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AS Vol.3 No.6 , October 2012
Relative effects of anaerobically-digested and conventional liquid swine manure, and N fertilizer on crop yield and greenhouse gas emissions
Author(s) Reynald L. Lemke*, Sukhdev S. Malhi, Fernando Selles, Mark Stumborg
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, P.O. Box 1240, Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Anaerobic digestion is a promising technology that could provide an option for managing animal waste with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. A three-year (2006-2008) field experiment was conducted at Star City, Saskatchewan, Canada, to compare the effects of land-applied anaerobically digested swine manure (ADSM), conventionally treated swine manure (CTSM) and N fertilizer on grain yield of barley, applied N use efficiency (ANUE, kg·grain·kg-1 of applied N·ha-1), ammonia (NH3) volatilization and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. Treatments included spring and autumn applications of CTSM and ADSM at a 1x rate (10,000 and 7150 L·ha-1, respectively) applied every year, a 3x rate (30,000 and 21,450 L·ha-1, respectively) applied once at the beginning of the experiment, plus a treatment receiving commercial fertilizer (UAN at 60 kg·N·ha-1·yr-1) and a zero-N control. There was a significant grain yield response of barley to applied N in all three years. The ANUE of ADSM or CTSM applied once at the 3x rate were lower than annual applications at the 1x rate (grain yield by 595 kg·ha-1 and NFUE by 6 kg·grain·kg-1 of applied N·ha-1). On average, agronomic performance of ADSM was similar to CTSM. The APNU of N fertilizer was greater than the 3x rate but lower than the 1x rate of ADSM or CTSM. Ammonia loss from ADSM was similar to CTSM, except for much higher loss of NH3-N from CTSM at the 3x rate applied in the autumn (8100 g·N·ha-1) compared to the other treatments (1100 - 2600 g·N·ha-1). The percentage of applied N lost as N2O gas was generally higher for treatments receiving CTSM (4.0%) compared to ADSM (1.4%). In conclusion, the findings suggest that ADSM is equal or slightly better than CTSM in terms of agronomic performance, but has lower environmental impact.
Ammonia Volatilization; Anaerobic Digestion; Barley Yield; Nitrogen Fertilizer Use Efficiency; Nitrous Oxide; Swine Manure
Lemke, R. , Malhi, S. , Selles, F. and Stumborg, M. (2012) Relative effects of anaerobically-digested and conventional liquid swine manure, and N fertilizer on crop yield and greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural Sciences, 3, 799-805. doi: 10.4236/as.2012.36097.
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Like cars, Lawn Care Equipment has a stigma hanging over it that battery power means inferior power. Drop a Tesla in "insane mode" and you'll realize how absurd that notion is. Battery powered technology has caught up with it's gas guzzling brethren and in some places exceeded it. I'm here to tell you that the Milwaukee Outdoor Power Equipment line is no exception to the rule!
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You might not remember or you might be new here, but this isn't my first dip into the battery powered Lawn Equipment realm. I've tested and reviewed Ryobi's 18v and 40v outdoor lines in the last couple years. It's no surprise that you're starting to see more and more of your favorite Power Tool battery platforms entering the Lawn Equipment arena. After all, you've already got the batteries. Why not make your preferred brand a one stop shop for all your work inside and around the house?
Much like the power tool industry, while Ryobi's line is more geared towards the casual user… Milwaukee's M18 line is meant for the professional. And it shows.
Since you've clearly drawn a line in the sand with your battery platform and your power tools, companies want to make the equipment choice easier (sort of). You're seeing more and more of these interchangeable power bases now, which lets you buy only the attachments you need. While Ryobi used "Expand-It", Milwaukee uses "Quik Lok". One power head drives a String Trimmer, Hedge Trimmer, Pole Saw and Edger.
Simply snap in and go with whichever attachment you need at the time. The convenience of only needing to haul one tool with various attachments is a major upgrade to having to transport individual lawn equipment to each job.
Pull the trigger on a gas powered string trimmer and there's a slight delay as the fuel injects, the motor fires and the cutting head gets up to speed. It sounds like the dirt bike from hell and it only gets worse. Battery powered string trimmers are eerily silent aside from the whir of the cutting head. For years I used a massive Stihl gas powered trimmer for yard work and very recently Ryobi's 18v and 40v lines. Aside from my ears ringing from the Stihl, I'd get a numbness in my arm from the vibration coming off those gas and battery powered models. I chalked it up to the cost of weed eating, but not with the Milwaukee.
You're getting a smooth rotation with little vibration and a ton of power. Hit the button to increase the rotation speed and you'd expect some turbulence. Nope, the Milwaukee String Trimmer is one of the most comfortable experiences I've ever had during my assault on weeds. Bonus points for how long the trimmer set up is as well. At over 70″, it's 5″-6″ longer than other models I've tested and my back thanks me.
With a 9.0 Ah battery and a 14″ to 16″ cutting capability, you're looking at about an hour of run time with this beast. But how did it cut? I ran it through the thickest stuff I could find on my first lawn maintenance day of the year and finished in record time. It's no wonder the Milwaukee M18 Series is the choice for Professionals looking to join the electric revolution.
Oh, we're not done. Remember the Tesla comparison above? Give it a little go juice and it takes off like a rocket with no delay? The same is true with an electric chainsaw. Think old school turkey carver on steroids. The Milwaukee M18 16″ Chainsaw has no trigger delay or in hand torque which means you have more control and immediate cutting power.
