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November 18, 2018 by Mike Jackson
Three score and ten . . .
18 November 1948. Today is my 70th birthday. Septuagenarian. The Biblical three score and ten (Psalm 90:10)!
Steph and I have come away for the weekend to celebrate my birthday with The Beatles in Liverpool.
We are staying for a couple of nights at Jurys Inn close to the Albert Dock. Later this morning we've booked to visit the National Trust-owned Beatles' Childhood Homes (of John Lennon and Paul McCartney). And after lunch, we will tour The Beatles Story where I'm hoping to see, displayed there, something special from my childhood.
How the years have flown by. Just a month ago, Steph and I celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary. And I find it hard to believe that I started university over 50 years ago.
That got me thinking. I've written quite a lot in this blog about the years after I graduated, my time working overseas, about travel, and what Steph and I have been up to since retiring in 2010.
However, I written much less about my early years growing up in Cheshire and Staffordshire. This is then an appropriate moment to fill some gaps.
A son of Cheshire
I was born in Knowlton House nursing home in Congleton, Cheshire (map), third son and fourth and youngest child of Frederick Harry Jackson (aged 40), a photo process engraver, and Lilian May Jackson, also aged 40, housewife.
Mum and Dad, around 1959/60 after we had moved to Leek
My eldest brother Martin has been able to trace our family's ancestry (mainly on my father's side) back to someone named Bull, who was my 13th great-grandfather, born around 1480 on the Staffordshire/ Derbyshire border, just one of my 32,000 plus direct ancestors then. I must be related to royalty in one way or another (as are most of us), although looking at the occupations noted for many of them in various official documents (birth and marriage certificates, census data), we came a long way down the pecking order. Definitely below the salt! We're Irish on my mother's side of the family.
A punk before it was fashionable!
I am also a child of the National Health Service (NHS) that was founded in July 1948. In fact, I'm (approximately) the 190,063rd baby born under the NHS!
Knowlton House on Parson Street in Congleton – it's no longer a nursing home.
I wonder who assisted at my birth? It could well have been our family Dr Galbraith, or Nurses Frost and Botting.
Dr Galbraith (R) was our family doctor, who (with his partner Dr Ritchie) often attended births at Knowlton House, and is seen here with resident midwife Nurse Rose Hannah Frost, who assisted at more than 3000 births. There is a very good chance either Nurse Frost or Nurse May Botting (who ran the nursing home) assisted at my birth. In this photo from 1936, Dr Galbraith and Nurse Frost are holding the Nixon triplets. Photo courtesy of Alan Nixon, who was apparently named after Dr Galbraith.
My dad registered my birth¹ on 22 November (Entry No. 442). There are few 'Michaels' in the family; Thomas is my paternal grandfather's name.
My eldest brother Martin was born in September 1939, just a couple of days before war was declared on Germany. My sister Margaret was born in January 1941. Martin and Margaret spent much of WWII with my paternal grandparents in rural Derbyshire. My elder brother Edgar ('Ed') is, like me, one of the baby boomer generation, born in July 1946.
The difference of around 55 years – 1951/52 and 2006
I've often wondered what sacrifices Mum and Dad had to make to give us all such a good start in life.
Growing up in Congleton, we lived at 13 Moody Street, close to the town center's High Street.
There's not much to tell about my first couple of years, other than what I can surmise from a few photographs taken around that time when I was still in my pram or just beginning to walk. Two things I do remember clearly, though. The hens my father used to keep, and even the large henhouse he constructed at the bottom of the garden. And our female cat, Mitten, and all her kittens. That must have been the start of becoming an ailurophile (cat lover).
My best friend was Alan Brennan, a year younger, who lived a little further up Moody Street at No. 23 (and with whom I reconnected through this blog, after a gap of around 60 years!).
With Alan and his parents (and friends) at Timbersbrook, in 1955. I clearly remember Mr Brennan's Vauxhall car – a Wyvern I believe.
We didn't go to the same primary school. Like my brothers and sister before me, I was enrolled (in September 1952 or April 1953, maybe as late as September 1953) at the small Church of England school on Leek Road in Mossley, south of the town. By then, Martin had moved on to grammar school in Macclesfield; Margaret had also transferred to secondary school in Congleton.
Each morning, Ed and I would catch the bus in the High Street together for the short, 1½ mile ride to Mossley. And even as young as five, I would sometimes walk home alone from school during the summer months, along Leek Road and Canal Road/Street. How times change!
I remember the headteacher, Mr Morris, as a kind person. My class teachers were Mrs Bickerton (on the left) and Mrs Johnson (on the right). Courtesy of Liz Campion.
There was a real community of children around Moody Street, Howie Lane/Hill, and Priesty Fields. In summer, we'd all wander up to play on the swing bridge over the Macclesfield Canal (beyond the cemetery – where we would also play in a WWII air raid shelter). The bridge has long been replaced, but from comments on a Congleton Facebook group I belong to, it seems that over the generations, many children enjoyed the swing bridge as much as we did.
In winter, we had fun in the snow at Priesty Fields just round the corner from Moody St. And, as you can see below, we enjoyed dressing up. Happy days!
In the upper image, taken on Coronation Day in 1953, I'm fifth from the right (carrying the stick). Alan Brennan is the little by to the left of the 'clown', and in front of the 'pirate', my elder brother Ed. The lower image was taken on May Day, probably 1953 or 54. I'm on the left, carrying the sword, uncertain whether to be a knight or a cowboy.
c. 1955. L-R: Veronica George, Carol Brennan, Jessica George, my elder brother Ed, me, Margaret Moulton, and Alan Brennan. Taken in the garden of No 13 Moody St. The George sisters lived at No. 21 Moody St.
I often joined my father when he went out on photographic assignments for the Congleton Chronicle (where he was Chief Photographer), often to Biddulph Grange when it was an orthopedic hospital, also to Astbury, and out into the beautiful Cheshire countryside.
I remember one outing in particular, to Little Moreton Hall in May 1954. This is my father's photo of Manley Morris Men dancing there, an image that stuck in my mind for many years. So much so that when I went to university in the later 1960s, I helped form a morris dancing side, the Red Stags, that's still going strong (albeit in a slightly different form) 50 years later.
The Manley Morris Men at Little Moreton Hall on 8 May 1954.
For family holidays I remember those in North Wales, at a caravan park or, on one occasion, a camping coach, a converted railway carriage alongside the mainline to Holyhead next to the beach at Abergele.
During these early years, until July 1954, rationing was still in place that had come into effect at the start of the Second World War. I often wonder how my parents managed to raise four children during these difficult years. One thing I do recall, however, is how we shared things, particularly confectionery. No individual treats. My father would buy a Mars bar (I'm sure they were bigger then) and cut it into six pieces. Funny how these things stick in one's memory.
The move to Leek
April 1956. A big change in my life. My family upped sticks and moved 12 miles southeast to the market town of Leek in north Staffordshire, where my father took over a retail photography business. As I was only 7½ when we moved, I've come to regard Leek as my home town. My parents lived there for the rest of their lives. My father passed away in 1980, and after my mother had a stroke in 1990, only then did she move away from Leek to spend her last couple of years in a care home near my sister in South Wales.
We lived at No. 65, St Edward Street, and within a couple of days of arriving there, I'd made friends with three boys who lived close by: Philip Porter (next door), Geoff Sharratt – whose father was publican at The Quiet Woman pub a few doors away, and David Phillips who lived over the road. Geoff's younger sister Susan sometimes joined in our games, as did Philip's sister Jill. We were the 'St Edward Street Gang'.
Here we are in the late 1950s (probably 1958), in the yard of The Quiet Woman pub. L-R: Sue, Geoff, me, Philip, and Dave. And again in 2018.
Geoff was my best friend, and we spent a lot of time playing together. There were several upstairs rooms at The Quiet Woman, one of which was the Lodge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB, the Buffs, a fraternal organization somewhat similar to the Freemasons). During inclement weather, we often took refuge in the Lodge, playing among the benches and high chairs.
Playing with my Hornby 'O' gauge clockwork train at 'Congleton' station – it would be a collectors' item today. Taken around 1958.
I was also a cub scout, as was Ed.
