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Whey hybrid adds iron to food but not weird flavors
April 26th, 2017 Posted by Peter Rüegg-ETH Zurich
Researchers have come up with a new way to fortify food and drinks with iron: a hybrid material made of edible whey protein nanofibrils and iron nanoparticles.
Iron deficiency affects around 1.2 billion people worldwide, causing fatigue, anemia, headaches, and diminished work performance. Boosting iron levels through diet or supplements is difficult since it needs to be in a form that the body can absorb successfully. Further, iron can change the color, taste, and smell of food.
As reported in Nature Nanotechnology, the protein nanofibrils are formed by denaturing native whey protein by heating them to 90°C, and then placing them in strong acid until they form the final protein filaments. Several protein filaments then organize themselves into thicker protein nanofibrils.
The nanofibrils are then combined with iron nanoparticles which can be readily absorbed by the body. To produce these nanoparticles, researchers mixed ferric chloride directly with the protein nanofibrils in the same acid solution, creating iron nanoparticles of 20 nanometers which immediately bind to the protein nanofibrils surface and are effectively stabilized.
A pill a day might not cure iron deficiency
The researchers, from ETH Zurich, say this part is key, since iron nanoparticles are normally not stable: they tend to clump together and form aggregates that can't easily mix into foods or drinks.
To test the efficacy of the new iron compound, scientists gave it to rats with iron deficiency after they were fed a low-iron diet. The new preparation cured the animals' iron deficiency and the associated anemia just as effectively as iron sulphate—the most common iron supplement for human use—that has a downside of causing undesirable sensory changes in foods.
The new supplement is also easy to digest: The enzymes in the rats' stomachs entirely digested the whey protein nanofibrils. Further, acid conditions like those in the stomach dissolved the iron nanoparticles into iron ions, which can be quickly absorbed into the blood and used to produce new red blood cells.
The iron-coated whey protein nanofibrils can come in either powder or liquid form, and the new compound can go into different types of food without affecting their taste, smell, or color.
To identify potential risks and side effects, researchers ran microscopic tests on the rats' brain, heart, kidneys, and other organs, after they had eaten the nanofibrils for two weeks. They were particularly interested in the whey protein nanofibrils, which have never been used in foods or food supplements before.
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The structures are similar to amyloid fibrils, which accumulate in the brain and have been linked to Alzheimer's disease, but are made out of hydrolyzed edible food proteins. Researchers therefore wanted to make sure that eventually undigested protein fibers in the supplement won't accumulate in the body and potentially produce tissue anomalies.
"On examining the organs and tissues of the rats, we did not find any evidence of nanoparticles or nanofibrils accumulating or possibly causing organ changes," says Raffaele Mezzenga, professor of health sciences and technology at ETH Zurich. "Our new iron supplement has enormous potential for successfully combating iron deficiency in an economic and efficient way."
The ingredients in the food supplement are cheap and plentiful. Whey proteins are a byproduct of the dairy industry. Iron salts are also cheap and readily available. As both the process and the ingredients are easy to work with, the supplement could also be a good alternative for people living in poor countries who are more prone to iron deficiency.
Mezzenga and coauthor Michael B. Zimmermann have filed a patent for the product. The Swiss National Science Foundation funded the work.
Source: ETH Zurich
Original Study DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2017.58
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Press Secretary Sarah Sanders leaving White House
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABC News) – White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving her post, President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday.
"After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas," Trump tweeted. "She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas – she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!"
After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas….— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019
At an event aimed at highlighting hiring efforts for former inmates, Trump praised Sanders saying: "She's done an incredible job. We've been through a lot together. She's tough, but she's good." He added, "If we can get her to run for the governor of Arkansas, I think she'll do very well."
Sanders described her role as "the honor of a lifetime."
"This has been the honor of a lifetime, the opportunity of a lifetime… particularly to work for this president," she said adding it is "something I will treasure forever .. loved every minute…even the hard minutes."
Sanders was named White House press secretary in July 2017, just hours after Sean Spicer resigned from the position. She is the daughter of former Arkansas governor and two-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and grew up with a fascination for politics.
"I always say that when most kids are seven or eight years old out jumping rope, she was sitting at the kitchen table listening to [political commentators] analyze poll results," her father told Fox News in May of 2017.
Sanders confirmed earlier this year that she has been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"The President urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel. I was happy to voluntarily sit down with them," Sanders said in a statement to ABC after the news was first reported by CNN.
One source told ABC News the interview happened around the same time that it's believed other White House officials were being brought in for interviews.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) - Deputy Investigator, Joe BukoviCh of the Woodbury County Sheriff's Department says, "A lot of it does go undetected. Often times it's hard to identify."
Human smuggling and trafficking often happens behind closed doors. However, while we may not see it, authorities say it happens often.
Heat is building in across Siouxland and that is requiring folks to find a way to cool off. Area splash pads are offering relief for many
Dozens of kids found their way to Leeds splash pad in Sioux City as temps climbed to near 90 degrees. Lewis Park pool also providing a good place to find refuge on Monday.
A heat advisory is posted until 9 pm Monday night. KCAU 9 Chief Meteorologist Scott Larson says we can expect additional advisories to be issued during the week as daytime temperatures will only be going up. Health workers are reminding people to make sure to drink plenty of water and take breaks if you have to be out in the summer heat.

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HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Police say a homeless man set himself on fire on a city street near where hundreds of revelers were hopping bar to bar for an annual St. Patrick's pub crawl.
Hoboken police Chief Kenneth Ferrante tells NJ.com that police received a call about 11 p.m. Saturday that a man was trying to set himself on fire. Responding officers found the man with his jacket on fire and shouted for him to get to the ground so they could extinguish it, but he refused.
They say once the fire spread, the man started screaming and officers were able to push him to the ground to put out the blaze. Ferrante says the man was not seriously injured.
An annual St. Patrick's Day bar crawl had started at 11 a.m., drawing hundreds of partiers to over 20 bars in the neighborhood.


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EU leaders have paid tribute to Paweł Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk, who died after being stabbed by a knife-wielding assailant at the weekend.
Adamowicz was a high-profile liberal critic of the ruling right-wing Law and Justice, and supported issues such as gay rights and accepting asylum seekers.
Heartfelt tributes were led by the Socialist group leader Udo Bullmann who, speaking on Tuesday, voiced "great sadness" at his death.
The German MEP added, "This murder is a disgrace and an attack on all true Europeans. This is not a Polish but European issue.
"Pawel was a real defender of human rights and we will never forget people like him, added Bullmann at a news conference.
The 27-year-old suspect, who was arrested, is a Gdansk resident with convictions for bank robbery and has spent time in prison.
In 1990, Adamowicz became a city councillor for Gdansk, rising to mayor of the city in 1998. He has held the office ever since. His most recent victory was in November, granting him a sixth term which was due to run until 2023.
The assassination of Adamowicz, a six-term mayor who often mingled freely with the citizens of his city, has sent Poland into shock. In Gdansk, the city flag was lowered to half-mast and a mass was held on Monday.
Thousands gathered for a minute's silence at the statue of Neptune in the city's Long Market and they were addressed by the European council president, Donald Tusk, a Gdansk native, friend and long-time ally of Adamowicz.
More reaction came from former UK Labour MP Roger Casale, now of New Europeans, who told this website, "We are totally sick and utterly saddened by the appalling news of the murder. He was on the side of human rights, of democracy, of the citizen and of the refugee. He fought for equality and the rights of the LGBTQ community. We have lost a great European and Poland has lost one of its finest sons."
Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudziński said the attack was "an act of inexplicable barbarism" while the country's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Twitter: "The attack on the life and health of Paweł Adamowicz is worthy of the highest condemnation."
The World Jewish Congress said Adamowicz was a leading voice against right-wing extremism.
On Tuesday, Parliament's President Antonio Tajani led a minute of silence to remember Adamowicz at the opening of the session in Strasbourg.


