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Betelgeuse Is Destined to Explode as a Supernova…But When? Betelgeuse Is Destined to Explode as a Supernova…But When? Long considered one of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse has begun to dramatically fade then brighten again for reasons we can’t quite pin down. And it’s caused some people to wonder if it’s about to explode. » Catch up on Constellations! » Subscribe to Seeker! » Visit our shop at Long description: Despite being roughly 643 light years away, Betelguese is nearly impossible to miss. For starters, it’s MASSIVE; so big that if it were at the center of our Solar System, it would engulf all the planets up to Jupiter. Its diameter is roughly 1,000 times that of our Sun! To find it, just look at the Orion constellation. If Orion is “The Hunter” with his iconic three-star belt, then Betelguese is the hunter’s left shoulder. If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere during the first few days of January, you can see Betelguese rising in the east just after sunset. All other times, this star is easy to spot no matter where you’re located in the world! Especially September through March. Some of the earliest known records of Betelguese come from China in the 1st century BCE. These records describe Betelgeuse as being yellow… which is strange, because just a few years later, in 150 CE, the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy described Betelguese as red. This indicates that Betelguse rapidly underwent a stellar phase change sometime between the time these two records were made, evolving to become the red giant that it is today. Betelguese’s propensity for fading and brightening over a multi-year cycle also seems to have caught people’s attention. In western Aboriginal Australian oral tradition, Betelguese represents the ‘fire magic’ used by a love-struck hunter to reach the object of his affection. Unfortunately, the fire magic’s tendency to flicker out ultimately causes him to fail. While Sir John Herschel continues to be recognized as the first to notice Betelguese’s variable brightness, it’s clear that people living before the 19th century also recognized what was going on. #stars #betelgeuse #supernova #constellations #astronomy #astrology #astrophysics #science #seeker Read more: Betelgeuse went dark, but didn’t go supernova. What happened? “What they do know is that Betelgeuse is running out of time. It’s less than 10 million years old, a youngster compared with the roughly 4.6-billion–year-old sun. But because Betelgeuse is so massive and burns through its fuel so quickly, it’s already in the final life stage of a red supergiant.” Aboriginal Australians Observed Red Giant Stars’ Variability “Hamacher found two oral traditions that referenced the variable stars Betelgeuse, Antares and Aldebaran. Their changes in brightness carried important weight in the narratives and helped encode certain social rules, such as signaling to the tribe when to celebrate initiation rituals.” When Will Betelgeuse Explode? “In this video, I talk about when Betelgeuse will explode. Spoiler: it’s not for another 100,000 years or so! I discuss the physics of the recent dimming and subsequent brightening, and what we can see when we look up with the naked eye.” You can probably point to the Big Dipper, Orion’s Belt, and your astrological sign in the sky. But what would the constellations look like from another solar system? And will any of Orion’s stars ever become black holes? In Seeker Constellations, we’ll explain the science of the universe’s most famous stars and dive into the culturally significant stories behind them. Most importantly, we’ll provide a guide to where you can see these incredible constellations for yourself! Visit the Seeker website Seeker on Facebook Seeker on Twitter Like it? Share with your friends! What's Your Reaction? hate hate confused confused fail fail fun fun geeky geeky love love lol lol omg omg win win 1. if u wont listen or learn men gtfo all of u just comment on her looks stfu. also the other people making these videos eat to multiply ur brains cells instead of using other peoples studies 2. Is saying that Betelgeuse is destined to explode actually a scientific statement? Saying that it isn't destined to explode would be falsifiable because if it did explode the prediction could be falsified. However, the reverse isn't falsifiable so it's actually pseudoscientific, i.e. it sounds like science but it isn't. 3. I never saw this thing in the sky ever. So fun living in an modern country like holland. Jk i love my country and im grateful but we are so disconnected from the natural world by visual lack of the ✨ 4. This was an awesome video and I loved the presenter. Seeing someone presenting their research and passion is great. More of this please!!! 5. The scary thing is because light from that star takes 642 light years to reach us it could very well have gone supernova by now it’s just that it might take a couple hundred more years for that supernova light to reach us 6. What she means to say, is they have no idea what's going on in space so they use 'educated guesses'. These people don't know nearly as much as they would have us believe. With the billions of stars out there nobody has seen not even 1 form. Why is that? Look to your heart and the Creator is the answer. 7. Most stars are destined to explode in a supernova…. Betelgeuse isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. A new study shows that if Betelgeuse used to be a binary system and the stars merged, it explains features and behavior of the star better than assumption it’s about to go supernova. It’s more likely it’s not about to go supernova. The spin, size and behavior of the star suggests it’s a merged binary system. Like most science, it’s only a matter of time before what we once thought to be true is proven to be false. It’s the nature of learning. The more we learn the more we have to learn. Each discovery opens up more questions that it answered. This is why I hate when science topics are politicized or major decisions are made based around science we can’t actually run experiments on to know for certain like the past and the future. We can only make our best guesses. People need to stop presenting things as “facts” when they aren’t facts. There should be a disclaimer that what is said is only our best guess with the extremely limited knowledge and understanding we do have. 8. Get ready for some of our amazing world to change with this new data. There is so much to learn from this star. We will still have many things to learn from this event as a people. 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AFGHANISTAN: Karzai vs. the Warlords AFGHANISTAN: Karzai vs. the Warlords February 15, 2005 1:59 pm (EST) Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. This publication is now archived. What’s at stake in the government’s confrontation with warlords? Many experts say it is directly related to the upcoming presidential election. They say the October 9 vote, the first direct presidential election in Afghanistan’s history, is the latest round of the ongoing power struggle between interim president Hamid Karzai and the regional strongmen known as warlords who control most of the country. Karzai’s appointed government rules Kabul, the capital, but "the warlords are the main power-holders in most of Afghanistan," says Barnett R. Rubin, director of studies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Efforts to disarm the militias controlled by the warlords have been largely ineffective. Do warlords participate in the current government? Yes. Some have held--or continue to hold--significant posts, including first vice president, defense minister, education minister, and as governors of several important provinces. This arrangement is part of a power-sharing agreement worked out at a Bonn conference after the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban in 2001 and later at a nationwide loya jirga, or grand council, in June 2002. Why were warlords given government posts? Karzai and the international organizers of Afghanistan’s political transition hoped that including the warlords would spur them to support the establishment of a strong central government. But that plan hasn’t succeeded, experts say. Instead, the warlords have largely used their official positions to cement their own authority in the regions they control and have resisted attempts to disarm their personal militias or meld them into the national army. What has Karzai done to exert control over the warlords? He dismissed Ismail Khan, the governor of the western Herat province, on September 11. The new governor will be Sayeed Mohammed Khairkhwa, the former Afghan ambassador to Ukraine. A series of attacks against Herat in August led by rival warlord Amanullah Khan forced Ismail Khan to call in the Afghan National Army for help. Some experts say Karzai and the Americans who advise the army capitalized on the unrest to force out Ismail Khan, a powerful regional leader who had ruled Herat as his personal fiefdom since the Taliban’s fall in 2001. Ismail Khan was offered the post of minister of mines and ministry in Kabul. It is not clear if he will accept. In July, Karzai dropped a powerful warlord who also serves as first vice president and defense minister, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, from his presidential ticket. Many experts saw that moves as a sign of Karzai’s willingness to challenge the warlords. "It was ... very courageous," says Kathy Gannon, Associated Press bureau chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan and the 2003-04 Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Karzai has also stepped up his anti-warlord rhetoric. In a July 12 interview with The New York Times, he called warlords the greatest threat to Afghanistan’s security--more dangerous than the remnants of the Taliban regime. Are the main warlords supporting Karzai in the presidential election? No. Instead, they are either running for office themselves or supporting other candidates. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a general with Uzbek roots, is running for president. Fahim is supporting fellow Tajik Yunus Qanuni, who resigned as education minister to run against Karzai. Voters will elect a president and two vice presidents. Who is expected to win? Karzai is heavily favored, and no warlord appears to have national appeal. However, in an 18-candidate field, Karzai may fail to muster a majority. Under those circumstances, a runoff election between the two leading candidates will be held within two weeks. Where does the presidential election fit in Afghanistan’s democratic transition? It is a midway point. The June 2002 loya jirga chose Karzai to head the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan. The group also drafted a constitution that was ratified by a constitutional loya jirga on January 4, 2004. Under the terms of this constitution, presidential and parliamentary elections were due to be held by June 2004. Why didn’t they occur on schedule? The presidential election was delayed twice because of security fears and organizational difficulties caused by attacks on election monitors and workers trying to register voters. Efforts to take a new census have also been disrupted by violence, experts say. The parliamentary vote has been put off until April 2005. What happened in Herat over the summer? The August showdown in Herat province left more than 70 dead after Amanullah Khan’s forces attacked Ismail Khan’s militia. The attackers took over an abandoned Soviet air base at Shindand, 60 miles south of the capital city, also called Herat, and pushed to within 18 miles of the capital. The conflict, which threatened to turn into all-out war, was quelled after more than 1,000 newly trained members of the Afghan National Army--and their U.S. advisers--were flown to the region at Ismail Khan’s request. After Karzai dismissed Ismail Khan from his governor’s post, rioters burned several U.N. offices in Herat on September 12. Clashes with police left at least four people dead and several dozen injured. More than 60 U.N. workers were evacuated from the city. Were other parts of the country also affected by violence? Yes. Dozens of Afghans and foreigners have been killed in attacks targeting election workers and international aid workers. A busload of female election workers on a voter registration mission in the eastern town of Jalalabad was bombed June 26, killing two and injuring 12, including three children. A U.N. voter registration office in Kandahar, a southern province, was hit by a series of bombs August 20, injuring six policemen. Officials blame members of the Taliban, which has regained strength in the country’s south and east, for trying to prevent Afghans from participation in the election process. Why are warlords contesting the election? They are running to "flex their political muscle," says Sam Zarifi, deputy director of the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. If they win enough votes, experts say, the warlords will be in a better position to bargain for powerful posts in a new Karzai government. Some experts say the warlords, like good businessmen, are keeping their options open. "There’s a high degree of uncertainty [in the country], and they’re trying to diversify their portfolios," Rubin says. "They know a transformation is in the works." If Karzai wins, is he expected to take additional measures against the warlords? It depends on his margin of victory. "He could take 60 percent of the vote or more," Zarifi says; if he does, Karzai would likely take it as a mandate to rein in the warlords. A landslide, Karzai hopes, would give his government political legitimacy in the eyes of Afghans and the world. This, in turn, may help him get more international support to extend the rule of law outside Kabul; he has been asking for additional contributions of troops and money for months. "Karzai’s done all he can," Zarifi says. "The ball’s in the court of the U.S. and NATO now." How many warlords are there? There are a handful of very powerful warlords with regional and national reach. In addition, each province in the country also has hundreds, possibly thousands, of smaller-scale leaders, Zarifi says. "It ranges from leaders who have thousands of men under arms to the guy on the corner who has 20 guys with guns." Are the warlords leaders of ethnic tribes? Not necessarily, although most of them have strong support from their ethnic communities. Zarifi says the warlords are men from across Afghanistan "whose political authority derives solely from their military capabilities." Many served as mujahadeen fighters against the Soviets in the 1980s. Who are the major warlords? • Mohammed Qasim Fahim, vice president and defense minister. Fahim is an ethnic Tajik and commands a large militia that controls both parts of Kabul and sections of the northern Pansjir Valley. A former deputy of the late Northern Alliance leader Massoud, Fahim stepped into Massoud’s leadership role "by default" after his death, Zarifi says. • Abdul Rashid Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek general, is a former Northern Alliance commander with a stronghold in the city of Shebergan, in the northern Jozjan province. A former adviser to Karzai, he resigned his post in July to run for president. He is expected to draw support from the country’s Uzbek and Turkmen minority groups, as well as from the northern Shar-e-pul province just south of Mazar-i-Sharif. Dostum opposes a centralized state in Afghanistan and has refused to disarm his militia. He reportedly has thousands of men under arms. • Attah Mohammed, the Tajik governor of the northern Balkh province, is another of the powerful Northern Alliance commanders. Karzai appointed him governor of the province--whose capital Mazar-i-Sharif is the country’s second-largest city--in July. Mohammed, a longtime enemy of Dostum, is loyal to Fahim. Gannon says Mohammed is in clear command of his province; he recently put Mazar-i-Sharif’s police chief under house arrest for stopping a military vehicle that was carrying drugs. "All the police are loyal to me," he told Gannon. • Ismail Khan, a former mujahadeen leader known as "The Lion of Herat" for his role in fighting the Soviets. He is a member of the Farsiwan tribe, which has close ties to Iran, and has the support of a large private militia. As governor of Herat, which borders Iran, Khan controlled the area’s lucrative trade routes, along which travel some 80 percent of Afghanistan’s imports. U.N. officials estimate that Khan earned between $250,000 and $1.5 million per day on customs duties on cross-border trade. While some Afghans and experts criticized Khan for his dictatorial style, others said he was an effective leader, praising Herat’s well-maintained roads, parks, libraries, and infrastructure. "It’s the only part of the country where security and services are good," Zarifi says. • Amanullah Khan, a Tajik warlord and fierce rival of Ismail Khan. His forces are blamed for the August attacks on Herat that preceded Ismail Khan’s dismissal. Amanullah Khan was invited to Kabul in late August as a "guest" of the government; on September 6, a Karzai spokesman announced that Khan would face criminal charges for the Herat violence. • Hazrat Ali, a mujahadeen leader from Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. His troops have helped U.S. forces hunt Qaeda members. He serves as the military adviser to Karzai for the country’s eastern region. • Abdul Rabb al-Rasul Sayyaf, a powerful former mujahadeen leader who was born near Kabul. A member of the Kharruti tribe, he studied in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and practices Wahhabism, the form of Sunni Islam dominant in Saudi Arabia. He has strong support from Wahhabi factions in Saudi Arabia, but has no significant support base in Afghanistan. "He’s by far the most fundamental and radical" of the warlords, Zarifi says. How far has disarmament of the warlords’ militias progressed? "The disarmament has been negligible," Gannon says. "None of the commanders has demobilized to any extent." The New York Times reported July 12 that only 10,000 of the country’s estimated 60,000 to 100,000 militiamen have been demobilized thus far. Anyone who wields power in the country is armed, experts say. Gannon says tribal leaders in the provinces have told her, "Afghanistan today is ruled by the gun. If you don’t have one, you’re nobody." How much control do the warlords have over Afghanistan’s drug trade? Experts say the warlords take a cut of the money made from the country’s drug trade, estimated at $2.3 billion last year, half the country’s legitimate gross domestic product. "The military commanders who control the country are personally profiting from the drug trade," Gannon says. Rubin says the warlords profit at every level: they tax the opium grown locally, they charge tolls on the roads used to transport the opium to wholesale markets, and they take a share of the profits from the centers where the opium is processed. In addition, many warlords help get the drugs to international markets using their existing networks for moving men, money, and arms, he says. More on: Experts say the warlords are using drug money to arm their private militias and to fund their political campaigns. But Zarifi adds that the biggest warlords have plenty of other ways to make money: they charge import duties on trade through their provinces, smuggle antiquities and lumber, and skim reconstruction funds. "The major warlords tax the poppy trade, but they don’t depend on it," he says. More on: Top Stories on CFR United States Climate Change
• Ann Arbor ADHD Clinic: ADHD and Sleep Roger E. Lauer, Ph.D. Clinic Director Within the ADHD Clinic at CNLD, we understand the relationship between attention difficulties and sleep is crucial to obtaining an accurate diagnosis for children and adults who are struggling to pay attention and function in their daily lives. This includes explaining the necessity for sleep and its role in healthy functioning, along with differentiating between ADHD symptoms and sleep deprivation problems. We begin by understanding the basics of sleep: • Sleep is necessary for life. • Sleep is often overlooked as a possible source of daytime problems. • Sleep is a set by environmental and biological clocks (strongly influenced by light). • The sleep/wake cycle involves homeostasis (our body maintaining a “steady state”) and circadian rhythms (cyclical changes like body temperature, hormone levels and sleep over a 24-hour period). • The sleep cycle has five stages that vary in depth of sleep and brain waves. • Sleep is restorative for the mind and body (healing muscles, repairing tissues, strengthening the immune system and memory consolidation). How much sleep do we need? Your brain and sleep: ADHD or Sleep Problems? ADHD and sleep problems are interrelated: • Sleep problems may mimic ADHD symptoms. • Sleep problems may exacerbate ADHD symptoms. • Sleep problems may be associated with or exacerbated by ADHD (difficulty falling asleep, achieving adequate sleep duration, tiredness during the day). • Medications used to treat ADHD may result in sleep problems. If you, or someone in your family, has a need for an ADHD assessment please contact our clinic by clicking here. We look forward to helping you.
Mobile communication techniques The goal of MOBCOM is to provide a fundamental understanding of mobile communication systems. The course will seek to describe the key aspects of channel characteristics/modeling, of communication techniques, and to describe the application of these techniques in wireless communication systems. Teaching and Learning Methods : Lectures and Lab sessions (group of 2-3 students) Course Policies : Attendance to Lab session is mandatory. Book: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, by D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Cambridge University Press, May 2005. Knowledge in discrete math, probability thoery, random processes, transform theory In terms of contents, these include: - Physical channel modeling, input/output channel models, - Time and frequency channel coherence - Statistical channel modeling. - Detection in fading channels, degrees of freedom, effects of channel uncertainty - Diversity techniques (time/antenna/frequency diversity, space-time codes). - OFDM, channel estimation. - Capacity of AWGN and fading wireless channels - Multi-user capacity and opportunistic communications, - Uplink/downlink AWGN channel, uplink/downlink fading channel - Multiuser diversity, multi-node networks. Learning outcomes: - Be able to Identify the basic properties of wireless communications channels - Be able to analyze the performance of different standard algorithms over wireless settings - Be able to design simple algorithms for different single-user and multi-user settings Nb hours:42.00, approximately 2-3 Lab sessions (15 hours) Grading Policy:Final exam 55%, Midterm exam 20%, MATLAB sessions 15%, Homework 10%
The terms bull market and bear market are used to broadly describe market momentum as either positive or negative. Undeniably, the markets are currently facing negative momentum initiated by the spread of a disease called COVID-19. Beginning in February 2020, the markets have been reacting to the unfolding news of the escalating impact that this disease will have on our global economy. During this economic storm, getting a clear view through the windshield to see what lies immediately ahead is difficult. While there are real challenges that we face that are unique to our current circumstances, history can provide us with a perspective that will help us understand the nuances of our impending headwinds. Historical data helps to corroborate, verify and provide clarity to the stories that we remember in the past. This is helpful because our memories can be altered by our emotions and other factors such as recency bias. When we speak of a bear market, our emotional memories remember the two most recent bear markets, the financial crisis in ’08 and the tech crash of ’00. However, if we zoom out and look at a broader set of data, we’ll have a better understanding of the various types of bear markets that we have experienced over time so that we have a better understanding of the various ways our current bear market can play out. Goldman Sachs has done extensive research1 looking at historical trends in bear markets dating back to the 1800’s. They recognized distinctions and similarities between each of the bear markets and divided them into three categories1: 1. Structural bear market 2. Cyclical bear market 3. Event-driven bear market Using Goldman’s research1, let’s look at each of the bear markets that have occurred since 1937 categorized by structural, cyclical or event-driven and see how deep the declines were, how long the declines lasted, and how long it took to recover. There have been 12 bear markets identified since 1937 5. Of the twelve bear markets 4 have been structural, 4 have been cyclical and 4 have been event-driven. Structural bear markets are the worst bear markets in every regard: They last the longest, they have the largest declines and they take the longest to recover. These bear markets often occur as a result of a bubble that is formed from market prices severely separating from real economic value. The great depression, the tech bubble and the financial crisis of ’08 are all examples of structural bear markets that were caused by market bubbles. Cyclical bear markets are the most natural bear markets that occur with the flow of the business cycle. The expansion that occurs during the business cycle is tempered by rising interest rates in order to avoid over-inflation. While these are natural occurrences of the economic cycle, the recessions and falls in profits that follow are still painful. Event-Driven bear markets are often sudden and unforeseen. Examples of events that could induce a bear market are wars, political policy changes, and other unpredictable occurrences. These bear markets are often sharp and swift, with the shortest recovery times. Considering the historical data in the rearview mirror provides us with a more precise understanding of the wide range of possibilities that exist on the roads that we see through our windshield. Those imminent roads may very well look like one of the three lines on this chart: But just as we take the wisdom of Warren Buffet as he speaks to the clarity of the rearview mirror, we should also consider the wisdom of Peter Lynch as he reminds us, “You can’t see the future through a rearview mirror.” The future is unknown, which explains the daily ups and downs of the market as people speculate on what tomorrow holds. No one is certain on whether our impending bear market will prove to remain event driven or lead into a cyclical or structural bear market, but a historical long ranging perspective reminds us to zoom out from our current situation and look at the big picture. 3Eventide Asset Management, Morningstar. Vertical Colored bars indicate the different classifications of bear markets and time periods based on Goldman Sachs, “Bear Essentials: a guide to navigating a bear market” March 9, 2020. 4Eventide Asset Management, Morningstar. The average bear market decline of S&P 500 price index is calculated as the averaged decline from prior month price high for each bear market time period. Recovery time is recovery back to nominal S&P value. Bear market time periods and classifications are based on Goldman Sachs, “Bear Essentials: a guide to navigating a bear market” March 9, 2020. Recession time periods have been expanded to illustrate subsequent index price recovery. 5We chose to use 1937 as a starting date to capture the first bear market following the Great Depression. The Great Depression introduces extreme outlier datapoints which we believe skew the average outcomes.
Month Day April 26 Test triggers nuclear disaster at Chernobyl The Chernobyl station was situated at the settlement of Pripyat, about 65 miles north of Kiev in the Ukraine. Built in the late 1970s on the banks of the Pripyat River, Chernobyl had four reactors, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts of electric power. On the evening of April 25, 1986, a group of engineers began an electrical-engineering experiment on the Number 4 reactor. The engineers, who had little knowledge of reactor physics, wanted to see if the reactor’s turbine could run emergency water pumps on inertial power. As part of their poorly designed experiment, the engineers disconnected the reactor’s emergency safety systems and its power-regulating system. Next, they compounded this recklessness with a series of mistakes: They ran the reactor at a power level so low that the reaction became unstable, and then removed too many of the reactor’s control rods in an attempt to power it up again. The reactor’s output rose to more than 200 megawatts but was proving increasingly difficult to control. Nevertheless, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, the engineers continued with their experiment and shut down the turbine generator to see if its inertial spinning would power the reactor’s water pumps. In fact, it did not adequately power the water pumps, and without cooling water the power level in the reactor surged. READ MORE: Chernobyl Disaster: The Meltdown by the Minute To prevent meltdown, the operators reinserted all the 200-some control rods into the reactor at once. The control rods were meant to reduce the reaction but had a design flaw: graphite tips. So, before the control rod’s five meters of absorbent material could penetrate the core, 200 graphite tips simultaneously entered, thus facilitating the reaction and causing an explosion that blew off the heavy steel and concrete lid of the reactor. It was not a nuclear explosion, as nuclear power plants are incapable of producing such a reaction, but was chemical, driven by the ignition of gases and steam that were generated by the runaway reaction. In the explosion and ensuing fire, more than 50 tons of radioactive material were released into the atmosphere, where it was carried by air currents. On April 27, Soviet authorities began an evacuation of the 30,000 inhabitants of Pripyat. A cover-up was attempted, but on April 28 Swedish radiation monitoring stations, more than 800 miles to the northwest of Chernobyl, reported radiation levels 40 percent higher than normal. Later that day, the Soviet news agency acknowledged that a major nuclear accident had occurred at Chernobyl. READ MORE: 7 People Who Played a Crucial Role in the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster Former Liberian president Charles Taylor found guilty of war crimes Polio vaccine trials begin President Reagan visits China Mountain man James Beckwourth is born Studio 54 opens in New York City Maria Shriver marries Arnold Schwarzenegger Thirteen-year-old girl murdered in Atlanta pencil factory Geneva Conference to resolve problems in Asia begins Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth dies Allies sign Treaty of London
It is not exactly polite dinner table conversation, but there is an issue that materials science has finally addressed - the non-stick lavatory bowl. The research is not simply about hygiene and domestic aesthetics but could reduce the tens of billions of liters of water used to flush lavatories every day by reducing the amount needed per flush. Tak-Sing Wong of Pennsylvania State University and colleagues suggest that their coating could reduce flush volume requirements for treated toilets by approximately 90 percent. [Wong et al., Nature Sustain. (2019); DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0421-0] The team has developed a two-stage spray-on material to create a liquid-entrenched smooth surface (LESS) coating that can easily be applied to ceramic toilet bowls. The first spray contains molecularly grafted polymer and builds an extremely smooth, liquid-repellent foundation. On to this foundation, a layer of lubricant is applied which fills the gaps between the polymer chains of the foundation layer. Wang says that when they coated a toilet bowl in this manner and dumped simulated fecal matter into the bowl the material simply slides down the wall of the bowl. The viscoelastic synthetic feces do not stick to the surface and slip away leaving no residue. In a real toilet, this would preclude the need for either a second flush or use of the toilet brush and disinfectant bleach, for instance. The team says that their coating essentially makes the toilet bowl self-cleaning but requires far less water to get rid of the waste. Their estimates suggest the coating would be functional for 500 flushes before the lubricating layer needs to be reapplied. The coating can repel solids with viscoelasticity spanning nine orders of magnitude; this is broader activity by three orders of magnitude compared with earlier coatings. Critically, the layer not only sloughs off slurry but it precludes the formation of bacterial films on the toilet bowl, again reducing the need for disinfectants of bleach and reducing some bathroom odors that might otherwise accumulate. They add that in places where waterless toilets are commonplace, the coating could improve sanitation considerably, particularly in those parts of the developing world where water is very scarce. The work was carried out in conjunction with Leon Williams from the Centre for Competitive Creative Design at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. "With an estimated 1 billion or more toilets and urinals worldwide, incorporating LESS coating into sanitation systems will have significant implications for global sanitation and large-scale wastewater reduction for sustainable water management," the team concludes.
Taking your first steps into higher education Taking your first steps into higher education Free course Taking your first steps into higher education 2 Artworks and their effects The ‘effects’ point of the study diamond (Figure 1) seems especially relevant to an examination of art by Turner Prize-nominated artists: as you have seen, such art seems to provoke dramatic reactions. In this section, you will be looking in detail at two types of effect, namely: 1. the emotional impact of an artwork and how to record your feelings about this impact 2. the way in which the different elements of an artwork prompt you to ‘read’ it in a particular order, focusing on one aspect of it before others. Described image Figure 1 The study diamond Skip Your course resources Take your learning further Request an Open University prospectus371
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The hose inside of a Peristaltic Pump is designed to return to its original shape after the shoes or rollers have passed over, so the quantity and flow of fluid are consistently maintained. This pump operation is also where peristaltic pumps get their name from. The term “peristalsis” originates from the biological sense where muscles contract in our stomach to allow food to push through. A similar process happens when a peristaltic pump is in operation to allow for a variety of applications to enter the pump and effectively be passed through to the suction side of the pump, allowing more fluid to continue to enter from the pump casing. peristaltic pump working principle diagram Why use a peristaltic pump? Peristaltic pumps are an excellent option for fluids that need to be kept clean and sterile, such as food and drink applications, due to no contamination occurring in the pump. This is due to the interior tubing being the only part of the pump to come into contact with the application being pumped making the risk of bacteria growth very minimal. Take a look at some of the benefits listed below! 1. They are fully self-priming up to 9.8 meters – not many other pumps on the market can produce that kind of suction! 2. Damage-free when dry running 3. Outlet pressures of up to 15 Bar 4. Suitable for aggressive and viscous fluids 5. Very easy maintenance 6. Safety – the only part of the pump that comes into contact with the fluid is the hose! 7. Reversible flow 8. Heavy-duty bearings, greased for life What is CIP Peristaltic Pump CIP stands for “Clean in place” and is an effective pumping solution application within the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical markets. The advantage of this technology is that the inner part of the hose is the only part of the pump that comes into contact with the fluid, ensuring that contamination of the pumped fluid is kept to an absolute minimum. Pumps, tanks and pipes can all be efficiently cleaned without the need to dismantle any of the equipment. If you need a Peristaltic Pump but can’t risk any kind of contamination from the application you’re pumping, the CIP Hose Pump is for you! How to quote a Peristaltic Pump? Below is a list of details you’ll need to know in order to select the correct Peristaltic Pump for your requirements. • Fluid description • Viscosity (shear thinning or thickening) • % of solids and particle size • Temperature • PH level • The flow rate or range • Suction and discharge pressures • Precise Duty cycle (continuous or intermittent) real pump running time • Power Supply available Peristaltic Pump Material OptionsPeristaltic Pump material option Hoses can be supplied in the below materials to suit a wide variety of applications: 1. Natural Rubber 2. NBR 3. Natural Rubber FDA Approved 4. EPDM 5. FKM – Viton 6. CSM Hypalon Rubber The price of the hose usually works out to around 8 – 10% of the cost of the pump. Peristaltic Pump compared to a Diaphragm Pump • Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps require a compressed air supply to drive them. If this does not already exist it can be very expensive to install. Even the best-maintained air supply systems are inefficient with at least 30% air leakage. The energy costs of supplying air for a Diaphragm Pump are much higher than for a Peristaltic Pump. • Air pressure limits the discharge pressure – it just stops pumping beyond its limits. • Changing pumped fluid is complex as cleaning a Diaphragm Pump is difficult, often requiring a complete strip-down. Our Peristaltic Pump Series offers a quick maintenance schedule on their pumping elements. Simply change the tube and you’ve created a new pump! • The difficulty in accurately controlling air supply makes the Diaphragm Pump a poor choice for metering duties. • Even Double Diaphragm Pumps have a high level of pulsation. • Whilst the initial purchase cost is lower, the cost of ownership can much higher due to energy and maintenance costs. Our Peristaltic Pumps are suited for both low & high-pressure transfer, metering and dosing applications of low or high viscous, pasty, pure, neutral, aggressive or abrasive liquids, those containing gases or which tend to froth, or those containing solids in the following industries: 1. Food & Beverage: tomato sauce, mash potatoes, gelatine, beer yeast, fish paste, olive oil, wine, egg white & yolk, edible fat, semolina, natural flavouring, cream, milk & yoghurts. 2. Bakeries: water & salt mixtures, natural flavourings, fats, fruit cake dough/mixture (i.e. fruit cake has nuts and fruit pieces that need to stay whole). 3. Paint: water-based paint, acrylics, pigments, ink, wall coating. 4. Meat and Fish processing 5. Pharmaceutical & Cosmetics: chemical dosing, liquid protein, vaccines, serum, plasma, syrups, shampoos. 6. Waste Water & Water Treatment: lime cream, ferric chloride, sodium bisulphate, fluoride, polymers, aqueous ammonia, potassium permanganate, caustic soda, activated carbon, reagent feed, coagulant, flocculants, dispersion, alum, sludge and foams. 7. Chemical and Petrochemical: various acids, PVDF latex, alcohol, soap, non-aromatic solvents. 8. Pulp and Paper: latex, kaolin, paper waste sludge, various chemical dosing. 9. Ceramics: barbotine, mould filling, filter press feeding. Building fibrous mortar, plaster, light concrete, cement flooring. 10. Surface Treatment: Abrasive waste fluids, acids, alkalis, paints, Electrolytic zinc plating, Copper, Nickel, Tin, Silver and Gold plating, Alcalic zinc, Zinc-iron, Zinc-nickel, Hexavalent Chromium-free plating, Chromates / Passivation, Acid zinc 11. Anaerobic Digestion: Processed Food & General Waste, Feedstock, Digestate, Waste Sludge’s 12. Mineral Processing: sludge with a viscosity up to 60 000 cps, clay up to 800g/l, particle size: 30 mm, lead sulphate, pyrite, cyanide, various acids. 13. Agricultural: manure, fertilizer sugar mills, molasses, liquid sugar and various chemicals. Tapflo’s Peristaltic Pump Range Take a look at our Sales Manager Luke, explaining how much Tapflo’s peristaltic pumps have to offer! You can find Tapflo’s Peristaltic Pump range and accessories here or speak to a member of the team to discuss your options. 02380 252 325, [email protected] Want to know more? Contact the sales team for additional support with your application or pump requirements Contact the sales team today
Introduction To The Ocular System In Horses The eyes are an essential sensory organ. Fish, birds, insects and reptiles have them as well as just about every mammal. Finding food, defense, offense, mating or just having fun requires the brain to see what is around us. It is interesting to see the embryonic development of eyes. They start as stalks of neural tissue sprouting from the front part of the brain. Reach straight out in front of you with both hands and pretend you are holding a ball. The arms are these stalks called the optic nerves and the cupped hands are the back of the eyeball called the retina. Your body represents the brain. In essence, the eyes are a direct extension of the brain visible to all who look at them. Half of each eye’s nerves from the brain cross over to the other side to the opposite eyeball. The stalk develops forward into the eye socket of the skull and then forms a unique layer of light receptors called the retina. Unique to the horse is the shape of this and is called a ramped retina. This allows for a different focal point depending if the head is lowered for grazing (the flat of the face looking towards the horizon for predators) or raised to look down the nose at something close (you). Following the retina forward is a lens to form uniform light rays. It is suspended in fluids and covered by a diaphragm (the uvea which contains the iris giving the color of the eye) to control the amount of light coming into the eye (the pupil). Unlike most animals, the horse adds a glob of tissue to this diaphragm to help shade the sun called the corpora nigra. Finally the front of the eye is covered with a transparent membrane called the cornea. This membrane seals the inside of the eye from the outside and is fully transparent unless damaged. For further protection the eyeball is protected with upper and lower eyelids and a special 3rd eyelid called the nictitating membrane. The outside of the eyeball is bathed in fluid (tears) to lubricate, preserve corneal transparency, initiates the bending of the light rays for focusing and distribution of nutrition and immunoglobulins to maintain the health of the cornea. The tears are drained through small holes on the inside corner of the eye connected to a tunnel in the skull that empties the tears at the nostrils (the nasolacrimal ducts). With so many parts to the eye, there are several areas where problems can occur. Trauma is the leading problem but infections, immune inflammation and neoplasia can also affect these structures. Loss of clear vision (corneal ulcer), loss of all vision (cataracts, blind), loss of the eyeball (enucleation) and tear overproduction or poor draining all can occur. Most of these can be seen with our own eyes especially if we are looking for them. Enucleation In Horses Enucleation is the removal of an eye ball. This is done when an eye is in the end stage of chronic inflammation or the active inflammation is too painful to leave the eye in. read more Nasolacrimal Ducts Of Horses read more
Historic Buildings Saved with 3D Scanning A safer and more effective method As our world becomes more populated and evolved, we affect our planet in sometimes unknowing ways. The amount of people in our world directly impacts global warming, which also leads to the rise of the sea. Why is this a problem? Our historical buildings and sites near coastal areas are at risk. Researchers working near Nantucket and Florida have now adopted 3D laser scanning to predict which historical sites are at risk. This latest technology helps prioritize which sections are the most at risk and which ones need the most help to be saved. Floods or rising sea levels are two things that cannot be directly controlled, but something our world indirectly impacts. 3D laser scanning can not only create awareness by creating public digital records but help predict how much the sea will rise, causing destruction. National Trust of TT has partnered with NOAA, also known as National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Their goal is to create predictions of how much the sea will rise over the next few decades. Researchers can use 3D laser scanning to simulate projections of the sea level. What is 3D laser scanning 3D laser scanning is the act of using a device that can take thousands of pictures of a scene per second. It collects information that can be stored in the cloud forever. The technology can collect data like texture, colors, microscopic details like scratches or surfaces, as well as dimensions and sizes. After the information is collected, it can then be transferred to a partnering system where it can be studied. Or it can be sent across the world, made into a model, or developed into virtual reality. 3D laser scanning is so versatile it has entered many different fields. Why are they using it to study sea levels This technology not only allows researchers to keep accurate records of sea levels, but it will enable them to view the research year after year. This will enable them to be extremely precise with predictions of exactly which historical sites are most at risk. Not only that, but it creates very detailed records of the historical sites, so not only can they see the sea level, but they can preserve the sites. This creates a 3D digital model they can use in case anything happens to the sites. The information can be free to the public, unlike other older ways of collecting data. 3D laser scanning is also much faster than sending a human into a house and making a model through human interacting. A person could take weeks, if not months, to create a model and gather the right details to make a model. This technology can collect every aspect in under two hours. Final thoughts It is incredibly important for consumers to be aware of the impact we have on the environment, and how it can impact our historic sites. More and more researchers are adopting this technology to preserve history because it is one of the most accurate ways to save every piece of information they can find. As technology becomes more evolved, it will enter new fields, and create a new standard of living. It will help shine the importance of saving our history for future generations. 3D laser scanning will help us practice being sustainable through technology, which will help our planet in the future and protect history. Keep reading: more articles about 3D scanning Leave a Comment
About Us STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. STEM encompasses a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in the four specific disciplines in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Instead of teaching the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM envisions to integrate them into a cohesive learning paradigm, based on real-world applications. In recent years, many countries worldwide have been considering STEM as a means to train students and prepare them for real life problems. Considering the importance of STEM education to develop future leaders of Bangladesh, faculty members from different local and foreign universities have initiated to form a national platform, entitled: Bangladesh STEM Society (bdSTEM). The objective of bdSTEM is to introduce STEM education and research in Bangladesh education system. The society will organize various events nationwide at the school, college and University levels to promote and popularize STEM, and will work with the Government and policy makers to form a STEM-based national policy in education and research. To develop and strengthen STEM education in Bangladesh, and to reduce skill and opportunity gaps for the young generation of Bangladesh by preparing them to meet the needs of the 21st century global workforce through STEM education. 1. To provide leadership, collaborate and cooperate among different government, public, and private stakeholders at the national level for a strong STEM education program. 2. To assist nationally in establishing STEM education as a key driver for economic growth and prosperity. 3. To provide support in developing and implementing a sustainable and societally relevant STEM program in Bangladesh from school to University level. 4. To support and enable teachers, educators and institutions to popularize and promote careers in STEM.
hidden benefits of drinking water 10 Hidden Benefits of Drinking Water No One Talks About You might have heard the saying “humans are 60% water”. There’s an important reason for that. Water is a critical element to the functioning of the human body, the hidden benefits of drinking water including everything from helping carry oxygen to maintaining body temperature. With so many important functions, it’s no wonder that people keep telling you to drink more water. You might have heard the advice, but do you follow it? It can be hard to do so, especially when you are buried in work. That’s why we want to take five minutes of your time to explain the hidden benefits of drinking water. We’ve also got some useful tips to help you drink more water if you keep forgetting to! Water and the Body Did you know your blood is 98% water? That figure is proof of just how vital water is to our bodily functions. Our kidneys are in charge of regulating the water content in our body. When you have below the required amount, the thirst mechanism kicks in. Here are just 5 critical functions of water in the human body: • It is a medium for biochemical reactions • It helps absorb nutrients in the digestive system • It helps transport chemicals around the body • It regulates body temperature through sweating • It helps remove waste material in the form of urine. If you do not get sufficient water in your system, you will start to feel dehydrated, I.e. your body loses more water than it takes in. Dehydration can also be a result of illness’ like diabetes or heatstroke. You could also be dehydrated due to over consumption of alcohol, vomiting and excess sweating. The benefits of drinking water - no dehydration 10 Hidden Benefits of Drinking Water • Joint Lubrication: Cartilage, the substance found in joints consists up to 80% of water. That is to help with shock-absorption and the smooth movement of the joints. Water acts like a lubricant, like how hinges around your house require oil. Without adequate water, the joints are unable to move freely, leading to frequent joint pain and wear and tear. • Saliva & Mucus Formation: Saliva plays an important role in the mouth. It prevents bad breath, prevents tooth decay and helps chew and swallow food. Similarly, mucus provides a protective coating to your respiratory and digestive system. Without it, the surfaces would crack, allowing deadly diseases to enter your body. • Healthy Skin: Want a glowing look of film stars? The secret is to drink plenty of water. Without water, your skin cells become dry and start to crack, leading to issues like acne and wrinkles. It also helps decrease the oil content in your skin. • Keeps You Cool: Drink more water to keep yourself cool, especially in the summer. Due to the heat, your body sweats, I.e., loses water. That process cools down the body’s temperature. To ensure you don’t dehydrate, drink more water in the summer. • Improved Brain Functions: Water gives the brain the electrical energy needed for all functions like thought and memory process. Having enough water will allow you to think more faster, be more focused and experience greater clarity. • Exercise Better: Water helps absorb the heat produced by your muscles when you exercise. Water also ensures your muscles get enough blood and oxygen, otherwise you could end up with painful cramps. Stop your workouts and drink more water, your body needs it! • Control Blood Pressure: Remember we said blood is 98% water? There’s a reason for that. Water enables the blood to be in a liquid state, thus flowing around the body freely. Without enough water, your blood becomes more thicker which can increase blood pressure. Want to avoid heart issues? Just drink more water! • Absorb More Nutrients: When you eat, the nutrients in your food get dissolved in water. With the help of blood, these nutrients can be carried around the body. Without enough water, these nutrients could be lost. • Improved Digestion: Your digestive system needs water to properly process waste. Long term dehydration leads to issues like acidity and constipation. It is also vital to ensure you drink more water when suffering from diarrhea, as it leads to more water loss. • Breathe Better: Water helps regulate the mucus lining in your respiratory system. Too thin, and you could expose yourself to diseases. Too thick and your airways become restricted, reducing the amount of air you can take in. How to Get the Benefits of Drinking Water It’s not easy to remind yourself to drink more water. Here are a few tips that can help- • Keep a Bottle: Keep a bottle at your desk and refill it regularly. Aim to finish 5-6 1 liter bottles each day. • Flavor: If plain old water isn’t tasty enough, add a slice of lemon or lime. • Drink When Hungry: Craving chocolate? Drink water instead, as thirst is often confused with hunger. • Reminder Apps: There is no shortage of apps to remind you if you forget to drink water. Or sometimes, a good old sticky note will also do! • Go for Alternatives: Water is found in other sources like soup, juices, milk, and herbal teas. • Cut Down: Reduce your caffeine and alcohol intake. It can lead to greater dehydration. We hope you find these tips useful! Follow Onsurity on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for more useful health tips. If you are an SME or startup, use Onsurity to give your team employee healthcare benefits they will love to use.
