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Hemorrhagic blisters in fulminant Aeromonas hydrophila bacteremia: Case report and literature review
Yao-Tien Chang1, Sung-Yuan Hu2, Che-An Tsai3,
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital; Department of Nursing, College of Health, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital; Department of Nursing, College of Health, National Taichung University of Science and Technology; School of Medicine; Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University; Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
3 Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Sung-Yuan Hu
Department of Emergency Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan; 1650 Taiwan Boulevard Sect. 4, Taichung 40705
The Aeromonas species, belonging to the family Aeromonadaceae, are opportunistic pathogens found in humans with an incidence rate of 76 cases per million inhabitants in Southern Taiwan. The incidence of Aeromonas septicemia is relatively low, accounting for less than 15% of cases. Patients diagnosed with Aeromonas hydrophila bacteremia who were presented with skin blisters and septic shock have been reported to have a mortality rate of 100%. Aeromonas infection must be considered in the differential diagnosis of gangrene-like tissue damage or skin lesions in patients with end-stage renal disease, due to the potential sources of infections. A 49-year-old Taiwanese diabetic woman with end-stage renal disease had underwent regular hemodialysis. She was referred to our hospital due to a one-day course of fever, dyspnea, hypotension, and fulminant hemorrhagic blisters covering her whole body. A physical examination uncovered multiple hemorrhagic blisters, along with a ruptured blister over the lower left leg. Laboratory tests revealed an elevation of liver enzymes, impaired renal function, lactatemia, and high anion-gap metabolic acidosis. Cultures of both blood and hemorrhagic blister fluid grew Aeromonas hydrophila. However, she experienced persistent shock despite aggressive intravenous fluid, empiric antibiotics, and inotropic agents with norepinephrine and dopamine. Early diagnosis and prompt management using intravenous fluids, antibiotics and surgical debridement is recommended in order to improve a patient's survival rate.
Chang YT, Hu SY, Tsai CA. Hemorrhagic blisters in fulminant Aeromonas hydrophila bacteremia: Case report and literature review.Asian Pac J Trop Med 2019;12:91-94
Chang YT, Hu SY, Tsai CA. Hemorrhagic blisters in fulminant Aeromonas hydrophila bacteremia: Case report and literature review. Asian Pac J Trop Med [serial online] 2019 [cited 2023 Jan 27 ];12:91-94
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The Aeromonas species, belonging to the family Aeromonadaceae, are opportunistic pathogens found in humans with an incidence rate of 76 cases per million inhabitants in Southern Taiwan[1],[2],[3]. Extra-intestinal Aeromonas infections have been reported, with the most common species responsible for human infection being Aeromonas hydrophila (A. hydrophila)[1],[2]. The incidence of Aeromonas septicemia is relatively low, accounting for less than 15% of all cases[4]. The overall mortality rate attributed to A. hydrophila is approximately 50%. Patients of A. hydrophila bacteremia experiencing skin blisters and septic shock have been reported to have a mortality rate of 100%[1],[5]. The possibility of obtaining the A. hydrophila infection through poor hand hygiene, saline solutions, open skin access due to large bore catheters, contamination of the dialysis catheter by the patient or nurse after contacting with contaminated water supply, must be considered[3],[6],[7]. Aeromonas infection must be considered during the differential diagnosis of gangrene-like tissue damage or skin lesions in patients with end-stage renal failure (ESRD), due to the potential sources of infections.
2. Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate
All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (No. CE18102A), along with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments, or comparable ethical standards. Oral informed consent was obtained from the patients for publication of this case report and any accompanying images.
During their lifetime, patients consented orally to the use of their history and all the related images and information for scientific purposes. Each patient provided written informed consent for publication.
3. Case Report
A 49-year-old Taiwanese woman with a medical history of diabetes mellitus (DM) and ESRD, who had been undergoing regular hemodialysis (HD) for 8 years through an arteriovenous fistula over the right forearm at a rural hospital, was admitted to our facility. She was referred to our emergency department (ED) and presented with a one-day course of fever, dyspnea, hypotension, and fulminant hemorrhagic bullae covering her whole body. Upon arrival at the ED, the patient's vital signs showed a respiratory rate of 34 breaths/min, heart rate of 124 beats/min, blood pressure of 76/48 mmHg and body temperature of 39.5 °C. A physical examination revealed cardiopulmonary distress, pale conjunctiva, multiple hemorrhagic blisters, and a ruptured blister over the lower left leg [Figure 1]. Endotracheal intubation was implanted for both airway protection and ventilation using 100% oxygen. Laboratory investigations uncovered a white blood cell count of 7 600/mm3 with segmented neutrophils of 92.6%, hemoglobin of 8.2 g/dL, platelet counts of 121 × 103/mm3, blood urea nitrogen of 78 mg/dL, creatinine of 6.4 mg/dL, sodium of 138 mEq/L, potassium of 4.9 mEq/L, chloride of 98.0 mEq/L, calcium of 8.2 mg/dL, albumin of 2.1 g/dL, glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase of 108.0 U/L, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase of 72.0 U/L, alkaline phosphatase of 232.0 U/L, lactate dehydrogenase of 413.0 U/L, lactate 77.5 mg/dL, C-reactive protein of 32.3 mg/dL, blood glucose of 23.0 mg/dL, prothrombin time of 16.2 s, and activated partial prothrombin time of 42.3 s. Arterial blood gas revealed a pH level of 7.061, PaO2 of 88 mmHg, PaCO2 of 30.2 mmHg, and an HCO3- of 15.3 mmol/L at 100% oxygen. The laboratory data is summarized in [Table 1]. A supine chest X-ray demonstrated cardiomegaly and an infiltration of both lower lung fields [Figure 2]. However, the patient exhibited persistent shock (systolic blood pressure of around 60 mmHg) and expired in the ED despite an aggressive treatment of intravenous fluid, glucose water, ceftriaxone at 2 000 mg once daily, plus vancomycin at 1 000 mg twice daily, and inotropic agents with both norepinephrine and dopamine. Cultures of blood and blister fluid grew A. hydrophila three days later.{Figure 1}{Figure 2}{Table 1}
Species of the genus Aeromonas, which are halophilic, non-acid fast, non-spore forming, gram-negative, and facultative aerobic bacteria, belong to the family Aeromonadaceae. They are opportunistic pathogens in humans with an incidence of 76 cases per million inhabitants occurring between 2008 and 2010 in Southern Taiwan[1],[2],[3],[7],[8]. It is noticeable that infection from the species of the genus Aeromonas has been reported during the summer months[9]. The incidence of Aeromonas bacteremia in Taiwan was 50-143 folds higher than those appearing in Western countries[10].
Four categories of Aeromonas infection have been described including cellulitis, acute diarrheal disease, sepsis, and other types of infections. There have been reports on extra-intestinal infections such as empyema, lower respiratory tract infections, meningitis, necrotizing fasciitis, osteomyelitis, peritonitis, septic arthritis, urinary tract infections, and traumatic wound infections; particularly in immunocompromised patients, such as those suffering from DM, liver cirrhosis, and chronic kidney disease[1],[2],[11],[12],[13],[14]. Two well-known predisposing conditions associated with Aeromonas bacteremia in Korea are cancer (42.3%) and liver cirrhosis (39.3%)[15]. Incidences of DM and chronic kidney disease regarding patients on dialysis for Aeromonas bacteremia in Taiwan have been reported at rates of 23.5% and 5.0%, respectively[16]. The major focus of Aeromonas bacteremia is hepatobiliary tract infections (50.6%), with the others being primary bacteremia (17.9%), skin and soft tissue infection (4.2%), and catheter related infection (3.0%)[15]. The incidence of skin and soft tissue infection progressing to myonecrosis and gangrene of the involved soft tissue has been reported to be 62.5% in India[14].
Three species of the genus Aeromonas, A. hydrophila, Aeromonas caviae, and Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria, are responsible for more than 85% of human infections. The most common species responsible for human infection is A. hydrophila[8],[9]. Gram-negative microorganisms account for 21%-30% of bloodstream infections in patients who received regular HD[3]. The incidence of Aeromonas septicemia is relatively low, accounting for less than 15% of cases[4],[8].
ESRD is associated with an alternation in the primary host defense system. A. hydrophila infections and presentations in patients with ESRD tend to vary depending upon dialysis modalities. Systemic infections appear to be more common in patients undergoing HD, due to dissemination of bacteria through the open skin access of the large bore catheters. Alternatively, contamination of the dialysis catheter by the patient or dialysis nurse, after contact with a contaminated water supply or dialysis solution, may result in this type of infection. Contamination of the dialysis solution, along with contamination through touch, may be potential sources of infections[3],[6],[7]. We could not exclude the possibility of A. hydrophila infection occurring through poor hand hygiene, saline solutions, the open skin access of the large bore catheters, or contamination of the dialysis catheter by either the patient or dialysis nurse after coming in contact with a contaminated water supply[3].
The overall mortality rate attributed to A. hydrophila is approximately 50%. Several factors are associated with a poor prognosis, including old age, altered consciousness, skin and soft tissue infection, a rapidly progressing infection concomitant with septic shock, pneumonia, alcoholic cirrhosis, and prolonged HD[3],[7],[8],[17]. Patients presented with skin blisters and septic shock have been reported to have a mortality rate of 100%[1]. The mean interval between the onset of Aeromonas bacteremia to sepsis- related mortality is 8.2-10.0 days[10],[15]. Among the patients, 3.6% were diagnosed with Aeromonas bacteremia progress to the clinical condition and expire within 72 h after arrival at the hospital. Risk factors of mortality associated with Aeromonas bacteremia are metastatic cancer, shock, delayed use of appropriate antibiotics, a prolonged prothrombin time, and an elevated creatinine level. All of the non-survivors experienced evidence of shock[15].
Aeromonas infection must always be considered during the differential diagnosis of gangrene-like tissue damage or a skin lesion, in patients with an immunosuppressed status, such as DM and malignancy[9]. The most active empirical treatment interventions against Aeromonas should consist of third-generation cephalosporins, combined with gentamicin or amikacin, imipenem, and fluoroquinolone in cases of severe infection, where the duration of therapy depends on the site of infection and the patient's response to antibiotics[5],[8],[9],[10]. Combination therapy involving antibiotics has been prescribed in 49.4% of Aeromonas bacteremia patients. The median duration of antibiotics use is 10 days. Initiation of antibiotics within 6 hours of clinical presentations, such as fever, alerted consciousness, hypotension, and shock, has been observed in 81.0% of patients experiencing Aeromonas bacteremia. Ceftriaxone-susceptibility and ceftriaxone-resis tance has been found in 84.5% and 15.5% of patients with Aeromonas bacteremia, respectively[15]. Timely surgical debridement for removal of the focus of the infection is essential for any infection control to be life-saving[5],[8],[9],[10].
A. hydrophila is an opportunistic pathogen in humans, particularly those with an immunocompromised status. Clinicians should keep in mind that hemorrhagic blistering is a severe clinical manifestation of A. hydrophila bacteremia. The mortality rate is associated with old age, skin and soft tissue infection, septic shock, and altered consciousness. Early diagnosis and prompt management using intravenous fluids, antibiotics, and surgical debridement if necessary, are strongly recommended due to the high mortality rate of 50%-100% in patients experiencing A. hydrophila bacteremia, who are presented with skin blisters and septic shock.
We offer our thanks for the efforts of the emergency resuscitation team, radiological technicians and surgical intensive care unit in the clinical diagnosis and management of this patient.
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Charles Ilsley Park's Northern Prairie, as seen from the spring-fed pond in the center of the park.
