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These pages, featuring minicomputer kits and peripherals from the MITS Altair product line, were originally clipped from the December 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.
Construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass at North Kingswells junction
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May 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway passing Brimmond Hill
Microchip expanded the development platform for its growing portfolio of innovative 8-bit PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) with Core-Independent Peripherals (CIPs). Designers can combine these building blocks to perform application functions autonomously, and they can be interconnected with an increasing amount of integrated Intelligent Analog peripherals. Because these functions are deterministically and reliably performed in hardware instead of software, CIPs enable system performance that is far beyond traditional MCUs. For more information, visit: www.microchip.com/CIP-090915a
The backpack. Gotten it from a local bag peripherals store. Rugged look with just enough compartments for my to house all my belongings. Zippers are always smooth and have never been stuck. Perfect for the on-the-go me.
Communications. One for the civilian me. The other for the regimental work use. Pretty much average phones for every day uses. Reason I need 2 cell phones. One has a built in camera lens while the other doesn’t. My workplace forbids camera cells.
The shades. It’s a cheap shades that my sis have gotten for me when she went overseas because I whine that I don’t have a proper one. Nice and comfy and just enough to protect my eyes in sunny Singapore.
The player. The Zen 2GB. Decided to get it because I lack a proper MP3 player ever since my iPod Mini broke down. Also, it acts as a substitute for the future iPod touch I am planning to get. Pro iPod user here. It’s small in size (just about a size of a credit card) but packs a punch in music quality. The more then sufficient 2GB capacity is good enough for me because I always load up the player with about 150+ songs and 0 videos. Protected in official Creative acrylic casing.
Would you choose the white or the black lighter? Lighters are a must on the go. At least for a smoker.
SBA-290. The portable music system on the go by Phillips. Ultra slim body with it’s dynamic bass boost, incredible surround as well as XSL acoustics. Simply love it’s piano black version which I chose over the pear white one. Runs on AAA batteries so it wouldn’t eat into the battery power of my player.
The portable entertainment system. My beloved PSP Slim. For videos, games and also as a portable wi-fi platform. Equipped with a 4GB Sandisk memory stick, sufficient for my use. 8GB seems to be a little on the overkill side. Protected by a Logitech hardcase for hard knocks what god knows what else.
The Sennheiser HD212 Pro. Music is my life. Enchanced quality music is what makes a difference in my life. With noise-cancelling feature to block out pollutants such as baby cries, vehicles as well as gossiping middle aged women. It is a must feature for music on the go. Total comfort where it sits around your ears instead of surrounding it. Being everything clear, crisp and bassy and I do mean very bassy. Totally in love.
My new office workspace (a converted bedroom). Unfortunately, I don't have a before shot, but it's been a big improvement.
It's now a space I really enjoy spending time in, not just to work, but also to read and otherwise relax.
Some of the best things include:
-New paint and other office amenities. Added a few pictures, bamboo shades, a bookshelf and a new chair to relax and read in.
- The PC, most peripherals, etc. are now stored on shelving in the closet just to the right of the desk. This let me take one of the L pieces off the desk (meaning I didn't have to buy a new desk!) and open the room up a ton. It also allowed me to free up my desk for a less cluttered feel.
- Mounted a piece of Tile Board ($15 at Home Depot) to act as a large, integrated white board (see left side of photo).
*This was shot with a wide-angle lens, which allowed me to capture the whole room, but did distort things just a bit.
* Eggborough
Difficult shots due to the weather worsening again, so everything got wet, the peripheral lineside shrubbery and HGVs passing along the road at moderately high speed and occasionally 'glancing through' the large lake of water which had formed in the lay-by just behind the camera; nice! At top another class 66 GBRf coal train, heading east for Drax, this time its 66713, 'Forest City' on the 6E94 Hunterston(GBRf) to Drax A.E.S. and yet another 2000tonnes of foreign coal which this time set off at 11:30pm the previous day, and has travelled all the way down here to arrive 12 hours later, passing the thousands of tonnes of stored coal at Kellingley, as it made its way along to the power station at the end of the short stub of line branching off the main line just east of Eggborough at Gowdall; the line once continuing over the River Aire before curving around to reach the Merry-Go-Round line at the power station. The line then continued to the north-west to join the main line through Joan Croft Junction from Doncaster, and so on into Selby. Another line also continued to the north-east from the power station to pass over the River Ouse and head east through Howden and then along the north side of the Humber; this line too now long gone and the bridge over the Ouse removed; another part of what used to be our extensive and useful railway infra-structure gone... In the top picture the GBRf is seen just about to pass in front of the Eggborough Power Station which I understood also closed late last year at about the same time as Kellingley so not quite sure what's going on there, it looks to be under 'full steam', literally. And a bit of fun, in the lower picture, showing the advancing GBRf under its own steam as it places itself just in front of the chimney stack at the poser station and squinting at the picture you might believe this is an old steam hauled coal train heading east... maybe not, the stack is too high!!
