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was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego.

Biography

Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki, 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city. He recalled hearing, as a 16-year-old boy, the bomber plane Bockscar before the atom bomb exploded.  The explosion flash blinded Shimomura for about thirty seconds, and he was later drenched by the "black rain" bomb fallout. He overcame great odds in the following 11 years to earn an education and achieve academic success.

Shimomura's education opportunities were starkly limited in devastated, post-war Japan. Although he later recalled having no interest in the subject, he enrolled in the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Nagasaki Medical College (now Nagasaki University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences). The Medical College campus had been entirely destroyed by the atomic bomb blast, forcing the pharmacy school to relocate to a temporary campus near Shimomura's home. This proximity was the fortuitous reason he embarked upon the studies and career which would ultimately lead to unanticipated rewards. Shimomura was awarded a BS degree in pharmacy in 1951, and he stayed on as a lab assistant through 1955.

Shimomura's mentor at Nagasaki helped him find employment as an assistant to Professor Yoshimasa Hirata at Nagoya University in 1956. While working for Professor Hirata, he received a MS degree in organic chemistry in 1958 and, before leaving Japan for an appointment at Princeton University, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1960 at Nagoya University. At Nagoya, Hirata assigned Shimomura the challenging task of determining what made the crushed remains of a type of crustacean (Jp. umi-hotaru, lit. "sea-firefly", Vargula hilgendorfii) glow when moistened with water. This assignment led Shimomura to the successful identification of the protein causing the phenomenon, and he published the preliminary findings in the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan in a paper titled "Crystalline Cypridina luciferin." The article caught the attention of Professor Frank Johnson at Princeton University, and Johnson successfully recruited Shimomura to work with him in 1960.

Study
Shimomura worked in the Department of Biology at Princeton for Professor Johnson to study the bioluminescent jellyfish Aequorea victoria, which they collected during many summers at the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington. In 1962, their work culminated in the discovery of the proteins aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP) in A. victoria; for this work, he was awarded a third of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008.

Family
His wife, Akemi, whom Shimomura met at Nagasaki University, is also an organic chemist and was a partner in his research activities. Their son, Tsutomu Shimomura, is a computer security expert who was involved in the arrest of Kevin Mitnick. Their daughter, Sachi Shimomura, is director of Undergraduate Studies for the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature.

Recognition
 2004 – Pearse Prize, Royal Microscopical Society
 2005 – Emile Chamot Award
 2006 – Asahi Prize
 2008 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 2008 – Order of Culture
 2008 – Person of Cultural Merit
 2012 – Golden Goose Award
 2013 – Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
 2018 – Junior third rank (posthumous)

Selected publications
Bioluminescence: Chemical Principles and Methods (Revised Edition) (WSPC 2012) .

See also

 List of Japanese Nobel laureates
 Kamo Aquarium

References

Sources
 including the Nobel lecture Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP

Japanese chemists
2018 deaths
1928 births
Organic chemists
People from Kyoto Prefecture
Boston University School of Medicine faculty
Nobel laureates in Chemistry
Japanese Nobel laureates
Recipients of the Order of Culture
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Nagoya University alumni
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Blog / Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Things That Make You Go Hmmm: Roster Changes, (Lack of) Discipline and Two-Man Advantages
by Clay Imoo · May 21, 2011
[Inspired by Arsenio Hall's "Things the Make You Go Hmmm…", Clayton Imoo talks about Canucks-related things that make him go hmmm… You can follow Clay on Twitter at (@canuckclay) or on his website, Clay's Canucks Commentary.]
Hello readers. My name is Clayton Imoo and I am thrilled to join the talented group of passionate Canucks fans here at the CHB. I do a regular video-blog called "Clay's Canucks Commentary" that is featured on Canucks.com and I'm excited to take a different approach for my contributions to this site: "Things That Make You Go Hmmm…"
If you were at least a teenager in the late 80s and early 90s, then you'll likely remember The Arsenio Hall Show. One of Arsenio's regular features occurred when the host would ponder certain thoughts. This recurring segment was the inspiration behind C&C Music Factory's top 10 hit "Things That Make You Go Hmmm…" in 1990.
Similarly, I'll be taking a regular look at the Canucks and aspects of their games that may make us wonder, whether it be a strange play, puzzling coaching decision, or bizarre call for example.
Looking back at the Canucks' 4-3 loss to the San Jose Sharks in game 3 of the Western Conference Final, there are certainly a few Things That Make You Go Hmmm…:
If it wasn't broke, why did you try to fix it? Canucks Coach Alain Vigneault surprisingly inserted Tanner Glass and Alexandre Bolduc into the line-up for Cody Hodgson and Jeff Tambellini, even after the team's dominant 7-3 win in game 2. Perhaps AV anticipated a rougher game and having nightmares about Ben Eager. Ultimately, Eager didn't even play and Glass (6:34 TOI) and Bolduc (4:34 TOI) played but not very much. Granted, the number of Canuck penalties prohibited any type of flow, but Glass and Bolduc didn't do anything to stand out. While I don't agree with AV's decision to change the lineup, he does have one more Jack Adams award than I have.
Where was the poise and discipline? Coming into the game, the Sharks were a perfect 3 for 3 on the power play. In game 3, they scored a couple of quick power play goals in the first period on their way to a 3 for 10 night overall with the man advantage. These 2 quick goals meant the Canucks were playing a tough game of catch-up just 8 minutes into the game. It's clear to me that the tighter a game is called, the worse off the Canucks are. Whistle-happy referees nullify the Canucks' aggressive and high-flying style. So why were the Canucks so undisciplined given both the proficiency of San Jose's power play and seeing how Ben Eager hurt the Sharks in game 2?
Can you decline a penalty? The Canucks failed to score on back-to-back 2-man advantages in the second period. Their futility with 2-man advantages is a great mystery to me, especially given their exceptional talent and that they own the best PP in the league. This isn't new. In the regular season, they converted on just 1 of their 9 2-man advantages. Last night, they seemed hesitant to shoot and often took too long to set-up their ideal shot(s). The Sharks undoubtedly got a lift from killing off the penalties, while the Canucks missed a golden opportunity to get back into the game. Though before we completely throw the PP under the bus, they at least scored a couple of goals on Jamie McGinn's 5-minute major in the third period.
It will be interesting to see what the line-up for game 4 will look like given the incomplete marks for Glass and Bolduc and the injuries on the blue line to Ehrhoff and Rome. It's looking like Keith Ballard will draw into the line-up for the first time since game 2 of the Nashville series. I'm not sure why Ballard hasn't been playing more in the playoffs… yet another thing that makes me go hmmm.
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Clay Imoo is a Canucks season ticket member and creator of Canucks parody songs. He is a co-host of the C4 podcast and writer of Things That Make You Go Hmmm and CHB's Top 10. More importantly, he is a husband and father.
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because a.v just doesn't like ballard's game at all. or whatever the case maybe. ballard/rome=any day of the week.
I saw someone say that Rome makes safer plays more often than Ballard.
Like, AV would rather go with Rome making the safe pass than Ballard trying something else? Rome's a pretty conservative player and Ballard takes some risks sometimes.
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Americans, You're Not Represented In The 2012 Presidential Election
Note: I fear that if you change the names at dates, everything I say here will apply to every presidential election in the foreseeable future.
Every election season you hear people say, "If you don't vote you can't complain." Anytime you complain about laws you don't like, people will tell you, "You live in a democracy. If you want to change things then vote or run for office."
This brings us to the 2012 presidential election between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, neither of whom represent the majority of their political party. Romney has a few die-hard fans, but most conservatives don't like him, because he's a big city fat cat pandering to poor country voters, and he doesn't carry himself with the confident poise of a president. He almost seems terrified to be running for president because he knows he's not very good at lying on the spot. Plus, he's a Mormon, which to conservative Christians, means he believes in a false prophet. For a lot of reasons, Republicans just don't want Mitt Romney to be their president, and they really, really don't want Barack Obama again. So they're unrepresented in this presidential election.
Obama also has some fanatical supporters, but most liberals don't want to spend another four years watching him do everything they hated George Bush for. Obama-mania is over. He had his chance to change things, and he didn't. He maintained the status quo to the point of standing by silently, consenting to police beating and arresting American citizens for protesting for freedom, justice, and representation in the nation-wide Occupy Wall Street protests.
So in the 2012 election, Americans get to choose between an old white guy who made a fortune in the financial sector squeezing the little guys and an old black guy whose campaign is funded by old white guys who made their fortunes in the financial sector squeezing the little guys. And both candidates are going to staff every government position in their power with old, rich people from the financial sector who made their fortunes squeezing the little guy.
If that's enough to scare you into voting Libertarian, you'll just elect an old white guy who wants to remove every safeguard that protects the poor from getting squeezed by the rich. So the 2012 presidential election is merely a charade where the American people get to choose who they want to represent the rich.
At the time I'm writing this, the 2012 election isn't for another 6 months, but I can already tell you who's going to win representation in the White House. The rich are, and the poor are going to be told if they don't like it, they can change who represents the rich in the White House in four more years.
I can see how some people might not have seen this coming in the 2008 presidential election with everyone so excited about George Bush leaving and Obama-mania sweeping the nation, but I don't know how it could be any more obvious in 2012 that none of the presidential candidates represent the American people. The sub-par choices should be the wakeup call that Americans will never be represented in any presidential election as long as they only get to choose between the puppets the Republican and Democratic parties nominate.
Update: I was right.
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'Afrikaans-speaking doctor operates on Mandela' – Read an excerpt from Operation Mandela by Willem Laubscher
In Operation Mandela, Willem Laubscher tells the story of the time when he – a white, Afrikaans-speaking doctor – performed surgery on Nelson Mandela, and the political chaos that ensued.
The late 80s were a highly politicised environment. Laubscher was healing some of the world's best-known political prisoners, among them Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki. When Nelson Mandela was scheduled for a similar operation, all hell broke loose.
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Monday, 4 November 1985, was a cool and drizzly morning. While driving up Adderley Street, Cape Town, on my way to the Mount Nelson Hotel, I was greeted by the billboards of the daily newspaper, Die Burger, shouting 'Afrikaanse dokter opereer Mandela' (Afrikaans-speaking doctor operates on Mandela). At last the news was out, and a fascinating few months of intrigue behind the scenes had almost come to an end. The operation had been successfully completed the previous afternoon and the patient was doing very well. Months of speculation and playing hide-and-seek were now over. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined, some two years before, what was to happen after my first meeting with Nelson Mandela.
That morning in August 1984 started as usual. Leaving home before 7 a.m., I visited various private hospitals, following up on my post-operative patients. Later that morning, I attended an outpatient clinic at a provincial hospital, where I held an appointment as a part-time consultant in urology. Upon arrival at my private consulting rooms at 11 a.m., my secretary informed me that a Brigadier Munro, the Officer Commanding at Pollsmoor Prison, wished to speak to me.
Pollsmoor Prison was where the more important political prisoners were housed after transfer from Robben Island.
I returned his call, and was very surprised by his simple request. Would I be prepared to come to Pollsmoor to examine Nelson Mandela? The patient had blood in his urine. Under normal circumstances, apart from the physical examination of a patient, it was my routine to personally do the microscopic examination of the urine in my rooms. With this in mind, I informed the Brigadier that it was far from ideal to see the patient in prison. I added that I would be happy to see the patient in my rooms where I could do the patient justice. I was then told that the patient was reluctant to be seen visiting doctors as rumours of ill-health could do harm to the cause.
With this, I regarded the matter as closed. I was not prepared to give the patient less than the best I was capable of giving. Little did I know that this would be the beginning of perhaps some of the most interesting and exciting times in my career.
Imagine my surprise when, three weeks later, I received a request for an appointment for Mr Mandela. Bearing in mind the need to avoid publicity, as well as the security requirements, I arranged to see him at 7.30 a.m. when very few people would be in the vicinity of the building that housed my practice.
Medipark, as the building was known, was situated on the Foreshore in Cape Town. The Foreshore being land that had been reclaimed from the sea in the 1930s with the object of enlarging and deepening the harbour precinct, part of which was called the Duncan Dock, after the Governor General of the Union of South Africa at the time, Sir Patrick Duncan.
Development of this land only started after World War II and, to this day, continues to provide space for the city to expand towards the sea. To the east of Medipark was the Nico Malan theatre complex, named after the Administrator of the Cape Province. Today it is known as the Artscape theatre complex.
Apart from the filling station, pharmacy and news agency, there were several other small businesses on the ground floor of the building. The next three floors were used for parking, while the fourth floor was occupied by the Western Province Blood Transfusion Service. Doctors' consulting rooms took up the next six floors, while the eleventh floor housed the Medipark Clinic.
The clinic was originally meant to be a facility for same-day surgical cases. With four operating theatres, it was ideal for urology, ENT, as well as eye surgery. In time, it evolved to catering for more operations requiring four or five days of post-operative care. Today the building is still there, but hardly recognisable as it has become a showroom for prestige cars, such as BMW.
I was very surprised at the request for an appointment, especially since I had refused to visit him in prison. However, considering the following, it was not a coincidence that I was given a second chance to see the most important political prisoner in South Africa, if not in the world.
For many years, political prisoners were sent to my rooms with their urological problems. It is a well-known fact that male prisoners develop congestion of the prostate due to sexual inactivity. The prostatic secretions normally discharged during ejaculation tend to accumulate and produce various ill-defined symptoms, such as perineal discomfort and urinary frequency.
Later prisoners were seen in the regular outpatient clinic at Woodstock Hospital, where I held a part-time consultant appointment. It thus came to pass that I found myself in a position where I had to operate on Govan Mbeki and Walter Sisulu. Sisulu was first seen by a senior colleague who referred him to me as he did not want the extra stress of operating on a well-known political prisoner.
Before they became my patients, I was of course aware of both names, but had no idea of the important positions they held in the ANC. To me they were patients in need of my care and no more. I do remember on my evening rounds, I was satisfied with Mbeki's condition and told him that he could go home the next day. After I said that I immediately realised that to him that meant going back to prison. Not a nice thought. As I made my way to the door he asked me to wait. He then proceeded to make a most erudite speech, thanking me for my kind attention and excellent operation result. I admit to feeling just a little embarrassed in front of the warder and ward sister, but also impressed by the upright bearing of this well-spoken, refined man.
Walter Sisulu also had a transurethral prostatectomy and, like Mbeki, had a smooth and uneventful recovery. While in hospital, we found Sisulu to be a very pleasant and gentle person unlike the dangerous terrorist he was made out to be. As someone remarked, he reminded her of a teddy bear.
A few years later, after parking my car in Medipark, I proceeded to the elevator foyer, when a small car driving past had a passenger frantically waving at me. When I hesitated he called out, 'I am Walter, Walter Sisulu.' He was being taken back to prison and seemed very excited at seeing someone he knew outside of prison after all the years of incarceration.
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Green Rider Books In Order
Publication Order of Green Rider Books
Green Rider (1998) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
First Rider's Call (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The High King's Tomb (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Blackveil (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Mirror Sight (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Firebrand (2017) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Dream Gatherer (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Winterlight (2021) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A reader enjoys a novel or literature the most when they are able to connect with it. Some of the most powerful characters of all time were characters who portrayed common people who got fortunate or were paid off for their good deeds. Green Rider series is one of the best works of literature which connects with the reader.
When the reader is able to connect with the main character or fantasize about it, there is a huge curiosity among the readers. Kristen Britain, the author of the Green Rider series of books was able to ensure that the connection was there in every title.She published five titles in the Green Rider series and was able to connect with the readers. Here are five aspects of the book and the characters that will spellbound you.
The award winning American author Kristen Britain is one of the most prolific fantasy writers in America. She writes fantasy with great details and ensures that the readers are able to connect with the literature. The author has written five books in the series and is writing another in the series. Although the book was initially marketed as a trilogy, but the author decided to write a few more after a great response from the fans.
Lead Character
The Green Rider series revolves around an ordinary girl Karigan G'ladheon. Karigan the daughter of a merchant leads an ordinary life until destiny plans an unexpected adventure in her life. The beautiful description of the ordinary life of Karigan with great details enables the readers to connect with the character and even imagine themselves at her place. She leads an ordinary life and one day from her way back from the school through the Green Cloak forest she accidentally meets an injured messenger. The messenger is shot with two arrows at his back and he asks the girl to pass on the message to the king.The life of an ordinary girl turns into an extraordinary adventure.
The plot revolves around the fantasy of every individual, a girl discovers her great skills when she has no choice but to go on an unplanned adventure. She rides her way to a palace on back of a horse with no idea about the path or the challenges she is going to face. She tackles these challenges, one challenge at a time until she finally arrives at the palace.The plot is about a kingdom, politics, black magic and an innocent girl at the middle of it.
There are five books in the series. The first book 'Green Rider' was published in 1998. The second novel 'First Rider's Call' was published after a long break of five years in 2003. The latest novel 'Mirror Sight' was published in 2014. There is a buzz in the industry that there is one more book being authored. The books were focused around the lead character 'Karigan' in the first few editions, but later there were many powerful characters introduced to make the story more exciting and to make the climax more unpredictable.
Green Rider
Green Rider begins with a 'Karigan' leading a normal life. One day she is coming back from her school and she hears the sound of horse. She finds an injured elite messenger of the rulers of the realm. He was carrying an important message for the king and he gave 'Karigan' responsibility to deliver the message. He hands over another message for the love of his life. There is a series of dangers and the heroics of both the girl and the horse to ensure that the message is safely delivered to the king.
There is an amazing twist coming your way when the messages are read. There is another plot in the second half of the book where the young girl fights the evil to save the king and the kingdom.
The story is around a royal family in which a younger son is named king when an elder son shows poor character. The elder brother tries to take revenge from his younger brother and plots to overthrow or kill him to acquire the kingdom. However, he himself becomes the victim of the evil.
'Karigan' is in love with the young King and tried to do everything to protect the king and his kingdom.
At the end she wins over the evil, ensures the safety of the king and the kingdom and returns back to her normal life. The story connects with a huge number of individuals who lead an ordinary life and feel that there will be a day when they will become a superhero in their own lives.
First Rider's Call
The second book of the series gives a supernatural twist to the series. The lead character 'Karigan' is leading an ordinary life when she starts dreaming of a legendary women who is a green rider. Later Karigan realizes that she dreams of the first green rider who is calling her to join the fleet of Green Riders.
When Karigan reaches the Sacor City, she find that Green Riders are weakened and are diminishing. Evil powers are trying to take over the kingdom and they are targeting and killing Veteran Riders. Although new riders are joining the fleet, but they are not able to fill in the voids created by the sudden demise of the experienced Riders.
'Lil Ambriodhe', the legendary woman in the dreams of 'Karigan' motivates her to join the fleet of Riders. In the process, the biggest mystery faced by karigan is "How a Woman Dead for Millenium Able to Communicate with her?"
The supernatural twist in the second edition makes it far more exciting than its predecessor. When 'Karigan' is motivated, she leads the Green Riders to ensure the safety of the kingdom.
What Critics Say?
Even the critics are spell bound by the great presentation and the ability of the author to connect with the audience. The characters are beautifully made and the first few editions are perfect. However, most critics feel that the author overdid it by launching five books instead of her initial commitment of making the series a trilogy.
Even though, the critics wanted the author to write more on this theme but they expected the author to focus on new characters and a new perspective to the story. The critics feel that she overdid in terms of sticking to the main character 'Karigan'. Critics feel that the story would have been better if the author focussed on new characters and give 'Karigan' a break.
What Reader's Say?
Readers feel every edition of the novel an amazing story to read. There are details in the characters, beautiful description of every plot and a great narration. Most readers want Kristen to keep writing the series, there are a few who expect a little change in the plot.
The Green Rider series is an amazing work of literature. An amazing book to read, the novel series connects to a large group of readers. The series is perfect for readers who want to read a fantasy that connects with ordinary people.
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One Response to "Green Rider"
NotKaren: 2 weeks ago
Actually, those of us who were loyal from the beginning wanted her to stick to the theme of the first 2 books. Things were getting unhinged around the 3rd book. Then Mirrorworld came out and many of us OGs ragequit the series. It was like she stopped caring about the story and went for some weird new plot. So far the only solid female author who didn't kill her series was Michelle West.


