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Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway was a writer who was created out of the need for journalistically correct writing to reflect the new speed of warfare that was overtaking the world. 

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Pfizer has millions of COVID-19 doses in U.S. warehouses but no idea where to ship them

 Pfizer, however, said that it has not experienced production issues. In a statement Thursday, the company said it shipped all 2.9 million doses of the vaccine the U.S. had allotted so far, and has millions more doses in warehouses ready to send. Those include doses being held for a required second shot, as well as a new batch set for delivery over the coming week.

Former GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical executive Moncef Slaoui is serving as chief adviser on the American effort to find a vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 

PHOTO BY KEVIN LAMARQUE / REUTERS

“Pfizer is not having any production issues with our Covid-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed,” the company said, making clear the company had many more doses available right now than were being distributed.

“We have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses,” the statement read.

The clashing accounts came as Pfizer and the Trump administration negotiate additional vaccine doses for the United States.

In recent days, there has been growing frustration in the Trump administration with the company. A senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the vaccine program said Pfizer is negotiating in public despite having delivery problems and not meeting the initial volumes that the U.S. had expected.

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Book one Description

An edited list of contents:

Lesson 1

Getting started with Vowel Sounds, Single Syllable words, Days of the week, Action terms, Colors, Compare and Contrast, Contractions. Dialogues: Greetings and Questions. How to ask the time. Conversations: Complaints, Invitations, Exits. Complain like an American,  Not feeling well, Checking in, Global warming, COVID-19 Numbers.

 

Lesson 2

What and When, Federal Holidays, Animals, Antonyms, Pronouns, Adverbs, Articles, NATO phonetic alphabet. Vowels, Diphthongs, Consonants, Syllables, First syllable, Sound at the end of a syllable, Sound of R-controlled Sound of Schwa, Ch, W, Sound of Allophones, Prepositions and Expressions, Verb Tenses with sentences, Modal, Antonyms, Synonyms.

Lesson 3

The Sound Ridge, Chocolate and the 12 Verb Tenses, Parts of Speech, Grammar, Tongue Twisters, Comparatives, Superlatives, Adjectives, Musical Instruments, Dialogue: Jazz Cats, Sentence templates, Sentence focus, Speech Measures, Pauses and breaths, The Five Senses, Word sound levels, To Be, Silent letters, Focused sounds,     COVID-19-Terminology, Coronavirus list of warning signs.

Lesson 4

Digraphs, Trigraphs, Compare and Contrast, Oxymorons, At the Plastic Surgeon, Homonyms, American Kitchen, American Presidents, List of 50 States with Details, American Citizenship Review, Racial injustice and bigotry, Discrimination in America.

Lesson 5

Vegetables, Fruits, Spices, Cooking, measurements, Types of Trees, American Home, Manners, Etiquette, the Baby’s Nursery, Visiting Hollywood, Motorcycle Police Officer, Taxicab, Street Names. Metro., to walk, to speak, to go, to do, to meet, to act, to awake.

Lesson 6

Pitching a Hollywood Screenplay, Antonyms Volcanic terms, Clichés, Idiomatic Expressions, and Proverbs, The Writing Process, Term, and Thesis Paper Templates, Term Paper Characteristics, Paragraphs, College papers, Biographies, Narrator, When were you born, Transitional Phrases, Human Emotions, Figures of Speech, Phrasal verbs, E-mail Closings.

Lesson 7         

Professionals, Punctuation, Speech, Sound and Music Terms, Irregular verbs list, Pronouns, Subject, Object, Indefinite Pronouns, Past tense, to call, to get, to eat, to work, to live, to wonder, to look, to have, to say, to be, to come, to see, to move, to hear, to know, to make, Hollywood Bus/Metrorail Routes, Hollywood Resources, Restaurants, Hostels, Hotels, Motels, Coffee houses in Los Angeles.