I recently put the Milwaukee chainsaw head to head with Ryobi's 40v Chainsaw and the results were similar despite a smaller battery. Milwaukee claims 40cc similar power and I think it's justified. It's easy to get derailed with the lack of noise pollution a gas powered chainsaw gives you to think you're being shorted on power, but it's very comparable.
The only concern I'd have if I was an arborist is if you're running a 12.0 battery you get about an hour of use or 100 cuts. That's plenty for most people, even lawn care professionals. But if you spend your day up in the trees, it might not be enough run time. However, running all your equipment on the same platform and cutting down on the noise is and asset to any lawn care business. Especially if you work in a community with noise ordinances.
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CMSWire Contributor Q&A With Kathleen Schaub: People Side of Marketing and AI
By Dom Nicastro | Dec 1, 2022
CHANNEL: Digital Marketing
In Stephen King's cheesy (awesome?) 1980s horror flick "Maximum Overdrive," an asteroid passes by Earth and the machines around a desolate North Carolina truck stop come to life. Electric knives make ghostly attacks, soda vending machines shoot deadly drinks at Little League baseball players and demonic trucks organize against humans with intense — though admittedly sometimes hilarious — ferocity.
While true that King has one of the most vivid imaginations of "bad ways to go" of any American writer, in "Maximum Overdrive" he tapped into the intrinsic fear many people seem to have that machines will become intelligent and dangerous to humanity.
However, according to our CMSWire Q&A guest Kathleen Schaub, the general idea that intelligent machines pose a threat is a very unlikely scenario. As a marketing expert, she points out that artificial intelligence is extremely literal and needs the human touch to be used effectively. Here, she discusses how marketing won't deliver on AI's promise unless the human side of the equation is given the same attention as the tech side.
Schaub, marketing management and organizations strategist and former IDC CMO Advisory leader, considers this and more in her recent piece If You Want to Succeed With Artificial Intelligence in Marketing, Invest in People.
We caught up with her for a CMSWire Q&A.
Editor's Note: This transcript has been edited for clarity.
Dom Nicastro: Hi, Dom Nicastro here, managing editor of CMSWire. And we're with our latest CMSWire contributor, Kathleen Schaub. She's a writer and strategist and a marketer at heart. Kathleen, new contributor. Welcome.
Kathleen Schaub: Well, thanks, Dom. I'm excited and looking forward to engage with your audience.
Nicastro: Yeah, we're so happy to have you, thank you. Our contributors are, you know, the heartbeat, really of CMSWire, people that are in the trenches and marketers, experience, then just telling us what's on their mind. So this is great. To that end, though, you being new, I would love to know a little bit about yourself, and you know, how you have arrived in your current professional role?
The Future of Marketing in a Constantly Changing World
Schaub: Well, you mentioned that I was a marketer at heart. And I've been a marketer at heart as well as a marketer in fact. So I was a chief marketing officer for a large technology company. And I've worked in marketing for more years than I can count. And most recently, though, I was the, I led the IDCs, CMO Advisory service, and IDC works with a lot of technology companies. And so I had just hundreds of marketers midlevel to CMOS, and including other people on the executive staff that I regularly worked with.
We provided research and, you know, all sorts of different kinds of best practice studies, working with them to try to do as much as they possibly could to move them into modern marketing management. So there were some ideas that I have been passionate about and interested in since I was a CMO. And I wanted to spend some time to really take those a little bit further. So right now I am doing lots of writing. I've got a blog, of course, now I'm working with you guys. And looking forward to exploring some of these ideas that I find fascinating and really exciting for the future of marketing.
Nicastro: Yeah, and speaking of the present of marketing, a lot of things that are happening right now has to do with uncertainty. Like we don't know, we don't know which way the world is going to turn. You know, day to day, we got pandemics, we got wars, we got societal stuff going on. I mean, there's a lot at stake right now in the world. So that's top of mind for you. And obviously top of mind for a lot of marketers.
Schaub: Yeah, and I think anybody who's been in marketing for any amount of time, knows that while the last few years have been particularly difficult in terms of changing, the idea of a constantly changing world is what marketing lives with every day. And in fact, this is kind of the heartbeat of what I have been studying and writing about, was the complex, constantly changing nature of marketing, and are there better ways, and there are, to manage marketing to work in marketing, that works better in a highly changing environment.
So what I think what we're going to talk about today, because the article that I wrote is one of those tools, which is artificial intelligence. But it's not the only tool, things like agile, for example, fantastic tools for managing in a constantly changing environment. So that's the reality of marketing. And there's been so much that has emerged over the last 10 or 20 years, that we have a big change effort ahead of us, but also some really, really wonderful opportunities.
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The Human Side of AI Marketing
