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Палати́нская академия — школа при дворе императора Карла Великого в Ахене. Создана в 780-х гг. Объединяла теологов, грамматиков и других учёных, а также поэтов, миниатюристов и представителей других артистических профессий, разной национальности. В Палатинской академии изучались науки и искусство, особенно античное наследие. Палатинская академия дала мощный интеллектуальный импульс Каролингскому возрождению.

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Палатинская академия (в аутентичных источниках  — собственно «Дворцовая школа») была создана императором Карлом Великим при его дворе в Ахене, по образцу Платоновской академии, которая понималась им как идеал дружеского союза учёных с культом мудрости. Членами академии были (помимо самого императора) учёные самых разных профессиональных специализаций, различного социального статуса и этнического происхождения, — Алкуин (первый научный руководитель школы), Теодульф, Ангильберт, Эйнхард, Адальгард, Пётр Пизанский (итальянский филолог и поэт), Павлин Аквилейский, Павел Диакон, Дунгал (ирландский монах, астроном и поэт), Дикуил и др. Демонстрируя приверженность древней (античной и библейской) традиции, академики выступали под псевдонимами, например, Карл Великий представлялся царём Давидом, Алкуин — Флакком (когномен древнеримского поэта «золотого века» римской литературы Горация), Теодульф — Пиндаром, Ангильберт — Гомером и т. п.

Академики в «новых Афинах» мечтали превзойти античных предшественников, включив в орбиту исследования и образования христианское богословие. Античное знание, по мысли членов Палатинской академии, должно быть переосмыслено в соответствии с пониманием новой высшей цели — познания Бога. Созданная при Ахенском дворце уникальная по тем временам библиотека (не сохранилась) точно соответствовала поставленной цели — в ней хранились не только греко-римские «языческие» труды, но и сочинения раннехристианских авторов.

Занятия в Палатинской академии, ориентированные в целом на семь свободных искусств (тривий и квадривий), носили характер дружеских бесед, а также богословских диспутов. Из стен Палатинской академии вышли замечательные учёные разных специальностей, писатели и поэты, образованные чиновники — среди них Ангильберт, Эйнхард, Модуин Отёнский, Рабан Мавр и др. Палатинская академия не только обеспечивала высокий уровень образования клира и чиновников в окружении Карла, но и установила для всей Каролингской империи курс на христианизированное «исправление» () и «обновление» () античного наследия, значимость которого не подвергалась сомнению даже в самые трудные периоды средневековой истории. В Палатинской академии впервые была высказана мысль о духовном единстве Европы, которая периодически озвучивается в разных контекстах (в том числе в речах политиков) вплоть до XXI века.

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Литература
 Fleckenstein J. Karl der Grosse und sein Hof // Karl der Große: Lebenswerk und Nachleben, hrsg. v. W. Braunfels. Bd. 1. Düsseldorf, 1965, S. 24-50.
 Brünholz F. Der Bildungsauftrag der Hofschule // Karl der Große: Lebenswerk und Nachleben, hrsg. v. W. Braunfels. Bd. 2. Düsseldorf, 1965, S. 28-41.
 Riché P. Les écoles et l'enseignement dans l'Occident chrétien de la fin du Ve siècle au milieu du XIe siècle. Paris, 1979.
 Арнаутова Ю. Палатинская академия // Католическая энциклопедия. Т. 3. М., 2007, стлб. 1213—1214.

Ссылки
 Муратов А. М., Стрелецкий В. Н. Ахен // Большая российская энциклопедия. Том 2. Москва, 2005, с. 571.
 Сидоров А. И., Лебедев С. Н. Каролингское возрождение // Большая российская энциклопедия. Том 13. Москва, 2009, с. 196.

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Карл Великий
История Ахена


When it comes to starting an email marketing campaign, generally businesses think about how often to send emails, what content to include, which audience to target, etc. What isn't often considered is who to send the email from. It's coming from their company, right? But whose name, if any, should they use for the "From" field?
There are a variety of options for this, and believe it or not, which choice you make does have an influence on the success of your campaign. Below we've explored using various alternatives from a company's name, to an employee's name, to the founder's name, and more. Read on to find out how your choice will impact the outcome of your email marketing campaign.
Which "From" Names Should You Test?
The name of a customer service representative who speaks to a lot of customers when they call your business.
All of these names are worth testing to see which one(s) elicit the most clicks and the least amount of unsubscribes. Seer Interactive created an excellent case study where they sent emails from the founder of their company, Wil, as well as an employee of the company, Emma. Their data showed that more people chose to open emails from Wil than they did from Emma (see screenshot below). That being said, I didn't fully agree with the way they chose to conduct this test, which brings me to my next point.
How Long Do You Need to Test a "From" Name to Get Accurate Data?
What struck me about the Seer Interactive case study is that they used Wil's name to send emails essentially from the day the company was founded, so a long time. When they tested the alternative name, Emma, they chose to only send one email to a handful of people who attended their events. This means that essentially, the audience was choosing to either open an email from a name they recognized and had received emails from for an extensive period of time, or from a strange name from whom they had only received one email.
For accurate data, it's important to send the same amount of emails from each field you're testing for the exact same amount of time. I do believe that the longer you test the sender field the more accurate data you'll receive, but I also understand that not all companies have the luxury of testing this field for an extensive period of time. With that said, I definitely encourage you to send more than one email from each sender, with the most important thing to focus on being that you send the same amount of emails at the same intervals for each sender that you're testing.
Fortunately, most email campaign software has the capability to do the test for you. Campaign Monitor, MailChimp, and Active Campaign all have the tools built in and are good choices for when you're ready to start a test!
Once you've determined which names to test and how long to test them for, you'll need to decide what "success" looks like to you. The Kissmetrics Blog suggests going back through your email campaign history and reviewing that data to create your goals. For example, if in the past your click rate was 15%, perhaps you'll want your goal to be 20% for this new campaign. Click through rate, the number of people who opened the email, and the number of people who chose to unsubscribe after opening are all great metrics to analyze. However, the number of people who choose to open the email is the most important metric because it's directly correlated with the sender field; people are more or less likely to open an email based on who it's from, whereas the unsubscribe rate could be due to the content of the email and not the actual sender's name.
At the end of the test the data should speak for itself, and you'll have a good idea of which field produces the best results for your company. Definitely use the software resources listed above as they will make retrieving the data and results much more accessible for you.
Does Transparency Have an Effect on Your Audience?
One more factor about the Seer Interactive test that I think is interesting is that they chose to ignore the data and results obtained from their test in favor of audience transparency. In the screenshot below, you can see that although the data favored emails sent from Wil, they felt that continuing to use his name in the sender field was dishonest to their audience. Instead, they chose to go with total transparency and use many different employee names in the sender field to show a true picture of their company.
So, depending on the results of your data, should you ignore the numbers in order to be upfront with your subscribers? Unfortunately, Seer Interactive seems to be one of the only case studies out there, so any assumptions would be just that—assumptions.
I believe that transparency is incredibly important, but that it doesn't necessarily have to correlate with the name(s) you choose to use in the sender field. When it comes to this test, I think consistency in this situation is a more effective marketing tool than transparency. While I don't advise making up a fake name to use when sending emails, I disagree with Seer and think that it's ok to use the company founder's name, or an employee's name, even though that person may not be the only one representing the business. Again, this is of course all personal preference as a business owner and a consumer and not based on any real data—yet. I would love to see more case studies on this subject and will be updating this post when mine is complete!
Regardless of your choice, transparency is important and Seer Interactive absolutely has the right idea. Show transparency to your customers by asking their permission before sending them emails, letting them customize how often they receive emails, being open in your email subject lines, and asking for their feedback on your marketing campaigns. All of these things will go a long way in building lasting relationships with your consumers. If you're interested in learning more about how to incorporate transparency into your marketing strategy, this article by Cio and this one by Greenlight are both good resources to use.
Which name(s) are you currently using in your sender field? Have you tried testing out other alternatives, and if so, what were your results? Comment in the section below!


