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Charlotte Public Schools will be holding Community Engagement Sessions to bring into focus the needs and goals of the district regarding facilities and programs for the future.
As a district resident, all community members are invited to share their views and ideas at these meetings, which are scheduled for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the following days.
• Thursday, Jan. 11 in CHS Lecture Room.
• Monday, Jan. 15 in CHS Lecture Room.
Over the past year, the district began a process to document building deficiencies, determine enrollment projections and identify building needs. The Engagement Sessions will continue this analysis and bring focus and detail to the needs of the students, staff and community. The school environment, where teaching and learning take place, is a critical ingredient in creating quality education. Your participation in these sessions allows you the opportunity to help identify needs and create a vision for our district’s facilities and programs for the future. The entire community is encouraged to participate in these sessions. These meetings will be interactive, informative and structured to allow everyone to contribute. Join us to help shape the future of education in our district. Childcare will be provided free of charge (ages 4 and above only please).
Article submitted by Charlotte Public Schools. | 2019-04-21T22:29:27 | http://county-journal.com/communities/charlotte/community-members-invited-to-participate-in-cps-community-engagement-sessions/ |
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During the month of September I'm having a 2-man show at Artist's Gallery with J. Stacy Rogers. Stacy is a painter of people - whether formal portraits, or scenes of people going about their daily lives, it's rare to see a painting by Stacy that's not primarily about people. I, as you already know, focus on the landscape and it's rare to see a single human figure in any of my work. Our show is titled "Faces and Places", and pardon the pun, but between the two of us, this show paints a pretty complete portrait of the region: it's landscapes and it's people.
I hope you can make it to the opening, and if you haven't been to Lambertville lately, please note that you have to feed the parking meters until 9pm. The town recently changed this from 6pm to 9pm. But Artists Gallery is the last street with parking meters, and you can park for free 1 block north of the gallery and beyond.
Hurricane Hanna or not, the opening will go on, but use your best judgment in coming out that night, of course. I will also be at the gallery the following day, Sunday, Sept 7 from 11am - 6pm.
Also this month: New Hope Arts invited select artists who have exhibited there over the past year to be part of a group show called "Selections". This show runs from Sept 4 through Sept 28 and I'll be exhibiting along with a dozen other artists. Opening reception is also Saturday, Sept 6 from 7 to 9pm, but I'll be across the river at Artists' Gallery that evening for my 2-man show.
New Hope Arts is at 2 Stockton Ave, New Hope Pa, on the corner of Stockton & Bridge Streets, 2nd floor [map & directions]. Gallery hours: Thursday thru Sunday, 12 - 5pm, open until 8pm on Saturdays. | 2019-04-21T00:38:53 | http://www.joekaz.com/newsletters/2008_09_01_faces_and_places.html |
Just who is this Paul Magnanti fella?
In Canyon de Chelly. PCO Josh Zapin.
If you actually bothered to click on this link, I guess you really want to know about me for some odd reason.
The name is Paul Magnanti. Paul Mags or just Mags for short. Mags is a family nickname that goes back to at least my grandfather. Having an unusual last name of Italian origin leaves many English speakers stumped. Easier to say “Mags” than trying to pronounce the last name. (In Italian, the name is pronounced Mon-nyan-tee, like lasagna. “Americanized,” we pronounce it Mag-nan-tee. Rhymes with bag-fan-tea).
I am a Rhode Island native; which leaves me with a fondness for Del’s Lemonade , Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee, some very-bad-for-you-but oh-so-good weiners , clam cakes and “chowda”. In addition, I insist that Disney World is in a state called “Flah-ra-dah”.
One year to the day after finishing my thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, I moved to Colorado.
For nearly twenty years, I called Boulder, CO home. This town is situated at the very edge of Rocky Mountain foothills. Within an hour Boulder is Rocky Mountain National Park, the Indian Peaks and many other places for outdoor pursuits. I also enjoyed coffee in one of Boulder’s nearly one-million coffee shops.
In the Fall of 2018, I moved to Moab, UT. A move I did not originally plan, but an opportunity came up and the canyon country called!
The outdoors is my passion. Hiking and backpacking, in particular, are my first outdoor loves. Love the simplicity, the journey on foot, the personal challenges and how the intensity of physical activity seems to make everything that much more beautiful.
Though I have hiked the Triple Crown of hiking (AT, PCT, CDT), and some other longer trails, my real love is just to be out as much as possible.
In addition to hiking, I have become passionate about ski touring as well. When I can’t hike, I’ll tour on skis! Winter is not a reason to stay indoors; it is a reason to pull out a different set of toys. Gliding along on fresh snow, the sun shining on my face and skiing off into the distant vista is about as close to heaven as you can get in winter. And much to my chagrin, since the spring of 2010, I’ve started to dabble in alpine climbing. I’ve also been known to camp out and enjoy a place for a few days, too.
In addition to my personal outdoor activities, I used to co-host a popular podcast called The Trail Show (we discussed beer, trails, and nonsense) , guide full time here in Moab and occasionally with Andrew Skurka Adventures LLC. I somehow found myself with a bit of writing career and get real money to inflict my thoughts on the wider world. In the past I served as a volunteer board member for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition and try to do other volunteer work when I can.
Notice: This site has affiliate marketing links. On some purchases, I will receive a small commission. | 2019-04-26T10:21:20 | https://pmags.com/about-me |
Mads Torgersen and Philip Carter, respectively C# and F# program managers at Microsoft, published a post promoting the use of F#. The post is a follow-up to a presentation on F# at Build 2017. They talked about how Microsoft wants to remove obstacles to F# adoption and the F# improvements Visual Studio 2017 brings.
We’re not sure Microsoft is behind F#.
Tooling is not on par with C#.
We will enable and encourage strong community participation in F# by continuing to build the necessary infrastructure and tooling to complement community contributions. We will make F# the best-tooled functional language on the market, by improving the language and tooling experience, removing road blocks for contributions, and addressing pain points to narrow the experience gap with C# and VB. As new language features appear in C#, we will ensure that they also interoperate well with F#.
As for the second major hurdle for F# adoption, Microsoft worked on improvements released in Visual Studio Visual Studio 2017. The autocompletion is one improved area, where the IDE now suggests module to open while typing in a function name.
The rename refactoring is another new feature of Visual Studio 2017. Rename refactoring for F# is one of the concrete results from implementing the Roslyn workspace API in the F# compiler. The feature in visual studio is the same for both language, the workspace API abstracting the language inplementation details.
Carter outlines the work done by the F# community members, who are contributing to all areas of F# including the compiler. The F# community is also described as a pioneer for open source at Microsoft. For example, the F# compiler is open source since 2010 while the C# compiler is open source since 2015.
F# is well suited for some workloads such as the Cloud. This aligns well with where Microsoft is going in general, pushing towards the cloud. Torgersen also says they see a a lot of potential for growth. A lot of users would like to use F# if they could. | 2019-04-25T23:51:47 | https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/07/microsoft-fsharp-build/ |
The City of Cambridge, Ohio is commemorating Fair Housing Month by taking action to help make the city more accessible for people with disabilities.
According to a report from WHIZ News, the city's Economic and Community Development Department and Engineer are working on grant-funded projects such as repairing weather-damaged sidewalks across the city that have been rendered unusable for many people with mobility impairments.
The city reportedly aims to finish the improvement projects within the year.
Return tomorrow for the fifteenth part of this special "Fair Housing Month" feature at Fairhousingblog.com. | 2019-04-26T03:39:57 | http://www.fairhousingblog.com/2010/04/fair-housing-month-celebrating-by.html |
The list of the so called Dividend Kings consists of the companies that have managed to increase their dividends annually for at least 50 years in a row. You can see the full list of all 25 Dividend Kings here.
Naturally many of the companies on the list are huge corporations, as a company must have a long and successful operating history to land on that list.
There are, however, also some smaller companies on that list, many of them being relatively unknown. One of those is American States Water (AWR), which has raised its dividend for 63 years in a row. This article will discuss why American States Water may be overvalued.
American States Water was founded almost ninety years ago, since then the company has expanded geographically across several states in the US.
Electricity services make up just eight percent of revenues, the American States Utility Services segment is responsible for about one fourth of the company’s revenues.
American States Water’s regulated businesses (water and electricity) are not high-growth businesses, but the company has a big moat there. The utility industry is not one where companies are heavily contesting over customers. American States Water’s services segment is growing at a faster pace, but the company is not facing a lot of competitive pressures there, either.
The services segment, which was established in 1998, has grown to span eight states, currently serving eleven US military bases, and there is room for more growth going forward.
When it comes to American States Water’s growth prospects, we have to differentiate between the regulated and the unregulated business. Water and wastewater services on several more US bases have not yet been privatized, so there is a lot of potential for receiving contracts to service more bases in the future. American States Water states that active bids are in progress for numerous bases, and that several contracts will be awarded during the next five years.
The regulated water & electricity services are somewhat different, the company is not really expanding geographically there. The regulators (California Public Utilities Commission) do, however, allow for revenue growth from the company’s customer base in return for ongoing investments.
CPUC authorizes certain returns on equity and returns on base rate. By investing into its asset base (increasing the capital the company has invested) American States Water can increase the total profits it is allowed to earn going forward.
Due to the fact that the regulated water business is very fragmented, there is significant potential for American States Water to grow inorganically. In an industry with a low number of publicly traded operators American States Water is poised to make consolidating moves. Despite its size being not at all massive (American States Water has a market cap of 2.0 billion), American States Water is one of the biggest water utilities.
On top of that it has a strong balance sheet (with an A+/A2 rating), thus expanding through acquiring smaller competitors is a realistic possibility for the company.
American States Water’s operations don’t look like a high growth business at all, and yet the company managed to grow its EPS by almost eight percent a year over the last couple of years. The analyst community expects the EPS growth rate to decline to the mid-single digits area going forward. Through a combination of consistent (although not very fast) growth from the regulated business and expansion of the services business a five percent growth rate looks highly achievable even without any M&A action.
The regulated water business has very high barriers to enter: Regulations, the requirement for huge investments into infrastructure and water rights mean that this isn’t an industry that has to worry about new, upcoming players.
American States Water’s services business, which is not regulated, is very low-risk as well. There isn’t a lot of competition, and the contracts with the government span 50 years. Since this business unit was only formed 20 years ago, and since many contracts were awarded in recent years, the results over the next decades are practically locked in.
American States Water isn’t an especially huge corporation, but still there is very low risk of competitors stealing any business from the company. This is based on the regulated / contracted nature of American States Water’s business. It is also not surprising that the company’s performance during a recession is not bad at all, either: Even during an economic downturn water and wastewater services are needed.
Investors who are looking for very high-growth companies have better choices than American States Water, but when it comes to non-cyclical, low-risk, foreseeable profits, American States Water is one of the best.
Investors like to pay up for quality, and American States Water’s proven track record and low-risk nature have resulted in a premium valuation.
ValueLine analysts expect the company to have earnings-per-share of $1.85 for 2018. This means the stock trades for a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.6. This far exceeds the 10-year average price-to-earnings ratio of 20.3.
American States Water trades at an EV to EBITDA multiple of 15.7, which is rather high on an absolute basis. The combination of a rather high valuation and an earnings growth rate that is not really high means that share price gains could be limited going forward. If American States Water continues to trade at the current valuation and grows its EPS by five percent a year, investors would see share price gains of 5% and total returns (including dividends) of 7% a year.
If American States Water’s valuation would decline, total returns going forward would be lower. Due to the fact that the valuation already is more on the expensive side, further multiple expansion is unlikely. Total returns thus will likely be capped at high single digits going forward (and could be lower).
Depending on one’s goals American States Water could be a compelling investment choice, nevertheless: Mid to high single digits returns from a low-risk business are interesting, and shares of American States Water can stabilize one’s portfolio. Due to the very low beta (0.38), American States Water’s shares don’t really move much during a market downturn, an investment into shares of the company can thus limit the downside of one’s portfolio.
The dividend was grown by more than nine percent a year over the last five years, but with the earnings growth rate being lower than that the dividend growth rate will decline somewhat in the long run. American States Water could, however, keep the dividend growth rate around nine percent for a couple of years, as an increase to the company’s payout ratio wouldn’t be problematic at all.
American States Water is an under-followed Dividend King with a strong track record. The company operates in non-cyclical, low-risk businesses, and profits will continue to grow in the long run.
By capturing new contracts for additional US military bases or by making acquisitions American States Water could accelerate its growth going forward. Unless this happens, growth rates will not be overly high.
The safe and growing dividend and the low-risk nature of this stock make it worth a closer look for conservative investors. | 2019-04-20T05:29:22 | https://www.suredividend.com/dividend-kings-awr/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carowinds opens for the season on Saturday tomorrow and guests will be able to ride the newest double launch coaster, the Copperhead Strike.
Carowinds invited members of the media to try the coaster for you first.
Take a look at FOX8's Shannon Smith and Cindy Farmer as they twist and turn through the more than half-mile coaster. | 2019-04-19T10:40:51 | https://myfox8.com/2019/03/22/fox8s-shannon-smith-and-cindy-farmer-give-copperhead-strike-a-ride-and-you-a-sneak-peek/ |
Leap with SLES and the other way around. The error message is below.
Installation to an empty HDD works fine.
│ Continue despite the error? | 2019-04-23T14:15:35 | http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-beta/2017-July/000062.html |
The County of Yolo is currently recruiting for the Chief Probation Officer position. The Chief Probation Officer serves as the chief executive for the Probation Department. The candidate selected for this position will be responsible for planning, organizing, and directing all juvenile and adult probation operations, programs, and activities of the Yolo County Probation Department which includes investigations, supervision, administration, and special programs. This incumbent will also oversee Probation Department activities and functions with other County Departments, government agencies, justice partners, and organizations as well as to formulate departmental policies and regulations concerning activities of the Probation Department.
The ideal candidate for the Chief Probation Officer position will be a seasoned Probation professional who has significant experience with both juvenile and adult probation programs, an advanced degree, and management experience that has prepared them to be successful in this important role. The responsibilities of this position will require the incumbent to continuously represent the department to the Yolo County community, Board of Supervisors, court system, executive county leadership, and other external justice partners. It is imperative that the selected candidate possess the political acumen, expertise, and communication skills to effectively represent the department. The selected individual will also demonstrate integrity, fortitude, and professional confidence.
For more information about this exciting position, please visit our "Employment Opportunities" page at www.yolocounty.org or click here to download the recruitment brochure. The deadline to apply for this position is Friday, December 7, 2018. | 2019-04-26T17:15:57 | https://www.californiacitynews.org/job/chief-probation-officer-1 |
You can expect a lot from the 2008 Hyundai Azera. This 4 door, 5 passenger sedan still has less than 90,000 miles! A 3.8 liter V-6 engine pairs with a sophisticated 5 speed automatic transmission, and for added security, dynamic Stability Control supplements the drivetrain. All of the premium features expected of a Hyundai are offered, including: variably intermittent wipers, a power seat, fully automatic headlights, tilt steering wheel, power moon roof, power windows, and much more. Features such as automatic climate control and leather upholstery prove that economical transportation does not need to be sparsely equipped. In the event of a rollover collision, side curtain airbags provide additional protection for outboard seated passengers. We'd also be happy to help you arrange financing for your vehicle. Stop by our dealership or give us a call for more information. | 2019-04-18T11:22:27 | https://www.obrieneasy.com/blog/video/2019/april/15/2008-Hyundai-Azera-Fort-Myers-FL-232749100a0e0a173a9c5812591e9f0b.htm?locale=en_US |
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▶Stay in a traditional Korean temple, experience the daily life, and absorb the traditional culture and spirit of Korean Buddhism.
※ Spouse Free tour. if you attend a UIA program, please let us know when you reserve this tour.
▶ Courses with less than the minimum number of attendees will get cancelled.
▶Depending on the payment system, you can cancel this month based on the settlement date, but, can’t be canceled from the next month. | 2019-04-21T21:07:53 | http://www.hanatouritc.com/index.php?mid=product&category=1255&sort_index=333&document_srl=33671 |
*SOLD* Highly Desirable Vista Verde West! Act fast to get your hands on this fully updated Vista Verde West unit! This first-floor, 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo has been updated through out. The Kitchen features beautiful, high grade granite and newer cabinetry. Both bathrooms have updated tile showers, newer cabinets and granite counter tops. All windows are decorated with Plantation Style Shutters. Vista Verde is located on the island of 'Isla Del Sol' which is a golf course community in St. Petersburg. Extremely convenient location less than 2 miles to St Pete Beach and only a few minutes to Fort DeSoto State Park & Beaches. Just 2.5 miles to I-275 for easy access to downtown St Pete & its fabulous restaurant scene and a simple commute to Tampa International Airport. | 2019-04-21T10:12:02 | https://www.stpeteforsale.com/sales/317/vista-verde-west |
Steve Bianchi is the oldest, the speed merchant with more maneuverability than a European sports car.
Joey Bianchi is the youngest, the rocket-launching goal scorer with a fortune teller’s ability to predict the path of the puck.
In the middle is Tony Bianchi, the slick-passing distributor who calculates angles and trajectories with the ease and precision of a champion billiards player.
Tony never encountered a pass he didn't think he could make. The way he figured it, there was no reason to expend all the energy required to elude defenders when you could just as easily pass the puck around, between or over them.
The 5-foot-6 Tony’s pass-first mentality can be traced to his positioning in the Bianchi hierarchy. To gain acceptance in backyard pickup games with Steve and the rest of the older neighborhood kids, Tony devised a strategy. He knew hogging the puck or camping out in front of the net calling for passes wasn’t going to get him far.
As a kid barely tall enough to see over the boards, Tony for years served as a stickboy, filled water bottles and shagged pucks for Steve’s teams.
Tony was at the St. Paul Civic Center in 1981, watching in awe as the Jaguars beat Grand Rapids in overtime in the state quarterfinals. Adding to the excitement was Steve’s jaw-dropping move at the blue line that left a Grand Rapids defenseman grasping for air. Steve completed the play by scoring on a breakway, his third-period goal-for-the-ages helping Jefferson erase a two-goal deficit.
"It gets you pretty excited about playing hockey that is for sure," Tony said about that game's impact on his career.
Joey is five years younger than Tony. When the youngest of the Bianchis begged Tony to join the backyard pickup games, Tony – always thinking strategy -- knew just what to do with his little brother.
Tony could score, too. His goal with less than 5 minutes left in the 1989 state championship game forged a 4-4 tie with Rochester John Marshall. Bloomington Jefferson went on to win in overtime.
The Jaguars’ second title also was the second for the Bianchi family, as Tony matched the championship won by Steve in 1981. Joey would add three more state titles to the Bianchi family's resume.
Tony had had two goals and five assists in the 1989 tournament. His seven points were one short of the eight posted by teammate and tourney scoring leader Sean Rice.
Tony scored 67 points as a senior, the third-highest single season total in Bloomington Jefferson history. Tony’s 164 career points is second only to brother Joey’s 168.
Fittingly, Tony owns Jefferson’s career assist record with 107.
As a freshman at the Univeristy of Minnesota, Nick Checco, another former Jefferson standout, played on a line with Tony. Checco remembers being amazed at the incomprehensible passes landing on his stick.
Tony, who lives in Savage, is a Bantam A coach in the Prior Lake youth hockey system and works as a manager for PODS (Portable On Demand Storage). | 2019-04-25T17:42:03 | https://www.mnhockeyhub.com/news_article/show/101729-strategic-thinker |
I want to be able to deploy and access Jbpm processes outside of my application context in order to try and separate business processes (the BA's domain) from the application (the developer's domain).
I had presumed that this would be possible given the existence of the JBPM web console but cannot work out how to access the JbpmConfiguration of the process host.
I noticed that the JbpmService MBean provided is essentially a stub, so I tried to bind the current JbpmConfiguration instance to JNDI by modifying the mbean implementation. However, despite JbpmConfiguration being marked as serializable I get a NotSerializableException on java.lang.ThreadLocal when I try to bind the configuration.
a) Is it possible to separate the process and application domains like I am trying to do?
b) If so, how should I go about it?
c) If not, what is the point of deploying anything using the JBPM Web Console?
try to use hibernate.cfg.xml configured against the db server that is used as jBPM storage, you will be able to access remote jBPM processes.
If you read some of Tom Baeyens blog entries, you'll see that the separation of process and application or even the separation of the process on the business level and the one on the implementation level is not so strict. We, the company I work for, also come to this conclusion when using jBPM. aamof, it feels good that this separation is to that distinct, more close cooperation resulted in better functionality. | 2019-04-21T12:22:28 | https://developer.jboss.org/thread/117305 |
Serene \s(e)-re-ne\ as a girl's name is a variant of Serena (Latin) and Serenity (English, French), and the meaning of Serene is "serene, calm". The baby name Serene sounds like Sarene and Sirene. Other similar baby names are Selene and Verene. View a list of the 2 names that reference Serene. | 2019-04-22T16:03:26 | https://www.starthealthy.nestle.com.au/serene |
TeRra Han (한테라, 韓泰來: 1981~) is widely recognized as a South Korean kayageum virtuoso based in New York City. She was a child prodigy was performing by age 6. She began her training in classical Korean music and traditional performing arts, including singing and dancing, at the age of 4. Furthermore, Ms. Han has studied other Eastern zither traditions including the Japanese koto, the Chinese guzheng, and North Korea’s music represented in China. She has released more than 10 solo albums and numerous chamber and orchestra recordings.
Ms. Han is the first grantee of Blanchette Rockefeller Fund of kayageum, Asian Cultural Council in New York. TeRra had debut stage at the Carnegie Hall as the youngest Korean traditional musicians of a few who ever had a recital and TeRra was admitted voting member of the Grammy Awards as few Asian traditional musicians by the Recording Academy in USA.
Han holds a B.A. and M.A. degrees from Seoul National University and researched Asian zither traditions including dancing at the Tokyo University of the Arts and Central Conservatory of Music in China.
“I had never made those sounds at her ages as like she’s doing now, there is nothing impossible for her to create whatever sounds with her fingers, truly genius TeRra!”– Jungsuk Kang, National Intangible Heritage of Korea No.23.
