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GLEANINGS FROM EARLY CATHOLIC JOURNALS.
COMMUNICATED BY REV. JAMES H. O'DONNELL.
IV. REV. DR. RÉZÉS MISSIONARY VISIT TO MICHIGAN. (Copied by the Catholic Press, Hartford, Conn., December 18, 1830, from
the U. S. Catholic Miscellany.)
“ CINCINNATI, OHIO, Nov. 14, 1830. “The Very Rev. Dr. Rézé returned a few weeks since to Cincinnati from his missionary excursion to the North, quite consoled with his success; having received into the Church about 200 persons, belonging to the different Indian stations through which he passed. In the beginning of July he arrived in the Pottawatamies, who reside at St. Joseph's River. No sooner was it known that a Black Gown (for so they denominated a priest) had arrived among them, than they flocked together in crowds, and encamped around the cabin in which the missionary had taken up his abode. There they remained, as long as his time would allow him to continue at the station. Great numbers expressed a desire to receive baptism without any delay; manifesting, at least, their readiness to profess the religion which former Catholic missionaries had delivered to their fathers. But he could baptize only such as he had time to instruct, and of whose sincerity he had satisfactory evidence from their former regular mode of living. At the close of this religious rite, the principal chiefs convened in council to deliberate on the propriety of selecting an eligible site for the erection of a Catholic chapel. After some discussion on the subject, an elderly chief arose; and addressing his red brethren in authority observed: 'Why do we lose time in needless debate? is not the missionary station ours, and is not that the most suitable place for the Black Gown to take up his residence among us? Buildings are already erected, which will supersede the necessity and
expense of putting up others. Why should we withhold the present establishment from the man to whom we are all agreed to give our confidence, and whom we consider the minister of the Great Spirit, sent to instruct ourselves and our children in the principles of religion?' All immediately acceded to the propriety of this proposal, when they communicated their determination to the reverend gentleman, who, in his turn, requested to be informed of the time in which they would be prepared to receive a priest, who should take charge of the station. One month, was the reply; as it was thought necessary to afford that space of time for the Protestant missionaries to prepare for their departure.
“The day following, the chiefs escorted Mr. Rézé to the missionary station, and intimated their will to the possessors that they should hold themselves in readiness to deliver up the establishment, in one month's time, to the Black Gown, who had accompanied them. They did this in respectful and becoming terms; and the missionaries immediately expressed their readiness to comply. At the expiration of the term agreed upon, the Rev. Stephen Theodore Badin, accompanied by a religious lady of Detroit who is well acquainted with the Indian language, was received in the most friendly manner by the Indians, and welcomed to St. Joseph's. The last accounts from the station were highly gratifying. The reverend missionary is now preparing seventy for the Sacrament of Baptism. Miss Campo, the lady who acts as his interpretress, is justly entitled to the praise of piety, zeal, and heroic courage in the cause to which she has devoted herself for the honor of religion.
“From Detroit Mr. Rézé proceeded to Sault Ste. Marie, where, owing to the short delay of the steamboat, he was prevented from satisfying the pious desire of many of the inhabitants, who importuned him to procure a priest to reside permanently among them. During the short interval, however, he was wholly engaged in giving instructions and administering the Sacraments of Baptism and Matrimony to the whites and to the Indians. The Protestants of the place appeared desirous to procure the residence of a priest at the Sault, and made a tender of twenty dollars to assist in defraying his expenses thither. We have reason to believe that their pious wishes will soon be gratified. The Indians residing at the Sault are of the Chippewa nation. Dr. Rézé next proceeded to Mackinaw; here he found a handsome church erected by the Catholics of the island, in which he offered up the holy sacrifice of the Mass, and preached to a numerous and respectable congregation. He continued his route to Green Bay, and commenced the exercises of the mission amongst a grateful people, who received him with the liveliest emotions of joy and satisfaction. One year had elapsed since the Bishop of the diocese had visited them, and encouraged them to persevere in the practice of piety and fervent devotion. The reverend visitor baptized a number of the Menominee Indians, residing at the Bay, who had been previously instructed in the principles of the Catholic religion. Among other Catholics, he found there about one hundred families, the descendants of those who had settled at the Bay during the reign of Louis XIV. They had been visited only three or four times since the discontinuance of the Jesuit missions in those parts. We may truly apply to them the declaration of Our Lord, when He said, “The harvest is great, but the laborers are few. But the Rt. Rev. Bishop, whose spiritual children they are, is making every exertion, within the compass of his power, to supply them with a pastor around whom they and their children may kneel and receive the spiritual comforts of which they have been so long deprived. The time, we trust, is not far distant when a suitable church at the Bay will throw open its doors to receive her Catholic children, and to afford them an opportunity of hearing the sound of the shepherd's voice from the altar of their fathers. He has already stationed the Rev. Mr. Mazzuchelli at Mackinaw, as a central position for the Catholics of that district.
“The Sauks and Fox Indians, inhabiting the country between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, were at the time among the Pottawatamies, on their way to Canada, to receive their annual presents from the British Government. As soon as they had been informed of the arrival of the Black Gown, they testified their respect by inviting him to witness the war-dance. On the following day, a deputation consisting of eight chiefs waited upon him on behalf of their tribes to inquire into the nature and motives of his visit to those remote parts. When they were informed that his object was entirely of a spiritual nature, they cordially invited him to urge his way into the midst of these nations, for the purpose of projecting means to secure to them and their families the advantages of religious instruction. He learned from them that the principal chief of the body who then waited upon him was a lineal descendant of the sixth generation from the chief who governed the Sauks in Canada at the time the first French vessels arrived upon their shores. They informed him that their fathers spoke in the most exalted terms of the Black Gowns who accompanied the French army; that they were men of astonishing wisdom and goodness. The advancement of the season, and the arrangements previously made for the direction of his missionary labors, would not admit of the Very Reverend gentleman's accepting the invitation to visit the shores of the Mississippi. He was therefore obliged to direct his course to the south.
“From thence he repaired to L'Arbre Croche, the missionary establishment of the Ottawas. He could not withhold the tribute of his surprise on witnessing the religious improvement effected there in a comparatively short time and with such limited means. The Rev. Mr. De Jean had been stationed there little more than twelve months, and six hundred have already been received into the Catholic Church. "Never,' says the Rev. visitor, ‘did I witness more perfect examples of Christian piety and unaffected devotion.' Whilst he remained among them, he baptized one hundred and four. Their church is about fifty feet long by forty feet wide, built by their own hands. During his stay, a party of fifty went out to carry a large tree, which they had cut down, to the church. They ranged themselves on both sides as closely as they could stand, and raising the massive timber, simultaneously with their native yell, they bore it off in triumph to be hewed and placed in the building. Around the church, and at convenient distances, they have already erected twenty comfortable log dwellings. There
are two schools among them, one for boys under the direction of the Rev. Mr. De Jean; and the other for girls, superintended by a religious lady who speaks their language. The number of Catholic children at present in the schools amounts to sixty-four. Mr. De Jean has printed a prayer-book in the Ottawa language for their use. From the pious example and great zeal of those who have already entered the church, we may entertain the pleasing hope that the remainder of the nation will soon bow their necks to the sweet yoke of Christ, by possessing and practising that one true religion which Jesus Christ established on earth and against which He pledged His eternal truth the gates of hell should not prevail. Some of their children accompanied Mr. Rézé to Cincinnati to enjoy the advantages of education on a more extended scale. Not a drop of ardent spirits is ever to be seen among them; and consequently the money which they were accustomed to squander for that bane of social happiness and for foolish silver ornaments, is now appropriated to the far better purpose of procuring decent and comfortable clothing. They refuse to listen to any missionary except the Black Gowns, who, they inform us, effected so much good among their forefathers. One of their reasons for this is somewhat original; but it is marked with native good sense. The ministers, say they, having their children are men like ourselves; but the Black Gowns, disengaged from these material encumbrances, are left perfectly free to devote their whole time and attention to spiritual matters; and in this regard are much better qualified to discharge the duties of the ministry before their Almighty Master, who is a Spirit Himself.
“From L'Arbre Croche Dr. Rézé returned to Detroit. Here he had the pleasure of witnessing the very indefatigable exertions of the Very Rev. Mr. Richard, Vicar-General for the Territory of Michigan, and the Rev. Mr. Kelly. They are obliged to answer all the calls of a large congregation, composed chiefly of French and Irish. A few religious ladies, under the direction of Mr. Richard, are conducting a very laudable institution for the education of young ladies. It was a source of gratification to the Very Rev. visitor to witness the great progress of pure religion in those quarters. A few years ago there were only two | <urn:uuid:b4b3ce6b-0443-4c1e-b40e-2ab1e32cdfe2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.si/books?pg=PA206&vq=%22on+account+of+his+religious+opinions+or+belief%3B+but+that+all+men%22&dq=editions:NYPL33433082425012&lr=&id=8Lg8AAAAIAAJ&hl=sl&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.983115 | 2,300 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Robot Draw - Part Three: A Simple Robot
Robotic Education: Before designing a robot, you have to first draw a symbol of the original robot in your mind and then draw it on paper or software. So, in the third part of this tutorial, we'll look at how simple robot are drawn to create conditions for creating a simple robot.
Step 1: Draw the head and the body. For the body, draw a simple box then draw a curved line on top of it for the head.
Step 2: Draw the limbs. Attach curved rectangles to the body for the limbs.
Step 3: On the head, draw 2 small circles for the robots eyes.
Step 4: Add design on your robot. For this illustration add smaller circles on the top and the bottom of the body as bolts.
Step 5: Draw lines on the hand and feet to add design on your robot. Add two curved rectangles on each of the robot's hands.
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by Joe White
April 29, 2013
It's no surprise to hear that more and more people are using free instant messaging services, such as Apple's iMessage. In 2012, however, the number of instant messages sent and received globally actually overtook the figure for SMS messaging, indicating that the rise of the smartphone could be in the process of bringing about the demise of the paid SMS message. The news comes from Informa, who notes that 19 billion free instant messages were sent per day, on average, in 2012, compared to 17.6 billion SMS messages. This difference is going to have an obvious impact on the revenue generated by carriers worldwide, and one further research firm, Ovum, suggests that the approximate resultant loss could be as much as $23 billion. Apple's iMessage, which launched in 2011 with iOS 5, is an example of how instant messaging is overtaking SMS. As iDevice owners will know, once iMessages are enabled on an iPhone handset, the smartphone will send instant messages to other iDevice owners whenever possible. Furthermore, since iMessages are built right into the Messages app, the experience is a seamless one. The result can be said to steer iPhone owners away from SMS messages, and towards the company's free, albeit shaky, iMessages service. However, as originally reported by BBC News, SMS messaging isn't quite on its last legs:
despite the growing gap between the two, SMS will continue to remain a key player in the sector. "There is a lot of life still in SMS," said Ms. Clark-Dickson of Informa. She explained that most of the chat apps were used by consumers who own smartphones. However, she said, there are a large number of consumers, especially in emerging and lesser developed economies, who use normal mobile phones and rely on SMS as the preferred messaging tool. "They don't have mobile data plans, so there is an awfully big base of mobile phone users who are going to still find that SMS is the best messaging experience for them for a while," she added.Furthermore, Informa noted that businesses are starting to lean towards SMS messaging, since such messages can be sent to all mobile handsets, rather than being exclusive to more costly smartphones. Ms. Clark-Dickson added: "There are a few things that, I think, will keep the SMS alive for a few years yet." Do you find yourself sending more instant messages than SMS texts? | <urn:uuid:1a611dbb-1353-4b88-8f71-65fd865f1aff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/04/free-instant-messages-now-more-popular-than-sms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967619 | 497 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Behind the Joomflows component there is a group of three companies specialized in the creation of high added value websites: intranet, extranet, community sites or e-commerce. Through the various specifications that we receive, we noticed that many processes did not require a direct treatment but a follow-up action, a framework of work. And since most of our clients are not monolithically structured, actions depend on multiple people or multiple services. The need to create a Workflow Manager was born.
Take an example, it will be easier to understand.
One of our clients is a training center that we could call "Pure Player" in the sense that all its activity is based on its website. Student management work ranges from registration on the site to graduation. And between these two milestones it can happen a year of administrative management, the file can pass from the registration service to the accounting department and then to the support service, exams, etc.
At each stage the processes will have to be checked, validated and sent to the next step.
Many of you work surely with heuristic maps, here is the simplified version of the part inscription required by the specifications of this project.
This diagram makes it possible to understand the interactions between the different actors, the future student to whom the registration service of the training organization requests supporting documents, as well as the accounting department and all this via emails in which are attached documents to be completed. or to sign. The origin of Joomflows comes from this schema and our desire to transform a long and complicated workflow into a simple action series to create and administer. | <urn:uuid:e18d6ecd-b3a5-4057-adcc-632653b51d24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joomflows.com/documentation/articles?view=article&id=21:what-is-joomflows&catid=9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95451 | 326 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Elearning is a common time period regarding trainings delivered via a single pc, with using gadgets like CDROMs, cell phones, digital television, Web and large space networks. E-studying permits schooling suppliers to keep up with the ever-growing information and ability calls for of the information age. One of the large boons to the current development of e-studying is the supply to have teacher-led webinars. A lot progress has been made within the growth of e-learning instructing tools, to enable students and academics to get essentially the most out of their on-line diploma.
Also, in contrast to paper based coaching documents, a digital approach means that you can replace content material rapidly. Chinese language e-learners desire a excessive degree of interactivity and are not glad to only turn digital pages throughout an internet course.
Universities use it in specific programs for applications where the scholars will most certainly not see each other nose to nose for the reason that whole examine course happens on-line. As the time period goes, digital learning has been created with a view to create ease and pace in education and studying.
E-learning can typically contain a mixture of communication applied sciences, particularly in what is often referred to as the ‘digital classroom.’ With a variety of communication applied sciences available to students, reminiscent of WiFi and cellular telephones, content material, lessons and communication between scholar and teacher display that e-studying is both purposeful and versatile, and may adapt efficiently to go well with the needs of the scholar.
5 Advantages Of ELearning In 2017
The benefit of E-learning is not just restricted to kids. While the basic page turners still exist with the only interplay being emailing a course facilitator, the webinar has enjoyed monumental success even while it takes away one of many advantages of e-studying in that the student is no longer learning at his personal pace.
The expansion of the World Extensive Net, high-capability corporate networks, and high-speed desktop computers will make learning obtainable to individuals 24 hours a day, seven days every week around the globe. For instance, offline software program packages might be good for worker training or teaching a certain lesson (maybe corresponding to computer science) to students or staff.
e-learning for kids/computer skills, e-learning days minnesota, e-learning for kids.org/computer-skills
Buzzwords in schooling have been in existence because the on-set of formal schooling as we know it in the present day. The need to rework how organizations learn points to a extra fashionable, efficient, and flexible different: eLearning. A mix of on-line and classroom training could prove to be useful, by mixing the 2 methods effectively to coach workers.
Significance Of Multimedia In Elearning
What are the benefits and downsides to eLearning? E-learning is moving toward total automation of educating and studying processes using software generally known as Studying Management Programs (LMS). With most teenagers now utilizing the internet everyday for supporting their college studies with quick access to net pages, students now anticipate technology to play a robust function … Read More.. | <urn:uuid:c5e82318-3df4-4657-a869-9783f79822a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.panisa.net/tag/technologist | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946771 | 655 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Commercial use of the prefilled syringes dates back to early 80s and started gaining focus of pharmaceutical companies after Sanofi and Rhône Poulenc-Rorer introduced them for their drug heparin. With growing popularity of these syringes among healthcare professionals, prefilled injecting devices are being used in various settings including emergency rooms and operation theaters of hospitals. Such devices are also used as self-injecting devices for patients suffering from chronic diseases requiring frequent parenteral dose administration.
The prefilled injecting devices are preferred by healthcare professionals for the following reasons-
The preparation time for the dose is significantly low with these devices. This helps especially in emergency situations where the chances of overfilling and administration of wrong dose are high.
Prefilled syringes are filled accurately, which help in reducing drug wastage, and hence, the cost per dose
Prefilled syringes are helpful in reducing errors, which result in injuries that increase the chances of developing infection in patients. It has been found that the use of prefilled syringes has significantly reduced the number of needle stick injuries in the past few years.
The mass production of prefilled syringes reduces the cost per dose and hence facilitates reduction in overall healthcare costs
Global Prefilled Syringes Market, By Material, 2015
"Utility for patients with chronic conditions"
Prefilled syringes are of high importance to patients suffering from chronic conditions who need to self-inject drugs frequently. The diabetic patient population benefits the most with insulin injection without having to prepare the dose themselves.
Advanced pen injectors, which are essentially prefilled syringes, are superseding the market share held by traditional syringes due to benefits such as increased patient convenience and safety. However, the price for advanced injecting devices is still higher than that of traditional prefilled syringes, which is anticipated to limit their market growth in the near future.
For patients with allergies, injecting prefilled devices offer a conveniently accessible dose of epinephrine (EpiPen, by Mylan), which serves as an instant first aid after a sudden anaphylactic shock. This device is under patent protection till 2025 further monopolizing the segment. As a result, the rising prices of these devices in the recent years have raised questions regarding its adoption during the forecast period.
Despite the high adoption and growing demand for prefilled syringes in the market, there are only a few key syringe manufacturers capturing the major market share. These companies are focusing on the development of novel materials as well as innovative technologies to enable cost optimization of the final product. Furthermore, contract syringe filling services would provide a huge opportunity in allowing the entry of new companies in this market. Some of the major players operating in the space include Gerresheimer AG, Unilife Corporation, Owen Mumford, SCHOTT, and Haselmeier AG.
Future growth opportunities of these devices are directly related to the growth of the biotech drug market as these syringes are considered ideal containers for such biotech drugs. Additionally, the adoption rate of advanced injecting devices is expected to grow with lowered prices. Introduction of these devices embedded with premium technologies will connect them with the patient health record system promoting connected health, which is expected to spur the market growth in the near future.
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All children including those with special needs are welcome and seen in our office. We are committed to making your child’s first and future visits as fun and pleasurable as possible. The entire staff strives to create a non-threatening environment that your child will look forward to returning to.
You play a big role in your child’s visit and there are some things you can do to help create a positive experience. First, your child should be informed of the visit and told that the dentist and their staff will explain all procedures and answer any questions. Second, tell your child that we are going to “count” and “brush” their teeth. Tell them that we may “take pictures” of their teeth as well. This helps explain the visit in words they are familiar with. Last, it is best if you refrain from using words around your child that may cause unnecessary fear, such as “needle”, “shot”, “pull”, “drill”, or “hurt”. These and other similar words can make it very difficult to gain the child’s cooperation and confidence.
Our office as well as the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends that your child visit the dentist around their first birthday. At this visit we will do a brief exam which will allow us to evaluate your child’s growth and development and make sure their teeth are erupting normally. We may also review oral hygiene instructions and discuss other issues such as bottle use, pacifier use, oral habits, and/or nutrition.
For the child that is 3 years and older, the visit usually consists of a comprehensive examination, x-rays, cleaning, and a fluoride application. We will review oral hygiene procedures, habits, and nutrition. We will also discuss any treatment needs and answer any questions you might have about your child’s teeth or their development.
We invite you to stay with your child during the initial examination. During future appointments, we suggest you try to allow your child to accompany our staff through the dental experience. We can usually establish a closer rapport with most children when parents are not present. However, if you choose, you may come with your child to the treatment room. We do ask that only one parent accompanies the child and that you offer support in the form of a quiet observer. Our goal is to gain your child’s confidence and overcome apprehension so that the visit will be a pleasant one. For the safety and privacy of all patients, other children who are not being treated should remain in the reception room with a supervising adult.
Your child’s appointment always concludes with praise for a job well done, a sticker and a balloon. A routine six-month dental check-up will be scheduled before you leave. This will allow us to continue to follow your child’s growth, development, and oral health and catch any problems early when minimum treatment can have a maximum effect.
Besides the comprehensive examination, x-rays and cleaning, in the older children we will closely check their bite and the eruption of the new permanent teeth. We will also check to see if your child is a good candidate for sealants.
Sealants: By forming a thin covering over the pits and fissures, sealants keep out plaque and food, thus decreasing the risk of decay. Since, the covering is only over the biting surface of the tooth, areas on the side and between teeth cannot be coated with the sealant. Good oral hygiene and nutrition are still very important in preventing decay next to these sealants or in areas unable to be covered.
Your child should refrain from eating ice or hard candy, which tend to fracture the sealant. Regular dental appointments are recommended in order for your child’s dentist to be certain the sealants remain in place.
Pediatric dentists have special training in helping anxious children feel more comfortable and secure during dental treatment. Occasionally due to a child’s young age or their fears, we may need to use a sedative technique to help them relax and allow treatment. In our office we offer nitrous oxide/oxygen, conscious sedation, and if needed general anesthesia performed in a local hospital. See the post-op & sedation page for more information on these techniques.
Here are a few helpful forms. Please take a moment to review the forms and fill out any necessary forms before your first visit to the office. If you are unsure of which forms need to be filled out, please feel free to contact a member of our staff.
Want something fun to do? Print one or all of the below Activity Sheets to see if you can conquer the Dental Crossword Puzzle, find all of the Hidden Toothbrushes, Unscramble the Dental Words, or find the Hidden Dental Words. We know you can do it!
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I’ve tasted Iranian dizi and loved the herbs that where served with it. Leaves look like basil and have a minty taste. Does anyone know what it is?
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I presume it was mint. There are a lot of different variations of mint, from really spicy peppermint down to fruity flavors such as strawberry.
You probably had the Moroccan mint / Mentha spicata var. crispa. If you have specialty stores for Mideastern cuisine ask for "Nane"
Hard to say as both plants have so many variations to them. If it hat a distinct minty tase, I´d look into one of the mint variations.
And additional edit: Just hat a look on my own herbs, and realized that the young Thai Basil I planted looks exactly like your picture, light greeen stems and all:
Iranian basil. It's got a taste that's distinct from italian or thai basil. I've never gotten basil that tastes quite the same in a US grocery store, but there are a few varieties that taste similar. Apparently you can buy seeds online and grow your own though.
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In the beginning of digital communication, press relied in fax devices to send and receive testimonies from the president campaign trail. American newspapers companies developed creating videotex systems, like the one designed by Viewtron, which later became a part of the Knight-Ridder multimedia company. Entrance and Mis Angeles’ Entrance also got videotex systems. These improvements accelerated newsroom efficiency. Mainly because these technologies started to be more sophisticated, the number of journalists reporting from https://cmdln.io/2021/02/28/antivirus-software-development the field increased, and many news businesses started to generate their own videotex systems.
Today, reporters and editors need to learn how to assist multimedia editing and enhancing software, also known as deals. They also need to understand basic camera techniques and proper lighting and framing. They need to also learn how to use postproduction programs to boost video and audio. Period management is essential in the modern world. With so various news outlets competing for the purpose of readers and marketers, digital information and period management has to be mastered. However the benefits of working together with digital journalists are well worth the troubles.
One major problem with digital media certainly is the tendency to delegate the editorial purpose to product teams. Item teams spend too much time taking care of content control systems and tools, rather than focusing on the newsroom objective. But absence of independence and responsibility has led various journalists to create a number of problems that infected their believability. While ignoring editorial decisions may result in a lack of reliability and a weakened brand, the time they preserve can be put in more upon developing and promoting content material that is tightly related to audiences. | <urn:uuid:ea4a7c64-7cd9-4cd7-b0d7-28622645aabb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bequip.in/digital-news-and-time-control/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96026 | 340 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Q & A with Dr Bill Fry
Q: Congratulations on your recently completed Hochstetter Lecture tour – how did it go?
Great! It was truly a rewarding and humbling experience. The audiences throughout the regions were as varied as the New Zealand landscape. However, the uniting characteristic was the genuine thirst for knowledge. I’ve been interacting with the New Zealand public for over a decade and I never fail to be impressed by the high level of understanding of geohazards and the keen desire to take on new science.
Q. You’re a seismologist and you also work a lot on tsunami hazards – how did you arrive at your current field of research?
I started my career in fundamental (academic) seismology, with very little focus on geohazards or societal application. Moving to New Zealand in 2008 changed all of that. I was fortunate enough to get a job with GNS as a civil servant, monitoring and responding to earthquakes. Almost immediately, the Mw7.8 Dusky Sound earthquake happened and my first real event response began. I was told that it was a “once in a career event”. Ha! The next decade produced three more M7+ earthquakes in New Zealand and a handful of tsunami responses. Once I saw tangible societal benefit in science and the true power of “science to practice”, there was no turning back.
Q: Your Hochstetter talk focussed on Kermadec trench earthquakes, and their potential to generate large tsunami for Aotearoa New Zealand. What are the major takeouts from this research?
Natural warning self evacuation (Long or Strong, Get Gone) is absolutely crucial to protecting coastal communities from many local tsunami-generating earthquakes. However, we’ve also documented local and regional tsunami-generating earthquakes that require a combination of natural warning, and science-based instrumental warning to keep coastal communities safe. The talk brought together geophysical observations, numerical simulations and observations of New Zealand citizens to highlight improvements that can be made to our tsunami response plans.
Q. You’re co-leading the Earthquake-Tsunami theme for Phase 2 of the Resilience Challenge. Can you talk us through the main projects in this theme?
Sure. The biggest challenge of putting hard numbers to seismic hazard in New Zealand is overcoming the limits of having a very short record of earthquakes. To capture the full range earthquake behaviour, we’d need to record earthquakes for tens of thousands of years. We obviously can’t do that (modern GeoNet recording only goes back to about 2001). Our theme will use our understanding of the physics of earthquakes and specific knowledge of New Zealand’s faults and tectonics to computationally model hundreds of thousands of years of earthquakes. We’ll look for earthquake sequences in those models that look like what we’ve seen over the last decade, and then see if subsequent earthquakes in the model inform us about what we might expect to see over the next 50 years. We’ll also evaluate whether this type of earthquake catalogue can underpin next-generation hazard models.
Q. How have the Canterbury and Kaikōura earthquakes affected the priorities for earthquake research?
When you see first hand the impact of these sequences on local communities, the need for applied research is absolutely obvious. One of the main changes that was driven by both of the sequences is the understanding that hazard before the event is not the same as hazard after the event. We’ve become better and better at using science to inform future hazard following big earthquakes. We’ve also become better at quantifying the influence of differences in geology and the particular characteristic of individual earthquakes on the resulting strong ground shaking.
Q. The research involving synthetic earthquakes has led to collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan. Can you tell us more about this collaboration?
For the last six or eight years, we’ve had a close three-nation collaboration with Taiwan and Japan that has focused on seismic hazard. All three countries face similar geohazard challenges. Through this collaboration, we’ve realised that many of the benefits of our RNC2 research program are also applicable to Taiwan. We decided to move forward together, pooling our talents to make better outcomes for both counties. I recently undertook a visiting professor position in Taiwan to help launch the project and now both we and Taiwan are well on our way.
Q. Looking beyond Phase 2 of the Challenge, what future avenues of research would you like to pursue?
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The prevalence of smartphones has had profound effects on how we communicate, view media, and preserve memories, among other things. But all of these new forms of doing things are snatched away from us as soon as our phones lose power. While work is constantly being done to stretch and extend battery life, it hasn't moved fast enough for the vast majority of us.
Ever accidentally sent an audio message to someone through the Messages app? It happens to me all the time. My finger slips towards the right side of the keyboard and all of a sudden a one-second audio recording is being made and sent. Personally, I don't even send audio messages to anyone, but the feature is baked into the Messages app with no way to disable it. That is, unless you're jailbroken.
For those of you who have been taking full advantage of the jailbreak for iOS 8 that's available, you can understand and appreciate what this really offers iPhone users—sovereignty.
With countless images and messages packed into one small device, security is always a high priority amongst iPhone users. For this reason, we've previously shown you how to make your iPhone's passcode match the current time, which made figuring out your passcode a lot more difficult for wandering eyes.
Aside from identifying songs with Shazam and using the "Hey Siri" feature while driving, Apple's personal assistant isn't something I regularly use on my iPhone.
Lock screen notifications can sometimes be overwhelming and difficult to manage, especially in the morning when I receive a massive influx of emails, texts, reminders, and social media alerts. At some point it's not even worth scrolling through all of them on your lock screen when you can get a better grasp of everything by just checking out the Notification Center instead.
Unlocking our iPhones with Touch ID isn't something most of us pay any mind to; it's quick, simple, and gets the job done. Today, I'll be slowing things down for a second and showing you how to add the Apple Pay checkmark animation to your Touch ID-enabled lock screen. It looks awesome and doesn't add any additional unlocking time than normal.
How many times do you think you press the Home button on your iPhone? You probably can't place a number on it, but you know it's a lot.
If you've ever tried to record a Snapchat video of a song playing in your car, you know that it's impossible to do if the song is playing on the same device that you're Snapchatting with.
Spotify lets you use Siri commands to play and control music on your iPhone, but it wasn't always like that. It only applies in iOS 13 and later, so if you're on an older iPhone model with an older iOS version, you can use a really complicated workaround in iOS 12 or try a jailbreak tweak on older firmware.
A few months ago, we showed off a great third-party keyboard for iOS 8 called CooolKey which lets you customize the keyboard itself with any background image you want. Well, take that idea and apply it to the Control Center and we have CCBackground.
Back in iOS 7, Apple decided that it was actually a good thing to make the volume controls HUD translucent. This, of course, means that whatever you're watching on your screen will be obstructed temporarily whenever you adjust the volume.
At one point, Netflix did have trailers for movies online, but they have long since abandoned the practice for a number of reasons. Firstly, trailers have to be licensed in addition to films themselves. Secondly, previews apparently did not increase the number of titles added to user queues.
It's not the additions Apple brought to iOS 8 that irk me, but what they didn't add that breaks my heart. We did get some cool new features, like battery stats and interactive notifications, but what about a simple customization feature that most—the option to have a transparent dock background?
Instagram is all about sharing and interacting with others, but sometimes we hide in the shadows and lurk. Whether their ex-lovers, current crushes, former high school classmates, or future coworkers, we silently view their content without them knowing. You can deny it all you want, but we've all lurked at one time or another.
As far as customization goes, there's nothing you can do to change the look and function of the Control Center on your iPhone. By default, you can't alter the system toggles, but if your device is jailbroken, it's a completely different story. With the help of a tweak from developer plipala, called CCSettings for iOS 8, you can add, remove, and rearrange your Control Center toggles.
One of my favorite new additions to iOS is the ability to view battery usage stats on a per-app basis, which is helpful in knowing exactly which apps are taking up all of my iPhone's battery life. If you jailbreak iOS 8 on your device, you can take Apple's stock battery stats feature even further to give you details on how those apps are actually using the battery.
While the "Hey, Siri" feature in iOS 8 is useful for hands-free multitasking, you can only use the command when your device is actually charging.
I'm a textaholic. One of the problems with being a textaholic is that your device just can't keep up with you.
One of the biggest issues I have with iOS 7 is the volume change indicator that pops up every time you adjust the volume of a playing a game or video. Its large, oafish demeanor blocks the entire middle of the screen for a couple seconds, obstructing your view.
The lock screen music player in iOS 7 has all the controls you'd ever need from a lock screen, but it's not as visually appealing as I hoped it would be. Yes, it does show you the album cover art, but the way everything is presented makes it feel cluttered.
I hate typing in my password every time I want to install an application on my iPhone. My fat fingers make it so that I rarely get it correct the first time. If you're like my mom, you might not even remember it. Keyboard shortcuts are not a viable option either, since they are disabled for passwords.
February may be the shortest month of the year, but for iOS softModders, there were plenty of apps and tweaks to fill up those days. Whether patching major security holes or just a tweak to make speed dialing more efficient, there was a plethora of great mods for our jailbroken iOS 7 devices. These are our favorites from the month.
If you've got a MacBook, I'm sure you've spent some time messing around with the Photo Booth app. Who would have thought that adding simple effects like Comic Book or Stretch could make a selfie look so hilarious. Photo Booth is available for all Mac OS X computers running 10.4 or higher with an iSight camera, and it's also available on a few of Apple's iOS devices. Actually, it's only for the iPad 2 and all newer iPads since. It is NOT available on the iPhone, don't ask me why.
WhatsApp may be one of the most popular mobile messaging services around since it's multi-platform, but if most of your family and friends use iPads and iPhones, there's no need to go beyond the stock Messages app.
Last week, Apple issued an iOS 7.0.6 update that fixed a serious security vulnerability that could allow hackers to steal passwords, read emails, and get info from other SSL-encrypted communications.
As respectful as you may be, it's hard to resist looking through someone's iPhone when given the chance. You're not trying to snoop around, but it's just too easy to open up apps and read embarrassing emails or find scandalous Instagram follows. It's like looking through a digital diary riddled with deep, dark secrets.
There are a lot of cool new features in iOS 8 that weren't available in previous iOS versions, but it's still lacking overall in terms of customization.
When you're scrolling through your iPhone's home screens, you'll inevitably reach the end and have to either swipe backwards or hit the Home button to return to the first page. Why Apple didn't instill an endless scrolling feature, or at the very least an option for it, is anyone's guess, but just because you can't do it out of the box doesn't mean you can't do it.
Jotting quick notes can be a pain. There have been countless occasions where I've needed a pen and paper to quickly write something down, but either didn't have them near me or was doing something on my phone and neglected to remember.
How To: Change the Color, Position, Shape, & Size of Badge Alert Icons in iOS 7 (Plus, Animate Them!)
Once you jailbreak, there are hundreds of options available for you to fully customize your boring stock iPhone into something more efficient and fun. We've already shown you a bunch, like how to beautify app icons and change battery icons, but now it's time for a badge alert makeover.
Keyboards tend to get overlooked as we rapidly text or type up emails, but when we do find the time to look at it, it's pretty bland. That's why we showed you how to spruce things up with a dark keyboard on your iPhone, which served as my default keyboard...until now.
While it may not serve much of a purpose here in sunny Los Angeles, it's still a good idea to keep constant tabs on the weather forecast, because you don't want anything to rain on your parade.
Locking up your iPhone with a passcode prevents mischievous friends from looking at your pics and emails, and makes it harder for thieves to access your data before you get around to wiping it. For even more security, there's the password option, which gives you more than just 4 lonely digits.
There are a ton of great mods and tweaks available in Cydia, but occasionally there will be one you want to install that hasn't quite made it into one of the main repositories yet. If you're not patient, it can be still be installed by manually placing the .deb file directly onto your device and installing it with iFile.
Unless you're using something like 360 Vault to store photos and videos, people you lend your iPhone to can easily browse through the gallery without you knowing. It makes me anxious just thinking about it.
Snapchat is great for sharing and receiving pictures that we don't want "living" for too long, but sometimes we'd like to hold onto those memories, whether the other party wants us to or not.
We've always been able to switch between running apps pretty easily, but iOS 7 beefed up the multitasking menu significantly by incorporating app previews in lieu of just icons.
If somebody really wants to gain access to your iPhone, they'll get in. Phone thieves (and mischievous friends) can easily figure out your passcode just from looking over your shoulder or tracing over the oily smudges on the screen. And if you're using popular passcodes, birthdays, and addresses on your iPhone, you might as well disable lock screen security entirely.
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While there’s nothing better than a room bathed in plenty of natural sunlight, we’re not all blessed with this advantage, Besides, almost every home also has a shady or north-facing side that isn’t as bright. In any case, there are many ways to brighten up a space that tends to be gloomy or dark, whether that’s because it gets little daylight or just happens to have small windows. While you can embrace the dark and create a cocoon-like room, many people prefer to find ways to make it brighter. Here are some great ideas for solving the dilemma of a gloomy room.
Use More Lighting
This is the most basic step for making a gloomy space brighter. The key is to look beyond simple ceiling fixtures and standard lamps for creative illumination. Incorporating lighting into shelving is an easy way to brighten it as well as put the focus on a particular part of the room. Backlighting can also be used in alcoves, behind furniture or other spots that need more light.
Add Big, Bold Artwork
Decorating a dark room is not the time to opt for a wall full of small pieces of art. Going for something really large and bright will bring a dynamism to the space that will be missing if you choose smaller artworks. These blue and white abstract paintings by Marina Anton are a great example of the type of art that will enliven a gloomy space. Not only are they light and bright, but they convey a strong sense of movement, which also brings life to the room.
Hang a Bright Suspension Light Fixture
Put lighting center stage in a dark space and you’ll not only brighten it but you’ll add a big element of drama. Whether your style runs more toward old-school chandeliers or modern minimalist fixtures, you can find a suspension light that works for your living space. The most important thing to remember is to layer your lighting and combine the central fixture with lamps or other kinds of lighting at different levels.
Color it Yellow
Adding sunny hues to a room can do wonders for a dark space. If you can’t have the real thing, then paint and textiles can stand in for the warmth of the sun. Paint the walls any shade of yellow or add splashes of orange, peach or rose for a bigger dose of vibrancy. Combine these bolder brights with a pale base of neutrals or white to create a space that has a much-improved mood.
Choose Energetic Decor
If you can’t flood a space with light, upping the energy level of the decor can also bring a new vibe to the room. Choosing some items — or even wall decor — that’s unexpected and projects a high level of movement or emotion brings about an energetic feeling. This living room, which was in a recent New York City Holiday House, is highlighted by a rug pattern that swirls with dramatic colors at its edge. On the walls, a bold graffiti design is combined with staid vintage portraits for a very avant-garde look.
Add Some Shine
Amplify what little illumination a room might have by adding some metallic elements to the mix. The piece can be as large as this gleaming, artistic chaise from the Priveetkollektie Gallery or as small as a collection of metallic accessories. Anything reflective can do the trick, even a glass top on a coffee table or side table.
Lighten up the Floor
One sure way to lay a lighter base for a room is to choose a pale floor covering. Of course, a pale wood floor is ideal but if you can’t replace the floor in the room, you can still brighten up the area with a light-colored rug. This doesn’t mean that you need a white rug, which is far from ideal in high-traffic areas or in rooms that need to be family-friendly. Light neutral colors with a slight pattern or texture can bring a lighter feel than a dark rug or heavily-patterned one.
Use Mirrors Strategically
Mirrors are another go-to strategy for making a space feel brighter and for good reason. They are the easiest way to reflect the available light in a room on a larger scale. While a fully mirrored wall can look like a relic from the 1970s and 1980s, using large, leaning mirrors or arrangements of medium-sized mirrors can achieve the same goal with more style. Plus, individual mirrors are flexible to move if you change your mind.
Skip Heavy Window Coverings
In a room that already feels heavy and dark, full and substantial draperies can make it feel even more oppressive. Instead, opt for something less overwhelming like these blinds, or for some pale, floaty sheer curtains. Clearly, the decorators of this game room opted to embrace the dark and paint the walls black for drama, however, they included other elements that help lighten the look like the bold blue sofa, colorful artworks and plexiglass table. The streamlined window coverings let in the maximum amount of light from the windows, which are located only on one wall.
Keep Windows Clear and Clean
Speaking of windows, no matter what type of window coverings you choose, if the glass is dirty, you’re not going to have bright, sparkling daylight entering your space. Keeping the windows clean will let in the maximum amount of daylight and preserve your view of the outdoors. This means maintaining not only the inside but also cleaning the exterior of the windows — or having them cleaned if you have windows on an upper level that you can’t easily access.
Skip the Dark Decor
A space that’s already dark doesn’t need dark decor. Even if you lighten the floor with a covering like this natural woven rug, light-colored furniture will make a significant difference. These pieces from the Todd Merrill Studio are crafted from a pale wood and would brighten up any space. The same concept holds true if your tastes run to a more traditional style of furniture or if you want to include more upholstered pieces: Keep the textile choices light!
Paint the ceiling
Sometimes putting the focus on the ceiling can lighten a dark room, especially when you do it by painting the ceiling to look like the sky. This stunning design is by Kimberly Wohlfarth of Distinctive Applications, who is known for her hand-painted decor. This concept also works in children’s rooms, where the design might be a little more fanciful or playful. In any case, it draws the eye upward and, at least subconsciously, makes the room feel lighter and more open than a plain ceiling.