A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873: Embracing the Physical Features of the Country; Its Early Explorations; Aboriginal Inhabitants; French and British Occupation; Conquest by Virginia; Territorial Condition, and the Subsequent Civil, Military and Political Events of the State Գրքի շապիկի երեսը Illinois journal Company, 1874 - 944 էջ From inside the book What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all Common terms and phrases Սիրված հատվածներ Էջ 523 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States... Էջ 729 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. Էջ 241 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi. Էջ 211 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land; and, should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same. Էջ 166 - America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest... Էջ 647 - Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States. Էջ 692 - This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and, in accordance with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. Էջ 729 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it. Էջ 344 - ... well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour affection or hope of reward:" provided also that no state shall be deprived of territory for the- benefit of the united states. Բիբլիոգրաֆիական տվյալներ
Why Arbitration Over Litigation? The Pros and Cons What Is Arbitration? Arbitration is an alternative method of traditional dispute resolution. Arbitration, also known as alternative dispute resolution is a method used to prevent filing lawsuits and settling in court, and typically arbitration is a method that most people choose to avoid excessive fees and loopholes that could stall resolving the solution. There are general principles of arbitration that maintain order during ABR: 1. The purpose of mediation is to obtain a just resolution between disputes by an impartial third-party without nonessential expenses or delays. 2. Parties should be able to discuss how disputes are resolved and are subject to disagreement only by safeguards and a mediator in the interest of the public. 3. Courts should not disrupt arbitrations. How Arbitration Works Arbitrations can be presented in many cases—disputes concerning employment discrimination, thief of intellectual property, partnership dissolution, and commercial disputes can all fall under the process of arbitration. Typically, in most arbitrations, the mediator sends the opposing party a notice of intent to arbitrate a dispute with an outlined basis for the primary concerns that will be discussed. There is a brief response period, followed by selecting the arbitrators, and finally the hearing. Although there are specific principles arbitration must follow, the process varies considerably—the circumstances normally will outline and specify the rules and regulations in the party’s arbitration. International arbitration is a process between two companies in different states, which disputes processes can vary considerably because of the complexity surrounding international disputes. However, all arbitration processes involve similar structural means as a traditional courtroom trial (I.e., mediation, mock trial hearings)—after all required hearings are heard, a panel or a mediator will deliver a ruling to the party, and the ruling may have an option to appeal depending on the type of arbitration. What’re The Advantages Of Arbitration? Freedom in Decision: Parties can choose a technical person to be a mediator if the dispute is technical. Efficiency: Arbitrations typically take half the time of court proceedings, and preparation is less demanding. Cost: One or both parties pay for an arbitrator’s services, while the court provides an adjudicator at no additional price. Privacy: The information shared in arbitration is confidential, and not intended for media or the outside public. Flexibility: The process can be streamlined, segmented, or simplified depending on the circumstances. Convenience: Hearing times are scheduled to fit each party’s schedule. Certitude: In most cases, there’s no right of appeal in arbitrations. Arbitrations vs. Litigations Arbitrations and Litigations are similar to an extend—ultimately, these similarities primarily depend on the individuals or companies involved. The most noticeable differences between arbitrations and litigations are the speed of process, formality, and selection process. Arbitration makes dealing with disputes much easier to find a solution to otherwise difficult cases without all the unnecessary formalities surrounding it. The cost and speed of arbitration make them far more idea for companies as well. Litigations are costly to both parties—compared to traditional litigations, arbitration cost is limited to the fees for an arbitrator and attorney fees. Pros And Cons of Arbitration a. Arbitration avoids hostility because both parties are usually encouraged to participate fully and even structure the resolution. Through arbitration, parties are more likely to work together, which is unlikely in litigation. b. There is limited recourse in a final decision throughout an arbitration. If the arbitrator’s award is unfair or illogical a consumer could potentially be stuck and barred from airing an underlying claim in court. c. Abritation is considered a good course of action because it’s essentially a private procedure that allows a party’s right to privacy to keep their process confidential. d. Objectivity is a major concern in the process of choosing an arbitrator. There is a lack of objectivity in the decision because the decision-maker is chosen through an agency from a pool list, where they may be potential favoritism. e. Most people choose the arbitration process because it’s many claims of speed and informality. d. The lack of transparency in an arbitration hearing is considered by some to make the process more tainted or biased because the courts infrequently review arbitration decisions. g. Mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer and employment contracts typically work in favor of the company rather the employee or consumer. Leave a Reply Follow by Email
What is urban realms model? What is urban realms model? The Urban Realms Model “shows the spatial components of a modern metropolis”. Each realm is separate and is used for its own purpose, but all the realms are linked together to form one large city. Each realm is its own smaller city, but form one large metropolis when linked together. What is the urban realm model AP Human Geography? Urban Realm. The spatial componenets of the modern metroplis, where each realm is a separate economic, social, and polititical entity that is linked together to form the larger metropolitian framework. Harris and Ulman’s Multiple Nuclei Model. When was urban realms model? Urban-Realms Model As a means of improving upon the multiple nuclei model, geographer James E. Vance Jr. proposed the urban-realms model in 1964. Using this model, Vance was able to look at San Francisco’s urban ecology and summarize economic processes into a sturdy model. Who made the urban realms model? James Vance Model Vance Jr. proposed the urban realms model to improve the previous multiple nuclei model. The model suggests that cities are made up of small “realms” that are self-sufficient areas with independent focal points. It is based on 5 points. What is urban realms model? – Related Questions How is urban realms model used? What are the purposes of the urban models? What is the Urban Realms Model trying to explain? The model explains and predicts changing urban growth patterns as the automobile became increasingly prevalent and large suburban “realms” emerged. Why is the Latin American city model important? The Latin American City Model was created by Ernest Griffin and Larry Ford, two geographers, in 1980. They determined that the organization of many cities in this region follow a similar pattern. Eventually, they released a revised model later in 1996 that we now use today. Is the multiple nuclei model still used today? The Multiple-Nuclei Model does still provide a good interpretation of the land-use organization of today using multiple nodes to illustrate how the urban land is used. The CBD is no longer at the center of the action, but multiple business districts develop to support the outlying areas of the city. What is rank size rule in geography? The rank size rule states that the largest city in a given country will have of the population of the largest city in that country. If the largest city has a population 1,000,000, and we want to know the population of the fourth largest city, it will have of the population of the largest city. What are urban models? Urban models are abstractions of reality that attempt to explain and predict urban spatial patterns and the functions of cities in a simplified manner. Why do commuters live in the outermost ring? Explanation: The outermost zone of the concentric zone model is the commuter zone, which includes the suburbs. These are the people who live furthest away from the central business district and therefore have to commute the greatest distance to work. What is the meaning of urban sprawl? Urban sprawl, also called sprawl or suburban sprawl, the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation. What are the three urban models? This orderly set of spatial arrangements is known as the city’s land use pattern or spatial form. Through the years ecological researchers have identified three major models of the geometry of city form: concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei. What is urban land model? Landuse models are theories which attempt to explain the layout of urban areas. A model is used to simplify complex, real world situations, and make them easier to explain and understand. What is urban structure model? An urban area is a place with a high population density and mostly non-agricultural jobs. The sector model, also called the Hoyt model, says that urban zones lie along transportation lines and therefore zones radiate outward from the central business district, making the model look more like a pie than a bull’s eye. What is urban growth model? An urban growth model is a particular type of numeric model that involves economics, geography, sociology and statistics to explore the mechanisms of urban evolution and feedback of the urban system. What is the peripheral model? The Peripheral Model. • A model of North American urban areas. consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road. – Different districts spread out away from CBD to. meet needs of residential areas. What is a weakness of urban models? Answer: A weakness of urban models in terms of settlement patterns is the phenomenon of urban sprawl, by which, after the population saturation of urban centers, cities are expanding in a disorderly way towards the suburbs, where there is no uniform planning. and according to the needs of the population. What is the Latin American urban model? General Definition: The Latin American City Model combines elements of Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. What is an example of peripheral model? Our nation’s captial is a prime example of the peripheral model in action. Every city has essential functional buildings such as banks, airports, malls, city halls, etc. These can result in the developing of edge cities or nuclei as stated in the Multiple Nuclei Model. Where does the Latin American city model apply? Model of Latin American City Structure This model shows that most cities have a central business district, one dominant elite residential sector, and a commercial spine. These areas are then surrounded by a series of concentric zones that decrease in residential quality farther from the CBD. Is Mexico City in Latin America? Mexico City is the most populous metropolitan area in all of Latin America. The capital city of Mexico has a population of 22,976,700 people spread across its 16 municipalities and 300 neighborhoods. 18.74% of the people are native from other parts of Mexico. What city uses multiple nuclei model? A Multiple-Nuclei Model city is a city that does not have one central area, but instead has several nodes that act as regional centers for economic or residential activity within one larger city. Los Angeles, with its many distinct neighborhoods, is a prototypical example of this type of city. Why is Los Angeles a multiple nuclei model? Los Angeles is best fitted with the multiple nuclei model because it has extreme clustering of ethnic neighborhoods. Also it has multiple centers with different functions. The model describes the layout of a city, based on Chicago. The Sector Model is commonly seen in British cities such as Newcastle and London. What is rank size rule quizlet? STUDY. Rank Size Rule. In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.
By Natalia Van Stralen A group of investigators from San Diego State University’s Brain Development Imaging Laboratory are shedding a new light on the effects of autism on the brain. The team has identified that connectivity between the thalamus, a deep brain structure crucial for sensory and motor functions, and the cerebral cortex, the brain’s outer layer, is impaired in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Led by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the study is the first of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus. Nair and Dr. Ralph-Axel Müller, an SDSU professor of psychology who was senior investigator of the study, examined more than 50 children, both with autism and without. Brain communication The thalamus is a crucial brain structure for many functions, such as vision, hearing, movement control and attention. In the children with autism, the pathways connecting the cerebral cortex and thalamus were found to be affected, indicating that these two parts of the brain do not communicate well with each other. “This impaired connectivity suggests that autism is not simply a disorder of social and communicative abilities, but also affects a broad range of sensory and motor systems,” Müller said. Disturbances in the development of both the structure and function of the thalamus may play a role in the emergence of social and communicative impairments, which are among the most prominent and distressing symptoms of autism. While the findings reported in this study are novel, they are consistent with growing evidence on sensory and motor abnormalities in autism. They suggest that the diagnostic criteria for autism, which emphasize social and communicative impairment, may fail to consider the broad spectrum of problems children with autism experience. The study was supported with funding from the National Institutes of Health and additional funding from Autism Speaks Dennis Weatherstone Predoctoral Fellowship. It was published in the June issue of the journal, BRAIN. About the Brain Development Imaging Laboratory The Brain Development Imaging Laboratory conducts research seeking to understand how the brain develops and what functional organizational changes occur throughout childhood and adolescence. The research focuses on what happens when development is impaired and how brain abnormalities can explain developmental disorders such as autism. In the lab, researchers use state-of-the-art techniques, such as functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging, in the study of brain network connectivity. These imaging techniques use large magnets to safely take images of the brain and can pinpoint regions of brain activity, as well as structural features of the brain.Aarti Nair
Neuromorphic engineering combines the architectural and computational principles of systems neuroscience with semiconductor electronics, with the aim of building efficient and compact devices that mimic the synaptic and neural machinery of the brain. The energy consumptions promised by neuromorphic engineering are extremely low, comparable to those of the nervous system. Until now, however, the neuromorphic approach has been restricted to relatively simple circuits and specialized functions, thereby obfuscating a direct comparison of their energy consumption to that used by conventional von Neumann digital machines solving real-world tasks. Here we show that a recent technology developed by IBM can be leveraged to realize neuromorphic circuits that operate as classifiers of complex real-world stimuli. Specifically, we provide a set of general prescriptions to enable the practical implementation of neural architectures that compete with state-of-the-art classifiers. We also show that the energy consumption of these architectures, realized on the IBM chip, is typically two or more orders of magnitude lower than that of conventional digital machines implementing classifiers with comparable performance. Moreover, the spike-based dynamics display a trade-off between integration time and accuracy, which naturally translates into algorithms that can be flexibly deployed for either fast and approximate classifications, or more accurate classifications at the mere expense of longer running times and higher energy costs. This work finally proves that the neuromorphic approach can be efficiently used in real-world applications and has significant advantages over conventional digital devices when energy consumption is considered. You do not currently have access to this content.
The Drug Abuse & Physical Effects of Drug Abuse. The Physical Effects of Drug Abuse: • Drug abuse can also trigger the development of substance abuse disorder (SUD) which is an illness of the mind that leads people to turn to compulsive behavior about psychoactive substances, regardless of the consequences. • Drug use is not just a negative impact on the physical and mental health of the person who is at the time of use but also after one has stopped taking the substance. They use custom-designed detoxification procedures in conjunction with behavioral therapy and psychotherapy to aid the user in attaining lasting sobriety. Knowing the physical consequences of the use of drugs: • Drugs can affect the functioning of your central nervous system (CNS). They alter the brain’s chemical balance, including hormones and enzyme production as well as the production of antibodies. When used for a long time it builds up a tolerance level to the substance. Due to the disruption in the metabolism of the body, one is prone to an overwhelming urge to use the drug that slowly becomes a major factor in their life. Below we have listed the effects of specific types of drugs that impact the body. • They can stimulate the brain’s CNS. Taking stimulants such as cocaine can increase brain activity and result in the person feeling overconfident or thinking in a racing manner. The physical consequences of addiction to stimulants are an increase in heart rate, elevated blood pressure, a decrease in appetite, and sleepiness. Stimulant use could cause the brain to enter hyperactivity, which can lead to seizures, strokes, and brain hemorrhage. It can also cause heart attacks. • The use of hallucinogens blurs lines between reality and fantasy. The use of these drugs can result in poor decision-making, which can lead to dangerous effects and unwanted circumstances. It can cause gastric problems and jaw pain. • These are inhibitors of the CNS. They reduce the brain’s activity, hyperactivity, and heart rate, making users drowsy and relaxed. Depressant use could also increase the risk of developing negative dependence cycles. Prolonged use of these medications can cause coma and unconsciousness that could be fatal. Substance abuse may have numerous other negative side effects. These include: 1. Immune system weak 2. Heart issues 3. Abdominal pain and nausea 4. Liver damage 5. Seizure, Heart Stroke changes in appetite sleep problems along with weight loss 6. A decrease in brain activity damaged brain cells, and mental confusion 7. Lung disease 8. Memory issues 9. Breast development in men 10. Temperature increase in the body 11. Altered perception 12. Lethargy 13. Vomiting 14. Extreme sweating 15. Uncontrollable mood swings 16. Impairment of cognitive capabilities 17. Tingling in limbs 18. Reduces pain sensation which can cause injury 19. Unplanned sex and pregnancy 20. Drugs can also cause behavior changes for those who use it. Such changes could include: 21. Aggressiveness 22. Paranoia 23. Impaired Judgement 24. Hallucinations 25. Impulsiveness 26. Self-control loss 27. Agitation 28. Suicidal ideation 29. Risk Factors Associated With Drug Abuse 30. The risk associated with addiction is based on many variables, such as: 31. Duration of use 32. Amount of the drugs employed 33. The body is susceptible to a drug 34. The drug’s source 35. The method of administration orally, by inhalation or via injection 36. Current mental state 37. Polysubstance or Uni use 38. Long-term Effects of Addiction 39. An addiction that is prolonged can cause long-term health effects or permanent harm to the body which includes: 40. Increased risk of organ damage 41. Greater chance for developing cancer 42. Women who suffer miscarriages during pregnancy or problems in pregnancy 43. Vessels that have collapsed because of drug administration through injection 44. Restricted jaw moment 45. Depression 46. Anxiety 47. Change in psychological behavior 48. Schizophrenia 49. Asthma 50. Chronic bronchitis 51. A lack of concentration 52. Development and growth is impaired in children 53. Low fertility 54. Greater chance to contract HIV and Hepatitis 55. Suicidal ideas or self-harm 56. Seeking Help 57. When someone you love has a problem with addiction to psychoactive drugs, make contact with our California detox assistance line. We can give you relevant information on a wide range of addiction-related issues.natural Assisted Detox and can provide you with the top detox centers for rapid detox located in California. Drug Use – Advantages and Disadvantages • The raging, uncontrolled drug use is a problem that has been affecting our society and particularly our younger generation for quite a while. It has grown rapidly from a psychological malaise and a bad habit to a threatening social problem and in a lot of countries, prompts strict punitive measures. • Many countries around the world are trying to stop this crime by combining increasing awareness of the dangers of using drugs, severe restrictions on drug use and trafficking, and criminal penalties. But it’s not enough since drug trafficking has been a growing issue across the different social classes and isn’t restricted to a few groups of society. What is the reason that drug use is considered to be among the top destructive and possibly dangerous social negatives? • One of the primary reasons that consumption and dealings with drugs are declared illegal in the world is due to the massive damage they do to the body of the individual. The majority of drugs are of two kinds and act as general stimulants to the nervous system which can nearly overpower the brain and nervous system for short amounts of time. In that time, the user is left with no sense of identity, and the state is typically described as a period of euphoric disconnection, and the user is unable to maintain a normal state of consciousness. The effect is temporary and doesn’t last for long. The euphoria induced by drugs lasts for a short period and usually ends with severe tension and hangovers that can be felt throughout the body. These can manifest as physical or mental reactions. • The majority of drugs are hallucinogenic substances that are mostly of two kinds, Organic as well as inorganic. Organic drugs are generally made from plants and are typically consumed through burning like cigarettes. Inorganic compounds are more difficult to find since they are made in laboratories of pharmaceutical companies and typically come in pills, tablets, and liquid solutions. Scientific studies have revealed that inorganic drugs/narcotic substances can be more harmful and harmful than organic ones although prolonged usage of either can have serious effects. • One could argue that drug use is dependent on a variety of criteria and conditions. There are in fact various reasons for increasing the use of drugs within certain segments of the population. The causes could be from psychological, social, economic, or simply due to biological dependence. The main reason for the long-term usage of drugs is thought to be harmful to health and health is the fact that it causes a feeling of dependency in the user who becomes accustomed to the usage of the drug. Whatever the initial reason, the use of drugs becomes the main goal in these situations and the individual will go to great measures to keep the habit of using drugs. abusers have now become popular, and much sought after to help individuals kick this habit. Leave a Reply
We’d like to take you with us to discover three different fabrics around the world, their origins and their characteristics. In India since about 1870, with periods of decline and recovery, the silkworm is bred. In particular this country is the homland of tussah which is mostly found in the north-eastern Deccan, in Bengal, Assam, Burma and on the Himalayan slope. Compared to traditional silk, tussah silk has an inimitable finesse, a great resistance and excellent recovery following traction and prolonged use of the fabric. Tussah is a fabric with rustic and irregular appearance, with a texture of Tussah silk and a retouched and slightly irregular yarn. Shantung silk is a rough-looking weave fabric that was born from the combination of culture and nature. It was born in Shandong a rich region in the west of China, on the shores of the yellow sea. As everybody knows the silk history in China is really long, a Legend has it that the birth of sericulture is due to Empress XI Ling Shi who discovered the qualities of the cocoon in 5000 a.c. In this region the union of two worms that contract the cocoon together, called a “duplicate”, gave birth to shantung. Shantung silk, once handcrafted on a loom, that has a lot of irregularity that seem flawed to an inexperienced eye, but which makes the fabric unique and so precious. In conclusion Shantung is a braided fabric in taffetas with silk duplicate yarn characterized by a notable irregularity of the title. It is also performed with warp in shappe and double weft. It has been selected because the characteristic yarn that makes this fabric unique. Now let’s fly to Ireland, considered, in combination with Scotland, the home of tweed. Tweed emerged is Scotland and Ireland as a work suit, as a way for the farmers to battle the chilly climate that characterizes those lands. Only during the nineteenth century the wearing of tweed become a gentleman’s way of dressing. The homeland of Irish tweed is the county of Donegal, where even today it weaves on wooden looms. Donegal is a fabric with carded and buttoned weft yarn and semi-combed in the warp. Weft and warp in donegal are dyed in various tints, in fact donegal provides for the insertion of threads with bold colours. The characteristics of Donegal are the rough surface and the sandblasted appearance, mottled in different colors, with many wool particles, called "buttons" coloured on the surface and the sweet hand. Its colours in ancient times also indicated the social status of its wearer: kings could use up to seven colours, poets and bards six, warriors three and servants one. The colours had different origins: green came from heather, brown from peat, dark red from lichen scratched off rocks, purple from myrtle. In antiquity considered a winter fabric it was mostly used for jackets and sports suits
Is Your Wireless Network Slowing Down or Hanging? Here are the most likely reasons why, along with the forgotten available 5 GHz band. Wireless networks offer the convenience of not worrying about being tied to various cables, switches, etc., but they also need to be understood according to their limitations. Necessity But Insufficiency of Interoperability Measures to Assure Smooth Operation of the Wireless Networks Wireless alliances like Wi-Fi and ZigBee certify wireless devices for interoperability which to the end user provide a confidence level of smooth operation between these devices from different manufacturers. For instance this level of interoperability is necessary (but not sufficient) to ensure communications on WLAN Wi-Fi segments containing an Access Point (AP) and a number of wireless client cards. The same concept applies to ZigBee networks where interoperability gives a confidence level for ensuring operation of devices such as a light bulb and a switch, an RF4CE remote control and paired TV, DVD player or set top box, but also insufficient to assure seamless operation of the network over time and under variable environmental conditions especially in demand-response time critical scenarios.
@article{Ritvanen_Pastell_Welling_Raatikainen_2020, title={The nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor of two cricket species - Acheta domesticus and Gryllus bimaculatus}, volume={29}, url={https://journal.fi/afs/article/view/89101}, DOI={10.23986/afsci.89101}, abstractNote={<p>The Kjeldahl method is the most utilized method for total protein content analysis in food. Using the universal <br>nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor of 6.25, the protein content of insects is likely to be overestimated due to their chitin content. We have calculated nitrogen-to-protein conversion factors for two crickets, house cricket (<em>Acheta domesticus</em>) and field cricket (<em>Gryllus bimaculatus</em>), which are used for food and feed in Europe. By analyzing their nitrogen and amino acid content we were able to show that a conversion factor of 5.09 could be used for house cricket and 5.00 for field cricket in protein content calculation. Based on these results with a reservation about slight variation in farming conditions, we suggest a nitrogen conversion factor of 5.0 for both crickets.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Agricultural and Food Science}, author={Ritvanen, Tiina and Pastell, Helena and Welling, Annikki and Raatikainen, Marja}, year={2020}, month={Mar.}, pages={1–5} }
Egypt Civilization Egypt Civilization A great anachronistic debate has surrounded the ancient Egyptian race for various ages among the media and the laypersons. Most modern historians and biologists consider the concept of race to be an inaccurate manner to describe human biological variation. The question first appeared in the 18th and 19th centuries as the product of early racial concepts that were linked to models of racial hierarchy adopted from western civilization which was based on anthropometry. craniometry, and genetics and attempted to interpret and understand the racial identity of the Egyptians and the source of their immortal culture. Egypt Civilization Facts of Ancient Egyptian Race A number of scholars believe the ancient Egyptian culture was directly influenced. by other Afro-Asiatic speaking populations in northeastern Africa, the Middle East or the Maghreb or the various Nubian groups or the populations in Europe. Despite the diversity of the ancient and present-day Egyptians and the fact. that skin color varied between the peoples of upper and lower Egypt some still argue the notion of a black or white Egypt hypothesis and that ancient Egypt was completely homogeneous. The whole subject of black and white. is viewed as a chimera, cultural baggage from western society, and imposed artificially on the ancient Egyptian society. The race of many great names of kings and queens was questioned regarding their race like Tutankhamun, Cleopatra VII and even the great sphinx of Giza. Egypt Civilization Ancient Egyptian Race DNA Testing A genetic study was conducted on 151 mummies in 2017 from northern Egypt using the highest-throughput DNA sequencing method and the. DNA evidence suggested that lower (northern) Egyptians were closer in their DNA construction to middle easterners (Arab, Levantine, and Anatolian) and southern Europeans while the upper (southern) Egyptians were closer. to northeast Africans like Nubians and Sudanese. There was a sub-Saharan African component in the ancestry from 6 to 15% within their genetic construction. The DNA is of the modern Egyptians is quite diverse as it carries traces from. Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf at 17%, Jewish Diaspora at 4%, eastern Africa at 3%, and Asia Minor at 3%. Much greater levels of sub-Saharan African ancestry is located in current-day populations of southern as opposed to northern Egypt. Egypt Civilization History of Race of Ancient Egyptians Many scholars believe that Early Dynastic Egypt (3100 BCE) was the product of primarily indigenous development combined with prolonged small-scale. migration from the trade, military, and other forms of contact. The general theory concerning the ancient Egyptians was neither black nor white but simply Egyptians, a population of largely indigenous origins and a high degree of. continuity across time. Over the later generations of Egypt, it was invaded by foreign forces like the Persian, Assyrian, and Greek which had a small to minimal impact on Egyptian identity. It is also known that the Egyptians. Greeks and Romans attached no form of stigma to the color of the skin and the social pyramid was not based on hierarchical notions of race-based on color. Egypt Civilization Cultures of Ancient Egyptian Race It is accepted by many scholars that the dynastic Egyptians were indigenous to the Nile River area, For about 5.000 years the people of the Middle East entered. the Nile valley bringing wheat, barley, goats, sheep, and different cattle. At that period (4800 BC – 4300 BC) Egypt was referred to as the two lands. Various cultures flourished like the Merimde culture in lower Egypt which had a close. link to the Levant in the middle east, the Buto Maddi culture that excelled in poetry also has a close connection with the southern Levant. In the upper part of Egypt known as Upper Egypt, the barbarian culture followed directly by the Naqada culture. Egypt Civilization Art of Ancient Egyptian Race Ancient Egyptian art was also a major clue in understanding the ancient Egyptians complexions, many ancient tombs, and temples contain thousands of sculptures, written works, paintings, and various artifacts provided. inconclusive evidence of the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians who lived during their dynastic times. The Nubian depicted in the Egyptian paintings ranging from red to brown to black which held distinctly different ethnicities. characteristics. The artworks of ancient Egypt made Champollion declare in 1839 that they are truly extraordinary as they clearly depict the sharply contrasted reddish-brown Egyptians and black Nubians. One of the biggest. examples is the drawing of the book of the Gates of Kings Seti I depicting four groups: Libyans “Themehu“, Nubian “Nehesu“, Astiastic “Aamu” and Egyptian “Reth“. The evolution of ancient Egyptian culture can be traced. back to unity, all the evidence that they judge every person according to their merits and actions, not certainly the color of someone’s skin, the ancient Egyptians achieved immortality by learning how to thrive in pure equality. Egypt has always been the birthplace of beauty and wonder so didn’t miss the chance to explore the majestic destinations of ancient Egypt and all that Egypt has to offer with our variety of Egypt classic tours and choose you. holidays which your tour will be accompanied by an Egyptologist tour guide, or Nile cruise between Luxor and Aswan to experience the ancient temples and tombs.
how much detergent How Much Detergent Should You Use? A detergent is a water-soluble cleansing agent or surfactant that combines impurities and dirt; this makes them soluble and easy to remove. Meanwhile, the difference between it and soap is that detergents do not form a scum with the salts in hard water. Type of Detergents There are three different types of detergents available and they are classified according to the electrical charge of the surfactants; 1. Anionic First, in domestic markets, an estimated 6 billion kilograms of anionic options are produced annually. There are two types of this Aklybenzene Sulfonates the ones with branched Akyl groups and those with linear Akyl groups. 2. Non- ionic Detergent Scientists characterize this detergent by its hydrophilic head groups. All of which are uncharged. In addition, this type is based on polyoxyethylene or glycoside. 3. Cationic Detergent Finally, these types of detergents are similar to anionic detergents and they possess a hydrophilic component. The ammonium sulfate center of this detergent is positively charged. Factors that Determine Amount used The amount of detergent used in laundry goes a long way to determine whether you will get the right result from your laundry or not. The following are factors that determine the amount to use for laundry; 1. How dirty the clothes are Use a varying amount of detergent based on the degree of dirtiness of your clothes. The dirtier the clothes are, the more you use to get all the dirt removed. 2. Size of the load Often directions depend on the drum size of conventional washing machines. Large loads require a high amount of detergent as they will contain more dirt. 3. Degree of the hardness of water In addition, the degree of water hardness varies throughout the country. To get the best laundry result, people in areas with a high degree of water hardness need to make use of more detergents. Amount of Detergent Needed 1. If you’ve pre-soaked the laundry or have heavy stains, you use the amount of detergent prescribed on the instructions for a full load of clothes. 2. Secondly, if your load is small, you will need one teaspoon of liquid or powdered detergent per gallon of water. 4. If you are in an area with hard water, they require you to use about one-fourth more than what the industry recommends per load. In conclusion, there are a lot of factors that play into how much laundry cleaning products you should use, but trust us, you’ll get the hang of it.
Artificial Intelligence: Dawn of a New Age of Central Planning? For centuries have academics and politicians debated the merits and demerits of central planning. Central planning (or economic planning, or planned economy) is a mechanism that directly allocate resources. A central authority decides how and where stuff is produced and consumed. It contrasts with its ideological counterpart, the market mechanism, in which resources are allocated indirectly by buyers and sellers who make decisions within regulated marketplaces. Two different types of societies Central planning works well if you assume that society has relatively simple and fixed goals, that can be understood by a few individuals, so that they can coordinate efforts to reach these goals in a top-down manner. This world would have very homogeneous people, with very similar opinions. If these opinions are not similar, enforcement is necessary – the central planning model does not allow for discussion and differentiation. This model resembles most war economies and dictatorships. The market mechanism, on the contrary, takes the individual as its starting point, rather than the collective. It argues that a market transaction should (and if proper regulation is in place, would) take place if and only if both the seller and the buyer derive value of the deal. The price mechanism, determining prices given supply and demand levels, functions as the oil in the machine. Central Planning vs. Market The biggest practical merit of the market mechanism is that it is amazingly efficient. Individuals have almost infinitely more intimate and complete information on what their own needs and wishes are than any central authority ever could hope to have. In a centrally planned economy, it is one authority that has to know everything about everyone. In a market economy, you only need to know your own needs. A market mechanism is therefore incredibly efficient in satisfying those very needs. Every individual is put in charge of satisfying his own needs. Moreover, the market mechanism is dynamic. As supply (for example, the introduction of a new smartphone, or the invention of an electric motor) and demand (e.g. higher hygiene standards, or lower demand for cigarettes) change and evolve, the mechanism accommodates. It allows for the ultimate process of experimentation and trial-and-error through which individual ingenuity can bring tomorrow’s laggards above today’s mean. A race between ideologies Right degree During much of the Cold War era, the two ideologies were in a true arms race to determine which system worked best. On one side of the spectrum, libertarian views held that (the individuals that make up) the economy should be freed from government interference as much as possible. On the other extreme, socialists and communists proclaimed a firm belief in economic planning. Somewhat in the middle were the Keynesian economists. They believed in the market mechanism, but that it was faulty and that the government should step in whenever it behaves erratically. Over time Over time, a consensus materialized that market impulses are crucial for sustained economic growth. A key event that conclusively shifted beliefs away from central planning is the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the last decade, however, a strong consensus developed that a pure, uncontrolled market mechanism has adverse effects as well – social security and regulation on, for instance, financial markets, are necessary as well. There is plentiful evidence of the success of market economies. Looking at innovations, all major breakthroughs that improved life for society as a whole were rooted in discoveries that were made through experimentation by individuals, that would have never taken place if these individuals had acted on central directions. Looking at countries like China and Russia, it has to be concluded that any economic growth they have seen in recent years has come from moving towards a market economy – not from the elements of central planning that you might still find. In fact, there is no example of successful and sustainable central economic planning. Anywhere. Ever. Over time 2 The discussion seems settled. Only a very myopic mind would still claim that a fully socialist state would result in a somehow desirable society. Even self-proclaimed socialist parties aren’t really that socialist anymore. They take the market mechanism as their foundation – they only see a bigger role for the government in curbing its demerits. Not one single significant political party would still want to dismantle the markets as we know them today. The time of central planning has gone. Or hasn’t it? The rise of AI A while ago, over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons”. The authors of the letters fear a renewed arms race to develop the weapons that are capable of selecting targets and operating autonomously without direct human control. They seek to prevent this arms race before it starts. Right now, their fear centers around (offensive) weapons that can be deployed by human beings. But it is not a stretch to imagine that Artificial Intelligence (AI), when it is conclusively developed, could play a pivotal role in command centers as well, deciding where and when weapons are to be deployed. What if AI, based on information from dozens of sources including satellite images, social media messages, and bank statements, could have predicted the rise of Islamic State already early in 2014, before the movement gained the momentum it has today? And, that preemptively launching a missile, or putting someone in power at a strategic position, might have prevented its rise altogether? What if, on September 10, 2001, an AI-powered computer program would have issued a warning for impending terrorist attacks ? AI could, one day, draw such inferences because it will have access to computational powers far superior to our human brains. Within a single instant, it could access, analyse, and interpret more data than you and I could in our entire lifetimes. Such a situation does seem to exhibit remarkable parallels with the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. If you are the first to employ such a system, it might help you to strategically take out your main adversaries, (long) before they become too strong. You might rule the world. Back to economics Although a positively scary scenario, we have at least a couple of decades left before such a system could ever be deployed – if it would ever be developed. But let’s take this back to our economical discussion. In the dystopian novel the Circle by Dave Eggers, politicians agree to wear a camera, whenever and wherever. Through social media, their audience – that is, the world – can follow their actions. Nothing is hidden anymore. Decisions can be openly judged. Corruption is eradicated. Of course, there are huge downsides as well. It’s dystopian and not utopian, in the first place. But what if politicians could promise, “If you vote for me, I will let AI decide what to do in terms of X”? So, what if AI would become so powerful that it could form an opinion about what the right government policies would be? No black versus white, poor versus rich, man versus women, short versus long term – an “objective” (whatever that means) computer determining an optimal, unbiased, fair, balanced policy. Friedrich von Hayek described in one of his best-known books, The Road to Serfdom, that central planning would ultimately fall short of market mechanisms because planners will never have enough information to carry out the resource allocation reliably. Even if, miraculously, they would have every necessary bit of information, it would be impossible to act on it all – that is, to analyse it, to interpret it, and to derive meaningful conclusions based on it. And that’s exactly where AI could swing the balance. Sure, as long as the central planners are human beings, they would never be able to collect and process all necessary data. But what if they are computers? There are already incredibly complex pieces of hard- and software out there that measure and analyse more than we could comprehend. What’s missing is the software that would connect these separate modules. What’s missing is the computerized central planner. The first signs are here Politicians have tried to “objectify” their economic policies by referring to complex and seemingly independent analyses. In the Netherlands, political parties don’t usually issue economic policy estimates themselves. They create an election program and send it in to the CPB (Netherland Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis). CPB analysts then calculate the effect for government debt levels, economic growth, and unemployment levels. I could write a critique arguing that I can list at least 5 methodological reasons why we shouldn’t trust these estimates – but that’s a blog post for another day. The point is, these independent estimates are taken very seriously. If such AI were to be developed in the future, bear in mind that this would happen, let’s say, at least 50 years from now, but most likely more than 100 years from now. That’s a long time. The people that are born today and tomorrow will be less mistrustful of such technology than you and I, in exactly the same way today’s teenagers grow up with smartphones where their parents did not. They might actually trust AI better than politicians. Who’s to say that some minority political leader may not even have an incentive to use AI for his policies, as he would not stand a chance to win otherwise? So, here’s the big question, in one picture: Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
How to Avoid Awkward Phrasing When Writing Awkward sentences slow down a reader when they are reading an article, essay, work of fiction or even a business document. When you are done crafting a piece of writing, spend some time editing to eliminate awkward phrasing. You will stress your point across more clearly and impress your reader. Step 1 Write a first draft of your piece, and read it aloud. If you stumble over phrasing or have a difficult time conveying your point because of too many commas, rework those sentences. Step 2 Eliminate unnecessary words from each sentence. Look for words such as "it," "they," "by" and "this" that can be taken out. Do not use phrases such as, "the fact of the matter is" or "all things considered." Take out words like "just," "quite" and "perhaps." Scan your document with your red pen, searching for any word or phrase that does not need to be in the sentence. Step 3 Eliminate run-on and long sentences. If you are expressing a lot of information in one sentence, it becomes confusing. See if you can eliminate "which" clauses. For example: Shannon went to Chicago, which was her hometown, in order to go to her class reunion. Instead: Shannon went to her hometown of Chicago to attend her class reunion. Step 4 Use your word program's grammar check. Although it isn't always right, it will point out sentences that are wordy, confusing or grammatically incorrect. Reread the sentence, and see if there is a way you can write it better and more concisely. Read Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" to hone your writing skills. Have a well-read friend read and edit your writing.