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Contractors hired to remove tree debris placed at residential curbs and within city easements will make a final sweep next week.
The third and final pass will begin Feb. 4 and continue through Feb. 9.
City officials ask that all storm-related tree debris be in place for pickup by Feb. 3.
Officials said Friday that previous sweeps collected more than 39,000 cubic yards of debris.


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Information Technology in Healthcare... our healthcare IT partners are experiencing new challenges daily in the healthcare industry.
I've enjoyed my time focusing on healthcare IT for the past several years. I'm thrilled I continue to have this opportunity at ReluTech.
I grew up with some...interesting...dinner table conversation. Night after night, I would listen to my Dad (who's always worked in the healthcare industry - now at Medquest) discuss the challenges he faced–and what was happening day-to-day–at the hospital level.
We still frequently have these conversations but I appreciate them even more since now, my career too, revolves around identifying, analyzing, and addressing challenges in the healthcare industry.
But it's not all bad news. See, I have come to realize these challenges come with opportunity too.
The exact healthcare IT solutions we propose and promote here at ReluTech, are what everyone should be considering to help us as a country, figure out how to provide world class care without the world class price tag.
"It all trickles down to the patient; everything–every single business decision I make–affects them."
The goal from all perspectives is to try and find a true partner in each area or function who will work in everyone's collective best interests to research, find, recommend, and deliver what an organization needs at the lowest acquisition cost, still providing the best outcomes.
Once you have that partner, you have a team who is an expert in their field, understands the end user's role, and will work hard only for the opportunity to deliver. If you have this you should hang on to that resource and use it correctly.
It seems that every company involved in healthcare delivery has to consider opening up and allowing those who can be trusted advisors, to be part of the team. The difficult part is the interview, trial, and consistent evaluation of that partner until true trust can be confirmed—a process which takes a lot of time. During this time, it is necessary for both parties to really commit to the effort and the opportunity, so each party can afford the time necessary to make this work well. Mutual respect and consideration for each other's time and resources need to be part of the deal.
I had a conversation with one of my health care service provider customers last week. They shared with me some new reductions coming to them from Medicare. These reductions required this provider to actually alter their business delivery model. Without going into detail, this entity had to quickly figure out how to offer the same high-quality service, but reduce the cost of providing this service. To accomplish this, my contact shared that they had to scramble and find some companies to deliver the product/service and get competitive quotes.
As a result of the challenges they are facing, healthcare IT Managers are having to go outside their usual vendor list—which they have always used as the push off to cold callers in the past—and proactively find and reach out to those "cold callers" themselves.
More than ever, healthcare IT Managers and IT solutions providers like our team here at ReluTech, need to work together to make a better healthcare system. Part of this is appropriate, affordable, and efficient healthcare IT solutions.
Once you have found that core group of trusted individuals who are not on the payroll, but have the skill set to help, hold onto them and support them so they too can afford the time to be that partner. If you don't have that, my suggestion is to truly listen to that next elevator pitch someone tries to give you on a cold call. It might just make you look like a hero at some point—now or in the future!
Now, I'm off... Time for me to go make my next hospital cold call.


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Katie Price urges Sarah Harding to get in touch as she shares regret about missing message from Nikki Grahame
Katie Price told Sarah Harding to contact her after opening up about the devastating loss of Nikki Grahame.
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Katie Price has urged cancer-stricken Sarah Harding to get in touch with her after opening up about her regret for missing a message from Nikki Grahame.
The former glamour model, who said her mum 'hasn't got long to live', appeared on Wednesday's edition of Steph's Packed Lunch and shared her grief over Nikki's untimely passing due to anorexia.
The 42 year old expressed: "I'm so gutted about Nikki. I've known her for years. She was so funny.
"The day I found out she died, I looked on my Instagram. I don't know why, but I did. And there was an unopened voice message to me.
Katie Price has opened up about the devastating loss of Nikki Grahame (Image: Instagram/Katie Price)
The mum-of-five has urged Sarah Harding to get in contact with her (Image: 2018 Getty Images)
"I'm not going to say what was in the message because I still respect what she said. She was saying, 'I know you're here a lot, come and see me. I really want to see you'. And I never heard it," she heartbreakingly revealed.
"If I did, of course I would have gone to see her, but I didn't know that every week I was passing the same place as her. I'm really gutted about it."
Katie then went on to share the importance of reaching out to people during lockdown and urged Sarah Harding, who is battling breast cancer, to get in contact with her.
She continued: "You really to have to look out for loved ones and people around you. I've lost so many people, not just to COVID, this year.
Katie, who was spotted out with Carl Woods, said she found an unopened voice message from Nikki (Image: SPLASH NEWS)
The reality star expressed the importance of checking on loved-ones (Image: SPLASH NEWS)
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"One of my friends got murdered, she was from Brighton and owned a restaurant. We've lost two people due to COVID, now I've lost Nikki.
"Then I've heard about Sarah Harding, she was my bridesmaid. If Sarah is watching, get in contact, I would love to see you too.
"It's a cruel world sometimes. Cruel things happen to such good people," Katie concluded.
The reality star, who gave her daughter Princess a glam makeover, paid tribute to Nikki who passed away on 9 April after a three decade long battle with anorexia.
Katie appeared on Steph's Packed Lunch on Wednesday (Image: SPLASH NEWS)
Katie held hands with beau Carl as they headed out together (Image: SPLASH NEWS)
After making the devastating discovery, Katie took to Instagram to share a picture of the pair and penned a message.
She wrote: "I'm just so shocked and so gutted to hear this news and really upset to hear her voice message I never saw and just opened.
"Nikki you were fabulous and made me laugh so much RIP beautiful."
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Q: What is the limit of the deep field exploration? The deep field exploration is quite fascinating, first the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) showing a small piece of the Univers one billion year after the Big-Bang, next the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF), and now the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) showing galaxies 450 million years after the Big-Bang.
Question: what is the limit of deepness we can expect to observe (in term of million years after the Big-Bang)?
Note that by "limit" I do not mean the theoretical limit but the practical limit.
By "practical limit" I mean using a visible-light telescope (not necessarily Hubble).
We also allow infrared telescope for correcting the redshift phenomenon.
In particular, I'm not asking about the CMB.

A: The practical limit in terms of sky coverage is probably given by funding. The HDF, according to wikipedia, covers a 24-millionth of the entire sky. We would have to launch thousands of Hubble-like instruments to cover the entire sky at that resolution and sensitivity. Much of that area is covered by the Milky Way and and gas clouds, anyway, so not all deep exposures will reveal as much information as the HDF. Will we do this? Probably not, however, there is a lot to be learned from very precise whole sky maps because galactic shapes are being distorted by the irregular gravitational fields in the universe. This leads is to weak gravitational lensing. Proposals like the Euclid mission will use specially designed space telescopes with visible and near infrared capabilities that are similar (not quite as high resolution) as that of Hubble to map areas of sky that are hundreds of times larger than those that Hubble's very small angle cameras can take.
If we want to go earlier in time, then we have to use near- and mid-IR and eventually deep-IR telescopes. The first of these will be the new  James Webb Space Telescope, which is the mission that will augment Hubble with the necessary IR capability. If you have been following the JWT in the news, you may have heard that in terms of funding it is very close to breaking the bank... it's a very ambitious and expensive instrument that eats into the budget of a lot of other potentially equally interesting science missions. For the foreseeable future it's the largest space telescope investment that we will be making, which brings us back to the funding limits...

