Are You Acting a Fool?
I 'm a fool… and you may be one too. This morning as I was reading through Proverbs, there were so many interesting verses that caused me reflect on who I am as a person. Once such verse was Proverbs 18:2 "fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions". If you know me at all, then you definitely know that I can be opinionated. When I know what I know, it can be very difficult to persuade me to believe otherwise. There is nothing wrong with having a well formed opinion that is based on fact, experience, research and the knowledge of experts. However, when you voice your opinion about a topic that you have very little knowledge or personal experience in, you may be acting a fool.
I remember having a phone call with a close friend of mine nearly seven years ago. She called me out of the blue and was SOOOO EXCITED!!!!! I had known this friend for many years and since I really respected her and her opinion, I was interested to hear what she had to say. However, after about 30 seconds, like a porcupine sensing danger, the quills on my body stood up! Porcupines have poor vision, they can't see where danger is coming from, therefore they use their quills to protect themselves. Since I am not a porcupine and I don't have quills to protect myself, I have to resort to other means of self defense. Since I am a big guy I have several different options at my disposal, however the thought of physically harming one of the most loving people I know would have been downright evil, so I resorted to my next best weapon, my mouth.
Looking back now it easy to see how foolish I was that day. Because I had been in sales much of my adult life, each time a friend or family member joined one of those "pyramid schemes", I was at the top of their contact list. Because of that, I could sense an "opportunity" from a mile away. This time was no different. I remember the first words that came out of my mouth that day…"oh no, not you too!" And even though she tried to reassure me that this one was "different" (everyone says theirs is DIFFERENT), I wanted nothing to do with it. The more she talked, the more I resisted. The more I resisted, the more she talked. Finally she asked me to watch an ABC Primetime News report and reluctantly I agreed.
Honestly, I think I would have done ANYTHING at that point to get her to shut up! Little did I know that watching the video would only be the beginning of what seemed to be an endless, mind-numbing and frustrating conversation about the topic.
The ABC report introduced me to scientific terms and people (apparently "world renowned" scientists) that I had never heard before. The whole thing seemed fishy and I certainly wasn't going to "buy" into it! No way, I am too smart for that! So when my friend called me back and asked me what I thought, I went off on her! I questioned the validity of the science they spoke of, the scientists interviewed, the product they introduced and the credibility and motivation of ABC news. I made statements of ignorance from a place of self-protection. I specifically remember stating that places like www.pubmed.gov , a government website housing decades of scientific research, was nothing more than a hoax. I even claimed that ANYONE could buy a .gov domain name. I told her that scientific terms like "oxidative stress" and "SOD" didn't exist and that the "world renowned" scientist in the ABC report was nothing more than a company paid spokesperson in a white coat. I made all of these statements without any research, personal experience or knowledge of the topic. To put it in God's words, I was a fool.
As I write this, I wonder how many other times in my life, whether from a place of arrogance or self protection, I have made similar mistakes. I wonder how many times I have spoken foolishly while the other person, knowing that I am a fool, simply smiled and went on their merry way.
In Proverbs 16:16 God says that we should choose understanding rather than silver. With that in mind, consider today's verse. Proverbs 18:2 "fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions". God is making it very clear that UNDERSTANDING is one of the keys to living a successful and fulfilled life and that we SHOULD find pleasure in understanding each other!
This morning, in all my "wisdom", I decided to wait until I dropped Ethan off at school before filling my tank with gas. At one point Ethan even said, "Dad, you're low on gas", to which I responded, "relax I know my car." Well, apparently God wanted to teach me a lesson and put me in my place because literally, 50 feet from the gas station, my car ran out of gas and came to a slow, crawling stop and as it did, I couldn't help but tune my mind into Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic". Mister know it all…never needs gas. He drops his kid at school and heads out fast. With the station in sight, his car runs out. Twenty dollars for a can and 5 degrees out… Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? Hopefully you know the song so you can sing along!
Fortunately for me there was a nice police officer named Jackie inside filling up her coffee cup. She graciously asked me if I would like a ride back to my house so I could avoid the over inflated price of a one gallon gas can. I accepted her offer and off we went. On the way to my house, to pick up my can of gas, she asked me what I did for a living. It was at that moment that I truly understood that most people have no idea of what it is that I do, even after I tell them!
When I am asked what I do for a living, my answer often receives a blank stare in return. To help eliminate the confusion, I have tried numerous different titles to describe my occupation as a coach. Fulfillment Coach, Health Coach, Wisdom Coach, Transformation Coach and Life Coach are all titles that I have tried on for size until finally settling in on my current description, Personal Coach. No matter the title, the response is most often the same…"What's that?" followed by, "I don't have any problems" or something along those lines. Apparently, many people don't understand the concept of having a personal coach. To be honest, a few years back, I didn't either. Not until I found myself over a 1700 miles away from home, sitting in a diner, having breakfast with a Wisdom Teacher named Tawny.
My first conversation with Tawny, was difficult, to put it mildly. After 90 minutes I was convinced that she knew me better than I knew myself and that's when she told me something that I will NEVER forget. She said, "Kevin, I help people do one of two things. I either help them prepare for death or I help them live the life that God created them to live. While I am interested in helping you live, I have no interest in watching you die." Tawny's words that day woke me up. It's not that I haven't had many struggles since then, but from that moment forth, each mistake I have made, each lesson I have learned, has become a part of the fabric that makes me who I am. I am not now and never will be perfect. But the one thing that I am, is a seeker. I am a seeker for truth, knowledge, purpose, passion, love, friendship and wisdom (knowledge in action).
As a Personal Coach, I help people see their world differently. And when they see their world differently, things that they perceived as obstacles, only moments before, become incredible blessings and opportunities to change THEIR life for the better. Through raw honesty, compassion, intense listening and an abundance of thought provoking, questions, I help people understand and take action on the things that they already know they should or want to be doing but aren't. Sometimes its easy but many times its not. Last weekend, while at an event, I ran into one of my clients that lives on the other side of the country. Since we had only coached over the phone, she was not ready for the intensity that comes with working with me face to face. Later she commented that she felt like there was no place to hide, like I could see her in a way that no one else ever had. I let her know that I understood the way she felt, because many years ago in that little California café I had been in her shoes.
The reason that I am sharing this with you today is that today's verse. Proverbs 17:22 says "a cheerful heart is good medicine but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." When I read this verse, I realized that what my coaching really does, is provide my clients with a path to find their "cheerful" heart again. It is one of the most rewarding feelings to be a part of someone's life when the light, once again, "turns on" within their soul.
So often I meet with people who somewhere in their life's journey have had one or many things happen to them that "crushes" their spirit. Unfortunately, for some, they stay "stuck" there and begin to dry up like they are simply waiting to die. Reading this verse today reminded me of my own journey several years ago. I will forever be grateful to Tawny, a stranger, who used her God given talents to speak the truth to me when I most needed to hear it. For the record, I choose to live!
How about you? If you think it may be time for a little "truth" in your life, I'd be honored to be that person for you. And if you're not sure what it's all about but you know you are ready to put your fears and excuses aside to start living the life God created YOU for, I'd like to offer you a free, no holds barred, deep coaching session so that YOU can experience your own life changing moment.
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Though it is one of my favorite verses, every time I read it I would get scared. It scared me because quite often I feel like I am hiding my talents in the ground. Not intentionally, but mostly because as a "jack of all trades" I have had a hard time determining which talent it is that God wants me to focus on. I feel like the old saying, "jack of all trades, master of none", was written hundreds of years ago specifically for me. For years I have repeated that saying over and over in my head and each time I did, I felt worse about myself. It has been a debilitating thorn in my self-worth and passion since the first time someone used that label on me. What should I do? Which skill should I master? Why can't I focus? Why can't I find my one thing like everybody else? God, what do you want me to do? I tried everything to figure out exactly what it is that I am supposed to do. Coaching, school, books, videos, workshops you name it and in my quest, I have only become more and more confused.
Today, I opened Proverbs 16 and although several verses spoke to me, it was verse 9, that really caught my attention. "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps." When I read this verse I saw the word "hearts". Maybe because it is Valentine's Day or maybe because I went to sleep last night asking God and my new found friend, Ihagh G. T., for an answer, today the word "hearts" appeared to me as though I had never seen it before.
Immediately, I knew what I had long been missing and the answer was quite simple. Over the past decades, the search for my life's purpose never made its way from my HEAD, to my HEART. In my head, I worried about how much money I could make, If I was capable ,if it was a good idea, what people would think about me and of course if the path I was considering was what God wanted me to do. Seldom did I consult my heart and if I did, I would quickly dismiss its calling in favor of all the noise in my head.
Speaking of my head, remember that old saying that I carried around and allowed to cripple me for years? ("a jack of all trades a master of none") Well, it turns out that when I searched the origin of that saying this morning, I had it wrong. It turns out that while it is used today to describe someone who lacks focus, the original saying was actually a COMPLIMENT!!! When I read that, I just about fell out of my chair and smacked my head on my desk! The original saying actually read, "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." The phrase means that a person is a generalist rather than a specialist, versatile and adept at many things. Perspective changes everything, with the new definition in mind, I am PROUD to be a "jack of all trades". In fact, it is almost like all the specialists were jealous and decided to belittle us by changing the phrase to their liking!
As it turns out, now I realize that being a "jack of all trades" IS the talent God gave me, it is NOT a curse. The answer to what I have sought for so long will be found where my heart, not my head, intersects with talents. Once I fully engage my heart, as Proverbs 16:9 states, "the Lord WILL establish my steps".
How about you, are you using your talents, while following your heart or are you listening to noise in your head?
After taking a few days off writing as I traveled, I am back at it. It's strange how difficult it can be to get back on track once we interrupt a pattern. Today I want to write about a topic that has been on my mind a lot the past few days. Since reading a friend's post on Facebook about a book she was recommending, Love Yourself: Like Your Life Depends on it by Kamal Ravikant, the topic of "loving yourself" has been brought to my attention from several other close friends and clients. To be honest, the book was well written and the topic made complete sense, yet I find myself resisting the concept put forth in the book that loving yourself is as easy as telling yourself over and over that, "I love myself".
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, a day reserved for LOVE. Most often on this day, we focus on romantic love and love for those closest to us like close friends and family. But NEVER, not ONCE, in my 48 years, have I celebrated or even considered the concept of "loving myself" on this day.
There are experts all over the world that have written and taught us that in order to love someone else, we must love ourselves first. It sounds good, but what does it mean to "love yourself?" The second commandment states that "you shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these." Mark 12:31 Since God wants us to love your neighbor as yourself, doesn't it make sense that we better figure out what "loving yourself" really means, and more importantly how to do it?
Think about it. How many people, including you, not only have one thing but a list of things that they don't love about themselves? I'm too fat, I don't like my smile, I hate my nose, I'm disgusted by my body, my laugh sounds stupid, I am too short, I am too tall, my hair is too curly, my hair is too straight, I am too smart, I am too dumb, you get the idea. If we truly despise ourselves this badly, we may be better off ignoring God's advice to "love your neighbor as yourself". In fact, maybe many of us are all too good at following God's commandment and that is why the hate we feel for ourselves ends up being projected on to others in our daily life.
So then, what does it mean to "Love Yourself?" Is it as simple as looking in the mirror and saying "I love you" or as Kamal Ravikant suggests, repeating "I love myself" over and over in your mind until you believe it to be true? Since what works for one person, may not work for another, I don't want to reject either of these tactics as a possible way to create self love. In fact, they may be an important piece of the puzzle but in my mind there has to be more.
The last couple days, while working with my coaching clients, we have discussed the importance of intention. It is my belief that the only way to achieve a desired RESULT is to first create an intention and then take action. If I apply the same thinking to "self love", the first thing we need to do in order to love ourselves is to set the intention that we desire to "love our self", in the first place. Setting the intention to "love our self" brings the desire to our attention. Once we do this, our conscious and subconscious minds look for ways that we can accomplish this goal. Then, when we see the opportunity to "prove it", we must take ACTION!
For example… I LOVE cupcakes. They are soooooo good. The idea of a cupcake makes me smile. My favorite part about a cupcake is the layers and layers of frosting on top! MMMMmmmm (Did you know that when a person craves sweets, it is actually a really good indicator that they crave "love" or "sweetness" in their life?) The problem with cupcakes, or any sweets for that matter, is that they are not good for us. And while there is certainly nothing wrong with having "a" cupcake now and then, having a cupcake or a combination of many sweet foods on a daily basis, can certainly take its toll on your body and how you feel about yourself. Trust me, I know! With the intention of "loving myself" in mind, when the opportunity to partake in a delicious cupcake presents itself, saying "no thank you" would actually be an opportunity to show self love. The same could be said about how we allow others to treat us at home, at work or in a romantic relationship. Saying "no thank you" to an unacceptable behavior or action doesn't only show self-respect but it builds self love. Each time you take action and "prove it", you begin to love yourself a little bit more.
Proverbs 15:13 A Happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. Let me ask you, what could make your heart happier than truly loving yourself through intended actions each and every day? Loving yourself means putting yourself first, not because you are selfish but because God wants us to love others as we love ourselves and if we don't know how to properly love ourselves, we certainly won't be loving each other as God intended for us to do.
"Influencer". Until last week, I didn't even know the word existed in the land of social media. However after watching the Netflix documentary "FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened," I realized just how out of touch I was with younger generation that follows their every move.
For those of you that don't know, an "influencer", in marketing, is a person with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting or recommending the items on social media. The more trendy, outrageous, outspoken or famous you are, the greater influence you have. In today's generation where how you look and how lavishly you live has taken precedence over who you are and who you serve, "influencers" create trends and sell boat loads of products simply by posting a picture of themselves going to an event or using a specific item. "Influencers" have so much marketing power that a single post on the social media platform Instagram, has the potential to pay the top "influencers" in the world a quarter million dollars, just for one post! Say what?!!?
The "Fyre" documentary focused in on the event's creators, exposing one lie, false promise and exaggeration after another. Essentially, the creators used social media, specifically Instagram and Twitter, to create a "buzz" about an event touted to be the greatest party the world had ever seen. The exclusive party was to take place on a private island in the Bahamas. It was to include the opportunity to see some of the music industry's hottest bands, sleep in luxurious ocean villas, dine on fine food, drink till your heart's content and rub elbows with today's top celebrities, models and other amazing looking people. (spoiler alert) In the end, it was all a scam created by a young entrepreneur who tangled top executives, investors and even a popular rap artist into his web.
The documentary is definitely worth watching, especially if you have teenagers or young adults that you care about. I say this because the documentary provides an inside look to just how easy it is for our kids to be swayed and taken advantage of in today's world that is dominated by social media. Wow, as I write this I can't help but to feel old! Today's world??? Young people??? Seriously how did I go from being in the "know" to being shocked, old and out of touch? Eeeekkk, seriously.
Anyway, let's get back on track. The verse I chose today is from Proverbs 12:Verse 9, it reads: Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant; than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
When I read this verse I couldn't help but think about the Fyre documentary. The documentary exposed one person after another that was more concerned about their image than they were about anything else, including other people. Some of the kids were spending all they had or quitting a job to attend the event in hopes that the bragging rights of being at the event would boost their social status. Others posed for pictures in the perfect setting on the beach while wearing expensive sunglasses and designer clothing. The pictures that they would capture were nothing more than a blink of the eye, a brief moment in time. But that one perfect picture, posted on the right platform at the right time, had the potential to change their life and lift them to the status of a super star. THIS is what scared me most. It scared me because even though that one picture appeared to be fun or glamorous, the events before and after the "perfect" picture often times were not! In some cases, people were actually "living" this verse, albeit not in the way that it was intended. They were living the second half of the verse by pretending to BE somebody they weren't and in the process, sacrificing that which was most important.
For me, this verse speaks to the importance that humility plays in our lives. Being humble means to be modest and lower the estimate of your own importance. In other words, unlike the beliefs of many of today's Instagram superstars, a humble person, a "nobody," understands that the world does NOT evolve around them. A "nobody" works hard and serves others even when no one is looking. A "nobody," doesn't believe in ulterior motives. A "nobody," puts the needs of others before their own. Though often times this person may "fly under the radar", they are the ones that make the world go round. The true "influencers" in life aren't the ones we find on social media, the true "influencers" are all around you. They are parents, teachers, community leaders, pastors, and those that walk in your door when everyone else decides it's time to walk out. Being a "nobody" may not increase your social status or bring you fame on Instagram but I for one would much rather be a "nobody" with a servant; than be a somebody and have no food.


