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When looking at the architecture around Grounds, it’s evident that as the University has grown, so have its buildings—its stadiums, dormitories, academic buildings and libraries. Here’s a look at how some of the buildings on Grounds—old and new—measure up to each other.
GSF = Gross square footage represents the sum of all areas on all floors of a building included within the outside faces of exterior walls. The measurement also incorporates circulation and shaft areas that connect one floor to another.
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US imperialism and its allies are bombing North Africa everyday in an effort to destroy the oil-producing state of Libya., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Human Rights Watch: Another imperialist tool to mislead the public opinion
HRW owes its legitimacy to corrupt mainstream media.
Most of the people think that Human Rights Watch (HWR) is a non-profit, 100% independent organization. They also believe that its aim is to defend and protect HUMANS. We mostly hear about this organization in war times.
But the name of this organization is misleading! "Human Rights Watch." Really?
A brief recap on HRW's recent inglorious background
Their mission statement says the following: "Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all."
They claim that they stand with the victims. Who are the victims they stand with? In an excellent article Jonathan Aziziah explains the role this organization has played in Iraq, and how it helped the Oil giants and corrupt politicians in justifying the Gulf War; by providing fake reports and by deliberately spreading wrong information. He also explains how this organization recently played a roll in justifying a possible future western intervention in Syria. In another article, he exposes the organization's background and links with pro-zionist, eugenic theory supporters, and with Mahmoud Jibril's main funder, George Soros. Aziziah also reminds us of the role HWR played in spreading the Abu Salim hoax. We now know for sure that Abu Salim's mainstream media story was absolutely false and served to demonize Muammar Gaddafi.
The only thing that could be found in Abu Salim prison were camel bones.
How HRW misleads public opinion
After 7 months of destruction in Libya, and tens of thousands of innocent civilians dead under NATO missiles often full of depleted uranium, HRW comes up with an article warning of "Arbitrary arrests and Abuse of detainees". Who are they kidding? Where are their reports on residential areas being bombed by NATO? Where are their reports on the use of depleted uranium against the civilian population? Where are their reports on NATO killing thousand of civilians during the carpet-bombing of entire cities? Where are their reports on the ethnic cleansing of Black Africans? (Massive information can be found on Black Africans being persecuted and lynched by the rebels e.g. here). We, at CounterPsyOps, couldn't find any of those reports... Why doesn't HRW file a lawsuit against Cameron, Sarkozy, Obama and other rulers who actively participated in the destruction of Libya ?
In its mission statement, HRW states "we investigate human rights violation an hold abusers accountable." If this was really the case, the organization would stand up against ALL abuses on human rights. Even those committed by the Western world.
Furthermore, we now have some reports filtering in mainstream media, talking about how some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worry about the humanitarian crisis in Sirte and Beni Walid. Beware of the words being used. HUMANITARIAN CRISIS has been ongoing since day 1. Humanitarian crisis happens when bombs fall from the sky on innocent civilians. By talking of humanitarian crisis ONLY about Sirte and Beni Walid, mainstream media make a very "smart" move trying to make all the rest of the atrocities committed appear as minor facts.
As in all other war zones, mainstream media, HRW and other deceitful NGOs talk about "Humanitarian Crisis" only when there are power shortages, food shortages, lack of water, etc. These are only a few elements of what HUMANITARIAN CRISIS really is!
In the pursuit of legitimacy: belated and useless indictments
I already know what some people will reply to me. HRW is totally independent and has no link with politics, because they once said that George Bush should be prosecuted over torture. Indeed, they have said that. But when did they say that? In 2011 !
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq started 10 years prior that and reports exposing torture by independent journalists and analysts have been available since then. Did it HRW really take 10 years to notice what was really going on in Afghanistan and Iraq? In 2011, Bush was already out of office. What can be done against him now? Not much anymore.
Plus, HRW talks about prosecuting him over "torture". What about "Crimes against Humanity"? This would make more sense when you know that more than a million and a half civilians died, that depleted uranium was used against civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq (see the effects of it on Afghans and Iraqis new-born babies) along with cluster bombs and white phosphorus, that civil infrastructure and buildings (roads, schools, hospitals) have been destructed - fact is that those two countries have been brought back to stone age...
This is just another proof of whose interests HRW really serves, under the guise of defending and protecting the "victims".
Let me repeat my question: which victims does HRW stand with? They stand with fake victims. They actually stand with the criminals and help them justifying the use of bombs and heavy artillery to destroy sovereign nations and kill innocent people.
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Prime ministers are not exactly in fashion. In 2016, for example, Wilfrid Laurier University reversed its decision to house twenty-two life-sized statues of them after critics called the Canada 150 project “culturally insensitive.” Two years later, Victoria mothballed its statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, citing his central role in the creation of residential schools. Regina, Charlottetown, and Kingston followed in rapid succession. Toronto’s remains standing in Queen’s Park, but it’s covered up. Elsewhere, protesters took matters into their own hands, pulling the Old Chieftain fraom his pedestals in Montreal’s Place du Canada and Hamilton’s Gore Park.
Michael Hill got the proverbial memo on prime ministers, Indigenous peoples, and reconciliation, and he acknowledges in the opening pages of The Lost Prime Ministers that First Nations and Métis communities paid a disproportionate price in the making of this country. But that’s as far as he goes.
Insisting that prime ministers are self-evidently important and that their lives are convenient frames for organizing and explicating larger events and perennial themes in Canadian history and politics, Hill has written a collective biography of four men who briefly occupied the office. If biographies are fun to read, they are hell to write — or at least to write well. As every biographer knows, the challenge is one of balancing: in this case, the men and their times, or what Donald Creighton once called character and circumstance.
Hill starts from the premise that the four individuals who succeeded Macdonald, after his death in 1891, have been largely forgotten, despite getting to the top of the political greasy pole. Point taken. Before reading The Lost Prime Ministers, I could name only John Thompson, the first Catholic prime minister — and I have a doctorate in Canadian history! In Right Honourable Men, from 1994, Michael Bliss devoted less than a page to Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper. In Mr. Prime Minister, from 1964, Bruce Hutchison was more generous, extending a short chapter to these prime ministerial footnotes. One resigned due to ill health (Abbott); one died in office (Thompson); and two flamed out (Bowell, whom Hutchison unfairly dismissed as a “tiny, stupid man,” was compelled to resign, while Tupper, who kept his black doctor’s bag under his seat in the House of Commons, was defeated at the polls).
A lovely writer, Hill paints compelling biographical sketches. John Abbott, for instance, was the first Canadian-born and first bilingual prime minister. And he had a wide range of interests, from music, orchids, and Guernsey cattle to law, business, and politics, which he apparently hated. When Lord Stanley invited him to form a government, Abbott, then a senator from Quebec, knew that the call had come because he was, in his words, the “least loathsome” to a party divided along religious, linguistic, and sectional lines. He was also seventy years old, and sixteen months after being sworn in, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour, or what doctors in London described as “brain congestion and consequent exhaustion of the brain and nervous system.”
By comparison, John Thompson was a much younger man — becoming prime minister at just forty-seven — but he was a Catholic. Worse, Sir John the Lesser, as he was nicknamed, was a “pervert,” according to Lady Macdonald, meaning he had converted to Catholicism. Overwork and lack of exercise took their toll, and two years later Thompson, reporting chest pains, dropped dead in Windsor Castle after an audience with Queen Victoria.
The reins fell to Mackenzie Bowell, a newspaperman from Belleville, Ontario, and an Orangeman, who once served as grand master of the Orange Order of British North America. Like Abbott, he was a senator, and like Thompson, he had an unusual capacity for hard work. But he could be cold, and, as a result, he struggled to cultivate loyalty. When seven cabinet ministers resigned over Bowell’s handling of the Manitoba Schools Question, he did too. (In 1890, the Manitoba government precipitated a political and constitutional headache for the federal government when it ended the province’s dual school system — one English and Protestant, the other French and Catholic — and created a single system that was English and non-denominational.)
It would be up to Charles Tupper — the “Great Stretcher” (of the truth) from Cape Breton — to lead the Conservatives into their long political sunset a few months later, although it must be said in his defence that the Tories won a majority of the popular vote in 1896.
As good as his sketches are, Hill isn’t a historian, and it shows. Put another way, if he hit character, he missed circumstance. Relying on the research of Carman Miller (Abbott), Peter Waite (Thompson and Bowell), and Phillip Buckner (Tupper), The Lost Prime Ministers is potted at best and cribbed at worst. It’s too bad, because Hill had a chance to explore why prime ministers are . . . well, unfashionable, to say the least.
As government leader in the Senate, Abbott moved the second reading of an 1887 amendment to the Indian Act to restrict Indigenous people from cutting valuable trees for firewood — pine in particular. “It is found,” he reported, “that those Indians are reckless and that they destroy any amount of timber to burn it.”
A year later, he went further. In a debate on “Destitution among the Indians,” Abbott defended the government’s answer to the “Indian question” in the North‑West. Although steps had been taken, he said, to “gradually wean the Indians from the life of improvidence to which they are accustomed,” it was an uphill battle. “Of all the savage or semi-savage races in the world the North American Indians are the most criminally improvident.” Indeed, they would “not take the trouble to provide themselves with the food lying at their feet for the wants of the next day, and naturally they fall into these periods of starvation and hardship, which a little more prudent disposition would enable them to avoid.” In short, their destitution was their own fault.
Drawing on the racist caricature of the “drunken Indian,” Abbott insisted that individual land ownership was not in the cards because speculators “would go round among the Indians and buy their farms for a few glasses of whiskey.” Still, progress was being made, he said, “to lead these Indians into more provident and industrious habits.” In fact, “they now have schools for their children.” (Montreal’s John Abbott College may find itself in the same boat as Ryerson University, recently renamed Toronto Metropolitan University.)
As Macdonald’s newly appointed minister of justice, Thompson forcefully defended the government’s decision not to commute Louis Riel’s sentence of execution, which earned him the appreciation and even affection of his boss. Although Hill summarizes Thompson’s two-hour speech — another biographer maintained that it was four hours! — in the House of Commons in 1886, he doesn’t quote from it. Indeed, his summary follows J. Castell Hopkins’s 1895 summary, suggesting he didn’t read the long oration. For the record, here is part of what Thompson said:
How could the punishment of the law have been meted out to them, or any deterrent effect have been achieved, if the “arch conspirator,” the “arch traitor,” if the “trickster,” as he has been called by men who did him their best service, was allowed to go free or kept in a lunatic asylum until he chose to get rid of his temporary delusions? It was absolutely necessary, as I have said, to show to those people, to those Indians, and to every section of the country, and to every class of the population there, that the power of the Government in the North‑West was strong, not only to protect but to punish.
In other words, Indigenous people had to be shown the power and majesty of the law and the determination of the state.
Bowell also answered the “Indian question” when, in 1893, a long-running dispute over a reserve in Victoria came across his desk as government leader in the Senate. A colleague from British Columbia wanted to know what the government intended to do about the Songhees living on the shoreline of the city’s inner harbour. Citing “habits of drunkenness and immorality” in and around the area, William Macdonald insisted that the time had come for “these Indians” to be “removed.” To be sure, Bowell was a minor figure in the affair, but he agreed that relocation of the Songhees was in their best interest, which different levels of government conveniently got to define, adding that the existing reserve was an “injury” to Victoria’s “improvement” and “extension.” Racism, paternalism, and not least greed would lead to the community’s eventual removal in 1911 and to what the historian Jean Barman calls the “erasure of urban Indigenous space” in British Columbia.
When Bowell was prime minister, his government amended the Indian Act in 1895 to expand its prohibition of Indigenous religious and cultural practices. Going forward, it would ban “any Indian festival, dance, or other ceremony” in which “giving away” was a feature: that is, the sun dance and thirst dance in the three Prairie provinces and the potlatch and the tamanawas in British Columbia. (Consisting of “orgies of the most disgusting character,” the tamanawas led to “much demoralization.”) As Bowell told the Senate, it was “better to prohibit all giving-away festivals, as they are conducive of extravagance, and cause much loss of time and the assemblage of large numbers of Indians, with all the usual attendant evils.”
None of this is to suggest that we shouldn’t write biographies of prime ministers, because of course we should. Again, Hill is a good writer, and I learned a lot, especially about the importance of religion in late nineteenth-century politics. Nor is it to suggest that when we do undertake such projects, we need to write black-armband biographies. Canada’s lost prime ministers were, after all, accomplished men who led interesting lives. Still, I wish that Hill had paid closer attention to that memo. | <urn:uuid:3ae3bdcc-03e2-4771-a41f-9514f597ce07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2022/07/the-four-pallbearers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975574 | 2,296 | 2.375 | 2 |
Associate Professor, History
My goal as a professor is to accompany students as they transition from directed learning environments cultivated in secondary school to the undirected learning environments they will meet in the future.
The faculty and staff at Huron work hard to build unique learning environments that introduce key ideas and thinkers, teach how to navigate institutional structures, and incorporate students into academic and professional networks. Essentially what this means is that a student will learn much from our individual classes, but beyond the classroom, their education will be formed by the relationships they’ve developed and we’ve helped to foster during their time with us at Huron.
Universities and Degrees awarded:
• PhD, York University (2011)
• MA, Saint Mary’s University (2004)
• BA(hon), Acadia University (2003)
Summary of Research:
- Active and Community-Engaged History
- Settler Colonialism and the History of Education in Canada
- Open Educational Resources
- Conquest and Canada’s Imperial Histories
- Social Network Analysis
- Public History and Museums
with Sean Kheraj, eds., The Open History Seminar: Canadian History, (in production)
with Greg Kennedy and Stephanie Pettigrew, “Social Networks across Chignecto: Applying Social Network Analysis to Acadie, Mi’kma’ki, and Nova Scotia, 1670-1751,” Acadiensis, vol. XLVII, no. 1 (winter/spring 2018): 8-40.
“Indigenous Intellectual Traditions & Biography in the Northeast: A Historiographical Reflection,” History Compass, (April 2018).
“Borderlands, Primary Sources, and the Longue Durée: Contextualizing Colonial Schooling at Odanak, Lorette, and Kahnawake, 1600-1850,” Historical Studies in Education 29, no. 1 (Spring 2017), 8 – 31.
“Maintaining Connections through a Period of Change: Lorette during the Eighteenth Century,” in Kathryn Labelle and Thomas Peace, eds., From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650-1900, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 74 – 111.
with John Reid, “Colonies of Settlement and Settler Colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-1850,” in Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, (New York: Routledge, 2016), 79-95.
with Judy Burns and Jim Clifford, “Maitland’s Moment: Turning Forests into Ships for the Global Commodity Trade,” in Ben Bradley, Colin Coates, and Jason Young, eds., Environments of Mobility in Canadian History, (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016), 27-54.
“’Six Degrees to Phillip Buckner?’ An Accessible Introduction to Network Analysis and its Possibilities for Atlantic Canadian History,” Acadiensis 64, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2015), 123-144. | <urn:uuid:3ee46e70-aaee-486e-a209-10691a04fb1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://huronuc.ca/profiles/faculty/tom-peace-phd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.858981 | 685 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Noa and the Little Elephant
32pp., hbk., RRP $A24.99
Noa loves to watch the elephants play in the water near his small village in East Africa. One day tragedy strikes and the baby is left all alone, his mother killed by poachers. When Noa and his village adopt the lonely orphan, a beautiful friendship is born. Until one stormy night when Noa may need his friend to save him too…
Who doesn’t love a story about baby elephants? In this one, in association with Tusk, the African wildlife conservation charity, the plight of elephants is highlighted as, despite the efforts of government rangers and the global ban on trading ivory, their tusks make them prized targets of poachers. Foreman’s sensitive text and gentle illustrations make this a compelling story to read and share and give hope that there will still be elephants for our little ones to see in the future.
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Not that many photographs are available of the weather deck amidships. This area was briefly out to the open but quickly covered by the shelter deck. Still, most drawings and the Anatomy of the Ship volume shows the location of vents and details to add.
It’s just a minor issue, but note that the bulwark was changed when the boat deck was extended. The position of the accommodation ladder was moved aft when the pompom were placed in the 1929-1931 refit. Note that the ladder is stored on deck in the upper image. The fairlead apparently also switched position. Naturally, this means that the bollards placed on the deck were moved as well. If you go to the Willis collection of the website of the HMS Hood association you’ll notice the bollards just aft of the first of the three 5.5″ guns and the fairlead itself. This change is missed by all drawings so the exact position was estimated to be between the first and second 5.5″ gun.
This image shows a few nice details. A 5.5″ ammo dredger hoist is seen at (A). All the 5.5″ ammo hoists weee removed by 1940, however, the 4″ ammo hoists on the shelter deck are all located exactly at the same location but one deck higher. As know the forward and after 5.5″ ammo magazines and shell rooms were converted to 4″ ammo magazines, I’m confident sure new ammo hoists were fitted even though these are not mentioned. At (B) a support stanchion is seen (with a white band) that are clearly indicated on the drawings. A ladder to the shelter deck is indicated at (C). There’s something at (D), but I haven’t been able to identify it. I’m not sure it was still present on HMS Hood in 1941 and decided not to add it.
On this nice side view of HMS Hood two large deck vents are seen at (A) and (B). Note that the vent at (B) is seen to face aft at (C, from Warship Pictorial #20). A 5.5″ammo dredger hoist is visible at (D). Note that the cradles (E) for the boats and launches are exactly above the support stanchions.
Pictures after HMS Hood’s various refits below decks are rare. Upon comparing pictures of HMS Hood from 1934 and 1939, it appears that support columns are placed below the 4″ guns at (A). The aft one is particularly vague. The R-class battleships do not have these columns below their 4″ gun mounts so perhaps I’m over-analyzing. Note the left-over detail from the davits at (B) that needs to be reproduced.
In these four small images support columns appear to be present, well enough to decide to add them to the model. If you have your drawings nearby: the in the bottom-left image is not the officers-of-quarters position (a small position at about the same location ), as this position was removed in 1929-1931.
So, this is what the model looks like below the boat deck. One of the disadvantages of my model is that the hull is still the old White Ensign Model core. Because I “like” the way the hull looks now and the amount of time invested in it, I decided not to scrap that part. Still, the new styrene decks were added rather amateurishly; glued directly on resin and putty (oh no). Note the patchwork of replacement decks. This looks awful but will be very hard to spot once to model is done. One of the greatest risks is that the bond between the deck and hull will give way and the model is ruined beyond my emotional capacity for recovery. In order to avoid that, the superstructure pieces will not be glued to the deck; note the brass pins; the are drilled into the hull 1 cm deep acting as an anchor to the deck parts. Each brass pin has been tapped with a M1 thread (very carefully!) so that the superstructure parts can be screwed down, all cleverly hidden beneath gun mounts and directors. Some of the brass pins that remain visible on the model have been fitted with a styrene jacket for easy painting. The thinner support columns were drilled in using the drill press. The deck openings for the stairs going to the lower levels are visible.
Details that are know to be present below decks are the afore-mentioned vents, hatches, wash deck lockers, 4″ ammo lifts, bollards, support pillars, davits and the chutes. The hatch was based on images of a King George V class battleship where the chute is in the open near the aft breakwater. The davits were made in series, four of which are to be placed on the quarterdeck. The four davits I liked least were placed below decks. A slight waste of effort, but nice for this very picture and people taking the time to check if all detail is accounted for. Note that the name place with the text ‘HMS HOOD’ is placed behind the hatches in the bulwark her name can now be found on six places on the model. The bottom-right image shows the cordage reels, the 4″ ammo supply hoist (that is, a bit of styrene strip) and rods leading to the mushroom vents (if you have a vent of deck, the piping has to go somewhere).
Now that most of the hull is complete I decided to add some additional detail: a small line scribed between contiguous armor plates. The artwork by Burt in his battleships books shows these lines and even though they are not very visible on most photographs I decided to add them anyway because it looks rather nice. Now, the lines by Burt prove totally imaginary after cross-referencing them with HMS Hood’s shell extension plan from the National Maritime Museum. It’s just a matter of counting the frame numbers, taking the non-constant frame spacing into account, and a bit of scratching to do. Here the hull problems resurfaced again and many lines required repair and rescratching, including some repair work of the armor belt (plastic) delaminating from the resin hull. Sigh, that was very depressing and it still looks bad. Perhaps I should just paint the model and be done with it. The hatches on the side of the hull were added as were the remains of the davits. These hatches were done twice, because I damaged the hinge system beyond repair during the line scratching. | <urn:uuid:253d993f-b68d-4c42-8105-2e38ae647b12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ontheslipway.com/category/superstructure/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973591 | 1,377 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Freeze-drying is a process where a completely frozen sample is placed under a vacuum to remove water or other solvents from it. This helps the ice to transform directly from a solid to a vapor without passing through a liquid phase. The technique is mostly used in the food industry where it keeps nutrients and flavors intact. Now, it could be used to store DNA and cell information for cloning purposes.
In the latest work, researchers from the University of Yamanashi in Japan showed that somatic cells (non-reproductive cells) can be used to clone healthy mice.
"Here, we demonstrate that freeze-dried somatic cells can produce healthy, fertile clones, suggesting that this technique may be vital for the development of alternative, cheaper, and safer liquid nitrogen biobanking strategies," according to researchers led by Sayaka Wakayama from the University of Yamanashi in Japan.
Currently, somatic and reproductive cells can be stored in liquid nitrogen. To bring the cells back to life, the liquid nitrogen has to be quickly raised in temperature. This is considered an expensive and risky process because if liquid nitrogen is not replenished regularly, the cells will thaw and become unusable.
For this study, the researchers used mouse somatic cells, freeze-dried, and kept them at -30°C (-22°F) for up to nine months before attempting to clone them.
Interestingly, the freeze-drying processes killed the cells, but the team found they could secure the remaining genetic information and place it into new cells - this eventually became early embryo cell lines.
The researchers then extracted nuclear information from these cell lines and inserted it into a new embryo. This finally helped them create cloned mice. From these early-stage embryos, the scientists created stocks of stem cells for another round of cloning. They implanted the stem cells into the eggs of mice emptied of their nuclei, leading to the creation of embryos that the mice’s mothers could carry.
The first cloned mouse, named Dorami, was followed by 74 other mice. To check the fertility of the cloned mice, nine females and three males were mated with non-cloned mice. All the females went on to produce a healthy litter.
In some of the cells, however, the Y chromosome was lost and went from male to female. Furthermore, the success rate of creating young female and male mice was only 0.2-5.4%. For cloning extinct animals, we’ll need to get better at cloning degraded or incomplete DNA. Therefore, there’s plenty of scope for fine-tuning this technique, but if the success rate is eventually improved, it could open up great possibilities for saving the hundreds of thousands of species that are being wiped out from the Earth.
“If the same treatment could be performed in endangered species where only males survived, it would be possible to produce females and naturally preserve the species,” the authors write in their research paper published in Nature Communications. The research team hopes to give conservation efforts further options for collecting genetic material in the future.
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Microsoft Visual Studio is a premium and most dominant IDE for programming which is profoundly prevalent among engineers.
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Better Comments - The Better Comments extension will help you create more human-friendly comments in your code. If you're the one who loves watching different colored comments, then check it out.
Bracket Pair Colorizer - This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colors. The user can define which characters to match, and which colors to use.
ESLint - ESLint is a fantastic linter that picks up syntax errors for you to spot problems with your code before you run your code.
file-icons - It provides unique file icons to quickly identify file type in the IDE.
GitLens — Git supercharged - GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.
Import Cost - This extension will display inline in the editor the size of the imported package. The extension utilizes webpack with babili-webpack-plugin in order to detect the imported size.
indent-rainbow - This extension colorizes the indentation in front of your text alternating four different colors on each step.
Live Server - Launch a local development server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages.
Path Autocomplete - Provides path completion for visual studio code. I personally found this extension really helpful.
Prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
VS Code Theme I use 💜
Night Owl by Sarah Drasner - A VS Code theme for the night owls out there. Now introducing Light Owl theme for daytime usage. Decisions were based on meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and for optimal razzle-dazzle. ✨
These are the extensions that I make use of in my day to day work life. Woohoo! We did it! 🎉
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After a long day of numerous activities, most people prefer finding somewhere to rest or sleep at night.
With the dense darkness and empty streets, you obviously do not expect to hear doorbells at night, especially when you are not expecting anyone.
However, there are times when you might hear the doorbell ring late in the night when you expect that everyone is asleep.
You may be confused and left wondering how to respond to some rare but fearful occasions like having your doorbell ring in the middle of the night.
So, What Should You Do If Someone Rings Your Doorbell Late At Night?
Well, the best thing is to alert the police by calling 911. You may not know the intentions of whoever is knocking on your door. If you opt to open for them, they might just be some thieves or armed men trying to attack you.
For the sake of your safety and the people in your home, you should never open a door for someone late at night unless you know their intentions. However, if you were expecting someone, or maybe your spouse delayed coming back and has just arrived at 2 am, you can open the door for them, but first confirm that they are the exact person you were waiting for.
Eleven Things To Do For Late Night Doorbell Rings
Some of the things you can do when you hear your doorbell ring late in the night.
Even though all these options may not work for you, you can try one that you feel more secure with or the best that comes to your mind while trying to control the panic state.
1. Call 911
911 is an option for those late night disruptions.
From your knowledge, you might not know whether the stranger has bad intentions or needs help.
When the police come, they will help handle the stranger and get to know the exact intentions.
If they were burglars, they would be chased or arrested, and if someone needed help, they would also figure out a way of helping them.
One good thing about calling 911 is that they respond very fast to ensure your safety.
2. Open The Door
Though not the best idea, you can opt to open the door. However, it is advisable that you first confirm who is at the door.
Never open the door blindly to know who is there.
3. Use An Intercom Doorbell
You can use the intercom doorbell if you have installed one on your door.
Once mounted outside the front door, it uses a push-to-talk feature that asks, “Who is there” whenever the door is pushed.
The intercom with a 2- way communication is the best as it allows you to communicate with the stranger at the door without even opening the door.
4. Question The Stranger Through The Door
Talk to the stranger through the (closed) door to know who they are and what they want.
If you have an additional storm door to your front door, you can slightly open it to speak to the stranger but still be secure inside. Ensure the door foot is set on a chain guard before opening it.
5. Use The Video Door bell Security Camera
Several video security cameras are available in stores that you can purchase and install on your doors.
Connecting to wi-fi enables you to see, hear, and speak to visitors on your PC, tablet, or phone.
You can easily check who is at the door and can easily deter burglars who will also see it there.
If you can’t afford the real video cameras, you can opt for the cheap dummy security cameras, which also work well in deterring burglars, thieves, and solicitors.
6. Look Through A Window
Look from an adjacent window, if there is one, to see who is outside.
If your door has a window, do not use it because it might be risky as the outside person will also see you. The adjacent window is safer because the one outside might not see you check on them.
If you don’t recognize the person outside by checking them through the window, you can also ask who they are and what they want.
If you find them innocent and that they are giving a genuine reason, you can go ahead and open the door.
7. Set The Door On A Chain Lock
With a strong and perfectly mounted door chain lock, you can simply open a small space and use it to speak with a late-night stranger.
Before opening the small door space, ensure the chain mountings are perfectly attached.
Use 3-inch long screws to mount the door, so it can be stable enough to resist push-in.
If possible, avoid the screws that come with the door lock because they are too short to give the door and chain a good and secure grip.
Consider investing in a good door chain because the cheap ones usually break easily if the intruder slams it with a lot of weight.
8. Tell Them That You Are Not Alone
When someone knocks on the door at night, and you are at home alone, you might panic, especially if you are a woman.
Most women are not as strong as men, and the late-night visitor might use this as a chance to break in easily.
You can tell the intruder that your husband, father, or brother is at home fixing something. These few words can scare away anyone who has bad intentions.
9. Ignore The Doorbell
If you panic from the late-night doorbell sound, you can also console yourself, find peace, and get back to bed by ignoring the doorbell.
No specific law says you must open a door when you hear the bell ring or it being knocked.
As much as this action may sound good, it can give potential burgers a reason to break in as they will assume that there is no one inside.
10. Take A Defensive Posture
When you can’t recognize the stranger or trust their explanations, there is no offense in keeping yourself armed.
If you suspect that anything bad might happen because of the strange night occurrences, you can take anything available and be ready to defend yourself in case the intruder manages to break in.
11. Put Large Dog Bowls At The Front Door
Whether you have a dog or not, putting a large dog bowl at the door will imply that you have some sods around.
When someone with bad intent knocks at the door and eventually sees a dog bowl, they will fear and can run away.
Some solicitors may be scared by barking dogs and will obviously prefer to go away than wait for the dog to chase them.
Therefore, training your dog to bark whenever the doorbell rings can help scare away any midnight stranger from ringing your doorbell.
Doorbells are meant to alert you that someone is at the door and needs your attention.
However, when it rings late at night, there might be burglars or someone in dire need of help.
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-Make sure you are running Powershell as an administrator.
-In Powershell run the following item:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
-Some required software will be downloaded.
-Please note there is no Linux operating system installed yet
-Once the download has completed it will ask if you want to reboot now or later.
Ie “Y” for now or “N” for later.
-Once the computer has been rebooted, open the command prompt or Powershell and type “bash”
-You will informed there is no Linux Operating system installed.
Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions.
Distributions can be installed by visiting the Microsoft Store:
Press any key to continue...
-Go to, https://aka.ms/wslstore, wls store, and download and install Ubuntu from the selection.
-Once installed it will provide a prompt to “Launch” or “Pin to Start”. Select “Launch”
-Watch the screen (it will display installing wait for a few minutes)
-Once completed, you will see the following :
Installing, this may take a few minutes...
Please create a default UNIX user account. The username does not need to match your Windows username.
For more information visit: https://aka.ms/wslusers
Enter new UNIX username:
-Follow the prompt by creating a username and password.
-Next, the following will displayed:
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
-To update Ubuntu :
sudo apt-get update
(I will ask for the password for your username)
-To upgrade the Ubuntu packages:
Sudo apt-get upgrade
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President Donald Trump
- This is a holy week, when religious believers across the nation will observe Passover, Good Friday, and Easter.
- Millions of Jewish families begin Passover at sundown tonight, a sacred, unbroken tradition that traces back to the ancient land of Egypt.
- On Sunday, we celebrate our beautiful, wonderful Easter, which we all look forward to.
- We’re getting much closer to getting our country back to the way it was.
- Earlier today, I spoke with 10,000 of America’s faith leaders to thank them for raising the spirits of our people during these very difficult days. While we may be physically apart, we can use this time to pray, to reflect, and to focus on our personal relationship with God.
- I spoke with more than 3,000 Mayors, County Commissioners, State and Tribal leaders to provide an update on our Administration’s ongoing drive to crush the virus.
- I spoke with the representatives of the UK. Their great Prime Minister is doing better today, or at least better. We send our regards to Boris and his family and his friends.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
- Under the President’s leadership, my team and I at the State Department are doing our part to protect the American people from the virus and, importantly, to get them home.
- When many countries shut down their rail lines, buses, infrastructure systems, the capacity to get out of those countries — Americans were stranded — the State Department swung into action.
- Since January 29th, we have now repatriated over 50,000 United States citizens back to their homes from more than 90 countries, more than 490 flights back to the United States from all across the world.
- This worldwide scale of our repatriation efforts is without parallel in our lifetime.
- We’re working to make sure the American people get back to be with their families.
- Working with the Peruvian military and police forces to send riverboats up the river to get citizens that were stranded deep inside the Amazon forest.
- Our mission in Nepal: Make sure that a woman who was running low on medication could get what she needed at a pharmacy before boarding an evacuation flight that brought her back here.
- In Honduras: After the government imposed a very strict 24/7 curfew and closed airports, our embassy sprang into action for thousands of stranded Americans. A three-year-old boy told one of our consular officers just before he boarded the flight, “Thank you for helping me get back home to my dad.”
- We’ve received similar messages from lots of people. They’re proud to know that their country will not leave them stranded, and we’re going to get them back home.
- The Repatriation Task Force at State Department, our consular officers have done great work. I want to thank our partners in the Department of Defense who have helped with some of these flights back home and other government agencies across the United States government in this Administration that have helped get these people back.
Secretary Pompeo was asked how the State Department will know it is done bringing citizens home. The Secretary answered that we still have several thousand people that we’re working to identify. New people find themselves in a difficult place, and go to the State Department website, identify themselves, and say I need help. We do our best to get that to them just as quickly as we can. The Secretary was also asked about whether China withheld critical information from the United States. Secretary Pompeo responded that this is not the time for retribution. It is the time for clarity and transparency. He continued that every country, China included, needs to be transparent about what’s gone on in their country. They need to share that data, and we will share ours with the world so that the best scientists can get to the right conclusions and bring this economy, this global economy back to the place that we all want it to be as quickly as we can. Secretary Pompeo concluded with a question about whether U.S. diplomats or U.S. officials have contracted the virus as they have tried to rescue U.S. citizens abroad. Secretary Pompeo.
President Trump Continued his Remarks
- In just a few days, we’ve delivered nearly 11 million N95 masks to hotspots around the country, as you know, including 6.6 million to New York and New Jersey, 1.8 million to Chicago, 1.7 million to Detroit, and 837,000 to New Orleans.
- To date, we’ve shipped out more than 8,000 ventilators. We have almost 10,000 ventilators ready to go, should we need them. An additional 2,200 newly manufactured ventilators come online on Monday. We’re going to be sending them to various locations, just in case they need them.
- Beginning in May, we’ll be receiving almost 300 million new face masks.
- Today, 750,000 new protective gowns landed in Dallas, Texas, as a result of a partnership led by the federal government, DuPont, and FedEx. And that’s been a great partnership. That’s worked very well.
- As American industry steps up to help, so are America’s doctors and scientists. Ten drugs are now in clinical trials.
- Later today, the CDC will release further guidance to help ensure critical infrastructure workers can perform their job safely after potential exposure to the virus.
- As we mourn the terrible loss of life from this grave pandemic, we’re seeing signs that our aggressive strategy to slow the spread is working. The number of new cases is stabilizing.
- Some terrible days are ahead, but we’re going to have some wonderful days ahead.
- This is a tribute to the discipline and the devotion of the American people, what we’ve accomplished. If every American continues to strictly adhere to social distancing guidelines, we can defeat the invisible enemy and save countless lives and we can do it much more quickly.
- Yesterday, I asked Congress to provide an additional $250 billion to expand the incredibly successful Paycheck Protection Program.
- To protect millions of American jobs, I’m asking Congress to pass additional funding for this program this week, as soon as possible. This will be an expansion of what we’ve already done because it’s so successful.