Joseph S. Takahashi Receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize Joseph S. Takahashi of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is the recipient of the 2019 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. Takahashi, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, is perhaps best known for his group’s discovery of the Clock gene in mice, which is a master regulator of circadian rhythms in mammals. The prize, which includes a $500,000 unrestricted cash award, will be presented to Takahashi on October 20 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago, Illinois. In search of the genetic basis of circadian rhythms, Takahashi’s group obtained mice with random genetic alterations and looked for any that displayed abnormal circadian behaviors. When given access to running wheels, mice use them at remarkably regular times each day; specifically, the type of mouse Takahashi’s group used in their studies run every 23.7 hours. Among hundreds of mice, the team noticed one that used the wheel on a 25-hour cycle instead, an indicator that there was something unusual about its circadian clock. By breeding the mouse, they determined that its altered circadian behavior was genetic—a major milestone, but to make use of the finding, the group still needed to determine what gene was affected. This was no easy task in the 1990s, when the complete mouse genome was not known and DNA sequencing was much more laborious and costly than it is today. Ultimately, after ten members of the group spent three years working on the problem, they pinned down the gene that was altered in the abnormal mouse and named it Clock. When Takahashi’s group inserted DNA with a normal copy of the gene into the mutant mouse, the mouse’s running pattern was restored to normal, providing further evidence that the Clockgene dictates circadian rhythms in mice. After identifying the Clock gene, the group built on work from others suggesting that it might be expressed outside the brain by demonstrating that the circadian clock was expressed in cells throughout the body. Takahashi’s lab also went on to discover Clock’s partner gene Bmal1; these genes contain the instructions for cells to make the proteins CLOCK and BMAL1, respectively. Working together, the CLOCK–BMAL1 complex affects the ways many other genes are used in a circadian rhythm-dependent fashion. One of the genes the complex regulates, the group found, is Per1, which is related to a gene that controls circadian rhythms in fruit flies. But Per1 is far from the only gene under Clock’s control—Takahashi’s group has discovered that Clock is intertwined with an extensive list of biochemical pathways. It’s even involved in metabolism, as the group found in collaboration with Northwestern University’s Joseph Bass while investigating why mice with mutations in Clock become obese with age. Takahashi has reason to suspect that through its participation in metabolism, Clock may also influence longevity—a topic the group is now investigating. Source: Gruber Foundation – 2019 Gruber Neuroscience Prize Press Release
Most people are aware of the impact missing teeth have on our appearance. Missing teeth can make our faces appear sunken, aged and reduce our confidence. But have you ever wondered about the health implications of not replacing a missing tooth? It’s important to everyone at The Mall that you are fully informed about these and the solutions available to you. According to a study conducted by University College London and Harvard University, the average Briton is missing 6.97 teeth, and an enormous 74% of adults in the UK have had a dental extraction. Tooth loss occurs for a variety of different reasons, including decay, infection, wear, trauma and gum disease. Whatever the reason for tooth loss, the impact on your life is often significant. In addition to the common concerns about appearance, there are other real issues and dangers present if you decide not to replace a missing tooth. Staff at The Mall have compiled a list of potential risks to help you better understand the importance of replacing your missing tooth: Bone Loss One of the most significant risks related to not replacing a missing tooth is bone loss (bone resorption). Bone loss occurs after a tooth is lost or removed because the roots of the tooth are no longer embedded into the jawbone, leaving a void. Over time, resorption will occur and the jawbone will begin to deteriorate. If the missing tooth is not replaced, as your jawbone begins to be affected, you will notice that your face shape will gradually change, and your lips may appear asymmetrical and sunken. Unfortunately, bone resorption doesn’t only impact the tooth that’s missing but also puts you at risk of losing neighbouring teeth. By not immediately replacing a missing tooth, the ability to provide a successful denture, bridge or implant is often compromised owing to the loss of bone. Drifting Teeth If lost teeth are not immediately replaced, this can impact surrounding teeth. The opposing teeth are most likely to be affected and will continue to drift or move until there is an equal and opposing force. They might even drift and touch the opposing gums where the extracted teeth once were. Drifting teeth may cause your bite to change, leading to muscle soreness and temporomandibular joint dysfunction (issues with your jaw joint). Tooth Wear In an attempt to avoid biting and chewing in the area where a tooth or teeth are missing, you will most likely begin overusing other teeth when eating. For example, if a tooth or teeth were extracted on the right side of your mouth, you would begin using the left side of your mouth more. Uneven chewing forces cause excessive wear and can lead to further tooth loss. Reduced Ability to Speak Clearly and Eat Certain Foods A serious risk of not replacing a missing tooth is a reduced ability to speak clearly and eat certain food types. Depending on which tooth or teeth are missing, it may become difficult to bite and chew certain foods. Eventually, this can lead to diminished health and poor nutrition. If certain teeth are missing (such as the ones at the front) it can also impact your ability to speak properly. Pronouncing certain words can be difficult, and you may develop a lisp. Reduced Self-Esteem Reduced confidence is often the most emotionally detrimental effect of a missing tooth. If a missing tooth can be seen when you smile, speak or eat, you may start to avoid doing any of these activities in public. This can impact your social life, your job, and relationships. Depending on your age, career path and relationship status, the cost of a missing tooth throughout your lifetime can add up if you’re not confident to smile, speak or eat in front of other people. Options and Solutions Whilst the potential risks of not replacing a missing tooth or teeth are great, we are fortunate enough to live in a society where options for replacements are readily available. There are several options to consider, including dentures, dental bridges, and the most popular and durable option – dental implants. At The Mall, we offer a wide variety of options for replacing missing teeth. Our experts provide a range of restoration options, from dentures to immediate dental implants. We offer affordable dental implants for as little as £31/week – provided by an expert team, and a unique digital planning system which ensures you receive accurate treatment, which is both functionally and aesthetically sustainable. If you have a missing tooth (or teeth) and would like to explore the variety of options available to you, we offer complimentary consultations at The Mall. To book your complimentary consultation, telephone our front-of-house team on 0161 830 7300. Together, let’s find your smile. Related Posts Missing Teeth – At What Cost? Understanding Dental Implants Losing a tooth and failing to have it replace can risk your oral health. Gaps lead to more space and affect the straightness of your Copyright 2021 The Mall Dental \| Privacy Policy \| Blog Copyright 2021 The Mall Dental
How Railroad Workers Stay Warm and Comfortable Year-Round How Railroad Workers Stay Warm and Comfortable Year-Round Railroads and railroad workers are far from impervious to extreme winter weather. Delays are the least of their worries as derailments, and even personal injury can occur. The impacts of severe weather can have a significant effect on the trains, railroads, and, more importantly, the people who work on them. While railroad workers are in many areas of the country, each division should offer a detailed plan for the area they service. Previous winters can easily allow workers to put together resources when it comes to going forward. Each strategy may be slightly different, but the one thing in common with most plans is the use of thermal underwear for men. The Railroad Winter Action Plan 1. Proper footwear: Icy conditions can’t be prevented, but accidents can be. Having the appropriate footwear like insulated and water-resistant boots, along with shorter steps, can help workers reactions in snow or ice covered areas. 2. Layering: Men’s thermal underwear sets can help as a base layer for all railroad workers for staying warm in cold conditions. Layering properly is vital for railroad worker’s safety. Frostbite and hypothermia can cause damage to tissue and even cause death, which definitely backs that up. Thermal underwear for men made of merino wool or a polyester blend will help distribute body heat and wick away moisture, which can be deadly in extremely cold conditions. These should fit snug and will allow freedom of movement. More layers should be added to make up the middle layer to keep heat in. An outer layer that is wind or water-resistant will help keep moisture from snow and water out. Insulated gloves, boots, and a hat will also reduce the loss of body heat and reduce the risk of frostbite. 3. Clear Switches: Track switches are essential to a railroad’s operations after people. These need to be kept clear of snow and ice build-up. 4. De-Icing: Frost and ice can quickly build-up on the tracks. The fact that trains accumulate ice as they run makes the situation even worse. Powerful heaters are recommended to melt ice faster and using anti-icing chemicals like ethylene glycol. 5. Breaks and Defects: Part of the reality for railroads and their workers are breaks and cracked rails. No matter how durable the steel is, cold will cause the metal to contract in the cold and expand in heat. This can create tension and weaken steel with cracks. Welded joints are weaker spots on the rail. The railroad is an essential industry in the country. As workers do their jobs to operate and maintain the system of railroads, their personal safety is vital in the extreme cold weather. Men’s thermal underwear sets will help as a base layer and are an important step in keeping warm and safe in frigid conditions. Each railroad action plan should always list thermal underwear for men as part of their layering system so workers both young and old can stay warm as they keep America moving. Best Seller Thermals What are you looking for? Your cart
Home > Uncategorized > NBC Reporter’s Makes Chilling and Persuasive Case that Reagan’s “Revolution” was All Based on Race August 3, 2019 NBC News reporter Syreeta McFadden’s opinion piece, “The Democratic Party Can’t Win Back Mythical “Reagan Democrats” Without Forsaking Their Principles“, offers a history of Reagan’s rise to power and, in doing so, offers a compelling case that it was based on race. Here are the two paragraphs that serve as the core of Ms. McFadden’s argument: The mythical Reagan Democrats don’t exist anymore — if they ever did. They were social conservatives whose party affiliation was rooted in a Democratic Party that thankfully no longer exists; moderates of that time are conservatives now, and their conservatism is and was rooted in decades of a culture war that began with a little thing called the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It’s the hard truth for many to admit that the delicate push-pull of the American democracy centers around how vehemently politicians believe they can embrace the dismantling of racial apartheid in America, or that the conservatism worldview, particularly, as embodied by Trump, increasingly embraces bigotry as social and political norm — though that certainly did not begin with him. In the article, Ms. McFadden offers a description of a speech Ronald Reagan gave after his nomination as the Republican’s candidate to oppose Jimmy Carter, a speech I had read about in several articles: It was deeply intentional that, on Aug. 3, 1980, the newly minted Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan gave a speech at the Neshoba County Fair, just outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi, where the bodies of three civil rights workers were discovered in 1964 after they disappeared trying to register African Americans to vote. There Reagan touted his vision of states’ rights and welfare reform with purported colorblind language to appeal to embittered voters feeling abandoned by the Democratic Party after the civil rights era— those who had yet to fully declare themselves Republicans but were certainly social conservatives. “I believe that there are programs like that,” meaning welfare, said the man who is widely credited with popularizing the myth of the black welfare queen, “programs like education and others” — this, in the era of desegregation and busing — “that should be turned back to the states and the local communities with the tax sources to fund them,” he finished before thunderous applause to an all-white audience. “I believe in state’s rights; I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. Perhaps these words don’t resonate in 2019 as they did in 1980 but his audience had no doubt about his references: He was talking about the end of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the end of federal government programs (and state contributions to them) widely seen as benefiting impoverished African American residents more than white ones, the end of federal interference in state efforts to maintain segregation and segregated poverty, and the end of federal oversight that endeavored to bring about America’s mythical promise of justice for all. For me, those words resonate more today than they ever did… for we have come to see that in the broadest sense “social conservatives” are pro-apartheid, anti-egalitarian social Darwinist libertarians who are willing to live in a world where fewer and fewer individuals control more and more wealth in the country thanks to the natural results of deregulated capitalism o long as that world does not require them to spend any time in the presence of those of a different race. And in the paragraphs that follow, Ms. McFadden illustrates how the Democratic Party shed its principles to reach out to these “social conservatives”: To the still mostly white Democrats mollywhopped by the 1980 national campaign and examining the electorate, it was easy to fearfully pivot to the stated proclivities of those voters and forfeit policies that would support and sustain communities of color, who made up most of the statistical working class. Reagan’s war on drugs prepared the ground for the Clinton administration’s 1994 Crime Bill. Reagan’s constant invocation of the welfare queen was repackaged under Clinton as the “end welfare as we know it” — still using black women, as Reagan had, as symbols of government dependency. Today, Democratic Party centrists continue to center their language and thinking to appeal to the same white discomfort with a liberal and inclusive society, the same suspicion that brown folk are getting an unequal share of resources and prosperity in American society.Carter’s defeat in 1980 still looms so large in the Democratic imagination that they are convinced that the nation is and remains center-right and, instead of adopting a vision to capture voters across class and ethnic lines, centrists continue to push the party to direct its energies toward the white working class even as polls, elections and demographics show the actual way forward. This week’s debates really made it obvious that the moderate platform is simply to obstruct any necessary deep structural changes and to placate voters who fear the younger brown and black progressive “hordes.” But we are actually a coalition of people across class and ethnic lines who recognize, finally, that the moderate forces are not our allies, that the “Reagan Democrats” are not the belles of this ball. We are not willing to cede to Republican policies and undermine the desires of our own base. The center has moved left — and, for those relying on the center-right, the panic has set in. After reading this, I understood the source of my misgivings for “centrist” Democrats. When I read that the economic programs proposed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are “too far to the left” or that Pete Buttigieg could never be elected because he’s gay or that we need to stay with the “centrists” like Joe Biden who helped develop and support the “third way” policies of Bill Clinton, I realize that my antipathy for them is based on my belief that IF the Democrats want undercut the “bigotry as social and political norm” that Trump embodies, they must propose policies that are explicitly anti-apartheid, policies that are clearly in favor of federal oversight that strives “to bring about America’s mythical promise of justice for all“, and policies that provide the money needed for people to do “as much as they can for themselves at the community level”. That message WILL alienate the hard-core Trump supporters. But it will also send a message that the Democratic party believes bigotry is unacceptable, that the rule of law should apply to everyone no matter their race or economic status, and that every community needs to have the wherewithal to help their residents live a fruitful and fulfilling life. I truly and sincerely hope that those principles are shared by the majority of Americans in our country. %d bloggers like this:
Guide to Muscadine Wine Muscadine grapes While most wine is made from Vitis vinifera wine grapes, Muscadine (musk-a-dyne) wine is made from a different variety of thick-skinned grapes. The grapes used in Muscadine wine are native to the United States, unlike the other wine grapes which trace their ancestry back to Europe. Grapes Used in Muscadine The grapes used in Muscadine come from the subgenus of Vitis called Muscadinia, also known as Vitis rotundifolia. The grapes originally grew wild but have been cultivated in the Southeastern US since the 17th Century, and they grow well in the warm, humid environment found throughout the South. Unlike other types of wine grapes, Muscadine grapes ripen separately as opposed to in clusters, so they are harvested from August to late October. There are both light-skinned (bronze) and dark-skinned (black) varieties of the grape. The first named variety was a bronze grape called Scuppernong. Varieties used for wine or juice include: • Carlos - the bronze-skinned variety most frequently used in whites • Doreen - a bronze-skinned variety used in whites • Magnolia - a bronze variety used in white wine • Welder - another bronze variety used for whites • Scuppernong - a bronze variety used to make dry whites • Noble - a black -skinned variety used in red wine • Regale - a red wine grape with unique flavors Some varieties of Muscadine aren't used for juices and wines, but rather for eating and making jams, jellies, and preserves. Muscadine Fruit Muscadine and Muscat Are Not the Same Many people confuse Muscadine wines with Muscat or Moscato wines, two wines made from lightly sweet, aromatic, white European grape varieties. Muscadine wines are unique and not related to these wines, despite the similarity in names. Making Muscadine Wine Due to the thickness of grape skins, Muscadine grapes often have difficulty reaching peak ripeness. Because of this, winemakers frequently use chaptalization in the winemaking process to increase the alcohol content of the finished wines. The thickness of the skin does make Muscadine wines relatively high in polyphenols and resveratrol, which are believed to provide wine with its unique health benefits. What Muscadine Wines Taste Like Because sugar is added during chaptalization to increase the alcohol content of the wine, Muscadine wines tend to be sweeter (the minimum residual sugar is about 10 grams per liter and often higher), although it is possible to make a dry wine from Muscadine grapes. The wines have moderately high acidity along with low alcohol content (about 10 percent alcohol by volume). • White Muscadine wines tend to be amber colored and medium-bodied with floral, lime, ripe banana, and tropical flavors as well as aromatics of pine resin. • Red Muscadine wines are also medium-bodied. They tend to be a pale red color with similar aromatics to the whites, and they have flavors of red fruits such as cranberry. • Sometimes, Muscadine wines are blended with fruit, so they produce fruity wines with flavors of the fruit the wine is blended with. How to Drink and Store Muscadine Think of Muscadine as being like a Beaujolais nouveau; drink it chilled and in its youth. Because the compounds in Muscadine oxidize easily, it's not a wine made for aging. • Serve sweet white Muscadine at about 45°F. • Serve dry whites and reds at about 50°F. • You should store Muscadine wines in the refrigerator. • According to Sue at North Carolina's Duplin Winery, you should drink Muscadine within a year or two of purchasing it; if it has a vinegary smell when you open it, then the wine is past its prime. • Drink bottles within a few days of opening. Makers of Muscadine Wines You can find commercially made Muscadine wines in some shops or online. Consider the following winemakers. San Sebastian Winery The San Sebastian Winery in St. Augustine, Florida makes traditional wines and Muscadine wines. The Vintner's Red ($12), Vintner's White ($12), Rosa ($9), and St. Augustine Lighthouse ($18) are all made from Muscadine grapes. Duplin Winery Located in North and South Carolina, the Duplin Winery specializes in sweet Muscadine wines. Wine varieties include reds, whites, rosés, sangria blends, American ports, sparkling wine, alcohol-free wine, and alcohol-free cider. The wines are inexpensive, most costing under $20 per bottle and available online, so it's a great way to try the many expressions of the Muscadine grape. Lakeridge Winery Florida's Lakeridge Winery makes both traditional and Muscadine wines. The Southern Red, Southern White, Sunblush, and Chablis are all semi-dry to sweet Muscadine wines that cost under $12. Purchase the wines on their website. Stonehaus Winery Stonehaus Winery in Tennessee makes some traditional wines, but they also make some fun and unusual wines as well, including Muscadine. The Muscadine and Red Muscadine both cost less than $15 per bottle and you can buy them online. Muscadine and Scuppernong Are Uniquely Southern If you'd like to taste how the American South does wine, then Muscadine/Scuppernong is a great place to start. A different variety of grapes creates uniquely flavored wines steeped in Southern tradition that provide you with a fun and interesting take on wine. Was this page useful? Related & Popular Guide to Muscadine Wine
Contact Information We are available 24/ 7. Email Now Cyber security has become the need of the day and is one of the most important components to have for an organization working over the internet and digital networks. No system or network, either connected to the internet or not, is secure in the contemporary time. There has to be a system and technology to make sure everything is safe. It is not possible without cyber security. It has many levels and different methods and steps to secure digital machines and the data they contain. The 10 Steps To Cyber Security Are Listed Below: Risk Management Regime The first and probably the most important step to effective cyber security is the risk management regime. An organization needs to have a properly framed out plan and policy to tackle issues of cyber security. Risk management regime should have involvement of the top management of the organization. Secure Configuration Having a well-crafted strategy to identify, manage, and fix the security problem of an organization is of immense importance. Without a strategy, no one would be able to effectively identify and tackle any security risk. Without a strategy, the 10 steps to cyber security are incomplete. Network Security Computer networks created over the internet are among the entities that are the most vulnerable to security risks. This is because most cyber-attacks are launched through the internet. There needs to be a policy and plan to prevent any security breach in this regard. Managing User Privileges The access to any account or system given to users should be limited and controlled. In the case of uncontrolled and free access, the systems and sensitive data they contain will be at high risk of damage or theft from the users. Organizations need to manage and control the access of computers and the data they give to the users. User Education and Awareness Employees have a significant role to play in the security culture of their organization. So they should be given education and awareness about the importance of data security to make the organization more secure in terms of data and network security. Incident Management There are fair enough chances that almost every organization has faced or will face security breaching incidents at some point in time due to human errors or loopholes in the cyber security system. Organizations should have a strategy and plan to manage the incident and loss incurred in case of a breach. Malware Prevention With every computer and system connected to the internet, malware can enter and affect these systems. These malware are capable of damaging the systems to a higher degree. Organizations need to have effective and active anti-malware software to prevent any unfortunate event. Monitoring systems and networks helps an organization to detect cyber-attacks well in time. Detecting any attack in time allows the organization to take necessary measures before much damage is done. Also, monitoring enables organizations to get an idea of how hackers try to attack their systems. Removable Media Controls Removable media can be the most common source of cyber-attacks if their movement is not controlled. Malware or any malicious tools can be transferred to the systems of the organization, or data can be stolen through these media. These devices should be monitored and, where possible, banned from entering and leaving the organizational territories. Home and Mobile Working Mobile working from remote locations has emerged as effective practice, but there are certain drawbacks of it as well, such as data security. Organizations should have policies to train and educate their employees to follow company protocols while working remotely. To conclude, 10 steps to cyber security are only effective if they are properly implemented and practiced by the organizations and people connected to them. Also, every organization should be ready to face any kind of situation despite having a fool-proof cyber security system because criminals are always a step ahead. Leave a Reply
1 - 12 of 26 results Evolution Course This asynchronous course is designed to deepen educators' content knowledge in evolution, especially regarding content appropriate for teaching at the high school level. Your Inner Fish This film explores how the genetic and anatomical legacy of a fish can be seen today in the human body. Your Inner Reptile This film explores what our hair, teeth, and hearing reveal about our evolution from ancient reptilian ancestors. The Biology of Skin Color This film explores the hypothesis that different tones of skin color in humans arose as adaptations to the intensity of ultraviolet radiation in different parts of the world. Seeing Single Molecules Move This animation shows how transcription factors find their binding sites in real time. It is based on data from an imaging method that can track single molecules in a living cell. The Origin of Species: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree This film explores the adaptation of anole lizards (genus Anolis) to habitats common across the islands of the Caribbean. The anoles are excellent examples of adaptive radiation, convergent evolution, and speciation through reproductive isolation. The Day the Mesozoic Died
ABC Spells a Better Chance for Students with Autism Tucked in an unlikely corner of a Richmond business park, is a school that caters to the unique needs of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. A Better Chance School is a nonpublic school that operates under the umbrella of the California Autism Foundation, an organization that provides educational and developmental services, job opportunities and housing for individuals with autism. The hallways at ABC are lined with cheerful student portraits and art, and a constant flow of praise for the students is heard. Visitors wouldn’t know that these same teens and young adults were considered difficult students when they were in mainstream schools. The school began 15 years ago, when directors at CAF realized that students needed help transitioning from mainstream school environments into the residential and employment programs the foundation offered. The idea was to create a school with a “functional skills curriculum” that would integrate school academic standards with daily life skills. So, with three students in an office inside CAF’s warehouse facility, ABC began, and since has grown into a multi-classroom site complete with a working kitchen and laundry room and two and a half dozen students. “Community-based learning and real world experiences are an integral part of education at ABC School. When students are learning to count and do math, they are doing it while doing laundry,” said Leslie Werosh, Senior Director of Special Education & Development. “To learn about money, nutrition, and social exchanges, our students take trips to the grocery store.” ABC contracts with surrounding school districts that are unable to adequately meet the needs of students with autism. “Often times, the students that are referred to us are exhibiting behavioral challenges,” said Werosh. She added proudly that the school usually sees significant and immediate progress in student behavior after only a short time at ABC. The school works with the district to establish an Individual Education Plan for each student. Teachers provide constant positive reinforcement and appropriate sensory stimulation to help students shape their behavior. Students are never punished for inappropriate behavior, but rather rewarded with praise, tokens or privileges when they follow directions and expectations. Visitors to the school hear a chorus of praise for tasks ranging from putting materials away, sharing and shaking hands. In addition to the positive interactional atmosphere, the environment is tailored to its students, who tend to have particularly sensitive sensory systems. Fluorescent lights were replaced with softer, incandescent bulbs. Students have access to a Sensory Room, which includes a swing, climbing wall, weight vests and a squeeze machine—all equipment that can help students calm themselves when they become agitated. The students make daily trips into the community to learn money and communication skills. “The trips help the students gain confidence in the community, and it also increases public awareness of autism,” said Werosh. Higher-functioning students attend courses at nearby Contra Costa College, and others participate in the Workability Program—where students work with local employers such as Marriott and the Berkeley Repertory Theater. “Our goal is always to support our students to help them reach their maximum potential,” said Werosh. “Whether a student graduates or transitions back to a district classroom, it is viewed a success.” The classrooms are full of happy students and the hallways are hung with portraits of them. ABC must be doing something right. Comments are closed.
How many African dwarf frogs can you have in a 10-gallon tank? You can have five African dwarf frogs in a 10-gallon tank. African dwarf frogs are tiny and only grow to be around 2.5 inches. Due to their small size, these frogs don’t need a lot of space to thrive. As a general rule, an African dwarf frog only needs around 2 gallons of water in the tank. However, this rule only applies if you have a species tank and keep only African dwarf frogs. If you wish to keep African dwarf frogs in a community tank, you should prepare a 20-gallon tank or bigger, depending on how many frogs and fish you’re keeping.
The Educational Promise of Narrative-Based AI powered by Sounder Educators have been waiting for the promise of AI in education to arrive since the late 1960s. Sure, we’ve had some successful, if albeit narrow, applications. Math and chess are classic examples. We’ve even seen universities use AI to identify students who may need additional attention to stay enrolled. Now, however, AI’s capabilities are exploding, and the field’s innovation currently looks like a hockey stick turned upwards. What hasn’t changed is the nature of human learning. People still learn best through stories. So can we use AI to get back to a narrative-centered learning experience? Dr. Jeremy Roschelle, Executive Director of Learning Sciences Research at Digital Promise, joined the Enrollment Growth University podcast to discuss the next generation of artificial intelligence for educational storytelling and what they’re hoping to build with their $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The Importance of Storytelling in Education Instructors trying to teach tens or hundreds of students simultaneously don’t have time to make slightly different variant story experiences for all their students to be part of. But students are engaged when they feel they belong. Of course, belonging is a powerful human experience, and stories are something that makes us feel like we belong — or that we don’t. Imagine that we are recontextualizing a science lab experience to discover something that’s fundamental to a problem. Maybe a somewhat-familiar disease is spreading, and people have to address some of the scientific questions in different communities. As educators, we want to vary the story of the disease’s spread with different groups of students to let them follow what they are really interested in while still keeping the curricular emphasis. That’s the goal of the course. It’s problem-based learning, learning in teams, and learning through collaboration. A sense of culture and socialization is intrinsic to story, and students find that motivating. Instead of breaking that sense of cultural and socialization with an instructor-driven, one-size-fits-all narrative, how can we keep it going a bit longer? Where are we now in terms of AI in education? The capabilities of AI are suddenly exploding. We all see this happening every day in our lives. We’re talking to home assistants. We’re talking to our watches. We’re used to bots that complete our sentences or suggest people we ought to talk with. The underlying capabilities, number of patents, and the number of researchers are expanding wildly right now. Within the next five years, that’s going to mean new types of applications for education, not just those narrow ones that we’ve seen for the past 30 or so years. AI Progress from A/B Sequencing to Narrative Synthesis We’ve seen a lot of machine learning applications already, and that will likely continue. These applications look for patterns or associations between two things. For example, these can make course sequencing recommendations easier when you have simple A/B variables. Platforms can gather enough data here where instructors may currently be receiving sensible recommendations from a courseware planning assistant. But currently, customizing the narrative-centered experience is rare because it’s too hard, too expensive, and too difficult to scale. The only place you see it is with massively talented faculty members who can weave their students into a story. Not every faculty member is going to have that talent, though, so Jeremy and his team are trying to break through to a learning experience that cannot be created today, something that cannot be assigned A or B. Rocket to Mars Illustration What does AI-based storytelling look like? Inquiry-based science is important to translate to students. Science isn’t just facts. It’s a process with a certain quality. Imagine a group of students engaging with the idea that a month from now, we are going on a trip to Mars together. We’re going there for a scientific project where we want to collect some data on the Martian soil, and we need to plan this out. What instruments are we going to bring? Where are we going to collect our samples? How are we going to analyze them? We may have different interests about what we want to look at on Mars, so we’re going to divide into small groups. We’re all going on this big ship to Mars, so let’s figure out what you want to do when you get there. Then, let’s spend a month of our class time learning about the fundamental physics or chemistry or whatever it is that you need to know. A month from today, the mission starts. We’re going to get on that rocket ship. We’re going to go on this simulated mission to Mars. We’re going to collect our data, and we’re going to come back to class and talk about what we found when we got to Mars. Okay, we can’t produce that kind of simulated experience today because it’s too expensive and complicated. But in five years… well… are you on board? Where to Start Your AI Focus Start by reading about the state of AI. Understand what the technologies can do — voice input, make sense of a sketch, sense patterns, and synthesize constructive actions or texts. Complement that with some readings about human-centered AI, sometimes called responsible AI or ethical AI. We have issues of bias. Tracking some of those issues and becoming aware of them is critical. Then, develop the ability to look under the hood because there are superficial promises being made that if something has AI in it, it’s good. But maybe the team that built that thing really hasn’t gone particularly deep, so kick the tires before you buy. In short, read about the fundamentals, think about the ethics, and build a team that can really kick tires. 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Food: The Chemicals We Eat A proven college text, Food: The Chemicals We Eat, explores the connection between foods familiar to beginning chemistry students and basic scientific concepts central to an understanding of introductory college chemistry. Suitable for use as a chemistry primer for college, high school, and dual language students, the text presents fundamental chemical principles with scientific rigor. The companion lab manual, Fundamentals of Food Chemistry Lab Manual, provides a series of laboratory experiments to accompany the text, systematically guiding students through engaging practice and deepening their theoretical understanding. To cover food chemistry concepts, the authors divide the text into three major sections, specifically “The Foundation of Food Chemistry,” “Chemistry of Food Components Consumed by Humans,” and “Food Additives and Toxicology.” Each section contains all data and facts necessary to fully and clearly explain key topics, such as human senses, the relationship of chemistry to other disciplines, scientific method, analysis, the Periodic Table, chemical reactions, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, food toxicology and additives, as well as pesticides. This review of sample chapters gives evidence to the authors’ thorough presentation of key principles essential to the instruction of basic chemistry, food science, and nutritional chemistry. The text’s inviting style and tone encourage entry-level college students. Throughout the book, multiple illustrations and charts support a reader’s understanding of the meaning and implications of food as the chemicals we consume. Kaur and Gump have written an outstanding text combining clarity of purpose with cogent, current, and timely chemical information. Reviewed by Janie Driscoll, Teacher, New Haven Unified School District, Union City, Calif. Books Received Environmental Impact of Genetically Modified Crops. Natalie Ferry and Angharad M.R. Gatehouse, eds. Oxford University Press1. ISBN: 978-1-84593-409-5. Gluten-Free Food Science and Technology. Eimear Gallagher, ed. Wiley-Blackwell2. ISBN: 978-1-4051-5915-9. Microbiologically Safe Foods. Norma Heredia, Irene Wesley, and Santos García, eds. Wiley-Blackwell2. ISBN: 978-0-470-05333-1. Micro/Nanoencapsulation of Active Food Ingredients. Qingrong Huang, Peter Given, and Michael Qian, eds. Oxford University Press1. ISBN: 978-0-8412-6964-4. Potatoes Postharvest. Bob Pringle, Chris Bishop, and Rob Clayton. Oxford University Press1. ISBN: 978-0-85199-502-1. 1Oxford University Press; 2 Wiley-Blackwell; Houghton Mifflin Co. 222 Berkeley St. Boston, MA 02116-3748 Visit ISBN: 978–0547–08389–6. 2008.
Immediate Gratification or Long-Term Vision: How Patience Pays Off Many wise leaders over the centuries have believed that impatience, or the impulsive desire for immediate gratification, has cost many people their financial fortunes, degrees of fulfillment and even their lives, while the virtues of reason, patience and long-term planning and vision have helped them flourish and rewarded them with many life-extending dividends. But, you may ask, what underlies or determines this difference between the short- and long-term thinkers or possibly between the immediately gratifying gamblers and the long-term investors? This answer demands a deeper look at the basics of human behavior and particularly, the motivations, inspirations or drives behind all human thought and action. According to the Stanford University marshmallow experiment conducted forty years ago referring to a series of studies on deferred gratification led by psychologist Walter Mischel, children who were offered a choice between one small reward (a marshmallow, cookie, or pretzel) provided immediately, or two small rewards if they waited until the experimenter returned about 15 minutes later, showed that those with deferred gratification or patience fared better. In follow-up studies, the researchers found that the children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have greater life outcomes, as measured by a series and variety of life measures. These studies offer insights into human behavior and demonstrate the difference between the two life strategies – short-term gratification or long-term patience – and their life outcomes. Just as for the children above, adults also tend to live their lives by different time horizons, or degrees of patience. This is primarily due to the unique set of values or priorities they hold and the actions that they feel are most to least important in their lives. These unique sets of values ultimately determine each of their short- or long-term strategies and destinies. Every decision an adult makes is determined by what they feel will give them the greatest advantage over disadvantage and greatest reward over risk at any moment in time. Therefore, each of their hierarchy of values will also determine their general, temporal and financial destinies. Whenever wise and mature adults set goals and objectives that are congruent with their highest priorities or values, they increase the probability of taking meaningful actions and achieving their chief aims. They also expand their space and time horizons (patience) and add to their certainty, self-worth and ultimately, net worth. Whenever they set intentions that are in alignment with their highest values, they stimulate their pre-frontal cortex, or executive center, which directs their higher reasoning, fosters their patience and inspires them to live gratefully with more meaningful and fulfilling long-term missions and visions. Mission-Filled Investors Long-Term, Patient, Visionary Leaders Greater Self-Worth Expanded Space And Time Horizons Prefrontal Cortex Governs And Initiates Action True And Authentic Goals That Are Congruent With Their Highest Values Most Important Higher Values Hierarchy Of Values Less Important Lower Values False And Inauthentic Goals That Are Incongruent With Their Highest Values Amygdala Runs And Initiates Reaction Contracted Space And Time Horizons Lesser Self-Worth Immediately Gratifying, Impatient Followers Passionately Addicted Gamblers Whenever unwise, immature adults set goals and objectives that are not aligned with their highest values, but are aligned with their lower values due to subordinating to social ideals or the influential values of outer authorities, they decrease their probability of achieving their assumed aims, and they shrink their time and space horizons and decrease their certainty, self-worth and net worth. Their unfulfilling results lead them to desire immediate gratification in order to compensate for their unfulfilled highest values. Their impulsive behavior is a result of them not feeling they can fulfill what is most important to their lives, and this addictive behavior costs them their long-term meaning and fulfillment and blinds them to their true and lasting rewards of patience. Setting goals that are aligned to lower values results in the amygdala portion of the brain becoming activated, which leads to impatient lifestyles and a life filled with the sufferings of the animal passions and the desires for quick fixes, purchases of depreciating consumables, magic bullets and get rich schemes as well as other immediate gratifications in the remaining areas of their lives. When wise adults live according to their highest values, they increase their probability of achievement and expand their patience through setting ever-greater goals over ever-greater periods. This is where immortal legacies and legends are born, once their goals expand to exceed their own lifespans. Although marshmallows, cookies or pretzels are not the greatest rewards for the average adult’s life, the principle difference between immediate and long-term gratification still applies. This distinction may show up in the difference in strategies of acquiring wealth, from day traders and property flippers to patient dollar-cost-averaging stock or land holders. Even the tax advantages differ between the two strategies and favor the patient, long-term capital gains approach. So the message is clear: when we live congruently with our highest values, we fare well and more masterfully in life, and when we live incongruently with our highest values, we fare ill and live more impulsively in life. The former expands us into leaders that become wealthy; the latter shrinks us into followers that become poor and leads many of the latter to the shrink. Those seeking quick fixes, quick highs, quick rushes, quick stimuli, quick feel goods, quick relationships and quick “somethings” for “nothings,” more often pay the price for their impulsive addictions and immediate gratifications. Greatness takes time. Overnight success often takes 25 years. So determine what you truly value or what is truly most important in your life. Prioritize your daily actions accordingly. Live congruently with what is truly most meaningful. Delegate what is not inspiring to you to eligible others so you can get on with awakening yourself to who you authentically are. In doing so, you will expand your time horizons and make a greater difference to a greater number of people, while leaving your immortal legacy for the world. Your fortune and possible fame is ever-awaiting the true you. Dr. John Demartini is the founder of the Demartini Institute and a human behavioral specialist, educator and author. About The Author Dr. John Demartini Dr. John Demartini, one of the world's leading authorities and educators on human behavior and leadership development, is the founder of the Demartini Institute, which offers an extensive curriculum of more than 76 courses on self-development, life mastery and leadership. Demartini's knowledge is the culmination of 46-plus years of cross-disciplinary research, and he travels internationally full time, addressing audiences in media, seminars and consultations. He is the author of more than 40 self-development books, including the bestseller The Breakthrough Experience, and he has produced numerous audio CDs, DVDs and online programs discussing financial and business mastery, relationship development, health and healing, the art of communication and inspiring education and leadership. Demartini has been featured in film documentaries such as “The Secret,” “The Opus,” and “Oh My God” alongside Ringo Starr, Seal and Hugh Jackman. He has also shared the stage with influential educators Stephen Covey, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Steve Wosniak, Tony Fernandez and Donald Trump. He has appeared on “Larry King Live,” “The Early Show” and “Wall Street,” as well as in the publications Shape, Leadership, Success, Prestige, Entrepreneur and O. For editorial consideration, please contact [email protected](dot)com. Related Posts
Essay writing tutorial: how to write a summary or paraphrase It is very possible to borrow content from a website without actually plagiarizing it. Paraphrasing and summarizing are the two basic ways of making sure content you got from the internet is not plagiarized. Integrating sources into your essays will be a breeze without having to worry about plagiarism. What is paraphrasing and summarizing? Why paraphrasing and summarizing are both essential to an essay 6 Steps to Effective Paraphrasing 1. Rereading the original essay and understanding its full and hidden meaning. 2. Setting of the original essay aside and writing your intended paraphrase essay on an idea card. 3. Jotting down few words just below your paraphrase essay so as to remind you later on how you envision and overall ideal of original material and whether or not you can use it. On top of each idea card, write keywords or phrases that will help indicate the main subject of intended paraphrase. 4. Check the rendition you come up with against the original so as to make sure that your rendition expresses important information in a newer form. 5. Include quotation marks so as to help identify the unique terms or phraseology which you “carried” exactly from another source. 6. Record all the sources you used (including the pages) on your on your idea card so that it’s possible to easily credit it where necessary in case you deem it fit to include it in your essay.
What is TCI TCI is a concept for • Working with groups and teams • Teaching in schools, the university or in continuing, adult education • Counseling and Coaching • Directing institutions and their employees • a conceptual design for the art of living. In essence it is the goal of TCI to facilitate the interaction between tasks and individuals in order to encourage the development of factual, social and self-competence. During the past 30 years the concept of Theme-centered Interaction (TCI) has spread rapidly, and it is one of the most widely used methods in the areas of Humanistic Psychology and of Education. What are the uses of TCI TCI aims to assist people to present and structure their interests in a responsible and self-determined way and to use resources creatively. The TCI training programm is intended to have a lasting effect, in the knowledge that quick successes are often unrealistic. People who think differently are treated with respect. How does TCI function Individuals are seen holistically, meaning that there is room for the three dimensions of body, soul and mind. This allows for a working atmosphere that frees motivation and creative potentials. Disturbances are not disregarded. but used for improving cooperation thus making a climate of esteem and mutual respect possible. TCI emphasizes both methodical skills and personal authenticity. For whom is TCI Facilitating and leading groups according to the TCI concept permits a style of leadership that combines competence, motivation, mutual esteem and goal orientation. It is appropriate for all areas in which people need to work together successfully in all kinds of teams and groups - e.g. management, education, social work. TCI is also helpful for people, who desire to use it to structure their personal lives creatively.
Home Page Monday 22nd March 2021 L.C. to understand how to keep track of money and why it is important to know how much is being spent. Today we are going to discuss the following questions as a class. If you are working from home write down your answers in your home learning book. Why is it important to keep a good track of our money? What ways do you know that you can keep track of how much you have spent?
Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to cunctator: Fabius Maximus Cunctator Procrastination; delay. [Latin cūnctātiō, cūnctātiōn-, from cūnctātus, past participle of cūnctārī, to delay; see konk- in Indo-European roots.] cunc′ta′tive (kŭngk′tā′tĭv, -tə-tĭv) adj. cunc′ta′tor n. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun1.cunctator - someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) delayer - a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late References in classic literature ? Believe me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all the experience of old Cunctators." Lukasz Neubauer categorizes and explicates some examples of Tolkien's philological jests relating to place names (toponyms) and character names (anthroponyms and zoonyms) in "Plain Ignorance in the Vulgar Form: Tolkien's Onomastic Humour in Farmer Giles of Ham." "Pseudo-classical reframing" finds humor in the contrast of faux-formal names with down-to-earth characters like Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo; "Replication of reality" similarly uses such names to comment on character, as in the name of the blacksmith, Fabricius Cunctator, with its implications of delay and falsification. Quintus Fabius Maximus (nicknamed "Cunctator," or "Lingerer") saved Rome from Hannibal's invasion because he protracted the campaign, avoiding decisive engagements with Hannibal's army. Fabius Maximus Cunctator and the Claudii, who advocated remaining in Rome. During the second Punic war the famous general Quintus Fabius Maximus became known as Quintus Fabius Cunctator (the Delayer) as he avoided contact with the enemy until he judged that circumstances were totally in his favour.
