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Is Rice important in Thailand? Why is rice so important in Thailand? Rice remains the preeminent crop in Thai agriculture, although its relative importance has been declining in recent decades. Rice production has long played a vital role in Thailand’s socio-economic development, making the country the world’s largest rice exporter in the last 3 decades. How much rice is consumed in Thailand? In addition to its value as a primary foreign currency earner for the country, rice remains the staple food of choice for Thais, with per-capita consumption ranging from 80 kg for urban households, up to around 155 kg per rural household and up to 125 kg per year in low-income households, according to the USDA. What does rice represent in Thailand? Rice has been an integral part of Thai culture and history for thousands of years, so long that it’s believed to predate Buddhism. Rice is even believed to have its own soul which is represented as Mae Posop, the “Rice Mother” or “Rice Goddess”. What is the staple crop of Thailand? THIS IS UNIQUE: Quick Answer: How far is Manila from Washington DC?
How To Lower Your Blood Pressure Using Food If you know that your family has a history of high blood pressure, consider yourself the lucky one. You now have a clear warning sign to start taking steps to prevent yourself from developing hypertension, like changing what you’re eating habits are. Start reducing your high blood pressure risks by using these three key eating habits. 1 — Don’t eat fast food, Eat fresh food. By doing so consistently, you will automatically lower the amount of salt within your diet. And sodium has a large impact on how high your blood pressure is. When you consume too much salt, it is more difficult for your kidneys to take water out of your body. The fluid builds up and raises your blood pressure. It is recommended for Americans to eat approximately 2,300 mg of sodium each day, which is enough if you’re only seasoning your meals with the salt. “Most Americans eat much more than the recommended 2,300 mg, mostly from processed foods, fast foods, frozen foods, and canned goods,” said Su-Nui Escobar. She said that making a habit of the following four steps could greatly improve your cardiovascular health: • Taste the food before you use the salt shaker; you will likely find the food taste good without the added salt. • Limit how many fast-food meals you consume. • Greatly reduce your consumption of prepared foods, such as frozen dinners and processed foods, which are packed with sodium. • Choose fresh food over canned and frozen foods. Even canned vegetables have a lot of added sodium as a preservative. Rinse them with water before you eat them. 2 — Eat less saturated fat. This advice goes to everyone but especially those with a family history of having high blood pressure. “Limit your meat consumption at mealtime to a 3-ounce portion size, treat fried foods and red meats that are highly marbled as a rare treat, trim the fat from all of the meat, opt for low-fat dairy, and greatly increase the number of vegetables, fruits and fiber you eat daily,” said Rebecca Schilling. “Foods that are high in saturated fats create the perfect storm of trouble for cardiovascular health, raising bad (LDL) cholesterol, clogging arteries and contributing to higher blood pressure,” adds Schilling. If you cannot give up your red meats, at least choose the leaner cuts like extra-lean ground beef or sirloin. 3 — Limit sausage and other processed meats. Not only are some processed meats like bacon, sausage and deli meats higher in saturated fats, they are packed with sodium and some other preservatives that are very unhealthy for your heart, said Melissa Mitri. “Make it a habit of putting a limit on your processed meat consumption as much as you can,” she said. Clinical research has shown that it can have an impact by doing that. One study discovered that females who ate over five servings of processed red meat each week had a 17% increased rate of high blood pressure than that of females who ate less than a serving each week. Author: Blake Ambrose The #1 Celebrity Diet And Workout Routine How To Add 10 Years To Your Life, Almost Guaranteed
President Joe Biden’s statement is predictably riddled with errors and misleading omissions in addressing Armenian genocide allegations. Mr. Biden is an untrained amateur in the law of genocide and the circumstances of World War I deaths which were suffered by Ottoman Armenians and Ottoman Turks in the same proportion. 1. President Biden’s opening sentence wrongfully presumes “an Ottoman-era Armenian genocide.” The crime has never been proven, a fact acknowledged by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Perinçek v .Switzerland (2015). Indeed, the ECHR maintained that historical disputes over the events of 1915 will invariably divide academics and cannot be definitive, in contrast to court judgments in accordance with due process of law. 2. President Biden’s flawed presumption misleads by omitting reference to the consistent refusal of Armenia for 70 years to submit its genocide allegations to the International Court of Justice under Article IX of the Genocide Convention. Armenia’s protracted evasion of the judicial process bespeaks Armenia’s own disbelief in its genocide allegations. That conclusion is strengthened by Armenia’s refusal to open its archives to prove its case. What is it hiding? 3. President Biden’s genocide postulate misleads by omitting reference to the Genocide Convention’s definition of genocide, which excludes killings for “political” purposes. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Armenian spokesmen eagerly acknowledged that Ottoman Armenians rejected an Ottoman offer of greater autonomy in favor of joining the Triple Entente to fight as belligerents and traitors to the Ottoman Empire for the political objective of independence. In that respect, Ottoman Armenians were like adherents to the Confederate States of America who sought to secede from the Union in the Civil War with force and violence to obtain independence and were killed in their political quest. The killings by the Union Army were not genocide. 4. President Biden’s statement misleads by omitting the fact readily acknowledged by Armenia at the Paris Peace Conference that Ottoman Turks died in the same proportion as Ottoman Armenians during World War I, which contradicts the narrative of a systemic, one-sided massacre. Nazis were not killed in equal proportion as Jews in the extermination camps at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belson, Buchenwald, Dachau, or elsewhere. 5. President Biden’s statement misleads by insinuating that events relevant to the alleged Armenian genocide began on April 24, 1915 with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders by Ottoman authorities. The April 24 events were not born of spontaneous combustion. They marked the culmination of decades long Ottoman Armenian terrorism against Ottoman Turks to secede from the Empire and gain independence. On April 18-21, 1915, Ottoman Armenians, as belligerents assisting the Russian enemy, massacred 22,900 Ottoman Turks in Van. The April 24 detentions were a response to the Armenian massacre three days earlier, which indicated that wholesale treason was afoot among Ottoman Armenians. None of the detainees were killed by Ottoman authorities. 6. President Biden asserts 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians perished in a putative genocide. Contemporary estimates of the Armenian death toll are a fraction of that number. The more important point is that Armenians at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 readily maintained that Ottoman Turks died in the same proportion as Ottoman Armenians, which contradicts the Armenian genocide theory. 7. Mr. Biden preaches in favor of a future unstained by bigotry or intolerance; dedicated to human rights; and securing to all people lives of dignity and security. But the President’s sermon omits condemnation of the longstanding and continuing Armenian and Armenian terrorism or thuggery against Turkish Americans, Turkish officials, and Turkey ignited by the unproven Armenian genocide narrative that Mr. Biden’s statement embraces. Harry Sassounian, for example, confessed that his 1982 assassination in Los Angles of Turkish counsel general Kemal Arıkan was to avenge Armenian genocide allegations. Twin Armenian terrorist organizations or their sympathizers perpetrate industrial scale terror against Turkey, Turkish officials, or Turkish Americans for the same alleged genocide revenge motive: the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia; and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide. No Armenian American person or organization has ever disowned or repudiated the ASALA and JCAG terrorism. A substantial majority of Turkish Americans live in constant fear of revealing their Turkish identities for fear of violence, bullying, vandalism, ostracism, or intimidation by Armenian Americans uncontrollably infuriated by the Armenian genocide narrative. Bruce Fein Counsel, Turkish Anti-Defamation Alliance
Question: What Citation Style To Use For Engineering? Does engineering use APA or MLA? APA (American Psychological Association) The APA formatting style is used often in education and other professions. In fact, it is used for subject areas and disciplines in psychology, engineering, science, and social sciences. How do you cite engineering? Chemical Engineering Citation Style 1. General Style: 2. Periodical: Author’s last name and initials in bold, title of article in quotation marks, title of periodical in italics (underline if italics are not available), volume number in bold, issue number in parentheses, page numbers (inclusive), date in parentheses. What citation style is used in computer engineering? Next, there is the IEEE citation style, also sometimes used in the computer science field when citing different sources and literature. Mainly targeted at engineering, computer science, and information technology, the IEEE method of citation has a few essential steps you need to gain an understanding of. What citation style do industrial engineers use? APA (American Psychological Association) Style The Institute of Industrial Engineers uses the APA style for its publications. Which is better APA or MLA format? You might be interested: Quick Answer: How To Make Chicago Style Hot Dogs? Who uses APA format the most? APA Style provides fairly comprehensive guidelines for writing academic papers regardless of subject or discipline. However, traditionally, APA is most frequently used by writers and students in: Social Sciences, such as Psychology, Linguistics, Sociology, Economics, and Criminology. Business. What citation do civil engineers use? ASCE uses an Author-Date system. The author and year are placed in parenthesis within the text, commonly known as a parenthetical citation. Some example: A recent paper (Jones 2003) presented data. What style manual do engineers use? How do you reference an engineering website? [citation number] Author(s), year, “Title of Web Page.” Report Number (if applicable), from url. [Citation number] Author(s), year, “Article Title,” Conference Proceedings, vol. (if given), year, pp. What is CSE citation style? The CSE Citation Style: An Introduction The Council of Science Editors (CSE) style is a standard citation style used across many disciplines in the physical and life sciences. How do I create an IEEE citation? What is IEEE Style? 2. Number your sources as you cite them in the paper. Leave a Reply
What economic activity would you expect to observe in Canada's prairie region? What economic activity would you expect to observe most in Canada's Prairie region? Farming, mining, and oil drilling. Which region has recently become a large producer of hydroelectric power? The core Region. What are the main industries in the prairies? The economic structure of the ecozone reflects a dependence on the primary industries of agriculture, mining, and gas and oil extraction. The Prairies provide 19% of Canada's total resource-based employment, with agricultural activities and food processing accounting for nearly 62% of the total. Which region of Canada has the largest population? Which of these is a major reason for a growing water shortage in many countries? What is a major reason for a growing water shortage in many countries? Population Growth. What are the main causes of water shortage? Following are some of the major causes of water shortage: • Climate change. • Natural calamities such as droughts and floods. • Increased human consumption. • Overuse and wastage of water. • A global rise in freshwater demand. • Overuse of aquifers and its consequent slow recharge. Will water become scarce? By 2020 about 30-40% of the world will have water scarcity, and according to the researchers, climate change can make this even worse. ... By 2025, an estimated 1. Is water a scarcity? Water scarcity can be defined as a lack of sufficient water, or not having access to safe water supplies. Water is a pressing need in many areas of the world. That scarcity is spreading as water is needed to grow and process food, create energy, and serve industry for a continually growing population. What are the 3 types of scarcity? Scarcity falls into three distinctive categories: demand-induced, supply-induced, and structural. How can we reduce water scarcity? Amazing Solutions to Water Scarcity 1. Save Water Whenever Possible. ... 2. Education. ... 3. Recycle Water. ... 4. Advance Technology Related to Water Conservation. ... 5. Improve Practices Related to Farming. 6. Less Use of Chemicals in Farming. ... 7. Improve Sewage Systems. ... 8. Better Water Distribution Infrastructure. What are the 2 types of water scarcity? Who is responsible for water scarcity? Main circumstances that contribute to this problem include inadequate supervision of resources, lack of management awareness, and man-made waste. The factors responsible for water scarcity are as follows: 1 The increasing population which is the chief cause of water insufficiency. What countries have water scarcity? Regions and countries where access to water is most at risk include: • Northern and central India. In India, 163 million people are without access to clean water close to home, or 15% of all rural residents and 7% of all urban residents. ... • Bangladesh. ... • Myanmar. ... • Southern Mozambique. ... • Southern Madagascar. What is an example of water scarcity? In areas with economic water scarcity, there usually is sufficient water to meet human and environmental needs, but access is limited. ... Often, economic water scarcity arises from multiple factors in combination. A classic example of this is Mexico City, home to more than 20 million people in its metropolitan area. What are the causes and effects of water scarcity? Causes of Water Scarcity - Drought: Nature can be threatening at times. Drought serves as the major reason for water scarcity with increasing global warming. - Conflict and distance: Many a times conflict over a land leads to water scarcity in the area as nobody gets to use the water resources in that particular land. What is water scarcity in Australia? Water is a scarce resource in many parts of Australia. ... In recent years, low rainfall in many parts of Australia has led to low water storage levels, causing concern about the adequacy of water supplies. Population increase, especially in coastal urban areas, is placing further pressure on water supplies. What are the aims of water scarcity? One of the main objectives of the World Water Council is to increase awareness of the water issue. Decision-makers at all levels must be implicated. One of the Millenium Development Goals is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation. Which state has most water in India? How big of a problem is water scarcity? Fast facts: Global water crisis 780 million people lack basic drinking water access, more than one of every 10 people on the planet. Women and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours hauling water every day. Why is Africa's water scarcity? How can we help water in Africa? Learn about a few of the most efficient ways to get clean water in Africa and how you can donate to the cause. 1. Set Up Rain Catchment Tanks. ... 2. Protect Natural Springs. ... 3. Install Sand Dams. ... 4. Rehabilitate Old Wells. ... 5. Build New Wells. What countries in Africa don't have clean water? 1. Eritrea: 80. Is water scarce in Africa?
Culture Intelligent Design Religion Science Did the Protestant Reformation spur science? Spread the love Dutch telescope, 1624/public domain Not really, says David Wootton at Nature: But it is still widely argued by historians of science that the Protestant religion and the new science were inextricably intertwined, as Protestantism turned away from the spirituality of Catholicism and fostered a practical engagement with the world, exemplified in the idea that a person’s occupation was their vocation. Merton was following in the footsteps of German sociologist Max Weber, who argued that Protestantism had led to capitalism. I disagree. First, plenty of great sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientists were Catholics, including Copernicus, Galileo and Pascal. Second, one of the most striking features of the new science was how easily it passed back and forth between Catholics and Protestants. At the height of the religious wars, two Protestant astronomers were appointed one after another as mathematicians to the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor: first Brahe, then Kepler. Louis XIV, who expelled the Protestants from France in 1685, had previously hired Protestants such as Christiaan Huygens for his Academy of Sciences. The experiments of Pascal, a devout Catholic, were quickly copied in England by the devoutly Protestant Boyle. The Catholic Church banned Copernicanism, but was quick to change its mind in the light of Newton’s discoveries. And third, if we can point to Protestant communities that seem to have produced more than their share of great scientists, we can also point to Protestant societies where the new science did not flourish until later — Scotland, for example. More. This shouldn’t be a surprise because the disputes that led to the Reformation were not really about anything to do with science. Wootton argues for the discovery of the Americas, the invention of the printing press, and the development of the experimental method as providing the needed force. That sounds more likely because developments like these made science relevant to far more people than it had previously been. That is, the question for most people would not be whether they accepted or rejected findings of science so much as whether they could even find out about them — and if they could, did the findings matter? As a general rule, when science makes a difference, everyone wants it. (Think: successful cancer treatment) And most groups want a piece of the action. See also: Physicist: The Galileo dispute involved science as well as religion This feels new. And we could use more of it. At one time, Cool science writers could afford to get it wrong (because those they maligned Didn’t Matter). Is there now a trend toward getting it right? If so, is it possible that the recent “Bible says” fiasco at Nature made a difference? 5 Replies to “Did the Protestant Reformation spur science? 1. 1 Origenes says: //off-topic // Epigenetic fireworks in space. If this epigenetic “firework” involves functional coherent changes, and it seems that way given that astronauts tend to survive space travel, then atheists will have a rough time coming up with an evolutionary step wise just-so-story. 2. 2 DLH says: Dig deeper. See: The Book That Made Your World, Ch. 8 Science, Vishal Mangalwadi “The West’s passion for science began when the Bible inspired Christians to devote their lives to recovering God’s forgotten mandate for humans to take dominion over nature. . . .They assumed (the material realm) was understandable because God created it as rational, ordered, and regulated by natural laws. . . .Science was born in universities governed by the Church. It blossomed under the Church’s patronage and nowhere else.” 3. 3 polistra says: “Science that makes a difference” is crucial. Starting from that rule, let’s ask an abnormal question. Did Newton make a difference? The answer is No. Why? The printing press, and typefounding, were well developed before Newton, and many other “Newtonian” devices like clocks and guns were also well developed long before Newton. Newton’s Laws didn’t contribute to the later development of these devices. Carnot didn’t contribute to the later development of typefoundries. The religion correlation is easy to knock down. Greece and China and India and Persia were way ahead of Europe in science. Four different religions, all beating Christianity to the punch. The only connection that really matters is capitalism, or more broadly an organized economic system with division of labor and profit. Prolonged experimentation is a luxury that requires a baseline of surplus value, along with a cultural decision to encourage experimentation toward meaningful goals. 4. 4 Barry Arrington says: The only connection that really matters is capitalism Nonsense. Science took off in the West and nowhere else because Christianity (whether Catholic or Protestant; it does not matter) dominated in the West and nowhere else. The Christian worldview after late medieval times formed an intellectual foundation for rational inquiry that was lacking or stunted everywhere else. 5. 5 jerry says: We can look at the video tape. From the Great Courses Science to 1700 Science from 1700 to 1900 Nearly all in the West but that could be a bias and probably most were Christians after the Roman Empire fell. Though, there was a lot of development in Islamic areas. But it seemed to stop after a while and shifted to Europe. Leave a Reply
Stretchers & Strengtheners for Quadriceps & Hamstrings Vertical jumps exercise both the hamstrings and quadriceps. i Jupiterimages/Polka Dot/Getty Images One of the most famous animals in the fictional Dr. Doolittle stories is the pushmi-pullyu -- a two-headed cross between a gazelle and a unicorn. Both heads of the creature are constantly trying to take control which leads to obvious difficulties. The muscles of your body are similarly paired. For instance, the quadriceps and hamstrings are called opposing muscles. In order for the quadricep to contract, the hamstrings have to relax and vice versa. If you don't exercise and stretch both muscles equally, your body will become imbalanced which may lead to gait or joint problems. Consult your health-care provider before you exercise your quads and hamstrings if you have a history of hip or knee injuries. Aerobic exercises, including jumps and shuffles, will use both your hamstrings and quadriceps. You don't need any equipment for these exercises -- just a flat surface with plenty of room to move. Begin with a vertical jump. Stand upright with your feet together and your core engaged. Sink your butt toward the floor until your thighs are parallel to the ground. In an explosive movement, jump straight up and extend your legs. Land softly on the balls of your feet. The lateral jump is similar, except you move about a foot to the side with each jump. Shuffle runs are a traditional football exercise. Stand with your feet slightly wider than hip-width and sink down into a squat. Run in place while retaining the squat position. Old school exercises like squats and lunges tone your upper legs. For a squat, stand with your feet slightly wider than hip-width apart. Keep your back flat and your core muscles engaged. Sink your butt toward the ground as if your were sitting down. Continue the downward motion until your thighs are parallel to the ground, then push through your heels to return to the start position. Lunges are slightly more complicated in that they require more attention to form. Stand with your feet together. Step forward with your right foot and slowly bring your pelvis down until your right thigh is parallel to the floor. Your right knee and ankle should be in line. Your left leg should be extended with the toes curled under. Keep your back straight. Push off your right foot to return to the start position and repeat on the opposite side. Stretching will help to protect your muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons from injury. Traditional yoga poses such as the downward facing dog relax the quadricep and hamstring muscles. Begin in a plank position with your back flat, your wrists in line with your shoulders and your toes curled under. Your arms should be fully extended. Slowly push your pelvis up and back to bring your body into a V shape. Try to touch your heels to the floor, but stop when you feel tension. While it is good to strengthen your legs, it is important to exercise your entire body to keep your anatomy balanced and to optimize your fitness performance. Plan to strength train all of the major muscle groups on three nonconsecutive days each week. Additionally, aim for at least 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise such as running, walking or bicycling. the nest
Is Disruption the New Normal for Education? Key Shared Insights & Perspectives What might the lessons of the Pandemic be for a learning revolution? We started with a significant question, whose answer is still being formed at this time, as we are unable to see the ripples impacting how we even think about learning yet. Our existing education system is the by-product of society’s industrial needs and has been conceived and formed as a quick harvest with optimization and efficiency in mind. While exploring this complex question as a group, a few themes emerged: 1. Our education curriculum hasn’t changed in the last thirty years which shows an obsolescence of what kids are learning, misaligned with our real world needs. 2. There are many kinds of learners from auditory, visual, sensory to social and interpersonal learners. One curriculum is unable to serve all students. Consequently, education shouldn’t be standardized. 3. Students have lost their interests. Luz Olid Diaz, filmmaker of the documentary “Killing Curiosity” shares how traditional schooling kills curiosity because it is driven by competition and scarcity rather than allowing passions to flourish. How do we unlearn the inertia, triggers, and cues of our formal Education? Our second key question of our episode is directly tied to our understanding of how we can change our thinking about education to see what we’re missing. It mirrors the question asked in Nora Bateson’s documentary movie “An Ecology of Mind” about her father, Gregory Bateson,“How can we see the problem of linear thinking in a world made up of circles? A first step is to recognize and grieve our loss of faith in our own education system. During the Pandemic, schools were closed, and students, parents, and educators became untethered from current systems. Suggestions and ideas were generated around what was actually possible, not what is possible within the compliance of the existing system. The second step to changing our education system is to rethink the environment and look at the context in which education is delivered. A classroom has expectations: Students sit, experts stand at the front and try to get the conversation going. Therefore, rethinking our policies and procedures could take away the rigid structure and change the overall experience. The third step is to create awareness by having conversations like this one, within communities to allow inspiration and new ideas to emerge. Diversity is the key to finding what works. There is a full spectrum of innovative education methodologies available from fully-directed to students making their own decisions, like at democratic schools. Being part of a community is important for thinking outside the box, as we tend to always imitate what we have seen. How do we re-instill curiosity and persevere in creating new models? Our last question of the episode is meant to help each of us become the self-authoring leader of our own lives through meaningful actions. Curiosity means “hunger to know” or “a strange object,” but the Latin root means “to care” - so curiosity is carefully listening and following the natural desire of our inquiry. Practicing curiosity daily allows us to gain more awareness and become a playful apprentice. By exploring and reflecting, our curiosity will grow and develop the way a rose grows, not because you make it, but because it is organic, alive - a force of nature. All we need to do is care for it. Yet, it is important to be aware that, in our society, asking questions can be a threat to the status quo and a community’s truth. Therefore, re-instilling curiosity starts with us as parents and educators, overcoming our own fears and reassuring ourselves. Shauna Anderson described how most of her job is to manage parents’ anxiety: “Am I going to mess my kid up?” She adds that for most parents and educators. “It is very frightening to step out into that wide open space when you're so used to being in this little pen.” When we remember that school today works for adults because it’s tied to our working world and often plays the role of a daycare, we are faced with the realization that parents must change their working habits to give their students space that fits with their unique learning style. Meanwhile, educators must experiment with a new context in their classroom and tie student interest with new goals around child development. If schools are a mirror of society, we cannot expect our current system to nurture responsible citizens who take care of their environment and support a healthy, democratic country. Change is necessary, but difficult, due to our traditional view that adults hold the authority and responsibility and children must listen to their advice and obey their commands. A second element resides in the idea of letting our kids tell us what they want. When we find what interests children and students, we give them the freedom to take charge of their own work impacting their mental health. When you create a space for individuals to voice their own individuality, it will give them a sense of belonging and that leads to personal agency. Final Thoughts to Consider Our current education system is built on pillars of the Industrial Revolution and focuses on IQ, memorization and standardization in a one-size-fits-all model. The Pandemic offers a chance to reflect on these habitual, established processes and methodologies and question their place in the future of learning in education and the workplace. The education transformation will start with those who can let go of what it traditionally means to educate, teach, and acquire knowledge. As Nora Bateson said, “It’s a prerequisite of system change that you lose faith in the existing system. Once you lose faith, you stop looking for yourself inside it.” Helping parents and educators to let go of their restrictive mindset to see that “It's going to be okay for our kids” is the key. However, the shift is actually at a much deeper level, requiring a totally different way of “being” in the world. The real revolution is in our day to day, moment to moment intergenerational relationships. Let's not lead the next generation in our traps as the whole world needs to change. By putting the responsibility of learning in the hands of learners, we give students more autonomy to make decisions and be in control of their lives. When we give them the freedom to experience, experiment, and pursue what they want to do, responsibility grows and interdependence with educators becomes more balanced. The essential skills for future generations of adults include having emotional intelligence for interpersonal relationships, curiosity to differences as beneficial, and the ability to adapt in times of uncertainty and change. How many people follow the established path and achieve all the “dreams” they had in college, only to feel dissatisfied and burnt out as they realize the “dreams” weren’t truly theirs? Instead, if we provide the next generations with the space and tools to be curious to design their own lives, they will focus on more than simply becoming productive members of society, but grow into creative and compassionate educators of the future. Our next podcast will cover new forms of education.
Two research groups have independently developed catalysts that turn CO2 and hydrogen into gasoline The conversion of carbon dioxide to long-chain hydrocarbons is potentially crucial to the production of renewable fuels. Now, two separate research groups in China have developed multifunctional catalysts that can convert CO2 and hydrogen to gasoline, which comprises hydrocarbons with chain lengths between five and 11 carbon atoms. Various processes can convert CO2 to hydrocarbons, but they usually produce volatile single-carbon hydrocarbons such as methane and methanol. Building carbon–carbon bonds to produce longer chain, liquid hydrocarbons is a significant challenge. Recently, however, researchers have shown that zeolites can catalyse the conversion of methanol to gasoline at high temperatures. One group at Shanghai Advanced Research Institute in China produced a bifunctional catalyst combining pellets of partially-reduced indium oxide, which converts CO2 and hydrogen to methanol, in a mixed bed with pellets of H-form Zeolite Socony Mobil-5 (HZSM-5) to convert the methanol to long-chain hydrocarbons.1 The catalyst currently favoured in industry for methanol production from CO2 and hydrogen is a mixture of copper and zinc oxides supported on alumina, and the researchers tried combining this and other catalysts with the zeolite. However, the other catalysts caused the production of large quantities of carbon monoxide via the reverse water-gas shift reaction; this competed with methanol production and, at the high temperatures necessary for the zeolite to convert methanol to gasoline, the selectivity for carbon monoxide reached 97%. Indium oxide, however, catalyses the reverse water-gas shift reaction less effectively, resulting in more methanol, which can then be converted to long-chain hydrocarbons by the zeolite. Fuel from CO2 schematic diagram Source: Springer Nature The Shanghai group used an indium oxide catalyst to convert CO2 to methanol, which is then converted to gasoline via a zeolite In contrast, researchers at Dalian Institute for Chemical Physics combined HZSM-5 zeolite with partially-reduced magnetite, which strongly promotes the reverse water-gas shift, producing more carbon monoxide. When the magnetite is exposed to the reaction atmosphere, some of the Fe3O4 sites are converted to Fe5C2 sites, which catalyse the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis – converting the carbon monoxide to α-olefins. Like methanol, these react to form long-chain hydrocarbons in the presence of HZSM-5 zeolite.2 The Shanghai researchers achieved conversion of 13% of CO2 to hydrocarbons, whereas the Dalian group achieved 22% conversion. Both groups found that around 78% of the hydrocarbons produced contained at least five carbon atoms. The reactions presented here are exothermic: the energy needed to reduce the CO2 comes from the hydrogen. ‘One way to do this,’ explains Shenggang Li of the Shanghai team, ‘would be to use, for example, solar energy to obtain electricity, and then to use the electricity to obtain hydrogen.’ Edman Tsang of the University of Oxford, UK, comments that both developments have come at a good time. ‘When everybody’s very interested in how to deal with carbon emissions, I think it’s pretty useful to have a direct conversion of CO2 to gasoline,’ he says. He adds that one clear benefit of integrating sequential reactions like these is that continuous removal of an intermediate such as methanol shifts the chemical equilibrium in favour of its production. He cautions, however, that the conditions for each reaction cannot be optimised individually, and notes that neither paper addresses the challenge of renewable hydrogen production. ‘The electrolyser is a very expensive way to produce hydrogen from water,’ he says, ‘and at present that’s the biggest obstacle to using renewable hydrogen for clever chemistry such as this.’
it’s a well known fact that the world’s bee population is diminishing, and fast. however, scientists in japan seem to have found an alternate way of pollinating flowers, and the technology that they used is far simpler than you might think. investigators at the national institute of advanced industrial science in tsukuba have just artificially pollinated a lily with a $100 drone from amazon. eijiro miyako-bee drone designboom 02-10-2017 a close up of the $100 amazon drone used by the scientists to create their pollinator, the the scientists purchased a drone model for just $100 on amazon, and added patches of horse hair to the devices. the bristles were used to create more surface area for pollen to adhere to and to generate the electric charge that keeps the grains in place. the team then painted the contraption with an iconic liquid gel to make it moist and sticky. in a separate experiment using houseflies, the gel was even found to have a camouflage effect, meaning that it changed color in response to different sources of light, helping artificial pollinators avoid predators. eijiro miyako-bee drone designboom 02-10-2017 an artistic impression of eijiro miyako’s biological project the team flew their makeshift pollinator smack into the stamen of a pink and white japanese lily, and deposited its collection onto a different flower, artificially pollinating it. according to project leader eijiro miyako, it’s the first time that a drone has ever pollinated a flower. scaling such drone-pollination might seem unrealistic, but miyako believes that ‘it will be perfectly feasible’ to pollinate plants via drones in the future. however, the project will need high-res cameras, and would require the drones to learn pollination paths using GPS and artificial intelligence. the bee-drone picks up pollen from one lily and deposits it on another
6 Healthy Foods That Help Improve Gut Health 6 Healthy Foods That Help Improve Gut Health What you’re eating has a huge impact on the balance of your gut flora. So add these foods that help improve gut health to your daily diet. Does your stomach sometimes feel bloated or are you constipated, maybe a little queasy at times? Are fatigue and bad breath problems for you? All these symptoms may be due to having an unhealthy gut. If you want to improve gut health, you might need to include more of the following foods in your diet. Foods That Can Improve Gut Health To improve the health of your gastrointestinal tract, try adding these foods to your diet: 1. Sauerkraut Foods That Improve Gut Health - Sauerkraut Fermented foods are high in good bacteria, like Lactobacillus that can keep the gut healthy. If you don’t care for sauerkraut, many other fermented foods are available, such as kimchi, pickles, yogurt, or kefir. Eat one for breakfast or lunch to reap their bacteria benefits. 2. Cage-Free Eggs Cage-free eggs can keep your gut healthy If you eat meat, forego processed meats and beef, pork, or chicken raised on corporate or factory farms. Instead, choose naturally-raised animal sources like cage-free eggs, wild-caught fish, and grass-fed beef. Naturally-raised animals provide healthy Omega 3 fatty acids, minerals like iron and magnesium, and protein. Processed foods and meats grown by commercial methods can contain antibiotics, hormones, and toxins that can reduce the gut’s healthy bacteria. 3. Dark Leafy Greens Collard is one of the healthiest dark leafy greens Dandelion, collard, and mustard greens are among some of the healthiest foods you can eat. Along with making the gut healthier, they are high in vitamins, fight against inflammatory diseases, and they are high in antioxidants, which can help protect against cancer. 4. Leeks Leeks Can Help Improve Your Gut Health Although supplements like ATP Science Gutright can help heal an unhealthy gut, people should also eat healthy foods to build up the good bacteria in their gut. It’s important to eat foods containing fructans, which are natural fibrous carbohydrates. Leeks contain water-soluble fructans, about 10 grams per leek, that are necessary to keep the bowels regular. Other foods high in fructans are onions, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, and whole-grain foods. By keeping the bowels regular, you’re flushing toxins from your body. 5. Dark Chocolate Foods That Improve Gut Health - Dark Chocolate By now, almost everyone is aware that dark chocolate is healthier than milk chocolate, and it should be a part of their diets. Along with supplying an abundance of antioxidants, dark chocolate contains billions of active bacteria to improve gut health. Consider eating chocolate a bonus for maintaining a healthy gut. 6. Bone Broth Eating bone broth is good for your gut flora Consuming beef, chicken, or fishbone broths may not appeal to many people, but it can benefit your gut health. The minerals and amino acids from the bones and marrow permeate the broth to make it one of the healthiest foods that people can consume. Researchers discovered that l-glutamine, or glutamine, which is one of the most abundant amino acids, can strengthen the lining of the large and small intestines. Sealing the lining reduces leaky gut and helps maintain your gut and overall health. Eating foods in their natural form helps to maintain and improve your health. In the case of bone broth, the health benefits come from the homemade variety, not the processed broth available in stores. It is the same with vegetables, fruits, and meats. Buy food that is grown and raised naturally to ensure you’re getting all the nutrients they naturally contain. Otherwise, your gut will not benefit from these six healthy foods or any others. Inline Feedbacks View all comments
Case study Use case Too many cooks? Why more data scientists doesn’t always mean better results: effective tools for collaboration. It’s in the name - ‘data science’. As with all sciences, creating machine learning models requires: a degree of experimentation; some educated guesswork in terms of what will and won’t work; thorough documentation to record your experiments and outcomes. If you want to create the best model possible it makes sense that you’ll need to do a number of experiments before you arrive at that model - trying out different techniques, gathering better data, and tweaking certain parameters. Even after that initial model is built, you are more than likely going to need to recreate (retrain) that model in the future as things change - data, user behaviour, changes in features. This retraining will require even more experiments. Assuming 1 data scientist can only perform 1 experiment at a time before moving onto the next experiment, can you speed up model development by having more data scientists working on experiments concurrently? Do you need more cooks, or just a sharper knife? Picture this Imagine you have a team of N data scientists, each working to develop the best possible model. Each of them is taking data, writing code, tweaking parameters and building models that they record the effectiveness of. In theory N data scientists should be able to develop N times as many models or develop models N times quicker than just having 1 data scientist. But this is often not the case, due to various inefficiencies, and duplication of effort. Without the correct tools and workflow available to data scientists they are not able to collaborate and share resources efficiently. Specific problems include: • Not able to easily share datasets. • No way to create different versions of datasets. • Fixing the same problem in multiple different ways by not efficiently sharing and versioning code. • No method for centrally recording each experiment. • No mechanism for sharing experiments and learnings. The solution The primary tool that helps resolve a lot of these issues is a centralised experiment tracker. We've written a guide on the various options but fundamentally they all do the same thing: they capture all of the inputs that went into building an experimental model (version of data, version of code, parameters used to build the model) as well as capturing the output and accuracy of the model. By implementing the experiment tracker and making a small modification to the data scientists’ training code, you are able to automatically capture all experiments centrally. Allowing everyone to see what everyone else is doing and thus collaborating more effectively and developing models quicker. The experiment tracker needs inputs though so you would also need to implement a data versioning tool (DVC being our open source tool of choice) which integrates nicely with git and ensures that training code and data is all versioned at the same time. Ignore the problem at your peril Developing new or updated models can be painfully slow. From a business perspective this means that new ML/AI features aren’t getting deployed as quickly as you want AND if you want to replace a model that isn’t performing correctly then this also takes too long. Ultimately the users of your service aren’t experiencing the features you want them to AND/OR your product is delivering sub optimal results to the users. In addition to the impact on your customers, your data scientists may become frustrated and demotivated by how long it takes to deploy models. As a result morale may be low, and you risk your best data scientists leaving. It also affects your ability to recruit the best data scientists who are very discerning about only working for an organisation that has efficient tools and processes in place. Centralised Experiment Trackers So a centralised experiment tracker may well be the smart solution for your business. Many hands doesn’t always make light work. You may not need more people, instead create an environment that helps your current data scientists work together more effectively, and without frustration.
Return To Blog Immune System Health and Aging: What Happens When You Get Older? It's a given in life that at some point, your body starts to age. It gets older, losing some of its former resilience. You've heard that this can begin earlier than you'd expected, even in your twenties. You're also aware that the aging process affects you inside and out and in multiple ways. That includes how aging affects your immune system. Immune system vitality varies from one person to the next and from year to year. That's another reason why you're interested in learning more about how to take care of your immune system, so it doesn't age quickly. This article shares information to help you fully appreciate the importance of your immune system and how it changes as you age. The information presented here includes steps to take now to keep you strong as you age. There are even some you can begin working on this week! How Does the Immune System Protect Your Health? Perhaps you've heard something about the importance of your immune system health from the news, a friend, or your doctor. Knowing that means a lot, yet what is it that the immune system does? After all, some people have an autoimmune disease, yet others never get sick or quickly bounce back from a cold. Sure, there are individual variations in our immune systems. Some are related to genetics while others are associated with choices you make each week. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to improve your immune system health. The first is learning more about immunity. Knowledge is power, and in this case, it's positive. Why is Your Immune System Important? Your immune system protects your body from external and internal threats, many of which are microscopic. An example is that skin, your body's largest organ, helps to repel pathogens and environmental harms. Think about the last time you had an abrasion. Your skin may have looked inflamed and then healed due to immune system actions. Internally, your immune system responds by attacking viruses or harmful by-products. One way is that healthy microbes living in your intestines help with food processing. They assure that nutrients are readily available for digestion. What is Your Immune System Made Of? Your immune system is a complex network of organs, cells, compounds, and processes that protect you from many harms. • The organs that are your first line of defense are your skin and mucous membranes, like those in your mouth and gut. • The next are the lymphatic system that's made of lymphoid organs, such as: • The primary ones being your thymus and bone marrow that produce lymphocytes, including neutrophils. These are a special type of white blood cell that kills harmful agents. • The secondary lymphoid organs are your tonsils, lymph nodes, and tissues in your intestines. Each of these defends you by fighting off invading harms. The immune system jumps into action when it recognizes something foreign that's not part of your body's makeup. Think of what it's like when you feel a cold coming on. The sneezing, runny eyes and nose, and fatigue are due to your immune system responding to a viral invasion. Mucus traps the germs, helping you to rid yourself of them. Any that make it to your stomach are destroyed by the acids that also eliminate food microbes. How Do You Gain Immunity? Your immune system functions because of: • Innate immunity that includes what you were born with, such as your genetic makeup, plus general human adaptability. • Acquired immunity that results when you're exposed to microbes or get vaccinated. • Passive immunity that you get from your mother prior to birth or right after from her milk. • Immunizations that expose you to minute portions of antigens (foreign bodies like weakened pathogens) prompting your body to create antibodies. These fight off future exposure to disease such as the measles. What Happens to Your Immune System As You Age? You're reading this because you're concerned with how to care for your aging immune system. The degree to which change occurs varies. The good news is that you have some control over the degree of change as the years go by. Before guiding you with what you can do now, it helps to know what happens to your immunity as you age. Immunosenescence is a lofty-sounding word for your immune system's decline over time. This can happen: • Before you turn thirty, and earlier if you smoke or don't exercise. • When you have ongoing stress or illness. • If you're exposed to certain environmental hazards such as air pollutants. How Aging Affects Your Immune System The short explanation of how aging affects your immune system is that it: • Alters your body's response to infectious agents, including a slower response time. • Acts differently when there's inflammation, that can cause overreaction. Why Does Your Immune System Decline With Age? Health and medical scientists are still seeking answers to this question. They know that: • The immune system is complicated, being second-most in complexity to your brain. • A person who's not yet 60 with good health and habits has an immune system that's able to offer protection from many infections. • A measure of immune age is being developed and will be able to figure your immune system's 'age' in relation to your actual years. • There are steps you can take to improve your immune age. What Happens Inside Your Body? One response to this question is that some cells age-out and malfunction. This is the case with neutrophils that: • Still function even as each one ages. • Can go haywire as they go after invaders, by: • Slowing in their response, thus weakening protection you receive. • Blundering as they track microbes, prompting inflammation as they charge off, potentially harming healthy tissue. Another response is that your thymus shrinks as you age. The benefit of this small organ that's under your breastbone, is that it's where T cells mature. • This shrinkage is caused by inactivity as well as age. • T cells are specialized lymphocytes that destroy specific antigens. • When you're older, T cells help vaccines to be more effective. • When you're active, your thymus supports your immune system. Diminished immunity can also increase inflammation, which can lead to becoming immunocompromised. This affects body systems, resulting in: • Various forms of arthritis, • Cardiovascular disease, • Autoimmune disorders, and • More serious illness when exposed to infectious agents. Fortunately, there are steps you can take right now to nurture your aging immune system, thereby boosting your body's ability to fight infection. How Can You Preserve Your Immune System Function As You Age? In all likelihood, you already know that behaviors and choices affect your health. This information is just as important for your immune system as it is for your heart, circulation, or bones and muscles. Thus, as you make changes in how aging affects your immune system you benefit in multiple ways. This includes your overall wellness as you gain energy, reduce aches and pains, and thrive with increased resilience. Protect your aging immune system with activity, nutrients, sleep, and by managing exposure to stressors and infections. You can then put thoughts of Immunosenescence behind you. Physical Activity and How It Affects Your Aging Immune System Physical activity simply means moving your body. It may be for a set length of time, or as you're able, like during your work break. The action results in increases in circulation and deepened breathing, both of which nurture your immune system. Even on the busiest of days: • Set aside time for yoga and/or stretching, • Head for a workout on the stairs, • Grab a friend for a walk, or • Play catch and romp around with your child or pet. Remember that lots of household and work chores involve moving. Give yourself credit for these too! Using Diet for Immune System Health You're well aware of the value of nutrition for health. Now is a good time to consider the ways diet can proactively slow how aging affects your immune system. • Whole, fresh foods and fiber help immunity to thrive. • Some diets, such as the Mediterranean, or personalized intermittent fasting approaches, have been shown to be anti-inflammatory. • Vitamins E, D, and A, as well as iron, folic acid, and zinc support immune wellbeing. • Probiotics promote gut health, providing another avenue for maintaining immunity. • Look into the role of nutraceuticals, including carotenoids and polyphenols, and how they protect an aging immune system. • For a comprehensive Immune Health supplement, use Healthycell's Immune Super Boost and AM/PM Healthspan by Healthycell. Sleep Your Way to Immune System Wellness Quality sleep protects your immune system. That means getting at least seven hours of refreshing sleep. This may mean making a few adjustments to assure that your internal and external environments are prepared to sleep as soundly as possible. • Turn off electronic devices 30-60 minutes prior to turning in. • Use white noise to minimize outside sounds. • Adjust darkness or lighting for what meets your sleep preferences. • Use abdominal breathing to aid with falling asleep. • If you need help falling asleep, staying asleep and sleeping deeper consider REM Sleep by Healthycell. Steer Clear of Immune System Stressors That's right! Whatever feels like a stressor to your mind and emotions is cause for concern. There are steps you can take to boost your immunity by managing stress and limiting exposure to toxins may accelerate how aging affects your immune system. Here are some tips, including those you may already be doing! • Identify your physical and emotional response to stress triggers and take steps to address them. • Practice breathwork and mindfulness to reduce tension. • Identify and eliminate toxins from your home and work environments as much as possible. • Be gentle with yourself as that too benefits an aging immune system. Key Takeaways & Conclusion • Your immune system is unique to you. • Immunity to illnesses is acquired by being exposed to infectious agents and being immunized, among others. • Human immune systems can begin to age by twenty. • The immune system is a complex network of organs and cells. • Your health choices have a positive or negative effect on how aging affects your immune system. • There are steps you can take to boost your immune system's health. About The Author Dr. Giampapa is a world-renowned medical doctor, inventor, and surgeon specializing in anti-aging medicine. He recently received a nomination for the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking stem cell research, as well as the Edison Award for the Healthycell nutritional supplement for cell health. He was also awarded the A4M Science & Technology award for his development of the BioMarker Matrix Profile – the first computer program to measure aging. Learn more about Dr. Vincent Giampapa. More Articles Four Ways Sleep Impacts Your Susceptibility to Cancer Four Ways Sleep Impacts Your Susceptibility to Cancer Many Americans struggle to get a good night’s sleep. Chronic sleep deprivat... Read More Benefits and Uses of L-Theanine Benefits and Uses of L-Theanine Read More Can Liquid Vitamins for Women Boost Your Health? Can Liquid Vitamins for Women Boost Your Health? Read More
‘Dead Indian’ — Time for a Change Rename the Street for the Present, Not the Barbaric Past Credit: Google Maps Theodore Roosevelt, January 1886 When I come home to visit Santa Barbara, I am left with two emotions: happiness and sadness. Happy because I experience the lustrous beauty and tranquil essence of Santa Barbara’s beaches, mountains, and hidden water holes like Red Rock, Montecito hot springs, or waterfalls in the mountains. Sad when I leave because I unavoidably pass the street sign Indio Muerto — translated as Dead Indian Street. I do a double take in disbelief, asking myself, “Wait a minute, was that real? Did that sign literally say Dead Indian?” It is quite obvious that the sign blatantly glorifies a time in American history where the cultural norms and beliefs toward Indians were degrading, destructive, overtly dehumanizing, and essentially genocidal. The crazy part is, in my youth, I crossed that street thousands of times and the blatant message of the street sign never registered in my mind. I had no context, no understanding. But as I’ve matured and received more education, I see it clearly. I’ve learned vital information through my ethnic-studies education that has served as an antidote to the all-too-common historical amnesia that attempts to erase a people of their memory, destroying their culture, their history). Let me summarize what culture is to me: It is the customs, behaviors, and norms found in a society. Historically, we know that the Spanish culture had profound, adverse impacts on the local indigenous population, the Chumash. It is a historical fact that when the Americans first settled in Santa Barbara the Chumash had been killed and enslaved by the Spanish invasion. During the foundation of the United States, the dominant cultural beliefs about Indians were expressed in the Declaration of Independence, in which Indians were called the “merciless Indian Savages.” They were seen in the 13 colonial states’ society as uncivilized, with backward spiritual practices that colluded with the devil, pagans ready to be conquered and the land claimed (stolen under the authority of Papal Bulls centuries earlier) as theirs. This dehumanizing language, exemplified in one of the United States’ most treasured documents, reflected the cultural norms of the founding “fathers” and the lengths to which they would go to ensure the new nation believed that “Indians” were “savages.” When the new settlers could consider “Indians” as savages, as sub-human, it allowed them to justify the violence used against them during the new nation’s growth and expansion westward. In 1845, a philosophy known as Manifest Destiny was coined to give the United States a God-given right to expand its domain and spread capitalism and democracy throughout North America. The problem with this doctrine was that hundreds of Indian nations already lived throughout North America. Manifest Destiny not only indoctrinated new European American immigrants on “white supremacy” but assuaged their guilt for the violence against Indians: murder, execution, rape, enslavement, starvation, being fed to dogs, hung in massive numbers, or scalps taken and held for bounty — boys and girls, men and women, in California and elsewhere. It allowed European Americans to be rid of their guilt, shame, and cognitive dissonance, or discomfort, over the rampant barbarism. In 1851, California Governor Peter Burnett’s State of the State Address set the stage for legally sanctioned genocidal crimes against Indians when he stated, “That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected.” Sadly, his words supported and influenced a killing machine of U.S. military forces — federal and state, militias and vigilantes that were on a mission to slaughter Indians. When we look at the historical date of when Indio Muerto Street was established we find that “the city of Santa Barbara was laid out into streets and blocks in 1851, when the town council directed Captain Salisbury Haley to make a survey and map of the town.” We juxtapose this with the political and racist rhetoric in the Manifest Destiny philosophy and Governor Burnett’s statements. The concept of a “dead Indian” was not pulled out of thin air; it was part of the dominant popular culture beliefs. When Captain Haley literally found a dead Indian during his survey, the culture was already in place that objectified and made it completely normal to arrogantly name a street in Santa Barbara “Indio Muerto.” In closing, I would like to share a provocative analogy. If a Jewish person was found dead and then the city decided to name a street “Dead Jew” because “it commemorates a historical fact” (something the S.B. City Planning staffers were quoted as saying in 1992 regarding Indio Muerto), the local community would not, and should not, condone such a street name. The uproar to change the name would include the knowledge regarding the Jewish Holocaust. The American aphorism “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,” which was coined in 1869 by General Phillip Sheridan, represents an era that veers more to a barbaric society than a civilized one. It was an ideology deeply rooted in edicts from Popes — who blessed European expeditions — and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, which produced fear, racism, and the genocide of Indian Peoples across America. Given the era we are now in, isn’t it time to truly honor and dignify, and bring justice, at least symbolically, to the Chumash and Indians nationwide? A name that dignifies the Chumash culture would illustrate respect for the Chumash. Potential names have already begun to be discussed with local organizers, such as Tomol (Canoe), Paxat (whale), or my favorite Hutash (The Earth Mother). In the name of our shared humanity, I ask you, Santa Barbara, to do the right thing. I ask you to change the name of a racist and objectifying street and provide an empathetic gesture for Indians everywhere. Be an example of how America can heal from our wounds of the past. Fidel Rodriguez was born and raised in Santa Barbara and works with youth and adults affected by childhood trauma and the criminal and juvenile justice system. Not a member? Sign up here.