“So Beautiful, So Talented, So Smart and So Special TeRra, Respect!”– John Zorn, American Composer. | 2019-04-23T11:59:33 | https://www.terrahan.com/bio/ |
Pretty much apathetic about almost everything. Pretty much passive. Pretty much lazy. | 2019-04-20T02:44:00 | http://junorlaw.com/tag/sekeping-victoria/ |
The Event by PARC full brogue shoes are an easy to wear, yet trendy shoe. The 100% leather shoe is made in Europe and features an intricate wingtip design. The polished oxblood leather combined with brogue look, makes it a great statement shoe for any upcoming event. | 2019-04-19T14:22:50 | http://parccityboot.com/event_shoes?product_id=138 |
Kayla, following the model for an effective review, asked me minimal questions and submitted her first book review. Kayla, who processes the grief of losing her sister when she was a youngster, has turned to conventional poetry to understand her loss. She may now consider branching out into other forms of poetry, she tells me. I'm happy to share her review with you, with her permission.
Mary Anne Radmacher’s most well-known writing, Courage Doesn’t Always Roar, is the topic of this review. With its descriptive word choice, unique style and beautiful message of the different types of courage, this little book is meant to inspire. In a Q&A I did via email with the author (she lives in Seattle but considers herself a true Oregonian), she told me that her word choice was because she wanted to connect with a variety of readers. The author’s book was difficult to obtain! I had to go to Fairview Heights, IL, in order to buy her book for this assignment. The book was required because I’m critiquing it (positively) in this essay. If you could ask ANY author ANY questions with NO limit on the number, how many would you ask? That’s easy for me. I would politely ask Mary Anne as many questions as I could think of that have to do with this assignment. I would choose my words, and way of asking, carefully. Word choice must be creative when writing inspirational pieces.
Mary Anne uses words like ‘courage’, ‘try’, and ‘again’ to create imagery. This would demonstrate the image of NOT giving up too easily without a fight. Other words used (and phrases repeated for emphasis) include: “It takes courage” and “To reinvent”. My favorite phrase that I found while reading was “Change of any sort requires courage…courage to write a new story of your life with the pen of each day…of every moment.” These words made a huge and joyful impact on me. Mary Anne and I both have the same gift; we are writers…of poetry, stories, books, and essays. Writing is a blessing and gift. In composing poems, stories or essays, each piece has a different style.
This encouraging author “uses a style of figurative language that borders on poetry.” What author does NOT include figurative language in her writing? There is an easy answer to this rhetorical question: NONE. An example of her use of figurative language would be “Change of any sort requires courage…courage to write a new story of your life with the pen of each day of every moment.” (Metaphor). I could not find an example of poetry in the book, but the rhythm and flow of the words says it all. Mary Anne Radmacher’s message was meant to inspire us all.
The words that inspired me most were at the very end of her short, little book: “Perspective in the LARGE, grace in the small, an open hand, a practiced…pause…a ‘YES!’, courage doesn’t always roar.” These six phrases at the very end of the writer’s book have words so strong that I became blissful upon reading the two pages upon which these phrases were printed. Inspirational authors are blessings to the writing world. Writers, such as Mary Anne Radmacher, give people hope in trying times. Thanks to her words, positive energy is spread all around the world. Inspirational authors are amazing people, and Mary Anne Radmacher is NO EXCEPTION. Her messages are of of hope, bravery, strength, willingness and more.
In conclusion, the most well-known writing of Mary Anne Radmacher, Courage Doesn’t Always Roar, is wonderfully inspirational AND encouraging because of word choice, style and the message conveyed by the words on the page. I loved her variety of words; synonyms, figurative language, etc. The style of how Mary Anne writes interests me. I’ve never known or heard of an author using figurative language that borders on poetry. The best part about the book was the message she wanted to give the audience. Now, a personal note to Mary Anne: Thank you for allowing me to write this review of your great, little book. It has caused me to expand my horizons as a writer and branch out from only publishing memorial poetry. | 2019-04-19T04:26:40 | http://maryanne.simplyaninspiredlife.com/2013/12/an-aspiring-poetcollege-student-reviews.html |
Hi, I've stopped by to say hello and perhaps reupload my tracks here, but I don't have them on my HD. I'd like to ask anybody who has at least some of them to upload them in this thread, I can actualize some kind of list of them if it works properly.
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Thanks a lot especially to haq! I'm glad they didn't get lost. | 2019-04-22T18:17:10 | http://forum.generally-racers.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=456&p=82643 |
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Citizens Bank is an FDIC-insured bank founded in 1934 and currently headquartered in Elizabethton, TN. Regulatory filings show the bank having equity of $103.3 million on assets of $825.1 million, as of December 31, 2017.
With 193 full-time employees in 14 offices in TN, the bank has amassed loans and leases worth $574.7 million, including real estate loans of $432.2 million. U.S. bank customers currently have $667.4 million in deposits with the bank.
Overall, Bankrate believes that, as of December 31, 2017, Citizens Bank exhibited a superior condition, earning a full 5 stars for safety and soundness. Keep reading for an analysis of how the bank did on the three major criteria Bankrate used to score U.S. banks on safety and soundness.
Capital acts as a buffer against losses and provides protection for account holders when a bank is experiencing financial trouble. It follows then that a bank's level of capital is a useful measurement of a bank's financial strength. When looking at safety and soundness, more capital is better.
Citizens Bank did better than the national average of 13.13 points on our test to measure capital adequacy, achieving a score of 14 out of a possible 30 points.
One way to measure this buffer is looking at a bank's Tier 1 capital ratio. Citizens Bank's Tier 1 capital ratio was 15.15 percent, above the 6 percent level considered adequate by regulators, but below the national average of 25.65 percent. A higher capital ratio suggests the bank will be better able to weather financial difficulties.
Overall, Citizens Bank held equity amounting to 12.46 percent of its assets, which exceeded the national average of 12.03 percent.
Having lots of these types of assets suggests a bank could have to use capital to cover losses, cutting down on its buffer of equity. It also means that there are likely to be many assets that are in non-accrual status and no longer earning money, diminishing earnings and elevating the chances of a failure in the future.
On Bankrate's test of asset quality, Citizens Bank scored 40 out of a possible 40 points, beating the national average of 37.49 points.
The percentage of problem assets a bank holds compared to its total assets is a handy indicator of asset quality.As of December 31, 2017, 0.53 percent of Citizens Bank's loans were noncurrent, meaning they were more than 90 days past due or were in non-accrual status. That's below the national average of 1.01 percent.
Banks maintain a reserve to deal with problem assets known as an "allowance for loan and lease losses." Comparing the reserve's size to the total amount of problematic loans can be a handy indicator when evaluating a bank's ability to manage troubled assets. Unfortunately, the FDIC did not provide information on Citizens Bank's loan loss allowance in its most recent filings.
How profitable a bank is affects its long-term survivability. Earnings can be retained by the bank, increasing its capital cushion, or be used to address problematic loans, likely making the bank more resilient in times of trouble. Conversely, losses diminish a bank's ability to do those things.
Citizens Bank did above-average on Bankrate's earnings test, achieving a score of 24 out of a possible 30.
One important measure of a bank's earnings is return on equity, calculated by dividing net income (profit, basically) by the total amount of equity. The most recent annualized quarterly return on equity for Citizens Bank was 14.90 percent, above the national average of 8.10 percent.
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2017, the bank earned net income of $14.9 million on total equity of $103.3 million. The bank experienced an annualized return on average assets, or ROA, of 1.75 percent, above the 1 percent deemed satisfactory in accordance with industry standards, and above the average for U.S. banks of 1.00 percent. | 2019-04-23T19:50:39 | https://www.bankrate.com/banks/citizens-bank/778738/ |
Did health dept. move quickly enough on XO Asian Cuisine?
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Today’s office politics post is making way for yesterday’s fairly stupendous announcement that the European Central Bank will now be demanding payment from banks for the privilege of banking their money*.
*thanks to the FT for the cartoon above.
Now I realise that, for most people, the above was not really that dramatic. Talking about “monetary policy fireworks” is not interesting. It fills the mind with images of wet blankets and how on earth could that ever result in fireworks. And then the mind moves on to check facebook and comment on another engagement announcement.
But I’m going to try and explain it anyway.
The European Union is flawed. And not in the “we just had many years of financial crisis” way (although – that too). But more of the “this was always a political union, not an economic union; although as it turns out, we ended up without the political union” varietal.
The Germans are efficient and thrifty. The Southern Europeans are inefficient and spendthrifty.
So in the days before the European Union, Germany would efficiently make awesome cars, and then export them. Foreigners, longing for German cars, would buy up the Deutschmark to pay for them, making the currency a strong one. This would make it relatively cheap for the Germans to import Italian wine and Greek olive oil, and the Germans could happily continue to be thrifty while still buying up the products of Southern Europe.
The Southern Europeans, on the other hand, had governments that would fund their spending on a steady diet of inflation. This meant that the drachma and the lira were weak currencies, regularly depreciating to make the high local-currency-denominated costs seem reasonable to the rest of Europe. And thus, the Southern Europeans would sell their products to Germany – and everyone was mostly happy.
Then Europe decided to become one with their currency.
The overall currency strength would be determined by the joint-activities of all the countries in the Eurozone.
So Germany would get a weaker currency than it had before.
And Southern Europe would get a stronger one.
German exports had just become cheaper to the rest of the world (including all the other countries in the Eurozone).
So the Germans were earning more money, while remaining their thrifty selves.
While Southern European exports just became more expensive to the rest of the world, (also including all the other countries in the Eurozone).
So the Southern Europeans were earning less money, while remaining their spendthrifty selves.
Fortunately, Southern Europe found itself with access to Germany’s credit score, so it financed itself with a borrowing spree.
Which led to all the debt crises and the bailouts and so on.
in 2011, Germany was only buying 8% of Greece’s exports.
And crazily, if you looked at this from Germany’s perspective, what we’re saying is that Germany went from spending 0.37% of its total imports on Greek products to spending only 0.22% in 2011.
Anyway, now that the borrowing spree has stopped covering up this flaw, Europe is left in an awkward position where all the small countries are struggling to recover while Germany continues to do awesomely well and drive up the value of the Euro. Which, in turn, is making it even more difficult for the smaller countries to recover. And all this is not helped by the fact that the Germans with the money are thrifty.
Then yes, that’s exactly right. Duh.
PS: if you want a bit more on negative interest rates, I wrote about them some time ago: The Drag(hi) of Negative Real Interest Rates.
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Panini was an ancient Sanskrit grammarian born in Shalatura, modern Lahur of North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. The place is situated at a distance of four miles from Ohind near Attock on the right bank of Indus River in the ancient Kamboja|Kambojan/Gandhara|Gandharan territory. Panini is believed to have flourished in 5th century BCE, (but estimates range from the 7th to the 3rd centuries) and is famous for formulating the 3,959 sutras or rules of Sanskrit morphology (linguistics)|morphology known as the A??adhyayi. In his sutras IV.1.168-177, Panini references the Kamboja among other Kshatriya janapadas and notes it as one of the fifteen prominent Kshatriya monarchy|monarchies of the times.
Sutra IV.1.168 (janapada.shabdat.kshatriyad a�) is important. Grammer|Grammatically, it teaches that the affix a� (or �yan, i� etc) comes after a word which is both the name of a country and a Kshatriya tribe settled therein.
Here the identity of janapada and the powerful Kshatriya clans settled there is repeated. The ruling Kshatriyas inhabiting these janapadas were, as we are informed by Katyayana (2nd c BC), governed by two-fold constitutions; some were monarchies (Ekarjat) and others were republics (Sanghas).
(ii) Panchaala = name of Panchaala Kshatriya clan. Kamboja = name of Kamboja Kshatriya clan.
The above nomenclature holds good for all the Kshatriya tribes so named by Panini in sutras (4.1.168 through 4.1.177) including the Kamboja.
(iii) Panchaala + a� => Paanchaala = descendants of Panchaala Kshatriya clan.
(iv) Panchaala + a� => Paanchaala = the ruler of Panchaala Kshatriya tribe.
Thus, by adding appropriate affix (a�, �yan, i� etc) with the janapada word, the derivative to denote the descendants of Kshariyas as well as their Kshatriya rulers can be obtained for various janapadas named by Panini (4.1.168 through 4.1.177) except the Kamboja.
For Kamboja (and only the Kamboja) Panini recommends Luk (elimination) of an affix with janapada of Kamboja (sutra 4.1.175: Kambojal. Luk) which importantly informs us of an EXCEPTION for KAMBOJA, such that the Kshatriya word Kamboja does not need any affix (a�, �yan, i� etc) to be added to it to obtain a derivative to denote the descendants of Kamboja Kshatriyas as well as the Kshatryia ruler of Kambojas.
This means that the word KAMBOJA itself denotes not only (i) the Kamboja country/janapada and (ii) the Kamboja Kshatriya tribe, but, unlike other Kshatriya janapadas, it also denotes (iii) the descendants of Kamboja Kshatriyas and (iv) the Kshatriya ruler/king of the Kamboja janapada.
References: (Ancient Kamboja, People and the Country, p 29-31, Dr J. L. Kamboj; cf : Carmichael Lectures, 1918, pp 6-7, Dr D. R. Bhandarkar; Some Kshatriya Tribes of ancient India, p 234, Dr B. C. Law; Panini Kaleen Bharat (Hindi), 1955, p 61; India as Known to Panini, p 427, Dr V. S. Aggarwal; cf: Early East Iran and Atharvaveda, Persica, 1980, ffn 47, Dr Michael Witzel).
The Kambojas were a well known Republicanism|republican people since Epic Age. Mahabharata refers to several Ganah (or Republics) of the Kambojas (MBH 7/91/39). Kautiliya’s Arthashastra (11/1/4) and Ashoka's Edict No. XIII also attest that the Kambojas followed republican constitution. Panini's sutras (IV.1.168-175), though tend to convey that the Kamboja of Panini was a Kshatriya monarchy, but the special rule and the exceptional form of derivative Panini gives to denote the ruler of the Kambojas implies that the king of Kamboja was probably a titular head (king consul), probably a war leader only (Dr K. P. Jayswal, Dr J. L. Kamboj).
References: (Carmichael Lectures, p 6-7, Dr D. R. Bhandarkar; Kshatriya Tribes of ancient India, p 234, Dr B. C. Law; Ancient Kamboja, People and the Country, p 30, Dr J. L. Kamboj) .
Kamboja + a� => Kaamboja where Kaamboja denotes the ancestral homeland of the Kambojas.
The above referred to derivative names for animal/plant/mineral etc, native to or imported from Kamboja, are in accordance with the principles of Linguistics which teaches that a special product imported from a certain country or else native to a certain place gets named after that country/place.
But in spite of Panini's above rules for correct usage of Sanskrit, both Kamboja as well as Kaamboja have yet been used indiscriminately without any change in meaning. We rather see Kaamboja being mostly used in the texts like Ramayana, Mahabharata and all post-Panini|Paninian Sanskrit literature in the same sense as Kamboja.
Sanskrit: Kamboja-mundah Yavana-mundah i.e shaved headed Kambojas, shaved headed Yavanas. | 2019-04-18T23:10:21 | https://www.kambojsociety.com/kambojas-of-panini.html |
Uh oh! Lawman Who Helped Kill Marriage Equality in New York Has Gay Lover, Is Criminal?
Carl Kruger is a Democratic state senator from Brooklyn. His vote against gay marriage last year was crucial in stopping the measure in New York. Funny thing: He lives with his gay lover, who’s the bagman in their bribery racket.
Yesterday, a criminal complaint against Kruger was unsealed in federal court in the southern district of New York, lifting the veil from what must be one of the most satisfyingly convoluted and brazen cases of self-loathing gay political figures in our time.
First, the bribery: Kruger, the feds charge, conspired with a state lobbyist named Richard Lipsky to shake down clients for Kruger’s vote. He’s charged with accepting bribes from Lipsky to funnel state money to various New York City projects being developed by Forest City Ratner, as well as trying to curtail the state’s recycling laws. When the feds raided Lipsky’s Upper West Side apartment, they found “$102,000 in cash from a safe in a closet and $4,000 ‘in crisp, large denominational bills from the pocket of a suit belonging to Lipsky,'” according to the New York Post.
Michael Turano and Kruger lived together, they co-mingled their finances, and Kruger helped look after Turano’s aging mother. There have been plenty of secretly gay politicians who opposed gay marriage; Kruger appears to be the first secretly gay-married pol to have done so.
Oh, there is SO MUCH MORE. Read it all, read it all, it’s juicy and scandalous.
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This New Years Eve get ready and join us as we present to you the 2015/2016 New Years Eve Club Crawl. Party at 3 of Toronto’s hottest nightclub venues in downtown Toronto as we say goodbye to 2015 and ring in 2016 with thousands of people in style! Celebrate New Years in Toronto with all cover and transportation included all in one price.
How does it work:The NEW YEARS EVE CLUB CRAWL is easy and simple. Party at 3+ of Toronto’s hottest parties and venues with 1 VIP Wristbands where all tickets and transportation included.Your ticket & VIP Wristbands enable you to club crawl and club hop between 3+ venues by following group leaders to each location until we have reached our final destination FICTION! All cover charge included in one low ticket price. 3 different New Years Eve Themes and the best part, all venues are walking distance. Each venue will have a variety of different music, DJ’s and MCs. The party will start at TRYST and will finish off at FICTION NIGHTCLUB. Your wristband give you no cover part of the New Years Eve Club Crawl. Your wristbands are the only way in without paying cover or waiting in line. VIP Limo Bus & party bus ticket holders will have bus transportation starting at 9pm from TRYST Nightclub. If you missed your departure don’t worry as buses will be coming back to TRYST to pick up anyone who missed their 9pm departure. For VIP General Admission ticket holders, VIP Hosts will lead the way to each destination starting at 9pm. BUSES START TO BOARD AT 9PM FROM TRYST. ARRIVE EARLY.
The night will begin at Tryst Nightclub located at 82 Peter St downtown Toronto. Party on 2 floors, 2 rooms, heated patio. Guest DJ’s playing all your top tunes. Please make sure to arrive early. Doors open at 8pm sharp. TRYST NIGHTCLUB is your starting destination and your wristband pick up location from 8pm-9pm. Everyone will meet up at TRYST Nightclub starting at 8pm-9pm to pick up their wristbands and dance the night away until its time to head to our next destination.
At 1045pm we will make our way to your final destination- FICTION NIGHTCLUB (180 PEARL ST) where we will start to begin to countdown to 2015 and say goodbye to 2014 and ring in 2015 in style like you never seen before!
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Wristbands will be available on the day of the event from the starting location-TRYST NIGHTCLUB- between 8pm-9pm located at 82 Peter St. Wristbands may only be picked up at the starting location. Arrive early to pick up your wristbands. Note that limo party buses start to depart from TRYST NIGHTCLUB at 9pm sharp. All ticket purchase holders must arrive before 9pm to receive a wristband. Wristbands will not be given out passed 9pm. Once you purchase your tickets you will receive an eticket in your inbox from the email you provided. Please remember to print off your eticket and present it to event organizers or you may pull it up from your mobile devices. For any reason you can’t make it to the starting location to pick up your wristbands, have one of your guests pick them up for you and you can meet them at the destination they arrived to. It is recommended to come early at the starting destination.
A- Everyone will meet up @ at 8pm-9pm at TRYST NIGHTCLUB and present their ticket stubs or e-tickets and receive a VIP wristbands to get the exclusive all access treatment to the NYE Club Crawl. Starting at 9pm the party will continue as we club crawl to its next destinations in the downtown Toronto core.
A- Once you have received your wristbands you will get VIP treatment at each venue. Simply show your wristband at the venue and you will get no cover, no line during the club crawl by following various hosts. Our super fun party hosts will lead the way to the different locations and party bus ticket holders will have party bus transportation between venues starting at 9pm.
A. Wristbands will be available between 8PM-9PM at TRYST NIGHTCLUB on December 31. Please arrive early to receive your wristbands. Wristbands are only available at the starting location. Your wristbands are your only way to join the club crawl.
Q- What time do buses leave?
A- Buses will leave from TRYST at 9pm sharp and start boarding at 9pm! Please arrive early to receive your VIP Wristbands.
A- All Clubs Are Around a 30seconds-1Minute Apart. VIP General Admission ticket holders- VIP Hosts will lead the way to each destination, Simply Crawl, Stomp, Walk Or Run.All wristbands holders will follow as a group to all venues part of the club crawl, your wristbands will have the list of venues in order. VIP Limo Bus & Party Bus ticket holders will board various buses and be taken to each location in style starting at 9pm until we reached our last stop for the evening- FICTION NIGHTCLUB!.
A- We recommend everyone to arrive at the main stop if you can’t make it please send someone to pick up your wristbands and you can meet them at their current location to join the party.
Q- Can we order bottle service at the last destination?
Q- Can we go to any of the destinations after midnight?
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Q- Whats the difference between VIP General Admission & VIP Party bus tickets?
A- VIP General Admission gives you all the same benefits- no cover, no line, etc but without the party bus so you may club crawl to the destinations by following hosts without the bus and VIP Party bus simply gives you VIP transportation without walking. | 2019-04-21T15:08:04 | http://torontoclubcrawls.com/clubcrawls/?page_id=342 |
Losing your dog can be a scary and incredibly stressful experience for anyone. However, there are some preventative measures and planning that can ensure your dog makes it home safely in case of an emergency.
Microchipping your dog is the most reliable way to ensure they can be located in the event that they become lost. Veterinarians will be able to scan and look up your information depending on which company your information is registered with. Therefore it is crucial to keep this information up to date and remember to update anytime you have an address or phone number change.
While your vet can just scan the microchip, if your dog wanders to another neighbourhood and is found by the local neighbourhood kids, you might just be a phone call away or a couple doors down. A quick and obvious way to ensure your pet makes it home safe is to keep a collar and ID tag securely on with your phone number or full address. Some ID tags can now even track your pet with a GPS! While these can be expensive, they are a great solution for peace of mind and security.
