text stringlengths 222 548k | id stringlengths 47 47 | dump stringclasses 95 values | url stringlengths 14 1.08k | file_path stringlengths 110 155 | language stringclasses 1 value | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 53 113k | score float64 2.52 5.03 | int_score int64 3 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pennsylvania woman with MCR-1 an isolated case, CDC reports
A Pennsylvania woman who in May had reportedly contracted the MCR-1 gene did not spread it to anyone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The MCR-1 gene, which can lead to a so-called “superbug,” doesn’t allow an individual’s immune system to stave off a strain of bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics. Doctors found that the patient had a resistance to colistin, which is a last-resort drug to treat infections.
Federal health investigators and the Pennsylvania Department of Health conducted an investigation in the patient’s house and in two facilities where she had frequent interactions with health care personnel, the CDC reported. Of the three high-risk locations, health officials conducted tests on 105 people, who didn’t have any indications of having acquired MCR-1. The investigation was conducted in the patient’s medical facility roommate’s room, and where household contacts lived, and it involved home health personnel, and friends who assisted with daily living activities.
The Pennsylvania woman’s address has not been disclosed, the report said. The origination of where the woman picked up the MCR-1 gene has not been determined. CDC officials said they are doing a deeper dive into her background to gather how she contracted it.
The full report can be found here. | <urn:uuid:06eb61b4-377a-4592-bdd5-b4455263beaa> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://fox43.com/2016/09/12/pennsylvania-woman-with-mcr-1-an-isolated-case-cdc-reports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578544449.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190422055611-20190422081611-00248.warc.gz | en | 0.972026 | 296 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Research from Queen's University Belfast has revealed the 20th century decline in the Irish hare population is almost certainly associated with changes in farming practices.
The Stormont Assembly voted to ban hare coursing in Northern Ireland last Tuesday (22nd June), but a recent study, funded by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and published in the international journal Biological Conservation, suggests hares may join the ranks of other farmland species, such as the Corncrake, unless more is done to protect its habitat.
The research team, led by Dr Neil Reid, Quercus Centre Manager in Queen's School of Biological Sciences, has shown that hares require an intricate patchwork quilt of good quality grassland for feeding, and tall uneven vegetation, such as rushes, for hiding and sleeping.
Dr Reid explained: "Hares may mistake the tall grass of silage fields as a good spot for lying-up and giving birth. Silage is harvested during the peak period when leverets are born in late spring and early summer and the machinery used may trap and kill young hares, driving local population declines year after year. Hares have fallen foul of an ecological trap."
The researchers tagged a population of hares in South Armagh with radio-transmitters, allowing them to track their every move. They followed the animals day and night for an entire year to see how they changed their habitat preferences. The researchers found that during late spring and early summer they increased their use of long grass destined to be cut for silage.
Dr Reid said: "On a day-to-day basis, hares are remarkably boring creatures to follow. They don't move far and during the daytime they do very little. This is rather worrying, however, if they settle in unsuitable habitat that may present life threatening risks at a certain time of year. We may have forty shades of green in Ireland but we have created what amounts to a desert of grass. Variety is the spice of life. Wildlife can't survive in a pristinely manicured landscape of only one habitat."
Dr Reid added: "Fields are frequently mowed from the edge to the centre for convenience but it surely can't be that difficult to do it the other way around? Adopting 'hare-friendly' mowing regimes, similar to those adopted to minimise the impact of harvesting on ground nesting birds, may help mitigate the effects. Unfortunately, leverets tend not to run so it may not work, but it's worth testing."
The new Northern Ireland Countryside Management Schemes (NICMS), implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), now includes a specific measure to target the Irish hare called the 'delayed cutting and grazing' option. Farmers who sign up will receive hectarage payments for postponing the cutting of silage until after the 1st July and for maintaining rushy field margins.
Explore further: Climate change and species distributions | <urn:uuid:2da66771-87c5-4767-ada9-1805b60cfcca> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://phys.org/news/2010-06-irish-hares-fall-foul-modern.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042986806.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002306-00037-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950803 | 607 | 3.640625 | 4 |
The Signs of Depression (Infographic)
Depression is a very common mood disorder and is much more than just occasionally feeling sad or “blue.” In fact, around 15 million American teens and adults are currently living with depression and over 300 million people around the world, of all ages, genders, and ethnicities are suffering from depression.
Although there are many different types and causes of depression, many of the symptoms are the same. Here are some symptoms to look out for in yourself or a loved one:
- Persistent feelings of sadness, irritability, hopelessness, guilt or worthlessness
- Decreased energy or fatigue
- Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions
- Insomnia, including difficulty falling asleep or waking up frequently throughout the night
- Sleeping too much
- Loss of interest in hobbies or activities that used to bring you joy
- Low appetite and weight loss
- Eating too much leading to weight gain
- Persistent pain or other physical symptoms that can’t be attributed to medical causes.
- Thoughts of death or suicide
A person who is feeling suicidal or thinking about suicide needs help right away. It is important to contact a suicide crisis line or call 911 if someone is in imminent danger of hurting him- or herself.
The good news is that depression can be very treatable, but the first step is to contact a mental health professional who can help. If you or someone you know may be depressed, make an appointment with one of our specially trained and qualified counselors who can help you start to feel better. | <urn:uuid:1ab9e68b-1574-4b16-88d2-a632b2a61ff3> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.aspirefertility.com/blog/the-signs-of-depression-infographic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500368.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207004322-20230207034322-00560.warc.gz | en | 0.95002 | 320 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Public transportation is vital part of making the Chicago region more sustainable. The Chicago region’s transit system, which is comprised of RTA, CTA, Metra and Pace, saves more than 6.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions each year - that is the equivalent to taking 1 million cars off the road each year. Additionally, the well-utilized, reliable and safe RTA system spurs economic development, reduced congestion and improves mobility for the region’s residents, employees and visitors.
The RTA and its partners - CTA, Metra, Pace, IDOT, CMAP and CDOT – have developed the Chicago Regional Green Transit Plan, which calculates the environmental benefits of transit in the region and provides a roadmap to a making the transit system and region greener. As the sustainability and climate action plan for the region’s public transportation system, the Chicago Regional Green Transit Plan recommends a series of strategies to grow transit ridership and market share, promote transit-oriented communities, improve operational efficiency and green the transit system.
You can read the Chicago Regional Green Transit Plan as a virtual book or download the complete plan below.
Download the Green Transit Plan Text Version
RTA Releases Green Transit Plan
CTA's Going Green
Pace's Go Green | <urn:uuid:80d0a8e7-0dd8-4594-90d0-78b7513a5296> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.rtachicago.org/initiatives/green-transit-plan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931010631.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155650-00238-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893867 | 262 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The Prelude is founded of the figures seen above.
Bars 1-11: Period I. Tonic Pedal (Bars 1-3), touches D major (Bar 5), A minor (Bar 6) and E minor (Bar 8), ending with a Perfect Cadence in the key of the Dominant, D).
Bars 11-19: Period II. Dominant Pedal (Bars 11-13). Gliding to C and D major in its early part, and at its conclusion firmly clenching the Tonic key.
Especially noticeable in the opening bars are the skips of the Octave in the Bass part. These are frequently employed throughout the Prelude, and impart great sprightliness to it.
Period I may be divided at Bar 5, where a new Melody is started in the Treble in the key of the Dominant. Period II may be more conveniently divided into short Phrases, (1) at Bar 12, (2) at Bar 13, (3) at Bar 14, (4) at Bar 15, (5) at Bar 16, the first two Phrases being in a descending Sequence, the last three in an ascending Sequence.
Bars 1-5: Subject in Treble [G Major].
Bars 5-9: Real Answer in Alto [D major].
Bars 5-6: Codetta in Treble.
Bars 6-8: Counter-subject in Treble.
Bars 9-11: Codetta.
Bars 11-15: Subject in Bass. Counter-subject in Alto [G major].
Bars 15-20: Episode I, modulating from G to C, and back to G.
Bars 20-24: Subject by Inversion in Alto. Counter-subject (incomplete) by Inversion in Bass [G major].
Bars 24-28: Answer by Inversion in Treble. Counter-subject by Inversion in Alto [D major].
Bars 28-31: Subject by Inversion in Bass. Counter-subject (incomplete) by Inversion in Treble [G major].
Bars 31-38: Episode II, modulating from G to E minor.
Bars 38-42: Subject in Treble [E minor].
Bars 40-42: Counter-subject in Alto.
Bars 42-43: Codetta.
Bars 43-46: Subject by Inversion in Alto. Counter-subject by Inversion in Treble [E minor].
Bars 46-51: Episode II, modulating from E minor to B minor.
Bars 51-54: Subject in Treble [B minor].
Bars 52-54: Stretto [B minor].
Bars 52-60: Episode IV, modulating from B minor to D Major.
Bars 60-62: Subject in Alto. Counter-subject absent [D major].
Bars 61-64: Stretto II (incomplete). Subject in Treble, on pedal A [D major].
Bars 64-69: Episode V.
Bars 69-73: Subject by Inversion in Bass. Counter-subject in Alto [G major].
Bars 73-77: Episode VI.
Bars 77-79: Subject by Inversion in Alto [G major].
Bars 78-79: Stretto III (complete). Subject by Inversion in Bass [G major].
Bars 79-82: Subject in Treble, accompanied in 3rds below by the first part of Subject in Alto [G major].
Bars 82-86: Coda, the last two bars of which are on Tonic pedal. [G major].
Exposition: Bars 1-15.
Counter-exposition: Bars 20-31.
Inversion: Several instances.
Coda: Bars 82-86.
- This Fugue has a “real” Answer, and would be called a “real” Fugue.
- The Counter-subject appears somewhat late – not until the second half of the second bar of the Answer.
- Free Inversion is applied to the Subject and Counter-subject.
- All the Episodes are formed from the new figure used in the Codetta (Bars 5-6), sometimes with the addition of a free part
- Episode I is in a descending sequence with an additional new counterpoint in the Treble.
- Episode II is also in a descending sequence. The figure employed in the Treble of Episode I is here given to the Bass, and the Bass of Episode I to the Treble. Ornamental scale passages are introduced in the Treble at Bars 34 and 37 and in the Bass at Bars 35 and 36, the Alto having a detached figure.
- Episode III contains notes of greater lengths in the Treble, and florid work in the two under parts.
- Episode IV. The first bar of the Codetta figure is inverted and used in 3rds with the Bass. Demisemiquavers (thirty-second notes) are also introduced. In Bar 56 the Alto enters in imitation at the 4th below.
- Episode V. Here the Bass has a detached figure, the upper parts being much the same as in Episode II.
- Episode VI is in two parts only, the vigorous scale passages being again introduced. | <urn:uuid:3da003f2-b829-448f-b840-e891c93fef7e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://tonic-chord.com/bach-prelude-and-fugue-no-15-in-g-major-bwv-860-analysis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401624636.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929025239-20200929055239-00187.warc.gz | en | 0.895366 | 1,123 | 2.671875 | 3 |
When selecting protection devices, consideration must be given to the prospective short-circuit current (PSC) at the location the device is to be installed in (AS/NZS 3000:2018 clause 22.214.171.124). The PSC can be determined by measurement or by calculation. Many multi-function testers are able to measure the PSC.
PSC can also be calculated by undertaking a Live Fault Loop Impedance measurement (in ohms) and dividing the voltage by this measurement.
Voltage tests as 240 volts and the measured fault loop impedance between incoming line and neutral is 0.08.
Max PSC = E/R
240/0.08 = 3000 A or 3kA
Where there is a three phase supply, the PSC is likely to be between line conductors. In this case, the PSC can be calculated by multiplying the single phase reading by the square root of 3 or 1.73. Therefore in the example above, the PSC would be 3000 x 1.73 = 5190 A or 5.19kA. | <urn:uuid:0a3e753f-75c9-4367-b28c-01e9371275ea> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://memberarea.ecawa.org.au/Admin/ViewContentPage?uniqueName=prospective-short-circuit-current | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578530161.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421020506-20190421041433-00039.warc.gz | en | 0.924206 | 223 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Percy Spencer (1894 – 1969)
One of the things that has revolutionised the kitchen and accelerated the acceptability of convenience foods is the microwave oven. I remember buying my first one in the 1980s and was astonished how heavy it was as I carried it from the shop to my flat. What many people don’t know is who invented the microwave. This is where the latest inductee into our illustrious Hall of fame, Percy Spencer, comes in.
Born in Howland, Maine, by 1939 Spencer was one of the leading experts in radar tube design, working for Raytheon. Magnetrons were used to generate the microwave radio signals that were fundamental for radar and Spencer developed a more efficient way of manufacturing them, by punching out the parts and soldering them together rather than using machined parts. This meant that the rate of production increased from a stately 17 per day to around 2,600.
Whilst standing by an active radar set, our Percy noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. He decided to investigate the phenomenon by experimenting to see the effect that exposing various foodstuffs to a magnetron would have. Some popcorn kernels became the world’s first microwaved popcorn. More amusingly, an egg was placed in a kettle and the magnetron was placed directly above it. To the doubtless consternation of one of his colleagues who was peering over the contraption to see what was going on the egg exploded in his face.
Undaunted by this set back Spencer persevered and before long had produced a contraption which consisted of a metal box to which a high density electromagnetic field generator was attached – the world’s first microwave oven. The magnetron sent microwaves into the metal box, trapping them and enabling them to be used in a controlled and, mercifully, safe environment. His experiments demonstrated that not only could food be cooked in the microwave oven so that they were edible, it could be done much more quickly than in a conventional oven.
His employers, Raytheon, applied for a patent for his oven, the Radarange, on 8th October 1945. A prototype was installed in a restaurant in Boston and by 1947 the first commercially available microwave oven was launched on to the unsuspecting public. They were around 6 feet tall, weighed 750lbs and phenomenally expensive, retailing at around $5,000 a time. The magnetron had to be water-cooled which meant that the device had to be plumbed in.
Not unsurprisingly, initial sales were disappointing but soon after further refinements and modifications, an air-cooled, lighter oven was developed. Not only was it cheaper – retailing at around $2,000 to $3,000 but it didn’t require the services of a plumber to instal. The food industry began to twig on to the advantages of a microwave, allowing them to keep refrigerated food up to the point that it was required and then heat it up, resulting in fresher food, less waste and financial savings.
By 1967 the first counter-top, 100 volt domestic oven was available, costing $500. The take-up was phenomenal and by 1975 sales of microwaves had exceeded those of more conventional gas-powered ovens. And the rest is history.
As for Percy, whilst he climbed up the greasy corporate pole at Raytheon, ending up as a Senior Vice President and Board member of Raytheon, he didn’t receive a share of the royalties. All he got was $2, the standard gratuity paid by Raytheon to employees who invented things.
Percy Spencer, for inventing the microwave oven and not sharing in the financial success of your product, you are a worthy inductee into our Hall of Fame.
If you enjoyed this, why not try Fifty Clever Bastards by Martin Fone which is now available on Amazon in Kindle format and paperback. For details follow the link https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=fifty+clever+bastards | <urn:uuid:4c4ad74f-370c-4ac1-917e-14077e986421> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/there-aint-alf-some-clever-bastards-part-fifty-nine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647044.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319175337-20180319195337-00011.warc.gz | en | 0.977951 | 855 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Karl Ferdinand Braun
The Cathode Ray Tube site
History and Physics Instruments
The Braun tube, this small early 1900 tube is in fact a cold Cathode Crookes tube with an internal mica screen covered with phosphorescent paint. The neck contains a glass diaphragm with a small 2mm hole to let only a tiny electron beam go through (focus) which can be deflected by an (electro) magnet to produce a spot on the screen. Click here to see the family of educational CRT's sold by Max Kohl early 1900 and here by Müller-Uri.
Thomson's experimental tube
Click on the picture to see the original tube in The Cavendish Lab at the University of Cambridge.
The beginning of the CRT Century which would last more than 100 Years!
In Europe there were several companies active with the early CRT techniques like,
Leybold & Von Ardenne, Emil Gundelach, Philips, Lorenz AG, Telefunken AG, Otto Pressler,
Gladitz GmbH, Fernseh AG, Radio AG, D.S.Loewe, Baird Television, Marconi-EMI and Cossor.
Some of them were closely connected to RCA or the Farnsworth company. Most of these firms
had also long reputations in early science vacuum tube technology.
In the US General Electric, The Bell laboratories, National Union, Westinghouse, RCA Victor,
Farnsworth Television, and Dumont developed their pre-War CRT's.
The first used CRT's were the low pressure argon filled tubes. In these low vacuum tubes the
focus of the beam was regulated by controlling the heater current like the Western 224.
The first US commercial available high vacuum CRT developed by Zworykin, at that time working
for Westinghouse (part of RCA) was the high vacuum RCA 906.
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin demonstrated this tube in the first RCA TV receiver in 1929 and named
the CRT Kinescope, it was used with 60 lines at 12 frames per second. Zworykin played an
important role in the electronic TV development, he eventual became director of RCA, in those
days the leading CRT producing company in the US. RCA made large progress in developing
different and better tubes for TV, radar and oscilloscopes.
Farnsworth television also produced for a short period low vacuum tubes for his television
receivers, this CRT's were called Oscillite which never became successful like the RCA tubes.
Another important player on the US CRT market was Allen B Dumont who developed his
own CRT's and started CRT production in 1931 in his garage mainly for oscilloscopes,
later also for Television. There were tubes produced by DuMont with only one deflection plate,
this could be done by placing the gun under an angle pointing towards the side of the tube.
For TV use, magnetically deflecting won over statically deflection due to the high tensions needed
in the deflection amplifier circuits for tubes with large screen sizes.
In Japan Kenjiro Takayanagi at the Hamamatsu Higher Technical Institute worked on CRT
television since 1924. He started the production of high vacuum CRT's in 1930 built by
Dr. Asao at the research Institute of Tokyo Shibura Electric Company. The early CRT displays
were used with 40 lines flyingspot scan techniques, the camera tubes were not yet developed.
In 1936 he presented a 30 Hz 245 lines interlaced all electronic television system. Going further
in 1937 to 441 lines competing with the rest of the world, in 1939 Nippon Electric Company
produced the first domestic TV sets for the Japanese market.
With the increasing TV market, mass production of CRT's was the result.
These pictures above are from the Philips tube factory about 1947.
Philips TV projection tube
This tube with a hollow face to prevented picture distortion on a 40 x50 cm screen.
Philips DW31-2 CRT
This is a 31cm TV tube from 1937.
DW means double electrostatic deflection.
MW means magnetic deflection.
SW means only one pair of electrostatic deflection plates, this can be used
together with magnetic deflection.
The W stands for white phosphor.
Philips TV projection CRT 1949
Due to distortion problems with bigger tubes Philips developed small projection CRT's.
Early Ediswan CRT
This is one of the first known Ediswan
CRT's with screw connections on the base.
Type AH and BH were sold in 1934 used in the first 30 lines TV receiver.
No, it's not me !
It's actually a 50cm Telefunken CRT from 1938 with a total length of 85 cm, these were used in mirror TV's.
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Professor of Physics at the Cambridge University, proved in
1897 that Cathode rays were streams of particles
(corpuscles) that carried a negative charge and were 2000
times lighter than the hydrogen atom and called electrons.
He used his new developed CRT to measure the mass to
charge m/e ratio.
You can find a detailed description here at the University of
Canberra. Thomson's work has been a great contribution to
science and the development of Cathode Ray tubes.
A complete description of Thomson can be found at the
American Institute of Physics including audio recordings of
him about his discovery, definitely a must see web site for
JJ Thomson developed his tube just slightly earlier than
Braun's tube and has two internal electrostatic deflection
plates instead of the magnetic deflection Braun used in his
early experiments. Although Thomson's type of deflection is
used in many CRT designs, the common name in most
European country's is still Braun tube.
J.J. Thomson in the Cavendish Lab
Cathode Ray Tubes
From the beginning to the end....
Annalen der Physik und Chemie
F. Braun 1897
See here the translation of the
original German publication.
THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CRT
Allen Balcom DuMont
1901 - 1965
Manfred von Ardenne
1907 - 1997
Collection of Radio-AG D.S Loewe CRT's 1937.
These are high vacuum tubes.
Two Lorenz CRT's 1937.
Electrostatic deflection for projection use.
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Click on the pictures for the original German documentation from Gundelach and information about the Fernseh AG Company.
From this fine web site.
Foundation for German communication and related technologies.
Early RCA TV advertisement
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918)
A German physicist working at the Physics Institute of the Strasbourg University (from 1895-1918) developed the first cold Cathode Ray tube with magnetically beam deflection.He used a diaphragm and a mica screen covered with phosphor to produce a visible spot. The principle was based on the Crookes deflection tube.
This tube, build for him by Franz Müller, successor of Geissler was called after its inventor, the Braun tube.
Braun used this tube as an indicator tube to visualize alternating currents and described this in 1897, it was in fact the first oscilloscope.
Harris J Ryan introduced a similar tube in 1903 in the USA as an alternating current wave indicator, known as the Braun-Ryan tube.
The first ideas of using Cathode rays (Braun's tube) for Television came from the Englishman Campbell Swinton in 1908. The Frenchman Rignoux and the Russian Rosing experimented also with the Braun's tube for the same reason, just like Belin and Holweck who used Cathode rays for their TV receiver and demonstrated it in Malmaison in 1928.
At that time, mechanical TV was the only way to transmit moving images.
A biography of Braun can be found here.
Television before and during WWII
From the 1930's on, electronic TV developments started in Europe and the US, many companies produced series of electronic TV sets more than 25.000 sets were produced in the US when the War stopped the production. From 1935 the developments in Germany were under strict orders from the Nazi regime, in march of that same year the Fernsehgruppe Paul-Nipkow started their first TV Broadcasting with the Von Ardenne mechanical camera system using film, and later also with Iconoscope cameras at the Olympic Games in 1936, using techniques with permission from RCA and Farnsworth Television.
Companies like Loewe AG and Lorenz AG were held under rigorous military control and Von Ardenne joined like many other German scientists the Nazi regime. From 1939 the TV manufacturing in Germany stopped completely due to the beginning of the War. German Nazi Television, only limited to Berlin for fifty high placed persons and a few public TV places called Fernsehstubes for the propaganda TV. In 1943 after the bombings on Berlin the surviving TV equipment went to occupied France where the Germans built a new TV studio in Paris at 180 Rue de l'Université with the name "Magic City". It was completely built by Telefunken A.E.G and Fernseh AG, and was used until August 16 1943 when they took all equipment back to Germany. Look here for an interesting Dutch television documentary about recently found (1999) original Nazi film-for-TV footage.
In Britain the first public TV BBC Broadcasting started in London 1933 in the Crystal Palace facility, Europe's largest TV studios, home of the Baird television company using mechanical cameras. Although the Baird company had connections with Farnsworth, their Dissector pickup tube was not used due to its poor light sensitivity.
The Crystal Palace burned to the ground in 1936 but Baird's CRT production plant housed in the same building was spared.
After the fire the BBC banned Baird's mechanical camera system and was replaced by the Marconi-EMI all electronic system. (EMI had license cross-connections with RCA) During WWII, the TV production in the US and UK stopped almost completely, development of radar and oscilloscope techniques for the War industry had now more priority. You can find more info about early British television on these fine web sites Baird's Independent Television and Baird Television.
See also the Camera tubes page.
The first Braun tube model.
In the first production of thirty tubes the screen was placed under an angle for better viewing.
Like it? Sign the Guestbook!
The glass electron diaphragm | <urn:uuid:ed1eddbd-531d-46e2-bd42-52afcefd54ce> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.crtsite.com/page3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398451744.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205411-00277-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935643 | 2,241 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Organization identity is a set of central, enduring, and distinctive statements, with which members define the organization. Apart from this, it is also a possible set of resistance to change.
Organization Identity influences management and members within the organization. in many different ways :
Action Guidelines :
Organizational identity serves as guidelines leading for taking the necessary actions and in decision making for a process change.
Interpretative Lens :
It provides a lens through which members interpret events occurring within the organization.
A study of organization identity found The importance of organization identity is shown in three dimensions issue interpretation, emotion, and action.
Identity affects the pattern of organizational actions, to find acceptable solutions, to understand how actions are shaped, and to evaluate the success of actions.
Cognitive Schema :
It serves as a cognitive schema composed of beliefs and assumptions of organizational processes. Schema influences how members encode and store new information
Comparison Reference :
Envisioned organization identity, refers to an ideal and desired identity, what the management wants to be an organization, in the future...
Influence on organization change varies across types of comparison.
The organization is more capable to achieve expected goals more | <urn:uuid:c2d7ed56-cf1a-4502-988d-3c9821086563> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://www.aimsolute.com/post/influence-of-organization-identity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100476.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202235258-20231203025258-00333.warc.gz | en | 0.929506 | 244 | 3.140625 | 3 |
In the past, women have often tried to make up deficits in their diet though the use of vitamins and supplements. However, while supplements can be a useful safeguard against occasional nutrient shortfalls, they can’t compensate for an unbalanced or unhealthy diet. To ensure you get all the nutrients you need from the food you eat, try to aim for a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, quality protein, healthy fats, and low in processed, fried, and sugary foods.
Nutritional supplements are items that are usually considered non-food items that are used to enhance your nutritional program. Supplements may include, but are not limited to, vitamins, minerals, bars, and energy drinks or sports nutrition products to enhance performance. Supplements should be used alongside a healthy diet, but not replace it. To find a dietitian in your area that can assist you with supplements, go to www.eatright.org.
You don't have to hunt and skin your supper, but if your chicken has been molded into a nugget, who knows what you're really chewing. And when you choose meat that's been processed into sausage, strips or slices, you're downing sodium and preservatives instead of healthy nutrients, says Adam Drewnowski, Ph.D., director of the nutritional sciences program at the University of Washington at Seattle. Stick to unfussed-with cuts straight from the butcher.
In addition to diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors can also play an important role in bone health. Smoking and drinking too much alcohol can increase your chances of developing osteoporosis, while weight-bearing exercise (such as walking, dancing, yoga, or lifting weights) can lower your risk. Strength or resistance training—using machines, free weights, elastic bands, or your own body weight—can be especially effective in helping to prevent loss of bone mass as you age.
Nutritional supplements are used for many purposes. They can be added to the diet to boost overall health and energy; to provide immune system support and reduce the risks of illness and age-related conditions; to improve performance in athletic and mental activities; and to support the healing process during illness and disease. However, most of these products are treated as food and not regulated as drugs are.
Notice that alcohol isn't included in a food group. If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation, up to one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men. Alcohol offers little nutritional value, and when used in excess, can cause short-term health damage, such as distorted vision, judgment, hearing and coordination; emotional changes; bad breath; and hangovers. Long-term effects may include liver and stomach damage, vitamin deficiencies, impotence, heart and central nervous system damage and memory loss. Abuse can lead to alcohol poisoning, coma and death. Pregnant women should not drink at all because alcohol can harm the developing fetus and infant. According to the March of Dimes, more than 40,000 babies are born each year with alcohol-related damage. Even light and moderate drinking during pregnancy can hurt your baby. If you are breastfeeding, discuss drinking alcohol with your health care professional. After clearing it with your doctor, you may be able to have an occasional celebratory single, small alcoholic drink, but you should abstain from breastfeeding for two hours after that drink.
Most dietary supplements for sexual function haven’t been studied scientifically and may be a waste of money or dangerous for health. The supplements often contain hidden pharmaceutical drugs—like traces of PDE5 inhibitors, medications in the same class that includes prescription erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra. Lifestyle changes such as weight loss, eating a healthy diet, limiting alcohol, and smoking cessation can help boost sexual function without medication. If not, there are medical approaches that can help. More »
Learn. Find out as much as you can about any dietary supplement you might take. Talk with your doctor, your pharmacist, or a registered dietitian. A supplement that seemed to help your neighbor might not work for you. If you are reading fact sheets or checking websites, be aware of the source of the information. Could the writer or group profit from the sale of a particular supplement? Read more about choosing reliable health information websites.
Use whole grain flour in baking recipes. For some guilt-free indulgence, use whole grain flour in your baking recipes. Whole grain flour includes the bran and the germ which make it more nutritious than its refined counterpart. Start off by subbing half of the flour in the recipe with spelt flour (or any other whole grain flour of your choice) and see how it works. Here are some handy tips for baking with whole grain flours.
In 2015, the Australian Government's Department of Health published the results of a review of herbal supplements to determine if any were suitable for coverage by health insurance. Establishing guidelines to assess safety and efficacy of botanical supplement products, the European Medicines Agency provided criteria for evaluating and grading the quality of clinical research in preparing monographs about herbal supplements. In the United States, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health of the National Institutes of Health provides fact sheets evaluating the safety, potential effectiveness and side effects of many botanical products.
Once a dietary supplement is on the market, FDA has certain safety monitoring responsibilities. These include monitoring mandatory reporting of serious adverse events by dietary supplement firms and voluntary adverse event reporting by consumers and health care professionals. As its resources permit, FDA also reviews product labels and other product information, such as package inserts, accompanying literature, and Internet promotion.
Calorie density. Junk foods are designed to convince your brain that it is getting nutrition, but to not fill you up. Receptors in your mouth and stomach tell your brain about the mixture of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in a particular food, and how filling that food is for your body. Junk food provides just enough calories that your brain says, “Yes, this will give you some energy” but not so many calories that you think “That’s enough, I’m full.” The result is that you crave the food to begin with, but it takes quite some time to feel full from it.
According to US & Canadian Dietary Reference Intake guidelines, the protein Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for adults is based on 0.8 grams protein per kilogram body weight. The recommendation is for sedentary and lightly active people. Scientific reviews can conclude that a high protein diet, when combined with exercise, will increase muscle mass and strength, or conclude the opposite. The International Olympic Committee recommends protein intake targets for both strength and endurance athletes at about 1.2-1.8 g/kg body mass per day. One review proposed a maximum daily protein intake of approximately 25% of energy requirements, i.e., approximately 2.0 to 2.5 g/kg.
For example, while increased consumption of fruits and vegetables are related to decreases in mortality, cardiovascular diseases and cancers, supplementation with key factors found in fruits and vegetable, like antioxidants, vitamins, or minerals, do not help and some have been found to be harmful in some cases. In general as of 2016, robust clinical data is lacking, that shows that any kind of dietary supplementation does more good than harm for people who are healthy and eating a reasonable diet but there is clear data showing that dietary pattern and lifestyle choices are associated with health outcomes. | <urn:uuid:a97efa1e-2167-47b1-8fcf-a20001f14448> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://bloodpressureanswered.com/nutrition/womens-nutrition-blog-womens-hospital-nutrition-department.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998325.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20190616222856-20190617004856-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.944889 | 1,525 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Colonial Ideologies of Waste: Implications for Land and Life
This is part of our special feature, Confronting Waste.
On January 25, 2019, the waste tailings pond of Brazil’s Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine burst, causing a catastrophic mudslide that flowed uncontrollably for several hundred kilometers. The scale of this environmental disaster is difficult to fathom; some 12 million cubic meters of tailings is currently making its way through five different Brazilian states, on its way to the South Atlantic Ocean, as well as two enormous hydroelectric dams. The death toll remains undetermined; authorities have confirmed 209 dead, with at least another 102 people missing. The mine (and its waste) is owned by Vale Canada Limited, a multinational mining corporation with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. At Vale’s sister company in Brazil, president Fabio Schvartsman unsurprisingly attempted to downplay this particular mining disaster by referring to yet another catastrophic Brazilian mining disaster just four years earlier: “I believe that the environmental risk, in this case, will be much lower than that of Mariana” (Mendes and DeSalvo 2018: np). The Samarco company, owner of the Bento Rodrigues dam in Mariana, is itself a joint Brazilian Vale and English-Australian BHP venture. “The trouble with normal,” as Bruce Cockburn writes, “is it always gets worse.”
As well as downplaying the scale of these disasters, Vale and BHP officials are (also unsurprisingly) attempting to minimize their liability even while the Brazilian government has imposed fines and sanctions. Local and international environmental and social justice organizations are raising critical questions about the responsibilities of the extractive industry to local populations. And these questions cannot be meaningfully answered without acknowledging the entangled relationship between the extractive industry and ongoing imperialism and settler colonialism. Continuing a long colonial tradition of resource extraction, European and North American corporations are land-grabbing in Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia, in order to extract minerals and increase food (and increasingly biofuel) production for export (Broughton 2013).
Worldwide, colonialism continues to structure the relationship between the resource industry, Indigenous peoples, and the environment, as dwindling primary resources are pushing extraction efforts further and deeper into Indigenous territories. While governments and industry emphasize the potential to create new jobs for Indigenous peoples, alongside more people and equipment moving into Indigenous territories and significantly more drilling and extraction, one consequence is certain: the creation of more (and increasingly complex) forms of waste. This paper analyzes the ideologies that undergird ongoing colonial approaches to land and life. On a global scale, waste, we argue—as material object, as concept, as symbol, and as leitmotif—is a symptom of colonialism, and indeed, cannot be meaningfully understood detached from historical and ongoing forms of colonialism (Hird and Zahara 2017; Liboiron 2018).
Canada is a nation-state born from the imperial European powers of England and France. Once a colony of the so-called Old World, Canada has become a colonizing economy of its own— stealing land and water from Indigenous nations within its borders, as well as exploiting far off lands worldwide to meet its own imperial demands. In this paper, we chart the entangled relationship between historical and ongoing colonialism through which colonized Indigenous lands become a colonizing country (Canada). We illustrate that waste is a symptom of ongoing colonialism and, as such, we argue that responsibility for the monumental waste issues that resource extraction entails extends beyond current environmental legislation and weak promises of remediation. While oil and gas, forestry, agriculture, nuclear energy, and hydroelectricity industries are equally important to address, we use mineral resource extraction to illustrate the ideology behind global waste legacy and current practices.
Colonial Concepts of Waste
How we think about the term “waste” reveals much about our relationship with land and water. Colonization by Judeo-Christian nations such as France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain was historically—and we argue still is—maintained through an ideology that not only prioritizes land and water ownership at all costs, but defines ownership in terms of specific forms of utilization (Saul 2008). The language used to describe land and water speaks to this ideology. According to Eleanor Johnson (2012), “waste” derives from the Latin term, vasto, “to empty” and describes land being despoiled and emptied of its contents. In Old and Middle English, “waste” referred generally to the environment, and more specifically to uninhabitable land. In the 1200s, the Anglo-French word for waste meant “desolate regions” and in Old North French it referred to “damage, destruction, wasteland, or moor.” By c. 1300, the Old English word “waste” meant “a desert, a wilderness” from the Latin “empty, desolate, waste” (see Hird 2016). Drawing upon the imperial Spanish ideology of the papal bulls, as well as the corresponding Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius (land belonging to nobody, or empty land), colonial nation states have devastated lands and peoples in the name of control and domination: “The colonizers created a legal order and consciousness around the sovereign or state, that great fictitious entity of Eurocentric thought by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else, especially Indigenous peoples and their resources” (Youngblood Henderson 2000: 28).
Into the 1600s, European notions of waste still referred to land that was “unfit for use.” Land which appeared so desolate, and inhospitable, was synonymous with wilderness. Wilderness, in short, was wasted land: a wasteland. Within this ideology, the very inhospitality of wastelands obligated good Christians to bring these lands under control, under Christian sovereignty, to redeem these barren lands through utilization:
God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind [sic], commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him. God and his reason commanded him to subdue the earth, i.e. improve it for the benefit of life, and therein lay out something upon it that was his own, his labour. (Locke 1869/2017: section 25, chapter 5)
Land redeemed by Man for God is land that is comprehensible to Judeo-Christian ideology. It is claimed, marked, subdued, and utilized (Scanlan 2005). And any non-Christian heathens found on this land (i.e. Indigenous peoples) must likewise be subdued (become Christian, and thus engage in Christian land-use practices) or excised (through genocide) in order that the land may be put to God’s work, as God intended. That is, those human beings found on the land—like the flora and fauna—must either come to accept the inalienable sovereignty of (Judeo-Christian) God’s plan for His earth as actualized by colonial settlers, or be treated as waste. Indeed, the Indigenous peoples whom British and French colonizers encountered were already considered an inferior human kind, morally and practically disposable, if unsalvageable through Christian indoctrination.
Interestingly, colonialism outlasted the supremacy of the Church and the Enlightenment alike. Charting the history of empire in Europe, the Judeo-Christian ideology emerged and continued to disconnect people from their relationships with the Earth. Later, Enlightenment thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, who were praised for being rational and reasonable, still viewed land and nature as separate and savage. Instead of God compelling people to conquer lands, European (men) imposed a civil society, or artificial man-state (Youngblood Henderson, 2000). In Utopian Legacies, Haudenosaunee (Seneca) scholar John Mohawk points to resource extraction, depletion and waste as byproducts of the utopian dream mentality of the West:
Even in contemporary times the pursuit of the ideal, like the pursuit of utopia, is usually destructive… The ideals that are pursued by those in power rarely concern such matters as harmonious relations among peoples or the regeneration of the ecology of a distressed region. They are almost always ideals that, if pursued, involve some level of dispossession, removal of populations, exploitation, pollution, economic devastation, or other evil. These tendencies have not existed in every culture in the world or at every moment of history, but it is important to acknowledge that they are major themes—perhaps the characterizing themes—in Western culture. (2000: 13)
Three waves of European colonialism have dominated the world. The initial disconnect and separation of our relationship with land and water occurred through the establishment and conquest of European empires. Once colonial thinking had overtaken the peoples of Europe, imperial ideologies were exported to the Americas to colonize Indigenous peoples and lands in places like present-day (so-called) Canada. Today, Canada continues to colonize within its borders, as well as distant lands, using the same ideologies of utopia and progress that were used to justify its own nation-building mythology.
This European ideology had, and continues to have, ripple effects that extend far beyond Europe. Colonized, Canada has both internalized colonial ideology in its domination of Indigenous nations, and now exports European ideals of land exploitation to every corner of the globe through its extractive industries. Under the guise of globalization, entrepreneurialism, and innovation, colonialism is the extension of empire, rooted in imperial ideologies of power, land dispossession, resource extraction, and waste. As the ultimate environmental issue, colonialism perpetually seeks more than it can ever replenish. In this way, waste is both a symptom of colonialism and a perpetuating cycle of production, consumption and disposal, as lands and waters are continually destroyed for (assumed) limitless market expansion.