Around 1960, the lease on No. 65 came due, so my father decided to to find a better location for his business. First, he moved across St Edward's St to No. 56 (while we lived in a flat at the top of the Market Place). In 1962/63 my father acquired No. 19 Market Place as premises for his photographic business, with living accommodation above. This was just what he had been looking for, centrally located in the town, lots of footfall. But the whole property had to be refurbished; there was only one water tap – in the cellar. He did much of the refurbishment himself. I've never ceased to be amazed at his DIY talents, something I sadly have not inherited to the same degree. My parents remained at No. 19 until they retired in 1976.
Sandwiched between Jackson the Optician (no relation) on the left, and Victoria Wine on the right, No 19 Market Place was my parents home for 14 years.
Around the same time, Geoff's parents left The Quiet Woman and moved elsewhere in the town. I was also traveling every day to school to Trent Vale on the south side of Stoke-on-Trent (a round trip of about 28 miles), while Geoff continued his education in Leek. As a consequence, we drifted apart, but through my blog we reconnected in 2012.
Mr Smith
My mother's family were Irish Catholics, and although we had not been brought up in the faith while in Congleton, both Ed and myself were enrolled in St. Mary's RC primary school on Cruso Street, a short walk away from home. We were taught by Sisters of Loreto nuns. Headmistress Mother Elizabeth or my class teacher, Mother Bernadine, were never averse to wrapping us across the knuckles with the sharp edge of a ruler. In my final year at St Mary's (1959-60), we were taught by Mr Smith. But my recollections don't tally so much with many others who also attended St Mary's. And I have been horrified at some accounts of how unhappy they were at the school in the 1950s and 60s.
In the late 50s and early 60s, just Ed and I would join our parents for holidays in Wales, most often camping or in our own caravan.
Some of my happiest memories though come from our visits to my grandparents² (my father's parents) in Hollington, a small Derbyshire village between Ashbourne and Derby. My grandfather was almost 76 when I was born; Grandma was 68.
Family picnic at Hollington, c. 1952, with cousins. Grandma in the center, my mum is on the left. I'm center front 'guarding' the bottle.
With Grandad and Grandma Jackson, and our cousin Diana, c. 1959 at Ebenezer Cottage.
Grandma and Grandad celebrated their Golden Wedding in 1954, the occasion of a large gathering of family and friends in Hollington.
Enduring high school
I passed my 11 Plus exam to attend a Roman Catholic grammar school, St Joseph's College, at Trent Vale on the south side of Stoke-on-Trent. Founded by Irish Christian Brothers in 1932, the school took boys only (but is now co-educational). I had to be on the bus by 07:50 each morning if I was to get to school by 09:00. This was my daily routine for the next seven years.
On reflection, I can't say that I found the school experience satisfying or that the quality of the education I received was worth writing home about. Yes, there were some good teachers who I looked up to, but much of the teaching was pretty mediocre. I've written elsewhere about the gratuitous use of corporal punishment at the school.
Perhaps one of the school's claims to fame was the priest who attended to our 'spiritual needs'. He was Father John Tolkien, son JRR Tolkien, the author of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. My first impressions of Fr Tolkien were not favorable. He came across as cold and authoritarian. When I got to know him later on, however, I found he was a warm person with a good sense of humor. I was saddened to learn that his last years were blighted by accusations of abuse, later dropped.
On to university . . . and faraway places
I was lucky to secure a place in October 1967 at the University of Southampton to study botany and geography, beginning three of the happiest years of my life. I've already blogged about various aspects of my time at Southampton, and you can read them here. Little did I think that I would have a career in botany, and that would lead me to fulfill one of my ambitions: to visit Peru.
Even though I graduated in 1970 with only an average BSc degree, that didn't hold me back. I had ambitions.
I was fortunate to be accepted into graduate school at the University of Birmingham, where I completed MSc and PhD degrees in plant genetic resources, and returned there in 1981 for a decade as Lecturer in Plant Biology.
After my PhD graduation at The University of Birmingham on 12 December 1975 with my PhD supervisor, Prof. Jack Hawkes (L) and Prof. Trevor Williams (R) who supervised my MSc dissertation.
My international career in plant genetic resources conservation and agriculture took me to Peru and Costa Rica from 1973-1981, to work on potatoes for the International Potato Center (CIP). And then in July 1991, I moved to the Philippines to join the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for the next 19 years as head of the genebank then as Director for Program Planning and Communications.
I had good opportunities to publish my research over the years, in terms of journal articles, books and book chapters, and presentations at scientific conferences.
I retired in April 2010, at the age of 61. But I haven't rested on my laurels. Scientifically I have:
organized two international conferences on rice that were hosted in Vietnam (2010) and Thailand (2014);
rejoined the Editorial Board of the Springer journal Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution;
co-edited a second book on Genetic Resources and Climate Change in 2014; and
led a system-wide review of the CGIAR research support program for Managing and Sustaining Crop Collections: Genebanks CRP during 2016-17.
In the 2012 I was honored to be made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or OBE, for services to international food science (in the New Year's Honours).
I set up this blog in February 2012, and have written more than 460 stories for a total of around 470,000 words since then, and posted thousands of images, most of which I have taken myself.
Steph and I were married on 13 October 1973 in Lima, Peru. We'd met at Birmingham during 1971-72, and after I'd moved to Lima in January 1973, she joined me there in July and also worked at CIP.
At La Granja Azul restaurant near Lima (on the left) after our wedding in 1973. And on the right, exactly 45 years later during one of our walks at Croome Court in Worcestershire.
Hannah, our elder daughter was born in Costa Rica in April 1978. Philippa was born in Bromsgrove in May 1982, a year after we had moved back to the UK (in March 1981). When we moved to the Philippines in 1991, they both attended the International School Manila, and then went on to university in the USA (Macalester College in Minnesota) and Durham in the UK, respectively. In 2006 and 2010, they completed their PhD degrees in psychology, respectively at the University of Minnesota and Northumbria University.
PhD graduands! On the left, Hannah is with her classmates in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Emily and Mike, on 12 May 2006. Philippa (on the right) is with one of her PhD supervisors, Prof. David Kennedy of the Brain, Performance and Nutrition Research Centre in the Dept. of Psychology at Northumbria University on 7 December 2010.
In those same years Hannah married Michael, and Phil married Andi. We now have four wonderful grandchildren: Callum (8), Elvis (7), Zoë (6), and Felix (5). The family came together for the first time in a New Forest holiday in July 2016.
On holiday in the New Forest in July 2016. L-R (sitting): Callum, Hannah, Zoë, me, Steph, Elvis, Felix, and Philippa. Standing: Michael and Andi
The 2018-19 school year started for Callum and Zoë in August, and for Elvis and Felix in September. It was also Felix's first day at school.
In September, Steph and I spent a week in Cornwall exploring many National Trust and English Heritage properties around the county.
Foldes and Fenner family photos in July and September
So, as I look back on the past 70 years, I can't say I have much to complain about. Steph and I have a beautiful family. An interesting career took me to more than 65 countries (and Steph to some of those). We've lived and worked in three countries and made some wonderful friends.
Je ne regrette rien
At 70, though, what does life have in store?
I think Fleetwood Mac (one of my favorite bands) sum it up quite nicely. If it was fine for Bill Clinton, it's good enough for me.
Retirement is sweet. Who could ask for more?
¹ I no longer have my original birth certificate. That now sits in an archive somewhere in the Miraflores Municipality building in Lima, Peru. When Steph and I married there in October 1973 we had to present our original birth certificates, not realizing these would be filed away in perpetuity and never returned to us.
² I did not really know my mother's parents, who died before my sixth birthday. They lived in Epsom, Surrey.
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Melba M. Aquino says:
Happy birthday Dr. Jackson!! 🎉👍🎂😊
May you have better health, and more.happiness!
I enjoyed reading your "early years"👍
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I'm wondering who she paid to write that book.
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Tybory-Trzcianka – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie podlaskim, w powiecie wysokomazowieckim, w gminie Wysokie Mazowieckie.