Old boards in fences come loose, or hedges might be easy to slip through. Do a check up on your yard from time to time and make sure that there aren’t any holes starting to be dug under fences. Even if your dog isn’t a digger, some animals might have taken up a home in your yard and created an escape route for your pet. To ensure they’re safely kept inside, make sure the perimeter is solid from time to time.
In any emergency, pre-planning is crucial. In case your dog is lost, have the number of the company they are microchipped with ready in an emergency pamphlet, along with your vets’ number and the local animal shelters.
Act NOW, don’t wait. The sooner you begin to get the word out that your pet has been lost, the better chance you have of finding them.
Notify the numbers listen on your plan, the local vets, shelters and the company your pet is registered to that your pet has been lost. Check back in daily, often these points of contact will be the first to know if someone has brought your pet in looking for their owner.
Make Posters with a picture and your animals name on it. This will help a good Samaritan call over your pet if they are trying to capture them to return them home. Offer a reward in the ad, don’t state how much and your phone number. This will help encourage people to return your pet to you and you can decide later how much to offer as a reward. You can also place a “LOST” ad in your local newspaper if you still haven’t found them the following morning.
Go door to door or call your neighbours personally. Explain what your pet looks like if they’re not sure, or enlist them to help you distribute posters. The more people involved in the cause, the more successful you will be.
Get out and get calling. If possible, keep someone at home near where your pet escaped from. There is a possibility that your dog may return home on there own so having someone to keep an eye out is crucial. In the meantime, you can take to the streets and begin calling your pet as loudly as you can. For safety reasons, it is best to do this on foot or on a bicycle as it can be distracting to drive while looking for your pet. If you want to cover more ground, take your car with a passenger to be the lookout and drive carefully and slowly. This way you can focus on driving and your passenger has time to spot your dog among the neighborhood.
Post to Social Media! You’d be surprised at how many people will gather together to join the cause for a lost pet. Many pets have been found, surprisingly, through this form of communication. Spread the word and ask for support as much as possible.
Be cautious of scammers, and ask for a description or picture if someone claims to have found your pet looking for a reward. It can be tempting to throw yourself at these offers, but false hope may be devastating if they’ve found another look-a-like-pet or worse, they are lying to receive reward money and do not have your pet.
Most importantly, don’t give up! While time might seem daunting during this stressful time, keep on persevering. There are many resources in the community and people that can help, just keep getting the word out and checking in with shelters and vet clinics. | 2019-04-18T11:24:53 | https://www.releasethehounds.ca/lost-and-found/ |
MDBP happens as one big festival at Gillette Stadium (home of the New England Patriots) this year, and also includes Miguel, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Pusha T, J.I.D, City Girls, JPEGMAFIA, YBN Cordae, and more.
The Detroit festival also includes Ella Mai, Kali Uchis, Lizzo, King Princess, J.I.D, Snail Mail, Tiny Moving Parts, and more.
Here's all the hip hop we posted this week, including 2 Chainz, Solange, Little Simz, Tierra Whack, Queen Key, DaBaby, and more.
Listen to new songs by Foals, Damien Jurado, Wild Pink, Gallant & Adrian Younge, Kero Kero Bonito, John Vanderslice, Alan Vega, and more.
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Feb 9 Best Sandals and Bags For Spring!
The warm weather that we had last week has given me spring fever! I’ve been scouring the web looking for amazing sandals and bags for spring and these are some of my favorites! Enjoy on this Saturday morning!
For more fun outfit ideas and a little of everything else…follow me on Pinterest! Have a great weekend! | 2019-04-24T11:03:33 | https://www.crazyblondelife.com/blog/2019/2/9/best-sandals-and-bags-for-spring |
The bizarrely dedicated fans of the McDonald’s McRib sandwich are overjoyed that the barbecue-sauce-soaked boneless pork patty treat is returning for a limited time to all U.S. Golden Arches locations. But are McRib devotees simply being McManipulated?
Few fast food menu items can say they have their own Facebook page. Then again, few fast food items have experienced the rollercoaster-like ups and downs of the McRib.
This fall, the McRib made news as McDonald’s re-introduced it once again—this time, making it available in all U.S. locations through November 14. The obvious question is: If the McRib is so popular, why doesn’t McDonald’s sell it year-in, year-out, at all locations?
Retailers understand that the words “for a limited time only!” are known to make shoppers spend in irrational ways, with the latest example being the rise of Groupon and other flash deal sites. Instead of the traditional sales pitch, in which the focus is on the quality, utility, and desirability of the product, the “limited time only” strategy plays off of the widespread human characteristic to hate missing out on something—regardless of whether or not you actually want that something.
Hard to fathom they would be that hungry for a pork patty pressed into the shape of a small slab of ribs if it were a menu staple.
The limited-time-only factor succeeds in creating a sharp, sudden rise in demand that otherwise wouldn’t exist. Another prime example of such market manipulation is the much-vaunted “Disney Vault,” where Disney movies supposedly disappear after a strong marketing push. That is, they disappear until yet another digitally remastered edition inevitably surfaces later on. These efforts all artificially manufacture a scarcity, with the idea that the limited supply and limited availability produces increased demand—and more sales. | 2019-04-22T05:11:37 | http://business.time.com/2011/10/27/mcrib-fanatics-and-the-amazing-power-of-limited-availability/ |
There have been times during this adventure of ours that the timing has felt just right. I had this feeling again this past week as Zoë and I met a few expat ladies and their children at Chalong Wat in Chalong, Phuket.
We have not made it to any Wats (temples) since arriving in Thailand this time around. Chad and I visited many, many, many (did I say many?) wats on our last go round here years ago. We haven’t felt the need to check any out this time. But, when the lovely ladies that I met through the Thailand expat women’s forum, ChickyNet.com, told me they were meeting there, I jumped at the opportunity to hang out with other ladies and to let Z play to her heart’s content.
I didn’t realize until I arrived at the Wat (about a 20 minute taxi ride from Karon beach where we were staying) that the yearly Chinese New Year Fair was going on. The wat (which is rather small, but beautiful) was surrounded by a huge afternoon/night market and towards the very back-end of it, there was a carnival area for the kids.
Let me start by describing the market… There were a plethora of food stalls, I always think about the food first, I am just massively a little obsessed with Thai street food. It was a good thing I wasn’t hungry, all the food smelled delicious and was all inexpensive, I would have left needing a new wardrobe. Which would have been alright, I guess, because there were also a ton of clothing stalls where I did not see anything priced at over 100 baht ($3.33 US. There were also stalls selling bed linens, curtains, accessories, make-up, and everything else you could possibly want. Well everything except souvenirs. Which made me love this market even more. This was a truly locals market, in fact I saw very few foreigners besides us. It is sad to say, but I have not felt like I have had a true locals market experience more than 2 or 3 times since we have been in Thailand. The touristy ones are taking over and the more Thai ones are harder to find (at least for me at this point).
Okay, so off my soapbox about the tourist night markets. What I was trying to say, not so eloquently, is that I was ecstatic about the market. Zoë was not so excited about it, except for the bubble milk tea that I got for us to “share”.
When we made it to the back part of the fair, it was Z’s turn to jump and clap for joy (yes, food and shopping do make me clap and jump for joy… especially the food part). We walked up to an area that housed a huge caged trampoline, a toddler train roller coaster, a merry-go-round, and a colossal bounce house complete with slides that were high enough to where I would not have the courage to go down them.
We started playing on the trampoline, which was quite bouncy and surrounded by a rickety rope fence below and netting starting about 3 feet from the bottom (seemed a bit backwards to me, but I just made sure Z knew to stay away from the fence, because she could fall right through to the ground 5 or so feet below). It was 20 baht for as long as she wanted to jump around.
Then we all rode the merry-go-round that looked like it was made out of fiberglass, lead, and rusty steel. Ok I may exaggerate a little, I think the only lead on there was probably in the paint. Regardless, for just 20 baht, Zoë was able to ride on one of the swans (with me right next to her) for as long as she wanted. No seriously, we had to maneuver our way off the merry-go-round while it was still moving. Not only did we get a ride, but it was an exciting adventure as well. You really do get more for your money here in Thailand.
The afternoon ended with the kids playing on the bounce house for the remainder of the time (another 20 baht). I haven’t seen Z so happy in a long time. We said good-bye to her new friends and made plans to return to play some more in a few days.
The timing of our trip was just right for us to go to the Chinese New Year Fair at Wat Chalong and we didn’t even know about it ahead of time. I am thankful for this and for the chance for Z to get to play happily with new friends.
So if you are ever in Phuket during Chinese New Year, make sure to check out the Chinese New Year Fair at Chalong Fair.
What fun things were going on in your area to celebrate Chinese New Year? Leave a comment and let me know!
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Isn’t it the best thing ever when you see your kid sooo happy?! Sounds like you had everything a little girl and a mum need for a happy day!
I thought my heart melted once again when I picked up the kids at daycare: my son wanted to show me the trick of the day (run around a rag together with 2 other kids and then throw themselves on their backs. So simple but they had so much fun!), and then my daughter running (Manic Friday afternoon) back and forth with her 2 best friends who where supposed to get dressed the same time. But they was such pure joy!
You are already on your way, homeschooling makes it much easier to live where ever you want!
Sounds like a fantastic fair, but ha – moving her off as the thing is still spinning! Things that wouldn’t happen in places which are paranoid about health and safety. But look – everyone survived.
Looks like a fantastic bouncy castle.
Yeah!!! Good times for all. | 2019-04-20T23:26:29 | https://andthreetogo.com/chalong-wat-chinese-new-years-fair/ |
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- R. • Ağustos 21, 2014My family and I had the paella negra, ossobucco, calamari and a tapas plate, all were beyond outstanding! Lovely little garden patio out back too!
Polikarp F. • Nisan 26, 2015Simple design, just white walls, wooden tables and benches. Attentive waiters.Good price. Excellent beer. Tasty meat and delicious sauerkraut with horseradish.
Marian L. • Mayıs 31, 2013Fantastic czech food. I had beef heart on cream an homemade dumplings. Delicous food and very nice service.
Peter N. • Şubat 1, 2016The best food at Leissure town square I have had. Kulajda soup was excelent and crispy confit pork belly with beer was exactly, what I needed. Beside that nice atmosphere. Really great reataurant.
Yasemin • Mart 7, 2016Kafka'nın hayatından, yaşadığı dönemden, ailesinden, kitaplarından kesitler. Buraya kadar gelmişken görün derim. Fotoğraf çekmek yasak.
Debby M. • Temmuz 22, 2013Beautiful scenic view! Steak rubbed with garlic is great.
David D. • Ekim 3, 2014Great atmosphere and service. Food very good - confit of duck excellent . Good Czech wine - enjoyed a lovely Springer Pinot Noir. Expensive. But worth it for a special meal.
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Elisabeth Blagrove, Derrick Watson; Visual marking: The effect of emotional change on time-based visual selection. Journal of Vision 2009;9(8):188. doi: 10.1167/9.8.188.
The de-prioritization of old (previewed) items already in the field enables increased search efficiency for new items in the preview search paradigm (Watson & Humphreys, 1997). This effect has been replicated using valenced schematic faces (Blagrove & Watson, submitted). Previous work shows that changes to old previewed items that are likely to be of behavioural relevance (e.g., shape changes made when the new items are added), cause the old items to re-compete for selection with the new items. In contrast, less behaviourally relevant changes (e.g., color or luminance changes) have no effect and the old items remain suppressed. Here we examined the effect of changes in emotional valence to old previewed items. Specifically, we compared the detection of a schematic face target (either positively or negatively valenced) in a Preview condition (neutral preview, changing to a valenced distractor set) with a Half Element Baseline (neutral distractors only) and Full Element Baseline (mixed valenced and neutral distractor set). A neutral to negative change in the valence of previewed faces (Experiment 1) saw the preview benefit abolished, with search efficiency impaired, relative to both baseline conditions. In contrast, a neutral to positive preview change (Experiment 2) demonstrated a partial preview benefit, where participants were more efficient than in the Full Element Baseline. This contrast across experiments was also reflected in the numerical strength of the Preview Benefit, via an index of Preview search efficiency (PEI) (Experiment 1: PEI=0.08; Experiment 2: PEI= 0.41). Overall, the findings show that ignoring a negative change in expression is more difficult than ignoring a positive change in expression, consistent with ecological considerations. | 2019-04-24T20:04:56 | https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2135578 |
Modern World PowerPoint maps: Of course, you are already familiar with the political World PowerPoint maps of the world: probably not just stared at the colored spots countries traced sinuous lines for borders, seek common capitals. In fact, for the dotted lines that divide the state, around the country, which are fixed on the base map, hidden destiny of nations: a bloody war for the right to possess a certain portion of land, independence, frustration, futility of expectations to live in their own state . Download Modern World PowerPoint maps for presentations. | 2019-04-18T14:39:06 | https://imaginelayout.com/powerpoint_maps-template-5535/ |
One of Liverpools' leading specialist Family Law practices with deep roots on Merseyside, due to expansion and ever more instructions from clients, are currently expanding their medium sized dedicated Family specialist team and are looking to hire an experienced and ambitious individual with a strong background and passion for Family Law.
Working within their friendly and sociable Family team, you will be given responsibility for your own caseload of Family Law matters, which will include but not limited to: childcare matters, adoption proceedings, financial/ancillary relief, divorces, separation agreements, prenuptial agreements and domestic violence cases etc.
You will be a qualified Solicitor, NQ level upwards (All PQE's considered) and have a strong background in Family Law - either PQE or experienced gained prior to commencing your training contract. You will be passionate about Family Law and have a strong work ethic and be able to work as part of a close knit team. You will play an integral part to the team, working closely alongside their Child Panel and Family Panel member, and be actively involved in the development of the department as a whole longer term.
You will be rewarded with a competitive salary, which will be in line with your previous experience along with a benefits package and bonus scheme. There exists real opportunities to progress within this firm and support and training is provided in order for you to reach your full potential and provide an outstanding service to your clients.
If you are a Family Solicitor looking for a fresh challenge, or coming up to qualification and looking for an NQ Family role based in Liverpool, then please apply today or contact Izzie Gilbert. . | 2019-04-24T16:16:32 | https://appointments.thetimes.co.uk/job/615083/family-solicitor/ |
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Join us Sunday, April 28th for an afternoon of live music under the oaks with Big Cedar Fever!!
Big Cedar Fever is a string swing band out of central Texas that specializes in Western swing and jazz. Three part harmonies and tight musical arrangements draw listeners in, only to be taken away by the classic style and lyrics that recall another time and place.
Formed in January of 2018, the trio includes Georgia Parker on jazz-box guitar, Ian Lee on fiddle, and Nick Lochman on the upright bass. With all three sharing vocal duties and trading instrumental solos, this is a group whose constant harmony is right up there with their prowess as a dance band. The up-and-comers have played host to crowds of Lindy hoppers, Texas two-steppers, and Western swing dancers. In their short time together they have also been at home in listening room environments, providing intimate sets that showcase a true love for the history of the music.
Ms. Georgia Parker is the trio’s front person and primary writer and arranger. Her deep catalog of classic songs, knowledge of the writers behind them and original material can entertain for hours. Her writing style is influenced by many greats such as Bob Wills, Willie Nelson and Peggy Lee but none have had a greater influence than that of fellow Texan, Cindy Walker. Parker’s performances include several hits written by Walker such as, “Bubbles in My Beer,” “I Hear You Talkin’,” and “It’s All Your Fault.” Parker is an accomplished bass player as well. She’s played with many bands including Al Dressen’s Super Swing Revue, Banshee Tree, The Lonesome Heroes and Bottom Dollar String Band.
Ian Lee is a fiddle player of over twenty years hailing from Wimberley, TX. At the age of 5, Lee made up his own mind to become a violinist. He became interested in Western swing and jazz over the last ten years and his greatest influence comes from Stuff Smith. Although his fiddle playing is top notch, Lee’s vocal style is equally brilliant. He’s got a smooth, silky yet strong voice perfectly suited to the style. His writing style harkens back to early jazz and the beginning of Western swing with echoes of Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies, whose members included the great Bob Wills.
Nick Lochman plays upright bass for the trio and hails from Boerne, TX, in the Texas Hill Country. As a musician of twenty-plus years – first as a drummer, turned guitarist, turned upright bass player – rhythm has been a motif throughout Lochman’s career. A typical Big Cedar Fever performance will include at least a few improvised bass solos, many times trading bars with fiddle player Ian Lee. Lochman developed a love for songwriting as well while leading a bluegrass band in the early 2000’s called The Crystal Creek Boys. His writing influences include Willie Nelson, Hank Williams and Tommy Duncan of Bob Wills’s Texas Playboys. | 2019-04-19T08:42:47 | https://vistabrewingtx.com/event/big-cedar-fever-2/ |
Gregory Chifire says the Law Association of Zambia has been sold to highest bidder in the ongoing debate relating to a questionable Supreme Court judgment in Savenda versus Stanbic Bank.
In this case, the High Court ordered Stanbic to compensate Savenda K192m for loss of contracts after Stanbic negligently and maliciously reported Savenda to the credit Reference Bureau. But the Supreme Court trashed the High court Judgement and instead ordered Savenda to pay costs from the time the case started, generating public outcry and suspicion that the Supreme Court has been bribed. The bill which Silwamba wants Savenda to pay the Bank is K10 million.
Instead of investigating the allegations of bribery, LAZ issued a statement condemning and threatening the media and members of the public who are questioning this judicial corruption.
I therefore find the reaction by the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) to come to the defence of the three Judges as a calculate move meant to subdue the course of Justice and grossly violets my rights as a citizen to have the matter I presented to the JCC heard and determined in a fair and objective manner bereft of the interference of LAZ.
Under normal circumstances, I could not have responded to the utterances by LAZ as the Association has departed from its original mandate of speaking for the down trodden and defending justice, but has become a subversive tool that beckons at a bidder’s price and whose ears are itching for a sledge hammer.
In the statement, the Association has, among others threatened the general public against commenting on court Judgments because according to LAZ, doing so would amount to contempt of court. Am sure the Association has competent Legal practitioners who can help advise the drafters of that statement to stop misleading the general public.
LAZ must be made to understand that Judicial Authority is derived from the people of Zambia.
The venom with which the Association has come to the defence of the named Judges in this case is shocking and highly suspicious. It is not the first time in the history of the Zambian Judiciary that some Judges have come under Public scrutiny, but the Association has not in the past come out in the manner it has this time around. Could it be that there is something LAZ is trying to help conceal?
I wish to remind LAZ that not long ago, one of the Judges on this case was subjected to a tribunal and the due process of the law was allowed to take course without being fettered. Why is LAZ so jittery about the public scrutiny of the concerned?.
The tone in the statement by LAZ is one of defence and intimidation.
Am persuaded beyond any shadow of doubt that justice was not properly dispensed in this matter, and if the matter is left unresolved, shall help create bad law.
I would advise LAZ to allow the JCC and other competent institutions of Jurisdiction to deliberate on this matter without undue influence from the Association.
In her conduct, it is clear that the Association is trying to obstruct justice. The association should have opened doors to the law enforcement agencies to help investigate this matter following glaring revelations regarding this case.
LAZ is not only for the mentioned individuals. LAZ must also be seen to stand for other members who may be in distress and also stand to defend public interest, otherwise the association is at the verge of losing the credibility which it has curved for herself spanning long years of service to the people. | 2019-04-23T08:52:00 | https://www.zambiawatchdog.com/laz-condemned-for-defending-judges-named-in-bribery/ |
Fashion for men should be bold, suave and dapper at the same time. So why go wandering around store to store to get the best outfit for your mood or occasion? Instead, come and have a look at the curated fashion storm which has lead every man buy according to their shopping needs. Shoes being the man’s first love to accessories making him look smart every day, there is a pretty decent chance you would find your favourite store here along with some other stores which would surely be on your bucket list next. So, don’t wait and start online shopping for Men's Fashion already. | 2019-04-23T02:15:00 | https://uk.asaan.com/men-fashion |
This Tiger Hunt is in many ways similar to the sketch for another painting kept at the Musée d'Orsay: Lion Hunt. The two paintings were produced during the same period, and the first might appear to be a more accomplished version of the second.
The representation of movement and violence is reinforced here by the bright, intense lighting directed on to a few details selected for their significance, in particular the tiger and the fabrics of the clothes animated by the rapid gestures of the men who are attacking the wild beast. The determination of the horse rider, the terror of the horse, and the aggressiveness of the wild cat, bring the cruel game of hunting to fever pitch.
This painting was shown in a retrospective exhibition of the painter's work at the 1889 Universal Exhibition. It condenses all the elements of Delacroix's genius, his scientific use of colours, the freedom of his drawing and the glorified romanticism in his scenes of combat. | 2019-04-26T14:24:26 | https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/chasse-au-tigre-15777.html?no_cache=1&S=1&cHash=cfcd8214a5 |
How To Fix 403 Forbidden Error On Safari Mac?
Apple forbidden error 403 is a common but critical issue for all Apple users. It becomes an annoying issue when you try to access a website but fail to launch it. As a result, the browser window starts to crash immediately and the System starts to freeze. Therefore, you can see an unexpected error message, “Forbidden error 403” after several attempts. However, this article will be helpful to give you the idea of how to fix 403 forbidden error on Safari Mac. Besides this, our Apple Customer Support team is ready to provide you with the best solution with maximum accuracy within a limited timeframe.
Some of the major reasons cause this 403 forbidden error and shows the message in different ways. We hope the following reasons will help you to realize the initial cause behind this problem.
The server issue causes this kind of annoying issue.
Sometimes a faulty ethernet cable or port and the sluggish internet connection are responsible for creating 403 forbidden error.
Incorrect URL shows the message, “Safari 403 Forbidden access is denied”.
Full of browser cookies unable to load the website and displays the forbidden error on the screen.
Outdated version of Safari prevents to load the webpages.
There are lots of effective steps to handle this error 403 Mac and we are trying to discuss a few steps on how to fix 403 forbidden error on Safari Mac. So, you can try out the steps below to avoid this kind of annoying issue technically.
First, check whether you have entered the correct URL or not. Sometimes, missing of characters create one of the biggest problems.
Secondly, double-check website domain as well as a country domain name.
