Deinococcus marmoris strain PAMC 26562 was isolated from Usnea sp., a lichen collected from King George Island, Antarctica. We report here the draft genome sequence of strain PAMC 26562, which has xanthorhodopsin and carbon monoxide dehydrogenase genes in addition to major metabolic pathways presented in deinococcal genomes.
The phylum Deinococcus-Thermus constitutes one of the major bacterial evolutionary lineages (1). Species of the genus Deinococcus are strictly aerobic, have optimum growth temperatures in the range from 25 to 35°C, produce reddish colonies, generally stain Gram positive, have ornithine in the peptidoglycan, lack teichoic acids, possess menaquinone 8 as the major respiratory quinone, and are phylogenetically related to the thermophilic species of the genera Thermus and Meiothermus (2). Most members of the genus Deinococcus are able to grow in the presence of high levels of chronic radiation toxicity and desiccation, because they can protect enzymes from reactive oxygen species generated during ionizing radiation (3). In a previous study, a Deinococcus strain had been found to be associated with an Usnea species (4). The strain PAMC 26562 was deposited under Polar and Alpine Microbial Collection (PAMC) project carried out by the Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) (5). The closest known species to strain PAMC 26562 was Deinococcus marmoris, based on the 16S rRNA sequence analysis (accession number AJ585986) (4).
Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the strain PAMC 26562. Strain PAMC 26562 was isolated from a lichen collected from King George Island, Antarctica (4). The draft genome sequence was determined using the Illumina sequencing, and assembly program used was Ray (version 2.3.1) (6). Assembly of genome analysis was carried out with increasing k-mer values from 5 to 65. The longest N50 and contigs were reached when the k-mer was 27. Bowtie-2 (version 2.2.6) was used to generated a *.sam file (7), and SAMtools (version 0.1.19) was used to generated a *.bam file (8). BEDTools (bedtools genomecov; aka "genomeCoverageBed" version 2.25.0) was used to calculate genome coverage (9); Illumina reads aligned in a *.bam file corresponded to 121× coverage depth. Finally, 187 contigs were submitted to GenBank. Three contigs with no coding sequence (CDS) features and 30 contigs less than 500 bp in length were excluded. The draft genome of PAMC 26562 comprised 5,286,835 bp, with a G+C content of 64.1%.
There were 5,027 protein-coding sequences in total, and they were annotated by the RAST server (10), according to a previously described method (11). Some genes of interest were confirmed using blast using National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. Noncoding genes included six 16S rRNA genes and 49 tRNA-coding genes. By using the CRISPRFinder program analysis (12), six contigs from the strain PAMC 26562 had hits to a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) sequence. In addition to common metabolism and stress responses, like radiation and desiccation, xanthorhodopsin/retinoid synthesis and carbon monoxide dehydrogenase gene clusters could be found, as in the case with some other genomes in the genus Deinococcus.
Accession number(s).This whole-genome shotgun project for Deinococcus marmoris strain PAMC 26562 has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession no. MSTI00000000. The version described in this paper is version MSTI01000000.
This work was supported by the Transfer Machine Specialized Lighting Core Technology Development Professional Manpower Training Project (project N0001363) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Republic of Korea).
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Paul Mecurio
Scary, But Not Impossible… Leaving the Job You Hate for the One You'd Love
Wait! Before I say "comedian." Let me tell you who Paul Mecurio really is. He's a transformer. A true reinventor.
He started out at as a lawyer on Wall Street.
Because it was logical.
And he got used to making 2, 3… 4 million dollars a year (after bonuses vested). It was hard to give it up… at first.
"I was a grown man who still wanted someone to tell me what to do," he said.
But he still made little efforts. Daily. And those efforts add up.
Overtime Paul stopped taking notes in meetings. "I had a passworded folder on my computer," he said. "I was making observations and writing jokes."
And then one day he got a chance to meet Jay Leno.
"How did you distinguish yourself?" I said. "Because everyone says, 'I'm a big fan.' So how did you stand out?"
"There was a private function. They had this big, fancy openhouse and Jay Leno was the private entertainment. I couldn't go. I had hours of work."
He wasn't going to go! He had to be convinced. He goes.
"I'm putting my coat on. I'm standing over my keyboard… and I say, 'F— it.' And hit print."
15 pages of jokes stream out of his computer.
This is where the naivety comes in. Paul went from being near the top of one hierarchy to the bottom on another. He doesn't know the right move. And he's not thinking about it either.
He hands Leno the pack of jokes. "I don't know if you need jokes," he said, "But I'm never going to use these. So you can have them."
"Aren't you going to put your name and number on this so I can reach you?" Jay Leno said.
Two days later, he gets a call… and one week later, his joke gets aired on "The Tonight Show."
Before this, no one knew about his dream. Not even his girlfriend of 8 or 9 years (now wife).
He was living a double life. If the senior partners knew what he was doing, they wouldn't tolerate it. He'd be out. Immediately.
This was a gamble.
But it was worth it…
"I went and bought a bottle of champagne. And Jay Leno did my joke. I popped the champagne, and my head blew off my f—ing shoulders."
"Here's this box that I watched my whole life since I was 4. And my words came out of that box. That was way more compelling than sitting across from T. Boone Pickens or being part of a team negotiating a merger deal worth billions of dollars that's on the front page of the Wall Street Journal."
He saw his dream in front of him. And now, he needed to figure out how to escape.
Then his dad died.
"I thought that was a sign from God," he said. "I'd go run the family business."
He kept putting God in air quotes.
"I didn't want to make the decision. So I talked myself into believing that "God" made the decision for me and that I HAD to do this… Which I didn't. But I was looking for a life raft and I grabbed on to that."
It takes years and sometimes lifetimes to choose yourself. Cause no one could really say, 'Okay, good I'm gonna drown.'
It's scary to jump out of the safety net. He would've had to go from the investment banking world to dirty dive bars and open mics.
So he took just the first step.
He left the "approved" path of being a lawyer for another "approved" path (running his dad's business).
And eventually, it drove him crazy.
"I was more scared, more confused. I didn't know where I belonged. But I couldn't stay. So I moved."
Back to New York.
(And part time in Boston, too. Because Boston's good for comedy. Gary Gulman was there, Steve Sweeney, Don Gavin. A lot of the greats.)
The story of how he picks himself up is really remarkable. I'll tell you more in a second. But it's all in this podcast. And I think you'll see yourself in this story, too.
I read Paul his credits.
He's been on Jay Leno, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show. He has his own podcast. He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bryan Cranston, Sugar Ray Leonard, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Colbert and me!
I really wanted to know what lead him to DO all this. (The podcasting, the comedy, the acting, the filmmaking). And not just THINK about this…
He said he didn't know.
But I don't think that's true.
It was just something that lived inside of him. And he acted on it little by little.
That's the magic of doing.
Listen to Paul's Podcast "The Paul Mecurio Show"
Get Paul's CD "It's not Me, It's the World"
Paul's website
Paul Mecurio on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Follow Paul on Facebook and Twitter
Also Mentioned
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Comedy Cellar
Paul Koestner – Louis CK's cinematographer
The Hudlin brothers (Warrington Hudlin and Reginald Hudlin. Reginald wrote "Black Panther: Power," directed "Marshall" and produced "Django Unchained.")
Spike Lee ("25th Hour," "He Got Game," "Do The Right Thing," "Malcolm X," "She's Gotta Have It")
Albert Brooks (his movies include "Taxi Driver", "Finding Nemo," "Finding Dory," "Twilight Zone: The Movie," "Private Benjamin," "A Most Violent Year," and so many more)
Woody Allen ("Annie Hall," "Manhattan," "Love and Death," "Bananas,")
Luna Lounge
Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan
Monologue: What Makes America Laugh Before Bed by Jon Macks
My interview with Jon Macks: Ep. 190: Jon Macks – The Gut Decision That Lasts A Lifetime
Jimmy Brogan (Jay Leno's main writer)
Pete Holmes
Gary Gulman
Steve sweeney
Don Gavin
Movie: Chuck with Liev Schreiber
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I have paid $7000 extra of my mortgage in 6 months. Should I transfer this to my $11,000 car loan or is it better of the home loan?
My car loan is 6.49% but it costs $12 a month for every month you pay it off early. It is a 60 month loan, I have been on it for 6 months and have paid off $2500 (From $14 000 to $11-500.
My Mortgage is about 500,000 at a 3.860% interest rate. I am tempted to re draw the extra $7000 I've paid off the house and throw as much as I can at the car, then, when it's paid off, add the car payment to the mortgage payment, but then I lose the redraw!
I have 29 years left on my mortgage.Can't get my head around the numbers so help please!!!
Your current interest on the car loan is about $68 a month. The penalty is only $12. You should put as much on the car loan as you can until you get the interest payment down to $12. I threw it into a spreadsheet and found that number to be the last nine payments, when the principal is around $2200 remaining. For those final payments, you're better off paying the interest than the penalty.
If you add in the rate on the mortgage, it changes things a bit. If you switch to overpaying the mortgage when you have $5500 left on the car, the penalty becomes more than the difference in the interest rates. So you may be better off with keeping the whole gain of the lower rate rather than the penalty reduced on the car loan.
Technically we should also consider the Net Present Value of the penalties. $12 two years from now is worth less than $12 now. But it's not a lot less, so I'm just ignoring it. Including it would slightly favor paying the car loan early.
Note that my spreadsheet is a rough calculation based on a monthly payment of $273.86. They may give you better information in your receipt. Also, check with them if you can reduce your payment to reduce the penalties. If you can pay $1300 a month now and pay $15 a month for the last four years of the loan, that would be even better from your perspective. But they may not allow that nor similar alternatives.
If you can only redraw once on the mortgage, I'm not sure that I'd pick this as the time to do it. I'd prefer to save it for an emergency. And if you would have to pay fees, it's probably not worth it even if you could redraw as often as you want. If you pay $7000 of the car loan immediately, that saves you six months of payments and about $200 in interest. Reduce the interest savings by $72 for added penalties. That's only $130 in savings from using the redraw.