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I particularly dislike it when people say OMG. It's a little too close to dragging God's name through the mud for me, so though I'm not a fan of cursing, I'd probably just prefer they straight up curse if that's what they want to do. Then, I just know that perhaps "using their words" as we tell young kids to do is failing them in the moment.
With that said, I get why OMG has snuck into the our language, or at least, I have a hunch that is completely devoid of any empirical linguistic research evidence. Sometimes, we do just encounter an event that boggles us – we want to express dismay, disbelief, and general shock. Maybe we are after all trying to tell God about it.
But, in light of the fact that I don't want to use OMG and that cursing at my workplace is quite clearly frowned upon, I'd like to propose that "Oh, YKM!" move into our speech. I know to make it do so, I'll have to reprogram the world to forget that in texting it's become the substitute for "You're killing me." Because, instead, I'd like it to mean, "Oh, you're kidding me!" Think about it. Wouldn't "Oh, YKM!" be a great way to quickly express dismay, disbelief, and general shock when saying, "Oh, you're kidding me!" would take too long or seem too harsh?
"Oh, YKM!" I just realized I could have been using this phrase all week.
For example, when I came home after the Monday to beat all Mondays and found a dead mouse in the trap by the couch, I could have sighed loudly and said, "Oh, YKM!" as I slumped my shoulders in despair.
Or, when my email inbox topped 800 — again — I could have just curled up under my desk whimpering, "Oh, YKM." No, actually, the full, "Oh, you're kidding me" would work better in that situations.
Yes, I'm liking this new expression. The next time life serves up an order of crazy with a side of chaos, I'm going to use it.
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I don't see why it couldn't catch on. How do these other expressions spread? I really have no idea. And I've often had that experience on the road, too: someone pulls out in front of me as though they need to get somewhere in a big hurry, then they slow down to well below the speed limit.
I Think that is a fantastic idea…..I can tell you that earlier today when I first read this I was in class and knocked all the books off my friends desk. and I said "Oh, YKM!" and gave me an open lead way into introducing it to others.
I'm not sure if I should approve of you reading blogs while you're in class, but thanks for helping spread the new phrase 🙂 It needs some young enthusiasm.


Hera, a 10 months old female Cane Corso, was presented on the 15th of October 2018 for a dental consultation. She had pink teeth, a strong halitosis, "wasn't eating like she used to" and showed signs of pain (didn't let anyone touch her mouth or look at her teeth).
X-rays showed a very large pulp cavity in all teeth, very thin dentin and enamel, crown fracture with pulp exposure in 304 and 404 (Image 2), but also an abnomal density of the cortical bone in the mandible (Image 1) . The owner reported that the deciduous teeth were pink too.
The dog previosly had 2 surgeries in both elbows in another clinic (bilateral elbow dysplasia). Hera is also blind with both eyes (there is no vascularization in the eyes).
Antibiotics (amoxicillin with clavulanic acid 20 mg/kg/12 h) and analgesia (meloxicam 0.1 mg/kg/day) were immediately started and the patient was scheduled for a dental procedure a week later. CBC and routine biochemistry were normal.
The dental examination under aneshesia revealed 6 crown fractures with pulp exposure (109, 110, 209, 210, 304, 404). We extracted these teeth and tried to seal with the remaining ones. The dental extractions were very difficult, but the healing was good (as you can see in the images from the second dental procedure).
At this first dental procedure (Images 4 – 11), we took a blood sample to see what were the vitamine D3, calcium and parathoyroid hormone levels. When results came, we found out that Hera had hypoparathyroidism (PTH level was 1.2 pg/ml, almost 16 times lower then the physiologic range) and recomanded a thyroid ultrasound, which is not availiable unfortunately.
Also Vitamine B12 was low, so the patient recieved treatment for that too.
After the first procedure, the recovery was fast, the dog started to eat the next day, but only very soft food.
The second dental procedure (Images 12 – 16) together with the ovariohysterectomy took place on the 23rd of February 2019, when we performed extractions of 208 and 209 retained roots and full 405 was extracted for histopathological examination (that will be performed at Histovet by Dr. Teodoru Soare). The recovery was even better than the first one. Hera received clindamycin 11 mg/kg/day, 7 days and meloxicam 0.1 mg/kg/day, 4 days. Unfortunatelly, because a second set of radiographs were not available for this dental intervention.
The dental pathology of this patient might be a very rare congenital dental condition called "shell teeth", in which teeth have large pulp chambers and insufficient coronal dentin. The treatment of this dental disease is full mouth extractions, but given the very high level of difficulty of the extractions, we chose to extract only the fractured teeth. It may be a consequence of a congenital hypoparathyroidism, which would also explain the other pathological signs (blindness, bilateral elbow dysplasia).
Hera is a very interesting case with high didactic value. She remains supervised for evaluation of her clinical evolution.
Both interventions took place at QincyVet and were performed together with Dr. Raluca Zvorasteanu.