Zaścianek szlachecki Trzcianka należący do okolicy zaściankowej Twarogi położony był w drugiej połowie XVII wieku w ziemi drohickiej województwa podlaskiego. W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa łomżyńskiego.

Wierni kościoła rzymskokatolickiego należą do parafii św. Michała Archanioła w Jabłonce Kościelnej.

Historia
Wieś założona prawdopodobnie w XV w.

W roku 1827 miejscowość liczyła 10 domów i 72 mieszkańców. Pod koniec XIX w. w gminie Chojane, parafia Jabłonka Kościelna.

W roku 1921 we wsi naliczono 15 budynków z przeznaczeniem mieszkalnym i 5 innych zamieszkałych oraz 144. mieszkańców (73. mężczyzn i 71 kobiet). Wszyscy zgłosili narodowość polską i wyznanie rzymskokatolickie.

Obiekty zabytkowe
 pozostałości dworu w zespole dworsko-parkowym – początek XX w..

Przypisy

Wysokie Mazowieckie (gmina wiejska)
Zaścianki szlacheckie I Rzeczypospolitej (województwo podlaskie)

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Q: Set default query in express I'm building a small e commerce project, and I have a 'Products' page set up with pagination,
but I want any call to my /products route to default to /products?page=1
This is my routes files
// list of all products
router.get('/products',  productsController.products);

And this is my controller
// products page
exports.products = async (req, res) => {

  const pagination = req.query.pagination ? parseInt(req.query.pagination) : 12;
  const page = req.query.page ? parseInt(req.query.page) : 1;
  const prod = await Product.find({})
    .skip((page - 1) * pagination)
    .limit(pagination);

  res.render("products", {
    productsList: prod,
  });
};

A: If what you're trying to do is to make it so that any route that starts with /products has a default query parameter such that if page=xx is not in the URL, then req.query.page will be set to 1, you can just make a middleware that does exactly that logic:
app.use("/products", (req, res, next) => {
    if (!req.query.page) {
        req.query.page = 1;
    } else {
        // convert string to number
        req.query.page = parseInt(req.query.page, 10);
        // deal with possibly invalid data
        if (!Number.isInteger(req.query.page)) {
            req.query.page = 1;
        }
    }
    next();
});

Then, just place this middleware before the first route definition that uses /products.

If you literally want the URL itself (as displayed in the browser) to contain page=1 in the query parameter even if it was not originally in the URL, then you would have to do a redirect:
app.use("/products", (req, res, next) => {
    if (!req.query.page) {
        let redirectUrl = req.originalUrl;
        if (redirectUrl.includes("?")) {
           redirectUrl += "&page=1";
        } else {
           redirectUrl += "?page=1";
        }
        res.redirect(redirectUrl);
    } else {
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With an interest in the fields of asthma and anaphylaxis, Dr. Lieberman has authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific publications and is co-editor of the text Allergic Diseases. He is a past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and the American Association of Certified Allergists. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology.
Dr. Lieberman is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, where he also completed his internal medicine training. He completed his allergy/immunology fellowship at Northwestern University.
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Q: Mysql Full Text relevance between two tables Hello all I ask help regarding use of Full text in mysql.
I have two tables.
One where there are keywords and another where there are other keywords.
I would like to create a relevance between the two joining tables getting the highest importance.
For example if in a table I as the keyword "A, B, C", "B, A, F" and in the other I "B, C, D" I would like to obtain in a single table from me as a result the relevance between these two tabelle.I hope I was as clear as possible.
Table A
+------------+------------+
| id         |  keyword1  |
+------------+------------+
| 1          | A,B,C      |
| 2          | B,A,F      |
+------------+------------+

Table B
+------------+------------+
| id         |  keyword2  |
+------------+------------+
| 1          | B,C,D      |
+------------+------------+

I Use this sql code:
SELECT id,keyword1,
    MATCH (B.keyword2) AGAINST (+'B,C,D' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AS Relevance1
         FROM B
    UNION
     SELECT id,keyword2,
    MATCH (B.keyword2) AGAINST (+'B,C,D' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AS Relevance1
    FROM B
    WHERE (MATCH (A.keyword1) AGAINST (+'B,C,D' IN BOOLEAN MODE))
    ORDER BY (Relevance1) DESC

I want the result like this:
+------------+------------+-------------+-------------+
| id         |  keyword2  |   keyword1  |  Relevance1 |
+------------+------------+-------------+-------------+
| 1          | B,C,D      |   A,B,C     |  0,1213     |
+------------+------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2          | B,C,D      |  B,A,F      !  0,01234    |
+------------+------------+-------------+-------------+


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Toward Universal Learning: A Global Framework for Measuring Learning. Report No. 2 of the Learning Metrics Task Force (LMTF, 2013)
The second report in the series that presents a vision for how learning should be measured globally. The report is structured in five sections. It first provides an outline of the purpose of the LMTF and an overview of the framework of the seven domains of learning. Then, it describes the six areas of measurement— including the rationale and feasibility—and highlights some of the existing measurement efforts in each of the areas. Next, it discusses considerations for tracking learning goals in a way that focuses on equity. The subsequent section describes considerations related to the methodologies for learning assessments. The following section discusses the relationship between the six areas of global measurement in the context of the post-2015 global education and development dialogues.
Download: Toward Universal Learning: A Global Framework for Measuring Learning. Report No. 2 of the Learning Metrics Task Force. Montreal and Washington: UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution (LMTF 2013)