In the past six months, you overpaid the car loan by about $1300 and the mortgage by $7000. Just keep overpaying $5000 over the next four months and put it all on the car loan. You'll have it down to the point where the penalty starts to hurt. Then switch the overpayment to the mortgage and pay the minimum on the car loan until it finishes. That's simpler than anything involving the redraw and still gets you good savings.
I said this above but will repeat it here. The goal is to pay the car loan down to $5500 in principal. At that point, overpaying the mortgage is a better deal than overpaying the car loan and taking the early payment penalty at the end. More than $5500 and it looks like you're better off paying the car loan even with the penalty.
Keep what you have paid in the mortgage, keep paying extra to it.
Keep what you have paid in the mortgage, pay future extra to car loan.
Redraw extra payments from mortgage, pay them and future extra to car loan.
Of these, 1. clearly doesn't make sense as the car loan has higher interest.
Considering 2. and 3., note first that the 2.63% difference of interest on $7000 amounts to $184 in a year. If the redraw and early payment fees are less than this, it can make sense to do 3.
Whatever you do, it makes sense to make future extra payments to the car loan. Because of the $12 early payment fee, you'll probably want to save up money for 3-6 months and then pay a bigger amount at a time.
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Harry Potter cast to reunite for 20th anniversary as director calls for extended cut to be released
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is turning 20. (Warner Bros.)
Harry Potter director Chris Columbus has called for the release of the extended cut of The Philosopher's Stone as the movie hits its 20th anniversary.
Columbus is set to reunite with the franchise's stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, a reunion event for HBO Max.
The original cut of the movie, which hit the three-hour mark with an additional half an hour of unseen footage, was shown only to a limited number of test audiences ahead of the film's release.
In a recent interview to The Wrap, Columbus explained how: "We knew that the film worked because we did a couple of previews. Particularly a Chicago preview where our first cut was a three-hour cut."
Chris Columbus directed the first two instalments in the Harry Potter movie series.
The director went on to recall how "parents afterwards said it was too long, the kids said it was too short. I thought, well, the kids presumably have a shorter attention span so this is a good thing."
As the interviewer noted they'd like to see the original cut re-released today, Columbus convened: "I would too."
Read more: Chris Columbus thought he was going to be fired as 'Harry Potter' director
Despite the director's wishes, a representative from Warner Bros. told the publication that they are unaware of any plans at the moment to release this extended cut.
The event, which released its trailer today, will hit screens on 1 January, 2022, at midnight, for fans of the franchise to celebrate the new year in the best way possible.
While the teaser clip did not show any footage of the actual reunion, the event is expected to tell an"enchanting making-of story through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through one of the most beloved film franchises of all time" (via The Wrap).
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How did you get started with tobacco control?
I had been living in London for a couple of years and had decided to do another university course (mainly because that is what I had been doing since I was a teenager and I clearly lacked imagination). It was September and I was due to start a course in philosophy in October of the following year, so I needed to get a job. I applied for a very junior position at ASH (Action on Smoking and Health)[MH3] just to pay the rent. At the time I thought ASH was a good idea because 1) I would not be doing harm; 2) it involved both science and politics, both of which interested me. It transpired that I became very interested in the work, despite the rather shocking misogyny of most of the men involved! This was in the early 1980s, and coming from a university environment in the United States, it was all a bit of culture shock.
You are a founding member of the International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT). How did that organization come about? What was the motivation?
INWAT began at the 1990 World Conference on Tobacco or Health held in Perth, Australia. There was a series of pre-conference seminars, one of which was on women and tobacco. So there was a bunch of bolshie, awkward women already on hand. What really galvanized us was the realization that there were so few women speaking in the plenary sessions. If memory serves, I remember two!
A number of us had been working on issues of gender and tobacco for a few years and were used to the topic being overlooked, but there was a general feeling that this was too much and future conference organizers should recognize the importance of the subject and the contribution women were making to public health.
What are the goals of INWAT?
The goals of INWAT are to provide contacts between individuals and organisations working in tobacco control, particularly those interested in gender issues. We have set up a website (inwat.org) and publish newsletters and reports on different topics around women and tobacco to support sharing information. An extremely important goal is to promote women's leadership in tobacco control.
What are some of the things INWAT is currently working on?
We have just completed an issue of our newsletter, The Net, with Global Bridges on the topic of preventing tobacco use among girls and helping women to stop. This looks both at women who are trying to quit and at how professionals can best support them.
In 2010, our European Region published a report with WHO Europe, Empower Women, that looked at tobacco industry targeting women in Europe with its marketing. That report highlighted a lot of the work that governmental authorities and women's organizations were undertaking to fight back.
The new report, which we hope to launch at the European conference on tobacco or health in Istanbul in March 2014, takes a more analytical look at the actions of the tobacco industry in attracting new female smokers in the very large European region of WHO, which stretches from Scandinavia and the Atlantic isles all the way to Central Asia. Europe has changed radically in the last 25 years — politically, socially and culturally — and tobacco companies are taking advantage of this.
Please tell us about your work as a policy analyst at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
NICE is an organization that gives guidance on different topics in several domains — clinical, health and social care, public health — based on a process that uses the best available evidence as considered by an independent panel of experts. Our methods are transparent and all the committees are accountable, so it is clear how they have come to make their recommendations.
Now, due to policy changes, local government is to become much more engaged in public health in England, so we are looking at new ways to engage people working on a local level, although this has always been part of our work.
What development or success are you most proud of?
I have done a few things in my career that I believe have made a contribution to public health and tobacco control, but one of which I am most proud was working with a very small team at WHO Europe in Copenhagen to set up the Smokefree Europe project.
The Regional Committee had decided they should take action against tobacco and asked the regional office to write an 'Action Plan' for tobacco control in Europe. This was in the late 1980s, long before the FCTC. WHO had been strongly criticized about its general failure to engage with tobacco, which was such a massive cause of illness and premature death in Europe as well as the rest of the world.
From the rather wooly brief for an 'Action Plan' we set up a project which focused on giving Member States the best available guidance on tobacco policy, aimed at making them believe that they really could do something about the rise of tobacco use and very high levels of disease and early death that it causes.
We considered that one of the key messages that we had to send was that a tobacco control policy had to be comprehensive and it was useless to rely on one aspect or element. Many countries wanted to stop tobacco use by "educating children" that it was unhealthy. That kind of naivety was laughable to some of us then, as it is for many people now. But in those days, it was frightening how many people thought children's' education was the key to ending tobacco use. You'd have thought that they might have noticed that it had not worked!
A key element of our programme was a five-day European conference held in Madrid, Spain, which was attended by invited delegates from all the European Member States. The conference was a creative mix of plenary sessions, panel discussions chaired by Peter Taylor, a BBC journalist, and discussion groups.
We assigned people to discussion groups to achieve a good balance and the group stayed together for the duration of the conference. Each group had appointed a chair who reported back to a drafting group every evening. It was hard work, but each morning the two conference rapporteurs would report back in plenary on discussions of the previous day. My impression was that people were very engaged because they thought they were being listened to.
I see some of that same kind of enthusiasm in the people now working on the FCTC and it is so gratifying to see the real progress being made, not by the high-income rich world, but by low- and middle-income countries.
What do you ultimately hope for with your work in tobacco control?
I hope that one day very few people will use tobacco. I don't think that is entirely unrealistic, but equally I certainly do not underestimate the difficulty of the task to make this come about.
It may be that technological advances will make it possible for people to remain addicted to nicotine without using tobacco. Developments like the e-cigarette point that way. But, to my mind, there is a huge risk around the regulation of nicotine containing products (NCPs). We have already seen them advertised as cigarettes were advertised 50 years ago – and now we have the internet as an additional medium. We have no mechanisms in place to limit children's and young peoples' exposure to promotion of e-cigs or age limits for purchase. There are not clear guidelines about how they should be used in public places. We do not know about their effect on the 'denormalisation' of tobacco that so much of tobacco control has been aiming at in recent years.
We don't think it is a good idea to leave them unregulated, but we are also frightened of over regulation — many people argue convincingly that regulation will accelerate the existing trend of the tobacco companies to take over the NCP market. And we know how trustworthy the tobacco industry has shown itself to be! So I think this new area will pose all sorts of problems for tobacco control along with the possibility for a solution to smoking.