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Ohé en Laak is a village in the province of Limburg, Netherlands, which has been subsumed into the municipality of Maasgouw.  The village used to be home to several castles, one of which is Hasseltholt which is popularly called "Het Geudje". The other was the castle of Walburg. This castle was ruined and is fully removed now. The soccer team is called Walburgia.
Furthermore, there is a renovated windmill called "De Hompesche molen". In the past this windmill was used for milling wheat and corn flower.
The village of Ohé en Laak has got a nice yacht harbour at the river Maas and currently there are three campsites.
The majority of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, there is a church called "Onze Lieve Vrouw Geboorte" and a chapel called "Sint Anna-kapel".

In recent times the bridge, connecting the township of Echt and Ohé en Laak has been renovated to allow for more modern, taller ships to pass.
Because of the presence of gravel in the bottom many hectares were dredged during the last decades. The environment will be renovated between 2007 and 2010.

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Meet Shon Balaish, the young icon and Israeli model, inspiring youngsters all around the world.
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His grit and passion have drawn a success path for this young model, producer, and entrepreneur who today enjoys a massive following across social media platforms.
In a world where almost each and every person wants to make it huge in their respective fields and wants to reach the top of the game running behind ways which can get them overnight success, it is incredible to know that there still exists stories that are real tales of resilience, hard work, commitment, and passion. The world of fashion has been one of those dynamic fields which have so far welcomed many talented people with promising features, physiques, and talents. One youngster who has successfully raced ahead many in the field and through his rigorous hard work carved a success story for himself is Shon Balaish, an Israeli model, who went on to become a well-known international model, producer for luxury events and celebrity parties, and also an entrepreneur with his fashion brand called 'SB Fashion'.
Unflinching vision to make it to the top:
Since his early days, if anything that did attract Shon, then it was the fashion and glamour world. From that point in life, Shon always had an unflinching vision set in his mind that took him nearer to his goals and helped him make every effort possible to enter the modeling world and grow into the same, turning into a multi-skilled and famous personality as well. His prowess as a producer for celebrity events and parties dates back to the exposure he received while in Asia for around two years, where Shon worked and modeled for the famous international fashion channel Fashion TV and produced luxury parties and events for clients worldwide.
A man with multiple talents:
The kind of recognition and name Shon as an international model has achieved so far acts as a case study for many young aspirants in the modeling and fashion world. Shon also bowled over people with his charm and looks like a TV presenter on food, lifestyle, and travel shows. The early success that Shon achieved in his career helped in turning him into a producer for parties and events and also a jurist in his academic education. Apart from this, Shon is also a fashion blogger and a musical artist.
Becoming an idol and icon for youngsters all across the globe:
The number of feats, this international model has achieved so far; people have fallen for him more looking at the perfection he shows at everything he does and aces the game of fashion and modeling. Shon is also an entrepreneur who owns 'SB Fashion', catered for all those who are true cravers for style and vogue, and wants to show their best style statement through trendy and comfortable fashion. Shon has worked for Armani and appeared on the cover of Marie Claire, Men's Fashion, and MUSE. He is also a graduate with Honors earning a law degree. All this and much more have catapulted Shon to become the successful internet personality he is today enjoying a quarter of a million followers on Instagram. He is the iconic figure for young boys, girls, and ambitious models interested in the Israeli beauty and fashion industry.
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It is strange to some that things of ancient legend may have a basis in actual fact, but I think this is often the case. A huge cave used by the ancient Greeks may be the source of many ancient stories about the underworld, Hades and even the river Styx.
An ancient Greek cave nearly the size of four football pitches and with its own underground lake may be responsible for sparking the age-old myth about the Greek underworld god Hades, archaeologists claim.
The cavern – named Alepotrypa which means 'foxhole' – laid undiscovered for centuries in Diros Bay, Mani, southern Greece, until a man walking his dog found a tiny entrance to the cave in the 1950s.
Experts have spent the last few decades excavating the cave and believe hundreds of people lived inside Alepotrypa, making it one the oldest prehistoric villages in Europe, before the cave entrance collapsed burying everyone alive 5,000 years ago.
Archaeologists have now uncovered tools, pottery, obsidian, silver and copper artifacts that date back to the Neolithic Age, which began in Greece began around 9,000 years ago, soon before the Stone Age.But the most important find – that the cave was used as a cemetery and for burial rituals – has led researchers to believe it could have inspired the legend of Hades' underworld.
The first archaeologist to ever dig inside Alepotrypa, Giorgos Papathanassopoulos, suggests that the Neolithic residents believed the cave was Hades.
Researcher Michael Galaty, an archaeologist at Millsaps College in Jackson, Missorri, told LiveScience: 'You can easily see why Giorgos would make that hypothesis. The cave really does recall the underworld, Hades and the River Styx.
'Alepotrypa existed right before the Bronze Age in Mycenaean Greece, so we're kind of seeing the beginnings of things that produced the age of heroes in Greece.
'You have to imagine the place torchlit, filled with people lighting bonfires and burying the dead.
via Alepotrypa: Incredible cave which experts believe inspired the Greek legend of Hades | Mail Online.
When we find facts behind Greek legends, it makes me wonder about other things in the stories, like the cyclops, Medusa, and the three headed dog, Cerberus.
For now, it is fun to think that Alepotrypa in Diros Bay, Mani, southern Greece may be the real Hades. What? The Hell.


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\section{Comparison of Simulation Parameters}

In this section we discuss the differences in the first-principles
simulations performed by the two groups. Although there are
differences in the level of accuracy, they are unlikely to be the main
reason for the differences in the Jupiter models. Both groups used
density functional molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) simulations and should
derive identical equations of state for hydrogen, helium, and their
mixtures. However, computational details are important for accuracy of
the derived EOS.

The NHKFRB group used exclusively VASP code while MHVTB used CPMD as
well as the VASP code. MHVTB verified that both codes yield identical
results when run accurately.

The MHVTB group performed simulations of hy\-dro\-gen-helium mixtures
using a mixing ratio that closely resembles Jupiter's composition within
the limitations of a finite simulation cell. The NHKFRB instead relied
on the ideal mixing approximation using EOSs of pure hydrogen and
helium. This approximation neglects all interactions between hydrogen
and helium. In Refs.~\citep{Vo07,Vo07b}, it was shown that this
interaction leads to significant corrections in the derived pressures
and energy but, more importantly, the presence of helium increases
that stability of the hydrogen molecules for given $T$ and $P$. These
interaction effects also have an impact on the derived adiabat that
will be discussed in the next section. However, linear mixing
approximation does not affect the predicted core mass very much. In
fact, the MHVTB group used their own set of simulations for pure
hydrogen and helium~\citep{Mi08} in a separate Jupiter model and
derived a core mass that differed by only 2 Earth masses.  MHVTB use
this independent calculation to estimate the uncertainty of the
predictions.

The NHKFRB group performed DFT-MD simulations with 500-2000
time steps. MHVTB performed simulations for 2 picoseconds with 5000
time steps. Longer simulations lead to more accurate averages for
thermodynamic variables such as pressure and internal energy.

Concerning the size of the simulation, the NHKFRB paper states that
simulations with between 32 and 162 atoms for hydrogen, helium, and
water were performed. A conservative estimate of the precision of the
EOS 5\% is given. Conference presentations by this group showed
results with 64 hydrogen atoms and 32 helium atoms (64 electrons). The
MHVTB group used simulations with 128 electrons throughout, which are
more accurate.

The NHKFRB used $(\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{4})$ Baldereschi
point to sample the Brillouin zone for all simulations. The MHVTB
group analyzed the $k$-point dependence using simulation with up to
4x4x4 k-points and then performed simulation with 2x2x2 in the
metallic regime and using the $\Gamma$ point at lower densities. It
was shown that $\Gamma$ point only simulation overestimate the
pressure near Jupiter's core-mantle boundary by 1.6\%.