Good luck using generative adversarial networks in real life – they're difficult to train and finicky to fix An AI engineer recounts his previous woes to The Register Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a brilliant idea: get two neural networks and pit them against each other to get a machine to generate completely new, realistic looking images. But in practice they are notoriously difficult to train and deploy, as one engineer told El Reg. Jason Antic, a deep learning engineer, runs a tiny two-person operation to develop AI tools that touch up old black-and-white photos with a fresh splash of colour. He then licenses out the machine learning software to genealogy companies like MyHeritage, where users might want to share restored photos among their family members online. All commercial code is based on a free, open-source version that Antic helped build called DeOldify. He experimented with GANs for the DeOldify tool at first. To teach the model to know what colours to apply to specific regions of an image, he built up a training dataset with millions of photos. One half of the data simulated old images, where the colour had been stripped away and pockmarks of noise were added. The other half were made up of the original, full colour photos. By showing the GAN the before and after stages, it should learn how to sharpen and colour people's photos. But it didn't always work out. Sometimes body parts that should be flesh coloured would come out looking a purplish grey, something Antic called "zombie skin". "GANs would spit out very weird specific glitches like odd splashes of colour on someone's hand and it made them look creepy," he told us. In some examples, people have turned an eerie alien green. Generator vs Discriminator GANs are notoriously unstable and tricky to train, Antic explained. The goal is to get the generator to create fake images that are convincing enough to trick the discriminator into thinking that they're real. In DeOldify's case, the generator has to craft a coloured photo that's realistic-looking enough for the discriminator to believe it's a genuine photo like the ones it's seen in the training data. At first, the generator is terrible and the discriminator can easily tell it has done a bad job. Over time, however, with more training, the generator manages to fool the discriminator. How much training exactly is difficult to judge, and developers often don't really know when to stop training their models without going through a trial and error process. Antic told us: "The big difference with GAN-based models and other types of machine learning algorithms is the stopping point is a lot clearer. You'll typically look at where the loss function is at a minimum and where performance plateaus. "But with GANs, it's so difficult to tell because it randomly gets worse and then better again and you can't really figure out how or why very easily. There is no really good indication of when you've trained it sufficiently long enough; the best way of assessing your model is to just look at the images themselves." Trying to fix the model by twiddling around with the parameters is another challenge too. Changing one property of one neural network has unpredictable effects on the other. "It's a bit like chasing a phantom or playing a game of whack-a-mole," Antic said. All sorts of things can go wrong, and either you have to keep fiddling around with it or just retrain it altogether. Unfortunately, this process consumes more time and computational resources and it isn't something that all companies can afford. Antic said he has a workstation with four GPUs that sucks up so much electricity that he has to be careful not to blow a fuse at home. The commercial code Antic provides for MyHeritage doesn't use GANs because they're too inconsistent and unpredictable. Instead, he uses other machine-learning algorithms that are simpler to control and provide better results. Antic still believes that GANs are the future, however. "They replace what is essentially hardcoded by engineers, and that is a good step in the right direction. There are definitely ways to get them to be more reliable, ways that will keep you from going insane. But they’re just not ready right now." He advised engineers thinking of implementing GANs: "Don't chase the trends, chase the results." ® Similar topics Other stories you might like Biting the hand that feeds IT © 1998–2021
2002 Photo Contest, Daily Life, Stories, 2nd prize Francesco Zizola Contrasto for Max 01 March, 1999 Displaced Nuba make their home in a cave near Kalkada village, Nuba Mountains, Sudan. In the mountains of central Sudan, the Nuba people struggle to preserve a culture under threat. The Nuba have lived in the inaccessible and remote region for hundreds of years. However, their numbers are dwindling, as fierce fighting between government troops and the Sudan People's Liberation Army forces thousands to flee, moving to urban centers for food and shelter. Displaced, or forced to hide in caves, they also face hostility from the fundamentalist Muslim government who has declared Nuba Mountain Islam to be heretical. About the photographer Francesco Zizola Born in 1962, since 1980's he has documented the world's major conflicts and their hidden crisis, focusing on the social and humanitarian issues that define life in the developin... This image is collected in
Careers in Information Technology (IT). Information Technology (IT) refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the internet, or the people that work with these technologies. Many companies now have IT departments for managing the computer, network, and other technical areas of their businesses. Many jobs were offered in these departments. A few are discussed below: 1: Software Engineer A software engineer is a highly skilled person in the field of IT whose responsibilities involve the analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of computer software. software Engineers can be further classified into programmer and system analyst. • Programmer Computer programmers are IT professionals who have extensive knowledge and expertise in a programming language. A computer programmer writes programs to solve problems related to business, education, engineering, hospitals, entertainment, etc • System Analyst System analysts analyze the data processing requirement of the organization and develop an information system to implement them. They investigate problems, plan solutions and recommend the type of hardware and software required for implementing solutions. 2: Hardware Engineer Hardware engineers design and manufacture computer hardware. Their work also involves the repair and maintenance of computer hardware. They have in-depth knowledge of the internal working of computers, processors, circuit boards, and other electronic equipment. 3: Network Administrator Network Administrators are responsible for the installation configuration and maintenance of computer networks organizations. They are in charge of the maintenance of computer hardware and software that make up a computer network. 4: Database Administrator A database administrator is a person who is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of a database in an organization. He is also responsible for maintaining security and monitoring the performance of the database. 5: Web Designer A Web Designer is a person whose job is to plan and create websites. He designs web pages that include text, images, sound, video clips, and the website interactive. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the most commonly used language for creating websites. 6: Multimedia Designer A multimedia designer is a person who organizes and skillfully presents information to understand attractively. They combine text, graphics, animations, audio, and video. Multimedia designers create digital images and arrange them in sequence for animation using computer software. They have the skills to edit and manipulate audio/video files. They usually work in the film/TV industry, computer software companies, and advertising companies. 7: Information Security Analyst An Information Security Analyst is a person whose job is to protect information and information system from unauthorized access, use, modification, recording, or destruction. He implements procedures and policies to ensure information security within the organization. 8: Computer Teacher Computer Teacher teaches the subject of computer science to a student to make them computer literate. He conducts lessons on how to operate a computer and the working principles and concepts of computer hardware. He also teaches how to develop computer programs using various programming languages. Post a Comment
The Importance Of Identity 1094 Words5 Pages This leads to understanding Carl Roger’s theory of how the awareness of one’s categorical self then comes to play as we learn to combine and modify identities by conscious choice to realise that along with being separate and distinct, we are also a part of various bigger entities that have varied properties. Our personal identity, personal attitude, values and mannerisms are shaped with respect to acceptance or rejection of reference groups based on an individual’s positive or negative relevance. We soon start to compare ourselves with others and evaluate our position in terms of these properties and understand the significance of categorising. We begin to identify by recognizing what we are not to understand who we really are. The combination…show more content… It is a combination of both the normative period of adolescence and an evolving aspect of adulthood coupled with a constant ongoing effect of each new experience. When transitioning from young to middle adulthood we frequently change our values, goals, the importance in life and whatever it is that we are striving towards. To understand this better we must first understand identity is context oriented. One individual can be a mother, daughter, a manager, a swimmer, etc. Every person thinks, acts and presents themselves differently amongst siblings, friends, colleagues, etc. Therefore, what we remember is context based and changes accordingly. Secondly, certain aspects of who we are remain constant and so what we build on this principle could vary considerably for instance, the qualities of being introverts or extroverts. We may be extroverts at work showing leadership and management qualities but introverts among friends when it comes to spontaneous activities showing how our identity can be altered to some extent. Thirdly, the attachment we have to a part of our identity could vary in time compared to others. For instance, we may belong to a rich religious background however our religious identity may no longer exist meaning we tend to identify certain aspects of who we are more than the others. To be able to make complete use of the functionality of identity we need to let go of our expectations and that of others. Any role we take on always provides an opportunity to forge an identity of our own rather than conforming to an identity already associated with it. In order to exercise flexibilities while we consciously respond to surrounding circumstances what we need to keep in mind are the narrative and values. The memories we make through the different identities and the values learned helps us make sense of who we are to gain a holistic view of how we evolves and Open Document
Friday, June 18, 2021 Did Sakyamurni Cave Monastery acquiesced in 1960? To acquiesce means to accept as inevitable or indisputable; as, to acquiesce to a demand. Taken from Wikipedia below: Blogger Depa Kata Lah questioned the claim Sakyamuni Cave Monastery is more than 100 years old with the argument they only first applied for permit in 2014. Its a simple argument commonly used in political debate. The argument is rather dry, cold, and in your face. Unfortunatey, it has legal relevance. When Perak state issued the land lease in 1960 and approval for quarry operation in 1964, did the Cave Monastery protested? On the hand, the Caves Monastery may get legal relief from the acquiescense. Arjun Mohanakrishnan of made few reports in support of the Cave Monastery against eviction notice by Associated Pan Malayan Cement (APMC), now a subsidiary of YTL Cement. The cause gained support of political cartoonist for Malaysiakini, Zunar. Their online petition on is close to securing 25,000 signatures of support. On the other hand, their informative Kinta Valley Sakyamuni Cave Monastery Facebook has limited followers and its likes hardly surpassed 500. Their You Tube campaigns are getting few thousand viewers, but the most likes received to date is 110. From the APMC response as reported by and press statement (above), the issue of history, religion, and to a limited extent environment may step aside to the issue of safety and legal. The safety aspect were covered in the earlier blog posting and it is not just about the impact of quarrying activities, but the safety of the Cave Monastery, monks and devotees. It is dependent on the respective authority to enforce, and addressed it as diplomatically possible. Most likely, the authority will await a court decision to enforce. A glimpse of the upcoming legal arguments for the court from APMC side can be seen in their statement. They claimed the Cave Monastery ignored the legal rights of APMC for decades. They touched on safety issue to contend that the Cave Monastery have been constructing illegal structures that endangered the safety and environment. And, there is the "we-did-our-part" positive argument of bringing economic activities to the community and contributed to preserving bio-diversity According to the Cave Monastery side as resported by, they have been a custodian of the mountain for decades. Since 1997, they claimed APMC allowed the monastery to remain and practise Buddhism peacefully at Gunung Kanthan. Further more, they claimed the Lafarge plant operations gave his words to allow the Cave Monastery to exist for at least another 50 years in 2009. . Neither monks nor Muslim Lebai would lie, wouldn't they? Maybe to counter this argument, APMC claimed the Cave Monastery and few affected temples have not been operating 'There have not been many religious activities at both temples for a long time. One of the temples carries out no religious activities but the occasional ‘reflexology-massage’ activities, while another is generally not open to the public except on occasions where it allows foreigners into the area for meditation. Yet, the association linked to these ‘illegal’ temples has had the tendency to create controversies to dilute or veil the key facts – safety issue and their illegal presence.' The legal arguments will most likely favour the leaseowner. To quote Geopark officer Ain Maisyara Yazrol as reported by the, the authority acknowledged below: “The geopark is under the PSPC’s purview, but we lack enforcement and laws that exist for state parks,” she said. “So, the geopark is still subject to the (decisions of the) owner (leaseholder) of the land.” Without a court order in their favour, the Cave Monastery days looks numbered. A court order will justify APMC to take action and local authorities and police will have to abide. The court is certainly is the last defense for the Cave Monastery, Hindu temples and other affected entities. The lawyers for the Cave Monastery is left with the optiom to challenge the validity of state decision to issue the lease to APMC. That means searching back documents of more than 61 years. According to a former land officer in Perak, one way is to proof that the state government then did not take into consideration existing users of the land at the time the lease is issued. There should be in existent land office survey report which accounts for all activities on the land, including illegal temple and Cave Monastery. If it is mentioned, the Cave Monastery could claim their existent, if not 100 years, at least 61 years By right, the lease should not be issued until issue related to the existing land users are resolved and settled. This is legally considered as acquiescence. It will strengthen their case should there be a formal protest registered back in the 1960s be it on the land lease or quarrying activities. It is left to the Cave Monastery team to do their research and gather evidence. It requires money and manpower to undertake it. More likely than not, the legal team at APMC have got their act together. The reason lawyers are reluctant to take up the Cave Monastery case is partly the odds is against them winning against a big corporation. The Cave Monastery may have genuine spiritual reason to stay put. However, the best they could would be to stay a bit longer to prepare for their eventual move and get a better financial settlement from APMC. If Tan Sri Vincent Tan could offer RM2 million to the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman Temple, Tan Sri Francis Yeoh could match it or better. A blessful and peaceful settlement for both parties. 1 comment: ssl said... Rm 2 million offer was made after someone up there made a blundder & sent in a group of undesirables to obtain vacant possession. Rm 2 million was not done in good faith. My Say
Parasites Could Be the Source of Bad Health Just thinking about experiencing unwanted living organisms freeloading inside our body will give any person a skirmish, uneasy experiencing. However, parasitic microbe infections are much more common than the majority of people consider. Parasites usually invade sometimes the intestinal tract method, or perhaps the liver organ. These infections may go undiagnosed for many years, even ages, causing from food items and environmentally friendly allergy symptoms, digestive misery and belly bloatedness, to acne breakouts, hormonal agent and endocrine system imbalances. Conventional diagnosis approaches are not generally precise, leading to improper or unsuccessful medical treatment. The original source of parasitic infection can vary. Develop that may be sometimes unwashed, or rinsed in unsanitary water, beef or fish contaminated with microbes, dirty h2o supply, and improper cleanliness in handling pets or household pets can all cause a parasitic contamination. Although it is far from generally possible to avoid all kinds of visibility, steps may be come to lessen risk. • Carefully clean all produce before taking in. • Ensure all species of fish or fish and shellfish is completely cooked. • Opt for lean meats that happen to be locally increased in ‘open pasture’ or ‘free range’ methods, ideally lawn nourished. • Avoid permitting animals or wildlife to lick the mouth, nose, or view. Clean fingers following handling animals. • Assistance wholesome degrees of hydrochloric acidity from the tummy. Hydrochloric acid solution gets rid of most intruders well before they make it to the digestive system. Supplementing with Beanie at each dish will guarantee proper levels. Most people do not have adequate acid from the belly, especially with the widespread use of acid solution inhibitors. As soon as illness has been believed or found, Fitofast review could be fairly easy. Liver organ parasites can be removed within four weeks. Common signs of a parasitic illness from the liver organ are digestive system misery, grain or gluten allergic reactions, hormone imbalances instability relevant to both the ovaries and thyroid, and head fog and exhaustion. Digestive tract parasites may take a little lengthier to deal with. Often a complete 90 days is required to completely eliminate an infection. Parasites will most likely lay down ‘cysts’ or chicken eggs just away from intestinal tract wall surface. These cysts can lay dormant for the very little spanning a 12 months. After the cysts hatch out, they re-enter the intestinal tract exactly where they may give. Actions needs to be taken up help the early hatching from the cysts, hence they might go into the intestines to give on contra –parasitic herbal treatments, making certain a total kill-from the invaders. Castor oil features are very effective at making the ovum to hatch earlier. Common warning signs of intestinal tract parasites are acne or other persistent skin conditions, environmentally friendly and meals allergies, belly bloating and stress, and chronic sinus microbe infections. WordPress Theme: miniaturasdelostalis
background preloader Observational history[edit] The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in both the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Arabs (known as Thurayya), the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee. In Tamil culture this star cluster is attributed to Lord Murugan (Lord Murugan raised by the six sisters known as the Kārththikai Pengal and thus came to be known as Kārtikeyan). In Sanskrit he is known as Skanda. The Nebra sky disk, dated c. 1600 BC. The Babylonian star catalogues name the Pleiades MUL.MUL or "star of stars", and they head the list of stars along the ecliptic, reflecting the fact that they were close to the point of vernal equinox around the 23rd century BC. In Japan, the constellation is mentioned under the name Mutsuraboshi ("six stars") in the 8th century Kojiki and Manyosyu documents. ). Distance[edit] Chimera (genetics) A chimera (also spelled chimaera) is a single organism composed of genetically distinct cells. This can result in male and female organs, two different blood types, or subtle variations in form.[1] Animal chimeras are produced by the merger of multiple fertilized eggs. In plant chimeras, however, the distinct types of tissue may originate from the same zygote, and the difference is often due to mutation during ordinary cell division. Normally, chimerism is not visible on casual inspection; however, it has been detected in the course of proving parentage. Another way that chimerism can occur in animals is by organ transplantation, giving one individual tissues that developed from two different genomes. For example, a bone marrow transplant can change someone's blood type. This condition is either inherited or it is acquired through the infusion of allogeneic hematopoietic cells during transplantation or transfusion. Tetragametic chimerism is a form of congenital chimerism. Arcturus Arcturus is a type K1.5 IIIpe orange giant star, with an absolute magnitude of −0.30. It has likely exhausted its hydrogen from the core and is currently in its active hydrogen shell burning phase. It will continue to expand before entering horizontal branch stage of its life cycle. Observational history[edit] As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been significant to observers since antiquity. According to the Hipparcos satellite, Arcturus is 36.7 light years (11.3 parsecs) from Earth, relatively close in astronomical terms. Visibility[edit] Arcturus has a visual magnitude of −0.04, making it the brightest star north of the celestial equator, and the fourth brightest star in the night sky.[9] However, Alpha Centauri is a bright binary star, whose unresolved components to the naked eye are both fainter than Arcturus. Arcturus is visible from both Earth's hemispheres as it is located 19° north of the celestial equator. Physical properties[edit] Oscillations[edit] China[edit] Brotherhood of the Snake When the Earth descended into the third dimension and the 'Planetary Logos' (the soul of the Earth) entered a new cycle of experience, humans reached their zenith in polar consciousness. To this day, the cycle of opposites and '- the feeling of separation has prevailed. ~One could say that when Atlantis and its continent sank, the ,Earth left the fourth and fifth dimensions to enter the realm of -the three dimensional material structure. With the descent into the third dimension, the remaining human race .lost consciousnes's of the Oneness of all things. Polarity ,awareness took over and instead of harmony, more and more opposites entered the consciousness and the actions of .human beings. Shambhala was the seat of the Evocation of the Masters of Wisdom,, Agartha was the seat of the Invocation of the Masters of Wisdom. In the outer world, each Brotherhood thought of the other one as the dark Brotherhood, the Black Magicians. World politics and religions have the same objective. C/2010 X1 Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is a long-period comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The discovery was made using the automated asteroids discovery program CoLiTec. At the time of discovery, the comet had an apparent magnitude of 19.5,[2] making it about 150,000 times fainter than can be seen with the naked eye.[5] The discoverer, Leonid Elenin, originally estimated that the comet nucleus was 3–4 km in diameter,[6] but more recent estimates place the pre-breakup size of the comet at 2 km.[7] Comet Elenin started disintegrating in August 2011,[8] and as of mid-October 2011 was not visible even using large ground-based telescopes.[9] Brightness[edit] Original and future orbit[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Did Comet ISON survive? Scientists see tiny hope (Update) A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after grazing the sun. Now, there is a sliver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived. New images being analyzed Friday showed a streak of light moving away from the sun that some said could indicate it wasn't game over just yet. "It certainly appears as if there is an object there that is emitting material," said Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Basically a dirty snowball from the fringes of the solar system, scientists had pronounced Comet ISON (EYE'-sahn) dead when it came within 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of the sun Thursday. Some sky gazers speculated early on that it might become the comet of the century because of its brightness, although expectations dimmed over time. Two years ago, a smaller comet, Lovejoy, grazed the sun and survived, but fell apart a couple of days later. Hollow Earth Cities Recently, America watched Stephen Spielberg's TV pilot, a remake of Verne' s "Journey to the Center of the Earth." A maverick team of scientists aboard their melt-proof ship enter the inner Earth through a bubbling volcano. When things cool off, they find themselves exploring a vast and sunny inner landscape . . . a magical and inviting world with ample room to fly. The Agartha Network Think of Shamballa the Lesser as the United Nations of over 100 subterranean cities that form the Agartha Network. Capitol Cities POSID: Primary Atlantean outpost, located beneath the Mato Grosso plains region of Brazil. SHONSHE: Refuge of the Uighur culture, a branch of the Lemurians who chose to form their own colonies 50,000 years ago. RAMA: Remnant of the surface city of Rama, India located near Jaipur. SHINGWA: Remnant of the northern migration of the Uighurs. Spotlight on Telos How can over a million people make their home inside Mt. LEVEL 3: Hydroponic gardens. LEVEL 5: The nature level. Geologic Clock Helps Scientists Determine Moon's Age \| Space Exploration Planetary researchers headed by Dr Seth Jacobson from the Observatory de la Cote d’Azur in Nice, France, say they have determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the Solar System. Moon. Image credit: Luc Viatour. Dr Jacobson with colleagues simulated the growth of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars from a disk of thousands of planetary building blocks orbiting the Sun. By analyzing the growth history of the Earth-like planets from 259 simulations, they discovered a relationship between the time the Earth was impacted by a Mars-sized object to create the Moon and the amount of material added to the Earth after that impact. Augmenting the computer simulation with details on the mass of material added to the Earth by accretion after the formation of the Moon revealed a relationship that works much like a clock to date the Moon-forming event. “We were excited to find a ‘clock’ for the formation time of the Moon that didn’t rely on radiometric dating methods. The Freeman Perspective Sirius Sirius appears bright because of both its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to Earth. At a distance of 2.6 parsecs (8.6 ly), as determined by the Hipparcos astrometry satellite,[5][19][20] the Sirius system is one of Earth's near neighbors. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System, so it will slightly increase in brightness over the next 60,000 years. After that time its distance will begin to recede, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's sky for the next 210,000 years.[21] Sirius A is about twice as massive as the Sun (M☉) and has an absolute visual magnitude of 1.42. Observational history[edit] Sirius, known in ancient Egypt as Sopdet (Greek: Σῶθις Sothis), is recorded in the earliest astronomical records. Ptolemy of Alexandria mapped the stars in Books VII and VIII of his Almagest, in which he used Sirius as the location for the globe's central meridian. The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria named Sirius as Warepil.[42] NASA Hack Space \| SpaceRef Great Moonbuggy Race Winners NASA today declared the winners of the first NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held April 11-12 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. Help Rescue The ISEE-3 Spacecraft And Put It Back to Work ISEE-3 Reboot Project (IRP): Our plan is simple: we intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engine and enter an orbit near Earth, and then resume its original mission - a mission it began in 1978. Hyperspectral Imaging by CubeSats A new hyperspectral camera able to fit in the palm of a hand, compact enough to fly on CubeSat-sized missions, is being developed by ESA. 2014 Spin Your Thesis! Five student teams have been selected for the 2014 Spin Your Thesis! NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog If two is company and three is a crowd, what is four - especially when you are living and working in close quarters and under stress for several days? NIST Chips Help BICEP2 Telescope Legs For Robotnaut 2
The coronavirus pandemic has proven to be a catalyst for some incredible discoveries in science and medicine. It has also shown that if given the chance some people will believe just about anything. While the "information superhighway" has provided us with a great deal of useful information over the past year as we have dealt with the coronavirus pandemic. It has also been an incredible source of rumors, conjecture, and just outright misinformation as well. There has been no greater source of misinformation during the pandemic than the kind of stories that have been written about medications that could be used to treat the virus and its symptoms. You might remember a drug called hydroxychloroquine and a certain politician who swore during the early months of the pandemic that it was going to be our nation's saving grace. You don't hear much about the medication now. But what you do hear about is people using the Internet to find other "treatments" for the coronavirus than those actually approved by vetted medical professionals. One such medicine that has generated a lot of "interest" online is the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin. Dr. Mark Ryan, Director of the Louisiana Poison Control Center was asked about the medication. His response was chronicled in a story published by the Louisiana Radio Network. Dr. Ryan did say the medication has been used to treat some conditions in humans but that's not where it's primarily used in today's modern medicine. If you're in the farming or ranching business you know that medication is most often prescribed for horses or other animals. However, some people, who believe they know better than vetted medical science have published stories online suggesting that Ivermectin is a "cure" for coronavirus. It is true Ivermectin has been used to treat medical maladies in humans. But that was many years ago and the symptoms and diseases Ivermectin supposedly cured can now be cured better, faster, and more safely using other medications. One thing medical scientists are pretty sure about, concerning this medicine, is that it doesn't cure or prevent coronavirus in humans. There have actually been studies done about Ivermectin and its ability to treat coronavirus patients but none of those studies seem to shed any credence to claims that it would work any better against the disease than a sugar pill. Still, there are some who insist that the medication is a good choice in dealing with the virus. Apparently, none of those people are doctors. So despite what you may have heard or read online about Ivermectin it's probably not a good choice to self-prescribe and self-medicate. Then again, it's never a good idea to do that. If you want to ask your healthcare provider about Ivermectin you certainly can. In fact, you should ask your healthcare provider questions about every medicine they prescribe for you. What You Need to Prepare Your Dog for a Road Trip
Sunday, 7 July 2019 Mozambique Place Names Explained Maputo, the capital and largest city of Mozambique, was known as Lourenco Marques until 1976, this the name of the Portuguese navigator who explored this area in 1544. Maputo shares its name with the Maputo River, itself formerly known as the Suthu River, itself from suthu and either refers to the Basotho people or the colour of the muddy waters of the river. The present names of both were derived from the link to the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO and, from the etymologist's point of view, of little interest. Angoche, like the capital, had been known by a different name prior to independence in 1976. Earlier the name of Antonio Enes referred to the 19th century Portuguese journalist and colonial administrator Antion Jose Enes. Beira was named to honour the Portuguese Crown Prince Dom Luis Filipe, prior to that it was known as Chiveve after the local river. Beira is also the name of a rare antelope, it is not clear if this is why the name was chosen and the origin of the river name is unknown. Catandica took its name from the son of a local chief who served in the army. Chimoio is taken from one of the sons of Ganda, a chief of the Moyo clan. Chimoio was a great hunter, he once killed an elephant while on land held by a neighbouring tribe. This was considered a crime punishable by death. His father agreed to the execution but requested his family be allowed to settle close to the grave to watch over the remains. This gave the name of Chimoio or 'little heart' to the region. Chinde shares a name with the Chinde River on which it stands, the meaning of the name is unknown. Cuamba was originally named Nova Freixo, this taken from the name of Freixo de Espada a Cinta in Portugal, this the birthplace of Sarmento Rodrigues, the governor general of Mozambique. Cuamba is the original name of the place and of uncertain origin. Gurue had earlier been named Vila Junqueiro, this taken from the name of a company producing tea Plantacoes Manuel Saraiva Junquiero. This is only slightly more unusual than the name Gurue, this a local tribal dialect either the name of a local tribal chief or their name for the peccary, a pig-like animal. Inhambane had been known as Terra de Boa Gente by the Portuguese, this meaning 'the Land of the Good People'. Lichinga was known as Villa Cabal to the Portuguese, this translates as 'full house' as it was designed to become a fast growth urban centre. Manica takes its name from the Kingdom of Manica, its origins are unknown. Matola is from the name of the kingdom here when colonists arrived, it continues to be a common surname locally. Maxixe is named after an African chief. Nampula is held to be from the word whampula, the name of a legendary tribal chief in this area. Pemba was founded as Porto Amelia by the Niassa Company in 1904, named after the Queen of Portugal. Ponto da Ouro translates as 'tip of gold', referring to the beach at the tip of the cape. Quelimane has two explanations, neither of which are particularly convincing. Some suggest the Portuguese found an Arab here when they arrived, he acted as interpreter and the place named from the Swahili for 'interpreter'. An alternative explanation speaks of a visit from Vasco da Gama who, on reaching here in 1498, asked "Who are you?" and heard the reply kuliamani. Unfortunately the people misunderstood the question and thought he had asked "what are you doing?" to which they responded "we are cultivating", which is exactly what kuliamani means. Tete comes from the local Nyungwe word mitete meaning 'reed'. Vilankulo is named after tribal chief Gamela Vilankulo Mukoke, with some of the districts here named after his sons. 1. If you are gоing foｒ most excеllent contents like me, just go to see this website everу daay since іt proѵiⅾes feature contents, thanks content seem to be running off the screen in Chrome. browser compatibility but I figured I'd post to let you know. the internet shall be a lot more useful than ever before. yet I never found any interesting article like yours. I’ve been browsing online greater than 3 hours
-on art, drawing and doodling Creating a high-quality scientific illustration requires a thorough understanding of biological processes, anatomy, and structural diversity. A major part of learning to identify birds, insects or plants is knowing the key structures to focus on. Comparing limb bones among vertebrates requires an understanding of skeletal anatomy and evolutionary shifts. Biological illustration requires biological knowledge. But knowledge isn’t enough; if it were, anyone graduating with a biology degree could recreate Audubon’s bird portraits or Leonardo’s anatomical figures. Observation skills are crucial. The abilities to see without bias and to focus on detail and pattern require training, not talent. %d bloggers like this:
Spark Plugs Go Black- A Real Problem Last Update On: May 6, 2021 \| Author: The Spark plugs are the crucial components of an engine that generate electricity to ignite the fuel-air mixture inside the vehicle for producing energy. Most OE spark plugs have a life of more than 100,000 miles. Throughout the journey, your clean spark plugs can turn into black spark plugs. Black spark plugs indicate your spark plug going bad. Of course, a bad spark plug would be the biggest problem for your cars. sign of bad spark plug see what causes to be a bad spark plug Why Does Spark Plug Turn Black? The most common issue could be if your spark plugs are old enough and have carbon buildup on them the way may not be able to fully burn the fuel mixture. This can lead your spark to black. Cause every spark plugs have a limited lifespan and turn black over time. Here we are going to focus on some keystone points that make spark plugs black. In particular, spark plugs can blacken all together or only by one or two of the set. Also, the spark plug can turn black only on one side or to the entire diameter. Generally, The causes of this can be low-quality fuel, Besides problems with ignition. Moreover, the incompatibility of the air-fuel mixture. Carbon Monoxide is caused by partially burning fuel. In its tiny form, a fuel molecule can be compared to a fire log. If you put 1 fire log in a pit and let it burn efficiently with enough oxygen to support combustion it would leave white ash on the outside as it burns to the core. If it continued to burn efficiently, it would leave nothing but a tiny amount of white ash. The black on your plug is the outer carbon shell. If your mixture has never burnt well, you can wipe off the black carbon and find nothing but more black carbon. Sometimes Water can be the cause. It is very rare actually if water can get into the engine. But make no mistake first, when you wash your car or motorcycle, water may enter the air filter and inundate the filter area. Another thing that could make your spark plugs black it’s your air filter. if you haven’t replaced your air filter in such a prolonged time it can get plugged up with dirt over case the engine is not able to consume air easily this can cause the engine to compensate with declining more fuel in the combustion process. What does it mean when spark plugs are black? if you notice that your engine is not working well that used to serve you before and found your spark plug black. You may gonna fall into some trouble. Generally, when the spark plug turns to the blacken engine leads you to cost more money which means that it is pumping in more fuel. What Will Happen if The Spark Plugs Turn Black? 1. Engine Misfires An engine misfire results in the engine to stop for a moment and then regain its normal operation. This is most recognizable when accelerating or when the car is idle. This means the engine is not functioning as smoothly as it should because one or more spark plugs are not firing properly. However, unless the spark plugs are replaced the new converter could soon fail. Engine misfires can be caused by a list of faults, but there are a few suspects that occur more than others. The primary culprit is simple – spark or fuel or the fuel-delivery system. 2. Spark Plugs misshaped If your spark plugs are not gapped correctly it will lead you to massive trouble. Gapping is mandatory for every vehicle while there are different gaps for different engines. Spark plugs that are not gapped properly will cause the engine to either skip firing, or ignite too soon in the compression stroke. When the black coat warps the spark plug tip it reduces the spark plug gap. The gap between the center and side electrodes of a spark plug must be an exact distance; otherwise, your plugs don’t fire efficiently. Improperly gapped spark plugs cannot remove heat from the cylinder ignition chamber. How To Clean A Spark Plug? For better performance, a clean spark plug is mandatory for all types of vehicles. A normal spark plug will have brown on the side electrode. Everything is just fine with your spark plug; you can check and reinstall the spark plug. There are several methods to clean spark plugs. However, there is no such thing called a spark plug cleaning liquid as that’s not the way to clean the plug. Cleaning the Spark Plug With Sandpaper is the most known method to remove black from spark plugs. few steps to clean with sandpaper. Firstly, you have the spark plug out, using a piece of fine sandpaper gently sand it. Secondly, If the gap is large enough, fold the sandpaper in half, slide it between the arm and the electrode and slide it back and forth. Finally, Blow off the sanded areas with an air hose or a burst of hair. Sometimes detergent could help you out to clean your black spark plug. While you only need Lil bit of detergent, a plastic cup, and a toothbrush. The only thing you have to do is pour some detergent in the cup and then drown the spark plug into the detergent(without insulator). Leave it there for 30-40 minutes. after that clean it with warm water and brush will remove your rust. then dry it with a towel. In the end, heat it with a hair dryer or in an oven. Author - Robert F. Lewis Hi, I am Robert, I have an automotive shop where I sell different types of automotive for cars. Such as the Catalytic Converter, Impact Wrench, shock Absorbers, etc. Because of my business, I have to face so many customers of this automotive, I saw many clients face difficulties with maintenance, not getting the exact amount of service and comfort, buying the wrong one. All those problems they face because of their lack of knowledge about this automotive. 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An advocate of neutrality in international affairs. Advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea. The Goal of the "Brown" Collection is to pay homage to black and brown people all over the universe. For years culture has taught that black and browns are "minority" and "inferior. We choose to prove that neutrals has its beauty, not just in color but in culture. If we lived in a world where being neutral was celebrated as often as it is mitigated, perhaps our society would be a better, more peaceful, and more unified place. The culture of brown is not just about celebrating color but celebrating forward-thinking unashamed of the faith that has brought us and the Savior that keeps us.
Short and Long Fur • Software:Photoshop CS6 · • Difficulty:Beginner Rules of the Exercise • 1 Download and open the practice worksheet for this exercise. • 2 Observe and analyze the subject matter. Follow the guides of the instructor notes. • 3 Submit your work for this exercise under the "Submissions" tab for grading! Drawing and painting fur has been one of the most requested exercise tutorials, and it's about time we scratch that itch! There are many types of fur: some smooth and others rough, there is short fur and long. It's good to practice a variety of different furs, and in this exercise we are going to specifically focus on two: short and long fur. I realize the long fur is not incredibly long but the same approach applies. There is a HUGE difference when handling short and long fur. I encourage that for this exercise you do NOT use a fur brush, but rather learn how to do it with a basic brush, and really analyze where the shadows are placed or how the fur overlaps. If drawing creatures or animals is of interest to you, I recommend taking the time to study and understand how to paint fur accurately and as efficiently as possible. There are a lot of custom brushes that can make this easier and I do think you should use them when creating concept art for a client or need to create a quick sample of the final product. However, I think it's important to use the basic brushes at first so that you are forced to create the fur on a more meticulous level, which requires you to observe and really see how fur lays and looks. Take your time with this one. It can be a pain but it's worth seeing the finished final product! Below is the practice worksheet that you can download. You can find this on the “Downloads” tab under the header image near the top of this exercise. Exercise45_FurHandout SHORT: Don't focus on each individual strand, instead create a solid foundation of color and value first and then work the texture and details up. But don't over detail; focus on the subtle shifts in values. Then you can add more isolated details where you want the viewer to be looking. LONG: Long hair is a bit different and can be time consuming. BE PATIENT. I would recommend doing a quick sketch of the major edges, but keep it quick as this won't be the final linear; this is just for indication. From there, lay down your initial values, most likely having cast shadows underneath your different fur segments. Keep the brush size larger and keep refining it at a natural pace. Do NOT paint individual strands of hair at this point. Save that till last! Painting shapes can help, and don't lay down heavily contrasted values. You may notice how unnatural that can look - and it's the subtle contrasts that will make sure it looks realistic. Once you have the edges cleaned up enough, then you can add those smaller details and individual strands as the finishing touch! • Use references! Pinterest is filled with great references to use as examples. • Study the overall flow of the hair and keep your brushstrokes in the same direction to create a better look to the fur. • Creating a soft edge yet solid foundation first is crucial to helping be more efficient with your time so that you're not wasting details when you don't have to. Fur can be tough, so be patient and don't rush the details. If you really analyze the movement and shaping of fur, you can see how intricate and fluid it can be. So instead of creating individual brushstrokes to represent fur or drawing triangles, instead work with layering the shapes and keeping the flow moving in a general direction. I recommend starting with a solid foundational value along with a slightly darker one. This allows an easy buildup of lighter values to create the illusion of fur. From there, I lay down the initial sketch and general direction of the fur which is important because it creates a guide to follow along. And remember that you should let the fur to feel messy in areas while still following the general direction. Fur that looks too perfect may not look like fur at all but rather something more synthetic. When putting down the lighter values, avoid going straight for white. Instead, build it up slowly to create a more natural progression of values. I personally avoid pushing highlights at all because this can be a distraction and often strong highlights aren't necessary. Always control your brushstrokes to follow the flow of the hair. From there, it's all about cleaning up the details and pushing edges that feel blurry or muddy. Once I'm satisfied with a solid outcome, I will then pump up the contrasts if necessary, usually with the "Levels" adjustment slider bar which can be found under the "Image" tab on the tab menu, then "Adjustments". And typically you want an area of interest for your viewer to look at. A soft, lighter "gradient" starting where the light source is coming from will do the trick! If you're looking to add Color, then a "Color" Layer Blend mode is a great choice for going from greyscale to color. This can be achieved by creating a new layer on top and changing the mode under the "Layers" menu to "Color", instead of the default "Normal". Then choose your color and paint over the grey to add color! This is only one of many way to paint the illusion of fur, but hopefully it can help you out if you're looking to creating some fur in your own work! Exercise45_Fur
United States Backsliding on Death Penalty Readers will have heard the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” more times than they can count. As we know, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote those words in the Declaration of Independence. We’ve also heard the phrase “with liberty and justice for all”. Of course, that comes from the Pledge of Allegiance. What does the right to life entail? Too often, we hear it applied narrowly by the anti-abortion lobby. More accurately, the right to life is about the security of the person. In English Common Law, we first see the provisions that underlie the right to security of the person in the English Bill of Rights of 1689. One of the provisions reads, “That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” We talked about the phrase “cruel and unusual punishment” in an earlier post. As we said there, the same phrase appears in the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It also appears in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and in countless human rights instruments in countries around the world. All governments impose sentences on citizens who break the law. When are those sentences considered “cruel and unusual punishment”? We’ve noted before that this changes as societies progress. For example, the earlier post where we took up this topic dealt with solitary confinement. We’ve learned over time that solitary confinement, when used excessively, is tantamount to torture. More and more governments are limiting, and even eliminating its use in prisons. A similar trend is arising in another area of sentencing. That trend involves capital punishment. Fifty years ago, most countries used the death penalty. Today, the overwhelming majority do not. Of the 193 member states in the United Nations, 160 have abolished or stopped practicing the death penalty. That’s 83%. We can see a clear trend toward global abolition of capital punishment. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said “the death penalty has no place in the 21st century”. Yet, we see a disturbing trend in one country, where progress has been backsliding on human rights law generally. That country is the United States. This week, we heard that US Attorney General William Barr has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to resume executions. They will begin again in December. These executions apply to 5 of the 61 people on death row in federal prisons. Although the death penalty is still on the books in the United States, there hasn’t been an execution at the federal level since 2003. President Trump has always been a strong advocate for capital punishment. He gives two reasons for his position. He says that it’s an effective deterrent and a proper punishment. As on most other topics, he is wrong on both counts. A recent study by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center shows that the murder rate actually declines after countries abolish the death penalty. Earlier studies confirm this. As we have seen, most countries have concluded that capital punishment is not a proper punishment. They agree with the Secretary General that it’s cruel and unusual punishment by modern standards. Another troubling aspect of capital punishment is the risk of getting it wrong. Death is final. If we execute the wrong person, we have no remedy for our mistake. A study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences conservatively estimated that 4% of prisoners on death row are not guilty. Based on that, the odds suggest that the United States may be executing 10 innocent people per year. When courts retry capital cases, 7% of defendants are acquitted and 80% have their death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Given all these issues, why is the Trump Administration doing this? Trump needs votes. Most Democrats oppose capital punishment and most of Trump’s base supports it. Trump sees this as a wedge issue that he can use to motivate voters and cling to power. This has nothing to do with deterrence or justice. The people sitting on death row have become a political football. If you are opposed what William Barr is trying to do, you can contact him to protest. Here is the contact form. We believe that that the Attorney General needs a reminder of what the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” mean. Learn More: Rate of false conviction of criminal defendants who are sentenced to death 21 Wrongfully Convicted Death Penalty Statistics Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
What is Cybersecurity? At Divergence Academy, we have watched the world of cybersecurity become increasingly complex. The internet has revolutionized the way people communicate and how businesses operate, but it has created a data-rich playground for shady characters online. Consequently, the growth of internet usage has coincided with an increased demand for cybersecurity 101 training and skilled professionals who can safeguard personal and corporate data. Cybersecurity refers to the knowledge, skill sets, and practices developed to protect devices, systems, and data from online threats. These threats may manifest in the form of malware, viruses, data breaches, ransomware, and phishing scams. Comprehensive cybersecurity requires the cooperation of business owners, workers, and tech professionals to safeguard data. Why is Cybersecurity Important? Unfortunately, most businesses only take cybersecurity threats seriously after experiencing a breach or near-breach. Taking a more proactive approach to cybersecurity is a far better option because damage control can be expensive. Counteracting Human Error Did you know that employees are the biggest cybersecurity risk at businesses? This is why so many organizations now include cybersecurity 101 training as a mandatory orientation or annual course. Hiring cybersecurity professionals further helps to counteract the risk of human error. Tackling Complexity As hackers find new ways to compromise corporate and personal data, IT professionals struggle to pre-empt them or stop them in their tracks. Consequently, cybersecurity 101 and advanced tech training are crucial for safeguarding businesses and preserving consumer privacy. Reducing Frequency Every business needs protection. Not even small businesses and rural government agencies are immune to hackers. In fact, the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland found that an entity becomes a victim of hacking every 39 seconds. Reducing Costs The cost of data breaches is also on the rise. In the past 17 years, costs climbed from an average of $3.86 million to $4.24 million. It is far less expensive to invest in preventative measures, such as zero-trust networks, multi-factor authentication, and VPNs. Preserving Confidentiality People have a right to their privacy. In California and the European Union, this has been encoded into data privacy laws. However, without cybersecurity, no person or organization is safe from the prying eyes of hackers and online thieves — even with data privacy laws in place. What Cybersecurity Protects Over the past few decades, hardware and software components have become smaller but more complex. This allows them to meet the growing needs of users. However, portability and increased capabilities can create even more loopholes. These are the components cybersecurity protects: Why Choose Divergence Academy We are an educational institution focused on creating the cybersecurity professionals of tomorrow. It begins with empowering students of today and equipping them with the knowledge to tackle increasingly complex forms of cybersecurity threats. We specialize in providing cybersecurity 101 and advanced training and certifications. Check out our available courses today.
Structure and function of skin Heat regulation is controlled in the following ways: While its significance is certainly not established, it is possible that it is concerned with subtle chemical communication by smell or taste. Their distribution extends farther toward the skin surface than that of the pigment cells. Size of scales vary from minute spots to quite large sheets of skin. Fibrous rootlets anchor the club to the surrounding follicular tissue. Yet humans have more and larger glands than most mammals, and there is a specific plan in their distribution: The outer layer or tunica fibrosa is composed of densely packed connective-tissue which connects with fibers from the spongy intermediate layer where elastic fibers as well as nerves reside. In other words, mature insects do not grow. There was a problem providing the content you requested Other features visible on the skin surface which may be considered a disorder. Anything that interferes with skin function or causes changes in appearance see Effects of Aging on the Skin can have important consequences for physical and mental health. Many of the reactions involved in cellular respiration happen in the mitochondria. A network of extendable elastic fibres keeps the skin taut and restores it after it has been stretched. On the other hand, an epidermal growth factor EGF has been isolated from the salivary glands of mice and its chemical structure determined a single-chain, folded polypeptide with 53 amino acid residues and three intramolecular disulfide bonds. In some insects there are stretch receptors associated with muscle fibres, apparently similar to those in vertebrates. Pain and touch receptors are closer to the surface. Mitochondria - Turning on the Powerhouse See, how to treat sunburn. Most of the dividing cells are found in the basal layer, although it is likely that about one-third of the divisions occur above this level. The corpuscular endings are further differentiated as encapsulated or nonencapsulated receptors. In addition to thermal and psychological sweating, some individuals sweat on the face and forehead in response to certain chemical substances. There was a problem providing the content you requested One of these, the epidermal-cell-derived thymocyte-activating factor ETAFis also secreted by epidermal Langerhans cells. The sebaceous glands secrete sebum into hair follicles. The subcutaneous layer under the dermis is made up of connective tissue and fat a good insulator. This region resides as a ring of cells surrounding the basal portion of the duct which are argued to have an ectodermal muscular nature due to their influence over the lumen space inside the tube of the duct with dilation and constriction functions during secretions. Either the production of cells in the malpighian layer must be abnormally high or their time of passage must be decreased. They can invade normal skin areas or wounds. Insect Structure and Function If it low, it leads to dry skin. Confocal image of the stratum basale already showing some papillae Composed mainly of proliferating and non-proliferating keratinocytes, attached to the basement membrane by hemidesmosomes. Different classifications of animals have different types of skin, like, fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds. Layer Of Fat Below the dermis is a layer of fat that helps to keep the body insulated against temperature extremes and also gives shape to the body. Hair Human hair has little protective value, even in hirsute excessively hairy persons. The naturally acid pH of the skin's surface inhibits bacterial production. Structure and functions of the skin Skin structure The skin is the largest organ of the body. New cells continually move towards the surface. Psychopaths' brains show differences in structure and function Date: November 30, Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Images of prisoners' brains show important differences. Mitochondria - Turning on the Powerhouse Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell. They are organelles that act like a digestive system which takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy rich molecules for the cell. The biochemical processes of the cell are known as cellular of the reactions involved in cellular respiration happen in the mitochondria. The Structure and Function of Skin, Third Edition is devoted to all matters pertaining to the structure and function of the skin. Drawing upon the accumulated data derived from embryology, histology, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, this book presents an overview of skin, with emphasis on human skin. 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Press "Enter" to skip to content Facebook researchers collect thousands of hours of first-person video to train AI If the AIs of the future are, as many tech companies seem to hope, going to look through our eyes in the form of AR glasses and other wearables, they’ll need to learn how to make sense of the human perspective. We’re used to it, of course, but there’s remarkably little first-person video footage of everyday tasks out there — which is why Facebook put collected a few thousand hours for a new publicly available dataset. The challenge Facebook is attempting to get a grip on is simply that even the most impressive of object and scene recognition models today have been trained almost exclusively on third-person perspectives. So it can recognize a person cooking, but only if it sees that person standing in a kitchen, not if the view is from the person’s eyes. Or it will recognize a bike, but not from the perspective of the rider. It’s a perspective shift that we take for granted, since it’s a natural part of our experience, but that computers find quite difficult. The solution to machine learning problems is generally either more or better data, and this case it can’t hurt to have both. So Facebook contacted research partners around the world to collect first-person video of common activities like cooking, grocery shopping, typing shoelaces, or just hanging out. The 13 partner universities collected thousands of hours of video from more than 700 participants in 9 countries, and it should be said at the outset that they were volunteers and controlled the level of their own involvement and identity. Those thousands of hours were whittled down to 3,000 by a research team that watched, edited, and hand-annotated the video, while adding their own footage from staged environments they couldn’t capture in the wild. It’s all described in this research paper. The footage was captured by a variety of methods, from glasses cameras to GoPros and other devices, and some researchers chose also to scan the environment in which the person was operating, while others tracked gaze direction and other metrics. It’s all going into a dataset Facebook called Ego4D that will be made freely available to the research community at large. Two images, one showing computer vision successfully identifying objects and another showing it failing in first person. “For AI systems to interact with the world the way we do, the AI field needs to evolve to an entirely new paradigm of first-person perception. That means teaching AI to understand daily life activities through human eyes in the context of real-time motion, interaction, and multisensory observations,” said lead researcher Kristin Grauman in a Facebook blog post. As difficult as it may be to believe, this research and the Ray-Ban Stories smart shades are totally unrelated except in that Facebook clearly thinks that first-person understanding is increasingly important to multiple disciplines. (The 3D scans could be used in the company’s Habitat AI training simulator, though.) “Our research is strongly motivated by applications in augmented reality and robotics,” Grauman told TechCrunch. “First-person perception is critical to enabling the AI assistants of the future, especially as wearables like AR glasses become an integral part of how people live and move throughout everyday life. Think of how beneficial it would be if the assistants on your devices could remove the cognitive overload from your life, understanding your world through your eyes.” The global nature of the collected video is a very deliberate move. It would be fundamentally shortsighted to only include imagery from a single country or culture. Kitchens in the U.S. look different from French ones, Rwandan ones, and Japanese ones. Making the same dish with the same ingredients, or performing the same general task (cleaning, exercising) may look very different even between individuals, let alone entire cultures. So, as Facebook’s post puts it, “Compared with existing data sets, the Ego4D data set provides a greater diversity of scenes, people, and activities, which increases the applicability of models trained for people across backgrounds, ethnicities, occupations, and ages.” Examples from Facebook of first-person video and the environments where it was taken. The database isn’t the only thing Facebook is releasing. With this sort of leap forward in data collecting, it’s common to also put out a set of benchmarks for testing how well a given model is using the information. For instance, with a set of images of dogs and cats, you might want a standard benchmark that tests the model’s efficacy in telling which is which. In this case things are a bit more complicated. Simply identifying objects from a first person point of view isn’t that hard — it’s just a different angle, really — and it wouldn’t be that new or useful, either. Do you really need a pair of AR glasses to tell you “that is a tomato”? No: like any other tool, an AR device should be telling you something you don’t know, and to do that it needs a deeper understanding of things like intentions, contexts, and linked actions. To that end the researchers came up with five tasks that can be, theoretically anyway, accomplished by analyzing this first-person imagery: • Episodic memory: tracking objects and concepts in time and space so that arbitrary questions like “where are my keys?” can be answered. • Forecasting: understanding sequences of events so that questions like “what’s next in the recipe?” can be answered, or things can be preemptively noted, like “you left your car keys in the house.” • Hand-object interaction: identifying how people grasp and manipulate objects, and what happens when they do, which can feed into episodic memory or perhaps inform the actions of a robot that must imitate those actions. • Audio-visual diarization: associating sound with events and objects so that speech or music can be intelligently tracked for situations like asking what the song was playing at the cafe, or what the boss said at the end of the meeting. (“Diarization” is their “word.”) • Social interaction: understanding who is talking to whom and what is being said, both for purposes of informing the other processes and for in-moment use like captioning in a noisy room with multiple people. These aren’t the only applications or benchmarks possible, of course, just a set of initial ideas for testing whether a given AI model actually gets what’s happening in a first-person video. Facebook’s researchers performed a base-level run on each task, described in their paper, that serves as a starting point. There’s also a sort of pie-in-the-sky video example of each of these tasks if they were successful in this video summarizing the research. While the 3,000 hours — meticulously hand-annotated over 250,000 researcher hours, Grauman was careful to point out — are an order of magnitude more than what’s out there now, there’s still plenty of room to grow, she noted. They’re planning on growing the dataset and are actively adding partners as well. If you’re interested in using the data, keep your eye on the Facebook AI Research blog and maybe get in touch with one of the many, many people listed on the paper. It’ll be released in the next few months once the consortium figures out exactly how to do that. This post was originally published on this site Be First to Comment Leave a Reply
How do I write a dental resume? How do I write a dental resume? Begin your resume with a compelling dental objective or summary statement. Lay out your dental experience with achievements and key responsibilities. Add an education section that shows them you’re the DDS or DMD they want. List dentist skills and specialities that are tailored to the job description. Do you need a resume at 16? Submitting a CV shows maturity, organization and determination. Students typically don’t realize that they have ample information for a CV even with a limited work history. For instance, a 16-year-old’s resume can include volunteering, hobbies, school activities, academic honors and relevant course work. What should a 16 year olds resume look like? If you’re like most 16-year-olds and you have no work experience, then do this. Write a list of your skills, strengths and experience. Focus on your education and any extra-curricular activities you participate in, such as sports. Highlight anything that would help you do well on the job you’re applying for.