Finally, enter the website address into that address bar and press enter to open that specific website window.
If you use the wired network, then check whether the ethernet cable is defective or not. If any problem is found, then replace it as soon as possible. Moreover, repair the damaged port or use another alternate port to connect the cables to avoid this annoying issue.
Press the Reset button of the router and hold it for 6-7 seconds.
Wait until it gets a green signal and releases it after restarting the Router.
Now, connect your router and check whether you can access the internet or not.
However, if you are still facing a problem, then contact your ISP for an immediate fix. Otherwise, you won’t able to fix this annoying internet connection issue.
Download and install a server status checking tool from an authentic link.
After that, open the tool by double-tapping on that specific icon.
Enter the URL and click on the Check Status button.
You can see the clear status of that specific server. Thus, you can verify in the case of multiple URLs.
Open the Safari window by double-clicking on the Safari icon.
Go to the Settings option and click on it.
Choose Safari from the drop-down list and click on the Clear History and Website Data from the sub-menu.
Here, you will get a list of pages which you have searched on the Safari.
Exit from the browser and re-open to check whether the forbidden error persists or not.
Go to the Safari menu from the settings app.
Now, click on the Advanced tab from the resultant window.
Next, navigate the Website Data under this section and choose the option Remove All Website Data.
It will take a few minutes to complete the entire process. Once done, re-open the Safari and try to access any webpage to check whether error 403 Mac persists or not.
Click on the Apple menu from the top-left corner of the Apple device.
Open the Software Updates window.
Choose the option Safari Update and click on the option to activate it.
App store will start to perform the Safari upgrade process.
It will take a few seconds to complete. Once done, reboot the system and check whether the Apple 403 forbidden message appears on the screen or not.
In the above content, we have discussed the problem with the unexpected error “Apple 403 forbidden message” with its significant reasons. Moreover, we have tried to analyze the effective steps to overcome this annoying situation. However, if you still have doubt on how to fix 403 forbidden error on Safari Mac, then you can contact us at our Apple Support Customer Service Number for instant help. Our Apple Support team is expert enough to tackle this error 403 Mac without any hassle. | 2019-04-25T06:03:57 | https://applesupportnumber.net/blog/fix-403-forbidden-error-on-safari/ |
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One of the best parts about Neopets is the ability to customize our pets. The NC Mall has been around for 10 years now and it's still just as popular as the first day it opened. The NC Mall boards are constantly active with Neopians looking to trade for new or retired items. The best part about customizing is the ability to wear items from different seasons! As an avid customizer myself, I have created looks for my Neopets for nearly every season/holiday. I know that a lot of Neopians do the same as well.
Knowing that most Neopians have multiple outfits for various seasons or holidays, I decided to do a survey to see which Halloween or spooky NC mall items are the most popular when creating their Halloween/spooky looks. I asked for voters to list their top 10 must-have spooky or Halloween items for their customizations. These can be things they have or do not have and are seeking.
Value: 8-10 caps. This item is very sought after despite is lower-end cap value. Very few people are willing to trade it away.
Source: This item was awarded during the Masks of Dread questing event.
Value:2-3 caps. This item was a close second to the number one item on our list. It is considered a foreground item.
Source: This item was sold in the NC mall in 2013.
Value: 2 caps. This item is a popular Closet or Hard-to-part-with (HTPW) item. It has a low cap value, but is genuinely hard to part with! It goes with many Halloween and/or Fall outfits.
Source: This item was sold in the NC mall back in 2008.
Value: 2-3 caps. It has a low cap value, but tends to be hard to find up for trade.
Source: This item was for sale in the NC mall in 2009.
Source: This item was awarded Day 3 of the Games Master NC Challenge in 2010.
Source: This was given out during the Haunted Hijinks event in 2013.
Source: This was given out during the Haunted Hijinks event in 2014.
Source: This item was obtainable when buying the Limited Edition Halloween Acara Key Quest Token.
Value: 4-5 caps. This item tends to go for a higher amount during the month of September and October because of the colors in the background. It can be used in both Fall and Halloween outfits.
Value:10-12 caps. This item has the highest value out of the three dyeworks colors and the base item. The base garland is valued at 2 caps, orange recolor is valued at 4-6, and the green recolor is valued at 6-8.
Source: Dyeworks in the NC Mall. Need a Dyeworks Potion and the Jewelled Pink Spyderweb to color.
Source:This item was sold in the NC mall.
Source: This item was sold as part of the Spyder Web Costume Pack. It was sold individually and with the pack back in 2008. The bonus item for this pack is the Spyder Web Staff which is valued at 225-250 caps.
Value:2-3 caps. This item once had a higher value but has since been rereleased during the Altador Cup VIII NC in 2013.
Source: This item was obtainable when completing the Altador Cup IV Challenge in 2009.
Value:1-2 caps. This item is a personal favorite of mine and is definitely underappreciated. It is one of the more spookier items floating around Neopets and goes with many Halloween and/or Spooky outfits. It looks great on almost any pet!
Source: This item was one of three limited edition bonus items in the Living Nightmares Mystery Capsule.
Value: 2-3 caps. This item also has three dyework colors: green, black, and pink. All the recolors along with the original got many votes, but the most popular one is the black recolor.
Source: This item was once a limited edition item that was obtainable through the Halloween Mystery Capsule.
Source: This was one of many items that was awarded from the JubJub Power Bounce game in 2010.
Source: This was a limited edition item obtainable from the Spooky Moon Halloween Mystery Capsule which was released back in 2010.
Source: This item was a prize from the 13 Days of Trick or Treat back in 2010.
As an added bonus, here are the top 5 Neopoint Halloween/spooky items that various Neopians could not resist to mention! All prices were checked using the Super Shop Wizard but could have possibly changed.
Author's Note: I wanted to say thank you to everyone who took the time to post on my boards, to Neopets for making it possible for us to dress up our pets, to Jellyneo for providing the sources of each item, and lastly, to Shannon for her NC Value guide on /~Korolie. | 2019-04-19T00:47:59 | http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=575592&week=802 |
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As previously stated over the past two years, we are continuing with a number of studies focusing on protocols for the treatment of dermal lesions and as we find exciting new applications we will pass them on to you periodically.
Subsequently, there were a number of cortisone injections and application of various topical medications, all of which failed to diminish the size of the keloid.
The patient first presented at Meditech on July 23, 2007. The initial protocol utilized was red continuous for 10 minutes, infrared 50/70 for 10 minutes and the 75mW infrared probe continuous wave for 5 minutes, as well as the 100mW red probe continuous wave for 5 minutes. The patient has had a total of six treatments since then and on August 1st, quite remarkably, the lesion was barely visible and in total dimensions, elevation, etc. has been reduced over 90%.
After the two initial treatments, red was utilized at 100/90 for 8 minutes, infrared 250/80 for 8 minutes and the 100mW red probe continuous for 3 minutes, plus the 200mW infrared probe continuous wave for 3 minutes.
Again, after two treatments, further protocol changes were instituted utilizing the 75mW infrared probe and the 100mW red probe for 4 minutes each. The other protocols were unchanged.
Lessons to be learned from this approach indicate that one must be acutely aware of physical change and correlate it with protocol settings. We started with relatively low levels and went to higher levels fairly rapidly, as this appeared to be the appropriate course. The success we achieved was dramatic to say the least.
On an additional note, I had the opportunity to review Jan Tunér’s article, “Is the Blue Cross Meta Analysis Reliable?” As usual, Dr. Tunér’s articles are incisive, knowledgeable and to the point. Furthermore, the article points out the lack of reliability in many assessments, much as his recent article with regard to advertising in the laser industry. My interpretation of Dr. Tunér’s message is – always state the facts as they exist. Through this process, education and integrity will be enhanced.
This entry was posted in Case Profiles on August 3, 2007 by Fred Kahn, M.D, FRCS(C). | 2019-04-20T02:29:54 | http://fredkahnmd.com/2007/08/ |
Thanks to a grant from the Walnut Cove Member Association, more Buncombe County students receiving free school meals will have food access over the weekend, when they are away from the school meal program.
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Bike Lane FAIL: Cowper Street in Palo Alto | One woman. Many bicycles.
If it’s a bike lane, then why are cars parked in it? If it’s legal to park (per the signs on the lamp posts) then why is it marked as a bike lane? Even the long-term bike folks in Palo Alto can’t fully explain the history of these decades-old bike lanes. Either the parked cars or the bike lane have to go. Sadly, I know which one will.
Middlefield is the same, isn’t it? Bike lane, but cars can park there? Share the road, I guess. Even when not moving.
The Middlefield ones are better. Cars can only park in the bike lanes at night and on weekends. The Cowper ones are ok for car parking 24/7.
We have exactly the same problems in the UK. I’m a bit of a reactionary: I believe that when there is a problem like this the local mayor and all the officials involved in the planning process should be required to ride bicycles past the problem at rush hour, then explain why their decisions were made. Not much chance of it happening but it’s a nice thought!
Having decision makers use the facilities they’re planning is so obvious, yet rarely done. For these bike lanes, I suspect they put them in without considering the impact of removing residential car parking and the residents fought back.
The public cost of parking is at least equal to the rental cost of the land occupied. And given the product of the size of cars in Palo Alto and the rental cost, I think it’s obvious that’s under-appreciated.
God forbid they park their cars in their two car garages or two car driveways. I resent parked cars having precedence over moving bicycles the most. | 2019-04-26T07:57:51 | https://ladyfleur.bike/2012/07/09/bike-lane-fail-cowper-street-in-palo-alto/ |
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Bought this and did two batches of wine with it. It breaks the corks when inserting it. after picking pieces of corks out of wine I switched to a floor corker to generate more compression and things have been much better.
It strips the cork as it tries to get it in the bottle, shaving the cork. Also very flimsy like the cheapo bottle cappers in Homebrew kits. Good for entry level maybe, but after about 5 or 6 bottles, you will want an upgrade.
I got this mainly to do Belgian style corks, but also plan to do wine later this year. 3 stars as it was very frustrating trying to figure out how to get this to work for Belgian bottling. In the end, I got it dialed and it will do belgian corks (there was a point where I had serious doubt) but not without a lot of difficulty. | 2019-04-24T03:01:38 | https://www.morebeer.com/products/ferrari-wing-corker-easy.html |
The Service and Citizenship programme at Scotch has evolved over decades of engagement by boys in a multitude of service activities. Service action is facilitated through partnerships with agencies and encouraging boys to seek out individual opportunities to serve, giving tangible expression to our Christian values.
Boys in the Senior School complete a programme of Service Learning during school hours in Year 10 which involves service partnerships with multiple external agencies working with diverse groups such as; the mentally and intellectually disabled, the aged, the homeless and refugees. For more information on the Year 10 Programme, please visit the dedicated site – click here.
Service action also takes place in House groups and through Student Council activities. By accumulating service points, boys are able to work towards awards of Colours and Honours for Service and Citizenship. | 2019-04-20T14:49:29 | https://www.scotch.wa.edu.au/view/service-and-citizenship |
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My plan is to have almost no infantry, just bikes and buggies and planes etc. and as with other threads I've done on other forums I'll be posting WIP pictures along with bits of fluff to go along.
The First 2 units I'm working on are my Warboss on Bike 'Guzrusha Sparktoof' and his retintue of Nob Bikers. My plan is to have 6 Nobs, each one modelled to look like one of the 6 Ork Clans, the idea being that the Warboss lets them keep they're original colours when they joined the Kult of Speed, he cares not for clans, only pure, unadulterated speed!!!!
Like all of my models, this army will have a lot of character in each model. I made this guy (yet to be named) look super casual even though he's going at high speed, He's such an experienced Evil Sun that only the toppest of top speeds gets him excited. He's also got a jerry can and a bunch of extra exhausts. Still a little bit of work to do on him, but not much!!
So, there we go, I'm looking forward to this, I hope you are too!!
Any suggestions, question or comments???
I find it's pretty difficult to make a really striking warbike conversion. The models are so busy "as-is" that the add-ons tend to get lost. Still the boss bike looks good and big which is the main thing! And i like the long teef on the bad Moon, clever idea.
I'll be attaching the gun once the nob is glued on. Painting ork stuff is fun!!
I'm still not sure about the base trim colour, I think it suits but it look a bit odd, but that might just be because I'm used to seeing dark base trims...thoughts?
I've almost finished it!! I only need to add the handlebars, the attack squig, the guns and the Warboss himself!
I added some custom bosspoles, It doesn't show so well in the picture, but the middle one is my attempt at Orkish for "Sparktoof"
Job's a good un, boss. Wouldn't worry too much about the join, a big nob biker will cover that right up.
I've been using that colour for the base trims on me snakebites just lately, so you don't need to convince me on that score.
Thanks, yeah That's what I was hoping with the joins.
IF you pick up some black weathering powder, you can just brush it on at any point (don't need to pull the paint back out) after you finish the model. Goes on like makeup, easy to just play with to get the amount you want (for exhaust/soot).
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I'm really happy with how he came out, and I think it works well as a test model!
It doesn't really come across in this picture, but one of his teef is a spark plug, the us the name 'Sparktoof'. He's armed with what can only be described as a 'Kombi-Klaw'. still got quite a bit to do to him.
I figured if he's gonna be riding on a bike at high speed he needs goggles, still need to add straps.
Any suggestions for a name for this guy?
I also finished up the attack squig! Isn't he cute!?!
I've got an effigy of Gork (or possibly Mork) and a scrap pile for looting!!
Other than a few small things I need to fix with GS he's done!!!
He also has a map rolled up and attached to his belt, I'll go into more detail about that when I write a small bit of background for him!
He's quite a bit bigger and bare in mind that the other biker is a Nob too!!
and the objectives, still need to make 4 more!
His bike is a lot shinier than the other one, being a rich Bad Moon, I also gave him one blind eye because that head has a big scar across the eye.
Bad moon bike looks just about as good and shiny as a bad moonz bike should, top stuff mate.
The average Ork Warboss would start a Waaagh for power, or wealth, or to stop boredom. Warboss Guzrusha Sparktoof however, has a fairly unique goal. He is searching for 'Da Big One', An enormous engine from Ork folklore rumoured to be faster and more powerful than any other in the galaxy. Whilst most Orks see 'Da Big One' as a myth, Sparktoofs Speed Freak brain won't let him believe it isn't out there somewhere.
Riding his gigantic Warbike with his faithful attack squig 'Zog'ead', Warboss Sparktoof leads his band of like-minded Orks from planet to planet in search of his prize. After scouring a planet, He crosses the planet off on his map which he keeps attached to his belt at all times, and they set off for the next world.
When he was still just a young Nob known only as Guzrusha, he was hit in the face with a plasma blast while fighting some Armageddon Steel Legion. Though the Dok did his best to fix Guzrusha's injuries, he couldn't fix the fact that Guzrusha had lost the ability to grow his large toof on one side of his mouth. Feeling that his face was missing something, Guzrusha grabbed a broken spark plug from a Mek and jammed it into his empty gum. From then on he became known as Sparktoof.
I did my best to get the details form his backstory onto the model. I like trying to tell a bit of a story with my conversions. Here are some better comparison shots of just how big he is!
As always, C&C more than welcome!!!
I think you've done a great job! Lots of characterful conversion, and the painting is on point.
Some progress on the Buggies!
Great ideas. Love the bikers and especially the new buggies.
i like the buggy very much. all the little plastic card and -rod to connect the parts.
SOme of my bits finally arrived so I made a pretty good start on my Snakebite Nob Biker and his cyboar!!! | 2019-04-25T19:51:14 | http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/index.php?s=2caa044813be0cc2370fae2876bde4d8&showtopic=54786&page=1 |
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+ our hutch all heart attacked for valentine's.
+ the heart wreath i made up with the contents of my ribbon stash.
+ my favorite spot for reading; day or night.
+ carriages for lovebirds all lined up on temple square valentine's night.
+ the perfect chevron quilt for the aqua studio. i absolutely love it. thanks abby!
+ orla kiely pencils make me entirely happy. thanks suz!
+ a fancy salad from pizzeria 712. the start of our food frenzy of sista weekend 2012.
+ i brought jars of homemade salt scrub for the ladies; we stayed in for a spahhh party.
+ chit chat into the wee hours with a surprise baby shower / birthday party too. with heidi's lemon angel food cake. just the beginning of a weekend full of amazing sweets.
+ we dined at communal in provo for dinner one night and were all oohing and ahhing over every single dish. (not pictured.) i love sharing food and drawing out a long dinner. it was so awesome to eat at 'local favorites' (thanks to the suggestions of dear internet friends).
+ the rest of the photos are from our last stop before shopping the boutique scene. we headed to the chocolate, a dessert cafe in orem and happily passed plates and forks around. everyone took a little something sweet to their husbands at home too. it was an unforgettable weekend. i'm so grateful for family.
p.s. thank you so much for the warm, happy encouraging comments on our baby announcement. we are so thrilled. telling all of you feels like it's officially official. benji and i heard the baby's heartbeat again yesterday at the doctor's and all is well. hooray. more baby love soon.
Adorable. Felt like a cozy hug as I scrolled through. I love the "Heart Attached" hutch, what a cute cake platter in there :) Congratulations on your new baby on the way!
I'm so glad you liked The Communal and The Chocolate. I always worry giving recommendations; but I'm glad you enjoyed some of our favorites.
Your home looks so festive!
i love that quilt! and the mug for your pencils is so charming.
still so happy for you. looks like you're surrounded by love.
Two of my favorite eateries are P712 and Communal. You need to make your way to Utah County more often- I'd be happy to meet you for lunch. :) I am envious of the sisters getaway but was lucky enough to enjoy one with my bff a few weeks ago- heavenly! Can't wait for more baby love posts- I'll be 24 weeks tomorrow and love the chance to talk baby-things with willing listeners.
Wow Marta, congratulations!! I just read the awesome news!!! I am so happy for you and your growing family. I am really looking forward to following your pregnancy.
communal is so, so good. i wish i could afford to go there more often but it serves us well as a "special occasion" kind of place.
i love the half chocolate chip/half peanut butter cazookie at the chocolate. i've actually been thinking of it all day.
lovin' the heart garland, so adorable! thanks for giving us a little peek into your cozy home.
How did I miss this annoucement?!?!?!? CONGRATS!!! So excited for you and your family! When are you due??? Are you going to find out what you are having???
The picture of Temple Square is beautiful!! | 2019-04-18T20:42:04 | http://www.martadansie.com/2012/02/recently-february.html |
Nookling Junction, T&T Mart, Super T&T, T.I.Y. and T&T Emporium are Animal Crossing: New Leaf's version of a general store (Nook's General Store in previous games). The Nookling General Stores begin as Nookling Junction and evolve over time to include expanded space and selection and longer hours.
In this shop you can buy general items that aren't category-specific. The selection of Tools, Wallpaper, Flooring and Furniture changes daily. You can also buy Medicine here. The store is run by Timmy and Tommy, the nephews of Tom Nook.
You can also buy Fortune Cookies here which unlock rare Nintendo Items.
This chart shows what each Nookling general store carries, and how each expansion is unlocked -- You must satisfy all of the requirements to get the expansion. An expansion causes the shop to be closed for one night.
Buy 100,000 Bells worth of items at T.I.Y. | 2019-04-24T02:52:12 | https://www.ign.com/wikis/animal-crossing-new-leaf/Nookling_General_Stores |
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To be honest Lars I didnt start this thread to talk about this kind of thing,, But to hopefully talk about gordons teachings.
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3. What if I am doing other fitness activities? The IMPACT program is a 3 day a week, 55 minute workout that is high intensity. If you are already athletic, you may be able to also do this in conjunction with other activities. If you are already conditioned at your other activities (for example running or yoga) you can likely continue them on alternating days, however you should be wise to incorporate adequate rest so that you get the most out of your workouts and your body has time to repair.
4. What if I am on monthly billing and I am going on vacation? The program is set up to complete 12 monthly sessions beginning on the first Monday of the Month until 12 sessions are complete. If you have a special situation that does not permit you to attend all 12 sessions, please speak to your coach privately.
5. What can I expect if I do the workouts, but not the meal plan? You will be fitter, firmer and better conditioned, but you should not expect dramatic changes to your body composition. You will have an improved resting and working heart rate, blood pressure and cholesterol as well as blood sugar, however if you want to achieve a fit looking and feeling body, you will get the most significant results by following the eating plan.
6. If I am signed up for a certain class time and location, but another is offered by the same coach, can I show up at another class? You are expected to attend the class you register for. If you need to switch to another time and or location, please get pre-approval from your coach prior to the session.
7. How hard are the workouts? The workouts are challenging. They are developed with the intention to change your body in positive ways as quickly as possible. There is a good chance many of the workouts are new to you and the format allows little time for rest. That being said, the class is self paced and you will be encouraged to do your personal best.
8. Do I get a discount for signing up for more than one month? The price is the same for each month. There is a 25% discount for pre-paying for 12 months in advance.
9. Is there a discount if I join with a friend? The price is the same for each attending member. Everyone pays the same investment. There is a $25.00 referral fee paid to you for referring a friend.
10. What should I expect at the fitness assessment? The fitness assessment is held after the nutrition seminar on Sunday night. You will be weighed in and body composition, circumference measurements and photo’s will be taken. The photos are for your file and will not be used without your permission. Some instructors may choose to do additional testing. It will take about 5 minutes in total. The assessment will be repeated at the end of each month to compare your improvement over time. It’s a fantastic experience at each re-assessment to visually see your improvements.