One February morning, I pursued the paw prints of an unseen coyote who had left a trail in the ice-encrusted snow on the previous moonlit night. And I spent part of an afternoon just noticing the brown and gray architecture of the dry seed heads of some favorite summer wildflowers, now ghosts of their colorful summer selves. Their pleasing shapes provided some inspiration about the native garden I'm dreaming about for next summer. But I'll start this blog with the handful of birds that I did see, that kept me company on frigid days, just to remind myself that I had sturdy companions on the grayest and coldest days of the year.
Who's That Twittering in the Tall Grass?
Stalks of Indian Grass forming a scrim as I look across the Eastern Prairie at Charles Ilsley Park.
One late afternoon as I approached the Eastern Prairie at Ilsley, I heard the cheerful "chatting" (see first "call" heading at this link) of a small group of winter visitors from the Arctic, American Tree Sparrows (Spizelloides arborea). One of them paused long enough for a good look at its two-tone bill. This little bird had puffed up its down jacket to deal with a frigid morning!
The two-toned bill, breast spot, eye-line and chestnut cap are the Tree Sparrow's field marks.
Two days later, the birding group heard more "chatting." We spotted a large flock of Tree Sparrows flowing like a river from the trees, down into the tall prairie grass. These social flocks keep in contact with short calls back and forth – "I'm here! I'm over here!" – as they forage. I managed to catch a group of them in a vine-laden bush at the edge of prairie.
Part of a large flock, of Tree Sparrows feeding in the Eastern Prairie at Charles Ilsley Park.
It was wonderful to watch so many migratory birds feeding enthusiastically on the native seeds of our restored prairie. We were curious to see which plants they were enjoying. That morning they were finding bent Black-eyed Susan stems (Rudbeckia hirta) and plucking out the seeds. Here's the bent stem at almost ground level, the seeds on the snow and the area trampled by the flock's small feet.
The bent stalk of a Black-eyed Susan near the ground makes it easier for the Tree sparrows to get at the seed.
On a Sunday walk in the Western Prairie at Charles Ilsley Park, my husband and I spotted Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) diving in and out of the grass. Finally, a pair of them settled on some brush and fallen logs along the tree line. The male ignored me completely while he preened vigorously. Since bluebirds often use the abandoned nests of woodpeckers in the winter, I wondered if he'd picked up some mites from an old nest, poor fellow. I managed to get one quick shot when he rested for just a moment.
A male Eastern Bluebird paused from preening for just a few seconds while sitting in the brush near the tree line.
The female nearby was keeping an eye on me and as I approached she sent the male a little "chit-chit-chit" call (second "call" heading at this link) that warns of ground predators – me, in this case! Then they both flew off again.
The female bluebird gave a little signal call to her preening mate as I approached.
At the far edge of the western prairie, we heard the "ank-ank-ank" call of the White Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis). (Under "Eastern calls" at this link.) It was hopping quickly from branch to dead branch above our heads, searching out anything it could eat , like frozen insect eggs or caterpillars.
A White-breasted Nuthatch probed the bark on a dead limb for hidden insects or their eggs.
Some pretty striking tracks greeted me in the center field of the park.
As I started out one Thursday morning, I was presented with some pretty impressive tracks. I recognized them immediately, because one of them was mine! The last four birders on the Wednesday morning bird walk had trekked along chatting as we went back to our cars. As a former bookseller, I had to smile remembering Pooh and Piglet tracking a "heffalump" around a bush, which of course turned out to be their own footprints, too. A fun beginning to my search for animal tracks.
I left the trail and headed diagonally across the field following a nice straight line of canine prints – and readers of my previous winter blogs probably know what that means – a Coyote! Coyotes (Canis latrans) trot along at night making a straight trail of prints. Being wild animals, coyotes want to use as little energy as necessary between meals, so they never run around in the snow like dogs do. They place their back feet inside the print of their front feet to use less energy and move directly where they want to go.
Because a crust covered the snow after freezing rain, it was clear that this coyote had to break through the snow with each step, leaving a pointed top to the track it left behind.
A coyote print in iced-over snow.
I followed the prints as it became apparent that this coyote was headed for the farthest west section of the park, where Stewardship Manager Ben VanderWeide had hired a forestry mower to remove invasive shrubs and create a path to the nearby subdivision for residents' use. Two trees nicely frame the opening to this newly renovated area.
The entrance to the farthest west section of Charles Ilsley Park with its rolling land and woods.
This western section with its rolling, glacial landscape, wetlands and wooded areas is very different from the open prairies of Ilsley. It seems our coyote thought this might be a better place to rest on an icy, windy night. Coyotes are not really nocturnal animals, but they have learned that night is a good time to hunt and not be bothered by humans and their activities. So I imagine this coyote had been out hunting mice on the prairie and was heading back to the woods to get out of the wind.
The coyotes prints entering the western section of the park.
After passing into the western area, the coyote turned sharply south into the woods. So I followed its tracks, imagining it trotting between the trees, slipping in and out of the shadows made by the full moon the night before.
The coyote heads off into the woods in the western part of Charles Ilsley Park.
It's easy to see that among the glacially-formed slopes of this rolling landscape, a coyote would be out of the sharp wind that blew across the prairie. The landscape in this area of the park is suddenly so different, as the slopes rise and then descend to one wetland after another. I kept following the coyote deeper into the woods as the line of prints flowed over the slopes.
The coyote's tracks flowed over the slopes.
At last the coyote's tracks came down to a small pond where they seemed to end in a flattened area under some vines and branches at the right which would have provided a bit of cover.
A flat area under the bushes and vines on the right looked like it could be a place where the coyote spent the night out of the wind.
Beyond that pond was another lovely little pond covered in snow and embraced by the hills around it – but not a track in sight.
I lost the coyote's trail after that and wandered up to Ben's path again. I stopped to admire a very tall, wonderfully straight native Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipfera) with its closely furrowed bark.
Its yellow blossoms were now dried but still quivering in the wind at the very top of the tree. Ben pointed it out on an earlier walk and told us he thought our area is at the northern edge of this lovely tree's range. It's the first wild tulip tree I've ever seen.
The dried blossoms of a Tulip-tree which always blooms on the highest branches.
Nearby stood a tall Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum), its red buds just waiting to expand and bring us one of the first really vivid colors of early spring.
Red buds high on a Silver Maple will swell and offer up one of the first bright colors of spring.
As I left the western wooded area and headed back onto the western prairie, I came across a flattened place in the trail that looked like a major crossroads for critters. The tracks around it were hard to read . I thought I recognized squirrel and possible rabbit tracks, but I have no idea who was there and what was going on, really. Since there are coyote tracks above this flattened area, I wondered if one slept here; as top predators, they do sleep in the open at times. Its warmth would have melted the snow and allowed smaller creatures to get to the ground underneath the crusted surface once the coyote left the scene. Just a guess.
One possible hint was a hole in the snow nearby where a squirrel may have tried to dig up a nut in the frozen soil. Or perhaps our coyote dug up a Meadow Mouse (Microtus pennsylvanicus) before heading off to sleep? I'm not sure because the tracks around it were not fresh; they had been trampled, rained on and frozen.
A place where a squirrel may have dug up a nut or seed – or perhaps a coyote found a mouse before bedtime?
The coyote tracks did lead away from area toward the private property on the west side of the park.
Coyote tracks running through the furrows of the private field on the west side of the park.
If the open hole was that of a captured mouse, the birders saw evidence that some mice are luckier than others. Here are some mouse tracks that we spotted near the edge of the western prairie. It looks like this mouse made it safely under the snow's insulation – safe from the icy wind and out of sight. I love the "stitching" look of mouse tracks in the snow.
Mouse tracks that look like stitching disappearing into a hole in the snow.
On the last leg of my tracking trip to the park, as I approached the central section from the north, I saw one of the spring-fed ponds covered with lots of tracks, making neat, straight lines across the snow-covered surface. What was going on? And then it occurred to me. These were stewardship tracks! Ben had told us at the end of the bird walk that he'd brought a native wetland seed mix to spread on the ponds before it rained later that day. He and Stewardship Specialist Alyssa Radzwion put the seed right on the frozen surface. Native seeds needs to be exposed to the cold before they will germinate properly. Once warm weather comes, the seeds will drop down into the shallow water or moist edge habitat and with luck, begin bringing some color and native plant life to these special areas of the park.
I've begun learning to recognize and appreciate the winter forms of some favorite wildflowers. Their subtle shades of brown or gray as well as their patterns and geometry have started me wondering if I could create a native garden next summer that the birds and I could enjoy all year 'round. It's clear that birds need the seeds that cling to native plants despite snow and wind. And I could appreciate the architecture of winter plants. So which shapes provide what landscapers like to call "visual interest" and also provide winter food for wildlife?
Yellow Coneflower and Canada Wild Rye in late fall.
Perhaps some of you remember how beautiful the Eastern Prairie looked when filled with Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) in the summer. This hardy native has always had a special place in my life. When I was a teenager, the first song I ever wrote included the "wide-eyed stare" of this sunny flower. So it definitely needs to be in my garden. I'm taken with its winter fringed cap in winter and would be happy to let it hang out in my garden.
Mixed in with these bright yellow beauties were the lavender fireworks of Bee-balm (Monarda fistulosa) and they create appealing geometry in a winter landscape.
For contrast, I'd need some white in my summer garden – and maybe good old Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) would be a possibility – if I could keep it from spreading too much. I like its chocolate brown against the white snow.
I love how Yellow Coneflowers (Ratibida pinnata) sway in a summer breeze so I hope they'll be included somehow too. The plump, oblong seed heads obviously provide forage for the birds and silvery, pointed spears would be a graceful accent in a winter garden.
I love the graceful pointed heads once all the seeds have fallen.
Brown-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia triloba), which also bloom late in late summer and fall, might be another good choice for the field, since they grow so tall (compared to Black-eyed Susans) and have a branching form with multiple blooms at the same time.
Brown-eyed Susans in winter. Here you can really see their height and their branching structure.
Well, that's a start. I want to search out some other favorites, like Foxglove Beard-tongue (Penstemon digitalis) and see what it looks like after bloom – though I doubt I can resist it for the garden. That little Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) makes me impatient for spring!
A young Field Sparrow on Foxglove Beardtongue in Charles Ilsley Park's Eastern Prairie.
It takes a bit more effort to get out on a frosty morning. There's all that layered clothing and boots and gloves and scarves. And the early March landscape is getting just a bit tiresome — too much brown and white out our windows. But once I'm out the door and into the landscape, nature offers me a few treats to keep me coming back. Tracking a coyote's tracks to a secluded pond in the woods feels like a little adventure. The friendly chatting of winter birds keeps me company and the sight of bluebirds in the stark landscape nourishes my color-starved eyes. And how lucky that noticing the winter geometry of last summer's blooms sets me off dreaming about a new native garden! So all that makes crunching step-by-step through the snow crust worth the effort when the thermometer encourages me to stay home.