While most of these strategies will work for brightening up any space, the ones you choose have to be tailored to your style and what you are looking to achieve in a particular room. Moreover, many of these ideas can be easily changed or swapped out, so they aren’t necessarily a big financial commitment in case you change your mind. | <urn:uuid:5a5de6fa-c9a5-4676-b101-5898a73c1d76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.homedit.com/brighten-up-a-dark-space/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925163 | 1,461 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Green tea for health: 8 reasons why you should drink green teaThe green hot drink is becoming increasingly popular. No wonder, after all it is very beneficial for our health. Regular consumption of green tea has a beneficial effect on body and mind.
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The green tea is the energy bundle among the teas. Green tea is easy to digest. Also contains more caffeine with increasing brewing time. Also a higher temperature releases larger amounts of caffeine. However, a brewing time of more than two minutes should be discouraged, because otherwise the tea contains tannins and becomes bitter.
These are the ingredients of green tea
Green tea is far from being just flavored water. In the tea leaves, the power of the plants is stored, which is transferred to the tea water and so many positive effects on our health can have. Before we get to these healthy properties of green tea, here are the substances that are contained in it:
– Caffeine – chlorophyll – essential oils – minerals – polyphenols – starch – sugar compounds (polysaccharides) – amino acids – carotene
But what exactly do these ingredients?
Effect of green tea
1. Green tea protects the heart
Green tea favors cholesterol and fat metabolism, thus the ingredients prevent heart disease and strokes. The hot beverage can have a beneficial effect on the arteries through regular consumption.
However, if milk is consumed in turn, this positive effect is cancelled out again. After a Heart attack the consumption of green tea has a positive effect on the general heart health.
2. Green tea is said to be able to protect against cancer
Green tea contains a variety of polyphenolic antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of cancer. These antioxidants combat various free radicals, metabolic agents that can promote the development of cancer.
Especially certain ingredients, which are contained in green tea, can protect the body from carcinogenic influences.
3. Anti-aging agent green tea
Green tea extract is often used in natural cosmetics as well, because green tea contains Polyphenols, thus a certain antioxidant, which fights free radicals and thus Aging processes slowed down and promotes the longevity of cells.
Antioxidants attack free radicals and inactivate them. This process can reduce negative effects on the body's own cells.
4. Green tea can lower cholesterol levels
Green tea can definitely reduce the "bad LDL cholesterol lowering the ratio of "good" cholesterol to "bad" cholesterol HDL cholesterol to "bad" cholesterol with its active principles. This process occurs through carotenoids, polyphenols and phytosterols, which are ingredients also found in green tea.
5. Green tea promotes metabolism and helps to lose weight
The ingredients of green tea stimulate the metabolism and therefore also promote the Calorie burning. The contained caffeine stimulates our circulation. Promotes physical activity. The increased basal metabolic rate allows to burn about additional 70 calories.
6. Lowering blood prere with green tea
The consumption of green tea helps to blood prere to positively influence. Green tea partially suppresses the production of Angiotensin, which causes high blood prere. This positive effect shows once again how good green tea is for health.
7. Green tea for a healthy sugar balance
The hot beverage contains Polysaccharides and polyphenols, which can lower blood sugar naturally. If the blood sugar is too high, the body cannot burn fat, because it first has to reduce the too high sugar content. Lowered blood sugar means the body is once again ready to process fat stores, maintaining more consistent insulin levels.
8. Healthy bones thanks to green tea
Green tea can help protect cartilage tie and sensitive cells. By blocking inflammatory enzymes, drinking green tea protects naturally. Also helps the natural content of Fluoride, Strengthen teeth and bones.
Special types of green tea
Green tea is not simply green tea. In fact, there are about 28 different types of green tea, which also have different characteristics. Matcha tea for example, in contrast to the classic green tea is not simply infused as a tea leaf, instead the leaf is ground and drunk dissolved as a powder. This results in a very intense flavor. Higher caffeine content.
Who would prefer to take less caffeine, can also Genmaicha put, a Sencha tea that is very popular in Japan. It is especially suitable for after meals. Has a soothing effect on the stomach.
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(CN) - After 16 failed bids for parole, the only man to have confessed to assassinating Malcolm X in 1965 has been granted parole. Thomas Hagan is scheduled to be released on April 28.
Hagan, 69, has been detained since 1965, when Malcolm X was shot while giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.
Two other men, Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Kahlil Islam, were also charged with murder, but they pleaded not guilty.
Hagan confessed to the Feb. 21, 1965 assassination at his trial in 1966. He was 22 years old and a member of the Nation of Islam when he assassinated Malcolm X.
All three men were sentenced to 20 years to life.
Hagan told authorities that he and his accomplices - not Aziz and Islam - decided to kill Malcolm X because they thought the black-power leader was a "hypocrite" who had "gone against the leader of the Nation of Islam," Elijah Muhammad, according to the New York Times.
Hagan has been on work release for more than 20 years, but still spends two days a week at the Lincoln Correctional Facility in Manhattan.
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Interferon Regulatory Element (IRF-3) has been proven to donate to defense control of B16 melanoma tumor development. B6 tumor-bearing mice however, not in IRF3KO tumor-bearing mice. Likewise, significant induction of IFN- occurred in spleens and tumors in B6 mice from day 6C9 but failed to occur in tumor-bearing IRF3KO mice. Previous reports from other labs showed that the anti-tumor properties of IFN- are the result of cell cycle arrest. Using B16F1 cells or B16F1 cells deficient in IFN- receptor (B16-IRFGRKO), we found that IFN- alone and in synergy with the TLR3/IRF3 agonists, poly I:C, decreased B16F1 cell growth in significant correlation with increased ISG54 expression. Moreover, IFN- alone increased expression of the cell cycle inhibitor, p27Kip while IFN- plus poly I:C increased cleaved Caspase-3 in B16 cells. Thus, it is likely that an IFN-/IRF3/ISG54 nexus can significantly contribute to tumor cell control during anti-tumor immune responses. to understand the relationship between IRF3, ISG54, and IFN- in anti-tumor immunity. Using wild-type and IRF3KO mice with luciferase-expressing B16F10 tumor cells, we were able to measure tumor growth as early as day 2 post tumor cell inoculation, which really is a time for you to development of anti-tumor effector cells of adaptive immunity prior. On the other hand, this early timeframe of innate anti-cancer immunity can be expected to become dominated by NK cells , that could have a substantial effect on the trajectory of tumor development. Rather, we discovered that IRF3 plays a part in restricting B16 melanoma development at day time 9 and beyond pursuing B16 inoculation. This is actually the period when effector T cells creating IFN- are available in supplementary lymphoid cells and tumors [25, 26]. Consequently, it is very clear that, so far as anti-tumor immunity can be involved, IRF3 includes a greater effect on adaptive than innate anti-tumor immunity. Previously, we reported that at day time 16 after B16F10 tumor inoculation, NK cells infiltration in to the tumor and excitement of IFN- from NK cells with poly I:C was impaired in IRF3KO weighed against wild-type mice . Therefore, it’s possible that NK cell participation in anti-tumor immunity, which can be expected to become suffered all throughout adaptive T cell immune system reactions, can be impaired along with anti-tumor T cells in IRF3KO mice indeed. Interestingly, we demonstrated right here that IFN- creation in the spleen, a significant supplementary lymphoid tissue involved with adaptive anti-tumor immunity, was considerably improved in wild-type mice beginning at day time 6 post B16F10 tumor inoculation. The dynamics from the IFN- response in LGX 818 cell signaling the tumor and spleen are in keeping with previous reports . Nevertheless, IRF3 deficiency impaired expression of splenic IFN- as of this correct period. Previously, we discovered that T cells from IRF3KO mice got significant impairments in T cell IFN- through the response to Influenza A pathogen infection weighed against wild-type mice . These data immensely important that IRF3 takes on a significant part in manifestation of IFN- from T cells. Predicated on this recommendation and a big aggregate of medical books on APC and IRF3 cytokines, it was fair to speculate how LGX 818 cell signaling the impairments in IFN- manifestation during T cell reactions from IRF3KO mice had been solely linked to lacking creation of APC cytokines. Earlier reports from our lab and other labs showed that IRF3 plays a significant role in IL-12[4, 27, 28], IL-15[4, 29], and IL-6 expression from APCs, all of which contribute to effector T cell responses to antigen. However when we added exogenous IL-12, IL-15, or IL-6 to responding T cells from IRF3KO mice, IFN- expression was not restored to levels found with wild-type responding T cells. More recently, we showed that incubating enriched T cells from IRF3KO mice with DCs from wild-type LGX 818 cell signaling mice during in vitro T cell responses also failed to restore IFN- production . These unexpected findings prompted us to focus on IRF3 and T cell responses and led us to postulate that IRF3 functions intrinsically in T cell IFN- production during immune responses. A preliminary experiment where we found that enriched T cells from IRF3KO mice responding to anti-CD3/anti-CD28 exhibited significantly less IFN- that those from wild-type mice (data not shown) supports LGX 818 cell signaling this notion. However, the clear contribution of IRF3 in optimum T cell production of IFN- notwithstanding, the precise mechanism for IRF3 in transcriptional regulation of IFN- remains enigmatic. While the role for IRF3 in IFN- production from T cells remains unclear, in the ANPEP present report some light was shed around the role for IFN- in.
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Common Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is certainly a cancer in which cancerous Reed-Sternberg cells comprise only a fraction of the bulk of the tumor and are characteristically binucleated. contain extra features, the most common getting a BTB/POZ area. distinguishes itself by getting one of simply two individual genetics formulated with seven kelch repeats but missing various other motifs. The kelch area is certainly known for its capability to join actin and take part in protein-protein connections. Kelch meats adopt a beta-propeller framework. The crystal structure17 for just one seven-repeat kelch-only proteins (a yeast galactose oxidase) provides been solved; we possess utilized it as the basis for modeling18 the forecasted framework of KLHDC8T (Fig. 1). Take note that the seventh kelch area is certainly divide between carboxyl and amino termini, whereas for those formulated with fewer amounts of repeats, each kelch buy 171596-36-4 area is coded within the gene. Body buy 171596-36-4 1 Forecasted framework Anpep of KLHDC8T, uncovering a seven-bladed propeller framework. Although is expressed widely, per gene phrase atlases, germinal middle T lymphocytes, the cancerous cell of origins in cHL, perform therefore many generously19, additional implicating its participation in lymphomagenesis. In purchase to decipher the function of KLHDC8T, we produced antibodies and performed roundabout immunofluorescent yellowing6 of HeLa cells, which, although not really buy 171596-36-4 relevant to lymphoma always, are toned and possess an variety of cytoplasm, giving easy creation (Fig. 2). KLHDC8T is certainly portrayed just in mitotic cells, where it locates to the midbodya little intracellular framework that acts as the last stage of get in touch with between dividing cells before they go through break up through the procedure of cytokinesis20. Furthermore, quantitative RT-PCR and traditional western blots performed on coordinated cell populations indicate that is certainly transcribed during S-phase and confirms that the proteins is certainly mostly present, and therefore translated presumably, during cytokinesis, implemented by its fast destruction6. Structured on its area and time of phrase, KLHDC8T shows up to take part in cytokinesis. Body 2 Localization of KLHDC8T (green) during mitosis (correct cell) and, in particular, at the midbody during cytokinesis (arrow, still left cell). Counterstaining of mitotic spindle with -tubulin (reddish colored) and nuclei using DAPI (blue). Proven is certainly a 3D renovation … KLHDC8Bull crap mitotic phrase also suggests why the 5-UTR SNP that we noticed to end up being linked with and connected to cHL in extra households may therefore greatly interrupt translation. The SNP, a C to Testosterone levels bottom replacement, is certainly located in a polycytidine system in a operate of many nearby polycytidine repeats. Clustered polycytidine repeats can function as an inner ribosome admittance site (IRES)21. It moves out that mitotically portrayed genetics rely on CAP-independent translation of mRNA and as a result need an IRES, also for polypeptide activity starting from an ATG located at the 5 end of the transcript21, 22. Hence, the SNP most likely disrupts an IRES needed for translation of KLHDC8T particularly during mitosis. We utilized RNAi to knockdown phrase of KLHDC8T in HeLa cells and discovered that decrease of KLHDC8T elevated the percentage of binucleated cells6. We corroborated this remark by making a superior harmful type of KLHDC8T (Meters. Krem, unpublished outcomes) that also produces binucleated cells, by interrupting the correct series of cytokinesis (Fig. 3). This remark is certainly significant with respect to cHL, because the tumors personal binucleated Reed-Sternberg cell forms as a outcome of faulty cytokinesis, than through cellular fusion23C26 rather. As a result, haploinsufficiency of KLHDC8T might promote Reed-Sternberg cell development. Body 3 Binculeated cell development in HeLa cell revealing superior harmful KLHDC8T, time-lapse picture taking. Cytokinesis cannot end up being finished and cleavage furrow regresses. How a binucleated cell, whose further division may be sluggish at best, may contribute to malignancy is uncertain. One possibility is that it is indicative of an underlying cytokinesis defect that may also result in aneuploidy in mononuclear cells. Not surprisingly, some of the most conspicuous mutations in cHL are chromosomal aberrations, and chromosomal instability is strongly buy 171596-36-4 implicated in Reed-Sternberg cell formation and cHL pathogenesis. Case series show strong evidence of chromosomal instability and chromosomal aberrations in most cases of HD27,. | <urn:uuid:75a9e47b-9c19-40d2-a306-bb1e567b708c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paft-phil.com/tag/anpep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936426 | 2,250 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Tracey Emin: Artist says she has been 'overlooked' and dismissed as 'deranged' over the years
Tracey Emin was one of the so-called Young British Artists who emerged in the 1990s, along with Damien Hirst, and remains one of the most well-known British artists of her generation - most famous for the My Bed installation that was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999.
Saturday 30 October 2021 12:27, UK
Prominent artist Tracey Emin has said she has been "overlooked" over the years, as people have dismissed her as "narcissistic" and "deranged".
Emin, who is best known for headline-grabbing works in the 1990s such as Everyone I Have Ever Slept With and My Bed, said in a new interview that the "seriousness" of her pieces has not always been understood.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life, when asked whether her painting work had been overlooked, she replied: "No, I think I've been overlooked. I think they just thought I was some sort of narcissistic, deranged, screaming banshee."
Emin was one of the so-called Young British Artists who emerged in the 1990s, along with Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, and remains one of the most well-known British artists of her generation.
She is famous for her autobiographical and confessional work, including My Bed - a notorious installation including empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts, stained sheets and used underwear - that was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999.
Her recent works include a 2018 neon sign in London's St Pancras station saying "I want my time with you", and a 2020 Royal Academy exhibition which showcased her paintings alongside the work of Edvard Munch.
Last year, she revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer of the bladder and told art market news site Artnet she had been working on a painting of a malignant lump before the growth was discovered.
Discussing her recovery in the Cultural Life interview, Emin said she had undergone robotic surgery and that her life was saved by medical science, as well as being in love.
"My surgeon was lovely," she said. "A robot actually did all my surgery, which is quite incredible. But I think love saved me.
"I really think love saved me this time, not art. I fell in love just before I found out I had cancer."
In the interview, Emin also said that being an artist can be "really lonely" and discussed a chance encounter she had with the late musician David Bowie that led to them becoming friends.
"I was sitting in a Lebanese restaurant in Kensington in 1996 with a couple of other people and someone leaned over the table and said, 'I'm very sorry to interrupt, my name's David and I just want to say how much I love your work'.
"And I looked up and David Bowie's looking at me, and I said 'likewise'.
"And we become friends. It was just amazing that the only person I was ever a massive starstruck fan of, I became friends with."
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WÜRTH SILICONE SEALANT: QUALITY SEALANTS TO MAKE YOUR JOINTS
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Silicone sealants are generally one-component sealants of synthetic origin. They are distinguished primarily by their elasticity, their resistance to bad weather and therefore their longevity. They react by polymerizing a crosslinking agent, as well as by absorbing moisture from the air.
In construction and renovation work, the secure connection of silicone gaskets is essential. To make it easy for you to carry out all your waterproofing work in bathrooms or even kitchens, Würth offers you a complete range of silicone sealants suitable for different types of surfaces.
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Geomechanics and mining research
Bibliographic overview of all results is in the ASEP database ( only the specified year: 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 ).
- D. Vavrik, P. Benes, T. Fila, P. Koudelka, I. Kumpova, D. Kytyr, M. Vopalensky, M. Vavro, L. Vavro
Local fracture toughness testing of sandstone based on X-ray tomographic reconstruction
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, volume 138, 2021, 104578.
- D. Malczewski, M. Dziurowicz, Z. Kalab, M. Rosnerova
Natural radioactivity of rocks from the historic Jeronym Mine in the Czech Republic
Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 80, 2021.
- Z. Kalab
The contribution of geophysics to geoenvironmental studies
Conference proceedings, Geoinformatics 2021, May 10-14, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2021.
- Z. Kalab, M. Rosnerova, T. Kalab
Measurement of the movement of rock blocks along the selected crack in the Jeronym Mine
EGRSE - Exploration Geophysics, Remote Sensing and Environment, issue 1, volume 28, 2021, pages 9-18.
- S. Ram, A.K. Singh, R. Kumar, A. Kumar, N. Kumar, P. Waclawik, A. Gautam, M. Raja
Design of rock bolt-based goaf edge support for conventional depillaring with stowing
Arabian Journal of Geosciences, issue 21, volume 14, 2021.
- L. Gong, K. Soucek, P. Waclawik, M. Vavro, L. Stas, J. Nemcik, S, Ram
Modelling the sensitivity of underground space stability to the in situ stress uncertainties: Case study at the Bukov underground research facility phase II (Rozna Mine, Czechia)
Acta geodynamica et geomaterialia, issue 3, volume 18, 2021.
- S. Miao, P.Z. Pan, S. Zhao, J. Han, P. Konicek
A new DIC-Based method to identify the crack mechanism and applications in fracture analysis of red sandstone containing a aingle flaw
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, issue 8, volume 54, 2021, pages 3847-3871.
- S. Miao, P.Z. Pan, S. Li, J. Chen, P. Konicek
Quantitative fracture analysis of hard rock containing double infilling flaws with a novel DIC-based method
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, volume 252, 2021.
- Z. Riha, M. Zelenak, K. Soucek, A. Hlavacek
Flow field analysis inside and at the outlet of the abrasive head
Materials, issue 14, volume 14, 2021.
- M. Lednicka, R. Kukutsch
Seismological monitoring of rockfalls as a tool to study weathering processes at the geoheritage site Zebracka Mine in mining district of Zlate Hory (Czech Republic)
Geoheritage, issue 2, volume 13, 2021.
- H. Dolezalova, V. Kajzar
Analysis of surface changes from undermining and building site categorization: The case study in mining location Louky near Karvina
Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia, issue 2 (202), volume 18, 2021, pages 121–135.
- P. Koudelka, T. Fila, V. Rada, P. Zlamal, J. Sleichrt, M. Vopalensky, I. Kumpova, P. Benes, D. Vavrik, L. Vavro, M. Vavro, M. Drdacky, D. Kytyr
In-situ X-ray differential micro-tomography for investigation of water-weakening in quasi-brittle materials subjected to four-point bending
Materials, issue 6, volume 13, 2020, pages 1405.
- Z. Kalab, A.A. Lyubushin
Power spectra of quarry blasting works measured in different depths
Acta Montanistica Slovaca, issue 3, volume 25, 2020, pages 302-309.
- L. Wojtecki, P. Konicek, M. Mendecki, I. Gołda, W.M. Zuberek
Geophysical evaluation of effectiveness of blasting for roof caving during longwall mining of coal seam
Pure and Applied Geophysics, volume 177, 2020, pages 905–917.
- A. Bercakova, R. Melichar, K. Soucek
Mechanical properties and failure patterns of migmatized gneiss with metamorphic foliation under UCS test
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2019.
- M. Kataoka, Y. Obara, L. Vavro, K. Soucek, S.H. Cho, S.-S. Jeong
Effect of testing method type and specimen size on mode I fracture toughness of Kimachi sandstone
Journal of the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan, issue 5, volume 135, 2019, pages 33-41.
- P. Konicek, J. Schreiber, L. Nazarova
Volumetric changes in the focal areas of seismic events corresponding to destress blasting.
International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, issue 4, volume 29, 2019, pages 541-547.
- S. Sysala, R. Blaheta, A. Kolcun, J. Scucka, K. Soucek, P. Pan
Computation of Composite Strengths by Limit Analysis
Key Engineering Materials, issue 810, volume 810, 2019, pages 137-142.
- A. Kumar, P. Waclawik, R. Singh, S. Ram, J. Korbel
Performance of a coal pillar at deeper cover: Field and simulation studies
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, issue 1, volume 113, 2019, pages 322-332.
- L. Vavro, L. Malikova, P. Frantik, P. Kubes, Z. Kersner, M. Vavro
An advanced assessment of mechanical fracture parameters of sandstones depending on the internal rock texture features
Acta geodynamica et geomaterialia, issue 2, volume 16, 2019, pages 157-168.
- V. Kajzar
Geodetic and seismological observation applied for investigation of subsidence formation in the CSM Mine (Czech Republic)
Mining of Mineral Deposits, issue 2, volume 12, 2018, pages 34-46.
- Z. Kalab
Influence of vibrations on structures
Acta Montanistica Slovaca, issue 3, volume 23, 2018, pages 293-311.
- I. Kroupova, P. Lichy, J. Hendrych, K. Soucek
Evaluation of properties of cast metal foams with irregular inner structure
Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, issue 4, volume 63, 2018, pages 1847-1851.
- Z. Kalab, J. Sileny, M. Lednicka
Seismic stability of the survey areas of potential sites for the deep geological repository of the spent nuclear fuel
Open Physics, issue 1, volume 15, 2017, pages 486–493.
- R. Kukutsch, V. Kajzar
Moznosti vyuziti technologie 3D laseroveho skenovani v banske praxi
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Drayson Racing and Aston University (UK) have launched a major partnership to develop and demonstrate low carbon automotive technologies. The partnership will investigate second-generation biofuels—biofuels derived from waste biomass such as straw, wood and sewage sludge—to create high performance cars with reduced CO2 emissions.
The Drayson Racing and Aston University partnership will in particular investigate:
- The production of ‘second generation’ biofuels from sources such as organic waste;
- Improving the stability and reliability of second generation biofuels;
- Enhancing the ability of high performance engines to optimize performance;
- Developing materials for use in fuel pumps and other areas which are capable of surviving a highly aggressive biofuel environment.
Aston University’s expertise in low carbon and sustainable research includes involvement in the UK’s largest study into long-term low carbon vehicle use, investigating the performance of fuel cells, electric, and hydrogen power cars. The University’s European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) is a leader in biofuels and biomass research. Current projects include the transformation of algae, wood waste and sewage sludge into new forms of energy. Aston’s Polymer, Bioenergy, Mechanical Engineering, Photonics and Computer Science research groups will all be working with Drayson Racing.
Lord Drayson, the former UK Minister for Science and Innovation, formed Drayson Racing to act as a racing laboratory to pioneer the development of green technologies and remove reliance on fossil fuels in motor racing. Last year, Drayson Racing achieved the first ever international pole & win for a bio-ethanol fuelled race car in the American Le Mans Series endurance race at Road America, showing the effectiveness of its 200 mph+ Flex-Fuel race car while producing approximately 40% less carbon impact than the gasoline fuelled cars that it beat. | <urn:uuid:863ce1f6-bd21-4abd-bde9-9b82dfb1cfee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/02/drayson-racing-and-aston-university-partner-to-investigate-2g-biofuels-for-high-performance-cars.html?cid=6a00d8341c4fbe53ef014e5f2d7022970c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.921123 | 379 | 2.625 | 3 |
“To get a kilo of sugar or half a dozen of eggs, one has to wait or fight in line. Money has limited use. There was nothing to buy. You can feel panic around, as people fought to buy some food or batteries.”
By DEE AYROSO
Twenty-five years ago, on July 16, 1990, the 7.8 magnitude “Killer Quake” hit Luzon, when the northwest segment of the Philippine Fault moved, and sent tremors felt over an area of 500,000 square kilometers, from the corners of the Cordillera region in the north, up to Bicol in the south.
At least 1,200 people were killed, and P10 billion ($221 million) in properties were destroyed.
Many were killed, when poorly-built structures – such as the Hyatt hotel in Baguio City and the Liwag Colleges building in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija – crumbled.
Bulatlat.com interviewed some of the luckier survivors, who recalled their ordeal, and cluelessness.
No power, water or food
Dr. Gazelle Baysa-Pee, was then 18 and a medical student, vacationing with her relatives in Baguio City. When the quake struck, she recalled seeing people and grade school children crying in panic as they gathered on the grounds outside the Easter School in Guisad.
“Walking home to my aunt’s place, I passed by what – just a few hours ago — was a three-story building with a new basement, but it sank down to only two storeys,” she told Bulatlat.com.
She said her aunt’s home “was in disarray, as if ransacked by a burglar.” Not a single picture frame remained on the wall, pots broken, even the refrigerator had moved from its spot.
“The electricity was cut off. As night came, I felt fear and tension in the house. We slept in the open garage with just the roof to protect us from the rain,” Baysa-pee recalled.
The next day, as shock and fear still blanketed the city, hunger and anxiety slowly crept in.
“My relatives and I walked to the city center, some three kilometres away. But things weren’t better there. The main road was cracked open. There were no vehicles. All stores were closed. A grocery opened a window just to sell some basic goods: sugar, rice, eggs,” Baysa-pee said, describing the scene as “chaotic.”
“To get a kilo of sugar or half a dozen of eggs, one has to wait or fight in line. Money has limited use. There was nothing to buy. You can feel panic around as people fought to buy some food or batteries,” she said.
Water supply was also cut off, and Baysa-pee recalled keeping hygiene was a challenge. She said they collected rainwater from the downspout, to use for bathing, and put out glasses to get rainwater for brushing teeth.
But a bigger problem was looming. “Knowing that Baguio was already isolated at that time, made us worry about how long our food would last,” she said.
After a few days, relief goods came in, and Baysa-pee recalled going around relief centers and eating corned beef every day.
‘Stench of death’
“By the second or third day, we could smell the stench, since there were only two funeral homes in the whole of Baguio City,” Baysa-pee said. She said there were too many corpses, and the city apparently ran out of chemicals to keep the bodies from decomposing.
Bulatlat’s managing editor, Benjie Oliveros, who was then with the NGO Management Advancement Systems Association Inc. or Masai), was facilitating a training for NGO workers in Baguio, described the scene as “surreal.”
“A lot of people were moving around dazed, worried, grieving, crying,” he wrote, in “Surviving an earthquake,” in the section On the Fringes.
“The stench of formalin and the sight of curtains covering the sidewalks and streets in front of funeral parlors were like scenes in a nightmare. There were just too many dead people for the funeral parlors to accommodate,” said Oliveros.
Baysa-Pee recalled that PT and T, a telecommunication company along Session Road, offered free phone calls.
“It was the first cellular phone I saw, and it was attached to a battery as big as a car’s battery. I lined up for more than two hours to make a two-minute call to my family in Manila. Though it was free, nobody would mind paying for an extra minute, but the angry mob waiting for their turn would not allow even a 10-second extension. It was set up in the middle of the road and you had to talk in front of other people waiting for their turn. There was a timer that can be seen by all, who really made a countdown when you are near the end of your 120 seconds,” she said.
To get back to Manila, Oliveros took Naguilian road, walked for dozens of kilometres, scaled landslides, then, upon reaching La Union province, rode a series of jeepneys and buses to get to Manila. Luckily, he travelled with other people determined to get back to their homes and families.
“We looked as if we were in a pilgrimage. All of us had our stories. There was a student who told me that he was going down to inform his relatives that his cousin, who was also a student in Baguio, died in the earthquake. Others also had their stories to tell, mostly about the death of relatives and friends. There were also people walking up the road to Baguio City. They looked terribly anxious and worried,” Oliveros recalled.
Baysa-Pee’s sister, a Manila-based journalist, eventually got her a slot on board a plane that delivered food and relief goods to Baguio. The C-130 plane was bringing people, and corpses, back to Manila.
“Inside the cargo plane, we were standing, as there were not enough seats. It was a 45-minute ride, but definitely not a joyful one. We were all quiet, knowing that somewhere in the same plane, were corpses whose families would be grieving when they arrive,” she recalled.
NGO workers Richard Magbitang and Marion Ramirez, now both staff of the Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC), were just elementary students in 1990. Magbitang was in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, while Ramirez was in Naga City, Camarines Sur, but both recalled hearing a loud noise, and having no idea what has happening.
“I was at our backyard, playing with fish in a small well we dug up on the ground. Then, the water began to shake. We had no idea that it was an earthquake. It was loud,” Magbitang described it like the wind howling.
“We felt the ground moving, from side to side, and up and down. But we had no idea what it was. We thought it was just a passing helicopter, flying low,” he said.
Ramirez said she and her schoolmates heard a loud, whirring sound.
“We were playing in the schoolyard, then we heard a loud noise…the glass windows of the school building were vibrating, but I didn’t feel the shaking, I just heard the noise,” she said.
“After that, it was like nothing happened. Our teachers didn’t bother to explain that we just experienced an earthquake, it was like nothing happened,” Ramirez recalled.
Magbitang said he and his siblings only found out that it was an earthquake when they went out to the neighbourhood streets. The next day, they learned about the destruction caused by the quake. He said, out of curiousity, they even went to watch rescuers at the Liwag colleges building, where many students died under the collapsed structure.
Would the scenes of tragedy, panic and ignorance be repeated when the ‘Big One’ hits? The possibility is not remote, Baysa-pee said.
“Looking back, what I remember most, was the sight of a hotel with a crack, running from top to bottom of the building. It was condemned back in 1990. Now, it’s still in full operation, but repainted,” Baysa-Pee said. | <urn:uuid:826359d0-c38e-4055-9ff5-7faab5ebfb3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bulatlat.com/2015/07/16/recalling-the-1990-killer-quake/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.987173 | 1,880 | 1.96875 | 2 |
The Worm Whisperer
Written by Betty Hicks
Reviewed by Callee J. (age 8)
Have you ever heard of a Worm Whisperer? Well, if you would like to find out, you must read The Worm Whisperer by Betty Hicks and illustrated by Ben Hatke.
First, Ellis decides he is going to enter the Woolly Worm race to earn one thousand dollars to help pay for his Dad’s back surgery. Ellis’s Dad needs surgery for his back and does not have the money to pay his deductible. So, Ellis found a worm to train and if he was the fastest he would win the exact amount of money his Dad needs. Ellis was determined to help his Dad and was willing to even talk to a worm to make the surgery happen.
One of the characters I found interesting was Ellis Coffey because he was so focused on winning the race just to help his Dad. He was also able to communicate with a worm and most people are not able to. This story reminds me of when I wanted to win a race at school. I wanted to win so that everyone would call me the fastest girl in 3rd grade. Ellis reminds me of myself when I am determined to win something or want to get something. I am very determined when I want to be.
In conclusion, I recommend The Worm Whisperer because it is about animals and I enjoy reading about how they live, and what they do even if they are an imaginary worm. It would be a perfect book to read for elementary age kids that love make believe animal stories that have a little twist. | <urn:uuid:eace7263-a23f-4810-869c-d0071abe0d64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spaghettibookclub.org/review.php?reviewId=14515 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.988336 | 328 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Burmese pythons are becoming an increasingly large problem in Florida. This invasive species of snake is causing severe ecological problems, devastating native animal populations. Not helping matters is the fact that it’s one of the longest snakes in the world, helping it rise to the top of the food chain. In this article, we’re going to see exactly why Burmese pythons were able to invade Florida and what humans are doing to fight back against them.
How Burmese Pythons Got to Florida
Pull up a map of the world and look where Burmese pythons originate. You’ll quickly see that they are naturally occurring in Southeast Asia. How in the world did these reptiles get to Florida in the United States, a distance of over 8,000 miles?
Currently, two theories exist for how these snakes got to Florida in the first place. Take a look and see how relatively small actions can have a massively negative impact on the environment.
Theory 1: Burmese Pythons Were Dumped by Pet Owners
The first theory about how Burmese pythons were introduced into the United States is that they were dumped by exotic pet owners during the 1980s. These snakes were shipped into the US so that people in Florida could keep them as pets.
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Eventually, the snakes got too large, too expensive, or otherwise became a hindrance on the owner. They allowed the snakes to go free in the Florida Everglades, and the rest is history. This theory is considered to be the true genesis of the invasive species. Yet, the problem was exacerbated by other factors.
Theory 2: Burmese Pythons Escaped Due to a Hurricane
The second theory about how Burmese pythons got released in Florida is that Hurricane Andrew destroyed breeding and holding facilities with the snakes in 1995. These breeding facilities, used to research the snakes, held many specimens.
When people evacuated in the face of the 150 mph winds brought by the hurricane, these snakes were left behind. As roofs blew off and glass shattered across the state, these snakes got free of their housings and fled into the wild.
Since these snakes were in the facility to breed, they eventually bred and unleashed a massive generation of snakes into the wild. However, Burmese pythons were already present before 1995, so this was not the outset of the invasion. Yet, the release of these pythons certainly added to the problem in a significant way.
Why Burmese Pythons Were Able to Invade Florida
The Burmese python is not native to Florida, so how did it manage to survive? Why is this the only place in the US where these snakes thrive so well despite having exotic pet owners throughout the country? Let’s examine the unique factors in Florida that allowed the snake to thrive here.
Burmese Pythons Have Few Natural Predators in Florida
A Burmese python can grow up to 23ft long and weigh 200lbs. They can hunt and eat small animals like rabbits and foxes as well as large ones like deer. There was even one case where a large snake tried to eat an alligator until it burst open.
These snakes have no problems surviving in this area of the world because they only have two real predators in the area as adults: humans and alligators. Aside from that, there is not much to quell their growth. Also, it helps that they are not picky eaters and will thrive on all sorts of animals!
Burmese Pythons Hide Extremely Well
Burmese pythons are ambush predators. They spend a lot of their time in tall vegetation and near bodies of water. They can climb and swim well. Also, they are usually only active at dusk or nighttime, so they’re even harder to spot. Even professional hunters have trouble finding these snakes.
Burmese Pythons Can Lay up to 100 Eggs Per Year
Lastly, Burmese pythons can breed quickly. Every year, a single female can lay anywhere between 10 and 100 eggs. Although not all of those snakes will survive to adulthood, enough of them do and keep the population growing.
Aside from their ability to breed quickly and avoid dying at the paws and talons of other creatures, the climate is just right. These snakes thrive in warm, humid areas, and that’s something that Florida offers. Currently, Burmese pythons are a rarity outside of Florida. Yet, we must consider if they are done spreading.
The Impact of Burmese Pythons on Florida
The Burmese pythons in Florida have devastated the mammal population in the Florida Everglades. A 90% reduction in the numbers of bobcats, foxes, raccoons, and other animals that once thrived in the area has been witnessed. The marsh rabbit population has been completely wiped out in the area.
These snakes have negatively transformed the ecology of the area, and they continue to spread farther north in Florida. That puts them in close contact with greater numbers of animals, pets, and people. Although no human fatalities have been witnessed in the United States, excessively large pythons have killed in other countries and could get bold enough to do the same.
Needless to say, the impact of these pythons is nothing short of enormous, and it could get worse.
Turning the Tide Against the Snakes
Currently, it’s estimated that anywhere between 30,000 and 300,000 Burmese pythons inhabit Florida, but it’s difficult to measure their numbers. After all, the snakes are very hard to find, and some modern tools are hard to use on cold-blooded creatures.
Nevertheless, 5,000 of the snakes have been removed from the Everglades in recent years. Regular hunts, the removal of hunting licenses for the creatures, and government-sponsored reporting systems have helped reduce the number of pythons. However, more impactful measures may be needed to get rid of the snakes in greater numbers.
Overall, several reasons exist why Burmese pythons were able to invade Florida and thrive in the area. Fortunately, the snakes seem to be trapped in the state because they can’t stand cold weather. That might be the only thing truly stopping this snake from becoming an even more troublesome invasive species in the future. | <urn:uuid:a63b2481-ee63-42e3-a13b-b14f43fefbc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buyaurogra.com/heres-why-burmese-pythons-were-able-to-invade-florida/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964972 | 1,321 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Switch to organic dog food to avoid harmful ingredients. Use only stainless steel or glass bowls for food and water. Use only filtered or distilled water. Supplements. Many Maltese owners have found success in using supplements to keep tear stains at bay, especially those that are caused by porphyrins. Lots of pet pawrents take to the internet to find ways to tackle their dog’s tear stains but get facts and myths confused. Below are three common misconceptions about dog tear stains: Red tear stains mean there is an infection . The redness from tear stains is caused by a compound called porphyrin found in the precorneal fluid.
Best dog food for Maltese tear stains: Halo Natural Dog Food – Small Breed. 993 Reviews. Halo Holistic Wild Salmon & Whitefish Recipe: Small Breed . What we like: Only whole meat—no meat meal—and non-GMO veggies are used to improve digestibility;
Maltese dog food for tear stains. Continued 3. Can the dog eye problems that cause tear stains be treated? It depends on the condition leading to excessive tearing. There is no way to stop dog eye discharge because of shallow eye sockets, so the goal in this situation is to minimize skin irritation and coat discoloration. Those Embarrassing Tear Stains! Maltese, Poodles, Shih-Tzu and King Cavalier are just a few breeds prone to tear stains. Excessive tears are caused either from external / environmental factors, internal / nutritional issues or both. 99% of Rusty Tear Stains are excess TOXINS from the liver. Dog tear stains are caused by internal or external factors (i.e., food, environmental, teething, etc.) that cause the over-stimulation of excessive tear production, or also known as Epiphora. According to Healthy Pets, the most common medical causes of tear staining in dogs include but are not limited to:
The topic description pretty much says it all: I'm looking for a food to feed my 11 mo. old Maltese that will prevent his tear stains. I'm currently feeding him Angel Eyes food supplement, and I have tried other little tricks (distilled water, plus others). Does this type of food exist and… Last but not least is the Nature’s Recipe Grain Free Dry Dog Food, another great food for your Maltese and another formulation that can fight tear stains and give your pet a healthier and cleaner coat. With an average Amazon.com rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, it is also clear that Nature’s Recipe Grain Free Dry Dog Food is a real favorite. Maltese are prone to getting tear stains and other discolorations on their fur. Of all the discolorations, Tear stains are definitely the most noticeable as they are on the face. All dog breeds can suffer from tear stains but the Maltese are particularly prone to it because of their snow white fur which contrasts the yellow staining.
My dog who is a maltese has always had tear stain problems. AT one ooint she developed a bad urinary tract infection and had to be given a large dose of antibiotics that would work for a couple weeks. (Instead of the daily pill option). I noticed after she had the shot, she didnt produce any tear stains for a couple months. Using a dog tear stain remover isn't the most natural way for removing dog tear stains. Yes, dog tear stain removers definitely work. And yes, you can use them with your pet, and many dog owners do. The cause can be related to health issues, shape of the eye, blocked tear-ducts, puppy teething, ear infection, allergies (either food or environmental), and so on.
This dog food is made with deboned turkey, which can be a pretty neat source of the dog food protein. It even has omega 3 and 6 to help your dog’s coat to be shinier and healthier – perfect for dogs that are suffering from Maltese tear stains. Gently apply the solution over the tear stains using a cotton ball. Wait 5 minutes, then rinse the fur with clean water to get rid of any residue. Note: Peroxide can be irritating, so avoid getting the product in your pet’s eyes. 8. Chamomile. If you are looking for a natural home remedy to get rid of the tear stains, chamomile is very effective. Tear stains indicate poor diet and improper care of the dog, so if you want to prevent tear staining in your Maltese dog, you’ll have to take care of the food and water it consumes. For this purpose, you’ll have to find the best dog food for Maltese tear stains.
Tear staining is a common problem in Maltese. Tear staining is the reddish brown discoloration that is found on the hair under the eyes. It occurs in other breeds as well, but with the white face, does make it show up more in the Maltese. Tear staining is caused by excessive tear production (epiphora). Purina Dog Food has been an established and beloved dog food brand on the market for more than 80 years. Purina continues to provide top quality products for dogs, year in and year out. Your dog will not be disappointed when they taste the great flavors infused in Purina’s formula and you will be over-the-moon with the fresh ingredients in. How Dog Foods Can Help Maltese With Tear Stains Problem? When our Maltese is in the early years, the focus is development. As they age, we focus on maintaining well-being. One of these factors is tear stains. Avoid these (as best as possible) by following some basic steps. Hydration is key. The vitreous humor (liquid part of the eye) is mainly.