I had collected sufficient anecdotal evidence that people approved of the new furniture configuration and that, as needed, they were making minor alterations as needed.
Thus I set my sights on the peripheral environment. I had been wanting to organize formally the organized chaos that was the random stacks of books on the shelves and the assorted posters on the common room walls. I was spurred to do this because the complaint that I had made about the common room's incoherent conditions on a postgraduate feedback form had been heard in fact by the administrators. When a staff member called me, I knew something could at length be done.
The problem with all the books on the shelves and the posters on the walls is that people have developed unspoken rules for why they are placed there; yet the consequences of their placement without regulation are obvious: while people can browse other people's refuse and find treasure in a pile of books that otherwise would be thrown out, this purpose is not explicitly stated: this tradition is passed on by word of mouth or by guesswork. In addition, since no other rules govern these piles, they grow to such heights that browsing the stacks become tedious: indeed, there comes a point at which a pile of loose books and articles grows to an unmanageable, unsearchable multitude. Looking at some of these items, dated from, even, a decade ago, their relevance has passed. They should no longer exist and should be thrown out. Unfortunately such a rule has not existed for their passing, yet.
This is where I, with the help of the research office, step in. I toured the premises with the administrator, pointing out this unbridled growth and concluding that the more these piles are able to grow unchecked, the less effective these piles become to users. She nodded and for the most part agreed with my assessment. She will follow up by asking the administration to perhaps develop rules for the timely disposal (and replenshiment) of the refuse literature. If possible, per my friend's suggestion, the next cycle of refuse books can be positioned upright for easier browsing by users.
While I was in a cleaning mood, I also asked the administrator to help me to clean up my office in 102 Hui Oi Chow. Like elsewhere in the building and on campus, this office serves an ancillary purpose in being a storage room for university, faculty, department and individual refuse. I pointed out to the administrator individuals' junk and university junk accumulating on shelves, by walls and in corners. The administrator promised to remove the excess equipment and furniture. I would do my part to clean up by asking people in the office to claim their excess belongings lest they be thrown out.
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Microscopic photo showing severe diabetic peripheral arterial disease with circumferential medial arterial calcification (Mönckeberg medial sclerosis), intimal fibrosis, occlusive thrombus, focal osseous metaplasia and bone marrow formation (blue arrows). H & E stain. 4x. Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Photo by Julius Atia/ICRAF. Farmer with bush mango grown on the boundary of rubber farm.
Nigerian rubber farmers are finding that diversifying their land with food crops, food trees and ‘small livestock’ like rabbits, bees and snails makes sense on many levels. The mixed farm brings in food to eat and income long before the 6 years it takes rubber trees to mature for tapping. And it buffers the farmer against the swings in global rubber prices that have historically discouraged farmers from growing the commodity. bit.ly/1zgDV4A
These days, my interest in basketball could be described as barely peripheral, confined to periodically reading in the newspapers, about our local high school teams or our college alma maters, during the winter.
I grew up shooting hoops on an infuriatingly netless rim situated in an isolated drier patch of drainfield, the locational upside of which was......... the surrounding soggy ground absorbed errant balls, deadening their wayward trajectory. The rim was attached to a rickety-old green sign for an insurance company, featuring a faux check signed by a John Doe. The backboard was attached to a wooden utility post that would lean just slightly, in later years. The ground under the basket was dirt, but compacted enough to dribble on. Eventually, I got taller and could jump just high enough, that I could barely grab the ten foot high rusty rim with my fingertips, pulling it down. Over the years, I did that so many times, eventually the rim hung down at a 45 degree angle, facilitating slam dunks :-)
Up on the hill, my grandpa had a rim nailed to the side of the barn, right where the cows came out. It was a bad deal when the ball landed in cow poop.