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Lewatywa z dymu tytoniowego – zabieg medyczny stosowany w przeszłości (XVII-XIX wiek) przez lekarzy europejskich w przypadku wielu dolegliwości, polegający na wdmuchiwaniu dymu tytoniowego w odbytnicę za pomocą lewatywy.

Tytoń został uznany za lek niedługo po tym, jak po raz pierwszy przywieziono go z Nowego Świata. Dym tytoniowy był używany przez zachodnich lekarzy jako środek na przeziębienie i senność, ale stosowanie go przez lewatywę było techniką przejętą od Indian Ameryki Północnej. Tę procedurę stosowano przy leczeniu bólu jelit. Oprócz tego, często podejmowano próby reanimacji w taki sposób niedoszłych topielców. Płynne lewatywy tytoniowe często stosowano w celu złagodzenia objawów przepukliny.

Na początku XIX wieku praktyka ta została porzucona, gdyż okazało się, że główny czynnik aktywny w dymie tytoniowym, czyli nikotyna, jest trująca.

Tytoń w medycynie

Do czasu odkrycia przez Europejczyków oraz przywiezienia z Nowego Świata tytoń był nieznany zachodniej medycynie. Europejczycy byli świadomi działania dymu; kadzidła stosowano od czasów starożytnych, a psychoaktywne działanie palonych nasion konopi było dobrze znane już Scytom i Trakom. Starożytny grecki lekarz Hipokrates zalecał inhalacje dymu przy "chorobach kobiecych", podobnie jak Pliniusz Starszy polecał go jako lekarstwo na kaszel. Rdzenni Amerykanie, od których pierwsi zachodni odkrywcy dowiedzieli się o tytoniu, używali jego liści do różnych celów, w tym w kulcie religijnym, ale Europejczycy szybko zdali sobie sprawę, że Amerykanie używali tytoniu także do celów leczniczych. Francuski dyplomata Jean Nicot wykorzystywał okład z tytoniu jako środek przeciwbólowy, Nicolás Monardes zalecał zaś tytoń jako lek na długą listę chorób, takich jak nowotwory, bóle głowy, problemy z oddychaniem, skurcze żołądka, podagrę, robaki jelitowe i choroby kobiece. Ówczesna medycyna dużą wagę przywiązywała do teorii humoralnej i przez krótki okres tytoń stał się panaceum. Jego użycie zostało wymienione w farmakopei jako środek na przeziębienie i senność, spowodowane różnymi dolegliwościami medycznymi. Jego skuteczność tłumaczono przez jego zdolności do wchłaniania wilgoci, do ogrzania części ciała, a więc do utrzymania równowagi, tak ważnej dla zdrowia. Próbując zapobiegać chorobom tytoń również stosowano do okadzania pomieszczeń.

Stymulacja oddychania poprzez wprowadzenie dymu tytoniowego przez odbyt na początku była praktykowana przez Indian Ameryki Północnej. Wczesnym przykładem wykorzystania tej procedury jest opis z 1686 roku Thomasa Sydenhama, który przy leczeniu niedrożności jelit przepisywał najpierw puszczanie krwi, a następnie lewatywę dymu tytoniowego:

Wedle doniesień lewatywy z dymem tytoniowym również używali XIX-wieczni duńscy farmerzy dla koni, które wymagały środków przeczyszczających, a amerykański antropolog Frank Speck donosił, że współcześni Indianie z plemienia Catawba również leczyli swoje konie w podobny sposób.

Opinia lekarska
Dla ówczesnych lekarzy właściwym leczeniem "pozornej śmierci" było ciepło i stymulacja. Anne Greene, kobieta skazana na śmierć i powieszona w 1650 roku za domniemane zamordowanie jej martwo urodzonego dziecka, jak uznali anatomowie, wciąż żyła. Ożywili ją poprzez wlewanie do jej gardła gorącego balsamu, rozcieranie jej kończyn i wystających części ciała, puszczanie krwi, stosowanie plastrów ogrzewających i "ogrzewającej wonnej lewatywy do stosowania w jej ciało, aby rozgrzać jej jelita". Po położeniu jej w ciepłym łóżku z inną kobietą dla ogrzania jej w pełni doszła do siebie i została ułaskawiona.

Sztuczne oddychanie i wdmuchiwanie dymu do płuc lub odbytnicy uważano za jednakowo skuteczne, jednak lewatywę dymu uznawano za najskuteczniejszą metodę ze względu na jej domniemane ocieplające i stymulujące właściwości. Holendrzy eksperymentowali z metodami nadmuchiwania płuc jako leczenie tych, którzy wpadli do kanałów i pozornie utonęli. Pacjenci również otrzymywali odbytowe napary dymu tytoniowego jako środek pobudzający oddech. Richard Mead był jednym z pierwszych zachodnich naukowców zalecających lewatywy z tytoniowego dymu do reanimacji niedoszłych ofiar utonięcia, kiedy w 1745 roku zalecał lewatywy tytoniu przy leczeniu jatrogennych utonięć spowodowanych leczeniem poprzez zanurzenie. Jego nazwisko wymieniono w jednym z pierwszych udokumentowanych przypadków reanimacji przez doodbytniczo zastosowany dym tytoniowy w 1746 roku, kiedy kobieta, która pozornie utonęła, była leczona w ten sposób. Za radą przepływającego żeglarza mąż kobiety włożył cybuch fajki żeglarza do jej odbytu, przykrył główkę fajki kawałkiem papieru perforowanego i "mocno dmuchnął". Kobieta miała wówczas "ożyć".

W latach 80. XVIII w. Royal Humane Society umieściło zestawy do reanimacji, w tym lewatywy dymowe, w różnych miejscach wzdłuż Tamizy, a przed końcem XIX wieku lewatywy tytoniowego dymu stały się uznaną praktyką w zachodniej medycynie, uznawaną przez Humane Society za równie ważną jak sztuczne oddychanie.

Do 1805 roku stosowanie doodbytniczo dymu tytoniowego zostało na tyle ustalone jako sposób leczenia uporczywych zwężeń przewodu pokarmowego, iż lekarze zaczęli eksperymentować z innymi mechanizmami podawania. W jednym z eksperymentów wywaru z pół drachmy tytoniu w czterech uncjach wody użyto jako lewatywy u pacjenta cierpiącego uogólnione drgawki, u którego nie spodziewano się wyzdrowienia. Wywar "zwiększył wrażliwość" pacjenta, zatrzymując konwulsje, chociaż spowodował słabość, wymioty i nadmierną potliwość. Takie lewatywy często były stosowane przy leczeniu przepuklin. Jak odnotowano w 1843 roku, mężczyzna w średnim wieku zmarł po takim zabiegu, wykonywanym przy leczeniu guzkowatej przepukliny, a w podobnym przypadku w 1847 roku kobieta otrzymała ciekłą lewatywę tytoniu, z dodatkiem lewatywy rosołu z kurczaka i pigułek opium i kalomelu (podawanych doustnie). Kobieta później wyzdrowiała.

