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Salerno (pop. ~ 130.000) is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The site has been one of the most important and strategic ports on the Mediterranean sea, yielding a rich Greco-Roman heritage. It was an independent Lombard principality in the early Middle Ages. The Normans in 1077 made Salerno the capital of their rule in all of southern Italy. In the 16th century, under the Sanseverino family, among the most powerful feudal lords in southern Italy, the city became a center of learning, culture, and the arts.
Even in ancient times, the port of Salerno was an important trading center. In the Middle Ages, there were trade relations with Sicily and North Africa; Salerno has been the seat of an archbishop since 983 and the city's medical school is famous for being the first college or "university" of medieval Europe. In modern times, the onset of industrialization brought about an upswing. The port's global container throughput continues to be significant.
Here you can find more photos from the Campania region:
After the gold and silver jewelry are melted together, the molten mass is carefully dropped into cold water, yielding these "cornflakes" which are of the appropriate size for nitric acid dissolution
The brick streets of Port Tampa are so quiet that many corners have yield signs instead of stop signs.
DeSoto at Loughman, Tampa.
My AYAD assignment was with Seeds of Life (SoL), an AusAID and ACIAR funded food security program within the Timor-Leste Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF). SoL trials varieties of staple food crops to find high yielding varieties that adapt well to the conditions in Timor-Leste. After extensive trials the high yielding varieties are officially released by MAF, and SoL works with local farmers to produce commercial quantities of seed, which are then distributed to other farmers through government and NGO networks.
In this photo I am working with my colleagues Bosco, Marco and Myrtille to measure the starch content of cassava varieties being trialled at the Quinta Portugal Research Station in the district of Aileu. Agronomists were trialling 21 cassava varieties at the research station in 2009, each in three replications, so we had to work quickly to complete 63 starch content tests that afternoon.
I was told that this was a made-in-Korea drone, but it's actually an Israeli design, Elbit systems' Skylark II. From the Elbit website:
Skylark II offers a unique combination of extremely covert flight and live, high quality, high resolution, day & night video.
Owing to its electric propulsion, Skylark II is inaudible at
500 ft enabling users to fly it low under cloud cover with a high performance day/night/laser payload yielding outstanding detection and positive target identification.
It has a smaller logistic footprint with no refueling or engine maintenance required.
Skylark II features automatic point launch & recovery with no runway or special reception device required.
It may be assembled in Korea, but there's also the possibility that something got lost in translation. Note too that it is ramp-launched, meaning that the engine has power enough to keep it airborne, and steer it around, but not enough to lift it off the ground. These types of drones are used as covert observation systems, typically, so I would say this is just the thing for observing, for example, North Korea.
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03445-6
COVID ‘variant soup’ is making winter surges hard to predict
Descendants of Omicron are proliferating worldwide — and the same mutations are coming up again and again.
Some call it a swarm of variants — others refer to it as variant soup. Whatever it’s called, the current crop of immunity-dodging offshoots of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is unprecedented in its diversity. This complexity makes it harder to predict coming waves of infection. It might even lead to a ‘double wave’ in some places, as first one variant and then another overtakes a population.
But amid the chaos, patterns are emerging. The swarm has helped scientists to pinpoint a handful of immunity-evading mutations that power a variant’s spread. Globally, a few heavyweight variants have emerged, yielding different outcomes in different regions — at least, so far.
In Europe, North America and Africa, the prevalence of Omicron offshoots in the BQ.1 family is rising quickly, even as overall cases seem to fall. In Asian countries including Singapore, Bangladesh and India, a lineage called XBB has already set off fresh waves of infection. Scientists are closely watching several regions where both are circulating, to see which has the edge.
“In the end, probably, some variants are going to dominate, but it’s less decisive than it was in the past,” says Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland.
One big family
The variants that have driven past waves, such as Alpha and Delta, all arose from distinct branches of the SARS-CoV-2 family tree. But since Omicron emerged in late 2021, it has spawned a series of subvariants, including BA.2 and BA.5, that have sparked global waves of infection. Many countries put their BA.5-led surges in the rear-view mirror in mid-2022, but most scientists thought it was only a matter of time before another sublineage came to the fore.
For the past few months, variant trackers have been combing through global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data to identify candidates. But instead of one or two fast-rising lineages, they have identified more than a dozen to watch.
“It’s a collection or swarm or soup of variants together — not as we have seen before,” says Yunlong Richard Cao, an immunologist at Peking University in Beijing, whose team has been studying the variants’ immune-evading capacities.
The members of the swarm come from various parts of the Omicron family tree. But their rise seems to be due to a handful of shared genetic mutations, most of which lead to amino acid changes in a portion of the viral spike protein called the receptor binding domain (RBD). This part of the protein is required to infect cells, and is the target of antibodies that deliver a potent immune response.
Work from Cao’s team this month1 suggests that the RBD mutations help the virus to evade infection-blocking ‘neutralizing’ antibodies that were triggered by COVID-19 vaccines and infection with earlier Omicron offshoots, including BA.2 and BA.5. (That work has not yet been peer reviewed.)
Ringing the changes
Roemer and others have observed that the more of these RBD changes a variant possesses, the faster it seems to grow, as measured by the number of sequences reported to global databases. For instance, variants, such as BQ.1, with five key RBD changes (relative to BA.2) seem to be growing in number at a slower rate than variants with six changes. A descendant of BQ.1 called BQ.1.1 has six such changes, and is rising rapidly across Europe, North America and other places.
A seventh RBD change seems to lead to still swifter growth (although scientists caution that the estimates are approximate, particularly when the number of sequences recorded is small). The main ‘level 7’ variant scientists are tracking is XBB. The sub-lineage is a hybrid, or recombinant, of two Omicron sublineages, both descendants of BA.2.
Of the swarm, BQ.1.1 and XBB seem to be rising to the top. The BQ.1 family is already dominant in France and is likely to drive infection waves across Europe and North America as these regions enter winter. It is also a common ingredient of the variant soup in South Africa, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. XBB, by contrast, looks likely to dominate infections in Asia, where it recently drove a wave of infections in Singapore.
Researchers are also monitoring countries where BQ.1.1 and XBB are co-circulating, to see which spreads faster. In Australia, there are some early signs that XBB is gaining an edge, notes Roemer. This also seems to be happening in India, according to Rajesh Karyakarte, a microbiologist based at the BJ Government Medical College in Pune, who coordinates SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequencing in the state of Maharashtra. “We will be in a position to tell which one survives here. We suspect XBB.”
XBB’s advantage over the BQ.1 family might be due in part to changes outside the spike RBD, says Cao. The variant also has mutations in part of the genome encoding a region of the spike protein called the N-terminal domain (NTD). Our immune systems also target this portion of spike with neutralizing antibodies, and people who have recovered from BA.2 and BA.5 infections mount especially strong immune responses to NTD, according to preliminary data from Cao’s lab.
XBB’s ability to dodge antibodies targeting the NTD might allow it to infect people who were immune to BQ.1 and its relatives, Cao adds. But “BQ.1 is picking up NTD mutations crazily fast”, he says. Unpublished work from his team suggests that such additions substantially enhance those variant’s ability to evade neutralizing antibodies raised by vaccination and previous infection.
It’s possible that BQ.1.1 will cause a spike in cases, only for XBB to overtake it in some places, says Roemer. “If it turns out that XBB is going to dominate globally in the end, we might see some sort of double wave in Europe and North America,” he says.
Double immunity?
A key determinant will be the extent to which infection with BQ.1 lineages protect against XBB. Cao’s team is currently working on this. “I have a feeling that if you’re infected with BQ.1, you might have some protection against XBB,” he says. “We don’t have data yet.”
Whether driven by XBB, BQ.1.1 or another member of the swarm, large infection waves can disrupt society, and even mild infections might result in long-lasting health effects. But researchers are keeping an especially close eye on whether the coming waves lead to high numbers of hospitalizations and deaths.
In an unpublished, preliminary study of 28 people with XBB infections, Karyakarte’s team found that none had severe symptoms. Karyakarte says his colleagues in Bangladesh report similar patterns. Singapore has recorded a small rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths during its XBB wave, but these severe effects have been smaller than in past waves.
But factors such as seasonality — the Northern Hemisphere winter weather is likely to give SARS-CoV-2 circulation a boost — prior waves, and policy mean that Singapore’s experience might not predict what other countries are in for, says Roemer. “It’s probably not a blueprint for what’s going to happen.”
Species name- Betula papyrifera. Common Name- Paper Birch. Environmental Uses- makes excellent high-yielding firewood if seasoned properly and used in furniture, flooring, and Oriented Strand Board. The sap is boiled down to produce birch syrup. Ecological Importance- an important moose browse throughout most of its range. Its nutritional quality is poor in the winter, but it is important to wintering moose because of its sheer abundance in young stands. Geographic Range- closely follows the northern limit of tree growth from Newfoundland and Labrador west across the continent into northwest Alaska; southeast from Kodiak Island in Alaska to British Columbia and Washington; east in the mountains of northeast Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana with scattered outliers in the northern Great Plains of Canada, Montana, North Dakota, the Black Hills of South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Front Range of Colorado; east in Minnesota and Iowa, through the Great Lakes region into New England. Paper birch also extends down the Appalachian Mountains from central New York to western North Carolina. Bloom Time- March-April. Habitat- abundant on rolling upland terrain and floodplain sites, but it also grows on open slopes, avalanche tracks, swamp margins and in bogs.