 

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With an amazing  Foreword by Danny Hutton, Three Dog Night

The Hollywood Tutor’s American English is a book designed to help people learn and pronounce English quickly and easily. Inside this book, the student will find lessons that contain 20 different pronunciation keys, 24 different dialogues, dozens of conversations, lists of essential and specialty words related to things like sports, business, fashion, science, as well as social issues such as racism, discrimination, and the environment.

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After more than ten years of creating this book and using feedback from students, I have added fun sections such as astrological terms, animals, tongue twisters, and silent letters. There is a complete sports review including American Football, American Soccer, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Bicycle Parts, Boxing, Fitness, Workout and Nutrition terms, Golf, Gymnastics, Track & Field, Ping Pong, Pool: Eightball, Sailing and Nautical terms, Surfing, Swimming, and Yoga.

As part of Black Lives Matter, there are additional sections on racism and discrimination and a section on American Heroes with biographies. There are sections to help people with writing, including term and thesis paper templates, sentences, paragraphs, research papers, biographies, narrator’s voice, transitional phrases, list of human emotions, synonyms, figures of speech. There are two lists of colors for artists and for musicians, a list of composers and musical instruments.

Regarding COVID-19, there are several sections, including Terminology, a list of warning signs, etiquette, dialogue, the emergency room, symptoms. The list of dialogues includes: Greetings and Questions, Visiting Hollywood, American Citizenship Review, Jazz Cats, Motorcycle Police Officer, Taxicab, Metro, Pitching a Hollywood Screenplay, Plastic Surgeon, Job interview, Post Office, Yogurt Shop, Buying a slice of Pizza, Cover letter, COVID- Emergency Room, Grocery Shopping, Jazz Cats, Mortgage Refinance, Ordering at a Delicatessen, Poker, Flea Market, Beauty Salon, Florist Shop, and Tony, the Car Mechanic.

This is the book that was used to tutor students from all around the world and combines all the content from book one and book two. That’s 14 different lessons with more than 138,000 words. The difficulty ranges from elementary anchor words to complex multisyllabic terms. Some students might just read words; others might enjoy dialogues, have fun, and take your time.

There are four books in the collection: Book One, Book Two, Large Print, and Combined Books One and Two

My blog: www.americanenglishhollywoodtutor.blogspot.com

Thank you for your time,

Best,

Mitch Rubman

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Practice American English words

Adventurous(ad-ven-cher-uhs)
Nature(ney-cher)
virtual(vur-choo-uhl)
ritual(rich-oo-uhl)
children(chil-druhn)
Cathedral(kuh-thee-druhl)
laundry(lawn-dree)
gradual(graj-oo-uhl)
early(ur-lee)
editor(ed-i-ter)

Oxymorons: Opposites in American logic

  

almost exactly

alone together

butt head

constant variable

crash landing

criminal justice

deafening silence

definite maybe  

even odds

exact estimate

extinct life

found missing

free love

hot chili

jumbo shrimp

Microsoft Works

military intelligence

minor crisis

original copies

rolling stop

working holiday

Pronunciation Key 1800. Practice this list from Durham Library

 

How to ask the time

 How to ask the time.

These are some of the ways Americans ask and respond about time.

Exercise 1: Practice aloud the following questions and answers.

Exercise 2: Switch sides, repeat, try different times.

As with other American English subjects, there are more than several ways to ask the same question. 

Q1.    Can you tell me the time? 

A. Yes, it’s two thirty in the morning. 

Q2.    Do you have the time? 

A. It’s three pm.

Q3.    Do you know the time? 

A. It’s ten after eleven.

Q4.    What is the time? 

A. I have twenty to ten or nine forty.

Q5.    What time have you got? 

A. I’ve got five to five.

Q6.    What time is it? 

A. It’s three ten.

Q7.    Are we out of time? 

A. We’ve got fifteen minutes, almost out of time.

Q8. Do you know the time?