To know that there is a best bait for Cod should come as no surprise. Fishing is an art. It is a fine art as a matter of fact. Cod like all fish prefer certain bait over other bait. If you use the bait that they love you will be beating them off your line because there will be so many fish trying to grab on your hook.
Inexperienced fishermen usually make the grave mistake of trying to use the same bait for all of their fishing. It is like expecting everyone you know to want to eat plain white rice day in and day out. Fish have preferences!
How do we know what fish like? Experience! The best bait for Cod has been discovered through trial and error. Other fishermen before you have gone out on the cold waters and figured out through long days of trial and error.
Cod are cold water fish. This means that during temperate months they move out to deeper parts of the sea to get in the colder water. You can fish for cod during the warmer months by boat. In the cold of winter they move in closer to shore so fishing off a pier or the beach is permissible.
They are not particularly hard to catch. They are by no means a "trophy" type fish that you will have mounted. They do not put up much of a fight when you catch one like the bigger sport fish. There is only one reason that anyone fishes for Cod. The taste. Cod is a white meat fish that is flaky and that can be cooked in a number of ways. It is a really tasty fish.
Cod travel in pretty tight shoals. This is one of the identifying factors you should look for. They eat just about anything that gets close enough but prefer crustaceans, herrings, sand eels, worms and sprats.
They are thick skinned fish that adapt easily to their surroundings. If they have been living at the bottom of the sea for a while their skin will be a dark brown.
If they have been living closer to the shore line they will be a red/brown color. They can also be a mottled color with a white under belly.
They have rows and rows of thin fine teeth that are quite sharp. They can range in size and weight greatly but the average weight is usually around 3kg.
There are two ways to fish for Cod you can use bait or you can use a jig. What you use really depends on where you will be fishing. If you are fishing from the shore than bait is the way to go. If you are fishing while anchored on a boat over a sandy bottom than a jig is the way to go.
Both bait and jigs have their benefits and their drawbacks. In most cases the bait will win out because Cod are bottom feeders and the jig does not offer a lot of benefit in that scenario. There are plenty of really good well known bait options for Cod.
You can use any of the above and get the outcome that you hoped for. The real challenge is not in picking the best bait for Cod but in picking the best location for Cod. They migrate with the cold so if you move toward where the water is colder you will likely find them.
The best bait for cod is not really unexpected but there are some "special" baits that the pros use that can work to your advantage.
While the above bait is the official best bait for cod. There is one bait that most experts agree will hook a Cod in any condition. Sea clams. Cod seemingly go crazy for sea clams. They can be purchased at most bait shops and Cod find them to be irresistible.
What a lot of the pros do is to have a double hook rig, they bait one side with sea clam and the other hook they bait with one of the other best baits for cod on the other hook. This almost guarantees that you will attract Cod even the finicky ones because you are bringing them a feast.
You can buy a rig already to go right out the box or you can take the time to create your own in both cases you will get the same results. You can just really gob that sea clam on the hook.
Once you have your hooks good and baited you want to cast that line and make sure that it hits bottom. If you feel it drifting a little you want to add more weight to your line. You will feel a few taps before you feel the weight of the fish on the line.
It is important that you get your line all the way down to the bottom and just let it sit on the bottom of the sea floor. It is rare to catch a Cod as it is swimming by. You will have more success if you drop the line where they would be normally be feeding.
Choosing your bait effectively depends on having a little bit of knowledge about the environment that the Cod are living in. In other words if you are dropping your line in an area where the herring are prolific than dropping that line with herring on the end as bait will not likely get a lot of attention.
Of course if you bait your hook with sea clams in an area where the herring are prolific you are still going to entice at least a few of the Cod in the shoal. The goal is to understand what competition you are up against and select the bait accordingly.
If you know that the area is short on squid and you bait your hook with squid your line will get more attention than anything else going on. You have to be able to think like a Cod and outsmart them. The best bait for Cod is the bait that they are not able to find any other way except for nibbling at your hook.
With a little luck, the right location and the best bait for Cod you should be able to go home and fill your freezer!