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A Community Enterprise Queensland Division
IBIS Healthy Choice Program
Healthy Eating, Healthy Life
Healthy Lifestyle Guide
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Serving the community for over 100 years
What is Well-being
Wellbeing is about people and creating the conditions for people to thrive. It's quality of life and prosperity, positive physical and mental health and sustainable thriving communities.
In essence well-being is a more stable state of being well, feeling satisfied and contented.
The main focus for IBIS is to provide communities with quality goods and services at reasonable prices. This is coupled with a secondary business focus of 'community service obligation'.
The Healthy Choice Program is one way in which IBIS can give back to the communities through partnering with other agencies to support well-being initiatives in each community. Not only does IBIS provide subsided foods, it also contributes to sporting events and well-being initiatives through ongoing donations and partnering with sporting associations to promote physical activity; all of which contribute to well-being.
What is 'health'?
Overall health is achieved through a combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948 defined health as being "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". Nutrition, food supply and the food choices we make, affect all aspects of our overall health. Good health therefore directly affects overall wellbeing.
This connection between health and well-being (and the role IBIS plays in providing quality goods) is where IBIS's community service obligation commitment is evident.
How does IBIS help?
IBIS has recognised that it is well positioned to undertake initiatives to address and improve the health status of Indigenous Australians living in this region.
As the largest provider of food to the Torres Strait region and Northern Peninsula Region, through the subsidised pricing policy and commitment to providing healthier choices, IBIS can be regarded as the conduit for improving the overall well-being of its customers.
Through partnering with other agencies, and through education and training, the promotion of healthier choices is able to be relayed to a broader base, and subsequently contributing to healthier communities.
The development of the IBIS Healthy Lifestyle Guide booklet is another initiative that is supporting healthier communities.
Download the IBIS Healthy Lifestyle Guide
Other initiatives have included:
Through the employment of a Store Nutritionist, education sessions were delivered at schools through the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area. Included in these sessions activities where students turned fruit and vegetables into 'fun' snacks and where students assisted in cooking for the broader community.
In store activities included store tours for other agencies, in store cooking demonstrations and also activities that highlighted the sugar content in foods.
The Healthy Choice Program has ensured it works with local Indigenous community members and groups to ensure activities are appropriate and effective. By working together and helping each other to achieve a common goal, increased community participation has been achieved.
Have any questions about IBIS, it's stores, locations or CEQ? Please contact us.
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Hilary Luk joined the team at Septimus Jones & Lee in 2018.
Hilary graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Science from Monash University. During her law degree, she volunteered with various community legal centres and Magistrates' Courts, and interned at the Victorian Building Authority and a leading law firm in Hong Kong.
Having worked in a construction and commercial law firm for over 2 years, Hilary has gained valuable commercial and litigation experience.
Hilary completed her Practical Legal Training at Leo Cussen Centre for Law and was admitted to practice in 2018.
Hilary currently volunteers regularly at Springvale Monash Legal Service and is a member of Victorian Women Lawyers and LIV Young Lawyers.


Each of the thirteen different actors who've played Doctor Who have distinctly different physical qualities. But what would happen if all of the doctors somehow collided in time and had their genetics mixed up? That's exactly what YouTuber Dave Clipson explores in this short video that takes each of the various Doctors and mashes up their faces.
By sequentially blending pairs of Doctors, then combining them into both a classic Doctor and a 21st Century Doctor – then mixing those two together, we eventually get an answer. You'll have to watch the whole video to see how the average Doctor turns out, but suffice it to say, he's one weird looking cat with a really bad hairdo.