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The parathyroid glands are small endocrine glands in the neck, usually located behind the thyroid gland, which produce parathyroid hormone. In rare cases the parathyroid glands are located within the thyroid glands. Most often there are four parathyroid glands, but some people have six or even eight.
The parathyroid glands are four or more small glands located on the posterior surface of the thyroid gland. Histologically they are quite easily recognizable from the thyroid as they have densely packed cells in contrast with the follicle structure of the thyroid. [1] However at surgery they are harder to differentiate from the thyroid or fat.
They distinguish themselves from the thyroid gland histologically as they contain two types of cells:[2]
Name Staining Quantity Size Function
parathyroid chief cells darker many[3] smaller manufacture PTH (see below).
oxyphil cells lighter few larger function unknown.[4][5]
The parathyroid glands were first discovered in the Indian Rhinoceros by Richard Owen in 1852.[6] In his description of the neck anatomy, Owen referred to the glands as "a small compact yellow glandular body attached to the thyroid at the point where the veins emerged".
The glands were first discovered in humans by Ivar Viktor Sandström (1852–1889), a Swedish medical student, in 1880 at Uppsala University.[7] Unaware of Owen's description, he described the glands in his monograph "On a New Gland in Man and Fellow Animals" as the "glandulae parathyroidae", noting its existence in dogs, cats, rabbits, oxen, horses and humans.[8][9] For several years, Sandström's description received little attention.[10]
Physiologist Eugene Gley first documented the putative function of the glands in 1891, noting the connection between their removal and the development of muscular tetani. William G. MacCallum in 1908, investigating tumours of the parathyroid, proposed their role in calcium metabolism.[9] He noted that "Tetany occurs spontaneously in many forms and may also be produced by the destruction of the parathyroid glands".[11]
Parathyroid hormone was isolated in 1923 by Adolph M. Hanson and 1925 by James B. Collip. Studies of parathyroid hormone levels by Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow led to the development of immunoassays capable of measuring body substances and a Nobel Prize in 1977.[12]
The sole function of the parathyroid glands is to maintain the body's calcium level within a very narrow range, so that the nervous and muscular systems can function properly.
When blood calcium levels drop below a certain point, calcium-sensing receptors in the parathyroid gland are activated to release hormone into the blood.
Parathyroid hormone (PTH, also known as parathormone) is a small protein that takes part in the control of calcium and phosphate homeostasis, as well as bone physiology. Parathyroid hormone has effects antagonistic to those of calcitonin. It increases blood calcium levels by stimulating osteoclasts to break down bone and release calcium. It also increases gastrointestinal calcium absorption by activating vitamin D, and promotes calcium uptake by the kidneys.
Role in disease
Hyperparathyroidism and related conditions
The single major disease of parathyroid glands is overactivity of one or more of the parathyroid lobes, which make too much parathyroid hormone causing a potentially serious calcium imbalance. This is called hyperparathyroidism; it leads to hypercalcemia and osteitis fibrosa cystica. Since hyperparathyroidism was first described in 1925, the symptoms have become known as "moans, groans, stones, and bones." The primary treatment for this disease is the surgical removal of the faulty gland.
Modern high frequency ultrasound can see parathyroid masses, even before they cause high calcium. They are called parathyroid incidentalomas. If a patient has elevated calcium, the ultrasound can be used to locate the abnormal glands. The use of ultrasound guided FNA, and parathyroid hormone washings can confirm the abnormal glands. A blood calcium 15-30 minutes after the biopsy can help determine if the disease is caused by a single abnormal gland or multiple glands.
A drop in serum calcium suggests a single source, and no drop suggests multiple glands. This, with a non-localizing Sestamibi scan would point toward a neck exploration, rather than a minimally invasive method aimed a single gland disease.
A Sestamibi scan is often used to determine which parathyroid gland(s) are responsible for overproduction of parathyroid hormone.
Another related condition is called secondary hyperparathyroidism (high-per-parr-uh-THIGH-royd-izm), or secondary HPT - common in patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis. In secondary HPT, the parathyroid glands make too much parathyroid hormone (PTH), and the kidneys do not produce enough vitamin D, and calcium and phosphorus are out of balance. Even though one may not have any symptoms, treating secondary HPT is important. Cinacalcet (Sensipar®) is a medicine that can help treat such dialysis patients and is available by prescription only.
Hypoparathyroidism and related conditions
Disorders of the parathyroid hormone receptor have been associated with Jansen's metaphyseal chondroplasia and Blomstrand's chondroplasia.
Embryology and Evolution
The parathyroid glands originate from the interaction of neural crest mesenchyme and third and fourth pharyngeal pouch endoderm.
Genetically, Eya-1 (transcripitonal co-activator), Six-1 (a homeobox transcription factor), and Gcm-2 (a transcription factor) have been associated with the development of the parathyroid gland, and alterations in these genes alters parathyroid gland development.
The conserved homology of genes and calcium sensing receptors in fish gills with those in the parathryroid glands of birds and mammals is recognized by evolutionary developmental biology as evolution using genes and gene networks in novel ways to generate new structures with some similar functions and novel functions.
Scheme showing development of branchial epithelial bodies. I, II, III, IV. Branchial pouches.
Human parathyroid glands
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↑ Cave, A.J.E. (1953). "Richard Owen and the discovery of the parathyroid glands" (PDF). In E. Ashworth Underwood. Science, Medicine and History. Essays on the Evolution of Scientific Thought and Medical Practice. 2. Oxford University Press. pp. 217–222. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
↑ Eknoyan G (November 1995). "A history of the parathyroid glands". American Journal of Kidney Disease. 26 (5): 801–7. doi:10.1016/0272-6386(95)90447-6. PMID 7485136.
↑ "On a New Gland in Man and Several Mammals (Glandulæ Parathyreoideæ)". Journal of the American Medical Association. 111 (2): 197. 9 July 1938. doi:10.1001/jama.1938.02790280087037.
↑ 9.0 9.1 DuBose, Joseph; Ragsdale, Timothy; Morvant, Jason (January 2005). ""Bodies so tiny": The history of parathyroid surgery". Current Surgery. 62 (1): 91–95. doi:10.1016/j.cursur.2004.07.012.
↑ Carney, JA (Sep 1996). "The glandulae parathyroideae of Ivar Sandström. Contributions from two continents". The American journal of surgical pathology. 20 (9): 1123–44. doi:10.1097/00000478-199609000-00010. PMID 8764749.
↑ Maccallum, W. G; Voegtlin, C. (Jan 9, 1909). "On the Relation of Tetant to the Parathyroid Glands and to Calcium Metabolism". The Journal of experimental medicine. 11 (1): 118–51. doi:10.1084/jem.11.1.118. PMC 2124703. PMID 19867238.
↑ Parathyroid gland. Wikipedia (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parathyroid_gland Accessed on December 28, 2015
Parathyroid disease and treatments discussed in layman's terms at Parathyroid.com
Endocrine Web at endocrineweb.com
Parathyroid disease resources and treatment options at AdvancedParathyroid.com
The origin of the parathyroid gland at pnas.org
Human Gland Probably Evolved From Gills at pandasthumb.org
The role of the endoderm in the development and evolution of the pharyngeal arches at blackwell-synergy.com
Deep homologies in the pharyngeal arches at scienceblogs.com
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Endocrine pathology: endocrine diseases (E00-35, 240-259)
Hypothyroidism (Iodine deficiency, Cretinism, Congenital hypothyroidism, Goitre, Myxedema) - Hyperthyroidism (Graves disease, Toxic multinodular goitre, Teratoma with thyroid tissue or Struma ovarii) - Thyroiditis (De Quervain's thyroiditis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Riedel's thyroiditis) - Euthyroid sick syndrome
Diabetes mellitus (type 1, type 2, coma, angiopathy, ketoacidosis, nephropathy, neuropathy, retinopathy) - Hypoglycemia - Hyperinsulinism - Zollinger-Ellison syndrome - insulin receptor (Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome)
Hypoparathyroidism (Pseudohypoparathyroidism) - Hyperparathyroidism (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
Hyperpituitarism (Acromegaly, Hyperprolactinaemia, SIADH) - Hypopituitarism (Simmonds' disease / Sheehan's syndrome, Kallmann syndrome, Growth hormone deficiency, Diabetes insipidus) - Adiposogenital dystrophy - Empty sella syndrome - Hypophysitis
Cushing's syndrome (Nelson's syndrome, Pseudo-Cushing's syndrome) - CAH (Lipoid, 3β, 11β, 17α, 21α) - Hyperaldosteronism (Conn syndrome, Bartter syndrome) - Adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease) - Hypoaldosteronism
Ovarian dysfunction (Polycystic ovary syndrome, Premature ovarian failure) - Testicular dysfunction (5-alpha-reductase deficiency) - Testosterone biosynthesis (17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency) - General (Hypogonadism, Delayed puberty, Precocious puberty)
Androgen insensitivity syndrome - Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome - Carcinoid syndrome - Gigantism - Short stature (Laron syndrome, Psychogenic dwarfism) - Multiple endocrine neoplasia (1, 2) - Progeria - Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome
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AP: White House Knew of Russian Bounties in 2019
FILE - American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan in this Nov. 30, 2017 photo. (AP Photo)
The Associated Press reports that top White House officials knew in early 2019 about intelligence findings that Russia offered money to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans in Afghanistan.
That is one year earlier than other news organizations have reported, including The New York Times.
The AP said its information about the bounties came from U.S. officials with knowledge of classified intelligence. The officials provided the information on the condition that they not be identified.
The AP said that the intelligence was reported in at least one daily presidential briefing. The briefings are written documents. John Bolton, the former national security advisor, also told people at the time that he informed Trump about the intelligence in March of 2019. Bolton did not comment Monday when asked by AP reporters if he had spoken with Trump about the intelligence in 2019.
FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, left, conducts a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 22, 2018, as then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, right, looks on.
The AP also reported Sunday that information about Russian bounties was in another presidential daily briefing this year, and that current national security advisor Robert O'Brien had discussed the issue with Trump.
O'Brien denies the AP report. He said Monday that the intelligence information about Russian bounties has "not been verified." But he added that the administration has "been preparing should the situation warrant action."
The White House did not answer AP's questions about if Trump or other officials knew of Russia's reported actions in 2019. The White House said Trump has not yet been briefed on the intelligence finding because it has not been fully confirmed.
How did intelligence find out?
Concerns about Russian bounties gained attention this year after members of the special forces recovered $500,000 from a Taliban military camp. Members of the U.S. intelligence community suspected that Russia had offered the money to the Taliban and related groups.
The New York Times first reported that information. Sources told the AP that career government officials also developed several possible actions against Russian aggression in Afghanistan. But the Trump administration has not approved any action.
Officials said the intelligence in 2019 and 2020 surrounding Russian bounties came from captured Taliban militants from different areas and different tribes.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, denied that Russia had offered payments to the Taliban in exchange for targeting U.S. and coalition forces.
The Taliban told VOA on Tuesday that it held a video call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The Taliban is currently in negotiations for a peace deal with the United States. Its spokesman said the reports are "not true. We have already rejected that." He added the group would not permit "anyone to use Afghan soil (to launch attacks) against any country."
FILE - Afghan security forces gather at the site of Monday's suicide attack near the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 9, 2019.
Congressional reaction
The Trump administration held separate briefings on the issue for Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress.
On Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers said White House officials offered "their perspective" at a time when lawmakers need to hear directly from the intelligence community.
Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, chair of the House intelligence committee, said that Trump's defense that he has not been briefed about the issue is inexcusable.
A day earlier, Republican Ben Sasse, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said Congress should aim to find out who knew what and when. He said, "Did the commander in chief know? And if not, how the hell not?"
The AP reported that the U.S. is investigating whether Americans died as a result of the Russian bounties. Officials are centering their efforts on an April 2019 attack that killed three U.S. soldiers as they returned to Bagram airfield.
One of those soldiers was Corporal Robert Hendriks of Locust Valley, New York. His father told the AP that even unconfirmed talk of Russian bounties should have been immediately addressed.
The Associated Press reported this story. Hai Do adapted for Learning English with additional information from VOA News. Ashley Thompson was the editor.
bounty - n. a amount of money given to someone as a reward for action against someone else
classified - adj. kept secret from all but a few people in the government
briefing - n. a short meeting to give and receive information
verify - v. to prove, show or state that something is true
warrant - v. to deserve
source - n. a person that gives information
perspective - n. a way of thinking about and understanding something
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Taliban's "Reduction of Violence" Deal With U.S. Begins Friday
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US Lawmakers: Taliban Invitation to Camp David Was a Bad Idea


If we don't fight against poverty and ignorance we will be forced to fight poor and ignorant people. Strategies for public awareness are part of finding national solutions for supporting education, science, technology and research.
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"Don't even odd" game helps elementary school students (and all willing) to learn the properties of odd and even numbers. The game contains "Learn" section, which explains in simple worlds the rules of divisibility of numbers, in this case, what are even and odd numbers.
Game rules are very simple and consists mainly of finding all the even numbers in a numerical jungle. After each stage you can review all selected numbers and analyze correctness of the answers.
Take the "Challenge" and test your knowledge about properties of the odd and even numbers!
However, the educational value is added to the engaging game which will satisfy fans of logic and arcade games.