According to Klein, breeds commonly susceptible to tear stains include the Maltese, Shih Tzu, and Poodle. Brachycephalic (short nosed) dogs can be prone to tear stains as well. “The shape of the head and the way the eyes fit into the socket will affect whether a dog is prone to tear stains,” according to Klein. If your Maltese is eating a cheap dog food, drinking unfiltered tap water, has plastic bowls, does not have his face wiped at least two times daily, and/or has runny eyes that have not been treated by the vet, do not expect his tear stains to vanish or at least to not come back after you treat them. Best Dog Food For A Maltese Puppy. We love recommending the puppy foods outlined below for Maltese and other small breeds. As you’ll see, many good quality puppy foods include a compound called DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid) which has been shown to help with brain development in puppies.
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Black Lives Matter protesters in Highgate and Crouch End kneel in anger over anti-Black racism
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Groups in Highgate and Crouch End took a knee on Wednesday in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters around the world.
In Pond Square, at 1pm a vigil organised by a local woman saw a wide cross-section of the community come out to stand – and kneel with victims of anti-Black racism.
While in Crouch End at the same time the green in front of Hornsey Town Hall saw campaigners on one knee for eight minutes and 43 seconds – the length of time a Minnesota police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd before he died last week.
Those taking part included members of the community and local councillors.
Cllr Adam Jogee (Lab, Hornsey) said afterwards: “The peaceful protest outside Hornsey Town Hall was a chance for our community to demonstrate our commitment to the universal truth: Black Lives Matter.
“It was good to see so many local people safely registering their anger and reconfirming our collective commitment to equality.”
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The woman who organised the Highgate protest did not want to give her name. She said: “My original intention had been just to go up to Highgate Village with some flyers I had made and try to amplify and share Black voices.
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“I specifically wanted to do it in Highgate Village – a majority white area that’s very privileged. I shared it with a couple of friends and it was one of those things that just spiralled.”
“I wanted to try and find a safe way to make a stand.”
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Another, quieter, protest took place in Highgate Wood. Yolanda Perez-Rosselson attended, and told this newspaper it had been “a group of neighbours coming together to show support”.
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FOLEY, Ala. - A pair of kindergartners in Alabama dressed the same for their school’s twin day, with one insisting to his mother that they “look exactly the same.”
Last month, Myles went to his mother Britney Tankersley and “went on and on about how he had to be twins with a boy in his class for Twin Day,” the mom wrote on a Facebook post that displayed the two young boys. “Twin day” was an event part of the boys’ school in Foley, Alabama.
Myles told his mom that he and his classmate Tanner “look exactly the same - same eyes, same hair.”
“He was adamant that they were identical,” Britney said. “So after the kids went to bed I headed to Walmart at 9pm to get matching outfits.”
The boys’ teacher sent Myles’ mother a picture of the “twin” boys together with matching maroon-colored plaid shirts that had “FUTURE LEADER” imprinted above the shirt’s side pocket.
“My heart melted,” the mom said. “Obviously two very different children, but Myles didn’t see that.”
Myles is white and Tanner is black, but to Myles, skin color didn’t matter when determining how similar they look.
“Wouldn’t the world be such a better place if we could all view it through the eyes of a couple 5yr olds,” Britney said, adding a heart emoji at the end.
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Another disgusting event in American race history
In the summer of 1906, the first battalion of the 25th Infantry regiment, all blacks, was transferred from Nebraska to Fort Brown near Brownsville, Texas. Despite a splendid record in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, the African-American soldiers were not welcomed into their new community. Many white residents of the south Texas community were fearful that the newly arrived blacks might ally with the large Mexican-American community and upset the carefully maintained racial balance. Letters were sent to Washington asking for the removal of the soldiers, but all such appeals were turned down. In the early morning hours of August 14, a melee broke out near the fort and shots were fired. Casualties included a dead bartender and a seriously wounded policeman. Brownsville citizens immediately stepped forward and blamed the soldiers, some claiming to have actually seen the soldiers firing shots and others asserting that they heard black voices during the skirmish. On the strength of these allegations, plus the finding of several discarded army rifles and shell casings, 12 members of the 25th were imprisoned.
In short order, two cursory investigations were held, neither of which presented any formal charges. No trial was held and the soldiers were never able to confront their accusers. Following the incident, the soldiers were assembled and those who had participated in the riots were ordered to stand forward; none did. The soldiers were then ordered to inform on those others in the ranks who had taken part in the riot; none spoke. On the basis of this lack of cooperation, charges of insubordination were prepared. Not only were the 12 originally arrested recommended for discharge “without honor,” but the other 155 black soldiers, as well.
President Roosevelt, hoping for black support at the polls, waited until after the Congressional election before signing all 167 discharges. All were removed from service, denied any back pay owing and had their pensions cancelled. Scores of lives were ruined. It was evident from the beginning that the charges were dubious. A commanding officer reported that all soldiers had been accounted for in their barracks several hours before the shooting erupted. Other officers and clergymen vouched for the character of the men. Many were longtime enlistees, a few were close to retirement and six were Medal of Honor recipients. Most of black America was outraged, but lacked the power to reverse matters. Among the white politicians, only Senator Joseph Foraker of Ohio attempted to introduce legislation that would have allowed the reenlistment of the soldiers; his efforts were thwarted and Roosevelt regarded him as an enemy. It became clear in later years that the townspeople of Brownsville had framed the soldiers, reflecting a fear of black men in uniform that had its roots in Reconstruction days.
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What Is BioBase?
What is BioBase? BioBase is composed of two different products, EcoSound and EcoSat. Ecosat processes satellite imagery to create shallow vegetation and benthic habitat maps. While, EcoSound uses off-the-shelf sonar technology and automatic cloud processing to create professional bathymetry, bottom composition, and aquatic vegetation maps. BioBase removes the labor intensive and high cost elements of acquiring high quality data very quickly so you can focus your efforts on aquatic resource management.
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Ok, it’s a bit overdue. But better late than never! BioBase customers will now see an updated and enhanced viewer for their EcoSound and EcoSat. No longer will users have to struggle to get their map to fit within the little square box of the old viewer with a Bing zoom level that either zoomed too close and cut off parts of the waterbody, or too far to see detail. Below we show you a few screenshots of the major improvements. You can see for yourself by logging into your own account or clicking the Log into DEMO button on the home page of biobasemaps.com, finding a waterbody of interest, and click on the Analyze/Edit button.
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EcoSat is a first of its kind semi-automated satellite imagery processing tool that’s part of the BioBase cloud mapping platform (Figures 1 and 2). EcoSat is helping several US states and countries map and monitor the status of shallow growing aquatic vegetation and benthic habitats. In this blog, we discuss several tips and tricks about how practitioners can maximize the accuracy and precision of their EcoSat vegetation maps.
Continue reading “New EcoSat Feature: Reclassify individual vegetation polygons”
What is EcoSat?
EcoSat delivers a one-of-it’s-kind semi-automated cloud processing of very high resolution satellite imagery to map nearshore vegetation and coastal benthic habitats. EcoSat uses the latest multi-spectral imagery from reputable providers such as Digital Globe (World View 2,3 and 4), Airbus Defence and Space (Pleiades), and ESA’s Sentinel program and industry standard image processing techniques. Sophisticated Amazon Web Service cloud infrastructure rapidly processes imagery, creates reports and imagery tiles, and delivers detailed habitat maps to user’s BioBase dashboard where it can be analyzed and shared. Average turnaround time from imagery tasking order to delivery of results is 60 days. The rapid and standard processing methods are allowing entities like the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to establish regular monitoring programs for emergent vegetation. The extremely long and expensive one-off nature of conventional remote sensing mapping projects using non-repeatable tailored techniques has prevented natural resource entities from assessing the degree that habitats are changing as a result of environmental stressors such as invasive species invasions and climate change.
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Sex offenders in Thailand are to be offered chemical castration treatment in a bid to reduce reoffending.
Chemical castration is a medical procedure in which a drug, most commonly leuprolide acetate, is injected into the subject’s bloodstream in order to reduce sexual desire.
The controversial treatment already used in a number of countries including India, South Korea, Australia and several states of the US.
In 2012, the Mirror reported that around a hundred of Britain’s most dangerous paedophiles had undergone chemical castration in exchange for a reduction of their sentences.
Criminal psychiatrist Professor Don Grubin, who co-ordinated the programme, said “We know the treatment works to reduce sexual arousal and fantasies.”
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Lynn Saunders, governor of HMP Whatton, Nottinghamshire – Europe's largest sex offender rehabilitation centre – said last year that chemical castration is the only possible option for certain types of prisoner.
She said: “We're trying to stop the people we lock up from doing this again.
“That's the key thing for me. The majority of them will get out and will possibly be living next door to you or me. That's my bottom line. We need to make sure they are as safe as possible to live next door to you or me or your children."
Evidence from Scandinavia suggests chemical castration, which temporarily has the same effect as physical castration, can cut rates of reoffending from 40% to 5%.
Of around 16,000 sex offenders released from Thai prisons between 2013 and 2020, just under 5,000 of them, according to corrections department figures.
Thai Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said earlier today that he believed the treatment would drastically reduce reoffending figures: “I want this law to pass quickly,” he told reporters, “I don't want to see news about bad things happening to women again."
But the treatment is controversial and Jaded Chouwilai, director of the anti-crime Women and Men Progressive Movement Foundation, said use of chemical castration would not tackle sex crime.
“Convicts should be rehabilitated by changing their mindset while in prison,” he said.
“To use punishment like execution or injected castration reinforces the idea that offender can no longer be rehabilitated."
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If you are done with basic commands of the command prompt (cmd) or you find cmd cool and looking for cool commands then you are on the right page.
Here I will share amazing command prompt tips hacks so you don’t look at the command prompt say way ever again.
If you are coming from a Linux background then you know commands are one of the best ways to use computers.
Personally, it gives me a positive wive using a computer like no one else is using. Generally, people are amazed when they find someone performing a certain task using a command prompt.
In 2022 GUI is much better than the command-based interface. However, still, there are certain tasks that either you can perform faster-using cmd or you can’t do without a command prompt.
Anyway, here are the best commands that I hope you will like. if you have any questions or query then let me know by the comment section. I will be happy to help you.
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Best Command Prompt Tricks Hacks
Hide A Volume
I’m pretty sure that all of you must try this trick. If not then basically you can hide your hard disk drive from This PC/Explorer
Here are the steps to do that.
- Open cmd by pressing windows + R and then type cmd.
- type diskpart
- it will ask admin permission, click on yes.
- It will open new cmd window. Here type list volume
- It will display all the volumes available on your pc. Whatever volume you want to hide type select volume (letter) example select volume G.
- Now type remove letter (letter)
- Type exit, this will hide the volume from My/This PC
If you want to bring that volume again then follow the first 4 steps. When you will run the 4th command list volume. It will display all the volumes available on your computer.
Now Type select volume (number). Because the letter has been removed so we will use the number e.x. select volume 2
After that type assign letter, G. Oryou can type whatever letter you want to assign. Just make sure that no that letter should not be assigned to any other volume.
Fix Pen Drive
Have you ever gotten in trouble when you are unable to format your pen drive. There could be various reasons that you are unable to access the pen drive.
However, if there is something wrong with programming instead of actual hardware then you can fix it easily using the command prompt.
Generally, my pen drive size shrinks after to make it bootable for installing windows os on other computers.
Here is the way to fix that, Waring: Your will lose your data in this method.
- Open cmd and type diskpart.
- It will ask system permission click on yes. This will open another cmd window.
- Now type list disk. This will display the list of disk (first willl be your system drive)
- If you have multiple device attached to your system then you can guess pen drive number based upon the size.
- Now type select disk (number) e.x. select disk 2
- Then type clean. It will clean all parition from your pen drive so you can make new parition.
- Now type create paritiion primary
- list parition. It should display only one parition
- then type format fs=fat32 quick
- And Finally exit
It should fix your pen drive problems. If this didn’t fix then something wrong in Pendrive physically.
If you are connected to a wifi network then what if you can hack the router and play with it such as
- Changing password
- blocking specific devices
- turning it off
- Or whatever you want to do
A Few months ago I have published an article on this. You can read here
Communicate With Another Pc
Imagine what if you can send and receive messages from one pc to another pc using the command prompt.
To use this trick make sure both computers should be connected to the same network. Here are the commends.
Type msg /SERVER:PC * /TIME:60 “This is the message to be sent to a PC named DestinationPC and closes in 60 seconds.”
Here replace the PC with the computer’s user with whom you are trying to communicate. if you want this message to show for a longer time then change TIME:60 to whatever value you like.
Create undeletable folder
To do this, first of all, run cmd as administrator. In the windows search type cmd. Then right-click on the cmd from the list and select Run as administrator.
Inside the cmd first of all go to what specific location where you want to create an undeletable folder.
You can jump between folders by typing cd full_path. For example, cd C:\Users\Kingdom\Desktop is the path of the Desktop folder. Here Kingdom is the username of my computer. It will be different in your case.
You can switch between volumes by typing d:. This command will take me to d: drive.
Anyway, once you are at the desired location then type md con/
Here md means make directory. con is a special keyword in Windows that can’t use for making folders unless you have administrator rights.
You can also shut down the computer using cmd. Here are the commands to shut down or restart your computer.
To Shut down your computer shutdown /s
To Restart your computer shutdown /r
To log off computer shutdown /l
F1,F2…F12 has its own function the command prompt. Here is the list of them
F1: Repeat the letter of last command F2: It will display a dialog asking user to "enter the char to copy up to" of the last command line F3: Repeat the last command F4: Display dialog asking for "Enter the char to delete up to" of the last command line F5: Repeat the last command (Similar to the F3) F6: Enter ctrl+z (^Z) F7: prompt cmd commands F8: Cycle back through previous commands F9: Prompt asking user to enter the command number to repeat any command from history F11: Full Screen More
Compare And Check The Difference
using fc you can compare two files. Here is the syntax to compare the two files.
fc filepath1.txt filepath2.txt
You can use the following arguments to get custom output.
/b This will perform binary comparison /c It can be used for case sensitive comparison /a It will only compare first two lines /u It can be used to compare the unicode text files /l it will compare files as ASCII text /n This switch can only be used with ASCII but it will show all the corresponding line numbers /t it will ordre fc not to expand on tab & spaces /w it will compress white spaces during its comparison
fc /a C:\Users\USERACCOUNT\Downloads\file.txt C:\Users\USERACCOUNT\Downloads\file2.txt
If you want to compare two text files then you can compare them using cmd.
Automatically complete commands using the tab
Another crucial tip for cmd lovers is to use a tab to complete your commands. Basically, once you typed the first two-three characters then press the tab it will automatically complete the command.
Not only command when you are typing path you can also use tab to autocomplete. You just need to type the initial characters.
The more you play with it more you understand how the tab works
Customize Command prompt (color, opacity etc)
You can customize the command prompt as you like. All you need to do is open the cmd, right-click on the title bar, and choose properties
It will open properties where you can control so many things such as
- font family & size
Here is my customized cmd. I have increased the font size, change the screen color, and decreased opacity.
Try Alternative Powerful Solution: Windows Terminal
Windows terminal that has been recently introduced in Windows 10 is really cool feature introduced by Microsoft.
If this is not available in your computer then you can download it from the windows store.
In the windows terminal, you can do really cool things that are not possible inside cmd.
For example, you can open multiple tabs, run Linux commands, advance customization, and whatnot.
If you want to get information about your computer then systeminfo can provide all details that a normal computer user needs to know.
Just open cmd and type systeminfo it will display processor, memory, graphic card, time zone, etc information on your screen.
Find Hard Disk Size
You can’t find hard disk size by right-clicking on This pc then don’t try calculate by adding all volumes size.
There is an easy way. Open cmd type diskpart. It will ask for administrative permission. Click on yes.
Then type list disk. It will display all the storage devices attached to your computer. The first one will be your primary hard disk.
Rename Multiple Files
Does it ever happen to you that you have multiple files and you want to rename them? Using cmd you can rename all files with a single command.
First of all, go in that specific folder. Right-click anywhere and choose to open in the windows terminal.
Then type the following command
rename *.txt ???-Test1.*
Here * is a wild card that is used to represent perform an action on multiple files. Now it will perform an action on all files with an extension of txt.
? is also a wild card however it can original name of the file. We have used three question marks that’s why it will keep the first three characters of the file as it is and then insert -TEST1.
Control Another Pc
Yes, you can control another computer using cmd. However, to do this you need to change some settings in that particular computer.
Here are the instructions that you need to follow if you want to remotely control another computer.
Warning: This trick is shared only for educational purposes, do not miss use it to harm anyone.
Run Multiple Commands
If you want to run one command after another you can do it easily. use & for the next command.
Here is an example
ipconfig & notepad
it will display all the network information and after that, it will open a notepad.
Find Windows License Key
If you thinking to reinstall the windows operating system then must get your product key if you have a genuine one.
To do this, in the windows search type cmd. The command prompt will appear. Right-click on it and select run as administrator.
then type the following command
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
It will display your window key.
That was a lot. It took me 3 hours to research & publish this article. I want to publish unique commands that no one is sharing on the internet.
No doubt, cmd is one of the greatest tools available in windows. It can make a lot of things easier if you spend some time learning it.
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Photography, or at least posting your favorite shots, is essentially an online business. For many photographers, this leads to the often uncomfortable feeling of being confronted with the whole world. We are all guilty of this element of competition and that is not necessarily a bad thing. This allows us to push our limits and improve our profession. But if you feel like you need a little push to improve your art, the following 3 essential landscape photography tips might do the trick.
Ditch the zoom lens
Zooms often make photographers complacent or lazy. The result is that they end up taking snapshots rather than photographs. If you are guilty of the charges, replace your zoom lens with a higher quality glass. There’s nothing to manipulate with a prime lens, so it will help you focus fully on your composition. Fixed focal length lenses keep you upright and force you to think about your shot and how best to capture the scene in front of you.
Another reason to screw in your preferred primary lens is that it usually delivers better quality images. They are often sharper and faster and do not suffer as much from chromatic distortion or aberration. And if you go for a shallow depth of field in your next composition, a prime lens will give you nicer bokeh than a zoom lens.
Don’t stay home for “bad weather”
On a sunny day, everyone went out for photos. You will hardly stand out with your photos if you follow the crowd. The internet is awash with compositions of blue skies. And for no good reason. Not only will you stand out with your photographs taken under gloomy skies, but “bad weather” often makes the photographs look better and more atmospheric.
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Take your time
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Thank you, Chairwoman Fletcher, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
This Committee is no stranger to the work being done at the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories. Whether it’s synthesizing new materials or pioneering advanced nuclear reactors, the National Labs have an established history of being at the forefront of scientific discovery. But that is just the first step.
The commercialization of technologies, including those that begin at the National Labs, face unique obstacles before widespread utilization or deployment. Those obstacles include lengthy development times, high upfront costs, and lack of desire to replace current technology. It is what we so often hear referred to as the “Valley of Death.”
That is why DOE established their Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) in 2015. OTT’s goal is to foster partnerships that guide innovations from the lab into the marketplace by streamlining access to information and to the National Lab’s user facilities. One example of this is their development of the Lab Partnering Service (LPS), which connects investors to experts, competitive technology, world-class facilities, and partnering opportunities.
Today’s hearing is a legislative one, as we review several DOE tech transfer bills. The first, a draft version of the Energizing Technology Transfer Act, authorizes a broad range of DOE’s tech transfer activities including many helpful provisions for the DOE national laboratories. I agree that there exists an opportunity to improve technology transfer between DOE and private industry by enhancing coordination and cutting red tape.
We can require DOE to maximize return on R&D investment by better managing research efforts across the Department to save money, reduce waste, and prevent duplication. But I hope we don’t waste this opportunity today, and on this legislation, by focusing most of our attention on the narrow field of clean energy technology. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that clean energy technologies face unique challenges when it comes to the entering the marketplace, but on an issue as important as this and on a portfolio as broad as DOE’s, we cannot afford to have tunnel vision on a singular issue.
Federal tech transfer authorities like OTT can accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies over a wide range of areas. For example, recently, we’ve seen OTT go live with a COVID-19 portal can quickly connect experienced researchers with information about facilities that may be useful in their efforts to contribute to the fight against the pandemic.
As we evaluate how to respond to today’s current public health crisis, it is clear that clean energy technologies, while important, are just one part of the bigger picture. There are so many more opportunities for innovation in this time of economic recovery. We cannot afford to limit ourselves to one option and be caught flat footed when the next challenge presents itself down the road.
I look forward to hearing from Dr. Lee Cheatham, the Director of Technology Deployment and Outreach at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on this topic of broad DOE tech transfer applications.
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Did climate change help SARS-CoV-2?
A new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment has provided the first evidence of how climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronaviruses, by driving growth of bats’ preferred forest habitat.
“Understanding how the global distribution of bat species has shifted as a result of climate change may be an important step in reconstructing the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak,” says the University of Cambridge’s Robert Beyer, first author of the study.
Using temperature, precipitation and cloud-cover records, the researchers created a map of the world’s vegetation as it was a century ago. Then they used information on the vegetation requirements of the world’s bat species to work out the global distribution of each species at the time. Last, they compared this to current distributions to see how the number of different bat species has changed across the globe over the last century.
The world’s bat population carries about 3,000 different types of coronavirus; each bat species harbours an average of 2.7 coronaviruses, mostly without showing symptoms. An increase in the number of bat species in a particular region, driven by climate change, may increase the likelihood that a coronavirus harmful to humans is present, transmitted, or evolves there.
“The fact that climate change can accelerate the transmission of wildlife pathogens to humans should be an urgent wake-up call to reduce global emissions,” says Camilo Mora, from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, who initiated the project.
Another Russian Sputnik in the news
Last Tuesday The Lancet reported that Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% effective against severe and moderate disease, based on analysis of the vaccine’s Phase 3 trial results.
“This is great news and provides us with yet another vaccine to use in our fight against COVID,” comments LaTrobe University epidemiologist Hassan Vally. “Importantly, this vaccine looks to be extremely well-tolerated, with no serious adverse events noted, and where side effects were reported, they were mild.”
The vaccine is similar to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine that will roll out in Australia. It uses a modified adenovirus vector – a virus that causes the common cold – to deliver instructions to make the COVID spike protein. Like the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, the Sputnik V requires two doses.
“The early signs from the results [show] that it does produce a stronger response than the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine,” says Vally.
How COVID-19 took over the Diamond Princess
American research published by PNAS suggests that airborne transmission contributed substantially to the infamous COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
On 20 February last year, the World Health Organization reported that more than half the world’s known cases of COVID-19 outside China were on the ship. At lease 712 of the 3,711 on board eventually contracted the disease and 14 are known to have died.
The research team modelled COVID-19 transmission aboard the ship; based on their results, they estimate that aerosols smaller than approximately 10 µm contributed to more than half of overall transmission. Both large droplets and small aerosols contributed equally to transmission before passengers were quarantined – at the Port of Yokomaha, Japan, on 4 February 2020 – while small aerosols dominated transmission post-quarantine.
“Guidance from health organisations should include a greater emphasis on controls for reducing spread by airborne transmission,” wrote the study authors, and “although our work is based on a cruise ship outbreak of COVID-19, the model approach can be applied to other indoor environments and other infectious diseases.”
SARS-CoV-2: great evader
A scientific detective story: researchers have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 evades immune responses by selectively deleting small bits of its genetic sequence.
The report published in the journal Science says that since these deletions happen in a part of the sequence that encodes for the shape of the spike protein, the formerly neutralising antibody can’t grab hold of the virus. And because the molecular “proofreader” that usually catches errors during SARS-CoV-2 replication is “blind” to fixing deletions, they become cemented into the variant’s genetic material.
“You can’t fix what’s not there,” says study senior author Paul Duprex, from the University of Pittsburgh, US. “Once it’s gone, it’s gone, and if it’s gone in an important part of the virus that the antibody ‘sees’, then it’s gone for good.”
The study was submitted as a preprint in November and the researchers have since watched this pattern play out in several variants that have rapidly spread across the globe. The variants first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa have these sequence deletions.
“Evolution was repeating itself,” says lead author Kevin McCarthy. “By looking at this pattern, we could forecast. If it happened a few times, it was likely to happen again.”
Although the paper shows how SARS-CoV-2 is likely to escape the existing vaccines and therapeutics, it’s impossible to know at this point exactly when that might happen. Will the COVID-19 vaccines on the market today continue to offer a high level of protection for another six months? A year? Five years?
“How far these deletions erode protection is yet to be determined,” McCarthy says. “At some point, we’re going to have to start reformulating vaccines, or at least entertain that idea.”
Tony beats Kim (and Tom)
What a relief: participants in an international survey reported greater willingness to reshare a call for social distancing if the message was endorsed by well-known US immunology expert Anthony Fauci, rather than a celebrity.
A Swiss teamed reported the findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
Previous research has extensively explored how to maximise the effectiveness of public health messages by altering their style and content. But relatively few studies have examined the impact of spokesperson identity on health message effectiveness, especially during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.
The research team surveyed 12,194 people from Brazil, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the US in March of 2020. Respondents were asked about their willingness to share a message that encouraged social distancing, ostensibly endorsed by one of four randomly selected spokespersons: Fauci, Tom Hanks (who’d contracted COVID-19), Kim Kardashian, or a prominent government official from the survey taker’s country.
The researchers found that, across all six countries, participants reported greater willingness to share the social-distancing message if it had Fauci’s approval. The preference held true after accounting for participants’ different ages and attitudes towards social distancing.
“Identifying and empowering liked and trusted experts is a key component of effective public health communication during the ongoing pandemic, and it is likely preferable to using celebrity advocates,” wrote the authors.
Comment: Hold bungling politicians to account
Not exactly science, but still… A powerful editorial in the esteemed BMJ has asserted that politicians around the world must be held to account for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMJ executive editor Kamran Abbasi argues that at the very least, COVID-19 might be classified as “social murder” that requires redress.
When politicians and experts say that they are willing to allow tens of thousands of premature deaths, for the sake of population immunity or in the hope of propping up the economy, is that not premeditated and reckless indifference to human life? Abbasi asks.
And when politicians wilfully neglect scientific advice, international and historical experience, and their own alarming statistics and modelling, because to act goes against their political strategy or ideology, is that lawful?
He acknowledges that any nation’s laws on political misconduct or negligence are complex, and not designed to react to unprecedented events, but says after more than two million people have died, “we must not look on impotently as elected representatives around the world remain unaccountable and unrepentant”.
“Murder is an emotive word,” he writes. “In law, it requires premeditation. Death must be deemed to be unlawful. How could “murder” apply to failures of a pandemic response? Perhaps it can’t, and never will, but it is worth considering.”
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Most people are familiar with at least one acrylic plastic, Plexiglas®.
Plexiglas is an all-acrylic material, usually associated with a polymeric, plastic material that is extremely durable, and has excellent weathering properties, and is very resistant to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight and the adverse effects of weathering. Plexiglas is an all-acrylic material, meaning that it is composed entirely of highly durable building blocks called monomers. While this is a clear sheet of the acrylic plastic, most acrylics are blended with other materials to create other easily recognized products such as paint, adhesive or caulk.
Acrylic polymers can be formulated to be tough and hard, and also very flexible. Plexiglas impact resistance is one example where it is used in banks to provide bulletproof shields. But acrylic polymers can also be manufactured to be flexible, to be tolerant of movement at low temperature, very elastic in their behavior.
Important considerations when considering roof coatings
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John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him
When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée.
And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.
Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth---not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.
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Twitter has entered into an agreement with Datasift which will fundamentally change the way that you think about your tweets. Now companies will be able to mine historical data on Twitter to discover long term trends.
Datasift, the social data platform company has today launched Historics, a cloud-computing platform that enables entrepreneurs and enterprises to extract business insights from Twitter’s public Tweets dating back to January 2010.
Datasift is one of only two companies in the world with a license to make Twitter data commercially available for non-display purposes. DataSift provides brands and companies with granular insight into how they are perceived by social customers.
"No-one's ever done this before." said Tim Barker, Datasift's marketing manager.
The data gold mine
This is a really significant move by Twitter. And it could have far reaching implications for us all.
Twitter has been trying to monetise its business since it became popular in 2007. But its only asset is its data. Twitter owns the data -- and it heavily restricts access to the gold mine through its api.
There are lots of analysis tools and data mining applications that have access to the current stream of data. These tools can give you real time current trends and sentiment analysis.
But this announcement is different. Now Datasift can access old data.
Through DataSift’s platform, companies can filter and interpret vast-volumes of social data to help create insights for their business. For example:
- Social media monitoring companies can analyse trends in customer conversations and brand mentions;
- Business Intelligence companies can correlate point-of-sale data with social data to identify trends in product sales and market sentiment;
- Marketers can evaluate conversations around marketing campaigns and adjust key-messages and offers based on feedback;
- Financial organisations can analyse popular sentiment, trends and indicators relating to businesses and economic events;
- News and research organisations can surface new trends around historic and popular culture events.
Slice of the pie
There is a lot of noise on Twitter. A LOT of noise. Perhaps over 99% of the tweets you read are irrelevant. Finding useful data in this noise is like panning for gold. You are trying to look for that tiny nugget of useful and valuable information in this river of data.
“DataSift is focused on simplifying how businesses can extract insights from the petabytes of social ‘Big Data’ being created,” said DataSift founder & CTO Nick Halstead. “With Historics, we are now democratising the Big Data industry to enable entrepreneurs and enterprises to easily create socially-intelligent applications. No data-scientists required, no Hadoop expertise needed.”
Most of the tweets we send are ephemeral. These tweets are only important to you and the people directly involved in your conversation. Once the conversation dies, then the ephemera disappear -- the relic of your day to day life. We move on. We forget what we have tweeted. Tweets disappear.
Now someone is going to make money from your trivia. You historical disposable information can now be accessed by brands that want to discover more about you, expose new trends, and discover historical baselines.
As my good friend Jon Honeyball says, If someone is making money from my trivia, should I also be entitled to a slice of the financial pie?
Picking through the detritus of my Twitter stream might bring insight to a tiny number of people. Giving access to my historical minutiae seems that Twitter is walking a fine line here between market information and intrusion.
My old data will now be crawled, indexed and pattern matched for anyone who chooses to pay for the information. Will I be happy that this is going to happen, or will I search for a tool to delete my Twitter history? Am I happy that the trivial data I transmit is a potential revenue stream for someone else?
And if I find such a tool, will Twitter still keep a record of the data in the deleted tweet for advanced data mining by third parties and Twitter partners? Can my history ever be deleted -- or is it just too valuable to let go?
“The sheer volume of data being produced by Twitter represents a huge challenge for companies trying to extract insights from past events,” said DataSift CEO Rob Bailey. “Historics solves this problem, providing businesses with a platform to intelligently filter and extract meaning from two years Twitter data".
Brands could really benefit from this extra information. Access to your data is proving popular. Over 1000 companies have already joined the wait list for Historics.
Globally, 1.3 billion people are on social networks. Brands need to be able to listen in to these trends and tap into the public sentiment. With more than 250 million tweets per day, that is a lot of data sorting.
How much data will be exposed to these data mining tools? If I used to protect my Twitter stream, but now it is open, can the data tool access my protected Tweets? If I now protect my stream, are my historical tweets fair game -- for a price?
Can I be certain that private accounts and deleted tweets will not be indexed? If I'm concerned about privacy, how worried should I be about companies that want access to my old data?
I'm sure that for the majority of us, access to our Twitter history is not a problem. After all, we have committed our tweet to the public forum, and we are happy to continue to broadcast. But for some, this news might cause concern.
Perhaps Twitter should implement an 'opt out' button so our ephemeral comments remain just that...
DataSift have emailed me about my concerns over privacy:
How much data will be exposed to these data mining tools? If I used to protect my Twitter stream, but now it is open, can the data tool access my protected Tweets? If I now protect my stream, are my historical tweets fair game — for a price?
a. Any tweets that are made while an account is protected are not accessible.
b. If you later protect your account those that were public stay public. But any future Tweets will be kept private.
Can I be certain that private accounts and deleted tweets will not be indexed? If I’m concerned about privacy, how worried should I be about companies that want access to my old data?
a. Private Tweets are not delivered to DataSift - the Twitter Firehose is only public tweets.
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In a memo to Regional OSHA Administrators regarding the new permissible exposure limit (PEL) standards for respirable crystalline silica
, the Agency stated its plan to “assist employers who are making good-faith efforts to meet the new standard’s requirements.”
Within the first 30 days of enforcement of the revised Standard, OSHA inspectors who determine an employer has failed to make a “good-faith effort”
may conduct air monitoring and consider citations for noncompliance with any applicable part of the new Silica Exposure Standard. Any citation recommended for non-compliance with the new PEL standards in the first thirty days following the effective date will be reviewed by OSHA’s National Office before it may be issued.
The new, lower PEL for respirable silica took effect for the construction industry in 2017
and took effect for general industry and maritime workplaces on June 23, 2018.
OSHA’s New PEL for Respirable Crystalline Silica
A naturally occurring mineral, silica makes up about 12% of the earth’s crust. When quartz and other silica-containing rocks are ground into dust, employees may inhale crystalline particles, which over time causes chronic silicosis and even lung cancer. Finalized in March 2016
, the new employee safety standard lowers the PEL for respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air, averaged over an 8-hour shift (Time-weighted Average, TWA)
. OSHA also now requires employers to limit work access to high-exposure areas, develop a written exposure control plan, offer medical exams and information to highly exposed workers, and train workers on the risks of silica inhalation and how to limit exposure.
Respirable Silica: A Hazard Through History
The risks posed by respirable (i.e., breathable) silica dust may be one of the earliest recognized occupational hazards—it has been traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans. In the 1700s, an Italian physician “observed sand-like substances in the lungs of stone cutters.” Advances in technology, like the advent of the pneumatic drill and sandblasting techniques, exacerbated the problem in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and led to more silicosis cases.
When the rule was finalized, then-OSHA Chief David Michaels had this to say: “When this is issued, it will have a bigger impact than any regulations that OSHA has issued in the last 20 years in terms of saving lives and preventing illness.”
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Engage with inventions
The name Archimedes, brilliant inventor and mathematician, is extremely well-known. Everyone has heard of him and his myth – commenced during the Roman era, in which his "divine genius" was celebrated – is fuelled by numerous legends, which see him shining for both his acumen and eccentricity. Indeed it seems that, with his "Eureka" ("I have got it!") cry, he would run through the streets of Syracuse and declare, to the astonishment of his contemporaries, that he could lift the Earth if only someone gave him a lever and a place to stand. The exhibition "Archimedes. Engage with inventions" displays to the public the figure of Archimedes as the greatest protagonist of universal culture. The exhibition, which has already been displayed in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, now reaches the MUSE - Trento Science Museum from 16 July 2017 to January 8, 2018.
Among the interactive exhibits, machinery reproductions and multimedia videos, the museum latest’s trail illustrates his intuitions in the field of mechanical technology – these were of such magnitude that he became the forerunner of the genius and the inventor - and bears testament to the technical-scientific civilization of the 3rd century BC, period during which the scientist lived: in the background, the relations between Syracuse and Alexandria of Egypt, the city where Archimedes and numerous men of culture resided at during that period. After an historical excursus and a focus on the main inventions and researches, the exhibition also delves into the second revival of Archimedes, which takes place from the thirteenth century onwards with the progressive rediscovery of his writings, and the influence exerted on Renaissance scholars and geniuses of the calibre of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei.
The exhibition was conceived by the Galileo Museum - the History of Science Institute and Museum of Florence and organized by Zètema Progetto Cultura and Opera Laboratories Fiorentini - Civita Group.
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“Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.”
The largest mammal on the planet is a blue whale, whose tongue can weigh upwards of 2.5 tons. This is approximately the size of an adult elephant. In contrast, the human tongue, on average, is about 4 inches long and weighs less than 4 ounces. The tongue is certainly not one of the strongest muscles in the human body, yet it is perhaps the one capable of the most destruction. Many of us grew up with hearing “sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” only to find that some of the deepest hurts we have ever felt, were caused by the unkind words of another. James explains, one of the great problems we all have is that with the same tongue we bless God and curse men.
The Bible points out the sinful uses of the tongue, of which we are all guilty:
COMPLAINING – Philippians 2:14 “Do all things without complaining and disputing . . .”
BACKBITING – Proverbs 25:23 “The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.”
GOSSIP – Proverbs 18:8 “The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, and they go down into the inmost body.”
Proverbs 26:20 “Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, strife ceases.”
TEASING – Proverbs 26:18-19 “Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, ‘I was only joking!’”
PROFANITY – Colossians 3:8 “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.”
BLASPHEME – James 2:7 “Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?”
We are all aware of the sins of the tongue, are guilty of committing them, and have been hurt by them. The question is, how can we avoid them? Jesus tells us the sins of the tongue are a matter of the heart.
Luke 6:45 “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
The solution then, to overcoming the sins of the tongue, is to focus on what is coming into our lives, and finding residence within our hearts. A number of years ago, a friend of mine was counseling a man who was struggling with outbursts of wrath (anger issues). He could not control his tongue and would lash out at his family. As they finished their conversation and walked to the car, he saw that the passenger seat was filled with hard-core secular music cassettes; the kind that makes you want to bang your head against a wall. He had uncovered part of the cause of the problem. Constantly filling his head with screaming, made it a lot easier to scream at others. In the same way, if you have a problem with profanity, take inventory. What are you putting into your head? If you struggle with gossip, stop listening to it and you will stop spreading it. Garbage in garbage out! The more you fill your mind with the things of God, the more you will find that your tongue is used to bless God and be a blessing to others. Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” | <urn:uuid:8098a2cc-a77e-4e6a-a101-8fb3dca8deb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pjimgallagher.com/tag/profanity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967912 | 843 | 2.671875 | 3 |
لِّلَّهِ ٱلۡمَشۡرِقُ وَٱلۡمَغۡرِبُۚ يَہۡدِى مَنۡ يَّشَآءُ اِلٰى صِراطٍ مُّسۡتَقِيۡمٍ[…] To God belong the East and the West. He guides whomever He will to a straight path.(Quran 2:142)1
2. Globalised Traditional Islam
Traditional Islamic discourse proposes a space beyond this colonial dichotomy. Although there are exclusivist currents within Traditional Islam, the discourse tends to celebrate traditional pluralism and accuse modernism and fundamentalism of rigidity and narrowmindedness.If we define fundamentalism as those perspectives that assume their own cosmology and epistemology to be superior and as the only source of truth, inferiorizing and denying equality to other epistemologies and cosmologies, then Eurocentrism is not merely a form of fundamentalism but the hegemonic fundamentalism in the world today. Those Third Worldist fundamentalisms (Afrocentric, Islamist, Indigenist, etc.) that emerge in response to the hegemonic Eurocentric fundamentalism and that the “Western” press put in the front pages of newspapers every day are subordinated forms of Eurocentric fundamentalism insofar as they reproduce and leave intact the binary, essentialist, racial hierarchies of Eurocentric fundamentalism.
much of the thought now produced in the Islamic world is not in fact Islamic. Western ideologies are presented by both dogmatic literalists and modern “liberal” secularists with a thin veneer of Islamic terms and sayings, while the voice of traditional Islamic thought is often muted and ignored. But through the work of scholars such as S. H. Nasr and Hamza Yusuf Hanson in America, A. K. Brohi and Suheyl Umar in Pakistan, ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd in Egypt, Naquib al-Attas in Malaysia, and Martin Lings, Ḥassan Gai Eaton, and T. J. Winter in England, it can continue to be heard.
Those who come to Islam because they wish to draw closer to God have no problem with a multiform Islam radiating from a single revealed paradigmatic core. But those who come to Islam seeking an identity will find the multiplicity of traditional Muslim cultures intolerable. People with confused identities are attracted to totalitarian solutions. And today, many young Muslims feel so threatened by the diversity of calls on their allegiance, and by the sheer complexity of modernity, that the only form of Islam they can regard as legitimate is a totalitarian, monolithic one.