A. We are going to be ten minutes late.

Police terms

Understanding the terms used by officers, other operators, and citizens is an important part of
properly assessing and dispatching calls for service. Some of these terms can be considered
jargon or slang. Following is a list of common terms found on the job:
3511 A vehicle that has been impounded for a mandatory 30 days
A.P.S. Arizona Public Service
A.S.A.P. As soon as possible
A.T.F. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
BAILED OUT Subject jumped out of car and ran
BYFRND Boyfriend
BEER RUN Shoplifting beer
BONDOUT Prisoner who is going to post bail and be released
BEEN MADE/BURNED Undercover officer's ID is known
BHND Behind
BIKE Motorcycle
BIKERS Motorcycle riders
BOOKING Booking prisoner into jail 
BREAKING UP Radio transmissions are not being received clearly
BUSTED Arrested
C.C.W. Carrying concealed weapon
C.O. Civilian observer
COMP Complainant
C.L.D. Citation in lieu of detention
CRACK, ROCK Smokeable form of cocaine
D.E.B. Drug Enforcement Bureau
DIX Detectives
D.O.A. Dead on arrival
D.O.B. Date of birth
D.O.C. Department of Corrections
D.P.S. Department of Public Safety
DRIVE BY Shots fired from a moving vehicle
E.O.C. Emergency Operations Center 
EQUIPMENT Police vehicle
E.R. Emergency Room
E.T.A. Estimated time of arrival
F.A.A. Federal Aviation Administration
F.B.I. Federal Bureau of Investigation
F.I. Field Interrogation (Form 36 card)
FILE STOP Notation put in police record; File Stops are confirmed
by R&I Bureau
FLIR Device used by aircraft to check for heat sources
F.O.J. From other jurisdiction
FRONT DESK Information Desk at main station
FUGITIVE A wanted person
GAS WASH/WASHDOWN Fire Department needed to wash gas down
G.C.I. /B.A. Test used to determine blood alcohol content
G.I.B. General Investigations Bureau 
GOT THE EYE In view (on a code 5)
GRN Green
HOND Honda
HIT Subject or item wanted
H.G.N. Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (a test for detecting drug / alcohol
use)
HOBBLES Nylon rope used for legs and hand restraint
HOOK Wrecker
HSE House
ICE, CRYSTAL Smokeable methamphetamine
J.C.C. Juvenile Corrections Center
J.P. Justice of the Peace
JUMPED ON Assaulted
JUMPER Person attempting suicide by jumping
LADDER Fire Department ladder truck
MARQUIS Test for narcotics 
M.D.C. Mobile Digital Computer (Police car computer)
MEDICS Paramedics
MERZ Mercedes Benz
MHP Mobile Home Park
MOTOR Solo motor unit
NUMBER 1 SITUATION Probable cause for arrest
NUMBER 9's Citations
OD Overdose
ONE FROM LIST Contract wrecker (926)
ONE ON ONE Suspect / witness I.D.
ONE ROLL Fingerprints
O.V. On view, officer just witnessed an incident

PAGE 2 Additional charges filed on a subject already in custody
P.C. Probable cause
PLE Purple 
P.O. Probation officer
RESTRAINTS Leather straps used to restrain prisoners
RINGER Audible alarm
ROLLOVER Accident involving overturned vehicle
R.P. Responsible party
S/E/C Southeast corner
SEIZURE Impound a vehicle; subject having convulsions
SGT Sergeant
SILENT Silent alarm
SLIM JIM Device used to open locked vehicle
SMASH & GRAB Broke out window, grabbed items and ran
S.O./M.C.S.O. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
S.R.P. Salt River Project
STRIPPED Vehicle stripped
TECH Radio or computer technician 
THIRTY-SIX Field interrogation (or form 36)
THREE WHEELER Police 3-wheeled motorcycle
TILL TAP Grab money from register
DISPATCH AN ANIMAL To shoot an animal
TRAFFIC BOX KEY Key used to open traffic signal control box
XHUSB Ex-husband
WAGON/WAGON Police paddy wagon 

Robotics(roh-bot-iks)

Robotics(roh-bot-iks)

machinery, automation, information technology, artificial intelligence, data processing, mechanics, computers, telecommunications, mechanization, expert system, knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, neural network, neural networks, hi tech, high tech, cybernetics, information retrieval, simulation

biomechanics(bahy-oh-mi-kan-iks) 

Octogenarian (ok-tuh-juh-nair-ee-uhn)

It’s one of several similar terms used to refer to a person of a certain age, including quadragenarian (40s), quinquagenarian (50s), sexagenarian (60s), septuagenarian (70s), and nonagenarian (90s).