Nicastro: And you mentioned AI, that's the topic of your first article at CMSWire today, and, you know, that is something that the promise of that it looks great, like for a marketer, like, "Are you kidding me, I get to automate, I get to predict, I get to anticipate experiences for my potential," you know, "prospects and customers." But at the same time, your contention in the article is that's probably half of it. The other half is there's a human side, too. I would love to hear more about that.
Schaub: Yeah. So when we think about the human side of marketing, I think people go to, you know, our hearts, you know, we want to think about humans. We don't want to be too technical. Our customers are humans are, we are humans or our co workers are humans. But what I'm talking about in the article is a little bit more specific than that, when it comes to the application of artificial intelligence to marketing.
And what will this mean to the working world of, of marketing? Because, for one thing, a lot of — I don't think this is necessarily true for people who work every day with AI — but a lot of society thinks about AI as though it's going to become a human. And that's probably not true. I mean, it's getting very powerful. But one of the things that we do know is that it's also very, very, very literal, in addition to its power, it's very literal.
So for example, and one of the books that I did some research on, there was an example of an AI that was being trained for trying to get people to the airport as quickly as possible. So like an automatic pilot kind of thing. Yeah. And they had, you know, the, the AI had absolutely no problem running over a lot of pedestrians, because no one had told it, that's not a good thing to do. So being able to jump from context to context is really virtually impossible for AI.
Nicastro: AI is like a child in that sense, right? You can tell it what to do, it will make mistakes and tell it or sometimes children don't get it, no matter how many times you tell them.
Schaub: Children are, I think, no, I don't think that's a great analogy. It's a good analogy, because it's, you know, the training aspect of it. But I think that children are a lot more human smart, than we probably give them credit for. And that's part of what we're, what I'm talking about in my article, what are the three things that besides just to know having our hearts, you know, warmed up to all the people in our lives and not being to machinelike, what are the really specific things that have to be done.
And one of them is to focus on what are those uniquely human things that we do — great at creativity, great at problem solving, great at interpersonal skills —those are the future of where jobs are going to go. And we need to train ourselves as well as our teams and stuff on, you know, making sure that those are as strong as possible, because some of the more repetitive things, those are going to go away.
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Some of the Caveats of AI Marketing
Nicastro: Yeah. And, you know, wrap it up here soon. But looking at some of the caveats you talked about a lot of you know, there are caveats to this, that marketers should know about, before diving into infusing AI into their processes. Give me one example of what a caveat would be for a marketer needing to know before they dive in?
Schaub: Well, let me go back to this specifics of you know that they're very, very, very literal, which means that you have to learn how to ask the right questions. And you have to learn to appreciate what AI can and can't do. And you have to be able to train it with the right kind of data and the amount of data. For example, in complex situations, things that are long, you know, happened a long time ago, actually impact have good impact today, if your dataset only goes for the last couple of months, you're not going to catch those. So you really have to think about the way that AI works. And make sure that you are acting in a way that brings the best out.
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Making AI Marketing Adoption Smoother
Nicastro: Yeah, makes sense. And lastly, like any sort of future trends from you, that you're watching — future article topics, I should say that you're tracking, and maybe we can expect down the road. Won't hold you down to it. But what's top of mind for you right now for some future articles?
Schaub: Well, as I mentioned, my passion is to learn as much as I possibly can about great ways of — whether it's methods, technologies, culture, organizational structures — that work really good in a entirely changing, unpredictable environment, and to translate those into marketing-speak so that people can adopt them more readily. So that's what you'll be seeing from me. Both the technology piece but also the people piece.
Nicastro: Oh, we're looking forward to that but great opening, opening day that's like appropriate for what's going on now in Major League Baseball. So good opening day for Kathleen Schaub here, marketing and AI. That's definitely a topic right in CMSWire's wheelhouse, so we appreciate it and we'll look forward to the next couple.
Schaub: Well, my pleasure and I'm looking forward to working with you.
Nicastro: All right, chat soon. Thanks, Kathleen.
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It's an amazing Thursday. I have some great news to share with all of you. I am so happy and proud to announce that my work, pattern and home decor designs, has been published in the March issue of the Serbian magazine "Moj Stan" (My Apartment).
This is something I really wanted to happen, for a long time. It's really hard to present your work in a magazine when you are not famous designer or artist. But when you want something to happened you work hard to get there. I never expected to happen like this. My previous press release was with my collection of coats, in the December issue of Lisa magazine. Today, after two and a half months I got the second one and with my other work. It's the best feeling ever when people love your work and wants to share it with the rest of the world. I am sure this is just the beginning.
Before I finish this post, I just wanted to tell you that I am working on new collection of patterns. So stay tuned for some work in progress posts.