White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx
- We believe that our healthcare delivery system in the United States is quite extraordinary.
- What has been so remarkable, I think to those of us who have been in the science fields for so long, is how important behavioral change is and how amazing Americans are in adapting to and following through on these behavioral changes.
- We’re into the time period of full mitigation that should be reflected within the coming weeks of decreasing mortality.
- We are impressed by the American people. We are still in awe, really, of the American people’s strength in this and following through.
Vice President Mike Pence
- We find ourselves in the midst of a very tough week for Americans in areas most impacted by the coronavirus — the New York City area, New Jersey, Louisiana.
- In the wake of more than 1.9 million tests, we see more than 400,000 Americans have tested positive for the coronavirus, and sadly, we’ve lost more than 14,000. We grieve.
- In this very special week, I know that the faith of millions of Americans is a comfort to them. The President and I spoke to more than 10,000 faith leaders, and we were able to express to them our gratitude for the way that they’re strengthening the communities that they serve.
- I want to echo the President’s and Dr. Brix’s statements today about the extraordinary work the American people are doing. We continue to see a great progress, low and steady numbers in the states of California and Washington.
- In the New York area, New Jersey, New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, and Boston, we continue to see evidence of stabilization that should be an encouragement to every American.
- It should be an encouragement to every American to keep doing what we are all doing: Heed the guidance of your state and local authorities, and for every American, continue to put the White House Coronavirus guidelines for America into effect.
- An area of particular concern is the City of Philadelphia. As we begin to see early trend lines in Philadelphia, I assured him that we were going to continue to flow resources and support to that community. Our message to the people of the Philadelphia area is now, more than ever, practice the social distancing so that Philadelphia and, to some extent, even Pittsburgh do not have to endure what other communities before them have had to endure.
- We hosted a conference call with every Republican Member of the House of Representatives and every Democrat Member of the House of Representatives. We expressed our appreciation to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Leader Kevin McCarthy for convening these forums.
- We’ve brought together key members of our task force team. The Secretary of the Treasury discussed the progress that we’ve made on Paycheck Protection. Tonight, the Treasury tonight will be issuing a new FAQ document that will also make it clear that lenders may use their own closing documents for completing loan applications.
- Birx and Dr. Fauci briefed the Members of Congress today on the latest data.
- We also had Admiral Polowczyk talk about our control tower system, and the extraordinary flow of supplies to critical areas across the country.
- We also briefed on the disbursement of resources to local hospitals with Seema Verma and gave them an update on what the Secretary of State spoke about today.
- In addition to our interaction with members of Congress today, we spoke with the President of the Henry Ford Hospital, Bob Riney. It is the Henry Ford Hospital that is conducting a clinical trial for hydrochloroquine.
- In the category of supplies and support, the President has signed 52 major disaster declarations. Vermont was the latest approved. And states have stood up some 27,000 National Guard that are aiding in coronavirus response.
- On the critical subject of ventilators, we do have currently more than 8,000 ventilators in our Strategic National Stockpile and distributed more to the Navajo Nation and to Colorado today.
- On the subject of the Airbridge, four flights were scheduled to arrive today, primarily focused on gloves for our incredible healthcare workers. One flight alone had nearly 19 million gloves — another 8 million, another 15 million.
- We announced yesterday, the White House Coronavirus Task Force has requested that CDC and our team assemble data on the unique impact that we’re seeing reported on African Americans from the coronavirus.
- Tomorrow, with the Surgeon General and others on the White House team, we’ll be speaking with leaders in the African American community.
- The current guidance is that if you have been in proximity to someone who did test positive for the coronavirus that, the guidance of CDC is even with essential critical workers in industries from healthcare to food supply, that we asked people to stay home for 14 days.
- The new guidance tonight will hopefully make it clear that there would be an opportunity for those people playing such an incredible role in our nation’s response to be able to return to work and to do so safely.
- Each and every day, we see the beginnings of encouraging news — the low and steady numbers in California and Washington State, and now beginning to see numbers of hospitalizations going down and new cases leveling out.
- It’s an encouragement to every American to keep doing what you’re doing, not just for your own health and for the health of your loved ones, but because we want to make sure that all of us are doing our part to make sure that the fewest number of Americans possible are exposed to the coronavirus.
White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx
- Echo the Vice President.
- The number of cases is stabilizing, but I do want to go through those numbers with you because we talk about these as micro-epidemics in metro areas and in rural areas.
- In the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island — there are still 11,000 new cases per day and their positivity rate on their testing is still in the 40 percent-plus range. There’s still a significant amount of disease there and everyone needs to continue to follow the guidelines.
- In New Orleans metro area, 800 new cases per day. Detroit metro area, 1,400 cases per day, 26 percent positivity. Chicago: 1,200 cases per day and 18 percent. Boston — 18 percent positivity, 1,100 cases per day. Denver has fallen to 180 cases per day, but still has 15 percent positivity in their testing. California and Washington have stayed stable at Seattle, 350 cases per day. The LA metro area — 800 cases per day, but their test-positive rates are remaining in the 9 percent range.
- In the Philadelphia metro area, its 1,400 cases per day which of course, includes Camden, and the counties around the Philadelphia metro, and Wilmington.
- In the Baltimore and the Washington, D.C., area — 15 percent positivity and 500 cases per day, and 200 cases per day in Baltimore.
- We’re looking county by county, metro by metro, rural region by rural region to make sure we don’t miss anything.
- I had a great call today with a group of pediatricians, the head of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They have put amazing things in place to protect every pregnant woman.
- Thank you for what you’re doing to get the message out to ensure that we continue to protect each other in this very difficult time.
National Institute of Health Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci
- Underscore Dr. Birx comments, the spectrum of going from infection to getting ill to requiring hospitalization to intensive care to death — what is the most striking and sobering is the number of deaths. We know the mitigation that we have been doing is having a positive effect, but you don’t see it until weeks later.
- Keep emphasizing we need to keep mitigating. We know that this is something that is a strain on the American public, but it’s the best tool.
- Regarding previous comments from the past few days regarding the African American community, health disparities in the minority community, particularly the African American community, puts them at risk — apart from coronavirus issues – puts them at risk for diseases much more so than the general population.
- The double whammy that you suffer now is when you have this terrible virus, which essentially preys, in its ultimate deleterious effects, on people with those underlying conditions.
- Since underlying conditions are more predominant in the African American population, we want to double down and say to the young people, to the elderly people in that community, to please try as best as you can to protect yourself. If you’re a younger person, please protect the people who are susceptible: your grandmother, your grandfather, your elder uncle, the people who have these underlying conditions.
- We are not going to solve the issues of health disparities this month or next month. This is something we should commit ourselves for years to do.
- What we can do right now is to prevent people who are put at higher risk because of the demographic group from getting into a situation which is much, much more deleterious than the general population.
Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Robert Redfield
- One of the most important things we can do is keep our critical workforce working.
- CDC is looking at the essential workforce and how to maintain that workforce, particularly at this time as we begin to get ready to reopen and have confidence in bringing our workforces back to work.
- We issued new guidance for essential healthcare workers who’ve been exposed to the coronavirus. These are individuals that have been within six feet of a confirmed case or a suspected case.
- What we’d ask them not to do – we want them to stay at home if they’re sick. We want them not to share objects that would be touching their face. We ask them not to congregate in break rooms, lunchrooms, and crowded places.
- For employers of these critical industries, we would ask those employers to take the employee’s temperature and assess their symptoms before starting them back to work.
- If the employee does become sick, we want them to be sent home immediately. We’d like them to increase air exchange in the buildings, increase the frequency of how they clean common surfaces, and really begin to get these workers back into the critical workforce so that we won’t have worker shortage in these critical industries.
- Those are the new guidelines that CDC will be posting today at CDC.gov
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Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has presented a number of challenges to the existing retail paradigm, as the growing adoption of e-commerce continues to displace brick-and-mortar sales. Not content to merely control the majority of digital sales, the company has continued to intrude on physical retail as well. Amazon began its invasion of traditional retail by opening bookstores, ironically the first industry to be disrupted by the "Amazon Effect."
The company has captured the public imagination with Amazon Go, the company's AI-infused grocery store without cashiers. The first location opened to the public earlier this year, and since then, Amazon has opened seven of these stores. Reports indicate that the company may be targeting as many as 3,000 stores by 2021.
In order to achieve its lofty ambitions, Amazon may be planning stores with a smaller footprint that could pop up in a variety of locations as the company continues its path to retail dominance.
Smaller may result in greater options
Like the company's inaugural location that opened in 2016, the latest Amazon Go store isn't currently open to the general public, but rather to employees at the company's Seattle office complex. This allows the company to experiment with the choices and the technology. At just 450 square feet -- or about the size of a college dorm room -- the new store pales in comparison to other Amazon Go locations, which clock in at between 1,450 and 3,000 square feet. This focus on a smaller profile provides insight into how the company could plan to ramp up its expansion.
Amazon plans to put these more diminutive stores in the lobbies of office buildings and hospitals, or anywhere large quantities of time-strapped people might converge. The smaller versions are modular, allowing them to be set up in a number of weeks, rather than months or even years.
The company may also be targeting airports, according to a report by Reuters. Amazon has initiated meetings with several high-profile airports on the west coast, with the aim of installing its cashier-less stores in these high-traffic locations, according to the report. This would facilitate purchases and ease long lines for travelers looking to grab a bite, particularly those on a tight schedule. It would also serve to build brand awareness for these cutting-edge stores of the future.
A brief refresher
Similar to its larger predecessors, this pint-sized store is blanketed with host of sensors and cameras, which employ a combination of computer vision, data fusion, and artificial intelligence (AI) to track items as they are removed from (or replaced on) shelves. Customers with the Go App can scan their smartphone to gain entry to the store, then place items in their shopping basket just as they would during a regular store visit. Once they've picked up all of their items, shoppers can leave the store, and they will be charged for the products they purchased with their payment method on file with Amazon.
The smaller locations will still retain the focus of their larger brethren, targeting middle-class consumers "anywhere where there's a lot of people who are hungry and in a rush," according to Amazon Go vice president Gianna Puerini. The stores will stock a variety of fresh fruit, salads, sandwiches, drinks, yogurt, and other staples of the lunchtime crowd.
Just one piece
Sales from convenience stores in the U.S. (excluding sales of fuel) topped $237 billion in 2017, and food-service sales accounted for more than 22% of in-store sales and nearly 34% of gross profit. Prices at convenience stores are notoriously high, making them ripe for competition.
Amazon's plans for world domination have the company working across a variety of fronts. This includes e-commerce, cloud computing, smart speakers, artificial intelligence, streaming video, electronics, and physical retail. With so many irons in the fire, Amazon doesn't have to succeed in every one of its endeavors to achieve its lofty goals, but the fact that it's doing well in so many of them shows that it would be a (small-f) fool's bet to count it out.
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After the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report last month on the weaknesses of Cooperative Group cancer clinical trials, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) discussed four main measures it would take to improve the system in its May 2010 NCI Cancer Bulletin.
The IOM report, A National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century, recommends that NCI increase enrollment in clinical trials, expand insurance to cover the cost of the trials, encourage doctors to improve clinical communication, and take action to diversify clinical cancer research.
Expanding insurance coverage
Many patients who qualify to participate in clinical trials do not enroll or enroll but then drop out because their insurance companies will cover a standard treatment but not a clinical trial treatment, according to the NCI Cancer Bulletin.
In response, 33 state governments and the District of Columbia have adopted laws that address the coverage of clinical trials or require that insurers cover them. Medicare and the US Department of Defense, through its TRICARE health insurance plan, now also cover such costs.
Despite the progress, the report noted that some issues still need to be clarified, particularly addressing some of the gaps in coverage at the state level and identifying what the term routine care encompasses.
Improving doctor-patient communication about trials
Only 3% to 5% of adult cancer patients participate in clinical trials, but no one knows how many patients are offered the chance to participate in one, the report found.
In a 2008 study, researchers found that 75% of patients chose to enroll in a trial when they were explicitly offered one, yet only 20% out of 235 patients recorded during the study received explicit offers.
Doctors can increase communication by becoming aware of their own psychosocial barriers, such as doubt about patients’ willingness to take a randomly assigned treatment.
According to the report, more patients could participate in trials if doctors had access to a system, such as tablet computers, that would help them quickly identify which patients are eligible for which trials. Training programs, such as those developed by the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT), may also increase enrollment by familiarizing patients with clinical trials.
Diversifying clinical cancer research
Close to 90% of those who do enroll in NCI clinical trials are white, with Hispanics and Latinos accounting for only 5.6% of that amount, the report found. This means that minority, elderly, and other underserved patient populations receive less cutting-edge care.
According to the report, community-based programs such as NCI’s Division of Cancer Prevention’s Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program (MB-CCOP) largely help recruit minority populations at cancer centers, university centers, and community programs.
If health care providers target specific sociodemographic factors that prevent underrepresented groups from joining clinical trials, they can improve the situation.
Overcoming age limits
Enrollment in clinical trials is especially low for adolescents and young adults (AYA) ages 15 to 39 years. Inadequate health insurance, lack of access and referrals to specialized centers, and lack of physician knowledge about trials for this age group all heighten the problem.
To solve the problem, AYA patients should enroll in clinical trials created specifically for their age group that ensure pediatric treatments are not too toxic for them. Physicians can increase AYA participation by referring such patients to comprehensive cancer centers, which are most familiar with age-appropriate trials.
Despite these problems, the report noted that more physicians and researchers have recently begun studying AYA cancers, which translates into more clinical trials and research for this age group.
It found that physicians should also focus on recruiting adults older than 65 years, who may not enroll in trials due to lack of transportation, lack of data showing that such treatments increase survival, or previous health conditions such as diabetes that make them ineligible for trials. To improve, the bulletin noted, trials shouldn’t include prior malignancies if there is no reason not to. ONA | <urn:uuid:5f072da8-2774-4cdd-a831-df127c7bc62e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/home/headlines/improving-the-clinical-trials-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.954202 | 815 | 2.5 | 2 |
EDA ASSIGNMENT 2
2375 words 10 pagesQUESTION 1
What international events influenced the development of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability? List the key developments and events in a short 1-page point-form account providing the relevant names of events and dates/ years in which they took place
1) The 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment – Stockholm
It led directly to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which became the first UN agency to have its headquarters located outside of Europe and North America – in Nairobi in Kenya, East Africa.
Among the first tasks given to the UNEP was to establish term ‘environmental education’.
Together with Unesco, UNEP organised the first International Workshop …show more content…
Environmental education must facilitate equal partnerships in the processes decision making at all levels and stages
Environmental education should empower all peoples and promote opportunity for grassroots democratic change and participation.
Environmental education values all different forms of knowledge. Knowledge is diverse, cumulative and socially produced and should not be patented or monopolised
Environmental education must be designed to enable people to handle conflicts in just and humane ways
Environmental education must stimulate dialogue and cooperation among individuals and institutions in order to create new lifestyles which are based on meeting everyone’s basic needs, regardless of ethnic gender, age, religious, class, physical or mental differences
Environmental education requires a democratisation of the mass media and its commitment to the interest of all sectors of society.
Environmental education must integrate knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and actions
Education must help develop and ethical awareness of all forms of life with humans share this planet, respect all life cycles, and impose limits on human’s exploitation of other forms of life.
The IUCN defines environmental education as follows:
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Reljić’s one-eyed monster she named Pool beat thousands of entrants from all over the world to win IKEA’s Soft Toys for Education drawing competition. The Zagreb school kid will see her design manufactured into a soft toy which will go on sale later this year. 9 other winners will also see their designs made into soft toys which will be sold to raise money.
Soft Toys for Education is a good cause partnership between the IKEA Foundation, UNICEF and Save the Children, first launched twelve years ago. For every Soft Toy or children’s book sold from the IKEA Foundation donates 1 euro to children’s education projects. Last year the campaign raised over 10 million euros, and this far the foundation has helped over 11 million children from 46 different countries.
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One critical aspect in developing a quantitative model of unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV) operator and system performance has been to adopt a task-centric approach to interface design that entails an explicit representation of actions or tasks that need to be performed by the operator. The representation of work in terms of a task serves as a trace in the system that enables designers to track workload in addition to the task progress and flow of tasks among team members. In supervisory control, the focus is the flow of tasks (work) through a system that is composed of human servers and automated servers (software agents).
Quantitative models and methods that analyze dynamic systems of flow have been developed in the domain of queuing theory. This research may be extended to include supervisory control of unmanned vehicles. In this analysis, the “customers” to the queue are tasks that must be serviced by the human and software servers. The servers are human operators, software agents, and UVs.
In addition to physical platforms, autonomous agents working as virtual team members are prevalent tools for accomplishing missions. The coordination of actions and interactions among unmanned autonomous systems, manned systems, and a command group will be essential to accomplishing these future missions. A new problem must be addressed: How to maintain an adequate workload to avoid information overload and resulting loss of situation awareness.
The Research Environment for Supervisory Control of Heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles (RESCHU), developed by MIT, was designed to test supervisory control tasks such as surveillance and identification. This simulation was modified by adding: 1) a complex mission scenario with an asset to protect and multiple simultaneous enemies to attack, 2) a highly automated system such as mission definition language (MDL), and 3) a highly heterogeneous team that is made of at least three different types of UVs. The new version of the simulation is called RESCHU SP.
In the RESCHU SP scenario, a single operator supervises a team of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). The operator’s task is to deploy the UVs to identify and destroy enemy contacts that are attacking an oil platform at sea. In addition to defending the oil platform, the operator must direct the UVs away from hazardous areas that cause damage to the UVs. The interface for the simulation is depicted in Figure 1.
The operator’s display is composed of two main windows placed side-by-side. In one window, a geo-situational display depicts the spatial position of the UV assets as well as the oilrig, unknown contacts, enemy contacts, and the hazard areas. The second adjacent window is a three-tabbed pane window that contains the following displays: Vehicle Information, The Collaborative Sensing Language (CSL) Editing Controls, and a Payload View.
In order to protect the oilrig and the UV assets, the operator must engage in five tasks: Assign to identify an unknown contact, engage to identify an unknown contact, assign to attack an enemy, engage to attack an enemy contact, and hazard avoidance. The scenario is designed such that only USVs can identify unknown contacts, and only UUVs can attack enemy contacts. The UAVs fly in predetermined flight patterns that the operator can change to avoid hazardous areas.
The operator must first select an unidentified contact, and then assign a USV to identify it. Once the USV arrives at the unknown contact’s location, the operator may engage the USV to identify the contact. This action brings up a picture in the Payload view that allows the operator to visually identify the contact as a friend or foe (Figure 2). Once identified as an enemy, the contact may be assigned a UUV to attack it. The sequence of actions to attack is analogous to the identification process. An enemy contact is assigned a UUV for attack. Once the UUV has arrived at the target’s location, the enemy icon flashes and the operator may select the icon to be engaged to attack. Once engaged, the enemy is attacked and eliminated. Its icon disappears from the geo-situational display.
The relationships among the operator, the CSL, and the UVs, and the manner in which they must process tasks, may be modeled as a network of interactive queues. In an “open” queuing system, “customers” (tasks) arrive at each of the servers. Some tasks are processed and leave the system, but other tasks may be passed from one server to another. Thus, tasks may sequentially arrive at different queues, be waited upon by different servers, and sometimes may “feedback” and return to a previous server before eventually leaving the system. Queuing theory provides quantitative tools to analyze the flow of tasks to and from each server. In addition, the overall performance of the network may be analyzed. All the components necessary to formulate and analyze a queuing system may be extracted from the RESCHU SP scenario.
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Birmingham: After the Bank of England raised interest rates significantly and predicted inflation to reach 13% by Christmas, the UK is facing a prolonged recession and the worst decline in living standards in a generation.
Banks hiked interest rates by half a percentage point to 1.75% on Thursday night, the biggest rise in 27 years. The UK now faces a much tougher economic outlook than the US and Europe, according to forecasts.
The bank expects the country to slip into a 15-month long recession later this year, with GDP contracting by 1.5% next year. Officials expect the slowdown to start in the fourth quarter of this year and continue through the end of 2023. This points to a steady decline in the economy over the next year.
Households are also more exposed to energy price shocks than the US and less protected by government measures than the eurozone. At the same time, the UK economy has also been affected by her Brexit.
Household gas and electricity costs are expected to rise another 75% in October to about £3,500 ($6,100) a year, up from the bank’s previous forecast of 40%. Energy prices, which have already risen 54% this year, will triple their levels by the fall from where they were a year ago.
Annual inflation is expected to rise from 9.4% in June to a peak of 13.3% in October, the highest level since September 1980. It will remain ‘very high’ for much of next year before returning to the 2% target. 2 years later.
The pound fell 0.5% against the US dollar to $1.208, up 0.7% before the announcement. Against the euro he was 1.182 euros, down 0.5%.
Against the Australian dollar, the pound recovered to about $1.746 after dropping to $1.735 on the news.
Bank of England Raises Interest Rates Significantly, Prolonged Recession Expected
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Looking at the Evidence
What we know. How certain are we?
Here’s a simple true or false quiz:
1. Science is a static body of facts.
2. Science is a dynamic, evolving process that tests questions and makes conclusions.
Scientists and science teachers talk a lot about things they know, things that have been established in the scientific community beyond a doubt. DNA carries hereditary information. The Earth’s surface is made up of many constantly shifting plates. Gravity is the force of attraction between two objects.
But everything that is known began as a question. Through the gradual accumulation of experimental data, model building, and the discussions ( and disagreements ) among scientists, scientific explanations and theories were proposed, tested, and ultimately accepted by the scientific community.
Scientists—and, indeed, the field of science—move from the unknown to certainty, gathering and analyzing data, making observations, and drawing and testing conclusions. Some of these conclusions hold up for a very long time as continued experimentation verifies original theories. Other times, contradictory evidence or results force a revision of what was previously “known.”
So, referring back to the true or false quiz that introduced this article, science is clearly a dynamic, evolving process, not a collection of static facts. And we should teach it that way.
The Concord Consortium’s High-Adventure Science project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is bringing the excitement of scientific discovery to students by letting them explore pressing unanswered questions using the same methods that practicing scientists use. The goal of our research is to determine whether the active exploration of these questions helps students come to view science as a dynamic, evolving process.
Uncertainty in science is a feature
Although there is a very large body of agreed-upon scientific explanations of the way the natural world works, scientists continue to explore new areas. This doesn’t mean past experimental results are wrong. It simply means there is more to discover, more to learn, more to articulate. Through careful consideration of the evidence and examination of the process of science, students can sort out what scientists are certain about and where they are looking for more evidence. The High-Adventure Science project is creating three investigations for middle and high school students that focus on current, compelling, unanswered questions in Earth and Space Science:
- What will Earth’s climate be in the future? Students investigate past climate changes and learn how mechanisms for positive and negative feedback can affect global temperature. They think about how scientists use this information to make climate change predictions.
- Is there life in space? Students learn how scientists use modern tools to find planets around distant stars as they consider the probability of finding extraterrestrial life.
- Will there be enough fresh water? Students evaluate whether the vast underground stores of water will be sufficient to support a growing human population.
Each investigation incorporates interactive computer models combined with realworld data, plus video of scientists who are currently working on the same unanswered question. Students use the models, interpret the data, and draw conclusions just as scientists would. What makes these investigations unique is the way in which students begin to develop scientific argumentation skills and explore the issues of certainty with the models and data. Throughout the investigations, students are prompted to define their levels of uncertainty about the science, the data, and the models.
Developing scientific analysis and argumentation skills
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In the “Is there life in space?” investigation, students learn the techniques scientists use to look for planets outside our solar system. These “planet hunters” use powerful telescopes in their search.
With the wobble method, scientists have located hundreds of planets. Students explore how a planet’s diameter and mass might cause a star to wobble or move. Students also observe how the movement of a star affects the wavelength of light observed. Finally, students discover the importance of angle of orbit as it relates to scientists’ ability to locate planets orbiting stars.
Using another technique — the transit method — scientists look for the dimming of stars caused by planets moving between the star and our telescopes. These eclipses, however, are rare. Students look at graphs of light intensity as planets pass in front of stars (Figure 1) and again explore how the angle of orbit affects the perceived dimming a scientist would observe through a telescope.
In this investigation, students use both models and real-world data, and are asked to weigh in on the certainty of finding life “out there.”
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Our investigations present a unique challenge to teachers: helping students embrace the idea that all cutting-edge scientific research is characterized by uncertainty, but at the same time instilling confidence that widely accepted scientific knowledge based on multiple sources of evidence is reliable and not likely to be overturned.
Those engaged in scientific research understand that science is a continual quest for knowledge. Understanding in science is an incremental increase in confidence as conjectures become hypotheses and ultimately scientific theories. Our goal is to help students to interpret data and scientific evidence while explicitly considering three questions: a) what is known? b) how do scientists know that it is known? and c) what is still unknown?
To develop students’ skills — in particular, to develop their ability to interpret data, models, and experimental results — we include in our investigations a set of tools called “explanation-uncertainty item sets” that couple students’ explanations with certainty rationale items (see below). When students draw conclusions, they are consistently asked to justify their claims, rate their uncertainty levels, and explain what influenced their uncertainty.
These item sets are designed to reveal a more complete picture of student understanding. Following a scientific claim, students must answer a question and explain their reasoning; their explanations help us understand how they think about both the evidence and the claim. The uncertainty rationale items measure whether or not students recognize the uncertainty of claims.
Students are encouraged to use this tool set throughout the curriculum. Through repeated exposure, we hope to encourage them to reflect on both the evidence they generated from using the models and the real-world data, and to evaluate how certain they are about their own claims, as well as the claims of scientists.
The following are examples of students’ uncertainty rationales from pilot tests of the items with non-High-Adventure Science students.
One student who was very certain (level 5) said:
“ Due to the fact that there are billions of stars within one galaxy, and there are many planets orbiting each star, and there are thousands of galaxies, the odds of Earth being the only planet capable of sustaining life are incredibly small.”
Another student chose level 3 (exactly halfway on the certainty scale, between “not at all certain” and “very certain”) said:
“ I always believed there were other life forms on different planets, but it has not been proved that there are other life forms.”
Our initial work shows that students were more likely to be uncertain about their claims and justifications when they cited personal reasons on the uncertainty rationale, while students were more likely to be certain when they cited scientific reasons. Our research will look at how their uncertainty rationales change after using the curriculum.
The High-Adventure Science project is attempting to bring frontier science to the classroom. We hope that when students hear something in the news — or in their science class — they will weigh the evidence. Students should no longer look for “answers,” but begin to distinguish between what is known, what is suspected, and what is still being researched.
Amy Pallant (firstname.lastname@example.org) directs the High-Adventure Science project.
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The Decider is trying to scare the crap out of us. The Leader of the Free World can hardly speak without saying something designed to scare me, scare you, scare our friends, our relatives and everybody we know.
Mr. Bush’s public statements and, in fact, his entire career since 9/11 have been dedicated to proving H.L. Mencken was right when he wrote:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Mr. Bush’s public remarks are masterpieces of fear mongering, sprinkled heavily with noble mission and self-importance. He casts himself and his government as heroes in an epic battle between good and evil. The war on terror, according to the president, is “the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century and the calling of our generation.” It’s a “struggle for civilization,” he said.
If you define civilization as the ability to rain steel death from the skies, the U.S. is clearly the most civilized nation in history.
By more traditional definitions, however, civilization would require that the U.S. government renounce the use of barbarism, murder and terror to dominate others. By that standard, Mr. Bush’s government is hardly more civilized that of Attila.
If this speeches are any indication, we are not nearly scared enough. Heavier doses of fear are now necessary to keep a generally peaceable American public on board Mr. Bush’s world-wide freedom train and to keep us in step with his ambitious effort to “rid the world of evil.” You can’t fault him for thinking small.
Ratcheting the evil intent of the evil-doers up a notch, he tells us that the forces of Islamic terror are “determined to bring death and suffering to our homes.” Maybe so, but that’s a pretty big job, one that has proven nearly impossible so far.
The real terror alert level in most American homes has never even come close to those of the much more tangible fears like a falling real estate market or an IRS audit.
And for good reason. The real dangers of terrorism are vanishingly small. Not to trivialize a horrific mass murder, but to illustrate real danger we face, we have to note that more people die in car wrecks in the U.S. every month than died in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Your are more likely to be stung to death by insects or drown in a bucket than to die in a terrorist attack.
Statistically, you are many times more likely to be killed by an armed government agent than by a terrorist.
Nevertheless, Mr. Bush compares the struggle against a few hundred desperate Muslim fanatics to the global conflicts of WWII and the Cold War. So desperate is the president to assume the role of hero that he compares himself to popular war-time Democrats of the past, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
The battle is global and possibly intergenerational said Mr. Bush, “If we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons.” To which we might reply, “So what?”
A Middle East overrun with religious fanatics intent on mutual destruction will not affect the lives of Americans in any meaningful way.
Gas may become more expensive, but there are worse things than that, including the sacrifice of every last civil liberty you’ve ever know, the death and maiming of thousands of U.S. soldiers, and the bankruptcy of every American taxpayer.
When Mr. Bush is not scaring us he never tires of reminding us of the great struggle between tyranny and freedom. Tyranny and freedom are surely engaged in a struggle, as they always will be. What is not clear is just who the tyrants are.
Mr. Bush seems to hold the transfusion theory of freedom, where by draining all the freedom from Americans he can somehow infuse it mysteriously into those Iraqis lucky enough to survive the efforts of the U.S. military. To get us to lie still while our own liberties are sucked from our veins, he liberally applies the anesthetic of fear.
The president, counting on fear for support and hoping to shine in the reflected glow of FDR’s wartime popularity, neglected to mention one of FDR’s most famous remarks, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Terrorists will only succeed if Americans are terrified enough to destroy ourselves.
Mr. Bush has been wrong about pretty much everything involved in his military adventure in Iraq, from the terrible WMD’s to the open-arms welcome the GI’s were going to get from “liberated” Iraqis. In a call for further support for the debacle he warns, “Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone. They will not leave us alone.”
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Since 2007, tens of thousands of people have smoked synthetic marijuana — many of them teenagers –resulting in statistically zero synthetic marijuana deaths, despite sensational headlines to the contrary.
It’s legal in most states and for sale everywhere online. The most common side effects of synthetic marijuana are rapid heartbeat, agitation, drowsiness, vomiting, hallucinations and nausea.
Of all those thousands and thousands of users, four people have died. The four are Lamar Jack, Nicholas, Kelvin Melton, and Steven Valdez. You will notice when reading the reports that synthetic mj is assumed to be the cause. And since there is some discrepancy about whether or not synthetic mj can even be detected in the blood stream, we are looking at a whole ‘nother level of assumption.
Not to minimize their passing, but four deaths among tens of thousands of users is a statistical zero. Why the hysteria?
Several suicides have been blamed on synthetic mj, but those details are sketchy as well. No one can say with any certainty (or they would have) whether synthetic marijuana was the cause of death, a contributing factor or simply a circumstance of the event. It is blamed, nonetheless.
Several users have been injured or killed in car crashes, falls and other accidents. Even if toxicology reports can’t detect it, if the victim is known to have used synthetic marijuana, it’s blamed for these deaths as well.
Meanwhile, thousands of people die every year in all manner of homicides, suicides and accidents after consuming alcohol… yet we don’t ban it.
The two most recent tragedies blamed on synthetic weed involve Chase Burnett and Emily Bauer.
Chase drowned in a hot tub. Synthetic marijuana was found in his system (although, again, there are conflicting reports about whether or not tests can actually detect it), and his parents said they found some of the product near the hot tub. No other drugs or alcohol were found. His death is blamed on synthetic marijuana, and the state of Georgia immediately banned it.
But synthetic marijuana didn’t kill Chase. He drowned. If he had been smoking synthetic marijuana and not been in a hot tub, everything else being equal, he would still be alive.
It will probably come as no surprise that drowning is the number one cause of injury and death when using a hot tub. But did you know that an American drowns nearly every day in a bathtub, hot tub or spa? Most of those victims have been using a drug or alcohol.
Why didn’t Georgia ban hot tubs?
Hot water makes you sleepy. Add a little depressant (i.e. drugs and/or alcohol) to the formula and the results are often disastrous. One public health official in Seattle stated that “in some years as many as 70 percent of all adult drownings in tubs and pools investigated by his department involved consumption of alcohol.”
Why isn’t alcohol blamed and banned? Or any of the other drugs that made people so sleepy in a hot tub, they drowned? Every single week, a child under five dies in a backyard pool. Why aren’t we banning backyard pools?
Because terrible accidents happen.
I understand why Chase’s family would like to blame synthetic mj, but why is everyone else? The facts are crystal clear: Chase drowned. If he hadn’t been under the effect of a drug, he might not have fallen asleep, but the drug did not kill him. Chase did something thousands of people all over the world have done before him and survived. Unfortunately, he fell asleep.
Two years ago, a friend of mine’s 16yo son died in a car accident after partying all night on the beach. It was a local tragedy of monstrous proportions, as it sounds like Chase’s death was. We lived in a small town, the son was very popular, we love his mom and dad. It was a terrible, terrible accident.
As tragic as that was, we didn’t ban alcohol or SUVs. We didn’t ban partying on the beach. Didn’t raise the driving age. It was an accident.
Emily smoked synthetic marijuana, got a headache, went to sleep, had a series of strokes and almost died. Although now recovering from the event, she has a long road in front of her. It sounds like she is a fighter!
CNN tells a thorough and unbiased story about Bauer and her medical condition prior to the event, which included several pertinent facts:
- Emily developed persistent migraines about two weeks before she wound up in the ICU.
- One such migraine sent her to the ER. Doctors scheduled an MRI, but her anxiety and claustrophobia prevented Emily from getting the test.
- The doctors said the migraines were possibly related to using the drug, but don’t have a picture of her brain from before and after, so they can’t say.
- Her family doesn’t know how long she’d been using the drug. Her stepfather suspected she started around two weeks before the night that sent her to the hospital. No details about what made him determine this time frame.
- One professional said she had never heard of a patient having a stroke in these circumstances, although high blood pressure could lead to one.
- Emily had vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels, which constricted blood and o2 getting to her brain. The doctors believe this is what caused her strokes and may have been caused by the synthetic mj.
- There is no toxicology screen to detect the substances.
Did synthetic mj cause her strokes? There is no clear evidence to be had. Although, to be fair, most Western medicine is a guessing game. It certainly could have… but did it?
Here’s the critical question for legislators: even if synthetic mj caused Emily’s strokes, does that mean that it will for everyone and should be banned? Obviously not or we’d have thousands of stroke victims on our hands.