Debates about soteriological pluralism are understandable given the importance of salvation in Islamic theology. Nevertheless, it should be noted that despite the controversy surrounding them, Traditional Muslim Perennialists represent a minority current in the West and among Westernised elites outside the West (Sedgwick 2004a, pp. 241–62).The Perennialist Muslims in the West constitute a highly educated cadre largely made up of converts, who have done some of the finest work on Islamic materials and have presented Islam in a beautiful and illuminating manner that has made it accessible to people it would normally not have reached, and with an aesthetic and intellectual dimension that is sorely absent from many of the mainstream efforts. In spite of the aforementioned concerns, to dismiss their noble endeavours is unconscionable and mean-spirited.(pp. 56–57)
3. Morocco as a Hub
4. Islamic Ideals and Muslim Experiences
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Conflicts of Interest
The Quran translation used is that of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought 2019).
Decolonial world-systems analysts (Grosfoguel 2011; Grosfoguel and Cervantes-Rodriguez 2002) refer to the contemporary global system dominated by the West as simultaneously modern and colonial rather than postmodern and neocolonial because, from a peripheralised perspective, the continuities within the system are more relevant than its reconfigurations. Different intellectual justifications and political strategies have been used for centuries to peripheralise Muslims and other colonised peoples; however, the colonial logic remains constant. One decolonial theorist puts it bluntly: “During the last 510 years of the ‘Capitalist/Patriarchal Westerncentric/Christian-centric Modern/Colonial World-System’, we went from the 16th Century ‘christianise or I shoot you’, to the 19th Century ‘civilise or I shoot you’, to the 20th Century: ‘develop or I shoot you’, to the late 20th Century ‘neoliberalise or I shoot you’, and to the early 21st century ‘democratise or I shoot you’” (Grosfoguel 2011, p. 28).
The term Islamicate was coined by Marshall Hodgson. He explains that the term refers to “a culture, centred on a lettered tradition, which has been historically distinctive of Islamdom the society, and which has been naturally shared in by both Muslims and non-Muslims who participate at all fully in the society of Islamdom.” This usage restricts “the term ‘Islam’ to the religion of the Muslims, not using that term for the far more general phenomena, the society of Islamdom and its Islamicate cultural tradition” (Hodgson 1974, p. 58). Here, the term Islamicate is used “in its most inclusive sense, to refer to the dynamic mosaic of social and cultural life forms that exist not only in Muslim-majority societies, but also in diasporic Muslim communities” (Siavash et al. 2017, p. 2).
All Arabic terms are transliterated into Roman characters, in italics, using a simplified version of the Library of Congress System. However, proper names are given without italics, and words now incorporated into the common English lexicon, such as Sunni or Shia, are spelt using their English forms. This applies to certain proper nouns, which are commonly transliterated differently. For example, when citing an author, I favour the transcription used in the official citation—e.g., ‘Zakia Zouanat’, not ‘Zakiyyah Zuwânât’. Furthermore, the article al is omitted from proper names after their first mention in the text—e.g., al-Junayd is subsequently referred to as Junayd.
One linguistic convention important to Muslims is the traditional practice of including a prayer for the Prophet Muḥammad every time his name is mentioned, even in writing. Although this practice is dear to me, it is not conventional in non-confessional English academic texts. Therefore, the reader will find in this article the result of my own personal compromise on this point: I pray here once that the blessings and peace of Allah be upon the Prophet Muḥammad every time his name is mentioned in this document and elsewhere. Furthermore, may these blessings and peace be bestowed upon all other holy women and men in all times and places. Unfortunately, inserting even one prayer into a non-confessional scholarly text can be controversial. While I think religious studies and theology should remain distinct disciplines, I reject the widespread notion that any trace of discourse understood as theological automatically contaminates scholarship in religious studies. In fact, I seek to decolonize the secular/religious binary.
The modern/colonial system emerged in the Atlantic world but rapidly began to globalise. After Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) realised that America was not Asia, in 1502, Europeans could imagine themselves at the centre of the world, with Asia to the east and America to the west. Only twenty years later, in 1522, a naval expedition launched by Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. Dussel ( 1995) writes, “these discoveries took place within a European perspective interpreting itself for the first time as the center of human history and thus elevating its particular horizon into the supposedly universal one of occidental culture” (p. 35).
Traditional Muslims tend to be especially vocal about the importance of Sufism among the sacred sciences. They argue in response to condemnations of Sufism by “puritanical reformism, what we now call ‘fundamentalism’, and intellectual capitulation in the form of almost every modern ‘ism’” (Lumbard 2004a, p. xiii).
German social theorist Max Weber (1864–1920) developed the concept of ideal types to examine historical trends by deliberately simplifying complex data.
This is indeed a foundational text within Western traditionalism (see Guénon 1970).
Mattson became the first woman president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) in 2006.
It was initially entitled The Diversity of Islam (Oliveti 2009).
Interestingly, the 2009 edition estimated that only 3% of the world’s Muslims were fundamentalist, whereas 96% were traditional. Apparently, 6% of the world’s Muslims have abandoned the latter for the former, while modernism has remained with only 1% of the global Muslim population.
A hub is the centre of a complex network. It is an intersection through which the diverse parts, routes, strands, branches, or currents of a system connect. When these disparate parts converge, they influence one another. This interaction within and through the hub transforms the entire system, which becomes, to use an Aristotelian idiom, greater than the sum of its parts. Cities are the human hubs par excellence. They not only connect surrounding rural regions, but often also other cities and sometimes even an entire civilisation. Contemporary Western civilisation is organised around and through such metropolitan hubs as New York, London, and Paris, which also influence the modern/colonial periphery. Indeed, those three cities are home to many of the most famous Latin American, African, and Asian athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers. Conversely, even in the remotest regions of every continent, one can find people wearing clothes with the logos of sports teams from these cities. People around the world decorate their homes and businesses with visual art, often reproducing the skyline of these cities or famous monuments within them. The nation-states within which these cities are located are also hubs within the global system. The United States is currently the core of this system, the modern/colonial hub of hubs. As such, it is a country that influences the entire world but is also greatly influenced by it, a fact that worries U.S. American isolationists and protectionists. However, the global world-system is too complex to be centred around only one hub. Rather, it is comprised of many systems and interconnected hubs that often rival for influence within overlapping networks.
Al-Azhar University was founded in Cairo around the year 970, whereas Al-Qarawîyyîn University was founded in Fes in 859. There is some debate as to which can claim to be the oldest university in the world since it is unclear when each institution developed from a specialised school into a full-fledged university.
Even the English language recognises the significance of Mecca as a global hub since it is quite idiomatic to state that Mecca is the Mecca of Muslims, just as Hollywood is the Mecca of moviegoers.
For a comparative discussion about the central pillar of the world (Latin: axis mundi) in religious traditions, see Mircea Eliade ( 1958, pp. 367–87; 1965, pp. 38–47). However, decades before, the French Muslim Traditionalist René Guénon wrote extensively on this subject, notably in Le Roi du monde (Guénon 1927). The influence of Guénonian Traditionalism on Eliade is elucidated by Sedgwick (2004a, pp. 109–18, 189–92).
I have observed this bias among Westernized elites in Morocco, who seem to consider their country more advanced than other Muslim-majority societies, due to the influence of Europe through Andalusian refugees and later Portuguese, Spanish, and French colonialism. This internal colonial bias deserves further investigation.
The term normative is used here both in the sense of a socially dominant norm and as a prescribed ideal. Indeed, to prescribe behaviours or beliefs, religious experts need to have some sort of dominance or authority within a given social context.
It should be noted that throughout the Islamicate world, these disputes often took place in the margins of power, among scholars suspicious of the corrupting influence of governing elites. Court-appointed religious scholars were few in comparison to the majority of Sunni and Shia ulama who tried to be independent.
Whereas Shiism designates a clearly identifiable community and is spelt using an initial capital letter, sharifism refers to a tendency or trend.
It is true that many historians categorise the Idrîsids as a Zaydî Shia dynasty. Moreover, the Isma’îlî Fâṭimid dynasty had a major impact on sharifism across North Africa, but rival Islamic currents took centuries to develop into the sectarian divisions we know today (Hodgson 1955). They may have given birth to today’s divisions, but they were not identical. For instance, Mâlik Ibn Anâs (circa 711–795) is now known as a major Sunni legal scholar, but he studied with Ja’far al-Ṣâdiq (702–765), who is mostly remembered today as a Shia Imam. Mâlik supported the failed Zaydi insurrection, after which he advised Idrîs I to seek refuge in the Maghrib. Are we to conclude that Idrîs was a Sunni Mâlikî or Mâlik a Zaydi Shia? It seems more reasonable to posit that there was an early school in Medina which did not easily fit into sectarian divisions as they later came to be understood (Skali 2014, p. 24).
In the Sufi tradition, sobriety is associated with Junayd and spiritual drunkenness with his one-time student, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣûr al-Ḥallâj (circa 858–922). Such symbolism has its wisdom and didactic purpose within the tradition but, from a historian’s perspective, it may appear facile. For instance, historical accounts of Ḥallâj’s trial reveal a complicated web of religious, legal, and political factors. Ḥallâj may not even have been executed for saying “I am the Truth” (Ernst 1997, p. 71). Despite its Eurocentric Orientalist tone, the classic biography of Ḥallâj by Louis Massignon (1922) remains a thorough and nuanced scholarly work.
The Qâdiriyya was one of the earliest formally institutionalised Sufi orders, although the Rifâ’iyya seems to have been the first (Trimingham 1998, p. 11).
Morocco is a constitutional monarchy in which the king can intervene at will and set the parameters in which the democratic institutions and bureaucracy manage the country.
The Amman Message and Marrakesh Declaration may be historically unprecedented in gaining acceptance from a broad spectrum of Muslim authorities at a time when the community counts nearly two billion souls. However, they build on the legacy of earlier, more authoritative documents, such as the several treaties and covenants established by the Prophet Muḥammad (Morrow 2013; Lecker 2004).
This enormous difference in wealth can be observed in World Bank estimates of total wealth per capita in U.S. dollars (Lange et al. 2018, pp. 225–32). Total wealth is not limited to gross domestic product (GDP). It includes factors such as natural capital and human capital. Based on statistics from 2014, Jordan’s total wealth per capita is USD 49,287 and Morocco’s is USD 40,488, whereas Saudi Arabia’s is USD 512,869, and Qatar’s a whopping USD 1,597,125. This means Morocco’s wealth represents only 2.5% of Qatar’s and 7.9% of Saudi Arabia’s. Interestingly, no estimate is given for Iran, but despite international sanctions, the Republic’s oil reserves guarantee it a certain level of wealth.
While the Moroccan state benefits from cooperating with the European Union on migration policy, it also hampers the capacity of its own nationals to emigrate. Yet, remittances from Moroccans living in the West contribute significantly to the national economy (El Attaq 2021). It is also a sad irony that countries in the core of the world-system benefit from the presence of irregular migrants whose cheap labour helps prevent inflation.
Although countries such as the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia increasingly welcome certain traditionalist scholars (al-Azami 2019), they are primarily hubs for those who endorse or at least do not oppose their governments, including modernists, rather than Traditional Islamic hubs.
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But keep in mind that after that year nothing is guaranteed anymore. Therefore, Congress and the United States Government must start making moves. If the Social Security funds cannot assure 100% of retiree payments, we may start living in a time of high precariousness, something no one really wants. Therefore, finding a solution is a must in order to avoid this situation.
There is a bill to increase the trust funds. And not only would it do that, but it would also increase Social Security for benefit recipients by $200. This bill is still in the pipeline and nothing is certain, but if it is accepted it will become very good news for a lot of people.
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The Kennebunks – it’s a name that sounds like old money being newly pressed, or the prow of a 35-foot yacht cutting gracefully through the current on a bright blue day in early August. It’s a name that brings to mind summer garden parties, oversized hats, mint juleps and weekend trips to the Kentucky Derby or the America’s Cup. If you sit back and daydream for twenty minutes, then images of the famous and the fortunate, of genteel artists, novelists and wealthy summer people begin to color your mental picture of this part of coastal Maine.
The Kennebunks is the moniker given to the villages of Kennebunkport, Kennebunk, Arundel, Cape Porpoise and Goose Rocks. This quaint jumble of seaside and inland villages is like a Top Ten List of Maine’s Best Attractions, and that is why the local population of 15,000 triples in high summer. From shore walks and salt marshes to colorful fishing shacks, architectural masterpieces and upscale boutiques, this is one of Maine’s preeminent summer destinations. Downtown Kennebunk is bejeweled with colonial revival inns and Victorian mansions (think Ocean Drive in Newport, Rhode Island) and the old world sophistication is accentuated with sandy beaches, salt-preened air and a flourishing restaurant scene. The first-time visitor will find the geographical layout of The Kennebunks to be haphazard and confusing, and although the Kennebunk River acts as a border between the towns, it is better to approach the area as if it were a single entity.
It would be impossible to count all of the white-clapboard houses in Maine, but Kennebunk has some of the most regal and imperial looking clapboards in New England. Kennebunk amassed great wealth in the 19th century as a shipbuilding mecca, and the numerous mansions attest to its nautical heyday. Kennebunk is divided into two villages. When you drive down Route 35, you can’t help but gawk as these palatial manors and colossal palaces are spread out on either side of the road. After your jaw drops and you pick it up off the floor of your SUV, head down to Beach Avenue. This is where you will find Kennebunk Beach, a grand and gentle swath of coastal heaven.
There are so many notable homes in the area that a walking tour is a necessity. If you start at the Brick Store Museum, head up Main Street and marvel at the Nathaniel Frost House and the Benjamin Brown House, as both are extraordinary examples of 18th century architectural styles. Visit the 1773 First Parish Unitarian Church. Be sure to check out its steeple, as this is where you will surprisingly find the original Paul Revere Bell. Summer Street is another must-see architectural showcase of beautiful and notable homes. The Parson’s Way Shore Walk is a spectacular, 4.8 mile round trip along the rocky coast. It will take you all the way to Walker’s Point, where you will find the Bush family’s sprawling mansion, one of the areas most visited and photographed sites.
Kennebunkport is the most touristed section of The Kennebunks. Most of the town’s activity is concentrated around Dock Square. Winding alleys are lined with shops, art studios, craft boutiques, restaurants and other facets of the tourist trade. The drawbridge marks the center of town, and it is the perfect place to admire the Kennebunk River. Be Warned: the crowds in the summer swell in Kennebunkport to epic proportions. If you do not feel like fighting through the masses, then take the Intown Trolley tour. The 45-minute ride will help you get acquainted with the area as well as avoid the throng of tourists. Now that you’ve got trolleys on the mind, why not visit the Seashore Trolley Museum? Streetcars built from 1872 to 1972 are all on display at this restoration museum on Log Cabin Road.
Other Points of Interest
A quick trip off-the-beaten path will take you to Goose Rocks, Arundel and the Kennebunk Plains. Goose Rocks is a 3-mile stretch of white sand and shallow pools. It has long been a family favorite. Summer theater is a popular pastime in Maine. In Arundel, you will find evening performances and matinees at the 19th century Arundel Barn Playhouse. Do you feel like going for an adventure? The Kennebunk Plain (known as the wild blueberry plain to locals) is 135-acres of protected grasslands and scrub-oak woods. Maintained by the Nature Conservancy, rare and endangered vegetation, wildlife and blueberries can all be found there. Visitors can even pick their own wild blueberries after August 1.
Lodging and Dining
Many of the historic mansions in downtown Kennebunkport have been converted into B&Bs and inns. They are formal and immense, but never stuffy, showering their guests with romantic charm instead of museum-like accouterments. Still, where else can you see a suspended elliptical staircase, Waverly wallpaper and the type of magnificent ocean views typically reserved for travel magazines? From the White Barn Inn to the stately Captain Lord Mansion, once you see the king-sized canopy bed or slip into the hydro-massage body spa, you know that you are now living the life of the fortunate and famous. If you have come this far, skip the restaurants with the paper placemats that detail How to Eat a Maine Lobster, and go for broke. Lobster Savannah is a house favorite in The Kennebunks. Once the chef splits the lobster, they fill it with shrimp, scallops, mushrooms and Newburg sauce. Decadent and rich, it is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of meal.
Kennebunkport Area Directories
Visit the following directories to find lodging, dining, attractions, shops, services and recreational activities in the Kennebunkport, Maine area.
- Kennebunkport Maine (Population: 3,629)
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Poems by Ivan Borislavov
in English translation by Zdravka Mihaylova
To Kiril Kadiiski
We are the illegitimate children of freedom,
we are the fallen angels with broken wings.
We were the boatswains of the cursed frigate
damned to sail in the impenetrable fog.
Day and night we chased our vague mirage
until we caught the virus of woe and darkness.
And, like naives, we wanted our dream
to take us at last to the promised coast.
We swore, we mutinied in search of vengeance.
The captain confessed – it was he who broke the compass.
And the blood in our veins suddenly turned to rust.
Since then we have been drifting ghostly in the fog,
wrapped in the spiderwebs of the ocean.
And by custom we salute the captain.
Did I dream I was flying over the Bermuda triangle?
Below me the stars were reeling –
the lights of the heavenly airport.
And the airplane – a Southern Cross on fire –
engraved in the vortex of night.
I was ablaze with fire – other than this I can't remember anything.
Space is distorted,
my watch is running slow with a dream.
Why does this secret shine like a reverberating seashell
extracted from the ocean spree to long torment memory
with coded messages of an ancient but lost native land?
What unexpected omens could I find
in the voice of fleeting, unfathomable seas
that echoes in my dreams of bitter algae?
But if a secret is explained by a secret and magic by magic,
why should I conceal it –
the plane disappeared in the Bermuda triangle,
and the multicoloured tail of a comet fanned out over the vortex.
And above me.
Ivan Borislavov was born in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1946. He is a graduate of Sofia University in Bulgarian and Russian Languages and Literatures. Poet, essayist, translator, researcher in the field of modern Western literature and art.
Poetry: Growing into Manhood (1969), A Sun Avalanche (1978), Should You Come Tomorrow (1984), Moments with Paris (1986), Talking with Infinity (1986), Barrel Organ (1988), A Nest Above the Abyss (1992), A Souvenir of Lightning (1994), Celestial Archaeology (1995), Detonated Words (1995), While I Breathe (1996)
His poetry has been translated into French, English, Russian, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian, Norwegian, Finnish, Hebrew and Greek.
Essays: Poetry and Colours (1987), The Third Eye (1994), The Light that Remains (1994), Ossip Tsadkin: A Poet of the Matter (1995).
Translations from Russian and French, e.g. P. Eluard, A. Césaire, B. Cendrars, J. Prévert, A. Noverra.
Best Translation of a Verse Collection Award of the Bulgarian Translators' Union (1987) for Blaise Cendrars.
Copyright © of English translation by Zdravka Mihaylova 2000.
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In Florida, guardianship is a legal process whereby a guardian is appointed to exercise the legal rights of a person who is incapacitated, or in cases when parents die or are incapacitated, for a minor child.
A guardian that is appointment by the Florida Circuit Court may be either an individual adult or an institution, such as the trust department of a bank. Any adult resident of Florida – or a close relative that lives out of state – may be appointed as a guardian.
A three-person panel appointed by the court, which usually includes two physicians, makes a determination of incapacity. At least one of the three panel members must have knowledge of the type of incapacity that is alleged in the petition. The panel submits a report to the court based on their examination, which much include a physical exam, a mental health exam and a functional assessment.
The incapacitated person is represented by a court-appointed attorney. If the panel finds the person to be incapacitated, a court hearing is scheduled to determine the degree of incapacitation – either total or partial. Following that hearing, a guardian is usually appointed.
A guardian can be given authority either over a person’s property or their person, or both. Those who have guardianship over property are required to inventory the property, invest it wisely, use it to support the incapacitated person and provide a full accounting annually to the court.
Those who have guardianship over a person must see to that person’s mental and physical care, and submit a plan to the court for that care, which is reviewed and updated annually.
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How often have we heard someone say (or maybe even say ourselves) “When I laugh I leak a little bit” or “I just wasn’t able to make it to the bathroom in time” or even “I woke up to go the bathroom 3 times last night”? All of these describe urinary incontinence, and unfortunately it is very common. The good news is, it’s treatable!
What is normal? The average adult of 65 years of age or older should only wake up to go the bathroom 0-1 times per night. During the day 5-8 voids is considered normal. And believe it or not, throughout the day there should not even be one drop of urine leakage. If you are not falling within these ranges, it is likely that you have some type of urinary incontinence.
How does this relate to falls? The pelvic floor is one of our 4 “core” muscles. If this muscle becomes weak or lacks coordination, incontinence is likely to occur. In addition to incontinence, the lack of stability from this core muscle decreases our stability and ability to tolerate challenges in balance. Additionally, when a person needs to get up multiple times a night to use the bathroom, they have an increased risk of falling due to drowsiness, darkness, and the rush to make it to the bathroom in time.
What can I do about this? The good news is that incontinence is a treatable condition with physical therapy. You can seek out your local pelvic health physical therapist who will teach you how to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles and coordinate them with your other core muscles. This will increase strength and stability as well as decrease your risk of falls and help you live the dry life!
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Processing fish protein hydrolysates
The definition of waste or by-product in the seafood industry varies with fish and shellfish species and the harvesting and processing methods used. Generally, the main body muscle tissue is the main product in the processing industry. Heads, backbones, trimmings, skin, viscera and shells constitute what is generally thought of as by-product or waste.
Acid hydrolysis has been shown to result in complete protein hydrolysis with 6 molar (M) hydrogen chloride at 118 degrees C for 16 hours. Due to the extensive hydrolysis process, the solubility of the product is increased. However, the neutralization process produces a large quantity of salt, which makes the product unsuitable for food. Although the salt can be removed partially or completely using nanofiltration and ion-exchange resins, the product is limited to use as a flavor enhancer for human and pet food. While acid hydrolysis converts the proteins into individual amino acids and small-chain peptides, some of the essential amino acids, such as cystine, cysteine, methionine and tryptophan, are destroyed in the process.
In a base hydrolysis, calcium, sodium and potassium are added to solubilize proteins that have been heated. The reaction is performed at a predetermined temperature, customarily in the range of 80 to 130 degrees C, for several hours until the desired degree of hydrolysis is obtained. Then the product is evaporated, pasteurized and spray dried. As stated in Part I of this series, the product has poor functional properties and poor nutritional qualities. These occur due to the elimination and addition processes that occur during processing.
The use of alkaline hydrolysis can potentially lead to the formation of undesirable compounds in food. The loss of cysteine, serine and threonine affects the disulphide bonds, and lysioalanine, ornithinoalanine, lanthionine and β-amino alanine, which are toxic substances, may be formed. Also, the products formed during alkaline hydrolysis have an inhibiting effect on proteolytic enzymes and reduce the hydrolysis rate.
Enzymatic hydrolysis is the preferred method of hydrolysis, since it has less impact on the functional properties and nutritional value of the hydrolysate. Enzyme hydrolysis requires a relatively small amount of enzymes that can be easily inactivated, and the hydrolytic process can be performed under mild temperatures and pH conditions. Usually, there is an optimum combination of pH and temperature at which an enzyme is most active and a combination at which an enzyme can be deactivated.
Enzymatic hydrolysis can either be exogenous or endogenous. In endogenous hydrolysis, enzymes in the by-product, such as serine proteases, trypsin chymotripsin, thiol protease, pepsin, lysosomal proteases and catheptic enzymes, perform the hydrolytic action. This process results in free amino acids and small peptides.
When exogenous food-grade enzymes are used, the operator has the ability to choose an enzyme and the hydrolytic conditions to produce a product that possesses the desired functional properties. A list of commercial enzymes was contained in Part I of this series. From a technical and economic perspective, the microbial enzyme Alcalase operating at alkaline pH has been reported in the literature to be the most efficient.
Optimization of hydrolysis
There are many variations in species and enzymatic and chemical hydrolytic conditions. The sample processes below should provide a starting place for developing one or more processes for the production of aquatic protein hydrolysates. Note that the degree of hydrolysis obtained through enzyme action is dependent upon many process variables.
Heads of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, were treated with Alcalase under several process variables. The process pH was maintained constant with the addition of 4 M sodium hydroxide and allowed to continue for two hours. The highest yield of 71.0 percent was obtained with a process at 58 degrees C, an enzyme/substrate percentage of 8.0, degree of hydrolysis of 17.30 yield of 17.30 percent and a protein content of 78.86 percent. The highest protein yield (85.70 percent) was obtained with a temperature of 55 degrees C, an enzyme/substrate percentage of 7.0, degree of hydrolysis of 12.00, and yield of 57.6.
Oncorhynchus nerka heads were treated with several enzymes (Alcalase, Flavour-yme, Palatase, Neurtase, Protex and G.C. 106) under reaction durations of 25, 50 and 75 minutes. The hydrolysis was performed at 50 degrees C, and 0.5 g of enzyme was added at 100 g/head of head mince protein. The greatest degree of hydrolysis – from 6.4 to 16.7 percent – was obtained with the 75-minute digestion. Oil yield ranged from 4.9 percent with G.C. 106 to 8.5 percent with Palatase. Protein hydrolysis powders contained 62.3 to 64.8 percent protein with high levels of amino acids. There was no statistical difference (P > 0.05) among the six enzymes used.
The optimum conditions to reach the highest degree of hydrolysis of visceral waste proteins of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, were 60.4 degrees C for 90.24 minutes and protease activity with 2.4 L Alcalase of 70.22 AU/kg protein. The resulting protein had a relatively high 72.34 percent protein content and low 1.43 percent lipid content.
The chemical content of the hydrolysate indicated that it fulfills adult human nutritional requirements except for methionine. Lysine and methionine were the first and second limiting amino acids. In addition, the protein efficiency ratio of the visceral hydrolysate was 2.85 to 5.35.
By-products of Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepus; and arrowtooth flounder, Atheresthes stomias; were evaluated as replacements for fishmeal in diets for Litopenaeus vannamei shrimp. One of the hydrolysates was produced by phosphoric acid under pH 3.8 and left in the liquid state. The other hydrolysate was produced under the same conditions and subsequently neutralized to pH 6.5 with a 50 percent solution of sodium hydroxide and drum dried.
The feeding study indicated that both hydrolysates could replace 50 percent of the menhaden meal in the shrimp diets since the performance of the shrimp was equivalent to that of the shrimp given the control diet.
Whiting, Merluccius productus, tissue was used to produce hydrolysates with 10, 15 and 20 percent degrees of hydrolysis using Alcalase. Liquid enzyme was added at 1.0, 1.5 and 3.0 mL to 99.0, 98.5 and 97.0 g of muscle homogenate, which contained 8 percent protein at pH 8.0 and 50 degrees C, and characterized at pH 4.0, 7.0 and 10.0 according to their solubility, emulsifying and foaming properties.
Proteins recovered in soluble fractions increased proportionally with the hydrolytic process, yielding 48.6, 58.6 and 67.8 percent of total protein after 10, 15 and 20 percent degrees of hydrolysis, respectively. Freeze-dried hydrolysates presented almost 100 percent solubility at the different pH values evaluated.
When hydrolysis of Persian sturgeon, Acipenser persicus, visceral protein were performed under several pH and temperature conditions, Alcalase-hydrolyzed fish protein had the highest degree of hydrolysis, 50.13 percent, while Trypsin resulted in only 14.21 percent hydrolysis. The greatest chemical hydrolysis, 68.87 percent, was related to pH 3.3 at 85 degrees C. The highest protein recovery (83.64 percent) and protein content (73.34) were related to enzymatic hydrolysis by Alcalase.
Microbial enzymes could produce fish hydrolysates with a higher degree of hydrolysis when compared to animal enzymes. Also, it appeared that chemical hydrolysis at lower pH and higher temperature resulted in greater protein recovery and degree of hydrolysis.
Protein hydrolysate was produced from the skin of grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, using Alcalase. The optimum values for temperature, pH, enzyme:substrate ratio, and time of hydrolysis were found to be 59.74 degrees C, 8.25, 1.70 and 83.83 minutes, respectively. The freeze-dried hydrolysate product was highly water-soluble with good water-holding, oil-binding and emulsifying properties.
Marine swimming crabs
Researchers examined the conditions for enzyme hydrolysis of processing waste from marine crabs, Portunus tritberculatus and P. sanguinolentus, to produce a crab flavor. The optimum hydrolysis conditions for neutrase were identified as: a material:water ratio of 1:3, 4.0 percent enzyme, pH 6.5, 50 degrees C temperature and five hours of treatment.
Results showed the hydrolysis conditions required for mixed enzymes were a material:water ratio of 1:3, 3.5 percent enzyme, pH 6.0, 55 degrees C and seven hours, and a ratio of mixed enzymes (neutrase:flavorase:papain) of 1:2:1. The mixed enzyme hydrolysate contained 17 free amino acids with a total amino acid content of 51.75 mg/g and a content of essential amino acids of 25.42 mg/g. After spray drying, the hydrolysate, a powder, had a yield of 10.44 percent.
Processing waste from another marine crab species, Chionoecetes opilio, hydrolyzed with 5 normal hydrochloric acid produced yields from a 12-hour hydrolysis that varied from 28 to 31 percent. Yields increased marginally to 29 to 32 percent with 24 hours of hydrolysis, but decreased with further hydrolysis. Depending on hydrolysis time, approximately 42 to 44 percent of the total amino acids were essential amino acids, principally leucine, arginine, valine and threonine. The remaining non-essential amino acid fraction was composed mainly of glutamic acid, aspactic acid and glycine.
Shrimp processing by-products were hydrolyzed with various enzymes at optimal temperatures: Flavourzyme, 50 degrees C, Protamex, 50 degrees; Alcalase, 55 degrees; pepsin, 37 degrees; and trypsin, 40 degrees. The enzyme:substrate ratio was 1:1,000 (w/v). The pH levels of the protein solution were adjusted to optimal values (Flavourzyme, 7.0; Protamex, 6.5; Alcalase, 8.0; pepsin, 2.0; and trypsin 8.2) before hydrolysis was initiated and adjusted to the optimal value every 15 minutes during hydrolysis with 1 M sodium hydroxide or 1 M hydrogen chloride. After hydrolysis for six hours, the pH of the solution was adjusted to 7.0, and the solution was heated at 95 degrees C for 10 minutes to inactivate the enzyme.
Among the digests, trypsin showed the most potent calcium-binding activity (0.294 mmol/g-protein) and highest degree of hydrolysis (18.4 percent). The hydrolysate was fractionated, and the lowest molecular weight fraction showed the greatest calcium-binding activity of 2.70 mmol/g-protein. The peptide was responsible for higher calcium-binding properties and may be a natural functional additive in the food industry for individuals who do not consume sufficient calcium because of lactose indigestion or intolerance.
Processing wastes from Crangon crangon shrimp were produced from shells preliminarily demineralized with 10 percent hydrogen chloride solution at a ratio of 1:20, at 20 degrees C for 30 minutes. The proteolytic enzyme Alcalase was used at 55 percent C and pH 8.5. The recovered protein hydrolysate contained, on a dry weight basis, 64.3 percent protein, 6.2 percent lipids and 23.4 percent sodium chloride. At pH 4.0, it had a minimum solubility and 81.7 percent of total nitrogen in the product. The protein efficiency ratio value of the obtained product was 2.99 as compared with 2.64 for hydrolysates from capelin and 2.81 for beef longissimus dorsi muscle protein.
Muscle meat from Perna perna was subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis using Protamex under temperatures of 46 to 64 degrees C, enzyme:substrate ratios of 0.48 to 5.52 percent, and pH values of 6.7 to 8.3. Optimum conditions for hydrolysis were pH 6.5, 51 degrees C and enzyme:substrate ratio of 4.5 percent. Under these conditions, hydrolysis of 26.5 percent and protein recovery of 65.0 percent were obtained.
(Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the March/April 2013 print edition of the Global Aquaculture Advocate.)
George J. Flick, Jr., Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor
Food Science and Technology Department
Center for Applied Health Sciences
Duck Pond Drive
Virginia Tech (0418)
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 USA
Protease enzymes are important industrial enzymes that have diverse applications in food, leather, silk and the agrichemical and pharmaceutical industries. Fish are considered one of the richest sources of proteolytic enzymes.
Enzymes obtained from fish- and shellfish-processing wastes can be used in the making of a number of useful products. Lipase enzymes from fish can break down lipids, while amylases hydrolyze starch.
Fish protein hydrolysates obtained from fish-processing wastes can be used to make valuable ingredients for the food and healthcare industries. Hydrolysates are produced from fish muscle and viscera through an autolytic process by endogenous enzymes or an accelerated method using exogenous enzymes.
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Black and white blown up photocopy of original. Greek soldier, Haralambos Horigas in Greek Army, during Balkan war. He is kneeling on the ground holding his rifle. Beside his is a mini stone wall and a pile of gear.
Donated by Andrew Lampros. Haralambos Horigas was Andrew's uncle. He was in the Greek Army during the Balkan War, circa 1912-1913.
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Many medium to large organizations today, including universities and institutions of higher education, have implemented a number of different technologies and applications to control, update, streamline, and advance their IT operations. These multiple technologies and applications are disparate; each coming with their own licensing programs and maintenance protocols designed to deliver optimal performance and reliability. But as time goes on, controlling these disparate applications and systems becomes an unwieldy task. Automation has helped, but the proliferation of multiple automation solutions for each application or system has compounded the problem.
However, today’s comprehensive, architectural IT automation solutions can provide the answer. They offer a central point of control for disparate IT entities, and as a result also offer a number of advantages to organizations looking to maximize efficiency and simplify the IT environment. These advantages include reducing operational costs, better managing dependencies and sharing data across applications, improving IT agility, and heightening governance of the entire IT environment.
Optimizing Resource Utilization
According to research by Gartner, nearly half of all large organizations will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. You may have found that your educational organization is starting to embrace virtual/cloud computing as a way to reduce IT costs. But despite the benefits of virtual/cloud computing, managing and monitoring virtual and cloud resources poses a significant challenge.
An architectural approach to automation can help address that challenge—and save your organization money—by providing improved resource utilization through automatic provisioning and de-provisioning of virtual/cloud systems. Comprehensive automation tools minimize the waste produced when idle systems run in the background by setting parameters to automatically spin down any idle systems left running. They can automatically spin up additional resources when they are needed to ensure the successful execution of workflows. It all adds up to optimized spending on virtual/cloud resources, reduced need for manual intervention, and improved SLA performance.
Streamlining the Data Approach for Real-Time Continuity
With the huge influx of data and constantly-changing technologies, human attention is becoming a scarce commodity. As a result, Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and distribution is increasingly critical, as the availability and amount of data increases, yet the human attention span required to strategically act on it gets more limited every day.
In the recent past, it was IT’s job to make data available to various groups. Today, end-users deal directly with data through self-service IT automation tools. With an architectural approach to automation, the availability and value of data from various sources can be increased significantly by unifying and managing data warehousing maintenance tasks, eliminating any latency between events/jobs, and ensuring jobs run as scheduled. This gets the end user the right data, at the right time, so it can be acted upon with strategic immediacy.
Promoting Governance Throughout the Organization
In the past, IT operated within an environment where processes were built to last forever. Today’s model demands the incorporation of an ever-increasing rate of change—in compliance, technology, business practices, and strategies—and IT must adapt. In higher education, where governance is extremely important, that adaptability is critical.
An architectural approach to automation can help an organization develop centralized policies and enforcement aimed at compliance and control, preventing unauthorized changes to business and IT production/data workflows. Automation capabilities like script vaulting and lifecycle management protect scripts and provide audit/revision control, so changes can be tracked and previous versions can be logged and rolled back to.
Simplifying, Simplifying, Simplifying
At its most basic level, an architectural approach to automation simplifies. Educational organizations that haven’t yet implemented it are most likely relying on scripting to manage the IT environment. Scripting is complicated, time-consuming, labor intensive, and brittle—which all translates into increased costs and decreased efficiency in the long run. What’s more, a dependency on scripting results in significant maintenance and time spent updating workflows and processes when new policies or regulations are implemented.
Intelligent automation simplifies that complex chain of events. It helps organizations reduce scripting and the manual labor that goes into creating and maintaining scripts so workflow creation and maintenance is simplified, time and labor costs are reduced, and the overall IT environment is nimbler, efficient, and streamlined.
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Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Address correspondence to: Frans Schuit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine — KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 B3000 Leuven, Belgium. Phone: 32.16.330.849; E-mail: email@example.com.
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Pancreatic β cells secrete insulin in response to postprandial increases in glucose levels to prevent hyperglycemia and inhibit insulin secretion under fasting conditions to protect against hypoglycemia. β cells lack this functional capability at birth and acquire glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) during neonatal life. Here, we have shown that during postnatal life, the de novo DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A initiates a metabolic program by repressing key genes, thereby enabling the coupling of insulin secretion to glucose levels. In a murine model, β cell–specific deletion of
Sangeeta Dhawan, Shuen-Ing Tschen, Chun Zeng, Tingxia Guo, Matthias Hebrok, Aleksey Matveyenko, Anil Bhushan
Pancreatic β cells support glucose homeostasis with great precision by matching insulin release to the metabolic needs of the moment. Previous gene-expression analysis indicates that adult β cells not only produce cell-specific proteins, but also repress a small set of housekeeping genes — such as those encoding lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA), solute transporter MCT1, and hexokinase 1 (HK1) — that would otherwise interfere with normal β cell function. In this issue of the JCI, Dhawan et al. elucidate a molecular mechanism involved in β cell–specific repression of Ldha and Hk1 that is mediated by induction of the de novo DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A during the first weeks after birth. Failure to induce DNMT3A-dependent methylation disrupts normal glucose-induced insulin release in adult life. The results of this study reinforce the idea that the phenotype of adult β cells has two faces and that failure to achieve selective gene repression undermines β cell support of normal glucose homeostasis.
Insulin release is regulated as a function of nutritional supplies and metabolic demands, both of which fluctuate over time and depend on physical activity, pregnancy status, age, and a variety of other factors. As too little or too much circulating insulin can be harmful, mature β cells are equipped with an efficient delivery apparatus that rapidly mobilizes a fraction of stored insulin within secretory granules via the secretory pathway (1). Moreover, β cells possess a precise metabolic detection system (Figure 1) that couples the extracellular glucose concentration to the rate of secretory granule exocytosis (2). Several of these critical phenotypic features are acquired shortly after birth, when β cells mature (3). The transition from the neonatal to the adult β cell involves not only upregulation of genes — such as the transcription factor MAFA and insulin genes, required for the specialized tasks of β cells — but also repression of a set of genes that are detrimental to pancreatic islet formation and are widely used in other mammalian cell types (4). The scale of this tissue-specific repression (a phenomenon referred to as disallowed genes) was examined by genome-wide analyses that compared gene expression in adult islets of Langerhans with a panel of other tissues (4, 5). By looking at the overlap between the above-mentioned microarray studies, Pullen and Rutter identified a core set of about 10 disallowed genes in pancreatic islets (6). Among the genes in this core set are those encoding the lactate pyruvate transporter MCT1 (also known as SLC16A1) and lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA). MCT1 and LDHA closely collaborate (Figure 1) to allow anaerobic glycolysis in most tissues and cells.
DNMT3A mediates repression of genes that disrupt normal glucose-regulated insulin release in β cells. (A) Physiological, nutrient-induced insulin release during a carbohydrate-containing meal depends on the expression of key proteins in pancreatic β cells that couple a rise in circulating glucose to an accelerated metabolic flux, leading to an increased [ATP]/[ADP] ratio, closure of ATP-sensitive potassium channels and a rise in cytosolic calcium (1), and appropriate levels of insulin secretion that support normoglycemia. In this issue, Dhawan et al. (18) show that the DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A is critical for repression of disallowed genes Hk1 and Ldha that would otherwise interfere with β cell function. The factors that induce and maintain DNMT3A in β cells have not been fully elucidated. (B) Inappropriate insulin secretion, as in too much insulin under basal conditions or activation of induction of secretion by nonphysiological stimuli, can cause hypoglycemia (15). In the absence of DNMT3A, expression of HK1 elevates basal insulin release because the enzyme has a high affinity for its substrate glucose, and elevated LDHA promotes conversion of lactate into pyruvate. Moreover, increased levels of the pyruvate transporter MCT1 promote inappropriate insulin secretion (10). Dhawan and colleagues show that murine β cells switch off Hk1 and Ldha expression when cells mature the first weeks after birth, as the result of DNMT3A-mediated cytosine methylation (yellow circles) in the Hk1 and Ldha gene promoters.
