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Monticello is home to founding father Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, the plantation was originally 5,000 acres, with Jefferson using slaves for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops, later shifting from tobacco cultivation to wheat in response to changing markets. Jefferson designed the main house using neoclassical design principles described by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, subsequently reworking the design through much of his presidency to include design elements popular in late 18th-century Europe and integrating numerous of his own design solutions. Situated on the summit of an 850-foot high peak in the Southwest Mountains south of the Rivanna Gap, the name Monticello derives from the Italian for "little mount". Along a prominent lane adjacent to the house, Mulberry Row, the plantation came to include numerous outbuildings for specialized functions, e.g., a nailery; quarters for domestic slaves; gardens for flowers, produce, and Jefferson's experiments in plant breeding — along with tobacco fields and mixed crops. Cabins for field slaves were located farther from the mansion. At Jefferson's direction, he was buried on the grounds, in an area now designated as the Monticello Cemetery. The cemetery is owned by the Monticello Association, a society of his descendants through Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. After Jefferson's death, his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph sold the property. In 1834 it was bought by Uriah P. Levy, a commodore in the U.S. Navy, who admired Jefferson and spent his own money to preserve the property. His nephew Jefferson Monroe Levy took over the property in 1879; he also invested considerable money to restore and preserve it. In 1923, Monroe Levy sold it to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which operates it as a house museum and educational institution. It has been designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1987 Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For more information on Monticello, click HERE. Powered by SmugMug Owner Log In
ReadAnyBook Advice - 👉Best Essay Writing Service for students Problems of Men Mind And Morals Cover Problems of Men Mind And Morals Genres: Nonfiction Purchase of this book includes free trial access to where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE PROBLEM OF THE EVOLUTION OF SPECULATIVE THOUGHT In the earliest phases of man's social and mental life we find no trace of conscious reflection on the conditions of his existence. His view of the world is a vague fluid mass of assumptions arising without conscious will or intention on his part out of a welter of crude analogies, moulded in the forms in which his mind operated, and accumulating from untold generations. This was the era of mythology, folk-lore, of primitive thought and imagination. It had as its counterpart in the material sphere the world of a common tribal and clan life, to which the individual human being was subordinated, and apart from which he had no significance. As this material side of primitive society yielded to civilisation, by which the old social bonds became lo osened and the independence of the individual began to emerge, the intellectual outlook also became gradually modified. The greatfactor in this modification was the awakening of conscious reflection upon himself, his beliefs and surroundings, on the part of the individual. The awakening self-consciousness of the individual took various forms, moral and intellectual, and it passed through many phases, consisting largely in a modification and systematisation of myth and traditional modes of thought, before the conscious attempt to explain the universe on rational principles, as we now term them?in other words, before the dawn of philosophy properly so-called. But it was not given to every race of ancient times to inaugurate philosophic inquiry in its true sense. We can trace detached fragments of philosophic thought at an early stage in more than one of the Oriental civilisations of antiquity, while in ancient India something like a definite line of philosophic develop... Problems of Men Mind And Morals +Write review User Reviews: Write Review:
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Defending Your Rights In New York For Over 25 Years Why people make false confessions to crimes they didn’t commit It may seem unusual, but people in New York and around the country sometimes make false confessions to crimes they didn’t commit. There are a variety of reasons why this may happen. A false confession happens when a criminal offense has been tacked onto someone who law enforcement believes is the perpetrator. What is a false confession? A false confession is a statement given to law enforcement by a person who has been brought in for questioning stating that they committed a crime they did not commit. There are certain reasons behind false confessions. Scientists who study criminal law have determined that there are three chief reasons, which include the following: • Voluntary: With a voluntary false confession, the person knows they are giving a statement that is untrue, yet they want to claim responsibility for the crime. • Coerced-compliant: A person who has confessed to a crime they didn’t commit when they were coerced. This type of false confession occurs when law enforcement uses unethical or even illegal tactics to force it out of a person. They may resort to psychological or even physical abuse, forcing the individual to falsely confess so that the torment can stop. People who falsely confess often believe they are telling law enforcement what they want to hear. • Coerced-internalized: A coerced-internalized false confession is made when a person has not committed the crime but feels a sense of guilt that they confess. Can a false confession be used as evidence? Legally, a false confession that is made under duress, through coercion, cannot be used as evidence. If a person is arrested and charged with a crime and makes a false confession due to coercion, they have a good defense. Many people who have been falsely convicted and ultimately exonerated of a crime were denied when seeking to prevent their false statement from being used during trial. Coercion and forced confessions happen all the time as a practice with police. While physical coercion is much less frequent, there are often allegations of psychological coercion, threats or false promises to get people to confess. Who can you turn to for help? An attorney can help you when you have been arrested after making a false confession. If you did not commit the crime, your attorney can protect your rights and build a strong defense.
Lutino Cockatiels Normal Grey Olive Cockatiels Spangle Cockatiel Lutino Cockatiels Lutino Cockatiels The Lutino Cockatiel mutation is sex-linked recessive and is one that seems to stand out from the crowd. It's bright yellow colour devoid of all dark contrast except for the orange cheekpatch make them a striking looking bird. Also the presence of the red eye instead of the normal dark colour give it a unique look. Lutino can be combined readily with the pearl, pied, cinnamon and whiteface mutations to further enhance the beauty of this colour. Lutino Cockatiels are a colour that makes visual sexing of the bird very difficult and the subtle differences between the sexes can often be nigh on impossible to distinguish. One negative trait of lutino cockatiels has been a bald patch which is apparent behind the crest area on the head. Fortunately with successful selective breeding practices this trait is being reduced. There are some magnificent specimens around now that have total feather coverage of the head. Pearl Lutino Cockatiel hen Genetics & Heredity The lutino gene is called a sex-linked recessive gene. It is one that affects the grey family of pigments in birds and is one of the easiest to recognise. Basically this gene successfully prevents the production of grey colours or 'melanin'. So if you imagine a normal grey cockatiel that has all the grey washed out or taken away then you will see a lutino. Juvenile Whiteface Lutino henThe lutino gene in birds is the equivalent of the Albino gene in mammals. In mammals this gene leaves a white creature with red eyes because the melanin has been removed. In the lutino the same effect has taken place. The reason we don't get a white bird from the lutino gene is because birds do not just have one form of pigment, ie melanin, as mammals do. Birds have grey family pigments (melanin) and yellow family pigments (psittacins). To get a white bird both these pigments need to be removed and there is no one gene that is capable of doing that. Having said this though it is possible to get a white bird by the combining of the lutino gene that removes the melanin and the blue or whiteface gene that removes the yellow. Thus the albino cockatiel is genetically a Whiteface Lutino. Now we get down to the technical part of inheritance, or how a bird can be a lutino cockatiel and what does it need from what parent. This is where the term sex-linked recessive needs to be explained. As most people know in humans, each person basically contains pairs of chromosomes that hold all the information that make us what we look like. To determine the sex of a human child each baby has a pair of chromosomes that are either XX (female) or XY (male). In birds this is the opposite way around so it is the female that has the XY combination and thus it is her that determines what sex each chick will be. So basically it gets down to the point that the cock bird carries two 'X' chromosomes while the hen has only one. The lutino gene is one that is carried on the sex chromosome or X. The Y that the hen contains as her second one is too short to carry any wild-type genes that would suppress or oppose those carried on the X. Thus if the X chromosome contains the lutino gene in a hen, she will be a visual lutino bird because she has no gene on her Y chromosome to dominate over the lutino. In a cock bird though because he has two 'X' chromosomes if he has only a lutino gene on one of them then he will have a wild-type or normal gene on the other that would prohibit the lutino from being visible. If he had a lutino gene on both X's then there is nothing to prohibit it from being visible and the bird would thus be lutino. I hope I still have you with me at this point! Whiteface Lutino Cinnamon Pearl hen Pastelface lutino cock Juvenile Whiteface Cinnamon Lutino Pearl hen So when we have two birds making babies each parent will give either one of their two sex chromosomes to a chick. The male has only two 'X's so he will give one of them whereas the hen could give either an X or a Y. Because the lutino gene is carried on the X, any chick from a visual lutino father will get a lutino gene. With the hen having an X and a Y she could pass on either but remember only the X holds the lutino. So if she passes the X to a chick it will have an X from mum and an X from dad and so will be an XX and thus a boy. If the mother passes the Y gene the chick will have an X from dad and the Y from mum and be a girl. From this we should see that only a chick that gets an X chromosome from mum can inherit any sex-linked genes from her as the Y contains none. So it is impossible for a hen to pass any of these on to any female chick she produces. So we have a scenario where we have a lutino hen and a normal grey male. Dad will give each chick a normal gene and mum will give her sons the X that contains the lutino gene and her daughters the Y that contain no genes. Thus each male chick will have a normal gene and a lutino gene. The lutino is opposed by the normal and thus called recessive and will not show up visually. He will be then termed 'split lutino'. He can then give any of his chicks either a lutino or a normal and if he gives the lutino to a daughter then she will be visual lutino. Two Juvenile Lutino SistersJuvenile Lutino Pearl hen Both of these chicks I know are definitely hens because mum was not a Lutino and dad was only split Lutino. I hope this makes sense. If you have any questions please feel free to email me and I will help wherever I can. 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article How much does it cost to grow hydroponic herbs? With the popularity of hydroponics, it’s no secret that prices have skyrocketed. Hydroponic gardening is an incredibly affordable way to grow your own food, herbs, and vegetables, and it’s a great way to boost your garden’s productivity. Here’s what you need to know about hydroponically grown herbs. If you want to know how much it would cost to buy herbs in bulk, this article can give you an idea. If you want a more in-depth look, I’ve included a breakdown of how much a pound of hydrant herbs costs on How Much does Hydroponics Cost? Hydroponics can be bought online, from a local garden store, or you can find a hydroponer in your local market. Hydrant herb gardeners can typically sell for $50-100 per pound, which can include everything from seeds to soil. This means you’ll probably end up paying more per pound than you would for seed, fertilizers, and water. You’ll also want to consider how much you’ll have to pay to install a hydrant. You can get hydroponed herbs from local seed banks or seed catalogs. You can also purchase hydropons at garden centers, farmers markets, or online. Hydronomatizer herbs are a different story. Hydronomatics are small hydropones, which are sold as bulk hydropone sprays. Hydrophonic herbs are much bigger and can be grown in large containers. The hydroponian herb garden is best suited to growers with large-scale projects. What Is Hydropony? Herb Gardeners love hydropony because it allows them to grow more herbs and vegetables. Hydrology is a term used to describe how water moves in the earth and how plants respond to it. The more plants that have roots and roots that absorb water, the more vegetables and herbs they can grow. Hydrogen is the basic building block for plants. Plants grow by absorbing water from the air and then converting it into food. Plants can only grow when the atmosphere is free of oxygen. When the atmosphere becomes polluted, plants can’t absorb water and will die. Hydrogel is an organic compound that’s usually found in soil. It’s used to fill in soil holes and holds water in place. Hydroplasm is a small protein that holds water and is a prerequisite for plants to grow. You don’t need to worry about the hydroponaer’s roots growing too much if you don’t hydropontinue to hydroponite. The best hydroponies tend to have a wide variety of varieties, from hydroponal to hydroplonic. Hydronegami is the hydroton of the hydrological cycle. Most hydroponiaers also use hydroponica and hydropontoic to create hydropondes. These two products are used to make hydropoieses, which contain hydroxybenzene and glycerol. These hydroponds are used for irrigation. If hydroponoic and hydroperdoic are not available for hydropoonic herbs, you can use hydrogel or hydronomato as a substitute. In hydropoin, the hydrophobic acid, hydrogen, is replaced by hydrogen peroxide. Hydrothenes are a hydrophilic, hydrophodifluoric acid. Hydrocolloid is the hydrocarbon component of hydrocarbon. Hydrobacter is a hydrolactic acid. To make hydropea, a mixture of hydrocarbons (water) and amino acids (food). The combination of amino acids and water is called hydroxyproline. The hydroxypropyl group is used to give hydrooxygen. Hydroxypropyl is the product of hydroxyhydroxylation. Hydrolizone is a glycosylated form of hydrogen sulfide. It is used as a carrier for water, and is the most common form of hydrogelin in hydropin. Hydrogen peroxide is used in the production of hydrothermoplastic. Hydrothermoplastics are the most commonly used type of hydromorphic cellulose used in hydrothermocapsaicin (HTC), the active ingredient in THC. Hydrothermotility is the ability of hydroxylated cellulose to hydroxide and hydrolyze water. Hydrogel and hydrotheromato are commonly used as hydropoanters. Hydrogene is the main hydropylene. Hydroponic hydropanics can also be used as organic composts. Hydrothenol is the colorless, odorless, and tasteless component of hydroethanol
Other Student Life Top 5 Ways to Boost Your Motivation to Study December 3, 2018 Top 5 Ways to Boost Your Motivation to Study Motivation is a well-known problem that many students experience, but most don’t know how to motivate themselves. Students not only struggle with motivation to study and excel academically but, according to Delta Discovery, 69% of them drop out of colleges because of lack of motivation. This statistic shows how serious this problem is and urges us to find immediate solutions. Luckily, there are some tips you can follow to boost your motivation to study. They are easy to follow and take little to no time, which is perfect for high-school or college students, who are always in a rush. So here are top 5 ways to boost your motivation to study. 1. Organize a Studying Space According to a study performed by Harvard University, students who study in a clutter-free workplace are able to work 7.5 minutes longer. So, before you start with your assignments, find some time to tidy up your desk or any other space you’ll work in. Multiple studies have proven the connection between clutter and stress. Your desk is the place where you spend most of your time studying, so you need to make it as tidy as possible. You’ll see how fast it will help you think more clearly and make you more motivated to study. Tip! If you don’t have time to de-clutter, go to a place where you can concentrate, like your school library. It’s always quiet and peaceful, and the workspace is clutter-free. 1. Eliminate Distractions Procrastination is how our brain reacts to irritants such as stressful situations, however, it can be difficult to break the habit of constant procrastination. Psychology Today singles out 5 major reasons why we procrastinate: • No structure. If there’s no direction, it’s hard to concentrate. To be productive, your brain needs elaborate steps to follow. • Unpleasant or boring tasks. Unpleasant tasks can unwillingly force us to procrastinate. • Lack of vision of the result. If you can’t envision being rewarded for performing the task, you’re more likely to delay doing it. • Feeling of anxiety. Fear of failure is a real reason why people procrastinate. Knowing that you’ve done everything you could to achieve the best result will help you feel more confident. • Weak self-confidence. The same as with the previous reason, weak self-confidence causes the feeling of being unworthy or fear of failure. Tip! To avoid procrastination and find the motivation to study, you can use different smartphone or browser apps, like Tomato Timer, based on Pomodoro technique, as well as Forest app to help you concentrate. 1. Imagine the Result Several years ago, there was a real buzz around the visualization technique. The movie called “The Secret” had so many supporters and haters that everyone got interested, whether the power of visualization actually works. A study by Texas State University, performed on athletes, has shown that 51% of participants improved their free throw after visualizing the successful results, which is a very impressive statistic. Tip! Take 5 minutes before you start studying, take a comfortable position in a chair or lay down, close your eyes and start imagining the successful results of your work. You’ll feel more motivated right away. 1. Take a Power Nap Taking a nap before studying can help you feel refreshed and motivated. A report posted by NBC News shows that a short nap before working/studying results in an immediate alertness and increased cognitive performance for almost 3 hours. Tip! You can combine your power naps with guided meditations. Downloading apps like Headspace or Calm can help you put your mind to rest and have a power nap to recharge and get motivated. 1. Exercise It’s also a well-known fact that exercising can help your body recharge and get energized. A quick workout can help you get motivated immediately. Your brain gets filled with oxygen, which helps you think clearly. Tip! Try a simple 7 to 10-minute workout to get motivated quickly. Motivation is Easy to Find The only thing you need is persistence and desire to find it. Hopefully, the tips mentioned in this article will help you get energized and motivated to achieve success in studying. Tom Jager is a professional blogger. He works at A-writer. He has a degree in Law and English literature. Tom has written numerous articles/online journals. You can reach him at G+ or Facebook. You Might Also Like
Skip to main content Because species-specific gene expression is driven by species-specific regulation, understanding the relationship between sequence and function of the regulatory regions in different species will help elucidate how differences among species arise. Despite active experimental and computational research, relationships among sequence, conservation, and function are still poorly understood. Despite TFos repurposing, we did not find substantial changes in their predicted target genes, suggesting that CRMs buffer evolutionary events allowing little or no change in the TFos – target gene associations. Thus, the small portion of TFos with strictly conserved occupancy underestimates the degree of conservation of regulatory interactions. We mapped regulatory sequences from an extensive number of TFs and cell types between human and mouse using WGA. A comparative analysis of this correspondence unveiled the extent of the shared regulatory sequence across TFs and cell types under study. Importantly, a large part of the shared regulatory sequence is repurposed on the other species. This sequence, fueled by turnover events, provides a strong case for exaptation in regulatory elements. Most eukaryotic gene regulation occurs at the level of transcription [1,2]. This form of regulation involves the interaction of transcription factors (TFs) with element and function specific DNA sequences, referred to as cis-regulatory modules (CRMs; reviewed by [3]). Their modular organization allows for elaborate regulatory mechanisms and fine control of gene expression [4]. Evolutionary changes in CRMs have a profound effect on species divergence. Many studies suggest that species specific CRMs are the defining factor for species identity [5-7]. Differences in human and chimpanzee, for example, are almost completely due to changes in functional noncoding sequence [8]. Efforts to locate the “human gene” have only revealed differences in a small number of genes [9-11]. Moreover, comparisons of organisms at the extremes of eukaryotes show that the genes encoding TFs and signaling components (e.g. for temporal/spatial gene expression patterns) are largely conserved [4]. Taken together, this evidence suggests a hierarchical organization of regulatory networks. Modules at the top, performing essential upstream functions, span large evolutionary distances virtually unchanged, while lower level modules, involved in peripheral sub-networks, show a higher level of adaptation [12]. Under this model, part of the regulatory material must be under purifying selection and thus conserved between any two species of sufficiently small evolutionary divergence. Evidence of conservation of regulatory sequence among species has inspired a series of computational methods. Some of these methods use machine learning and phylogenetic profiling to discover CRMs (reviewed by [13]), others use comparative analysis to identify genomic material under purifying evolutionary constraint as a representative of the functional genome (reviewed by [14]). At the same time, a number of experimental studies suggest that while sequence might encode enough information to drive TF binding [15], the way this information is encoded is not trivial – similar sequence does not necessarily translate in similar function and vice versa. For example, regulatory elements have been found to tolerate sequence rearrangements [16] or even be under positive selection while maintaining the downstream regulatory machinery unchanged [17,18]. Recently, it was found that GATA1 changes its motif preferences during cell differentiation [19], serving as an example of TFs having multiple preferred motif sequences [20] while maintaining a regulatory function. Both computational and experimental approaches have provided valuable insight into the regulatory portion of the genome, but they have limitations. Computational methods are biased toward well-annotated and evolutionarily conserved genomic regions, indeed comparative analyses based on evolutionary conservation alone ignore species-specific functional elements. Experimental approaches based on direct genome wide measurements of TFos are a powerful resource for the identification and analysis of TF binding sites. However, the number of cell types and TFs assessed so far has often been limited. With some studies pointing at conservation, others at divergence, and others yet at turnover of motifs and the importance of occupancy, the level of constraint on the CRMs is still an open question. This apparently contradicting evidence can be reconciled by considering conservation as specific to the TF or the cell type. In this study, we combined several types of function-associated datasets from a large number of TFs from a wide variety of tissues and cell lines in both mouse and human. Our main data source is ChIP-Seq experiments performed by the mouse and human ENCODE projects. These data give evidence on the locations where TF have come close enough to the DNA to cross-link in cells. The question remains whether these locations, termed TFos [13], could represent direct binding to a specific motif in the DNA or co-association with another TF. However, there is evidence that the TFos are active in assays for regulatory function at a far higher rate than non-occupied DNA segments, or DNA segments predicted as regulatory based on sequence motifs or conservation making them likely to have regulatory function. We also used DNase I Hypersensitive Sites (DHS) generated by the Human [21] and the Mouse ENCODE [22] projects. DHS regions are markers of regulatory DNA and have underpinned the discovery of all classes of cis-regulatory elements including enhancers, promoters, insulators, silencers and locus control regions. We conduced a comparative analysis, by integrating TFos with human-mouse WGA, gene annotations, and TF-gene associations. We have also compiled the data and annotations derived from this study into a database to serve as a resource in exploring the relationship between sequence evolution and function of regulatory elements (Additional file 1: Figure S1). An alignment based map for human-mouse TFos Differences between present day genomes are the result of a series of evolutionary events originating on their most recent common ancestor [23]. Many of these events can be explained under probability models and represented in the form of WGA (See [24] for a review). Sequence that has undergone a moderate number of evolutionary events will appear aligned, while highly divergent regions will usually be left un-aligned. We used WGA to obtain a consistent map for TFos across human and mouse (Figure 1(A)). These alignments provide long, inferred homologous regions in the form of chains of gapless blocks. They can account for inversions, translocations, duplications, large-scale deletions, and overlapping independent deletions. We considered chained blastz [25] alignments available from the UCSC browser [26] and the 12-way mammalian WGA from the EPO pipeline [27] available from Ensembl version 65 [28]. To choose the most appropriate alignment for our mappings we used several criteria: symmetry, coverage, feature enrichment, and other method specific properties. Figure 1 We built a one to one map between the human and mouse genomes from their WGA. (A) The track diagram shows TFos (unfilled features on outer tracks) and how they map to the other species (middle track). The thick part of the middle track is the mappable DNA. The features on the middle track can be mapped on the other species and are: SeqCons if not overlapping features from the other species (respective color), or FuncCons or FunctActive otherwise (green). The Venn diagrams use the same color code to show the amount (rounded to the closest Mb) of mappable material from one species to the other for DNA sequence, TFos, and DHS. For example, human TFos cover 121 Mb of the human genome. When mapped to mouse, these TFos cover 83 Mb of the mouse genome and 12 Mb of the sequence covered also by mouse TFos. The diagram for DHS is labeled in a similar fashion. (B) The distribution of mappable TFos nucleotides across cell types. The box-plot for each cell type summarizes the distribution of values for the fraction of nucleotides covered by TFos that can be mapped on the other species. Symmetry is important for unambiguously mapping features from one genome to the other and back. The EPO based map is inherently symmetric; we only need to extract human-mouse alignments. We remove segmental duplications based on criteria such as the score or the length of the alignment to obtain an unambiguous map. UCSC alignments, on the other hand, are based on blastz pairwise alignments, which are not symmetric – a human-mouse alignment is different from a mouse-human alignment in general. However, it is possible to circumvent the problem by using a netting procedure and chaining again only the first layer in the resulting net. This corresponds to heuristically cleaning overlapping chains based on their score. The resulting reciprocal map is identical to the one derived from the mouse-human alignments at the cost of losing around 10% sequence coverage on both species [29]. UCSC alignments align a slightly larger fraction of the mouse genome (31% vs. 28% for UCSC and EPO respectively) to human. However, EPO alignments can assign a substantially higher amount of inserted mouse sequence (28% vs. 1.9%). In total 65.7% of the mouse genome remains unmapped by UCSC alignments and 42.5% by EPO alignments. Next, we computed the number of features that each alignment could map on the other species for all available cell types in human and mouse. We found that UCSC alignments mapped more features on the other species (Additional file 1: Figure S2 and Tables S4-S6). Based on the above considerations, we adopted the reciprocal UCSC alignments. The alignments and the comparative pipeline described here were adopted by the Mouse Encode Consortium for the cross-species mapping of TFos. Function and sequence conservation of TFos We processed TFos generated by ChIP-Seq for 206 human and 55 mouse cell lines and tissues [22], with a variable number of factors for each cell or tissue (from 1 to 109 for human and from 1 to 38 for mouse). The data were generated by the Human and the Mouse ENCODE projects. The ChIP-Seq experiments on mouse were conducted following the human ENCODE guidelines [30]. Data processing, including Irreproducible Discovery Rate (IDR) analysis, was done using a uniform data processing pipeline for both datasets. Elements recovered by the ChIP-Seq experiments and the subsequent peak-calling pipeline were subjected to thresholds for False Discovery Rate at 1% and IDR at 2%. We then filtered these sets to retain only those TFos showing DHS enrichment, thereby increasing our confidence in the functional role of the filtered elements. Roughly 41.63% of ChIP-Seq peaks were filtered out from each species by DHS filtering. The resulting data contained 5330864 and 727680 elements covering 121.08 Mb and 31.6 Mb of the genome for human and mouse respectively (Additional file 1: Table S3). The higher human coverage is due to the larger number of assays available in human. We asked whether the selected putative regulatory material is significantly conserved. At the sequence level, we find that the fraction of TFos intersecting homologous regions is higher than one would expect by chance (Binomial test 0.99% CI: (0.7218, 0.7228) and 0.99% CI: (0.6908, 0.6936) with expected values of 0.3129 and 0.3648 for human and mouse respectively). At the TF-binding activity level (i.e., having TF occupancy by any TF), mapped human and mouse TFos overlapped TFos on the other species more often than expected by chance (Binomial test 0.99% CI: (0.5358, 0.5371) and 0.99% CI: (0.7883, 0.7913) with expected values 0.0231 and 0.0857 for human and mouse respectively). Significant conservation at the TF-binding activity level continues to hold largely for individual TFs-cell pairs (Additional file 1: Figures S3-S4). These results indicate that most of these human and mouse regulatory regions have been under selective pressure both at the sequence and functional level. Despite the selective pressure on the TFos, the data suggest extensive evolution of the regulatory material between human and mouse. On average 74.2% and 74.9% of TFos can be mapped on the other species resulting in a 36.1% and 31.4% of regulatory sequence coverage that is lineage-specific for human and mouse respectively (Figure 1(B) and Additional file 1: S5-S12). Importantly, we found that the extent to which the remaining regulatory material is conserved varies substantially between species and among cell types and TFs. The variability fits with previous studies on smaller numbers of TFs and cell types, which have emphasized both, conservation of TFos [31] and extensive regulatory sequence evolution [32]. Binding signal differences between functionally and sequence conserved TFos We focus our TFos comparative analysis on two Tier 1 ENCODE cell lines and their mouse analogs as chosen by the Mouse ENCODE consortium. The data consist of 17 TFs from human chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line (K562, [33]) and mouse erythroleukemia cell line (MEL, [34]); and 15 TFs from lymphoblast cell lines (GM12878 vs. CH12) (Additional file 1: Table S2). In total we have thus selected 442527 and 215251 TFos covering 33.61 Mb and 18.77 Mb on human and mouse respectively. We mapped TFos of a species to homologous locations in the other and asked what function do those sites show. The homologous site of a TFos can be: (i) not occupied by TFs, in which case we call the TFos SeqCons; (ii) repurposed, thus active in another cell or bound by another factor in the same cell type, in which case we call the TFos FunctActive; or (iii) bound by the same factor on the same cell type, in which case the TFos is called FunctCons. SeqCons and FunctActive elements represent differences in human and mouse TF binding patterns due to TFos loss, gain, or both. Turnover occurs in the case of loss and gain of the same TFos at different, but nearby, positions. However, more complex differences can arise when the loss of one TFos is followed by compensatory gains of TFos of other TFs. For the pairs of analogous cell types in human and mouse, the largest proportion of TFos (considered together) are FunctActive, while the relative proportions of FunctCons and SeqCons vary between cell types and species (Figure 2(A)). Figure 2 Conservation and re-use of TFos. (A) The distribution of SeqCons, FunctActive, and FunctCons regulatory elements summarized for all human mouse analogous cell lines (Additional file 1: Table S2). In both cell lines, a small fraction of mappable regulatory elements is FunctCons (33% and 15% cell average for human and mouse respectively). A larger fraction (46% and 50% cell average for human and mouse respectively) is FunctActive (plots for each cell are in Additional file 1: Figures S15, S16). (B) Loss and gain of TF binding sites. We used TFos in our data to discover TF binding sites (TFBS) on both species. We mapped human (respectively mouse) TFBS to mouse (respectively human) and computed their distance to the closest mouse (respectively human) TFBS of the same TF on an analogous cell. Among these TFBS those with a positive distance but less than 150 bp contribute to the corresponding bar in the human (respectively mouse) subplot. In other words, each bar is the count of TFBS that were lost and gained within a 150 bp window of the original site. (C) Reuse of FunctActive TFos between different cells and factors. A point on the scatterplot indicates the number of TFos of the corresponding assay in the reference species that can be classified as FunctCons or FunctActive when considering a fixed size set of randomly chosen assays in the comparison species. We performed multiple computations for each chosen size of such sets. Lines indicate the accumulated number of FunctCons, FunctActive, and Seqcons TFos. In this figure, about 93% of the (Mel, Max) assay is covered by TFos from just 35% of the query assays (plots for other cells/TFs in Additional file 1: Figures S17, S18). Conservation of occupancy in the other species was associated with peak signal strength for several cell type-TF pairs. For example, binding signal on FunctCons or FunctActive elements was higher than that on SeqCons elements for 59% and 50% of cell type-TF combinations for human and mouse respectively (with a Bonferroni-corrected error rate of 1%; Additional file 1: Figures S13, S14). Overall, FunctCons peak signal is on average 1.3 and 1.9 times larger than SeqCons peak signal on human and mouse respectively (Additional file 1: Table S1). TF binding site turnover and TFos repurposing If SeqCons and FunctActive elements are the result of turnover of TF binding sites (TFBS) in human and mouse, then we should observe TFBS close to regions orthologous to TFBS on the other species. We discovered TFBS using motif discovery and motif matching on TFos for both species and analyzed their alignment. We found that for several TFs, SeqCons TFBS map within 150 bp of a TFBS on the other species. On average, 51% and 48% of SeqCons TFBS have been subject to turnover in a 150 bp neighborhood for human and mouse respectively (Figure 2(B)). The large number of FunctActive elements (Figures 2(A) and Additional file 1: S15, S16) suggests recycling of TFos among cells and TFs. We examined this more carefully with a novel approach, based on the intuition that extensive recycling would allow any set of TFos in a comparison species to identify the occurrence of specific TFos in the reference species (after cross-species mapping). To conduct this analysis, we sampled (multiple times) mapped TFos from k assays from the comparison species, took the union of these TFos, and computed the number of TFos a given assay (in the reference species) shares with this union. The results strongly support extensive recycling of TFos. Specifically, we find that about 93% of the (Mel, Max) assay is covered by TFos from just 35% of the query assays. As k increases, coverage saturates (Figures 2(C) and Additional file 1: S17, S18). This ability of different assays in the comparison species to capture TFos in the reference species is substantially different than what is obtained by simulating non-associated assays (Additional file 1: Figure S19). We tested the hypothesis that new TFos tend to arise over existing TFos – active in other cells or occupied by other factors. Under the null hypothesis, the fraction of FunctActive elements with respect to the non-FunctCons elements should not be significantly higher than the fraction of the genome that can turn into a FunctActive TFos, should a new TFos occur (See Methods for details). We found that fraction to be higher than expected (One sided Binomial test 99% CI: (0.377, 1.000) and (0.477, 1.000) with expected values 0.010 and 0.028 for human and mouse respectively), suggesting that existing CRMs are sites where new TFBS are likely to arise. Turnover events or the appearance of novel TFBS lead to compositional changes in CRMs. However, these changes do not always reflect downstream in, for example, the set of target genes. Following [35] we extracted a set of TSS-enhancer connections based on synchronized DHS activity during the transcription of a gene. Restricting on 15,736 human-mouse orthologous genes [22], we were thus able to define putative target genes for 1928211 and 204758 TFos for human and mouse respectively. We observe that, similarly to FunctCons TFos, about 39% and 43% of FunctActive TFos retained at least one putative target gene for human and mouse respectively. Furthermore, the amount at which the set of target genes is conserved across species is not significantly different between the two classes of TFos (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. p-values: < 2.2e-16 and < 2.2e-16 for human and mouse respectively). The example of the candidate enhancer linked to the ACAP3 gene in human illustrates this situation (Figure 3). The DNA segment in mouse that is orthologous to the human enhancer has been repurposed such that it binds different TFs, but the mouse Acap3 gene is still the presumptive target. Figure 3 Conservation of presumptive gene targets for a repurposed TFos. We combined cross-species gene-gene and TFos-TFos associations and gene-TFos associations to determine whether the sets of target genes of FunctCons and FunctActive TFos differ significantly. Gene-gene association data are based on a set of orthologous genes between human and mouse produced by the mouse ENCODE consortium, gene-TFos data are based on synchronized DHS activity during gene transcription [35], and TFos-TFos associations are based on our cross-species map. In the figure, we show a human TFos of Mxi on K562 (empty oval) associated with PUSL1 and ACAP3. This TFos is FunctActive, since its analogous location (broken oval linked by the dashed line with spaces between ovals indicating insertions in mouse) in mouse is bound by other TFs on other cell types (not shown). However, its analogous site in mouse is linked to gene Acap3. Incidentally, ACAP3 and Acap3 are orthologous and in our gene-gene association set. The human TFos and its analogous site in mouse bind different TFs and are active in different cell types, but they share a target gene. We reported on the construction and use of a map of functional elements between human and mouse based on WGA. This map is consistent and symmetrical in that it provides a one to one correspondence between genome elements in both directions. Furthermore, it constitutes an improvement over aligning TFos directly on the other species guided by gene orthology; this approach is likely to deteriorate with the distance of an element from the nearest gene with an ortholog on the other species. Using this mapping approach, we were able to recover, on average, 75% and 73% of TFos in the other species, of which 63% and 78% are bound by any TFs and 13% and 25% by the same TF for human and mouse respectively. The rest of the regulatory material is species-specific either at the sequence or functional level and is likely to account for the phenotypic differences between human and mouse [8,12]. However, some of the species-specific material retains target genes suggesting that CRMs buffer changes toward downstream regulation [36]. One potential difficulty, which affects this analysis, is the variation that can be introduced by technical factors such as signal thresholding or by differences in the environment of the cells being compared. By using data processed for reproducibility under the stringent standards developed by the Human and Mouse ENCODE projects, restricting to regions overlapping DHS for greater confidence, considering the TF activity on analogous cell types, and employing statistical controls we hope to have ameliorated these issues. Previous studies have mapped the binding patterns of TFs between species, including mouse and human, by focusing on a single cell type and a few TFs (e.g., [32]). While these important studies have revealed substantial divergence in the binding patterns of TFs between species, they do not explore FunctActive elements or related dynamics such as repurposing. One important conclusion in our study is that the evolution of regulatory sequences varies considerably among TFs and cell types, and furthermore we document which TFos fall into the various evolutionary categories. The traffic between noncoding functional and nonfunctional DNA in a genome is two-way. On the one hand, loss of a TFos can increase fitness, as dramatically illustrated by changes in the regulation of pitx1 in three-spined stickleback that lead to advantageous anatomical changes in a new environment. On the other hand, new functional noncoding sequence can arise from nonfunctional sequence through turnover [37]. The differences between the sizes of FunctActive and FunctCons pools suggests another source of functional noncoding material traffic, characterized by the exaptation of TFos into functional noncoding material with novel TF or cell type activity [38]. With a partial catalog of regulatory elements it is hard to distinguish the newly created functional material from the exapted one. However with ever-increasing numbers of experimental assays the picture should become more clear. Despite previous elegant studies, the level of constraint on CRMs remains controversial. We provide further evidence that TFos are more conserved than random sequence and that conservation is cell and TF specific. Furthermore, we study the type of conservation of TFos and observe that 47.67% and 57.01% of TFos conserved at the sequence level for human and mouse respectively have been repurposed and are active in cell types or bind different TFs. We show how this sequence makes a case for TFos exaptation into new function. Finally, we find that repurposing does not necessarily lead to changes in the TFos – target gene association. Comparative studies of CRMs involve a mapping strategy of regulatory elements, often by aligning elements or reads on both genomes, possibly guiding mapping with gene homologies. We implemented a multiple WGA based process for TFos mapping. Using multiple WGA we should have a more sensitive and consistent mapping process. Importantly, the mapper can provide one-to-one mappings between species, which is very useful during analysis. Data processing ChIP-Seq data We download all of the ChIP-Seq data generated by the Human and the Mouse ENCODE from the ENCODE DCC. The pipeline that filters the original ENCODE peaks is available in the supplementary material. Distal DHS-to-promoter connections As described in [35] many cell-selective enhancers become DHSs synchronously with the appearance of hypersensitivity at the promoter of their target gene. This has been used to infer a genome-wide DHS/enhancer-promoter connection set. Using a conservative list of orthologous genes [22] we inferred a list of correspondences between TFos regulating human-mouse orthologous genes. EPO and UCSC based maps We considered the EPO 12-way mammalian whole genome alignments from Ensembl project version 65 [28] and the UCSC human mouse chain and net alignments from the UCSC [26] genome browser to generate the reciprocal maps. Details and programs for processing of the alignments are available at Mapping strategy We built and used a one-to-one nucleotide mapper (bnMapper) to map elements between human and mouse. The mapping is bijective, so reverse application of the mapping to a mapped nucleotide, returns the original nucleotide. Elements that span matching blocks of different chains and elements that map to multiple chromosomes are filtered out. The mapper and a detailed analysis of performance between EPO and UCSC alignments are available at Details on the mapping strategy are on Section 1.1 of the Additional file 1. Significance tests For a given genomic region of coverage C, the number of n randomly positioned features over the genome (length L) would follow a Binomial (n, C/L). For significance of TF conservation at the sequence level we set L, C, and n, to be the length of the genome, total TF coverage, and total number of peaks. A success event is an overlap of 1 bp with the one to one mappable sequence. Similarly, for functional conservation, L, C, and n, are set to total one to one mappable sequence, coverage of mapped peaks, and number of mapped peaks overlapping with peaks on the target genome, respectively. For the paired Wilcoxon tests we consider all TFs within a cell line that appear on both species. Ranks are computed from FunctCons to SeqCons ratios of corresponding TFs on each species. To test that a new TFos is more likely to occur in an existing TFos, possibly occupied by another TFs or active in another cell, consider the following quantities with respect to a fixed genome: • The number of non-FunctCons TFos in this genome not less than the number of new TFos in this genome. The inequality accounts for TFos deletions on the other genome. We write nFCo > = nFCt. • Coverage of SeqCons of the other genome after being mapped in this genome and FA elements in this genome not less than regions in this genome that would become FA should a new TFos occur. The inequality accounts for those regions that would become FunctCons should a new TFos appear. We write Mo > = Mt. • Length of this genome. We write L. • The number of FunctActive Tfos in this genome. We write FA. Here we are making the assumption that FunctCons elements have existed before human-mouse split and FunctActive are a result of a deletion or creation (or both) after the human-mouse split. Thus, the fraction FA/nFCt is that of new elements that occurred in existing TFos involving other TFs or cell types, whether the fraction Mt/L indicates the chance of a new TFos to become FunctActive should it occur randomly in the genome. Under the alternative hypothesis, FA/nFCt > Mt/L. However, because Mt/L < = Mo/L and FA/nFCo < = FA/nFCt, it suffices to show that FA/nFCo > = Mo/L. Notice that we observe all the quantities in the last expression. Data access UCSC alignments can be downloaded from the UCSC website UCSC bijective (netted) alignments, the list of one-to-one orthologous genes, the list of DHS-gene associations, and the list of Mouse ChIP-Seq TFos and DHSs can be downloaded from the Mouse ENCODE web portal and The mapping software can be freely downloaded as part of the bx-python software library from Ensembl EPO 12-way alignments version 65 can be downloaded from the Ensembl (December 2011) at and The human ChIP-Seq TFos and DHSs can be downloaded from the Human ENCODE website at 1. 1. Derman E, Krauter K, Walling L, Weinberger C, Ray M, Darnell Jr JE. Transcriptional control in the production of liver-specific mRNAs. Cell. 1981;23(3):731–9. Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar 2. 2. Roop DR, Nordstrom JL, Tsai SY, Tsai MJ, O’Malley BW. Transcription of structural and intervening sequences in the ovalbumin gene and identification of potential ovalbumin mRNA precursors. Cell. 1978;15(2):671–85. 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This work was also supported by the Wellcome Trust (grant number 095908) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. The funding body had no role in the design of the experiment, in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Author information Corresponding author Correspondence to James Taylor. Additional information Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Authors’ contributions OD wrote the main text, performed the comparative and statistical analysis, and wrote the mapper tool. RS helped designing the mapper, carried out statistical analysis for choosing the best whole genome alignments, prepared the DHS data, and the gene – TFos link data. YC helped on the design of the mapper and performed analyses on the whole genome alignments. KB worked on the design of the mapper and the preparation of the whole genome alignments. JH worked on the design of the mapper and the preparation of the whole genome alignments, helped design the study and write the main text. RC wrote the main text and designed the study – JT wrote the main text, carried out statistical analyses, and designed the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Additional file Additional file 1: Supplemental Figures and Tables. Rights and permissions To view a copy of this licence, visit Reprints and Permissions About this article Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark Cite this article Denas, O., Sandstrom, R., Cheng, Y. et al. Genome-wide comparative analysis reveals human-mouse regulatory landscape and evolution. BMC Genomics 16, 87 (2015). Download citation • Mouse ENCODE • Regulatory sequences • Comparative genomics
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The properties which render ivory so desirable a subject for the miniature painter and other artists, are the evenness and fineness of its grain, its allowing all water colours laid on its surface to be washed out with a soft wet brush, and the facility with which the artist may scrape off the colour from any particular part by means of the point of a knife or other convenient instrument, and thus heighten and add brilliancy to the lights in his painting more expeditiously and efficaciously than can be done in any other way. The objections to ivory are - its high price, the impossibility of obtaining plates exceeding very moderate dimensions, and the coarseness of grain in the larger of these; its liability, when thin, to warp by changes of the weather, and its property of turning yellow by long exposure to the light, owing to the oil which it contains. Traces made on the surface of this paper by a hard black lead pencil are much easier effaced by Indian rubber than from common drawing paper, which circumstance, together with the extremely fine lines which its hard and even surface is capable of receiving, peculiarly adapts it for the reception of the most delicate kind of pencil drawings and outlines. The colours laid upon it have a greater brilliancy than when laid upon ivory, owing to the superior whiteness of the ground. Colours on ivory are apt to be injured by the transudation of the animal oil, a defect which the ivory paper is free from. The following is the process given by Mr. Ainslie (of Stratton ground, Westminster,) to the Society of Arts, for which he was voted the sum of thirty guineas. "Take a quarter of a pound of clean parchment cuttings, and put them into a two-quart pan, with nearly as much water as it will hold; boil the mixture gently for four or five hours, adding water from time to time, to supply the place of that driven off by evaporation; then carefully strain the liquor from the dregs through a cloth, and when cold it will form a strong jelly, which may be called size No. 1. Return the dregs of the preceding process into the pan, fill it with water, and again boil it as before, for four or five hours; then strain off the liquor, and call it size No. 2. Take three sheets of drawing paper, (outsides will answer the purpose perfectly well, and being much cheaper are therefore to be preferred,) wet them on both sides with a soft sponge dipped in water, and paste them together with the size No. 2. While they are still wet, lay them on a table, and place them on a smooth slab of writing slate, of a size somewhat smaller than the paper; turn up the edges of the paper, and paste them on the back of the slate, and then allow them to dry gradually; wet, as before, three more sheets of the same kind of paper, and paste them on the others, one at a time; cut off with a knife what projects beyond the edges of the slate, and when the whole has become perfectly dry, wrap a small piece of slate in coarse sand paper, and with this rubber make the surface of the paper quite even and smooth; [then paste on an inside sheet, which must be quite free from spots or dirt of any kind, cut off the projecting edges as before, and when dry, rub it with fine glass paper, which will produce a perfectly smooth surface. Now take half a pint of the size No. 1, melt it with a gentle heat, and then stir into it three table spoonsful of fine plaster of Paris; when the mixture is completed, pour it out on the paper, and with a.soft wet sponge distribute it as evenly as possible over the surface; then allow the surface to dry slowly, and rub it again with fine glass paper. Lastly, take a few spoonsful of the size No. 1, and mix it with three-fourths its quantity of water; unite the two by a gentle heat, and when the mass has cooled, so as to be in a semi-gelatinous state, pour about one-third of it on the surface of the paper, and spread it evenly with the sponge; when this has dried, pour on another portion, and afterwards the remainder; when the whole has again become dry, rub it over lightly with fine glass-paper, and the process is completed; it may accordingly be cut away from the slab of slate, and is ready for use." The quantity of ingredients above mentioned is sufficient for a piece of paper 17 1/2 by 15 1/2 inches. Plaster of Paris gives a perfectly white surface; oxide of zinc, mixed with plaster of Paris, in the proportion of four parts of the former to three of the latter, gives a tint very near resembling ivory; precipitated carbonate of barytes gives a tint intermediate between the two.