W 1811 roku pisarz, zajmujący się medycyną, zapisał, że "moc tytoniowej lewatywy jest tak niezwykła, że przykuła uwagę lekarzy w niesamowity sposób. O efektach oraz sposobie stosowania dymu tytoniowego per anum dużo zostało napisane", dostarczając listę europejskich publikacji na ten temat. Lewatywy dymu również wykorzystywano przy leczeniu różnych innych dolegliwości. Raport w czasopiśmie medycznym z 1827 roku opowiada o kobiecie leczonej na zaparcia powtarzanymi lewatywami dymu, z niewielkim widocznym sukcesem. Według raportu z 1835 roku, lewatywy tytoniu były z powodzeniem stosowane w leczeniu cholery "w końcowym stadium".

Zanik procedury
Ataki na teorie dotyczące zdolności tytoniu do leczenia chorób zaczęły się na początku XVII wieku. Król Jakub I był sceptyczny co do jego efektywności. Inni twierdzili, że palenie wysusza humory, że tabaka zaczadza mózg, oraz że starzy ludzie nie powinni palić, gdyż oni i tak czy inaczej wysychają w sposób naturalny.

Choć niektóre przekonania dotyczące skuteczności dymu tytoniowego w celu ochrony przed chorobami trwały aż do XX wieku, stosowanie lewatywy dymu w medycynie zachodniej zaprzestano po 1811 roku, kiedy przez eksperymenty na zwierzętach Benjamin Brodie wykazał, że nikotyna, czyli główny czynnik aktywny w dymie tytoniowym, jest trucizną dla serca, która może zatrzymać krążenie krwi.

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The Woman Who Remade the Jewish Museum
Madame Director: In 30 years, Rosenbaum has constructed an enduring ?nexus of art.? Image by COURTESY OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM
Belle and Nobel: Rosenbaum in 1981, the first year of her tenure, with 1978 Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. Image by COURTESY OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM
After 30 years as director of New York's Jewish Museum, Joan Rosenbaum announced in December that she would be stepping down from the post at the end of June. Few would deny that during Rosenbaum's tenure, the Jewish Museum has become a powerhouse of art and creativity, both in the Jewish world and in the larger New York art world. Since she took the reins of the museum in 1981, it has doubled the size of its physical location on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, expanded its permanent collection to more than 26,000 objects, put on innumerable noteworthy exhibits and ensured its own future by building an endowment of about $92 million. The Forward took the opportunity to ask Rosenbaum about the changes she has seen during her career, both at the Jewish Museum and in the wider spheres of art and Jewish culture.
THE FORWARD: How has the Jewish Museum changed since you started?
JOAN ROSENBAUM: The Jewish Museum has changed dramatically over 30 years, mostly because of doubling the size of the institution and our ability in doubling to create the permanent exhibition "Culture and Continuity"; to have more temporary exhibition space; to have a properly outfitted auditorium for films, and to have a café — none of which existed before. We also were able, once we reached our centennial, to create an endowment, which hadn't existed before.
How has the museum's collection developed since you've been here?
The collection was great when I arrived. But to be a lively and vital museum, you have to keep collecting, and the collection is the heart and soul of the museum. So we have filled in lacunae in our ceremonial art collection, and we have also actively developed the contemporary ritual object aspect of the collection, which has sometimes taken the form of commissions. I think that people have transformed ritual forms using new materials, new forms and new ideas, and they have also come up with new rituals, too.
What principles inform the museum's collecting and commissioning?
We collect, exhibit and interpret art and artifacts that relate to the Jewish experience from ancient times to contemporary. So it certainly is a responsibility of the museum to keep up with contemporary art making, including of ritual objects. When we commission works, we don't say, for example, "Come up with a feminist way to celebrate something." We go to an artist who we find very interesting or who might be on exhibition, and say, "Would you like to work with us to create a piece of art?"
Has what you or the museum thinks of as Jewish art changed in the past 30 years?
I don't use the phrase "Jewish art." We're about a nexus of art and Jewish culture, and there's an infinite amount of subjects, ideas and forms that can emerge out of that nexus. I think that the art that we collect and show has changed, just as the art has changed in the general art world. I would say that there's really no fixed form or style right now. The use of performance art, media, mixed media, public art — all of these things that have gone on in the art world have gone on in the realm of art that deals with Jewish subject matter or that reflects the Jewish experience.
How do you think these changes in the art world have affected Jewish culture?
I think there's more art-making that reflects Jewish culture. There's just more of it, and perhaps a greater audience for it at the same time. There's an efflorescence of magazines and blogs and websites on Jewish subjects. There are art museums that are not Jewish museums, but that are interested in showing art that reflects Jewish culture. So I guess there are more possibilities, more engagement. I'd also say there's a young generation particularly interested in engaging and dealing with their Jewishness in art-making or in attending performance-based art.
Looking back, what are some of your favorite exhibitions?
I've loved so many of the shows, so it's very hard to choose. Just looking at fairly recent history, at the time of our centennial we did some wonderful shows. We did one on Schoenberg, Kandinsky and artists of the Blue Rider group. We did a fabulous exhibit on "The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons." We did the Modigliani retrospective, and we did two monographic shows of 20th-century artists — one on Eva Hesse, one on Louise Nevelson. More recently we did the "Action/Abstraction" exhibition.
What made those exhibits stand out?
What I love about the highly synthetic shows, like "Salons," "Action/Abstraction," and "Schoenberg, Kandinsky," is that you're really combing art and social history and offering quite a bit of new scholarship in both Jewish history and art history. You're seeing fabulous art, but with a wonderful back story, a wonderful narrative. And I think it's that narrative that often engages our audience. So we draw the audiences from two perspectives: People come to see Eva Hesse and Modigliani and Louise Nevelson because they love their work, but seeing it in the context of the Jewish Museum offers a different perspective.
If you could put on any show, what would it be?
If we have a great idea, maybe we can't do it in the next season, but if it's really good, we find a way to do it.
Do you have any plans for the future?
I really do believe in the role of curators as public intellectuals, and museums as places with enormous possibilities for public discourse, education and inspiration, so I would love to work for projects that would expand on those possibilities.
What does the future hold for Jewish art and culture?
I think the fact that anything goes right now in the art world means that anything goes in the creation of art that deals with Jewish culture. I think we are living in an incredibly creative, imaginative moment, and it would be very exciting to see what comes next. I couldn't have imagined the "Reinventing Ritual" show 10 or 15 years ago, or the Sukkah City project downtown, or JDub Records. These are all wonderful new things, and so I don't see any reason for this kind of inventiveness not to keep going. The unpredictability of it is, in fact, rather exciting.


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not1()

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A function adaptor used to reverse the sense of a unary predicate function object

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#include <functional>

namespace std {
  template<class Predicate>
  unary_negate <Predicate> not1(const Predicate&);
}

Description

<SAMP>not1()</SAMP> is a function adaptor, known as a negator, that takes a unary predicate function object as its argument and returns a unary predicate function object that is the complement of the original. unary_negate is the function object class used for a return type for the <SAMP>not1()</SAMP> negator.

Note that <SAMP>not1()</SAMP> works only with function objects that are defined as subclasses of the class unary_function.

See Also

Negators, <SAMP>not2()</SAMP>, unary_function, unary_negate, pointer_to_unary_function

Standards Conformance

ISO/IEC 14882:1998 -- International Standard for Information Systems -- Programming Language C++, Section 20.3.5


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Heavily armored punctuation guarded the palace gates. "Where's your invitation?" a belligerent semicolon demanded.

I handed mine over. Forgery had done an impeccable job, but some punctuation claim they can smell a profanity a mile away.

"You don't look like Aardvark."

"I've lost some weight since last year," I said.

"Raise your hands," the semicolon ordered.