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Q: Ansible setup "Magic Variables" I am new to ansible (1 to 2 months) and all ready have the majority of configuration / setup tasks migrated to ansible.  I am seeing inconsistencies with ansible_domain variable on my servers.  Can anybody tell me what setting(s) on the client machine is used to populate the ansible_domain variable so that I can rectify it.

A: The domain is basically gathered by this python snippet:
'.'.join(socket.getfqdn().split('.')[1:])

Or in words, the string behind the last . or in case there is no ., the whole string.
From the docs of socket.getfqdn():

Return a fully qualified domain name for name. If name is omitted or empty, it is interpreted as the local host. To find the fully qualified name, the hostname returned by gethostbyaddr() is checked, followed by aliases for the host, if available. The first name which includes a period is selected. In case no fully qualified domain name is available, the hostname as returned by gethostname() is returned.

The full code is here
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/d49b11e9962df4bde4b8f3d61029305af4115748/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts.py#L183

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Jean Le Jeune, ou Jean Le Josne, (né à Amiens en 1410 et mort à Rome le ) est un cardinal français  du . Il est successivement évêque de Mâcon, d'Amiens, de Couserans et de Thérouanne, puis légat du pape.

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Jean Le Jeune était le fils de Robert Le Jeune, natif d'Arras de modeste extraction, entré au service de Jacques Petit, un chanoine du chapitre cathédral d'Amiens, en 1390. Ayant remarqué ses aptitudes intellectuelles, celui-ci l'envoya à Paris faire des études de droit. Il revint à Amiens en 1410 et devint bailli de l'évêché en 1418. Ayant pris le parti du duc de Bourgogne, Robert le Jeune devint bailli d'Amiens et fit embrasser à son fils Jean, la carrière ecclésiastique.

Carrière ecclésiastique

Jean Le Jeune devint chanoine du chapitre cathédral d'Amiens, en 1424 puis recteur de l'université romaine et doyen de  la cathédrale de Nantes avant d'être élu évêque de Mâcon en 1431. Le 13 juillet 1433, il devint évêque d'Amiens mais en 1436, il fut transféré au diocèse de Couserans (Saint-Lizier) puis enfin au diocèse de Thérouanne de 1436 à 1451.

Le 22 septembre 1435, il assista à la signature du traité d'Arras qui réconciliait le roi de France et le duc de Bourgogne et octroyait à ce dernier les villes de la Somme.

En 1438, Jean Le Jeune assista au concile de Ferrare-Florence en qualité d'ambassadeur du duc de Bourgogne.

Le pape Eugène IV le créa cardinal lors du consistoire du . Le cardinal Le Jeune participe au conclave de 1447, lors duquel Nicolas V est élu pape. Il est nommé légat à Milan, en Lombardie et à Ferrare.

Il mourut à Rome le 9 septembre 1451, on soupçonna un empoisonnement.

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On occasions it may be necessary or desirable to include a mix of these overview and scrutiny functions on the agenda for a single meeting, especially if two or more topics are being scrutinised concurrently.
The panels mainly look at services provided by the council but can also look at wider issues involving partners or agencies, for example health trusts and organisations, Police, Fire and the voluntary sector.
The council has appointed three scrutiny panels. Each panel comprises of five members, three members of the Conservative Group and two members of the Labour Group. This reflects the overall political composition of the Council (when dealing with education matters four statutory co-opted members, 2 parent governor and 2 church representatives are also voting members of a panel).
All councillors, except members of the Executive, may be members of a scrutiny panel. However, no member may be involved in scrutinising a decision of another of the council's other committees or sub committees of which they are also a member. (This does not include scrutiny panel members who may also be 'lead members', unless they have a clear conflict of interests, which should be declared in any case).
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Scrutiny panels then consider their findings and all the evidence they have collected before making recommendations to the executive on how services could be improved or developed to best meet the needs of the residents and businesses of North Lincolnshire.
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Connected consumers, IoT and what retailers need to do now
By Anne-Lindsay Beall, SAS Insights Editor
Doing your laundry and notice you're low on detergent? That used to mean a trip to the grocery store. Now, you now have options: You can order it online; you can press your Tide Amazon Dash button to have it ordered automatically, or you can ask Alexa to order it for you. But in the future, you won't need to do anything. Your smart washing machine will sense and track how many loads you've washed since your last detergent purchase and place the order automatically so that you never. Run. Out.
It's coming, and sooner than you think. Consumers are connected, devices are connected; it's the Internet of Things (IoT), and it's going to have a massive impact on our lives. It's already having an impact in retail, with more to come as retailers adopt new technology and uses.
Download white paper: IoT in Retail -- Engaging the Connected Consumer
"The IoT does three things for retailers," said Lori Schafer, Executive Adviser for Retail and CPG at SAS, speaking recently at SAS® Global Forum. "It helps you sense who the customers are and what they're doing; it helps you better understand customer behavior and buying practices; and it allows you to then act upon customer insight to create a better overall experience for the customer."
And while that creates a better customer experience, IoT applications have to translate to bottom-line profitability. Schafer brought together a panel of experts – Steve Brown, Senior Industry Adviser for Retail, Hospitality and Consumer Goods at Intel; and Ed Jimenez, Director of Customer Experience for Retail and Hospitality at Cisco – to discuss what's happening now, and what needs to happen if retailers are to profit from IoT. Here are the highlights from that discussion:
Steve Brown, Senior Industry Adviser for Retail, Hospitality and Consumer Goods at Intel
What's Intel currently doing with IoT in regard to retail?
Steve Brown: More retailers are making business decisions based on data instead of gut instinct, so there are a lot of folks at Intel who help gather that data. The IoT is a big piece of that, and then analyzing that data and turning it into action.
Another thing we're looking at is what we call mobile knowledge. How do you empower the front lines – store associates, call center staff, servers in a restaurant – with the information they need right now to better serve the customer, make more efficient decisions, to know what to do next?
What about Cisco? What's your retail division exploring in terms of IoT?
Ed Jimenez: A lot of our retailers are really trying to figure out this whole connected customer. Who is that? How do I engage with him differently?
And for us that really means two things. One, that it's a mobile customer. On average, people in the US look at their phones 1,500 times a day and spend an average of 177 minutes a day looking at their smart device.
That tells us that the environment has changed. People are different in the ways they communicate and engage. And it's really tough for our retail customers to figure out: "How do I engage with that?"
The second thing we talk about are the expectations of connected customers. We call it "Amazoning." People have that Amazon expectation of all of their engagements. You expect a certain level of interaction. You expect people to know who you are and have some context. Most of our retail customers are looking to provide a contextualized engagement with their customers. That's what people are looking for, so how can I leverage technology to do that?
Schafer: When you think of IoT it's a triangle: the sensors, the network and the analytics – sometimes real-time analytics. And that's where the three of us come in. We're all are in the same type of role, meaning that we're not out selling; we're really helping to define best practices and work with the early thought leaders in retail in terms of bringing the latest technology.
Many retailers feel IoT is for "later." Can you give some good examples of what retailers are doing with IoT now?
Jimenez: When you think about what IoT really is, it's about sensing, predicting and responding. In retail we see a lot of activity around sensing devices, sensing phones, sensing consumers – that's happening today.
At Cisco, we engage with roughly 53 of the largest retailers in the US. And a good half of those have significant deployments of this type of sensing: Who's coming into my store, what are they doing, where are they going, what are the traffic patterns, how can I provide different types of customer experience for those individuals? So it's not a future thing – we absolutely see it happening today.
Brown: I worry for the retailers that aren't on this already. Because at Intel we have retail customers who are all over this stuff. They realize that this is going to make or break their business targets.
And I see other retail customers who're looking at their peers and saying, "Well, I'm going to wait until they do it."
They're looking at the wrong benchmark. Because they're comparing themselves to peers who are also going to also be put out of business by Amazon, by Alibaba, by the people who are investing in IoT.
So, what type of investments are your retailers making?
Brown: Sometimes it's simple stuff. In China there's a partner of ours who sells Wi-Fi and other services into retail and hospitality companies, restaurants and bars. If you go into a Starbucks, or a Haagen-Dazs, or any of the restaurants in China that they're in, they have a service that senses and counts the MAC addresses in the establishment. If there are a lot of MAC addresses, that means it's busy, and you want to get the people in and then get them out so you can serve more customers. So they change the music; they play rap music or something else with a faster beat to speed things up. If there aren't many people in, they play Frank Sinatra or soft jazz to make people stay a little bit longer and relax. That makes the store look more full and draws more people in. And it's all very precisely measured.
That's a simple application, but more sophisticated applications are coming. Like smart fitting rooms that sense the style number and sizes of the clothes you've brought in with you and helps you shop by having different sizes and items brought to you.
One application everyone wants to know about is next-best offer. Is anybody doing that now?
Brown: Pizza Hut in Hong Kong and China uses geofencing. So if you're a Pizza Hut customer and have the Pizza Hut app on your phone, they can sense when you're near their store, and they'll push you an offer: "Come in right now for 20% off pizza!" They also geofence their competitors, so if you walk near a Domino's, they'll send you an even more aggressive offer than if you were near a Pizza Hut. So people are doing it, but they're doing it in different ways.
How do you walk the line between being useful to the customer and being creepy?
Jimenez: It's a fine line between helpful and creepy. So I think it comes down to how you present it. You present the information that, at least with some people, they've opted in for, so they're not shocked by it. They've asked you to track them, to understand them better, to provide you with that level of personal attention.
As we all know, you can't wait another four years to invest in this. You need to start now. As a company just starting out, what would you recommend?
Jimenez: One big area is ROI and feedback. We're working with a big retailer that does a lot of analysis that's helped it make more and more accurate predictions about its business and its market. It's getting better and better and further out with predictions, and that's enabled it to create efficiencies on cashiering and labor. The grocer we're working with was able to save 5% in the cash-wrap area alone.
And from a customer experience standpoint, it was able to cut wait times in half because now it's flooding and pulling out cashiers by predicting the need in advance.
Where do you see the retail world in five years and in 10 years, with respect to IoT and in general?
Brown: Five years from now we're going to see more consumers buying more and more of their products online. Ten years from now, your home will figure out what you need and place orders for you. We're starting to see this now with the Amazon Dash button.
Jimenez: All we've been talking about here is going to explode on a seismic scale. Things are just getting smarter and cheaper. Most locations have access points, and Cisco and other companies are embedding beacons into them, so you're going to move from the fact that we know you're in this room, to the fact that I know you're sitting in this chair.
And video will be huge. MIT used off-the-shelf cheap cameras to zoom in on test subjects and check facial color change based on heart rate. Using that, they can determine mood. Just standard, off-the-shelf cameras can determine mood.
We're moving from a more connected world to a more informed world. And if you're a retailer that isn't informed, you're going to be at a big disadvantage.
Ed Jimenez, Director of Customer Experience for Retail and Hospitality at Cisco
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Howie left me alone in Cleveland this weekend to go to the Bills vs. Giants game...which means I finally have a Sunday that doesn't involve football! Not that I don't enjoy football or anything, but it's about time I get caught up with my "life" things a.k.a. decorate my porch and fireplace mantel for fall, make Slow Cooker Garlic Rosemary Beef Stew and bake the all important Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Sugar Glaze. Let me tell you, these suckers are addicting! Like so addicting that I'm actually going on a run right now before dinner because I ate three in the last 2 hours. And I'm probably going to have three more tonight. And I actually don't even feel that bad about it because I'm just being seasonal. Oh gosh you have to try these perfect fall cookies!