Footnote: My sources for information, besides Oakland Township's Stewardship Manager Ben VanderWeide, are as follows: Allaboutbirds.org, the website of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University; Wikipedia; A Field Guide to Nature in Winter by Donald Stokes, and Trees of Michigan Field Guide by Stan Tekiela.
On a frigid late afternoon a week or so ago at Draper Twin Lake Park, I came upon a large stand of Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa) glowing in the sunlight. It turned out that I was not the only one enjoying that warm patch of sunlight backlighting plumes of goldenrod. That sunny curve in the trail was alive with winter birds!
Tree Sparrows (Spizelloides arborea) twittered cheerfully back and forth in the grass below the plants, foraging with the sunlit stems swaying above them. These cheery-voiced winter visitors from the far north were landing on the goldenrods and nibbling at the seed heads.
That made some of the seed fall to the ground, where the tree sparrows prefer to feed, so the tall grass below rippled with busily foraging members of the flock.
And Tree Sparrows hung out in the bushes and trees nearby waiting their turn, some gathering a little warmth on their breasts from the setting sun.
A Tree Sparrow in bright sunlight with a dark twig shadow across its face.
An American Tree Sparrow in a nearby tree while clouds blocked the sun. This picture clearly shows the two-colored bill, rusty cap, rusty eyeline, and unstreaked breast that we use to identify tree sparrows.
They weren't the only species enjoying that patch of sunlit goldenrod, though. Another winter visitor from Canada, a Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis), swooped into the lit plumes and began sampling the seed heads.
In the background, a tentative American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis), dressed in its sedate winter plumage, waited its turn too. So many birds being fed at once! I imagine they all enjoyed the faint warmth of the winter sun shining through the plumes as they ate their evening meal.
An American Goldfinch waits for its turn to share the goldenrod seeds.
A male Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) preferred to look for insect eggs or larvae in the stems of Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis). He moved quickly from plant to plant pecking furiously. Later in the winter, I often find goldenrod galls with neat holes in them where Downys have excavated larva from their winter hideaway inside. But this Downy Woodpecker was searching for something inside the stems themselves.
A Downy Woodpecker pecked at the stems of Canada Goldenrod, looking for insect eggs or larvae.
A female Bluebird checked out a nestbox on the prairie.
Her mate waited nearby, occasionally diving into the grass to feed in the meantime.
Later I saw a female – perhaps the one from the nest box? – pecking on a branch until she loosened a frozen, tiny green caterpillar, which she then promptly swallowed. She was so busy pounding on its hard surface that I never got a clear photo of the caterpillar in her beak – but here she is just after eating her frozen dessert. Looks like it might have felt a bit chilly on the way down, doesn't it?
A female bluebird who'd just found and consumed a bright green frozen caterpillar!
In the same clump of bushes, a Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) performed acrobatic feats while trying, it appeared, to extract some kind of insect from the end of a twig. Here it is hanging upside down as it pecked diligently for its supper. I love its feathered leg-warmers.
A Black-capped Chickadee pecked at the end of this twig until something to eat came out of it.
Snow, ice, sleet, rain – all the elements of Michigan's traditional "January thaw." Sigh…Gray skies day after day make me crave color! On multiple jaunts at Draper Twin Lake Park – some icy, some muddy – I sought it out.
As usual, the mushrooms provided a surprising splash of color here and there. Birds in varying shades of red relieved winter's gray. And changing ice designs added a bit of artistry to every visit. Hey, we take what we can get in beauty at this time of year, right?
A Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) drummed noisily on a telephone pole on the eastern side of the park. Let's hope this male had a cozy hole to spend the winter night; the starlings, twittering in a thicket nearby, are known for absconding with holes created by Red-Bellies. This guy's red cap glowed against a gray sky – a good omen for someone questing for color on a dark day!
On the way to the marsh, a chorus of House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus) chirped from the shrubbery. These gregarious birds with their rosy males added both color and the friendly sound of their "chatting" to the gray quiet. House Finches pause to busily crush the seeds they find with quick bites, making them easier to spot and photograph.
A group of House Finches chirped among the shrubs on the path to the marsh on Draper's east end.
A male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) added a gorgeous dash of scarlet as he darted among the shrubs along the marsh edge at the bottom of the trail.
The scarlet of a male Cardinal offers a welcome break from gray on a winter's day.
While at the marsh, I was surprised to hear what I think was the call of a Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) in the distance. The birders saw one at Charles Ilsley Park the previous week but I've never seen one in the middle of winter. If you listen to the "Rolling rattle call" at this Cornell Lab link, you'll hear what I heard far away on a wintry day. Here's a flicker I saw in early spring last year.
A Northern Flicker could be heard in Draper Park last week, but I never saw it. This photo is from the previous spring.
Out on the ice, a graceful swoop of marsh sedges turned blue and silver in the shadows.
The sedges in the marsh seemed tinged with blue in the shadows of a winter afternoon.
On a log near the marsh, a bright patch of yellow polypore/shelf mushrooms glowed under the edge of a log. One of the reasons I love wetlands is that summer and winter, they reward any hiker with colorful birds and mushrooms.
Yellow polypore mushrooms on a log near the eastern marsh at Draper.
But birds were there too. Flocks of modestly dressed winter visitors – Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) and American Tree Sparrows (Spizelloides arborea) – hopped down from small bare trees and bushes, chattering away as they foraged on the ground.
Juncos foraged for seeds, though this one seems to have a piece of leaf in its beak!
A Tree Sparrow waits in the bushes.
That bit of leaf in the Junco's beak may be result of flipping things over to look for seeds. The seeds of two native wildflowers left in the field looked as though they may have provided some sustenance. The seed pod of Wild Senna (Senna hebecarpa) on the left below and the dried inflorescence of a late-flowering Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) on the right are both native plants sown in 2015 by Ben VanderWeide, our Stewardship Manager, to restore the prairie, using a grant from the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Wild Senna pods provide winter food for birds.
This head of a Black-eyed Susan looks like it's dropped its seeds for the birds as well.
Over the crest of a slope on the rolling prairie, a slow, lumbering Possum (Didelphis virginiana) nosed its way along the edge of the field. It appeared to be searching for seeds or earthworms on the wet earth exposed by the thaw. Possums don't hibernate and are generally nocturnal, but there it was in morning light. Possums feign death ("playing possum") when extremely frightened – but they'll fight first – so be wary of their sharp teeth. North America's only marsupial, possums raise their infants in the female's pouch for about two and a half months. Later, the babies, up to 13 of them, can be seen draped over their mother's back as she goes about her business.
In a tree at the edge of the prairie one morning, a lone Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) blended its soft pinks with the gentle shades of the winter landscape.
A Mourning Dove's colors blend with the shades of a winter morning.
The western path was a bright glare of ice on my first January trip to the pond. At the edge of the parking lot, a dead branch still sported orange polypore/shelf mushrooms, just as it did in the fall. Amazing how hardy these fungi are in cold weather!
The orange polypore ("shelf") mushrooms survived the cold intact, perhaps even getting a bit more orange!
A stick covered in a mosaic of green and blue lichen and a nearby patch of leafy (foliose) lichen caught my eye. Lichen are intriguing, because they are a "composite organism" made up of algae and/or cyanobacteria living among filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic relationship. The fungus provides protection for the algae and gathers moisture and nutrients. The algae uses those nutrients and energy from the sun, and through photosynthesis produces food (carbohydrates) for both itself and the fungus. These ancient organisms occur from alpine regions to sea level in all kinds of shapes (morphologies). The more delicate forms of lichens are very sensitive to air pollution (bio-indicators), which is why you will only find flatter forms that colonize rocks and branches in areas with more air pollution. In areas with cleaner air you'll find more delicate, branching lichens. I'm just glad they gave me some varying shades of green and blue on a wintry day.
Blue and green lichen growing on a stick in the path.
Foliose (leafy) lichen is a composite organism of a fungus and algae living in symbiosis.
Near the pond during a bird walk, a bright yellow mushroom beckoned in the distance. How's this for a bit of sunshine on a moist winter morning? I'm no expert at mushrooms, as readers know. To me, it looks like kernels of corn. But I think this one's common name is "Witches' Butter," Dacrymyces palmata (Fungi get more imaginative names than plants do…). Any mycologists out there who can verify that for me?
Lovely russet patterns formed on the path, made from White Pine needles (Pinus strobus) and a variety of leaves embedded in ice near the lake.
A strange ice sculpture took shape along the floating deck at the lake. I dubbed it the "Sunny Side Up" formation when I first saw it on an icy day. When I came back with the birders 10 days later, the surface ice had melted down, leaving the "yolk" standing in 3-D surrounded by icy ridges where the outline of the "egg white" once was. Wonder what created this interesting bulge in the ice?
The "Sunny side up" ice Design in the reeds by the lake.
Twice I came across ice fishermen out on the lake. On the first visit, a man was unloading his sled full of equipment way off in the distance on the far side of the lake, while skaters glided about in the winter sunshine.
Three days after these skating scenes, the melt had begun and the rains came. The surface of the lake turned from white to gray, with inches of water standing on ice.
The lake after a thaw and rain but enough ice to support two ice fisherman (not pictured) sloshing along the surface.
I saw (but didn't photograph for some reason!) two fisherman walking out into that sloshing mess, confident about the ice underneath. A strange sight! It looked like two men walking on water!
The last day I visited the park with the birders, the ice had developed a crackled surface. Quite a wonderful abstract design, but not one that would encourage venturing out onto the ice!
Later that week as the snow began to fall again, a Tufted Titmouse paused for a few moments in a nearby bush. One of these little birds fooled the experienced birders in our Wednesday bird group by seeming to mimic the "cheer" call of a Carolina Wren. According to the Sibley Guides website, Titmice have a wide variety of songs so maybe this is one of them. Quite a performance, anyway.
On my way home from Draper Twin Lake Park one morning, I stopped to admire a "modern art" ice shape in a pond at the corner of Buell and Lake George Roads. It could almost have been a composition by Matisse or maybe Paul Klee. For much of my life, I missed the details as I hiked through a landscape. The camera encouraged me to look more closely. Now nature gifts me with surprises – the quizzical tilt of a dragonfly's head, the spiral of seeds in a flower head and this winter, odd ice designs and strokes of color within winter's gray and white world.
But a camera isn't necessary. An observant pair of curious eyes is all we really need to notice the beauty that might otherwise be missed, especially in a January thaw.
Allaboutbirds.org, the website of the Cornell Ornithology Lab at Cornell University; Wikipedia; Herbarium of the University of Michigan at michiganflora.net; Birds of North America Online; Audubon.org; Nature in Winter by Donald Stokes; Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich; Winter World by Bernd Heinrich, Savannah River Ecology Lab (Univ of Georgia).