Benefits of Iron for Teenagers Both Men and Women 7 Benefits of Iron for Teenagers Both Men and Women Benefits of Iron for Teenagers – Iron is an essential nutrient of many proteins and enzymes in metabolism. Iron helps send oxygen, energy metabolism, antioxidant function, and DNA synthesis throughout the body. Adolescence is a period of transition from children to adults so that the need for nutrients increases sharply, especially iron for adolescent girls. If the body lacks iron, it can cause chronic fatigue and other health problems. Both teenagers and women need more iron than men. Benefits of Iron for Teenagers Both Men and Women There are so many iron benefits for teenagers, and on this occasion, we will explain for your additional information. 1. Replacing Iron Loss During Menstruation Every teenage girl will experience a menstrual cycle every month. The menstrual cycle makes the body lose much iron through the blood during menstruation. This makes food, drink, or iron supplements essential to be consumed to replace the iron that has been lost during menstruation. 1. Improve Muscle Function Adolescence is a time for humans to be active in physical activities either in school, extracurricular, or sports so that muscle strength must be maintained properly. Iron is an essential element that can supply oxygen for muscle contraction. Without enough iron, teenagers will quickly lose muscle tone and muscle elasticity. At the same time, muscle weakness itself is one of the signs of anemia the most obvious. 1. Improve Brain Function Adolescent brain development can later be improved if the iron needs in the body are fulfilled. The supply of oxygen in the blood will be assisted by iron. 6 Benefits of Zinc for the Body At the same time, the brain will use 20% of the blood oxygen intake, which is directly related to teenagers’ health and brain function and many of the benefits of oxygen for the skin. If the flow of oxygen to the brain goes well, cognitive activity can be stimulated while creating new neural pathways to prevent mental disorders such as Alzheimer’s and dementia. As for teenagers, iron intake is essential to improve brain function so that they can absorb lessons very well. 1. Reduce Excessive Fatigue Dense activities carried out by teenagers must also be supported by high intakes of vitamins and minerals such as iron, one of which is iron. overcoming tiredness because of activity and an essential component of hemoglobin. 1. Increase Immunity Iron is also an essential key to increasing the robust immune system to protect teenagers from various diseases and infections. Red blood cells are needed to provide oxygen to damaged tissues, organs, and cells. Without iron, hemoglobin cannot be produced so that oxygen and nutrients that are important to speed up the healing process are also reduced. 1. Boost Teen Metabolism Iron is also an essential component in the metabolism energy sources adolescent body. This process is a process in which energy is extracted from the food consumed and will then be channeled to all parts of the body so that teenagers can remain active in their daily activities. 1. Increase Concentration Teenagers who are still active in school or college need a high concentration level. Consuming the intake of iron foods is very important because it can increase the concentration of learning in teenagers while improving their cognitive performance, where inc. Raised to the brain will clear the brains and minds of teenagers so that they can absorb lessons better than many other things—the benefits of exercise for the brain. Thus, growth and the broccoli dried. Therefore, our review of some of the benefits of iron for teenagers is vital for growth, brain, and immune system. Many sources of iron can be consumed by teenagers, such as spinach, cereals, broccoli benefits bean dried fruits, soybeans, legumes, green leafy vegetables, the benefits of radish vegetables, and much more essential for teenagers. 10 Benefits of Beef Bone Marrow for Health Check Also 7 benefits of lacto b in children and toddlers 7 Benefits of Lacto B in Children and Toddlers Every mother wants her baby to always be healthy and grow well. Every mother will …
Black Mold Facts Black mold can cause many health problems, including allergies, asthma and even cancer. Black mold is a group of certain mold species which are black in colour. This is not always the case though; mold can come in many different shades, including red, orange, yellow, or even green. Black mold has also been identified as an environmental toxin and a potential carcinogen for those with immune compromised immune systems such as those who suffer from AIDS and diabetes. If you suspect that you have black mold in your home, it is wise to contact a specialist mold removal company to remove it safely and completely. There are many types of mold that could cause allergic reactions or cause health problems. The most common and toxic mold species are Cladosporium mould and Stachybotrys mold. These two types cause toxic and often lethal reactions. If black mold growth has been detected and you’re worried about the health of your family, it is best to take action as soon as possible. black mold on wallTo determine if mold growth exists on your surfaces, an analysis must be done. An inspector or consultant will examine the surface and check for evidence of mold growth using various techniques. One way is to use the naked eye. It’s important to remember that mold spores are very small, so even a small amount of mold can be invisible to the naked eye. The inspector will look for evidence of mold growth using visual techniques including microscopic images and color samples. Some mold specialists combine visual techniques with exposure testing, where they can visually determine the presence of toxic mold spores on surfaces that have been exposed to it for long periods of time. For visible mold growth on surfaces such as walls, floors, ceiling, and cabinets, it will usually be necessary for a specialist to perform a more detailed exam. For surfaces that don’t seem affected by the naked eye, such as countertops and sinks, a specialist may use liquid penetrant testing. This method involves using a special chemical to identify the presence of mold spores on a sample of wall or floorboard material. Sometimes the symptoms will be confused with allergies or other ailments, so your medical professional will be able to determine that the symptoms are caused by the black mold. If the mycotoxin detected has a significant level of toxicity, it could be a sign of severe mycotoxin poisoning or a lung disease. Mycotoxins cause a range of health effects, including memory loss, liver damage, tremors, seizures, comatose, and cancer. They are often present in sewage systems, so you should check any open or damp areas in your home for possible mycotoxins. There are a number of different types of mycotoxins, including cholera toxin, food poisoning, plant toxins, and mold spores. In order to be sure you have black mold, an air conditioning specialist will need to perform an air quality inspection. Some types of mold produce mycotoxins in only a specific environment; others produce mycotoxins in any environment. In the case of certain types of mold, the mycotoxin can be detected after only one exposure. However, most mycotoxins tend to release their toxic substances after repeated exposure. An air conditioning specialist can identify the source of the pollution and remove the source if necessary. As a final step, your inspector will offer recommendations for black mold removal and recommend solutions for reducing the risk of future health problems. If the source of the pollution is not determined, experts recommend adding non-toxic resins to the space or installing a vapor barrier to inhibit the growth of indoor molds. In many cases, simply finishing the necessary ventilation and air-conditioning improvements will prevent health risks. If mold removal is unavoidable, your inspector can offer advice on how to best make use of the solution. In the past, inspectors recommended cleaning with dilute bleach solutions or ozone. While these products are still widely used for disinfecting surfaces, health experts recommend using a commercial disinfectant with added oxygen. Ozone has been proven to kill many types of bacteria and mold; it also destroys surface-based contaminants such as drywall and ceiling tiles. Health officials also recommend wiping down exposed surfaces to reduce the potential for cladosporium mold growth. In addition to killing mold, disinfection reduces the health risk of chemical irritants, such as paint fumes.
Despite the increase in the Covid cases, leading to loss of lives, Covid 19 is not fatal. Bihar has been witnessing a sudden spike in covid-19 cases from the last few weeks. Like other parts of the country, Bihar is also hard hit by the second wave of the pandemic. According to the state’s government bulletin, in the last 24 hours, Bihar has recorded 11,801 new cases. The tally of the Covid-19 cases has risen to 89,660. History of Vaccines organizations 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. If we turn the pages of history, we can find out that pandemic usually comes in phases and lasts for several years. The influenza pandemic hit Europe in 1831 and lasted for around six years; the outbreak of it was recorded in three phases in 1831, 1833, and 1837, another influenza pandemic that started in 1899 lasted for five years and did cost millions of lives in Britain. In the same year, Russia got worst affected by flu which continued for two years. The most talked-about and devastating pandemic in history, the Spanish Flu of 1918, affected people’s lives in three waves (waves came in between March 1918 to November 1919). Thus, if we go by history, the second outbreak of Covid-19 cannot be considered unusual. But what are the factors responsible for the second wave? If we talk about the whole country, then the virus mutation (double mutant strain) is primarily responsible for the rise in the infections; another major cause is the careless attitude of the people towards the virus and the unprofessional way of wearing masks. If we talk about Bihar, fatigue towards pandemic, overcrowded public transports, marriage seasons, and holding political and non-political gatherings have contributed to covid cases’ resurgence. It is a comparatively more tedious task to contain the spread in Bihar because it constitutes the third most populated state in the country. After monitoring the whole situation, the Chief Minister of Bihar has imposed a night curfew in the state and has advised people to adhere to the Covid guidelines. Outlook India Crowded Patna Junction. The news of the increase in cases, deaths of people, shortage of oxygen cylinders and beds is coming in every day and taking a toll on people’s mental health. Some questions are revolving in everyone’s minds like: how lethal is Covid-19? Why are the symptoms mild for some and deadly for others? What to do when one tests positive? It is normal to get stressed looking at the sudden spike in cases. But despite the fact that covid cases are increasing and people are also losing their lives fighting the virus; Covid-19 is not as fatal as we think it is. All we need to do is be more cautious and keep all our fears at bay. Suppose you are experiencing symptoms like fever, sore throat, dry cough, running nose, abdominal cramps and diarrhea; you should get yourself tested. If you test positive and are experiencing only mild symptoms, you should immediately isolate yourself at home. The first thing one should do is take medical advice from the doctors over telephonic conversation or video call. Many doctors are giving free medical advice on the phone, and the Health Department of Bihar has also issued a district-wise list of doctors. India Today Frontline workers on duty Our frontline workers and medical staffs are already overburdened. Hence you should only rush to the hospital if your fever is not subsiding even after taking advised medicine or your spo2 level goes below 94 percent on room air, or your respiratory rate is more than 24 per minute. But the symptoms will not worsen if one acts according to the advice given by the doctors and keep an eye on their oxygen level, pulse rate, and body temperature. According to the doctors, people with comorbidities such as respiratory diseases, diabetes, kidney malfunctions, and obesity must take extra precautions. A balanced, nutritious diet and proper fluid intake can help develop the immunity to fight against the virus. The current scenario of the country has created a nationwide state of panic, as a result of which rumors have taken over facts. We all are confused, anxious, and worried, but we can slow down the spread of the virus if we hold on to our rational sides. Hoarding of medicines and oxygen cylinders would not benefit you; rather, by doing so, you are pushing someone to a fatal consequence. It is the time when we all should come together, empathize and help each other in whatever ways possible. This too shall pass and we will come out of this pandemic victoriously. Malda Aam Don’t Want to miss anything from us Get Weekly updates on the latest Beats from Bihar right in your mail. Born in Bihar, brought up in India!
Why motorsport can’t afford to overlook the tyre pollution problem News Focus Posted on \| Written by Although emissions from cars are a tiny percentage of the pollution produced by motorsport, they’re the most obvious element. Compared to the carbon dioxide produced by the vehicles themselves, tyre particulate pollution is a less obvious concern. But these too are a source of potentially harmful emissions – one the sport is increasingly realising it must address. Motorsport needs the involvement of manufacturers and suppliers, especially at its highest and most expensive echelons. That means presenting an image which isn’t at odds with the automotive sector in general. At a time when the sport’s environmental credentials are rightly under scrutiny – both in terms of electrification and in supply chain and production line transformation – manufactures and the companies that supply them (such as tyre producers) are in a bind between what’s been viewed as the way to promote good competition and the need for a balance between performance and reliable efficiency. No one has ever pretended that running through thousands of tyres over a race weekend is environmentally friendly. Taking F1 as an example, each driver currently receives 20 four-tyre sets per ordinary weekend, while the series will trial a reduction at two rounds next year. Over a 23-race season, this comes to well over 9,000 tyres, and that’s before testing is taken into consideration. High-degradation tyres can deliver performance gains but, by their nature, are highly disposable items. Road tyres, however, are likely to become one of the next frontlines for automotive environmental strife for two reasons. These are a growing awareness of tyre particulate pollution as cities fight to improve air quality and the rising likelihood of a global shortage of rubber (the only solutions to which could be even worse, environmentally, than rubber’s original proliferation as a crop). Not well-rubbered Pirelli tyres, Bahrain International Circuit, 2022 F1 tyres are made from natural rubber and petrol derivatives, as well as fabrics and metals It might seem counterintuitive to look at the carbon fibre chassis and fuel-burning engine of a race car and point at the tyres as one of the least-environmentally-friendly parts of it. After all, they’re made of rubber – what’s wrong with using something plant-based? A significant percentage of natural rubber is used in their manufacture. Although much of the construction of the outer part of a tyre is from oil, essentially a form of plastic, the basis does start in natural rubber even for something as bespoke as Pirelli’s F1 tyres. Given about 23 litres of oil go into a standard road tyre, it might seem surprising that tyre makers are interested to find alternatives to the rubber, rather than the fossil fuel component. After all, rubber is a renewable from plants, in principal. In reality, rubber is a problematic crop. Huge parts of Asia were deforested by colonial order to grow rubber trees as a cash crop, destroying habitats and ecosystems. Worse, the damage that was done during the rise of rubber from the mid-1800s to early 1900s is now being compounded by those plantations being abandoned as the set price of rubber as a commodity fails to increase with the cost of production for the small farmers amid the effects of climate change. Deforestation and rubber are so linked that Pirelli proudly announced last year it had made the world’s first Forest Stewardship Council-assured tyre. This may prove an option for F1 rubber in the future. Synthetic rubber is another possible alternative, especially in high-end motorsport usage. However it is made from oil by-products, so is not exactly an environmental win in PR terms, even if it offers benefits over natural rubber from unsustainable sources. IndyCar tyre supplier Firestone announced it will test tyres made using sustainably-sourced rubber at Carb Day during this year’s Indianapolis 500. They will be first seen in competition at the Nashville Grand Prix. Instead of sourcing rubber from rubber trees, the most conventional source, it will take the compound from guayule, a shrubby plant found in the deserts of the southern US and northern Mexico. The third option is in alternative rubber sources like the dandelion-derived taraxagum which is used for Extreme E’s tyres by Continental. Goodyear launched a cultivation project for the crop in America last month. Whatever the solution, the likelihood that tyre companies and the carmakers they supply will want to advertise greener credentials than rubber wherever possible is a certainty. Temporary circuits like Miami put F1’s green credentials under scrutiny The growing number of street races on the Formula 1 calendar may unexpectedly put greater focus on the pollution produced by its tyres. The Miami Grand Prix will go ahead this weekend despite residents’ attempts to block the event on the new Miami International Autodrome. Protests against noise levels and pollution have gone through legal processes and will likely continue every year the race is held, especially if new challenges can be found. Residents near other circuits may consider similar steps especially as the tyre particulate pollution produced by vehicles is increasingly understood. Tyre rubber degrades on any car. Particulate pollution from tyres has been suggested to be up to 1,000 times worse than from exhaust fumes in cities and has a serious environmental impact in coastal and riverside areas, contributing significantly to marine microplastic contamination. As with anything in motorsport, the amount of rubber and particulates coming from the 20 cars on-track is likely to be a tiny percentage of the weekend’s pollutant toll, those cars are the spectacle being attended for and as such, tyre marbles flinging off them is fuel for critics. F1 events, especially with more street circuits added to the calendar, require local support and funding and disgruntled residents finding their own cars limited or taxed in an area will find it easy to point fingers. Formula E limits tyre use much more strictly than F1. Drivers get three full sets for a double-header or two sets for a single, balancing them between practice, qualifying and the race. FE tyres are not designed to be high-degradation and the Michelin all-weather compound has a minimal amount in common with, say, a Pirelli slick other than both being round and black. There’s no guarantee that the series’ tyres pollute less than F1’s, in particulate terms, over the same distance. Tyre companies have rarely been required to measure it and hence it is poorly understood, besides the fact heavier vehicles produce more of it. New tyre constructions which negate or capture particulates are being researched and produced, offering an obvious opportunity for motorsport to contribute to developing greener technologies. If a series could show particulate capture as part of its racing then that would be a big win, especially to sell itself as city-friendly. However, it would likely come at a cost of performance. Motorsport has never had an easy balance between impact and excitement. But at a sensitive moment for the automotive industry, staying in front of the discussion will be crucial to future contracts for races and suppliers. Advert \| Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Other motorsport Browse all other motorsport articles Author information Hazel Southwell 36 comments on “Why motorsport can’t afford to overlook the tyre pollution problem” 1. Really informative, well researched, and well written. One might also consider the issues of land-filing toxic used tires. 2. Great post overall. Informative & well-researched. Things indeed also have to improve on the tyre side when moving towards carbon-neutrality. The dry set amount is 13 rather than 20, but I wouldn’t mind if 11 or perhaps 10 became standard instead, as more often than not, less is enough. Definitely doesn’t say 13 dry sets. Definitely says 20 sets (ie: 13 dry, 4 intermediate, 3 wet) 3. Excellent article Hazel! I am intrigued to see if F1 follows IndyCar’s lead here and what they intend to do about tire particulates. Brake particulates are also pretty nasty things, it will be interesting to see how they tackle that when the time comes as well. 4. Thanks Hazel. A really interesting article, with lots of stuff in it that many of us didn’t know, or even had ever thought of! 5. Great article. Always frustrated me that even unused tyres get destroyed after the race weekend. It’ll be really interesting to see how F1 embraces the future of tyres. How do you suddenly sell longer lasting tyres as “better for the show” after years of mandatory pit stops that are supposedly “better for the show”? I imagine that F1 will be happy with a sustainable rubber substitute even if its not ultimately much greener in the long run as long as performance is there, although I would love to be proved wrong and for F1 to push further. 6. Incredibly informative and thorough article @hazelsouthwell How’d you manage to piece this all together so quickly after your Monaco escapades over the weekend?! 7. Kinda makes you wonder what happens to discarded EV batteries, wind turbine blades, and solar panels. 1. All things that are used for less than an hour, then thrown away, right? 2. Whatabout something else eh, eh? 3. It doesn’t make me wonder at all. Most of the components that make up renewable energy sources can be recycled or repurposed. Relative to car tyres they also have a long life. Car tyres can also be recycled but this doesn’t really solve the particulate problem. 1. Solar panels cannot currently be recycled in my country, this is true across a lot of parts of the world. While they are mostly glass, they also contain cadmium and lead which are toxic. The solar panels are often damaged, leaving shards of shattered glass scattered across wherever they are, and those toxic elements leaking into the soil. Look at what happened in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Same for wind turbines, the fibreglass that is used to construct the blades cannot be recycled, and is very toxic – ever tried to work with the stuff? Not to mention the kilotons of carbon that are released from the soil mining the steel and copper used in the rest of the pylons etc. Green is not green. Nuclear, geothermal, and hydrolectric are really the only answer. 1. That is only an issue with older solar panels. Newer designs have addressed these issues. Windmill blades can be recycled now. The main firm doing it actually recycles them and makes new windmill blades from the fiberglass. The materials mined or recycled to create solar panels and windmills pales in comparison to the materials mined, drilled and used for fossil fuel development, the danger of radiation posed by nuclear waste, and even the immense embodied carbon needed for large hydroelectric dams. 4. “Discarded” EV batteries can be recycled into new EV batteries or used for battery storage projects by utilities. Wind turbine blades are fiberglass, they are recycled and the fiberglass is made into new wind turbine blades. Solar panels can also be recycled. You could have simply Googled to find this out instead of making a ill-informed political point. 8. As others above have mentioned, great article @hazelsouthwell! Beyond what the others have said above, two things stuck out to me. The first is that it seems ironic that Firestone is shifting away from rubber tree-based tyres given their very long and well-documented troubling history with their rubber plantations in Liberia. The second is that beyond the abysmal environmental impacts of discarded rubber marbles from races, they also make for poorer races. How many times have we seen in the later stages of a race, someone who is clearly quicker but can’t make an overtaking maneuver into a corner because the marbles make everything off the racing line too treacherous to attempt a pass? The only places an overtake can take place during the later stages of a race are usually the straights with a DRS assist. If they were able to solve the problem of discarded rubber, not only would it help the environment but it would also help improve the racing by opening up multiple lines into a corner. A double win for all involved. 1. I recall at the peak of the Bridgestone vs Michelin era the amount of discarded rubber/marbles offline on certain tracks towards the end of a race was particularly severe. And that’s just what you saw on camera. It may have been made worse by the grooved tyres of the era encouraging larger chunks of tyre to break off. Whether it’s any better now is hard to say though. The amount of tyre worn off during a stint could be just as bad, but finer grained, allowing it to blow off the track instead of sticking to it. 9. Fascinating article – I’d never considered rubber particulates before. It would surely be difficult to measure the impact of particulates in a “small” event of 20 cars, but in large cities it’s worrying to think such a potential hazard is completely unregulated still. 10. I wish F1 (And this site) would take their green crap out of my sport. 1. You already know what I wish. 2. So, just keep on burning oil, releasing harmful particles and discarding remains of unethically produced rubber until ‘your sport’ becomes unwelcome in every neighborhood? Sounds like a great plan, do you need some crayons to make your school presentation about it? 3. The world does not revolve around you. 4. @trido it ain’t your sport 11. Thanks Hazel for the insight. While reading, I wondered about the tyres used in the history of the sport – not the really early days but in the 1960s, for example, a set of tyres could be used for the whole weekend. Obviously going back to this model would have huge implications for performance and it wouldn’t solve the particulate problem, but it might actually make for a better spectacle as well as cutting down on the vast number of disposed tyres. 1. I believe sets of tyres were once used across multiple events in the early days, at least by the small teams. The cars certainly slid around a bit more in the early days but speeds were much lower, as well as almost a total lack of downforce before wings were introduced in the late ’60s. It was also much less common for drivers to lock a wheel and flatspot a tyre. 12. BREAKING NEWS Pirelli launches tyres made from tofu. Says any debris “edible and can be consumed by local wildlife or hungry F1 fans”. Red Bull fans delighted they can now properly chomp on Max’s marbles. 1. “Bono, my tyres are gone.” 13. Neil (@neilosjames) 3rd May 2022, 13:19 Maybe get someone to stand trackside with a PM2.5/10 meter on the Baku main straight during first or second practice. NEEs are mostly resuspended particles from the road surface, and the first stage of track evolution is the cars cleaning up the year’s worth of dirt and dust that has accumulated on the surface since it was last used by F1. Doubt it would be any kind of issue as it’d only be short-term, but would be interesting (to me, anyway) to see the air quality impact of F1 cars being driven on dirty roads. 1. what is NEE? i cant seem to find what it stands for. 1. Neil (@neilosjames) 4th May 2022, 6:46 @marky sorry, NEE is non-exhaust emissions – particulate matter put into the air by vehicles from sources other than the exhaust pipe. 14. As usual Hazel on top of her thing! 1. Our thing 15. I remember the guy from pirelli saying they take the used tires to burn them and then recycle this into something else, but i forgot what. 16. So what’s next, brake dust? 17. Excellent article, thanks. I’ve always suspected that the impact on climate change from F1’s tyres’ manufacture and transport was significantly greater than the fuel they use. Are you able to provide any quantification of the difference? Seeing as F1’s clever innovation of thermal energy recovery hasn’t made it to road cars, not even the Mercedes supercar vapourware; and Formula E’s move to 800bhp without an associated increase in tyre allocation, maybe F1 could try out a return to 2005’s zero tyre change rules (ideally without the inept Pirelli) combined with a return to V12s? I suspect the net gain would be significantly positive from a climate perspective. The optics could be managed with proper quantified research showing that the 20 car’s additional fuel use just isn’t significant compared with saved tyres and freight, which could be easily cut down too. 18. Ahhh, good news. One step away from imaginary races. 19. I have an opinion 4th May 2022, 2:01 What are the environmental impacts of production, use and disposal of automotive tyres globally? And what proportion of automotive tyres are used in motorsports? These data (if available) would give this article more gravitas. Comments are closed.
How Thin is Fireproof Glass? You are here: One Stop Solution » News » Latest News » How Thin is Fireproof Glass? How Thin is Fireproof Glass? Views: 41 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-02-08 Origin: Site How Thin is Fireproof Glass? There are several different types of fire resistant glass. Some are better suited for commercial use, while others are better for residential use. Each type has different characteristics and uses. In general, rated glass offers a high level of protection against heat and flames. For example, wired glass is not susceptible to a fire and remains intact when it breaks. Other types include ceramic or heat-soaked glasses. These materials are also resistant to heat and flames, and are suitable for use in homes and businesses. Fire resistant glass is a material that is able to block the spread of fire. It can be made from ceramic, traditional wired glass, or specially tempered glass. Regardless of its material composition, fire-resistant glass is capable of inhibiting radiant heat and other elements associated with fire. A multi-laminated glass, which incorporates multiple layers of both glass and fire-resistant interlayers, is an additional option. This is the best choice for all-purpose applications, but there are some drawbacks. One common drawback of fire-resistant glass is its thickness. While some types of glass are thicker than others, wired ones are much more difficult to break. Unlike fire-resistant windows, wired glass is often thicker than their corresponding float-glass counterparts. This is because the wires are embedded in the glass during its molten state. However, wired-glass is usually manufactured in sheets, which are then cut to shape. Leave a Message Contact Us
Influential Americans in History In this course, students will examine the important Americans who influenced the history of the United States. They will learn about various people and how the places and times they lived in affected their lives. Examples include Denmark Vesey, Tecumseh, John Ross, John Quincy Adams, Clara Barton, Sitting Bull, Nellie Bly, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Muir, Muddy Waters, Amelia Earhart, and Rosa Parks. How did these people affect the nation? Why is it important to study our ancestors? The goal is for students to gain an understanding of the development of our country and the impact that history has on various individuals. Live Classes: Thursdays, 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Student Support: The instructor is available via email and for special individual Zoom sessions with students as needed. Feedback/Assessment: Students will be assessed on their class participation and written work. Materials: All reading materials will be available on the internet. Student Information Has this student taken a course with RFWP before? Is grade information needed for transcript or state regulations? Parent Information Adult students can leave these fields blank. * This is a required field.
As the climate crisis becomes more prevalent in our lives, everyone is looking at ways to lead a more sustainable lifestyle that can help the planet. One incredibly effective way to make a positive impact on the planet is to eat a healthier and more environmentally friendly diet. A lot of people assume this means following a strict vegan diet - and while this certainly does have its benefits, it’s not the only way to help. Read more:This minor lifestyle change can save you thousands on household costs and reduce carbon footprint In fact, scientists recommend following the ‘planetary’ diet, which is very similar to a ‘flexitarian’ food plan. So, what is the planetary diet? Simply put, if you imagine a circular plate, half of it should be filled with fruits and vegetables. One quarter should be protein and of that quarter, 12.5% should be meat and the other 12.5% should be plant-based foods such as lentils, beans or chickpeas. The last quarter of the plate should be carbohydrates, which are wholegrain where possible. RSVP Live caught up with TV chef Aisling Larkin to discuss the benefits of a planetary diet on both the planet and our health. An example of a planetary diet An example of a planetary diet Benefits for the planet It reduces carbon emissions Aisling tells RSVP Live: “Growing plants uses less natural resources and produces less CO2 emissions compared to rearing animals. “Consuming more fruit, vegetables and grains is more sustainable for the planet in terms of these emissions and water usage.” But just because you’re eating more fruits and vegetables, doesn’t mean you are necessarily being kinder to the planet, as Aisling explains that it is so important to know where your food is coming from, using the example of avocados. She says: “Avocados have become very popular in recent years, but have a very big carbon footprint because they are coming all the way from South America. “Because avocados are so valuable to the South American economy, there is a huge amount of deforestation just to grow and expand their avocado farms to make money off them. “Avocados, compared to other vegetables, use way more water to be grown so obviously they are more resource intensive and to add to that it’s causing deforestation. “You might think you’re doing really well by eating plant based foods but you have to be conscious of where they’re coming from.” It promotes local and seasonal produce A planetary diet encourages consumption of locally grown and seasonal produce because these foods don’t have a massive carbon footprint as they don’t need to travel across the world. “It just makes sense,” Aisling explains. “It is much better to eat native fruit that’s in season and at peak ripeness, compared to trying to eat strawberries from Egypt in the middle of December.” “If you’re trying to grow foods out of season, intensive farming uses a huge amount of pesticides and fertilisers to make them grow at a slightly unnatural rate. “As well as that, you have all of those chemicals running into the soil and rainwater which is really damaging for the environment. Benefits for your health It reduces the risk of certain disease Aisling explains how a more plant-based diet has a variety of knock-on effects on your health. She says: “If you are eating more fruit and vegetables, you’re getting more fibre in your diet which is really good for your gut health. “Eating more wholegrains means less refined carbohydrates, which means less sugar, and this reduces the risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes. “As well as that, less saturated fats from eating less meat, eggs and dairy also reduces the risk of these diseases.” It can improve your mental health too It’s not only your physical health that can reap the benefits of a planetary diet. Aisling, who is also an expert in all things wellness, says the feel-good factor from the diet is a bonus to the other advantages. She says: “Our grandparents didn’t eat meat with their meals three times a day, they probably had a small quantity of it for their main meal and when they did it was respected…. the animals reared on smaller farms were respected and there was a gratitude of having that bit of plate on the meat. “When we partake in a planetary diet we know we’re doing something good for the planet and consciously that can boost our mental health, because it’s scientifically proven that when you give back and do something good, it increases your sense of wellbeing.” Follow Aisling on Instagram - @aisling_larkin_ Read more:Climate activist Fionnuala Moran shares her top tips on minimising plastic waste - as only 28% is recycled Read more: Top chef Conor Spacey shares his top tips to cut down on food waste - and how you can save money
Also found in: Wikipedia. Related to Odinism: Norse mythology n.1.Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor. - Carlyle. References in periodicals archive ? Woden's Folk's website claims it is linked to Odinism - a Norse religion followed by Anders Brevik, who murdered 77 Norwegian people in one day in 2011. The group's website claims it is linked to Odinism -- a Norse religion followed by Anders Brevik, who murdered 77 Norwegian people in one day in 2011. Often, this white supremacist worldview is coupled with a religious theology of the pre-Christian religion more commonly known as Odinism which "incorporates worship of Thor, Odin and other Norse-Germanic gods into a puritanical ideology promoting the survival of the Germanic culture and the Aryan race" serving to legitimize contemporary terrorist acts. For example, some white supremacists were attracted to religious alternatives such as Odinism, a pre-Christian religion sometimes referred to as Wotanism. The inmate practiced Asatru (also known as Odinism). Haley, the plaintiff, a practitioner of Odinism, was prohibited from using a small quartz crystal, which he claimed was "fundamental to his practice of Odinism." (175) While the court decided the case on other grounds, it adopted a restrictive definition of religious exercise, noting that the institutional officials would have been justified in their actions, under RLUIPA, if the crystal were not "essential" to the practice of the plaintiff's religion, since, in that case, "denying him possession of [a crystal] would not substantially burden his exercise of Odinism...." (176) (93) Likewise, some white supremacists use racism to interpret apocalyptic imagery from Norse mythology embodied in Odinism. (94) Most Odinists are not racists, however. Ademas de catolicos, protestantes, o mormones, han protagonizado controversias otros cultos marginales como neopaganos (Wicca, Asatru u Odinism), Rastafari (grupo afro-mesianico conocido por sus cabelleras con rastas), House of Yahveh (movimiento religioso surgido en Texas en parte similar al judaismo), supremacistas blancos (como el Wotanism), Shetaut Neterian (antigua religion egipcia), Nation of Islam, Nations of Gods and Earth (grupo surgido en Harlem tras la salida de su fundador del grupo anterior), o cultos satanicos u ocultistas como el Lefthand Path. Smith sought approval from the Religious Review Committee to observe certain practices of Odinism. Id. But the most original discussion is that of the pagan revival, which includes Wicea and the rediscovery of the Norse gods (Asatru and Odinism). But the court found that the prisoner could not maintain a claim based on the allegation that he was not allowed to have a copy of a catalogue in which items related to Wiccanism, Satanism and Odinism were sold, where the prisoner did not allege or suggest that he either used or needed a copy of the catalogue in order to practice his Odinist religion. A close friend of Donaldson's, Kev Turner of the band Skullhead, dabbled in Odinism. As much as Donaldson and others like him considered themselves "English patriots," the vision of white identity they championed was constructed in relationship to a mythic-historic past that was less English than German.
A down-and-dirty look at a groundbreaking discovery that could save the planet. Want to stop climate change? You're gonna have to get your hands dirty. League of Conservation Voters There's an amazing way to combat climate change, and it's not based on elaborate or expensive technology. In fact, it's right under our feet. GIF via "Despicable Me." Yup, you know — that stuff that your parents told you to stay away from when you were wearing your nice clothes. The place where worms crawl around and do their thing. The substance crudely known in some circles as "dirt." Soil can absorb excess carbon and mitigate climate change according to author and food guru Michael Pollan, who draws on research emerging from around the world. "Climate change can be overwhelming, yet there is real hope," he says in a video released by the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. "We now know how to put carbon back in the soil, where it belongs." In the video, titled " Soil Solutions to Climate Problems," he explains how soil can affect climate change. Here are five important points he makes. 1. Damaged soil actually puts excess carbon into the atmosphere. Soil gets damaged when the microscopic creatures that call it home are destroyed by over-tilling and use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. When they die, the carbon that was stored in the soil gets released, adding billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year. GIF via Center for Food Safety/YouTube. 2. Some soil now actually lacks carbon because it's lost so much. Everywhere we find desertification, runoff, and drought, we have soil that's lost microscopic life and carbon. Most farmland these days needs increasing amounts of synthetic inputs to keep producing the same amount of food, and food grown without the natural carbon cycle has decreasing nutritional value. Soil carbon loss is a threat to world food security. GIF via Center for Food Safety/YouTube. 3. Things don't have to be this way. Soil can also absorb excess carbon that's in the atmosphere. The secret lies in something we learned about in elementary school: photosynthesis. We all know that plants pull in carbon from the atmosphere; what most of us don't know is that they also send a lot of it down through their roots into the soil. Soil microbes love carbon and take it from plants in exchange for nutrients. When the soil microbes die, the whole system gets messed up. But when we bring life back to the soil, plants return to sucking carbon out of the air and storing it in the ground, making for happy soil microbes, plants, and farmers. GIF via Center for Food Safety/YouTube. 4. Getting more carbon into soil not only combats climate change, it's good for the land. Nature is a total badass. When natural systems are intact, everything works right. Repopulating our carbon-loving microbe friends restores soil structure, which helps the soil hold and purify water (this explains the connection to desertification, drought, and runoff). Also, thriving soil helps plants pull in nutrients, making them healthier and more nutritious for humans to eat. Healthier plants also fend off insects without pesticides, and compost replaces synthetic fertilizer. When the carbon-microbe system is working, farmers save money on water, pesticides, and fertilizers. Boom. GIF via Center for Food Safety/YouTube. 5. The idea is getting an audience on the international stage. Soil and agriculture are entering the conversation and have the potential become breakthrough topics at COP21 in Paris, the international climate change meeting that wraps up on Dec. 11, 2015. The French government has proposed that other nations join it in increasing their soil carbon by 0.4%, which would translate to billions of tons of carbon drawn down from the atmosphere if applied worldwide. Many nations and organizations have already signed on to the proposal, marking a big step in the road to creating actionable steps for governments and farmers around the world. GIF via Center for Food Safety/YouTube. Soil, right? Boo-yah. Can we get a happy dance for soil microbes? GIF via MTV. What this means, in a nutshell, is that we have a major solution to climate change that doesn't require new or expensive technology that also has huge benefits for farmers and nature. Healthy soil is better for the water and food systems and is good business. The main thing we can do is spread the word. The more people who know about the importance of healthy soil, the more traction world leaders will have to support farmers in transitioning to methods that are better for the soil. Inspired? Empowered? Good. GIF via "The Big Lebowski." Watch “Soil Solutions to Climate Problems" here and learn more about why soil is so important to the climate debate. And if you're so compelled, consider signing this petition to continue our fight against climate change! Leah Menzies/TikTok ♬ iris - 🫶 "No the chills I got omggg." "This is the cutest thing I have watched." Laverne Cox in 2016. When kids are growing up they love to see themselves in the dolls and action figures. It adds a special little spark to a shopping trip when you hear your child say “it looks just like me.” The beaming smile and joy that exudes from their little faces in that moment is something parents cherish, and Mattel is one manufacturer that has been at the forefront of making that happen. It has created Barbies with freckles, afro puffs, wheelchairs, cochlear implants and more. The company has taken another step toward representation with its first transgender doll. Laverne Cox, openly transgender Emmy award winning actor and LGBTQ activist, is celebrating her 50th birthday May 29, and Mattel is honoring her with her very own Barbie doll. The doll designed to represent Cox is donned in a red ball gown with a silver bodysuit. It also has accessories like high heels and jewelry to complete the look. Cox told Today, “It’s been a dream for years to work with Barbie to create my own doll.” She continued, “I can’t wait for fans to find my doll on shelves and have the opportunity to add a Barbie doll modeled after a transgender person to their collection.” Keep Reading Show less Photo by Heather Mount on Unsplash Actions speak far louder than words.
Thanks to the hard work and quick action of the Brevard Zoo’s animal care team, 10-month-old white-nosed coatimundi Agave received a diagnosis and treatment plan following collapsing episodes. After a visit to a Dr. Borde last week, it was determined that Agave has a congenital heart defect, something that they will manage for the rest of her life. Agave is one of three young coati kits who arrived last year as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ White-Nosed Coati Species Survival Plan. In September 2021, during a routine exam, they noticed that Agave had a heart murmur. At this point, it was not appearing to affect her, so they continued to monitor her closely and routinely rechecked this condition. She did not show any signs of distress until March 7, when keepers found her collapsed in her Rainforest Revealed habitat. Agave was immediately taken to the zoo’s on-site hospital, where she was stabilized. The next day, she had another collapsing episode. After she recovered, they collected radiographs, bloodwork and urine and sent them to be evaluated. They suspected these episodes were related to cardiac issues and gave Agave medication to minimize her symptoms. Over the past week, Agave has stayed in her holding space for monitoring. To decrease her stress while in this environment, her roommates, Romi and Tito, stayed behind the scenes with her during this time. X-rays of Agave’s chest were sent to a radiologist, who did not see any significant findings. The next step was to schedule an appointment with a cardiologist to diagnose her condition so the Zoo could better manage it. Last month, a group of veterinary and animal care staff transported Agave to Animal Specialty & Emergency Center to meet with Dr. Davin Borde, a board-certified veterinary cardiologist. Dr. Borde performed an exam and ultrasound on Agave, who was anesthetized. Dr. Borde ultimately diagnosed our young coati with subaortic stenosis, a congenital heart defect. This means that her aorta (the large vessel that supplies blood to the body) is narrowed at the entrance, which prevents the normal outflow of blood and can cause heart failure. Because of this condition, it takes more effort for Agave’s heart to pump blood to her body, which is why a heart murmur could be heard. While genetic heart defect cannot be reversed or cured, it can be managed under human care. Unfortunately, it also means Agave is not expected to have a normal coati lifespan. Despite this diagnosis, the Brevard Zoo’s animal care team is committed to providing her with the best quality of life possible during her time with them. She will be on daily medications to help control her heart rate and rhythm and reduce fluid development in her lungs. Because they now have a treatment plan and know what to watch for, Agave has been medically cleared to return back to her habitat in Rainforest Revealed. Receiving these types of diagnoses is never easy, but the Brevard Zoo can rest assured knowing that they are providing the best possible care for Agave and the rest of the animals under their care.
How to Keep Your Kids Safe at the Pool A child enjoys the indoor swimming pool at the YMCA in Chester County while learning to swim at YMCA Swimming lessons. Two kids die from drowning every day. Drowning is the leading cause of death in children 1 to 4 years old, and the second leading cause of death in children 5 to 14 years old. Most drowning deaths are preventable, which is why teaching your child how to swim through swimming lessons is essential. The YMCA offers swimming lessons for all ages and abilities from infants to adults. Parents should have a conversation with their children about safety around water - even for children who are confident swimmers. Water does not discriminate - even Olympic swim meets have lifeguards. Below are some water safety tips to follow. 1. Never go swimming alone. Teach your children that they should only go swimming in locations where a lifeguard is on duty. 2. Supervise your children whenever they’re in or near water. Whether it is bath time or taking a dip in a pool or lake, make sure your children are within reach of you at all times. While enjoying a swim in a backyard pool or other non-lifeguarded bodies of water, have a conversation with other adults in attendance to ensure someone is always designated to watch the water. Never assume. While near or around bodies of water with a lifeguard, keep in mind that the lifeguards are trained to keep their eyes on the water and not the surrounding areas. 3. Don’t engage in breath-holding activities. Children shouldn’t hold their breath for a prolonged amount of time while swimming, as this can cause drowning and has several other severe physical side-effects. 4. Wear a Life Jacket. Inexperienced or non-swimmers should wear a Coast Guard-approved life jacket. Read our piece on Puddle Jumpers here. 5. Don’t jump in the water to save a friend who is struggling in deep water. If a child finds their friend in deep water unexpectedly, their natural reaction may be to jump in the water to try to save them. Even if a child is a great swimmer, a panicked person will overpower them, pulling them underwater with them. The YMCA’s Safety Around Water program teaches the “reach, throw, don’t go” concept of using a long object to reach for them and pull them to safety. By using this technique, children can help their friend without compromising their own safety. 6. Purchase neon or other bright colored swimsuits. Did you know the color of your swimsuit could help to save your life? Neon and other brightly colored (not blue) swimsuits are more visible under the water helping lifeguards and others identify people in the water - especially in rough, moving or splashing water. 7. Enroll your children in water safety or swimming lessons. Just like teaching your children to look both ways before they cross the street, having them participate in formal water safety or swimming lessons teaches them an important life skill - how to swim. Learn more about programs offered by the Y to ensure your family always stays safe around water.
• opening hours • call us SQUINT(Crossed Eyes) What is SQUINT ? Normally both of our eyes are perfectly aligned and move in tandem with each other in all directions of viewing. When one or both eyes do not move synchronously , are turned inwards or turned outwards , is called Squint. What are the causes of Squint ? Could be congenital , by birth. Could be refractive , due to a high plus or minus number. Could be due to paralysis of one or more muscles that move our eyes. What are the two most important things to be kept in mind in cases of squint ? Refractive error ( Spectacle number ). Visual acuity . Both of these things are difficult to check and determine in very young children. What is Pseudo-Squint ? In very young children the eyes may appear squinty due to the broad nasal bridge. This squint is not real but only appears to be so. This disappears at the child grows up. What is the medical treatment of squint ? Every child of squint needs to be checked for spectacle number and for vision. This may be difficult to do in very young children and needs a very persistent approach by the eye surgeon by teaming up with the parents to take care of the child. Glasses if required need to be worn by the child. Vision stimulation therapy , both active and passive needs to be carried out. Many patients improve with this treatment alone. This needs to be continued until the doctor feels that delaying any further may severly jeopardise the visual development of the child . Then a decison is taken to treat the squint surgically. What is surgical treatment of squint ? Many squints can be treated quite adequately with surgery. During surgery , the surgeon may weaken or strengthen the muscles that move our eyeball. If vision of both eyes is good (with or without glasses) , there is a very good chance of near normal correction. If vision of one or both eyes is weak , the correction may not be perfect but still a lot of improvement is possible. More than one surgery may be required for surgical correction of squint. Glasses if required , must be continued even after squint surgery . In cases of lazy eye , vision stimulating exercises are advised for improvement of vision. Can all squints be treated perfectly with surgery ? It is much harder to treat squints caused due to paralysis of one or more muscles that move the eyeball or in cases where there is abnormal innervation of the muscles. In such cases , often our goal in such cases is to correct the abnormal head position associated with this squint. At what age should surgery be carried out for squint ? Surgical correction for squint should preferably be carried out by the time the children start going to school or even earlier. Delaying it any further may cause irrepairable visual problems.
The Mountain Laurel The Journal of Mountain Life Visit us on FaceBookGenerations of Memories from the Heart of the Blue Ridge The Captivity of Jennie Wiley By Susan M. Thigpen © 1996 Issue: Spring, 1996 The beginning of this story takes place in what is now Bland County, Virginia in the area of Walker's Mountain and Walker's Creek, in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. At the time, there was still a lot of Indian activity in the frontier mountainous region of Bland County. It concerns the family of Thomas Wiley and his wife, Jennie Sellard Wiley. Thomas and Jennie Wiley settled on a piece of land on Walker's Creek and built a cabin and began their family. They must have been brave individuals to have settled in such an uninhabited land with Indian attacks occurring with some regularity. The Shawnee Indians were particularly disgruntled with the Wiley's neighbor, Mathias Harman, and attacked the Wiley place, thinking it belonged to Harman. The raiding party of Indians were composed of Shawnees, Cherokees, Wyandots and Delawares. By the time Harman and Thomas Wiley got to the Wiley homeplace, Jennie's teenaged brother and three children had been killed and Mrs. Wiley, along with her fifteen month old child were kidnapped. The raiding party with Mrs. Wiley and child were pressed to travel swiftly across Brushy Mountain and Wolfe Creek to the Bluestone River. They took little time to eat and even less to rest, fearing they were followed by avenging white men. The next day the group including Mrs. Wiley crossed the Great Flat Top Mountain and headed for the Guyandotte and Tug Rivers, in the direction of present day Ohio. The Indians didn't even take time to hunt for fresh meat for meals but ate dried deer meat jerky and parched corn. Imagine the weariness Jennie Wiley must have felt. She had been climbing through laurel thickets, over rocks cliffs, through swamps and creeks with a 15 month old child in her arms. The baby had probably cried constantly because of the conditions. The Cherokee Indians were in favor of killing Mrs. Wiley and her child, but one of the Shawnee Indians claimed the right to keep them for himself. The next day a bear was killed and fresh meat and bear grease were eaten by the Indians and Mrs. Wiley. It rained most of the next day. She lived in constant fear that if she could not keep up with the strong Indian braves, that they would kill her child to make traveling easier. The next day, Mrs. Wiley dropped behind the Indians and at one point, and ran back the way they had come, up the river. The Indians quickly overtook Mrs. Wiley and did what she feared most - the Cherokee seized her child by the feet and hit its head against a big tree. He scalped it and pushed Mrs. Wiley back into the stream to continue the journey. All this time, the Indian group were being followed by Mathias Harman, but soon, the white men tracing the raiding party gave up the search in a swampy area, and returned to Bland County. Among this search party were Absalom Lusk, Henry and James Skaggs, Adam and Henry Harman. Thomas Wiley did not go with them, as Harman selected ten of the most experienced Indian fighters to go with him. Hindered by the high water and heavily burdened pack horses, the search party proceeded too slowly to catch up with the Indians. That night the Indians reached the Tug River and realized it was too swollen with rain water to cross any way except for swimming. They were afraid the white men were hot on their heels and felt they had to get the distance of the river between them. Two Indians got on either side of Jennie Wiley and forced her into the water and began swimming with her between them. The water was swift and she feared she would drown, but they finally made it to the other side. After this they trudged on to the Louisa River. By the ninth day of Jennie's captivity they had reached the Ohio River, which was so swollen that they back tracked the Little Sandy River to find a crossing point. Here, Jennie Wiley, pregnant, delivered a premature baby. She thought herself close to death, but both she and the baby survived. The Indians brought her meat and built a fire near her, but knowing she had little chance to escape, did not watch her closely. The Indians spent the winter in a camp at the mouth of Cherokee Creek and allowed Jennie to live alone with her child in a rock house. When the weather became warmer, in about three months, the Indians decided to give the baby a "test." They tied it to a piece of bark and set it adrift in the cold water of the creek. It began to cry and its mother rushed out to retrieve it. The Indians took the crying to be a bad sign and killed the baby. Mrs. Wiley was permitted to bury the child, a son, in a corner of the rock house. Time passed and the Indians still traveled and camped, but there seemed no urgency of the Indians to press on to a destination. One day in the fall, they were joined by another party of Indians who had a captive white man with them. Mrs. Wiley was not allowed to go near him. The Indians seemed blood thirsty and frantic and soon tortured and killed the white man. They made Mrs. Wiley stay secluded away from all this. The new Indians treated her with disgust, and she doubted that she would remain alive long. She was traded to another Indian who wanted to take her back to his village to teach his wives to write and weave cloth. During this night, Jennie Wiley came to a decision. She had a dream that indicated she should go and find a white settlement, a fort. The next morning, the Cherokee who had bought her told her he was going to the Big Mudlick Creek to hunt, and the whole band of Indians left camp. In spite of a heavy blowing rain (remember it was late in fall of the year), she saw an opportunity and took it. She took a tomahawk and a knife and quickly made her way up the river toward home. She waded back up the rivers, slowly, and though exhausted by this harsh travel, she proceeded on. After wading in the swift rivers for close to two days, she heard the sound of voices and dragged herself up the bank and saw women and children on the other side of the river. She called out but it alarmed the people and they withdrew inside the fort and closed the gates. She continued to call, shouting her name and saying that she had escaped from the Indians and feared they would soon be after her. Finally an old man came out of the fort and she recognized him as Henry Skaggs. He helped her to cross the river and enter the fort. As they entered the fort, they heard Indians yelling from the thickets. The Cherokee who had bought her came out into the open and asked why she had left him. Skaggs fired his riffle although he knew the range was too great to hit any of the Indians. But the sound of the shot was enough to make the Indians retreat. Later that winter, a party led by Mathias Harman took Jennie back to her Virginia settlement on Walker's Creek. The party was attacked several times by Indians, but was successful in their journey. Mrs. Wiley was in captivity for about eleven months. In the years to follow, Thomas and Jennie Wiley moved to Kentucky and settled on Big Sandy River, about fifteen miles from the settlement where she found refuge after her escape. Today there is a state sponsored Jennie Wiley Trail between Prestonsburg and Pikeville, Kentucky. This country was settled at a terrible price from early frontiersmen and women such as Jennie Wiley.