My love of fitness and training developed when I began playing tennis in Middle School and continued through my years at Old Dominion University and beyond. | 2019-04-19T14:21:20 | https://www.mariahunterfitness.com/faqs/ |
The theoretical master thesis »Design (Re) Thinking – the role of designers in the 21st century« analyzes future demands and challenges for designers in a constantly changing social and economic environment.
could act in a responsible way within the fields of society, economy and ecology. A newly developed design process also shows how beyond design could be implemented in the development process of big companies to help them act in a faster and more flexible way. | 2019-04-22T02:36:40 | http://markogoller.de/design-(re)-thinking---en.html |
In the third quarter, GDP grew 7.4% over the same period last year, which was below the 7.6% rise observed in the second quarter and represented, in fact, the slowest growth rate seen since Q1 2009. That said, the reading came in line with market expectations. Although the National Bureau of Statistics does not provide a breakdown of GDP by expenditure, additional data suggest that private consumption moderated in the third quarter, while investment picked-up. In the first nine months, urban fixed-asset investment growth, which includes capital and construction investment, expanded to an accumulated 20.5% in nominal terms (H1 2012: +20.4% year-on-year), reflecting government efforts to speed up infrastructure projects as a way of boosting economic growth. On the other hand, private consumption appears to have lost some steam, with retail sales adding a nominal 13.5% in the third quarter, which is below the 13.9% rise observed in the second. Net exports, on the other hand, probably increased their contribution to overall growth in the third quarter, as imports slowed at a fastest pace than exports in the third quarter. GDP from the production side showed that the industrial sector continues to moderate and only expanded 8.1% until September (H1: +8.3% yoy), while services rose 7.9% (H1: +7.7% yoy). Meanwhile, growth in the primary sector inched down to 4.2% (H1: +4.3% yoy). A quarter-on-quarter analysis, however, does not corroborate the deceleration suggested by annual figures, as GDP rose a seasonally adjusted 2.2% in the third quarter, above the 2.0% expansion recorded in the second. | 2019-04-22T06:22:30 | https://www.focus-economics.com/countries/china/news/gdp/economy-grows-at-slowest-pace-in-three-years |
Finally, chimpanzees have been recognized as an endangered species and, in its first test of how their protection will be implemented, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, failed miserably.
Perhaps a backlash is in order.
"For almost two years, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University has been working to send seven chimpanzees to a zoo in England, prompting the outrage of several animal welfare and conservation groups because the zoo is unaccredited and there are American sanctuaries ready to accept the chimps." From the NYTimes.
Here is the latest update in our critical campaign to stop the transfer of Emory’s Yerkes 7 endangered chimpanzees—Agatha, Elvira, Faye, Fritz, Lucas, Tara, and Georgia—to Wingham Wildlife Park in Kent, England.
Immediately upon hearing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s decision that New England Anti-vivisection Society NEAVS and its coalition lacked standing to stop the export permit, and upon reading the Court’s language regarding the export, including that “FWS’s [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s] broad interpretation [of the Endangered Species Act] appears to thwart the dynamic of environmental protection that Congress plainly intended,” it is obvious that the legality of this export permit was successfully challenged. (As background we have attached the entire court ruling, but most important are pages 56-58; key sections highlighted.) The Judge’s ruling places both Yerkes and FWS under a glaring spotlight. Even with the permit in hand, the illegality and accompanying immorality of this export is no longer in doubt. It is confirmed.
NEAVS appealed directly to the Emory University President and its Board of Directors. You can view the letter here: http://www.neavs.org/resources/publication/641.
And to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, who soon will welcome Dan Ashe, Director of FWS under which this highly unethical and blatantly wrong interpretation of the Endangered Species Act has occurred. You can view the letter here: http://www.neavs.org/resources/publication/642.
NEAVS and its coalition of chimpanzee and conservation experts, former Yerkes caregivers, and animal advocates will leave NO STONE UNTURNED to stop this export of endangered lab chimpanzees. As we write, our lawyers are planning our prioritizing our next steps. Our staff are working hard on internal strategies.
We are now asking YOU to SPEAK OUT in opposition to this illegal export permit as it is in clear violation of what the U.S. Congress intended within the language of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
1. Express your strong disapproval of the export permit TODAY by contacting Emory University President, Claire E. Sterk, Ph.D. at president@emory.edu, or call Dr. Sterk at 404-727-6013. Implore her to make certain that Emory stops Yerkes’ complicity and blatant disregard for U.S. law and instead exhibits nothing less than the highest ethical standards of behavior by sending these and all of their chimpanzees to U.S. sanctuaries.
2. Contact Dan Ashe at FWS and ask him to suspend this export permit given the scathing language of the court calling into question why FWS thinks it has the right to “sell permits” when its mandate is to protect endangered species. You can contact him at dan_ashe@fws.gov or 202-208-4717.
Keep those emails and calls coming and spread the word. They need to be reminded that FWS did not prevail in this lawsuit on merit. The judgement was with NEAVS and the thousands who oppose this export. They prevailed on a legal technicality. And shame on them if they take advantage of that to the detriment of these 7 chimps, all captive U.S. chimps, and all chimpanzees worldwide. | 2019-04-23T16:07:30 | https://www.ginnyrorby.org/blog/tag/NEAVS |
First install Aid4Mail on your old computer and activate your license.
Next, transfer the resulting ZIP file to your new computer and install Aid4Mail on it; then re-activate your license.
You only need to use Aid4Mail on your old computer if you have Qualcomm Eudora mail.
In this case, first install Aid4Mail on your old computer and activate your license.
On your old computer, use Aid4Mail to convert your Eudora mail to the Generic Mailbox format.
Next, transfer the resulting mbox folders and files to your new computer and install Aid4Mail on it; then re-activate your license.
Finally, use Aid4Mail to export your mbox files to your new mail program.
For other formats, simply transfer your source mail folders to your new computer and then use Aid4Mail on your new computer to export them to your new mail program. | 2019-04-24T03:06:39 | https://help.fookes.com/support/solutions/articles/9000023938-how-do-i-transfer-mail-from-my-old-computer-to-my-new-one-with-aid4mail-1- |
It's Nick Saban's birthday week, and what do you get the coach who has everything? You make him smile by donating to his favorite cause, the Nick's Kids Foundation!
The Steve Shannon Morning Show wants you to give Coach Saban a special birthday present--make a donation to our Nick's Kids GoFundMe campaign! We're raising money to give to NIck's Kids in honor of Coach and the tremendous amount of success he's had both on and off the field.
Helping NIck's Kids continue its incredible work in Tuscaloosa and West Alabama is sweeter than a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie and will make you feel cooler than the day-old coffee Coach is probably drinking right now.
We're challenging all our Bama fam to step up for Coach. Make your birthday donation now by clicking the button below--and share it with all your friends, too!
Make Your Nick's Kids Birthday Donation Now! | 2019-04-22T19:10:19 | https://tide1029.com/hey-bama-fans-join-95-3-the-bear-in-giving-nick-saban-a-special-birthday-present/ |
Heart to Heart time is coming…. Sign up time is here!
Join a small group of fourteen gatherings for reflection and sharing.
Begins January 9 and will meet 2nd and 4th Wednesdays each month through July, meeting 7-9 pm (dates below).
Sign up in the back of the sanctuary or email spiritmoves@bbuuc.org.
The Heart to Heart Covenant Group is a good way to explore personal beliefs and possibilities and a great way to get to know a group of people.
We will be using the book Heart to Heart by Christine Robinson and Alicia Hawkins, available at http://a.co/d/diPkkmn. If you don’t have Amazon Prime or for any other reason would prefer that our DRE Chris Jarman purchase a copy for you, let her know (dre@bbuuc.org) and she will get it for you at cost (currently $12.34 per paperback copy), no shipping charge.
For our first gathering, reflect on the idea of sharing in a group by creating your own stepping stones (see below) and choosing one or more of the other journaling suggestions to explore this topic.
Start with as many stepping stones as you’d like, but try to collapse them into about five “eras” that you are willing to share.
Journaling Suggestions: What is your favorite childhood story? What is your favorite “victim” story, your favorite “hero” story?
When you were a child, how did your family act around the dinner table? What was mealtime like?
Write about a time in the past few years when you called on one or several of “your communities” for help, nurturing, and support.
Along with your “Stepping Stones” list, bring to the group five tokens such as coins, game markers, pebbles, or similar small items. You can bring five of the same thing, or you can bring tokens that symbolize the five stepping stones of your life. | 2019-04-22T10:04:05 | https://www.bbuuc.org/learning/adults/covenant-group/ |
Who was Caught in the Act of Great Teaching? These professors were!
Searching for new ways to reduce the impact of mental stress on our physical well being.
Dr. R. Clinton Webb will receive the 2018 Excellence Award for Hypertension Research.
Sullivan selected for two national scientific honors.
What do bad sleep habits and stiff blood vessels have in common? Nothing good, MCG scientists say.
A Program Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is helping to further understand the damage of dead and dying cells in the body. | 2019-04-24T18:15:03 | http://jagwire.augusta.edu/archives/tag/physiology |
I was at a VMUG meeting Friday. Like always I was having tons of fun talking to other users of VMWare, and getting to see the latest and greatest new products for VMWare. At the end of most of the meetings they have prize give aways. I always register but NEVER win. EVER. Well that luck finally came to an end on Friday when I won a Flip Video UltraHD . I was freakin stoked!! It also came with a Flip Video Power Adapter , and this Tripod , and also this handy Flip Video Soft Pouch . I used it this weekend to video building my Kegerator. I will be posting that video on youtube as soon as I have time to edit it and get it uploaded.
Well we are starting over with a fresh new site, and some fresh new content. Check back often to find the latest useless information. | 2019-04-19T08:41:35 | http://www.errr-online.com/index.php/category/general/page/2/ |
Over the past five years, the city's Executive Office of Economic Development (EOED) has supported 37 projects for small businesses through the Division of Business Assistance (DBA), according to Chief Development Officer Tim McGourthy. The department has directed more than $500,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program to small businesses within the Worcester Commercial Area Revitalization District (WCARD).
He cites 18 projects through the Facade and Awning Incentive Grant (FAIG) program, 15 through the Storefront Improvement (SI) Program and 4 as part of a Microloan program. The projects were funded by $512,000 in public funding and $780,000 in private investments.
In addition, says McGourthy, similar assistance is offered to businesses within the Blackstone River Road/Greenwood Street commercial corridors, through funding from the Greenwood Street Landfill Account. Money in that account came from the re-capping of the Greenwood Street Landfill. Approximately $500,000 has been approved for economic development use, including the creation of the following three programs: Quinsigamond Village Storefront and Facade, Quinsigamond Village Small Business Grant and Quinsigamond village Microloan. One project has been completed under the storefront and loan program and two under the small business grant. According to McGourthy, 10 projects are underway, including seven under the storefront and facade program and three under the small business grant program. | 2019-04-19T18:36:09 | https://www.worcestermag.com/2012/11/12/a-helping-hand-178981061 |
As you'll see, I decided not to write all old articles about my old projects, they do exist there, but they never left my office. There would be too much work to do and I did not want to delay the launch of my website. Better: I wanted to make this lack of content a (funny?) exercise through a survey, in order to detail first the projects that interest most people!
So I would appreciate if you could post a message in this survey, indicating what would interest you most to see in detail in my old projects listed on my website (just a word, or the project name will be enough).
That's a serious adventure started in late January and continues for me, so thank you so much in advance!
I didn't realize you had such style. Good call on going with animations over still shots. Everything about the site looks great. I've already bookmarked it.
Do you have any plans on opening a comments section? How about an RSS feed to inform people of updates?
Edit: Every page looks good, and I even have JS disabled. Kudos.
Concerning the website, I have read a lot about webdesign and picked from other examples. I also showed it to a friend who is web designer to have some advices.
I had real fun creating the animations in GIF icons (at the bottom of the page) using Allegro routines!
I don't plan to do RSS. I prefer using social networks (will use Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) to keep people informed.
On Facebook page, you can comment.
My Twitter account is still being set up for now, but it will be a way to comment as well.
Not really a game project, but here is a tiny update, about "SOUNDTEST (Blind test - Community project)" (IMHO) a funny example of "Constraint Satisfaction Problem" programming applied to "fair" videogame blind tests.
Yay it's still opened !
Keep motivated, and write code !
And code will continue to be written !
In general, it's a good practice to leave out anything "coming soon" or "under construction". In my experience, websites like that generally stay that way.
Present your content such that it doesn't advertise its incompleteness, and your website will be 85% better.
Even if it's incomplete, let the website be only about things you've done, not things you haven't done.
[Edit] @Mark fixed "Coming soon" images on home page.
I love the extravagant animations on the front page.
Once you click through there are a lot of big red crosses though. I guess that's work in progress?
Thanks for your feedback amarillion!!
As for the big red crosses, it says "Description not yet written in details..." and provides 2 links each time a red cross appear: "Why?" and "What is this “X”?"
but maybe that's not visible enough.
Or maybe the explanation is not clear either.
No, I read the "Why, and What is this" links. They are visible enough, and I understand the explanation.
It's just that there are so many of them at the moment.
In some months, most of them should have been explained.
I did this because I preferred to show that I took part in many projects, even if talking about incomplete things is generally a bad practice.
I want to play that game... it looks like bomberman meets shoot 'em up in a truly unique game mechanic I've never seen... crushing enemies on a bomberman-like grid so that they explode and hurt the boss.
I'm so glad to hear such feedback!!
I'm doing this on my spare time, and hope to release it in summer 2016.
TOMORROW !!! Hehe Getting ready to present some gamedev/playtest/debug #CipherPusher GO FOR IT!!
Please tell me about the background music for the Sound Test "making of" video.
The first and second tunes, for starters! They're awesome and start at 0:00 and 1:40. The third song, at 2:40, is good, also. It sounds familiar. Is it from the Lufia series? And is the last one really from Contra 3? They're all solid.
I just answered in the video description.
Next time, don't hesitate to comment directly on Youtube, please.
A.cc is cooler than YouTube.
A.cc has better quality comments than Youtube.
Mind, that's a very low standard to meet.
I agree with you guys but commenting a Youtube video is a way of making it seen more often.
You seem very "fluent" in the ability to make games. How do you do it?
What do you mean? If you mean the frequency, please note that my previous video is about a game coded in 2003 with Allegro 4.
You are visitor #58,599,402 since January 1999.
Page generated in 0.023650 seconds. | 2019-04-20T11:43:59 | https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/615719/1017022 |
Guidance: Contains strong language, adult content and strobe lighting.
Ibiza Weekender will return for another series and rep Jordan Davies says he and pal Deano Baily will step up their pulling game. The Weekender team welcome new arrival Austin, Callum faces his biggest dilemma so far, and Jordan raises his game. | 2019-04-18T14:34:35 | https://www.itv.com/hub/ibiza-weekender/2a3296a0033 |
Those who were lucky enough to travel to Japan should already be familiar with Yayoi as it is a famous restaurant that uses the Teishoku (set-menu) dining concept there. Since Filipinos are already used to set meals, Yayoi takes it up a notch with their ichiju-sansai which means one soup, three sides. It refers to a meal consisting of one cup of rice, one bowl of soup and three dishes (one main and two sides). They actually started 130 years ago with their first branch in Tokyo. Now, they have 300 outlets scattered over various countries like the United States, Australia, Thailand and Singapore. Now they open their first branch in the Philippines and we can't be more lucky than that.
Filipinos are no strangers to Japanese cuisine. Most Japanese restaurants specialize in one dish which could be ramen, gyoza or katsu. Yayoi offers all of that and a lot more as they have a wide variety of Japanese selections that will satisfy each type of foodie.
I was really overwhelmed by their ordering system. Aside from the physical menu, they also make use of an ipad menu where customers can just choose what they want to order then send it to the kitchen. They can even view how much longer they have to wait before their food gets served. It is indeed a nod to how technologically advanced Japanese people are. It is actually something I was expecting a restaurant to do so I am glad Yayoi finally implemented it.
I had to try the Teishoku concept myself so I had the Mix Toji Teishoku. It consisted of breaded pork loin, fried shrimp and sukiyaki beef simmered in special sauce and egg. I loved how there were so many food in front of me. My suggestion is that the Teishoku should have a drink included with it too for a complete meal experience. I loved all the meat included as I definitely give compliments to the chef. Believe it or not, the best part is actually the rice as it is Kinme rice. Yayoi uses purely select brands of Japanese brands of rice produced in various parts of the country. It is made with a cleaning method that maintains its original deliciousness and nutrients. I really wish they can make this rice unlimited because I loved it even if I'm not a rice person.
My favorite part of a meal is always the dessert and the fact that they have Matcha got me excited even more. Matcha Anmitsu consists of Green Tea ice cream with azuki beans and fruit cocktail along with black sugar syrup. It is indeed the perfect way to end a hearty meal at Yayoi. | 2019-04-23T21:54:25 | http://www.aldousatetheworld.com/2016/09/yayoi-brings-teishoku-to-sm-megamall.html |
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The antiquated, refined elegance of Victorian Goth and the rough, edgy futurism of Rivetheads may seem a completely incompatible combination. But, thanks to the fantasy genre of the same name, the two have been successfully wedded to create Steampunk.
Steampunk is, in essence, science fiction that takes place the low-tech setting of the past (very often the Victorian era). In Steampunk, you may find steam-powered robots, clockwork computers and complex contraptions made from wood, brass and wheels. The merging of Victorian imagery with quirky technology is doubtlessly of huge appeal to many, but perhaps the most important links between Steampunk and alternative culture are the Victorian writers who inspired the genre, including Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe.
Steampunk fashion is highly creative, incorporating elements that evoke Victorian technology such as clocks, keys and cogs, popular colors seem to be brown, and gold. Although Steampunk is not a music scene, acts such as Rasputina, Emilie Autumn and Abney Park have all been cited as having Steampunk appeal.
Image from Deviantart, info from blackwaterfall.com. | 2019-04-19T08:33:57 | https://gothicmarshmallon.page.tl/Steampunk.htm |
The brstmspm file extension is related to the XWE editing tool for Windows.
What is brstmspm file? How to open brstmspm files?
The brstmspm file extension is associated with the XWE (also known as eXtendable Wad Editor) a software tool for Microsoft Windows that allows users to edit Doom WAD files.
The brstmspm file stores some kind of data used by XWE.
XWE allows users to view and edit sprites, textures, flats, sounds, SOCs, level headers, and any other type of lump included in WAD file.
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open brstmspm file, edit brstmspm file, convert brstmspm file, view brstmspm file, play brstmspm file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Click on the software link for more information about XWE. XWE uses brstmspm file type for its internal purposes and/or also by different way than common edit or open file actions (eg. to install/execute/support an application itself, to store application or user data, configure program etc.). | 2019-04-20T17:00:24 | https://www.file-extensions.org/brstmspm-file-extension |
A warm, friendly Open Level class - suitable for all levels including reasonably fit beginners. Classic Hatha yoga poses arranged into flowing sequences to stretch and tone the body whilst calming and refreshing the mind.
This is a dynamic hatha yoga class aimed at beginners and improvers. During this course you will develop your strength, flexibility, and reduce tension levels, regardless of your age, your level of fitness or flexibility. This class will include breathing exercises, postures and some relaxation.
£8.50 per class (please check availability to avoid disappointment) or less if booked in blocks. Although block -booking is preferable, booking one-offs and drop-ins are also possible, subject to availability.
For more info please drop me an email, check www.sophiedubillot.com, or give me a ring. I look forward to seeing you on the mat! | 2019-04-26T02:28:32 | https://www.classfinder.org.uk/venue-profile/eNortjK1UiozMjcyULIGXDAUagLd |
As violet opened the door to the shower the steam began to heat up the room.
At this point Dash has started to realize the full reality of the situation and is shaking with fear.
With her chest pressed against his back and her hair draping down over his face he becomes relaxed.
She leads him in while holding his hand and after she shuts the door she turns to dash and kisses him.
Not the kiss of a sister but the kiss of a lover. As she draws back she gasps under her breath “I love you” she lifts him up and sets him on the corner seat.
She kisses him agian but starts to slide down while breathing heat onto his chest. Now she is on her knees with her head between dashes legs. She brushes back her hair has she begins to drag her tung along his thigh. This sensation drive him insane as he becomes fully erect. She then slide her tung down his shaft that soon slides into her mouth. She then presses her lips together and begins to slide up when she feels the pulsation and warmth of Dashes orgasim. | 2019-04-18T18:48:05 | https://incredibles.all-hentai.com/tag/porn-story/ |
Commercial agents are always looking for new faces and you do not have to be beautiful or handsome to book most commercials.
Short answer: Beat out the competition. How? Right look. A certain indefinable quality they are looking for. Dress somewhat appropriately (no ripped jeans if you're up for a young professional). Do something just a tiny bit original. I once booked a commercial where I was to walk a dog in a park. Most of the audition (on camera) was ad lib. I took a long chained purse, dragged it on the floor and kept gooing at my purse/dog. I am positive it was the purse/dog that booked that commercial.
With a few exceptions, the ad is about the product and they do not want the actors to be particularly memorable. So send in your most natural looking headshot (no glamour here, unless you are stunning). Read our articles on self-submission letters, envelopes, be sure the agent does commercials and do your mass mailing. Also follow up with a postcard.
SAG commercials pay well. Even SAG extras on commercials can make a nice income. I know people who make an average of $35,000 a year as extras on SAG commercials. And please do not think you are demeaning yourself, or selling out, if you do commercials. It's all acting. And I cannot tell you how many casting people send out a call for a particular actor they saw in a commercial. So a commercial may lead to a sit-com audition. In fact, one casting director saw someone in a commercial, remembered the actor and is now tracking him down for some other job. A national commercial is a great step up the ladder, especially if you are the only person in the ad.
Do not make the mistake of thinking that booking a commercial is a shoo-in. I had a major agent who sent me out 67 times before I booked my first commercial. Yes, there were lots of "first refusals," a lot of "holds," and many "call backs" but 67 auditions before the first booking! Got to be a world record for rejection! But then can you imagine the delight in the middle of "Law & Order" of seeing yourself advertising Palmolive! So don't knock commercials. They pay well and the competition is keen and yes they really use trained actors for the most part.
This has always been my dream to be on TV. I tried numerous auditions but got turned down so I kinda gave up. It's always been in me if anyone reading this please contact me.
I would like to enter commercials.
I really would love to land a commercial job.
Hi I'm Antoinette from Evander Mpumalanga. I'm very much interested in tv commercials, I believe in myself and confident enough that I have what it takes. Just need a chance to live my dream.
My name is Barbara and I'm 50 yrs old. I tried a little modeling back when I was in my late 20's and was in the bakini invitational back in 1997. I have always wanted to do commercials as well as acting. How do I get in touch with an agent? what steps do I need to take?