4636 19th 20th Century - Wrightsborough Historic District, (4675) Wrightsboro Rd., Thomson, McDuffie, GA. April 18, 2011. Decimal degrees: 33.550826, -82.569043
Address number is map reference only.
"Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"
"The site in the Wirghtsboro Historic District have a great archaeological potential for yielding information about Georgia history, community evolution, commercial and domestic activities, at various time periods, and ethnic relations." -Dr. Sue Moore, Georgia Southern University"
"After the beginning of the nineteenth century, Wrightsboro grew into a busy farming community. Rather than settling the town according to the plan, however, most of the settlers remained dispersed through the area, living on farms or close to streams near their mills. Various commercial and industrial establishment s settled themselves along James Street, the Quaker Road, or Fish-dam Ford Road. Eventually, there were churches, several general stores, and leather tanyard, a post office, facilities for stage travelers, and silk mill. Some of the early inhabitants ran saw mills on the creeks in the vicinity, and later, other settlers mined gold in nearby Little River area. Wrightsboro became a prosperous agricultural community producing cotton and timber.
In the 1830's, the Georgia Railroad being built from Augusta to Atlanta by-passed Wrightsboro and passed through the area about six miles south. As the town of Thomson grew around the railroad depot, Wrightsboro began to decline. The Civil War had a crippling effect on the agricultural area whose cotton industry had depended on slave labor. Then the depression of the post war South hit, and many of the residents of Wrightsboro began to move to Thomson and Augusta, and other larger towns. By the late nineteenth century, Wrightsboro's town government was inactive.
After the turn of the twentieth century, Wrightsboro, like other communities dependent on cultivating their cotton for existence, was devastated by the arrival of the boll weevil. Residents continued to leave, and the community school closed in 1920. The Hawes General store, the last of its genre, closed during the 1930's. Even the Methodist Church disbanded in 1964 when the congregation dissolved.
Wrightsboro's archaeological potential is valuable because of its continuous occupation since 1769 and its early location in the Georgia piedmont. The "Wrightsboro Militia District 274" is currently a political subdivision of McDuffrie County and serves as a voting precinct. The designation of the area as the 'Wrightsborough Historic District recognizes the importance of this settlement in Georgia and American heritage. Remnants of the old town can still be seen today. The deep cut lanes of early streets, the Wrightsboro Road from Augusta which still passes through the Historic District, the Wrightsboro Church and cemetery, the school dormitory and two houses from earlier years live on as a reminder of what Wrightsboro once was and continues as an active community and heritage for McDuffie County and Georgia. "
Under first photo
"Maddock's Mill (From a rendering by Lavonia Ricketson from the "Reflections of Wrightsboro" exhibit.)"
Under second photo
"The Holliman /Hawes House"
Kenya Red Cross Society as part of its Early Action Protocols for drought conducted a seed distribution in the semi-arid communities of Kwale County some of which have not had rainfall for up to three years. In coordination with the county government and the farmers, fast yielding seeds were distributed in anticipation of imminent rains. Go to climatecentre.org for full story. (Photo: Denis Onyodi/KRCS)
Farmer Taslima Begum is working in her sunflower field. She is expecting more yielding of seeds from the flowers this year. As there is increasing demand from the market actors to buy the seeds. Motbaria, Barguna, Bangladesh. 23 April 2018.
SUFFOLK DOWNS - October 3, 2015 - Race 2
MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT - Thoroughbred
FOR MAIDENS, FILLIES TWO YEARS OLD. Weight, 120 lbs.
About One Mile On The Turf Track Record: (Our Sun - 1:39.28 - May 31, 2010)
Purse: $40,000
Weather:Cloudy Track:Yielding
Off at: 1:01 Start: Good for all
3 - Fitpitcher (Gryder, Aaron)
5 - Two Below (DeCarlo, Christopher)
1 - Alyssa and a Lisa (Davis, Jacqueline)
A borehole at Musle Kebele in Afar Regional state. The Musle well field was the only site in the Musleworeda identified as having a high probability of yielding groundwater sources. Other potential sites in the woreda are not suited for groundwater drilling either because they are located on hard and dry volcanic rock or because they are affected by a too high fluoride content. The drilling of Musle was successfully completed at depth of 394 with estimated discharge of 3-5 liter/sec in July 2016.