It is known that β cells avoid anaerobic glycolysis during metabolic glucose sensing (7). Instead, normal β cells funnel glucose to mitochondrial pyruvate uptake and metabolism (8). The selective absence of MCT1 in β cells explains why insulin secretion is unresponsive to a rise in extracellular pyruvate, a situation that is reversed in individuals with a Mendelian disorder called exercise-induced hyperinsulinism (9), which results from loss of regulation at the level of the human MCT1 promoter (10). The presence of MCT1 in β cells would confuse the physiology of glucose homeostasis in that β cells would no longer discriminate elevated glucose (after meals) from elevated pyruvate (after exercise) and would therefore fail to match circulating insulin levels to metabolic demands (Figure 1).
Although the number of genes specifically repressed in islets is low, the scale of the phenomenon increases when genes that are repressed not only in islets but also in one or two additional tissues are considered. One example is the group of low-Km hexokinases (HK1–HK3), which catalyze the first step of glycolysis in most cells. For pancreatic β cells and hepatocytes, however, these isoforms are ill adapted to sustain glucose homeostasis because they are saturated by micromolar amounts of their substrate glucose. In contrast, glucokinase (GK, Figure 1) is well adapted for precise control of glucose homeostasis, as its enzymatic affinity for glucose is in the millimolar range (11). β Cells efficiently repress HK1, and what little enzymatic activity that has been measured in islets was attributed to contaminating exocrine pancreatic cells (12). Forced expression of low-Km HK1 in β cells (13) elevates basal insulin secretion, rendering β cells dangerous in terms of hypoglycemic risk (Figure 1). Hk1, Ldha, and Mct1 therefore represent examples of a class of disallowed genes (14) that would jeopardize normal β function when expressed (15).
How do β cells selectively repress genes that are active in most other cell types? Epigenetic-based mechanisms have been suggested in earlier work. Thorrez et al. detected repressive chromatin markers in a few of the genes repressed in β cells (4). A more systematic, genome-wide analysis of histone H3 modifications (16) showed that β cell maturation is associated with both activation and inactivation of specific genes. In a follow-up study, the polycomb repressor complex subunit RING1B was identified as one of the molecular components that mediate these epigenetic changes (17).
In this issue (18), Dhawan and colleagues propose that the de novo DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A plays an important role in mediating epigenetic gene repression during β cell maturation. Analysis of mRNA expression in FACS-purified β cells from MIP-GFP mice revealed that between postnatal days 4 and 25 (P4 and P25), there is an upregulation of genes encoding key β cell factors, including MAFA and GK (Figure 1), with a concurrent downregulation of Hk1, Hk2, Aldob, and Ldha. Evaluation of methylated versus nonmethylated cytosines in the Hk1 and Ldha gene loci demonstrated that there is a net increase in methylation of these 2 loci between P4 and P25. ChIP analysis showed that the DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A is maximally enriched at the Ldha and Hk1 loci in β cells two weeks after birth. Dhawan and colleagues developed a mouse strain with a β cell–specific deletion of Dnmt3a (Dnmt3afl/fl R26R-eYFP RIP-Cre mice, referred to as 3aRCY-KO) that allowed for direct evaluation for the role of DNMT3A in the methylation and repression of Hk1 and Ldha. Compared with controls, 3aRCY-KO mice had elevated basal plasma insulin and a poor insulin response after i.p. glucose injection, and isolated islets from these animals were deficient for glucose-induced insulin release. The Hk1 and Ldha loci were weakly methylated in β cells of 3aRCY-KO mice, resulting in upregulation of Hk1 and Ldha transcripts. Moreover, siRNA-mediated knockdown of Hk1 and Ldha transcripts partially restored insulin secretory competence in 3aRCY-KO β cells. Comparison of adult human pancreatic islets with immature, insulin-expressing cells derived from pluripotent cells revealed higher levels of DNA methylation and stronger repression of HK1 and LDHA in the mature islets. Together, the study by Dhawan et al. (18) supports the importance of disallowed gene repression for normal β cell function. Additionally, these results provide an explanation for how maturing β cells switch off a set of genes that would destroy normal function when expressed and show that the de novo methyltransferase DNMT3A plays an active role in this process.
The study by Dhawan and colleagues on DNMT3A (18) and previous work on RING1B (17) can be viewed as starting points that provide important fragments of information for compiling a more complete epigenetic roadmap (19) of neonatal immature β cells and adult mature β cells. It will be interesting to elucidate how DNMT3A activity in β cells is regulated and how the methyltransferase is guided toward its epigenetic target regions. One possibility is that histone H3K27 tri-methylation (H3K27me3), which is associated with polycomb repression, is a context-dependent chromatin signal that guides DNMT3A activity toward its relevant target genes (20). This raises the question of how H3K27me3 marks are selectively introduced in the disallowed target genes of maturing β cells. Interestingly, not only were Hk1 and Ldha upregulated in 3aRCY-KO β cells, but expression of key β cell genes, including Mafa, Pdx1, and Gk, was reduced, indicating that these two phenomena are interconnected. It seems possible that some of the β cell–specific transcription factors that enhance expression of a set of β cell genes could also operate as repressors in a context-dependent manner. Future experiments should address the precise link between repression of disallowed genes and upregulation of β cell genes.
It should also be noted that the neonatal period of DNMT3A activity is a continuation of intrauterine events that initiate β cell identity via DNA methylation (21). This raises the question as to whether or not environmental conditions during pregnancy influence the starting position of neonatal epigenetic events. Moreover, what happens after β cells have matured? How is the continued repression of disallowed genes at the end of the neonatal period maintained? Adult β cells are essentially a nonreplicating population, yet they remain active during the entire lifetime of rodents and humans. Therefore, it seems relevant to assess the impact of environmental factors, such as a high-fat diet, that elevate basal insulin release. Because DNMT3A acts as a de novo methylase that introduces an epigenetic landscape in newly replicated cells (22), adult, nonreplicating, β cells may utilize other mechanisms to maintain appropriate gene-expression patterns. For example, a cytosine demethylation pathway that is mediated by a family of Tet dioxygenases (23) can reactivate expression of methylated loci, but the activity of these enzymes has not been studied in adult β cells. Future studies should also address a potential role for β cell microRNA that may interfere with DNMT3A activity, in particular members of the miR-29 family (24).
It should be noted that Dhawan et al. (18) used the MIP-GFP and RIP-Cre mouse models, which harbor an artificial human growth hormone (hGH) minigene that is expressed in transgenic islets (25). Expression of the hGH minigene likely does not alter repression of disallowed genes, as hGH does not influence these genes in Pdx1-Cre mice (25). It is not clear why methylation at the Mct1 promoter was not affected by Dnmt3a KO, as Mct1 has clear H3K27me3 marks in differentiated β cells (4). Is it possible that complementary methyltransferases act on a different set of disallowed target genes?
Together, the study by Dhawan et al. (18) supports the earlier idea that β cell differentiation has two faces (4): a visible face that shows accumulation of specific β cell proteins and a hidden face that protects β cells against ubiquitous proteins that need to be repressed to prevent disturbance of normal β cell function. The facets of both faces need to be addressed in efforts to generate insulin-producing cells from pluripotent stem cells. Dhawan and colleagues (18) propose that DNMT3A is one of the waypoints in the epigenetic roadmap of β cell maturation that is essential for the transition from immature to mature β cells. Evaluation of the roles of DNMT3A in preventing β cell abnormalities during chronic metabolic disease would appear to be interesting topics for future studies.
F. Schuit is currently supported by the Flemish Foundation for Scientific Research (FWO grant G067212N) for investigation of the phenomenon of disallowed genes in β cells.
Conflict of interest: The author has declared that no conflict of interest exists.
Reference information: J Clin Invest. 2015;125(7):2565–2568. doi:10.1172/JCI82575.
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Microsoft Reiterates SQL Slammer Warning
- By Scott Bekker
In response to the publication of the SQL Slammer source code in a major industry magazine, Microsoft officials are warning users to make sure they've taken advantage of the rash of SQL Slammer defenses on the Microsoft Web site.
Wired Magazine is running an article in its July issue called "Slammed! An Inside View of the Worm that Crashed the Internet in 15 Seconds." The article, which includes a copy of the Slammer worm source code, prompted Microsoft corporate vice president for SQL Server, Gordon Mangione, to write a letter to SQL Server users that Microsoft posted on its Web site.
"Publication of the source code could make it possible for someone to create a more damaging variant of the Slammer worm," Mangione wrote.
In the letter, Mangione acknowledges that most customers secured their systems during the attack in January, but he adds, "As a result of this article, we want to take another moment to ensure that all customers running SQL Server 2000 or MSDE 2000 have taken the appropriate steps to protect their deployments."
Microsoft's SQL Slammer related tools include the SQL Server Critical Update, the SQL Server Critical Update Wizard, SQL Scan, SQL Check and the SMS Deployment Tool.
The Mangione letter also notes that Microsoft re-released SQL Server 2000 as SQL Server 2000 Release A in April in order to address the vulnerability.
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We spotted this awesomely camouflaged moth on one of our squash stakes. We noticed an odd bump on the stick, looked a bit closer and realized we were looking at a moth. What a perfect spot to land! How did this moth know??
The obvious reddish brown blotches seems to be one of the key characteristics separating this species: the Goldenrod Hooded Owlet (Cucullia asteroides) from the Gray Hooded Owlet (Cucullia florea).
This moth is also known as the Asteroid. Check out a picture of the caterpillar here. It's incredibly colorful relative to the adult. That makes sense since its host plants are goldenrod and asters.
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Spoken and written fluency in a language can be quite useful for your career especially if it is widely used where you want to work. For example, learning the German language can provide a sure shot career advantage if you want to work in Germany.
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- Intensive classes lasting for different durations: The language course at GISMA is specifically designed to help students ace all language skills or focus on a particular problem area. Once you pass the exam, you receive a language certificate which can be quite valuable for your resume. The USP of the course is however the different length formats for the programme. While the course spans more than 25 weeks, students can stop at 1-4 weeks, 5-12 weeks, and 13-24 weeks as per their preferences. They also get a certificate of attendance for the same.
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What is the meaning of nuisance in law?
Nuisance as a Tort. The word nuisance has been derived from the French word ‘nuire’ which means, to hurt or to annoy. … But for the purpose of the law of tort, it may be described as unlawful interference with a person’s use or enjoyment of land or of some right over, or in connection with it.
What is the nuisance?
A nuisance involves an unreasonable or unlawful use of property that results in material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort, or injury to another person or to the public.
What are the types of nuisance?
What types of nuisance are there?
- Dust, steam or smell.
- Fumes or gases.
- Rubbish and fly-tipping.
- Problem animals.
- Certain premises.
What is an example of a private nuisance?
More specifically, the tort of private nuisance protects a person’s right to use and enjoy his or her property. A few examples of private nuisances are: vibration, pollution of a stream or soil, smoke, foul odors, excessive light, and loud noises.
What is nuisance value?
“Nuisance value” is a term used by claims adjusters to describe an amount of compensation they’re willing to pay to make a personal injury claim go away.
Who is a nuisance person?
an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure. … something offensive or annoying to individuals or to the community, especially in violation of their legal rights.
What is another word for nuisance?
What is another word for nuisance?annoyancebothertrialtroubleboreproblemdraghassleirritantplague
What are the three theories of nuisance?
Private nuisances may be brought Page 2 2 under any of the three tort theories (strict liability, intentional tort, negligence) that we studied. Most nuisance suits are based upon a theory of intentional tort.
What is a nuisance inspector?
This included inspection and condemnation of food on sale in the markets and on the streets, inspection of dangerous buildings, nuisances, and hoardings, prosecutions of breaches of the by-laws, and keeping thoroughfares free from obstruction. … He also supervised the carters who removed rubbish.
What are the 3 types of torts?
Tort lawsuits are the biggest category of civil litigation, and can encompass a wide range of personal injury cases – however, there are three main types: intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability.
What is the difference between nuisance and negligence?
While nuisance protects interests in the enjoyment of land, negligence deals with breach of duty of care which a person owes to others. Unlike negligence, a claimant seeks remedy in the form of an injunction rather than damages in nuisance.
What is to trespass?
1a : an unlawful act committed on the person, property, or rights of another especially : a wrongful entry on real property. b : the legal action for injuries resulting from trespass. 2a : a violation of moral or social ethics : transgression especially : sin. b : an unwarranted infringement.
What is nuisance distinguish between public and private nuisance?
It means any illegal act or omission causing injury, obstruction, danger or annoyance to public in general or public at Large. … Private Nuisance means any illegal act of omission causing injury or danger to any individual or his property in particular.
What is a nuisance business?
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Each year we offer a series of land management grants that support the preservation of Manningham’s natural bushland and the productivity of rural land.
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Please see the list below for eligible works and their priority level. Applications will be assessed based on the priority of works.
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Fox and rabbit control grants
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A new attack on the freedom of expression is currently underway these past few hours in Turkey. Numerous academics, who signed a petition on 10 January 2016 appealing for, among other things, the Turkish government to resume the peace process in Turkey, are currently the subjects of judiciary procedures by State prosecutors. The High Education Council – the board of many Turkish Universities – also announced further investigations, thus raising concerns and fears of dismissal.
Around 30 of the signatories were accused of "terrorist propaganda", temporarily detained and subsequently interrogated. Although now released by the authorities, the academics are still the focus of ongoing procedures.
Over 1200 "Academics for Peace" belonging to 90 different Turkish universities were also joined by foreign colleagues, writers and students. Among the signatories was Ahmet Atil Asici (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi), international secretary of our Turkish member party, the Green "Yesiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi". The current situation of intimidation and the surprising and increasing authoritarian attitude of the current government remind us of times we believed were consigned to the past. Commenting on the situation, Monica Frassoni, Co-chair of the European Green Party said: "We all considered freedom of expression and the possibility of a public and open debate as an established reality in Turkey; today, it is quickly becoming a risky business for citizens".
The academics stated that they won't be "a party to this crime", referring to the military operations in the southeast and asked the Turkish State to "prepare the conditions for negotiations and create a road map that would lead to a lasting peace which includes the demands of the Kurdish political movement". The Greens are concerned about the increasing escalation of violence in Turkey which is costing the loss of many lives. We find the intimidating attitude the Turkish government is showing towards civil society very worrying and we call on both parties to resume peace talks and to begin substantial investigations on the attacks, and the threats and the intimidations being carried out through the judiciary system.
"The European Union should play a much more active role in facilitating a new ceasefire. It is an illusion to believe that Turkey can be a reliable partner in dealing with the refugees to acceptable standard if it is not able to stand and listen the voices of its own people", Co-chair Monica Frassoni added. Turkey is an EU candidate country and the nature of Turkish democracy is an issue that the EU cannot shut its eyes on anymore. The dangerously shrinking spaces devoted to the freedom of expression and democratic opposition ought to be restored, while healing the painful fractures Turkish society is currently enduring. | <urn:uuid:42799f83-6685-474d-bc16-cd48fede4733> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://europeangreens.eu/news/wave-intimidations-turkey-against-signatories-appealing-peace | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967005 | 524 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Eric Stade is the newest recipient of the American Mathematical Society’s Award for Impact in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics.
This prestigious award, which began in 2013, recognizes Stade, a University of Colorado Boulder professor of mathematics, for not only his sustainable and replicable contributions to the mathematics education of students in the first two years of college, but also his work with improving high school math education.
“This particular award is an honor to me because this award is meant to recognize those teaching lower division mathematics and to teach people who will go on to teach elementary mathematics, and this has always been very important to me,” says Stade.
Over the past 10 years, Stade has worked with the Department of Mathematics to reform the way professors teach conventional mathematics. In pre-calculus and calculus, Stade, along with other faculty, have shifted the curriculum to a discovery-based program, which replaces some traditional lectures with interactive problems.
“I like to think of it as guided discovery,” says Stade. “Students are really taking responsibility over their own learning and taking the lead on creating their own knowledge instead of having it fed to them through a lecture.”
Stade is not only responsible for teaching, but also instructing future teachers. He works as the director of the Sewell Residential Academic Program, which serves students who want to pursue teaching.
And, as a part of his work with teachers, Stade has led a service-learning project called “A Community of Mathematics Teachers and Learners,” which is supported by a CU Boulder Outreach Award, partners with the Boulder Valley School District to improve the teaching of mathematics.
“A Community of Mathematics Teachers and Learners” recruits undergraduate and graduate students go into schools to help out with various academic programs, such as math club, presentations and tutoring.
“A Community of Mathematics Teachers and Learners” also works with high school teachers to enhance mathematics instruction to help get low-income and under-represented students to better prepare them for college. The largest aspect of good teaching is meeting people where they are, Stade explains. An effective teacher must figure out what material is close to the student’s knowledge base in order to make that next jump.
Stade began to focus on teaching future educators in the early 2000s when he was assigned to teach the elementary mathematics education course at CU Boulder.
“I found that the challenge of teaching mathematics to future elementary school teachers—many of whom were not mathematics majors, and, indeed, often afraid of math—was rewarding. After I helped turn people around and help them realize that mathematics was a beautiful subject, instead of one to be feared, I really began to be interested in teaching future mathematics teachers.”
Judith Packer, a CU Boulder professor of mathematics who was one of three fellow faculty members who nominated Stade for the award, says it is well deserved: "Eric is an absolute rock star of a teacher and mentor at all levels, and for many years has served as an inspiration by example to all educators in our department. Not only students in CU Boulder, but also all of us in the Department of Mathematics, CU Boulder and the community at large are fortunate that he is our colleague."
Alexander Gorokhovsky, professor and chair of math, concurred, notes that Stade was one of the architects of a plan that replaced almost all of the department’s large lecture calculus classes with small sections. “He has long worked to change the landscape of teaching throughout the department, improving all of our instruction,” Gorokhovsky says. | <urn:uuid:4673f36d-cb78-49b1-9079-ce0d372d8714> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2018/04/27/scholar-recognized-math-education-excellence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976849 | 753 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Truth is constructed, it is the result of the whole dialectical process that precedes it, that same process that brings opposites together and elevates them to a unity that safeguards and enriches them.
The hope of being able, in an article of a very few pages, to present G. W. F. Hegel’s thought in a correct, refined and comprehensible manner wavers on a razor’s edge between foolish optimism and madness. Not because the task is impossible, but because it exceeds the writer’s capabilities by far. Hegel’s work is a pinnacle of Western philosophical history, and this is not only because of the vastness of the themes it addresses, but also because of the complexity of its logical passages and – the last but essential feature – the formal elegance of its conceptual system. However, it is not possible to shirk this task, and so we will embark on this enterprise by attempting to steer our ship back into port as best we can.
The last article in this online magazine concluded by noting how the dialectic, which historically consisted of two moments (affirmative and negative) appears for the first time in tripartite form. This triadic dialectic is the foundation and key to understanding Hegelian thought. The system consists of three main sections: The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic and The Philosophy of Spirit (the first two are titles of as many texts by Hegel, respectively published in 1807 and 1812-16, while the third one corresponds to the third part of Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, 1817); but what is this system? One could say that it is essentially the path of Freedom becoming self-aware ‒ the same freedom that Hegel had seen during the French Revolution, which he considered the essential turning point of the Modern Era. This path, however, is not consistent nor peaceful, but a continuous succession of crises and discrepancies ‒ contradictions ‒ that must be resolved in the speculative reconciliation of opposites. This is why the most suitable instrument for rationally grasping reality in its concrete totality is the dialectic, which consists of three moments: affirmation, negation and the speculative reconciliation of the two. Since we cannot treat the Hegelian system in its entirety, we will limit ourselves to a simple exposition of this dialectic.
The task of Logic is to rationally understand concrete reality, in its fullness and totality, that is, in Hegelian terminology, the Absolute – the All in its concrete reality. Here, however, a problem arises: the categories of Understanding ‒ those already encountered in Kant’s thought ‒ cannot completely think the Absolute, because they belong to a finite dimension, and when they try to grasp the Absolute they become contradictory. From this impasse Hegel determines that contradiction is the truth of the Absolute, because it can open a world before us that would be positively inaccessible. However, it is not possible for the Absolute to be a pure and simple contradiction, but it must also have within it a ‘resolving’ moment: this is where dialectics comes into play. It consists of three moments, each of which has peculiar characteristics and has value only if it is related to the others.
I- Abstract or Understanding’s Moment
The first moment corresponds to the action of the Understanding, the faculty that conceives the determinacy of the thing and the logical moment. It is the organ of clarity and distinction, and operates determination by means of exclusion: every meaning is determined as what it is and as what every other thing is not (e.g. the colour white is the colour white, and it is not every other thing). The Understanding grasps differences, and in it everything can subsist without all other things having to subsist as well; it is the organ of finiteness and its every logical act manifests itself as the exclusion and negation of everything that is not what is determined from time to time. However, Hegel notes how this type of determination possesses a certain surplus in relation to itself; for in order to determine something one must not only affirm it, but at the same time deny that everything else other than it participates in its determination. In this way, however, for every determination of something all other things are also evoked, at least as ‘that which is excluded and denied’. Returning to the example given earlier, let us assume that the colour white is ‘A’; the determination of ‘A’ consists of two moments: ‘A’ is ‘A’ and ‘A’ is not ‘not A’. In order to determine ‘A’ I must evoke ‘not A’, i.e. its negation, and therefore it is not possible for ‘A’ to be given in a determinate way if we do not also give ‘not A’.
II – Dialectical Moment
The second moment corresponds to the action of dialectical Reason, in which determinations are annihilated. In the Understanding’s attempt to separate something from everything else, determination itself is destroyed, and the thing that was to be determined falls into indeterminacy, that is, into the abstract totality of all things. Since, taking our example again, ‘A’ was what was to be determined, and ‘not A’ was the totality of all other indeterminate things, the exclusionary/denying action of the Understanding prevents ‘A’ from determining itself and causes it to fall into the indeterminacy of ‘not A’, i.e. causes it to fall into its opposite. The entire Hegelian system is a demonstration of this process. In this sense, the dialectic is nothing other than the incessant deduction of the opposite, i.e. the incessant appearance of the opposite with respect to what was intended to be determined. In this way, it would seem to be impossible to constitute any kind of rational knowledge, because every determination does nothing else but overthrow itself into its opposite, and what remains is nothing but pure contradiction; in reality, this is not the case at all. The fundamental point to be understood is that concretely (up to now we have analysed the problem abstractly) the determination does not overthrow itself into a generic and indeterminate ‘opposite’, but into its own opposite, i.e. into that specific opposite that belongs to that determination and no other. Resuming our example: the colour white does not spill over into red, green, or blue, etc., but into its opposite, i.e. black (in fact, white reflects most photons, while black absorbs most photons, hence they operate in an ‘opposite’ manner). In specific terms, it is usually said that the Hegelian negation is always determinate, that is, the negative ‒ the opposite ‒ of a determination is always something determinate, the ‘negative’ of that and that thing alone. It is precisely because of the determinate nature of negation that dialectics always has a positive result, and thus it is possible to find truth within contradiction.
III – Speculative Moment
The third moment corresponds to the action of speculative Reason, which holds the contradiction firm and conceives it as something affirmative, i.e. unitary with respect to the opposition. At this point we have the contradictory opposition between two determinations (the one that is to be affirmed and its determined negation), which constantly overturn each other giving rise to a contradiction that is by its very nature indeterminable; or at least this was what was commonly thought before Hegelian philosophy. In the third moment, what Hegel calls ‘Aufhebung‘ (‘removal’) takes place, i.e. the overcoming of contradiction through the subsumption of the determination and its opposite into a speculative unity that retains both in itself while differing from each other. In other words, the determination that the Understanding wished to affirm clashes with its opposite, but through the action of speculative Reason it recognises in this opposite itself, and returns to itself enriched and transformed: different from its starting self, different from its opposite, but retaining both in itself.
Let’s read some of Hegel’s words on the dialectic:
Some concluding notes. Firstly, it should be noted that in Hegel the action of Reason is quite different from that ‘generating antinomies’ that Kant spoke of; although in a certain sense there is something similar, given that dialectical Reason constitutes the contradiction that is then resolved by speculative Reason. Secondly, it is interesting to note the depth and beauty of Hegelian thought, particularly with respect to the dialectic. The speculative result is not simply ‘positive’ but is a heightened meaning with respect to determination and its opposite; in other words, Hegel tells us that when determination meets its opposite, if it is reasonable enough to recognise itself in the other, it can give rise to something ‘richer’ and more ‘complex’, a new meaning within which determination and its opposite are both preserved and saved, and combine to constitute something that is more than them. Again, Hegel tells us that truth is not something fixed, always present and immutable, that perhaps someone can claim as their exclusive property; truth is constructed, it is the result of the whole dialectical process that precedes it, that same process that brings opposites together and elevates them to a unity that safeguards and enriches them. Again, Hegel makes the transition from a confutative logic to a revelatory logic: one does not proceed by denying and eliminating positions until only one position remains, which is held to be true for this reason; truth appears in the dialectical path, in which nothing is lost, nothing is excluded, nothing is erased but everything is saved, placed in relation to everything else – even its opposite -, to be enriched and enhanced. Nothing is outside the process, and this process ‒ which is the Absolute, the totality of contradictions, the totality of speculative relations ‒ is eternal and eternally moving. It is the path of truth and freedom to which we all ‒ no one excluded ‒ belong.
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Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s dating of ancient texts
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12209 BCE
Part 1 of 10 — Understanding the Vartak-Oak Hypothesis
Trying to refute a thesis that has gained a high level of acceptability is a challenge in the first place. Once a thesis gains traction, many people, including educated ones buy into it though they have little knowledge about Indian texts or astronomy. Thus, many have simply accepted a date for the Rāmāyaṇa that is based on misinterpretation of evidence and denial of clear evidence in the epic itself. We are not talking of the Vedas that are difficult to comprehend, but the Rāmāyaṇa that most people are familiar with. Verse by verse translations of Rāmāyaṇa are only a click away on the internet. Still, people have not bothered to crosscheck the evidence cited by Oak in his dating of the Rāmāyaṇa to 12209 BCE.
Indian civilization is grounded in intellectual inquiry and we have survived numerous assaults on our civilization simply because of the strength of our knowledge systems. However, at present, I observe that many intellectuals have fallen prey to bogus claims. As I write these articles, Prachyam is involved in the production of ten documentaries that intend to correct the historical inaccuracies of currently accepted Indian history . Three of these episodes seem to be based on Oak’s claims, one of them being the claim that the Rāmāyaṇa can be dated back to 12209 BCE. Without the careful vetting of these claims by outside observers, the fallout from such documentaries can be dire — both to the viewers and the producers, and even more so to the Indian intellectual tradition.
There was a story in my elementary Hindi textbook called “Rakṣā me Hatyā” or murder while trying to save a life. Let me make it clear what I mean. In 12209 BCE, the sea level was over 100 meters below the current sea levels. India and Sri Lanka were connected by land and there was no need for Rāma to build his setu. Therefore, Oak is proposing that Lanka was somewhere else and that the Rāma Setu is not the bridge that Rāma and his vānara sena built. Rāma Setu was about to be dredged by a previous government and was saved by the heroic effort of Dr. Subramanian Swamy. A future government may use the work of Oak and the documentary made by Prachyam as a basis for dredging Rama Setu. Have the good folks at Prachyam thought of this possibility and are they comfortable with the consequences of proposing the untenable hypothesis and claims of Oak?
As stated in my previous article, it was proposed by Vartak that the grouping of seasons and lunar months changes by one month every 2,160 years due to precession :
“The seasons depend on the Solstices and Equinoxes i.e. on the relation of the Sun and the Earth. Hence due to the precession the Ṛtus shift back on the Lunar months at the rate of one month in (30x72) = 2160 years.”
This has been adopted by Oak, who uses a period of 2,000 years for the change of one lunar month . I have called this hypothesis the “Vartak-Oak hypothesis” in my previous article. According to this hypothesis, seasons consist of different pairs of luni-solar months as time changes. Indian months are called luni-solar as they are not purely lunar like the Islamic calendar and are adjusted to seasons by inserting months or deleting months periodically. The Vartak-Oak hypothesis is based on certain assumptions and its validity is dependent on the validity of those assumptions.
1. Oak’s Assumptions:
The most common division of a seasonal year is that of six seasons in the Vedic-Hindu calendar. These six seasons, in order, are Vasanta (spring), Grīṣma (summer), Varṣā (rainy season), Śarad (autumn), Hemanta (early winter), and Śiśira (late winter). Oak’s first assumption is that the vernal equinox has always been in the middle of the Vasanta season as shown in Figure 1. This fixes the summer solstice at the beginning of Varṣā, autumnal equinox in the middle of Śarad, and the winter solstice at the beginning of Śiśira. Here it is in Oak’s words :
Varsha (rain) season begins from the day of summer solstice (SS) and continues for two months. This is followed by Sharad (pre-autumn) season and the day of autumnal equinox (AE) is the midpoint of Sharad season. Two months leading up to the day of winter solstice (WS) constitutes the Hemant (autumn) season. Shishir (winter) season begins from the day of winter solstice and continues for two months. This is followed by Vasant (spring) season and the day of vernal equinox (VE) is the midpoint of the season. Two months leading to the day of summer solstice constitute Grishma (summer) season.
Oak’s second assumption is that seasons and luni-solar months get decoupled due to precession. Accordingly, seasons have consisted of different luni-solar months in the past and will consist of different luni-solar months in the future. This assumption is based on the peculiarity of Indian calendar in which months are named after the nakṣatra in which the moon resides during full moon. As the position of the Sun is opposite to the position of the full moon and the position of the Sun changes in the background of nakṣatras due to precession, the months are supposed to slide compared to seasons due to precession. Oak has assumed a period of 2,000 years for the shift of one luni-solar month with respect to the seasons. We should note that only precession is scientifically proven, whereas the shift of luni-solar months relative to seasons due to precession is not. The validity of the assumptions described here will be examined in the final part of this series of articles.
2. Oak’s time periods for groupings of months and seasons:
Oak has divided the time periods for different groupings of seasons and months as follows:
2.1. Current Configuration (500 CE to 2500 CE):
The current configuration is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 2.
2.2. Standard configuration (1500 BCE-500 CE):
The configuration between 1500 BCE to 500 CE is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 3. It is the standard configuration found in various texts.
2.3. 3500 BCE to 1500 BCE:
The configuration between 3500 BCE to 1500 BCE is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 4.
2.4. 5500 BCE to 3500 BCE:
The configuration between 5500 BCE to 3500 BCE is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 5. Mathematically, 5561 BCE falls between 7500 BCE and 5500 BCE, but Oak has chosen this combination for Mahābhārata as shown in his tweet.
2.5. 7500 BCE to 5500 BCE:
The configuration between 7500 BCE to 5500 BCE is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 6.
2.6. 9500 BCE to 7500 BCE:
The configuration between 9500 BCE to 7500 BCE is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 7. Please note that Oak has made an error in giving constituents of Vasanta and Grīṣma.
2.7. 11500 BCE to 9500 BCE:
The configuration between 11500 BCE to 9500 BCE is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 8.
2.8. Oak’s Rāmāyaṇa configuration (13500 BCE to 11500 BCE):
The configuration between 13500 BCE to 11500 BCE is shown in Oak’s tweet . Its equivalent representation is shown in Figure 9. According to Oak, this is the configuration during Rāmāyaṇa’s time.
Based on the information presented above, Table 1 summarizes the important configurations according to the Vartak-Oak hypothesis.
Therefore, according to Oak, Āśvina and Kārttika were part of Vasanta season, and Caitra and Vaiśākha were part of Śarad season during Rāmāyaṇa times. It is one thing to propose that seasons were off by six months from standard configuration during Rāmāyaṇa time, but where is Oak going to find evidence for it in the Rāmāyaṇa? It is very clear from reading the Rāmāyaṇa that Vālmīki is using the same grouping of seasons and months that we are using now. Oak has misinterpreted the meaning of the Rāmāyaṇa verses to create the evidence he needs and called them “Astronomy Poison Pills”. He has come up with a time period between 17500 BCE and 10000 BCE spanning 7,500 years, when these supposed Astronomy Poison Pills were valid . Then, Oak claims to have found an observation so unique that it has happened only once during those 7,500 years. That year is 12209 BCE, the date of Rāma-Rāvaṇa yuddha . Never mind that this unique event involves a comet that is visible from the Earth every 3.3 years. It has been visible from the Earth more than 2,000 times between 17500 BCE and 10000 BCE. Oak has then used the date of 12209 BCE to claim that there are 600 corroborations for it in the Rāmāyaṇa, and he has used this bogus claim to discard the unequivocal evidence in the Rāmāyaṇa.
I will provide the details of these manipulations by Oak in the articles following this. Please see the “Coming Up” section below.
2. Vartak, P.V. (2004). “The Scientific Dating of the Mahābhārata War”, Veda Vidnyāna Mandala: Pune, India, 2nd revised edition, pp. 17–18.
3. Oak, N.N. (2011). “When did the Mahabharata War Happen? The Mystery of Arundhanti”, Bhim, USA, p. 39.
6. Oak, N.N. (2014). “The Historic Rama”, (Publisher not mentioned in the book), p. 64.
7. Ibid, p. 70
Note: May 1, 2021
I had tagged Mr. Oak in my tweet announcing the publication of this article. Mr. Oak didn’t respond to this announcement on Twitter.
The link to this article was also posted in the Google group भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत् by me. Mr. Oak is member of this group. There was no reply from him in this group.
More about the author
I am a seeker of historical truths and am deeply interested in the heritage of India. I have earned a B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA. I have a deep interest in ancient Indian texts. My research besides Materials Science covers several different areas: Vedic cosmology, Vedic astronomy, Jain astronomy, and ancient Indian history.
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12209 BCE: Part 3 of 10- The Sun was NOT near Puṣya nakṣatra during Hemanta season (to be published on May 08, 2021)
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12209 BCE: Part 4 of 10- Āśvina month was NOT in Vasanta season during Rāmāyaṇa time (to be published on May 15, 2021)
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12209 BCE: Part 5 of 10- Brahmarāśi is NOT Abhijit (Vega) star (to be published on May 22, 2021)
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12209 BCE: Part 6 of 10- The Comet observed by Lakshmana CANNOT be identified (to be published on May 29, 2021)
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12,209 BCE: Part 7 of 10- A bridge to NOWHERE: A tale of two Laṅkās (to be published on June 05, 2021)
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12209 BCE: Part 8 of 10 — Bluffing and the Game of Numbers (to be published on June 12, 2021)
Refutation of Nilesh Oak’s Astronomical Dating of Ramayana to 12209 BCE: Part 9 of 10- The grouping of seasons and lunar months from the Vedic age till now (to be published on June 19, 2021)
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By Christian Bisson, PMP
Machine learning is one of today’s hottest tech topics.
It’s essentially a type of artificial intelligence (AI) in which you give your software the ability to “learn” based on data. For example, you probably notice how YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and many other companies suggests videos or products you should check out. These suggestions are based on your previous online actions, or those of other people deemed “similar” to you.
For some time now I’ve been working on projects that involve this technology. We often have clients who want machine learning even though they do not know if it’s even relevant to them. Since “everyone is doing it,” they want to do it too.
Calibrating a project sponsor’s expectations is often a good idea. While the automated services generated through machine learning may seem magical, getting to that point involves challenges—and a lot of work.
The machine will learn using the data it has being given—that data is the crucial starting point. The data that’s available is what drives how the machine will evolve and what added value machine learning can bring to your project/product. For example, if you are trying to teach the machine to recognize vehicles on images it scans, and all you can teach it with are images of small cars, you are not set up for success. You need a better variety of images.
The machine’s ability to learn is directly tied to the quality of the data it encounters.
Once you have quality data, you need it in high quantities. If you can only provide the machine with the website behaviors of, say, hundreds of users per month, don’t expect it to have enough information to be able to recommend the best products based on user trends. Its sample will be too little to be able to be accurate.
Once you have the necessary data, the journey is not over. The machine may learn on its own, but it’s learning based on how it was built and with the data it’s being fed. There is always room for improvement.
As amazing as machine learning is, it is not cheap. So keep an eye on your project’s budget. Machine learning experts can command high salaries, and there is a lot of effort involved with researching the best approach—creating the models, training them, testing them, etc. Make sure the ROI is worth it.
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Sirisena sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (UPDATED) – Maithripala Sirisena was sworn in as Sri Lankan president Friday, January 9, after a shock victory over veteran strongman Mahinda Rajapakse in an election dominated by charges of corruption and growing authoritarianism.
Sirisena took the oath of office hours after Rajapakse conceded defeat, saying he accepted the decision of Sri Lankans who turned out in force on Thursday, January 8, to vote him out after 10 years in office.
Sirisena said Sri Lanka would mend its ties with the international community, in a clear reference to Rajapakse's falling out with the West over allegations of wartime rights abuses by the military.
"We will have a foreign policy that will mend our ties with the international community and all international organizations in order that we derive maximum benefit for our people," he said.
Celebratory firecrackers could be heard in Colombo as Sirisena was sworn in on the capital's Independence Square along with new prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
"People want a new political culture. I don't want anyone taking the law into their own hands," said Wickremesinghe, the head of the opposition United National Party (UNP), at an earlier press conference.
Sirisena, a former health minister who united a fractured opposition to pull off an unlikely victory, thanked Rajapakse for a "fair election that allowed me to be the president".
He was elected with a 51.28% share of the vote to the former leader's 47.58%.
It was a remarkable reverse for a leader who had appeared certain of victory when he called snap polls in November.
Thilanga Sumathipala, a lawmaker with Rajapakse's Sri Lanka Freedom Party, said the outgoing president had a "very emotional" meeting with ministers as he bowed out on Friday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed Rajapakse's early concession and said he looked forward to working with the new leader.
Sirisena has promised sweeping reforms of the presidency and said he will transfer many of its executive powers to parliament.
He was elected on a tide of resentment against Rajapakse, who rewrote the constitution after his re-election in 2010 to remove the two-term limit on the presidency and give himself more powers over public servants and judges.
During the campaign, Sirisena said that he had warned Rajapakse to change his ways or risk new unrest in the country.
"He was leading the country down a dangerous road to destruction," he had said, promising a "constitutional revolution" if elected.
Rajapakse enjoyed huge support among majority Sinhalese voters after overseeing the end of a separatist war by ethnic Tamil rebels in 2009.
But critics say he failed to bring about reconciliation in the years that followed his crushing victory over the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
He is also accused of undermining the independence of the judiciary and has packed the government with relatives, sparking resentment even within his own party.
Rajapakse fell out with the West over allegations his troops killed 40,000 Tamil civilians at the end of the civil war, and refused to cooperate with a UN-mandated investigation.
He cultivated close links with China, which has invested heavily in Sri Lanka, seeking to counter rival regional power India's influence.
Beijing on Friday downplayed suggestions the new leadership could impact its projects in Sri Lanka.
The opposition has promised to address international concerns over war crimes and normalize relations with Western nations and India, whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sirisena.
Vote for peace
Sirisena's decision to run triggered a slew of defections and became a rallying point for disaffection with Rajapakse and his powerful family.
His vision for the country ties in closely with the free-market policies of the center-right UNP which provided him with the political base to contest the election.
But analysts say he faces a challenge to unite the rainbow coalition of parties from right-wingers to Marxists that helped him secure victory.
The vote passed off largely peacefully, although there were some reports of intimidation in Tamil areas.
The president had come under international pressure, with Washington urging him to ensure peaceful and credible polls.
The election came days before a visit to the island by Pope Francis which some Catholic leaders had said should be cancelled in the event of violence.
Election monitors said large numbers of people had voted in the Tamil-dominated former war zones of the north and east, which are heavily militarized.
Tamils are Sri Lanka's largest minority, accounting for 13% of the population and helped bring down Rajapakse by supporting his rival.
"We voted to get our dignity back," said a Tamil journalist who asked not to be named.
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- 1 How old is my rabbit in human years?
- 2 How old is an old rabbit?
- 3 How old are rabbits in pet stores?
- 4 Do rabbits get periods?
- 5 Do rabbits calm down with age?
- 6 How long can a bunny be left alone?
- 7 What is the oldest rabbit in the world?
- 8 Is there a difference between a bunny and a rabbit?
- 9 Do old rabbits lose weight?
- 10 Do old rabbits sleep more?
- 11 Is it illegal to have a pet bunny?
- 12 Can rabbits live alone happily?