Synthetic Marijuana Deaths: Statistically Zero
After spending hours searching for information on synthetic marijuana deaths, reading every report and news article, only the four deaths above have been found. Compared to the thousands and thousands of users, this is a statistical zero. There are many alleged synthetic mj deaths and many casually attributed to it, but, when the reports are inspected, facts don’t support claims. For instance:
- Synthetic Marijuana Memorials is a page on a website dedicated to the memory of alleged victims. While the list is long and heartbreaking, a little investigation reveals that, except for the four deaths, synthetic mj played a minor role.
- Three teenage boys had heart attacks and synthetic marijuana was blamed. It’s possible, but far from certain. Maybe even far from likely. The “evidence” in this story is so circumstantial, it’s hard to believe the claim was even made.
- The two teens in OK did not die from synthetic marijuana. Although that is what they thought they were using, it was actually something called DragonFly that everyone, even sellers of synthetic marijuana, knew was dangerous. The boy who scored the drug is facing prison even though he thought it was synthetic mj.
Ban Paraphernalia? Stupidest. Idea. Ever.
Here in Kentucky, a spotlight-seeking legislator has introduced a bill to ban “drug paraphernalia” in the hopes, I suppose, that would once and for all stop people from using drugs. What an idiot. Not only is that a ridiculous notion, it’s a dangerous one.
In Pennsylvania, where drug paraphernalia is already banned, 13yo Brandon Rice fashioned a pipe out of a Pez dispenser, then used it to smoke synthetic marijuana. The plastic fumes burned his lungs and killed him.
The news reports blame Brandon’s death on synthetic marijuana. However, there is no evidence anywhere that synthetic mj can burn a person’s lungs, whereas inhaling plastic fumes is well-known to do so. The drug warriors are desperate.
Here’s Some News: Prohibition Doesn’t Work
What if, instead of prohibition, we use education…
“Tobacco has contributed to more deaths than alcohol and illicit drugs combined. As a result of education initiatives and marketing and age restrictions, smoking has declined dramatically over time — despite its legality for adults — in one of the greatest public health success stories of the last generation.” — CNN
All of these deaths and injuries are tragedies of prohibition. At the bottom of CNN’s article on Emily, you read:
“Outright criminalization only drives the demand for the drug to the illicit market. Under prohibition, regulators have no control over where the product is sold, who sells it, or to whom they sell it. Arresting young people, moreover, often causes more damage than drug use itself.” — CNN
Here will be the real tragedy: as legislators ban more and more harmless chemicals, there will be nothing left but truly dangerous chemicals to ingest. Then kids will be dying. Because kids are going to get high. Always have, always will. And that is a fact you can take to the bank.
“After 40 years of the ‘war on drugs,’ the evidence clearly shows that it is ineffective to use the criminal justice system to send public health messages. Prohibition simply creates new public health problems and maximizes the harm associated with illegal drug use.” — CNN
“Prohibition simply creates new public health problems and maximizes the harm associated with illegal drug use.” Americans discovered this simple fact during alcohol prohibition. Drug prohibition, like alcohol prohibition before it, has killed and enslaved far, far more people than illegal drug use ever has. Yet our legislators stupidly persist in passing unconstitutional and immoral laws meant to strengthen prohibition!
What do legislators have to gain from so thoroughly ignoring the facts?
Who benefits from drug prohibition?
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Coastal tides are a naturally occurring process caused by the moon’s gravitational pull on the oceans of the world. In the U.S., tidal changes vary wildly from coast to coast, with the highest tidal range in Anchorage, Alaska spanning up to forty feet. While the natural movement of water flowing downstream in a river has been harnessed as a power source for a millennium, tidal energy generators are technology still in its earliest stages in the U.S., but could have potential to contribute to the country’s energy needs.
There are three main types of tidal energy: tidal stream, barrages, and tidal lagoon systems. Unlike other sources of renewable energy which face intermittency issues, tidal changes are predictable and can be easily harnessed by turbines that are placed in tidal streams. The density of the water, combined with the predictability of the tides means that these turbines are most effective in shallower water. Turbines are then connected to a generator via undersea cable.
A barrage system consists of a low-lying dam that water can spill over. As the tide rises the barrage collects water and shuts, trapping a large amount of water that is then released into its turbines, generating power. Barrages have a large impact on the local environment, with tidal range shifts, water salinity, and fish populations all affected by the barrage’s restriction of water. Tidal lagoons systems are constructed with low permeability materials and force large amounts of water through narrow passages, which turn turbines. When the tide rises, the turbines are turned generating power and vice versa. Lagoon systems are much less environmentally impactful, as they can be constructed with natural materials like rocks and appear as a seawall during low tides and would be completely submerged during high tides.
The potential energy that can be harnessed from tidal hydropower facilities largely depends on the tidal range of the particular area of coastline. Making energy production economical, a minimum of 10 feet of tidal range is needed. Several locations in the U.S. possess immense potential for tidal power, however most of those locations are concentrated in northern states. While several pilot projects are being tested, there are currently no active tidal energy facilities in the U.S.
A 254 MW tidal power station in South Korea and a 240 MW tidal power facility in France are the two largest facilities in the world respectively. Due to tidal being one of the more recent additions to renewable energy options, construction of many larger-scale tidal facilities remains an expensive undertaking.
However, as with every new piece of technology that emerges on the market, improvements and innovations quickly follow. Tidal energy’s small land use requirement means that the 12.5 kilometer long tidal energy generator in South Korea takes up only a fraction of the space as other land-based renewables. Larger turbines, like the one constructed by SIMEC Atlantis can generate more electricity at a much lower cost for maintenance and operation. The predictability of tidal energy means that electricity generated from the tide can be a crucial substitute source of power if other renewables, like wind or solar, are not capable of functioning effectively. Finally, tidal energy technology is built to last much longer than other renewables, with facilities built to run for over fifty years. This is in keeping with the longevity of conventional hydroelectric dams, which have an average lifespan of around 100 years.
Tidal energy will only become a more widely known and utilized source of renewable energy if costs continue to fall and the effects of the technology on the surrounding environment are more rigorously understood. The environmental impacts of the noise, vibrations, and electricity generation on surrounding marine life needs more research. In order to attract serious attention from both the national and state governments in the U.S., tidal energy needs to continue to produce innovative ways to demonstrate it is a viable, cheap, and worthwhile energy investment.
Written by Roy Mathews, Public Policy Associate
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2017 will go down as a massive year for the king of horror, Stephen King. A bestselling novel (Sleeping Beauties), multiples television shows (The Mist, Mr. Mercedes), film adaptations on both Netflix (1922, Gerald’s Game) and the big screen (It, The Dark Tower) – the list goes on and on. Here to add to it are two books tied in to the Stephen King Universe – one a blast from the past, the other a look at what should have been the beginning of a bright future.
Originally published back in 1982 at the same time as its cinematic release, the classic Stephen King graphic novel Creepshow has been reprinted for the first time in decades by Simon & Schuster. The timing couldn’t have been more appropriate, as the artwork for Creepshow comes from the pencil of the great and now sadly gone Bernie Wrightson. The co-creator of Swamp Thing, and a regular illustrator of King’ work, including his contributions to King’s Cycle of the Werewolf, Wrightson died this year after a long and continuous battle with ill health. His influence on generations of artists has never been in doubt, and it’s wonderful to have his and King’s tribute to the EC comics of their youth readily available for a new generation of horror fans eager to dig in. The graphic novel features the five stories that made up the original film, which was directed by another master who left us this year, George A. Romero.
For me, Creepshow brings back some vivid memories. When I was a kid, roughly six or seven years old, my Dad’s mother, who I called Nanny, would often take me to a children’s bookstore located about two blocks from the apartment that her and my Grandpa lived in. It was a two floor building, with the kids material on the top, and then a grown-up section in the basement. There wasn’t much for me to look at there, mind you, but I’d always make my way downstairs, just to stare at the cover of the only comic book in the place – a copy of Creepshow. I think I may have even flipped through it once or twice, but Wrightson’s art was definitely the stuff of nightmares for a kid my age, so I never actually added the book to my collection. Amazingly, something so creepy is able to bring back some very fond memories for me.
From the past to the present, there’s little question that the majority of Stephen King fans were let down by the failure of this past summer’s lacklustre The Dark Tower movie, which failed to live up to the epic standards of the original series of novels. Having followed the film’s development, I knew what was going to wind up on screen wasn’t going to come close to the Mid-World we wanted to see. So, instead, I chose to accept the film for what it was, which meant I was able to enjoy the results, however lacking. Infinitely more successful is the book The Dark Tower: The Art of the Film, written by Daniel Wallace. One thing made clear right off the top is that the film was always meant to be lean and mean in terms of its story focus. Rather than explore the entire Gunslinger mythos, the plan was always to focus on the Roland and Jake relationship.
With full access to cast and crew, along with countless pages of behind the scenes pictures, designs and props, Wallace’s book does a gorgeous job in laying out how The Dark Tower came together, while also highlighting aspects of what could have been. In many ways, The Dark Tower: The Art of the Film does a better job in creating a real life version of King’s series than the actual film does. For fans of the film or the series, this book is the trip we wish we could have taken. | <urn:uuid:a585c807-ac46-4fa9-889c-2b085e579919> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biffbampop.com/2017/10/26/31-days-of-horror-enter-the-stephen-king-universie-with-creepshow-and-the-dark-tower-the-art-of-the-film/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972386 | 811 | 1.515625 | 2 |
IELTS Essay 1167 - Only way to increase recycling is to make it a legal requirement
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IELTS Writing Task 2/ IELTS Essay:
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it a legal requirement.
To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Sample Answer: (Opinion: Waste recycling should be made mandatory for all)
Waste recycling is a widely discussed issue around the globe, but even after numerous global initiatives and continuous announcements, people seem to react whimsically to this. Many opine that people tend to abide by something only when there are rules and legal obligations. This is why waste recycling should be made a law and mandatory to adhere to, in my opinion.
To begin with, waste recycling help save the environment and the process reuses many valuable materials. Some household garbage contains detrimental ingredients and can cause harm to the environment. If every homeowner takes the responsibility to participate in waste recycling, waste management as well as preserving a green environment would become easier. However, this is not the case and many people still ignore this. Thus comes the question of whether making it a law would force people to participate more and save the environment. I strongly believe this will.
Naturally, people have a tendency to ignore many important tasks - be it for themselves or society as a whole. They are sometimes as careless as crossing the busy streets instead of taking the overpass or underpass, though the latter one is safer. On the contrary, when legal obligations and punishment for an act are in place, the number of participants seems like increases dramatically. For instance, when crossing busy streets instead of using the underpass in some cities have been made a legal offence, the number of road accidents decreased significantly over time. Similarly, when the government would make recycling mandatory by imposing laws, people would participate more in this. This is so sensitive an issue that this should have already been a part of the law.
In fact, the main objective of the law is to deter people from doing something bad and punish offenders to maintain a peaceful society. Since waste recycling is directly related to our environment and the well-being of our future generation, we should make it a legal responsibility so that people do not ignore this important task.
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I had a tooth implant today and was prescribed Etodolac for pain relief. Having been in some pain for a while now 😉 I was prompted to find out something about Etodolac and turned to Google. A search brought up something interesting: the ability to ‘refine’ results based on offered categories.
A quick check showed that this was something that was rumored to be associated with the possible imminent arrival of Google Health.
A couple of interesting things though. First is the unsurprising observation that people already turn to Google for health information. There are several links to the following newspaper report of some work looking at health information behaviors.
A survey of 1,000 people found that 12 per cent turn first to Google. Fewer consult family and friends, the media or medical encyclopaedias when faced with a medical problem. [More people consult Google over health – Britain – Times Online]
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Whether you want to connect your iPhone, Mac, or iPad, AirPlay is a very useful feature. When you want to plug your iOS devices into the TV, keep in mind that there are other alternatives as well. Chromecast is another alternative, which is favored due to its low price. But also it works with Android and Windows, which make it a very convenient solution. There are a few things that you should know when using Chromecast. This post explains the necessary things you need to know and how to use Chromecast on your iPhone and Mac device.
Background of Chromecast
Before we got to the instruction, we ended to explain more about the feature. Then, you can determine if it suits your specific needs.
It was released in 2013 to allow users to stream different types of content on their TV., straight from their devices. However, keep in mind that you need a stable internet connection to watch your streamed content without interruptions.
Although it seems like having the same functions as Apple’s product, keep in mind that there are a few essential differences between them.
The main disadvantage is that Chromecast offers a better experience for Android users. iOS users will face certain limits when using the feature. Android devices already have a built-in feature for mirroring the content on Chromecast. If you are using an Apple device, this option isn’t available because Apple wants to enforce its product to the users. Some TVs already have the Chromecast as a default feature, which makes it easy for you.
How to get started
Setting up Chromecast is very easy. All you need to do is plug into the TV. You will see a screen with instructions, so follow them to finish the process. The app only gives you the option to edit the settings on the Chromecast. The playback is accessible with the per-app approach.
The list of applications that support Chromecast is extensive. Users will be happy to spot their favorite streaming apps such as Youtube, Netflix, Spotify, BBC Sport, and many others. Besides, the list is still growing to fit the user’s specific requirements.
How to use Chromecast on your iPhone
To get a better understanding of the process, we will explain it with an example. We will use Netflix for the instructions, but keep in mind that the process is quite similar to any streaming app that you want to use.
- Download the app on your device if you still haven’t. Next, register for your account.
- When you access your account, you will see the Cast Icon on the top right side of the screen. The icon is shaped like a TV and is hard to miss.
- If you still don’t see the Cast icon, make sure that the Chromecast is turned on. Also, it needs to be connected to the same network as your phone.
- Tap on the icon and select the Chromecast on the list of devices.
- Next, pick the show that you want to watch. Play it on your phone, and it will be mirrored on your TV. Use your phone to play and stop.
This process is pretty much the same for any apps that you want to mirror on your TV. Open the app on your phone, click on the Cast icon, and play and control your phone content.
How to Chromecast from Mac
Do you want to know how to Chromecast from Mac? Using Chromecast on Mac is different and slightly more complicated. Keep in mind that using Google Chrome for this is mandatory, so proceed to download it if you still haven’t.
- Open the desired app from your Mac. Find the content that you want to mirror on your TV.
- Find the Cast icon on the right side.
- Select the icon and pick the right Chromecast.
- Once you select it, the desired content will start to play on your TV. You can control it directly from the Mac. Besides, you can still perform other actions on your device.
What happens with sites that don’t offer an option for Chromecast?
- Open your Chrome and access the Settings menu.
- Find the option Cast and select it.
- Select the desired Chromecast.
- You will see the icon in the toolbar.
The blue icon means that your Chromecast is already connected. However, when you turn it off, the icon will disappear. To make sure that it stays in your toolbar, right-click and choose the option “Always show icon.”
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The Wells HCP Coordinating Committee is composed of representatives of parties signatory to the Wells Anadromous Fish Agreement and Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), including Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas County, Washington (Douglas PUD), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. The Coordinating Committee oversees implementation of the HCP, functioning as the primary means of consultation and coordination between Douglas PUD and the other HCP signatories regarding the conduct of studies, implementation of fish-passage measures set forth in the HCP, and for dispute resolution. The Coordinating Committee is responsible for ensuring that Douglas PUD achieves and maintains the HCP standard of no net impact (NNI) to Plan Species (spring and summer/fall Chinook, Sockeye, and Coho salmon; and Steelhead) from the operation of the Wells Hydroelectric Project. This responsibility encompasses the implementation of the three component plans within the Wells HCP: the Passage Survival Plan, the Tributary Conservation Plan, and the Hatchery Compensation Plan, which describe the measures and activities by which Douglas PUD must achieve and maintain NNI. The latter two plans are administered by the Tributary and Hatchery committees, respectively, both of which operate in a generally autonomous manner but report monthly to the Coordinating Committee.
The Coordinating Committee oversees all aspects of standards, methodologies, and implementation.
Specifically, the Coordinating Committee:
- Establishes protocols and methodologies to determine whether or not Douglas PUD has achieved the survival standards contained within the Passage Survival Plan of the HCP for each Plan Species
- Determines whether the signatory parties are carrying out their responsibilities under the HCP agreement
- Determines whether NNI is achieved
- Determines the most appropriate standard in the HCP Passage Survival Plan to be measured for each Plan Species
- Approves all studies prior to implementation
- Reviews study results, determines their applicability, and develops an annual list of common understandings based on the studies
- Periodically adjusts the measures to address survival and project-related mortality
- Resolves disputes brought by the Hatchery and Tributary committees
- Adjusts (as necessary) schedules and dates for performance of HCP standards.
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Discussion in 'Linguistics' started by Saint, Aug 24, 2011.
fell shy of = fell short of?
Fresh off = ? Why not using gerund = freshing off?
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Ahoy = interj.Nautical Used to hail a ship or person or to attract attention. Is it used correctly here?
What is that? Greyhound?
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I've never heard a slang word for that. Prostitutes are fairly easy to find in most big cities, so a man would not have to look very hard.
"Shy" is often used to mean "not quite." So to "fall shy" of a goal means that you just barely missed it. The rainfall last month was just shy of a record for September.
Because it's an adjective, not a verb. Fresh means "just picked" (a fruit), "just laid" (an egg), "just baked" (a loaf of bread), etc. So it's been extended to mean anything that has just been created, found, or renovated. "Fresh off the press"--this morning's newspaper. "Fresh off the boat" (abbreviated F.O.B.)--an immigrant who just arrived and knows nothing about life in our country. So "fresh off... a reveal" means that the product was announced recently and it is just now (today, or this morning, or maybe five minutes ago) available for sale.
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Everyone understands the more common terms of nautical slang so we occasionally toss them around for variety. E.g., "loaded to the gunwales (pronounced gunnels)" refers to a ship that carries so much cargo that the gunwales (the openings for the cannon barrels) are just barely above the water line and it might sink in a heavy storm; so to say that about a truck, a shopping basket, etc., means that it is heavily loaded and could easily topple over.
So to use "ahoy" as a greeting would be understood immediately. However, it's uncommon and anyone who says that is probably a sailor (professional or hobbyist), or pretending to be one. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The greyhound is a breed of sighthound (also called "gazehounds" although I've never encountered that word myself) commonly raised and trained for racing.
Dog racing is a brutal business. When the dogs become too old to win any more races, the owners almost always have them euthanized. There is a huge movement in the USA to stop this practice, and many organizations exist which collect the retired dogs and find new homes for them. Greyhounds actually make extremely good pets (they don't need their own racetrack to exercise on every day Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!) so this movement has been quite successful.
So to point out that someone has a retired greyhound is to imply that they are very kind and charitable.
Sighthounds were developed in the Middle East thousands of years ago and include the whippet, the Afghan, the saluki, the borzoi (formerely called the Russian wolfhound) and various related breeds. They are so named because they track their prey by sight rather than scent. Most dogs have terrible vision and could not easily do this. By human standards even "keen-eyed" breeds like poodles and retrievers are very close to "legally blind." Lhasa Apsos can barely see at all and might as well carry a white cane (mine trip over their own toys), but they use their excellent hearing more than their sense of smell--the reason they're commonly used as watchdogs.
Man looking for a prostitute: A Trick or a John.
"She was turning tricks on the corner."
It means to gamble everything, often because the bettor has feelings of confidence or desperation. It's an all or nothing type of gambling move.
Thats what hookers call their customers, but it's not what anyone else calls a man who is looking for a hooker. ("Normal guy" comes to mind--just kidding. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!) She might refer to a man who is a regular customer as a John, but a trick is the guy who just came in or who just finished and left, or maybe "remember that weird trick you had last week, the guy in the Lone Ranger costume who never took his mask off? Well he's back. At least I think it's the same guy. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!"
It's also slang for the act itself (as you noted, "turning tricks"), and in earlier generations was used for other occupations, such as a railroad engineer's trick in the cab of the locomotive.
Not long ago (the early 1800s) most people were farmers (we won't talk about the millions of slaves) because pre-industrial food production technology was not very efficient. So in many places, for the majority of the population, their farm was their major possession. The Wild West or "frontier" (the western United States, a region that changed shape, size and location over the decades) was one of those places. Government services were spread thin and people relied on themselves and each other to enforce contracts and adjudicate disputes--often with guns.
If a man was in a poker game and had a hand he knew (or in many cases merely assumed) would win, like a royal flush (A-K-Q-J-10 of the same suit, which even beats five of a kind in a game with wild cards), he might "bet the farm," meaning that all the other players had a right to consider his farm as in "the pot." They could legally enforce that if he lost the wager, and the winner would now own his farm.
The phrase is now used hyperbolically to mean any ridiculously large wager that would bring great profit if the bettor wins, but would be a major setback if he loses. And it's used metaphorically, as in this example. The company is "betting the farm" on a new business strategy which would bring in nice profits if it succeeds but will greatly reduce its income if it fails.
1.Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless:
an inexorable opponent; a feeling of inexorable doom. See Synonyms at inflexible
I have an inexorable will to make my first million by the age of 40.
I've never seen "inexorable" used to describe a person, although the example of "an inexorable creditor" seems fair enough: a bill collector for the Mafia who will track you to Greenland, break down your door, kill your trained tiger, and drag you back to Nevada in order to make you pay off a gambling debt. But we usually use it to describe something natural, like the inexorable expansion of the sun as it turns into a red dwarf in a few billion years, or a condition or process that is so well established that it can't be changed, like the inexorable stomach aches that follow a Thanksgiving dinner where everybody eats too much.
"Inexorable" means 100% certain, like the setting of the sun. Your death is inexorable. Your ability to earn a million dollars (or yuan or deutschemarken) is not.
heavy hitters = VIP ?
divvied up = divided? I seldom see people using this word.
pretentious charade = travesty?
It's a baseball term. A heavy hitter is a batter who hits the ball powerfully, so he not only gets to first base, but beyond (these are "extra-base hits" in baseball jargon). A heavy hitter is a real asset to the team, helping them make more runs. So in vernacular use, a heavy hitter is a powerful person whose influence, reputation, etc., are useful to his organization or community.
A VIP is a "very important person," so the two terms are similar. A powerful person is automatically important. But when I read "heavy hitter" I focus on his power and wonder what he's going to do. When I read "VIP" I focus on his stature and wonder what he's going to say.
"Divvy" is a slang word formed from "divide," "division," "dividend," etc. It means "to divide" and in modern times it is almost always used with "up." It was originally used in very informal contexts such as crime (Let's divvy up the loot and scram) or childhood (You didn't divvy up the cake right; my piece is too small). It's still considered slang, so to use it in a news report on the financial page is rather odd.
Charades is a party game in which speaking is not allowed. The player is given a word, phrase, title, etc., and has to pantomime a scene or scenes, from which the other players try to guess the meaning. For example, placing a sheet of paper on your hand and blowing it off might be a reference to the famous book/movie title "Gone with the Wind."
So the word has come to be used to mean pretense in any sense, and used this way it can mean speech as well as action. "The company president's inspirational speech about next quarter's profits was a charade. We actually have no new products on the drawing board."
So "pretentious charade" is redundant: all charades are pretentious. Perhaps the writer is trying to say that this charade is particularly pretentious, but a better writer would have said it differently, for example, "blatant charade."
I don't quite understand the passage quoted. It is generally agreed by both Christian and non-Christian scholars that the Testimonium Flavianum is a forgery. But it is also agreed (if perhaps by a smaller majority) that the rest of Josephus's writings about Jesus are authentic and therefore comprise (probably the only) evidence of Jesus as a real historical person.
From A to Z, without considering hyphenation,
theoretically how many words can be formed in English?
There's no limit to the length of a word in English, therefore there is no limit to the number of words.
According to Wikipedia:
The longest word in Shakespeare's works has 27 letters: Honorificabilitudinitatibus. The state of being able to achieve honors.
The longest word that is not technical and was not deliberately coined has 28 letters: Antidisestablishmentarianism. A 19th-century political movement opposed to removing the Anglican church as the official church of the United Kingdom. (Apparently this effort was successful. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!)
The longest word that is not technical and whose validity has not been challenged has 29 letters: Floccinaucinihilipilification. The habit of describing things as unimportant or worthless.
The longest word in a major dictionary that is not coined (but is technical) has 30 letters: Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. A congenital medical condition similar to pseudohypoparathyroidism. (Which, in turn, must be similar to hypoparathryroidism. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!)
The longest word that was deliberately coined, but is well-known and accepted by all, has 34 letters: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Atoning for educability through delicate beauty. (The title of a song from the musical comedy "Mary Poppins.")
The longest word that was deliberately coined to be the longest word, but is in a major dictionary, has 45 letters: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. An invented synonym for silicosis.
The longest word that has appeared in a work of literature, and was deliberately coined by a major author, but is not in any dictionary, has 183 letters: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsano . . . pterygon. A dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces. (Wikipedia displays the entire word. Go to the article "Longest Word in English" for the link.)
The longest published word, which is technical, has 1,909 letters: Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamyl . . . serine. (Definition and full spelling not supplied.)
It's difficult to find the longest unpublished word for obvious reasons. This one is technical and not universally accepted as a word, with 189,819 letters: Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl . . . isoleucine. The largest known protein. (Full spelling not supplied.)
So if words can have hundreds of thousands of letters, you can see that there's no limit on their number.
I've read that both English and Chinese have around 100,000 words that are accepted as real words. I would suspect that this is the world record, but I'd want to examine French and German before being certain of that. The Chinese "words" are monosyllables, each of which has its own unique han zi character, but since there are only 1,600 unique syllables in Mandarin, this makes for a lot of homonyms. It's not easy to define a "word" in Chinese, since compounding is routine and they don't use hyphens--probably because a hyphen would look just like the numeral "1" Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!.
If we limit the longest word to 15 letters,
how many words can we form from A to Z?
Since we borrow so many foreign words that don't conform to English phonetics, then theoretically all letter combinations are possible. So it becomes merely a mathematical problem: 26^15, 26 to the 15th power.
If you want to rule out all ridiculous combinations like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and qxzjqxzjqxzjqxz, then you'll have to decide what's ridiculous. 40 years ago we would have said that QI ("physical life force") is ridiculous. Now it's in the dictionary, and 3/4 of Americans have no idea how to pronounce it: "chee" (the best we can do in English). That's the Pin-Yin transcription of the Mandarin word we used to write as CH'I in Wade-Giles.
And of course this raises the issue that apostrophes are allowed in English spelling. Cant and can't are two different words. So are ill and I'll. Hmm. Does this also mean that capital letters are different from lower case letters? The dictionary lists Japan and japan (a type of varnish) as two different words.
gripe = complaint?
vibe = vibration?
Yes, but it implies informality, impoliteness, annoying repetition. To gripe means to nag, to complain constantly. So the noun, "a gripe," means more than a complaint. It's a rude, nagging, repetitive complaint. "You've been griping about the dirty bathroom for a week. Why the hell don't you clean it, then? I've got a job but you stay home all day drinking beer and watching football."
Yes, but only in the slang sense that arose in the counterculture of the 1960s. We talked about getting good vibrations from people who were kind, wise, helpful, etc., and bad vibrations from people, institutions, objects or ideas that were unkind, stupid, hostile, violent, etc. The Beach Boys made a very popular song called "Good Vibrations," about a sweet, sexy lady. "I'm picking up good vibrations/She's giving me excitations."
Soon it was shortened to "vibe," and this version of the word is only used in the slang sense. You'd never say, "I think my wheels need balancing; I feel a vibe in the car." It is no longer restricted to a "good vibe" or a "bad vibe," and often is simply a synonym for "sense." -- I get a faint vibe of nostalgia from this TV show. It doesn't feel like the 21st century. -- At this morning's staff meeting, did you feel a scary vibe that we may lose the Air Force contract?
I'm not sure what the professionals in the U.S. financial industry were trying to say. ("Wall Street" is a metonym, the name of a location used to mean the people, institution, activity, etc., that takes place there. Like "Washington" to mean the U.S. government and "Bangalore" to mean the Indian information technology industry.) I assume they were talking about getting a "vibe" from Obama indicating that he's not a friend of the finance industry, the way Romney is. Romney is in fact a member of that industry, surely one of the major reasons he lost the election. During a bad economy, everybody hates bankers.
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A language. A command line tool. A quick and dirty video editor for the power user.
Codable Media Mashup (CoMM) is both a language and a command line tool used for slicing and splicing online videos together. The purpose is to allow people to quickly and efficiently make “highlights reel” or “compilation” types of movies using a collection of online videos. The traditional video editing process might look something like this:
- Individually download the videos, and wait for them to complete.
- Load them into a bulky video editing application, and wait for it to process each video for thumbnails.
- Select clips from the various source videos, adjust the time sliders, wait for the CPU to catch up as the graphics card gets bogged down.
- Waiting, waiting, waiting… you get the point.
By contrast, with a “codable” video editing experience, users can avoid the wait! Or at least most of it. For many people, video editing shouldn’t need a feature-heavy application. It just needs to put pieces of videos together. The less time spent doing it, the better! In addition to it being faster, all the downloading and processing is done in the same contiguous block of time. This allows the user to “set it and forget it” so they can work on something else until their video is complete.
- Code Repository
- 1 December 2017
- 11 December 2017
Potential use cases:
- Game footage highlights from the season
- Top ten funniest Seinfeld moments
- Cat fail compilations
- Caruso one-liners montage
- Compilation of every time Neo says “No”, “Why”, or “I don’t understand”. Wake up Neo…
This project involved creating a fully functioning interpreter that performs lexical analysis, grammar parsing, translation, and execution. Up until this point, we have only created lexers and parsers with ANTLR. The interpreter had to be able to provide helpful error messages and output useful log files as well, which involved understanding StandardError/StandardOutput redirection in a Java program running a bash script.
Creation, Analysis, and Evaluation
Creation began by defining what we wanted the language to do and writing the grammar from that definition. We focused on getting end-to-end integration and a working prototype before drilling down on the finer details of the program. Translation and execution were implemented by using a bash script as an intermediate language, and then running that script from within the Java application. The basic features of the program allow the user to define the output video file name and cache, download numerous videos, slice them into shorter clips, and then join those clips into a single video.
Once the initial prototype was functional, it was analyzed and improved upon in additional iterations. The repository was completely restructured and refactored to comply to better coding standards and to promote readability and maintainability. The process involved decoupling distinct modules, restructuring the file directory, updating build scripts, removing cruft, refactoring variables and functions, and adding comments and documentation.
The application and project goals were evaluated intermittently during development, and plans had to be adjusted to arrive at a satisfactory end result within the allotted time. We determined that it was more important to produce a stable application with a few core features and robust error handling than it was to make a buggy, unstable application with lots of features. Original plans for a client-server web application were shifted to target a command line application, and extra features were tabled to focus on the more essential pieces of functionality.
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Kidney Health: 9 Simple Tips For Maintaining A Healthy Kidney
In this article, we’ll talk about kidney health – everyday things you can do without putting in much effort.
Our kidneys play a key role in our body’s excretory system. These organs help our bodies remove toxins, balance bodily fluids, release a variety of hormones, and regulate the development of red blood cells. They also create a type of Vitamin D that is crucial for bone strength.
Due to the constant processing of several bodily fluids, our kidneys can suffer from plenty of diverse range of ailments. The most frequently-occurring kidney diseases are chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, kidney stones, renal infections, kidney failure, etc.
Tips For Maintaining Healthy Kidneys
The multidimensional role played by our kidneys in the body makes it crucial for us to keep them healthy. If you are here to know more about how to keep your kidneys fit, following these simple tips would be in your best interests:
1. Exercise Regularly
Simple forms of exercise done regularly are beneficial for the smooth operation of your kidneys. Regular exercise enhances muscle agility, regulates blood pressure and cholesterol, regulates metabolism, and improves sleep. All these processes are crucial for an adequate kidney operation.
A minimum of half an hour of continuous exercise aimed at moving large muscles at once (jogging, cycling, aerobic dancing, skipping, etc.) are proven to enhance kidney health and functioning.
2. Keep Your Blood Sugar Levels In Check
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) occurs due to impaired running of kidneys wherein they are unable to filter out only the toxins from the bodily fluids. A high blood sugar level is one such bodily condition that triggers this ailment. This is because it causes the kidneys to eliminate essential elements from the blood along with the toxins. This 2-in-1 filtering process is not a bodily demand and can deplete the bloodstream of sufficient blood purifiers.
Your target blood sugar concentration must be 5.2 to 7.2 mmol/L before meals and below 10.0 mmol/L after meals. The glycated hemoglobin rate (A1C test) ideal for the human body is about 7%. Frequently visit your doctor to understand your blood sugar levels and what they mean for your kidney wellbeing.
Also Read: Tips To Deal With Diabetes Fatigue
3. Keep Your Blood Pressure Levels In Check
Healthy kidneys filter about 180 liters of bodily fluids per day to remove all toxins and extra water to form urine. High blood pressure restricts blood vessels puts stress on the entire circulatory system, affecting the kidneys as well.
The narrowed blood vessels in the kidney reduce the effectiveness of the kidneys in toxin-removal and urine production.
This causes the harmful toxins to prevail within the body, causing other health ailments. If you have blood pressure levels over 140/90, visit the doctor immediately. To help your kidneys operate smoothly, try to maintain blood pressure levels of about 120/80.
4. Maintain An Average Body Mass Index
Body mass index is a simple ratio of your height to your weight that tells you if you are underweight or overweight. For most humans, a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is ideal.
A BMI above 24.9 is categorized as overweight. Being overweight can directly affect your kidneys. The added weight makes it harder for your kidneys to strain out toxins effectively. This entire extra load over time paves way for kidney diseases.
Being underweight (BMI below 18.5) is also found to raise the probability of renal function degradation i.e. the gradual reduction of kidney functionality. A low-fat, kidney-friendly diet loaded with vitamins and minerals can help you maintain an ideal BMI
5. Watch Your Salt Intake
High sodium in the blood results in raising your blood pressure, directly affecting kidney functioning. Sodium is also seen to directly affect kidney tissues leading to hypertrophy and fibrosis in the kidney muscles.
A high sodium diet also interferes with the water balance in your body. This is because the kidney attempts to flush the extra sodium from the body, producing more urine. Even worse, high sodium levels in the body also eradicate beneficial nutritional elements such as proteins in the form of urine.
A low-sodium diet is ideal to sustain water balance, blood pressure, and protein levels in the body.
6. Stay Hydrated
Staying hydrated reduces the probability of kidney stones and urinary tract infections. All fluids, especially water, assists the kidneys to dissolve the excess sodium and other toxins in the body. In fact, the right amounts of water also help to dilate your blood vessels to ensure the free circulation of blood without restrictions.
Dehydration on the other hand can raise the probability of toxin and acid-buildup in the body. The kidneys are unable to strain these out because of the lack of water in the body.