I was never good enough to play on an organized school team but I loved playing the rare pick-up games after school for fun, with equally-untalented friends. We loved playing on the lowered elementary school rims because it meant some of us lead-footed six-footers could slam dunk the ball.
This is a portable hoop in the Montlake neighborhood, down the hill from us. The sky was stormy to the east. That afternoon, I took a lot of pictures with strikingly dark, slate skies. This morning when I rooted this picture out, I could've sworn I'd taken this in April or May, when storms are more common. Interestingly, this was June (of last year). Then again, last weekend we had some stormy weather in town. My oldest son was running some high ridges in the Cascades and got caught in a white-out blizzard!
The New Year has started off with a quick stride, leaving little time for our peripheral intentions to make the final cut on the to-do list. However, today, we were gifted a quiet day at home due to the snowy Winter weather.
While six to eight inches of snow sat awaiting redistribution in our driveway, we convened in our living room to connect and remind ourselves of the importance of holding space for one another to share this family experience. I didn't want to let the month get away without recognizing January as a threshold for, not only a new year, but, the opportunity for new intentions; new visions; new energy.
We started with a few deep breaths… bringing our minds to the present moment. Then, as is customary at the onset of a new year, we discussed goals, or rather, our visions for the subsequent months ahead. With this visionary spirit, we opened the circle.
"May our minds work together to find mutual understanding. May I see you true and be seen in kind. May our words reveal more that they obscure. Most of all, may our minds, eyes, and tongues be guided by our hearts, and the language far older than words..."
These words gave us pause to reflect on those things from the past that we want to put to rest, and where we want to direct our energy as we renew our intentions for this year. During our discussion, we reminded the kids, and ourselves, through our words, and the insights of others, that our lives, are indeed, our own creation, and that the ultimate responsibility for our happiness lies in our own hands.
Next we watched a short YouTube video recently posted on the SpiritScience channel about “Source Energy.” This offered a few moments to discuss the interconnectedness of all things, and despite our individual responsibility to create our own experience, we, ultimately, all play a role in creation.
Lastly, we spent a few minutes, each writing our intentions for the year in our family journal, and reading an excerpt from a book, titled “Do One Thing Different,” by Bill O’Hanlon. The concept of small actions creating big changes is the premise, and the book contains some inspiring tidbits to jumpstart the process. We talked about the “stories” we tell ourselves about who we are, and how they often, have nothing to do with who we REALLY are, but are just residual energy from past experiences that we haven’t taken the time to filter properly, integrate if useful and discard, if not.
The table, now littered with flax cracker crumbs, sweetly-scented peels of clementines and colorful ballpoint pens, and aglow from the candles in our centerpiece, was itself, folding legs and all, the centerpiece of our family connection today. Its eclectic dishevelment and bits of inspiration and creativity were clearly outlined and encompassed by our five separate energies, thankful for connection, but eager to disperse our individual focuses once again.
Thus, with that, we closed the circle, reminding ourselves to be visionaries in our own lives and go forth into the New Year with consciousness, clarity and intention. With the Winter chill exuberantly dancing around our house, we will look to the Sun for inspiration.
Lion’s Call
Fierce Spirit of the Sun.
I call you into my life.
May I stand fearless in the protection of my community.
May I lead in balance knowing when to roar and when to walk nobly away from unneeded conflict.
May I learn the value of silence.
Waiting patiently for opportunity to show itself before taking action.
Invisible hunter, teach me to trust my instincts and my creative strength.
Lend me your clear vision that I might bring forth the gold hidden within my Self.
~~~
The light does not go out. It is transferred to each of us; to share and to hold, and to bring with us when we next return.
Montreal officially Montréal, French is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary",it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is situated 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949] and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language and in 2016 was the only home language of 53.7% of the population, while 18.2% spoke only English and 18.7% spoke neither French nor English at home 9.4% spoke a mix of French, English and a foreign language at home. In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 71.2% of the population spoke at least French at home, compared to 19.0% who spoke English. Still in 2016, 87.4% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 91.4% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 57.4% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the developed world, after Paris
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, film, and world affairs. Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America,[30] serves as the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking,[ although it slipped to rank 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.[35]
Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One since 1978, as well as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world, nd Les Francos de Montréal, which is the largest event devoted exclusively to French-language music anywhere in the world. It is also home to ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens, the franchise with the most Stanley Cup wins.