In the middle of 2012, I consciously pause for a deep inhale. Yes, the world is still alive. Ours is a rapidly-changing world, but the end has not come.
Amid chaos it is wise to stand still and make room. Take no action. Do nothing. Find stillness. Sometimes stopping the perpetual machine of time to do nothing but focus stimulates more evolution than relentless action could.
These days I'm taking a moment to stand still after a period of rapid action. In the first half of this year, I said YES and the world answered. This October I will enter the stage and talk about SPIRITUALITY AND BUSINESS at the WIN conference in Rome. Earlier in 2012 I gave birth to a program called WRITE YOUR FUTURE BOOK and had 18 enthusiastic souls join me in dreaming a heavenly book down to earth without losing sight of the new meaning of money or the powerful OM Namah Shivay (meaning "I create one with God").
I know it is time to find a center in our heart where the streams of the universe meet our personal knowing. There our hearts awaken and remind us that all answers live within. 2012 presents the challenge to break the old and open new space for the new.
I remember times when my soul found food in the Bhagavad-Gita. I recently started rereading the teachings of Krishna. The inner discipline of serenity is the true art of performance. Let's allow old wisdom to inspire our times and transits.
of mind to see clearly through the Self.
will attain serenity at last.
Take a deep breath right now and stop time. Dare to wait and expand your inner world. It is wise right now to slow down; the motion will come back soon, I promise. This moment is ripe for receiving, rather than doing, before the next wave of shifting energy crests.