\section{Derivation of the Adiabats}

Convection dominates the heat transport in giant gas planets. This
leads to an adiabatic temperature-pressure profile for the planet's
interior with the exception of a small low pressure region near the
surface where radiative heat transport takes over. It is not clear if
the cores of giant planets themselves are convective but the following
planetary models are insensitive to the temperature profile in the
core. On the other hand, the temperature profile in the
hydrogen-helium rich envelope and the required derivation of adiabats
are very important to characterize the interiors of giant
planets. However, neither Monte Carlo nor molecular dynamics methods
can compute the entropy directly because both techniques save orders
of magnitude of computer time by generating only a representative
sample of configurations instead of integrating over the whole
configuration space that would be needed to derive the entropy.

One typically derives the entropy by thermodynamic integration from a
known reference state. This can be very computationally demanding and
is also not needed to map out planetary interiors. The absolute value
of the entropy is not important as long as one is able to construct
$(T,P)$ curves of constant entropy. This can be achieved by using the
pressure and the internal energy from first-principles simulations at
different $(T,V)$ conditions. Using Maxwell's relations, one finds,
\begin{equation}
\left. \frac{\partial T}{\partial V}\right|_S = - \frac
{ \left. \frac{\partial S}{\partial V}\right|_T }
{ \left. \frac{\partial S}{\partial T}\right|_V }
= - T \frac
{ \left. \frac{\partial P}{\partial T}\right|_V }
{ \left. \frac{\partial E}{\partial T}\right|_V } \;.
\label{entropy}
\end{equation}
By solving this ordinary differential equation, $(V,T)$-adiabats can
be constructed as long as a sufficiently dense mesh of high-quality
EOS points are available to make the required interpolation and
differentiation of $E$ and $P$ with respect to temperature
satisfactorily accurate.

One drawback of formula~(\ref{entropy}) is that it is not necessarily
thermodynamically consistent if pressures and internal energies are
interpolated separately. This is the primary reason why we developed a
fit for the free energy~\citep{Mi08} that is thermodynamically
consistent by construction. The free energy, $F(V,T)$, is fit in such
a way that first-principles pressures and internal energies are
reproduced by,
\begin{equation}
P =   -\left. \frac{\partial F}{\partial V}\right|_T \;\;\;\;\;\;{\rm and}\;\;\;\;\;\;
E = F -T \left. \frac{\partial F}{\partial T}\right|_V\;.
\end{equation}

The details of this method are described in Ref.~\citep{Mi08} where a
helium EOS derived from first-principles simulations is presented for
a large temperature and pressure interval.

We apply this fit across the insulator-to-metal transition in fluid
hydrogen-helium mixtures. According to predictions from the best
simulation methods currently available, quantum Monte
Carlo~\citep{Delaney06} and DFT-MD~\citep{Vo07} this transition is
expected to occur gradually. However, for pure hydrogen, the
dissociation transitions gives raise to a region of negative $\partial
P / \partial T|_V$~\citep{Vo07}, which leads to a negative Gr\"uneisen
parameter and might introduce a barrier into Jupiter's
convection. However, the MHVTB work demonstrated that in a
hydrogen-helium mixture the region of $\partial P / \partial T|_V < 0$
is shifted to lower temperatures than occur in Jupiter. Significant
effort went into analyzing this transition within the DFT-MD
method. The conclusion is that Jupiter's interior is fully convective
and this is main reason for constructing a two-layer model.

The dissociation transition leads to a region where $\partial P /
\partial T|_V$ is small but positive. Following Eq. (\ref{entropy}),
the temperature along the adiabat raise very little in this
region. As a result, the predicted temperatures for the metallic
regime reaching all the way down to core-mantle boundary are
significantly lower than predicted by the NHKFRB model. There is no
information in the NHKFRB paper on how the entropy was derived. At
this point, one cannot verify whether Eq.~(\ref{entropy}) is
fulfilled. The NHKFRB adiabats agree well with adiabat from the SCvH
EOS model for lowest and highest pressures in Jupiter's envelope.

The MHVTB adiabats, on the other hand agree with SCvH only in the low
density limit. At the highest pressures at the core-mantle boundary,
one still finds differences in the predicted temperatures much in the
same way that differences in pressure are observed. At Jupiter's
core-mantle boundary the pressures are not yet high enough so that
the hydrogen-helium mixtures would be mostly ideal. Therefore, in the
absence of experimental data, differences between {\it ab initio} and
chemical models are expected.

\section{Comparison of Jupiter Interior Models}

The main difference between the two Jupiter's model under
consideration arise from the modeling assumptions. The MHVTB group
derived a new type of Jupiter model that has only {\it two layers}: a
dense core and a completely isentropic (consistent with full
convection and no phase transitions) mantle composed of mostly
hydrogen and helium. Because there is no freedom in this type of model
to redistribute mass by invoking chemical discontinuities in the
mantle, the group could only match the gravity moment $J_4$ and all
other constraints by invoking differential rotation with deep winds in
Jupiter's envelope instead of the conventional solid-body rotation
with minor surface winds. Substantial differential rotation in
Jupiter, potentially detectable by the forthcoming Juno orbiter, was
one of main predictions of the MHVTB paper.

The NHKFRB group used a {\it three layer model} that is much closer to
previous models by~\cite{SG04}. Besides a solid rock core, NHKFRB
model assumes the mantle to be composed of two layers with differing
composition.  The flexibility to distribute helium and heavier
elements unevenly in the two mantle layers and the associated
redistribution of mass allows NHKFRB group to match $J_4$ without
additional assumptions such as differential rotation. {\it This is
main difference between the two models.} The redistribution of mass in
the NHKFRB model to match $J_4$ also reduces the predicted core mass
and leads to a larger amount of heavier elements in the envelope.

In the NHKFRB model, the inner layer of Jupiter is helium rich
(24.5\%) and contains metallic hydrogen while the outer layer is
helium poor (23.3\%) and contains molecular hydrogen. However, the
NHKFRB model also predicts a very large difference in the
concentration of heavier elements: 2.1\% in the outer and 16.6\% in
inner layer. An explanation how such large concentration differences
can arise during Jupiter's evolution remains to be given. In this
regard, the MHVTB is much simpler. It assumes a fully convective
mantle of constant chemical composition.

NHKFRB used the standard theory of figures to derive Jupiter's gravity
field. In contrast, MHVTB used two independent approaches to derive
the gravity field.  The first approach used the theory of figures,
while the second approach used the self-consistent-field method
incorporating arbitrary differential
rotation~\citep{Hubbard1975,Hubbard1982} to monitor numerical errors
in the gravity field calculations and to confirm that the $J_4$
mismatch for solid-body rotation is not a numerical artifact.  Because
NHKFRB used a standard solution for the uniformly-rotating polytrope
of index one to test their code, it seems unlikely that their gravity
calculations are affected by errors either.  However, as a minor
point, NHKFRB fitted their models to an older value for $J_4$ with
larger error bars instead of using~\citep{citation24}.

Summarizing one can say that MHVTB predicted a large core in Jupiter
of 14 -- 18 Earth masses using a new two-layer model with a fully
convective envelope. The NHKFRB work predicted a much smaller core
based on a three-layer model that is very similar to earlier Jupiter
models. The crucial difference lies in the treatment of the
molecular-to-metallic transition in dense fluid hydrogen and more work
is needed to characterize this transition with different experimental
and theoretical techniques. MHVTB analyzed this transition within
density functional theory and concluded that this transition is
continuous leading to an Jupiter envelope of constant chemical
composition. Instead of analyzing this transition, NHKFRB follow
previous models and made the additional assumption of two chemically
different mantle layers. Besides the discussed accuracy differences in
the computed EOS, we attribute this extra assumption to be the
primary reason with the difference in the predicted core masses for
Jupiter.

\acknowledgments
We thank J. Vorberger and D. Stevenson for comments.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaArXiv


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The bottle was collected by Captain P Johnston-Saint, one of Henry Wellcome's collecting agents. The water is shown here with a similar example collected from the temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus (A79498).