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Bodil Rasmussen, född den 12 december 1957 i Fredericia i Danmark, är en dansk roddare.

Hon tog OS-brons i scullerfyra i samband med de olympiska roddtävlingarna 1984 i Los Angeles.

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This guide outlines how-to effortlessly leveling from amount 100 to 110 with an Affliction Warlock.
Drain Soul is the best option for questing as it allows you to refund tons of shards whenever necessary and combines the healing output from Drain Life.
Contagion is good when your character is a lowered product amount and you are concentrating down targets 1 at any given time. Absolute Corruption is the best option if you're running through the zone multidotting (fastest).
Mortal Coil can be useful when it comes to instant heal and CC. This isn't a very attractive talent tier in general so any choice here is fine.
Siphon lifestyle is exemplary for leveling because enables you to explain to you areas and multi dot without reducing. It can great harm, is instant cast like your various other dots, and heals you when it ticks. There's nothing more powerful for leveling!
Demon body is fantastic for keeping you healthier.
Grimoire of Supremacy is typically the best choice for leveling as any Warlock spec. Use Summon Infernal could it be functions as a powerful tanking animal and does decent injury to boot.
Phantom Singularity is an excellent choice, allowing you to expel large packs of mobs quickly while curing you for a lot. Soul Conduit is also functional if you are planning mob by mob rather than dealing with big multi target packages.
Affliction won't have any particularly online game changing skills. Put-up Agony, Corruption, and Siphon Life on a target and progress to another mob. The DoTs will quickly complete a consistent quest mob without having any help. Use Unstable Affliction to-burst down tankier targets while going back shards with empty Soul. Phantom Singularity is used whenever feasible to wash up multi target even more quickly.
All dots tend to be immediate cast and that means you will not need to concern yourself with flexibility issues.
For the span of your trip to 110, could accrue a fair level of Artifact energy tokens just from doing quest chains, and in most cases can become someplace in the location of 2000-2500 total attained by 110, that ought to fund your first 5-6 faculties. Make sure to spend all of them whenever you go back to your Class Hall, since any extra shall help you.
Be aware that in circumstances where you have actually 2 or more items, the one you now have equipped will consume any Artifact Power tokens you employ (towards detriment of one's non-equipped items). Therefore, be aware of that and make use of your tokens on specs you want to play at 110!
Whilst there are several faculties that will help you away using the levelling process and also make it a little faster particularly taking Inherently Unstable earlier, doing so will hurt exactly how rounded your artifact occurs when you struck 110 and start doing endgame content, therefore make that option carefully. For Affliction, i'd strongly recommend adhering to the outlined course in other places inside guide and not deviating, as the benefits usually do not outweigh having a sub-optimal artifact for the future.
As all gear acquired from quests today measure to your level, this means that incentives escalation in power the higher you choose to go. At 100, pursuit incentives will generally speaking be in the 685~ range, scaling entirely to 800 when you full quests at 110. Keep your equipment updated along the way with any significant item amount upgrades, whilst tilting toward the greater effective offensive stats (those becoming Haste and Mastery). For trinkets, when you have accessibility the heirloom Orb of Voidsight, stay with that since it scales up with each amount you will get, and any passive trinkets like Chipped Soul Prism for persistence.
It is advisable to start off with a short area, as it lines up really along with your leveling procedure and hits a sweet area for returning to the Class Hall at both 101 and 102 to continue the campaign chain and commence your 4 hour mission. Note that Azsuna might have some rather punishing enemies if you do it later on in the process that will slow some bonus goals, if the ramifications of equipment begins to reduce, that might influence your decision.
Doing a lengthier zone second again lines up well with time for your course Hall at 104/5 to perform additional campaign quests and in most cases submit time when it comes to 4 hour objective to perform. Finishing on a long zone can be great while you usually will likely not finish it, but also have quests to get to Friendly and progress to 110 and never have to stop track. Highmountain features benefits both as your second or 4th zone since it is the longest area to hold back from Class Hall mission, additionally has got the least punishing mob scaling with level.
With zones, added bonus goals actually lessen the process as do a little regarding the more opportune part quests (especially in Val'Sharah). It is not expected to do every one to attain 110 comfortably, but if you're in an area doing pursuit stores, it is seriously worth doing them along the way. In addition ensure that you complete any main chain questlines that you will be offered breadcrumbs in each location.
Occupation quests tend to be very frustrating and can be cross-zone fetch or cell quests. In the event that you find a hand-in for a breadcrumb from Dalaran you're already in, take action for the experience, but don't walk out your path to accomplish the greater amount of frustrating targets, keep all of them until 110.
Each area comes with a subsequent dungeon quest whenever you complete the primary area storyline, satisfying a bit of Item Level 800 equipment and a sizable boost of expertise, frequently totalling around 30-35% of an amount inside dungeon. Can help you dungeons as you go along since they are worth the time, but as long as you've got the appropriate quest.
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1, due to the use of economizers to improve the boiler into the boiler drum water temperature, which greatly reduces the steam drum with the temperature difference between the heat generated by the thermal stress, which is safe and reliable operation of the boiler is very favorable.
2, due to the recovery of flue gas waste heat, so that the boiler feed water temperature has been significantly improved, thus saving fuel. General use of economizers, can save fuel.
3, in modern boilers, the main role of the economizer is to reduce the heating surface of the boiler body to the cost of cheap economizer heating surface to replace the more expensive boiler body heating surface.
So the economizer not only in the operation of the boiler to obtain economic results, but also in terms of equipment costs have reached a more economical requirements. For boiling economizers, this facilitates the flow of the gaseous mixture to prevent the formation of the plug, which facilitates safe operation of the economizer.
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Reviewing the Air Force Way of War: Making the Machine Human
This paper, by Lieutenant Colonel Scott Gunn, USAF, was originally published by The Strategy Bridge. "The four-ship of F-15C Eagles raced across the sky at thirty thousand feet. The flight lead, call sign Death-1, focused on his radar, looking for enemy aircraft in the vicinity. He also knew those enemy aircraft were looking for him."…
August 14, 2015 in Air-to-Air Combat, Reviews, Training.
The 90% Solution, Some Guy Called 'Pareto' and Why the Best Fighter Pilots are Often Seen as the Laziest
It became apparent to me during my last tour that a lot of the effort that I put into my work was inefficient. I remember speaking to a senior officer whilst I was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan with the US Army and she said – 'you have to just get the work out of the…
May 20, 2015 in Air-to-Air Combat, Training.
Red Flag, Realistic Training, and the U.S. Air Force's Way of War after Vietnam
Forty years ago this November, the United States Air Force began an exercise designed to prepare its pilots to face the realities of combat in a simulated, and yet very realistic, training exercise. Since that first exercise in November 1975, the USAF has continued to train its pilots for air combat under the Red Flag…
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Empire of Brazil Terracotta Bottle-Vase Carafe c.1870s
H: 29cm (11.4")
Brazilian Private Collector
A TERRACOTTA BOTTLE-SHAPED CARAFE
Bearing the coat of arms and national emblems of the Empire of Brazil
Circa mid-1870S
11.42 in. (29 cm.) high
Unglazed with painted polychrome relief moulding, bearing the coat of arms of the Empire of Brazil with a coffee branch (to the left) and tobacco branch (to the right) within a diamond-shaped lozenge between relief moulded national emblems of the palm tree, parrot and snake. The neck decorated with a band of coffee branch and berries and a geometric pattern of Amazonian timber trellising to the bottom. Retaining much of its original polychrome.
Brazil was a monarchy from 7 September 1822 until 15 November 1889. As a colony of Portugal, the Portuguese royal family (the House of Braganza) had sought refuge in their dominion in 1808 (following Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula). Brazil became the Portuguese seat of a monarchy in exile until Napoleon was subdued - at which stage the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was formed and King João VI returned to Portugal, leaving his eldest son and heir, Pedro, to govern Brazil as regent. However, Pedro declared Brazilian independence and, as Pedro I, was acclaimed the first Emperor of Brazil - ruling until 24 September 1834. He was succeeded by his son, Pedro II, who ruled as Emperor for over 58 years until Brazil was declared a republic in 1891. Pedro II is viewed as an enlightened monarch who steered his country towards modernity.
This carafe is in a popular shape which could serve either as a water bottle, wine decanter or decorative vase. It is possibly of English manufacture but was certainly commissioned for some Brazilian national function – most probably for the residence of Francisco Inácio de Carvalho Moreira, Baron de Penedo (1815-1906). Dom Penedo served at the Brazilian Empire's Ambassador in London from 1855, though the "Christie Affair", up until the military coup which saw the Brazilian monarchy deposed and he finally resigned, feeling unable to serve the new government.
His residence at 32 Grosvenor Gardens in Belgravia, near Buckingham Palace, was famous for its lavish receptions, with over 60 guests regularly being entertained to banquets prepared by the celebrated chef Cortais (who had formerly been retained by a Russian Grand Duke). The Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) and his wife Princess Alexandra of Denmark were frequent visitors, as was the banker Lionel Walter Rothschild (with whom Baron de Penedo successfully negotiated various loans on behalf of his country). On his second visit to London in 1876, Pedro II of Brazil was compelled to ask his envoy to account for the source of his wealth - since the rent alone of the ambassador's mansion amounted to well over half his official finance allocation.
This carafe is a rare survival from a fascinating period of Brazil's history.