Doctors recommend 3.7 liters of water for men and 2.7 liters of water for women a day.
7. Avoid Smoking
If you have high blood pressure and you smoke regularly, chances are that your medicines for maintaining blood pressure are not helping at all. Smoking also slows down the blood circulation in the body, including the kidneys. As a result, it impairs kidney functioning in the long run.
Sadly, smoking leads to tar build-up and this causes the formation of high amounts of plaque in the arteries. This not only disrupts smooth blood flow but also deprives the kidneys of sufficient oxygen.
Passive smoking is also associated with a high probability of developing kidney diseases. Thus, it will be best for you to avoid smoking and stay away from people who do.
8. Limit The Use Of Pain-relief Medicines
Pain-relief medicines readily available in the market are proven to cause serious kidney damage. Chronic interstitial nephritis is a fatal kidney disease occurring due to the overuse of pain-relief medicines over time.
Common medicines proven to be fatal in the long run are aspirin, naproxen sodium, Ketoprofen, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen, etc.
9. Visit A Doctor If You Are At Risk
Some people are more at immediate risk of kidney diseases than others. People above 60 years of age, or obese, or who had a low birth weight, or a family history of cardiovascular diseases and blood pressure should regularly undergo kidney screening tests.
Sleeplessness, tiredness, dry and itchy skin, frequent urination, bloody or foamy urine, puffiness in the eye, low appetite, muscle cramps, and swollen limbs are early indicators of kidney diseases. If you feel you are at risk, visit the doctor immediately.
Tips For Better Kidney Health: Wrap Up
Maintaining our kidney health is simple. All we have to do is exercise regularly, maintain an ideal BMI, control our blood sugar and blood pressure levels, eat healthily, and stop smoking. If you are already at risk of kidney diseases, doctor appointments and treatment plans can bring your kidney health back to normal.
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According to a study in Emerging Infectious Diseases, these adults may be at increased risk of COVID-19 complications due to existing chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension.
TUESDAY, April 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An estimated 45.4 percent of U.S. adults may have an increased risk for COVID-19 complications due to chronic conditions, according to a study published in the August issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Mary L. Adams, M.P.H., from On Target Health Data LLC in Suffield, Connecticut, and colleagues used population-based U.S. data to estimate the fraction of adults in the community who may be at increased risk for COVID-19 complications because they reported any of the chronic conditions with a high case-fatality rate in China. Publicly available 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data were included from telephone surveys of 444,649 randomly selected adults.
The researchers found that 26.7, 12, 4.7, and 2 percent of the adults reported one, two, three, and four or more chronic conditions, respectively. The prevalence rates of the chronic conditions were 8.5, 6.6, 9.1, 10.8, 32.4, and 6.8 percent for cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer, respectively; the overall prevalence was 45.4 percent. | <urn:uuid:62c92120-b226-4bee-8ac2-382f5ff07162> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://live.healthday.com/at-risk-for-coronavirus-complications-2645868051.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.932059 | 292 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Virtual meetings have become increasingly popular in recent years–a trend which is only set to continue. Online meetings are cost-effective, easy to set up, and keep you connected to colleagues and business partners around the world. Whether you’re at home or in a different office location, you never need to miss an important business meeting.
But when you connect to a virtual meeting, do you know the etiquette required for meetings online? Virtual meetings can be an etiquette minefield–read on to discover the unwritten rules of virtual conferencing.
1. Wear Appropriate Clothes
Just like you wouldn’t show up to an office meeting with pj’s on, you should dress appropriately for a virtual conference. Dress as you would in the office conference room. It’ll help you stay focused and in “work” mode, even if you’re miles away at home. It’s still a work meeting and you should treat it that way. You can put the pj’s back on when the camera stops rolling.
2. A Professional Setting is Good Etiquette
You don’t need to be at your office desk to look professional, but your co-workers don’t need to see your messy bedroom or kid’s toys everywhere. Whether you’re in a comfortable chair in the lounge, or sitting at a kitchen worktop, pick a location with plenty of light and a neutral background.
3. Limit Meeting Distractions
Just like there wouldn’t be dogs barking or kids crying in a regular conference room, you should do your best to keep background noise to a minimum during an online meeting. You don’t want your co-workers–or worse, potential business partners–struggling to follow what you’re saying because they can’t hear you over background noise. Make sure others around you know that you’re working so they respect your space.
4. Learn How to Mute Your Microphone
When you’re not talking, it’s best to mute your microphone. This is especially important if you’re joining the call from somewhere with unavoidable background noise, such as a cafe or airport. Your co-workers don’t need to hear you chewing or idly tapping on your keyboard–noises which fade into the background during a traditional meeting are amplified in a virtual setting. Even better, keep food until after the meeting so the other participants aren’t watching you eat the whole time!
5. It’s Good Etiquette to Only Invite Who’s Necessary
Don’t invite participants who won’t be prepared for the meeting or who don’t need to be there. It’s only a waste of everyone’s time, which defeats the purpose of virtual conferencing. Make sure everyone invited knows who else will be there–just like you wouldn’t call on people to sit in during a traditional meeting, you shouldn’t make surprise invitations during an online one.
6. Give a Virtual Meeting your Full Attention
Although it’s tempting to check your emails or flick through papers when you’re not speaking, there’s a good chance you’ll miss key information, not to mention it’s disrespectful. Use attentive body language and communication and be present for the meeting. You’ll get so much more out of the conference if you distance yourself from distractions that can wait until later.
7. Making Sure Everyone can Access The Online Meeting is Good Etiquette
It sounds simple, but it’s worth stating clearly–if you’re inviting someone to an online meeting, it’s critical that they have access to the right software or hardware to join in. If someone only has access to audio conferencing or doesn’t have access to a program, you need to know this ahead of time to structure the meeting accordingly. Make sure you announce meetings with plenty of notice so participants can download or acquire what they need to participate.
8. Set Effective Goals and Agendas
Just like a regular meeting, virtual conferences can get off-track if there’s no clear structure or if there are too many issues to discuss in the time allocated. Aim to circulate an agenda before the meeting so that everyone’s familiar with what you’ll discuss. This gives everyone a chance to formulate their own ideas and contributions.
You should also circulate minutes, or a summary, following the meeting, so that participants have something to reflect on following the conference. This gives everyone a chance to ask any clarifying questions and prepare for any follow-up meetings.
9. Speak Clearly and Use Good Manners
There’s nothing worse than someone talking over you during a regular meeting, and it’s the same in the virtual world.
Announce yourself when you sign in to the meeting, but only during a pause when no one else is speaking.
When it’s your turn to talk, speak clearly and slowly enough for everyone to follow what you’re saying. Remember that sound quality is very important in this medium.
Although there may be unavoidable lags due to slower connections, try to ensure no one speaks over anyone else.
10. Be prepared for Technical Difficulties
It’s impossible to prepare for every eventuality, but you should log on to the meeting in good time to make sure everything’s working properly. Make sure the connection is stable and that you have a backup plan if necessary.
Just like in a regular meeting, ensure you have access to all of the resources you will need, such as financial data. If you’re accessing documents on a Cloud platform, ensure everything is working beforehand.
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$100 million awarded to UNT's Health Science Center to diversify field of AI
The money from the National Institutes of Health means the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth will lead the coordinating center for the AIM-AHEAD program over the next two years.
The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD program) was created to combat harmful biases in how artificial intelligence and machine learning is used.
KERA's Justin Martin talked with UNTHSC's Dr. Jamboor Vishwanatha, about what this means for North Texas.
On the AIM-AHEAD program:
AIM-AHEAD is a consortium to promote artificial intelligence and machine learning to achieve health equity and also diversify the research workforce that is involved in the AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) work. So it basically attacks two different issues.
One is the lack of diversity in the data that is currently used in the AI/ML field. And secondly, who is actually doing the work.
So this is actually a very, very significant program, and I think you mentioned about $100 million. It is one large investment that NIH has made in terms of diversity efforts.
On how artificial intelligence and machine learning affects health care:
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are in every walk of life. Basically, when you wear a smartwatch, you're pretty much collecting data. And then there are a lot of decisions that are made.
Artificial intelligence is used in the hospitals, in the clinics. It is being used in all walks of life. What is going to happen is some of the clinical decisions will all be based on machine learning, on artificial intelligence.
So it is quite important at this point for us to make sure that people are not left behind, that their data is used in developing the algorithms in making sure that any outcome is representative of all the population.
On how AI/ML lacks diversity:
There are two issues. One is the gender. It turns out that most of the people who are working in this area are predominantly male. I mean, so you don't really have gender equity.
Secondly, racial ethnic groups are not highly represented in the workforce that is currently doing artificial intelligence machine learning. And therefore, this is really critical that we involve all of the groups, all of the racial ethnic groups in the future workforce.
Dr. Jamboor Vishwanatha is regents professor and vice president of diversity and international programs at the University of North Texas Science Center in Fort Worth.
Interview highlights were lightly edited for clarity.
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The Testosterone Effect of Ibuprofen
The painkillers ibuprofen and diclofenac probably cause a temporary boost in testosterone levels, if the results of a 2009 Finnish-Swedish in vitro study published in Steroids are anything to go by. The study also shows that some synthetic testosterone users are able to mislead doping hunters by using these over-the-counter drugs.
Two key enzymes in the breakdown of testosterone are UGT2B17 and UGT2B15. They attach sugar groups to the testosterone molecules, which enables the kidneys to eliminate them. You can read more about this in Chapter 10 of our Anabolics Book. If the enzymes work less hard then there might just be more testosterone circulating in your body.
In some people the enzyme UGT2B17 works less well, or doesn’t work at all. These people can use high doses of testosterone without them showing up in a doping test. In the usual test for testosterone, doping hunters look at the ratio between glycosylated testosterone and glycosylated epitestosterone in the urine. If the UGT2B17 enzyme isn’t working, the urine contains relatively little sugared testosterone [structural formula shown below]. The glycosylation of epitestosterone is the work of a different enzyme.
The researchers wanted to know what the effect is on the glycosylation of testosterone of the anti-inflammatory painkillers [NSAIDs] diclofenac and ibuprofen, as these are widely used in the sports world. They added testosterone to enzyme producing liver cells in a test tube, and then proceeded to add increasing concentrations of diclofenac and ibuprofen. They then measured the amount of sugared testosterone and epitestosterone that was created. Both painkillers inhibited the glycosylation of testosterone – but not that of epitestosterone.
If you take 800 mg ibuprofen, an hour later there’ll 13-35 micrograms of the stuff in one millilitre of your blood. That’s 0.06-0.12 micromoles. As you can see above, this should have an effect. This might therefore be a partial explanation for the anabolic effect of anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen in elderly – and not in younger – athletes.
Older athletes should be able to boost their testosterone level temporarily by taking ibuprofen. Certainly if they take it after training, when the muscle cells are sucking anabolic hormones out of the bloodstream, ibuprofen might have an ergogenic effect. [Hmm. We wonder whether there’s some naturally occurring substance that works in the same way as ibuprofen…]
So taking diclofenac or ibuprofen makes normal athletes resemble athletes who don’t have the UGT2B17 enzyme. If these athletes inject synthetic testosterone, then the conventional doping test for testosterone may not work properly.
But the effect is bigger in athletes who don’t have the UGT2B17 enzyme. In them UGT2B15 partially takes over the work of UGT2B17 and this enzyme also works less well when diclofenac and ibuprofen are present. This means that in practice these athletes can happily use testosterone without doping hunters getting wind of it, thanks to ibuprofen and diclofenac.
“These results warrant further studies in order to assess the inhibitory potential that these and other NSAIDs may have on testosterone glucuronidation in vivo, as well as in other drug–drug, drug–xenobiotics and drug–endobiotics interactions”, the researchers write. “Such studies are on-going at our laboratory in healthy volunteers.”
If you’re thinking about experimenting with a combination of synthetic testosterone and ibuprofen or diclofenac, read first the article published by researchers at Kingston University in 2010. They suspect that this combination can cause kidney damage in people who don’t have the UGT2B17 enzyme. [Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2010 Apr 29; 5:7.]
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Welcome to the Montana wiki Waze.
What is waze?
The power of Waze is in your hands. By simply driving around with the Waze client installed on your smartphone, you can share real-time information that translates into traffic conditions and road structure. When you use Waze, you can also actively report to the community on traffic, accidents, police traps, blocked roads, weather conditions and much more. Waze collects this information and immediately analyzes it in order to provide other Wazers with the most optimal route to their destination, 24 hours a day.
What can I find on this Wiki?
This Wiki is separated into many areas which contain important information displayed in tabs seen on top of this page.
For individuals who make use of the Waze Map Editor they are going to come across guide-lines about how exactly to edit the map, implementing best map editing practices, in addition to the state guide-lines.
These resources can be adapted to use in any venue of the mentoring program, either through Formal Mentoring, Informal Mentoring, or on your own | <urn:uuid:590dc498-6d09-4815-862d-b89209489f60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/User:Kinematic/Montana | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.923176 | 259 | 1.960938 | 2 |
“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina
Simply put, a resume is an information presented in a meaningful way. The same information, when presented haphazardly, remains exactly that; information.
Resume formats play a central role in all this as it gives structure to your resume and presents information meaningfully. When you use the right resume format, it helps you get shortlisted. When you don’t, you do not get shortlisted. Thus, the resume format you choose is important as it has the power to make or break your job application. This is why you should choose an ideal resume format that is ideal for you.
Given below are the new resume formats that are used in the industry right now:
● Reverse Chronological Resume Format
● Combination Resume Format
● Functional Resume Format
We will be discussing them in detail to evaluate which resume format is ideal for you. But before we do, we will first discuss the ATS system and the importance of using a resume format that is ATS-compliant.
The Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and why you should use an ATS-compliant resume format:
ATS i.e. the applicant tracking system is a mechanism that most companies today have started to use to simplify their recruitment needs. The ATS assigns a rank to each resume. Based on this rank, you get shortlisted for an interview. The higher you rank in the ATS, the higher are your chances of a shortlist.
Long story short, your resume format should be ATS-compliant. If your resume format fails to do this, your chances of getting shortlisted will drastically dwindle, irrespective of your skills & capabilities.
This is why your choice of a resume format should meet the twin objectives that we have listed below:
1. It should best compliment your skills as a professional
2. It should get parsed by the ATS system
Now that we’ve got this covered, we will now cover the 3 resume formats that we have talked about before. Let’s get started.
Reverse Chronological Resume Format
The reverse-chronological resume format endorses your most recent work experience first and traces your work experience all the way back to its beginning.
It organizes information about a candidate such as their work experience, internships, volunteering experience, etc. by approaching them from a reverse-time order.
Given below are the benefits of using the reverse-chronological resume format:
● Extremely ATS friendly: This resume format has proved to be a winner of resume formats as it is the industry standard and extremely ATS-friendly. By using this resume format, you are guaranteeing that your resume will get parsed by almost any ATS system in the world. This means that using the reverse-chronological resume format, you are enhancing your chances of a shortlist.
● Easy to create: This is self-explanatory. Using this resume format helps you present your professional information in a coherent and comprehensive manner. All you have to do is create a time-line of the major events of your career and elaborate upon them.
● Highly relevant and recruiter-friendly: This format displays your most recent work experience in the beginning. Since your most recent experience is the most relevant experience, it helps you curate a highly relevant resume that is well-acknowledged by recruiters all over the world!
Wise men will advise you to play safe, and stick with this resume format as it has shown proven results. However, this is not applicable for all professionals. Given below is a list of who should and should not use the reverse-chronological resume format:
• Ideal for students, fresh graduates & entry-level professionals: The reverse-chronological resume format is ideal for people who fall in this category as it helps them endorse their extra-curricular and co-curricular achievements through this format. Moreover, voluntary work or internships can be a great substitute for professional experience. This is ideal for these categories of job applicants as they don’t have much work experience to talk about.
• Not ideal for professionals with gaps in their career: While this resume format is ideal for professionals with no evident pause in their career, it isn’t so for people with career gaps. By focusing on the timeline of your work experience, this resume format makes career gaps more visible. This ends up sabotaging your job application if you took a couple of years off for whatever reasons as you are left with no room to explain why you were on a sabbatical away from the high-in-pressure job environment.
• Not ideal for frequent job switchers: This point branches out from the above point. If you have switched a lot of jobs in a short time period, many companies will be listed on your reverse chronological resume. This is seen negatively as it will project to a potential recruiter that you are a job-absconder. Thus, if you have switched jobs frequently for whatever reasons, you should not use this resume format.
Functional Resume Format (skill-based resume)
A functional resume format focuses on your skills and abilities. It does not put much emphasis on the timeline of your work experience.
It lists professional experience by displaying headers without talking about the details of the actual work done. Here, a separate section is designed to register relevant skills, and points are grouped under these relevant skills which showcases your work experience.
Given below are the benefits of using a functional resume format:
• Hides employment gaps: The functional resume is a skill-based resume format. It helps you endorse your skills without having to explicitly get into the details of the timeline of your work history. This helps you conveniently conceal the gaps in your employment while emphasizing on your skill-set.
• Best for job-switchers: Given that the focus of this resume format is on skills rather than work, it helps hide the job-switching tendencies of frequent job switchers and gives them a fair chance of making an impact based on their skills alone.
Given below is a list of who should and shouldn’t use the functional resume format:
• Ideal for people with career gaps and frequent job-switchers: This resume format is recommended by experts for people who have gaps in their employment history or for people who frequently change their jobs as it hides employment gaps.
• Not ideal for most professionals: Though this resume format hides career gaps, at the end of the day, it is not an ideal format for most professionals (including job jumpers and professionals with career gaps) as it is not ATS-friendly. This means that your resume will not rank in the ATS, which further means that you don’t stand a chance at getting shortlisted.
There is no point in hiding career gaps if it does nothing to help you land a job. Thus, even if you’re a frequent job switcher, or are someone with gaps in their work-ex, it is best that you don’t use this resume format. It will hamper your job application and thus, in reality it is not ideal for any professional.
Combination Resume Format
The combination resume format, also frequently known as the hybrid resume format is a combination of the reverse chronological resume format and the functional resume format. This format presents your skills in the form of points which are grouped under unique skill-based headings while simultaneously showcasing the timeline of your work experience.
The combination format can further be divided into two formats:
● Combination Resume Format-1 (Grouping inside Professional Experience): This format does everything exactly like the reverse chronological resume format. The only difference is in the professional experience section, where the points are grouped by the skills that they represent. The biggest advantage of using this format is that it gives equal weightage to your skills and work experience, thus giving you a fair chance at landing gold with both.
● Combination Resume Format-2 (Grouping in Summary of Skills section): In this format, you have to make a completely different section for your achievements in the form of “Summary of Skills”. Here, the points exhibiting your career’s achievements and roles & responsibilities are bucketed under their respective key skills.
Given below is a list of who should and shouldn’t use this resume format:
• Highly recommended for frequent job switchers: The combination resume format is highly ATS friendly and recruiter friendly. And here’s the best part: it hides gaps in employment by drawing the recruiter’s attention to skill-based achievements rather than the timeline. This is why this resume format is ideal for frequent job-switchers.
• Highly recommended for mid-level & highly experienced professionals: People with a lot of experience and skills have the best opportunity to endorse them in a meaningful way using this resume format. This is why this resume format is ideal for them: it helps them present their skills & capabilities without seeming show-offish.
• Not recommended for fresh graduates and people with no work experience: This resume format, as ideal as it may be, is not suitable for freshers and early-stage professionals as they might not have enough points to group under relevant skills.
• It is not recommended for people with deadlines: The only downside of the functional resume format is that it is very time-consuming to draft a resume using this format. So, this resume format is a far out-cry for people with limited time on their hands.
To conclude, now that know the importance of resume formats in making or breaking your job application, all you have to do now is pick the ideal resume format for you. Here’s a brief guideline on the resume format that you should pick based on the category you fall under:
● Students, fresh graduates & entry-level professionals: You should use the reverse-chronological resume format as you don’t have much work experience to talk about in your resume.
● Professionals who worked on a specific area: If you fall in this category, you should ideally choose the reverse-chronological format.
● Mid-level professionals and highly experienced professionals: Since you have many years of work experience, you should choose the combination resume format as you have a high number of acquired skills vis-à-vis other professionals.
● Frequent job-switchers & people with employment gaps: The combination format is the ideal format if you fall in either of these categories.
About the Author:
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Drop foot is a condition that hampers your ability to move around easily due to the inability to lift the front of your foot. To help avoid the complications that can come with drop foot and improve your gait, Daniel Michaels, DPM, MS, DABFAS, at Reconstructive Foot & Ankle Institute, offers corrective devices to help remedy the problem. If you’re located in Hagerstown or Frederick, Maryland, call or set up an appointment using the online scheduler.
Drop foot is an aptly named condition in which you have little control over lifting the front of your foot. Drop foot isn’t a disease, but a condition in which you’re unable to lift your foot, which can lead to foot drag and an overcorrected gait to avoid dragging the top of your foot across the ground.
Drop foot may affect one or both of your feet, depending upon the cause, and is typically brought about by:
This is the most common cause of drop foot, and it usually involves the peroneal nerve in your leg, which is responsible for lifting your foot. This nerve may be damaged during joint replacement surgery or because of prolonged squatting, which leads to problems controlling your foot. Drop foot can also come from a pinched nerve in your back.
Several disorders involving your nerves and muscles can cause drop foot, including muscular dystrophy, polio, or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
There are a number of conditions that impact your brain or spinal cord in such a way that causes foot drop, such as multiple sclerosis or stroke.
To start, Dr. Michaels assesses your drop foot using nerve conduction studies and advanced imaging to identify the source of the problem. Once he has a clearer picture of the issue, he uses different types of braces that normalize your gait and alleviate any associated pain while he treats the underlying problem. These braces fit into your shoe and help keep your foot lifted, restoring a more normal gait with less stress on your hips.
Dr. Michaels also recommends physical therapy to strengthen the surrounding muscles, which can help you regain a more regular gait while also warding off further progression of the condition.
Ultimately, the treatment for your drop foot depends entirely upon what’s causing the condition, but, rest assured, Dr. Michaels’ first order of business is improving the way you walk with braces so that you’re comfortable right away.
To learn more about your options when it comes to drop foot, call Reconstructive Foot & Ankle Institute or schedule an appointment using the online booking tool. | <urn:uuid:16de0531-a479-469e-8cfe-8503cb7cc813> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rfainstitute.com/services/drop-foot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936048 | 537 | 2.390625 | 2 |
These good boys deserve all of the head scratches while they wait for their humans!
Sometimes pets are what keeps people struggling with addiction and other mental health issues going. Pets provide a level of responsibility outside of yourself and they thrive on routine. For example, if you have trouble waking up in the morning, don’t just set your alarm, start feeding your animal at the time you’d like to wake up. After a week or so of this new and rewarding habit for your pet, they will be sure to remind you it’s feeding time. By simply existing, pets can give their owners purpose on top of all of the great mental health benefits. It’s no wonder that pets can also be the reason people don’t seek out treatment for substance use issues, especially if it requires a lengthy stay away from home. But now, people in Utah struggling with addiction no longer have to choose between their sobriety and their pet.
Some people that find themselves addicted to drugs or alcohol can become isolated from healthy relationships with their friends and family. Being isolated makes it difficult to find someone trustworthy to care for your pets while you’re caring for yourself. As one could imagine, if the social network is depleted and if the only people available to help with pets are other people struggling with addiction, it makes sense to them to prioritize their pet's safety over seeking treatment. When you’re deep in the throes of addiction, clinging to the one thing that is holding you together most days is understandable.
Ruff Haven Crisis Sheltering typically offers free short-term housing for pets while their owners are going through a difficult time like domestic violence or homelessness. It recently partnered with Odyssey House, Utah’s largest comprehensive addiction program, which offers residential programs for teens and adults. The nonprofit also offers sober housing and a program designed for single parents. With Ruff Haven Crisis Sheltering working hand in hand with Odyssey House, potential clients can rest assured their animals will be cared for during their time in treatment.
The animal crisis shelter can keep the animals for up to three months of free boarding while the pet’s owner is receiving treatment. Ruff Haven’s foster coordinator, Beth Henry, told The Salt Lake Tribune, “This is really person-based, like person-led.” Henry explained that the animals are kept safe in a foster home until the owner completes treatment and reaches a place of safety and stability. Before the pet is placed in a foster home, the owner must complete an application, which includes the owner’s current situation. Once the application is complete, the animal is assessed regarding its general condition including vaccinations and if it's fixed or scheduled to be. After all criteria is met, the pet is matched with a foster and the client can check in on their pet once a week via text. This includes foster parents sending pictures and videos to the owner to help ease their minds while they focus on getting clean.
Some animals are even able to get visitation with their humans at the Dogs All Day facility, where the owner can schedule some much-needed cuddles with their pooch. Ruff Haven’s Executive Director Kristina Pulsipher told the paper, “A lot of times [owners] worry that they’re gonna forget them during that period — the pets never forget their person. The reunions are why we do this. And we have many people who have been clients that volunteer with us now, or foster for us.”
This program is such a compassionate solution to a difficult situation and will hopefully catch on in other states. It's so important for people to be able to get the help they need without worrying about abandoning their pets. Since Ruff Haven opened in June 2020, it has already helped around 500 animals and 320 families. | <urn:uuid:a39473de-624d-49f5-b19e-f8e8ede69c04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.upworthy.com/utah-pets-can-now-be-cared-for-while-their-owners?rebelltitem=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966792 | 779 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Eddie Salter: Creekside Field Edge Turkey Hunting
Bob McNally 04.03.17
One great spot champion Alabama turkey caller and hunter Eddie Salter has found for drawing birds to within shotgun range is available in much gobbler country. He likes a field having a perimeter creek within 100 yards of the edge of the planted ground. Turkeys often roost near the creek, between the draw and field.
Such places are plentiful in woods-fringe farm country, as farmers plow ground near creeks, but leave cover alongside streams because it’s not suitable for planting. Hardwoods bordering a creek beside a field are choice turkey roosts since they’re over or near water and close to food in the field.
After having located birds on their near-creek roost, Salter slips into the woods at the far corner of a field. He begins calling from a spot midway between the creek and field. If turkeys respond to his calling, Eddie sets up so he can shoot the field edge, as well as the woods. The deep creek keeps birds from crossing wide, and they “funnel” toward him in the timber, alongside the field. | <urn:uuid:a131287b-c5aa-4f5d-a897-5928c55acbb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/04/03/eddie-salter-creekside-field-edge-turkey-hunting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966554 | 249 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz appeared on Fox News,’ ” The Kelly Files,” where he was asked by host Megyn Kelly to discuss her recent interview with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who is expected to announce that he will be running for president in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
I am a fan of Jeb Bush. I’ll give him credit for candor and consistency. He is running based on his views, his views are different than that of a lot of Republicans primary voters, but he is honest about it. –Sen. Ted Cruz
There are a lot of Jeb Bush supporters out there, as well as a lot of detractors.
One of those Jeb Bush detractors is an avid follower and reader of the Shark Tank, who as I was writing this story, tweeted that he felt he had “failed” as a parent because his daughter was “interested in getting involved with Jeb’s campaign.”
— Boca Legend (@BocaLegend) May 13, 2015
@Bocalegend ‘s tweet was in response to another story on Jeb Bush where the Democrats attacked Jeb with a comparison video of him and his bother, President George W. Bush.
Needless to say, I got a chuckle out of the tweet, and thought it would be funny to post in this story.
Back to the story.
Kelly told Cruz that Bush was unwavering in his support for Common Core education standards, and asked Cruz what his views on the federal education standards. Cruz, who like his fellow colleague in the Senate and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Marco Rubio, has taken a strong anti-Common Core position, reaffirmed his position to Kelly, telling her that he wanted to repeal every single word of the those federal education standards, aka Common Core.
Cruz stated that the, “Obama administration has used “Race to the Top” money to force states to adopt Common Core standards, adding that there were “a lot of dollars connected” between the education program and the states.
Education is far too important for it to be governed by unelected bureaucrats in Washington. It should be at the state level, but even better, it should be at the local level.-Sen. Ted Cruz
It’s just like the drug dealer that goes to the junior high and gets a kid hooked saying, ‘just try it once.’ The federal government does that to the states with dollars-there are so many strings attached. –Sen. Ted Cruz
After discussing his views on immigration reform, where he stated that many of current and potential Republican presidential candidates have at one point supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, he was been consistent with his views, and has not changed his mind like the others.
When asked about his views on foreign policy, Cruz stated the following:
“I think foreign policy ought to be dictated by the vital national security interest of the United States.“If and when military action is required, number one, we should be reluctant to use military power — America always has been. You know it is worth noting the biggest country Reagan ever invaded was Grenada.
“But if and when we’re required to use military force, it should be with a clearly defined objective. It should be with overwhelming force, and then we should get the heck out. It is not the job of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines to transform foreign nations into democratic utopias. It’s [their] job to hunt down and kill terrorists who want to murder Americans before they can carry out jihad.”
The latest polls have Cruz trailing both Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush by at least 5 points, but like many politicos will agree, it is way too early to start picking a winner in this soon-to-be hotly contested 2016 Republican presidential race.
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2016 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award
Winner: Prof. Dr. Serena DeBeer
Institution: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Chemische Energiekonversion
Research Highlights: A professor and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Dr. DeBeer’s research group is focused on the development and application of advanced X-ray spectroscopic tools for understanding key mechanisms in biological, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. A combination of synchrotron-based, as well as a broad range of advanced laboratory spectroscopies tightly coupled to modern computational methods, are utilized in order to obtain quantitative insights into electronic structural changes in catalytic systems.
2016 Gordon Hammes ACS Biochemistry Lectureship
Winner: Prof. Carol A. Fierke
Institution: University of Michigan
Research Highlights: Professor Fierke’s laboratory has combined an array of chemical, biological and biophysical approaches to identify the mechanistic and structural constraints that determine the high catalytic efficiency and rigorous substrate specificity of protein and nucleic acid catalysts. She is recognized as an international leader in devising elegant experimental approaches for probing the structure, function and biological relevance of metals as cofactors in catalysis.
2016 ACS Chemical Biology Lectureship
Winner: Prof. Peter G. Schultz
Institution: The Scripps Research Institute
Research Highlights: Professor Schultz’s research uses both chemical and biological tools to synthesize molecules with novel functions. By developing technologies to make and characterize molecules and materials hundreds to million at a time, his work has dramatically impacted our ability to make molecules with novel biological and physical properties, ranging from medicines to materials.
2016 Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award
Winner: Dr. Bruce Lipshutz
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Highlights: Dr. Lipshutz’s article describes the use of small quantities of a nonionic surfactant that enables nucleophilic aromatic substitution by oxygen-, nitrogen-, and sulfur-based nucleophiles at ambient temperatures in water. Comparing micellar and traditional conditions in the preparation of important drug intermediates emphasized the importance of this method, as the reactions proceed at much lower temperatures and products can be readily extracted directly from the reaction flask. This strategy may find broad application in industry, as it greatly reduces the dependence on organic solvents, especially commonly used DMF, leading to minimal waste production.
2016 Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Lectureship
Winner: Prof. Dr. Valentine P. Ananikov
Institution: Russian Academy of Sciences
Highlights from his/her research: Prof. Dr. Valentine P. Ananikov’s research interests are focused on catalysis, organic synthesis, molecular complexity and transformations.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award
Winner: Prof. Jeffrey Johnson
Institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research highlights:: Prof. Johnson’s research group at UNC focuses on a broad range of fields in chemical synthesis. The key questions their group seeks to answer include: 1)Can reagent design be used to create product diversity from a common mechanistic platform? 2)Can there be value in examining reaction classes that have received so much attention that one could be forgiven for assuming that all the interesting problems are solved? 3)Can simple reagents (e.g. hydrogen, oxygen) be used in reactions that provide more complexity than the reagents themselves might suggest?
2016 Energy & Fuels Joint Award for Excellence in Publication
Winner: Dr. Charles Mullen
Institution: United State Department of Agriculture
Research highlights: The winning article for this second annual award was “Production of Deoxygenated Biomass Fast Pyrolysis Oils via Product Gas Recycling” DOI: 10.1021/ef400739u.
2016 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Lectureship Award
Winner: Prof. Andrea Alù
Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Research highlights: Prof. Alù’s is recognized for his outstanding contributions in the conception, modeling and application of metamaterials and nanostructured artificial materials to mold electromagnetic waves and light in unusual ways, going beyond the limits and challenges associated with the use of natural materials.
2016 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science
Winner: Prof. Matthias Beller
Institution: University of Rostock, Germany
Research Highlights: Prof. Beller’s research has played a significant role in the resurgence of iron catalysis, including for carbon dioxide reduction, amide reduction, nitroarene reduction, ester reduction, and enantioselective ketone hydrosilylation. And has had a significant impact on the field of palladium catalysis—a field in which his work is very widely known—for well over a decade.
2016 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award
Winner: Dr. Ricardo Ruiz
Institution: Western Digital Corporation
Research Highlights: Dr. Ruiz’s research achievements include advances in self-assembled polymer tempting techniques used to produce high-density patterned magnetic media for the latest generation of hard disks, as well as developments in the heat-assisted magnetic recording process that allow data to be written at these record-breaking densities.
2016 Langmuir Lectureship
Winner: Prof. Bernard P. Binks
Institution: University of Hull, UK
Research Highlights: Prof. Binks’ research interests include the origin of ultralow interfacial tensions in microemulsions, Langmuir monolayers of ionizable surfactants, antifoam action in aqueous foams and novel primitive surfactants. His most recent area has been concerned with the behavior of colloidal particles at a range of fluid-fluid interfaces, including particle-stabilized emulsions and foams and novel materials derived thereof.
Winner: Prof. Robert J. Hamers
Institution: University of Wisconsin – Madison
Research Highlights: Prof Hamers’ achievements include pioneering atomic-resolution studies of geometry, electronic structure, and chemical reactions of semiconductor surfaces. He has developed new approaches to functionalization of semiconductor surfaces that have established new links between surface science and organic chemistry and have yielded versatile surfaces with application in biology, catalysis, and other fields.
2016 Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Awards
Winner: Prof. Cyrille Boyer
Institution: The University of New South Wales
Research Highlights: Prof. Boyer was selected in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the development of new functional polymers and new nanomaterials for biological applications. He has developed original methodologies for the synthesis of complex macromolecules, including star polymers, hyperbranched polymers, and biodegradable polymers and a new photoinduced polymerization technique, photoinduced electron transfer – reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (PET-RAFT).