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Now, with this bag, I guess we can change that umbrella to just baseball cap or just beanie. Then, the rest would fit just right into the bag. It's like a traditional pouch where I can hang on my waist, so it's good.


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ROCHESTER, NY - Travis St. Denis beat Linus Ullmark less than 90 seconds into overtime on Wednesday as the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (26-22-5-3), proud AHL affiliate of the New York Islanders, opened a four-game road trip with a 2-1 victory against the Rochester Americans (27-15-9-6) at Blue Cross Arena.
Michael Dal Colle also contributed to Bridgeport's offense with his seventh goal of the season, which began the scoring, while Kristers Gudlevskis (8-10-5) provided confidence in the crease with 25 saves on 26 shots. The Latvian netminder has stopped 64 of 65 shots over the last two games – both wins.
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Dal Colle put the Sound Tigers on top at 13:49 of the first period when he capitalized on a long rebound in the slot. Rochester native Stephen Gionta created the chance when he received John Stevens' pass in the neutral zone and charged down the right wing before firing a shot from the circle. Ullmark made a pad save on Gionta, but kicked the rebound between the circles where Dal Colle forced it home.
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Are home-made. My favorites so far: a bee-yoo-tiful apron made especially for me, a mix CD, and a totally riotous silkscreened tee (black, of course) of Mistah Cash flipping off the photographer. A thousand thank-yous to my talented and gracious friends. You bring me great joy.
I awoke. It was dark, but given the severity of the storm, I knew that the power could go out. My throat still hurt, but I was so proud of myself for sleeping through the night, and breathing through my nose.
And then I realized that it was only 12:30.
I woke up about 27 more times before morning. Uuuuuuggggghhhh.
So, back to the snow. Yeah, it snowed. Or rather, it's still snowing and the experts are saying we'll get another 2-5 inches before it stops. There is a LOT of snow out there. Cars are buried, my front door is snowed shut (and I repeatedly cleared it out yesterday/last night so that wouldn't happen), and last night I noticed that the furnace chimney on the clubhouse is buried under snow. Isn't that, um, a bad thing? The airport, I-25, I-70, and I-80 are all closed. The office is closed, too, which means that this (expletive deleted) illness is only costing me a day and half more than anyone else is missing.
At least, it's a (thankfully) mild flu. No fever. Every other symptom, but no fever. Not miserable at all. Heck, I've had worse colds than this. And, as an added bonus, if I get this out of the way NOW, then I won't be sick for Christmas. Right?
I want to shake the snow globe, but I'm afraid I might break it. I have to learn to remember, replacements are available.