To wit, mining is a staple of the Canadian economy. Both within and beyond Canada, the majority of mining companies worldwide are Canadian owned and operated (Government of Canada 2019). While approximately half of the world’s mining companies are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX and TSX-Venture Exchanges), most of the world’s publicly listed mining and exploration companies are headquartered in Canadian cities. These mining companies practice land-grabbing and exploitation within Canada and beyond (Runyan 2018). Bearing in mind that mining companies consider 95 to 99.9 percent of the physical material they extract from the earth to be waste, Canadian mining companies are creating and largely abandoning an unfathomable amount of often highly contaminated and toxic waste in their wake (see Hird 2017). For instance, Imperial Metals is a Canadian mining corporation with controversial operations within Canada. The company and its subsidiary, Mount Polley Mining Corporation, was responsible for a massive tailings spill in August 2014, similar to Vale’s Córrego do Feijão tailings spill in 2019. Imperial Metals also operates the Red Chris mine in the Canadian province of British Columbia. This mining project in the renowned Sacred Headwaters of three salmon-bearing rivers has been continually opposed by Indigenous peoples throughout the region (Neu and Therrien 2003).
A more expansive definition of waste, such as Zygmunt Bauman’s (2004), would certainly call attention to the ”bare life” conditions with which communities in the globalized south live and die (see also Agamben 1996; Davis 2007; Hecht 2014). Beyond its territorial boundaries, Canadian mining also has a violent relationship with the land, water and peoples throughout Latin America, including Mexico, El Salvador and Ecuador. The controversial Marlin Mine in Guatemala for instance, owned by the Canadian company Goldcorp, has been associated with extreme violence and death threats toward local Maya communities (Imai et al. 2017). Another Guatemalan example, the Fenix nickel mine near the town of El Estor in Maya Q’eqchi’ territory, has caused considerable harm as Indigenous people were forcibly removed to allow nickel mining activity. Several Canadian companies have owned this project since the 1960s. Murders, sexual assaults, and other human rights violations have taken place as a result of the conflict between local Indigenous people and successive Canadian corporate entities, including INCO, Skye Resources, HudBay Minerals, and their Guatemalan subsidiaries (Imai et al. 2012; 2017). Communities affected by this mining have sought justice in the Canadian courts. However, it is difficult to hold these companies to account within the void of Canadian corporate responsibility legislation. Meanwhile, Barrick Gold Corporation, another Canadian venture and the largest gold mining company in the world, has since been implicated in sexual assault and other violent assaults against people in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania. Forced eviction and land dispossession are common, especially amid the complex context of the corporate-government armed security apparatus (MiningWatch Canada 2017). And all too often these violent acts take place against a backdrop of serious environmental impacts and waste issues. First colonized by Europe, Canada now colonizes.
The Anthropocene, we might say, is a geologic literalization of Judeo-Christian ideology (Hird 2016, 2017b, 2017c). This particular ideology, in which all of the characteristics of colonizing—land grabbing, working land and its peoples with relentless brutality, violently displacing Indigenous living systems—has led to a planet exhausted by human exploitation. The Anthropocene, in other words, marks a geologic, cultural and political “afterword” to the Christian story. Reflecting upon Edward Burtynsky’s photographic witness to the Anthropocene in Manufactured Landscapes (2004), Jonathan Bordo suggests these images record:
…the wilderness as a fallen condition; not the condition of the first fall and expulsion of humans from the garden into the wilderness; not the wilderness of the commons; but the wilderness of the second fall, the wilderness turned into wasteland, the earth itself turned into exploited ruin. (2006: 5)
Indeed, those cultures that are tied to Western notions of progress and faith, which are ever upward-looking, fail to recognize the sacred nature of the Earth and the finite reality of the planet’s natural limits. Beyond laying the landscape to waste, the byproduct of unregulated consumption is the physical waste itself. Complex forms of waste impact entire ecosystems through leachate, contaminants and toxins, which have implications for all forms of life. As Anishinaabekwe scholar Winona LaDuke writes, “Colonization is the process of being consumed”, likening the word colon to digestion (in Dunlap 2014: 63). In other words, colonialism is akin to a snake eating its own tail. If we stay the current course of extraction and waste, the process will continue until the entire planet has been consumed.
As authors with settler colonial heritage, it is not for us to speculate about Indigenous understandings of waste or indigenizing perceptions of waste. As critics of our settler colonial inheritance, however, we may articulate how waste is a symptom of Canada’s colonial legacy and contemporary ideology. We recognize that Indigenous peoples in Canada and the world over remain at the frontlines of extraction and waste impacts, and the responsibility for restoring degraded ecosystems is often downloaded to local communities. Reconciliation efforts will be in vain if land and water is contaminated and destroyed. By identifying waste as colonial, and taking measures to return healthy land and water to Indigenous peoples, we seek to decolonize our relationship with the Earth on which we live and depend. As Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) scholar Dr. Dan Longboat insists, “We all have a responsibility to care for the planet. We must fulfill our sacred obligation to restore Mother Earth from the degradation that Western culture has caused, and to work for the continuation of All Life.”
James Wilkes is an instructor in the Indigenous Environmental Studies & Sciences Program at Trent University and a PhD candidate in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University. James situates himself as a settler and immigrant Canadian in transformation away from empire, and towards naturalized ways of living and being in place. His current research focus is on the assertion of Indigenous law and autonomy in environmental decision-making.
Myra J. Hird is Professor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Queen’s National Scholar in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University (www.myrahird.com). Professor Hird is Director of Waste Flow, an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific-technical and socio-ethical issue (www.wasteflow.ca). Hird has published nine books and over seventy articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to science studies.
Agamben, G. (1995) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Bauman, Z (2004) Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts. Oxford: Polity Press.
Bordo, J. (2003) ‘The Keeping Place (Arising from an Incident on the Land)’ in R. Nelson and M. Okin (eds.) Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 157-182.
Bordo, J. (2006) ‘The Wasteland – An Essay on Manufactured Landscapes’ Material Culture Review, 63: 1-7.
Broughton, A. (2013) ‘Land Grabbing: A New Colonialism’ Green Social Thought, 61: 25-29.
Davis, M. (2007) Planet of Slums. New York: Verso.
Dunlap, A. (2014) ‘Permanent War: Grids, Boomerangs, and Counterinsurgency’ Anarchist Studies, 22(2): 55-79.
Government of Canada (2019) Canadian Mining Assets. Natural Resources Canada.
Hecht, G. (2012) Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Hird, M.J. (2016) ‘Waste Legacies: Land, Waste, and Canada’s DEW Line’, Northern Research, 42: 173-195.
Hird, M.J. (2017a) ‘Burial and Resurrection in the Anthropocene: Infrastructures of Waste’ in P. Harvey, C. Bruun Jensen and A. Morita (eds.) Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Routledge Companion, pp. 242-252.
Hird, M.J. (2017b) ‘Proliferation-Extinction-Anxiety and the Anthropocene Aesthetic’ in J. Weinstein and C. Colebrook (eds.) Inhuman Life and Posthuman Rights. Columbia University Press, pp. 251-270.
Hird, M.J. (2017c) ‘Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics’ Theory, Culture and Society, 34(2-3): 187-209.
Hird, M.J. and Zahara, A. (2017) ‘The Arctic Wastes’ in Grusin, R. (ed) Anthropocene Feminism. University of Minnesota Press, pp.121-145.
Imai, S., Maheandiran, B., & Crystal, V. (2012). Accountability across borders: Mining in Guatemala and the Canadian justice system. Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy. Research Paper No. 26.
Imai, S., Gardner, L., & Weinberger, S. (2017, December 1). The “Canada Brand”: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America (pdf, version 3). Toronto: Osgoode Law School, York University.
Johnson, E. (2012) “The Poetics of Waste: Medieval English Ecocriticism,” Modern Language Association, 127(3): 460–476.
LaDuke, W. (2015) The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing.
Liboiron, M. (2018) ‘Waste Colonialism’ Discard Studies. https://discardstudies.com/2018/11/01/waste-colonialism/Accessed 15 February 2019.
Locke, J. (1869/2017) Second Treatise of Civil Government.Archived from the original by britannica.com.
Mendes, K. and DeSalvo, M.P. (2018) ‘The Causes of the 2015 Mariana Tragedy’ The Brazilian Report. https://brazilian.report/society/2018/11/05/causes-mariana-tragedy/
MiningWatch Canada (2017) ‘Barrick Gold Tanzania Operations Accused of Financial and Human Rights Abuses — Executives Once Again Fail to Address Human Rights Abuses’ https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/07/05/1055022/0/en/MiningWatch-Canada-Issues-Statement-Regarding-Barrick-Gold-Tanzania-Operations.html
Mohawk, J. (2000) Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest and Oppression in the Western World. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers.
Neu, D. and Therrien, R. (2003) Accounting for Genocide: Canada’s Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing.
Runyan, A.S. (2018) ‘Disposable Waste, Land and Bodies under Canada’s Gendered Nuclear Colonialism’ International Feminist Journal of Politics, 20(1): 24-38.
Saul, J.R. (2008) A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada. Toronto: Penguin Canada.
Scanlan, J. (2005) On Garbage. London: Reaktion Books.
Vasudevan, P. (2019) ‘An Intimate Inventory of Race and Waste’ Antipode(pages forthcoming).
Youngblood Henderson, J. (2000). The context of the state of nature. In M. Battiste (Ed.), Reclaiming Indigenous voice and vision. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Zahara, A. and Hird, M.J. (2015) ‘Raven, Dog, Human: Inhuman Colonialism and Unsettling Cosmologies’, ‘Learning How to Inherit in Colonized and Ecologically Challenged Lifeworlds’ special issue of Environmental Humanities, 7: 169-190.
Photo: Old map Europe with parallels and meridians. May be dated to the end of XVII sec | Shutterstock
Published on May 7, 2019. | <urn:uuid:c9f84071-b415-4d1f-8152-641f968f085c> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.europenowjournal.org/2019/05/06/colonial-ideologies-of-waste-implications-for-land-and-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528013.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722113215-20190722135215-00545.warc.gz | en | 0.917703 | 4,797 | 3.125 | 3 |
Researchers Say They Created a ‘Synthetic Cell’
By NICHOLAS WADE
May 20, 2010
New York Times
The genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has taken another step in his quest to create synthetic life, by synthesizing an entire bacterial genome and using it to take over a cell.
Dr. Venter calls the result a “synthetic cell” and is presenting the research as a landmark achievement that will open the way to creating useful microbes from scratch to make products like vaccines and biofuels. At a press conference Thursday, Dr. Venter described the converted cell as “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer.”
“This is a philosophical advance as much as a technical advance,” he said, suggesting that the “synthetic cell” raised new questions about the nature of life.
Other scientists agree that he has achieved a technical feat in synthesizing the largest piece of DNA so far — a million units in length — and in making it accurate enough to substitute for the cell’s own DNA.
But some regard this approach as unpromising because it will take years to design new organisms, and meanwhile progress toward making biofuels is already being achieved with conventional genetic engineering approaches in which existing organisms are modified a few genes at a time.
Dr. Venter’s aim is to achieve total control over a bacterium’s genome, first by synthesizing its DNA in a laboratory and then by designing a new genome stripped of many natural functions and equipped with new genes that govern production of useful chemicals.
“It’s very powerful to be able to reconstruct and own every letter in a genome because that means you can put in different genes,” said Gerald Joyce, a biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
In response to the scientific report, President Obama asked the White House bioethics commission on Thursday to complete a study of the issues raised by synthetic biology within six months and report back to him on its findings. He said the new development raised “genuine concerns,” though he did not specify them further.
Dr. Venter took a first step toward this goal three years ago, showing that the natural DNA from one bacterium could be inserted into another and that it would take over the host cell’s operation. Last year, his team synthesized a piece of DNA with 1,080,000 bases, the chemical units of which DNA is composed.
In a final step, a team led by Daniel G. Gibson, Hamilton O. Smith and Dr. Venter report in Thursday’s issue of the journal Science that the synthetic DNA takes over a bacterial cell just as the natural DNA did, making the cell generate the proteins specified by the new DNA’s genetic information in preference to those of its own genome.
The team ordered pieces of DNA 1,000 units in length from Blue Heron, a company that specializes in synthesizing DNA, and developed a technique for assembling the shorter lengths into a complete genome. The cost of the project was $40 million, most of it paid for by Synthetic Genomics, a company Dr. Venter founded.
But the bacterium used by the Venter group is unsuitable for biofuel production, and Dr. Venter said he would move to different organisms. Synthetic Genomics has a contract from Exxon to generate biofuels from algae. Exxon is prepared to spend up to $600 million if all its milestones are met. Dr. Venter said he would try to build “an entire algae genome so we can vary the 50 to 60 different parameters for algae growth to make superproductive organisms.”
On his yacht trips round the world, Dr. Venter has analyzed the DNA of the many microbes in seawater and now has a library of about 40 million genes, mostly from algae. These genes will be a resource to make captive algae produce useful chemicals, he said.
Some other scientists said that aside from assembling a large piece of DNA, Dr. Venter has not broken new ground. “To my mind Craig has somewhat overplayed the importance of this,” said David Baltimore, a geneticist at Caltech. He described the result as “a technical tour de force,” a matter of scale rather than a scientific breakthrough.
“He has not created life, only mimicked it,” Dr. Baltimore said.
Dr. Venter’s approach “is not necessarily on the path” to produce useful microorganisms, said George Church, a genome researcher at Harvard Medical School. Leroy Hood, of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, described Dr. Venter’s report as “glitzy” but said lower-level genes and networks had to be understood first before it would be worth trying to design whole organisms from scratch.
In 2002 Eckard Wimmer, of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, synthesized the genome of the polio virus. The genome constructed a live polio virus that infected and killed mice. Dr. Venter’s work on the bacterium is similar in principle, except that the polio virus genome is only 7,500 units in length, and the bacteria’s genome is more than 100 times longer.
Friends of the Earth, an environmental group, denounced the synthetic genome as “dangerous new technology,” saying that “Mr. Venter should stop all further research until sufficient regulations are in place.”
The genome Dr. Venter synthesized is copied from a natural bacterium that infects goats. He said that before copying the DNA, he excised 14 genes likely to be pathogenic, so the new bacterium, even if it escaped, would be unlikely to cause goats harm.
Dr. Venter’s assertion that he has created a “synthetic cell” has alarmed people who think that means he has created a new life form or an artificial cell. “Of course that’s not right — its ancestor is a biological life form,” said Dr. Joyce of Scripps.
Dr. Venter copied the DNA from one species of bacteria and inserted it into another. The second bacteria made all the proteins and organelles in the so-called “synthetic cell,” by following the specifications implicit in the structure of the inserted DNA.
“My worry is that some people are going to draw the conclusion that they have created a new life form,” said Jim Collins, a bioengineer at Boston University. “What they have created is an organism with a synthesized natural genome. But it doesn’t represent the creation of life from scratch or the creation of a new life form,” he said. | <urn:uuid:eac63af9-13db-4c83-a0c8-9727f39f9ac1> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://kurtzsmind.blogspot.com/2010/05/researchers-say-they-created-synthetic.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668716.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20191115222436-20191116010436-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.950267 | 1,433 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Karamanov was born in Radoviš, then in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Since the beginning of his education he exhibited affinity to writing, He started writing songs at the early age of 9 years. Between September 5, and October 7, 1944 Karamanov fought against the withdrawing Germans.
This talented writer lived for only 17 years, but his human messages written in poems are left to testify for the war. He is considered one of the founders of contemporary Macedonian literature. His poetry was originally written in Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian, and was translated into Macedonian after its codification in 1945. Part of the works of the poet, has not been translated into Macedonian, due to its bulgarophile content.
The town of Radoviš holds each year in his honor a poetry festival "Aco Karamanov Poetry Meetings"
- „Непознатият Александър Караманов. Поезия. Есета. Дневник“. Представяне на книгата, подготвена от доц. д-р Александър Йорданов. Института за литература – БАН.
- Николай Аретов. Дългата Одисея на един млад поет.Непознатият Александър Караманов. Ал. Йорданов, София: Век-21-прес, 24 Април 2018.
- Македонски академик избяга от дебат, заради техен поет, възпял български национални герои. 06 октомври 2017, Faktor.bg.
|This article about a Macedonian poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|
|This biographical article related to the European military is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.| | <urn:uuid:fa81dd47-8d0d-4a6d-b7cf-e55db3fb9f3c> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://www.let.rug.nl/~gosse/termpedia2/termpedia.php?language=dutch_general&density=7&link_color=000000&termpedia_system=perl_db&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAco_Karamanov | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987795253.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021221245-20191022004745-00144.warc.gz | en | 0.771807 | 659 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Listening to what you’ve written can be immensely helpful in revising and editing your work. “Read it out loud” is a time-tested technique for self-editing. As Forbes magazine proclaimed, “To write like a human, read your work out loud.”
Listening to your own writing can help with all stages of the writing process:
- analysis (recognizing false contrasts, for example)
- research (realizing that a statement really needs support)
- organization (noticing that sequential paragraphs or sentences are jumping around between topics)
- sentence length (running out of air before finishing a sentence)
- grammar (frowning while reading because it’s now apparent that the subject and verb don’t actually agree)
- word choice (hearing words that just sound wrong, and maybe brainstorming good alternatives out loud)
But listening can be a bit of a faux ami when it comes to punctuation. Particularly, please do not subscribe to the rule that you insert a comma wherever you pause in speech. As the University of North Carolina Writing Center points out in a comprehensive handout on commas, it’s a myth that you should insert a comma wherever you pause. Different people pause in different places.
The most common error along these lines is, I think, the desire to put a comma after but: “But, the court ultimately reversed and remanded.” I once watched someone read a sentence like this and respond as follows: “That comma makes me physically ill.”
If you are listening to your own work and really, really want to mimic the rhythm of speech by inserting a strong pause . . . consider the ellipses, as Roy Peter Clark recommends in The Glamour of Grammar. But he also points out that the ellipses to signal a pause is more a tool of narrative writing and not so commonly spotted in the world of formal reports. He didn’t specifically mention legal writing, but he might as well have. The ellipses could perhaps work well in legal blogs and other friendly, outward-facing writing–as well as sarcastic writing like this response to a cease-and-desist.
When lawyers want to slow down the way the writing sounds but maintain a very formal tone, there’s always the old faithful, very basic punctuation mark that does a lot of work but gets under-appreciated for its rhetorical effect. Yes. The period. | <urn:uuid:ddaaedae-483d-4fa8-9267-6a0ad772690e> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://listenlikealawyer.com/2013/09/24/celebrating-national-punctuation-day-by-listening-to-punctuation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221218122.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180821112537-20180821132537-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.948079 | 518 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Strontium Titanate Based Artificial Leaf Loaded with Reduction and Oxidation Cocatalysts for Selective CO2 Reduction Using Water as an Electron Donor
journal contributionposted on 2017-05-31, 00:00 authored by Shusaku Shoji, Akira Yamaguchi, Etsuo Sakai, Masahiro Miyauchi
Thin film of SrTiO3 nanorods loaded with reduction and oxidation cocatalysts drove the selective reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide (CO), as well as caused the production of equivalent oxygen molecules through water oxidation under UV irradiation. The described film functioned as a free-standing plate without any bias potential application, similar to a natural leaf. The film was facilely fabricated by a simple hydrothermal and annealing treatment of a titanium substrate to produce the SrTiO3 nanorod film (STO film) followed by two steps of loading the reduction and oxidation cocatalysts onto the surface of the STO. As a reduction cocatalyst, a CuxO nanocluster was chosen to achieve selective reduction of CO2 into CO, whereas a cobalt- and phosphate-based cocatalyst (CoPi) facilitated oxidation on the STO surface to promote oxygen generation. For the photocatalysis test, a wireless film was simply set into an aqueous solution bubbled with CO2 in a reactor, and CO production was observed in the headspace of the reactor under UV irradiation. Compared to the bare STO film, the dual cocatalyst-loaded STO film exhibited 2.5 times higher CO generation. H2 production was very limited in our system, and the amount of molecules generated by the reduction reaction was almost twice that of the generated oxygen molecules, proving that water molecules acted as electron donors. Our artificial leaf consists of abundant and nontoxic natural elements and represents the first achievement of stoichiometric CO2 reduction using water as an electron donor by a free-standing natural leaflike plate form. | <urn:uuid:749cb4bb-d2ea-4d26-ba68-5c7eccb32680> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Strontium_Titanate_Based_Artificial_Leaf_Loaded_with_Reduction_and_Oxidation_Cocatalysts_for_Selective_CO_sub_2_sub_Reduction_Using_Water_as_an_Electron_Donor/5089726/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224657735.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610164417-20230610194417-00441.warc.gz | en | 0.937628 | 416 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Keflex – Medical Facts You Should Know
Cefalexin is a cephalosporin antibiotic. Eli Lilly and Company introduced this medicine to the market in the year 1967. It was approved by FDA in 1971. Keflex is used for the treatment of various infections like pneumonia, otitis media, urinary tract infections and many others.
It is famous under brand names like Ceporex, Ceforal, Biocef, Ospexin, Rancef, Ulexin and many others.
How to use Keflex?
It is advisable to take Keflex under medical supervision. The primary factors on which the dosage amount is dependent is your health condition and how you respond to the treatment. Weight, too, plays a major role in children.
The medicine is available as tablets, capsules and oral suspension. The drug should be taken orally with or without food. Normally it is prescribed to divide the per day dosage into 2 to 4 times doses. Follow doctor’s/ pharmacist’s instructions carefully. The oral suspension dose should be carefully measured in a measuring spoon or cup before consumption.
Do not take extra doses to make up with the missed ones.
Tablets and capsules should be stored at room temperature. Store this drug away from heat and moisture. Oral suspension of medicine should be refrigerated between 2 to 8 degrees C. Ensure that you do not freeze it. Throw away the liquid after 14 days of use.
What Precautions should be taken when using Keflex?
• Keflex contains some inactive ingredients like magnesium stearate, titanium dioxide, gelatin and many others. These substances can induce allergic reactions hence, inform your doctor if you suffer from any allergy.
• This medicine should be administered with caution in people suffering from stomach, kidney or intestinal disease.
• Inform your doctor or dentist the you are using this drug in case you are going to have surgery.
• Pregnant and breastfeeding women should consult the doctor before taking this medication, lest it would affect the baby.
• Avoid grapefruit and grapefruit juices as this interferes heavily with its intended action.
• Alcohol when taken during the medication course can bring a series of harmful side effects. Hence, avoid alcohol consumption during this treatment.
What are the benefits of Keflex?
This drug offers plenty of benefits among which are the following:
• Since Keflex is an FDA approved drug, it is safe for use.
• It can be used very effectively in the treatment of bacterial endocarditis.
• It is also very effective in the treatment for certain kinds of skin infections.
• It is low in cost, which means anyone can use this drug as required.
We only ship medications which are approved by FDA, Also please consult your doctor to make a full decision on what medication to take. | <urn:uuid:be17c5cd-549f-4572-972d-c6b8cea5c695> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | http://www.solopharmacy.com/antibiotics/keflex-c-771.html?osCsid=3c9ee36bac5230f17a92cc96b8fbca79 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039603582.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20210422100106-20210422130106-00196.warc.gz | en | 0.936243 | 591 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Definition of angry
- an angry crowd
- angry words
- an angry sky
- an angry rash
I've never seen her look so angry.
An angry crowd gathered outside the courthouse.
I was angry that he had forgotten my birthday.
What made you so angry?
He got angry when he found out about their plans.
He sent an angry letter to the company president.
They had an argument and exchanged some angry words.
She gave me an angry look.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'angry.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
angered, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, fuming, furious, hopping, horn-mad, hot, incensed, indignant, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriate, infuriated, irate, ireful, livid, mad, outraged, rabid, rankled, riled, roiled, sore, steamed up, steaming, teed off, ticked, wrathful, wroth;
aggravated, annoyed, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, exasperated, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, peevish, perturbed, petulant, put out, quick-tempered, snappish, testy, touchy;
bent out of shape, blue in the face, fit to be tied, hopping mad, hot under the collar, in a fume, in a huff, in a pet;
: filled with anger : having a strong feeling of being upset or annoyed
: showing anger
: seeming to show anger : threatening or menacing
What made you want to look up angry? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). | <urn:uuid:d98c7694-d538-4a16-995d-6d3415d3fe38> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866926.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624083011-20180624103011-00025.warc.gz | en | 0.909048 | 425 | 2.859375 | 3 |
How to check if something has been plagiarized. Prevent plagiarism before hitting publish 2022-10-25
How to check if something has been plagiarized Rating:
Du Wenxiu (also known as Tu Wen-hsiu) was a prominent figure in Chinese history who played a key role in the resistance against the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. Du was born in 1823 in the town of Jieyang, in Guangdong province, and grew up in a time of great political and social upheaval in China.
Du was deeply influenced by the ideas of the Taiping Rebellion, which sought to overthrow the Qing dynasty and establish a theocratic, Christian-influenced state in China. In 1850, Du joined the Taiping rebels and quickly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a general in the rebel army.
In 1853, Du led a successful campaign against the Qing forces in the city of Guilin, and was appointed as the governor of Guangxi province. However, he faced resistance from within the Taiping rebel movement and was eventually ousted from his position.
Despite this setback, Du continued to fight against the Qing dynasty and played a key role in the establishment of the Republic of China. In 1911, Du was a key figure in the Wuchang Uprising, which led to the fall of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China.
Du was also a vocal advocate for the rights of the Hakka people, an ethnic group that had long been marginalized in China. He worked to promote education and economic development among the Hakka, and is remembered as an important leader and hero among the Hakka community.
Overall, Du Wenxiu played a crucial role in the resistance against the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. His efforts to promote the rights of the Hakka people and his leadership during the Wuchang Uprising make him an important figure in Chinese history.
How To Check If Something Is Plagiarized On Google Docs
In addition, personal reference materials, such as works from previous books or licensed research articles, can be stored in a protected library and are available as additional resources for your browsing. You can receive the task to complete an essay, a composition, coursework, a dissertation, and lots of others that are usually completed for high school, both simple and not so simple ones. Cons: There is not much detail around what you are looking at as far as analysis, but the program does provide a list of sites where duplicate content has been found. The result is a detailed comparison report, with similar content and related statistics. Cons: This is a paid side and the details given for the content are pretty intense, most people won't really get it unless they have a university degree in English.
Make sure you clearly define what is and isn't considered plagiarism for your students. The content listed includes exact matches, content that is similar to your copy, partial copies and content that has been modified from your original form. As I found information in each of these books, I had to record this new information in notes and then revise the project to make the text coherent. It probably seems obvious, but you should do your very best to avoid copying the work of others. Click to tweet Trinka Plagiarism Check School scams continue. Want to know more about how to check plagiarism in your work? Best Free Plagiarism Checker Online I am limited to the information available in my local libraries. Now the students have a large amount of information at their disposal, the hard part is not finding SOME information but finding RELEVANT information.
Plagiarism comes across as shady and immoral. Check out the Google Translate app demo video and recipe below: Plagiarism Check Review: Is This Tool Accurate? Five of those had copied the content 100%, although one of those was the original site. Checking your papers and posts for plagiarism is important if you run a serious business, write an essay for college, or are finishing up an important official release. This option is absolutely free, so you do not need to waste any extra money. Of course, if you are teaching history, students might not be using a lot of recent sources.
Even with the most stringent anti-copying measures, there are still people that will find a way to copy your content without your permission. Plugins allow you to add additional functionality to the editor, be it creating charts or, in this case, plagiarism checking. Therefore it is important that students and students know the sources of their work and identify them correctly. Below are the best free and paid plagiarism tools for teachers plus a bonus Google extension. Our anti-plagiarism tool operates in several easy steps and will return the results within seconds. After this, you will receive the data, which will show the results of your scanning and that will help you get the whole picture of what you need to improve.
If the essay starts with an introduction on that topic but then ends up discussing issues completely unrelated to economics, the student might have used a generic essay on President Reagan to copy. You can even enter in any URLs you want the checker to ignore during its search. Schools have found that the costs outweigh the benefits this device brings to the school. Anti-copying can be made possible by disabling the right click option when people scan your content Check online often and run your content to see if it has been reproduced. Pros: You can get an accurate picture of any of your content that is being copied and the magnitude of that being copied; Cons: You have to pay 5 cents per copy check When we plugged in the URL of the content from the site, we received a list of 10 sites that apparently have similar content. The plagiarism software has received many awards for the accuracy of its search and user guidance. This image is not licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website.
This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc. Direct quotes and statistics must always have a citation. Cons: Not sure if there is a fee to use the program or if you are charged to see the results that come up after you have scanned your material. We made all efforts to make the process of scanning as understandable as possible. Sources are listed and instructors can filter so that quotes are eliminated. Unoriginal text was detected, there was some issue with sentence structure, and there were six apparent issues with the writing style and vocabulary use. Take all of the necessary precautions and make sure that your content is not stolen from your site.
Director Ava Duvernay deftly weaves emotion and facts in her portrayal of this watershed event. Writer flags similar content and lets you know where it found a close or identical match. By detecting fraud, you will ensure that all sources are correctly identified, so that you do not face problems during the repair process. Tips For Webmasters When you run a plagiarism check it is important to understand the results. If you want to check the document after improvement, you can do it as many times as there will be a need for. Copyleaks can even be a code plagiarism checker for computer science classes.
Copyleaks helps you check that once your content is published online, you can find out if others have stolen your content without permission. Depending on the level of plagiarism committed, the consequences can range from minor to severe. An easy way to check for plagiarism in Google Docs is to use a plugin. Searching on the internet, you will obviously find a long list of the various opportunities of the assignment check for plagiarism. Self-plagiarism Also known as auto-plagiarism, self-plagiarism happens when you copy your own writing, whether intentional or not. There is quite a bit of detail that is returned to you as the user when you run a scan using this tool. With this type of plagiarism, the work of someone else is simply paraphrased without proper citation. | <urn:uuid:65b06e75-0372-452f-ad6e-1b205cb672ff> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | http://opportunities.alumdev.columbia.edu/how-to-check-if-something-has-been-plagiarized.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656675.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609100535-20230609130535-00136.warc.gz | en | 0.962761 | 1,669 | 2.625 | 3 |
Does Video Game Violence Harm Teens? New Study Weighs The Evidence
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- How much scientific evidence is there for and against the assertion that exposure to video game violence can harm teens?
Three researchers have developed a novel method to consider that question: they analyzed the research output of experts who filed a brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case involving violent video games and teens.
Their conclusion? Experts who say violent video games are harmful to teens have published much more evidence supporting their claims than have experts on the other side of the debate.Brad Bushman
“We took what I think is a very objective approach: we looked at the individuals on both sides of the debate and determined if they actually have expertise in the subjects in which they call themselves experts,” said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University.
“The evidence suggests that those who argue violent video games are harmful have a lot more experience and stronger credentials than those who argue otherwise.”
Bushman conducted the study with Craig Anderson, professor of psychology at Iowa State University, and Deana Pollard Sacks, professor of law at Texas Southern University. Their research will be published in May in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy.
Their study involved Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will decide whether the state of California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to children under 18. The court is expected to rule on the case this summer.
In this case, groups supporting and opposing the law have filed what are called briefs of amicus curiae. These are briefs by people or groups who are not involved directly in the case, but want to offer the court their expert opinion on the issues involved.
The researchers analyzed the credentials of the 115 people who signed the Gruel brief, who believe video violence is harmful, and the 82 signers of the Millett brief, who believe video violence is not harmful. (The briefs are named after the lead attorneys for each side.)
The data for the study came from the PsycINFO database, which provides more than 3 million references to the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters or essays, and books.
“The justices were presented with two briefs, arguing opposite sides, and they may think the contradictory briefs simply cancel each other out,” Bushman said. “We just wanted to point out to the justices that not all briefs are the same."
For each of the signers of the two briefs, the researchers calculated how many articles and books they published on issues relating to violence and aggression in general and on media violence specifically.
The results showed that 60 percent of the Gruel brief signers (who believe video game violence is harmful) have published at least one scientific study on aggression or violence in general, compared to only 17 percent of the Millett brief signers.
Moreover, when the researchers looked specifically at the subject of media violence, 37 percent of Gruel brief signers have published at least one study in that area, compared to just 13 percent of the Millett brief signers.
In a further analysis, Bushman and Anderson examined where the signers of both briefs have published their research. The best academic journals have the highest standards and the most rigorous peer review, so only the best research should be published there, Bushman said.
The researchers used a well-established formula, called the impact factor, to determine the top-tier journals, and then calculated how many signers had published in these journals.
Results showed that signers of the Gruel brief had published over 48 times more studies in top-tier journals than did those who signed the Millett brief.
“That’s a staggering difference,” Bushman said. “It provides strong support for the argument that video game violence is indeed harmful.”
Bushman said he and his colleagues did this study because they wanted to show that there is a way for the Supreme Court to evaluate the contradictory evidence it has been presented.
“The justices were presented with two briefs, arguing opposite sides, and they may think the contradictory briefs simply cancel each other out,” Bushman said.
“We just wanted to point out to the justices that not all briefs are the same. In this case, the credentials and experience of those who signed the Gruel brief far exceeds that of the ones who signed the Millett brief.” | <urn:uuid:824a7265-8a9d-4c67-bb32-327ab20323cb> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://news.osu.edu/does-video-game-violence-harm-teens--new-study-weighs-the-evidence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178378043.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20210307170119-20210307200119-00563.warc.gz | en | 0.960518 | 943 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Cancer is a topic that most people avoid because there is really nothing good to be said about it at all. Having it can feel like the literal end of the world, and getting rid of it can be a fight that you're just not ready for. You can prepare for what it takes to battle this disease by reading these useful facts.
Cancer patients have to deal with many discomforts while being treated for their disease. One irritating side effect of chemotherapy is mouth sores or sore, irritated throat caused by chemotherapy and radiation treatments. One natural way to soothe these painful sores is to drink aloe vera juice. This can be found at any health food store.
There are many stigmas with cancer that still exist today. People will often wonder if cancer is contagious, if those with cancer can perform as well as someone without cancer, of if cancer patients will be offended at the very mention of the disease. Try to eliminate these stigmas among your friends and family if they arise.
The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is a cause of cervical cancer. This virus causes genital warts, which are transmitted by sexual contact. The only way to prevent the spread of HPV is the use of condoms and abstinence, or a vaccine that protects against the disease. Be responsible and don't practice unprotected sex. The possibility of cancer isn't worth the risk.
When facing cancer, you should remember to anticipate physical changes. Cancer and cancer treatments such as chemotherapy will cause your body to experience changes, such as hair loss. Keeping these changes in mind will help you prepare for them in advance and remove any chances of being surprised by them. Find a patient physician who is willing to spend time discussing these matters with you.
When you are diagnosed with cancer, there are some things that you need to accept. Prepare yourself now to fight the good fight.
Beating cancer may require a little bit of luck, but you cannot allow yourself to rely on being lucky in order to beat it. In other words, you should never really expect miracles or for some experimental treatment to instantly cure you. Luck may play a role, but you should focus on putting in the effort to defeat cancer.
Many fruits and vegetables sold in grocery stores today are tainted. Pesticides are used to prevent insects and other issues from causing destruction to the crops. Before eating these nutritious foods, be sure to wash off any pesticide residue. You can do this with a mild detergent and warm water. You may also want to buy organic produce to avoid pesticides.
If you do something as simple as switching from whole or 2% milk to low-fat options like 1% or skim milk, you can prevent cancer, because simply eating healthier is one of your best lines of defense. Cutting the fat and cholesterol from your diet here means that you're going to live an all-around healthier and hopefully cancer-free life.
People who drink orange juice are less likely to contract stomach cancer due to the vitamin C contained within. Many studies have shown that 1000mg of vitamin C per day can all but eliminate stomach cancer, but https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323627.php even a small glass of OJ every day, containing around 40mg of vitamin C, can help you prevent it.
Beware of attempting to go completely organic if you want to prevent cancer. Some pesticides and hormones used with non-organic foods can be dangerous, but the benefits of not using them at all are mostly propaganda at this point. How well did civilization get on without disease-fighting measures with food? Not well at all. So don't switch completely until more info is available.
If you wear makeup, use products that do not contain chemicals that have https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qaf6TEklTe96aYnWo7U8E2wCxlnnk79bcdY6kV2OnrM/edit been linked to cancer. There are websites online that can help you look up your favorite products to see what they have in them. Avoid products that contain ingredients with "peg" or "eth" as part of their name.
Do not keep a strong front around everyone. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you do not need to keep a brave front in front of everyone. Get support from your family and close friends and be sure to express to some of them how you are actually feeling.
Keep up a healthy, active lifestyle. Eat healthy, nutritious foods and exercise when possible. Keeping active can help you cope better with treatment and lead to a longer life. Also be sure to get enough sleep, which will help alleviate some of the stress of cancer treatment and fend off fatigue.
Give yourself some personal time at least a couple times a week. You may have found that since your friends and family have found out that you are sick that they want to spend more time with you but it is alright to want to spend time alone and do absolutely nothing during that time.
Beware that breast cancer can occur in women of all ages. Many women think that because they are in their twenties or thirties that they cannot get breast cancer, therefore, they ignore symptoms, like lumps in their breasts. If you feel anything suspicious, be sure to let your doctor know.
Know your family history. Once of the causes of skin cancer is genetics. If you have members in your family that have had skin cancer, you may be at more of a risk to get it as well. If you have inherited the traits of the high risk factor, you need to be additionally careful when in the sun.
Look into complementary therapies that could very well support conventional medical therapies and help you transition into your post cancer lifestyle. Try getting a massage, using aromatherapy, getting an acupuncture treatment, or engaging in a yoga class. Theses are all great ways for you to get help in relaxing and to get through one of the more stressful times of your life.
Yoga is a wonderful exercise for cancer patients, especially for those who are in a lot of pain. It helps by relaxing the body, which in turn, helps to alleviate some of the pain. Also, medication is another helpful technique, as it also helps to relax the body and mind.