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Ball State University to launch pilot program for gender inclusive housing
Topics: Inclusive Excellence, Student Affairs
As part of Ball State University's commitment to provide safe, inclusive and supportive living environments for all its students, the campus in 2018-19 will launch a pilot program for gender inclusive housing.
Ball State's Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services, with support of the University's Housing and Residence Life staff, will provide about 60 spaces with private bathrooms for the program.
This initiative is the result of a year-long study that included significant student input, according to Alan Hargrave, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of Housing and Residence Life.
"Ball State faculty, staff and students live the Beneficence Pledge, which includes valuing the intrinsic worth of each member of our community," he said. "Ball State is committed to providing a safe environment for all students who identify as LGBTQ."
"Our research shows the majority of Ball State students support gender inclusive housing as an additional option for living on campus."
Any student who is respectful of gender identity issues can live in gender inclusive housing. A student must have a like-minded roommate secured before applying.
"Transgender students and gender nonconforming students have told us they are sometimes uncomfortable with being assigned roommates who may not accept their identity or gender expression," the Associate Vice President said. "With that in mind, only students with mutually-confirmed roommates will be placed in gender inclusive housing."
Other Indiana state colleges and universities have adopted gender inclusive or gender-neutral housing, as do other major colleges and universities across the nation.
"By implementing this option, we remain competitive in the marketplace," Hargrave said, "and more important, it is the right thing to do."
For more information about the University's gender inclusive housing pilot program, visit bsu.edu/housing.
By Marc Ransford, Senior Communications Strategist
West Quad (WQ), room 304
Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday-Friday


Are you looking for a talented and speedy left wing-back? Guilherme Arana could be the player you are looking for! A fresh 8m signing at Sevilla, the Brazilian has the potential to become one of the better wing-backs in Football Manager 2018!
Being a fresh signing at Sevilla (signing for the club from Corinthians for an £8M / 11M fee), it is very difficult to lure away Arana during the first summer. Obviously you could be activating his release clause (£38M / €44M), but it will be next to impossible to sign him on during the first summer window. Earliest possibility to sign him will be the January transfer window, but it will take a large offer to lure him away from Sevilla.
Arana is considered to the most talented player in the Sevilla squad, making him a valuable player if you decide to start a save with the Spanish side. He is probably on his best in a more attacking role on the left-side of the pitch and would be the ideal attacking full-back or complete wing-back. Arana is a typical Brazilian wide defender with loads of pace and enough technical skills and crossing skills to become an extra forward when your team is on the attack.
As most wide defenders, Arana is not a good header of the ball. When looking at his profile this is one of the attributes that is highlighted by the coaches of Sevilla to improve. However, this should not be an area you should be focusing on for a wide defender. It would be better to concentrate his individual training on the defensive side of his position and role. Train him in Marking or Tackling to improve his defensive stability. His attacking attributes are all 14 or higher and will evolve naturally over the course of his career.
Arana starts off at Sevilla (if you play with the 18.3 database), otherwise he will be at his former club Corinthians.
In our scouting save Arana moved to AS Monaco, staying with the French giants until the summer of 2022. He failed to develop into a first team regular at the club, making only 27 senior appearances. He spent periods on loan at Betis and Hertha BSC before moving to Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2022.
After Arana left Monaco, his career received a massive boost. He was a first team regular at Leverkusen, playing 30 games in his first season, then picked up by Bayern Munich for a 42m record deal. He would spend 3 full seasons at Bayern, before completing a 21m move to Chelsea in 2026. In his first full season at Chelsea, Arana featured in 31 games across all competitions.