Etymology
See also: Name of Montreal
In the Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià:ke tsi ionhwéntsare. This name refers to the Lachine Rapids to the island's southwest or Ka-wé-no-te. It means "a place where nations and rivers unite and divide]
In the Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang which served as "the first stopping place" in the Ojibwe migration story as related in the seven fires prophecy.
European settlers from La Flèche in the Loire valley first named their new town, founded in 1642, Ville Marie ("City of Mary"),[14] named for the Virgin Mary. Its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. According to one theory, the name derives from mont Réal, (Mont Royal in modern French, although in 16th-century French the forms réal and royal were used interchangeably); Cartier's 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, refers to le mont Royal.[46] One of Cartier's officers was Claude de Pontbriand, lord of the Château de Montréal,[47] in the Occitan-speaking part of France. The toponym Montréal and its reversed form Réalmont, the direct Occitan translation of French mont royal (or royal mont), are common in southern France. One possibility, noted by the government of Canada on its website concerning Canadian place names, speculates that the name as it is currently written originated when an early map of 1556 used the Italian name of the mountain, Monte Real;[48] the Commission de toponymie du Québec has dismissed this idea as a misconception.[46]
History[
Main article: History of Montreal
See also: Timeline of Montreal history
Pre-European contact
Archaeological evidence in the region indicate that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD 1000, they had started to cultivate maize. Within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. The Saint Lawrence Iroquoians, an ethnically and culturally distinct group from the Iroquois nations of the Haudenosaunee (then based in present-day New York), established the village of Hochelaga at the foot of Mount Royal two centuries before the French arrived. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at other locations in the valley since at least the 14th century. The French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga on October 2, 1535, and estimated the population of the native people at Hochelaga to be "over a thousand people".[51] Evidence of earlier occupation of the island, such as those uncovered in 1642 during the construction of Fort Ville-Marie, have effectively been removed.
Early European settlement (1600–1760)[edit]
In 1603, French explorer Samuel de Champlain reported that the St Lawrence Iroquoians and their settlements had disappeared altogether from the St Lawrence valley. This is believed to be due to outmigration, epidemics of European diseases, or intertribal wars.[51][52] In 1611, Champlain established a fur trading post on the Island of Montreal on a site initially named La Place Royale. At the confluence of Petite Riviere and St. Lawrence River, it is where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands.[53] On his 1616 map, Champlain named the island Lille de Villemenon in honour of the sieur de Villemenon, a French dignitary who was seeking the viceroyship of New France In 1639, Jérôme Le Royer de La Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Notre Dame Society of Montreal to establish a Roman Catholic mission to evangelize natives.
Dauversiere hired Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, then age 30, to lead a group of colonists to build a mission on his new seigneury. The colonists left France in 1641 for Quebec and arrived on the island the following year. On May 17, 1642, Ville-Marie was founded on the southern shore of Montreal island, with Maisonneuve as its first governor. The settlement included a chapel and a hospital, under the command of Jeanne Mance.[55] By 1643, Ville-Marie had come under Iroquois raids. In 1652, Maisonneuve returned to France to raise 100 volunteers to bolster the colonial population. If the effort had failed, Montreal was to be abandoned and the survivors re-located downriver to Quebec City. Before these 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people.
By 1685, Ville-Marie was home to some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. Ville-Marie became a centre for the fur trade and a base for further exploration. In 1689, the English-allied Iroquois attacked Lachine on the Island of Montreal, committing the worst massacre in the history of New France.[56] By the early 18th century, the Sulpician Order was established there. To encourage French settlement, it wanted the Mohawk to move away from the fur trading post at Ville-Marie. It had a mission village, known as Kahnewake, south of the St Lawrence River. The fathers persuaded some Mohawk to make a new settlement at their former hunting grounds north of the Ottawa River. This became Kanesatake In 1745, several Mohawk families moved upriver to create another settlement, known as Akwesasne. All three are now Mohawk reserves in Canada. The Canadian territory was ruled as a French colony until 1760, when Montreal fell to a British offensive during the Seven Years' War. The colony then surrendered to Great Britain.