As stated before, cancer causes the growth of abnormal cells in the body. Once these cells form tumors, they destroy the body from the inside out. Different factors in our environment can lead to cancer, and if you remember the tips from the article above, you can avoid these factors and cancer.
We just sent you an email. Please click the link in the email to confirm your subscription!
OKSubscriptions powered by Strikingly | <urn:uuid:d8adc563-df34-4207-b4cf-61386fbf0492> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://site-920906-1936-4802.strikingly.com/blog/easy-tips-to-follow-when-you-have-cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202471.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320210433-20190320232433-00123.warc.gz | en | 0.967979 | 1,383 | 2.859375 | 3 |
There is and has been a swirling cloud of controversy surrounding whether or not parents should reward their children for earning good grades in school.
To me, it is normal and natural for a parent to want their child to do well – in school and in life. I believe that smart parents find ways to reward behavior they want to encourage. The carrot is better than the stick, in old fashioned terminology!
My parents rewarded by brother and I for good grades. They paid for good grades, we paid for bad ones. I remember getting a quarter for every E (excellent work) and although I never had to pay it, there was a penalty for any grade below average. We rewarded our sons for good grades – through high school. My brother and I excelled in school, as did both of our sons.
That said, it wasn’t the money that caused us to get good grades, it was the parental focus, support and involvement in our academic life and their recognition of our academic achievements that led to our academic success. Monetary rewards for grades were just one aspect of that support, involvement and recognition.
According to a survey conducted by the American Institute of CPAS and published on their site in August 2012:
“Nearly half of parents with kids in school, or 48 percent, also pay their kids for good grades. The average rate for an A: $16.60.”
Which means, that more than half do not pay for grades, but it is a small margin, so the debate is on!
The Pros and Cons of Paying for Grades
First The Cons
Parents who object to paying for grades feel that their students are expected to study hard and shouldn’t have to be motivated by money to do so. They relate it to paying for demonstrating courtesy.
Parents who object to paying for grades feel it is ineffective, paying for the final outcome isn’t helpful when the process involved to get there isn’t rewarded. In fact, some studies, done long ago and outside the family environment show that rewards (of any kind) for work done may actually hurt intrinsic motivation.
Parents who object to paying for grades consider it bribery, and bribery, at least according to Beth Kobliner of the Huffington Post in “Should You Pay for an ‘A’? How to Motivate Your Child — Part 1” is bad. She says:
“Offering some unrelated incentive–an iPhone for an A- in honors math or a pair of Beats headphones to boost a grade to a B+ from a C in Algebra 1–is artificial, at best.
After all, isn’t the point to get your kids to work hard for the satisfaction of a job well done? Isn’t a good grade, and all that goes along with it, a reward in and of itself?
At worst, bribery is downright dangerous. (Will it lead to your kid expecting to be paid to get out of bed, do his homework, study for the SATs?)”
If extended beyond the family, as it is being done in some areas, it can lead to conflict for the teacher. In Houston, TX a privately funded effort is paying both the student and their family when the student improves their grades. The NEA article claims:
“Many teachers also say paying students for grades leads to practical problems in their classrooms, including pressure to inflate grades and conflict with students and parents.”
In other words, parents yell at the teachers if the teacher doesn’t give a good grade!
Now The Pros
Parents who pay for grades believe that if used as part of a fully supportive in-family system with the right expectations and intermediate recognition of successes, it works. It worked for us. Would we have gotten good grades without the pay? Probably – because it was part and parcel of a bigger system, but it was a nice little incentive and acknowledgment of our effort.
Parents who pay for grades believe that it reinforces parental priorities. Lets face it, parents are responsible for raising kids and every day in every way they use positive and negative rewards to do so. Paying for good grades merely reinforces parental expectations of good behavior.
Parents who pay for grades believe it can provide incentive. Per Reuters article As school starts, parents pay up for grades:
“I don’t see anything wrong with paying for performance,” says Clare Levison, a certified public accountant in Blacksburg, Virginia, and a member of the National CPA Financial Literacy Commission. “It’s gone on for a long time in corporate America. I think it can be an effective incentive, as long as you’re using it as a teachable moment to tell them about budgeting and saving.”
Parents who pay for grades feel it helps prepare their child for performance based job rewards. How many of those parents who won’t pay their kids for good grades, get merit increases from their company in their salary each year? How many CEOs get bonus or stock rewards for increasing company bottom line financials? It is part of life.
Parents who pay for grades feel it is one way to help teach their child money management. Kids need to have available money of their own, so they can make their own mistakes, so parents and kids can have discussions and practice sessions on spending, saving and giving. Providing financial rewards for good grades is one method of getting some money into a child’s hands so they can start learning these things.
There is no doubt in my mind that rewarding achievement of good grades is an acceptable parental behavior.
There is no doubt in my mind that parents who pay their kids for good behavior of any kind WITHOUT parental involvement, support and encouragement along the way, will not accomplish their goal. I also do not believe that pay for grade programs administered outside the family will succeed, because they will lack that system of parental involvement, support and encouragement.
BUT, paying for grades within a full system of expectations, ongoing support, encouragement and recognition can provide added incentive for success.
Where do you stand on the pay for grades debate? | <urn:uuid:8bf42b80-a360-4ab4-909d-0370a82cb09e> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://prairieecothrifter.com/2013/06/parents-pay-good-grades.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207929956.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113209-00316-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972075 | 1,266 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Hydronic radiant floor heating systems heat water up with a boiler then it flows through the floor (installed in a concrete slab) warming your home. Just imagine the potential savings from heat that stays and lasts along with energy effecency.
Water heating is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and space heating. In industry, both hot water and water heated to steam have many uses.
Appliances for providing a more-or-less constant supply of hot water are variously known aswater heaters, hot water heaters, hot water tanks, boilers, heat exchangers, calorifiers, or geysers depending on whether they are heating potable or non-potable water, in domestic or industrial use, their energy source, and in which part of the world they are found. In domesticinstallations, potable water heated for uses other than space heating is sometimes known as domestic hot water (DHW).
Solar water heating (SWH) or solar hot water (SHW) systems comprise several innovations and many mature renewable energy technologies that have been well established for many years.
Residential solar thermal installations fall into two groups: passive (sometimes called "compact") and active (sometimes called "pumped") systems. Both typically include an auxiliary energy source (electric heating element or connection to a gas or fuel oil central heating system) which is activated when the water in the tank falls below a minimum temperature setting such as 55 °C. Hence, hot water is always available. The combination of solar water heating and using the back-up heat from a wood stove chimney to heat water can enable a hot water system to work all year round in cooler climates, without the supplemental heat requirement of a solar water heating system being met with fossil fuels or electricity.
Geothermal heating is the direct use of geothermal energy for heating applications. Ground source heat pumps rely on an energy exchange between the air within the building being heated and the ground. Below ten feet the earth's temperature is fairly constant, generally around ~10 °C (~50 °F). During the summer when the ambient temperature of the building exceeds that of the ground heat pumps are used to pump heat from the building in to the transfer medium (typically water with small amounts of ethanol or glycol) and is subsequently pumped through narrow pipes into the ground so that the heat can be dissipated in the earth. When the ambient temperature falls below the ground temperature the process works in reverse. Heat pumps extract heat from the ground and use it to heat the building. | <urn:uuid:73577f82-0cd9-43ca-89e2-9dc2a45720b9> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://www.petroglyphplumbingandheatinginc.com/services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875147154.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20200228104413-20200228134413-00061.warc.gz | en | 0.943791 | 538 | 3.515625 | 4 |
In this 10 minute video, Clayton Thomas-Mueller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, talks about the Alberta Tar Sands industrial project, its effect on the health of indigenous communities, and the industry’s role in continuing Canada’s exploitative colonial legacy.
An activist for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice, Thomas-Mueller is the organizer of the Indigenous Environmental Network’s (IEN) “Canadian Indigenous TAR Sands Campaign” (CITSC), an effort that is seeking to establish a moratorium on further tar sands expansion. “The campaign is focused on building the knowledge and capacity of First Nation and Métis leadership within the tar sands impact area to actively engage in both a corporate finance campaign and in decision making processes on environment, forests, energy, climate and economic policies, related to halting the tar sand expansion. The First Nations and Métis leadership includes grassroots, elders and youth, in addition to elected First Nation Band Chiefs and Councilors.”
If you would like to learn more about the tar sands, also known as the oil sands, please visit oilsandstruth.org, tarsandswatch.org, and www.tarsandstimeout.ca.
You may also want to read the report by Environmental Defence, “The Most Destructive Project On Earth.”
Indigenous Peoples are putting their bodies on the line and it's our responsibility to make sure you know why. That takes time, expertise and resources - and we're up against a constant tide of misinformation and distorted coverage. By supporting IC you're empowering the kind of journalism we need, at the moment we need it most. | <urn:uuid:e55971b6-fedf-417c-b45c-c5e88d3f3c47> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://intercontinentalcry.org/on-the-matter-of-tar-sands-indigenous-lands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654097.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608035801-20230608065801-00181.warc.gz | en | 0.932201 | 354 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Only a third of the world’s great rivers remain free flowing, due to the impact of dams that are drastically reducing the benefits healthy rivers provide people and nature, according to a global analysis.
Billions of people rely on rivers for water, food and irrigation, but from the Danube to the Yangtze most large rivers are fragmented and degraded. Untouched rivers are largely confined to remote places such as the Arctic and Amazonia.
The assessment, the first to tackle the subject on a worldwide level, examined 12m kilometres of rivers and found that just 90 of the 246 rivers more than 1,000km (621 miles) long flowed without interruption.
The scientists, whose research, published in the journal Nature, was led by Günther Grill, at McGill University in Canada, were particularly concerned to discover that only a quarter of long rivers that once flowed freely to the sea, rather than to an inland lake or other river, still had such a course.
Separate research in Britain, which included the effects of smaller infrastructure such as weirs, fords and culverts, suggests that 97% of the nation’s river network has been interrupted by human-built structures.
Thriving wildlife in rivers is crucial to keeping water clean but freshwater habitats were found to be the hardest hit of all the ecosystems, with wildlife populations having plunged by an average of 83% since 1970 due to dams, overuse of water and pollution.
“Free-flowing rivers are important for humans and the environment alike, yet economic development around the world is making them increasingly rare,” said Grill. “Two billion people take water from rivers for drinking, so it is important they remain a clean source.”
Annually, 12m tonnes of fish are caught from rivers, providing a vital source of food for hundreds of millions of people, but 500 million people are living on deltas that are sinking as dams starve them of sediments.
Grill said rivers needed more protection, but that their length made such habitats harder to protect than areas of land.
“Rivers are the lifeblood of our planet,” said Michele Thieme, lead freshwater scientist at WWF and one of the 34 researchers behind the analysis. “While hydropower inevitably has a role to play in the renewable energy landscape, well-planned wind and solar energy can be more viable options for rivers and the communities and biodiversity that rely on them.”
LeRoy Poff, at Colorado State University, in the US, who was not part of the team, said: “The research provides a crucial new perspective on the global status of rivers [and] suggests that their global sustainability is more precarious than currently recognised.”
Poff said population growth made it difficult to balance the conflicting demand for water, food and energy, with the need to keep rivers healthy and free flowing. “Attaining this balance will increasingly rely on rigorous, state-of-the art analyses, as exemplified this study.”
The data used in the study took 10 years to assemble and examined dams and their impacts on seasonal flow and sediment movement, as well as levees, other artificial banks, and general water use.
Great rivers that flow freely are now rare in populated areas. Heavily fragmented rivers include the Danube, Nile, and Euphrates, the Paraná and Missouri in the Americas, the Yangtze and Brahmaputra in Asia, and the Darling in Australia. The Congo and Amazon were found to be among the least affected.
The biggest impact comes from physical barriers created by dams, but reservoirs also seriously affect the natural seasonal flow of rivers.
“It can be really freaky sometimes, when the electricity is produced one hour on, one hour off, and the river goes up and down by a metre, which is very stressful to the ecosystems downstream,” said Grill.
The study estimates that there are about 60,000 large dams worldwide and 3,700 in planning or construction, in addition to millions of smaller dams.
Many rivers are also hemmed in by banks built by people to prevent flooding in urban areas, although flood waters can end up displaced downstream. These banks also stop natural replenishment of nutrients in soil on flood plains.
Carlos Garcia de Leaniz, a professor at Swansea University, who led the UK study, praised the global analysis but he said the closer examination carried out by his team in the UK revealed a still worse picture. “The [global] study grossly underestimates the extent of river fragmentation as [it] only considers very large dams. We believe free-flowing rivers simply don’t exist any more, at least in Europe.”
The negative environmental impacts of many large dams is well known, but the international drive to fight climate change by reducing the burning of fossil fuels means low-carbon hydropower is in demand. “We are in a boom phase,” said Grill, noting that this was particularly so in the Balkans, Amazonia, China and the Himalayas.
Grill added that the broader environmental costs of hydropower were often not taken into account. He said he hoped his team’s database would enable planners to make better decisions about the necessity, location and design of dams. | <urn:uuid:afdc7c29-8660-4a75-b0ca-cff41a69a4d1> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.ecowatch.news/only-a-third-of-worlds-great-rivers-remain-free-flowing-analysis-finds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027319724.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190824041053-20190824063053-00316.warc.gz | en | 0.967772 | 1,093 | 3.875 | 4 |
Read Daniel 10
This chapter describes yet another vision given to Daniel. If you clicked the above link to view this chapter at bible gateway.com, take a look at the footnote at the end of this chapter.
- When did Daniel see this vision?
- Where was Daniel when he saw this vision?
- What did Daniel see?
- Who was the man that Daniel saw?
- What did the Man say to Daniel?
- How come the Man was delayed in coming to Daniel?
The vision is continued in Daniel 11, with the Man explaining things to Daniel. Put yourself in Daniel’s place. What could you have learned about God in this situation? Was Daniels response appropriate?
Know that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. He knows our past and our future. Thank Him for knowing you and leading you. You can respond knowing the following…
“Don’t be afraid,” he said, “for you are very precious to God. Peace! Be encouraged! Be strong!” -v19
Read Mark 4
This chapter introduces something new. Jesus begin teaching with parables, or stories to communicate a point.
The first parable is in vv 1-20.
The second parable is in vv 21-25.
The third parable is in vv 26-29.
The fourth parable is in vv 30-34.
For each of the parables…
- Recount the story Jesus uses
- How did Jesus explain the meaning?
- What lessons can we learn from the parable?
- Are there any implied warnings to us?
Finally, in vv 35-41, Jesus calms the storm.
- Where were the disciples and Jesus?
- What happened with this event?
- How did the disciples respond?
- Can we learn anything from this event?
Are you in the middle of any storms in life right now? Jesus can calm those storms. Call on him and know that He is with you.
Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?” -v40
Read Genesis 11
There are a couple of major things happen in this chapter.
We have the introduction of various languages with the subsequent scattering of people, and then we see the lineage of Abram (Abraham) from Shem (son of Noah).
Take a look at vv 1-9 again.
- What were the people doing, and why?
- How did the Lord respond? Why?
- What is the impact of this in the modern world?
Now, look at vv 10-32.
- Calculate how many years were between the flood and the birth of Abram. Is that longer or shorter than you expected?
- Pay attention to the family relationships surrounding Abram. They will keep appearing later in the story. What can we learn about each of them?
- Where did Terah live? Where did they move to?
This chapter shows us a couple of things. Where needed, God will make direct intervention in the affairs of man. Also, we wee that God guides our steps to lead of to where He wants us to be.
Pray that the Lord would guide your steps to follow Him.
In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city. -v8
Read Proverbs 11
Honesty, speech, pride, gossip, beauty, generosity, wealth. These are all addressed in today’s reading.
- What is said about these things in Proverbs 11?
- Did you see anything unusual here?
- How can our response to these things be godly? wicked?
Many of us are very wealthy when compared to most of the world. Give some thought as to how you can use that wealth to serve our Lord.
If you are poor, think about how you can use your situation to serve God.
The Lord detests people with crooked hearts, but he delights in those with integrity. -v20
Today’s reading is Psalm 1
It is a classic comparison and contrast between those who seek to serve the Lord, and those who don’t.
- What are some of the activities of those who follow the Lord?
- What are some of the activities of the wicked?
- How are the righteous described?
- How are the wicked described?
Each day we make the choice of righteousness or wickedness. Choose to follow the Lord.
For the Lord watches over the path of the godly, -v6
Don't make reading the Bible a chore. Get yourself a cup of coffee or tea, and follow along as we read the Bible together!
Do you know God?
Can you really know for sure you are going to heaven? Is it really possible to have a relationship with God and to know your sins are forgiven? God does not want you to live in uncertainty. He wants you to know for sure that you are going to heaven. | <urn:uuid:9a5d26e7-ac77-48b7-bb3a-d43f7fa7dc9b> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://danielstrom.org/knowing-god/page/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891543.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180122213051-20180122233051-00117.warc.gz | en | 0.963586 | 1,055 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Indoor Gardening Project
Explore the science of indoor gardening. Learn about the life cycle of plants, starting plants from seed, soil, watering, fertilization, propagation, planting and care of terrariums, dish gardens and hanging baskets, and houseplants.
To view county or local club events, visit the county website.
4-H plays a pivotal role in youth development and public education at the Minnesota State Fair. More than 7,000 4-H youth have the opportunity to interact with the public and educate fairgoers through 4-H exhibits, demonstrations, performances, and 4-H promotion. More info.
Other online resources
To get involved with the 4-H Indoor Gardening Project, contact your county 4-H office.
All resources on this page have been reviewed by our faculty and included for their educational value. No endorsement is intended or implied. Minnesota 4-H does not profit from the inclusion of any commercial project resources. | <urn:uuid:f78d0ad6-114b-44d1-9590-70fa62066a80> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.extension.umn.edu/youth/mn4-H/projects/gardening-ag/indoor-garden/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042990114.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002310-00214-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922384 | 197 | 2.71875 | 3 |
HUMAN BIRTHDAY CAKE
One idea I got from this group a long time ago was to make a "human birthday cake." We stand in circle around the birthday student and the student announces how many candles will be on his/her cake that day and they pick (human) candles to stand in the circle with him/her. We sing happy birthday and then the student "blows" out his/her candles by tapping a candle on the head with a pointer and they fall to the ground.
My students this year started a variation on their own... they flutter their hands above their heads "the candle is lit!"
They look forward to it. I don't do birthdays in the classroom because I've had (and seen) so many problems & disruptions, it's just best to make it simple and the same for everyone.
Submitted by Tara
I had a great idea for Birthday Treats! It can get expensive to buy a gift for each child in your class. So what I did was put some colored water and oil in a clear water bottle. I also added a sprinkle of Birthday Confetti and hot glued the lid on. I have also started adding a piece of laminated paper with their name on it inside too. TADA!!! Instant Birthday gift that the kids love!
MAKE A WISH
(sung to the tune of “The Mulberry Bush”)
Here we go round the birthday cake,
The birthday cake, the birthday cake.
Here we go round the birthday cake;
Today is [child’s name]’s birthday!
Shout: Make a wish!
Celebrate birthdays with this imaginative musical idea! Have your class form a circle, holding hands, around the birthday child. Tell them that they are the candles on a birthday cake. Have them walk around in a circle as they sing the song. When they shout the last line, the birthday child makes his wish and pretends to blow out the candles as they all fall down.
Submitted by Sandra
Each birthday child can proudly display his age with a special birthday necklace. To make one necklace, laminate a numeral cutout that corresponds to that birthday child's age. Glue on a pair of wiggle eyes. Then, using permanent markers, draw on additional facial features. Attach a set of stars or stickers that corresponds to the child's age. Punch a hole in the cutout,
and then thread and tie a length of yarn through the hole. Hey, everybody! I am four years old today!
When's My Birthday?
Here's a tip to help you and your little ones remember those special days.Cut out a birthday cake shape for every child in your class. Program each shape with a different child's name and birthday. Each month, attach the
corresponding cutouts to the calendar on the appropriate spaces. Each youngster will enjoy watching his birthday get closer. Give each child his cake cutout to take home on his birthday. Happy birthday to you!
Submitted by Sandra
Oh, do you know the birthday girl (boy)
The birthday girl, the birthday girl,
Oh, do you know the birthday girl,
Her (his) name is __________.
Do you know how old she is
How old she is, how old she is?
Do you know how old she is
She is ___________ years old.
Submitted by Peggy
This is something I put out in the math center on someone's b-day.
1 empty and clean large margarine tub with lid
10 candles or golf tees
ice pick (for teacher use only :-)
used birthday cards with numbers on them ....ya know the ones that have "Today you are 4 Years Old" or make cards with numbers 1 - 10 on each.
Warm an ice pick with lit match. Then poke 10 holes in lid of margarin tub close to outside edge. Put lid back on tub. Draw decorations on lid (I have picture of birthday cake, party hat etc)
HOW TO PLAY
Child chooses a card and then matches the corresponding number of candles or golf tees by placing them in the holes in tub lid. Whne candles are in lid it looks like b-day cake!
Submitted by Chrisitne
For a child's birthday, we make him or her a "Birthday Hug Book". We talk
about how nice it is to be hugged and how we feel inside when we get a hug
from someone we love. Then I told the class that we are going to try and
make our birthday person feel those special feelings by giving him or her a
Birthday Hug Book. We talked about how we could make someone feel good
without hugs and the kids said we could say something nice to that person.
BINGO! We made a list of compliments about the birthday child and I listed
them on a board.
Each student got a paper which had "John is ____________. Happy Birthday!
The students filled in the blank with a word from our compliment list. Some
kids were able to copy the compliment they wanted to use from the board.
For others an adult wrote the letters in dotted fashion for the students to
trace. Above the sentence, the students drew a picture for the birthday
I placed all the students' papers ontop of a 9X12 piece of oaktag and
stapled them on the left side only. Then I traced a hand design onto
oaktag - one for the left and one for the right and cut them out. On the
right hand I wrote The Birthday Hug book for _John_ and on the left hand I
wrote a heart and then "Mrs. Hawkins' Class". I stapled these hands over
the students' papers (making sure we could still turn the pages). The hands
are stapled at the wrist area onto the oaktag (not the students' pages) and
they overlap slightly so that it looks like a hug. To read the book, you
open the hands and then turn the students' pages.
I found out about this idea mid way through last year so I didn't use it as
a birthday hug book. Instead, I modified it and made a "Goodbye Hug Book"
for students when they left our class. I sent the book to the child's new
school with his records. One mother actually came back to the school and
said how much her son loved to get the book at his new school.
Title: Ten Little Candles
Submitted by Stephanie
Ten little candles. On a chocolate cake.
Now there are eight.
Eight little candles. On candlesticks.
Wh! Wh! Now there are six.
Six little candles. And not one more.
Now there are four.
Four little candles. Red, white, and blue.
Wh! Wh! Now there are two.
Two littles candles. Standing in the sun.
Wh! Wh! Now there are none.
Title Birthday Celebrations
I took a round cookie tin and spray painted the lid and bottom white. Then I wrote Happy Birthday with puffy paints on the lid, plus added candle holders using hot glue. Since I've moved grade levels over several years, I usually have at least 8. Then when a child has a birthday, this is our birthday cake!! I light real candles, the class sings, and the bday child makes a wish and blows out the candles. I make a crown out of
construction paper and decorate it with glitter and jewels. Plus, I put small prizes (old McDonald's toys, Oriental Trading stuff, etc.) in a birthday gift bag and let the bday child pick a gift!! The children can't wait to have a birthday. I celebrate 1/2 birthdays in Jan., Feb., and March for my summer bdays. | <urn:uuid:aa782e34-5f7b-41d3-969b-07ebf4703b31> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://www.hummingbirded.com/birthdays.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443736677946.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001215757-00252-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94659 | 1,640 | 2.75 | 3 |
For many years there was a single reliable path to store information on a computer – employing a disk drive (HDD). On the other hand, this type of technology is currently displaying it’s age – hard disks are actually noisy and sluggish; they can be power–hungry and frequently generate quite a lot of warmth for the duration of serious operations.
SSD drives, on the other hand, are swift, use up a lot less power and tend to be much cooler. They offer a completely new way of file access and storage and are years in advance of HDDs in relation to file read/write speed, I/O efficiency and power effectivity. Discover how HDDs fare against the more recent SSD drives.
1. Access Time
A result of a revolutionary new method of disk drive general performance, SSD drives allow for much faster data access rates. With an SSD, data access times tend to be lower (as little as 0.1 millisecond).
HDD drives make use of spinning disks for data storage purposes. Each time a file will be accessed, you have to wait around for the right disk to get to the appropriate position for the laser to reach the data file involved. This ends in a regular access rate of 5 to 8 milliseconds.
2. Random I/O Performance
On account of the very same revolutionary technique that permits for a lot faster access times, also you can benefit from improved I/O efficiency with SSD drives. They’re able to complete double as many functions throughout a specific time as compared with an HDD drive.
An SSD can deal with at the least 6000 IO’s per second.
All through the exact same lab tests, the HDD drives demonstrated to be considerably slower, with 400 IO operations handled per second. While this seems to be a large number, for people with an overloaded server that contains many well known web sites, a sluggish hard drive can lead to slow–loading sites.
SSD drives are built to have as less rotating elements as feasible. They use an identical technology like the one utilized in flash drives and are much more dependable compared with conventional HDD drives.
SSDs provide an normal failing rate of 0.5%.
Since we already have mentioned, HDD drives depend on rotating disks. And something that utilizes plenty of moving elements for extented periods of time is prone to failure.
HDD drives’ common rate of failing can vary between 2% and 5%.
4. Energy Conservation
SSD drives work nearly noiselessly; they don’t generate excessive warmth; they don’t call for supplemental cooling down methods and then take in a lot less energy.
Trials have indicated that the common power consumption of an SSD drive is somewhere between 2 and 5 watts.
HDD drives are notorious for becoming loud; they’re at risk of getting hot and when you have several disk drives in a server, you have to have one more cooling device exclusively for them.
All together, HDDs consume in between 6 and 15 watts.
5. CPU Power
Because of SSD drives’ greater I/O effectiveness, the leading hosting server CPU can work with file queries more quickly and conserve time for other operations.
The standard I/O delay for SSD drives is only 1%.
In comparison to SSDs, HDDs permit slower data access speeds. The CPU must await the HDD to return the inquired data, scheduling its allocations for the time being.
The standard I/O delay for HDD drives is around 7%.
6.Input/Output Request Times
The bulk of JOMIZU SAC’s brand–new servers are now using solely SSD drives. Our personal lab tests have established that with an SSD, the typical service time for any I/O request while performing a backup remains under 20 ms.
Using the same web server, yet this time loaded with HDDs, the results were completely different. The average service time for any I/O query changed between 400 and 500 ms.
7. Backup Rates
You’ll be able to check out the real–world benefits of using SSD drives every day. For instance, on a server equipped with SSD drives, a full back up is going to take simply 6 hours.
We applied HDDs mainly for several years and we have got very good knowledge of exactly how an HDD performs. Backing up a hosting server furnished with HDD drives can take around 20 to 24 hours.
Should you wish to at once raise the general performance of one’s sites and never having to transform any code, an SSD–equipped web hosting solution is a good choice. Check the Linux cloud web hosting packages – these hosting services highlight extremely fast SSD drives and are available at cost–effective price points.
- Live Demo
- Subscribe now. There are no configuration costs and you will have total root and SSH access to your server. 99.9% network uptime is guaranteed.
Compare our prices
- Review the allocations and parameters offered by our Virtual Private Servers. You could begin with a smaller VPS Hosting setup and upgrade with only a click of the mouse as your requirements grow.
- Compare our hosting plans
- We’re available for you 24/7/365 to reply to any sort of queries concerning our VPS Hosting solutions. 60–min response time frame warranty. | <urn:uuid:e21b2a74-7886-4593-8de2-a4438555656a> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://ct-global.com/overview-of-ssds-and-hdds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247494424.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220024254-20190220050254-00511.warc.gz | en | 0.938748 | 1,101 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Film: Papa Mau
Director: , 2010
USA I 2010 I 57 min I English and Satawalese with English subtitles
Summary: PAPA MAU: THE WAYFINDER recounts the fundamental role that master navigator Mau Piailug played in reawakening Polynesian pride by teaching Hawai'ians the dying art of traditional voyaging without the aid of instruments. While the art of non-instrument navigation was lost in Polynesia, it lived on in the tiny Micronesian atoll of Satawal, in a man named Mau. Chosen at birth and trained from an early age, Mau was not only destined to become a master of this dying tradition, but he also had the singular foresight to create a wayfinding legacy for all of Oceania by sharing his knowledge with a new generation of Hawaiian navigators. When Mau successfully guided Hōkūle'a to Tahiti in 1976, the voyage launched a collective reawakening of cultural pride and unity throughout the Pacific. PAPA MAU: THE WAYFINDER documents three decades of Mau's legacy through voyaging adventures. It is a story of great adversity, the testing and mending of relationships, and even loss of life, but ultimately, it is a story of collective courage and hope for Hawaiians. Sail along on this remarkable journey of an iconic voyaging canoe and of a renewed people, both guided by the wisdom of Papa Mau, the master wayfinder who breathed life back into the sails of Polynesia's voyaging tradition. | <urn:uuid:59f5d9ca-4546-44f9-b019-05b960f484aa> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.rpcvcalendar.org/micronesia-2017-films/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125948549.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180426203132-20180426223132-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.931483 | 315 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Experiencing sudden or partial hearing loss, and feel like there’s some fullness in your ear? Relax — it could be just earwax buildup.
It is normal for your ear to produce wax or a waxy oil called cerumen. This wax protects the ear from bacteria, foreign particles, irritation due to water and dust. Your body is capable of removing excessive wax naturally from the ear opening. Sometimes, your glands may make more earwax than necessary, causing the wax to harden and block the ears. You may be tempted to clean your ears with a cotton bud or your fingers, but doing so can push the earwax deeper, causing impacted earwax or earwax buildup. You are also likely to have earwax buildup if you frequently use earphones, as the earphones can prevent earwax from coming out of the ear canal.
Most cases of conductive hearing loss in adults are caused by earwax buildup.
- Sudden or partial hearing loss
- Ringing sound or buzzing in the ear
- Feeling of fullness in the ear
Earwax is usually nothing to worry about and can be removed easily by an ENT Specialist, but in some cases earwax can also lead to infection. Please see a doctor immediately if you experience the following symptoms:
- Severe pain in your ear that doesn’t subside
- Drainage from your ear
- Fever, coughing
- Persistent hearing loss
Sometimes, hearing loss can also be a sign of Meniere’s disease, a disorder of the inner ear that results in dizzy spells (vertigo), fluctuating hearing loss and ringing sound in the ear. Occasionally, you may also get a feeling of fullness in the ear.
Meniere’s disease is associated with an abnormal amount of fluid in the inner ear. This could be due to allergies, viral infection, improper fluid drainage from the ear and head trauma.
If you think you may have Meniere’s disease or experience its associated symptoms like vertigo regularly, you should seek treatment as soon as possible. Vertigo episodes are usually very unpredictable and can affect your quality of life.
Ask Us if you have any question?
Feel free to drop us a message if you have concerns or symptoms pertaining to sinusitis. | <urn:uuid:e9b1d9f7-6777-4122-85e6-6bb7838b2dcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://entspecialistsingapore.com/temporary-hearing-loss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00435.warc.gz | en | 0.944535 | 494 | 2.640625 | 3 |
/ Tombs of the Kings 1511
An external view in the fading evening light of the rock cut structures at the Tombs of the Kings.
The tombs of the Kings date back from around the 3rd century BC. Despite its name it's unlikely that any Kings were buried here, but it was certainly a burial place for the rich and powerful Ptolemaic aristocrats of the time.
Size: 18.00x12.00 Inches
Unframed, no mount, for easy posting. Different sizes available, please enquire.
Tags: archaeology architecture rock hewn tombs of the kings paphos cyprus | <urn:uuid:e8bcd58d-fc06-4405-9a86-7625f924a857> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.helene-brennan.com/tombs-of-the-kings1511 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644574.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529010218-20230529040218-00459.warc.gz | en | 0.921589 | 155 | 3.0625 | 3 |
All gardeners are familiar with the pivotal role bees and other pollinators play in a productive garden. Their importance intersects everyone's daily lives. Did you know that of the fruits and vegetables we eat, about 75% depend on a pollinator? Approximately 150 crops produced in the U.S. depend on pollinators, including apples, almonds, blueberries, citrus, melons, pears, plums, pumpkins and squash. Pollinators are also vital to plants fed to livestock, as well as to fiber-producing plants, such as cotton. But the world is facing a massive decline in bee and other pollinator insect population, putting our food supply in danger.
Bees are the workhorse pollinators. In addition to the familiar honeybee, there are about 4,000 species of native or wild bees in the U.S., including bumblebees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, leafcutter bees and mason bees. The populations of most of these bees are in serious decline.
According to many sources, the U.S. has lost over 50 percent of its managed honeybee colonies in the past 10 years. This drastic decline has been named Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which is defined in a series of symptoms whose causes are still not fully understood. Many scientists believe contributing factors include pollution, parasites, diseases and exposure to pesticides. A large reduction of plant diversity due to commercial agriculture and habitat loss may also be adversely affecting honeybees' ability to get the complete range of nutrients they need from more limited sources of nectar and pollen. Gardeners can play a major role in helping pollinators to survive and thrive, while also assuring that their harvests are as healthy as possible.
How Pollination Works
Pollination occurs when pollen is moved from a male flower to a female flower of the same species, where fertilization occurs. Once the female flower is fertilized, the process of fruit and seed production begins. Although there are some plants that can pollinate themselves with the help of gravity and wind, most plants need the help of pollinators like insects, birds, bats and other organisms.
You can watch as a honeybee visits an apple blossom in search of nectar, and you may see some of the flower's yellow pollen clinging to its fuzzy body or knees. When that honeybee visits another flower, some of the pollen from the last flower is transferred to the new flower. Good pollination results in large, healthy fruits with viable seeds. Poor pollination results in deformed fruits that often drop off before maturing.
Home Gardeners Can Help
If every home gardener in the nation took a few simple steps to increase food and habitat for pollinators, collectively we could add tens of thousands of acres for pollinators to call home! Best of all, it's easy, attractive and rewarding to make your garden and surrounding landscape a pollinator haven. Here's how:
Construct diverse plantings: Many pollinators are active at different times of year, so include a variety of plants that bloom from early spring through late fall. To attract a full spectrum of pollinators, choose plants of various heights, including flowering trees and shrubs, and those with a range of flower shapes and sizes.
Plant wildflowers and native species: Because bees and wildflowers evolved together, you can be confident that native wildflowers will provide pollinators with an excellent source of both pollen and nectar.
Create a habitat: Perfectly proper and neat yards will not provide the raw materials wild bees need to construct their nests. Offer a good nesting environment by preserving a small brush pile, areas with dry grasses and reeds, and dead wood. A muddy area will provide necessary nesting material for mason bees.
Single flowers are best: Single flowers, with one ring of petals around the center of the flower - provide more nectar and pollen than double flowers, because the extra petals have replaced pollen-laden anthers. Double flowers also make it more difficult for bees to reach the inner flower parts.
Avoid using pesticides: Many pesticides - even organic ones - can be toxic to bees and other pollinators. Use cultural techniques to control pests, such as crop rotation and row covers, as well as trapping and hand-picking. If you choose to use pesticides, use them only as a last resort. Choose targeted pesticides, such as Bt for caterpillars (keep in mind this kills butterfly larvae as well). To protect pollinators, do not use pesticides on open blossoms or when bees or other pollinators are present.
Here are several examples of plants that attract pollinators to you garden.
Flowers: Bachelor's Buttons, Bee Balm, Black-Eyed Susan, Blazing Star, Calendula, Carnation, Catmint, China Aster, Columbine, Coneflower, Cosmos, Cutting Ageratum, Dahlia, Delphinium, Forget-Me-Not, Foxglove, Globe Thistle, Heliotrope, Hollyhocks, Lavender, Marigolds, Mignonette, Moss Rose, Milkweed, Nigella, Pincushion Flower, Cottage Pinks, Poppies, Snapdragon, Sunflower, Verbena bonariensis, Yarrow, Zinnia | <urn:uuid:27971486-bbd8-4f89-a42f-3f4001c2fa3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/bee | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030336880.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001163826-20221001193826-00054.warc.gz | en | 0.931925 | 1,086 | 4 | 4 |
Ultraviolet radiation is harmful for human skin, and photo-damaging pathologies such as actinic erythema, or redness of the skin, are formerly described as a consequence of UV direct effect on DNA and indirectly by local immune reactions.
The lack of understanding of the degree of participation of oxidative stress in actinic erythema and the role of antioxidants in photo-protection led a group of researchers from the University of Malaga to find out more.
A soothing combination
They decided to evaluate the possible soothing role of a combination of the antioxidants vitamins C and E in human cutaneous erythema when applied topically before and after UV exposure.
The study included 20 volunteers of photo-types II, II–III and III with no solar exposure for two months prior to the study.
The volunteers were submitted to a photo-test consisting on the analysis of the minimal erythemal dose (MED) under different treatments: untreated irradiated skin; irradiated skin previously treated with vehicle; irradiated skin previously treated with a combination of vitamins (2.5 per cent vit E–5 per cent vit C); and skin treated with the antioxidant combination after irradiation.
Antioxidant vs vehicle
According to results, published in The Journal of Dermatological Science, the application of vehicle did not significantly affect the MED compared to untreated irradiated skin.
The application of the antioxidant combination, prior to irradiation, increased the MED in all photo-types compared with untreated irradiated skin with an average increase of 36.9 per cent. Antioxidants applied after exposure promoted an average increase of the MED by 19.8 per cent.
Due to this, the researchers concluded that a combination of topical antioxidants (vitamins C and E) showed photo-protection activity against erythema, mainly owing to their high absorption properties.
“Moreover, their antioxidant activity could be considered as additive, and independent of their optical properties,” said the study. | <urn:uuid:86a93261-d19f-46eb-b697-a71784b01e9a> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/Formulation-Science/Vitamin-C-and-E-topical-combo-could-protect-against-sunburn-says-study | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189490.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00150-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937246 | 408 | 2.875 | 3 |
| Wool Manufactory provides the full cycle of cloth manufacturing including dyeing and finishing of the woven product. Its trade impact is above average and are significantly greater if there is a local resource of dyes. The bonus is somewhat bigger in the winter time, when the mass sheep shearing occurs.