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First place for pole position Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands holds the prize after qualification ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. The Belgian Formula One Grand Prix will take place on Sunday. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)
First place for pole position Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands after qualification ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. The Belgian Formula One Grand Prix will take place on Sunday. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)
First place Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands, center, second place Williams driver George Russell of Britain, left, and third place Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain, right, stand on the podium after the Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. The race was red flagged due to weather conditions. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
First place Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands, right, and third place Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain, left, stand on the podium after the Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. The race was red flagged due to weather conditions. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)


The cancellation of a high profile transportation project has affected prospects for Chinese investment in Mexico for the time being.
Since assuming the presidency in 2012, Enrique Pena Nieto has held broadening business relations between his country and China as an important objective. While investment that flowed from the Far East's most prolific economic powerhouse to Latin America and the Caribbean totaled US $14.4 billion in 2013 alone, Chinese investment in Mexico during the period covering 2000 – 2013 was an almost inconsequential $US 281 million. Pena Nieto fixed his gaze on securing Chinese investment in Mexico as a way to diversify sources of capital inflows, and to reduce his country's high degree of dependence on the United States for economic partnership and exchange, as well as to mitigate some of the negative economic effects linked to the global fall in the price of a crude oil.
During the last quarter of 2014, Pena Nieto was on the right track as regards achieving his goal, when, in November, he announced that a Chinese led consortium had been awarded a bid to construct a US $3.7 billion high-speed rail line in Mexico. When built and operational, a Chinese-made bullet train would traverse approximately one hundred and thirty-four miles of countryside between the Federal District and the industrial City of Queretaro to its Northeast. The bid was awarded to the China Railway Construction Corp., (CRCC) Ltd, and its partners which included two CRCC Chinese affiliates and three Mexican construction companies. Although several other firms such as Germany's Siemens, France's Alstom and Canada's Bombardier expressed keen interest in submitting bids in order to solicit the business, they were not able to do so in the time frame that was stipulated by the Mexican government. As a result, the China Railway Construction Corp., Ltd. was the lone bidder.A few days after the award, CRCC's contract and that of its three Mexican partners was unexpectedly revoked.
The decision to withdraw the business occurred amidst allegations of irregularities between the Pena Nieto government and some of the participants in the deal. After the announcement of the revocation of the bid award was made public, shares of China Railway Construction, Ltd. stock lost five percent of their value on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
the building of a pipeline to carry natural gas in Baja California.
According to Zhan Nan, the spokesperson for China's First Automobile Works in Mexico, his company and others have put Chinese investment in Mexico on hold for the time being.


I was fortunate to spend some time visiting with Layton Kor at his home in Kingman, Arizona, in the last few years before he died on April 21, 2013. While Layton was still healthy enough, we were able to get out climbing. On a trip to western Arizona in April 2009, with Ed Webster and Dennis Jump, we teamed up to make the first ascent of a small tower in the volcanic Black Mountains, which we called Bloody Butte, a.k.a. Kor's Kastle. This was the last first ascent of a desert tower that Layton was able to make. He led the first pitch (5.7 A1), pounding pitons for pro and three blades for an anchor.
Layton told me about another tower that he had discovered farther south in the Mt. Nutt Wilderness Area, which he dubbed the Coke Bottle for its appearance from the highway above Bullhead City. In April 2011 he joined Dennis and me for an attempt on the 350-foot tower. After a day of driving and hiking around the desert to find the best approach, we climbed three pitches in 90°F temperatures before bailing. Layton was excited to see a big Mojave rattlesnake during our hike out.
Next to the Tower of Kor, and separated by a deep gash, is an even taller tower. Although several climbers had asked for beta on climbing Tower of Kor, we resisted giving out information before we had a chance to return. On February 7, 2013, Brian Shelton, Dr. Bill Springer, and I climbed the nearly 500-foot tower via a seven-pitch route (III 5.8 C1 or 5.10-) that shared Hard Kor's first three pitches. Brian suggested we call it Bighorn Tower for the herd of sheep we saw earlier in the day, effortlessly scampering up an almost vertical gully opposite our route.


Can You Wear Hair Extensions During Workouts?
Yes, you can! They say that your hair is your crowning glory. Who doesn't want their hair looking gorgeous while keeping up with an active lifestyle? Wearing hair extensions should not stop you from working out. Considering that it is more sensitive than your natural hair, proper hair care is highly recommended to retain the natural look of your locks even after weeks of working out.
A major concern for hair extension wearers is getting their hair greasy and gross after a sweaty workout. All that sweat and oil from strenuous activities are culprits for a bad hair day. We wouldn't want you to reach that far! How can you rock hair extensions while working out? In this article, we will be providing you tips, tricks and suggested hairstyles that will keep up with your workout routines and look.
Keeping hair extensions securely bonded with natural hair is a big concern for many women who wear extensions during workout. Exercising while wearing extensions has its limitations but that does not necessarily mean that you have to bail on your workout routine. Here are some tips and tricks that will keep your locks intact even when you are working out.
Even when you are not wearing hair extensions, one of the tricks to keep your hair silky is regular combing or brushing. It keeps your hair away from dirt which leaves you with hair smooth and shiny. Moreover, combing prior to bathing is best to remove the knots which makes it easier to wash and to dry. Take note, purchase brushes or combs which are safe for hair extensions wearers.
If you do not wash your hair properly, your scalp tends to get itchy and oily. Keep your locks bonded to your hair by gently massaging your scalp down to the tips of your hair to completely remove the dirt and sweat. It would be healthy for your hair extensions if you will use hair products which do not contain sulfate or alcohol for it to last longer. After washing your hair with shampoo, thoroughly rinse your hair from the scalp down. Rinse your hair until all spots are washed.
Before applying any leave-in conditioner, keep your hair completely dried up. Applying hair treatment creams when your hair is still wet or damp would attract dirt. Gently dab your towel to your hair and brush it until it dries up to ensure the removal of tangles. If you prefer drying your hair with a blowdryer, allow your hair to air dry for a little while before doing so especially to those people who have pre-bonded extensions and micro ring extensions.
Since working out will be sweaty and your scalp tends to be oily, it would be best to tie your hair up to prevent hair extensions from tangling. You can style it in a simple bun, braid, pigtail or any look as long as it keeps your hair together. Work on your hairstyle the way you want it to be!
Prior to working out, thoroughly comb or brush your hair until it is free from tangles. Right after, apply a minimal amount of hair cream or conditioner to keep it smooth enough for you to tie your hair depending on your preference. For workouts, it would be best to keep it in a low tie or braid to keep the locks together during workout movements. Tight-tugged ponytails are not ideal when you do not want the bond of the locks compromised.
As you work on your routines, your scalp and hair tend to get sweaty. It would be highly recommended to untie your hair in between routines, gently dab a towel to dry your hair, brush then tie it again. This will help avoid tangles or knots on both your natural hair and your extensions.
After a long day spent on completing your working out, remove the tie of your hair and dry it with a towel before going into the shower. Wash your hair with shampoo and conditioner which is safe for the bond of your hair extensions. Not all kinds are applicable. It would be best to condition your hair for two to three minutes to achieve smooth and silky hair. After you wash and rinse your hair, dry it well. A well-dried hair is not as susceptible to dirt as damp hair. You would not want to have a bad hair day, would you?
Do not stress your locks with tight hairstyles. If you are in a rush, just do a low ponytail that is enough for your hair extensions to be together during workouts. This way, it will be easier for you to remove it in between routines to brush it. Either it is low ponytail or low bun, both are enough to keep your hair away from your face. Stay neat and simple with a low tie!
Braiding your hair for workouts is one of the ideal hairstyles. Apart from the fact that it keeps your hair off your face, it does not pressure your bonds during workout routines. Look fancy and athletic with french braids and be amazed by its ocean curves afterward.
Complete your OOTD for working out with adorable pigtails. Ear-level pigtails are suggested, enough to keep the hair off your skin as much as possible to prevent sweat absorption. With your hair up in pigtails will not just keep up with your routines, it adds up to your workout look too.
A not-so-tight bun is another workout hairstyle for hair extension wearers. It keeps your hair off your skin, it keeps up with your movements, and it is easy to do. A ballerina bun would do just make sure that you do not work on messy buns because it will tangle your hair and will cause split ends too. Workout with your buddies with a nice and neat bun and end your day with waves on your hair!
You do not have to worry about loosened locks due to strenuous workout routines. There are tricks on how you can retain the bond of your hair extensions even when you are keeping an active lifestyle. For hair extension wearers, take good care of your crowning glory and maintain your hair routine. Take note, wearing hair extensions is not an excuse to skip working out! Your gorgeous hair will keep up with your movements.