Elaine Huffman, who organized the whole durn thing, also designed these gorgeous diplomas. This is prettier than my degree from RISD!
It was a very nice... enormous... conference room! I am, of course, sitting in the back row, watching Marie Browning teach her Seuss Garden workshop using Tombow markers. She has written a gazillion books, designs craft products, demos all over the world, is really nice, and, MOST important - she has a wicked sense of humor. She's my new hero.
Here is my initial drawing. I liked it uncolored too - so much potential!
This is as far as I got during the conference. I'm actually STILL working on it (see next picture)! I loved the watercolor/marker techniques we learned and the secret blending tips AND... we used GLUE pens(?!) as a resist for those white details. Very cool.
My other favoritest new hero is Meredith Yuhas. Um... DR. Meredith Yuhas! She's a professor at Saint Joseph's College in CT, she lectures on mindful meditation, she is also stand-up-comedian-funny, and she talks TWICE as fast as I do when I'm excited!!!
Meredith taught us how to turn our tangles into a Zentangle garden on toned paper. This is the opposite of the Seuss Garden... no color.... but I loved it just as much.
I'm thinking I'll probably offer these two workshops at my BeeHive studio in May or June, be sure to let me know if you might be interested.
The rumors were true!! Every color and size of envelope. I even found biz card sized envies in purple and teal! ooolala!
After shopping and a fabulous Italian dinner, we headed back to the Hotel Northampton for long goodbyes and extreme silliness! Every photo I have seen of this hulabaloo is blurry, as are my own photos. I think this was due to all the laughter! No one could hold their camera still!
Jenny Farrel, from Australia made herself a "sandwich" between me (left) and Marie Browning (right). The only thing missing from her sandwich was some vegemite spread - which she gave us in teeny sample size containers, direct from the land down under.
Did I mention Jenny also had a wicked sense of humor? Something about Tangle U seemed to attract those of us who really love to laugh! Here is a photo I snitched from Sherry Cook - of Jenny paying homage to me. I'm not sure where she found the lily - probably from a hotel display - and it kind of looks like I'm "blessing" her?!
"A blessing on your tangles!"
Finally, someone (me) suggested we do a group shot. I wish I had one of the entire group of 57 (?) graduates. This photo I snitched from Lisa Heron (the one in blue) - from Canada. Regina, rhymes with... well, nevermind. Yes, it's still funny! Anyway, the silly jokes help me remember names. :-) I have already forgotten most names - I'm awful that way - but I remember your faces and I can't wait to hang out with you all again soon!
MaryAnn - you look like our garden gnome! hee hee.
Brand new copies of The Art of Zentangle !!
This is a very appealing new book from Walter Foster publishing and I had a very hard time waiting until today to examine it more closely! Of all the new Zentangle® books coming out, so far, this is my favorite. Lots of drawings, not so much text! I actually "read" the whole book. :-) I love the way it is designed as a workbook, with nice paper so you can draw along with the inspiring images.
The cover doesn't say so, but the author/artists included are CZTs Penny Raile, Norma Burnell, Margaret Bremner, and Lara Williams. The borders of the pages are color coded by artist, so you can easily flip to your favorite section. MY favorite section is the blue one... Norma Burnell's fairies have my jaw hanging open. But then, I placed my order for this book - last fall - in anticipation of her work!
This book, once again, gives me "page envy". Everyone seems to have so much SPACE these days (wink). Oh what I could have done with 144 pages... This is typical of Walter Foster style books though - they really focus on showing the steps for drawing. And this book definitely focuses on drawing. I don't see that as a negative - there are plenty of books out there that explain the concept, method, philosophy, etc. of Zentangle. This book does NOT cover any of that. It is a ZIA drawing workbook - with a couple of interesting tangle craft projects thrown in at the end. (I have to try the glitter tangling...) The subtitle is "50 inspiring drawings, designs & ideas for the meditative artist." And that is a pretty good description. Without that wording, I would have expected "The Art of Zentangle" to be either a gallery of works, or more about the process.
I had bought a few copies of this book for my shop, but it's crazy for anyone to buy this book in a store! Amazon has it for practically half price! They did that with Joy of Zentangle too. I will never understand why they do that? Although Amazon still is saying it is "pre-order" and I HAVE actual copies in my hot little hands (actually, they are rather cold at the moment...).
Oh, just a couple of negatives... $19.95 price - no biggie, it's cheaper online. It's big, not really portable, but nice paper. The font for the text is "hand-written" and hard to read, but there's not too much to read. :-) The cover is crazy and hard to read too, but I actually really like it like that... reminds me of Tangled Fashionista (my original cover).... And the "Getting Started" section feels rather vague. But, like the Harry Potter movies, those of us who have read the books just fill "all that" in in our heads.
I, Sandy Steen Bartholomew, give The Art of Zentangle ," two inky-thumbs up!
The hotel rooms were all Santa Fe style suites with their own kitchens and tables for midnight journaling, conveniently located in Santa Fe proper, and costing only $55 night plus tax (even for two people if you wanted to team up).
There were five full days of instruction, studio time, and journaling forays in and around Santa Fe, and a 6th full day of studio time in the classroom to wrap up everything and finish your pages.
What do you think? Interested? Email Jessica and let her know!
I sure would love to go to Santa Fe for my birthday. And I can't think of anyone I'd rather spend it with than you folks!!
Last weekend, my son and his friend accompanied me to the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH to see Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor Exhibit.
It was really interesting and rather puzzling - as any exploration of another culture tends to be. I am still wondering over the absolutely terrifying mask and helmet that featured a rice bowl and chopsticks, in the middle of the forehead...? Perhaps the first lunchbox? (Or Bento box, actually).
... in my new notebook.
I had heard about the Whitelines series of notebooks - very cool idea... the paper is very pale gray and the lines are... you guessed it... they are white lines. They don't interfere with your words and drawings the way that black lines do. A few weeks ago, I stumbled across the notebooks on Fab.com and not only can I not resist a great deal when it's on something I actually want, but they had these uber-cool-super-geeky-new-notebooks called Whitelines Link. Same notebooks, but with special little squares on the corners that allow you to use a (free) app to photograph the page on your iPhone. Big Whoop? Mmmhmmm. But it takes the photograph, automatically squares up the page, removes any lines or grids from the background, AND will pop it into your Evernote or whatever account. Yes, of COURSE I ordered one!
I tested it out at the Samurai exhibit. I used a black PaperMate ball-point pen, yes, the cheapy kind - it's my favorite drawing pen, and this Whitelines Link notebook.
As I was getting the link for the exhibit to paste up above, I noticed they have the actual mask that I sketched, on the website!
Speaking of nightmares. Well, dreams actually. I have a fantasy of a dream calendar, notebook App thingy. If any of you readers are techies,, or know someone who is, please pass them my idea. It will make them rich, and me - very happy in my OCD way.
This is my calendar. I use a Moleskine journal that has a weekly calendar on the left page and a notebook page on the right. This works for me - I have to be able to write things out and make sketches, etc. with an actual pen on paper. But I am also a tech-geek. I want an app that will take a picture of this... mess... and auto-magically put the events and times in my Mac calendar, and the notes into Evernote and the people and phone numbers into Address Book. OMG. And I use the little stickers to keep track of when and how long I exercise. I want that on my computer and iPhone too!
I have been sitting here in The BeeHive putting together 60 "kits" for the workshop I am teaching at TangleU next week. And making notes. And staring at the wall thinking.
I don't think I will include that last part in my actual class even though it is a vital part of the process. (The staring part.) One learns a lot about oneself just by assembling a Right Brain Business Plan, but I realized that I have learned even MORE about myself by trying to think of how to TEACH it to others!
I am a licensed facilitator, so it should be easy... Just follow the instructions in the manual, right? But one thing I have learned through this RBBP process, is that I actually hate teaching. Yes, you heard that right. I hate teaching. And secondly, I can't stand in front of a huge group of people and teach something that is based on someone else's experiences, values or philosophy.
But I CAN talk to a group of people about my OWN ideas and experiences. I am still very introverted and the effort takes an enormous toll on me emotionally and energetically - but I really enjoy connecting with people, finding common ground, and discovering how what I have learned can help them in some way. And best of all, helping them "make it their own."
In preparing for this upcoming workshop, I have been examining my RBBP that I created over a year ago. Some things haven't changed - my Big Vision, Values, and Passions. But just about everything else needs some serious updating and clarification!
If you'd like to play, I have a few extra accordion book kits, or you could bring an altered book or journal to work in, or do a big vision board on fome board or cardboard. Bring some magazines to cut up, glue sticks, colorful envelopes, tape, washi tape, index cards.... Snacks! ( we always seem to forget to plan for dinner!).
What happened in The BeeHive on Friday?
The kids took over the main room with Lilah leading a class on Lilah Beans - of course. She started everyone out using Crayola Model Magic. It's a rather amazing air-dry clay that is surprisingly light and paper-y-like. By the time they had sculpted their LBs (Lilah Beans), drawn an army of LBs (Lilah Beans), and then run around the studio like LBs (Lunatic Banshees, :-) )... the clay was dry enough to decorate using markers.
1. Never, ever, ever... EVER... draw on someone else's work, unless they invite you to.
2. Show your students the basics, and then encourage them to add their own style.
Us big kids were playing with sharp objects! Well, sort-of-sharp. The gouges we use for eraser-carving, or rubber stamp carving, were originally intended for use on linoleum blocks.
Carving is actually as easy as learning Zentangle®. There are a few tricks that can save you pounds of trouble and I keep a bucket of scrap material on the table to practice the strokes. Once everyone gets the feel of how the gauges cut through the soft material, carving an actual stamp is more like tracing a design. Simple.
I spent the first stamp-carving Friday working on this fish. I decided to keep its body solid so I could draw the details on later. This picture (above) shows the test prints I made.
I made a new print in my sketchbook using the Inktense blocks (I learned this technique in the Inktense class I am taking online!) The bottom fish was the first stamping - nice and dark. I spritzed the stamp with water and did the second stamp - which didn't print as well... but ended up looking nicer after adding some more pencil work. I used a white gel pen to add the scales to the darker fish. And then I added swirls and waves until I could no longer see straight and went to bed.
This past Friday, I carved a mustache stamp and then a flower because Lilah was NOT impressed with the mustache. :-/ I am so addicted to this idea of using Inktense blocks to "ink-up" the stamps!!! You just spritz the stamp with water and use the side of the block to spread color over the stamp surface, then print. When the color is dry... it's permanent.
I'm not quite sure what I will do with this flower page. I can color in each petal with a different color and they won't bleed with the previous colors. It's just SO exciting isn't it?
My youngest child had Stage 1V metastic melanoma, origin on his lower right eyelid. Many surgeries, and ultimately, an acceptance into a clinical trial at NCI in Bethesda, MD, beginning at the first of the year 2012. There were months of angst, of course. He is miraculously cancer free.
The middle kid has an elevated PSA (non-cancerous?) and has had to have radiation for a 'cyst' on his forehead. What's with that?
His sister, the first born, and a free spirit, almost exactly a year later, had a diagnosis of Stage IV breast cancer metastasized to her lung. She has responded well to chemo .... prognosis? who knows?
I will never be really good at it... He!!, I'm 86 ... macular degeneration and shaky hands .... but thanks to you and Jessica, I'm getting better and enjoying.
Here's what I did today. It will go to Operation Write Home: Helping heroes keep in touch with home, so is regulation quarter fold size and has used 2 rubber stamps.


