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RE: Stop the Deportation of Betty Kalule Naggayi Inbox Updates Minister / Ministre (IRCC) <IRCC.Minister-Ministre.IRCC@cic.gc.ca> Wed, May 10, 2:24 PM (4 days ago) to me La version française suit   Thank you for your email addressed to the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.  Please note that all comments and questions are taken seriously, and although Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) cannot provide a personalized response to every message, we will review and consider all comments received.   -          If you’re contacting us about the situation in Ukraine: o   Find out how we’re responding to the situation in Ukraine; o   If you need further assistance, you can contact usby phone at +1-613-321-4243 (collect calls accepted); or o   Click here to contact us via the web form.   -          If you’re contacting us about the situation in Afghanistan: o   Please refer to Canada's response to the situation in Afghanistan; o   If you need further assistance, you can contact us byphone at +1-613-321-4243 (collect calls accepted); or o   Contact us via this web form.   -          Information about passport applications is available through thepassport website or through our service delivery partners at Service Canada. -          If you’re contacting us about your passport application, you can: o   Check passport and travel document processing times and service standards; o   Check the status of your passport application; o   Get urgent or emergency passport services. -          If you need to contact the Passport Program, you can: o   Complete one of the web forms to ask a question or submit a complaint; o   Call the call centre at 1-800-567-6868 from Monday to Friday, between 8:30 AM and 5 PM, your local time, except for statutory holidays.   Correspondence volumes are high.  While we endeavour to respond to as many enquiries in as timely a manner as possible, you may wish to refer to the list below, as many client questions can be answered by referring to IRCC’s Website, or IRCC’s online Help Centre.   -          COVID-19 information related to your situation, including: o   travel restrictions and exemptions; o   approved applications for permanent residence; and o   processing times and application status. -          Canadian Citizens who are abroad and are writing with an enquiry concerning their travel to Canada, please visit the Global Affairs Canadawebsite; -          Deportations (see Canada Border Services Agency);  -          Information about your application (visit IRCC’s Services and Information Website for information related to case status and processing times): o   The Permanent Residence Family Class Application Tracker is an online tracker to help better inform clients about their application progress.  The tracker is available for family class applicants sponsoring or being sponsored as a spouse, partner or dependent child, as well as their representatives. o   The Citizenship Application Status Tracker enables clients with a citizenship grant application to view up-to-date information on the status of their application at any time. Please note that both trackers are not accessible with Internet Explorer. -          Information about someone else’s application (you must be authorized to receive third‑party information – see Release of Information to an Individual);  -          Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) application refusals and corresponding eligibility and admissibility considerations;  -          Travel advice, including documents/requirements for travel or immigration to other countries; -          General information about visiting, living, working, or studying in Canada;  -          Physical Presence Calculator for citizenship eligibility; and -          Allegations of fraud.   If you are writing about another topic, the service standard for a response to correspondence addressed to the Minister is six weeks if it is determined that a reply is warranted.    Thank you, once again, for taking the time to write to the Minister.       Merci pour votre courriel adressé à l’honorable Sean Fraser, ministre de l’Immigration, des Réfugiés et de la Citoyenneté. 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New Solar Panels Allow Farmers to See the Light.    JAN 16, 2023   Naoki Nitta.       Photography courtesy of Majdi Abou Najim

   Researchers harness sunlight to harvest energy and food together, utilizing the full spectrum of light to improve outputs.  Arable land is at an all-time premium. Since the last ice age, humans have cleared one-third of the earth’s forests and two-thirds of its wild grasslands, much of it for agriculture. And as the world population—8 billion as of last November—continues to expand, there’s ever-increasing pressure on farmland to produce not only more food but clean energy as well.

In places such as Yakima, Washington, it’s created competition for space as land-hungry solar arrays gobble up available fields. Last month, the state’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council approved plans to cover 1,700 acres of agricultural land with photovoltaic (PV) panels, brushing aside the county’s moratorium on solar projects and fueling community concerns over the long-term impacts of losing cropland.

A recent study from the University of California, Davis, however, shows how farmers may soon be able to harvest crops and energy together, on common ground. Researchers concluded that bands within the visible light spectrum can be filtered and harnessed separately—blue lightwaves to generate solar power and red lightwaves to grow fruits and vegetables—to make maximum use of farmland, all while lowering heat stress and reducing crop waste.