Ville-Marie was the name for the settlement that appeared in all official documents until 1705, when Montreal appeared for the first time, although people referred to the "Island of Montreal" long before then.
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Montreal officially Montréal, French is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary",it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is situated 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949] and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language and in 2016 was the only home language of 53.7% of the population, while 18.2% spoke only English and 18.7% spoke neither French nor English at home 9.4% spoke a mix of French, English and a foreign language at home. In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 71.2% of the population spoke at least French at home, compared to 19.0% who spoke English. Still in 2016, 87.4% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 91.4% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 57.4% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the developed world, after Paris
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, film, and world affairs. Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America,[30] serves as the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking,[ although it slipped to rank 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.[35]
Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One since 1978, as well as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world, nd Les Francos de Montréal, which is the largest event devoted exclusively to French-language music anywhere in the world. It is also home to ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens, the franchise with the most Stanley Cup wins.
Etymology
See also: Name of Montreal
In the Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià:ke tsi ionhwéntsare. This name refers to the Lachine Rapids to the island's southwest or Ka-wé-no-te. It means "a place where nations and rivers unite and divide]
In the Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang which served as "the first stopping place" in the Ojibwe migration story as related in the seven fires prophecy.
European settlers from La Flèche in the Loire valley first named their new town, founded in 1642, Ville Marie ("City of Mary"),[14] named for the Virgin Mary. Its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. According to one theory, the name derives from mont Réal, (Mont Royal in modern French, although in 16th-century French the forms réal and royal were used interchangeably); Cartier's 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, refers to le mont Royal.[46] One of Cartier's officers was Claude de Pontbriand, lord of the Château de Montréal,[47] in the Occitan-speaking part of France. The toponym Montréal and its reversed form Réalmont, the direct Occitan translation of French mont royal (or royal mont), are common in southern France. One possibility, noted by the government of Canada on its website concerning Canadian place names, speculates that the name as it is currently written originated when an early map of 1556 used the Italian name of the mountain, Monte Real;[48] the Commission de toponymie du Québec has dismissed this idea as a misconception.[46]
History[
Main article: History of Montreal
See also: Timeline of Montreal history
Pre-European contact
Archaeological evidence in the region indicate that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD 1000, they had started to cultivate maize. Within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. The Saint Lawrence Iroquoians, an ethnically and culturally distinct group from the Iroquois nations of the Haudenosaunee (then based in present-day New York), established the village of Hochelaga at the foot of Mount Royal two centuries before the French arrived. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at other locations in the valley since at least the 14th century. The French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga on October 2, 1535, and estimated the population of the native people at Hochelaga to be "over a thousand people".[51] Evidence of earlier occupation of the island, such as those uncovered in 1642 during the construction of Fort Ville-Marie, have effectively been removed.
Early European settlement (1600–1760)[edit]
In 1603, French explorer Samuel de Champlain reported that the St Lawrence Iroquoians and their settlements had disappeared altogether from the St Lawrence valley. This is believed to be due to outmigration, epidemics of European diseases, or intertribal wars.[51][52] In 1611, Champlain established a fur trading post on the Island of Montreal on a site initially named La Place Royale. At the confluence of Petite Riviere and St. Lawrence River, it is where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands.[53] On his 1616 map, Champlain named the island Lille de Villemenon in honour of the sieur de Villemenon, a French dignitary who was seeking the viceroyship of New France In 1639, Jérôme Le Royer de La Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Notre Dame Society of Montreal to establish a Roman Catholic mission to evangelize natives.
Dauversiere hired Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, then age 30, to lead a group of colonists to build a mission on his new seigneury. The colonists left France in 1641 for Quebec and arrived on the island the following year. On May 17, 1642, Ville-Marie was founded on the southern shore of Montreal island, with Maisonneuve as its first governor. The settlement included a chapel and a hospital, under the command of Jeanne Mance.[55] By 1643, Ville-Marie had come under Iroquois raids. In 1652, Maisonneuve returned to France to raise 100 volunteers to bolster the colonial population. If the effort had failed, Montreal was to be abandoned and the survivors re-located downriver to Quebec City. Before these 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people.
