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Why You Need Resistance Bands
Not only are resistance bands a great tool to help you increase your total body strength and performance, they are also one of the most cost effective and compact pieces of home gym equipment you can add to your workout space.
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Not only are resistance bands a great tool to help you increase your total body strength and performance, they are also one of the most cost effective and compact pieces of home gym equipment you can add to your workout space. They also are designed to provide variable resistance. This means the amount of resistive force of the band (what you feel when pulling on it) depends on its elastic material, shape, thickness, and size. The amount of force you feel can also depend on how far you stretch the band. This also means that with the variety of resistance you can achieve with just one resistance band, you could replace a dumbbell set. You will also be happy to know that resistance bands aren't only compact and cost effective, they can get you results! Increased strength, muscles size, endurance, and stability can result from a well-made resistance band training program.
How to Use Them
Apart from slight variations in positioning and anchoring of the resistance bands, you will be using the same effective muscles developing workouts you perform with other strength training equipment. If you are new to resistance band training, I would advise starting with 2 full body workouts per week to see how your body responds to the new form of training. This will also give you enough time to rest and recover between workouts if you become sore. You should also start your workouts with a resistance band that is light enough to allow for good form through each rep and set. Usually resistance bands come in different lengths, widths, and shapes. Check these set of bands if you are looking for a great resistance band set to get started with.
After you determine which band to use you can start to select the exercises you would like to perform during your workouts. Using different lengths of your band will determine how much resistance you will feel. The shorter the distance between where you grip the band and its anchor point, the great the resistance you will feel. This may be needed for exercises that require you to use larger muscle groups, like squats, rows, and presses. When performing smaller muscle group exercises, like triceps kickbacks and lateral raises, you may need to lengthen the distance between your grip and the anchor point to reduce the resistance. Check out some of these great resistance band exercises you can start adding to your workout routine.
Example Workout Frequency
Week 1
Sunday
Rest
Monday
Full Body
Tuesday
Cardio
Wednesday
Full Body
Thursday
Cardio
Friday
Full Body
Saturday
Cardio
Week 2
Sunday
Rest
Monday
Upper
Tuesday
Lower
Wednesday
Rest
Thursday
Upper
Friday
Lower
Saturday
Rest
For each workout, you should perform 2-3 sets of 15-12 repetitions for each exercise. Be sure to take 45-60 seconds of rest between each set and exercise. As with any exercise program, make sure to speak with your physician before starting these or any other workout program. | eng | f10d9dc7-796a-481a-a022-a39bedee574b | https://sunnyhealthfitness.com/blogs/products/resistance-bands-training |
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The profound power of being inflexible – A Guide on Discovering Asana Without Extreme Flexibility
One of the biggest misconceptions about yoga, or asana practice as it's often referred to, is that it requires extreme flexibility to be good at it. It is true that stretching and maintaining one's flexibility is a part of a regular asana practice, but it is not the only prerequisite to having a successful practice.
In fact, over-stretching can be counter-productive in many ways and can cause more harm than good. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the concept of flexibility within an instructive asana practice, and how the journey of the postures themselves is more important than their eventual destination of extreme flexibility.
We will also look at how the power of staying inflexible can be a beneficial way to increase strength and challenge the practitioner in new and different ways.
The importance of the destination versus the journey in asana practice
When beginning any asana practice, one must pay close attention to the idea of the 'destination' or the eventual pose, and the 'journey' or how one gets there.
It is important to remember that the destination of the asana is not the end-all, be-all and that it is equally important to pay close attention to the journey that one takes to get there. This means having awareness of the body and paying close attention to the breath, as well as noticing the small details that make up a posture.
Especially for those not overly flexible, focusing on the journey of the asana can allow for one to receive the full benefit of the posture, even if they cannot reach the ideal destination.
The power of in-flexibility
When practicing yoga, many practitioners may look upon their inflexibility with disdain due to the belief that without extreme flexibility, they won't be able to achieve the postures they're attempting, which is simply not true. Although you may not initially be able to achieve the "ideal" pose, by focusing on the entire journey, the body will eventually be able to reach the full range of motion that the pose requires, with strength and grace.
By incorporating tools such as blocks, straps, and chairs, the practitioner is able to gain deeper connection and awareness to their bodies, as well as build strength in the process. This is not just beneficial for those who are not extremely flexible, but for everyone. It allows for the practitioner to 'meet themselves where they are' and accept their level of flexibility. It allows for the practitioner to learn how to be in control of their body, even when stuck in a situation where they may be feeling inflexible.