Winner: Prof. Andrew P. Dove
Institution: University of Warwick
Research Highlights: Prof. Dove was selected for this honor in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the development of synthetic methodologies for degradable polymer materials with exquisitely-tuned structures, stereochemistries and functionalities, and with compositions that are sustainable. His work has impacted research areas of organocatalysis, orthogonally-functional degradable polymers and metal-free click chemistry leading to new techniques and materials for advanced biomaterials applications.
2016 Bioconjugate Chemistry Lecturer Award
Winner: Dr. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen
Institution: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Research Highlights: Dr. Xiaoyuan Chen was selected as the lectureship award winner because of his extensive contributions at the interface between chemistry, biology, and medicine that have helped define the field of nanomedicine. Dr. Chen’s current research interests include the development of a molecular imaging toolbox to attain a better understanding of biology, early diagnosis of disease, monitoring therapy response, and guiding drug discovery/development. His lab puts special emphasis on high-sensitivity nanosensors for biomarker detection and theranostic nanomedicine for imaging, gene and drug delivery, and monitoring of treatment. Dr. Chen has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers (H-index = 96, total citations > 36,000, based on Google Scholar) and numerous books and book chapters. He is the founding editor of Theranostics (2014 IF = 8.022). He is also the President of Chinese-American Society of Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology (CASNN) and President-Elect of the Radiopharmaceutical Science Council (RPSC), Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
2016 Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship Awards
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A Winner: Wen Li
Institution: Wayne State University
Research Highlights: Wen Li received a B. S. degree from Peking University in China. In 2006, he earned a Ph. D. in chemical physics with Professor Arthur Suits at Stony Brook University. In the same year, he joined the Kapteyn/Murnane group at JILA/University of Colorado to study ultrafast dynamics. In 2009, he started as an assistant professor in Wayne State University and was promoted to associate in 2014. His research focuses on developing novel probes to study the intimate details of chemical reactions in ultrafast time domain (particularly at attosecond level). He received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineer (PECASE) (2012) and an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship (2013).
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B Winner: Julie Biteen
Institution: University of Michigan
Research Highlights: Julie Biteen is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, where her research program develops single-molecule, super-resolution microscopy for applications to microbiology and nanophotonics. Dr. Biteen received an A.B. in Chemistry at Princeton University before earning a Masters in Applied Physics and a Ph.D. in Chemistry at California Institute of Technology for her studies of plasmon-enhanced luminescence in the labs of Harry Atwater and Nathan Lewis. She then went on to study structural proteins in live bacteria with single-molecule imaging as a postdoc with W. E. Moerner at Stanford University. Her current projects build on this background in optoelectronics, nanoscience, and microscopy, and she has been recognized by numerous awards, including a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface (2009), an NSF CAREER Award (2013), and a Scialog fellowship from the Moore Foundation and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2015).
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C Winner: J. R. Schmidt
Institution: University of Wisconsin
Research Highlights: J. R. Schmidt received his B.S. from Hope College in 2001. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 2006, working with Jim Skinner, focusing on simulations of the dynamics and non-linear spectroscopy of aqueous solutions. He subsequently began a postdoctoral research position with John Tully at Yale University where he studied approaches for modeling non-adiabatic quantum dynamics. He returned to UW in 2008 when he accepted as position as an Assistant Professor, subsequently receiving an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and DOE Early Career Award. He became an Associate Professor in 2015. Prof. Schmidt’s research interests include developing accurate, first-principles force fields, nano-porous materials, and computational heterogeneous catalysis.
2016 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship
Winner: Prof. Jennifer Dionne
Institution: Stanford University
Research Highlights: Professor Dionne’s research has focused on developing new nano-optical materials and methods to directly visualize, probe, and control both energy- and biologically-relevant systems with nanometer-scale resolution. Her group has also helped to unravel the quantum properties of plasmonic materials and metamaterials. Her work has illustrated that quantum effects can have a significant impact on the optical properties of metallic nanoparticles. | <urn:uuid:1d16fbcb-bc85-4589-a74e-31cf4bab3fcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://axial.acs.org/2016/04/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.902351 | 2,601 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Eighty acres of beautiful mountain land in Johnson County have been added to a Nature Conservancy preserve in Shady Valley, thanks to the foresight and generosity of an Oak Ridge couple. Sadly, the May 20 land donation is not just a gift, but also a loving tribute to a departed spouse and friend of conservation.
Back in 2007, Teresa Myrick and her late husband Tim wanted to leave a legacy of protected mountain land for future generations. That’s why they donated a conservation easement to The Nature Conservancy, restricting development on a treasured tract of mountain land they bought for their retirement. The property is located adjacent to the Conservancy’s John R. Dickey Birch Branch Sanctuary in Shady Valley. Teresa and Tim, a former Oak Ridge National Research Laboratory engineer, became solid supporters of The Nature Conservancy, and Tim went on to become a board member for the Tennessee Chapter of the Conservancy. The couple looked forward to spending many years together on the scenic property.
However, Tim passed away far too early, in December 2014 at age 60 of cancer. As Teresa thought about the future of their mountain land, she knew what Tim would have wanted. She realized he would want her to donate it outright to The Nature Conservancy to be protected and cared for.
A big part of Tim and Teresa’s relationship was their mutual love of nature and the outdoors. Their leisure activities, which included hiking and canoeing, inspired them to first purchase the scenic Shady Valley property and then donate a conservation easement to the Conservancy.
Teresa, who manages a farm and herb business near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, describes how owning the land was like “owning your own national park,” as it is surrounded by incredible mountain and valley views, wooded areas, ponds and a stream that attracts deer, turkey and the occasional black bear. Tim and Teresa had visited every national park in the United States together, and the scenic Shady Valley land was truly a gift to the couple and a reminder of their travels across the nation. Inspired by these travels, Tim invested time and effort into conserving their property—introducing native grasses to the land to increase biodiversity, building more than 20 bird houses for many different species of birds and treating hemlocks for woolly adelgid insect infestations.
Gabby Lynch, The Nature Conservancy’s Director of Protection for Tennessee, says the “Myrick tract provides nice examples of Southern Appalachian oak hickory forest,” and shares the “same forest types and animal communities” as the Conservancy’s adjacent John R. Dickey Birch Branch Sanctuary—469 acres of densely forested Appalachian mountain land. The Myrick property is located immediately south of the preserve. Both the Myrick property and the Birch Branch preserve have streams that flow into Beaverdam Creek. Aside from its natural beauty, the land possesses great native biodiversity and is an ideal habitat for many species of plants, invertebrates and mammals.
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Brussels, 25 November 2020
A group of leading European producer responsibility transfer organizations (TROs) is calling on the EU to review its WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) policy. WEEE Forum, an organization made up of Producer Responsibility Transfer Organizations (TROs) around the world, presents a new vision that emphasizes the need to review the current system of extended producers' responsibility, including of the imposed targets, which are no longer appropriate in the current context.
Based on recent research by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), amid the small number of EU Member States that can meet the 2019 collection targets for WEEE and despite significant progress in collecting increasing quantities WEEE Forum highlights four vital steps that need to be applied to ensure a fair and achievable system.
FOUR-STEP POLICY REVIEW
- The first step is application of the principle of "involvement of all actors"
It is a principle that involves all public and private entities that have access to WEEE, in the collection, logistics, preparation for reuse, reconditioning, treatment or recycling of WEEE or associated monitoring, legislative and implementation activities. All actors are subject to minimum legal obligations regarding, inter alia, compliance with the law, reporting to the competent authorities and compliance with official and communication standards.
Approaching the “all actors” principle means that all actors have legal obligations that the competent authorities must impose and verify in order to ensure that everyone contributes in accordance with legal requirements. This approach provides a fair perspective and equal market opportunities, as well as in-depth market monitoring.
2. Secondly, OTRs are required to collect only WEEE to which they have access, ie those at collection and retail points or handed over directly to OTRs and should not be liable for WEEE to which they do not have access , for example WEEE lost in the scrap stream.
For WEEE that is accessible to them, the collection obligation is 100%. The proposed approach also recommends a role for OTRs axat on means and not just on objectives. OTRs would also play an important role in supporting actions that will transform undeclared WEEE flows into officially reported and properly treated WEEE.
3. The third step It is suggested that more measures be introduced that the authorities should implement to support increased WEEE collection. These include setting up a coordinating body, improving the collection network and better monitoring WEEE flows.
4. Finally, a revision of the calculation method is required in setting the targets for the quantity of WEEE to be collected in each Member State. It is based either on the amount of electrical and electronic equipment placed on the market or on the amount of WEEE previously generated.
Commenting on this last step, Jan Vlak, President of WEEE Forum, mentioned:
"An approach of all actors and support measures will certainly increase collection rates, but it is not a guarantee for achieving the current targets. Unexpectedly, the research shows that the method used to calculate the current collection targets is not suitable for the purpose and determines inadequate targets and contrary to the intended purpose. This should become a priority. ”
He went on to say: “The main shortcomings of the WEEE target calculation methodology are the fluctuations in collection volumes due to economic cycles, inaccuracies related to the equipment placed on the market and the duration of their use. Moreover, the high collection targets based on the quantities placed on the market conflict with the current waste cycle hierarchy, which promotes the prevention of waste generation and the extension of the life of appliances. "
The WEEE Forum document, which sets out its vision for the future of Extended Producer Responsibility, is available for download on the website at: https://weee-forum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EPR-and-the-role-of-all-actors_final.pdf
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Here comes Princyclopedia, Cotsen’s huge, annual event where we bring a book to life through a multitude of hands-on projects, activities, live shows, and demonstrations. This year’s book is Robin Hood, and we plan to bring the medieval world to life in all its splendor and glory! See period weapons in action, sample mead, storm a castle, test your survival skills in Sherwood Forest, illuminate a manuscript, meet live falcons, discover the science of stained glass, examine a longbow, explore an alchemist’s workshop, and rock out to musicians playing hits from merrie olde England! For more information, go to the Cotsen Children’s Library Website.
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Detection of contamination in DNA and protein samples by photometric measurements
contributed by Eppendorf |
Nucleic acid purification is a major application in a molecular laboratory. Purity and homogeneity of the sample are important considerations for subsequent applications. In practice, nucleic acids are purified with the help of commercially available kits which allow the separation of most other cellular components. However, the presence of proteins or other organic components in the eluate cannot be entirely ruled out. This is also directly related to the quality of the kit used. In the case where no kit is used for purification, additional contamination risks are posed by the chemicals used, e.g. phenol or ethanol from a phenol/chloroform extraction. Furthermore, this purification method typically yields all nucleic acids in a cell, not only the nucleic acid of interest. For example, a classic plasmid preparation without the RNase digestion step will yield approximately 90 % RNA . In order to ensure minimum contamination of the sample it makes sense to verify its purity by spectrophotometric measurements, fluorimetry or agarose gel. After considering the effort involved, the first method is certainly the simplest to perform.
For photometric determination of the concentration of a nucleic acid solution, absorbance is measured at 260 nm. Using a specific conversion factor, the concentration of the nucleic acid solution is calculated from the absorbance value. The following conversion factors (CF) are valid for an absorbance of 1 and for an optical path length of 1 cm:
dsDNA ≙ 50 μg/mL
RNA ≙ 40 μg/mL
ssDNA ≙ 33 μg/mL
The concentration (C) of the respective nucleic acid is determined via the following formula: C = CF x A (A=Absorbance), which results from a conversion of Lambert-Beer’s law:
A=ε*C*d <> C=1/ ε *A. The optical path length of 1 cm may be directly integrated into the coefficient of absorbance. The conversion factor CF is derived from the reciprocal value of the coefficient of absorbance (1/ ε = CF).
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Specific Issues We are Skilled at Helping
We have been specializing in Trauma and Attachment for over 20 years. The population we serve has not shown improvement from the many forms of treatment attempted and have become treatment-resistant. In doing this work, we will address any clinical needs that remain barriers to growth and progress including, but not limited to:
- Medical Trauma
- Grief and Loss
- Sexuality and Identity
- Family Dynamics
- Eating Disorders
- Peer Issues
- Physical Abuse
- Sexual Abuse
- Severe Neglect
To attach is instinctive. Attachment behaviors are necessary for an infant’s survival because they promote caretaking from parents. Healthy attachment develops as a result of the cycle that occurs when an infant expresses a need and someone in the environment satisfies that need. When needs are repeatedly not met the infant cannot develop trust. Instead, a negative blueprint of the world is developed that can have serious consequences on the person’s social, emotional, and physical development. A child needs nurturing, consistency & safety as much as they need food & sleep.
Signs of unhealthy attachments include:
- History of abandonment, neglect, abuse, and/or multiple placements
- Indiscriminately seeks affection and/or comfort from strangers (i.e., pseudo-attachments)
- Anti-social behaviors (e.g., lying, stealing, manipulating, destructiveness, cruelty, fire-setting, aggression)
- Lack of authenticity, spontaneity, flexibility, and empathy
- Lack of physical affection and closeness and/or inappropriate clinginess
- Poor eye contact
- Problems with learning, attending, self-regulating, self-monitoring
- Abnormal eating and elimination patterns (e.g., wetting, soiling, hoarding food)
- The need for a high degree of control
Assessing and Treating Attachment Disorders in Children
Identifying symptoms of attachment problems is only one part of a diagnosis. A diagnosis should only be made by a licensed professional trained in working with children, families and adults familiar with adoption and trauma issues.
An assessment at the Attachment Institute includes a structured interview with the adults in the family, evaluating the child’s performance in various situations or contexts. It also includes a review of the person’s history, as well as the family’s history.
What Makes Us Different?
We approach treatment with a focus on the family. Every person in the home is impacted by the severity of disrupted attachment, therefore, our focus is on the unit as a whole, and is what makes our treatment effective. We understand that a family affected by poor attachment carries its own particular kind of pain. Parent often feel beat up and blamed for the behaviors associated with poor attachment and polarized in their understanding of what is wrong and how to repair it. The child and their siblings often feel victimized, angry, and/or alone for different reasons.
We see parents as the most important members of the clinical team and as such we focus on strengthening and supporting them first. All too often the intimacy between parents suffers and it is impossible to teach a child that intimacy is safe in a house that struggles with intimacy. Our work with parents includes strengthening their relationship, focusing on communication patterns, improving supportive teamwork, and identifying when and how to disengage. We also address any trauma they may have in their history that may impact their ability to help their child heal.
Attachment and Trauma Focused Therapy
- Treatment takes place in an outpatient setting.
- Attachment and Trauma Focused Therapy is an integrative treatment that utilizes elements of multiple therapies including cognitive-behavioral, object relations, psychodynamic, family therapies and biofeedback and EMDR, a specialized form of treatment for trauma.
- Treatment typically requires 12 to 16 two-hour sessions. 1-3 of those sessions are focused on the parents.
- Sessions are usually scheduled one day a week or, if intensive, every day for two weeks.
- Families become emotionally aware so that they can address their child’s dysregulation effectively.
- In most cases two therapists are assigned to each family.
- Therapists already involved with the family are strongly encouraged to participate.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a specialized form of treatment for trauma, may also be used.
- School consultations and training may also be provided as needed.
- The fee for each session is $500.00.
Please contact us to find out more about these services.
What Makes Our Work Trauma-Informed?
Our model integrates many treatment approaches including but not limited to:
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Internal Family Systems
- Duluth Model for Domestic Violence
- Cognitive Behavioral
- Personal Narrative
With your child, we help them process their history focusing specifically on the faulty belief systems they developed in response to their trauma. These belief systems impair their ability to trust and connect. We explore your child’s history, including in-utero experiences through to the present. We focus on improving what motivates their behavior and developing the empathy needed to repair poor choices when necessary.
Our process offer the high structure and accountability needed for them to feel safe along with the high nurturing needed for them to start to feel valuable. We focus a great deal on keeping your child regulated and in the proper brain state needed to process their pain and gain new understanding. Therapy dogs are often used to assist in the process.
We integrate nature as much as possible. We believe as people we are designed to heal and that both nature and nurture are necessary for the development of healthy attachment. We believe it is important for at least one of the clinicians working with your family to have personal experience in the issues you are trying to address. Many of our staff are adoptive parents or siblings. We have learned much both personally and professionally over the last 20 years of specializing in attachment and trauma. We take our continued growth very seriously so we can continue to support your family as effectively as possible. | <urn:uuid:0bc1066b-b140-4111-936d-7d8eeaad7f3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.attachmentnewengland.com/services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959871 | 1,295 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Let the gleaning begin! Gleaning is the harvesting of food that would otherwise go unpicked. The crop is left unharvested when there is so little left behind that it is not economical for the farmer to harvest. Or, in the case of “pick your own farms,” the pickings are too slim for customers.
Thanks to the generous gleaning opportunities from Red Wiggler Community Farm, Butler’s Orchard, and Farm at Home, we have gleaned thousands of pounds of produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Learn how you can get involved by selecting one of the options below.
Food Safety Tips
Read our County-approved Food Safety Guidelines for cooking and handling donated food. Learn how food donors and recipient organizations are protected from liability.
Thank you for being a Community Food Rescue volunteer gleaner. By picking fresh produce after the commercial harvest on local farms, you are preventing good food from being wasted and providing much needed fresh produce to people with limited resources. | <urn:uuid:dc9e3091-7e8f-47a6-bfd3-92ac477f6450> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.communityfoodrescue.org/glean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.945925 | 213 | 2.453125 | 2 |
If you’ve ever wondered, “What is the HbA1C blood test?” you’re not alone. This simple test is used to diagnose diabetes and is a helpful way for healthcare teams to better monitor your blood sugar levels. Learn how it works and why it’s beneficial. Also, learn how it can be done at home! In this article, we’ll discuss how this blood test is performed, how it can be helpful, and how to interpret it.
It is a measure of average blood sugar over three months
The HbA1c blood test is a simple way to diagnose diabetes. It measures the average blood sugar level over the past three months. HbA1c is made from glucose that sticks to the haemoglobin in red blood cells. As the sugar level increases, more HbA1c forms. The average lifespan of red blood cells is about 117 days for men and 106 days for women. HbA1c is a measure of average blood sugar levels over the past two to three months, and the last 30 days are responsible for 50% of the total. Normal adult haemoglobin is made up primarily of HbA1 and about 5% of HbA1c.
It is used to diagnose diabetes
An HbA1C blood test is performed on a blood sample. This blood test measures the amount of glucose bound to haemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells. As blood glucose levels rise, haemoglobin bonds with glucose in the bloodstream, a process called glycation. Higher levels of glycated red blood cells mean a higher risk for diabetes.
HbA1c blood test can be done at home
If you have diabetes and you’re concerned about your blood sugar levels, you can do an HbA1c blood test at home. To get a blood sample, you’ll need to prick a finger and collect a small amount of blood. The sample is mixed with a special substance and placed in a testing cartridge. If you’d like to do this test at home, you can get a kit that contains everything you need to perform the test.
HbA1c blood test affects blood sugar levels
Several factors affect HbA1c blood test results, but a number will always be the most relevant. Blood glucose levels fluctuate throughout the day and can be affected by different meals. This means that you need to check your blood sugar levels often to know where they are at any given time. Here are some ways to lower your HbA1c levels. Read on to learn more. Keeping a diary may help you keep track of your readings.
It does not always correlate with blood glucose levels
Although a high HbA1c level is a sign of diabetes, it is not always correlated with blood glucose levels. Among other factors, a low HbA1c can also be caused by haemoglobin variants, inflammation, or factors that increase red blood cell turnover. Regardless of the reason, an HbA1c test can help you determine the exact type of diabetes you have. It is also convenient for people who have difficulty providing larger blood samples, such as children.
It may be falsely low
There are many reasons why an HbA1c blood test may be falsely low. For example, the results may be falsely low if an individual has recently experienced a significant blood loss, such as a blood transfusion. This type of anaemia results in an increased percentage of old red blood cells. Other conditions that can cause a falsely low HbA1c result include iron deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency, and folate deficiency. Metformin users are also at risk for vitamin B12 deficiency, which can lead to a falsely elevated HbA1c reading.
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Thank you for considering bringing an animal to the Hawk Creek Wildlife Center (HCWC). Please read this information before leaving the animal with us.
Please click here to view and print a copy of our admission record. We ask that you fill out the boxed section at the top and bring the form with you to save time.
Who We Are:
The HCWC is a local charity dedicated to caring for injured and orphaned wildlife, and to wildlife education. When the animals are able to survive on their own, they are released back to the wild. The animals are cared for by trained staff and volunteers. All veterinary services are donated. All persons involved with HCWC have a concern for the humane treatment of animals.
We Are Licensed to Care for Wild Animals:
All wildlife is protected by federal and state law. NO PERSON IS ALLOWED TO KEEP A WILD ANIMAL WITHOUT A PERMIT FROM THE APPROPRIATE WILDLIFE AGENCY. HCWC operates under permits from the NYS Division of Wildlife and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. HCWC must report the fate of each animal it receives to these agencies.
The Fate of the Animal You Bring to Us:
We operate with the assistance of local vets because we believe it is important to provide wild animals with professional standards of care. Each animal will be examined and its condition assessed. Each animal is fed, watered, and exercised as often as needed. It will be given surgery, x-rays, and medical diagnostic tests as needed. EVERY ANIMAL THAT RECOVERS IS RELEASED BACK TO THE WILD. When an animal is released, HCWC will determine when and where to release it. We may call upon your help again if we decide it is in the best interests of your animal to be released in its home territory. Some animals with permanent injuries are kept by HCWC to be used as foster parents for orphans or for education programs. No animals are kept as pets–it is illegal and wild animals do not adapt well to captivity. Some animals with permanent injuries do not adapt well to captivity either, and if this is the case the animal will be humanely euthanized. We cannot return the animal to you to keep. That would be a violation of the law.
The Limitations of What We Can Do for Some Animals:
We can promise that your animal(s) will receive compassionate care. We will do our best to return them to the wild, but sometimes animals are too ill to recover. No injured or sick animals can be easily captured or handled until it is near its end. To survive in the wild, animals must “appear” normal as long as possible to avoid be captured by predators. When an animal is weakened to the point that it can be captured, it is seriously sick or injured, even if it does not appear so to you. We presume all animals that arrive at our clinic to be in critical condition. The HCWC staff, volunteers and veterinarians will give every animal their best efforts, but some animals will still pass away.
We Must Have Your Financial Contributions to Survive:
HCWC is a local charity funded entirely by individual memberships and donations. HCWC receives NO taxpayer or other public funding for its work. Therefore, if we are to continue to help animals, we must receive contributions from persons who present animals to us. This will give you an idea of the costs for foods, medications and tests for some of our patients:
One orphaned killdeer (a young shorebird) which eats only live food stays with us for about 5 weeks at a cost of $35.
One orphaned robin cost around $20 to raise over 3-4 weeks.
A litter of orphaned opossums may cost as much as $50.
An injured hawk may cost $120 for a 4 week stay.
A sick great blue heron which eats only live or freshly killed fish will cost $100 for a 4 week stay.
HCWC admits hundreds of animals every year. We also have a year round cost to maintain over 100 educational animals and foster parents. If you look at the above costs (or ever tended a sick pet) you will understand how much we need your financial support.
We have struggled with the issue of persons who wish to stop by or call our clinic for status reports since we began our operations. On the one hand, we understand how concerned someone is about the animal they brought to us. We feel the same way. But at our clinic we face the realities of answering 30-40 crisis calls each day in peak season, and admit nearly as many animals. We often have to choose whether to care for the animals and answer crisis calls, or stop and chat with someone who stops by or calls in to check up on “their” animal which they brought in several weeks earlier (on a date they do not remember). Therefore, we ask that you refrain from visiting so that we can have time to attend to more immediate crises. Our clinic is an emergency room and hospital for wild animals.
Like all hospitals, we need time to work and our patients need peace and quiet to recover. We hope that you understand this. The center is not open to the public except for private tours, and our hospital is not a part of tours. If you need to call to find out about a particular animal, please call a week or two later with the date and species. At that time we will be able to give you an accurate prognosis.
You are a part of a growing number of people who share a commitment to saving wild animals and who believe that all animals deserve humane care in their time of need. You made a special effort to bring the animal to us; we will do our best to care for it. We urge you to consider donating some of your time to the wildlife conservation causes of your choice. You will learn a lot about helping our wild neighbors, and your life will be enriched by them. Contact us if you would like to learn more about conservation groups or volunteering at HCWC.
Donations can be sent to: Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, P.O. Box 662, East Aurora, NY 14052-0662
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1 SEP 1918: World War I and Corporal Alexander Henry Buckley, 54th Battalion, originally from Warren, New South Wales, wins the Victoria Cross at Péronne. It was a posthumous award. Buckley was born on 22 July 1891 to James and Julia Buckley at Gulargambone, New South Wales, Australia.
One of four children, he was home schooled on his parents’ property Homebush during his childhood. After completing his schooling, he worked on the family farm with his father. Buckley enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force on 3 February 1916, volunteering for overseas service.
After completing basic training at Bathurst, New South Wales in June, he was sent to England among a draft of reinforcements. Just prior to departing Australia, Buckley became engaged.
He was posted to 54th Battalion, an infantry battalion assigned to the 14th Brigade, which was part of the 5th Division.
Joining the battalion on the Western Front in November 1916 at Flers, France, Buckley served with it as it manned defensive positions along the Somme during the winter months.
The following year, after the Germans withdrew towards the Hindenburg Line, Buckley took part in the fighting around Bullecourt, Polygon Wood and Broodseinde and in November 1917 he was promoted to temporary corporal. In August 1918, the 54th Battalion took part in the initial stages of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive around Amiens.
On the night of 1/2 September 1918, at Peronne, France, during the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, Buckley performed the deeds that led to him being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
He was originally buried at St Radegonde, but was later re-interred at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension.
His citation reads; “For most conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice at Peronne during the operations on the 1st/2nd Sept., 1918. After passing the first objective his half company and part of the company on the flank were held up by a machine gun nest. With one man he rushed the post shooting four of the occupants and taking 22 prisoners. Later on reaching a moat, it was found that another machine gun nest commanded the only available footbridge. Whilst this was being engaged from a flank Cpl. Buckley endeavoured to cross the bridge and rush the post, but was killed in the attempt. Throughout the advance he had displayed great initiative, resource and courage, and by his efforts to save his comrades from casualties, he set a fine example of self-sacrificing devotion to duty.”
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The biggest force calibration machine in Denmark is moving in
A new force calibration machine provides Danish corporations access to a wide service palette for calibration of measuring equipment. The machine is the only one of its kind in Denmark and it’s taking possession has been quite unique.
With its height of more then 4,5 meters and an impressive weight of 9 tons, the force calibration machine burst the settings in the laboratory at FORCE Technology in Brøndby, just outside Copenhagen. Just like Snow white in the house of the dwarfs, the machine was too tall to be standing up inside. So, the building had to grow with the machine.
A hole in the roof
Prior to moving day, a hole in the roof was cut to make room for the machine. A crane gently lowered down parts of the machine through the hole. Underneath were six people ready to assemble the force calibration machine piece by piece, while they were working their way from the floor and all the way up under the roof.
Force Technology invested in the machine one and a half year ago, so it’s arrival has been long awaited. After a month of assembly and multiple weeks of testing, the newest addition in the laboratory for calibration of power measuring equipment guarantees an accurate calibration and a lead-time of 7-14 days.
The only one of its kind in Denmark
The fully automatic force calibration machine can handle pressure and force up to 200 tons (2.000 kN) with an accuracy of 0,02% relative. This makes the machine five times more accurate than existing force calibration equipment on the Danish market.
This new force calibration machine is unique on the Danish market, and due to the high accuracy at large loads, the machine will especially benefit industries such as the wind turbines, offshore, construction and the service sector, which all apply dynamometers, force transducers, hydraulic jacks and material test machines.
For further information about the new force calibration machine, please contact Aykurt Altintas.
Calibration of measuring equipment
Accredited calibration of measuring equipment for e.g. force, pressure, torque, temperature, vacuum.
Accredited calibration of flow meters
Accredited calibration of flow meters to document errors and correct indications of measurements.
Verification of measuring instruments
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Today is January 22–also known as the anniversary of Roe v. Wade or the March for Life Day, depending on your ideological tilt. Which must mean it’s the day the incoming president signs an executive order dealing with the Mexico City policy, a ban on federal money to NGOs that provide abortions abroad, and does away with any goodwill that accompanied his inauguration by igniting the culture wars on his second day in office. Right?
Um, wrong, actually. The Reagan-era policy was one of the first things Bill Clinton addressed after taking office, issuing an executive order on January 22, 1993 overturning the ban. And on January 22, 2001, George W. Bush issued an executive order overturning the ban on the ban.
But today, instead of overturning the ban on the ban on the ban, as expected, President Obama chose to stand-down. Instead he issued a statement reaffirming his support for a woman’s right to choose, but also appealing–as he has in the past–for common ground approaches to abortion policy:
We are united in our determination to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, and support women and families in the choices they make. To accomplish these goals, we must work to find common ground to expand access to affordable contraception, accurate health information, and preventative services.
Everyone knows he still plans on repealing the ban. But it was an interesting and important decision not to make that move on such a politically-charged day. Clinton entered the White House having tempered the skepticism of many pro-life voters with his insistence that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” His decision to make repealing the Mexico City ban one of his very first acts in office led many to wonder if the slogan was just that–a slogan. I suspect that when Obama does issue the executive order regarding the Mexico City policy, it will be followed by concrete action to support abortion reduction.
By the way, while Obama was busy not ramping up the culture wars, House Republicans spent the day collecting 105 signatures on a letter they sent to Obama demanding he withdraw his 2007 pledge to sign the Freedom of Choice Act–legislation that he will not be signing because Democrats don’t plan to bring it up for a vote in Congress and it’s not even on the list of top ten priorities the abortion rights community sent the new president. Not that you’d know it from listening to conservative radio or the Catholic bishops…but more on that in a future post. | <urn:uuid:9d1dbd2d-6fa3-411e-9229-652f9134e07f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swampland.time.com/2009/01/22/obama-surprises-the-culture-warriors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966873 | 518 | 1.890625 | 2 |
This new elective seminar will provide a deeper dive into issues of evidence-based, high-performance, sustainable building design. The course is intended for first and second year Energy and Environment students, MArch students, and anyone with an interest in the environmental performance of buildings. Because we hope to create a diverse team of problem-solvers, students with any one of a variety of backgrounds, such as design, engineering, and financial analysis are encouraged to enroll.
Students will increase their understanding of high-performance environmental design strategies in architecture. They will also have the opportunity to learn the following skills, but they may choose the area(s) in which to focus their attention:
– whole-building energy simulation*
– daylight design and analysis methods, including daylight simulation*
– hygrothermal (thermal and moisture) simulations, as well as mold-growth simulation
– life-cycle analysis of materials and construction methods
– life-cycle cost analysis (construction costs and utility savings)
– assessing societal cost of carbon emissions and related health savings
*in greater depth than taught in 6122 Environmental Systems II or 6125 Building Simulation. Students will have the choice to explore either the same or different software tools.
Students may choose one of the following options.
1. Students may join a team to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon design competition. (Since the competition offers multiple divisions, the class may form more than one team.)
2. Students may develop and detail a strategy within the built environment to help Harvard University meet its Climate Action Plan (Fossil Fuel Free by 2050).
3. Students may propose an alternate research or design project.
The class format consists of lectures, in-class exercises, group discussions, student presentations, and project-based strategy sessions (or desk crits). Students learn skills/tools through a series of short tutorials and assignments. Then they narrow their focus and apply these skills to the final project.
It is recommended that students have had (or are concurrently enrolled in) some introduction to sustainable design/building science, such as 6121/6122 Environmental Systems; 5370 Environment, Economics, and Enterprise; or a similar course at another institution.
Note: the instructor will offer live course presentations on 08/31, and/or 09/01. To access the detailed schedule and Zoom links, please visit the Live Course Presentations Website.
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SCEC are advocating for the current Queensland shark control program to be replaced with modern non-lethal technology that ensures the protection of marine life and better safety for beach goers.
The Queensland Shark Control Program (SCP) was introduced by the Queensland government in 1962 with the aim of reducing human/shark encounters at popular tourist beaches across the State. The SCP consists of two types of lethal equipment: baited drum lines (hooks) and nets. Shark nets stretch 124m - 186m long, and 6m deep and do little to stop a shark from entering a particular area. Sharks easily and frequently swim under and around nets. When a shark is caught in the net, they are more often than not found on the beach side of the net heading back out to the open ocean.
A 'Right to Information' request conducted in 2014 revealed an astounding 84,800 marine animals had been caught and killed in the QLD SCP. In recent years, this number has continued to skyrocket. SCEC decided to do our own research and collate by-catch data specific to the Sunshine Coast and Rainbow Beach areas, drawn from publicly available information on the Department of Fisheries website. Sadly, over 23 critically endangered Grey Nurse sharks have been caught and killed on the Sunshine Coast, an unacceptable number given their dwindling east coast population. You can take a look at the other startling data we found here. You can also view the location of the equipment here.
Humpback Whale entanglements are also on the rise as the species population continues to grow. The NSW government remove their nets during the Humpback migration season, so why can't QLD?
Sign your name below to ask our State Government to put non-lethal shark control on the agenda this election. Better solutions exist and it's time we embrace them!
Recent Update on Shark Control Program
The Queensland Government and Surf Life Saving Queensland (SLSQ) partnered in 2020 to deliver the SharkSmart drone trial. In these trials, drones monitor beaches and detect sharks to gather data on their movements and behaviours. If a dangerous shark is spotted, lifeguards warn beach goers and temporarily close the beach if necessary. Drone trials at Coolum North and Alexandra Headland, as well as beaches on the Gold Coast and North Stradbroke Island, were initially set to run from September to November 2020, but have since been extended to October 2021. This year, the trial has also expanded to include two additional beaches in North Queensland, where trials will be running from June 2021 to November 2021. Based on initial results, the trial may be extended further to include additional beaches in North Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The drumlines and nets will remain in place throughout the trial. This is great news, and a step has been made in the right direction to non-lethal methods, however SCEC still strongly advocates for the nets and drumlines to be removed immediately, or at the very least during the whale migration season. | <urn:uuid:b4b8a5fa-c7e3-45ab-b658-a03e6f8e4809> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scec.org.au/shark_nets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956597 | 603 | 3.03125 | 3 |
As most cancers cells evolve, a lot of of their genes turn into overactive even though many others are turned down. These genetic changes can help tumors expand out of management and become far more intense, adapt to transforming conditions, and eventually lead the tumor to metastasize and spread elsewhere in the body.