In medieval times, as trade connections expanded, the wool trade developed into serious business, the generator of capital. In the thirteenth century, the wool trade was the economic engine of the Low Countries and of Central Italy | <urn:uuid:4872f243-df44-42ef-a287-94540ad5a140> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | http://totalwar.honga.net/building.php?v=dlv6&f=armenia&b=wool_factory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100287.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201120231-20231201150231-00057.warc.gz | en | 0.955074 | 104 | 3.40625 | 3 |
A BlackBerry is a Smartphone. Research In Motion, company dedicated to the creation and innovation in terms of wireless products, such as the BlackBerry was created by the Canadian company. The main features of a BlackBerry is its FTAA capacity of sending emails through your internet connection. The main functions of a BlackBerry are: the input and output of telephone calls. The input and output of text messages. The input and output of electronic mail.
Camera. Video camera. Media Player (pictures, videos, music, notes) support file attachments. GPS (Global Positioning System). Bluetooth connection Wi-Fi some of the advantages of having a BlackBerry are: large screens loaded fast memory expandable. It has high resolution. It has several Web browsers available. Almost all computers have physical keyboards of various models, that speeds up the typing. Learn more about this with Toshiba.
A BlackBerry prices may be skirting the 2000 Suns (Peru) depending on where you buy it, there are some different models with more others with fewer applications. Removable battery. Some disadvantages: put password, must type it each time you want to use it. They are a little fragile to shocks. Increasingly appear more viruses to your system. The model is a little big. Some model available are: BlackBerry Bold 9700 BlackBerry Bold 9000 BlackBerry Curve 8310 BlackBerry Curve 8320 BlackBerry Curve 8350i BlackBerry Curve 8520 BlackBerry Curve 8900 BlackBerry Pearl 8100 BlackBerry Pearl 8120 BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 BlackBerry Storm 9500 be see more details of each model in: #equipos a BlackBerry is a Smartphone. Research In Motion, company dedicated to the creation and innovation in terms of wireless products, such as the BlackBerry was created by the Canadian company. The main features of a BlackBerry is its FTAA capacity of sending emails through your internet connection. The main functions of a BlackBerry are: the input and output of calls telephone. The input and output of text messages. The input and output of electronic mail. Camera. Video camera. Media Player (pictures, videos, music, notes) support file attachments. GPS (Global Positioning System). Bluetooth connection Wi-Fi some of the advantages of having a BlackBerry are: large screens loaded fast memory expandable. It has high resolution. It has several Web browsers available. Almost all computers have physical keyboards of various models, that speeds up the typing. The prices of a BlackBerry can skirting 2000 (Peru) Suns depending on where to buy it, there are some different models with more others with less applications. Removable battery. Some disadvantages: put password, must type it each time you want to use it. They are a little fragile to shocks. Increasingly appear more viruses to your system.
He is expected that the latest advances in hardware and software of 2000 Nortel CS are available for the second quarter of 2010. (A valuable related resource: Sony). The advances will be demonstrated at the stand (#2120) of Nortel in the Supercomm in Chicago this week. For more information about Nortel at the Supercomm, visit. Nortel.
com/events. Nortel has distributed more than 115 million VoIP ports and multimedia operators to more than 350 operators of fixed and wireless lines around the world. Nortel CVAS has deployments of clients on all continents with leading operators and has been consistently rated as the number one vendor in the market of VoIP and softswitch for operators since 2002. In addition, Nortel offers VoIP solutions to two-thirds of the world list of IDC of the 20 main operators (by income). About Nortel Nortel offers capacities of communications that make that you promise to make business simpler (Business Made Simple) a reality for our customers.
Our technologies of next generation for service providers and corporate networks support multimedia applications and business critical. Nortel technologies are designed to help eliminate the current barriers against the efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with the information they need, when they need it. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at. Nortel. com Certain statements in this press release may contain words as it could, expects, it may, anticipates, considers, it intends, estimates, target, search or another similar language and considered statements or prospective information according to the applicable securities laws. These statements are based on expectations, estimates, forecasts and current projections of Nortel on the operating environment, economic scenario and markets in the It operates Nortel. These statements are subject to important assumptions, risks and uncertainties of difficult forecast and actual results may differ materially from those contemplated in forward-looking statements. For additional information with respect to some of these and other factors, see the annual report on form 10-K, quarterly reports on form.
We all know that the wrinkles of age are the first major visible signs that appear in our faces. These wrinkles reveal the secret of our age no matter what can say. We tried several diets foods, training schemes and healthy habits, but we are never able to prevent the appearance of wrinkles in our skin. Samsung is often mentioned in discussions such as these. Facial wrinkles are obviously more prominent. Those of us who wear glasses may be able to reduce their visibility of wrinkles, but it is never a solution and the only thing that makes is to cover them. We deal with various products wash face and eye care products, but wrinkles are something that can simply not disappear overnight overnight. Wrinkles are formed due to the elasticity of our skin stretches more than repair at a level more natural.
There are several types of techniques for the care of the skin such as Yonka skincare, Asia, bio, skin care, skin care and many more. However, the objective is to find a solution that works and that work fast and effectively. The you as we all know has a tremendous influence on our lives in a positive way. The you green and their properties against the aging can be traced back thousands of years ago in ancient Chinese civilization. Now, with research conducted in the developed countries that have returned to the natural elements used by ancient civilizations.
To get rid of wrinkles the you green with its properties against the aging plays a vital role. We are here to offer you one of the best products available without any side effect. Wireless spy cameras are an excellent device for detecting wrongdoers seeking to invade the safety of home, Office or business. When we talk about specific beauty makeup eyes before everything, it is very important to make homemade facial cleansing.
At the stand D04, the members present the Z-Wave Alliance (www.z-wavealliance.org)-new, energy-saving home automation solutions for the European market. The Z-Wave Alliance members use the CeBIT 2011 to present its diverse product lines in the field of wireless networked home. As a technology for wireless home control solutions Z-Wave has distinguished itself more and more in recent years. Dell is likely to agree.
The difference to similar technologies on the market: Z-Wave is based on an open protocol, which guarantees the interoperability between the devices of all Alliance members. The strict observance of the interoperability directives results in a high Investment protection for the consumer, because older Z-Wave actuators such as blinds – and light switch, dimmer, heating thermostats, remote controls are still compatible with the Z-wave devices of the latest generation etc. even after several years. Comfortable and green”also in the field of smart metering has become the Z-Wave technology international. Consumers build an eco-friendly and cost-saving home network with the energy saving Z-Wave solutions of different manufacturers and industry leaders. So, light, heating, ventilation or air conditioning, entertainment devices, electricity meters u.v.m.
can be controlled centrally and easily. Consumers avoid unnecessary costs for electricity, heating and air conditioning in this way and make their personal contribution to the protection of the environment at the same time. The Z-Wave technology is now integrated into over 400 products of leading consumer brands. An essential requirement in wireless control technology is the reliability of the radio transmission. Also here is Z-Wave standards. So is any communication in the two-way radio procedure, i.
Wireless thermostats to regulate heating as growth driver is empty, 03 November 2011 – the home control market is booming. According to the eQ-3 AG (www.eQ-3.de) the market for home control systems has almost doubled in the past year with regard to the remote device number, with eQ-3 could almost triple its volume in this area. The eQ-3 AG has significantly increased its market share, thereby delivers today in Germany higher quantities in the segment of the home control systems as the three following manufacturers together. The retrofitting of radiators with wireless thermostats to the energy-saving heating control was a key growth driver for the acceptance of home control solutions in 2010. Given the relatively low compared to the existing number of new buildings, the high end range, however, only to a lesser extent contributed to the growth of the home control market. The eQ-3 AG growth was driven especially by the HomeMatic product range.
The brand “HomeMatic” includes solutions with over 70 products, by Radiator thermostats, lighting control and security technology through door lock actuators, window actuators, remote controls, and home centers to software products from partner companies. The HomeMatic predecessor system FS20 is strongly represented on the market and is still strong acceptance in particular at home control enthusiast. With its new radio-based energy efficiency system MAX! has brought also an intelligent smart energy solution on the market eQ-3, which enables efficient use of heating energy. MAX! offers enormous advantages in particular service providers, energy suppliers, municipal utilities and housing associations, because they can offer their customers now energy efficient solutions with high ROI (return on investment). The consumer benefits from these solutions in the form of enhanced comfort with considerable energy savings in the heating. The all-in one system in addition to radio-based heaters and wall thermostats, window contacts, as well as the eco button that simultaneously switches all connected components in the power saving mode a LAN Gateway. | <urn:uuid:937aabe7-d762-41cf-b275-b74ca028d9f2> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | http://www.wirelessconcept.net/2020/09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038082988.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20210415005811-20210415035811-00446.warc.gz | en | 0.94165 | 2,087 | 2.515625 | 3 |
How do you determine vector biology? Can you know particularly what there’s a vector? Merely because it could apply to a terrific numerous distinctive styles of entities, there are the fact is a few distinctive definitions which you could just take when studying the time period.
The simplest definition of the vector might be actually a tiny vector which may possibly continue, or can be transferred. These vectors could be a worm that conveys an parasite that is now in the atmosphere, or could be the hint of a insect wing. By the use of case in point, a beetle or even a yeast cell’s shell could be thought of as a vector.
Micro http://cs.gmu.edu/~zduric/day/thesis-statement-university-of-phoenix.html organism can similarly be contemplated vectors, for the reason that they can be viewed as modest. They are typically uncomplicated to see, even even although they are minor, and so that they will be able to be immediately and readily transferred. As an instance, when a whole body is entered by a pathogen, it could be looked at and moved without having inducing harm. For some health problems, pathogens may perhaps be taken with implementing their vectors to a new web site.
They unquestionably are thought of as genetically modified organisms considering these organisms are regarded to turn into vectors. We are purely just referring to organisms that have already now been altered to have an means, when we refer to organisms. Some examples of this will be explained for a virus that has the power to contaminate a fresh host, these kinds of as an animal, or even an bacterium that is ready to dwell at a new environment, like as an blood flow stream. Some germs and viruses are thinking of vectors that may be able to coming into and keeping in cells. pre calculus help The microorganisms for instance are the ones that could enter the epidermis and continue to be in the human body’s cells. The germs enter the human body and in addition then might possibly get the epidermis, also keep on being for really a while, steadily resulting in damage. You will find two or three germs which can have your skin at a area which is new, and so that they are able to lead to intense damage community.
You’re able to fully understand there are lots of numerous items that will probably be seen vectors, when you begin to take a take a look at the definition of vector biology. This may very well bring on a good a lot more thorough examine of totally different areas of the region. It really is intriguing to remember that for variations of ailment, vectors are some thing which exist out the human physique. By way of example, viruses, viruses, germs, and parasites all encounter this precise classification.
In nearly all of situations, the vectors that happen to be uncovered in the bacterium’s genome are not recognised as vectors, considering the fact that they just simply input the cells to survive. Individuals which are far more attached to the genome, together with viruses, are acknowledged as vectors.
People which are identified in just the genome will also be all those which are relatively way more standard when compared to the types which are all connected to the genome. Being an instance, if you have a shut take a look you can understand that viruses are the vectors. To have a microorganism that is certainly observed within the shape, they will be taken into consideration to get explained like a vector.
The issues which are very important to notice involving the kinds of objects which often can be considered vectors, is they have been all inside the whole body. The ones that are out the body are generally regarded as contaminants, and also are all matters which are out of the human genome.
Vectors appear in numerous versions and dimensions. They is often insects, viruses, fungi, microbes, or parasites. Every one of all those vectors differs from an extra and incorporates gains about the host.
Every single a single are critical for the progression of contemporary providers and products and solutions. As soon as you take a look at a organism which is genetically modified, by means of occasion, you contain the potential to to spot the vector. When you check at the gene that generates the gene, the vector belonging to the gene may very well be seen by you. | <urn:uuid:99b0661c-bf34-4f97-a0f5-935c5c1690b8> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | http://www.kaanngrup.com/2020/01/16/vector-biology-what-exactly-are-a-vector-and-just-how-can-it-be-chosen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251672440.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20200125101544-20200125130544-00105.warc.gz | en | 0.973657 | 890 | 3.015625 | 3 |
If you are looking for numerical data on Mars — precise length of day, orbital shape, etc. — NASA has a useful Fact Sheet. Similarly, NASA also keeps a list of successful Mars missions, with summaries of each mission, its instruments, and its findings. What follows here are brief descriptive answers to some common questions, with occasional links to more detailed information.
How big is Mars?
Mars has roughly half of Earth’s diameter. But its surface area is about the same as all the land areas on Earth.
How far is Mars from Earth?
It depends. Because both planets are in motion as they orbit the Sun, the distance between them is always changing. When Mars is closest to Earth, it’s about 56 million kilometers (35 million miles) away. When farthest, the distance is about 400 million kilometers (250 million miles). The differences mean that the time it takes for a radio command from Earth to reach a spacecraft at Mars (or for the spacecraft to send a reply to Earth) varies from about 3 minutes to more than 22 minutes.
How strong is gravity on Mars?
38% as strong as on Earth, so if you weigh 100 lbs here, you weigh 38 lbs on Mars.
How long is a day on Mars?
From one noon to the next, 24 hours 39 minutes 35 seconds. Scientists call this period a sol (rhymes with all). Sols are divided into 24 hours; minutes and seconds are expressed as decimals of an hour.
How long is year on Mars?
687 Earth days (669 sols), or 1.9 Earth years. Mars orbits about 1.5 times farther from the Sun than Earth.
Does Mars have seasons?
Yes, because its spin axis tilts 25° to its orbit around the Sun. (By coincidence, Earth’s tilts at about 23°.) However, because the Martian year is nearly twice as long as ours, the seasons there are similarly longer than those here.
What date is it on Mars?
The answer to this simple-looking question is more complicated than you’d expect! Because nobody lives on Mars (for now), Mars has no calendar like those we use on Earth. However, for the purpose of tracking long-term changes in climate, weather, and other variables, scientists created a running chronology of Mars Years (abbreviated as MY). The counting started on April 11, 1955, when Mars Year 1 began. Mars Year 33 began June 18, 2015 and runs until May 5, 2017. (A useful conversion page is here.) Mars Years are divided into Mars months, but these vary in length because they are not counted by sols, but rather in terms of the planet’s annual orbit around the Sun. Each Mars month lasts for 30° of orbital solar longitude, so they number twelve in all, just as on Earth (although they are named only by number). Solar orbital longitude is given in degrees and abbreviated Ls (say “ell-sub-ess”). It’s measured from the start of spring in the northern hemisphere, shown as Ls=0°. However, because the Martian orbit is elliptical, the planet’s orbital speed varies continually throughout the year, and this varies the number of sols in each month. The longest (month 3) lasts 66.7 sols, while the shortest (month 9) lasts 46.1 sols.
How hot is it on Mars?
Ground temperatures range from 27 °C (about 81 °F) at the equator to −87 °C (−125 °F) at the polar caps. Because of Mars’ greater distance from the Sun, sunlight is only about about half as strong as at Earth. That plus the thin atmosphere (see next question) produce temperatures much colder on average than on Earth.
Would I need a spacesuit there?
Yes. The air is almost entirely (95%) carbon dioxide, making it unbreathable, and it’s also very thin, less than 1% as much air as on Earth. To get air as thin as the surface of Mars, you’d need to go up to an altitude of about 39,000 meters (130,000 feet) in our atmosphere.
How old is Mars?
Mars formed at the same time as Earth and the solar system, about 4.56 billion years ago. Scientists have divided Mars’ geologic history into several periods, each named for an area where rocks of that age are best shown. The periods are (from oldest to youngest): the Noachian, the Hesperian, and the Amazonian. (The period between the formation of Mars and the start of the Noachian is called the pre-Noachian.) The Noachian began about 4.1 billion years ago and lasted until 3.7 billion years ago. The Hesperian started then and continued until roughly 3.0 billion years ago. The Amazonian includes everything since the Hesperian ended — in other words, the Amazonian is still going on now. One way to keep these straight in your mind is remember that as you go back in time, they line up in alphabetical order: Amazonian, Hesperian, Noachian.
How old is that crater?
Scientists can date the surface on any moon or planet by counting how many impact craters they see in a given area. The more craters, the older the surface. But while that’s useful for comparing the relative ages of two or more areas, to find actual ages in years scientists need to bring rock samples back to Earth for study in a lab to measure the rocks’ natural radioactivity. Because radioactive elements decay at known rates, the ratios of various elements in a rock can show how many thousands or (more often) millions of years have passed since the rock was last melted or shocked by a meteorite impact. You can find out more about radiometric dating here.
Why does the northern half of Mars have so few craters?
The southern half of Mars shows more craters than the northern half because craters in the north were obliterated or buried by later sediments. Another difference between the two halves is that the northern plains lie on average about 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) lower than the southern highlands. A third difference is that the northern crust is only about half as thick as the crust in the south. Scientists call the edge between these two regions the crustal dichotomy. What caused the dichotomy has been actively debated ever since it was discovered in the 1970s, and the question remains unsolved. Most theories involve either one or more big impacts or currents of molten rock deep inside Mars. For more on the dichotomy question, see this page
Does Mars have plate tectonics?
Not now, although perhaps it did early in its history. The strongest evidence lies in striped patterns of magnetism in parts of the southern highlands. These resemble similar patterns on Earth’s sea floors that were caused by plate tectonic motions.
Is there life on Mars?
This is one of the greatest scientific questions ever, but there’s no definitive answer. So far no spaceprobe has found evidence of any kind of life on Mars. However both Earth and Mars experienced similar conditions early in their history, and we know that life began here, so life may have begun on Mars also. If life did start there, then it may have died out if conditions became too harsh. Or life may still exist there, perhaps buried below the surface where conditions may be less hostile. We simply need to explore Mars much more completely to have any chance of answering this question. | <urn:uuid:01641017-9db9-424e-9d70-8739d4ed2b95> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://redplanet.asu.edu/?page_id=19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541066.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00095-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95728 | 1,593 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Interested in all things Lincoln? The city of Ottawa, Illinois’ webpage houses a pdf entitled The OttawaLincoln Knew. This file pulls most of its information from Aletia Tisler’s book, “Lincoln was Here,” using only facts and anecdotes pertinent to the town of Ottawa. Although the section focuses mainly upon the Lincoln-Douglas debate that took place there in 1858, it also showcases Lincoln’s first meeting with Douglas in the courtroom. At the bottom of the file, the site includes a map of modern day Illinois with location markers that specify places made famous by Lincoln’s presence. This site would be especially helpful for someone trying to create a unique family vacation seeped in history. | <urn:uuid:ca3ba35a-4939-436a-89f6-c258e6c05af2> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/category/type/page/31/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510267729.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011747-00008-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94971 | 153 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The 12 Design Principles of Permaculture as Rules of Living
There are 12 design principles in permaculture. I think they can be applied to daily life, work and play which will allow us to live happier and healthier, to work more effectively and to create a more sustainable world.
Here are the 12 principles:
Observe and interact.
Catch and store energy.
Obtain a yield.
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.
Use and value renewable resources and services.
Produce no waste.
Design from patterns to details.
Integrate rather than segregate.
Use small and slow solutions.
Use and value diversity.
Use edges and value the marginal.
Creatively use and respond to change.
How can we use these principles to guide our life or our work?
Observe and interact- Let’s slow down and observe and appreciate our surroundings and others. Let’s slow down and interact with others, in real life, not on our phones.
Catch and store energy- Take time to relax to restore balance and energy. Also, for me this means associating myself with those who bring positive energy and it means doing things that bring me joy and make me feel energized like running and learning.
Obtain a yield- In permaculture, this of course might mean planting in such a way that the most food is created. The food is the reward. In life, we can work to obtain an intrinsic or extrinsic reward. These rewards need not be strictly financial. Perhaps the reward is making a difference in your client’s life or making your coworker’s day a little bit easier.
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback- Self-regulation or self-control allows us to be accountable and it empowers us. Feedback helps us improve which will help us excel at work.
Use and value renewable resources and services and produce no waste- These two principles are simply common sense tips to living a eco-friendly lifestyle and in creating a more sustainable world.
Design from patterns to details- Permaculture calls for standing back and observing patterns in nature and in society and then filling in the details; this might make for a more efficient and logical way to work as well.
Integrate rather than segregate and use and value diversity- These principles translate perfectly in how we should all live in harmony with each other by integrating everyone into our communities and valuing diversity.
Use small and slow solutions- Permaculture uses small and slow solutions because they are easier to manage than bigger solutions and they allow for the use of local resources leading to more sustainable outcomes. While this may not always be feasible- sometimes we need big and fast solutions to solve some of society’s greatest problems- this principle can potentially be a valuable tool for problem solving.
Use edges and value the marginal- Permaculture suggests that the interface between things is where the most interesting things take place. These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive parts of the system. This might mean extending a community garden out onto an edge near an unused railway. In life and work, we can try to more effectively use our resources including the edges.
Creatively use and respond to change- This requires no explanation, but in a changing world, it remains an important principle in both life and work. To remain a viable and sustainable business and to live well, we must be resilient and creatively work with change.
Using these principles may allow us to create a better life and a better world by caring for the earth and caring for people. | <urn:uuid:ae76a6d9-8159-4e00-bebc-ddfa3dec80cc> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://medium.com/land-and-ladle/the-12-design-principles-of-permaculture-as-rules-of-living-e9fc0176dd16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583875448.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190122223011-20190123005011-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.9102 | 736 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Brain's Emotional Region Grows Bigger, More Connected In Children With Daily Anxiety, Stanford University School of Medicine Study
11/20/2013 7:23:12 AM
Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine can predict the degree of anxiety a young child is experiencing by measuring the size of the amygdala brain region, which is associated with emotion and decision-making. In fact, they discovered that a child experiencing greater anxiety than normal had a larger amygdala with stronger connections to other parts of the emotional brain.
Hey, check out all the research scientist jobs. Post your resume today!
comments powered by | <urn:uuid:12d8bf0f-b9b8-4444-95a8-0c0597824aa6> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.biospace.com/News/brains-emotional-region-grows-bigger-more/316394 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1412037663587.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20140930004103-00309-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932809 | 124 | 2.765625 | 3 |
It’s 10 stories high and more than three football fields long. It’s called “A Whale,” it’s been called the world’s largest oil-skimming vessel, and BP hopes it can clean up the spill in the Gulf.
The recovery effort’s latest hope is “A Whale,” a giant Taiwanese oil-skimming vessel converted from a cargo ship. “A Whale” swallows water and then separates it, skimming about 21 million gallons of oil every day, which is 250 times as much as the skimmers currently in the Gulf of Mexico. Like an actual whale, it collects water and pumps internally, like a heart. It could be most successful close to the wellhead, where oil is the thickest.
Officials had to wait several days to try “A Whale,” because they wanted the Environmental Protection Agency to test the water the vessel will send back into the Gulf. The delay angered local and state officials affected by the oil slick.
Initial tests of “A Whale” over the weekend were inconclusive, due to rough seas. More typical sea conditions this week will help with future testing.
BP has spent more than $3 billion on containment, cleanup, damage claims and relief well drilling during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The company has made more than 47,000 payments, totaling almost $147 million.
Scientists have yet to conclusively report the environmental impact of the oil spill. Swarms of analysts have examined the Gulf, and some say the area was spared from major disaster and others say that the spill put undue pressure on already-fragile ecosystems. | <urn:uuid:a9f63a13-7157-4e8f-8883-b6876b49d2ad> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/05/can-a-whale-clean-up-the-oil-spill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657128304.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011208-00191-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967914 | 347 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Skanska is leading what is thought to be the first ever local road trial of graphene material in asphalt.
Due to start shortly in Oxfordshire, the project builds on the work of successful trials in Italy involving two companies - Directa Plus and Iterchimica.
This initial testing suggests that the so-called 'wonder material' could more than double the lifespan of the road.
First isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov, graphene is the world’s first two-dimensional material, many more times stronger than steel, more conductive than copper and one million times thinner than a human hair.
Skanska plans to lay a 750-metre section on a busy main road through the village of Curbridge, west of Oxford.
One side of the road will include graphene additive and the other will be a control test.
Regular assessments will be made over the next 12 months before a possible roll-out.
Highways England has also said it is looking to trial the material, which costs about 18-20% more than conventional asphalt.
This article first appeared on Highways. | <urn:uuid:5d6b9da3-3a03-45b0-8b9c-b6cdcf179bc2> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.localgov.co.uk/Worlds-first-local-road-trial-of-2d-material/48510 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703519600.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20210119170058-20210119200058-00545.warc.gz | en | 0.942682 | 243 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Privacy, it seems, is becoming a commodity in post-Snowden America. A number of recent developments suggest the nation is witnessing a crucial historical shift in which privacy, a thing traditionally discarded in favor of earnings, has become a marketable selling point. Privacy advocates in the United States have a powerful and somewhat unfamiliar new weapon at their disposal: the profit motive.
It hasn’t always been this way. Until quite recently, profits and privacy protections have mostly been at odds with each other. In fact, the debates over digital privacy and data collection have a longer history than many realize.
Americans grew concerned about the collection of their private information well before the first computer. During the 1850 census, the federal government was flooded with complaints that census takers were misusing the collected information for professional gain by selling it to local businesses and other private citizens. It took threats of stern legal repercussions by the secretary of the interior to finally curb the practice.
In the 1950s, the federal government began installing mainframe computers in its offices to keep track of the millions of records collected by the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and various New Deal agencies. Critics of digitization grew increasingly alarmed, kicking off an impassioned national debate about privacy.
The privacy advocates of the 1950s and 1960s feared that centralized government databases would mark the end of privacy in the United States and give rise to an age of the “computerized man,” an image that drew heavily on George Orwell’s 1984. In congressional debates, they painted supporters of centralized data as dangerous technocrats who ignored human values in the pursuit of efficiency. Nevertheless, by 1970 the practice of sharing government-collected data with private entities like insurance companies, advertisers, and lending institutions was becoming commonplace.
Public opposition to data sharing eventually resulted in the Privacy Act of 1974 (the Watergate scandal certainly helped move things along), but the law had many shortcomings. It defined the rights of access to information held by federal agencies, and placed restrictions on the way personal information could be collected and disclosed. But private companies were excluded from the bill entirely. Many legal scholars have observed that the law in fact encompassed minimum protections for information privacy and was rife with loopholes and ambiguous language that did little to curb widespread data collection. A 2006 survey by the Department of Justice agreed that it’s a “difficult statute to decipher and apply.”
So why were private companies exempt from the Privacy Act? Why so many loopholes? The bill was eviscerated by corporations and special interests who argued that privacy controls on their consumer databases would drastically impact their profits and cripple American businesses. Interests like the American Life Insurance Association, representing 367 companies accounting for over 90 percent of the legal-reserve life insurance in the country, lobbied that the effects would be “extremely burdensome…. not only unfair, but unworkable.” Or the group of 260 literary publishers who argued that, unless direct mailing companies and mail-order book clubs were explicitly exempted, “the impact on the publishing industry could be devastating.”
And so, largely because privacy and profits did not mix, the United States entered the Iinternet age with privacy protections that most scholars agree were wholly inadequate.
This is all changing. While companies still make billions from data collection, lately the profit motive has been making appearances on the other side of the aisle.
Speaking at the White House Summit on Cyber Security last February, Apple CEO Tim Cook warned of “dire consequences” if tech companies failed to protect the privacy of their customers. His remarks come only months after Apple refused, rather publicly, to give the NSA access to the advanced encryptions built into their new iPhone 6. “We have a business model that focuses on selling the best products and services in the world,” Mr. Cook said to consumers, “not on selling your personal data.”
The fallout from the Edward Snowden fiasco wasn’t just political—it was largely economic. Soon after the extent of the NSA’s data collection became public, overseas customers (including the Brazilian government) started abandoning US-based tech companies in droves over privacy concerns. The dust hasn’t settled yet, but tech-research firm Forrester estimated the losses may total “as high as $180 billion,” or 25 percent of industry revenue. Microsoft and IBM were hit especially hard. Recently a panel of experts convened by the Obama administration recommended that the government encourage Silicon Valley to incorporate strong encryption and privacy protections into its products, like Apple did, to help stop the bleeding. Whether the administration will follow these recommendations is unclear, but the terms of the NSA debate have clearly evolved from “privacy vs. security” to “privacy and profits vs. security.”
The wildly successful release of the iPhone 6 last September came on the heels of the launch of a new social networking site, Ello, which markets itself as the “anti-Facebook” by promising users that, unlike its mainstream competitors, it will never sell to data miners the private information it stores.
The most recent crop of search engines like DuckDuckGo and Startpage are attempting to steal away customers by claiming they’ll protect privacy better than the big guys like Google and Yahoo. Immediately below DuckDuckGo’s search bar a tagline reads, “The search engine that doesn’t track you.” Usage has grown steadily since its launch in 2008. Last month, the site averaged over 7 million searches a day.
Ever consider setting up a blog or a business website through WordPress.com? For an extra $8 a month, the most popular content-management site in the world provides a “private registration upgrade” that will keep your personal information hidden from marketers.
Mr. Cook claims that “history has shown us that sacrificing our right to privacy can have dire consequences.” It’s good that he invoked the history of privacy in his remarks. Privacy has undoubtedly become one of the foremost concerns of our modern age, especially for millennials, who are, in many respects, America’s first transparent generation. As we debate the multitude of privacy problems in the digital age, it’s essential that we first have some understanding of how we’ve conceived of privacy and data collection before iPhones, Facebook, and Google. Doing so will give us a better idea of where we’ve already been on this issue and, perhaps, give us some insight on where we’re headed. | <urn:uuid:acf74392-91db-4190-aaa7-6e31c4de3ab5> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/privacy-and-profit-motive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107904834.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029154446-20201029184446-00524.warc.gz | en | 0.955952 | 1,348 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Spinal fusion can be used to treat back pain associated with degenerative disc disease. If you have chronic back pain which has not responded to non-operative treatments then your specialist may discuss this with you. If only a single disc is worn on your MRI scan then removing that disc and fusing the spine may help with the pain. If multiple discs are affected then a procedure called discography may be used to help identify which disc is responsible for the pain.Spinal fusion for back pain improves the symptoms in between 50% to 90% of patients. When used to treat loosening or slippage of the vertebrae; (spondylolisthesis) fusing the spine has high success rates with 90% of patients noticing relief from their sciatic leg pains and over two thirds of patients noticing an improvement in their back pain.Various routes may be used to gain access to the affected area. Most commonly an incision is made in the middle of the lower back but sometimes an incision is made in the lower abdomen.Usually screws and rods are inserted to hold the vertebrae in position. Bone removed during the operation may be reinserted along with artificial bone in order to fuse the bones together. Sometimes the whole disc at the affected level is removed and small cages or spacers are inserted. Although most commonly used to treat conditions related to wear and tear (degenerative conditions) this procedure is also regularly used to treat fractures and tumours of the spine.
The common risks of the procedure include infection and spinal fluid leakage. Major complications such as nerve injury and paralysis are very rare occurring in less than one in 200 cases. | <urn:uuid:c1b0ae1e-a39a-46fd-9d07-4b5912f2630f> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://lnpuk.com/treatments/spine/leg-painsciatica/spinal-fusion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863489.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620065936-20180620085936-00051.warc.gz | en | 0.952096 | 333 | 2.890625 | 3 |
We’re always being told a traditional Mediterranean-style diet is an incredibly healthy way to eat.
As well as its proven benefits in preventing heart attacks and promoting a longer life generally, it has specifically been shown to help ward off diabetes as well as bowel and prostate cancers. (And it was the only eating plan achieving the maximum score of five out of five in the ABC Health & Wellbeing guide to weightloss diets, reviewed by nutritionist Dr Rosemary Stanton.)
But adopting a truly Mediterranean approach to eating, especially that which stems from the island of Crete in Greece, is not as simple as many cookbooks would have us believe.
While plenty of recipes are promoted as Mediterranean, they aren’t necessarily the ones research has shown to be so good for us, says Associate Professor Catherine Itsiopoulos, from La Trobe University in Melbourne. In fact in most cases they’re not, she says. | <urn:uuid:08ce1248-ec91-44c0-bcd6-bd4c33f1b2ba> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://susanais.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/10-commandments-of-the-real-mediterranean-diet-health-wellbeing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257650730.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20180324151847-20180324171847-00631.warc.gz | en | 0.97162 | 190 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Let’s know about Deforestation Essay. Deforestation is a very bad reality of today’s time. Despite knowing the fact that how important trees and forests are for mankind, man is still continuously cutting down forests and clearing forest land for construction of buildings. In public we often hear speeches on deforestation by leaders to spread awareness and make sincere efforts towards this. But how often do we listen carefully to them and follow their paths? Hardly ever! But now is the time to take concrete steps and in fact our government should impose strict penalties and fines for cutting trees and misusing forest land.
Long and Short Speech on Deforestation
Speech – 1 (Deforestation Essay)
Now we will learn about deforestation essay. 300 words of essay.
Good morning students – hope you are all well!
Today I am going to address a very relevant topic related to global warming i.e. deforestation. Deforestation is a serious reality of the present times. This includes cutting down forests and misusing forest land without relocating it. The process of deforestation usually occurs when a piece of land is used to build a farm house or a large house. Apart from this, deforestation is also done due to the need of fuel or wood. When deforestation occurs, not only trees are destroyed but animals also become homeless from their natural habitat i.e. forests are destroyed by man. Deforestation also affects our climate and it also causes global warming.
There are many reasons behind deforestation, let us know some of them:
Deforestation as mentioned above is the act of cutting down trees. When the population increases, people start using forest land to build their homes and factories. Apart from this, the land is also used for agricultural purposes. The wood is used in the construction of buildings and apartments and the trees are burned as fuel. Forests are cut to make cities bigger and more impressive, that is, to build footpaths and roads.
Some other reasons are as follows:
- Forest fire
Massive fires in forests resulting in their destruction to a large extent.
Cutting and burning agriculture is generally defined as jhuming farming. In this process farmers cut trees from the forest to set fire. The ash produced by the fire is used as fertilizer and the land is used for farming purposes. After cultivation, the land is left vacant for many years so that it can be reused. Till that time the farmers use another part of the land and repeat the same process again. In technical parlance it is defined as shifting cultivation.
- hydroelectric projects
Forests are cut for hydroelectric projects, reservoirs and man-made dams, and all plants and animals are killed, which is an inhumane act.
- more grazing
The livestock population in our country is about 500 million although the area for grazing is about 13 million hectares. One hectare of land is capable of meeting the demand for food for six animals. The rest of the land used for grazing causes planting and destruction of soil structure. Due to the destruction of planting and soil structure, the water capacity is affected and it continues to grow. Eventually, due to all these reasons, vast lands of forest get destroyed.
Whatever be the reason, deforestation has a huge impact on our environment and disturbs the ecological balance. Global warming has increased and pollution level also affects our health to a large extent because when there will be no trees to block harmful gases and rays then obviously all these factors will affect the living beings on earth. So stop people from cutting trees and encourage them to plant more and more trees to save the environment.
Speech – 2 (Deforestation Essay)
Now we will learn about deforestation essay. 400 words of essay.
Respected Principal, Vice-Principal, Teachers and my dear students – Greetings from all of you!
I heartily welcome everyone from Smriti Kaushik class 12th-B to “Plant more trees” campaign. Before starting my speech on the topic of deforestation, I would like to thank our respected Principal, Vice-Principal and teachers for their support for starting this campaign and its successful execution. I would also like to thank my fellow students for being so proactive and cooperative for this all the time.
Since our campaign is all about planting more trees and preserving our environment, as the organizer of this campaign, I consider it extremely important to address the topic of deforestation. You all know that deforestation is all about wiping out trees and forest land which is extremely destructive to our environment. If we plant trees on one side and cut them on the other, then this practice is completely pointless. To make this campaign successful, we must first stop such heinous activities and stop human beings from destroying our nature.
Often many trees are being cut and forests are being destroyed for the selfish interests of humans. But do we realize how important forests are for all of us? Let us understand how forests are beneficial for us:
- soil farming
- regulation of the water cycle
- soil erosion prevention
- balance the environment
- give us oxygen
- natural shelter for animals
- Keeping a check on carbon dioxide and oxygen levels
- temperature regulation
- prevent tree disease
Forests are often protected because they provide protection against natural disasters. When forest areas are destroyed the soil also gets degraded and this process is called soil erosion. Trees also play an important role in carbon sequestration. When the tree decays or is burned, the carbon present in it goes back into the atmosphere in the form of gaseous form, that is, carbon dioxide. As we all know that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, so the process of deforestation increases global warming. Sadly, tropical deforestation contributes about 20% towards world greenhouse gas emissions.
If we want to contribute towards our environment and want to preserve it for our next generation then it requires our collective efforts. Of course, any illegal or immoral activity i.e. cutting of trees and destruction of forest land should be stopped. Trees help in sustaining the living beings on this earth. Not only do we get vegetables, fruits, herbs and medicines made from plants and trees, but humans also get pure air and oxygen to breathe to survive.
So let’s take a pledge in this campaign that we will plant more and more trees in our life and at the same time help in conserving our natural wealth. I also invite suggestions from everyone present here to share their thoughts and make this campaign a success.
Speech – 3 (Deforestation Essay)
Now we will learn about deforestation essay. 500 words of essay.
Respected class teacher and dear friends – Greetings from my side to all of you !!
I am extremely glad that I have been asked to speak about a topic called deforestation. I am a nature lover and consider myself lucky to live among rivers and trees. So when I see nature being attacked, trees getting destroyed and rivers getting polluted, I feel very bad and I want to urge the government to take strict measures against those who are trying to protect their selfish interests. to harm nature.
Thus deforestation in terms of area means reduction of forest land. You will be surprised to know that 7,000 million hectares of forest land is facing a huge decline globally and the area of this land reached 2,400 million hectares in the year 2000. It is estimated that about 40% of forest land area is lost each year in temperate regions, compared to 1% loss of tropical region’s land.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the area of forest land in our country was about 30% of the total land. However, when the turn of the century came, it came down to 19.4% whereas the National Forest Policy of India (1968) suggested 67% forest land for hilly areas and 33% forest land for plain areas. Let us understand how deforestation harms our environment.