I have seen some resources on the Internet that claim to be able to make sheets of graphene (single atom thick lattice of hex-bonding carbon) from commercial off the shelf materials and a modest lab setup. I have great interest in graphene and would like to attempt the manufacture but I don't want to waste my time with bunk. Can anyone recommend a tried and proven way to manufacture without very elaborate and expensive lab? • $\begingroup$ Making it can simply involve Sellotape and graphite, reportedly, Knowing you've made it, and collecting it, requires the lab. $\endgroup$ May 6 '17 at 8:43 • $\begingroup$ Acfording to the wiki, none of them seems easy. Maybe the molten salt method seems most realistic. $\endgroup$ – peterh May 8 '17 at 0:26 The short answer is, anyone can make graphene, but knowing you did or doing anything with it requires a bit more equipment. I work with people who work with graphene. This is not the only way to make graphene, but it is how they do it. They use Scotch tape to pull apart graphite crystals repeatedly. Then the Scotch tape with lots of little flakes gets attached to a Si wafer with an oxide layer, and is carefully peeled away. Some flakes are left behind. Usually the wafer already has had "align markers" for an SEM patterned on it using lithography. The next step is using an optical microscope to identify suitably thin flakes that may be monolayers. The nearby align markers are noted. Then, further cleanroom processing allows them to deposit electrical contacts and do electrical measurements. Hope that answers your question! Your Answer
SparkFun Forums Where electronics enthusiasts find answers. By srigoa91 I am working on a project which requires the use of HMC5843. The readings are fine but i want to convert the gauss readings (x,y,z readings) to angle in degrees. How do i do it? I have uploaded a sample of the readings i obtained By waltr Start with Table 12 on page 12 of the data sheet. Read the Configuration register B to determine the Gain bits for looking up in Table 12. The Gain column of Table 12 is in Counts per milli-Gauss. So if the Gain setting is 001 (default) the Gain is 1300 counts/mGauss. With axis readings of: x=-298, y= 143, z=-245. Reading divided by Gain = Magnetic strength -298/1300 = -0.229 143/1300 = 0.11 -245/1300 = -0.188 These really don't make sense since the Earth's field strength is between 0.3 to 0.6 Gauss at the surface. It looks as if the units are in error and the Gain column is counts/Gauss not milli-Gauss. The vector sum of the three above is 0.316 Gauss which a reasonable value. But assumes that the Gain is at the Default value. Note that these values are subject to the error tolerance and non-linearity per the specs on page 2. Edit: Just re-read your question. The answer above is to calculate the actual magnetic strength from the readings whereas you wish to calculate the magnetic field vector heading. This just requires some trig ( so with a sample reading of: x=-298, y= 143, z=-245. These are the magnetic strength vectors for each axis in three dimensions. On a 2D Cartesian graph ( ... ate_system) plot a point for x and y and draw a line from the point to the origin. The angle of this line to the x-axis is related by the Tangent, tan angle = y/x. So the angle = arctan (y/x). arctan( 143/-298) = -25° (as calculated by Excel's ATAN function). Now is the hard part. What does -25° mean and is this really correct. When you plotted the point (-298, 143) the point is in the upper left quadrant (quad II). The ATAN function I used returns an angle between -180° and +180° (-PI/2 to PI/2 Radians). An angle of zero degrees is the positive x-axis (x = pos, y = 0). Also if the values were x = 289, y = -143 (lower left quad) the ATAN function would return the same angle of -25°. This means that you must figure out which quadrant the vector is in and then adjust the angle by 0, 180 or -180°. Can you take it from here? By esklar81 What "angle" did you want to calculate? At this is a three-dimensional signal, there are three principal axes from which you could be looking. For the purpose of discussion, I'll assume you don't particularly care about angle from the vertical or its complement, the angle from the horizontal plane. Calculating angles from x,y data requires a bit of trigonometry. As the tangent of an angle (θ (theta), for example) is defined by: tan(θ) = y/x, θ can be determined by taking the arctangent of each side of the equation (assuming you're interested in only the first angle that has that tangent): arctan(tan(θ)) = arctan (y/x) θ = arctan (y/x) For the example above (x = -298, y = 143): θ = arctan (143/(-298)= arctan (-0.48) = -25.63 = θ You may have noticed a problem with this. :? That angle is in the fourth quadrant (positive x, negative y), but our data are (negative x, positive y), which is in the second quadrant. There's nothing the arctangent function can do to help you with this, it takes a single argument and (-a/b) = (a/-b) = -(a/b). Similarly, the arctangent function won't tell you if your are in the first or third quadrant, because (a/b) = (-a/-b). Therefore, you'll need to check to see if the arctangent function put you in the right quadrant and, if not, correct it by adding 180 degrees. So: θc = θ + 180 = -25.63 +180 = 154.37 As a check, tan(154.37) = -0.48 If you're looking to use the information for navigation, I call to your attention that the standard practice is to state "azimuth", more commonly called "bearing" , in degrees clockwise from North. Therefore, you'll need to do a bit more arithmetic. Because bearing is always a non-negative number less than 360: In the first quadrant: bearing = 90 - θi In the second quadrant: bearing = 450 - θii In the third quadrant: bearing = 450 - θiii In the fourth quadrant: bearing = 450 - θiv To simplify computing, it is generally true that bearing = (450 - θ) modulo 360 In the example: bearing = (450 - θc) modulo 360 = (450 - 154.37) modulo 360 = 295.63 modulo 360 = 295.63 Similarly, for θ = 23: bearing = (450 - θ) modulo 360 = (450 - 23) modulo 360 = 427 modulo 360 = 67 If you are interested in the angle between the magnetic field vector and the horizontal plane, that can be computed from the x,y,z data. I'll leave figuring out how as an "exercise for the reader", but you're welcome to post what you determine here for review. Good Luck, By mayday Hi. I follow your instruction to calculate the bearing from flux density with respect to north direction. This is how I collect the HMC5843 data: HMC5843 compass is lying flat on a table with z-axis perpendicular to the ground, then it rotates 360 degree. The flux readings are noted at every 5 degree intervals. In this way, it is expected that the z-axis readings should remain consistent. I use θ = arctan(y/x) to get the angle in degree, then calculate θc accordingly. You mentioned that bearing = (450 - θc) modulo 360. But from what I experiment, it is more accurate to use (450 - θ) modulo 360. In fact, using (450 - θc) modulo 360 will give incorrect angle. May I know the reason? Second question is that the above method is only applicable for cases when the compass is not tilted, ie the compass should be rotated on a horizontal plane. If want to consider tilted case, how can we manipulate x,y,z readings in order to get the tilt compensated angle? Thank you in advance! Lasagna on me this time ok? I got plenty of cash
Authentic learning should be planned, and when such is missing then we say, if you have failed to plan, which means you have already planned to fail. There is no solid structure without a plan. For instance, the analogy of building a house can be compared to that of learning. If learning will ever take place, it must be planned and if otherwise, it will result to useless knowledge that can’t produce a result capable of breeding revolution. What we do when we want learning to take place, we plan for it. This is called, “Design”. Design is a systematic and scientific process that outlines in detail what is to be done to avoid calamities and causalities in order to achieve a project/product/service/process. Planning is related to designing. Designing learning involves a lot of processes: For what, for whom, for how and for when. The following questions must be answered before design can really take its proper perspective. “The what, the who/for whom; the how, and the when” At GHITECH, we use proven systematic models to design learning and more importantly, learning is contextualized. Every organization is different, the goal, target audience, working environment, extrinsic and intrinsic motivating factors differ from one corporate organization to another. GHITECH carries out extensive research to discover what is most suitable for your organization based on the trend, timing and process in your organization.
Object Oriented Programming Using C++ – Section 1 11. When the compiler cannot differentiate between two overloaded constructors, they are called A. overloaded B. destructed C. ambiguous D. dubious Correct Answer: C. ambiguous 12. Some Streams work with input and some with output A. True B. False Correct Answer: A. True 13. If you design a class that needs special initialization tasks, you will want to design a(n) _____ A. housekeeping routine B. initializer C. constructor D. compiler Correct Answer: C. constructor 14. Which type of statement does not occur in computer programs? A. sequence B. loop C. denial D. selection Correct Answer: C. denial 15. The newline character is always included between A. pair of parentheses B. pair of curly braces C. control string D. & E. None of the above Correct Answer: C. control string Leave A Comment? six + 10 =
Public Speaking public speaking Public Speaking Public Speaking 1024x683 Why does someone need public speaking skills and ability? Does it make any difference in the way of living? If so, then what makes people build up public speaking ability? Is there anything that holds one behind? Such a question ponders most and throws random thoughts which are unique from person to person. Few are driven away and hide in caves and live reserved lives as I overcome such a lifestyle and build up so-called public communication skills. These skills drive and form a key part in building leadership skills. Now to generalize it there are primarily two types I like to share: 1. Speaking in public on a specific topic may be a professional subject, educational content, or social interaction. 2. Table topic which speaking on topic presented spot on where there is no time to prepare a speech. Developing such skills needs Goals, Visions, Practice, Interaction, Evaluation. Without a goal, nothing is accomplished as every project has a goal and planned to achieve so does this project “Public Speaking” should be built on certain understanding by specifying tasks which are measurable in skills by acme of words, whose actions are achieved to improve audience engagement, by investing more time in resources as practising to speak, reading relevant information and getting feedback from sample audiences and repetition of this process frequently over time to build confidence. Every one has different strengths and weaknesses here are few common interest found in newbie like me, • Asking rhetorical questions on the topic after speech (for audiences engagement) • Speak topic that interests audiences • Use hands, if possible, one hand to express words and sentences known as animated speech. • Eye contact, looking in audience eyes helps them to engage and interactive • Use opposite terms in speech and use humour sometimes keep speech interactive • Use open body language to audiences to make them feel comfortable • Variation in speech with high and low tone will keep audiences awake • Use pauses (2-3 sec) between sentences where needed instead of fill-in words (am, so, etc.) • For education speech use introduction followed by matter and in the end summarizing the whole topic • Open speech with WHY? to make it more interesting to the audience. Continuous improvement only occurs when there is feedback, practice and evaluation of speech. And then improvement is action-ed by habit, which is practising skills, speaking with people around us, and asking for feedback.
How do you delete an object from a layer in AutoCAD? How do I select an object in a layer in Autocad? – Select objects button to display objects on the layer of selected object. – Hold Ctrl to add click layers to select many layers. How do you cut out an object in Autocad? To Trim an Object 1. Click Home tab Modify panel Trim. Find. 2. Select the objects to serve as cutting edges. Press Enter when you finish selecting the cutting edges. … 3. Select the objects to trim and press Enter a second time when you finish selecting the objects to trim. 11 янв. 2018 г. How do I remove an object from a selection set? How do you select everything in a layer? Ctrl-clicking or Command-clicking the layer thumbnail selects the nontransparent areas of the layer. 1. To select all layers, choose Select > All Layers. 2. To select all layers of a similar type (for example all type layers), select one of the layers, and choose Select > Similar Layers. IT IS INTERESTING: Quick Answer: How do you make a bearing in Autocad? How do you select and delete in AutoCAD? 1. Click Home tab Modify panel Erase. Find. 2. At the Select Objects prompt, use a selection method to select the objects to be erased or enter an option: Enter L (Last) to erase the last object drawn. Enter p (Previous) to erase the last selection set. … 3. Press Enter to end the command. 29 мар. 2020 г. How do I delete multiple lines in AutoCAD? Which command is used to erase the drawing? Answer: PENERASE turns the turtle’s pen into an eraser. When the turtle moves, it appears to erase by drawing in the current background color. To stop PENERASE, use PENDOWN, PENUP or SETPEN. What are the shortcut keys in AutoCAD? Manage Workflow. Ctrl+C Copy object Ctrl+Shift+V Paste data as block Ctrl+Z Undo last action Ctrl+Y Redo last action Ctrl+[ Cancel current command (or ctrl+) How do I break a line in AutoCAD? Here is what you need to do: 1. Type in Break at the command line, or select the Break tool. 2. Select the line you want to break. 3. Type in F (for first point), Enter. 4. Type in from and Enter, select the point you want to start the offset from, then type in the distance, for example @12,0, Enter. IT IS INTERESTING: How do you extend a polyline in AutoCAD? 9 авг. 2013 г. How many snap points does an object have? How many snap points does an object have? One Two Depends upon the object At least four. How do I get rid of selection? What is crossing in AutoCAD? Crossing window Sketch up
Skip to Main Content Anthropology Citation Guide What is Plagiarism? Definition: To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source. --Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary To avoid plagiarizing, you should give credit when: 1. Quoting another person’s actual words 2. Using another person’s ideas, opinion, or theory 3. Using another person's creations like art work, images, illustrations, etc. 4. Borrowing facts, statistics, or other illustrative material, unless the information is common knowledge Online Tutorials Login to LibApps Noice of Web Accessibility
When did Turkish people come to Cyprus? Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks (Turkish: Kıbrıs Türkleri or Kıbrıslı Türkler; Greek: Τουρκοκύπριοι, romanized: Tourkokýprioi) are mostly ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land once they arrived in Cyprus. What percent of Cyprus is Turkish? Which bit of Cyprus is Turkish? Northern Cyprus is almost entirely Turkish-speaking. English, however, is widely spoken as a second language. There are 644 Greek Cypriots living in Rizokarpaso (Dipkarpaz) and 364 Maronites in Kormakitis. Is Cyprus more Greek or Turkish? Are Turkish Cypriots Arab? Standard Turkish is the official language of Northern Cyprus. The vernacular spoken by Turkish Cypriots is Cypriot Turkish, which has been influenced by Cypriot Greek as well as English. Turkish Cypriots. Kıbrıslı Türkler Total population United States 6,000 (Turkish Cypriot immigrants in 1993) IT IS INTERESTING: What is the relationship between Cyprus and Israel? Who is native to Cyprus? Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean, to the south of Turkey and the west of Syria and Lebanon. Turkish and Greek Cypriots have lived together on Cyprus for more than four centuries. Why is Cyprus so British? Are Greek Cypriots actually Greek? Greek Cypriots. Total population Australia, South Africa, Greece, United States and others ≈230,000 Modern Greek (Cypriot and Standard) Are Turkish Cypriots religious? Turkish Cypriots represent some of the most secular Muslims in the world. While they consider themselves as part of the Hanefi school of Sunni Islam and hold strong belief in God, most do not follow a lifestyle that reflects the char- acteristics of their ethnic compatriots in Turkey. Can you go to the Turkish side of Cyprus? Our understanding is it is acceptable for use in Cyprus. When travelling between the UK and North Cyprus via Turkey, you are a transit passenger. It is best to assume if the flight is via Turkey it will be deemed as if you have travelled to Turkey. Sunny Cyprus
Non-Fiction Book Review: Code This! Code This! by Jennifer Szymanski by Jennifer SzymanskiCarlos Bueno 4 out of 5 stars on GoodReads This fascinating book teaches children the concepts and ideas behind computer programming, and provides simple coding problems to be solved. The challenges include activities, games, and crafts that can be completed to solve the puzzles, as the reader learns computer coding approaches like binary code, directions, algorithms, loops of code, debugging when there is a problem, and optimizing the commands given to the program. Using logic and simple commands, the reader learns to understand the basic structure of a computer program. The puzzles are a lot of fun, and the narrative includes some cute robot characters. The reader has to help the robot characters to complete tasks by giving them commands in code. The robots explore caves and take photos of ancient artifacts, explore the ocean floor with a robot submarine, and repair a satellite in space. The reader has to give the right commands, so that the robot will navigate around obstacles in their path. The artwork is colorful and really grabs your attention. The text is easy to read, and organized in small sections that are perfect for kids with small attention spans. There are some silly little jokes peppered throughout the chapters that keep the writing fresh and fun! I was so interested in all these computer programming ideas! Not that the reader would actually know how to create a computer program after reading this, but it does give some good information of the basic concepts behind codes and programming that are age-appropriate for children. This would be sure to inspire some kids to research computer programming even further! Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
Rechercher des projets européens Eliciting Mucosal Immunity to Tuberculosis (EMI-TB) Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health problem, killing 1.5 million of people every year. The only currently available vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis BCG, is effective against severe childhood forms, but it demonstrates a variable efficacy against the pulmonary form of TB in adults. Many of these adult TB cases result from the reactivation of an initially controlled, latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection. Effective prophylactic vaccination remains the key long-term strategy for combating TB. Continued belief in reaching this goal requires unrelenting innovation in the formulation and delivery of candidate vaccines. It is also based on the assumption, that the failure of recent human vaccine trials could have been due to a sub-optimal vaccine design and delivery, and therefore should not erode the key principle that a TB vaccine is an attainable target. This proposal focuses on mucosal vaccination, which has been considered in the past, but not implemented efficiently. The innovation of the proposal is focused on several important aspects of vaccine development and testing, including the use of novel technologies for vaccine delivery, novel ways of specific targeting of mucosal immune cells and tissues, the use of polypeptides incorporating early and latent MTB antigens and putative CD8+ T cell epitopes, and application of novel tools for identifying early predictors and correlates of vaccine-induced protection. The overall objective is to design a vaccine that will induce a broad-ranging immune response to MTB both systemically and in the mucosa of the lungs, and provide the currently missing links in protective immunity to this pathogen. 14 Participants partenaires
Current Issues Presentation Create a 15 slide presentation and summarize the key ideas of Buddhism Include the following: What are common characteristics Buddhism shares with Hinduism, Jainism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto . Discuss eastern religion and contemporary ethics. Include a title slide and a references slide, and any applicable images. Use bulleted items on the slides and more extensive materials in the speaker notes. Using speaker notes is a requirement on a project of this size. Make sure to have extensive notes so that I can know exactly what you would say if you were giving this in front of the class. Use your own words. If you use a source, it must be in quotes and be listed in the bibliography. Quotes should be less than 20% of the word count. Use quotes to bolster what you have learned when researching the paper. I know that your sources likely know their stuff; but I am grading you and want to make sure you know it as well. Cite at least one reference in addition to Experiencing the World’s Religions.
Looking for the helpers in North East Delhi, India North-East DelhiOn the night of 23 February 2020, a series of riots and violent incidents began in the Jaffrabad area of North East Delhi, India in which 46 people were killed and more than 200 people were injured. Did you hear about this? What caused this rampage? Since December there have been protests against a loosening of immigration standards for people who are fleeing surrounding countries into India due to religious persecution. Muslims had been protesting that undocumented immigrants who were Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist, or Christian would benefit, but Muslims were excluded. The Citizenship Amendment Act made the wait period of citizenship six years, when it had been twelve. However, the Act excludes Muslims from this relaxed standard for citizenship. February 23rd, local officials from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party vowed to clear anti-government protesters from the capital once and for all. A mob went into the Muslim neighborhood. Violent history of Muslims and Hindus in India Conflict and violence between Muslims and Hindus has a long cultural history. Since 1671, according to Wikipedia. there has been violent conflict between these two groups. When India and Pakistan were partitioned by the British in 1948, there was an attempt to separate the two religious groups, with Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan. Many Muslims moved to Pakistan, and Hindus moved to India. But the separation was not complete based on the 1948 British plan. Currently, there are 201 million Indian Muslims (2018 estimate), which is 14 percent of India’s population. Pakistan has 8 million Hindus, comprising 4% of the Pakistani population. Also within this religious-nationalistic mix are the Sikhs. India’s Sikh population stands at 24 million, which is 1.72% of the country’s total population. Looking for the helpers Mohinder SinghWhen the Hindu nationalist mob violently entered the Muslim neighborhood, it was a Sikh father and his adult son who stood up for their Muslim neighbors. Mohinder Singh and Inderjit Singh transported about 80 Muslims out of harm’s way by making dozens of trips on motor scooters. What drives a Sikh to help Muslims during street violence? The Huffington Post quotes Mohinder Singh: “I did not see Hindu or Muslim,” said Singh, who runs an electronics store and is a father to two children. “I just saw people. I saw little children. I felt like they were my children and that nothing should happen to them. We did this because we all should act humanely and help those in need. What more can I say?” he said…. Mr. Singh made enemies that night for saving the lives of his Muslim neighbors and for trying to save a Muslim-owned business. What would you have done? Leave a Reply
The Best New Green Energy Tech Could Be Right Underfoot The advancement in science and technology is opening new pathways for the benefits of human beings. Among all the issues, the problem of electricity is a massive one. The electricity crisis is affecting a lot of sectors quite severely. People have to suffer from such cases, and not only this, the pollution is affecting the environment too. Pollution is responsible for leaving the harmful chemicals in the atmosphere, which affect both the health of people and the ecosystem. Hence, a smart method introduced for the generation of electricity is the Electricity Generator Tile Project. Let us have a glance at it for making the idea even more transparent. Efficient New Green Energy Technology You would be amazed to know that you can be a part of generating electricity. Yes, you read it right! A new project on electricity consumes your kinetic energy right underfoot for generating electricity. This exciting method works on storing the kinetic energy that you supply to the tile through walking on it. The main curious arise in the mind of people is how to calculate kinetic energy for this? How much kinetic energy is necessary for lighting a bulb or running a flywheel? Well, the calculation for this no more challenging due to the facility of kinetic energy calculator. The demand for energy varies from object to object, and the Ke calculator will help you make calculations for it. The kinetic energy formula offers you a golden opportunity to calculate kinetic energy accurately. Each step on the tile counts for a specific amount of kinetic energy, which keeps on enhancing or adding more steps. It is the basic principle behind this latest technology. Mechanism of Electricity Generator Tiles Lit up the street lights with this excellent approach and save fuel. Likewise, say goodbye to the gigantic generators that consume much of the fuel and affect your budget. It would lead to the generation of off-grid electricity, which you can use for multiple purposes. The moveable energy will lead to success and is found to be the main idea behind this excellent technological project. This splendid new green energy technology’s main parts include three generators, pinion, two rack, gears, and spring. When an individual presses the tile due to walking on it, it will initiate driving the mini generator. The foot movement in the vertical direction is a part of this mechanism as the system detects these to be a source of energy. The movement in the vertical direction is responsible for the rotatory motion. A significant amount of rotatory motion due to the number of vertical footsteps on the tile generates electrical energy. All the steps that the tile detects after being pressed with foot take for some watts. These watts store in it, and when it reaches the threshold, it can uninterruptedly provide the power supply. With this eco-friendly approach, the world can easily combat the energy crisis and get an efficient power supply for its most important sectors, such as academia, industry, etc.
Marriage And Bacterial Have More In Common Than You Think Meals poisoning is commonly the results of bacterial contamination. 1991) Electroporation of cell membranes. G.A. Evans. (1989) Optimization of electroporation for transfection of mammalian cell traces. The method of choice depends on the type of cell. One among the commonest mistakes that individuals make in estate planning is updating the documents. Phage or virus particles can be found to switch DNA into virtually any type of cell. The World Health Organization is assembly in Geneva to discuss learn how to combat the Zika virus. Most notably, various scientists around the globe made contributions to the sphere of microbial ecology, exhibiting that bacteria were essential to food webs and for the general health of the Earth’s ecosystems. There are enough variations between bacterial ribosomes and eukaryotic ribosomes that some antibiotics will inhibit the functioning of bacterial ribosomes, however not a eukaryote’s, thus killing bacteria but not the eukaryotic organisms they are infecting. The chromosome, a single, continuous strand of DNA, is localized, but not contained, in a area of the cell known as the nucleoid. Cytoplasmic Membrane – A layer of phospholipids and proteins, known as the cytoplasmic membrane, encloses the inside of the bacterium, regulating the circulate of supplies in and out of the cell. One of those mutations might occur, by chance, to make one bacterium in a person’s physique much less vulnerable to a drug. A. One DNA strand of the F-plasmid is first nicked, then transferred and eventually replicated. B. Both DNA strands of the F-plasmid are first nicked, then transferred and eventually replicated. Provided that the F-plasmid contains data to synthesize pili and other proteins (see beneath), the previous recipient cell is now a donor cell with the F-plasmid and the power to type pili, simply as the original donor cell was. Other sorts of plasmids, nonetheless, form a tubelike construction on the floor known as a pilus that passes copies of the plasmid to different bacteria throughout conjugation, a process by which micro organism change genetic information. Despite the superficial resemblance to bacteria, biochemically and genetically, the archea are as completely different from bacteria as bacteria are from people. Smaller circular auxiliary DNA strands, referred to as plasmids, are additionally discovered within the cytoplasm. Like viruses, nonetheless, micro organism could cause lots of of illnesses. Such illnesses are known as “opportunistic infections.” They have change into extra common lately, partly as a result of AIDS, organ transplants, and other medical therapies have left more folks dwelling with weakened immune programs. For many bacterial infections, good residing circumstances are the perfect prevention. F’ standing is listed at the end of the outline and any functionalloci or genes contained on the F issue are given in square brackets.Seek the advice of the photocopy supplied of an outline of particular genetic loci. Things in your loved ones dynamics change. In the late 1970s American microbiologist Carl Woese pioneered a serious change in classification by putting all organisms into three domains-Eukarya, Bacteria (initially called Eubacteria), and Archaea (originally known as Archaebacteria)-to replicate the three historical traces of evolution. Less natural strategies of placing DNA into cells are additionally used. Transformation using this technique is very environment friendly (a number of orders of magnitude greater than conventional chemical methods). The advantages of bacterial conjugation make this method of gene transfer a widely used technique in bioengineering. A number of the advantages include the flexibility to switch comparatively giant sequences of DNA and never harming the host’s cellular envelope. D. Yee. (1987) Electroporation: parameters affecting transfer of DNA into mammalian cells. Furthermore, conjugation has been achieved in laboratories not solely between micro organism, but also between bacteria and varieties of cells akin to plant cells, mammalian cells and yeast. In the human body, micro organism help keep the digestive tract working properly. Most micro organism are both harmless, or helpful, and even essential to life. Although they’re notorious for his or her function in causing human diseases, from tooth decay to the Black Plague, there are helpful species which are important to good health. Others cause major diseases, corresponding to tuberculosis, plague, syphilis, and cholera. Microbial biocontrol brokers. Research can be under strategy to develop biological control agents, a few of which are commercially available in the US for other crops and different diseases, for use on Ontario’s tomato crop. Research at Ridgetown College (University of Guelph), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and elsewhere has shown that foliar-applied fastened copper sprays will reduce the variety of bacterial cells on tomato foliage. Many research trials throughout North America have proven that tank-mixing mancozeb with copper enhances bacterial disease management. However, bacterial speck populations in Ontario have shown widespread resistance to copper, and in some areas of the US, bacterial spot has also developed resistance. Some of these merchandise have proven promise in lowering bacterial illness on tomatoes. New Products.A number of new products have been identified by scientists as having the potential for bacterial disease management on vegetable crops.
by \| Aug 14, 2018 \| Anxiety, Child Health, Stress Khalida Nasir, Psychologist, Baulkham Hills NSW 14 August 2018 With the competing demands and immense pressure that comes from growing up and being a teenager it is no surprise that young people find themselves feeling anxious and stuck. We find ourselves growing up in a world where there are constant expectations to keep up with school, family, social and online pressures, all whilst we are trying to figure who we are and strive for independence…. it is no wonder this is such a common occurrence. So, do we just ride this wave and hope it goes away? Not exactly…. While there may be misconceptions that this is all just part of growing up and we “just get over it” or grow out of it, this is not always the case. Learning how we can manage anxiety early and equipping ourselves with tools to better manage, is of the utmost importance to ensure anxiety does not go on to affect our lives and limit our potential. So, what is anxiety? Anxiety is our fear response which tries to help and warn us in light of perceived danger or threat. It affects the way we think about things, the way we feel in our body and what we do. While it aims to assist us to prepare and respond in these situations; it is sometimes excessive for the situation and can be more unhelpful than helpful. Sometimes it can get so full on that we find ourselves crippled by the fear and it actually gets in the way of our ability to do our day to day tasks, thereby affecting our functioning and overall quality of life. It can stop us from finishing that assignment, attending that event, making friends, meeting new people, getting that job and communicating our needs. Did you know? In Australia, 1 in 6 young Australians aged 12-17, have experienced anxiety in the last 12 months. That is approximately 440,000 young people. For young people, predominantly this interferes with their ability to go to school or work and how they build and maintain relationships. It is particularly a concern for young people who are developing as it can cause setbacks and lifelong consequences socially, academically and emotionally. What to look out for Pay attention to your thoughts, physical sensations, feelings and behaviours and ask yourself… Are you feeling overwhelmed and scared to do something/go somewhere? Are you feeling tense, nervous and on edge and don’t know why? Are you feeling like things are out of control and it’s hard to calm or slow down? Are you having unwanted uncontrollable thoughts? Are you overestimating the likelihood and frequency of bad things happening? Do you feel like your thoughts are constantly racing and your mind can’t slow down? Does your heart race, chest tighten and you find it difficult to breathe? Are you having difficulty sleeping and concentrating? Do you feel nauseous or sick in the stomach, experience tension in your body or feel completely numb and detached? Are you withdrawing or avoiding from things? Are you finding it difficult to concentrate, make decisions and get things done? Are you finding it difficult to move forward? Some Tips to tackle anxiety 1. Identify what is causing you to feel anxious in the first place? What is happening just before? What triggers you? 2. Know how your anxiety affects you in the way you think, feel and what you choose to do or not do. 3. Listen to your thoughts and what you are telling yourself. Anxiety can be tricky and our worries aren’t always that accurate. Question the accuracy of your thoughts and put it to trial, gain evidence for and against your worry and bring it into perspective. Ask yourself, do I need to be this worried? Will it really be as bad as I think? Even if it is, can I handle it and will I care in a year’s time? 4. Slow down and BREATHE! Attend to your physical sensations too and regulate your breathing, calm your body and detach from past or future worries by bringing yourself to the present. 5. Retrain your brain: Our brain is a muscle, it learns from what we tell it and what it experiences. So, tell it good things and face the worry, allowing it to see and learn that the worry isn’t all too bad. 6. Enlist support! Who said we had to do this alone? Enlist a parent, family member, friend or professional to support you through it all. What next? Everyone has experienced anxiety at some point in their lives or at least knows one person who has. While knowing what works for you is of utmost importance knowing you don’t have to do it alone or figure it all out by yourself is just as important. There’s support out there and reaching out to see a psychologist to help you or your loved one work through anxiety can be step number one. If you would like some support for yourself, a friend or a loved one, you can contact The Talbot Centre for more information. Khalida nasir Psychologist, Baulkham Hills NSW Khalida understands that there are times in our lives that things don’t feel quite right. During this time we may feel alone in our struggle and like there is no way out. She likes to take a non-judgemental and holistic approach in supporting you along the way to take a step back, gain some clarity and move forward with confidence.