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Balvenie 1937 50 Year Old
Price Regular price$57,59900 $57,599.00
Distilled in 1937 this eye catching bottle of Balvenie was matured for 50 years before being bottled at cask strength in December 1987. The label style matches the designs used in on bottles from Balvenie's bigger (and then better known) sister distillery, Glenfiddich from 1937. The leaflet that comes with the bottle has this to say about the whisky inside the bottle:
"To the best of my knowledge, no other fifty year old pure malt whisky has been bottled at such a high natural cask strength. This has contributed to make The Balvenie 50 year old Pure Malt Whisky such a rare phenomenon. For a whisky so old, it has retained a remarkable degree of body whilst achieving a sweetness and richness of taste that only whiskies of this age can impart. Incomparable and singular quality" Wallace Milroy Author of Malt whisky Almanac.
It seems odd to think that Balvenie was once an obscure brand, dwelling in the shadow of its colossal big brother, Glenfiddich. Despite the relative obscurity of the brand, whisky and hospitality gurus the Milroy, saw potential in Balvenie when no one else did. From their specialist shop in Soho the Milroy's began to sell single malt whiskies never-before-seen on the open market, and were invited to visit the Glenfiddich and Balvenie distilleries.
"Peter Grant Gordon invited us to visit Glenfiddich and Balvenie distilleries, when we noticed four cask of Balvenie 50 Years Old gathering dust in the corner of the warehouse. After a few drams Peter agreed to bottle these and sell most of these to us exclusively for £150 which we offered to our Japanese customers for £360 per-bottle and sold most of it very quickly and this resulted in Wallace and I being invited to spend one month in Japan promoting this at £1,000 per-bottle with the Seven Importers Group" - John Milroy
By 1988 the Milroy's were in possession of 360 bottles of 50-year-old Balvenie. Most of these went to the Asian markets and it is one of the rare few that stayed in the UK and was not opened and enjoyed that we offer here for sale on behalf of our client.
Bottle Facts:
Number of this particular bottles sold in 2020: 0
Whisky Fun Review: 93
Record price for this distillery at auction: Balvenie 1952 Cask 191 50 Year Old £23,300
Retail price: Not currently available at retail
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Egypt supports banning lethal autonomous weapons AKA Killer Robots
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New rapid changes and technologies are bringing us closer to building real lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs). Weapons that won't be controlled by humans. It's not science fiction anymore, it's about to be fact.
Experts have warned that AI technology has reached a point where creating and deploying autonomous weapons can happen in years. In years, not decades or a century.
For years now, the UN and various institutions have had this conversation; Will AI and lethal autonomous weapons build a better future?
The idea being that AI would save military personnel from conflict and death. But many experts fear that these robots could lower the sense of war and death, resulting in greater loss of human life in conflict zones.
In a recent move by an unofficial and global coalition of researchers and executives, a letter was published earlier today by Stockholm's Future of Life Institute. The letter called for a global ban on lethal killer robots, and signatories pledged never to manufacture them.
"…we the undersigned agree that the decision to take a human life should never be delegated to a machine. There is a moral component to this position, that we should not allow machines to make life-taking decisions for which others – or nobody – will be culpable."
"We, the undersigned, call upon governments and government leaders to create a future with strong international norms, regulations and laws against lethal autonomous weapons. These currently being absent, we opt to hold ourselves to a high standard: we will neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons. We ask that technology companies and organizations, as well as leaders, policymakers, and other individuals, join us in this pledge."
Participants include Elon Musk, Google DeepMind's three co-founders – Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman, and Demis Hassabis, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn and various respected and prominent AI researchers.
This is not the first time that letters against LAWs have been published, but it is the first to have individual signatories declare not to manufacture LAWs.
Last year, at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons, AI researcher Stuart Russell presented a chilling video of what could happen if LAWs aren't banned.
Egypt against LAWs
Egypt is part of the 26 UN nations that have endorsed the banning of lethal autonomous weapons. According the website the countries are Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, Holy See, Iraq, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, State of Palestine, Uganda, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
As far back as 2014, Egypt has taken a stand against the creation of LAWs.
In 2014, Egypt was one of only 5 countries that called for a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons. It also spoke during the first debate on the topic in May 2013 at the Human Rights Council.
"Egypt reiterates that technology should not overtake humanity. The potential and existing development of LARs [LAWs] raises many concerns on their compliance with international humanitarian and human rights laws." – Egypt's formal statement at the Meeting of Experts on lethal autonomous weapons May 2014.
These letters are most likely unable to change the fact that various countries are already preparing for developing the technology further. Although previous letters and calls for bans have helped push the UN into formal talks on the technologies.
What do you think about the pledge and where Egypt stands? Let us know in the comments.
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A former soldier from Ripon is now considering a career in catering after an activity for veterans boosted his confidence in the kitchen.
Keen amateur chef Ian Humpleby was one of five former servicemen who took part in the biennual game cookery competition Chefs for Heroes – a joint initiative between Help for Heroes and Swinton Park Cookery School in North Yorkshire.
Devised to inspire wounded veterans with a passion for food, it sees the competitors paired with a top chef who trains them to cook a game dish that they then replicate themselves to a tight timescale on competition day.
The participating restaurants this year are among Yorkshire's finest - Bowcliffe Hall near Wetherby; Samuel's at Swinton Park; Rudding Park in Harrogate, Rockcliffe Hall on the North Yorkshire border and The Blue Lion at East Witton – where Ian received his training from Head Chef, Jon Appleby.
And now he is looking forward to recreating for friends the meal he was taught to cook as part of the activity.
"Normally I cook Asian food - from Chinese through to Persian and Indian – so I was really interested in being able to showcase a game recipe for my friends. It's that thought that inspired me to enter, rather than a desire to win!" said the 49-year-old.
Ian followed in his family's footsteps when he joined the army, starting as a junior leader with the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, at the age of 16. During his five years' service as an infantry soldier, he served in Northern Ireland and Kenya.
Since leaving the Forces, the father and grandfather has suffered hugely from Service-related PTSD and struggled to find work but he received support from Help for Heroes after moving to the Ripon area.
"I wanted a quieter way of life," he explained, "and now I am working with staff at Phoenix House Recovery Centre to try to find a job that I can do despite my mental health issues. Because I suffer from anger issues, certain environments are not suitable.
"Thanks to Chefs for Heroes though, I think cheffing is an option for me – albeit in a very small, understanding team.
Melanie Dickinson, Help for Heroes Recovery Manager (North) said the Chefs for Heroes competition was a unique experience that the participants never forgot.
"We aim to give our nation's heroes one less battle to fight – to enable them to live secure and healthy lives, with purpose.
"Vocational visits play a vital role in helping veterans explore new career options, but Swinton Park once again took this to another level," she explained.
One of the judges for Chefs for Heroes was Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, Sir Gary Verity who said: "All five dishes were superb, so a huge well done to all of the competitors.


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Arts + Culture » Visual Art
Inside Cambridge
John Devlin's architectural drawings of Cambridge University began as art therapy and became a book. Tara Thorne wanders the grounds.
by Tara Thorne
After breaking down in Cambridge, John Devlin began drawing the place.
I was studying the wrong discipline ---I should've been studying architecture, not theology," says John Devlin, standing before eight framed collages in Eyelevel Gallery, where he's part of the group show Outside Inside. In 1979, he moved to England to study theology at Cambridge University--- after completing a bachelor of environmental design studies at Dalhousie, then the Technical University of Nova Scotia---and was immediately taken with the city.
"I'd read about it---the Bloomsbury Group, Tennyson, people who had studied there and famous people who had been there---and it never seemed like I would actually go there," he says. "It was a dream come true, almost overwhelming in a way, because there's so much culture and so many famous people have lived there and studied there. What's little old me from Halifax, Nova Scotia doing in Cambridge?
"In the winter, the days were short---not like in Nova Scotia because the latitude is higher in Cambridge than it is in Halifax; I find it kind of depressing in winter," he says. "But then in the spring, you have wallflowers, you have daffodils, you have crocuses, snowdrops, all these bulbs. It's just like a garden of Eden of flowers."
Though he was enamoured with the city, Devlin had trouble with his work. "I'd just become a Catholic, and I'd only a few years beforehand decided to become a priest, so there were a lot of changes in my life, which was a lot to deal with all of a sudden," he says. At the end of his first year, he "kind of cracked. Flipped out." He returned home to recover, but it was decided by James Martin Hayes, the Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax, who'd funded Devlin's studies, that it was a risk to send him back.
Several times, from 1984 to 1989, he stopped taking his medication, and then he turned to art. Often in the margins of books, he drew architectural elements inspired by Cambridge ---staircases, gates, buildings---in "Crayola crayon, markers and Laurentian coloured pencils." He assembled them into 8.5-inch by 11-inch collages, 365 of them. (Number 366 was recently completed and slotted into a binder called The Book of Leap Year.)
"I don't know what it means---like these staircases"---he points, tracing---"winding staircases, I was obsessed with staircases going to the centre of the earth. And what would happen when three, four staircases met at the centre of the earth? Bizarre, kind of chaotic, manic, psychotic ideas like that."
Last June, there was an exhibition of Devlin's collages in England. Two of its visitors, designer Dylan Spencer-Davidson and editor Lizzie Alice Robinson, have produced a book of 30 of Devlin's collages he's named Nova Cantabrigiensis (published by Island Editions, it can be purchased online at www.novacantabrigiensis.ca or for $20 at the launch, $22 afterwards at the Eyelevel bookshop)---"Latin for New Cambridge, and it's a combination of Nova Scotia and Cambridge"---which will be launched on Saturday at Eyelevel as part of Outside Inside, featuring work from 19 members of Creative Spirit East, an outsider artists' collective based at the Veith Street Gallery.
Devlin draws less these days, "because I'm not as sick as I used to be. It's a give and take---as you get better, the inspiration dries up. If you want to be sick you can produce this sort of stuff forever."
A show like Outside Inside, says Devlin, is above all a "testimony of the usefulness of art therapy, and helping people who are having difficulties, any kind of difficulties--- whether it's mental illness or physical illness or a crisis in their life---buy some paper and start drawing."