News picture Tuesday 24th of July was filled with several events related to the possible launch of bitcoin-focused exchange-traded funds (ETF) and the reaction to their appearance on the part of the Commission on securities and exchange Commission (SEC).
The greatest attention was attracted by the news that new York-based investment Fund VanEck Associates launched a new attempt to convey to the controller its position on the bitcoin ETF and the potential to push it to permit the launch of such a financial instrument.
As written by Bitcoinist, 20 Jul VanEck sent the SEC a letter in which he again expressed his belief that the industry is ready to support ETF.
As known, the SEC rejected all requests to launch a bitcoin ETF. In addition, in January the Commission informed the representatives VanEck, however, a need to give "satisfactory" answers to several questions before it considers possible "to initiate registration of the funds intends to invest primarily in crypto currencies and related products".
Apparently, VanEck believes that the company has the most "satisfactory" answers.
"In your letter you expressed a number of doubts about cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency-related investment funds about determining their value, liquidity, storage, arbitrage, potential manipulation and other risks. We believe that we have competent answers to these questions. Moreover, we believe that by offering investors access to bitcoin through a regulated investment product proposed ETF will match the task of the SEC to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and formation of capital," the letter says VanEck.
VanEck also examines in detail each of the designated Commission risks and explains why it considers them an obstacle to launch a bitcoin ETF.
"Taking into account that the proposed ETF will be regulated in accordance with the securities laws from 1933 and 1940, and the fact that he will work through regulated bitcoin futures, we have every reason to expect that the proposed ETF will reduce opportunities for manipulation, and operating risks associated with the investment bitcoin products", — concluded the company.
We will remind, in June VanEck and SolidX filed a joint application for the opening VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust – bitcoin ETF-which will be insured against theft and loss of access to funds. The offered product is bound to the new index from Van Eck, which is exchanges will collect the price of bitcoin with the US-based over-the-counter platforms.
Simultaneously it became known that the SEC received another application for registration of the ETF, while based directly on the ten most liquid cryptocurrency.
The application has been sent on behalf of the company asset management Asset Management Bitwise,and as they say in the press release, the proposed ETF will track the movement of the index HOLD 10. Access ETF will have both institutional and retail investors.
At the moment the index HOLD 10 includes bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin, Cash, Stellar, Litecoin, Dash, zcash for, Monero and Ethereum Classic, says co-founder and CEO of Bitwise hunter HORSLEY, it is a valuable tool for investors precisely because it is not limited to one specific cryptocurrency.
"No one knows what will happen in five or ten years. Index HOLD 10 offers more coverage, updated monthly and adapts to the market," said hunter HORSLEY.
Finally, today the SEC was postponed to September 21 making decisions in respect of the five bitcoin ETF application to run are filed by Direxion. In applications it describes the tools directly tied to the exchange rate of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
In the latest edition of the U.S. government's Federal Register, the Commission explained that delays the decision on the applications by the company Direxion Investments, also noting that he had received them only two comments.
We will remind, earlier in July an application for the opening of another bitcoin exchange-traded Fund (ETF), which intends to trade stocks SolidX, the SEC has sent Chicago Board options exchange (CBOE Global Markets). Her review is expected on August 10.


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Gulfport's name says it all. The port and railroads were the foundation for this community. In 1900, at two years old, its population was only a little over 1,000. However, by 1906, that number had grown to over 14,000. A wide channel and deepened basin provided for the 36 ships anchored in the harbor. Capt. William T. Hardy's railroad was complete. Wealthy oilman Capt. Joseph T. Jones had made good on his promises of a train depot, an office building, banks, schools, churches, and stores. The luxurious Great Southern Hotel stood as a star costing over $350,000 to build. Gulfport was a thriving port city. The golfing, hunting, and waterfront activities were an early appeal. Images reflect great fortune and the desperate losses in Gulfport.
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Rhukadlor envisions himself as a noble warrior, and over time has started to modify his appearance to follow suit. Standing at around eight feet tall, he's quite broad and not with fat. He's encased in heavy plate armor, which is covered in dents and nicks from past battles. Somewhere beneath the damage one can see that there were once detailed engravings, most are too chipped to make sense of now. His primary weapon is the large claymore slung across his back. Though not particularly broad, it's quite long and gives him a good amount of range with his sweeping attacks. Rhukadlor was a general of the ancient Human empire, and was responsible for many of their military victories. Now that the empire has fallen, he's taken it upon himself to start reclaiming the lands that were once a part of it. He's already taken most of southeastern Nuchalnuth, and has recently repaired Verlore Rhukadlor is a fearsome warrior. Swinging his claymore in great arcs, he can hit large numbers of enemies at the same time with ease. In his long life he's also picked up some magic, and is capable of periodically shelling enemies at a range with bolts of superheated energy.