Our bewitched beauty takes us to the post-war era this time around and leave it to Witt to powerpack some extra feels. Roger and Jack have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Suddenly, the boys are whisked off to war and return very different men. Carefree grins and the invincibility that only young men boast have been replaced with dim half-smiles and nightmare shadows of piercing reality. Before they parted six years ago, they shared a stupendous farewell. A courageous kiss threw them both off kilter. Regardless of the timing, both clung to the hope and prayer that they may find their way to each other once more. And when the heavens above grant this wish, they are stricken to find they have become strangers. Everything has changed since that fated swimming hole goodbye. Or has it? Could their burning core remain once they break free from their combat-callused shells?
We are introduced to Roger and Jack just as they are finishing school and spreading their wings. I'm so grateful we had the chance to see them glittering with innocent sparks. Witt allows each of them to take turns in sharing their story and again, I was thankful for the alternating voices. Roger starts back at that pivotal moment when he's struck with painful clarity, realizing he loves Jack. Then Jack continues on, half a dozen years later once they both have returned home. Their time at war may be over but the lingering effects will never cease. The scars they bear may not be visible but they are no less harrowing.
Although the pages are just over a hundred, I felt we had plenty of time to get to know to both men. Roger was slightly more reserved compared to Jack's wild nature but I enjoyed them equally. It was difficult to see them hardened from war. Roger's family means well, but they have made arrangements for him to begin the next phase of his life. With a slight push and shove, they've set him up with a could-be–hopefully-fiancé childhood friend. It makes sense for him to marry. It's what's expected of them. But the war has given Roger an up close and personal reminder that life is too short for regrets. And he may not have given his best friend his heart before the war but he'll be damned if he denies him now. But they could never be? What will they do? Marry and live half a life with the picture-perfect wife? You'll just have to find out, now, won't you?
In regards to the others in the series, this one is pleasant yet tinged with melancholy. They illustrate the struggles and anguish our soldiers endure long after their leave is over. They also remind of us of the torment gay men faced living and loving freely in the 1940s. Graciously, the glorious gift that a wooden statuette grants these two men is worth it all.
If you need another reason to start this series, this one is a humdinger. I actually began the series with this homecoming. You can hop, skip and jump around if you like. So far, I've yet to be disappointed.


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Q: Automatically Boot into Ubuntu without Live CD I am trying to boot into my Ubuntu server and after updates, I can now only boot in with a live Ubuntu CD in the Grub terminal with these commands:
grub> set pager=1
grub> set root=(hd1,gpt2)
grub> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
grub> initrd /initrd.img
grub> boot

Once I boot in and try to reinstall grub with this command:
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

I get this error:
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.

I have tried boot-repair with recommended options, but I get this warning:
GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition (>1MB, unformatted
filesystem, bios_grub flag). This can be performed via tools such as
Gparted. Then try again.

Gparted results:
Partition    File System    Mount Point    Label    Size      Flags
/dev/sda1    fat16                         Ubuntu   512MiB    boot
/dev/sda2    ext4           /                       927GiB
/dev/sda3    linux-swap                             3.91GiB

I am tempted to reinstall Ubuntu altogether, but that is my last resort. Ubuntu is the only OS on the machine, this is not a dual-boot. Any help in determining how to automatically boot into the Ubuntu server would be greatly appreciated! I can provide more information if necessary.

A: I found my problem, I was trying to install grub in the wrong root directory. Instead of:
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

I did:
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/sda

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Camped here to search for the KWQD (again). Success!
Yes!! I've wanted to see one of these since the first time I opened a field guide to birds in 1978! Missed it on several tries in January. Seen on 4 different occasions this morning at previously reported locations, around parking lot and along golden orb trail, at 7:48, 7:52, 8:12, 8:45. The bird was moving steadily each time, and each time I heard it before I saw it. Each view was brief for only 5 to 30 seconds before it mysteriously vanished! Once, I heard it vocalize, giving a soft monotone "whooo", but unfortunately I was unable to get a recording of it with my digital recorder because it did not repeat the vocalization.