My name is Rodney L. Regan, and I have worked as a background extra in a couple of local commercials, but as one who has worked on stage and film productions along with being a former jazz radio host/producer, I want to do National TV Commercials.
Hello this is Sylvia I really want to be in commercials...I am 27 yrs..i am from India..I always gets lots so compliments for my hai and for my eyes..and the way I talk everybody telling me you should try to get in commercials.. I was wondering where can I start...who can I talk to abt this?
do some commercials!I have my Web page.let me know if you are interested.
Hello, never been in any commecial, but im sure I got what it takes four a new challenge.I resign in Atlanta georgia.
Hello I'm just wondering about something... I am 32 years of age and have a really unique voice I sound like I'm a little kid lol I work as a waitress right now and everyday people are telling me you should try to get in commericals because of my voice I was wondering if you could tell me how to go about getting in them??? Or if you guys ever need help with kids voices???
I really want to be in commercials....where can i start...who can i talk to?
I'd like to be in many commericals as possible. Live out my dream.
I live in Arizona. I travel to LA, alot.
If you can contact me i'd appreciate it. | 2019-04-23T04:56:02 | http://www.actingbiz.com/acting-tips/how-to-get-work-in-commercials/ |
We've enjoyed some of the beauty of Big Sur a few times, but not in the last decade or so. Very much looking forward to a return trip. We'll be visiting relatives in the San Francisco area and have the choice of going in June or July. Question: Is one of those two months better for doing Big Sur? Weather-wise? Crowd-wise?
So: If folks think that Post Ranch really is worth breaking the bank for, the question is which accmmodation to choose? Do people have particular favorites?
Thanks for all feedback. I wonder,too, how early it's necessary to get reservations made. Thanks!
I've been to Post Ranch Inn several times and we try to return every 2 or 3 years for a two or three night stay. We usually stay in either the Butterfly Rooms or the Tree Houses. I really like staying in the upper Butterfly rooms. They are private and have a nice deck looking towards the mountains.
I've never been to Ventana so I can't compare the two, but my partner has been and he says that Post Ranch Inn's location and design are very different and for the most part superior to Ventana.
The one thing to know before going in is that the rooms while very nice are not luxurious in the Four Seasons sense at all and this puts some people off, especially at the prices they charge. We call the rooms "Opulent Zen". Lots of slate, concrete cast fireplace, minimalist flower arrangements, and custom furniture that is a blend between arts/ crats and modern. I think the rooms are a perfect match for the location.
Some of the comments on tripadvisor on PRI remind me of some of comments on Caneel Bay, which I know you are familiar with. The value of PRI lies in more than just the rooms. The property that the inn is built on is gorgeous and views of the Pacific are breathtaking.
They have recently added 3 new room categories and from the pictures they look very similar in asethetic appeal to the older rooms.
It is a very special and unique place that is hard to describe to one that has not been there. There is a "feeling" that one gets when there.
The Post Ranch Inn is our absolute favorite place to stay in California. We stay in one of the Coast units (I think the name is Post, but I'm not positive about that). The coast rooms overlook the ocean and everything is unbelievable - architecture, serenity, quality of service, etc., etc. The Sierra Mar restaurant is excellent. I have a feeling June might be foggier than July. The reservationist should be able to help you with that, and I would recommend making your reservations soon.
Hi Bill, hi Meo-- thanks for your comments.
Actually, we've been on the PRI property-- had dinner at the restaurant when we were last in the area. No question about it-- that setting is incomparable. We thought that the meal, by the way, was fine, but not a truly memorable one (again, except for the setting).
The reason we stay at Caneel is that the main thing we go to St John for is the snorkeling-- and Caneel beats anywhere else hands down for covenience; plus we think the grounds are terrific. When we go to Big Sur, the main thing we'll be interested in is the hiking and of course imbibing the all-around gorgeousness. Since (unlike the situation at Caneel) one has to go off grounds for varied hiking anyway, I keep wondering whether it's worth paying those very steep rates at PR for the view alone (or mainly for the view; I'm sure the rooms are very handsome). I.e. if we hang out at Nepenthe a bit, and do some of those awesome walks with views to die for, I wonder if plunking down $600-700 for a room (or whatever it is, I haven't checked) is truly worth it. I know, I know "worth it" can only be answered by the person her/himself.
Thanks again! I will ponder (and drool).
If by "view" you mean an ocean view - I think PRI will be quite a bit more than $600-$700. Their cheapest rooms may be in that range - but I'm pretty sure most ocean view rooms will be over $1000.
janis is right. The ocean view rooms start at around $1100.00 and go up to $2100 a night.
I was at Ventana about 5 years ago, and at PRI this past April. No question about it, PRI wins hands-down. I really think you should do it at least once in your life. I had the Mountain Room, and loved every minute of my time there.
jamq, wow. Great pictures! I'd love to stay at the Post Ranch Inn but the prices are a bit out of my budget. Your photos really bring out the beauty and feel for the area though.
Bill's photos of Post Ranch Inn are stunning and the property looks so gorgeous..
Here is a website for Big Sur and hit the link for lodging..
I'd say if you have the money, it's worth staying at the Post Ranch Inn in the best room you can afford (they are all fabulous). If you don't have the money, it wouldn't be worth going into debt (well, maybe briefly in debt...but not so you can't sleep at night!).
Is Ventana a lot less? If they are close in price, I'd go with Post Ranch Inn.
July is the foggiest month on N. Cal. coast. We can't keep sparklers lit on the 4th of July.
Carmel and Big Sur are busy every month of the year. You could manage the crowds if you stayed at the Post Ranch. The room is for two, why leave?
I love looking at those photographs too! We need to get back there. Those photos were taken in mid February. The weather was amazing. For returning guests they offer a 2 night, mid week deal for $850 in a Butterfly House room and $1000 for a Tree House from November through April. This is what we usually do. They used to throw in two massages in the deal, but alas you have to pay for those now.
Yipes! Talk about sticker shock!!
Clearly, if we ever do make our way up into that rarefied air, we'll have to make do with "slumming it," (!) in one of the 3 less expensive accommodations. I'm wondering whether folks think that the "order" of rooms, cost-wise, pretty much reflects the desirability of each kind of room. Does it step up, degree by degree, mainly on the awesomeness of the view, or are the rooms themselves quite different from each other, in size and comfort, e.g.? No doubt privacy is better as one goes up in price, but are any of the less expensive options also nice and private? Would one ever hear neighbors, for instance? Can people walk around in the altogether without having to draw drapes?
Both my husband and myself (now in our 70's) much loved our careers as teachers-- but those careers sure didn't facilitate stays at places like PR.
Post Ranch Inn is an amazing place. June is less foggy than July. There will be more tourists on our beautiful Highway 1 in June, too.
iamq - thanks for sharing the pix. Loved the infinity/basking pool...paradise.
From what I've seen, the most private rooms are the ocean rooms and they do indeed have the best views and are the most expensive. They are stand alone units. The other rooms that are stand alone units are the Tree House rooms. These are all built among groves of Coast Redwood trees. This is the room in my photos. They are nice and are private, but ours had a very small deck that we never used. The decks in the upper Buttefly rooms are large and have great views of the trees with glimpses of the mountain through the trees. Privacy in the upper Butterfly unit we always try to get is conducive to "altogetherness", as is all the rooms we've stayed in. LOL! No need to draw the drapes and we never hear anyone, even though there are three units on top of each other in each "wing" of the butterfly. The whole place is really quiet. It almost always feels like you have the place to yourself. We went in June one year and the weather was spectacular. Temps in the low 70's and not a cloud in the sky. I kept muttering, "This is unbelievable..." I'd go as early in June as you can.
I'd go the first week of June, the earlier the better, before "summer vacation" people come out to play. As Tess and others have said, July is generally foggier. If you can, go during the week for a more serene experience. The height of summer is the busiest time in Big Sur.
Oops! I meant to say there would be less tourists in June than July. LOL! Well, that's typical anywhere, right?
Post Ranch Inn is my favorite place on earth. I've been there 3x.. and have always stayed in a butterfly room-- it's all I can afford. The rooms are great and the beds are heavenly.... so is the bathroom. I think it's worth every penny.
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Rod and cone photoreceptors support vision across large light intensity ranges. Rods, active under dim illumination, are thought to saturate at higher (photopic) irradiances. The extent of rod saturation is not well defined; some studies report rod activity well into the photopic range. Using electrophysiological recordings from retina and dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of cone-deficient and visually intact mice, we describe stimulus and physiological factors that influence photopic rod-driven responses. We find that rod contrast sensitivity is initially strongly reduced at high irradiances, but progressively recovers to allow responses to moderate contrast stimuli. Surprisingly, rods recover faster at higher light levels. A model of rod phototransduction suggests that phototransduction gain adjustments and bleaching adaptation underlie rod recovery. Consistently, exogenous chromophore reduces rod responses at bright background. Thus, bleaching adaptation renders mouse rods responsive to modest contrast at any irradiance. Paradoxically, raising irradiance across the photopic range increases the robustness of rod responses.
Vision functions over about a dozen decades of light intensity1, 2 thanks in part to the use of two different photoreceptor classes (rods and cones). Rods are specialized for high-fidelity signaling at low-light levels, whereas cones mediate fast signaling at higher light levels. Based on this division of labor, light intensities are called scotopic (only rods are active, starlight vision), mesopic (both rods and cones are active), or photopic (rods are saturated, and only cones are active, daylight vision).
The distinction between mesopic and photopic conditions is, by definition, determined by the background irradiance at which rods saturate. However, rod saturation is not as absolute as commonly presented. Rod saturation becomes apparent as a reduction in contrast sensitivity at higher irradiances3,4,5 (seen as deviation from Weber–Fechner law). As a result, larger contrasts still elicit responses from rods, but moderate contrast stimuli only trigger cone responses. At higher irradiances, this “incremental saturation” could progress sufficiently to produce a state of effective “absolute saturation”, in which rods are unresponsive to any physiological contrast. However, whether rods do indeed reach absolute saturation and, if so, at what irradiance this occurs, remain uncertain. Phenomena interpreted as rod saturation have been reported in ex vivo recordings at irradiances ranging from 102 to 105 rhodopsin isomerizations per rod per second (R* rod–1 s–1)4, 6,7,8. However, other studies reveal that rod responses can be recorded across these light intensities9, 10, and recent behavioral studies11, 12 provided evidence for functional rod vision at up to 105 R* rod–1 s–1. Presumably, these discrepancies reflect methodological differences, e.g., species studied, end point measured, or experimental conditions5, 13,14,15. Overall, however, the capacity of rods to contribute to visual responses at higher irradiances remains incompletely understood.
We set out to explicitly define the limits of rod vision in mice by recording rod responses over a wide range of irradiances, using ex vivo and in vivo electrophysiological recordings. Surprisingly, we do not find a simple relationship between rod saturation and irradiance. While rod contrast sensitivity is impaired upon stepping to backgrounds of 104 R* rod–1 s–1 and brighter, contrast sensitivity recovers over time under all backgrounds. In fact, we see rod responses to moderate contrast stimuli even at 107 R* rod–1 s–1, the brightest background we tested. Moreover, contrast sensitivity recovers faster at higher irradiance, such that, contrary to conventional wisdom, raising the background light intensity within the “photopic” range does not reduce, but increase rod contribution to visual responses.
To characterize rod activity in response to different contrast stimuli over a large irradiance range, we first used ex vivo retinas (isolated from RPE) from Cnga3 –/– mice lacking cone photoreception16. With electroretinography (ex vivo ERG, Fig. 1), we recorded the isolated rod response by applying pharmacological agents to inhibit second-order responses in the retina (Methods). During each experiment, we repeatedly presented a set of 50 ms light flashes of four different contrasts (Fig. 1a), while increasing irradiance at 10-fold increments every 30 min. This yielded seven light levels spanning a range from 1 R* rod–1 s–1 (2 × 108 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1) to 106 R* rod–1 s–1 (2 × 1014 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1, Fig. 1a). As a measure of response, we compared signal amplitude (mean voltage during 300 ms following flash onset) to baseline (mean voltage during 300 ms before the flash).
At lower light levels (≤103 R* rod–1 s–1), ERGs to all contrasts were detectable (Fig. 1b; Supplementary Fig. 2). At higher light levels (104 to 106 R* rod–1 s–1), responses to the weaker contrasts (0.33 and 0.6 Michelson) were never detectable, consistent with expected incremental rod saturation3, 11. This corresponds to a background at which other authors have described rod saturation4, 6, 7 and we therefore refer to 104 R* rod–1 s–1 and brighter as the “photopic” light range from here on. At the same time, the stimulus with the strongest contrast (0.99 Michelson) always elicited responses at all backgrounds, indicating that rods were never fully saturated in this preparation. During exposure to >104 R* rod–1 s–1, these responses even gained amplitude over time (Fig. 1b), indicating that rods were becoming more responsive. This latter effect had an absolute impact upon responses to intermediate contrast (0.79 Michelson, red curve in Fig. 1b, individual flash responses shown in Fig. 1c), which were lost upon stepping to photopic backgrounds ≥104 R* rod–1 s–1, but gradually re-emerged at all irradiances. The time course of response recovery was consistently faster at higher light levels (n = 4 retinas, Fig. 1d). Comparable results were obtained from recordings in two other cone-deficient mouse lines (Pde6c cpfl1/cpfl1 and Gnat2 cpfl3/cpfl3, Supplementary Fig. 2).
The presence of ERG responses to large contrast steps throughout these recordings shows that rods were never fully saturated at any of the backgrounds tested, including at light levels that were well within the photopic range. Moreover, the re-appearance of responses to an intermediate contrast (0.79 Michelson) indicates that the loss of contrast sensitivity was not a fixed property determined by irradiance, but recovered somewhat at all backgrounds. Counter-intuitively, the rate of this recovery was faster at brighter backgrounds.
To understand how such rod activity could impact the retinal output, we turned to multi-electrode array (MEA) recordings of ganglion cell spiking activity from isolated cone-deficient (Cnga3 –/–) retinas (n = 10 retinas). Similar to the ERG experiments, we increased background light at 10-fold increments every 30 min, yielding 8 light levels from 1 to 107 R* rod–1 s–1 (2 × 108 to 2 × 1015 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1, Fig. 2a, b), and superimposed 2-s full-field steps of positive contrast (+0.25 Michelson, +0.66 Weber) or negative contrast (–0.49 Michelson, –0.66 Weber). The responses of a representative single ganglion cell are shown in Fig. 2c (positive contrast stimulus) and 2d (negative contrast). We presented blocks of five repeats of this stimulus every 5 min (spike raster shown on the left, average spike rate shown on the right). After switching from a background of 103 R* rod–1 s–1 to a background of 104 R* rod–1 s–1, the cell shown in Fig. 2c, d did not respond to the stimulus during the first presentation, consistent with the concept that rods would become saturated at higher irradiance. However, just as in the ERG recordings, ganglion cell spiking responses increased over time at this background, such that responses became apparent even to the weak contrast used in this experiment. Furthermore, rather than showing further evidence of saturation, responses of this cell actually became stronger with subsequent increases in irradiance, even up to 107 R* rod–1 s–1, 1000-fold above the background at which responses had first disappeared with these fixed contrast stimuli.
This behavior was consistent across the population of retinal ganglion cells (Fig. 3). At lower irradiances, most recorded ganglion cells clearly responded to contrast steps (Fig. 3a). Upon initial switch to a background of 104 R* rod–1 s–1 (2 × 1012 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1), responses effectively disappeared. However, over time the fraction of responding cells increased again, reaching around 50% after 30 min (Fig. 3a). Similarly, a sizeable fraction of cells retained or recovered responses at even brighter backgrounds (up to 107 R* rod–1 s–1). Mean response amplitude (across responding cells at each epoch, Fig. 3b) also transiently decreased upon switching to 104 R* rod–1 s–1 and 105 R* rod–1 s–1, but otherwise remained at least at 50–70% of the maximal response. Indeed, some ganglion cells, like the one shown in Fig. 2, had their strongest responses at the brightest backgrounds. We observed similar behavior as in Figs. 3a and b in two other cone-deficient mouse lines (Pde6c cpfl1/cpfl1 and Gnat2 cpfl3/cpfl3, Supplementary Fig. 3).
As seen in Fig. 3a, the fraction of responding cells at 104 R* rod–1 s–1 and 105 R* rod–1 s–1 continued to increase throughout the 30 min at these light levels. In a set of experiments, we held retinas at those two backgrounds (104 R* rod–1 s–1, n = 3, Fig. 3c, or 105 R* rod–1 s–1, n = 2, Fig. 3d) for 150 min, and found that nearly all cells eventually regained responses. The major difference between the two light levels was the rate of recovery: it took around 45 min at 104 R* rod–1 s–1 but only 15 min at 105 R* rod–1 s–1 for 50% of the ganglion cells to recover responses. Thus, recovery was faster at a brighter photopic background.
These ex vivo ganglion cell recordings from cone-deficient mice revealed that rod responses at photopic light levels can drive ganglion cell spiking activity, even at contrasts that do not elicit reliable ERG signals. In other words, the ability to detect rod-driven responses at high backgrounds to a stimulus with defined contrast may depend on the sensitivity of the recording method in addition to the photoreceptor biology. The time course of ganglion cell responsiveness further confirms that high background intensities abolish responses to moderate contrast stimuli, but those responses recover over time such that rods can drive retinal activity to moderate contrasts across all irradiances tested. Furthermore, once within the “photopic” range, increasing irradiance can actually enhance rod-driven ganglion cell responses in the isolated retina.
Having recorded rod-driven responses in explanted retinas under even the brightest backgrounds, we next asked whether rods may mediate such light responses also in vivo. To this end, we recorded multiunit activity from the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of anesthetized Cnga3 –/– mice (Fig. 4, recording positions shown in Fig. 4d) in response to 50 ms flashes of positive contrast (0.75 Michelson). In these experiments, higher (photopic) irradiances (104.35, 105.35, and 106.35 R* rod–1 s–1) were interspersed with moderate irradiance (mesopic, 103.35 R* rod–1 s–1, 4.52 × 1011 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1, predicted to support strong rod responses), to confirm that the mice retained good visual responses throughout the recording session.
Firing patterns of a representative multiunit recording are shown in Fig. 4a. As predicted, strong and stable flash responses were recorded at the mesopic background of 103.35 R* rod–1 s–1 (4.52 × 1011 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1). A 10-fold increase of irradiance (to 104.35 R* rod–1 s–1, 4.52 × 1012 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1) made responses hard to discern. Upon further increases of irradiance, responses were suppressed at first, but re-emerged over time. Similar to the ex vivo recordings, the rate of response recovery was positively correlated with irradiance. These general patterns were confirmed by a systematic analysis of these data (Fig. 4b), in which response amplitude (difference in spike rate in 200 ms windows before and after the flash) and reliability (based on p-value for rank sum test comparing these values) were plotted as a function of time.
Most recorded multiunits (n = 22/36) exhibited a similar pattern of transient response loss and recovery at the two highest backgrounds, 105.35 and 106.35 R* rod–1 s–1, with the time course of recovery being faster at 106.35 R* rod–1 s–1 (Fig. 4c). Other multiunits (n = 14/36) failed to respond consistently at those irradiances (p > 0.05 for rank sum test for at least half of the trials). Behavior at the intermediate irradiance (104.35 R* rod–1 s–1) was variable, with some multiunits matching the very poor responses shown for the single example in Fig. 4a, b, while others responded reliably (Fig. 4c).
These results in LGN of cone-deficient mice (Fig. 4) were consistent with ganglion cell responses in isolated retina (Fig. 3): Responses transiently disappeared when switching to higher photopic light levels, and re-emerged with a time course which was faster for higher background intensities. Our ex vivo ERG recordings (Fig. 1) suggested that this transient lack of responsiveness may be due to incremental saturation, i.e., reduced contrast sensitivity, rather than absolute saturation. We next tested if this interpretation would also apply to the in vivo situation.
After stepping to a low photopic background intensity (103.9 R* rod–1 s–1), we presented square-wave contrast steps (0.25 Hz) at six different contrasts, centered around the mean background intensity (Fig. 5). While presenting these contrast steps for a total of 48 min, we analyzed the peak-to-trough responses of 86 recorded LGN multiunits in four time bins of 12 min each. During the first 12 min after stepping to this background intensity (Fig. 5b, shown in blue), the weakest contrast stimuli (20% Michelson) did not elicit responses, while stronger-contrast stimuli did. Over time, responses for all stimuli grew in amplitude, reaching steady state during the third time bin (i.e., after about 30 min, shown in orange). Also the 20%-contrast stimulus elicited noticeable responses at that time.
We then stepped to a higher photopic background (105.9 R* rod–1 s–1, Fig. 5c), repeating the same stimulation paradigm. At this background, the reduction in contrast sensitivity during the first 12 min was more pronounced, with stimulus contrasts of 70% or higher being necessary to elicit responses. However, responses recovered also at this background, reaching steady state already during the second time bin (shown in green), i.e., faster than at 103.9 R* rod–1 s–1.
In summary, LGN multiunits exhibited response features upon stepping to photopic background levels which were consistent with those of ERG and ganglion cell recordings ex vivo, namely initially reduced contrast sensitivity with faster recovery at brighter light levels.
The experiments with cone-deficient mice revealed that rods can function across all physiological background light intensities. The difficulty of observing their activity with ERG (Fig. 1) suggests that their light responses are weak, even though they apparently can activate downstream pathways reliably (Figs. 2–5). A reasonable question is whether this allows rods to contribute to visual responses in animals with an intact visual system (i.e., when cones are also functional), or whether the gain of rod signals compared to cone signals is so small that the rod contribution is negligible. To answer this, we set out to measure rod contribution to the overall visual response in mice with intact cone function by using a transgenic mouse line (Opn1mw R) in which the mouse M-opsin coding sequence is replaced by the human long-wavelength sensitive (“L” or “Red”) opsin sequence17. In this animal, the wavelength sensitivities of rods and the two cone types are very different (Fig. 6a), allowing us to test if rods alter the spectral sensitivity of visual responses under bright backgrounds. To rule out the possibility of recording melanopsin-driven responses, we crossed these Opn1mw R animals with a melanopsin knockout (Opn4 –/–) line18 (Opn1mw R :Opn4 –/– mice).