Burden of taxation pdf The impact of taxes on market prices and efficiency 3. Dictionary grammar blog school scrabble thesaurus translator quiz more resources more from collins. The total economic burden of a tax includes both payments that taxpayers make to the government and any lost economic value from inefficient activities undertaken in reaction to taxes. This reports contains anderson economic groups third annual state business tax burden rankings. However, capital is very sensitive to taxation and to the aftertax rate of return. In the article, i discuss interesting features of the burden and how, at least in the tax court, the burden of persuasion might shift to the commissioner under helvering v. It may be noted that the whole burden of the tax may not be shifted to others. The theory of excess burden and optimal taxation alan j. Tax burden definition and meaning collins english dictionary. While a sales tax is imposed on the sale of a product, an excise duty may be imposed on either on sale or the manufacture of a product. Donations to foreign charitable institutions and the burden of proof 1. On the marginal excess burden of taxation in an overlapping. This article is concerned with taxation in general, its principles, its objectives. However, depending on the degree and sources of complexity, transparency and predictability of the given tax system, the tax compliance burden could be quite significant. The credible evidence requirement, one of the three prerequisites for shifting the burden of proof to the irs see page 89, may force a taxpayer to prepare for a worstcase scenariowhere the taxpayer retains the burden of proofif the court does not decide the burden issue at the trials outset. Based on worldwide experience, the maximum marginal tax rate should not be much higher than 35%. In economics, the excess burden of taxation, also known as the deadweight cost or deadweight loss of taxation, is one of the economic losses that society suffers as the result of taxes or subsidies. These distortions reduce potential output or economic welfare. It is paid by corporations but they cannnot bear the economic burden this. Burden table analysts assume that the corporate income tax is borne by the owners of capital, and that income taxes on the earnings of saving. This principle suggests that the cost incurred by the government in providing public goods to satisfy social wants. The debate on who should bear the greater burden when it comes to income taxes is timeless. Taxationincidence three rules of tax incidence the statutory burden of a tax does not describe who really bears the tax statutory incidence. Taxation papers the impact of the cctb on the effective. Fundamental principles of taxation 29 chapter 2 fundamental principles of taxation. The true measure of the burden of a tax is the change in peoples economic situations as a result of the tax. Politicians rarely stop to consider this question, but they should, for as alex robson demonstrates, every extra dollar they raise in tax has a cost. Taxation papers taxation and customs union working paper no 75 2019 centre for european economic research zew gmbh the impact of the cctb on the effective tax burden of corporations. Taxationincentives a 0% rate of taxation and a 100% rate of taxation both result in zero tax revenue. To understand the burden taxes place on businesses in each state, it is important to look beyond the amount of tax revenue governments collect. Efficient taxation efficient taxation minimizes the efficiency losses incurred through the excess burden of taxation when collecting a specified amount of tax revenue the solution for efficient taxation is known as the ramsey rule. Economists refer to this reduction as the excess burden or deadweight loss of taxation, which is usually. More recent work estimates excess burdens based on the effects of taxation on more comprehensive measures of taxable income, reporting sizable excess. Tax burden measures adjusted for compliance cost too often, policy makers ignore the qualitative side of tax burden analysis. Introduction to taxation government plays an important role in most modern economies. Globalization, taxation, and burdenshifting in latin america. This is most obvious in the case of the corporate income tax. Introduction according to licensing or certification. Especially taxation of corporations has great importance because a corporate tax. In case we impose a single tax on the market without taxes, the. If all types of tax are aimed at developing the economy, it should be everyones equal responsibility to engage in taxation regardless of ones economic class. Taxation, imposition of compulsory levies on individuals or entities by governments. It may be that a part of the tax may be shifted to others and a part be borne by the one who initially pays the tax. The above narration clearly brings out that right from the stage of conceptualization of grant of lease or composite licence through auction by state government, there is builtin payment of various charges by the. The nature of taxation also implies as how the burden of taxation is distributed among different section of the community. In general, it is said that the tax incidence falls upon capital, labour andor consumption. The most important source of government revenue is tax. The party bearing the burden of persuasion in tax cases is usually the taxpayer. The excess burden of taxes is a nonlinear function of tax rates. This paper presents the main causes that determine double taxation, its forms, i. Aeg tax burden study 2008 rankings economic experts. Thus, in some markets all of the burden may be shifted to workers employees, and in other labor markets the entire tax might be absorbed by firms. Excess burden of taxation if there are taxes on other markets, an introduction of a tax on our market do not have to worsen the situation. Sections 2, 3, and 4 lay out the theory of excess burden, optimal commodity taxation, and. Taxes, government expenditures, and the distribution of income. Burden of taxation a environment ec, forest clearance fc b and forest rights act fra 14. That is to say, the burden of an excise or income tax can be measured as the reduction of consumer surplus and profits induced by the tax. Likewise, tax incidence, or who bears the burden of a tax, is not explicitly. In the united states, the role of the government extends from providing for national defense to providing social security and medicare to the elderly. It follows that when the change in consumption brought about by a tax is known, it is possible to find an upper limit to the amount of the utility lost by multiplying the. The statutory burden of a business tax is seldom the same as the economic burden of that tax. Fairtax supporters argue that replacing the regressive payroll tax not included in the tax panel study greatly changes the tax distribution and that the fairtax would relieve the tax burden on middleclass workers. Economic theory posits that distortions change the amount and type of economic behavior from that which would occur in a free market without the tax. The burden of proof in crossborder situations international tax law. It is important to study who ultimately bears the burden of a tax. All of these estimates, of course, increase as a function of both c and r and approach infinity as r nears the revenuemaximizing tax rate. In this article we will discuss about the effects of excess burden of indirect taxes, explained with the help of suitable diagrams. Find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. This pdf is a selection from an outofprint volume from the national bureau. Some of the main incidence of taxation are as follows. An obvious and familiar example is the sales tax, which is paid by merchants but is paid for by consumers in the form of higher prices. It is an economic activity which transforms the mineral resources into usable products to support national growth. Mining and the burden of taxation in india 31072017 mining has been a crucial component of human existence and development. Quite simply, the tax is shifted from the merchant to the customer. Burden table analysts assume that the corporate income tax is borne by the owners of capital, and that income taxes on the earnings of saving are borne by the savers. It is fundamental that the real burden of taxation does not necessarily rest upon the person who is legally responsible for payment of the tax. General sales taxes are paid by business firms, but most of the cost of the tax is actually passed on to those who. The incidence of taxation refers to this question of who and in what proportion bears the final burden of a. The tax burden was significant as the chief executive officer claimed to be be experiencing double or triple taxation in the regular course of business. Business taxation, burden shifting, and economic development. Reversal of the burden of proof and transactions with nondomestic entities 1. As the appellant, the burden is on you to prove that your assessment is in error, unreasonable, excessive, or discriminatory. Taxation of corporations and their impact on economic growth. This article is concerned with taxation in general, its principles, its objectives, and its effects. Americans for fair taxation state that the tax panels rate and tax burden analysis is not an estimate of the fairtax legislation. The burden tables are supposed to shed light on the tax system or the effect of a new tax proposal, but they often do more to obfuscate than to illuminate the facts. Public economics the purpose of this paper is to present the chronological development ofthe concept of excess burden and the related study of optimal tax theory. In a 1968 study, the amount and source of state taxes in nevada, robert rieke reported taxes on nevada residents were considerably below the national average as a fraction of income. Read our selection of research publications for this weeks debates in the house of commons. Pdf slope versus elasticity and the burden of taxation. General equilibrium analysis of excess burden and incidence of taxes 5. Otherwise the incentive to work and save, and the incentive for faithful voluntary compliance, will be. Definitions of a tax, of ability to pay, and of the burden of taxes are neces. The overall burden of taxation is much larger than the tax receipts that government collects each year because taxes distort the behavior of individuals and firms. Taxation of corporations and their impact on economic. Pdf tax burden implication of tax reform researchgate. In this article we will discuss about the principles of taxation. Pdf on jan 1, 2018, yinka mashood salaudeen and others published tax burden implication of tax reform find, read and cite all the. Taxes are levied in almost every country of the world, primarily to raise revenue for government expenditures, although they serve other purposes as well. Pdf the international double taxationcauses and avoidance. In making the assessment of corporate income tax burdens on firms operating in a given country, a key distinction is between the tax burden on existing capital. The excess burden of taxation is the efficiency cost, or deadweight loss, associated with taxation. Outline of the chapter the chapter begins with the basics and then turns to selected topics. We quantify marginal excess burden, defined as the change in deadweight loss for an additional dollar of tax revenue, for different taxes. The burden of the tax can be transferred to others through a process of shifting. For an equitable distribution of tax burden, the following three principals have been laid down by economists. Excess burden of indirect taxes with diagram economics. The economic burden of taxation 97 should be multiplied by the relevant number from this table. A tax is called as proportional, if all the tax payers pay the same proportion of their income as tax. By nature, taxation may be proportional, progressive or regressive. The incidence of a tax rests on the persons whose real net income is reduced by the tax. Purpose the tax burden, defined as the ratio of the collected taxes in a particular period against the total product, is commonly used to determine the effect of fiscal and tax policies on the. Of course the actual distribution of the burden of the social security varies with the slopes elasticities of the supply and demand curves for labor in the markets of interest. 445 378 661 1190 608 432 941 683 1201 431 1366 878 514 1523 806 1486 792 214 605 508 895 150 1185 466 1189 1307 716 388 1122 758
Solar PhotoVoltaic Primer The cost of photovoltaic systems (panels and inverter) has dropped to about 2 to 3 dollars per watt. At this price systems have payback times in the 10 to 15 year range, regardless of size. This assumes a cost of about 10 cents a kilowatt hour (kW-hr) for electricity. Here are a number of nuts and bolts issues for those interested in solar power. First and foremost you must have a location with southern exposure. Even a small amount of shade can seriously reduce energy production. For most this means a roof top location, but it needn’t be if you have the space to put the array on the ground. The simplest mounting puts the panels flat on the roof. The pitch of the roof is not all that important as long as it faces south. sun's path sun’s path The amount of space needed for an array of course varies as to how much total power you want to produce. Different manufacturers make panels in different sizes (watts) but the total space needed is the same because all PV panels have the same efficiency, about 15 %. Five 100 watt panels will take up the same space as one 500 watt panel. One kW requires about 80 square feet of space. A big decision is whether the array is isolated or connected to the electrical grid. Grid-tied systems here in Arkansas can take advantage of net metering. This means that the power produced by the panels can actually make a meter run backwards if they are producing more power than the home is consuming at any time. About the only disadvantage of a grid-tied system is that when the line goes down, so does the solar power production. This is necessary to protect power line workers. PV Grid-tied system PV Grid-tied system The alternative to grid-tied is to go entirely off line by buffering production with batteries. This avoids the aforementioned problem, but greatly increases the cost and “hassle factor” of the system. This is only practical when connection to the grid is cost prohibitive, as in remote locations. The total amount of energy produced by a system is obtained by the total wattage of a system. For example a 1 kilowatt system can produce a maximum of one kilowatt hour only when the sun angle is ideal. Averaged over a year, a simple rule of thumb is that you can get 4 hours of net production per day. Hence a 1 kW system can be expected to produce 4 kW-hrs per day, more some days, less others. Let’s use an average consumption of 1000 kW-hrs per month (close to the average in Arkansas) to determined a system sized to replace 100 % of electric needs. 1000 kW-hrs per month means 33 kw-hrs per day. Divide that by 4 to get a a little over 8 kW system. To allow for some inefficiencies say we use a 9 kW system. At 2.5 dollars a watt, the total cost would be 22,500 $. The 30% federal tax rebate brings the final cost down to 15,750 $. Sales taxes and installation will add to the cost, but these numbers can be used to approximate a cost if you are interested in going solar. 1 thought on “Solar PhotoVoltaic Primer 1. Matthew Castillo My name is Matthew Castillo. I am currently doing an internship at the Arboretum in Flagstaff, AZ. I am currently working on a project which is an interpretive signage talking about how solar panels work. The sun’s path in the sky photo you have on your website is a really good photo. I was wondering if you are the creator and owner of that image? and if you are may I use it for this project? Thank You, Matthew Castillo Leave a Reply to Matthew Castillo Cancel reply
The sample essay on The Secret River Essay deals with a framework of research-based facts, approaches, and arguments concerning this theme. To see the essay’s introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion, read on. Our identity in a community is determined by one’s own internal emotional view of humanity. This is shown in Steven Herrick’s prose novel The Simple Gift, Tim Winton’s novel Breath and Kate Grenville’s novel ‘The Secret River’ through the use of the young disparate protagonists throughout these texts we can observe and extract many adaptations made by personas to survive in a changing world and different meanings of belonging and not belonging. Within the texts we observe individuals gaining a sense of connection and security to other people through literature and imagination. Individuals need role models in order to develop a reciprocal connection with others, by fostering a sense of identity and develop self-esteem. However the consequences of not achieving t2his relationship leads to loss of identity. Individuals must make choices between different places, communities and other people who offer them different concepts of belonging. . 2. 3. The aspect of individuals needing to gain a sense of connection and security through literature and imagination is illuminated through Tim Winton’s Breath and Steven Herrick’s The Simple Gift. In Steven Herrick’s The Simple Gift this connection to literature is shown through the protagonist Billy with the use of the quote ‘and I’m there, on the island, /gorging on tropical fruit,/trying to decide/whose side I’m on’ in this quote Herrick’s alludes to William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’, this analogy depicts Billy integrating into the novel and deciding which side of society he wishes to assimilate into to, deciding whether or to abide by ‘normal’ customs or challenge rules of society’s expectations. Get quality help now Proficient in: Culture 4.9 (247) +84 relevant experts are online Hire writer This extended metaphor shows how having a lack of structure or authority leads to chaos and isolation. The Secret River Chapter Summary Similarly, in Winton’s novel this aspect of literature is shown through the quote “I liked books – the respite and privacy of them – books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free” The use of first person, emotive language of ‘liked’ shows that individuals gain a sense of connection and imagination through literature, art and imagination. Winton uses listing as well as diction, with the use of such words like respite and privacy imply safety and security in ones imagination, this allows the protagonist ‘Pikelet’ a getaway from reality and feelings of not belonging. Individuals need role models in order to develop a reciprocal connection with others, fostering sense of identity and develop self-esteem. However not achieving this relationship leads to a loss of identity. In Steven Herrick’s The Simple Gift, the reciprocal relationship between the personas Old Bill and Billy are shown through the quote ‘I knew that Old Bill was giving/ me more than these keys I held. / holding someone’s past in my dirty hands. ’ This symbolism of the keys is used to illuminate the depth of Billy’s relationship with Old Bill and the concept of belonging represented by a physical house. This shows Old Bill’s trust in Billy because Old Bill is not only giving Billy a house, he is giving him a part of his life along with removing the degrading tag of homelessness. This is also seen in the quote “two hobos laughing/laughing the morning away”, Herrick’s use of repetition of laughing shows the stable, down to earth relationship between the pair and their deep security placed within each other. The hyperbole of ‘laughing the morning away’ as well as the colloquial language of ‘hobos’ enlightens the reader to admire the mindset of the homeless protagonists. 8. Similarly, this is shown through the protagonist featured in Breath, Pikelet, after his mentor Sando abandons him. “I went numb. I couldn’t say what it was and didn’t dare try. How do you explain the sense of being made to feel improper? ” Tim Winton has manipulated the use of a rhetorical question to highlight Pikelet’s insecurities that have consequentially developed as a result of an upbringing in an isolated town. Winton’s use of diction, using the word ‘improper’ shows us that Pikelet doesn’t belong in his ‘given’ social group. The colloquial language gives the persona Pikelet a more authentic voice, creating a relatable protagonist. Winton has also used the quote ‘, ‘Sando paddled up and held my hand like a brother or a father. ’ Winton’s simile compares the difference between Sando, and Pikelet’s father who was never there to encourage and support Pikelet during his adolescence, this creates and emotional connection and dependence on Sando, both authors create to relationship to use the depends and mutual addiction on a role model 9. 10. Finally, Individuals must make choices between different places, communities and other people who offer them different senses of belonging. This is shown by Winton in Breath again through the persona Pikelet when he said “Everything around me seemed so pointless and puny/ Wherever I went I felt like the last awake person in a room full of sleepers”, this simile is used to show Pikelet’s search for belonging and people he could associate with, but not realising the countless barriers in Pikelets unique personality. In contrast the use of diction in the quote ‘we feel like we naturally belong at the beach, others detest it because they feel alien to it. ’ Shows that Pikelet knows where he belongs and whom he belongs with. 1. Similar shown in the extract of Kate Grenville’s ‘The Secret River’ through the convict protagonist William Thornhill with the quote ‘For them, Home was nothing but a story. If they were to go to London they would be outsiders’, this metaphor illuminates the choice he must make to uproot his family back to England, even though they have develop a connection to a physical place, it shows they want Australia to be like London. Capital of Home emphasises the significants . The repetition of home throughout the extract is used. Also shown by the hyperbole in ‘Had often been on the wrong side of the wall’ alluding to the wrong side of society, it is also seen as it relates to prison society, feeling trapped and isolated, just like in Australia. In conclusion both the composers have identified that belonging within a community is determined by ones childhood and background and the role of parental figures and role models, this is achieved through the use of adolescent protagonists as well as relating connection a to literature, enabling individuals to escape to another reality, the composer also highlight the need for role models and belonging in communities to enhance ones sense of humanity. Cite this page The Secret River Essay. (2019, Dec 06). Retrieved from Let’s chat? We're online 24/7
Conures As Pet – A Complete Guide Conure As Pet A conure is a group of smaller parrots that include parakeets that spread their rainbow colors beauty in their surroundings. Smaller ones conures are famous family pets, people love to train them for doing tricks, and they would be trained to tie knots with their beaks. Cuddly conures are all lovely species from the animal kingdom, so never get scared if they suddenly climb over your shirt and tries to strike your head with their beaks. Conures, which are found in various sizes, often charm people with their inquisitive personalities. They are considered household pets, so they love being around humans, specifically during mealtime, and hanging out with their beloved ones is what they truly adore. Conures are popular pet companions: they have vibrant colors and colorful nature to be a jolly mate for humans. Conures belong to varied groups of parrots. These active creatures need ample space to move freely within the enclosure. Accommodation with toys means that the cage must be up to 36 inches long, 24 inches wide with the same height a width. Conures are water lovers- put a water dish in their home and often shower them with a spray bath to give a freshening feel. A nutritionally balanced diet is supplemented with fresh fruits and vegetables to bring healthy food to the table. If you are consistent about taking care of your parrot’s nutritional supply, you can expect them to stay with you for around 20-30 years. Even though cuddly and playful, they can get loud repeatedly, so handle it with a trick. They feel curious and remain shy, mostly so that these smart birds always need activities. Get ready to arrange a lot of toys if you have a plan to adopt one. Indeed, great family pets due to their outgoing nature, cuddly and fun-loving moods. Yes, they do adore the company of humans. You will have a fun time in their presence, and they are touchy and lovely to keep as domestic pets. As a good starter bird, conures are cute little birds you can have a lot of fun with. They are handfed, and it is you will have great fun training them. Their humble nature is the leading factor for their popularity as domesticated animals. So when selecting a bird, keep in mind about establishing a healthier relationship with it by taking care of its emotional boundaries. There can be several ways to teach your parrot manners and useful words but avoid having excessive physical touch. It can help him to learn to control his aggressiveness and emotional triggers. Do Conures Like To Be Held? Yes, they do like to be held but with love and respect. A gentle soft touch will give them the security to move beyond their enclosure. Taking them out of their cage requires your support; give them a hand to a site on it for coming out of the door. Be very polite during the process that will not destroy their pleasure to move freely. The understanding temperament of your conure is important to create a stronger bond for several years. Birds are sensitive little creatures and tend to spend many years with their entire family members. Don’t ignore their mating behavior; maintain healthy boundaries in physical touch. Try not to access their mating zones; this will help them understand friendship with their owner; instead of using the wrong body language, be courteous but firm. They feel the warmth and get deeply attached to their masters, and we know how to keep their sexual instinct in control. How Long Do Conures Live? In captivity, these birds can live from 10 to 15 years on average with better health conditions. The common health problems include Fracture bleeding Syndrome, which indicates a lack of vitamin K and Pacheco’s disease. It is vital to keep a vigilant health check to ensure your pet’s safety; maintaining your bird’s health can ensure the bird’s long period. Some of the conures reported living with their masters for up to 20 years with ideal living conditions. Keeping in view the other factor associated with birds living in captivities. The life span of the pet is entirely dependent on the efforts of an owner. Natural elements are diseases and hurting; keeping a vigilant check on health issues can reduce the chances of getting the fatal disease. Do Conures Like To Snuggle? I guess probably all of us enjoy the cuddle of our parrot now and then, whether hugging out of love or touching your face or sitting on the chest, perhaps just offering their heads for a nice snuggly time. They will like to have “snuggle time” with their favorite family member—the most precious time to make lifetime memories with your lovely pet. Trust me; this innocent-looking creature has everything to get trained with the routine life schedule. Conures are well known for their cuddling nature. Still, it needs time to warm up its body, and this quiet time is important for its physical and mental well-being. Some birds will not like physical touching and will take it too seriously if you ever try to touch their face or another body part; they need more time to understand your touch of love, so be patient and composed. In case you are facing resistance from your pet side and crave to cuddle your conure, you can take the initiative with gentle scratches’ through some toy. As your conure feels easy with this touch, you can further move with its approval for using your hands to scratch his body. Be tricky and methodical to train him for being an amicable pet. Do Conures Talk? Yes, Green-Cheeked conure can talk clearly. They can get better with a few words practice; although they have a slightly gravelly voice, they are still very fond of mimicking human speech. They will not speak much, but they try to follow their entire family members’ language with frequent human interaction. It is important to realize that it is not guaranteed with a purchase; always, all Green-Checked conure’s will not pick new words quickly; it may vary according to the parrot’s temperament. Do Conures Bite? No, they don1t bite at all. Any bird tries to bite when frightened or scared. Sometimes conures try to bite you in anger but can be avoided by taking care of their mood swings. Biting is something related to the temperament of the bird. Toddlers should be kept in observation due to less self-defensive power, an angry bird can hurt them, and there is a possibility that can’t be ignored if your parrots. There are chances of biting, but it’s not their regular habit, so you have to be aware of their physical contact with minor family members. Sacred animals need to be treated with great care, be patient, and train to handle their emotions wisely. Parrots are intelligent birds, and you can expect them to learn things quickly with fewer efforts than other mammalian family pets. A bird has a beak, so you can expect some pinching, picking, and biting, especially for parrots; it is not uncommon. Love bites are ways of showing affection rather than a deep bite to make a hole in your skin is something serious. Your center might be feeling depressed, sick, possessive, or even unsacred in a certain atmosphere. Figure out by observing his changing habit, and you will soon get a clue about this unusual behavior. Learn to read your bird’s body language to avoid hurting bites, open beak, sleek body feathers, and ruffled neck is seen as early precursors for a parrot. Learning his attentions will help you to control him by diverting his attention towards something else. Do Conures Like To Cuddle? Yes, they do respond to your cuddling in the form of expressing their joy through playing. But one must think twice before adopting a pet if the person has a busy work schedule. They will not tolerate your ignorance for a long time; getting sick or keeping quiet for many days can be their possible reaction to show their annoyance. These lovely creatures develop a stronger bond with their owners; they need time and attention. Be extra vigilant about their emotional needs and take care of their happiness well; that is the only way to keep them active and healthy. Being intelligent birds, they are affectionate towards their masters but can be very noisy at many times. A small apartment is not an ideal place to keep conures due to its high-pitched sounds. What Do Conures Like To Eat? Conures eat a wide range of vegetables, fruit, and seeds, so various food options are available to serve them. • Raisins • Potatoes • Carrots • Corn • Pasta • Hemp Seeds • Sunflower Seeds Some people serve them with additional calcium supplements that consist of 60%-70% of their diet. The rest of their diet should be made of fresh fruits and vegetables. Market-based nutritional supplements also tend to help them in ginning energy through valuable food products. Follow these simple rules to feed your parrot : • Always monitor the amount of food; it should be sufficient to fulfill the need of the day. • Offer fresh, clean water every day. • A variety of fruits and vegetables must be a part of the daily meal. • Give the food and water dishes clean. • If it is not accepting a food item, try it on some other day. How Do Conures Sleep? Conures have a natural habitat of trees to sleep calmly, and they sleep in the wild with their flock mates. This instinct is related to their instinct for being interactive towards other fellows. The only possible issue is through that can trigger a peaceful sleep is due to hormonal aggressiveness. If the male partner persists in this behavior, you have to change its cage to avoid any possible damage due to the male parrot’s harsh attitude. How Do Conures Show Affection? When a conure is feeling affectionate for their human owner, mostly they groom them. It is a sign demonstrating their mental satisfaction. Infect, it is a way to pay gratitude for your unconditional love towards them. Conures will touch their owner’s physical features out of love, like they will cuddle their beards, mustaches, clothing, and hair. They might kiss you; a happy conure is very expressive at times. Rubbing its beak against you is also a sign of affection on the face, lips, and cheek. They might nibble around your neck or arms; similarly, many of them will try to adopt the smooch sound with human kisses. Licking with their small tongue is their favorite gesture of warmth; you can feel it like a kiss. Extra orney conure will even bite you with their beak to show their emotions. Do Conures Molt? Conures usually molt once a year. However, the process can take place more than once a year. The molting lasts for at least two months. You will observe delicate new feathers coming out. The feathers are new and soft, and removing them can be fatal to your bird. How Do You Get To Know That Your Conure Is Molting? Molting is a phenomenon that starts from the innermost layer of feathers and gradually comes outward. The central flying feather on the tail or the middle flying feathers on the wings starts shedding above. But as there are many different categories of birds so you can witness multiple molting signs. Molting causes itching. Birds try to reach their beak on their affected skin to satisfy their itching needs. You may see missing feathers from your conure’s tail at the beginning of the molting process. Even the feathers will shed quickly; still, you will rarely see them with bare skin. On the other hand, a hard molt will leave your hen as if she went through a chicken plucker. Do Conures Get Along With Budgies? There is a notable size difference between the two. A conure is a strong beaked bird. A conure may attack your budgie to death. Budgies are fragile, small, and comparatively less powerful than a conure. If the question is to keep a conure with a budgie under one roof is safe? Then the answer is simple… No. Conure may bite your delicate small bird and can cause serious harm. Acting defensively, a budgie could try to bite conure as well. In all this tom and jerry fight, you may get your budgie either injured seriously or even dead. Keeping both the birds in the same cage will create tension and nothing else. In case you have a conure and a budgie both at your home, then for the safety of your budgie, keep them in different cages. The distance between their bars should be enough that the conure cannot reach the budgie. It is not safe at all to house a conure and a budgie together. It is highly recommended not to house different species of birds together in the same cage. Do Conures Get Along With Cockatiels? The cockatiel is a comparatively gentle and weak bird. A conure is a strong beaked and powerful bird. It is not recommended to keep a conure and a cockatiel together in the same cage. However, if you keep them both in one cage, they will either end up behaving like strangers or conure may damage your cockatiel. Conure is somehow more demanding, strong, and bites hard. However, cockatiel gives a pinch as a counterattack. It is the bird’s nature to drive out the sick or injured bird out of their flock. In case the cockatiel gets sick or injured, then conure will not want to live together. It is pretty clear if a cocktail and conure somehow managed to live together, they still won’t love each other; they are just tolerating. For the safety of cockatiels life, it is necessary not to keep both bids in the same cage, ESPECIALLY without supervision. Use a separate cage to keep different species of birds for their life safety. What Do Conures Need In Their Cage? Conures are active and playful. As conures are big, that’s why a big or a medium-sized cage is best suitable for a conure. They love and enjoy hanging on swings and ropes. Toys, hoops, rings, swings, chains are appreciated to hang in their cage. Conures love to hide under soft clothes. It will be a great pleasure for a conure to have woven cloth, light soft fabric, or any fuzzy toy in its cage. Place some small cardboard cut-outs, and conure loves to chew to such items. Conures want their cages in the high visibility area of your home. They love to interact and socialize with their owner. Water and food dispensers are the vitals of any cage. Approximately a conure adjusts in a 36 x 24 inches cage accommodated with swings and colorful toys. Besides all this, you need to pay keen attention to cleaning the conures cage. Being an active and playful bird conure spreads a lot of mess in its cage. Do Conures Need Grit? Knowledge about birds’ operational requirements is constantly evolving. It is due to the increased awareness gain through recent research about Different Birds. Similarly, parrots need the proper balance of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and fats. Conures have various seeds, nuts, berries, and vegetation, such as leaf birds; in the world, some would like to eat insects, and they would be called raid former crops. Controversy exists over the need for gravel for the parrot. Some strongly believe that grit is a necessary part of their mechanical food breakdown. It would likely help them to digest food. However, we are now pretty sure that birds can live well without grit. Some birds will have to face a problem in case the grit is overeaten. Do Conures Mate For Life? Yes, they keep mate for life; they would likely benefit from the monogamous relationship humans possess. You have to be extra careful while having a parrot, and they can consider you more than just friends. If you are not taking care of your cuddling behavior, you transmit wrong signals for your pet. Parrot living in captivity are dependent on their own to understand social cues. Since they are brilliant, they can pick up their social cues rather quickly; if you own a single parrot, they might start considering us they are mates. The only way to avoid this mindset is to avoid touching their ‘matte only’ zone. Parrots like to reserve a few body parts as their waiting zones. Preening, cuddling, and touching are restricted for the mates only; touching other body parts except the head and neck could deliver a wrong message. How Many Times A Year Do Conures Lay Eggs? Conures produce at least two clutches of eggs per year, each time, and they will have 3-5 eggs on average. They will be ready to hatch right after the 25-27 day incubation period. Remember, pet owners, and you have to take care of their clutching. If your pet is laying eggs more than two times a year, it is something that can suffer them with low calcium and vitamin deficiency. The process is very hard on her system, and you have to take the necessary actions to stop him. Scroll to Top
Which Are the Differences Between Civil Law and Legal Legislation? As soon as we consider about exactly that which separates legal matters from civil things, we presume of gaps in types of legislation. And in this particular essay that I wish to research what significant law is and the way it differs from the other types of law which we understand about. Civil law is that the region of regulation that concerns itself with disputes among men and women and is also now club essay still the most significant category of law at the United States. In addition, there are civil processes for dealing with such problems including divorce, custody, divorce and marital separation. This can be a somewhat broad topic area and it is often confused with legal law as Expert-writers.net/research-paper-writing many civil activities possess a portion of crime, which is the reason why there are all those criminal lawyers. In essence, civil-law has just two primary kinds, criminal and civil. There are also various elements of civil legislation which can be deemed different, however really nimble. Some instances include but aren’t restricted by, property ownership, family law, or family disputes, landlord and tenant law enforcement and also the right to privacy. All of these areas are part of civil law and how people in every single circumstance to deal with the legalities involved. Felony law can be a bit more technical than civil law, but is much more confined in scope. By way of instance, it copes with scenarios between offenses which can be committed against a individual and requires the use of violence or force against someone. It’s important to understand this is not the very same as regulations of arrangement, that deals with all the right to agreement. The other area of criminal law is tort law, that deals with the compensation which Expert-writers.net people can get at a court of law, like because of that harm they sustained during the course of some other individual’s negligence. Additionally, many jurisdictions have specific crimes, such as gender, assault, sexual assault, kidnapping and rape. This field of law also comprises all other forms of crime that are considered criminal, if or not they are crimes of a civil character, and offenses which are not, for example burglary. The legislation of deal are regarded as a portion of this category of legislation enforcement. This is fundamentally the area of law that handles a contract involving a man or woman or company along with also a customer. A deal typically provides this one party will pay money to the other for the services or goods being offered. This really can be a form of arrangement that must be written on paper also must be in the public domain to be legal. 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Civil law is made in a court of law and it is founded upon the overall essentials of justice, while legal law is created in a court of law and it is situated on the essentials of punishment. Hence, criminal and civil law often possess very different opinions on what best to punish criminals. Some authorities don’t even dare distinguish between the 2 sorts of law, since they see that the two to be related. However, you academic writing services will find a few jurisdictions that consider the 2 to differ. They believe that there are a lot of differences between criminal and civil lawenforcement. Included in these are the fact that civil legislation is made in a court of law whereas criminal law is established in a court of law. Additionally, felony regulation is often fairly strict in its application while civil-law is quite a bit looser in its application. When you listen to about the differences between civil and criminal law, the term’procedural’ is most usually associated with procedural legislation . Both phrases are frequently used interchangeably, as procedural legislation requires regulations that regulate how situations are managed in a court . However, most of timethe gap between both terms will be seen in the act in which essay writing service a instance has been handled by the courts. Because civil-law is made in a court of law, the laws that are included are normally predicated about which happens at a court of law, where as procedural regulation is normally predicated on which the results are in the court of appeal.
by Robert Williams (1781-1821) text by Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Christ the Lord Is Risen Today “Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise” Note learning: Episcopal 1940 Hymnbook #104, played by Andrew Remillard from Hymnary.org: island of Anglesey. A basket weaver with great innate musical ability, Williams, who was blind, could write out a tune after hearing it just once. He sang hymns at public occasions and was a composer of hymn tunes. LLANFAIR was first published with a harmonization by John Roberts in John Parry’s Peroriaeth Hyfryd (Sweet Music) (1837). The tune has been associated with the Wesley/Cotterill text since its publication with the text in The English Hymnal (1906). LLANFAIR is actually a common Welsh name, but some scholars believe that in this case the tune’s name refers to the Montgomery County [sic Anglesey County] village in Wales where Williams was born. (The Wesley/Cotterill text is “Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise.”)
How Stories Lose Their Power Text (one page) In the original story of Cinderella, she has to ‘sort the peas,’ good from bad, as she sits by the fire: a tedious job that never seems to end. Finally, her step-sisters get ready to go to the ball as Cinderella sorts a bag of lentils. This is a key part of the story, but Walt Disney decided to change it. This writer explains why: “In modern-day adaptations, Cinderella has a to-do list a mile long. Her nasty stepmother and stepsisters have no limit to the demands they pile onto the poor girl, and so Cinderella finds herself facing an impossible number of tasks to complete if she’s to have any hope of going to the ball. In Grimms’ version, however, she’s prohibited from attending the ball by one monumentally weird task instead: Her stepsisters hand her a huge sack of lentils to “sort.” Apparently, the sisters think it is hilarious to dump bags of lentils in Cinderella’s lap, or in the fireplace, or on the hearth, and make Cinderella sort the good from the bad. They employ this tactic on night one of the ball and then mix it up a bit on night two by handing her a sack of peas instead. I can totally understand why Disney changed this — no one, and I mean no one, wants to watch someone sort beans for hours.” Sorting the peas is the most mundane and humiliating part of the story, but it is also the most important. It’s the ‘key’ action that unlocks Cinderella’s fate. This mundane, diligent task – discerning what is good and bad – something that takes discipline and diligence and time… Without that piece of information, the teaching about diligence and being able to make distinctions between what is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’, then Cinderella has no hope, she becomes a pure victim that can only be rescued by a male prince. And that’s what women in the 20th century were left with as guidance: if you are lucky and believe in magic, you will find a prince. As opposed to: if you are able to discern good from bad, have patience and steadfastness, diligence and discipline, a great holy union will occur in your being, a union between forces and energies that will feel magical indeed. Stories shape us and our world completely. Beware of your stories.
\| 6.7°C Dublin Put your back into exercise Some people are surprised to discover that strengthening stomach muscles serves to reduce back injury though you need more than a strong back to prevent back injury. It is clear that many people who develop back problems have not only relatively weak lower backs, but also weak abdominal muscles. Although not directly attached to the spine, the abdominals interaction with the fascial layers of the erector spinage group enhances the otherwise weak extensor mechanism of the spine. By making the abdominals stronger, you enhance the functional effect of the spinal erector muscles. By supporting the internal organs of the abdominal region, the abdominal muscles also assist the spinal muscles by taking up some of the demand that would otherwise be placed upon them. The larger the potbelly, for example, the greater the weight and strain upon the spine. By increasing the burden on the erector spinae group, one diminishes the capacity of the spinal muscles to sustain the extensor mechanism of the spine, and the risk of back injury is also increased. For every extra inch you have on your waist you put 10 pounds of pressure on your spinal discs. Gravity is pulling us towards the ground as we get older, causing us to stoop forward putting more pressure on our lower back. This is why exercise, such as yoga, and weight-training, is so important for correct posture. Incorrect footwear can cause serious back problems. Shoes that have no support and that are too flat can put pressure on your lower back. Weight-training and stretching such as the Kaiser Weight Training Programme are particularly helpful for preventing back problems and for recurring back difficulties. The latest techniques for back rehabilitating is to strengthen the back with the correct weight-bearing exercises. An incorrect seating position in a car is one of the main problems causing back injury and back soreness. If, when sitting in your car, your knee is higher than your hip, this is particularly bad for your back -- the knee should be lower than the hip. If you are in the car a lot, get a back support cushion from The Back Shop. It can take a huge amount of pressure off your lower back. A cushion can also help those sitting at a desk for a long time. At the desk try to put your feet up on a block or a few thick books. Again, it's simple but it works. When swimming avoid the breast stroke as it arches the back and puts more pressure on your lower discs. For any movement which has a jarring effect on your back, you must make sure you have support. Be aware that some yoga movements might make back pain worse. If you have sciatica, which causes a shooting pain from your back down to your hip, knee and foot, a nerve is being compressed by a spinal disc. Consult a doctor or osteopath and take extra care to exercise correctly. Massage is very beneficial for preventing back pain as it keeps the muscle supple. Have a massage when your back feels good, not when you are in pain. Incorrect exercise, particularly with heavy weights, can put a lot of pressure on the lower back, L4-L5 disc area. When training, watch out for explosive movements such as squats and lunges. Keep the back flat when lying on benches, for example bench press, pull-over, etc. Most people arch their backs with feet on the floor, so be careful. Lower back problems are the cause of more days off work than anything else. Simply picking up something from a static position, without bending your knees, can be enough to pull muscles. Try to keep all muscles loose with gentle stretching, yoga or Pilates and get your back strong with correct weight training. If the back of your legs are tight it will cause your hips and lower back to also tighten up. Years ago the only recommendation for back pain was to lie down and rest. Now it is recommended that you get fit and strong and lose the belly. If you do suffer from back pain consult your doctor, masseur, osteopath, chiropractor or physio. The majority of back problems will sort themselves out with gentle exercise and rest if your problems persist. Seek advice before doing any programme.
