Hazy Hollywood Flicks

If you’re a fan of Mary Jane, then you already know how cannabis enhances the movie viewing experience. You laugh harder, become more engaged and become more perplexed by the twists and turns of the narratives. Th is list could have had any number of worthy movies on it, complete with classics such as “Fight Club” and “Pineapple Express,” but I’ve decided to compile a list of personal favorites that includes stoner staples as well as lesser-known titles. So settle in, roll a fat one and happy smoking

High Intensity Flash Tube (Abstract)

The design and construction of a high energy gaseous flash tube and appertaining equipment for high speed single exposure photography is described. Flash characteristics are estimated and performance criteria are proposed. Comparative experimental results are given and improvements in design are discussed

Observational evidence for gravitationally trapped massive axion(-like) particles

Unexpected astrophysical observations can be explained by gravitationally captured massive particles, which are produced inside the Sun or other Stars and are accumulated over cosmic times. Their radiative decay in solar outer space would give rise to a `self-irradiation' of the whole star, providing the time-independent component of the corona heating source. In analogy with the Sun-irradiated Earth atmosphere, the temperature and density gradient in the corona - chromosphere transition region is suggestive for an omnipresent irradiation of the Sun. The same scenario fits other astrophysical X-ray observations. The radiative decay of a population of such elusive particles mimics a hot gas. X-ray observatories, with an unrivalled sensitivity below ~10 keV, can search for such particles. The elongation angle relative to the Sun is the relevant new parameter.Comment: 35 pages, LaTeX, 9 figures. Accepted by Astroparticle Physic

From Shared Governance to Shared Leadership: Our COVID Response to Faculty Evaluation, Support, and Advancement

As a state comprehensive university in a small, midwestern metropolitan area, “Students First” is more than a slogan. The preamble to our Faculty Constitution and our University’s mission statement both specify that students and their flourishing are the justification for our institution’s existence. We have learned, however, that a precondition to robust attention to students’ well-being is parallel attention to the well-being and development of our faculty. This article chronicles the principles and practices by which our shared leadership team responded to unique challenges presented by the COVID crisis and its ripple effects. A closing theme acknowledges that COVID revealed latent, pre-existing gaps in our care for faculty and students as well as introducing new and temporary challenges, and that some of our resulting solutions may require institutionalization as permanent fixtures

Cone degeneration in two Shih Tzu dogs: clinical and genetic investigation

ABSTRACT: Two cases of cone degeneration in adult Shih Tzu canine patients are reported herein. Definitive diagnosis was made based on the ophthalmic examination finding, typical clinical signs, and characteristic electroretinography results that demonstrated normal rod function and absence of recordable cone function. Sanger sequencing of the entire coding sequence of the cyclic nucleotide gated channel β3 (CNGB3) gene did not reveal disease causing variants in these dogs. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first report of clinical, electroretinographic and genetic investigation of cone degeneration in Shih Tzu

The Oak 1989

Glassboro State College yearbook for the Class of 1989. 248 pages. Contents: GSC Student Life p. 1, Seniors p. 18, Clubs and Organizations p. 76, Sports p. 113, Campus Life p. 140, Faculty p. 154, Oak Staff p. 238.https://rdw.rowan.edu/yearbooks/1049/thumbnail.jp

Opportunities and Challenges for Molecular Understanding of Ciliopathies-The 100,000 Genomes Project.

Cilia are highly specialized cellular organelles that serve multiple functions in human development and health. Their central importance in the body is demonstrated by the occurrence of a diverse range of developmental disorders that arise from defects of cilia structure and function, caused by a range of different inherited mutations found in more than 150 different genes. Genetic analysis has rapidly advanced our understanding of the cell biological basis of ciliopathies over the past two decades, with more recent technological advances in genomics rapidly accelerating this progress. The 100,000 Genomes Project was launched in 2012 in the UK to improve diagnosis and future care for individuals affected by rare diseases like ciliopathies, through whole genome sequencing (WGS). In this review we discuss the potential promise and medical impact of WGS for ciliopathies and report on current progress of the 100,000 Genomes Project, reviewing the medical, technical and ethical challenges and opportunities that new, large scale initiatives such as this can offer

A Proposed New Etymology for in Northwest Semitic*

The term, known from the Hebrew Bible, the Ugaritic corpus, and a sole example from Qumran, has frequently been glossed as \u27eyelids\u27 or \u27eyelashes\u27, and thought to be a reduplicated form of the hollow root, \u27to fly\u27 (the idea being that eyelashes and eyelids \u27flutter\u27 like wings). This interpretation has been criticized, however, for its unsuitability in a number of cases in which the term occurs, and some translators have offered alternatives that seem to fit the context better (e.g. \u27pupils\u27, \u27eyeballs\u27) or avoid the issue entirely through paraphrasing (such as the KJV\u27s \u27dawning\u27 in Job 3:9). Such translations, however, leave unanswered the question as to how they are related to the idea of \u27flight\u27. In this paper I propose that is derived not from the hollow root meaning \u27to fly\u27, but rather from the homograph meaning \u27to be dark, gloomy\u27 (and is thus similar to the other reduplicated roots related to colours, such as and ). The interpretation of as \u27pupils\u27 would then have an appropriate etymology connoting their \u27blackness\u27. This new reading solves a number of problems that scholars have identified with the traditional interpretation

Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-21

The night vision recounted by Job’s friend Eliphaz in Job 4.12-21 has received an extraordinary amount of scholarly attention. Among other difficulties, the core of the vision’s message (4.17) – typically interpreted as stating that humans cannot be just in God’s sight – appears to contradict Eliphaz’s statements elsewhere (e.g., 4.6-7). The relationship between 4.17 and the metaphors for death with which the vision ends has also occasioned considerable debate. In this paper, it is argued that Eliphaz’s words can be viewed as a response to Job’s speech in Chapter 3, particularly his description of the sleep of death in 3.11-19. The poet portrays Eliphaz as having perceived Job’s words as a challenge to God’s justice and has him—after implying divine inspiration for his message with the use of an extraordinary set of oracular tropes in vv. 12-16—offer in vv. 17-21 a rebuke and warning evocative of those used by biblical prophets to call sinners to repentance. As the prologue indicates, however, Job’s suffering is not due to sin but instead to his superlative goodness; Eliphaz’s words are therefore profoundly misguided and can have no salutary effect. In essence, I propose that the poet is presenting Eliphaz as an example of what Deut. 18.20 calls a ‘presumptuous prophet’, that is, one who wrongly claims that he is speaking on behalf of God. His remarks serve only to distance Job further from both the ‘friends’ and God, as Job’s sharper tone in Chapters 6-7 makes clear. This reading can help explain some of the more puzzling elements in these verses and also maintains the traditional attribution of the vision to Eliphaz (instead of to Job himself, as a growing number of scholars have proposed). </jats:p