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Looks like Bill Hagerty will be Tennessee's next senator.
Everyone knew the real fight for the seat was in the Republican primary. However, it didn't turn out to be as tight as "experts" and "polls" thought.
It was over by 9 o'clock.
Don Johnson, formerly of the Shelby GOP and all around election guru, shared these maps of how the vote went:
As Johnson notes, the top votes – 76% – for Hagerty were in Lauderdale county; for Sethi – 57% – this occurred in Coffee county.
Knox County was particularly divided:
Obviously the Trump endorsement for Hagerty helped him tremendously. So did his negative ads which made Sethi unfairly unrecognizable as a conservative.
Here's what Breitbart reported:
reitbart News was granted exclusive access to Hagerty's campaign headquarters war room, where dozens of staffers in a local hotel conference room shouted out county-by-county results as they rolled in from across the state. For the first half hour, not a single county went Sethi's way. and cheers were so loud that campaign staff closed the door so those in the hotel lobby more than 30 yards down the hall could not hear them.
An all star lineup of Hagerty's biggest supporters joined him here on election night, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) as well as Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN).
"Hey, everybody, a major reason for tonight—Sen. Blackburn," Ward Baker, the top adviser for the Hagerty campaign, yelled to the room when the senator joined the war room staff shortly after 7:30 p.m. as Hagerty opened a major lead over Sethi in the early returns.
Baker gave similar heroes' welcomes to Cotton and Fleischmann, as well as to Breitbart News—whom he told the staff in the war room is the nation's leading conservative publication and a "must-read."
"I haven't seen a war room like this ever," Fleischmann said as the staff shouted out county results as they were confirmed.
The president personally recruited Hagerty, a longtime Trump loyalist, to leave his post in Japan and come back to run for the vacant Senate seat left open by the retiring longtime Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Trump even endorsed Hagerty several days before he officially announced his campaign, making Hagerty his first endorsement of the cycle in 2020—and one that the president has worked hard at over the more-than-a-year since ensuring Hagerty was successful. Trump has done multiple virtual events with Hagerty, and his son, Donald Trump, Jr., campaigned with Hagerty in Tennessee before the coronavirus pandemic upended in-person campaigning. He's flooded social media with pro-Hagerty messages, and sent his top surrogates in on Hagerty's behalf. Trump had been planning to hold a campaign rally in Tennessee with Hagerty, but since he is not doing the rallies anymore during the pandemic, the president held a series of tele-townhalls with his former ambassador to Japan, including one the night before the election. Vice President Mike Pence also endorsed Hagerty, meaning the White House—and Trump and his team—were all in on this one.
It paid off. Thursday's results saw Hagerty win by more than 13 percent when the race was called by the New York Times and the Associated Press. When Baker and others announced to the room that the Times had called the race for Hagerty, the war room erupted in applause.
Hagerty's message was nearly identical to Trump's message: Tough on China, law and order, rebuilding the economy, and sending a fighter to Washington.
Let's hope he delivers.
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WASHINGTON, June 25 — American troop levels in western Iraq, one of the most dangerous parts of the country, are not expected to decline as part of a plan to make sharp reductions in American forces in Iraq by the end of 2007, a top general said today.
"I see no reductions in American forces in Al Anbar into next year, at least through next summer, because of the restiveness there," said Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, who oversees marines in the Middle East and Central Asia.
"Al Anbar is going to be one of the last provinces to be stabilized," General Sattler said in a telephone interview from western Iraq, where he is visiting marines as well as American and Iraqi commanders.
Currently, about 28,000 of the 127,000 American forces in Iraq are in Anbar province under Marine Corps control. Securing the Sunni Arab-dominated region, as well as building new political institutions and an economy has lagged behind other parts of the country, and American officials are very reluctant to cut American troops there now. The forces in the west include 19,000 marines and 7,000 Army soldiers.
According to a classified briefing at the Pentagon last week by the top commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the number of American combat brigades in Iraq is projected to decrease to 5 or 6 from the current level of 14 by December 2007. Under the plan, the first reductions would be carried out this September, when two Army combat brigades will rotate out of Iraq without being replaced.
American officials emphasized that any withdrawals would hinge on continued progress, including the creation of competent Iraqi security forces, a reduction in Sunni Arab hostility toward the fledgling Iraqi government and the assumption that the insurgency will not expand beyond Iraq's six central provinces.
The new details about plans to draw down troop levels came after a two-week campaign by Republicans — backed by senior White House and party political strategists — to paint Democratic Congressional resolutions seeking timetables for withdrawal as calls to "cut and run." Democrats in turn contended that Republican efforts to paint them as wrongheaded on Iraq would not work this election season, pointing to polls showing large percentages of Americans agreeing with them.
Today, Democrats said that their attempts to seek a timeline for troop withdrawal had been vindicated by the president's own military planners, as well as the new government in Iraq, which is also calling for a timeframe for an American troop reduction.
"Here we have a situation where Democrats, 80 percent of us, voted to say we ought to start reducing our troop presence there. And again, we got pummeled," Senator Barbara Boxer of California said on "Face the Nation" on CBS. "And now it turns out we're in synch with General Casey."
Some lawmakers said that the assumptions about what it would take to make the troop reduction plan work might be unrealistic and stymie plans to carry out deep cuts. "Given current events in Baghdad in particular reported on every day quite apart from Anbar Province, the violence is horrific," Senator Richard G. Lugar, an Indiana Republican who heads the Foreign Relations Committee, said on CBS.
Just a few days ago, American troops ringed the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi with new checkpoints and outposts in an effort to break the grip insurgents hold on that Iraqi city. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, has been the scene of some of the fiercest regular battles between United States troops and insurgent fighters.
General Sattler said the United States and its Iraqi allies had no intention of carrying out an offensive in Ramadi similar to the November 2004 assault on Falluja by the Marines. Marine officials have said the operations in Ramadi involved troops from one American brigade and soldiers from two Iraqi brigades. General Sattler said there were multiple operations ongoing throughout the city to reclaim streets, blocks and sections that fallen under insurgent control.
Another senior Marine officer, interviewed earlier this month by e-mail, said American commanders voiced worries that some of the newer Iraqi units might not be willing to fight in Ramadi.
"The concern is that once the common Iraqi soldier gets the word, a number of them will not be available," said the senior officer, who was granted anonymity to discuss confidential military assessments because he is not authorized to comment publicly. "If the Iraqis bring more than 50 percent of their manning levels to the fight, I will be surprised."