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Rolling with the Stones
It's a brand new chapter for husband-and-wife real estate team Steve and Lisa Stone who are heading Ray White's brand spanking new Parnell office. Verve caught up with the excited couple in their new premises with the scent of fresh paint and newly un-bubble-wrapped furniture still hanging in the air.
"The majority of Auckland real estate agents — the most successful ones anyway — tend to work in teams," says Steve. "Clients generally expect that there will be more than one person working to sell their house, and with us being married, that works particularly well. Our different approaches are grounded by the same values. One of the things that most appealed about Ray White was the family values."
Now into their sixth year, the Stones are relatively new to the industry, but have already established quite the reputation. One so strong, in fact, that they were invited to lead this Parnell hub. "Ray White is still a family owned company, and one that is always looking at ways to improve," adds Lisa. "That fits with what Steve and I try to do. It's a simple thing, but not not an easy one. There are so many different personalities and situations you must manage to ensure that everyone is satisfied."
Having worked for the likes of IBM and Telecom in their previous professional lives, the couple are used to dealing with major projects.
When it comes to real estate, integrity and tenacity, they both say, are both key.
"The real estate industry hasn't always had a great name, but those days of cowboy agents are long gone," Steve says.
"The process to get the license has become much more stringent," says Lisa. "You have to sit 11 papers, whereas before it was just something you did in an afternoon. It's rather complicated."
The couple use virtual tours to showcase properties internationally, and they embrace social media, too. Each week they hold an online Q&A offering free advice to would-be buyers and sellers. A novel idea is their sign-written Mini which they take a photo of in a certain spot, post online, then ask people to guess the location before a listing comes up. "It's a great way of promoting our business and the property," says Steve. "We've reached upwards of 25,000 people by doing this."
The Stones have lived in Parnell for the past four years and are thrilled at the opportunity to now also set up shop there.
"We love the community here," Lisa says. "One of the best parts of the job is meeting a range of amazing people and helping them move to the next stage of their lives, which can be a very stressful time. Knowing that we ease that is extremely rewarding."
"We see our role in terms of helping people, not in terms of 'the sale'," says Steve. "If your heart's not in the right place, then you'll never do a job to its full potential. It's important to have good chemistry with the clients."
And have the pair found a way of not taking their work home with them?
"No!" they both chuckle in unison.
"Even if we're out to dinner we'll be making notes about how to improve the business," says Steve.
"But when you enjoy it as much as we do," says Lisa, "it's not like work anyway."
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Don't ignore the adults in deworming
May 28, 2017 May 28, 2017 / Prasad Ravindranath
With adults tending to become reservoirs of worms, treating the children alone will not help break the transmission cycle.
A year after the Health Ministry started the massive public health exercise of using a single dose of Albendazole drug for deworming millions of children in 2015, the programme was tweaked. Since 2016, the deworming exercise is a biannual event; nearly 150 million children in the 1-19 years age group were given two doses of the drug six months apart. Though the rationale behind increasing the number of doses was to improve the deworming efficacy, studies have shown that it may not bring about significant benefits as children are prone to get reinfected.
While a 2012 paper in Cochrane review based on 41 trials involving more than 65,000 participants who were given a tablet once a year did not find any significant public health benefits, a 2013 study (The Lancet) of one million children in Lucknow showed that even two doses of the drug in a year did not show significant gain in weight, height, or haemoglobin two years after treatment.
Though the government has tweaked World Health Organisation deworming guidelines by not restricting it to school-age children, the programme does not include adults. A 2013 study (Tropical Medicine and International Health) found that hookworm infection rates increased "significantly with age" — from childhood to school age or adolescent and increasing further in adults. Since prevalence of worms increases with age and as adults are excluded from the preventive chemotherapy programme, they tend to become reservoirs of infection and continue the transmission cycle in the community.
Dr. Rajiv Sarkar of CMC Vellore.
One more study (PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, August 2015) has also highlighted only the "limited additional impact" of increasing the frequency of treatment while restricting it to children, in the case of hookworm. This study too makes a strong case for expanding the annual treatment to include adults in order to achieve a community-level reduction in the intensity of hookworm infections. "Treating children alone does not significantly impact the level of transmission. The children get reinfected after treatment because of the reservoir in adults," the paper says.
Latest evidence
Now, researchers from Vellore's Christian Medical College (CMC) have shown that increasing the frequency of treatment to four times a year and including both children and adults achieves significant reduction in both prevalence and intensity (number of eggs per gram of faeces).
A team led by Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences at CMC studied nearly 8,700 tribal participants living in 45 villages in the Jawadhu Hills in Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts of Tamil Nadu to understand the optimal mass deworming strategy that can produce maximum impact. The participants of all ages were divided into three groups of 15 villages each. While the first group was given the drug just once, the second group received it twice (at month 1 and 2) and the third group was given the drug four times in two cycles (at month 1 and 2, and month 8 and 9). The study was published in the journal Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications.
"The choice of timing of the cycle in the two and four month groups was based on the hookworm biology, taking into account the time it takes for eggs to become infective larvae," says Dr. Rajiv Sarkar from the Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences at CMC and the first author of the paper. Dr. Sarkar is an Early Fellow of the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance and this paper was part of the fellowship work.
Though the prevalence of worms dropped in all the three groups, the group that received the drug four times in a year showed significantly lower prevalence after treatment — from 22 to 1%. "The prevalence and intensity (number of eggs per gram of faeces) was significantly lower in the four-dose group compared with the single-dose group 12 months after the last dose of treatment," says Dr. Sarkar.
"We should consider expanding the programme to include adults if we want to interrupt community-wide transmission. Else, the chances of reinfection from adults are high in case the exercise is stopped. The national deworming programme has achieved high coverage rates, which in turn, has been effective in bringing down the infection rate, but it has to continue for a long time if restricted to children," says Dr. Sarkar. "If adults are included then the programme may help break the transmission cycle and exercise can be stopped after a few years."
Currently, no case of drug resistance to albendazole has been reported. But if the programme is continued for a very long time, there is a distant possibility of drug resistance a rising. With not many drug available to treat worms, drug resistance is the last thing that one can wish for.
Published in The Hindu on May 28, 2017
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Want to see something absurd? Check out what's sitting on my desk!
Yes, that's what it looks like. A Luxman L-505u integrated amp ($4100) and a pair of Joseph Audio Pulsars ($7000). This displaced a pair of Audioengine P4 speakers ($250) and a Miniwatt N3 tube integrated amp ($350). I call that an upgrade, baby! I'm running it with an HRT Streamer II+ (old version, $350) and the honkin' big Power Mac sitting under the desk (it's the one with the old plexi monitor behind the laptop I'm currently typing on — the laptop under that one is "in for service" at the moment).
So, your first thought is, "you have lost your ever lovin' mind" probably followed by "are you still drinking from New Years?" And the answer to both is, perhaps sadly, "no". I've not sailed off the deep end nor was I raving drunk when I asked Jeff Fox over at Command Performance A/V to borrow some gear over the holidays.
Why are they here, then? Well, that's a fair question — honestly, I'm not thrilled with the little Audioengines. Nothing wrong with them — the work great and do exactly what they're supposed to. But. Well? They're small — and sound it. Of all the gear I have on that desktop system, they're very obviously the weak link. The little Miniwatt, all 3wpc of it, is currently scaring the living hell out of my dog by driving my brand new, burgundy, 8ohm, 98db sensitive, Tekton Pendragons to 95db+ — and believe me, that's a story and a half right there. Another time ….
But, about the desktop rig, I've said it before (and I'll probably say it again), the USB DACs that HRT is selling these days are just fantastic — I'm keeping mine. In fact, I may buy a second one for use in the "home theater" rig when I want to run music off the new Mac Mini I put up there — into my new Joseph Audio RM7xl and Cinergy 6.1 speakers. And that's another story worth digging in to, as well. But no, not just yet.
So, what to do about the Audioengines? Well, it turns out that I don't really listen near field at levels much over 70dB nominal (thanks, Radio Shack!). Which means that I really don't need more than a Miniwatt's 3wpc to be able to comfortably handle dynamic music and feel like I'm not missing anything. With the new Joseph's upstairs handling left/center/right duties, the Totem Model 1 speakers were free to go elsewhere, including off to a new home by way of an AudiogoN advert. But before I packed them up, I wanted to see what they'd sound like in the desktop system … and, not really surprisingly, they sounded great. Far better than they sounded in the home theater rig, actually, since they're not crammed into a cabinet anymore and that rear-firing port can really get going when they're on stands. But if the Model 1's sounded good, I wondered how much better the best-sounding monitors I know of would sound like there ….
And the answer? Amazing. They sound amazing.
But that said, I'm not sure they're ideal for my application. The Infinite Slope Crossover that Joseph Audio speakers are rightfully famous for does make for a very seamless transition at the crossover frequencies — all good, there. The Pulsars, as you'd therefore expect, sound just great from the midbass on up. The bass, sitting that close to my face with the port facing to the rear and waving around in free space with no wall boundaries to back them up, sounds … fine … but not what you expect with a Pulsar. How do I know? I pushed the chair back another 3 feet — and there it was. Man, these speakers are killer. But they really do sound so much better if you can give them some room. They're also a touch large/tall for the desk (and stands that I was using for the much smaller Audioengines), so optimality was simply not happening. However — don't read too much into that. Got a different desk, and all bets are now entirely off. You know what might work a treat would be to put them on stands on the far side of the desk. Actually, that'd be genius. Hmmm ….
A note before I go about the Luxman. This is the L-505u, the "baby" of the Luxman integrated lineup and at $4100 for this brand's entry point, I'd be expecting my money to buy quality and lots of it. This babylux does not disappoint. It's got knobs and dials and glowing bits galore — and I have to say, it sounds fantastic. So much so that I'm not sure anyone would need to go "higher" on the Luxman food chain. 100wpc is more than enough for all but the most demanding speakers (where "demanding" = poorly designed, IMO) — so the only real reason to go for more power is audiophile oneupsmanship. This amp drives my Magnepan 3.7s just fine, thank you very much — I know. I tried it. Here's another tidbit — the L-505u runs warm, but not hot, unlike it's pure-Class-A stablemates like the 550 and 590. Much better for that desk, that's all I'm saying.
But all that might be — and since I'm talking to audiophiles here, let me change that to should be — secondary to the sound of amp. And here, I hope I'll be pardoned for the blasphemy, but here goes: when compared to the $10k+ Class A Luxman L-590a Mark II, I dramatically prefer the $4k Class A/B Luxman L-505u.
This is all a subjective, personal-opinion thing, but in this one person's very personal opinion, the L-590a Mark II that I had the privilege to audition with my Merlins last year, may well have been the finest amp I've ever had the pleasure to hear. I loved that amp. Sadly, the amp doesn't make the system. In that particular case in point, I really didn't think the amp's native coloring, a rich and warm mid range with just a hint of roll off at either frequency extreme, just wasn't a good match for Merlin speakers. In short, it was too much of a good thing — the Merlins were already warm and rich in the mid range. I added the Class A Luxman and found that things went from warm to syrupy and the smooth Luxman sound became cloying. But I can think of a hundred other speakers where this rich character would launch the lucky audiophile right off-planet. Just not the Merlins. And, to a lesser extent, not the Joseph's either. I've said elsewhere that I think the Joseph Audio "house sound" bears more than a passing resemblance to Merlin, so this isn't surprising.
Which brings me to the L-505u and the Luxman Class A/B amp. With the Pulsars, the combo is breathtaking. Treble has copious air and sparkle. Bass has both bombast and delicacy. And, of course, this Luxman absolutely nails the mid range. This is what system synergy is all about. Want to get off the audiophile train? Here's an exit. This combo will last you a life time — it really is that good. If you can, just do yourself a favor — get 'em both and stop.
For many, however, this combo's price tag will be prohibitive. I get that and I'm there, too. I wish I had even close to $12k available or this would be mine. I have no idea where I'd put them (the desktop is obviously not optimal), but that's almost beside the point. I sure do want them. If I had anything close to $12k, I'd be haggling the hell out of my poor dealer.
Fine then. Call it an "aspirational system" and have done. When your stars align, and all that.
The Joseph Audio Pulsar and the Luxman L-505u, together, are most highly recommended. Doesn't get any better than that, folks. Seriously.


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