It’s also notorious among tabletop enthusiasts for making some people loathe the entire medium of board games… I’ve got several posts to write on this topic, but I want to start by honouring Gene’s remarks with a ringing endorsement of his point about supporting those with trauma responses to play, and building on what that means more broadly. I’d like to thank whoever chose the GLAM Blog Club theme for this month, and highlight some of my past posts as potential inspiration for anyone thinking of writing about play and games in a libraries/GLAM context – specifically my Talking Points series, especially the second one, on the powers of play. We detected that you have an open account recovery request. Penalties are applied no matter who was playing at the time.
In December, the band announced that they were removing a selection of their old songs from all platforms due to lyrics that had “become increasingly problematic in modern times”. Since she got sober at 19, she has been revisiting fun at her current stage of life. Paul encourages you to check in with yourself about your feelings about your AF journey.
(C) The reduced L1 starvation survival rate of ain-1(lf) mutants was significantly suppressed by a null allele of unc-31. Compromising overall miRNA function dramatically reduces the survival rate of L1 worms in starvation-induced diapause, and the effect can be significantly suppressed by an age-1/PI3K mutation. Our genetic analysis indicated that for both L1 diapause survival and developmental recovery functions, miR-71 regulates expressions of genes in both the insulin receptor-dependent and -independent pathways. (F) Fluorescence and DIC images showing that an hbl-1 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+) worms and slightly derepressed in mir-71(lf) mutants. (E) DIC images showing that hbl-1(RNAi) caused precocious VPC divisions in late L2/early L3 in both wild-type and mir-71(lf) worms recovered from 4 d of L1 starvation. (C) Bar graph showing that the delayed VPC timing defects of mir-71(lf) worms was suppressed by an unc-31(lf) mutation and partially suppressed by an age-1(rf) mutation.
The overall effect of miRNAs on L1 starvation survival is expected to be significantly stronger than that reflected by the data in Fig. These results suggest that miRNAs act in the intestine, and possibly in other tissues, to promote L1 starvation survival. However, the mechanisms that coordinate the long-term survival, overall developmental arrest, and reinitiation remain to be investigated.
However, we found that the reporter transgene with the lin-42 3′UTR was significantly repressed in wild-type worms, but derepressed in the mir-71(lf) worms (Fig. 4 H and I). In starved L1 worms, we detected only a slight increase in the mRNA level of hbl-1 in mir-71 mutants compared with that in wild type (∼10%), which may not be biologically significant. These results indicate that miR-71 plays a significant role in larval development of animals recovering from L1 diapause and likely does so by regulating the expression of components of the insulin receptor/DAF-16 pathway, as well as factors acting downstream, or in parallel to, DAF-16. If this were true, the starved mir-71(lf); daf-16(lf) double-mutant worms should show a slow growth phenotype similar to that of daf-16(lf) worms, but no specific VPC timing defect.
(D) A representative chart of the L1 starvation survival rates of different miRNA mutants. However, it remains unclear how, and to what extent, miRNAs coordinate animal survival and development in response to stresses. Unlike dauer diapause, L1 diapause is not accompanied by life cycle changes and has not been shown to require certain signaling pathways that control the formation of dauer diapause such as TGF-β signaling (daf-1, daf-7) and nuclear hormone receptor (daf-12) (2, 3). When late, first larval stage (L1) worms sense unfavorable conditions, they enter an alternative and long-lived larval stage called dauer larvae (or dauer diapause). The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans responds to starvation by entering developmental arrest at multiple stages of its life cycle (1).
The coordinated entrance into developmental arrest, long-term survival, and the reinitiation of development upon food availability are important biological processes to investigate. Different organisms have developed versatile growth arrest strategies to overcome starvation-induced metabolic and developmental problems. Food deprivation is a life-threatening challenge that animals frequently face as individuals and as species. Numerous animal species across multiple phyla enter developmental arrest for long-term survival in unfavorable environments and resume development upon stress removal. Contributed new reagents/analytic tools; X.Z., R.Z., and M.H.
(Right panels) The gonad of the same animals in the Left panels to indicate the similar developmental stage. The reporter construct, the control plasmid, and a transformation marker plasmid were coinjected into worms to generate the extrachromosomal arrays for analysis. We further examined the functional relationship between miR-71 and DAF-16, a FOXO transcription factor acting critically and negatively downstream of AGE-1/PI3K in the InsR pathway. Elegans Genetic Center (reference 257) and an N2 strain from the laboratory stock, respectively.
These models are used not just in clinical care but in recovery college programmes, self help groups, and community-based services across the UK. Peer support interventions are now recognised as valuable components of mental health recovery. This mix of professional oversight and personal connection helps create a balanced group dynamic where people feel supported emotionally and practically. This is when people who have faced similar mental health challenges share their stories and offer mutual encouragement. Over time, participants often find that being part of a group helps them build confidence, improve communication, and better understand their own needs in recovery.
Which leads me to add to my wholehearted endorsement of Gene’s call for libraries to make allowances for people to avoid play and games. The fact that family game night might, as Gene remarked, be a source of trauma is primarily an indictment of the state of those families – but given play’s links to health and the fact that games can heal and promote bonding and caring, it seems unwise to ignore the qualities of the games they are playing. It’s easy to take this as a joke – families fight over board games, oh well, It’s Only A Game – but if you dig even slightly into this, you find that some of these experiences are genuinely traumatic, as one would expect might be necessary to give someone a lifelong aversion to an entire medium. Monopoly is… as legendary for spawning bitter family fights and for dragging on interminably even though it’s obvious who’s going to win as it is for being widely played. The spending limit for a child account is set to 0 by default when the account is created by the family manager.
Furthermore, miR-71 plays a prominent role in developmental recovery from L1 diapause partly through repressing the expression of certain heterochronic genes. Here we show that compromising overall microRNA (miRNA) functions or mutating certain individual miRNAs impairs the long-term survival of nematodes during starvation-induced L1 diapause. But offering people opportunities to explore games and play in a safe, non-abusive, self-directed context like a library seems to me to matter, and for folks who are more likely than most to have social anxieties, finding those opportunities can be extremely hard. This certainly accords with the rise of therapists using games as therapy – a web search for “Dungeons & Dragons therapy” shows the recent explosion in ways in which people are finding healing in play. That means that when sales revery play are up, more people are playing this and other older, less-fun games instead of games with the advantage of more than a century’s advancements in the art and science of play, including co-operative games, social games, nomic games, and more. The PlayStation Family app lets you manage your family from your mobile device, and offers additional options to monitor your children’s play time.
Mainly the tone curve LAB settings and your color calibration is very confusing – how did you come up with this approach? But since the raw files also do not contain a hole lot of color information at the borders I start to think about how such situations could be handled more suitably. I hope someone used to this exercise will chime in — I tend to think there’s an approach better than others, for this kind of image, just from a signal processing perspective. But from a colour management and overall interpretation viewpoint, I don’t know what to do with this image, and to be honest, I like the hues you’ve achieved in the sky. I was wondering how much better you guys can recover data from the shadows compared to my approach (while maintaining a decent overall look)! Find out about how passkeys can make your account more secure, how to set one up and how to sign in to PlayStation™Network (PSN) with a passkey.
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