San Francisco's very own apostle of bigoted ranting just lost another one.
The Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition (HHA) today announced that Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart and one of the nation's largest warehouse clubs, has joined a growing list of companies that have stopped advertising or refuse to place their ads on Michael Savage's "Savage Nation" radio program.
That campaign, also waged vigorously by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has so far had a fair degree of success.
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namespace search::bmcluster {

StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase(const vespalib::string &base_name, const IBmDistribution &distribution, bool distributor)
    : _name(base_name + "(" + (distributor ? "distributor" : "service-layer") + ")"),
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}

StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::~StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase() = default;

uint32_t
StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::route_cmd(storage::api::StorageCommand& cmd)
{
    auto bucket = cmd.getBucket();
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}

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{
    auto cmd = std::make_unique<storage::api::PutCommand>(bucket, std::move(document), timestamp);
    send_cmd(std::move(cmd), tracker);
}

void
StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::update(const document::Bucket& bucket, std::unique_ptr<DocumentUpdate> document_update, uint64_t timestamp, PendingTracker& tracker)
{
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    send_cmd(std::move(cmd), tracker);
}

void
StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::remove(const document::Bucket& bucket, const DocumentId& document_id,  uint64_t timestamp, PendingTracker& tracker)
{
    auto cmd = std::make_unique<storage::api::RemoveCommand>(bucket, document_id, timestamp);
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}

void
StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::get(const document::Bucket& bucket, vespalib::stringref field_set_string, const document::DocumentId& document_id, PendingTracker& tracker)
{
    auto cmd = std::make_unique<storage::api::GetCommand>(bucket, document_id, field_set_string);
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}

const vespalib::string&
StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::get_name() const
{
    return _name;
}

bool
StorageApiBmFeedHandlerBase::manages_timestamp() const
{
    return _distributor;
}

}

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CHENGDU, June 7 (Xinhua) -- A robot sat for the math test during China's national college entrance exam, or gaokao, in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Wednesday.
The robot, AI-MATHS, consisting of 11 servers, was developed by Chengdu Zhunxingyunxue Technology. It completed two versions of the exam's math test on Wednesday afternoon. There are several versions of the tests in different regions of China.
The robot finished the Beijing test in 22 minutes, scoring 105 points out of 150 points, without Internet support. It scored 100 points on another version of the test.
"It would take two hours for a human to finish the test. I hope next year the machine can improve its performance on logical reasoning and computer algorithms and score over 130," said Lin Hui, the company's CEO.
In February, the robot scored 93 on one math test, slightly higher than the passing grade of 90.
The company participated in a project of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, which plans to develop gaokao robots.
Under the plan, by 2020, AI robots will be smart enough to gain admission to leading universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University through the entrance exam.
The robot has attempted 12,000 math questions, but an average high school student needs to solve 30,000 questions before taking the gaokao, he said.
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Inhibitory control is a fast occurring process that occurs at the brain level, so being able to look at what is happening in the bilingual and the monolingual brain during inhibitory control processing would provide a powerful test of the bilingual advantage hypothesis. A cognitive neuroscience technique known as "event-related potentials" allows researchers to measure how brain processes unfold in real time. The technique involves using a cap embedded with electrodes that rest on the scalp to measure the electrical activity that the brain naturally produces.
The present study, supported by a summer Graduate Research Grant from the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, employed the event-related potential technique to examine if there are differences between bilinguals and monolinguals at very early stages of inhibitory control processing. Participants consisted of 11 English monolinguals and 11 Spanish-English highly balanced bilinguals who acquired both languages during childhood. The two groups did not differ in terms of age, gender, English language proficiency, education level completed, or socioeconomic status. This ensured that any differences in inhibitory control observed would not be the result of differences between the groups in these variables, which has been a limitation of previous studies.
Participants listened to two different children's stories presented simultaneously on speakers, one on their left and one on their right, and were asked to attend to one of the stories while ignoring the story coming from the other side. To help them remember which side to attend to, they watched images on a computer monitor that matched the story they were supposed to be attending. Identical sound probes were embedded in both stories, which allowed us to compare the brain response to the exact same probes when they appeared on the attended story to when they appeared on the unattended story. The prediction was that if participants were effectively enhancing the signal of the attended story and inhibiting the signal of the unattended story, their brain responses elicited by the probes embedded in the attended story would be amplified, and the ones elicited by the probes embedded in the unattended story would be suppressed. In line with the bilingual advantage, we predicted that this attention modulation would be observed earlier for bilinguals, reflecting better inhibitory control. As early as 100 milliseconds after they heard the sound probes, bilingual participants showed the expected attention modulation, while monolingual participants did not show a difference at this very early time window. This evidence suggests that bilingual participants were exerting inhibitory control to be able to attend to the relevant story and inhibit the irrelevant story beginning at very early stages of inhibitory control processing, which occurred at three times faster the average rate at which we blink! This early difference could not have been detected without using the event-related potential technique.
My future research will continue to put the bilingual advantage hypothesis to the test, as accumulating scientifically rigorous evidence for its existence could have implications for instigating bilingual education at an early age, and would provide evidence to encourage Latino/a families to raise their children as bilingual.
—Jimena Santillan is a second year doctoral student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program at UO. As part of the Brain Development Lab, her research examines the effect of environmental factors on neuroplasticity, with the goal of identifying potential protective factors that counteract the deleterious effects on brain development caused by growing up in poverty.