Did The CIA Spy On The Senate Intelligence Committee?
McClatchy has done some digging and what they found could be explosive.
The CIA Inspector General's Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA's secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned.
The criminal referral may be related to what several knowledgeable people said was CIA monitoring of computers used by Senate aides to prepare the study. The monitoring may have violated an agreement between the committee and the agency.
The development marks an unprecedented breakdown in relations between the CIA and its congressional overseers amid an extraordinary closed-door battle over the 6,300-page report on the agency's use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists held in secret overseas prisons. The report is said to be a searing indictment of the program. The CIA has disputed some of the reports findings.
White House officials have closely tracked the bitter struggle, a McClatchy investigation has found. But they haven't directly intervened, perhaps because they are embroiled in their own feud with the committee, resisting surrendering top-secret documents that the CIA asserted were covered by executive privilege and sent to the White House.
The report details how the CIA misled the Bush administration and Congress about the use of interrogation techniques that many experts consider torture, according to public statements by committee members. It also shows, members have said, how the techniques didn't provide the intelligence that led the CIA to the hideout in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs.
And now fears are growing that this report will never see the light of day.


Facing an unexpected roofing problem can be stressful for any homeowner, but hiring the right roofing company for the job can take a lot of the stress and worry out of the process. Unfortunately, finding the right roof repair professional is easier said than done. As you shop around for repair estimates, then, there are a few key questions you'll want to ask to help you make a better informed decision and avoid wasting your money.
Can You Leave a Quote in the Mailbox?
This is kind of a trick question, but it's an important one to ask. Any reputable roofer will need to inspect your roof not only from the outside, but from the inside of your home as well. Therefore, any roofer who says they can simply "drop off" a quote will likely not be giving you the most accurate estimate of the repairs that need done. Opt for a roofing professional who will inspect your roof both inside and out.
A reputable company should also provide some kind of basic warranty or guarantee on their repairs--and these can vary greatly from one roofer to the next. At the very least, you should have a manufacturer's warranty for any materials or parts used in your roof repair. However, a great roofer will go a step above this and provide a warranty on labor as well.
Have You Quoted For All Repair Options?
Sometimes, there's more than one way to repair a roof. If you're shopping around for the most cost-effective option, make sure you're choosing a company that will provide you with a written estimate for all of your repair possibilities (rather than just the repair they'll make the most money out of).
Can You Provide Proof of Liability Insurance?
Finally, make sure that any roofer you trust to step foot on your roof can provide you with proof of current liability insurance. A roofing company should have no issue in emailing this to you in a timely manner before you make your decision. Liability insurance is a must, as it will protect you from damages in the event that a worker is injured on your property or a part of your property is accidentally damaged while the repair is being carried out.
A little bit of research can go a long way in finding the right roofer, so be sure to ask these important questions as you shop around! Contact a business like The Roof Doctor for more help.


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Building Opportunity: Mapping Gentrification and Investment across Opportunity Zones
By Eric Willett, Vice President ,	Brett Dunlavey, Analyst
Real Estate Investing Strategic Planning
Among the more controversial aspects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was the designation of certain parcels of land as "Opportunity Zones," which would allow investors to defer or completely waive all capital gains taxes on qualified investments in these areas.[1] While regulations for opportunity zone investments have yet to be wholly finalized, real estate investors have amassed sizable amounts of private capital to target commercial real estate within these geographies.
Given the significant attention and capital this investment strategy has already attracted, we set out to identify the census tracts that had most gentrified in recent years, and therefore would most likely become the target of Opportunity Zone investment. Our analysis quantifies changes in real estate investment, household income levels, and associated demographic characteristics[2] to build a Gentrification Index that is then applied to every Opportunity Zone in the 25 largest metro areas. Our analysis finds that there are a number of quickly gentrifying qualified Opportunity Zones, some with tens of thousands of multifamily units to be delivered over the next several years.
Read through our key findings below, or use the interactive dashboard to explore the Opportunity Zones in your city that have gentrified the most.
Highly gentrified Opportunity Zones are concentrated in Rust Belt cities
While gentrification has received significant scholarly and media coverage in wealthier coastal areas such as Brooklyn and San Francisco, Opportunity Zones in Rust Belt cities have seen the most significant gentrification in recent years. Forty-nine of the top 100 most gentrified Opportunity Zones are in Rust Belt cities, including seven of the top 10. Of the eight metros with the highest average gentrification scores, five are Rust Belt cities. These findings highlight the Rust Belt's comparatively overlooked neighborhood change and growing inequality.
Opportunity Zones in new technology areas have also experienced high rates of gentrification
With high salaries, a disproportionately white workforce, and increasingly urban campuses, technology companies have been at the center of gentrification discourse. It comes as no surprise that the Opportunity Zones in new technology areas have experienced high rates of gentrification in the past several years. Indeed, two of the largest technology markets, San Francisco and Denver, are also the two most gentrified metro regions by average score.
Gentrification is most pronounced in urban neighborhoods
After decades of urban exodus, urban in-migration from young, college-educated households has characterized the 2010s. The return to urban centers by these wealthy demographic cohorts has been a primary driver of gentrification, and of the top 100 most gentrified Opportunity Zones, 75 are within urban areas.
The Opportunity Zones around Detroit demonstrate this pattern clearly. Zones located in or near the urban core have gentrified rapidly over the past decade, illustrating the impact of substantial real estate investment, most notably by Dan Gilbert's Quicken Loans and Bedrock. Meanwhile, Opportunity Zones in the city's suburbs have experienced minimal investment, ranking well-below average on nearly all factors examined.
Gentrification Index Map
While the vast majority of selected Opportunity Zones fall within economically challenged neighborhoods, there remain significant outliers
Keeping with the stated aims of Opportunity Zones, most census tracts selected to be part of the Opportunity Zone program are in neighborhoods that RCLCO has classified as economically challenged. However, as our research illuminates, there remain a number of Opportunity Zone tracts within more affluent communities. We found 70 qualified Opportunity Zones in high-end neighborhoods, including Brooklyn Heights, New York, in which 2 out of 3 residents has a bachelor's degree or higher and the current median income is $94,000.
Many of the least gentrified opportunity zones are located in Sun Belt cities
55 of the 100 least gentrified Opportunity Zones are located in Sun Belt cities. Different rates of gentrification primarily reflect the land use in these areas. Sun Belt cities are overwhelmingly suburban — 75% of Opportunity Zone tracts in Sun Belt regions are categorized as suburban by RCLCO compared with 55% in the other regions analyzed. Furthermore, the comparatively low barriers to entry and lower land prices in these metros create less pressure on local populations and fewer incentives for densification and reinvestment in contested neighborhoods.
Learn more about RCLCO's research on Opportunity Zones and how it can help your investment strategy – contact our strategy planning and management consulting team.
Article and research prepared by Eric Willett, Vice President, and Brett Dunlavey, Analyst.
RCLCO's mission is to help clients make strategic, effective, and enduring decisions about real estate. We proudly celebrate more than 50 years of providing the best minds in real estate with cutting-edge analytics, actionable advice, and the highest level of customer service. Our work includes market, economic, financial, and impact analyses; investment portfolio strategy and implementation; entity-level strategic planning; and management consulting.