MIT and Harvard University researchers have now mapped out an added layer of command that guides this evolution — an array of structural adjustments to “chromatin,” the blend of proteins, DNA, and RNA that can make up cells’ chromosomes. In a review of mouse lung tumors, the researchers recognized 11 chromatin states, also named epigenomic states, that most cancers cells can pass by as they turn out to be extra intense.
“This function provides a single of the to start with illustrations of using solitary-mobile epigenomic information to comprehensively characterize genes that control tumor evolution in cancer,” claims Lindsay LaFave, an MIT postdoc and the direct creator of the review.
In addition, the scientists confirmed that a crucial molecule they identified in the much more intense tumor cell states is also linked to far more sophisticated kinds of lung cancer in humans, and could be utilised as a biomarker to predict client outcomes.
Tyler Jacks, director of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Most cancers Analysis, and Jason Buenrostro, an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University, are the senior authors of the review, which appears today in Most cancers Mobile.
Though a cell’s genome has all of its genetic product, the epigenome plays a crucial purpose in identifying which of these genes will be expressed. Every cell’s genome has epigenomic modifications — proteins and chemical compounds that attach to DNA but do not change its sequence. These modifications, which fluctuate by cell sort, influence the accessibility of genes and assistance to make a lung cell different from a neuron, for instance.
Epigenomic changes are also believed to influence cancer development. In this review, the MIT/Harvard group set out to examine the epigenomic changes that happen as lung tumors establish in mice. They examined a mouse design of lung adenocarcinoma, which success from two certain genetic mutations and closely recapitulates the enhancement of human lung tumors.
Utilizing a new technologies for one-mobile epigenome assessment that Buenrostro experienced earlier designed, the researchers analyzed the epigenomic adjustments that happen as tumor cells evolve from early levels to afterwards, extra intense phases. They also examined tumor cells that experienced metastasized over and above the lungs.
This evaluation revealed 11 unique chromatin states, primarily based on the locations of epigenomic alterations and density of the chromatin. Inside of a one tumor, there could be cells from all 11 of the states, suggesting that cancer cells can follow distinct evolutionary pathways.
For every condition, the researchers also identified corresponding alterations in wherever gene regulators identified as transcription factors bind to chromosomes. When transcription things bind to the promoter area of a gene, they initiate the copying of that gene into messenger RNA, essentially managing which genes are energetic. Chromatin modifications can make gene promoters far more or considerably less obtainable to transcription things.
“If the chromatin is open, a transcription element can bind and activate a unique gene method,” LaFave suggests. “We were being trying to realize individuals transcription component networks and then what their downstream targets had been.”
As the structure of tumor cells’ chromatin altered, transcription components tended to target genes that would help the cells to eliminate their original identification as lung cells and become much less differentiated. Ultimately lots of of the cells also received the capacity to depart their unique destinations and seed new tumors.
A lot of this course of action was managed by a transcription aspect referred to as RUNX2. In extra intense cancer cells, RUNX2 encourages the transcription of genes for proteins that are secreted by cells. These proteins help rework the environment surrounding the tumor to make it much easier for most cancers cells to escape.
The researchers also uncovered that these intense, premetastatic tumor cells had been incredibly identical to tumor cells that had currently metastasized.
“That suggests that when these cells were being in the key tumor, they essentially adjusted their chromatin condition to glance like a metastatic mobile in advance of they migrated out into the setting,” LaFave suggests. “We consider they undertake an epigenetic transform in the primary tumor that will allow them to become migratory and then seed in a distal spot like the lymph nodes or the liver.”
A new biomarker
The scientists also compared the chromatin states they recognized in mouse tumor cells to chromatin states found in human lung tumors. They discovered that RUNX2 was also elevated in additional intense human tumors, suggesting that it could serve as a biomarker for predicting patient results.
“The RUNX favourable point out was quite really predictive of lousy survival in human lung most cancers patients,” LaFave claims. “We’ve also shown the inverse, exactly where we have signatures of early states, and they forecast much better prognosis for people. This indicates that you can use these one-mobile gene regulatory networks as predictive modules in people.”
RUNX could also be a probable drug target, even though it historically has been hard to design medicines that concentrate on transcription variables due to the fact they normally absence well-defined buildings that could act as drug docking web sites. The scientists are also in search of other opportunity targets amid the epigenomic improvements that they discovered in additional aggressive tumor cell states. These targets could contain proteins recognised as chromatin regulators, which are responsible for managing the chemical modifications of chromatin.
“Chromatin regulators are extra effortlessly specific simply because they have a tendency to be enzymes,” LaFave says. “We’re utilizing this framework to check out to realize what are the crucial targets that are driving these point out transitions, and then which types are therapeutically targetable.”
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We understand you want what is best for your child and so do we. We know that you are bombarded by conflicting information on vaccine safety. We can help you get the information you need to make an informed decision.
- We firmly believe in the effectiveness of vaccines to prevent serious illness and to save lives.
- We firmly believe in the safety of our vaccines.
- We firmly believe, based on all the literature, evidence and current studies, that vaccines do not cause autism or other developmental disabilities.
- We firmly believe that vaccinating children and young adults may be the single most important health-promoting intervention we perform as health care providers, and that you can perform as parents.
We are not accepting families who cannot agree to have their children fully vaccinated by age two.
At Memphis Pediatrics, we strongly believe that every child should be vaccinated. Vaccines are not only important; your child’s well-being is dependent on it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a vaccine as a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. We are not accepting new families who cannot agree to have their children fully vaccinated by age two.
We will guide you through which vaccinations your child needs and when. Early vaccination is essential. Diseases that vaccines are meant to prevent are most likely to occur when a child is very young. Tetanus, Hepatitis B, Rotavirus and Acellular pertussis (whooping cough) are just a few of the diseases that the first-year vaccines are designed to prevent. State laws require vaccinations for children who attend public schools, private schools and daycare facilities.
Vaccinations, usually administered through needle injections, are not the most enjoyable experiences for you or your little one. However, they prevent the spread and contraction of diseases.
Vaccinations have played a huge part in the rarity of some diseases in the United States. Some diseases like polio and diphtheria have become rare in our country because we’ve continually vaccinated against them. Vaccines, which are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, go through a rigorous review of laboratory and clinical data to make sure they are safe before they are given to the public to prevent diseases.
It’s key to vaccinate your child early because infectious diseases can pose more problems to infants than older children. Children don’t receive maternal immunity from certain diseases, such as whooping cough. We do not recommend picking and choosing the vaccinations your child receives, because it leaves children vulnerable to serious diseases that could be avoided. If more and more people choose not to get vaccinated, preventable diseases could begin to become threats.
If you have reservations about a certain vaccine your child is scheduled to receive, ask your child’s doctor about any concerns you have. Also check with your child’s doctor if he/she misses a vaccination. Your doctor will know the best time for a “catch-up” vaccination.
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How can we find the “truth”?
Question from the Internet?
“What is your standard for truth?”
My standard of truth is false. Whatever I see, feel, determine through my inherently egocentric, subjective consciousness, perception is false. All my experiences, facts are distorted by my own introverted filters, calculations.
If we want to find the “truth” we have to search for it, find it “outside of ourselves”. If we want to recognize the truth, we need a completely selfless, altruistic, objective perception of reality when the instinctively self-serving, self-justifying calculations, assessments fade away.
We can achieve the truth only mutually together in unique environments, setting unique conditions.
This can actually, realistically happen, when a certain number of people willingly, purposefully, methodically “disappear” into each other, constantly attempt and learn how to sense, perceive, and understand reality through the desires, needs and viewpoints of each other while totally annulling their own desires, opinions, and viewpoints. | <urn:uuid:2cd9bb03-599b-4db9-a0ca-3a17f5490cc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://samechphoto.medium.com/how-can-we-find-the-truth-d57b92339fb8?source=post_internal_links---------7---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.921847 | 227 | 1.570313 | 2 |
On October 6, health officials in Sweden announced that they would be pausing the use of the Moderna vaccine, which is known as Spikevax, in younger people following reports of side effects such as myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation. The ban applies to anyone who was born in 1991 and later due to “an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or heart sac” according to a translation of the Swedish health agency’s official statement.
However, they are still recommending that people in this age group get vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine in a suspension that will be valid until December 1. Authorities have also advised people in that age group who have received their first Moderna dose not to get a second one.
Although their statement noted that myocarditis and pericarditis may go away on their own, people with suspicious symptoms should see a doctor or go to the emergency room as medical treatment and hospital monitoring may be necessary.
Meanwhile, Denmark is halting the shot for children under the age of 18. Health authorities there said that data obtained from four Nordic nations indicates a link between heart inflammation and the Moderna shots in younger people.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Danish health official Bolette Soeborg said that young people will only be invited to get the Pfizer jab: “Based on the precautionary principle, we will in future only invite children and young people to receive this vaccine, not least in view of the fact that it is for this vaccine that the largest amount of data from use exists for children and young people, especially from the USA and Israel.”
Norway, meanwhile, had already been recommending the Pfizer shot to minors and reiterated this on Wednesday, reminding citizens that the risk of heart effects is particularly high among boys and young men after the second dose.
Finland is expected to publish its own decision on the matter soon.
Regulators’ approval doesn’t mean serious adverse effects won’t occur
In July, EU drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency recommended authorizing the Moderna jab for young people aged 12 to 17 in what was the first time any nation had authorized the shot for children. The approval came several months after their January approval of the Moderna vaccine for people aged 18 and older.
However, European and American regulators have warned that the mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer have been linked to heart inflammation and chest pain in young people.
Several young people have died from heart problems shortly after receiving the Pfizer jab, although health authorities seem hesitant to admit an official link. A healthy 13-year-old Michigan boy died in his sleep three days after getting his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, while a 15-year-old California boy with no health issues died of heart issues two days after getting his second dose of the same vaccine.
Although the vaccines from both Moderna and Pfizer rely on mRNA technology, which delivers genetic code to cells, their dosages are different. Pfizer’s offering contains 30 micrograms of vaccine per dose, while Moderna’s is more than three times greater at 100 micrograms per dose, which may explain why its heart effects are more pronounced. The U.S. government’s vaccine development program has asked Moderna to test whether it is possible to lower the dosage without compromising its protection.
These and other potential side effects are something that all parents must weigh when deciding whether their children should get the vaccine. Although some authorities insist these incidents are rare, they are serious enough and common enough to drive several countries to stop using certain vaccines, and they have already robbed young people of their lives. Those who have already gotten the jab are advised to be vigilant for signs of heart problems such as chest pains, shortness of breath, and a pounding or fluttering heart, particularly in young boys in the days and weeks following the second dose.
Sources for this article include:
- More than 100 young people hospitalized for vaccine-related heart problems in Ontario
- STUDY: Young people are twice as likely to die from AstraZeneca vaccine than from covid
- Israeli panel concludes Pfizer covid vaccine “probably” causes heart inflammation, especially in young people
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Revolving doors are energy efficient as they (acting as an airlock) prevent drafts, thus decreasing the loss of heating or cooling for the building. Revolving doors were designed to relieve stack effect pressure in buildings.
Why do hospitals have revolving doors?
Every American hospital has two front doors: The real one, and an imaginary revolving door. Any patient who winds up back in the hospital within a few weeks of getting out travels through that imaginary door. … This readmission penalty, as it’s called, aims to spur hospitals to prevent unnecessary costly care.
Why don’t we use revolving doors anymore?
There’s just one problem: people don’t use them. Sometimes they’re too heavy to push, or their compartments are claustrophobically narrow. There’s also anxiety about getting limbs caught, or getting stuck in a compartment with another person, and whether or not that’s socially acceptable.
Where are revolving doors used?
Revolving doors are a familiar sight at airports and large department stores. They facilitate rapid movement of people in and out of the building while keeping cold winds out of the warm interior space. They can also be very useful in access control because only one person can typically use each quadrant at a time.
Why are revolving doors so fun?
Architects like revolving doors because they enhance the entrances of buildings. They reduce the amount of street noise heard by those inside. They also eliminate the annoying sound of slamming doors.
What is a revolving door patient?
‘Revolving door’ patients in general practice are those who are repeatedly removed from general practitioners’ (GP) lists, for the reasons of break down in the doctor-patient relationship or violence. The definition excludes those removed because of geographical relocation.
Why is it called a revolving door?
So a Philadelphia inventor named Theophilus Van Kannel (1841-1919) came up with a new type of door that was easy to open and also saved heat in the winter: the revolving door. Besides preventing the rapid influx of cold air into warm buildings, the invention kept out street noises and fumes.
Are revolving doors dangerous?
People entering and exiting buildings through revolving doors are at risk of being struck, trapped, or injured. Revolving doors pose a particular hazard to users who have mobility issues. A revolving door consists of two, three, or four doors (wings) that attach to a rotating vertical central shaft.
What does revolving door mean in government?
In politics, the “revolving door” is a movement of personnel between roles as legislators and regulators, on one hand, and members of the industries affected by the legislation and regulation, on the other.
How do revolving doors collapse?
However, in many newer buildings, particularly highrises, it is found that wind tunnel-like effects, or vacuums, are created which are of sufficient strength that the door leaves are caused to collapse, or the door leaves collapse when an individual simply applies to the door leaves the force necessary to rotate the …
Are revolving doors more energy efficient?
Revolving doors are essentially a free standing vestibule that are eight times more energy efficient than either a slide or swing door system. On top of meeting the demands of energy efficiency and architectural appeal, revolving doors create comfort, improve traffic flow and increase security.
Do revolving doors go both ways?
2 Answers. Revolving door traditionally revolve in the direction based on the locations driving habits. … Thus they enter a revolving door to the right of the center, and it spins counterclockwise. In countries where left-hand traffic is the stands, revolving doors tend to rotate clockwise.
Why does Chicago have so many revolving doors?
Architect Patrick Loughran of Goettsch Partners says Chicago’s still got a lot of revolving doors because we have so many tall buildings. “Any high rise building is going to have to have elevator cores that take people from the bottom all the way up,” he says.
How big is a revolving door?
A large-diameter revolving door ranges from 3048 mm (10’0”) to 3658 mm (12’0”) and is used in high traffic, high baggage volume areas such as airports, large hotels and hospitals. These doors are fully automated and have extensive safety features. Large-diameter doors can be three or four-wing designs.
Which direction do revolving doors turn?
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Fans of games like Dungeons & Dragons know that the fun comes, in part, from a creative Dungeon Master—an all-powerful narrator who follows a storyline but has free rein to improvise in response to players’ actions and the fate of the dice.
This kind of spontaneous yet coherent storytelling is extremely difficult for artificial intelligence, even as AI has mastered more constrained board games such as chess and Go. The best text-generating AI programs too often produce confused and disjointed prose. So some researchers view spontaneous storytelling as a good test of progress toward more intelligent machines.
An attempt to build an artificial Dungeon Master offers hope that machines able to improvise a good storyline might be built. In 2018, Lara Martin, a graduate student at Georgia Tech, was seeking a way for AI and a human to work together to develop a narrative and suggested Dungeons & Dragons as a vehicle for the challenge. “After a while, it hit me,” she says. “I go up to my adviser and say ‘We're basically proposing a Dungeon Master, aren't we?’ He paused for a bit, and said ‘Yeah, I guess we are!’”
Narratives produced by artificial intelligence offer a guide to where we are in the quest to create machines that are as clever as us. Martin says this would be more challenging than mastering a game like Go or poker because just about anything that can be imagined can happen in a game.
Since 2018, Martin has published work that outlines progress towards the goal of making an AI Dungeon Master. Her approach combines state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms with more old-fashioned rule-based features. Together this lets an AI system dream up different narratives while following the thread of a story consistently.
Martin’s latest work, presented at a conference held this month by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, describes a way for an algorithm to use the concept of “events,” consisting of a subject, verb, object, and other elements, in a coherent narrative. She trained the system on the storyline of such science fiction shows as Doctor Who, Futurama, and The X-Files. Then, when fed a snippet of text, it will identify events, and use them to shape a continuation of the plot churned out by a neural network. In another project, completed last year, Martin developed a way to guide a language model towards a particular event, such as two characters getting married.
Unfortunately, these systems still often get confused, and Martin doesn’t think they would make a good DM. “We're nowhere close to this being a reality yet,” she says.
Noah Smith, a professor at the University of Washington who specializes in AI and language, says Martin’s work reflects a growing interest in combining two different approaches to AI: machine learning and rule-based programs. And although he’s never played Dungeons & Dragons himself, Smith says creating a convincing Dungeon Master seems like a worthwhile challenge. | <urn:uuid:693b0874-c162-4b02-b753-991bb2512076> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/story/forget-chess-real-challenge-teaching-ai-play-dandd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957074 | 624 | 3.328125 | 3 |
IIHS Video Shows Gruesome Reality of What Could Happen If You Run a Red Light
This vicious crash demonstration is a sobering reminder that we should obey all traffic signals—and wear a seatbelt.
We don’t need to tell you that it's a bad idea to run a red light or get too ambitious with a yellow light. However, it’s still humbling to get a visual reminder once in a while of just how important it is to follow the traffic rules we're exposed to every single day.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) posted a brief video showing exactly how bad of an idea it is to run a red light at full speed. Just take a look, we'll wait.
You might be wondering why these specific cars were chosen for this demonstration? The answer is because the IIHS is actually recreating a crash that happened in real life in Yuma, Arizona. In 2012, a 2010 Ford F-150 ran a red light and smashed into a 2007 Chrysler Sebring resulting in serious injuries for the Sebring driver. As you can see in the scary video, side-curtain airbags are great but they don’t make you invincible.
According to IIHS data, deaths involving red light running shot up 17 percent between 2012 and 2016 up to more than 800 people per year. IIHS hopes to bring that number down by encouraging more red light cameras cracking down on drivers who put themselves and others in danger by dangerously ignoring traffic laws. The IIHS has teamed up with AAA, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, and the National Safety Council to create a red light camera checklist for policymakers to implement on its roads.
The safety benefits of red light cameras are debatable, but the importance of obeying traffic lights isn’t. Stop at red lights, don’t get cocky at yellow lights, and keep an eye out for lunatics like the one portrayed in the video above.
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The Federal Trade Commission in its 100-year history has never agreed on formal principles for policing companies engaged in “unfair” competition. That looks set to change.
Members of the FTC are close to a bipartisan agreement to lay out for the first time how the commission views its authority to bring cases against businesses it believes compete unfairly, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
An accord would be a breakthrough for Democrat and Republican commissioners who have clashed over when and how the FTC should deploy the century-old Section 5 of the FTC Act in enforcement matters. The provision declares “unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce” to be unlawful. But the agency has faced criticism that with no formal guidelines or parameters, it is hard for anyone—businesses as well as regulators—to know what may be considered unfair.
“Unfair” in this context is a purely legal definition, and there already are laws on the books governing what is and is not permissible in our commerce. We have anti-trust laws that govern abuse of monopoly power. We have truth-in-advertising laws that govern how businesses can market their products. We have contract laws that sanction dishonesty in contract negotiations and that define liability when mistaken, but fundamentally honest, statements are made in those negotiations.
That’s all that we need, that’s all the FTC needs, and the FTC has had that for well over 100 years, dating at least to the Sherman Antitrust Act. This new “accord” will be just another bureaucratic nightmare, adding layers of compliance requirements and determinations to any FTC action—and so elevating costs for any business the FTC contemplates violating in some way.
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8 Nutritional facts about Honey
Honey is a semi-solid sweet substance that offers several health benefits. It is made up of nectar which is extracted by the honeybee. Nectar is stored in honeycomb and then manufactured by the companies for further processing.
The chemical properties & unique composition of honey helps in storing it for a longer period of time. Honey has antibacterial properties, encouraging debridement, and accelerates the healing process by recovering wounded tissues.
With the increasing health concerns, people are using honey for various purposes. Here, in this article, we will tell you about the 8 amazing nutritional facts about honey. So, stick to the article for it!
8 nutritional benefits offered by honey
There are many food items like jams, jellies & some beverages, which contain honey as a component. Apart from this, honey is widely utilizing in the healthcare and cosmetic industry. Honey can help in reducing the risk factors for heart diseases like blood pressure & cholesterol and helps in healing wound and throat infections.
Here, we are writing down the health benefits of honey
1. Weight management
Weight management is among the well-known nutritional fact about honey. There are many people who broadly consumed honey in order to maintain their weight or help in increasing their metabolism. Moreover, many doctors suggest the consumption of honey in warm water in order to burn excess fat. It also increases the metabolism of a person, which further helps in faster weight reduction.
2. Heal burn wounds
There are many people who use honey for healing burn wounds. It is because of the antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and moisture-restoring properties of honey, which soothes down the burn area. Honey helps in increasing the healing process of burns and wounds.
3. Home remedy for cough
Honey is the most common remedy for dry cough. You can take one tablespoon of honey with ginger juice, which is very effective on the cough. It is the natural and effective remedy for relieving cough at home.
4. Improves the immunity system
Honey contains several antioxidants & medicinal properties which help in boosting a person’s immune system. These antioxidants can fight against bad bacteria, fungi, and infections which boost a person’s immune system.
5. Better alternative to sugar
The negative effects of sugar on a person’s health are promoting the usage of honey as it has low sugar content than white sugar which can cause diabetes. So, there are many diabetic patients who can include honey instead of sugar in their diet, but they also need to consume a certain amount.
6. Helps in better sleep
Consuming honey can help in getting better sleep. It relaxes a person’s mind and makes it easy to fall asleep. You can consume a teaspoon of honey in milk or water before going to bed. It induces sleep and helps a person in getting a sound sleep. So, if you feel any discomfort while sleeping, you can consume honey in any tea or milk and get back to bed.
7. Natural energy booster
You can consume honey in water as an energy drink before your workout. It acts as a natural energy booster for people. The unprocessed sugar content of honey boosts the energy flow of a person and helps them to pursue their physical exercise or workouts.
8. Moisturizes the skin
Applying honey on the skin can help in nourishing the skin and adds a glow to it. Honey helps in moisturizing the skin; many people use it for curing cracked lips and use it as a base component in face masks. There are many people who use honey to rejuvenate their skin and opening the clogged pores.
Industries using honey as a raw material
There are many industries that are using honey as a component to manufacture various products. Here we are writing about the industrial use of honey in different industries:
- Healthcare industry: Due to the various nutrient content of honey, the medical industry uses honey in several medicines and tablets. Medications like cough syrups and tablets for throat infections utilize honey because of the soothing effect it gives on throat infections and coughs.
- Beauty & cosmetic industry: Honey helps in moisturizing skin and removes dandruff from the scalp, which is why it serves as a raw material in many moisturizers, face masks, and shampoos.
- Food & beverage industry: The lower sugar content of honey makes it the best option to use substitute honey from sugar in various food and beverage items. Owing to the rising awareness of people towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle, manufacturers of the food & beverage industry are widely substituting honey from sugar.
Honey is a thick substance, which serves as a natural sweetener. It has various applications in different industries. Honey has major health benefits which we have mentioned above.
The increasing adoption of honey as a replacement for sugar and growing uses of honey in various industries are fuelling the honey market. However, the rising prevalence of diabetes is indirectly hampering the growth of the honey market.
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Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he’s accused of: detaining mothers who can’t pay their bills. Lazarus Omondi says it’s the only way he can keep his medical center running.
Two mothers who live in a mud-wall and tin-roof slum a short walk from the maternity hospital, which is affiliated with the Nairobi City Council, told The Associated Press that Pumwani wouldn’t let them leave after delivering their babies. The bills the mothers couldn’t afford were $60 and $160. Guards would beat mothers with sticks who tried to leave without paying, one of the women said.
Now, a New York-based group has filed a lawsuit on the women’s behalf in hopes of forcing Pumwani to stop the practice, a practice Omondi is candid about.
“We hold you and squeeze you until we get what we can get. We must be self-sufficient,” Omondi said in an interview in his hospital office. “The hospital must get money to pay electricity, to pay water. We must pay our doctors and our workers.”
“They stay there until they pay. They must pay,” he said of the 350 mothers who give birth each week on average. “If you don’t pay the hospital will collapse.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the suit this month in the High Court of Kenya, says detaining women for not paying is illegal. Pumwani is associated with the Nairobi City Council, one reason it might be able to get away with such practices, and the patients are among Nairobi’s poorest with hardly anyone to stand up for them.
Maimouna Awuor was an impoverished mother of four when she was to give birth to her fifth in October 2010. Like many who live in Nairobi’s slums, Awuor performs odd jobs in the hopes of earning enough money to feed her kids that day. Awuor, who is named in the lawsuit, says she had saved $12 and hoped to go to a lower-cost clinic but was turned away and sent to Pumwani. After giving birth, she couldn’t pay the $60 bill, and was held with what she believes was about 60 other women and their infants.
“We were sleeping three to a bed, sometimes four,” she said. “They abuse you, they call you names,” she said of the hospital staff.
She said saw some women tried to flee but they were beaten by the guards and turned back. While her husband worked at a faraway refugee camp, Awuor’s 9-year-old daughter took care of her siblings. A friend helped feed them, she said, while the children stayed in the family’s 50-square-foot shack, where rent is $18 a month. She says she was released after 20 days after Nairobi’s mayor paid her bill. Politicians in Kenya in general are expected to give out money and get a budget to do so.
A second mother named in the lawsuit, Margaret Anyoso, says she was locked up in Pumwani for six days in 2010 because she could not pay her $160 bill. Her pregnancy was complicated by a punctured bladder and heavy bleeding.
“I did not see my child until the sixth day after the surgery. The hospital staff were keeping her away from me and it was only when I caused a scene that they brought her to me,” said Anyoso, a vegetable seller and a single mother with five children who makes $5 on a good day.
Anyoso said she didn’t have clothes for her child so she wrapped her in a blood-stained blouse. She was released after relatives paid the bill.
One woman says she was detained for nine months and was released only after going on a hunger strike. The Center for Reproductive Rights says other hospitals also detain non-paying patients.
Judy Okal, the acting Africa director for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said her group filed the lawsuit so all Kenyan women, regardless of socio-economic status, are able to receive health care without fear of imprisonment. The hospital, the attorney general, the City Council of Nairobi and two government ministries are named in the suit.
Associated Press reporter Tom Odula contributed to this report.
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This is Kramer. He was found in the late spring of 2011, severely malnourished and dehydrated. The devastating drought had a huge effect on all of the native wildlife. Many does did not have enough milk to properly nourish their fawns. Kramer was showing some neurological delays due to the malnutrition he had suffered. His legs were very rigid, he struggled to stand, fell often, and his little feet would turn under when he tried to walk. When he was put with some of the other fawns in our care, he struggled to keep up with them and was injuring himself when he fell.
We decided he needed just a little time alone to gain his strength, so one of our rehabbers took him to her house. He was put in a quiet place with lots of padding and bottle fed. He was also
given help to stand up and walk a bit to help his muscles stretch out. Within days, he was able to stand up on his own and also lay down without falling. His walking was still a bit stiff, but his feet were not curling under as much.
After about a week, he was getting very strong and wanting to play. We decided to try putting him back with some of the other fawns to see how he would do. In the picture to the right, Kramer (on the left) finds a new friend. He was a bit smaller than the others, but he was very happy to be back with some friends!
At first just this little girl came over to him, but soon all the other fawns came over to see the new guy. Before long they were running (Kramer too!) and playing. We were very happy for Kramer. All he needed was a little extra TLC to catch up with the other babies.
Fawns are released in late autumn/early winter.
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Feng-Shui Discussion Group
Topic Editor: Kim K.
Feng Shui is defined in many ways. The noted expert Terah Kathryn Collins defines it as the art of arranging your outer world to enhance your inner world. Feng Shui actually translates to Wind and Water and observes the relationships between the forces of nature. We, and our environment, can be compared to these two forces of nature.
Our homes mirror our inner selves. Every thing in our homes was something that consciously or unconsciously was put there by us. Each thing has significance on some level, and has an effect on our lives. When we are in harmony with our environment we thrive in our personal lives, professional careers, finances and relationships. Feng Shui allows us to create a union between the forces of our homes and our selves to allow positive changes to begin to happen.
Feng Shui originated thousands of years ago in ancient China. Originally it was used to determine where ancestral tombs should be placed in order to best help the living descendants. Then it was used to determine where palaces and government buildings should be placed until eventually whole cities were built according to Feng Shui principles. In the 1990s Feng Shui made its way to the United States has become most popular in London where most of the workshops and training programs for Westerners now originate.
There are three basic principles of Feng Shui:
#1 Everything is Alive with Chi
Chi is the life force or vital energy that makes up all things, animate and inanimate. When we believe that all things are alive, we begin to choose more carefully which things we bring into our personal space. Things then are treated in a more dignified way. We begin to ask ourselves What are my things saying to me? The objects that surround us constantly influence the quality of our inner lives. When we hang onto items that remind us of people and the past, we have to ask ourselves the question How does this piece make me feel? If an item brings back happy memories and brings an overall
One of the primary goals of Feng Shui is to design our personal space in a way that enhances our lives and allows happiness, health and prosperity in. It allows us to find peace and tranquility in a busy world. If we set up our personal space in a way that allows positive Chi to enter, we can attain those goals.
#2 Everything is Connected by Chi
Chi connects every person, place and thing. The same energy that connects us to our personal space connects us to the whole planet, although we are most connected to those people, places and things that are closest to us. When practicing Feng Shui, we realize that all negative reactions, feelings and events that are left unresolved affect the quality of life. Therefore, practicing Feng Shui requires that we use the qualities of compassion, generosity, forgiveness and honesty in all our thoughts, words and deeds. When we have an awareness of our connectedness to all people, we become courageous. We speak the truth more often.
In relation to our belongings, practicing Feng Shui dictates that we are conscious of every single thing we possess. In a simple world of few possessions that would be easy. However, most of us possess thousands of things. In order to honor the connection we have to all these things, we have to let go of the excess and organize the rest. In Feng Shui, even spaces like garages, attics, drawers, cabinets and basements count! Again, remember, external order and harmony reflects internal order and harmony. Letting go of unnecessary possessions allows positive Chi to flow into our lives with all its rewards.
#3 Chi is Always Changing
Nature, our bodies, relationships, even our energy levels are constantly changing. In Feng Shui, change is embraced. It is an invitation to constantly make our lives better. We can move forward when we are in a state of change. In the western culture, change is resisted. We value constancy and stability and choose homes, careers and even furniture with an eye towards keeping it forever. When we fully embrace change, we are drawn to reinventing our lives, relationships and homes to reflect the inner changes we are constantly experiencing as we grow and mature.
Often when we leave home for periods of time, we return to realize that the home no longer reflects who we are and how we are evolving. This is the prime time to remove things that are no longer useful or energizing us in a positive way. As experiences change us, we need to remember to keep our inner and outer environments balanced and in alignment. Chi is stimulated by change and if we dont follow our instincts to change, we find our energy, vitality and inner growth and development grows stale. In order to be our best selves, we need to make our homes into personal spaces that reflect the best in ourselves and each of the people living there.
- Practical guidelines for implementing Feng Shui principles and Baguas
The above information is taken from several recommended resources:
The Western Guide to Feng Shui: Room by Room
Both by Terah Kathryn Collins and published by Hay House,Inc., New York
Also used and recommended:
Both by Karen Kingston and published by Broadway Books, New York
Sacred Space: Clearing and Enhancing the Energy of Your Home by Denise Linn published by The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York
Practical Feng Shui by Simon Brown published by Ward Lock, London
Recommended Web Sites:
The American Feng Shui Institute
The Learning Annex
The Art of Feng Shui
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Earlier this year, two women were convicted of assaulting a paramedic but avoided prison after a judge found there were special circumstances justifying a more lenient punishment. The Victorian public were outraged.
Although the Government tightened the laws around offences against emergency services workers, the public’s confidence in the courts had already been shaken. This is a problem because Australians have consistently reported low confidence in the courts, especially their protection of victims’ interests.
Any one of us could be a victim of crime, and if that happens, we need to know that the standards applied by the courts will be in line with our community values. We need to trust that the courts have the same idea of justice that we have.
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A quantum reactor was a main energy reactor powering systems that manipulated the fabric of time and space such as a quantum drive the primary propulsion system of fasterthanlight spaceshipsQuantum reactors were used in various contexts in the Planetary Union and by the Krill the Alibar and the Nazh.
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Also worth noting the Orbital Command Centers also produce a small amount of QE for the starting of a small base.
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Dec 28 2021nbsp018332A glass reactor is used for various reasonsGlass reactors are designed to produce responses to various materials at regulated temperatures and vacuum conditionsFlexible mixing rates and a steady feed channel are featured in each reactor allowing you to add ingredients to the tank at a consistent and regulated rate.
Energy production use and storage are all key areas that need to be improved in order to prevent the dire consequences of climate change from escalating.
Feb 27 2022nbsp018332Feb 27 2022The promise of Quantum Computing is filled with unprecedented potentialAnd for many years Microsoft has been involved in every layer of the stack software apps devices controls to make it a realityBut unless youre a physicist or an engineer that lives quantum on the daily it can be difficult to distinguish reality.
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Scientists and researchers are busy developing new resources that will allow us to enjoy the benefits of modern technology without causing the environment to suffer.
Since their emergence in 1991 lithiumion batteries have been the energy storage choice for EVs and smart gadgetsYet with the effects of climate change becoming more and more prevalent we humans are having to reassess the way we run our lives and our world.
The glass reactor can be set at a constant temperature in a closed glass reactor can be stirred and reacted under normal pressure or negative pressure according to the requirements of use and can do the reflux and distillation of the reaction solutionIt is a modern fine chemical factory Ideal pilot plant and production equipment for biopharmaceutical and new material synthesis.
The idea for this quantum mechanical technology was developed by the Nobel Prizewinning scientist John Goodenough who works as a professor at the University of Austin in Texas and was first published in the Energy and Environmental Science publication in 2016.
The quantum glass battery or glass battery is a new type of electrical battery that has also been coined the forever battery the holy grail and even the Jesus battery by scientists and researchers.
The quantum glass battery is one such breakthrough that could substantially reduce environmental damage by actively increasing energy storage capacity and charging time in a clean and renewable way.
The Quantum Reactor is the Crincillins main Quantum Energy producing structureIt produces 30 units of QE for use.
The Quantum ReactorMixer is now a commercial reactor within the Pulp amp Paper Industry and can be commercialized in other industriesQuantum Technologys green liquor oxidizer and process is a breakthrough in the pulp and paper industryOur unique process is able to fully oxidize green liquor with oxygen with a purity of.
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There are four types of fuel cells in the game The Generic Cell is the easiest one to collect from the Hadron ColliderThe Efficient Cell Reactive Cell and Super Cell can only be obtained in the shopWhen you have a fuel cell you can put it in the fuel cell storage area in the hazmat locker roomYou can complete The Fuel Boy quest by.
When considering individual set of devices as a domino card chaining them together can have a dominosnowball effect of a chain reactionsLike in atomic energy reactors chain reactions can significantly increase the energy density for quantum energy explorations as well.
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[Truncated abstract] Unconventional gas reserves are typically characterised by relatively low permeability, making these reserves more challenging — technically and commercially — to exploit than conventional gas reserves. The production of shale gas, an unconventional gas, is expanding worldwide. Most activity is occurring in the United States, while the industry is gaining momentum in other countries (for instance, Canada) or poised to begin (for instance, Australia and the United Kingdom). The rapid and increased interest in shale gas, along with the special characteristics of shale gas production, poses a number of challenges for industry regulators. These characteristics include the techniques of vertical drilling and hydraulic fracturing. The challenges associated with shale gas production raise a number of risks, particularly to the environment. Compared to other countries, the United States' regulatory regime is complex. The complexity is due to having to 'catch-up' to the rapid increase in shale gas activity and the interaction and tension between federal and state governments. In contrast, Western Australia’s response has been to review the State's regulatory regime for conventional gas and account for unconventional gas production where it was considered necessary. While Western Australia's approach is not optimal, it is coherent and anticipatory. There have been two dominant regulatory responses by jurisdictions to address the challenges associated with shale gas production. The first is to adopt a 'business as usual approach', which involves applying existing regulation for conventional gas to shale gas production. The second response is to adjust the regulation for conventional gas in an attempt to account for shale gas production. Both responses are rejected by the thesis — an unacceptable level of risk will result if either is used. Rather, a response in the form of fresh regulation is needed. To address the challenges and risks of shale gas production, the thesis proposes a best practice framework for the regulation of shale gas production. The framework has numerous features, which come together in a purposeful way to establish the framework...
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Debating technology and politics from a green perspective
Explainer The video explains how technology is shaping our lives and explores how we can ensure its impacts are socially useful, environmentally sustainable, and politically legitimate.
Interview 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The hbs has interviewed Jacey Kan from Hong Kong’s Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW) to introduce its campaign in fighting against image-based sexual violence.
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Mix dry ingredients together. Add warm water to dry ingredients. Knead until dough is soft and elastic and does not stick to bowl. If necessary, add a little more warm water. Shape dough into balls the size of a small peach. Let these sit for 15 minutes. Pat out a bit, pinch edges and then pat back and forth by hand until dough is about ½-¾" thick and is round. Make a small hole in the center of the round. Melt lard in a heavy frying pan. Carefully, put rounds into hot fat, one at a time. Brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels.
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Lima is an exciting city, and as many of other cities with high population density, Lima suffers from many common ailments and one of the worst is the air pollution. Is it possible to live free of the air pollution in Lima? Maybe not, but you can try different things to minimize the effects of air pollution in your body.
Although Peru is endowed with great natural resources, the air can sometimes be filled with pollutants. Most of this pollution can be attributed to growing industrialization and urban development. Other sources of pollution include motor vehicle emissions and fuel combustion.
How to Appreciate Lima and Forget about Air Pollution
There is little doubt that this air pollution poses serious health challenges and warrants intervention as a matter of priority. Latin America governments continue to grapple with ways to handle with air pollution in their countries, and Lima (and Peru in general) is not an exception.
Bear in mind that many of these solutions will apply only if you are planning to spend a long period of time in Lima. But there are some quick solutions down a the bottom.
The following are some of the measures that we can take to survive air pollution.
1. Avoid the Outdoors at Night
Latin America’s pollution levels vary depending on the country and its traffic patterns. Pollution is highest during the night due to the colder temperatures. Cold temperature leads to inversion, which leads to pollutants from factories and cars being trapped to form a thick layer of warm air. You can see a lot of pollution as an inversion effect in cities like Mexico City for example.
2. Avoid too much physical activity when the air is polluted
The more physically engaged you are, the more polluted air you breathe in. Air pollution will do more harm to your body than physical exercise will benefit you. Wait for the air quality to improve before embarking on physical exercise. This is especially important for the elderly and young children.
This is why you will see many more people running on the mornings than at night. The air is better and your body will receive the greatest benefit.
3. Avoid Taking your Kids Outdoors When It’s Smoggy
The rate of breathing for children is much higher than that of grown-ups, which means that they will absorb more toxic air while outside. Their lungs are also not fully developed at this stage and can suffer long-term damage due to pollution. Toxins also stay in children’s bodies longer.
4. Reduce Energy Use
Generating electricity causes air pollution. By using less energy, you are helping in the improvement of air quality, encouraging energy independence and saving money!
5. Increase the Greenery Around You
Although greenery on its own does not fix air pollution, it does help in enhancing air quality. Greenery also reverses the heat effect in urban areas. Greenery also helps urban centers in becoming resource sufficient.
6. Asthma Patients Should Always Keep an Inhaler Close
In Lima, it is very easy for an asthma patient to experience breathing difficulties. This is why having a nebulizer or inhaler close by is so important. Any sudden breathlessness should never be ignored. Check what to do in case of an asthma attack in this other article: What to Do in Case of an Asthma Attack While Visiting Lima, Peru
7. Eat Foods that Fight Pollution
Foods that boost immunity and fight inflammation are crucial for making your airways not react to air toxins. Garlic has medicinal compounds like sulfhydryl and allicin which make it one of the best immune boosters. It also has antimicrobial which helps fight infections.
8. Use Eco-Friendly Products
Consider purchasing the greenest and cleanest products that contain no harmful polluting material. For example, you can use essential oils instead of industrial air fresheners in the home. There are also green products for cleaning which can be used in place of conventional chemical containing products.
9. Recycle or Use Recycled Products
Making new products takes a lot of energy, pollutes the air and also increases the environmental footprint of the new products. Products derived from recycled materials take less energy in comparison.
10. Air-Cleaning Houseplants
Our homes are also filled with pollutants. In fact, in some instances, indoor air contains much more pollutants than the air outdoors. Keeping houseplants such as Aloe Vera, chrysanthemums and bamboo is one of the best ways of cleaning indoor air.
What to Do If You Are Just Passing By
Obviously, the previous solutions are better suited for people staying longer periods of time in Lima, Peru. But, what happened if you are only staying a couple of days or a week?
Let’s check these solutions.
Desktop Air Purifier
Having a portable air purifier could be the solution to remove pollutants and allergens from the air in your room. Choose one with a HEPA filter for maximum particle removal. This Holmes is my favorite:Holmes HEPA Type Desktop Air Purifier, 3 Speeds plus Optional Ionizer, HAP242-NUC
Anti-Pollution Bicycle Mask
If you enjoy riding a bike around the coast of Lima but do not want to be expose to the amount of pollutants, a bicycle mask is the best option.WOLFBIKE Super Anti-Pollution Motorcycle Bicycle Cycling Racing Mask Carbon Cloth Bike Ski Half Face Mask. Black
Don’t let the air pollution take a bite out of your vacation in Lima, Peru. Just following a few of the tips in this page can make your stay a more enjoyable one. Concentrate in eating the right type of foods, choosing the best times to be outside and exercise, and using a mask to keep the smog out of your lungs and you should be okay.
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I. Kiến thức liên quan
II. Phân biệt "lastly" "finally" & "at last"
1. Ngữ pháp
2. Cách dùng
2.1. At last (at long last)
Mang nghĩa "cuối cùng thì (có sự nhẹ nhõm, mong chờ trong đó - dùng khi có sự chậm trễ kéo dài dẫn đến sự mất kiên nhẫn)
= AT LAST is used when there has been impatience, a discomfort or a feeling which was the result of long delays.
- After a two-hour delay, Tom's plane has landed at last.
- When he arrived at last, I was so angry that I refused to talk to him.
- We use at last when we have been impatient as a result of long delays.
- At last I’ve discovered how to print envelopes on my printer!
- She has at last given me the book she promised me.
- They’re here at last!! We’ve been waiting half an hour.
Mang nghĩa "cuối cùng là"
= We use finally to refer to something that happened after a long time and usually after some difficulties. FINALLY could be used either for positive or negative results.
- Our economy must increase productivity, reduce unemployment and finally develop competition.
- There were no taxis and we finally got home at 2 pm.
- She’s had over twenty interviews but Jasmine has finally got a job as a journalist.
Mang nghĩa "cái cuối cùng trong 1 list (Để chỉ một cái gì đó xuất hiện ở cuối một danh sách dài)"
= It can also introduce the last element in a series. LASTLY refers to an element that comes at the end of a long list / We use lastly to refer to something that comes at the end of a long list
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October 14, 2017 by Manufacturing AUTOMATION
Oct. 14, 2017 – OptoForce, a robotics technology provider of multi-axis force and torque sensors, has developed three new applications for KUKA industrial robots.
The new applications are Hand Guiding, Presence Detection and Center Pointing, and will be utilized by both end-users and systems integrators. Each application, listed below, is also supported by new videos to demonstrate how they work. With OptoForce’s Hand Guiding application, KUKA robots can move in an assigned direction and selected route. The Presence Detection application allows KUKA robots to detect the presence of a specific object and to find the object even if it has moved. With the Center Pointing application, the OptoForce sensor helps the KUKA robot find the centre point of an object by providing the robot with a sense of touch. The solution also works with glossy metal objects where a vision system would not be able to define its position. | <urn:uuid:826cbeb5-05f8-41da-b4f9-734761d83555> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.automationmag.com/7627-optoforce-adds-three-new-applications-for-kuka-industrial-robots/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.918555 | 203 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) Medical Commission, one of its longest established commissions, has been finalising medical advisory protocols for a return to training and competition for amateur MMA in a new Covid-19 landscape.
The Medical Commission is chaired by Dr Randa Basharon (USA) and composed of leading international experts in sport medicine.
“The IMMAF Medical Committee members are leaders committed to the advancement of medical care and safety of MMA fighters,” said Dr Basharon. “We continue to pioneer medical safety policies for all competition groups including Junior and Youth, but we are also advising IMMAF on timely issues related to Covid-19 protocols and the issue of transgender participation in amateur MMA.”
The IMMAF Medical Committee has an unwavering focus on best practices in brain injury prevention and brain injury detection.
In terms of our priorities for 2020, this Medical Committee has also developed a ringside physician medical manual, said Dr Basharon. “The ringside medical manual and brain injury prevention are both ongoing works in progress to establish reproducible medical policies and procedures for quality and safety assurance during our competitions.”
The IMMAF Medical Committee continues to develop policies and procedures to advance the safety of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). MMA has a growing global presence and the growth of the sport has demonstrated the need for ongoing safety regulations and policies. IMMAF’s ongoing alliance with SafeMMA has proved to be a successful component in athlete pre and post-fight screening and evaluations.
The IMMAF Medical Commission continues to address medical safety as it relates to the rapid expansion of MMA and the scalability issues represented by increased international growth of the sport. Each year, IMMAF’s medical committee participates in education and research agendas for the purpose of advancing the safety and medical care in MMA.
IMMAF Medical Commission 2019-2023
Randa Basharon (USA) – Chairwoman
Dr Aljulanda Almaskari (OMN)
Prof Dan Healy (IRL)
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I agree with your version. It doesn't say "2 more cards" it says "2
cards for each creeper."
On 4/5/2012 3:52 PM, Doug Orleans wrote:
The Distress Call action says:
All players draw 1 card from the deck.
Anyone with a Creeper then draws additional cards until they have
drawn 2 cards for each Creeper they possess.
How many cards does a player with 1 Creeper draw in total for this action?
I thought it was pretty clear that "until they have drawn" meant
"total for this action", i.e. a player with 1 Creeper would draw a
total of 2 cards. But everyone else at the table seemed to think that
the two sentences were to be treated separately, so a player with 1
Creeper would draw 1 card and then 2 more cards for a total of 3. My
thought was, if that was the intention, why wouldn't it just say
"Anyone with a Creeper then draws 2 more cards for each Creeper they
possess"? Is it just worded that way to account for drawing other
Creepers along the way?
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Gr-r-r — there go, my heart’s abhorrence!
Water your damned flower-pots, do!
If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,
God’s blood, would not mine kill you!
What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming?
Oh, that rose has prior claims —
Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?
Hell dry you up with its flames!
At the meal we sit together;
Salve tibi! I must hear
Wise talk of the kind of weather,
Sort of season, time of year:
Not a plenteous cork-crop: scarcely
Dare we hope oak-galls, I doubt;
What’s the Latin name for “parsley?”
What’s the Greek name for Swine’s Snout?
Whew! We’ll have our platter burnished,
Laid with care on our own shelf!
With a fire-new spoon we’re furnished,
And a goblet for ourself,
Rinsed like something sacrificial
Ere ’tis fit to touch our chaps —
Marked with L. for our initial!
(He-he! There his lily snaps!)
Saint, forsooth! While brown Dolores
Squats outside the Convent bank
With Sanchicha, telling stories,
Steeping tresses in the tank,
Blue-black, lustrous, thick like horsehairs,
— Can’t I see his dead eye glow,
Bright as ’twere a Barbary corsair’s?
(That is, if he’d let it show!)
When he finishes refection,
Knife and fork he never lays
Cross-wise, to my recollection,
As do I, in Jesu’s praise.
I the Trinity illustrate,
Drinking watered orange-pulp —
In three sips the Arian frustrate;
While he drains his at one gulp.
Oh, those melons? If he’s able
We’re to have a feast! so nice!
One goes to the Abbot’s table,
All of us get each a slice.
How go on your flowers? None double?
Not one fruit-sort can you spy?
Strange! — And I, too, at such trouble,
Keep them close-nipped on the sly!
There’s a great text in Galatians,
Once you trip on it, entails
Twenty-nine distinct damnations,
One sure, if another fails:
If I trip him just a-dying,
Sure of heaven as sure as can be,
Spin him round and send him flying
Off to hell, a Manichee?
Or, my scrofulous French novel
On grey paper with blunt type!
Simply glance at it, you grovel
Hand and foot in Belial’s gripe:
If I double down its pages
At the woeful sixteenth print,
When he gathers his greengages,
Ope a sieve and slip it in ’t?
Or, there’s Satan! — one might venture
Pledge one’s soul to him, yet leave
Such a flaw in the indenture
As he’d miss till, past retrieve,
Blasted lay that rose-acacia
We’re so proud of! Hy, Zy, Hine ...
“St, there’s Vespers! Plena gratiâ
Ave, Virgo! Gr-r-r — you swine!
This highly entertaining poem portrays the grumblings of a jealous monk who finds his pleasures more in the flesh than in the spirit. Presenting himself as the model of righteousness, the speaker condemns a fellow monk, Brother Lawrence, for his immorality; but we soon recognize that the faults he assigns to Lawrence are in fact his own. Unlike many of Browning’s monologues, this one has no real historical specificity: we have no clues as to when the speaker might have lived, and the Spanish cloister is simply an anonymous monastery.
The poem comprises nine eight-line stanzas, each rhyming ABABCDCD. The lines fall roughly into tetrameter, although with some irregularities. Browning makes ample use of the conventions of spoken language, including nonverbal sounds (“Gr-r-r-”) and colloquial language (“Hell dry you up with its flames!”). Many of the later dramatic monologues dispense with rhyme altogether, but this poem retains it, perhaps to suggest the speaker’s self-righteousness and careful adherence to tradition and formal convention.
Because the speaker here is talking to himself, the poem is not technically a dramatic monologue as so many of Browning’s poems are; rather, it is, as its title suggests, a “soliloquy” (even though it is a freestanding poem, and not a speech from a play). Nevertheless it shares many of the features of the dramatic monologues: an interest in sketching out a character, an attention to aestheticizing detail, and an implied commentary on morality.
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” explores moral hypocrisy. On the surface, the poem may seem to be a light historical piece, the utterings of a grumpy but interesting monk—however, it repeatedly approaches a tone similar to that used by the more strident of Victorian essayists and religious figures. Browning portrays this man’s interior commentary to show that behind righteousness often lurks self-righteousness and corruption. The speaker levels some rather malevolent curses at Brother Lawrence, accusing his fellow monk of gluttony and lechery, when it is obvious, based on the examples he gives, that it is the speaker himself who is guilty of these sins (for example, when describing the supposed focus of Lawrence’s lecherous attentions, the speaker indulges in fairly abundant detail; clearly he has been looking for himself.) Moreover, the speaker’s fantasies about trapping Lawrence into damnation suggest that Lawrence is in fact a good man who will receive salvation. Thus Browning implies that the most vehement moralists invent their own opposition in order to elevate themselves.
Perhaps most importantly, the speaker describes a bargain he would make with Satan to hurt Lawrence. The speaker claims he could make such a bargain that Satan would believe he was getting the speaker’s soul when in fact a loophole would let the speaker escape. The paradox here is that making any sort of bargain with the devil to the disadvantage of another, whether one tricks Satan in the end or not, must necessarily involve the loss of one’s soul: the very act of making such a treacherous bargain constitutes a mortal sin. No one could admire this speaker’s moral dissolution; yet he represents a merely thinly veiled version of people whose public characters are very much admired—the moralists and preachers of Browning’s day. Browning exposes such people’s hypocrisy and essential immorality. | <urn:uuid:de2e6662-1e06-4f6e-be12-ae78e349abc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/browning/section2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926719 | 1,535 | 1.78125 | 2 |
A monster fish described by its discoverers as looking like “half a mutilated shark” may well have established a new world record.
Paddle boarders Rich German and Matt Wheaton were in the sea near the US city of Laguna Beach, California, when they encountered an enormous sunfish.
Mr German said: “My buddy, Matt, and I were just paddling and came across it… it was hard to miss! It was nine to 10 feet long, way bigger than myself.
“It’s hard to compare a sunfish to other creatures because they are so bizarre looking – they look like a mutilated shark that got bitten in half. I’ve seen many over the years but this was definitely the biggest.”
According to the Guinness World Records, the world’s largest bony fish by weight was another sunfish caught in 1996 off Kamogawa – a city in Chiba, Japan.
That specimen weighed 2,300kg and measured 8ft 11in long – and though the two men didn’t measure the fish they encountered, they’re confident it was bigger.
“Well we didn’t catch it or have a measuring tape but the largest sunfish on record is 8ft 11in,” said Rich, 52.
Terrifying sea monster resembling Alien's xenomorph impales prey with extendable jaw
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“Matt’s board is 14ft long," he added, "and if you look at the pics you can see for yourself how big it looks.
I would guess it was at least nine to 10 feet long… my buddy and I were blown away when we saw it.”
Julianne Steers of Beach Ecology Coalition said there was only one way to say for sure if it was a record-breaking specimen.
“The only true way to know is if it was out [of the water] and weighed and officially measured,” she told the OC Register.
“But it does look much larger than what we typically see out here.”
Mr German, who founded Project O – a non-profit organisation dedicated to ocean conservation – has been out in the water almost every day for over a decade.
But this encounter shows that, even for him, the sea still holds surprises.
He said: “I’ve been paddling here in Laguna Beach pretty much every day for the past 12 years and I’ve had over 2,000 encounters with dolphins and whales.
“This was more proof that you never know what you will see out on the ocean!”
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Despite the latest shipment, the two-dose Jynneos vaccine vials are enough to cover about a third of the estimated 1.6 million gay and bisexual men who officials say are at highest risk and encouraged to get the shot.
As the number of cases in the United States doubles each week, some health experts warn that a vaccine shortage could threaten the country’s ability to contain the expanding epidemic and prevent the virus from taking root forever — a concern that some federal officials have voiced privately.
“When you look at the math of what the requirements are … we’re going to have a hard time sledding here,” J.J. Stephen Morrison, director of the Center for Global Health Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in a podcast Friday, He added that 3.2 million doses would be needed to fully cover the high-risk group of HIV-positive men and others targeted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to receive vaccines.
“We won’t have 2 million doses until the end of the year,” Morrison said.
The shortage of Jynneos, the only vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration to protect against monkeypox, has health officials at every level of government scrambling to develop strategies. Hard-hit communities such as New York and D.C. have decided to give only one dose for now, against the advice of regulators, prompting federal officials to make larger distributions. Some experts also encourage people to get the ACAM2000 vaccine, which is approved for the smallpox virus and not for monkeypox.
“There aren’t enough similarities” to implement a strategy of relying solely on ginneos, said a federal official working on monkeypox, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, warning of a possible “vaccine cliff.” in the coming weeks.
About 5,200 people in the United States, mostly gay men, have contracted bisexual monkeypox. spreads through skin-to-skin contact, causing fever, swollen glands, severe pain, and sores. Most experts believe that hundreds or thousands of cases may go undetected.
“We expect cases to increase over the next few days or weeks as testing becomes more widely available,” a CDC spokeswoman said Friday.
Although the virus has not yet been linked to a single confirmed U.S. death, public health leaders worry that it will be difficult to eradicate, especially if it reintroduces to rodents and other small mammals. Disc transmission in Central and West Africa.
U.S. officials said they have now secured 1.1 million Jynneos vaccines, including 786,000 doses that were cleared by regulators after more than a month’s delay in Denmark, and that they “will be in the hands of people who need them in the next few weeks,” Health and Human Services said. Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday. Federal regulators reiterated Friday that the vaccine should be given to most people in a two-dose regimen, which U.S. officials said has enough shots to cover about 550,000 people.
But the total population that federal officials use to calculate vaccine distribution includes people with monkeypox, as well as men who have had multiple sexual partners in the past two weeks in areas where monkeypox is known. According to the CDC, at least 1.6 million people and possibly more.
Demand is also coming from people seeking vaccines who may not fall into these categories but are concerned about the potential effects.
“Overall, there are currently insufficient vaccine doses to meet demand, and most jurisdictions are increasing or exceeding their allocations and in some cases are still unable to meet demand,” concluded the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care think tank. , in analysis on Friday.
If the outbreak spreads to other populations in the coming weeks and millions more Americans are encouraged to seek vaccines, the shortages are likely to worsen. The first two cases were confirmed last week in children and this week in a pregnant woman. Previous outbreaks abroad have spread to children, women and other vulnerable groups.
“If we’re going to mass vaccination, it’s going to require a lot of vaccine,” Morrison told CSIS.
Experts have warned that limited testing has made it difficult to get a true picture of how the virus is spreading in an attempt to accurately predict the course of monkeypox. According to Trevor Bedford, a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the population is doubling every 7.6 days in the United States.
In an effort to curb local outbreaks, many states and local health officials have requested as many Jynneos vaccines as possible, with the hardest-hit states like California and New York asking the federal government for more doses than officials have said.
Biden administration officials said they are working to secure more vaccines, noting that they have received raw material for 11 million potential doses of Jyneos.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen next, and we have to be prepared for it to spread to more of the population,” Dawn O’Connell, the assistant secretary overseeing the Strategic Preparedness and Response Administration, said Thursday. But officials said it could take months to find a manufacturing partner to turn that raw material into a vaccine.
In addition to vaccines, the administration is proposing a multi-pronged strategy, including making testing and treatment more accessible and educating high-risk communities about how to protect themselves, officials say, to help stop the outbreak.
White House Press Secretary Chris Meagher said: “We will continue to look for ways to quickly get more vaccines to people across the country, but this is only one part of our strategy.”
During the limited time, public health leaders in New York and D.C. said they would focus on giving the first dose of Ginneos as much as possible and forgo the second dose in hopes of expanding the vaccine as much as possible.
“DC Health has decided as an immediate priority to provide the first doses of the vaccine to at-risk residents,” the city’s health department said in a statement this week. “This is very important because the first vaccination will help us contain the virus.”
Federal officials on Friday reiterated that a two-dose strategy is needed to provide sufficient protection.
“While the FDA understands the desire to obtain as large a dose as possible, the agency is recommending that the product be withdrawn from the label,” the spokesperson said.
Amanda Jezek, senior vice president of public policy and government affairs at the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said local public health clinics are also working to target “underserved populations” because so far many vaccine appointments have been disproportionately “disrupted.” good people.
Some experts called for US officials instead Encourage Americans to vaccinate with ACAM2000, which is approved against smallpox, a related virus, and which the United States has previously stockpiled in case of potential outbreaks. That vaccine relies on injecting live, weakened virus into people, which carries additional risks. It is also administered through a series of rapid punctures that may draw blood and cause scarring. A vaccine is available when needed, but public health officials are wary of relying on it.
“Nobody’s crazy about it. You don’t have to be crazy about it. But you have to give people a choice,” said Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist who has advised the Biden administration on the coronavirus and attended a White House briefing on the monkeypox this week.
Emanuel blamed health officials for not ordering more doses of Ginneos before the outbreak, especially as other countries moved to buy the vaccines. “I don’t know who made these deals,” he said. “This is a serious problem.”
The next shipment of 500,000 Jynneos vaccines from Denmark-based Bavarian Nordic is not expected until later this year. Amid tough global demand in October, said two officials of the administration who did not want to be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly.
“US ordered 50,000 additional doses in June,” an email from a Bavarian Nordic representative said in response to a specific company’s commitment to meet another company’s commitment.
HHS spokeswoman Sarah Lowenheim said officials shipped the doses announced this week and are working to expedite future shipments.
“We will take every opportunity to expedite the process of securing as many doses as possible ahead of schedule,” Loewenheim said.
Peter Hotes, dean of Baylor College of Medicine’s National School of Tropical Medicine, said he was open to the idea of a temporary fix to the idea of ”dose splitting,” saying people could take one dose and one dose of Ginneos. ACAM2000.
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In Benton, Illinois a living will, also recognized as a "healthcare directive" is a document which lays out directions for your family and your doctor regarding healthcare matters should you become so ill that you are unable to make or express such decisions.
A living will can be indispensable to avoiding disagreements between family members who otherwise might not be cognizant of your preferences on this subject. Most people, of course, want to honor the wishes of a loved one. Nonetheless, if they don't know what that person would have wanted, disagreements can happen.
For example, some people would not want to be kept on life support if they are terminally ill, and have no good chance at recovery. Others might want to be kept alive as long as medically permitted. If your family doesn't know what you would prefer, they might have to guess. Obviously, this can lead to severe disagreements, contemplating how emotional and final this decision is- there is no way to compromise between the two positions (a person can be kept on life support, or taken off of it; there isn't really any middle ground.).
If a person's preferences aren't known by his or her family, they might have to make an educated guess. Of course, with limited information, it's completely possible for 2 family members to come to two completely different conclusions, with no way of knowing which one is correct. Making your wishes known in advance can help you prevent all this.
How to Create A Living Will in Benton, Illinois
Before you begin, you should make it extremely clear to your family members what your wishes on this subject are. If it ever becomes necessary to implement a living will, the process will likely be simpler if your family already understands what to expect.
You should then go about drafting the will. This should almost always be done with the guidance of a Benton, Illinois attorney who specializes in these matters.
In order to be given effect, particular formalities have to be followed when drafting a living will. Normally, the requirements are identical, or very similar to, the requirements for regular wills.
While these protocols vary by state, there are a few elements that are quite typical. For example, in most states, wills have to be witnessed and signed by at least 2 people who have no direct share in it. It's also necessary to avoid any disputes or confusion as to whether or not a particular document was intended to be a will. A clear statement to that effect should be the first paragraph in any type of will.
Do I Need A Benton, Illinois Living Will Attorney?
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Rural Medical College, Loni was established in the year 1984 for healthcare, research and to provide socially meaningful medical education. The college is spread over 120 acres of land. Earlier, the institute was affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik and the University of Pune and later on it got affiliated to Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences – Deemed to be University. Rural Medical College, Loni is recognised by the Medical Council of India and General Medical Council, U.K. The institute offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses to the students.
Rural Medical College, Loni is a College & Institute in Maharashtra. It was established in 1984 and the institute is affiliated to Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed University), Ahmednagar . MBBS, MD, MS, PG Diploma , is approved by Council of India (MCI). Know about courses offered by Rural Medical College, Loni, seats available in each course, admission procedure & Cutoff, Fees and Fee Structure and other important information. Rural Medical College, Loni runs with the approval of Medical Council of India/Dental Council of India under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Rural Medical College is situated in Loni, Maharashtra. The college was established in 1984 under Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences a deemed university. The college became a constituent unit of the university in 2003. Rural Medical College Loni is approved by Medical Council of India (MCI), New Delhi and recognized by the state government. The institute is aimed at imparting medical education and producing well trained doctors who can offer their service for the society. Rural Medical College provides several opportunities for students to gain practical experience and exposure to the professional practices of medicine. Rural Medical College Loni is full equipped with all basic and necessary amenities.
To encourage development of an attitude of compassion and empathy for human suffering, to create an academic atmosphere conducive to assimilation of scientific knowledge, and to encourage logical application of the knowledge to ameliorate the suffering of society.
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When a company tells me it’s found a way to not only create a new form of public transport, but also make it financially viable without city funding, I’m skeptical.
Silicon Valley company Glydways wants to turn conventional mass public transport on its head, by introducing small, electric automated vehicles or “pod cars” that can carry four people and operate on a network of specially built guideways. They run on-demand (instead of on a timetable) and travel point-to-point with no stops in between. In the future, they might even pick you up at your house.
Sounds ambitious and a bit weird. So I met with Mark Seeger, Founder & CEO at Glydways, to find out more.
Seeger shared his vision for light electric vehicles that get exclusive right of way instead of dealing with road infrastructure like intersections and pedestrian crossings. The cars run on narrow and lightweight guideways that can be elevated, ground level, or under a tunnel to alleviate congestion.
There are several key points that are worth fleshing out:
Building new public transport is incredibly expensive, especially in the US. For example, The Eno Center for Transportation has been tracking the costs of transport projects since 2009.
Toulouse, France’s 9.3 mile Metro Line B was built entirely underground at about $176 million per mile, while Houston Metro’s 3.2 mile Green Line is ground level and cost $223 million per mile.
By comparison, Glydways estimates that it costs just $20 million per mile or 25 cents per passenger per mile.
Seeger even believes the company could even run public transportat a profit, which has never been done before.
There are a lot of cost reductions in terms of infrastructure. The vehicles travel on guideways 1.5 meters wide, about the width of a bike path. Seeger explained that this means you can easily fit the lane-making materials on the back of a truck that goes to assemble it on-site, instead of shutting down a road. Further, smaller vehicles are cheaper to build than big ones.
It’s not entirely clear how the cost for underground or above-ground guideways factor in. But the vehicle could also be used to deliver cargo when not carrying people, which makes a lot of sense.
On-demand transport is increasingly deployed as a last-mile solution for many people underserved by conventional transportation.
It also makes a lot of sense when you consider the inefficiencies of running a train or a bus for only a few people.
But it gets a lot more challenging at peak periods.
According to Glydways, they can avoid the commuter crush of people getting to and from a sports stadium by using a range of access points or boarding zones, instead of forcing people to come to a central point. However, each access point is far cheaper than building a train station or other light rail at a sports stadium.
I’m more skeptical about point-to-point because it’s a huge leap from picking someone up at an established location like a college campus, and going to their home in terms of the number of routes and vehicles required. I think it’s most likely that we’ll see Glyways partner with other last-mile providers that can augment their business model, especially for the first few years.
The viability of the Glydways business model
In San Jose the company has bid on a project to get people from downtown to Mineta San Jose International Airport.
The city has been looking for a long time for light-rail solutions because, unlike San Francisco and Oakland, there is no convenient way to get between the airport and downtown San Jose. VTA light rail doesn’t connect to the airport, and many people rely on taxis or ride shares to make the short trip. It opened for tenders or bids for tech solutions in 2019.
A quick look at the other companies who bid for the project offers insight into the space. The Boring Company proposed a small tunnel with Tesla’s Model X or a modified version of existing production vehicles. Yep, just cars in tunnels. They’re not even pretending a hyperloop is involved.
Further, I’m unsure Tesla cars would comply with accessibility standards needed for public transport, including embarking and disembarking wheelchair users, especially at speed.
But also in the race are some pretty comparable products to Glyways, including Mexico’s Modutram and 2getthere. The latter tested a far more rudimentary version of their tech at a long-term parking lot at Schipol Airport from 1997 to 2004 and already has a partnership with Brussels airport.
But where Glyways standout is that it has proposed to take ownership for with a design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) commitment. This includes a minimum of 30-year financing. But we’ve yet to see this tested in the wild and we’ll have to wait to see who is successful in bringing their tech to San Jose.
The struggle for adoption
The biggest challenge for Glydways is getting US local government buy-in. Someone offering an effectively free public transport system may sound awfully appealing. However, Seegler admits:
“A lot of cities have said to us, “We love it. It’s free, and we want it. Why would we say no? But well, it’s unproven. And we don’t want to be first.”
Further, there are lots of companies trying to transform conventional rail and struggling. Hyperloops and Boring Company tunnels sit on a loop of feasibility studies and pilot projects. Virgin pivoted to cargo over people carrying, and Boring Company is struggling to gain traction. Cybertrain, a somewhat comparable business idea, has been struggling to hit any light rail goals since 2016.
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Openstack Keystone Tutorial. Here’s how to set up a self trust for a reduced set of roles on your token. Press j to jump to the feed.
This is basically used for cloud computing and deployed as an iaas. I’ll trim them down both for obscurity as well as the make it more legible. 7.6k members in the openstack community.
Press Question Mark To Learn The Rest Of The Keyboard Shortcuts
Press j to jump to the feed. Step by step install and configure openstack keystone. Moreover, keystone provides authentication and authorisation functions.
Here’s How To Set Up A Self Trust For A Reduced Set Of Roles On Your Token.
Openstack tutorial lab 3 install and configure keystone identity service. Openstack tutorial for beginners | openstack rocky installation on ubuntu 18.04. To communicate with keystone, you can use the openstack client.
Keystone Performs Two Main Tasks:
Create a user and database on mariadb for keystone. A project has resources such as users, images, and instances, as well as networks in it that can be restricted only to that. I’ll trim them down both for obscurity as well as the make it more legible.
Openstack Rocky Installation On Ubuntu 18.04.
If you have not yet installed openstack keystone then step install as below. In previous, my post has how to install openstack all in one centos 7. In this tutorial, how to install and configure openstack keystone.
These Services Work Together Depending On Your Cloud Needs And Include The Compute, Identity, Networking, Image, Block Storage, Object Storage, Telemetry, Orchestration, And Database Services.
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Some schools will need to reschedule flu vaccination sessions due to take place in mid-November following supply delays, according to PHE.
PHE said GPs might have to vaccinate the children who would have normally received their flu vaccine at school.
GPs in England will be expected to vaccinate primary school children in high-risk groups following the delay to vaccination sessions in schools.
This is due to a delay in the delivery of the childhood nasal spray flu vaccines – due to arrive in November – which has affected around a quarter of the overall number of vaccines that have been ordered.
However, PHE could not confirm a new date, saying clinics will be rescheduled ‘as soon as possible’.