Anesthetized Opn1mw R :Opn4 –/– animals were adapted to a violet light (λ max = 400 nm) to which rods and cones containing L-opsin and S-opsin are approximately equally sensitive (Fig. 6a, b1). Responses to blue (λ max = 430 nm), cyan (λ max = 480 nm), and red (λ max = 630 nm) flashes presented in pseudorandom order at 15 different intensities superimposed upon the violet background (Fig. 6b2 ) were recorded in the contralateral dLGN (recording positions shown in Fig. 6f). Due to the divergence in spectral sensitivity between rhodopsin, S-opsin, and L-opsin, there is a big difference in the effective contrast of these flashes for rods and cones. In particular, while flashes at all three wavelengths present significant contrast for L-opsin, rods should be much less responsive to red stimuli, and S-opsin contrast is very weak at all wavelengths (Fig. 6b2 ). Under the assumption that rods are in absolute saturation and only cones are responding, we would expect equivalent responses to flashes at all wavelengths when flash strength is expressed in units of L-opsin contrast. On the other hand, rod intrusion at mesopic irradiances should produce differential responses to blue and cyan vs. red flashes. For example, a blue and a red flash with equal L-opsin contrast should nevertheless produce different responses at mesopic light levels, because to rods, the blue flash appears brighter than the red flash.
We found clear evidence of rod intrusion in the composite flash responses when these flashes were presented on a violet background generating ~103 R* rod–1 s–1 (1.38 × 1011 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1), at which rod responses were always strong in our recordings with cone-deficient mice (Fig. 4). Specifically, when flash intensities were expressed in units of L-opsin contrast, responses were consistently larger for blue and cyan flashes than for red flashes, as shown in Fig. 6c for a single unit and in Fig. 6d for the population of recorded units (see Supplementary Table 1a for statistical analysis). Upon stepping up to 104 R* rod–1 s–1, this difference disappeared, with response amplitude to flashes at all wavelengths being adequately predicted by their L-opsin contrasts. Responses at 104 R* rod–1 s–1 could thus be interpreted as being solely cone-driven. Consistent with the other data presented here, however, a further increase in irradiance (to 105 R* rod–1 s–1) produced an increase in rod intrusion. At 105 R* rod–1 s–1, flash response amplitude could no longer be predicted by L-opsin contrast. In this case, blue and cyan responses were consistently smaller than red responses of similar L-opsin contrast. These data indicate an inhibitory influence of rods on the cone flash response at this high photopic level. Such inhibitory rod–cone interactions have precedent in the psychophysics literature19.
To confirm that the effect at 105 R* rod–1 s–1 was not attributable to some methodological error, we first tested how robust it was to errors in our estimate of in vivo L-opsin spectral sensitivity. We varied the two parameters that could strongly influence this estimate (pigment optical density and pre-receptoral spectral filtering; Methods), but found that the reduced responsiveness at blue and cyan was retained (Supplementary Table 1b). We next tested if responses to blue and cyan flashes in cone-deficient Cnga3 –/– mice were equivalent to each other when expressed in units of our estimated rod-opsin contrast, which was the case (Fig. 6e). This suggests that the difference to blue and cyan flashes observed at 105 R* rod–1 s–1 in Opn1mw R :Opn4 –/– mice (Fig. 6d) could be attributable to a difference in relative excitation of rods and L-opsin (L-opsin to rod-opsin ratio of excitation at brightest flash: 0.48 for blue and 0.44 for cyan). In summary, while our data are consistent with flash responses being wholly cone generated at 104 R* rod–1 s–1, they reveal a significant rod contribution at the brighter background (105 R* rod–1 s–1).
What physiological processes could explain the observed pattern of rod responses under bright backgrounds? We probed the most detailed available computational model of rod phototransduction20 (simulating phototransduction with a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE)) with a sinusoidal stimulus (0.25 Hz) of either strong contrast (0.94 Michelson, full amplitude 1.5 log units) or moderate contrast (0.7 Michelson, full amplitude 0.75 log units, Fig. 7a) while increasing the background every 30 min by 1 log unit, spanning low to high intensities (1 to 107 R* rod–1 s–1). The model predicted saturation (lack of photocurrent modulations) at the higher irradiances used in our experiments (Fig. 7b; blue and cyan curves show the predicted photocurrents to the moderate or strong contrast stimulus, respectively). However, while the model predicted rod saturation at high light levels, modulations in the concentration of unbleached rhodopsin (red and orange curves for moderate and strong contrast) were retained at all irradiances (see inset in Fig. 7b). This indicates that if the model incorporated a reduced gain of the phototransduction cascade, this might prevent saturation and allow rods to respond to this stimulus.
The original model’s parameters were fitted to physiological recordings from mouse rods under dark-adapted conditions. They thus did not account for any aspect of photoreceptor light adaption, such as well-established irradiance-dependent translocation of elements of the phototransduction cascade between inner and outer segments21, 22. For example, at higher light levels, arrestin moves into the outer segment, increasing its effective concentration; while transducin and recoverin leave the outer segment, reducing their concentration. These translocations have the net effect of reducing the gain of the phototransduction cascade, thereby contributing a mechanism of light adaptation. We modified the model to include these translocation events (Fig. 7c, solid lines). This modification resulted in modulated photocurrents at all light levels (Fig. 7d).
Including translocation of phototransduction elements allowed the model to replicate our three main experimental observations: First, responses at photopic light levels (104 R* rod–1 s–1 and above) are initially weak when stepping to that background, but recover over time. Second, saturation was less apparent for stronger stimulus contrast (compare cyan and blue traces in Fig. 7d). Third, the time course of response recovery was faster at higher light levels (see also magnified views in Fig. 7d). Thus, translocation of transducin, arrestin, and recoverin in the model was crucial to enable photocurrents at high light levels. However, the specific time course of the translocation events was less important. We tested the effects of implementing the translocations as artificial, step-like events (dashed lines in Fig. 7c) instead of the more realistic kinetic processes (solid lines in Fig. 7c). As expected, such immediate concentration changes resulted in more rapid recovery in photoresponse (light gray vs. dark gray curves in Fig. 7e), but this did not change the qualitative observation that responses recovered faster at higher photopic light levels. In other words, the light-level-dependent time course of photocurrent recovery needs to be influenced by an additional component, beyond the translocation events. Interestingly, faster response re-emergence at higher irradiances coincided with the increased rate of rhodopsin bleaching (red curve in Fig. 7d). Rhodopsin bleaching reduces the rate of isomerization events and might thus be one of the mechanisms allowing for rod responses at high light levels, similar to the suggested role of bleaching adaptation in cones23.
To directly test if rhodopsin bleaching might indeed support rod responses at higher light levels, we returned to ex vivo MEA ganglion cell recordings from retinas of cone-deficient Cnga3 –/– mice. We explored the impact on bright light responses of supplying exogenous chromophore (50 µM 9-cis retinal, facilitating rhodopsin regeneration). A technical challenge in achieving this was that the bright background light would itself bleach exogenous chromophore. We therefore devised a protocol in which ganglion cell responses were recorded at a high light level (105 R* rod–1 s–1), but with occasional interruptions by 10 min at low mesopic levels (102 R* rod–1 s–1) during which chromophore could be applied (Fig. 8a). While application of chromophore is generally considered to support visual responses in the ex vivo preparation, one would expect the opposite in the case of bleaching adaptation, with responses to contrast steps at the bright background suppressed following epochs of chromophore application.
In accordance with our earlier results (Fig. 3), ganglion cell responses disappeared when first switching to 105 R* rod–1 s–1 in this paradigm, and recovered within about 15–30 min. Then, during the intermittent 10 min periods at dim background (102 R* rod–1 s–1), ganglion cell responses were completely absent, consistent with loss of sensitivity of bleached rods to dim stimuli. Upon stepping back to 105 R* rod–1 s–1 from the dim background, however, contrast responses of ganglion cells were suppressed only weakly and briefly (Fig. 8e, f, control). Conversely, when adding 9-cis retinal during the dim period, responses of some ganglion cells recovered toward the end of the dim period, indicating that the lack of responses in the corresponding control trials was at least partly attributable to rhodopsin bleach. After returning to 105 R* rod–1 s–1, however, responses were significantly weaker than in control conditions (Fig. 8e, f, retinal). This indicates that enhanced regeneration of rhodopsin had detrimental effects on ganglion cell responses at high light levels, consistent with the hypothesis that rhodopsin bleaching is indeed one of the mechanisms that allow rods to escape saturation in bright backgrounds. Interestingly, responses to lower contrast stimuli were more strongly affected by rhodopsin regeneration than responses to higher contrast (Fig. 8e, f), reinforcing our earlier observations (Figs. 1, 5) that saturation is expressed as reduced contrast sensitivity.
Here, we characterized rod-driven visual responses in the mouse over a large irradiance range, from scotopic to high photopic light levels. All our data—ERG and ganglion cell recordings from isolated retina ex vivo, and recordings of LGN responses in vivo—shows that rods can drive visual responses to moderate contrast stimuli, within the range encountered regularly during natural viewing24, at all physiologically relevant irradiances. It further shows that, at photopic backgrounds, this capacity is associated with a recovery in contrast sensitivity over extended exposure, and that this recovery occurs faster at higher backgrounds. Such rod-driven responses were not only readily observed in cone-deficient mice, but also contributed to the visual responses in visually intact animals. Together, our data show that the presence and re-appearance of rod responses depends not simply on the background intensity, but on the interaction between background intensity and the duration of exposure. Surprisingly and counter-intuitively, both higher background intensity and prolonged exposure result in reduced saturation, i.e., in more robust rod-driven signaling.
We initially aimed to use transgenic cone-deficient mice to describe the transition to rod saturation. The concept of rod saturation at bright backgrounds is widely accepted25,26,27,28,29, and dates back at least to the classical study of Aguilar and Stiles3, who found incremental rod saturation with the psychophysical two-color incremental threshold test. Green4 measured ERG responses from rat retina and found rod saturation with a two-color incremental threshold test similar to the one used by Aguilar and Stiles. However, an important aspect of both studies, often overlooked, is that they report loss of contrast sensitivity rather than full rod saturation. Our own work highlights the importance of this distinction. We too see loss of rod contrast sensitivity when stepping to bright backgrounds, but this does not correspond to full rod saturation. Rather, rod responses were always apparent if stimuli of sufficient contrast were applied.
When interpreting the results of visual experiments carried out at high backgrounds, especially when considering whether rods contribute to visual processing, several factors should be considered. First, in addition to stimulus contrast, is the sensitivity of the recording method: stimulus-evoked rod responses (Fig. 3) may not be apparent with a less sensitive method, such as ERG (Fig. 1)30, 31. Second, thanks to the recovery of rod contrast sensitivity over time at photopic backgrounds, rod responses to moderate contrasts may re-emerge even after lacking for many minutes. Third, even more importantly, the recovery rate in contrast sensitivity is itself positively correlated with irradiance. High backgrounds are commonly used as an experimental strategy to study cone vision. Our experiments confirm that stepping to high backgrounds can indeed produce retinal responses that are strongly or even exclusively cone-driven. However, they further reveal that the duration of this exclusively cone-driven operational regime is shortest at higher light levels. Thus, care needs to be taken to limit exposure to photopic light levels if the aim is to exclude rod responses32. Indeed, it is not safe to assume that rods stay silent at any background light intensity, and further irradiance increase, once in the photopic range, can actually be detrimental to the objective of isolating cone vision. Here, we were able to observe rod intrusion at high light levels in visually intact animals due to the distinct spectral sensitivities of rhodopsin and the cone opsins in the “red opsin” mouse model. Since wild-type mice have very similar spectral sensitivity of rhodopsin and M-opsin, unwanted rod intrusion at high light levels can easily go unnoticed.
The results of the computational modeling are instructive with respect to the potential mechanisms that allow rods to signal at even the brightest light levels. A previously published model of rod phototransduction20 predicted that rhodopsin isomerization was triggered by visual stimuli at all backgrounds (red curve, Fig. 7b), but that this was not translated into changes in membrane current at irradiances causing 104 R* rod–1 s–1 or more (blue curve, Fig. 7b). Inclusion of irradiance-dependent translocation of transduction cascade components between inner and outer segment (transducin, arrestin, and recoverin, Fig. 7c) aligned the model with our physiological data (Fig. 7d). The net effect of the translocations is a reduced gain of the cascade, such that the stimulus-induced variation of activated rhodopsin was translated into a modulation of photocurrent. According to the model, then, these translocations are a prerequisite for rod responses at high backgrounds. They do not explain all aspects of such activity, however, as even when we modeled these translocations as instantaneous events, the model recreated the slow build-up of rod responses under extended exposure to high irradiance and the positive correlation between irradiance and the rate of this recovery (Fig. 7e). In the model, the response recovery rate coincided with the rate of rhodopsin bleaching, which naturally occurs more rapidly at higher irradiance. Since rhodopsin bleaching also results in a reduced gain of the transduction cascade, it might contribute a form of “bleaching adaptation” in rods equivalent to that previously described for cone photoreceptors23. Our experiments confirmed this hypothesis (Fig. 8). Note, however, that bleaching can also have the opposite effect and contribute to saturation, because bleached rhodopsin (i.e., opsin) slightly activates the phototransduction cascade33, 34.
The description of bleaching adaptation raises an interesting further question. Why did our ex vivo preparation not stop responding to light simply because all its visual pigment had become bleached? We were able to record responses from cone-deficient retinas isolated from the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) for many hours at high light levels that should have fully bleached available rhodopsin in minutes or even seconds of exposure. While cones can take advantage of 11-cis retinol generated in Müller cells, which they convert to 11-cis retinal31, 35, 36, rods are thought to depend on the RPE visual cycle. How can rods then retain responsiveness? Kaylor et al.37 recently showed that all-trans retinal, after having dissociated from opsin, can regenerate to 11-cis retinal within the membrane phospholipid bilayer of photoreceptors in a light-driven reaction. This process would naturally be strongest at high light levels, resulting in the maintenance of a steady-state pool of regenerated rhodopsin. Alternatively, our ex vivo retina preparation may retain sufficient RPE (we occasionally see small specks of pigment epithelium remaining on the isolated retina) to recycle chromophore.
The mathematical model allows exploration of rod behavior at high irradiance with variations in chromophore recycling. Higher rates of chromophore recycling (model parameter k Rrecyc) abolish responses at high irradiance (Supplementary Fig. 4, first row), consistent with the proposed importance of bleaching adaptation, and consistent with results of our chromophore augmentation experiments (Fig. 8). Interestingly, strong reductions in k Rrecyc (below 1% of the standard parameter value used in Fig. 7a–e) had the same effect, owing to excessive accumulation of opsin, which saturated the cascade33, 34. In essence, only intermediate values of k Rrecyc predicted photopic rod responses (Supplementary Fig. 4, blue curves in panels 2–4). Could changes in other key model parameters support light responses at high backgrounds, despite a lower chromophore regeneration rate likely encountered in ex vivo experimental conditions? The behavior at high irradiance was also dependent upon both the total number of rhodopsin molecules (parameter Rhod total, columns in Supplementary Fig. 4) and the efficiency with which opsin (bleached rhodopsin) activates the cascade (parameter k Ops, different colored curves in Supplementary Fig. 4). Lower values for either parameter supported photopic responses, allowing the model to match responses recorded ex vivo at lower values for k Rrecyc.
Therefore, the sensitivity of rod responses at high irradiance could depend on naturally occurring variations in the properties of the phototransduction cascade and its regulation (e.g., differences in molecular concentrations, kinetic properties, translocation processes, or outer segment volume). Such variations might exist between species, between individuals of the same species, between different rods in the same retina, or even within the same rod across the circadian cycle. This observation might further explain discrepancies in the literature concerning the rod saturation threshold (Introduction).
The updated computational model presented here provides a hypothetical biochemical explanation of our experimental observations. All of our adjustments to the original Invergo et al.20 model were based on reported biophysical rod properties and light adaptation events in rods. Thus, we did not fit the model to our data, but found that implementing already well-established adaptational processes resulted in a surprisingly good qualitative match between the model behavior and our experimental observations. Explaining rod responses at high light intensities does therefore not require any additional mechanisms beyond what is already known about rod behavior. Nevertheless, additional consequences of bright light exposure may well exist. It was recently shown38 that reduced sensitivity of the phototransduction cascade after strong bleaching is partly compensated by properties of the rod inner segment to achieve more robust voltage responses. Furthermore, the supramolecular organization of rhodopsin and transducin into clusters on the disc membrane has been proposed to be important for fast and reliable light responses39,40,41. In the context of bright backgrounds, with reduced concentration of both rhodopsin (due to bleaching) and transducin (due to translocation), regulation of such scaffolding might contribute to controlling the gain of photoresponses.
Do these conclusions drawn for mice translate to other species, including humans? The most direct proof for rod-mediated vision under photopic conditions would be obtained by psychophysical tests with rod monochromats. This is difficult due to the common photophobia of such individuals when exposed to bright light42. However, several studies showed that rods impact aspects of color perception at scotopic and mesopic light levels in human trichromats43,44,45, dichromats46, and blue cone monochromats47 (reviewed by Zele and Cao48). This influence of rod signaling on color vision could be used to test for rod contribution to visual perception also under bright light conditions. Further, insights into rod-mediated vision under bright light can also be gained form a subset of rod-monochromatic individuals, which are not blinded in such an environment49. It is interesting that the rod system in these individuals is apparently less prone to saturation. According to our model, this could be explained by differences in rod biochemistry in these particular patients resulting in different gain control. Deeper insight into the underlying mechanisms of this effectively non-saturating phenotype might reveal new opportunities to treat rod monochromats by appropriately interfering with the properties of the rod cascade, potentially by reducing the gain. While such a reduced gain would be counterproductive for low-light vision, our daily lives, with electrical lighting all around us, happen mostly beyond the scotopic range, so that such treatment could indeed have a net positive benefit.
We used several transgenic mouse lines in which cone responses are abolished due to mutations disrupting the cone phototransduction cascade. In Cnga3 –/– mice16, kindly provided by M. Biel for ex vivo experiments, the cone-specific alpha-subunit of the cyclic nucleotide gated channel is mutated, preventing voltage changes in cones upon light activation. Cnga3 –/– mice were 4.5–6 weeks old for ganglion cell recordings, 8 weeks for ex vivo ERG recordings, and ~6–8 weeks for in vivo experiments. In Pde6c cpfl1/cpfl1 mice (Jackson strain #3678), kindly provided by Bo Chang (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME), the cone-specific phosphodiesterase is non-functional. Pde6c cpfl1/cpfl1 mice were 11–13 weeks old. In Gnat2 cpfl3/cpfl3 mice (Jackson strain #6795), the cone-specific transducin is non-functional. Gnat2 cpfl3/cpfl3 mice were 5–13 months old, only data from animals at least 1 year old are shown here. All ex vivo experiments were performed with explanted retinas, with RPE removed. A characteristic feature in these preparations was the transient suppression of responses to moderate contrast stimuli upon switching to photopic light levels (104 R* rod–1 s–1 and brighter), a feature not observed in wild-type retinas with functional cones. Further, the Gnat2 cpfl3/cpfl3 model has slow cone degeneration with cones surviving up to 1 year. In contrast to older animals (12–13 months), younger animals (5 months) did not have complete response suppression after switching to photopic light levels, which indicates residual cone function. In other words, the complete response suppression to moderate contrast stimuli in experiments described here suggests that cones were indeed non-functional in those retinas and responses, when present, were rod-driven. “Red opsin” mice (Opn1mwR; Opn4–/–) of ~6–18 weeks were used for in vivo experiments and bred in-house at the University of Manchester, UK.
Animal use was in accordance with German, UK, and European regulations and approved by the Regierungspräsidium Tübingen (ex vivo experiments) and the local Manchester Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Board (AWERB; Manchester, UK; in vivo experiments).
Mice were kept on a 12/12 h light/dark cycle, dark-adapted for 4–16 h before the experiment, and killed under dim red light by cervical dislocation, with or without preceding exposure to CO2. Experiments were performed during daylight circadian times (experiment start in the morning or early afternoon). The eye cups were removed, put in Ringer solution (in mM: 110 NaCl, 2.5 KCl, 1 CaCl2, 1.6 MgCl2, 10 d-Glucose, and 22 NaHCO3) bubbled with 5% CO2/95% O2. The retina was isolated and attached to a nitrocellulose filter (Millipore) with a central 2 × 2 mm hole, with the optic nerve head centered.
All recordings were performed with a perforated 60-electrode MEA (60pMEA200/30iR-Ti-gr, Multichannel Systems, Reutlingen). The electrodes are arranged on a square grid with a 200 µm distance between neighboring electrodes. Experiments were performed as described previously50. Briefly, the mounted retina was placed ganglion cell-side down in the recording chamber, and good electrode contact was achieved by negative pressure through the perforated MEA. The tissue was superfused with Ringer solution at 34 °C. Data were recorded at 25 kHz with a USB-MEA-system (USB-MEA1060, Multichannel Systems, Reutlingen) or an MC-Card-based MEA-system (MEA1060, Multichannel Systems).
Data was high-pass filtered (500 Hz, 10th order butterworth filter), and spike waveforms and spike times were extracted from the raw data using Matlab (MathWorks). Spike sorting and thereby assignment of spikes to individual units (presumably ganglion cells) was performed semi-manually with custom written software (Matlab). Quality of each unit was individually/manually assessed by interspike interval and spike shape variation. Data analysis was based on the spiking responses of individual units. We estimated the instantaneous firing rate of ganglion cells by convolving the spike train (i.e., time series of 0’s and 1’s) with a Gaussian with sigma of 40 ms.