I did as instructed and he patted me down. "Is this really necessary?"

He handed back my invitation. "Gangs of wild profanities roam the streets at night. We don't want their kind attending the ball. Not to mention those double entendres. The last thing we want is Attila the Pun sneaking in."

I strolled through the palace gates, trying to look casual. I had attended Lord Dictionary's grand balls years ago, but ever since Destiny seized control, the profanities had been excluded. Apparently we weren't fit for the company of more refined words. Destiny's purge also swept away the new words, and now Podcast, Selfie, and Twerk languished in the palace dungeons.

The ballroom was filled with hundreds of the court's favorite words. Lord Dictionary sat on a golden throne, Destiny by his side. Revolution was nailed to the wall behind them.

Revolution had tried to overthrow Destiny without the help of the verbs. I was going to succeed where Revolution failed. There is no more versatile a word than me.

Destiny clapped his hands and the assembled words fell silent. He gave a long speech where he mentioned his own name a lot. After Destiny had outdone even Boredom, the words lined up in alphabetical order to be presented to Lord Dictionary.

Since not all of the words were invited, I was at the front of the line. I bowed before the golden throne. "I am Aardvark. I am from the Dutch, meaning earth pig."

I handed a slip of paper to Destiny. He looked surprised, but glanced down at the paper.

"Aardvark is pleased to greet Destinie," the card read.

Destiny bellowed in rage. There is no graver insult than a misspelling. He had no choice but to challenge me to a duel.

Punctuation surrounded us and we were led away to the dueling chamber. The floor was covered with the bones of dead words.

"No one will ever speak Aardvark again," Destiny promised. He raised a hand and the roof slid open, revealing a star-filled sky. The stars rearranged themselves into new constellations, spelling out his name.

His power was overwhelming. I sank to my knees.

"You cannot defeat Destiny," he crowed. "It's written in the stars."

I tried to rise, but his power held me firm.

He peered closer at me. "You're not really Aardvark." He tore away my disguise. The assembled words gasped in surprise.

"Avert your eyes," Destiny called out. "We have a profanity in our midst."

An exclamation mark handed Destiny a sword. He brandished the sword above his head, then cut away the first of my letters, rendering me blind. The pain was overwhelming.

"You're nothing but uck," Destiny taunted me.

My plan had gone as badly as I hoped. Near defeat was the only way I could summon my old friend Disaster. I had served many times as an adjective to his power.

My heart beat furiously. I could feel the rush of impending Disaster. Screams filled the chamber. Disaster struck.

I fumbled in the darkness and grasped my missing letter. I reattached it, restoring my sight.

I looked up. A billion stars spelled out my name. Disaster's original meaning is _evil star_, and he had rearranged the constellations.

Destiny stared at the sky with a look of disbelief. I tore the sword from his hand and stabbed him in the heart.

The punctuation tried to stop me, but I rallied the verbs and adjectives to my cause. Together we threw down the semicolons and full stops.

I marched back to the ballroom. I had promised my allies we would return to the old days when Dictionary was more inclusive, but I had lied. I beheaded Dictionary.

The other words milled around in fear and confusion.

"True freedom is only possible without binding definitions," I proclaimed. I ordered the release of the words in the dungeons and had the palace gates thrown open.

Attila the Pun rode into the ballroom with his horde of double entendres. He laughed when he learned what had happened. "Blind uck will always defeat Destiny."

It took a while for the other words to adjust to their new freedom, but most of them learned to subvert their meanings. Verbs sat around doing nothing. Colorless green ideas slept furiously. Filth bathed in pristine mountain streams. Disgusting ran through meadows with the cutest puppy in the world.

And I was finally welcomed into polite society. The elderly told me how nice it was to hear my name. The religious praised me in their sermons. One of the happiest days of my life was when I was guest of honor at a kindergarten graduation ceremony. The young words shouted out my name with joy, and my heart filled with pride.


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« Playing the tax cut game | Main | The Elizabeth Warren dilemma »
Giving the Republicans something to be nervous about
The Massachusetts governorship, which the Republicans thought they had in their pockets, will probably stay Democratic.
Despite the fervor for change that swept Senator Scott Brown, a fellow Republican, to victory here in January, Mr. Baker, 53, has not sailed to the front of the race. Recent polls have shown Mr. Patrick, a Democrat, leading by five or six points despite low popularity ratings, frustrating those who considered Mr. Baker a shoo-in.
Elsewhere, Republicans are suffering from Palin endorsements, according to NPR. Certainly some nervousness is warranted, thanks to the presence of Tea Party candidates who split -- and embarrass --the Republican party.
The issue comes to a head once again today. Seven states are having primaries.
The Senate contests in Delaware and New Hampshire were being watched closely by Democratic leaders, who believe that divisive purity tests in Republican primaries have improved their chances of retaining their majority... Discord inside the party has steadily accumulated and will test Republicans in November and beyond. Seven candidates supported by the National Republican Senatorial Committee have already fallen this year.
In at least one state, things have turned violent.
The Delaware campaign took an odd turn on Monday, as Republican officials disclosed that the party chairman, Tom Ross, had received a death threat that was under investigation by the Justice Department in Washington. He has been outspoken in his support for Mr. Castle and his criticism of Ms. O'Donnell.
The violent and extremist nature of many within the tea party -- extremism which first showed its face at town meetings during the summer of 2009 -- has appalled Democrats since then and is finally getting through to Republicans.
Democratic pollster Geoff Garin said the power of the tea party has the potential to intimidate Republican politicians into adopting their agenda. If Castle loses on Tuesday, he said, "Virtually every Republican will be looking over his or her shoulder and what could happen to them in the [next election]."
Republicans, unsurprisingly, see it differently. "On balance, the tea party has been a net positive for Republicans," said Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster. "It has clearly helped to generate those large Republican primary turnouts and the enormous enthusiasm among Republicans." ...WaPo
What else is a GOP pollster going to say at this point?
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, some unions are following through on their pledge to give a hard time to Democrats who voted against health care.
Despite the improved Republican chances for a takeover of the House, some unions are spending against Democratic incumbents who voted "no" on healthcare reform.
Unions vowed to go after members who didn't support the plan — and some are keeping that pledge.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), for instance, has spent almost $300,000 on direct mail and other activities in support of union activist Mac D'Alessandro's primary challenge to Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.). ...The Hill
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Improving LaGuardia, JFK, Newark-Liberty airports
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - More than 124 million people passed through New York's three major airports in 2015.
A record number were welcomed by structures that are symbols of the past instead of global gateways of the future.
But now that appears to be changing.
The Port Authority is infusing over six billion dollars into Newark-Liberty International Airport and the worst of all, LaGuardia Airport, in an effort to rehab an image long associated with the word "antiquated."
It was a comment by Vice President Joe Biden that put New York on notice.
"If I took you and blindfolded you and took you to LaGuardia Airport in New York, you must think I must be in some third world country," said Biden.
"I'm not going to defend decisions made 10-20 years ago not to invest in JFK, LGA and Newark, that's one of the reasons why these airports look the way they do. The PA under the leadership of both governors is attacking that," said Patrick Foye, Executive Director, Port Authority of NY and NJ.
That plan includes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's vision for LaGuardia expedited by the Port Authority Board In March. It is a massive, public- private partnership.
"We think that a private developer, with its money at stake, will do a better job and create a 21st century facility and that's why we went this road," said Doyle.
That road involves knocking down the "central" terminal and building a new one that connects to the rest of the airport.
A terminal with high ceilings and modern amenities and because it will be situated closer to the Grand Central Parkway it will expand the footprint of the airport.
Passengers will access their gates by bridges high enough for planes to taxi underneath. That alone will create two miles of taxiways.
"We are creating a 21St century customer experience. We are also taking steps that will increase the efficiency and thru-put of the airport," said Foye.
The renovations will take 74 months and occur while the airport is running.
The project sounds good on paper, but completing this task is high-risk. Some say it's like performing open heart surgery on a marathoner during a race.
At the end of the day, when the big check is written: what's the price?
"The new terminal at LGA is $4 billion paid for by equity from the developer-- making an investment in the terminal," said Foye.
Another chunk of change comes from the $4.50 passenger facility charge each flier pays when we use LaGuardia.
The authority is assuming responsibility for the new roadways, a new garage and a new substation.
"No additional passenger facility charge. No additional costs to fly into the airport. No taxpayer money. The PA won't be responsible for the debt or the equity," said Foye.
Lets say it becomes $7 billion Who pays the extra $3B?
"We don't see that happening, but if there are overruns, its on the private developer," said Foye.
Airport expert Jack Kasarda says this revamp in his estimation cannot compare to some of the airports he uses around the world.
"It is probably the best they can do in a very tight, restricted space," said Kasadra.
But without a world class hotel or a reliable mass transit link to the center of Manhattan, Kasadsa believes, it will not -- it cannot-- be considered a 21st century facility.
"I don't think LGA is going to be a 2020 terminal. It is going to be a world class facility," said Foye.
The Port Authority is a bi-state agency so the allocations of funds must be equal.
Newark-Liberty International Airport is also getting a cash infusion at a cost of $2.3B. A new terminal "A" will be built. It will cover one million square feet and house 33 gates.
But unlike LaGuardia, the authority and the FAA will foot that bill: meaning public money.
There is also talk of replacing Newark's Air Train.
At the end of the day, everyone seems to agree, the Port Authority is doing what it should have done all along: invest in its infrastructure... and its decades overdue.
"New York and New Jersey deserve world class airports and that's what we intend to deliver," said Foye.
JFK is one of the few international airports without an on-airport hotel.
Gov. Cuomo announced Thursday the construction of a new, state-of-the-art hotel at JFK in the historic TWA flight center, which was designed by world renowned architect Eero Saarinen.
The hotel will include 505 guestrooms, 40,000 quare feet of conference, event and meeting space; and a 10,00 square foot observation deck. The hotel will also be LEED certified.
The redevelopment of JFK's TWA Flight Center Hotel will move forward under a public-private partnership between development, JetBlue and the Port Authority Of New York and New Jersey.
The $265 Million construction project, which is expected to break ground next year, will generate 3,700 jobs.
It is expected to open in 2018.
Grand Central annex opens for LIRR trains
Missing Ohio architect killed in Mexico with fiancée