“Why does [agriculture] have to be a zero-sum game if we can optimize the land for both?” asks Majdi Abou Najm, an associate professor in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis and an Institute of the Environment fellow, who co-authored the paper.

Photons, or the particles that make up light, have different properties, he explains: Blue ones have higher energy than their red counterparts, resulting in light with shorter wavelength and higher frequency. While that gives blue light the jolt needed to generate power, the extra pulsing also results in higher temperatures.

“From a plant perspective, red photons are the efficient ones,” says Abou Najm. “They don’t make the plant feel hot.”

Through computer modeling, Abou Najm and lead author Matteo Camporese, an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Padova, found that applying red lightwaves to plants increases photosynthesis and carbon assimilation—the process by which they metabolize carbon dioxide into organic compounds—while lowering transpiration. In other words, under the cooler spectrum, “crops can get the same amount of CO2 using less water,” he says.

While their research was inspired by hydroponic light applications used in indoor farming systems, “those come at a high energy cost,” says Abou Najim. “We decided to use sunlight as our input.”

One of the main goals of the study, says Abou Najim, is “to motivate the industry to create a new generation of solar panels.” Camporese sees potential in organic solar cells, which, unlike the shiny, metallic, silicon-based surfaces, are derived from carbon-based compounds. Thin and translucent, the cells are applied like a film onto various surfaces, including glass. This technology could be used to develop photo-selective PV panels that filter blue light to generate power, he says, while passing the red spectrum to crops planted directly below

.https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/solar-panels-light-spectrum/

A WORKING INDEX OF INTERESTING SITES....VISIT UNITED 24.

Monday, May 6,  2023  A working Index of interesting sites. 

THE WORLD FRIENDLY HUMANITARIAN PEACE AND ECOLOGY MOVEMENT INDEX.

Freedom with honesty and justice and courage…Compassion with dignity, tolerance, empathy and humour…Peace with love and harmony towards all life on Earth.

All that ever was still is constantly changing within the eternal energy of the universe and the only
 constant is constant change.  J.N.R.
Welcome to my index of fun and high education web sites! Return as often as you like.  

 Nelson Joseph Raglione/

1.   http://www.FreeChess.org

2.  http://www.netflix.com/WiHome

3.   http://www.webcrawler.com/%E2%80%8E/support/addsearchtosite?qc=web&aid=c7d63d78-d17e-49d5-a735-4e642b7855ac&ridx=1

4.   https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=cr&ei=mKPmUor8O4zxrAGy44BY

5.   http://www.Youtube.com>

6.   http://www.Greenpeace.org
7.   http://www.Tesla.com

8.  http://www.NASA.GOV</>

9.   http://www.teamsternation.com
/2014/02/.html</>

10. http://www.Ted.com

11.  http://ca.yahoo.com/?p=us

12.  http://www.Reuters.com

13.  https://www.toureiffel.paris/en

14.  http://www.geographia.com/russia/moscow02.htm

15.  http://www.wwfindia.org/

16.  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80167&eocn=te&eoci=index

17.  http://www.un.org/en/

18.  http://storyofstuff.org/

19.  http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory

20.  http://www.dalailama.com/

21.   http://www.opencomputer.net

22.  http://www.bbc.com/news/health-24564446

23.  http://www.kijiji.ca/

24. http://www.Medium.com

25.  http://video.canadiens.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=291&id=587397&lang

26.  http://www.LearnEnjoy.com      For educators.

27.  http://www.Evernote.com

28. http://www.skitch.com

29. http://www.jaccorde.com

30. http://www.Echecs.com

31.  http://mlb.mlb.com/home

32.   https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/solar-panels-light-spectrum/

https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/solar-panels-light-spectrum/

33.   https://sungazer.net

34.   www.amnh.org

35.   https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

36.   https://nautil.us/?_sp=2b505dc2-639d-4b65-827e-aab49ca66755.1669444826471

37.   https://amnesty.ca

38.  https://join1440.com/

39. Chat GPT

40. https://www.savetheelephants.org/      

41. https://Stand.earth

42. https://www.nature.com/

  Here are direct links to non profit foundations helping war ravaged Ukraine.