9-cis retinal (Sigma R5754) was dissolved in 99.96% ethanol (VWR 20821.330) for a 50 mM stock solution (Fig. 8). For the experiments, stock was diluted 1000-fold in Ringer solution, for a final concentration of 50 µM. 9-cis retinal Ringer solution was perfused at the beginning of the dim segments of these experiments (Fig. 8a). Given the flow rate of our perfusion system, it took about 1.5 min for the MEA chamber to be completely filled with the 9-cis retinal Ringer solution; after 4 min at full concentration, we switched back to normal Ringer solution. 9-cis retinal Ringer solution was prepared fresh from stock for each experimental perfusion event.
Ex vivo ERG recordings were performed as described previously utilizing the same 60-electrode MEA system as described above50. An Ag/AgCl pellet reference electrode (Science Products E-201ML) was connected instead of the internal reference electrode of the MEA chamber. The AgCl reference was positioned 2–3 mm above the center of the MEA electrode field and was optically shielded from direct visual stimulation. Synaptic transmission from photoreceptors to bipolar cells was blocked with 50 µM L-AP4 (Sigma A7929 or Abcam ab120002), 10 µM NBQX (disodium salt, Tocris 1044), and 10 µM RS-CPP (Tocris 0173). Glial currents (slow PIII component) were inhibited with 100 µM BaCl2 (Sigma 342920)51. Data were low-pass filtered (300 Hz, 4th order Butterworth filter) and downsampled to 1 kHz. Noisy electrodes were discarded and all remaining electrodes were averaged for the analysis of ex vivo ERG responses.
Visual stimulation followed the same protocol described before52. Briefly, the retina was stimulated with full-field gray scale visual stimuli with a computer-controlled digital light processing (DLP) projector (PG-F212X-L, Sharp or K11, Acer) and focused onto the photoreceptors through the condenser of the microscope (Supplementary Fig. 1c). The stimulus projector produced output spanning 3 log units of light intensities (i.e., 1000-fold difference between black (“0”) and white (“255”) pixels). We linearized the gamma function of the projector output. The light path contained a shutter and two motorized filter wheels with a set of neutral density (ND) filters (Thorlabs NE10B-A to NE50B-A), having optical densities from 1 (“ND1”, 101-fold light attenuation) to 5 (“ND5”, 105-fold light attenuation). To achieve light attenuation stronger than 5 log units, we serially combined an ND5-filter in one filter wheel with another ND filter in the second filter wheel, to achieve optical densities from 6 to 10. While changing the ND filters, we closed the shutter to prevent intermittent exposure to bright light. We usually started the experiments with ND8 (i.e., combination of ND5 and ND3 filter), and step by step increased the ambient stimulation luminance by changing the ND filters by 1 unit. Unless otherwise noted, we presented the same set of visual stimuli at each ND level during an experiment.
We measured the spectral intensity profile (in µW cm–2 nm–1) of our light stimuli with a calibrated USB2000+ spectrophotometer (Ocean Optics). We then transformed the stimulus intensity into rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1 by converting the spectrum to photons cm–2 s–1 nm–1, and integrating it with the normalized spectrum of rod sensitivity53. In addition, for comparison we report stimulus intensity in equivalents of photoisomerizations per rod and second (R* rod–1 s–1), assuming dark-adapted rods, by multiplying the photon flux with the effective collection area of rods (0.5 µm2)54. The results for a stimulus intensity of “30” range from 2 × 108 rod-effective photons cm–2 s–1 (1 R* rod–1 s–1, ND8) to 2 × 1015 photons cm–2 s–1 (107 R* rod–1 s–1, ND1), see Fig. 2b, c. Note that the intensity values given as R* rod–1 s–1 (isomerizations events s–1 rod–1) serves for only comparison. It truly reflects photoisomerizations only at low intensities; at high backgrounds, bleaching adaptation leads to a much lower effective rate of isomerizations.
Stimulus. Ganglion cell spiking responses were probed with full-field contrast steps (step duration: 2 s) on a gray (“30” RGB pixel intensity) background (positive contrast: “30” → “50”, Michelson: + 0.25, Weber: + 0.66; negative contrast: “30” → “10”, Michelson: –0.49, Weber: –0.66, see Figs. 2b, 8b). Five positive and five negative steps were interleaved and presented as one block, and the firing rate to these five repetitions was averaged and taken as “one response”. The firing rate curves on the right in Figs. 2d, e, and 8c represent these “responses”, which were used for further analysis; the rasters on the left show the underlying five individual responses.
Responsiveness. Whether or not a ganglion cell responded to a block (five repetitions) of contrast steps was determined manually. For each unit and each stimulus block, we manually inspected spike raster plots and firing rates. If a cell responded clearly and consistently to at least three out of five repetitions within one stimulus block, it was considered as “responding” and was tagged with “1”. Since the purpose of this analysis was to see if rods can drive light responses in ganglion cells, also purely “negative responses” (stimulus-evoked spike suppression) was counted as a response. Stimuli for which a cell responded to only 1 or 2 repetitions or for which the response was weak and/or sluggish were tagged with “0.5”. If a cell did not respond during a stimulus block, it was tagged with “0”. The average value of these assignments across all units was used as the value for “responsiveness” in Fig. 3a, c, d.
Amplitude. The amplitude of the response (used in Fig. 3b) was determined automatically as follows: first, the baseline firing rate was subtracted from the response (baseline firing rate was defined as the mean firing rate during 1300 ms before contrast step onset); second, we took the absolute value of the response (such that also negative deflections in the firing rate would be recognized as a response of the cell to stimulation); third, looking at all four brightness transitions (onsets and offsets of the positive and negative contrast steps), we took the maximal response value within 50–400 ms after the contrast step. This gave one “amplitude” value for each ganglion cell and for each stimulus block. For further analysis, we only considered amplitude values during stimulus blocks to which the cell actually responded (responsiveness tags “0.5” or “1”, see above). These amplitudes were normalized for each ganglion cell separately to its maximal response across the experiment.
Averaging across experiments. In most experiments, full-field contrast steps were presented at the same time points after light-level transitions, with the earliest presentation about 4 min after the ND filter switch and then regularly every 5 min (Protocol 1 in Supplementary Fig. 1b; other stimuli, not discussed here, were presented in between. Note that the other stimuli were also presented on a background of “30” and their maximal intensity did not exceed “60”, ensuring no excessive contribution to light adaptation compared to the full-field contrast step stimuli.) In the experiments depicted in Fig. 3b, c, we changed the order of stimuli and presented full-field contrast steps more closely after the light level switch (Protocol 2 in Supplementary Fig. 1b). In those experiments, we probed the 104 R* rod–1 s–1 and 105 R* rod–1 s–1 light levels at even tighter intervals (Protocol 3) to follow the dynamic changes of ganglion cell responses with higher temporal precision. Supplementary Fig. 1b shows how the data points in Fig. 3 were averaged across experiments in which different stimulus protocols were used.
Here, we independently fitted the first 1000 ms of the responses to the four stimulus edges (i.e., 1000 ms after beginning and end of the positive and negative contrast steps). The linear term m of this fit was interpreted as the “relative response strength” and used for further analysis, the constant term b was not further used. Figure 8d shows the evolution of the response strength for one example ganglion cell during the one experimental segment at 105 R* rod–1 s–1 shown in Fig. 8b.
Population analysis. We recorded from n = 6 Cnga3 –/– retinas with this protocol. For four retinas, we applied 9-cis retinal Ringer during the three last experimental segments, as shown in Fig. 8a. For the other two retinas, we only recorded under control conditions. For each of the four stimulus edges, data as shown in Fig. 8d were counted as “n = 1” for the population analysis. We pooled this data for all experimental segments, for all ganglion cells, and across all six experiments, separately for the “control” and “retinal” experimental segments. Because this approach is based on template matching, we only included experimental segments in the population data during which ganglion cell spiking was robust, and in which there was a template to be matched (e.g., if the response of a cell consists of complete suppression of spiking, this will not yield a template that can be matched). Whether or not to include the responses of a ganglion cell during an experimental segment in the analysis was judged manually and independently for each of the four stimulus edges. As a result, the number of included experimental segments (“n”) varies across the different experimental conditions (Fig. 8e).
Statistical analysis. For each time point after returning to 105 R* rod–1 s–1, we compared the relative response strength in control and retinal conditions with a permutation test. Here, we combined all values (control and retinal), and randomly sampled n values, with n being the smaller of the two population sizes (which was the “retinal” population in each case). We then split this sample in two, measuring the distance between their medians. We repeated this 105 times. Coming from the same population, the distribution of these distances is symmetric around 0. The null hypothesis was that the experimentally observed distance between the medians of control and retinal conditions was from the same distribution, with the alternate being that median of retinal conditions is smaller than that of control. We took as p-value to support the null hypothesis the fraction of samples (out of 105) for which the distance between medians was at least as large as the experimentally observed value. The p-value is color coded in Fig. 8, with p < 0.01 shown in green, p < 0.05 in yellow, and p ≥ 0.05 in white.
Stimulus. For ex vivo ERG recordings, we used a series of 50 ms flashes of different positive contrasts (Fig. 1a). One stimulus set consisted of four flashes with Michelson contrast +0.79 (Weber: +7.44, “30” → “255”), and two flashes each of Michelson contrast +0.6 (Weber: +2.97, “30” → “120”), +0.33 (Weber: +0.99, “30” → “60”), and +0.99 (Weber: +999, “0” → “255”). In order to achieve the high contrast (+0.99), it was necessary to intermittently reduce the gray background from “30” to “0”. About 16 such stimulus sets were shown among other stimuli at each light level (30 min) from 100 R* rod–1 s–1 to 106 R* rod–1 s–1. The other stimuli, not discussed here, were limited to a brightness range between “0” and “60”, presented on a background of “30”.
Analysis. We quantified the strength of the recorded ERG signal by measuring the mean amplitude of the negative voltage deflection during 300 ms directly after the onset of a 50 ms flash. The 300 ms voltage signal preceding the flash was used as a baseline to test for significance of the flash-elicited responses (Wilcoxon rank sum test). Significance testing was performed by using flashes of three consecutive stimulus sets, i.e., n = 12 flashes for contrast +0.79 and n = 6 flashes for the other contrasts. Figure 1b shows the moving average for this analysis (averaging three stimulus sets per data point, shifting by one stimulus set for the next data point; no averaging was done across light level transitions).
Response reliability. ERG responses at high light levels were usually very small, but nevertheless often clearly distinct from the voltage fluctuations of the background activity. As a measure of the reliability of such small signals, we devised a “response reliability index”, which we calculated from the statistical measure of the presence of a response (namely p-value resulting from the Wilcoxon rank sum test, see above) according to the relationship depicted in Supplementary Fig. 1a.
Mice were anesthetised using a single dose of urethane (30% w/v in dH2O, 1.6 mg kg−1, i.p) and placed in a stereotaxic frame (SR 5-M; Narishige, Japan) on a temperature-regulating 37 °C heat mat (Harvard Apparatus, UK). A craniotomy was drilled above the coordinates for the dLGN (B–2.2–2.6 mm, ML 1.5–3 mm) relative to the mouse stereotaxic atlas55. A 32-contact recording electrode (A4 × 8–5 mm-50-200-177/413-A32; Neuronexus, USA) was lowered into the dLGN and extracellular spiking activity collected through a Recorder64 system (Plexon, USA). Light stimuli were delivered to the eye contralateral to the recorded brain hemisphere. Upon completion, animals were killed by cervical dislocation and the brain fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde. Electrode placement (the electrode was dipped in fluorescent dye; CM-Dil, Life Technologies, UK) was verified in post hoc histology.
For in vivo experiments presented in Fig. 4, we delivered multispectral stimuli using a Spectra X light engine (Lumencor, USA). Stimuli were created by stepping four LEDs in combination from a low background to a high level (blue, cyan, green, and yellow, λ max = 430 nm, 480 nm, 511 nm, and 575 nm, respectively). Light stimuli were presented through a light guide to the atropine-dilated eye as diffuse illumination of a Lambertian disc (10 mm in diameter, placed <5 mm from corneal surface). A circular ND wedge (100FS04DV.4, Newport) in the light path between the exit point of the light engine and the end of the optical fiber allowed light intensity to be modulated over a 4 log unit range.
For contrast response assessments in Cnga3 –/– mice (Fig. 5), multispectral stimuli were presented using a system constructed in-house (components from Thorlabs and Edmund optics), comprising three LEDs (λ max = 405, 470, and 617 nm). Stimuli here were delivered to the subject by a 7 mm diameter light guide (placed ~5 mm from the corneal surface and enclosed within a spectrally neutral reflective cone to provide diffuse full-field illumination) and intensity was adjusted using an ND filter wheel.
In all cases, spectral power densities for each LED were measured using a calibrated spectroradiometer (Bentham Instruments Ltd., UK). These were converted to retinal irradiance in rod-effective photon cm–2 s–1 by converting the corneal irradiance and correcting for the pre-receptoral filtering of the lens. The background intensity at the brightest light levels used in vivo was 4.52 × 1014 rod-effective photon cm–2 s–1 (106.35 R* rod–1 s–1) for the experiments shown in Fig. 4, and 1.63 × 1014 rod-effective photon cm–2 s–1 (105.9 R* rod–1 s–1) for Fig. 5.
For experiments in Fig. 4, 1200 flashes (duration: 50 ms) were shown at 1 Hz at each light level (+0.75 Michelson contrast for rods). These flashes were interleaved with a weaker contrast (+0.5, data not analyzed here), thus the protocol took 40 min per light level. For contrast sensitivity experiments (Fig. 5), we uniformly modulated background light intensity (square-wave 0.25 Hz) at a range of contrasts (20–96%) in eight interleaved blocks of six stimulus repeats. We also included spectral modulations designed to evoke varying degrees of rod contrast (not included in the analysis presented here) such that each block of stimuli took 6 min. Stimulus presentation started 30 s after stepping to the tested background.
For experiments with fixed contrast (Fig. 4), we measured 40 light-responsive multiunits from three mice. Four multiunits were excluded because they stopped responding completely after the first light level switch. In one mouse, recordings could only be performed up to the highest light level of 106.35 R* rod–1 s–1, but not for the last mesopic (103.35 R* rod–1 s–1) repetition. Firing rate has been calculated by convolving the spike train (i.e., time series of 0’s and 1’s) with a Gaussian with sigma of 5 ms. Then, responses to 10 flashes were averaged (=1 group). For each group, we calculated the mean background firing rate for the 190 ms directly before stimulus onset. The background firing rates from 20 groups was then averaged and taken as the mean background firing rate for these 20 groups. The mean response rate 50–250 ms after the flash stimulus was considered as response. We applied a Wilcoxon rank sum test (1-sided) to test for significant differences between the 20 background and the 20 response values, i.e., we tested for significant light responses. These significance tests were performed on a running average with shifts of two groups for each data point. No averaging was performed across light-level borders. This resulted in ~350 p-values per recorded multiunit over the whole series of light levels. The measured p-values were then transformed into a response reliability index as shown in Supplementary Fig. 1a.
For contrast sensitivity experiments (Fig. 5), we measured responses from 86 LGN multiunits in four mice. Responses at each contrast level and light level were combined to form peri-event histograms (40 ms bin size smoothed with a 5 bin boxcar filter) across four 12 min time bins, each comprising two blocks of stimuli. For analysis, the first trial from each block was excluded such that each bin contained the average of 10 stimulus repeats where intensity varied symmetrically around the background. Response amplitude was defined as the peak-to-trough variation in firing rate under each condition. Contrast response relationships for each channel were then calculated from the average of all LGN multiunits and fitted with a 4-parameters sigmoid function (Graphpad prism).
Stimulus. We presented a series of blue, cyan, and red flashes (50 ms duration) at 2 Hz frequency on a light adapting violet background (λ max = 400 nm, Fig. 6a). We used the Spectra X light engine (Lumencor, Beaverton, OR, USA), the circular ND wedge described in section “Light stimuli for Cnga3 −/− mice”. Flashes followed a pseudorandom order for colors (λ max = 430, 480, and 630 nm respectively for blue, cyan, and red LEDs) and intensities (15 different levels per color) to prevent contrast adaptation in the response.
The values for c and λ 0 (=wavelength of maximal lens transmission) were obtained by fitting tabulated data (c = 5.33 × 104; d = −2.27; λ 0 = 700 nm)58. The absolute stimulus intensity of the violet background (effective photons cm–2 s–1 flux for the brightest background: rod-opsin 1.3758 × 1013 (≈ 104.84 R* rod–1 s–1; in Fig. 6, this condition is tagged with “105 R* rod–1 s–1”), L-opsin: 1.3473 × 1013, S-opsin: 1.5833 × 1013), and contrast of the flashes (assuming POD = 0.1 for cones, POD = 0.01 for rods, and c = 5.33 × 104) are depicted in Fig. 6b.
with the summation taken across 20 time bins (time bin duration 15 ms) in the first 300 ms after the flash onset. We initially evaluated the possibility to measure flash responses as increments/decrements in firing rate in respect to the baseline. However, we chose to use the Euclidean norm because we observed that a significant fraction of units exhibited multiphasic responses where those increments and decrements in firing rate tended to cancel each other out.Statistical analysis of colored flash responses. The procedure for statistical analysis and their results are described in Supplementary Table 1.
We have employed the model of Invergo et al.20 (BioModels BIOMD0000000578) to simulate the phototransduction cascade within the rod outer segment. This model is an adaptation to mouse rods of previous models intended to simulate the phototransduction cascade in amphibians59, 60. The current model of Invergo et al. describes the phototransduction cascade on the system level: based on a reaction network for the molecular species, a system of ODE is derived by simplifying assumptions like mass action kinetics. The numerical solution of this ODE system yields the time dependence of each of the involved molecular species and as the main outcome the photoresponse to a prescribed stimulus. We have implemented the model in the simulation software COPASI61. The original parameters of this model had been fit to biochemical and physiological data based on very different stimuli than the stimulus used in our study, namely to very brief and moderate-intensity flash stimuli on a dark-adapted rod (lasting 10s of milliseconds of at most 2000 R* rod–1 flash–1). Compared to the original parameters of Invergo et al., we have set the total number of rhodopsin molecules (Rhod total) to 2.6 × 107 (Fig. 7a–e, corresponding to the left column in Supplementary Fig. 4) instead of 108, and varied this parameter up to the upper bound reported for rods62 (7 × 107, right column in Supplementary Fig. 4). We set the parameter k Ops (the efficiency of opsin binding to transducin33, 34) to 10−9 instead of 10−13, which resulted in a more pronounced saturation (the dependency of the model behavior on this parameter is shown in Supplementary Fig. 4). We have varied the parameter for the rhodopsin regeneration rate (k Rrecyc) to try and mimic the different experimental conditions (ex vivo, in vivo) and to investigate the dependency of rod responses on that parameter (rows in Supplementary Fig. 4). Given the long duration and high-intensity range of our stimulus, we took into account that arrestin, transducing, and recoverin translocate between the outer and inner segments21, 22, resulting in a near-exchange of these molecular species between inner and outer segment (Fig. 7c). Under intense illumination, arrestin translocates from the inner segment to the outer segment, while transducin and recoverin move in the opposite direction. In the outer segment, it has been proposed that the sequestering of arrestin into a “storage” oligomeric state, and functional monomeric state, may be important for achieving the right functional concentration59. As in the original model by Invergo et al., we have included arrestin oligomerization and therefore allow for the presence of arrestin transport and arrestin oligomerization. We have observed that the reorganization of oligomers is so fast that the effect will be negligible in influencing the time course of response recovery studied here. But even then, even a small variation due to the interaction between arrestin transport and arrestin oligomerization is reflected in the resulting photoresponse. We have implemented the translocation events with their own dynamic properties (solid lines in Fig. 7c–e; Supplementary Fig. 4), as a first-order reaction, with the reaction constant being proportional to the difference between the current total concentration of the species in the outer segment, and the desired concentration. By this way, the concentration of the corresponding species was smoothly driven to the desired level. The reaction constant itself was adjusted so that the final concentration would be reached with a time course described in the original publications21, 22. Alternatively, we implemented translocation as a simplified and artificial stepwise change of concentration upon light-level transitions (dashed lines in Fig. 7c, model behavior in Fig. 7e). None of our parameter adjustments changed the model behavior to the original stimuli used for parameter fitting by Invergo et al.20 Our model is available in BioModels63 under the identifier MODEL1710030000.
The experimental data that support the findings of this study are available from the authors on reasonable request. Raw measurements from ERG recordings (Fig. 1; Supplementary Fig. 2) are available on Figshare (doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5492626). The computational model is available in BioModels63 under the identifier MODEL1710030000.
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We thank Martin Biel for supplying the Cnga3–/– mouse line for the ex vivo experiments.
Alexandra Tikidji-Hamburyan, Katja Reinhard, Riccardo Storchi and Johannes Dietter contributed equally to this work.
A.T.-H., R.S., R.J.L., T.A.M. designed overall study; A.T.-H., K.R., R.S., H.S., K.E.D., T.M.B., R.J.L., T.A.M. designed experiments; A.T.-H., K.R., H.S., S.I., M.M. performed ex vivo experiments; R.S., K.E.D., R.A.B., L.W. performed in vivo experiments; A.T.-H., K.R., R.S., H.S., K.E.D., S.I., R.A.B., L.W., T.M.B., T.A.M. analyzed data; J.D., P.A.-L., T.A.M. performed computational modeling; A.T.-H., K.R., R.S., R.J.L., T.A.M. wrote manuscript and J.D., H.S., K.E.D., R.A.B., P.A.-L., T.M.B. helped in manuscript writing. All authors have evaluated and discussed results, and have read and approved the final manuscript. This study was supported by funds of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (DFG EXC 307) and to T.A.M. (MU3792/1-1), the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) to the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (FKZ 01GQ1002), the Academy of Finland (grant 283268), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research council (UK) through a David Phillips Fellowship to T.M.B. (BB/I017836/1) and a project grant to R.J.L. (BB/K002255/1), a European Research Council advanced award to R.J.L. (268970), a Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard stipend to A.T.-H., a Pro-Retina Stipend to K.R., and support of the Kerstan Foundation to T.A.M., M.U., and J.D.
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This is a close-up of the GE Mastr-II transmitter mounted onto a 19" rack panel. Below that it the Motorola Spectra-TAC chassis that holds the Micor receiver, audio-squelch board, and controller card.
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