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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, född 28 januari 1608 i Neapel, död 31 december 1679 i Rom, var en italiensk naturforskare.

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Borelli studerade matematik i Pisa och var sedermera professor i ämnet vid universitetet i Messina. Borelli bosatte sig 1674 i Rom som läkare hos drottning Kristina och skrev där ett berömt arbete om djurens rörelser, genom vilket han blev en av fysiologins grundläggare. Borelli var den förste, som sökte förklara djurens rörelser med mekanikens lagar. Han var även en framstående forskare inom andra områden, uppfann heliostaten, påvisade kometerna paraboliska bana med mera.

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli är begravd i kyrkan San Pantaleo i Rom.

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Q: How to disable an animation when Tab is selected in TabLayout android The grey color appears for fraction of seconds when I touch on TabLayout. how to disable it?

A: The gray color you see after clicking the TabLayout is a ripple color. You can disable that by setting app:tabRippleColor="@null" in your XML.
Here is the code
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        android:id="@+id/tabLayout"
        app:tabRippleColor="@null"
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        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
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Pop another slice in the toaster!
If you can conceive it and the willingness to try and make it a reality, sometimes some truly incredible things can be created and other times, you can just make something that is utterly bonkers and Toast Time: Smash Up is certainly a mix of the two!
Baked by Force of Habit, Toast Time: Smash Up is a self-described multiplayer brawler that features "unique toast-based recoil/reload action" that players first caught a glimpse of, back in 2014 when Toast Time, released on Steam.
Despite featuring the pixelated appearance most indie games go for, which some may deem being too simple or even bland, the colour contrasts and backgrounds are actually one of the features that first saw the game receive so much praise the first time around.
Its soundtrack isn't too shabby either as it is rather endearing, but it is the premise, humour and gameplay that make Toast Time the enjoyable time waster it is, so let's talk about those, shall we?
The spare time in which they seek is a clock that players need to stop them from reaching at any cost, since as long as one of them reaches it, you will fail the level. So, to stop them from reaching it, players must unleash their sliced bread and shoot them by aiming with the left analog stick pressing the A button to fire. You will need to be careful however, since firing will cause TERRY to bounce around.
TERRY's ricochet reaction isn't the worst thing in the world however, since it does allow him to reach new platforms and areas where the likes of crates can be lurking. Not only can collecting these crates grant him a power-up in the form of one of the game's 16 bread-based weapons but when you collect enough of them, they will allow you to unlock things as well. More on that later though.
To beat the missions, for the most part, you just have to survive for a set period of time (40 seconds for example,) but some levels will limit you on how many shots you can take and attempting to fully complete a level (getting all 3 stars on it,) will require you to collect a certain amount of crates and reach/surpass the target score. (Just beating the level awards 1 star.) One way to rack up the points however, is to get a combo of 20 and activate Coffee Time. Failure to maintain a combo will cause you to lose it, thus reducing the amount of points you'll get per kill.
A high score isn't everything though since your focus would be better off on collecting the crates, because not only are there 16 weapons that can be unlocked (300 crates are required to unlock them all,) but should you collect 2000 of them, you will be able to unlock the game's 55 different customisations.
Granted these customisations only consist of the hats that TERRY loves, different facial expressions and eyewear (such as a monocle,) but these coupled with miscellaneous items like a Magician's Wand, all help to make TERRY become the adorable toaster you wish him to be. But if you don't want to customise him personally, you can always hit randomise when in the game's Tailor menu.
As for three other things you can do with the single player campaign, the first is do your best to achieve the game's 8 trophies. The second thing is to consult your stats and see how you've done. The third thing however is more wholesome as content packed as it's a Survival mode for players to endure.
Not only is the mode great for snagging more crates, but you get to act and shoot on the fly, perfecting your skills in a bid to survive for as long as you can before returning to the main campaign.
If the single life is not for you however, as long as you have a friend to play with, you can always opt to engage in multiplayer and check out just what exactly it is this game has, which allows it to be defined as a brawler.
Admittedly, there isn't an awful lot to the mode, but with up to four players supported, customisable appearances and a number of weapon classes and rules to utilise, there is enough substance and range there so that players can sink a couple of hours into it and have an egg-cracking good time.
If you looked in a dictionary for the definition for "recipe for disaster," there will not be any mention of Toast Time: Smash Up! whatsoever. It may look a tad too basic for some and have a bread focus that is asinine in nature, but it is a crusty little title that is a lot more fun than it looks. Sure, the replay value may get a little stale over time, but it is certainly not a mouldy loaf!
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ESG Performance During A Bear Market
2020 has provided investors with a taste of how investments focused on SUSTAINABLE INVESTING perform during a market decline. From a peak on March 4th, the MSCI ACWI ETF (ticker: ACWI) representing 2,279 global stocks from 23 developing economies and 26 emerging markets, lost -28.4% en route to its recent bottom on March 23rd.
Investments that utilize an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) approach to portfolio construction outperformed both their benchmarks and conventional investing peers. Based on the data I'll summarize below, we can attribute outperformance to that extra layer of ESG screening.
While we have data tracking the performance of ESG indices going back 3 decades, we don't have much in terms of empirical evidence. Many ESG funds, especially ETFs, don't have a track record that dates farther back than our last major bear market from the Great Recession in 2008. The information compiled below represents a first look at how actual ESG ETFs performed when challenged by the stock market.
ESG PERFORMANCE FOR US LARGE CAPS
The Morningstar Advisor Workstation database contains 10 US Large-Cap ESG themed ETFs receiving the highest SUSTAINABILITY RATING. The following table shows each fund's trailing 3-month total return performance data for the time period 1/14/2020 - 4/14/2020.
The average trailing 3-month total return for these funds is -12.02%. To put these numbers in context, investors can compare fund's results to both a "Category" as well as a "Benchmark". A category is simply a group of funds represented by a common investment style, i.e., U.S. large companies. A benchmark is comprised of actual stocks or bonds designed to represent an appropriate part of the stock or bond market.
3-Month Total Return for Morningstar US Large-Cap Blend Category: -14.76%
3-Month Total Return for Best-Fit Benchmark (Russell 1000): -13.64%
The average outperformance of U.S. large-cap ESG ETFs compared to the category (peers) is 2.74%.
The average outperformance of U.S. large-cap ESG ETFs compared to the benchmark (basket of representative stocks) is 1.62%.
ESG PERFORMANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL FUNDS
Using the same method for non-U.S. ESG ETFs, we come up with only 2 funds satisfying our criteria. To expand the sample size to generate more meaningful information, we can include emerging market ETFs as well as relax our sustainability rating to above average. This produces 14 results with trailing total return data for at least 3 months (1/14/2020 - 4/14/2020).
Average 3-Month Total Return of non-U.S. ESG ETFs: -17.69%
3-Month Total Return for Morningstar Foreign Large Blend Category: -19.23%
3-Month Total Return for Best-Fit Benchmark (MSCI ACWI Ex-US): -19.45%
The average outperformance of foreign ESG ETFs compared to the category (peers) is 1.54%.
The average outperformance of foreign ESG ETFs compared to the benchmark (basket of representative stocks) is 1.76%.
ESG PERFORMANCE FOR BONDS
While there are 9 ESG bond ETFs in existence today, only 2 are designed to represent the entirety of the U.S. bond market. The other 7 have narrow focuses such as green bonds, corporate ESG bonds, or high yield ESG bonds. It wouldn't be appropriate to lump the 7 highly focused ESG bond ETFs in with this analysis since their benchmarks are all different. Based on our two players, here's what we have for the time period 1/14/2020 - 4/14/2020.
Average 3-Month Total Return of Bond ESG ETFs: 4.46%
3-Month Total Return for Morningstar Intermediate Core Bond Category: 2.39%
3-Month Total Return for Best-Fit Benchmark (Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Bond Index): 3.78%
The average outperformance of bond ESG ETFs compared to the category (peers) is 2.07%.
The average outperformance of bond ESG ETFs compared to the benchmark (basket of representative stocks) is 0.68%.
First, a word of caution. As much as I'd love to claim ESG funds outperformance during bear markets as dogma, we just don't have enough real-life data to say this yet. There are different ways to approach the ESG performance conversation, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. This short blog post isn't the end of the conversation. It represents the beginning.
I chose to include only ETFs in my analysis. I did this for several reasons. First, that's primarily the investment vehicle of choice at Aspen Leaf Wealth Management. Second, ETFs by nature are usually designed as index funds, meaning they are passively managed and track an underlying benchmark (allowing for apples to apples comparisons). Third, using ESG mutual funds complicates the analysis since these funds tend to be actively managed (attempting to outguess the market). Using actively managed ESG mutual funds would've added a 2nd variable that skewed the results. For example, was the performance due to material ESG factors or was the portfolio manager simply lucky (or unlucky)?
While ESG indices have outperformed in the past, this isn't always the case*. For example, in 2008, the KLD 400 Social Index produced a total return of -35.93% while the S&P 500 returned -37.00%. Advantage, ESG investing. But, from 2000 through 2002, the KLD 400 Social Index produced an average annual return of -14.98% while the S&P 500 returned -14.36%. Advantage, conventional investing.
Sometimes sustainable investing with its ESG layer of screening outperforms. Sometimes it doesn't. The important thing to remember is that sustainable investing is competitive with conventional investing.
In fact, Wall Street titan Morgan Stanley analyzed over 10,000 funds using the same Morningstar data set I use. Their 2018 research produced two myth-busting conclusions. First, sustainable investing doesn't actually underperform as was previously assumed. Second, sustainable investing experienced 20% less downside deviation (the bad kind investors loathe when markets decline), which they concluded was a statistically significant finding.
You can read the full report HERE.
FINAL TAKEAWAY
If you're a sustainably-minded investor already utilizing an ESG screening approach with ETFs, be happy you're doing better so far in 2020 than the average investor as well as the benchmark.
If you've heard about ESG and are sustainable-curious, be sure to check out our ESG GUIDE. Sustainable investing is all we do at Aspen Leaf Wealth Management. An overview of our various portfolio options can be found HERE.
When you're ready to initiate a no strings attached discussion about improving your portfolio for yourself, people, and the planet, reach out by clicking the "Contact" link in the upper right corner of this page.
* Source: Morningstar Advisor Workstation
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Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Wales (Welsh: Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru) is the principal minister of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales. He or she is a member of the cabinet and the head of the Wales Office. He or she is responsible for ensuring Welsh interests are taken into account by Her Majesty's Government, representing the government within Wales and overseeing the passing of legislation which is only for Wales. The current Secretary of State for Wales is Alun Cairns, following his appointment in 2016.
The Labour Party proposed the creation of a Welsh Office run by a Secretary of State for Wales in their manifesto for the 1959 general election. When they came to power in 1964 this was soon put into effect.
The post of Secretary of State for Wales came into existence on 17 October 1964; the first incumbent was Jim Griffiths, MP for Llanelli. The position entailed responsibility for Wales, and expenditure on certain public services was delegated from Westminster. In April 1965 administration of Welsh affairs, which had previously been divided between a number of government departments, was united in a newly created Welsh Office with the Secretary of State for Wales at its head, and the Welsh Secretary became responsible for education and training, health, trade and industry, environment, transport and agriculture within Wales.
During the 1980s and 1990s, as the number of Conservative MPs for Welsh constituencies dwindled almost to zero, the office fell into disrepute. Nicholas Edwards, MP for Pembrokeshire, held the post for eight years. On his departure, the government ceased to look within Wales for the Secretary of State, and the post was increasingly used as a way of getting junior high-fliers into the Cabinet. John Redwood in particular caused embarrassment when he publicly demonstrated his inability to sing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", the Welsh national anthem, at a conference.
The introduction of the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government, after the devolution referendum of 1997, was the beginning of a new era. On 1 July 1999 the majority of the functions of the Welsh Office transferred to the new assembly. The Welsh Office was disbanded, but the post of Secretary of State for Wales was retained, as the head of the newly created Wales Office.
Since 1999 there have been calls for the office of Welsh Secretary to be scrapped or merged with the posts of Secretary of State for Scotland and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, to reflect the lesser powers of the role since devolution.
^ Formerly MP for the Welsh constituency of Pembrokeshire, but represented an English constituency while in office.
^ Formerly MP for the Welsh constituency of Conway, but represented an English constituency while in office.
^ Redwood resigned to stand in the 1995 Conservative leadership election. During the election, Hunt acted as Secretary of State.
^ Resigned following a "moment of madness" on Clapham Common.
^ Following implementation of the Government of Wales Act 1998, and the 1999 Assembly election, Michael held office as inaugural First Secretary for Wales from 12 May 1999.
^ "Secretary of State for Wales". gov.uk. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
^ "WALES | 'Scrap Welsh secretary' demand". BBC News. 19 March 2001. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
^ "UK | Wales | Wales Office in melting pot". BBC News. 12 June 2003. Retrieved 7 June 2010.


People cry at weddings. It happens, much like guests decide to play wedding photographer with their cell phones. But you rarely see the groom do it.
Well, Will Caeser didn't hold back when he wed Lindsey Whitehead in Pascagoula, Miss. He was captured on video letting the tears fall.
Caeser, who's a pastor wanted to marry last year, but his bride preferred a Christmas wedding, so it was a long time coming.
Another reason for the weeping wedding? Whitehead's mother reportedly didn't approve of the couple tying the knot, but she surprised everyone by showing up and walking her down the aisle.
As for why the video seems to be hitting home with so many people, one person in attendance said, "It's humanity and it's love and it's the starting of a relationship, and that's what's touching everyone, I believe."
Of course, grooms crying their eyes out may just be a new trend. Who knows?


Global Inkjet Systems (GIS), global leader in industrial inkjet software and system components, now offers its flexible drive electronics for the new Konica Minolta KM1800i and KM1024i double-head modules.
The pre-aligned modules enable 720dpi (KM1024iSAE-C for aqueous inks) and 1200dpi (KM1800iSHC-C for solvent, oil and UV curable inks) and are used in the successful Konica Minolta Nassenger SP-1 single pass textile printer and the KM-1/ KM-C cut sheet printers respectively. Konica Minolta (KM) is now offering these Modules to OEM machine builders and system integrators.
The GIS HIB-KM-1024i and HIB-KM-1800i Head Interface Boards, which each drive two printheads, perfectly complement the new Modules and provide complete printhead and waveform control.


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By Ben Nicholson-Smith | December 31, 2009 at 2:12pm CDT
The Cubs signed Marlon Byrd to a three-year $15MM deal today. The 32-year-old will play center field and push Kosuke Fukudome to right. Ken Rosenthal tweeted that the Cubs were nearing a deal with Byrd and Carrie Muskat followed up with the contract's length and value before Gordon Wittenmyer reported the specifics: the Cubs will pay Byrd just $3MM in 2010, $5.5MM in 2011 and $6.5MM in 2012.
A number of teams had been connected to Byrd, including the Braves. He had expressed interest in returning to the Rangers, but wanted a multi-year deal. As a Type B free agent, Byrd nets the Rangers a supplementary rounder in next year's draft.
Byrd, 32, hit .283/.329/.479 in 599 plate appearances with the Rangers last year, hitting a career-high 20 homers. He played mostly in center field, where his defense was below average, according to UZR/150. However, the sample size (889 innings) is limited, and UZR did like Byrd's defense in left.
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Note that one would also be able to cast just about all of these in a silicone mould.
I've been working on the design of the Ponoko lasercut extruder. I've managed to make it fit better into the extruder socket and even made the "handle" on the extruder clamp variable in width for maximum grip by putting a split in it.
By tightening or loosening the M5 locknut on the screw that goes through the "handle" (roughly in the centre of the picture) you can pull its two halves, expanding or shrinking the handle's thickness.
The whole thing is compatible with the Darwin exchangeable extruder, and in fact seems more rigid. If there's an interest in making the extruder available as a kit on its own, let me know and I'll do so.
Ever since we decided to separate the computation of slices from the driving of the RepRap machine by writing the computed slice movements to a G-Code file then subsequently re-playing that on the machine, we have known that that strategy would improve quality. This is because it removes dwells and delays from the build caused by the slicing code having to perform (sometimes quite intensive) computations. The G Code file has exactly all the right speeds and delays in it, and there is no significant delay in transferring the commands to the RepRap machine from simply reading a file.
This improvement was confirmed experimentally and in production by Nophead's Hydraraptor work, and by Zach's ReplicatorG G-Code RepRap-driving program.
Here is the first build out of the standard RepRap Java host software updated as in the post below. It's the RepRap coat hook. I computed the slices and saved them to a GCode file (this took about 12 minutes). Then I replayed the file (this took about an hour and a half). This was on my home RepRap, driven by a Sanguino running the Sanguino GCode firmware extruding ABS at 240oC.
Above is the coat hook unretouced just after the build finished.
And here is it after brushing the hair off. The quality is almost as good as the superb results that Nophead gets, at which I am well-chuffed as I haven't finished tweaking the parameters yet.
Tomorrow, Ed and I will get together in the lab at Bath to make sure this all works with the Arduino (which we have on the lab machine) as well as the Sanguino.
At long last, I have got the lasercut RepRap kit online, available now from Ponoko here. Cost of the lasercut components is approximately US$380 plus shipping, and it is compatible with the electronics kits and motors sold by the RepRap Research Foundation. As you can see from the photo on the right of the X axis assembly, it uses ball-chain instead of 2.5mm timing belt. What you can't see is that it also has an option for using lasercut bearing races instead of skater bearings. That worked really quite well.
I've bearly started the instructions here. The instructions on the BitsFromBytes page are generally applicable and will fill most of the gaps, though the Ponoko variant does use more laminated parts to avoid having to use routing. I recommend using all clear acrylic as it is much easier to see through the parts and see what you're doing!
I have also started acquiring Australiasian suppliers for PTFE rod, PLA filament, fine nichrome wire and stepper motors with a view to making a complete electronics kit available from local sources.
Hopefully we can redress the balance and get a few more RepRaps going in the Southern hemisphere!
Today has been a busy day... I'm also releasing ReplicatorG 0002. If you're not familiar with this software, its a generic GCode host software designed for use with RepRap machines. You feed it a GCode file, it parses it and then uses a driver based system to control a RepRap machine. Its simple, modular, and expandable. Its based on the Processing/Arduino codebase so it has a nice, friendly GUI system. Its also cross-platform straight out of the box. The installation process is pretty straightforward: download it and run it! You might have to install Java if you dont already have it.
* move to a controller/model/driver system.
You can download ReplicatorG from google code, or head over to the Replicat.org website to learn more about the software.
I'm happy to release the v1.3 of the Sanguino software. This is a compatibility update for the Sanguino. I've fixed some minor compatibility issues with some of the core Arduino libraries.
Anyway, you can download it from SourceForge or check out the Sanguino homepage.
Recently, I've been working on the 'Generation 3' electronics based on the Sanguino / atmega644p chip. This new generation of electronics sets out to solve many different problems with the current electronics: modularity, simplicity of wiring, microprocessor power, as well as adding many new features: sd card support, lcd support, interface support, and much more. This next generation of electronics is a large topic, which I will cover in future blog posts, but for now I'd like to focus on one particular feature: the data bus for the modular extruder system.
If you remember back to the days of the Generation 1, PIC based electonics we had a token ring system where each part of the system had its own microcontroller and was connected via TTL serial. This system suffered from many flaws, including noise in the serial lines connecting the various microprocessors.
The Generation 2, Arduino based electronics fixed this by swinging to the opposite end of the pendulum: all the electronics are controlled by a single microprocessor and no serial data connections are required (except to the computer). The main disadvantage to this is that the Arduino is pretty underpowered to drive a complex system such as a RepRap machine. We managed to do it, but we had to take quite a few shortcuts. This basically means we're also pretty limited in the things we could achieve.
The Generation 3, Sanguino based electronics will swing back towards the middle, using a 'best of both worlds' approach. It uses a more capable microprocessor which solves the memory and pin problems. However, even with more pins its is still tricky to drive more than 2 extruders, or one extruder and an LCD screen / button interface. Thus, we need a modular system to allow expandability.
This long winded intro brings me to the subject of this post: RS485. This is a serial communications specification that uses differential signaling. The awesome thing about this is that it offers many cool things, one of which is improved noise immunity. As the wire contains the same signal twice (once normal, once inverted) When it gets to the other end, and the inverted signal is transformed into a non-inverted signal and combined with the original signal. Any electrical noise that was picked up is then cancelled out due to wave mechanics. Cool, huh?
I'm not an electrical engineer, so this stuff is all pretty new to me. Fortunately, we have many smart people participating in the RepRap project with experience in many different areas. One of those people is Nophead, who you may remember from his excellent HydraRaptor machine. He might deny it, but he's an electrical genius and he gave me a chip number and a circuit for doing RS485 communications. Today I built and assembled it.
In the picture you'll see the eventual setup I had going. I wired up two RS485 circuits to two Arduinos, and wrote a quick sketch to get them talking. The connection was a very long long, unshielded, twisted pair cable from an old ethernet cable. I hooked all these up and started them communicating. It worked great! I also did a test to try and inject some noise into the system by operating a powertool right next to the wires. It was very unscientific, but the RS485 connection didn't skip a beat.
There was one problem that I ran into, which was easily fixed. The Arduino only has one hardware serial port, which was being shared by the RS485 chip as well as the FTDI usb -> serial converter chip that is on all Arduinos. The problem was that when uploading a new sketch to the arduino, the RS485 would also be sending and receiving data which would seriously mess with the uploading process. Luckily, the RS485 chip has both a transmit enable and a receive enable pin. I used the appropriate pullup/pulldown resistors to default these both to off so that when the Arduino was reset for the upload process, the RS485 was disabled. This means that I had to wire up an additional two pins on the arduino to control the RS485 receive/transmit status. This is not a big deal because using RS485 frees up a lot more pins than it uses, so there will be plenty of pins available.
Anyway, today was a good day of hacking. Hopefully later this week I'll be able to wire up the SD card and run it through its paces. Luckily for me, there are schematics and code already written for the Arduino all over the internet, which means that it will be fairly trivial to wire it up and getting it working on the Sanguino.
I've managed to put together one extruder from the bits of lasercut prototypes Ponko have been cutting for me. It slotted straight in to the Darwin head exchange mechanism, but was a bit loose. I've got a better extruder base already being cut by Ponoko so I was expecting that and simply wrapped it with tape. The extruder motor is a little far away, so a temporary heave-to has been executed with a cable tie. Sorry, ugly. Is also fixed already.
I've loaded it with ABS and am now printing components with it, as you can see in the photo, as well as a classic Mighty RepRap Power Ring. I've fitted the ABS extruder to a Darwin to try my hand at testing out ABS, Imagin Plastics were kind enough to give me a 50m sample of 3mm ABS natural. Looks good, and I should be able to get it for under NZ$20 per 100 metre coil.
I've found ABS to be generally the hardest plastic to work with. It needs high temperatures, high pressures, and isn't that keen to laminate. You have to work in thin layers to keep lamination, which slows me down. It does score on accuracy and tidiness, however, as the paste-like exudate stops fairly rapidly even without a valved nozzle.
You need to have your nozzle mounted very rigidly, because ABS is not that easy for the hot nozzle to plough through if there are any rough bits sticking up from the surface. This is another reason I found to use thin layers and go slowly.
Things bode well for an alpha release of the Ponoko lasercut components kit. I'm getting excited about that, and it should tie in nicely with the imminent arrival of Zach's new shipment of extruder motors on the RRRF site.
Oh, the curly-white wave flowing over the top of the big washer holding the extruder barrel is an ABS leak between the PTFE insulator rod and the top of the brass M6 extruder barrel. I hadn't anticipated the need to seal it, but the ABS starts pressurizing some way up the PTFE rod and squooshes out the gaps in an organic way. I'll seal the gap with PTFE tape when I install the latest extruder clamp assembly off the pending prototype lasercut run.
I've also been working on the Generation 3 electronics for a while now. One of the things I'm aiming to achieve is making everything a bit more friendly to assemble. One of those things is the switch to using IDC connectors where possible. These things are super easy to make, polarized, and fairly cheap. I'll be coming out with a 'Sanguino Motherboard' soon which will have complementary IDC headers. Wiring up your RepRap will be *much* simpler with these new electronics.
Of course, you can easily just have an IDC connector on one end and route the individual wires to where you want.
Files posted to SourceForge or available in SUbversion as always.
I'd like to take this opportunity to reflect on the past few years of work (wow!) and say that I've thoroughly enjoyed working on the project and I look forward to working on it even harder in the coming years.
When I first started working on RepRap, I was a wild-eyed college student with dreams of 3D printers and being able to whip together a 3D printer in a few days and start changing the world.
Of course a few days turned into weeks, which turned into months, which turned into years. I've learned a *ton* along the way though and have had my share of mis-steps as well. I've come from basically zero understanding about electronics, firmware, microcontrollers, extruders, and cartesian robots to a point where I am reasonably comfortable with all of those technologies and am now active in developing and hacking on the next generation designs.
We've come a long way as a project from the early days, and luckily things have only changed for the better. For example, when I first got started, the first thing I did was build the electronics. Except there were no manufactured boards. Adrian had but up a little how-to on the website about how to etch your own boards. I decided that this was way too hard for myself (and by extension, your average person) so I decided that I would get them manufactured. Thus the RepRap Research Foundation was born. Since then, nearly every single part you need to build a RepRap is now available from either the RepRap Research Foundation, or BitsFromBytes.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I'm excited about the future of this project. Now that I have these physical objects in front of me that my machine produced, it feels so much more real. No longer is the printer this magical dream that I've been chasing for so long, but it is something that I have sitting in front of me. There are many things to be improved, and there are many things to be changed, but it works, and thats good enough for now.
For all those out there who are just following along, or are struggling with building your own machine: keep up the fight, and keep hacking on it. You'll have your machine working and when you do it will be beautiful.
Well, it's been about eighteen months since hitting a milestone on my Reprap work has caused me to to break out my 12 year-old Mcallans' single malt. Tonight... is the night, though. I should possibly have published this in the Builders' blog. I reasoned that you could do this with a Darwin, however, so I published it here in the main blog instead.
What you are looking at is a six-toothed involute profile sprocket gear cut on Tommelise 2.0. It has a pitch radius of 6 mm, a pressure angle of 20 degrees and with its involute profile surface defined by six planes. I cut it with a 1/16th inch cutter mounted in a flexible drive shaft on a standard Dremel hand tool mounted to Tommelise 2.0's positioning robot. It was cut in commercial 1/4th inch black, HDPE sheet. This sprocket is probably smaller than it needed to be.
I wanted, however, to test the envelopes of my Slice and Dice software, the cutter and the positioning accuracy of the Tommelise positioning robot. I could probably get eight teeth on a 6 mm pitch radius gear, but that would be right at the limits of my system.
It took me about two and one-half hours to cut it. Most of that time was spent worrying that I'd mar the piece. It should go quite a bit faster in future now that I have the parameters for working HDPE on this machine.


One of my favorite hair tutorials is the Double Braided Ponytail. It looks like such an intricate braid but is actually two braids in one. It got me thinking though, what if it was just one braid? That's where this braid came from. It looks like a four strand braid but I did both of them side by side and they are definitely not the same. This one has a more woven look and needless to say, I am really excited about it.
Hair is just my jam and when a bout of creativity sneaks in and I can create a braid that feels a little different from other things I've done then it just reminds me how much I really enjoy doing this. I love doing hair, making tutorials, creating fun and unique styles that other people can recreate on their own.
Step 1 / Begin by creating a deep side part on the right side.
Step 2 / Pick up a section on the heavy side of the part and split this into three sections. Add some braid paste to the section to help control flyaways.
Step 3 / Start a regular braid by crossing the right strand over the middle and then the left strand.
Step 4 / Take the right strand and clip this out of the way.
Step 5 / Pick up a new section and cross it over the middle in the place of the strand that was clipped away.
Step 6 / Cross the left strand over the middle and bring in a new section. This side of the braid is done like a regular french braid.
Step 7 / Bring down the strand that was clipped away and switch it with the new right strand, bringing the top strand under the bottom one.
Step 8 / Clipping the second strand (now above the other strand) up and out of the way.
Step 9 / Cross the new right strand over the middle and pick up a new section of hair crossing it over the middle as well, just like a french braid.
Step 10 / Now with the left side, cross the side strand over the middle and bring in a new section of hair.
Step 11 / With the right side, bring down the top clipped piece, cross it underneath the bottom piece and wrap the bottom piece up, clipping it away. Essentially you are switching these two side strands but the top one always needs to go under the bottom one.
Step 12 / Cross the new side strand over the middle and cross a new section into the braid.
Step 13 / Continue the braid working down towards the left ear and stop adding in hair once it's about an inch above the ear.
Step 14 / Braid the section a little further down and tie it off with an elastic band.
Step 15 / Go back through the braid, carefully pulling on the edges to make it fuller. I love doing this so the braid looks bigger and is easier to see.
Step 16 / Wrap the braid around the head, and pick up a small section of hair underneath the hair at the crown.
Step 17 / Tie this little section to the braid to secure it against the head. The hair on top will hide the elastic band and will hold better than using bobby pins.
Step 18 / Remove the elastic band from the end of the braid and unravel it.
Step 19 / Grab a flat iron and smooth down the hair if desired.
Step 1 / With the braid done and tied off, bring all of the hair together right above the nape of the neck.
Step 2 / Add the braid into the ponytail last so it doesn't get buried underneath other hair.
Step 3 / Tie the hair together into a ponytail with a hair band.
Step 4 / Remove the elastic band from the end of the braid.
Step 5 / Wrap a piece of hair from the ponytail around the hair band to hide it and tie another elastic band over the ponytail to keep the wrapped section from coming undone.
Step 6 / Straighten the ponytail with a flat iron and set the style with hairspray.
What a pretty hair style, I love the braid!
I love this!!! Thanks so much!


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Microsoft to charge Europeans double for Windows 7
Microsoft dumps Windows 7 upgrades for EU
FAQ: How much will Windows 7 cost you?
Windows 7 pre-orders grab Amazon's top sales spots
Microsoft EU e-store collapses amid crush of Windows 7 pre-orders
Amazon's French and German stores sell out of discounted operating system
Microsoft's European online store crashed today under the load from customers eager to grab discounted copies of Windows 7.
During the outage, the site displayed a message that said, "Due to the eagerly anticipated Windows 7 pre-order offer, we're experiencing a higher level of demand on our website than usual. This means you can't access the site right now and we're sorry about that."
The store was briefly back online at 11 a.m. ET, but an hour later it had again gone down.
According to a report by the BBC, Amazon's UK store claimed that it had moved more copies of Windows 7 in the sale's first eight hours than it did in the 17-week run of a similar pre-order offer in 2006 for Windows Vista.
The sale, a repeat of the U.S. pre-order deals that ended last Saturday, kicked off today when Microsoft offered heavy discounts on Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional in the U.K., France and Germany. The discounts are good through Aug. 14, or until supplies last.
That caveat came into play on Amazon.com's French and German stores, both which announced early Wednesday that they had sold out their allotments of the specially-priced editions. Amazon's German store, for instance, said today that it had exhausted its supply of the €49.97 Home Premium, and instead was taking new pre-orders at €119.97.
The sell-out of Windows 7 pushed Home Premium and Professional to the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively, on Amazon's French and German software bestseller lists.
Microsoft is selling Windows 7E Home Premium in the U.K. for £49.99, a 67% discount from the list price of £149.99, and selling Professional for £99.99, 55% under the usual £219.99.
European customers will receive Windows 7 in special editions, dubbed "E" for "Europe," that have been stripped of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). A month ago, Microsoft decided to yank IE8 from Windows 7 in an effort to head off EU antitrust regulators, who may still force the company to take more drastic measures.
Instead, Microsoft has shifted the responsibility for a browser to computer makers, who will decide which browser or browsers to install. The lack of a browser in Windows 7E shoved Microsoft's "Internet Pack" -- a bundle that includes both IE8 and Windows Live Essentials -- to the No. 2 spot on Amazon's German software bestseller list today. Amazon is charging German customers #8364;3.99 for the pack.
The introduction of Windows 7E has presented Microsoft with a major problem: Because it will block Vista users from doing "in-place" upgrades to Windows 7 -- to do otherwise would leave a version of IE on the machine -- the company isn't selling "Upgrade" editions. Instead, it's selling the "Full" editions, which are usually more expensive, at "Upgrade" prices.
The discounted prices for Windows 7 in the EU and the U.K. were for the Full editions, which Microsoft will sell at least through the end of the year. It expects to eventually solve the technical issues, at which point it will introduce its standard two-tier Upgrade/Full retail pricing.
Customers who pre-order Windows 7 won't receive their copies until on or after Oct. 22, the day that Microsoft officially launches the operating system.