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For the last few weeks, I've had four Word documents staring accusingly at me from my Desktop every time I've opened my laptop.
Today I'm going to have a stab at writing "About".
Someone meets their friend out of a theatre, "What's it about?" she asks.
"It's about three hours" the friend replies.
But it's true; "What is it about?" is pretty much the first question anyone ever asks about a play, film or book. Or maybe the second thing after: "Was it any good?".
As such, you could argue that telling your readership what a play is *about* lies at the heart of theatre criticism.
But I'm interested in something earlier in the process than reception/perception of the production here: how theatres and then audiences commission and then sell, or are sold, the idea of plays "about" something.
The question most recently re-occurred to me when I read the Guardian Theatre Blog piece The Biting Point: Southall 30 years on. I'll admit part of the reason it made me think about the question of how we make plays "about" something, is that it was published directly before my own article which, give or take a bit of nuance, pretty much uses a German staging of Othello as a club with which to bludgeon the far more mainstream Clybourne Park.
And here, just before it was published, was a perfectly reasonable article talking about taking the straight-forward (perhaps: "proper") approach to writing a play "about" a particular subject – the subject of racism. The subject to which my blog was just about to suggest about the least straight-forward approach possible. As a result, I had kittens and read the Biting Point blog several times hoping that it didn't become a club with which I was about to be bludgeoned.
However, the Biting Point blog would have bothered me anyway – completely in the abstract, purely in intellectual terms - I haven't seen the play, although I do have a copy which I intend to read as soon as I have a moment – in the same way that the titles of some of the sessions at this year's Devoted and Disgruntled bothered me. At D&D (Matt Trueman's review of D&D here for the uninitiated), as always, there seemed to be sessions called for pretty much every conceivable aspect of theatre under the sun, and several sessions not even faintly connected to theatre at all, which is all part of the fun. But there was a repeated strain of question which seemed to be formulated thus: "How can Theatre block the flow of a river in a steep valley, thereby storing all the water in a reservoir, which can then be used for hydro-electricity or irrigation?"
To which the sensible answer is: You want a dam for that, not theatre.
It might sound too flippant an objection, and I'm not *implacably* opposed to theatre being put to utilitarian purposes, but nor am I much of a fan of the practice. And there are some things which other media do better. For the presentation, analysis and discussion of historical fact, for example, there is the book. For reporting facts quickly and accurately, there is the newpaper or the internet. For reaching large numbers of people, there's television. For trying to bring about a change of policy or government there is armed resistance or mass demonstration.
As soon as I write the above, I think of examples which disprove my assertions, or else I long to see the shows which prove me wrong. I suppose what I'm clumsily getting at, it that what theatre does best is still basically theatre. Except everyone has a different definition of what actually constitutes "theatre".
What I find frustrating is the overwhelming prevalence of one particular model for exploring "about". I don't think it's too much to describe it thus: you pick an Issue, any Issue; you then create a small group of characters, usually about six and put them in a situation in which they come into contact with The Issue. The Issue is then explored by the characters talking about It, their relationship to It. Possibly, if you're lucky, there's a story, how It changes them. At the moment, I'm struggling to think of a single play I've liked which has done the above.
I'll enter a couple of qualifiers here. I don't think this applies to all modern British plays by any stretch of the imagination. The best contemporary play of the last six months or so that I've read recently is John Donnelly's The Knowledge. It was reviewed in various quarters as "about teachers" or "about school" (see also: "reeks of authenticity... Clearly written from experience" - The Guardian, "Donnelly has personal experience of working in state schools and his play has a satisfying smack of authenticity" - The Telegraph), but that possibly says more about the fact that critics need to say something to fill the "about" slot before going into detail. Granted it was also a part of the Bush theatre's season "about" education ("In response to one of the most urgent and divisive issues of our times, the Bush presents The Schools Season: The Knowledge by John Donnelly and Little Platoons by Steve Waters. The season will bring together an ensemble company of ten actors and a series of talks, debates and events which will examine education in Britain today"), but I still reckon John (declaration of interest, he's also a friend, but that doesn't make his play any less good. Being friends only means I'd possibly keep my mouth shut if I'd really hated it, never that I'll say it's better than it really is) pretty much got himself out of writing an "about" play.
Of course it *is* *about school*, but basically it's about people. There's no one "issue" constantly putting words into the characters' mouths, no one subject they're constantly forced to discuss. The cast of characters aren't thinly veiled ciphers for this or that side of a particular argument. I wouldn't even say that they're even demonstrative of particular behaviours as each character, much as in life, tends to act in different ways in different situations. If the the play has an issue, it might best be expressed as "people do stuff". Which, on paper/in theory, sounds like a terrible mess, but it really isn't. Moreover, reading it, it struck me that this was a rare thing to see in written for British theatre – a play that wasn't begging to have its subject recognised.
Reading this play forcibly reminded me that I don't actually dislike narrative drama (and before it After the Dance). And made me think: a good story well told can be just as effective as a non-linear or abstract work for making you think about things if it functions in the same much-less-directional way. It was a bit of a revelation for me.
Because, the debate does seem stupidly polarised. Either something falls into the "issue play" *about*-a-subject camp, or else it seems to be "bonkers, devised, crazy avant-gardism" or something (yes, I know this is rough, but let's run with it).
And, yes, you and I both know which camp I prefer (this is something I intend to get back to in "Criticism", but, in brief, after a while having a "preference" just became too problematic – at least for someone in my position, especially when the preference is for the losing side).
However, I'd argue that this is a two- (or maybe three-) way problem (the possibly third party being theatre managements) – on one hand critics (or more widely and more properly "the media") like legible, easily summarised "about"s. Look at the coverage of Greenland or The Heretic. Look at the amount of it, and then look at the character of it. Irrespective of the actual plays, or even their popularity, both plays got massive additional coverage because they were big *about* plays in major London theatres. In short, if you pick the right *about*, you get a lot of extra, free publicity. The other party – writers (and maybe theatres) – will obviously notice this, understand how *about* plays are written, go away and write/commission them.
The problem is, this process of legibility means that the worse sort of plays are those which garner some of the most coverage (obviously it's better to get an Oscar winning director and two fairly huge actors – then at least the story will be the show itself...). It's a process that means that theatre (at least, non-musical-theatre) gradually acquires a reputation for being dull, "worthy" and issue-based, thus guaranteeing reduced coverage and less space for criticism, which in turn means shorter, necessarily less insightful, more shorthanded reviews, which means plays strive for even greater legibility knowing full well that the press can't hope to unpack nuance or subtlety in 120 words. So it goes.
Of course, there are also good, sensible, rational reason for the popularity of this sort of hi-legibility theatre, which is that it can be much more easily written about. Or, from the artist's point of view (and the theatre producing it), it's much less of a hostage to fortune. If a play has a clearly defined *about* then obviously it's easier for everyone to discuss that, rather than the alternative which I suppose I am proposing – the abstract *about* or the narrative *not-about* play (or rather, the narrative play which doesn't explicitly name its subject or subjects).
I mean, these would take a bit of effort, no? And I wonder if effortlessness is something that British theatre has come to strive for. I'm not talking about impossible exertion here, just something more than being handed everything on a plate; clearly labelled and more-or-less pre-chewed.
The problem with something that doesn't spell things are manifold – for starters it's asking more of the viewer, and of its critics. Equally it leaves itself open to the chance that people are going to be able to miss what it's saying. There's also the fact that in part it's opening itself up in order to open up its audience. As such, the experience of the show that people have, what they take from it might be more personal. The very personal response is also kind of an anathema to theatre criticism as it's currently practised.
In a way, I can kind of appreciate why everyone seems to have settled for this way of doing things. But I don't think it's doing playwrighting, criticism or British theatre any favours.
I suppose what I'm really proposing is a fairly significant cultural shift. I'm not sure where it would have to begin, though – the commissioning process, the PR blurb or the reception committee (i.e. the critics – and, sure, the blogosphere).
It would be interesting to see what happened if something like this was sold as "a response to one of the most urgent and divisive issues of our times". I intend this as acts of good faith on all sides. I don't mean, just finding any old piece of dance and slinging it on while labelling it "a response to the financial crisis" or some such, and then the press pseuding-it-up and saying they totally get it or alternatively flatly refusing to give it any credit at all.
I mean actual artists, playwrights and performers being allowed the lee(sp?)-way to produce something more than a pros and cons Punch and Judy show, and then for the critics and public to respond to it by actually sitting, watching hard, thinking about what they've seen, and maybe seeing if the piece resonates for them. Of course not everything will resonate with everyone, but then not everyone likes everything at the moment anyway, so as a direction to open up, what's to lose?


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Persistence of a T cell infiltrate in human ganglia years after herpes zoster and during post-herpetic neuralgia
Jeremy P. Sutherland, Megan Steain, Michael E. Buckland, Michael Rodriguez, Anthony L. Cunningham, Barry Slobedman, Allison Abendroth*
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a human herpesvirus which causes varicella (chicken pox) during primary infection, establishes latency in sensory ganglia, and can reactivate from this site to cause herpes zoster (HZ) (shingles). A major complication of HZ is a severe and often debilitating pain called post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) which persists long after the resolution of the HZ-associated rash. The underlying cause of PHN is not known, although it has been postulated that it may be a consequence of immune cell mediated damage. However, the nature of virus-immune cell interactions within ganglia during PHN is unknown. We obtained rare formalin fixed paraffin embedded sections cut from surgically excised ganglia from a PHN-affected patient years following HZ rash resolution. VZV DNA was readily detected by qPCR and regions of immune infiltration were detected by hematoxylin and eosin staining. Immunostaining using a range of antibodies against immune cell subsets revealed an immune cell response comprising of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and CD20+ B cells. This study explores the immune cell repertoire present in ganglia during PHN and provides evidence for an ongoing immune cell inflammation years after HZ.
Frontiers in Microbiology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02117
Copyright the Author(s) 2019. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
ganglia
herpes zoster (HZ)
post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN)
varicella-zoster virus
10.3389/fmicb.2019.02117
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Dive into the research topics of 'Persistence of a T cell infiltrate in human ganglia years after herpes zoster and during post-herpetic neuralgia'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Herpes Zoster Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Neuralgia Medicine & Life Sciences 90%
Ganglia Medicine & Life Sciences 85%
Human Herpesvirus 3 Medicine & Life Sciences 36%
Chickenpox Medicine & Life Sciences 35%
Exanthema Medicine & Life Sciences 29%
Sensory Ganglia Medicine & Life Sciences 20%
Sutherland, J. P., Steain, M., Buckland, M. E., Rodriguez, M., Cunningham, A. L., Slobedman, B., & Abendroth, A. (2019). Persistence of a T cell infiltrate in human ganglia years after herpes zoster and during post-herpetic neuralgia. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 1-7. [2117]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02117
Sutherland, Jeremy P. ; Steain, Megan ; Buckland, Michael E. ; Rodriguez, Michael ; Cunningham, Anthony L. ; Slobedman, Barry ; Abendroth, Allison. / Persistence of a T cell infiltrate in human ganglia years after herpes zoster and during post-herpetic neuralgia. In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 2019 ; Vol. 10. pp. 1-7.
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Upper Saucon Township is in the process of forming an independent Historical Society. An initial meeting was held to identify residents interested in becoming the founding members on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. This group of concerned residents will be responsible for establishing and operating the Society. For more information or to become a member, please complete the contact form at the bottom of this page.
Indians were the first inhabitants of the area known today as Upper Saucon Township. The word "Saucon" is derived from the Indian word "Suakunk" which was the name applied to an Indian village at the mouth of Saucon Creek, and afterwards a large tract of land lying on both sides the creek from its source to its mouth. Suakunk comes from the Indian word Sa-ku-wit, meaning the mouth of a creek.
The earliest European settlers arrived in the region over a 20-year period beginning in 1732 and were primarily of German, English and Welsh descent. In 1743 these immigrants formally organized the Township. Agriculture formed the basis of the Township's economy for most of its history. Wheat, rye, oats, corn, potatoes, clover, timothy, fruits and garden vegetables were some of the Township's early agricultural products. Access to trading and selling these products was provided by the precursor to Route 309, which rested in the same general location as the present highway and extended from Allentown to Philadelphia.
The Village of Center Valley formed the principle gathering spot for the Township and evolved as a linear community initially focused around the intersection of present day Routes 309 and 378. By 1848, the village consisted of only a general store, hotel and a 60-acre farm. Construction of the North Pennsylvania Railroad through the Township in 1856 brought improved transportation and expanded access to urban markets. The rail line established its Center Valley Station on the east side of the Saucon Creek about a quarter of a mile east of the village nucleus. Center Valley continued to grow and by 1862 boasted not only a store and hotel, but also a post office, blacksmith shop, and shoemaker, along with several dwellings.
By 1873, as many as seven homes had been established near the railroad station, and in 1875 local commissioners authorized $1,200.00 for construction of the Centennial Bridge. This bridge provided an important link between the original village nucleus and the settlement forming around the railroad station to the east. By the time the bridge was completed in 1876, the area around the station had extended toward the original village nucleus by adding 18 homes, two coal yards, one store and a hotel.
The Center Valley Station became an important shipping point for agricultural products from surrounding farms. The community around the station was at one point locally known as "Milk Town" because of the large quantity of milk that was shipped out of the area. According to the Bucks County Historical Society, two and one half million gallons of milk were shipped annually to the Philadelphia area via the railroad.
In addition to the agricultural trade, the Township's other key industry was mining. The Friendensville Zinc Mine is the only registered historical site in the Township and dates back to 1845. The mining of zinc ore first occurred on the farm of Jacob Ueberroth, which was eventually purchased by the Lehigh Zinc Company and was the largest of the many mines in the local area. Between 1869 and 1872, the Lehigh Zinc Company installed the world famous Cornish pump known as "The President". This pump was used to remove between 12,000 to 16,000 gallons of water a minute from the mines. The Lehigh Zinc Company was eventually acquired by the New Jersey Zinc Company and the property is currently owned by the Stabler Land Company.
Online Book: Upper Saucon Township – A Bicentennial Tribute 1743 – 1976
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