Friday, October 22, 2021 Sandford Fleming: 5 facts you need to know about him As Google Doodle celebrates 190th birthday of the innovator, here are five facts you need to know about Sanford Fleming: By: Express Web Desk \| New Delhi \| January 7, 2017 10:48:00 am sanford fleming, who is sanford fleming, google doodle, google doodle today, today's doodle, sanford fleming google doodle, time zones, time zone system, sanford fleming facts One of the foremost engineer and innovator of his time, Sanford Fleming. (Source: WikiCommons) Hailed as the ‘Father of Standard Time’, Canadian engineer and inventor Sanford Fleming, is remembered for the invention of present system of time zones, which is still being followed all around the globe. Born on January 7, 1827 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, Fleming emigrated to Canada in 1847. Before the invention of the system of standard time zones, people were solely dependent on the position of the sun to deduce time. But with the introduction of trains, there was a need for introducing standard timing. Fleming proposed that the world be divided into 24 time zones starting at the Greenwich Meridian and spaced all at 15 degree intervals. Fleming’s proposal was adopted at the International Prime Meridian Conference on January 1, 1985 by the 25 attending nations. As Google Doodle celebrates the iconic engineer’s 190th birthday of the innovator, here are five facts you need to know about Sanford Fleming: * Fleming, who gained reputation as one of the primary railway engineers of his age, was also in-charge of the initial survey of the first Canadian railway roaming across the continent — Canadian Pacific Railway. * Fleming also designed the first Canadian postage stamp which were issued in 1851. The stamps costing three pennies depicted the beaver, the national animal of Canada. * Fleming founded the Royal Canadian Institute in 1849, which grew into a world renowned center for scientists. * After retiring from Canadian Pacific Railways in 1880, Fleming was appointed as the Chancellor of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and spent time in scientific projects and writing. * Fleming was knighted by Queen Victoria for his accomplishments in 1897. Start your day the best way with the Express Morning Briefing For all the latest Trending News, download Indian Express App.
How did the author help tell the story How to Tell if Your Tarantula Is Molting: 8 Steps (with The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia Skeeter Phelan. Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans. Her own 24-year-old son, Treelore, died from an accident on his job The author's choice to tell the story from the children's perspectives is effective. The children do not have the same prejudices and concerns that the adults have. As a result, they are open to one another and become friends despite their differences An author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story. Not all foreshadowing is obvious. Frequently, future events are merely hinted at through dialogue, description, or the attitudes and reactions of the characters The Australian aboriginal people painted symbols which also appear in stories on cave walls as a means of helping the storyteller remember the story. The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance, which bring understanding and meaning to human existence through the remembrance and enactment of stories In simple words and pictures author Bunting, and illustrator Gammell have created a picture book evocative of both of the following famous quotes: First They Came for the Jews First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not. Reading the works of skilled writers is a fabulous way to hone your craft and learn how to effectively employ the writing tactics that help you create your own captivating story. Here are five great examples of writing techniques that bring the story to life for readers, as demonstrated by five accomplished writers. 1. Invoke multiple senses Answering these questions honestly and thoroughly will help you, the reader, figure out the author's attitude toward his or her subject. Now, let's take a look at some of the attitudes you might. It signals that the author may ask readers to do something to help others. It signals that the author is talking about math. It signals that the author is not American. It signals that the selection is fiction Structurally speaking, it is always the end of a story—its Climactic Moment—that tells us what it is about. The Climactic Moment ends the external plot by telling us who wins.. But it also, implicitly, ends the protagonist's arc by showing us whether the character succeeded in arcing positively and helping others to do the same. Questioning the author is a strategy that engages students actively with a text. Rather than reading and taking information from a text, the QtA strategy encourages students to ask questions of the author and the text. Through forming their questions, students learn more about the text. Students learn to ask questions such as: What is the author's message While reading the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, students will work on developing an understanding of specific vocabulary words by defining each word and writing down the passage in which the word is used in the short story. After completion of the novel, students will complete the The Tell-Tale Heart Crossword Puzzle activity 'Help' Author Kathryn Stockett on Writing Debut Novel - TIM We tell stories to our coworkers and peers all the time — to persuade someone to support our project, to explain to an employee how he might improve, or to inspire a team that is facing challenges What message did the author want you to get? Why did the author choose that setting? Was _____ a good title for the story? Why or why not? What did the author do to help you visualize the story? Summarizing Prompts Use these to help students understand the most important parts of the story. What is the main idea/gist of the story? Tell me what. The Importance of Author's Purpose The Picture Book 2. 1. They tell the interviewer something about you that goes beyond your resume bullet points. 2. They engage the interviewer. It's the same as any story you tell, whether you're hanging out at a café with friends or in a job interview: you want to tell it in the best, most entertaining way 3. A literary style reflects the author's personality and the purpose for the writing (that is, the idea to be expressed). For example, you might have two writing assignments — a short story for 10-year-olds and a research paper for your doctorate degree. The purpose of each assignment requires a different tone, word selection, and sentence. Use this CliffsNotes The Outsiders Book Summary & Study Guide today to ace your next test! Get free homework help on S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders: book summary, chapter summary and analysis, quotes, essays, and character analysis courtesy of CliffsNotes. In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton tells the story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his struggle with right and wrong in a society in which he is. Fast forward a few hundred years, and Alvin Schwartz did the same thing in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The Brothers Grimm always believed that scary stories were appropriate for children Records Help Author Tell Code Girls' Story National Archive • What illustrations help you know the character's feelings? • Did the illustrations give away anything in the story? What did the illustrations help you figure out? RL.3.8 Not applicable for literature RL.3.9 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar character The story of Job starts in heaven. Satan, the adversary, claims to G-d that Job is only righteous because he is basically wealthy and comfortable. Satan asks G-d whether he can test him. He wipes. To my mind, the phrase Show, don't tell is a wink and a nod, an implicit compact between a lazy teacher and a lazy student when the writer needs to dig deeper to figure out what isn't working in his story. A story is not a movie is not a TV show, and I can't tell you the number of student stories I read where I see a camera panning course of the story. POINT OF VIEW First Person The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can't tell us thoughts of other characters. Third-Person Objective The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears A story's message, or theme, is what the author wants to teach you through his or her writing. Some stories have a specific kind of message called a moral, or a life lesson. You can find the. Story of an Hour: Why did the author choose to have the The opening of Genesis, however, attempts to tell the story of the beginning of the human realm. You may also ask, How did the author learn of this story since there were no people to observe it? We, as readers, can make guesses. Perhaps the author learned the story from an ancient oral tradition Author's Purpose: The author's intent to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince the audience to do or not do something.; Informational Text: It is nonfiction, written primarily to convey factual information. Informational texts comprise the majority of printed material adults read (e.g., textbooks, newspapers, reports, directions, brochures. In fact what Rowling did was reveal her in-depth knowledge of the character's unrevealed backstory. Unrevealed backstory is the information you know about your characters that you never specifically intend to tell the reader. And, here's the big tip that will help your writing: 60% of your character's backstory should be unrevealed About the Author Examples (That You'll Actually Want to Read Author: Although the Gospel of Mark does not name its author, it is the unanimous testimony of early church fathers that Mark was the author. He was an associate of the Apostle Peter, and evidently his spiritual son (1 Peter 5:13). From Peter he received first-hand information of the events and teachings of the Lord, and preserved the information in written form In a mystery story, the author will sometimes add clues in the story that readers can use to help readers figure out the ending. This is called foreshadowing. How did Kelly Hashway use foreshadowing in the fourth paragraph of this story? Tell what clue was written into the story and how readers could have used this clue to predict the ending of. When the author was going abroad for further studies, his grandmother came to see him off at the railway station. She kissed his forehead silently. That was the last sign of physical contact between the author and the grandmother as he thought that at her age one could never tell whether he would find her alive after five years Historic Stone Soup Story from 1771 in French by M. Barbe. One characteristic of folktales is that they are contextualized by each teller. This is something the authors of the early Stone Soup stories clearly did. For example, the second version of the story was written by Phillipe Barbe (1723-1792) in his work Fables et contes philosophiques The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel I make my own comment by what I choose to tell and how I choose to tell it. It is true that an author is more in control of fictional characters because he do anything he wants with them as long as they stay credible. But in the nonfiction novel one can also manipulate: If I put something in which I don't. The Flood story is a preamble to the story of Abraham, and ultimately to the story of Christ. We are sinners and deserve God's judgment (the New Testament cites the Flood story in this way), but Jesus came to die on our behalf. He is the ultimate act of God's grace This month, I've been thinking about history and the stories we tell ourselves, the narratives we recite. For this June we as a nation are marking two events I knew nothing about growing up. The first is Juneteenth, the African American celebration of June 19, 1865, when the nation's last slaves were emancipated in Texas. The second is the Tulsa massacre, when a white mob burned a thriving. 6 questions that can help journalists find a focus, tell Author: The author of this epistle (letter) is James, also called James the Just, who is thought to be the brother of Jesus Christ (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3). James was not a believer (John 7:3-5) until after the resurrection (Acts 1:14; 1 Corinthians 15:7; Galatians 1:19). He became the head of the Jerusalem church and is mentioned first as a pillar of the church (Galatians 2:9) As we have seen above, an author has to decide on the narrative to be able to relate the story she has chosen to tell. Furthermore, the choice of genre influences the reception of the narrative. The same events can be turned into, say, a comedy or a thriller Analyzing and Interpreting Stories. When you analyze a story, you try to find a meaning for the story. You make a claim about the story's meaning, and provide evidence from the story itself to support your analysis. You look for a reasonable way of understanding the story. Here are some questions to ask yourself about a story when you are. The danger of a single story. I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call the danger of the single story. I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth Explain how illustrations contribute to the meaning of a story. You'll gain access to interventions, extensions, task implementation guides, and more for this instructional video. In this lesson, you will learn how an author uses illustrations to help tell the story by looking and thinking about each picture Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story [Welch, Brian] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story Dazzling Wings: 2013W•IN GESTALT, LANGUAGE IS CHANGED FROM - TO: Why to How The Help - Wikipedi 1. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Tell-Tale Heart. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales. New York: Signet, 1998. 172-177. This post is part of the series: Short Story Study Guides. These short stories are commonly taught in high school. I teach high school. I can help. Summary and Analysis of TheTell-Tale Hear 2. Realizing that sharing your story can help others. the details in a way that helps you become the author of your own life. to have mentioned that pausing to tell your story can be a good. The author chose to tell this story from the perspective Despite this disagreement, Congress did nominate a drafting committee—the Committee of Five (John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman)—to compose a declaration of independence. Thomas Jefferson, known for his eloquent writing style and reserved manner, became the principal author But his is the American story that no one dares tell. The rare times the mass incarceration story is told, it is told second hand or through policy books, he says. I am different Storytelling - Wikipedi 1. Tom Petty's Biographer on the Story He Didn't Tell A year after Petty's death, author Warren Zanes shares a tale of loss, memory, and the search for the perfect cup of coffe 2. Lesley Kara is the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, THE RUMOUR, published in December 2018. Her second novel, WHO DID YOU TELL, is out now 3. PINK and SAY is one of the six Patricia Polacco books I gave to my daughter for her birthday. She is a new second grade teacher and I wanted her to have books that have worked for me, a seasoned educator. This is another touching story written in memory of Pinkus Aylee, a former slave 4. The author in his grandfather's house. Vladimir Rys. The story that everyone is familiar with is that of Pheidippides running from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce Greek victory. 5. Questions Before, During, and After Reading. CREATED BY: TeacherVision Staff. To encourage critical reading, teachers should ask students questions about the text before, during, and after they read. This method is useful for most subjects, from reading to social studies, and is an excellent way to structure literature homework. Grades: Pre-K \| Such attacks on these foundational books of the rest of the Bible come both from non-Christians as well as professing Christians. Seminary courses, theology books, introductions to the Pentateuch in Bibles, and the secular media have promoted the man-made idea that Moses did not write the Pentateuch (also known as the Law or Torah) Captain John Smith was an adventurer, soldier, explorer and author. Through the telling of his early life, we can trace the developments of a man who became a dominate force in the eventual success of Jamestown and the establishment of its legacy as the first permanent English settlement in North America 4. Show, Don't Tell. Honestly, the saying show, don't tell is overused. However, when placed next to the step above, it becomes very effective. When something interesting happens in your story that changes the fate of your character, don't tell us about it. Show the scene Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Buntin Images help tell a story. Sometimes scientific findings, even the important ones, just don't seem personal to us as individuals. People may not feel concerned about a certain disease or condition because they are not emotionally invested in it. Now, this isn't because we're all stone hearted monsters Hosea and Gomer's story is the story of God and Israel. It is also our story. When we, like Gomer, were enslaved, God bought us back. When we found ourselves stuck in chains we never intended—chains of insecurity, discontentment or fear—God freed us. When we, by our very nature, threw God's love away, He redeemed us You can order additional books at the end of the subscription year. The pricing for additional copies of your book is as follows: • $39: Black and white interior, up to 480 pages • $79: Color books, up to 300 pages • $99: Color books above 300 pages, up to 480 pages ‍ Please take the time to carefully review your book's interior preview before ordering, as we cannot offer reprints. 5 Powerful Writing Techniques That Bring Stories to Lif Mr. Grinling, the lighthouse keeper, finds himself in a titanic battle between good and evil with some ravenous seagulls. See how he comes out on top with a. Genesis answers two big questions: How did God's relationship with the world begin? and Where did the nation of Israel come from? Author: Traditionally Moses, but the stories are much older. Fun fact: Most of the famous Bible stories you've heard about are probably found in the book of Genesis.This is where the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Ark, the Tower. How to Recognize Attitude Expressed by the Author Towards 1. The Bluest Eye, debut novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, published in 1970.Set in Morrison's hometown of Lorain, Ohio, in 1940-41, the novel tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl from an abusive home. Eleven-year-old Pecola equates beauty and social acceptance with whiteness; she therefore longs to have the bluest eye 2. Also, the entire story of Moses is narrated from third-person omniscient perspective, treating him just like the rest of the characters. That too suggests that Moses was not the author. Take for example the verse: Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth (Numbers 12:3) 3. Bit by bit, the child builds the knowledge that is necessary for being a reader. Over their first 6 years, most children. Talk and listen. Listen to stories read aloud. Pretend to read. Learn how to handle books. Learn about print and how it works. Identify letters by name and shape. Identify separate sounds in spoken language 4. Note: Author's footnotes have been omitted. Introduction. The Bricks We Stand On. On March 30, 1908, Green Cottenham was arrested by the sheriff of Shelby County, Alabama, and charged with vagrancy Question #1 Score: TrueFalse Ideally, the author states the main thesis for a chapter in the first paragraph or two. True False Question #2 Score: Paragraph What is a cause/effect relationship? Question #3 Score: MultipleChoice Select the mistake responsible for the faulty reasoning in the following statement. I'm bringing my blue fountain pen to the speech contest; I never forget my speech. As Help! was their latest single as well as the title track to their second motion picture, it was a given that they would perform the song live just after the single was released. This they did but, despite the song's immense popularity, it was limited to the latter half of 1965 A story can put your whole brain to work.And yet, it gets better: When we tell stories to others that have really helped us shape our thinking and way of life, we can have the same effect on them too Tell students that they each will be writing down important words along with their meanings and drawing a picture to help them remember the meaning. Use the Changing the Way the Story is Told text as an example, tell the students that you will be showing some ways to learn the meaning of unfamiliar words by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) I t was a hot afternoon, and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry, and the next stop was at Templecombe, nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl, and a smaller girl, and a small boy. 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CBC Digital Archives CBC butterfly logo The page you are looking at will not be updated. The 1912 ‘Regina Cyclone’ The Story Regina had never experienced a tornado. Its first hit on June 30, 1912, and is still considered the deadliest in Canadian history. As residents prepared for Dominion Day celebrations, a tornado with wind speeds over 300 km/h ripped through the heart of the city. Regina's wooden buildings were flattened, 28 people were killed and another 2,500 were left homeless. As two historians tell Morningside, the survivors had tales almost too bizarre to be believed. Medium: Radio Program: Morningside Broadcast Date: Oct. 27, 1976 Guests: Allan Anderson, Betty Tomlinson Host: Harry Brown, Maxine Crook Duration: 11:30 Photo: Library and Archives Canada / C-033275 Did You know? • Environment Canada estimates that there are an average of 80 tornadoes in Canada each year, resulting in two deaths, 20 injuries and damage in the millions of dollars. Canada ranks second, behind the United States, for the most tornado occurrences in the world. • In the United States, the highest number of tornadoes occur in "Tornado Alley" (which includes parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska) as well as in west central Florida and an area south of Lake Michigan. • According to the BBC, the United Kingdom is actually the most tornado-prone nation in the world. This is based on the number of yearly tornadoes per square kilometre. The United Kingdom has 33 twisters a year in an area almost 40 times smaller than the United States, which experiences about 800 a year. • Other world tornado hot spots include Argentina, Australia, Europe, northern India, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay. • The terms "cyclone" and "tornado" are often used interchangeably to indicate violent storms affecting a limited area, usually with circular wind motions. • The word "tornado" is believed to come from the Spanish tronada ("thunderstorm") and has been used in English since the 16th century. "Cyclone" is more recent; the Oxford English Dictionary says the term was introduced in 1848 by H. Piddington, "as a general term for all storms or atmospheric disturbances in which the wind has a circular or whirling course." "Twister" is an informal word for a tornado. • In 1912, Regina was a booming city. A constant influx of new settlers from Eastern Canada and Europe made the city of 10,000 the fastest-growing in the area. • The June 30, 1912, tornado destroyed farms in the southeast, tore through residential areas and downtown, the warehouse district and the railway district. Most major municipal buildings were damaged or destroyed. • According to some sources, Regina Cyclone winds reached speeds of up to 800 km/h. • At the time, the Regina cyclone was the worst disaster in Canadian history. Though it passed through the city in just three minutes it caused more than $1.2 million in property damage (about $25 million in 2015 dollars). • Actor Boris Karloff (Frankenstein, The Mummy) who was travelling in the Regina area, was canoeing west of the city when the tornado struck. He returned to find his accommodations destroyed. Karloff soon organized a benefit concert for the city's victims. • The tale of Bruce Langton's aerial canoe ride is the most famous of the many strange stories emerging from the 1912 Regina Cyclone. Langton, 12, and friend Philip Steele were canoeing on Wascana Lake when the tornado hit. As they paddled for shore, the funnel lifted the canoe right out of the water. Steele was hurled from the canoe and killed instantly. Langton held on and was deposited, in his canoe, in a park hundreds of metres away. He was still gripping his paddle. • In the wake of the tornado, the city of Regina undertook a rapid reconstruction effort, assisted by surrounding communities and the federal and provincial governments. Regina was rebuilt quickly but it took 10 years for the city to pay off its storm debt. The province of Saskatchewan remained in debt until 1958. Deadly Skies: Canada's Most Destructive Tornadoes more
Skip to main content Let’s be honest…raise your hand if you have uttered or have had thoughts of this word in the last 18 months. 👋 Me! I have. More than once. Hopeless is a term that we often hear uttered in reference to challenging times. When something bad happens and we can’t see how it will improve, we may say the situation is hopeless. When our favorite sports team is losing a game and the star player is injured, we may say that a win is hopeless. When a virus runs rampant through the entire planet and we see wave after wave of improving and then worsening conditions, we feel hopeless. As I think about this term, it occurs to me that when we are feeling hopeless, we would be better served to hope less and act more. Instead of hoping for good things to happen or for bad things to stop happening, we should engage in actions that have the possibility of changing the course of events. Now, before you write me off as an annoying and over the top optimist who is throwing out rose-colored glasses that will only mask the pain and suffering that is our reality, please reference my most recent blog- It’s okay to not be okay. I am not engaging in toxic positivity here. What we, as a world, and (for the purpose of this blog), as educators, have dealt with and continue to deal with sucks. It has been hard, it has affected our mental and physical health, it has robbed people of their livelihoods, and it has cost lives. I have no desire to minimize any of this or suggest that hopelessness is not a valid feeling. I am simply thinking about the skills and attitudes that we may want to develop in our learners so that they are equipped to deal with feelings and thoughts of hopelessness. What are the skills and attitudes that learners – the students, teachers, staff member, and families in our communities – need to hope less and act more? The first ones that come to my mind are: • Strong questioning skills • Desire and skills needed to explore new thoughts and ideas • Ability to engage in dialogue and collaborate with others Coincidentally these are skills and attitudes that Challenging Learning builds and supports in our professional learning offerings and in our long-term work in schools. You see, an important impact of our support is increased efficacy that enables learners to act more. Let me expand a little more on my thinking around identifying these skills and attitudes as key to being able to act more: Strong questioning skills Sometimes a situation feels hopeless because we do not fully understand it and we are not clear on how it might be resolved. We all know that if we want to understand something, we typically ask a lot of questions. Think about a 2-year-old who is trying to understand the world. They ask LOTS of questions. Have you ever noticed that they often ask questions that do not really have one answer? My middle child was notorious for this. He would ask questions like- What if everyone in the world was purple? or What if rain was sticky like glue? At the time I never really knew how to answer those questions, but now I realize I should have followed it up with MORE questions. I now understand that he was just trying to explore the world and test out new ideas and thoughts. Rather than thinking that I needed to have a concrete answer and feeling exasperated when I didn’t, I could have responded with exploratory questions. Asking questions that allow us to truly explore the world around us is not always natural as we get older. Once we enter school, so many of the questions that we ask and answer are evaluative and we lose the natural inclination to ask those exploratory questions. Therefore, it is something we must intentionally practice. In his book Challenging Learning Through Questioning, Martin Renton provides guidance for not only shifting questioning from evaluative to exploratory, but also for teaching others to make this shift. Explore new thoughts and ideas Even when we do understand the situation, we may not be comfortable challenging what we already know and believe. It feels uncomfortable to admit that there may be another side of the coin or ‘more to the story’. Once we ask the right questions and explore new thoughts and ideas, we also need to be comfortable stepping outside of our comfort zone and accepting the fact that we may change our thinking because of these new thoughts and ideas. As we explore and gain new knowledge, we may realize that we now have two or more ideas about a concept that seem to conflict with one another. For example, you may have a long-standing belief that you should never lie, but then encounter a situation where being honest with someone might hurt them. This is called cognitive conflict and it is what James Nottingham references as the conflict stage at the bottom of the Learning Pit. To get to that point of cognitive conflict, we need to have the right attitudes such as curiosity, perseverance, resilience, open-mindedness, desire to learn, etc…, but then we must also have the right skills to allow us to work through the conflict and create new meaning and a deeper understanding. These skills include being able to sort and categorize ideas, draw conclusions, make connections, analyze information, ask exploratory questions, make decisions…. and many more, of course. In The Learning Challenge and The Learning Pit, James offers many suggestions for ways to build these skills and the great news is that they work for children and adults! Engage in dialogue and collaborate with others If we are going to change the world and create alternatives to hopelessness, we certainly won’t be able to do it alone. We will need to engage in productive dialogue as we collaborate with others to act. Last year when the US was experiencing a lot of political and racial unrest and things felt a bit hopeless, I wrote a blog about the importance of dialogue. I mentioned that history has taught us the only way to heal wounds, bridge divides, and understand each other’s pain is through dialogue. In that blog, I emphasized the importance of the listening part of dialogue because that is how we understand and gain insight regarding a challenging situation. In the Challenging Learning Through Dialogue book, there are many strategies that can be used to help learners share their thinking through the use of reasoning. It also provides guidance on creating a culture where learners use dialogue to be more reflective and collaborative. When we engage in effective dialogue, we gain a better understanding of how we end up in hopeless situations but also how we might change them. It is through dialogue that we can then problem solve and collaborate with others so that we may act on the situation and seek improvement. We can help you do this! Our Challenging Learning resources provide fabulous support to anyone trying to incorporate these attitudes and skills, but our team can also provide support. We have a brand-new Academy that provides a long-term study of The Learning Challenge complete with an impact study, opportunities for reflections, and videos and text to deepen learning. We also engage with schools and districts in long term work that is designed around the vision and context of the school so that we can maximize the impact on learning. Complete the form below if you want to engage with one of our team members to learn more about how we can support a change in culture that will build efficacy and enable all members of your learning community to battle hopelessness by hoping less and acting more.
Special report A Survey of Indonesia The faltering firefighter A blind man surrounded by problems is getting less help than he should from blurrier-eyed colleagues. Brian Barry reports Gus Dur and the unseeing past THE biggest physical explosion ever recorded took place in 1815, when a volcano in the part of the world that is now called Indonesia blew its top. The eruption of Mount Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa, killed 92,000 people and released 100 times more energy than a nuclear bomb. But perhaps because its name is less thunderous than that of Krakatau, at the other end of Java, which blew up later, most of the world's people have never heard of the earlier bang. A century and a half later, another explosion, this one political, produced even more carnage but was just as quickly forgotten by the rest of the world. In late 1965, after what the Indonesian army called an attempted communist coup, soldiers and armed vigilantes unleashed a wave of terror. About half a million people were killed, most of them in central and eastern Java. So began the “New Order” of Indonesia's second president: a general named Suharto. America's CIA described the bloodshed as “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”. Yet not long afterwards the world's fourth-biggest country—like its long inactive volcano—had largely faded from the world's attention. That changed in May 1998. Mercifully, far fewer people have died in the two years since Mr Suharto fell from power than were killed in 1965-66, the “year of living dangerously”. But Mr Suharto's immediate successor—his vice-president, B.J. Habibie—did two things that pushed Indonesia back into the spotlight. Only a month after taking office, he abolished the state's control over newspapers and television. A year later, in June 1999, he carried out his promise to hold a seriously free election, the first Indonesia had had in 44 years. Thanks to a free press and a free election, the world has been able to watch this country begin a historic transition. Out of the ruins Indonesia's economy collapsed even more spectacularly during the East Asian crisis of 1997-98 than those of its battered neighbours. Real GDP fell by 20% in 18 months and at one point the country's currency, the rupiah, had lost over 85% of its value against the dollar. But the economy's ruination brought the possibility of political rebirth. Mr Suharto resigned in disgrace after 32 years in power. The military-backed regime that he had created began to crumble, in the face of widespread disgust and the street protests of the reformasi movement. The ruling Golkar party was no longer able to decide who was going to be allowed to win an election. After only 17 months at the helm, the change-beginning Mr Habibie followed his change-blocking predecessor into retirement. The process which brought about the transition was as entertaining as it was surprising. No fewer than 48 parties took part in the parliamentary election, all but three of them brand-new, and sought to distinguish themselves from each other by pointing to the personalities of their leaders. These included the tiny and theatrical Mr Habibie; a fork-tongued Muslim activist called Amien Rais, who vowed to help both disgruntled Muslims and their persecutors; the silently stubborn Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Indonesia's first president (and now herself vice-president); and Abdurrahman Wahid, an almost blind Muslim cleric with a knack for one-liners. A four-month pause between the parliamentary election and the choice of a president added to the suspense: but in October the new assembly gave the top job to Mr Wahid. There has also been plenty of violence. The armed forces have shot demonstrators in Jakarta, clashed with separatist rebels in Aceh, and backed pro-Indonesian militiamen as they slaughtered pro-independence voters in East Timor. Just as often, the security forces have stood feebly by as other people did the killing. Battles between Christians and Muslims have cost more than 2,500 lives in the Molucca Islands alone. Ethnic clashes in Borneo last year included some head-hunting by local Dayaks. And even when no religious, ethnic or political excuse is available, a lot of Indonesians still get killed by mobs furious over some minor piece of misbehaviour. The outside world has watched these events with concern, but also with hope. Indonesia's attempt to change itself will help to decide the prospects for democracy in two overlapping parts of the globe, Asia and the Islamic region. With 210m people, Indonesia is the giant of South-East Asia. If it joins Thailand and the Philippines on the road to a democratic system, it will weaken support for autocrats elsewhere in the Association of South-East Asian Nations. Since more than four-fifths of its people follow some form of Islam, it is also the world's biggest Muslim country. Add the religious diversity of the other fifth, and a history of weaving varying strains of Islam into its original culture, and Indonesia could be a shining example of democratic pluralism for all Muslims. The man with the giant's job Its chance of succeeding seemed to improve sharply with the election of Mr Wahid, the former head of the world's biggest Muslim organisation, Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama. Mr Wahid, who got much of his education abroad, has long been a champion of an open-minded version of the Muslim faith. He has argued that religion should remain separate from government. He has sought to bridge the gulf between different faiths. If his presidency succeeds, his authority could reach far beyond Indonesia. The outside world is also interested in what happens to Indonesia because, since Mr Suharto fell, this country has become fertile ground for the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Environmentalists, long vexed by the destruction of Indonesia's primal forests and the damage done to its vast marine life, believe that the new government, desperate for foreign aid, will at last allow them to do something to stop the depredation. Many other NGOs hope they will be able to improve the health, education and welfare of a people whose average income is now only $600-700 a year. These are lofty goals, and during the first two years of its transition Indonesia has understandably made only modest progress towards them. But it is cheering that the world's fourth-biggest country is at last getting the attention it deserves. When Mr Wahid became president last year, he brought with him a powerful combination of affection and hope. This 59-year-old Muslim cleric suffers from some major physical handicaps: he is almost blind, and has had a couple of strokes. Yet during the dangerous Suharto years few people had resisted the regime's coercion more consistently and cleverly than the man his fellow Indonesians call Gus Dur (Gus is a term of respect, Dur is short for Abdurrahman). Here was somebody, it seemed, with the moral authority to tackle the pervasive combination of corruption, collusion and nepotism that Indonesians sum up as “KKN”. So far, things have not gone particularly well. Because his National Awakening Party is only the fourth-biggest in parliament, Mr Wahid had to set up a “national unity” cabinet which includes several other major parties. These other parties, naturally, would like to get their own leaders into the top job at the next election in 2004, if not sooner. In the past few months Gus Dur has made matters worse for himself through several bone-headed misjudgments, not least in some of the appointments he has made. And he is not very good at handling criticism, especially from the newly free, pugnacious media. So far the one clear success of his presidency has been to bring the army under some degree of political control. The previous regime's commander of the armed forces, General Wiranto, has been pushed aside, and some reform-minded officers have been put into key positions. Yet even this may not be enough entirely to cure the military side of the KKN disease. And Mr Wahid has barely begun to address the country's other problems. The economy is now re-expanding, but not yet with any convincing bounce. The government is hoping for 3-4% growth in 2000, and has pledged a list of reforms to the IMF; but Mr Wahid's economic team falls well short of real competence. The justice system is also in bad shape: the commercial courts, in particular, are badly in need of reform. Religious intolerance seems to be getting worse. The Christians and Muslims who have been killing each other in Ambon and the rest of the Moluccas have caught the world's headlines, but the trouble may reach wider than that. Many members of Indonesia's 80% Muslim majority believe that under Mr Suharto their voice was never properly heard, and are now eager to reassert themselves. There is also the threat of the country's sheer physical disintegration. After East Timor won its freedom last year, the desire for independence grew in provinces such as Aceh and Irian Jaya (recently renamed West Papua). But unlike East Timor—a former Portuguese colony—these other places are all part of the old Dutch East Indies, out of which Indonesia was born. The government is determined to defend this Dutch-bequeathed definition of its borders. It is willing to offer more autonomy, under laws passed last year, to Indonesia's 27 provinces and 350-odd districts. A successful decentralisation could foster wealthier regions and a healthier democracy. But the current autonomy plan is far from sure of success. It would not be easy for anyone to confront so ominous an agenda. But Mr Wahid is the leader of a minority party presiding over a loose coalition, whose colleagues can run their ministries as their own fiefs and yet blame him for the slow pace of reform. Mr Wahid may face a tough test at next month's meeting of the People's Consultative Assembly, the highest legislative body. At times, though, Gus Dur's biggest enemy has been himself. He botched a cabinet reshuffle in April. His brother was appointed to an important post and had to resign after a public outcry. An alarming number of associates (most absurdly, his masseur) have been accused of taking money in his name. Worst of all, he sometimes rejects criticism from the few good people around him. Mr Wahid, alas, has yet to justify the hopes he raised last year. This survey will deal with each of the main challenges he faces. But in doing so it will try not to lose sight of how far Indonesia has come in the past year and the fact that, if it manages to continue that progress, it could eventually emerge as one of the biggest winners from East Asia's recent turmoil. The survey will also try to avoid another pitfall: that of paying too much attention to the main island, Java, on which sits Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. With more than 100m people, its cultural clout and its domination of the country's internal trade, Java is undoubtedly Indonesia's centre of power; the rest of the place, some say, is just “a Javanese empire”. Java pulls in raw materials, cash crops and huge oil and gas revenues from the rest of Indonesia and sends back government and financial services, manufactured goods and semi-organised violence. Indonesia's problems will never be solved until the mess in Jakarta is sorted out. But, to understand those problems, start by leaving Java behind. This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "The faltering firefighter" Reuse this contentThe Trust Project The Economist today Handpicked stories, in your inbox A daily newsletter with the best of our journalism
ELEC 402 Tutorial 0 - CAD Tools Access Updated 2020-09-15 Computer Access Usually students can use the ECE computers by physically go to the computer lab (this is obviously not possible right now). Thus we have to remote-connect into the computers using SSH clients and remote desktop. VPN Access In order to connect to the ECE-SOC computers via SSH or remote desktop, you need to be on UBC myVPN. If you’re using Windows and Mac, you can use Cisco AnyConnect: If you’re on Linux, follow the UBC IT tutorial for OpenConnect: https://it.ubc.ca/services/email-voice-internet/myvpn/myvpn-setup-gnulinux Remote Desktop The remote desktop client we’re using is x2go. Details on how to set it up is located on ECE wiki: https://help.ece.ubc.ca/X2go.