Connecting experience with physical anatomy
When working with inflexibility, it is highly important to look at the connection between physical anatomy and experience when approaching any posture.
For many practitioners, a physical limitation may not just be due to tightness in the muscles, but can also be due to something much deeper, such as emotional pain or trauma.
Whenever a practitioner has a physical struggle in a posture, it is important to take a step back and look at the full body spectrum of understanding. Often times, there is an underlying emotion or fear that is manifesting as physical inflexibility, and if that emotion is not addressed, it can be hard to move forward.
This is where connecting experience with physical anatomy comes in. By understanding the journey one is taking, the practitioner can gain a greater sense of autonomy over their own body and physical state, as well gain an inner awareness and acceptance of the presently.
For example, if one is experiencing particular difficulty with backbends, look at the deeper emotion that could possibly be contributing to it. There may be an underlying fear of falling backwards, or an inability to catch oneself in an awkward position; If one is able to look at it with a compassionate eye, one may find that the body naturally begins to open up.
The importance of breath
The importance of breath in any practice should not be understated. When faced with physical inflexibility, working with breath can help to deepen the experience of the posture. It can help one to relax and open the body, as well as connect one to the deeper emotions that could be inhibiting the posture.
By honoring the fact that flexibility is not just about physical strength, but about emotional and spiritual strength as well, one can begin to cultivate a practice that is honest and true to themselves.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is important to remember that flexibility is not an end goal in any yoga, or asana, practice. By having an awareness of the destination of the postures as well as the journey that one takes to get there,the practitioner is able to work with flexibility, or lack of it, in a way that honors their body and serves them in the moment.
Through the use of props, breathwork, and connecting the physical with the experiential, true strength and flexibility can be achieved over time. This power of inflexibility should not be underestimated and can be a powerful tool in one's asana practice. | eng | 93c97c2b-a6a6-44a7-a2f0-510ce04eb952 | https://www.rejoyceyoga.com/2023/03/13/the-profound-power-of-being-inflexible-a-guide-on-discovering-asana-without-extreme-flexibility/ |
That's what makes stopping Brady the primary thing for the Chiefs defense to focus on in practice all week. And that's what Rapoport got Crennel to discuss, breaking down two primary ways to get to Brady.
1) Disguise pre-snap: "You try to combat it pre-snap as best you can, but you have to be in position to do your job when the ball is snapped, and Tom does a good job of mixing the snap count. He goes with the quick count, he goes with the hard count, he goes with the double count, so it's going to be tough, particular if you have young guys. With a veteran secondary, you can disguise a little bit more. But we got young guys that are playing. So, I'm going to have to get my young guys in position to give themselves a chance to defend this passing game."
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The entire article is worth a read so make sure to check out Rapoport and the rest of the Herald's MNF coverage. There's plenty there to check out. | eng | 9a711958-41ca-4f95-817e-b83613e65141 | https://kansascity.sbnation.com/kansas-city-chiefs/2011/11/21/2575457/how-to-beat-tom-brady-chiefs-dc-romeo-crennel-discusses-his-methods |
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Am i the only one afraid with this defense Rework?
Am i the only one afraid by the last implementations in game?
Am i the only one who thinks hanzo's Rework is stupid, Brigitte's addition is a mess?
So, am I the only one who thinks that Sym is gonna be another shield totally annoying? Am i the only one who's afraid by her 5000hp shield, her teleporter as E, her primary who increase dmg against Shields?
EDIT: DIDNT HAVE THE TIME TO WRITE ALL MY POST, TYPED "POST" BEFORE IT WAS FINISHED
EDIT 2: ALL PREVIOUS REWORKED HERO ARE A TOTAL JOKE WHILE SPEAKING ABOUT BALANCING
I mean, Brigitte is a matter of intense debate, but Sym couldn't be any worse in the defense roster than as a support. While it bums me out that she's not going to be a support, I'm ok with it as long as I can actually use her and have her be the best in the situation for once.
Really it doesn't look like it's gonna be as bad as mercy meta like people suggest. Symettra really needs the rework, she has an incredibly small niche which is already easily countered. The teleporter sure has more use, which is great, and it's a very interesting way to rework it, but it doesn't sound too OP cuz it can still be broken, so it gan be rendered useless pretty quick.
She's not gonna be another shield cuz it will just be her ultimate, which really sounds very lackluster, sure it's a massive shield, that people can go through, and can be easily broken by just spamming it.
Besides, by your comment it seems that having another shield is bad right? