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Nov 24 - Holy Hieromartyr Peter Of Alexandria and Martyr Mercurius Of Smolensk




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Holy Martyr Mercurius of Smolensk




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Holy Martyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238) - November 24th




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Holy Martyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238)

He was a soldier from Byzantium, one of the defenders of Smolensk when it was besieged by the Tatars in 1238. One day the Mother of God appeared to Mercurius and told him that the Tatars were preparing a surprise attack — and, further, that he must take up arms and attack the enemy singlehandedly. Placing all his trust in God, the lone soldier threw himself against the Tatar host crying 'Most Holy Mother of God, help me!' He was quickly surrounded and cut down, and it appeared that his action had been as foolhardy as it had seemed, when a woman at the head of a glorious host, all of them surrounded by light, appeared and threw back the Tatar army. The next morning the people of Smolensk found the ground covered with the bodies of their enemies. They buried Mercurius in the Cathedral, where he has been venerated as a Martyr ever since.




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Episode 51: The Cosmology of Coco

The guys loved Coco, and they both cried (#Pixar). They discuss presentations of the afterlife, the longing for divine justice, and how each of us desperately longs to be remembered by the Lord. They close with their Top 5 Depictions of the Afterlife.




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The Origins of Christendom in the Cosmology of Christ's Great Commission

Fr. John discusses cosmology, a concept that was very important to the early Church.




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The Fall of Paradise V: The Cosmology of Calvinism

In this episode Fr. John discusses ways in which Reformed cosmology represented a shift from the heavenly immanence of paradisiacal Christendom toward the heavenly transcendence of utopian Christendom.




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The Future of Botanical Monography: Report from an international workshop, 12–16 March 2012, Smolenice, Slovak Republic

Monographs are fundamental for progress in systematic  botany. They are the vehicles for circumscribing and naming taxa, determining distributions and ecology,  assessing  relationships for formal classification, and interpreting long-term  and short-term  dimensions of the evolutionary process. Despite their importance, fewer monographs are now being prepared by the newer generation  of systematic  botanists, who are understandably involved principally with DNA data and analysis, especially for answering  phylogenetic, biogeographic, and population  genetic questions.  As monographs provide  hypotheses regarding species  boundaries and plant relationships, new insights  in many plant groups  are urgently  needed.  Increasing  pressures  on biodiversity, especially in tropical and developing regions of the world, emphasize this point. The results from a workshop (with 21 participants) reaffirm  the central role that monographs play in systematic  botany. But, rather than advocating abbreviated models  for monographic products,  we recommend a full presentation of relevant  information. Electronic  publication offers numerous  means of illustration of taxa, habitats, characters, and statistical and phylogenetic analyses, which previously  would have been prohibitively costly. Open Access and semantically enhanced  linked electronic  publications provide instant access to content from anywhere  in the world, and at the same time link this content to all underlying data and digital resources  used in the work.  Resources  in support  of monography, especially  databases  and widely  and easily  accessible  digital  literature and specimens, are now more powerful  than ever before, but interfacing and interoperability of databases  are much needed. Priorities  for new resources  to be developed  include an index of type collections and an online global chromosome database. Funding  for sabbaticals for monographers to work uninterrupted on major projects  is strongly  encouraged. We recommend that doctoral  students  be assigned  smaller  genera,  or natural  portions  of larger  ones (subgenera, sections,  etc.), to gain the necessary expertise for producing a monograph, including training in a broad array of data collection (e.g., morphology, anatomy, palynology, cytogenetics, DNA techniques, ecology, biogeography), data analysis (e.g., statistics,  phylogenetics, models), and nomenclature. Training programs, supported by institutes, associations, and agencies, provide means for passing on procedures and perspectives of challenging botanical  monography to the next generation  of young systematists.

Source: Crespo, A., Crisci, J.V., Dorr, L.J., Ferencová, Z., Frodin, D., Geltman, D.V., Kilian, N., Linder, H.P., Lohmann, L.G., Oberprieler, C., Penev, L., Smith, G.F., Thomas, W., Tulig, M., Turland, N. & Zhang, X.-C. 2013. The Future of Botanical Monography: Report from an international workshop, 12–16 March 2012, Smolenice, Slovak Republic. Taxon 62: 4–20.




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The Future of Botanical Monography: Report from an international workshop, 12–16 March 2012, Smolenice, Slovak Republic






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Joseph Ryan Smolarz, MD, MBA, Honored for Expertise in the Health Care Industry

Joseph Ryan Smolarz, MD, MBA, is a physician at Virgin Islands Ear, Nose and Throat




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Mine Seismology: Data Analysis and Interpretation Palabora Mine Caving Process as Revealed by Induced Seismicity

Location: Electronic Resource- 




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Jim Williams: John Smoltz confident Stephen Strasburg will turn his season around

In 1991, a young Atlanta Braves pitching sensation by the name of John Smoltz was 2-11 nearing the All Star break, and like with the Nationals' Stephen Strasburg, the baseball world was wondering what was wrong.




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Center Stage: Jussie Smollett's Top Musical Feats



Check out #MCM Jussie Smollett do his thing.