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I was exploring my concept of shame—what trait I hate (the badness I want to get rid of) and as a result want to avoid the most. What I found is surprising also unsurprising to me. It's 'self-centredness'. There's a giant rift within me, the self that exists and exhibits her existence and the self that wants to get rid of herself and be invisible. The rift occurred because the subconscious message my family kept giving me when I was a child is 'I don't want you to exist'.
很吵、很煩、很討厭。The translation in English is 'annoying', but I feel that it doesn't catch the essence of their perception of me. Basically it's a contant message of 'I want to get rid of you'. Not just some aspects of you, your entirety. Stop existing.
This is so painful because I am not the type of person/child who can suppress myself. My nervous system is constantly overloaded. I can't stop myself even if I want to. I want to be silent and invisible, but I can't.
The only way I can ease the friction between these two parts is when I am at home alone because there won't be any problem with being self-centred since I am the only one existing in that space. How sad is this. Aloneness has become my coping mechanism to avoid feeling self hate and shame. No wonder I need so much alone time.
We can see the main rift in our personalities through our astrological natal charts. Especially the relationship between your sun sign and your moon sign. My sun sign is Sagittarius, and my moon sign is Virgo. They are not in a precise square aspect, but it's painful enough for me.
My sun, moon and Mercury (Sagittarius, and forming a square with my moon) are all mutable signs, and this means thoughts and emotions spiral fast whether it's positive or negative. It's a great challenge to integrate all of them and learn how to harness them.


On Wednesday 15th August, in the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, London.
Beer and cake from 6pm * An introduction by Kim at 6:45pm * Showdown starts at 7:00pm.
Who would win in a fight between Godzilla and the Antichrist, and why?
The best answer will be chosen by Kim, and his decision is final. Let's have a clean fight. Place your bets!
Godzilla. Lara Von Trier and Willem Dafoe would have no chance.
Godzilla because of a tag team last minute pairing with Godzooky – the animated Antichrist.
Neither. Realising the complicated futility of multiplex ignorance, and having seen both Pearl Harbor and Transformers, the duo team up to hunt down and castrate Michael Bay in the hope of saving the future of cinema. The end.
Godzilla – after all look what he did to Bambi!
Probably Godzilla, but nobody would be alive to witness such an event due to Godzilla's atomic breath wiping out every single pectator.
Godzilla, because ( at least in films) the Antichrist never wins.


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At the Earth's Core is a 1976 British-American fantasy-science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions.

The film was directed by Kevin Connor and stars Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and  Caroline Munro. It was filmed in Technicolor, and is based on the 1914 fantasy novel At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first book of his Pellucidar series, in token of which the film is also known as Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core. The original music score was composed by Mike Vickers.

Plot
Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing), a British Victorian scientist, and his US financier David Innes (Doug McClure) make a test run of their Iron Mole drilling machine in a Welsh mountain, but end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic flying reptiles, the Mahars (Pterodactyls with parrot-like beaks), and full of prehistoric beasts and cavemen.

They are captured by the Mahars, who keep primitive humans as their slaves through mind control. David falls for the beautiful slave girl Princess Dia (Caroline Munro) but when she is chosen as a sacrificial victim in the Mahar city, David and Perry must rally the surviving human slaves to rebel and not only save her but also win their freedom.

Cast

 Doug McClure as David Innes
 Peter Cushing as Dr. Abner Perry
 Caroline Munro as Princess Dia
 Cy Grant as Ra
 Godfrey James as  Ghak the Hairy One
 Sean Lynch as Hoojah
 Keith Barron as Dowsett
 Helen Gill as Maisie
 Anthony Verner as Gadsby
 Robert Gillespie as Photographer
 Michael Crane as Jubal
 Bobby Parr as Sagoth Chief
 Andee Cromarty as Girl Slave

Production
The film was made following the success of The Land That Time Forgot.

Kevin Connor later recalled, "we tried to get the beasts bigger so as to interact better with the actors – more one on one. We had a somewhat bigger budget thanks to the success of 'Land.' The beasts were specially designed so that small stunt guys could work inside the suits in a crouched position and on all-fours. Needless to say it was very cramped and the stunt guys had to take frequent breathers. Some worked better than others – but we were experimenting and trying something different."

Release
The film premiered at the Marble Arch Odeon in London on 15 July 1976.

Reception
The film was popular, becoming the 18th most profitable British film of 1976.

Amongst contemporary critics, however, The New York Times was not impressed: "All the money used to make 'At the Earth's Core' seems to have been spent on building monsters with parrotlike beaks that open, close, and emit a steady squawling as if someone were vacuuming next door. Close up, the monsters look like sections of rough concrete wall and the decision to film them in closeup is only one example of the total lack of talent or effort with which the picture is made...the movie is a kind of no-talent competition in which the acting, the script, the direction and the camera-work vie for last place." More recently, in more positive vein, BFI Screenonline said, "Extravagant, colourful and thoroughly preposterous, At the Earth's Core is utterly without pretension but has the exuberant charm of the best of its decade."

The film was featured in the season finale of the revived Mystery Science Theater 3000, the show's eleventh season overall, released on April 14, 2017, through Netflix.