- 13 Is selling rabbits illegal?
How old is my rabbit in human years?
Rabbit / Human Years Table
|Rabbit Age||People Age|
|1 year||21 years|
|2 years||27 years|
|3 years||33 years|
|4 years||39 years|
How old is an old rabbit?
An adult rabbit is approximately 9 months to 4 – 5 years of age. An elderly rabbit is 4 – 5 years upwards. Some rabbits live to be 10 – 12 years of age.
How old are rabbits in pet stores?
Pet stores and bunny dealers often buy rabbits when they’re only 4 weeks old because they take up less space and look so cute.
Do rabbits get periods?
Rabbits do not menstruate. If unspayed females start passing blood, they can bleed to death within a few days. Blood in the urine can also be a sign of bladder stones.
Do rabbits calm down with age?
Old Age (How Long Do Bunnies Live?) While some rabbits tend to still be very active at this age, it isn’t uncommon to notice your rabbit calming down quite a bit. It is said the older rabbits get, the more time they want to spend with people.
How long can a bunny be left alone?
Rabbits are not very independent, they cannot be left on their own for longer than two days. You can make sure they have everything they need to keep healthy however, they still require social interaction like any animal. To be safe, don’t leave it longer than two days.
What is the oldest rabbit in the world?
The oldest rabbit ever was a wild rabbit named Flopsy, who was caught on the 6 August 1964, and died 18 years and 10.75 months later at the home of L.B. Walker of Longford, Tasmania, Australia.
Is there a difference between a bunny and a rabbit?
What is the Difference Between Bunny Vs Rabbit? The biggest difference between a bunny and a rabbit is that the word rabbit is the correct word to describe this animal. Bunny, on the other hand, is an endearment. However, many people use both words interchangeably.
Do old rabbits lose weight?
Older rabbits may gain weight due to eating the same amount of food, but not getting as much exercise. Or, they can lose weight. Stick to offering your rabbit a healthy diet, but you may have to make some changes as he ages. Consult with your rabbit’s veterinarian before making any changes.
Do old rabbits sleep more?
Their personalities shine through, and their ageing faces and grey hairs make them more endearing. With special considerations given to their needs, they can live full and active lives. They may be less active, sleep more and need extra care, but they will thank you tenfold just by sharing their lives with you.
Is it illegal to have a pet bunny?
State Laws Starting in 2019, California no longer allows the sale of rabbits, cats, and dogs as pets; all pet stores that “sell” animals must now carry rescued animals.
Can rabbits live alone happily?
Rabbits can live alone, but you’ll need to provide your pet with the attention (company, petting, grooming, exercise, playing, and enrichment) that a bonded rabbit partner would provide. It’s always advisable to keep rabbits in pairs.
Is selling rabbits illegal?
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The slow-moving organic solar cell industry finally achieved a breakthrough in its quest to optimize energy conversion, and thanks to an accidental discovery during experimentation, this breakthrough came by a process of coaxing electrons with layers of fullerene molecules—popularly known as “buckyballs.” University of Michigan scientists made the discovery when experimenting with organic solar cell architecture. The researchers added two layers of fullerene molecules on top of an organic cell's energy-producing layer where photons hit solar cells to dislodge electrons.
What they found was that electrons move more freely and go farther in the fullerene layer and that an “energy well” (technically known as a potential well) was also created where electrons could not escape. The result was that these electrons—when coaxed with the layers of fullerene molecules—could travel up to several centimeters (compared to nanometers), which enabled them to produce a greater amount of electrical current.
Organic cells are known to have a weak electronic conductivity because they have loose bonds between individual molecules. Instead of having an efficient conduit between molecules, electrons often get trapped and can only travel up to a couple hundred nanometers at most. In an organic solar cell, this trapping of the electrons is the main obstacle that limits the distance that these electrons can travel. If they are free to move through the structure without impedance, they can travel much further. This is the same for all solar cells, but the organic network presents a much harder challenge for these electrons to travel through. Because the electrons don’t travel far enough before their entrapment (where they cannot move), they are unable to participate in the electrical circuit. This block in the electrons’ participation lowers the conductivity of the cell, and in turn, the conversion efficiency decreases as fewer free-flowing electrons can circulate. As a result, organic solar cells, which consist of non-metallic semiconductors such as polymers, only offer efficiencies of up to 13.1 percent. This level of efficiency doesn’t compete well with silicon-based inorganic solar cells that offer a 26.6 percent power efficiency and are in wide use in solar panels today.
Several positive characteristics of organic solar cells, however, highlight the need for further research into extending their efficiency. For example, besides the potential of lower costs due to simpler polymer processing technologies, organic solar cells are also thinner, more flexible, and transparent. These characteristics are crucial for efficiently converting sunlight into electricity. Also, where projects aim to build net-zero energy buildings (NZEBs) or retrofit existing structures to become more energy efficient, companies can integrate organic solar cells into the structure itself, as on rooftops and walls, where the heavier, inflexible, silicon-based inorganic solar cells are not practical or feasible. These organic solar cells are also beneficial in that they come in a variety of colors and configurations, offering better aesthetics as well.
The need to discover ways to bring organic solar cells to their full potential is clear, and this recent breakthrough may do just that. According to the University of Michigan’s article entitled “Semiconductor Breakthrough May Be a Game-Changer for Organic Solar Cells,” its researchers started with the organic cell’s power-producing layer, where photons hit solar cells to dislodge electrons. “Using a common technique called vacuum thermal evaporation, they layered in a thin film of C60 fullerenes—each made of 60 carbon atoms.” What they found was that the electrons moved freely in the fullerene layer, rather than being trapped in the loose bonds between organic molecules.
Interestingly, fullerenes are known to be excellent acceptor molecules because of their variable hybridization states, ability to rehybridize, and curved topology. (However, it is significant to note that since this discovery of use for fullerenes in solar cells, a new highly-efficient class has emerged that is now known as the non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) organic solar cells, which has similar electron accepting properties as fullerenes—but is obviously non-fullerene molecules.) Fullerenes are also electronically confined materials, and they contain potential (i.e., quantum) wells. This means that it is hard to remove an electron once it has entered the potential well of a fullerene molecule. The use of an electron blocking layer that sandwiches the fullerene layer to prevent any electrons from leaving and recombining with the holes creates an additional barricade.
The only way that an electron can influence the realm outside of the potential well is through electron tunneling. However, when you place quantum wells side by side, that is, in a way that the fullerenes molecules can be placed next to each other in a layer, they can form what is known as a “superlattice.” If the distances between quantum wells are less than the reach of an electron’s tunneling wavefunction, the electronic wavelengths can overlap and create a connection between the potential wells, which enables the electrons (and a current) to flow. So, by trapping electrons within the fullerene layers, the close proximity of the potential wells from molecule to molecule enables the electrons to flow unimpeded with no risk of entanglement.
Again, because they are freely moving and cannot recombine with the holes in the energy-producing layer, electrons can travel farther—up to several centimeters, rather than mere nanometers—which enables them to produce a greater amount of electrical current. This is a result of, as mentioned, a greater current that is now possible, not because a single electron carries more energy but because there are more current (i.e., charge) carriers flowing around the electrical circuit. Ultimately, these increases in specific current (and efficiency) within organic solar cells is dependent on how many electrons were flowing around the system before the fullerenes were added compared to after.
The researchers at the University of Michigan acknowledge that this discovery is only a start and that there’s more work to be done to improve solar cell design, in particular in researching what else makes good electron conductors in organic materials. Stephen Forrest, professor of engineering at the University of Michigan, anticipates that it could take as many as 10 years for a major organic solar cell solution to emerge.
This fullerene discovery, though, paves the way for organic materials to be useful to create transparent solar cells that are very efficient over longer distances. Solar cell manufacturers can shrink a solar cell's conductive electrode into an invisible grid, for example, and combined with the organic solar cells’ other characteristics, solar cells can form laminations over any surface without obstruction. With lower polymer processing costs associated with organic solar cells, these solutions can be reasonably inexpensive for a wide range of applications. Perhaps the biggest breakthrough in this discovery involving organic solar cells is that more discoveries leading to more advances are on the horizon.
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"What! Give me what?" said the peasant. "Why, she will kiss me, and say, '
What the old man does is always right.'"
"Let us lay wager on it," said the Englishman. "We'll wager a ton of coined gold, a hundred pounds to the hundred-weight."
"No; a bushel will be enough," replied the peasant. "I can only set a bushel of apples against it, and I'll throw myself and my old woman into the bargain; that will pile up the measure, I fancy."
"Done! taken!" and so the bet was made.
Then the landlord's coach came to the door, and the two Englishmen and the peasant got in, and away they drove, and soon arrived at the peasant's hut. "
Good evening, old woman." "Good evening, old man." "I've made the exchange."
"Ah, well, you understand what you're about," said the woman. Then she embraced h
im, and paid no attention to the strangers, nor did she notice the sack.
"I got a cow in exchange for the horse."
"Thank Heaven," said she. "Now we shall hav
e plenty of milk, and butter and cheese on the table. That was capital exchange."
"Yes, but I changed the cow for a sheep."
"Ah, better still!" cried the wif
e. "You always think of everything; we have just enough pasture for a sheep. Ewe's milk and cheese, woollen jackets and stockings! The cow could not give all these, and her hairs only fall off. How you think of every-thing!"
"But I changed the sheep for a goose."
然后酒主人的马车来到门口，两个英国人和农夫坐上去，快马加鞭，不久就到了农夫的茅屋。 「晚安，老婆！」 「晚安，老公！」 「我做完交易了。」
「谢谢上帝！」她说。 「现在我们可以挤很多牛奶，而且桌上会有奶油和乳酪。 那是不错的交易。」
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Self-made superstars hold a certain mystique in our society. You probably know the story of how your favorite musician or sports star went from rags to riches; for example, Bob Marley and Stevie Nicks were both parts of the cleaning staff of hotels to make ends meet before their music careers took off. When you visit a restaurant in the New York City suburbs, there is a good chance that your server has aspirations of singing on Broadway. In professional baseball, an entire category of players has had the worst of both worlds until recently; minor league players were required to undergo many hours of training per year, in exchange for little or no pay. MLB has recently settled a class action lawsuit with a group of minor league players demanding fair pay. If your employer does not abide by laws about fair pay, contact a New Jersey employment lawyer.
MLB Settles Federal Class Action Lawsuit for $185 Million
In February 2014, a group of minor league baseball players filed a federal class action lawsuit against Major League Baseball. The class of plaintiffs includes three groups of minor league players; the first participated in spring training in Florida in 2009, the second participated in spring training in California in 2010, and the third participated in spring training in Arizona in 2011. They alleged that pursuant to MLB policy, they received little or no pay during mandatory training sessions. In May 2022, MLB agreed to pay a class action settlement of $185 million to make up for the pay it owes to the players. Approximately $120 million of the settlement money will be paid to players, and the rest will cover attorneys’ fees.
By not paying players during training, MLB violated several employment laws. Pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers must pay employees during training. The training wage must be greater than or equal to the state minimum wage. Likewise, employers must pay employees for overtime for every hour in excess of the 40th hour that the employee works during a seven-day period; the overtime pay must be 1.5 times the employee’s usual rate of pay. During the time that minor league players spend in spring training, extended spring training, and instructional leagues, there are many weeks when they work more than 40 hours. Seasonal employees, by contrast, are not entitled to overtime pay. Examples of seasonal employment include Halloween costume stores that are only open in October and festivals that last a few days and employing workers for several weeks of preparation for the event. The lawyers for the plaintiffs successfully argued that minor league players are year-round employees instead of seasonal employees.
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Spencer Davis, who founded the influential beat band The Spencer Davis Group, has died at the age of 81.
The Welsh-born musician, who produced hits including Keep On Running and I’m A Man, died in hospital while being treated for pneumonia.
His agent Bob Birk told the PA news agency: “I have represented him as his agent for over 30 years.
“He was a very good friend. He was a highly ethical, very talented, good hearted, extremely intelligent, generous man.
“He leaves behind his long-time domestic partner June and three adult children.
“He will be missed.”
Davis, who was known in musical circles as the Professor, was born in Swansea and began learning harmonica and accordion at the age of six.
In 1960, he moved to Birmingham to read German at the University of Birmingham, where he was further exposed to burgeoning genres such as skiffle, jazz, and blues.
He formed The Spencer Davis Group in 1963, featuring Steve Winwood on keyboards and guitar, his brother Muff Winwood on bass, and Pete York on drums.
They originally performed as the Rhythm and Blues Quartet and played mostly R&B covers.
Within a year, they had landed a regular gig at the famous Marquee Club on Oxford Street in London, and by 1964 had adopted the name The Spencer Davis Group.
They topped the UK singles chart twice and had seven top 40 singles, according to the Official Charts Company.
The original line-up were together for six years, with subsequent reunions featuring a variety of new players.
The track Gimme Some Lovin’ famously featured on the soundtracks of films The Blues Brothers and Notting Hill.
Music by The Spencer Davis Group is also included in the recent Helen Reddy biopic I Am Woman.
Actor Philip Martin Brown was among those paying tribute.
He said on Twitter: “#RIP Spencer Davis. Such happy memories of Northern Soul dancing to This Hammer.”
The Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe shared a video of the band performing Gimme Some Lovin’.
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Adobe XD: A better web design application
April 3, 2020
Keeping up with design-speak can be challenging, especially for non-designers. Trendy terms come and go, but there’s a solid base of essential terms that will improve your communications. Consider this as a cheat sheet.
Color is an essential topic. Color can help us define a brand identity, provide an emotional connection, and even have psychological effects on people. Color theory has a huge role here. Choosing the right colors can be crucial to the start of a connection to your consumer.
Once you’ve determined your colors, now what?
The next step is making sure that your color connection lasts across different media. Understanding the differences among color modes can help. Following are three common color modes you might come across.
Pantone was a commercial printing company founded in the 1950s. Lawrence Herbert, a Hofstra University graduate, used his knowledge of chemistry to organize the company's pigments and inks. Instead of using a four-color system (CMYK), Pantone uses 14 base pigments (including black) to produce their colors.
The name Pantone Matching System (PMS) was created to define the new system of color reproduction. Since establishing itself, Pantone has become the universal language of color. It is best to start with a Pantone color first and then break it down into CMYK and RGB color modes.
PMS color mode is best used for brand consistency and merchandise. Each printer is calibrated differently and may not print the same from different print vendors when using CMYK. Using PMS colors guarantees a match across materials regardless of the printer or print vendor is used.
However, PMS tends to be more expensive, so be mindful of what you are printing. If you don't need complete consistency, you probably don’t need PMS.
CMYK colors are defined as cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. The color codes range from 0 to 100 and are a combination of numbers. In the MarketReach, Inc., logo, our CMYK combination is jade (C-90, M-99, Y-0, K-8) and grape (C-99, M-0, Y-70, K-0). Each color mode is unique and provides a slight variation.
CMYK color mode is best used for printed assets. This mode tends to be much more cost effective.
These are your base primary colors—red, green, and blue. The color codes range from 0 to 255 and are a combination of numbers. Look at the MarketReach logo. Our RGB combination is jade (R-0, G-151, B-117) and grape (R-51, G-0, B-114).
RGB color mode is best used for web/digital assets. In my experience, print shops might ask you to convert your color mode from RGB to CMYK. If you don’t know how to achieve that, make sure to reach out. They are there to help educate and support you.
I hope you are better equipped to determine which color mode you need in different situations. Drop me a line on LinkedIn.
An avid athlete, Eryn brings her competitive spirit to MarketReach, thinking outside the box and taking initiative to solve design challenges. Whether you need animated infographics, websites, branding, print, or a full campaign, Eryn encourages you to trust the MarketReach team to help you be successful. FYI, if you need a job done quickly, doughnuts and cupcakes are her weakness. (Just sayin’…)View our Team | <urn:uuid:35c9a25c-5ee1-448a-93f6-29c8dd752e75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mreach.com/blogs/design-terms-nondesigners-color | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923348 | 763 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Five hundred and twenty-three pregnant women were screened to determine whether a relationship existed between spontaneous abortion, and the presence of antibody to Toxoplasma gondii. The percentage of women with this antibody and a past history of spontaneous miscarriage was not statistically different from the percentage of women without antibody and a past history of spontaneous abortion.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended normal life and many supply chains. Between hoarding (such as toilet paper), unexpected demand surges (such as yeast, for baking), and spot supply shortages (because of factories or warehouses closed due to infection or mandate), some products are in short supply. The most tragic examples, of course, involve shortages of ventilators, personal protective equipment, and pharmaceutical supplies required to care for people infected with the coronavirus.
When disaster strikes, suppliers, original equipment manufacturers, and retailers may find that they cannot offer all their products or fulfill all their customer orders. They must decide who gets what. But how?
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Past disruptions reveal the ways companies on both ends of the supply chain have handled such challenges, both in terms of the tactics they employed and the considerations they used for their decisions. These examples illustrate the diverse approaches executives can use to determine who gets what.
Six Tactics for Managing Supply Shortfalls
The main tactics executives have chosen for prioritizing products and customers when they are unable to fulfill all orders involve some type of allocation. Regardless of the specific approach employed, there are always competing priorities that have to be taken into account, leading to the need for careful consideration.
Favor the most important customers. During several disruptions to microelectronics supplies over the past 25 years, the largest PC makers, including HP, Dell, and Apple, were high on suppliers’ priority lists. Differentiated allocation policies favor some customers while impeding others.
A related allocation criterion is to direct supplies to the highest-margin products and customers. For example, General Motors scrambled to find scarce materials in 2011 after a trifecta of disasters — an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown — hit Japan and devastated factories there. In GM’s crisis room, “Project J” had supply chain professionals scouring the globe to find sufficient parts to keep all of the company’s car factories running. Despite the frantic search, at one point GM could not find enough airflow sensors for its trucks. The team decided to prioritize full-sized trucks over small trucks because the larger vehicles were both more profitable and had smaller retail inventories.
Maximize short-term revenues. Economists often argue that a well-designed auction improves economic efficiency by allocating scarce resources to those who can create the greatest value with that resource. (This is the usual justification for government auctions of electromagnetic spectrum.) Moreover, high prices after a disruption encourage more-flexible buyers to forgo the scarce commodity, thereby conserving supplies for those who have no other options.
The danger in auctions is that customers may perceive them as price gouging. In the wake of the flooding that inundated the plains in Thailand and devastated an industrial cluster of electromechanical parts suppliers and hard-disk makers in 2011, Seagate Technology became the No. 1 disk-drive maker, taking the crown from its more disrupted rival, Western Digital. Because Seagate could not replace all the lost supply, it decided to auction some disk drives to the highest bidder. Seagate also used the threat of these auctions to compel customers to sign long-term agreements. However, customers perceive auctions during a disruption — despite their theoretical appeal — as profiteering. Indeed, after the flood receded and Western Digital recovered, it took back the lead. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to cases of naked profiteering by suppliers of needed medical supplies.
Treat everyone equally. Some companies insist on “fair” or uniform allocations of volume for commercial, cultural, or legal reasons. With a uniform allocation policy, all products or customers get identical treatment, such as the same fraction of ordered volume or the same change in prices. After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, many Japanese companies gave every customer the same fraction of their orders. Likewise, Intel, as a large supplier in the PC industry, generally uses a similarly uniform allocation approach to avoid the appearance of favoritism.
But being fair isn’t easy when customers try to game the system by artificially inflating their orders. To combat this, some companies allocate product based on a portion of pre-disruption historical order volumes. With COVID-19, many retailers have implemented fixed-volume allocations, such as limiting all shoppers to two cartons of eggs.
Shape demand. In several instances of PC parts shortages, Dell raised the price of computer configurations that required scarce parts. The company, though, balanced those price hikes with lower prices on other machines that used more plentiful parts — and promoted these more readily available machines. This balance of pricing changes can help manage a shortage without damaging customer relations.
Such demand management is akin to the revenue management practices used by airlines to fill their seats — allowing price-sensitive leisure travelers to buy some tickets while reserving other seats for customers who will more readily pay higher prices.
Alter products. Rather than raising prices or cutting off customers, some companies turn to reformulating their products. Intel, for example, diluted some of the chemicals used in chip making during the 2011 crisis in Japan, but the company followed a strict quality control protocol that enabled it to maintain its manufacturing yield and chip performance.
Alterations that result in quality downgrades, however, are risky. In February 2013, the boutique distillery Maker’s Mark faced a shortage of its premium bourbon. The distiller decided to add “a touch more water,” diluting its spirits from the historic 90 proof to 84 proof. Outrage ensued. “My favorite bourbon is being watered down so they can ‘meet market demand,’” one superfan, called a brand ambassador, told Forbes. “I’ll help lower their demand by not buying any more.” The company quickly reversed its decision.
Take care of the vulnerable. Customer vulnerability may sometimes be a consideration, especially if the quantities required to keep a customer from going under are not large. Verifone, a maker of credit card processing equipment, wasn’t a large customer for the electric motors made scarce by the same 2011 floods in Thailand mentioned above, but the company’s absolute dependence on these motors led suppliers to fulfill its (small) orders.
Similarly, during COVID-19, some retailers are catering in special ways specifically to vulnerable customers, such as by giving the elderly their own early morning shopping hours to get to freshly restocked shelves first.
Weigh the Scope and Time Horizon
As companies consider their options for dealing with supply shortages, they need to consider both the scope of the analysis and its time horizon. How will their choices play out for both themselves and their customers in the short and long terms? (See “What Drives Resource Allocation During a Supply Shortfall?”)
The scope of the analysis can be driven by the impacts on the company itself (profits, market share, reputation) or the impacts on customers (survival, ethics, long-term value, growth opportunities). The time horizon can focus on maximizing near-term outcomes (survival, quick financial returns) or include long-term effects (strategic goals or focus).
So how does a supplier pick the scope and the time horizon to consider first? Clearly, executives in companies fighting for survival have a fiduciary duty to maximize their companies’ short-term financial outcomes and bias the decisions accordingly. In contrast, executives enjoying a strong balance sheet and good credit have the luxury of more options, including making long-term decisions with an expanded scope of how the decisions could align with customers to promote growth. The comfort of working from a position of strength enables stronger companies to pursue their values and strategic imperatives.
There can be an upside to a supply interruption: Many companies decide not to “let the crisis go to waste” and use the disruption to implement reorganizations that would have been difficult to carry out in regular times. By the same token, some companies use the crisis to cull products, channels, or customers that are underperforming or that no longer align with the strategic direction of the organization. Of course, any customer divestiture should be handled with care, because other customers may defect, fearing they are going to be next.
Regardless of the weakness or strength of a company going into a disruption, properly managing who gets what can help it suffer the least damage from supply interruptions. In the end, well-deliberated decisions about tactics, scope, and time horizon can help a company come out ahead. | <urn:uuid:d56f0fb4-370d-43e7-8c8a-1bee6db3ac97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/who-gets-what-when-supply-chains-are-disrupted/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948253 | 1,783 | 2.484375 | 2 |
It’s not difficult to become addicted but it’s quite difficult to come back from addiction. According to research, only about one in ten addicts are receiving any treatment, which means the remaining 90 percent are on track to remain in active addiction until it takes their lives. And it’s not that there aren’t enough recovery resources available to those in need since there are resources to appeal to essentially any need. There are a number of other reasons why people are reluctant to pursue recovery, including not wanting to identify themselves as being addicts and, therefore, at risk for discrimination, demonization, or even harassment.
Alternately, many people feel that traditional, clinical rehabilitation programs don’t address all of a person’s needs. In particular, they feel like alcohol and drug rehabs address the physical, mental, emotional, and sometimes the social effects of addiction. But what about the spiritual effects? Bill Wilson—founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and the twelve-step method in 1935—once famously asserted that people become addicted because they’re looking for God or for meaning or for some type of purpose at the bottom of a bottle or through drugs rather than from within or through faith. It was for this reason that Wilson created his spiritually-focused twelve-step method.
However, there are other great resources as well. In fact, there are a number of sobriety books that have proven to be assets to many people who wanted to achieve comprehensive recovery. The following are several such books that you might consider as you begin or progress in your recovery.
Mindful Recovery by Thomas Bien
In active addiction, alcohol and/or drugs become the center of a person’s life. Virtually his or her every waking moment is consumed either by seeking or consuming mind-altering substances. And then there are the times when the addict is intoxicated and times when he or she is experiencing withdrawals. This leaves very little time to consider one’s other needs, especially one’s spiritual needs.
Thomas Bien’s Mindful Recovery: A Spiritual Path to Healing From Addiction makes a number of really thoughtful, compelling observations. The book revolves around Bien’s belief that it’s a person’s spirituality, rather than pharmaceuticals or even sheer strength of will, that determines one’s success in recovery. Additionally, Bien offers a version of the twelve-step method that incorporates Buddhist ideals that enhance the spiritual aspects of Alcoholics Anonymous and its numerous derivative groups.
Freedom From Addiction by Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra is widely considered to be an expert in holistic medicine, and that knowledge is put to great use in this compelling book called Freedom From Addiction: The Chopra Center Method for Overcoming Destructive Habits. According to Chopra, a thirst for spirituality is at the center of all addictions; he also posits that all addicts are on a quest for spiritual enlightenment in some way although they’re not usually aware of this. When addicts use alcohol and drugs to become intoxicated, they’re essentially forcing themselves to forget these spiritual needs. After becoming addicted, it becomes difficult to find an alternative to alcohol and drugs that can offer them comparable nourishment in terms of the love, self-esteem, safety, and an overall sense of meaning and fulfillment. Therefore, Chopra offers his Chopra Center Method, which involves an Ayurvedic diet, yoga asanas, and mindfulness meditation that can help a person to clear the effects of past emotional traumas. Critics sometimes consider Chopra’s method a bit difficult for individuals to ascribe to, especially when they’re in the throes of severe, long-term addiction; but it’s also proven to be an accessible method that’s ideal for people whose addictions are not extremely severe.
Gifts of Sobriety by Barbara S. Cole
Many addicts find it difficult to motivate themselves into recovery. They realize they need to get sober but taking that first step—and embracing the prospect of having to get to the other side of withdrawal—is intimidating. One of the things that is so compelling about Barbara S. Cole’s Gifts of Sobriety: When the Promises of Recovery Come True is that Cole outlines how addicts can source strength of will and conviction from the millions and millions of addicts who have successfully achieved recovery for themselves. Additionally, Cole guides readers’ attentions to the promise of prosperity, health, and happiness that lie just on the other side of the fence that separates an addict from a recovering addict.
Recovering Joy: A Mindful Life After Addiction by Kevin Griffin
Becoming an addict doesn’t require much of a commitment in the traditional sense. In fact, there’s an argument to be made that becoming addicted occurs due to a lack of commitment. Conversely, choosing to overcome one’s addiction requires a huge amount of commitment. When addicts are in recovery, they often find themselves feeling discouraged; whether it’s the intense flood of seemingly overwhelming emotions, strong cravings and urges to use that to threaten one’s sobriety, or because of some other difficulty, people in recovery often feel like they’re just moments away from reverting back into active addiction.
However, Kevin Griffin—author of Recovering Joy: A Mindful Life After Addiction—explains that people are much more capable than we often think. Griffin offers a number of ways for a recovering addict to cultivate a positive state of mind through mindfulness meditation, reflection, and self-assessment, providing a method with which a person can restore their core values, nurture healthy relationships, and find the unexpected joys in the recovery process.
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Cayla Clark grew up in Santa Barbara, CA and graduated from UCLA with a degree in playwriting. Since then she has been writing on addiction recovery and psychology full-time, and has found a home as part of the Guardian Recovery Network team.
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Travel Blogger is one particular term that is getting chucked around a great deal these days as a means of explaining someone that truly does travel writing a blog for a living. Sadly, the Oxford British Dictionary only gives a little bit of a definition about what exactly a travel blogger actually is. Nevertheless break that down to its component parts, it makes sense, generally s a person who has their unique blog, or perhaps online line, mostly focused around sharing their stories of their escapades. The purpose of the weblog is to discuss information with others and get an interest in traveling as well.
The goal of a travel blogger would be to reach a potential audience through the use of online communities, and then to encourage them to follow along on social media sites to receive updated with new reviews. There are 3 main ways to do this. The first way is usually to have an accounts at many of the biggest online communities such as, Forums, YouTube and Google+. The other approach is to use a website like YouTube that has video capabilities and then link your site up to that. Finally, you should use Google’s search results to create an audience by creating your own personal webpage known as “portal. inch
As you can see to sum up example, you will discover three key components to creating a travel weblog. The first is to have an account at YouTube may be the largest of all of them. The second thing is to have a site like Google Places or TripAdvisor where you can offered a personal internet site with a description, photo album, and information about going through your brilliant blog. https://irlentwincities.com/2020/03/30/crazy-about-traveling The last thing is to use networking communities to generate an audience to your travelling blog. | <urn:uuid:01c5f9d0-beea-4b05-8c79-e9fd2ca7be35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shivtantraindia.com/uncategorized/how-you-can-create-a-travel-blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956563 | 364 | 1.765625 | 2 |
When I first started to become involved with international geoscience,
the biggest challenge was to master the multiplicity of acronyms. Even
when I started to cope with these, there remained the problem of understanding
what the names of these international science groups really meant, and
how they interacted with one another. The target is a moving once since
they are constantly becoming extinct, withering into inactivity (more likely
than extinction), or evolving into new generations of organizations.
|I was asked to give my personal perspectives of international geoscience. To provide a context, I’ve constructed the attached chart. It shows, from a strictly geological (i.e. not geophysical or biological) perspective, the principal interrelationships among the three major players on the international scene: the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).||To see how ICSU, IUGS and UNESCO fit together, click here for a chart by A.J. Naldrett.|
UNESCO, of which the United States is not a member even though it continues to contribute to “worthy” programs, is guided by a biannual General Conference, at which all 192 full and associate member states attend and vote on an agenda prepared by an executive board and UNESCO headquarters staff. Critical decisions are the appointment of the 58-member executive board and its president, the budget, and the election of the Director General every six years. UNESCO operates a number of earth science programs and, through its Earth Sciences Division, a number of joint programs with other organizations, particularly ICSU and IUGS.
The two-year UNESCO budget approved at the 1999 General Conference for
the period 2000-2001 was $544 million, of which $88 million is for science.
Looking closer, $23 million was for basic and engineering science, largely
information transfer; $7 million was for earth sciences and disaster reduction;
and $6 million was for hydrology. UNESCO programs emphasize information
and technology transfer to the developing world, and programs can become
bureaucratic and politicized.
Nevertheless, good science finds a home in UNESCO, and the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) is an example. Its budget is miniscule, about $300,000 a year, but the 50 or so projects within the program serve as a focus for research requiring an international approach. The multiplication factor achieved through harnessing and focusing the individual research support of participating scientists is on the order of 10 to 20. Unlike many other international programs, ideas within IGCP come from the grass roots upward, not from the top down.
Founded in 1931as a successor to the International Research Council, ICSU operates on a budget of about $15 million per year that is derived from the contributions of member states and contracts from UNESCO and non-governmental organizations. It is governed by a general assembly composed of National Scientific Members and representatives of cooperating scientific unions, an executive, and a secretariat. Most national representatives are appointed by a country’s national science academy. The assembly meets every two to three years to review or ratify decisions of the executive board, elect this board and set general priorities for the council.
A major goal of ICSU is to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to international science, mainly through interdisciplinary standing committees and joint initiatives.
IUGS is a relative newcomer to the scene. The first of many International Geological Congresses was held in Paris in 1878. IUGS was established in 1961 to continue the congresses and to coordinate international geoscientific research. Now IUGS advises and assists organizers for the International Geological Congress every four years. It is governed by a council, composed of representatives of participating nations who meet during the International Geological Congress to oversee the actions of the executive and secretariat (the secretariat has a home at the Norwegian Geological Survey, which absorbs most of the cost). The annual IUGS budget ($582,000 this year) is derived from the dues of participating nations, contracts from UNESCO and other bodies, and grants from ICSU.
Traditionally, apart from the participation of scientists in the scientific agenda, the United States has been very involved in the governance of IUGS. It has been one of the pipelines through which U.S. contributions to “worthy” UNESCO programs have passed. IGCP is currently benefiting to the tune of $70,000 per year in this way, and if this pipeline ran dry, the effect on IGCP would be disastrous.
From my perspective, an aspect in which IUGS could have been more active in the past is that of coordinating its 35 affiliated organizations. On the one hand, the 1998 International Mineralogical Association (IMA) conference that took place in Toronto obtained a grant of $15,000 from ICSU through IUGS. The grant helped scientists from disadvantaged countries attend the meeting, and clearly IMA and international mineralogy in general benefited from the affiliation.
On the other hand, it is difficult to see how affiliation is of any advantage to large U.S.-based earth science societies, such as the Geological Society of America (GSA). Perhaps this is the reason why, out of the 35 such societies, the only exceptions to filing the mandatory annual report to IUGS were the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (last 2 years), the Geochemical Society (last 2 years), the Society of Sedimentary Geology (last 2 years), and GSA (no 1999 report).
In keeping with our shrinking world, GSA, the America Geophysical Union
and many similar organizations in the United States and elsewhere are currently
seeking to become more active globally. In June, for example, GSA worked
with the Geological Society of London to host a meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland,
on earth systems science. GSA is also working on a joint publication with
the Geological Society of Australia, and is discussing future joint meetings
with other international societies.
But these initiatives are bilateral. Its affiliated societies are what give IUGS its credibility as the summit organization of international geological science, and until now this resource has not been utilized effectively. It is encouraging to read in the recent IUGS “Action Plan” that much more attention will be given to its affiliated societies in the future.
A vast infrastructure of international geoscience exists, but this structure
is largely unknown at the national level, unless an individual has had
occasion to serve on an ICSU scientific committee, an IUGS commission or
a UNESCO program. Much of such service is by invitation and tends to be
restricted to a relatively small pool of acquaintances.
At the same time, the best science is financed at the national level and is necessarily presented at that level to an audience of those who might well be judging the next grant application. For example, who saves their best work to be revealed at an International Geological Congress? We have a gap that needs bridging, but we have no obvious way of bridging it except through piecemeal contacts between individuals and individual organizations in different countries. Hopefully, we will build better bridges in the future. | <urn:uuid:e283bfe9-77db-4bf1-897e-ea5b60044de6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.geotimes.org/aug01/comment.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948785 | 1,519 | 2.625 | 3 |
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They helped each other make the Fishsticks joke in "Fishsticks", though Cartman was quick to take credit for the joke even Jimmy came up with it first, much to Jimmy's dismay.
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D-Day and the Battle of Normandy
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Just how can a Bad is got by you Credit Loan?
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Can you really Get a negative Credit Loan without any Credit examine?
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Companies that provide bad credit financial loans have a much view that is different old-fashioned loan providers. They have been less thinking about your last, but keen on your personal future.
By having an income that is regular work, it reveals that you’ve got a useful method to make your month-to-month loan repayments. Loan providers may also enquire about your month-to-month expenditures such lease, expenses, resources and enjoyment and locating the perfect stability will regulate how much you are able to borrow.
How Could You Boost Your Credit History?
When you have bad credit and generally are concerned about being declined for a financial loan, you will find often some fast repairs can be done to boost your rating.
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One road that individuals just just take when not able to be eligible for a standard loans for their credit history, or absence thereof, they have a tendency to appear towards their family relations and good friends when it comes to economic support. Although this is a good idea in certain circumstances, it is ill-advised as a financial obligation between family members or pals may lead to resentment if re payments are later. It’s unwise to jeopardise close bonds along with your pals and loved ones whenever you could simply get yourself a credit that is bad from the state lender rather and never have to be concerned about household feuds.
Tend To Be Interest Levels Greater?
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A score based on routinely measured clinical and laboratory parameters was developed and evaluated to facilitate prediction of neurotoxicity in patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, according to a study published in JAMA Neurology.
Three CD-19–directed CAR-T therapies are currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): axicabtagene ciloleucel, tisagenlecleucel, and brexucabtagene autoleucel.
The first 2 agents are indicated for the treatment of adult patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) after 2 or more lines of systemic therapy, including DLBCL not otherwise specified, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, high grade B-cell lymphoma, and DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma.2,3 Tisagenlecleucel is also indicated for children and young adults aged 25 or younger with relapsed, refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL),3 whereas brexucabtagene autoleucel is indicated for adult patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.4
Neurotoxicity is a common and potentially serious complication of CAR-T therapy that, according to the study authors, can manifest as “encephalopathy, aphasia, focal weakness, numbness, apraxia, seizures, or in rare cases, fulminant cerebral edema and death.” Nevertheless, the delivery of CAR-T therapy is not associated with the development of neurotoxicity in all patients treated with this approach.
Furthermore, while most patients who develop CAR-T–related neurotoxicity experience symptoms within 1 week of treatment, the timing of neurotoxicity, as well as the severity of symptoms, can vary across patients, leading the study authors to comment that “early identification of risk of neurotoxicity may allow for more appropriate triage and anticipatory care of patients receiving [CAR-T] therapy.”
This study included all consecutive patients with relapsed/refractory DLBCL, primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, or marginal zone lymphoma admitted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, for treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel between April 2015 and February 2020.
Signs, symptoms, severity, and timing of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and neurotoxicity, as well body temperature, serum levels of C-reactive protein, white blood cell (WBC) count, fibrinogen, ferritin, procalcitonin, lactate dehydrogenase, interleukin-6, and number of doses of tocilizumab administered were evaluated in this group of patients during the first 5 days of admission.
Those admitted for CAR-T therapy from April 2015 to April 2019 made up the derivation cohort (126 individuals) whereas those admitted between May 2019 and February 2020 were included in the internal validation cohort (78 individuals).
Approximately 58% of patients in both cohorts developed neurotoxicity.
Based on a multivariable analysis of these findings, a clinical score for prediction of neurotoxicity was developed in which 1 point was assigned for each of the following parameters: patient age 52 years or older, maximum serum CRP level of 8.95 ng/dL or higher, maximum serum ferritin level of 641 ng/mL or higher, minimum WBC count of 790/µL or lower, and any-grade CRS onset by day 2. In addition, 2 points were assigned for aggressive disease subtype, maximum body temperature of 38.5 degrees Celsius or higher, and CRS severity score of at least 1, and 3 points were given if at least 1 dose of tocilizumab was administered.
Hence, an overall score of between 0 and 14 points, representing lowest and highest probabilities of neurotoxicity, respectively, was possible for each patient.
Using a cutoff of 6 or higher to designate neurotoxicity, the accuracy of the score was found to be 77% in the internal validation cohort, with 82% and 70% sensitivity and specificity, respectively.
“The score developed in this study may allow clinicians to more precisely allocate resources, anticipate patient needs, and facilitate earlier discharge from the hospital,” the study authors noted in their concluding remarks.
- Rubin DB, Al Jarrah A, Li K, et al. Clinical predictors of neurotoxicity after chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy. JAMA Neurol. Published online August 10, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.2703
- Axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta®)[package insert].[WU1] Santa Monica, CA: Kite Pharma, Inc.; 2020.
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Let’s say you started out on your health journey a few months ago. You set the goal to lose a certain number of pounds and you’ve been exercising more, eating better, and making healthier choices for yourself. At first you were seeing great progress. You dropped in weight, lost some inches, and gained some strength. But lately, despite continuing with the same habits, you seem to have stalled out. The scale seems to be stuck, you’re not noticing changes as quickly as you did before, and your progress has slowed down. You’re putting in the work, but you’ve hit a plateau. So what do you do?
Rather than spiraling you into either a pit of disappointment that leaves you feeling like a failure, or a frenzied attempt to work yourself harder and exhaust yourself further, I first want to assure you that this is normal. Everyone experiences some kind of plateau at some point in their weight-loss or health journey. So let’s chat about some things you can do to try to push past it when you hit yours.
1. Adjust Your Expectations
When first starting on your health journey, it’s very common to see big changes in your body right out the gate - especially if you have a lot of weight to lose, or if you’ve made big adjustments to your lifestyle and habits. But rapid weight loss can only go so far, especially if you are trying to do it in a healthy way. At some point, your initial efforts will work themselves to a point where they slow down, or simply maintain, your results. You often won’t see the big losses in weight, or gains in strength, that you experienced early on. This doesn’t necessarily mean you are doing something wrong, it just means that if you want to keep seeing results, you’ll have to make some adjustments to keep supporting progress. Our health can be very elusive - there’s no one-size-fits-all method that ensures the same results for everybody. It’s a constant state of learning and relearning what our bodies need as they adapt throughout life. So take the pressure off of your body to always produce a certain output.