Swai Fish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus Last updated: March 14, 2022 Verified by: AZ Animals Staff Image Credit Tatiana Belova/Shutterstock.com The edges of an iridescent shark's fins have a signature glow Swai Fish Scientific Classification Scientific Name Pangasianodon hypophthalmus Read our Complete Guide to Classification of Animals. Swai Fish Conservation Status Swai Fish Locations Swai Fish Locations Swai Fish Facts Crustaceans, small fish, and plants Group Behavior • School Fun Fact The edges of an iridescent shark's fins have a signature glow Biggest Threat Most Distinctive Feature Shark-style dorsal fin Other Name(s) Tra fish, iridescent shark, pangasius Common Name Iridescent shark Number Of Species Swai Fish Physical Characteristics • Silver • Beige Skin Type 50 - 100 lbs 2-4 ft View all of the Swai Fish images! Swai fish, also commonly known as iridescent sharks, are a type of shark catfish that are native to Vietnam. These omnivorous bottom feeders live in the Mekong river and migrate upstream when the water levels rise in the late summer. When left to their own devices, iridescent sharks can get as big as 100 pounds. Commercial farmers frequently breed large quantities of swai to sell as a popular replacement for catfish meat. You can also find small iridescent sharks that have been stunted in growth to serve as aquarium pets. 3 Incredible Swai Fish Facts! • Glowing fins: The iridescent shark’s name comes from the edges of its fins, which have a shimmery glow that is visible even in the dark. • Endless appetite: Swai are known for eating nearly any kind of food they come across. Plants, crustaceans, and smaller fish are no match for the iridescent shark’s omnivorous appetite. • Sharkfin style: Swai are a type of pangasius, or shark catfish. Although they’re not actually sharks, these catfish all feature a dorsal fin and a silvery, shark-like appearance. Swai Fish Classification and Scientific Name The scientific name for swai fish is Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. In Vietnam, they are often referred to as tra fish; they may also be mistaken for the related basa, or Pangasius bocourti. When they’re not being sold as livestock, these silver creatures are frequently called iridescent sharks for their glowing fins and shark-like appearance. Iridescent sharks belong to the Actinopterygii class and Pangasiidae family of shark catfish. They are related to American catfish, but they are distinguished by their shark-like dorsal fins. In reference to their scientific name, shark catfish are also frequently called pangasius by members of the research community. Swai Fish Appearance Iridescent sharks are a type of Asian catfish with silver scales, beige skin, and small whiskers. Like other shark catfish, pangasius have a small dorsal fin on the top of their bodies. The edges of a pangasius’ fins glow faintly underwater, making them a popular choice for aquariums. Young iridescent sharks can grow to be anywhere from 1 to 4 feet long and typically weigh between 50 to 100 pounds. The largest ever recorded swai fish weight 44 kilograms, or about 97 pounds. The growth of a pangasius can be stunted by diet or a confined space, which is why iridescent sharks that live in aquariums are usually so much smaller than their wild or commercially-grown counterparts. Articles Mentioning Swai Fish See all of our entertaining and insightful animal articles. Swai fish in aquarium Swai Fish Distribution, Population, and Habitat Iridescent sharks are native to Asia and are most commonly found within the country of Vietnam. Most wild pangasius lives in the Mekong river, where they swim upstream from the Maeklong basin. Some pangasius also swims downstream into the Chao Phraya. Pangasius are freshwater fish and are popularly farmed in ponds, rice paddies, and similar structures. Nearly all commercially sold iridescent sharks are bred as livestock; you shouldn’t expect to purchase a wild pangasius at a normal market. Although population numbers are not available, iridescent sharks are considered to be endangered in their natural habitats. Swai Fish Predators and Prey Iridescent sharks are omnivorous animals that feed on crustaceans, algae, bugs, and other small fish. A swai will eat nearly anything it can catch as it grows to its full size of 100 pounds. When they are farmed commercially, pangasius is typically fed a diet that consists of barley, oats, and other types of grain. Pangasius has no natural means of self-defense, making them a popular target for all predatory animals in their native region, including birds, mammals, and other large fish. Human fishermen are one of the primary threats to iridescent sharks, and overfishing is likely responsible for their current status of endangered. Swai Fish Reproduction and Lifespan Iridescent sharks are egg-laying creatures that live in large clusters. Like other types of catfish, pangasius breed in a migratory pattern that involves swimming upstream to a breeding ground during the late summer months. Due to their wild nature, iridescent sharks are particularly difficult to breed in captivity. Pangasius farmers tend to keep the fish in large ponds with many other members of the same species to ensure adequate breeding conditions. Due to the lack of research on this particular type of fish, it is unknown how long a swai might live in the wild. In captivity, a well-loved iridescent shark might manage to have a lifespan as long as twenty years. Swai Fish in Fishing and Cooking Although iridescent sharks are found naturally in the rivers of Vietnam, most commercial swai production takes place in controlled farming environments. Large groups of pangasius are kept in ponds, rice fields, and other watery areas until they are big enough to harvest for consumption. In cooking, swai meat is used as a popular replacement for American catfish. The taste is described as sweet and significantly milder than their catfish cousins. Swai is known to have a tougher texture and slightly blander taste than basa, another shark catfish that is found in the same region. Swai meat is a good source of nutrition with plenty of protein and vitamin B12. Unless you live in Vietnam, you are most likely to find pangasius meat in the frozen section, where it can stay fresh and delicious for up to a year at a time. Frozen pangasius meat can be baked, broiled, or fried to achieve the best taste. Just remember to thaw your frozen fish out before you cook it to prevent too much moisture from entering the dish. View all 180 animals that start with S About the Author Swai Fish FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Where is swai fish found? Wild iridescent sharks are found throughout Asia, but they are considered native to the Mekong River in Vietnam. Commercial pangasius is typically kept in ponds and other types of local fish farms. What is swai fish? The iridescent shark is a type of catfish native to Vietnam. Swai meat is often sold as a popular replacement to American catfish or the slightly more expensive basa fish. Is swai fish high in mercury? Iridescent sharks have a relatively low mercury content. A study of commercially available pangasius only found a mercury content of 2 parts per billion. Is swai fish banned? As long as they are labeled correctly, iridescent sharks are not banned for sale or consumption anywhere in the first world. However, it is illegal to market pangasius as catfish in the United States. Is swai fish safe to eat? Swai meat is considered safe to eat and is a popular protein choice in many markets. However, be aware that any aquatic meat may be subject to questionable farming practices and should be purchased with consumer discretion. Is swai fish healthy? Swai meat is a relatively healthy protein choice for most diets. Pangasius meat contains high amounts of selenium, niacin, and vitamin B12. Swai fish vs. Basa fish Swai and basa are both types of shark catfish that are native to Vietnam. Basas, also known as Pangasius bocourti, are rarer than swai; they are also larger and typically have softer and more tender meat. Swai is often mislabeled as bocourti in some markets. Are Swai Fish herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores? Swai Fish are Omnivores, meaning they eat both plants and other animals. What Kingdom do Swai Fish belong to? Swai Fish belong to the Kingdom Animalia. What phylum do Swai Fish belong to? Swai Fish belong to phylum Chordata. What class do Swai Fish belong to? Swai Fish belong to the class Actinopterygii. What family do Swai Fish belong to? Swai Fish belong to the family Pangasiidae. What order to Swai Fish belong to? Swai Fish belong to order Siluriformes. What type of covering do Swai Fish have? Swai Fish are covered in Scales. What is the scientific name for the Swai Fish? The scientific name for the Swai Fish is Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. How many species of Swai Fish are there? There is 1 species of Swai Fish. What is another name for the Swai Fish? The Swai Fish is also called the tra fish, iridescent shark, or pangasius. How do Swai Fish have babies? Swai Fish lay eggs. What's the difference between swai and catfish? There are many differences between swai and catfish, including their sizes and locations. Swai are larger than some types of catfish and are only found in Asia, while catfish are found around the world. 1. VASEP, Available here: http://mseafood.vasep.com.vn/panga/724_10857/what-are-biology-characteristics-of-tra-and-basa-fish.htm 2. Seafood Handbook, Available here: https://www.seafoodsource.com/seafood-handbook/finfish/basaswai 3. Fishbase, Available here: http://www.fishbase.us/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=14154&AT=swai 4. Fish Laboratory, Available here: https://www.fishlaboratory.com/fish/swai-fish 5. National Library of Medicine, Available here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25198598/ Newly Added Animals A Psittacosaurus These parrot-headed dinosaurs had beaks and feather-like quills on their tails! Most Recently Updated Animals A Leatherback Sea Turtle Leatherback Sea Turtle They are the largest living turtle and the only sea turtle without a hard shell! A Sea Turtle Sea Turtle Always return to the same beach to lay eggs!
Zhuangzi (莊子) Zhuang Zhou (莊周) 玄門十子圖莊子.jpg Bornc. 369 BC Diedc. 286 BC (aged c. 82 – 83) EraAncient philosophy RegionChinese philosophy Philosophical skepticism Zhuangzi (Chinese characters).svg Traditional Chinese莊子 Simplified Chinese庄子 Hanyu PinyinZhuāngzǐ Literal meaning"Master Zhuang" Zhuang Zhou Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Hanyu PinyinZhuāng Zhōu Zhuang Zhou (/uˈɑːŋ ˈ/),[1] commonly known as Zhuangzi (/ˈʒwæŋˈz/;[2] Chinese: 莊子; literally "Master Zhuang"; also rendered as Chuang Tzu),[a] was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC during the Warring States period, a period corresponding to the summit of Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of the foundational texts of Taoism. See also: Zhuangzi (book) § History The only account of the life of Zhuangzi is a brief sketch in chapter 63 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian,[4] and most of the information it contains seems to have simply been drawn from anecdotes in the Zhuangzi itself.[5] In Sima's biography, he is described as a minor official from the town of Meng (in modern Anhui) in the state of Song, living in the time of King Hui of Liang and King Xuan of Qi (late 4th century BC).[6] Sima Qian writes that Chuang-Tze was especially influenced by Lao-Tze, and that he turned down a job offer from King Wei of Chu, because he valued his personal freedom.[7] The validity of his existence has been questioned by Russell Kirkland, who asserts that "there is no reliable historical data at all" for Chuang Chou/Zhuangzi, and that "the Chuang-tzu known to us today" is better attributed to its "commentator", the third-century writer Kuo Hsiang.[8] Main article: Zhuangzi (book) Zhuangzi is traditionally credited as the author of at least part of the work bearing his name, the Zhuangzi. This work, in its current shape consisting of 33 chapters, is traditionally divided into three parts: the first, known as the "Inner Chapters", consists of the first seven chapters; the second, known as the "Outer Chapters", consist of the next 15 chapters; the last, known as the "Mixed Chapters", consist of the remaining 11 chapters. The meaning of these three names is disputed: according to Guo Xiang, the "Inner Chapters" were written by Zhuangzi, the "Outer Chapters" written by his disciples, and the "Mixed Chapters" by other hands; the other interpretation is that the names refer to the origin of the titles of the chapters—the "Inner Chapters" take their titles from phrases inside the chapter, the "Outer Chapters" from the opening words of the chapters, and the "Mixed Chapters" from a mixture of these two sources.[9] Further study of the text does not provide a clear choice between these alternatives. On the one side, as Martin Palmer points out in the introduction to his translation, two of the three chapters Sima Qian cited in his biography of Zhuangzi, come from the "Outer Chapters" and the third from the "Mixed Chapters". "Neither of these are allowed as authentic Chuang Tzu chapters by certain purists, yet they breathe the very spirit of Chuang Tzu just as much as, for example, the famous 'butterfly passage' of chapter 2."[10] On the other hand, chapter 33 has been often considered as intrusive, being a survey of the major movements during the "Hundred Schools of Thought" with an emphasis on the philosophy of Hui Shi. Further, A.C. Graham and other critics have subjected the text to a stylistic analysis and identified four strains of thought in the book: a) the ideas of Zhuangzi or his disciples; b) a "primitivist" strain of thinking similar to Laozi in chapters 8-10 and the first half of chapter 11; c) a strain very strongly represented in chapters 28-31 which is attributed to the philosophy of Yang Chu; and d) a fourth strain which may be related to the philosophical school of Huang-Lao.[11] In this spirit, Martin Palmer wrote that "trying to read Chuang Tzu sequentially is a mistake. The text is a collection, not a developing argument."[12] Zhuangzi was renowned for his brilliant wordplay and use of parables to convey messages. His critiques of Confucian society and historical figures are humorous and at times ironic. Zhuangzi has influenced thinking far beyond East Asia. The German philosopher Martin Buber translated his texts in 1910. In 1930, Martin Heidegger asked for Buber's translation of Zhuangzi after his Bremen speech "On the Essence of Truth".[13] In order to explain his own philosophy, Heidegger read from chapter 17, where Zhuangzi says to the thinker Hui Shih: "Do you see how the fish are coming to the surface and swimming around as they please? That's what fish really enjoy." "You're not a fish," replied Hui Tzu, "so how can you say you know what fish really enjoy?" Zhuangzi said: "You are not me, so how can you know I don't know what fish enjoy." The historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud concludes: "It may therefore be difficult to say where the philosophies of Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi end and where the most influential German thinking of the twentieth century starts [...]"[14] Biological evolution In a passage in his writings, Zhuangzi described the transmutation of species.[15][16] The 20th century Chinese philosopher and essayist Hu Shih considered Zhuangzi a Chinese forerunner of evolution.[15] See also 1. ^ Other romanizations include Zhuang Tze, Chuang Tsu, Chuang-tzu (/ˈwɑːŋˈdzʌ/),[3] Chouang-Dsi, Chuang Tse, and Chuangtze. 1. ^ "Zhou". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. 2. ^ "Zhuangzi". Collins English Dictionary. 3. ^ "Chuang-tzu". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. 4. ^ "Daoism Series 23: 荘子 Zhuang Zi". Purple Cloud. 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2020-11-24. 6. ^ Ziporyn (2009), p. vii. 7. ^ Horne (1917), pp. 397–398. 8. ^ Kirkland (2004), pp. 33–34. 9. ^ Roth (1993), pp. 56–57. 10. ^ Palmer (1996), p. xix. 11. ^ Schwartz (1985), p. 216. 12. ^ Palmer (1996), p. x. 13. ^ jhiblog (2017-02-15). "Global History of Ideas: A Sea for Fish on Dry Land". JHI Blog. Retrieved 2019-06-20. 14. ^ Herbjørnsrud, Dag (2019-05-10). "Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method". Global Intellectual History. 6 (5): 614–640. doi:10.1080/23801883.2019.1616310. ISSN 2380-1883. S2CID 166543159. 15. ^ a b Shen, Tsing Song. (2015). Evolutionism through Chinese Eyes: Yan Fu, Ma Junwu and their Translations of Darwinian Evolutionism. ASIANetwork Exchange. 22 (1): 49–60. 16. ^ Watson, Burton. (1968). The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 195-196. Chinese Wikisource has original text related to this article: Zhuangzi
Top 5 Reasons Why Electric Cars Are The Future of Mobility In today’s digital age, electric vehicles are more popular and widely accepted compared to any other variants. The automobile industry is undergoing an inevitable change, which reflects an increase in purchasing of electric scooterselectric trikes and other electric cars. As electric cars pose an extremely appealing choice, especially in our existing circumstances and the people surrounding us. The benefits of EVs have been globally noticed and people are more into purchasing electric vehicles to make continuous progress in related sectors. So, the future of mobility is under a great challenge, and consumers are expected to play a major role in moving to electric fleet vehicles. Therefore, consumers are currently more interested in purchasing a superb electric bike to enjoy riding at affordable charges. Let’s dive into reasons why electric vehicles are the future of mobility – 1. Low Maintenance Cost The cost of ownership is enormously important for the owners of electric trikes, as most vehicles are currently purchased on loans. To daily run an electric vehicle on road, car owners won’t incur many expenses as regular petrol vehicles. The average maintenance costs of an electric car are also extremely cheaper as it only requires affordable maintenance to ensure its performance. 1. Smooth Driving Experience A high-tech electric vehicle is meant to offer a smooth and comfortable driving experience as compared to regular cars. The suspension of an electric vehicle is enough sturdy to carry the weight of the batteries and can offer comfortable rides without any alarming noise. The only noise it will make is a whizzing sound, so its riders can enjoy comforts inside the cabin. You can even charge an electric vehicle via regenerative braking. 1. Changeable Batteries Tech This latest technology will enable electric car owners to exchange their discharged batteries at a nearby charging station. While this tech is presently not used widely, although it's expected to progress gradually in the near future. As this technology will advance, electric scooters will be accepted as a common mode of transportation. 1. Zero Emissions To protect our existing environment and overcome pollution-related challenges, electric vehicles are going to gain more popularity as it renders zero-emission compared to regular vehicles. As EVs don’t produce any emissions will assist to reduce carbon dioxide and the presence of other harmful greenhouse gases in the environment. A top-notch EV has diverse benefits to offer its owners, and also it won’t need any expensive maintenance. 1. Higher Resale Value To be specific, electric vehicles are comparatively easy to maintain and eventually don't require an expensive replacement. In addition to offering smooth transmission and a comfortable driving experience, an electric car is also expected to offer a very good resale value to its owner. And also, electric trikes are enormously appealing to consumers who are enthusiastic to switch to green mobility. Let’s hope you’ve now understood why electric vehicles are the future of mobility. Now that you are eager to shop for highly-performing electric vehicles at great warranties, your search will surely meet here at Electric WhisperingOur dynamic team is committed to ensuring quick response and excellent customer care services with each inquiry. To know more about our wide range of electric vehicles, you can give us a call at 888-783-9503 today! Leave a comment Please note, comments must be approved before they are published
cradle to cradle The twenty first century will be defined by great changes in Earth’s climate and biosphere. A temperature rise of even 2°C will change both the natural world and human civilization greatly, and both must be taken into account. As is already demonstrated in places like Dhaka, rising sea levels will have a profound effect by displacing large populations of humans. Desertification and agricultural failure will starve billions. There is no question that such a disaster will cull the prospective 9 Billion human population dramatically. What will most likely happen is a kind existential awakening for the human species as a whole. Such disasters will lead us to have to face the crises as a unified whole, and will impact human civilization greatly and will alter our collective consciousness significantly . We shall realize that earth truly does have physical, biological and ecological limits. We will come out of the crisis badly shaken, but stronger. We will become a species that willingly embraces the natural world. We will work hard to be stewards of the environment, engaging in projects to return it to its pre-human-civilization state in many ways. This will be an economic necessity, in making areas livable and productive again, but it will also be deeply ingrained in our culture. Instead of working to become “less bad” for the environment, we shall actually become “more good”. We will design our systems, our products, our cities, to actually engage with the natural cycles of the world. Imagine a world where our disposed candy wrappers actually nourish a local ecosystem. Our systems of production will actually mimic natural cycles, and in fact be an almost natural part of the world. Humanity’s systems will be designed and evolve to function as compatible with earth’s finely tuned systems of energy. Humanity will be forced to return large swaths of land to pristine nature, and civilization will not be the sprawling endeavour it once was. Smart growth will define the world, people will live in cities and other relatively compact areas designated for human habitation. This will be a legal imperative. These areas will be centred in areas of high elevation, with access to abundant fresh water. Everywhere else, we will be reintroducing pristine ecosystems. Imagine the plains of North America once again being populated by Bison and other megafauna like elephants, the latter our ancestors wiped when they first arrived here 10 000 years ago, and the former only about 100 years ago. After realizing our place in the world by seeing the aftermath of the pollution that sent it over the edge (plastics in the ocean, dangerous chemicals in the atmosphere, extinction of species and desertification of land), Humanity will lose its parasitic nature and have a mutually beneficial relationship with its home planet.
What is an API and How Do They Work in the Hotel Industry? By Hotel Tech Report Last updated January 26, 2022 4 min read image description Really, another acronym? You might feel as if your mind is already boggled by all the hotel industry terminology that you’re expected to know, but we have some good news about APIs. You likely already use APIs on a regular basis, and APIs can play a big part in making your hotel’s technology work seamlessly. By developing a deeper understanding of what an API is, you can better understand the systems at work in your hotel and make more informed technology decisions. And when your technology works effectively (and economically!), your hotel can benefit from more efficient employees and happier guests. In this article, we’ll break down what is an API, describe some API examples, and show how you can incorporate APIs into your hotel’s daily operations. If you’ve been in the industry for a while - or even a technology user in general - you have probably noticed the huge shift away from analog systems and toward software. APIs are at the core of how the software “revolution” is possible. We can explain the rise of software through economist Adam Smith’s theory of specialization. In economics, he explains that instead of every country producing all the goods they need, each country can produce only what they’re best at and trade with other countries to get the things they’re missing. This system decreases production costs and creates economies of scale. Thinking about software again, APIs enable software companies to become specialized, that is, only building software that has a specific purpose. A network of systems that each provide specific services can work together seamlessly thanks to APIs that act as translators and messages between them. What is an API? The acronym “API” stands for application programming interface, although for most hoteliers it might as well be gibberish. Don’t stress though, because the concept is actually quite simple. In the early days of software, systems were server based which meant that they rarely (if ever) spoke with each other. Think about that first Mac in your house before the internet - it was very much a lonely island. As processing power advanced and internet speeds increased exponentially, software became easier to develop and more accessible. As the world shifted from a myriad of lonely server based systems to an ecosystem of hyper connected platforms, there became a need to enable seamless communications amongst those systems - enter the API. Ok, let’s use a hotel analogy to better understand the concept. Imagine you’re sitting at a table in your hotel’s restaurant. The kitchen is the part of the “system” that will prepare your order. What’s missing is the critical link to communicate your order to the kitchen and deliver your food back to your table. That’s where the waiter (or API) comes in. The waiter is the messenger – or API – that takes your request and tells the kitchen – the system – what to do. Then the waiter delivers the response back to you; in this case, it’s your food. APIs are effectively messengers of data between applications. Every time you book a flight on Expedia you are using an API that delivers pricing and availability from the respective airline’s database onto Expedia’s website. That same dynamic now happens between hotel software and hardware systems. API Examples in the Hotel Industry Now that we’ve established that APIs serve as links between two systems, you might have an idea of why they’re so important in the hotel industry. In order for a hotel’s systems to provide value, they need to be able to communicate with each other - and with external players like online travel agencies. What do APIs look like in a hotel environment? Let’s dive into some API examples. • Connecting an RMS to a PMS • In order for revenue management systems to deliver valid and relevant pricing recommendations, they need information from the hotel’s property management system, like occupancy numbers. • Some property management systems, like protel, have developed seamless integrations with specific revenue management systems, which are possible with APIs. Protel, for instance, uses an API to integrate with Atomize, which receives a 24/7 feed of data from protel to deliver insightful pricing recommendations. The API converts the stream of occupancy and rate information from protel into data that Atomize can use in its rate and market analysis algorithms. • Connecting a PMS to upsell software • Is speaking with your front desk staff still the only way for guests to upgrade their room? With an upselling software that connects to your PMS, guests can purchase room upgrades or add-ons without the need for staff assistance. • If your upsell software didn’t communicate with your PMS, front desk agents would need to manually enter every modified reservation. Thanks to an API, the “interconnectedness” of the two systems can lead to more efficient operations. • Protel offers an integration with upselling platform Oaky, so hotels that use protel’s PMS can also benefit from the upselling services that Oaky provides without disrupting current front office operations. • Connecting business intelligence software to a PMS • Your hotel produces so much data on a daily basis that it can be hard to make sense of it. A business intelligence tool can synthesize data from the front office, your F&B outlets, and even competitor hotel performance to deliver valuable insight into your strategy. Was your marketing campaign successful? Do you need to add another cocktail server to your bar staff? BI software can answer many data-related questions about your hotel operations. • However, a BI tool is worthless without a reliable feed of data from your PMS or any other systems that provide operational data. BI software uses APIs to connect to your hotel’s other systems in real-time. • A BI tool like OTA Insight’s Rate Insight offers a seamless integration with protel, which is made possible through an API. Rate Insight receives a steady stream of PMS information from protel so that it can analyze trends and provide recommendations. By now we hope you can appreciate how API isn’t just another acronym. APIs make technology more user-friendly and efficient, and they’ve made a world of innovation possible in the hotel software industry. If your hotel’s technology solutions don’t have open APIs yet - which allow complementary systems to integrate - then we recommend opening a conversation with your software vendor to explore options for building an API in the future. If your systems do have APIs, then we encourage you to work with your vendors to leverage their technology most effectively and maximize the value that your hotel receives. Interested in switching to a system that offers a broad catalog of integrations? Check out protel’s partner marketplace to see examples of how APIs connect their hotel technology ecosystem.
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Rebbe Mamer # 23 Breishis Bara 5738 The Torah could have begun from the first Mitzvah of sanctifying the Moon and making the calendar, because that Mitzvah represents the ultimate Union of the sun and the Moon, which is also the union of the infinite light and the finite light, which is the entire purpose of the Torah. 2. The entire purpose of Torah and Mitzvos is to draw down a new level of infinity into the finite. 3. When we are aware that the entire darkness is only that we should manifest the light, and we make an infinite resolution to do so, the ability to overcome our fear of criticism is realized. 4. The entire goal of the darkness is that we should be able to find God every single detail. 5. An example to this is like a father who hides, wishing that his son should find him. 6. Torah has promised: when you seek from the darkness you shall find. 7. We will transform the entire world into God’s dwelling! 8. Eventually in the coming of Moshiach, the entire world, together will serve God. 9. Every Motzai Shabbos / as in Saturday night, we say “and Yaakov went on his way” or “Fear not my servant Jacob” for when Jacob goes to do his work in the world, as he is certain that God will assist his mission, he goes fearlessly – and this is the mission at the conclusion of Simchas Torah. 10. And the reason for this confidence is because wherever a Jew goes, and whatever he does, whichever land it is, whatever day it is, God, His personal God, goes with him! 11. To the extent that a Jew creates, as a partner with God, a renewal in creation! 12. To the extent that he causes the complete Messianic Redemption! Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
1. Products 2. Precious Metals Recovery 3. Technological Data Precious Metals Recovery Technological Data Precious metals recovered and refined from scraps in the electronic, electric, petrochemical industries are recycled. Recovery and refinement methods for precious metals It is classified as below by its recovery pathway and feature that the Recycling method of Precious Metal, and we get highly purified precious metal by selecting the best proper method for the condition of the objects. Electrochemical purification method is divided into two methods of ElectroPurification and Electrowinning method, and ElectroPurification is used in general. In electrorefining, a low purity metal plate is made into an Anode(+) and a insoluble electrode or high purity metal is used as a Cathode(-). Over time, the low purity Anode melts and a high purity metal is educted on the Cathode. In electrowinning, low purity metal ion is dissolved in a electrolysis solution that is linked with insoluble electrodes Annode(+) and Cathode(-). Over time, the metal ion in the solution decreases and is educted on the Cathode.
ritalin and other drugs What Happens When You Mix Ritalin and Other Drugs? For many people, drugs like Ritalin and Adderall are the perfect study aid and there is usually a large market on college campuses for these drugs. These pills can fetch $10-$15 apiece, especially during midterms and finals. What is Ritalin? Ritalin is a drug designed to alter the production of certain chemicals in your brain, and taking it recreationally when you do not require it can be extremely dangerous (especially when they are mixed with other substances.) Ritalin is a stimulant prescribed for ADHD and narcolepsy and it works by altering the production of certain chemicals to cut down on impulsive behaviors and increase focus in people who require it. Altering your brain when not needed is unhealthy and can cause serious health issues, especially following prolonged abuse. These types of medications are prescribed by psychiatrists who are familiar with how Ritalin or other prescriptions affect the brain. Because drugs like Ritalin target the reward centers in the brain and produce a sensation of euphoria, it is easy to develop an addiction. This addiction can then affect the brain’s production of certain chemicals like dopamine and norepinephrine which regulate the pleasure centers, motor skills and attention span. And, being that any changes in the brain’s production of these chemicals can impair functioning, long-term problems can develop when Ritalin is stopped. Dangers of Mixing Ritalin and Other Drugs When someone is mixing Ritalin and other drugs, the effects are both magnified and hidden. Being able to drink large quantities of alcohol is an added “benefit” of stimulant abuse, and users typically consume far more than they normally would. Alcohol changes the manner in which the brain processes the Ritalin and mixing it with other substances can cause unexpected results many of which are quite unwanted, like a heart attack, a stroke or death. Being that it can mask the effects of alcohol, a person mixing Ritalin and other drugs will not feel the effects of alcohol until it becomes too much, and they pass out, hopefully somewhere they can be monitored, at least by a friend. Oddly enough one of the most dangerous substances to mix with Ritalin is perfectly legal and extremely common and sold in bars everywhere — caffeine. Anything with lots of caffeine like chocolate, sodas, and coffee should be avoided at all costs. When these types of legal snacks can cause complications, other stimulants like ecstasy, methamphetamines, or cocaine can cause fatal interactions. Abusing someone else’s Ritalin and mixing it with other drugs like methamphetamine, cocaine, or ecstasy can increase the risk of anxiety and panic attacks. It can also increase the risk of other problems associated with stimulant use, such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems and even substance-induced psychosis. Ritalin abuse has been shown to cause kidney damage, liver disease, renal failure, tics, glaucoma, seizure disorders, psychiatric disorders, panic disorders, and more. Drug Detox in California If you or someone you know is addicted to Ritalin or another stimulant whether prescribed or not, and it is time to get straight and get clean, contact MD Home Detox as they are a nationwide company, specializing in treatment for addiction but in the comfort and security of your own home domicile. They have a full team from doctors, in-home nurses, sober companions, workout partners and even nutritionists. There is no facet of recovery that they do not treat, and better, they do it in your own home away from prying eyes. You can call MD Home Detox at (888) 592-7931 or, click here to email them and take control of your addiction, stop harming yourself and damaging your future and body. Contact them today! No Comments Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Your perfect assignment is just a click away We Write Custom Academic Papers 100% Original, Plagiarism Free, Customized to your instructions! Prosocial Behavior Presentation Prosocial Behavior Presentation Nursing Experts Prosocial Behavior Presentation Prosocial Behavior Presentation Much of what we tend to focus on when we study social psychology are topics that often have a negative connotation such as conformity, prejudice, aggression or obedience. A huge component of the study of social psychology; however, focuses on prosocial behavior – behaviors that focus on compassion and helping others. Prosocial Behavior Presentation. For this activity, you will focus on this more uplifting aspect of social psychology. Topics that fall under the area of prosocial behavior include altruism, helping, bystander intervention, empathy, and compassion, among others. For this exercise, pick one day and seek to structure your thoughts and behaviors entirely around helping others. With each interaction or action you take, pause to think and ask yourself “is there a way I might help another here?” Hold a door for someone, offer your seat, share a smile, give a sincere compliment, show empathy to another, attempt to be more patient or understanding, etc. Your efforts should be in social settings that involve interactions with others (rather than something such as donating to a charity for instance) Prosocial Behavior Presentation. The goal is to be as thoughtfully prosocial in your interactions throughout the day as possible. • Then throughout the day, whenever possible, carry a small notebook with you or make notes in an app on your phone to jot down meaningful encounters or experiences as you attempt to engage in prosocial behaviors. • At the end of the day, again reflect and take notes on how you feel, your general mood, feelings and attitudes, etc. In a 5-7 slide PowerPoint presentation, not counting title or reference slides: • Summarize your experience. Describe the prosocial behaviors you engaged in, others’ reactions to these behaviors, and your assessment of any changes in mood, attitude, good fortune, or anything else of note you experienced. • Review what you have learned about human behavior in social settings this week in your readings and CogBooks activities. Connect what you learned or experienced through your day of conscious, prosocial behavior with the terms, concepts, and theories from your research. Integrate at least two academic sources (your assigned readings/resources can comprise one of these sources), citing any references used in APA format. Prosocial Behavior Presentation. • Describe any new insights you gained through this experience about your interactions with others on a daily basis, including any behaviors you wish to change or to continue. • Use the features of PowerPoint to your advantage to communicate your ideas – include pictures, audio recorded narration, speaker’s notes, video, links, etc. as appropriate to enhance your ideas. • Include an APA formatted title slide and reference slide. APA components such as an abstract, headings, etc. are not required since this is a PowerPoint presentation. Prosocial Behavior Presentation Nursing Experts Nursing Experts Our Service Charter
Functional Alcoholic Functional Alcoholic When most people hear the word "alcoholic," pictures of chaos and drama usually spring to mind. Images of impoverished people begging for money on the side of the road with no work and alienated families come to mind frequently. Furthermore, society frequently views alcoholics as people who suffer from poor health, become homeless, enter institutions, or die. But 20% of alcoholics don’t fit this description. These individuals are referred to as functional alcoholics. From the outside, they look like normal, productive individuals. They’re generally middle class; they go to work every day; they maintain their marriage and appear to be good parents. A functional alcoholic’s high level of productivity often leads to denial. Functional alcoholics and their loved ones believe that since they don’t fit the typical prototype of an alcoholic, they must not be. But if you look a little closer, you’ll see cracks in the foundation. Most high-functioning alcoholics are able to disguise the intensity of their alcohol addiction from friends and loved ones due to their outward appearance. Many of these people are able to deny that they have an alcohol problem. Indeed, the majority of these high-functioning alcoholics feel that their drinking helps them succeed by making them more gregarious or appealing. For high-functioning addicts, like most alcoholics and addicts, they are ignorant of the consequences of their actions on those closest to them. How to tell if someone is a functional alcoholic: There is a distinction to be made between someone with high-functioning alcoholism and someone who just loves consuming alcohol. The distinction is addiction. Alcoholism is a sickness, not just an addiction. Alcoholism in high-functioning alcoholics causes cravings, tolerance, and withdrawal symptoms when they quit drinking. Alcoholics who are high-functioning drink because they "need to drink," not because they want to drink. Alcoholics who are high-functioning seldom acknowledge having a problem. However, if someone in your life consumes three or more alcoholic beverages per day (two or more for women), they are over the daily limit. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines state that moderate drinking is defined as one drink per day for women and up to two drinks per day for men. Binge drinking is defined as consuming four or more alcoholic beverages in a single drinking episode for women and five or more alcoholic beverages in a single drinking episode for men (a typical drinking episode lasts around two hours). • Drinks every day, alone or with others, often times more than recommended • Gets angry when confronted about their drinking • Frequently has a hangover or feels "sick" • Short stints of sobriety accompanied by mood swings, anger and irritability • Uses alcohol as a reward • Excessive focus on the next time they will get to drink • Engaging in risky behavior, such as driving while intoxicated or risky sexual behaviors • Needs alcohol to be social or to relax Why is it dangerous to be a high-functioning alcoholic? High-functioning alcoholics are nevertheless alcoholics, no matter how successfully they hide their addiction or preserve their employment and relationships. As a result, kids are exposed to the dangers and consequences of alcoholism. Many recovered high-functioning alcoholics have testified that an alcoholic can only live a normal life for so long before the condition begins to damage their health and conduct. High-functioning alcoholics, for example, are more likely to drive under the influence and conduct other alcohol-related crimes. Even if a high-functioning alcoholic never faces legal or professional penalties as a result of their drinking, their health will still suffer. Chronic alcohol abuse harms a person's brain, heart, liver, and other important organs over time. As a result, all kinds of alcoholism have the potential to be fatal. Cirrhosis, cancer, and heart disease are all hazards for high-functioning alcoholics who have drank for decades. Find help for alcoholism Pacific Solstice understands the need for effective treatment for all types of alcoholism. Functional alcoholics require just as much attention as the ordinary drunks we encounter on a regular basis. We think that each client is unique and requires personalized treatment strategies, which is why we take detailed histories and perform comprehensive evaluations. At Pacific Solstice, we provide a variety of alcoholism treatment options that we personalize to the needs of our patients. Our dual diagnosis enhanced outpatient program allows an individual to engage in treatment while keeping their career and maintaining family obligations. If you or someone you love is a high-functioning alcoholic, do not hesitate to contact us through our website or via phone call at (949) 200-7929. You may also complete this quick assessment and verify your insurance to help us get to know you better. Spotting a functional alcoholic is difficult if you’re only looking on the surface. But just because someone can maintain the illusion of productivity doesn’t mean they aren’t still suffering. Alcoholism is a chronic, progressive disease that will inevitably catch up with even the most functional of alcoholics. Related Articles
Space Telescope Launched on Daring Quest to Behold First Stars by Marcia Dunn Associated Press Saturday December 25, 2021 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America's northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky. First, the telescope's enormous mirror and sunshield need to unfurl; they were folded origami-style to fit into the rocket's nose cone. Otherwise, the observatory won't be able to peer back in time 13.7 billion years as anticipated, within a mere 100 million years of the universe-forming Big Bang. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson called Webb a time machine that will provide "a better understanding of our universe and our place in it: who we are, what we are, the search that's eternal." "We are going to discover incredible things that we never imagined," Nelson said following liftoff, speaking from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. But he cautioned: "There are still innumerable things that have to work and they have to work perfectly ... we know that in great reward there is great risk." Intended as a successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope, the long-delayed James Webb is named after NASA's administrator during the 1960s. NASA partnered with the European and Canadian space agencies to build and launch the new 7-ton telescope, with thousands of people from 29 countries working on it since the 1990s. Around the world, astronomers and countless others tuned in, anxious to see Webb finally taking flight after years of setbacks. Last-minute technical snags bumped the launch nearly a week, then gusty wind pushed it to Christmas. A few of the launch controllers wore Santa caps in celebration. "We have delivered a Christmas gift today for humanity," said European Space Agency director general Josef Aschbacher. He described it as a special moment, but added: "It's very nerve-racking. I couldn't do launches every single day. This would not be good for my life expectancy." Cheers and applause erupted in and outside Launch Control following Webb's flawless launch, with jubilant scientists embracing one another amid shouts of "Go Webb!" and signs that read: "Bon Voyage Webb." Cameras on the rocket's upper stage provided one last glimpse of the shimmering telescope against a backdrop of Earth, before it sped away. "That picture will be burned into my mind forever," Zurbuchen told journalists. The telescope's showpiece: a gold-plated mirror more than 21 feet (6.5 meters) across. Protecting the observatory is a wispy, five-layered sunshield, vital for keeping the light-gathering mirror and heat-sensing infrared detectors at subzero temperatures. At 70 feet by 46 feet (21 meters by 14 meters), it's the size of a tennis court. In all, hundreds of release mechanisms need to work — perfectly — in order for the telescope to succeed. Such a complex series of actions is unprecedented — "like nothing we've done before," noted NASA program director Greg Robinson. "Now it's our job to start from here and keep going," said Massimo Stiavelli, an astronomer who heads the Webb mission office at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. The institute serves as the control hub for Hubble and, now, Webb. The Hubble Space Telescope will be a tough act to follow, according to Stiavelli and retired astronaut-astronomer Steven Hawley, even though Webb is 100 times more powerful. Hawley, in fact, is more stressed over Webb than he was for Hubble, which he released into orbit from space shuttle Discovery in 1990. That's because Webb will be too far away for rescuing, as was necessary when Hubble turned out to have blurry vision from a defective mirror. Spacewalking repairs by astronauts transformed Hubble into a beloved marvel that has revolutionized humanity's understanding of the universe, casting its eyes as far back as 13.4 billion years. It's now up to Webb to draw even closer to the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, its infrared vision keener and more far-reaching than Hubble's is in the shorter visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. "Hubble is like the perfect story. It starts badly, then the cavalry fixes it, then it's a major success. It's almost a Christmas movie in a way," Stiavelli said following Webb's liftoff. "It's a high bar, but hopefully the science contributions of Webb will be up there."
The Pain of Thomas Paine Thomas PaineIn 1776 Thomas Paine was a “rock star” among American patriots. His writings inspired a loosely united thirteen colonies to revolt against the great British Empire. But Paine lived down to his name. He’d die a “penniless drunk in Manhattan,” scorned by most of the Founding Fathers. Only six people attended his funeral. Thomas Paine was always a radical revolutionary. He loved to challenge the status quo politically. It’s why his writings, like the best-selling Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), were the rage among American patriots. Few people were more famous than Thomas Paine during the Revolutionary War. But Paine also had a way of wearing out his welcome. He lived in America only thirteen years, (arriving in 1774) before returning to his native England. In 1791, when his writings on the Rights of Man created controversy and eventually charges of sedition in Britain, Paine fled to France. That’s where his notoriety caught the attention of French Revolutionaries. Paine was immediately granted honorary citizenship and elected to the National Assembly. But his French honeymoon also proved short. He “agitated” the wrong people, got arrested and sentenced to death. If it hadn’t been for French ambassador and future president James Monroe, who negotiated Paine’s release, his story would’ve end with the guillotine. But Paine’s real agitation was just beginning. While in prison he began writing his skeptic’s view of religion titled The Age of Reason (published in three parts between 1794 and 1805). Thomas Paine was a religious skeptic, but no atheist. He still believed “in one God” and the “equality of man.” Nevertheless, Paine rejected every human religious creed, including Jewish, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. “My own mind is my church,” Paine wrote. It turned out to be a church few attended. Back in America, now religiously shaped by the Second Great Awakening, Paine’s radical irreverence, secular propensities and open embrace of Deism sparked controversy and opposition. His friend Ben Franklin begged Paine not to publish The Age of Reason and warned: “I would advise you, therefore, not to attempt unchaining the tiger, but to burn this piece before it is seen by any other person; whereby you will save yourself a great deal of mortification by the enemies it may raise against you, and perhaps a good deal of regret and repentance.” But the insolent Paine didn’t listen to Franklin’s counsel. Instead, he became even more antagonistic. In 1796 he maliciously attempted to impugn the character and competence of George Washington in a public letter. At the time no one was more popular in America than George Washington. In fact, many Americans desired to make Washington “king.” Consequently, the public response was swift. Thomas Paine was criticized, censured, condemned…and cancelled…by the people. Nearly every Founding Father called him out, from John Adams to John Jay. The Age of Reason was “blasphemous” (Charles Carroll), “absurd and insidious” (Benjamin Rush), “puny” (Patrick Henry) and “ignorant” (John Witherspoon). Founder Elias Boudinet was so incensed he penned his own refutation titled The Age of Revelation (1801). Samuel Adams wrote Paine: “When I heard you had turned your mind to a defense of infidelity, I felt myself much astounded and more grieved, that you had attempted a measure so injurious to the feelings and so repugnant to the true interest of so great a part of the citizens of the United States…Do you think that your pen, or the pen of any other man, can unchristianize the mass of our citizens, or have you hopes of converting a few of them to assist you in so bad a cause?” From that point forward, the irreverent, secularist Thomas Paine lived as a social outcast. He spent his final years largely in seclusion, nursing a flask of booze. And while his early works reflected “common sense,” Paine’s commitment to French enlightenment “wokeness” and secularism—something most people embrace today as normal and mainstream—was completely out of step in early 19th century America. Paine’s secularism cost him everything. He literally reaped his surname: pain. Thomas Paine died June 8, 1809. But not a single cemetery in America would accept his corpse. He was eventually buried, without ceremony by a few friends, on his farm outside Rochelle, NY. Ten years later his remains were exhumed by a journalist named William Cobbett and shipped back to his native England. Cobbett wanted to give Paine a heroic reburial, but it never happened. Paine’s bones ended up in his closet and eventually disappeared. Shortly thereafter a rhyme to his Paine’s memory emerged: “Poor Tom Paine! There he lies: Nobody laughs and nobody cries Where he has gone or how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody cares.” The “pain” of Thomas Paine is how far this patriotic “rock star” fell to earth. He was a man out of step with his culture. His ideas and lifestyle outside the cultural and religious norms of his day. It’s a hard story to understand in contemporary secular America (where a Thomas Paine easily fits), but in the era of a Second Great (Christian) Awakening, his deism and irreligiosity found no favor. Like many today he chose a life that became a pursuit of pleasure. But that pursuit, as the biblical Solomon once described, can be chasing the wind, resulting in a life framed by divisiveness, narcissism, emptiness, addiction and loneliness. Thomas Paine could’ve had much more. He could’ve been so much more. But ultimately the man who penned Common Sense proved in the end to have none himself. 1. Read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense 2. Franklin’s Letter to Paine: Jared Sparks, The Works of Benjamin Franklin, (Boston: Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1840), Vol. X, pp. 281-282. 3. Samuel Adams Letter to Paine (1802) 4. Read Elias Boudinot’s response to Paine: The Age of Revelation (1801) Leave a Comment
The Definition of the Territoire Public The marché public, or public sector, is a area of the economy that is certainly governed by government. This can include public services, government-owned enterprises, and other open public entities. This kind of group of businesses, such as educational facilities and hospitals, perform a variety of significant functions just for the country. But you may be wondering what exactly is sector? And just how is it molded? Let’s find out. Here are some of the very most common definitions of the sector public. The sector open public is a loose category, mentioning the monetary and sociable functions of publics. A business or institution that belongs to the sector general population performs financial and public activities that happen to be affected by administration policy. Similarly, an venture can be community if it provides a quality service to the community at an affordable price. In reality, it is hard to outline exactly what creates a sector consumer. The definition of an sector public can be more advanced than the most common examples. The sector people is normally an umbrella term pertaining to governmental establishments and specific activities. For instance, an etablissement public officiel is a government body with an over-all focus on government. In other words, it is just a government organization that does specific actions. Some people agencies consist of private legal entities and operate inside the public sector. A sector-wide definition of the sector-public-based organization is essential to understand what is meant by the term. Schreibe einen Kommentar Deine E-Mail-Adresse wird nicht veröffentlicht.