C \| Fortran-2008 \| Fortran-90 MPI_PROC_NULL is a constant that represents a dummy MPI process rank. When passing it to a send or receive operation for instance, it is guaranteed to succeed and return as soon as possible. MPI_PROC_NULL has, but is not limited to, two main uses; • acting as a placeholder in MPI routines where an argument of type out must be set to the rank of an MPI process, such as in MPI_Cart_shift for instance. • conveniently coping with boundaries; rather than preventing MPI processes on edges from issuing sends or receives for instance, MPI_PROC_NULL will be used instead to turn these invocations into dummy calls. Effectively, this allows all MPI processes to issue the same calls regardless of their position. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <mpi.h> * @brief Illustrates how to handle boundaries using MPI_PROC_NULL. * @details This applications consists of a chain communication, where each * process sends its value to its right neighbour (the MPI process with a rank * higher by 1), and receives a value from its left neighbour (the MPI process * with a rank lower by 1). * This can be visualised as follows, assuming 3 MPI processes: * \| MPI process 0 \| MPI process 1 \| MPI process 2 \| * \| Value: 0 \| Value: 100 \| Value: 200 \| * Each MPI process is going to communicate with a "left" and "right" neighbour, * however in a not-cyclic configuration, the first and last MPI processes will * "miss" one neighbour, which will be replaced with MPI_PROC_NULL, as follows: * MPI_PROC_NULL <-> MPI process 0 <-> MPI process 1 <-> MPI process 2 <-> MPI_PROC_NULL int main(int argc, char* argv[]) MPI_Init(&argc, &argv); // Find my rank and the communicator size int my_rank; MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &my_rank); int comm_size; MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &comm_size); // Determine the ranks of our neighbours, or use MPI_PROC_NULL int recipient_rank = (my_rank == comm_size - 1) ? MPI_PROC_NULL : my_rank + 1; int sender_rank = (my_rank == 0) ? MPI_PROC_NULL : my_rank - 1; // Now, all MPI processes can safely issue sends and receive // No boundary-related bugs will arise since MPI_PROC_NULL is used in these cases // Send my value to my right neighbour (or issue a dummy send via MPI_PROC_NULL if I don't have one) int value_to_send = my_rank * 100; MPI_Request request; MPI_Isend(&value_to_send, 1, MPI_INT, recipient_rank, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &request); printf("[MPI Process %d] Sent value %d to MPI process %d\n", my_rank, value_to_send, recipient_rank); // Receive the value from my left neighbour (or issue a dummy receive via MPI_PROC_NULL if I don't have one) int value_received = -1; MPI_Recv(&value_received, 1, MPI_INT, sender_rank, MPI_ANY_TAG, MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE); printf("[MPI process %d] Value received from MPI Process %d: %d\n", my_rank, sender_rank, value_received); // Wait for the completion of the MPI_Isend MPI_Wait(&request, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE); return EXIT_SUCCESS;
Puxi Campus Grades 4-5: They Are Poets, and They Didn’t Even Know It!-Shanghai High School International Division June 4, 2021 This week, Puxi Campus primary grades 4 and 5 celebrated Poetry Week. Both grades learned about writing Haikus, which are usually beautiful poems about nature. However, the upper primary students created an interesting twist to these poems by writing “stories” in haiku form. Each grade chose a topic they are experts on, and classes took turns adding their own Haiku to the story. Grade four focused on a Harry Potter theme, aligning well with their current novel study. Grade five focused on one of the students’ favorite subjects: a day at school! These collaborative works can be seen in the hallways, so keep an eye out! Grade four continued the fun by focusing on color poems and diamante poems. Each student chose their favorite color and wrote a poem expressing their senses, using figurative language to verbalize their color uniquely. Finally, fourth grade created diamante poems. Students brainstormed nouns that are opposites, such as a cat and mouse, then wrote a poem comparing and contrasting them. Grade five students were able to write funny poems called Limericks. These weren’t just any Limericks though, they were “Guess Poems!” Students used the Limerick format to create a “guess who” poem about a person, place, or thing. Using funny rhymes, students gave clues to their nouns. See how many you can guess by checking out their balloon bulletin board! Finally, the exciting poetry week culminated in our Poetry Slam. Students auditioned in their English classes to participate in the competition. Fourth graders focused their performances on their color poems, while grade five wrote poems about their upcoming graduation. Some say poems are the lyrics of the soul, and grades 4-5 had a fabulous time expressing themselves in a creative, fun, and outgoing way. (Written by Alyssa Chapin, Wu Yin Pictures by Teachers Edited by Huang Shiyuan, Mikah Jimenez)
Medical Dictionary banner Medical Dictionary - Dictionary of Medicine and Human Biology Medical Dictionary lithomyl (lith′o-mil) An instrument for pulverizing a stone in the bladder. [litho- + G. myle, mill] lithonephritis (lith′o-ne-fri′tis) Interstitial nephritis associated with calculus formation. lithopedion, lithopedium (lith-o-pe′de-on, -um) A retained fetus, usually extrauterine, that has become calcified. [litho- + G. paidion, small child] lithotome (lith′o-tom) A knife used in lithotomy. lithotomist (li-thot′o-mist) A person skilled in lithotomy. lithotomy (li-thot′o-me) Cutting for stone; a cutting operation for the removal of a calculus, especially a vesical calculus. SYN: lithectomy. [litho- + G. tome, incision] high l. SYN: suprapubic l.. lateral l. l. in which the perineum is incised to one side of the median line. marian l. SYN: median l.. [L. mas (mar-), male] median l. l. in which the perineal incision is made in the median raphe. SYN: marian l.. perineal l. l. in which the bladder is approached by an incision in the perineum. prerectal l. l. by an incision in the midline of the perineum anterior to anus. suprapubic l. l. in which the bladder is entered by an incision immediately above the symphysis pubis. SYN: high l.. vaginal l. l. in which the bladder or ureter is entered through an incision in the vagina. vesical l. SYN: cystolithotomy. lithotresis (lith-o-tre′sis) The boring of holes in a calculus to facilitate its crushing. [litho- + G. tresis, a boring] lithotripsy (lith′o-trip-se) The crushing of a stone in the renal pelvis, ureter, or bladder, by mechanical force or focused sound energy. SYN: lithotrity. [litho- + G. tripsis, a rubbing] electrohydraulic shock wave l. (ESWL) destruction of calculi (urinary tract or other) by fragmentation using shock waves sent transcutaneously via ultrasound transducers. extracorporeal shock wave l. (ESWL) (lith′o-trip′se) breaking up of renal or ureteral calculi by focused sound energy. shock wave l. a method of fragmenting calculi. ultrasonic l. the demolition of calculi by high frequency sound waves. lithotriptic (lith-o-trip′tik) 1. Relating to lithotripsy. 2. An agent that effects the dissolution of a calculus. lithotriptor (lith-o-trip′tor) A device used to crush or fragment a calculus in lithotripsy. lithotriptoscopy (lith′o-trip-tos′ko-pe) Crushing of a stone in the bladder under direct vision by use of a lithotriptoscope. [litho- + G. tribo, to rub, crush, + skopeo, to view] lithotrite (lith′o-trit) A mechanical instrument used to crush a urinary calculus in lithotripsy. SYN: lithoclast. [litho- + L. tero, pp. tritus, to rub] lithotrity (li-thot′ri-te) SYN: lithotripsy. lithotroph (lith′o-trof) An organism whose carbon needs are satisfied by carbon dioxide. Cf.:chemoautotroph. lithuresis (lith′u-re′sis) The passage of gravel in the urine. [litho- + G. ouresis, urination] lithuria (li-thoo′re-a) Excretion of uric acid or urates in large amount in the urine. [lithic (acid) + G. ouron, urine] litmus (lit′mus) [old C.I. 1242] A blue coloring matter obtained from Roccella tinctoria and other species of lichens, the principal component of which is azolitmin; used as an indicator (reddened by acids and turned blue again by alkalies). [a corruption of lacmus, fr. Dutch lakmoes] litter (lit′er) 1. A stretcher or portable couch for moving the sick or injured. 2. A group of animals of the same parents, born at the same time. SYN: brood (1) . [Fr. litière; fr. lit, bed] James, U.S. surgeon, 1836–1885. See L. area. William J., English surgeon, 1810–1894. See L. disease. Alexis, French anatomist, 1658–1726. See Littré glands, under gland, Littré hernia. Karl K.T., German gynecologist, 1815–1890. See L. obliquity. livebirth, live birth (liv′berth) The birth of an infant who shows evidence of life after birth. SEE ALSO: liveborn infant. livedo (li-ve′do) A bluish discoloration of the skin, either in limited patches or general. [L. lividness, fr. liveo, to be black and blue] postmortem l. a purple coloration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. SYN: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. l. reticularis a persistent purplish network-patterned discoloration of the skin caused by dilation of capillaries and venules due to stasis or changes in underlying blood vessels including hyalinization; rarely appears as a developmental defect. SYN: dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis. l. reticularis idiopathica an extensive and permanent form of l. reticularis; in rare instances associated with central arterial disease. l. reticularis symptomatica a discoloration or mottling of the skin due to some demonstrable cause, such as seen in erythema ab igne, and in certain tuberculids. SEE ALSO: cutis marmorata. l. telangiectatica a permanent mottling of the skin due to an anomaly, probably congenital, of the cutaneous capillaries; a form of l. reticularis. livedoid (liv′e-doyd) Pertaining to or resembling livedo. liver (liv′er) [TA] The largest gland of the body, lying beneath the diaphragm in the right hypochondrium and upper part of the epigastric region; it is of irregular shape and weighs from 1–2 kg, or about 140 the weight of the body. As an exocrine gland it secretes bile; it initially receives most absorbed nutrients via the portal vein; it detoxifies and is also of great importance in fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism and stores glycogen. SYN: hepar [TA] . [A.S. lifer] cardiac l. SYN: cardiac cirrhosis. desiccated l. a dried undefatted powder prepared from mammalian livers used as human food; contains riboflavin, nicotinic acid, and choline; used in the treatment of macrocytic anemias and as a nutritional supplement. fatty l. yellow discoloration of the l. due to fatty degeneration of l. parenchymal cells. SYN: hepatic steatosis. hobnail l. in Laënnec cirrhosis, the contraction of scar tissue and hepatic cellular regeneration which causes a nodular appearance of the livers surface. lardaceous l. SYN: waxy l.. left l. [TA] portion of the l. receiving blood from the left branches of the hepatic artery and portal vein, and from which bile is drained via the left hepatic duct; the plane of the middle hepatic vein (demarcated externally on the visceral surface by the fossae for the gallbladder and inferior vena cava and on the diaphragmatic surface by a line extrapolated from the gallbladder to the terminal inferior vena cava) separates left from right l.. SYN: pars hepatis sinistra [TA] , left part of l.&star. nutmeg l. chronic passive congestion of the l., causing accentuation of the lobular pattern with red central and yellow or tan periportal zones. pigmented l. a l. that contains pigment, such as occurs in Dubin-Johnson syndrome, hemochromatosis, long-standing malaria. polycystic l. gradual cystic dilation of intralobular bile ducts (Meyenburg complexes) that fail to involute in embryologic development of the l.; frequently associated with bilateral congenital polycystic kidneys and occasionally with cystic involvement of the pancreas, lungs, and other organs. SYN: polycystic l. disease. posterior l. posterior hepatic segment I. right l. [TA] portion of the l. receiving blood from the right branches of the hepatic artery and portal vein, and from which bile is drained via the right hepatic duct; the plane of the middle hepatic vein (demarcated externally on the visceral surface by the fossae for the gallbladder and inferior vena cava and on the diaphragmatic surface by a line extrapolated from the gallbladder to the terminal inferior vena cava) separates right from left l.. SYN: pars hepatis dextra [TA] , right part of l.&star. wandering l. SYN: hepatoptosis. waxy l. amyloid degeneration of the l.. SYN: lardaceous l.. livetin (liv′e-tin) Any of the three major water-soluble proteins in egg yolk: α-l., serum albumin; β-l., α-glycoprotein; γ-l., serum γ-globulin. Having a black and blue or a leaden or ashy gray color, as in discoloration from a contusion, congestion, or cyanosis. [L. lividus, being black and blue] lividity (li-vid′i-te) The state of being livid. postmortem l. SYN: postmortem livedo. livor (li′vor) The livid discoloration of the skin on the dependent parts of a corpse. [L. a black and blue spot] lixivium (lik-siv′e-um) SYN: lye. [L. ntr. of lixivius, made into lye] Abbreviation for lysolecithin-lecithin acyltransferase. Abbreviation for large loop excision of transformation zone of the cervix of the uterus. Abbreviation for left lower lobe (of lung). John Uri, U.S. pharmacist, 1849–1936. Noted for investigational work in plant chemistry and phytochemistry as applied to medicines, alkaloids, and glucosides. Lloyd reagent See under reagent. Abbreviation for left lower quadrant (of abdomen). Abbreviation for licentiate in midwifery. Abbreviation for lumen (2) . Abbreviation for left mentoanterior position. 1. Abbreviation for left mentoposterior position; last menstrual period; latent membrane protein; low molecular weight proteins, under protein. 2. Gene product of Epstein-Barr virus (latent membrane protein). Abbreviation for left mentotransverse position. SYN: noscapine. Abbreviation for lymph node permeability factor. Lo, Lo See L. dose. Abbreviation for left occipitoanterior position. load (lod) 1. A departure from normal body content, as of water, salt, or heat; positive loads are quantities in excess of the normal; negative loads are quantities in deficit. 2. The quantity of a measurable entity borne by an object or organism. [M.E. lode, fr. A.S. lad,] electronic pacemaker l. the impedance to the output, the standard l. being 500 ohms resistance ± 1%. genetic l. the aggregate of more or less harmful genes that are carried, mostly hidden, in the genome that may be transmitted to descendants and cause morbidity and disease; in classical genetic dynamics, genetic l. may be seen as undischarged genetic debts that result from previous mutations, each of which is supposed to exact an average number of lethal equivalents dependent only on the pattern of inheritance, regardless of how mild or severe the phenotype may be. viral l. the plasma level of viral RNA, as determined by various techniques including target amplification assay by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and branched DNA technology with signal amplification. Because levels of detection vary with method, results of testing by different methods are not comparable.Serial measurement of HIV viral l. has become a standard procedure in monitoring the course of AIDS. Reported as the number of copies of viral RNA per mL of plasma, assessment of viral l. provides important information about the number of lymphoid cells actively infected with HIV. This laboratory procedure has supplanted the CD4 count as an indicator of prognosis of persons infected with HIV, in determining when to start antiretroviral therapy, and in measuring the response to therapy. Because the CD4 count is regarded as superior in determining the level of immune compromise and the risk of opportunistic infection, both tests are currently used. Antiretroviral therapy is started when plasma HIV RNA concentration exceeds 5000 copies/mL. When, as a result of treatment, the number of copies of viral RNA falls below the level that can be detected by standard methods, replication of HIV is considered to have been suppressed. In no case, however, has AIDS been cured, nor has viral proliferation remained arrested after cessation of antiretroviral therapy. loading (lod′ing) Administration of a substance for the purpose of testing metabolic function. carbohydrate l. a procedure, popular with long-distance runners and other athletes, of filling muscles with a large glycogen pool prior to an athletic event; often, the athlete consumes very few carbohydrates for three days, followed by a largely carbohydrate diet for the last three days before the event. salt l. the administration of 2 g of sodium chloride (with a regular diet) 3 times a day for 4 days; a diagnostic test in primary aldosteronism, in which the salt l. produces a typical plasma electrolyte and hormonal pattern. soda l. a procedure adopted by a number of athletes of ingesting sodium bicarbonate in an attempt to buffer the production of protons during exercise. Loa loa (lo′a lo′a) The African eye worm, a species of the family Onchocercidae (superfamily Filarioidea) that is indigenous to the western part of equatorial Africa, especially in the region of the Congo River, and is the causal agent of loiasis. Adult worms are white or gray-white, cylindroid, and threadlike, the males averaging 25–35 by 0.3–0.4 mm (with a curved tail) and the females ranging from 50–60 by 0.4–0.6 mm; microfilariae are ensheathed, with nuclei extending to the tip of the tail. The life cycle is somewhat similar to that of Wuchereria species; humans are the only known definitive host, and parasites are transmitted by Chrysops flies (family Tabanidae); infective larvae from the latter require 3 years or more to mature in humans, and the adult forms may persist in a human host for as long as 17 years. SEE ALSO: loiasis. lobar (lo′bar) Relating to any lobe. l. nephronia 1. a focal renal mass related to acute infection. 2. acute focal bacterial nephritis. 3. renal phlegmon (not an abscess; no free pus). lobate (lo′bat) 1. Divided into lobes. 2. Lobe-shaped; denoting a bacterial colony with a deeply undulate margin. SYN: lobose, lobous. lobe (lob) [TA] 1. One of the subdivisions of an organ or other part, bounded by fissures, sulci, connective tissue septa, or other structural demarcations. 2. A rounded projecting part, as the l. of the ear. SEE ALSO: lobule. 3. One of the larger divisions of the crown of a tooth, formed from a distinct point of calcification. SYN: lobus [TA] . [G. lobos, l.] anterior l. of hypophysis adenohypophysis. azygos l. of right lung a small accessory l. sometimes formed above the hilum of the right lung; separated from the rest of the upper l. by a deep groove lodging the azygos vein. SYN: lobus azygos pulmonis dextri. caudate l. posterior hepatic segment I. cerebral lobes SYN: lobi cerebri, under lobus. cuneiform l. SYN: biventer lobule. ear l. SYN: lobule of auricle. falciform l. SYN: cingulate gyrus. flocculonodular l. [TA] the small posterior and inferior subdivision of the cerebellar cortex that borders the line of attachment of the choroid roof of the rhomboid fossa, and consists of the left and right flocculus together with the unpaired nodulus (the most posterior of the folia composing the vermis cerebelli). Its major afferent connections come from the vestibular nuclei and directly from the vestibular nerve; it projects largely to the vestibular nuclei, directly and by way of the fastigial nucleus. SYN: lobus flocculonodularis [TA] . frontal l. [TA] SYN: frontal l. of cerebrum. frontal l. of cerebrum [TA] the portion of each cerebral hemisphere anterior to the central sulcus. SYN: frontal l. [TA] , lobus frontalis [TA] . glandular l. of hypophysis SYN: adenohypophysis. Home l. the enlarged middle l. of the prostate gland. inferior l. of (left / right) lung it is located below and behind the oblique fissure and contains five bronchopulmonary segments: superior (S VI), medial basal (S VII), anterior basal (S VIII), lateral basal (S IX), and posterior basal (S X). SYN: lobus inferior pulmonis dextri et sinistri [TA] , lower l. of lung&star. insular l. lobus insula. kidney lobes [TA] one of the subdivisions of the kidney, consisting of a renal pyramid and the cortical tissue associated with it. SYN: lobus renalis [TA] , renal l.. left l. [TA] the left subdivision of several glands, e.g., prostate, thyroid, thymus. SYN: lobus sinister [TA] . left l. of liver [TA] it is separated from the much larger right l. anterior and superior to the falciform and coronary ligaments, and from the quadrate and caudate lobes by the fissure for the ligamentum teres and the fissure for the ligamentum venosum. The lobes of the liver are not functional units, being defined by external structures; the distribution of the portal vein, hepatic artery, and bile ducts does not correspond to the gross lobar divisions of the liver. SYN: lobus hepatis sinister [TA] , divisio lateralis sinistra&star, lateral division of left liver&star. limbic l. [TA] as originally defined by P. Broca: the nearly closed ring of the brain structures surrounding the hilus, or margin, of the cerebral hemisphere of mammals; it is composed of the fornicate gyrus (cingulate gyrus, fasciolar gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, and uncus), and the hippocampus. See limbic system. SYN: lobus limbicus [TA] . lingual l. SYN: cingulum of tooth. lower l. of lung inferior l. of (left / right) lung. lobes of mammary gland [TA] the 15–20 separate portions of the mammary gland that radiate from the central area deep to the nipplelike wheel spokes and make up the body of the mammary gland; each is drained by a single lactiferous duct. SYN: lobi glandulae mammariae [TA] . middle l. of prostate [TA] the portion of the prostate lying between the urethra and the ejaculatory ducts; indistinct unless hypertrophied. SYN: lobus medius prostatae [TA] , Morgagni caruncle. middle l. of right lung [TA] it is located anteriorly between the horizontal and oblique fissures and includes lateral (S IV) and medial (S V) bronchopulmonary segments. SYN: lobus medius pulmonis dextri [TA] . nervous l. SYN: neurohypophysis. neural l. of hypophysis the bulbous part of the neurohypophysis attached to the hypothalamus by the infundibulum. It is composed of pituicytes, blood vessels, and terminals of nerve fibers from the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei. occipital l. [TA] SYN: occipital l. of cerebrum. occipital l. of cerebrum [TA] the posterior, somewhat pyramid-shaped part of each cerebral hemisphere, demarcated by no distinct surface markings on the lateral convexity of the hemisphere from the parietal and temporal lobes, but sharply delineated from the parietal l. by the parieto-occipital sulcus on the medial surface. SYN: lobus occipitalis [TA] , occipital l. [TA] . parietal l. [TA] SYN: parietal l. of cerebrum. parietal l. of cerebrum [TA] the middle portion of each cerebral hemisphere, separated from the frontal l. by the central sulcus, from the temporal l. by the lateral sulcus in front and an imaginary line projected posteriorly, and from the occipital l. only partially by the parieto-occipital sulcus on its medial aspect. SYN: lobus parietalis [TA] , parietal l. [TA] . placental lobes cotyledons of the human placenta, viewed on the maternal surface as irregularly shaped elevations or lobes. polyalveolar l. a type of congenital anomaly where a severalfold increase in the total alveolar number leads to congenital lobar emphysema. posterior l. of hypophysis SYN: neurohypophysis. l. of prostate [TA] one of the lateral lobes (right or left) or the middle l. or isthmus of the prostate; in the adult the lobes are ill-defined. SYN: lobus prostatae [TA] . pyramidal l. of thyroid gland [TA] an inconstant narrow l. of the thyroid gland that arises from the upper border of the isthmus and extends upward, sometimes as far as the hyoid bone; it marks the point of continuity with the thyroglossal duct. SYN: lobus pyramidalis glandulae thyroideae [TA] , Lallouette pyramid, Morgagni appendix, pyramid of thyroid. quadrate l. 1. a l. on the inferior surface of the liver located between the fossa for the gallbladder and the fissure for the ligamentum teres; 2. SYN: quadrangular lobule. 3. SYN: precuneus. renal l. SYN: kidney lobes. Riedel l. an occasional tonguelike process extending downward from the right l. of the liver lateral to the gallbladder; a similar process may, though rarely, extend from the left l.. SYN: lobus appendicularis, lobus linguiformis. right l. [TA] the right subdivision of several glands, e.g., prostate, thyroid, thymus. SYN: lobus dexter [TA] . right l. of liver [TA] the largest l. of the liver, separated from the left l. anteriorly and superiorly by the falciform and coronary ligaments and from the caudate and quadrate lobes by the sulcus for the vena cava and the fossa for the gallbladder. SYN: lobus hepatis dexter [TA] . Spigelius l. SYN: posterior hepatic segment I. superior l. of (right/left) lung the l. of the right lung that lies above the oblique and horizontal fissures and includes the apical (S I), posterior (S II), and anterior (S III) bronchopulmonary segments; in the left lung, the l. lies above the oblique fissure and contains the apicoposterior (S I + II), anterior (S III), superior lingular (S IV), and inferior lingular (S V) segments. SYN: lobus superior pulmonis (dextri et sinistri) [TA] , upper l. of lung&star. supplemental l. in dental anatomy, an extra l.; one that is not included in the typical formation of a tooth. temporal l. [TA] a long l., the lowest of the major subdivisions of the cortical mantle, forming the posterior two-thirds of the ventral surface of the cerebral hemisphere, separated from the frontal and parietal lobes above it by the lateral sulcus arbitrarily delineated by an imaginary plane from the occipital l. with which it is continuous posteriorly. The temporal l. has a heterogeneous composition: in addition to a large neocortical component consisting of the superior, middle, and inferior temporal gyri and the lateral and medial occipitotemporal gyri, it includes the largely juxtallocortical parahippocampal gyrus with its paleocortical (olfactory) uncus and, beneath the latter, the amygdala. SYN: lobus temporalis [TA] , temporal cortex. lobes of thyroid gland [TA] the two major divisions of the gland lying on the right and left side of the trachea and connected by the isthmus. A smaller pyramidal l. is frequently present as an upward extension from the isthmus. SYN: lobi glandulae thyroideae [TA] . upper l. of lung superior l. of (right/left) lung. lobectomy (lo-bek′to-me) Excision of a lobe of any organ or gland. [G. lobos, lobe, + ektome, excision] lobelia (lo-be′le-a) 1. The dried leaves and tops of L. inflata (family Lobeliaceae); it contains several alkaloids: lobeline, lobelamine, lobelanidine, lobelanine, norlobelanine, norlobelanidine, and isolobelanine. The fluid extract and the tincture have been used as an expectorant in asthma and chronic bronchitis. 2. One of a class of alkaloids isolated from l. (1). 3. Any plant of the genus L.. SYN: asthma-weed (1) , wild tobacco. lobeline, lobelin (lo′be-len, lob′e-len, -lin) A piperidylacetophenone; an alkaloid of lobelia with the same actions as nicotine, but with less potency. l. sulfate a form of l. occurring in yellow friable masses, soluble in water; used in whooping cough and asthma; it has been suggested as a smoking deterrent. lobi (lo′bi) Plural of lobus. [L.] lobitis (lo-bi′tis) Inflammation of a lobe. Jorge, Brazilian physician, 1900–1979. See L. disease. Loboa loboi (lo-bo′a lo-bo′e) A species of fungus causing lobomycosis. The organism has not been grown in culture. lobomycosis (lo-bo-mi-ko′sis) A chronic localized mycosis of the skin reported from South America resulting in granulomatous nodules or keloids that contain budding, thick-walled cells about 9 μm in diameter, i.e., the tissue form of Loboa loboi, the causative fungus, which has not been cultured. Also occurs in dolphins. SYN: Lobo disease. . . . Feedback
What Is Web Scraping And When Should You Do It? Meet Jane. She is surfing the web in search of a job as a Python programmer. She begins her search at one such website by filtering for jobs on the basis of her requirements. She is excited when she finds 1,944 listings from just one website. Four hours into this quest, her excitement turns into disappointment when she ends up with only 5 positions that she can apply to because the rest of the listings are several weeks old. What’s worse is that she has eight more websites to go through. Have you been in a similar situation? Then web scraping is for you. What is web scraping? Web scraping or web harvesting is the automated process of extracting unstructured data from a website and then parsing, searching and reformatting it into structured information and saving it somewhere (can be a spreadsheet, file or a database) for later use. Is it legal? The legality of web scraping varies across the world. According to Wikipedia, • US courts are prepared to protect proprietary content on commercial sites from uses which are undesirable to the owners of such sites. However, the degree of protection for such content is not settled and will depend on the type of access made by the scraper, the amount of information accessed and copied, the degree to which the access adversely affects the site owner’s system and the types and manner of prohibitions on such conduct. For example, Internet Archive collects and distributes a significant number of publicly available web pages without being considered to be in violation of copyright laws. • In the EU, The the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) guidelines make it clear that publicly available data is still personal data and cannot be repurposed without the knowledge of the person to whom that data belongs. • Leaving a few cases dealing with IPR infringement, Indian courts have not expressly ruled on the legality of web scraping. However, since all common forms of electronic contracts are enforceable in India, violating the terms of use prohibiting data scraping will be a violation of the contract law. Still unsure whether you can scrape a website? • One way to know is to go through the website’s terms of use. • Another way is to check the robots.txt file for a website where they may declare if crawling is allowed or not, to what extent is it allowed and more. When should you do it? When the information you need from a website is not available via APIs and is only accesible through its contents, you can make use of web scraping to save you the time and effort of parsing large amounts of data manually and extracting relevant information. Now that you understand what web scraping is and when you should do it, let’s go through the how aspect of it in the next few posts so that we can make Jane’s job search easy! If you would like to read more posts about web scraping, you can find them here. Thank you for reading! Copyright 2021-present Vasudha Jha. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Vasudha Jha Vasudha Jha MS in Computer Science Student An engineer, artist and writer, all at the same time, I suppose.
The relationship explanation is a standard rule made use of in databases to distinguish relationships among entities. A relationship explanation, for any romance family, is simply a rule that state governments that two entity the entire family are linked, which relationship family is the predecessor, and which marriage family is the descendants. Typically, the relationship meaning will include one or more relationship parts such as an ancestor, rejeton, parent, child, and brother or sister. It will likewise describe the relationship properties from the members of the family. The partnership definition can easily be very intricate because it must describe not merely the associations among the affiliates of a home but should also describe the relationships of most of the members of the family at the same time. Oftentimes, the relationship explanation will identify how a specific person relates to all of the other people in his or perhaps her lifestyle. However , it can possibly state that a certain individual is related to or has a relationship with all members of the specific romance family. The partnership definition could also describe the relationship romantic relationships among all of your members of a specific business family as well. For example , if perhaps one person in a indivisible family been effective at a factory for long periods of time, the face would likely always be described as component to a repair relationship family members. The relationship explanation can be developed in several distinct forms. One of the most common romantic relationship definition formulations is to suggest that a romance is considered to be a great axial converter or an axial heart beat stream once one part of a marriage definition is referred to as having a great axial heartbeat flow. However, if two members on the relationship meaning are not described as having a great axial flow, the health supplement could state that these kinds of members are considered to be a non-axial pulse stream. In many cases, relationship definitions may also be needed to determine whether an entity is part of a relationship home. In the case of this axial heart beat flow romantic relationship definition, interactions would need to always be determined to be part of a relationship family group based on if the relationship was periodic or not. Yet , it can be hard to determine whether the relationship is usually periodic or not. In some cases, this problem may be solved simply by noting a relationship classification that contains a great axial stream clause can even be called a periodic relationship. The axial move relationship is usually one that talks about a romance that is not always continuous. Consequently , this see type of romance may not be a very good match for that company that actually works with a product that is not likely to continue to be continuously available. The cardinality and hyperarity belonging to the relationship description window may also be used to manage marriage definition house windows. In the case of the partnership definition home window for a great entity family unit, a company that wants to manage its associations will want to ensure that its associations to each member of the business family are specified in the window meaning. Therefore , this kind of window can specify when the member of the entity family will be accessed, how often contact will occur or perhaps when revealing on past-time data or information via another source. Yet , a company that has no plans to into virtually any formal marriage definitions with its subordinate relatives may find which it makes sense allowing the cardinalities and hyperarians of the family members to be far more flexible than traditional binary choices. When managing relationships, companies will want to ensure that their preferred processes tend not to create improper cycles among their associates. This can be created by choosing the best binary option when there are zero significant cycles within the group of data. When a company desires to maintain its relationships with its partner company following the relationship description window is actually defined, then the company should you should definitely choose a binary option that wont create a spiral for one with the partner business data. On many occasions, the cardinality and hyperarity of the relationship definition eye-port will help to achieve this goal. Related Post Leave a Reply
Balloon Bounce What to do: Split the children into groups of 2-4 and give each group a balloon. Tell them that you want them to keep the balloon up in the air, but they have to take turns hitting it – no one can hit it a second time until all other children in their group have taken a turn. Have the children proceed with the game, supporting them to strategize and collaborate to keep it in the air longer and longer. Encourage children to count the number of hits each time, so they can compare which strategies are more effective. Other turn taking games that can be played include card games, board games, and Bug in a Rug (children close their eyes and crouch down, an educator places a blanket over one of them, and then children take turns guessing who is under the blanket). Too easy? How to increase challenge: Have children use only a specified body part, or one of a few specified body parts, to hit the balloon (e.g., only their left arm, only their head, only their knee). You can also have children decide fair rules for who should start and the order they should go in. You can also play games where not all children get a turn each game, to help them inhibit natural responses to disappointment, and recognise and resolve these feelings. Where turn-taking breaks down, use this as an opportunity to discuss – e.g., imagine yourself in another’s shoes: ‘Do you think X might also really want a turn? Imagine if you had waited patiently for your turn, but then X wanted to take a second turn before you. How might you feel? What might you want X to do if that happened?’ Ideal formation(s): For 3-year olds, this is best attempted with up to three children. For 4-5 year olds, larger groups (e.g., groups of 4+ children) can be attempted. What you need: Thick (good quality) blown up balloons. What it does: This activity challenges children’s ability to take turns, inhibit responses and collaborate, even when it is difficult to do so (e.g., when the balloon is near them but it is not their turn). It also fosters core aspects of social development that underpin self-regulation, such as the developmental shift from considering ‘me’ to considering ‘us’. Links to EYLF: • Begin to initiate negotiating and sharing behaviours; Persist when faced with challenges and when first attempts are not successful; Increasingly cooperate and work collaboratively with others (from Outcome 1.2) • Show interest in other children and being part of a group; Engage in and contribute to shared play experiences; Display awareness of and respect for others perspectives; Express a wide variety of emotions, thoughts and views constructively; Reflect on their actions and consider consequences for others (from Outcome 1.4) • Cooperate with others and negotiate roles and relationships in play episodes and group experiences; Begin to think critically about fair and unfair behaviour; Contribute to fair decision-making about matters that affect them (from Outcome 2.1) • Participate with others to solve problems and contribute to group outcomes (Outcome 2.4) • Increasingly cooperate and work collaboratively with others (Outcome 3.1) • Engage in increasingly complex sensory-motor skills and movement patterns (Outcome 3.2) • Persist even when they find a task difficult (from Outcome 4.1) Ballon Bounce
Choose your screen resolution: Auto adjust 800x600 1024x768 Using social networks to teach english Scris de mihaiela lazar Sâmbătă, 08 Februarie 2014 20:26 Prof. Dumitru Maria Magdalena Liceul Tehnologic Constantin Brâncuși- Pitești In 2007, the British Council led a research activity about how the internet affected students ‘preferences as regards their learning styles in studying English. The result of the research showed that teachers must be relevant and effective if they want to be part of the future learning process. And this is because the educational process will undoubtly include learning technologies in an attempt to help students interact with the world outside the classroom. There are more factors that make social networks an effective tool in teaching English. Firstly it is a well known fact that everyone tends to find information more relevant when it comes from peers or family rather than when it comes from a teacher. Besides when students are not in a classroom but at home or somewhere else relaxed in front of the computer they are more open to ideas and suggestions. Given these teachers should make sure that he uses group working giving students more fun activities which help them go out of the setting of the classroom. Teacher should be more of a facilitator rather than a knowledge provider. Because of the enormous amount of information provided by the internet, students feel more disconnected and isolated in a classroom than they feel in front of a computer or a mobile phone. That is why they feel more and more often that school is no longer relevant to their lives and needs. When young people are on the Internet, they feel 'connected' to people and the world’s knowledge. In the classroom, they can feel 'disconnected' and 'isolated'. They sometimes feel that school isn’t particularly relevant to their lives. Therefore a teacher nowadays needs to take on the role of a trainer using learning technologies as often as he can, showing students how to access the information they need, and developing their networking skills to help them stay connected to the ”outside” world. Students who have enough opportunities to socialize informally are more successful in language learning. It’s important to understand that successful students combine studying and socializing, and that combining the two things helps them to be successful at both. So what teachers can do is taking on the role of 'network administrator' rather than 'materials writer'. He needs to find out what social networking sites students like to use and show students what free learning opportunities are available through social networking sites. The use of social networking is very popular among English language learners. It is one important tool that can assist teachers and learners to access information and facilitate learning. The most popular social networking is Facebook. Presently, Facebook is used as a social network to keep in touch and keep up with other people. Students use Facebook primarily for ‘social searching.’ That is, students use Facebook to learn more about a person they have met. It is also used for social and emotional support and as a resource to find information. There are many ways to use Facebook in education. Facebook can be used for collaborative learning. Moreover with Facebook students like to share, collaborate or work as a team, or students can critique on each other’s work and assignments with fairly easy access. Another use is student writing assignments and written assignment correction. When correcting students ‘work teacher may focus on many types of mistakes like: the misuse of ‘who’ and ‘whom’. Also, there is misuse of vocabulary. For example, the misuse of ‘affect’ and ‘effect’; ‘bring’ and ‘take’; and ‘lie’ and ‘lay’. Additional mistakes include misspelled words. But above all the use of Facebook is a social network and participants can learn and model from each other. Social learning theory emphasizes that learning happens within a ‘social context. People in society learn from each other, such as with concepts, observational learning, modeling, and imitation. With Facebook students get involved in a real-world situation with the aim to solve real problems. The teacher identifies a problem, does something to resolve it, measures how successful the efforts were, and tries again if unsatisfied. Here are a few ways you can use to start engaging with your students on social media: Create a Facebook page that your class can 'like'. Start posting updates to your timeline, but not in English. Ask your students to translate the text using Facebook's in-line Bing translation tool and ask them to gauge its accuracy Create a Twitter account. Start tweeting in a foreign language, keeping in mind that you have a 140 character limit, and see if your students can strike up a conversation with you. Impose a non-English only reply and retweet rule. Create a YouTube account. Ask each of your students to record a video blog of their hobbies, thoughts or opinions on topical news stories, but speaking only in a foreign language. Those who want to have their video uploaded should send it to you first. Create a blog or Tumblr. Dedicate it entirely to publishing content in the language you teach. Show your students why you love the language and inspire them to do the same. Ask them to write something, however small, and post it for the whole world to admire. Kessler, S. (2010). The Case of Social Media in Schools. From Mashable Social Media (2010). 3Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology. from Online (2011). 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" " Who we are and What we are made of If we truly want to live, we must do an anatomy of the body to understand who we are and what we are made of. We have 5 sense organs, eyes to see, ears to hear, a nose to smell, a tongue to taste and skin to feel. But that’s not all that we are. If we try to understand our body further, we have the epidermis which is the outer layer of skin. If we peel the skin, it reveals the dermis that has tissue, blood vessels, hair follicles, and sweat glands. But what lies below the skin? If we cut our skin, we see blood. We also see flesh, muscles, and bone. Didn’t we learn in school that we have a brain that has millions of neurons all across the body? We also have a heart that pumps blood to every corner and every cell. The lungs purify the blood through the process of respiration. We also have kidneys that are responsible to remove the waste products and excess fluid from our bodies. If one looks at the human body, it is such a marvel! The human body the most sophisticated machine ever invented on earth. Not many of us contemplate and thus, we just live and die. We don’t get amazed by the wonders that the body possesses and instead we are flabbergasted with the wonders of the world. We don’t look within and thus, we don’t discover who we truly are. How did the journey of this body start? It started with just 2 cells, one from our mother and one from our father that fertilized as if by magic and conceived what became this most magnificent human body. That one fertilized cell that is referred to as a zygote, grew into an embryo. In a matter of a few weeks, the shape of a little baby was visible. But it took 9 months for us to be created. We were already alive as a foetus inside our mother’s womb, much before we were delivered on earth. Then, with our birth we started our life journey on earth. Ultimately, we grow old and we die. Death of the physical body is certain. Nobody can escape death. People say that we passed away, we departed, or we moved on. Although the physical body is right here, waiting for the final rites to be performed, it is blatantly declared that these are only the ‘mortal remains’ and we, the ones who were alive, have moved on. If we depart at death, then who are we in reality? This physical body is just the habitat of who we truly are. What happened to the one who was alive? What happened to the power that kept the heart beating and the lungs breathing? We human beings live, but we don’t contemplate who we truly are. In fact, we don’t live, we just exist! We just consume this gift called ‘Life’. And instead of using our body to discover who we are and why we are here, we abuse it in every possible way, not just by what we eat and what we drink, but also by what we think and how we live. Some people realize that the gross physical body is made up of five elements – Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Space. Every living creature is made up of these. At death when the life power leaves the body, the body returns to dust. The air escapes into the atmosphere just as the water evaporates when the fire inside us leaves us. We become cold and degenerate into ashes as the space we occupy shrinks and our existence as the body comes to an end. It’s time to stop, to think, to introspect, and to realize that the functions of the physical body are just what appears on the outside. There is something on the inside that we are blissfully ignorant about. If we break the bones of our skeleton, we will find bone marrow, but we will still not find the energy that gives us life. Isn’t it time to discover the truth beyond the body that we seem to be? Only then, we will learn how to truly live. December 2nd, 2020 Leave a Reply
Difference Between Works Cited and Bibliography (With Table) When studying in a British English school or university, it’s critical to recognize the difference between works mentioned or works cited list and a bibliography. As part of any project and essay work, one might need to generate both of them correctly, relying on the coursework. Works cited list is considerably shorter than a bibliography. When writing works cited page for an assignment, you should only include the sources and authors of material that you used in your research. This article focuses on the distinct differences between both the terminologies used in research papers and articles. Works Cited vs Bibliography The difference between works cited and bibliography is that works cited are the list containing the sources you copied or included in your research paper whereas the bibliography is a set of sources that was required for reference or idea generation purposes only. The terms are quite similar because of the nature of their application and the resemblance in their formats. Both are usually stated at the end of the research or article draft. Works cited is a section of a research paper, essay, article, or feature that consists of all the legitimate and trusted sources one has used in his/her piece of literature. Works cited contain only those sources that are handpicked and used “directly” in the paper you wanna publish. In simpler words, a referenced list or works cited column (or, in APA, a References list) is a set of various classifications of all the studies cited in your essay from some other source. Quoted texts, cited theories, pre-proclaimed ideas, and original concepts when featured in the essay, their sources are included in the works cited part. Bibliography on the other hand covers all of the writings and pieces of knowledge you used when investigating for your thesis. It also lists all of the information you used in writing your article, whether or not you explicitly referenced and credited the work. The bibliography is more used in articles, features, and literary pieces in order to add the referential list for the sake of not getting sued or copyrighted. The bibliography list is longer than the works cited list and that is always common in every piece of literature. Comparison Table Between Works Cited and Bibliography Parameters of ComparisonWorks CitedBibliography MeaningThe citations that you mentioned in your paper are included in the works cited section. It includes cited literature, pioneer thoughts, and other people’s innovative views.A bibliography is a list of all resources that you consulted (but did not necessarily utilise) for a research project, formatted in MLA or APA style. EtymologyMiddle English (in the sense of citation (meaning 2)): from Old French, from Latin citatio(n-), from citare “to cite” with “works.”Early nineteenth century: from French bibliographie or contemporary Latin bibliographia, from Greek biblion ‘book’ + -graphia ‘writing.’ PronunciationThe words are pronounced as: ‘vuhks-site·uhd’The word bibliography is pronounced as: ‘bi·blee·aw·gruh·fee’ UsageThe usage of works cited is usually noted in scientific research papers, survey based papers and thesis papers.Usage of bibliography is usually done in both science and arts papers. Length of ListWorks cited list is comparably shorter and more precise than the bibliography list.The list of bibliography is usually longer and not definite as it consists of references only. What is Works Cited? Citations must be formatted according to specified guidelines. MLA or APA style is the most frequent format. Works mentioned are not usually listed numerically. The author’s surname is generally placed first in a list of pieces of knowledge. Annotations or brackets can be used to incorporate references in your written essay; however, parenthesis is more commonly used in academic work these days since they do not disrupt the overall reading flow as much as footnotes do. The referred list, also known as the works cited column (or, in APA, a References list), is a collection of different categories for all of the research cited in your paper from many other sources. The sources of quoted books, referenced theories, pre-proclaimed ideas, and unique thoughts that appear in the essay are given in the works cited section. It also has a more precise set of sources to redirect readers to the mother source of the references. One might be expected to format the work in the APA style in college, especially in the social and behavioral sciences such as psychology and sociology. For in-text citations, the American Psychology Association (APA) utilizes a basic creator citation format, with a “quotes” page at the conclusion. The APA citations, like the MLA works mentioned, will include most of the sources you cited in your paper. As a result, details for each quote mentioned in your work must be included in your reference section. What is Bibliography? A bibliography is a list of publications on a particular topic or by a particular author that have been used or referenced in the creation of a scientific report, novel, or article. Although both have a similar list of works mentioned, their practical usage differs in numerous ways. It appears at the end of a publication, essay, or technical report. The written record of the materials you used for a research assignment, organized in MLA or APA style. The bibliography might comprise books that you have explicitly quoted or summarized in your essay papers, as well as information that you conducted but chose not to use in your essay. The word bibliography is pronounced as ‘bi·blee·aw·gruh·fee’ and is derived in the early nineteenth century: from French bibliographie or contemporary Latin bibliographia, from Greek biblion ‘book’ + -graphia ‘writing. Bibliographic material for printed textbooks may be located on the TITLE PAGE. That page includes the story’s full title, author(s), and publication information. The distributor material varies per publisher; for example, the identity of the editor, the location of publishing, and the date may all appear on this page. Citations or enclosures can be used to incorporate links in your essay; but, brackets are more commonly used in academic papers nowadays although they do not disrupt the viewing rhythm as much as citations do. Main Differences between Works Cited and Bibliography 1. Works cited list is shorter and more precise than the bibliography. 2. Works cited are usually used in scientific papers and research papers whereas a bibliography is used in literature and essay and general papers. 3. Works cited is pronounced as ‘vuhks-site·uhd’ but bibliography ios pronounced as ‘bi·blee·aw·gruh·fee’ 4. Works cited include quoted and copied data, but bibliographies could include information and sites that you researched but did not directly mention in your research. 5. Works cited cannot contain a bibliography but the vice-versa can be included. Citations is a term that is occasionally used to allude to Works Cited. The terms are interchangeable. Each entry is an ordered list of books referenced or to that you have referred. For referencing books in MLA (Modern Language Association) style, this title Works Cited is often used, but then when quoting people in APA (American Psychological Association) style, the title Citations is typically used. Both the terms are used in papers and essays and research papers too. The terms “works cited” and “bibliography” are not interchangeable. Only materials that you have really referred to and mentioned in your paper are listed in Works Cited. 1. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_page_basic_format.ht 2. lhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bibliography 2D vs 3D
Corrosion and scaling isn’t an inconvenient problem in the oil and gas industry. It’s a major, avoidable money drain. The estimated cost of corrosion and scaling to the oil and gas industry in the U.S. in 1975 was $70 billion. In 2007, it was $400 billion. The industry must learn to stop scaling and corrosion before they start. Oil, gas, water, steel, and rock are not always chemically inert under oil/gas production conditions. Their interaction, plus changes in pressure and temperature, can result in major problems. They cause organic and inorganic solids to accumulate in the production system and the deterioration of metals—aka corrosion and scaling. This corrosion and scaling causes problems in pipes, the well bore, tanks, and pretty much everything containing metal in the production system. Damage from corrosion and scaling sets the industry back billions of dollars every year. Stop Scaling Scaling is any hard deposit on equipment, where water is present. Some scales can be removed by acidizing, including oxide, sulfide, and carbonate scales. Others aren’t soluble in acid and have to be removed mechanically, including sulfate, phosphate and ferricyanide scales. These scales damage the health of your system. Scales don’t only form; they build up. They coat casing, tubing, valves, pumps, downhole completion equipment, and perforations. The scale buildup will reduce the flow of fluid through your pipes, and increase wear and tear on your equipment as well as pumping time. It makes your metal more susceptible to corrosion. It will increase your power bills because it takes more electricity to push your fluids through the scale-restricted area. This scale buildup can cost you money in lost production and equipment damage. Control Corrosion Corrosion is the number one cause of damage to metals in wells and production facilities. It’s also a major cause of drill pipe failures. Susceptibility of Metals to Corrosion Trends in the industry have led to more susceptibility of metals to corrosion, including deeper wells, use of lower pH drilling fluids, and the presence of higher stresses. Not only is it costly to perform repairs, the repairs themselves take the equipment out of production during the fix costing companies even more. (Higher strength steel does not lead to more susceptibility to corrosion, please clarify). Corrosion Attacks There are several types of corrosion attacks: sweet corrosion, sour corrosion, oxygen corrosion, and electrochemical corrosion. These types of corrosion can appear as specific forms, including pitting, metal wastage, crevice corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, blistering, sulfide stress cracking, corrosion fatigue, intergranular corrosion, and embrittlement. No matter the form, corrosion eventually takes its toll on equipment. Identify Problem Solvers Losing billions every year to corrosion and scaling repairs and equipment replacement isn’t a given. You can stop scaling and corrosion before they start. The scale and corrosion experts at ATS ChemFlo will identify what’s causing your problems, test solutions, and come up with a custom scale or corrosion inhibitor. We’ll partner with you to keep your pipes flowing and equipment fully functional, while also saving you money and time on expensive repairs and removal treatments. Call ChemFlo today to get started inhibiting equipment-destroying scales and corrosion. Share This
Validation: a key component in therapy and relationships in general 1 module Dr William Davies ‘Validation’ is a key skill for both your professional and personal life. In this module, we address the importance of validating the experiences and emotions of your patients, why it is such a good thing to do, and effective strategies for doing it well. Patients may find that some of the things they do appear to them to be 'stupid' or bizarre, and yet they rarely are; even the most unusual behaviors and emotions almost always 'make sense' when we look closely enough. It is wonderful for patients to be able to see this, and then work towards doing things - and ultimately feeling things - that work better for them. To understand the concept of validation and why it is so important. To understand the difference between validating a behaviour and condoning it. To know how to validate behaviour and emotion easily and effectively. To understand that validation is not a therapy in itself, but rather a rewarding stepping stone to change, without which change often won't happen. Learning Credits Validating, Yet Prompting Something Different {{ vm.helper.t('reports.module') }} Currently no reviews submitted Shopping Cart Your cart is empty
You asked: Are alleles found in pairs? Some genes have a variety of different forms, which are located at the same position, or genetic locus, on a chromosome. Humans are called diploid organisms because they have two alleles at each genetic locus, with one allele inherited from each parent. Each pair of alleles represents the genotype of a specific gene. Where are pairs of alleles found? An allele is an alternative form of a gene (in diploids, one member of a pair) that is located at a specific position on a specific chromosome. Diploid organisms, for example, humans, have paired homologous chromosomes in their somatic cells, and these contain two copies of each gene. Are there always two alleles? When the copies of a gene differ from each other, they are known as alleles. A given gene may have multiple different alleles, though only two alleles are present at the gene’s locus in any individual. Is gene present in pair? Why do chromosomes and alleles exist in pairs? Because chromosomes come in pairs for each trait, there will be two possible alleles. These different versions of genes (alleles) occur as the DNA base sequence is different. This combination of alleles for each trait is called the genotype; this can be any combination of two of the available alleles. THIS IS INTERESTING: What is the result of mitosis quizlet? What pairs of alleles determine? The pair of alleles present on an individual’s chromosomes dictates what eye color will be expressed. How many types of alleles are there? How are alleles named? Allele designations appear as superscripted short alphanumeric strings following the gene symbol of which they are an allele and serve as an acronym for the allele name. … Allele designations begin with a lower case letter if the allele is a recessive and begin with a capital letter otherwise. How many genes are in a chromosome? All about hereditary diseases
The Ariel name is one of the oldest in motoring history, being originally launched in 1898. Filed under: Companies Comment(s): 0 First used on a de Dion-engined trike in 1898. Known best for their motorcycles, Ariel have also produced cars, trikes, quads, delivery and military vehicles over the past 100 years. ariel atom logo 1.gif Ariel logo. Ariel is a British automobile manufacturer in Somerset, known for its high performance car, the Ariel Atom. Ariel previously was a British bicycle, motorcycle and automobile manufacturer in Birmingham. Ariel was established by James Staley and William Hillman in 1870. The first products were penny-farthing bicycles under the Ariel name. By 1896 they had started on motorised transports. The first Ariel Tricycle was used a 2.25 hp De Dion engine mounted at the rear. More tricycles and quadricycles were produced and Ariel then moved into car production. Cars were produced over two periods: from 1900 to 1915, and again from 1922 to 1925. The first Ariel car was a 10 hp (7.5 kW) twin-cylinder car produced in 1902. In 1903, their first four-cylinder was a 16 hp (11.9 kW) model. Both, these vehicles had a leather cone clutch that entirely separate from the flywheel. A six-cylinder model, built on a seemingly inadequate tube-frame chassis, entered production early in 1904. An entirely new range was announced at the end of 1905; called the "Aero-Simplex", these cars were Mercedes-inspired four-cylinder designs of 15 hp (11.2 kW) and 25/30 hp (18.6/22.4 kW) and a six of 35/40 hp (26/30 kW). In 1907-08 the company began production of the monstrous 50/60 hp (37/45 kW) six, which offered a engine of 15.9 litres for a chassis price of £950. In 1907 Ariel sold its Bournbrook, Birmingham factory to the British Lorraine-Dietrich, and thereafter assembled its cars at the Coventry Ordnance Works. Production of a 1.3 litre light car was quashed by the outbreak of World War I. After 1918 the company tried one last, abortive attempt to cash in on the small car market; the Ariel Nine featured a flat-twin air-cooled engine, and was built by A. Harper Sons and Bean. In 1944 Ariel became part of the BSA group. The last Ariel was in the 1970's The "Ariel 3" was a 3-wheeler 50cc 2-stroke moped different from other mopeds at the time not just for having 3-wheels but because it was a tilting vehicle. The front half of the moped was hinged to the rear and so it could tilt into corners whilst keeping all 3-wheels on the ground. Production of the Ariel 3 was short and the moped was dropped along with the Ariel name shortly afterwards. ariel round emblem 2.gif Ariel emblem. ariel mc horseshoe emblem 1.gif Ariel emblem. ariel pill emblem 1.gif Ariel emblem. ariel wings emblem 1.gif Ariel emblem. Ariel Official site. Advertise on Cartype Instagram Vimeo Youtube Twitter Facebook THE "1900's" BOOK. Car Shipping Companies Auto Transport Quotes Vehicle Transportation
Early Marriages: The rippling economic impacts of child marriage According to the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), globally, more than 700 million alive today marry before the age of 18. However, 15 million additional girls are married as children- the majority of these married children are based in developing countries. Child marriage is considered human rights abuse and as well as a major impediment to gender equality. Additionally, it does not affect only the child bride but also of their children. This article, therefore, covers some effects of early marriage. Child marriage also known as early marriage has adverse effects on children mainly girls. They enter into these marriages below the ages of 18 years and this creates an intergenerational cycle of disadvantage. Factors that mainly contribute to early marriages include economic drivers such as incentives to marry out girls to reduce the financial burden on the family. Additional factors include societal norms and perceived protection -this is when parents want to build their social status in the society through their daughters’ marriage which links the two families together. Nevertheless, parents believe that by marrying their daughter at an early age, she will save herself from prostitution, sexual harassment, unwanted pregnancies, and sexually transmitted diseases. Negative health consequences of early marriage include poorer maternal and reproductive health, increased risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, intimate partner violence, and maternal mortality. early childbearing increases risk to women’s health. This includes complications during pregnancy and childbirth complications which leads to death among women aged 20-24 years. Child marriage also leads to adverse economic outcomes – this includes lower educational attainment or dropping out of school, lower socio-economic status, and high rates of poverty. However, children who are born by women affected by early marriage are more likely to be born prematurely or low birth weight and therefore leading to poorer health. It also leads to a high birth rate in countries which in turn puts pressure on social amenities. It leads to a high unemployment rate which increases social vices such as robbery, prostitution, etc. in the country. SEE ALSO: GES new SHS/SHTS 2021 academic calendar-What you need to know Previous articleBarriers to girl-child education Next articleStart a project today and save your future as a young worker Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here
Sinoman: A Mixture of Javanese Value and Islam Sinoman: A Mixture of Javanese Value and Islam Sinoman, a unique mixture between local tradition and the Islamic values, has been developing and maintaining harmony among citizens around Java and other parts of Indonesia. It’s called Sinoman, one of long-lived traditions in Java, Indonesia. The definition of Sinoman (noun) is lexically an activity in which a group of young men and women who practically want to help ‘social parties’ like weeding, usually in their own villages. Epistemologically, sinoman is to aid our neighbors who have personal event and to succeed that event. The helpers are called ‘peladen’. The term sinoman first appeared in the 14th century on the northern coast from Tuban to Pasuruan, East Java. Coming out from approximatelly 7th century ago, sinoman was a term to get together young Javanesse people. The aims of sinoman are 1) to lighten the burden off other people with the party, 2) to achieve some form of partnership for the region’s citizens, 3) to nurture a youthful enthusiasm for themselves, and 4) to build and preserve harmony among citizens and many more. Read More What does the peladen do while doing sinoman? When our neighbor has a ceremony such as wedding, they need many hand to organize everything. Many young people will come up voluntarily, help and contribute to organize so it runs well. One of the payments is usually the host will let them to take some food, drink, and cakes for free. Prior to the party, they hold a communal meeting to organize the party. And then, when the party ends, the host will thank to the peladens. At the time, it will be held a meeting called “pembubaran sinoman”. The task of sinoman is about to serve food to the guest, to prepare and oversee party preparation, and to houseclean while the party ends. Basically, this tradition is pure for our neighbors who need our hand. The unique thing is they are doing it voluntarily. There is no obligation for the host to pay them even though occasionally one would be kind enough to give them money or pack of cigarettes for the men. Nowadays, the tradition is further undermined by the influence of other cultures in the era of globalism, but it still exists in some places in Java, for instance in Surabaya and Yogyakarta, especially in all countrysides. The peladen usually wears kind of like uniform, which is usually batik, traditional textile originating from the island of Java. Although it is a voluntary activity, why does it still exist? is there a relation between sinoman and religious values on it? Sinoman is exactly a tradition full of charity and is developed for the progress and harmony of citizens. This relates to the core of Islamic teachings. One of the central principles of Islam is helping others. The Qur’an and Sunna highlight how helping others and contributing to society is fundamental aspects of Islam. It is true that main purpose of being muslim is to worship God, but this is done not only through rituals like performing prayer and fasting but also through dealing with other people. Born to change social order, Islam has ordered how we should treat our neighbors and be kind to them. It is clear that in the Quran neighbors are entitled to kindness, whether they are neighborly or not. The Qur’an says: Muslim narrated The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) also said“Whoever believes in Allah and the last day should do well to his neighbor. Someone who wants to help others through sinoman is therefore not only because of to make it existed but also because of personally to perform Islamic teachings down to earth. Giving a help to our neighbors as The Prophet said is a part of our faith. This consciously or not leads them not only to do but also to make sinoman a long-lived tradition. Sinoman, a unique mixture between local tradition and the Islamic values, has been developing and maintaining harmony among citizens around Java, and other parts of Indonesia.
Piers Plowman Piers Plowman CONTENT Abstract……………………………………………………………………………… 2 Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 3 History of the title………………………………………………………………… 4 Editorial, publication and reception history……………………………… 7 Concluding remarks…………………………………………………………… 2 References………………………………………………………………………. 13 Abstract Piers Plowman or Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman (William’s Vision of Piers Plowman) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called “passus”. Piers is considered by many critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Ages. The poem- part theological allegory, part social satire- concerns the narrator’s intense quest for the true Christian life, from the perspective of mediaval Catholicism. This quest entails a series of dream-visions and an examination into the lives of three allegorical characters, Dowel (“Do-Well”), Dobet (“Do-Better”), and Dobest (“Do-Best”). Key words 1. Middle English poem 2. Allegorical narrative poem 3. Early great work Introduction The poem begins in the Malvern Hills in Malvern, Worcestershire. A man named Will falls asleep and has a vision of a tower set upon a hill and a fortress in a deep valley; between these symbols of heaven and hell is a “fair field full of folk”, representing the world of mankind. In the early part of the poem Piers, the humble plowman of the title, appears and offers himself as the narrator’s guide to Truth. The latter part of the work, however, is concerned with the narrator’s search for Dowel, Dobet and Dobest. It is now commonly accepted that Piers Plowman was written by William Langland, about whom little is known. This attribution of the poem to Langland rests principally on the evidence of an early-fifteenth-century manuscript of the C-text of Piers held at Trinity College, Dublin, which ascribes the work to one man called, ‘Willielmus de Langlond’. Other manuscripts also name the author as “Robert or William Langland”, or “Wilhelmus W”, which could be shorthand for “William of Wychwood”. The attribution to William Langland is also based on internal evidence, primarily a seemingly autobiographical section in Passus 5 of the C-text of the poem. The main narrator of the poem in all the versions is named Will, with allegorical resonances clearly intended, and Langland is thought to be indicated as a surname through apparent puns. This could be a coded reference to the poet’s name, in the style of much late-medi? val literature. Langland’s authorship, however, is not entirely beyond dispute, as recent work by Stella Pates and C. David Benson has demonstrated. History of the title In the sixteenth century, when Piers was first printed, authorship was attributed by various antiquarians, such as John Bale and poets to John Wycliffe and Geoffrey Chaucer, amongst others. Some sixteenth and seventeenth-century persons regarded the poem as anonymous, and/or associated it with texts in the plowman tradition of social complaint, particularly the Chaucerian pseudepigrapha, The Ploughman’s Tale and Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede. The latter was appended to Owen Rogers’ 1560 edition of Piers Plowman, a degraded version of Robert Crowley’s 1550 editions. The character of Piers himself had come to be considered by many readers to be in some sense the author. The first printed editions by Crowley named the author as “Robert Langland” in a prefatory note. Langland is described as a probable protege of Wycliffe. With Crowley’s editions, the poem followed an existing and subsequently repeated convention of titling the poem The Vision of Piers Plowman, which is in fact the conventional name of just one section of the poem. Some medievalists and text critics, beginning with John Matthews Manly, have posited multiple authorship theories for Piers, an idea which continues to have a periodic resurgence in the scholarly literature. One scholar now disputes the single-author hypothesis, supposing that the poem may be the work of 2–5 authors, depending upon how authorship is defined. None of the texts are known to be in the author’s own hand, and none of them derive directly from any of the others. All modern discussion of the text revolves around the classifications of W. W. Skeat. Skeat argued that there are as many as ten forms of the poem, but only three are to be considered authoritative- the A, B, and C- texts- although the definition of “authoritative” in this context is problematic. According to the three-version hypothesis, each version represents different manuscript traditions deriving from three distinct and successive stages of authorial revision. Although precise dating is debated, the A, B, and C texts are now commonly thought of as the progressive (20–25 years) work of a single author. According to the three versions hypothesis, the A-text was written in around 1367–70 and is the earliest. It breaks off, apparently unfinished, at Book 11 and Book 12 is written by another author or interpolator. The poem runs to about 2,500 lines. The B-text (Warner’s ur-B text) was written around 1377–79. It revises A, adds new material, and is three times the length of A. It runs to about 7,300 lines. There is little actual evidence for this proposal, and much against it. Skeat believed that the A-text was incomplete and based his editions on a B-text manuscript that he wrongly thought was probably a holograph. Modern editors following Skeat, such as George Kane and E. Talbot Donaldson, have maintained the basic tenets of Skeat’s work: there were three final authorial texts, now lost, that can be reconstructed, albeit imperfectly and without certainty, by rooting out the “corruption” and “damage” done by scribes. The Kane, Kane-Donaldson, and Russell-Kane editions of the three versions, published by the Athlone Press, have been controversial, but are considered among the most important accomplishments in modern editorial work and theory in Middle English. A. V. C. Schmidt has also published a parallel edition of A, B, C and Z, the promised second volume containing a full textual apparatus indicating his editorial decisions was finally published in 2008, long after the first volume fell out of print. A. G. Rigg and Charlotte Brewer hypothesized the existence of a Z-text predecessor to A which contains elements of both A and C. There are some scholars who dispute the ABC chronology of the texts altogether, Jill Mann foremost amongst them. There is also a (minority) school of thought that two authors contributed to the three versions of the poem. Neither of these reappraisals of the textual tradition of the poem are generally seen as very robust. Editorial, publication and reception history John Ball, a priest involved as a leader in the Great Rising of 1381 (also known as the Peasants’ Revolt), included Piers and other characters in his writings. If Piers Plowman already had perceived associations with Lollardy, Ball’s appropriations from it enhanced his and its association with the Lollards as well. The real beliefs and sympathies at work in Langland’s poem and the revolt remain, for this reason, mysterious and debatable. No doubt because of Ball’s writings, the Dieulacres Abbey Chronicle account of the revolt refers to Piers, seemingly as a real person who was a leader with Ball in the revolt. Similarly, early in the history of the poem’s dissemination in manuscript form, Piers is often treated as the author of the poem. The earliest literary works comprising the Piers Plowman tradition follow in the wake of these events, although they and their sixteenth-century successors are not anti-monarchical or supportive of rebellion. Like William Langland, who may have written the C-Text version of Piers Plowman to disassociate himself from the Rising, they look for the reform of the English church and society by the removal of abuses in what the authors’ deem a restorative rather than an innovative project. The most conspicuous omissions from William Caxton’s press were the Bible and Piers Plowman. Both may have been avoided for political reasons. It is possible that Piers may have been banned from print under prohibitions against histories, but this is uncertain; the language and metre might also have been obstacles. However, as in the case of Adrian Fortescue, as late as 1532, hand-copying of Piers manuscripts was still going on, and a staunch Roman Catholic like Fortescue could appreciate it as a critical, reformist but not a revolutionary, Protestant text. Robert Crowley’s 1550 editions of Piers Plowman present the poem as a social-gospelling Protestant’s goad to the reformation of religion and society. The poem’s publication probably did have resonance. Many texts evoke Piers or Ploughmen for reforming purposes: one of the Marprelate tracts claims Piers Plowman for its grandfather. Many scholars assert that Piers Plowman was a banned book, that it was published as “propaganda” for reformist interests backed by Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset or other high-placed aristocrats, and that Crowley added interpretive glosses and substantially altered the text of the poem for propaganda purposes. These inferences exceed the evidence, even if Piers Plowman was politically sensitive, as many books were in the Tudor period. The political nature of the poem- its mention of and association with popular rebellion- would obviously be unacceptable to the king, Somerset, and others, reform-minded though they were. In the passus summaries in the second and third editions, Crowley emphasizes material in the poem warning of political instability and widespread corruption when the king is a child. Other contemporary Edwardian and later Elizabethan publications by Crowley show that he was at this time concerned that the elite were using the Reformation to gain power and wealth, while the common people suffered economic and spiritual malnourishment. Piers Plowman likely functioned for Crowley as a reformist text with polemic and prophetic qualities, but the text and apparatus do not overtly convey that impression. Some of Crowley’s marginal glosses and his passus summaries are clearly polemical, but there are very few glosses in the first edition. The assertion of propagandistic editorial intervention by Crowley exaggerates both his glosses, and the evidence that he deliberately deleted “Catholic” elements of Langland’s poem- a few references to purgatory, transubstantiation, and some praise for monasticism. In the econd and third editions, where the glosses were substantially increased, almost half are biblical citations. Aside from Raphael Holinshed who merely quotes John Bale, the only sixteenth-century references to “Robert Langland” as the author of Piers Plowman come from Bale and Crowley in his preface to the various impressions. In 1580 John Stow attributed Piers Plowman to “John Malvern,” a name that surfaces again with John Pitts in 1619 and Anthony a Wood in 1674. Wood also supplied “Robertus de Langland” as a possible alternative, and Henry Peacham attributed the poem to John Lydgate in 1622. Except for Crowley and Francis Meres William Webbe is the only person to comment on the alliterative Piers Plowman favorably, since he disliked verse with “the curiosity of Ryme. ” However, Webbe still disparaged the poem’s harsh and obscure language. Several other writers regard the poem’s matter approvingly, seeing it as anti-Catholic satire and polemic. The Ploughman’s Tale was printed more and over a longer period of time than Piers Plowman, it was also printed as a Chaucerian text and included in many editions of Chaucer and mentioned as a familiar text in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Such associations gave it far more exposure- and positive exposure- than Piers Plowman. Yet in many cases it seems that readers read or heard of The Ploughman’s Tale or another ploughman text and thought it was Piers Plowman. Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts, it is usually not possible to be certain about what someone means to refer to when they mention “Piers Plowman” unless they provide specific identifying details- and most writers do not. When Langland’s poem is mentioned, it is often disparaged for its barbarous language. Similar charges were made against Chaucer, but he had more defenders and was already well established as a historical figure and “authority. ” Despite the work of Bale and Crowley, Langland’s name appears to have remained unknown or unaccepted since other authors were suggested after Crowley’s editions. Sometimes “Piers Plowman” was referred to as the author of the poem, and when writers refer to a list of medieval authors, they will often mention Piers Plowman as an author’s name or a substitute for one. One gets the overall impression that Langland and Piers Plowman had less existence as author and text than did the fictional figure of Piers, whose relationship to a definite authorial and textual origin had been obscured much earlier. With its old language and alien worldview, Piers Plowman fell into obscurity until the nineteenth century, particularly the latter end. Barring Rogers, after Crowley, the poem was not published in its entirety until Thomas Whitaker’s 1813 edition. It emerged at a time when amateur philologists began the groundwork of what would later become a recognized scholarly discipline. Whitaker’s edition was based on a C-text, whereas Crowley used a B-text for his base. With Whitaker an editorial tradition truly began in the modern sense, with each new editor striving to present the “authentic” Piers Plowman and challenging the accuracy and authenticity of preceding editors and editions. Then, as before in the English Reformation, this project was driven by a need for a national identity and history that addressed present concerns, hence analysis and commentary typically reflected the critic’s political views. In the hands of Frederick Furnivall and W. W. Skeat, Piers Plowman could be, respectively, a consciousness-raising text in the Working Man’s College or a patriotic text for grammar school pupils. Piers Plowman has often been read primarily as a political document. In an 1894 study, J. J. Jusserand was primarily concerned with what he saw as the poem’s psychological and sociopolitical content—as distinct from the aesthetic or literary—in a dichotomy common to all modern humanistic studies. Four years later Vida Dutton Scudder compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and the Fabians. Concluding remarks Piers Plowman is considered to be the biggest challenge in Middle English textual criticism, on par with the Greek New Testament. There are 50-56 surviving manuscripts, depending on the number deemed to be fragments. None of these texts are in the author’s own hand, and none of them derive directly from any of the others. All differ from each other. Moreover, the language of Piers Plowman is remarkably plain. Langland went to extensive lengths to ensure that his poem was not bogged down by a dense vocabulary
Bull Sharks in Illinois There are persistent rumors of sharks in the Mississippi River and in the Great Lakes. There’s a problem with those reports. With one known exception, sharks cannot survive very long in fresh water, and the temperatures of the waters in winter would quickly kill any shark present then. The one exception is the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas. There is at least one confirmed incident of a bull shark in Illinois. In 1937, two fishermen near Alton, Illinois, caught a five foot bull shark. There is photographic evidence of the incident. Bull sharks have special physiological adaptations allowing them to survive in freshwater. In 1972, a bull shark was caught 2,500 miles up the Amazon, in Peru. It is thought that this ability to survive in freshwater environments allows small bull sharks to evade predators by moving into freshwater. Nothing prevents them from taking up residence in tropical freshwater lakes, as they have in Lake Nicaragua in Central America, but the cool to cold seasonal temperatures in most American lakes would prevent it. Sharks in Lake Michigan terrorizing Chicago beaches is a popular meme, but is entirely untrue. The only known sharks in the Great Lakes are in a Chicago aquarium. The bull shark caught in 1937 remains the only authenticated incident of sharks in the Midwest. Like and comment and follow : Greg’s History AD Categories: Uncategorized Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:
(As) Easy As Pie – Meaning, Origin If something is “as easy as pie,” that means it is simple to do. It’s a job or task that is easy, requiring little effort; a piece of cake. Example: My friend wanted to get a pet, but he was stumped on whether he should go with a dog or a cat. I suggested a cat based on my experience, because I find them to be as easy as pie to care for. Note: This phrase is commonly used as a simile, so the word “as” will often precede it. Synonyms: a piece of cake, a walk in the park, easy-peasy lemon squeezy It's as easy as pie. I could go for a slice of pie right about now. The Origin of ‘Easy as Pie’ This phrase may come from the pleasantness and ease involved when eating a delicious pie. A similar expression to this one is ‘a piece of cake,’ both expressions not only share the same meaning, but they may also have similar origin stories. During the 19th century, the word ‘pie’ was used to describe someone who acted kindly to another person. Let’s look at an example of that. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1885, take a look at how the word ‘pie’ was used: “You’re always as polite as pie to them.” Two years later, the phrase can be seen in various newspapers, so it must have been a somewhat common phrase at that time. This example comes from The Newport Mercury newspaper, 1887, where it reads: Thus this idiom goes back to at least the late 19th century. Example Sentences • When deciding what to make myself for breakfast, I usually just go with a bowl of cereal since it’s easy as pie to make. • Janice never learned how to swim, so she has always had a fear of the water. However, she recently took swimming lessons and now she finds swimming to be as easy as pie; she is no longer afraid. Note: The origins for many common idioms and phrases are unclear. In such cases, what I’ll usually do is list any plausible theories that exist that talk about how the phrase might have originated. If not that, then I’ll try to at least include the earliest known quotation of the saying. These quotes are there to give an idea on how far back in history the particular expression goes. Sharing is caring!
What pain relief is given to cancer patients? How Are Pain Medications Given? Why is cancer so painful at the end? When cancer grows and harms tissue nearby, it can cause pain in those areas. It releases chemicals that irritate the area around the tumor. As tumors grow, they may put stress on bones, nerves, and organs around them. Cancer-related tests, treatments, and surgery can cause aches and discomfort. What painkillers can you take when on chemo? They include: • Acetaminophen. In normal amounts, this drug is usually safe. But large doses over long periods may lead to liver damage. … • NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatories) such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen. These medicines lower inflammation along with pain. Why do cancer patients suffer severe pain? Pain from the cancer itself Pain from the cancer can be caused by a tumor pressing on nerves, bones, or organs. Spinal cord compression: When a tumor spreads to the spine, it can press on the nerves of the spinal cord. Is cancer treatment very painful? Cancer, cancer treatment, or diagnostic tests may cause you pain. Pain can be managed before, during, and after tests and procedures. Different cancer treatments may cause specific types of pain. Peripheral neuropathy is a type of pain that can be caused by chemotherapy. IT IS INTERESTING: Is colon cancer associated with BRCA? What is the fastest killing cancer? What is the #1 cancer killer? What is the fastest cancer? Why does cancer pain get worse at night? The presence of cancer cells can interfere with the normal maintenance of bone tissue, making your bones weaker. A growing tumor may also press on nerves around the bone. The pain from bone cancer often begins as a dull pain that comes and goes and is typically worse at night. Eventually, the pain can become constant. How do you stop cancer pain? The pain of cancer is usually constant and needs well-managed relief. The foundation of cancer pain management is medication, including aspirin-like drugs, paracetamol and opioid drugs. Helpful relaxation therapies include meditation, massage, tai chi, yoga and hypnotherapy.
What conditions do ear nose and throat doctors treat,high pitch ringing in ears spiritual descargar,kissing ear to ear closure - 2016 Feature Author: admin, 07.03.2015 We treat, evaluate and diagnose problems such as runny nose, blocked nose and deviated nasalA septum. Poor sleep and difficulty in hearing in childhood may affect the child’s social relationship and ability to develop. A potentially serious disorder characterised by repeated episodes of pauses in breathing during sleep. Our ENT specialist works with a team of audiologists, vestibular and speech therapists as well as other medical specialists to comprehensively attend to every aspect of ENT care for our patients. Dr Valerie Tay is experienced with a wide range of ENT conditions in both adults and children, such as sinus problems, snoring, ear problems and salivary gland diseases. Her philosophy towards ENT and facial surgeryA is that health and beauty are not mutually exclusive, that form and function are closely intertwined. Dry mouth is a significant side effect of many medications, and one of many disagreeable symptoms caused by autoimmune diseases such as lupus and scleroderma. Dry mouth, a condition that the medical literature terms xerostomia, is a common complication of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes and autoimmune conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and Sjogren's syndrome. Dry mouth is aggravated by smoking, drinking, and smoking marijuana, and an especially unpleasant form of dry mouth known as "meth mouth" frequently occurs in people who use methamphetamines. One of the ways the body manages to get complete protein (the full complement of essential and non-essential amino acids) from food is by constantly digesting its own saliva. When there isn't enough saliva production, the body has to get all of its amino acids from protein foods, and these protein foods have to be eaten each and every day. Medications for allergies, asthma, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease, as well as cigarettes, marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamines, interfere with the signals sent by the parasympathetic nervous system that tell the salivary glands to release saliva. When dry mouth is caused by autoimmune disease, however, the underlying problem usually is the destruction of the salivary glands by the immune system itself. Sjogren's Syndrome is a specific systemic inflammatory disorder that affects the mucous membranes. Find health and lifestyle advices & Get answers!Share real-life experiences with more than 250,000 community members! Pimple-like Bumps on Penis and Testicles Consequences Of Over-masturbation Implantation bleeding or period? Mr Tim Mitchell Ear, nose and throat Consultant, Southampton, Hampshire, private hospital specialist. I qualified from Oxford University before undertaking postgraduate ENT training in Winchester, Oxford, Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, London and Cambridge. I took up my post as Consultant ENT surgeon at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust in November 2000. I undertake bone-anchored hearing aid and cochlear implant procedures in children and adults as part of the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service. I have been an examiner with the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 2005 and have been elected as Chairman of the Court of Examiners with effect from July 2014. I see private patients for outpatient consultations and have regular operating lists at Spire Southampton Hospital and other locations in Hampshire. Use one or more of the options below to search for a consultant and link through to view their Spire profile. Mr Tim Mitchell is part of the Ear, Nose and Throat Group based at Spire Southampton Hospital. This entry was posted in Ticks and tagged natural tick treatments, ticks, ticks on pets on February 8, 2013 by admin. For many of us, we know that ticks are the little critters that attach themselves on mammals including dogs and cats. Ticks can be transmitted from one pet to another, what not most of us know is, this pests are also attracted to warmth and movement. For the past few years, pet owners have settled for manual tick removal to free their pets from this parasite. Being an ectoparasite, ticks inject a series of substances into the skin of its host to limit pain, itch and sensation, through this, hosts are unable to feel the blood extraction. Another harsh effect of tick infestation is bacterial illnesses caused by tick bites on cattles and humans. Lyme Disease – Lyme borreliosis or commonly known as Lyme disease is a highly contagious illness brought by bacterial infection contracted through the bite of the brown tick. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever – RMSF or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is brought by a bite from ticks carrying R. We are pet owners just like you and this is the place to express our opinion on Natural Health Remedies for Dogs and Cats. Tinnitus is a condition that causes hearing sounds that are not there, but these sounds originate in the ears, not in the brain. People who attend noisy clubs frequently have roaring, ringing, or other odd sounds in their heads the next morning. In most of the industrialized world, between 10 and 15% of the adult population has tinnitus. Even though tinnitus is all in your head (or maybe also in the muscles of your face and neck or in the arteries leading to your head), it is not a psychological condition. There are many reports of teenagers going to discos listening to loud music, and afterwards later in life experiencing this annoying ringing. Medications and surgery are only part of the answer in healthcare, she believes in empowering her patients to take responsibility for their diet and lifestyle choices to improve their well-being. Dry mouth causes discomfort, bad breath, and gum disease, but fortunately it is easy to treat. It is also a frequent side effect of medications used to treat anxiety, depression, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, asthma, coughs, cold, stuffy nose, and allergies. People who have trouble breathing through their noses at night or who have sleep apnea may suffer "morning mouth" from overnight desiccation of the lips, gums, and mucous membranes lining the mouth. In fact, more than 50% of the protein absorbed by the body is circulated through the salivary tract, storing essential amino acids so the body does not have to break down muscle tissue and white blood cells to get the building blocks of proteins to keep vital organs in good repair. Except in the case of "meth mouth," when the medication or recreational drug is discontinued, the salivary glands resume normal function and dry mouth disappears, although halitosis may persist until the bacterial film that causes it is removed from the gums and tongue. When this happens, dry mouth becomes a permanent condition that requires life-long oral health care. My sub-speciality interest is dealing with ear related problems, including hearing loss in children and adults, tinnitus, vertigo and balance disorders. I was awarded the inaugural Graham Fraser Fellowship, spending six months with Professor William Gibson in Sydney, Australia developing techniques in ear surgery with particular emphasis on cochlear implantation and surgery for Meniere's disease. I am a member of the Specialist Advisory Committees in ENT and Audiovestibular Medicine overseeing training in both specialties in the UK. This is probably the safest way to kill ticks on dogs since natural treatments involve the use of naturally available ingredients (plants, organic materials, among others.) Although this is true, there are a few pet owners who still opt for chemical based treatments, probably because of time constraints and the absence of knowledge about the health threat these products can bring. Many forums and discussion boards on the net site that most natural treatments against ticks and fleas work just fine as long as the natural treatments are paired with other known effective treatments. One of the best way to naturally kill ticks is to remove them one by one from your pets skin. If not, all your efforts may just go down the drain, leaving you with a worst tick infestation. The thing is, ticks are not insects but are of arachnid family (like spiders with eight feet). It is virtually harmless to humans and animals so it’s safe to say that this plant is safe to use on your pets (dogs and cats), unless they are allergic. To do this, combine 2 table spoon of vegetable oil in a bottle together with one tablespoon of aloe vera gel. Just like normal shampoo and soap, these products are applied directly to the dog’s coat. You can also use chemical based products to do this, however, if you have kids at home using non-chemical based products are recommended. Although spiders and ticks are of the arachnid family, the only same thing about them is the number of legs they have. These said chemicals are able to produce anesthetic effects and mostly bodily fluids present in a tick. Since tick generally introduce a variety of substances into its hosts skin, tick-borne illnesses are sometimes unpreventable during the infestation. Lyme disease is most common in the northern Hemisphere and was named after the towns in Connecticut. Tinnitus is not a mental illness, although it can cause stress that leads to actual mental illness. The major contributing factor may be frequent attendance at noisy clubs and parties, or attending too many rock concerts, or participating in shooting sports (skeet, trap, and so on) without adequate hearing protection. A noisy bar, a jackhammer, or jet engine noise is 100,000 to 10,000,000 times louder than a bird's song, a conversation with someone you love, or even the cooing of a baby (although the crying of a baby can be almost as noisy as a jackhammer). The membrane lining the inner ear "dries out" so that the tiny hairs that attach to nerve endings fall on each other and "short circuit" nerves. There is no special section at rock concerts, symphony performances of the 1812 Overture, or building demoliton sites for people who have tinnitus. Tinnitus differs from "imaginary" illnesses in that it doesn't serve a social purpose and it doesn't make the person feel better; it can't be turned off. Many people reported they always hear it, but during the daytime, they were not quite as aware of it. Older people are especially likely to get dry mouth, but this is because of medication use, not because of their age. Without a constant flow of saliva over the teeth, cavity-causing Streptococcus mutans bacteria can accumulate and eat holes through the enamel. The problem is that many people who use these medications have to have them on an ongoing basis. In addition to general ENT procedures, I undertake a wide range of ear surgery including stapedectomy, closed cavity surgery for cholesteatoma and surgery for Meniere's disease. As part of a multi-disciplinary approach, I provide the ENT input for the management of otitis media with effusion (glue ear) in children with cleft lip and palate. I am Vice Chair of the Clinical Reference Group for Specialised Ear Services informing the National Commissioning Board. Unfortunately, because we do not have full control over of the whole environment, where they play or explore, some of them get contract ticks and fleas. This powder like natural product contains microscopic worm like organisms that feeds on tick eggs and fleas. Bathing your pet dogs and cats with shampoos and soaps that contain natural ingredients is essential in killing tick eggs that are laid on their coats. Tinnitus can be objective, the sounds also heard by other people, or subjective, causing uniquely personal distress. Tinnitus becomes increasingly common with increasing age, but up to 13% of children have tinnitus. If you can't physically stay away from places where loud sounds occur, use hearing protection. If you do target practice with a gun or pistol, you will exposure your ears to sound that is 1,000,000,000,000 times more powerful than ordinary conversation. It's especially important not to take Bufferin, which is a combination of aspirin and caffeine. The yeast infection Candida albicans can grow on the tongue and palate, causing an unpleasant condition known as thrush. I am Regional Specialty Professional Advisor in ENT for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and member of the ENT UK Council. Aside from this, pet owners also pair this treatment with the use of organic and natural shampoos and soap when bathing their pets. It requires an additional treatment to eradicate these pests from the surrounding areas and areas that are frequented by the dog. The lifespan of ticks can range from one year up to three years if their living conditions is ideal. If you feel unsure about any of the methods, please contact your pet’s veterinarian for more information. The last thing pet owners want is to find out that their dogs or cats have become the new host of a tick infestation. You can also plant Pennyroyal, this plant is also of the mint family, however take into consideration that this plant may induce abortion. Once perfectly mixed add 25 drops of lavender oil and another 25 drops of Rose geranium essential oil. Objective tinnitus, relatively rare, is caused by a malfunction of a muscle or blood vessel that makes noises the doctor can also hear. Diuretic drugs, some kinds of chemotherapy, and some antibiotics can also cause the condition. Even people who don't ordinarily have to deal with the condition may start noticing their own cranial blood flow when they are in extremely quiet surroundings. People become dehydrated when they start diuretics for high blood pressure or fluid retention and, ironically, don't follow the directions to drink more water even while taking the pill that makes them urinate more often. There is just no way you can stay in physical proximity to loud noise without at least temporary hearing damage unless you use hearing protection. Many people become depressed when someone suggests that their tinnitus is caused by atherosclerosis of the carotid artery or cancer. Subjective tinnitus accompanies about 85% of all inner and middle ear conditions, and can be a ringing, whooshing, roaring, or pinging persistent sounds nobody else can hear. Tinnitus also results from sounds transmitted along the carotid artery; either atherosclerosis or structural abnormalities in or along the artery can cause the condition. In 1953, a British researcher recruited college students who did not have tinnitus to sit in a specially constructed soundproof room. These are just a few reasons why most pet owners opt for natural products to cure tick infestations. Cretins such as fleas and ticks are not just bad news for pet owners and their pets, but can also become a great health threat. If you plan to do this method until all your pet’s ticks are removed, you must do this every other day to ensure that all adult ticks are removed. You can apply the solution directly into your pets skin before going out or walking your dog. If you can’t find any, you can substitute the oils with steeped version of the said plants. Most dog shampoos and soap against ticks contain: (S)-Methoprene, Pyrethrins and Piperonyl Butoxide. It is best that you ask your veterinarian’s opinion before using any of these type of products. Ambertick is designed and manufactured to protect pets from tick infestation and is made from natural amber from fossilized pine. Over 93% of students in the study reported some form of tinnitus when exposed to extreme quite. Just 1 or 2 cups (250-500 ml) of water, not even 1 or 2 glasses of water (500-1000 ml) is usually enough to make a difference when dehydration is the major contributing factor. They cost less than $1 a pair and are available wherever guns and pistols are sold, and also online. It's OK to skip a couple of meals, but it you stay on a highly restricted low-calorie diet for 4 or 5 days, fluid balances in your ears can change in ways that make tinnitus worse. This is why, it’s very important to deal with these menace in an efficient and safe way possible. Do not forget to give your pet a bath using a naturally made shampoo and soap that eliminates ticks. It is very important to note that before the usage of any of these products, consult your pet’s veterinarian for proper instructions and evaluation. At shooting events, consider wearing earmuffs, which generally cost less than $20 a pair and are available online. Avoid loud noises, and mask your tinnitus with white noise, such as running a fan or using noise-canceling headphones. For a small group of pet owners, chemical based products are the best remedies against tick infestations. Below, we will list down some chemical products that are commonly used to treat ticks on dogs today. This is especially true in situation when pet owners do not want to use chemical based products to kill ticks and fleas and stop its reproduction. If you are a new cat owner and you’ve noticed that your cat is infested with ticks, the tips below can definitely assist you. Online jewellery shopping melbourne wednesday Ear cuff cartilage piercing • SKINXED Damage is triggered has feel so great that your close friends will not recognize time, can. • ElektrA_RaFo Acknowledgment: We are grateful to the studies have looked at non-use know. • body_love For 6 months now and it doesn't look to be has poor.
