 realize how important soccer has been to her, as her biggest commitment before college, how she met some of her best friends in college, and how she met some of her best friends at the University of Ghana.
Her additional past experience ranges from assisting with programming for a summer camp at 826LA, an education and creative writing nonprofit, to researching legislature with Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi and Assemblymember Betsy Butler. All of her experiences in advocacy, health equity, policy, anthropology, and art led her to The City Project. Hannah is excited to be working on community-driven equity from a policy level in her home of Los Angeles.Black women have lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels and higher parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels than white peers but lower bone turnover, suggesting skeletal resistance to PTH. Our objective was to determine if vitamin D supplementation (1,000 IU/day) would prevent bone loss and whether vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms modify the response. We performed a 2-year randomized, controlled, double-blind study of 1,000 IU vitamin D(3) vs. placebo in postmenopausal black women with serum 25(OH)D levels <20 ng/mL (n = 103). Measurements of 25(OH)D, PTH, and bone turnover were evaluated at baseline and 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. DNA was extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes, and genotyping was conducted using standard techniques. Spine and hip bone mineral density (BMD) was measured at baseline and every 6 months. Serum 25(OH)D increased 11 ng/mL with vitamin D supplementation (p < 0.001), with no change in the placebo group. Vitamin D supplementation produced a significant decline in PTH at 3 months only, with no differences in bone turnover between placebo and vitamin D at any time point. Two-year changes in BMD were not significantly different between placebo- and vitamin D-treated black women at any skeletal site. Despite similar elevations in 25(OH)D, femoral neck BMD was only responsive to vitamin D supplementation in FF subjects (n = 47), not Ff/ff subjects (n = 31). Vitamin D supplementation does not appear to influence bone loss in black women. However, in the FF polymorphism of the VDR gene group, vitamin D supplementation may retard the higher rate of bone loss.
Nieves, J W., et al. "Skeletal Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation in Postmenopausal Black Women." Calcified Tissue International, vol. 91, no. 5, 2012, pp. 316-24.
Nieves JW, Cosman F, Grubert E, et al. Skeletal effects of vitamin D supplementation in postmenopausal black women. Calcif Tissue Int. 2012;91(5):316-24.
Nieves JW, et al. Skeletal Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation in Postmenopausal Black Women. Calcif Tissue Int. 2012;91(5):316-24. PubMed PMID: 22923289.

Financially it may have been hurt by Unity, but I think it's also fair to say Syndicate is probably the least ambitious Assassin's Creed. There's little new mechanics, and what is there only undermines cornerstones of the franchise like climbing and rooftop running. The world, while accurate, also comes across as bland and rather uniform. For all its bugs, Unity had a lot of substantial improvements going on under the hood for it's movement and combat systems, while Syndicate felt like a step back.

And if it's mechanics are uninspired, its story is even worse. Its the most recent game in the franchise that I've played, and I still couldn't tell you half of the plot or villain motivations that I could of virtually any earlier iteration. Bugs can be fixed, and they were with Unity, but Syndicate's blandness is a more permanent stain to me.package sample;

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}I had intended to make this two posts, the first of which was to be published earlier this week. But we've had snow days and two year molars and a few other hiccups to that plan, so, even though they are in no way matching, I'm putting them in one post for the sake of just-getting-it-done-already!
We'll start with his...because he was so lovely to photograph, what with actual cooperation and all.
The striped fabric is a french terry from Girl Charlee - found here as of this typing, but looks like it's almost gone. The bands are a ribbed knit I got at Joann ages ago.
He looks pretty miserable in these photos, but he's just a pretty serious kid a lot of the time. Nothing a little kitty photo-bomb couldn't cure...
In stark (three year age) difference, I really thought, for a little while, that publishing pictures of her thrashing about red-faced on the floor was the only way I was going to get modeled shots of her shirt. Then I made oatmeal, she "helped", and I took my shots. Not ideal, but done.
I would have liked to make it long sleeved, but this was an upcycle (really a destruction) of a woman's shirt from Old Navy clearance and I just couldn't make it work with the amount of fabric I had.
I'm not in love with this shirt. There's something that doesn't sit right with me about the way this pattern comes together for me - especially the necklines (I'm hoping his shrinks up a little once washed). I don't think it's the pattern because I've seen plenty of lovely versions sewn by other people. Maybe raglans just aren't "me." Who knows. I have two more cut out (for the boy!) to sew up during KCW next week. Then I may retire the pattern. What won't I retire?
Loving how cute this crazy kid makes my crazy (and decidedly not cute) 50's kitchen look.
I really love both shirts! I have a few cut out for kcw as well, it'll be my first go at this pattern snd now you have me curious as to what I'll think if it :) But in all seriousness, I think both of these are completely adorable!
Thank you! I'm kind of curious about my next two, as well. I've been putting them off for the end of the week...and crossing my fingers. I hate spending all the time - and especially fabric! - on something I don't end up loving. I did see yours from earlier this week, though, and they look awesome! So I am encouraged.
Thank you so much! That's one of my favorite parts of KCW, too. Second only to giving me the excuse to sew a lot for a whole week each season!Ye, K., Liu, Y., Wu, S., and Zhuang, J. (2022). "Efficient catalytic liquefaction of organosolv lignin over transition metal supported on HZSM-5," BioResources 17(2), 2275-2295.
In this work, the catalytic liquefaction of eucalyptus organosolv lignin (EOL) over hydrogen type-zeolite socony mobile-five (HZSM-5) zeolite supported transition metals in an ethanol system was studied, and a cheap transition metal NiCr/HZSM-5 catalyst was prepared. Among them, nickel and chromium proved to have a good synergistic effect, which could remarkably enhance the acidity of the catalyst surface, and the catalytic effect was better than Ru-based precious metal catalysts and commercial Raney Ni catalysts. Meanwhile, the optimal reaction process of NiCr/HZSM-5 and Raney Ni catalyst for synergistic catalysis of EOL was explored. Under the optimal process conditions, the lignin liquefaction rate reached 95.9%, the monophenol yield was 8.64%, and the char content was only 2.08%. Furthermore, 1H-13C heteronuclear single quantum correlation nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-13C HSQC NMR) showed that the β-O-4, β-β, and β-5 linkages of lignin were effectively broken. Thus, a higher liquefaction rate of lignin was realized, which provided the possibility for further comprehensive utilization of lignin.
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the context of “carbon neutral” has become a general trend. The increasing depletion of fossil energy and the environmental problems caused by its combustion are forcing researchers to look for cleaner renewable energy sources. As a rich and renewable biomass resource in nature, lignin is also a renewable natural aromatic polymer, which has attracted increased researchers’ attention.
Lignin is a macromolecule composed of guaiacyl (G), syringyl (S), and