humphreys County, TN
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Mental Health Facilities in Humphreys County, TN
Here is a list of all mental health facilities in Humphreys County, TN. Majority of the facilities provide dual diagnosis treatment. Humphreys County mental health clinics provide treatment to men, women and teenagers who have mental health problems that include depression, anxiety, panic disorder, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD and other issues and phobias.
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Natchez Trace Youth Academy is a mental health facility in Humphreys County, TN, located at 415 Seven Hawks Lane, 37185 zip code. Natchez Trace Youth Academy offers Residential treatment and Telemedicine/telehealth. Natchez Trace Youth Academy provides Couples/family therapy, Cognitive behavioral therapy and Activity therapy to Children/adolescents. Natchez Trace Youth Academy also supports Military families, Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance and Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder. Some other services provided by Natchez Trace Youth Academy include Psychosocial rehabilitation services, Family psychoeducation and Therapeutic foster care.
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Mental health facilities in Humphreys County can provide treatment and counseling for a wide range of mental health issues and disorders. Such issues include psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, PTSD in veterans or those who have experienced some sort of trauma, eating disorders such as anorexia and/or bulimia, depression, mood and personality disorders, anxiety disorders, various forms of phobias, and bipolar disorder.
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The two types of mental health centers in Humphreys County can work on either an inpatient, also known as residential, or outpatient basis. The outpatient mental health clinics will provide counseling and mental health services but do not require overnight stays at the facility. Both types of facilities will have licensed mental health counselors and other professionals as part of staff. The residential in-patient mental health facilities require a prolonged stay at the facility to completely cure the mental health issues.
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Summary: There are many current trends in how work is best organized in digital companies: egalitarianism (especially of ideas), transparency of decision-making, openness to experimentation, fact orientation, servant leadership, middle managers as player-coaches, self-organizing and self-directed teams — and the list goes on. However, none of these suggests the imminent death of 'the company' nor that organizational hierarchies (with management at the 'top') will disappear. So, what does this mean for agility? In this column, Ron Ross provides an answer.
I get as excited as the next person about current trends in how work is best organized in digital companies. Those trends include egalitarianism (especially of ideas), transparency of decision-making, openness to experimentation, fact orientation, servant leadership, middle managers as player-coaches, self-organizing and self-directed teams — the list of social innovations goes on.
You can immerse yourself in all those trends and lead yourself to believe that business is being reinvented. In some sense, yes it is — but in the most important sense, no it's not.
What does that mean for discussion of agility? It means that if you want to pursue true business agility, your thinking must be grounded in management imperatives. That is exactly the approach taken by The Business Agility Manifesto.
Put simply, management exists because the business owns assets from which value must be created. The persisting need for strategy, security, and optimization all arise from that fundamental fact of life.
The pursuit of business agility arises because the business ecosystem has never before been so dynamic, at least on the compressed timeframes we see today. Business agility is about creating a sustainable means to continuously change and adapt, while preserving, protecting, and enriching business assets. Increasingly those assets include knowledge, a point the Manifesto takes as a critical point of departure.
Talking about agility only in terms of how to compact and energize organizational structures (hierarchies), while useful and exciting, fails to address the fundamental raison d'être for companies. Organizational agility is simply not comprehensive business agility. If only it were that simple! Don't be fooled. The problem of true business agility runs far deeper than social or work innovations can ever resolve on their own.
 Andrew McAfee and Eric Brynjolfsson confirm and explain this point brilliantly in chapter 13 "Are Companies Passé (Hint: No)" in Machine, Platform, Crowd, W.W. Norton & Co (2017), 402pp.
 The Business Agility Manifesto: Building for Change, by Roger T. Burlton, Ronald G. Ross, and John A. Zachman, (2017) https://busagilitymanifesto.org/. The Management Imperatives are elaborated on https://busagilitymanifesto.org/management-imperatives.
 This statement should not be interpreted as saying "management exists to add value." When something is owned, that something must be protected and controlled. Management hopefully adds value but exists primarily to command and control.
 McAfee and Brynjolfsson use the more elegant term 'residual rights of ownership'. Their argument (very briefly) runs like this. Since contracts with other parties will always be incomplete, companies with their managers and hierarchies will continue to exist to make decisions in all cases where the contracts fall short. In other words, even with distributed ledgers (blockchains), smart contracts, powerful platforms, and machine intelligence, a completely flat (purely egalitarian) business playing field will remain unworkable.


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Quantal analysis of 5-hydroxytryptamine release from mouse pancreatic beta-cells
J Physiol. 1999 Dec 15;521 Pt 3(Pt 3):651-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.00651.x.
P A Smith 1 , P Proks, F M Ashcroft
1 University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, UK. pas59404@glaxowellcome.co.uk
1. A combination of patch-clamp, amperometric and fluorimetric methods were used to investigate the Ca2+ dependence and kinetics of secretion from pancreatic beta-cells elicited by voltage-gated Ca2+ entry. 2. Whether measured by the change in cell capacitance or by amperometric detection of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) release, the voltage dependence of the amount of secretion mirrored that of both the peak Ca2+ current and Ca2+ entry. 3. The magnitude of secretion elicited by a single pulse could be entirely accounted for by a readily releasable pool of approximately 200 vesicles. Neither depression nor potentiation of release was observed with 0.1 Hz pulse trains. 4. Transient amperometric currents were detected, which occurred independently of each other and were attributed to the fusion of single vesicles. 5. The time course of the macroscopic amperometric current could be accurately reconstructed by convolution of the all-events latency distribution and the unitary amperometric current. 6. In response to membrane depolarisation, secretion was initiated with a variable latency: approximately 95 % of the first secretory events occurred at least 50 ms after the start of the voltage pulse (and Ca2+ influx). Secretion fell rapidly on membrane repolarisation, even though the average intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) was still elevated. 7. The [Ca2+] in the locality of the release site was estimated from the all-events latency distribution. [Ca2+] rose during a voltage pulse and secretion was elicited at > 0.4 microM and peaked at approximately 2-10 microM.
Calcium / chemistry
Calcium Signaling / physiology
Exocytosis / physiology
Islets of Langerhans / chemistry
Islets of Langerhans / metabolism*
Membrane Potentials / physiology
Patch-Clamp Techniques
Serotonin / chemistry
Serotonin / metabolism*
Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom


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