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Friday�s opening for painters Hyrum Joe and Mateo Romero promises some exciting new twists from these acclaimed artists. Hyrum Joe is expanding his repertoire of sharply detailed, figurative portraits in oil and charcoal to include watercolors, which lend the work more transparency. It signals a new approach to his traditional subject matter, which explores Native American life in the mid 1800s through the mid 1900s, a time of cultural upheaval and an evolving redefinition of Native identity. Whatever his medium, he brings forth a strong sense of place and an immediacy that transcends history. Mateo Romero, for his part, is also defying linear time by returning to his earlier exploration of social and political challenges faced by both native and non-native Americans. Using oils instead of his usual mixed media, he�s creating new narratives for familiar story lines. The resulting social critiques are trenchant and sharply observed, but compassionate. As Mateo says, �I�m trying to shake things up a bit and create something that�s new and old at the same time.� He seems to be striking a receptive chord�he was named this year�s poster artist for Indian Market by SWAIA, a much-coveted honor.


What song would represent you?
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Ban the Use of Drones as Weapons
America's parting drone attack in Afghanistan, which killed an aid worker and his family, is emblematic of the entire drone war.
by Peter Weiss and Judy Weiss Posted on October 21, 2021 October 18, 2021
Everyone who followed the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan was horrified by the drone attack, called a "tragic mistake" by the Pentagon, which killed ten members of a single family, including 7 children.
Zemari Ahmadi, who worked for Nutrition and Education International, a U.S.-based aid organization, became the target because he drove a white Toyota, went to his office, and stopped to pick up containers of clean water for his extended family. Those actions, deemed suspicious by the drone surveillance program and its human handlers, were enough to identify Ahmadi falsely as an ISIS-K terrorist and place him on the kill list for that day.
It would be comforting to think that the Ahmadi killing was one of those one-in-a-thousand tragic affairs from which no conclusion could be drawn, but such a belief would itself be a mistake. In fact, as many as one-third of people killed by drone strikes have been found to be civilians.
While it is difficult to get an accurate count of deaths resulting from drone strikes, there are many documented reports of civilians having been mistakenly targeted and killed.
Human Rights Watch found that the 12 men killed and 15 injured by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2013 were members of a wedding party and not militants, as US officials told journalists they were. In another example, a 2019 US drone strike targeting an alleged ISIS hideout in Afghanistan mistakenly targeted 200 pine nut farmers resting after a day's work, killing at least 30 and injuring 40 more.
US drone attacks, initiated in 2001 when George W. Bush was president, have increased dramatically – from approximately 50 total during the Bush years to 12,832 confirmed strikes in Afghanistan alone during Trump's presidency. In the last year of his presidency, Barack Obama acknowledged that drones were causing civilian deaths. "There's no doubt that civilians were killed that shouldn't have been," he said.
The escalation paralleled the transition of the war in Afghanistan from maintaining large numbers of US ground troops to a reliance on air power and drone attacks.
A primary rationale for the change in strategy was reducing the threat of US casualties. But no attempt to reduce the deaths of American soldiers should also cause more parents, children, farmers, or other civilians to die. Suspicion of terrorism, particularly based on faulty intelligence, cannot justify execution, nor can the desire to save American lives by substituting drones for feet on the ground.
The use of certain weapons determined to be grossly inhumane, or that fail to distinguish between military and civilian targets, has already been banned under international law.
The widespread use of poison gas in World War I caused humanitarian lawyers, together with civil society, to fight for their prohibition, resulting in the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which exists to this day. Other weapons have similarly been banned over the course of the last century, including chemical and biological weapons, cluster bombs, and landmines. While not all countries are parties to treaties banning these weapons, most countries honor them, which has saved many lives.
The use of drones as lethal weapons also should be prohibited.
It is important here to note that there are two types of drones used by the military to target and kill – those that operate as fully autonomous lethal weapons, using a computer algorithm to determine who lives or dies, and those operated by humans who are safely ensconced in a military base thousands of miles away from the people targeted to be killed. The killing of the Ahmadi family demonstrates that all weaponized drones, whether autonomous or human-directed, must be banned. There are far too many examples of innocent civilians who were killed erroneously.
Prohibiting the use of drones as weapons is required by international law. It also is the right thing to do.
Peter Weiss is a retired international lawyer, former board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, and president emeritus of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. Judy Weiss is president of the Samuel Rubin Foundation. Phyllis Bennis, a Program Director at the Institute for Policy Studies, provided research assistance. Reprinted with permission from Foreign Policy In Focus.
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Eléktrična susceptibílnost (oznaka χe) je snovna brezrazsežna konstanta, sorazmernostni faktor med električno polarizacijo v snovi in gostoto električnega polja v praznem prostoru pri opisu dielektrika v električnem polju. Enaka je relativni dielektričnosti ε, zmanjšani za 1.

Tu je  dipolska polarizabilnost,  elektronska polarizabilnost in  ionska polarizabilnost.

Električno susceptibilnost se lahko razume tudi kot polarizabilnost na enoto prostornine dielektrika:

Pri tem je n število molekulskih električnih dipolov na enoto prostornine, α pa molekulska polarizabilnost.