From this drilled well, UNICEF and the Afar Regional Water Bureau are planning to provide sustainable water supply for seven kebeles around Musle village. It is expected that more than 17,000 people and their livestock will have access to sustainable water supply through this multi-village scheme. The scheme will also provide water to schools and health facilities.©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Nahom Tesfaye
Sale exits with 1 out in the 8th inning, yielding only 1 run on 5 hits and 6 strikeouts. He notched his 7th win against 11 losses. lowering his ERA to 2.83.
IITA breeder, Dr. Silvestro Meseka (left) with partner examine maize harvest for high-yielding, adaptable maize hybrids and varieties for farmers to increase food security and income of maize-growing small holders in DR Congo.
Tonight's dinner? Chicken and dumplings. Although we realized that it's actually more a chicken cobbler, since it's all topped with a biscuits. And tonight was kind of a chicken soup cobbler, since I ended up using more chicken stock than I meant to, and it never thickened as much as I wanted. But! It was SO delish. The biscuits had thyme and black pepper in them, and they were fabu. The libations of the evening were Old Fashioneds made with the bourbon we barrel aged, and they were also fabu. All in all? Cozy, scrumptious, comfort food-y, and also really simple, so... bonus!
--Schn.
High yielding maize variety in maize field. Photo by IITA. (file name: MISC_573). ONLY low res available.
On its last flight, March 6, 1990, Lt. Col. Ed Yielding and Lt. Col. Joseph Vida set a speed record by flying from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., in 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds, averaging 3,418 kilometers (2,124 miles) per hour. At the flight's conclusion, they landed at Washington-Dulles International Airport and turned the airplane over to the Smithsonian.
giống dưa leo (dưa chuột) "Red Delta 603" (6-8 cm) Green Bull Seed Thái Lan chất lượng cao
Green fruit, numorous branching with vigorous plant, tolerance to mildew, high yielding 6-8 cm. in length, maturity 28-30 DAS.
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Salerno (pop. ~ 130.000) is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The site has been one of the most important and strategic ports on the Mediterranean sea, yielding a rich Greco-Roman heritage. It was an independent Lombard principality in the early Middle Ages. The Normans in 1077 made Salerno the capital of their rule in all of southern Italy. In the 16th century, under the Sanseverino family, among the most powerful feudal lords in southern Italy, the city became a center of learning, culture, and the arts.
Salerno has been the seat of an archbishop since 983 and the city's medical school is famous for being the first college or "university" of medieval Europe.
The construction of the Cathedral was begun by Robert Guiscard in 1076. This was just three years after the Normans took over the city, which had previously been under Lombard rule for more than 400 years. The church, built on an early Christian church, that was built on the ruins of a Roman temple, was consecrated in 1084 and completed in 1085.
Due to the short construction time, cracks formed repeatedly in the building over the centuries. After severe damage from an earthquake in 1688, the cathedral was restored with baroque alterations. In the 20th century, attempts were made to reconstruct the original facade.
The nave
Here you can find more photos from the Campania region:
A site of ancient salt cultivation dating from Inca times known as Salinas de Maras. A salt-stream emerges from a hillside and cascades through man made pools where the liquid evaporates, yielding salt. Located within the Sacred Valley, Peru.
The word Burren is derived from boireann, which means Rocky Land in Gaelic. This is a vast, desolate plateau of limestone located in northern County Clare. In the 1640s, Cromwell's surveyor described the area as...A savage land yielding neither water enough to drown a man, nor a tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury.
This incredibly stark environment of rock fading to lower green fields is quite breath taking but also unimaginatively bleak in hostile weather.
County Clare. Ireland.
Banana peppers make a nice addition when canning tomato sauce, but are yielding a few weeks ahead of the tomatoes. I guess I'll ferment the early birds.
For patients with early signs of aging who do not want or need more aggressive facelift procedures soft tissue fillers can make a significant difference. They do so with little or no recovery time, less cost and less risk of complications than classical operative/surgical procedures. These patients can be in their 30s, 40s or 50s since each individual ages differently. The nasolabial fold or laugh line which historically was best addressed by facelift surgery is the ideal location on the body for soft tissue fillers in terms of yielding the most natural result with the least risk of complications.
