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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Just in time for World Penguin Day this weekend, the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens announced the hatching of a Magellanic penguin chick to parents Oreo and Kowalski.
The chick, who has not yet been named, hatched March 25, and is the fourth successful hatchling for the pair, who have been responsible parents, meaning staff have not had to step in to help raise the chick.
The chick marks the eighth successful hatching at the Zoo since the opening of the Tuxedo Coast exhibit in 2010, and the first since 2019. It comes just in time to celebrate World Penguin Day on Sunday.
The chick’s gender is not known yet but will be determined soon through DNA testing.
The little one is expected to make its public debut in the next few months as keepers continue to monitor its growth through weekly weigh-ins. Magellanic penguin chicks usually stay in their nests with the parents for about 70 days before fledging. This is when birds acquire the necessary feathers for independent activity.
“This penguin chick is a great new addition to our Magellenic colony. Our animal care staff have enjoyed watching experienced parents Oreo and Kowalski continue to be exceptional with their new offspring. We are excited to watch this little one grow,” said Mike Taylor, Curator of Herps, Birds, and Others.
Magellanic penguins are one of eight species found in South America and the surrounding islands. They are medium-sized penguins and can weigh between 6-14 pounds, with males being larger than females. Young birds often have a pattern on their feet that are blotched and gradually fade to black by the time they are 10 years old.
Of the 18 recognized species of penguins, 11 are listing as vulnerable or endangered primarily because of habitat loss, overfishing, and climate change, the Zoo said.
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens supports the work of Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), whose primary objective is to reverse the decline of seabird populations through the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of ill, injured, abandoned and oiled seabirds—especially African penguins. | <urn:uuid:3e3a24a2-3102-46b2-ae2f-1456475f5366> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/04/23/so-cool-jacksonville-zoo-announces-newly-hatched-penguin-chick/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961026 | 459 | 2.671875 | 3 |
I am now well into culturing thanks to Jo-Maree’s expert guidance. I am happy to say that it is all coming back to me and I actually feel pretty confident navigating the labyrinthian lab layout and doing routine cell culture.
I also have my own stock of HBVPs in the Stem Cell lab. As you can see they are quite spindly and form little ‘star clusters’ as they grow:
Brightfield Microscope image of HBVP cells (P5 – passage no. 5). These cells were passaged on 9/9/21.
These cells grow in Complete Pericyte Medium (CPM) – Pericyte Medium supplemented with FBS, Antibiotics and Growth Supplements. When keeping a lab journal, it is important to record the Lot no. for all items. This allows researchers to track any variations between batches. It is also vital to record the opening date.
Complete Pericyte Medium – prepared on 9/9/21
The HBVPs grow in standard T75 Tissue Culture flasks in 15mL of CPM (with cell type, passage number, date of passage and researcher initials listed on the vessel).
HBVP cells (P4 – passage 4) in T75 Flask.
As part of the experimentation process, I prepared three 90mm glass Petri dishes.
I engraved the base of two dishes with a ripple pattern to see if the engraving would impact on the growth/adherence of the cells. Inspired by the awesome work of Whitefeather Hunter (and my previous collaborative work with sigils), one of these dishes also had an engraved symbol to aid protection from accidents.
As you can see below, the engraving looks quite rugged and sharp as it was done by hand. I am curious to see if the cells will grow on this area.
Brightfield microscope image of the engraved glass.
To sterilise the dishes for cell culture, they are placed into paper autoclave bags and sealed with autoclave tape. They are then placed into an autoclave that steam sterilises the vessels at high temperature. The black lines on the tape indicate that the process was successful and the correct temperature was reached.
Single Petri dish in autoclave bag – dated 26/8/21
Most cells do not adhere well to untreated plastic or glass surfaces. As such we added a Poly-L-lysine coating to aid cell adherence.
The Poly-L-lysine solution was diluted with sterile H2O to make up 30mL total (10mL for each Petri Dish).
10mL of the Poly-L-lysine solution was added to each dish and then incubated for an hour.
After an hour, I removed the Poly-L-lysine solution and washed each dish twice with sterile H2O. I passaged (split) the HBVPs and added approx 1 million cells (in 1mL media) to each Petri Dish and one T75 Flask (plus 14mL media). | <urn:uuid:8a893263-a478-4448-b042-7e80eb8d11db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kratz2021.blog.anat.org.au/tag/consumables/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940636 | 637 | 1.5625 | 2 |
On this episode we speak with Frances Seymour, lead author of a new book Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change, which she co-authored with Jonah Busch.
Seymour argues that tropical forests are key to climate change mitigation, and that it's up to rich countries to invest in their protection. She shares her thoughts on why now is an important moment for such forests, whether or not the large-scale investment necessary to protect them will materialize any time soon, and which countries are leading the tropical forest conservation charge.
We also welcome Mongabay editor Glenn Scherer back to the program to answer a question from a Newscast listener about which 'good news' stories are worth talking about in these tough times for environmental and conservation news. Mongabay has a long and very inspiring series of stories tagged 'happy upbeat' that you can view here.
In this episode we feature Dr. Bill Laurance of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, talking about his team's work documenting the planetary infrastructure boom and the need for more positive, less 'doom and gloom' science communication, and then we welcome Dr. Michelle LaRue to the program. She is a research ecologist with the University of Minnesota’s Department of Earth Sciences, and her current work is focused on using high-resolution satellite imagery to study the population dynamics of Weddell seals in Antarctica. You have to hear these seals' calls to believe them!
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On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with Leah Barclay, a sound artist, acoustic ecologist, and researcher with Griffith University in South East Queensland, Australia. We discuss the ever broadening field of acoustic ecology, the many ways that marine bioacoustics is growing in importance, and she describes the new spectrogram app she's developing plus the creative ways she uses her interactive soundscape art to get kids excited about engaging with nature via hydrophones connected to cell phones. Plus we round up the week's top news and hear some of her recordings of marine life, ranging from whales to shrimp and even insects.
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Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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Scholars, historians, and archivists speak about their experiences working in archives and with archival materials, specifically negro, black, and African American records. W. Augustus Low speaks about his experience working in archives and with archivists as well as his work with the Freedmen Bureau records, and researching Civil Rights and Anthon...
Conference. Part of Conference Recordings. AV003052: part 1, dated 19730603. AV003539: part 2, dated 19730603. AV000825: part 3, dated 19730603 and 19730604. AV000813: part 4, dated 19730605. AV003048: part 5, dated 19730605. AV003072: part 6, dated 19730605. Presentations often continue onto the following recording. | <urn:uuid:9224f654-7416-4b3a-996e-9f84af5f91c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sova.si.edu/search/ark:/65665/qa7604bd4c9365f4bb8843e2b6bb09282ae | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.919774 | 253 | 1.875 | 2 |
At the seventh edition of the Veronafiere-American Institute of Architects (AIA) Continuing Education Seminar on stone, which is sponsored by Stone World Magazine, architects from the U.S. and abroad underwent an intensive four-day learning experience in Verona, Italy. The education session combined classroom seminars and site visits on the processing of stone and specific architectural applications. On the opening day of the program, the architects got a first-hand look at all of the steps taken to create the stonework for the new Banco Popolare project in Verona.
From there, the tour moved to the next session, “Stone Processing: Sawing, Resin Process, Finishing.†First, the architects visited a marble gangsawing operation to learn how blocks are processed into raw slabs, and then they visited a plant for polishing and applying resin to stone slabs.
Veronafiere, an AIA CES provider and member of the Marble Institute of America, accepts a total of 15 U.S. architects each year for this program. Architects compete for scholarships that cover tuition, meals, hotel accommodations and local transportation. Each participant is responsible for their own transportation between the U.S. and Verona as well as an administrative fee of $350. | <urn:uuid:faa6c113-949f-4311-9039-e73a1bce6ec6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stoneworld.com/articles/84338-architects-study-at-the-source | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.933924 | 267 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Join this free 1 hour workshop to learn about stress and how to deal with it through very simple and practical breathing techniques! The No Stress Breathing workshop is a fun introduction workshop that helps you to eliminate stress, handle negative emotions, increase focus and concentration, and relax. For a bit of background, take a […]
Deze workshop is helaas komen te vervallen.
If you’re looking to spice up your debate skills, public speaking skills, or just the way to argue convincingly with the world around you, come attend the SG debate workshop! For beginners and moderately experienced debaters. Debate trainers from the Leiden Debating Union have been invited to give an interactive workshop with lots of opportunity […]
Seasonal and Local Cooking, a Sustainable cooking workshop It’s all about good food, good friends, and good ideas — and we’ve got all you need in order to get started. During the cooking workshop we focus on local and seasonal food and you’ll learn how to prepare it to make dinner a delicious experience. The […]
Being an outspoken, confident, and skilled speaker with solid arguments is not something you can do without practice. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced debater, come join our debate skills workshop in the Library to test your abilities and learn from the best. Please register for the workshop on the Facebook event page. It’s […]
(note: THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED) Next session in the continuing meditation/yoga series. Free for students and staff. This session will take place in the Dijkstrazaal at the EWI building.
This is part of a weekly series of yoga/meditation sessions co-organized by Studium Generale. In a small, quiet setting in the Snijderszaal at the EWI building during lunch break, PhD student and meditation trainer Rajat Bharadwaj leads a short but revitalizing workshop to share simple yoga and meditation techniques. Participation is free for students and […]
Are you a fantastic artist? Or a hopeless beginner? No matter your skill level, drop by the Cartoon Workshop to get some tips from a real comics artist and have fun while you get creative! After a short introduction by Stephan Timmers, former cartoonist for the TU Delta and owner of Total Shot Productions, each […] | <urn:uuid:c04af362-517e-4f84-823a-24cc157d35c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sg.tudelft.nl/event-category/workshop/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.911882 | 486 | 1.539063 | 2 |
We are back! This is Sean. And we are going to revel in the excitement, eagerness and enthusiasm in our HHIA relationships.
Like magnetes we are attracted to those who are different from ourselves. Actually, this is essentially always true, because no matter how similar we are to our partners, we are in relationship with another being. Others catch our eye, whether in pictures or in person, through a look, a gesture, or, perhaps, an attitude. And, we do the same to others.
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”Gloria Steinem
Initially the attraction can feel like electricity or butterflies and as we get closer the feeling of attraction and bond tend to grow. As we learn and experience more and more about our partners, we begin to appreciate and look forward to even more. This is the natural progressive cycle of anticipation & interest and fulfillment & pleasure. Simultaneously, this cycle can occur in the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual aspects of our relationships and experience.
As our bonds become stronger and our knowledge and understanding of one another increases, we are able to express and experience even greater levels of pleasure and delight through our relationship. In other words, like a transistor which starts with a spark, warms up and increases through the development of an electronic field, our relationships often start with a spark, warm up and increase through a give and take and the development of an intellectual, emotional, physical and even a spiritual environment which encourages all partners to enjoy themselves and each other.
Ultimately, this environment and situation transforms into our lives and our HHIA relationships become a central aspect. Unfortunately, the initial spark and newness of our experiences can fall prey to our daily lives, routines, practices habits, and schedules. These tend to separate, lower our energy, attractions and connections to our both our partners and ourselves. Through ritual, romance and humor we can avoid this and encourage each other to pursue greater enthusiasm and elation.
A few examples which can be enjoyed together include:
- Making time just to be together
- Sharing an activity or hobby regularly
- Going for a walk
- Enjoying a meal
- Having a conversation about something that interests you
- Listening to music
- Reading the same book
- In non-pandemic times:
- Exploring new places/spaces
- Going out (to dinner or on the town)
“Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.”Nathaniel Branden, The Psychology of Romantic Love
Making plans and scheduling time for each other encourages us to think about and look forward to being together. On the one hand, we have reserved time to be together. On the other hand, we are creating a space where we can enjoy our company and companionship. This is much more thrilling than going through our days and passing one another on our way to work, doing errands, etc.
Essentially, making the effort and expressing interest and an eagerness to enjoy our partner’s company encourages them to do and feel similarly. Exploring and recognizing how our dates, partners, and spouses respond to our ideas, suggestions and plans can elevate our ability to find where, when and how we can best enjoy each other. This is also true of our physical expressions of affection and attractions. Meeting our partners needs and desires while expressing our own needs and desires with openness and attention can greatly increase our potential for everyone’s pleasure.
That never stops. That’s what drives you: the joy and excitement of doing what you love.Jerry Lewis
This is Sean. Try enjoying yourself (and those who are important to you) this week and see what happens.
.(You can always contact me for more concrete suggestions.)
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|N. 35° W.||4½||mes. to the lower pt. of a Island, haveing passed the Isld.
on which we [camped?) & a large Sand bar from the
|N. 70° W.||2||mes. to the head of the Island on the L. S. of it|
|N. 45 W.||3||mes. to a pt. on the L. S. below an Island (1)|
|N. 50 W.||2||mes. to the upper pt. of an Isd. on the S. S. passed one
on the L. S. ops: to which L. S. opsd. at ¼ of me. is a Vil-
lage of littl dogs
|West||4 ½||mes.to a pt. on the S.S. passed an Island on the S S. just
above the last. Several Sand bars.
we came too at the mouth of a Creek on the L. S. at Dark in a heavy Shower of rain, it Continued to rain the greater part of the night, with a hard wind from the N W Cold—
Septr. 11th Tuesday 1804 Set out early a Cloudy morning the river verry wide from one hill to the other, with many Sand bars passed the Isd. on which we lay at a mile passed three Isds. one on the L. S. (¼ of a mile from it on the L. S. a village of little Dogs. I Killed four, this village is 800 yards wide & 970 yds. long on a jentle Slope of a hill in a plain, those animals are noumerous) the other two Islands are on the S. S. the river is verry Shallow & wide, the [boat?] got a ground Several times— The man G Shannon, who left us with the horses above the Mahar Village, and beleving us to be a head pushed on as long as he Could, joined us he Shot away what fiew Bullets he had with him, and in a plentifull Countrey like to have Starvd. he was 〈9〉 12 days without provision, Subsisting on Grapes at the Same [time?] the Buffalow, would Come within 30 yards of his Camp, one of his horses gave out & he left him before his last belluts were Consumed— I saw 3 large Spoted foxes to day a black tailed Deer, & Killed a Buck elk & 2 Deer, one othr Elk 2 Deer & a Porkipine Killed to day at 12 oclock it became Cloudy and rained all the after noon, & night.
|N. 35° W.||4 ½||mes. to the lower pt. of an Island, passed the Isd. on which
|N. 70° W.||2||mes. to the head of the Island on its L. S.|
|N. 45° W.||3||mes. to a pt. on the L S. below an Island (1)|
|N. 50° W.||2||mes. to the upper pt of an Island on the S. S. passed one
on the L. S. opsd. to which at ¼ of a mile is a Village of the
Barking Squirel L. S
|West||4 ½||mes. to a pt. on the S. S. passed an Isd. on the S. S. just
above the one mentioned in the last Course. 11th.
Sept. 11th Tuesday 1804
a cloudy morning, Set out verry early, the river wide & Shallow the bottom narrow, & the river Crouded with Sand bars, passed the Island on which we lay at one mile—, pased three Islands one on the L. S. and 2 on the S. S. opposit the Island on the L. S. I Saw a village of Barking Squriel 970 yds. long, and 800 yds. wide Situated on a gentle Slope of a hill, those anamals are noumerous, I killed 4 with a view to have their Skins Stufed.
here the man who left us [NB: George Shannon ] with the horses 22 [NB: 16] days ago [NB: He started 26 Augt.] and has been a head ever Since joined, us nearly Starved to Death, he had been 12 days without any thing to eate but Grapes & one Rabit, which he Killed by shooting a piece of hard Stick in place of a ball—. This man Supposeing the boat to be a head pushed on as long as he Could, when he became weak and fiable deturmined to lay by and waite for a tradeing boat, which is expected Keeping one horse for the last resorse,— thus a man had like to have Starved to death in a land of Plenty for the want of Bulletes or Something to kill his meat we Camped on the L. S. above the mouth of a run a hard rain all the after noon, & most of the night, with hard wind from the N W. I walked on Shore the fore part of this day over Some broken Country which Continus about 3 miles back & then is leavel & rich all Plains, I saw Several foxes & Killed a Elk & 2 Deer. & Squirels the men with me killed an Elk, 2 Deer & a Pelican
Tuesday 11th Sept. 1804. we Set off eairly Sailed on to the head of the Isl. Capt. Clark myself and 2 more walked on Shore S. S. I killed a verry large porkapine put it on board the pearogue. Capt. Clark killed a Buck Elk a deer & a deer faun. G. Gibson killed Buck Elk a deer & faun also.— Saved the Skins & the best of the meat &.C. the Boat Sailed on passed Several Islands & Small runs, at each side.— I walked a long the S Shore See a high red hill. I climbed up to the top which is verry Seep on 2 Sides & about 150 feet high. I Saw 16 Bull Buffalow in the vally to the W. Side, rained hard. I amed to keep my rifle dry. I went around the gang of Buffaloe, crept near them as they were feeding, with their heads towards me as I was a watching them to get one side ways one of them discovered me I kept Still had on a red Shirt he looked at me, & walked up near to me. I was obledged to Shoot, at his head. as I shot him in the head among the long hair he turned & run off. the gang ran a Short distance & went to feeding, rained So hard my gun got wet loading, & I returned over mountains & rough hills & Gullies &.C. &.C. George Shannon who had been absent with the horses 16 days joined the boat about one oclock. he informed us that the reason of his keeping on so long was that he see some tracks which must have been Indians. he to[ok] it to [be] us and kept on, his bullets he Shot all away & he was with out any thing to eat for about 12 days except a fiew Grapes, he had left one of the horses behind, as he Gave out, only one horse with him he had gave up the idea of finding our boat & was returning down the river in hopes to meet Some other Boat, he was near killing the horse to Satisfy hunger, &C. &.C— he Shot a rabit with Sticks which he cut & put in his gun after his Balls were gone. he had been 2 days walk abov this &.C. See a village of little Dogs in the four part of the day We passed Some Timber on the Islands and points. none at all back on the mountains.— rained hard till late in the evening we Camped on S. S. near a line of dark Bluffs.
Tuesday 11th. We set sail before day light with a fair wind; passed an island covered with timber, and high hills and prairie on both sides of the river. At 1 o'clock it began to rain. We saw some person coming down the river on horseback, when we came to land and found it was the man who had preceded us with the horses. He had left one of the horses that had failed. We now had only one horse left. This man had been absent 16 days, and his bullets being expended, he subsisted 12 days almost wholly on grapes. The hills here come close to the river on both sides. One of the men went by land with the horse, and we continued our voyage, until night, though it rained very hard; and encamped on the south side. Captain Clarke with two or three of the men who had gone out to hunt, killed two elk, four deer and one porcupine.
Tuesday 11th Sept. 1804. Set out an eairly hour Clear morning & fare wind. proceeded on passed an Isld. covd with timber. high hills and prarie Saw a man coming down to the bank horseback near. we came to Shore and found it was Shannon that had been with the horses. he had been absent 16 days and 12 of them he had Eat nothing but Grapes. the reason was his balls ran Short. the hills commenced close on both Sides of the river. Capt. Clark, Sergt. Ordway & Sergt. Pryor went out to hunt this morning [came] to us heree. had killed 2 Elk 4 Deer and one porkapine one of the horses which Shannon had with him Gave out & he left him 7 days ago. we proceeded on rained verry hard passed black bluffs on the S. S. R. Fields went with the horse as we have only the one now the rain continued untill 7 oClock in the evening. Camped on the South Side.—
Tuesday September 11th We set out this morning at an early hour, with a fair wind & pleasant weather; and proceeded sailing on. we passed an Island, which was cover'd with Timber, and a Priari, having some high hills on it.— We passed on, and saw a Man coming down to the Bank of the River on horse back; We put the Boat to the shore, and found it was the Man, (Shannon) who had been missing, and was with the horses, he had been absent 16 days, 12 of which; he had nothing to subsist on but Grapes, the reason of which was, that his Balls had given out, The hills at this place ran close to the River, on both sides of it; Captain Clark & 2 Serjeants who had went out a hunting, early this morning; came to us here, They had with them 2 Elk, 4 deer and a porcupine which they had killed. One of the horses which Shannon had with him, had gave out, and he had left him 7 days before he joind us, We proceeded on & it began to rain very hard, and passed some black bluffs, lying on the South side of the River.— The Rain continued untill 7 o'Clock in the evening. We sent one Man with the horse (the only one that we had left) to go along the shore and we encamped on the South side of the River.— | <urn:uuid:979c8eb4-b76a-49bd-91f3-7edef00e6673> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-09-11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979829 | 2,490 | 1.5 | 2 |
This year’s Saint Lucia Jounen Kwéyòl activities were some of the best planned and well attended in recent times.
The host communities were Vieux Fort in the South, Babonneau in the North, Marigot in the West and Dennery in the East. The cultural showcases embodied all that is Kwéyòl. From the food to the music, the celebration paid respect to the culture of the past, which helped define who we are today.
I spent the majority of October 29th, 2017 in the village of Dennery. The atmosphere was electrified with excitement projected by the organizers, vendors, and persons who came to enjoy all the Kwéyòl, the community had to offer. Dennery Valley, along with the Saint Lucia Folk Research Centre, themed the day as “Pwézèvé, Protéjé Èk Fòtifyé Kwéyòl-La”, which translates as Preserve, Protect and Strengthen Creole. The streets were filled with people, both local and foreigners, dressed in Kwéyòl attire, as dress is another important aspect of the culture.
Incoherence with the tradition of Jounen Kwéyòl, the booths for food and drink were made from bamboo, coconut tree leaves, and vines. The smells, sounds, and sights only encouraged joy and evoked good spirits.
In one area, a stage was set up where singers and dancers, male and female, put on a display of traditional song and dance, reminiscent of a time where we were forging our own identity. The crowd was elated and many people sang and danced along to the music. In the vicinity, there was a room dedicated to artifacts used during the old days. How they were used was explained and shown. The room was crowded with enthusiastic young people intrigued by a variety of tools and household appliances on display.
Bamboo bursting is a traditional pass time of the youth and captivated many of the children who were being exposed to it directly, for the first time at Jounen Kwéyòl. Ovens made from old barrels, metal and clay as used in the past, baked Creole bread. The ovens are called Fou in Creole. Many people stood uneasily with anticipation as an elderly man stood on an elevated giant log to cut wood in the old fashion.
Locally made juices, rum and food was by far the star of the Jounen Kwéyòl activities. Saint Lucians love food and drink. Most of our gatherings involve these staples. As expected, there was great food which everyone seemed to be enjoying. Many of these meals are primarily prepared around this time every year and can definitely be called delicacies.
Jounen Kwéyòl is a special celebration many St. Lucians look forward to every year. Next year’s activities will be just as grand. If you missed this one, try not to miss next year. I didn’t get to really visit the other communities but from what I was told they were just as culturally exhilarating as Dennery.
I captured the day with many photos that are attached to this article. They will take you back to the experience.
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Imatinib-induced pleural effusion: A case reportR Banka, Z Udwadia
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address: Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.194227
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Imatinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and has rarely been reported to cause pleural effusion. We report the case of an 88-year-old male, known case of gastrointestinal stromal tumor on treatment with imatinib, who presented with a 2-week history of cough and dyspnea. He was diagnosed to have a right-sided pleural effusion and thoracentesis of the fluid revealed an exudate with low adenosine deaminase and negative cytology. Withdrawal of the drug lead to resolution of symptoms. We report this case to highlight the side effect profile of imatinib and warn physicians regarding this potential adverse effect which may be mistaken for metastasis or infection.
Keywords: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor, imatinib, pleural effusion, tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Imatinib mesylate is a small molecule inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases and selectively prevents phosphorylation of BCR-ABL and inhibits downstream signaling and growth of BCR-ABL-positive cells. It was first approved for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in 2001 and for the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) in 2003. This revolutionized the treatment of CML with more than 90% patients remaining stable in the past 5 years. ,
Imatinib is associated with various adverse effects which include cardiovascular side effects such as edema, anasarca, pericardial, or pleural effusion and rarely cardiac failure. Fatigue is seen in 20%-75% patients. Other side effects include dizziness, headache, insomnia, and depression. Skin rash, pruritus, and dermatitis have also been reported. Gastrointestinal side effects include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Although pleural effusions have been reported with imatinib, it is a rare side effect. , We present a case of imatinib-associated pleural effusion for its rarity and its potential to be overlooked by physicians.
An 88-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of gradually progressive breathlessness and dry cough. There was no associated fever, loss of weight, or appetite. He denied any edema of the feet and orthopnea.
His history was remarkable for hypertension and coronary artery bypass grafting done 8 years ago. He was diagnosed with GIST 4 months ago when he presented with gastric discomfort and a computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen showed a 12 cm × 11 cm × 8.5 cm posterior mediastinal mass. A subsequent endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy showed tumor cells positive for C-Kit and DOG-1. He was commenced on tablet imatinib 400 mg/day for his GIST, but after 1 month of the treatment, he began to complain of breathlessness on exertion. He was a lifelong nonsmoker. There was no history of tuberculosis or tuberculosis contact.
On examination, he was mildly tachycardic with a pulse rate of 90/min. His blood pressure was normal and jugular venous pressure was not raised. He had no pallor, icterus, cyanosis, clubbing, lymphadenopathy, or pedal edema. His respiratory system examination revealed diminished breath sounds in the right infrascapular and infraaxillary area. His abdomen was soft on palpation and no organomegaly was felt.
His complete blood count, renal function tests, and liver function tests were all normal. His transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiogram showed normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction of 55%. A chest radiograph [Figure 1] showed a right pleural effusion and high-resolution CT chest [Figure 2] showed a large right-sided pleural effusion and unchanged posterior mediastinal mass with no consolidation or lymphadenopathy.
He underwent a thoracentesis of the pleural fluid; 1100 ml was aspirated. Results of pleural fluid aspiration were: protein: 3.3 g/dl (total serum protein: 5.4 g/dl); lactate dehydrogenase (LDH): 223 IU/L (serum LDH: 280 IU/L); white blood cell count: 1040/mm 3 (50% lymphocytic); adenosine deaminase (ADA): 4.1 (normal: 0-40 U/L). His pleural fluid cytology showed lymphocyte predominance and no malignant cells. Pleural fluid aerobic and tuberculosis cultures and GeneXpert were all negative. He was diagnosed to have an exudative effusion with a low ADA. An oncologist's opinion was sought who ruled out metastasis as a cause of the effusion.
In the absence of other causes of pleural effusion, a diagnosis of imatinib-induced pleural effusion was made. Imatinib was withdrawn; the patient gradually improved and a repeat chest X-ray at 3 months poststoppage of drug showed complete resolution and no refilling of the fluid [Figure 3]. The patient declined any further treatment for his GIST and was not put on any other medication. He remains under regular chest radiograph and sonography follow-up over 1 year and has no recurrence of his effusion.
Drug-related pleural disease is rare although many commonly used drugs are known to affect the pleura.
Imatinib-induced fluid retention is a common adverse effect and one of the important dose-limiting toxicities. Specifically, fluid retention manifests as edema in periorbital regions, lower extremities, and/or body in approximately 80% patients which is usually mild and manageable. Severe fluid retention resulting in generalized edema (anasarca), ascites, pleural, or pericardial effusions is rare and seen in around 2% of GIST patients and hence poorly studied. Two distinct types or courses of pleural effusion are seen: (1) acute/progressive fluid formation that occurs early after drug initiation or dose escalation and (2) intermittent/steady fluid formation with mild, occasional, or persistent fluid formation. , Imatinib-induced pleural effusion appears to be dose dependent, with higher incidence in patients treated with 400 mg twice a day. ,
The mechanism of imatinib-induced pleural effusion is poorly understood. The suggested mechanism is probably related to kinase inhibition: imatinib potently inhibits platelet-derived growth factor receptor-b which is expressed in pericytes and is involved in the regulation of angiogenesis. Imatinib can also induce cardiotoxicity which can range from asymptomatic LV dysfunction to congestive heart failure. Hence, it should be ruled out in any patient who presents with breathlessness on imatinib therapy.
While pleural effusion due to imatinib therapy is rare, it is commonly seen in patients treated with dasatinib which is a potent oral second-line BCR/ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor. In a review of 915 chronic phase, CML patients previously treated with imatinib or dasatinib or both, 30% of patients treated with dasatinib had a history of pleural or pericardial effusions, whereas only 2% of patients treated with imatinib developed effusions.
Treatment of tyrosine kinases induced pleural effusion includes therapy interruption, drug dose reduction, steroids, and diuretics and only in a few severe instances, therapeutic thoracentesis. With adequate management and monitoring of patients with predisposing factors, the majority of them can continue therapy with the drug, even if this complication occurs.
Thus, in conclusion, any new pleural effusion should not be mistakenly interpreted as a sign of metastases or worsening tumor, especially when the primary malignancy is stable. For best patient care in the era of molecular-targeted therapeutic agents, a multidisciplinary approach with close collaboration between oncologists and radiologists is essential to assess treatment response as well as toxicity of tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
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WHAT's GOING AROUND: Protection against diphtheria is important part of vaccinations (column)
Getting up-to-date vaccinations are one of the things on the agenda for those getting ready for school. One of those vaccinations is against diphtheria. Since this illness is infrequently seen in this country, a description of the illness seems warranted.
Diphtheria is caused by Cornebacterium diptheriae. A gram positive (purple staining) rod, its name comes from Greek. Korynee refers to the clubbed ends of the bacteria; diphtheria means leather hide. The leather hide is the hallmark of the illness. It forms on the back of the throat.