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S. Szabó Ferenc  magyar politikus, 1948-tól 1957-ig a Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum igazgatója.

Élete
1944-ben Orosházán létrehozta a Nemzeti Parasztpárt helyi szervezetét, ezzel egyidejűleg tagja lett az orosházi Nemzeti Bizottságnak, ahonnan az Ideiglenes Nemzetgyűlésbe delegálták. 1944. december 23-án a Földművelésügyi Minisztérium politikai államtitkára lett. 1945-től 1947-ig országgyűlési képviselő volt. 1948 és 1957 között a Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum főigazgatója volt, 1956-ban részt vett a Nemzeti Parasztpárt újjáalakításában, mint főtitkárhelyettes.

1957 után az Országos Mezőgazdasági Könyvtár főmunkatársa lett, majd 1962-től természetvédelmi területen dolgozott tovább. 1968 és 1972 között a Természetvédelmi Hivatal elnökhelyettese volt, majd 1972-es nyugdíjazása után a Hazafias Népfront Országos Tanácsa Környezetvédelmi Bizottságának elnöke és az MTA Tihanyi Biológiai Intézetének tudományos tanácsadója, ezzel egyik megteremtője lett a hazai természet- és környezetvédelmi társadalmi mozgalmaknak az 1970-es években.

Művei
 A Mezőgazdasági Múzeum összefoglaló jelentése 1945–1951. évekről, Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1952.
 A hazai agrármuzeológia kezdetei és eredményei, Mezőgazdasági Kiadó, Budapest, 1956. (különlenyomat a Kísérletügyi Közlemények L. kötet, 1956. évi 1. füzetéből)
 (szerk.) A magyar mezőgazdasági szakirodalom könyvészete III. kötet (1831–1867), Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1956.
 (szerk.) Országos mezőgazdasági kiállítás katalógus – Budapest 1956. szeptember 2-16., Budapest, 1956.
 A hatvanéves Mezőgazdasági Múzeum 1896–1956, Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1956.
 Társadalmi együttműködés a környezet védelméért, Hazafias Népfront, Budapest, 1976.

Irányításával zajlott A magyar mezőgazdasági szakirodalom könyvészete IV. kötet (1868-1896) anyagának összeállítása is 1952 és 1956 között a címlap szerint, de ez már csak Matolcsi János igazgatósága alatt jelent meg (Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1959).

Jegyzetek

Források
 https://www.mezogazdasagimuzeum.hu/assets/adattar/sszaboferenc-osszefogl-jelentes.pdf
 https://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01937/html/szerviz/oha/ssznpp.htm
 https://www.tortenelmitar.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5915&catid=87:sz&Itemid=67
 (főszerk.:) Izsák Lajos: Krónika 1956, Kossuth Kiadó – Tekintet Alapítvány, Budapest, 2006, 243. o.

További információk
 A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 1990–1991, Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1991, 314. o.

1912-ben született személyek
2010-ben elhunyt személyek
Országgyűlési képviselők (1945–1947)
Országgyűlési képviselők (Ideiglenes Nemzetgyűlés)
Magyarország államtitkárai
Nemzeti Parasztpárt-tagok
A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum munkatársai

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My interest in the world of food and beverage began at an early age because my family was in the hospitality business and encouraged me to experiment in all phases of food and beverage.
Feeling frustrated with corporate life, I decided to jump in the car and travel throughout the United States. After traveling for 5 months in all regions of the US and Canada, I was enthralled with the tastes, sights, and sounds encountered on this wonderful journey. Realizing there was life beyond the US, I traveled to Europe visiting coffeehouse and tea salons to better understand the culture of tea. This trip then lead to spending time with Julia Child and Simone Beck in southern France. Their influence imbued the love of food and preparing food with fresh ingredients and integrity. This journey also sparked ideas of using tea as an ingredient in cooking. After experimenting, tasting and developing recipes it continues to be a delightful experience.
Today, I am president of East Indies Coffee and Tea Company, specializing in the tea division of our company. Thanks to my husband's belief that evolved women have a naturally developed palate, he has become the "wind beneath my wings". Tea is a great connector to many peoples throughout the world. In today's world, tea calm's and lifts the spirit as well.
Holger Lohs has a profound background in the international food industry, with the special expertise in tea products of all kinds. He joined Haelssen and Lyon GmbH in Germany in 1996 as a regional Sales Director for North America and the UK. In 2005, he founded the New York City-based subsidiary for one of the industry's leading tea companies, Haelssen and Lyon NA Corp., which he is managing as CEO and President. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the food industry and a strong managing ability to improve sales profitability and operational efficiencies. His profound knowledge about specialty tea and the tea industry is highly appreciated amongst the leading tea authorities in this country. He currently serves on the advisory board for the US Specialty Tea Institute (STI), as well as for the World Tea Expo.
Silvia Rettore joined Dethlefsen & Balk GmbH, established 1836 in Hamburg, Germany, as International Sales Manager in 2006. Her profound knowledge of business gained from an international career experience in London, Montpellier, Hamburg and over 10 years in the world of high fashion has given her a discerning eye and appreciation of quality which was a perfect background for the tea & tea accessories industry. Numerous trips to fascinating plantations inspired her to continue her path in the world of tea. Her journey continued in 2016 when she came to manage the U.S. subsidiary of Dethlefsen & Balk in Illinois. In 2017 she proudly took over the role as President of Dethlefsen & Balk, Inc. where her experience and accomplished management skills are continuing to grow the business.
Bhavin Shah is Chief Sommelier at the Waterfall Tea Company. He is a well-rounded senior professional with proven leadership capability to run organizations and teams both large and small, including during times of significant industry change. Bhavin's background includes a unique blend of finance, communications, sales and strategy expertise with a proven track record of executing strategic initiatives across a multitude of industries including Technology and Telecom, Banking as well as the Tea Trade.
Bhavin has had three separate stints working in the tea industry across his 25-year professional career. He started in the tea industry in 1991 when he was a teenager working as an intern for his late Uncle Devan Shah, considered one of the pioneers of the US Tea Trade. During these formidable years, he learned firsthand from his uncle the hard work and effort required to starting a tea business in the US. Years later after completing his undergraduate studies, Bhavin rejoined the tea industry working for the established India Tea Importers (ITI). During his time at India Tea Importers, he ran a successful sales and re-branding campaign renaming ITI to International Tea Importers and helping to establish the company as one of the preeminent importers of specialty tea in the United States. During this time he also worked at the award- winning Chado Tea Room, learning the ins and outs of managing a successful retail tea shop and also led the development of chadotea.com, one of the first direct to consumer online retail tea websites in the US.
Most recently Bhavin, along with his cousin Bianca Shah, has led the restructuring of International Tea Importers following the untimely passing of company founder Devan Shah. After spending 15 months leading the successful restructuring of ITI, Bhavin was named the head of Waterfall Tea Company where he will lead the company in all areas from sales to finance and operations.
Bhavin graduated with honors from The College of New Jersey with a dual degree in Business Management and Industrial and Organizational Psychology and earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is also a graduate of AT&T's Financial Leadership Program, one of the premier finance and accounting rotational training programs in the country. Bhavin has successfully completed the Tea Sommelier class as well as STI's Level I and II courses. Bhavin resides in Jacksonville Florida with his wife and three kids.
A tea industry connoisseur with a refined approach to the U.S. Japanese culture and innovative marketing, Rona Tison currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations at ITO EN(North America) INC., Japan's #1 green tea brand and the world's leading purveyor of award-winning, premium, and sustainably-grown green tea. Tison is responsible for maintaining and developing the company's corporate image through branding, public relations, and promotional events.
In addition to her role at ITO EN, Tison serves on the Tea & Health Committee of the U.S. Tea Council, and is a member of the U.S. Tea Association, the Specialty Tea Institute, the US-Japan Council and Japan Society. Her tea industry prowess has led her to speak at the World Tea Expo, San Francisco, Los Angeles & Northwest Tea Festivals, Shizuoka World Tea Festival, James Beard House and Smithsonian Lecture Series.