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How to see the invisible: Using the dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model

A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has measured a surprising value for the “clumpiness” of the universe’s dark matter.




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Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology

Spanning 23 million light years, or 220 Milky Way galaxies, a set of giant, newly discovered black hole jets known as Porphyrion may change our understanding of black holes and the structure of the universe




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A Happy Helping of Kittens That Are As Smol As They Are Awwdorable

Greetings and salutations. Today is another day in this crazy beautiful thing we call life. It ain't all sunshine and flowers, but it sure is meaningful when you get to share your time with people you love. People, or cats, that is. We recommend spending some special quality time with your sweet feline companions, they grow up so fast. And they sure are extra sweet when their smol little babies just learning their way in the world. 

Over here at the ICanHasCheezburger editorial office, we are big fans of all things feline. We swipe through silly cat memes all day, even during lunch breaks. That's why we are so especially moved when we come across a happy helping of kittens that are as smol as they are awwdorable. Here's a delightful compilation of cute kitten pictures to inspire you to look through your photo albums and find your own cats' baby pictures. 




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Plutarch's Cosmological Ethics [Electronic book] / Bram Demulder.

[s.l.] : Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2023.




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The cosmological argument from Plato to Leibniz [Electronic book] / William Lane Craig.

London : Macmillan, 1980.




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Fuchsian reduction [electronic resource] : applications to geometry, cosmology and mathematical physics / Satyanad Kichenassamy

Boston : Birkhauser, 2007




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Black holes in Webb data allay threat to cosmology’s standard model

A new study challenges the findings of older ones that had concluded the universe had spiral galaxies sooner than expected




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Cosmologists gain insights into density, structure of matter in universe






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Scientists are using the universe as a “cosmological collider”

Cambridge, MA -Physicists are capitalizing on a direct connection between the largest cosmic structures and the smallest known objects to use the universe as a […]

The post Scientists are using the universe as a “cosmological collider” appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.




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The formation of trapped surfaces in the gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric scalar fields with a positive cosmological constant. (arXiv:2005.03434v1 [gr-qc])

Given spherically symmetric characteristic initial data for the Einstein-scalar field system with a positive cosmological constant, we provide a criterion, in terms of the dimensionless size and dimensionless renormalized mass content of an annular region of the data, for the formation of a future trapped surface. This corresponds to an extension of Christodoulou's classical criterion by the inclusion of the cosmological term.




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Jussie Smollett's Ex-Boyfriend Threatens to Leak His Sex Tape

One of the former 'Empire' star's ex-lovers claims the actor owes him money and demands to be paid up, or he will release the three-minute footage of Jussie's sexual activities.




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Jussie Smollett's Ex-Boyfriend Threatens to Leak His Sex Tape

One of the former 'Empire' star's ex-lovers claims the actor owes him money and demands to be paid up, or he will release the three-minute footage of Jussie's sexual activities.




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Virus could ‘smolder’ in Africa, cause many deaths, says WHO


JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The coronavirus could “smolder” in Africa for years and take a high death toll across the continent, the World Health Organization has warned. The virus is spreading in Africa, but so far the continent has not seen a dramatic explosion in the number of confirmed cases. More than 52,000 confirmed infections and […]




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ZÁDOR, E.: Sinfonia Technica / Music for Clarinet and Strings / Trombone Concerto (Sólyomi, Fejér, Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Smolij) (8.574108)

The music of Eugene Zádor is both warmly expressive and colourful. The composer took great delight in writing for overlooked solo instruments, as his Trombone Concerto, garnished with elements of Hungarian folklore, clearly shows. The easy-going, gypsy-influenced Music for Clarinet and Strings is a beautifully proportioned quasi-concerto. The Sinfonia Technica, composed much earlier when he was living in Vienna, and something of a one-off, is an enchanting and exuberantly orchestrated example of ‘industrial music’.




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Why Jussie Smollett’s Lawsuit Against Chicago Was Thrown Out



he ‘Empire’ actor is accused of staging a hate crime.




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Donald Trump Jr. is tweeting about Jussie Smollett. Again.

The president's son mocked the former "Empire" actor's legal troubles in numerous tweets this week. And not for the first time.




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Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome

Guillermo E. Umpierrez
Jan 1, 2002; 15:
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Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel receive $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize

(Yale University) The 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Lars Hernquist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, for their defining contributions to cosmological simulations, a method that tests existing theories of, and inspires new investigations into, the formation of structures at every scale from stars to galaxies to the universe itself.




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Recipients of 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize announced

(International Astronomical Union) The Gruber Cosmology Prize, which is co-sponsored by the IAU, recognises scientists whose discoveries have driven fundamental advances in our understanding of the Universe. The 2020 prize has been awarded to Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel for their pioneering work on cosmological simulations, which have not only led to their own discoveries, but also become an invaluable resource used widely by other researchers.