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U.S. Attorney-Nashville- Owner Of Telemedicine Company Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud Conspiracy
Conspired with Owner of Tennessee Genetic Testing Laboratory, Marketing Companies, and Physicians to Defraud the United States
NASHVILLE – A Kentucky woman pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, to conspiracy to pay and receive health care kickbacks, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Elizabeth Turner, 34 of Glenview, Kentucky, was charged by criminal Information in November with conspiring with Fadel Alshalabi, the owner of Crestar Labs, LLC, based in Spring Hill, Tennessee, Melissa Lynn "Lisa" Chastain, the owner of marketing company Genetix, LLC, located in Belton, South Carolina, as well as other marketers and physicians, to offer, pay, solicit and receive illegal kickbacks and to defraud the Medicare and Medicaid Programs.
Between approximately February 2018 and ending around August 2019, Turner was the owner of telemedicine company Advanced Tele-Genetic Counseling ("ATGC"), which received kickback payments from marketers in exchange for providing signed doctors' orders for Cancer genomic ("CGx") testing. CGx testing uses DNA sequencing to detect mutations in genes that could indicate a higher risk of developing certain types of cancers in the future. CGx testing is not a method of diagnosing whether an individual presently has cancer. The marketers targeted Medicare and Medicaid patients through door-to-door marketing, at senior citizen fairs, at nursing homes, and at other locations, and convinced patients to provide their genetic material via a mouth swab kit. The marketers then provided the swab kits to Crestar Labs for CGx testing in exchange for kickbacks paid by Crestar Labs. Crestar Labs billed Medicare and Medicaid for the tests.
Turner, through ATGC, paid kickbacks to doctors for signed orders for CGx tests, without regard for the medical necessity of the tests. Turner knew the doctors were not the patients' treating physicians, were not treating the patients for any specific medical problem, symptom, illness, or diagnosis, and were not using the results in the care of the patients. Turner was aware that the doctors often never contacted the patients at all.
As a result of Turner's involvement in the conspiracy, ATGC received approximately $234,730 in illegal kickback payments from marketing company co-conspirators, including Genetix, LLC. As a result of the conspiracy, Medicare and Medicaid paid laboratories, including Crestar Labs, LLC millions of dollars in reimbursements they were not entitled to receive because the CGx tests had been procured through the payment of kickbacks, and were otherwise ineligible for reimbursement.
Turner faces up to five years in prison when she is sentenced on May 2, 2022, and a fine of up to $250,000; restitution to the Medicare and Medicaid programs; and forfeiture of the ill-gotten proceeds.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office of the Inspector General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sarah K. Bogni and Robert S. Levine are prosecuting the case.
United States v. Elizabeth Turner is docketed at Criminal Case No. 3:21-cr-00280.
United States v. Fadel Alshalabi, Edward Klapp, and Melissa Lynn Chastain is docketed at Criminal Case No. 3:21-cr-00171. The charges contained in that Superseding Indictment are merely accusations. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Once a family has made the difficult decision to place a loved one in a nursing home, they have a right to expect that their loved one will not be injured as a result of neglect or abuse.
Nursing homes in New York are responsible to reposition immobile patients at least every 2 hours.
Wounds caused by dropping a patient or rubbing his or her skin against the side of a bed.
Failing to properly treat high-risk patients with specialized mattresses or cushions etc.