Easter, the Sunday of the Resurrection, Pascha, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which his followers believe occurred on the third day after his death by crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33.
According to American tradition, the Easter Bunny leaves baskets of treats (including Easter eggs and assorted chocolates and candy) on Easter morning for good children. Sometimes children leave out carrots for the Easter Bunny, which is similar to the practice of leaving milk and cookies for Santa Claus.


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require_once 'phing/Task.php';

/**
 * Patches a file by applying a 'diff' file to it
 *
 * Requires "patch" to be on the execution path.
 *
 * @package phing.tasks.ext
 */
class PatchTask extends Task
{
	/**
	 * Base command to be executed (must end with a space character!)
	 * @var string
	 */
	const CMD = 'patch --batch --silent ';

	/**
	 * File to be patched
	 * @var string
	 */
	private $originalFile;

	/**
	 * Patch file
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	private $patchFile;

	/**
	 * Value for a "-p" option
	 * @var int
	 */
	private $strip;

	/**
	 * Command line arguments for patch binary
	 * @var array
	 */
	private $cmdArgs = array();

	/**
	 * Halt on error return value from patch invocation.
	 * @var bool
	 */
	private $haltOnFailure = false;

	/**
	 * The file containing the diff output
	 *
	 * Required.
	 *
	 * @param string $file  File containing the diff output
	 * @return void
	 * @throws BuildException if $file not exists
	 */
	public function setPatchFile($file)
	{
		if (!is_file($file))
		{
			throw new BuildException(sprintf('Patchfile %s doesn\'t exist', $file));
		}
		$this->patchFile = $file;
	}

	/**
	 * The file to patch
	 *
	 * Optional if it can be inferred from the diff file.
	 *
	 * @param string $file  File to patch
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setOriginalFile($file)
	{
		$this->originalFile = $file;
	}

	/**
	 * The name of a file to send the output to, instead of patching
	 * the file(s) in place
	 *
	 * Optional.
	 *
	 * @param string $file   File to send the output to
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setDestFile($file)
	{
		if ($file !== null)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= "--output=$file";
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Flag to create backups
	 *
	 * Optional, default - false
	 *
	 * @param bool $backups  If true create backups
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setBackups($backups)
	{
		if ($backups)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= '--backup';
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Flag to ignore whitespace differences;
	 *
	 * Default - false
	 *
	 * @param bool $ignore  If true ignore whitespace differences
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setIgnoreWhiteSpace($ignore)
	{
		if ($ignore)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= '--ignore-whitespace';
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Strip the smallest prefix containing num leading slashes
	 * from filenames.
	 *
	 * patch's --strip option.
	 *
	 * @param int $num number of lines to strip
	 * @return void
	 * @throws BuildException if num is < 0, or other errors
	 */
	public function setStrip($num)
	{
		if ($num < 0)
		{
			throw new BuildException('strip has to be >= 0');
		}

		$this->strip = $num;
	}

	/**
	 * Work silently unless an error occurs
	 *
	 * Optional, default - false
	 * @param bool $flag  If true suppress set the -s option on the patch command
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setQuiet($flag)
	{
		if ($flag)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= '--silent';
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Assume patch was created with old and new files swapped
	 *
	 * Optional, default - false
	 *
	 * @param bool $flag  If true set the -R option on the patch command
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setReverse($flag)
	{
		if ($flag)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= '--reverse';
		}
	}

	/**
	 * The directory to run the patch command in
	 *
	 * Defaults to the project's base directory.
	 *
	 * @param string $directory  Directory to run the patch command in
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setDir($directory)
	{
		$this->cmdArgs []= "--directory=$directory";
	}

	/**
	 * Ignore patches that seem to be reversed or already applied
	 *
	 * @param bool $flag  If true set the -N (--forward) option
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setForward($flag)
	{
		if ($flag)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= "--forward";
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Set the maximum fuzz factor
	 *
	 * Defaults to 0
	 *
	 * @param string $value  Value of a fuzz factor
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setFuzz($value)
	{
		$this->cmdArgs []= "--fuzz=$value";
	}

	/**
	 * If true, stop the build process if the patch command
	 * exits with an error status.
	 *
	 * The default is "false"
	 *
	 * @param bool $value  "true" if it should halt, otherwise "false"
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function setHaltOnFailure($value)
	{
		$this->haltOnFailure = $value;
	}

	/**
	 * Main task method
	 *
	 * @return void
	 * @throws BuildException when it all goes a bit pear shaped
	 */
	public function main()
	{
		if ($this->patchFile == null)
		{
			throw new BuildException('patchfile argument is required');
		}

		// Define patch file
		$this->cmdArgs []= '-i ' . $this->patchFile;
		// Define strip factor
		if ($this->strip != null)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= '--strip=' . $this->strip;
		}
		// Define original file if specified
		if ($this->originalFile != null)
		{
			$this->cmdArgs []= $this->originalFile;
		}

		$cmd = self::CMD . implode(' ', $this->cmdArgs);

		$this->log('Applying patch: ' . $this->patchFile);

		exec($cmd, $output, $exitCode);

		foreach ($output as $line)
		{
			$this->log($line, Project::MSG_VERBOSE);
		}

		if ($exitCode != 0 && $this->haltOnFailure)
		{
			throw new BuildException( "Task exited with code $exitCode" );
		}

	}
}


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Who Owns WordPress?
Whether you've started using WordPress recently or been a long-time user, you made the right choice. It is the most popular CMS (Content Management System) and powers more than 40.5% of the top 10 million websites on the Internet. But have you ever wondered who the creators and current owners are? You should've, at least to find out how downloading, using, and editing such a high-quality product is possible without limitations. A good example – you can remove their credits from the WordPress footer and other links to WordPress without any consequences. So, how is that legal and regulated? Who owns WordPress?
Who founded WordPress?
Well, depends on the WordPress you're referring to. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little co-created WordPress.org, the free, open-source CMS, in January 2003 and released it on May 27, 2003. WordPress.com is a freemium platform for hosting websites, usually blogs, and released in August 2005 by Matt Mullenweg alone. We already described the difference in our article on what is WordPress. Now, here are the differences in ownership between the two:
Who owns WordPress.org?
WordPress.org is free and released under the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License, version 2) or later. WordPress Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that maintains the project, and assists in its development. Matt Mullenweg founded it in 2010, and it works entirely off donations. Of course, despite not officially being the owners, Matt and a team of developers from WordPress.com serve on the board of the organization. As such, they hold a large power over decision-making and future changes and make a majority of code contributions. So, to find who the owner is, all you have to do is access the WordPress website via FTP. Then, find the license.txt file in the root folder. Alternatively, you can read it in full on WordPress's GitHub page.
Do I own my self-hosted WordPress website?
Reading the "Copyright 2011-2021 by the contributors" line tells you all you need to know. Unlike other open-source software that is owned by a person or a corporation, everyone who contributed to WordPress becomes a copyright owner. In other words, no one owns the copyright to the entire WordPress code. So, by obtaining the software, you're licensing it for free from the copyright owners. The license grants you the right to use, modify, copy, and distribute the WordPress software. Furthermore, you can charge for the distribution of this software, and use pieces of code to develop new software, as long as it remains free.
How do people sell WordPress.org code if they aren't owners?
It might seem like that, but they don't. Reading part 2, paragraph 5 of the license gives a solution. As long as you package proprietary code with even the tiniest portion of code that derives from WordPress code, it inherits the GPL license and has to be free. For that reason, if you distribute the two codes separately, you can sell your portion of the code. This is why you can only install free WordPress plugins or themes from the repository. Instead, creators of paid, premium versions of plugins or themes sell them separately, either on their websites or build them to order. And because you can charge for the distribution of WordPress code, you can monetize installing, hosting, or consulting on a WordPress website for someone else.
Who owns WordPress.com?
A parent company named Automattic Inc. owns WordPress.com. Matt Mullenweg founded this privately-held for-profit company in August 2005. Its goal was to monetize using the WordPress.org code by hosting, consulting, or developing and selling premium plugins and themes. Automattic Inc. also held the rights to the WordPress trademarks (logo, name, other entities) between 2005 and 2010, when Matt donated them to the WordPress Foundation.
Am I the owner of a website created via WordPress.com?
No, and neither is WordPress.com. Even though you're given plenty of freedom, both you and Automattic Inc. still have to adhere to the GPL license for WordPress.org.