How deforestation affects the environment :
- This increases the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.
- The quality of the soil deteriorates as it dries up first and then gets eroded by water and wind.
- Deforestation also reduces rainfall and increases the risk of drought.
- It creates imbalance in the atmosphere by making summers cold and winters hot.
- The availability of wood for fuel is greatly reduced. In addition, products such as gums, latex, resin tannins and lacquers are less available.
- Depletion of forests will result in soil erosion and eventually barrenness which is of absolute no use. Due to the fall in the amount of rain, the fertile and moist forest land gets converted into desert and thus no flood news is heard.
Desert and deforestation are not the same words so let us understand the difference between the two:
- It is related to the transformation of a fertile and moist land into a dry desert place.
- The temperature becomes either low or high.
- Evaporation greatly reduces precipitation.
- There is no flood.
- The land becomes barren due to soil erosion.
- The dehydrated land becomes completely barren which cannot be used for any constructive use.
- It is about reduction in the area of forest land.
- It causes soil erosion.
- the rain starts to fall
- This increases the chances of flooding.
- Potential to moderate temperature gets affected.
Thus when our environment is affected so badly due to deforestation then our government should put a complete ban on this practice and spread awareness among people to plant more and more trees. Although much publicity and dissemination have been done in the past such as the famous Chipko movement, Silent Valley movement and Tehri dam development have spread awareness among the people and inspired the leadership to conserve forests and our nature.
But this is not the end because today’s young generation has to understand the importance of the situation and awaken the conscience of the people against the cutting of trees and forests.
Speech – 4 (Deforestation Essay)
Now we will learn about deforestation essay. 600 words of essay.
Dear friends – Greetings from my side to all of you!
Thank you all for gathering here and giving your best efforts towards our campaign to “Save Trees”. It is not necessary to say that tree is the source of life for all living beings, yet man is determined to destroy that source which is the reason for our existence on earth. Deforestation should not be encouraged by our government at any level because the process of cutting trees or burning forest and wood is not a good deed.
This activity shows the selfish interests of man in which he can do anything to make his life comfortable and easy. It is true that with increasing population the present residential spaces are not sufficient and hence forest land is used up. Also slow growing trees have been replaced with fast growing plants and wood meaning the conversion of valuable ecosystems of forests to relatively less valuable bio-diverse ecosystems such as plantations, croplands and pastures- With the clearing of the rainforest the trees are wiped out.
There are two main issues related to deforestation. First of all we all know that trees absorb CO2 which reduces the amount of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. Carbon is a major contributing factor towards global warming and the greenhouse effect can also be prevented by checking the emissions of such gases.
Another concern is that trees are often cut down and set on fire. The wood cut from the tree is also thrown away and is not used for any creative purpose. In addition, burning wood releases carbon and other dangerous greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and trees that are cut down can also help remove these harmful gases from the atmosphere. Tropical deforestation also increases global warming and contributes about 20% of all greenhouse gases and has a significant impact on the global market.
The reasons why deforestation occurs are the following: overpopulation, urbanization, globalization and climate. Trees are cut regularly to obtain land for building construction and farming purposes. The trees are then used as timber.
In fact in many other countries globalization has led to the emission of carbon dioxide due to deforestation due to the increasing needs of factories and industries. Thus our environment and of course the living species are affected. China and India are great examples of this phenomenon. China is a large market that manufactures and supplies many products around the world.
However I would like to add the fact that trees should always be protected and should never be cut down as they not only provide us with various food products as well as medicinal substances but also help in absorbing green house gases like carbon dioxide. play an important role. This is because the number of trees in our atmosphere is decreasing and the presence of green house gases is increasing due to which the temperature of our earth is increasing. Another worst effect of deforestation on our environment is drought and floods. When forests are cut down, the normal flow of water is also disrupted, leading to unusual droughts and floods.
That’s why we should stop these attacks on nature and keep an eye on others not to do the same and if something like this happens then the punishment for that negligence should be strict. That’s all I have to say! | <urn:uuid:9184e280-2bbb-4357-ad3d-62b9071433c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://topfuturepoint.com/deforestation-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103337962.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627164834-20220627194834-00732.warc.gz | en | 0.954218 | 2,707 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Lesson 3: Lobster Roll!
Students play a game that illustrates the delicate ecological balance between fishing, fishing regulations and fish populations. They collect data and analyze the results.
3 Views 5 Downloads
Youth Emergency Preparedness
Preparation is key when it comes to dealing with disasters. Starting with a lesson series centered around researching the facts about different types of emergencies, children go on to create preparedness plans and learn how to respond in...
3rd - 5th English Language Arts CCSS: Designed
The American Revolution
Invite your class on a ride through the American Revolution. Young historians travel through time as they explore the events that led to the foundation of the United States of America. Over the course of eight lessons, this unit provides...
4th - 6th Social Studies & History CCSS: Designed
Mayan Mathematics and Architecture
Take young scholars on a trip through history with this unit on the mathematics and architecture of the Mayan civilization. Starting with a introduction to their base twenty number system and the symbols they used, this eight-lesson unit...
4th - 8th Math CCSS: Adaptable
The Three Life-Giving Sisters: Plant Cultivation and Mohican Innovation
Children gain first-hand experience with Native American agriculture while investigating the life cycle of plants with this engaging experiment. Focusing on what the natives called the Three Sisters - corn, beans, and squash - young...
2nd - 5th Science CCSS: Adaptable
Architecture: It's Elementary!
Young citizens construct an understanding of urban planning in this cross-curricular unit. Covering every aspect of city development from the political, economic, and social influences to sustainable building practices, this 10-lesson...
4th - 8th Science CCSS: Adaptable
Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon
How do barns serve as a window to a community's past? Here are a series of lessons on the symbolism and historical context of barns throughout American history. Topics include community-building, in-depth primary and secondary source...
5th - 8th English Language Arts CCSS: Adaptable
Patriot Day September 11, 2011
While many of our students may recognize the date of September 11, 2001 in the United States, most will not be able to personally recall what transpired. On Patriot Day, introduce your young learners to the events, aftermath, and...
K - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
The Geography Toolkit
If you're preparing to teach geography to your young learners, you'll definitely want to keep this resource handy. The toolkit contains 165 pages of a wide range of handouts and informational text to support incorporate geographic...
6th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
Getting the Most out of Teaching with Newspapers
No matter what subject you're teaching, you'll find some fun and innovative ideas for using newspapers in your classroom with a helpful resource. Based on Getting the Most Out of Teaching with Newspapers by Rebecca Olien, the series of...
4th - 7th English Language Arts CCSS: Adaptable | <urn:uuid:84adfc2c-3d67-409c-a949-8f7971b15f05> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/lesson-3-lobster-roll | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549426951.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727022134-20170727042134-00547.warc.gz | en | 0.906804 | 646 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The transmission speed of the cable is limited in most cases by the hardware attached to it. The following is the overview of ethernet cable speed of cat5, cat5e, cat6, cat6a, cat7 and cat8.
The cat 5 cable superseded the cat 3 version and for a number of years it became the standard for ethernet.
Cat 5 cable speed distance. Cat 5 doesn't officially support gigabit ethernet, but with a short (e.g., 1 or 2 meter) cat 5 cable that's in good physical condition, you can often get a seemingly reliable gigabit connection anyway 1. Potentially more interference than cat6. The cat5 cable provides a bandwidth of up to 100mhz, and its speed can range from 10mbps to a maximum of 100 mbps.
For information on audio/video cable distance limits, click here. Cat5 cable is typically used for ethernet networks running at 10 or 100 mbps. Basic cat5 cable was designed for characteristics of up to 100 mhz.
Category 5 enhanced cables can deliver gigabit ethernet speeds of up to 1000 mbps. Cat5e provides a bandwidth of 100 mhz performance, though […] The amount of twists per pair is usually unique for each cable manufacturer.
In other words, cat 7 supports 10gigabitethernet, whereas cat5 does. Any experience and advice would be appreciated. Like amazon’s model, this cable offers a maximum speed of 1gbps but improves over cat 5 and cat 5e products with better crosstalk protection and a higher 250mhz bandwidth.
529 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges it is incredible how the vendors want make you believe that only the cat6 is able to function in 1000mbps at 100 meters. The max speed of cat5e cable at 100mhz is what you should expect. Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video.
We have a 20 user ethernet network running 10/100 speed over cat 5 cable. Around 2000 or so, cat5 overtook cat3 as the ethernet cable of choice for lan networking. However, the 10 gigabit network on cat 6 cables is limited to 164 ft., including patch cables.
If you have the luxury of trying out short applications you may be able to operate with cable rated at one lower category than the 100 meter rated cable for the required speed. Another possible application is a 30 foot run at 3 gigabit on a cat 5e cable which should work correctly because its such a short run. Using two cable pairs to signal over copper wire, cat5 is now largely archaic and isn’t widely used for ethernet connections.
100 meters for slower network speeds (up to 1,000 mbps) and higher network speeds over short distances. Devices connected by the cable, including switches and routers, should also support the desired data speeds. For gigabit ethernet, 55 meters max, with 33 meters in high crosstalk conditions.
Cat 6 cables support higher bandwidths than cat 5. After that distance, its ultimate speed is the same as cat 5e, i.e. Cat 6 has to meet more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than cat 5 and cat 5e.
The cable standard specifies performance of up to 250 mhz, compared to 100 mhz for cat 5 and cat 5e. Cat 5 crimping errors, from tools that are too cheaply made are the usual cause in our area. Ethernet cables come in a few different varieties:
It should be noted that cat7 cable has harsher distance limits than cat5e, cat6, and cat6a. The cable itself doesn’t affect “performance” of the circuit/link, unless it doesn’t support the link speed required/used or there is damage or external interference in play. Cat 5 is suitable to carry ethernet signals, but also telephony and video.
Category 6 cable (cat 6), is a standardized twisted pair cable for ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward compatible with the category 5/5e and category 3 cable standards. Cat5 is one of the most common cables existing today. Get some of your cables tested at a professional shop.
The recommended maximum length cable run length is 90 meters of cable backbone and 10 meters of patch cables. Within a single cable, each colored pair will also have different twist lengths based on prime numbers so that no two twists ever align. This is not recognised by the tia/eia.
If we upgrade to a 10/100/1000 switch can we run the 1000 speed over cat5 reliably or must we bite the bullet and yank all the cat5 and install cat6? Now back to the performance. Cat 5e is currently the most commonly used cable, mainly due to its low production cost and support for speeds faster than cat 5 cables.
Cat 5, cat 5e and cat 6 are currently in (reasonably) wide use. Cable technology is backward compatible. Category 5 cable has a bandwidth of up to 100 mhz, support 10 or 100 mbps speed.
Cat5 basic cable has been used successfully up to 1 gigabit speed using ethernet. You might try prebuilt a cat5 or cat6 plenum. Cat5 ethernet cable is the oldest type of these cables. | <urn:uuid:70419bb9-15c9-469b-8190-628f36d396d2> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://blueeyesandbluebonnets.com/cat-5-cable-speed-distance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585768.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023193319-20211023223319-00443.warc.gz | en | 0.926313 | 1,107 | 2.75 | 3 |
noun[mass noun] Medicine
Surgery carried out on the cornea, especially corneal transplantation.
- Ophthalmology has special problems in this regard as corneal penetrating keratoplasty has become one of the most widely performed transplantations.
- For advanced keratoconus when vision is severely affected by scarring, penetrating keratoplasty or full thickness cornea transplant is the most common surgery performed.
- Conductive keratoplasty is reported to be less invasive than laser surgery.
For editors and proofreaders
Line breaks: kerato|plasty
Definition of keratoplasty in:
What do you find interesting about this word or phrase?
Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed. | <urn:uuid:efd1f455-b2f3-4cdc-ab15-c4e6af53dbf5> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/keratoplasty | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257825124.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071025-00171-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897017 | 162 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Help your children learn their times table facts by playing Times Table Rockstars...who will be top of the leader board?
Help your child learn their times tables by singing along with Percy Parker.
At Vane Road Primary School all children will gain experiences which will allow them to become fluent in the fundamental skills of Mathematics, reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry and solve problems by applying skills to a wide range of problems. Furthermore, they are encouraged to consolidate the skills they have learned by using them in our cross curricular lessons which link to our overarching topics.
We believe in the importance of securing mental maths skills so children are able to understand and apply these techniques when calculating more sophisticated mathematical problems. This allows children to use various strategies and use them in various situations.
All children are expected to know up to 12 x 12 at the end of Year 4 therefore, they are encouraged to practise their times tables at home. Within school, we support this through various activities within all year groups. Younger children enjoy singing along to Percy Parker and our older children prefer interactive games.
Children are taught written calculations for all four operations when they become secure with the relevant mental maths strategy. For more information please see our links below.
At Vane Road, we follow the key principles from White Rose Maths and teach the five big ideas. To see what you child is working on throughout the year please look at the Yearly Overviews below. | <urn:uuid:ed29361d-09ce-45cf-b9fb-d564bdf1fb46> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.vaneroadprimary.co.uk/learning-1/curriculum/maths | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104244535.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703134535-20220703164535-00696.warc.gz | en | 0.954159 | 296 | 3.296875 | 3 |
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Analysis: Sound Check
This poem evokes the solitude and charged suspense of a high mountain pass or a rocky cliff. Its six lines are full of echoes, like standing in a canyon and shouting: "HELLO! Hello! hello! Hello!"
In the first line, listen to the sound of loose rocks falling down a slope, like when you kick a stone off a ledge to see how long you'll be able to hear it tumble. The alliteration of words that begin with "cl" and "cr" sound like rocks cl-icking and cr-ashing into one another. The falling rock and gravel echo through an enormous open space. There's a reason that so many related English words – words that can describe the sounds of large rocks – tend to begin with this hard "c" sound: crumble! crack! collide! Alliteration is built into the English language; Tennyson just takes advantage of tools that already exist.
The alliteration continues throughout the poem, from "lonely lands" in line 2 to the placement of "wrinkled" and "watches" in lines 4 and 5. It produces the same effect as an echo. Moreover, the unusual rhyming triplets produce another kind of echo at the end of each line. In stanza one: "ands...ands...ands." In stanza two: "awls...alls...alls." Rhyming couplets would have been more typical, but Tennyson wanted the poem to be saturated with similar sounds.
Finally, the syntax or sentence structure of the second stanza is an echo of the first stanza. Both stanzas have two instances of the repeated subject-verb structure, "He…(blanks)." In particular, lines 3 and 6 both place this structure at the end of a sentence. Both stanzas build toward a kind of climax, but the first stanza has a false climax that only increases our suspense. Surely we know that the eagle will do more than just stand around.
Despite its short length, by pairing sounds and images in the poem, Tennyson makes the reader feel like a speck in an immense landscape. The eagle rules here – not us. | <urn:uuid:d9e2f446-5ace-4349-9a0c-774fc07e257c> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.shmoop.com/eagle-tennyson/sound-check.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928015.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00315-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917596 | 457 | 3.15625 | 3 |
What is a static and dynamic IP address?
On your home network, when you connect to the internet your computer is automatically assigned a unique IP Address. This is called a Dynamic IP Address and is randomly chosen each time you connect to the network. This means that you will end up with a different IP address if you are allowing the computer to automatically configure the network.
For example if the first computer has 10.0.0.1 as its IP address and another computer connects to the same network it will become 10.0.0.2. If there are two more computers on the network, which ever connects to the internet first will be 10.0.0.3.
If you manually set your computer a permanent IP Address it is called a Static IP address. You must assign each individual computer on your network a unique number to avoid conflicts. Or on the other hand you can set one or two computers a static IP and let the rest get theirs randomly. I to change my computer IP address on my home network to a Static IP as I need to know what it is for file sharing and remote desktop. I do not want to have to look up the IP every time I use remote desktop.
Now all this is about the local IP address of your computer. But this also applies to your global IP. See the difference between a local IP and a Global IP.
Advantages of a Dynamic IP Address
- Your IP is random and changes often. Probably good for security reasons.
- Each time you connect a device to your network it is automatically configured for you.
Disadvantages of a Dynamic IP Address
- When you want to use remote desktop and access a computer within your network you will need to know the IP address. If it changes each time you connect then this can be annoying.
- When you connect more than one device on a network there can be IP conflicts. That means that two devices might be fighting for the same IP.
Advantages of a Static IP Address
- If you are using VOIP (voice over internet protocol) then people need to know your IP to phone you. Having a dynamic IP is just annoying in this case.
- If you have a CCTV system at a remote location you need to global IP address to connect to the camera system. If you have a set static IP address then you will not have to try and find the IP address every time you want to connect. | <urn:uuid:4733b39e-9dc9-43a0-b89f-0d23ef1f2af5> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://tips4pc.com/networking/what-is-a-static-and-a-dynamic-ip-address.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794868239.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527091644-20180527111644-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.942325 | 498 | 3.09375 | 3 |
If you’re lucky enough to live in the north, maybe June isn’t so special for you. But bass lovers in the south look forward to this month like no other.
Ontario OUT of DOORS has put together a fun quiz to get you in the mood for bass season. Are you an expert? How well do you know bass and their after hours activities? Test your knowledge, then scroll down for the answers and some interesting facts on these active fish.
1. What’s a defining difference between largemouth and smallmouth bass?
a. Largemouth are always bigger
b. Smallmouth are a solid colour
c. If its closed mouth extends beyond the eye, it’s a largemouth
d. All of the above
2. Bass eyes cannot adjust to bright light.
3. When do bass spawn?
a. Only on full moons
b. Only on new moons
c. When water temperatures drop
d. When water temperatures reach premium heights after ice-out
4. Bass will only eat when their stomaches are empty.
5. Females help the males guard the nests after spawning.
6. Where can bass be found?
b. United States
f. All of the above
7. Large and smallmouth bass are capable of living in salt water.
8. What is the current Ontario weight record for largemouth bass?
a. 15.12 lbs
b. 14.32 lbs
c. 11.21 lbs
d. 10.43 lbs
9. What is the current Ontario weight record for smallmouth bass?
a. 12.4 lbs
b. 5.13 lbs
c. 9.84 lbs
d. 7.36 lbs
1. When closed, if the mouth extends beyond the eye, it’s a largemouth. If it stops before or in the middle of the eye, it’s a smallmouth.
2. True. Bass eyes are not hurt by bright sunlight, but they can’t adjust to it, giving them their reputation as lily pad and heavy-structure dwellers.
3. Bass will spawn when water temperatures in pre-spawn gathering areas have risen (not the shallows where the spawning takes place) to, on average, anywhere between 17 – 20 degrees Celsius.
4. False. Hunger has little to do with the eating habits of bass. Bass feed when their blood levels of energy drop, like sugar or fat.
5. Females don’t guard the nests after spawning. That job is handed over to the males. Females have been known to move and spawn at separate nests.
6. Bass can be found in all of the above places.
7. False. Although occasionally bass can be found in brackish water with varying degrees of salinity, they cannot live in salt water.
8. The record largemouth caught in Ontario is 10.43 lbs, by Mario Chrysanthou on Preston Lake in 1976.
9. The record Ontario smallmouth bass is 9.84 lbs and was caught by Andy Anderson on Birch Bark Lake near Kinmount, back in 1954.
How did you do? If you manage to set any new angling records this season, be sure to let us know. And if you want some tips to trick out your fishing gear, take a look at this story from OOD‘s bass columnist, Luigi De Rose. | <urn:uuid:33852218-731e-4ec9-99df-b998dd264e7c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.oodmag.com/fishing/bass-fishing/quiz-that-bass-how-much-are-you-all-about-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321306.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627083142-20170627103142-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.904858 | 717 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Five words or less(NewsUSA) – Taking the step up from baby food to table food requires a key skill: chewing. Chewing is a learned skill, and parents can help their babies make the transition by offering a mix of appropriately textured foods.
Before introducing textured foods, review a baby’s readiness. Signs that a baby is ready to begin eating soft foods include crawling with his or her stomach off the floor, pulling up to a standing position, starting to mash food with the jaws and attempting to feed him or herself (not necessarily successfully, but making the effort).
Learning to chew takes practice. It’s not a skill babies develop instantly or even over a limited period of time, such as one month. Studies show that even when babies reach 3 years of age, they are still mastering chewing skills. Baby foods that combine different textures allow babies who are at the crawling or standing stage to simply explore those textures in their mouths without having to navigate separate foods. For older babies, small, soft food pieces can help promote side-to-side tongue movement and jaw mashing movement as preparation for chewing. Children who eat foods with chunky textures before the 10-month mark have an easier time transitioning to table food.
Textured foods such as those in Gerber’s Lil’ Bits recipe collection are specifically designed with soft bits of food sized for babies’ mouths and a gradual progression in texture to help them further develop their chewing skills. Gerber experts analyzed more than 20 hours of video footage of babies chewing and mashing food, and tested approximately 30,000 spoonfuls of food to develop optimally sized food pieces that promote chewing ability.
We hold ourselves to high standards and bring deep passion to making baby food,” a company statement notes. “We only work with farmers who comply with our strict quality standards, use cooking practices that help ensure our products are safe and developmentally appropriate, and test our products with babies from our panel of 2,000 Tiny Taste Testers. We do all of this to help ensure that our baby food is as delicious as it is nutritious.”
The Gerber Lil’ Bits collection includes 11 fruit and vegetable options and six dinner options, resulting from more than 80 taste tests to ensure baby approval. Recipes include Chicken Itty-Bitty Noodle, Garden Vegetable & Beef, and Autumn Vegetable & Turkey.
For more information, and to share photos of your baby’s first chewing efforts, please visit http://www.gerber.com/learntochew. | <urn:uuid:a3d46b97-df88-4b7d-8f0d-483e871c9686> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2015/11/24/is-your-baby-ready-for-chewing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104375714.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704111005-20220704141005-00207.warc.gz | en | 0.949079 | 527 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The birth process, even under natural and controlled conditions, is potentially traumatic. During a natural birth, newborns frequently suffer subluxations as they are pulled, twisted, and compressed. Damage may be more severe in a difficult delivery. During the pushing stage of labor, the spine, particularly the neck, may be injured as the baby is compressed and pushed down the birth canal. As the baby is compressed, the small bones in the spine may be pushed out of their natural alignment. This causes the nerves to become stretched or twisted causing a neurological disturbance. This neurological disturbance is called a subluxation, and it may result in the failure of one or more parts of the body, as well as health in general. Subluxations can also foster the onset of sickness and disease as the body weakens.
Are subluxations serious?
A subluxation causes nerve dysfunction which in turn causes a problem out in the body. All body functions are controlled by the brain sending and receiving messages over nerves. The Doctor of Chiropractic specializes in the detection and correction of subluxations. Instead of treating the symptoms of the disease, the chiropractor corrects the subluxation so that normal body functions may take place.
Why check babies for subluxations?
Complications of uncorrected subluxations may be serious, resulting in respiratory depression, and in some cases SIDS. Infants and newborns who survive and are properly diagnosed for subluxations have a better chance of having the neurological defects ultimately eliminated. Although birth subluxations may cause immediate symptoms, there may be far-reaching effects that are manifested for years. The child’s ability to fight against disease, for example, may be lowered. Colds, ear infections, colic, asthma, allergies and other illnesses may result.
Subluxations may also interfere with internal organ function, resulting in the inability to produce chemicals responsible for raising and lowering body temperature as needed. This means the body’s immune response in the production of anti-viral and antibacterial agents to fight infection is greatly compromised due to subluxations.
When should your Infant be checked for subluxations?
Newborn infants should be checked within hours after birth. Subluxations are a serious threat to your newborn’s health. Your child should be checked frequently by a chiropractor to ensure the best opportunity to grow and develop normally.
Chiropractic is safe and natural.
The chiropractic approach to health care is natural. It does not try to stimulate or inhibit normal body function. Instead, the chiropractor addresses the important relationship between the nervous system and disease. Various symptoms, such as colic, respiratory distress, fever, earaches, and a lowered resistance may be manifested in the young child due to abnormal body function caused by subluxations.” In light of this, your chiropractor may be the best doctor to help your child improve his/her health. | <urn:uuid:7d63d6a7-f957-4dc9-8d41-0616b62452dd> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.vilkelischiropractic.com/2010/05/newborn-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249501174.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223122420-20190223144420-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.934265 | 606 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Dr. Egidius Stockenstrom discusses influenza symptoms and treatments.
Loading the player...Diagnosing Influenza Dr. Egidius Stockenstrom discusses influenza symptoms and treatments.
Featuring Dr. Egidius Stockenstrom, MD, Family Doctor
Duration: 1 minute, 26 seconds
Influenza, or the flu, is a viral illness caused by one of the many influenza viruses. The most common symptoms are high temperature of more than 38 degrees, up to 40 degrees of Celsius, headache, fatigue, cough and some body aches.
Influenza is a viral illness, and therefore antibiotics play no role in the treatment. If you are under normal circumstances you would just use symptomatic treatment like acetaminophen or ibuprofen to control your temperature.
In order to do that you would make sure that you have adequate hydration with cold fluids, as well as sponge baths with lukewarm water to bring the temperature down even further.
If you are in the situation of a known flu epidemic, the rules change a little bit. It is advised that you see your health care provider fairly early on in the illness, since the use of an antiviral medication might be an appropriate option for you.
If these measures are not successful, it’s recommended that you consult with either your pharmacist or a family doctor to establish the next step in your treatment.
Local Practitioners: Family Doctor
This content is for informational purposes only, and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare professional with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. | <urn:uuid:d398dba1-803a-47f4-9c84-adf577ae8f4b> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.healthchoicesfirst.com/videos/diagnosing-influenza | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806316.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121040104-20171121060104-00196.warc.gz | en | 0.931409 | 343 | 3.125 | 3 |
Creating and formatting point text
When you enter point text, each line of text is independent—the length of a line increases or decreases as you edit the text, but it doesn’t wrap to the next line. The text you enter appears in a new text layer. The small line through the I-beam marks the position of the text baseline.
In the Tools panel, select the Horizontal Type tool ().
- Click anywhere in the Composition panel, and type Road Trip. Then press Enter on the numeric keypad to exit text-editing mode and to select the text layer in the Composition panel. Or, you can select the layer name to exit text-editing mode.
Using the Character panel
The Character panel provides options for formatting characters. If text is highlighted, changes you make in the Character panel affect only the highlighted text. If no text is highlighted, changes you make in the Character panel affect the selected text layers and the text layers’ selected Source Text keyframes, if any exist. If no text is highlighted and no text layers are selected, changes you make in the Character panel become the new defaults for the next text entry.
Choose Window > Workspace > Text to display only those panels you need while working with text.
- Select the Road Trip text layer in the Timeline panel.
In the Character panel, choose Calluna Sans from the Font Family menu.
- Choose Bold from the Font Style menu.
- Set the Font Size to 90 pixels.
Leave all other options at their default settings.
Using the Paragraph panel
Use the Paragraph panel to set options that apply to an entire paragraph, such as alignment, indentation, and leading. For point text, each line is a separate paragraph. You can use the Paragraph panel to set formatting options for a single paragraph, multiple paragraphs, or all paragraphs in a text layer. You just need to make one adjustment in the Paragraph panel for this composition’s title text.
In the Paragraph panel, click the Center Text button (). This aligns horizontal text to the center of the layer, not to the center of the composition.
- Leave all other options at their default settings.
Positioning the type
To precisely position layers, such as the text layer you’re working on now, you can display rulers, guides, and grids in the Composition panel. These visual reference tools don’t appear in the final rendered movie.
- Make sure the Road Trip text layer is selected in the Timeline panel.
Choose Layer > Transform > Fit To Comp Width. This scales the layer to fit to the width of the composition.
Now you can position the text layer using a grid.
- Choose View > Show Grid and then View > Snap To Grid.
Using the Selection tool (), drag the text up in the Composition panel until the base of the letters sits on the horizontal gridline in the center of the composition. Press Shift after you start dragging to constrain the movement and help you position the text.
When the layer is in position, choose View > Show Grid again to hide the grid.
This project isn’t destined for broadcast TV, so it’s okay that the title extends beyond the title-safe and action-safe areas of the composition at the beginning of the animation.
- Choose Standard from the Workspace menu at the top of the application window to return to the Standard workspace, and then choose File > Save to save your project. | <urn:uuid:0eb1d7b0-9a15-4df1-9d60-828118e2dbb7> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=2271197&seqNum=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347396300.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20200527235451-20200528025451-00262.warc.gz | en | 0.763675 | 721 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Protecting the skin from the harsh rays of the sun should be part of your daily health regimen. Shielding the skin from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation prevents sunburn and permanent damage to the skin.
Sun damage to the skin usually begins at a young age because of the length of time spent sun bathing without adequate sunscreen protection. As we age, the negative effects become noticeable, evidenced by dry, leathery skin, and susceptibility to sunburns. And, the fact that the earth’s rapidly depleting ozone layer allows more of the UV radiation to reach us adds to the intensity of the problem.
There are two kinds of radiation – ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB). UVA causes tanning, while UVB leads to sunburn. Both, over time, are factors in long-term skin damage. Skin contains melanocytes, cells in the body that produce melanin, the brown-black pigment in skin that acts as a shield from harmful solar radiation. But as we age, the melanocytes in our skin become less effective, so protecting ourselves from sun exposure is even more important.
Life Extension Sun Protection Spray is one of the most advanced sunblock formulas on the market. With a sun protection factor (SPF) of 30, this product provides maximum protection from the sun’s harmful rays, if used correctly.* It contains ingredients that can protect the skin against solar-generated free radicals, such as vitamin E to protect the skin against UVB radiation and DNA photo damage. Vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant, is added to fight oxidative damage. A natural moisturizer, NaPCA, is also part of the formula, to maintain the skin’s youthful softness.
For convenience, the Life Extension Sun Protection Spray comes in a 6-oz spray bottle. It can be sprayed on all skin surfaces, including hard-to-reach areas, like between the toes. Its non-greasy formula also makes it a pleasure to use, unlike other sunscreen products.
The bottom line is, to avoid premature aging and skin damage; the skin should be protected from the harmful effects of the sun on a daily basis. Besides wearing adequate clothing and broad-rimmed hats when exposed to the sun, a sunscreen product must also be a part of your arsenal.
Life Extension Sun Protection Spray provides maximum protection, while moisturizing and feeding your skin with nutrients. | <urn:uuid:2813b1a8-5807-4790-81c5-54a40976744b> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.makemeheal.com/mmh/product.do?id=26717 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946077.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423144933-20180423164933-00447.warc.gz | en | 0.894029 | 491 | 2.765625 | 3 |
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data A car is involved in a collision when it is travelling at 24m/s. The driver , of mass 85kg, is brought to rest by the seat belt in a time of 400 ms . Calculate the average force exerted on the driver by the seat belt . Compare this force with his weight , and hence calculate the 'g-force' to which he's subjected by the crash, and comment on the likelihood of his sustaining serious injury. 2. Relevant equations 3. The attempt at a solution Well, I' use F=m (v-u)/t to find the average force exerted on the driver, am I correct ? Second question , can I use formula of work done to calculate the 'g-force' ? Logically, is it impossible the 'g-force' means the potential energy stored in the car ? Guide me please . | <urn:uuid:c012a8a3-a659-47f7-9d82-7572afbaf0bc> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/calculate-the-average-force-exerted-on-the-driver-by-the-seat-belt.148548/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480472.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216125709-20190216151709-00568.warc.gz | en | 0.9487 | 187 | 2.9375 | 3 |
By Ingrid Newkirk
A new study out of Emory Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta
is being hailed as groundbreaking because it shows that brown capuchin monkeys
have a sense of fair play. Apparently, when one monkey was given only a piece
of cucumber, but he saw a fellow monkey receiving a tasty grape, he tossed his
cucumber aside in a fit of pique.
So now we know that monkeys can see what's fair and unfair. It's too bad that
the people who keep these monkeys in cages their whole lives-a truly unfair
sentence for intelligent beings who have committed no crime-don't enjoy the
But then again, proof that we are a species behaving badly is everywhere.
Here are just two examples: In Amsterdam they've had to dissolve the honor system
of offering public bicycles because so many have been stolen, repainted and
sold. And in a study of visitors to Antarctica, it was found that people with a
university or post-graduate education were significantly more inclined to
harass seals and trample plants.
Average people, both well educated and uneducated, are capable of worse acts
than we like to believe. What this means is that animals, the elderly,
children and anyone else in a vulnerable position are more likely to be abused than
we would like to believe.
The medical and scientific researchers, like those at the primate center,
conducting experiments on animals are no exception. Lab experimenters, despite
their often lofty goals, have been no more successful in policing themselves
than have average citizens.
The examples of horrific behavior inside laboratories are legion and fresh.
University of North Carolina researchers cut off rodents' heads with scissors
without any effort to lessen their suffering. Researchers in a lab in New
Jersey were caught slamming petrified monkeys into steel cages and, having tied
them down to the table, stuffing bottles in their mouths and mocking them.
Someone once said the only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn
from history. We change the victims but keep the behavior. The past
atrocities in the name of medical research prove that point.
The Tuskegee experiment, in which poor black men in the southern U.S. were
used as research subjects and not told that they had syphilis is one of the most
studied cases in research ethics. Orphans were used in tuberculin tests and
trials of low levels of radiation, and poor migrant Irish women were used in
gynecological practice surgeries which, when perfected, were performed on
wealthy, paying customers.
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug
Administration require thousands of tests on animals, and many companies-that sell
everything from detergent to lipstick-voluntarily test their products on animals.
Even if lab workers always followed proper procedures, there are few regulations
for animal welfare. In the case of mice, rats and birds-the majority of animal
subjects-there are no laws governing their treatment.
Rats and mice, though they feel pain the same way humans do, are used in labs
because, in the words of the head of laboratory science at a Washington
medical school, "they are cheap, convenient, and easy to handle." That's
uncomfortably similar to the justification we used for experiments on disadvantaged
humans just decades ago, and we should be ashamed to accept it today.
Defenders of animal tests argue that the advancement of science and human
safety outweighs animal welfare concerns. But researchers have known for years
that the results of animal tests can never be reliably assumed relevant to
humans. An EPA official at a recent conference on neurotoxicity admitted: "We know
the rat isn't the right model. It's like being in a bad marriage – you know
you should get out but you don't because there's so much history there."
There is no good reason not to summarily end all behavioral studies of
primates and other animals in laboratory settings when we can now travel to even the
remotest corners of the earth and observe animals in their homes, without
molesting them. And there is no good reason not to divorce ourselves from
barbarous and needless animal tests and switch to more sophisticated modern testing
methods. The use of whole human DNA, computer screens of human data and in
vitro testing using human cells, unlike animal experiments, are relevant to the
Undoubtedly, we will look back on the treatment of animals in labs, as we
have done with so many past injustices, with horror. May we be able to say that
each of us had the nerve, the principle and the vision to help put an end to
Ingrid Newkirk is president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Enviroshop is maintained by dedicated NetSys Interactive Inc. owners & employees who generously contribute their time to maintenance & editing, web design, custom programming, & website hosting for Enviroshop. | <urn:uuid:a5455c06-c5e9-4a2c-9efe-5ead5141b2c8> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | http://enviroshop.com/monkeys-understand-fairplay-what-about-people/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347404857.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20200529121120-20200529151120-00030.warc.gz | en | 0.953884 | 1,046 | 3.234375 | 3 |
— Robert Frost
1874 - 1963
In the fall of 1967, I was a freshman in college and felt the world about to come to an end. The Vietnam War raged on and on. Riots were occurring in the streets of big cities. The world was burning and I was convinced that it would all be over in five years. But like Frost, I have learned that life does go on.
Some people today feel the world is about to end. We face economic upheaval and poverty, political corruption and stalemate, as well as religious hatred and global warming. Will the world still be here in five years? I have learned that life goes on. Or in the words of another cliche: This too shall pass.
Don't despair because your writing was rejected by yet another publisher or an art gallery refused to carry your work. Life goes on. This too shall pass.
When Robert Frost was 86, he was asked to read a poem at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. He was the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration. In January of 1963 he died from complications from prostate surgery. In November 1963, Kennedy was assassinated. Some thought it was the end of the world, but life goes on.
Here is Robert Frost performing The Gift Outright at Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. He recited the poem from memory.
(Quote Source: Goodreads.com) | <urn:uuid:fc08426c-8a92-4512-a2d3-86ea647215d8> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://harleyinspiration.blogspot.com/2011_11_16_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863967.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521063331-20180521083331-00087.warc.gz | en | 0.984218 | 286 | 2.625 | 3 |
Use a coordinate grid to help your students learn about each other.
- Students will use a coordinate grid using information about their classmates.
- Take a picture of each students with a digital camera.
- Import the pictures into an Inspiration palette.
- Have students move about the classroom and informally interview each
other to find out each other's favorite animal and food (from the choices
given in the template).
- Using coordinate grid template in Inspiration or Kidspiration, students will
record their findings by putting the picture of the student where their
favorite food and animal intersect.
Sunshine State Standards
NETS Profiles for Technology Literate Students
- Use keyboards and other common input and output devices (including adaptive devices when necessary) efficiently and effectively.
- Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, remediate skill deficits, and facilitate learning throughout the curriculum.
- Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, Web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.
- Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.
- Evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources.
- Digital Camera
- Coordinate grid template
- Other ideas: favorite colors, eye color, clothing colors, hair color, etc. | <urn:uuid:e69cb0af-1f1a-4213-9b34-b677d3681409> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://etc.usf.edu/plans/lessons/lp/lp0012m2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095711.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00245-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.819377 | 320 | 4.03125 | 4 |
WESTLAKE, Ohio — Terrifying statistics have recently come out on the amount of children molested. Approximately one in four girls, and one in six boys has been sexually abused by the age of 18. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, only 12 percent of child abuse is reported.
That’s why one woman in Westlake has made it her mission to make sure all kids learn right from wrong at a young age. Cathy DuBois, an Intervention Specialist in the Westlake School District created something called Project S.T.O.P. It stands for Stop The Oppressive Predator. She runs it out of her non-profit organization, ReInventing The Cycle.