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trans is natural
when the british imposed sodomy laws they criminalized homosexuality because it was "against the order of nature." they would forcibly strip "women's clothes" off of gender variant people & force them into "men's clothes." they did this in the name of hygiene, in the name of protecting nature. colonialism shaped what we have come to understand as natural & unnatural. it naturalized heterosexuality & a binary gender system making it seem like the only option, not one of many options. it minimized the millions of forms of intimacies required to create & sustain life outside & beyond normative heterosexuality. gender variant people — who had long maintained an intimate relationship with nature — were demonized and made to seem foreign & threatening. we see the legacy of this in mainstream feminism which continues to uphold cis women's bodies as natural and trans feminine bodies as wrong & disorderly. what is natural isn't given, it's a political decision. heteronormativity is naturalized by discrediting, delegitimizing, & ultimately disappearing intersex & gender variant people. in order for their nature to work we have to be eliminated. our existence is threatening insomuch as we gesture to another world outside of heteronormativity's grip. we model & template forms of living that exceed the confines of their natural. we ambition beyond the manipulation of our bodies in the service of a security that is so tenuous & brittle it breaks with the slightest view of our artful becoming. it is so important that we reclaim the natural that they weaponize against us. that we remember that gender & sexual plurality & fluidity is natural. that there are as many bodies as there are bodies. infinite expression, variability, transformation. this is my NATURAL.