Why are majority of our protagonists girls? The central character of the first draft of Samara and Alphabet was a boy. A friend rightly pointed out that even though I am a girl, I tend to write in a male voice. I am not sure whether it was from years of reading literature with male protagonists or whether it somehow just seemed that the story would be considered more legitimate if a boy was at the center of it. Or maybe it was because I thought boys may not read a story with a girl in the lead but vice versa was okay. So I forced myself to make the protagonist a girl and find my own voice. When I became a mother to a beautiful girl, it became even more important to do so. Literature plays a conscious and subconscious role in our understanding of the world and in my parenting journey, I have found that it was important for me to not only pick books that 1) embody the values that I wanted my children to imbibe but also 2) ones that helps my children understand more about their own journey. As a result, I often saw my daughter explain to me her own thoughts in the context of a character in a book. The same way, having a female protagonist allows me to not only help my daughter and other girls have someone to identify with and but also helps the boys who read the books identify with their gender counterparts. The hope finally though is not just representation but instead that as the gender divide subsides, parents find the story, it’s values of empathy and the skills stressed on of problem solving more compelling than the narrator itself. childrens books female gender girl problem solving protagonist representation storytelling ← Older Post Newer Post →
Greenhouse with colorful folding chair A plant on the edge of the patio may have to be pulled. Remember, you cannot over-water the landscape and still kill your plants. Even though they are drought-tolerant, overwatering can also kill a plant. The cardinal rule is once your plants have gone dormant, you should not water. So the best rule is to water according to your water table. If your yard is on a hill, try to water every other week. If your yard is flat, your water table is low, and water your plants every two weeks. The best time to aerate your lawn is in the spring. Aerating your lawn allows new grass seed to be evenly distributed throughout the grass. This will give your grass a healthy start, and you will see better grass growth in the spring. You will also see an improvement in your lawn’s appearance. To keep pests out of your garden without using pesticides, keep an eye out for springtime blights California blooming like crazy after months of non-stop rains. Even deserts are covered with juicy bright flowers. The photo was made on Diamond Valley Lake a few days ago. Blights can be bad news for all sorts of plants, but they especially ruin the appearance and yield of woody plants. Look for new sprouts of brown or yellow leaves and cracks in the bark. These symptoms usually occur within a few days of a blossom end rot infestation. If you see any of these symptoms, it’s time to take action. If you are planting flowers, purchase flower seeds in large quantities. If you purchase the seed packets that a lot of people buy, the seeds will be enough for your entire flower bed, but if you are planting many different varieties in different locations, you may need to purchase extra. To cut back on costs, maintain your gardens year-round Planting starts in the fall so that you are ready for a spring garden. There is no reason to wait for the spring to plant your flowers, herbs, or vegetables. As each new season comes, your plants will start to come into their own. If you are growing roses, keep an eye on your soil. Roses require a lot of attention, but the average gardener may not have time to provide the same amount of care as they do. Many common garden fertilizers will cause your roses to grow more slowly. Water them when they are dry and fertilize them in the spring, not when they are in bloom. This will allow the rose to put forth the greatest amount of energy into blooming. When you are pruning your rose bushes, you should cut back on the number of branches that grow above the rose bushes themselves. The excess growth will feed the rose bushes as the foliage gets old and there is not much to hold the bushes up. As new growth begins to appear, it will provide added support for the bushes. Learn which plants will bloom at what time, based on their seasons Gardener, in a fall garden. He is planting pumpkins. If you’re trying to have a great garden, you should be familiar with how different plants in your area bloom. This will allow you to select flowers that will attract the most beneficial bugs to your garden, helping to keep your plants healthy. Do you have an overgrown or unattractive lawn? You can easily fix it yourself in a few hours. You will need to gather some grass seeds and water. Soak the grass seeds in water for at least one hour, then spread them out on your lawn. Keep doing this, until you see fresh green grass growing. It can be hard to keep a garden looking neat and orderly with the added stress of high temperatures. There are several ways to help reduce the heat within the garden and maximize productivity. Plant a few small trees to shade areas of your garden and plant cooling plants such as a Japanese maple or a gardenia. By using these plants, you can increase the overall amount of shade available in your garden. Make sure you mow your lawn regularly If you let your lawn get overgrown, it will be harder to keep tidy and it will require more water to keep it looking good. If you need a new mower, try renting one from a lawn service rather than buying one. If you do not already have one, invest in a rain barrel to use for watering your yard. Rain barrels are easy to come by and they make an excellent addition to any yard. You can use the water that you gather from it for your gardens, or even to water your outdoor pets! Remove all the old foliage from your plants that have finished blooming. If the plants were in bloom when the foliage was removed, your garden beds will look unattractive. Additionally, it’s just a visual irritation to see a huge blank space in the middle of the flower bed. By taking out the old foliage, you can give your garden a fresh start and allow your plants to blossom in the space. Think about adding some living branches to your flower beds man standing on pathway while pointing camera towards front Living branches can be kept trimmed back, or you can let them grow wild. Living branches add texture and a sense of depth to the landscape, and the flowers they produce are stunning! The colors are vibrant, too. You can have them along a flowerbed, or intermix them with your perennials to brighten up your entire landscape. Be sure to water your herbs daily. Most herbs prefer bright, but not very hot, sunny days. If your outdoor space is shaded, consider watering your herbs late in the afternoon or evening. If it is extremely hot, allow them to go without water altogether. You can apply water to your herbs with a watering can, or use a spray bottle.
When did the Europeans arrived in India? In which sequence did the Europeans arrived in India? The arrival of Europeans in India started after the Portuguese navigator, Vasco Da Gama reached Calicut in Kerala. The Europeans who came to India in the order are Portuguese, Dutch, British, Danes and finally French. Who Ruled India first? Who was the first king of India? Why did Portuguese fail in India? The Portuguese administration in India was very corrupt. The salaries of the officers were very low and they did not feel any hesitation to accept bribes from any quarter. The bulk of the Portuguese officers were selfish. … The result was that by slow degrees the Portuguese Empire in India disappeared. IMPORTANT: Why was the Indian revolt of 1857 a turning point in the history of India? Did India colonize any country? European power was exerted both by conquest and trade, especially in spices. The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the colonization of the Americas after their discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Colonial India. Croatian India 1530–1667 Danish India 1620–1869 French India 1668–1954 Austrian India 1778–1785 How was India before British rule? Before British Rule (1858) Who Ruled India most? List of largest empires in India British Indian Empire 4,574,000 139% Mughal Empire 4,000,000 122% Maurya Empire 3,400,000–5,000,000 103%–152% Republic of India (for comparison) 3,287,263 100% Who is second king of India? Chandragupta II, also called Vikramaditya, powerful emperor (reigned c. 380–c. 415 ce) of northern India. He was the son of Samudra Gupta and grandson of Chandragupta I. Dreams of India
6 Ideas to Keep Your Foot Healthy Foot Healthy Keeping your foot healthy is one of the most important parts of the human body. They allow us to stand up, walk, move, play sports, dance, and continue the list. According to a new survey conducted in the US, it has been found that nearly 77 percent of people have foot problems, but most of them have refused to meet foot disease experts. They fail to realize that if our feet suffer damage, we may be disabled to find support to even do basic life activities. Common problems such as arthritis, bunion, and tendonitis can greatly limit us from doing daily work. Best Things To Do for Your Foot Healthy So, before severe problems are triggered, here are some ideas through which you can keep your foot healthy and clean throughout the year. 6 Ideas to Keep Your Foot Healthy 1. Maintain a Healthy Body Weight All bodyweight is worn on our feet. People who experience obesity and have an unhealthy body weight in general experience leg pain in the heel or on the legs. This is because the feet cannot bring weight from the given individual. Therefore, maintaining a good and healthy weight not only helps maintain physiological problems such as diabetes but also ensures foot healthy. Obesity can also inhibit normal blood circulation to the feet and can cause inflammation that is frequent and sometimes even paralysis of the feet. 2. Rinse Your Feet Regularly The accumulation of dirt on the feet cannot always be seen from the naked eye. But if you let it pile up, it can cause serious problems. Therefore, clean and rinse your feet every day with warm water and shampoo. Use a soft sponge and apply your feet to absorb excess water. Also, be careful when you use socks. Socks or stockings made of cotton are the best for each foot healthy. They facilitate the right ventilation and can maintain skin and healthy. Avoid wearing used socks, because it contains dirt and sweat that can cause skin infections. 3. Avoid Sharing Footwear Like underwear, footwear also should not be distributed. Footwear contains dirt and sweat and becomes a place to multiply many dangerous bacteria and pathogens. For example, conditions such as athletes are very contagious and generally spread through contact. In an open area, always use boots to protect yourself, and never exchange socks or footwear with people. 4. Use High-Quality Footwear Most people tend to spend a lot of tens on clothes and really ignore the footwear. This is the wrong approach. The foot is the only organ that carries all your weight. Therefore, the comfort of the foot should be a major concern for everyone. Wearing tight shoes and high heels is quite uncomfortable for the feet and can often cause painful blisters that hinder our movements. Invest in the right shoes for you and provide optimal pads for your feet’ needs. 5. Cut Your Toenails Regularly Cutting toenails regularly can improve your foot healthy are many ways. Dust accumulates in long nails and can cause various fungal and pathogenic infections. Also, not cutting your nails can cause a condition called nails that grow, where nails grow to the feet, resulting in tremendous pain. If you find difficulties in trimming your nails correctly, you can contact professional foot disease experts or visit salons for casual pedicures. 6. Check your feet Perform a comprehensive self-examination on the feet at least once a week. Check for changes in the color of the skin color, damage to the nails, or scaling or peeling of the skin. If this is not treated as soon as possible, it can cause serious skin disorders with fatal consequences. This routine check will give you information about whatever changes occur in your foot healthy. If you see something anomaly and strange, immediately contact a professional. In The End Foot healthy helps us move and explore the world. Without it, you will be paralyzed, do not deny that people around the world achieve big things with the lost body parts. There is a saying, that humans do not understand the importance of something unless they lose it. Don’t be that person. If you face problems with your feet, see a doctor or foot specialist immediately, do not wait for time not to return.
Merck Manual Please confirm that you are a health care professional honeypot link Olfactory Reference Disorder Katharine A. Phillips , MD, Weill Cornell Medical College; Dan J. Stein , MD, PhD, University of Cape Town Click here for Patient Education Olfactory reference disorder is characterized by a distressing or impairing belief by a person that they emit a foul or offensive odor; the odor is slight or imperceptible to others. Olfactory reference disorder (often called olfactory reference syndrome) is an example of other specified obsessive-compulsive and related disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by recurrent, persistent, unwanted, and intrusive thoughts, urges, or images (obsessions) and/or by repetitive behaviors or mental acts that... read more in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). General references • 1. Phillips KA, Menard W: Olfactory reference syndrome: Demographic and clinical features of imagined body odor. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 33(4):398-406, 2011. • 2. Pryse-Phillips W: An olfactory reference syndrome. Acta Psychiatr Scand 47(4):484-509, 1971. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1971.tb03705.x. Symptoms and Signs Patients with olfactory reference disorder are preoccupied, usually for many hours a day, with a distressing or impairing belief that they emit one or more foul or offensive body odors, which are not perceived by others or are actually only slight. They may believe, for example, that they have very bad breath or emit foul-smelling sweat from their armpits or other areas of their skin. Other worries include emitting a smell of urine, flatulence from the anus, or unpleasant odors from the genital area. Occasional patients believe that they emit foul odors like garbage or rotten food. The preoccupation with body odor is usually accompanied by repetitive behaviors (eg, smelling themselves, excessive showering, changing clothes, reassurance seeking); these behaviors attempt to alleviate the substantial distress caused by the preoccupation with body odor. Most people with olfactory reference disorder also make efforts to camouflage the perceived odor (eg, with perfume, deodorant, mouthwash, gum). Insight is usually poor or absent (ie, most people think that they probably or definitely emit a foul body odor when this is actually not the case). Very few recognize that their belief about the body odor is inaccurate, possibly because many people with olfactory reference disorder report that they actually smell the odor themselves. A seizure disorder such as temporal lobe epilepsy should be considered and ruled out if presenting symptoms suggest that this disorder may be present. Referential thinking is common; for example, patients may inaccurately believe that their body odor is the reason people are sitting far away from them, opening a window, or covering their nose. Olfactory reference disorder usually substantially impairs functioning, and patients typically avoid social situations, often because they feel so embarrassed and ashamed about smelling bad. Many also avoid work or other important life activities. Some patients are completely housebound because they feel too distressed, self-conscious, and embarrassed about the perceived odor to be around other people, or because they fear that their body odor will be offensive to others. In very severe cases, olfactory reference disorder is incapacitating. Because insight is usually poor or absent, many patients seek treatment (eg, tonsillectomy for perceived halitosis) from physicians other than psychiatrists, which does not appear to be helpful. • Clinical criteria Core symptoms for olfactory reference disorder typically include the following: • Patient's preoccupation with emitting foul or unpleasant body odor(s) that is not perceived by others or is considered only slight • Significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning • Performance of repetitive behaviors (eg, smelling oneself to check for body odor, excessive showering or clothes changing) in response to the odor concerns and/or attempts to camouflage the perceived odor • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) • Antipsychotic agent (usually atypical) • Cognitive-behavioral therapy Treatment studies of olfactory reference syndrome have not been done, but clinical experience and published case series suggest that SSRIs or clomipramine, alone or used with an antipsychotic (an atypical is preferred) if needed, and cognitive-behavioral therapy similar to therapy for body dysmorphic disorder Treatment Body dysmorphic disorder is characterized by preoccupation with ≥ 1 perceived defects in physical appearance that are not apparent or appear only slight to other people. The preoccupation with... read more may be helpful. Key Points • Patients are preoccupied with emitting 1 perceived body odors that are not apparent or appear only slight to other people. • Patients respond to their body odor concerns by performing repetitive behaviors (eg, excessive showering, teeth brushing, clothes laundering) and/or attempting to camouflage the perceived odor (eg, with excessive perfume or deodorant use). • Patients typically have poor or absent insight and genuinely believe that they smell bad. • Treat using cognitive-behavioral therapy similar to that for body dysmorphic disorder and/or drug therapy with an SSRI or clomipramine, plus an atypical antipsychotic if needed. Drugs Mentioned In This Article Drug Name Select Trade Click here for Patient Education Professionals also read Also of Interest Download the Manuals App iOS ANDROID Download the Manuals App iOS ANDROID
Next Avenue Logo 'Extra Life' Series Traces Our Astonishing Gains in Life Expectancy The new PBS four-parter examines scientific and medical innovations that have conquered some of the deadliest diseases By Dawn Fallik At one point in the docu-series "Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer," author and host Steven Johnson strolls down the streets of Philadelphia. But — unlike almost every other medical history review — Johnson doesn't talk about Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital, founded by Benjamin Franklin. Instead, his focus is on W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous Black sociologist, founder of the N.A.A.C.P. and its magazine "The Crisis," and one of the first to illuminate the health care disparities between Black and white Americans. A man in front of a microscope holding up a petri dish. Extra life, PBS, Next Avenue David Olusoga, a British-Nigerian historian and professor of public history at the University of Manchester, holds up a petri dish \| Credit: © Nutopia "Extra Life," a four-part series that premieres on Tuesday, May 11 on PBS, is full of these unexpected and appreciated detours into the world of medical history that illuminate the field's unsung heroes. "At the end of the Spanish Flu, life expectancy was 41 years, globally. Now almost every place in the world is double that." The narrators don't simply tell viewers the well-known stories of people like Edward Jenner, who created the smallpox vaccine, they delve into the vaccine's origins in Onesimus, the West African man enslaved by Boston minister Cotton Mather. Onesimus told Mather that he knew people who rubbed the pus from an infected person into an open wound of another. Mather confirmed the story and tried to share the idea widely, then known as "variolation." Johnson and co-host David Olusoga, a historian, dig into archives and discuss how investigations in the past may help predict medical problems and pandemics in the future. Experts from Dr. Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) to Kizzmekia Corbett (a viral immunologist who is the scientific lead of the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center's coronavirus team) share their thoughts on today's COVID-19 crisis and the lessons scientists have learned from previous disease outbreaks. Speaking to Next Avenue from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., Johnson, whose book "Ghost Map" focused on the 1854 London cholera outbreak, discussed writing about pandemics during one and how even medical historians take lifesaving discoveries for granted: Dawn Fallik: Why did you think people would be interested in a series about medical history? "Everyone knows about the Manhattan Project, the top-secret project to develop the nuclear bomb. But why don't they know about these incredible life-changing events, like these drugs that have saved lives?" Steven Berlin Johnson: One of the things about writing 'Ghost Map' was that it really resonated with people. It was a reminder how much progress we've made in a hundred and fifty years. Once upon a time, getting a glass of water could kill you in forty-eight hours. Part of that book was that we really should pay attention to progress, and how we're all the beneficiaries of this work in science and public health from this time in London where they separated the waste [sewage] from the drinking water. There are challenges to getting people interested in a show about the discoveries and dangers found in fecal matter. Yeah, people have been trying to make 'Ghost Map' into a movie for years, but it has this problem that it's about human excrement. But 'Extra Life' is a bigger canvas, using life expectancy as a framework. Think about it, a hundred years ago, at the end of the Spanish Flu, life expectancy was forty-one years, globally. Now, almost every place in the world is double that. Two men standing outside on the street in front of a "John Snow" sign. Extra life, PBS, Next Avenue Steven Berlin Johnson and David Olusoga narrate the new series "Extra Life" on PBS \| Credit: © Nutopia How did this show come together in the middle of a pandemic? PBS had been interested in the show and we'd been trying to put the financing together. It was a little stuck. Suddenly, it's March 2020 and everyone is talking about masks and this [idea of an invisible protective] shield is at the center of everyone's life. It got a lot of financing, but we couldn't wait to make it, we thought: 'We've got to make this right now.' I had this surreal experience in March [2020]. I was living in Ground Zero of the pandemic in Brooklyn and then I went to my family's home in the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia and I didn't see anybody for five weeks. I was just working furiously on these episodes. It was a life in pause. Suddenly, we had this unique perspective, this two-hundred-year history coming to this very present moment of developing a vaccine. Where did they even start and how do they get to this point? I noticed there were several points where you weren't wearing masks, including your interview with Dr. Fauci. We did try and show several times that we were wearing masks, and we had a really rigorous protocol; we were tested every other day. Even when we were shooting in New York, I wasn't staying at home, to protect my family. Everyone would wear masks until we would sit down for the interview and then we would take our masks off. I was probably about fifteen feet from Dr. Fauci. What did you learn doing this series that surprised you? How late medical drugs arrived on the scene. We really had very little that worked until penicillin, and that came along in 1945. That whole story is fascinating. Everyone knows about the petri dish, but it's really a compelling story about a race against the clock in World War II to get that drug to soldiers. Maybe it's because it's something that's part of our everyday lives? Exactly. I was talking with David Olusoga, and he said the same thing. He takes a pill every day that saves his life, and where does it come from? We need to take a step back and not take these things for granted. Is there one interview that stands out for you? There were so many. The day we interviewed Dr. Fauci was the day he got the numbers back from the Moderna [COVID-19 vaccine] trials, and he was almost dancing. He was saying, 'You have no idea how good these numbers are.' They were hoping for maybe fifty-five [percent effective] but ninety-five percent effective? That was amazing. He said, 'I've had a lot of bad breaks, but this, this is an incredible break.' Dawn Fallik Dawn Fallik is a medical and science reporter who has written for NPR, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches medical writing at the University of Delaware. Read More ©2022 Next AvenuePrivacy PolicyTerms of Use A nonprofit journalism website produced by: TPT Logo
A report from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has bacon lovers up in arms. And rightly so. According to the scientific findings of the organization, processed meats like bacon, ham, and sausage cause cancer. Specifically, consuming two slices of bacon can increase your risk of developing colorectal cancer by 18 percent. And the risk only increases the more you consume. Given its high carcinogenic potential, processed meat joins the ranks of plutonium and alcohol as things that definitely do cause cancer in the IARC’s book. One association that has also been made it between eating bacon and hot dogs and smoking cigarettes. While it is impossible to make a direct comparison just as this one, there is no questioning that both of these practices are detrimental to your health. And another similarity that these two things hold is the equally damaging effect that they have on not just humans, but the environment as well – leading to the conclusion that smoking and eating bacon are both terrible for you and the planet. Although, arguably, eating bacon is actually way worse where that’s concerned. Bacon, Pollution, and You Factory farms are known for the exorbitant amount of air and water pollution they produce, after all, when you cram hundreds of thousands of animals in extremely tight conditions … what else could you expect? But more than any other livestock industry, pig farms are responsible for a hog load of environmental destruction (no offense to the pigs). It is a common practice to store all of the millions of tons of waste produced by pigs raised for bacon and other processed meats in open-air lagoons. These lagoons off-gas toxic compounds like ammonia, hydrogen sulfite, endotoxins, methane, carbon dioxide, and bacteria. Many of these chemicals are known to cause severe respiratory irritation, dizziness confusion, high blood pressure, and in some cases brain damage. Sounding familiar? To make matters worse, the only way to get rid of this monumental amount of waste is by draining the lagoons and spraying it on neighboring fields. The toxin levels, antibiotics, and strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria present in this slurry make it unusable for fertilizer. Sadly, when pig waste is sprayed onto fields, it’s absorbed into the ground and contaminates groundwater, spreading carcinogenic and harmful compounds to waterways. So, while it might be shocking to learn that eating bacon can give you cancer when we look at the whole picture of the damage that this and other processed meats cause to even people who might not like or eat bacon … we can’t help but wonder what we’re doing to ourselves, the planet, and animals all for the sake of this novelty. As the leading organization at the forefront of the conscious consumerism movement, it is One Green Planet’s view that our food choices are incredibly powerful tools in the fight against climate change. Rather than supporting an industry that is both destroying human health and the health of the planet, we can all start to heal the damage that has been done by shifting our support to sustainable plant-based alternatives. By choosing to eat more plant-based foods, you can drastically cut your carbon footprint, and keep unnecessary agricultural pollution out of the air and waterways. With the wealth of available plant-based options available, it has never been easier to eat with the planet in mind. Why bother with the risk of cancer or the incredible amount of environmental damage that is occurring as a result of bacon, when there is a better way … that also happens to be incredibly delicious?
Planning ahead: teaching your kids about saving for their future Money falling out of a jar Money isn’t the route to all happiness, but it can certainly take the pressure off everyday life. Teaching your children the importance of managing money and saving for the future is something every parent thinks about at some time or another. If you’re already planning for your retirement, the idea of squirrelling cash away may be firmly in your mind. The beauty of savings is that the younger you start, the more control you have over that pot of cash. Ultimately, planning our finances wisely allows us to do the things we want to do in life, Whether that’s trips to a spa, embracing a new hobby, or going on day trips. Essentially, managing money is a life skill and one that can be practised lifelong, even from a younger age. So, how do you teach your children the value of money to better set them up for a financially secure future? The taboo subject of money Research reveals that often, we copy our parents’ approach to handling money. And while we may feel comfortable instructing children on how to master other skills in life, money can feel like a taboo subject. But by being open and brushing up on our own money management skills, we can hand down worthy advice. The confusion we may feel ourselves about working through our finances, or low self-esteem over our own ingrained habits can also contribute to a lack of honest dialogue between parent and child. The question is, how can you break this pattern, and empower your kids to feel confident about their money management skills? Adopt the right approach Starting early and tailoring your advice to the age of the child is the first, important step. Giving your child time to understand the value of money in terms they’ll understand is the key. There are a number of ways to do this, including: • Encouraging them to save for something they’d like: whether that’s a new toy, game or spending money for a trip away • Outlining how we buy things: providing actual examples of how much it would take for a parent to earn the money needed for a special gift is just one way of doing this. • Teach them to live within their means: for instance, if they need to borrow money from you to buy something, offer it as credit. You can set repayment terms based on what feels right for you. • Reinforce the value of learning from mistakes: rather than penalising for mistakes made, allow them to learn from the consequences. As long as the amounts aren’t unmanageable for them. At the end of the day, it’s worth remembering that children do pick up money habits from their parents. By setting a positive example of improving your own financial management and talking about money, you’ll be passing down valuable lessons day-to-day. Thinking about savings As well as talking about day-to-day finances, setting longer term saving goals is an important step. Rather like saving for a new game or toy, setting a tracking system up for long term savings will help your children to look further into the future. To encourage saving, you could even match your children’s input pound for pound or provide them with an incentive when reaching a specific milestone. For example, once they’ve saved £100 you could add £50 to the pot. Along with teaching your child the benefits and importance of saving for bigger goals, it can have a positive effect on your relationship. Improving communication, trust, and camaraderie. What about your savings? As we say, leading by example is one powerful way to demonstrate just how beneficial it is to be financially secure throughout your life. Showing your children how good it feels to have the money you need to live a fulfilled life and reduce money worries is also great for your own mental health and wellbeing. Not least, it allows you to focus on what will give you enjoyment. If you’re heading towards, or already in, retirement, make sure to set up your own saving goals. Perhaps you want to travel. Talking through your planning process for your trip, including the money aspect, can be a positive learning experience for both you and your children.
A good idea can be turned into a fad by mindless followers. Mindful people use whatever tools they come across to their best advantage because they understand each tool’s function and use it accordingly. Fad followers adopt a tool, like tire flips, not because it is appropriate for them but because others are using it. An example: A strength coach who trains both American football players and combat athletes (mostly wrestlers) has them work with a big tire. They laboriously lift the tire, then flip it, then slowly lift it again . . . and so on. They could get a similar exercise effect by lifting a barbell or a log. But flipping big tires is in fashion, so the coach has them flip the tire. It doesn’t dawn on him what the essential difference is between the tire and those other weights: The athlete can safely push the tire over after lifting it up. The faster and more dynamic the switch from pull to push, the better. Further, the tire has a bounce to it, so when flipped with enough power, its near side will come up off the ground. This is why flipping the big tire is appropriate for developing explosive power and the ability to apply it in a quick succession of movements. Ideally, the tire should be in constant motion: an explosive lift flowing into an explosive push, immediately followed by an explosive lift, and so on. If the tire is too big for such use, then a lighter one should be used (there are ways of making tires lighter, too). This training method of flipping a tire is functional for American football and wrestling. But for those whose goal is to increase strength and not power, simple deadlifts can be done more conveniently and safely with a bar. Another example: A fellow exercises with kettlebells that are too heavy for him to move correctly. Specifically, he does renegade rows with kettlebells so heavy that he can’t keep his spine from bending, which destabilizes his shoulder blades. So he develops neither strong shoulders and arms nor core stability. Yet another example: A mixed martial arts instructor does a kettlebell clean and press. He doesn’t know how to use his core and hips (and the kettlebell’s shape) to rack it correctly, so he arches his trunk under the kettlebell. That weakens his core instead of strengthening it. Then he performs the press with the trunk arching, which causes poor shoulder mechanics. With such wrong movement form, the strength gains will stop well short of the potential. And with repeated practice, the wrong coordination will be instilled. Correcting that will take time, effort, and understanding, which is missing. By the way, standard lifts such as the deadlift, clean and jerk, and snatch are easier to learn with a kettlebell than with a barbell—but you still have to know the essential points of their form. Now a question: What is the one feature of kettlebells that makes learning those lifts easier with a kettlebell than with a barbell? Conclusion: Fad followers adopt new, fashionable tools without understanding the connection between their form and function. Then they drop them for some other new things that in their hands will be equally ineffective.
What Are Examples Of Bureaucratic Agencies? In the United States, bureaucracy may be found in every one of the nearly 2,000 federal government agencies, division, departments, and commissions. The Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Veterans Benefits Administration are among the most conspicuous of these agencies. To view the complete response, please click here. Exemplifications of Bureaucracy Everywhere you look, bureaucracies may be seen in many forms. Administrative bureaucracies such as state motor vehicle authorities, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), financial lending institutions such as savings and loan associations, and insurance firms are all encountered on a regular basis by many people. Is there a need for bureaucracy? If you hear someone refer to an organization as a ″bureaucracy,″ it’s unlikely that they mean it as a praise.In the event that you’ve ever gotten an essential letter on time or been given a tax return, you may praise the bureaucracy for your efforts.The ultimate goal of every bureaucracy is to put the goals of Congressional law into action.The following are advantages of having bureaucracies: Is it a compliment to call an organization a bureaucracy? If you hear someone refer to an organization as a ″bureaucracy,″ it’s unlikely that they mean it as a praise. In the event that you’ve ever gotten an essential letter on time or been given a tax return, you may praise the bureaucracy for your efforts. What are the 4 bureaucratic agencies? Generally speaking, there are four categories of government agencies in the United States: cabinet departments, autonomous executive agencies, regulatory agencies, and government companies. What are 3 bureaucratic agencies? 1. Executive agencies include the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN Economic and Social Council) 3. And the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN Economic and Social Council). 4. Commerce (DOC) 5. Department of Commerce (DOC) 6. DOD stands for the Department of Defense. 7. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) 8. Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) 9. Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 10. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a federal agency that protects the nation’s borders. 11. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a federal agency that promotes housing and urban development. You might be interested: How Does A Buck Stove Insert Work? What are bureaucratic agencies? There are several different types of bureaucratic organizations. A bureaucracy is a distinct government institution that has been formed to achieve a specific set of aims and objectives that have been authorized by a legislative assembly. When compared to bureaucracies in other nations, the federal bureaucracy in the United States enjoys a high degree of autonomy. What are the 5 bureaucratic organizations? 1. In the federal bureaucracy, there are five different types of organizations: Departments within the Cabinet 2. Executive agencies that are self-governing 3. Regulatory agency that are self-reliant 4. Corporations owned by the government 5. Commissions appointed by the president How many bureaucratic agencies are there? When you have more than 2,000 separate agencies, it is practically inevitable that the federal bureaucracy will suffer from organizational, overlapping tasks, and efficiency issues. In the recent past, almost every President has entered the White House wanting to refashion and shrink the bureaucracy. What is an example of an executive agency? Executive Agencies include, for example, the Department of Commerce (DOC), the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of State (DOS), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Homeland Security (DOHS), and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Is NASA a bureaucratic agency? NASA, on the other hand, is only one component of a broader space bureaucracy that exists in the United States, which includes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (US). How many agencies are there? There are 96 separate executive units included in the United States Government Manual, as well as 220 components of the executive departments. An even more comprehensive listing may be found on USA.gov, which covers 137 autonomous executive agencies and 268 Cabinet-level departments and agencies. You might be interested: What Are Present On Admission Indicators? What are government corporations examples? Large, well-known enterprises such as the United States Postal Service and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are represented among today’s government businesses, as are minor, low-profile entities such as the Federal Financing Bank of the Department of Treasury and the Federal Prison Service. Which of the following are examples of revenue agencies? Which of the following organizations is an example of a revenue agency? -the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (Bureau ATF). (The ATF is in charge of collecting taxes on the products that it controls.) In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service (often known as the IRS) is the largest and most significant revenue agency. Which of the following are examples of independent agencies? 1. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the most important independent agencies. 2. The Commission on Civil Rights of the United States of America. 3. Product Safety Commission of the United States. 4. The Corporation for National and Community Service 5. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for protecting the environment. 6. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that promotes equal employment opportunities. 7. The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) is a federal agency that finances agricultural projects. What are the four kinds of executive agencies? The Executive Office of the President (EOP) is made up of four agencies that provide advice to the president on key policy issues: the White House Office, the National Security Council, the Council of Economic Advisors, and the Office of Management and Budget. The White House Office is the most visible of the four agencies, and it is the most important. You might be interested: Why Is Tiwanaku Important? Which type of agency includes NASA? Agency overview Formed July 29, 1958 Preceding agency National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915–1958) Type Space agency Jurisdiction United States Federal Government Is the FBI an independent agency? The budget of the agency is approved by the United States Congress. It is within the authority of the Department of Justice and reports to the Attorney General, although it acts mainly independently of the government as a whole. How many agencies are in the executive branch? Departments in charge of the executive branch These are the principal departments and agencies of the federal government. They are members of the president’s cabinet, as are the leaders of these 15 organizations. Leave a Reply
skip to Main Content How do you know if you have a thyroid disease? Experts suspect that most people with a thyroid disease don’t even know that they have one. If you’re plagued with symptoms such as trouble sleeping, heart palpitations, fatigue, or sensitivity to cold and are unaware of the cause, the fact is you might be suffering from a thyroid disease. Thyroid disease affects approximately 20 million people in the U.S. It can affect every system in your body and may dramatically impact your energy levels and mood, so diagnosis is important. Unfortunately, many of these conditions are generally not preventable and are often hereditary. Dr. Haytham Kawji, endocrinologist “Knowing your family history can help you stay one step ahead of complications from a thyroid disorder and related conditions,” says Dr. Haytham Kawji, board-certified endocrinologist at St. Francis Endocrinology. If you have a family history of thyroid disease, or any other hormonal condition like osteoporosis or uncontrolled diabetes, your physician will likely refer you to an endocrinologist (someone who specializes in diagnosing and treating hormonal and endocrine disorders). Two of the most common diseases treated by endocrinologists are hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. What’s the difference between hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism? Both of these conditions have different signs and symptoms, some of which can overlap. But how do you tell the difference between hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism? Hyperthyroidism refers to an overactive thyroid that produces too much thyroid hormone, while hypothyroidism refers to an underactive thyroid that doesn’t produce enough of this hormone. Common signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism include weight loss, anxiety, irritability, heart palpitations, trouble sleeping, hand tremors, and muscle weakness. Your body kicks into overdrive, and you can experience insomnia and become easily hot and flushed. It is more common in women, though doctors aren’t quite sure why. Graves’ disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. It is an autoimmune disease in which your immune system perceives the thyroid as a foreign body and attacks it, causing the thyroid to grow and release too much hormone. As previously mentioned, hypothyroidism occurs when your thyroid produces too little thyroid hormone. Most cases of hypothyroidism are mild, with symptoms including constipation, fatigue, sensitivity to cold, weight gain, dry skin, and depression. An underactive thyroid can be caused by an autoimmune disorder called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, radiation treatment, or even different types of medication. If your thyroid is removed for medical reasons, such as cancer, you can suffer from hypothyroidism. In the United States, this condition affects around 4.6% of people ages 12 and older. How are hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism diagnosed? Patients experiencing any of the signs or symptoms above should see their doctor immediately. Based on an evaluation of symptoms and a physical exam, your doctor will often order blood tests to confirm a diagnosis. A blood test for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is the best screening method for thyroid problems. Because TSH stimulates production of your thyroid hormones, levels will be high when your body is not making enough thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) and low when too much is being made (hyperthyroidism). Because of symptom subtlety or overlap, thyroid disease can be difficult to diagnose, Dr. Kawji says. A TSH test can identify thyroid problems before symptoms occur. But if you don’t report symptoms, your doctor may not screen you for thyroid disease. It’s particularly important to ask your doctor about screening if your family has a history of thyroid disease. Heredity is a factor in Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s disease, and thyroid cancer. Is one worse or more dangerous than the other? Not necessarily. You can experience both, although hypothyroidism is more common than hyperthyroidism. Both conditions can become a problem during pregnancy, as hormones are in flux. This is why women who have thyroid disease get tested more frequently during pregnancy and may need to be prescribed medication and/or change doses. How are hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism treated? Enlargement of the thyroid, a condition known as goiter, can happen in both types of thyroid disease. However, the causes and treatments of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism are very different. The treatment of hyperthyroidism starts by addressing the symptoms. Beta blockers are commonly prescribed to help alleviate symptoms. These drugs act to slow heart rate, decrease tremors, and lessen irritability. Other treatments depend on the cause of hyperthyroidism. Hypothyroidism is commonly treated with supplemental thyroid hormone. The synthetic (man-made) version is called L-thyroxine or levothyroxine. The goal is to get your TSH back in the normal range and improve your symptoms. If you’re struggling with any of the aforementioned symptoms or have a family history of thyroid disease, call 225-635-3269 to schedule an appointment with St. Francis Endocrinology. Back To Top
What are Critical Areas? The Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA) identifies 5 Critical Areas, which include Wetlands, Critical Aquifer Recharge Areas (CARA’s), Frequently Flooded Areas, Geologically Hazardous Areas, and Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas. Because Yakima County plans under the GMA, it is required to protect Critical Areas. Yakima County protects critical areas through administration of the Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO). Critical Areas requirements protect key functions that enhance our environment and protect us from hazards. Benefits of Critical Areas include aesthetics and recreation, clean drinking water, wildlife and aquatic life habitat, floodwater storage, and groundwater recharge, among others. Once these areas are damaged or lost, they are very expensive to restore. The costs of floods, landslides, and contaminated drinking water are not only monetarily expensive, but can also cost lives. Show All Answers 1. What are Critical Areas? 2. Will my project need a Critical Areas Permit?
As world leaders meet for the eco summit, here's how to do your bit Going green at home: As world leaders meet for the eco summit, here’s how to do your bit • World leaders are gathering to debate the climate change crisis at COP26 • Nigel Colborn says gardens can help by catching more carbon than they release • UK gardening expert says soil with highest humus levels lock down most carbon • COP26 begins tomorrow, but while world leaders debate the cambiamento climatico crisi, can we do anything to be ‘greenerin our gardens? The answer is: assolutamente. Our gardens can help by catching and holding more carbon than they release. Ma come? The stock answer beloved of politicians is to plant trees, which can lock up carbon for decades. For large areas, va bene. But few gardens have space for more than a tree or two plus a few shrubs. però, there are easier, better ways to lock carbon into small gardens. Soil provides one answer. Soil contains decayed organic matter: humus. And from alcol to zingiberene, all organic matter contains carbon. So soils with the highest humus levels lock down the most carbon. Natural solution: Reduce your carbon footprint by making small garden changes Natural solution: Reduce your carbon footprint by making small garden changes In woodland, trees catch and hold a great deal of carbon. The ground beneath them is full of carbon-rich humus. That comes mainly from leaf-litter which is topped up each autumn. So well-run gardens have much in common with woods. Yet woodland stores carbon automatically; gardens need a helping hand. Trees build themselves from CO2 in the air, turning it into carbon-based wood. So extensive forests garner millions of tons of the greenhouse gas. In your garden, a tree plus a few shrubs does the same. But that’s like comparing a sailing dinghy with a monster cruise ship. fortunatamente, gardeners can store carbon without trees, even in a tiny plot. Apart from taking CO2 out of the air, woodlands lock carbon down in less obvious ways. Leaves and debris fall to the ground every year. Helped by invertebrates and microbes, that decomposes to humus, which travels down into the soil and is carbon-rich. Being slow to decompose, it becomes a crucial ingredient to all healthy soil. If you can keep building up humus levels in soil, you are locking down carbon. Così, although tree-planting results in carbon storage, locking plant waste into your soil could be more effective, especially in small spaces. Remember that soil underlies almost everything in your garden. As well as in borders, you can build up humus under lawns, erba, along paths and even below unpaved parking areas. così, a small garden can help to fight climate change. If your garden is too small for a tree, you can still trap carbon. • Begin by going peat-free. • Peat extraction releases greenhouse gases. Peat-free potting composts feel odd at first but you get used to them. • Make compost. Cut your garden waste into small pieces, turning it occasionally while it rots. When it’s crumbly, it’s ready to spread over your soil. Worms will pull much of it down. • Lawns can be contentious. Boosting them with artificial fertiliser generates greenhouse gases. Dumping grass cuttings into the council’s garden waste bins makes it worse. Lawns mown without collecting the grass, però, are more carbon-friendly. Earthworms drag grass debris into the ground, storing carbon. • Deep digging releases greenhouse gases. But if soil is rich with organic matter, shallow cultivating will suffice. With or without tree-planting, carbon storage is a complex issue. We still have a great deal to learn. , , ,
Ambulatory Monitoring Cardiac Monitoring Holter Monitoring A Holter monitor is used for monitoring the electrical activity of the heart for a continuous 24 hour period. This extended recording period is useful for documenting occasional cardiac arrhythmias, or for determining the effectiveness of cardiac medications. A series of electrodes are attached to the chest and then connected to a small monitoring device that can be worn around the neck, or attached to a belt or waistband. When the recording period is completed, signal analysis is performed by special software that automatically determines different sorts of heart beats, rhythms etc. This analysis provides your Cardiologist with information about heart beat morphology, beat interval measurement, heart rate variability, and rhythm overview. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring measures blood pressure at regular intervals. It is believed to be able to reduce the “white coat” hypertension effect in which a patient’s blood pressure is elevated during the examination process due to nervousness and anxiety caused by being in a clinical setting. Out-of-office measurements are highly recommended as an adjunct to office measurements by almost all hypertension organizations. Additionally, 24-hour non-invasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring allows evaluation of treatment, and excessive blood pressure that is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular events. A blood pressure cuff is worn on the non-dominant arm and is attached to a monitoring device that is worn around the neck. The information obtained is analyzed by special software and provides your Cardiologist with data to aid in formulating a treatment plan specialized for your needs. Cardiac Event Monitoring A cardiac event monitor is a device used to monitor patients with transient cardiac symptoms. Unlike the Holter monitor, the event monitor is worn for 30 days. There are two classifications of event monitoring; looping and non-looping. With a looping monitor, two electrodes are attached to the chest and then connected to a small monitoring device that is worn on the belt or waistband. If the patient feels symptoms, a button on the monitoring device is pressed and the device will record 1 minute of cardiac electrical activity. The patient will then transmit the stored recording (via telephone), to the monitoring center, and a report will be sent to the Cardiologist. With a non-looping monitor, the patient holds the device up to the chest to obtain the recording. Data obtained from the non-looping monitor is also transmitted via telephone to the monitoring center, and a report is sent to the Cardiologist. The non-looping monitor may be carried in a pocket or pocketbook. With all of our ambulatory monitoring, a trained Cardiovascular Technologist will explain the procedure to you and answer any questions you may have.
What's considered big game? By: Maria Trimarchi Much of the appeal of hunting big game like wild boar comes from the risk and thrill of hunting large animals. Tomas Hudcovic/isifa/Getty Images Although shot by Vice President Dick Cheney during a weekend hunting expedition, campaign contributor Harry Whittington is not big game. Rather, big game refers to large, wild animals that are hunted for sport, and the catalog depends upon where you're hunting. In the United States, big game includes moose, elks, caribou, reindeer, musk oxen, deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, pronghorn, bears and peccaries (also known as javelinas, a type of wild boar). However, individual states can classify any other species within their state boundaries as big game, and since habitats vary around the country, lists vary from state to state. Let's look at a few examples. Arizona considers Coues deer, mule deer, buffalo, Arizona turkeys, pronghorn antelope, javelinas, elks, black bears, mountain lions, big horn sheep and bobcats to be big game within its state boundaries. West Virginians, by contrast, hunt for black bears, deer, wild turkeys and boar. Some states classify wolves and even alligators. What's considered big game changes outside of the United States, and one of the most popular big game hunting locales is South Africa. African big game hunting safaris allow hunters to pursue a long list of species, including some that are perhaps unfamiliar: wildebeest, blesbok, cheetahs, giraffes, impala, kudu, tigers, warthogs and zebras, among others. Additionally, Africa has its "big five," the most notoriously difficult species to hunt there: lions, African elephants, Cape buffalo, leopards and rhinoceri. Big game hunting is big business. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that 12.5 million people 16 years old and older hunt within the United States, about 10.7 million of them hunting big game [source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]. The industry is also booming in South Africa where about $280 million is generated annually [source: Tsui]. Let's hunt down more information about how and where big game hunting happens, next. Big Game Hunting The author Ernest Hemingway was famous for hunting big game. He posed for the cover of Picture Post with a dead leopard. Earl Theisen/Picture Post/IPC Magazines/Getty Images Just as the list of big game varies from place to place, so do the regulations and permits for hunting. Big game hunting in the United States is done on public and privately owned wilderness hunting regions during a specific time frame called open season, with or without a professional hunter as a guide. Each state determines when and where hunting is allowed, as well as who is able to hunt -- states impose age limits and kill limits (known as tag limits), place residency restrictions on hunters and restrict the total number of permits issued. They also regulate the hunting season to specific times of day and months of the year. Nebraska, for example, issues different types of big game hunting permits to residents, resident landowners and nonresidents. All hunters must wear hunter orange clothing for safety, and hunters as young as 12 years old are eligible to hunt some types of big game when accompanied by an adult -- there's no age limit for turkey hunting. Choosing the right weapon depends on where you're hunting, what you're hunting and what you're comfortable firing. Local governments designate legally acceptable weapons for killing animals on the big game list, including archery rules and caliber types for firearms (shotguns, rifles, semi-automatics and muzzleloading rifles). Bigger isn't always better when it comes to guns, and in many instances, it's not the weapon used but where the animal is hit that brings it down. Regardless of the weapon, hunters must obey local firearms laws -- which vary from state to state. Hunting big game in Africa is a different experience from U.S. hunting. Tourists accompany professional hunters on safaris that include amenities such as meals, lodging, transportation, tracking and field-guide services, hunting licenses and field trophies. In a report of the 2003-2004 season, 6,700 tourists in Africa killed nearly 54,000 animals [source: Tsui]. Much of the appeal of hunting in Africa comes from the allure of dangerous game. Tourists can choose from hunting trips in national game reserves or in private game ranches. Game available for hunting on privately owned land outnumbers what's available on government lands by more than two to one [source: Mkhamba Safaris]. Controversial in both Africa and in the United States are canned hunts and trophy hunts, where hunters pay big bucks for the privilege of killing rare or exotic animals on private hunting reserves. Canned hunts guarantee kills because they typically take place on small, enclosed lands. Trophy hunters compete for the prestige of killing rare animals and often sell hides, tusks, body parts and bodies to interested parties, including museums. The controversy is with both hunters and with animal rights activists. The latter are opposed to shooting animals within small enclosures; the former oppose hunts that don't involve a fair chase. There are no laws against canned hunting other than those imposed by local governments. To learn more about hunting and fishing, please see the next page. Lots More Information Related HowStuffWorks Articles More Great Links • "§ 25.12 What do these terms mean? Chapter 1: United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Part 25 - Administrative Provisions." Code of Federal Regulations. Justia.http://law.justia.com/us/cfr/title50/50- • "Big Game Hunting Guide." Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. State of Nebraska. http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/hunting/guides/biggame/biggame.asp • Bush, Dana. ""Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter." CNN. 2006.http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/cheney/ • "Cheney's Canned Kill, and Other Hunting Excesses of the Bush Administration." The Humane Society of the United States.http://www.hsus.org/legislation_laws/wayne_pacelle_the_animal_advocate/cheneys_canned_kill_and_other_hunting_excesses_of_the_bush_administration.html • DeWitt, Robert. "ROBERT DeWITT: Gambril darts rhino to complete Africa's 'Big Five'." The Tuscaloosa News. 2008.http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20081116/NEWS/811150287 • "Hunting News & Information: Big Game in Alphabetical Order." BigGameHunt.net. http://www.biggamehunt.net/biggame.html • "Hunting South Africa." Mkhamba Safaris.http://www.africanhuntingsafaris.net/hunting-south-africa.html • "Stop Canned Hunts." The Humane Society of the United States.http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/stop_canned_hunts/ • Tsui, Bonnie. "Trophies in a Barrel: Examining 'Canned Hunting'." The New York Times. 2006. http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/travel/09heads.html • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. "Hunting Statistics and Economics." 2008.http://www.fws.gov/hunting/huntstat.html • Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. "Big Game Hunting Auction and Raffle Program." 2008. http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/hunter/auction_summary.htm • West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. "Definitions of Terms Used 2008-2009 Hunting Regulation." 2008.http://www.wvdnr.gov/Regulations/hunting_genregsdefinitions.shtm
Geophysical properties of soils J. Carlos Santamarina and Junghee Park Low energy perturbations used in geophysical methods provide insightful information about constant-fabric soil properties and their spatial variability. There are causal links between soil type, index properties, elastic wave velocity, electromagnetic wave parameters and thermal properties. Soil type relates to the stress-dependent S-wave velocity, thermal and electrical conductivity and permittivity. The small strain stiffness reflects the state of stress, the extent of diagenetic cementation and/or freezing. Pore fluid chemistry, fluid phase and changes in either fluid chemistry or phase manifest through electromagnetic measurements. The volumetric water content measured with electromagnetic techniques is the best predictor of porosity if the water saturation is 100%. Changes in water saturation alter the P-wave velocity when Srà100%, the S-wave velocity at intermediate saturations, and the thermal conductivity when the saturation is low Srà0%. Finally, tabulated values suffice to estimate heat capacity and latent heat for engineering design, however thermal conductivity requires measurements under proper field conditions.