2. Redefine Your Measures Of Progress
It can affect us all a little differently, but oftentimes many of us let the scale have a louder say in our lives than it should. Just because a number isn’t changing does not mean your progress has stopped. Find victories in places other than the scale. Are your clothes fitting better? Are you sleeping better? Are your energy levels up? Are you able to more easily do an activity that used to be a challenge for you? Are you getting stronger? There are numerous ways to track progress that don’t involve a number, so why not break up with the hunk of plastic once and for all and celebrate all the other victories you might have overlooked.
3. Reassess Your Nutrition
Oftentimes when the calories we burn are equal to the calories we eat, the end result is a plateau. So, you can address one end of the equation or the other (or both). If you address the calories you are intaking, consider honestly what your nutrition habits are. I say ‘honestly,’ because it can be easy to deceive ourselves into thinking we’re nailing it when really we are still allowing ourselves to have one too many indulgences. I know I can be guilty of that. I’ll consider the fruit and veggie smoothie I had for breakfast, the lean protein snacks, the balanced lunch and dinner, but I’ll conveniently forget about the bowl of ice cream I attacked before bed. So be honest with yourself to see if there are any empty calories you are putting in your body that may be contributing to your plateau.
For some people, it can also be beneficial to track your food for a short period to get a better understanding of what you are eating. Whether you log your food on a piece of paper to hold you accountable or you use an app to track your calories, you may be able to notice if there is anything you can change or eliminate.
I know nutrition can be a guessing game for many, so if there is any question in your mind about what is the right move for you to make, I would love to chat with you. We can review your nutrition and I can provide feedback and guidance, and help you form a plan moving forward. Simply send me an email at email@example.com to reach out!
4. Challenge Yourself More In Workouts
The other end of that equation mentioned before is to consider the calories you burn. This is where exercise and movement come in. Perhaps the level of exercise you’ve been putting forth is no longer getting the job done. You can address this two ways:
One is to consider if it’s time to add in another workout. At Worth the Work Fitness, we aim for four 30-minute HIIT workouts every week. Are you getting all four in? If not, make it your goal to add in another day of exercise. If you are, you can consider either adding in a bonus workout, or start supplementing your workouts with some long walks or lighter activity between your workouts throughout the week.
The other option is to consider your level of intensity of workouts. Maybe you can start pushing yourself to exert more effort into some movements you’ve been getting used to. Maybe it’s time to challenge yourself to level up from a modification that has been helpful for you. Strength often comes from challenging ourselves, so be sure that you are giving it your all and trying hard things when it feels right.
5. Alleviate Stress
Stress not only affects us mentally, it also impacts us physically. It can promote comfort eating or drinking. It can trigger cravings for foods that aren’t going to make you feel the best. And perhaps most significantly to your plateau, it releases cortisol in the body, which holds on to belly fat. Producing too much cortisol can make weight loss extremely difficult. To help alleviate your stress, try activities like working out, going on a walk, reading, listening to a podcast, or meditating - whatever brings you joy. For more information on how stress affects the body, and how to better manage it, check out our post on Exercise and Stress Management here.
6. Consider Your Alcohol Intake
While many of us enjoy our adult beverages, alcohol can be a big culprit in causing a weight loss plateau. Real talk: alcohol can trigger cravings and is basically empty calories that bring no nutritional value to the table. Alcohol has even been shown in many studies to suppress fat burning. So to get through a plateau, take a look at how often you are drinking and either cut it out completely for a time, or limit it to special occasions in small amounts.
7. Reshape Your Mindset
Here’s some real truth for you: you do not always have to be losing weight or gaining strength. Stop for just a moment and take the scale out of the equation. Are you happy with how you feel, how you’re eating, or how you’re sleeping? If so, let yourself be content with that! That’s ultimately what matters more anyways. If you want to keep feeling good, keep up the habits you’ve been doing that make you feel that way, and celebrate the feel good instead of the weight loss.
8. Whatever You Do, Don’t Give Up!
The biggest issue with people feeling like they’ve hit a plateau is that they don’t feel like there is room for more growth, so they stop putting in the work for their health. But, what happens when you stop? Your progress is going to start going the other way, and you may find yourself back where you were when you first began. So remind yourself of your ‘why’ and keep showing up. You may have to adjust your methods, but the work is still worth it. YOU are still worth it.
I hope these tips were helpful. We’ve all been there when it comes to discouragement with our progress. Whether we’re not losing weight like we want to, or we’re not gaining the strength we desire, we all have goals, and we all experience stagnance at some point or another on the journeys towards them.
But when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
So let’s get going!
When it comes to improving our health and wellbeing, our actions are most often the first place we direct our attention to. We move our bodies, we eat nutritious food, we get more sleep. But if we don’t also address our words, we might be limiting our ability to get wholly healthy. How we speak to ourselves and about ourselves is incredibly impactful on our health. And one word in particular that I want to address today is the word ‘should.’
You’ve probably had it spoken over you a time or two. And you’ve probably spoken it over yourself even more. Here are some ways it may have creeped into your thoughts:
I should exercise more.
I should rest more.
I should only eat whole, organic foods.
I should eat whatever I want.
I should have lost the weight by now.
I should love my body as it is.
I should get 8 hours of sleep every night.
I should get more work done.
I should speak more kindly to myself.
I should look more like her.
I should not care what the scale says.
By placing the word ‘should’ at the front of any of those demands (regardless of the healthiness of the demand itself) there is a level of expectation put on us. And if we are not meeting that expectation, then it pushes us into a pit of shame. I’ve heard it said before like this,
“What makes ‘should’ so complicated is that it’s always attached to someone else’s expectation, someone else’s opinion, and if you don’t happen to agree or if you fail to meet that expectation, that ‘should’ quickly leads you into shame. In fact, ‘should’ is too often just another way of saying, ‘shame on you.’” - Jess Connolly
Whether someone else speaks ‘should’ on us, or we speak it over ourselves, it is most often rooted in the expectations and experiences of someone else. So if we listen to the ‘should’, we might engage in something that is not what is best for us. Or it could make us feel ashamed or guilty if we’re not doing what we ‘should.’ It could leave us feeling worried or afraid that we’re doing it wrong. ‘Should’ places demands and puts pressure on us to do or to be certain things. And when we let that kind of negative narrative lead our actions, then the motives behind them become impersonal and ineffective at best, or damaging and disordered at worst. And that’s never a healthy place to be.
There is not just one way of living. There is not just one way of being healthy. There is not just one way to eat, or to exercise, or to structure your days. You get to determine what is best for YOU. Taking professionals’ advice or instruction is absolutely significant, especially if we are not an expert in a given topic we are trying to engage with. But if anyone is telling you that you ‘should’ do this or you ‘must’ do that in order to live a healthy life, then you can start to question if they are really out for your best, or if they are just trying to push a product or ideal upon you (which unfortunately is all too prevalent in the fitness and diet industry).
So I encourage you to flip the script for yourself. Change your language and change how you process the word ‘should.’ Here’s a few steps you can take to do that:
1. Identify how ‘should’ affects you
It’s helpful to recognize how it impacts us individually, because we all have varying degrees of sensitivity to it. Ask yourself, when I hear or tell myself that I should do something, does it actually motivate me to do it? Or does it just make me feel worse that I’m not already doing it? Does it pump me up to put in the work and follow through? Or does it feel like a weight that I begrudgingly drag behind me as I try to do it? Most often it is an empty motivator and doesn’t help us move along in a sustainable way any further in our health and wellness journey.
2. Get to the root of your ‘shoulds’
Who says you should? Why do you feel like you should? Is the thing you should be doing something you actually want, or is it something that a family member, a friend, a fitness guru, or a salesperson says you should be doing? Because in case you didn’t know, the 71 billion dollar weight loss industry is often out for your money more than it’s out for your health. So consider where the voice is coming from and determine if that voice is actually out for your well being. And if need be, you might need to cut off that voice from having any say in your life.
3. Give yourself a better ‘why’
Doing so will root your actions in something that is meaningful, truly motivating, and healthier for you. Instead of telling yourself “I should eat healthier,” shift it to align with your values and what’s important to you. Something like, “It’s important to me that I take care of my body for my long-term health, so I am going to make some changes to the way I eat,” changes your focus to why eating healthily is important to you and gives you some extra drive to do it in a way that works for you. That is much more effective than doing something because you feel like society thinks you should. Align your purpose with your own values.
4. Replace the demands of ‘should’ with more encouraging phrases
The same author who wrote the quote I mentioned before gave this example: “‘Should’ says You have to do this. You don’t have a choice. And if you fail, then shame on you. ‘Could’ says Well, hey, you have the option to do this. You can weigh it out and decide for yourself.” Another rephrasing you could try is to say “I will” instead of “I should.” Notice the difference these word changes make:
“I should exercise for 30 minutes today” sounds bitter and noncommittal.
“I could exercise for 30 minutes today” sounds empowering and hopeful.
“I will exercise for 30 minutes today” sounds devoted and purposeful.
It is much more motivating and declarative for yourself to speak with positivity. And it can tie it more directly to what matters to you. Therefore, you will be much more likely to follow through with it.
5. Don’t speak ‘should’ over others Most likely, when you start to remove this word from the conversations in your mind, it will start to disappear from your conversations with others too, but it is still significant to be aware of how much you speak it over others. If you catch yourself, apologize and express your sentiments differently. Because imposing your expectations on others can be detrimental to the health of your relationships if you’re not careful. Hopefully, as you make this shift, it changes the way you and your loved ones speak to, and support, each other.
It might take some time to rewire your brain and eliminate this word from your vocabulary, but taking small steps to be mindful about it can surely make a difference. Ultimately I want you to make choices that honor YOUR health. And sometimes that means we address the words that affect us. So what do you say? Is it time you ditch the word ‘should’ from your self-talk altogether?
Written by Kelly Pruim
Last week we shared tips for forming habits that build up into a healthy way of life, but we’re back today with the second side of that same coin: breaking bad habits. Because oftentimes we don’t just have a need for healthier habits - we need to shed the not-so-healthy ones too. And just like it takes practice and repetition to form a new habit, it takes the same kind of discipline to break an old one.
Now ‘bad’ can be a bit of a relative term here. There are plenty of good things that can become bad habits if we fixate on them too much (i.e. tracking macros can be a helpful nutritional habit, but if you get obsessive about it and it’s causing you stress, it might not be the best thing for you). So when we refer to bad habits, we want you to consider what habits you have that are not helping you live the kind of life you want to be living. With that perspective in mind, here are 7 tips to help you break the habits that aren’t helping you live your best life.
1. Understand Your Habit & Its Triggers
There are three primary parts to a habit: the reminder, the routine, and the reward. The reminder, or trigger, is anything that cues your habit to occur, the routine is the action of the habit itself, and the reward is what helps make the habit stick (such as a release of dopamine that makes your brain want to repeat the habit). With these parts in mind, if you can identify the reminder of your bad habit, you are going to be more successful with cutting off the routine of it.
So a good place to start is to take some time to track your habit (anywhere from a few days to a week, depending on the frequency of it). Try not to do anything to interfere with the habit just yet - just seek to understand it. Take notice of the who, what, where, when, why, and how of it.
Who are you around, or who is involved, when the habit happens?
What exactly triggered you to perform the habit?
Where are you when the habit happens?
When does the habit happen? (i.e. what time of day)
Why does the habit happen? (i.e. many bad habits are a way of dealing with stress or boredom)
How do you feel when the habit happens?
As an example, let’s say you want to stop staying up so late. When you start to track your behavior you recognize that you tend to stay up later if you start watching TV when you get in bed. You tell yourself it helps wind you down for the night, but before you know it Netflix’s “Are You Still Watching?” prompt pops up and you’re still awake. It’s very likely that turning the TV on in bed is a trigger for staying up later than you’d like.
By getting to the root of the issue and identifying the trigger, you can better disrupt the habit and avoid it altogether.
2. Make it Meaningful
Just like when you are forming a habit, having a ‘why’ tied directly to the habit you’re trying to get rid of can offer extra motivation to stick with the change in behavior. If you know why you want to stop doing something, it will make the work you have to put in to change worth it. Take some time to consider the benefits of making a change. Equally important, take some time to consider the risks or consequences if you don’t.
Let’s say you want to stop drinking soda. We all know it’s not the best for us, but why does it matter to YOU to drop this habit? Maybe you want to lose weight and halting this habit can help. If you take it even deeper, why do you want to lose weight? Perhaps you are tired of feeling lethargic and you want more energy to play with your kids. Well there you go, now you have your ‘why.’
By rooting your changes in habit to specific and personal reasons, you offer yourself a stronger motivation to stick with them, especially when you are tempted to return to the habit you are trying to break.
3. Remove Your Triggers
Now that you’ve identified the things that trigger your bad habit, and you have some extra motivation to put an end to it, the next step is to remove as many triggers as you can. If you break off the things that cause the habit, you’ll make it easier for yourself to break it.
For example, if the to-go menus on your fridge make you want to order fast food every time you see them, toss them out. If you eat junk food when it’s in the house, offer your stash to a friend or throw it away. If you end up scrolling on your phone every time it buzzes, turn off your notifications. If driving by the coffee shop on the way to work lands you in the drive thru every day, try going a different route. If hanging out with a certain friend always leads to you having too much to drink, take a break from spending as much time with them if they’re not going to be supportive of your habit breaking attempts. Or, when considering that stress is a root cause of many bad habits, put some effort into intentionally alleviating stress in constructive ways to avoid putting yourself in a state of mind that will trigger your habit.
Not all triggers will be removable, but consider what changes you can make to your environment to set you up for success.
4. Replace The Habit With Something Better
In some cases our habits might add some kind of value to our lives (i.e. smoking a cigarette could give you some sense of stress relief), so cutting them out completely feels much more daunting. James Clear, author of the NYT Best Seller Atomic Habits, has said that “If you expect yourself to simply cut out bad habits without replacing them, then you’ll have certain needs that will be unmet and it’s going to be hard to stick to a routine of ‘just don’t do it’ for very long.” So instead, you’ll want to fulfill the need by replacing the habit with something healthier.
To continue with the example of smoking, any time you are triggered to have a cigarette, pop a piece of gym in your mouth or go for a quick walk instead. Having a concrete action to perform in place of the habit you had helps your brain to disassociate with the negative action and replace it with the better one. The more you repeat the new behavior, the more it becomes an impulsive routine (and hopefully a routine that makes you feel better too).
5. Use Accountability
Like so many aspects of our health, accountability helps us get the job done. The thought might cross your mind that if you take on a habit change alone, then no one will see you fail. But the truth is that if you set yourself up with a support system, you increase your odds of success.
If you know someone who might want to kick the same bad habit as you, partner up to do it together. That way you can have someone who understands the tough moments and can celebrate with you in the victories along the way. Plus, having someone who is relying on you and expects you to be better can be a great motivator.
If you don’t have anyone who is trying to change a habit alongside you, you can still confide in a friend about the habit you’re trying to break. That way, they can be a source of encouragement and they can offer gentle reminders to you if they notice you slipping back into old habits. In some cases, you may even consider more professional help for advice or accountability.
As a supplemental form of accountability, leave yourself reminders to keep you focused when you have moments of weakness. Leave a sticky note in the pantry on the spot where you normally kept your sugar fix. Set a timer on your phone when using certain apps so you don’t lose track of time. Or use our free downloadable Habit Builder as a “Habit Breaker” by keeping track of how many days you successfully avoid your former bad habit (plus it has a place on it to write down your ‘why’ to remind you of your ultimate motivation).
6. Embrace Progress Over Perfection
Here’s the thing, slip ups are bound to happen. Especially when you are breaking a habit you’ve had for awhile. So instead of getting defeated and giving up hope that you can ever break this habit when the slip up occurs, plan for it and give yourself grace.
What we mean by plan for it is to consider an action you can take when you do have a slip up that will get you back on track. Maybe you take three deep breaths, you write down your ‘why’ on a piece of paper, or you list off the negative consequences you’ll face if you fall back into the habit. Whatever it takes for you to pause, get back up, dust yourself off, and make a different choice next time.
But ultimately you are going to have to ditch the all or nothing mindset and give yourself some grace. Mistakes happen, so learn from them instead of wallowing in them. If you have a slip up, consider how many days you went prior to that without engaging with the habit and celebrate it! Having one slip up does not take away those days that you were successful. Anything you do that’s more of what you want is good.
7. Be Patient
Just like with building a new habit, breaking a bad habit takes time, effort, and perseverance. And the time it takes will depend on a variety of things including how long you’ve had the habit, the kind of needs the habit fulfills, or your level of support in breaking the habit. So stay the course and keep going. The path may not be linear, and there may be setbacks and adjustments needed along the way, but if you keep working at it, eventually you CAN experience freedom from your vices, once and for all!
We hope these tips leave you inspired to take on the elimination of the habit that has been lingering in the back of your mind while you read this. We absolutely believe you can shed the things that are holding you back from living the life you want. You are strong. You are capable. And you are worth it!
So tell us in the comments, what bad habit are you going to work on breaking first?
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Written by Kelly Pruim
With the start of the new year comes the inspiration (or pressure, depending on how you feel about it) to set goals and aim high for change. Now, more than ever probably, we all want to make this year better than the last. But it can be very daunting to change everything all at once. Many people try. But according to some estimates, only 4-8% of people actually stick to their new year’s resolutions, and most people will ditch their resolutions before the end of January. Does this mean that it’s a hopeless pursuit to try to change your life? Absolutely not. It just means that it takes some work to do so.
At Worth the Work Fitness, we believe that quick fixes and short term programs lead to short term commitment. And we see that as a problem, because our health is something that matters for our entire lives. So we try to change the game by focusing on a long term vision. And we do that by helping people create sustainable habits that build a healthy life. But as we mentioned, that takes some work. So today we’re offering up 9 tips that we often use to guide our clients on their journeys to build healthy habits that stick.
1. Give It Significance
As our core values state, when it comes to health and wellness we believe in being fueled by a big picture 'why'. That’s because if you know why you want to do something, it will make the work you have to put in worth it to you. Your ‘why’ gives you the motivation you need to keep fighting if you ever feel like giving up. The same goes for when you’re building a habit. By attaching a ‘why’ behind the habit you are forming, you make it mean more to you. You give yourself more incentive to stick with it.
Here’s an example: Let’s say you want to exercise every day. Why specifically do you want to do that? Maybe it’s to lose weight. But let’s take it further: why do you want to lose weight? Maybe it’s to have more self-confidence. Well, there you have it. Now you have a ‘why’ that means something far more to you than simply exercising because you think you should.
Note: I want to speak to that last word there: should. I don’t want you to focus on all of the things that you might think you “should” have as habits. Because shame and guilt are empty motivators. But unfortunately, a lot of the health and fitness industry still tries to use them in order to convince you to follow their program or use their products. So be sure to make your ‘why’ something that is important to YOU - not what others think or say you should be doing.
2. Start Small
This is probably one of the most significant tips: don’t try to take on everything all at once. Sure, motivation is high this time of year, and I don’t want to doubt what you are capable of. But oftentimes big behavior changes require a high level of motivation that can’t be sustained. And we’re all about sustainability here. We want to help you not only form healthy habits - we want to enable you to stick to them!
Start by breaking down the overall habit you want to achieve into something so small that you don’t even really need to rely on motivation to get you to do it. Here’s an example: Say you want to eat healthier. Now that’s a very broad habit, and there are a lot of ways to take it on. So let’s break it down. Instead of completely upending your lifestyle and eating only nutritious whole foods at every single meal, every day of the week, think smaller. Start with simply putting an apple in your lunch bag every day. Or aiming to eat one serving of a vegetable at each meal.
Don’t let yourself believe the lie that you’re setting the bar too low. The point is to give yourself some foundation to build on. Once you feel firm about one habit, your willpower and motivation will have increased and you can build the habit further, or you can add another in. Doing it this way makes it easier to stick to your habit over the long haul.
Oftentimes, the more pushback we get on something, the more likely we are to give up on it. Now there is certainly a time and a place for challenging ourselves, but when just starting out on a journey towards healthy living, it's best to make the process easier so you can stick with it. One way to do that is to remove the obstacles that might stand in the way of your new habit.
A common example is laying out your workout clothes at night so that when you wake up in the morning you have already removed the decision of what to wear. Or packing your gym bag and leaving it by the door so it’s already ready to go.
Another way to simplify a habit is by breaking it into chunks. Let’s say you want to meditate for 20 minutes a day because it relaxes your mind and eases your stress. But it’s hard for you to consistently have 20 minutes of uninterrupted time every day. How about instead you break it into two 10 minute segments. Or even four segments of 5 minutes a day. Break it down in a way that works for you and prevents excuses or interruptions from getting in the way of you sticking to it. Then, once you master it, you can build on it.
4. Stack It Up
Oftentimes the best way to form a habit is to attach it to a habit that you already have established - it’s called habit stacking. You take something that is already automatically a part of your day and you add in the new habit you want to build with it so that it can become a natural part of your day as well.
Let me give you a personal example from when I set the goal to drink more water each day. I already had the well established habit of drinking a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, so when I went to turn on the coffee pot, I filled up a glass of water to drink before my coffee was ready. I didn’t change my regular routine. I just added to it. Or here’s another example: you can use the two minutes it takes to brush your teeth to do a quick pick up of a room in your house because that alleviates some of your stress. And, I mean, we all already brush our teeth every day anyways...right??
Many of us already have some semblance of a morning or evening routine in place, so those can be prime spots to try to habit stack. Think about what you already do, and consider how you might be able to group your new habit with it. If you build it into your routine, then it becomes something you do, instead of something you have to do.
5. Schedule It In
Too often we can catch ourselves saying, “I really want to do X, but I can never find the time for it.” We’re all far too busy for our own goods. Instead of sitting back and hoping that the perfect opportunity will scream out at you each day, make it a commitment and make time for it. This is especially relevant for those habits that are a bit more time consuming.
Say you want to work out 4 days a week. At the start of the week put those 4 workouts into your calendar as if they were a meeting and stick to them. Or say you want to get better at meal prepping. Schedule a block of time on your day off to do all of your meal prep at once.
By practicing this you have already made the decision that you are going to do the thing, so all that’s left to do is to do the thing. Stop waiting for your habits to happen. Make them happen.
6. Stay Consistent
Quite honestly, habits can take awhile to really stick (depending on the habit itself of course). But they’re more likely to form faster when we do them more often. This is another reason why it is important to start small. When you are just setting out to form a new habit, focus on building consistency by doing it every day. You can even take it a step further and find consistency in the time of day you do the habit, or in where you do the habit.
For example, if you want to start walking each day, and you usually have a spare 20 minutes after your lunch, schedule in a 20 minute walk (because remember, we put these kinds of things in our calendars now) at 12:30 every day to go walk the same route that you know will take those 20 minutes. After you’ve made a habit of it, you can start playing around with different paths or different times of days to find out what works best for you.
Being consistent with the timing can also make it a little easier to build habits that you aren’t able to do every single day. For example, say you want to workout for 30 minutes three days a week. Try to schedule in those workouts for the same time on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Keep in mind that habits that you try to do every few days are totally capable of being built, but they are more challenging to lock in, so be aware of that and hold yourself even more accountable to stick to it.
7. Seek Accountability
Which brings us to an important aspect of living a healthy life: accountability! If you can’t stick to a habit, it defeats the purpose of setting the goal to do it in the first place. So set yourself up for success and find ways to be held accountable to your habits. This can come in many shapes and sizes:
Set alarms in your phone to remind yourself to do it. Schedule it in your calendar (like we already mentioned). Ask a friend to either check in with you or be the person you reach out to when you feel like quitting. Or, challenge your friend to join in on the habit building by participating in a friendly competition with you. Write down your goal or habit, and your why behind it, and put it somewhere that you’ll see everyday. Whatever holds you to it, do it.
To help with this, we’ve created a very simple tool called the 30 Day Habit Builder. It’s a free download that you can use to write down your habit and your why behind it, and then it gives you 30 days worth of bubbles to fill in or check off and track how many days you complete your habit (because who doesn’t get a slight satisfaction from filling in a bubble?). The goal is to fill in all 30 days, of course, so that by the end of it you will have a well established habit. You can click here to get your own tracker to get started with it now!
8. Stay the Course
Now of course, no one is perfect. There will be bumps. Slip ups will happen. No one sticks to a habit every single day for the rest of their lives flawlessly. In fact it’s much easier to break a habit than it is to build one. But the important part is that when you do slip up, you get back on track and keep going. And you do so as quickly as possible.
My dad often said, just show up and do the best you can each day. There will be days that life gets in the way. But don’t count it all as loss. Research shows that missing your habit once does not have a measurable impact on your long term progress, so when it happens, just show up the next day and do the best you can. Ditch the all-in or all-out mindset and embrace that progress is more important than perfection.
Along these same lines it’s important to remember to be patient with yourself. Sustainability takes time to establish. As you slowly increase your habit, or add more habits into the mix, it can get harder to maintain it all. But if you grow slowly, you will better master your habits and make them second nature, which will open the door for you to grow, or add in more, in an attainable way. So don’t get discouraged if it takes a while. Stay the course, and keep going!
9. Set Your Eyes On the Prize(s)
To help reinforce your habit, it’s significant to recognize the progress you make along the way. Paying attention to changes in yourself, or in your actions, is important. Your health is a lifelong journey, so you want to celebrate all of the little victories along the way. So try to notice when you complete your habit for the first time without even thinking about it. Or pay attention to how completing your habit makes you feel differently than you did before. Recognize what improves in your life as you implement your habit. By pausing to mark these little victories along the way, you can deepen the ‘why’ behind the habit and therefore make it mean more to you. This can inspire you to continue with it even further.
Now that you’ve heard all these tips, are you ready to get to building a new habit? As a reminder, we’ve created this simple tool to incorporate some of these tips and help you successfully build a habit that sticks. Because we believe that a healthy life is built one small habit at a time. So let’s get building!
Let us know in the comments what habit you want to focus on building first this year!
Written by Kelly Pruim and Brett Henderson
So we’ve established that sleep is a vital part to our health, but maybe you're thinking, that information is all good and well, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a hard time falling asleep; or I still wake up a ton in the middle of the night; or I’m not getting nearly enough sleep and I'm exhausted. If those thoughts are crossing your mind, then this post is for you! We’re going to go through a variety of ways that you can get more, and better, sleep in order to reap the benefits that it provides (as well as avoid the risks that go along with not getting enough of it). It turns out there are a lot of choices we make during the day that impact the rest we get at night, so if we can address those, we can hopefully make some positive changes. Preparation and intention matter in the realm of health and wellness, and sleep is no exception. So let’s dive into some ways we can set ourselves up for a successful night’s sleep.
Because this is our “Exercise AND” series, a significant place to start when figuring out how to get more sleep is to consider how exercise and sleep are intertwined. Most significantly they are connected by the body’s core temperature. Exercise is going to increase the body’s temperature, which then increases alertness and communicates to the body’s internal clock that it is time to be awake. When the body slowly lowers back to its normal temperature range, it is triggered to feel drowsy, which of course is intended to help you fall asleep. When timed out right, then, exercise can help you fall asleep more quickly and hopefully give you a better night’s sleep.
Another connection between the two are those feel-good hormones - endorphins. Among their many physiological functions, endorphins create a level of activity in the brain that can help keep you awake. Then, about an hour or two after exercising, the endorphins will clear out and give the brain a chance to wind down into a more restful state. How often do you have trouble falling asleep because your mind is racing with thoughts? Perhaps exercising can help.
One thing to note, though, is that there is still some debate on what time of day, and what duration, is best to exercise in order to best impact your sleep. There are arguments that say it doesn’t matter when, as long as you do. But considering the impacts that exercise can have on the body, it can very well affect your sleep patterns. This is where it is important to listen to your body. Everyone responds a little differently, so if you are having some trouble sleeping, try to work out at different times of the day to experiment and figure out when might be the best time for you. If working out in the morning makes you crash by mid-afternoon, try an afternoon workout to see if that crash falls more in line with your bedtime. Or if you work out in the evening and feel wired by the time you lay in bed, try doing an earlier workout to see if you feel the same. It might take a little time to find your best rhythm, but doing so can help maximize the quality of sleep you get.
As for duration, studies have shown that even 10-30 minutes of intentional movement a day can make a difference in your sleep quality. Like we recommend in general here at Worth the Work Fitness, consistency is what matters. So find an exercise routine that you enjoy so you are more prone to stick with it.
Just like you budget your money, I’d encourage you to budget your time (in all areas of life, but especially with sleep). By going to bed and waking up around the same time each day, you can set your biological clock and train your body to expect when it needs sleep. So, if you have to wake up by a certain time, calculate 7-9 hours back to determine what time you need to try to go to sleep by, and then stick to it. Do your best to not compromise those hours for more work, studying, socializing, or even exercising. And adults should also try to avoid long naps during the day, especially after 3 p.m. Setting up a sleep schedule might take some trial and error, so approach it with intention to find out what your body needs.
So you set a bedtime for yourself, and stick to it, only to find yourself lying awake in bed because you’re not exactly tired yet; or your mind is still racing with thoughts. To avoid this dilemma, especially if you are trying to adjust to a new sleep schedule, it’s important to take some time to prepare yourself for your entrance into dreamland. By establishing a consistent, relaxing bedtime routine, you can train your body and mind to wind down and enter a better state of calm as you get ready for bed. I’d suggest giving yourself anywhere between 20-60 minutes to wind down for the night. Fill that time with relaxing activities like taking a bath, reading instead of scrolling, listening to calming music, doing some restorative stretching, or practicing meditation. Dimming your lights also cues your body to start melatonin production. But probably the most significant tip we can give: PUT AWAY ELECTRONICS. I say that in all caps, because I often need that reminder myself. I know I’ve given the excuse before that scrolling on my phone helps me wind down, but biologically speaking, it actually keeps us wound up. Both the mental stimulation and the blue light (which decreases melatonin production) can be major blockers for good rest. So it’s best to avoid using your phone, tablet, or television 30-60 minutes before bed.
If you follow a soothing bedtime routine, and you still end up lying awake in bed for more than 20 minutes, get up and do something relaxing to briefly re-stimulate that rest. Just be careful to avoid anything that will busy the mind. If you are still struggling beyond that, look into taking a melatonin supplement to help support your sleep (just consult with your doctor first to determine if this will be a good approach for you).
Tranquil Sleep Environment
It’s not just HOW you go to sleep that matters, it’s also WHERE you sleep. If your bedroom does not foster a place of calm and rest, odds are you are going to have a harder time sleeping. For starters, make sure your mattress is supportive and comfortable for you, and use bedding that feels nice to the touch and keeps you at a comfortable temperature (this varies from person to person, but most people sleep better at a cooler temperature - around 65 degrees). You also want to eliminate as many distractions as possible. Block light with heavier curtains, an eye mask, or simply by turning off lights in your home that shine into your bedroom. Also, if sounds tend to wake you up or keep you awake, drown out noise with a white noise machine, fan, or even ear plugs if you find them comfortable. One more thing you can do is have calming scents in your room, like lavender, which is commonly known for its calm inducing properties. You can diffuse essential oils, or have a spray that you put on your pillow each night.
Healthy Daily Habits
Apart from exercise, there are many other healthy habits that you can practice throughout your day (or avoid) that will support your sleep at night. Getting exposure to sunlight is a key contributor to your circadian rhythm, which ultimately impacts your quality of sleep, so get outside for some sunshine during the day when you can. Cutting down on caffeine, especially in the afternoon and evening, will prevent stimulating the brain too late in the day. (Note: As much as you might love coffee, be aware of how much you are relying on it for energy. If you need an entire pot to make it through the day, try cutting back and implementing some of these other recommended tactics to improve your sleep). Try to eat dinner early enough in the evening so that you are done digesting your food by the time you’re ready for bed. And if you must, keep snacks before bed on the lighter side. Reduce your alcohol consumption, especially before bed, to avoid sleep disruptions. While alcohol might make it easier for you to fall asleep, it’s not always the best at keeping you asleep. Similarly, nicotine stimulates the body in a way that disrupts sleep. Smoking is actually correlated with numerous sleeping problems, among many other health issues, so ditching that habit should be a top priority for your sleep and your health.
So all in all, between exercise and practicing other healthy daily habits, setting a sleep schedule, establishing a bedtime routine, and giving yourself a tranquil sleep environment, there are many things you can do to get more and better sleep at night. While there are a lot of tips mentioned here, just like we do with everything in Worth the Work Fitness, we want to help you make small, sustainable changes that lead to a lasting impact. So you don’t have to change everything all at once. Just pick one or two new habits to start with and see how they impact your sleep - both in quality AND quantity.
One final, and significant, thing to note: the topic of sleep is a big one, and it’s too broad to cover everything about it in one blog post. Things like having newborns or young children, being a shift worker, or having a legitimate sleep disorder can all significantly impact all of the approaches mentioned here. So for more information, check out the Sleep Foundation (which is where the majority of this information came from anyways!). And if you try to implement some of these methods and you still have trouble sleeping, don’t be afraid to reach out to your doctor to explore some options. Like all of the aspects of health, it all comes down to what works best for YOU. So be sure to give your sleep, and yourself, the attention and care that you need.
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Written by Kelly Pruim
So far in our “Exercise AND” series we’ve covered some of the biggest aspects that make up our overall health, including nutrition, hydration, stress management, and social support. All of these aspects - and more - are intertwined and work together as building blocks for our health as a whole. While it can be tempting to focus on just one aspect (like exercise), it’s important to not overemphasize some areas, while neglecting others. One area that is commonly neglected is the one that we are covering today: SLEEP. I think we all know that sleep is important. But do we treat it like it is as essential to our health as all of the other aspects? Well, we think it is so essential that we are going to take two posts to cover this topic. Today we’ll be chatting about exactly why sleep is so significant, as well as the risks of poor sleep. Then next week we’ll be offering tips on how to get better sleep. Let’s dive in!
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SLEEP
No matter your age, sleep is an absolute essential to survival. It’s a natural function our body knows it needs. Without it, our bodies will creep into dysfunction. While it is true that babies, children, and even teenagers need more sleep to aid their growth and development, adults still need a quality amount of sleep for their own healthy functioning (usually between 7-9 hours a night). We never outgrow our need for it. Even though it can seem “unproductive” because we’re not actively doing anything, the brain and body are at work to keep all of the body’s systems effectively functioning. Here are just a few ways it does that through the many phases of sleep:
RISKS OF POOR SLEEP OR SLEEP DEPRIVATION
It’s obvious that not getting enough sleep leaves us feeling tired during the day, but the more sleep deprivation becomes a chronic concern, the more your physical and mental health are negatively impacted. Here’s how:
But maybe getting adequate sleep is difficult for you for one reason or another. We’ll be helping you out with that next week when we cover how to get better sleep. See you then!
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Written by Kelly Pruim
I’m a firm believer that we are not meant to go through life alone. As humans, we are wired for community. And while how we engage in community can look different for our varying personalities, the universal deep rooted need for it is very real. That’s why it is no surprise that social support plays a significant role in our health and well-being - even when it comes to exercise. But these aren’t the only factors that make up our health. We’ve been covering a variety of the components of living a healthy life in our “Exercise AND” series, and so far we’ve covered nutrition, hydration, and stress management. Today we’re diving into what social support looks like in the context of health, the benefits of having social support on your health journey, and how to better establish your support system so you can keep on living your healthiest life possible.
FORMS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT
When it comes to exercise, a support system and community can take a variety of forms. And the more variations of it you have, the greater support you are going to get. Your social support could look like:
There are all kinds of roles that can be filled in your social support system.
BENEFITS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT IN FITNESS
So let’s say you’ve got one or two of these forms of support. What do they actually do for you? Well, whether you realize it or not, these relationships are actually providing you with a variety of benefits.
The desire for social support, community, and accountability is often what leads so many people to flock to and love group fitness classes. But what happens when going to the gym just doesn’t work for your life? Or if it just doesn’t fit your personality? Working out at home is convenient, but it’s hard to stick with it when you don’t have the face to face interaction that offers a great level of accountability and support. So through Worth the Work Fitness, we try to create ways to have it while still at home. From having your own personal trainer, coach, and accountabilibuddy, to being a part of a Facebook community to connect with others online, you can still experience all of these benefits from the comfort of your home.
TIPS FOR BUILDING SOCIAL SUPPORT
Now, it’s one thing to identify social support, and it’s another thing to tend to and nourish it. Here are some ways that you can find a supportive community, and be a good fitness pal:
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Written by Kelly Pruim
In a year like 2020, I think it can go without saying that we are all familiar with stress in some way. The number of people who experience stress on a daily basis only seems to be getting higher, and as a result, their health is even more compromised. That is why stress management is such a crucial part of living a wholly healthy life (along with factors like exercise, nutrition, hydration, sleep, social support, stretching, and rest - all of which we are covering in this current blog series). So today we are breaking down how exactly stress affects our bodies, and how exercise, specifically, can help.
First things first, it’s important to know that at its core, stress is not fully a bad thing. Our bodies have been designed to utilize stress in emergency situations for quick responses. By releasing stress hormones (i.e. cortisol and adrenaline) the body is triggered to respond in a variety of ways, such as increasing your heart and breathing rate to get a deeper intake of oxygen; constricting the blood vessels to send more oxygen to the muscles for more strength to take action; producing more blood sugar to give you more energy to respond; and tensing up your muscles to prevent injury .
Stress becomes a concern, though, when it does not dissipate. If we continuously feel stress on a day to day basis, or if we are experiencing stress for long periods of time (a.k.a. chronic stress), it starts to negatively affect our bodies, and puts our health at risk. An article on everydayhealth.com entitled “The United States of Stress 2019” explains it well:
When stress doesn’t let up and is paired with the feeling that we have little to no control over the circumstances that are creating it, that’s called chronic stress. Over and over again, the research points to one key fact: Prolonged or unremitting stress exacts a stunningly toxic toll on the body, brain, mind, and soul. Its ongoing assault wears us down, measurably aging — or “weathering” — our insides, for some of us much more than others."
So before we get into why exercise and stress management go hand in hand, let’s chat first about how exactly this kind of negative stress plays out in our bodies.
EFFECTS OF STRESS
Stress certainly affects us mentally and emotionally, but it also does a lot more to us physically than we might realize. Here are a handful of ways that chronic stress can manifest itself:
It certainly doesn’t help that the worry or discomfort that any of these physical symptoms may raise in us can put us on a cycle of creating even more stress. That is ultimately why chronic stress can be so concerning. And it is why finding healthy ways to manage stress is so incredibly important. There are a variety of approaches to stress relief, and the most successful tactics for each person vary, but a major one that we are going to focus on today is exercise.
HOW EXERCISE HELPS
The interesting thing about exercise is that it essentially imitates the effects of stress on your body, and so it helps your body work through them in an effective way. And considering the many connections the brain has with the body, the better you can make your body feel, the better your mind will feel. Here are some tangible ways that exercise can do that:
EXERCISE AS STRESS MANAGEMENT
Like we said, there are so many ways that you can practice self care and work to manage the stress in your life, but because of the benefits listed above, and because we’re about the kind of work that’s worth it around here, here are some tips for stress management that solely revolve around incorporating exercise more into your weekly routine.
The bad news is, stress is sometimes inevitable. Add in a worldwide pandemic and a divisive election season and it might feel downright unavoidable. But the good news is, there are so many ways that you can work to combat and overcome it. Exercise is just one of them. If that’s a route you are wanting to try to help you relieve your own stress, reach out to us and we’d love to chat about ways we can help you on your fitness journey. And always remember: YOU’RE WORTH IT.
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Written by Kelly Pruim
As we established in the first post of our ‘Exercise AND’ series, there is more to living a healthy life than just exercise. While it’s absolutely a significant part of it, it’s not the only part. Things like nutrition, hydration, sleep, self care/stress management, social support, stretching, and rest all together are some of the big areas that can make up our overall health. It’s important to not neglect any of these areas, but it can also feel daunting to take it all on at once. At Worth the Work Fitness, we’re all about making small, sustainable changes for our health and wellness so we can build habits that stick, so we’re spending time breaking down each of these big areas to remind you of their significance, and guide you in ways that you can put in the work to live a well-rounded, healthy life. Today we are focusing on hydration. Strap in folks - we’ve got a lot of great science-y information for you, as well as some great tips for staying more hydrated.