By 1685, Ville-Marie was home to some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. Ville-Marie became a centre for the fur trade and a base for further exploration. In 1689, the English-allied Iroquois attacked Lachine on the Island of Montreal, committing the worst massacre in the history of New France.[56] By the early 18th century, the Sulpician Order was established there. To encourage French settlement, it wanted the Mohawk to move away from the fur trading post at Ville-Marie. It had a mission village, known as Kahnewake, south of the St Lawrence River. The fathers persuaded some Mohawk to make a new settlement at their former hunting grounds north of the Ottawa River. This became Kanesatake In 1745, several Mohawk families moved upriver to create another settlement, known as Akwesasne. All three are now Mohawk reserves in Canada. The Canadian territory was ruled as a French colony until 1760, when Montreal fell to a British offensive during the Seven Years' War. The colony then surrendered to Great Britain.
Ville-Marie was the name for the settlement that appeared in all official documents until 1705, when Montreal appeared for the first time, although people referred to the "Island of Montreal" long before then.
Extract from Wikipedia
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
Film image to reveal mu opioid receptor distribution in the brain of a rhesus monkey. Image had been color-coded by the computer--spectral colors are used to denote areas of different receptor density. high densities, marked in reds, orange, and yellow, are located in the hypothalamus and amygdala, key components of the limbic system. rEceptors are marked by [³H]naloxone binding and subsequent autoradiographic visualization in emulsion-cited brain sections.
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health/ Photo: Miles Herkenham, NIH/NIMH
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY NERVOUS SYSTEMS DERMATOMES rheumatology images
Sensation from the skin is relayed along limb and trunk peripheral nerves to the spinal nerves that enter the spinal cord. The spinal cord then relays the sensation message to the brain and our awareness. rheumatology images.
Each spinal nerve relays sensation messages from a particular area of skin. This skin area is called a dermatome, and each dermatome is named after the spinal nerve that carries its message. rheumatology images.
For instance the C5 dermatome on the shoulder uses the C5 spinal nerve near the base of the neck to relay its message to the brain. rheumatology images.
There are seven spinal nerve pairs in the neck, called C2 to C8, which supply dermatomes on the head, neck and arms. This is useful to know as the sensation of pain in a dermatome may be due to irritation to the corresponding spinal nerve that is causing it to send a misleading message to the brain. For instance, compression of the C5 spinal nerve by a herniated disc or degenerative osteophyte in the neck can trigger in the brain the sensation of pain or numbness over the C5 dermatome at the shoulder.
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY NERVOUS SYSTEMS DERMATOMES rheumatology images
This article was written with the assistance of the following surgeons.
Dr Paul Licina. Dr Licina is spinal orthopedic surgeon, and co-founder of Brisbane Orthopaedic Specialist Services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. www.brisbaneorthopaedics.com.au/paul_licina.html
Dr Matthew McDonald. Dr McDonald is a spinal neurosurgeon based at Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. www.wakefieldneurosurgery.com.au
Dr Richard Parkinson. Dr Parkinson is a spinal neurosurgeon based at St Vincent's Clinic, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. www.svph.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie...
Dr Lali Sekhon. Dr Sekhon is a spinal neurosurgeon, and founder of Nevada Neurosurgery in Reno / Carson City, Nevada, USA. www.nevadaneurosurgery.com
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AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) work ongoing near Brimmond Hill near Craibstone for Kingswells North junction
June 2015: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) dual carriageway near Craibstone, Aberdeen from Brimmond Hill, Kingswells
Yucca jaegeriana (syn. Yucca brevifolia var. jaegeriana) common name Eastern Joshua Tree or Jaeger's Joshua Tree, in the Beaver Dam Mountains of Utah. Peripherally rare in Utah and believed to be on the decline.
October 10, 1981 on the road between Littlefield AZ and the Shivwits Indian Reservation in the extreme southwestern corner of Utah, Washington County, Utah which is where the species is limited to in Utah (plants in the freeway median strip east of St. George, while also in Washington Co. were planted and that is not a natural part of its range as noted by Dr. Stanley Welsh in the A Utah Flora series;; a plant found in Sevier Co. was also no doubt planted there).
Treated in our floras historically (and even still currently) as simply Yucca brevifolia, Utah plants are part of the eastern range of Y. jaegeriana. Y. brevifolia sensu stricto does not occur in Utah.
The middle tree is good-sized and on the tall side for this species. Reported typical heights for Utah (20 feet is typically mentioned). The tallest tree is is closer to 30 feet tall. True Y. brevifolia (mainly in southern California) plants can be much taller (e.g. 50 feet). Plants of this size are thought to be hundreds of years old.