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Q: Как на golang использовать функции библиотек, написанных на других языках? Как на golang использовать функции библиотек, написанных на других языках?
Можете показать какой-нибудь элементарный пример функции на C; C++;C# где б функция возвращала значение типа "Hello World", а я б это значение увидел в программе на golang?

A: Добрый день. Могу ответить только за C. Частью дистрибуции до является CGo. То бишь, все что есть в С можно заимпортировать в Go код. В этом плане есть хорошая статья о том, как же это все сделать https://www.goinggo.net/2013/08/using-c-dynamic-libraries-in-go-programs.html
Из собственного опыта могу сказать, что задача это не простая (пытался написать на CGo расширения для Python). Но если верить документации к Go 1.5 (или новее), то все что собирается в *.o и комплектуется соответственным *.h файлом, можно заимпортировать в Go.
Относительно других ЯП типа C# и С++ не в курсе и не пробовал.

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Lance Klusener steps down as head coach of Afghanistan team
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Lance Klusener has announced his decision to step down as the head coach of the Afghanistan men's cricket team. The move comes weeks after the conclusion of ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021.
Lance Klusener steps down as Afghanistan coach
Lance Klusener has decided against extending his contract with the Afghanistan men's cricket team.
Lance Klusener has stepped down as head coach of Afghanistan team
Klusener took over the role on September 27, 2019 replacing Phil Simmons
In a statement, Klusener said he takes away some memorable moments with the team
Soon after the conclusion of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021, Afghanistan head coach Lance Klusener has decided to step down as the head coach of the Afghanistan men's cricket team. One of the finest all-rounders to have played cricket, Klusener was appointed as the head coach of Afghanistan for a two-year period.
In a statement, Klusener said he would not be extending his contract which will come to an end on December 31, 2021.
"I, Lance Klusener, has decided not to extend my contract as the head coach of the Afghanistan men's cricket team which finishes on 31st December 2021. Having spent two years with the team, I will take away some memorable moments with the team," Klusener said in a statement.
Klusener added that he was looking forward to his coaching career.
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Klusener took over as Afghanistan's head coach on September 27, 2019 where he replaced Phil Simmons.
"I am extremely excited and honored to be given the opportunity to work with some of the best talent in world cricket," Klusener had said after his appointment. "Everyone knows the fearless brand of cricket Afghanistan play. I am very confident that with some hard work we can become one of the best sides in the world.
Klusener has previously worked as the batting coach of Zimbabwe and South Africa, and head coach of the South Africa domestic side Dolphins, as well as bowling coach of Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians.
In T20 World Cup 2021, Afghanistan finished fourth with two wins from five matches.
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Facebook on Tuesday announced it has updated its Messenger app with a new feature which will let users send and receive money through the app itself.
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The free feature will roll out over the next few months for users in the United States and will be accessible on the desktop Android and iOS devices.
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Q: Write SDK version to binary when compiling from command line (macOS) I am trying to detect whether the system is in dark mode.
I have already tried reading AppleInterfaceStyle from the user defaults i.e.
    NSString *interfaceStyle = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"AppleInterfaceStyle"];
    BOOL isDark = [@"dark" caseInsensitiveCompare:interfaceStyle] == NSOrderedSame;

which works most of the time but has issues in Auto mode on Catalina.
Now from what I have read is that the more robust approach is to check the effectiveAppearance of NSApplication which looks like this:
    NSApplication *app = [NSApplication sharedApplication];
    NSAppearance *appearance = app.effectiveAppearance;
    NSAppearanceName appearanceName = [appearance bestMatchFromAppearancesWithNames:@[NSAppearanceNameAqua, NSAppearanceNameDarkAqua]];
    BOOL isDark = [appearanceName isEqualToString:NSAppearanceNameDarkAqua];

The problem with this approach is that the application I am writing this for manually sets its appearance property, which prevents the effectiveAppearance from using the system appearance.
I tried settings app.appearance = nil before checking the effectiveAppearance but it didn't help.
Now there also is [NSAppearance currentAppearance] which uses the appearance of the current thread. I'm not quite sure what this value resolves to if the thread hasn't set the value explicitly.
My big problem here is that I have no access to a machine running macOS to check my code, so I would highly appreciate if someone knows what to do here.

Edit: It looks like the issue is that the library isn't compile against the correct version of the SDK. Or at least that version isn't written to the library information.
From the documentation:

If you build your app against an earlier SDK but still want to support Dark Mode, include the NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance key (with a value of NO) in your app's Info.plist file. Do so only if your app's appearance looks correct when running in macOS 10.14 and later with Dark Mode enabled.

I am already specifying the version through -mmacosx-version-min=10.14. From what I have found this issue is basically the same that I have, but I don't quite understand what the solution is from the commit.
I guess it has something to do with the -isysroot and -platform_version. But I didn't find any good reference for what they do and how they work.
My updated question would be:
How do -isysroot and -platform_version work and how do I use them to enable SDK specific functionality with my binaries?

A: The solution is quite simple. When manually compiling from the command line -mmacosx-version-min=10.14 needs to get passed to the compiler and the linker.


Any dismissal for economic reasons must be justified by a real and serious cause. The economic motive is defined by the Labor Code as a reason not inherent to the employee's person, resulting from a deletion or transformation of employment or a modification, refused by the employee, of an essential element of the employment contract and consecutive of economic difficulties as technological changes, the cessation of activity of the undertaking or an reorganization of it necessary to safeguard its competitiveness.
In other words, the dismissal is motivated by economic reasons, originating either in the abolition or transformation of the employment of the employee concerned, or a modification of an essential element of the employment contract refused by the employee.
Economic reasons for a dismissal procedure.
or the cessation of business activity (unless it is due to fault of the employer).
Concerning economic difficulties, the French case law does not require that the business situation be catastrophic; it's sufficient that the difficulties encountered be real and serious (Cass Soc 9-7-1997 n ° 95-43.722 P: RJS 8-9 / 97 n ° 960).
Concerning the technological changes the introduction of a new technology with an impact on employment is an economic cause of dismissal even if the competitiveness of the company is not threatened (Cass, 9-10-2002 n ° 00-44.069 FD : RJS 12/02 No. 1373, 15-3-2012 No. 10-25.996 FD: RJS 6/12 No. 532). The acquisition of new machines allowing the automation of the tasks (Cass.Soci 14-5-1998 n ° 96-43.797 P) or the implementation of a new computer software leading to the suppression of a large part of the attributions of the employee (Cass, company 17-5-2006 n ° 04-43.022 FD: RJS 8-9 / 06 n ° 934) can justify an economic dismissal. On the other hand, the change of software in an enterprise already accustomed to computer technology does not constitute an evolution that can be described as technological innovation and cannot therefore justify such a dismissal (Cass, company 13-5-2003 n ° 00 -46.76 FD: RJS 11/03 No. 1135).
Concerning the reorganization of the company, when not linked to economic difficulties or technological changes, can constitute an economic reason for dismissal for itself if it is carried out to safeguard the competitiveness of the enterprise (Cass, 5-4-1995 n ° 93-42.690 PB: RJS 5/95 No. 497; 31-5-2011 No. 09-67.045 FD: RJS 8-9 / 11 No. 719) or the sector of activity of the group to which it belongs (Cass. company 10-12-2003 n ° 02-40.293 FD: RJS 2/04 n ° 187; 9-7-2015 n ° 14-16.009 FS-PB: RJS 10/15 n ° 627).
The reorganization decided to prevent future difficulties linked to technological developments and their consequences for employment is an economic motive (Cass.Sc. 11-1-2006 n ° 04-46.201 FS-PBRI: RJS 3/06 n ° 322, 27-3-2012 n ° 11-14.223 FS-PB: RJS 6/12 n ° 533) or the emergence of new players in the market threatening competitiveness (Cass. Soc. 2-2-2011 no. 09-69.520 FD) but not the one only directed for making additional profits (Case company 29-5-2001 n ° 99-41.930 FS-D: RJS 8-9 / 01 n ° 1002; 09-43.183: RJS 2/12 n ° 120), to improve the margins (Casss company 13-9-2006 n ° 05-41.665 FD: RJS 11/06 n ° 1161), or to reduce the social charges (Cass 12-11-1997 n ° 95-43.605 P, 28-3-2012 n ° 11-10.109 FD) as soon as the company is prosperous (Cass, company 29-1-2003 n ° 00-44.962 FD: RJS 4/03 No. 428).
Nor is it justified by any economic motive the decision to transfer production from France to other countries because of attractive financial and fiscal incentives (Cass, 18-9-2007 n ° 06-42.401 FD: RJS 11/07 n ° 1170).