How is solid waste effectively recycled? How is solid waste recycled? Separating, recovering, and reusing components of solid waste that may still have economic value is called recycling. … Composting can also be considered a recycling process, since it reclaims the organic parts of solid waste for reuse as mulch or soil conditioner. Still other waste materials have potential for reuse. How Can solid waste be managed effectively? What is the best method of solid waste disposal? Methods of Solid Waste Management 3. Recovery and Recycling. … 4. Composting. … 5. Pyrolysis. Why do we recycle solid waste? IT IS INTERESTING: Can refrigerator magnets be recycled? What are the benefits of waste recycling? Waste glass, paper, cardboard, plastic, and metals are recycled in order to take advantage of the materials and to minimize the environmental impact – less energy or water consumption, less air pollution or reduction of greenhouse gases. How does solid waste affect the environment? Solid waste damps are seriously spoiling the environmental conditions in developing countries. … An inefficient municipal solid waste management system may create serious negative environmental impacts like infectious diseases, land and water pollution, obstruction of drains and loss of biodiversity. How can your community reduce solid waste disposal? Reducing waste not buying products wrapped in a lot of packaging materials. choosing glass and cardboard over plastic and metal. using your own shopping bag or basket, and refusing plastic bags at the store. buying food in larger quantities to reduce the amount of packaging you bring home. What is an effective way to manage waste in a shop? Use sealable containers rather than plastic wrap. Invest in some reusable shopping bags or bring old plastic ones with you to the store. Look into upcycling ideas for common household items, many have alternate uses you may never have thought about. Embrace hand-me-downs.
I've always wanted to surround some text with #s, but I have trouble figuring out what I surrounded so in this challenge you'll be writing a program to do just that Input / Outputs are separated by a newline. # a # # b c # b c F# M #L # N#O # go# C o d e • #s are what "surround" a block of text • # will always be adjacent to one another (including diagonally) • # will always form a closed shape • There will only be one # shape • In the event of a concave shape, holes should be filled with spaces. • Whitespace must be preserved in the output • \$\begingroup\$ at first I was like.. just take out the #s and there you go... and then it got hard. \$\endgroup\$ Apr 10, 2016 at 19:48 • \$\begingroup\$ I'm having trouble getting input in javascript and splitting by newline... how do I have to get input? could it be formatted with a \n after each line of input and passed as a function param to my program or what? \$\endgroup\$ Apr 10, 2016 at 21:08 • 1 \$\begingroup\$ Whats is the set of valid input characters ? \$\endgroup\$ – Ton Hospel Apr 12, 2016 at 17:05 • \$\begingroup\$ Is there an error on the output of the MN example? Its output consists of only the text surrounded, _M_\n___N (using underscores instead of spaces because of formatting issues), while in the abc and Codego examples the output also includes whitespace where #s were in the input. If only the text surrounded by #s is to be printed, then the output of the abc example should be _a_\n_b_c_ (instead of __a_\n_b_c) and the output of the Codego example should be Co\nde\n_go (instead of C___o\nd___e\n__go). \$\endgroup\$ – epidemian Apr 14, 2016 at 5:14 • \$\begingroup\$ @epidemian ah, nice catch. I've fixed the MN example. as there shouldn't of been an extra space after M. \$\endgroup\$ – Downgoat Apr 14, 2016 at 5:39 2 Answers 2 Perl, 144 138 132 129 128 127 126 124 bytes Includes +2 for -p0 The code assumes \0 is not a valid input character (at least inside the #). Run with the input on STDIN: surround.pl < surround.txt #!/usr/bin/perl -p0 /^#[^#\0]/m&&s/^\|[^#\n\0]\0/\0\0/mg,s%.%s/.(.)/$+\0/g;/#/&&reverse"\n",/^./mg%seg until$?++<$$_++;y/\0/#/;s/^#\n\|#+$\|^#//mg;y;#; The code works as is, but replace the \0 and \n by their literal versions for the claimed score. Notice there is a space at the end of the line. The code loops way too many times, so you may have to wait 30 seconds or so for output. I am going to do a floodfill with \0 stopped by # from the outside in the orthogonal directions. After that I will slice off the # sides and replace all that is left by spaces. To avoid having to handle all directions in the floodfill I will repeatedly rotate the target area and only floodfill from right to left /^#[^#\0]/m The rotation is written such that it slices off the first column. That is ok unless the first column contains a # that is followed by something that could be the inside. There is no newline inside the [] because short lines will get extended during the rotation and the character following the # will end up as a \0 and match in a later round &&s/^\|[^#\n\0]\0/\0\0/mg In case the # could be an interior border I will add two columns of \0's in front. One will be a sacrifice for the rotation, the other column will end up at the end of the area after two rotations and function as seed for the floodfill. This regex also does one step of the floodfill from the back to the front. After a certain number of loops we are certain to get to a first column that must not be dropped so at some point the last column is guaranteed to consist of only \0. And we only need to fill backward since the rotations will make any direction backward at some point s%.% process column %seg I will replace each character (including \n) in the string by the next column in reversed order or an empty string if there are no more interesting columns. This is therefore a right rotation. There are less columns than characters so this loop is long enough s%.%s/.(.)/$+\0/g Remove the next (now first) character from each row (so remove the column). Because the original area is not necessarily a rectangle add a \0 at the end of the row so we won't run out out of columns (this would cause shorter rows to have no entry in the new rotated row) This will not do anything for empty lines so they DO get squeezed out. But that is not a problem since the problem statement says there will be only one # shape so any empty lines are can be safely dropped (this would not be so if there could be multiple # shapes because that could create a new surrounded area /#/ Check if any of the remaining columns still has a #. If not all remaining columns are on the outside and can be dropped &&reverse"\n",/^./mg Collect the column and add a \n to its reverse until$?++<$$_++ Keep doing this until we get to a multiple of 65536 rotations when $? waraps back around to 0 (this is a multiple of 4 so the area is left unrotated) and an area we have seen before ($$_ >= 1) (so all slicing and flood filling is finished) $_ having been seen in a previous rotations is not a problem (though rather tricky to prove) At this point e.g. F# M #L # N#O will have been replaced by: 0# M #0 # N#0 Basically all columns and rows that are not directly bordering the inside have been sliced off. Any outside characters left has been replaced by \0. At the top and right there is an extra layer of \0. So all that is left is cleanup: y/\0/#/ Replace any outside that is left by # s/^#\n\|#+$\|^#//mg Removes the first two and last line (the only lines that can consist of purely #) Removes any trailing # Removes the first column of # y;#; \n; Replace any remaining # by space since they are needed to fill the concave parts The final \n; is not written since it is implicit in the -p loop • \$\begingroup\$ Do your floodfills work around interior corners, if there were any? \$\endgroup\$ – mbomb007 Apr 14, 2016 at 21:24 • \$\begingroup\$ @mbomb007: Yes, since the area is repeatedly rotated, so it is able to follow any twisty corridors. The loop stopping too early before reducing very thick walls is the only flaw as far as I know \$\endgroup\$ – Ton Hospel Apr 15, 2016 at 9:44 • \$\begingroup\$ @mbomb007: Aaaaand the thick wall flaw is now solved \$\endgroup\$ – Ton Hospel Apr 15, 2016 at 14:03 • \$\begingroup\$ copy-pasting your solution as-is (not replacing the escaped chars), the output is merely the input with all # stripped. please verify my bash session: codepad.org/YbCzB4O4 \$\endgroup\$ – ardnew Apr 15, 2016 at 16:38 • \$\begingroup\$ @ardnew: Oops, sorry. For the last update did not repaste the full solution, and I should have replaced the while by an until. Fixed now, Please try again \$\endgroup\$ – Ton Hospel Apr 15, 2016 at 18:30 Javascript, 485 464 427 417 396 390 bytes `;for(h of m){m[m[s](h)]=h.split``;}for(y=0;y<m.length;y++){for(z=x=0;x<m[y].length;x++){if(m[y][x]==h)break;if(m[y][s](h)<x&&m[y][k](h)>x)z++;q=t(m);if(q[y][s]h)<x&&m[y][k](h)>x)z++;if(z>2)m[y][x]=h}}for(p of m){v=p.join``.match(/\S/);e=v?p.join``:'';m[m[s](p)]=e;}m=m.join` `;return m.replace(#/g," ")} Yes. I tried. And, although I am at 485 bytes, I am winning because no-one else felt like answering this question. So, hah! And also, I am well aware that I could golf this loads, I just am tired at the moment... well now I'm at 396 Thanks to Conor for most of the golfing... :D • 1 \$\begingroup\$ Declare the variables inside the for loops outside with y=z=0 \$\endgroup\$ – Bálint Apr 28, 2016 at 15:23 Your Answer
Quick Math Question... (Pressure conversion) EDIT: Forget about this… i found the solution here: (This post can be deleted) I am trying to convert absolute pressure values to atmospheric pressure. I found this on the net, but can’t get it to accurately compute… I might not be understanding how to implement the equation in the program… here’s the equation: My question is : What to do with the 5.25?? Should it be multiplied? this is how I am computing it: P = (P0× (1−(h / 44330.77))) Then convert from Pascals to inH: AP = (P÷100)×0.02953 With inputs of: h = 448 p0 = 100900 I should get: 29.78 Atmospheric Pressure I am getting: 29.47 Which is close. But not close enough. I am inputing values from my local airport reports… So I know the WUnderground conversions are correct… So it’s an issue on my part. If I multiple the (5.25) outside the brackets I get values WAY off… So… Any help would be welcomed! The 5.255876 is an exponent, not a multiplier. You need to take the expression you calculated to the power of 5.255876. (Not difficult to do with Excel or a scientific calculator). You can perhaps use this link to verify your calculations. Thanks… I found I can use the pow function in the “math.h” include! 1 Like
Data Analysis The process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the objective of extracting useful information for decision-making What is Data Analysis? Data analysis is the process of examining, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the objective of extracting useful information for decision-making. It is often used in different domains, such as business, science, and the humanities. Data Analysis • Data analysis refers to the process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data to extract useful information for decision-making. • The most prominent types of data analysis include text analysis (data mining), statistical analysis, diagnostic analysis, predictive analysis, and prescriptive analysis. Types of Data Analysis While many types of data analysis can be used, the following are five of the most well-known methods: 1. Statistical Analysis Statistical analysis analyzes a set of data or a sample of data and interprets past data. It is done via the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and modeling of past data. The two subcategories of statistical analysis are descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. Descriptive analysis analyzes and summarizes the characteristics of a data set to determine what is happening. Inferential analysis differs from descriptive analysis because it allows analysts to test a hypothesis and assess whether the data from the sample can be generalized to the general population. In other words, inferential analysis allows one to make predictions or inferences from the data through testing a smaller sample instead of the entire population. For example, in accounting, auditors will often use inferential analysis to determine the risk of material misstatement in a client’s financial statements. It is done by auditors taking a sample of data from the client and then determining if the results from the sample apply to the entire population. In such a case, auditors will need to remove any high-value items or non-recurring items (in a process called stratification) before analyzing the sample to reduce the risk of sampling error. 2. Diagnostic Analysis The primary purpose of diagnostic analysis is to determine the root cause of any results found after statistical analysis. Diagnostic analysis is useful because it helps identify any patterns in the data. When new issues arrive in the business process, one can use diagnostic analysis to find similar patterns. 3. Text Analysis (Data Mining) Also known as data mining, text analysis is one of the most popular data analysis methods used to discover patterns in large data sets by utilizing databases or data mining tools. Text analysis is primarily used to transform raw data into business information and, specifically, derives patterns after examining data to put it to good use. 4. Predictive Analysis Predictive analysis is used to predict what is likely to happen given the previous data. It makes predictions of future outcomes; however, it is important to note that it is just an estimate. Other factors may be needed to be taken into account, such as industry trends or macroeconomic developments in the economy or society as a whole. 5. Prescriptive Analysis Prescriptive analysis is the final phase of business analytics and includes descriptive and predictive analysis. Its purpose is to combine the insight of the previous analysis to determine which actions should be taken to address the current problem or make a decision. It is used because predictive analysis and descriptive analysis are often not enough to improve data performance. While prescriptive analysis can help prevent fraud, limit risk, increase efficiency, and meet business goals, it is not foolproof. It is only effective if the organizations involved know which questions to ask and how to address the answers throughout the analysis process. Prescriptive analysis utilizes state-of-the-art technology and data practices and, as such, is a huge organizational commitment. Therefore, companies need to be sure that they are ready and able to afford the extensive human and financial resources. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an example of prescriptive analysis, as AI systems use a large amount of data to learn continuously and use the information to make informed decisions. High-quality AI systems are capable of communicating decisions and put them into action. Using artificial intelligence allows business processes to be performed and optimized daily without needing any human action. More Resources Thank you for reading CFI’s guide to Data Analysis. To keep learning and advance your career, the following resources will be helpful: • Data Warehousing • Hypothesis Testing • Descriptive Statistics • Sampling Errors 0 search results for ‘
Photo credit: Jo-Anne Mc Arthur for her project We animals – and it’s taken inside a vet university. This dog has been used as a test subject, like million others…. “Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals and the answer is: Because the animals are like us. Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals and the answer is: Because the animals are not like us. Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.” ― Charles R. Magel philosophy professor A flashback to the experiments that have been conducted on humans During the Second World War, many experiments were conducted by Josef Mengele, who became known as the Angel of death, in Auschwitz, and many experiments were conducted in the Unit 731, in Japan, where thousands of people were used as guinea pigs and some of the most despicable experiments in the worldwide war history had been taken place. It is very difficult to compare the experiments carried out on humans by the German and Japanese forces in the respective concentration camps, since it is impossible to realize the extent of the horror and violation of every notion of human rights that took place in these hells. Indicatively, it is reported that in the Nazi concentration camps the following experiments took place on human bodies and souls, usually resulting in death: freezing and thawing of bodies by various techniques, admission to special chambers of low atmospheric pressure, infection by various diseases, removal of organs without anesthesia, genetic experiments for the creation of the Aryan race, mass sterilization, ingestion of large amounts of seawater, administration of poisonous chemicals, induction and healing of injuries, organ transplants, artificial insemination experiments and mass exterminations in gas chambers. In a 2007 interview that was published in the newspaper of Japan Times, a Japanese doctor who participated in the experiments once exclaimed cynically: ”I was afraid during my first vivisection, but the second time around, it was much easier. By the third time, I was willing to do it.” 1946 -1948: Trials of syphilis medical products were conducted by the US government in Guatemala. The U.S. Department of Health collaborated with the secret services of Guatemala, and they infected on purpose with syphilis and gonorrhea more than 5500 people in the country. Their aim was to test the effectiveness of penicillin in sexually transmitted diseases. According to the US National Institute of Health, within 10 years (’97-’07) they had been more than 58,000 drug and vaccine trials in the countries of the developing world. Most drug and vaccine trials took place in India and China, and they were followed by Russia, Romania, Ukraine, Peru, Colombia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malawi and Uganda. In 1996, in Nigeria the pharmaceutical company Pfizer was responsible for the death of at least 15 children during trials for the company’s new drug against meningitis. When the country was confronted a meningitis epidemic, the trials, which were conducted illegally and under the guise of humanitarian aid, the Nigerian government was forced to sue Pfizer, but the case never made it to the courts. A few years later, the same company conducted clinical trials for a new anti-inflammatory drug in Latin American countries. It was never released in western countries because it was indicated that it was the cause of strokes and heart diseases. Why allowing the use of non human animals in experiments since it is immoral to do that to humans? Annually, more than 100,000,000 animals undergo experiments.These experiments are associated to the production of cosmetic products, cigarettes, cleaning products, foods, stationery, adhesives and of course medicines, etc. Gladly, since 2013, within the European Union territory it is forbidden to conduct experiments on animals by companies that produce cosmetics, and even if the experiments are taking place outside of the E.U territory, the products can’t be sold within the E.U (after a court hearing held in 2016). But animal testing keeps taking place for the production of the rest producs that are mentioned above. The use of non human animals in trials has been proven ineffective: Research shows that 92% of drugs tested on animals are discarded during clinical research on humans.Ultimately, scientists wonder whether the control in substances on animals it helps or it creates confusion. It seems that we learn more about the laboratory animals through experiments than about the human reactions. At the same time, we learn about where the human indifference, the ignorance, and the false perception of the superiority of the human species over other forms of life can reach. In a 2001 survey that was conducted in more than 65 products, it was found that only 45% of the experiments’ results on rabbits responded to the reactions of the human organism. In a research, that was published in the British Medical Journal, which assessed the effectiveness of more than 220 studies where thousands of animals were used it was found that nearly half studies failed to predict human outcomes. They had the same success as tossing the coins. None of the drugs for AIDS, came from trials that invloved animal testing. In contrast, since 1987 there have been thirty vaccines tested in monkeys, which were all rejected by humans. The outdated experiments do not take into account the factors that could alter the result such as the mental state of the laboratory animal under the terrible conditions of its treatment, neither the family medical history of the patient, his/her environment, nor his/her bad diet, his/her stress and its possible side effects. Episkin is a world leader in tissue engineering and offers Human Reconstructed Tissues to the global scientific community – academic and industry – in order to support research and development activities in Safety and Efficacy. 1. Often alternative methods of experiments are more reliable. An example given is the carcinogenic properties of glass wool were proved after the scientists experimented on humans. Experiments conducted on monkeys, guinea pigs, rats, mice, hamsters, and baboons showed no connection between the two of them. Likewise, the skin irritation tests utilising a common protocol for in vitro reconstructed human epidermal model Epiderm’s experiments found all the chemical components that affect the human skin. At the same time, the same experiments when they were conducted on rabbits, they failed by 40% (10 out of 25 experiments gave the wrong results). 2. The use of human skin on toxic experiments gives more accurate results than the use of animals on them. Example given is the LD50 testing which forces animals to swallow toxic substances until 50% amongst them die at the time of the experiments. Dr. Bjotn Ekwall created a test which had an accuracy of 85% in comparison to the animal tests that had a mere accuracy of 61-65%. In fact, it provided more answers to the toxicity issues that could not be provided while the experiments were conducted on animals which were suffering, and they were anxious because their emotional state did not allow it. 3. Experiments that are not done on animals have the least cost, they are more practical and useful. The in vitro international tests of Corrositex provide results in a period from 3 minutes to 4 hours while the tests that were conducted on animals, provide results in 2 to 4 days. Dak Dak testing is a method of experiment concerning the sunscreen efficiency which provided results within days while the corresponding animal testing method would have taken months to give results. It can test 5-6 products at half the price of the alternative animal test for 1 product only. Traditional animal experiments can take up to 5 years to experiment for just one ingredient, while for many chemicals an alternative experiment gives answers within a week, at a much lower cost.. At the same time an alternative experiment gives answers for many chemical substances within a week, at a much lower cost. 4. Alternative experiments are more environmentally friendly. Raising animals that eventually end up as their carcasses and consequently they develop as pathogens and hazardous waste. The alternative methods provide less waste. With the release of the report “Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy”, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in 2007 analysed the limitations of toxicity testings on animals, and it demanded changing with the alternative experiments. Thus, in 2008 EPA and NIH’s National Toxicology Program and Chemical Genomics Center signed the “Memorandum of Understanding.” They wanted to follow the report’s vision and they started developing new methods of toxicity testings that include the use of human cells created in a laboratory, rather the use of animals. After the evaluation of 300 chemicals using the new methods, at the same time they discovered that thousands of chemicals can be tested with this method. Today EPA is in the process of creating artificial human organs. Then, why animal testing is still a thing? Usually, the reasons that they continue to experiment on animals because of conservatism and the mentality of “this is how it always happened”. In addition, the adoption of alternative experiments requires time-consuming and tedious bureaucratic procedures… Try to watch the following clip…and have in mind that’s just an animation…. The Plague Dogs is a 1982 British-American animated adventure drama film, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. Examples of discoveries from tests on humans: – The insulin therapy was suggested from the observation of patients, it was not necessary to remove the pancreas from a dog in 1920, – The brain surgery of patients with Parkinson’s led to the conclusion of Deep Brain Stimulation which uses the electrodes to relieve symptoms, it was not necessary to apply it to the monkeys. – The discovery of major Alzheimer’s symptoms, they study parts of patients ‘ brains after they had died. It was discovered that the mice and rats do not get cancer from smoking, because they studied different populations from different countries… – Doctors from Germany, Australia and America were making different tests on themselves, they have proven the effect of the paracetamol, the influence of anesthetic gas etc. What can we do? Firstly, inform ourselves, our family, our friends and generally people around us… Today, ignorance is the biggest problem. Change comes only after getting informed…. Secondly, we quit buying products (such as cosmetics, detergents, etc.) from companies that are experimenting on animals and instead we start buying products with the Cruelty free certification. Nowadays, in supermarkets and organic shops we can find plethora of these products. Our daily choices are the ones that sustain all these criminal practices. Buying products from companies that do not respect animal rights is a way from us to say that we accept these practices. Some good news from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and from Holland: By 2016, none of the 202 accredited medical schools in the United States or Canada is known to use live animals for student training. As recently as February 2015, four medical schools—the University of Mississippi, Rush University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Tennessee’s campus in Chattanooga—used animals for this purpose, but all have since ended the practice. We now focus our attention on the areas of specialized medical training and research where animals are still being used”: Emergency Medicine Residencies, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Paediatrics Residencies & Combat Trauma Training are still testing on animals. The Dutch government aims to phase out animal testing for research on the safety of chemicals by 2025. The Netherlands wants to be a “world leader” in innovation without the use of laboratory animals. Let’s hope more countries will follow… Elisabeth Dimitras Translation: Panayiota Mavroudi, team member of the Respond Crisis Translation
Fourth Species Guidelines 4:1, and Fifth Species As in Second Species, the half note on the first beat is defined as strong, and the second half note is weak. The rhythm of Fourth Species is note-against-note, offset or delayed by one beat. The weak beat in the counterpoint is always tied across the bar line and may become a Suspension when the other voice moves on the strong beat. If it is a consonance when the other voice moves, it is referred to as a Syncope rather than a suspension. Fux referred to tied notes as “Ligatures.” Fourth Species consists of counterpoint with Suspensions and Syncopations. A suspension is a note that is held across a strong beat, and when the other note in the counterpoint moves it becomes a dissonance. The suspension is prepared (preceded) by a tied common tone and resolves down stepwise to a consonance. The three notes in the counterpoint that create the suspension are the Preparation, the Suspension, and the Resolution (PSR). The Preparation is a consonance, may occur on either a strong or weak beat, and is equal to the suspension in duration. The Suspension is typically a 4th resolving to a 3rd (4-3), a 7th resolving to a 6th (7-6), and less often a 9th resolving to an octave (9-8). It happens on the strong beat in the upper voice. The primary type of Suspension that occurs in the lower voice is the Bass Suspension, consisting of a 2nd to a 3rd (2-3). It is an inversion of the 7-6 suspension. The Resolution is an imperfect consonance, not a unison, and is always step below the suspension itself. A 4-5 suspension in the lower voice is very rare. When the same rhythmic formula occurs between the two parts, and the intervals are a 6th to a 5th (6-5) between them, it is referred to as a Syncopation rather than a Suspension. This is because the intervals are both consonances. As in Second Species, it is permissible to leap to and from a consonance. This is often done to reposition the voices for a suspension. The 2-1 and 7-8 sequences of intervals are avoided. As you write and analyze Fourth Species, you will find that certain combinations of intervals recur. There are a limited number of patterns, depending on the movement of the Cantus Firmus. When writing the CP in the upper voice there are two obvious patterns. If the CF steps upward, an octave in the CP becomes a 7th, which must resolve down to a 6th. If the CF steps down, a 3rd becomes a 4th in the counterpoint, which must resolve down to a third. It is common to create chains of consecutive 7-6 and 4-3 suspensions over stepwise motion in the CF. Ending with a Clausula Vera, as all these examples do, the 7-6 in the penultimate measure resolves smoothly to the octave. Rules for Fourth Species (whole notes against tied half notes) 1. In the upper voice, write a consonant half note on beat 3 and tie it over the bar line. Select a consonance with the potential to become a suspension over the moving Cantus Firmus. 2. If it becomes a dissonance, such as a 4th or 7th when the CF moves, resolve it down stepwise to a 3rd or 6th. 3. If the tied note remains a consonance, you may leap away from it to a note that becomes the preparation for another suspension. If it becomes a dissonance, resolve it down stepwise creating another suspension. 4. Parallel 5ths on consecutive strong beats separated by consonances are acceptable. This also applies to octaves, but only two in a row. 5. The penultimate bar ends with a half note that is not tied, and the last bar contains whole notes forming a Clausula Vera. Fifth Species (Florid Counterpoint) Fifth Species combines all the other species. Generally, common time is used, and no more than two consecutive measures with identical rhythmic patterns are written. The use of parallel perfect intervals is determined by those governing the species used at any given time. Rules for Fifth Species (for use in writing examples) 1. Quarter notes are typically the shortest note values used against whole notes in the CF, except in ornamented suspensions. 2. Prepare suspensions with a half note, and use either a half or quarter note for the suspension itself. 3. Avoid the quarter-quarter-half note combination in a measure, unless the half note is tied into the next measure. 4. Avoid quarter-half-quarter in a measure, which creates excessive sycopation. 5. The half-quarter-quarter note combination is allowed, following the rules governing the species used. 6. Note values in the penultimate measure are governed by the species used, moving into the standard Clausula Vera cadence. “Show Me” – Video: “Writing Fourth Species Counterpoint Examples of 16th Century Counterpoint Oculus non vidit by Orlando de Lassus, 1577 Scroll to Top
ArtsAutosBooksBusinessEducationEntertainmentFamilyFashionFoodGamesGenderHealthHolidaysHomeHubPagesPersonal FinancePetsPoliticsReligionSportsTechnologyTravel Consumerism. The emotional expense of getting more "things." Updated on November 14, 2019 lani81 profile image Lani is dedicated to change and writes about her journey, the journey of others, and the insights gained through experience and research. By Definition: Consumerism as an economic term is a state, country, or policy that encourages constant consumption of goods and services. In cultural terms, consumerism is the desire to own more than you need. To consume is the Western way; it is the American way, and to maintain it is difficult and expensive. The expense is more than monetary. It is emotionally expensive, psychologically expensive, and environmentally expensive. This article will focus on the emotional expense of having and obtaining more than you need. Emotionally Expensive Spending is emotional. Needing feels bad, having feels good. In fact, needing feels so bad people will go out of their way to have more than they need. And having more than you need feels so good, people attach their self-worth to their ability to have. Consumption through purchasing is more of an emotional transaction than it is monetary. A transaction that results in getting what you want (not necessarily need) is emotionally rewarding. Wanting something for a long time builds emotional tension and discontent. Eventually, the want begins to feel like a need, and that need must be satisfied. Superficial purchases provide shallow rewards that depreciate over time. Buying your second car does not feel nearly as good as your first. The same is true for your second house, second Coach bag, or second Harley. You may be thinking, " those are big purchases, I don't even have those things." The law of diminishing returns stands for smaller purchases as well. The pleasure and excitement of buying your first comic book or concert t-shirt share the same diminishing return. If purchasing something, you do not need, no longer makes you feel good, it may seem logical to withdraw from the activity. Or... you can buy more, or buy something more expensive. Either option may provide higher emotional returns, initially, but those emotional returns will also diminish. The emotional returns attached to consumption create a cycle. Actually, the emotional returns attached to consumption create an addictive and codependent emotional roller coaster. Something someone else has makes you "want," wanting creates emotional tension. Emotional tension surrounding your "want" increases until you begin to put forth increasing efforts to "have" that "want." If it is something you can "afford" (relative term), then you go out and get it. You feel satisfied, and your tension is released. However, if you cannot simply go out and purchase your "want", more effort is required, thus more emotional tension builds and more reward is expected. More "effort" translates into many things. You may restrict your "wants" in other areas of your life and reroute those dollars towards your new "want," or you may work extra hours thus rerouting your time from somewhere else in your life towards your new "want." You may place the cost of your "want" on a credit card, or take out a loan and reroute more dollars in the future to have what you want in the present. If no legal avenues seem viable you may resort to illegal means to obtain your "want." The culture of consumerism conditions many to attribute happiness to material gains. To be happy you must have a house, a car, a significant other, a good paying job, 2.3 children and the latest iPhone. Society tells us, if you have these things you are happy, if you do not then you must not be happy. You couldn't possibly be happy...or could you? Keeping up with the Jones' or maintaining the status quo is taught to be our route to happiness but studies have shown the exact opposite. Chasing "things" causes stress, emotional and physical insecurities, and depression, to name a few. Tim Kasser, PhD, wrote in his book "The High Price of Materialism" (MIT Press, 2202), when people organize their lives around...product acquisition, they report greater unhappiness in relationships, poorer moods and more psychological problems. Consumerism and materialism are based on extrinsic values. Extrinsic value is placed on something that is not a necesity but is thought to make life tangibly better (i.e. a big TV, a vehicle, shoes). Intrinsic value is placed on anything necessary for life (i.e. food, protection from natural elements, water). Not all extrinsic purchases are bad. Shoes may not be necessary for life but depending on where you live, shoes can absolutely offer intrinsic value in the form of safety. If you are someone who must walk everywhere, shoes can broaden the distance you travel at a time and give you access to more resources. A larger television to replace your perfectly fine smaller television has purely extrinsic value and has zero intrinsic value, as your life can and will go on uninterrupted without it. To combat consumerism and materialism we must rationally divide our purchases into simple categories, "wants," and "needs." Ask yourself how your life will be changed if you do not have the "thing", but you have the money and/or time that you would have spent getting it. Think of the dollar amount of your "want" and determine three other ways you could spend that money. Note: your lifestyle and the things you currently have may drive your needs. For example, if you have a car and it is your primary source for transportation, the car may be under the "want" section (face it, if we really tried, a lot of us could get along without a car), but gas must be under the "need" section, as would tires and oil changes. If you currently live without a car but desperately want one, realize that you may be making your "wants" list smaller by one, but making your "needs" list larger by at least five depending on where you live. Every "need" you have has an associated dollar amount that you would also need. Adding anything to either list increases your cost of living and increases your stress and your dependence on steady or increasing income. The less you have, the less money you need, the less you must trade your time for money. I am not perfect, and I am not free from or immune to the consumerist culture I was raised in. I am writing articles like this to come to terms with my own contribution to the world we all live in. My articles on consumerism and sustainability are my truth. Knowledge is power, I have the knowledge and now I have the power to change. We all have the power to change. Change what we think, change what we eat, change what we see as acceptable. For me, it is no longer acceptable to maintain the status quo. So I am trying to change it for myself. I am a recovering consumerist trying to make the effort to minimilize my life, and maximize my love of life. I still buy things I don't need, I still have more than I need, and because of that I am still trapped in the hamster wheel of capitalism. Constantly chasing dollars to maintain the cage my wheel is in. I get some dollars and I change and upgrade my wood shavings. I may get a bigger water bottle, or a new fancy tunnel. Hell I might even buy a bigger cage, but I'm still on a wheel, and I'm still in a cage, hoping my wheel doesn't break or get taken away. I want to change my relationship to my wheel. Get on it less frequently maybe, perhaps run a little slower. Ultimately, not need a wheel at all...wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that be worth the effort? The High Price of Materialism The High Price of Materialism This book is great for anyone who has begun to question their thinking, their values and their behaviors. This book helped me to realize the weight and cost of making "things" a goal. This book is a thorough and reflective view into consumerism and materialism and how much all of us pay for it. © 2019 Lani Morris This website uses cookies Show Details LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) Google AdSenseThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) Index ExchangeThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) SovrnThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) Facebook AdsThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) AppNexusThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) OpenxThis is an ad network. 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Fashion Design 2 Tips for Encouraging a Child’s Interest in Fashion Design Childhood is a time for kids to have fun, be creative and explore the world around them. Those early years of play and exploration may also chart a course for a future career, however. One exciting field that attracts both boys and girls is the glamorous world of fashion design and encouraging a child’s interest in it may bear fruit sooner than later. After all, Isabella Rose Taylor was only 13 years old when fashion giant Nordstrom picked up her line. Factor in a mean salary of more than $74,000 for fashion designers, and it’s easy to see why many parents are eager to foster a child’s fondness for fashion. Here are two tips that will help nurture your youngster’s interest and aptitude for style. Provide Hands-On Experiences Interactive learning is extremely beneficial when it comes to children. Budding designers need to touch and feel fabrics to understand the material. Offer them strips of different colors, patterns and textures so kids can see what they like and what works well together. Teaching youngsters to sew helps them explore fashion design while also providing an important life skill. Adjustable mannequins and dress forms give kids a model they can use to explore draping and other techniques. Search for mannequin rentals Ontario CA or in your area to find a product that’s right for your child. Identify Personal Styles Every young designer has a personal sense of style that makes his or her fashions unique. By trying on different clothing, feeling various fabrics and experimenting with color, children learn to creatively express their individuality. It’s especially helpful when parents provide glossy fashion magazines so kids can see highly detailed and colorful photos that they can use as inspiration in their own designs. Then provide sketch books and colored pencils so they can begin drawing their very own creations. Even if a child doesn’t become a famous fashion designer, it’s a great way for him or her to have fun and gain self-esteem. Try these tips to encourage your child’s interest in the activity.
What exactly is Board of Directors? The responsibilities of the aboard of administrators vary according to the type of business entity. In consumer companies, that happen to be publicly traded, the powers of control happen to be distributed amongst thousands of unorganized stockholders. In privately held firms, the powers of control are concentrated in the hands of one director who typically has sobre jure control and makes almost all of the board’s decisions. In privately owned companies, the board of directors is normally governed by statute. Even though a table may consist of an delinquent or paid out individual, the members should be find out this here very experienced in their area of expertise. They should be able to learn new things quickly, as well as save information about the firm. They should have got high psychological quotients, that allows them to handle a variety of situations with grace. They have to also be proficient at problem-solving, and really should be able to spot simple methods to complicated problems. The panel of owners typically consists of a mix of insiders and outsiders. The inside administrators, of course , experience personal pursuits in the institution. They will possess experience of the company and can have an complex knowledge of its operations. The outdoors directors, however, will have an unbiased angle on the organization’s problems. The right mix of both types of company directors is essential for the success belonging to the board. اس خبر پر اپنی رائے کا اظہار کریں اپنا تبصرہ بھیجیں
Before getting into the technical stuff, I would first like to introduce what basically the internet is. The Internet is just a network, a huge network of devices that all are somehow connected. These devices include web servers, file servers, Personal computers, and many other things. We will keep our focus on PCs in this text. All These are connected through cables or satellites. Now, we know that when things are connected, data sharing is possible. That’s the sole job on the internet. Data is being transferred from one place to another all the time. Now, we come to the dark side of data transferred. The problem here is that there is so much data that every bit of data can not be checked and where it is going. Who is accessing this? Whether he is the right person to have this data or not. Unfortunately, we don’t have any effective method to check this. I believe someday we would have some way to control this and restrict malicious people from accessing data they are not supposed to access. I am now listing all the possible negative consequences of the internet then I would try to explain them and share possible solutions. 1. Hacking 2. Cybercrimes. 3. Loss of privacy. 4. Data Corruption. 5. Adult material (not suitable for children). 6. Forbidden Knowledge. 7. Plagiarism. 8. Time wastage. 9. Health Hazards. Many of us, in fact, I think everyone of us is aware of this term and knows what this means. It is unauthorized access to anything. Today, hacking has victimized many ordinary people, companies, and even computer firms in the entire world. This is something which can be done any level. As there is a saying, “if you can make it, then you can break it”. Today, billions of people have accounts on many free email sites, social networking sites, and others, and tons of them have lost their accounts with some important personal data inside. Those who have experienced this thing know how scary this is, and those who have not, believe me, it can be your worst nightmare. Now, coming to the technical side. There are a number of types of hacking. We will only concentrate ourselves to internet hacking which involves ordinary people. What has an ordinary person on the internet? Two things: Email accounts and social networking sites profiles. He has most personal data in these two places and that’s where his privacy becomes vulnerable. If he, unfortunately, has some acquaintance who is not a good person and possesses sound knowledge of the internet, then that person might face the consequences somewhere in the future. Hackers use the number of ways to get access to the victim’s data. On the internet, “social engineering” is the easiest and an effective way to do so. Hackers develop the relationship with the victims and then exploit it. One way is that they send the email which has some link to another website. When you open the link, it asks the user to enter the username and password, and when they do so, it goes to the hacker and the user with some kind of error message. The irony of the situation is that the victim would never know what has just happened to him. This is called “Phishing”. Only people having god knowledge of programming can do this. One can get away from such a trick if he gets a little careful, does not open emails from unknown people, and does not enter any passwords when asked if he has come to that website from an indirect link. Another way is that they install software that keeps on making a log of whatever activity is being done on a computer with all the data entered and on which website that data is entered. So, this can also happen if you are using a university, school, workplace, or public computer. So, always keep that thing in your mind: where you are sitting and what information you are trying to access. Avoid using your personal accounts from public computers as much as you can because you never know who is watching you. Instant messengers can also be used to get the work done. Hackers can send you some links that may cause the loss of your email account. Do not follow any irrelevant-looking links even if someone really close to you has sent that because you do not know who is using that account. Hacker does use people’s accounts to get access to their friends. Your secret questions can also sometimes lead to your destruction. Many people do not recognize the importance of the secret question, and they write things which are really obvious to their friends and people around them. Therefore, never use something predictable as your security question because if some friend, colleague, or acquaintance gets to guess it correctly, he is in your account. And this goes for passwords as well. Try to make passwords complex and difficult to guess. Many people use their birth dates, cell phone numbers, and some obvious words like “password” as their password. This makes hackers workpiece of cake. So, for your own sake, don’t do that.
Depth summary and analysis Order a Similar Paper Order a Different Paper （Due OCT 1st 11:55pm）Your task for this week is to read the article/s (if applicable), listen to the audio/s (if applicable) and watch the video/s (if applicable). 1. Give a brief but in-depth summary and analysis of the major points discussed in the videos “who am i, ” “lying to ourselves” and the audio on Plato‘s ideas on spirituality. 2. How are the lessons relevant for you and your life. Give a few examples. Minimum requirements: Two-pages (approximately 500-words) Note on the nature of your writing” • Be mindful that the posted materials on Moodle cover a lot of philosophical and religious territories. • They have been laboriously created by the peoples of each land and protected for thousands of years. • They are profound and dense and have for thousands of years been a GPS to life, or a map towards living a more meaningful life. • Though they do not fetch much respect in the modern world, they still deserve your careful study and understanding their world view. • Stay away from rushed and superficial responses. • Stay away from book reporting or copying and pasting. • Make sure your responses have depth and substance. • Make your responses are engaging and creative. • Make sure that you demonstrate the practicality of these ideas by inserting them into your own daily life and life experiences. • To better understand these ideas, provide examples from your life within the context of the subject materials Plato‘s ideas on spirituality1：… Plato‘s ideas on spirituality2：… Plato‘s ideas on spirituality3：… Plato‘s ideas on spirituality4：… Plato‘s ideas on spirituality5：… Plato‘s ideas on spirituality6：… Order a Similar Paper Order a Different Paper
Eat More Of These Foods To Prevent Diabetes If diabetes happens to run in your family, you’re more likely to have develop diabetes in your lifetime. And if you have more than one family member with diabetes, you have an even higher chance of developing the disease, which is based on a study released in Diabetologia. We assume that you already know what you should be doing to get more exercise—run more, walk more, bike more, swim more, etc.—so keep reading to learn about some of the best eating habits you should follow if you would like to avoid diabetes in the future. 1 — Eat more plants. A key eating habit for preventing diabetes is enriching your diet with a lot of plant foods. “The big mistake some people make is believing they should stay away from carbs,” said education and certified diabetes care specialist Kim Rose. “That is a misconception.” Skipping all the carbs will actually undermine your efforts and could actually trigger blood sugar increases when your cravings beat your willpower. “You should space out your carb intake throughout your day, so you have a steadier source of energy and consume quality carbs from vegetables, whole grains, fruits, nuts, and seeds,” she said. “Aim for three gm of fiber or more each serving.” A 2017 study discovered that consuming a plant-based diet that is high in fiber from foods like beans, oats, fruits, sweet potatoes and whole grains was much more effective at improving your blood sugar levels than a normal diabetes diet that focused on putting limits on carbs and sugars. Study participants who ate an average of 40 gm of dietary fiber each day eating mainly plant-based foods noticed the greatest success in improving their insulin sensitivity. 2 — Limit restaurant and fast-food eating. Forget about carbs and sugars for a minute and let us talk calories. Even when you avoid the bread, a sit-down-restaurant or fast-food hamburger is very high in calories and while it might not send your blood sugar super high when you consume it, it might indirectly increase your diabetes chances. “Over time, excess calories could result in gaining weight and weight gain could lead to higher insulin resistance,” warns Rose. So, try to make a habit of thinking about calories, not just sugars and carbs when you go out to eat. 3 — Eat your lunch outside. Vitamin D is thought to help improve the body’s insulin sensitivity; the hormone that helps regulate blood sugar levels. Recent studies have indicated there is a connection among people who have lower levels of vitamin D to being at a higher risk for type 2 diabetes. But adding vitamin D to your body is not as easy as drinking a cup of milk and consuming a lot of fatty fish. It is difficult to get vitamin D from the food we eat, which is why you should start eating your sardines in the sunlight on a sunny day to receive vitamin D into your skin. Author: Scott Dowdy Top 2 Health Mistakes After 60 The Most Important Vitamin To Take Everyday
• Biblical Languages Martin Luther and the Original Languages Martin Luther is well known for his role in starting the Reformation. It has always been of particular interest to me how Luther viewed the importance of Greek and Hebrew in his daily ministry. Since I teach language courses in a seminary setting, I’m always looking for good quotes to motivate the students to put in the effort and learn the languages. A couple quotes from Luther are especially worth sharing. Read the Whole Article • New Testament, Textual Criticism Why James Translates Jacob in the New Testament In James 1:1 we read, “James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.” James is the English word for Ἰάκωβος in the Greek. However, Ἰάκωβος is simply a Greek form for the name of Jacob in the OT (יַעֲקֹב). Why do we use the name James for the name Jacob in the New Testament? Why James Rather than Jacob? One theory is that during that translation of the King James Bible, the king forced the translators to substitute the king’s name for Jacob in the New Testament because he wanted his name in the Bible. This view is… • New Testament, Old Testament Why the Intertestamental Period Matters The book of Malachi was written approximately 400 B.C. The next biblical events that are addressed are those 400 years later, around the birth of Jesus. The time between is known as the intertestamental period. Some have called this intertestamental period “400 not-so-silent years.” Since many Christians often have no idea what happened in this time period, I will provide a brief snapshot of what happened during the intertestamental period and why it matters. Read the Whole Article • Hermeneutics What is the Root Word Fallacy Danger A fallacy is simply a mistaken idea. In biblical studies, a root word fallacy is a mistaken belief that a word inherently carries one meaning in all of its uses. It unfortunately happens frequently. For example, a preacher is preaching away and then gets to an important word in the text and says, “Now this word comes from the Greek root word which always means [fill in the blank], and so we can import that root meaning here.” Read the Whole Article • Biblical Languages, Review Book Review: A Reader’s Hebrew and Greek Bible, 2nd ed. (Zondervan Academic) Because I am involved in teaching the biblical languages at the seminary level, I am regularly asked about Greek and Hebrew Reader Bibles. I have not had much experience with Reader Bibles so I asked Zondervan to let me review their 2nd edition of A Reader’s Hebrew and Greek Bible. I hope this review will be helpful both to my students as well as the academically-inclined reader of the blog. The Aesthetics, Bulk, Weight, etc. Read the Whole Article • Biblical Languages, Review Book Review: Dictionary of English Grammar for Students of Biblical Languages I love teaching the biblical languages. It is extremely rewarding to help students learn Greek and Hebrew in order to better understand God’s revelation. However, one of the difficulties of being a language teacher is the inability of many students to think and speak grammatically about English. The Dictionary of English Grammar for Students of Biblical Languages is a helpful little resource (140 pages) which aims to help with this kind of problem. Read the Whole Article • Biblical Languages, Misc, Scripture Calvin and Luther on Greek and Hebrew Almost two weeks ago I had the privilege of being a part of our Far West Regional ETS conference. I presented a paper on the importance of Greek and Hebrew for Martin Luther and John Calvin. It was a lot of fun researching, and I hope it encourages those thinking about ministry. In essence, the paper proposes that without attention to the original languages of Greek and Hebrew, the Reformation would never have happened. It was the return to attention to detail in the original languages that prompted the break from the Church of Rome, which had drifted into stark heresy. Although not everyone has the opportunity to learn Greek…
10 Interesting Facts About Introverts Roughly one third to half of the world’s population is made up of introverts. Introversion is commonly misunderstood today with many stereotypes and myths surrounding it. Luckily, however, with the help of the ever-evolving fields of science and technology, there has been a lot of research done that justifies introverts’ tendencies, habits, and needs. Psych2Go shares with you 10 interesting facts about introversion: 1. There are 4 types of introverts. Researcher Jonathan Cheek states that it’s impossible for there to only be one type of introvert out there. He surveyed roughly 500 participants, ranging from the ages of 18-70 and asked them questions pertaining to how much solitude they need and how often they daydream. From the answers he gathered, Cheek created a model that spells the acronym STAR that explains the four different types of introverts that exist: 1. Social: Social introversion is what is commonly accepted and understood as being the archetypal definition of introversion. People who identify as social introverts prefer small groups over large ones, or may prefer solitude altogether. According to Cheek, they like to stay at home with a book or computer, or hang out with close friends instead of going to parties with many unfamiliar faces. It’s different, however, from shyness, because there’s no anxiety attached to their driven needs of solitude. 2. Thinking: Thinking introversion is one of the newer concepts of introversion today. People who identify as thinking introverts are introspective, thoughtful, and self-reflective. Unlike social introverts, they don’t have a strong need to stray from large social scenes. They’re often avid daydreamers with rich imaginations and a high capacity for creativity. 3. Anxious: Anxious introverts seek time to be alone, because they often feel awkward and self-conscious. Unlike social introverts, anxious introverts experience painful shyness when they’re around new people. The anxiety doesn’t necessarily go away either when they’re alone because they let things play over and over again in their heads over what could’ve gone or went wrong. 4. Restrained: People who identify as restrained introverts function on a slower pace and prefer to think before they speak and act. They are also known for being reserved. Restrained introverts take time to get things going, because they don’t let impulse affect their decision-making. 2. Introverts react quickly to new information, but are slower to monitor change. According to Australian psychologist John Brebner, the brains of introverts create more excitation in the phase of stimulus analysis when situations call for them to analyze what is required of them to do next. For instance, when a phone rings, introverts generate more excitation in their brains; whereas, extroverts need to inhibit everything else going on in their heads in order to make a decision. When an introvert needs to prepare for action, however, they may hesitate longer to pick up the phone. An extrovert, on the other hand, answers the phone right away. While introverts are quick to reacting strongly to new situations, extroverts, in contrast, are quicker to register changes. 3. Introverts dread small talk. Psychologist Laurie Helgoe, author of Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength, states that small talk blocks honest interaction. Introverts might come off as being disinterested in others, because they don’t like taking part in small talk. But, they only dread it because of the barriers it creates between them and others. Introverts want to feel connected; however, they prefer to make connections through authenticity. Deep and meaningful conversations are what they often crave for that help lower the walls. 4. Introverts need alone time. This goes back to fact #1 for individuals who strongly identify as social introverts. According to research, the reason introverts need alone time is because they respond differently than extroverts do to rewards. Rewards include food, money, sex, and social status. Although introverts do care about eating, the income that they earn, and cultivating relationships with others, they are less driven and experience less enthusiasm for the possibilities of them. Extroverts, in contrast, are more energized by working for those rewards, which is why they are also prone to instant gratification more often than introverts. 5. Introverts aren’t risk-averse, but they are more careful and calculated about what risks they choose to take. This is due to the biological makeup of the brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with sensation-seeking, risks, and new adventures. According to research, there is a difference of dopamine activity in the brains of introverts compared to those of extroverts. This isn’t because introverts have less dopamine in their brains than extroverts. Both have the same amount. However, introverts use less activity from the region of their brain that generates dopamine. 6. Introverts are deep thinkers. This goes back to fact #1 for individuals who strongly identify as thinking introverts. Since introverts use less activity from dopamine, they rely more often on a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. Acetylcholine, just like dopamine, is linked to pleasure. The difference, however, lies in pleasure that is produced from turning inwards. This allows the individual to ponder and reflect deeply, and focus on one task with great attention for an extended period of time. Acetylcholine also influences one to prefer calm, quiet settings over loud, crowded places. 7. Introverts are more creative. Introverts need solitude to recharge, but it is also within solitude that they find creativity. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi discovered that teenagers who have a hard time being alone were less likely to develop their creative skills. Most artists and writers who identify as introverts do their best work when they’re by themselves as opposed to working in group settings. Researcher Reed Larson also found that adolescents feel less self-conscious when they’re alone; therefore, it helps individuals feel safe taking more risks that allows their creative juices to flow. 8. Introverts like the rain. Rain creates white noise that often attracts introverts, because of the opportunities it brings to seek solitude. Its calming effect also helps introverts derive pleasure from it as they can turn inwards and escape within themselves for the time being. Rain helps lower expectations for the day and isn’t as overstimulating as other weather days with the overbearing sun. 9. Pretending to be extroverted for introverts can affect their performance negatively. Researchers discovered that introverted participants who act extroverted have showed slower reaction times on cognitive tests than introverts who were allowed to be themselves. This is because the time introverts spend on pretending to be the people they aren’t naturally wired to be causes depletion that distracts and disrupts their usual ways of performance. It’s important to realize and acknowledge this, since the world is so used to trying to mold introverts into becoming extroverts. 10. Happiness might not be a top priority for introverts, and it’s actually okay. Sounds strange, right? Especially when we live in a culture that emphasizes happiness so much. But, according to psychologist Maya Tamir of Boston College, introverts prefer to maintain a neutral emotional state when presented with tasks, such as taking a test, giving a speech, or thinking rationally. This is because happiness, an arousing emotion, may cause introverts to feel distracted that get in their way of performing those tasks efficiently. Extroverts, however, prefer happiness when completing such tasks because it acts as a motivator. Are you an introvert? Did you find these facts to be relevant and valuable? Leave a comment down below! Cooper, B. (2016, March 30). What Creative People Understand About the Importance of Being Alone. Quartz. Retrieved September 14, 2017. Dahl, M. (2015, June 25). So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion. NY Mag. Retrieved September 14, 2017. Granneman, J. (2016, January 13). The Real Reason Introverts Dread Small Talk. Huffington Post. Retrieved September 14, 2017. Granneman, J. (2016, August 13). This Is the Scientific Explanation for Why Introverts Like Being Alone. Retrieved September 14, 2017. Granneman, J. (2017). Why Introverts and Extroverts Are Different: The Science. Retrieved September 14, 2017. Helgoe, L. (2010, September 1). Revenge of the Introvert. Psychology Today. Retrieved September 14, 2017. P&Q. (2017, January 6). Why Introverts Like the Rain. Retrieved September 14, 2017. Whitbourne, S. (2013, July 9). An In-Depth Look at How Introverts Think. Psychology Today. Retrieved September 14, 2017. Leave your vote 42 points Upvote Downvote Total votes: 92 Upvotes: 67 Upvotes percentage: 72.826087% Downvotes: 25 Downvotes percentage: 27.173913% Related Articles Are You In a Bad Place During Quarantine? The word place doesn’t always refer to a physical place sometimes it can also mean an emotional, psychological, or spiritual place. Quarantine hasn’t just gotten us stuck in locations that we wouldn’t like to be in but also stuck with people that have lately been inflicting on us more pain than they would normally do. If you feel like it resonates with you a little bit, let’s carry on! 1: You Feel Stressed … Leave a Reply to 5 Ways to Explain Your Introversion to Others - Psych2Go Cancel reply 1. thank u so much…i finally able to understand myself…..it almost answer all my qiestions…. 1. Hi Ablas, thanks so much for reading! I’m glad you are able to understand yourself more! =) I hope you have a great day! 2. Hi.. Thank you so much… I felt like i read my own biography.. ? its ok to be an introvert ? 1. Hi Vapegod, thanks so much for reading. Yes, it is definitely okay to be an introvert. I’m glad you were able to relate to the article. I hope you have a great day! 3. I’m a mix of all 4 kinds of introversion + lots of ADD + a slow possessing speed 🙂 I like to say I march to my own drummmer! Can anyone relate? 1. How can I know whether I’m introvert or not, though there are some points which goes with me word by word. Plus getting anxiety and crying over something i love is part of introversion? 1. Hi Jawad, thanks for reading. You can start by taking the Myers-Briggs personality test to see if you test as an introvert or extrovert. =) I hope you have a great day! 2. Hi Katarzyna, thanks so much for reading. I myself also march to the beat of my own drum. =) 4. There are 4 types of introverts and I learned I am all of them too. I love that I dread small talk, I love how the rain calms me, I love how I tend to think deeply, and I love that I am creative. Most of all, I love how this article talked about all the things other people don’t easily understand about me. 1. Hi Rosshelle, thank you for reading. =) That is some amazing self-love you have established! I love that kind of positivity and confidence. I’m glad you were able to relate to the article. I hope you have a great day! 5. #1. Makes it sound like you can only be one way or another, but i relate to all 4 types. I feel its more of a spectrom then exclusive categories. 1. Hi Megan, thanks so much for reading. =) That’s an interesting way to look at it. Psychologist Jonathan Check categorized introversion based on his STAR model, but I can also understand why you consider the 4 types as more of a spectrum. Carl Jung who came up with the personality concept of introversion and extroversion believes we are all on the spectrum somewhere. No two introverts or extroverts are alike. It is definitely possible to be a mixture of the 4 types of introverts. =) It’s a great point you brought up. I hope you have a great day! 6. …some of those types may be different phases in the same person… 7. Very informative article on introverts so far I came accross. Thanks. I think I am an introvert but I don’t feel like to have a family of my own because I like solitude very much. What the research says? Is it common? 1. Hi T. Rahman, thanks so much for reading. I’m glad you found the article informative. =) Solitude is amazing! So, I understand not wanting to have a family of your own. It can be a lot of responsibility. Introverts definitely value their alone time, yes. Research has shown that introverts need to recharge and go off on their own, so it’s completely healthy and normal. =) I hope you have a great day! 1. Hi Faizan, thanks so much for reading! =) I’m glad you were able to relate to the article. I hope you have a great day! 8. Hey , this text really empowers me to keep who I am and not search for complicated things … I’m happy I’m not alona to face what I am 9. Thank you for this article! It was a great read. I often find it difficult to put into words what or how I feel or even why, especially when explaining it to others who struggle to understand. This article is very informative and I think incredibly helpful in illuminating the way we function. It helps not only those whe seek to better understand themselves, but also helps those who want to understand others. It helps to show people that there is nothing wrong or we’re not sick, just a different human that processes and sees things differently. 10. Can there be a mixed type of introvert? How can you tell between an introvert and an extrovert that has been left alone for too long and got aquainted to it? I have always consider myself as an introvert and there are a lot of facts above that I can relate to, but still , from time to time I felt like an extrovert. 1. Hi Oiton, yes, it is fully possible to be a mixture. The term is called ambivert. As the years progress, I’m finding myself more and have discovered that I am an ambivert! Here is a video from our channel that you may find yourself relating to: If you find it rings true, be sure to subscribe for more helpful content! 🙂 11. This article explains a lot about me, I felt identify in so many ways. When it comes to the 4 types of introverts personality, I do find a little of myself to fit in this 4 categories. It’s great that there’s work and research getting done to explain and accept introverts and not judgement for not fitting in, this lower the anxiety that belongings to a social group brings. 12. Yes, i’m fully aware of this article. I’ve known my self that I am really an introvert in the first place. I’ve like reading an article about an introvert person. I am fully aware of this being an introvert and at the same time I’m also a natural empath. Its also triggers for being a Scorpio my zodiac sign. All in one in one person and that’s me. 13. That really helped a lot… I always try to be social but it seems impossible as I am so self conscious.. I hesitate a lot in face to face conversions.. it doesn’t seem comfortable.. yes I think a lot nd keep my friend circle small but at the same time I search for a soulmate.. I don’t hve a best frnd or any person of that sort in my life but I want one.. I am very good in theory but weak at practicals…. I deal in permanent things.. thnks a lot for your research.. it gives a great satisfaction to know myself more…one last question– #trying to be an extrovert is a right thing? though I am not comfortable but I just want to have a normal conversation rather than a hesitated one.. #thnks 14. Hi, I was hoping to use this as a source for a report i am working on and was wondering about your education and experience with this topic. 1. Hi Josh, thanks so much for considering this piece helpful. 🙂 My education background consists of a BA in English with a minor in Education. I’ve written many articles on introversion and always cite my references for the research I do when I produce content on Psych2Go. I hope that helps answer your question! 🙂 15. Hey , thank you so much . You really helped me in knowing myself more. I was worried that why i am not like others ,but you told me that i am much better than other at something. 1. Hi Satyendra, I’m so glad I helped you accept yourself more. 🙂 Be proud that you’re an introvert! 16. Spot on. I was trying to find something for my partner to look at to better understand me. This will help. Thanks. 1. Hi Daniel, so glad you were able to find the article helpful! Hope your partner does, too! 🙂 Best of luck! 17. really needed this, thank you so very much for this article, its true that world is use to change an introvert to an extrovert, but why…the process can be sophisticating , it can lead to lower self esteem and what more. well, the last point is very true and i myself experienced it.its awful. 18. Every extrovert should read this. But Im little confuse which type I’m, some qualities I have in me but you put in the 4types and 2 best suites me. And I don’t know why those extroverts don’t gave us our space, I dont like to hangout with them, attend parties, or go to events. The crowded area makes me feel uncomfortable.But they keep calling even I said no. What to do to those. Bay the way you wrote it nice catherine.. 19. IT good to be introvert but this page didn’t explain anything about inner power 20. I’m and introvert I don’t mind large groups and I’m not shy I just like my alone time thats how I like to relax some find it strange that people like me prefer to be tucked away then out partying I destress by myself and like to be alone. But I’m still a people person and love everyone 21. I think i no longer understand myself anymore! In my local area i am known for singing in public, yet i crave solitude, i get so fatiuged. After a gig i hate to get caught up talking with anybody which can sometime appear rude (i dont enjoy being rude because people are often just nice and say positive things). 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Schedule Caste Communities The Scheduled Castes have remained an integral part of the society in the state of Odisha. The state has a unique position in the country as regards to the concentration and share of SC population. According to the 2011 census, the Scheduled Caste population living in Odisha stood at 71,88,463. This comprises of a national share of 3.57% of the overall Scheduled Caste population of the country. The Scheduled Castes in Odisha constitute 17.13% of the total population of the state. Odisha has the unique distinction of having 93 different Scheduled Caste communities spread over 30 districts and 314 blocks of the state. The growth and distribution of Scheduled Caste population have got special significance. SC communities PVTG Handbooks Tribe Photo Handbooks Special Publications News Letter Tribal Museum Spl. Development Council
The Harsh Reality About Zoos, Circuses And Animal In Captivity 96562446by Luke Miller Truth Theory There has been no shortage of tragic animal incidence in the news of late- we have had the tragic killing of Harambe the gorilla, who was shot last month when a young child fell into his enclosure, the two lions that were tragically shot in May in a zoo in Chile as a man jumped into their enclosure in an attempt to commit suicide, and the barbaric poaching of Cecil the lion, which showed the canned hunting industry is still well and truly alive. We can see some positives in these incidents though, with the recent rescue involving 33 circus lions across South America, the outroar around the shooting of Cecil the lion and the general reaction to these stories all seem to create new tougher rules and regulations around the mistreatment of animals. There are many issues that animals are facing at the hands of humans, but for this article I would like to focus on their exploitation for our entertainment and if there is any ethical reason for keeping animals in enclosures such as petting zoos, regular zoos or circuses. Is It Ethical? The short and general answer is no – it is certainly not ethical for petting zoos containing young cubs as this supports the canned hunting industry, with those cubs often being sold on when they are no longer young and controllable to be shot in a hunting set-up (what kind of reference?) The way that animals are treated in circuses is generally abysmal, with 96% of circus animals’ lives being spent in chains or cages. Often the animals will be mutilated with the removal of teeth, claws and other parts that those working with them would find to be dangerous. This is not taking into account the process of training these animals into obedience. An example of this is the spirit-breaking process of the elephant, in which a young elephant is taken from its family, kept in a tiny cage where it is unable to move whilst it is beaten and starved, up until the point where it is too scared to do anything else but submit to entertaining tourists every day for the rest of its life. Coming lastly to the zoos, it could be argued that some of the animals are well treated in some parts of the world however, you have to ask what the motivation is behind them being in captivity, where they were purchased from and how long the zoo plans to keep them (as often animals are moved around the world). According to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) captivity often drives animals insane, taken from their website- Is it safe? In the grand scheme zoos and circuses (at least in the west) are safe for humans, with the average incidents in the US over the last 26 years being 10 incidents a year in zoos, and 123 circus attacks in the same time frame, with the majority of those incidents involving the handlers of the animals. Given that they do not have a choice in the matter, the main concern should be the safety of the animals. Again, it is not good news. We have covered the psychological dangers and the mistreatment in circuses but the physical dangers for the animals in zoos are also very real. Animals in zoos in the west and all over the world have been poisoned, starved and been denied vital veterinary care. Other animals have become sick or even died after eating rubbish thrown into their enclosures, and some animals have suffered abuse at the hands of those who are supposed to be their carers. Also in an emergency when human evacuation is necessary, the animals have no way of protecting and sustaining themselves. An example of this is during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, where almost all of the 10,000 aquatic animals within the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas died when humans needed to evacuate. Really, animals are at the total mercy of those who are caring for them, they have no autonomy and are completely out of their natural habitat because of humans putting them into that situation. Is there any point in zoos or circuses outside of our entertainment? I don’t think that I need to delve too deeply into circuses as, my opinion is that there is no point outside of our entertainment. As for zoos, there is the conservation argument. However, a 2015 study from the Journal of Applied Ecology concluded that unless we focus on the protection of wild animals, breeding in captivity will not make a difference. Most animals that are kept in zoos are not endangered and for the endangered ones it is usually impossible to release them back into the wild. Most threatened species such as elephants, polar bears, gorillas, tigers and chimpanzees would not survive in their natural habitat. Zoos do not breed animals with the intent of replenishing their population in the wild, it is usually to bring more people into the zoos and to have rare animals for our entertainment. What can we do about it? The first and most obvious thing is to not visit zoos, circuses or any kind of animal exploitation activities! They may seem fun, harmless and a great day out for the kids, however when you support these activities you are supporting the unethical treatment of animals. You can support the natural conservation of animals by visiting game reserves around the world where animals are wild and surviving in their natural habitat – the only place that they truly belong – either as a guest or a volunteer. An example of this would be the volunteer project at the Global White Lion Protection Trust, located in the Greater Timbavati region of South Africa. The trust prides itself on maintaining a no-contact approach with their lions, shifting the focus to volunteers getting involved in a variety of activities which truly preserve the habitat for these beautiful creatures, and so ensure their survival for the future. This can include habitat management, removal of problem plants, lion monitoring, and even visiting the local schools and teaching the young children the importance of living in harmony with the country’s animals. To find out how you can get more involved please visit the Global White Lion Protection Trust Here and you can also like their page on Facebook Here I just wanted to say thanks to wildlife filmmaker and conservation blogger Jess Murray for helping me out with this article, you can follow what she is doing on Facebook Here Creative Commons License Leave Comment:
State of science index banner Science Champions View all podcasts • season 1, episode 3: the next evolution of science education Episode 3: The next evolution of science education Science has made amazing advances in past few decades. But it seems like science education is still stuck in the past. How can we reinvent the way we teach science to appeal to the smartphone generation? Featured Guest • Jeff Terry Jeff Terry Jeff Terry is a Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a PhD in Chemical Physics. He’s also a tinkerer, creator, and maker. Jeff plans and teaches creative, innovative courses that inspire students to connect the technology they use in everyday life to their underlying scientific principles. Twitter \| LinkedIn We really have to make sure we keep our curiosity and we have to make sure that we encourage students to be curious. @nuclear94 #ScienceChampions #CelebrateScience Click to Tweet I hope we work on our education system a little bit to make sure that we don't turn everybody into standardized robots. We want people to be different and we want to encourage diversity. @nuclear94 #ScienceChampions #CelebrateScience Click to Tweet Read Full Episode Transcript • Science Champions - The Next Evolution of Science Education Jayshree Seth: 92% of parents want their kids to know more about science. But over a third believe only geniuses can have a career in the field! How does science education need to evolve to reach tomorrow’s scientists? We’ll explore possible solutions on this episode of Science Champions. Welcome to episode 3 of Science Champions, (brought to you by 3M/a 3M podcast). I’m your host, Jayshree Seth, (Chief Science Advocate at 3M). Last episode, we talked about how to inspire children to pursue a career in science. This time, we’re focusing in on science education in schools. How can science teachers impress children who have supercomputers in their pockets, with free access to all the world’s knowledge — and an infinite amount of distractions? To explore this tricky question, I’m joined by champion of science Jeff Terry. Welcome, Jeff. Can you introduce yourself and tell us a little about your scientific background? Jeff Terry: Hello, I'm Jeff Terry, I'm a physics professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. My research is predominantly in the materials used in energy production, and so, we try to develop better materials that have distinct properties for nuclear energy for battery storage for solar conversion of light to electricity or big focus areas. I am really lucky; I get paid to do a lot of outreach and a lot of creative classes. So between the two things I have a really nice job. I spend a lot of time on Twitter, because I’m our department’s internet and social media coordinator, so I get to interact with thousands of people on Twitter, for example, discussing science and answering questions that they have and asking some of my own questions. Then in the classroom I get to teach computational physics, so I get to teach students how they use computers to solve some of these advanced problems. And as part of that, we do things like programming Arduinos, we do things like programming iPhones, nad we work through how to solve problems that haven’t been solved. So I’m fortunate that I get to do these things and get paid for it, and I love doing it. Jayshree Seth: Jeff, how much importance do you believe the next generation places on science? Jeff Terry: So, the next generation is actually quite technologically advanced when you think about it; most of them have wonderful ability to immediately start interacting with things like iPhones iPads and it's really an incredible change that I've observed over my life. These were things that were science fiction when I first started yet almost all of today's kids can interact and operate in many cases better than I can now. So, they have a tremendous advantage in interacting with technology and technology is all based on science it's a great thing. Jayshree Seth: They definitely have more access to technology, but do you think that inspires curiosity? Or do they take it for granted? Jeff Terry: so, the question I always wonder about is, how many of them will translate this technological if that they have and go into trying to develop their own new devices for the future whatever those may be, and I know we have a tremendous number of students who come in who have that desire, so I think the future is looking pretty good from that standpoint. Whether or not my generation will fund them to allow them to do it, that's also an open question. Jayshree Seth: Speaking of being underfunded — let’s talk about science education. From your perspective as a teacher, has student interest in science changed over the years? Jeff Terry: I think you have about the same percentage of people who are really interested in science and are really driven to pursue it now that there were before. They have maybe more opportunities to do it now and that's a good thing, so there are a lot more of these research experiences for undergraduates there are a lot more summer programs for high school students. So, I see them pursuing it more from a younger age than people of my generation did because we just didn't have the same number of opportunities. But I think the overall interest in the number of people who continue on and get degrees in science based on their initial interests is probably about the same. There’s still a large dropout rate, I think, for people who start in science and engineering, and they don’t complete. They end up moving on to other areas of study. Jayshree Seth: So the real problem is keeping kids interested in science, then? How does education need to evolve to hold that interest? Jeff Terry: Well, I think there are a lot of problems right now with how we teach science and engineering and it's something that greatly concerns me. We teach science and engineering even though everybody has and iPhone in their pocket that knows every conceivable formula and is direct linked to Wikipedia things like that with great explanations of most of the sub formulas as if it were 100 years ago, and I don't think that's necessarily beneficial. So, for example, we still make students memorize a lot of things. And so, the question is, do you really need to memorize how to solve a second order differential equation anymore? I would make the argument that that doesn't help you much because you can always look up how to solve it very quickly. And my concern is always, do we by doing this make everybody go through the same steps that I had to do when I was a student, do we take out people who might be more inclined to come up with a creative solution to a problem? And I don't necessarily think this is a good thing because all the problems that I do anymore in my career don't have closed form solution - I don't get y equals X2 anymore; everything I solve is done numerically. Jayshree Seth: So these kind of mechanical, mathematical formulas and calculations, you’re saying if we leave them up to the machines, we can lower the barrier to entry and keep kids engaged? Jeff Terry: My concern is should we focus so deep on some of these complex mathematical areas instead of getting more creative students in and letting them to use these tools like computers and iPhones because they are very good a themt? You know, something that many of them now have seen since they were a few years old and have had these devices with them their entire lives. I don't see a good reason why we're not using them to make sure that creative people in addition to mathematical experts pursue degrees to completion in science and engineering; I would like to see more of that. Jayshree Seth: How can we make science more relatable, or more appealing to these creative minds you’re talking about? Jeff Terry: I truly think it would be much more relatable if we cut back on some of the historical requirements and changed a little bit to have more modern methods of especially computation included. I think it would I think that's a very important part of education - the ability to explore different areas. I was very fortunate when I came along as a student that was something that was very much pushed both my undergrad and graduate career - they wanted you to think about problems differently and I think we've closed ranks up a little bit since I went to school and made it a little bit harder to do, there's a lot less freedom, programs are structured a bit more and that's probably not a good thing we want to do. We really have to make sure we keep our curiosity and we have to make sure that we encourage students to be curious. And so also hope we work on our education system a little bit to make sure that we don't turn everybody into standardized robots; we want people to be different and we want to encourage diversity. We need people who do think differently. So, these are areas I hope we do much better in the future than we've done now. Jayshree Seth: How are you seeing educators pushing boundaries to make science more intriguing and inspiring for young learners? Jeff Terry: one of the greatest things I think about all these educational summer programs and research experiences for undergraduates these programs like this actually let students get experience in what science and engineering is actually like, and that is just a wonderful thing and I hope we can keep these programs funded as science budgets shrink going forward into the future. Because there are two different skill sets that you really need to succeed science and engineering; the first one is obviously the ability to solve problems that have already been solved, so as you go through school high school college you're regurgitating information that we already know the answers to, you know, you learn about what happens if we drop a ball and a feather in a vacuum? they both hit the ground at the same. These are things we know and the problem is no one pays you to do that as a professional - as a professional in science and engineering you get paid to solve the problems that haven’t been solved, you get paid to discover new materials for solar cells new batteries you get paid to solve problems with a production line, things that people don't know the answers to. But we focus so much in education on solving problems that are already solved that sometimes we neglect the second part of that education teaching people how to solve the problems that haven’t been solved, and this is something that getting younger students involved with is really good. So, if you go to elementary schools now you'll see students doing environmental projects doing work with crops and things like that restoring wetlands behind schools. Those are all difficult problems that don't necessarily have a solution advance and we have to figure these things out. And you get the same experience in these [are used] in some of the summer programs where you actually get a problem that you have to solve. Jayshree Seth: It does feel like kids today have fewer open-ended problems to solve. I have heard educators say their students seem more likely to want to look up the correct answer, rather than thinking through a process. Jeff Terry: And so, it's this learning by doing it, troubleshooting, that education has lacked for a while. Now, used to get this because people used to work on cars in their spare time, they would repair their television sets. But these are all things that no one does anymore. When I was a boy and my T.V. broke, you opened up the cabinet you looked for what tube was broken you pulled the tubes that weren't lit you took them to the grocery store where there was a tube tester and you plug them in and if the tester said the tube was bad you bought a replacement you went in and you repair your T.V. Now, when your T.V. was surface mount electronics goes out you don't even take it to a repair person you just replace your T.V. get a new one and the broken one goes out in the trash. So, these troubleshooting skills weren't taught for a long period of time and they weren't learned at home. So, it's nice to see these programs where you actually get some hands-on experience to learning the 2nd part of the equation, you know, learning how to solve problems that you don't know the answer to. Jayshree Seth: So you would say tinkering is one of the ways kids can get into science? Give them something they can take apart, see how it works, and put it back together? Jeff Terry: I think that is a very big part of it; when you look at this you see the number of people who are participating in things like Maker Fairs is really impressive to me. The tools that students now have available, these Arduinos, the Raspberry Pis, these are incredible devices that could be used for data collection programming robotics, things like this didn't really exist 20-years ago. And so, the ability to tinker now has really become so easy and relatively cheap to deal with; you can buy some of these tools that people are using to make wearables and have clothes that light up for under $50 for whole kits to build things. That is really a nice thing and I hope more parents start buying those for kids because, and in fact, learning how to tinker was a lost art and it's good that it's coming back and making a comeback. Because I got to do things like that; repairing TVs and working on cars. Those were things we did as a hobby because we only had seven television stations, and most of the time there wasn’t anything worth watching on. So instead of sitting in front of the TV, you built stuff, or you took things apart and you fixed them. And my siblings didn’t really have that. They grew up several years later than me, and by that time you had cable tv, mtv, and you stopped repairing things. Tube testers disappeared from grocery stores, people stopped working on cars as much. Then the group, probably right now I would say 14-15 year olds, now have all these wonderful new tools they can tinker with, and it really has made a difference in a lot of cases. A lot of kids come into our classes already knowing how to program, in things like Python, it’s really beneficial. So I’m actually hopeful for the future, I really am, if my generation doesn’t screw it up for them. Jayshree Seth: Absolutely; it’s inspiring to see kids experimenting with technology instead of just passively taking it in. Of course, speaking of kids and technology, of course we have to talk about social media, too. What do you think about social networking? Is it good for these young potential scientists, or bad, or a little bit of both? Jeff Terry: I think social media is really good for science; the number of top-notch scientists who have accounts of Twitter there are Nobel Prize winners on Twitter, it really is a great resource because you can always ask a question, not everybody will answer but there are tremendous number of people willing to engage with nonscientists and not experts on Twitter, and so, if you're really interested in the subject you can learn a lot by quickly contacting an expert. So, I think that's another big plus for the future. And frankly, if somebody would have told me ten years ago that there’d be “cougar or not,” identify whether this animal caught on video in somebody’s security camera was a cougar or a cat or whatever other type of cat there is, I wouldn’t have believed it, that there would be that many people discussing these things about science. You have Bad Identification — insect identification, what is this insect? What is this snake? Who could have imagined such a thing when I was in high school? When I was in high school, if you wanted to know what an insect was, you had to go to the library, page through books on insects, because you couldn’t get ahold of any experts. It’s just incredible the resources that can be brought to bear on a problem now. The last funding proposal I submitted was the first one that I’ve ever submitted with somebody I’ve never met in person. I’ve only interacted with them via Twitter and email. So it’s incredible, because had I not met this person on Twitter, I would not have had the opportunity to work with them. I just never would have known that they existed, but we interacted on Twitter and we ended up writing a proposal together to work together. Jayshree Seth: So assuming we can nurture and develop a new generation of inspired, creative, tinkerers to take up a career in science: What do you think we will achieve with science in your lifetime? Jeff Terry: Well, I have to start off by first saying we've achieved a tremendous amount in science over my lifetime - I was alive before anyone had walked on the moon and the downside to this is no one has walked on the moon since my children were born. So, the interesting thing about science is we move forward and we sometimes take steps back, and it would be nice if we could continue to progress, but I don't know if we always can and I don't know if it's always even desirable to continue progressing in every conceivable area. So, I have grown up in this era of science fiction where things that didn't exist now exist, some things that we were able to do we can't do anymore. And I hope that as we bring more creative people into science by changing the education process we make it cheaper and easier to continue accomplishing new things. And by certain that will always be the case no, and unfortunately, we have been hitting walls lately — it is very hard for us to build large projects, if we look at projects like the superconducting supercollider we're killing, the new budget from the presidents what to zero out the budget for an Advanced Space Telescope. These are certainly concerns that would make it harder and harder to continue advancing our knowledge of science and engineering. I hope that as people continue on and get more and more creative and come up with creative solutions that will allow us to continue advancing our knowledge in a way that's more affordable for society because society can't spend all its money on science and technology. So, it's an interesting problem, with infinite amounts of money science can progress quite far. But we'll never see for now the amounts of money again in science. So, what will we be able to do, well, I hope in a minimum we're able to end energy poverty in society so we can bring everyone in the world up to a decent standard of living and I hope we can do this sustainably so we don't actually end up hurting our planet or do it at the expense of other species that exists. I hope we can end famine I don't see a good reason for us to allow anyone around the world to starve with the technologies that we have with genetically modified organisms - there really isn't a good excuse for not being able to produce enough food for everybody. So those are two areas I hope to see going away in the future; I hope no one knows famine and no one knows energy poverty. Jayshree Seth: Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts with me, Jeff. Science has advanced an unbelievable amount in my lifetime — but science education may not be keeping pace. To inspire and nurture the next generation of scientists, we need more flexibility, more creativity, and to ignite the curiosity that drives all scientific exploration Thank you for listening to Science Champions (sponsored by 3M). Next episode, I’ll be joined by Dianna Cowern, also known as “Physics Girl,” a science educator with over 800,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel. We’ll discuss the intersection of science, popular culture and society. Subscribe now on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Dive into the data from the State of Science survey with our interactive State of Science Index homepage. Explore all the episodes on our Science Champions podcast page.
• 0 • 0 What are the Main Properties and Uses of Inconel718 The volatile international political situations will continue to affect the markets and prices of many commodities like the Alloy Inconel718. What is Nickel-based Super Alloy Inconel718: Inconel 718 or In718 is a nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloy. It is an oxidation-resistant and corrosion-resistant material ideal for use in extreme environments under pressure and heat. In718 was invented in the early 1960s in INCO Huntington Alloys (now Special Metals Co.) and used in turbine parts manufacturing. Since then, In718 has become the most widely used nickel-based superalloy in the history of aero-engines. The unique alloy composition of In718 enables it to have good comprehensive properties, namely high strength, creep resistance, etc. Especially under 650℃, it has good stability in terms of mechanical properties. Many parts of modern aero-engines, such as turbine discs, blades, brakes, shafts, stators, seals, supports, pipes, fasteners, are made of In718. Properties of Nickel-based Super Alloy Inconel718: When heated, a thick and stable passivating oxide layer is formed on the surface of the alloy, protecting the surface from further erosion. It exhibits high yield, tensile, and creep fracture properties at high temperatures. Inconel718’s high-temperature strength is developed by solid solution strengthening or precipitation hardening. Inconel718 has good comprehensive properties in the temperature range of -253 ~ 700℃ (1290°F). Its yield strength below 650℃ ranks first among the deformation superalloys. It has good fatigue resistance, radiation resistance, oxidation resistance, corrosion resistance, and good machining and welding performance. Various complex-shaped parts can be produced with Inconel718, and thus Inconel718 is widely used in aerospace, nuclear energy, petroleum industry, and extrusion die in the above temperature range. Applications of Nickel-based Super Alloy Inconel718: Chemical processing;Gas turbine blades, seals, and combustors;High-temperature fasteners;Pressure vessels;Aerospace industry, for constructing heat resistant turbines;Low-temperature storage tanks;Nuclear energy industry;Petroleum industry. Inquery us Our Latest News Global market trend 2025-2028 Shanghai port container throughput recovery has a positive impact on the aerospace cargo logistics market by Newsangelspeaks Factors affecting freight forwarder aerospace cargo logistics Freight transportation In international freight transport, one of the most concerning issues is the price of freight transport. The cost is directly related to the cost of tra… Global foaming machine ,cement foaming machine market trend 2025-2026 How can cement foaming machine achieve better foaming effect in construction by Newsangelspeaks
The many types, health benefits of kale It’s popular in northern Europe and now throughout the U.S. During the Middle Ages, kale was planted and used to feed humans and livestock.History books state that Thomas Jefferson experimented with several varieties of kale at his Monticello estate in the early 1800s.Russian kale is harder to find and it has flat fringed leaves that range in color from green to red to purple.Kale is a nutrition superstar due to the amounts of vitamins A, K, B6 and C, calcium, potassium, copper and manganese it contains.Kale is a member of the cruciferous vegetable family along with cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, collard greens, kohlrabi, rutabaga, turnips and bok choy.These vegetables offer health benefits, including potentially reducing the risk of various types of cancer.The only people who may need to avoid or limit kale intake are those that form oxalate containing kidney stones or take the blood thinner Coumadin/warfarin.Kale holds its texture well in cooking, and it can be steamed, stir fried, roasted, or eaten raw.Always remove the middle rib as it tends to be overly tough and fibrous and imparts a more bitter taste when eaten.Get some kale, remove the center rib and tear up the leaves, and add them to a regular green salad.Although any variety will work in this dish, curly, dark green dinosaur kale looks spectacular, especially alongside a mix of red, yellow and orange cherry tomatoes. . Kale: Health benefits, nutrition, diet, and risks This article looks at the nutritional content and health benefits of kale, how to include it in the diet, and reasons why some people should not eat too much of it.Possible benefits include helping manage blood pressure , boosting digestive health, and protecting against cancer and type 2 diabetes .Kale contains fiber, antioxidants, calcium, vitamins C and K, iron, and a wide range of other nutrients that can help prevent various health problems.Antioxidants help the body remove unwanted toxins that result from natural processes and environmental pressures.The American Diabetes Association recommend consuming foods that are rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants.Antioxidants: Authors of a 2012 article note that high blood sugar levels can trigger the production of free radicals.They note that antioxidants, such as vitamin C and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), can help reduce complications that may occur with diabetes.In this way, kale may limit the risk of cancer, and pairing a chargrilled steak with green vegetables may help reduce the negative impact.Studies have not found that supplements have the same effect, but people who have a high intake of fruits and vegetables appear to have a lower risk of developing various cancers.Kale is high in fiber and water, both of which help prevent constipation and promote regularity and a healthy digestive tract.The body uses vitamin C to build and maintain collagen, a protein that provides structure for skin, hair, and bones.Kale contains lutein and zeaxanthin, an antioxidant combination that may help reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration. . Kale Might Not Be As Good for You As You Think However, it's probably not something to worry about as you would have to eat an excessive amount of raw kale to experience these negative effects — a lot more then you're likely to have in one sitting.The Environmental Working Group just released its "Dirty Dozen" list for the year, which is a guide to the products that are covered in the most pesticides."We were surprised kale had so many pesticides on it, but the test results were unequivocal," said EWG toxicologist Alexis Temkin."Fruits and vegetables are an important part of everyone's diet, and when it comes to some conventionally grown produce items, such as kale, choosing organic may be a better option.". . Top 5 health benefits of kale Kale is a cruciferous vegetable, like cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, and has large, edible leaves with a tough central stem.When you buy kale, you’ll normally find it sold whole or pre-chopped, and it can be eaten raw or lightly cooked.Kale contains a number of nutrients that support heart health, including potassium, which maintains a healthy blood pressure.Another benefit of kale is that it contains substances that bind to cholesterol to help manage levels.Studies suggest that even if you juice or steam kale, you will still benefit from these advantages.Kale is rich in two phytonutrients, lutein and zeaxanthin, that support the health of our eyes and vision.Consuming sufficient quantities of these nutrients lowers the risk of age-related macular degeneration and cataracts.As kale is a rich source of vitamin K, those on anti-coagulant medication (commonly referred to as blood thinners) need to consider the amount they eat.Nicola Shubrook is a nutritional therapist and works with both private clients and the corporate sector.She is an accredited member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) and the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).All health content on bbcgoodfood.com is provided for general information only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your own doctor or any other healthcare professional. . What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Kale — Eat This Not That We went asked a few experts about the specifics of what happens to your body when you eat kale, and how this powerful superfood really can make a huge difference in your health."Kale is super nutritious, that's why it finds its way on main meals and salads," Edie Reads, RD and chief editor of healthadvise.org.Here's why many nutritionists would also back up the phrase "kale is king," and for even more healthy tips, be sure to check out our list of The 7 Healthiest Foods to Eat Right Now.A cup of kale offers just under 200 milligrams of calcium, and ample Vitamin K, both of which are important parts of the puzzle in preventing osteoporosis.".If you're taking a medication known to interfere with vitamin k and normal clotting, make sure to speak to your doctor before increasing your intake of kale and other leafy greens."."These work to actively reduce inflammation and oxidative stress that can damage the body's cells and tissues leading to chronic conditions."."Dark leafy greens like kale are nutritional powerhouses," says Meghan Sedivy, RD, LDN from Fresh Thyme Market."Greens like kale are packed with vitamin K helping the body to clot blood, iron which helps bring oxygen to vital organs throughout the body and produce red blood cells, magnesium to promote proper muscle and nerve function, and vitamin A for vision health.Kale is an earthy, versatile leafy green best used in soups, sauces, or sauteed into a side dish like farro or quinoa."."Adding kale to your day is a great way to support the health of your skin, cartilage, blood vessels, and healing of wounds!". . 4 Reasons Why Kale is a True Superfood By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine.Packing a powerful punch of antioxidants, nutrients and excellent digestive support, its role in optimal wellness is tough to dispute.The kale carotenoids Lutein and Zeaxanthin concentrate in the eye, and may play a role in preventing optic conditions like macular degeneration and cataract.The reduction of oxidation to LDL has important implications in terms of heart disease risk.For more information, order your copy of Grain Brain today and join Dr. Perlmutter’s email list. Kale: The Leafy Green Full of Vitamins Kale Smoothie Start your morning with a glass, and you’ll feel oddly invincible the rest of the day.I realize I am at risk of dramatizing the impact that a breakfast smoothie can have on a person’s psyche, but this kale pineapple smoothie truly makes me feel fantastic every time I drink it.With its oodles of fruit, veggies, and protein, this healthy green smoothie makes me feel like a booty-kickin’ superhero ready to take on the world, from my wildest goals to the laundry that I’ve been ignoring for the two weeks.Thanks to the pineapple, banana, and honey, this healthy breakfast smoothie is sweet and creamy, and the kale’s flavor is mild.It packs fiber, protein, and a whole host of vitamins, antioxidants and other nutrients!The raw kale flavor is strong on its own, but the other ingredients mellow it.The raw kale flavor is strong on its own, but the other ingredients mellow it.My secret to taming the flavor of the raw kale and making it nearly imperceptible!Since bananas are low in calories and high in fiber, they may aid in weight loss as well.Banana makes the kale smoothie rich, thick, and creamy, and it naturally sweetens it too.Since bananas are low in calories and high in fiber, they may aid in weight loss as well.Banana makes the kale smoothie rich, thick, and creamy, and it naturally sweetens it too.Honey is full of antioxidants, can aid in digestion, and may soothe a sore throat.To make the kale smoothie vegan, swap maple syrup (which also has health benefits!Honey is full of antioxidants, can aid in digestion, and may soothe a sore throat.To make the kale smoothie vegan, swap maple syrup (which also has health benefits!).A big dollop of nonfat Greek yogurt provides extra healthy protein and makes the kale smoothie even more filling.A big dollop of nonfat Greek yogurt provides extra healthy protein and makes the kale smoothie even more filling.While you’ll have the smoothest results with a high-powered blend like a Vitamix, you can make this banana kale smoothie with a regular blender too.Food fads may come and go, but this recipe is here to be your little black dress of morning meals.While it doesn’t get things as smooth as quickly as a high-powered blender or come with the same bells and whistles, it’s a good option for the price.They make everything you drink through them from smoothies, to iced coffee, to even water taste extra cool and refreshing. . Is eating raw kale actually bad for you? It's anti-inflammatory, has been shown to help protect against both heart disease and cancer , and is packed with digestion-boosting fiber, as well as plenty of vitamin C, calcium, and vision-benefiting lutein ."Kale gets its super healthy reputation in part because of compounds called glucosinolates," says Brierley Horton, MS, RD.(Found in all cruciferous vegetables, gluconsinolates are the subject of intense research centered on cancer prevention.).Along with creating some thyroid concerns in some women when eaten in large quantities, Beth Basham, MS, RD, LD, says eating raw kale could also affect another subset of the population: those susceptible to kidney stones."Another population that might be weary of regular raw kale consumption would be those with kidney stones who have been told to follow an oxalate-restricted diet," Basham says.Excess consumption of oxalate-containing foods can be problematic for those who are susceptible and may lead to pain and future kidney stone development.".Whether you're someone who's affected by the raw greens or not—something you can chat with your doctor about to be sure—there are some expert-approved ways to reap the benefits, minus these potential health problems."Glucosinolates are greatly diminished by cooking, so it’s good advice to boil, roast or stew your kale before eating.This is the same for any other cruciferous veggie like broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kohlrabi, and bok choy," Basham says."Eating your veggies with fat increases the availability of fat-soluble vitamins D, E, A, and K from the food source—a benefit you don't want to miss out on," she explains."There's no current recommendation on the number of green smoothies you can have, but if you can't live without them, limit consumption to three or four times per week if you include raw kale.". . 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Home > Blogs > Gas and Gas Pains Symptoms, Causes and Treatment Gas and Gas Pains Symptoms, Causes and Treatment Gas and Gas Pains Symptoms, Causes and Treatment May 21, 2019 Contrary to popular belief, gas doesn’t mean that something is terribly wrong with your stomach. In fact, an average adult passes gas 12-20 times a day. Surprised? Passing gas is just your body’s way of getting rid of the excess gas in the digestive system. But that’s not when the trouble starts. If there is a build-up of gas in the stomach or the intestines, and there is a difficulty in expelling it, you may begin to feel uncomfortable. Most of the times, such discomfort causes pain. Gas pain can also be caused by eating foods that produce gas, thus increasing the gas content in your stomach, which might be difficult to get rid of. However, it is not necessary for gas problems to be caused by food habits only. Digestive system disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome can also cause gas pain. Here’s a clearer idea of what this problem is about. While passing gas doesn’t by itself call for trouble, you should consider getting treatment if you experience one or many of the symptoms frequently. These include – a noticeable increase in the size of your abdomen, passing gas, burping, abdominal cramps, a feeling of pressure in the stomach, bad breath, a coating on the tongue, lack of appetite, spasms, lower back pain, shortness of breath and diarrhea. Sometimes, gas can also be trapped in the chest. When gas is trapped in the chest, the symptoms resemble that of heart attack, including a heavy feeling in the chest, bloating and belching. A person experiencing this might also have an uneasy feeling of not being able to breathe. Gas can be collected in the digestive system in many ways. One of them is during digestion. Digestion is the process of breakdown of food. As this happens, it is possible for gases like Oxygen, Carbon dioxide, and Methane to get accumulated in the digestive tract. Another prominent reason is that we swallow air while eating or drinking. But it should not cause any problems because this is a very common occurrence. Painful gas, however, is a matter of concern and if you are experiencing it, you should immediately consider getting treated. Painful gas can be caused by one’s dietary preferences and lifestyle. High-fiber food items like lentils, raisins, cabbage, apples, beans, and whole grains increase gas production in the stomach. Though these food items are extremely necessary to regulate body functions, excessive consumption causes flatulence. Lactose and sugar intolerance can also cause gas pain. These when consumed by someone allergic, remain undigested in their body leading to the formation of gas. In all other unlikely cases, it can be caused by any medical conditions. Possible ailments are Crohn’s disease, constipation, peptic ulcers, and ulcerative colitis. There are several methods to ease the discomfort caused by gas, including home remedies. Taking care of your diet You should avoid gas forming foods that can trigger the already present symptoms. Milk, dairy products, artificial sweeteners, and carbonated drinks can also increase gas production in the stomach. Lactose intolerant people should avoid consuming dairy products. Instead, they are advised to take Calcium supplements. Drugs with antacids such as Anti-gas, Mylanta, Phazym and Maalox are few of the recommended ones to take during gas pain. However, no drugs should be taken unless prescribed by a physician. Applying Heat Place a heating pad or hot water bottle on your stomach when you are experiencing a bout of gas pain. The warmth will ease the discomfort and let the gas pass through the intestine. Changing lifestyle Avoiding smoking, avoiding drinking through straws, eating and chewing each meal slowly and avoiding chewing gum are some habits that you can incorporate in your lifestyle for a noticeable decrease in discomfort. Take some time out and include walking or yoga after meals in your daily routine. They help the gut muscles to relax for the gas to pass through the digestive tract easily. Other remedies There are multiple options to cure gas pain, and most of them are often available in the kitchen! • Tea- Herbal-tea works wonders to relieve you of gas pain and improve your digestion at the same time. Drinking a cup of chamomile tea, ginger tea, peppermint tea or anise tea can be very effective. • Caraway seeds- They help provide relief from indigestion, gas and cramps, all while simultaneously improving digestion. Add them to your meals to experience the benefits. Especially do so when you know that your food has other ingredients that’ll cause gas. • Cumin seeds- It not only helps to provide relief during gas pain but helps the digestive processes run efficiently. A refreshing way to consume this is by drinking jal jeera. It contains not only cumin seeds but other spices with medical benefits, such as pudina, fennel seeds, and black pepper among others. If you don’t find any at the house, go to your nearest store to grab a few sachets of Gas-O-Fast. They have an array of flavors including everyone’s favorite jal jeera! Have a few handy to fight gas problems anytime! The next time you face any problems related to gas, Gas-O-Fast is definitely a recommended solution. Categories : Your Thoughts
Kosher salt, also known as kosher or sea salt, is the salt of the ancient Jewish people. For ages, they have known how to preserve the life of their foods by using salt. For example, they used fresh garlic cloves and cracked red pepper with water to make unleavened bread. During the time of Jesus, his followers were the first ones to recognize the healing effects of kosher salt, when they decided to rub the stones of the cross together. Later on, his followers grew to believe that kosher salt is God's temple salt since the early Christians used it as well to sprinkle their prayers over their sacred bodies. As a result, today there are different salts made in America from salts extracted from kosher salt deposits. Kosher salt is coarse kosher salt without many common additives like iodine, potassium, or sodium. Usually used only in the kitchen and not on the table, it is mostly composed of sodium chloride and contains no anti-caking elements. It is often mixed with other ingredients to produce a variety of salty products, such as pickling salt, cream of salt, sea salt, and cream of tartar. It has become popular worldwide as a substitute for table salt because it is both healthier and cheaper. In addition, its natural flavor is much like the real thing and is the reason why kosher sea salt has become a very popular food. Kosher salt, also called sea salt or pickling salt was first discovered by the ancient Jews. They considered themselves as being above everything else, and their choice of salt was crucial because they believed in the importance of preserving the life of their food. Their religious beliefs also dictated their choice of salt for their cooking, and in most cases, Jewish chefs preferred kosher salt over table salt. Even today kosher salt has a unique taste because certain minerals found in sea salt (like calcium and magnesium) are missing in table salt, making it undesirable to use for cooking purposes. Unfortunately, because it lacks one of the essential minerals mentioned above, kosher salt lacks one of the most important flavors that we are used to in our favorite cuisines. As a result, kosher salt foods lose some of their flavors when heated. In order to retain its distinctive flavor and to retain its "fishy" aroma, kosher salt must be kept in a cool place and must be used within a very short time after preparation. Otherwise, its flavor will rapidly disappear and will no longer be acceptable for cooking purposes. Fortunately, there are ways to restore some of the flavors to kosher salt. First, it is important to learn more about how kosher salt is actually measured and what part of the world it comes from. According to the Jewish Orthodox Union, "Kosher is a term applied to a set of weights, measures and other measures used in the Jewish community. The term kosher salt, according to this definition, refers to fine sea salt mined in the Dead Sea region." The traditional unit of measurement for kosher salt is 100 grams. There are also differences between kosher salt and regular table salt. The most obvious ones are color and texture. Sea salt tends to be slightly grayish-white while kosher salt tends to be closer to the color of table salt, if not quite as close. Also, kosher salt tends to be significantly harder and less permeable than regular table salt. There are ways to make sure that you're getting real kosher salt with the right color and texture. Most kosher salt suppliers list specific numbers for color and other characteristics, and many manufacturers even guarantee that their products are 100% kosher. However, the only way to really be sure is to ask the store where you're purchasing your kosher salt. If they don't know or won't tell you, move on to another supplier. There's a lot more to cooking than simply using kosher salt. No matter how well-known or popular any recipe may be, there are always new things to learn and new techniques to master. And when it comes to using kosher salt versus regular table salt, you can never be certain of whether or not something will work unless you try it. That's why it's important to invest in a good kosher salt cellar for your home. The salt cellar will provide a safe place to store your spices and learn more about the many different kinds of recipes that you can create at home.