LOS ALTOS, CA. – March 31, 2010 – ThreatMetrix™, a fast growing provider of fraud detection solutions that do not require personally identifiable information (PII), today announced that iReel.com, a leading provider of online movie rentals, is using ThreatMetrix to eliminate real-time fraudulent credit card not present use.
According to Adam Altman, COO, iReel.com, many first time customers would go online and order a movie in real-time with a credit card. Unfortunately, many of those credit cards later proved to be invalid after the transaction had occurred.
Delivered as a cloud service, the ThreatMetrix Fraud Network is unique among fraud detection solutions because it can address all three of the major web fraud scenarios: verifying customers, authorizing transactions and authenticating users, all in real-time without customers providing personally identifiable information.
The ThreatMetrix Fraud Network is a web-based system that utilizes a wide variety of device- and transaction-related data, not including PII, to build a contextual score that delivers all the information security pros need to make a thoughtful go, no-go decision about a customer. Among the data gathered by the ThreatMetrix Fraud Network is deep intelligence about the device, key transaction details and past behavior, both on-site and globally.
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a. Expand 5 4 sqrt 1 + x as power series. 1. 5 - 5 4 + sum infinity n = 2 5 ( - 1 ) n...
(a) Expand
{eq}\frac{5}{\sqrt[4]{1+x}} {/eq} as power series.
{eq}5-\frac{5}{4}x +\sum_{n=2}^{\infty }5(-1)^n\frac{1.5.9...(4n-3)}{4^n.n!}x^n {/eq}
{eq}5-\frac{5}{4}x +\sum_{n=2}^{\infty }5(-1)^n\frac{(2n+1)!}{4^n.n!}x^n {/eq}
{eq}5-\frac{5}{4}x +\sum_{n=2}^{\infty }5(-1)^n\frac{1.4.7....(3n-2)}{4^n.n!}x^n {/eq}
{eq}5-\frac{5}{4}x +\sum_{n=2}^{\infty }5\frac{(2n+1)!}{4^n.n!}x^n {/eq}
{eq}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }5(-1)^{n+1}\frac{1.5.9....(4n+1)}{4^n.n!}x^n {/eq}
(b) Use a Part (a) to estimate
{eq}J= \frac{5}{\sqrt[4]{1.1}} {/eq} correct to three decimal places.
Binomial Series; Approximations:
We'll first find the Maclaurin series of {eq}\frac{1}{\sqrt[4]{1+x}}=(1 + x)^{-\frac{1}{4}}, {/eq} recalling the binomial expansion for any non-zero real number {eq}p {/eq}:
{eq}\begin{align*} (1+x)^p&=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\binom{p}{n}x^n\\ &=1+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{p(p-1)(p-2)\cdots (p-n+1)}{n!}x^n\\ &=1+px+\frac{p(p-1)}{2}x^2 +\frac{p(p-1)(p-2)}{3!}x^{3}+\\ &\qquad\cdots+\frac{p(p-1)(p-2)\cdots (p-n+1)}{n!}x^n+\cdots\\ &\text{and converges for }|x|<1. \end{align*} {/eq}
We'll multiply by {eq}5 {/eq} to get the Maclaurin expansion for {eq}\frac{5}{\sqrt[4]{1+x}} {/eq}.
To estimate {eq}\frac{5}{\sqrt[4]{1.1}} {/eq} correct to three decimal places, we'll use the Alternating Series Theorem to select a partial sum with an error smaller than {eq}10^{-4} {/eq} (to get three correct decimal places).
Answer and Explanation:
For Part (a): The valid option is (a1) as we'll explain below.
First we use the binomial expansion:
{eq}\begin{align*} (1+x)^p&=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}...
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The importance of good nutrition for health has been widely recognized. Hippocrates proclaimed, "Let the food be thy medicine and the medicine be thy food." What early doctors knew on an intuitive level is now being studied rigorously, using state-of-the-art scientific methods and "omic" technologies. It appears that it might not just be about eating "good" food, but also about eating food that is "right" for you.
Nutrient-gene connections are a hot topic in medical science. Personalized nutrition is emerging as a possible therapeutic modality. Several clinical and preclinical studies have shown the potential of this novel approach, and patients are increasingly interested in commercial nutrigenomics.
How should you as a clinician respond to these new trends in healthcare? And what are some of the factors you might want to consider when talking with your patients about personalized diets?
This article offers a balanced overview of nutrigenomics and explores some of the latest scientific findings in the field with the aim to assist you when assessing the practical value of nutrigenomics.
Nutrigenomics—A Cutting-Edge Science
We know food nutrients, gut bacteria, and intestinal genomics and physiology represent a complex community that importantly influences human health. What we eat not only affects our immediate health and metabolism, but it also contributes to the composition of the gut microbiota and gene expression.
Nutrigenomics is a young science—the term was first used in 2001—that is concerned with the interactions between our diet and genome. It is now feasible to study natural compounds in different metabolic pathways in relation to a person's genotype. Nutrigenomics marks a shift from epidemiology toward molecular biology and genetics. Specifically, it looks at the genomic alterations caused by dietary nutrients. As a result, it aims to personalize and update treatments that used to be, and still are, intended for whole populations.
There are a lot of unanswered questions within nutrigenomics. However, solving the nutrition-genomics puzzle will likely bring us closer to developing personalized nutrition that can be used alongside conventional approaches to treat and prevent diseases and chronic conditions. The findings of nutrigenomics are already used to some degree to treat diseases with a diet component, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), diabetes, obesity, and cancer. By taking into consideration an individual's genetic characteristics (as well as age and lifestyle preferences), we can improve the efficacy of future nutritional interventions.
Knowledge about the benefits of certain nutrients is far from new. For thousands of years, traditional medicine used a variety of plants and natural compounds that have the potential to act as genomic modulators. For instance, anti-cancerogenic effects of phytochemicals, which are found in various vegetables and fruits, have now been scientifically recognized. Researchers are unveiling their active mechanisms—for example, the antioxidant effect.
Initial studies in oncology also show that, when used as an adjunct to conventional therapies, natural phytochemicals can reduce toxicity caused by radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Similarly, the Mediterranean Diet has received a lot of scientific support as a preventative measure against cardiovascular disease due to its anti-inflammatory properties.
The use of specific nutrients in medical therapy is, therefore, becoming an evidence-based practice. Patients are generally encouraged to favor diets rich in plant-based foods because it seems these nutrients can target genes that contribute to chronic disease development and suppress them. Nutrigenomics is now going a step further, integrating general dietary recommendations with a person's genotype.
Nutrigenomics has some similarities with pharmacogenomics. The difference, however, is that the latter uses synthetic chemicals to cause gene alterations whereas nutrigenomics relies on natural substances found in the food we eat. A comprehensive review of the subject published this July in Seminars in Cancer Biology predicts that soon, nutrigenomics will be able to assist in the development of new drugs based on natural substances. Therefore, the potential of this discipline probably expands beyond dietary advice and a personalized diet. A potential futuristic scenario might include a kitchen fitted with a 3-D printer producing bespoke drugs and nutrients a patient will take each morning with coffee.
Nutrigenetics vs. Nutrigenomics
The difference between nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics is often blurred. Yael Joffe and Christine Houghton, members of the Manuka Science team that teaches nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics to health professionals, note that the two terms can be distinguished by looking at gene actions.
In nutrigenetics, the genes act on environmental elements (e.g. enzymes). In contrast, in nutrigenomics, the environment influences gene expression. In other words, nutrigenomics' main interest is the influence of biomolecules on gene expression. These bioactive molecules can turn the gene up or down, activate or silence it, which is often described as switching the gene on or off.
When referring to both, nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, Joffe and Houghton suggest using the term nutritional genomics. Nutritional genomics goes beyond the superficial direct-to-consumer genetic tests, such as DNAfit and 23andme, and encompasses the knowledge of nutritional biochemistry that can help understand health and the occurrence of a disease in a specific person.
Arguably, nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics combined can help you as a practitioner develop more effective management interventions for your patients. However, this might not be a straightforward process, and you should probably also consider some of the limitations and controversies of the field.
Pros and Cons of Using Nutrigenomics in Your Practice
Although many experts believe in nutrigenomics, it is not widely in practice yet. More solid proof of the concept is required before it can be routinely implemented into clinical practice. Research is ongoing; however, it appears that at present, the unknown factors outnumber the known.
It has sometimes been argued that this health technology might have been released prematurely, without hard evidence to support some of the statements made by the companies that offer commercial nutrigenomics tests.
Christiana Pavlidis, a dietitian at the University of Patras in Greece, argues that currently, the 38 genes that are commonly tested in commercial nutrigenomics tests do not show a definite association with diet-related diseases. Pavlidis agrees that it is important to continue with research about the influence of nutrients on gene and protein expression. However, she also warns against making definite claims. Pavlidis suggests that before new tests become available to the public, there should be a thorough evaluation and synthesis of evidence.
A model of health care that aims to prevent diseases based on an individual's genetic makeup has many advantages. It is concerned with disease prevention rather than symptom treatment. Some leading experts consider personalized nutrition to be the "holy grail" of future medicine. It is important, though, to keep up-to-date with the latest research in the field.
Research, for example, indicates that people metabolize omega-3 fatty acids differently depending on their genotype, meaning some people might not benefit from taking them. A Canadian study led by Melanié Plourde from the Research Centre on Aging in Sherbrooke showed that carriers of the most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (E4) appear to be more vulnerable to omega-3 deficiency and might require supplementation more urgently.
The latest findings need to be consistently integrated into commercial nutrigenomics tests and inform nutritional advice given to patients. As a health-care professional, you might be required to act as a gate-keeper who assesses the validity of new tests and balances innovative "omic" technologies against medical facts.
How to Approach Patients About Nutrigenomics
Studies show that an increasing number of patients are seeking nutrigenomic testing and advice. Conversations about nutrigenomics between you and your patients will, therefore, likely become more common in the future.
Web-based companies make genetic information more available to your patients. However, consumers often lack the training to accurately interpret their test results. Therefore, practitioners with knowledge of nutrigenomics might soon become a very valuable resource.
For example, a direct-to-consumer nutrigenomics test could show that a patient doesn't produce the enzyme that digests lactose. This does not mean, however, that they are necessarily lactose intolerant as their gut bacteria could still be able to ferment milk. If you can effectively translate your patients' nutrigenomics testing results into real-life "food solutions," this might add to the positive impact this type of testing provides your patients.
Gaining some additional knowledge in this area is likely to be helpful in your practice. Post-graduate courses in nutrigenomics for health-care professionals are already available; for instance, one is offered by the educational company Manuka Science.
Your role as a clinician might also involve advising patients on the shortcomings of commercial nutrigenomics tests. It has previously been recorded that at-home DNA tests still suffer from inaccuracies. For instance, significant differences between companies have been noted. These same criticisms apply to commercial nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics tests as well.
Your patients need to be aware that some of the commercial tests available will probably provide them with unproven predictions. Guidance from a professional, especially when dealing with complex conditions, therefore becomes important. Furthermore, it is not clear yet to behavioral scientists how to properly motivate patients to include new foods tailored to their specific needs. According to recent research, tests alone often don't provide sufficient motivation.
Tailored diets have limitations, and some nutrition experts have observed that when restrictive diets are followed for a prolonged period of time, they can result in an impoverished gut microbiome, which has been linked to poor health outcomes. A study of European patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease showed that their fecal microbiome contained 25 percent less microbial genes compared to healthy individuals. This suggests that less gut variety does not bode well for health. In contrast, rich microbiota (supported by a diverse diet) has been linked to good health.
As a health professional, you need to be able to relay this information to your patients before they make any drastic decisions about their new diet—especially when encouraged by the results of an at-home nutrigenomics test that potentially lacks scientific rigor.
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