Volper (Alpha Rome Book 1): LitRPG Series

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Another adaptation to the murky depths is the reduction of muscle and skeletal, which helps the eel better match the density of the water. The Rebbe Rashab once described the way the Maggid’s teachings were received by the various talmidim, “Reb Shlomo of Karlin would become ill from irregular blood flow, the Rav [Levi Yitzchok] of Berditchev would depart from the regular contained state of being into a tremendous dveikus and hispaalus. Only the Alter Rebbe and the Rav of Volper [properly] obtained [the teachings [1]].” Algenstaedt P, Stumpenhagen A, Westendorf J. Algenstaedt P, et al. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2018 Aug 6;2018:3565427. doi: 10.1155/2018/3565427. eCollection 2018. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2018. PMID: 30158993 Free PMC article. If your doctor or health visitor says your baby is healthy you can take Volpar while breastfeeding.

Kharaeva Z, Shokarova A, Shomakhova Z, Ibragimova G, Trakhtman P, Trakhtman I, Chung J, Mayer W, De Luca C, Korkina L. Kharaeva Z, et al. Nutrients. 2022 May 25;14(11):2203. doi: 10.3390/nu14112203. Nutrients. 2022. PMID: 35684003 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial. The author of Beis Rebi describes how the Volper eventually experienced a tremendous downfall and became a wandering drunk. Many stories are told of Chassidim encountering him in various inns and hearing him share the Chassidus he heard from the Maggid. However, others put forth that such an extreme downfall never occurred and this version of events is possibly an exaggeration of sorts by the author of the Beis Rebi. While the reliability of Beis Rebi is a topic in itself, it is worthwhile to point out the Rebbe’s comment that “Regarding the Baal Shem Tov and his talmidim others have done a better job, but regarding the Alter Rebbe his history is superior.”Myth 1: You should hold a glass by the stem because your hand transfers heat to the wine. FALSE. Glass is actually an insulator, and a very low conductor of heat, Your hand on the glass is, at best, marginally contributing to the wine warming up. Glass doesn’t allow the flow of electrons easily from atom to atom, like metal substances do. If the wine is chilled, it is warming up to a higher temperature simply because the air temperature is warmer, not because your hand is on the glass. They represent a bizarre lineage of deep-ocean eels that, like many of their neighbours, resembles something out of a sci-fi horror show.

Other than for PSM peptides encoded together in one operon, which apparently arose from gene duplication events, the amino acid sequence similarity of PSM peptides is limited. Rather, PSM peptides are grouped together by their physico-chemical properties. While originally defined by their behavior during hot phenol extraction, today PSMs are identified by elution at exceptionally high concentrations of organic solvent during reversed-phase chromatography. Such elution is possibly due to the amphipathic α-helix that all PSM peptides form, stretching over virtually the entire length of the peptide in the shorter α-type PSMs and located in the C-terminal region in the longer β-type PSMs ( Fig. 1). PSMs do not have uniform charge characteristics. PSMβ peptides of S. aureus and S. epidermidis are all negatively charged, while many α-type PSMs are positively charged, and the δ-toxin in both species is neutral (all in their N-formylated form, see Fig. 1). Over time, the legend of The Volper has become somewhat of an enigma, largely due to the extraordinary highs and lows his life contains. Other than a handful of famous stories often shared by fabrengens etc. little is known about his life; this article will hopefully shed some light on his story and the various traditions surrounding his life. Like other eels, gulpers have leptocephalus (slender-headed) larvae. This means their young are normal, standard-looking baby eels that live and laugh among the other light-dwelling animals in the relatively shallow waters of the photic zone. It was presumably following these events in 5532 that the Volper opened his own Beis Medrash independent of the existing Karlin institutions. This Beis Medrash would operate for a long time after his passing and only ceased operations shortly before the Second World War. Throughout its history, there was always conflict and tension between it and the Karlin community [9].

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These are another mystery from the deep, these peculiar Anguilliformes do not resemble your typical eel. What we know about them comes from indirect observations and from being caught inadvertently. Pawlus AD, Kinghorn DA. Review of the ethnobotany, chemistry, biological activity and safety of the botanical dietary supplement Morinda citrifolia (noni) J Pharm Pharmacol. 2007;59:1587–1609.

Volpar comes as slow release (prolonged or sustained release) tablets, capsules and granules, gastro-resistant tablets, crushable tablets, and as a liquid. PSMs are cytolytic for neutrophils in the micromolar range. At nanomolar concentrations, they stimulate leukocytes and initiate pro-inflammatory responses including neutrophil chemoattraction, activation, and the release of IL-8 7, 11. Therefore, PSMs can be regarded as “pathogen-associated molecular patterns” (PAMPs). It is likely that the neutrophil-attracting properties of PSMs are important in local S. aureus infections and contribute to inflammation ( Fig. 4). Leukocytes sense PSMs via formyl-peptide receptor 2 (FPR2) 11, which had not previously been implicated in antibacterial host defense 53. Unlike the paralogous FPR1, which responds to all bacteria by binding bacteria-specific formylated peptides, FPR2 has very low affinity for formylated peptides and responds to certain human peptides involved in chronic inflammation 53. Of note, PSMs were found to be among the most potent of all known FPR2 agonists 11. Since this activity is shared by all PSMs despite very low sequence similarity, FPR2 may sense the amphiphatic, α-helical structure of PSMs rather than a specific amino acid sequence motif. Among other bacterial genera FPR2 only responded to certain enterococcal strains 54 and Listeria monocytogenes 55, albeit activation seems to be much lower than that exerted by staphylococci 54. However, PSM-related genes and the PSM exporter gene locus pmt are only found in staphylococcal genomes, indicating that those Gram-positive pathogens secrete other types of ligand peptides.

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Is your glass of wine moonlighting as a Polaroid photograph? Better not smudge the picture! If you are eating something greasy with your fingers, and then grab the bulb of your wine glass, I can see why that would be less than ideal, as no one wants to look at a greasy mess, but still, this is not the reason why it’s best to hold a wine glass by the stem. You will hear that if you get fingerprints on the wine glass, you cannot see the wine as clearly to determine things like opacity, legs, and rim variation, but this doesn’t make much sense either. I recommend experimenting and challenging the theory — get your fingerprints all over a wine glass and tell me that it obstructed your view of the wine. Again, marginally, perhaps, but it’s not likely. Many deep sea creatures can’t see red light, so it’s suspected that there are other wavelengths emitted at the same time that we don’t know about yet. 4. They start off normal-looking This may explain why and how they’ve evolved some of the adaptations we’ll be talking about in a moment… 3. They glow in the dark When light is shone on them, it’s said their eyes glow bright red in the dark. This is unusual, as it may suggest that eels are one of the few animals in the deep who can see red. Following this episode, the Volper was rejected by Reb Shlomo and the Karlin Chassidim. He was subject to public criticism from Reb Shlomo and reportedly, was even physically abused by the Chassidim [8].