“This is a problem that is an epidemic and we need to help keep our kids safe,” DuBois said. “We need to do something and we know education is the number one form of prevention so we need to start educating our kids and not ignoring it because the problem is not going away.”
Through the program Project S.T.O.P., children learn about sex abuse in an age-appropriate way. They class is taught by using a video, a book and a doll.
“By having the doll they can role play and they feel comfortable and can practice the skills we want them to use,” DuBois said. “They can also use the doll to help them maybe act out what they wouldn’t feel comfortable doing without the doll.”
Mallorie Haworth, a school counselor for Dover Elementary School, says the program is extremely beneficial and easy to teach.
”What I like about it is it’s very easy to implement and its effective and direct,” Haworth said. “It’s a sensitive subject that may be hard to talk about so the fact there is a video and a doll really keeps the kids engaged throughout the process.”
Studies show children are most vulnerable to sex abuse between the ages of 7 and 13. That’s why teaching them at a young age is ideal.
“This is the perfect age to talk about it because as we know our predators are grooming kids at this age,” DuBois said. “So if we can get them to recognize their inner alarm and tell someone when something doesn’t feel quite right we can prevent them from having a lifetime of problems.”
The principal of Dover Elementary School, Tim Barrett, says they feel very fortunate to have the program at their school because it is their obligation to keep kids safe.
“A lot of times these incidents occur when they’re young and they don’t realize it,” Barrett said. “Something might put them in danger so giving them at least a little bit of information for them to identify a situation that might be uncomfortable or unsafe for them I think is our total call.” Barrett said since so much happens when they’re young you can’t wait until after the fact.
Because of the growing number of children molested by strangers or even people they know, Project S.T.O.P. wants to make sure more school districts get involved in this.
“We’re getting close to being in 100 schools but I`m not going to stop until we’re in every elementary school,” DuBois said.
Right now the program is in schools across Ohio and surrounding states. The program is simple. Any teacher or counselor can facilitate it. It’s only once a day, once a year to the third grade class. Some schools can get the kits for free with the right grants and funding, but if not, it’s only $125 for a kit that the schools will keep. Then the schools can reuse those kits every year.
So it’s simple, but beneficial. Just ask the kids.
“I like using the doll and saying no to it and it’s fun to learn how to keep myself safe from strangers or people that I know,” fourth grader Renee Leveck said.
DuBois says program has already been very successful.
“We have had schools coming back to let us know they’ve identified problems,” she said. “They’ve identified students who are either getting sexually abused or getting groomed to get sexually abused and because of Project S.T.O.P. they were able to help prevent or stop it from happening.”
The non-profit organization, ReInventing The Cycle, also has a student advisory board working to promote awareness. The president of the board is a senior at Westlake High School, Jennifer Wagner.
“It’s really important to keep kids safe especially in a school environment and at home,” Wagner said. “Kids are very important to our future so we have to keep them safe.”
Wagner is currently working on a big event coming up in April, which is National Child Sex Abuse Awareness Month. They are holding a campaign called Pinwheels for Prevention. The event will be Saturday, April 13, 2019 from 1:30 -3:00pm at the Westlake Rec Center hill. They are asking everyone to come out and plant pinwheels on the hill with them. | <urn:uuid:73f962a0-a083-42c4-b8b6-404a1c541ae6> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://fox8.com/news/this-is-an-epidemic-school-program-aims-to-stop-sexual-abuse-before-it-happens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038064520.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411144457-20210411174457-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.972012 | 1,121 | 2.859375 | 3 |
This post is an overview on antiplatelet drugs, we will focus on the classification of agents and their mechanism of action. The most relevant facts related to therapeutics will also be discussed here, followed by a video review by K.G. Paul, M.D.
A related article explores the pharmacology of thrombolytic agents.
Classification of antiplatelet agents
The figure below shows how antiplatelet drugs can be classified according to their mechanism of action. Drug classes include: ADP antagonists (Thienopyridines), COX-1 inhibitors (the only member of this class is aspirin), phosphodiestherase inhibitors and GPIIb/IIIa antagonists.
Mechanism of action
As shown in the figure, aspirin inhibits platelet cyclooxygenase, a key enzyme in thromboxane A2 (TXA2) generation. Thromboxane A2 triggers reactions that lead to platelet activation and aggregation, aspirin acts as a potent antiplatelet agent by inhibiting generation of this mediator. These effects last for the life of the anucleate platelet, approximately 7 to 10 days.
Aspirin is indicated as prophylaxis against transient ischemic attacks, myocardial infarction and thromboembolic disorders. It is also used for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes and in the prevention of reoclusion in coronary revascularization procedures. Since side effects such as GI bleeding and acute renal insufficiency are dose dependent, the recommended antiplatelet dose ranges from 75 mg to 325 mg. A related post in this blog reviews some relevant aspects about aspirin pharmacokinetics.
ADP-receptor blockers: thienopyridines
Mechanism of action
Thienopyridines act by inhibiting the ADP-dependent pathway of platelet activation. These drugs have no direct effect on prostaglandin metabolism.
Ticlopidine is the oldest thienopyridine currently available. It is approved for secondary prevention of thrombotic strokes in patients intolerant of aspirin and for prevention of stent thrombosis in combination with aspirin. Serious adverse effects of ticlopidine therapy are mainly hematologic and include: neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
Clopidogrel is approved for prevention of atherosclerotic events following recent myocardial infarction, stroke or established peripheral arterial disease. It is also approved for use in acute coronary syndromes that are treated with either PCI or coronary artery bypass grafting. It has a better safety profile than ticlopidine. Recent studies have shown that PPIs interact with clopidogrel, leading to a reduced effectiveness of the latter.
New antiplatelet drugs: Prasugrel is a recently approved ( July 2009) agent in this class. Like ticlopidine and clopidogrel, prasugrel requires a loading dose to achieve a maximal antiplatelet effect rapidly.
Dipyridamole is acts as vasodilator and antiplatelet agent. It inhibits adenosine uptake and cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase activity, this decreases platelet aggregability. Dipyridamole alone has little antiplatelet effect, it is currently used in combination with aspirin or warfarin in the prophylaxis of thromboembolic disorders. It is also used in stress testing for myocardial perfusion imaging.
The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors are used parenterally in patients with acute coronary syndromes by specialists, this class of drugs is not used in an outpatient setting by non-specialists.
Mechanism of action
Platelet membrane GPIIb-IIa receptors constitute the final common pathway of platelet aggregation, the integrin GPIIb/IIIa antagonists prevent cross-linking of platelets. Their action is independent of the aggregation-inducing stimulus.
Abciximab is a chimeric human-murine monoclonal antibody directed against GPIIb/IIIa, current indications include unstable angina that does not respond to conventional therapy in patients that undergo percutaneous coronary intervention. The peptide derivatives, eptifibatide and tirofiban are more selective towards the GPIIb/IIIa receptor and have a shorter effect than abciximab.
The most serious adverse effects of GPIIB-IIIa antagonists include major bleeding, intracerebral hemorrhage and thrombocytopenia.
Video review on antiplatelet drugs
Dr. Paul, from www.usmlevideos.net reviews antiplatelet therapy, focusing on ticlopidine and clopidogrel.
References and further reading on antiplatelet therapy
Golan, David E (editor). “Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy”, 2nd edition. LWW: 2008.
Harvey, R; Champe, P (series editors). “Lippincott illustrated reviews: Pharmacology”, 4th edition. LWW: 2009.
Brunton, L.B., Lazo, J.S., & Parker, K.L. (Eds.). “Goodman & Gilman’s the pharmacological basis of therapeutics“, 11th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill:2005. | <urn:uuid:98aa4564-732b-473e-ba98-0ee20f7e17b8> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://pharmacologycorner.com/antiplatelet-agents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207926964.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113206-00003-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875937 | 1,157 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Pumpkin seeds for thousands of years used in medical purposes because they are a rich source of vitamins. Moreover, science has confirmed that their nutritional value is increased when in standing. We present several reasons why these delicious snacks should be part of your diet.
1. With seeds to a healthier heart
A quarter cup of seeds contains nearly half the recommended daily dose of magnesium, which is very important for your heart. It also helps in controlling blood pressure.
2. Improves immunity
Seeds are a rich source of zinc, which helps to regulate the immune system, thus reducing the risk of viral infections such as colds and flu. Also, reduces the amount of fatigue and depression.
3. Maintain prostate health
Seeds are very important to men, or to their health, because of the positive effect on the prostate. They are often used in the treatment of various health problems such as increased prostate hyperplasia.
4. Reduces the risk of diabetes
Pumpkin seeds aid in the regulation of insulin and thereby prevent various complications associated with diabetes, such as oxidative stress.
5. Assist in insomnia
Eating pumpkin seeds a few hours before bedtime, especially in combination with fruit, contributing to better secretion of melatonin and serotonin, which increases the regeneration of the body in sleep. | <urn:uuid:2cf2785d-821f-426f-a67e-132bb69da4be> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://www.healthyfoodteam.com/5-reasons-why-potato-chips-should-be-replaced-with-pumpkin-seeds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540564599.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20191213150805-20191213174805-00210.warc.gz | en | 0.956528 | 267 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Published in Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 37, Issue 3, January 1, 1966, pages 1403-1403.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Richard B. Frankel was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1708492.
High‐magnetic‐field‐Mössbauer and magnetic‐moment experiments have been performed with Ga2−xFexO3. This magnetic system is of considerable interest because it is piezoelectric, weakly magnetic,1 and magnetoelectric.2 The crystal structure has been determined3 and a magnetic ordering inferred.3 The magnetic‐moment measurements were made using a vibrating sample magnetometer in fields up to 75 kOe. The samples used for the Mössbauer absorption experiments consisted of 57Fe enriched powders, grown from a flux, embedded in lucite, and having x=0.8 and 1.2. A mosaic absorber made of small x‐ray oriented single crystals was also studied. Measurements were made over the temperature range 4.2° to 320°K and in external magnetic fields up to 130 kOe. At low temperatures the zero‐external field‐absorption spectra indicate that there are at least two magnetically nonequivalent sites. In a large external field the hyperfine spectrum lines corresponding to Δm=0 vanish, while each of the outer lines (corresponding to Δm=±1) splits into two well‐resolved components of unequal intensity. Detailed analysis of the experimental results for both the single crystal and polycrystalline absorbers indicates that at zero external field all spins lie in the a−c plane (c
This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Journal of Applied Physics. | <urn:uuid:95429567-aae2-4ce5-a6b8-8357add2ea78> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/phy_fac/276/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215858.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820062343-20180820082343-00382.warc.gz | en | 0.902927 | 405 | 2.625 | 3 |
Religious Influence-Historic SettlementsSeeking shelter from a storm, Rev. John James, a circuit riding preacher ordained by the Church in England, but disciplined in the beliefs of the Methodist Church of John Wesley, met by chance with local resident David Sayres on a cold, wintry night in 1780. Sayres, a colonial soldier and patriot, did not favor sheltering any man representing the English crown, but could not allow the Reverend to stay out in the blizzard.
Have you seen this marker? If so, check in and tell us about it.
|Placed By||National Park Service and NJ Division of Parks and Forestry|
|Marker Condition||No reports yet|
|Date Added||Friday, January 29th, 2016 at 9:01am PST -08:00|
|UTM (WGS84 Datum)||18S E 515279 N 4351341|
|Decimal Degrees||39.31133333, -74.82276667|
|Degrees and Decimal Minutes||N 39° 18.68', W 74° 49.366'|
|Degrees, Minutes and Seconds||39° 18' 40.8" N, 74° 49' 21.96" W|
|Driving Directions||Google Maps|
|Closest Postal Address||At or near 600 NJ-49, Woodbine NJ 08270, US|
|Alternative Maps||Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap| | <urn:uuid:8a866eae-4028-4b9d-8e37-dabbad7459a1> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/view.php?marker_id=HM1QLF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863972.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521082806-20180521102806-00456.warc.gz | en | 0.759948 | 336 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Beginning in 2013, University of Wisconsin-Madison's Geology Museum researcher Dr. David Lovelace began exploring the classic red rocks of the Triassic aged (~252-201 mya) Chugwater Group that are well exposed along the eastern flank of the Wind River mountains. These outcrops stretch from south of Lander all the way up to Dubois. The Late Triassic Popo Agie Formation is the uppermost unit of the Chugwater Group and is thought to be around 230-225 million years old. This formation is named after the Popo Agie River near Lander and it preserves extraordinary fossils that represent an ancient terrestrial ecosystem that thrived during the dawn of the dinosaurs.
Lovelace, along with UWGM students have discovered a number of new specimens on both private and public lands throughout the region. Most of the fossils are still being extracted from the rock that has preserved them all this time. A new skull of a phytosaur - an ancient crocodile-like animal - was found on private land near Lander in 2013; it has been more than half of a century since the last phytosaur discovery in the state!
In 2014-2015 two sites were discovered near Dubois on public lands held in trust by the Bureau of Land Management. During the 2016 field season excavation was started and continued again this summer. Both of these sites preserve a mass-death assemblage of ancient temnospondyl amphibians that are most closely related to caecilians, a group of modern legless amphibians. The first site (known as Nobby Knob) has dozens of partially articulated skeletons of giant temnospondyls called Koskinonodon; these animals roughly resemble 6 foot long giant salamanders! The second site (known as Serendipity) preserves hundreds of burrows about the diameter and shape of a Pringles can, many of which preserve articulated skeletons of a new tiny temnospondyl species.
This year the UW-Madison crew, led by Ph.D. student Aaron Kufner and Calvin So, are spending nearly 2 months documenting and excavating the Nobby Knob and Serendipity sites. Eventually the material that is being collected will be prepared and studied at the UWGM, and will be highlighted in the museum's gallery. It will take years to complete the preparation (it takes about 12-15 person-hours of lab work for every person-hour in the field). Future collaborations with the Fremont County Museums are being developed, so stay tuned! | <urn:uuid:8301feea-3265-455a-a74c-7ebfb145a7b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://fremontcountymuseums.com/news/3753/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335276.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928180732-20220928210732-00423.warc.gz | en | 0.94707 | 525 | 2.671875 | 3 |
|Illustration of a man with a parasitic twin, alongside illustrations of two configurations of conjoined twins|
|Specialty||Maternal–fetal medicine, neonatology|
A parasitic twin, also known as an asymmetrical or unequal conjoined twin, is the result of the processes that also produce vanishing twins and conjoined twins, and may represent a continuum between the two. Parasitic twins occur when a twin embryo begins developing in utero, but the pair does not fully separate, and one embryo maintains dominant development at the expense of its twin. Unlike conjoined twins, one ceases development during gestation and is vestigial to a mostly fully formed, otherwise healthy individual twin. The undeveloped twin is defined as parasitic, rather than conjoined, because it is incompletely formed or wholly dependent on the body functions of the complete fetus. The independent twin is called the autosite.
- Conjoined parasitic twins joined at the head are described as craniopagus or cephalopagus, and occipitalis if joined in the occipital region or parietalis if joined in the parietal region.
- Craniopagus parasiticus is a general term for a parasitic head attached to the head of a more fully developed fetus or infant.
- Fetus in fetu sometimes is interpreted as a special case of parasitic twin, but may be a distinct entity.
- The twin reversed arterial perfusion, or TRAP sequence, results in an acardiac twin, a parasitic twin that fails to develop a head, arms and a heart. The parasitic twin, little more than a torso with or without legs, receives its blood supply from the host twin by means of an umbilical cord-like structure, much like a fetus in fetu, except the acardiac twin is outside the autosite's body. The blood received by the parasitic twin has already been used by the normal fetus, and as such is already de-oxygenated, leaving little developmental nutrients for the acardiac twin. Because it is pumping blood for both itself and its acardiac twin, this causes extreme stress on the normal fetus's heart. Many TRAP pregnancies result in heart failure for the healthy twin. This twinning condition usually occurs very early in pregnancy. A rare variant of the acardiac fetus is the acardius acormus where the head is well developed but the heart and the rest of the body are rudimentary. While it is thought that the classical TRAP/Acardius sequence is due to a retrograde flow from the umbilical arteries of the pump twin to the iliac arteries of the acardiac twin resulting in preferential caudal perfusion, acardius acormus is thought to be a result of an early embryopathy.
- Aquino DB, Timmons C, Burns D, Lowichik A (1997). "Craniopagus parasiticus: a case illustrating its relationship to craniopagus conjoined twinning". Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 17 (6): 939–44. doi:10.1080/107710497174381. PMID 9353833.
- "Acardiac Twin or TRAP Sequence". University of California, San Francisco. 2007-04-26. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- Abi Nader Khalil, Whitten Sara Melissa, Filippi Elisa, Scott Rose-Mary, Jauniaux Eric. Dichorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy complicated by acardius acormus. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy 2009;26(1):45-9.
- Lebel, Robert Roger; Carlos Mock; Jeannette Israel; William Senica (June 1994). "Twin reversed arterial perfusion syndrome, acephalic presenting at full term". TheFetus.net. Retrieved 18 February 2013. | <urn:uuid:2880df90-0d39-4ca6-889d-637c8fe2a485> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664808.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112074214-20191112102214-00135.warc.gz | en | 0.878207 | 813 | 3.625 | 4 |
Frog in your throat?
- BuyThe Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian Levack
Yale, 346 pp, £25.00, March 2013, ISBN 978 0 300 11472 0
Early modern Europe was awash with cases of demonic possession. Thousands of men, women and children conversed in languages of which they had no knowledge, tore at their own flesh and uttered blasphemies and profanities. They vomited vast quantities of nails, pins, blood, feathers, stones, coins, coal, dung, meat, cloth and hair, and grunted and barked like animals. Some of them writhed in convulsions, floated above the ground or demonstrated preternatural physical strength. Their eyes bulged, their limbs stiffened, their faces became grossly distorted and their throats and stomachs grew monstrously swollen. A number of them lapsed into trances, foresaw the future or disclosed secrets it was hard to see how they could have possessed.
In the late 17th century, a Franciscan friar pulled a large toad out of the mouth of a female demoniac, while the head of a young Scotsman pivoted front to back, a rather less impressive circuit than that of Linda Blair in The Exorcist. One woman vomited a live eel, followed by 24 pounds of various substances twice a day for two weeks. (With admirable judiciousness, Brian Levack, the author of The Devil Within, warns that ‘the veracity of such reports can be questioned on a number of grounds.’) Some young women’s limbs grew so stiff that the efforts of several muscular men proved insufficient to bend them, while others could arch their backs like gymnasts, occasionally licking the floor as they did so. Some men and women levitated (Catholics proved more proficient at the practice than Protestants); others threw the process into reverse, gaining so much weight that they were impossible to budge.
A late 17th-century German demoniac is reputed to have coughed up four hundred chamberpots’ worth of blood. Some of the possessed were said to have abstained from food and drink for months or even years. Others jabbered away in Latin, Greek or Hebrew, while an illiterate Italian woman quoted verses from the Aeneid in the original. Since demons were thought to be fallen angels, they manifested the high intelligence with which God had endowed all angelic spirits, and had, presumably, a sound grounding in the classics. In Catholic countries, those in the grip of Satan spat on crucifixes, trampled on the communion host, railed at priests and insulted the Virgin Mary. As in The Omen, they reacted to sacred objects with terror and revulsion. Possessed nuns made lewd sexual gestures, pulling up their skirts and engaging in behaviour that according to one commentator ‘would have astonished the inmates of the lowest brothel in the country’. Rather less lasciviously, the bewitched young women of 17th-century Salem made foolish speeches, crept under chairs and crawled into holes.
It was believed that the human body was porous, and that the evil spirits who gained access to it roamed around its inner cavities at will, indiscriminately attacking organs. The highest number of demons ever to invade a human body was said to be 12,652, all of whom assumed simultaneous occupancy of a 16-year-old German girl in 1584. More frequently, the Devil took up residence himself rather than delegating tenancy to his subordinates. He could do this, however, only with the permission of God, which raised the theologically embarrassing question of why the Almighty should allow the tongues of innocent young women to swell until they hung down to the tip of their chins.
The full text of this book review is only available to subscribers of the London Review of Books. | <urn:uuid:5300793a-f07d-4564-a3c9-d92fa320415d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n09/terry-eagleton/frog-in-your-throat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964826 | 802 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Is the sharing economy changing our modes of consumption? And beyond that, does it herald a new epoch of how we relate to each other and to the world? Is it the beginning of a new and more sustainable economic order as e.g. Rachel Botsman has argued? Or is it, at best, more of the same and, at worst, a less rather than more responsible form of economic exchange as, for instance, suggested by Ehsan Zaffar? Before seeking to answer these highly charged and normative questions, we should probably take a sobering step back and simply ask: what is the sharing economy?
Well, you have probably already heard the term plenty of times and you are most likely familiar with many of its specific manifestations. Services like Airbnb and Uber have become globally familiar brand names, but a plethora of more local (or at least smaller) initiatives are also blooming under the sharing economy umbrella: car sharing, redistribution of used clothes, books and the like, knowledge sharing…it seems only our imagination sets the limits. If you can think it, you can share it. But how? The sharing economy operates on the principle of creating possibilities for consumers to either share products or collaborate in processes. Or, in Botsman’s definition, the sharing economy is “an economic system based on sharing underused assets or services, for free or for a fee, directly from individuals.”
While there are some quibbles about definitions – when is something ‘collaborative’, ‘sharing’ or ‘on-demand’? – the basic model of the for-profit participants in this system is to find some way of making money out of facilitating contact between those who have an underused asset and those who need to use it.
In one sense, there is nothing new or particularly revolutionary about this. After all, libraries are not exactly a recent invention, flea markets have existed for centuries and in some local communities there are long-standing traditions of borrowing from each other, just as ‘housesitting’ was hardly invented by Airbnb. However, because of technological innovations that free peer-to-peer transactions from previous constraints of time and space, the scale and scope of sharing is now greater than ever. The sharing economy, we might say, is the barter society gone online. Thus, what is different is not the act of sharing, but the mode of doing so – and the challenges (as well as the opportunities) this creates for traditional businesses. As an example, traditional players of the transportation industry, e.g. car manufacturers, rental companies and delivery services, are being challenged by new actors who base their business on the sharing model. In response, a number of the traditional companies have adopted sharing initiatives of their own; e.g. BMW forms part of the DriveNow car sharing initiative, Avis has acquired the car sharing network ZipCar and DHL has created the MyWays app that connects people who do not have time to pick up their parcels at a service point with people who would like to earn some money by delivering a parcel to the recipient’s address of choice.
So, is this a new beginning for how we consume, a new economic order? Well, the sharing economy does present new forms of exchange, but these can be interpreted in a variety of ways. As Chris Martin (2016) shows, the sharing economy is currently framed in at least six ways: as (1) an economic opportunity; (2) a more sustainable form of consumption; (3) a pathway to a decentralised, equitable and sustainable economy; (4) creating unregulated marketplaces; (5) reinforcing the neoliberal paradigm; and, (6) an incoherent field of innovation. Further, big business’ current appropriation of the sharing economy, consumers’ tendency to combine sharing with traditional consumption (and not with less consumption), the controversy caused by Uber and similar events show that there is nothing inherently sustainable in the sharing economy – instead, its effects depend on how organizations and consumers alike make use of the new opportunities it offers. | <urn:uuid:ee223a13-4ca9-4de2-a870-c9fe993a3b51> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://strategizingcommunication.dk/?tag=rachel-botsman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313436.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20190817164742-20190817190742-00090.warc.gz | en | 0.958778 | 836 | 2.8125 | 3 |
My mom just sent me an email which claimed that on August 27th, mars will be in opposition to the Earth and as a result will appear the same size as the full moon.
The truth is, around this time is when Mars is closest to Earth and will appear like the undisputed champion of the sky in terms of brightness.
The truth also is that if one eye was in a consumer telescope and the other open toward the moon the two orbs would appear to have a similar diameter.
Mars will pass more than 55 million miles from Earth, which the email also referred to (with different but similar numbers), but could it appear the same in size? Let's do the math.
The moon's diameter is 3,474 miles.
The moon's distance from Earth is 238,857 miles.
Mars' diameter is 6,749 million miles.
In order for Mars to "appear" the same size as the moon, it's distance would have to be calculated like this: MarsDistance = MarsDiameter * ( 1 + (MoonDistance / MoonDiameter))
The result would require Mars' distance from Earth to be 473,919 miles from earth.
In short, since Mars is roughly double the size of the moon, its distance would have to be roughly double from the earth to appear the same size as the moon.
The email was right that the Moon would pass closest around August 27th, and that it would be more than 55 million miles from Earth. Where it is wrong is that it would appear the same. It would need to come 54,500,000 miles closer than that to even come close.
I am no specialist, but I would imagine we would have all kinds of gravimetric issues on Earth if anything the size of Mars ever passed that close to us. But that is just my speculation.
When you Google this it's clear that this email started innocently (that the telescope and naked eye would make the Moon and Mars similar in size) but was lost as it was passed along. The email can be traced back to 2003.
Nonetheless, don't miss out on looking for Mars this month – it's the big red star (not to be mistaken for the moon)! | <urn:uuid:bd063d20-4fde-44cf-b5af-8bae1b3336b2> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://jerrynixon.blogspot.com/2007/08/mars-as-big-as-moon-rediculous.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155413.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180918130631-20180918150631-00039.warc.gz | en | 0.971992 | 459 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Peter W. Graham. Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists. Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2008. ISBN: 9780754658511. Price: £55.00
Western Washington University
It may come as no surprise that Charles Darwin was a great reader. On the Origin of Species is lucid and literate, even poetic at times. Nevertheless, it may surprise some to learn that Darwin was a Jane Austen fan, evidenced by his 1840 reading list, which includes three of her novels: Northanger Abbey,Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park (Vorzimmer 125). In Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists, Peter Graham provides an in-depth comparison of Austen and Darwin as empiricists. His engaging study softens the distinction between scientific and literary practices, and reveals the unexpected simpatico between the writer of “3 or 4 Families in a Country Village” and the analyst of the earth’s species (Austen, Letters 275).
Through biographical material and philosophical and textual analysis, Graham uncovers strong affinities between Austen and Darwin, and, fittingly, uses an inductive method for his study. The similarities in Austen’s and Darwin’s lives range from geography (each grew up in the country) to social class (each belonged to the gentry) to sibling order (each was the penultimate child in a large family). Graham draws out the significance of these commonalities, showing how the similarities in their physical, social, and familial environments contributed to shared sensibilities and habits of mind. But Graham does not stop with biography. In an unusual move, he extends the common ground between the naturalist and novelist through an asymmetrical comparison: Darwin’s personal circumstances, he notes, resemble those of some of Austen’s fictional characters. Though these are hardly the findings of a sober empiricist, Graham reveals the delicious fact that friends and family members actually noted such resemblances, underscoring the lingering influence of “Austenworld,” as he calls it, on Darwin.
Graham shares with Austen and Darwin a love of concrete particulars, and he examines their books with the patient fascination of a naturalist. His study is especially effective in establishing Austen’s credentials as an empiricist. Graham shows, for example, her “rejection of abstraction and tradition in favor of experience and observation” by meticulously cataloguing information about her characters (8). Her canon of six is well suited to an inductive approach, and Graham uses it to full advantage to analyze such matters as sibling groups, sibling configurations, evolving attachments, and marriages. The catalogs he generates impel him to take the next step in forging an Austen/Darwin link, one which places Austen squarely in the mindset of an evolutionist. As Graham shows, Austen’s characters are variations on a type, and they reappear in successive novels in modified form. Whether by accident or by design, her novels, taken as a whole, illustrate key principles of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. It is true that what Graham notices is not unique to Austen’s canon, but characterizes the creative output of many writers whose work reads as variations on themes and characters. Nevertheless, he demonstrates that Austen’s decision to work with “so fine a Brush” signaled she had the temperament—the curiosity, patience, and attention to detail—of a scientist (Austen, Letters 323).
Though Graham is a literary scholar, he is conversant in Darwin’s published works and shows the compatibility between the specifics of Darwin’s theory and Austen’s worldview. He observes, for example, that “In Austen as in Darwin, change is change but not necessarily `improvement’” (66) and later states, “Despite [their] differences in spheres of observation and control over data, a crucial part of Austen and Darwin’s shared awareness that gradual changes are ever remaking the world is their understanding that this change happens on all scales and that the great and small changes are linked” (133). To demonstrate Austen’s nuanced handling of change and her sensitivity to the ways the great and the small are interconnected, Graham puts one of Austen’s heroines under a literary microscope. Though he admits that Emma is more artist than scientist, he selects her as the subject of his exuberant analysis of an Austen empiricist, albeit one in training for most of the novel. However, in spite of Graham’s heroic efforts to read Emma as an empiricist, she does not quite fit the part. Graham, for example, associates her late-blooming self-knowledge with “unbiased empiricism” (44), yet that self-knowledge is the result, in Austen’s words, of her becoming “acquainted with her own heart,” an acquaintance that is more the byproduct of emotional maturity than disinterested observation (Austen, Emma 407). Graham’s not-so-subtle crush on Emma is forgivable, if not downright charming: “What’s wondrous is that Emma’s vision is as empirically grounded and sensible as it is” (32). (Wondrous?) Nevertheless, his attraction to her, like Edmund’s to Mary Crawford, closes his eyes to the consummate empiricist in Austen’s novels: the undazzling, but wisely observant Fanny Price. Fanny, unlike Austen’s other heroines (excepting perhaps Anne Elliot), does not change in the course of the novel. Often silent and at times motionless, she assumes the role of the incisive observer of people and events. The only time she alters the course of events is when she declines Henry Crawford’s marriage proposal, and that “action” is, of course, a refusal to act.
Though, as Graham observes, “Nowhere else in Austenworld is the collection and interpretation of data as intense and widespread a preoccupation as in Emma,” much of the data analysis in the novel is faulty, thanks to the undisciplined methodology of the chief analyst (30). Emma actually reveals the limits of the scientific method, at least in the hands of an interested observer who wishes to assume imaginative control over the subjects of her scrutiny. By contrast, Mansfield Park of all of Austen’s novels has the closest affinity to Origin of Species, both in subject matter and in its leisurely pace. Graham’s careful examination of how various factors in the lives of the Ward sisters “worked together in the process of adaptive variation” illustrates the novel’s strong evolutionary theme (72). One might also note that the plot is set in motion by the transplanting of Fanny Price to an unfamiliar and generally inhospitable environment, and in this alien environment Fanny is treated by most as a member of a species (i.e., the lower class) rather than as an individual. In addition, the familiar coupling concerns in Austen—ranging from choosing a mate who will improve one’s circumstances, to competition for a romantic partner, to the implicit struggle to avoid extinction—take a twist in Mansfield Park. In a highly unromantic fashion, Edmund and Fanny come together in the end, not by cosmic design but (as a romantically-weary student of mine observed) by process of elimination. Though Mansfield Park deserves more attention in a study of Austen and Darwin, Graham’s analysis of the different fates of the Ward sisters gives one an idea of why Darwin was so taken with Austen.
Graham’s book situates Austen so naturally into a Darwinian world it is hard to imagine her novels were ever considered to be primarily about manners. Since Austen, of course, preceded Darwin, Graham’s study does invite a reciprocal question: Did she influence his rhetorical practices? As Graham notes, Darwin consumed novels throughout his life, a fact confirmed by Darwin’s son Francis, who reports that during morning and evening breaks from scientific activity, his father would lie down on a couch while a family member read to him from a novel. Francis Darwin goes on to say that the novels of “Miss Austen” were among those that were “read and re-read till they could be read no more” (Autobiography 98). Though in his autobiography Darwin states that novels provide “relief and pleasure” but are not of “a very high order,” it is apparent that Austen’s writing seeped into his imagination and reemerged in the preeminent scientific text of the nineteenth century (Autobiography 74). Darwin’s prose, with its extended and often lyrical syntax, bears marks of an Austen ancestry, and his attempt to put a positive spin on natural selection appears to be an adaptation of the felicitous conclusions of her novels. Darwin’s preference for novels that “do not end unhappily—against which a law ought to be passed” (Autobiography 74) may explain the sentimental tone with which he concludes his discussion in Origin of the struggle to survive: “When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply” (79). He echoes this sanguine view of the natural laws of the universe in the final statement of Origin: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved” (490). Thanks to Austen, evolution turns out to be a feel-good narrative.
The portrait of Darwin as an eye-twinkling grandfather belies his complex attitude toward women and people of color, however. To his credit, Graham does not shy away from this aspect of Darwin but addresses head-on the uncomfortable suggestion that Darwin had a limited view of women and their potential and, at the very least, was racially unenlightened. In a musing to himself on whether or not to marry, Darwin states in the “Marry” column that a wife would be “an object to be beloved & played with” and would be “better than a dog” (Correspondence 444). He goes on to note that if he marries he “will be worse than a negro” but consoles himself with the thought, “There is many a happy slave” (Correspondence 445). The inclusion of these unsettling comments, whose tone and intention, as Graham notes, is uncertain, is anything but gratuitous. However evolved Darwin was or was not as a social being, his comments remind readers that his ideas circulated in a society whose members, in some instances, would appropriate his theory to legitimize racial and sexual inequities.
Graham’s premise that “human societies and natural ecosystems alike work in systematic ways,” and the corollary that novelists practice induction and naturalists construct narratives, underscore the inadequacy of the epistemological assumptions that have separated the humanities from the sciences (9). In his introduction Graham writes, “Although one of the juxtaposed thinkers and writers [in this study] is generically termed a naturalist and the other a novelist, the characterizations seem at least partially interchangeable” (xi)—a hypothesis he convincingly proves in this study. Through the counterintuitive yet serendipitous linking of Austen and Darwin, Graham has added momentum to the interdisciplinary movement that is reuniting those fields of endeavor.
Kathleen Lundeen is Professor of English at Western Washington University. A specialist in British Romantic literature, she has published on Blake, Keats, Hemans, Austen, Wordsworth, literature and science, and intermedia studies (including film), and is the author of Knight of the Living Dead: William Blake and the Problem of Ontology. She teaches courses in British Romanticism, biblical literature, critical and cultural theory, literature and science, prophetic literature, epic poetry, and intermedia theory and art.
Austen, Jane. Jane Austen’s Letters. Ed. Deirdre Le Faye. 3rd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Austen, Jane. Emma. Ed. R. W. Chapman. 3rd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1933; repr. 1988.
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Ed. R. W. Chapman. 3rd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1934, repr. 1988.
Darwin, Charles. Autobiography of Charles Darwin, with two appendices, comprising a chapter of reminiscences and a statement of Charles Darwin’s religious views, by his son, Sir Francis Darwin. London: Watts & Co., 1929.
Darwin, Charles. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Eds. Frederick H. Burkhardt and Sydney Smith. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, with an introduction by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.
Graham, Peter W. Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists. Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2008.
|Title Reviewed:||Peter W. Graham. Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists. Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2008. ISBN: 9780754658511. Price: £55.00|
|Journal:||Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Number 56, November 2009|
Copyright © The authors, 2011 | <urn:uuid:438b0ebe-ad42-41c2-944a-6828a472faab> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.erudit.org/revue/ravon/2009/v/n56/1001107ar.html?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931007056.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155647-00159-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941474 | 2,971 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Osteopathy and Children
Colic / Wind / Reflux
The main ‘nerve’ that goes to the digestion system is the vagus nerve, this nerve travels in a hole between the bones in the back of the head. Slight pressure on the base of the skull will affect the nerve and can cause irritability and problems with the G.I.T. (gastrointestinal tract). Osteopaths use gentle manual manipulation to restore proper mechanical function. and release the compression around the cranial nerves that are connected to the G.I.T.
When treating babies, especially those receiving Cranial Osteopathy, it is advisable to see your osteopath as soon as baby is born as a cranial treatment after birth can lead to less restrictions in later life for baby.
Feeding difficulties may be as a result of tongue tie, reflux, G.I.T. problems or torticollis (which causes a rotation through the baby’s head). Osteopathy can help babies improve their latching technique by treatment of the palate, jaw and nerves supplying the tongue, therefore making it easier for the baby to suck. Osteopathy can also help reflux by treating the cranium, stomach and diaphragm.
Every cell in the body needs a healthy physiology to thrive; osteopaths help to improve nutrition supply, drainage, and neurological control. The health of the body is dependent on freedom of movement of tissues. When the body is balanced and efficient, it will function to its optimum level. Osteopathic treatment can help children with a range of issues and syndromes including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, asperger syndrome, cerebral Palsy (CP), Down’s syndrome, dyslexia and dyspraxia.
Poor concentration at school, constant fidgeting, hyperactivity, tantrums, anxiety “clinginess”, Osteopathy can help to calm the central nervous system enabling the child to respond more appropriately to situations and be more content with itself. Osteopathic treatment can improve the child’s neurological function by resolving the effects of the compressive forces of a traumatic birth. The earlier treatment is begun the more likely a positive & substantial benefit. | <urn:uuid:9e607fe4-d495-4689-9e12-73e0ecb7745b> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://mallowosteopaths.com/portfolio-items/children-and-osteopathy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824931.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022003552-20171022023552-00716.warc.gz | en | 0.918017 | 469 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Pigeon River (Minnesota–Ontario)
Falls of the Pigeon River
|Countries||Canada and United States|
|Region||Minnesota and Ontario|
|Main source||Mountain Lake
614 feet (187 m)
|River mouth||Lake Superior|
|Length||31.2 miles (50.2 km)|
The Pigeon River forms part of the Canada–United States border between the state of Minnesota and the province of Ontario, west of Lake Superior. In pre-industrial times the river was a waterway of great importance for transportation and the fur trade.
The Pigeon River flows in an easterly direction out of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for 31.2 miles (50.2 km) until it drains into Lake Superior. The Pigeon is one of the larger rivers on Superior's North Shore.
The Pigeon River originates from a chain of lakes along the US-Canada border, the highest of which, and furthest west, is Mountain Lake. Among the Pigeon's tributaries is the Arrow River of Ontario which rises in South Lake, west of and at a lower elevation than Mountain Lake. South Lake is separated only by a narrow isthmus from North Lake in the Rainy River watershed. This isthmus is a part of the Northern (or Laurentian) Continental divide, and is crossed by the Height of Land Portage. The fur-trading Voyageurs and coureurs des bois would cross this divide and travel downstream on the Rainy River and Winnipeg River to Lake Winnipeg, from which routes branched out into fur-producing areas of the Canadian northwest.