[ok-tuh-juh-nair-ee-uhn]
In their 80s.

Yellow(yel-oh) bird(burd)

Coffee? Good Morning.

Order of speech development.

Between six and nine months, babies babble in syllables and start imitating speech sounds.  By twelve months, a baby’s first words usually appear and by eighteen months to two years children use around fifty words and will start putting short sentences together.

Exercise 1: Review the list of words aloud.

Exercise 2: Create a sentence for each word.

Practice sound and word

1.

1. p: pa
2. m: ma
3. h: ha
4. n: no
5. w: woo
6. b: bee
7. k: key
8. g: game
9. d: did
10. t: toy
11. ng: ring
12. f: farm
13. y: you
14. kw: quick
15. bl: black
16. br: brick
17. dr: drink
18. fl: flu
19. fr: free
20. gl: glee
21. gr: great
22. kl: clean
23. kr: crumb
24. pl: plan
25. st: street
26. tr: trail
27. sl: slope
28. sp: speed
29. sw: sweet

Clean your brain

A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep
MIND 31 October 2019
By Layal Liverpool


Fultz et al. 2019

As you sleep, slow waves of electrical activity in your brain seem to help rinse away harmful waste products that could otherwise damage your brain cells. The process may play a role in preventing neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

“Sleep is really important for clearing toxic metabolic waste products from the brain,” says Laura Lewis at Boston University, Massachusetts. Sleep deprivation is associated with a build-up in the brain of clumps of protein, such as beta-amyloid, which is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, she says.


Brainwaves are made by large networks of brain cells firing together in rhythm. Much about their function is unclear, but we know they are slower during deep sleep, and faster when we are awake. To see if brainwaves play a role in cleaning the brain, Lewis and her team used EEG caps to measure electrical activity in the brains of 13 people while they napped inside MRI scanners.


At the same time, the researchers also measured blood oxygen levels in their brains and the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, a watery liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

Flowing in and out
They found that, during sleep, large waves of cerebrospinal fluid flow into and out of the brain every 20 seconds, a process thought to remove waste. The inward flow was preceded by patterns of slow waves of electrical activity, called delta waves.

These brainwaves are also known to play a role in consolidating memories while we sleep. The researchers found that the waves coincided with blood flowing out of the brain, which they say helps balance the total volume of fluid around the brain.

People with neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s have fewer and weaker slow brainwaves, says Lewis. “So we might expect that there are also fewer and smaller waves of cerebrospinal fluid in those disorders, and that might have an impact on how waste products are cleared.”

Read more: The brain’s drain: How our brains flush out their waste and toxins
However, it isn’t clear yet whether impaired brain cleaning during sleep might be a cause or a symptom of conditions like Alzheimer’s.

Oxygenated blood (red) in a sleeping brain

Just one bad night’s sleep can lead to more beta-amyloid building up in the brain. But there is no need to panic. “Sometimes when people haven’t had enough sleep, they’ll actually show much more of these electrical slow waves the next night,” says Lewis . “That might be a way for the brain to make up for some of that lost sleep.”



Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222016-a-type-of-brainwave-may-help-clean-your-brain-while-you-sleep/#ixzz6T1xtYmp6

MRI study reveals all mammals, including humans, share equal brain connectivity

July 21, 2020 Animals, Brain, Health & Medical

MRI study reveals all mammals, including humans, share equal brain connectivity



TEL AVIV, Israel — Mankind’s collective ego may be about to take a big hit. Humans have always reigned supreme on planet Earth when it comes to intelligence. Indeed, it’s our intellect and capacity for critical thinking that primarily separates us from the rest of this planet’s inhabitants. That’s why the findings of a new study are so surprising. Researchers from Tel Aviv University, after examining and comparing brain connectivity across 130 different mammalian species (including humans), conclude that brain connectivity is equal among all mammals.