Cultural Reaction Paper Consider a culturally influenced ethical practice dilemma in a country or culture that you are familiar with. Contrast this with the practice and norms of US culture. Alternatively, consider the case of Fatima in Case 9.1 as presented by Healy, L. M. (2008) in International Social Work (p. 248) or another ethical dilemma presented in Chapter 9. Write a 3-4 page double-spaced reaction paper that reflects on the following: • Briefly define the ethical dilemma • How does the ethical dilemma reflect the service user’s reality, and the reality of their family and community? • How are you influenced personally and professionally by this question or problem? Reflect on your personal values, history, and cultural biases. • How might your views conflict with the value base, culture, and history of the other(s) concerned with the ethical question? To what extent are your ethical views bound up in individualistic (or communalistic) values? • The situation involves a conflict that is complex because it is being navigated between two cultures (which likely have different values or perspectives about the issue). How might the situation play out differently if it were happening entirely within your own culture? How about if it were experienced entirely within another culture? • To what extent is the ethical tension reflective of wider social and global issues? • How might power and status influence the service user’s decision? What are the similarities and differences in how power and status are defined in the identified culture versus your own? Case 9.1 Example: Don't use plagiarized sources. Get Your Custom Essay on Cultural Reaction Paper Order Essay This is the case of Fatima, a 22 years old woman born in Canada and still lives there. Her parents were refugees who escaped from Ethiopia in 1976. Although her parents came from an ethic group that engaged in female genital circumcision, her own mother suffered greatly from this operation, and her parents decided against circumcising Fatima, In any case, this operation is illegal in Canada. Fatima has decided to marry Ali, a recent refugee from Ethiopia. Ali thinks that to be a good wife a woman should be circumcised. Fatima thinks that she should be true to her Ethiopian traditions. She has suffered in Canada from being a member of a minority, and, as she grew up, she became more interested in her people’s customs and tradition. Fatima argues that since she is of age, she should be given this operation if she wants it. After all, other women in Canada have operations to enlarge their breasts. or make their faces look younger. She argues that as a Canadian, it is her right to do what she wants with her own body. If the operation is performed in a modern, hygienic hospital in Canada, she lowers the risk of health consequences considerably. If Fatima approaches a social worker for help in advocating for her right to this operation, how should the social worker respond? Homework Paper Order NOW For A 10% Discount! Pages (550 words) Approximate price: - Our Advantages Plagiarism Free Papers Free Revisions Free Title-page Free Bibliography Originality & Security 24/7 Customer Support Try it now! Calculate the price of your order We'll send you the first draft for approval by at Total price: How it works? Follow these simple steps to get your paper done Place your order Proceed with the payment Choose the payment system that suits you most. Receive the final file Our Services We work around the clock to see best customer experience. Flexible Pricing Admission help & Client-Writer Contact Paper Submission Customer Feedback
Gastro-Intestinal Problems Gastrointestinal problems relate to the gastrointestinal tract – the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum, and the accessory organs of digestion Necrotising Enterocolitis Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious illness where tissue in the bowel becomes inflamed. The exact cause of NEC is unknown, but it is thought that a weakness in the intestines is responsible as a result of a lack of oxygen during a difficult delivery. NEC usually causes a temporary intolerance of milk feeds, but when severe enough it can result in some parts of the bowel becoming so damaged that tissue within it dies. This can cause a hole to develop which can lead to a serious infection as the contents of the intestine leak into the abdomen. NEC may affect just a small part of the bowel or, on occasions, the whole bowel may be affected. NEC varies in severity and is generally associated with preterm babies, but has been seen in term babies. It can be difficult to diagnose as symptoms are similar to other conditions’ symptoms. Symptoms include a mild to severely swollen abdomen with possible other issues such as discolouration, vomiting, diarrhoea, poor feeding, lethargy, periods of apnoea/disrupted breathing, and fever. Suspected NEC is always treated as a medical emergency followed with extreme caution. In the case of ‘suspicion’ that your baby may have NEC, oral feeds are stopped and your baby will receive intravenous fluids and antibiotics. This allows the bowel to rest whilst further investigations are being carried out to diagnose the condition. Once your baby’s doctor deems it appropriate, oral feeds will be slowing reintroduced. If your baby has developed a perforation in their intestine or has not responded to antibiotic treatment then surgery will be required. It will be carried out under general anesthetic, and the surgeon will remove any part(s) of the intestine where the tissue has died. Your baby will be fed intravenously as they recover from the surgery. An exclusive human milk diet reduces the risk of necrotising enterocolitis. Respiratory Conditions Common respiratory conditions and the treatments associated Cardio-vascular Issues Cardiovascular issues are those that involve your baby’s heart or blood vessels Neurological Problems Neurological problems can occur in the anatomy or function of nerves and the nervous system Gastro Intestinal Problems Problems in the digestive system Pain Control How the medical team will take steps to control any pain your baby experiences Other Issues Other medical issues your baby may experience
Skip to content Table of Contents More To Explore What is Bitcoin Share This Post What is bitcoin? Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency (digital currency/asset) which was invented in 2008. The person or group behind the invention was using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The bitcoin project went live in 2009. This is the time when the implementation was released as open-source software. What is money? Before we can really talk about Bitcoin, we need to take a moment and talk about what money is exactly. If you think about money, you think about value. People can pay you money when you work for them. That money can be used to get something valuable in the future. Over time money has taken many forms. The most well-known one is of course gold. This means that people placed their trust in something. This ‘thing’ needs to be trusted so much that people believe it will remain valuable enough so its value can be redeemed in the future. Ultimately, people did not want to walk around with gold bars (or any other form of money) to be able to pay for stuff. This is when paper money was invented. First, the bank or government would take your bar of gold and in exchange, they gave you paper certificates. This way you could easily buy stuff and if you wanted, you could always go back to the bank and redeem these certificates for actual gold. Eventually, the gold standard was broken. This is when people didn’t need to trust the valuable thing anymore. They needed to trust someONE, in this case, the government. As long as we trust our governments, their money will be valuable. This money is called Fiat money. Fiat money Fiat money is also known as ‘legal tender‘. This means that these coins or banknotes must be accepted if they are offered as payment. Fiat currencies have some major drawbacks though. 1. It is centralized. This means that there is a central authority that controls it. This can lead to corruption, of which there are many examples. It can also lead to mismanagement. The central authority can, for example, print a lot of money to bail out failing companies. This is something we are can see happening right now due to COVID. Whether this is ‘mismanagement’ is debatable of course. 2. There is no limit to how much a government or central bank can print. The problem with printing money is that this causes the currency to lose its value. This also why prices of goods continue to rise over the years. Over the years fiat money has become more and more digital. We all use debit and credit cards or services like PayPal. Compared to digital money, physical money is almost meaningless. Now that most of our money is digital there is another problem. The ‘double spend problem‘. The solution here is that banks keep a ledger on their computers which basically keeps track of who owns how much money. So we all have to trust the bank/government What is Bitcoin? Now we can start talking about what makes Bitcoin different and interesting. Bitcoin basically has a transparent ledger that is not centrally authorized. This means that Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous. Every transaction is publicly trackable, but you don’t know who is behind the transaction itself. There is also no centralized ledger. Every computer that participates in the network/system also keeps a copy of the ledger. This is also known as the blockchain. If someone would want to take down the system they need to take down thousands of computers. In this way, Bitcoin is completely different than the current banking system. There is no need for a middlemen to control transactions. If the network agrees you have enough funds to make a transaction, the transaction goes through and is added to the blockchain. You also have complete control over your own money. You and only you can access your funds. No bank or government can freeze your assets or take away your holdings. After reading this you should probably know more about Bitcoin than most people around you. Bitcoin was designed for a specific reason. It provides you with a secure way to control your money without the need for a central authority to keep track of transactions. Do you want to buy Bitcoin yourself? I buy my cryptocurrencies on a platform called Coinbase. I have another post going more in-depth on how I buy Bitcoin every month. Feel free to check it out. If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to reach out! More To Explore Portfolio Update April 2022 Portfolio Update – April 2022 Join us on Discord! Notify of Newest Most Voted Inline Feedbacks View all comments 1 year ago When moon, sir? Fellow Belgian Fellow Belgian 1 year ago Hello Michiel, I was curious to hear your thoughts on crypto interest companies like BlockFi, would you use it to get some additional returns? Fellow belgian Fellow belgian Reply to Michiel 1 year ago I see! Thank you for your answer! 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One Classroom, Many Goals One Classroom, Many Goals Lately in my coaching work, the conversation has circled to supporting students with special needs within the reading and writing workshop. The wonder and the difficulty of workshop teaching is the ability to differentiate within any day. It is amazing. It is daunting. Let’s buckle up and talk some practical tips for managing many goals within one classroom. First, remember workshop teaching is a structure, not a curriculum. Workshop teaching outlines your time, not your teaching. Often workshop teaching and units of study are used interchangeably, when instead one fits inside the other. Think of workshop teaching as a piece of tupperware, it can contain multitudes, the contents of the tupperware are our curricular choices. These are the elements that make something workshop teaching: • Focus Lesson at the start • Independent Practice takes up the bulk of the time • Reflective Share at the end What you do inside these structures depends a lot on what your kiddos need. Second, separate programs from practices. One thing that has often frustrated me as a special education teacher is that more often that not when you look for support it comes in the form of someone trying to sell you a program, instead of teaching practices that work across the day. This is not to say there isn’t a way to integrate specific programs into a child’s independent practice during reading or writing workshop, but rather that one question we want to ask is what are the instructional practices any particular child needs to gain access to the curriculum. Some examples of generalizable practices are: • spaced practice (learning something in smaller chunks over a longer time) • task analysis (breaking complex skills down into smaller steps) • multi-modal learning (integrating movement, visuals, tactile experiences into teaching) • small group instruction Third, know your goals. One of the hardest juggling acts as a workshop teacher is to know who is working towards what. Add in the goals from a child’s individualized education plan (IEP) and it is hard to know how to handle all the pieces of information. A snippet of a whole class conferring sheet I have used to focus my own instruction looks something like this (you can find a blank here if its helpful): Remember goals may also not have anything to do with content. I often quote a math consultant I worked with, Ryan Dunn, who taught me that each lesson should have a social goal, a language goal, and a content goal. This is helpful to keep in mind in knowing that I may not work on a writing goal within a writing workshop, I might work on a social goal using our writing partner time. Here is the mental equation I do: what instructional practices should I use within the workshop structure to help children reach their goals? Some examples: Focus Lesson: Within a focus lesson, I may be supporting my different learners in ways that also support the rest of the students. Things like visuals, repeating big ideas to a partner, acting out important parts provide a needed scaffold for some children and valuable reinforcement for others. The key is that I have my eyes on different aspects for different children. The big point of a lesson might be something like planning out your book before you start writing, but my eyes might be on a few different things: • Child A might be working on stamina for sitting with the community, success for this child is staying on or near the rug for 8 of the 10 minutes and is seated by the edge where she can move from the rug to a yoga ball and back again • Child B might need the scaffold of a visuals to understand verbal directions, this child is seated up front and in charge of pointing to each part of the chart • To engage child C, I have chosen to write a fiction book involving his favorite topic: vacuum cleaners Listen, truth talk. I planned the lesson because it would be helpful to 75% of the children. When I teach the lesson, my eyes might be focused on 3 or 4 kiddos. This isn’t true for every lesson, but its true for some. Independent Work Time Kathryn Cazes changed everything I understand about the world of independent work time when she taught me about schedules. You can read about her thinking in detail and see lots of examples and photos here. In summary, everyone doesn’t have to do the same thing in independent work time. Children don’t even need to spend their time the same way in independent work time. I used to send everyone off to work on their writing and their reading and think the differentiation was in the materials, but Kat taught there is so much more we can do: we can differentiate time amounts, we can differentiate skills we practice, we can differentiate size of groupings. Looking back on Beta, the child on the goals sheet above, her schedule of work time in writing workshop might go something like: 10 minutes : Sequence photographs/clip art for story 10 minutes: Fine motor break: putty, tweezers, beads 10 minutes: Write words to story If a timer is an iffy proposition, then it could also be by task completion, something like this: Job 1: sequence 3 photos and glue on writing paper Job 2: Bead one necklace, find all the letters in the putty Job 3: Write words to go with each picture in your story In reading workshop it could be a child is working on sight word game on an iPad to meet a goal around word recognition, then moving to listening to a book on tape, then meeting with a teacher for direct instruction around phonics in a small group of children who require the same phonics program, and then finally spending the last bend of time reading from a book baggy with a partner. Maybe part of the child’s reading baggy is social stories they have read again and again as part of their social learning. It can feel like a lot to manage, the same way cooking a meal the size of Thanksgiving can feel daunting- multiple timers, multiple cooking temperatures, not enough space… but you manage it just like you do for that meal: plan, prepare what you can in advance, and then stay focused. Once you build a schedule for a child, and work towards independence with the child, you actually ease your work load. You know the child is engaging in work essential to their growth towards goals in a way that is appropriate for that child’s learning style and temperament. Gone are the days of constantly moving children away from each other for focus, or spending the last 20 minutes in a constant state of redirection. Instead you have adapted the structure to fit the child, and not forced the child into the structure. In no way shape, form, or universe am I suggesting this is easy, but it does get easier. In my last year as a classroom teacher, the oh so distant 2017, I was teaching kindergarten. Within my classroom I had 4 kids on specialized schedules for reading or writing workshop. Teaching the children the schedules took a little less than a week. The children had bins and timers, visual schedules, and practice. These four children had been on my mind and had basically no choice but to distract others because I wasn’t using their time well. I was filling their time. Once I made the commitment and shifted each child into a personalized schedule, everything ran smoother. How do you make it work? Put thoughts and questions in the comments below! 1 Comment • Matt Halpern Posted at 06:03h, 07 February Reply I love this for so many reasons. I need to push myself to differentiate independent time more. Right now I feel like it’s during small groups I do this, but there are more (and better) ways! 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Eleuthero is one of the most useful natural healing herbs in existence. Commonly used in Eastern medicine as a remedy for fatigue, stress, depression, poor circulation, aging, and many other conditions for thousands of years, the Western world has recently taken note of this wonderful herb. Also known as “Siberian ginseng,” eleuthero is a woody shrub that grows on mountains throughout East Asia, and in Siberia and other parts of Russia. It has been a staple of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Russian herbalism for thousands of years -- and for good reason. Eleuthero has traditionally been used to counter fatigue and weakness, to boost energy, to increase blood flow to both the body and the brain, to fight off colds and flu, to relieve stress, and for its many other health and therapeutic benefits. The herb has been shown to have powerful anti-stress, anti-fatigue, anti-anxiety, anti-inflammatory, anti-depression, and anti-aging characteristics.11 Although eleuthero was used in traditional herbalism for thousands of years, its medicinal uses escaped scientists until about the second half of the 20th century. Thousands of studies in the modern era have shown that eleuthero benefits a wide variety of health conditions including: high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, bronchitis, atherosclerosis, kidney disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis.10 Is Eleuthero the Same As Ginseng? Eleuthero (araliaceae family) is a distant relative of both Asian and American ginseng. However, despite the moniker of “Siberian ginseng,” eleuthero is not a true ginseng because it’s devoid of ginsenosides. Instead, this mountain shrub is rich in eleutherosides, which endow the plant with its protective properties (2). Similar to other adaptogen* herbs, eleuthero is incredibly effective in bringing the body to homeostasis – a state of internal balance and stability. Like the true ginsengs, eleuthero protects you from the dangers of prolonged stress and the imbalances stress causes in your body (4). Eleuthero alleviates stress by regulating levels of adrenal gland hormones (cortisol and adrenaline) and has been shown to increase the body's resistance to both mental and physical stress of all kinds. This includes stressors such as heat, cold, noise, exercise, and increased workload.12 Modern Science Shows Eleuthero Is a Powerful Natural Healer One study in particular found that eleuthero leads to a higher quality of life in elderly people due to its therapeutic effects. In elderly patients and the chronically-fatigued, this manifested as reduced fatigue, reduced physical weakness, and higher energy levels (3,5). For the non-elderly, the effects of eleuthero manifest as increased physical and athletic performance. As such, the herb can help you recover faster from physical exertion. It acts as a stimulant that increases energy levels while reducing mental and physical fatigue (6). Eleuthero's stimulating effects also extend to cognitive functioning. The herb aids circulation and may increase blood flow to the brain, aiding memory and concentration. Some studies show that eleuthero could benefit people living with Alzheimer's disease due to its effects on cognitive functioning. Its stress-reducing properties can also help restore memory deficits and help Alzheimer's patients lead a higher quality of life (7). Traditionally, eleuthero was also used to manage the effects of menopause. Modern medicine has corroborated this as eleutherosides have been shown to bind to estrogen receptor sites. As a result, eleuthero may lessen the effects of estrogen withdrawal in menopausal and peri-menopausal women. In addition, eleuthero can help reduce bone loss that occurs during menopause and can help in the early treatment of osteoporosis (3). Eleuthero: A Natural Anti-Inflammatory? Some nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like naproxen sodium work by blocking the inflammatory pathway activating enzyme (COX-2) to reduce pain and inflammation in the body. Eleuthero exhibits the same COX-2 inhibiting effects and may be used to reduce inflammation (2). Due to its anti-inflammatory effects, eleuthero may improve lymphatic function. Taking eleuthero supplements may help reduce edema or swelling caused by the build-up of fluids. Eleuthero Strengthens Immunity and Has Anti-Viral Effects Eleuthero also has immunomodulating effects, which may help in fighting colds and cases of flu. It inhibits the replication of the human rhinovirus and influenza A, helping you recover faster from infection (8). The herb’s antiviral effects have been found to be effective in treating herpes simplex 2, reducing the time and severity of outbreaks (9). Eleuthero may also strengthen your immune system and response by increasing the number of T-cells in your body. Give Yourself the Eleuthero Advantage Although not as popular as ginseng in the West, eleuthero is a potent adaptogen that may enhance your physical health and mental wellbeing in many ways. From possibly treating viral infections and reducing inflammation and chronic fatigue to improving physical and mental performance and protecting your body from stress, eleuthero is one herb you want to incorporate into your daily routine. Furthermore, eleuthero is non-toxic, making it safe for consumption for all people. Eleuthero is one of the primary ingredients in Lean Factor’s Peak Male for men, EmpowHER for women, and the Nootropic Brain Booster, Limitless Mind * Adaptogens are a small category of unique herbs that help you adapt to stress, create balance in your body, and protect your health from the dangers of every type of stress. 1. Baranov AI. Medicinal uses of ginseng and related plants in the Soviet Union: recent trends in the Soviet literature. Journal of ethnopharmacology. 1982 Nov 1;6(3):339-53. 2. Mckenna DJ, Jones K, Hughes K, Tyler VM. Eleuthero. InBotanical Medicines 2012 Nov 12 (pp. 277-292). Routledge. 3. Dharmananda S. The Nature of Ginseng from Traditional Use to Modern Research. ITM; 2002 Sep. 4. Fulder SJ. Ginseng and the hypothalamic-pituitary control of stress. The American journal of Chinese medicine. 1981;9(02):112-8. 5. Drew A. Siberian ginseng. Current therapeutics. 2002 Nov;43(11). 6. Lamoreau TW, Schneider C. Can Herbs Improve Endurance? Adaptogens and Athletic Performance. Integrative Medicine Alert. 2018 Oct 1;21(10). 7. Abascal K, Yarnell E. Alzheimer's Disease: Part 2—A Botanical Treatment Plan. Alternative & Complementary Therapies. 2004 Apr 1;10(2):67-72. 8. Baczek K, Weglarz Z, Przybyl JL. Accumulation of biologically active compounds in the rhizomes and roots of Eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus/Maxim. et Rupr./Maxim.). Adv. Environ. Biol. 2011;5:325-8. 9. Yip ST, Liu R, Warrington T, Webb CW. How well do antivirals shorten genital herpes pain duration? 10. American Botanical Council: http://cms.herbalgram.org/ABCGuide/Monographs/Eleuthero.html 11. History of Eleuthero: http://cms.herbalgram.org/ABCGuide/Monographs/Eleuthero.html?ts=1583735910&signature=8aee83117823f68f209506872eb1248e 12. Brekhman and I. V. Dardymov, “New substances of plant origin which increase nonspecific resistance,” Annual Review of Pharmacology 9 (1969): 419–30 Leave a comment You must be logged in to post a comment. 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The Cognisant Citizen: Russo-Ukrainian Crisis 2022 Russia and Ukraine making it to the headlines is unequivocally not a news flash since that has been the case for months now. While political leaders engage in a war of words, it is the common man on both sides, hoping to not end up as a war victim or casualty. As the current political tensions between Russia and Ukraine begin to escalate by the day, concerns about the spike of a third world war perturb the sleep of many across Europe. How Did the Crisis Come Into Existence? Was Ukraine part of Russia? History of the conflict explained amid escalating fears of Putin invasion The conflict brewing at the crossroads of Russia and Europe, Ukraine is not the ramification of a neoteric event; instead, the story goes way back. While many Ukrainians want to unshackle themselves from the Russian hegemony and develop a closer liaison with the European Union, Russia considers Ukraine as a part of its own strategic orbit. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to Ukraine breaking free from the chains of the USSR, thereby becoming an independent state with the Ukrainian Peninsula, Crimea, as a part of its map. However, it was soon controversially annexed by the Russian forces. The Russo-Ukrainian conflict began towards the end of 2013 when Ukrainian policy was reoriented, and reconciliation with Russia was prompted by Russian pressure. The relations between the two countries further took a bitter turn after the Ukrainian revolution of 2014, which witnessed pro-European Union Ukrainians toppling then-President Viktor Yanukovych for rejecting an economic integration concord with Europe in favour of a deal with Russia. The crisis known as the “Euromaidan Revolution” emerged in the country as protesters flooded the streets revolting against the rejection of the deal that would have given Ukraine the much needed political and financial support. Benefitting from the unrest, Russia sent special forces into the Ukrainian Peninsula and wrongfully captured the territory. Russia also supported rebels in eastern Ukraine who took over huge swaths of the country. The illegal annexation of Crimea has been the largest land grab in Europe post World War II. What is the Current Development Between Russia and Ukraine? Russia shows no sign of retreat on invading Ukraine - Asia Times Ukraine wants to join hands with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) but is being held at arm’s length due to its unfortunate geographic proximity to Russia. The coming together of NATO and Ukraine would mean that the American troops can be stationed closer to the Russian borders making Ukraine the host for NATO naval base in the Black Sea. The stationing of the US troops irrefutably stands unacceptable to the Russian president Vladimir Putin; consequently, he is thwarting Ukraine from escaping his sphere of influence. More so, Ukraine, unlike Russia, is a nascent democracy, which gives birth to the fear that the concept of democracy could infiltrate the Russians, making them resistant to authoritarianism. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia have escalated further as a result of Russia’s decision to deploy tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine’s border and conduct a regular stream of military drills to demonstrate its military power. Although Russia has rejected intentions to invade Ukraine, it has warned that if its demands are not satisfied, it will use unspecified “military-technical measures.” Russia claims that NATO’s eastward expansion (dubbed “enlargement” by the alliance) threatens its interests and has asked the West for formal security guarantees. The issue has prompted a frenzy of diplomatic manoeuvring, with representatives from the United States, NATO, and the European Union meeting with Russian officials. New satellite images have been released revealing Russia’s dispatch of more troops and ammunition towards Ukraine boundaries. On the other hand, the western alliance is bolstering its weaponry in Eastern Europe near Ukraine’s borders. Russia’s Cyber-Warfare Against Ukraine Russian hacker previously extradited from Georgia to US sentenced to 12 years in prison The fear of Moscow is not looming over Kyiv only in the language of machine guns and tankers, but the former has not spared the erstwhile Soviet state from cyber-warfare either. Ukraine was plagued by assaults on January 11th when programmers damaged and handicapped in excess of 70 government sites. Microsoft found malware planted in Ukrainian government frameworks that could be triggered suddenly. Though a mere innuendo of cyber proficiency, in a full-scale cyber assault, Russia could demolish the power matrix and obviate Ukraine’s military behest centres and cellular communications apparatus. A communications blackout could also pave the way for a colossal disinformation campaign to impede the Ukrainian administration. Western Europe and European Union Versus Russia EU-Russia relations: time to break the stalemate? - Catalonia Global The European Union called for a meeting in Brussels on January 24th to discuss the Russo-Ukrainian crisis. Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief, said, “there is ‘unity’ among member states on ‘quick and determined’ action from the bloc, should Russia invade.” He further added, “the EU will continue ‘collective efforts’ to convince Russia to take a ‘path of dialogue’ in resolving tensions,” adding that “the EU is prepared to respond should diplomacy fail.” During the meeting, EU Commission President Van der Leyen declared a new aid package for Ukraine worth €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion). The foreign ministers of the EU underlined their fresh concerns over the Ukraine issue, with some members threatening austere consequences if Russia chooses to advance with an incursion. Responding to Brussels’s prohibitive measures obtruding on Moscow, Russia has now extended its rundown of EU individuals who are presently restricted to enter the Russian perimeter. The country has additionally boycotted the heads of some European private military firms, a few individuals from security administrations, EU lawmakers and different authorities who are by and by liable for advancing hostile Russian strategies. Old Enemies: US and Russia Small victories: Why US-Russia relations could improve under Biden – European Council on Foreign Relations The global political sphere is not oblivious to the sour relationship that Russia and the world’s largest economy share. The US president, Joe Biden, raised the possibility of penalising the Russian president with heavy sanctions. Keeping the dialogue and diplomacy in mind post the US reaction to Russia’s security demands, Moscow asserted that the US was reluctant on addressing the principal security concerns in their stalemate over Ukraine. As the fragile negotiations continue, Russia remains adamant that post-Cold War security arrangements in Europe be redrawn. It also demands NATO’s end on further expansion, drawback forces and weaponry from eastern European countries that entered NATO post the Cold War. The US, on Friday, declared that it would be sending its troops to Eastern Europe since the threat of a potential Russian foray continues to be a hanging sword over Ukrainian territory. The US also said the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) ought to be completely connected with the Ukraine crisis and affirmed that the council would chew over the issue during an open meeting a day prior to Russia assuming the rotating presidency of the Security Council for February. Where Does India Stand Amid the Crisis? After PM Modi, Jaishankar heads for UNSC with terrorism on agenda \| Latest News India - Hindustan Times India had been walking the tight rope of Russia versus the West cautiously until Friday when New Delhi finally broke its silence on the crisis and gave its first official statement. India called for a “peaceful resolution” of the situation through “sustained diplomatic efforts” for “long-term peace and stability” in the region and beyond. The strategic importance of both Russia and the West stands of paramount importance for India as jeopardising relations with the Russian federation would affect nearly 60% of military supplies from Russia. On the other hand, siding with Russia on the crisis will result in hampering ties with the US that shares similar democratic values. It will further detriment India’s relationship with its third-largest trading partner—the EU, and of course, the friendly relation with Ukraine would be marked with a full stop. Moreover, the nation cannot afford to support a coercive military occupation, especially when the Chinese government is breathing down New Delhi’s neck. India is likewise cognisant that the antagonism between the West and Russia, with discussed sanctions being thought of, is probably going to push Moscow towards Beijing, consequently fortifying the Chinese. The residence of 18,000 (as of 2020) students in Ukraine is also a cause of concern for the country. Could The Crisis Turn Into a Potential Third World War? Timeline: US, EU sanctions against Russia \| CGTN America The gabfest about the possibility of a third world war has spread throughout Europe. As troops on both sides stare each other down, Europe believes Russia and Ukraine are dangerously close to war while both the US and Ukraine are fretting upon a potential knock on the door for a call of warfare. However, so far, Russia is denying all allegations of an illegal invasion and is holding NATO and America responsible for the current situation. Russian soldiers, well equipped, are training for combat ten miles away from the Ukrainian border. As Putin flexes his muscles, the US and western allies continue issuing threats. In case the unfortunate fall upon Ukraine and Russia takes a call on invading the former Soviet state, it may turn into a Third World War with severe humanitarian and economic loss encompassing Eastern and Western Europe. With Russia’s military might and support of Belarus, and the US, NATO, the EU, along with the West alleging to throw their weight behind Ukraine, the invasion could turn into a bloody affair. According to a U.N report, the Russo-Ukrainian crisis has claimed more than 14,000 lives on both sides since 2014. Every political administration is aware of the grim aftermath of the world wars and would only hope to avoid creating another warlike situation, especially in the middle of a global pandemic. With political tensions escalating at a fast pace and witnessing the inclusion of more international players, the crisis has no longer remained between the border of Ukraine and Russia. Written by Aarushi Verma for MTTN Edited by Deepthi Priyanka C for MTTN Featured Image by Vaibhav Singh for MTTN Sources: BBC News, The Indian Express, CNN, CNBC, The New York Post Images via iNews, Anadolu Agency,, Catalonia Global Institute, European Council on Foreign Relations, Hindustan Times, CGTN America Leave a Reply Up ↑
Mary Pickersgill A black and white photograph of Mary Pickersgill wearing a bonnet. A late photograph of Mary Pickersgill. Library of Congress Seamstress, Mother, Businesswoman Mary Young Pickersgill is best known as the seamstress of the Star-Spangled Banner flag, which flew high above Fort McHenry during the British bombardment of Baltimore on September 13-14, 1814. Major George Armistead had commissioned the flag a year earlier, as the British were menacing Chesapeake Bay towns and Baltimore began preparing for its defense. Armistead, commander of the Maryland militia unit stationed at the Fort, wanted a flag “so large that the British will have no difficulty seeing it from a distance.” Pickersgill was given only six to eight weeks to complete it, a tall order even for a highly talented seamstress. However, Mary Pickersgill was more than just a seamstress, she was also a single mother and successful businesswoman who was able to draw upon the labor of others to fulfill the biggest commission of her career. Born in 1776 in Philadelphia, Mary Pickersgill seemed destined to become a flag maker. Her mother, Rebecca Flowers Young, had sewn flags during the Revolutionary War, and after being widowed in 1778, turned to her brother for help. Colonel Benjamin Flowers was a Revolutionary War hero now in charge of military supply stores, and so Rebecca began making military supplies, including flags. Sewing continental standards and garrison flags, Rebecca started the focus on flag-making which eventually became a family business. Mary married Philadelphia merchant John Pickersgill at age 19, and was widowed ten years later, leaving her with a young child to support. In 1806, she moved with her mother Rebecca, and daughter Caroline to Baltimore to be closer to their extended family. As a port city, Baltimore proved to be an excellent choice to establish a new flag-making business, and Rebecca began advertising their services in making military colors, signal flags, and merchant flags. In 1807, the small family moved to a larger house in the “Old Town” neighborhood near Fell’s Point and the harbor, settling into a working-class neighborhood populated with ship’s captains, merchants, and a large free African American population. A historic black and white photo graph of the flag house. The Flag House, location of Mary Pickersgill's business Library of Congress An Entrepreneur in Baltimore The Pickersgill house was perfectly situated for a flag making business, with its visible corner location and numerous windows that let light in everywhere, an important consideration for sewing work. Customers could view flag samples in the house’s front parlor, and then negotiate an order over tea in the dining room. The house was large enough to take in a boarder to help offset the rent, and it also had room for the three nieces who eventually came to live with Mary. Although the number of female heads of household living in Mary’s neighborhood at that time approached 17 percent, Mary and Rebecca were unusual in that they managed to start and run a successful business as women on their own. However, their ability to achieve that goal depended on the labor of other people. Someone had to keep the house running smoothly by taking care of all the cooking, cleaning, washing, and hauling of water from the neighborhood spring. This work was probably done by the enslaved person listed in the 1810 Census as living in the house, along with the two indentured servants Mary acquired, in 1809 and 1814. Slave ownership among families of modest means was not uncommon in Baltimore, with most owning a single enslaved person, usually a female between the ages of 10 and 35. Slave ownership was also common among Baltimore’s crafts workers in the early part of the 19th century. Some of these enslaved workers were “term slaves,” who were granted freedom after a certain number of years. Term slaves could be purchased for half the price of a “life slave,” and so represented less of a risk for lower income families and small business owners, who might not have the means to support them during an economic downturn. For women in particular, slave ownership represented a possible means to economic freedom, at a time when women had few other legal rights. By using someone else’s labor to maintain their household, Mary Pickersgill and Rebecca Young were able to focus on growing their flag making business. Assisting the enslaved person with household work would have been the indentured servants Mary contracted for, one of whom was a free African American girl named Grace Wisher. In addition to food and shelter, Grace’s contract specified that she would receive instruction in housework and the art of sewing. Most likely Grace slept in the kitchen at the rear of the house, along with the enslaved woman, a reminder of her place in an otherwise all-white household. However, Grace’s position as an apprentice meant that she would have worked alongside Caroline and Mary’s nieces, assisting with sewing work, including the biggest flag order Mary would receive in her life – that of the Star Spangled-Banner flag. A historic black and white photograph of the large Star-Spangled Banner flag on display outside of a building with a soldier standing in front of it. Frank A. O'Connell; Wilbur F. Coyle (1914). National Star-Spangled Banner Centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914. National Archives A Tall Order Through family connections and her reputation as a flag maker, Mary Pickersgill landed the contract to make a 30 x42 foot garrison flag for Fort McHenry, along with a smaller storm flag for inclement weather, to be delivered within six to eight weeks. Using over 400 yards of fabric, including cotton and dyed English wool bunting, Mary and her team of seamstresses created 15 stars and 15 stripes on a blue background, with each stripe measuring two feet wide, and each star two feet across. The flag was so large that it had to be assembled in the larger space of a local brewery, with the seamstresses working late into the night to meet their deadline. Mary delivered the flags to Armisted on August 19, 1813, over a year before the bombardment at Fort McHenry. When the flag was later memorialized in Francis Scott Key’s poem, Mary Pickersgill took her place in history as well. Philanthropist and Slave Owner However, there was more to Mary Pickersgill’s life than just flag making. By 1820, she had done well enough economically to purchase the large house on Albemarle Street, where she lived for the rest of her life. In 1828, she was elected President of the Impartial Female Humane Society, a benevolent organization that aimed to assist struggling seamstresses, just as she had once been. Under Mary’s long term of leadership, the Society also began construction of a home for elderly women, which was completed in 1851. Mary Pickersgill died in 1857, leaving the Albemarle Street house and Impartial Female Humane Society Home, as well as four enslaved workers, another indication of her financial success, to her daughter Caroline. The retirement home still exists today, and the Star-Spangled Banner is in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Both legacies are a testament to the resourcefulness and determination of a widowed woman in the early 19th century, who, with the help of others, built a successful business based on her talent and connections. Last updated: September 6, 2020 Park footer Contact Info Mailing Address: 2400 East Fort Avenue Baltimore , MD 21230 410 962-4290 x250 Contact Us Stay Connected
Your Salary Affects How Much You Drink Illustrated by Gabriela Alford. We already know that men and women tend to have very different drinking habits throughout their lives. But, as NPR reports, new research suggests our income levels can play a role here, too. For the study, published online this week in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, researchers interviewed 672 pairs of twins. Participants were asked about their socioeconomic status (SES), which included their household income and education level, as well as their alcohol consumption patterns. The results showed that people with more money tended to drink more overall. But, participants in the low-SES group showed way more variability in their drinking patterns than those in the high-SES group. The more affluent group was more likely to keep their alcohol intake both moderate and consistent. The fact that participants were twins (some fraternal and some identical) also allowed researchers to look at the involvement of genetics in their drinking patterns. Because the high-income participants were all consistent in their alcohol habits, the authors suggest that the low-SES group's environmental stressors may be triggering already-present genetic vulnarabilities to excessive drinking — and that having extra cash and all that it affords may protect the high-SES group from that excess. However, other research suggests that being able to drink alcohol represents an evolutionary advantage humans developed about 10 million years ago, when people certainly weren't making the big bucks. So, we'll accept the skills evolution has handed us, and drink to that. More from Diet & Nutrition R29 Original Series
Why are some bird eggs so colorful? Blame an evolutionary arms race Competition between brood parasites and their hosts drives multi-color egg adaptations By Matthew Rozsa Published April 17, 2022 10:00AM (EDT) Easter eggs in the decorative nest (Getty Images/Vikusha) Easter eggs in the decorative nest (Getty Images/Vikusha) It was nature's version of an Easter egg hunt. Dr. Claire Spottiswoode, a professor at the University of Cape Town who studies avian (bird) brood parasites, was working in Zambia to learn more about how cuckoo finches change the appearance of their eggs. Unlike the orchestrators of an Easter egg hunt, though, the cuckoo finches are not altering their eggs for art or frolicking, but so they can trick other birds into raising their young. It is a practice known as "brood parasitism," in which an animal furtively leaves its eggs to be raised by another species. While brood parasites occur among birds, fish and insects, the mechanics of this vary; typically, with birds, the brood parasite will lay its eggs in another bird's nest when that bird isn't looking. (Cuckoos are the most famous example of a brood parasite, and are the origin of the word "cuckold.") Brood parasitism often spurs what are called evolutionary arms races, in which competing species continually develop new adaptations to combat each other. In the case of the brood parasite, this often means its eggs will evolve to look more like its host's eggs; whereas in the case of the parasitized bird, it means its eggs will evolve to look less like its brood parasite's eggs. "It just remains a thrill," Spottiswoode explained. "Every single time you see a parasitized nest with a beautifully colored parasitic egg in it, among the host eggs — that's something I never tire of. Brood parasitism is not uncommon in the animal kingdom, and Spottiswoode is one of the world's foremost experts. Yet being an expert does not diminish the challenges of any egg hunt. As Spottiswoode told Salon, "One of the hardest challenges for someone researching brood parasites is simply to find enough parasitic eggs and chicks. You have to put in a lot of effort to find a lot of host nests in order to find the subset of those that are parasitized that you're studying." Fortunately, there were a lot of talented local nest-finders who were happy to help. "For us, it just remains a thrill," Spottiswoode explained. "Every single time you see a parasitized nest with a beautifully colored parasitic egg in it among the host eggs — that's something I never tire of. it's just a total joy to see the beautiful adaptations that natural selection has forged over hundreds of thousands of years." RELATED: Meet the brood parasites, the deadbeat mothers of the animal kingdom Spottiswoode has a good reason for poking around avian domiciles. Along with Professor Michael Sorenson at Boston University, Spottiswoode leads an international genetic research team studying how a single brood-parasitic bird species masks its eggs to resemble those of multiple other bird species. For more than a century, scientists were bedeviled by this mystery, but the researchers have managed to identify an evolutionary arms race as being the culprit. "The chromosome that we think is the genetic control is present in all female birds," Spottiswoode explained. "It's not a chromosome that's specifically for this function. In birds females have a female specific Z chromosome just as in humans males have a male specific Y chromosome. So in humans, of course, males are XY and females are XX. In birds, males are ZZ and females are ZW, so there is a chromosome that is transmitted as a more or less intact copy from mother to daughter, without any gene flow from a father." She added, "The broader problem that we're trying to resolve here is how different individuals of a single inter-breeding species can evolve specialize adaptations to parasitize different host species despite the fact that they're mating, randomly with one another, regardless of what host species the male or female was raised by." In the study published by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists explain that the maternal inheritance factor allows cuckoo finches to avoid accidentally inheriting the wrong mimicry genes from fathers who were raised by different hosts. This may seem like an evolutionary advantage — and to an extent it is — but the authors note that it also makes it more difficult for these species to counter-evolve once their hosts pick up on what they are doing. One reason why is the fact that many bird species are adapting to have a wide range of colors and patterns in their eggs, providing the birds with "signatures" that distinguish those eggs from the intruders. Yet how do birds develop such amazing multi-colored eggs in the first place? And is stopping brood parasites the only reason? "How do you find your own egg? Well, you lay your egg with, essentially, a signature that says, 'This is my egg.'" "It's an Easter-appropriate question, for sure," Spottiswoode told Salon. "We have some good answers, but we don't have a complete explanation and there are still quite a lot of mysteries that remain. Often, camouflage is the reason why eggs vary in color. Camouflage is super important. Nest predation, visually-oriented predators, is really common and particularly in species that breed out in the open, like species that breed on the ground, but also other ones as well. Some species have really fantastic eggs and have very interesting adaptations to particular environments." That does not explain every egg hue, though. Spottiswoode noted that some scientists hypothesize that birds who evolved to lay blue eggs did so to protect their embryos from ultraviolet radiation. In addition, birds may want signatures on their eggs for reasons unrelated to brood parasitism. "In cases where there is huge diversity within species, just like Easter eggs — where you're painting for your chicken eggs, and they've been painted different colors — the sort of driving pressure that's generated that diversity seems to be recognition of self," Spottiswoode mused. "We see it in birds that breed in colonies, like cliff-nesting birds... They have a lot of diversity among individuals, for example, and in that case, it's to know your own egg, when you're on a cliff face breeding with hundreds of thousands of other individuals with the same species. So how do you find your own egg? Well, you lay your egg with, essentially, a signature that says, 'This is my egg.'" If ever there were a more fitting proclamation to sum up the Easter spirit, I can't think of one. For more Salon articles about birds: Matthew Rozsa MORE FROM Matthew Rozsa Biology Bird Bird Egg Easter Easter Egg Evolution Reporting Science
How Do Plants Forget? How Do Plants Forget? How Do Plants Forget? How Do Plants Forget? Credit: Daniel Öberg on Unsplash. Read time: Want a FREE PDF version of This News Story? Complete the form below and we will email you a PDF version of "How Do Plants Forget?" First Name* Last Name* Email Address* Company Type* Job Function* Would you like to receive further email communication from Technology Networks? An international group of researchers found the answer to the question: how do plants forget? The study now published in Nature Cell Biology reveals more information on the capacity of plants, identified as “epigenetic memory”, which allows recording important information to, for example, remember prolonged cold in the Winter to ensure they flower at the right time during the Spring. As soon as they produce seeds, this information is “erased” from memory so they don’t bloom too early the following winter. Jörg Becker, principal investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, involved in the international team led by researcher Frédéric Berger, of the Gregor Mendel Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, says that researchers set out to analyse histones in pollen, hypothesizing that the process of forgetting would most likely occur in the embedded sperm. According to Jörg Becker, “the study led us to identify a phenomenon, the so-called “epigenetic resetting”, akin to erasing and reformatting data on a hard drive”. Although they do it differently from humans, plants also have memories. “Epigenetic memory” occurs when specialized proteins, histones, are modified, which play an important role in indexing and defining the cell’s DNA. One of these modified histones, H3K27me3, tends to mark genes that are disabled. In the case of flowering, in cold conditions, H3K27me3, accumulates in the genes that control flowering. The researchers found that H3K27me3 completely disappears in the sperm and “this ensures that the” memory “is erased from hundreds of genes, not only those that prevent flowering, but also those that control a wide range of important functions in the seeds” reinforces Jörg. Reference: Borg et al. (2020). Targeted reprogramming of H3K27me3 resets epigenetic memory in plant paternal chromatin. Nature Cell Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-020-0515-y.
Also found in: Thesaurus, Idioms, Encyclopedia. v. ele·vat·ed, ele·vat·ing, ele·vates v.tr. ele·vat·ed, ele·vat·ing, ele·vates 1. To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift. See Synonyms at lift. 2. To increase the amount or intensity of: factors that elevate blood pressure. 3. To promote to a higher rank. 4. To raise to a higher moral, cultural, or intellectual level: elevate the tone of the debate. 5. To lift the spirits of; elate. Baseball To throw a high pitch, usually a fastball, after a series of lower pitches, especially in an attempt to get a strikeout. [Middle English elevaten, from Latin ēlevāre, ēlevāt- : ē-, ex-, up; see ex- + levāre, to raise; see legwh- in Indo-European roots.] مُهَذِّبَه، سامِيَه [ˈelɪveɪtɪŋ] ADJ [reading] → enriquecedor [ˈɛlɪˌveɪtɪŋ] adj (fig) → esaltante Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995 (ˈeliveit) verb 1. to raise to a higher position or to a higher rank etc. elevated to the post of manager. 2. to improve (a person's mind etc). an elevating book. ˌeleˈvation noun 1. the act of elevating, or state of being elevated. 2. height above sea-level. at an elevation of 1,500 metres. 3. an architect's drawing of one side of a building. ˈelevating adjective that improves one's mind or morals. an elevating experience. ˈelevator noun 1. (especially American) a lift or machine for raising persons, goods etc to a higher floor. There is no elevator in this shop – you will have to climb the stairs. 2. a tall storehouse for grain. Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd. References in classic literature ? SOME editors of newspapers were engaged in diffusing general intelligence and elevating the moral sentiment of the public.