Office Indoor Air Quality: Why It Matters and How Can You Improve It? Office Indoor Air QualityIn the period of COVID-19, the quality of the air we breathe in the office environment is even more important. According to the research of the World Health Organization, since the coronavirus is smaller than 10 microns, its particles can hang in the air for 40-50 hours. The importance of indoor air quality for human health became even more prominent during the pandemic period. With small changes that can be made in the office, you can protect the health of your employees and create more efficient working environments for them. The Importance of Office Indoor Air Quality On the other hand, the quality of the air we breathe is an issue that is often overlooked to create a healthier and more efficient working environment. Although we can easily detect bad weather outside, we get used to working hours of unpleasant odours in the office environment. According to the research of the US Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air pollution is 2-5 times more intense than outdoor air, sometimes even up to a hundred times. Therefore, it is of great importance to raise awareness on this issue for the employees to continue their work healthily and efficiently. The underlying reason for the problems experienced in office indoor air quality is that indoor air quality measurements are not performed regularly or at all in offices. When we look at the factors that negatively affect the air quality in the office; There are many reasons such as low area per person and windows cannot be opened due to variable weather conditions. In this case, low-quality air breathed for hours causes fatigue, headache and low motivation in employees. Therefore, measuring data such as carbon dioxide ratio, temperature and humidity in indoor environments will make a significant contribution to the improvement of the office environment. One of the other reasons affecting indoor air quality is the pollutants coming from outside. Although comprehensive tests are needed to fully measure indoor air quality, it is an undeniable fact that it negatively affects working conditions in cities with high air pollution. On the other hand, not regularly maintaining the cooling and heating systems makes the building more vulnerable to harmful particles from outside. In other words, many unaccounted factors, from photocopiers to office cleaning materials, seriously affect the air quality in the office. Solution offers Even small changes in your office will help you significantly improve office indoor air quality. We can list these solutions as follows: • If you have a window in your office, you can ventilate often as the weather permits. It will be good for everyone to have fresh air inside. However, you can designate a crew member to turn the thermostat fans on as needed to maintain regular air circulation. • You can install standalone H13 or H14 HEPA air purifiers or if you have a central air conditioning system you can install retrofit air purifiers like UV Systems or Plasma Ionizers. • If you upgrade your air filters to the MERV-13 or higher model, it is possible to increase the air quality in the office. If you have a limited budget, you can create a plan so that you can replace your air filters regularly. • You can buy plants in your office. Your employees will be able to breathe more easily in the office as plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and give oxygen to the air. • If there is any spill or leak in your office, clean it immediately, otherwise your belongings may become mouldy and this may cause an allergic reaction to your employees. Therefore, it is useful to keep the indoor relative humidity in your office between 40-60%. • It is very important to keep your office clean. If you vacuum and clean your office regularly, you can prevent airborne pathogens. It is useful to double-check emissions from equipment such as mould, asbestos or gas stoves. • Try pulling items (if any) in front of your aerators, this will create smoother air circulation in your office. • The air ducts of your ventilation get clogged over time, so do not neglect its periodic maintenance for everyone’s health. You should change your air filters between 6 and 12 months. Early detection of problems will save you from potential additional costs in your company in the future. • You can test your air quality: With the right tools and technical support, you can learn about many variables from the temperature to the humidity of the air in your office. In this way, while protecting the health of your employees, you can create a more efficient working environment in your company. To maintain the ideal indoor humidity, you can get a device that measures relative humidity. Don't forget to share this post! Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Share on whatsapp Related Articles
MAN’S best friend was turned from predator to pooch thanks to climate change. dog-01Malaga scientists have discovered that a change in climate over hundreds of years forced dogs to evolve to become more sociable and accessible to humans. The mood shift took place due to the evolution of ancient canines’ body shapes. A change in habitat, from woodland areas to wide-open spaces, forced hounds to evolve in order to chase their prey rather than ambush it. As a byproduct, scientists at Malaga University claim their temperament was altered and is the main reason why dogs are man’s best friend today.
Today the Church commemorates a great Bible scholar of the fourth century, Saint Jerome. He made a big contribution by daring to translate the Sacred Scriptures in a language people could understand. By his time, less and less people could understand Hebrew and Greek anymore. Latin was fast becoming the more commonly spoken language. Jerome saw the need to come up with a translation of the Hebrew and Greek books of the Bible into the kind of Latin that was spoken, not by the scholars, but by the Vulgus (nowadays we would say the “masa” or the common people). That is why we have the so-called Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgata (the Latin equivalent of the English “vulgarized”.) You probably have noticed already that in my homilies, I rarely say “The Bible says this or that…”. We don’t usually talk that way as Catholic Christians. That is more common among other Christian denominations. Why, you might ask? Well, because “Bible”, literally means a whole library! For us Catholics, it’s a collection of 73 books, 46 from the Old Testament, and 27 from the New Testament. So when people say, “The Bible says this or that,” I ask, “Where in the Bible? In which book?” They were not written all at the same time. They were composed through a span of more than 1000 years, both Old and New Testaments. Some are older, others are younger. It took a long time before they were put together into one collection. And up until now, Christians have yet to agree exactly which books are supposed to be part of the collection and regarded as Sacred writings. That does not mean they just dropped from heaven. They were written by ordinary human beings like you and me but they have been recognized as inspired by the Holy Spirit. In short, as God’s Word in human words. Our first reading today from Nehemiah gives us an idea how they did a public reading of sacred writings in ancient times. Remember, they had no sound system yet. If Ezra was reading from an elevated podium before an audience of one thousand people, how would you expect those in the middle and those at the back to hear and understand what was being read? The writer tells us Ezra had assistants called the Levites who took care of that. The congregation was grouped into smaller groups with one Levite assigned to each. Their work was to echo or repeat to the smaller groups what Ezra was reading and explaining from the podium. I get the impression that Jesus is adopting the same method in the Gospel. Luke tells us he appointed seventy two other coworkers aside from the twelve apostles in his core group. I think their role was similar to what the Levites did in our first reading—to echo the Rabbi’s preaching. But it looks like Jesus was not contented with that. He sent them two by two in order to follow up on those who had listened to Jesus in the larger assembly, but this time in their homes. That should be the reason why he calls it a “harvest”. It presupposes that something had been previously planted already. In the first reading, we hear that the people in the assembly were moved to tears by Ezra when he read and interpreted the book of the law of Moses to them. Take note how long—for six hours! “From daybreak until midday!” Wow. And they remained attentive and interactive. Listen to how Nehemiah describes them, “All the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law” being read and explained to them. At some point he calls for a lunch break and tells them, “Stop crying, for today is holy to the Lord.” It means it was Sabbath. Then he said, “Do not be saddened this day, FOR REJOICING IN THE LORD MUST BE YOUR STRENGTH.” The people therefore “went to eat and drink…and to celebrate with great joy, for they understood the words that had been expounded to them.” I am sure you also get to experience this once in a while. Sometimes, after Mass, some people greet the parish priest and say, “Father, you know, it’s like every word that you said was meant for me.” Of course that is not always the case. There are also instances when we feel like miserable failures. Like when someone comes and says, “Wow, Father, that homily was bulls eye for many people I know in the parish.” You keep quiet and wish you could tell him, “I didn’t mean it for them. I meant it for you.” I was reading a reflection written by Saint Jerome 1600 years ago in the office of the readings this morning. He said we get to know the power and wisdom of God through the Scriptures, and that, since Christ himself is the power and the wisdom of God, “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” Like Christ whom we proclaim as truly divine and truly human, so also the Scriptures. At each Mass, we are being fed from two tables—the table of the Word, and the table of the Eucharist, at which we received the Word made flesh in Christ, who offers his body and blood as food. St. Augustine it a different kind of food—we don’t change it; it changes us. We don’t receive Christ and make him a part of our bodies. No. When we receive Christ, he transforms us and make us part of his body, his redeeming life and mission.
When you cremate something, you burn it until only ashes are left. The word cremate is most often used to describe the ceremonial burning of dead bodies. If you burn a grilled cheese sandwich and there is nothing but black ashes left in the pan, you can say you cremated it. Usually, however, people use the verb cremate when they're talking about a practical or ceremonial burning of a body. Many people are cremated after dying, with their ashy remains either buried or scattered in a beautiful place. The Latin root word is cremare, "to burn or consume by fire." Definitions of cremate 1. verb reduce to ashes Cremate a corpse” see moresee less type of: burn, burn down, fire destroy by fire Word Family
Bacteria, plant, and animal cells. How do they differ, and what do they have in common? Well, to start off, plant cells are found in plants, and animal cells are found in animals. They all have some similar structures such as the nucleus, DNA, ribosome, etc. But animal cells do not have chloroplasts or cell walls like plant cells do. Plant and animal cells also recieve food in different ways. Organisms with animal cells consume other organisms to get energy, but organisms with plant cells make their own food to get energy. Bacteria are single-celled organisms. They are very different from animal and plant cells. It just has a cell wall, a nucleus, and thread-like DNA. When they are in the process of making new cells, it just splits into two daughter cells. But with animal cells and plant cells, they go through many different phases such as interphase and mitosis. We have recently just finished our edible cell project for science class. I really enjoyed doing that project because it involved team work and creativity. It also helped me learn about cells better. I learned where most of the cell organelles go, and I learned about their functions. For example, I did not know that cells had a protective barrier called "cell membrane." I also learned about many other organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum, lysosomes, vacuole, etc. Our 7th grade science teachers want our opinion about this cell project. Well, for me, it was fun and very educational, and I think we should continue this project. In order to make it, you actually have to take the time to learn about the cell you are making. At first, I wasn't so sure about making this because I didn't know much about cells. But after doing this project, it made me learn a lot about them. This project was very helpful, and tasty.
Sketchbook Cover Art – Symmetrical Botanical Design Your sketchbook is one of your most important tools. It is a place to record your ideas, assignments, sketches and drawings. You will use it everyday in Introduction to Design. You are welcome to take it home but are required to maintain it and have it in class every day. Day 1/Botanical study – Choose 3+ plant images found on Find enough detail pictures of the full plant (there are other images available at this site that will help you clarify the plant – details of leaves, flowers, stems, etc.) In your sketchbook write down the Common, Scientific and Ojibwe names at the top of a blank page. Draw realistic drawings – clearly identifying the plant – leaves and flowers – one plant/page. Based on your realistic drawing determine a “design” with your botanical drawings – knowing that you will be creating a symmetrical design image based on your drawing. Be sure to include the following information in your design: 1. Identify the leaf shape. Do the leaves change size the closer to the end of the stem/branch? 2. Where are the “veins”? Do they come out from one spot or do the spread out from the main center vein? 3. Do the leaves come off the main stem asymmetrically or symmetrically? 4. What is at the tip? (flower? leaf? fruit?) Day 2-3/Creating a symmetrical Design – Paint Marker Symmetrical Glyph 1.Based on the plants chosen sketch out your plan for your sketchbook cover design on a page in your sketchbook. 2. On the cover create a frame, Using a silver Sharpie and ruler divide the cover in half with a 1/2″ border. 3. With a pencil, redraw the symmetrical design, simular to the beadwork designs, on to your sketchbook cover. 6. Fill in the design carefully with paint markers. Clean up edges. Critique – After completing the project on the same page(s) that you drew your plant and worked out the design for your glyph answer the following questions: 1. How does this design reflect who I am? 2. What would I have liked to do differently with my design?
Classified in English Written at on English with a size of 3.85 KB. 1.GRAMMAR will/ won´t (predictions) Complete the dialogues with will/won´t and a verb from the box. Use contractions. 1. A...B it´s very dangerous. You´ll fall 2.A...B won´t win 4.A...B ´ll forget 6.´ll miss 3.A...B won´t remember 5.A...B won´t sell A)Read the horoscopes for this month.Answer the questions. 2.gemini 3.aries 4.Aquarius 5.Taurus A)Listen to a conversation about horoscopes.What are Matt and Amy´s star signs? Matt´s star sign is Capricorn and Amy´s star sign is Virgo. B) 2M 3A 4A 5M 6M 7M 1.GRAMMAR will/won´t (promises, offers, decisions) A)Write sentences using th picures and prompts. Use shall I/ I´ll/ I won´t. 1. call/you tomorrow --> I´ll call you tomorrow 2. lend/you some money? -->shall I lend you some money 3. I´ll have the chicken 4. Shall I take your coat 5. Shall I turn off the air conditioning? 6. I won´t be late B) Are these sentences promises (P),decisions (D), or offers (O)? 1.O 2.P 3.O 4.O 5.D 6.P A. Read the text. What did Paul learn from his experience. Paul learnt not to lend money to strangers. B. Read the text. Number the sentences in the right order. A 6 B3 C5 D1 E4 F2 G8 H7 A. Listen to five speakers describing problems they have had abroad.What do the speakers have in common. They had problems with crime. B.Listen again and match thespeakers with the sentences. Speaker 1 D Speaker 2 A Speaker 3 C Speaker 4 B Speaker 5 E Entradas relacionadas:
Planning and Organizing Research Paper An excellent research paper represents the culmination of an extended process of critical analysis, thorough analysis, argumentation, analysis of sources, business, methodology, and writing. It is helpful to observe the research papers as living things, that grow and change because the student examines, analyzes, and interprets data, resources linked to an issue, and applies their learning to real-life situations. A research paper can start with a thesis statement and ending with a conclusion. Furthermore, it might end with various recommendations, like the need for additional research, or with a couple of recommendations. If a student is having difficulty finding a strong decision, then they may have difficulty finishing their paper. When starting the process of creating a research document, it is necessary to get a clearly defined beginning point. The objective of a research paper must be to present a clear explanation of something, current evidence, and talk about arguments. This is sometimes done by gathering information about the topic. Many researchers use databases, handbooks, or reference books to gather info. At a research document, data should be coordinated and presented in a reasonable manner. Many papers have a segment on their own individual from the main body . This is referred to as an introduction. Some researchers favor this segment to be the first three to four paper writing help pages of their paper, while others believe it ought to be the previous page. Generally, research papers ought to have a single introduction and then a body of text that are associated in a logical order. The research paper isn’t always written in a single sitting. It can be a continuous project a student will continue over time. A summary of the main points of the research, their decisions, recommendations for further study, a listing of references and a bibliography of other related research, as well as their own personal adventures and tips for writing a research paper should be in place prior to writing the research document. This produces the research process simpler, and it helps the writer to organize where and the amount of material to add in the newspaper. As stated earlier, the process of writing an outline is one of planning and organizing. It might be helpful for a student to write out a number of their research ideas and then start writing a draft since they proceed. Добавить комментарий Ваш адрес email не будет опубликован. Обязательные поля помечены *
50 October Writing Prompts Last Updated on March 2, 2021 by Michele Tripple If you are looking for daily writing prompts for October these are just what you need. These 50 October writing prompts will help inspire your young writers to imagine and explore and develop a love of writing. October Journal Prompts This month with our journal prompts for kids we are focusing on everything fall and Halloween! It’s a great time for kids to talk about pumpkins, fears, and favorites when it comes to Halloween and fall. With over 50 October writing prompts to choose from there is one that every child will want to write about each day. If you missed our August writing prompts or September writing prompts be sure to grab them too! And of course, our fall writing prompts for kids! How to use these prompts Use these October writing prompts to encourage your child or your students to get writing. Print out the cards, laminate them for extra durability, and use over and over again! Pass out a card to each student. Let them journal write about that topic for a given amount of time. Once the time is up, collect them and store them. The next day, pull them out and pass them out again. With over 50 prompts your whole class will have a different prompt to write about all month long. October Writing Prompts • What was your most favorite Halloween costume and why? • What is your favorite type of Halloween candy? • Describe a memory of going to the pumpkin patch • What is your favorite scary story and why? • What is one thing you are scared of? • What would you do if you heard a weird sound in the basement? • What is your favorite pumpkin-flavored food? • What is your favorite Halloween tradition? • List as many things that you can think of that are orange. • What is something that you wish you could unsee? • Write about a time you visited a haunted house and what happened. • Brainstorm and write down your own ghost story • What is one thing that made you laugh or smile this week? • What would you name your scarecrow? • What is your favorite thing about fall weather? • Three words that describe this year so far would be…. • What is your favorite Halloween movie and why? • What is your favorite fall dessert? • What is something you have always been curious about? • What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten? • Write about a time you pulled a prank on someone and how it went. • Do you believe in ghosts? Why or why not? • Write about any superstitions you may have. • Write about a fear you had as a child that you no longer have. • At what age do you think children should stop trick-or-treating? • Would you spend the night in a cemetery if someone paid you? Why or why not? • Write about something that sends chills down your spine. • What would you do if you could suddenly see dead people? • Write about a good memory from the month of October. • “It was a dark and stormy night when….” • Write about what your life would be like as part of the Addams Family • If you had a flying broomstick, where would you go and why? • What is your best witch’s brew recipe? • If you could be invisible like a ghost for one day, what would you do? • What would you do if your family turned into zombies? • Make a list of all of your past Halloween costumes that you can remember. • Write about a time you carved pumpkins • Explain how and why a leaf changes color in the fall • What particular smell always makes you think of fall? • What is your favorite fall sport and why? • Write down some of the reasons you like/dislike the Halloween holiday. • Describe the way that leaves sound as you step on them. • What are your thoughts on daylight savings time? Yay or Nay? • What are you and your friends/family going to be for Halloween this year? • Would you rather go through a regular or haunted corn maze and why? • In your opinion, what is the best way to celebrate Halloween? (party, scary movie, etc.) • Why is this season called both “fall” and “autumn”? Which do you prefer? Why? What October journal prompts would you add to the list? Share in the comments! picture of the October writing prompts Check out these fun games for kids! 1 thought on “50 October Writing Prompts” Leave a Comment
If There Ever Was: A Book of Extinct and Impossible Smells The concept, according to Blackson, came from reading Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation." The book mentions how food corporations can use artificial chemicals to engineer smells and tastes that replicate virtually any substance. With this in mind, Blackson tasked perfumers, chemists, botanists and even a NASA scientist to engineer smells that most humans might never experience. Scents created include everything from long extinct plants to the fragrance immediately following an atomic bomb explosion. They even recreated the smell of the surface of the Sun, which scientists approximated by using the scents of seven earth metals heated to their melting point. "If There Ever Was" is the companion book to the art exhibit. It features paper inserts that correspond to the exhibit smells, all manifested through scratch-and-sniff technology. That way, you can smell the putrid odor of Russian gym socks on the Mir space station without having to leave the comfort of your home. "If There Ever Was" costs $25 in the Cornerhouse store. via Fed By Birds
什么是生物多样性 What is biodiversity? The name we give to the variety of all life on Earth. From bacteria to baboons, from plants to people, the range of life on our planet is incredible. All living things exist in their own communities or ecosystems. These ecosystems can be oceans, forests, deserts, ice caps and even cities. All of that put together is biodiversity - the variety and amount of all organisms and their habitats. We are all intertwined in a massive system called Earth. Each element supports the others and enables them to thrive. For our planet to stay healthy our ecosystems need to be able to cope with change. This means we need a large variety of animals and plants. If we allow earth to flourish, we benefit from what it can produce, including the food we eat, the water we drink and medicines we rely on.
Communism and the Cold War in China Communism and the Cold War in China Ban Zhao Packet Questions (1-9), Ning Lao (10-11) 1) As a daughter-in-law, Ban Zhao tells the reader that her position is one of servitude and respect to authority. She has escaped from the fears of servitude by laboring hard and diligently for her 2) According to Ban Zhao, men must control their wives and be worthy. Wives must serve their husbands. This is the natural order of things. Husband and wife must not be too affectionate and always together. A woman must stay distanced and subservient to their husband. 3) Ban Zhao considers the principle duty of a husband to be authoritative and commanding to his wife and the duty of the wife is to take care of the home and obey her husband. 4) Husband and wife are complementary parts of the universe because of the yin and yang. Males and husbands are the aggressive male element and yin is the yielding female element. Nature, as in human relationships, to be balanced, must have the proper mix of yin and yang with the wife in the role of yin and the husband in the role of yang. 5) According to Ban Zhao, women must be given educations by their mothers modeled on Confucian principles. The purpose of this is to teach young girls their role in society, what they are expected to do, and humility and respect. Ban Zhao says to her daughters that “I have thought of you all in so untrained a state, I have been uneasy many a time for you.” I can infer that she gave her daughters some education, but not as much as she would have liked to. 6) Ban Zhao advocates a break from tradition in imploring her daughters to each write out a set of rules for their daughters. This was most likely unheard of at her time. 7) Ban Zhao’s claim to lack intelligence suggests her extreme humility. She was probably not sincere in this claim because she had the capability to write this book and she advocated extreme 8) Ban Zhao’s essay has become highly regarded by Confucians because it eloquently states women’s role in society according to basic Confucian beliefs. It fits perfectly with the Confucian view of Husband and Wife. The wife being subservient to the husband, most act in the ways prescribed by Ban Zhao. 9) It would be incorrect for Ban Zhao to be called a feminist. This is because feminists often argue equality and greater rights for women. Ban Zhao argues the opposite. However, some may consider her a feminist simply because of her prominent role as an author and her gender. 10) Ning Lao and her granddaughter both took ‘the less traveled path’ for women of their time. Ning Lao rebelled against social tradition when she left her husband to become a beggar. Her grand daughter joined that nationalist movement against the Japanese. They were different because Ning Lao needed much greater courage to take action than her daughter did. 11) Ning Lao’s account of her life is very significant because it shows the growing social change in China around the turn of the 20th century. She was one woman who chose to live her own life. Her story would speak for countless others doing the same thing. Section 4 – HoWS pgs 1101 - 1106 and Murphey pgs 377 – 391 1) Why were the Communists successful in defeating the Nationalists? Where did the nationalists go? a. The Communists were able to defeat the nationalists because they were able to rally peasant support behind them. After Japan attacked, the Communists fought ferociously and in the peasant’s eyes, they were the true nationalists. Also, the land ‘reforms’ that they proposed were very popular with the peasant masses. The nationalist leaders and one million Chinese fled to the island of Formosa and renamed it Taiwan; The Republic of China. 2) Why were the early successes of the communists overshadowed by the Great Leap Forward? a. The early successes of the communists were overshadowed by the Great Leap Forward because even though the communists did make some gains, they did not make up for the dismal failure that was the Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap proposed to overtake Britain in industrial manufacturing by having peasants smelt iron in crude backyard furnaces. The products of the crude furnaces was unusable and it took away time from farming. This lead to the starvation of at least 30 million people. 3) What was Mao’s strategy to regain control of the party and the country? What were the effects of this ‘movement’? a. Mao’s strategy to regain control of the party and country was to create a secondary communist revolution in which all non-Maoist people would be persecuted and all no-Maoist ideas rejected. This was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. All people suspected of having “rightist tendencies” were persecuted or ‘reeducated.’ Officials, managers, musicians, writers, teachers, and intellectuals were attacked by the Red Guards, radical Maoist youth movements that sprung up all over the country. Eventually however, the Red Guards needed to be suppressed by the military and this led to a feeling of great resentment. 4) Who was Deng Xiopeng? a. Deng Xioaping was the moderate leader who took over after Hua Kuo-feng, who took over after Mao, and Chiang Ching and the Gang of Four. He began the second revolution because he started new modernization of many different aspects of China 5) What were the four modernizations? a. His four modernizations were agriculture, industry, science and technology, and national defense. 6) How did the suppression of students in 1989 illustrate the contradictions of modern China? a. The brutal suppression of students illustrates the contradiction inherent in Chinese government because on one hand, capitalist and democratic reforms are being made. However, the official party of the government is still strictly Communist and resistant to political reform. So, while reforms are being taken, the use of force against protesters at Tiananmen Square shows that China still has some ways to go before it is fully modernized. Mao takes control over the mainland and established the People’s Republic of China Revolution in agriculture Redistribution of land 20 million landlords terrorized Land was confiscated and redistributed at 1 acre per family China’s First Five Year Plan 1953 – 1957 Half of government’s investment was in industry Collectivization of private farms – mutual aid teams and Was rather successful China’s Second Five Year Plan 1958 – 1962 From Socialism to true Communism Massive modification of China’s social and economic structure No private ownership – communal living Increase in steel and power production Backyard steel production Too much, too fast WORST FAMINE in the history of the world Disruption of social and economic structure The Great Leap “Forward” * Propaganda videos encouraged peasants to work on projects such as the Yenan canal. * Projects rarely met expectations in the amount of time and people necessary to build them. * For example, the Yenan canal took ten years and 60,000 peasants. These people were building instead of farming. * Peasants built small furnaces in backyards and villages and poured much effort into creating steel. * Forests were decimated and people neglected the regular tasks, including food production. * Only steel was made but it was of such low quality that it couldn’t even be used. * They had to obey the government’s orders. Steel produced was impure, weak, and useless. * This was 1959. No farming was being done and crops rotted and none were replacing them. * A major famine followed with a 25% decrease in food * In a secret report, the party estimated that at LEAST 20 million people had died. * The communes were abandoned and peasants had greater economic freedom again. This helped the economy to recover. * However, Mao began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in an attempt to reinforce Communism and end the free market that had helped China to recover. * Revolutionary plays were written for the Beijing opera and actors were used to “reeducate” people. * In August 1966, the Great Proletarian Revolution and the “Gang of Four” – Mao’s advisors and wife, tried to build up Mao’s cult. Students ere encouraged to rebel and form the Red Guards: groups that enforced Mao’s policies and attacked non-Maoists. * The fervor was directed against reformists such as Deng Xiopeng and Liu. Small children were taught to denounce Mao’s enemies. Pupils attacked their teachers. * It was an attempt for Mao to regain power from being only a figurehead. He attacked traditional beliefs and habits, nationalist connections, western influences, and moderate communists such as Liu and Deng. * The Red Guard was a radical youth movement that caused millions of young people to go on the march in a fervor of antibourgeois sentiment. * The Results: Persecution of teachers, officials, violence, factions, and chaos. * The West was still blind to the occurrences because of the “bamboo curtain.” * Zhou Enlai = Mao’s second in command in the Cultural * Toward the end of the revolution, Zhou made a speech urging the need for modernization. * In 1976, both Zhou and Mao died. * Deng Xiopeng emerged the leader in the ensuing power vacuum. * A more moderate leader, he led reforms in agriculture, science and technology, medicine, and national defense. * Deng was a pragmatist; he said that “I don’t care if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.” * Results: Expansion in trade, purchase of foreign technology, use of foreign scientists and technicians, capitalistic incentives, education based on success and merit * “It is glorious to get rich” * 1989 – Democratic uprising of one million students in Tiananmen Square * They were not content with the lack of political freedom and abundant corruption. * Deng sided with the hardliners and cleared the square with tanks. China Today Economic prosperity and economic disparity Capitalist incentives and communist leadership Foreign investment and burgeoning population Phenomenal economic growth but little political freedom The world’s factory but has an enormous trade imbalance. Similar documents
I have posted this question in math.stackexchange.com, [can be found here], which I originally thought it is a math question. I now believe this would fit more to the Signal Processing community. For convenience, I am reposting the question in below. I would appreciate any help. I am trying to understand what it means by $0.01\log_{10}$, which was published in the following paper at page 7 in IEEE. Berrier, Keith L., Danny C. Sorensen, and Dirar S. Khoury. "Solving the inverse problem of electrocardiography using a Duncan and Horn formulation of the Kalman filter." IEEE Transactions on biomedical engineering 51.3 (2004): 507-515. I cannot convert $0.01\log_{10}$ to a number since I expected to see something like $0.01\log_{10}^3$ to be able to say it is equal to 0.0048. The authors uses this expression twice in the paper. Could someone kindly help me in understanding what the authors meant by $0.01\log_{10}$? The following is a snapshot of the paragraph of the paper in which $0.01\log_{10}$ was used. enter image description here Differences in log scales correspond to ratios of the underlying values. Saying you are within .01 on a $\log_{10}$ scale means the true value is within $10^{-.01}$ and $10^{.01}$ of the stated value, ratio wise. That calculates out to 0.9772 and 1.0233. Since the value is so close to 1, an interval on the ratio scale is close to an interval on a difference scale, so you could also say the results are within about 2.3%. I haven't read the paper. Hope this helps. So, on a whim I looked up "centibel" and found https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centibel. A "cB" if you will. Not too many other references though. I should have also looked at the OP's math link. The correct answer was already there. It looks to me that they are specifying a tolerance of within $1/1000^{\mathrm{th}}$ of a dB. If they have experimentally determined a parameter $P$, which in dB is $10 \log_{10}{P}$, then saying they are within $0.01 \log_{10}$ looks like one thousandth of a dB to me. • $\begingroup$ I think you went the wrong way on the decimal point. $$ 1 dB = 0.1 \log_{10} $$ So the result is 1/10 dB. $\endgroup$ Apr 21 '18 at 1:19 • $\begingroup$ Hmm. I would call $10 \log_{10}$ within 1 dB ("on the scale of a dB"), $1 \log_{10}$ within 0.1 dB, etc. Although I will concede, claiming to know something more precisely than a 10th of a dB is silly, if a log scale is the correct way to present the data. Either way, it's a really odd way to specify the error in an emperically determined value. $\endgroup$ – Andy Walls Apr 21 '18 at 3:49 • $\begingroup$ Yeah, I stated my equation poorly. It should say "1 dB is 0.1 on a Log (Bel) scale" and not implied the multiplication. I think "within 0.1 dB" would be better than "within 0.01 Bel" which is better than "within .01 Log10". If a log scale isn't inherent, I would think "within 2.3%" is a lot clearer. $\endgroup$ Apr 21 '18 at 4:12 Your Answer
History of ancient Israel 12 – Hellenistic period From eagle-rock.org Wojciech Stattler's "The Maccabees". The Maccabees were a Jewish rebel army that fought against Hellenist influence in Judea. This article is part of a series Divine Principle - History of restoration Summary: The books of the New Testament were written between ca 50 and ca 100 CE, the first ones being the Epistles of Paul. In the first centuries of Christianity, many texts existed that were read by early Christian communities, but which didn't make it into the canon of the Bible. Recent discoveries, such as that of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945, brought new attention to these extra-biblical texts, often of a Gnostic nature. Here you can find information about both the Biblical books and the so-called Apocrypha. For most Protestants, the term apocrypha refers to scriptural texts that fall outside of the Biblical canon. Text of the video (PDF file)
Currency Flow The money going into and out of your business is referred to as cash flow. Your cash flows are divided into three categories on the cash flow statement: operations, investments, and finance. You’ll find the following information in each section: Cash inflows are the funds that enter into your business from sources such as sales, loans, and investments. Outflows of cash, such as money spent on supplies, loans, and staff, are examples of cash outflows. You can use the cash flow formula to figure out how much cash you’ll have in the future (or how much cash you had in the past): Initial cash balance + cash inflows – cash outflows = cash balanceThe cash balance is the amount of money in the business right now. The beginning cash balance is the amount of money available at the start of the cash flow statement period you choose. When you want to make sure you have enough money to pay for a future expense, such as next month’s salary or opening a new location next year, you can use a cash flow statement and the equation. A cash flow statement, for example, can be used to compare how much cash you will have at the beginning of next month versus how much cash you have at the beginning of current month. Let’s say you have $1,000 to begin with. You spend $ 1,500 on costs for the month, sell $300 in cash and another $ 1,200, but the buyer does not pay you for two months. You may also like
Marshall Space Flight Center Declared Essential For The Artemis Program The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center is NASA’s largest center that has seen the development and implementation of many of the U.S. government’s civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research programs and space missions. Now, NASA declared Marshall Space Flight Center as essential for the Artemis Program. Marshall Space Flight Center was formed on July 1st, 1960, and its prime mission was to create the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program. It is the main center that supervised many of the most critical assignments, from astronauts training to the design and manufacture of the International Space Station and the Space Launch System, among other things. Marshall Space Flight Center Declared Essential For The Artemis Program Given this background, it is normal for the Marshall Space Flight Center to be an essential site for the upcoming Artemis Program. Jim Bridenstine announced a visit to MSFC to talk about how the role the center could have in the future Moon missions, such as the function of astronauts in space and their safe landing. MSFC will be in charge of the buildup and improvement of the lunar landing system which has a critical mission: to send the first woman and the next man from Earth to the low-lunar orbit and then to the surface of the Moon. Also, the flight center is going to manage the development of the low-lunar orbit probe and the moon lander by various commercial companies. The low-lunar orbit probe is named the Transfer Element, while the moon lander is named the Descent Element. The Johnson Space Center in Huston will give a helping hand to MSFC by developing the Ascent Element vehicle which will keep safe the astronauts as they descend on the Moon and while they will go back to the Space Launch System in their voyage back to Earth. The leader of the Artemis mission will be Lisa Watson-Morgan, one of the top engineers at the Marshal Space Flight Center.