Oxygenated blood (red) in a sleeping brain

These findings, reached via MRI brain scans, oppose long-standing beliefs and assumptions among medical and scientific professionals.

“We discovered that brain connectivity — namely the efficiency of information transfer through the neural network — does not depend on either the size or structure of any specific brain,” says Professor Yaniv Assaf, of the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, in a release. “In other words, the brains of all mammals, from tiny mice through humans to large bulls and dolphins, exhibit equal connectivity, and information travels with the same efficiency within them. We also found that the brain preserves this balance via a special compensation mechanism: when connectivity between the hemispheres is high, connectivity within each hemisphere is relatively low, and vice versa.”

Brain connectivity compared via MRI scans
Many scientists theorize, or assume, that the human brain features far more intricate levels of connectivity in comparison to other mammals. But, this study author’s weren’t so sure.

“We know that key features are conserved throughout the evolutionary process. Thus, for example, all mammals have four limbs. In this project we wished to explore the possibility that brain connectivity may be a key feature of this kind — maintained in all mammals regardless of their size or brain structure. To this end we used advanced research tools,” explains study co-author Yossi Yovel, a professor at the School of Zoology.



So, advanced diffusion MRI brain scans were taken of 130 animals, with each mammal representing a different species. A wide variety of mammals are included in the research, from bats to dolphins. Meanwhile, 32 humans had their brains scanned as well. MRI scans detect and illuminate white matter in the brain, allowing the research team to reconstruct each mammal’s neural network.

One’s neural network consists of the neurons and axons that move information around, and the synapses where those neurons meet.

Next, the study’s authors had to figure out how to accurately compare scans of different mammals with one another. For example, comparing an MRI scan of a bear to a squirrel represented a challenge due to the drastically different sizes/structures of the two animals’ heads. To overcome this difficulty, researchers utilized Network Theory (a branch of mathematics). This approach facilitated the creation of a way to universally measure brain conductivity in mammals of all shapes and sizes. In simpler terms, the research team counted the number of synopses a piece of information must pass through go from one place to another in a neural network.

“A mammal’s brain consists of two hemispheres connected to each other by a set of neural fibers (axons) that transfer information,” Professor Assaf says. “For every brain we scanned, we measured four connectivity gages: connectivity in each hemisphere (intrahemispheric connections), connectivity between the two hemispheres (interhemispheric), and overall connectivity. We discovered that overall brain connectivity remains the same for all mammals, large or small, including humans. In other words, information travels from one location to another through the same number of synapses.

“It must be said, however, that different brains use different strategies to preserve this equal measure of overall connectivity: some exhibit strong interhemispheric connectivity and weaker connectivity within the hemispheres, while others display the opposite,” he notes.

Adds Yovel: “We found that variations in connectivity compensation characterize not only different species but also different individuals within the same species. In other words, the brains of some rats, bats, or humans exhibit higher interhemispheric connectivity at the expense of connectivity within the hemispheres, and the other way around — compared to others of the same species.”

The professor suggests that future studies could investigate how different types of brain connectivity impact “various cognitive functions or human capabilities such as sports, music, or math.” In the meantime, Assaf believes the work reveals the existence of a new universal law among mammals: Conservation of Brain Connectivity.

“This law denotes that the efficiency of information transfer in the brain’s neural network is equal in all mammals, including humans. We also discovered a compensation mechanism which balances the connectivity in every mammalian brain. This mechanism ensures that high connectivity in a specific area of the brain, possibly manifested through some special talent (e.g. sports or music) is always countered by relatively low connectivity in another part of the brain. In future projects we will investigate how the brain compensates for the enhanced connectivity associated with specific capabilities and learning processes,” he explains.

The study is published in Nature Neuroscience