After an incubation period of two to four days, local signs and symptoms occur in the respiratory tract. Sometimes the infection causes only a nasal discharge and symptoms are mild.
The most common site for clinical diphtheria is the mouth and upper throat. It begins suddenly with low-grade fever, malaise, sore throat, redness and a thick membrane. The membrane usually begins on the tonsils then spreads to the throat and mouth. Initially white, it becomes a dusty gray color with patches of black and green.
This is associated with severe malaise, weakness and neck swelling. Breathing impairment can be caused by the edema (swelling).
The membranes may spread to involve the larynx (voice box). Severe respiratory compromise may happen. The patient may require intubation and placement on a ventilator.
The toxins produced by diphtheria are strong. Inflammation of the heart muscle occurs in two out of three of individuals affected; 10 percent to 25 percent have clinically noticeable problems. This occurs one to two weeks after the clinical respiratory disease. Death may occur from the inflammation of the heart muscles.
Neurological toxicity occurs in up to three-fourths of those with severe disease. Paralysis of muscle prevents swallowing and problems with the nerves of the face and throat. Late neurological illness resulting in paralysis of all muscle groups may occur up to three months late.
Mortality is 3 1/2 percent to 12 percent.
During the first half of the 20th century, it was a worldwide health problem. Public health measures ensuring vaccinations to most have brought the illness under control. Since 1990, the epidemic form has reemerged in the Soviet Union where failure to immunize has occurred.
Diagnosis is made by growing the bacteria on special agar in the lab. There is also a special fluorescent stain that can be done directly on the throat or nasal secretions.
An antitoxin produced in horses remains the basis of therapy. It must be given before the toxin enters the cells. If someone is allergic to horse serum, they must be desensitized before the antitoxin is given. Antibiotics are given to stop the production of further toxin, stop local infection and prevent spread to others. Supportive care is also important.
Because of the severity of the illness, everyone needs primary immunization followed by boosters on a regular basis to prevent the illness.
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He Who Had Everything
Loving Father, my first glimpse of today is a reminder of Your faithfulness. You are with me as I wake. Thank You.
Read MARK 10:17–31
17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”
20 “Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”
21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22 At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, “Who then can be saved?”
27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
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“The rich man missed the eternal life he requested and wished to earn his own salvation. The disciples received it by coming to Jesus in the gracious way that he asked, allowing the things of earth to matter less to them than Jesus and the gospel” (Darrell Bock).
With the extensive concerns over the financial crises of recent years, it would not be difficult to conclude that our societies worship the god of money. Like many Christians, though, the man who came to Jesus was torn between a desire to follow the one, true God and the enticing lure of the gods of wealth. He goes from devotion to disappointment in the space of five verses, as his apparent hopes of following both paths are dashed.
All who were wealthy in Palestine would be treated with suspicion by peasants because it was not untypical that wealth would be gained from the exploitation of the poor. Jesus’ emphasis on the second half of the Ten Commandments may similarly point to problems in interpersonal relationships, as previous passages have also emphasized. Indeed, Jesus’ specific command to “give to the poor” (21) again suggests a focused response for the benefit of those in need. However, this is not giving without hope of return: the Jesus way brings us into a community of new relationships, through which we gain so much more than we have given.
But will we count the cost? Following Jesus along “his way” (17) leads ultimately to Jerusalem and the cross. There, we must abandon the things that make us powerful, self-sufficient and wedded to the ways of this world. Jesus has already said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me” (Mark 8:34). It is ironic that the one man in Mark’s Gospel who shows such godly desire, and for whom Jesus declares love, is the one who rejects him. His wealth only serves to bring him sorrow (22). Is wealth getting in the way of us following Jesus?
Give something, however little, to someone who needs it today. In doing so, declare to yourself and to God that wealth will not stop you from following Jesus.
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Photo Mick Tsikas/AAP.
4 June 2020.
The intricacies of climate change policy have not been front of mind for the Australian government this last half year, but the issue is now back on the agenda. Yesterday a review chaired by energy industry executive Grant King into new low-cost sources of emissions reduction was released. The government has accepted many of its recommendations.
Federal energy minister Angus Taylor says the changes create new ways to reduce emissions across the industrial, manufacturing, transport and agriculture sectors.
The package spells a broadening of existing mechanisms and may open the door to some better outcomes. But the existing climate policy patchwork remains deeply inadequate, and in practice the changes may do little more than channel government funding to industry.
The role of carbon capture & storage
In line with the review’s recommendation, the government’s emissions reduction fund will be extended to projects using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
CCS involves capturing carbon dioxide from sources such as power stations, gas plants or cement plants and pumping it underground. It tends to be technically difficult and costly per unit of tonne of emissions saved, and usually does not capture all of the emissions.
The Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) has been the government’s primary climate policy mechanism. It gives subsidies to projects that are deemed to reduce carbon emissions – to date, mainly in agriculture and forestry. The policy is vastly less effective and efficient than the carbon pricing mechanism it replaced in 2014.
The obvious criticism is that extending government support to CCS locks in some fossil fuel use, when Australia has great opportunities to put our energy system on a zero-emissions footing using cheap renewable energy.
However, in the path to decarbonising Australia’s economy, the technology may well have a role in some industrial applications such as cement production and natural gas processing. In principle it makes sense to include any technology in a policy mechanism, as long as it is cost-competitive.
The emissions reduction fund currently pays companies about A$16 for every tonne of carbon dioxide presumed to be reduced.
In practice, carbon capture and storage projects in Australia would require far more to be economically feasible. This is because the additional cost per tonne of carbon dioxide removed is usually far higher than in typical agriculture and forestry projects. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy, or saving energy through better efficiency, is typically also far cheaper than cutting emissions through CCS.
So on present settings, where all project types receive the same rate of subsidy, including CCS might be mostly just a nod to the relevant interest groups. Methodologies for establishing and monitoring projects would be established by the bureaucracy but it seems unlikely that many projects would happen.
Energy technology support
The King review also calls for expanding the remit of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to make them “technology neutral”, so the agencies could support technologies across all sectors of the economy.
This implies expanding ARENA’s research and development activities, and the CEFC’s project finance, to the transport and industry sectors. These are the next big areas for decarbonisation after electricity, and it makes sense to channel resources into them.
A “technology neutral” approach could include carbon capture and storage. ARENA and CEFC make their own decisions about their investments within a broad mandate by government. It is important this remains so, allowing the most promising technologies to be supported, irrespective of the apparent preferences by government for fossil fuel-based technologies.
Broadening the ERF
The review recommends other changes to broaden the ERF, including to make it easier for smaller projects in agriculture and forestry to participate. This may have been prompted by the fact that the last two ERF auctions resulted in only a small number of projects and small volume of contracted emissions reductions.
This change may get extra projects over the line. But it does not fix the fundamental problem with the ERF, or its successor the Climate Solutions Fund.
The scheme pays businesses, in the form of credits, when they take steps to reduce emissions relative to a hypothetical baseline. Since it is generally impossible to know whether a company’s action to reduce emissions would have happened anyway, we can’t know to what extent claimed reductions are real. Despite elaborate estimation methodologies, the fundamental problem remains.
Under an effective and efficient climate policy framework, the ERF would either not exist or have a relatively minor role. But Australia is a long way from effective and efficient climate policy.
Softly, softly towards carbon trading?
Under the government’s Safeguard Mechanism, a company emitting carbon emissions beyond its baseline is required to buy emissions reductions credits to cover the excess.
But in practice, the baselines are set so high that projects rarely reach them, and those that do receive exemptions.
The new recommendation, accepted by the government, is to give emissions credits to companies that stay below their baselines, if it was the result of investment in “transformative” emissions-saving measures. This would create an incentive to do better, rather than just the existing, muted incentive not to do worse than a very unambitious standard.
The question is, who would buy these credits? The review suggests the government, or companies that exceed their baselines, might buy them. The former would expand the subsidy approach to emissions cuts even further. This is quite unnecessary: private money in industry is available for relevant investments if the right incentives or regulations are in place.
But what holds promise is if companies emitting over their baselines have to buy credits from companies that operate below the baseline.
That would create a form of carbon trading. There would be a market price for emissions in industry, and companies would move towards establishing cost-effective measures to curb emissions. There would be no money flowing to or from government, as trades would be only between companies.
The safeguard mechanism was originally designed with this possibility in mind, and perhaps now the door is opening a fraction.
But to create real demand for emissions credits, and a meaningful price on emissions in industry, emissions baselines would have to be drastically lowered and no more exemptions granted. Companies running old, inefficient equipment, of which there are many in Australia, would be put on the spot.
Given the government’s deep aversion to carbon pricing, and the likely opposition by some industry players, this is perhaps more pious hope than imminent prospect.
At least for now, we will probably only see a government-funded carrot given to some, and no stick. Government handouts to individual companies will continue to be the measure of Australia’s climate policy.
In these times of dramatic fiscal spending, sending a few more billion dollars of public money to businesses to subsidise new equipment may not seem a big deal. But one day, all that money needs to be recouped through taxation. It will then be obvious that industry should have been required to spend its own funds to cut emissions, and that a comprehensive market mechanism would have led to more efficient and productive investment choices.
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Progressive fishers decried what they called “fascism in the sea.”
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A reclamation project threatens to bring loss of livelihood and homes to Navotas fisherfolk.
New DENR Order: A ‘Recipe for Destruction’ Fishers group to stage nationwide fluvial protest vs order opening coastal areas to investors
Leaders of the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) vowed to launch a nationally-coordinated fluvial protest on Feb. 24 against a new order from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) allowing the 25-year lease of idle coastal areas all over the country to big investors. By Gerry Albert Corpuz… | <urn:uuid:a33a378f-be94-4ab0-88f9-9cf5963e8811> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bulatlat.com/tag/pambansang-lakas-ng-kilusang-mamamalakaya-ng-pilipinas-pamalakaya/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.83471 | 190 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Rocket development gets a 'colossal' boost
|The Colossus test stand on display at the International Space Development Conference in May. Photo courtesy of SEDS at UC San Diego.|
San Diego, CA, June 22, 2018 --The University of California San Diego’s chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) conducted a successful live fire test of its static rocket engine test stand, Colossus, in the Mojave Desert on June 16.
The undergraduate students decided to develop Colossus when they ran into a roadblock in 2016 as they built the first rocket powered by a 3D-printed engine: it was difficult to test the engine of the rocket in a rapid, realistic, relatively inexpensive way. They didn’t want to launch the rocket, since that would mean they could no longer iterate on its design, but testing in a lab setting wouldn’t provide sufficient information to ensure the engine would work as planned. What they needed was a static fire test stand that puts the engine through the full process of a launch, but while bolted to the ground.
The problem? There was only one of these rocket engine test stands available for use at an academic institution—Purdue University—but that had a long waiting list and was more expensive than the students could afford.
So, with support from NASA, they built their own.
“The big idea for this test system is to make getting to space and space research more accessible to people who don’t have a massive $19 billion budget,” said Jack Najarian, a third year electrical engineering student at the Jacobs School of Engineering and president of SEDS at UC San Diego.
SEDS championed and developed the static rocket engine test stand, and had a successful first live fire test at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry test site in the Mojave Desert on June 16. SEDS’ own 3-D printed rocket engine, Ignus-II, was the engine tested. Ignus-II has more thrust and a more efficient cooling system than its predecessor Ignus-I, the first 3D-printed engine launched by a student organization.
After recognizing this testing accessibility void in the market and wanting to create a system to solve their testing needs as well as those of other student groups and academic research teams, the Colossus students worked closely with NASA to define the technical guidelines for such a system. NASA also awarded the group a $100,000 grant to build the Colossus test system, and has actively participated throughout the three-year design and build process. Over those three years, roughly 60 undergraduate students have contributed to the rocket engine test stand.
The Colossus system accommodates a wide range of engine designs, and is equipped with an exchangeable engine interface and a versatile, dual-cryogenic fluid system to make that possible. A blast shield protects the intricate electronics and plumbing from the blast of the engine.
During a test, the engine being tested never leaves the ground, but undergoes the same process it will when it’s actually launched. Pressure, temperature, thrust and force are measured at ultra-high speed and accuracy with live data viewing available. The system is housed in a mobile trailer to transport it to the Friends of Amateur Rocketry’s designated safe testing site in the Mojave Desert, where its steel boots get bolted down to concrete to ensure the engine stays static. The Colossus system is capable of running several tests in one day.
“That’s pretty much what this whole project is about—to provide the community of rocket propulsion researchers and developers with the ability to be able to validate their ideas in a really rapid manner,” said Dennis Ren, a fourth year electrical engineering student at UC San Diego and the Colossus project manager.
3, 2, 1…troubleshoot
The process leading up to the successful hot fire was a nail-biter. The SEDS team drove the Colossus system to the desert on Friday, June 15, and spent Saturday morning running the system through a pre-test checklist. All systems were go at 3 pm, but an ignitor failure meant the propellant would not light, and the first attempt was a bust.
The electronics team, led by UC San Diego student Matt Santos, diagnosed the problem and, after several attempts, jerry-rigged a solution. Time for take two.
Preparations were made for the second attempt, but this time there was a failure caused by the solution to the ignitor failure problem.
“By the time we had our second failure, it was already 9:30 pm,” said Ren. “We were running very low on propellants and were approaching the end of the testing window at 10 pm. The team's morale was hurting. The test leaders in the bunker quickly assessed the situation and decided to gather resources to give it a final pursuit.”
The team reconsolidated propellants and gases, reinstalled the ignitor and reprogrammed the test procedure within 30 minutes. Then, it was 3, 2, 1….
“When the timer hit zero, sparks started to come out of the engine, then a beautiful, sustained engine flame louder than anything we've heard. It was a success, and the team cheered our hearts out. We were screaming, jumping, yelling-- the joy was overwhelming. Two years of hard work finally paid off!” Ren said.
Colossus will be available to other student groups or academic researchers for a small fee to cover the cost of maintenance — on the order of $1,000 to $2,000— which is significantly less than the current cost of tens of thousands of dollars to use an existing industry test system today.
|A student welds together part of the Colossus rocket engine test stand. Photo courtesy of SEDS at UC San Diego.|
Ren said there is already interest in testing on Colossus from groups at USC, UC Irvine, Texas A&M and the University of Alabama, and SEDS is reaching out to other universities to see how Colossus could assist them with static testing.
“All the interest has been from academia because historically it has been an area that lacked affordable testing capability,” Ren said. “There are only two test stands right now – ours and one at Purdue, and Purdue is really busy and doesn’t have a lot of capacity to accommodate other schools.
“We’re building this so that we can run multiple tests on the same day, allowing people to come and go, getting their results and improving their engine designs quickly.”
For teams that want to use the testing platform, the SEDS team must first review if their engine and equipment are compatible with the system. If so, they’ll schedule a time for a test at the designated safe test site.
The team plans to keep the maintenance and management of Colossus an undergraduate-run endeavor, with a dedicated operations team devoted to ensuring successful tests for all users over the 10-year lifespan of the system.
Sponsors of the Colossus live fire test stand include NASA, Parabilis Space, the National College Resources Foundation, Ganter Instruments, Gosco Valves, Altium,OSML, Cryoquip, Virgin Orbit, Sentech Measurements, Cadence, Stainless Process Systems, IMS, Advanced Circuits, ECMS, 80/20 Inc, Najarian Trading and Reliance Metal.
|The Colossus team.|
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota. The federal government recently passed laws to ban arbitration clauses in nursing homes that receive federal funding. Many families may not even know what arbitration is before they sign a nursing home contract for their loved one. If their loved one is injured in a nursing home, an arbitration cause can have an immense impact on the family. Arbitration clauses often require families to settle lawsuits outside of court, often using judges or arbitrators selected by the nursing home. Arbitration waives the right to a jury trial, which can result in better recoveries for individuals who suffer from more serious cases of abuse. Furthermore, individuals who are required to use an arbitrator have to pay the judge, thus reducing the recovery individuals can receive to cover medical expenses and other bills. Arbitration can make it difficult for families to seek compensation for medical expenses or losses a loved one may suffer due to nursing home neglect or negligence.
According to the Star Tribune, the new federal regulations will restore the rights of thousands of Minnesota families to seek recoveries from nursing homes for nursing home abuse, neglect, and negligence. Any nursing home that receives Medicaid or Medicare money must abide by the new laws. Some who have been affected may want to speak to an illinois nursing home abuse lawyer to help their case. Even though the new rules are in effect, families should always carefully read through nursing home contracts and ask if arbitration clauses are included. It is important to understand that you are not required to sign an arbitration clause.
Attorneys, like the Law Office of Martin T. Montilino, estimate that as many as half of Minnesota’s nursing homes may use arbitration clauses. According to Consumer Reports, the new laws officially go into effect November 28th.
The hope is that the new law will protect the elderly and hold nursing homes accountable when they make serious errors or when abuse occurs. Arbitration can sometimes be done in private, while personal injury lawsuits that go through the courts go on the public record. The hope is that the new law will encourage nursing homes to protect their reputations by following the law and offering their clients a high-quality of care.
Families should know that the new law doesn’t apply to contracts signed before November 28, 2016, so it is probably wise to look over your current contract. Individuals have options if the contract has an arbitration clause. Either families can ask the nursing home to re-do the contract without the clause, or they can move their loved one to another home that will be required to abide by the new law. Nursing homes still have the right to ask families to consent to arbitration after a dispute occurs.
If your loved one has been hurt or neglected in a nursing home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a personal injury lawyer may be able to help you. Before consenting to arbitration, contact a lawyer who can review your case and offer a roadmap forward or visit https://www.martinmontilino.com/ to learn more about your options. | <urn:uuid:1266fd3c-fcef-4d9d-993b-5f9ffa6fd05e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.martinmontilino.com/personal-injury-lawyer-law-protecting-nursing-home-residents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966604 | 607 | 1.890625 | 2 |
(CNSNews.com) – Almost five years after he was last seen publicly, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made a reappearance in an online video, hailing his fighters for not giving up the remnants of the “caliphate” in Syria without a fight, and urging supporters to carry out attacks in France, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere.
The clip released Monday by an ISIS propaganda channel, Al-Furqan, shows Baghdadi sitting cross-legged in a nondescript location, and talking to several men whose faces have been blurred. An assault rifle is propped up against the wall next to him, reminiscent of numerous video and still images of Osama bin Laden during the slain al-Qaeda terrorist leader’s years as a fugitive.
Baghdadi’s beard is fuller, and in parts grayer, than the last known images of him – a filmed sermon delivered in July 2014 from the great mosque in Mosul, Iraq, in which he spoke about the declaration several days earlier of ISIS’ “caliphate.”
The clip is undated, but according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Baghdadi refers to events of recent weeks including the downfall amid protests of the long-ruling dictators of Sudan and Algeria and – in an audio segment appended near the end – the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in Sri Lanka.
Baghdadi linked the bombings of churches and hotels in three Sri Lankan cities to the loss of the final foothold of ISIS territory, Baghuz in eastern Syria, which fell in March.
(He did not, however, make any reference to the deadly mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. Sri Lankan authorities have said the Easter bombings were apparently in retaliation for that attack, although in an earlier statement claiming responsibility for the bombings, ISIS said nothing about Christchurch.)
Baghdadi said the Sri Lanka attack was but “a fraction of the revenge awaiting the crusaders” and praised Allah that Americans and Europeans were among the dead.
He also referred to dozens of attacks around the world which he said have been carried out by ISIS branches in response to the fall of territory in Syria including Baghuz.
One that he identified was a recent foiled attack in Zulfi, Saudi Arabia. Four heavily-armed terrorists were killed in the April 21 assault on a security office, Saudi state media reported at the time.
Baghdadi called for more attacks in Saudi Arabia, and said that “with Allah’s permission” the sacrifices of those killed defending ISIS-held territory in Baghuz would be avenged by “their brothers.”
He praised by name some ISIS fighters and officials, included foreigners whose nom de guerres pointed to French, Belgian, Chechen, Australian, and Iraqi origins.
Baghdadi made several references to developments in northern Africa, praising ISIS fighters for attacking a small town in central Libya last October, and calling on Allah to protect Adnan al-Sahrawi, the U.S.-designated leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, the ISIS affiliate which claimed responsibility for the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger in October 2017.
He also welcomed a pledge of allegiance from jihadists in Mali and Burkina Faso, and encouraged them “to intensify their attacks against Crusader France and its allies and to avenge their brothers in Iraq and Syria.”
(Mali and Burkina Faso are two of the five former French colonies in the Sahel where French forces are deployed to counter insurgents from ISIS and other terrorist groups.)
He turned to the recent upheavals in Sudan and Algeria, where Omar al-Bashir and Abdelaziz Bouteflika have been ousted in recent weeks.
Baghdadi said they had been replaced by rulers who are worse and more oppressive towards Muslims, and that the only way to deal with tyrants was by “waging jihad for the sake of Allah.”
Baghdadi, an Iraqi national whose real name is Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, was last heard from in audio messages posted by ISIS propaganda channels, in August 2018 and September 2017.
In mid-2017, Russia reported that it believed he may have been killed in a Russian air strike targeting a meeting of senior ISIS figures near Raqqa, then the group’s stronghold in Syria.
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Olivier Charbonneau underwent a voluntary vasectomy at the age of 27. The École du Barreau student shared his story on Facebook on the brink of the Roe v. Wade in the United States. “The men have expressed little or no opposition to the decision. I wanted to start a discussion,” he said in an interview.
Olivier’s vasectomy did not meet with unanimous approval from those around him. It’s quite a rare practice for someone so young. Only 5.2% of men who undergo the procedure are under 30 years old, according to figures from Vasectomy Quebec, a clinic specializing in this type of procedure that receives 4,000 patients a year.
Many told him he was “too young” or “will regret it,” he said in a post shared hundreds of times on Facebook this week.
“Responsibility for contraception lies not only with women, but also with us men,” he replies.
“There is also a social aspect: my future partner was able to do without chemical methods as a result. I don’t want to impose this type of contraception,” adds the young man, who wants to avoid unwanted side effects for his partners.
The silence of the men
Like millions of people around the world, Olivier was “quite shocked” by the repeal of Roe v. Wade through the US Supreme Court, a decision that now gives all states the power to ban abortion on their territory.
However, he deplores the fact that it is mostly women and very few men who have risen to express their opposition to this “retreat”.
They are rare, the men who spoke out against the event. Their reactions were almost non-existent, despite the importance of the law that had just disappeared. We have just prioritized the right of an unborn child over a woman’s right to vote.
Olivier Charbonneau, on the fall of Roe c. wade
“This right has existed here since 1989 with Daigle v. Tremble. What would happen if we lost it? It would be a clear setback. With [ma publication]I wanted to create a link to raise awareness [les gens] Alternatives to contraception. Men have an opportunity to play their part in taking responsibility for contraception. »
“Think in ultimate terms”
When he started a vasectomy last November, Olivier was prepared. He had been thinking about it since he was 24, had worked intensively on the subject and understood the risks of the operation.
“The physical impact is very small. It can only be relieved with Tylenol. And on a psychological level, it’s a decision that’s matured in my mind. It wasn’t impulsive. There was a journey, a reflection. So I had no shock, no surprise. I was more like: “I’ve finally made it!” »
Vasectomy is not the method of birth control that should be prioritized in young people, argues the Dright Michel Labrecque, one of the provincial specialists in this procedure. “I’m not saying it’s not possible to reverse a vasectomy. But the risk is too great and can cost thousands of dollars. So we have to think concretely. »
A few weeks ago, a 19-year-old guy came up to me… I said to him, “Look, no.” This is not the birth control method you should be considering [à cet âge].
The Dright Michel Labrecque, specialist in vasectomy
Olivier Charbonneau “is not closed to the idea” of having children. But he is fully aware that his vasectomy is potentially irreversible. Should he ever try to back down without success, the young man will remain comfortable with his choice. “I can still adopt,” he says.
At vasectomy Quebec, where Dr.right Labrecque, about 35% of the procedures are performed by men between the ages of 35 and 39, who have two children on average. “That’s my typical clientele,” he notes. Most of the patients are over 45 years old.
Regarding male contraception, the Dright Michel Labrecque would play patience.
“We don’t have anything yet, but we’ve been talking about it for 50 years. There is a gel that would be injected into the spermatic ducts being examined in Australia. It is manufactured by the American company Contraline. It won’t hit the market tomorrow, it could take years. The same applies to hormones,” explains the doctor.
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A high ranking Lao official maintains that increased cooperation between Laos and China will eventually enables Laos to reap rather than lose benefits because Chinese investments in Laos help redistribute wealth among the Lao people.
China's President Hu Jintao recently visited Laos after attending an APEC summit in Hanoi. The two-day visit, on November 19 and 20, which was praised by Lao authorities as a reflection of an increasingly comprehensive cooperation between Laos and its giant neighbor to the North, resulted in the signing of ten agreements on bilateral cooperation and Chinese assistance to Laos.
China is now the fourth largest foreign investors in Laos following Thailand, Australia, and Vietnam.
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Did the Princes in the Tower actually survive? Author reveals new evidence
Following on from the sensational discovery of his body under a car park in Leicester, the Richard III Society have launched a project called the Missing Princes to find out what really happened to his nephews, the Princes in the Tower.
On Friday, January 21, local author, historian and Richard III Society member Nicola Cornick tackles the topic in a talk at Wantage Library called The Lost and Found of the Wars of the Roses. In it, Nicola also addresses the disappearance of Richard’s closest friend and supporter Francis Lovell, whose life was the inspiration for her most recent novel The Last Daughter.
Newbury has often played a role in the wider history of the county and the country. In 1483, the Duke of Buckingham and a number of local barons met in secret here to plot the overthrow of King Richard III, an event that features in The Last Daughter, which focuses on the mystery of the Princes in the Tower.
Nicola said: “Our local area has strong ties to the Wars of the Roses and I’m looking forward to exploring these in the talk as well as looking at the theories of what happened to both the Princes in the Tower and Francis Lovell. It’s intriguing that there is new evidence to suggest that all of these people survived and that the traditional histories may well need revising.”
The talk is free and tickets are available from Wantage Library on 01235 762291 or via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/428233258782411
Read N2 feature on Nicola: Never mind the Kardashians, Newbury's keeping up with the Cravens here: https://bit.ly/3ff6B6R | <urn:uuid:e3cfc776-39a9-4fe0-978d-ef148be8c7b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/lifestyle/did-the-princes-in-the-tower-actually-survive-9235136/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955356 | 370 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Julie Fay: Beach Boys have artistic influence on our family
"Mom, can we listen to The Beach Boys?” Timmy asked. It’s not an unusual request these days. Ever since Timmy and Brian’s dance class participated in “beach month” at their dance studio, they’ve been obsessed with The Beach Boys.
Their tap routine, danced to “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” featured the requisite shuffles and cramp rolls, but also included pantomiming riding a half-pipe and jumping over the waves. Timmy excelled at this, and brought his surfing expertise home, where he often practices, catching his reflection in the glass fireplace doors. Beach month may have been in January, but it’s endless summer in our living room.
The Beach Boys’ artistic influence on our family has extended into other genres, as well. After I downloaded a greatest hits album, our rafters rang with little-boy pronunciations: “Help me, Whonda” and “Ba ba ba, ba babawann.”
Once I caught Timmy’s reflection in the van’s rear-view mirror. There he was, buckled into his booster seat, holding his nose as he sang along with “409.” When I asked him why he was holding his nose, he explained that it was so he sounded more like the Beach Boys guy. I wonder how Mike Love would feel about my preschooler’s assessment of his vocal quality.
The California Sound has even influenced Timmy’s visual art. A couple of weeks ago, he brought home a drawing in blue marker on a white background. A Neolithic figure, arms extended and fingers splayed, rides a surfboard with a huge grin on his oversized head. The caption, penned by his preschool teacher at Timmy’s direction, reads: “It’s a picture of a USA guy surfing on a wave! And singing, ‘If anybody had an ocean across the USA’ in CaliforniA!”
The songs have inspired many a discussion in the car, around the dining-room table, and at bedtime. We’ve talked about the literal and figurative meanings of “safari,” and defined “T-bird” and “409.” Brian once asked me what a deuce coupe was, and before I could answer, Timmy confidently replied, “It’s where chickens live.”
Some songs are a little beyond the boys, though. Brian was particularly struck by “Sloop John B.” He understood that it was about the worst boat trip ever, but had trouble visualizing that it was just a story, and that The Beach Boys weren’t actually on the boat, singing as we listened. Likewise, Timmy has repeatedly asserted that Abby’s favorite songs must be “Surfer Girl” and “California Girls,” because, after all, she’s a girl. Someday, I’m sure, he’ll chuckle when he realizes how completely he missed the point.
The downside of having such ardent Beach Boys fans living in my house is that there’s no escaping the music. My days are punctuated by tight vocal harmonies and handclaps, whether the CD is actually in the player or not. The only solution is to play tuneful classical music. Help me, Mozart, help me get ‘em outta my head.
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householda group of individuals whose economic decision-making is interrelated. In economic theory, households perform two roles. On the one hand, they enter the market place as buyers or CONSUMERS of goods and services produced by firms; on the other hand, they provide FACTOR INPUTS to firms in order to produce those goods and services. The term ‘households’ is used primarily in macro- (national income) analysis, while the term ‘consumers’ is used in micro- (supply and demand) analysis. See CIRCULAR FLOW OF NATIONAL INCOME MODEL, PERSONAL SECTOR.
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What is the status of the National Popular Vote Compact?
Fourteen states plus D C (189 electors) have agreed to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The compact can go into effect when 270 electors commit. The National Popular Vote proposal is as strange as expecting one state to concede its votes to another. The organization claims that American voters should be able to dictate to small state electors when casting their Electoral votes—even if the small state opposed the popular winner in their state.
Would we ever consider choosing another state’s governor? It is absurd for one state to demand how another state vote on national issues. These notions are as ridiculous as the National Popular Vote Compact. Electors in one state should have no impact on electors in another. The only honorable thing to do is what the Founders set up: each state’s electors represent their own state in the national election and none other.
It has been enacted into law in 15 jurisdictions possessing 189 electoral votes, these are DC, DE, HI, RI, VT, CO, CT, MD, MA, NM, WA, CA, IL, NJ, NY. If you live in one of these states, contact you Senator and Representative asking them to rescind the Compact. If you don’t live in one of these states, contact your legislators asking that they not support the Compact. | <urn:uuid:0f2a48df-aa15-484d-a6e8-e6d2906f131c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independentamericanparty.org/electoral-college | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948471 | 274 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The UK Biobank’s assessment of 20,000 people’s data suggests that diabetes speeds up the natural ageing process of the brain, with prolonged diabetes duration being linked to higher neurodegeneration
Researchers have demonstrated that type 2 diabetes patients’ natural brain ageing is accelerated by about 26% in comparison to persons without the illness, according to a recent study published in eLife.
The researchers studied the relationship between type 2 diabetes and normal ageing of the brain and found that the two have a pattern of neurodegeneration, albeit type 2 diabetes progresses more quickly.
Study utilized data from UK Biobank
The scientists used data from the UK Biobank, which included information on 20,000 people between the ages of 50 and 80, to identify the effects of diabetes on the brain in addition to those caused by normal ageing. This dataset contains information on both healthy people and people who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, as well as measurements of brain activity and brain scans.
They utilised this to identify the precise brain and cognitive alterations associated with diabetes as opposed to ageing, and they then validated their findings by contrasting them with findings from a meta-analysis of over 100 additional studies.
Ageing and type 2 diabetes both affect brain abilities
The results of their research demonstrated that ageing and type 2 diabetes both affect executive abilities including working memory, learning, and flexible thinking, as well as brain processing speed. However, compared to those of the same age without diabetes, those with diabetes exhibited an additional 13.1 per cent decline in executive function and an additional 6.7 per cent decline in processing speed.
This conclusion was supported by their meta-analysis of further studies: type 2 diabetics consistently and noticeably performed worse cognitively than healthy counterparts of the same age and educational level.
Neurodegeneration accelerated in type 2 diabetes
This research has several important ramifications, one of which is that even typical brain ageing may be associated with changes in the brain’s insulin-dependent control of blood glucose.
The results also suggest that by the time type 2 diabetes is properly recognised, there may already be significant anatomical damage to the brain. Therefore, it is crucial to create sensitive techniques to detect diabetes-related brain alterations.
The findings imply that neurodegeneration is accelerated in type 2 diabetes and that its patterns significantly coincide with those of normal ageing. Additionally, the severity of these impacts on brain function increased with longer diabetes duration.
In actuality, a 26 per cent faster rate of brain ageing was shown to be associated with diabetes progression.
Cognitive assessment of patients needed
A thorough cognitive screening is rarely provided to patients today as part of their clinical treatment, despite the fact that there is a lot of data linking type 2 diabetes with cognitive decline.
It could be challenging to distinguish between brain ageing that happens naturally in middle age and brain ageing brought on or accelerated by diabetes.
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FSC eases regulations for new financial firmsThe country’s financial regulatory agency will revamp the way it licenses financial businesses by lowering the capital requirement and establishing a dedicated committee to handle new business approval.
The Financial Services Commission said on Wednesday that a committee consisting of nine outside experts will be in charge of assessing applications for banking, insurance and securities licenses in a bid to increase transparency and efficiency.
The focus was on whether the regulator will accept new bidders to operate as internet-only banks after the launch of two online-only banks - K Bank and Kakao Bank - last year.
“The two internet-only banks grew in size and contributed to promoting competition in the industry,” said Choi Hoon, director general of the banking and insurance bureau at the Financial Services Commission.
“So, we will actively consider accepting more players as internet-only lenders as long as there is market demand,” he said.
Asked if any company expressed its intention to enter the internet-only banking industry, Choi answered “No, I haven’t yet received any applications.”
The two existing internet-only banks have 5.77 million clients between them, with total savings at 6.6 trillion won ($6.1 billion) and loans at 6 trillion won as of April 19, according to the regulator.
The insurance business has long been considered particularly difficult to enter since the regulator requires at least 30 billion won in capital to start the business.
The agency said that the limit will be lowered for applicants who specialize in providing small, short-term insurance services, adding that a more specific standard will be released later.
The regulator will also ease regulations and the capital requirement for web-only insurers to attract more players. The capital requirement could go down to 20 billion won, it said.
To make the application process more convenient, web-only insurers will be allowed to send digitized copies of insurance terms.
In the securities sector, the Financial Services Commission is considering lessening capital requirements for brokerages that exclusively deal with investment in so-called venture funds, or funds for emerging start-ups.
The Financial Services Commission, however, refrained from touching upon one of the most controversial regulations that bars non-financial companies such as tech firms from owning more than 10 percent of a financial company. A non-financial unit can own up to 10 percent of a financial company, but can only vote on a 4 percent stake.
Lowering the barrier to entry for prospective financial companies was one of the top 100 policy items in President Moon Jae-in’s economic agenda.
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Training a toddler to sleep in a toddler bed is a parenting milestone, signifying the end of the baby stage. Parents often decide to make the switch after a toddler attempts to climb out of the crib or if a new sibling is on the way. Each toddler is different in his response to the transition to a toddler bed; he may embrace the change or resist it. Watch the signs exhibited by your toddler, and follow his lead in the training process.
Watch for signs of readiness in your toddler before training her to sleep in a toddler bed. The toddler’s size, age and activity level should be considered.
Select a toddler bed for your child. Ask your toddler to assist in the selection process if possible. Select a firm mattress that fits the toddler bed.
Purchase a set of toddler sheets that will appeal to your child. Allow your child to help select the sheets.
Set up the toddler bed in your child’s room. Allow him to help you make the bed. Allow him to choose some stuffed animals to add to the bed to make it more appealing.
Invite your toddler to explore the new toddler bed during play time so she won’t feel pressured. Exploration may make the new toddler bed less intimidating when she must sleep in it.
Place your toddler in his new toddler bed for nap time. Trying out the new bed during the day tends to be less scary for toddlers.
Start putting your toddler in the toddler bed at night once she is comfortable sleeping there at nap time. Provide comfort if she is hesitant to sleep in her new bed. Give her a few days to adjust to the new bed.
Take a break and go back to the crib if your toddler is not able to adjust to the new bed after several days. Reintroduce the toddler bed once he has had a break.
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By Yasar Sharifi
Yasar Sharifi writes for Killid, an independent Afghan media group in partnership with IPS. By distributing the testimonies of survivors of war crimes through print and radio, Killid strives for greater public awareness about people’s hopes and claims for justice, reconciliation and peace.
For this testimony, Sharifi interviewed Wasel Khan, who relives the Hada massacre of 1984, one of the most brutal attacks on civilians in Afghan history.
The village of Hada in Nangarhar province had waited all year for Jahanzeb’s wedding in December 1984. Winter weddings are a time of celebration in snow-bound parts of the country.
Jahanzeb, a soldier in the Afghan army, had come home for the wedding. Everyone in the village in Behsood district was invited. People were attired in their best clothes and jewelry. Women and children had painted their hands with henna. Rugs covered every square inch of Jahanzeb’s home.
But fate had other plans, says Wasel Khan, a villager who survived the Hada massacre.
It was the fifth year of the government of Babrak Karmal, who had risen to power in December 1979 after the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan and killed his predecessor, Hafizullah Amin.
Khan recounts how Russian troops suddenly marched into the village in the evening of Jahanzeb’s wedding day. There was panic, he recalled. Within minutes the revelry had been replaced by screams, he said.
What followed by the hands of the Russian army and air force were “crimes that cannot be described in words,” he said.
Hada village was targeted for being anti-government. But Khan insists not all the people were mujaheddin — most were only sympathisers, he says.
“Our village had 2,000 families before the Russian invasion. Most people fled but families from other areas had moved in. There were mujaheddin among them, he recounts. “A former villager informed the Russians that ours was a Russian-hating village. The wedding was seen as the perfect opportunity to cleanse the village.”
Khan says the informer, who he calls Mullah Sultan Jan, told the Soviet authorities that Hada was responsible for attacks on Jalalabad, nine kilometres from the village. But he insists it was the work of mujaheddin factions from Pachir and Chaparhar.
Soviet soldiers searched every house in the village, and took away 100 old and young men who were made to stand in two groups in a field.
“They were infidels, they had no mercy. They suddenly fired at the group on the left, killing many,” remembers a man called Uncle Aslam, standing next to Wasel Khan. “The injured writhed on the ground untill they died. There was a stream of blood.”
The group of men on the right, he said, were jailed for a few days, tortured and released.
Uncle Shaperai was amongst the prisoners. “They (the Russians) made us push tanks in the mud, and beat us. The day after I was released I left the country,” he said.
Soviet soldiers did not catch the prospective bridegroom, Jahanzeb, who proceeded to climb on top of the hill above the village and kill the remaining Russian soldiers who had lost their way in the chaos of the bloodbath.
Many Russian mothers lost their sons that day to Jahanzeb’s bullets, Khan adds.
So much sorrow
In the end, a Soviet helicopter downed Jahanzeb. His body, which was cut in pieces, was carried to the village. His bride-to-be was eventually married to his brother, according to Afghan tradition.
“His mother had gone mad. There was so much sorrow,” says Khan weeping, a quarter century later.
The villagers were not able to bury their dead, he says, as the Russians had placed mines even in the graveyard.
A landmine blew up the vehicle of a villager called Amir Mohammad, who was coming from Jalalabad for the funeral, killing him and three others. Within hours a landmine had destroyed another jeep. “A tribal elder was among those who died. Only one woman survived,” he remembers.
Two days later, the village dead were buried in the nearby area of Karezo. “Now it is called graveyard of martyrs,” according to Khan.
Shamsul Rahman lost both of his parents in the Hada massacre, changing the path of his life drastically. If his dad had not been killed, he’s convinced he’d have gone to university in Afghanistan. Instead, “My uncle became our caretaker, and we had to migrate to Pakistan,” he says. “I did not attend school and I have been working as a labourer ever since.”
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BANGKOK • Border trade between Malaysia and Thailand in the first nine months of the year fell 17.23% to 175.1 billion baht (RM23.62 billion) as border closure to curb the spread of Covid-19 has disrupted normal economic activities.
Foreign Trade Department DG Keerati Rushchano said Thailand’s cross-border trade with neighbouring countries — Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia in the period stood at 561.1 billion baht, dropping 10.03% year-on-year (YoY).
“Exports to Malaysia fell 11.5% YoY to 85.48 billion baht, while imports slipped 22.04% to 89.62 billion baht.
“This resulted in a 4.14 billion baht trade deficit,” he said in a statement.
He added that the border trade with Laos fell 5.6% to 139.68 billion baht, Myanmar slid 12.83% to 127.01 billion baht, while trade with Cambodia rose 0.73% to 119.3 billion.
Malaysia is Thailand’s biggest border trade partner.
Keerati said Thailand’s cross-border trade, including transit trade, stood at 968.87 billion baht, declining 4.88% YoY in the first nine months.
“The export value stood at 563.95 billion baht, down 4.66% YoY from January to September this year, while import value dropped 5.19% to 404.92 billion baht, recording a trade surplus of 159.02 billion baht,” he said.
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(Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program)
THE PLACE TO OFFER LITTLE HOUSE SHOULD BE AT THE SIDE AND NOT DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE BUDDHIST ALTAR, AS THE LATTER IS DISRESPECTFUL TO BODHISATTVA
Caller: Today, a Buddhist friend from the practise group said that, “We should offer Little House at the side of the Buddhist altar, not right in front of it, as the latter is disrespectful to Bodhisattva and the Little House offered will be of no effect.” Is that true, Master Lu?
Master Jun Hong Lu: As no blame can be attached to the unconscious wrong doer, for Little House that had been offered, it should still be of effect. However, it is indeed disrespectful to Bodhisattva if it is done right in front of the Buddhist altar. Now, you must not interpret my words out of context. I hereby say this today, the 5th of August, please remember, “The place to offer Little House should be at the side of a Buddhist altar. Even if the place is in front of the Buddhist altar, it has to be at the side and not in the middle. Because this is the area where we perform prostrations, where our souls are being purified and where we interact with Bodhisattva. This said, why would you want to offer Little House for the foreign spirits at this area?
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PHOENIX, AZ — Have you played the “what if” game lately?
What if someone gets in trouble in the water—right in front of you?
Seconds count. No one knows that more than Arizonans who live in their pools all summer. But vacationers may not be so wise. That’s why the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort has teamed with the Phoenix Fire Department Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona to help visitors be more water smart while playing at the resort’s famous four-acre Hole-in-the-Wall ‘s River Ranch water park:
–Teach the kids to swim as soon as possible.
–Never swim alone or let the kids swim alone.
–ALWAYS have a designated child-watcher whose sole job is watching the kids. (Some –Families: pass around a bracelet or card to the designated watcher.
–Never swim under the influence of alcohol or medications.
–Never swim when you hear thunder or see lightning.
–Never dive into an unfamiliar body of water.
And should you see someone in trouble:
–Yell for help and pull the person out of the water.
·–Call 9-1-1 immediately! Stay on the line.
–If you are not CPR-trained, follow the instructions from the 9-1-1 operator until help arrives.
Guests at the resort will get a CPR Awareness and Water Safety Tips CD when they check in. Great idea, I think. We just held our TMS Family Travel Summit here. I was impressed with an affordable resort at the base of the Phoenix Mountains Preserve that offered so much for families with suite accommodations to spread out complete with mini-fridge as well as townhouse-style casitas. And good eats –we loved the BBQ at the Hole-In-The-Wall restaurant and farm-to-table Southwestern fare at Rico’s American Grill. Plus mini putting course and Coyote Camp, though I wish the activities were complimentary (they cost $35 per half day or evening; $65 for a full day.)
This summer, the resort is celebrating a decade each month—all things 1950s in May, the 1960s and 1970s in June and the 1980s in July with special poolside activities at the Resort’s four-acre River Ranch water park, games like Twister and hula hoop contests and dive-in movies. The resort’s restaurants will celebrate the decades with special menu items and the Tocasierra Spa will offer themed hairstyles (ready for hairspray?), nails and more. There will be special kids’ activities and crafts.
Yes, it’s hot in Arizona in the summer but rates start at just $109. As long as you keep everyone well-hydrated and smeared in sunscreen, you’ll have lots of fun. You’ll also find great deals at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess (Memo to the adults: the resort’s Hacienda Restaurant reputation for margaritas is well deserved!). Weekends, there will be fireworks, all-day pool activities and even remote-control boat races and fishing derbies. Rates start at just $139 this summer!
The historic Arizona Biltmore is celebrating its 85th anniversary with an array of $85 specials, everywhere from the spa to gourmet meals. The kids will love the kids’ cooking classes and Paradise Pool with DJ Pool Parties, live music and “glow in the dark” family night fun. Moms will like the Poolside Spa Team offering mini treatments and sun blocks and moonlight yoga. Rates start at $154.
Meanwhile, I loved that the Pointe Hilton gave us rainy day ideas when we checked in—yes, it was raining in the desert here. My top rainy-day pick or when you need to get out of the sun—don’t miss the Musical Instrument Museum housing nearly 15,000 instruments and artifacts from around the world with nearly 5,000 on display at one time. Musical instruments have been acquired from more than 200 countries and date back to between 4000 and 5000 BC (a drum from China). But this isn’t just about seeing the instruments. It’s about hearing them played by people in their native countries. Thanks to 21st Century technology, you can watch a video and hear the music as soon as you walk up to the exhibit, headphones on your ears. Kids will love the Experience Gallery where they can bang a Chinese gong, try a xylophone, a drum or tiny guitar.–with no one telling them to be quiet.
Let’s not forget the Museum Café that serves food using fresh local ingredients. The menu changes daily.
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Today a number of industries have to store fluids in various products. For example, in the automotive industry, manufacturers need to apply a layer of ceramic paint protection to various cars.
It is a trading name for a specific group of ceramic paint protection used to protect a wide variety of surface coatings such as glass, metals, resins, plastics, paper, and ceramics. It has a number of very desirable properties.
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For example, it has excellent dielectric strength. It is also highly resistant to moisture, solvents, and atmospheric gases. It has a very large volume and surface resistance. In addition, electrical properties are not dependent on temperature.
These are known as ceramic paint used for protective coatings. This process offers a number of advantages. For one, the coating is stored micron by micron, which means it can get into holes, cracks, and tears in the product. It is stored in a vacuum and the process is carried out at room temperature and does not require drying.
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With the aid of this non-invasive procedure, the body is able to cure itself.
When you get up in the morning and go to the restroom, do you feel a sharp stabbing pain in your heel? Is the discomfort lessening as you move around? Plantar fasciitis is a possibility if this is the case.
In Canada, plantar fasciitis is the most prevalent cause of heel discomfort. According to the Canadian College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, almost two million Canadians are treated each year for this ailment. Plantar fasciitis affects around 10% of Canadians at some point in their lives.
What is Plantar Fasciitis?
A condition known as plantar fasciitis arises when the plantar fascia, a fan-shaped tissue on the bottom of the foot, gets irritated. It links your heel bone to your toes and helps to preserve the contour of your foot arch. A sharp stabbing pain occurs when the plantar fascia is stretched due to plantar fasciitis. This occurs as you take your first steps in the morning. Many folks disregard the discomfort since it lessens during the day. Chronic pain might develop as a result of this problem being untreated for a long time. You may also get weak, which may ultimately affect your ability to walk.
What Causes Plantar Fasciitis?
It’s possible that plantar fasciitis develops for no apparent cause at all at times. There are a number of possible causes for the illness. There are a number of factors that might lead to plantar fasciitis.
- Obesity or being overweight is a condition
- Wearing unsupportive shoes on a regular basis
- A lot of jogging
- High-impact activity may lead to overuse injuries.
- It’s difficult to find a job that doesn’t involve a lot of walking.
- Standing for lengthy periods of time on harsh surfaces
- Being born with a high arch
Why Is It So Hard To Get Relief?
When it comes to plantar fasciitis, you may have previously tried icing the region or doing stretches. It’s hardly surprising that these therapies don’t work, given how much time you spend on your feet each day. If your profession requires a lot of walking or standing, you may not be able to rest a hurting heel since you’ll be putting a lot of stress on your feet. This might prolong the ailment.
If you suffer from plantar fasciitis, these medications are unlikely to provide long-term relief.
Shockwave Therapy in Langley For Plantar Fasciitis
As a last resort, steroid injections, custom orthotics or invasive procedures were the only alternatives for treating plantar fasciitis that didn’t work. A rapid reduction in edoema and inflammation is achieved by injecting steroids. These, on the other hand, should not be utilized long-term due to the risk of weakening the tendon. Pain from plantar fasciitis may be alleviated with custom orthotics. A customized shoe with an insert is required in order for the orthotics to operate.
It’s possible that you won’t want to wear the same pair of shoes every day. Any operation that involves cutting into your foot or ankle might have long-term implications on your health, including a weakening of your foot’s arch. In addition to a lengthy recovery period, surgery necessitates a lot of time off from work. Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy, or ESWT, is a novel FDA-approved therapy for this illness that is non-invasive and does not need surgery. This cutting-edge technique is less dangerous than a surgical procedure. The healing time is also quite short.
Most Importantly, Non-surgical shockwave therapy in Langley for plantar fasciitis alleviates heel pain in a matter of minutes. Plantar fasciitis sufferers may now benefit from this cutting-edge and very effective treatment. ESWT is safe and effective. The FDA has given its approval based on scientific investigations that were randomized and double-blinded. 2 Plantar fasciitis patients benefit greatly from shockwave therapy in Langley, which is now the most effective treatment available.
How Does It Work?
Shockwave treatment helps the body cure the inflammation and damage to the plantar fascia, which is the root cause of plantar fasciitis.
With the use of a specific probe, shockwave treatment delivers pressure waves into the skin. Inflamed tissue is the final destination of these waves once they pass through the skin. Natural healing processes are triggered, and new blood vessels are formed. Reduced inflammation and good cell regeneration occur as a consequence of increasing oxygen and blood flow to the region. Collagen, an important component of connective tissue, is produced as a result of this process as well. The process is simple and straightforward. | <urn:uuid:fc56ccb8-85cb-4512-aaae-301b39b2b725> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.langleyfraserphysio.com/shockwave-therapy-solutions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.926212 | 1,037 | 2.375 | 2 |
Having a 3D printer at home is like having a genie granting all your plastic-making wishes. Will you need to sell your arm, leg, and maybe a kidney to afford to have a genie at home? Is 3D printing an expensive hobby?
3D printing is an expensive hobby, but it doesn’t have to be. If you buy yourself a smaller model and don’t buy a top-of-the-line 3D printer, you can keep your costs down around $300. You can even sell items you design, or become a 3D printer for hire to make back some of your initial costs!
The biggest cost for 3D printing as a hobby is the machine itself. Thankfully there is a wide variety of 3D printers in all different price ranges.
As a beginner, you might find yourself only needing a very basic 3D printer. If you go with a small base model, you’re probably going to spend about $200. These 3D printers have fewer features and often less customer support when you need help though.
If you think you might need a little more support, and a little bit of a better printer, you should check out 3D printers in the $500 price range. These ones will print slightly more consistently, and you are less likely to encounter any problems.
If you want the full experience with all the bells and whistles, a large printing area, multiple tutorials and plenty of customer support, you can purchase a 3D printer for upwards of $6000.
If you are just wanting to have a small 3D printing hobby, there is no reason to spend $6000 on a 3D printer right away. A $200-$500 printer will be more than sufficient for what you are trying to make.
The other cost to consider is the material cost. The material cost depends on a few things including what material you are using, how big the item is, and the infill of the item you’re making.
The cheapest material you can buy for your 3D printer are thermoplastic filaments. The most popular are PLA and ABS. You can get an entire kilogram for about $15-$30. You can also use nylon which is a higher-end material.
The infill is the wall thickness of the product you are trying to print. You will use less material printing a hollow item with 10% infill, than a solid item with 100% infill.
It’s impossible to tell you how much something will cost without seeing your 3D print design, but to give you an idea, a case to hold a deck of cards might cost $1, but a solid model of Mount Rushmore the size of a football might cost $100.
Another factor you have to consider in the costs are your 3D print files. In order to make your own, you’ll need a 3D design program.
There are many different softwares ranging from $10 per month subscription fees, to $500 for full access programs.
There are a couple free programs you can use, but you won’t have as many features as a paid program.
If you don’t want to invest the time learning how to use a 3D program, you can purchase files to download. Each file will cost anywhere from $1 to over $20 depending on the complexity of the design.
This is the more cost effective way to print if you’re only printing a couple items to try out your machine. If you want to make many different items, it might be more worth your time to learn a new design skill.
If you’re worried about the cost of getting into 3D printing as a hobby, you can always make some money back by selling your 3D printed items.
There are many people who are looking to have an item or two printed, but can’t justify buying a 3D printer to do it themselves. The great news is you don’t have to go find these people, there are sites you can sign up for that bring them to you!
Here’s a list of places where you can find people who will pay you to print something for them on your 3D printer.
Each one of these websites has a demand for people who own a 3D printer and can print and ship items for customers.
There are many hobbies that don’t require start up costs; 3D printing isn’t one of them. Compared to hobbies like hiking, yoga, drawing, or any other hobbies you can do with things you already have around your house, yes, 3D printing is an expensive hobby.
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- Grills—County law prohibits the use of charcoal or propane-fueled grills—or any other open-flame cooking or heating device—on any balcony or within 15 feet of multifamily buildings such as apartments. This restriction does not apply to townhouses or single family homes.
- Fireworks—The use of backyard fireworks without a permit is illegal; some ground-based and handheld sparklers are legal in Baltimore County. Read the laws regulating fireworks. Thousands of people are injured every year in fireworks-related incidents. Fire officials encourage you to enjoy fireworks safely by visiting a legal display.
Upcoming Fireworks Displays
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Insulin-like growth factor-1 has been found to be involved in the regulation of several aspects of brain metabolism, neural transmission, neural growth and differentiation. Because decreased insulin-like growth factor-1 and/or its receptors are likely to contribute to age-related abnormalities in behavior, the strategy of replacing this protein is one potential therapeutic alternative. The present study was designed to assess whether cognitive deficits with ageing may be partially overcome by increasing the availability of insulin-like growth factor-1 in the brain. Fischer-344 x Brown Norway hybrid (F1) male rats of two ages (four-months-old and 32-months-old) were preoperatively trained in behavioral tasks and subsequently implanted with osmotic minipumps to infuse the insulin-like growth factor-1 (23.5 microg/pump) or a vehicle, i.c.v. Animals were retested at two weeks and four weeks after surgery. Insulin-like growth factor-1 improved working memory in the repeated acquisition task and in the object recognition task. An improvement was also observed in the place discrimination task, which assesses reference memory. Insulin-like growth factor-1 had no effect on sensorimotor skills nor exploration, but mildly reversed some age-related deficits in emotionality. These data indicate a potentially important role for insulin-like growth factor-1 in the reversal of age-related behavioral impairments in rodents. | <urn:uuid:a017df07-77d4-4abe-b580-85e9d41ce4e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9758223/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956406 | 292 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood campus
221 Burwood Hwy, VIC 3125
Maria is a marine ecologist, project manager, and science communicator based at Deakin University’s Blue Carbon Lab. She is originally from Colombia and received her PhD from James Cook University, Queensland in 2017. Maria has worked for 10+ years in marine and coastal ecosystems, including coral reefs, mangroves and tidal marshes.
After joining the Blue Carbon Lab, Maria established the award-winning Blue Carbon Citizen Science program – which has engaged 350+ citizen scientists into coastal wetland research across Australia and New Zealand. To date the program has collected over 1000 carbon stock samples from 12 sites and surveyed more than 300 plots of mangroves and saltmarsh. The program began as a partnership with HSBC Australia and Earthwatch Institute targeting corporate executives from Australia’s top industries, but has now expanded to include community groups and schools.
Maria is the project manager for the ‘Roadmap to Blue Carbon opportunities in Seychelles’ program (funded by the Seychelles’ Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust) and the ‘Building Adaptive Capacity in the Gippsland Region: Wetland Restoration Citizen Science‘ program (funded by DELWP’s Community Climate Change Adaptation grants). Additional to her experience managing large research teams and undertaking stakeholder surveys/interviews, Maria coordinates the science communication strategy for the Blue Carbon Lab (website, social media, media releases). She has 12+ peer-reviewed publications and has received $280K+ in research grants.
Palacios, M.M., Trevathan-Tackett, S.M., Malerba, M.E., and Macreadie, P.I., 2021. Effects of a nutrient enrichment pulse on blue carbon ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 165, 112024.
Waryszak, P., Palacios, M.M., Carnell, P., Yilmaz, N., and Macreadie, P.I., 2021. Planted mangroves cap toxic petroleum-contaminated sediments. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 171, 112746.
Palacios, MM, SS Killen, LE Nadler., JR White & MI McCormick 2016. Top- predators negate the effect of mesopredators on prey physiology. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 1078-1086
Palacios, M.M., D.T. Warren & M.I. McCormick 2016. Sensory cues of a top‐predator indirectly control a reef fish mesopredator. Oikos 125: 201 -209
Palacios, M.M., C.G. Muñoz & F.A. Zapata. 2014. Fish corallivory on a pocilloporid reef and experimental coral responses to predation. Coral Reefs 33: 625 -636
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“THE PROCESS IS AS important or more important than the solution,” says George Kembel, the executive director of D.School. He explains that the program is about using the principles and theories of design to solve issues in different fields, uniting graduate students from a variety of disciplines at Stanford. Students studying business, education, and science collaborate on real-world social concerns as part of the curriculum. A recent project involved trying to make water pumps cheaper and easier to use in countries like Burma.
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The Sculptures of Andrea
Andrea Soraperra was born on August 1945, in Penia, a littte village in the Fassa Valley (Trentino Alto Adige - Italy) . His father was a baker and his mother a housewife. Since he was a child, he used to carve every little piece of wood with a little knife. So his parents, because of his natural bent, decided to enroll him at the local School of Art situated in Pozza di Fassa. There, he has been so lucky to have as teacher, the famous wood-carver and Alpine guide TONI GROSS, who has been able to transmit him the most important wood-carving notions.
After three years of attendance, having excellent profits in wood-carving, he stays together with his teacher, in his atelier for two years, where he has the chance to improve his capabilities. After many years of experience he finally will find its way to success.
At the moment, he is working in Alba di Canazei (Trentino Alto Adige - Italy) where he has his atelier since 1988. Many of his works are in private collections.
Below, the artist, Andrea Soraperra, has used our flowers "CRYSTAL DESIGN" to create the setting about the composition. He combines wood and crystal, for a unique effect.
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Professional Reference articles are designed for health professionals to use. They are written by UK doctors and based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. You may find the Hereditary Spherocytosis article more useful, or one of our other health articles.
Treatment of almost all medical conditions has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. NICE has issued rapid update guidelines in relation to many of these. This guidance is changing frequently. Please visit https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19 to see if there is temporary guidance issued by NICE in relation to the management of this condition, which may vary from the information given below.
This is a collection of inherited disorders which manifest as spherical-shaped erythrocytes (spherocytes) on the peripheral blood smear.
Clinical severity varies (depending on the mutation), from asymptomatic to a life-threatening haemolytic anaemia, but all mutations alter the cell membrane, causing loss of membrane surface area and reduced deformability of the cell. These abnormal red cells are then selectively retained and destroyed in the spleen, which reduces red cell life and produces the haemolytic anaemia.
Defects in several membrane proteins may be involved (eg, alpha-spectrin, beta-spectrin, ankyrin, protein 4.2). The most common defect in a European population is a combined spectrin and ankyrin deficiency, found in 40-65% of patients (usually autosomal dominant). Isolated beta-spectrin defects account for about 15-30%, are usually only mild or moderately severe, are autosomal dominant and do not require transfusion.[1, 2] Isolated alpha-spectrin defects occur in 5% and are usually severe, displaying autosomal recessive inheritance. Other mutations producing defects in other membrane proteins (eg, protein 4.2) can occur and are more common in Japan.
Patients may present at any age with haemolytic anaemia, jaundice (either from haemolysis or gallstones) and splenomegaly.
Always ask about any family history of anaemia:
- 20-30% of patients have mild disease with an increased red cell turnover compensated with adequate replacement. They are neither symptomatic nor anaemic, but may have mild splenomegaly, slight reticulocytosis and minimal spherocytes visible.
- 60-70% of patients have moderate disease and half of these present in childhood with anaemia.
- Neonates with severe hereditary disease do not always present at birth with anaemia, but haemoglobin may fall dramatically over the first few weeks of life and may be severe enough to require exchange transfusion. Amongst neonates of northern European descent with significant hyperbilirubinaemia, hereditary spherocytosis (HS) may be an under-recognised cause.
Other causes of spherocytes in peripheral blood film include:
- Autoimmune, microangiopathic or macroangiopathic haemolytic anaemias.
- Haemolytic transfusion reactions.
- Thermal injury, antioxidant injury or snake envenoming.
- Liver disease.
- Clostridial septicaemia.
- Heinz body anaemia.
- Zinc toxicity.
- Severe hypophosphataemia.
- ABO incompatibility (neonates).
Most patients can be diagnosed on the basis of a family history, typical clinical features and laboratory investigations - spherocytes, raised mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and an increase in reticulocytes. They do not require any additional tests.
- FBC and blood film including reticulocyte count. Spherocytes and reticulocytosis are seen on peripheral blood film. FBC shows raised MCHC and increased red cell distribution width.
- LFTs (indicative of haemolysis), increased unconjugated bilirubin, lactate dehydrogenase and urinary and faecal urobilinogen with reduced haptoglobin levels.
- Direct antiglobulin test - is usually negative in HS but is positive in autoimmune haemolytic anaemia.
- Osmotic fragility test - is unreliable and is no longer recommended.
- Osmotic gradient ektacytometry - is used to differentiate HS from hereditary stomatocytosis but is available only in specialised laboratories.
If the diagnosis is equivocal, a screening test is helpful. The recommended screening tests are the cryohaemolysis test and EMA binding.SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of erythrocyte membrane proteins is carried out to confirm the diagnosis of atypical hereditary spherocytosis.
- Once the diagnosis and baseline severity are established, it is not necessary to perform repeated blood tests unless there is an additional clinical indication (eg, intercurrent infection, pallor, an increase in jaundice). A routine annual review is usually sufficient.
- An open door policy for potential complications, such as parvovirus infection or abdominal pain (which may trigger investigation for gallstones), is good practice. Mild cases do not usually require folate supplements or splenectomy.
- Steroid therapy may be effective in augmenting haemoglobin levels during haemolytic crises in patients with moderate disease and will result in the patient requiring fewer transfusions.
- Moderate-to-severely affected individuals are usually given folate supplementation and offered splenectomy:
- Splenectomy eliminates anaemia and hyperbilirubinaemia and lowers the high reticulocyte number to nearly normal levels.
- Treatment of hereditary spherocytosis with splenectomy is curative in most patients but increased recognition of the long-term risks of splenectomy has led to re-evaluation of the role of splenectomy.
- A laparoscopic approach should be used if a suitably trained surgeon is available, This is usually performed after the age of 6 years. Partial splenectomy may also be beneficial.
- If children are having a splenectomy, the gallbladder should be removed at the same time if there are symptomatic gallstones. However, if children are having cholecystectomy (for symptoms of gallstones), concurrent splenectomy is controversial, as it is associated with a risk of post-splenectomy sepsis.
- Partial splenic embolisation may be considered.
Splenectomy should be avoided in patients with some forms of hereditary stomatocytosis, due to an increased risk of venous thromboembolism. There should be a full discussion on the dangers and benefits of splenectomy, and such patients will need lifelong prophylaxis post-splenectomy (see separate article Splenectomy, Hyposplenism and Asplenia.
- Gallstones and gallbladder disease. Co-existent Gilbert's syndrome gives 4 x increased risk of gallstones. The increased risk is abolished by splenectomy.
- Haemolytic, aplastic and megaloblastic crises:
- Rapid haemolysis can be triggered by viral infections and produce jaundice, anaemia and occasionally abdominal pain and tender splenomegaly. Supportive treatment is usually all that is needed.
- Aplastic crises (aplastic anaemia) can follow viral bone marrow suppression and can be life-threatening. They are most commonly caused by infection with parvovirus B19 and usually last 10-14 days.
- Megaloblastic crises are rare and due to folate deficiency.
3-5% of patients have severe disease that requires regular blood transfusions.
Genetic testing and family tracing are available.Relatives who are carriers of the gene may show a persistent reticulocytosis.
Further reading and references
Perrotta S, Gallagher PG, Mohandas N; Hereditary spherocytosis. Lancet. 2008 Oct 18372(9647):1411-26.
Spectrin, Beta, Erythrocytic - SPTB; Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
Gulbis B, Eleftheriou A, Angastiniotis M, et al; Epidemiology of rare anaemias in Europe. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010686:375-96. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-9485-8_22.
Barcellini W, Bianchi P, Fermo E, et al; Hereditary red cell membrane defects: diagnostic and clinical aspects. Blood Transfus. 2011 Jul9(3):274-7. doi: 10.2450/2011.0086-10. Epub 2011 Jan 13.
Konca C, Soker M, Tas MA, et al; Hereditary spherocytosis: evaluation of 68 children. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus. 2015 Mar31(1):127-32. doi: 10.1007/s12288-014-0379-z. Epub 2014 Apr 11.
Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hereditary spherocytosis; British Committee for Standards in Haematology - archived content (September 2011)
Christensen RD, Henry E; Hereditary spherocytosis in neonates with hyperbilirubinemia. Pediatrics. 2010 Jan125(1):120-5. Epub 2009 Nov 30.
Bolton-Maggs PH, Langer JC, Iolascon A, et al; Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hereditary spherocytosis - 2011 Br J Haematol. 2012 Jan156(1):37-49. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08921.x. Epub
King MJ, Zanella A; Hereditary red cell membrane disorders and laboratory diagnostic testing. Int J Lab Hematol. 2013 Jun35(3):237-43. doi: 10.1111/ijlh.12070. Epub 2013 Mar 11.
Ballin A, Waisbourd-Zinman O, Saab H, et al; Steroid therapy may be effective in augmenting hemoglobin levels during hemolytic Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2011 Apr 7. doi: 10.1002/pbc.22844.
Casale M, Perrotta S; Splenectomy for hereditary spherocytosis: complete, partial or not at all? Expert Rev Hematol. 2011 Dec4(6):627-35. doi: 10.1586/EHM.11.51.
Gallagher PG; Abnormalities of the erythrocyte membrane. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2013 Dec60(6):1349-62. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2013.09.001. Epub 2013 Oct 15.
Tracy ET, Rice HE; Partial splenectomy for hereditary spherocytosis. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2008 Apr55(2):503-19, x.
Guan Y, Hu Y; Clinical Application of Partial Splenic Embolization. ScientificWorldJournal. 20142014:961345. Epub 2014 Nov 3.
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Library's marvellous mural marks welcome return for readers
Avid readers who have missed using their historic library during lockdown received an exuberant welcome when it reopened on 26 April.
Greeting visitors to Cupar’s landmark Duncan Institute was a newly completed mural, spanning three floors, that is vibrant, colourful and fun.
Acclaimed artist Celie Byrne has created a fresh new look for the inside entrance that celebrates the joy of reading and the generosity of the building’s benefactor.
The giant mural features a painted red ribbon, adorned with stars, that mimics the course of the River Eden, which flows through the town. The ribbon leads visitors upstairs to the reference and local studies room.
Inscribed in the ribbon is a quote by the Turkish writer Mehmet Murat Ildan: “The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: the books of the libraries.”
Visitors can also put a face to the name of the person who brought the building into being. Beside the door to the main library, Celie has created a striking portrait of Miss Elizabeth Duncan, whose bequest funded the Institute 150 years ago.
Generations of local people have enjoyed Miss Duncan’s legacy since the building’s official opening on 13 December 1870.
Celie’s inspiration was an oil painting of Miss Duncan that is normally kept in storage. The mural also features a quote from the benefactor’s will and a detail from one of the library's stained glass windows.
For Celie, who predominantly paints portraits but also produces large-scale murals, it has been a labour of love. The Kelty artist has known the building for many years as her uncle, Robert Simpson, was a science teacher at Cupar’s Bell Baxter High School.
“I’ve really enjoyed working on the project,” says Celie, who first gained a UK-wide profile in the 2011 BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
“I’m pleased with all of the mural’s different elements. Painting Miss Duncan’s portrait allowed me to capture the essence of someone who was dedicated to the wellbeing of her community.”
OnFife Libraries facilities & services supervisor Susan Allan is delighted that a new look entrance will welcome visitors when the building reopens after lockdown.
Says Susan: “We’re so pleased with the joyful work that Celie has created. After 150 years, this iconic building is still serving people in a way that would surely have pleased Elizabeth Duncan.”
The mural is a fitting tribute to the woman who, in 1867, left £5000 – worth around £600,000 today – for the building of a ‘Mechanic’s Institute’ in her hometown.
Such institutes were a popular response to an increased interest in education and served to provide classes in science and technology, as well as access to books for the working classes.
A design competition was won by John Milne of St Andrews – an architect with a love of Gothic – whose entry was described as “an embellishment to the town” and a “great improvement to the locality”. Fife had not seen anything quite like it before.
The Institute’s Scots baronial style, with turrets, grotesques, stained-glass rondels, different window styles on each floor, and 114-foot twisted “broach” spire certainly stood out. Perhaps a little too much – for, in January 1874, strong gales knocked three feet off the top. | <urn:uuid:3f6ef5d0-e73e-4d48-b0b6-9c78e988248f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fifechamber.co.uk/news/librarys-marvellous-mural-marks-welcome-return-readers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967936 | 770 | 1.695313 | 2 |
A new study describes the barrier properties of epoxy coating containing CaCO3 microparticles modified with cerium nitrate.
In the study, the protective properties of epoxy coatings containing pH-sensitive calcium carbonate (CaCO3) microparticles modified with cerium nitrate (Ce (NO3)3), applied to mild steel substrates, were investigated in 3.5 wt. % NaCl solution, via electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and salt spray testing. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) tests were performed to evaluate the characteristics of the synthesised CaCO3 microparticles.
Results showed that the modification process changed the morphology of the particles and loaded them with Ce(III). EIS and salt spray tests showed that the incorporation of the modified CaCO3 microparticles to epoxy coatings can enhance their corrosion protection.
The corrosion protection performance of the coating was affected by the amount of incorporated microparticles, in that increasing the amount of modified CaCO3 microparticles led to higher corrosion protection. Increasing the Ce(III) ions content of the CaCO3 microparticles led to similar behaviour.
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– Lori MacVittie, Senior Technical Marketing Manager at F5 Networks (www.f5.com), says:
Turns out that ‘unassailable’ economic argument for public cloud computing is very assailable.
“The economic arguments are unassailable. Economies of scale make cloud computing more cost effective than running their own servers for all but the largest organisations. Cloud computing is also a perfect fit for the smart mobile devices that are eating into PC and laptop market.” — Tim Anderson, “Let the Cloud Developer Wars Begin”
Ah, Tim. The arguments are not unassailable and, in fact, it appears you might be guilty of having tunnel vision – seeing only the list price and forgetting to factor in the associated costs that make public cloud computing not so economically attractive under many situations. Yes, on a per hour basis, per CPU cycle, per byte of RAM, public cloud computing is almost certainly cheaper than any other option. But that doesn’t mean that arguments for cloud computing (which is much more than just cheap compute resources) are economically unassailable. Ignoring for a moment that it isn’t as clear cut as basing a deployment strategy purely on costs, the variability in bandwidth and storage costs along with other factors that generate both hard and soft costs associated with applications must be considered.
MACRO versus MICRO ECONOMICS
The economic arguments for cloud computing almost always boil down to the competing views of micro versus macro economics. Those in favor of public cloud computing are micro-economic enthusiasts, narrowing in on the cost per cycle or hour of a given resource. But micro-economics don’t work for an application because an application is not an island of functionality; it’s an integrated, dependent component that is part of a larger, macro-economic environment in which other factors impact total costs.
The lack of control over resources in external environments can be problematic for IT organizations seeking to leverage cheaper, commodity resources in public cloud environments. Failing to impose constraints on auto-scaling – as well as defining processes for de-scaling – and the inability to track and manage developer instances launched and left running are certainly two of the more common causes of “cloud sprawl.” Such scenarios can certainly lead to spiraling costs that, while not technically the fault of cloud computing or providers, may engender enough concern in enterprise IT to keep from pushing the “launch” button.
But these are not the only causes of cost overruns in public cloud computing environments and, in fact, uncontrolled provisioning whether due to auto-scaling or developers forgetfulness is not peculiar to public cloud but rather can be a problem in private cloud computing implementations as well. Without the proper processes and policies – and the right infrastructure and systems to enforce them – cloud sprawl will certainly impact especially those large enterprises for whom private cloud is becoming so attractive an option.
While it’s vastly more difficult to implement the proper processes and procedures automatically in public as opposed to private cloud computing environments because of the lack of maturity in infrastructure services in the public arena, there are other, hotter issues in public cloud that will just as quickly burn up an IT or business budget if not recognized and addressed before deployment. And it’s this that cloud computing cannot necessarily address even by offering infrastructure services, which makes private cloud all the more attractive.
Though not quite technically accurate, we’ll use traffic sprawl to describe increasing amounts of unrelated traffic a cloud-deployed application must process. It’s the extra traffic – the malicious attacks and the leftovers from the last application that occupied an IP address – that the application must field and ultimately reject. This traffic is nothing less than a money pit, burning up CPU cycles and RAM that translate directly into dollars for customers. Every request an application handles – good or bad – costs money.
The traditional answer to preventing the unnecessary consumption of resources on servers due to malicious or unwanted traffic is a web application firewall (WAF) and basic firewalling services. Both do, in fact, prevent that traffic from consuming resources on the server because they reject it, thereby preventing it from ever being seen by the application. So far so good. But in a public cloud computing environment you’re going to have to pay for the resources the services consumed, too. In other words, you’re paying per hour to process illegitimate and unwanted traffic no matter what. Even if IaaS providers were to offer WAF and more firewall services, you’re going to pay for that and all the unwanted, malicious traffic that comes your way will cost you, burning up your budget faster than you can say “technological money pit.”
This is not to say that both types of firewall services are not a good idea in a public cloud environment; they are a valuable resource regardless and should be part and parcel of any dynamic infrastructure. But it is true that in a public cloud environment they address only security issues, and are unlikely to redress cost overruns but instead may help you further along the path to budget burnout.
HYBRID WILL DOMINATE CLOUD COMPUTING
I’ve made the statement before, I’ll make it again: hybrid models will dominate cloud computing in general due primarily to issues around control. Control over processes, over budgets, and over services. The inability to effectively control traffic at the network layer imposes higher processing and server consumption rates in public environments than in private, controlled environments even when public resources are leveraged in the private environment through hybrid architectures enabled by virtual private cloud computing technologies. Traffic sprawl initiated because of shared IP addresses in public cloud computing environments alone is simply not a factor in private and even hybrid style architectures where public resources are never exposed via a publicly accessible IP address. Malicious traffic is never processed by applications and servers in a well-secured and architected private environment because firewalls and application firewalls screen out such traffic and prevent them from unnecessarily increasing compute and network resource consumption, thereby expanding the capacity of existing resources. The costs of such technology and controls are shared across the organization and are fixed, leading to better forecasting in budgeting and planning and eliminating the concern that such essential services are not the cause of a budget overrun.
Control over provisioning of resources in private environments is more easily achieved through existing and emerging technology, while public cloud computing environments still struggle to offer even the most rudimentary of data center infrastructure services. Without the ability to apply enterprise-class controls and limits on public cloud computing resources, organizations are likely to find that the macro-economic costs of cloud end up negating the benefits initially realized by cheap, easy to
provision resources. A clear strategy with defined boundaries and processes – both technical and people related – must be defined before making the leap lest sprawl overrun budgets and eliminate the micro-economic benefits that could be realized by public cloud computing. | <urn:uuid:2a628bb3-c66a-4883-a5d0-0b7ef2d76558> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cloudpost.us/about-that-unassailable-economic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929504 | 1,436 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Higher Education contributes to lifelong learning by providing funding, services, and support to post-secondary institutions to maintain access to high quality post-secondary education and training.
The Higher Education Branch supports the development of a highly qualified workforce to meet labour market demand as well as the cultivation of knowledgeable, engaged citizens.
The functions of Higher Education are as follows:
- provide funding and support to universities and the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)
- advise the Minister on all matters relating to universities and the NSCC and post-secondary education issues at the provincial, regional and national level
- support the post-secondary education institutions in the development of people, knowledge, entrepreneurial activity, and innovation
- coordinate federal-provincial and interprovincial negotiations related to post-secondary education, such as student loan policy
- administer the Canada and Nova Scotia Student Assistance programs, including management and stewardship of the Nova Scotia student loan portfolio
- assist adult Nova Scotians with permanent disabilities obtain access to, and to succeed in, post-secondary training
- guide universities and the NSCC in the delivery of disability services through research and policy development
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Ray Gastil spoke at the Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment Symposium at Georgia Tech February 8, 2021, addressing affordable housing and broader urban challenges.
Ray Gastil spoke with Christer Larsson, former city planning director for Malmo, Sweden and global thought leader on sustainable urbanism, in a podcast released February 24, 2021. The talk focused on the role of opportunity related to the new service economy, and how “on-demand” urbanism is impacting the future of urban centers.
Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil Speaks “Downtowns: Adaptive Reuse Project of the 2020s in the “Covid-19: One Year Later” Series, Portland Society of Architects, March 5, 2021. The talk focuses on how downtowns are an adaptive reuse challenge that goes beyond individual buildings to the plazas, parks, and public spaces, indoors and out. The use and form of these spaces and their interconnections with the buildings that surround them are part and parcel of this reuse project. Accelerated trends, and new ones, are changing the role of central business districts, as neighborhoods, business centers, and places of equitable opportunity.
Ray Gastil spoke at the National Conference on Preservation Education (held 10/26/2020) on Adaptive Preservation: Responding to the Challenge at Scale. | <urn:uuid:026e8bcd-8666-49fc-b9c3-920bc02c5377> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gastilworks.com/?author=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.933488 | 280 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The first Land Rover Series was unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show on this day in 1948. Things have changed quite alot since then…
Usually Land Rover celebrate the day in style by showcasing their latest creation. Last year it was the launch of the new Defender. This time last year they were preparing to embark on field-testing with global Land Rover conservation partner, Tusk Trust. The prototypes were put to work towing, wading and carrying supplies at the Borana Conservancy in Kenya to support vital conservation work. The fleet completed more than 45,000 individual tests in some of the world’s most inhospitable places.
This year, things look pretty different. Today they are celebrating the heroes who are going above and beyond during the COVID-19 crisis. More than 160 vehicles have now deployed globally to support emergency response organisations. 57 vehicles including 27 New Defenders from the press fleet have been put into service with the British Red Cross to deliver medicine and food to vulnerable people including the elderly across the UK. A further 65 vehicles are supporting the Red Cross Societies in Australia, Spain, South Africa and France with more vehicles expected to be deployed in the UK and other countries very soon. Plus protective equipment is being donated to the NHS including wraparound safety glasses to hospitals across the country to protect health service staff. Watch the video here.
“We have been overwhelmed by the kindness shown across the country, not only by our increasing number of volunteers, but also our longstanding partners. Thanks to Land Rover’s generous support, our Emergency Response teams in the UK will be to reach even more people living in isolated communities than we could alone.”
Simon Lewis | Head of Crisis Response, British Red Cross
“The health and safety of our employees, customers and their families remains our priority. Jaguar and Land Rover will do everything we can to support people in need around the world. Our partnership with the Red Cross goes back 65 years and we will work hand in hand with them to do all we can during this global health emergency. We will also provide help to those closer to home in our local communities. We can all play a part in helping the vulnerable during this global pandemic.”
Finbar McFall | JLR Customer Experience Director
(Source: Land Rover UK PR)
What is Arkonik doing?
Whilst we count down the days till we can get back to doing what we do best (building Defenders), our team are keeping themselves busy! We’re very proud to say that some have registered to become NHS Volunteers, whilst others are helping out in their local communities wherever they can.
Jack is one of our Assembly technicians and has registered as an NHS volunteer. Arkonik, headed up by our MD Andy Hayes (who has also registered as an NHS vounteer) has put a shout out to our local community offering to help deliver food and supplies. Tom from Client Services and his dog Piper are ready and waiting in their Defender to be called upon by the NHS. Lauren, our Marketing Executive and her husband are carrying out shopping trips and food deliveries for vulnerable elderly neighbours.
As well as this, we continue to contribute to the UK economy by keeping our 70 members of staff employed whilst they are furloughed and working hard to ensure that Arkonik remains a strong and viable business. As Andy Hayes, MD states:
“At Arkonik, our priorities are taking care of our employees, clients, suppliers, our friends and all who surround us. To take a stand in beating COVID-19, we decided to temporarily close Arkonik’s sites both in Somerset, UK and Charleston, South Carolina five weeks ago. This was a necessary step in reducing the spread of this disease and reducing the stress that our front line responders and our wider communities are currently facing.
We shall pass through this not only intact but with stronger ties and bonds than ever. I have given my personal guarantee that every client in our pipeline shall receive their Dream Defender without exception, it may take a little longer than we had planned together but get their dream they shall! If in doubt be like the best of Defender….Forgiving, Stoic and Cool.” | <urn:uuid:fdaa630e-2a2e-4d83-91c0-3957c01a864c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arkonik.com/news/today-is-world-land-rover-day-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961922 | 861 | 1.765625 | 2 |
In 2012, when Mitt Romney was convinced by his top campaign officials that he would defeat President Obama, Romney warned that Russia posed the greatest threat to the United States. Many, including your solitary reporter, scoffed, but it turns out that Romney was right.
There’s not much going on in Russia that Vladimir Putin doesn’t know about.
But deep inside the Kremlin there was a Russian mole, who was supplying details about Putin’s covert operations to our CIA.
Then, in 2017, Donald Trump openly told Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov top-secret information about ISIS that he had gotten from Israel, and the CIA, then led by former Wichita Tea Party Congressman Mike Pompeo, started to get really worried.
In the cloak and dagger world of spies, such moles are known as “assets,” because they are treated like commodities, and when it’s necessary to get them out of wherever they are in danger, it’s known as an “exfiltration” — a word unknown to us until today. Another applicable word is “extraction” — which we always thought had to do with going to the dentist.
Whoever that Russian national is, she or he is no longer in Russia.
The story broke today on the network that Donald Trump hates the most, CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html).
Associate solitary reporter Foma Kheroshonsky was our Moscow-based associate solitary reporter, but, sad to say, as soon as CNN broke the story about the mole’s exfiltration, Putin ordered his thugs to put him on an Aeroflot flight bound for an undisclosed location.
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The Sages made an astounding statement about Abraham and the mitzvah of brit milah (circumcision). According to the Midrash (Tanchuma VaYeira 3), Abraham only circumcised himself after consulting with his friend Mamrei.
“Why did God reveal Himself to Abraham on Mamrei’s property? Because Mamrei gave Abraham advice about circumcision.”
Could it be that Abraham, God’s faithful servant, entertained doubts whether he should fulfill God’s command? What special difficulty did circumcision pose that, unlike the other ten trials that Abraham underwent, this mitzvah required the counsel of a friend?
Abraham was afraid that if he circumcised himself, people would no longer be drawn to seek him out. The unique sign of milah would set Abraham apart from other people, and they would naturally distance themselves from him. Additionally, people would avoid seeking his instruction out of fear that Abraham might demand that they too accept this difficult mitzvah upon themselves. As the Midrash in Bereishit Rabbah (sec. 47) says:
“When God commanded Abraham to circumcise, he told God, ‘Until now, people used to come to me; now they will no longer come!'”
This side effect of brit milah deeply disturbed Abraham. It negated the very goal of Abraham’s life and vision — bringing the entire world to recognize “the name of God, Lord of the universe” (Gen. 21:33). If isolated, Abraham would no longer be able to carry on with his life’s mission.
This then was Abraham’s dilemma. Perhaps it was preferable not to fulfill God’s command to circumcise himself. On the personal level, Abraham would lose the spiritual benefits of the mitzvah, but the benefit to the entire world might very well outweigh his own personal loss.
Mamrei advised Abraham not to make calculations regarding a direct command from God. God’s counsel and wisdom certainly transcend the limited wisdom of the human mind.
For his sage advice, Mamrei was rewarded in like measure, midah kneged midah. Since Mamrei respected the ultimate importance of God’s commands, placing them above human reasoning, he was honored with the revelation of divine prophecy on his property.
In fact, Abraham’s fears of isolation were realized. From the time of Isaac’s birth, people began to avoid him. Abraham himself sent away the children of his concubines “from before his son Isaac” (Gen. 25:6), and God commanded him to send away Ishmael.
All of this was the Divine plan. God wanted Abraham to concentrate his energies in educating Isaac. For in Isaac resided the seed for repairing and completing the entire world. It was necessary, however, to first nurture the initial sanctity of the Jewish people. The enlightenment and elevation of the world that Abraham so desired would be realized through the spiritual influence of his children.
(Gold from the Land of Israel, pp. 42-43. Adapted from Midbar Shur, p. 197)
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For the runny nose, ointment with essential oil helps
With the sudden onset of winter, the runny nose comes. According to the Lower Saxony Chamber of Pharmacists, ointments with essential oil are highly recommended against the stuffy nose. However, caution should be used when using nasal sprays. Because excessive and long use can lead to increased side effects. The Chamber of Pharmacists therefore advises that “nasal sprays or drops should only be used at night for a restful sleep and should not be used for longer than seven days.”
According to the Chamber of Pharmacists of Lower Saxony, "if the affected person cannot breathe freely again after a week despite a nasal spray," a doctor should be consulted so that they can rule out a serious illness. "" Sprays with sterile, isotonic saline or sea salt "are recommended as nasal sprays. to loosen the slime in a gentle way. According to the Chamber of Pharmacists, nasal douches and steam baths can also be used against nasal congestion. Although they have no decongestant effect on the mucous membranes, ointments with essential oils from eucalyptus, peppermint or pine needles also help those affected to breathe freely again due to their cooling effect, reports the Chamber of Pharmacists.
Risk of getting used to nasal sprays According to the Chamber of Pharmacists, long-term use of nasal sprays with decongestant substances carries the risk of getting used to them. As soon as the effect of the nasal spray wears off, the mucous membranes become particularly well supplied with blood, causing them to swell. If patients do not use the nasal spray, they therefore feel like they have a stuffy nose and need to use nasal spray. In the long run, the mucous membranes dry out, which means that they can no longer fulfill their defense function and the risk of a bacterial infection increases, according to the Chamber of Pharmacists. So-called bark would also form in the nasal cavities. As a result of the damage to the mucous membrane, increased nasal blood is also to be expected. (fp) | <urn:uuid:12ec6f1c-27c4-4858-bc61-bbb3560b18ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://au.f84thunderjet.com/19336-cold-nose-ointment-from-essential-oils-helps.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948782 | 448 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Two of Mexico's biggest drug gangs
have negotiated a "ceasefire agreement" between themselves. Allegedly the
Sinaloa and Gulf drug cartels have agreed to "divide drug shipment routes"
instead of fighting over them. Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas (two Mexican states
bordering on Texas) are regarded as key territory. How they will be divvied up
is unclear. It could well be that the
government's drug war is having an effect. Drug shipment seizures have
increased. The government has apparently been quite successful in its campaign
in the state of Michoacan. Attempts to get rid of corrupt cops and judges may
also be having an effect. There's also another reason: the cartels are killing
themselves. The "internecine drug war" has taken a lot of lives. Another point
isn't clear, at least not yet. What happens with whackos like the Zetas? The
Zetas began as a paramilitary hit squad for the Gulf cartel, but word is they
are also "freelancing" from their base in Nuevo Laredo.
June 26, 2007: The US government estimates the
Mexican drug gangs may take in up to 24 billion dollars a year. Of this 24
billion dollars, the US believes three billion is used to buy political and
police protection. How were these figures generated? That's not clear. But
recall that police recently found over 100 million dollars in cash in a
hacienda outside Mexico City.
June 25, 2007: The
government is reportedly in the midst of a "corruption purge" of its
federal police. The Federal Preventative Police and Federal Investigative
Agency are both involved in the investigations. The investigations began
"months ago" according to authorities, but the likelihood is they began in
December 2006 or January 2007 after Felipe Calderon became president. Former
president Vicente Fox promised corruption investigations of the police but few
materialized (though an attempt was made in 2001 to remove some corrupt federal
police). But 284 Mexican police commanders and sub-commanders
(sub-commandantes) will be replaced. Not all of the commanders will be
arrested, however. An interesting wrinkle is a "rehabilitation" course for some
of the policemen. Mexican police are poorly paid. The government is considering
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By Erica Faber – Orchard Productivity Manager
Excessive copper can affect the uptake of phosphorus, zinc, manganese and iron, resulting in low levels within the plant contributing to poorer performance and yield. High levels of copper have also been found to inhibit root growth as well as have an adverse effect on beneficial fungi (which suppress phytophthora), bacteria, protozoa and earthworms. Copper-based fungicides however are an effective means of improving packouts and returns by controlling fungal diseases such as anthracnose, post-harvest rots etc. Until alternative, effective controls are found, it seems they are our only option. So, what can we as growers do to ensure we try minimize these negative side effects.
These are some suggestions for avoiding elevated levels of copper and their side effects within our orchards:
Firstly, by managing orchard sanitation, we can reduce the source of fungal inoculum in orchards by chipping or mulching the old prunings and by removing windfall fruit from the orchard floor. This will lower the incidence of anthracnose and post-harvest rots and will reduce the amount of copper sprays eventually required for the control of these fungal diseases.
Pruning also plays an integral part in reducing the severity of these fungal diseases by allowing better air movement throughout the canopy, thereby improving drying conditions.
Calcium sprays onto young developing fruit will be absorbed by the fruit and ensure improved fruit quality as well as strengthened cell walls. These strengthened cell walls are more resilient to penetration of the fungal hyphae as well as post-harvest bruising. Remember though that Boron also affects calcium absorption, so this needs to be in balance for the calcium to be effective.
Limit the copper ion concentration on plant surfaces by using copper products that are relatively insoluble in water, i.e. fixed copper.
- Copper Oxides (e.g. Nordox 75 WG™, AgCopp 75)
- Copper Oxychlorides
- Copper Hydroxides (e.g. Kocide® Opti, Champ® DP, Hortcare® Copper Hydroxide 300)
- Copper Sulphates (e.g. Tri-base Blue)
- TEPA Chelated Copper (e.g. Coptyzin)
Soluble coppers erode faster and require more frequent applications as they are less persistent. Less soluble coppers are more persistent and release a supply of copper ions for a longer period of time. These less soluble formulations require less frequent re-application thereby improving efficacy and reducing excess build up in soils.
Copper can accumulate to high levels on plant tissue when sprayed repeatedly to cover new growth during periods of no rain. In this situation, after a rain event, a large amount of copper ions may be released leading to phytotoxicity or contamination of the soil.
Timing copper sprays to conditions of spore release and conducive weather conditions will ensure copper is only sprayed when it will be effective and thereby reduce sprays that are ineffective and only add to unnecessary copper excesses.
Application of humates also “stabilizes” excess copper so that it is less reactive and/or hazardous to both the soil microbiology and the plant.
If your current copper levels are high resulting in for example, limited uptake of phosphorus or zinc, regardless of their soil levels, foliar applications of these nutrients can be applied. This will help to correct these imbalances or deficiencies in the plant until the soils are more balanced.
All the above can assist in reducing the high copper levels in the soils and with it the resulting problems associated with nutrient imbalances and soil health and fertility. An integrated approach to managing fungal diseases will not only ensure improved returns by reducing the incidence of post-harvest rots but also a more sustainable approach to growing avocados. | <urn:uuid:c9b11373-5081-442b-a34b-59b160e4c8b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://justavocados.co.nz/2019/05/copper-levels-and-their-side-effects-a-practical-approach/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93071 | 803 | 2.515625 | 3 |
According to Sheta Mittal, Co-founder of, a women’s health products startup, the healthcare industry in India somehow has turned a blind eye to the nutritional requirements of women who go through menopause.
“While menopause is a common phase in women’s lives, ageism is an awkward conversation for many, including the health issues that come with it,” she says.
“Menopause is a third and final stage of women’s menstrual lifecycle when her periods stop. The transition takes 10-20 years, and for 80 percent women it is associated with symptoms including hot flashes, night sweats, extreme panic and anxiety, memory loss, weakness in bones, hair loss, and weight gain. But often, menopause gets shrugged off as an “old age” problem and very few seek gynec support,” says Sheta.
Detailed scientific backing
Sheta says that each of the ingredients that goes inside these cookies is carefully selected and has detailed scientific backing. An in-house nutritionist and a research team with experts from Nestle, Paper Boat, and PepsiCo aid in the process. In addition, the team also regularly tests products as part of controlled studies and speak to 150 women every day to collect feedback.
According to her, each millet-based cookie has 27 researched ingredients, including magnesium, black cohosh, ginseng, and phytoestrogens (plant-based compounds that mimic estrogen in the body) that help balance the changes due to declining estrogen. They do not contain any form of artificial sugar, trans fat, white flour or gluten. They can be included in every woman’s daily regime – to have these cookies as snacks or with tea.
Sheta is an Aerospace Engineer from IIT Bombay and is an MBA graduate from Harvard Business School. She is also a certified yoga instructor.
The entrepreneur has over the years worn a diverse set of professional hats starting from leading Mood Indigo, India’s largest college cultural festival; Strategic Consultant at Boston Consulting Group and Marketing at Future Group. She dived into the world of health with a four-year tenure at Nike World Head Quarters in the US and China. While at Nike, she helped setup Nike Membership 2.0, worked on the opening of Nike’s biggest Store in China, and led consumer experience at the Nike Store and Nike App for WeChat.
Apart from &Me, Sheta also co-founded ForAnima in 2013, an early-stage wellness startup (a marketplace for curated healthy products) based out of New York.
An underserved market
Sheta reiterates that women’s health is the most ignored and underserved market, not just in India but globally.
“The products are outdated, laid with chemicals, and have side effects. The mission behind starting &Me was to change the status quo, drive research and innovation in women’s health, truly understand women’ unique health problems and build solution-oriented products that are natural and effective.”
The cookies are priced at Rs 249 per box and available on its own website (www.andme.in), Amazon, , , , , and , among others. “Our consumers are women from across India with 70 percent of them from outside the top five cities. In two years, &Me has served 2.5 lakh women through a pure digital content and commerce play, making us category leaders on Amazon and Google,” Sheta says.
The company received pre-Series A funding, seed funded by Matrix, Sauce.VC and Angels, and is looking to cross the Rs 20 crore annual run rate by early next year.
One of the biggest challenge, Sheta says, is that in the first year of operations, they chose to go offline first and struggled to get engagement from the consumers as the topic still remains a taboo in India.
“We took a hard call and pivoted online in October last year, which has been driving our rapid growth so far. Also, customer testimonials simply light up our day. Once, a woman emailed us saying she hadn’t got a regular period for 10 years still she started having &Me,” she adds.
COVID-19 hampered its operations severely and Sheta says their logistics delivery timelines are still being impacted, and their manufacturing facilities are running on constrained capacities.
But she is thankful to all her employees who came out and continue to work through the pandemic.
“Our business has recovered, and we are adjusting to the new normal. Our future plans include building a one-of-a-kind women’s health destination with content, tracking, device, and products,” she says.
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What is Insync? Insync is software that can be used to sync Google Drive on a Linux system. Can it run when I start the computer? Yes! Let’s get started: First make sure the setting “Start Insync on login” is ticked in the Preferences section. Second, put the following script in $HOME/.config/Insync/ and call it
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For those of you who are looking to install Arch Linux on your machines, this guide is for you! I have gone through the process and taken notes along away. I’m hoping this guide will help you as much as it will help me with future installs. Let’s get started! Pre-Requisites: You’ll want to create
After running an audit, it was discovered that some user account passwords on the domain were set to never expire. A few meetings later the team decided to change this setting across the board. Below is the script that will target an Organizational Unit (OU) and adjust the setting for the user accounts in it. | <urn:uuid:c8bf232b-f93d-4987-aa49-574d464292bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crtech.tips/author/crtech/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956789 | 223 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Fortune and the Child, 1883
A boy was sleeping beside a deep well. Fortune chided him for putting himself in danger. Had he fallen in, everyone would have said it was her fault.
This work depicts the moment just before Fortune wakes the boy. She stands on a wheel and holds a cornucopia. Her benevolent expression and hand, already reaching out over the child, promises him the protection from what La Fontaine describes as a ‘fall of twenty fathoms’.
Moreau’s use of red chalk can be seen clearly here, particularly in the outlines of the bodies. He relied on it to create the form of Fortune’s outstretched arm, which is not modelled with shading, and on its particular ability, long appreciated by artists, to suggest the flesh and blood presence of this personification. | <urn:uuid:3bf742b7-8dc2-401c-9cd2-ac59c1d88520> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://waddesdon.org.uk/gustave-moreau-the-fables-online-exhibition/fortune-and-the-child/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965883 | 175 | 2.984375 | 3 |
It eventually became a Nobel prize-winning revolution when researchers first engineered CRISPR as a gene editing technology for bacterial, plant, animal and human cells. The potential of the technology is great and span from curing genetically disposed diseases to applications in agricultural and industrial biotechnology, but there are challenges.
One such challenge consists of selecting a so-called gRNA molecule which should be designed to guide the Cas9 protein to the right location in the DNA where it will make a cut in relation to the gene editing.
“Typically, there are multiple possible gRNAs and they are not all equally efficient. Therefore, the challenge is to select the few that work with high efficiency and that is precisely what our new method does,” says Yonglun Luo, Associate Professor Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University.
The new method is developed from the researchers’ new data and implementation of an algorithm, which gives a prediction on what gRNAs that work most efficiently.
“By combining our own data with publicly available data and including knowledge on the molecular interactions between gRNA, DNA and the CRISPR-Cas9 protein, we have succeeded in developing a better method,” says Jan Gorodkin, professor at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
Data, deep learning molecular interactions
Jan Gorodkin’s research group with Giulia Corsi and Christian Anthon have collaborated with Yonglun Luo’s research group in order to achieve the new results. The experimental part of the study was conducted by Luo’s group while Gorodkin’s group spearheaded the computer modelling.
“In our study, we have quantified the efficiency of gRNA molecules for more than 10.000 different sites. The work was achieved using a massive, high throughput library-based method, which would not be possible with traditional methods,” says Yonglun Luo.
The researchers took their starting point concerning data generation in the concept of having a virus express gRNA and a synthetic target site in one cell at a time. The synthetic target sites have exactly the same DNA sequences as the corresponding target sites in the genome. Thus, these synthetic target sites are used as so-call surrogate target sites to capture the CRISPR-Cas9 editing efficiency. Together with colleagues from Lars Bolund Institute of Regenerative Medicine in BGI-Research and Harvard Medical School, they generated high quality CRISPR-Cas9 activity for over 10,000 gRNAs.
With this dataset of gRNAs with known efficiencies from low to high, the researchers were able to construct a model that could predict efficiencies of gRNAs which has not been seen before.
“In order to train an algorithm to become precise, one has to have a large dataset. With our library of viruses, we have obtained data that constitutes the perfect starting point for training our deep learning algorithm to predict the efficiency of gRNAs for gene editing. Our new method is more precise than other methods currently available,” says Jan Gorodkin. | <urn:uuid:715a9f69-c368-44b9-a9f4-d63436a47439> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.miragenews.com/researchers-algorithm-to-make-crispr-gene-575654/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950918 | 635 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Following the loss of a loved one, the last thing most people want to think about are the practical and legal ramifications of their loved one’s death. If, however, you were named as the Executor of the estate in the decedent’s Last Will and Testament, or you have been elected to handle the probate of an intestate estate (one without a Will), you must consider those aspects of the decedent’s death. If this is the first time you have administered an estate, you may be unsure of what is required. In addition, your emotional state may make it more likely you will make mistakes during the probate process. For these reasons, most Executor’s consult with an experienced probate attorney during the probate process. In the meantime, a Loveland probate attorney at Zimmer Law Office explains common probate mistakes and how to avoid them.
- Failing to consider alternatives to formal probate. One of the most common mistakes people make when probating an estate is failing to consider if an alternative to formal probate can be used in lieu of formal probate. For small estates, this may be an option. In Ohio, for example, a small estate alternative to formal probate may be available if:
- The estate is worth less than $5,000 or someone paid funeral and burial expenses of up to $5,000 and is seeking reimbursement.
- The value of the estate is $35,000 or less.
- The value of the state is $100,000 or less and the surviving spouse inherits everything.
- Mismanaging estate assets. Most first-time Executors are not sure what steps need to be taken and when they need to be taken. Consequently, assets are sometimes not handled properly. As the Executor or Personal Representative of an estate, one of the first things you need to do is to secure all assets as soon as possible. This can mean different things depending on the asset in question. For financial accounts, you may just need to close the account, for example, whereas for real property you may need to physically lock up the property and arrange for its maintenance and upkeep. In addition, you will need to create an inventory of all estate assets and then determine which ones are probate assets and which ones are non-probate assets. All probate assets will also need a date of death value assigned to them.
- Going it alone. If the estate qualifies for a small estate alternative to formal probate you may not need the assistance of an attorney; however, if the estate requires formal probate, it is usually a mistake to not retain the services of an experienced estate planning attorney. Hiring an experienced attorney will dramatically reduce the likelihood that you will make costly mistakes during the probate process.
- Making mistakes with notification, approval, or priority claims of creditors. All potential creditors of the estate must receive notice of the probate of the estate. Known creditors can be notified personally; however, unknown creditors must receive notice via publication in a local newspaper. You must then keep the probate open for a statutory period to give creditors the opportunity to file a claim against the estate.
- Failing to calculate gift and estate taxes correctly. All estates are potentially subject to federal gift and estate taxes. Failing to properly calculate estate taxes can be a costly mistake. Estate tax returns must also be filed on by the Executor on behalf of the estate. This is yet another reason to work with an estate planning attorney to prevent making a mistake that could dramatically diminish the value of the estate that is left for beneficiaries. Your attorney can help you properly determine the value of the estate subject to probate, calculate any tax due, and explain how to file the appropriate return and pay the tax bill.
Contact a Loveland Probate Attorney
For more information, please join us for an upcoming FREE webinar. If you have additional questions or concerns about probating an estate, contact an experienced Loveland probate attorney at Zimmer Law Office by calling 513-721-1513 to schedule your appointment today. | <urn:uuid:68f57bca-a9dd-4402-8410-3ddf97506a99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zimmerlawfirm.com/blog/probate/common-probate-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93933 | 841 | 1.554688 | 2 |
How Many Seconds Are In a Year?
Do you ever just sit or lie around and wonder about time and think, “How many seconds are in a year?”. How did someone think of a conversion factor to count all the units of time in existence? We all have our philosophical moments in life wherein we wonder how the universe is the way it is. Just like how Earth started to form, how can someone make up all of the months in a year and have the diligence and patience to list it. These very questions that make us wonder are the reasons why we found multiple discoveries throughout life because we wanted to answer our curiosities in life.
In this article, you will be finding out how many seconds are there in a year. This will include mathematics but do not be overwhelmed! It is not as hard as you may think!
What is a Second?
A second is one of the smallest units of time that will quickly turn into minutes, then hours, days and up until the largest unit of time.
Life as we all know just comes to pass by so quickly without us even realizing it. All we sometimes think about is how we want to rush things to be over, especially the bad moments in life. All we sometimes think about is how to skip all of the harsh moments and just get to the great moments in life. Sometimes, we take moments for granted.
There will be some moments in life wherein we think that its value weigh less than the other moments we had especially with people we cherish a lot but we will realize later on as we look back that every moment was indeed beautiful despite the tragedy some might have caused us but we came to the other chapter of our story and become stronger.
This is a cycle that will only cease once we take our last breath so we should try to cherish every moment more regardless of how fruitful or bitter it is. This is why we should try to make good every time we have. Try to be productive, learn something new, find a new hobby, go out and have fun with friends! Make sure that every living moment you have here while you are still existing on this Earth is worth it and make sure you always seize the day!
All throughout life, we have made some split-second or whim type of decisions in life then changed them again at the last second due to second thoughts and hesitations. We also sometimes just stop what we are doing and wonder, “how many seconds have I used up?”. This is why in this article, we can try to count the seconds, we do not have to do it quite literally that starting from midnight, we’d start counting out loud or mentally. There is a system we use to count the amount of time and we call it “conversion factors”.
In figuring out how many seconds are within a year, we must start with learning the basics of the conversion factor. This is used to convert a specific quantity into a different unit of measure. In order to accomplish this, we must start with using a ratio or a fraction that would certainly equal one. For the ratio we will come up with, the conversion factor will be a multiplier that is applied to the bigger unit in order to convert it to its smaller units by multiplying them.
It may sound daunting but it is actually quite easy. As an example, we can start with the year, the largest unit of measure of time. Then to convert this large unit into something smaller, in this example, we will convert it to a month, we must know how many months there are in a year, which are 12. Then we write it down into a ratio like this, 1 year: 12 months or in fraction form, 1/12. This makes the conversion factor as 12.
If you want to know how many months there are in 8 years, all you need to do is to multiply the number of years by the conversion factor. Thus, 8 years multiplied 12 months/year, which equals to 96 months in total within 8 years. So far, it has been easy, right?
Moving on to smaller units, you can continue on converting large units into smaller ones with the help of conversion factors. You just need to make sure that the conversion units you will be using are the same and accurate.
Here is the list of conversion factors for the unit of measure of time:
- 1 year = 365 days
- 1 day = 24 hours
- 1 hour = 60 minutes
- 1 minute = 60 seconds
So if we try to expound, it will go like this, one year would amount to 365 days, then multiply it by 24 since there are 24 hours in a single day, then continue to multiply the values by 60 since there are 60 minutes within a single hour then lastly, we will multiply the values to 60 since there are 60 seconds in a one minute. This is what it will look like if you write or type it down (365 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds).
After loads of multiplying and conversion factors later, we will have an answer of 31,536,000 seconds within the span of a year or 365 days. Unbelievable! You may think that life sometimes moves forward too fast when in reality, after completing a revolution around the sun by Earth, it actually took 31 millions of seconds to finish.
Now that you know how many seconds are there in a year, what are you going to do with so much time you have?
Did you know that thousands of years ago, our ancestors used the sun, moon, and stars as the basis of time? As we go throughout the day, shadows shift and the sun and moon will come up at their highest or lowest thus finding out what time it is. Although not accurate, it is of basic knowledge that when the sun is high up in the sky, it is morning, and if the moon is high up, it is night. | <urn:uuid:f4d63d03-3e9e-4524-a263-e32041d5f340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fonsly.com/es/cuantos-segundos-hay-en-un-ano/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963059 | 1,220 | 2.109375 | 2 |
How does a slot work? It uses a computer program that runs thousands of numbers every second and stops when a player presses a button. The computer correlates the numbers to the symbols on the screen and shows them when they’re left. The chances of winning are not as simple as knowing the odds; the likelihood of winning a specific combination of numbers will vary each time the machine runs. This article will discuss how a slot works and what makes it so popular.
Modern slot machines
The most popular casino game of all time has been slot machines. These machines have been around since 1893 and give players the opportunity to win prizes by choosing the right combination of symbols. They are very cheap to operate, costing little more than five cents to play, and don’t require any skill to win. Even though slot machines have undergone a great deal of technological innovation, they still maintain their reputation as the most popular game in any casino. In fact, slot machines accounted for 67% of the total gaming revenue in Las Vegas in 2006 alone.
Many people get annoyed when their payouts on slot machines don’t match up with their expectations. While people love to point the finger at the casino, there are many reasons for this issue, including renovations, holiday seasons, and poor maintenance. Slot machines are subject to change, and sometimes it takes 45 minutes for the machine to be adjusted to a better payout percentage. To make matters worse, casinos can’t always guarantee their payouts, so be patient and look at other factors, such as the amount of time it takes to adjust the machine.
There are two ways to calculate the probability of a node’s success. You can either use an empirical formula, or you can calculate it by combining probability values from different sources. Then, you multiply the probability by other factors, such as slot size and number of prior nodes. If you use the latter method, you’ll find that the probability of Node A succeeding in Slot 5 is the highest. This method is useful because it can be applied to real-world situations, where you’ll have limited data. | <urn:uuid:3f52e928-92ae-4fed-8a3f-3296a392a6df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vishagi.com/how-does-a-slot-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940781 | 438 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Understanding What We Eat and How it Affects Us
The Story of Human Nutrition
"At last here is a book which tells you the whole truth about food! Wendy Cook has brought together an astonishing ensemble of history, culture, aesthetics and recipes related to food. It is a book which unites taste and transcendence." - Satish Kumar, editor of Resurgence.
"A rich and sensitive philosophical exploration of approaches to nutrition and the family by a thoughtful woman of our time. A how-to-book with difference - it tells you how to live." - Elisabeth Luard, author of Sacred Food.
"A great testament to one person's struggle to bring meaning to food." - Professor Tim Lang, City University.
"A teaspoon of honey requires 2,000 hours of collecting and transforming by bees. In Foodwise Wendy Cook does the same work of collecting and transforming for us, gathering relevant knowledge about human culture and nutrition that is guided by her wide experience and informed by a love that comes from sharing." - Professor Brian Goodwin, author of How The Leopard Changed Its Spots
Wendy Cook's fascination with nutrition began during her war-time childhood. In the midst of deprivation and food-rationing, the rich abundance of her mother's organic garden made a profound impression. In her twenties, married to Peter Cook, she discovered the artistic and magical effects that food could have in creating a convivial atmosphere. During this period she cooked for many well-known names, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Dudley Moore, Peter Ustinov and Alan Bennett. But it was only later, through her daughter falling ill, that she came to study and understand deeper aspects of nutrition, and in particular the effects of different foods on human health and consciousness.
In Foodwise Wendy Cook presents a remarkable cornucopia of challenging ideas, advice and commentary, informed by the seminal work of the scientist Rudolf Steiner. She begins the volume with biographical glimpses relating to her experience of food and how it has influenced her life. She then presents an extraordinary perspective on the journey of human evolution, relating it to changes in consciousness and the consumption of different foods. In the following section she considers the importance of agricultural methods, the nature of the human being, the significance of grasses and grains, the mystery of human digestion, and the question of vegetarianism. In the next section she analyses the 'building blocks' of nutrition, looking in some detail at the nutritional (or otherwise) qualities of many foodstuffs, including carbohydrates, minerals, fats and oils, milk and dairy products, herbs and spices, salt and sweeteners, stimulants, legumes, the nightshade family, bread, water, and dietary supplements. She ends with practical tips on cooking, planning menus, children's food, sharing meals, and some mouth-watering recipes.
Foodwise presents a treasure of wisdom and experience for anybody with a concern for the content of the food they eat or a desire to discover more about the physical, soul and spiritual aspects of nutrition.
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By college scouts
Because middle school games mean absolutly nothing to them. Once your in highschool they may come to look at you but really all the scouts flock to the club soccer tournaments that contain high profile players. They want the best and fully developed player not a still growing and learning player. Because that would be a complete waste of time 99.99% of the time
Yes , NBA scouts are everywhere. Even though SD does not have a team, NBA scouts will come to watch college and even high school players.
It is not mandatory, but it definitely increases your chances of getting noticed by scouts.
NFL teams send scouts to college and high school games to look for good players. Players can also participate in the yearly draft.
You first have to do really well, and that way you will get noticed by scouts and such.
Coachs get their players through scouts. Scouts go out to collage games and watch for the players that would do good on their teams. they also watch tey videos
A person will most likely have to play is school in order to be seen by professional volleyball scouts. This includes playing in middle school and high school.
While in high school potential football players can be noticed by scouts and agents by doing a number of things. First on the list is to go to camps where the agents or scouts will tend to be. Talk to them. Video tapes of personal plays are a great way to show skills. Keep grades as high as possible. Someone with high grades and great athletic skills are potential candidates for a bursary or a scholarship.
yea scouts are everywhere. especially high school years. Remember to give 100% where ever you play in your backyard, practice, local park, and games, you never know who's watching.
Scouts move to Boy Scouts in the middle of their 5th grade year or when 11 years old.
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Victoria County polling stations could be consolidated in 2022 | Premium
Victoria County commissioners plan to reduce the number of polling stations in the county by four. If approved, there would be 27 polling stations in Victoria County.
“Most of the (targeted) places have a very low turnout,” Election Administrator Margetta Hill said at a Commissioners Tribunal meeting on Monday when she presented her recommendation.
Victoria County has a countywide vote, which means anyone can vote at a polling station throughout the election period. The majority of voters now vote at the Dr. Pattie Dodson Public Health Center, Hill said. In the November 2021 election, 991 voters cast ballots at the health center, while the location with the second highest number of ballots cast saw just 287 voters.
Voting day turnout for Victoria County polling stations
|Polling place||march 2020||july 2020||november 2020||May 2021||July 2021||November 2021|
|1 – Hopkins Elementary School||97||40||94||18||14||62|
|2 – Victoria County Courthouse||237||98||154||39||17||146|
|6 – Family worship center||57||30||68||23||15||30|
|10- Palace of Fine Arts||220||76||147||61||41||95|
|30 – Lutheran Church of Our Savior||136||54||110||32||26||58|
|31 – Tanglewood Lodge||93||45||112||30||23||55|
|34- Dudley Elementary School||76||21||138||17||14||58|
|35 – FW Gross Primary School||27||14||29||6||6||12|
|36 – Patty Dodson Health Center||1,278||635||939||495||357||991|
Hill recommended combining constituencies 6 and 31, 10 and 30, 2 and 35, and 1 and 34. Some of the locations had as few as six people voting in the 2021 election.
âWe looked at this because finding poll workers is sometimes a challenge,â Hill said. “We figured that if we combined some of the ridings that few people went to, we could get more qualified election officials in the ones that are open.”
Victoria County Republican and Democratic Party Chairs said the proposed changes were not too much of a concern to them.
“We have so many places to vote, and we have a countywide vote,” said Bill Pozzi, chairman of the Victoria County Republican Party. As long as the changes are within the city limits, which all of the proposed changes are, he said he supports the change. “You can’t consolidate Bloomington, any of these outliers, because people depend on it and they have to drive far enough.”
âIn my quick review of this, I don’t see a problem with what (Hill) is proposing,â said Democratic Party Chairman Woodrow Wagner, who said he trusted Hill to be transparent and make recommendations. based on evidence and logic.
“Anything that potentially deprives voters of the right to vote, then that should merit careful consideration, analysis, but I see no potential deprivation of voters’ right to vote in this area,” he said.
Closing the polling stations could also save the county money, Hill said. It takes at least three to four election officers to run a site, which costs around $ 500 per day, she said.
Hill initially asked commissioners to consider the matter at the next Commissioners Tribunal meeting on Monday, so the new polling stations can be finalized when she sends voters their new voter registration cards in January.
However, the commissioners will not consider the matter on Monday. While supporting the change, Victoria County Judge Ben Zeller said he believed it was important not to rush the process.
âIt’s something that I think the county will do a bit later, but not now,â Zeller said. He said he was not comfortable following up on the proposal at such a short time.
“I would like this to be done with a lot more notice,” he said. “Especially given the attention paid to elections and voting these days, any kind of change like this needs to be made with sufficient notice, careful discussion.” “
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Reading books has always been fun. While reading a book many people starts relating themselves with the same situations and sometimes it happens that they are not able to keep the book aside even if they have their final exams on the way.
Best Things Only Book Lovers Would Truly Understand
It all depends upon the readers and the book, you can find many books in the market but you need to select the one best for you which would make you happy while reading it. But if you are an Book Lover then you won’t think of it even once before buying any book from marketplace near you. Want to know the reasons to your why then you will be happy to read 20 Things Only Book Lovers Will Understand.
Losing The Desired Word You Were On
It’s the one of the biggest problems which makes a book lover HYPER. Losing the word you were on doesn’t makes any sense to be rude but sometimes while into the books and shuffling between different pages may help you to come across this situation and make you the most anger person from the inside.
Hardest Thing : Finding The Best Location For Reading a Book 😉
You might not feel comfortable even when you are sitting straight or laying down or even if you’re on stomach. It’s always hard selecting a place to start reading.
Selection Of The Book 😀
This question consumes most of our time. It takes a lot of time while selecting the right book which you want to read.
Selecting A Book While Entering Into Book Shop
When you enter a book shop it becomes very difficult selecting one of the best books from those 1000’s available in the shop. Therefore you need to select the best book which you want to buy, but remember your pocket should allow the amount.
Reading Out One Line Twice 😛
It’s one of the most followed things while reading a book. Many people repeats one lines twice or even thrice.
Never Folding Up A Page 😉
Book lovers don’t like pages to be folded they might scold you if you folded any of their pages and they found it’s you, then you’re gone.
Buying One, Finishing It and Then Searching For Another Book
Did you complete reading your one of the books? not yet and started another book? Stop why to quit reading the first one, go ahead and complete it first.
Sharing Is Caring 😀
Have you read your book? done with it? you might share it with your friends to grab their books for free.
You’re Into Book and Found It Has Ended 🙁
You think the book is left with the last part or chapter and suddenly you found that you have completed it.
Reading While You Left For Work
It’s the most expensive time for readers. Why to waste an hour travelling in trains instead you can read a book.
Lost Your Book While Travelling 😀
Most of the person’s doesn’t lose their books but yes you might be unlucky to lose a book in trains.
That Silence You Need When Someone Says Anything
While reading a book every reader love to have pin drop silence in the room. If you are not able to find a quiet room then you won’t be able to understand the story of the book.
When You Find Your Favourite Book Released As a Book 😉
It’s most annoying and funny because you already know the story of what is going to happen in the movie. There’s actually no need of it.
Spoilers, Who Don’t Love Reading’ Books 😛
People who don’t love reading books are the most irritating and the spoilers of a reader’s life.
Not Enough Time To Read All The Books Available In The World
If you start finding time to read more you will find you can’t actually do so. So, stop wasting your time on thinking and start reading the book you’re holding.
When They Republish a Book With New Cover
Ahhh! It’s a crap. Move forward.
When People Buy You a Book You Wanted From Long Time 😛
It only happens either on Christmas or birthdays.
Forget To Bookmark The Page You Were On
It’s another one of the most annoying things which can be there in a life of reader, it even sometimes happens with me but after all you can get on to the page just a free view over the last page you remember.
Telling People The Reason Why You Loved One Of The Books You Purchased
Mainly people who doesn’t read book might not get these things but actually whenever you may ask a person why you love reading a specific book you might get busy for next 1 hour.
Worst Part Is Exchanging Books and Not Reading It
It is difficult to forget reading a book but it might happen you mistakenly forget to read one of your favourite book which you got by exchanging your another book.
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What does it take to win with your money and achieve your financial goals? During this episode, we make a case that the most important factor is grit. It’s not earning six figures, or knowing the exact right investment moves to make. Though both of those are important, they’re not nearly as vital as grit. As Angela Duckworth writes, “Grit is perseverance for very long-term goals”. We begin to succeed when we truly commit to the goals that we’re pursuing. Luckily the amount of grit we possess isn’t static and there are ways for us to cultivate more grit in our lives that will allow us to get ahead with our finances. Passion, practice, and other people are just a few of the really important ways that we can develop more grit and start winning with our money.
Additional links from this episode:
- Be sure and check out Angela Duckworth’s book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance which we reference a LOT in this episode.
- Joel also mentioned getting deals on magazine subscriptions at DiscountMags.com
- We also reference Basic Economics, George Bonanno, and Man’s Search for Meaning.
During this episode we enjoyed a Pales in Comparison by Edmund’s Oast! And please help us to spread the word by letting friends and family know about How to Money! Hit the share button, subscribe if you’re not already a regular listener, and give us a quick review in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Help us to change the conversation around personal finance and get more people doing smart things with their money!
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Department of Justice Announces Lawsuit Against Airmont, NY’s Religious Discrimination
First Liberty Institute filed similar suit in 2018 alleging systematic discrimination by Village forcing Orthodox Jewish community underground
The United States Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against the Village of Airmont, NY, alleging religious discrimination against the Orthodox Jewish community.
“It’s time for Village of Airmont officials to reverse their unlawful decisions that keep our clients from peacefully practicing their faith in their homes,” said Keisha Russell, Counsel to First Liberty Institute. “With the assistance of the Department of Justice, we hope to put an end to Airmont’s practice of religious discrimination once and for all.”
In December of 2018, First Liberty and the international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of several residents, including three Orthodox Jewish rabbis, alleging that the Village has engaged in systematic discrimination forcing Orthodox Jewish residents to practice their faith in hiding in a deliberate effort to dissuade them from staying in or moving to Airmont.
The Village of Airmont incorporated in 1991, and its discriminatory zoning policies have been the subject of civil rights lawsuits spanning five different presidential administrations. The same year of its inception, then U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr filed suit against Airmont for religious discrimination against the Orthodox community.
To read a statement from the Department of Justice, click here.
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With antibiotic resistance continuing to gain pace globally, there is increasing need for fresh approaches in drug discovery to avoid a future in which deaths from previously preventable infections are common.
The World Health Organization names antibiotic resistance as one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development and this year, published a list of antibiotic-resistant ‘priority pathogens’ - naming 12 families of bacteria that they see as being the most serious threat to our health, with the aim of directing increased research and development towards the pathogens posing the highest risk.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (Credit: Kateryna Kon/shutterstock.com)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa - A priority pathogen
Attention is turning to innovative strategies in antimicrobial drug development pathways, and one avenue focuses on anti-virulence, which targets the capacity of the bacterium to cause disease rather than focusing on the survival of the bacterium itself.
A recent study by Mohanty et al (2017) explored the anti-virulence approach using the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a pervasive variety of Gram-negative bacteria, known for its inherent antibiotic resistance.
P. aeruginosa features in the ‘critical’ category of the WHO ‘priority pathogens’ and can cause a wide range of severe infections in patients with serious underlying medical conditions (Gellatly and Hancock 2013). P. aeruginosa is considered to be at high risk of becoming resistant to all antibiotics currently in use.
Within the pathogen, disulfide bond protein A (PaDsbA1) plays a central role in the normal formation of disulfide bonds, the inhibition of which may be therapeutically exploited in the creation of antimicrobials which act on virulence factors.
By screening their in-house fragment library, the researchers set out to identify molecular compounds that bind to PaDsbA1 to potentially identify inhibitors anticipated to disrupt normal P. aeruginosa protein folding.
Fragment-based screening to the fore
Mohanty and his team assessed fragment binding by recording saturation transfer difference (STD) in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments using a Bruker Avance spectrometer equipped with CryoProbe, giving them the precise digital control, fast NMR, high speed spectroscopy, flexibility and pure NMR frequency generation they needed to get robust results.
Fragment-based screening (FBS) is becoming an indispensable tool for the identification of potentially significant compounds in drug discovery and results in a higher hit rate than traditional screening methods. NMR is one of the best methods for performing primary screens as it is able to detect low affinity ligands and it permits vigorous screening library quality control.
Bruker Avance instruments can be used in combination with TopSpin software for improved spectrometer control and data analysis. An FBS workflow solution is built into TopSpin, which streamlines FBS data handling and analysis, providing an easier way to screen compounds to find potential new drugs.
Eight fragments with potential identified
The fragment screening conducted in the study identified eight fragments with measurable KD (dissociation constant) values of <5mM. The three highest-affinity hits were consistent with an unexpected mode of binding of PaDsbA1, at the non-catalytic face, which to the authors’ knowledge is a previously unreported site of specific small molecule binding to DsbA proteins.
Similar work with the Escherichia coli DsbA (EcDsbA) protein determined that molecules bound in the active site-adjacent groove, rather than at the non-catalytic face (Adams et al 2015). This indicates that targeting the non-catalytic face of PaDsbA1 may be a viable means of inhibiting PaDsbA1 function and is therefore a potential avenue for future research.
The disparate binding site locations of the fragments when comparing E. coli and P. aeruginosa was borne out by the fact that there was little overlap found between compounds that bound to PaDsbA1 and those that showed affinity with EcDsbA.
Implications for the antibiotic drug discovery pipeline
The data revealed in this study regarding: the interaction between the fragment library hits and the protein; the structure of the molecules that produced the hits; and the selectivity of the binding of the fragments to PaDsbA1 rather than the DsbA protein from E. coli, represent consequential discoveries.
Together, these results constitute a foundation for the development of improved compounds that could potentially selectively inhibit PaDsbA1 and interfere with P. aeruginosa virulence, in what could be a welcome boost for the flagging antimicrobial drug discovery pipeline.
The authors point out that such anti-virulence approaches confer an additional benefit, as removing selection pressure imparted by bactericidal agents may reduce the tendency for antibiotic resistance to develop.
- Adams, LA et al. Application of fragment-based screening to the design of inhibitors of Escherichia coli DsbA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54(7): 2179–84.
- Gellatly, SL & Hancock, RE. Pseudomonas aeruginosa: new insights into pathogenesis and host defenses. Pathog Dis 2013; 67(3): 159-73.
- Jordan, JB et al. Fragment based drug discovery: practical implementation based on ¹⁹F NMR spectroscopy. J Med Chem 2012; 55(2): 678-87.
- Mohanty, B et al. Fragment library screening identifies hits that bind to the non-catalytic surface of Pseudomonas aeruginosa DsbA1. PLoS ONE 2017; 12(3): e0173436.
- World Health Organization. Antibiotic resistance fact sheet 2016. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/antibiotic-resistance/en/
- World Health Organization. WHO publishes list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed 2017. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/bacteria-antibiotics-needed/en/
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27. IN THE BIG INNING
October 1, 1975
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Technology has been a fundamental actor in the lives of human beings for many years now. It has invaded practically all areas of our day to day to facilitate almost everything. The sport is not a field that escapes the constant technological advances that every day try to perfect our way of practicing it. Both at a competitive level and a recreational level, technology has been used in sports to improve many aspects of it. It seeks to improve qualities attached to it such as precision in the registration of marks, the performance of the athlete, the recovery of injuries, sports materials, etc.
Technological advances related to trademark registration are more than striking. It is intended to achieve the highest possible accuracy, to refine to the thousandth of a second to such an extent that, we can perfectly differentiate who has won a swimming race, although three swimmers have arrived at the same time. It’s about nothing left to chance and everything is controlled as much as possible. Big contributor of it is technology. The famous ‘Hawkeye’, not only helps us to see the winner of any type of race, but has also adapted to tennis to see when a ball comes out, or when the ball completely enters the football goal.
Sports Clothing and Equipment
Precisely clothing is another of the sports fields that have been very positively affected by technology in sports. Undoubtedly, the use of synthetic fabrics has been one of the greatest advances in sports technology. This has allowed to create lighter, more adaptable, more breathable, or even with humidity or temperature control of the athlete. Also, the use of resistant materials, plastics or special gels for the production of footwear has allowed athletes to choose to maximize their performance looking for the shoe that best suits. And if we talk about sports equipment, we are not far behind. From soccer balls to badminton flyers, to surfboards, or even Formula 1 cars, everything is subject to improvement,
Technology is used so much for sport, that we have even applied it to the athlete himself. Known are already the training with electro stimulation or the search for extreme situations (as with the use of hyperbaric chambers) that allow to improve performance in the future. Nor are supplements left out for athletes, who by the way of food seek the same goal. It is about applying the technology, in this case, to the athletes’ diet to obtain better results.
Similarly, modifications are applied in the way of preventing and treating injuries. Thanks to nanotechnology and biotechnology, much progress has been made especially in the treatment of serious injuries, which some years ago could mean the end of the sports career of the athlete. As a recent example we find the advances in the intervention techniques of a broken internal lateral ligament, it is no longer necessary to resort to grafting, but the ligament itself is used to regenerate it, accelerating the recovery process of the athlete. Besides, it is worth highlighting the importance of technology in sports for people with disabilities. New materials, innovative designs and, advances in engineering and surgery have allowed many people to enjoy recreational sport.
If we pay attention, on the other hand, to the way of enjoying sport for non-professional people, a substantial change is perceived. The development of mobile applications that measure our performance, plan our workouts and even control our diet, is quite common today. Also, sports cameras have been launched that allow us to record our first-person experience or wristbands that follow our activity and even record the quality of our sleep. Everything is valid today for us to live the sport like never before.
Technology has even managed to make people who do not play sports feel part of it. We refer to the new sports information technologies. More sports-specific channels, use of new platforms and social networks for greater interaction with the viewer, more audiovisual content on demand, etc. The large communication groups are aware of the great mass of audience that move the main sports of each country, so they use technology to offer their viewers more, more and more.
But it is not only the fans that benefit. The clubs and sports organizations themselves have also been graced by the tremendous advances at the communicative level. In a globalized world like the one we live in, it is easier, faster and more effective to reach more people and make yourself known. Therefore, at AppStudio, we work every day to provide tools to fans, athletes, clubs, leagues, sports centers or federations to maximize their chances of reaching a wider audience, always offering a professional image.
Technology does not discriminate against any sector and the world of sport is greatly benefited by its progress. This is something that can be verified in a multitude of examples that we will be detailing in future occasions and that will allow us to see how sport can change and improve thanks to technological advances.
Contextualization, technology and sport more and more united
Numerous technological inventions are applied to the sport sector successfully and that benefit when enjoying this type of activities. In the world of tennis, for example, hawk-eye cameras are used that allow you to create a three-dimensional map of the court to check where the ball has fallen and knowing exactly what the trajectory has been. Gradually, this type of technological innovations makes sports more precise and provides a greater level of competitiveness.
The technologies applied to sports
Some of the most beneficial technologies for sport include:
- High speed cameras
- Artificial vision systems
- Free dimensional
- Material reactivity
- Measurement equipment
- Artificial Intelligence
Sports medicine is the one that takes advantage of thermography to take the safety and protection of athletes to a new level, since it allows to prevent all types of injuries. They are manageable technological equipment that can be taken anywhere and that help detect pain that would otherwise be difficult to diagnose. By detecting them in advance, injuries can be avoided, since it offers an image of what is happening inside the athletes’ body.
High speed cameras
Technological systems such as GoalControl-4D, which applies very advanced cameras to motion detection, help the results in sports always be accurate. This technology is applied to the Brazil World Cup so that you can know at all times if the ball has entered under the sticks.
The positive thing about this system is that it does not influence the ball or the goal, since its work is focused on processing the images. A set of highly accurate cameras record everything that happens in the goal and the data is transmitted to a computer for proper analysis.
Artificial vision system for biomechanical analysis
A technological combination with the latest in the market allows participants to be monitored at all levels in sports competitions, as in recent events. Mako cameras and the In The Pool 2.0 tool take care of capturing everything that happens on the field and analyzing the information for the benefit of the organizers and even the coaches.
This information helps create a better experience in all aspects. The organizers of the competition can know to the millimeter what happens on the pitch thanks to the artificial vision. The coaches will know what the performance of each athlete is and the journalists who broadcast the games will also have deeper and more complete information.
To achieve these results, high-performance cameras such as the Mako from Allied Vision Technologies and good software such as In The Pool are required to work with the data provided by the images.
The FreeD system is a platform that is based on the application of an artificial vision system aimed at providing new ways to enjoy repetitions. It has been used in the Super Bowl and has achieved great results thanks to a combination of nothing more and nothing less than 36 cameras of a power of 20 megapixels, being Spark SP-20000 models of the company JAI.
These cameras are combined with a state-of-the-art algorithm to create an image map of everything that happens in the field without resting at any time. When the plays are over, they are recreated through the use of a virtual camera for viewers to enjoy the show in all its splendor.
The technology also applies to how new materials are created that allow athletes to have clothes that are more resistant to contact and speed of movement.
Robots help test new sports movements and check the levels of tension that athletes could withstand in certain practices. They do not suffer or complain, so they are perfect as a testing ground.
Technology and sport crosses borders thanks to 3D-based measurement systems that offer professionals and spectators everything they may need to know about sports. These are just some of the demonstrations of how sport changes and evolves in a very positive way thanks to technological advances. In future publications we will deepen it.
AppStudio and its Contribution towards Sports
AppStudio believe that sports play a vital role in the development of healthy human body, mind, and proves to be vital in the progress of any nation. The countries which have prioritized sports are now not only economically more advance but also are more healthy and tolerant. There is no doubt that sports make you learn discipline, tolerance, patience, and a temperament to accept your defeats.
With the continuous advancements in the field of technology, AppStudio is making sure that sports enjoys the benefits of contemporary methods and equipment. From IoT to mobile applications, we have been giving sports enthusiast the modern way to adopt sports and making the games more refined and more competitive.
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It not only covers the top of the head, but it also covers the sides as well as the rear of your head. When it comes to security, it is pretty good. However, it does not include a chin bar or a face shield.
Some people find open-face helmets to be significantly more comfortable. The basis for this is that they aren’t pressed up against your head like other headphones. In a ¾ helmet, also known as an open helmet, only the side of your head is covered, allowing for more airflow and improved ventilation throughout the helmet.
Full-face helmets appear to be suffocating certain people, and the 3/4 helmet seems to be the appropriate solution for these individuals. If you prefer the ease of an open face but despise the feeling of wind in your eyes, a good set of riding goggles is a good investment.
Helmets with an open face or a quarter-circle design protect the back & sides of the head. Because these do not conceal your face, you will be able to enjoy the trip while feeling the breeze on your face. They’re commonly found on café sports, scooters, tourers, cruisers, and a variety of other motorcycles, as well as on dirt bikes.
Unlike other motorcycle helmets, a 3/4 helmet does not have a chin bar, which diminishes the overall security of the helmet because it leaves the face exposed when riding. Consequently, it is not regarded as one of the safest options available.
For protection within the regions they are intended to cover, open face helmet is deemed technically equivalent to full-face helmets in terms of structural strength. Because they are smaller and do not have a chin bar, open-face models do not weigh the maximum possible.
Furthermore, because of the opening of the helmets, it does not provide any protection from the elements or road debris. Depending on the model, they either come with half or full-face visors for safeguarding your eyes and face from the sun, or you’ll have to purchase the part separately.
Pros of open face helmet
- With an open-face helmet, you can certainly appear and feel more relaxed than you would otherwise.
- It also allows the wearer to smoke, smile, and do other things.
- When you have your helmet open, you can communicate more efficiently with your fellow riders and pillions, and you can hear what they are expressing more clearly.
- It also helps you understand what is happening around you, such as the screaming of tires, which could indicate impending danger ahead. In addition, you can hear the horns and sirens of medical vehicles passing by.
- Open-face helmets are far lighter than full-face helmets, and as a result, they are less tiring to wear.
- For this reason, you are often able to fill up at petrol pumps, including those that would typically require one to remove the helmet to do so.
- However, the most significant benefit is seeing more clearly and with a broader field of view. No blind spots can be found.
- This is the most significant safety benefit of open-face helmets, and it is instrumental in congested areas.
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Cons of open face helmet
- It offers no safety to your face during a crash; it is because the chin bar hits the ground in most of the accidents.
- It is mandatory to wear glasses for protecting your eyes
- Wear your face mask for protecting the face from rain, sunburn, bugs, windburn, stones, etc.
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As part of a plan to take 16,000 dirty-diesel trucks off the road and slash port-related truck pollution by 80 percent, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Wednesday, Feb. 18, began collecting Clean Truck Fees from cargo owners who use pre-2007 diesel trucks. The fees will raise funds to help finance the replacement of thousands of old, dirty trucks currently servicing the ports.
“Now that fee collection is implemented, we will set our sights on creating a 2009 Clean Truck Program to help bring more 2007-compliant or newer trucks into our program by the next dirty truck ban, which will come into effect January 1, 2010,” said Los Angeles Port Executive Director Geraldine Knatz. “These incentives have proven to be a quicker way to get clean trucks out on the road.”
Dirty-diesel trucks will pay a $35-per-TEU (20-foot Equivalent Unit, or 20-foot container) fee. Despite recent delays in fee collection, the Los Angeles port says it has been moving full speed ahead in helping trucking companies purchase clean trucks; more than 100 companies have applied to receive $20,000 for each qualifying truck they had put into service at the port by Jan. 15. The ports will continue to offer incentive programs to encourage trucking companies to switch to the greenest trucks on the market.
Beginning Oct. 1, 2008, the ports banned the most polluting trucks — 1988 and older rigs. It was the first in a series of bans pursued by both San Pedro Bay ports. On Jan. 1, 2010, the ports will ban 1993 and older trucks, and unretrofitted model year 1994 to 2003 trucks. By January 2012, all 2006-model year and older trucks will be banned from entering port container terminals.
Last year, the West Coast Marine Terminal Operator Agreement created a not-for-profit company, PortCheck, to collect the fees for the ports. The money collected will be transferred to the ports to provide financial assistance for the replacement of thousands of trucks during the next several years. Under the Clean Truck Program (CTP), the cargo owner is responsible for paying the fee, which will be payable by credit card or electronic funds transfer and must be paid before a container can enter or leave a terminal.
In November, the ports filed with the Federal Maritime Commission their PortCheck agreement with marine terminal operators, who would develop and operate an online and electronic gate access system to collect the fee.
FMC currently is pursuing an injunction under section 6 of the Shipping Act against certain aspects of the CTP in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. FMC has determined the CTP is likely, by a reduction in competition, to result in an unreasonable reduction in transportation services and an unreasonable increase in transportation cost.
FMC said Wednesday, Feb. 11, that in light of the previously filed action targeting the most anticompetitive provisions of the CTP, it determined that it is unnecessary to separately enjoin operation of the PortCheck agreement and fee collection, thus allowing the ports to being collecting the fee as scheduled on Wednesday, Feb. 18. FMC also said it would require the parties to the PortCheck agreement to file special monitoring reports with FMC, which would allow the commission to closely monitor the ongoing operation of the CTP collection process to assess the fee’s impact on the San Pedro Bay drayage industry, and the American shippers and consumers served by that industry.
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News of the recent death of Sydney Brenner, a renowned molecular biologist and enthusiastic conservationist, lead the team at Vivent into a long conversation on ethics and science.
At Vivent, the ethical implications of our work are important even if we can’t always draw firm conclusions about best approaches. Our recent discussions centered around the ethics of using predictions based on artificial intelligence (AI) models.
If we trained a machine learning system about all the anaesthetics we know, and then tested the system and it produced excellent predictive capability, we could then use the system to find new anaesthetics. We could do the same thing to find new drugs. At some point these new chemicals would have to be tested on animals and then on human beings. What is the ethical position on testing chemicals which have been selected by machines using a reasoning we don’t understand?
Some members of the AI community, as well as medical practitioners, baulk at using answers from a machine which are not ‘interpretable’. In other words, they require that the reasoning behind the AI must be investigated before high risk procedures are undertaken.
We can consider that, in medicine, there is often some time to consider these issues. In self-driving cars, the AI must make critical decisions and act on them in milliseconds. But if you are critically ill and the AI suggests an untested drug, what are the ethics of denying that treatment because the interpretability is low?
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The Accessibility and Quality of Online Information for all 92 Hand Surgery Fellowship Programs in the USA: An Update
Samuel A Cohen, BS1, Michelle Xiao, BS1, Catherine Curtin, MD2 and Jeffrey Yao, MD1, (1)Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, (2)Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA
Introduction: The internet is an important tool for applicants seeking information on hand surgery fellowship programs. An effective fellowship website is especially critical given the shift to virtual interviews due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous analysis of hand surgery fellowship websites demonstrated they were often inaccessible and incomplete. As such, the purpose of this study was to perform an updated assessment of the accessibility and content of hand surgery fellowship program websites.
Materials and Methods: We obtained a list of all accredited hand surgery fellowship websites from the online database of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH). Fellowship program information from the ASSH database was recorded. 92 hand surgery fellowship websites were subsequently evaluated for (1) accessibility and (2) the presence of 4 program overview, 12 fellow recruitment, and 11 fellow education criteria with a potential maximum score of 27 criteria. These criteria were determined by prior hand surgery fellowship website analyses and updated Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelines.
Results: Website links are listed for 90/92 (97.8%) hand surgery fellowship programs on the ASSH database. Of the links provided, 76/90 (84.4%) were functional. Of the functional links, only 47/76 (61.8%) provided a direct link to the proper fellowship program website. Fellowship program websites contained an average of 14.9 ± 4.5 total program overview, recruitment, and education criteria (range 4-25) (Figure 1). Program description (100%), social media links (79.3%), and affiliated hospital information (90.2%) were the most commonly identified program overview, recruitment, and education criteria, respectively (Table 1).
Conclusions: There is a lack of consistency in the program overview, recruitment, and education content on current hand surgery fellowship program websites. The majority of program websites contained approximately half of the criteria searched for in this study, with many websites failing to provide information deemed important by fellowship applicants. Applicants are increasingly turning to the internet to learn more about fellowship programs, and a website that incorporates the criteria examined in this study may serve as an effective recruitment tool. Our study provides a basis for improving the accessibility and content of hand surgery fellowship websites.
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There are different forms of pollution, such as water, air, soil, manufacturing, agriculture, etc. but, apart from this biological pollution, a new type of pollution “radioactive pollution” has now arisen. The by-products of nuclear power generation and other uses of nuclear technology are commonly radioactive waste. The increase in the levels of natural radiation caused by human activities is known as radioactive pollution. It is estimated that human activities account for about 20 percent of the radiation we are exposed to. Human activities that are capable of releasing radiation include activities involving radioactive materials, such as the extraction, handling, and processing of radioactive materials, the handling and storage of radioactive waste, as well as the use of radioactive energy reactions (nuclear power plants), and the use of radiation in medicine (e.g. X-rays) and research.
Radioactive pollution happens when there is a presence or statements of radioactive materials in the climate or climate, particularly where their essence is inadvertent and when it presents a natural danger because of radioactive decay. Emissions of harmful ionizing radiation (radioactive decay) such as beta or alpha particles, gamma rays, or neurons in the atmosphere where they reside are responsible for the damage caused by radioactive materials. Radioactive pollution, otherwise called radiological contamination is the presence of radiological substances on solids, fluids, or gases. This sort of contamination is perilous as it is equipped for having long haul risky impacts on mankind like that of leukemia.
Sources of environmental radiation are both natural and manmade.
- Natural Radiation: This involves gamma rays from space touching the surface of the earth and terrestrial radiation from radioactive elements found in the crust of the earth. In rocks, soil, and water, many radioactive elements, such as radium 224, uranium 235, uranium 238, thorium 232, radon 222, potassium 40, and carbon 14, are present.
- Man-made Radiation: This incorporates mining and refining of plutonium and thorium creation and blast of atomic weapons, atomic force plants, atomic energizes, and preparation of radioactive isotopes. Nuclear weapons development includes the testing of nuclear weaponry. These experiments generate vast amounts of radioactive elements into the atmosphere and can make other products radioactive. Strontium 90, cesium 137, iodine 131, and several others are included.
Radiation is basically energy that movements and spreads out as it goes; this is alluded to as electromagnetic radiation. The radioactive materials are changed into gases and fine particles which are conveyed to far-off spots by the wind. At the point when the downpour drops, the radioactive particles fall on the ground, it is called atomic aftermath. Radioactive substances are taken from the soil by plants, so they enter humans and animals through food chains. Iodine 131 can cause lung tumors and damage white blood corpuscles, bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, skin cancer, sterility, and faulty eyesight. Strontium 90 accumulates in the bones and, in most animals and humans, can cause bone cancer and tissue degeneration.
In the postmodern world, different types of energy are being found. Among them is atomic energy, which is promoted to be the most intense wellspring of energy because of its high idle force. Reports show that the high inert force is because of its significant level of radiation. However, in some cases and countries, nuclear power plant accidents such as the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi (2011), the disaster of Chernobyl (1986), and the accident of Three Mile Island (1979) left many dead and many more affected by the released radiation. The radioactive materials are washed from land to water bodies where the oceanic creatures assimilate them. From these creatures, radioactive materials may arrive at man through evolved ways of life.
For the development of detectors and in other manufacturing operations, radioisotopes are used. Isotopes like uranium have high radiation concentrations in them. On the other hand, common isotopes such as radioactive material containing carbon can be easily discovered via sewage lines in waterways. People additionally intentionally get radiation from demonstrative X-beams and radiation treatment for the disease. Individuals working in force plants, atomic reactors, fuel processors, or living close by are powerless against radiation openness. Therefore, the sense of radiation exposure is that while there are pervasive sources of radiation, radiation pollution is mainly caused by high-energy radiation, which carries significant health risks (such as cancer or death).
Mining primarily includes the mineral ores being excavated, which are then divided into smaller, manageable parts. Radium and uranium, for example, are naturally occurring and similarly radioactive in the environment. Owing to their dangerous effects, radioactive elements with a short and very brief half-time pose a significant threat to human health. A large portion of the radioactive materials have half-existences of countless years and, once produced, may persevere in the climate for an exceptionally significant time-frame.
The effects of radiation were first reported in 1909 when uranium miners were found to suffer from skin burns and cancer due to radioactive mineral radiation. Different species are susceptible to ionizing radiation in various ways. It has likewise been accounted for that high height plants have created polyploidy as a defensive instrument against radiations. Numerous radioactive components (materials) are normally present in the climate. They are mainly used in nuclear power plants and as fundamental elements of nuclear weapons.
The radioactive squanders are of three class’s significant level, low level, and transuranic. They principally include the removal from atomic weapons, the cleaning materials from atomic plants, army bases, discharged from plutonium handling, and different radioisotopes from emergency clinics and research centers. Nuclear waste handling and disposal can generate low to medium radiation over a long period of time. Not only are their impacts difficult to predict, but they may not be easily distinguishable because radioactivity can also contaminate and spread through the air, water, and soil.
By increasing leukemia, skin cancer, and causing mutations, nuclear exposure influences the biological environment. Higher levels can cause instant death as well. Generations are passed on to the mutant cells, and the impacts are obvious. There are immediate or short-range and delayed or long-range effects of radiation.
- Short Range (Immediate) Effects: After exposure, they occur within days or a couple of weeks. The symptoms involved hair loss, nails, subcutaneous bleeding, changes in blood cell count and proportion, altered metabolism, blood cell proportion, etc.
- Long Range (Delayed) Effects: Several months or even years after exposure, they emerge. The symptoms are caused by genetic modifications, mutations, life-span shortening, tumour development, cancers, etc. In the human race, the influence of mutations will continue.
The plants are additionally presented to radiation, and the harm is generally done because of the expanded Ultraviolet waves. Various plants get influenced in an unexpected way. The force plants, which are the wellsprings of atomic energy and synthetic preparing, have been delivering radioisotopes into the water for quite a long time. Cesium, Radon, Crypton, Ruthenium, Zinc, and Copper are not many of them.
The following preventive measures should be followed to control radioactive pollution:
- It is important to fully stop the leakage of radioactive materials from the nuclear reactors, industries, and laboratories which use them.
- The disposal of nuclear waste must be safe. They should be modified or preserved in safe places in a harmless way so that they can decay in a harmless manner. Radioactive waste can only be dumped into the sewerage with very low radiation.
- Preventive steps should be taken so as not to increase the amount of natural radiation above the allowable levels.
- Protection steps against incidents at nuclear power plants should be taken.
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Homemade Belgian Waffles is the first thing that appears to most people’s thought when it arrives to a comfort dish. Today, we will provide you procedures on preparing a appetizing Homemade Belgian Waffles.
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Firstly, here are the ingridients that you should prepare to cook Homemade Belgian Waffles:
- You need 2 1/4 cups of All-purpose Flour.
- Use 1 tbs of Baking Soda.
- Provide 3 tbs of Sugar.
- Get 1/2 tsp of Salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Cinnamon.
- Get 2 of Large Eggs Separated.
- Prepare 1/2 cups of Vegetable Oil.
- Get 2 cups of Milk.
- Provide 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
After readying the ingridients, now we are set to make our delightful Homemade Belgian Waffles:
You can easily make Belgian waffles at home using some simple ingredients and a waffle iron. Crispy, Fluffy, Belgian Waffles To Start Your Day Off With A Smile. Top Them With All Of Your Favorite Fruits , Spreads And Syrups. When you have a waffle and breakfast food addiction, the first meal of the day can be a struggle. I have butter and batter running through my veins, buttermilk quenching my thirst.
Recipe : Homemade Belgian Waffles
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The beautiful city of Edinburgh with the severe lines of the Castle and the Palace sitting high above was washed with rain during the entire week of the International Drama Conference. God was right. Last year the Edinburgh Festival sponsored a conference on the novel and became well-known for some highly seasoned confessions of homosexuality, dope-taking, and boiling praise of William Burroughs. This year, perhaps conscious that the days were tame and ambling by comparison, “a happening” was staged on the final day by a young American director and his American aides. “A happening” is an improvised entertainment and this one included a naked girl being wheeled across the organ platform on a TV trolley. Maybe the girl was improvised, although she said she was paid four guineas ahead of time and would do it all over again, but you cannot improvise a TV trolley and I guess you don’t improvise a taste for newspaper headlines.
The Drama Conference took place in McEwan Hall. Around the dome of this ugly nineteenth-century building run the words from Proverbs, “Wisdom is the Principal Thing.” Maybe, but not that week. About sixty delegates from many countries sat on the platform with Kenneth Tynan, as over-all chairman, and there was a new chairman for each day’s discussion. The whole affair seemed to be managed by John Calder, the publisher, as deep a worrier about paid public attendance as any Broadway producer. He had cause to worry. The first day’s audience, over two thousand, fell as the days passed, to under five hundred, and they could have been relatives.
There has long been a theory that the best actors are those who lead their emotional lives upon a stage. For many years I have been working on a theory that everybody in the theater—playwright, director, stage designer, prop man—are actor manqué. During the conference my theory became scientific fact. People who might have talked seriously among themselves were given an audience, TV cameras, and newspaper reporters. Heady stuff for actors manqué and designed, of course, to make words and ideas seem less important than personalities. For example, Arthur Adamov, a Frenchman who has written a number of interesting plays, became the Shirley Temple of the conference, although Shirley Temple was never so conscious of her charm. But Mr. Adamov was not alone.
The first day opened with the discussion, “Who makes today’s theater? The playwright, the director, or the actor?” A subject with built-in irritability. Obviously a fight had been counted on, but none came. I was part of that day’s panel, spoke briefly and not very well, and did not speak again. I did not want to speak again and nobody wanted me to. (Perhaps washouts are not the best reporters, but I’ve tried to deal here only with facts.) That day, Joan Littlewood, who is the most inventive and original talent in the English theater, made a warm-hearted but unfortunate speech that served as the first sign that great talent is not always proof of public intelligence, and maybe should not be tested as such.
The first day had been timid and dull, and so, on the next day, what seemed to me a planned hell broke loose. It need hardly be said that the word “Brecht” had been as common as the word “the” when Tynan announced that the British Government had refused entry to Mrs. Brecht and her associates. This was properly condemned by all of us—East German Trade delegations come in and out freely, but then that’s money—except Bernard Levin, a London critic and TV personality. His flamboyant speech made all of us uncomfortable and caused Wolf Mankowitz to grow angry—Levin said Mankowitz was known as 90 per cent Mankowitz: obviously a local joke—and Mankowitz said Levin was the first Jewish fascist. Mr. Mankowitz has had a sheltered life.
The third day’s session was mostly about the cinema and television. Mr. Robbe-Grillet told us of the philosophical considerations that had turned him to the cinema. It was all very high class, but perhaps writers should not explain themselves or have such well-thought-out reasons for why they do what they do. On that day Harold Pinter, a dignified young man, made good sense, Olivier made a charming speech, and Alec Guinness listened for a short time and modestly disappeared. By the fourth day national characteristics showed clearly: the American delegation made jokes and looked unhappy, the Russian delegation was prim, the French dealt in generalities, the English delegation spoke very good English, and the ex-Germans and Swiss made practical suggestions that were thoroughly impractical at such a conference.
Each night a pleasant party was given by kind, well-heeled residents of Edinburgh. I skipped most of the parties and heard a fine concert by Stern, Istomin, and Rose, and saw Alec Guinness in Ionesco’s play Exit the King, about which W. A. Darlington, a London drama critic, wrote a remarkable sentence, “Either this is a masterpiece or I have no judgment at all.” Mr. Darlington has no judgment at all. Or perhaps he was the victim of that fashionable disease which caused the conference to come out in a rash—the need of the well-established to be anti-established, the belief that to question the work of the avant garde is to be square. Ibsen goes and Ionesco comes. Ionesco goes and Ibsen returns. But the rash came out on all of us, and Tynan as the host, was forced to look over one famous shoulder to a possibly more famous shoulder, and over that shoulder to see who might be famous in the years to come. Fashion, as every society lady knows, takes a lot of doing and changes fast and the really expert practitioners of fashion never buy clothes in early September.
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Hair fall is a persisting issue for many people and it can be quite difficult to get rid of. Too much hair fall can be caused by many illnesses, hormonal changes, overuse of hair products that have chemicals present in them, or even a poor and unhealthy diet. Consuming a balanced diet with the essential nutrients can help in promoting hair growth, especially if you are having hair loss due to bad nutrition. From egg whites to amla, there are certain foods that can help in reducing hair fall and promoting good hair growth. Some nutrients play an important role in managing beauty care problems.
National Nutrition Week is celebrated from 1st to 7th September. The goal is to make people aware about healthy nutrition and diet. On the occasion of National Nutrition Week 2021, we bring to you some important diet tips for various health concerns and lifestyle-related issues and we are beginning with hair fall problems today. Onlymyhealth editorial team talked to Dr. Megha Jaina, Clinical Nutritionist, BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, about the nutrition and diet to tackle hair fall.
Foods and drinks to reduce hair fall
Nutritional deficiencies can result in hair loss, but eating the super foods can also lead to healthy hair with many other additional benefits. You need to make sure that you are consuming a diet with variety of important nutrients including Vitamin D, biotin and iron to promote hair health. According to Dr. Megha, here are the 5 foods and drinks that can help in tackling hair fall:
1. Plenty of fluids
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Along with plenty of water, there are many other fluids that one should drink to control hair fall. Healthy beverages like coconut water, buttermilk and lemon water can be taken during the day. It can help in keeping your body and scalp hydrated and moisturised. Basically, water hydrates the hair cells and helps your hair grow long and strong.
2. Nuts and seeds
Seeds are rich sources of nutrients that contain less calories. Most of the nutrients present in different seeds promote hair growth. Nutrients such as vitamin E, zinc and selenium. Nuts and seeds like cashews, walnuts and flax seeds provide a good amount of omega-3 fatty acids, which is beneficial for hair health. provide a wide variety of B vitamins, zinc and essential fatty acids. A deficiency of any of these nutrients can lead to hair loss. One can have a handful of mixture of few nuts and seeds daily.
Amla is a good source of several vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and phytonutrients that can help in improving the blood circulation in your scalp. Amla supplies a good flow of oxygen and nutrients to the hair follicles and makes the hair fibers strong, thus, preventing and treating the problem of hair fall.
4. Green leafy vegetables
Dark green leafy vegetables are loaded with nutrients that prevent hair loss. Vegetables such as kale, spinach, asparagus, beans and collards can be consumed for good hair growth. These contain vitamin A, iron, beta carotene, folate, and vitamin C, that are important to tackle the problem of hair fall. You can gain these nutrients from green leafy vegetables and also protect your hair by moisturising the scalp using DIY hair masks.
5. Egg whites
Eggs are a great source of protein and biotin, two nutrients that may promote hair growth. Eating adequate protein is important for hair growth because hair follicles are made of mostly protein. A lack of protein in the diet has been shown to promote hair loss. Egg whites are also a great source of zinc, selenium and other hair-healthy nutrients. This makes them one of the best foods to consume for optimal hair health.
Diet plan for hair fall
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As per Dr. Megha, here is a full day diet plan and meal options to tackle the problem of hair fall:
- Breakfast options: Besan chila, moong dal chila, sprouts, egg whites, oats or cornflakes
- Mid meal options: Bowl of seasonal fruits, lemon water, buttermilk or coconut water
- Lunch meal: Salad (should include beetroot, amla), one katori dal/curd, seasonal vegetable, boiled white rice, two chapattis of rago flour
- Evening snacking options: Bowl of seasonal fruits, Kala chana soup, sprout salad, cut of greet tea or coffee
- Dinner options: Drumstick and onion soup, 50 grams fish, One piece chicken, Two Ragi chapattis or one katori dal
What foods to avoid to tackle hair fall?
Here is a list of foods that should be avoided to prevent and reduce hair fall:
- Red meat
- Junk food
- Allergy triggering foods
- Refined carbs
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Respiratory Emergencies 2018
This continuing education activity is administered by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) as an Agency providing continuing education credit. Individuals who complete this program and earn a 70% or higher score on the post test will be awarded 1.0 NAPNAP contact hours, of which 0.25 is pharmacology content.
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Ascarids are the most frequent worm parasite in dogs and cats. There are two species that commonly infect dogs: Toxocara canis and Toxascaris leonina. Adult roundworms live in the stomach and intestines and can grow to 7 inches (18 cm) long. A female may lay 200,000 eggs in a day. The eggs are protected by a hard shell. They are extremely hardy and can live for months or years in the soil.
There are four ways dogs can become infected with roundworms. Prenatal infection occurs when the larvae migrate through the placenta in utero. Almost all puppies are infected in this manner before birth. Mother’s milk can also transmit ascarids. In addition, puppies and adults can become infected by ingesting eggs in the soil. And finally, dogs can acquire the eggs by ingesting a transport or intermediate host, such as a mouse or other rodent.
The life cycle of T. canis in young puppies is as follows: Eggs entering through the puppy’s mouth hatch in her stomach. The larvae are carried to the lungs by the circulatory system. Here they break through the capillaries into the air sacs, sometimes causing bouts of coughing and gagging. Once in the lungs, the larvae crawl up the windpipe and are swallowed. Back in the intestines, the larvae develop into adult worms. The adults pass eggs that become infective in soil in three to four weeks.
Dogs older than 6 months develop an acquired resistance to ascarids. Few, if any, larvae complete the life cycle. Most come to rest in various body tissues, where they encyst. While encysted, they are protected against the dog’s antibodies and also the effects of most dewormers. (Interceptor is an exception. This dewormer has some effect on encysted larvae.) During pregnancy, however, encysted larvae are activated and migrate to the placenta and mammary glands. Deworming the dam before pregnancy reduces the burden of migrating larvae but does not eliminate all puppy infestations because there are still encysted larvae in the mother’s body.
Ascarids rarely cause symptoms in adult dogs; in puppies older than 2 months, they usually produce only mild intermittent vomiting and diarrhea. Worms maybe found in the vomitus or passed in the stool. Typically, they look like white earthworms or strands of spaghetti that may be moving.
In very young puppies, a heavy infestation can result in severe illness or even death. These puppies often fail to thrive, have a dull coat and a pot-bellied appearance, and are anemic and stunted in growth. Such puppies may experience abdominal pain with whimpering and groaning. Rarely, a tangled mass of worms in the small intestines can cause death from intestinal obstruction.
Treatment: Nemex or Strongid (pyrantel pamoate suspension) is an excellent dewormer for nursing pups because it is safe and active against both ascarids and hookworms. This makes it the agent of choice for these youngsters. Pyrantel pamoate dewormers can be obtained from your veterinarian. You do not have to fast your pup before using this medication. Be sure to fol- low the manufacturer’s directions regarding dosage.
Puppies should be dewormed by 2 weeks of age – before they begin to pass ascarid eggs and contaminate the environment. Repeat the treatment at 4, 6, and 8 weeks of age. The purpose of retreating is to kill worms that were in the larval stage during the first dewormings. Subsequent treatments are indicated if eggs or worms are found in the stool.
Drontal Plus, Vercom Paste, Telmintic, and Panacur have a broad spectrum of activity and are all highly effective against ascarids, hookworms, and whipworms. Drontal and Vercom are also highly effective against tapeworms. Panacur is only partially effective against tapeworms. Deworming the brood bitch with Panacur during the last two weeks of gestation and during lactation reduces environmental exposure and helps control puppy infection.
Drontal Plus comes in two tablet sizes: one for small dogs and another for medium and large dogs. The prescribed number of tablets (based on the dog’s weight) is given as a single dose. The dose should be repeated in two to four weeks. Drontal Plus cannot be used in dogs who weigh less than 2 pounds (1 kg) or in puppies less than 3 weeks old. A stool sample should be checked following the second course of treatment.
Vercom and Panacur are given daily for three consecutive days. The entire course should be repeated in two to four weeks, followed by a stool check to make sure the worms have been eliminated.
Prevention: Heartworm preventives such as Interceptor prevent and control ascarids as well as hookworms and whipworms. Heartgard Plus controls ascarids and hookworms but not whipworms.
Public health considerations: Ascarids can cause a serious disease in humans called visceral larva migrans. The infection is acquired when the eggs of T. canis are ingested by a human. Children 1 to 4 years old are most frequently affected, and often have a history of eating dirt. The frequent use of city parks by pets has resulted in heavy contamination of soil and sandboxes in these areas. One study of parks in a large U.S. city revealed that one out of three soil samples contained T. canis eggs.
When a human eats an ascarid egg, larvae develop as in the dog. However, because humans are not a definitive host, the larvae do not progress to adult ascarids. Instead, they burrow into the intestinal wall and migrate to the liver, lungs, and skin. Symptoms, which develop only when the infestation is heavy, include abdominal pain, cough, wheezing, itching, and a skin rash with papules. In a very heavy infestation, larvae may reach the heart, kidneys, spleen, brain, eyes, and other tissues. In young children, a syndrome called ocular larva migrans can lead to blindness and necessitate the removal of an eye.
Prevention of human infection is based on recognizing that the vast majority of eggs excreted in the environment are produced by nursing puppies and lactating bitches. This is one reason why it is so important to deworm puppies before eggs appear in the stool.
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nebula-rich constellation Orion, NGC 2174 can be found with binoculars near the head of the celestial hunter. About 6,400 light-years distant, the glowing cosmic cloud surrounds loose clusters of young stars. Covering an area larger than the full Moon on the sky, this stunning narrow band image adopts a typical color mapping of the atomic emission from NGC 2174. The false-color mapping shows otherwise red hydrogen emission in green hues and emphasizes sulfur emission in red and oxygen in blue. Placing your cursor on the image will reveal an alternative image of the nebula made through broad band filters. The broad band image combines filters in a closer analogy to human vision, dominated by the red glow of hydrogen.
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The history of women’s organized struggles for their rights and social justice began in the early nineteenth century and almost immediately was transnational in character. An early pioneer was the British Quaker, Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), who in 1821 established the British Ladies’ Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners. This Society probably was the first nation-wide “women’s organization,” understood here as organizations constituted by women to enhance women’s status and rights. In the 1830s and 1840s, Fry made a number of trips to the European mainland to advocate her ideas about prison reform and help set up organizations of women working on behalf of female prisoners, referred to as “those of their own sex.”
More broadly, early feminism and socialism developed together in England and France in the post-French Revolution context, led by internationally minded activists. Partly from this same group emerged what historian Bonnie Anderson called “the first international women’s movement,” consisting of a network of connections between some twenty French, British, German, Scandinavian and North American women who agitated for social, economic and political rights, and used their international connections to spread information and ask for and offer solidarity. Included in this early network were the German Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817–1884), the Swedish Frederika Bremer (1801–1865) and the French Jeanne Deroin (1805–1894). The political repression following the 1848 revolutions in Europe meant the end of this international women’s movement. But women’s international activism re-emerged and became more formally structured, as with the Swiss Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin’s International Association of Women (1868–1871), and Josephine Butler’s 1869 British Ladies’ National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act, which in 1876 became the British, Continental and General Federation for the Abolition of Government Regulation of Vice.
International Women’s Organizations in the Pre-1940 World
The three main international women’s organizations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were the International Council of Women (ICW), the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA, from 1926 the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, IAW) and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). The first, the ICW, was founded at a conference convened by the US National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in Washington, D.C. in 1888. In order to realize its two main aims, “to provide a means of communication between women’s organizations in all countries” and “opportunities for women to meet together from all parts of the world to confer upon questions relating to the welfare of the commonwealth and the family” (ICW Constitution, 1888), the ICW held Council meetings, first every five, later every three years. The IWSA also organized huge international congresses, which helped to create public and political support for women’s suffrage. The WILPF emerged at the famous International Congress of Women, convened by Dutch feminists Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) and Rosa Manus (1881-1942), and held in The Hague in 1915 in the midst of World War One. The WILPF was formally established under this name in 1919. Notably, the Council, the Alliance and the League all began with national sections in Western Europe or what Leila Rupp has called the “neo-Europes” (the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand). Rupp also characterized the international movement of which the ICW, the IAW and the WILPF formed the core as “bourgeois and dominated by women of European origin” (Rupp 1997, 5).
Socialist or socialist feminist women also created international structures to enhance women’s rights, with the German Clara Zetkin (1857–1933) as a major example. Among other things, she was involved in establishing the International Socialist Women’s Secretariat (1907–1915). In Copenhagen in 1910, at the second international socialist women’s conference, Zetkin, together with Luise Ziets (1865–1922) proposed what became “International Women’s Day,” with “agitation for women’s suffrage” as the day’s initial focus. From 1920 to 1926 an International Women’s Secretariat existed within the Communist International. Social-democratic women also held international conferences in the 1920s and 1930s, and regularly from 1948 onwards; they reorganized themselves in the International Council of Social Democratic Women in 1955. In the interwar years, socialist or left-feminist women further established the International Federation of Working Women (1919–1923), the International Cooperative Women’s Guild (1921–1963), and the World Committee of Women against War and Fascism (1934).
Women’s involvement with global governance began with the international women’s organizations gaining a small foothold in the League of Nations immediately after World War One. It was especially the International Council of Women that played an important role in this process, among other things by initiating in 1925 the Joint Standing Committee of Women’s International Organizations, which pushed for the appointment of women to the League of Nations; in 1931 the organizations belonging to the Joint Standing Committee in turn established the somewhat bigger Liaison Committee of Women’s International Organizations, which was active for decades. The main achievement of the international women’s organizations in the League of Nations was getting women’s rights acknowledged as an issue that belonged on the international agenda, similar to, for example, slavery, and the protection of youth and of minorities.
The Big Three International Women’s Organizations of the Post-1945 World
The three main international women’s organizations of the post-1945 world were the well-established ICW and IAW, with the left-feminist Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) as the third of the “Big Three.” The WIDF was founded in Paris in late November 1945 but in early 1951 moved its headquarters to the eastern sector of Berlin, after the French government in January 1951 forbade the WIDF to be further active in France. The WIDF’s aims were the struggles against fascism and for peace, women’s rights—“shared action to organize women in all countries of the world to defend their rights and to achieve social progress”—and the happiness of children, with a strong commitment as well to anti-colonialism and anti-racism. Among the WIDF’s leading women were the Frenchwoman Eugénie Cotton (1881–1967, WIDF President, 1945–1967), the Bulgarian Tsola Dragoicheva (1898–1993), the Spanish Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989), the Italian Maria Maddalena Rossi (1906–1995), and the Swedish Dr. Andrea Andreen (1888–1972), and from colonized and newly independent countries for example the Indian Kapila Khandwala, the Nigerian Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978), or the Iraqi Dr. Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923–2007).
In 1947, the ICW, the IAW, and the WIDF received Consultative Status B with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (UN), along with ten other international women’s organizations. All three organizations were actively involved in the UN-Commission on the Status of Women. Due to Cold War politics, the WIDF lost its Consultative Status in 1954, to be reinstated in 1967. The WIDF’s main contributions to enhancing women’s status worldwide were its proposal to the UN to hold an International Women’s Year (1975) and its work towards the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1967) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979). If we take a long-term perspective, it is clear that the “Big Three” —ICW, IAW, WIDF—made crucial contributions towards enhancing women’s rights and status, not just in Europe but globally, a process in which they sometimes worked together and always built on each other’s contributions. It was no coincidence, therefore, that in 1975 the ICW, the IAW and the WIDF were the only international women’s organizations with the highest consultative status at the UN, confirming their status as the main international women’s organizations of the twentieth century. | <urn:uuid:8dfc6467-a05d-49a5-85aa-40461384c052> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ehne.fr/en/encyclopedia/themes/gender-and-europe/feminisms-and-feminist-movements/european-women-and-main-international-women%E2%80%99s-organizations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946375 | 1,841 | 4 | 4 |
Reducing the False Alarm Rate in Intrusion Detection System by Providing Authentication and Improving the Efficiency of Intrusion Detection System by using Filtered Clusterer Algorithm using Weka Tool
Pratik Jain1, Ravikant Kholwal2, Tavneet Singh Khurana3
1Pratik Jain*, Computer Science, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Science, Indore, India.
2Ravikant Kholwal Computer Science, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India.
3Tavneet Singh Khurana, Computer Science, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Science, Indore, India.
Manuscript received on April 06, 2021. | Revised Manuscript received on April 15, 2021. | Manuscript published on April 30, 2021. | PP: 134-143 | Volume-10 Issue-4, April 2021. | Retrieval Number: 100.1/ijeat.D24130410421 | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.D2413.0410421
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Abstract: An IDS supervises network traffic by searching for skeptical activities and previously determined threats and sends alerts when detected. In the current times, the splendors of Intrusion detection still prevail censorial in cyber safety, but maybe not as a lasting resolution. To study a plant, one must start with roots, so Cambridge dictionary defines an intrusion as “an occasion when someone goes into an area or situation where they’re not wanted or expected to be”. For understanding the article, we will characterize interruption as any network movement or unapproved framework identified with one or more PCs or networks. This is an interpretation of permissible use of a system attempting to strengthen his advantages to acquire more noteworthy access to the framework that he is at present endowed, or a similar client attempting to associate with an unapproved far-off port of a server. These are the interruptions which will cause from the surface world, a bothered ex-representative who was terminated recently, or from your reliable staff. In this proviso, the fair information is found as an attack when the case is a false positive. Here they are zeroing in on this issue with a representation and offering one answer for a similar issue. The KDD CUP 1999 informational index is utilized. Here we dropped the number of counts and considered the OTP authentication system. In the result of this test, it may be very well seen that on the off chance that a class has a higher number of checks, at that point this class is believed to be an anomaly class. In any case, it will be considered an oddity if the genuine individual is passing the edge esteem is considered an intruder. One arrangement is proposed to distinguish the genuine individual and to eliminate false positives.
Keywords: Anomaly Detection System (ADS), Bogus positive, Clustering, Data mining, Detection rate, Ensemble, False alert rate, K-Means.
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opinion On a rainy Friday in June this year, I sent an email to the media liaison team at the Attorney-General’s Department of the Federal Government.
The email was to ask a handful of basic follow-up questions after the department had confirmed that it was considering whether a similar regime to Europe’s controversial Directive on Data Retention should be implemented in Australia.
To say that this issue was – and continues to be – explosive is a severe understatement. As Ben Grubb at ZDNet.com.au conclusively documented at the time, the European directive requires that telcos and internet service providers compulsorily record data such as the source, destination and timing of emails and telephone calls for all of their customers.
The aim of such a proposal is laudable – to aid law enforcement agencies in upholding Australia’s security and stopping the bad guys – terrorists, high-end criminals and the like, from being able to get away with whatever they like. But the proposal’s privacy implications are monstrous, especially for journalists (or for anyone who doesn’t want people to know all their contacts).
How can the press keep sources confidential, if data about all of our phone calls and emails are logged and made available to the police?
Considering the seriousness of the proposal, I would have expected the Attorney-General’s Department to answer some basic questions about it. So this is what I asked in my email (after a phone call and another initial email):
- Can the Attorney-General’s Department confirm that the data regime being considered would require ISPs to maintain records of customers’ web browsing history and/or email data?
- Does the Attorney-General’s Department consider this behaviour a privacy risk?
- Why or why not?
- If such data is to be stored, what would the terms be around the storage of data?
This is the response I got back:
“The Australian Government is still considering and consulting on the subject and as such it would be inappropriate to comment at this stage.”
It was a similar situation when I called the press secretary for Federal Attorney-General Robert McLelland. Despite repeatedly placing calls over the weekend, it was only late in the long weekend that I was able to get through to them – they didn’t call me back, to my knowledge. And even then I was only able to confirm the bare essentials of the data retention proposal, which by then was being referred to online as ‘OzLog’.
I describe this example here, not to bemoan how hard the job of a journalist is – nor even to give readers an insight into the inner workings of the press. Instead, I describe it here to consider how laughable I consider the Declaration of Open Government that Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner so pompously made last week.
In case you missed it, this is the key statement that Tanner made last week:
“The Australian Government now declares that, in order to promote greater participation in Australia’s democracy, it is committed to open government based on a culture of engagement, built on better access to and use of government-held information and sustained by the innovative use of technology.”
You can find the complete declaration and the background on the declaration, which has been in the works for some time, on the new blog set up by the Australian Government Information Management Office to discuss this and other matters relating to government information and technology use.
The truth is, the Labor Government has deliberatedly and needlessly withheld information in the public interest on this and a range of other matters over the past two and a half years since it swept to power under Kevin Rudd.
It has consistently withheld information about the progress of its controversial mandatory internet filtering policy, including the existence of a secret online forum which it used to discuss the policy with internet service providers. In both this case and the data retention case, it is believed ISPs were asked to sign confidentially agreements that precluded them discussing what was going on.
For months, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy refused to publish an extensive report by consulting firms McKinsey and KPMG into the future of the National Broadband Network (which was put together at a cost of $25 million) until Greens Senator Scott Ludlam blocked Government Senate initiatives until he did so.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon has consistently refused to discuss the Federal Government’s electronic health record plans in any detail, despite the fact that $466.7 million was allocated towards the plans in the last Federal budget, and despite the fact that the planned new system will allocate every Australian a unique identification number.
Roxon has still not disclosed how the money will be spent.
The Government has consistently withheld information in general about how the National Broadband Network policy is being implemented, how the associated company is being setup, and how some NBN contracts have been signed (especially in Tasmania). It has only been since the company has engaged its own communications professionals that information has been emerging.
And the decision-making process around the consultation for a new R18+ classification to cover video games is likewise veiled in secrecy, with information emerging in dribs and drabs over year-long periods about the progression of the idea – despite an overwhelming amount of public support for the proposal.
All of this is just in the area that I personally report on – the technology sector. Who knows how much information is being withheld in other areas.
Now like others Australia’s technology sector – as well as international luminaries who have commented on the matter, I wholeheartedly agree with the aims of the Open Government policy.
It’s a massive step forward that our Federal Government is loosening the ties which withhold useful information owned by the Commonwealth – geographical information, statistical information, legal information – a veritable treasure trove – from the public, especially as I have seen a trend within new publications being licenced under Creative Commons licences.
And initiatives such as Government Twitter accounts and blogs new freedom of information laws and so on are also fantastic. I highly praise the Government’s initiatives in this area, and I’d like to see more.
But let’s not pretend that – as Lindsay Tanner was pretending last week – the Gillard Government “is committed to creating a culture of public sector openness, transparency and engagement”.
It is not. It is committed to creating such a culture where it suits it – and not a millimetre elsewhere.
Now, one of the more positive things that I have been hearing from people connected to the Federal Government as well as public servants themselves is that despite the obfuscations of the truth about Open Government being handed down by some politicians, many Canberran public servants are genuinely committed to the policy and have been agitating for this sort of thing for years.
This is something that I wholeheartedly believe.
With this in mind, let me make an appeal to the Federal Government to let those voices speak and take the lead on the Open Government policy.
Instead of having a declaration of Open Government signed and delivered by Lindsay Tanner, I would like to see the Federal Government publish a website where individual public servants could publicly commit – under their own names, and with their job titles published – to supporting the Open Government ideal.
I would like to see that site document the areas in which each public servant is working towards Open Government. It could be as simple as saying:
“Hi, my name’s Joe Blogs, I’m a data technician working within the Australian Taxation Office. My team is committed to Open Government, and we’ve obtained permission from ATO management to publish this set of statistical data into the public domain via Creative Commons. That’s our team’s contribution this year.”
If this sort of initiative was to go ahead, it would create a form of peer pressure – where the more individual public servants and teams of public servants signed up to publicly declare themselves as being committed to Open Government — as opposed to merely agreeing with the policy in private but not enacting it when the chips are down – the more would feel pressured to.
If the past several years of Labor rule have taught Australia anything about its political sphere, it is that the principle of ministerial accountability no longer exists. What I would like to see is the public service standing up for itself and taking on accountability for Open Government in its own right.
We’ve already seen some public servants take this stance. The best example I can think of right now is AGIMO first assistant secretary John Sheridan, who has publicly and openly been engaging on Twitter and on the AGIMO blog about matters relating to the Government. And I would like to see more courageous souls like him.