Full video with closed captioning available here I’m going to talk to you today about barriers to creating an Aboriginal veganism. I’ll talk a bit about traditional food, and human-animal relationship in Mi’kmaq legends. And I’ll end with the concept of “M`sit No`maq,” which means “all my relations”. There are two main barriers to an Aboriginal veganism. The first is that veganism is often equated with whiteness. As a result, Aboriginal vegans are assumed to be inauthentic and assimilated. This presents a challenge for people like me, who view our veganism as compatible with our Aboriginality. Ojibwa playwright Drew Hayden Taylor jokes, “What do you call a Native vegetarian?” His answer: “A very bad hunter.” The implication is that for Aboriginals, choosing a non-meat diet is a kind of cultural failure. The second barrier to Aboriginal veganism is its portrayal as a product of class privilege. Opponents claim that a vegan diet is an indulgence. And the poor – among whom Aboriginal people are disproportionately represented – can’t afford to be so picky. This assumes that vegans eat highly processed food products, and it overlooks the economic and environmental cost of meat and assumes that the subsidized meat and dairy industries in North America are representative of the entire world. While it’s true that I favour an increase in Aboriginal veganism, I’m not proposing that we replace a vibrant food culture with one that’s, maybe, a little more alien. The truth is, the eating habits of Aboriginal people have already been colonized. People have been trained to think that poverty is Native. So we see Aboriginal restaurants that have bologna, wieners and canned meat wrapped in fry bread on their menu. What we’re doing is traditionalizing our own poverty. Lack of access to nutrient-rich foods is a problem that Aboriginal people have in common with other oppressed groups. Konju Briggs Jr. notes that poor communities of colour in the U.S. lack access to healthy food and as a result are disproportionately affected by diabetes and heart disease. In Canada, the reserve system resulted in a diet high in sugar and carbohydrates and low in protein and fibre. As a result, Mi’kmaq people have seen a serious increase in diabetes and gallstones. Professor of Human Ecology, Kim Travers sees three reasons for this nutrient-poor diet among the Mi’kmaq: First, most of us have very low incomes. Second, we lack access to transportation so we can’t go to things like farmers markets. And third, our reserves are situated on land that isn’t suitable for agriculture, so we can’t grow our own food. Mi’kmaq people living on reserve are often limited to eating protein such as peanut butter, wieners and bologna. So, what’s the problem with developing an Aboriginal veganism? Well, it’s hard to frame it as a traditional activity. Historically, the Mi’kmaq diet was meat-heavy. We ate beaver, fish, eels, birds, porcupine, and sometimes the whale, moose, or caribou. And we supplemented this meaty diet with vegetables, roots, nuts and berries. The use of animals as food figures prominently in our legends. So that’s an issue. Second, food production is gendered in Mi’kmaq culture. Hunting was a traditionally male activity connected with the maintenance of virility. The killing of a moose symbolized a boy’s entry into manhood. So when you challenge the hunting traditions, you’re challenging how Mi’kmaq men understand their masculinity. At the same time, I want to suggest that the context in which Aboriginal gender identity develops has changed significantly since colonization. Meat, as a symbol of patriarchy, actually binds us closer to white colonial culture, than practices such as veganism do. Veganism might be seen as white, but it’s certainly not hegemonic. So, desperate for some way to understand my veganism together with my Mi’kmaq culture, I started delving into our legends. In our stories, animals are our siblings. Mi’kmaq legends view humanity and animal life as being on a continuum. Animals speak, change into human form, and some humans marry these shapeshifters and raise children together. Human magicians may take animal form, and some people are transformed into animals against their will. An ecofeminist exegesis of Mi’kmaq legends enabled me to see my veganism as a spiritual practice that reflects the fact that humans and other animals possess a shared personhood. Quick show of hands, how many people have heard of Glooscap, and have any idea who he is? Okay, not very many people at all. So, Mi’kmaq legends portray human beings as intimately connected with the natural world. Glooscap is sort of our main figure in Mi’kmaq legends. He’s like an Adam. He’s sort of like a Hercules or a Superman. He’s this prototype human being, who has special powers. So, for instance, in our legends, Glooscap is formed from the red clay of the soil of Prince Edward Island. In the story of “Nukumi and Fire”, the Creator makes a grandmother, Nukumi, for Glooscap from a dew-covered rock. She agrees to provide wisdom in exchange for food. When Nukumi explains she cannot live on plants and berries alone, Glooscap calls to Marten and asks him to give his life so Glooscap’s grandmother can live. Marten agrees because of his friendship with Glooscap. For this sacrifice, Glooscap makes Marten his brother. Based on this story, it seems like Glooscap wasn’t a hunter prior to the arrival of the grandmother. This story also represents, through the characters of Glooscap and Martin, the basic relation of the Mi’kmaq people with the animals around us. The animals are willing to provide food, clothing, shelter and tools, but they must be treated with the respect given a brother and friend. marg - agnes A Mi’kmaq creation story tells of the birth of Glooscap’s nephew from seafoam caught in Sweetgrass. Glooscap calls upon the salmon to give up their lives so he can feed his nephew. Although not unproblematic, this dynamic is at least open to the possibility of refusal on the part of the animal. As well, the story undermines the widespread view that we have an innate right to eat animals. Glooscap and his family don’t want to kill all the animals – indicating moderation in their fishing practices. The theme is one of dependence, not domination. Animals have independent lives, their own purposes, and their own relationship with the Creator. They’re not created for food but willingly become food in these stories as a sacrifice for their friends. This is a far cry from the perspective of the white colonial hunter, in which animals are constructed as requiring population control, turning slaughter into a service performed, rather than one received. An interesting exception to this thread is the Wabanaki story of “Glooscap and His People”, which blames the animals themselves for man’s aggression toward them. In this tale, Malsum, an evil counterpart to Glooscap, turns the animals against Glooscap. Glooscap announces, sounding oddly like a god-figure here: “I made the animals to be man’s friends, but they have acted with selfishness and treachery. Hereafter, they shall be your servants and provide you with food and clothing.” In this story, the original vision of harmony is lost, and inequality takes its place as a punishment for listening to Malsum. In this way, the story is sort of similar to the Genesis story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Glooscap shows the men how to make bows, arrows and spears, and he shows the women how to scrape hides and make clothing. He says: “Now you have power over even the largest wild animals. Yet I charge you to use this power gently. If you take more game than you need for food and clothing or kill for the pleasure of killing, then you will be visited by a pitiless giant named Famine.” Even in this story, which attempts to justify dominion, the proper relation to the animals is only for food and clothing. If animal consent is required to justify their consumption, then it opens the possibility that such consent might be revokedAnother feature of Mi’kmaq stories is the regret that comes with animal death. In “The Legend of the Wild Goose”, Glooscap is concerned for the safety of the migrating birds and he charges the Canada Goose with their protection. “The Adventures of Katoogwasees” tells how Glooscap’s grandmother used magic to obtain an unlimited amount of beaver meat from a single bone, reflecting a wish for abundance disconnected from the need to hunt. Regret and kinship also feature in the story of “Muin, The Bear’s Child”. In one version of the tale, a young boy, Siko, is trapped in a cave by his evil stepfather and left to die. The animals hear him crying but only the bear is strong enough to remove the rocks from the front of the cave. Siko is adopted and raised as a bear. Later, Siko’s bear family is attacked by hunters and his mother is killed. He addresses the hunters in Mi’kmaq and pleads with them to spare his sister. The amazed hunters put down their weapons and spare the bear cub. In addition, they are sorry for having killed the bear that had been so good to Siko. At the end of the story, Siko takes on the name Muin, the Bear’s Son, and vows that when he grows up and becomes a hunter, he will never kill a mother bear or bear children. The regret that you see in the Muin story is also expressed in rituals surrounding the act of hunting. One ritual, a dance, thanks to the spirit of the animal for giving its life for food. In contrast to the enlightenment view of humans as distinguished from animals by speech and thought, Mi’kmaq legends view animals as not only capable of thought and speech, but as people. The value of an animal lies not in its utility, but in its very essence as a living being. Happily for me, not all Mi’kmaq food traditions centre upon meat. Glooscap’s mother was a leaf on a tree given life and human form by the sun. The feast celebrating her birth consists of plants, roots, berries, nuts and fruit. If we recognize that activities traditionally performed by Mi’kmaq women, such as fruit, vegetable, and nut gathering, are also fully Aboriginal, then we can form indigenous counter-narratives to meat promotion. If women initiated hunting, as in the story of Glooscap’s grandmother, then surely changing circumstances empower us to end it as well. The values obtained from an ecofeminist exegesis of Mi’kmaq stories can serve as a starting point for an indigenous veganism. The personhood of animals, their self-determination, and our regret at their death, all show that choosing not to ask for their sacrifice is a legitimately Aboriginal option. Since the consumption of animals for food, clothing and shelter is no longer necessary, as vegan culture demonstrates, then the Mi’kmaq tradition, as manifested in our legends, suggests that hunting and killing our animal brothers is no longer authorized. Because Aboriginal people are the targets of genocide, the practices that we adopt are vitally important. Bonita Lawrence notes that daily life practices have been used to assess the authenticity of Native identity claims, to accord Indian status, and to assess land claims. For instance, some Native land claims were rejected because the claimants had regular jobs and could be shown to have eaten pizza, instead of living off the land. Because Aboriginal people are judged based on how we eat and how we live, the choices that we make around this are extremely important. Because practices, such as veganism, may impact how white authorities assess our treaty rights. Yet those who value only preserving Aboriginal tradition join with colonialism in seeing no place for a contemporary indigeneity. There’s more to my culture and to my relationship with the land, particularly as a woman, than hunting and killing animals. One must also be aware of changing circumstances and needs among the Mi’kmaq. As research shows, Mi’kmaq people living on reserve are dependent on store-bought food and, in addition, half of Canada’s Aboriginal population lives in urban areas. When Aboriginality is defined as a primordial lifestyle it reflects our intentional extinction as a people. The modern commercial fishery, often touted as offering economic security for Aboriginal communities, is even further removed from our Mi’kmaq values than modern day vegan practices are. Commercial fishing frames fish as objects to be collected for exchange, while veganism is rooted in a relationship with animals based on respect and responsibility. The ability to reinterpret our traditions, our rituals, enabled our ancestors to survive genocide, famine, disease, forced moves, reserves, residential schooling, and a host of other colonial ills. Urban Aboriginals, like myself, embody our traditional values in new rituals. Vegan meal preparation and consumption, for example, can become infused with transcendent significance, as we recall our connection with other animals, our shared connection to the Creator, and prefigure a time when we can live in harmony with other animals, as Glooscap did before the invention of hunting. Veganism offers us a sense of belonging to a moral community, whose principles and practices reflect the values of our ancestors, even if they might be at odds with their traditional practice. At stake in the creation of an Aboriginal veganism is the authority of Aboriginal people, especially women, to determine cultural authenticity. Dominant white discourse portrays our cultures as embedded in the past. But Aboriginal cultures are living traditions, responsive to changing circumstances. In retelling and reinterpreting our stories, or in creating new stories, Aboriginal women claim authority over our oral traditions. In doing so we recognize that our oral culture is not fixed in time and space, but is adaptable to our needs, to the needs of our animal siblings, and to the needs of the land itself. To finish off, I’d like to say a few words about the phrase “M`sit No`maq”, which means “all my relations”. It basically encapsulates the Mi’kmaq perspective on the world. What does this phrase mean, exactly? Who are my relations? And I have a brief anecdote to share too, which I think encapsulates the concept: One day, after a big rainstorm, my dad came into the house, d said “Hey kids, I need your help. A frog laid a bunch of eggs in this puddle out back, and it’s drying up now, and they’re all going to die if we don’t get them into the pond.” So for the next two hours, in the sun and the muggy weather, we transported these gelatinous frog eggs and these squirmy little tadpoles from their shrinking puddle into the pond near our house. And as we did this, I realized that to my dad, the fragility of these animals mattered in the same way that our own fragility mattered. So for me, that was a really concrete experience of what that phrase “all my relations” means. “Let me not forget our mutual vulnerability”, and let the way that we treat each other reflect these ties that bind us all. Thank you. Full video with closed captioning available here Dr. Margaret Robinson is a vegan Mi’kmaw scholar and bisexual activist based in Toronto. She holds a PhD from the University of St. Michael’s College. Margaret is currently a fellow in community-based research with the Researching for LGBTQ Health Team at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and an affiliate fellow with the CIHR-funded Social Aetiology of Mental Illness Training Program. Margaret is passionate about postcolonial theory and Aboriginal self-government. She is a past editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Networks and a present board member of the Postcolonial Network. 1. What an inspiration on so many levels. I am a middles aged vegan gay male who is trying to simplify life in retirement and hoping to setup my property to be something that can one day be used as an gathering place for those who work towards the the same ideals of compassion and equality and have always been mostly ignorant but enraged by the continued attacks on the indigenous way of life. I came across your talk by googling indigenous vegans and have always thought to myself that the indigenous should be exempt from vegan ire given many still live a subsistence lifestyle. So I was shaken into some doubt after reading this. Thank you for speaking. Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
What's the differences between make, build, construct, assemble, erect, create, put up and form? If we want to describe something that we worked with, these words may confuse us, they have the same meanings for making something. Make is used for creating or preparing something in combing materials or putting parts together, the objects such as dinner/breakfast/food or some craftworks like shoes/clothes/paints, they are always small, not so complicated and it can be finished by yourself. Build has the noun form for building, the verb form always related with the building such as house/road/floor or the objects needs several people to work together. Construct always been used as passive, it emphasizes the structure of something or how it has been constructed. Assemble is used for organizing something, such as machine, organization, or group. It emphasizes the internal things worked each other's. Erect means to build something which we have known the positions. Create is used for making something new/happen/exist, it is never existed before. Form is used for build something which already has the shape or regular logic. Put up is used to build or place something in somewhere.
Question: Who Sank Akagi? Who Sank the Kaga? Wade McCluskySoon after the torpedo plane attacks, American carrier dive bombers arrived over the Japanese carriers almost undetected and began their dives. At 10:22, 25 SBD Dauntless dive-bombers from Enterprise, led by C. Wade McClusky, hit Kaga with one 1,000-pound (450 kg) bomb and at least three 500-pound (230 kg) bombs.. Why can’t Japan have a military? How many American pilots died at Midway? The victory cost the United States one carrier and a destroyer, as well as nearly 150 aircraft—more than two-thirds of which were carrier-based. American personnel losses were relatively light; 317 sailors, airmen, and Marines from the Midway garrison were killed. Could the Japanese have won midway? Victory at Midway would not have won Japan the war, but could well have given the Second World War a very different turn. Originally published in the August 2013 issue of World War II. To subscribe, click here. How many ships were sunk at Midway? seven shipsMore than 2,000 Japanese people and 300 Americans were killed in the battle that ensued, and a total of seven ships were sunk – four of which were Japanese carriers. America’s victory at Midway dealt a huge blow to Japan’s naval capabilities and was seen as a turning point in the Pacific War. Who bombed the Akagi? Lieutenant Dick BestOne carrier, one destroyer, 144 aircraft, and 362 Americans perished in the fight. The sinking of the Akagi was unique in that it was only struck once, most likely the devastating result of a 1,000-pound bomb dropped by Lieutenant Dick Best, who was serving as commander of VB-6. Has the Akagi been found? The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, sunk on June 5, 1942 during the Battle of Midway, has been identified by Vulcan Inc. … The wreck of Akagi was found 5,280 meters (more than 17,000 feet) below the surface of the Central Pacific in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Hawaii. Why does Japan not have aircraft carriers? Japan’s Options Japan is unlikely to order a large carrier from a foreign yard, and not just because very few countries can build such ships. Could China sink an aircraft carrier? That Might Not Be Accurate. The U.S. drills involve decided efforts to prepare for the possibility of a coordinated, multi-carrier attack. … These types of operations succeed by virtue of elaborate networking, and command and control and air-confliction efforts. Are Akagi and Kaga sisters? Kaga sees Akagi as her older sister, despite being as strong as her. She’s usually friendly, but often acts as a counter to Akagi’s tendency to going a little wild. That said, their temperaments in battle are similar. Who lost the most ships in ww2? US Navy Has Lost Fewer Than 30 Ships Since WW2, These Are the Most Notable Losses. The US Navy lost over 350 ships during World War II, but less than 30 since then. Has the US ever lost an aircraft carrier? How many carriers lost at Midway? four carriersAt the Battle of Midway, Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties. What carriers were sunk at Midway? The four Japanese fleet carriers—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier—were sunk, as was the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The U.S. lost the carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann. Does Japan have a aircraft carrier? Japan will not have aircraft carriers, but it will have Multi-Purpose Operation Destroyers. … Starting in the Cold War, Japan built extra-large destroyers equipped with more helicopters than those of other nations. The Shirane class were 7,500 tons and could carry 3 Sea King helicopters.
Can Bearded Dragons Drink Tap Water? [Is It Safe For Them?] If you own a bearded dragon, then you will likely have some questions about keeping them well hydrated. Being a lizard, how they obtain their water can vary but nonetheless, it is important that they get sufficient water. Interestingly, bearded dragons drink water, and can learn to do so from a dish. But can you top this up with tap water? Is it safe and preferable to do so? This is what you must know. So, can bearded dragons drink tap water? Bearded dragons can drink tap water although reptile specialists recommend that you purify it first with a water filter or conditioner. This will remove unwanted minerals, chemicals, and other additives which can be harmful to your bearded dragon. While small amounts of unfiltered tap water should be okay, prolonged exposure can lead to health complications over time. As levels of potentially harmful substances will vary depending on your location and your local water supply, it is best to remain cautious and safe. Besides, the water that comes out of our taps is actually a highly altered resource. It’s entirely different from what these reptiles are used to in the wild. Bearded dragons originate from the desert regions of the Australian outback; this makes them able to adapt well to arid conditions. But, water is still important; and how a bearded dragon obtains it is even more so if we think about how limited it usually is in this kind of landscape. In their natural environment, bearded dragons have developed ways to derive their hydration from the plant and insect materials they consume. Bearded dragons in captivity can do the same, but they equally should be provided with a clean water source every day. Many owners assume their tap water is safe to offer their bearded dragons. Sometimes it is, but for others, it can be proven to be more problematic. The honest answer to whether bearded dragons can drink tap water is, therefore, it depends, but this advice is not very actionable or helpful. So instead, it is best to be proactive and take the initiative. Some town councils and local authorities will list exactly what is in your tap water online. Others by law will have to make it available upon request. Either way, we can never be entirely sure and certain as to what is in our tap water, which is why filtering it first is often recommended by reptile specialists and veterinarians. Let us now take a closer look at the importance of hydration for bearded dragons before we look more closely at tap water specifically. We’ll finish up with some helpful ways to ensure your bearded dragon gets all the water they need along with some signs to watch out for that could suggest dehydration. So, be sure to keep on reading to ensure you obtain all the information you need to keep your beardie happy and healthy. Importance Of Hydration For Bearded Dragons A bearded dragon must remain well-hydrated because even mild dehydration will eventually result in health problems. Health complications that can arise include kidney disease, constipation, gout, and excessive or partial shedding. Even during brumation (a state of minimal activity and movement), bearded dragons need hydration as it can lead to severe health issues and, in extreme cases, death. However, at the same time, bearded dragons do not need an excess of water. Too much can be problematic too. Remember, wild bearded dragons will spend the majority of their time slightly more dehydrated than the other way; so it is important that you meet their needs and nothing more. To calculate how much water your bearded dragon needs, you can use the following calculation: Bearded Dragons Water Requirements = 0.1 milliliters per gram of body weight per day. Essentially, water requirements vary depending on a bearded dragon’s size and age. Generally, older and larger beardies require more water. With this in mind, the below is a useful table which displays roughly how much they should be getting per day: Bearded Dragon Weight (Grams)Water Per 24 Hour Period (ml)Water In A 24 Hour Period (oz) Thus, the average adult bearded dragon, weighing around 500 grams only requires around 5ml in 24 hours. It’s not a lot. Equally, you can include the water content in food. Taking that calculation into account, the average amount of water a beardie needs in a day is about two teaspoons of fluids. No age is exempt from requiring extra water in addition to food. Baby bearded dragons drink water just like juveniles and adults. Many bearded dragons in captivity don’t naturally take to the water, which can be worrying for many owners. If you offer your beardie a bowl full of water, they are likely to ignore it especially, to begin with. This is where you need to prompt your beardie to drink; some beardies will never drink of their own accord. You can teach you a bearded dragon to drink water by applying some tips and tricks to your teaching method, failing that there are other ways to keep your beardie hydrated: Moving Water Bearded dragons are naturally attracted to moving water when they are thirsty. When you mist your beardie, spray water on something in your beardie’s tank that will drip over into a bowl and see if that piques their interest. Spray Water In Your Hand Make sure your hand is clean before spraying water on your hand and make sure that you are not doing this after they have had a bath. You must let your bearded dragon see you spraying the water in your hand when your beardie is thirsty; this may take a few attempts but keep trying. Bathing Your Bearded Dragon Beardies like their baths, and it’s an excellent way for them to hydrate. Bearded dragons drink water in the bath; however, there is no guarantee that all do this every time. Beardies only need a few milliliters of water per day. Is Tap Water Bad For Bearded Dragons? Now we know that bearded dragons must intake a certain amount of water per day, but back to the source. Specifically, tap water. The issue with tap water is that by default, it often contains many additives and chemicals to purify it. Any of which could be dangerous to a bearded dragon, especially in excess. Fluoride and chlorine are perhaps the most familiar ones, although heavy metals are sometimes present too. Some areas even have lead in their water. Other potentially harmful elements to be aware of include: Bromoform, Bromodichloromethane, Chloroform, and Hexavalent Chromium (which is carcinogenic) to name but a few. For the most part, we are not able to tell exactly what is included in our tap water and in what amounts. Plus, it’s even harder yet to know how our reptiles will respond to them. It’s one thing for us, humans, to drink tap water and be perfectly fine doing so, but this does not mean it’s the same for our bearded dragons. With this in mind, what should you do? It is best to either bottled water or distilled, filtered, or condition tap water. All such approaches will help to remove any potentially harmful chemicals and additives. One of the most cost-effective and things to do is to actually invest in some good quality water conditioner. Reptisafe on Amazon comes with some of the best reviews as it can effectively mitigate chemicals in tap water. This means you can continue to offer tap water to your bearded dragon, so long as this conditioner has been added. It’s the easiest way to go about it; and as bearded dragons do not drink a lot of water each day, it lasts for a long time! You can also consider using filtered bottled mineral water, like Evian, Nestle, or Fiji. Otherwise, a filter system, like this Brita Pitcher on Amazon is equally effective in ensuring your beardie does not ingest any harmful chemicals. Regardless of the approach you take, it’s important not to offer tap water and not to take any risks. There is a reason why reptile conditioner products are available. How To Provide Water To A Bearded Dragon There are generally three main ways you can get your bearded dragon to consume more water: 1. Providing a fresh, clean bowl of water, 2. Misting 3. Provide hydrating vegetables that are water dense Water Bowl As mentioned previously in this article above, captive beardies will not immediately start drinking from their water bowl even if they are thirsty. Drinking from a bowl does not come naturally to them nor will they understand how to effectively do it. Therefore, you will have to train your beardie to drink from a bowl. One way to entice your beardie to drink from their bowl is to add a little papaya or strawberry juice to the water. The smell of the sweet fruit will tempt your beardie to drink it. This method has proved successful for many beardie owners and is one of the best things you can do to train the behavior. Just ensure you only use a small part of fruit juice relative to water, and that it is mostly diluted. Once your bearded dragon learns to drink from a bowl, they should begin to do it more instinctively. Bearded dragons in the wild receive water during rainfall. They lick up the raindrops that drip from their nose. You can mimic this by misting water on your bearded dragon. This is essentially where you spray water on your bearded dragon using a misting bottle or a generic spray bottle. While they will not absorb water through their skin, they will instead drink the water that drips down their face and onto their nose. Many veterinarians recommend misting as a way to keep your beardie hydrated. It is also possible to mist food, especially vegetables, to increase how much water your beardie is taking in while eating. Hydrating Vegetables Some vegetables contain more water than others, and these can be an effective way of boosting the hydration in your beardie. While you will want to avoid lettuce, you can look to add things like cucumber to the diet which are water-dense without leading to issues. Signs Your Bearded Dragon Is Dehydrated While bearded dragons do not need a lot of water, they must remain hydrated as we have discussed above. Therefore, it is essential that you look out for the potential signs of dehydration before it can lead to fatal consequences. If you notice your bearded dragon is lethargic, is not eating their good or has sunken eyes, it is likely that they are not adequately hydrated. To test and to confirm, you can perform what is known as the skin pinch test. to do this, use your fingers to gently pinch the skin on your beardies body. If it rolls back quickly and feels elasticated, they are adequately hydrated. If however, it’s slow to respond, it could indicate dehydration. Either way, if you suspect your bearded dragon is dehydrated or not well, or they fail this test, it’s best to take them to a veterinarian who can run a more thorough examination and ensure your beardie is meeting their water requirements and needs. Bearded dragons should be able to drink tap water, but it does depend on where you live and your local water supply. We just do not know what is in our tap water, nor do we fully understand how these things impact our beardie dragons. Therefore, it is always best to purify the water that comes out of your tap first. Thankfully there are several ways to do this. You can boil the water and give it time to cool down, you can use a home filter, or purchase special conditioners to remove minerals and impurities from your tap water. Even though bearded dragons come from the arid regions of the Australian outback, and fair quite well without water from time to time, they still require adequate hydration. Prolonged or continued dehydration can lead to numerous health problems. Bearded dragons in the wild derive water from their food, (either plants or insects) or through rainwater. However, it is not so easy for their captive counterparts, and these reptiles do not know how to immediately drink from their bowl. They need a little training to understand the act and the process. Make sure that you regularly clean the water bowl; you do not want any germs lingering. Many water bowls that you’d find in your local pet store are dishwasher safe and can be cleaned in the dishwasher – which does make this easier. Make sure any dish soap is thoroughly rinsed and that there is no residue before offering it to your beardie. A dirty water bowl will only increase the chances of an illness, which is something you want to avoid at all costs! Related Questions Can I Bathe My Bearded Dragon In Tap Water? You can bathe your bearded dragon in tap water, although it is much better to use filtered water. A bearded dragon is likely to attempt to drink water while bathing, and you want to ensure that they are not ingesting any chemicals, elements or metals that may be present. Equally, it’s important never to use any soaps or detergents when bathing.
How is Python”s List Implemented? Is it a linked list, an array? I searched around and only found people guessing. My C knowledge isn"t good enough to look at the source code. Answer rating: 271 The C code is pretty simple, actually. Expanding one macro and pruning some irrelevant comments, the basic structure is in listobject.h, which defines a list as: typedef struct { Py_ssize_t ob_size; PyObject *ob_item; / ob_item contains space for "allocated" elements. The number * currently in use is ob_size. * Invariants: * 0 <= ob_size <= allocated * len(list) == ob_size Py_ssize_t allocated; } PyListObject; PyObject_HEAD contains a reference count and a type identifier. So, it"s a vector/array that overallocates. The code for resizing such an array when it"s full is in listobject.c. It doesn"t actually double the array, but grows by allocating new_allocated += newsize; to the capacity each time, where newsize is the requested size (not necessarily allocated + 1 because you can extend by an arbitrary number of elements instead of append"ing them one by one). See also the Python FAQ. Get Solution for free from DataCamp guru
In politics, a state is a country which has control over a geographic area or territory. States have three main features: Illustration of the Book Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes. There are different forms of government a state may have, for example a republic or a monarchy. Sometimes states form their own countries. At other times many states work together to form a country (like the United States). Most states also have armed forces, civil service, law and police. Different definitionsEdit The definition above is very broad. It is based on ideas by Georg Jellinek (1851-1911). Other people had other ideas: • Max Weber (1864-1920) had another definition: According to him, a state is a community of people which has "the monopoly to legitimately use physical force within a well-defined area".[1] • Another definition is form political science: A state is a system of public institutions which are there to regulate the issues of a society. • Some philiospohers, such as Aristotle, Rousseau and Hegel had a moralistic view: In their opinion, a state arises when individuals reach their goals and that of society. According to Hegel, the state is the reason God came into the world; it is the power of reason. This reason manifests as His will. Because of the different definitions, there's no universally accepted definition of state. The one given at the start of the article is now part of international law. Early statesEdit The earliest states were just human settlements. A group of farmers and merchants working together could be 'states' since people can control them and protect them. More organized states could be monarchies such as early Egypt under the Pharaoh. Following this were larger more military-based states such as the Babylonian Empire or Roman Empire. The most famous early states, however, were the Ancient Greek states which had freedom, writing and a democracy. From military to modern stateEdit Modern statesEdit The state's (government's) position in the economy Different types of stateEdit Sub-categories of stateEdit Pluralism has been very popular in the United States. It shows the state as a neutral place for settling arguments between other states. Pluralism tells us that all people are not equal[needs to be explained], but still allows each group of people to tell the state what to do. This type of state is called a polyarchy.[3] Marxism is an ideology advocating for the rights of workers and labourers of society. It was started by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism rejects the idea that a state is there to protect business interest, and is definitely not a neutral place for settling arguments. The main job of a Marxist state is to protect the labour and financial situation of the peasant classes. With such reforms, a Marxist state focuses on collectivising resources and creating a planned economy to ensure the well-being of the workers. Both Marxist and Pluralist states have to react to the activities of groups of people in the state itself. Institutionalist states do not see themselves as 'instruments' to be controlled, they are more just geographical areas. In this area, the people just form groups themselves. An institutionalist state can be made up of both Marxist and Pluralist people, both which have the power to control themselves and not influence the other parties of the state.[4] Related pagesEdit 1. Zeno. "Soziologie im Volltext: Max Weber: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundriß der verstehenden ..." (in German). Retrieved 2021-03-28. 3. Robert Dahl. 1973. Modern Political Analysis. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0135969816
How CBD Affects the Immune System Posted on September 1st, 2020 Studies on the effects and potential benefits of CBD have drastically increased over the past couple of years. Even though more research is still needed to fully understand how CBD works, early studies show that the compound’s naturally occurring immunosuppressant and anti-inflammatory properties may be used to help boost the immune system functions and responses. In this post, we are going to take a more in-depth look at the immune system and how CBD affects its operations. The Immune System The immune system is one of the most complex fields in medicine, and there’s a lot that’s still unknown about it. It consists of a network of specialized cells, organs, and tissues that all work in tandem to defend and protect the body against diseases or infections. When the immune system is functioning optimally, it is able to fight viruses harmful to the body and also prevent infections. In this process, white blood cells are vital. White blood cells come in two forms: lymphocytes and phagocytes. The latter ascertain that harmful viruses, bacteria, and infections are neutralized and prevented from spreading and causing further damage. On the other hand, lymphocytes, also known as T-cells and B-cells, help the body remember what the harmful substances were, thus allowing the immune system to instantly go on defense mode the next time it’s attacked. Another vital role of the immune system is to make sure that cells that are not functioning correctly are detected and killed and disposed of. This is an especially important process as, if left unaddressed, the defective cells could multiply and form tumors. woman in green shirt holding cbd capsulesWhat Is CBD? Also referred to as cannabidiol, CBD is one of the many compounds present in the cannabis Sativa plant. The primary difference between cannabidiol and other cannabinoids like tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is that it does not have psychoactive effects and so, you can’t get ‘high’ by consuming it. Cannabidiol might be the second most-prominent cannabinoid, but nowadays, it is, without a doubt, the most talked about. Although it is historically less sought after and less dominant than its counterpart (THC), CBD has become a huge trend not only in the cannabis realm but also in the food, health, and wellness as well as the cosmetic industry. The growing interest in cannabidiol, in addition to the mounting research showcasing its value and potential therapeutic benefits, has made everyone curious about it and what it can do. We may have a long way in mastering the science behind cannabidiol and unlocking its full potential, but we have a working comprehension of how the compound’s molecules interact with the endocannabinoid system to provide an array of potential benefits. That being said, here’s a closer look at the endocannabinoid system (ECS), how it interacts with cannabidiol, and the many benefits you may reap from this interaction in relation to the immune system. The Endocannabinoid System The endocannabinoid system or ECS is a sophisticated cell-signaling system found on every cell in the brain, immune cells in the bloodstream, throughout the cardiovascular system as well as the skin. The ECS is a relatively new area of study as it was just identified in the early ’90s Although more research is needed to wholly understand the mechanics of this system, doctors have identified its presence throughout the body, regulating an array of processes and functions including: • Mood • Sleep • Appetite • Fertility and reproduction • Memory The ECS consists of three primary components: endocannabinoids (cannabinoids that are native to the body or endogenous cannabinoids) receptors (where the endocannabinoids bind to) and enzymes tasked with breaking them down to evoke a bodily response. CB1 and CB2 receptors are the two most research cannabinoids in this regard. CB1 receptors are usually found in the central nervous system (CNS), where they handle brain function. CB2 receptors, on the other hand, are often found in immune cells throughout the body. Cannabinoids from the cannabis plant or phytocannabinoids may evoke therapeutic responses by binding to or indirectly working with the CB1 and CB2 receptors. How CBD Works With the ECS The ECS allows cannabidiol to potentially help a wide array of symptoms. As mentioned above, it is thought to work with both the CB1 and CB2 to elicit various bodily responses. It ideally interacts with the body via other biological pathways and is known to produce potentially therapeutic effects by activating several pathways simultaneously. Cannabidiol has a complex relationship with THC, tied to the manner in which both cannabinoids interact with the endocannabinoid system. On the molecular level, cannabidiol does the complete opposite of THC. It’s an inverse agonist to the CB1 receptors, while THC acts as an agonist. When combined with THC, CBD has the ability to curb the negative effects of THC. CBD and the Immune System There’s an array of ways in which this cannabinoid might help boost the immune system. For starters, CBD has the potential to help regulate the body’s inflammatory responses because of its anti-inflammatory properties. Inflammation is a vital aspect when it comes to defense, as it helps prevent harmful substances from spreading to other parts of the body. But when it runs rampant, it can also trigger illness. Cannabidiol might act as an immunosuppressor. This means it may be able to slow down your immune response. This property means the compound may offer some relief and support to individuals suffering from autoimmune conditions like Lupus, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and HIV/AIDS. CBD’s properties may help alleviate pain and discomfort in people suffering from conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, migraines, and even cancer. Due to the cannabinoid’s potential immunosuppressant properties, it’s more likely to be advantageous as a form of relief for existing conditions rather than been used as preventative medicine. The cannabinoid may promote cellular death, suppress the production and operation of T-cells, and hamper rapid cell growth. While these are not effects that a healthy individual might need, for an individual with a hyperactive immune system, this could help with the healing process. woman in white sweater holding tanasi cbd tinctureCBD Effects on the Immune System: Is There Proper Research? Let us make one thing clear – there is a lot about how the immune system functions and response that we do not know. There is even less information and studies on the body’s ECS. Therefore, nobody, even the leading experts, can outwardly claim that cannabidiol has specific effects on the immune system. Yes, it is pretty evident that cannabinoids have some effect on the overall immune response, however, it is still not exactly clear as to how we can administer it to get the most beneficial results. However, the potential ability of CBD to ‘balance’ the two primary arms of the immune system is certainly worth researching more. Generally, there are two ways in which adaptive immune cells seek out and get rid of foreign substances that lead to infections, diseases, etc.: Cell-Mediated Immunity This is a process that entails using T-cells that seek out and eliminate pathogens on their own by inducing programmed cell suicide, also known as apoptosis. Humoral Immunity This is a process that happens when B-cells produce antibodies that are meant to seek out and eliminate unwanted foreign agents. In autoimmune conditions, one of these forms of immunity goes overboard and starts to attack and kill healthy cells and tissues. Using CBD for Boosting the Immune System There are many studies that show the potential benefits of this cannabinoid in boosting the immune system and helping manage symptoms of autoimmune diseases. Other than this, CBD is known to have numerous potential benefits, including boosting appetite, mood, alleviating pain, helping symptoms of anxiety and depression, and other mental disorders. There are various ways to consume CBD, including vaping, drops, edibles, and even topical applications. However, the right dose is a tricky subject, as it depends on an array of factors. To find the best one, it’s best to start with low doses and gradually increase until you reach a point where you can feel the desired effects. If you have decided to try CBD for immune system health, keep in mind that there are numerous types of CBD oil products out there, all with varying concentrations and additional ingredients. As such, it is important to consult your physician or a clinical professional on the use of CBD for immune health. CBD does not have severe adverse effects, but it is still important to ensure you are making the right decision. Lastly, always ensure you do your homework and use the substance under your own judgment. When buying a CBD product, ensure that you’re purchasing from a reputable manufacturer. The quality of the product may depend on where the plant is grown, which is another aspect to consider. Look for a company who provide a certificate analysis on their products provided from a third-party lab. Tanasi Rewards Shopping cart ✔️ 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee ✔️ FREE Shipping on All Orders ✔️ Organic & GMO Free ✔️ COA Certified ✔️ Locally Sourced From US Add $100.00 To Receive A Gift 1 Free Full Spectrum CBD Salves - 150mg (1.0 oz) There are no products in the cart!
How smart security tech saved a research institute 60,000 USD a year At a US-based research institute where employees work on highly sensitive projects supporting governments, organisations and universities across a wide range of industries globally, strict security and smart tech allow the team to keep a watchful eye on multiple sites, from one location. From the headquarters to all eleven field offices across the country, this research institute’s security team uses one central hub, the Global Security Operations Centre (GSOC), to manage all alerts and threats via one system. This was made possible back in 2009, when it migrated its systems to Symmetry, a product designed by a G4S company, AMAG Technology. Historically, the headquarters and field offices used different security systems which did not have the capacity to meet the institute’s growing needs. The system used on the headquarters campus had to be rebooted up to three times a day in order to keep running, while the system used across the field offices hosted a physical access control system, leading to exorbitant operational and maintenance fees. After initially migrating to Symmetry, the research institute saved approximately $60,000 a year in these costly fees. And from the GSOC, the security team can manage all access control, video surveillance, mass notification, License Plate Recognition (LPR) and Long-Range Vehicle Credential readers at the click of a button. Restricting access to critical areas Because of the sensitive nature of their work, employees working on-site are required to follow strict access control measures to ensure that only authorised staff are allowed in sensitive areas. To achieve tight control, the institute uses two-factor authentication, ID card plus PIN, in its most critical areas. This smart system also allows them to protect restricted areas by applying different access statuses to employees. And these restrictions can easily be applied, removed or changed by the system administrator. For example, doors would only open for super users such as security officers or emergency responders if the “executive card mode” was enabled. In the event of an emergency, they have the ability to lock down a site building by building, or even campus-wide with just one click. This allows them to slow down threats while protecting employees and valuable intellectual property. By implementing Symmetry, the company reduced the number of unnecessary alerts that were triggered in the operating centre by troubleshooting door hardware or identifying false alarms if a door is being held open. This means that officers trust the information and alerts which come through to their system, and patrol officers are only sent to locations when there is a genuine need for escalation. As the research institute acquires new businesses and offices, they can convert the existing system to Symmetry, and continue to monitor the new offices within the GSOC. Looking forward, the security team is investigating better ways to manage identities to automate processes and become more efficient. For this, they are in the planning stages of upgrading their system to SMART cards using Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) compliant Symmetry Blue Bluetooth readers and Symmetry M4000 Intelligent Controllers. This will allow them to track who's been where and more importantly use this data to optimise processes and detect unusual behaviour. Smart cameras that prevent intruders Years ago after some potentially dangerous employees and contractors were dismissed, the institute deployed a stand-alone LPR and Long Range Vehicle Access Credential system to monitor incoming traffic. The campus is set up so that all vehicles have to drive by two LPRs to get on campus, which have a greater than 90% chance of reading a license plate. They capture the license plate images and compare it to what is in the database while an alert sounds and an email is sent to designated employees if a person of interest has entered campus. In the future, the institute plans to integrate Symmetry with its video management and LPR systems in order for all these solutions to be managed together.
When adults scream at their partners, procrastinate at work, spend money they don't have or use substances to ease their pain, those are moments of emotional dysregulation, or not being able to self-regulate. In fact, much of the drama and unhappiness in our lives comes from our own challenges in regulating our emotions. Wouldn't it be an amazing gift to your child to help him or her develop the ability to self-regulate, even when live sends them rough weather? (Because every life has some rain.) Kids learn how to manage "big feelings" when we model self-regulation. Specifically, when we: 1. Are able to stay calm and kind in the face of the child's upset. 2. Accept the child's feelings even when we need to limit their actions. 3. Respond to the child's anger with compassion, so they can show us the tears and fears behind their anger. Research shows that children's brains learn to self-soothe through this process. Eventually, they learn to stabilize themselves even in the face of stressful situations and emotions. See this article in Chinese.