Below South Fowl Lake, the Pigeon River alternates between navigable waters and cascades or waterfalls. As the river nears Lake Superior, the gradient increases, culminating in a spectacular gorge including two notable waterfalls: High Falls, at 120 feet (37 m) the highest waterfall in Minnesota, and Middle Falls. This gorge is included within both Grand Portage State Park in Cook County, Minnesota, and Pigeon River Provincial Park (9.49 km²) across the border in Thunder Bay District, Ontario. Its lower course also forms the northern boundary of the Grand Portage Indian Reservation.
A 9-mile (14 km) portage, known as Grand Portage and used for hundreds of years by canoe travelers, bypasses these lower waterfalls and reaches Lake Superior a few miles from the mouth of the river. This historic area is protected as a part of the Grand Portage National Monument and is within the Rove Formation.
Up to the 19th century, the river was a primary water route for fur traders, and even earlier, for Native Americans, leading to the Lake of the Woods and thence to western Canada and Hudson Bay. The Montreal-based North West Company had a post at the community of Grand Portage on the shore of Lake Superior until 1801 when difficulties with the U.S. government following the adoption of the Jay Treaty obliged it to relocate to the Kaministiquia River in British territory.
The region was extensively logged for white and red pine in the early part of the 20th century. An "outlaw" bridge across the river was built by residents of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and opened on August 18, 1917, to permit access to Minnesota. The Canadian road leading to the customs and immigration facilities at the bridge was initially known as the "Scott Highway" after lumberman William Scott, and was designated as King's Highway 61 in 1937. Later the Pigeon River Bridge was built downstream and the "outlaw bridge" was removed.
The river's English name is a translation of the 18th century French name Rivière aux Tourtres or Tourtes derived after the passenger pigeon which was once prolific in this region. The smaller European bird was known to the French as "tourtre", but in New France the North American bird was called "tourte" and was baked into a pie pastry called tourtière in Quebec. In modern French the bird is known as the tourte voyageuse or pigeon migrateur.
- U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 1, 2012
- Morse, Eric (1979). Fur Trade Routes of Canada. Minoqua, WI: NorthWord Press. pp. 71–75. ISBN 1-55971-045-4.
- Barr, Elinor, "Lumbering in the Pigeon River watershed," Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, Papers and Records, IV (1976), 3-9.
- Warren Upham (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 137.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pigeon River.|
- Grand Portage State Park
- Pigeon River Provincial Park
- Height of Land Portage at Google Maps
- Coordinates of the Pigeon River region: | <urn:uuid:1ce5b397-3a75-40c1-8cca-2e76f569456b> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_River_(Minnesota%E2%80%93Ontario) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105086.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818175604-20170818195604-00211.warc.gz | en | 0.928424 | 1,053 | 3.375 | 3 |
January 7, 2014
English II Honors Goudy
The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a heart-gripping tale of love, redemption, and acceptance. The story is about a young Afghan boy who grows up during the tough times of war in Afghanistan. In the novel, Hosseini effectively illustrates the theme of betrayal through his complex cast of characters. Hosseini presents this betrayal when Sanaubar leaves Hassan and Ali days after Hassan’s birth, through Amir’s abandonment of Hassan during his brutal rape, and finally through the lies Baba tells Amir and Hassan.
Hosseini illustrates betrayal in many ways, one of which is when Sanaubar leaves Hassan and Ali, abandoning them both and replacing them with a dancing troupe literally just days after she gives birth to Hassan: “She had refused to even hold Hassan, and just five days later, she was gone” (10). Though Sanaubar abandons them both, there does not seem to be much loneliness felt from either Hassan or Ali. In fact, Sanaubar’s abandonment leads to something greater between Hassan and Amir: “Baba hired the same nursing woman who had fed me to nurse Hassan… Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break” (11). Though this leads to an unbreakable bond between the two young boys, it does not change the fact that Hassan’s mother abandons him a few days after birth. Sanaubar abandonment led to the constant bullying from Assef.
Another form of betrayal Hosseini writes about in the novel is Amir’s abandonment of Hassan during his brutal rape. Amir runs away from the horrifying sight of Assef assaulting Hassan in the alley because he is afraid of Assef. Amir’s fear gets in the way of his want to protect Hassan: “In the end, I ran. I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt. That’s what I told myself as I turned my back to the alley, to Hassan” (77). Soon Amir is unable to bear the guilt any longer. He can simply no longer handle the guilt eating away at him, especially when he sees Hassan. Amir attempts to send both Ali and Hassan away, and he does this by placing his birthday money and watch underneath Hassan’s mattress. Amir is sure this will work because he knows Hassan will succumb to his loyalty to Amir once again. That’s exactly what he did: “…Then I understood. This was Hassan’s final sacrifice for me” (105). When Hassan takes the fall, Amir almost instantly knows that Hassan figures out that Amir has seen everything. Amir knows that he is once again betraying Hassan, and the fact that Hassan is rescuing him from Baba, rescuing him for possibly the last time, eats away at Amir. Amir simply wants to be rid of all the guilt and regret.
A final form of betrayal illustrated in the novel is when Amir has to find out the truth about his whole life from Rahim Khan. After thirty-eight years, Rahim Khan finally reveals the bitter truth of who Hassan truly was to Amir. Amir is nearly unable to accept it: “I felt like a man sliding down a steep cliff, clutching at shrubs and tangles of brambles and coming up empty-handed” (222). Hosseini expresses the sting, how Amir feels as if someone has punched him in the gut with all the force he/she could offer all from this painful truth. Hosseini clearly expresses Amir’s anger: “…What can you possibly say to me? I’m thirty-eight years old… What can you possibly say to make things better? Nothing…” (223).
In conclusion, the novel is a haunting tale about love, redemption, and acceptance, yet it mainly shows betrayal. Sanaubar’s abandonment was basically a part that causes the tragedy in the novel because it is part of Assef’s bullying. Amir’s betrayal to Hassan caused him and his father to leave, and it was the number one cause of all the guilt Amir feels in the novel. Finally, Baba’s lies to both Amir and Hassan brought the unknown truth all the way from the beginning of the novel to the end. Hosseini’s illustration of betrayal shows a great tale of the love, redemption, and acceptance in this story.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead, 2003. Print. | <urn:uuid:7b48118e-8f75-4260-8230-dabfe3b6603f> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.studymode.com/essays/Critical-Analysis-Of-The-Kite-Runner-68814280.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999040.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619184037-20190619210037-00300.warc.gz | en | 0.970898 | 995 | 3.296875 | 3 |
The Temporary Government of Rupert's Land Act, 1869 allowed the government of Canada to have a transitional government set up for Rupert's Land upon admittance, until it could change it to suit Canada's needs.
73232Temporary Government of Rupert's Land Act, 1869
An Act for the temporary Government of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory when united with Canada
[Assented to 22nd June, 1869.]
Whereas it is probable that Her Majesty the Queen may, pursuant to The British North America Act, 1867, be pleased to admit Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory into the Union or Dominion of Canada, before the next Session of the Canadian Parliament:
And whereas it is expedient to prepare for the transfer of the said Territories from the Local Authorities to the Government of Canada, at the time appointed by the Queen for such admission, and to make some temporary provision for the Civil Government of such Territories until more permanent arrangements can be made by the Government and Legislature of Canada;
Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Name of territories.
1. The said Territories when admitted as aforesaid, shall be styled and known as The North-West Territories"
Appointment and functions of Lieutenant-Governor.
2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by any Order or Orders, to be by him from time to time made, with the advice of the Privy Council, (and subject to such conditions and restrictions as to him shall seem meet) to authorize and empower such Officer as he may from time to time appoint as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, to make provision for the administration of Justice therein,
Power to him to make laws.
and generally to make, ordain, and establish all such Laws, Institutions and Ordinances as may be necessary for the Peace, Order and good Government of Her Majesty's subjects and others therein; provided that all such Orders in Council, and all Laws and Ordinances, so to be made as aforesaid, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as conveniently may be after the making and enactment thereof respectively.
Instructions to Lieutenant-Governor.
3. The Lieutenant-Governor shall administer the Government under instructions from time to time given him by Order in Council.
Appointment of Council to Lieutenant-Governor.
4. The Governor may, with the advice of the Privy Council, constitute and appoint, by Warrant under his Sign Manual, a Council of not exceeding fifteen nor less than seven persons, to aid the Lieutenant-Governor in the administration of affairs, with such powers as may be from time to time conferred upon them by Order in Council.
Existing laws to remain in force.
5. All the Laws in force in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, at the time of their admission into the Union, shall so far as they are consistent with The British North America Act, 1867,—with the terms and conditions of such admission approved of by the Queen under the 146th section thereof,—and with this Act,—remain in force until altered by the Parliament of Canada, or by the Lieutenant Governor under the authority of this Act.
Public officers, & c. to retain office.
6. All Public Officers and Functionaries holding office in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, at the time of their admission into the Union, excepting the Public Officer or Functionary at the head of the administration of affairs, shall continue to be Public Officers and Functionaries of the North-West Territories with the same duties and powers as before, until otherwise ordered by the Lieutenant Governor, under the authority of this Act.
Duration of this Act.
7. This Act shall continue in force until the end of the next Session of Parliament.
This work is in the public domain worldwide because it was prepared or published by or under the direction or control of the Canadian Government or any government department prior to 1965.
Section 12 of the Canadian Copyright Act provides a reservation for Crown rights or privileges. Lack of modern case law on the subject makes it unclear whether perpetual prerogative rights over these documents still apply, or whether these rights have lapsed. Notwithstanding, these documents are reproducible under the terms of the Reproduction of Federal Law Order. | <urn:uuid:a07d1710-96fe-49dc-8183-d40c4c83613c> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Act_for_the_temporary_Government_of_Rupert%27s_Land_and_the_North-Western_Territory_when_united_with_Canada | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398445219.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205405-00064-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951495 | 900 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Fluid for Thought
By Jill Castle, Registered Dietitian and Child Nutrition Expert
Do you ever wonder how much fluid is needed to prevent dehydration? If you’ve experienced dehydration, you know it derails swim performance and causes other effects such as tiredness, headaches and confusion or poor judgment.
Fluid is the overlooked “magic bullet” for swimmers and one of the best ways to optimize swim performance.
Not only is it important to drink, it’s important to drink enough. Experts suggest that 2% dehydration (2 pounds weight loss in a 100-pound child) negatively impacts athletic performance.
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), young athlete’s thirst should be the gauge or indicator for how much fluid to drink. Research also suggests, that if youth athletes are given the opportunity to drink during exercise, the thirst mechanism will allow for adequate fluid intake so they meet their hydration needs.
But if you want numbers, here are the latest recommendations for child athletes:
To prevent dehydration, child athletes should drink 6 ml per pound of body weight per hour (100# young swimmer needs 600 ml or 20 oz, per hour). Drink this amount 2-3 hours before jumping into the pool and during exercise.
To replenish fluids after exercise, drink 2 ml per pound of body weight per hour (100-pound child swimmer needs 200 ml per hour or ~7 ounces, per hour). Drink this amount 1-2 hours after exercise—it promotes adequate hydration status for the next exercise session.
Water and other beverages can help satisfy the hydration needs of the swimmer. Many parents already know that it isn’t wise to offer up sugar-sweetened beverages like soda and sugar-added fruit juices routinely throughout the day. These drinks may help keep swimmers hydrated, but they can have a negative impact on overall diet quality.
Most importantly, the choice of fluid should be something the swimmer likes to drink, as drinking adequate amounts is critical.
Sports drinks are perfect for the long workout (greater than 1 hour in duration), and provide sugar, fluid and electrolytes to help beat dehydration. And they are effective! Because they are flavored, they encourage drinking. It’s best to keep their role limited to the pool, though.
Here are a few other beverage guidelines that will help prioritize the young swimmer’s health and swim performance:
GOOD: 100% real fruit juice (maximum of 1 to 1 ½ cups per day). Infrequent use of sugar-sweetened beverages.
BETTER: Milk, or calcium/ Vitamin D- fortified milk substitutes (aim for 3 cups per day).
BEST: Drink water, more than you think! The bulk of beverages should be from water. Use Sports drinks wisely and target their usage around workouts and race day.
It’s a mistake to think that just because swimmers are in the water, they get enough fluid. Coaches and parents have an opportunity to train young swimmers to drink regularly and make good choices. Good hydration habits are learned in and around the pool—maximize this asset for great performance!
Jill Castle, MS, RD, LDN is a registered dietitian and child nutrition expert. She is the owner of Pediatric Nutrition of Green Hills and creator of Just The Right Byte, a child and family nutrition blog. She lives with her husband and four children (one swimmer!) in Nashville, TN. | <urn:uuid:867f5939-f838-49ad-a9f9-dadcd64fb38b> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&itemid=4255&mid=8712 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928423.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00029-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941375 | 721 | 2.953125 | 3 |
A battle for the jet stream is raging above our heads
When prolonged periods of severe weather strike, two things often get the blame these days: climate change and the jet stream. Many have expressed concerns that the rapidly melting Arctic is now disturbing the jet stream, bringing more frequent bouts of wild weather. But potentially even more powerful changes are afoot in the tropics—and the consequences could be severe.
The northern hemisphere's jet stream is a current of fast-moving air encircling the globe from west to east in the middle latitudes—the zone between the baking tropics and the freezing Arctic. The strongest winds are about ten kilometers high, near the altitudes at which planes fly, but the bottom of the jet can reach all the way down to the ground, forming the prevailing westerly winds familiar to many. The southern hemisphere's counterpart is what gives rise to the Roaring Forties – similarly treacherous winds between latitudes 40° and 50°.
The jet forms a relatively sharp dividing line between the warm tropical and cold polar air masses. The strongest winds are concentrated in a band several hundred kilometers wide. But this band is not fixed. It meanders and snakes its way around the globe, sometimes touching the edge of the tropics and at other times scraping the polar regions
As a result, the jet can have a wide array of impacts across the hemisphere. If it passes over your location, expect to be repeatedly bombarded by the whirling storms that are carried along by it. As a recent example, the severe flooding in the North of England in November 2019 arose in part from a shift of the jet, which put the UK right in the middle of a region where storms tend to grow.
If the jet shifts to pass north of you, you'll find yourself under the warm, dry zone of the atmosphere which lies south of the jet. This brings generally settled and pleasant weather in summer, but can set the scene for droughts and heatwaves. And if the jet moves south instead, you'll be on its cold polar side, so you'd better hope this doesn't happen too much during winter.
The jet has always varied—and has always affected our weather patterns. But now climate change is affecting our weather too. As I explore in my latest book, it's when the wanderings of the jet and the hand of climate change add up that we get record-breaking heatwaves, floods and droughts—but not freezes.
The coldest weeks of any given winter will occur when the jet brings masses of cold air directly from the polar regions. But severe though this may feel, records show that similar events in past decades were even colder than they are now. While the jet is largely doing the same as it always has, the planet-heating greenhouse gases we've added to our atmosphere mean that invasions of polar air these days are just that bit milder.
The flip side, of course, is that when the jet moves north in summer, bringing warm air from the south, we often have to endure temperatures beyond anything in living memory.
It is clear and well understood how climate change and the jet can combine like this to cause truly extreme weather events. But whether climate change is directly changing the jet's behavior is a much harder question to answer.
Some have suggested that the rapidly warming Arctic is weakening the jet, by reducing the temperature contrast between the tropical and polar air to either side of it. As a result, the jet meanders more to the north and south, and these meanders can remain fixed over one location for longer—as happened when the "Beast from the East" placed much of Northern Europe under a bitter chill.
There are certainly some interesting ideas here, but many still do not find the logic compelling, and more convincing evidence from observations and computer models will be needed for these theories to become widely accepted.
Scientists are however increasingly confident that important changes are afoot in the tropics. Driven by the vast quantities of energy pouring in from the Sun directly overhead, these are the great powerhouses of Earth's climate. Indeed, the power of the tropics is evident in the worldwide weather disruption caused by El Niño events—subtle increases or decreases in temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, that in turn disturb the jet stream.
Over the past few years, it has become apparent that at high altitudes, the Earth's tropical regions are heating up more quickly than the rest of the world. At least partly because of this, the tropical regions of the atmosphere have been widening, expanding ever so slightly away from the equator, and impinging more on the jet stream.
Tug of war
We are in the early days of a great battle in the air above our heads between the Arctic and the tropics, for the future of the jet stream. At best, there might be a stalemate, leaving the jet stream distorted but otherwise unmoved.
However, if one of the competitors outweighs the other, regional climate patterns could be severely altered as the climate zones shift along with the jet. It's too early to say with any confidence which of these will win out, but many computer models predict the jet will shift a little towards the pole, consistent with a greater influence of the tropics.
In this case, we should expect to see the warm, dry regions at the edge of the tropics extend a little further out from the equator. The strongest impacts of this would likely be felt in regions such as the Mediterranean, which are already highly sensitive to fluctuations in rainfall. A northward jet shift would act to steer much needed rainstorms towards central Europe instead, leaving the Mediterranean at greater risk of drought.
So, the jet may not become more erratic as the Arctic warms, but it may well change profoundly. And one thing is clear: the stress of increased temperatures and altered rainfall patterns from our destabilizing climate will leave us even more vulnerable to the weather patterns brought by the whim of the wandering jet stream. | <urn:uuid:ae418fd5-f5b7-4b24-aff5-021790253f01> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://phys.org/news/2019-11-jet-stream-raging.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251783621.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129010251-20200129040251-00161.warc.gz | en | 0.94948 | 1,224 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Sensors, BIM, and a bit of ingenuity are helping Sweco better the built environment.
Smartphone apps keep us moving, monitor our sleep, and even aid in finding the best deals at the grocery store. A combination of sensors and Building Information Modeling (BIM) can make buildings similarly smart. Whether it’s improving energy efficiency or managing lighting, assets connected to intelligent models have the potential to revolutionize the built environment. Talking to the architects and engineers at Sweco, you realize that the buildings of the future are becoming a reality.
“Our cities and even our houses are producing increasing amounts of data,” says Michael Thydell, BIM strategist at Sweco. “As we combine that data with the framework of BIM, we’ll see a paradigm shift. We’ll begin to think in new ways about design and how we build cities and houses. Most importantly, we’ll experience a shift in how we live in cities and in our homes. The built environment will become more sustainable, self-supporting, and flexible.”
Ready for the future
According to Thydell, the cities of the future will need more juice to keep our electric-powered devices, cars, transit, and connected buildings going. But these cities will also be able to produce and efficiently distribute more power thanks to advances in solar and wind technology, along with smart use of sensors. This need for increased sustainability will lead to flexible systems for better management of heating, cooling, water, and much more.
“This future is not fully here, of course, but it is just around the corner,” says Thydell. “It’s important to think about as we design buildings today. We need to design buildings and infrastructure that are open to constant change—that are as connected as they can be now, and that are ready for an even greater degree of connectivity in the future.”
Thydell adds, “Smart buildings will enable the smart cities of the future. That’s one of the reasons BIM is so important. The models, along with the use of big data and sensors, will deliver incredible value. So, as we design and construct houses and buildings, we need to also create and maintain the digital models of those houses and buildings.”
A window into tomorrow’s buildings
Nya Karolinska Solna (NKS), a new hospital in Stockholm, offers an example of how a building can be innovative and ready to adapt to change. The Sweco team provided project management, industrial engineering, and systems expertise on the NSA hospital project.
With 8,000 rooms, 36 operating rooms, and more than 6,000 employees, NKS represents the biggest healthcare investment in Sweden. It’s also the most advanced. More than 100 different systems within the hospital connect with millions of sensors throughout the building. From laundries and elevators to vacuums systems and waste facilities—everything delivers data that connects to intelligent design models, enabling efficient operations and continuous improvement.
“If you combine BIM and real-time smart technology, you gain a framework that can be used to realize more value from buildings,” says Thydell. “I’m quite surprised that every building owner and facility manager hasn’t taken this to heart. The people who run the NKS—and the people it serves—will harvest enormous value from their connected assets in the form of greater efficiency, comfort, and safety.”
Taking design into the 21st century
LMN uses BIM to boost creativity of designs, and to connect its projects for better delivery. | <urn:uuid:7b8c64de-d754-469a-ac8a-3aba4bd12fb7> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/bim/hub/smart-connected-buildings-start-now | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221216453.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820121228-20180820141228-00656.warc.gz | en | 0.950043 | 763 | 3.046875 | 3 |
A typical psychological picture of the “Victorian” house looks with sophisticated vibrant and cut shades. However the phrase “structure that is Victorian” really describes designs that surfaced throughout the rule of Victoria, within the interval between 1830 and 1910. During this period it was created many well-known designs, including Italianate Medieval resurrection Empire, Double Anne style.
The designs developed mostly in the imposing gothic-style, which appealed towards the Victorian indisputable fact that was intimate that structure trend and fixtures must certainly be stunning in the place of useful. A Victorian lady is apparel, for instance, concerned hoopskirts, corsets and gowns which used meters of material. It made feeling for that house that was fashionable styles to replicate that surplus as-well.
Designers included German, Tudor as well as Egyptian particulars and required the suggestions of medieval structure. Developers were liberated to mix the designs to produce a number of different well known designs — and mix the designs because they found healthy. Consequently, you will find.
Suggestions in the gothic-style might have commenced the Victorian designs, but the pattern was nationalized by a in the Commercial Revolution. Steam powered sawmills might produce supplies that were sophisticated quicker and cheaper. Consequently, Victorian houses that were delayed turned increasingly elaborate. Actually reduce-income households might manage designs and cut to show their houses that are current into Victorian.”
The Queen Anne design arrived to style in the peak of the mass production of new cut, within the 1880s. These, colorful houses that are sophisticated would be of once they photograph a Victorian house the picture many people think.
Experts charged the Victorians of pointless difficulty and litter, promoting a far more sleek, handcrafted house whilst the Artsandcrafts Motion started initially to strike America. Fashion was fallen out of by the design, but continues to be really predominant in historical towns round the nation.
- 2 to 3 reports
Victorian houses are imposing and usually big.
Nearly all Victorian designs utilize timber exterior, however Romanesque designs and the Minute Kingdom more often than not have external surfaces made from rock.
Unlike the Traditional revival-style that is boxy, Victorian houses have wings in several instructions.
- Ornamental cut
Generally named “gingerbread,” homes are steel cut or usually embellished with sophisticated timber.
- Distinctive wall areas
Scalloped tiles, patterned half-timbering or masonry are generally used-to dress Victorian exterior up.
- High, multi-faceted roof or roof
Victorian houses usually have steep rooflines with several gables experiencing in instructions that are various. The 2nd Empire Victorian-style includes a flat topped Mansard roof to permit for optimum room indoors.
A sizable, wraparound patio with supports and decorative spindles is typical, especially.
Some high end houses that are Victorian are adorned having an octagonal or spherical structure having a large, top that is sharp.
- Lively shades
Prior to the Victorian era, many homes were colored all-one colours, often beige or bright. By 1887 earth-tones like mustard-yellow and sienna were fashionable.
Wire Asendorf in 1889 constructed this Savannah, Ga., milestone. It is regarded one of Gothic architecture’s greatest types.
This rectangular stone house in Maine was initially built-in 1826. In wooden medieval design in 1850, it had been coated like several houses within the Victorian era to maintain with structure developments.
“Colored Girls” in Bay Area
It describes Victorian homes colored in even more or three shades to decorate their new aspect. It had been first used-to explain the vibrant houses in Bay Area within the 1978 guide Colored Girls: the Resplendent Victorians of Bay Area.
Rosson House Museum at Heritage Square
Built-in 1895, this house it is today a memorial and is a superb exemplary instance of the King Anne design. Its comprehensive cut is usually referred to after the sophisticated masterpieces of designer Charles Eastlake, as Eastlake describing.
Almost Speaking: Complications and Problems
Homes have less wardrobe room than most contemporary houses and rooms. Additionally, like several house designs that are historical, fix inside plaster, and you will possibly have to do some rewiring and cut to fix home deciding. | <urn:uuid:3af34465-4da3-4394-93a0-b2d873ab0a55> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://durrell2012.com/english-heritage-%E2%88%92-victorian-architecture-style/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662529658.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519172853-20220519202853-00032.warc.gz | en | 0.96006 | 936 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Charcoal was made as a fuel to supply the heat for many of the industrial processes in Viking Age Britain. It is also a 'clean' fuel that contains little or no acidic and tarry products as they have been sweated and roasted out of the wood. Without charcoal, the work of the glassworker as an example couldn't have happened, the precious metal smith would also have severe problems with any fuel other than charcoal. The process is at least a 24 hour task, much longer if you include the cutting of the timber to supply the clamp. The Charcoal maker didn't use the primary wood, that is to say the main limbs of the trees that were felled.
They all went to supply the demand for straight timbers (or bent ones if needs be) to build houses, bridges etc. All structures at this time included timber as their main component. The only exception to this is stone, and this only affected the more rocky and therefore largely tree poor zones around the coast.
The branches and secondary limbs of the tree were the main ingredient in the clamp, leaving the smallest trimmings as the tinder to start the process. The only other part that was removed possibly prior to the timbers inclusion in a clamp or as building timber, was the bark. This was destined to become part of the thick liquor in the tanning pits for leather, as Oak trees in particular have high levels of tannin in the bark.
The Charcoal burners life was to a certain extent itinerant, as he followed in the footsteps of the wood cutters who were either directed or who themselves decided which of the various trees to cut down. He had to be on hand at all times, not necessarily on his own either, to watch that the clamp did not race and burn rather than roast the wood inside. A change in the wind overnight could do this, and as more air than was required was forced through the footings of the clamp, the charcoal burner had to try and screen off the up-wind side of the clamp with withy screens. These would have been made by the burner on site, and as they got too old and brittle to use, they too went into the clamp as tinder.
Charcoal is best made from 'hardwood' rather than 'softwood', because conifers make a fuel that is far too crumbly, which doesn't reach the temperatures that a forge requires. This begs a question as to how lands that are above the latitudes where deciduous trees grow abundantly fared with iron working. Perhaps trade was their only solution rather than to import charcoal to burn.
It takes little imagination to see the woods then being wrapped in the writhing smoke of these acrid clamps. | <urn:uuid:d3860d17-8c07-4923-8ba9-0b7068d79397> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | https://regia.org/research/people/aelfric.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816647.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20180225150214-20180225170214-00792.warc.gz | en | 0.987395 | 559 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Satire is a literary composition, often accompanied by a drawing or cartoon, that criticises something either with the intention of moralising, for fun or simply in order to laugh at it. When La Pedrera was built between 1906 and 1912, satire was quite common in newspapers. There were also very popular satirical magazines, including some for children.
As an unusual structure, the Casa Milà, “La Pedrera” was publicly mocked and pilloried in caricatures in various satirical magazines between 1909 and 1925. One of the first references we know is a cartoon in ¡Cut-cut! magazine from January 1909, where we see a mother and child walking past La Pedrera. The child asks: “Mother, has there been an earthquake here too?” The allusion is to the facade, then under construction, which seemed to have been shaken by an earthquake, as had happened in Sicily one month earlier.
And one of the last known references was published in the children’s magazine En Patufet in May 1925. The dialogue in the cartoon criticises the balconies of the building and the difficulty of hanging decorative banners on them for festivals. In the drawing of one of the balconies, we see that it consists of all kinds of objects, from snails to coffee pots. This publication is particularly important because it is the first time the house was called by its popular (and pejorative) name “La Pedrera”. | <urn:uuid:778f1a04-cf19-4c57-a4f0-b32df4933c4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lapedrera.com/en/blog/best-taunts-la-pedrera | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00294.warc.gz | en | 0.983044 | 301 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Focus on Overall Health and not the Weight Scale
By: Sarah Pratt, MD, ProMedica Weight Loss Surgery
Recently, there have been many headlines about pandemic weight
The Journal of the American Medical
published a study that determined the average American gained
just over seven pounds over the past year.
The pandemic has affected everyone a little differently. Many
people have been dealing with a complete upheaval of their daily
routine and have been experiencing a lot of extra stress. For
some people, stress causes them to eat more. Some people are
also getting bored in quarantine, which leads to eating to
satisfy boredom. On top of that, many gyms have been closed,
making it hard for people to get physical activity in,
especially in the winter.
Our culture tends to focus on weight in association with
appearance. The number on the scale is not the most important
indicator of one’s overall health. Instead, each person should
determine his or her body mass index, which is one major
indicator of one’s overall health.
To determine body mass index, or BMI, divide your weight in
kilograms by your height in meters squared. There are many
calculators available online. A healthy BMI is between 18 and
25. 25-30 is considered overweight, and 30 and above is
Obesity has been well-researched to indicate that it can lead to
a shortened life span. Obesity is directly related to heart
disease, diabetes, and many cancers. It has even been associated
increased risk of more
severe disease when contracting
is also an inflammatory condition for the body, which causes
impairment of the immune system and susceptibility to other
People of color are disproportionately affected by obesity when
compared to the general public. According to the National
Institute of Health, among Hispanic American women, 78.8% are
overweight or obese, as compared to 64% of non-Hispanic white
The causes of obesity are complex, but we know there’s a
correlation between socioeconomic status and obesity. Access to
healthy food choices and safe physical activity is a serious
problem for many people. There are also environmental and
genetic factors that play a role.
Making the lifestyle changes to eat healthier and get more
exercise can have considerable health benefits. It is possible
to reverse the course of diseases like hypertension and diabetes
and prevent the long-term risks associated with them.
Lowering your BMI has been shown to cause an increase in energy
levels and often a decrease in joint pain. Fortunately, overly
strenuous exercise is not required to improve BMI, but some
physical activity is recommended.
The weather is getting warmer, and walking is an ideal way to
increase physical activity.
offers a wide array of trails and activities, and there is a
Metropark within five miles of every front door in Lucas County.
Individuals can contact Metroparks staff by calling 419-407-9700
if there are any accessibility needs. Additionally, there are
several city and community parks across our region.
Outdoor exercise is not only good for your physical health, but
it’s also good for your well-being. It’s a great social
activity, as you can meet up with a friend and still allow for
physical distancing. So, be sure to get out and enjoy the warmer | <urn:uuid:4349f599-cc6b-49df-8562-11bfac3f1a0f> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | http://laprensa1.com/Stories/2021/042321/weight.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056476.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20210918123546-20210918153546-00570.warc.gz | en | 0.949609 | 726 | 3.125 | 3 |
1922 Discovery of Insulin
Though diabetes is one of the most common modern diseases, there was for generations no hope of recovering from it. One merely adopted a radically constricted diet. Or bodily decay and death advanced fairly quickly.
Hunting for something better, Nathaniel Potter applied to the new Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1916 for a grant to study diabetes patients as they underwent different clinical treatments. He received $7,500 annually from Carnegie, on the condition that he also raise $20,000 externally. Potter got Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, to build a laboratory for his research alongside their medical facility. When Potter died in 1919, William Sansum from the University of Chicago arrived to head the clinic in his stead.
At this same time, the Carnegie Corporation was also funding research in Canada to extract insulin from the pancreas of dogs. Scientists sought to convert the canine research into a possible injectable treatment for human beings. By 1922, insulin administered at Toronto General Hospital brought a diabetic child back to health—the first use of insulin to treat human beings. The Canadian work eventually led to a Nobel Prize for the lead researchers.
Because they were fellow Carnegie grant recipients, Sansum was corresponding with his Canadian counterparts throughout their experimenting. The Torontans offered detailed guidance in the hope Sansum would be able to improve the difficult process of extracting insulin. Soon, Sansum successfully extracted insulin at the Potter clinic, and made rapid progress at increasing its purity and strength. Four months after the Canadians, he became the first doctor to administer insulin to a patient in the United States.
Next, the Carnegie Foundation contributed additional funds to manufacture insulin injections on a large scale. Kits began to appear in drug stores by 1923. In the words of Duke University historians, “hundreds of thousands of patients near death from diabetes…subsequently recovered.” In the years since, millions have had their lives saved or lengthened via insulin treatments.
- Duke University case study, cspcs.sanford.duke.edu/content/development-insulin-treat-diabetes-carnegie-corporation-new-york-1916
- Sansum history, sansum.org/about/history | <urn:uuid:60572b91-9d37-49cf-9602-33421db2862b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/medicine_and_health/1922_discovery_of_insulin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953608 | 458 | 3.34375 | 3 |
David Jay Jordan's
Tabernacle of the SUN (SON)
The Lord is the Creator and as such made everything including Light and Light Speed (Genesis 1). He then created the stars and planets and SUN, and MOON
and EARTH in the exact pathways circumferences and at the exact perfect distances from each other. (SEE Magic Ratios). So let's now look at the Solar System
which is the Center of the Universe. (SEE The Earth is the center of the Universe). The literal Sun being representative of the true, One and ONLY Son of God. It
is in exact proportion in size to the Moon and its diameter, in a 430 to 1 ratio. This is why we can have solar eclipses where's the moons diameter completely
and exactly covers the spherical ball of the Sun (Son). This is not by accident but by design.
And when we understand sacred geometry where the Moon's radius of 1080 miles is added to the Earth's radius of 3960 miles, then we discover the magic
proportions of beauty and power called PHI. And with this beautiful proportion also templated into our own bodies, we discover that this PHI proportion was
used to design Pyramids such as the Great Pyramid and NEW Jerusalem which is also a pyramid. With the Sun as the capstone of a pyramid that extends to the
circle of the Earth's revolution around the Sun. There are seven pyramids around the Sun, in one solar year of 365.24 days. (SEE Book of Enoch and Science
Hence 7 times an angle of 51.43 degrees equals 360 degrees. And if a degree equals a day, we have yet to finish a whole year and the HOLY DAYS of 5.24 must
be accounted for, to bring us into HARMONY of a complete cycle. This being exactly why, the Lord's COMMA, (Known by Pathagorus from the Egyptians
must be used to harmonize sound). This Comma, or mathematical absolute of 365.24/360 = 1.0014 is the tuning frequency that harmonises our seven octave scale
of life. (SEE Sacred Geometry and Music). So with this in mind, our solar cycle is not just a random measure of time, but tuned to the Lord's TIMING.
For again, it takes light 500 seconds to get to us (And amazingly can in one second circum-navigate the Earth seven times) SEE
http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/howfar/howfar.html, and 500 is said to be the height of the Great Pyramid as well as the prophetic distance in inches of the Great
Pyramid Passageways. (SEE Great Pyramid Prophecy).
Hence from capstone to our Base in Earth, it takes 500 seconds for the Light of the Lord to reach us, exactly the same as the ratio of 500 feet to the Base of the
Great Pyramid. Base to base is the same 500 seconds, or 500 feet. And when you understand that New Jerusalem is just a 10,000 to one magnification of the
Giza Pyramid, then the same co-relations exist. Seconds to feet, or as with light as we are find out one nanosecond to one foot.
For 500 feet is very prominent and important in prophecy, literature, and therefore in literal height because of this co-relation back to the macrocosm of the
Tabernacle of the SON... And it is for this reason that the Great Pyramid, the Cydonia mound, and Glastonbury Tor were all 500 feet in height. And there's more
because in the Great Pyramid, 500 feet or 6000 inches represented the 6000 years of man's history. One inch = one year . .... meaning not only distance was
designed for sacred purposes but time as well. There is a definite co-relation between distance and light speed, and hence distance and speed, and as the equation
states TIME. Distance equals Speed times Time.
But for further confirmation take the distance of our Earth from the Sun, 93,000,000 miles, and divide it by the speed of Light of 96,000 miles per second and
its answer comes out to 500 seconds for light from the Sun (SON) to get to us. But at light speed in one whole second light travels one billion feet, or in one
nanosecond, light travels one foot.
"One nanosecond -- a billionth of a second -- is the speed at which transistors in today's computers turn on and off to represent the ones and zeros of binary
logic and arithmetic. It is a time-duration so short that light, which can speed seven times around Earth in the second between our heartbeats, travels only one
foot." (From http://www.cmxr.com/Home/Education/Timescale.htm -- and do notice, it is at this speed that our crystaline computers function and work SEE
Sexy Star of David)So Light Speed is related to one foot or 12 inches...
And 33 hertz or sound is related to light speed by SEE http://www.klatu.com/lix/index.html and because 33 hertz is the resonant frequency of quartz crystals
and the inside frequency of pyramids like the Great Pyramid, New Jerusalem and then it is easy to understand why 33 is also correlated to light speed in the
greater temple of the Lord, the Tabernacle of the SUN. You can even see it graphically ....... So don't tell me, the Lord isn't the Designer of the Solar System and
Heavens, and us. His sound and light and laws, speeds and distances all harmonize together beautifully.
David Jay Jordan | <urn:uuid:b2ef2b3b-8b85-4e1d-a585-045baa53106c> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.davidjayjordan.com/TabernacleoftheSun.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488539480.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623134306-20210623164306-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.92718 | 1,189 | 2.640625 | 3 |
If there’s any truth to Terence McKenna’s Stoned Ape theory, then human evolution may owe a great debt to psychedelic microdosing — the practice of taking a sub-perceptual dose (an amount too small to produce traditional psychedelic effects) of a substance such as LSD or psilocybin. As those who have read McKenna’s Food of the Gods know, the author famously proposed that our species’ collective journey from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens may have begun with early pack-hunting primates taking low doses of psilocybin mushrooms to improve their hunting abilities.
According to author James Oroc, the practice of microdosing for improved visual acuity, energy and quick response time is alive and well in the present day, especially among certain extreme sports enthusiasts. “Virtually all athletes who learn to use LSD at psycholytic [low to medium] doses believe that the use of these compounds improves both their stamina and their abilities,” Oroc wrote in the spring 2011 edition of the MAPS Bulletin.
Athletic prowess aside, numerous experimenters and research subjects have claimed that sub-threshold doses of psychedelics have improved their overall wellbeing and/or alleviated specific conditions like depression and cluster headaches. Others, such as a couple of commentators on a thread about microdosing on Reddit.com, have used psycholytic doses as a problem-solving aid.
Dr. James Fadiman, Ph.D., who was part of a Menlo Park, California-based team of researchers who studied the use of psychedelics in problem-solving in 1966, has been looking into the effects of microdosing since 2010. “[This practice] appears to improve practically everything you do a little bit,” Fadiman told Reset. “Various people have said they’re more comfortable with what they’re doing, and they do it a little better.”