Importance of Hydration
Considering our bodies are made up of approximately 60% water, water is the most important thing for us to intake in order to not just thrive, but to function (apart from oxygen, of course). We have to intake it, because we have to replenish the fluids we constantly lose on a day to day basis through things like skin evaporation, breathing, urine, and stool. And if you are exercising regularly, you are losing even more. When we work out, our bodies shed water at an even quicker pace because of our faster, deeper breathing and increased sweat production. Therefore, when we are engaging in consistent physical activity, it’s all the more important to replenish ourselves with both nutrition AND hydration. Here’s why:
Does that seem like enough reasons to consume an adequate amount of water? And that's not even covering all of the other not-so-fun symptoms that result from dehydration such as dizziness, headaches, rapid heart rate, and more. It’s obvious from this that whether we keep a healthy level of hydration or not, we can severely impact our overall well being one way or another, especially when we are regularly exercising.
Exercise and Water
As mentioned above, your body loses more water than usual when you exercise, and just how much you lose is dependent on a few things. Your sweat rate, the heat and humidity of your workout environment, what clothes you are wearing, and how intense or how long you are exercising can all impact how much you sweat, and therefore how much water your body is losing. And if your body uses up its store of water it will be unable to cool itself through sweat, and could lead to dehydration and overheating. So if you are engaging in regular, strenuous, physical activity without increasing your fluid intake, you’re headed towards trouble. Therefore it is important to prepare your body by hydrating an hour or two before a workout, maintaining levels by drinking water every 10-20 minutes (or as needed) throughout a workout, and replenishing after a workout.
How Much to Drink
There are a lot of varied recommendations on what is the right amount of water to consume in a day, so it may be best to speak to your doctor to determine exactly how much is right for you, but a good rule of thumb is to cut your weight in half to determine how many ounces you should drink. For example, if you are 180 lbs, you should aim to drink at least 90 oz of water a day. Then if you exercise or exert yourself physically, you should add onto that amount to replenish what you likely lost. Other factors should also be taken into consideration, such as how heavily you sweat, if you are on any medications that act as diuretics, or if you have any medical conditions that require higher levels of hydration such as diabetes, heart disease, or cystic fibrosis.
Also, probably the best indicator of if you are getting enough to drink is paying attention to your urine. Dark, yellow color, and often more odored urine signifies dehydration, while pale, clear, and odorless urine means you’re doing well.
What To Drink
There are of course a variety of ways to consume fluids for hydration, but it is imperative to realize that not all varieties are the same. We’ve talked a lot about water, because it is hands down the best thing for you to drink in order to stay hydrated, and obtain the many benefits listed above. While we’re not going to tell you to swear off any particular drinks, we at least want you to be informed about the effects some can have on your body so that you make the best decision for you.
In some cases, it can be beneficial to hydrate after a workout with a sports drink to replace electrolytes that are also lost through sweat. This is especially beneficial for those who are doing high intensity exercise in very hot weather. But this is a category of fluids that should still be handled with caution as many sports drinks are high in calories because of added sugar or high levels of sodium. Some also contain caffeine, which has a diuretic effect on the body and can lead you to urinate more, which defeats the purpose of trying to hydrate. So pay attention to nutrition labels, serving sizes, and ingredients if you choose to hydrate with these kinds of drinks.
We also encourage you to be weary that fruit juices or sugary drinks, like soda, can be hard on your stomach - especially if you are dehydrated. And it’s also important to recognize that alcohol consumption can interfere with muscle recovery from exercise and negatively affect a variety of aspects of your performance, so be mindful of these things when choosing what to pair with your meals. Or, if you’d like to indulge yourself, be sure you’ve gotten enough water in throughout your day and consider these drinks as a treat, not a form of hydration.
Tips for Drinking More
So with this information overload of all things hydration and water, let’s make this a bit more practical. Because it goes beyond just knowing WHY hydration is important. It’s also a matter of making proper water consumption a habit in your life, which is where many people tend to struggle. Contrary to popular belief, simply feeling thirsty is not the best indicator for your need for water, because typically that's a sign that you are already dehydrated, so don't wait around just to drink when you feel thirsty. You want to be proactive about staying hydrated all throughout the day, so here are a few tips to help you do just that:
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Written by Kelly Pruim
If I’m being completely honest, my main motivation to exercise used to be so I could eat whatever I wanted without feeling guilty. I believed the “logic” that if I put in more effort at the gym, then I wouldn’t have to change my eating habits, and could enjoy a nice big bowl of ice cream whenever I wanted without any shame. Anyone else follow that same line of thinking?
While there are a variety of unhealthy perspectives laced in that logic that we can perhaps unpack another day, today I want to specifically discuss why focusing only on exercise, and trying to forgo nutrition, isn’t going to help you achieve your physical goals.
First and foremost, I think it’s significant to point out what feels like the obvious, but is often overlooked: there are multiple aspects of living a healthy life. Exercise is an important part of it. But it is not the only part. Exercise, nutrition, hydration, sleep, self care/stress management, social support, stretching, and rest all together make up our overall health. So when we overvalue just one or two aspects, we could still be living unhealthily if the rest are left by the wayside. For example, you could work out consistently every single day of the week, but still be unhealthy if all you eat is innutritious junk. Or you could be eating whole, real foods every meal of the day, but if you are overwhelmed with stress and only getting 4 hours of sleep a night, would you really consider yourself at your peak level of health?
Each of these aspects takes ongoing effort and attention, which can feel daunting to a lot of us. So we can try to focus on just one aspect at a time, and ignore the rest, because that’s all we can manage. But then we risk the others suffering. However, jumping headfirst into changing every single one of these areas all at once is not typically the most sustainable approach either. We’re all about small steps in order to make sustainable changes to work towards the healthiest versions of ourselves. So we are going to spend the next few weeks talking about each of these aspects of health to help encourage us all to do so.
Now, exercise on its own has incredible benefits. It’s imperative for keeping your body functioning well, giving you stamina, strength, flexibility, and more. But in order to effectively exercise, our body also needs to be fueled well - and that’s where nutrition comes in. In fact, nutrition is often considered to be far more significant for our health (and for weight loss) than exercise even is.
This example adapted from verywellfit.com spells it out best: Let’s say Susan exercises consistently with 3-4 weight training sessions and 3-4 cardio workouts per week, totaling a max of 8 sessions per week. That gives her 8 opportunities to make a positive change in her body through exercise in a week. Now Susan also eats 3 meals per day, meaning she has 21 opportunities per week to directly and positively impact her body through nutrition. You don’t have to be a mathematician to recognize that 21 opportunities is going to hold more weight than 8. It’s not to say that those 8 don’t matter, but it is important to accept that our nutrition has far more influence on our overall well-being than some give it credit for.
A common misconception is that exercise and nutrition can be a trade off. For example, if I went for a 20 minute run today then I earned the pizza I plan to have for dinner tonight. Or, since I exercised every weekday this week, I earned a “cheat day” over the weekend on my nutrition. It all balances out, right? But the truth is, in general the calories we burn in a workout usually do not zero out the calories we consume with a not-so-good diet, especially because it’s far easier to consume a large number of calories very quickly, and much harder to “burn them off.”
Our nutrition and exercise habits have a much more intimate relationship beyond using each other as an excuse to negate the other. They go hand in hand in a few different ways.
Food as Fuel
Having a well balanced approach to nutrition is what can help you get the calories and nutrients your body needs to fuel and replenish throughout your daily activities (including exercise). The nutrients we take in help determine the kind of output we are able to give. And if we are exercising regularly, it makes it all the more important that we are fueling ourselves well so we can sustain our routine. A good way to look at it is to eat to support your training, because if you don’t, you risk lower levels of energy, performance, and motivation for your workout. And if you can’t put as much into the output of your calories, then it debunks the calories in vs. calories out cycle even further because you aren’t effectively burning as much. In order to get the most out of your workouts, you need to feed your body the kind of foods that will help you endure and get stronger.
Food as Replenishment
Just like we need food to prepare for exercising, we also need food to recover from it. We use up a lot of our bodies’ resources when we exercise, so it is important to replenish them so we can get the most benefit from the work we put in. Also, when we exercise, our brain triggers a signal in our bodies that tells them to eat more in order to recover - so really you are going to find a way to replenish yourself one way or another. But if you end up replenishing with a stop at the first drive-thru you see on your way home from the gym, you are going to consume more calories than necessary, which will lead to weight gain. You want to refuel with nutrient dense food, otherwise you could end up feeling constantly hungry, leading you to consume even more excess calories.
Food as Health
Ultimately, what we eat affects our everyday health - whether we exercise or not. It affects how we feel today, tomorrow, and the rest of our lives. Think of how you feel after you eat a more-than-indulgent meal full of processed food. It can lead to bloating, sluggishness, and overall digestive issues that in some way or another affect your day-to-day well being. Not to mention how regularly engaging with a poor diet is linked with major health risks that lead to illnesses like heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain types of cancer - no matter if you are at a healthy weight or not. On the flip side, think of how you feel after eating a nutritious meal - possibly more energized, more clear-headed, more stabilized hunger levels, more stabilized mood, and more. When you choose smarter, more nutritious foods for your body (especially combined with physical activity) you can more attainably reach and maintain a healthy weight, protect yourself from those risky health problems, and increase your overall health.
It’s a shame how many people can overemphasize the importance of exercise, while underemphasizing the importance of good nutrition. Doing so can lead to an unhealthy relationship with both. But instead, we want to help people be freed up to enjoy both. This post said it well: “exercise is what sustains weight loss, but a supportive nutrition plan is what drives it.” In order to work towards our health goals, and in order to live all-around healthy lives, we must place a level of importance on all aspects of our health, and that includes both exercise AND nutrition. It may feel like a lot to take on, but at Worth the Work Fitness we can help simplify the process and support you through it. Just head on over here to find out more about both the exercise and nutrition services we offer.
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The Horrifying Nightmare Syndrome
We’ve all had terrifying nightmares that seem so real that we can’t wake up. And when we do wake up we’re breathing heavy, sweating, and feeling a bit disoriented.
But it’s all a just a dream…… Or is it?
The real-life horror that inspired the iconic 80’s slasher film, A Nightmare on Elm Street started on the killing fields of Cambodia way before Freddy terrorized Elm Street. In early 1981, just a few years before the movie came out, 18 supposedly healthy Hmong refugees died in their sleep.
The days leading up to their deaths they were said to be desperately trying to stay awake. They were trying everything NOT to go to sleep because they said something terrifying was trying to get them in their dreams. They all eventually ended up going to sleep only never to wake up again.
News of all of this quickly spread and it became a cultural concern for the Hmong. Eventually the CDC got involved and what they found puzzled them. At the time there were only about 35,000 Hmong living in America. Hmong men were more likely to die of nightmares, than a car accident, disease, or homicide.
When Folklore Meets Reality
The Hmong believe in the a nightmare demon called Dab Tsog. It was a legend and wasn’t supposed to be really but could it be that they believed strongly enough that it existed that it actually became real enough to kill?
To make a long story short, medical researchers ended up dubbing the mysterious disorder “Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome.” They said that it’s a genetic disease that causes the bodies electrical signals to fire improperly leading to heart attacks.
However what happened to those 18 men was never explained because they were in fact healthy. Could the fear of something like this become real and actually kill a person? We all know everything is in the mind, so if we believe something strong enough, could it become real and kill us?
This is what inspired the Wes Craven, and thus Freddy Krueger was born. You may want to sleep with 1 eye open tonight, who knows Freddy could be right around the corner.
Check out this video we found by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not about the story and let us know your thoughts.
Video Source – Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
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Who Is a Parent Contact?
A Parent Contact is a family member who is currently receiving Early Intervention (EI) services for his/her child, who volunteers to receive information from the Early Intervention Parent Leadership Project (EIPLP) and share it with other families.
Why Become a Parent Contact?
Benefits of Family Involvement as a Parent Contact
Benefits for Families
- Receive the Parent Perspective Newsletter
- Learn about opportunities available for families
- Actively learn about resources
- Create connections through networking
- Feel respected and valued
- Opportunity to attend the Massachusetts EI Consortium Conference (MEIC) & Annual Parent Dinner
Benefits for the EI Program
- Fulfill requirement of the EI Operational Standards
- Enhance team-building opportunities
- Increase awareness of issues important to families
- Utilize parent energy and willingness to “give back” to make improvements
- Access to a well-informed constituency that enhances collaboration
- Gain valuable feedback from families
What are some things that a Parent Contact does?
- Have regular communication with the director or designated staff person at their EI program as well the EIPLP
- Receive and read the Parent Perspective newsletter, via email or in print
- Share news from the EIPLP of upcoming opportunities for family involvement with EI program staff
- Share news with the EIPLP about family involvement opportunities within and throughout their program
- Attend the annual MEIC conference at no direct cost, to attend workshops and meet other Parent Contacts from around the state of Massachusetts
- Become involved with other parents whose children are receiving EI services
- Become involved in the EI system at a level above and beyond their child’s direct services
Family involvement in early intervention is supported on every level, from the home visit, to the EI program, to the state level all the way to the national level and everything in between. Parent Contacts can provide valuable insight to program administrators around the family experience in EI and work with other families to support engagement above and beyond individual services. For more information about this or other opportunities for involvement contact the email@example.com.
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Although the particular popularity of smokeless cigarettes is on the rise, several people still don’t know why vaping is really popular among a new lot of men and women on the market. First involving all, every individual has their own own factors for vape. Even so, there are several common reasons why a lot regarding people opt for this specific alternative. Let’s look at out some involving the reasons.
A great Alternative to Smoking cigarettes
Among all the causes, this one is considered the most common. Scientists are still trying to get out if vaping can help folks remove their cigarette smoking habit. They have the same issue about the security of e-cigarettes. Yet a lot involving smokers go for vaping as they look at it as a safer, healthy option to traditional smokes.
The fact of the matter is that each user features their own reasons to prefer vaping over conventional cigarettes.
According to several research, e-cigarettes happen to be not as hazardous as conventional smoking cigarettes cigarettes since they have no tar or other substances found in conventional alternatives. Concurrently, there are a lot of commonalities between e-cigarettes and even cigars. For example, they have the identical sensation, give the somewhat similar lung hit and can range f hit. Besides, these people are simple to operate plus don’t need a lots of maintenance.
Vaping as a Therapy
Another purpose why vaping is definitely so popular is usually that people put it to use for different health-related purposes. According to be able to the users involving medical marijuana, vaping herbs is some sort of better alternative mainly because it offers much better taste as a result of lack of combustion. Because of this , many herbalists opt for marijuana vaporizers in order to treat the medical conditions of their patients. Some of the most common situations include migraines and even chronic pain.
Cloud Chasing after
This aggressive support is finding popular among a lot of vaping enthusiasts. Actually, they use vape mods that characteristic special liquids plus low resistance shelves. Therefore, they can easily produce the thicker and biggest plumes of vapor.
Typically the interesting thing is of which the inventors associated with e-cigarettes had no clue what cloud running after would be. Following the invention associated with these products, many adventurous minds got it to the particular next level. After a few years, cloud chasing went up in popularity in the us.
Nowadays, vaping has become section of people’s standards of living. Nowadays, you may find these logos on posters, caps, and t-shirts. What is more, there are a new lot of retailers and special bars where smokers acquire together so as to appreciate these products. Moreover, they are quite participating in the internet as well. Each uses different groups and even web-based communities as a way to enjoy themselves.
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This short paper will introduce some tools and processes that can be used to develop a more strategic approach to organisational learning. They were developed over a two‐year action research project carried out by Business Lab (www.businesslab.co.uk) in Aberdeen, Scotland, involving dozens of UK and international companies, government agencies, and educational institutions. The toolset, called LearningEdge, evolved out of the best practices of these organisations and learning organisation theory. Calliope Learning has been using the toolset in the North American market since 2003.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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What is the meaning of symbols in Eight of Pentacles Tarot Card?
The Eight of Pentacles represents a tremendous effort to be achieved. This usually corresponds to long periods of hard work and development.
A man with a hammer in his hands is working on one of the Pentacles. The other seven Pentacles are ready. The city is visible in the background. The face of the master expresses satisfaction, concentration. The meaning is well felt, its interpretation is clear and harmonious – the person is busy with work and enjoys it.
This is a minter of coins, working not for himself, but for others. He creates material or spiritual values that will be used by other people. He does not strive for feats, but simply does his job. Therefore, peace reigns in his soul: he knows that his work will not be lost, that people need him. This person is free.
In this scene, he painstakingly handles each coin, demonstrating his ability for consistency and detail. Unfortunately, the same focus and motivation that propels him forward can just as easily push him back. Six pentacle coins were already neatly set on the trunk of the tree, but the seventh was thrown to the ground as he was finishing the job. If you experience this feeling of stagnation, try to remember which aspects of your work bring you the most joy and satisfaction.
This is a character who seeks to achieve satisfaction, even if it takes a long time to achieve the desired results. He values perseverance and will do whatever it takes to prove that he can take on the burden of his profession. He is in a constant desire to learn, and is willing to go beyond normal standards, toward introspection.
Red and Blue Color of Clothing
These are the colors of fire and water, they speak of zeal and passion. It is also overcoming obstacles and dedication.
A tendency to devote too much time and attention to detail.
Marks on the Wall
It is a symbol of patience, growth, gradual development.
This is materialism and earthly treasures, a symbol of quality and value.
Coin on Earth
Means “I”, including hidden talents, spirit, and underestimated powers. It is also a presentation of your achievements.
Identical Products – the Pentacles
Complex symbol. They can personify monotonous work, narrow specialization, professionalism (high precision in the execution of products), and the connection of the master with a reputable company that stands behind his back.
Mastery through repetition, focus, the culmination of small efforts in the work of a lifetime.
City in the Background
Symbolizes well-being, prosperity.
Procrastination in some areas of life in the interests of the future.
Hammer and Chisel
It is a symbol of diligence and self-control, a reminder to be patient but precise in everything you do.
Distance of the Workplace from the City
An indication of the independence of the master: all phases of the production process are controlled by him alone, the force majeure usually associated with the actions of other people (customers, suppliers, intermediaries) is excluded.
Called the “Lord of Prudence”, the Eight of Pentacles is associated with work, employment, skill. In addition, it can indicate that there is a small reward ahead of you. This bricklayer is young and inexperienced compared to the artisan depicted in the Three of Pentacles, but he shows a strong desire to develop and improve his skills. If you draw this card, this is a sure sign that you are mastering some new profession, and even if you do not yet receive significant material reward for your efforts (work), you are definitely on the right path. However, it can also indicate that you are so overwhelmed by work that you neglect relationships with other people.
Discover the symbolism of other Minor Arcana:
Suit of Swords
Ace of Swords
Two of Swords
Three of Swords
Four of Swords
Five of Swords
Six of Swords
Seven of Swords
Eight of Swords
Nine of Swords
Ten of Swords
Page of Swords
Knight of Swords
Queen of Swords
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With the decreasing costs of data storage and processing, vast amounts of information are now collected and stored as digital text data. Despite its abundance, unstructured data has traditionally been seen as too cumbersome to make analysis worthwhile. But now all that is changing.
Text mining enables you to extract useful information – dramatically improving decision making and predictions – simply by using data you've had all along. In this chapter, you'll find an insightful overview of the three major steps involved in the text mining process: developing the document term matrix, using multivariate techniques and applying predictive analytics. By building your understanding of how text mining works, you'll finally be able to unlock the insights long stored away in your digital data repository. | <urn:uuid:ceb4cf17-2432-4d19-bdf2-8c9de73daf28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jmp.com/en_dk/whitepapers/book-chapters/predictive-analytics-via-text-mining.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939893 | 143 | 3.53125 | 4 |
It’s April 2020. Covid19 forced us to quarantine at home (New York City) and I find myself with some time on my hands. The perfect time to tackle all the nice projects I told myself I would complete some day.
Why not start with a blog? Meet Hugo:
Alright let’s give it a shot.
If you are only interested in creating a Hugo based website from a github repo, just run the following commands from this github repository:
If you are interested in learning what the script does, the following is an explanation.
Let’s get started. We need to build the source code of our blog, somehow.
We will need some basic tools first:
Now for the fun part
Just like that! This is already a fully functional website, smooth right? Let’s see how it looks with
This command will launch a local version of the website on your machine.
Now open a web browser and navigate to localhost:1313
you will see the prototype version of your website come to life with a live preview
directly on your computer, one of my favorite features of
Now let’s upload our project online.
At the time of writing, Github is an amazing place to do this, mainly for its
github pages feature. Basically Github will allow you to host a static webpage
(basically what we are creating with hugo), completely for free at the address
Pretty cool huh? So, let upload our project to github (you’ll have to create a repo first)
Our project is now online and uses version control, this is going to be super helpful when editing in the future.
Now that the source code is online, we want other people to see it as well!
We are going to do this using github pages, specifically, by creating a branch
gh-pages in our repo, where we will place the code
hugo generates when
translating content we write in
hugo works by generating all the files needed by a real website and placing them
<project>/public folder on your computer.
You can see this process in action by running
hugo -t terminal and looking into
public folder generated.
Now we want to set up the
git repo so that every time that we generate new
content in public, it will be automatically pushed to the
Let’s get to work:
Now your public folder will host the
gh-branch of your repo, perfect! To
publish the changes to the website to that branch we can just:
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Who is Tom Giordano?
Well, if you have worked in baseball for the last 70 years you know who he is. T-Bone was a player. He hit his first major league home run off of Virgil Trucks and actually beat Hank Aaron in home runs during the 1953 minor league season.
His claim to fame however came as an executive for the Baltimore Orioles, under the great general manager Hank Peters then decided to get his hands dirty and became one of baseballs all-time great super scouts.
His baseball genius helped to discover some of the best baseball minds in the business today including Atlanta Braves President Jon Hart, who is probably one of the most respected general managers of all time. Hart’s innovative ways in Cleveland became the manuscript for how teams were run throughout baseball and through it all T-Bone was always there for him. Hart has always said that T-Bone’s baseball genius runs second to the love that he and his family and all people in general feel for him.
When Ted Williams museum head Dave McCarthy and Claudia Williams (Ted’s daughter) told me that T-Bone was being enshrined for his lifetime achievement it was one of the great moments of my life. What people don’t know about Tom Giordano is that he was the first executive to help players go to drug and alcohol counseling, during a period when it was very taboo and in turn led to the denial by lots of players with issues. Giordano would be my first mentor in the subject, which would later help me in my assistance to Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry when with the Yankees. When Gooden went to Cleveland, T-Bone insisted that I be allowed to help Gooden there.
At the age of 91, T-Bone is baseball’s senior full-time scout and still one of the best. Congratulations to Tom “T-Bone” Giordano, for your great achievements in a great game and congratulations to the Ted Williams Hall of Fame for acknowledging the greatness and true soul of a good man. I also congratulate Jon Hart: You never forgot where you came from which is why T-Bone wants you to make the presentation on February 18th at the Ted Williams Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg Florida. | <urn:uuid:eecd0878-060c-4e9e-8497-1eb1756e81c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nysportsday.com/2016/09/11/negrontom-t-bone-giordano-ted-williams-hall-of-fame/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982214 | 474 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Automation Can Help Streamline your business.
What is Business Process Automation?
BPA is when technology is utilised to streamline routine, complex multi-step business procedures and transactions into an automated, easily repeatable one-step process.
Benefits of Automation:
- Streamline Business
- Improved Service Delivery
- Achieve Digital Transformation
- Cost Containment
- Increased Service Quality
- Routine Reporting
The First Step towards Automating your Business is to conduct a Current State Analysis. By understanding the current culture, ways of working and value generated our Surge consultants can give you the best starting point for your journey.
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Whether you were fully ready to leave the dumpster fire that was 2019 in the past or you’re just looking for a refresher on what was a pretty awesome year for you, 2020 just started and that makes it the perfect time to create and implement resolutions. If you’re not entirely sure what you want 2020 to look like, here are some suggestions to create a happier outlook in your 2020 and beyond.
A gratitude practice can make your life better at any time, but because new years offer us a blank slate to start new projects, ideas, and habits without judgment that we might impose on ourselves at other times of the year, it’s a perfect time to start this habit. Your gratitude practice can be as involved or as simple as you’d like, but we recommend starting small. Carve out five minutes at the end of your day to jot down three things that day that made you grateful. As much as possible, try not to repeat anything. By the end of the year, you’ll have a whole notebook of things to look back at and smile remembering. Plus, it’s been scientifically proven that engaging in a gratitude practice can lower anxiety levels and increase the good things you notice on a day to day basis.
Write it Out
Journaling is a great way to get out all that mental gunk at the end of a day. Journaling helps you understand what’s going on in your head a little better. It’s excellent for capturing new ideas as they pop into your head and being able to review them later. It can even help you sleep better at night! Above all else, journaling helps you record your life as it happens. At this stage of your life, things happen fast. In a few months, you might be grateful that you have a written record to look back on.
Try Something New
Pick up a new hobby (like photography…who know you could become the next great Denver Photographer like Monty!), take a class on something new, sign up for an elective you might not have otherwise chosen, pick up a new sport, whatever new thing is nudging at you – try it! If you start something new now, by the time 2021 rolls around you might just find yourself an expert in something entirely new. That’s a pretty exciting prospect, right?
Few things provide the kind of soul boost that volunteering does. Giving of your free time to help others, donating your efforts to a cause that you care deeply about, it helps you feel more connected with your community. More than that, it allows you to see the impact a single person (you!) can have in this world. We all know the world can seem like a pretty dark place sometimes. Having a regular time commitment that helps brighten your world and the worlds of others is an excellent resolution to help you maintain an optimistic outlook this year and beyond.
The start of a new year is the perfect time to look at how far you’ve come and where you want to go next. If a happier outlook and a little more optimism in your daily life is what you’re looking to achieve this year, consider trying one or all of the things recommended in this article. Let us know how it works out for you! | <urn:uuid:65b4b6b5-901d-4b2c-ac2a-af33a90b884b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://montynuss.com/2021/04/02/resolutions-for-a-happier-outlook-in-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951265 | 681 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Every year climate change-related extreme weather events and conditions become more frequent and intense. While this pattern affects the well-being of all, vulnerable and marginalized populations continue to face the greatest health challenges.
The role of spatial analysis in local, state and regional public health has steadily increased over the last decade with the infusion of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software such as ESRI ArcGIS Pro.
The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations framework convention on climate change kicked off in Katowice Poland this week. This comes on the heels of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showing that drastic emission reductions will need to begin over the next decade in order to achieve the target of 1.5 °C additional warming. | <urn:uuid:318d5245-e8c7-40c4-9443-062a65e99729> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://populationhealthexchange.org/explore-public-health/climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.905472 | 162 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Captain A. McKenzie
Captain A. McKenzie was born at London, Ontario, July 16, 1844, and lived at that place until he was twelve years of age, when he came with his parents to Sanilac county, Mich. His paternal grandfather, Andrew McKenzie, was a surgeon in the British army and later a merchant of Manchester, England, and the same relative on his mother's side, Edward Carney, was a surveyor employed by the British Government to survey the Canadian country between Niagara and the lower end of Lake Huron, for which service he was granted seven hundred acres of land. John and Mary (Carney) McKenzie, the Captain's parents, were natives of Scotland and New York State, respectively. The father spent the greater part of his life in farming; he died in May, 1889, survived by his wife, who passed away in April, 1892.
Having no desire to follow the occupation to which his father had devoted his life, Andrew McKenzie decided to be a sailor, and beginning that career at age of fourteen years he shipped on the Avenger, as boy. The following season he acted as able seaman on the Harwich, afterward serving one season in the same capacity on the Falcon. The next year he was master of the New York, and after one year as mate on the Coleman was put in command, continuing thus for two years. In 1866 he bought the Malisa, and sailed her two years, soon after coming to Detroit, where he entered the employ of the Western Transportation & Coal Co., with whom he remained seven years. He then shipped on the schooner Clement, and after one season in command of that boat left the water for some time, returning in 1892, when he took command of the lighter Gray Oak, at Duluth, for the Western Transportation Company. In 1893 he came to the Bay City, of which he has since been in command, looking after the repairs in the winter season.
On December 25, 1864, Captain McKenzie was married to Miss Mary L. Ashley, of Lexington, Mich. Their children are: Florence, who is married to H. W. Belville, a marine man, and lives in Detroit; Nellie, who is married to Capt. H. W. Baker, and also resides in Detroit; Alice, wife of Edward LaPine, of Detroit; and Grace, who is married to Andrew Zimmerman, and resides in Marshall, Michigan.
Return to Home Port
This version of Volume II is based, with permission, on the work of the great volunteers at the Marine Captains Biographies site. To them goes the credit for reorganizing the content into some coherent order. The biographies in the original volume are in essentially random order.
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Several Muslims countries as well as the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) are boycotting a book fair in Paris because of the invitation of Israel. ISESCO claims that Israel has committed crimes against humanity in Palestine and therefore should not be celebrated. The book fair is honouring 39 Israeli writers and has said it is a coincidence that it falls on Israel’s 60th anniversary of independence. Prominent Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan has also supported the boycott. Writing in Le Monde newspaper, Ramadan said “choosing Israel as guest of honour at a time when Palestinians are dying in Gaza is tactless and a blunder.” Simon Peres, the President of Israel on a state visit to France this week, noted that the boycott was the stupidest thing I have ever heard of in my life. Next year’s guest of honour at the fair is Mexico. | <urn:uuid:252cf631-f2e7-46ad-9cd1-aace435d9f37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://more.bham.ac.uk/euro-islam/tag/simon-peres/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969979 | 183 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Please help me here... I bought a bougainvillea two days ago, and placed it in full sun. I've read a lot of articles saying that 1) bougainvilleas like HOT weather; 2) they don't like to be watered much and prefer to be neglected; 3) they like to be root bounded. Yesterday, I noticed that the leaves looked dropey and white scar appears on pink bracekts (spelling?). What could be the reason for this? I haven't watered my bougainvillea since Wednesday. The soil looked really dry today, but I fear that if I watered it - it will kill this plant. In the past, I used to have 2 bougainvilleas but they died because I've been too generous with the watering everyday schedule.. This time, I'm intendinfg to only water it every 8 days. The weather in Aust has been 33 degree cel...very hot and windy. Photos of my bougainvillea: http://myfavoriteplants.blogspot.com/ Your advices and help is greatly appreciated. | <urn:uuid:0b3e218e-32fb-49cb-be38-fbc0ebf631b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/bougainvillea-needs-help.23453/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967295 | 226 | 2.234375 | 2 |
A trailblazing lab complex which can test new products in conditions that mimic the world's most extreme environments has been officially opened today by AkzoNobel in the UK.
Located in Felling, the €12.6 million R&D innovation campus fuses the site's 115-year history of product development with state-of-the-art facilities designed to keep AkzoNobel at the forefront of the coatings industry.
A creative nerve center for the foremost scientists and technical experts in the world of coatings, the focus will be on continuing to deliver cutting-edge innovations and products for the marine and oil and gas industries. It brings the total investment in the Felling site since 2011 to €31.6 million.
“As the birthplace of the International brand, we're immensely proud of our Felling site, which has supplied products for some of the world's most iconic buildings and structures,” says Jean-Michel Gauthier, Managing Director of the company's Marine and Protective Coatings business. “The new laboratories will enable our technical experts to partner more closely with our customers and deliver innovative products and solutions that meet the most demanding specifications in our industry.”
One of the key features of the campus is a new application and testing laboratory. It will be used to test new products in extreme conditions such as temperature resistance, fire and high pressure. The facilities will also enable scientists to expose products to chemicals and corrosion.
“We're beyond excited about the potential of the new Felling campus and the possibilities it could open up,” adds Roger Jakeman, AkzoNobel's Technical Director. “We already deliver products and services that have exceeded customer expectations, now we're looking to go one step further and develop innovations that go beyond their imaginations.”
A comprehensive sustainability plan was at the heart of the design and development of the new complex. Features include solar wall cladding, a sustainable urban drainage system, grey water recycling, photovoltaic panels, air compressor heat recovery, and a sedum “green roof”.
The new facility in Felling is located around 25 miles away from AkzoNobel's €100 million paint manufacturing plant in Ashington, which opened in 2017.
Commenting on the new campus, International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP says: “Driving investment into all parts of the UK is one of my international economic department's most important tasks. In recent weeks, we have seen the UK's top international investors reaffirm their commitment to our economy. We have bucked the global trend with foreign direct investment into the UK growing by 20%, while declining by 40% in developed economies as a whole.
“AkzoNobel's investment in its Felling site is yet another vote of confidence in the fundamentals of our economy, which will create high skilled jobs for local people.”
AkzoNobel employs 3,000 scientists in 70 laboratories around the world and recently launched its Paint the Future startup challenge. For more details, visit www.letspaintthefuture.com | <urn:uuid:7da01e2d-1c14-49a1-b67e-2ff446b107ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mysailing.com.au/akzonobel-opens-ground-breaking-rd-innovation-campus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939098 | 635 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Dear Working Wise:
I keep hearing that I should be using social media to find a job. Do employers really use social media, and if so, do you have any tips? Signed, Unsure
Every employer and industry is different, but a growing number of organizations around the world are using social media to find skilled workers.
Jobvite's fifth-annual Social Recruiting Survey of 1,000 recruiters found that 92 per cent of American companies are using social media to hire staff.
LinkedIn remains the leading network for staff recruitment, but Twitter and Facebook are on the rise with two-thirds of organizations now using Facebook.
Many social media sites are also adjusting their services to make it easier for job seekers to search their social networks for connections at companies where they want to work.
The survey also found that more employers are checking social media sites to spot potential problems with applicants.
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (OIPC) has cautioned Alberta organizations to ensure they are not violating the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) when conducting background checks using social media. They even released a Guide For Social Media Background Checks, which is available at http://oipc.ab.ca.
Using social media for employment background checks is risky, because employers can not limit the amount or type of information that they collect. However, it would be hard to prove that an employer didn’t call you because of something they saw on your blog.
Don’t let a poor social-media profile cost you your next job opportunity. Use these tips to take control of your online identity and start using social media to your advantage:
o Search the Internet for your name and clean up any undesirable content;
o Separate your personal and professional social media lives using separate pages, groups/circles, or privacy settings;
o Choose your social media friends with care—what they say and do reflects on you;
o Avoid blogs and forums about controversial topics like politics or religion. Use an alias if you can not resist participating;
o Delete unprofessional photos/posts and replace them with things you would like your future employer to read and see.
o Create a Linked-In profile—similar to an online resumé—and start connecting with professional colleagues that you already know. Be sure your profile is consistent with your resumé. Endorse your contacts’ skills and they will likely endorse you.
o Participate—social media is about interaction. Follow professional blogs and join industry groups/circles on your social media sites and contribute opinions, interesting articles, news, trends, questions, etc. Share and re-tweet posts by others in your network to raise your profile and increase the chance that others will reciprocate;
o Link your social media profile to the web pages or YouTube channels of groups, teams or projects that you are involved in; and
o Follow your local Alberta Works social media channel to get the latest job postings and job fair news. Alberta Works operates seven jobs-focused Facebook pages around the province plus one Twitter feed in Calgary. Links to all of these social media tools are available at http://bit.ly/VrqyIs.
Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at email@example.com. Charles Strachey is a manager with Alberta Human Services. This column is provided for general information. | <urn:uuid:04b7e786-748e-478c-bb18-9c351888a744> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drumhellermail.com/jobs/working-wise/12368-i-keep-hearing-that-i-should-be-using-social-media-to-find-a-job-do-employers-really-use-social-media-and-if-so-do-you-have-any-tips | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922917 | 720 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The case is a 33-year-old white female presenting with a 3-day history of abdominal pain. On initial examination, she was found to have significant right lower quadrant tenderness. Workup included computed tomography, which demonstrated a large cystic mass appearing to be of ovarian origin. The patient required an exploratory laparotomy, at which time she was found to have a large cyst involving the lesser curvature of her stomach. The cyst was successfully resected, and the patient had a rapid postoperative recovery with complete resolution of symptoms. Histopathologic evaluation of the specimen identified a mesenteric cyst. Mesenteric cysts are uncommon; gastric involvement is exceedingly rare. A review of the literature is presented. | <urn:uuid:eb4d5bd1-6d1b-4178-b135-1a5c87ed2e58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16089120/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973962 | 153 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Manufacturers, brands and retailers in the fashion and apparel industry shared perspectives
on the future of design, product development and manufacturing during Lectra’s Fashion Forward seminar
Paris, November 15, 2016 – Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using fabrics, leather,technical textiles and composite materials, gathered over 110 industry stakeholders from 21 countries to imagine the future of fashion during a recent thought-leadership event in Bordeaux, France.
Over two days, leading industry players and market specialists explored a range of pivotal subjects set to impact the fashion and apparel industry, in particular four fundamental elements: millennials, digitalization, Industry 4.0 and China. Participants also took a closer look at how advanced technologies enable businesses to effectively meet today’s challenges.
Innovation propels fashion forward
Demonstrating the power of Industry 4.0, US-based global performance brand Under Armour presented their new state-of-the-art facility in Baltimore, which focuses on harnessing change: “The Lighthouse is a first of its kind, state of the art facility that’s revolutionizing the way all products are made. It’s our secret weapon to develop new technology and make products on a smaller scale allowing for improvements to both efficiency and quality,” Jami Dunbar, Vice-President, Lighthouse Apparel, Under Armour, told the audience.
Celine U, Head of Merchandising at successful Chinese children’s wear brand Les Enphants, provided context on new challenges that companies are facing in the region. She explained how adopting Lectra Fashion PLM is helping the company pursue its goal to expand across Asia. Impressed by the benefits they have seen from the PLM, Les Enphants are now planning to extend its use from design through to order management.
Zeta Beckett, 3D senior pattern technologist for UK-based retailer Matalan, talked about the influence of technology on product development. “For Matalan, Lectra’s 3D is making the world a lot smaller; it makes it possible for us to achieve our targets when it comes to faster product development, more accurate and consistent fit, improved cost control, and better collaboration with suppliers.”
Examining the impact of the millennials on the future fashion industry, Edwin Keh, CEO, The Hong-Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HK RITA) proposed that millennials are ‘new consumers’, massively influencing and reshaping the supply chain: “How we make things is becoming the central question. The answer has to engage the hearts and minds of this new consumer and reflect their high standards–to be smart and green. In addition, the brand has to bear up to scrutiny.”
A recurring theme throughout the event was the notion that locking-in the right partnerships, with the right innovations, will enable fashion and apparel companies to turn challenges into opportunities. “By anticipating change, and placing customers’ needs at the heart of its technology, Lectra is committed to continually innovating, helping its customers to succeed in a fast-evolving industry,”concluded Céline Choussy Bedouet, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Lectra.
Lectra is the world leader in integrated technology solutions (software, automated cutting equipment, and associated services) specifically designed for industries using fabrics, leather, technical textiles, and composite materials to manufacture their products. It serves major world markets: fashion and apparel, automotive, and furniture as well as a broad array of other industries. Lectra’s solutions, specific to each market, enable customers to automate and optimize product design, development, and manufacturing. With more than 1,500 employees, Lectra has developed privileged relationships with prestigious customers in more than 100 countries, contributing to their operational excellence. Lectra registered revenues of $264 million in 2015 and is listed on Euronext.
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Solution of the Optimal Reactive Power Flow Problem Using a Discrete-Continuous CBGA Implemented in the DigSILENT Programming Language
The problem of the optimal reactive power flow in transmission systems is addressed in this research from the point of view of combinatorial optimization. A discrete-continuous version of the Chu & Beasley genetic algorithm ...
Optimal Demand Reconfiguration in Three-Phase Distribution Grids Using an MI-Convex Model
The problem of the optimal load redistribution in electrical three-phase medium-voltage grids is addressed in this research from the point of view of mixed-integer convex optimization. The mathematical formulation of the ... | <urn:uuid:e244c5ce-62f9-45a9-9c17-7f76161fef4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://repositorio.utb.edu.co/handle/20.500.12585/1/discover?field=author&filtertype_0=author&filter_relational_operator_0=equals&filter_0=Montoya%2C+Oscar+Danilo&filtertype=author&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=Arias-Londo%C3%B1o%2C+Andres | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.829968 | 166 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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