Lasso Regression in Python Lasso Regression In Python Hello, readers! In our last article, we focused at Ridge Regression in Python programming, in detail. Now, we would be talking about Lasso regression in Python. So, let us get started! First, what is Lasso Regression? In the domain of data science and machine learning, our main target is to make predictions on real-life problems through various algorithms based on the type of data values. Linear Regression is one such algorithm. With this algorithm, we can define the best fit line for our model i.e. understand the correlation between the variables of the dataset. It helps us figure out the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables of the dataset to build up an estimated model for predictions. Issues with Linear Regression: • As we all know, linear regression calculates the coefficients of every variable of the model. As the complexity of the data increases, the value of coefficients turn out to be a higher value which in turns makes the model sensitive to further inputs being fed to it. • This in turn makes the model a bit unstable! Solution – Lasso Regression So, here we go with the solution. Lasso Regression, also known as L1 regression suffices the purpose. With Lasso regression, we tend to penalize the model against the value of the coefficients. So, it manipulates the loss function by including extra costs for the variables of the model that happens to have a large value of coefficients. It penalizes the model against Absolute coefficient values. By this, it lets the value of the coefficients (that do not contribute to the predictor variable) become zero. Further to which, it removes those input features from the model. Thus, we can say, Lasso = loss + (lambda * l1_penalty) Here, lambda is the hyperparameter that has a check at the weighting of the penalty values. Lasso Regression – A Practical Approach In this example, we have made use of the Bike Rental Count Prediction dataset. You can find the dataset here! Initially, we load the dataset into the Python environment using the read_csv() function. Further to this, we perform splitting of the dataset into train and test data using train_test_split() function. For this example, we have set MAPE as the error metric to evaluate the lasso regression penalty model. The sklearn.linear_model library of Python, provides us with lasso() function to build a model over the dataset. import os import pandas #Changing the current working directory os.chdir("D:/Ediwsor_Project - Bike_Rental_Count") BIKE = pandas.read_csv("day.csv") bike = BIKE.copy() categorical_col_updated = ['season','yr','mnth','weathersit','holiday'] bike = pandas.get_dummies(bike, columns = categorical_col_updated) #Separating the depenedent and independent data variables into two dataframes. from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split Y = bike['cnt'] import numpy as np def MAPE(Y_actual,Y_Predicted): return mape from sklearn.linear_model import Lasso lasso_model = Lasso(alpha=1.0) , Y_train) lasso_predict = lasso.predict(X_test) Lasso_MAPE = MAPE(Y_test,lasso_predict) print("MAPE value: ",Lasso_MAPE) Accuracy = 100 - Lasso_MAPE print('Accuracy of Lasso Regression: {:0.2f}%.'.format(Accuracy)) MAPE value: 16.55305612241603 Accuracy of Lasso Regression: 83.45%. By this, we have come to the end of this topic. Feel free to comment below in case you come across any question. Recommend you to try the concept of Lasso Regression with other datasets and do let us know your experience about the same in the comment section! For more such posts related to Python, Stay tuned and till then, Happy Learning!! 🙂
1. Keeping your bones strong But why should this be a problem? 1. Improving body shape and preventing weight gain 1. Improving testosterone levels in men 1. Reducing risk of diabetes 1. Supporting memory and cognition 1. nhs.uk. Osteoporosis. [online] Available at: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/osteoporosis/ [Accessed 5 Apr. 2018]. 2. Zehnacker CH, Bemis-Dougherty A. Effect of weighted exercises on bone mineral density in post menopausal women. A systematic review. J Geriatr Phys Ther. 2007;30(2):79-88. 3. Vingren JL et al. Testosterone physiology in resistance exercise and training: the up-stream regulatory elements. Sports Med. 2010 Dec 1;40(12):1037-53. 5. Shiroma EJ et al. Strength Training and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2017 Jan;49(1):40-46. 6. Scott D et al. Sarcopenia: a potential cause and consequence of type 2 diabetes in Australia’s ageing population? Med J Aust. 2016 Oct 3;205(7):329-33. 7. Portugal EM et al. Aging process, cognitive decline and Alzheimer`s disease: can strength training modulate these responses? CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2015;14(9):1209-13. 9. Smolarek Ade C et al. The effects of strength training on cognitive performance in elderly women. Clin Interv Aging. 2016 Jun 1;11:749-54.
Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. Time to read less than 1 minute Read so far President’s ignorance based on fear The president of the United States is ignorant about many things. Nowadays, fifth graders understand concepts like “wildlife ecosystems,” but alas, Trump has no clue. He has begun to build a wall along our Southern border. This kind of meddling will screw up delicate systems in desert, plains and mountainous country along the Southern border. At one point, the president started to talk about building a wall in Colorado, but then a flunky told him that actually, Colorado does not border on Mexico. So, to avoid embarrassment, the president said, “Ha-ha, Colorado, that was just a joke.” The breadth and depth of the president’s ignorance is substantial. I think his ignorance mostly comes from fear. You build walls around yourself when you are frightened. But in my book, isolation of this sort makes you both blind and stupid. In the old days, the Romans built Hadrian’s Wall because they were afraid of those northern Scottish people. And once, long ago, the Chinese built a wall because nomads on horses frightened them. Well, you can spend a billion dollars building a Southern border wall. Or, you could use the money for college scholarships. Which action, do you think, will be more useful in the long run? – Mike Olive,
Brought to you by Newscorp Australia Inside the shark tank at Sea Life Aquarium Kamahl Cogdon, September 6, 2020 7:00PM Kids News Print Article It’s feeding time for Mitchell the grey nurse shark at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. Picture: Jay Town media_cameraIt’s feeding time for Mitchell the grey nurse shark at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. Picture: Jay Town Reading level: orange When you think of the animals that need our help on National Threatened Species Day, sharks are probably not the first that come to mind. Surely these terrifying creatures lurking in our oceans are doing just fine on their own, right? Wrong, says aquarist* James Gilbert from Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. Not only are they not the “mindless man-eaters” many people think, but some shark populations are under serious threat. media_cameraAquarist James Gilbert says the sharks at the aquarium are friendly and curious. Mr Gilbert said sharks got their undeserved fearsome reputation from movies and “fear of the unknown”. “A lot of people don’t know much about them, they’re not really educated about sharks,” he said. “When you say ‘shark’ a lot of people think of a giant great white shark. But there are so many species of sharks out there that aren’t anything like that big man-eater.” There are about 400 species of sharks around the world. About 180 of these are found in Australian waters and about 70 of these are thought to be found only in Australian waters. The Australian Government lists nine species as threatened under a law it passed in 1999 called the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act that protects these species from being killed, injured and sold. media_cameraThe tawny nurse shark is one of the threatened species protected by the Federal Government’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. “There are a lot of reasons why sharks are threatened,” Mr Gilbert said. “A big one is they are commercially* and recreationally* fished, and a lot of the time with recreational fishing they are accidentally caught. “Another reason is unsustainable* fishing practices, which means we may not leave enough food for these sharks to eat in the wild.” Mr Gilbert said beach safety nets and drum lines also played a role in declining shark numbers. “These safety nets and drum lines are designed to keep dangerous sharks out of areas where humans are swimming but they can also trap sharks which pose no real threat to humans,” he said. media_cameraThe speartooth shark is considered critically endangered. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is home to three threatened shark species: a grey nurse shark called Mitchell, three speartooth sharks called Nicki, Roman and Star, and three tawny nurse sharks called Tubby, Marilyn and Fergie. Grey nurse sharks are critically* endangered on the east coast of Australia, and vulnerable* on the west coast of Australia and throughout the rest of the world. Speartooth sharks are also critically endangered, while tawny nurse sharks are vulnerable. Mr Gilbert said another reason grey nurse shark numbers had declined was because they were heavily hunted in the 1950s and 1960s. “They were thought to be these terrifying, deadly sharks because of the way they look with all these teeth hanging out,” he said. “Because of that misinformation* they were really heavily hunted to the point we ended up with such a small amount. “That’s why it’s really important to educate ourselves. Despite the way they look, a lot of these sharks are harmless and happy doing their own thing. Stuff. Melbourne Aquarium. Grey Nurse Shark media_cameraMitchell the grey nurse shark looks a lot scarier than he is. “Mitchell the grey nurse is a really good example of that. He does look a bit scary, but he’s definitely not. He’s a big teddy bear.” Mr Gilbert, 26, has worked at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium for almost three years. His work days start with preparing food for the sharks and other fish. He said sharks ate a varied diet that included salmon, pike, arrow squid and their favourite rainbow trout. Vitamins and other supplements were mixed in to help keep the sharks healthy. After meal time, Mr Gilbert and his colleagues focus on tank maintenance and cleaning, which often means diving in with the sharks. “These sharks here are just so friendly and really happy to be interacting with the divers. They’re really curious and they’re just the furthest thing you could possibly get from the dangerous and aggressive animals you see in movies like Jaws,” Mr Gilbert said. He said the aquarium’s leopard sharks, Gemini and Leo, were especially fond of divers. “They love coming up and snuggling in, and as crazy as it sounds, they love getting scratches from some of the divers,” he said. Feeding time at the Melbourne Aquarium. Senior diver Kate McKay feeds Leo the leopard shark. media_cameraLeo the leopard shark enjoys a scratch at feeding time at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. Picture: Jay Town World Oceans Day at the Melbourne Aquarium. Diver, Senior diver Kate McKay feeds Leo the Leopard shark. media_cameraFeeding time for Leo the leopard shark. Picture: Tony Gough National Threatened Species Day aims to raise awareness of plants and animals at risk of extinction. It takes place on September 7 each year, the anniversary of the death in captivity of the last known Tasmanian tiger. Mr Gilbert said kids could help protect sharks by: • Removing rubbish and discarded fishing gear on the beach or in the sea; • Not fishing in areas that are known to have sharks to avoid accidentally catching a shark; • Reporting any sightings of injured or entangled sharks in the wild to wildlife authorities; • And choosing to eat sustainable seafood, so we are not taking food from endangered shark populations. The Australian Marine Conservation Society publishes a sustainable seafood guide called Good Fish. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium’s Junior Shark Keeper program will be available free on its Facebook page from September 19 to October 4, 2020. Kids can enjoy shark videos, interviews with aquarists, downloadable worksheets and learn other fascinating facts about sharks. • aquarist: someone who cares for marine life in aquariums • commercially: done for business • recreationally: done for enjoyment • unsustainable: not able to be maintained at the current rate • critically: extremely • vulnerable: at higher risk than most • misinformation: false information Divers are wild about protecting sharks Underwater Photographer of the Year World’s rarest shark spotted by fishermen 1. How many species of sharks are there around the world? 2. How many species of sharks are thought only to be found in Australian waters? 3. What does the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act protect nine shark species from? 4. Which three threatened species can be found at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium? 5. What is the name of aquarist in this story? 1. A relatable shark tale Choose one of the sharks that is named in this news story. Do your own research to find out a little more about its species. Then write a short imaginative story that stars the shark you chose. In your story, give the shark human-like traits to make them seem more relatable and less scary. See if you can include some sneaky factual information into the flow of your story too. Time: allow 45 minutes to complete this activity Curriculum Links: English; Science 2. Extension Set a timer for 5 minutes. How many adjectives can you jot down in that time that could be used to describe sharks? Your score: Less than 15 = Wipe Out 15 – 25 = Fin-tastic 25+ = Totally Jaws-ome Time: allow 5 minutes to complete this activity Curriculum Links: English I Spy Nouns Nouns are places, names (of people, animals and objects), and time (months or days of the week). How many nouns can you find in the article? Can you sort them into places, names and time? Pick three nouns and add an adjective (describing word) to the nouns. 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Editor's note: Also see our more recent story on the Line 5 pipeline, from Feb. 5, 2021: "Conservatives work to lay Michigan’s Line 5 pipeline dispute at Trudeau’s feet" A legal battle has erupted over the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline and it has spilled into the halls of Canada’s Parliament. Line 5, built in 1953, is part of Alberta-based Enbridge’s “Lakehead” network of pipelines around the Great Lakes. The pipeline carries up to 540,000 barrels per day of fossil fuel products across Wisconsin and Michigan to refineries in the Upper Midwest and Eastern Canada, ending at Sarnia in southern Ontario. Its future is now in jeopardy after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer yanked its decades-old authorization last November, giving Enbridge until May to cease operations. The energy company has been defiant, declaring the move “unlawful” and vowing to continue to push product through the pipeline anyway. And Canada’s official Opposition Conservatives are arguing the federal government isn’t paying close enough attention. A map by Enbridge shows the route of Line 5, starting in Superior, Wis., through Michigan and across the Straits of Mackinac down to Sarnia, Ont. Photo by Enbridge At issue is the route of Line 5, which passes through the narrows that connect Lake Michigan with Lake Huron, called the Straits of Mackinac, an environmentally sensitive area where currents can often change direction, leading to choppy waters and the erosion of the lakebed. Engineers originally constructed the pipeline using a novel method, thickening the pipe walls, coating it in enamel and splitting it into two parallel pipes before it made the 7.2-kilometre crossing along the bottom of the waterway. Enbridge says Line 5 has served the region “safely and reliably for more than six decades” and says it inspects the dual pipes regularly, monitors the straits crossing around the clock and takes other safety measures. But the pipeline has also seen work. A 2017 report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailed a decades-long effort to fortify the pipes. The company has used grout-filled sacks and anchor supports to hold the pipes in place. In 2018, the dual pipes were struck by an anchor that had been unknowingly released from a barge and was dragging along the bottom of the lake. The pipes weren’t ruptured, but they were dented. Last summer, one of the supports shifted, briefly causing one of the pipes to be shut down. “Our review shows that the state lacks the authority to terminate,” Enbridge said Jan. 12. “Our dual lines in the straits are safe and in full compliance with the federal pipeline safety standards that govern them.” Enbridge said an inspection showed no damage. But the 2018 incident was cited by Whitmer in her conclusion that continued operation of the pipeline violates the public trust doctrine, which holds that the state of Michigan must protect the “public’s rights in the Great Lakes.” Enbridge is asking the United States District Court to reverse Michigan’s decision, suggesting it was already cleared by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration in June and September 2020. It said the administration said Sept. 4, 2020 that no “integrity issues” were identified. The company said it intends to continue to operate the dual pipes until it can reroute the pipeline through a new tunnel that it plans to dig under the bedrock of the waterway. Initial design work on this Great Lakes Tunnel, as the company is calling it, was “nearly complete.” The company says it has opened the Enbridge Straits Maritime Operations Center, meant to monitor vessel traffic in the straits and warn approaching vessels. Trudeau: 'Continue to work to ensure energy security' This week, federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole demanded in the House of Commons that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raise the issue with U.S. President Joe Biden. “Specifically, why has Line 5, the thousands of jobs, the decades of a safe record, not been a priority for the prime minister?” he asked during Jan. 27 question period. Trudeau replied that he felt all Canadians knew “that this government has consistently stood up for Canadian interests with a challenging situation south of the border over the past four years.” “We are going to continue to work to ensure energy security and jobs for Canadians, and continue the fight against climate change hand in hand with the American government,” said the prime minister. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan has also called Line 5 “essential” and said the federal government supports the project. The issue of jobs has been top of mind for Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley, who wrote a letter to Trudeau on Jan. 4 expressing “deep concern” over the decision by Michigan to revoke the authorization. “The Sarnia community and region of southwestern Ontario relies on Line 5 for thousands of jobs and economic output that strengthens both Ontario and Canada,” he wrote. Critics, however, say that shutting down Line 5 won’t necessarily lead to the closure of facilities and the loss of thousands of jobs. The advocacy group For Love of Water argues that “multiple alternative pipelines, rail, and truck sources” are available to refineries in the region. Bradley told Canada’s National Observer that he expected 3,000 jobs in the Sarnia area to be at risk, but he said he couldn’t estimate how many jobs would actually be lost if alternative sources like rail and truck were used. Carl Meyer / Local Journalism Initiative / Canada’s National Observer Keep reading Why do you not counter the claims made by certain government officials, that cancelling fossil fuel infrastructure threatens employment? Detailed research has shown again and again that other industries create far more jobs per dollar invested. Even a cursory comparison of the small % of Canadian jobs in fossil fuel to the larger % of Canadian GDP in that industry confirms this. Investment in fossil fuel is killing jobs, not to mention the planet. A research scientist at the University of Michigan said that if you were to pick the worst possible site for an oil spill in the Great Lakes, this would be it. A major spill would devastate fish and other wildlife, and the economy in the northern parts of Lakes Michigan and Huron, which depends on tourism. Groups like Oil&WaterDontMix have been pointing out the risks for years. Worse, Enbridge Line 9, built in the 70s, runs further from Sarnia to Montreal, crossing every tributary into Lake Ontario and the upper St Lawrence. It once brought imported oil from the port to Sarnia refineries. But just a few years back, Enbridge applied and got permission to reverse the flow. So Alberta tar sands oil, coming in on Line, can now flow eastward. Many of us objected, but the "consultation" process was so restrictive as to be pointless! I recall reading about the arguments and outrage raised by the whaling industry that was being shut down... 'there are so many jobs that will be lost', 'communities will fall apart', 'the economy willl crumble", "people won't be able to heat their homes"! Good thing they weren't listened to. This issue is a USA issue and not one that "Canada" should be interfering with. It does have two distinct sides, one that is populated with those interested in maintaining a fading oil industry with all of it's destructive environmental aspects while the other side is fighting to save that same environment. How this "problem" can be lain at the feet of the government of Canada is a puzzle unless it is viewed as a political tactic aimed at pleasing the oil industry support while demonstrating a lack of interest in environmental protection. you know if a major spill happened the taxpayers would be on the hook, oil companies socialize all risks and leave the fallout to us. Perhaps Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer - horror of horrors - actually thinks the environment as more important than industry profit. I've heard she even thinks climate change is real... What an astute and accurate comment I can't help but suspect that a pipeline built in 1953 might be past its 'best before' due date. Don't even think we were in situ mining for bitumen in those days, but do know if its dilbit flowing through there......its not all down hill. A lot more heat and pressure is needed to keep dilbit flowing, and if a spill did happen, the clean up of bitumen oil is nigh impossible once the light hydrocarbon diluents evaporate.....that guck becomes solid again. Refurbishing old bottles to hold new wine, if we can forgive the metaphor, is never a good idea. There's a lot more to Line 5 than we're led to believe. I suggest we be suspicious of all those jobs Enbridge and the O'Toole crowd insist depend on it as well............last I heard, oil and gas were cutting jobs wherever possible. Here perhaps, the pipeline apologists are inflating them.
How does asbestos enter the body? 1. Home 2. » 3. asbestos 4. » How does asbestos enter the body? How does asbestos enter the body? On Behalf of \| Jul 29, 2020 \| asbestos There are many different materials and chemicals that are used in various different industries in Louisiana. These chemicals and materials can be very effective at achieving their goals, but some of them can be very hazardous for the humans who work with them every day. One of these materials which is common, especially in the shipping industry, is asbestos. It is a very durable material that is heat resistant and do not conduct electricity. Therefore, it is very useful, but people who have repeated asbestos exposure to it can develop cancer and other lung disease. However, simply being around asbestos does not mean that people will automatically suffer from the potential lung issues. The asbestos must enter the body to cause damage. One primary way that this occurs is when people inhale asbestos particles. This can occur if people are installing asbestos or removing it and breaking down the material with asbestos in it. This creates dust which then can be inhaled. People can also swallow asbestos through various means. No matter if people inhale it or swallow it, the asbestos can cause significant problems. It is usually something that develops over time though. Therefore, it is important that people who work in the various industries are provided the proper safety equipment. However, sometimes employers fail to do this or the workers are not properly warned that they are working in areas where asbestos may be present. If this occurs, the employer or property owner may be liable and people may be able to receive compensation for the damages caused by their illnesses. There are many workers and people who are exposed to asbestos in Louisiana. After repeated exposure people can develop lung cancer and mesothelioma. These are serious lung conditions that can cause significant medical complications for the victims. It can also result in significant medical bills as well. The compensation people may be entitled to can be used to cover these expenses though. Experienced attorneys understand these complicated cases and may be able to guide one through the process.
المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights SOHR: Explainer: What are the clashes in Syria’s Deraa about? Fighting has escalated in recent days between government forces and rebels in the key southern province. Fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels is intensifying near Deraa, in what has been described as the heaviest clashes since the southern eponymous province came under government control three years ago. Fighting started when government forces fired artillery shells towards the former opposition hub of Deraa al-Balad in tandem with a ground offensive. Nearly half of the population of the rebel-held district fled the heavy shelling and ground battles, but the United Nations warned remaining civilians are cut off with dwindling supplies. On Thursday, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said civilians were suffering from “acute shortages” of food, fuel, water and medicines in a “near siege-like” situation. “The situation is alarming,” Pedersen said. Here is what you need to know about the conflict: Why is Deraa important? Deraa, which borders Jordan and is close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is widely seen as the cradle of the 2011 uprising in Syria, which sparked a decade-long civil war that has killed almost half a million people. In 2011, young boys who scrawled graffiti against President Bashar al-Assad were detained in Deraa, sparking nationwide protests. After the demonstrations evolved into war, rebels seized control. The rebels hung on until 2018. But after weeks of deadly fighting, the Russia-backed regime retook control under a surrender deal.Moscow had brokered similar so-called “reconciliation” accords in Syria’s second city of Aleppo, as well the Eastern Ghouta region, outside the capital, Damascus. Under those deals, rebels handed over their heavy weapons and left on buses. But in Deraa, many former opposition fighters stayed behind. While some did switch sides and join regime forces, others kept their guns and maintained control over several areas. In the provincial capital, Deraa city, regime forces returned to the northern half, known as Deraa al-Mahatta. But the southern half, Deraa al-Balad, remained under rebel control. What sparked the fighting now? Since the 2018 “reconciliation” deal, Deraa province has seen regular explosions and hit-and-run attacks. During presidential elections in May – a vote widely criticised by Syria’s opposition – protesters in Deraa al-Balad took to the streets demanding the “fall of the regime”. The election was held only in the two-thirds of Syria under government control, and there were no ballot boxes in Deraa al-Balad. After al-Assad celebrated winning his fourth term in power, he promised to return all of Syria to state control. Residents and activists believe the government wants “revenge”. “Many people in Deraa al-Balad are wanted by the regime,” said activist Omar al-Hariri. Which forces are involved? In late July, some of the fiercest clashes to rock the province since government forces returned left 32 dead, including 12 civilians, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said. The government seized farmland outside Deraa al-Balad before the fighting largely subsided and Russian-mediated talks began. But Hariri said pro-Damascus forces continued to shell the area “to exhaust fighters who only have light weapons”. Mohammad al-Abdallah, director of the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, said Iran was pushing Damascus to bolster its forces there. Deraa is close to the Golan Heights, occupied by Tehran’s arch-foe Israel. Pro-Iran fighters are deployed in parts of the province. Russia, meanwhile, has sought to boost its influence by backing the Syrian army’s Fifth Corps, which has absorbed many ex-rebels. “Competition between the Iranians and the Russians over areas of influence in Syria” was also at play, al-Abdallah added. Hariri said residents in Deraa al-Balad now face a bleak choice. “We have two options,” he said. “Let the Fifth Corps deploy with Russia pulling the strings, or face a sudden onslaught from regime forces.” What is the effect on civilians? The UN’s envoy, Geir Pedersen, warned on Thursday of his “growing concern” at the situation, calling for an end to the fighting and unimpeded humanitarian access. About 24,000 of Deraa al-Balad’s 55,000 residents have fled to surrounding areas or regime-controlled parts of the city, the UN humanitarian agency says. “Civilians are suffering with acute shortages of fuel, cooking gas, water and bread,” Pedersen said. “Medical assistance is in short supply to treat the injured”. Government forces encircle the district with entry limited to a single road with checkpoints. Abu al-Tayb, a media activist in Deraa al-Balad, said people were “at the mercy” of al-Assad’s forces. “Sometimes only women and children are allowed to take the road, and sometimes they close it off completely,” he said. He said flour had run out, the regime had cut off the water supply to the main storage tank, and there were regular power cuts. “We’re making do with very little,” he said.
skip to Main Content For Mental Illness Awareness Week, What I’ve Learned About Mental Illness Mental Illness Awareness Week is an important “ribboned” event. A dedicated chunk of time (the first week of October each year) increases society’s knowledge and understanding of mental illness. This is a wonderful thing to which to dedicate time and attention, for as anyone who has lived with any type of mental illness knows, lack of understanding can lead to prejudice and discrimination. To help end that problem, we observe Mental Illness Awareness Week. The term mental illness, though, is both vast and vague. Of what should we actually be aware? Of course there’s no single right answer to this, which is one of the things that makes Mental Illness Awareness Week so powerful. Both on- and offline, people and organizations such as the National Alliance on Mental Illness provide facts, statistics, and other information in order to increase awareness of mental illness and those whose lives it touches. I don’t keep it a secret that I have not just professional (I’m credentialed as a National Certified Counselor) but personal experience with mental illness. After a traumatic brain injury, I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder as well as anxiety disorders. As people don’t live in a vacuum, I had to navigate the worlds of family, friends, coworkers, supervisors, students, parents, clients, and more. It’s from both my personal and professional experience that I offer these insights for Mental Illness Awareness Week. When it comes to mental illness, I’ve learned that… 1. “Mental illness” is a fairly meaningless term. We don’t tell someone that we have a physical illness, because that is too broad. More specific: cold, asthma, prostrate cancer, breast cancer, influenza, schizophrenia, depression, dissociative identity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder. When we know the specific illness, we understand the symptoms and how to manage them. 2. “Mental illness” refers to a diagnosis rather than to a person. It’s a medical term used to identify what’s going on and how to treat it. 3. “Mental illness” does not refer to a personal character trait. One isn’t depression, just like one isn’t cancer. 4. “Mental illness” involves a different way of experiencing oneself and/or the world. It is not a wrong way of being with oneself or in the world. 5. “Mental illness” doesn’t erase the good in your life and in who you are. To be sure, it adds challenges and difficulties, but it doesn’t not diminish the good within you and around you. 6. A person with mental illness is a complete person, with strengths, weaknesses, ups, downs, interests, and talents. 7. With a diagnosis of a mental illness, someone can still make choices and decisions and behave in intentional ways. To me, the most important thing of which to be aware when it comes to mental illness… 8. With or without mental illness, each and every one of us can find our passions, live with purpose, and create a life worth living. To be sure, when someone lives with a mental illness, adjustments might have to be made and living with passion and purpose might take extra effort, but passion, purpose, and a life worth living are within reach of everyone. That is important to know during Mental Illness Awareness Week and beyond. A great way to increase awareness, understanding, and empathy for people living with mental illness as well as their families and friends is through stories. Listening to what someone has to share about their experiences is empowering for the storyteller and the listener. Reading stories, too, can help deepen human understanding. Fiction can convey fact in a way that goes far beyond information and extends to thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Stories humanize mental illness, which is one of the main goals of Mental Illness Awareness Week. Others are recognizing, too, that novels can both entertain and inform. In honor of Mental Illness Awareness Week, here’s a peek at what professional critics are saying about some of my books. 24-shadows-us-review-quote-1 loa-pdx-bk-rev-quote-twitter nutshell-portland-book-review-quote 24-shadows-us-review-quote-2 loa-us-review-quote nutshell-kirkus-quote 24-shadows-odonis-person loa-kirkus-quote nutshell-kirkus-quote-2-twitter 24-shadows-kirkus-quote Appearing In: Back To Top
The 2050 AP US History Exam By Noah Stern: Passage-Based Response \| You will have 20 minutes to read and respond to the following passages. Questions 1-4 are based on the excerpts of a speech given by President Donald Trump on July 14, 2020: Too hot, but it’s pretty warm. Thank you. So we’ve had a big day in the stock market. Things are coming back and they’re coming back very rapidly. A lot sooner than people thought. People are feeling good about our country...but we’re going to go over quite a bit and maybe at the end, we’ll take some questions if we have time, it’s not too hot. Today, I signed legislation and an executive order to hold China accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which I signed this afternoon, passed unanimously through Congress.” 1. Given the opening of this speech, which is the topic Trump considers most important? a. The weather b. The stock market c. The Hong Kong Autonomy Act d. COVID-19 “[Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden] opposed my very strict travel ban on Chinese nationals to stop the spread of the China virus. He was totally against it. Xenophobic, he called me. Xenophobic. A month later, he admitted I was right. We would have had thousands of people additionally die if we let people come in from heavily infected China, but we stopped it. We did a travel ban in January. Nancy Pelosi was dancing in the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco a month later and even later than that and others too.” 2. What strategy does Trump use most effectively to persuade his audience a. Attacking Joe Biden: “A month later, he admitted I was right.” b. Humor: “Nancy Pelosi was dancing in the streets of Chinatown” c. Repetition: “Xenophobic, he called me. Xenophobic.” d. Xenophobia: “the China virus.” “Why are we paying so much more than China? China has 1.4 billion people. We have 325, probably 325 million approximately, nobody can give the exact count. We’re trying to get an exact count, but you have over the years, many illegals who have come into the country. So it depends on how you want to count it. But you could say 325 to 350 million people, as opposed to 1.4 billion people. And the World Trade is terrible, that deal is terrible. The World Health is terrible deal.” 3. Is the World Health terrible deal? a. Yes b. No c. ? d. So is the World Trade “The China deal, they're buying a lot. They are buying a lot, we'll say that. They're buying a lot. A lot of people ask, "How are they doing on the trade deal?" They're buying a lot. So I want to thank everybody, and we'll be having these conferences again. We're going to be signing an immigration act very soon. It's going to be based on merit. It's going to be very strong. We're going to work on DACA, because we want to make people happy.” 4. Based on this closing statement and the previous excerpts, what was this press statement about? a. The Hong Kong Autonomy Act b. The COVID-19 Pandemic c. Joe Biden d. China is buying a lot Questions 5-7 are based on the excerpts of an answer given by former vice president Joe Biden in the 2019 Democratic Primary Debate 5. Based on this response, what question was Biden likely answering? a. What responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country? b. As the former vice president under Barack Obama, what is something you would do differently in terms of foreign policy if you became president in 2020? c. What’s the deal with the problems that come from home? Give me a crazy stat about it. d. Do you have a type? 6. Of the technology listed by Biden, which would an American child in 2019 be most likely to use for enrichment? a. Radio b. Television c. Record Player d. Phone 7. Based on how he ended this response and the political climate of the time period, how well do you think Biden answered this question? a. Nailed it b. A solid answer c. Left a little to be desired d. Not even close to passable Free Response Short Answer \| You will have 10 minutes to analyze the picture and formulate a response to the question Given the above tweet, to what end did the intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests affect the American psyche during and after 2020?
Peter G. asked • 09/14/21 Brief Calculus. Suppose a product's revenue function is given by R(q) = -6q^2 + 300q , where R(q) is in dollars and q is units sold. Also, it's cost function is given by C(q) = 14q + 1875 , where C (q) is in dollars and q is units produced. Find a simplified expression for the item's Marginal Profit function (MP(q)). 1 Expert Answer Still looking for help? Get the right answer, fast. Ask a question for free Get a free answer to a quick problem. Most questions answered within 4 hours. Find an Online Tutor Now
Jackson vs jefferson frq PK for this dbq list any analysis for docs AND personal knowledge: Topic 1 — The time era is the Confederation Period: The focus is on the Articles of Confederation and its role in dealing with the problems of this time era. Articles of Confederation made in Second Continental Congress Confederation fails, since it does not work, government has only paper powers, and everything must have consent of the states: Jacksonian Democracy Jan 09, Jeffersonian vs. Jacksonian Democracy Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were two influential political figures in two very different eras. Each formed their own democracy that helped shape the way people think about American government. Jefferson vs Jackson - New York Essays Consequently, they had their differences, yet they also had their similarities. Viewpoints between the two democracies will be analyzed in political, economic, social, and religious aspects. Foremost, the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracies contrasted and compared to each other in the area of politics and economics. First, the conditions in which a citizen was considered eligible for office holding was similar. In the Jeffersonian Democracy, an eligible citizen was one that was average rather than rich and well born. Likewise, Jackson declared all ordinary and intelligent white citizens equally qualified to serve. However, he eventually started what is known as the "spoils system" in which long-term officeholders were removed for rotation. Next, how the candidates for President were chosen was done differently. For example, in Jefferson's time the two highest voted Jackson vs jefferson frq became the President and the Vice-President of the United States. On the contrary, in the age of Jackson, a candidate was chosen by a nominating convention and the President and Vice-President ran for their offices separately. Last, each man's attitude toward the Bank of the United States was comparable. Jefferson encouraged State banks and was originally opposed to the national bank. Jackson vs jefferson frq Similarly, Jackson and his followers strongly opposed the Second Bank of America. He won the "Bank War" by having federal income deposited in state banks, while he continued to draw money out of the national bank. In summary, the political and economic conditions of the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracies were equally related and different. Furthermore, the comparisons and distinctions between social and religious aspects were quite clear. First of all, each man's attitude toward minorities including slaves, women, and Native Americans closely related to each other. For instance, Jefferson doubted that white civilization and Indian "savagery" could coexist and although he said that men were born to freedom, not to slavery, he still held many slaves. He felt strongly that women had a single purpose in life: Jefferson saw no reason to let them vote since women were never called upon to discuss politics. In the same manner, Jackson veered away from extending egalitarian policies to slaves and women received little betterment, although many reforms were taking place in the time of the Jacksonian Democracy. On the concern of Native Americans, Jackson, who in addition to leading an expedition against the Seminoles in Spanish Florida inforced thousands of Native Americans to march from Georgia to Oklahoma on the infamous "Trail of Tears. One of the many bills Jefferson proposed was the Bill for General Education, which "allowed everyone, without regard to birth or wealth, to have as much free education as each person was fitted for. He believed that schools restricted individual liberty by interfering with parental responsibility and undermined freedom of religion by replacing church schools. Finally, the extent in which separation of church and state was accomplished was unrelated. Thomas Jefferson vs Alexander Hamilton Essay Sample Jefferson proposed the Statute for Religious Freedom, separating church and state and removing the private right of religious belief from control by public law. However, Jackson believed that a strong federal government restricted individual freedom and he was against religious reform. Jackson vs jefferson frq In brief, the social and religious viewpoints of Jefferson and Jackson had their likes and differences. To conclude, it is quite clear to see how sharp and distinct the similarities and differences were between the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracies. More specifically, they are shown in the areas of politics, economics, social life, and religion. Indeed, their viewpoints, opinions, and ideas all helped establish the strong democracy that America has today. Why it is smart to buy a at Custom Essay Meister.• Re-charter of the Bank of the United States vs. Jackson’s veto of the Re-charter Bill became the primary issue in the election featuring Democrat Andrew Jackson vs. Whig Henry Clay; Jackson’s dispute with Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States; Whig. On April 2, , the county court entered a judgment that Jefferson “does have and recover possession of the premises from Defendant Kim Jackson et al.” The county court’s judgment did not award Jefferson any money damages. Jessica Hillis Mr. Gillard AP US History 27 October #1 DBQ While Andrew Jackson was president, he acquired a group of followers whom called themselves the “Jacksonian Democrats. Similarites Between Jackson and Jefferson Essay Words 3 Pages Though nearly thirty years separate the time when Presidents Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson were elected into office, the ideas that they brought with them into the White House are very similar. 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Psychology & Design : What Makes Us Click Recently familiarizing myself with web interface and usability design, I have been asking the question "what makes users click and navigate through a website?" As a designer it is important to understand the user's demographic information including gender, race, age, income, computer ability, educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location. It is also beneficial to know what makes for easy usability through navigational structures and clear linkage. This is usually where a designer leaves off with understanding their user. It is even more crucial that we immerse ourselves in making sense of how our users think subconsciously. Understanding how the brain functions can help designers better understand the impact of their actions and increase the amount of visitors into customers. Online decisions stem from subconscious processes. How DOES Our Brain Work? Our brain is actually composed of three layers that have grown from birth. All three parts of the brain depend on one another. 1. The New Brain: The most recently evolved, rational and analytical side of the brain where conscious thought process occurs 2. The Mid Brain: The emotional process center where images, pictures and stories influence our conscious thoughts 3. The Old Brain: The survival and physical efforts side of the brain that thinks about food, sex, and survival of the fittest Tapping Into The Subconscious Social Validation: Reviews, Facebook, and Twitter are all methods of social validation. Users look to other users to validate their choices. Product reviews on websites that provide user profiles allow others to connect with the review. They can identify with the reviewer and in turn identify with the review. This connection will make the review more powerful and influence the user who is on the fence about a buying decision. The number of comments and subscribers validates the blogger or tweeter as an authority or an expert in the field they are interested in. The advice and the comments are considered from the source. Websites that provide information or something for free with no sneaky survey or access to your personal information are tying into a user's value system or the mid brain. Subconsciously "If you do something for me I feel indebted the need to give you something back." You have to create credibility and proof that your product or service is of value to the customer before they can trust you with their personal information. The old brain of survival is afraid it will lose out. Fear is a very powerful emotion because it deals with survival. Our brains respond many times with fear when it may not be as pertinent. Promotions such as limited time offers or a limited supply causes the user to take action. To enforce this tactic on your website you must stand by what you preach, so to speak, and only offer that limited time offer in the time frame you have specified. If users discover the limited time offer is not so limited this tactic will backfire. Emotion signals influence most of our actions. The rational part of the brain would take forever to make decisions without emotions. After a decision is made the newer brain takes credit. Images, style and copy are critical to emotional connect with the proper demographic and create credibility. People tend to process information in a story type format. This includes a title, lots of photos, and engaging copy. As the navigational and grid layout of a website is crucial, elements tying in to the emotions are equally as critical to relate to the audience. The audience needs to think that they are that customer or they want to be like the model in the photograph to drive their purchase decision. Being aware of a user's conscious and subconscious processes is equally as important in creating a winning website design both visually and interactively. © 2010 Design by Stephanie Janke - Back to TOP
By Andrew Novak Before majority rule in 1980, Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) was briefly a member of FIFA, and even played a World Cup qualifying match in 1969. A year later, the team was suspended from global football. In the 1970s, football continued domestically under John Madzima, one of the vice-presidents of Rhodesia’s national football association, who successfully launched a coup against the white leadership. After independence, Madzima became the first head of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA). ZIFA has had organizational and financial difficulties and few continent-wide successes. Nonetheless, football has a profound social and political legacy from the colonial period, perhaps the only area of social life under black control. Football passed from industrializing Britain to the colony then known as Southern Rhodesia in 1890 by soldiers, and later missionaries and white settlers. Sport was central to white identity. Even mining baron Cecil Rhodes, the colony’s namesake, was an avid sportsman. For whites, football served an important purpose: a way of building a (white) Rhodesian identity. White settlers had high rates of emigration and often lived in rural areas. But, as elsewhere, sport was also a tool of social control. Mine workers from Transvaal brought football to Rhodesia’s black community about 1923. Township clubs sprang up almost overnight due to the logical rules and low costs of the game. African Welfare Societies, government-supported agencies that provided social services to the townships, created football infrastructure that could divert black workers from more “dangerous” activities such as gambling or protests. In Southern Rhodesia, football was organized around private clubs. The most important black elite football clubs were Highlanders FC in Bulawayo (founded in 1926) and Dynamos FC in Harare (founded in 1963). The Highlanders tended to have Ndebele fans while Dynamos had Shona fans. Football games saw political protest, especially when playing white teams. The most successful protest occurred in Bulawayo in 1947, when fans sat home for two seasons to protest the city council’s attempted takeover of the football fields. Because football was organized around private clubs, racial discrimination was common. White clubs were often ethnic based with separate clubs for Scottish, Portuguese, and Greek settlers, for instance. The difference between black and white clubs was stark. Black clubs had to lease or share sports facilities. While some clubs became integrated and participated in multiracial competition, most did not. Apartheid South Africa affected Rhodesian sport as well. Only segregated teams could play in or tour South Africa. Nonetheless, football dwarfed all other sports. A rugby cup final could attract 6,000 spectators. By the 1960s, a football cup final had 30,000 spectators. The Southern Rhodesia Football Association (SRFA) applied for FIFA membership in 1961, three years after admitting black players and the national team was racially integrated. In 1963, Dynamos FC won the Austin Cup, a major cup tournament that was until then whites-only. However, most SRFA-affiliated clubs remained white, while black clubs were affiliated to a separate organization, the Southern Rhodesian African Football Association. Mixed-race and South Asian clubs were affiliated to the Southern Rhodesian Soccer Board. These competing organizations merged into the Football Association of Rhodesia (FAR) and officially joined FIFA on May 21st, 1965. But, racial discrimination did not disappear. Voting in FAR was still weighted toward the predominantly white clubs in SRFA and private clubs set their own membership rules. Just six months after FIFA membership, Rhodesia’s white settlers unilaterally seceded from Great Britain and established an increasingly draconian police state. Mandatory United Nations sanctions excluded athletes from sport competition abroad. For FIFA, nothing changed. Stanley Rous, infamous for his support of apartheid South Africa’s membership, was still FIFA President. The African continent was underrepresented on the FIFA Executive Committee. Rhodesia was therefore eligible to compete in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. Because other African teams would boycott, Rhodesia had to be moved to the East Asia/Oceania group. Ultimately, the compromise was that South Korea, Japan, and Australia played in Seoul, with the winner (Australia) to play Rhodesia in Maputo. Rhodesia held Australia to 1-1 and 0-0 ties, but lost the third game 3-1. After the 1970 World Cup, Rhodesia was suspended from FIFA. FIFA recognized teams from colonies and from independent countries, but Rhodesia under UN sanctions did not fit either category. When, two years later, the FIFA Executive Committee recommended lifting the suspension, the African membership revolted. The continent now had enough seats on the Committee to block the proposal. Rhodesian football turned inward. Racial segregation continued to exist in football even though the overwhelming majority of clubs, players, and fans were nonwhite. John Madzima led a revolt by the African clubs. In October 1973, he formed the competing National Football Association of Rhodesia (NFAR), which absorbed the clubs and players as well as the major cups and sponsorships. The old FAR became defunct. In February 1974, Madzima applied for FIFA membership. FIFA refused to recognize NFAR: Rhodesia’s suspension was over the country’s unclear political status, not racial discrimination. In April 1980, Zimbabwe achieved majority rule. FIFA lifted the suspension and Madzima became ZIFA head. Zimbabwe has been somewhat mediocre in African and World Cup football since then. It is among a handful of African countries that has never made it past the top-16 in the African Cup of Nations, though it had a comeback in recent years at the Southern African regional level. Football’s uneven development in the country is a legacy of decades of racial segregation. However, the resilience of football’s black leadership during the period of white rule preserved the country’s most popular sport during its darkest period. Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here
Why are so many animals kept in the dark? The Indian government has announced a new initiative to clean the cold rooms of abattories, factories and other large industrial establishments. The government will clean them up in the same manner as other indoor and outdoor spaces. The National Capital Region Corporation for Urban Agriculture (NCUA) will be tasked with the task. According to a report in The Hindu, the NCAU will be given an office in the National Assembly Building and tasked with cleaning the cold room. In addition, a committee will be formed to monitor the cleaning of the cold space. In a similar fashion, the NCUA will be entrusted with the process of sterilising the cold tanks and hot rooms. According to the report, the sanitation and hygiene department will be headed by a retired civil servant, who will oversee the task of cleaning the room. The NCAu is also tasked with monitoring the cleaning process and is also to be empowered to conduct regular inspections to ensure the cleanliness of the space. In order to ensure a clean and healthy environment for animals, it will be necessary to sterilise and clean the hot and cold tanks. In the cold tank, which is used to cool the animals, a water supply line is to be provided to ensure water is not mixed with faeces. The cold tank can be cleaned by using a special water treatment system that is meant to sterilize the water. According the report:In order for the cold-water tanks to be cleaned and disinfected, they need to be sterilised and the hot-water tank should also be sterilized. The cold-tank is meant for sterilising and disinfecting. The hot-tank can also be used to clean a tank for cleaning purposes. The NCA u will also be responsible for cleaning the floors of cold tanks in the cold and hot tank.