Y. jaegeriana apparently has a different moth pollinator, so full recognition at the species level seems appropriate and distinctive floral morphology as well as growth habit. Y. jaegeriana is branched from the base compared to having a single trunk that is branched above as in Y. brevifolia, and it has a long/narrow flower compared to the cup-shaped flowers of Y. brevifolia. The two species are largely separate from each other with an area of hybridization in central Nevda.
An iconic symbol of the west, while two the species occur in Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada, its occurrence in these states is more limited than that list might appear. It is rarest in Utah where it just barely enters the state and here is at the northeastern section of its range at elevations under 3,500 ft. It is in fact ranked as an S3S4 (state rarity rank) by NatureServe for Utah. It then occurs in an adjoining area that includes mainly southwestern Nevada, perhaps a half-dozen counties in only a relatively small portion of southern/southeastern California, and in western Arizona.
Under a rising temperature/climate change scenario, some scientists are concerned that Joshua trees could be eliminated from 90% of their current range within the next 60 to 90 years. See www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2723 (3/24/11 "Uncertain Future for Joshua Trees Projected with Climate Change"). The reason given here relates to its inability to quickly disperse its seeds.
The link above indicates that the now extinct larger mammals that once carried its seeds are one of the reasons why the species cannot spread as easily as it once did. Another strike may relate to the fact that Joshua trees do not flower every year which perhaps means less consistent seed production as compared to some species, coupled with the fact that they are slow growing.
But there are other reasons to worry as well. Eastern and Western Joshua trees have also been severely impacted by brush fires in recent years and this is a species that is probably not historically well-adapted to fire. Some fires were no doubt caused by natural events, but the existence and spread of large amounts of invasive grass species (cheatgrass, etc.) has literally fueled the flames. This includes significant areas in Utah. And the plants do not seem to be recovering very well, if at all.
Flickr users are documenting fire impacts to both species of Joshua trees. Simply search for "burned joshua trees" to find these examples, a few of which follow in no particular order (first few are from Utah):
www.flickr.com/photos/arctos_horriblis/419084595/
www.flickr.com/photos/arctos_horriblis/419084696/
www.flickr.com/photos/cl_nichols/5220380469/
www.flickr.com/photos/padraigmerr/463722031/
www.flickr.com/photos/barb/4364032984/
www.flickr.com/photos/syndeelynn/469260657/
www.flickr.com/photos/stars4esther/3766022750/
www.flickr.com/photos/iulus/386866272/
www.flickr.com/photos/myranoll/2498071542/
www.flickr.com/photos/moerchen/377680099/
www.flickr.com/photos/moerchen/377680115/
www.flickr.com/photos/bds46/5515157799/
www.flickr.com/photos/whatevesblog/1571645478/
www.flickr.com/photos/ginsnob/4235450255/
Peripheral beneficiary is Phinma group or TA PNOY's economic team .
if you got in @ 12.30 then i shall see you @ 19.80. Then again this playbook is out. I shall pre sell @ 18 and risk 20% to 19.80 ++ 24
Notice Megawide's price is at halt. That is just an initial target price to race to 30 pesos.
How come?
Factor in when Central bank can no longer defend the strong peso. Interest rate + Fx Rate + GDP all prices should go up.
WHY?
Because Demand exceeds supply. Supply of good companies. Good companies managed by brilliant managers.
Part 1 www.flickr.com/photos/ayos/8360250435/
Study on a computerized integrated system for the assessment of central and peripheral chemoreflex sensitivity featuring Quark PFT.
Link to the scientific study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169260712002222#
Practical Peripherals 14.4 kilo bit/sec 8-bit ISA modem pulled from one of the photographer's computers as "too slow"; replaced by an external 33.6 modem. (Which was eventually replaced by a 56K modem...which was eventually replaced by a cable modem!) This modem had a unique problem in that it could give you a shock, even with power to the computer off, (and the computer unplugged!) if you were touching it when the phone line it was attached to rang - or if there was unusual voltage on your phone line (which happened to the photographer's line once...) The problem is the placement of the transformer and that the leads were not insulated. (see note on picture) (and that "ring voltage" is 50V!)