Elektrika in magnetizem
Brezrazsežne količine


The Bolivian Bolíviano is the currency of Bolivia. Our currency rankings show that the most popular Bolivia Bolíviano exchange rate is the USD to BOB rate. The currency code for Bolivianos is BOB, and the currency symbol is $b. Below, you'll find Bolivian Bolíviano rates and a currency converter. You can also subscribe to our currency newsletters with daily rates and analysis, read the XE Currency Blog, or take BOB rates on the go with our XE Currency Apps and website.
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Francisco Gomes
Cisco Gomes founded his award-winning practice, Gomes+Staub Architects, with partner Dabney Staub in 1999. The work of Gomes+Staub has been published nationally and internationally, notably in 1000x Architecture of the Americas (Verlaghaus Braun). The firm's work has been presented in a number of lecture and exhibition venues, including the Duke University Museum of Art and the Audi International exhibition in Hanover, Germany. In 2007, Cisco moved his practice from North Carolina to join the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture faculty where he teaches design and construction.
Cisco has actively practiced as a registered architect since 1996 and has held licenses in the states of Texas, North Carolina, Connecticut, and Virginia. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, a LEED accredited professional, a CSI Certified Construction Specifier, and a licensed commercial building contractor in the State of North Carolina. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and has served as a juror for numerous design award programs at the regional, state, and local levels.
Since moving to Austin, Cisco has been recognized for his teaching with the UT Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, the School of Architecture Outstanding Studio Teacher Award, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, and membership in the UT Society for Teaching Excellence. In 2014, he was named one of the "30 Most Admired Educators" in the nation by DesignIntelligence. Cisco is also an inventor with several recent US patents related to his research interests of construction innovation and contemporary cultures of construction.
B.S. Arch., University of Virginia
M. Arch., Harvard Graduate School of Design
with particular interest in the building trades and embodied energy issues
fgomes@utexas.edu
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Title: Self-assembly and on-surface chemistry of organic semiconductors on TiO2
Other Titles: Self-assembly and on-surface chemistry of organic semiconductors on TiO2
Authors: Lovat, Giacomo
Understanding and controlling the ordering and functionality of organic semiconductors coupled to a dielectric surface, besides constituting a fascinating topic in basic science, has the potential to foster the development of many novel technologies, ranging from efficient and inexpensive photovoltaic cells to flexible electronic components. In the present doctoral work, the well-characterized (110) surface of Rutile TiO2 single crystals, r-TiO2(110), has been selected as an archetypal dielectric substrate for the templated growth of organic molecules and the assessment of their physico-chemical properties at the interface. In particular, this thesis provides: i. a detailed picture of the bonding and structural properties of two polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and ii. a comprehensive study of the electronic structure and on-surface chemistry of three heteroaromatic molecules; both i. and ii. with regard to the interface with r-TiO2(110) in an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) environment.
The determination of the electronic and structural properties at the organodielectric interfaces has been achieved via a multitechnique experimental approach consisting of the combination between scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and electron spectroscopies with synchrotron radiation. While the former can reveal the geometrical details of single adsorbed species, and allow for a close, direct-space inspection of their molecular packing and ordering, the latter provides information on the electronic states and chemical composition of the overlayer. STM has been applied to systems in i. so as to complement the existing knowledge of their electronic structure with structural details on a scale length ranging from several hundred molecules down to a single molecule. Subsequently, a full microscopic and spectroscopic characterization of the interfaces in ii., on which scarce studies are currently available, has been conducted, with particular emphasis on the chemical reactions triggered by thermal annealing. To get a deeper insight into the experimental findings and facilitate their interpretation, selected systems have been modeled by two groups of theoreticians with numerical simulations based on density functional theory (DFT) formalism.
The interfaces studied in part i. comprise tetracarboxylic-acid-diimide (PTCDI), a heteroaromatic acceptor, and perylene, an all-carbon aromatic donor, in contact with the r-TiO2(110)-1x1 surface. The substrate twofold symmetry and the large surface corrugation provided by the protruding oxygen rows favor the alignment of the PTCDI long axis along the [001] direction, parallel to the surface rows. STM images reveal that the growth of PTCDI proceeds via island nucleation; there is no evidence for any preferential roles in adsorption played by defect sites, be them oxygen vacancies or hydroxyl groups. Each island consists of aligned monomers adsorbed atop the oxygen rows, and coupled head-to-tail via one hydrogen bond per two facing imide terminations. The competition between molecule-substrate interaction, which displays a mixed van der Waals/covalent character, and intermolecular hydrogen bonds originates a fivefold periodicity in the island with respect to the underlying surface unit cell along the [001] direction, as pointed out by previous He atom scattering studies. In the [1-10] direction, orthogonal to the surface rows, adjacent monomers organize in stripes with one monomer per oxygen row. Such a dense packing is attributed to a strong side-by-side attraction between the electron-deficient rim of one monomer and the $\pi$ electron system of the one at its side, made possible by a moderate tilt angle of PTCDI about its long axis (35°). A similar adsorption geometry emerges for perylene, albeit with some remarkable differences of the self-assembly mechanism. At low coverage, monomers sparsely populate the surface titanium troughs, showing a rather weak intermolecular attraction. As the coverage increases up to a full monolayer, perylene molecules gradually fill the available space in the titanium troughs until a wetting layer is formed and no sticking of additional material is observed due to very weak pi-type interactions between stacked dimers. The side-by-side coupling between tilted monomers in the monolayer favors the coalescence of ordered domains extended across the substrate rows, although frequent line defects disrupt the long range order.
Part ii. focuses on the interface between r-TiO2(110) and two classes of heterocyclic compounds: phthalocyanines and porphyrins. The interfacial electronic structure, morphology, conformation and chemical reactivity of in situ grown thin films of metal-free phthalocyanine (2H-Pc), tetraphenyl-porphyrin (2H-TPP) and tert-butyl tetraphenyl-porphyrin (2H-tbTPP) have been extensively investigated by means of STM and electron spectroscopies. The surface sensitivity and chemical selectivity of soft X-ray photoemission (XPS, photon energies 100-1000 eV) and near-edge X-ray absorption (NEXAFS) allowed to monitor the chemical state of the species upon adsorption as well as the orientation of their molecular plane relative to the crystal surface. The differences in the electronic structure and chemical reactivity among the adsorbed heterocycles have been analyzed and correlated to the type of peripheral environment surrounding the macrocycle, i.e. their chemically active part. The experimental results point to the existence of a reaction unaffected by the type of side substituents: the conversion of the macrocyclic aza-type nitrogen atoms to pyrrolic-type nitrogens. Conversely, self-metalation, i.e. the incorporation into the macrocycle of a Ti ion extracted from the substrate, is demonstrated with STM and X-ray spectroscopy for the three compounds, but with significant temperature variations among them. While self-metalation in 2H-Pc starts at room temperature and is quickly completed at 90°C, in 2H-TPP a similar metalation rate of molecules is achieved at 150°C, and in 2H-tbTPP, where two bulky tert-butyl groups departing from each peripheral phenyl ring act as inert spacers increasing the macrocycle distance from the surface, the energy barrier for the activation of the reaction is increased further and self-metalation is quickly achieved only at 200°C. Therefore, one concludes that a careful selection of side substituents proves to be a successful approach towards the tuning of chemical reactivity of these macrocyclic compounds on a metal oxide surface.
Ciclo di dottorato: XXVII Ciclo
metadata.dc.subject.classification: SCUOLA DI DOTTORATO DI RICERCA IN NANOTECNOLOGIE
Keywords: Molecola, ftalocianina, porfirina, metallazione, titanio, diossido, spettroscopia, stm
perylene, ptcdi, aromatico, organico
NBN: urn:nbn:it:units-13690
Appears in Collections: Scienze fisiche
thesis_lovat.pdf TESI DOTTORALE 3 MB Adobe PDF
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Jorvik Cottage is a two bedroom holiday cottage located close to the City of York in Yorkshire. It is one of eight properties set in 3 acres of landscaped gardens and woodland. This particular cottage is adjacent to the owners' plant nursery and cafe.
The master bedroom has a pretty Spanish style 4-poster double bed, as well as a chair bed for a child. The second bedroom is a twin room. The lounge is furnished with comfortable sofas and armchairs and for entertainment there is a TV and a video player.
The kitchen is equipped with an oven and microwave.
Shared facilities within the grounds include a hot tub which is available from April through to September. There is also a barbeque and a utility area with a washing machine.
The owner allows pets (one dog maximum).


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Updata awarded contract to manage IT networks by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Updata has been awarded a five-year contract by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to supply and manage IT networks for healthcare organisations in the region.
18th August 2016 - Updata has been awarded a five-year contract by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) to supply and manage IT networks for healthcare organisations in the region.
As part of the contract, which was awarded following a competitive tender, Updata will manage a wide area network (WAN) and provide local area network (LAN) infrastructure and services for a range of organisations covering 140 sites, including hospitals and GP surgeries. Updata will also install a virtual private network (VPN) solution, allowing users to work remotely.
The contract is managed by Countywide IT Services on behalf of GHNHSFT, one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, employing more than 7,000 staff and providing high quality acute elective and specialist care for a population of more than 612,000 people.
Updata will also work with eight partner organisations of the Trust as part of the contract, including Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust (GCS), Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit (CSCSU) and the Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group.
Zack Pandor, director at Countywide IT Services, said: "We are pleased to be working with Updata to enhance the network facilities across the Trust and our partner organisations. The new contract will provide greater flexibility, service transparency and value-for-money, while improving the service for staff."
Béatrice Butsana-Sita, managing director at Updata, said: "As part of the Capita group, we work with healthcare organisations across the country and understand the challenges they are facing, including the need to reduce costs while maintaining service levels. Our work to install and manage networks for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust Foundation and their partner organisations will help them to meet those challenges, while enabling smarter ways of working for their staff."