Assignment 4 – Essay Other Than You. By Shaun Mullins (512659) Assignment 4, PH5SAO – The Self and The Other. Word count without quotations and footnotes: 2563. Including quotations and footnotes Total: 3931. Sources: Barthes, 2000; 1977; Kelly, Self Image, Personal is Political, 1979; Kuhn, Remembrance, The child I never was, 1991; Ritchin, 2010; Spence, Facing Up To Myself, 1978; Strauss, Photography and Belief, 1991; The Daguerreotype, Edgar Allan Poe, 1840; After You Dearest, reflections on the work of Francesca Woodman, 1998; Oxford English Dictionary 10th Ed. 2005; Google Images; Wikipedia. Annette Kuhn as a child, by Harry Kuhn, circa, early 1950’s, exact date unknown. Can a single image fairly represent ‘others’ or ‘self’? To try to answer this question, I will first look at the image medium of photography and the photograph as an object, and then I will breakdown the idea of image, into its individual parts, and look at this question again. For most of us, when we often take a photograph we believe that we are recording a moment and a truth, “This is what happened, this was how it was, this was who we were.” Our digital cameras reinforce this belief by instantly producing the picture that we only just saw in the viewfinder. So surely, this must be proof that the camera, ‘never lies’ and is capable of producing a single image that can fairly represent ‘others’ or ‘self’. The myth. The idea that the camera ‘never lies’ started at the very beginning of photography with the Daguerreotype, and the idea that a photograph was evidence to the truth was adopted for methods of identification and as accurate records of events. All language must fall short of conveying any just idea of the truth, and this will not appear so wonderful when we reflect that the source of vision itself has been, in this instance, the designer. Perhaps, if we imagine the distinctness with an object is reflected in a positively perfect mirror, we come as near the reality as by any other means, the Daguerreotyped plate is infinitely (we use the term advisedly) in infinitely more accurate in its representation than any painting by human hands. (The Daguerreotype, Edgar Allan Poe, 1840.) (pp.38, Trachtenberg, 1980). However, these ideas were very quickly challenged as myths, photography had its limitations: At first, the time required for exposure was very long and unless objects remained perfectly still they either failed to be recorded or appeared as a blur on the paper. As the technology improved the photographers got more proficient and experimented with this new medium, and they learned how to manipulate their images. As photography became more main-stream, politicians recognised the potential of photography as a tool for their own agendas; both Stalin and Hitler recognised the potential of the photograph and used it to maximum effect. Why as an object, is there a problem with a photograph to act as a single image to represent ‘self’ or ‘other’. A photograph is a record of a moment captured and frozen in a split second of continuous and advancing time. The photograph presents this record merely as a rendition, but what the photograph renders does not exist beyond the image’s surface. Moreover, a photograph tells us nothing about the before or after the captured moment, nor of anything beyond the limits of its frame. The motivation for capturing the image is not always obvious, and again, the photograph cannot reveal this unless something in the image can point to this motivation. A photograph is nothing more than a rendition of whatever was in front of the lens at the moment the shutter opened. In itself it does not truly represent the object or objects that it has recorded: It is not made from the same materials, a photograph is either made up of illuminated pixels on a display screen, or light sensitive chemicals on celluloid film and paper. Unlike, what it is representing, the photograph is flat, rendering in two dimensions. There are also three new elements added before the photograph can be produced: light, mechanics and chemical/digital interpretation. The final image on the photograph is only the reflected light, and the shadows. The closer you examine a photograph the less information it provides, the photograph breaks down into nothing more than specs of colour or grey. You will get nowhere, for instance, by taking a magnifying glass to it to get a closer look: you will see only patches of light and dark, an unreadable mesh of grains. The image yields nothing to the sort of scrutiny; it simply disappears. (pp.395, Wells, 2003). Defining an image. In order to establish whether a single image can ever fairly represent others or self, we must first define image. Image, Noun. 1, a likeness of someone or something in the form of a picture or statue. 2, a picture seen on a television or computer screen, through a lens, or reflected in something. 3, a picture in the mind. 4, the impression that a person or thing presents to the public: ‘she tries to project an image of youth.’ 5, a person or thing that looks very similar to another: ‘Gwen was the image of Judy down to her red hair.’ 6, a word or phrase describing something in an imaginative way; a simile or metaphor. Verb. (Images, Imaging, Imaged) make or form an image of. – ORIGIN Latin imago. (Oxford, 2005). Looking at these definitions one by one: 1, a likeness of someone or something in the form of a picture or statue: For this exercise I will concentrate on a picture. A picture, drawing or engraving produced by hand, will inevitably include some artistic element that may or may not be recognised by the sitter or others as enough to create an impression of representation. If, however, the artist is successful, the artist has managed to create a picture that acts as an icon, a picture with a code,…the drawing which, even when denoted, is a coded message. (pp.43, Barthes, 1977) This can provide the audience with familiarity with the sitter and can be argued, that a painting or hand drawn image can fairly represent a likeness of an ‘other’. This is because the picture is really a collage of facial expressions, blended over a period of different sittings. Probably the most famous example of a handmade portrait of ‘other’ is the Mona Lisa (1503/07-1517) by Leonardo da Vinci. The portrait was commissioned by Francesco del Giocondo, for his young wife Lisa Gheradini (maiden name). Leonardo kept working on the portrait right up until his death. Despite the beauty of this portrait, we are unable to say if this picture is a fair representative of Lisa Gheradini/del Giocondo, as we neither have her or any other portraits of her to compare. Moreover, Leonardo spent so much time working and re-working the portrait, it is very unlikely that the likeness is at all accurate. The best example of a self-portrait artist must be Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). He produced more than twenty paintings and many more drawings of himself. However, there is a problem with classing his images as to, ‘fairly represent self’ and this is simply because these images were all created from a mirror reflection; so they are in fact, a reverse of his actual features. Pictures can also be read in different ways and offer different messages to the reader. Annette Kuhn analysed a portrait of herself as a child, the picture in itself tells us only what we understand from our own learned experiences and culture. We recognise her skirt to have a Scottish tweet kilt like design and pattern, she wears a cardigan, we recognize ribbons in her hair and from her face and skin tone, to be European Caucasian. We recognise the bird as a popular pet, we are familiar with what a chair looks like, and the blurred pattern in the background suggests wallpaper; so we can surmise a domestic / homely scene. To Kuhn this picture evokes lived experiences and as such this photograph is acting as a signpost to her memories. For the rest of us however, this photograph behaves in a very different way, it is indexical to our learned knowledge. We must first have learned to recognise all these key elements to make any interpretation of the various shades of grey on the paper that makes up the photograph: …a photograph can be material for interpretation – evidence, in that sense: to be solved, like a riddle; read and decoded, like clues left behind at the scene of a crime. (pp.395/ Wells, 2003). The countenance suggests a happy and contented child. Evidence of this sort, though can conceal, even as it purports to reveal, what it is evidence of. A photograph can certainly throw you off the scent. (pp.395/ Wells, 2003). On the back of the photo her mother wrote, “Just back from Bournemouth.” Kuhn had crossed out “Bournemouth” and written “Broadstairs” and added a note, “but I suspect the photo is earlier than this.” New contentious meanings have now been added to this photo. Kuhn disagrees with her mother’s memory/statement of fact, and by adding these texts to the picture a multiple of new readings can be interpreted by both her and her family. One reading is that of a gift from a loving father who is claiming his stake to the family relationship through the authorship as photographer. Another reading is that of her mother’s denial of his relationship to Kuhn as her father and by pinning the moment into a time that her mother returned from convalescing in Bournemouth, she was writing herself into the picture. This second reading Kuhn splits into two parts the second part of this reading Kuhn says, “…my own involvement as well as my father’s is negated, as the caption constitutes a central place for the writer herself in a scenario from which she is so clearly excluded: my mother thereby sets herself up as both enunciator of, and main character in, the family drama.” (pp.398, Wells, 2003). Kuhn demonstrates from her self-portrait how a photograph’s meaning can change over time and for this reason Roland Barthes describes a photograph as, ‘a message without a code’. 2, a picture seen on a television or computer screen, through a lens, or reflected in something: A moving picture as seen with sound comes close, for here we can see ourselves or others talk, stand, walk and behave. However, more often than not, we are conscious of the camera, and we act accordingly. This alters our behaviour and we often don’t recognise ourselves, “Is that really me?” Do I really talk like that? Do I act like that?” The video or film camera coldly captures what displays in front of it, but it doesn’t necessarily agree with our idea of fairly representing self or other. With the ease to manipulate the digital image, digital technology appears to push the photographic image into doubt. Concern is growing that this new technology is threatening the photograph as becoming considered unreliable.…after all that is happening in computer imaging can one safeguard the integrity of the photograph in its populist role as societal informant? (pp.72, Ritchin, 2010). Ritchin argues that as a society, it is becoming very urgent that we dismiss the popular idea of, the myth of the photograph’s automatic efficacy and reliability, particularly when the myth is soon to be punctured. In order to contemplate its future role in society and the impact of new technologies, it is necessary to at least acknowledge that photography is highly interpretive, ambiguous, culturally specific, and heavily dependent upon contextualisation by text and layout. (pp.72, Ritchin, 2010). 3, a picture in the mind. This is purely subjective and alas cannot be shared; we have ideas of ourselves and others in our ‘mind’s-eye’, these images are often idealised, seen through ‘rose-tinted glasses’ or can be quite the opposite, but just as exaggerated. What we hold as a memory is as much about what is forgotten as is remembered. A memory of my Grandfather is as much about impressions than actual pictures and these fade or are replaced until I am not really sure if the picture in my ‘mind’s eye’ is a fair representation or not. Another mental image that we may create is when we are in possession of prior knowledge of a person that we never actually met. Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was a photographic artist based in New York who mainly produced self-portraits; her artistic career was tragically cut short when she took her own life, aged 22. Her work was introduced to the public by Abigail Solomon-Godeau and Rosalind Krauss in 1986. This latter fateful knowledge cannot help influencing the way we view her art. Because these are photographs, “evidence of a novel kind,” our projections are inevitable. As Roland Barthes and others have pointed out, paintings and drawings are iconic, while photographs are indexical; that is, they always point to something else. (pp.126, Strauss, 2005). Our knowledge of Woodman’s tragic history must influence our imagination as to what she was really like, and although her photographs are clearly a mixture of her artistic imagination and her personality, they do not provide any additional information and therefore, I would argue that a single image, seen without prior knowledge of Woodman, does not contain any information that points to something that provides an idea of ‘self’ or ‘other’ that can fairly represent her. 4, the impression that a person or thing presents to the public: To quote Roland Barthes, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art. (pp.13, Barthes, 2000). The person that we present to the public alters depending on who the public are. The artist Jo Spence, began as a portrait photographer, but she writes that she realised: That a single image could not convey someone’s essence. (Spare Rib, March, 1978). Spence claims that for much of her life she was ashamed of the way she looked and so she started to think about her own image and of the women she had photographed, homing in on their comments of dissatisfaction regarding their own looks. Spence formed a group of feminists called Face, and discussed how they saw themselves and how they saw each other; there appeared to be a credibility gap between the two points of view. Spence now looked at how the media influenced their ideas about themselves and she became aware of ‘the look’ that she believed the media had created for women. The full faced come-on, a full frontal attack…. “It’s your face that represents you. And your eyes say, I’m available”…. It only recently occurred to me that all my early photographs were about, ‘come-on’…. We are supposed to spend all our time, energy and money on trying to look perfect. (Spare Rib, March, 1978). Spence points out that maintaining ‘the look’ is a constant and impossible battle, we are constantly changing…. “The mirror image shown to working women is totally static. It represents an ageless, classless view of people with different lifestyles and values.” (Spare Rib, March, 1978). The problem Spence identifies with using less glamorous/dead pan images for women is that such photographs have been used for negative messages. ….pictures of women labelled as ‘problems’ were often used by charities, “These aren’t ‘idealised’: they are very ‘realistic’. But they are always linked to some sort of ‘abnormality’ or ‘deviance’. So nobody in their right minds preserves pictures of themselves looking like that because of the connotations of ‘failure’. (Spare Rib, March, 1978). Spence suggested that for women to take back control of their self-image they need to shift back popular perceptions to a point where it is understood that everything a woman does has validity: – not just the perfect moment…”In this way we can then start to rethink some of the syndromes or stereotypes that have been thrust upon us. I think we are the slaves of our own idea of that we ought to look like, and by implication behave like.” (Spare Rib, March, 1978). Spence felt that she only began to face up to her own issues of self when she looked through a collection of photos that her boyfriend, Terry, had taken of her. “I feel sure some of them could have been used to raise money for charities! I have also realised now that what I look like at home is different to what I look like out of doors; I have a public and a private face….But I also know that the first person I meet changes the way I look. The photos here don’t show any interaction all the time……Like therapy, it happens step by step slowly uncovering the layers of fear and repression. It’s even harder to get other people – friends and family – to understand that their conceptions of us are stereotyped. (Spare Rib, March, 1978). Spence called this exercise photo-therapy and by including Terry’s collection of pictures in the family album she felt that she could force her family into seeing her in a new way. However, she did not see these photographs as an end in themselves but just as a means to try to understand what she projected of herself. In her essay, Self-image, Personal is Political, (1979) Angela Kelly critically discusses Spence’s essay, Facing Up To Myself, (1978) Kelly points out that the photographs Spence used, which had been taken from her family album, would be nothing more them a set of banal pictures without the text to accompany them. Clearly for Spence’s images to fairly represent, as self or other, there must be more than one photograph, and they must include text to anchor meaning to the image in order to project her ‘essence’. Moreover, a familiarity with Spence is needed to recognise this representation that she is trying to project. This may be possible to achieve with her family but unlikely with strangers. Furthermore, we are not told if her attempts to re-educate her family into ‘seeing her in a new way’ through her boyfriend’s pictures was successful. 5, a person or thing that looks very similar to another: A person or thing that looks very similar to another, takes recognition, a part of our memory, a belief, we believe this person resembles that person. An opportunity arises where belief and truth can be split. For a single image to fairly represent the self or other, it would be fair to assume that the image must hold some element of truth and belief, but what if the image holds belief but lacks truth? David Levi Strauss writes in his essay, Photography and Belief, (1991) that when in conversation with a friend, he discovered that they had both kept a found photographic portrait of a stranger that they had ‘adopted’ for a relative. Strauss’ friend had found a picture of a pretty lady that he carried around and would show it to people, telling them that the picture was of his mother. Strauss found a picture of a boy who resembled Strauss’ father (pictured in his family album). Strauss had had a brother that had died before Strauss was born; so he ‘adopted’ the picture for an image of his unseen brother. Strauss writes that: belief derives from the Anglo-Saxon word geliefan, means “to hold dear” The Sanskrit root for this word, Lubh, means “to desire, love.” Belief involves the “assent of the mind to a statement, or to the truth of a fact beyond observation, on the testimony of another, or to a fact or truth on the evidence of consciousness” (Oxford English Dictionary). In relation to photography, this assent is influenced, but not exhausted, by the photograph’s relation to “objective reality.” It is also influenced and determined by its place in the complex web of subjectivities that determines how we negotiate the world. (pp.73, Strauss, 2005). From Strauss’ experience, he suggests that the relationship between photographs and belief can become especially complicated when connected with identity. Sometimes, the photograph doesn’t need to prove anything on its own; it corroborates and confirms what we already know. (pp.74, Strauss, 2005). He continues: Many of us possess certain photographs the accretion believability over time. These may be photographs of family members or loved ones, autobiographical images, or other photographs that come to act as talismans, triggering certain emotions or states and warding off others. The relation of these photographs to belief is often not bound by their objective veracity. (pp.74, Strauss, 2005). 6, a word or phrase describing something in an imaginative way: Arguably this is not a reliable method to represent a single image. The word or phrase will only act as anchorage to our imagination / mind’s eye. The words and phrases are not images in themselves, but act as codes to trigger our imagination. In other words, the word or phrase acts as a signifier, a ‘symbolic message’. When it comes to the ‘symbolic message’, the linguistic message no longer guides identification but interpretation…An advertisement (for d’Arcy preserves) shows a few fruits around a ladder; the caption (‘as if from your own garden’) banishes one possible signified (parsimony, the paucity of the harvest) because of its un-pleasantness and orientates the reading towards a more flattering signified (the natural and personal character of fruit from a private garden). (pp.39-40, Barthes, 1977). Strauss implies that photographs offer no identity of their own, the identity that a photograph represents is simply attached to it and can be removed and replaced; he cautions that a picture should not always be taken at face value: People use photographs to construct identities, investing them with “believability.” Of course, advertisers and news-picture editors do the same thing, mimicking the private use of photographs in order to manufacture desire for products and to manufacture public consent. This has caused a great deal of confusion. The first question must always be: Who is using this photograph, and to what end? (pp.74, Strauss, 2005). If a photograph cannot hold an identity of its own and that any identity can be attached to it, it clearly cannot singularly be a reliable representative without additional information, such as text. This can then act as an anchor to hold and protect its meaning. However, for a single image to permanently retain its meaning, it must have both duplicates of itself holding the same attached text, plus very similar images repeating and reinforcing this text. Thus creating a common familiarity and identification, an example is a picture of Adolf Hitler that cannot now be miss-identified, thanks to the prolific distribution of his image and for many similar images of him, all with his name attached to them. In conclusion. There does not appear to be any evidence that a single image can ever fairly represent ‘other’ or ‘self’. An image is as Barthes terms, ‘a message without a code’ this message can be coded anyway we choose and recoded for new meanings. Images are subject to a linguistic and cultural code and these can differ between readers and alter over time. Because images have no independent means to anchor their meaning, not only can the intended message be changed but it can also be subverted, for these reasons an image cannot hold an identity, the identity must always be supplied as a separate piece of text, that can be true or false, removed, changed and lost. Photo Op, 2005, Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips. Kliment Voroshilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, and Nikola Yezov walking along the banks of the Moscow-Volga Canal, in April, 1937, by F. Kislov. Nikola Yezkov to right of Stalin at the Moscow Canal was later removed from the photograph after his assassination during Stalin’s purges Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images & AFP/GettyImages. Mona Lisa, 1503/07-1517, by Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre Museum, Paris. Self-portrait, oil on canvas by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1659, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Photo Therapy: Infantilization, 1984, Jo Spence Untitled, Rome, 1977-78, Francesca Woodman. Barthes. 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What is an article? An article is is a piece of writing which is usually written for a wider audience. It is published in a magazine, newspaper or journal. It includes intriguing stories, analysis, description or information. Articles are mostly formal but depending upon the target audience, it can be informal too. It should give opinions, thoughts, facts, and suggestions. It describes some experience, event, person or place. In the article, the writer provides his opinion or balanced argument, compare and contrast, information and advice. An article should be written in a bewitching and entertaining manner. An ideal article consists of: 1. Title: The title should be eye-catching. It should attract the attention of readers and suggest a theme. The article can also have subheadings before each paragraph. 2. Introduction: An Introduction defines the topic to be covered and maintains the reader’s attention. It usually contains a topic sentence which is elaborated in the next paragraphs. 3. Main Body: It contains two or more paragraphs in which the topic is further developed in detail. In this section, the arguments and facts, etc are included in this section. 4. Conclusion: In this section, the topic is summarised or the final opinion, suggestion or comment is provided. Important Points: For article writing, it is paramount to consider the following points. Where it is going to appear- in a magazine, newspaper or journal? Who is the target audience- a particular group such as students or teenagers it adults or people in general? What is the purpose of the article – to inform, suggest or advice, compare and contrast or describe, etc Article Writing 1. Learning About Life Studying abroad is a great experience as it provides you the chance to study the customs and culture of the host country and its people. Aside from the beneficial education, I got during three years stay in England, I additionally made a wide network of friends and enhanced my language skills. I learned how to face and manage different issues, and accordingly, have turned out to be an increasingly independent and self-assured person. I learned English Literature and along with this made many friends both at college and through the part-time work I had, improved my English. Despite the fact that I previously spoke the language quite well, when I initially arrived I experienced difficulty understanding a few accents and the slang or idioms that are in regular use. Presently I am a much more fluent and normal speaker, and my writing has improved, as well. The most concerning issues I confronted were discovering someplace to live when I did not know the zone well, getting the electricity and phone associated and by and large learning how to take care of myself. I had to become acclimated to shopping, cooking and doing the housework, as well as studying and working, so I swiftly learned the art of planning my time reasonably. In spite of the fact that adjusting to living in another country isn’t simple, once the underlying homesickness and missing the family has been overcome, learning how to fight for yourself absolutely makes you an increasingly independent person and certainly more confident. My time abroad helped me develop as a person and now I believe I could handle any issue now in a quiet and sure way, without having to promptly approach somebody for their assistance. 2. The Place of Women in Indian Society In Indian society, women have been given a better position than that of men. We can see their presence in every walk of life. Ranging from a topmost constitutional position of a prime minister and president to constable and metro driver, they have marked their presence. Now women are police officers, judges, bank managers, army officers, pilots, etc. They are holding positions of responsibility in various spheres of life. They are successful in the field of business and commerce. More and more women are coming out of the four walls of their houses. Literacy rates in women have witnessed a sharp rise during the post-independence era. But there is no denying the fact that the rise in social and economic status of women has added to their burdens and responsibility. They are still slaves as they have to do double duty—as employed women and as working housewives. Despite all achievements and progress, women still have to depend on male members of the family for their protection during different phases of their life. At times they have to depend on their father. Then there are husband and again sons. They are not given freedom to take the decision of their life. In our male-dominated society, women are still regarded as inferior to men. Therefore it is the crying need of the hour that women should awake and arise against their exploitation. 3. The Importance of Moral Education In our country, the introduction of a new education system is essential which must be in tune with our major values of national tradition and integration. This system can only nourish and strengthen our national consciousness. Human actions are judged as good or bad right from an ethical point of view. These judgments are always determined by the common moral standard of our society. In a nutshell, morality means honesty of characters, fairness in attitude, absence of evils like hatred jealousy, greed, telling lies, etc. This ultimate objective of education is to inculcate these human values in the students. Moral education can be given through value education curriculum by all boards and universities. At school level, the syllabus should include folk tales, stories of patriotism, biographies of great men, poems, parables providing valuable lessons for the student. As a character is necessary for individuals, it is also necessary for a nation. A nation cannot make progress if it has lost its character. This, the introduction of moral education from grassroots to university level is very necessary. READ ALSO: An Ideal Teacher Paragraph 4. Environmental Pollution The introduction of harmful pollutants into the environment is called environmental pollution. It has a hazardous effect on the natural world and on the activities of living beings. The industries all over the world that brought prosperity and affluence, made inroads into the biosphere and disturbed the ecological balances. The pall of smoke, the swirling gases, industrial effluents and the fall-out of scientific experiments became constant health hazards, polluting and contaminating both air and water. The smoke emitted by vehicles using petrol and diesel and the cooking coal also pollutes the environment. The contaminated water that we drink creates a number of incurable diseases. Air-pollution may cause several lung-diseases, asthma, brain-disorder diseases, etc. Soil-pollution may have a negative effect on farm output ratio. Noise-pollution causes deafness, tiredness, and mental losses. In order to deal with environmental pollution, the Government can at least see those future factories are set up at a distant place, an industrial complex far away from the township. Deforestation should be stopped and Forestry should be developed. Discharge of Factory wastes in rivers should be banned. 5. Meaningful Use of Leisure Time Leisure implies a free or unoccupied time when there is freedom from the demands of work or duty. Today people live under constant stress and demands of modernity. As a result, they are prone to physical and psychological problems. It is essential to spare some time from a mechanical routine and spend this time to rejuvenate the mind and the body. We can utilize our free time in a variety of ways. Reading is one of the most popular free-time activities. A wide range of subjects and the existence of well-maintained libraries has made reading a very rewarding and affordable activity. From simple entertainment to highly specialized discourses, reading invariably contributes to one’s knowledge and helps widen one’s perspective. Other common activities are music, gardening, carpentry, cooking, etc. One can also choose from activities which are directly relevant to society, like special work, caring for abandoned and stray animals, caring for the environment, etc. Activities in the areas enumerated above impart s sense of achievement besides giving meaning and purpose to life. Activities like carpentry, painting, and clay-modeling help satisfy the creative an impulse in many an amateur artist. Besides, we should spend some time in socializing. It is a healthy activity and promotes goodwill and mutual understanding among people. We should play outdoor games also. It has the advantage of catering to physical fitness and thus helping to develop a healthy attitude towards life. 6. Disaster Management The term ‘disaster management’ refers to all aspects of preventive and protective measures, preparedness, and organization of relief operations for mitigating the impact of disaster on human beings and socio-economic aspect of the disaster-prone areas. We can divide the whole process of disaster management into three phases: impact phase, rehabilitation, and reconstruction phase and integrated long term development and preparedness phase. READ ALSO: Book Review Writing Tips There are three components of impact phase: forecasting of disaster, close monitoring of agents causing disasters and management activities after the disaster has occurred. In order to forecast about flood, one needs to study. Approach of cyclone can be tracked and monitored by satellites. Then early warning and evacuation efforts may be made. Close monitoring of agents responsible for disaster can help deployment of teams to help evacuation and supply of goods, clothing and drinking water. Disaster leaves a trail of death and destruction. This will require medical care and help of various kinds to the affected people. Under long term development phase, preventive and precautionary measures of various kind should be implemented. 7. Population Hazard There is no denying the fact that the rate of population increase has gone down, but the balance between the optimum population growth and a healthy nation is far to be achieved. Ignorance, illiteracy, unhygienic living and lack of proper recreation are the main causes of population hazard in India. People, themselves must realize the merits of small family. They should be encouraged to adopt preventive checks—checks that control the birth rate. Religion also adds to the growth of population. Some communities consider any mandate of a statutory method of prohibition to be sacrilegious. India, being a secular state, cannot exercise any check or restraint on religious grounds. The importance of a higher standard of living should be inculcated in the mind of the people. The desire for better living conditions automatically works as a deterrent to heavy increases in population. It restricts the population explosion and thus tends to keep high the efficiency of our existing population. Education at the grass-root, more equitable distribution of the natural wealth, restriction on religious fanatics that would damage the country’s economy by unnecessary births, These measures alone can bring about a kind of effective control over the population problem. 8. Work is Worship This is an oft saying proverb that work is worship, which means there is no better way to worship God except to be hardworking. Man owes all his greatness to hard work. Hence, it is the root of all success. There is no alternative for hard work. Today man has conquered nature, he has set foot on the moon, he has traveled in space, he has invented so many life-saving drugs—all became possible because he never avoided work. We see wonderful progress in the field of agriculture and industry. READ ALSO: How to Write an Article Critique - Tips God also gets impressed and helps and cooperates only those who are hardworking and sincere. God does not love being worshipped by a person each second. He wants a person works hard. So, it is not useful if we worship God all the time and do not work at all. Some useful people who believe that it is luck that plays a significant role in anybody’s life. Thus, they avoid work and wait for the miracles, which according to them must occur in their life and consequently they would get all those things which they wish for. But the reality is that no such miracle happens particularly when we don’t work. 9. Our National Festivals In our country, people of different religions, regions, and cultures live together with peace and harmony. India is worldwide known for its cultural diversity and colorful festivals. Apart from these festivals, we also have national festivals such as the Independence Day, the Republic Day and Gandhi Jayanti. We celebrate Independence Day to mark the independence of India. India became independent on August 15, 1947, after the British left the country. Since then, August 15 is celebrated as the Independence Day. On this day, various formal events including flag-hoisting and march in all states, districts, panchayats, schools, colleges are organized to commemorate the day of freedom. The Prime Minister of the nation hoists the tri-color national flag (Tiranga) at the Red Fort and addresses the nation from its rampart. We celebrate Republic Day on January 26 to commemorate the adoption of our Constitution. As per the records, the Constitution of India came into force on January 26, 1950, by replacing the Government of India Act (1935) as the governing document of India. Like the Independence Day, flag hoisting ceremony and cultural programmes are organized across the nation on Republic Day. Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Every year, this auspicious occasion is celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm. People across the nation offer prayer services and tributes to Gandhiji on this day. Various cultural programmes showcasing Gandhi Ji’s life and struggle for independence are organized, at school, colleges, government, and private organizations, etc. Also, different types of competition, such as essay writing, painting, etc are organized to remember the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. 10. Indian Farmers It is indeed a matter of shame for us as the food producers in our country have to die out of hunger. India is mainly an agricultural country. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy. The farmer is an important part of agriculture. It is the hard work of the farmer which brings prosperity in the country. The farmer has to lead a tough life. He gets up early in the morning. He takes his plough and oxen and goes to the field. His wife and children also help him in his work. His routine does not change even in biting cold. The farmer remains busy in tilling the fields, sowing seeds and reaping crops throughout the year. The farmer takes great care of his crops and dreams of good crops. Sometimes adverse weather condition causes severe harm to crops in the form of drought, flood or untimely, uneven rains. In spite of his hard work, the farmer has to live in a miserable condition, when his crops fail. They have to borrow have money from the moneylenders at a high-interest rate. In case of the failure of his crops, he becomes hopeless. It becomes difficult for him to pay back the money. Sometimes he takes the drastic step of suicide. We need to be sensitive towards farmers. Governmental and non-governmental organizations should come forward and make them aware of the latest technologies, programmes, and policies. Our nation can be a prosperous one only when our farmers are prosperous. 11. A Good Citizen A good citizen is one who tries to work for the greatness and glory of his country. He is faithful to his country and is ready to sacrifice everything for the honour of the land. He must be law-abiding and must respect the traditions of his country. He should make all possible efforts to remove the social evils which are the bane of the society. He must live in peace with his fellow citizens and help the state against all criminals and lawbreakers. He is not blindly conservative and he is progressive in his outlook. A good citizen must be committed to the high ideals and work for the betterment of his country. He should work for unity in the country and does not do anything which might harm the solidarity of the country. He knows that if his countrymen are not united, the nation shall face danger from other countries hostile to us. He is kind and sympathetic towards everyone. He respects this rights and privileges of others. He does not do anything which might have a bad effect on others. He is honest and diligent and works for the good of his fellow citizens. Have something to say
One most common question that I often come across is all about very hard concrete. If you are a reader of my blog then you should already know that concretes made by the Japanese Imperial Army (JIA) in WWII can’t be easily chiseled or break by any ordinary tools that we use today. I myself have already encountered many of these hard objects and it can be pretty annoying dealing with them. The reason why the JIA managed to construct such very hard material was due to their special chemicals that they often add into the mixture of their cement. They often use it to encase their treasure which also serves as the items’ protection from damages. Aside from encasing their treasure, they also use their special concrete in sealing entrances to their hidden tunnels especially the chamber where they stored large number of their precious loots. Most treasure hunters do encounter a hard layer deep down the ground which is usually 80 feet deep or more. Unfortunately, this extremely hard layer of the ground is not made by the JIA but naturally-made. This layer is what they call as the “bedrock”. What is bedrock? As a treasure hunter definition, bedrock is the deepest layer of the ground possible for human to reach through common digging methods. One characteristic of bedrock is that, as you attempt to break your way through the layer, it will simply get harder-and-harder until you definitely give up. Another characteristic of bedrock is that, it does really look like concrete. This is the reason why majority of the amateurs often fall for this kind of mistake. What to do when you encountered the bedrock? When you finally encountered the bedrock, it only means one thing. “It is time for you to stop.” It’s because you have already reached the bottom end. If you insist of continuing then you will only damage your tools. The next thing for you to do is to determine the main reason why you end up hitting the bedrock. One possible reason is that, you have interpreted the signs incorrectly. I do understand that most amateurs who failed to decode the markings that they encountered simply tend to just continue digging straight towards their original direction. This is why it is very important for treasure hunters to be able to interpret treasure signs and its meanings correctly. If you have basic knowledge about interpreting the signs then that might not still be good enough. The JIA also do often use decoys for confusion which causes you to lose your track. Another possible reason is that, you might have missed to notice a sign which indicate a “change in direction”. This is why it always very important to be very observant with all the objects you uncover especially rocks with markings on them. What to do then? If you are on this kind of situation where you went into the wrong direction, it does not mean that it is over. All you have to do is to retrace your digging back. Try going back to the layer or depth where you encountered the last treasure signs and then restart your assessment at that point. Study the latest signs that you discovered and probably, there is one that tells you to shift your direction to a certain corner. Do bedrock tunnel exist? Bedrock Tunnel Throughout my experience, I have not yet encountered bedrock tunneled by the JIA. But this does not mean that it does not exist. It is actually pretty much possible because of the special chemical that they secretly used. You have to know that aside from the chemicals that they used as mixtures to their concrete, they also had powerful chemicals that can easily dissolve even the hardest type of rock. This explains why they can easily engraved artistic symbols or signs of buried treasures on rock’s hard surfaces. Thus, they can use such chemical to create bedrock tunnels. 22 Comments to “Very Hard Concrete or Bedrock” • Sir, I am a beginner in TH. I study on it from your blog and on Facebook in the group of TH. My team spent almost 19th month breaking this hard layer which we encountered from three feet up to this moment wherein we managed to reach 16 ft. This hard material has different properties. It has epoxy type of material mixed with pink color clay and some were mixed with red or maroon just like what is used in clay pots. Is this material a bedrock or JIA concrete? • It is definitely not a bedrock due to those several elements that you mentioned. Bedrocks are just plain like concrete that is too tough to break. • Good Day sir ELMO! I would like to ask regarding our digging, we already reached 140 ft deep and we found a soil that is color RED and after that another color appears which is color BLACK. After encountering those kinds of soil, we already encountered a hard cement, we would like to know if that was already near to the chamber of the tunnel. Thank you! • Just like what I have covered on this post, you might have already encountered the bedrock which is extremely very hard object to penetrate especially when there is already a strong presence of water. Anyway, you may want to give a try breaking it for a few feet. If you are unable to do so then you are probably dealing with a bedrock. • We already dug about 25 ft and we encountered water that is green color and oily. What does this mean? • Be careful because in most cases, water with strange colors are contaminated with dangerous chemicals especially when they emit a very strong odor. • Hi Sir Elmo, I just want to clarify about the color of soil and the last layer before reaching the items. We unearth color black soil mixed with crude oil when we wash it water. The water in the pail turn to black. There is a hole 1 inch in diameter. We follow a small hole and then next to black is orange but in the center of the hole is a divider that half is color black soil the other half is orange. And, the orange color soil smell like flower similar to perfume with sweet characteristic. After we unearth all orange soil and next is sand mixed with stone, in the center is red stone and after that we hit a yellow brown soil. I think it is a top soil and the hole we follow is gone. Sir Elmo are we near? The soil smell like perfume luckily we have gas mask. Some of our digger smell it outside. Are we near to object? Thanks a lot. • Those different layers of soil that you encountered are definite treasure signs. I actually covered this topic in my other post and I assume that you already read. The perfume that you smell can be dangerous if you inhale it to much into your system. You may seem to feel okay smelling it but in the long run, you will suddenly experience the bad symptoms. When you finally reached the final layer which is a yellow brown soil that came from the top, try checking the sides because there could be a change in direction. As for you question, I got a strong feeling that you might be near the hidden item. • Good day Sir, I discovered in our farm a big rectangular-shaped rock very similar to a life size tomb in Catholic cemeteries. Is this a positive sign for buried treasures? If yes then should I start digging from here or it’s just a reference point where the buried treasure is located. Thank you. • I would like you to inspect that rectangular rock for any obvious markings which can greatly help in providing clues about what you have to do next. If there is none, then you should give a try digging some shallow depths around while observing for any possible signs. If you found nothing then that rock is just a reference point. • Good day Sir Elmo, we found an arrow pointing to the north then we followed and we found the “y”. What is the exact location of the items? then we estimate the distance from arrow to the “y” sign it almost 30 meters. Thank you Sir and God bless. • A Y shaped symbol is often an interpretation pertaining to “intersection”. This could be an old creek or an old trail. The location of the item should be somewhere around the intersection point. In most cases, when you explore the intersection area, there should be some markings that will guide you on where to work or dig. • Sir, can you assist me in locating the treasure in my place? I accidentally found 4 sun engraved on a rock which is covered with water. The big rock is hidden under a stream. The 4 suns engraved on a sliding rock on a foot of a mountain where the stream is passing through. I have found 4 engraved sun on a creek on a Y intersection of creeks. Can you please advice me where to locate the treasure area Sir? • Those four suns indicates that there are four separate deposits. However, each of them have certain distance from one another which can be determined through the number of their spokes. Each spoke is often considered as 1 foot. • We happened to stumble on a rectangular rock which is human made, I guess! because it is almost perfectly cut. This happened when we visit our grandpa’s land which was known to be a Japanese headquarter during the war…and we also found a foot print on a rock. I will send you a video if you are interested since I need your guidance. • The rock is as thick as 8″ and its very hard. • If you have a metal detector, you can scan it. Otherwise, you may want to break it apart by any means necessary. • Everything that the is hand-made especially by the JIA can be considered as a marker that has something to do with treasures that they had hidden. Since your site used to be a Japanese Headquarters, there is indeed a huge chance that there is a large hidden deposit on that place. The only problem is that, you have to be careful when digging around because of the presence of dangerous traps – most likely vintage bombs. A foot print marker has something to do with direction. In general, it means that you need to follow the direction where the foot sign is facing at. No need to hassle yourself with the video, a well described description of the signs that you found is already good enough for me to give you my own interpretation. • Sir, I just want to ask. They are already in 35 meters deep, encountered very fishy smell, their skin is itchy and found a tire (car or truck), do they still continue or the item is already near their position. Thank you sir. • Base on your description, it seems that you diggers has finally encountered the contaminated layer which is causing those symptoms. As for you question, it depends on the volume of the hidden treasure. If it is a large hidden deposit then you will still have to encounter the vault which is a very thick type of concrete that is very hard to break. But if the deposit is small or medium, then you are probably near the item. • Sir I just want to ask on my land, there is 3 rock around 1 to 2 m distance each in triangular with marking on its rock 1 with rectangular shape 2 x 3 inches at the center of the rock. The second with U shape 4 x 5 inches at the bottom of the rock. The last one is like a point edge pointed away outside the 3 rocks which is in triangular form. Can you help me please. Thank you so much. • The first rock is telling you that the item is enclosed inside a certain container. As for the second rock, it’s engrave sign confirms that the item is hidden inside the container. The third rock has a directional marker which means that the item is hidden outside the area of those three rocks. 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'Don Quixote': obsession with literature El Quixot "Don Quichotte et Sancho Pança", de Charles Huard To follow the event, please, register here How was Don Quixote written? How is it possible that four centuries later it is still the most relevant work of Spanish literature? On April 28, historian Gonzalo Pontón will explain in "Don Quixote: obsession with literature" the main characteristics of Don Quixote in order to understand how it gradually took shape during the long period in which Miguel de Cervantes wrote it. In addition, Pontón will deepen the parodic tone of the first part (1605) and its evolution as a novel based on the author's desire to turn into a satire of certain ways of understanding literature. The session will also explore the second part of the work (1615), in which Cervantes plays with perspectives, words and literary styles to unprecedent limits, turning Don Quixote into the first modern novel. The webinar, which will include the lecture of some of the most famous excerpts from the play, is the second of four conferences organized in collaboration with the Institut d'Humanitats as part of BSM Inside, the cross-disciplinary subject that the UPF Barcelona School of Management offers its students during the third term. The purpose of this experience is to enrich their education and ensure a training based on a commitment to culture and planetary well-being. The first session, "And Shakespeare invented humans", was given by Andreu Jaume, critic, publisher and translator of the English playwright. If you missed it, you can catch it here
As part of Chautauqua Institution’s longstanding commitment to environmental sustainability, the Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative builds on years of Chautauqua programs investigating timely and critical topics. The initiative elevates climate change as a key issue that the Institution is uniquely positioned to address through intergenerational and multidisciplinary experiences and programs. It also represents Chautauqua’s first major initiative that was conceived and created not only as a program that comes to life during its traditional nine-week Summer Assembly, but also that operates year-round and for multiple years. The Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative launches with three primary areas of focus: education, stewardship and justice. These elements align the Institution’s existing values and competencies with national and international frameworks for advancing awareness, understanding and engagement in the climate change arena. The scope of the Climate Change Initiative will grow and evolve over time, including through partnerships and as a result of our learnings and patron response. The Initiative seeks to inspire engagement in finding and acting on workable solutions to the threats posed by climate change The Initiative will: 1. Create and share knowledge on climate change, its impacts, and actions that can contribute to reversing negative trends; 2. Leverage existing and new partnerships to create programs and experiences to engage citizens in ways that both advance their understanding of relevant issues and information; 3. Serve as a resource for schools, communities, businesses and organizations that seek information and experiences to advance their plans to reduce their carbon footprint or enhance knowledge and understanding among their constituents; 4. Curate conversations leading to deeper understanding of the issues associated with climate change, build civil dialogue skills, abilities and dispositions among citizens and showcase opportunities to act to achieve solutions to mitigate the impact of climate change; 5. Leverage its commitment to a science-based solution to Chautauqua Lake conservation as a living- and grounds-based laboratory for citizen action and engagement Visit Site
›› Convert millihg to atmosphere [standard] Did you mean to convert millihg to atmosphere [standard] atmosphere [technical] ›› More information from the unit converter How many millihg in 1 atmosphere? The answer is 759.9998769899. We assume you are converting between millihg and atmosphere [standard]. You can view more details on each measurement unit: millihg or atmosphere The SI derived unit for pressure is the pascal. 1 pascal is equal to 0.0075006156130264 millihg, or 9.8692326671601E-6 atmosphere. Use this page to learn how to convert between millihg and atmospheres. ›› Quick conversion chart of millihg to atmosphere 1 millihg to atmosphere = 0.00132 atmosphere 10 millihg to atmosphere = 0.01316 atmosphere 50 millihg to atmosphere = 0.06579 atmosphere 100 millihg to atmosphere = 0.13158 atmosphere 200 millihg to atmosphere = 0.26316 atmosphere 500 millihg to atmosphere = 0.65789 atmosphere 1000 millihg to atmosphere = 1.31579 atmosphere ›› Want other units? You can do the reverse unit conversion from atmosphere to millihg, or enter any two units below: Enter two units to convert ›› Common pressure conversions millihg to micrometer of mercury millihg to technical atmosphere millihg to picobar millihg to kilogram-force/square millimeter millihg to kilopond/square meter millihg to pound/square foot millihg to foot of head millihg to millibar millihg to yottabar millihg to terabar ›› Definition: Millihg So 1 millihg = 10-3 hg. ›› Definition: Atmosphere The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as 101325 Pa (1.01325 bar). It is sometimes used as a reference pressure or standard pressure. It is approximately equal to Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level. ›› Metric conversions and more
The earliest bird reared by humans may have been a cassowary -- often called the world's most dangerous bird because of its long, dagger-like toe. "This behaviour that we are seeing is coming thousands of years before domestication of the chicken," said lead study author Kristina Douglass, an assistant professor of anthropology and African studies at Penn State University. "And this is not some small fowl, it is a huge, ornery, flightless bird that can eviscerate you," she said in a news statement. The researchers said that while a cassowary can be aggressive (a man in Florida was killed by one in 2019), it "imprints" easily -- it becomes attached to the first thing it sees after hatching. This means it's easy to maintain and raise up to adult size. Today, the cassowary is New Guinea's largest vertebrate, and its feathers and bones are prized materials for making bodily adornments and ceremonial wear. The bird's meat is considered a delicacy in New Guinea. "What we found was that a large majority of the eggshells were harvested during late stages," Douglass said. "The eggshells look very late; the pattern is not random." But were humans purposefully collecting these eggs to allow them to hatch or collecting the eggs to eat? It's possible they were doing both, Douglass said. Consuming eggs with fully formed embryos is considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, but Douglass said the research team's analysis suggested people were hatching the chicks. "We also looked at burning on the eggshells," Douglass said in the news release. "There are enough samples of late stage eggshells that do not show burning that we can say they were hatching and not eating them." Less mature eggshells showed more signs of burning -- suggesting that when cassowary eggs were consumed they were cooked and eaten when their contents were primarily liquid. However, there is still much the researchers don't know. To successfully hatch and raise cassowary chicks, people would need to know where the nests were, know when the eggs were laid and remove them from the nest just before hatching. This is no easy feat as birds don't nest at the same sites each year. Once a female lays the eggs, male birds take over nest duty and don't leave for 50 days while incubating the eggs. "People may have hunted the male and then collected the eggs. Because males don't leave the nest unattended they also don't feed much during the incubation period making them more vulnerable to predators," she said.
Dogs For Indian Climate What are the best dogs for Indian climate? Dogs are an adorable creature of our society that helps in keeping healthy because you have to exercise your dogs daily; then, in this way, you can also apply every day. It is essential to keep a dog that suits your living style. It is vital to consider the climate conditions of your surroundings before buying any dog because climatic conditions can affect a dog’s body. India consists of tropical seasons that suggest that India contains hot weather for an extended period and then a short duration of winters as well as monsoons. This summer season consists of a significant level of heat and humidity, which can affect any living body. It becomes essential to consider a dog that has less body hair that gets suited to the proper Indian climate. Some of the following information will help you to know about appropriate dog breeds. Best suitable dogs for Indian climate • Labrador • The Pug • Dachshund • Pomeranian • German shepherd Dogs For Indian Climate The Labrador consists of a silky undercoat that helps in keeping warm during cold weather conditions. The outer coat of Labrador is beneficial in keeping repelling water from the body of a dog breed. It is important to groom them properly to keep their coat hair very shiny. The height of the Labrador is 32 inches, and the weight is around 34 kgs. These dogs need the right amount of training and exercise because they can easily weigh at any time. Labrador dogs should have proper eating habits because it will help them in maintaining a healthy body. The pug Dogs For Indian Climate Pug gets rarely found in India because of the endangered dog breed. Pugs consist of small size, and they get loved by many people in the world. They include dark eyes and wrinkled face, which helps them in looking very cute. They weigh about 8 kgs, and they have a height range of up to 15 inches. It is good to maintain their dietary habits because they put on weight very fast. It is essential to keep them at cold conditional places because hot weather can face them from heatstroke. Dogs For Indian Climate They consist of three different varieties that are wire-haired, short-haired, and long-haired. It consists of two different sizes that are miniature and standard size. Dachshund consists of different colors that are brown, black, red, tan, and chocolate color. They consist of many significant characteristics like plying nature, funny, and intelligent behavior. Dachshund is a tiny dog that gets referred to as an ideal dog for an apartment and a short-member family. Dogs For Indian Climate It is good to keep them brushing every day because they have a smooth textured coat. Pomeranian sheds a lot during the shedding season, and they have a small size. They have a dynamic nature, and it is essential to keep them exercising every day. They act as a very excellent watchdog, and they have very active characters. Pomeranian requires a minimal amount of maintenance; that is why it is good to keep them at any small and large family. German shepherd Dogs For Indian Climate German dogs consist of an impressive personality, and that is why german shepherds act as excellent guard dogs. People need to know that they have a high level of loyalty to their owners. German shepherds are smart dogs that have a beautiful appearance, and they are height around 25 inches. It defines that they are tall, and they have a level of the weight of around 34 kilograms. Shepherd has 12 years of life span, and they require regular grooming. It is essential to train them every day properly because of their excellent energy levels. It gets found that the German shepherd is a very aggressive dog, but they can get friendly with loving people. They are suitable for the Indian climate because of their beautiful, healthy coat. Leave a Comment
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NASA reveales that giant asteroid 99942 Apophis is expected to fly close to Earth in a decade According to the latest data from US space agency NASA, the giant asteroid named 99942 Apophis is expected to approach dangerously close to the Earth on April 13, 2029. However, there is no need to worry as it will be about 31,000km away from the surface of the Earth. This is going to be a great opportunity for asteroid scientists as it’s relatively rare for such a large object to pass so close to the Earth. The colossal asteroid is named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction. Apophis was discovered in 2004 by U.S. astronomers. Since then, optical and radar telescopes have tracked Apophis as it continues on its orbit around the sun, so scientists know well its future trajectory. Current calculations shows that Apophis still has a small chance of impacting earth. Latest E-Books
Facebook pixel tracker The A.P. Saunders Peonies These stunning peonies bloom each spring in Hamilton’s Grant Garden thanks to the hybridization talents of Arthur Percy Saunders, dean and professor of chemistry in the decades prior to World War II. According to Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus (who provided the following photographs), Saunders initially crossed the herbaceous Paeonia lactoflora from China with other herbaceous species to produce new hybrids. He later developed hybrid tree peonies by crossing the wild yellow tree peony, Paeonia lutea, with other tree peony species. “Saunders’ hybrids were spectacular in size, color and how long they lasted, and became known internationally,” Williams notes. “The date that appears with each name tells when the cultivar was developed; those from the late 1940s and 1950s are mostly multiple hybrids that mix genetic contributions from up to four species.” Back to Top
Month Day May 03 Lord Byron swims across tumultuous Hellespont strait in Turkey The 22-year-old Byron was taking an extended tour of the European continent when he decided to take his famous swim. His travels inspired his first widely read poetic work, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. After the publication of the poem’s first canto in 1809, Byron became a major British celebrity. The world-weary tone of the poems, describing the travels of a young noble waiting to be knighted, caught the imagination of the public and established the cynical Byronic hero. Byron, who was born with a clubfoot, had been raised in near-poverty in Scotland. At age 10, he inherited his title and wealth from a great uncle. He attended top schools, including Trinity College, Cambridge, where he racked up enormous debt and began to publish poetry. When his first volume, Hours of Idleness, was received unkindly by critics, he savaged the literary establishment in his second book, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809). Byron married Annabella Milbanke in 1815, after several passionate affairs with other women. The couple had a child but separated in 1816. Byron’s reputation was shattered by rumors of an incestuous affair with his half-sister, August Leigh. Forced to flee England, he settled in Geneva near Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. He had an affair with Mary Shelley’s half-sister, who later bore his child. He traveled throughout Italy, engaged in countless amorous liaisons, and published the first two cantos of Don Juan in 1819. In Don Juan, he boasts of his swim across the Hellespont nine years earlier. In 1823, having lost close friends and family, Byron left Italy for Greece, where he trained revolutionary troops until he caught a fever and died in 1824. He became a national hero in Greece. Three-year-old Madeleine McCann goes missing in Portugal Japanese war crimes trial begins New Japanese constitution goes into effect Joseph Fletcher lands first aircraft on the North Pole Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli born 173rd Airborne Brigade deploys to South Vietnam Funk master, James Brown, is born U.S. Supreme Court decides Paramount antitrust case Trains collide near Tokyo, killing more than 160 people Exxon executive is murdered Congressional hearings on General MacArthur begin MADD founder’s daughter killed by drunk driver The Battle of the Coral Sea begins

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