• United 24...............................https://u24.gov.ua/
• Razom for Ukraine ...............https://www.razomforukraine.org/
• Prytula ..............https://support-ukraine.org.ua/en/acf-sergiy-prytula-foundation/
• World Vision.........................https://www.wvi.org/
• I.M.C..https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/emergency-response/war-in-ukraine/
• Save the Children.................https://www.savethechildren.net/...
• A.A.G..................https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/careers/current-openings/
• Doctors Without Borders....https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/content/ukraine
• Project HOPE.....................https://www.projecthope.org/country/ukraine/
• International Rescue Committee...https://help.rescue.org/donate-ca/ukraine-crisis
• Heart to Heart International...........https://www.hearttoheart.org/ukraine-crisis/
• CARE International............https://www.care-international.org/about-us/contact
• Voices of Children...........   https://voices.org.ua/en/
• The War Amps.................waramps.ca/home/

Nelson Joseph Raglione <human4usbillions@gmail.com>	9:23 AM (5 hours ago)
to me

https://youtube.com/shorts/lLXC2j0vE1M?feature=share

Gentle People:

I highly recommend watching this short video. It is good common sense 

with a few exceptions. For example, If somebody advises 

me not to walk on a train track because it is dangerous 

and a train is coming, I would be wise to take his or her advice.

Apart from such exceptions, Sadhguru is right on target.  

N.J.R.

HAVE THEY SUCCEEDED IN 2023?

Complex Three-Dimensional Kidney Tissue Created in the Lab From Scratch 

TOPICS:BiotechnologyKidneyOrgan TransplantStem CellsTissue

By KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Researchers in Japan have generated a kidney-like 3D tissue, consisting of extensively branched tubules, from cultured mouse embryonic stem cells. Credit: Dr. Shunsuke Tanigawa

A research team based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has created complex 3D kidney tissue in the lab solely from cultured mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. These organoids could lead the way to better kidney research and, eventually, artificial kidneys for human transplant.

By focusing on an often-overlooked tissue type of organoid generation research, a type of organ tissue made up of various support and connective tissues called the stroma, Dr. Ryuichi Nishinakamura and his team were able to generate the last of a three-part puzzle that they had been working on for several years. Once the three pieces were combined, the resulting structure was found to be kidney-like in its architecture. The researchers believe that their work will be used to advance kidney research and even lead to a transplantable organ in the future.

Researchers in Japan have generated a kidney-like 3D tissue, consisting of many types of kidney-specific structures, from cultured mouse embryonic stem cells. Credit: Dr. Shunsuke Tanigawa

The kidney is a very important organ for continued good health because it acts as a filter to extract waste and excess water from blood. It is a complex organ that develops from the combination of three components. Protocols have already been established by various research teams, including Dr. Nishinakamura’s team at the Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics (IMEG) at Kumamoto University, to induce two of the components (the nephron progenitor and the ureteric bud) from mouse ES cells.

In this, their most recent work, the IMEG team has developed a method to induce the third and final component, kidney-specific stromal progenitor, in mice. Furthermore, by combining these three components in vitro, the researchers were able to generate a kidney-like 3D tissue, consisting of extensively branched tubules and several other kidney-specific structures.

The researchers believe that this is the first ever report on the in-lab generation of such a complex kidney structure from scratch. The IMEG team has already succeeded in inducing the first two components from human iPS cells. If this last component can also be generated from human cells, a similarly complex human kidney should be achievable.

“We are now working very hard to generate a fully functional human kidney,” said Dr. Nishinakamura. “We hope to use our developments to screen drugs for various diseases, and for transplantation in the long run.”

Reference: “Generation of the organotypic kidney structure by integrating pluripotent stem cell-derived renal stroma” by Shunsuke Tanigawa, Etsuko Tanaka, Koichiro Miike, Tomoko Ohmori, Daisuke Inoue, Chen-Leng Cai, Atsuhiro Taguchi, Akio Kobayashi and Ryuichi Nishinakamura, 1 February 2022, Nature Communications.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28226-7

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CONGRATULATIONS ON "COMPLEX THREE-DIMENSIONAL KIDNEY TISSUE CREATED IN THE LAB! GREAT WORK!     N.J. raglione. journalist.