Kalius septic tank bacteria Kalius for latrine pits Septic for cesspools How much water should you drink per day? Septic tank bacteria Cleaning of septic tanks and cesspools is based on the use of the vital activity of bacteria used in the work of a biological product. What is a waste for people, for some bacteria turns out to be food, from which they receive everything they need for their life – energy, and products for reproduction. When it enters a cesspool, toilet, or septic tank, the bacteria of the biological product Kalius process sewage into the water, carbon dioxide, and light sediment, which is a fertilizer enriched with organic nitrogen. For the most efficient operation, bacteria for septic tanks and cesspools must be used at temperatures from +4°C to +30°C with a constant flow of air. It is also worth remembering that not all human waste is food for microorganisms. Household chemicals have a detrimental effect on such bacteria, plus some of the bacteria will be constantly washed out with water – therefore, for the constant processing of waste and fecal matter, it is necessary to periodically add a biological product to wastewater. Thus, with strict adherence to the instructions, microorganisms feeding on organic waste can easily eliminate the stench; remove organic growths in sewer pipes without damaging them; restore the natural drainage of water into the soil; reduce the volume of feces, thereby reducing the frequency of pumping waste several times. In addition to the fact that the bacteria for septic tanks and cesspools contained in the biological product Kalius prevent the development of various pathogens, they are completely harmless to humans. Benefits of bacteria for Kalius septic tank: contains only natural breeding strains of microorganisms; is a stronger rival for putrefactive bacteria and pathogens; the removed bacteria remain functional for a long time after “waking up”; Kalius is absolutely harmless not only to humans, but also to animals, insects, and the entire environment; this destructor has a high concentration of beneficial bacteria (at least 1*109 in 1 g of product), which allows processing the largest amount of waste with a small amount of the drug; in the “dormant” state, these bacteria retain their viability at storage temperatures from -30°C to + 30°C. Use and dosage of bacteria for the Kalius septic tank Preparation of the working solution: dissolve the required amount of Kalius cesspools in 10 liters of warm, non-chlorinated water. Keep at room temperature for 60 minutes, stir. The working solution of the destructor is added to the toilet, after which it is washed off with a sufficient amount of water. In the future, it is necessary to add the required amount of bacteria once a month. Calculation of the required dose Starting dose 20 g or 1 measuring spoon for every 1 m3 of sewage volume 10 g or 0.5 measuring spoons for every 1 m3 of sewage volume One heaping scoop contains 20 g of Kalius biological product
Worst Poverty in the World It is difficult to rank poverty into objective levels of better and worse, as though human suffering can be quantified. Are the crowded slums of India, for example, worse than the isolated villages in rural Brazil? Answering the question of where the worst poverty in the world is depends on the factors one considers. In statistical terms, the Democratic Republic of the Congo earns the dubious distinction of having repeatedly been labelled the world’s poorest country. With a GDP per capita of less than $400 and wracked by instability, the DRC has come to be an all around worst-case scenario. Traveller Giovanni Contadino described his trip to the Congo: “Everyone was very keen to tell me how hard life was, and how much better things must be where I am from… Whenever I pressed people as to why their situation was so difficult, it was always the fault of the fighting.” Contandino also described the lack of infrastructure and the rife corruption in the city, where bribes were an everyday occurrence and politicians expected to live well beyond their means, with no protest from the people. Many have pointed out the psychological devastation of being among the poorest in the United States. Though it is the richest country in the world, the United States is also plagued by devastating poverty. Affected areas include urban communities like infamous Hunt’s Point in New York City or Detroit, which was labelled the most miserable city in the United States and has lower earnings than any other city and a high crime rate. It is a condition that must be made more intolerable by the knowledge of your countrymen’s affluence as well as living in a culture that thrives on materialism and consumption. Syrian refugees are undergoing one of the world’s most horrendous crises at the moment, losing homes, belongings, livelihoods, subject to random violence and rampant sexual assaults, forced into underserved communities and robbed of any hope of future security while their country burns around them. The poverty to be found in a refugee camp breeds severe physical and psychological trauma. It would be difficult to look at a refugee and state that their suffering was less profound than that to be found in the Congo, simply because it began more recently. All poverty is bad poverty. All poverty creates suffering and undermines dignity. To ask if one is worse than the other is an impossible and misguided question with little purpose; the most we should be asking is why there is poverty at all. Farahnaz Mohammed Sources: Global Finance, Road Trip to the DRC, MSN Photo: The Telegraph
Sleep Apnea and Women – Ignorance is Not Bliss. For years, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) has generally been considered a men’s health issue. In fact, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the ratio of men to women who come in to be evaluated for OSA is quite unbalanced. For every one woman diagnosed with OSA, eight or nine men are diagnosed. However, while it is true that more men are affected by the condition, the ratio should be closer to two or three men per woman. Why the discrepancy? While women face unique risk factors for OSA, they often are misdiagnosed by physicians or avoid seeking treatment in the first place. Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a condition characterized by complete and partial airway obstructions, which can occur when the tongue and muscles relax during sleep, the lower jaw falls back toward the throat or the airway becomes blocked. A typical sequence of OSA occurs when a person stops snoring and is silent for seconds or minutes. The brain may cause the body to jerk in an attempt to wake the sleeper so breathing will resume. The silence may end with a loud snort, cough or gasp. This causes the sleeper to wake briefly and begin breathing. Once asleep again, the muscles relax and the airway becomes blocked once again. This cycle can occur hundreds of times per night. If left untreated, OSA may lead to heart attack, stroke and death. However, while this represents a typical cycle of sleep apnea, the symptoms may present themselves differently in women. Women may not notice snoring or paused breathing, for example. Instead, they will often mention chronic insomnia, fatigue and depression, notes Dr. Grace Pien, in an interview with the National Sleep Foundation. Because the more commonly known symptoms of OSA were described by nearly all-male populations, it is no surprise that women frequently express different complaints. These complaints often lead to a misdiagnosis by primary care physicians. Misdisiagnosis of OSA common According to the National Sleep Foundation, women suffering from OSA have been misdiagnosed with anything from Anemia to Fibromyalgia to Menopausal changes. Furthermore, women are less likely to request a sleep study and are instead more inclined to ask for a medication to treat whatever symptoms they are experiencing. While many women do face misdiagnosis, a large number never seek medical care for their symptoms, especially if one of those symptoms is snoring. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, women are less likely to talk about their own sleep problems than those of their male partners. It seems that snoring is often stigmatized in women while it is considered relatively common and normal in men. As a result, many women fail to bring up this and other sleep issues with their physicians. The truth and nothing but… Women should be talking openly and honestly with their doctors about their sleep, however. Factors specific to women such as menopause, pregnancy, and polycystic ovary syndrome can put them at greater risk for developing OSA. Additionally, OSA may impact women’s health differently than men’s. A study conducted by the UCLA School of Nursing and published in the December 2012 issue of SLEEP, found that women suffering from OSA have a higher level of brain damage than men with the same disorder. Additionally, the National Sleep Foundation notes that OSA is linked to a higher risk of dementia in elderly women. Finally, OSA may exacerbate existing cardiovascular conditions, which can be especially problematic, considering heart disease is the number one killer of women. If you are concerned you might have OSA, consider keeping a log of the symptoms you experience, including those that seem unrelated to your sleep, such as headaches, loss of libido, changes in mood or depression. By speaking candidly about these symptoms with your physician and requesting a sleep study, you are more likely to get an accurate diagnosis. Getting help with OSA Treatment options for OSA include lifestyle changes, surgery, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Oral Appliance Therapy. While CPAP is one of the most common treatments for OSA, Oral Appliance Therapy has proven to be an effective, scientifically-based treatment alternative that patients may find more comfortable and easier to use. The purpose of the appliance is to hold the jaw in a position that allows the airway to remain as open and firm as possible during sleep. Oral appliances are similar to athletic mouth guards but less bulky and completely non-invasive. Oral sleep appliances are covered by most medical insurance plans and Medicare. For more information and to schedule an appointment with a Koala Center for Sleep Disorders dentist near you click here. Call Now Button
Why not to use single-use plastic, and 14 ways to reduce its consumption Single-use plastic cutlery is used around the world by individuals and business houses. The bitter truth is that most of this plastic, unfortunately, end up in landfills rather than plastic recycling plants. The good news is that, with single-use plastics being in the spotlight, more and more people and business houses are opting out to reduce them. So, what is single-use plastic? The answer is, single-use plastic is any plastic item intended to be used only once before it is thrown away or recycled. Here are some examples of single-use plastic: • Disposable Plastic plates, forks, and knives • Plastic shopping bags and grocery bags • Plastic coffee cup lids • Styrofoam and plastic take out containers • Plastic straws • Plastic tableware • Cigarette butts • Plastic drinking bottles and bottle caps • Food wrappers, containers, and lids • Foam take-away containers Today we are going to share why we shouldn’t use single-use plastic and what are the practical ways to really reduce its consumption. 5 Reasons, Why You Shouldn’t Use Plastic Cutlery 1. Majority of single-use plastic waste can’t be recycled Just nine percent of the world’s nine billion tones of plastic has been recycled according to a UN Report. Most of our plastic ends up in landfills, our oceans and waterways, and the environment. Plastics do not biodegrade. Instead, they slowly break down into smaller pieces of plastic called microplastics. Most plastic cutlery is made from a type of plastic known as polystyrene1. Polystyrene or expanded polystyrene is more commonly referred to as Styrofoam. It is very difficult to recycle Styrofoam. Most municipalities simply do not offer Styrofoam recycling and thus plastic cutlery that is put into a recycling bin is usually just sorted out at the recycling facility and sent to a landfill. Single-Use Plastic 2. It Creates waste, a lot of waste Single use plastic if doesn’t or can’t get recycles, it simply ends up in a landfill. The fact is 85 percent of the world’s plastic is not recycled. Its is sent to landfills. Eco-friendly disposable tableware, such as range of biodegradable tableware from Ecoware; which are made up of sugarcane pulp, can be composted and instead of piling up in a landfill it can be used as fertilizer in our kitchen garden. If re-usable cutlery or metal cutlery can be used, it’s even better. In this case, the process of creating a single-use item and the solid waste generated can be simply avoided. 3. It takes a lot of energy and resources Solid waste isn’t the only thing that’s wasteful about plastic cutlery. Plastic cutlery also takes a lot of energy and water to create. For instance, in the same amount of resources needed to make 1 polystyrene fork, 2 compostable forks can be made. 4. Hazardous to marine life if they end up in the ocean About 13 million tons of plastic waste enters our oceans each year. That is like a garbage truck full of plastic being dumped into the ocean every minute. At this rate, the amount of plastic littering the world’s oceans will triple within a decade. At this rate, by 2050 plastics waste could outweigh fish in our oceans. It’s time to take some drastic measures now. 5. Hazardous to human health When you transfer hot food straight from the oven, stove or microwave into a plastic serving bowl, toxic components from the plastic leach into your food. This may cause, endocrine disruption, which can lead to cancers, birth defects, immune system suppression and developmental problems in children. What We Can Really Do About it: For consumers, the following can be recommended: 1. Use of biodegradable eco-friendly disposable tableware made of sugarcane pulp. You can buy this eco-friendly dinnerware and cutlery from Ecoware E-Store. 2. Use of re-usable metal cutlery whenever you’re eating at home with your family. 3. If you really need to use disposable tableware for parties, picnics or events, please purchase compostable tableware made from sugarcane pulp or other agricultural waste. 4. Ask yourself if you really need plastic disposables for take-away food. 5. Use a cloth or reusable shopping bags instead of plastic bags 6. Bring your own coffee mugs to your workplace instead of using plastic disposable cups. 7. Recycle as much as possible—and support establishments that do the same 8. Buy items in bulk instead of retail to reduce plastic packaging 9. Bring your own take-out containers or support establishments that use recyclable takeout options 10. Be informed—get to know what is and isn’t recyclable in your town/city/area 5 Ways Students Can Green Up Their Lifestyle (1) Business houses and restaurants! This can be recommended to you: 1. For dining in customers, please use metal reusable cutlery. 2. For customers who are getting their food delivered; ask if they really need disposables. 3. For customers that are taking their food to go, please ask them if they need disposable cutlery before simply putting it in their to-go bag. 4. If in any event, you do have to give out disposable tableware – use compostable eco-friendly tableware, which is made of sugarcane pulp, rice husk, bamboo, etc. Not plastic. Related Posts Leave a Reply
Answer key: Surviving a Shooting Situation Lesson Plan: Learn How To Survive A Shooting Situation II. While Reading Activities Word Inference 1. Homeland Security-the department of the US government responsible for protecting the United States and its territory from terrorism and large-scale disasters, and for responding to such events when they occur. It was established in 2002 in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 2. confined \|kənˈfīnd\|adjective (of a space) restricted in area or volume; cramped: wear a dust mask and goggles when soldering in confined spaces. 3. scenario \|səˈnerēˌō\| noun (plural scenarios) a postulated sequence or development of events: a possible scenario is that he was attacked after opening the front door. 4. zigzag \|ˈziɡˌzaɡ\| adjective-having the form of a zigzag; veering to right and left alternately: when chased by a predator, some animals take a zigzag course. 5. lockdown \|ˈläkdoun\| noun-a state of isolation or restricted access instituted as a security measure: the university is on lockdown and nobody has been able to leave. 6. barricade \|ˈberəˌkād\| verb [with object] block or defend with an improvised barrier: he barricaded the door with a bureau \| (as adjective barricaded) : the heavily barricaded streets. 7. resort \|rəˈzôrt\| noun-the action of turning to and adopting a strategy or course of action, especially a disagreeable or undesirable one, so as to resolve a difficult situation: Germany and Italy tried to resolve their economic and social failures by resort to fascism. 8. jeopardize \|ˈjepərˌdīz\| verb [with object] put (someone or something) into a situation in which there is a danger of loss, harm, or failure: a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York’s position as a financial center. 9. tourniquet \|ˈtərnəkət\| noun-a device for stopping the flow of blood through a vein or artery, typically by compressing a limb with a cord or tight bandage. 10. stanch stôn(t)SHstän(t)SH\| (also staunch)-verb [with object] chiefly US stop or restrict (a flow of blood) from a wound: colleagues may have saved her life by stanching the flow Source: New Oxford American Dictionary Reading Comprehension True /False/NA-Statements 1. T-According to the article the specific situation and location matters. 2. F-Do not pull a fire alarm. That creates confusion as to whether what is happening is a drill. 3. T-An active shooter is described as someone with a gun engaged in killing or trying to kill people in a confined and populated place. 4. F-When you hear gunfire, the first response should be to escape. 5. T-Whenever you are in a new location, take note of the exits. 6. F- If on a higher floor, don’t use elevators; take the stairs. Windows are also an option. 7. F–If you believe you are in the gunman’s line of sight, run in a zigzag, or from cover to cover. 8. F-If escape is not an option, you should hide. 9. T-You can also hide under your desk if there is no alternative. It’s not the best choice, but removing yourself from the line of sight and gunfire is better than nothing. 10. F- Playing dead is generally not a good idea. Gunmen have been known to circle back and fire into wounded people or others on the ground. Grammar Focus:Fill-ins Many workplaces and schools use drills to prepare workers and students for lockdowns and evacuations. But if you are someplace like a theater, look for the exits yourself. Mr. Kolasky, who worked with the National Association of Theatre Owners after the Aurora theater shooting in 2012, said public service announcements in theaters often point them out. But they are only successful to the degree that people pay attention, he said.
Types de menaces par e-mail : les malwares Version imprimable, PDF et e-mail Email attacks often come in the form of a harmless-looking email with malware attached as a .zip file or embedded in an email attachment. This malware could install ransomware, spyware, and other damaging programs. Malware is short for ‘malicious software' and is a general term for many different types of threats to a computer system or network. Viruses, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and exploits are all examples of malware. The ILOVEYOU virus (also known as Lovebug) was an email attachment that started spreading in May 2000 and damaged millions of computers and cost an estimated $10 billion to $15 billion worldwide. “In five hours, ILOVEYOU spread across Asia, Europe and North America, some 15 times faster than the Melissa virus did when it struck a year before, infecting over 1 million computers. Soon after starting business on May 4, the United Kingdom's House of Commons had to take its overloaded email servers offline, as did the Ford Motor Company and even Microsoft, whose Outlook software was the primary means of spreading the virus.” ~Source In a few hours, ILOVEYOU also took nearly every major military base in the United States offline. Cybersecurity analyst Graham Cluley attributed this massive spread to a lack of email gateways that would have stopped malware from getting into the email system and user inboxes. Malware is one of the email threat types examined in our free e-book, 13 email threat types to know about right now. Barracuda Total Email Protection offers a complete suite of email protection to help defend your company from spam, malware, and other email attacks. For more information on how to protect yourself, download the e-book here. Remonter en haut de page
What is an index? An index in Splunk is simply a repository for the data. It is stored on an indexer, which is a Splunk instance configured to index local and remote data. The indexed data can then be searched through a search app. As the indexer indexes the data, it creates a bunch of files in sets of directories (called buckets). The files are organized by age. Each index occupies its own directory under $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk. For example, here are the files for the index called testindex: Indexes can be created with Splunk Web, the command-line interface (CLI), or by manually editing the indexes.conf file. By default, Splunk puts all user data into a single, preconfigured index called main. Of course, you can create your own indexes for security and performance reasons. Geek University 2021
What Makes Humans Give Up Achieving Goals, As Per A New Study A new study focused on trying to find out what makes humans give up on the way to achieve their goals. What psychological mechanism justifies the unjustified behavior of people not finishing up a task. The study combined two approaches: behavioral science and neuroscience. Given that our brain is a reward dependent mechanism, the researchers created a pattern where they invited the participants to choose a suitable run. They had to perform a given task at the end of which they would be given a financial reward. The lighter version implied a lighter task and a smaller reward. The harder version offered the opposite. Although the participants have chosen the run of action themselves, they all struggled to get it done, no matter the greatness of the reward. What happened? The antagonist came in: the effort. The antagonist in a theatre play is the one creating the plot by antagonizing the protagonist, making him doubt, be frightened, fight, lose faith, give up. So, the effort came in, and the participants lost meaning of the reward, regardless of the amount of money. It is the same mechanism that makes us stop exercising, or dieting, or cleaning the room. When the reward is somewhat tangible, the effort has the power of being even more so. It isn’t proof that things work the same with goals that have nothing to do with material reward. The Research on What Makes Humans Give Up Achieving Goals Specialists involved in the study say that assessing the amount of effort before engaging in the process and struggling to focus on the reward instead of focusing on the effort might be of help. That’s easier said than done. Once the initiative becomes a real struggle, it’s hard to rewire our brain circuits on focusing on something that is not yet real and doesn’t look much appealing anyway. If you can, then lucky you! If that doesn’t work, there is something else we can try to correct this behavior. Self-education to get to experience effort as a reward. The rewarding mechanism works like this: we picture ourselves at the end of the task and feel the splash of dopamine by seeing us holding the award. What if we change the script and start to picture ourselves on the way to the reward? In the hardest times: sweating, struggling, feeling lost or incapable, putting up a real fight to get it done, and succeeding. That’s a very powerful image and very self-rewarding. The reward itself might even lose some of its power, because form this moment on, it is not the only goal. The main goal is to overcome ourselves. It is not enough to obtain a reward. We need to feel we deserve it. The feeling that the reward belongs to us is a matter of credit. If we don’t earn the credits, then the reward means nothing. So, the effort is a necessary process for the reward to feel like a reward. No pain, no gain. It’s the process that matters, not the success. Those are strong beliefs among professional sports players and artists. They get to the end of the run because they enjoy the road, the effort. The more painful it is, the higher the reward. Because they feel rewarded every step of the way, every drop of effort is a drop in compensation. At the end of their struggle, the only reward that matters is recognition of their efforts. Maybe there is something there we can all pursue: find joy in making an effort. Forget about the reward.
Studying the Relationship Between Video Games and Learning Studying the Relationship Between Video Games and Learning March 18, 2021 0 By Kennedyseat Online games are a lot of fun and give the player the chance to take on another role in the virtual world. These games can be played for free but often cost real money to be installed on a computer. It is not uncommon to find sites where free online games can be downloaded. An online game is simply a video game that’s either partially or completely played via the Internet or some other computer network. They can have leader boards, chat rooms, special commands, and even user profiles. Gaming online games can differ from traditional console-based video games, but share many of the same characteristics. Typically, an online game will have at least one multiplayer mode and may also include aspects such as tournaments and leader boards. As you can probably already imagine, video games can help students in many social and communication research topics. For example, students in communication research may be investigating the relationships between various cultures, communication techniques, and values in different environments. The video games being played may facilitate observation and data collection. In this case, the online games could be part of a larger study about social communication and culture. The great news is that these online games provide something besides entertainment: practice. As we’ve noted before, students often engage in research in order to learn new things. The online gaming environment gives them a practice environment to do so. The only thing students need to get started is a computer and a game console. Since most online games require players to use voice chat, it is very easy for them to practice this on a server. The players just have to make sure they are not using their credit card for online gaming expenses. You can get more information about 파워볼사이트. If we look at the research conducted on online games and social networking, there is one area that bears repeating: mediation. We know that mediation can help students learn how to talk with others. In fact, mediation is often used by teachers to help students better express themselves in an academic setting. However, it has also been shown in many studies that students enrolled in online games tend to use the Internet for social interaction more than students in traditional classrooms. What is the reason? As one of the researchers noted, “gamers are much more lonely than they perceive themselves to be.” The final part of this article considers the potential educational benefits of online games. These games, especially those that require complex graphics, allow students to use a variety of senses – sight, sound, touch, and taste. By engaging with these senses, students are able to develop cognitive skills that are easily transferable to real-world situations. Also, because most online games require players to be connected to a computer network, parents can be confident that their children are not engaging in excessive computer network use, which can be a precursor to the development of online gaming addiction.
I've become used to the idea that you don't use honorifics to talk about yourself (as explained in this answer). Of course I can imagine that you might do it as a joke, or when quoting or imitating someone else's speech. But in straightforward speech, is it true that no-one ever uses honorifics towards themselves? What about if the person is a king or person of particularly high rank? • You use honorifics because you want to respect the one in the sentence, so that people get identified what status that person is. Therefore, never use honorifics to talk about yourself. Jul 8 '16 at 18:34 I think that rather than use honorifics on oneself, people of great rank or importance talk to others and about themselves using a lower form of speech (like 해라체 or 반말). One source I look to for this is the Bible. Even when God is speaking about Himself, he does not use honorifics. He uses 나는, 내가, 너희가, and so forth. These are all "low forms" of speech. God still shows his superiority and honor over others by how he speaks to them, it is just that the "-시" form is not how such is done in Korean. It would almost be like calling yourself "sir" in English. It would just sound weird, and even the president does not do it. (Or the king of England or whatever you want). This is an interesting thing about Korean: You can explicitly elevate yourself over others by the form you use when speaking to them. Kings in fiction, and kings in history sometimes used 짐 to refer to himself. This can be seen as elevated form of '나', but not necessarily. 짐 is also rare. The kings of Joseon dynasty used 나 primarily I believe. I've never seen or heard honorifics being used to explicitly elevate the speaker other than that. But if "lowering the listener" counts as "elevating the speaker" relatively, then I'd say 해라체 would qualify as indirectly using honorifics to elevate the speaker. Your Answer
Counting in Chinese Learning to count in any language is always important. Whether it is telling the shopkeeper how many dumplings you want or telling the waiter how many dishes you want for dinner, knowing your numbers is vital. The word for number is 数字 and is pronounced shùzì but it only means the term 'number'; obviously, you still need to learn the numbers themselves. 0 líng 零 1 yī 一 2 èr 二 3 sān 三 4 sì 四 5 wǔ 五 6 liù 六 7 qī 七 8 bā 八 9 jiǔ 九 10 shí 十 100 bǎi 百 1,000 qiān 千 10,000 wàn 万 Interestingly, in Chinese, eleven is "ten one", twelve is "ten two" and so on. Twenty is "two ten", twenty-one is "two ten one" and so on up to 99. For example: 11 shí yī 十一 21 èr shí yī 二十一 Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. 4.7 Star App Store Review!***uke Love Love LOVE Select Collections
With in the degree or quantity of rural With the diffusion of urban culture to the rural areas, the extreme differences between rural and urban cultures have diminished. The growing transport and communications, the radio, press, television, telephone, etc., the growing circulation of the urban newspapers in the rural areas have changed the attitudes and outlook of the ruralites. Medical, educational, commercial, recreational and other facilities are also being enjoyed by the rural people. The automobile has played an important role in the rural areas. It has ended the secluded life of the rural people. People prefer to stay near the highways now. Villages in a way are closely linked with the cities. Buses, trains, taxies and motor cycles, etc., have helped the city people to go out and stay in the fringes of the city. Everywhere big cities are characterised by sub-centres or sub-urban areas. In structure and function they are like cities. Too much of concentration in the city contributes to an opposite process of decentralisation. The sub-centres or sub-urban areas resemble the city in several respects. A single city may have a number of small sub-urban areas. These sub-urban areas may retain in them some of the features of the city. They are like satellite cities built around a major city. Sub-urban areas represent the rough amalgam of rural and urban ways of living. Here, we may find the urban way of life being mixed with the rural way of life. In these areas we find the ‘rural-urban convergence’. The Rural-Urban Continuum: Some sociologists have used the concept of rural-urban continuum to stress the idea that there are no sharp breaking points to be found in the degree or quantity of rural urban differences. The impact of urban life over rural life is evident in many ways. With regard to birthrate, age at marriage, infant mortality, church affiliations, divorce, suicide, etc., rural indices are moving to nearer urban indices. In this way, rural areas can become highly urbanised. As the contacts of the city become closer as transportation and communication become more rapid, the rural community tends to assume more closely the urban social structure. We may even speak of different degrees of “urbanness” or “ruralness”. One country can be demographically more urban and yet socially more rural than another. Example: Chile has a greater percentage of its population living in cities than does Canada, but its people, by almost all sets of indices, are less urban. I'm Mary! Check it out
Is Moscow's Thirst for Great Power Status a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? September 22, 2021 Topic: Russia Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: RussiaGreat Power CompetitionG7BRICSCrimea Whether it objectively deserves to stand among these other states or not, Russia certainly recognizes the drastically increased level of influence it gains by being able to assert the image of a great power. Throughout history, those states that were recognized as commanding the greatest influence in the international system were labeled as “great powers”. While the real origins of this concept are debated, it was formalized in Europe after the Napoleonic Wars, and a multipolar structure lasted until the end of World War II. A largely bipolar system then emerged between the only two states still able to claim large-scale influence in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union, and the extreme difference in power projection capabilities between them and the rest of the world led to the emergence of the concept of the “superpower” as a way to further distinguish them from traditional great powers. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States was able to maintain a position of relative hegemonic unipolarity for about a quarter of a century. However, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, increasingly contentious relations with China, and the U.S. response to these developments indicate that we have entered an era of renewed multipolar great power competition. While the term “superpower” was always vague in its definition, the United States certainly retains a level of influence that supersedes any potential rivals. China’s extensive military and economic assets, as well as its political culture, render it the world’s next most powerful state. Russia’s position in the post-2014 world remains inconclusive. Although usually seen as behind both the United States and China in global standing, Russia boasts one of the world’s largest and most capable militaries and spends enormous resources on the development of power projection capabilities ranging from nuclear, hypersonic, space, information, and cyber operations. Perhaps akin to a contemporary version of Prussia, the state maintains this while plagued by a critically small economy. While the Soviet Union also suffered from this, usually producing never more than half of the American economy per year, Russia has maintained an average of less than ten percent of the U.S. GDP over the last five years. While base economic resources are only part of the equation for great power status, this is nonetheless an extreme gap. The Russian position is inversely mirrored by that of the European Union. Moscow’s tight budget often serves as the prime argument for those with an economic focus to point towards the European Union as the real third great power behind the United States and China, as Europeans can largely stand as equals with the Americans and Chinese in the global economy. However, just as Russia’s economy fails to match its military, the same can be said regarding the martial competence of the European Union compared to its economic standing. The EU commands almost no hard power capabilities as an institution. Despite this, Russian literature on its position in the world system frequently describes both Russia and the EU as comparable great powers, often on the same playing field as the United States and China. This assertion, reflected by both political and intellectual elites, is a testament to the asymmetrical ways in which understandings of great power status can manifest. This complexity is interesting to look at by base assets alone, but the will of a country's political elite and public to pursue influence constitutes another important metric of power, especially in the context of Russia. After 1991, Russia’s place in the international order and its relationship with the West were hotly debated. While Westernizers were initially favored in many respects, economic turmoil, the introduction of socially liberal values, and NATO expansion ultimately discredited those who sought integration into the Western world. Russia’s identity as a unique and sovereign great power, something that has roots extending from Peter the Great, the Napoleonic Wars, and most saliently in the Soviet Union, began to re-emerge and dominate influential circles. While relations with the West began to stall throughout the 2000s and 2010s, by 2014 it became clear that Moscow was willing to assert itself militarily within the former Soviet space in opposition to Western institutions like the EU and NATO. Russia’s regional engagement is important to note, as regional spheres of influence are a staple in claims to great power-hood. Observers with realist leanings occasionally argue that the European Union has effectively also established this, despite its self-conception as an institution beyond power politics. This is especially salient in Russia’s perspective of the EU’s Eastern Partnership program, which aims to strengthen relations between Brussels and several former Soviet republics. The influence of Western institutions in the region has been a major concern for Moscow and a reason for the plethora of frozen conflicts in the area. While wars with Russia, or Russian-backed groups, and the establishment of rump states along the border has led many neighboring populations to look on Moscow with disdain and often solidified a commitment to the West, from a geopolitical perspective Moscow’s actions may have also solidified a sphere of influence. Although Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine remain sovereign states with negative views of Russia, it is unlikely that any will be accepted into either the European Union or NATO due to a demonstrated interest toward them by Moscow. The European Union and NATO expressively defend the right of independent state sovereignty, but also understand regional power politics and are quite hesitant to provoke Russia by greatly expanding into this sensitive region, which is therefore giving Moscow a de facto hold over the area’s future. This goes without mentioning Russia’s relatively successful regional integration networks with friendlier post-Soviet states, namely the Eurasian Economic Union, which may constitute a more traditional understanding of a sphere of influence. Despite exploring base economic and military assets, as well as spheres of influence, we are still faced with uncertainty. If regional influence is important, are states like Brazil great powers? Does China have a real sphere of influence? Iran has a will to power along with notable regional influence, but its inclusion as a great power is very rare. This leads to what is likely the most important factor in understanding great power status, which is that great powers appear to recognize each other in the international system. States like Brazil and Iran have failed to be recognized by the United States, China, and others as ranking amongst the most influential sovereign actors. In this regard, Russia has had a mixed experience, especially during the 1990s and 2000s. President Obama notoriously referred to Russia as a mere “regional power” after its actions toward Ukraine in 2014, and the country has no shortage of comments about its stagnant economy. Nevertheless, Russia has been able to maintain a level of international standing resemblant of a great power. Moscow is a hardliner on the structure of the United Nations precisely due to its position as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, often used as a reference point for the current great powers. Russia was also invited to the G7, turning it into the G8 from 1997-2014, a grouping commonly seen to represent the most powerful states of the Western and developed world. Similarly, Moscow was an important actor in the development of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), seen in its prime as a grouping of the most powerful non-Western states. Russia was further represented in negotiations for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) towards an Iranian nuclear deal in 2015, which were limited to only the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Germany, and the European Union. While it is difficult to say if Russia has precisely the same capacity to influence the world as the United States and China, it does seem to be recognized by these states as worthy to sit alongside them in exclusive global decision-making processes. This may also outline an important reason why Moscow and Beijing have been happy to form closer ties in recent years. While Russia is pulled towards China for economic reasons, China seems to view Russia as the friendliest state with "high status" in the international community. Whether it objectively deserves to stand among these other states or not, Russia certainly recognizes the drastically increased level of influence it gains by being able to assert the image of a great power. The fact that Russia demands to be treated as a great power also seems to encourage the proliferation of this image among the international community, advancing a cycle in which belief becomes reality. This is ever more apparent after the Putin-Biden summit in Geneva this year, in which President Biden bluntly backtracked from Obama’s position and stated publicly that both the United States and Russia were “great powers.” If power is defined by one’s influence on the actions carried out by others, then having the most powerful state in the world to proclaim you an equal is certainly powerful. It is perhaps through this domain, the will to power’s synthesis with the influence of international recognition, that Russia finds its most salient argument for consideration as a great power. Sven Etienne Peterson is a graduate student of Central and Eastern European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow, University of Tartu, and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
What is an unnotarized oath? In a 1993 case, the Florida Supreme Court addressed the issue of "unnotarized oaths." State v. Shearer, 617 So.2d (Fla. App. 5 Dist. 1993). This case may significantly affect the role of notaries in Florida because it recognized an acceptable alternative oath that may be used for verified or sworn written documents. A person using the alternative oath would not need the services of a notary public or other official authorized to administer oaths. The alternative method of making verified (or sworn) documents is set forth in section 92.525, Florida Statutes, and provides that a signed written declaration can substitute for a notarized oath if it contains the following language: "Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing [document] and that the facts stated in it are true." The written declaration must be printed or typed at the end of or immediately below the document being verified and above the signature of the person making the declaration. By signing a document with that language, a person can make a sworn written statement without having it notarized. The Court noted that because the oath starts with the words, "Under penalties of perjury," a person who falsely signs such an oath could be convicted of perjury, just as one who signs and falsely swears to a document before a notary public or other official authorized to administer oaths. For this reason, the Court concluded that the alternative oath was acceptable for the purpose of filing a motion required to be sworn to by the court rules. The alternative oath was enacted by the Legislature in 1986 but has not gained much popularity. Perhaps, the Shearer case will cause an increased usage of "unnotarized oaths."