Effective or 'true' resolution: The stated pixel count (1.3MP, 2MP, etc) is proving to be a misleading metric to judge cameras. More pixels often do not mean better image quality. This is a critical element as better image quality (the ability to see smaller details) is the key driver in the use of megapixel.
Bandwidth consumption variation: I see wide variances in how much bandwidth is consumed, both depending on the scene and, more interestingly, between manufacturers. Some manufacturers are using 2Mb/s for a given scene while other need 6-8Mb/s. This could be a major factor in choosing cameras as the differences in storage could be quite expensive.
Handling low or changing bandwidth levels: Some cameras have significant problems with insufficient bandwidth. The image will break up almost entirely under these conditions. It is essential that surveillance cameras are robust to lower bandwidth. While it's obviously understood and accepted that with less bandwidth, either frame rate or quality will suffer somewhat, the connection and the basic image must remain.
These are certainly not the only 3 issues - just issues that generally receive less attention. Additionally, I am still in the process of investigating CPU utilization.D Finally, low light/WDR remain important issues for megapixel as they do for all surveillance cameras.


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Since 1972 the National Arbor Day Foundation has been helping towns and cities lay the foundation for solid community programs by providing a framework of standards required for successful tree care. Encompassed within those standards are both the social and biological foundations of community tree care.
Euless also received a Tree City USA Growth award for demonstrating progress in its community forestry program. The prestigious Growth Award honors environmental impact and higher levels of tree care in Tree City USA communities.
In October 2001, Euless was awarded The Sterling Award, a designation awarded to communities that have participated in the Tree City USA Growth Award program for 10 years.
According to the National Arbor Day Foundation, "The Sterling Award has been created to provide added incentive for communities to continue to diversify their efforts in caring for their local community forest. Twenty-seven communities in 17 states have been recognized with a Growth Award during each year of the program, making these the first communities to receive the Sterling Award. Towns range in size from a population of 1,250 in Dysart, Iowa to Chicago, Illinois at a population of nearly 2.8 million."
"We are so proud of our continuing forestry achievements in Euless," says Ray McDonald, Euless' Director of Parks and Community Services. "Receiving the Sterling Award illustrates our commitment to urban forestry in Euless and the vital role trees play in our community."
Created in 1976, the Tree City USA program is designed to help promote community forestry. In order to be recognized as a Tree City USA, communities must meet four requirements which include: having a designated tree board, forestry professional or city department responsible for the care of trees in the community; passing a tree care ordinance; having an active forestry program in place with an annual budget of at least $2 per capita; and proclaiming and hosting an Arbor Day celebration.
The last weekend in April, Euless will host its annual Arbor Daze festival - an internationally recognized festival since receiving two international awards from the International Festivals and Events Association and the Best Arbor Daze Festival in the nation by the Arbor Day Foundation.


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Review: SPECTACULAR CHRISTMAS SHOW at Musical Theater Heritage
The show took place at at Crown Center in Missouri
by Alan Portner Dec. 12, 2021
Robert Vardiman in the Traditional Ugly Christmas Sweater
One of the annual challenges inherent to creating an absolutely new "Spectacular Christmas Show" at Musical Theater Heritage is how to differentiate this year's production from the thirteen editions that preceded it. I have been privileged to see eight of the fourteen iterations and can promise you that each production is professional, well performed, entertaining and very different from earlier versions. Sure, you will recognize some of the music, but it is unlikely that the key will be one you are pre-programed to have heard before or that the various harmonies will be hackneyed.
Daria LeGrand and Erik Sobbe
in MTH's Christmas Spectacular
The 2021 "Spectacular Christmas Show" features a cast of seven actors and dancers with a backup combo band of three. The director/choreographer is Mandy Morris who was last seen on an MTH stage as Andrea in the just closed production of Sondheim's "Company." Music Director is Mark Ferrell. Lighting Design is by Gonzalez-Lopez with Sound Design by Charles Kump and Costumes by Shannnon Smith-Regnier.
Audiences will recognize many of the twenty-two traditional musical numbers, but will be less familiar with updated treatments of them having to do with dance, key, tempo, and harmony.
Every show needs a thread to hold it together. In this case, the thread is more a "yarn" than a thread. The running joke is the multiple reappearances of the world's traditionally, ugliest Christmas Sweater usually sported by Robert Vardiman and a series of mild Christmas jokes often repeated during holiday season. (Like how the angel got on top of the Christmas Tree.)
Director Morris is very intentional in her choices of overwhelming dance emphasis, hand movements, and stage picture. Cast members are Shelby Floyd, Courtney Germany, Liz Golson, Daria LeGrand, Erik Sobbe, Weston Thomas, and Robert Vardiman. The cast carries out Morris's vision almost exactly as she had planned for them to do so. They are, without exception, very good actors, singers, and dancers.
Familiar musical numbers are "Let It Snow," "We Need A Little Christmas," "White Christmas,"
Liz Golson and Courtney Germany in
MTH's Spectacular Christmas
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," " Rocking Around The Christmas Tree," " Auld Lang Syne," "Sleigh Ride," " Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," and "I'll Be Home For Christmas. Less familiar music includes "Kid At Christmas," "Counting Down For Christmas," "White Winter Hymnal," "A Little Christmas," "Snowman," "Bring Me Love," "Polar Express," Text Me Merry Christmas," "A Hand For Mrs. Claus," "Wintersong," "When Your Believe," and the finale "What Christmas Means To Me."
The Saturday night audience was excited and receptive with repeated hoots, hollars, and claps, followed by a standing ovation.
MTH's "Spectacular Christmas Show" for 2021 continues at Crown Center through December 23. Tickets are available online at www.musicaltheaterheritage.com or by telephone at 816-221-6987
The Cast of MTH's Spectacular Christmas
MTH Photos by Brian Paulette
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Q: SDL2 FillRect with SDL_Window issues I'm having issues trying to use SDL_FillRect with SDL 2.0
Here's my code:
bool running = true;

//Initialise SDL
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING);

SDL_Window *screen = SDL_CreateWindow("Test Game",
    SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED,
    SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED,
    640, 480,
    SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP | SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL);

while (running){
    SDL_FillRect(screen, NULL, 0);
}

//Quit SDL
SDL_Quit();

return 0;

The error I'm getting is:

1>c:\users\ethan\desktop\c++ projects\another test with sdl\another
test with sdl\main.cpp(16): error C2664: 'int SDL_FillRect(SDL_Surface
*,const SDL_Rect *,Uint32)' : cannot convert argument 1 from 'SDL_Window *' to 'SDL_Surface *'
1>          Types pointed to are
unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or
function-style cast

A: In SDL2, you should create a SDL_Renderer and use SDL_RenderClear.
If you really want to use SDL_FillRect, then you could call it on a separate SDL_Surface and then render that surface onto your window in 2 steps. The SDL2 migration guide talks about this stuff:
https://wiki.libsdl.org/MigrationGuide

A: SDL_RenderPresent is needed in order for your textures to be present in your render


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Mental health project helping Southwark teenagers through lockdown
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By Alice Neil
A new project is helping teenagers with mental health issues.
The Southwark-based service opened in May and provides mental health support to young people aged 13 to 16.
The Nest has given more than 200 hours of one-to-one support. It has become a trusted source of mental health support in the local community.
The free service allows people to reach out and get the help they need, when they need it, without waiting for referrals.
The Nest is the only walk-in service for young people in the borough. Alongside this, it also offers one-to-one support by telephone, video call and online chat, so help is always available.
They also hold group sessions to connect young people and provide peer support.
The pandemic has led to a growing demand for services dealing with mental health issues.
Lockdown and social distancing measures have increased loneliness, and uncertainty has led to increased worry, anxiety and stress.
Fourteen-year-old Sophia started to use The Nest when lockdown restrictions led her feeling lonely and isolated.
Sophia said: "I had a super experience with The Nest. They were so kind and helpful and I felt really understood".
Jordan, 24 has been using the The Nest's services while he waits for an official mental health diagnosis from his GP.
He believes that The Nest has provided him with the comfortable space to talk about his traumas and figure out the causes of the anxieties and emotions he feels.
The Nest was formed as part of the council's commitment to ensure that 100 per cent of children in the borough receive the emotional support they need.
The service is run in partnership with Groundwork London, which works with disadvantaged young people.
Groundwork developed the service with young people to offer the mental health support they want.
Pictured top: The Nest
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