Radiesse (formerly Radiance) is a biocompatible, non-toxic, non-allergenic filler popular for its long-lasting results, Radiesse benefits may last two years or more. It is a compound of calcium hydroxyl apatite microspheres that are suspended in a carboxymethylcellulose gel. Calcium and phosphate ions, naturally occurring in our bodies in teeth and bones, primarily make up the calcium hydroxyl apatite particles. The gel contains an organic compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, as well as glycerin and sterile water. The material is injected under the skin with a small needle. This is performed with or without local anesthetic depending on patient preference.
Heather trains & rides Kuchi in English & Dressage for WR Ranch. Kuchi was the first Gypsy Vanner foal born on US soil!!! Isnt' she gorgeous!!???
Kuchi and Heather won the Bob & Suzanne’s Wind Rider Equestrian Challenge™, presented by AQHA professional Horsemen Bob Jeffreys & Suzanne Sheppard!!! They made it to the finals where they were judged by top clinicians, Tommy Turvey, Josh Lyons, & Matt McLaughlin, on accuracy, horse’s attitude, good horsemanship, and equitation. The course consisted of a pattern made up of some of the following elements: circles cantered on the correct lead with speed control (or in gait), a 2 foot jump, trotting or gaiting while balancing an object in one hand; backing through and around barrels, sidepassing, ground poles, balanced halts, turn on haunches or turn around, leg yielding, open and close a gate, and a ring joust. Read more at twoasonehorsemanship.com/wind_rider_challenge.htm. Hopefully I'll be getting some photos of the event to post here. I know that it was recorded and will be broadcast on television, as well. If I get more info, I'll post it!
seen during the ascent to Fuorcla Pischa.
stitched out of 5 images shot at 11mm, yielding a view of 274 × 74°.
Yielding a sunset thru the palm trees. I was enjoying the last light of day prior to my night class... I was on the verge of being late for my evening CIT 020 class at 6 p.m. but thankfully I was still a bit early once I got to EVC. Pic taken from by Fowler Creek Park in San Jose, CA. (Monday around near sunset, February 24, 2014; 5:36 p.m.)
a large East Indian tree, Tectona grandis, of the verbena family, yielding a hard, durable, resinous, yellowish-brown wood used for shipbuilding, making furniture, etc.
Seeing the small is insight;
Yielding to force is strength.
Using the outer light, return to insight,
And in this way be saved from harm.
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, 52 (translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)
Holga 120N, Arista EDU.Ultra, ISO 400, shot with a Tiffen #25 red filter. Developed in Diafine. Two separate images of the same reflection, shot from two different spots on a foot bridge.
Extreme macro by reverse mounting a 50/1.7 on a 200/4, yielding a 4:1 macro (4 times the size of a regular 1:1 macro)
Lyme Regis, Dorset UK
Lyme Regis boasts breathtaking scenery and a special mystique, making it a sparkling resort for all seasons. Its historic Cobb and harbour are iconic features, set against moody blue cliffs yielding fossilised evidence of life on earth millions of years ago. An ancient town featured in the Domesday Book, Lyme Regis is home to a number of historical landmarks and educational attractions. Between Lyme Regis and Charmouth is the Jurassic Coast where the various strata still lie on top of each other. One is more eroded than the other and offers more chances of finding. The best place to look is between these two places, where parts of dinosaurs and sea creatures are still found. The route along the entire Jurassic Coast is 155 kilometers long and very suitable for walking. It's hard to imagine, but the climate on the Jurassic Coast was once comparable to that of the Bahamas in the Caribbean. Or at least with southern Spain. Now it is known as the South West of England. Where dinosaurs once lived, both on land and in the sea.
Woman trader in happy mood displaying bunch of banana. Photo by IITA. (file name: IMG_0133_n). ONLY low res file available.
Dietz makes a parry-riposte, rotating to follow his opponent, who is attempting to rescue the exchange with a jumping prime.
Heirloom strain of corn with rounded ears and long slender yellowish kernels from Andean Peru has high sugar content, but it is eaten exclusively toasted. Said to be low yielding yet highly valued, sprouted kernels are made into chicha, the favoured alcohol of the Andes
A late afternoon cloud bank rolled in just before sunset making for dramatic light including lavender clouds on the still partially frozen Lake Mohawksin in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. This is only a small part of this large body of water created by the convergence of three rivers: the Somo, Tomahawk, and Wisconsin Rivers, hence the name Mohawksin (a combo of all three river names). I love when the winds drop giving that glassy surface on the water and yielding such lovely colors and reflections of the sky. This image is named for some dear friends who live on the shoreline opposite the island, near the center of the image.