Perhaps what I am proposing here is mere wishful thinking – perhaps there is an entrenched culture of secrecy within Australia’s public sector which will prove too hard for the Open Government ideal to break.
But, to be honest, when I meet individual public servants in person, I don’t believe this. People usually go into the public service knowing that government work doesn’t pay well, is hard and politically complicated. But I’ve met many – Defence chief information officer Greg Farr would be one example – who see it as a noble endeavour – truly serving Australia in the best way that they can. And I admire these people.
These are the people who need to stand up right now and build a real grassroots Open Government campaign within Canberra’s public sector.
I don’t envy the task that these public servants will set for themselves. It will be a hard one. They will need to argue with some of their less enlightened colleagues, in some cases risk their jobs for their ideals, and constantly seek permission from high departmental authorities and their Minister’s office for small information disclosures.
But the alternative to not doing this is even worse.
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Suggestions that the many archaeological sites found all around Greece such as the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens, ancient Delphi, Olympia and many others, have been rejected, with the insistence that the Greek state should continue to undertake the task.
On Monday a statement was issued by the Association of Greek Archaeologists which followed the publication of a report in Time magazine by the American archaeologist Stephen Miller, who said …
“The Ministry of Culture does some things very well: it does conservation work extremely well, they are very good at setting up exhibitions. They are lousy businessmen.”
The association however disagrees and said …
“Archaeological sites and the country’s monuments belong to the whole of society. The protection, promotion and management of these sites is the duty of the state, as stipulated in the Constitution and laws of this country.”
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Any athletes are well known to endure such athletic discomforts and also form part of active training programmes. To improve muscle strength, the muscles must be stressed much more than what they are used to and this tension is generally interpreted as the muscle pain during exercise. We’re calling healthy pain this moderate burn. This discomfort can last immediately after the operation is over and resolve.
Fatigue after a successful, demanding training is also an indication that the workout challenges the physiology boundaries of the athlete and causes of muscle pain. It should also not, however, be extreme. The person should become exhilarated but not unnecessarily tired by this exhaustion. Period of fatigue means the metabolism of the person is unnecessarily challenged and it does not refresh muscles or energy reserves efficiently. Chronic tiredness after excessive exercise indicates that the person can overwork.
The body muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones and cartilage are living structures that only eventually respond to stress. If you see tension so soon, you can’t respond adequately and may start struggling. The reasons may be too much stress too soon, or extreme stress may increase over time.
Why not to take your Muscle Pain Lightly
when they see lots of tension when muscles that have not been trained for long durations, they respond by getting sore. A new workout you are unaccustomed to, if you perform a familiar exercise too vigorously, usually includes muscle soreness. Usually this soreness starts a few hours later but peaks one or two days after exercise. This soreness is considered muscular soreness prolonged in the onset which may cause real muscle injury.
The muscle is stressed with a minimal amount of soreness or pain, but the muscle may become very sick to lift and touch and can swell, even though it is exercised too high on the muscle pain treatment. The muscle can sustain damage to the point of irreversible muscle damage in serious cases. In severe situations, patients who are inadequately sick and exercise will develop a disease that permanently affects the muscle and introduces proteins into the bloodstream that can slow down the kidneys.
And when it’s rare, it is advised to initiate a fitness routine very slowly and steadily build up, and there are deaths due to the intense overexercise of the muscles use the amount of workout that you feel you should do and slash the first few days by one third.
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Taking these steps to lower the chance of experiencing muscle pain in the future if your muscles are caused by stress or vigorous activity on how to get rid of muscle pain:
- Stretch the body prior to physical activity and exercise.
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- Keep hydrated, especially on active days.
- Stick to daily exercises to promote maximum muscle tone.
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Israel is prepared for a dialogue about Russia’s crackdown on the Jewish Agency, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Tuesday.
“Israel-Russia relations lean on history, continuous contact and shared interests,” he said. “The Jewish community plays a central role in these relations.”
Responding to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s statement that Russia has legal questions about the Jewish Agency that are not related to bilateral relations, Lapid said Israel is ready to talk.
“If there are indeed legal matters that arise from the Jewish Agency’s important activities in Russia, Israel, as always, is prepared to hold a dialogue while preserving the important interests of the countries,” he said.
Earlier in the week, Lapid said if the Jewish Agency were closed in Russia, it would be “a serious matter with ramifications for relations” between the countries.
Jerusalem views the crackdown on the Jewish Agency as diplomatic and a possible reaction to Israeli humanitarian aid to Ukraine – more of which was dispatched on Monday. It may also have been a reaction to Lapid’s criticism of Russia’s invasion and Israel’s votes in the UN, though Israel has not given Ukraine military aid.
Moscow on Tuesday seemed eager to downplay the diplomatic implications.
“There is no need to politicize this situation and project it onto the entire range of Russian-Israeli relations,” Peskov said.
“It’s necessary to take a careful approach here, but also to realize that all organizations must comply with Russian law,” he said.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: “This is a question of the Ministry of Justice. This is a legal plane.”
“Unfortunately, in recent months we have heard… absolutely unconstructive and, most importantly, biased rhetoric,” she said.
“It was completely incomprehensible and strange for us,” Zakharova said. “When we now hear comments from the leadership of this country that some of Russia’s actions on the bilateral track may affect relations, I would like to ask if these same people do not think that their actions and statements over these months have already affected bilateral relations.”
Jewish Agency employees in Russia complained about phone tapping in recent days, amid a crackdown on the organization and a spike of about 1,000 applications a day from Russian Jews seeking to move to Israel.
In recent calls from their Moscow office, Russian intelligence personnel interrupted their conversations to accuse them of breaking privacy laws, the employees said.
The number of aliyah applicants has more than doubled in recent weeks, following an increase that began after Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, according to Jewish Agency officials.
In addition, about 60% of Jewish Agency employees remain at the five offices of the organization across Russia, after many of them left for Israel.
Nearly 20,000 Russian Jews and 16,000 Ukrainian Jews have made aliyah since February.
According to Nativ, an independent administrative unit in the Prime Minister’s Office that operates among Jews and their families throughout the FSU countries, about 35,000 Russian Jews have filled out forms and are waiting to make aliyah.
“Every day, 1,000 new applicants arrive at the Jewish Agency offices across Russia,” a person familiar with the matter said.
The Jewish Agency has also received alarming reports of Russian Jews waiting to make aliyah who have received threats from Russian banks, Army Radio reported. The banks told them if they immigrate, they would lose basic rights in Russia, such as owning a bank account, and they will forfeit their assets and savings, the report said.
Russia's Jewish Agency problems
Moscow says its actions against the Jewish Agency are a purely legal matter, while criticizing Israel’s position toward Russia in the war with Ukraine.
The Russian Justice Ministry began to probe the Jewish Agency about three years ago, amid a crackdown on foreign NGOs, and intensified its scrutiny earlier this month. The Jewish Agency, which coordinates efforts for Diaspora Jews to make aliyah, took steps in recent days to move its Russian operations to Israel and online. Other Jewish NGOs in Russia have received letters from the authorities as well.
The Jewish Agency is expected to respond to allegations by the Russian Justice Ministry in a court session this Thursday in Moscow. According to the Russian Justice Ministry, the Jewish Agency had violated Russian privacy laws and therefore should be categorized as a “foreign agent,” a category that can carry a prison sentence of seven years.
Israel organized a delegation from the Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council, together with other legal experts, last week to speak with Russian authorities in Moscow about the issue, but Russia has yet to grant them a visa.
President Isaac Herzog, a former chairman of the Jewish Agency, on Tuesday said the topic was close to his heart. Nevertheless, “the less we talk, the better, which will allow us to handle the matter better,” he said at a Channel 13 conference.
Herzog warned against speculation.
“Russia is an important country… and there are different scenarios and reasons for why this event developed,” he said. “I prefer not to get into analyses… Let’s let the processes happen. The less we talk, the better.”
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel-Russia relations were “in a dangerous crisis” that must be brought to an end or risk Israel’s national security.”
“For years, we led a relationship with Russia that was measured, balanced and responsible,” he said. “In recent days, I am worried that what we built over the years is being undermined... It is happening because of a combination of amateurism, irresponsibility and arrogance.”
Netanyahu called on Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz to “stop chattering. Your behavior is endangering our national security.”
“Russia is an important country and there are different scenarios and reasons for why this event developed."President Isaac Herzog
Former Jewish Agency chairman Ze’ev Bielski told Army Radio the situation in Russia was “a return to the period of the Iron Curtain.”
“If, indeed, the reports coming from Russia are true, and the authorities are causing difficulties to Jews who expressed their desire to immigrate to Israel, we are in a very serious situation that we have not seen for decades,” he said.
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If you’re suffering from foot or ankle pain, custom orthotics in Newtown, PA may be able to help. They can treat a wide variety of conditions involving your feet, ankles, and legs. At Newtown Foot and Ankle Specialists, our experienced doctors can assess your condition and determine if custom orthotics can ease your pain.
What are Custom Orthotics?
Orthotics can be a shoe or shoe insert that’s designed to alleviate pain, control certain conditions, and provide support to the foot and ankle. You can get store-bought orthotics, but those are considered one size fits all and are made for a wider audience.
With custom orthotics, our team works with you to create a solution that’s suited to your particular issue. We utilize advanced 3D imaging to get a full look at the exact measurements and nuances of your foot or feet. We work with a local lab that’ll build your orthotic device to the exact specifications that were measured.
What Can Custom Orthotics Help Treat?
Custom orthotics can be used for a wide variety of issues. This is what makes them such an efficient tool for podiatrists. If you’re struggling with any of the following types of pain or conditions, consider contacting Newtown Foot and Ankle Specialists to see if custom orthotics are the solution for you.
First, custom orthotics can help with both flat feet and high arches. Flat feet often lead to pain in your feet, ankles, and back. Orthotics can provide support to flat feet to alleviate that pain or pressure. High arches can put stress on your foot muscles. Orthotics can make sure your feet don’t roll, as well as further stability. Without treatment, high arches can lead to shin splints, plantar fasciitis, and knee pain.
If you’ve injured your foot or ankle, orthotics can help prevent further injury. They keep the foot and ankle stable and provide support. They can also help with arthritis in either of these areas. Orthotics can provide stress relief for the area and absorb any pressure in those areas as well.
For plantar fasciitis, they can help relieve the pain that this condition causes in your heel. If you have hammer toe, you need extra support for the ball of your foot and second toe. Orthotics can provide that and prevent hammer toe from getting even worse. Since bunions are often painful, orthotics can also be used to minimize pressure on the big toe so that bunions are easier to deal with.
Lastly, orthotics can help alleviate pain in your back, legs, ankles, and feet. They can be designed to offer extra cushion for your feet, alleviating pain that can radiate to various parts of your body. This is often a concern especially if your job or lifestyle requires you to spend a lot of time on your feet throughout the day.
Newtown, Pennsylvania Custom Orthotics
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Do you consume alcohol regularly and have now been diagnosed with diabetes? You may be cursing yourself for taking up a bad habit but the truth is that many people who abstain from alcohol also get the disease. As per general health care advice, it is best to avoid alcohol as alcohol can impair the functioning of the liver and pancreas. However, surprisingly some properties of alcohol seem to favor diabetics. For example, alcohol can reduce blood sugar levels which diabetics always try to do with several diets and medications. One study even showed that low to moderate consumption of alcohol by diabetics can actually reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. People fond of beer also argue that the fortified varieties are rich in essential amino acids and vitamins, good for appetite and skin.
Can You Consume Beer If You Have Diabetes?
Alcohol consumption cannot be directly linked to acquiring diabetes disease. Too much alcohol intake can impair mental processes and cause heart diseases, high blood pressure, digestive malfunctions, and several types of cancers. Yet it can be argued that all foods have their recommended intake limit beyond which they can harm. The recommended limit varies as per food type. For example, consumption of excessive sugary foods and fats and oils beyond their recommended limits can equally harm the body. So if you must take alcohol to get the kick from life then you need to balance on other foods. It is also important not to fall into a sedentary lifestyle and give up exercises.
Diabetes type and alcohol intake
Diabetes was mainly classified under two categories the type-1 and type- 2 diabetes. In present times we know of six types of diabetes. Diabetes is associated with the body’s inability to digest sugar and maintain normal blood sugar levels. Sugar is metabolized in the body by its own hormone insulin produced by the pancreas. The insulin produced by the pancreas flows into the liver and is stored there for future use. Problems with sugar metabolism can arise due to the body’s inability of interacting with insulin, absence of insulin, and insufficient production and processing of insulin. A diseased liver or pancreas can be the underlying cause of insulin problems in the body. If you are diabetic due to diseased liver or pancreas then it makes all sense to give up even on the little alcohol you may be consuming. Not only alcohol but you may have to also abstain from certain foods that weaken the liver or pancreas and follow a strict diet regimen.
Recommended daily limit of alcohol intake
Alcohol is an intoxicant produced by fermenting yeasts and sugars. Its chemical name is ethanol. Apart from providing pleasantness of mood, ethanol does not have any other nutritionally relevant intake value. As per prescriptions of Dietary Guidelines of America (DGA) adult men and women who choose to intake alcohol must limit to two and one drink per day respectively. One standard drink of alcohol is around 13 grams of alcohol.
Beer facts diabetics should know
Diabetics who consume alcohol might try to restrict only to beer drinking assuming it to be light on alcohol. However, as per the DGA, it is the amount of alcohol consumed and not the type of drink consumed that is of significance. Beer constitutes water, malted barley, hops extract, and glucose syrup. If you are a diabetic ensure you get glucose syrup-free beer variety.
For diabetics, it is also important to know the sugar and calorie content of their drinks. Know the beer facts that can help you choose your best drink:
- Sugar content of beer: Diabetics can choose sugar-free beer drinks. It is best to avoid wines that are high on natural sugars if not added ones.
- Alcohol content of beer: As per the DGA, one 12-ounce beer can, roughly 28-gram beer has about the same amount of alcohol, around 13 grams, as one 5-ounce glass of wine or 1.5-ounce of liquor.
- Calorie content of beer: A bottle of regular beer of 330 ml can have 145 calories and a light variety of beer can have 74 calories.
- Best weather for beer: People like to have beer mostly in summers to cool off.
Best drinks for diabetics
Diabetics have their social and individual life and need to pick up their drinks now and then
- Social life: You can choose one serve sugar-free whisky, vodka, rum, or anything. Just be mindful of alcohol content.
- Individual life: Like sitting with a bottle to drive away blues? Keep soda or water handy and be mindful of how many grams of alcohol goes inside.
- Season drinks: Whisky, rum, brandy can be best for cold weathers, nice to have some sugar-free beer or vodka in summers. | <urn:uuid:e3e1f1eb-9939-45e2-a997-2d0ba4d38860> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://doctorprescribed.org/beer-diabetes-good-drink-diabetic-person/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941284 | 982 | 2.609375 | 3 |
From strings to the MSSM
Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115, Bonn, Germany
2 Physik Department T30, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany
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Published online: 25 October 2008
We review recent progress in embedding the supersymmetric standard model into string theory. We discuss how, with the incorporation of certain aspects of grand unification, a search strategy can be developed that allows one to efficiently find rather large numbers of promising string vacua. Global string-derived models with the following features are discussed: (i) exact MSSM spectrum below the unification scale; (ii) R-parity; (iii) hierarchical Yukawa couplings with non-trivial mixing; (iv) solution to the μ problem; (v) see-saw suppressed neutrino masses.
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Vinasses are composed mainly of organic matter and sugars. When freshly "brewed", they smell a bit like bitter chocolate with a hint of caramel, unfortunately, they tend to rot and foul, and they do it very fast. Coming from a fermentative process, they are very susceptible to get contaminated by fungus, yeast and bacteria and the once "sweet odor" turns into something trully acrid, fouly, putrid and acidic smell, mainly because of the sulfites and sulfates that are generated and the methane that is liberated into the atmosphere as the bacteria bubble up the mix.
If dumped in water, oxygen gets stolen away by the organic matter leaving no opportunity for life to proliferate, the dark brown color disperses everywhere turning our once clear and transparent river water into turbid muddy and foamy pits, where dead fish float away by the current.
If dumped in land, the soil acidifies, hardens itself, and develops a shell that impedes the ground to breath and oxigenate, the living organisms migrate or die and the once fertile land turns into cracked dark brown bad smelling and sticky desert.
Given the stench, pests arrive, proliferate and disperse, and along with them, the diseases they carry over to our society and our feedstock and harvests
IN A NUTSHELL:
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Marriages are called Vivaha in Sanskrit. The North Indians call this process vivaah-sanskaar and South Indians call it kalyanam. Not just is the marriage place or mandap decorated but also the bride’s home, groom’s home, entrances, doors, walls, roofs, floors, etc are all decorated generally with flowers.
According to Vedic mythology, the vivaah happens around a Vedic yajna and there are three key customs to be followed, that is extremely essential namely – Kanyadaan, Panigraha, and Saptapadi.
Kanyadaan – giving off the bride
Panigraha – holding of hands near the sacred fire or Agni to signify union
Saptapadi – seven steps around the fire (‘Sapta’ meaning seven and ‘Padi’ meaning steps)
Along with this, while performing every ritual mantras or chants are accompanied to radiate positive vibrations and bless the bride and groom on embarking a new happy journey.
There are 8 forms of marriage in Hindu literature. Brahma, Daiva, Arsha, Prajapatya marriages are considered as prashasta.
Gandharva and Asura marriages are considered to be aprashasta.
Rakshasa and Paishacha marriages are considered to be inappropriate and also forbidden by religion.
Indian marriages contain a list of rites and rituals to be followed, which are compulsory. The Varmala or putting the garland occurs right before Kanyadaan. Kanyadaan which means “giving off the bride” is a Sanskrit word and is a symbolic ritual in a marriage.
The symbolic gesture of this ritual is that “the Bride’s Father places her right hand in the Groom’s hand”. This is a request from the bride’s father to the groom that he accepts the bride to be his equal partner.
When the bride’s hand is placed in the groom’s hand, Hastamelap takes place. The bride’s father places his hand above the newlywed’s hands and the bride’s mother pours sacred water, flowing through the bride’s father’s hands into the bride’s and eventually the groom’s hands.
All along the process, there will be a curtain drawn between the bride and the groom. And once the Kanyadaan is observed the curtain is lowered.
When and where did Kanyadaan begin?
A daughter is said to be a father’s greatest possession. Giving her away has to be remarkable as it is not easy for the girl’s parents to let go of their daughter after having taken care and been with her all these years.
In a Hindu marriage, a bride is considered to be Goddess Lakshmi and the groom is considered to be Lord Narayana and the people who have come for the marriage bare as witnesses to the marriage.
The meaning behind this ritual is that the father of the bride is giving consent to the groom to take her away and to take care of her the way the bride’s parents did. This has to be done as it is considered to be prosperous and a good fortune for the bride’s future.
After the Kanyadaan:
During the marriage, the bride and groom’s scarves are tied together with betel nuts, copper coins, and rice. This custom is performed by the groom’s sister. These items are considered to auspicious which symbolize unity, happiness, and prosperity for the couple. The knot tied by the groom’s sister represents the eternal bond from the marriage.
The marriage process starts with the meeting of the bride and the groom and the welcoming ceremony also known as Milne and Swagatam respectively. After this, the groom’s side arrives at either the marriage location or the bride’s house and this is known as baraat.
Following this is the reception where each side’s important people, relatives, and close friends meet and introduce each other. Pictures are captured, and food and drinks are served but not the major kind.
Some of the most important marriage or vivaah processions include madhuparka, vivaah-homa, agni-parinayana, asmarohana, laja homa, abhishek, anna-prashasan, and aashirvadah. These are the very important rituals that are either carried out at the marriage location or mandap or near the bride’s home.
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Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are close to finalizing a proposal for so-called “network neutrality” rules, which would dictate how broadband providers treat internet traffic flowing over their lines, according to a person briefed on the negotiations, the Associated Press reports. A deal could be announced within days, said the person, who did not want to be identified because negotiations are still ongoing. Any deal that is reached could form the basis for federal legislation and would likely shape efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to broker an agreement on the contentious issue, which has pitted the nation’s big phone and cable companies against many big internet companies. The FCC has been holding talks with a handful of large phone, cable and internet companies–including Verizon and Google–to try to reach some sort of industrywide compromise on net neutrality that all sides can accept. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is seeking to adopt rules that would require phone and cable companies to give equal treatment to all broadband traffic traveling over their networks……Read More
Google Inc. is telling lawmakers that it never dissected or used any of the information that it accidentally sucked up while collecting data about public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries, reports the Associated Press. In a letter to three key members of the House Commerce Committee, the company apologized for collecting fragments of eMails, search requests and other online activities over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. The company got the information while photographing neighborhoods for its “Street View” mapping feature. Google said it was trying to gather information about the location, strength and configuration of Wi-Fi networks so it could improve the accuracy of location-based services such as Google Maps and driving directions. Going further and collecting snippets of information traveling over those networks “was a mistake,” Pablo Chavez, Google’s director of public policy, wrote in the letter……Read More
A new technology from internet search behemoth Google Inc. is making innovators out of some educators, who have begun envisioning practical uses for the company’s new Google Maps feature to make previously unavailable graphic representations of everything from school district bus routes to geography lessons.
Educators aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the technology. Others also have discovered how to tinker with the search engine’s mapping service to graphically illustrate vital information that might otherwise be ignored, overlooked, or not perceived as clearly.
“This is pretty interesting for organizations, such as school districts, that have maps that provide boundary information and such,” wrote Tim Lauer, principal of Meriwether Lewis Elementary School in Portland, Ore., and a frequent contributor to eSchool News Online’s Ed-Tech Insider, a blog for educators and technology advocates. “Imagine a district map that showed bus stops combined with Google content. Families could punch in their home address and easily find the closest stop.” …Read More | <urn:uuid:805892c7-30ec-4865-91ca-99e4087ac709> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eschoolnews.com/tag/google-inc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947554 | 595 | 2.359375 | 2 |
In China, a sanheyuan is a three-section residential compound fixed around a yard called a hutong. This particular hutong had fallen into disrepair after more than 10 years of sitting unused. Now, URBANUS’ adaptive reuse to the residential boundary and courtyard has breathed new life into the traditional structures.
Though there was much to clean up from the time it sat empty, the designers wanted to highlight the role nature played in the history of this place. They decided to keep the growing trees and integrate them into the addition. The original boundary of the courtyard is partially infilled with beautiful curvilinear walls of bamboo slats. The trees that grew during the vacancy can be found in this space that sits in between the courtyard and the original residence. The remainder of the courtyard is described as a “gourd garden” due to its new gourd-like shape.
The top of the new curved wall is enclosed with a semi-mirrored glass roof that represents the reflective surface of a lake. It also helps to reinforce the contrast between the rectilinear existing sanheyuan and the new curvilinear boundary.
Bamboo slats are a new take on the traditional materiality as they offer more privacy than the original setting while still allowing for plenty of light to enter the interior spaces. These slats also make their way to the roof where they follow the scale and spacing of the existing roof but are expressed in bamboo and also help to create a beautiful harmony between old and new.
Keep scrolling for more interesting architectural details of this thoughtful transformation of a traditional hutong. Plus, check out another interesting renovation of a traditional residence in our article about a decaying siheyuan that was thoughtfully blended with modern design. | <urn:uuid:c4989555-108a-4039-b01d-d4ef97ab09dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mymodernmet.com/urbanus-hutong-redesign-beijing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962764 | 360 | 2.34375 | 2 |
In January 2017, the Marat Karpeka Lemur Foundation was made aware that a female raccoon had no suitable living conditions in Cyprus. Her temporary home for over 10 month was kindly offered by Sharon from PET STOP Boarding Kennels and Cattery, Aradippou village, Larnaka.
In October 2017, together with some animal groups and volunteers in Cyprus and months of hard work, the raccoon was transported to AAP Holland where she will be rehabilitated and later released to integrate with a larger raccoon group in their sanctuary.
On the way to the airport
Savoring the rays of the glorious Cypriot sunshine for the last time
This bandit has to be screened too!
Some of the wonderful people in Cyprus who helped transport the raccoon
Who thought raccoons cannot be pensive? This lady is going to greener pastures and is grateful that the stars were aligned for her
Crate going up to the plane’s belly
Crate is securely fastened for the flight
Here is the female raccoon that has met a friend in the quarantine enclosure. They will remain in quarantine until the end of year before being released.
We take the plight of all animals seriously. While our focus is on lemurs, if something is on our doorstep and we have the power to make a positive change, it is an opportunity that is meant for taking.
We would be deeply grateful if you can help us make a difference with not just the lemurs but off-cases such as this raccoon. | <urn:uuid:bba7165e-ba61-45f6-8700-7365eb0789b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lemurfund.org/bandit-happy-ending/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.973488 | 318 | 1.75 | 2 |
“After dealing with a recent computer virus, I want to make my computer more secure. It seems like most of the trouble comes through my browser, so what is the most secure Web browser I can install to protect my computer?”
The most secure web browser you can use is the one that never connects to the Internet. 😉 More seriously, there’s a certain amount of risk with using any Web browser and while there is a huge amount of debate around the topic, all the popular browsers are fairly equally secure, but there are things you can do to improve your safety.
Use secure SSL connections whenever possible
Using HTTPS connections to sign in to websites makes the connection between your browser and the site secure, which means you aren’t accidentally sharing your password with other Internet users.
Put a password on your saved passwords
Most browsers offer you the option of saving username and password information. This convenient feature is a handy way for other people and malicious software to gain access to your accounts. If your browser offers the option to secure these passwords with a master password, as Firefox does, use that option to secure your passwords. A better option would be to use a separate password manager with built-in encryption, which also allows you to manage passwords no matter what browser you are using.
Think before you click
One thing no browser can protect you from is a bad choice. Many security risks are created by not thinking before you click. Look at a link before you click on it, check to see if the destination is a site you’ve heard of. This frequently applies to links sent to your email address, which claim to be for one site but really take you somewhere malicious. If something doesn’t seem quite right, it probably isn’t. | <urn:uuid:cd27e21a-aff9-4162-9bf9-2c73a072fb0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jakeludington.com/2010/12/11/what_is_the_mos/?amp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.938213 | 364 | 2.828125 | 3 |
On the other hand, wherever I saw animal life in abundance, as, for instance, on the lakes where scores of species and millions of individuals came together to rear their progeny; in the colonies of rodents; in the migrations of birds which took place at that time on a truly American scale along the Usuri; and especially in a migration of fallow-deer which I witnessed on the Amur, and during which scores of thousands of these intelligent animals came together from an immense territory, flying before the coming deep snow, in order to cross the Amur where it is narrowest – in all these scenes of animal life which passed before my eyes, I saw Mutual Aid and Mutual Support carried on to an extent which made me suspect in it a feature of the greatest importance for the maintenance of life, the preservation of each species, and its further evolution.
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ABOUT THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
The American Geographical Society (AGS) is a 21st-century learning society dedicated to the advancement of geographic thinking, knowledge, and understanding across business, government, academe, social sectors, and most importantly with teachers and students. Established in 1851, AGS is the oldest professional geographical organization in the United States. It is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in geographical research and education for over 170 years. The mission of AGS is to advance and promote geography in business, government, science, and education. Our goal is to enhance the nation’s geographic literacy so as to engender sound public policy, national security, and human well-being worldwide. AGS seeks to engage the American public, from its youngest to its oldest citizens, with new and amazing ways to understand and characterize our changing world. The Society maintains its headquarters in New York City. | <urn:uuid:e30217b1-9345-448c-b15c-bfe836968ff4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://americangeo.org/about-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9474 | 191 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The long-running case against Dr Andrew Wakefield and his Royal Free colleagues Professors Simon Murch and John Walker-Smith, whose 1998 Lancet paper alleged links between autism and MMR vaccination, resumes at the General Medical Council this morning.
The three doctors are charged with serious professional misconduct, following a range of allegations relating to the research. The case remains controversial because of the support they have had from some within the autism community, both here and in the US, who persist in thinking that MMR must in some way be implicated in their children's condition, in spite of the absence of scientific evidence.
One of the problems is that the cause of autism, which is becoming more common, is still not known. Genes are certainly implicated, but there are unknown environmental factors as well.
The Wakefield study was not only tiny but also, it is now believed, seriously flawed. Only eight children were involved and they were not typical of most people with autism. They had a very rare condition on the autistic spectrum, called disintegrative disorder.
One of the allegations is that not all the children even qualified to be in the study on the basis of their behaviour. Another is that the doctors mis-described their patients in the Lancet, while Wakefield is said to have given a dishonest description of them to the Medical Research Council.
Most of the charges against the doctors relate to medical ethics, including experimenting on one of the children with a purportedly therapeutic substance. The case was triggered by revelations that Wakefield failed to reveal that he was being paid for his expert advice by parents of the children in the study, who were hoping to sue the vaccine manufacturers.
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Until recently, a percentage of organizations discounted risk related to external fraud attempts. Most were only concerned with protecting physical assets such as inventory or fixed assets. However, because of the many highly publicized corporate hacking events, such as the ones that affected Target, Sony, and The Home Depot, more attention is being paid to external fraud risk of all type. In this session, we look at what is included in a definition of external fraud and then delve into specific control issues that can give rise to increased risk. We then discuss measures that organizations can employ to help reduce exposure to external attacks.
Once participants have completed this session they should be able to:
This session is taught via the use of case studies adapted from real world examples. These studies are designed to show participants ways to identify external fraud risk scenarios and methods to reduce this risk. The topics discussed in this session include:
Who Should Attend?
Accounting and other business professionals would benefit by knowing more about stopping external fraud.
Area of Study:
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