Photo taken by a Nikon D40x at ISO 400 with a Nikor 18-55 non-VR kit lens. (at 52) Cropped a bit at top.
Microchip announced from Electronica in Germany an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low-pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs introduce and expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which were designed to reduce interrupt latency, lower-power consumption and increase system efficiency, and safety, while minimizing design time and effort. These peripherals are designed to reduce system complexity by eliminating the need for additional code and external components. Hardware-based peripherals offload timing-critical and core-intensive functions from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other critical tasks within the system. For more ino, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC16_LF161X-Family-Product-Page-111114a
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Guillain-Barré (pronounced ghee-lan bar-ray) syndrome is a rare and serious condition of the peripheral nervous system. It occurs when the body's immune system attacks part of the nervous system.
The exact cause of Guillain-Barré syndrome is unknown. However, most people (around 60%) develop the condition shortly after having a viral or bacterial infection. It is thought infection may trigger the immune system to attack nerve roots and peripheral nerves.
The symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome usually develop one to three weeks after a minor infection, such as a cold, sore throat or gastroenteritis (an infection of the stomach and bowel).
Symptoms often start in your feet and hands before spreading to your arms and then your legs. Initially, you may have:
pain, tingling and numbness
progressive muscle weakness
co-ordination problems and unsteadiness (you may be unable to walk unaided)
The weakness usually affects both sides of your body, and it may get worse over several days.
Symptoms
The symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome can develop quickly over a few hours. The muscle weakness often gets progressively worse within a few days.
The symptoms usually develop one to three weeks after a minor infection, such as a cold, sore throat or gastroenteritis (an infection of the stomach and large intestine).
Symptoms often start in your feet and hands before spreading to your arms and then your legs. Initially, you may have:
pain, tingling and numbness
progressive muscle weakness
co-ordination problems and unsteadiness (you may be unable to walk unaided)
The weakness usually affects both sides of your body and may get worse over a period of several days.
In mild cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, your muscles may only be slightly weakened. However, in more severe cases, the muscle weakness can progress to:
temporary paralysis of the legs, arms and face
temporary paralysis of the respiratory muscles
blurred or double vision
difficulty speaking
difficulty chewing or swallowing (dysphagia), resulting in the need to be fed through a tube
difficulty with digestion or bladder control
fluctuations in heart rate or blood pressure
It is estimated that one or two people in every 10 will not recover completely from Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Long-term complications
Possible long-term complications include:
not being able to walk unaided (for example, needing a wheelchair)
loss of sensation (sensory ataxia) that may cause a lack of co-ordination
loss of balance
muscle weakness in your arms or legs
problems with your sense of touch known as dysaesthesia, which may be felt as a burning or tingling sensation
Some people with Guillain-Barré syndrome also have persistent fatigue (extreme tiredness).
Life-threatening complications
There is a small chance (about one in 20) of dying from Guillain-Barré syndrome. This is usually the result of complications that develop during the first few weeks of the condition. For example:
respiratory failure – where your lungs are unable to provide enough oxygen for the rest of your body
infections – particularly respiratory infections in people who are on a ventilator (a machine that assists with breathing)
heart rhythm disorders – including cardiac arrest
bowel obstruction
This is the link to my Twitter Twibbon GBS Awreness Campaign;
Please help support Guillain-Barre Awareness add a #Twibbon now! twb.ly/1amSHE7 #Guillain_Barre
Entry in category 2. Women and men of science; Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Prachitee Sirsikar
In frame: Prachitee, a 24 year old, an early researcher (PhD student) in the field of Medical Sciences. She is a post-graduate in the field of Life Sciences, she did not choose Médicine as she have had blood phobia. The image showcasing isolated Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMCs) via Ficoll extraction from blood of a healthy donor.
The category women in science symbolises, to follow her niche, contribute in the field of Sciences by challenging her fears and strive towards excellence. A quote by Marie Curie: "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." is well applied here. Determination is a key for overcoming ones fears which can the lead to success.
I found it on the ground as we were setting up camp in a fancy caravan park. Does anyone know what it is worth?
New Gerber Suspension NXT Multi Tool Pliers Knife Saw Scissors Screwdriver 3345. Only $77 on ebay, that is disappointing. I thought it was like a Leatherman…. Multitool edc
A cheap edc.. not a patch on a Victorinox multi tool…