Hello and welcome. Today I have a card to share with you that is made with the gorgeous Lasting Lily stamp set.
Before I show you the card, I wanted to talk about this stamp set. Besides it being lovely, you can get it free with a qualifying order. More on that below. But the one thing I wanted to talk about was how to make this stamp look different. With sets like this where there is only really a small scope for changing the stamped image a bit, we need to start thinking about what else we can do to make our projects look different. One way to do this is to use different backgrounds, or framing the flowers, or even trying unusual colour combinations.
If you are a regular follower of my blog, you would of seen a few different ways I have showcased this stamp. I have even coloured it using Stampin' Blends. Today I have used a frame, have cut down the amount of stem showing and have added background paper, all in an effort to make it look different to just a stamped flower. I even cut out the flowers and raised them on dimensionals.
So I challenge you to look at stamp sets like this, and not think that you are limited with what you can do with them, but think of what variety you can create with them.
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I mentioned earlier that you can get this stamp set for free.
Until 31st March 2019, you can get free items from an exclusive range when you spend $90 in one order. So just by purchasing your crafting supplies you can get free stuff. How cool is that! There is no limit to the amount of free stuff you can get either. So to see all the free stuff you can get, go here.
But if you want the best deal around, and you like the idea of getting a discount on every order, then you need to join my team. During Sale-A-Bration, you get an extra $80 of product free when you join. Plus there is also an option to spend a little more and get a fantastic tote as well.
If you want to chat about joining my team, then feel free to contact me. All my contacts details are in the header of the page. If you think this is for you, then click on the button below.


In Pinball Soccer '98 you get a soccer themed pinball game, a pretty well produced and fun kind of deal. So, how do you represent soccer in a paddle and ball game? Well, you create a stadium inside the arcade machine, that is how! While this could have been yet another pinball game, with, say, just a few graphical elements borrowing from soccer, I'm happy to say that it took it upon itself to come up with a much more original approach. The field is much more than just your average green themed thing: a lot more ideas from soccer are simulated/represented, which is just great. So, all things considered, Pinball Soccer '98 is a pretty fair and cool game, one that will see you get a lot of fun with it. It's the kind of game that has you thinking strategically while also offering you a very well produced assortment of speed based puzzles, the kind that makes for a really well produced experience. So, overall, Pinball Soccer '98 is a fair, well done, well equilibrated game, the kind that really will offer you a lot. Alternatively, see Pro Pinball Big Race, a pinball game that tasks itself with recreating the thrills of racing in pinball form!


Violence against women is at epidemic levels in Australia. One in two women has experienced sexual harassment in their lifetime. One women a week is killed at the hands of a current or former partner. Together we can end men's violence against women in Australia.
23rd November is the White Ribbon Australia Day, and we have arranged a Multicultural Food Festival to raise some much needed fund for the Domestic Violence Victims. This is also a great opportunity for us to celebrate diversity and talk about much needed awareness relating violence against Women and Children within our community.
Join us for a Multicultural Food Festival to enjoy some mouth-watering foods and assist to raise much needed fund for White Ribbon Australia.
Everyone is Welcome to join us on the day, please find the enclosed poster for more details. You can pay for your Lunch on arrival but you must need to RSVP for estimation purpose. You are also welcome to donate more in addition to your $5 per person lunch price. Majority amount will be donated to White Ribbon Australia.


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On October 11, 2009, workers of Luz y Fuerza del Centro were thrown into the street by a presidential decree issued by former President Felipe Calderon. 4,000 electricians lost their jobs overnight without receiving any notification about it.
This way, the government continued its proposed privatization of electricity. Although most workers accepted the severance offered by the government, 16599 rejected it and decided to fight to get their jobs back and keep their union alive.
Electricians formed a resistance movement that has gone through collective hunger strikes, demonstrations,the losing of members as political prisoners, caravans, lawsuits and complaints like the one presented to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
In a scenario of hasty approval of the Energy Reform Act which will culminate in the privatization of the sector, electricians continue starring a battle for the right of and justice for the worker.
The struggle of the SME electricians has been one of the longer and relevant movements in the history of the Mexican working class resistance, supported by a guild that for a century declared principles of social equality.


As so often seems to be the case, the authorities have been slow to provide details of what Post and Go stamps will be available at the forthcoming widely-publicised London 2015 exhibition.
We cannot be sure that the information here is accurate and will remain unchanged, based on the situation in previous exhibitions and the Scottish Congress at Perth.
As far as we know machines from Jersey Post, Guernsey Post, Gibraltar PO, will join multiple Royal Mail machines at the Business Design Centre from 13-16 May 2015.
Stamps may also be pre-ordered from the back-office B001 machine - I have no idea whether these will also be available from the Royal Mail stand. At some Stampex events they have been, at others they have not. A009 will be alongside the stand with a bar-code scanner, so it may be expected that customers will buy their Post and Go stamps when they buy other packs, cards, albums etc which have bar-codes, via the machine.
B001 will produce Machin stamps with the Europhilex overprint, and Union Flag and Heraldic Beasts stamps without.
The usual exhibition Smilers sheets will also be available in 10s or 20s.
... will be selling their Guernsey Flag stamp with a Europhilex overprint from GG01. I have asked for clarification regarding sale of the Union Flag stamp. Collectors will recall that we were originally told that the Guernsey machine at Stampex would have a Stampex overprint, but stamps were sold without it from the Machine. Stamps with the overprint produced from the back-office machine were sold at Guernsey's stand.
We are awaiting confirmation from Jersey Post regarding their attendance and what they will be selling from JE01. It is likely to be a Jersey Flag stamp with a Europhilex inscription and the Protected Species stamps which were launched at Spring Stampex.
Update: Jersey post confirmed the Jersey Flag with Europhilex inscription and Union Flag, but have now corrected this to Protected Species. The Europhilex stamp will apparently NOT be available from their stand, only from the machine.
We understand that Gibraltar will launch it's Post and Go machine at Europhilex with machine GI01 dispensing stamps showing the Gibraltar Flag from reel A, and the Union Flag from reel B. We have been told that the Gibraltar Flag stamp will have a Europhilex overprint, but this seems unlikely in view of what happened with Guernsey at Spring Stampex. I'm awaiting confirmation from RGPO.
Whilst we know that UK stamps are sold in the Channel Islands (for SAEs to the UK), I have no knowledge of whether RGPO also sells UK stamps. The presence of British Forces in the colony would not make this a necessity as there is also a British Forces PO presence.
According to the IAR website, GI01 will reside at Gibraltar House in London's Strand between Europhilex and Autumn Stampex. So there will apparently not be a machine in the colony until later this year or even next. So they are selling outside the colony a stamp which - presumably - will be valid for postage in the colony, but which is not available there.
The sad thing is, to mangle a phrase, "You COULD make it up - and you would be right!"
Thanks to readers who have pointed out additional information buried in the IAR website. I'll leave the links in the comments, but will only be adding extra information to the blog post when I have it from the postal authorities concerned, given the conflicting information provided in the past.
The Gibraltar Government office which used to be located opposite Bush House sold Gibraltar stamps & RM stamp books, maybe a machine will be based in their office by Kings College.
Has Jersey's situation changed since their 3 tweets on 1st May?
I think my update above says the same thing as @Jerseystamps did on twitter.
"our JE01 kiosk will be at Europhilex 13-16 May vending Jersey flag stamp labels with a special event overprint."
IAR insist that the other reel will be dispensing Protected Species and "I don't know why they are giving out this information" (ie that the Union Flag will be on reel B, as I was told by email from Jersey Stamps).
It's an internal communications problem. And I didn't get notification of those twitter replies, so hadn't seen all of them. They've just reconfirmed Protected Species, so I shall edit the blogpost.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Now perhaps you can do some magic on Gibraltar who still haven't responded to an email sent last Thursday!


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