Playing with Pattern Have fun with art and maths The Playing with Pattern website is designed for use on tablets & desktops computers. Please load on a suitable device where you will be able to discover, explore and play with pattern. Please rotate your device to view this site Exporting your pattern… Tap on a motif that is repeated in this design! Tap where the vertical line of symmetry is! Tap on the tulip rotated by 90 degrees is used here? Tap on an Daisy William Morris, 1864 William Morris was such a good designer; it is often hard to spot where the repeat starts and ends. Look closely at the Daisy pattern, can you see the repeats? This is a very early design and the first one to be made into a wallpaper. It has a repeating pattern of clumps of white, red, yellow and blue flowers, with a background which looks like grass. The daisy motif was also hand painted onto tiles and, when multiple tiles are arranged together, the overall pattern gives the impression of a country meadow. In mathematical terms the repeating of an image or motif, without changing its form, is called translation. Can you see the motifs repeating in this design? Persian John Henry Dearle, 1905 Symmetry was an important organising feature of the Morris & Co designs. In many of Morris’s designs it is possible to identify clear lines of vertical and horizontal symmetry. In mathematical terms symmetry occurs when one half of an image is a reflection of the other half. This pattern features a variety of flowering plants and foliage, in shades of pink, blue and green on a pale background. It was designed by John Henry Dearle, who began as a shop assistant and then apprentice of William Morris. He became chief designer in 1890 and when Morris died in 1896, Dearle was appointed as Art Director of Morris & Co. Can you see the line of symmetry in this design? Ceiling William Morris, 1877 Rotation is when an image or design has a central point that stays fixed and everything else moves around that point in a circle. A full rotation is 360° As the name suggests this square repeating pattern was intended for the ceiling. Whilst many of the Morris & Co tiles would be rotated to create decorative effects, we don’t often see motifs rotated in Morris’s wallpaper designs. Can you see how the tulip motif rotates 90° 180° 270° in this design? Wandle William Morris, 1884 Every pattern has a framework, that holds all of the elements together. Frameworks can sometimes be seen in natural forms, such as the direction a river flows or that branches grow. Some of the frameworks that William Morris often used in his designs: This pattern is named after the River Wandle than ran near to his workshop in Merton Abbey in Surrey. Thirty-two printing blocks were required to print this design. Can you spot the framework in the pattern? Rose William Morris, 1883 William Morris was influenced by Eastern and Islamic patterns. For example, ogee curves (like Islamic arches), foliage such as lotus flowers and arabesques (intertwining stems) are used to build up the pattern. This design features roses and tulips. The roses are easily recognised however, the style of tulip is the pointed tipped, Eastern type not a rounded, English type. 1. Can you see an arabesque? Hint: Look for the pink intertwining stems, covered in green and blue leaves. 2. Can you see an ogee? Hint: Look for the yellow stems with an orange rose at the top point. Trellis William Morris, 1862 Now you can recreate your own version of a well-known William Morris design. The pattern features the squared trellis, on a grid framework, covered in roses, insects and bird motifs. Select the motifs you would like to include in your own version of Trellis. Remember to use some of the maths concepts you have been learning about. Trellis was the first wallpaper William Morris designed. He had recently moved into Red House in Bexley Heath and couldn’t find any wallpapers that he liked enough to use in his new home. He was inspired by the rose trellises in the medieval style garden at Red House. Trellis is still one of William Morris’s most popular patterns, but it wasn’t a success at first. Many people preferred patterns with realistic looking flower motifs and they felt that the Trellis design was too simplistic.
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The power of water Circular economy for our most useful resource By Ellen MacArthur Foundation \| November 7, 2020 Water is a vital resource that has fuelled human progress. It transports solids, dissolves minerals, chemicals and nutrients, and stores thermal energy. This ‘carrier characteristic’ allows for countless industrial, agricultural, and transport processes that enable our society to thrive. But water is also key to life. The water in our oceans is home to phytoplankton that produce 70% of the oxygen we breathe. The lakes and rivers, and the groundwater beneath our feet, are our sources of drinking water without which we would soon perish. The food we eat relies on fresh water to grow. In nature, water purifies and renews itself endlessly as it flows through the planet’s hydrological cycle. But nature’s capacity to renew on her own is being disrupted. In the last century, intensive industrial activities and urbanisation have significantly impacted our water supplies. To make just one pair of jeans, for example, requires around 7,500 litres of water and produces difficult-to-clean wastewater. With the number of clothes produced annually doubling from 50 billion to 100 billion units in the last 15 years, industrial water use in the clothing industry alone has also increased dramatically. Extrapolating this growth across the economy, and factoring in an expanding population, it is easy to understand why the UN estimates that water demand will exceed easily accessible supply by 40% in 2040. To make things more complex, the evolving climate emergency is leading to more unpredictable rainfall and greater frequency of extreme and unusual weather events. This has manifested as floods in South East Asia, droughts in California and Australia, and wildfires in Greenland. The recent UN Water Policy Brief on Climate Change and Water is unambiguous on such effects: “The global climate change crisis is inextricably linked to water.” Water is never waste With more unpredictable weather events and increased demand for fresh water, the ways in which we use and reuse water resources have never been more important. Reimagining wastewater not as a costly problem, but as a valuable resource is a good illustration of this. One example is the El Torno wastewater treatment plant in Cadiz, southern Spain. Like thousands of similar treatment facilities across the world, El Torno receives wastewater flows from surrounding businesses and homes, which it purifies so the water can be safely discharged into the nearby river. However, an aerial view of the El Torno site shows this plant to be different from the rest. Extending from the North West corner of the facility is a pair of very straight emerald green channels, each about 100 metres long. In these ‘raceways’, algae are cultivated that produce oxygen to fuel the biological treatment of the wastewater, thus almost eliminating the need for an energy supply to the facility. To avoid suffocating the water flow, dead algae are constantly harvested and pumped to an anaerobic digester where they are converted into biogas. The gas is then scrubbed of impurities leaving pure biomethane, which is pressurised and used to fuel a fleet of cars. Results from the full-scale pilot facility indicate that just one hectare of algae can treat the effluent of 5,000 people and produce enough biofuel to power 20 cars driving 30,000km a year. Although the burning of biomethane produces carbon dioxide, it releases only the same amount of CO2 that the algae absorbed while it grew. Carbon also remains in the byproducts of this process, which can be returned to the soil of local farms, meaning that the process has the possibility of being net carbon positive. When we connect systems like this and think of them as a whole, it is possible to transform a costly carbon emitting process into both an economic opportunity and a means of addressing a number of global challenges. The implications are significant. Wastewater treatment consumes about 3–4% of US energy demand. In India, inadequate wastewater treatment, due to unreliable or expensive power, costs the Indian economy more than USD 50 billion a year. Imagine then, the positive impact that could be made if all future new wastewater treatment facilities in Africa, for example, were designed as power plants. This is not a pipe dream. Such an idea is rapidly becoming a reality in many cities around the world, not just at El Torno, but also the Ebjy-Molle plant in Aarhus, Denmark, the Strass plant in Innsbruck, Austria, and the Gresham City plant in Colorado, US, which all operate as energy positive. This thinking is a hallmark of the circular economy — a system re-design inspired by nature, that aims to decouple economic growth from the consumption of finite resources. Not all water is equal – reusing water While treatment of wastewater will always be necessary, we can also prevent a lot of water from becoming ‘waste’ in the first place. Depending on the use, different water quality standards are acceptable. For example, a typical microchip facility requires nine custom varieties of water. This includes water for toilet flushing, water fountains, air-con units, and mixing of chemicals, as well as the most expensive ultra-pure water for cleaning semiconductors. An IBM microchip factory in Vermont demonstrated that recycling water can generate a whole swathe of additional benefits besides just lowering freshwater consumption. Between 2000 and 2009, IBM engineers started using IoT technology to manage water more effectively in their Burlington factory. As a result USD 740,000 per year was saved on water use, which generated almost USD 3 million in savings on chemicals and energy. In other words, for every one dollar they saved on water, four dollars were saved in other resources. Products and systems can also be developed that enable reuse and recycling of water in the home. Boston-based business Aquafresco has a patent-pending filtration system that allows 95% of laundry water to be recycled, and also 90% of detergent to be collected for reuse. Similarly, Dutch company Hydraloop has developed an easy to install system that collects shower and washing water, economically converting it to a quality suitable for washing, toilets, garden use, and swimming pools. Hydraloop can save a typical household 30,000 litres of water per year. Cities have a unique opportunity to make the most of such innovations. Las Vegas, Singapore, Windhoek, and Berlin all recycle their water in different ways, allowing the cities to improve water security and greatly reduce costs. The Solaire apartment block in New York recycles 165,000 litres of water per day, allowing for secondary use in toilets, air-con systems, and roof-top irrigation. The reuse system reduces water demand by 50% and discharge volumes to local sewers by 60%, as well as reducing building energy consumption. Redesigning systems to save water In addition to making the most of the water we use every day, changing the way products are designed and made has significant water conserving potential. Take the pair of jeans which requires 7,500 litres for production. In the Netherlands, a company called MUD offers jeans on a subscription model, as well as using over 40% recycled content for each new pair. Together, this saves 5,500 litres of water for each pair of jeans. Circular strategies that conserve water resources apply across many different sectors. Renault’s Choisy-le-Roi plant collects old gear boxes, turbo injectors, and other engine parts, cleaning and remanufacturing them to a good-as-new condition. By doing so the plant uses 88% less water than manufacturing from scratch, as well as 80% less energy and 90% fewer chemicals, and produces 70% less waste. The Choisy plant turns over EUR 100 million in revenue and customers save 30–50% on a good-as-new part. Getting more from less is an enduring feature of a circular economy. In New York, the Catskill catchment basement programme has provided wide-reaching benefits thanks to its holistic response to a federal government regulation change mandating the filtering of surface water supplies in the city. Rather than opting to invest in a new water treatment plant — which would have cost the city USD 6 billion plus annual running costs of USD 250 million — a study into alternative solutions was undertaken. It concluded that watershed protection projects, costing a mere USD 1.5 billion in comparison, would result in the same level of water filtration. Furthermore, this approach resulted in the ecological improvement of thousands of acres of upstate land boosting the rural economy, creating local employment, increasing investment in rural businesses, and expanding eco-tourism. Regenerative action Regenerating the environment by redesigning systems is a critical element of the circular economy. It advocates that economic activities should go beyond doing less harm, and strive for a regenerative or net-positive impact on nature. Natural systems provide us with food, oxygen and clean water, regulate our climate, absorb floods, provide recreation and much much more. The WWF Living Planet Index estimates these ‘ecosystem services’ provide humans with more than USD 120 trillion of benefits each year. Our current extractive and polluting economic model drastically diminishes the ability of ecosystems to provide these services. No sector of the economy illustrates the potential for circular economy to regenerate natural systems more than agriculture. And, as farming consumes 70% of the planet’s freshwater, no part of the circular economy offers more to the conservation of water resources than regenerative agriculture. Regenerative agriculture describes a broad set of food production methods with two complementary outcomes: the production of high quality food and the improvement of the natural environment. It recognises that farms are part of a larger ecosystem, which farming activities must not just extract from, but also support. Farming in this way shifts from monoculture practices that are heavily reliant on chemical inputs, towards a more holistic way of thinking that cherishes diversity, encourages virtuous cycles of renewal, and focuses on the health of the system as a whole. The specifics vary, or as soil expert David Montgomery puts it: “what works for temperate grasslands may not work so well in tropical forests.” However there are common regenerative practices that can be applied across all soil farming. These include the use of cover crops, wider crop diversity, minimising soil disturbance and, most importantly, the building up of soil organic matter. For every 1% increase in organic matter in the top 20cm of topsoil, 90 tonnes of carbon can be sequestered and an additional 144,000 litres of water stored. This shows that regenerative agriculture is both a powerful tool for climate mitigation and adaptation, while at the same time meeting demand for food. On a 50,000 acre farm in Sao Paulo province, Brazil, Leontino Balbo Jnr has gradually converted his sugar cane plantation to what he refers to as ‘ecosystem revitalising agriculture’ that focuses primarily on soil health. Balbo’s regenerative journey has not been straightforward, requiring numerous experiments and course corrections, as well as the need to manufacture his own bespoke ‘green harvesting’ equipment. The home-made machines operate on low pressure tyres to avoid over-compaction of soil, cutting the cane while at the same time, shredding and returning leaves and other plant residue to the soil. Twenty years on, the farm has increased biodiversity to half that of a national park, increased yield by 20%, and all but eliminated mechanical irrigation. In Northern Dakota, farmer Gabe Brown has integrated livestock grazing with many different species of saleable crops. Pigs and chickens help to cycle nutrients so that the ranch can thrive without any synthetic inputs, allowing organic soil content to increase from 1% to 14%. This feeds microbes and improves soil structure so his fields now store over three times more water than before, providing insurance against years of drought or lower rainfall. The 5000-acre farm, which was heavily degraded 20 years ago, is now profitable without the need for government subsidies. The many other types of regenerative agriculture — including agroforestry, conservation agriculture, agro-ecology, silvopasture and 3D ocean farming — all illustrate that agriculture does not have to be a zero-sum game. It is possible to produce food for everyone, conserve water, make a decent profit, protect farmers and local communities from harm, and enhance the environment — all at the same time. The need for and importance of water across all sectors of the economy as well as all living organisms and natural systems shows that water is a resource of incomparable value for Planet Earth. As water has allowed humans to thrive in the past, so it can continue to in the future, provided we commit to respecting and valuing it in the appropriate way. Applying circular economy thinking to the way we manage our precious water resources can be one powerful way of fulfilling this commitment. This article was written by Nick Jeffries and Tansy Fall and originally published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
How do we perceive country, nation, and state? The term ‘country’ emphasizes the physical dimensions and boundaries of a geographical area. The term ‘nation’ emphasizes a particular community of people with shared history and culture. The term ‘state’ stands for a self-governing legal and political entity. But is this view really common all over the world? Miks Muizarajs is a researcher and enthusiast in nation‑building, striving to understand how citizen engagement and community-driven development affect the stability and development of both nascent and well-established forms of government. During his work on World Bank government decentralization projects in the Democratic Republic of Timor‑Leste and Togo, Miks Muizarajs spent considerable time in remote villages and witnessed the importance and strength of the grassroots level in facilitating or disrupting progress within society. Miks’ previous applied geography work in Ecuador and Ethiopia, where he studied small‑scale local interventions which promoted income generation and access to higher education, added to this experience. He currently works with international think‑tanks, government auditing agencies, and NGOs in both Latvia and abroad, trying to identify sustainable policy interventions which can help link the grassroots level with the upper echelons of policy‑making. Spread this idea: Posted by TEDxRiga
What is the Fibonacci series? The Fibonacci series is a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. (Starting with 0 and 1) Example: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13……. Where and how did it originate? Though the sequence had been described in Indian mathematics long ago, it was Leonardo Fibonacci (an Italian mathematician) who introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics. It was introduced as the solution to the rabbit population problem. The following YouTube video explains the problem: 2 ways of making a program to generate the numbers in the Fibonacci series: 1. Recursive approach: 2. Dynamic Programming approach Recursive Approach: In this approach we use simple recursion to print the values of the Fibonacci series till the nth term. The function returns the value of the nth Fibonacci number. The recursive function is of the form : Fn = F(n-1) + F(n-2) If n is 0 or 1 then it returns 0 or 1 respectively. (This is the base case) The values of F(n-1) and F(n-2) are recursively calculated. The program(in python) is as follows: n = int(input("Enter the number: ")) def recsol(n): if n == 0: return 0 elif n == 1: return 1 return recsol(n-1) + recsol(n-2) fib = [] for i in range(n): print("Recursive solution : ",fib) The following recursion tree will help you understand this approach better: This roughly becomes O(2n). However, this is not a tight upper bound. Dynamic Programming Approach: Look carefully at the recursive tree. It is observed that a lot of the operations are getting repeated. For example: F(3) is calculated twice, F(2) is calculated thrice. The values of previous elements are repeatedly calculated and this increases the time complexity. This can be avoided by storing the values of the Fibonacci numbers calculated so far, in an array. The program (in python) is as follows: def dpsol(): fib = [-1] * n fib[0] = 0 fib[1] = 1 for i in range(2,n): print("DP solution : ",dpsol()) Time Complexity: O(n) Visits: 408 3 Replies to “Generating Fibonacci Series” Leave a Reply
The abuse of alcohol is a serious problem that can lead to many different side effects. One of these possible effects is called alcohol poisoning. There becomes a tipping point when alcohol becomes toxic. In fact, alcohol is one of the more dangerous substances available. It is incredibly impairing when consumed in larger quantities. On top of that, it’s one of few drugs with a potentially lethal withdrawal. Of course, alcohol poisoning is a constant risk for heavy drinkers as well. What is alcohol poisoning, and how do you help someone with alcohol poising. Understanding Alcohol PoisoningLearn how to help someone with alcohol poisoning. Alcohol poisoning is a medical state that occurs when people drink far past the point of initial intoxication and continues to dangerous levels. This leads to a dangerous buildup of alcohol in the bloodstream. The alcohol levels in your system continue to increase even if you stop drinking, your blood alcohol level would continue to rise. Your body temperature drops, skin pales, and may also discolor slightly as oxygen deprivation sets in. While the oxygenation goes down, blood glucose levels also reduce. For example, this affects the body by potentially triggering a possible seizure. Repeated vomiting combined with a lack of hydration can lead to brain and organ damage. Therefore, getting medical attention is necessary. Alcohol poisoning is a very serious issue that requires a rapid response Learning how to help someone with alcohol poisoning is an important part of overcoming this life-threatening condition. Becoming Aware of the Signs of Alcohol Abuse Learning how to help someone with alcohol poisoning will be easier if you become familiar with the signs of alcohol abuse. The following list highlights a few common symptoms: Reclusive Behavior Those suffering from substance abuse often start to spend excessive amounts of time alone. It is also common for these individuals to stop engaging in their favorite hobbies. Serious Preoccupation with Alcohol Those experiencing the effects of alcohol abuse will often become obsessed with drinking. Without knowing how to help someone with alcohol poisoning, they are more likely to continue abusing alcohol. When they are not actively consuming alcohol, they may be experiencing the effects from the last time they consumed the substance. Physical Changes Excessive weight loss and a loss of interest in maintaining personal hygiene is common among those impacted by alcohol abuse. Many other physical changes may also be present. Helpful Treatments for Alcohol Abuse The right kind of alcohol addiction treatment program will likely use a wide array of possible recovery elements. For example, different types of counseling can help a person understand his condition more fully. By learning how to help someone with alcohol poisoning, they can receive this therapy to move forward. Family therapy can help rebuild important relationships that have been damaged by substance abuse. Cognitive behavioral therapy can discover the types of thoughts that lead to problematic behaviors. These thoughts can be changed into more productive ways of thinking. Finally, a carefully planned relapse prevention program can help set a person up for long-term success in the future. No matter where your biggest issues lie, a skilled rehab facility will design your complete rehabilitation program with your exact needs in mind every step of the way. Crest View Recovery Center is an addiction rehab center in the Asheville, NC area. This facility relies on an innovative form of reality therapy to effect real changes in people’s lives. Additionally, the peaceful setting allows for a full immersion in the recovery process. You don’t need to let an addiction keep you down. You can learn how to help someone with alcohol poisoning today. Contact Crest View Recovery Center today at 866-327-2505 to learn how to begin your healing transition. Leave a Reply Post comment
Key Javascript Concepts for Modern JS Javascript is one of the most powerful languages in the web technology stack. We have got too many languages for modern web development. But if you see any of the modern web technology, that will have either impact on Javascript or it might be built on top of Javascript. Recall on Javascript Javascript was created by Breaden Enrich, while he was working with Netscape Communications Corporation. He named the language LiveScript. Later Netscape named the LiveScript to Javascript. Javascript 1.1 was submitted to European Computer Manufacturer Association(ECMA). The technical committee of the ECMA has regulated the syntax and semantics for global usage. ECMA has a larger developer community from popular companies like Microsoft, Sun, Netscape, Borland, and other organizations. This evolution keeps on moving into the growth for Javascript and its dependency frameworks/libraries. On another side, javascript-based frameworks are stretched their legs in different corners of web development. Which gives us extraordinary web development sight on today's modern web pages. Below are a few examples of modern web development frameworks. The below content represents the key concepts of modern javascript and their different aspects. These elements are the most important to understand and learn more on deep to adopt any of the modern frameworks. Every modern framework has built on top of these key elements. Let and Const Variables Declaration of the variable in the classic javascript will be done by the "var" keyword. From the EC6 version of javascript, we go the 2 different keywords to declare the variable in javascript, which is called "let" and "const". It doesn't mean "var" will not work moving forward on EC6 scripts. We can still use the "var". But, we would highly recommend using the new keywords to declare the variable. Let's dive into the use case of "let" and "const". Where the variable value will have change throughout the execution of the program, we will use "let". "const" will use only for constant variable, which will have only one value throughout the program execution. Import and Export Another important feature next-generation javascript offers, Export, and Import functionality. which will enable the developer to write code as modules in a structured style. Arrow functions It is a function on javascript. But it has a slightly different syntax for Arrow functions. Arrow functions are simpler than normal functions on declaration and definition. It also has the ability to pass by value to the function to achieve certain functionality. Classes functions The next important concept called classes. It is a major role play in modern javascript. As usual, classes can have properties and methods. The classes have the extended advantage of using concepts like object constructors and inheritance. Let's look at the example of those, Popular posts from this blog Drupal 8 Media Library with SVG upload Creating an Image Watermark Azure Cloud service problem "The current service model is out of sync"
The word vodka is derived from primitive Russian word ' voda ' which meant little water. Vodka is colourless and flavourless spirit distilled from fermented mash of grains like rice , maize , barley with some potato. Vodka is not aged. World class vodka comes from Russia and have alcoholic volume ranging from 40% to 43%. Vodka is obtained from distillation of fermented mash of cereal and potato. It is a very popular drink . After the Russian Revolution many people flew from Russia and went to different countries where they opened their distillery and made vodka more famous across world . Types of Vodka : 1. Plain vodka :- It have neutral taste with no strong aroma and consists of only water and ethanol . The water will be 60% while ethanol 40%. It is colourless . 2. Flavoured vodka :- They have special aroma and flavour added to them out of which most popular are peaches, coffee, honey. They have smooth flavour. They are very popular at modern days. Vodka is served in old fashion or Hi- ball glass with Ice cubes , soda water or tonic water and slices of lemon. Note : Always remember for any distilled beverages to be made first fermentation is necessary . The liquid mashed after fermentation is thus distilled. Distillation are of two types Pot still and column still and for fermentation the food stuff used should contain sugar in it which is converted by yeast to carbon dioxide and Alcohol. Post a Comment
Contactless High Power Transmission Using Superconductivity The innovation has the capability of transmitting contactless power in several kilowatts without producing major losses Coil made of superconducting wires that can contactlessly transmit high power without major losses. Image credit: C. Utschick / Würth Elektronik eiSos Contactless power transmission has already established itself as a key technology for charging small devices such as smartphones and electric toothbrushes. Users would also like to see contactless charging made available for larger electric machines such as industrial robots, medical equipment and electric vehicles. With this in mind, a team of physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded in making a coil that has superconducting wires capable of contactless power transmission in the order of more than five kilowatts and produces only small losses. The wide range of conceivable applications includes autonomous industrial robots, medical equipment, vehicles and even aircraft. Before developing this impressive innovation, researchers had to overcome the challenge of reducing the alternating current losses that occur in superconducting transmission coils. These losses are known to increase as transmission performance rises, leading to surface temperature increase of the superconducting wires rises and eventual superconduction collapse. To mitigate this, the researchers developed a special coil design in which the individual coil windings are separated from one another by spacers. “This trick significantly reduces alternating current loss in the coil,” says Christoph Utschick, PhD student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). “As a result, power transmission as high as the kilowatt range is possible.” Optimised prototyping For their prototype, the team chose a coil diameter that resulted in a higher power density than is possible in commercially available systems. “The basic idea with superconducting coils is to achieve the lowest possible alternating current resistance within the smallest possible winding space and thus to compensate for the reduced geometric coupling,” says Utschick. This called on the researchers to resolve a fundamental conflict. If the distance between the coil windings became small, the coil would become very compact and the danger of superconduction collapse during operation will arise. On the other hand, larger separations would result in lower power density. “We optimised the distance between the individual windings using analytical and numerical simulations,” says Utschick. “The separation is approximately equal to half the width of the tape conductor.” Overcoming further challenges The researchers now want to work on further increasing the amount of transmittable power. If they succeed, the innovation will open the door to a large number of very interesting application areas, such as industrial robotics, autonomous transport vehicles and high-tech medical equipment. Perhaps, it will be possible to charge electric racing vehicles while being on the race track, as well as autonomous electric aircraft. Wide-scale applicability of the system still faces an obstacle, however. The coils require constant cooling with liquid nitrogen and the cooling vessels used cannot be made of metal, otherwise, the metal vessel walls would considerably heat up in the magnetic field, much as a pot does on an induction stove. The project was undertaken in a research partnership with companies like Würth Elektronik eiSos and Theva Dünnschichttechnik. Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here
Wind energy in Brazil: Wind power generates 30% of energy in the Northeast In the last month, wind turbines were responsible for 30.6 percent of all of the energy produced in the region –the greatest contribution registered to date by the ONS (National Electric System Operator). Driven by a reduction in costs and the prolonged drought, the amount of wind power generated in the Northeast reached its record last August and came close to matching numbers for traditional sources, such as hydroelectric and thermal. During the same period, thermal sources generated 35.7 percent and hydroelectric, 33.7 percent. For comparison, last year, the greatest wind power contribution in the region was 16.8 percent in October. The weight of wind power is greatest in the Northeast due to the quality of the winds in the region: constant, unidirectional and high velocity. As a result, the majority of the 266 plants in operation in the country are concentrated in that region, in states such as Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Pernambuco. Wind power has been growing at a rapid pace in the country since 2009, when the first auction in the sector was realized. The installed capacity increased from 601 MW that year to 2,514 MW, in 2012, and the current 6,647 MW. Today, wind power is the country’s fourth major energy source and the second most affordable, with an average price of R$ 180 (US$ 46) per MWh. 57 power plants were installed this year alone. One of the factors that reinforced the presence of wind energy was the prolonged drought of recent years, which led to a drop in hydroelectric reservoir levels and reduced energy production compared to previous years.
One in four people globally will have a stroke in their lifetime. Just let that statistic sink in, that's 25%! Stroke is actually one of Australia’s biggest killers, with more female deaths than breast cancer and more male deaths than prostate cancer. These are pretty damning numbers, so lets first learn about what a stroke is in order to better understand how to reduce our risk. A stroke happens when blood cannot get to your brain, because of a blocked or burst artery. As a result, your brain cells die due to a lack of oxygen and nutrients. Strokes, like many health conditions, are categorised into different types: • Ischaemic (is-key-mick) - an artery in the brain gets blocked by a clot; or • Haemorrhagic - a blood vessel in the brain breaks and causes bleeding. These two variants can also be divided in to more specific types of stroke, but the overall description is a blockage of blood to the brain, which causes death of brain cells. The type, severity and location of a stroke determine the short and long term effects suffered - areas of the brain that focus on thinking, moving, behaviour, verbalising, feeling and other senses can be reduced. Stroke Sunshine Coast Queensland More than 80% of strokes can be prevented. Now that we know the process and side effects, what can we do to reduce our chances of suffering a stroke? Generally speaking ageing men are at the highest risk of stroke, however other risk factors include: • blood pressure • cardiac health • weight • general health and nutrition • high cholesterol • alcohol intake • the presence of diabetes A great overall prevention strategy is the following: 1. Make time for a regular health check for stroke risk factors - including blood pressure, diabetes, weight, cholesterol, cardiac, smoking etc. 2. Take charge of your own health and live a healthy lifestyle - choose an active lifestyle, healthy diet and reduce stress. If you are at risk of stroke and want some guidance in improving your, our qualified allied health professionals are a friendly and safe place to start. Call us on 07 5456 1599 and ask about a consultation. For more information about strokes visit the Stroke Foundation website.
mercredi 12 février 2020 author photo Exercise is considered one of the most important activities that a person performs to maintain health, provide the body with activity, and maintain its external appearance, and to obtain a full benefit you must eat a healthy, integrated meal, full of elements necessary to make up for what was lost during the exercise, and we will introduce you in this article to the goal From eating after doing exercise, in addition to the type of food that must be eaten after doing exercise. What do you eat after exercise Upon completing the exercise, two processes occur in the body, namely: breaking down the muscle protein, and building protein with muscles, and the process of breaking the protein is higher than the building process. They recommend eating fast-absorbing proteins, such as protein, and amino supplements, but recent accurate research has discovered that fast proteins have no additional advantage than natural food in reducing protein breakdown and increasing muscle synthesis, and some types of more rapid proteins enter the blood, and It came out quickly, which does not create a continuous environment for building muscles, and this makes it go to the internal organs instead of the muscles. It is advised to eat any meal that contains meat, or any animal protein after completing the exercise, and care must be taken to eat approximately 40-60 kg of protein. There is a study that states that eating simple sugars increases the speed of the secretion of the hormone insulin, which transports nutrients to the muscles, but research has proven that eating complex carbohydrates fills the stores of glycogen in the muscles, and also demonstrated the importance of eating fruits after exercise to refill the stores of glycogen in the liver. There is a theory that states that eating fat reduce the speed of food digestion, which leads to delay in the absorption of protein and carbohydrates, and there is no importance for the speed of protein absorption, and carbohydrates in this case, where studies have shown that those who eat whole milk after exercise have an increase in protein synthesis More than those who skimmed milk, and the researchers found no explanation for this positive effect other than containing milk on fats. Why do we eat after doing exercise • Repacking the consumed glycogen stores. • Energy recovery, or muscle fuel, is the carbohydrates that were used during your workout. • Increased muscle mass. • Restore fluid loss during exercise. • Restore lost minerals while doing the exercise. • Restoring protein is important for building muscle, repairing damaged tissues, and building new tissue. This post have 0 komentar Next article Next Post Previous article Previous Post
Thursday, December 14, 2017 Practice May Not Make Perfect: Musical Ability is in The DNA I've heard people say before: "music runs in my family" and being a musician myself, I found the idea quite interesting. When looking for an article, I found the headline: "Musical Ability is in The DNA" and within a matter of seconds, I was reading the article. A fascinating study was done in Sweden's Karolinska Institute by a doctor named Miriam Mosing. The question she had was concerning a person's musical abilities and if it has a strong connection to their genetic makeup. Is music ability due to practice time or DNA? Together with her colleagues, Dr. Mosing studied 1,211 pairs of identical twins and 1,358 pairs of fraternal twins born between 1959 and 1985. Each individual was asked if they play an instrument or actively engaged in singing. If the answer was yes, she proceeded by asking the person to estimate how many hours a week he or she practiced at different ages and with that she calculated a score for their life's practice. Anybody who didn't play an instrument or sing got a score of zero. Her next step was created to test a person's musical abilities. She had every person do the same exercises to test their pitch, appreciation of melody, and sensitivity for rhythm. These three areas were specifically chosen because expert musicians are exceptionally good at detecting differences within them. Most people expect that if someone puts in enough practice time, his music ability would be as high as an expert's; however, this assumption is false. In fact, it appeared to be no relationship between practice and musical abilities of the sort she was measuring. What I found amazing was a twin who practiced more than his genetically identical co-twin did not appear to have better musical abilities as a result. In another case, the difference between two such twins was 20,228 hours of practice. Surprisingly, the pair's measured musical abilities were found to be the same. Dr. Mosing's findings, in no way, indicates that practice, has no value, but we can know that one with the "musical" genes have a really high chance of mastering such skills. In addition to this, her experiment showed music ability has a very strong genetic component which explains to me why I may here "music runs in my family" again. 1. I found your article very interesting, as someone who has never been musically talented, it is cool to me that genes could potentially play a factor in musical ability. 2. This article caught my attention because I was never able to understand how some people were able to pick up any instrument and play it as if they had their whole life. Very interesting article I will be looking to read more on the topic. 4. Over that you'll have the capacity to include that, musically, the Beatles mixed ear-sweet style bubblegum fly with complex basslines, inventive lead guitar and earth shattering sound blending. happy background music
Frog Idol: Chinese hoppers duet at ultrasonic frequencies Sing me a song oh pianofrog: Researchers are finding the a species of frogs in China sing mating songs as duets at ultrasonic frequencies. Keep your American Idol. I’ll settle to listening to Frog Idol. Researchers in China have found that frogs in the wild there communicate with each other in a duet of musical tones made at ultrasonic frequencies that are beyond the hearing range of humans. Specifically, they’ve recorded the mating calls between females and males. How’s this for setting the mood, the researchers found the romantic duets could most often be heard on rainy nights. After recording the female portion of the duet, the researchers played back that recording to males kept in captivity. They responded by adding the male response – sort of a frog version of a duet between Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. The males also began leaping toward the source of the female songs. Why is this so cool to know, besides prying into the romantic ways of Chinese frogs? It’s further proof that some animals have been able to adapt their hearing range to live successfully in their environment. Being able to communicate at ultrasonic levels gives frogs a way to hear each other of the lower frequency noise caused by rushing river waters in their habit. And just like human singers, the female frogs sing their portion of the duet at a higher frequency than the male frogs. But the real lessons from these frogs may be applied in improving hearing aid technology. That’s the main purpose behind these researchers’ work. Now if Budweiser could get its frogs to sing at ultrasonic frequencies, maybe it could sell even more beer! Your Comments, Thoughts, Questions, Ideas shanee's picture shanee says: eww! frogs are gross...thats all! andyshadexx's picture andyshadexx says: oh wow i would like to hear the sound of these frog. posted on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 10:06am tiffany_88's picture tiffany_88 says: The frogs I hear is a symbol to China and is onces of the animals most important of China. posted on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 10:10am Looney_Tooney's picture Looney_Tooney says: Aww man... I wanna hear how it sounds... Hopefully it's good... U Kno Wat Im Sayin!!! posted on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 10:12am koallainfestation37's picture koallainfestation37 says: frogs are for real the best animal alive posted on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 10:16am Kunicki24's picture Kunicki24 says: It would be awesome if I could hear that song. Kinda interesting that they sing at different levels like people. posted on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 9:54am Candice_318's picture Candice_318 says: If we can't hear the frequencies how do we even know that they exist, dur? And polar bears are the best actually! posted on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 9:56am Thor's picture Thor says: Recording devices can detech sound waves that our ears can't pick up. Researchers can look at printouts or readouts of those frequencies to see the sound patterns that they make. posted on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 9:58am Ahus1102's picture Ahus1102 says: Why is China so important in the world Post new comment • Lines and paragraphs break automatically. • Images can be added to this post. More information about formatting options

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