Featured Animals
Homo habilis, or is it Paranthropus? (Sagoth): The furry servants of the Mahars who are lighter in build than a gorilla.
Inostrancevia
Koolasuchus (In the movie, A fire-breathing Amphibian)
Megacerops (identified by its synonym Brontotherium): Incorrectly having a pair of horns on its head and razor-sharp teeth.
Psittacosaurus
Rhamphorhynchus (Mahar): Incorrectly having a bird-like beak, dragon-like wings, and the size of an oversized Vulture.
Tanystropheus (Hydrophidian): Poster only

See also
 The People That Time Forgot (film)
 Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)
 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 direct-to-video film) – A direct-to-DVD American film sharing similarities with this film

References

External links

 MGM – Official Site

 At the Earth's Core at BFI Screenonline

1976 films
1970s fantasy adventure films
1970s science fiction films
British fantasy adventure films
British science fiction films
Films based on American novels
1970s English-language films
American International Pictures films
Amicus Productions films
Films directed by Kevin Connor
Films set in the Victorian era
Films based on works by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Films set in Wales
Films shot at Pinewood Studios
Films about the Hollow Earth
Lost world films
Pellucidar
Travel to the Earth's center
British science fantasy films
Films about dinosaurs
English-language Welsh films
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Rod Stewart Took the Ultimate Blended Family Photo
Rod Stewart Just Posed in a Blended Family Portrait With the Four Mothers of His Children
The 74-year-old rock star has perfected the art of staying friends with your ex.
By Philip Ellis Published: Aug 24, 2019
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Rod Stewart just took the ultimate family photo, posing with four mothers to his children at his daughter Kimberly's 40th birthday party. In an Instagram post captioned "a mother's reunion," Stewart and his current wife Penny Lancaster-Stewart stood with Rachel Hunter, Kelly Emberg and Alana Stewart.
Earlier this year, Stewart credited Penny with helping keep the blended family together: an extra tough task when you're married to a famous rock star and could be accused of gold-digging. "She is a remarkable talent for [keeping the blended family together]," Stewart told Hello! "It was hard coming up with all the other kids, they didn't know if it was another woman trying to get hold of dad's money… far from it. She won them all over and they all adore her now."
Co-parenting after divorce and remarriage comes with all manner of trials. Lenny Kravitz recently opened up about his own situation: his ex-wife Lisa Bonet, mother to their daughter Zoë Kravitz, is now married to actor Jason Momoa. ""You go through a marriage with somebody, you break up and it's very difficult," Kravitz said. "But [Lisa and I] put the work in and we took the time so that we could become best friends again. Our families are blended. I love her husband [the actor Jason Momoa] – he's like a brother to me – and I love the kids. It's beautiful, but it takes work."
So what's the key to staying friends with your ex? According to Jennifer Lawrence, it's brutal honesty. "I have a theory," she told Marc Maron on his podcast last year. "I think it's because I'm blunt. I don't think that you can have any sort of bad relationship with anybody if you're just blunt. Everybody always knows how you feel at all times and there's no lying. It's just honesty."
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A UK nationwide study of people with type 1 diabetes admitted to hospital with COVID-19 infection
Ruan, Y., Ryder, R.E.J., De, P. et al. (20 more authors) (2021) A UK nationwide study of people with type 1 diabetes admitted to hospital with COVID-19 infection. Diabetologia, 64 (8). pp. 1717-1724. ISSN 0012-186X
Aims/hypothesis
The aim of this work was to describe the clinical characteristics of adults with type 1 diabetes admitted to hospital and the risk factors associated with severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) in the UK.
A retrospective cohort study was performed using data collected through a nationwide audit of people admitted to hospital with diabetes and COVID-19, conducted by the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists from March to October 2020. Prespecified demographic, clinical, medication and laboratory data were collected from the electronic and paper medical record systems of the participating hospitals by local clinicians. The primary outcome of the study, severe COVID-19, was defined as death in hospital and/or admission to the adult intensive care unit (AICU). Logistic regression models were used to generate age-adjusted ORs.
Forty UK centres submitted data. The final dataset included 196 adults who were admitted to hospital and had both type 1 diabetes and COVID-19 on admission (male sex 55%, white 70%, with mean [SD] age 62 [19] years, BMI 28.3 [7.3] kg/m2 and last recorded HbA1c 76 [31] mmol/mol [9.1 (5.0)%]). The prevalence of pre-existing microvascular disease and macrovascular disease was 56% and 39%, respectively. The prevalence of diabetic ketoacidosis on admission was 29%. A total of 68 patients (35%) died or were admitted to AICU. The proportions of people that died were 7%, 38% and 38% of those aged <55, 55–74 and ≥75 years, respectively. BMI, serum creatinine levels and having one or more microvascular complications were positively associated with the primary outcome after adjusting for age.
Conclusions/interpretation
In people with type 1 diabetes and COVID-19 who were admitted to hospital in the UK, higher BMI, poorer renal function and presence of microvascular complications were associated with greater risk of death and/or admission to AICU. Risk of severe COVID-19 is reassuringly very low in people with type 1 diabetes who are under 55 years of age without microvascular or macrovascular disease.
Ruan, Y.
Ryder, R.E.J.
De, P.
Field, B.C.T.
Narendran, P.
Iqbal, A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5648-0539
Gandhi, R.
Harris, S.
Nagi, D.
Aziz, U.
Karra, E.
Ghosh, S.
Hanif, W.
Edwards, A.E.
Zafar, M.
Dashora, U.
Várnai, K.A.
Davies, J.
Wild, S.H.
Wilmot, E.G.
Webb, D.
Khunti, K.
Rea, R.
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COVID-19; Inpatients; Mortality; National audit; Type 1 diabetes
Published (online): 8 May 2021
The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield)
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Wilhelm Christ, seit 1876 Ritter von Christ (* 2. August 1831 in Geisenheim in Hessen-Nassau; † 8. Februar 1906 in München) war ein deutscher klassischer Philologe.

Leben
Der Sohn eines Bäckers und einer Müllerstochter besuchte das Gymnasium in Hadamar und studierte ab 1850 in München bei Karl Halm, Friedrich Thiersch, Karl von Prantl und Leonhard Spengel, anschließend in Berlin bei Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, August Boeckh und Franz Bopp. 1853 wurde er in Berlin mit einer Arbeit über Aristoteles promoviert und ging als Lehrer an das Maximiliansgymnasium in München. 1860 wurde Christ außerordentlicher Professor für klassische Philologie an der Universität München, 1863 ordentlicher Professor. 1891/1892 war er Rektor der Universität. Eine Verbindung zum Schulwesen behielt er als Mitglied des Obersten Schulrats in Bayern (1872) und der Reichsschulkommission (1890).

Seit 1858 war Christ außerordentliches, seit 1864 ordentliches Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, in deren Schriftenreihen er zahlreiche Abhandlungen veröffentlichte. Ab 1870 war er Ehrenmitglied der Griechischen philologischen Gesellschaft in Konstantinopel. Mit der Verleihung des Bayerischen Kronenordens 1876 wurde er als Ritter von Christ in den persönlichen Adelsstand erhoben. 1893 ernannte ihn das Deutsche Archäologische Institut zum ordentlichen Mitglied. 1894 wurde ihm der Bayerische Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst verliehen.

Werk
Christ beschäftigte sich mit zahlreichen Themen sowohl aus der griechischen als auch aus der lateinischen Literatur. Textausgaben veröffentlichte er u. a. von Pindar, Aristoteles und Homers Ilias. Bleibende Bedeutung hatten vor allem seine Arbeiten zur Metrik und seine Geschichte der griechischen Literatur für das Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, die in mehreren Auflagen erschien, nach seinem Tod weitergeführt von Otto Stählin und Wilhelm Schmid.