Participants in Fadiman’s studies initially contact him at email@example.com. He responds by sending a protocol that essentially consists of a suggestion that prospective participants microdose every fourth day for a month and make notes of how they are feeling from one day to the next. Fadiman does not provide participants with psychedelics; rather, he offers information and guidelines to help maximize the microdosing experiences of subjects who already have their own materials. In this way, Fadiman has collected approximately 30 reports ranging in length from three paragraphs to between 30,000 and 40,000 words.
In a chapter of Fadiman’s book The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide titled “Can Sub-Perceptual Doses of Psychedelics Improve Normal Functioning?,” one study participant describes a dose of 10 to 20 micrograms of LSD as both a stimulant and a calming agent. According to her notes, microdosing seems to augment her wit, response time and visual and mental acuity. “Sub-doses of 10 to 20 micrograms allowed me to increase my focus, open my heart, and achieve breakthrough results integrated within my routine,” her report reads.
This improved focus and clarity can be especially useful to artists, writers and other people working in creative fields. “What people report about doing their creative work is that they’re not creating at a higher level, but they’re creating longer; they’re in the flow for longer,” offered Fadiman, who also gathers data about microdosing from a conversation thread about low doses of LSD on Bluelight.org. He added that he knows of two noted writers who have used sub-perceptual doses of psychedelics while writing the first drafts of every chapter of their most recent books.
Along with being what one study participant has called an “all-chakra enhancer,” microdosing shows promise in treating cluster headaches, the pain of which is said to exceed that of childbirth and kidney stones. Through his work with a group called Clusterbusters®, Fadiman has come in contact with a number of cluster headache sufferers who have found relief from this condition through the use of LSD and mushrooms after all other treatments have failed. While the doses that such sufferers use to treat their headaches are generally too large to be considered sub-perceptual, Fadiman mentioned one subject who used a microdose of LSD to get rid of an “ice pick headache” (so named because its pain has been compared to that of an ice pick going into one’s skull) within five to 10 seconds. That subject achieved the same result several times over the next few months. Since then, her headaches have ceased.
Several research participants have also told Fadiman that microdosing alleviated their depression. One such subject, a Parkinson’s disease sufferer, reported that after a month of microdosing with LSD, his Parkinson’s symptoms were not improved, but his underlying depression was. Fadiman stressed, however, that because the data he has collected in this area is based on month-long microdosing periods, he doesn’t yet know whether this practice can yield long-term depression relief.
If future studies show microdosing to be as effective a depression reliever in the long-term as it appears to be in the short-term, then it may prove to be a viable alternative to prescription mood stabilizers, many of which are highly addictive. In light of their energizing and focusing effects, sub-perceptual doses of psychedelics may also provide a suitable replacement for anti-ADHD medications and other such pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers. Lending credence to this notion, one participant in Fadiman’s studies recently reported that microdosing helped him wean himself off of Adderall, a notoriously addictive anti-ADHD drug also used by many college students during all-night study sessions.
Paraphrasing Carl Hart, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry at Columbia, Fadiman offered, “Adderall is no different than street amphetamine made in the back of someone’s car. So the drugs that rot your brain and that we’re busting people for doing these terrible things [on] are the same drugs we’re giving to hundreds of thousands of children every morning.”
Expounding the addictive properties of certain prescription drugs, Fadiman observed, “As a general hint, if it says, ‘Do not miss a dose, and do not try to stop this medication without medical help,’ you know that you have a drug which is hard to get off of. It’s a very tricky area, because the pharmaceutical industry seems to not worry about this problem. In fact, there’s a term in the medical literature when you’re trying to get off of one of these substances. It isn’t called ‘withdrawals,’ as it is for illegal drugs; it’s called ‘tapering.’”
He added that this tapering can be a lengthy process: some patients taking extended-release capsules filled with a couple hundred microdots each have weaned themselves off these drugs by decreasing their intake by a single microdot every few days or even every week.
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD, is known to have been a proponent of microdosing as an alternative to the anti-ADHD stimulant drug Ritalin (called “one of the most abused drugs in the U.S.” by the website AddictionHope.com). It is extremely likely that Hofmann, who regularly microdosed with LSD in the last few decades of his life and considered this practice the most under-researched area of psychedelic use, would have thought sub-threshold doses of psychedelics to be an equally viable replacement for newer anti-ADHD amphetamines like Adderall or Vyvanse. Both do not come without very dangerous side effects. Web MD lists a myriad of negative side affects for both drugs. Among these are chronic trouble sleeping, heart throbbing or pounding, sexual problems, aggression, abnormal heart rhythm, heart attack, high blood pressure, trouble breathing, stroke, mental impairment, and seizures — to name but a few.
Citing several study subjects’ claims that microdosing has helped them get off of prescription antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, mood stabilizers and cognitive enhancers, Fadiman said he is hopeful that sub-perceptual doses of psychedelics will yield the benefits of such medications without their dangers and negative side effects. He added, however, that all official studies in this area will need to take place in universities, because “pharmaceutical companies are not about to test their own products against something that 1) is illegal and 2) might be better.”
In addition to helping people break their dependency on FDA-sanctioned drugs, microdosing shows promise in helping treat addiction to illegal substances. Representatives from one treatment center in Mexico have told Fadiman that after using ibogaine to help rid patients of substance abuse problems, they suggest that these patients take microdoses of that compound for a few months “to hold their gains.”
Given the positive feelings that many people experience while microdosing, some question has arisen as to whether this practice could itself become addictive. In Fadiman’s view, it is unlikely that anyone will become physically dependent on compounds that are inherently anti-addictive — if you take the same psychedelic substance every day, it stops working.
“Let’s say you take a high dose on Monday,” he proposed. “If you take the same dose on Tuesday, you get a very little effect, and if you take the same dose on Wednesday, nothing happens. It’s as if your system says, ‘No, I really can’t take any more of whatever those effects are until we’ve cleaned out the system.’”
While the research thus far seems to indicate that microdosing is not harmful or dangerous, a few of Fadiman’s subjects have reported unpleasant effects: one discontinued the practice because she felt it was bringing up too much emotion, while two others have observed that they sweat more than usual on days when they microdose. Both of the subjects who complained of excessive sweating — one of whom was using LSD and the other mushrooms — were unsure whether the sweating was part of healing or just a quirky side effect. One of these two participants reported that she was thrilled with the increased productivity and sense of calm that she got from microdosing, while the other found the practice useful, but was bothered by the sweating.
Several experimenters have reported that since they began microdosing, they have adopted healthier diets and have either returned to or taken up meditation. The latter of these claims aligns with the experience of the late author/researcher Myron Stolaroff, who advocated low doses of psychedelics as an aid to meditation.
While microdosing does not induce the same kinds of spiritual breakthroughs that higher doses of psychedelics can, Fadiman observes that over time, it produces effects much like the after-effects of such breakthroughs. “People are saying, ‘After a month or more of microdosing, I’m eating better; I’m nicer to my kids; I’m not as upset when people behave badly,’” he notes. “One man was saying, ‘I’m so much more in the present. I used to, even when I was enjoying something, really be thinking about what I was going to do when it was over and so forth. Now when I’m doing something, I’m actually doing it.’”
He added that microdosing appears to give people a better orientation to themselves. “I think it’s a little bit [like] the way people indicate that if you would only do meditation in the morning and do some yoga and eat healthy, your whole life would improve,” he noted. “It looks like microdosing is in that direction.” | <urn:uuid:c029847e-80e5-4cbb-8858-ae28960df0ae> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://reset.me/story/benefits-of-microdosing-with-lsd-and-psilocybin-mushrooms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816068.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224231522-20180225011522-00545.warc.gz | en | 0.960409 | 2,567 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Persistence is the quality that allows someone to continue doing something even though it is difficult or opposed by other people.
In The Good Lie the children of the Sudanese war are persistent throughout the movie. First and foremost their persistence to survive is beyond surreal. Young children who have been traumatized by the killing of their parents and the decimation of their entire village are forced to flee on foot by walking hundreds of miles through the deserts of Africa without food or water, shoes or shelter. They are forced to drink each others urine to stay alive. I would say they had a shared DMP….to live no matter what and to maintain their dignity in concordance with their belief system.
Their Mastermind Alliance is each other. They are faced with this shockingly different culture with little guidance and even less understanding and yet they remain true to each other and kind to their strange new friends.
As they work to secure an honest life for themselves in this cold new land they stay on task with continuous action toward the goal of reuniting with their sister and Theo becoming a doctor. Persistence plus purpose combined with a positive mental attitude and ACTION equals PROGRESS.
We cannot think about two things at once. If a negative thought enters your mind replace it with a ray of sunshine. Change the subject.
With children who are misbehaving we “redirect” them to another activity. Redirect yourself! You are a child of the light!
I can’t help but wonder what would happen if these concepts of our inner self were nourished from a young age. If we grew up practicing and believing in our own creative power. Having worked with children for many years ages 3-12, I am overwhelmed with thoughts that what I am reading and practicing are what I see naturally occurring in children in my Montessori classroom. Anyone who is familiar with Dr. Maria Montessori’s writings and practices will recognize many commonalities.
Interesting to me also is that Haanel (1866-1949) and Montessori (1870-1952) lived at exactly the same time period albeit an ocean apart; Haanel was a first generation American, of Swedish decsent, and Montessori an Italian who took up residence in many countries.
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori
I will persist until I succeed.
My bravery is measured by my willingness to be pricked by the lance and continue to charge forward….
I was not delivered into this world in defeat.
I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded.
I am a bull.
I take another step.
What is endurance?
My Webster’s app says it is the ability to do something difficult for a long time.
Tending to my inner life is extremely difficult. I must endure the obstacles as I have seen so many positive changes already.
Thoughts to self : Endure until you make it. Set yourself up for success. Discipline determines destiny. Do the exercises. Believe. Trust the process. Start over. Smile. Laugh. Share….find a mastermind partner…..I always do better with others…..
That is what I need to do find an alliance……
Replace all negative thoughts with positive ones.
“I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy.”
We are the sum total of our thoughts according to Haanel. He recommends using this affirmation as a shield against the darkness. I envision a blindingly bright saber light sword like the ones from Star Wars. We cannot stop evil from coming but we certainly can slash the dark thoughts and feelings with our sword of goodness and light. No use entertaining negativity……
We must be vigilant in the housekeeping of our thoughts. Amazingly difficult to sweep away the negative self-talk, to keep it from festering. The mental diet continues to be a challenge. It is a mental sword worth sharpening in the fight to liberate myself from my own worst enemy, myself.
As an exercise in visualization I purchased Paper Whites, Amaryllis and Hyacinth bulbs and surprisingly a colleague quickly planted them in glass containers in the windows of our shared classrooms. We will, with our students, observe them force themselves upward, persist into what they will be. Living cells dividing and sub-dividing, roots bursting downward and stem reaching for the sun. I am most excited to smell the hyacinth and to be viscerally reminded of beauty in the greyness of the Northeast as winter approaches. | <urn:uuid:27bd9b63-aa3a-4842-83bb-25039f9db808> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://inspirememke.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583658928.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117102635-20190117124635-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.953972 | 961 | 2.8125 | 3 |
translated by Arthur Golding: The Full Elizabethan Text
This famous translation of “The Metamorphoses” is the one that was read by William Shakespeare. Arthur Golding was the uncle of Edward DeVere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, which many believe was the true identity of Shakespeare, and many of Shakespeare’s stories and plots are taken from this book. The poet Ezra Pound called Golding’s translation of Ovid “the most beautiful book in the English language.” Certainly the poetry of it is lush, lively, ornate, and far more Elizabethan than Roman. If you love vivid imagery and melodious poetry you will love this book. | <urn:uuid:4e7109b1-1c4b-4091-bbd6-c34fff226d39> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://johnsandbach.net/edited-works/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313803.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190818104019-20190818130019-00389.warc.gz | en | 0.949463 | 144 | 2.515625 | 3 |
"Soon Enough If Done Rightly"
The origins of the official seal of the Supreme Court of Florida go far back into an obscure history. Before statehood in 1845, Florida was a territory of the United States governed by federal law. In 1824, Congress created a Court of Appeals of the Territory of Florida, which is the immediate predecessor of the present Supreme Court. Sometime between 1825 and 1845, the Territorial Court adopted an official seal that later formed the basis for the seal reproduced above. Unfortunately, the original metal disks from the first seal have not survived.
In the early 1980s, Supreme Court Librarian Brian Polley attempted to locate original sealed documents issued by the Territorial Court. Several were found in the Florida State Archives, but nearly all had been compressed through years of improper storage, causing the loss of fine details.
Mr. Polley did learn that the Territorial Court seal was strikingly similar to the present Supreme Court seal, with two notable exceptions. First, a seated Goddess of Justice appears in both seals, but in the Territorial version the eagle faces away from her. Second, the Goddess in the Territorial seal is seated on a bale of cotton, whereas in the present seal she is seated on a block of stone. The use of a cotton bale undoubtedly reflects the importance of cotton to Florida's early economy.
The present seal was officially adopted in 1950, and is the one set into the floor immediately beneath the Court rotunda. As in all prior seals, the official motto is the Latin phrase Sat Cito Si Recte (pronounced as saht see-to see rayk- tay), which means "Soon enough if done rightly." The phrase indicates the importance of taking the time necessary to reach the correct result.
In the seal the Goddess of Justice is the Greek goddess Themis. She is blindfolded to symbolize the impartiality of the law, and she carries the scales of justice in one hand and the avenging sword in the other. The letter "F" carved into the stone behind the Goddess symbolizes Florida. The eagle has been interpreted as the power of justice ruling the world.
There has been much debate over the significance of the eighteen stars above the Goddess. Some have speculated that they mean nothing. One possible explanation, however, is that they symbolize Themis' daughter, the virgin goddess Astraea, whose constellation in the night sky is known as Virgo.
To the Greeks, Astraea symbolized innocent justice, which was thought to have prevailed on the earth during the Golden Age. When sin entered the world, the Greeks believed, Astraea was removed from the earth and placed in the heavens as the constellation Virgo -- the virgin -- an eternal reminder of the innocent justice humankind had lost. | <urn:uuid:a1a17455-0f74-46ae-a4dc-bc95bc099b63> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://flcourthistory.org/Seal-of-the-Supreme-Court | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946011.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423125457-20180423145457-00347.warc.gz | en | 0.962709 | 571 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Etching is a more advanced technique that can take your latte art to new heights so many are on the hunt for how to etch latte art.
By using simple tools and techniques, you can turn your morning cup of coffee into a work of art.
In this article, we’ll explore everything you need to know about how to etch latte art, from what etching is to what kind of milk works best for creating beautiful designs.
What is Etching?
Etching is a technique that involves using a tool to manipulate the surface of the milk foam in a latte or cappuccino.
This can be done by dragging the tool through the foam or using it to add dots or lines. Etching can create various designs, such as hearts, flowers, and even portraits.
How to Etch Latte Art?
To etch latte art, you’ll need a few things:
- A latte or cappuccino with a layer of milk foam
- A tool for etching, such as a toothpick or latte art pen
- A steady hand and a bit of patience
Here’s a step-by-step guide to etching latte art:
Start with freshly brewed espresso and steamed milk.
Pour the steamed milk into your espresso shot. Hold the pitcher high above the cup and pour the milk in a steady stream to create a layer of foam on top of the espresso.
Use a spoon to gently hold back the foam as you pour the milk into the cup. This will help create a defined layer of foam for etching.
Prepare your etching tool. You can use a latte art pen, toothpick, or other tools to create designs in the foam.
Hold the cup in your non-dominant hand and steady it with your other hand.
Use your etching tool to create designs in the foam. Start with simple designs like hearts or circles and work up to more intricate designs.
Work quickly! The foam will begin to settle after a few seconds, so you need to work fast to create your designs.
Experiment with different techniques and tools. You can use a toothpick to create fine lines or a latte art pen for more precise designs.
Practice, practice, practice! Etching latte art takes time and practice to master. Keep practising and experimenting with different techniques to find what works best for you.
Tips to help you improve latte art etching
- Start with a well-made latte or cappuccino. The milk should be steamed and frothed to create a thick layer of foam on top.
- Choose your etching tool. A toothpick is a good option for beginners, while more advanced baristas may prefer a latte art pen.
- Begin etching! Use your tool to manipulate the milk foam, creating lines, dots, and other shapes. Remember to work quickly, as the foam will begin to settle after a few seconds.
- Experiment with different designs and techniques. Try dragging your tool through the foam to create lines, or dotting the foam to create a speckled effect.
- Practice, practice, practice! Etching takes time and patience, so keep at it until you get the hang of it.
What Kind of Tools Do I Need for Etching Art?
The tools you need for etching latte art are relatively simple.
Here are a few options:
- Toothpicks: These are a good option for beginners, as they are easy to find and inexpensive.
- Latte art pens: These are specially designed pens that can be filled with food colouring or cocoa powder, and they allow for more precise etching than a toothpick.
- Decorating combs: These are small, comb-like tools that can be used to create textured patterns in the milk foam.
What Kind of Milk is Best for Etching Latte Art?
When it comes to etching latte art, the type of milk you use can make a big difference.
Here are a few options:
- Whole milk: This is the most commonly used milk for latte art, as it creates a thick layer of foam that is easy to manipulate.
- Skim milk: Skim milk can also be used, but it creates a thinner layer of foam that may be more difficult to work with, however, it can still produce good results with practice.
- Alternative milk: Non-dairy milk options such as soy, almond, and oat milk can also be used for etching latte art, however, they may require more skill and practice to create a stable foam for etching.
Can You Etch Latte Art Without Milk?
Etching latte art typically involves creating designs and patterns in the foam on top of steamed milk, so without the milk, there would be no foam to etch.
However, there are alternative options for creating latte art without using milk.
For example, some baristas create designs in the crema layer of an espresso shot.
This requires a steady hand and some practice but can create beautiful and unique designs in your coffee.
Another option is to use alternative milk options such as soy, almond, or oat milk to create foam for etching.
However, it’s important to note that these options may require more skill and practice to create a stable foam for etching.
In short, while it may be possible to create latte art without milk, it is not the traditional method of etching latte art.
It’s always worth experimenting with different techniques and options to find what works best for you and your coffee preferences.
How To Etch Latte Art FAQs
A. While whole milk is the most commonly used option, other types of milk can also be used for etching latte art, however, they may require more skill and practice to create a stable foam for etching.
A. No, you don’t necessarily need a latte art pen to etch latte art. A toothpick or other tool can also be used to create designs and patterns in the milk foam.
A. The foam will begin to settle after a few seconds, so it’s important to work quickly when etching latte art.
A. With etching, you can create a variety of designs, including hearts, flowers, animals, and more intricate patterns.
Etching latte art can take your coffee game to new heights and impress your friends and family.
With the right tools and a bit of practice, you can create intricate designs and patterns in the milk foam, as well as experiment with different techniques and milk options to find what works best for you.
So whether you’re a beginner or an experienced barista, etching latte art is a fun and rewarding way to elevate your latte game.
If you enjoyed this article, read more like this by checking out our Specialty Coffee Beginners Guides. | <urn:uuid:141b624c-acca-4223-abb7-e7a2561d77e8> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.coffeekiwi.com/uncategorized/how-to-etch-latte-art-a-step-by-step-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655244.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609000217-20230609030217-00018.warc.gz | en | 0.907376 | 1,498 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Physiological distress can manifest into many physical discomforts; thus, properly harnessing the power of your mind can help you improve chronic health issues caused by anxiety. Anxiety can wreak havoc on the physical body, from sleeplessness to poor concentration. It can cause severe changes to appetite, leaving people without any desire for food or the urge to overeat. Many individuals with anxiety disorders experience muscle tension and bowel dysfunction as well. The list of possible somatic issues stemming from anxiety are endless, as anxiety is intricately bound with stress, and stress effects every part of our bodies.
The key to unlocking chronic health issues lies in conquering anxiety, which is fundamentally a psychological matter. While there is some evidence of genetic predispositions to anxiety disorders, anxiety is within the realm of individual control. Even life-long anxious character traits are amenable to psychological treatment. Anxiety may never go away completely, but it can be reduced by training the mind. Once the underlying anxiety is reduced, chronic health issues related to anxiety may remit quickly.
Does Mind Over Matter Work?
Imagine experiencing a few sneezes in an airport. Will you tell yourself that you’re about to develop a major case of the flu that will make you miserably sick for a week, or will you tell yourself that something must have tickled your nose and that the sensation will soon pass? In either case, you are telling your body something, and oftentimes, it will act accordingly.
The mind-body connection has been well studied by researchers for many years. In fact, the U.S. Federal Government funded the Mind-Body Interactions and Health Program from 1999-2009, supporting 15 research centers and 44 research projects. The program investigated the relationships among thoughts, emotions, personality, relationships, and health. Ongoing research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology continues, as leading scientists seek to understand how the mind influences our physical bodies. They no longer question if thoughts and emotions matter, but rather how these various influences interact to support or hinder health.
The Psychological Connection
If you experience chronic health issues and anxiety, see your medical professional to sort out which ailments might stem from anxiety. For example, irritable bowel syndrome may be implicated with anxiety, but diabetes is not. Let your health professional guide you. Once you determine which ailments to tackle, you can employ a vast array of mind/body modalities to help. One of the simplest is called self-talk, which describes how you should form your inner dialogue in any given situation.
The first step is to analyze your current self-talk. What do you say to yourself about life? Are you positive and hopeful? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? When you hear of someone else’s success are you happy for them, or do you discount and begrudge someone’s achievement? What do you say when you look at yourself in the mirror? Is it kind or is it cruel? Self-talk takes all that into account, everything you say to yourself and about yourself, even what you think about others.
One of the first steps to conquering anxiety and the chronic health conditions that accompany it is to commit yourself to being a tiny bit more optimistic, positive and hopeful, each day. This is not a quick fix, and no one can do it for you, but just like daily vitamins, a daily dose of positive self-talk can do wonders for your health. If you’ve experienced anxiety for several years, it will take time to catch your less-than-positive thoughts and redirect them.
Even careful analysis of your self-talk might not be enough to change long-standing habits of attitude. A holistic health counselor, rather than a mental health counselor, may offer many resources to better physical and psychological wellness. A holistic health counselor may offer referrals to local mind/body practitioners, which may be of great help in researching non-traditional healing methods. In general, pharmaceutical medications, and even conventional physicians, are often avoided by those seeking to use mind-body modalities to health. | <urn:uuid:69f08715-b4a6-4c82-8533-e9b9a2584ecf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.healthboards.com/healthcenter/anxiety/mind-over-matter-chronic-health-and-anxiety.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720356.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00040-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944907 | 833 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Substance use disorders involve using too much alcohol, tobacco or other drugs, and are also known as substance abuse, substance dependence or addictions.
What is addiction?
This article describes the types, causes and signs of addiction, and where to get help.
Drug abuse can affect health, relationships, job and education. Learn about Australia’s drug laws, drug addiction and where to get help.
Parties are about having a good time. However, party drugs can impact your mental and physical wellbeing, and many are illegal.
Helping someone with ice addiction
There are many services available to people who are addicted to ice. As a carer, it's also important that you look after your own wellbeing while supporting someone else.
Can medicines be addictive?
Some medicines can cause dependence and addiction. Learn which ones are associated with these risks and how to avoid dependence or addiction when taking them.
How to help someone with a drug problem
This article will provide you with some information and advice on caring for someone with a drug problem.
Kava is a drug made from the roots of a plant in the pepper family. It has traditionally been cultivated by Pacific Islanders for use as a ceremonial drink.
Cocaine, or 'Coke' as it is commonly known, is a highly addictive drug associated with health issues and other problems. Learn more about its physical effects and the risks associated to cocaine use.
Ice (crystal meth)
Ice, also known as crystal meth, is a very addictive illegal drug. Find out more about ice including what it is and the dangers of abuse. | <urn:uuid:c874ac6f-2dd7-476d-9099-076a94029874> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/search-results/Substance%20Abuse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370495413.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200329171027-20200329201027-00014.warc.gz | en | 0.964741 | 330 | 2.75 | 3 |
Most of us have used aspirin at some point in our lives, but have you ever stopped to think of how the little white pill is so effective at reducing pain? Luckily the team at How Stuff Works recently put together a YouTube video to help explain the science behind this widely popular drug.
Although aspirin is a fairly new medical marvel, the drug itself is derived from the willow plant, which has been used as a painkiller for at least the past 6,000 years. As explained by How Stuff Works, it wasn’t until scientists worked on extracting and purifying the active ingredient in willow, salicin, that aspirin started to become what we know today.
In our digestive tract, salicin is broken into salicylic acid, which helps to reduce pain and inflammation. German scientists were able to synthesize this on a large scale, but unfortunately it was very hard on the stomach lining. Aspirin was created as a less acidic version of synthetic salicylic acid.
Pain is necessary, as it acts as a warning of danger, but it is unnecessary for us to be in constant pain once the danger of the injury has passed. In addition, some pain is not a result of injury and is unavoidable, such as menstrual cramps or headaches. Aspirin works by latching onto molecules which carry the pain sensations to the brain, alerting it to the injury. As a result, the brain registers less pain and there is also less of an inflammatory response.
Ad ==> A Former One Minute Man Who Now Last 30mins In Bed Reveals The Secret Of His New Strength | <urn:uuid:ac6891d5-a137-4330-a47f-e07bbd658001> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://www.ghanamma.com/2017/03/11/health-benefits-of-aspirin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267160142.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180924031344-20180924051744-00146.warc.gz | en | 0.973394 | 328 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Imagine the excitement in the Northwest Railway Museum's Conservation and Restoration Center when word arrived of an opportunity to tour the shop in Yakima where the Century lathe was built. Now imagine the excitement when they learned it was possible to buy some of the machines to equip the Museum's collection care center.
Store front for McIlvanie
Machine Works in
A famed Century lathe, though this one probably never left
the factory. It is on the production line and was used to
produce parts for new Century lathes.
American Pacemaker lathe.
A McIlvanie drill press, probably the
prototype. Note how it operates from a
driveline. You changed speeds by
selecting a larger or smaller pulley
The pattern for the McIlvanie drill press. This aluminum
pattern was pressed into casting sand. Then the molten steel
was poured into the void that the pattern left behind.
Overhead drivelines were located throughout the front shop.
The capstan on a turret lathe. Different holes can be machined
into a piece mounted in the lathe chuck. The turret or capstan
can be turned to each tool bit so it can be used over and over
again without having to remove and reinstall the bit.
The speed selectors on a Century lathe.
Thread cutting tool.
Radial arm drill press, and this one will
soon be inside the Museum's Conservation
and Restoration Center! | <urn:uuid:628b67f9-bdce-47a5-8f2c-bf3c5f032687> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://trainmuseum.blogspot.com/2015/03/tools-that-made-tools.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121216.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00242-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906039 | 304 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Older adults can cut their risk of falling by nearly one-third by participating in balance and strength training exercises, according to a University of Sydney study. More than 300 men and women, age 70 and older participated in the study and all of them had fallen at least twice in the previous year. Less than 10 percent of seniors regularly engage in strength training and even fewer participate in balancing exercises. Falls are the No. 1 cause of accidental death in seniors over the age of 65, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In a separate study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers found that taking a large daily dose of vitamin D helps cut the risk of falls by as much as 25 percent. University of Zurich researchers examined the results of eight separate studies, involving 2,400 people 65 and older. In order to be effective in reducing falls, Vitamin D must be taken daily in high doses of 700 to 1000 international units (IU). Doses below this amount appeared to have no effect on reducing falls. Vitamin D3 is preferred over the more commonly used vitamin D2 because it is absorbed by the body more easily.
Looking for a way to reduce soreness and inflammation after intense exercise? A soothing massage may be the answer, according to a report published in Science Translational Medicine. Canadian researchers from McMaster University found that massage activates genes that speed up recovery and healing of the muscles after exercise and decreases pain. Participants received a short 10 minute leg massage after riding a stationary bike to the point of exhaustion. Biopsies showed that massage not only reduced inflammation, but also stimulated the muscle cells to produce new mitochondria, the cells’ powerhouse that converts food to energy.
Zumba – Latin-inspired dancing – is one of the hottest fitness trends in the nation, but is it an effective workout? A recent study, commissioned by the American Council on Exercise, found that Zumba is a total body workout burning an average of 369 calories per class – more than kickboxing, power yoga or step aerobics. The interval-style classes emphasize core conditioning and flexibility and burn extra calories because they alternate between high and low intensity dance moves. Subjects exercised at about 80 percent of the average predicted heart rate maximum, which is within the industry’s target zone for improving cardiovascular endurance. More than 112 million people in 125 countries are hooked on this Latin-based fitness craze.
Practicing Tai Chi three times a week improves memory and cognitive abilities, according to a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Chinese seniors who participated in Tai Chi during an eight-month randomized controlled study not only showed cognitive improvements, but also an increase in brain size compared to the group who had no intervention. During the same time period, a third group participated in engaging discussions three times per week and showed a similar increase in brain volume, but more limited cognitive improvements than the Tai Chi group. | <urn:uuid:1aa03c8b-06f2-4c65-9741-902b62d98723> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://angelaambrose.com/2017/07/health-buzz-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267158320.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180922103644-20180922124044-00041.warc.gz | en | 0.944959 | 590 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The PIZETA self-cleaning filter eliminates the dust from the air in the pneumatic lines used to transport raw materials, or from other dust sources. The dusty air is piped into the chamber containing the bag filters; the speed variation makes the heavy particles drop to the bottom, any residual dust is trapped in the bag filters and the clean air flows out the top of the filter. The layer of dust on the bag filters is eliminated by a jet of compressed air that hits the bag filters in the opposite direction to the airflow at timed intervals. A specific manometer constantly detects the pressure loss between the two zones of the filter (checking the degree of efficiency of the filter bags). The machine consists of a frame and a cylindrical body holding the filter bags, while the bottom may be conical or fitted with a scraper bed. | <urn:uuid:50eba9a3-0398-4f75-bd35-cedd86170047> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.pizeta.com/en/prodotti/stoccaggio-e-movimentazione-materie-prime/filtro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257644271.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180317035630-20180317055630-00560.warc.gz | en | 0.915679 | 171 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Every 51 minutes, unconventional person dies in an alcohol-related traffic collision. In 2012 alone, more than 10,000 people were killed in drunk driving accidents, accounting for approximately one-third of all fatalities.
You can locate more drunk driving statistics on the Mothers neighboring Drunk Driving (MADD) website here.
Drunk Driving Prevention In America
In the twist of these staggering numbers, what are governmental agencies and private campaigns play a part to educate American drivers not quite drunk driving? This article will offer a survey of the most widely-publicized anti-impaired driving campaigns, and an analysis of their real-world effects.
In the last few years, weve seen numerous ad campaigns, initiated both by state-funded organizations and private assimilation groups, advocating for widespread salutation of something called buzzed driving. hence what is it?
Buzzed driving is a agreed simple concept. After ingestion, alcohol is absorbed brusquely by the bloodstream and common tests, subsequently a breathalyzer, can doing the amount of alcohol in your blood reliably and quickly. Driving with a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of 0.08 or forward-thinking is illegal in every state. At that concentration, drivers roughly speaking invariably experience sedation and slower salutation times. In further words, its simply risky to steer once that much alcohol in your system.
Buzzed driving is clearly having a BAC lower than 0.08% but forward-looking than 0.00%.
One Beer Wont tweak The quirk I Drive
And significant studies have found that less is no better. One balance from UC San Diego that evaluated accident reports found that buzzed drivers, those with a BAC of 0.01 percent are 46 percent more likely to be officially and solely to blame than ascetic drivers. The fact is that driving even slightly buzzed is dangerous, far-off more dangerous than driving sober.
The real burden is that American play and public policy tend to look on 0.08% as a definitive, meaningful boundary. under that stock and youre relatively safe, above it youre dangerous. But the researchers at UC San Diego found that the chances of causing a wreck increases steadily and dexterously from BAC 0.01 to 0.24 percent, meaning that there is no quick transition in imitation of comparing a buzzed driver to a drunk driver. It turns out that 0.08% is not a definitive boundary, and that no amount of alcohol is secure in the supreme analysis.
The description from UC San Diego was published in the British medical journal outrage Prevention. You can admittance a summary here.
The Worlds Stance upon Drunk Driving
Much of the world has even more rigorous limits.
China has a real limit of 0.02%
Japan uses 0.03%
Frances valid limit is 0.05%
Germanys is 0.05%
Sweden uses 0.02%
Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia every have zero-tolerance policies; any BAC above 0.00% and youll lose your license, be penalized in the same way as gruff fines, and your car can be impounded.
In fact, North America (including Canada and Mexico) is one of the worlds unaccompanied regions to use 0.08% BAC as its legitimate limit.
Has The disturb Worked?
The Ad Council, Americas largest non-profit producer of public serve announcements, spearheaded the Buzzed Driving attentiveness campaign. on their website, they tab that their ads reached nearly one half of all American adults higher than the age of 21. And that there was a significant deposit in the proportion of men age 21 35 who called themselves extremely concerned more or less the situation of drunk driving, from 22 percent in 2005 to 27 percent in 2011.
And while public watchfulness is unconditionally important, Americas legislators have nevertheless to respond to our other bargain of buzzed driving. In fact, subsequently most acknowledge governments deal with to zero tolerance, they either limit this prohibition to drivers below 21 or object helpfully that they wont tolerate any driver similar to a BAC more than 0.08%.
Only mature will tell whether or not disclose governments follow through on the current research. back in 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended lowering Americas genuine limit to 0.05%, but no declare has nevertheless to forward this stricter limit.
Alcohol Addiction Treatment
Another response has been to contextualize drunk driving, to define it in terms of unconventional tragic condition. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states: drunk driving is often a symptom of a larger problem: alcohol mistreat and abuse. The underlying premise to this demonstrate is that some drunk drivers perform vehicles while impaired because (in in view of that many words) they cant back it. And if you get substance dependent persons treatment, you might acknowledge some impaired drivers off the road in the similar gesture.
Also telling is that the NHTSA refers to impaired driving, rather than drunk driving. In descent once recent developments in addiction studies, the NHTSA has adopted the scientific convention that finds more tally than contrast amongst alcohol abuse and drug addiction in general.
This line of reasoning seems bolstered by statistical evidence. In a assay released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, researchers found that almost half of all drivers who were killed in crashes and tested determined for drugs with had alcohol in their system. In many cases, then, the misery is mixed. And the solution might be, too.
Gallery of 200 + Einzigartig Eigenbeleg Vorlage Excel Kombination
Related Post "200 + Einzigartig Eigenbeleg Vorlage Excel Kombination"
100+ Awesome Lego Star Wars Ps2 2019
Every 51 minutes, choice person dies in an alcohol-related traffic collision. In 2012
200 + Good Lego Batman Blu Ray Release Date This Week
Every 51 minutes, complementary person dies in an alcohol-related traffic collision. In 2012
90+ Unique Lana Star 2019
Every 51 minutes, different person dies in an alcohol-related traffic collision. In 2012 | <urn:uuid:8a924d0f-1e62-4835-bfce-1671c0911e82> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://offprintlondon.com/200-einzigartig-eigenbeleg-vorlage-excel-kombination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257002.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523023545-20190523045545-00402.warc.gz | en | 0.942828 | 1,258 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Fashion victims - the facts
Garment workers pay a high price to produce cheap clothes for the UK high street. Factories across many of the world's poorer countries produce clothes for retailers on the UK high street. Workers struggle to survive on extremely low pay, suffering appalling poor working conditions, excessive hours and are denied basic trade union rights.
In Bangladesh over three million people, 85% of whom are women, work in the garment industry. Our 2011 report Stitched Up into conditions in the garment industry found:
- A garment factory helper’s wage starts at just £25 a month, with sewing operators earning just £32 a month – far below a living wage
- 80% of workers work until 8pm or 10pm, after starting at 8am – in excess of the legal limit on working hours
- Three quarters of the women workers we spoke to had been verbally abused at work and half had been beaten
Our 2010 report, Taking Liberties, shows that the garment industry in India is deeply reliant on the sweatshop model of production and exploitation.
- Factory helpers were paid £60 a month, less than half of the living wage
- Workers at some factories worked up to 140 hours of overtime each month, working until 2am
- 60% of workers were unable to meet production targets – in one factory the target for each worker was to produce 20 ladies shirts every hour
We had previously reported on the disgraceful treatment and low pay of workers in Bangladesh, making clothes for Primark, Asda and Tesco, in our acclaimed Fashion Victims report in 2006. Two years on, UK retailers had still not improved the conditions in their supplier factories. In fact, given the damaging effects of the global food crisis, workers were in an even worse position than they were before.
For too long the UK government has supported purely voluntary initiatives for improving the rights of overseas workers. But there have been few steps taken to improve workers’ rights, pay or working conditions within these mechanisms.
Retailers cannot continue to pay lip service to corporate social responsibility whilst engaging in buying practices that systematically undermine the principles of decent work. War on Want will continue to hold to account those UK companies that exploit workers for their own profit.
Ultimately, however, the UK government must act to regulate the operations of its companies, both in the UK and overseas.
You can read more by following the links to our latest reports on the right hand side. | <urn:uuid:629b7e71-7ae6-4bd4-b3f2-8a2c042a645e> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.waronwant.org/fashion-victims-facts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189903.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00586-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967806 | 498 | 2.96875 | 3 |
An encouraging sign of the times
Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the FPL Group utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set of 190,000 shimmering mirrors and thousands of steel pylons that stretch as far as the eye can see. When it is completed by the end of the year, this vast project will be the world’s second-largest solar plant.
But that is not its real novelty. The solar array is being grafted onto the back of the nation’s largest fossil-fuel power plant, fired by natural gas. It is an experiment in whether conventional power generation can be married with renewable power in a way that lowers costs and spares the environment. | <urn:uuid:f882958a-add0-47b7-98d3-50769c89b170> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://pbokelly.blogspot.com/2010/03/fpl-experiments-with-solar-thermal-at.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886106358.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820073631-20170820093631-00390.warc.gz | en | 0.93035 | 146 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.