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Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome

Guillermo E. Umpierrez
Jan 1, 2002; 15:
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Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Isolated or Combined Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State: A Retrospective, Hospital-Based Cohort Study

OBJECTIVE

Many patients with hyperglycemic crises present with combined features of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS). The implications of concomitant acidosis and hyperosmolality are not well known. We investigated hospital outcomes in patients with isolated or combined hyperglycemic crises.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

We analyzed admissions data listing DKA or HHS at two academic hospitals. We determined 1) the frequency distributions of HHS, DKA, and combined DKA-HHS (DKA criteria plus elevated effective osmolality); 2) the relationship of markers of severity of illness and clinical comorbidities with 30-day all-cause mortality; and 3) the relationship of hospital complications associated with insulin therapy (hypoglycemia and hypokalemia) with mortality.

RESULTS

There were 1,211 patients who had a first admission with confirmed hyperglycemic crises criteria, 465 (38%) who had isolated DKA, 421 (35%) who had isolated HHS, and 325 (27%) who had combined features of DKA-HHS. After adjustment for age, sex, BMI, race, and Charlson Comorbidity Index score, subjects with combined DKA-HHS had higher in-hospital mortality compared with subjects with isolated hyperglycemic crises (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 2.7; 95% CI 1.4, 4.9; P = 0.0019). In all groups, hypoglycemia (<40 mg/dL) during treatment was associated with a 4.8-fold increase in mortality (aOR 4.8; 95% CI 1.4, 16.8). Hypokalemia ≤3.5 mEq/L was frequent (55%). Severe hypokalemia (≤2.5 mEq/L) was associated with increased inpatient mortality (aOR 4.9; 95% CI 1.3, 18.8; P = 0.02).

CONCLUSIONS

Combined DKA-HHS is associated with higher mortality compared with isolated DKA or HHS. Severe hypokalemia and severe hypoglycemia are associated with higher hospital mortality in patients with hyperglycemic crises.




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Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

Exotic primordial black holes born in the moments after the universe began could be the key to solving some of cosmology’s biggest problems… if only we can find them.




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Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing

Their unique blend of electric and magnetic properties was long thought impossible. Now multiferroics are shaking up fields from dark matter hunting to finding cancer




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Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing

Their unique blend of electric and magnetic properties was long thought impossible. Now multiferroics are shaking up fields from dark matter hunting to finding cancer




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U.S. judge dismisses actor Jussie Smollett's lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution

A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett who accused the city of Chicago of malicious prosecution in concluding that his claim to having been the victim of a racist and homophobic beating was a hoax.




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Investigating the Effects of Osmolytes and Environmental pH on Bacterial Persisters [Susceptibility]

Bacterial persisters are phenotypic variants that temporarily demonstrate an extraordinary tolerance toward antibiotics. Persisters have been linked to the recalcitrance of biofilm-related infections; hence, a complete understanding of their physiology can lead to improvement of therapeutic strategies for such infections. Mechanisms pertaining to persister formation are thought to be associated with stress response pathways triggered by intra- or extracellular stress factors. Unfortunately, studies demonstrating the effects of osmolyte- and/or pH-induced stresses on bacterial persistence are largely missing. To fill this knowledge gap within the field, we studied the effects of various osmolytes and pH conditions on Escherichia coli persistence with the use of phenotype microarrays and antibiotic tolerance assays. Although we found that a number of chemicals and pH environments, including urea, sodium nitrite, and acidic pH, significantly reduced persister formation in E. coli compared to no-osmolyte/no-buffer controls, this reduction in persister levels was less pronounced in late-stationary-phase cultures. Our results further demonstrated a positive correlation between cell growth and persister formation, which challenges the general notion in the field that slow-growing cultures have more persister cells than fast-growing cultures.




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Jussie Smollett&apos;s lawsuit against Chicago dismissed by judge until his own trial is over

Smollett was re-indicted in February after being charged with fabricating a racially motivated assault





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Nicki Minaj smolders in busty bodysuit and shoots intimate scene with shirtless mystery hunk

Nicki Minaj smoldered in a new Instagram post this Thursday. The 36-year-old rapper showed off her cleavage in a busty colorful bodysuit and let her fur wrap slide off one shoulder.




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Luann De Lesseps smolders in off-shoulder costume at star-studded RHONY Halloween party

Luann De Lesseps mingled with her fellow Real Housewives Of New York City at a Halloween party this week.




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Jussie Smollett celebrated Pride Month in first social media post since alleged hate crime attack

Jussie Smollett returned to social media for the first time since alleged hate crime attack to pay homage to Pride Month on Monday.




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Kim Kardashian smolders in her nude SKIMS shapewear as brand announces $1 million donation

Kim Kardashian smoldered in nude shapewear from her line SKIMS this Saturday. The 39-year-old posted a sizzling Instagram snap in which she modeled some of her brand's clothing.




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Jussie Smollett pictured with heavy security after making return to stage following attack

Jussie Smollett was flanked by security as he made his return to the stage on Saturday following a brutal attack last week.




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Kim Kardashian posts smoldering bikini snap of Kris Jenner after she gave birth to Rob

Kim Kardashian showered praise on her mother Kris Jenner on Instagram this Friday, two days before Mother's Day. The 39-year-old reality TV icon posted a bikini snap of Kris from the late 1980s.