1886 stellte Wilhelm Christ erstmals die These auf, dass die sogenannten Seevölker identisch mit den Atlantern des Platon seien. Später wurde diese These immer wieder mit unterschiedlicher Ausdeutung aufgegriffen, u. a. von Theodor Gomperz, Spyridon Marinatos, Jürgen Spanuth, John V. Luce oder Herwig Görgemanns.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Studia in Aristotelis libros metaphysicos collata. Diss. Berlin 1853.
 Grundzüge der griechischen Lautlehre. Teubner, Leipzig 1859.
 Von der Bedeutung der Sanskritstudien für die griechische Philologie. Weiß, München 1860.
 Metrik der Griechen und Römer. Teubner, Leipzig 1874; 2. Auflage 1879. Nachdruck: Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1972.
 (mit Franz Joseph Lauth): Führer durch das K. Antiquarium in München. Franz, München 1870 (mehrere Neuausgaben).
Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur bis auf die Zeit Justinians. Beck, München 1889; 4. Auflage 1905.
 Reform des Universitätsunterrichtes. Wolf, München 1891 (Rektoratsantrittsrede).

Ausgaben
 Pindar: Carmina. Teubner, Leipzig 1869. Zahlreiche Neuauflagen.
 (mit Matthaios K. Paranikas): Anthologia Graeca carminum Christianorum. Teubner, Leipzig 1871. Nachdruck Olms, Hildesheim 1963.
 Aristoteles: Ars poetica.  Teubner, Leipzig 1878. Zahlreiche Neuauflagen/Nachdrucke.
 Homer: Ilias. Teubner, Leipzig 1884.
 Aristoteles: Metaphysik. Teubner, Leipzig 1886. Zahlreiche Neuauflagen/Nachdrucke.

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Altphilologe (19. Jahrhundert)
Rektor (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Mitglied des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Träger des Verdienstordens der Bayerischen Krone (Ritter)
Träger des Bayerischen Maximiliansordens für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Nobilitierter (Bayern)
Deutscher
Geboren 1831
Gestorben 1906
Mann


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Emmanuèle Phuon
Phuon started dancing at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and graduated from Conservatoire National de Danse in Avignon (France) in 1985. Subsequently, she was offered a full scholarship at Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal before moving to New York in 1987 to enroll in the certificate program of the Alvin Ailey American Dance School.
Ms. Phuon has performed internationally with Elisa Monte Dance Company (1989 -1995), Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project (1995-2002), Martha Clarke (1997-1999), Joachim Schloemer (2002-2003), and Yvonne Rainer (2010 to present). During her tenure with White Oak Dance Project, she has worked with an array of choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Deborah Hay, Mark Morris, John Jasperse, Tere O'Connor, Neil Greenberg and Meg Stuart among others. Ms Phuon's choreographic work has been commissioned and presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre, New Haven's Festival of Arts and Ideas, Spoleto Dance Festival in Charleston, Guggenheim Works and Process, Singapore Da:ns festival, and Danspace Project in New York. She is the recipient of grants from Fondation de France, Un Monde par Tous, Asian Cultural Council; awards and fellowships include a Richard Porter Leach fellowship, Baryshnikov Arts Center's Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship, and a 2019 Dance Research Fellowship, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
One of seven authorized transmitters of Yvonne Rainer's work, she has taught workshops and set Rainer's work in major exhibitions in France, Japan, China, and Sweden—most notably Yvonne Rainer's Performative Exhibition at Shunju-za Theater (Kyoto) and Yvonne Rainer and Wen Hui: Dance Only Exists When It Is Performed at the Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing). She is currently on faculty at Montclair State University and NYU Tisch Open-Arts/Collaborative Arts.
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Vermont Supreme Court Upholds Law Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote in Local Elections
January 25, 2023 January 24, 2023 Just the News
by Ben Whedon
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled in favor of a law permitting noncitizens to vote in local, municipal elections.
In 2021, the state Legislature backed bills to change the local charters of Montpelier and Winooski to permit noncitizen voting in local elections. Though Republican Gov. Phil Scott vetoed those measures, the Democratic Legislature overrode his objections, the Associated Press reported.
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The Republican National Committee had asked the court to declare noncitizen voting in violation of the state constitution, which the court declined to do.
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Democrats in other states have begun to examine noncitizen voting proposals as well. In Connecticut, for instance, the Democratic state House is mulling a proposal to "allow undocumented immigrants who are residents of the state to vote in municipal and state elections."
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