Priority should be given to children in at-risk groups and younger children aged two and three, PHE advised.
Pharmaceutical supplier AstraZeneca said the delay only affects certain batches of Fluenz Tetra vaccine stocks, caused by routine testing process rather than safety or efficacy issues.
PHE head of immunisation Dr Mary Ramsay said: ‘We are working with AstraZeneca and NHS England and Improvement to ensure that all eligible children get their flu vaccine as soon as possible. Children who have underlying medical conditions that make them more vulnerable to flu will be prioritised by GPs first.’
AstraZeneca country president Laurent Abuaf said: ‘We realise how important it is to deliver a full supply of vaccine to the NHS and are doing everything possible to minimise the delay of these affected batches.
‘As part of our normal product release process, we need to repeat some tests before a portion of our vaccine supply can be released and delivered. It is paramount that all batches complete the testing process before they can be supplied, and we are working as fast as possible to achieve this.
‘We are committed to working in partnership with PHE and the Department of Health and Social Care to support the earliest possible delivery of all the nasal spray vaccine needed for the NHS childhood seasonal flu immunisation programme.’
Official figures released by NHS Digital in September showed that coverage of all 13 childhood vaccinations fell over the last year.
Meanwhile, NHS Digital said it expects only 40% of practices to have the right IT systems this autumn to receive flu vaccination data electronically from community pharmacies.
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I try to visit my children, who live in London, every couple of months and take the opportunity to visit new art exhibition at one of the many city galleries. As they are all away on extended breaks in far-off lands I will not be heading south until the end of January and this will sadly mean I will miss the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition, Cotman in Normandy which is an exhibition of works by the watercolourist, John Sell Cotman, which ends on January 13th. For most of the twentieth century, Cotman was the most widely admired English watercolourist, surpassing even Turner in popularity.
John Sell Cotman was a marine and landscape painter, mainly in watercolour, who was born in Norwich in 1782. He was the eldest of ten children. His father, Edmund Cotman, formerly a barber but latterly a draper by trade, had married Ann Sell. He initially studied at the Norwich School, which is one of the oldest schools in the world having been founded in 1096. John’s father had intended that once his son had completed his education he would join him in his family business. However during his time at school John Cotman had developed a love of art and being determined that he would not spend his working life behind a shop counter, at the age of 16, left home and went to London to study art.
Whilst in London he managed to earn a living by colouring aquatints for Anglo-German lithographer and publisher, Rudolph Ackerman, who in 1795 established a print-shop and drawing-school in The Strand. Ackermann had set up a lithographic press and begun a trade in prints. It was whilst he was in London that he also met Doctor Thomas Monro, who was an avid art collector. He was Principal Physician of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and one-time consulting physician to King George III. Besides being an amateur painter and art collector he was also a patron to a number of young aspiring artists including Thomas Girtin. He had a house in Adelphi Terrace, London where he had his studio and a country house in Merry Hill, a suburb of Bushey just fifteen miles from the capital. Monro liked to surround himself with other artists and J.M.W. Turner was a frequent visitor. He ran an art Academy where he would offer evening art classes, some of which were attended by John Sell Cotman.
John Sell Cotman managed to gain the patronage of Monro and through him met many of the leading British artists of the time and it was through his friendship with Turner, Girtin and Peter de Wint that Cotman continued his artistic development. He enjoyed taking trips out to sketch and it is believed that in 1800 he accompanied Thomas Girtin on a sketching trip to North Wales. Considering Cotman had had no formal art tuition it is amazing the artistic standard he had reached for someone of such a young age for when he was aged just eighteen, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy showing five works, four depicting scenes from the Surrey countryside and one was of Harlech Castle. The following year, 1801, John Cotman joined the Brothers, a sketching society, founded by Thomas Girtin, for both professional artists and talented amateurs. During the next two summers he spent much of his time travelling around Wales, sketching scenes many of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1801 and 1802.
For the next three summers John Cotman spent time at Brandsby Hall in North Yorkshire, which was the home of Francis Cholmeley, an avid art collector and a patron of Cotman. During his stay at the Hall, Cotman acted as the drawing tutor to the Cholomeley family. Whilst there he also met the politician and art collector, Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes, whose stately home was Farnley Hall and who was a very close friend of the artist, J.M.W. Turner who often stayed at Farnley Hall.
The success he had hoped for in London never materialised and in 1806 Cotman returned to his hometown of Norwich and earned his living as an art tutor. On returning home he also joined the Norwich Society an art society formed the previous year by the Norfolk landscape painter John Crome. This society met fortnightly, held artistic discussions and organised exhibitions of their work. John Cotman became the vice president and he and Crome were the leading lights of the society. The ethos of the Society was laid down as being:
“…An Enquiry into the Rise, Progress and present state of Painting, Architecture and Sculpture, with a view to point out the Best Methods of study to attain to Greater Perfection in these Arts…”
The artistic styles of Crome and Cotman were different and the Society members were, to some extent, divided into those who followed Crome’s realist manner, and those working in the more free style of Cotman, who was not above painting pictures of places he had not personally visited, working from other artists’ sketches. The subjects of the Norwich School painters were typically landscapes, coasts and marine scenes from around Norwich and Norfolk. John Cotman became president of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1811.
In 1809, Cotman married Ann Mills, the daughter of a farmer from the nearby village of Felbrigg and the couple went on to have five children. During his time as a drawing master he taught the local banker, botanist and antiquary Dawson Turner and his children. They became close friends and Dawson Turner introduced him to many prospective students. Cotman issued the first of his sets of etchings in 1811. He moved from Norwich and for the next ten years he lived in the Norfolk coastal town of Yarmouth and this gave him the opportunity to complete a number of seascapes. It was around this time that Cotman concentrated on printmaking. The majority of his etchings were architectural in nature, with numerous ones of old Yorkshire and Norfolk buildings. It is more than likely that this move towards etchings and printmaking was due to, and inspired in part by, his friend and patron, Dawson Turner. In 1817, Cotman , with help from his patron, made the first of three tours of Normandy and out of these journeys came a book in 1822 entitled, Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, one of various books he illustrated with his etchings.
In 1824, for business reasons he moved back to Norwich. Cotman took up painting again with renewed energy, in watercolour and in oil; he exhibited more frequently in the city and also in London. In January 1834, through the good auspices of J.M.W.Turner, he gained the post of Master of Landscape Drawing at King’s College School in London, which he held until his death. He and his family moved home to the London borough of Bloomsbury. Two years later, his eldest son Miles Edmond Cotman was appointed to assist him. The taking up of the position at King’s College could not have come at a more fortuitous time as Cotman was beginning to have financial problems. Sadly, with these financial problems, which had afflicted him during most of his working life, came bouts of depression, ill health and despondency brought on by the poor sales of his work. During John Cotman’s tenure at King’s College he taught many artists including Dante Rossetti. His last visit to his homeland of Norfolk was in the autumn of 1841, just nine months before his death in London in July 1842.
The 20th century art historian and painter, Charles Collins Baker, said of John Sell Cotman:
“…a great colourist, whose earlier palette produced that rare plenitude that only masters of exquisite simplicity and restraint compass: from his palette the brown glebe, the black reflection of massed trees in a still river, the grey and gold of weathered stone and plaster, the glinting gold on foliage and the gilded green of translucent leaves have a special and supernal quality of dream pageants rather than of actuality…”
My Daily Art Display featured painting today is a watercolour entitled Greta Bridge (22cms x 33cms), which Cotman completed in 1805 can be found in the British Museum. A second version of the painting, a much larger one, (30cms x 50cms), was completed by Cotman in 1810 and is housed in the Norwich Castle Museum. Both watercolours recreate the rural solitude and tranquillity of the Greta area of North Yorkshire, where Cotman spent the summers of 1803 – 1805. The Greta Bridge in this painting spanned the river Greta in North Yorkshire near the gates of Rokeby Park. John Cotman had arrived at Rokeby on the evening of 31 July 1805, accompanied by his friend and patron, Francis Cholmeley. It had been arranged in advance that the two men were to stay as guests of the owner of Rokeby Park, John Bacon Sawrey Morritt. Cotman stayed at the house for about three weeks and when his hosts left on business, he remained nearby, taking up lodgings in a room at the local inn, which is the large building to the left of the bridge. Cotman then continued the work he had begun along the river Greta that skirts the park. It is a wonderfully balanced composition depicting the Greta Bridge, with its striking, single arch, which runs horizontally across the picture, in some way dividing it in two and yet uniting it into a single scene. The arch of the bridge epitomizes a great feat of engineering, which Cotman, with his love of architecture, admired. The structure we see before us was designed by John Carr of York, and built in 1773 for Morritt’s father, John Sawrey Morritt, who was a well-known collector of classical antiquities. The bridge replaced a Roman single-arched bridgeof the same design. Cotman had a love of bridges and sketched many. For him, a bridge was a meeting point or landmark for travellers, and would often be a point of reference on maps where rivers and roads meet. Cotman was fascinated by the interaction of this man-made feature and how it harmoniously interacted with a natural setting
The foreground of the painting is dominated by its rocky intrusions. In the background, above the bridge we see in the 1805 version, a forest of trees and large white clouds and yet in the 1810 version a mountain ridge, which, in reality, does not actually exist, has substituted the individual clouds. So why did he make this fundamental change and add the idealised rocky structure? It is believed that Cotman decided to add the mountain ridge in the later watercolour so as to strengthen the sense of perspective and by so doing have the viewers eye drawn through the landscape, starting from the rocks in the foreground, through the arch of the bridge to the trees in the middle ground as far as the mountain ridge and the sky in the background.
Although John Sell Cotman and Turner were strongly influenced by the work of Thomas Girtin, Cotman’s landscape style in comparison to Turner’s was different. Cotman’s landscapes were not as detailed as either Girtin’s or Turner’s. In his landscapes, Turner’s was more precise with the details. Many believed his “every-single-branch-and-bud” precision was somewhat overwhelming, and said that the result was that the viewer stared at the same copse for too long. In contrast, Cotman’s landscapes could be taken in with just a single glance. In today’s work one can see the beauty of the watercolour despite the lack of minute detail. In these watercolours, Cotman strived to capture the feeling and atmosphere of a place through the use of pattern and abstract shapes. Look how he has painted the boulders, which we see in the river. They are smooth, rounded shapes sprinkled with spots of colour. Cotman’s technique of using colour washes has accentuated the smooth roundness of the landscape. His trees are rounded and block-like, in varying shades of green and brown and in the 1810 version the mountain ridge in the background is softly shaped.
This watercolour is a prime example of his balanced and sensitive technique which he used in his landscape work. In this work he has used very muted colours for his high cloudy sky, which echo the colour of the river surface. Below the dark clouds we see a suggestion of better weather to come with a hint of blue sky and thick white clouds. The watercolour is built up in distinct patches of restrained colour, held in a precise pattern of tone and line, which were the hallmarks of Cotman’s inimitable style. The presence of the sun and the large trees around the flowing river causes crisp shadows on the building, bridge and water surface.
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Study: Financial literacy can help abused women
WASHINGTON — Improved financial literacy training for domestic violence victims can help eliminate the dependency that often keeps victims trapped in dangerous relationships, a study released Thursday shows.
Ninety-four percent of women who received financial training with traditional domestic abuse services said they learned how to identify signs of economic abuse, said Judy Postmus, a Rutgers University School of Social Work associate professor and a co-author of the study.
Financial abuse can include controlling a victim's finances, sabotaging her credit or preventing her from going to work, said Kim Gandy, president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence.
Many victims don't even know they're being abused financially, "But it is every bit as effective as a lock and key in trapping a woman in a relationship," Gandy said.
Postmus discussed the study's findings Thursday at a panel hosted by Real Clear Politics with representatives from other organizations.
Financial abuse can make life a nightmare for survivors — during the time of abuse and afterward, the panelists said. Financial dependency can make the daunting task of leaving a relationship even harder.
Survivors must take control of their finances, and employers should start policies that protect survivors from workplace stalking, harassment and assault, said Chelsea Parsons, director of crime and firearms policy for the Center for American Progress.
Preventing harassment in the workplace can be as simple as changing an employee's phone number or offering an escort to the parking garage, Parsons said. Only 15% of employers have domestic violence policies in place, Parsons said.
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China has helped Sri Lanka to develop infrastructure after the civil war and Sri Lanka has not fallen into a debt trap, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has told United States Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo.
The President expressed these views during the bilateral discussions held with the latter on the morning of the 28th of October.
During the cordial discussion between the two parties, views on a number of areas of bilateral and regional importance were exchanged, according to President’s Media Division.
US Secretary of State told the President that the US is ready to continuously engage with Sri Lanka in its striving to achieve economic development goals.
He said that the US expects to further develop already existing strong bilateral relations between the two countries.
Expressing the desire of the US to continue to work closely with Sri Lanka in achieving a high level of economic development, the State Secretary said priority will be given to promote US investments in the island.
Tourism is a key sector that contributes to employment and income generation. The USA is ready to give a helping hand to the development of this area under a carefully prepared action plan, Pompeo stated.
In response, President Rajapaksa said what Sri Lanka wants is not to obtain loans continuously, but to achieve a high level of economic growth by attracting more foreign investments.
“We have already begun to remove bureaucratic red tapes that hinder foreign investment. Sri Lanka is a country that possesses the necessary factors to achieve high agricultural development. Our agriculture sector should be modernized. Scientific research should be conducted in order to reach this goal. We expect your assistance towards this end”, President Rajapaksa stressed.
Elaborating on the foreign policy of Sri Lanka, President said it is based on neutrality.
“The relations between Sri Lanka and other nations are determined by several conditions. Historic and cultural relations, development cooperation are some of the priorities.”
President stressed that he is not ready to compromise the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the nation in maintaining foreign relations, whatever the circumstances may be.
Noting that China assisted in the development of the country’s infrastructure since the end of the separatist war President reiterated that Sri Lanka is not caught in a debt trap as a result.
The two sides agreed to further strengthen the defense cooperation already established between Sri Lanka and the United States. These include training opportunities and material assistance from the United States to security forces personnel in Sri Lanka.
When the President emphasized the need to strengthen the coastal guard services to combat drug trafficking, the State Secretary said that the US could assist in this endeavor.
Pompeo said that the United States wishes to see that the Indian Ocean remains a zone of peace. He expressed satisfaction over the existing friendly ties between Sri Lanka and India. President Rajapaksa stated that Sri Lanka also hopes to see peace in the Indian Ocean.
The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina Teplitz, Under Secretary of State Brian Bulatao, Chief Assistant Deputy Secretary at Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Dean Thompson, Senior Advisor to the State Secretary Mary Kissel were the other members of the US delegation.
Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardene, Secretary to the President P. B. Jayasundera, Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Relations Admiral Jayanath Colombage, Principal Advisor to the President Lalith Weeratunga, and Sri Lanka’s Ambassador-designate to the US Ravinatha Aryasinghe were also present during the discussion.
Pompeo visited Sri Lanka on a two-day visit following a visit to New Delhi. He met with President Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena this morning and followed the sessions with a joint press conference with Gunawardena at the Ministry.
At the joint press conference, He stated, “We see, from bad deals, violations of sovereignty, and lawlessness on the land and sea that the China Congress Party, as a predator. And the US comes in a different way. We come as a friend and as a partner.”
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Soya protein has long been used as a plant-based protein source and as an alternative to meat. The Grocer explore whether it is the beginning of the end for soya in this week’s edition, featuring Robert Lawson. Food Strategy Associates have worked on a range of plant-based projects; take a look at some of our case studies.
Here are some excerpts from what Robert had to say about soya protein. See the full article from The Grocer here.
“I expect lots of soy-based brands will be looking to switch to yellow pea in the future”Robert Lawson, The Grocer
On a global basis we are definitely seeing a move away from soya and towards alternative proteins in meat alternatives. What we’re seeing in the market is the fastest-growing brands right now – brands such as Beyond Meat – are often yellow pea-based.
In the UK, that switch isn’t yet taking place, but I expect lots of soy-based brands will be looking to switch to yellow pea in the future.
“In practice, the vast majority of land cleared for soy is used for animal feed, but it doesn’t change the tarnish on soy”Robert Lawson, The Grocer
Consumers have three motivators to eat plant-based foods: animal welfare, health and environment. The key concern around soy is an environmental one, linked to deforestation. In practice, the vast majority of land cleared for soy is used for animal feed.
But it doesn’t change the tarnish on soy as an environmental ingredient, and you also have the tarnish associated with genetic modification. So, there is a desire to move away from soy to meet those concerns. | <urn:uuid:e1a3241a-10a7-49b6-8e5d-a4121fa5cdf8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foodstrategy.co.uk/soya-protein/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937721 | 359 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Creating a statement in the home can be difficult, particularly for people dwelling in rental houses in which there are occasionally constraints on renovating and decorating. Building a statement or a attribute can be even a lot more challenging when you are sticking to a limited price range. Inside designer and former professor at the Trend Institute of Technology, Garry Cohn, has shared his easy nonetheless helpful hack for building a “statement” in the residence.
Garry has above 30 several years in the inside structure field the place he has labored on luxury resort, retail and residential tasks.
Initially from New York, Garry now resides in Dublin, Eire and was a presenter on the hit Television set collection, Structure Medical professionals.
Garry explained 1 of the keys to earning a assertion is making use of issues that “look beautiful”.
Nevertheless, occasionally getting an “ugly” object can make a larger assertion.
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For these incorporating furnishings to a home that currently follows a colour palette, just take the home furniture from distinctive components of the household that matches and contrasts with the colour plan and place them in the middle of the area.
He reported: “They arrived from distinctive rooms so currently you search like you went out and acquired new matters.
“I’m confident you have all the items in your dwelling to make a beautiful room, scattered in other rooms.”
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In a commentary in the journal Earth’s Future, Erika von Schneidemesser (IASS), Megan Melamed (International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project) and Julia Schmale (École Polytechnique Fédérale the Lausanne) write that global challenges and our dependence on scientific and technological advancements make intensive science-policy engagement indispensable.
On the one hand, policy has an important role to play in science. Politicians need to regulate research on contentious issues, for example interventions in the climate or genetic engineering in humans. Politicians also decide on what areas of research are earmarked for funding.
On the other hand, the authors write, we need more science in policy. Stronger science-policy cooperation could mean that scientific insights are reflected more consistently in policy decisions. “Science is just one of many voices in the policymaking process, and it’s often quite a weak voice,” says lead author Erika von Schneidemesser. “There’s often a lack of understanding among researchers about what science-policy actually is and the possibilities they have to contribute to it.”
Titled “Prepare Scientists to Engage in Science‐Policy”, the article highlights the areas where the gaps between science and policy are particularly wide and makes four recommendations for bridging them:
Frame Science‐Policy as a System
The authors want to challenge the perception that science and policy are two different worlds with just one interface. “That suggests that scientists do science, findings get packaged to be sent across an interface, and then policy uses it. But it doesn’t work like that. The notion of a ‘science‐policy system’ is a better reflection of the reality, where the policy and science processes are constantly changing and interacting with each other,” explains von Schneidemesser. A systemic approach would also make clear the need for longer-term rather than one-off exchanges between the two areas.
Teach the Science‐Policy System
The authors believe that science students should be exposed to science‐policy as part of their university education. “Be it in an introductory course or an advanced seminar, it’s important that scientists have the opportunity to determine whether they wish to delve further into the science‐policy system,” says von Schneidemesser. Personal experiences, including examples of best practices, successes, and failures, should be part and parcel of this curriculum.
Engage in the Science‐Policy System
There is a wide range of opportunities for engaging in the science‐policy system. Scientists can write reports for governments, engage in dialogue with ministries, participate in research projects involving political actors, or even choose to pursue a political career.
Value Engagement in the Science‐Policy System
The authors are critical of the fact that active science-policy engagement does not receive the recognition it deserves. They recommend that scientific institutions value this engagement – in the same way they value scientific publications or successful applications for research funding – and create new incentive systems with that in mind.
Author: Veronika Fritz
von Schneidemesser, E., Melamed, M., & Schmale, J. (2020). Prepare Scientists to Engage in Science‐Policy. Earth's Future, 8(11): e2020EF001628. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001628 | <urn:uuid:7fd1060d-e134-4c5b-ad5a-2f5004932de1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iass-potsdam.de/en/news/how-make-science-policy-engagement-more-accessible-researchers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.905631 | 703 | 3 | 3 |
Have we put the year’s lowest prices behind us?
Things are heating up. Seasonally, the salmon price will start to climb now – on its way to a peak around Christmas.
“What we have sold on, we have great volume now so we have to sell to all segments, is 53 kroner (EUR 5.4) at 3-4 kg, 55 kroner (EUR 5.6) 4-5 kg and 57 kroner (EUR 5.8) at 5-6 kg,” said a seller at a fish farming company, before adding: “There are Poland prices.”
“And then we have target prices of 55, 57 and 60 kroner (EUR 5.6, 5.8 and 6.1). Our customers say that they can buy at 54, 57 and 58 kroner (EUR 5.5, 5.8 and 5.9). The truth is, I guess, a place between Poland prices and target prices: 54, 56 and 58-59 kroner (EUR 5.5, 5.7 and 6.0).”
In that case, it means the highest prices on this side of mid summer.
“At the same time, the currency (EUR/NOK) has gone from 10.17 to 9.88 in two weeks. But whether it is three, four or five kroner up is not so interesting. All the last four weeks are the highest export weeks ever from Norway – with price increases on top of it all. A few weeks ago we could explain at once that it was inventory building, but now it is not. I know many big players who say they do not do it anymore. Now there is pure demand. It is the strongest demand I have ever seen,” he said enthusiastically to SalmonBusiness.
“We hear from retail that fresh salmon in Germany – it is far better than we thought. There is reason to be optimistic about the price of salmon for some time to come. What we see now is the rawest,” he said, taking a little break, before he continued: “We are well into the 50s, while we, only fresh, sell 5-6,000 tons more every week out of Norway. And there is normal volumes from the Faroe Islands and the others in Europe. The United States has 15 percent more supply year to date and other proteins have also risen in value – red meat, frozen seafood and so on.”
All of today’s industry sources say there is a clear price increase for the coming week.
“I bet it’s up to 55 kroner (EUR 5.6). There are probably those who want lower as well, but it probably ends up there,” said a trader.
“It’s up, I hear. It is uncertain how much it is up, whether there are a few kroner up or more,” said an importer. “The integrated ones have only raised the prices, but I hear some are sent to Poland – at lower prices.”
“Everyone try to get the price up. They started up a lot early today, but it has calmed down. They now offer a couple of kroner up,” said an exporter.
He referred to the following farm gate prices: NOK 52 (EUR 5.3) for 3-4 kg, NOK 53 (EUR 5.4) for 4-5 kg, NOK 54 (EUR 5.5) for 5-6 kg and NOK 55-56 (EUR 5.6-5.7) for 6+ kg.
Can you buy at those prices?
“No, I do not know. Everyone is waiting. It seems like it’s going to be a long afternoon. If it becomes more expensive, one must almost limit the quantity. Much of the fish is bought for storage. There is no market for all this in the fresh market. But it is difficult to predict. It is a strong market,” he said. | <urn:uuid:b5a28b5d-9cc9-49ac-8a9c-76b200b34975> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://salmonbusiness.com/the-salmon-price-jumps-ten-percent-it-is-the-strongest-demand-i-have-ever-seen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964324 | 883 | 1.507813 | 2 |
How Induction Heating Technology Works (And Why You Should Know)
Induction heating technology has been around for 100s of years. In 2000, Induction Innovations President Tom Gough brought it to the automotive repair industry by inventing the first Inductor series model.
One of the many questions we receive from customers is, “Will induction heat work for my application?” It is helpful for our customers to understand how the technology works so that they can assess and answer this question on their own as they come upon more applications in their workplace.
Let us see how the induction heating process works.
How Does Induction Heating Work?
Induction coils serve as the transfer primary while the object being heated is a short circuit secondary. When a ferrous metal is placed within the induction heating coils, it enters the magnetic field inducing circulating eddy currents in the metal.
Eddy currents flow against the electrical resistivity of the metal, generating heat. This resistance is what breaks the bond of rust, corrosion, or thread lock compounds, allowing users to remove stuck hardware.
The heat is generated inside the object, instead of by an external heat source via heat conduction. This heat is targeted to the metal hardware without direct contact between the part and the coil. The coil does not get hot and the part never comes in contact with a flame, making it a much safer option than a traditional torch method. Objects can be heated very rapidly.
Another common question we get asked about is the frequency of our products. The frequency of the electric current used for induction heating depends on the object size, material type, coupling (between the work coil and the object to be heated), and penetration depth.
Who Uses Induction Heat?
Induction heating is used in many industrial processes, such as heat treatment in metallurgy, melting refractory metals that require very high temperatures, and induction cook-tops (induction cooking).
See our blog on what types of industries benefit from our tools!
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Induction heat offers a combination of speed, consistency, and control. Because of these properties, induction heating technology can:
- Remove bonded parts on metal such as body trim, decals, graphics and more in a fraction of the time. With little to no need for toxic solvents, adhesives typically come off and leave a clean surface behind.
- Easily remove body/under coatings, spray-on bedliners, and seam sealers, which reduces the need for expensive abrasives.
- Remove auto glass with little to no need to pull the interior trim.
- Remove corroded or seized hardware from thread lock compounds.
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The Palladium was converted from a movie theater to a music venue and then into a nightclub. The famous duo hired Danceteria DJ Richard Sweret, who saw the possibility of a much larger audience for a downtown New Wave, Euro and house music-oriented club. From its celebrity-studded opening in May 1985, through the end of the 1980’s, it was one of the major features on a vibrant New York club scene. The club was a mainstay on the New York club scene until it was bought out in 1997 by the voracious appetite of New York University (NYU) and demolished for a sterile campus housing project. They have continued to destroy New York ever since.
Junior Vasquez’s Arena party, held Saturday nights and all day Sundays at Palladium between September 1996 and September 1997, was one of the most popular parties in the New York club scene at the time. Although the promoters billed Arena as “The Gay Man’s Pleasure Dome”, the party drew an eclectic mix of gay and straight from Manhattan and far beyond. 14th Street in those days was still seedy and therefore the attraction to gain entrance into the club as you bypassed the bums in the adjoining urine stenched doorways was ‘chic’ and daring.
The Palladium represented architect Arata Isozaki’s transformation of a vacant and rundown theater, originally built in 1927 as the Academy of Music, into an extraordinary interior that can only be described as a sleek new structure, the equivalent of a seven-story building using more than 200 tons of steel, within the restored grandeur of the original shell. After the conversion from a venue to a club, the main dance floor of the Palladium was a huge space which used to hold the theater and seating. One interesting feature of the club was the large banks of TV monitors in grid formations that were used to display music vidoes. Each monitor could operate separately, or one large picture could be shown across the grid – we had never seen such technology before and it was mesmerizing to us at the time.
The entire gigantic cavernous club was big enough to hold different areas, the equivalent of three or four clubs! Besides the pounding main dance floor area there was a multicolored basement, and the famous upstairs “VIP room”, The Michael Todd Room. Murals were created for this space by the well known New York artists of the 1980s Jean-Michel Basquit, Francesco Clemente, Kenny Scharf and Keith Haring – these treasures are gone.
The video links below will show you the 1980’s grandeur it once was.
A rare visual tour into the past of The Palladium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5_NI2MSmp8
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A new type of brand impersonation attack is disproportionately using Google-branded sites to trick victims into sharing login credentials. Making up 4 percent of all spear phishing attacks in the first four months of 2020, Barracuda researchers have seen steady detections through the first part of the year. Researchers expect to see that number climb as cybercriminals have success harvesting credentials with these attacks.
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Form-based attacks — In this type of brand impersonation attack, scammers leverage file, content-sharing, or other productivity sites like docs.google.com or sway.office.com to convince victims to hand over their credentials. The phishing email will usually contain a link to one of these legitimate websites making this highly specialized attack difficult to detect. Plus, one particularly tricky variant steals account access without stealing credentials.
Of the nearly 100,000 form-based attacks Barracuda detected between January 1, 2020, and April 30, 2020, Google file sharing and storage websites were used in 65 percent of attacks. This includes storage.googleapis.com (25%), docs.google.com (23%), storage.cloud.google.com (13%), and drive.google.com (4).
In comparison, Microsoft brands were targeted in 13 percent of attacks: onedrive.live.com (6%), sway.office.com (4%), and forms.office.com (3%). The other sites used in impersonation attacks include sendgrid.net (10%), mailchimp.com (4%), and formcrafts.com (2%). All other sites made up 6 percent of form-based attacks.
Cybercriminals use form-based attacks for credential theft is several ways. The three most common tactics are:
1. Using legitimate sites as intermediaries
With this tactic, cybercriminals attempt to impersonate emails that appears to have been generated automatically by a file sharing site such as OneDrive and takes their victim to a phishing site through a legitimate file sharing site. The attacker sends an email with a link that leads to a file stored on a site like sway.office.com, for example. The file contains a picture with a link to a phishing site asking for credentials to login.
2. Creating online forms for phishing
With this approach, attackers create an online form using legitimate services like forms.office.com. The forms resemble a login page of a legitimate service, and the link to the form is then included in phishing emails to harvest credentials.
These impersonation attacks are difficult to detect because they contain links pointing to legitimate websites that are often used by organizations. However, services that request account verification or password changes do not normally use these domains.
3. Getting access to accounts without passwords
In this particularly nasty attack variant, hackers can get access to their victims’ accounts without stealing their credentials. The original phishing email contains a link to what looks like a usual login page. Even the domain name in the browser window appears to match what user may expect to see.
However, the link contains a request for an access token for an app. After login credentials are entered, the victim is presented with a list of app permissions to accept. By accepting these permissions, the victim is not giving up passwords to attackers, but rather grants the attacker’s app an access token to use the same login credentials to access the account.With one particularly nasty variant of this attack, even two-factor authentication will do nothing to keep attackers out #cybercrime #EmailSecClick To Tweet
Attacks like these are likely to go unnoticed by users for a long time. After all, they used their credentials on a legitimate website. Even two-factor authentication will do nothing to keep attackers out because their malicious app was approved by the user to access accounts.
At the time of writing this blog, Microsoft already disabled this specific app, but we continue to see this tactic being used.
How to protect your organization
API-based inbox defense: Cybercriminals are adjusting their tactics to bypass email gateways and spam filters, so you need a solution in place that uses artificial intelligence to detect and block attacks, such as account takeover and domain impersonation. Deploy technology that uses machine learning to analyze normal communication patterns within your organization, instead of relying solely on looking for malicious links or attachments. This allows the solution to spot anomalies that may indicate an attack.
Deploy multi-factor authentication: Multi-factor authentication, also called MFA, two-factor authentication, and two-step verification, provides an additional layer of security beyond username and password, such as an authentication code, thumb print, or retinal scan.
Protect against account takeover: Use technology to identify suspicious activity and potential signs of account takeover, such as logins at unusual times of the day or from unusual locations and IP addresses. Track IPs that exhibit other suspicious behaviors, including failed logins and access from suspicious devices.
Monitor email accounts for malicious inbox rules as well. They are often used as part of account takeover. Criminals log into the account, create forwarding rules and hide or delete any email they send from the account, to try to cover their tracks.
Improve user security education: Educate users about email attacks, including form-based attacks, as part of security-awareness training. Ensure staffers can recognize attacks, understand their fraudulent nature, and know how to report them. Use phishing simulation to train users to identify cyberattacks, test the effectiveness of your training, and evaluate the users most vulnerable to attacks.
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As part of their European Mental Health Week (9th-15th May 2022), Mental Health Europe commissioned us to create a bright and optimistic animation to highlight the central message of this year’s awareness week.
The theme of this year’s European Mental Health Week was ‘Speak Up for Mental Health’, looking to shine the spotlight on youth mental health. The overarching goal was to mobilise people behind three key policy asks:
1. Ensure adequate prevention of mental health problems.
2. Meaningfully empower and actively engage young people in decisions about their mental health.
3. Provide targeted mental health support at every stage of life.
With a strong focus on youth mental health, we decided that the animation should be from the perspective of a young person. This helped to reinforce the goal of empowering and engaging young people to speak openly about their experiences and their mental health.
In order to fit the overall optimistic tone, the animation only briefly mentions the hardships faced by many young people in recent years and instead focuses on the positive steps forward.
The animation was posted to Mental Health Europe’s social pages to kick off the awareness week. Over the whole week, the animation received the most likes and retweets out of all the content posted.
It received over 1000 views on youtube in the month after posting, becoming one of their most-viewed pieces of content on youtube.
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THE BRIEFCASE OF MINERAL APPLICATIONS
How much do you know about minerals? Maybe not a lot, or perhaps you do. Would you like to have learned more about them in elementary school? We know the answer: of course we would have! That’s why we are excited to present to you The Briefcase of Mineral Applications, a didactic mining briefcase for educational use in schools. Sounds great, right? Well, stay with us because we’re going to explain what it’s all about in this article.
For about a decade, every two weeks, the Museo Geominero has loaned schools a type of didactic kit so students could identify and touch common minerals. Ithas proven to be a very positive experience that has evolved into this very briefcase of mineral applications.
This project is based on theoretical and practical content, with both a physical and virtual briefcase. Everything is related to the applications of minerals and the consequences of their daily use as well as the mining process. All content is transmitted through a disruptive technology –the briefcase– and it has been shown in different parts of Europe through educational workshops and presented at universities and research centers.
The briefcases contain a set of minerals, tools for their identification, a set of products manufactured with the minerals, toys and puzzles for learning about their properties, places of production, application, etc., maps and other complimentary materials and a user manual.
Some of the topics covered include gold, cobalt, tin, platinum, minerals used in mobile phones, secondary raw materials and, of course, minerals that are used on a daily basis. Materials in 3D are used with the main objective of extending the reach of mining in these fields:
- Audience, 18 years old and under.
- End users: science museums, academic centers.
- Minerals, with new briefcases about minerals mined by new partners.
- Geographic, covering Slovakia and Portugal.
- Content, covering topics like exploration and the closing of mines.
And if that is not enough, it also includes plenty of digital content, such as the following:
- 3Briefcase Immersive Web Authoring Tool: interface web that will allow the creation of immersive interactive experiences without programming, by choosing options from the menu, being able to input 360 videos, audios, and external 3D models.
- 3DBriefcase Immersive Player: a 3D game, which includes multimedia content like immersive experiences, 360º videos, images, audio.
- Augmented Reality content in a digital book format.
- The briefcases will come with mobile phone kits + glasses. Glasses made from recycled cardboard will also be used to hold the phone that will be used during the workshops.
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