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A decade later, League of Legends is yet to turn a profit as an esport
But that's just fine, says developer Riot Games
It might be one of the biggest esports scenes in the digital gaming sphere, but mega-popular MOBA League of Legends is yet to turn a profit as a sport in over 10 years of operation. That's according to comments from LoL developer Riot Games.
Speaking in an interview with The Washington Post (as reported by GamesIndustry.biz) Riot Games' head of esports John Needham openly admitted that League of Legends' competitive scene simply hasn't been profitable for the company in the decade since its initial launch. Importantly, Needham notes that profit for Riot isn't a key goal of the LoL professional league, and apparently has never been a key focus of the competitive scene at all. Moreso, the goal is to make it profitable for sponsors, teams, and the professional players themselves, in order to keep the scene attractive and sustainable.
"We like to call ourselves the future of sport," Needham told The Washington Post. "That's what we think we're building […] If I can't make esports a great business for teams and our sponsors, then we're not going to last long. We're very much thinking about, 'How do we make the entire ecosystem profitable?'"
It doesn't take a business wiz to understand that League of Legends as a professional sport might not bring Riot Games profit directly, but is one hell of an advertisement for what has become one of the biggest video games on the planet for the best part of 10 years. Through its competitive scene and myriad tournaments, Riot Games can make announcements, show off new characters, drop rad music videos, and generally introduce players globally to the world of LoL. It might not make any profit, but the ensuing merch and in-game sales no doubt cover the spread. If Riot can ensure that the competitive scene breaks even, then the studio will be sitting pretty, at least financially, for years to come.
Filed under... #Competitive Multiplayer#eSports#League of Legends#MOBA#Riot Games#Tournaments
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin, OM, FRS (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a British chemist, credited with the development of Protein crystallography.
She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three dimensional structures of biomolecules. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin that Ernst Boris Chain had previously surmised, and then the structure of vitamin B12, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 1969, after 35 years of work and five years after winning the Nobel Prize, Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin. X-ray crystallography became a widely used tool and was critical in later determining the structures of many biological molecules such as DNA where knowledge of structure is critical to an understanding of function. She is regarded as one of the pioneer scientists in the field of X-ray crystallography studies of biomolecules.
Dorothy Hodgkin's photo in the Abbot's Kitchen adjacent to the Oxford Natural History Museum where she worked.
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was born on 12 May 1910 in Cairo, Egypt, to John Winter Crowfoot (1873 – 1959), excavator and scholar of classics, and Grace Mary Hood (1877 – 1957). For the first four years of her life she lived as an English expatriate in Asia Minor, returning to England only a few months each year. She spent the period of World War I in the UK under the care of relatives and friends, but separated from her parents. After the war, her mother decided to stay home in England and educate her children, a period that Hodgkin later described as the happiest in her life.
In 1921, she entered the Sir John Leman Grammar School in Beccles,England. She travelled abroad frequently to visit her parents in Cairo and Khartoum. Both her father and her mother had a strong influence with their Puritan ethic of selflessness and service to humanity which reverberated in her later achievements.
She developed a passion for chemistry from a young age, and her mother fostered her interest in science in general. Her excellent early education prepared her well for university. At age 18 she started studying chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, then one of the University of Oxford colleges for women only.
She also studied at the University of Cambridge under the tutelage of John Desmond Bernal, where she became aware of the potential of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of proteins.
In 1934, she moved back to Oxford and two years later, in 1936, she became a research fellow at Somerville College, a post which she held until 1977.
Together with Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl Oughton, she was one of the first people in 1953 to see the model of the structure of DNA, constructed by Francis Crick and James Watson; at the time he and the other scientists were working at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. All were impressed by the new DNA model, especially Brenner who subsequently worked with Crick.
In 1960 she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the Royal Society.
Insulin structure
Insulin was one of her most extraordinary research projects. It began in 1934 when she was offered a small sample of crystalline insulin by Robert Robinson. The hormone captured her imagination because of the intricate and wide-ranging effect it has in the body. However, at this stage X-ray crystallography had not been developed far enough to cope with the complexity of the insulin molecule. She and others spent many years improving the technique. Larger and more complex molecules were being tackled (see timeline below) until in 1969 – 35 years later - the structure of insulin was finally resolved. But her quest was not finished then. She cooperated with other laboratories active in insulin research, gave advice, and travelled the world giving talks about insulin and its importance for diabetes.
Hodgkin's scientific mentor Professor John Desmond Bernal greatly influenced her life both scientifically and politically. He was a distinguished scientist of great repute in the scientific world, a member of the Communist party, and a faithful supporter of successive Soviet regimes until their invasion of Hungary. She always referred to him as "Sage"; intermittently, they were lovers. The conventional marriages of both Bernal and Hodgkin were far from smooth.[citation needed]
In 1937, Dorothy married Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, then recently returned from working for the Colonial Office and moving into adult education.[1] He later became a well-known Oxford Lecturer, author of several fundamental Africanist books and a one-time member of the Communist party.[citation needed] She always consulted him concerning important problems and decisions. In 1961 Thomas became an advisor to Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, where he remained for extended periods, and where she often visited him. The couple had three children. Because of her political activity and her husband's association with the Communist Party, she was not allowed to enter the US except by CIA waiver until the end of her life (after the collapse of the Soviet Union).[citation needed]
Despite her scientific specialisation and excellence she was by no means a single-minded and one-sided scientist. She received many honours but was more interested in exchange with other scientists. She often employed her intelligence to think about other people's problems and was concerned about social inequalities and stopping conflict. As a consequence she was President of Pugwash from 1976 to 1988.[2]
Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry medal of Dorothy Hodgkin, displayed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Apart from the Nobel Prize, she was a recipient of the Order of Merit, a recipient of the Copley Medal, a Fellow of the Royal Society, The Lenin Peace Prize, and was Chancellor of Bristol University from 1970 to 1988. Council offices in the London Borough of Hackney and a Bristol University building are named after her.
Cultural references
* Dorothy Hodgkin was one of five 'Women of Achievement' selected for a set of British stamps issued in August 1996. The others were Marea Hartman (sports administrator), Margot Fonteyn (ballerina/choreographer), Elisabeth Frink (sculptor) & Daphne du Maurier (writer). All except Hodgkin were Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBEs).
also a building in Keele University named after her.
Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
* 1. Professor Louise Johnson, "Dorothy Hodgkin and penicillin" , 4/3/99.
* 2. Professor Judith Howard, "The Interface of Chemistry and Biology Increasingly in Focus" , *13/3/00.
* 3. Professor Jenny Glusker, "Vitamin B12 and Dorothy: Their impact on structural science", 15/05/01.
* 4. Professor Pauline Harrison CBE, From Crystallography to Metals, Metabolism and Medicine, 05/03/02.
* 5. Dr Claire Naylor, "Pathogenic Proteins : how bacterial agents cause disease, 04/03/03.
* 6. Dr Margaret Adams, "A Piece in the Jigsaw: G6PD – The protein behind an hereditary disease", 09/03/04.
* 7. Dr. Margaret Rayman, "Selenium in cancer prevention", 10/03/05.
* 8. Dr Elena Conti, "Making sense of nonsense: structural studies of RNA degradation and disease", 09/03/06.
* 9. Professor Jenny Martin, "The name's Bond - Disulphide Bond", 06/03/07.
* 10. Professor E. Yvonne Jones, "Postcards from the surface: The Structural Biology of Cell-Cell Communication, 04/03/08.
* 11. Professor Pamela J. Bjorkman, ""Your mother's antibodies: How you get them and how we might improve them to combat HIV", 11/03/09.
* 12. Professor Elspeth Garman, "Crystallography 100 years A.D (After Dorothy)" 09/03/2010.
Timeline of her discoveries
Hodgkin determined the three-dimensional structures of the following biomolecules:
* Cholesterol in 1937
* Penicillin in 1945
* Vitamin B12 in 1954
* Insulin in 1969
1. ^ 'Mr Thomas Hodgkin', The Times, 26 March 1982
2. ^ Howard, Judith A. K. (November 1, 2003). "Dorothy Hodgkin and her contributions to biochemistry". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 4 (11): 891–896. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrm1243.
* Ferry, Georgina. 1998. Dorothy Hodgkin A Life. Granta Books, London.
* Dodson, Guy. 2002. Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, OM. Biographical Memoir, The Royal Society, London.
* Dodson, Guy, Jenny P. Glusker, and David Sayre (eds.). 1981. Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
* Glusker, Jenny P. in Out of the Shadows - Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics.
* Wolfers, Michael, Thomas Hodgkin. Wandering scholar. A biography., Merlin Press, 2007
* Glusker, Jenny P. (1994). "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)". Protein Science 3: 2465–2469. http://protsci.highwire.org/cgi/reprint/3/12/2465.
* Glusker, Jenny P., Margaret J. Adams (1995). "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin". Physics Today 48: 80–81. doi:10.1063/1.2808036.
* Louise N. Johnson, David Phillips (1994). "Professor Dorothy Hodgkin, OM, FRS". Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 1: 573–576. http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v1/n9/pdf/nsb0994-573.pdf.
* Perutz, Max F. (Quarterly Review of Biophysics 27: 333-337, 1994)
* Nature 371: 20, 1994.
* Royal Society of Edinburgh obituary
* Guy Dodson (2002). "Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, O.M. 12 May 1910--29 July 1994". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 48: 179–219. http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/48/179.full.pdf+html?sid=bbcbbb73-078e-4656-8918-1c018a94aab4.
* List of female Nobel laureates
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* The People's Archive interview [1]
* CWP - Dorothy Hodgkin in a study of contributions of women to physics
* Review of Ferry's biography on the Pugwash website
* Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
* Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: A Founder of Protein Crystallography
* Nobel Prize 1964 page
* Her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.
* Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards


So, this was the weekend of the Erie Town Fair, and I have to say, it puts Steel Days to shame. My tiny town puts on a darn good show! The day started at 6:30am at the Annual Balloon launch at the Vista Ridge Golf Course (which is in our neighborhood). We rode out bikes over to the driving range to watch about 50 hot air balloons take off into the sky. Unfortunately our camera battery was dead, so we got no pics. But I will post one from last year so you can see how cool it is. Then it was off to the Erie airport (tiny little airport) to see all the cool plane. They were even giving free airplane rides to kids 8-17 yrs old. I asked Rust if he thought I could pass for 17. The raised eyebrows indicated NOT. DARN. But, Josh is obsessed with airplanes, which, living right by the airport, are flying over our house all day long. I'll be up in his room putting him down for his nap and he'll be practically asleep in my arm and he'll hear and airplane fly by. He opens his sleepy little eyes, says, "Airplane," makes the sign and goes right back to sleep. So funny.
As if all that weren't enough, then we got the treat of the century–going to Halle's Spring Singing Recital. Wow–those kids are headed for Broadway! (All except Halle who seems to always be a beat or two behind everyone else. Remind you of anything Nat???) Anyway, video is on the side bar.
Then came the ward BBQ where food and fun were had by all. Josh even had his first T-Ball experience. I'm going to have to go get a set–he loved it.
May 19, 2008 in Uncategorized.
Loved the video of Halle! It seems her chorus songs are a little more hip than most. Paul is forever singing some awful "Downy White Feathers" song from the AF Children's Choir. As for your question, I leave on the 31st. Let's plan some sort of girls dinner or get together when you can. That would be a blast!
It looks like a fun day to me. They also do a balloon launch in a town near by hear and it is really cool!
Sure I was a beat or two behind… BACK THEN. Now I'm a beat or two ahead. It all evens out in the end.
Fun! You guys are such good parents to wake up so early to go see balloons! My kids would probably just have to miss out. We are not morning people around here! I love Halle and the mothers day braclet! Too funny! Do you guys have any Utah summer plans? We should try and get together!
How dare you say this is better than Steel Days. Not only is it rude, but I find it VERY hard to believe!


This plugin used to work for me, but when I switched my payment processor from Paypal to 2Checkout, it stopped working. I guess if the plugin works for some payment processors and not others, that's probably why some people think the plugin works great, and some people hate it.
It seems like this should just be an option built into WooCommerce.
thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to test most of the gateways. As a rule of thumb, if the gateway and the plugin used to connect to the gateway supports Instant Payment Notifications, our plugin should work.
We are available to test our plugin with 2Checkout if you can help us with that.
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Ethics for Life is a straightforward guide to the main ethical theories and thinkers.
We all face questions on an almost daily basis related to truth and post-truth, particularly in the political sphere, terrorism, globalization, immigration and asylum, social responsibility, media and social-media ethics, and gender and LGBT issues. So how do you navigate this minefield?
Ethics for Life is an accessible introduction to all the key theories and thinkers. It shows the relevance of ethical ideas and theories to everyday life, emphasizing the way our view of ourselves and the societies we live in is shaped by our moral values and the arguments they are based on.
With contemporary examples and discussion of current debates including terrorism, genetics and the media, Ethics for Life will help you grasp how ethics applies to life today.
Mel Thompson is a freelance writer and editor, specialising in philosophy, religion and ethics. He is the author of the following titles in the Teach Yourself series: Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Eastern Philosophy.
Your life is dominated by your unconscious mind: by thoughts you're unaware of and movements you don't realise you are making. Words, colours, mannerisms and other cues you don't realise are affecting you, change what you think. The confidence you have in your ability to reason and to consciously choose what to do is caused by a series of illusions that scientists are only just beginning to understand. The discovery of these illusions will change the way we see ourselves more than the discoveries of Darwin and Copernicus. Unthink explores the unconscious decisions we make, and covers a variety of topics, ranging from how we choose politicians and romantic partners to more abstract subjects such as whether we can consciously decide to move our fingers. The counter-intuitive observations that Chris makes in the book include:· If you want someone to fancy you, wear red and meet them somewhere frightening.· When waitresses repeat customers' orders back to them instead of just saying 'yes' they receive bigger tips.· To reduce your shopping bill, start at the beer and snacks end of the store and work backwards.· If you sit someone in an upright chair when you give them good news they will be prouder of their achievements.· Having a picture of your family on your desk might make you work harder, but you'll be rattier when you get home!Chris Paley shows us how we can understand ourselves and others better, by having a greater understanding of the way that the unconscious mind has an impact of the way we live our lives.
What is your mind? How is it related to your body? What is the effect of artificial intelligence and information technology? These and many other issues are explored in TEACH YOURSELF PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.- Investigate ideas about the mind, from ancient Greece to present-day cognitive science.- Explore the concepts of memory and free will.- Consider issues relating the mind to religion and artistic creativity.- Examine the impact of information technology on our understanding of the mind and the way it works.


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Baos (llamada oficialmente San Xoán dos Vaos) es una parroquia y una aldea española del municipio de Ribera de Piquín, en la provincia de Lugo, Galicia.

Otras denominaciones

La parroquia también es conocida por el nombre de San Xoán de Baos.

Organización territorial

La parroquia está formada por siete entidades de población, constando seis de ellas en el nomenclátor del Instituto Nacional de Estadística español:
 Baos (Os Vaos)
 A Budueira
 Cartea
 Invernego
 Muxén
 Ouviaña
 Seoane

Demografía

Parroquia

Aldea

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Parroquias de Ribera de Piquín
Localidades de Ribera de Piquín
Localidades de la provincia de Lugo

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New kitchen with cork floors! Brand new laminate throughout! The perfect coloured paint on the walls and new carpet in the bedrooms at a price where everything should be expected to be old! This will be the best Christmas present someonecould give themself at this price! This 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with all the amenities someone could want and 2 parking stalls for the extra car! Thsi is a Bosa built place worth coming to visit!