Sports have had a very special place in human history, culture and society. Since the earliest communities, humans have engaged in sports and competitions of stamina, strength, speed and skill. Many historians believe that combat sports, such as wrestling and boxing, predate human civilization, and can be traced back to the prehistoric era. In the Ancient Era, in countries like Greece, Egypt, China, etc. humans gathered from all over to compete in various tournaments and sporting events, the most popular of which today, are of course the Olympic Games. Certain sporting events of that era still survive today, most popular among which are horse racing, track and field, and various throwing events. Over the years, various sports have developed in different regions of the world, most of which have been forgotten by time. Some, however, have stood the test of time. One sport, that is hugely popular today, more than 500 years after its invention, is cricket. Cricket is one of the most popular sports today, with over 2 billion fans across the globe. The game is enjoyed by fans and punters from countries all over the world. While the sport is not hugely popular in Europe, according to this website, the popularity of the sport is rising thanks to events like the European Cricket League. But, what we want to look at in this article, is the history of the sport. Where and how did it develop, and how did it become so popular around the world today? So, let’s take a look at the history of one of the most popular sports today. Most historians are unclear as to the origins of the sport. Cricket falls in the sphere of “club ball” games. As the name suggests, these games involve players hitting a ball with some kind of club. The best comparison would be baseball, which according to has a rather interesting history in its own right. Other games that fall under the same umbrella as cricket include golf, tennis, badminton, squash, and pretty much any game where some kind of ball is being hit with some kind of club. But where did cricket come from? Well, most historians would agree that cricket’s history can be dated to the mid-to-late 1500s. During these years, English children played a game involving hitting a ball with sticks. Soon the game became adopted by older children, until eventually adults began playing it among themselves. There are two different beliefs on the etymology of the game’s name. The first is that the name comes from the Old English word “cricc” which means crutch (or in this case staff/stick). The other belief is that the name comes from the Middle Dutch word krick, which also means stick. An interesting story, regarding the popularization of cricket among an adult audience comes from the early 17th century. In 1611, two residents of Sussex were punished by the law for failing to attend Sunday mass. The reason for their tardiness was given as a game of cricket. Early Years While cricket fans today might be familiar with a certain version of the game, in the 400+ years that the game has been played, the rules and standards have drastically changed. For example, in the earliest recorded rules for the game, the ball was bowled underarm, rather than over and the bats resembled hockey sticks, rather than the cricket paddles that we are familiar with today. The first cricket games were played among local county teams, and were largely an amateur affair, played for fun and for sport. While this era was a turbulent time in English politics, most people kept up an interest in the game, and after the Restoration in 1660, cricket saw a resurgence in popularity. This is where the sport truly got a spot light, as it was adopted by members of King Charles II’s court. This meant that, soon enough, cricket teams began to be formed, sponsored by local lords, dukes, and even high-ranking members of the nobility. This was the start of cricket as a professional sport, as many of these lords would organize inter-county matches between their teams. This is also the time when cricket betting got its start, as often times these lords would put up money on their own teams. Throughout the centuries, the popularity of cricket kept growing in England, and the United Kingdom. In the 18th century, the sport was named England’s national sport, an honor that the game retains to this day. The Spreading of Cricket Today, cricket is still widely played in England and the United Kingdom. However, the popularity of the sport mainly comes from places and regions outside the country. While the English still retain a love and affection for cricket, it pales in comparison to the British love for football. However, the same can’t be said for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc. These countries are the driving force behind the popularity of football, and if you were to take a look at ICC’s National Team Rankings here, you would see that the Indian, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka team are all in the top 10 best ranked teams in the world. Other countries with a deep love for the sport include Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. So how did Cricket reach these countries? To answer that, we must take a look at the spreading of cricket throughout the world during the 18th and 19th centuries. Often referred to as the era of Colonialism, this was the time when the British Empire was achieving a peak in power. They had established colonies all throughout Asia, Africa and Oceania, and many British nobles, merchants as well as commoners, would travel to these regions for business or fun. The British would bring their love of cricket with them, and the game soon spread among the locals. While often times the local population was barred from participating in official matches, they would play the game on their own. Today, the sport remains popular in many of England’s former colonies, most notably India and South Africa. The Indian national team is one of the most successful and most accomplished teams on the international scene, and often considered the best. Previous articleBlackjack Terminology Every Beginner Gambler Needs to know Next article5 Tips for Understanding Blackjack Slang and Phrases
How Mesothelioma Is Diagnosed Table of Contents View All Table of Contents Mesothelioma represents a serious cancer associated with prior asbestos exposure. If you have symptoms such as trouble catching your breath, coughing, or a wheeze that will not go away, you may be dealing with a very common complication of lung disease—pleural effusion, or fluid around the lung. When you come to your healthcare provider with these symptoms, they will want to perform some tests to better understand what is causing them. Imaging such as CT scans, ultrasound, or MRI is often used to initially identify physical signs of cancer like lesions and masses, or to identify other possible causes. Depending on the outcome, a healthcare provider may proceed to taking a tissue sample, or biopsy, to better understand the nature of the problem and to apply the most effective treatment. doctor x-ray utah778 / Getty Images Mesothelioma cannot be effectively distinguished from other causes of related pulmonary (lung) symptoms based on self-assessment that you may do at home. It is important to see a healthcare provider if you have common mesothelioma symptoms, including a persistent cough, chest pain, fatigue, weakness, and others. Physical Examination People with mesothelioma, lung disease, or other forms of cancer often have similar symptoms present. Initially, a healthcare provider will likely ask questions about what exacerbates symptoms (makes them worse), then perform diagnostic tests to better understand these symptoms, including a physical examination, blood tests, and imaging. In particular, imaging gives healthcare providers a better idea of what is causing symptoms and also may reveal possible cancerous cells. Labs and Tests Blood and urine tests are likely to be performed to rule out infection or inflammation, assess your general health, and for further diagnostic testing. If initial imaging reveals a characteristic pleural effusion, masses, or lesions, your healthcare provider will likely want to arrange a biopsy. A biopsy involves removing tissue or fluid from inside the lung or the surrounding chest cavity. Some people may have medical restrictions that increase the complications of biopsy, making it inadvisable. Others might have a clear history suggesting a high likelihood of mesothelioma, like heavy exposure to asbestos, so less testing is needed. Everyone’s situation is different, and it can be unnerving to have to worry about undergoing a surgical procedure, but biopsy is a very effective method of finding the cause of symptoms and potentially treating mesothelioma. Below is a non-exhaustive list of possible procedures. Several have variations. Always follow your healthcare provider's instructions before undergoing a test. Common instructions are to avoid eating and drinking eight hours prior to the biopsy and avoid blood thinners, though exact restrictions vary depending on the type of biopsy being performed and whether you will be sedated. Thoracentesis is the least invasive diagnostic tool in this category but also not entirely conclusive as a diagnostic tool. Thoracentesis is when fluid is removed from the space between the lungs and the chest wall using a needle inserted between the ribs. A pulmonologist applies a local numbing agent into the chest, then a fine needle is inserted between the ribs under guidance by one of the previously mentioned imaging techniques. During insertion, or while the fluids are being removed, there can be feelings of discomfort, pain, or the need to cough, but it is important to stay still while the healthcare provider performs the thoracentesis to avoid increasing the risk of injury to the lung. Once fluid that has built up between the chest wall and lung has been removed there may be some relief of breathing problems. The fluid removed can then be sent and tested in the lab, but results are not always conclusive as far as cancer type. Further biopsy procedures may be required. CT-Guided Needle Biopsy A CT-guided needle biopsy is the most straightforward of the biopsies. Under general anesthetic, and sometimes sedation, a needle is inserted to remove a tissue sample from a lesion or mass, guided by a CT scan. The sample is used to determine whether the lesion is cancerous and what kind of cancer it is. This CT-guided procedure has some possible complications such as deflation of the lung (pneumothorax), bleeding, and infection, but these complications are usually minor. Risks that occur may be common to all surgical procedures. A successful CT-guided needle biopsy has the benefit of a quick recovery time, with most people being able to leave the site of the procedure the day it occurs. It is also less invasive than other surgical biopsy methods. The other forms of biopsy are surgical and may involve sedation in an operating room. Thoracoscopy-Guided Biopsy Thoracoscopy-guided biopsy is a technique where an endoscope is inserted into the back of the torso through small incisions and a camera feed is used to visually confirm lesions along the lung that had previously been spotted with imaging. Pleural lesions are then removed for study. Thoracoscopy can be extremely effective in finding and diagnosing tumors, and can also be used to medically seal lesions (pleurodesis) that are causing fluid to fill the lung. Open Thoracotomy The more invasive open thoracotomy is usually only necessary if other methods cannot obtain enough sample tissue for testing. Open thoracotomy is when the chest is opened to visually find and remove lesions for testing. When fluid material or tissue are removed through a biopsy, they can be tested with immunohistochemistry (IHC) for specific biomarkers present on the surface of the tumors cells. Compared to lung cancer, for example, mesothelioma has its own set of biomarkers, and analyzing various biomarkers can help differentiate between the two conditions. The initial physical examination is usually followed by X-ray or CT imaging which will help medical professionals locate tumors and identify issues affecting the lungs such as pleural effusion. A pleural effusion, characterized by fluid build-up around the lungs, causes trouble breathing and chest pain. It is a non-specific finding, however; it may be caused by any number of diseases. X-ray radiography is used to image any unusual structures in and around the lungs. A chest X-ray is one of the the first tests done to evaluate the lungs and the pleura. A Chest X-ray may detect the presence of a pleural effusion and can be used for screening purposes. Computed tomography (CT) scans combine X-ray images. This is more sensitive and specific than individual X-ray images for the diagnosis of mesothelioma, but it cannot be used to discern whether cancer cells have originated in the mesothelium of the lungs or metastasized to this location from elsewhere. Ultrasound can also be used to detect or monitor the location and size of a pleural effusion. A gel is applied to the sides of the chest under the arm by a sonographer (someone who performs ultrasounds) which helps conduct sound waves for imaging. Pressing the transducer tool against the skin, sonographers can view fluid present around the lung. They may move the transducer up toward the chest to view other parts of the lung. Ultrasound is sensitive in detecting smaller amounts of fluid, so it can identify a more minor pleural effusion than that which would be detected via X-ray imaging. Intraoperative ultrasound (that is, an ultrasound performed during surgery) can also be used to find lesions of the lung and pleura while taking a tissue biopsy. Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron emission tomography (FDG PET) scans is an imaging test that uses an intravenous derivative of radioactive glucose (FDG) in order to assess the metabolism of different tissues. Many cancers have an increased metabolism and will light up on a PET scan. A CT scan is usually done in combination with an FDG-PET scan in order to better localize the tumor and to better evaluation of its size. However, PET scans can give false negatives for less aggressive cancers and false positives for other types of inflammation caused by disease unrelated to cancer. PET scans, and other imaging studies, are not entirely able to determine whether cancer cells have originated in the pleura (lung mesothelium) or metastasized from elsewhere. Status Update Imaging During treatment, your healthcare provider will want to monitor the response to treatment. After treatment completion follow up will also be needed to rule out recurrent disease. The monitoring during and after treatment of mesothelioma is most commonly done with chest CT scans. . Differential Diagnoses Other malignant conditions (sarcomas, lung cancers, metastatic cancers) can look similar both clinically and radiographically to mesothelioma and may even look similar under the microscope. IHC patterns of staining can help distinguish between other types of cancer and mesothelioma. Also, pleural effusions may also be associated with other benign medical conditions. Testing may help to distinguish these different causes, but consider the following potential diagnoses that may be similar to mesothelioma: If one procedure is inconclusive in determining the cause, and it is necessary to prepare for another, it is understandably frustrating. Nobody wants to be poked with needles. But getting helpful results in a timely manner is not just good for your treatment and health—it’s good for your state of mind, too. A Word From Verywell It is scary to contemplate the possibility of having a serious medical condition like mesothelioma. If you have been exposed to asbestos, the thought of pursuing a diagnosis may be something you'd rather avoid. Rather than denying the possibility, seek out the appropriate evaluation with testing. In some cases, early detection may afford the opportunity for treatment that may not otherwise be possible. If you experience symptoms concerning for mesothelioma, seek out the diagnostic testing needed to give yourself the best chance to pursue effective treatment. Was this page helpful? 1 Source 1. Frank E. Mott. Mesothelioma: A review. The Ochsner Journal. 2012;(12): 70–79. Additional Reading
5 hobbies that make you smarter Intelligence and smartness differ in one aspect – their innateness. Smartness seems more innate than intelligence because of the notion that “not all intelligence people are smart.” But smartness only seems so because it’s more flexible and adaptive to experiential learning. This kind of learning begins in children while they constantly absorb the ways of the world. Every activity – every experience – in these early stages adds to this bank of smartness. Every time you’ve tagged someone as smart, chances are they are so because of the way they’ve grown up. So does this mean all hope is lost for an adult? Not at all. As adults, we have to learn actively what children do passively, and we have a word for this – hobbies. They are simply activities that, in this case, make you smarter. Interested? Well, read on. Image : shutterstock The most obvious result of voracious reading is increased knowledge. But the effect that reading has on your mind seeps down to a subtler level. When you learn a new fact, are you aware of the feeling you get? Don’t you go, “Wow, I didn’t know that!”? Reading taps into the reward system of the brain that is responsible for positive reinforcement, which is essentially learning. This is the reason why we ‘feel’ smarter after having read something. This reward of feeling smarter is reinforced and we read more to reinforce it again. Reading – fiction or non-fiction, pleasure reading or extensive reading – gets us to start thinking more, to question more. We become less ignorant and more critical, unwilling to accept everything as fact. Now, is that not the definition of smart? Writing involves functions in the brain that are quite different from those activated while reading. You don’t of course have to write a novel to tap into its benefits. Simply writing down your thoughts can bring about significant changes in the way your mind functions. Writing requires focus because it forces you to filter those chaotic thoughts on paper. Think of it this way: your thoughts are the bullets shot in your direction and you have to catch them in mid-air. To make things harder, you’re only allowed to catch the hollow point bullets among the round nosed ones. Difficult much? When you write, you slow things down, filter them, and then analyse them. It hones your focus, memory, and creativity. It brings about clarity in thought and communication. Learning a new language Every day there is new research that brings to light all the cognitive benefits of learning a new language. It has been found that bilingual adults show better auditory attention. This means that when you learn a new language, you’re teaching your brain to focus on relevant information. The more languages that you have to switch between, the more attuned you have to be to auditory information. This means that learning a new language helps to comprehend and respond to information better, making you better equipped to handle simple and complex conversations. Learning a new language has also been shown to improve memory and problem-solving skills. A Russian translator rewired her brain to learn mathematics by applying the same techniques required to learn a new language. Playing an instrument Playing a musical instrument is “the brain’s equivalent of a full body workout,” according to Anita Collins, as it requires the visual, auditory and motor reflexes to work in unison. It has also been found to improve problem solving skills because it increases activity in the region of the brain that connects your left and right hemisphere. Higher levels of activity in this bridge, means a better and faster flow of information, allowing you to solve problems more effectively and creatively. Moreover, playing an instrument requires discipline, an ability to strategise, and being able to recognise emotions – traits that you could always use. Travelling to a new place involves a state of constant alertness. When you’re in an unfamiliar place, you’re constantly absorbing information, making sense of it, and adapting. You become more spontaneous and broad-minded because you’re forced to solve unexpected problems on the go. Your communication and people-skills improve, and you’ll also be reaping the cognitive benefits of learning new languages. Being exposed to new cultures opens your mind to new ideas and perspectives, both of which are essential elements of smart people. Involving yourself a 100 percent in almost any activity you partake can change and improve the way your mind functions. The only tools you really need are curiosity and a keen interest. Updates from around the world
Models as universes. (English) Zbl 1417.03236 Summary: Kreisel’s set-theoretic problem is the problem as to whether any logical consequence of ZFC is ensured to be true. Kreisel and Boolos both proposed an answer, taking truth to mean truth in the background set-theoretic universe. This article advocates another answer, which lies at the level of models of set theory, so that truth remains the usual semantic notion. The article is divided into three parts. It first analyzes Kreisel’s set-theoretic problem and proposes one way in which any model of set theory can be compared to a background universe and shown to contain internal models. It then defines logical consequence with respect to a model of ZFC, solves the model-scaled version of Kreisel’s set-theoretic problem, and presents various further results bearing on internal models. Finally, internal models are presented as accessible worlds, leading to an internal modal logic in which internal reflection corresponds to modal reflexivity, and resplendency corresponds to modal axiom 4. 03C62 Models of arithmetic and set theory 03A05 Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations 03C55 Set-theoretic model theory 03C70 Logic on admissible sets 03B45 Modal logic (including the logic of norms) Full Text: DOI Link
You may need to survive for several days alone after an emergency. To be prepared means having to last for many days with your food, water, and other provisions. A disaster package is a collection of necessities in case of an emergency of critical things your household may need. Most items are cheap and easy to find, and some will save your life. Six Items You Need A safe supply of water is one of the first things to have in an emergency. If flooding occurs, presume drinking tap water is not secure. Water gathers in the clouds when there is a storm or a flood. It combines with residues and bacteria on the ground. That’s why the floodwaters still look turquoise brown or soup-like. If the safety is infringed, the city will shut down water access lines. That leaves you without water—a fundamental human need. If you have a water supply unit at home, that will be beneficial. This is necessary and ideal since you can get a refill at your home; otherwise, you would have to get big containers and pre-packed bottles of water. Get a gallon per day per person to be safe since one cannot go for more than 3-4 days without water. You should have food available for at least three days. Focus on foods that do not need heating or much preparation or water and also that are not perishable. Think of pasta, frozen fruit ready to eat (or canned vegetables, juice, and meat) or energy-rich snacks such as trail mix and granola bars. Note, for those with special needs, like kids and grandparents, and there are supplements and unique supplies. All this is better than nothing, even though the cold soup isn’t outstanding. In your nearest big store, you can buy bulk snacks. Make sure you and your family have the food they are going to eat. Medication and First Aid Kit Get a few additional drugs from a medical supply store on hand after a crisis if you cannot leave your home to replenish your prescription. You should store medications such as painkillers, calamine lotion, alkalines, laxative drugs, and anti-diarrheas. It is essential to have a first-aid kit in your disaster package kit with latex gloves, gaseous patches, a thermometer, sterile bandages, band-aids, petroleum jelly, burns salvage, antibiotic ointments, sticky tape, towelettes, sunscreens, and immediately cold packs. In it, you should have all life-saving drugs people use every day, for approximately four days. Extra Batteries and a Radio Nothing works without electricity in an emergency. When the networks or towers become weakened, you can lose cell covers. During an emergency, you should not use your phone too much to save power and use the network required by emergency response crews. So, what are you doing to get details about the storm when and where things are safe? To find out when it’s safe to leave your shelter, you have to have a battery-powered emergency radio. Additional batteries are vital because you don’t know when those being used are going to die out. You don’t want to stay uninformed in a storm. Extra batteries power other things like flashlights, which are essential for runs like going to the bathroom if you are out of light overnight. Hygiene Products You’re going to get smelly quickly if you’re without water. This is where wipes come in. You could be near others, so the more you both endure, the better. Some people place simple cosmetic bags in their kits, with supplies such as toothbrushes and deodorant. Your dentist will forgive you if you are in the midst of a natural disaster and if you are not cleaning your teeth for a few days. You also need garbage bags to get rid of any waste that accumulates during this period. Also, remember the feminine products that girls and women will need. Important documents and items Cash, passport, social security card, family registrations, bank account numbers, and a list of phone numbers relevant and emergency contacts should be safe. Ensure your will and other contracts and deeds have a copy. You should hold essential documents in your house, using a fire and waterproof case. This includes social security cards, visas, bank details, and emergency contacts. In this receptacle, you should also have some cash. At the end of a tragedy, you never know if you will have a home, so these things must be with you or face a loss.
10 Evolving Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin Following financial sanctions imposed by the EU and other nations on Russian entities, there is the presumption that these entities may utilize cryptocurrencies to stimulate transfers of money beyond the standard banking system. Elsewhere in the world, a Brazilian administration bill that would handle certain facets of the cryptocurrency market has progressed to a vote on the country’s Senate floor. Bitcoin has not only been a trendsetter, conducting in a wave of cryptocurrencies built on a decentralized peer-to-peer network but includes becoming the de facto benchmark for cryptocurrencies, illuminating an ever-growing unit of followers and spinoffs. • A cryptocurrency is broadly considered as a form of digital tokens or “coins” that exist on a dispersed and decentralized ledger called a blockchain. • Beyond that, the field of cryptocurrencies has developed dramatically since Bitcoin was embarked over a decade ago, and the next great digital token may be discharged tomorrow. • Bitcoin resumes leading the group of cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization, user command, and popularity. • Other virtual currencies such as Ethereum are enabling the creation of decentralized financial (Defi) systems. • Some altcoins have been supported as having newer components than Bitcoin, such as the ability, to handle more transactions per second or use distinct agreement algorithms such as proof of stake. What Are Cryptocurrencies? Before we take the nearest look at some of these alternatives to Bitcoin (BTC), let’s step back and pithily analyze what we mean by terms like cryptocurrencies and altcoins. A cryptocurrency, largely defined, is virtual or digital money that carries the form of tokens or “coins.” Though some cryptocurrencies have embarked into the material world with credit cards or other projects, the immense majority remain completely supernatural. Cryptocurrencies are designed to be free from government manipulation and authority—although, as they have grown more popular, this foundational facet of the industry has come under fire. The cryptocurrencies structured after Bitcoin are altogether called altcoins, and in some cases, shitcoins, and have often attempted to present themselves as altered or enhanced versions of Bitcoin. Though some of these currencies may have some amazing features that Bitcoin does not, comparing the level of security that Bitcoin’s networks accomplish largely has yet to be noticed by an altcoin. Below, we’ll analyze some of the most significant digital currencies other than Bitcoin. First, though, a caveat: A list like this can’t be wholly comprehensive. One cause for this is the fact that there are about 10,000 cryptocurrencies in existence as of February 2022.1 Though many of these cryptos have small to no subsequent trading volume, some appreciate enormous popularity among faithful communities of supporters and investors. Apart from that, the field of cryptocurrencies is always developing, and the next great digital token may be unleashed tomorrow. Though Bitcoin is widely seen as a pioneer in the world of cryptocurrencies, analysts adopt many techniques for estimating tokens other than BTC. It’s expected, for instance, for analysts to attribute a great deal of significance to ranking coins relative to one another in terms of market capitalization. We’ve factored this into our thinking, but there are other reasons why a digital token might have been included in the list. Types of Altcoins Cryptocurrencies are planned for payments, transferring value (akin to digital money) across a decentralized network of users. Many altcoins (i.e., those that are not Bitcoin or sometimes Ethereum) are categorized in this way and may sometimes be called value tokens There are also blockchain-based tokens that are meant to serve a distinct purpose from that of money. One example could be a token issued as part of an initial coin offering (ICO) that represents a stake in a blockchain or decentralized finance (Defi) project. If the tokens are linked to the value of the company or project, they can be called guard tokens (as in securities like stocks, not safety). Other tokens have a special use case or function. Examples include Storj tokens, which allow individuals to share files across a decentralized network, or Namecoin, which provides decentralized Domain Name System (DNS) service for Internet addresses.23 These are known as utility tokens. Today, while many users of crypto comprehend and appreciate these differences, traders and lay investors may not notice the difference because all classifications of tokens tend to trade on crypto exchanges in the same way. 1. Ethereum (ETH) The alternative of bitcoin on our list, Ethereum (ETH), is a decentralized software platform that enables smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps) to be produced and run without any downtime, fraud, control, or interference from a third party. The goal behind Ethereum is to create a decentralized suite of financial outcomes that anyone in the world can freely access, nevertheless of nationality, ethnicity, or faith.4 This aspect makes the importance for those in some countries more effective because those without state infrastructure and state designations can get access to bank accounts, loans, insurance, or a variety of other financial outcomes. The applications on Ethereum are run on ether, its platform- explicit cryptographic token. Ether (ETH) is like a vehicle for moving around on the Ethereum platform and is sought mostly by developers examining to develop and run applications inside Ethereum, or now, by investors examining to make purchases of other digital currencies using ether. Ether, launched in 2015, is currently the second-largest digital currency by market capitalization after Bitcoin, although it lags behind the prevailing cryptocurrency by a substantial margin.5 Trading at around $3,150 per ETH as of February 2022, ether’s market cap is just over half of bitcoin’s.6 In 2014, Ethereum was considered as a presale for ether, which received an amazing response; this helped to usher in the age of the ICO. According to Ethereum, it can be used to “codify, decentralize, safe and trade just about anything.” Following the attack on the decentralized independent organization (DAO) in 2016, Ethereum was split into Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).7 In December 2020, Ethereum transitioned its agreement algorithm from proof of work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS).8 This move is intended to allow Ethereum’s network to run itself with far less energy and improved transaction speed, as well as to make for a more deflationary economic environment. PoS allows network participants to “stake” their ether to the network. This approach helps to ensure the network and process the transactions that occur. Those who do this are awarded ether, likewise to how an impressive account works.9 This is an alternative to Bitcoin’s PoW mechanism, by which miners receive more BTCs for processing transactions.10 2. Litecoin (LTC) Litecoin (LTC), launched in 2011, was among the first cryptocurrencies to follow in the footsteps of Bitcoin and has often been directed to as “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.”11 It was produced by Charlie Lee, an MIT graduate, and former Google engineer. Litecoin is based on an open-source global payment network that is not regulated by any central control and uses the script as a PoW, which can be interpreted with the help of consumer-grade central processing units (CPUs). Although Litecoin is like Bitcoin in many ways, it has a quicker block generation rate and thus offers a quicker transaction confirmation time. Other than developers, there are a growing number of merchants that accept Litecoin. As of February 2022, Litecoin has a market capitalization of $9.3 billion and a per token value of around $135, making it the 21st-largest cryptocurrency in the world.12 3. Cardano (ADA) Cardano (ADA) is an “Ouroboros proof-of-stake” cryptocurrency that was built with a research-based practice by engineers, mathematicians, and cryptography experts.13 The project was co-founded by Charles Hoskinson, one of the five initial founding members of Ethereum. After having some conflicts with the direction that Ethereum was taking, he left and later helped to create Cardano. The team behind Cardano formed its blockchain through vast experimentation and peer-reviewed research. The researchers behind the project have written more than 120 papers on blockchain technology across a range of topics.14 This research is the spine of Cardano. Due to this stringent process, Cardano seems to stand out among its PoS peers as well as other large cryptocurrencies. Cardano has also been anointed the “Ethereum killer” because its blockchain is said to be qualified of more. That said, Cardano is still in its early stages. Though it has outperformed Ethereum to the PoS consensus model, it still has a long way to go in terms of DeFi applications. 4. Polkadot (DOT) Polkadot (DOT) is a remarkable PoS cryptocurrency aimed at delivering interoperability among other blockchains. Its protocol is developed to connect permissioned and permissionless blockchains as well as oracles to permit systems to work together under one roof. Polkadot’s core feature is its relay chain, which allows the interoperability of varying networks. It also allows for parachains or parallel blockchains with their own native tokens for specific-use cases.16 Where Polkadot differs from Ethereum is that rather than completing just dApps on Polkadot, innovators can create their own blockchain while also using the security that Polkadot’s chain already has. With Ethereum, developers can create new blockchains but need to create their own safety measures, which can leave new and less projects open to attack because the larger a blockchain, the more safety it has. This concept in Polkadot is known as conveyed security. Polkadot was developed by Gavin Wood, another member of the core founders of the Ethereum project who had differing opinions about the project’s future. As of February 2022, Polkadot has a market capitalization of roughly $24.5 billion, and one DOT trades for $22.60.17. 5. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Bitcoin Cash BCH holds an important place in the history of altcoins because it is one of the earlier and most successful hard forks of the initial Bitcoin. In the cryptocurrency world, a fork takes place as the result of discussions and arguments between developers and miners. Due to the decentralized nature of digital currencies, wholesale changes to the code underlying the token or coin at hand must be made due to general agreement; the mechanism for this process differs according to the respective cryptocurrency. When different factions can’t agree, sometimes the digital currency is split, with the initial chain staying true to its original code and the new chain starting life as a new interpretation of the prior coin, complete with modifications to its code. BCH began its life in August 2017 as a consequence of one of these divisions. The argument that led to the design of BCH had to do with the issue of scalability; the Bitcoin network has a limitation on the size of blocks: 1 megabyte (MB). BCH improves the block size from 1MB to 8MBs, with the idea being that bigger blocks can hold more transactions within them, and the transaction speed would therefore increase.18 It also makes other changes, including the reduction of the Segregated Witness protocol that impacts block space. As of February 2022, BCH has a market cap of about $6.5 billion and a value per token of $340.19 You may also like...
News & Resources New tool for drought resilience in horticulture A Drought Resilience Self Assessment Tool (DR.SAT) is has been developed for agriculture and is being expanded into horticulture. Funded through the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) and the Future Drought Fund, the online tool aims give farmers more options to thrive despite drought, other external shocks, and a variable climate. The current tool is available online here. How does it work? The self-assessment tool covers environmental, financial, and personal and social resilience of a farm business. The tool is tailored to both the specific region and commodity. Users can access comparative satellite images of historic and current condition, as well as comparative NVDI data, and soil moisture, all updated roughly every six days. Farmers can also see climate projections which are specific for their property, which can be adjusted to view monthly or seasonal information. Based on their unique profile, the tool will suggest next steps to build resilience. How can it help? Using the self-assessment tool, growers can not only judge the resilience of their farm business in a holistic way, they can also receive recommended activities and ‘pathways’ tailored to their areas for improvement. The data can also be used as a decision aid tool. The information can be compared over time, to assess how their farm is doing, how the landscape has changed based on historic climate/landscape data, and how it would change in certain future climate projections. Users can download the reports to take to agronomists or advisers to get more comprehensive guidance for their farm. What can you do? The first release of the horticulture tool for apples, pears, and summer fruits will initially be targeted to Victorian and Tasmanian growing regions. The DR.SAT team is looking to engage with growers in these regions who are interested in user testing and providing feedback on the self-assessment questions, pathways, and activities over the next few months. If you would like to be a part of these sessions, please email or call Illyria from the DR.SAT team on +61 396 718 149. Go Back to Latest News
An overall, over all, overalls, bib-and-brace overalls, dungarees or party bibs are a type of garment which is usually used as protective clothing when working. Recognizing that overall have many features can be of great value and benefit. In fact, not only are they beneficial but overalls are quite fashionable. As well, they come in a wide variety of styles to choose from to fit your individual needs. factory overalls Why Protective Wear is important in the workplace? Protective work wear in the workplace refers to garments, helmets, goggles and factory overalls. They are designed to protect a worker from airborne matter, chemicals, electrical, heat and biohazards. They are worn for health purposes and job-related occupational safety. • Body Protection– In the workplace, it provides for the safety and reduces a workers exposure to hazards, when administrative and engineering controls cannot reduce the risks to acceptable levels. The practice of using factory overalls has a hierarchy of control that provides a framework that ranks the type of hazard for risk reduction. The type of hazard, area of body protected and type of accessory or garment categorize protective work wear. Chemical agents through contaminated surfaces, aerosols, splashes or immersion in the workplace cause skin diseases such as skin cancer or contact dermatitis. Ultra violet, high temperatures and solar radiation can damage skin. Mechanical caused trauma can occur as abrasions, contusions, friction, lacerations and pressure. Parasites, plants, animals and microorganisms can also affect the skin and that is why protective work wear is import in the workplace. Strong rubber gloves that are heat or cut resistant and work coats provide protection which comes under factory overalls. • Warmth– Protective overalls add a layer of warmth for laborers who work outside in the elements. Waterproof overalls can keep out rain, snow and cold winds. They can be found in a variety of fabric weights, with some lined to keep the user warm in arctic cold temperatures. Construction workers, public works or utility employees working in colder climates may look for warmth in protective overalls. • Visibility– Bright orange overalls provide visibility to wearers, adding a layer of safety for those in dangerous conditions. Workers picking up trash along a highway and hunters may wear bright orange overalls so drivers and other hunters can see them easily. Fishermen could benefit from wearing orange overalls to increase their visibility if they should fall overboard. Atlas Infiniti supplies factory overalls We provide a huge range of options for factory overalls. We offer an extensive range of overall types and options ranging from the standard single color, cotton and poly-cotton blended overalls, through to more customize overall options that include company branded overalls in corporate colors, specific day or night. We provide- • Comfort– Without conceding the durability and strength of the garment, many of the fabrics used in the manufacture of this clothing’s material are breathable and lightweight providing utmost comfort. • Huge variety– There are literally hundreds of different types of work wear overalls. They come in different fabrics, colors and weights.We ensure all types as per need. Contact us!
Go back to Virtual Agenda Presented by Samuel Hsiao The human skin is a complex system made up of multiple different cell types and layer that combine to accomplish multiple functions including segregation of the body interior from the outside, shock absorption, insulation and temperature regulation, sensing, etc. Skin can be roughly divided into three layers: Epidermis, mainly used for protection; Dermis, which has a part in temperature regulation and overall structure among other functions; Hypodermis, mainly used for insulation. Of these, the Dermis provides the major portion of skin’s overall mechanical strength; this strength is derived from the extracellular structure of the Dermis, which is a matrix of Collagen and Keratin FibersThe creation of models or synthetic human skin has a wide range of uses such as simulating the effect of different conditions on human skin, wound treatment, as a medium to conduct biological research,. Modeling of human skin can be made with various substances including liquid suspension, gelatinous substance, elastomers, metals, or other materials depending on the purpose and desired properties of the model. For models that focus on the mechanical properties, agarose hydrogel seems an especially suitable material. Agarose, a major constituent of Agar along with Agaropectin, is a polysaccharide which reinforces the material’s mechanical properties. The similar roles that Collagen and Agarose plays in their respective material of origin suggests that Agarose may be a suitable basis for human skin models that wish to replicate its mechanical properties. In fact, the structural similarities have even allowed for agarose hydrogel to act as scaffold for tissue engineering. In this presentation, two chemicals are tested for their suitability as a component of Agarose hydrogel, Acrylamide and Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Diacrylate (PEGDA). Acrylamide was chosen because variants of it have been considered as a means of in vivo medicine delivery, mechanically activity, and simplicity to dye. PEGDA was chosen as it has been shown to be a feasible component for tissue scaffold hydrogels and structural properties. Preview this Research:
Page images Another part In this manner the sea supplies sufficient humidity to the air for furnishing the earth with all necessary moisture. One part of its vapours fall upon its own bosom, before they arrive upon land. is arrested by the sides of inountains, and is compelled, by the rising stream of air, to mount upwards towards the summits. Here it is presently precipitated, dripping down by the crannies of the rocks. In some places, entering into the caverns of the mountains, it collects iu those receptacles, which being once filled, it then overflows; and, breaking out by the sides of the hills, forins single springs. Many of these run down by the valleys, and uniting form little rivulets or brooks; many of these, meeting in one common valley, and gaining the plain ground, become a river; and many of these uniting, make such vast bodies of water as the Ganges, the Nile, the Danube, and the Rhine. But there is still a third part of the vapour exhaled from the sea, which falls upon the lower ground, and furnishes plants with their wonted supply. The circulation does not rest even here; for it is again exalted into vapour by the action of the sun; and again returned to that great mass of waters whence it first arose. This, according to Dr. Hally, is the most reasonable hypothesis; and much more likely to be ; true, than that of those who derive all springs from the filtering of the sea waters through certain imaginary tubes or passages within the earth; since it is well known, that the greatest rivers have their most copious fountains the most remote from the sea. See Phil. Trans. vol. ii. p. 128. The Doctor's opinion, we believe, is the most generally adopted; yet, after all, it is still pressed with great difficulties; and there is still room to look out for a better theory. The perpetuity of many springs, which always yield the same quantity of water, even when there is least vapour or rain, as well as when there is the greatest, is a strong objection, Derham, in his Physico-Theology, mentions a spring at Upminster, which he could never perceive by his eye to be diminished, even in the greatest droughts, when all the ponds in the country, as well as an adjoining brook, have been dry for several months together. In the rainy seasons. also, it was never overflowed, except sometimes, perhaps, for an hour or so, upon the immission of the external rains. He therefore concludes, that if this had its origin from rain or vapour, there would be found an increase or decrease of its water, corresponding to the causes of its production. Thus are we tossed from one hypothesis to another. Must we at last be content to settle in conscious ignorance? This, however mortifying, is often the case after the most painful research in philosophical subjects. But perhaps many of our readers will think, that the origin of rivers is best accounted for by an union of the different schemes of De La Hire and Dr. Hally. Happy however for mankind the vapours continue to arise, the rains to descend, the springs to flow, and the rivers to run. Thus the Deity ceases not to bless his creatures with a profusion of goodness, while the wise men of the world mutually confound each others account of his method of distributing his favours. [ocr errors] Some philosophers, though they are at a loss to account for the origin of rivers, think themselves by no means so as it relates to their formation. Varenius says that rivers are artifical. . He boldly asserts that their channels have been originally formed by the industry of man. His reasons are, that when a new spring breaks forth, the water does not make itself a channel, but it spreads over the adjacent lands. Thus, say3 he, men are obliged to direct its course; or, otherwise, nature would never have found one. He enumerates many rivers that are certainly known, from history, to have been dug by men. He alleges, that no salt water rivers are found, because men did not want salt water; and as for salt, that was procurable at a less expence than digging a river for it. Although it costs a speculative man but a small expence of thinking to form such an hypothesis; yet it may, perhaps, be a trial to the reader's patience to detain him longer upon it. Though philosophy be thus ignorant, as to the production of rivers, yet, the laws of their motion, and the nature of their currents have been very well explained. All rivers have their source either in mountains or elevated lakes; and it is in their descent from these situations, that they acquire that velocity which maintains their future current. At first their course is generally rapid and headlong, but it is retarded in its journey, both by the continual friction against its banks by the many obstacles it meets with to divert its stream, and by the plains becoming more level as it approaches towards the sea. If this acquired velocity be quite spent, and the plain through which the river passes be intirely level, it will, notwithstanding, still continue to run from the perpendicular pressure of the water, which is always in exact proportion to the depth. This perpendicular pressure is nothing more than the weight of the apper waters pressing the lower out of their places, and consequently, driving them forward, as they cannot recede against the stream. As this pressure is greatest in the deepest parts of the river, so we generally find the middle of the stream most rapid; both because it has the greatest motion thus communicated by the pressure, and the fewest obstructions from the banks on either side. Rivers thus set in motion are almost always found to make their own beds. Where they find the ground elevated, they wear its substance away, and deposit the sediment in the next hollow, so as in time to'make the bottom of their channels even. On the other hand the water is continually gnawing and eating away the banks on either side; and this with more force as the current happens to strike more directly against them. By these means, it always has a tendency to render them more strait and parallel to its own course, Thus it continues to rectify its banks, and enlarge its bed; and, consequently, to diminish the force of its stream, till an equilibrium is obtained between the force of thie water, and the resistance of its banks, upon which both will remain without any further mutation. Happy is it for inán that bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water'; and that we find all rivers only dig and widen themselves but to a certain degree. In thoše pláitis and large vallies where great rivers How, the bed of the river is usually lower thản any part of the valley. But it often happens, that the surface of the water is higher than inany of the grounds that are adjacent to the banks of the stream. If, after inundations, we take a view of some rivers, we shall find their banks appear above water, at a time that all the adjacent valley is overflown. This proceeds from the frequent depositions of mud, and such like substances, upon the banks, by the river's frequently overflowing; and thus, by degrees, they become elevated above the plain ; and the water is often seen higher also. Rivers, as every body has seen, are always broadest at the mouth; and grow narrower towards their source. But what is less known, and probably more deserving curiosity, is, that they run in a more direci channel as they immediately leave their sources, and that their sinuosities and turnings become more numerous as they proceed. The savages of North America esteem it a certain sign that they are near the sea when they find the rivers winding. and every now and then changing their direction. And this is even now becoine an indication to the Europeans themselves, in their journies through those trackless forests. As these turns of the river increase as it approaches the sea, it is not to be wondered at that they soinetimes divide, and thus disembogue by different channels. The Danube empties itself into the Black sea by seven mouths; the Nile into the mediterranean by seven, and the great river Wolga into the Caspian by seventy Buffon says, that the current of rivers is to be estimated very different from the manner in which those writers who have given us mathematical theories on this subject, have represented. They found their calculations upon the surface being a perfect plane, from one bank to the other ; but this is not the actual state of Nature in this case ; for rivers in general. rise in the middle; and this convexity is according to the rapidity of the stream. Any person, to be convinced of this, need only lay his eye as nearly as he can on a level with the streain, and, looking across to the opposite bank, he will perceive the river in the unidst to be elevated considerably above what it is at the edge. This rising in some rivers is often found to be three feet high. To account for this it is supposed the water in the midst of the current loses a part of its weight, by the velocity of its motion; while that at the sides, by its slowness, keeps its natural level. It sometimes happens, however, that this appearance is reversed; for when tides are found to flow up with violence against the current, the greatest rapidity is then found at the sides of the river, as the water there least resists the influx from the sea. On these occasions the river presents a concave rather than a convex surface; and, as in the former case, the middle waters rose in a ridge, in this case they sink in a furrow. Extract of a Letter to the Author of “ Letters on the Religion Essential to Man." ALL men are in their own minds convinced, or if you will, persuaded of thig, ruth; viz. that unjust men cannot finally escape unpunished. to this they confine the idea they have of justice, which they know inore by its effects, than by itself. It would however greatly concern us to know justice in its origin; we should perhaps find there the solution of a difficulty, which arises here very naturally. It is said, that truth, goodness, and even justice, require that God should distribute the rewards he has promised; and that he cannot dispense with doing it. But it is asked, whether he could not forbear to punish? whether it is not in his power to shew mercy and pardon the guilty? To this it is answered, that God is obliged by his justice to execute his threatenings, as well as to fulfil his promises. But is it not evident, that this answer is not satisfactory, and that it is begging the question? for it is allowed to be just, that crimes should be punished. But if God cannot dispense with inflicting punishments, we ask the reason of this necessity ? I believe, Sir, you will agree with ine, that no satisfactory answer has yet been made to this question. your remark is very just. Nothing is better known than justice in its most glaring effects, and nothing is less undertood than justice, considered in itself. It may be said, that it is not necessary for man to know the nature thereof, and that it is sufficient for him not to mistake its effects. This would certa'nly be sufficient, was it not probable, that his being ignorant of the cause, may at last occasion his mistaking the effects of it: this appears from the difficulty you propose which I need not repeat. Justice may be considered in various respects. We have elsewhere observed, that justice is no more than perfect equity, and that equity signifies equality or proportion. This way of considering it is the easiest, and the nearest : at the same time, it is founded upon truth; and if men always considered it in this light, they would not conceive a false notion of it. Let us endeavour to trace the thing a little higher, and consider what justice is essentially, or what can be the cause of it. Let us first observe, that it is an essential property of a wise being to do nothing in vain From thence we may conclude, that the Author of nature must have designed thc different faculties with which he has endowed man for different uses, which concur in perfecting the whole: we may likewise conclude, that when the faculties are applied to other uses, order is thereby overturned, and still more so, when they are the noblest faculties of the mind which are misapplied. A comparison will not be improper here. The human body is so framed, that all the parts of it have their several uses; their order and the subserviency of them to each other, bears a relation to these uses. This order is essential, not only to the beauty, but likewise to the well being of the body; and as soon as this order suffers any change, that well being ceases; there arises a painful sentiment, which is a certain sign that some of the parts are disordered. From, hence it is easy to conclude, that pain is only a consequence of disorder. Methinks it might likewise be concluded, that disorder cannot be introduced into the faculties of the mind, without raising in it a painful sentiment. Upon taking a nearer view of this inatter, we shall find that if it was otherwise all nature would be destroyed. Let us suppose that well being is not the consequence of order, and that pain does not proceed from disorder; how should we know when the disorder begins, or be induced to employ the means of preventing the progress of it? Nay, further, without the connection that subsists between pain and disorder, men could not discern the difference between order and disorder; nothing would induce him to prefer one to the other. It is objected, that the beauty of one, and the deformity of the other, would be sufficient to determine his choice; I answer that the first, the invincible desire which appears in man is after well being; that without the relish he has for what is good, he could have none for what is beautiful. In effect, the first perception which man has of what is beautiful, and what is deformed is only the agrecable or disagreeable impression which things make upon him; and the preference he gives to what is beautiful, is only the effect of that impression. From hence I conclude, that man does not perceive the cessation of order, but in proportion as he feels the cessation of well being. Let us return to the idea of justice; and remove the idea of rigour which is annexed to it. If we suppose that order only prevails among the creatures this rigour' would not take place. In this case justice would be essentially nothing but order itself, and that exact proportion which constitutes the harmony of order, as it does the perfection and happiness of intelligent creatures. Or if you would consider the matter otherwise, justice in God will be the approbation he gives to that order, and the delight he takes in the happiness and perfection of the beings whom he has created, Let us now suppose, that disorder prevails among the creatures, what will follow from that which we have laid down concerning the nature of justice? Order and harmony ceasing, pain and confusion will be the consequences, the natural and inevitable consequences of it. And if we go back still farther, and consider what justice may be in God, we shall find that it is invariably the same, as we have supposed it; the same, I say, in its principle.This principle is the good will « PreviousContinue »
Molecular dog: what it is Molecular dog: what it is We are searching data for your request: Forums and discussions: Manuals and reference books: Data from registers: Wait the end of the search in all databases. A molecular dog he is not just a dog with a developed sense of smell, among other things unless he has physical problems, everyone has it, but he is a specimen ad hoc trained, still unlike dogs that are used to search for people. There are more or less suitable breeds but above all one particular education which allows this type of dog to do "special things". What, we see right away. Molecular dog: what it is A molecular dog it has nothing sci-fi or surreal in it, it is a specialized and skilled animal, trained to be part of an ad hoc canine unit dealing with "special cases". Even the press, especially the press, calls these dogs this, wanting to recall the great with this term olfactory power they are equipped with. They are in fact able, by nose, to follow a human trail. Not just the scent, stink, or scent trail of someone who has just passed by, but also of an individual who has passed a certain place a long time ago. All thanks to them special nose. A molecular dog indeed has a nose that it perceives and distinguishes even the smallest odor particles, the "molecules", in fact, and manages to store tracks and to associate them so as not to lose them. Molecular dog: breeding As we mentioned, a molecular dog he is not a classic rescue dog, so he must be bred differently. In fact, if the latter has to go in search of people in the event of natural disasters, such as earthquakes or avalanches, the molecular dog is a kind of assistant investigator. It must seek not "people" in general but of specific people. Upon request, information on the requested person is usually given to him using the odor he left on a garment. Molecular dog: how to train it Having to go “hunting for a suspect”, or a victim, the molecular dog not only must he feel the presence of a human but he must also know skillfully associate smells, to understand if the human he hears is the same one who has worn a certain pair of trousers, for example, and that law enforcement they are looking for. If well trained, a dog with this task can too tell us what journey the person you are looking for has made, because it will start on all fours to retrace it by pawing and without admitting distractions. Molecular dog breed Training is very important, but there are cases, such as that of molecular dog, in which even the “skills” linked to the race have a certain weight. Among the dog breeds in which dogs are often searched for to become molecular, there is that of Bloodhound, also called Chien de Saint-Hubert or Sant’Uberto dogs. Originating in Belgium, these dogs have a truly disproportionate number of olfactory receptors, 4 billion. For comparison, let's think cats have 200 million. It is therefore a question of numbers but not only, because this breed of dogs is also characterized by a particular one structure of the olfactory organ that allows you to better distinguish the individual traces of odor. Moreover, the character of the Bloodhound is very suitable because he learns quickly and is not too stubborn, on the contrary, willing to learn. Molecular dog: cost A molecular dog costs a lot, because in addition to paying for the breed we also have to pay for his professionalism. But if we don't belong to the police, what do we do with a dog like this? Better to save, leave it to those who need it molecular dogs and "play" with ours perhaps giving him a very themed onesie for the cold seasons. A Policeman costume, for 13.50 euros on Amazon, in different sizes. You might also be interested in: • Dog cold • Guide dog: education and cost • Dogs at the sea • Dog Smell: How It Works • Bloodhound: features and price • Dog licking its paws Video: Molecular Docking using AutoDock Vina and UCSF Chimera (May 2022).

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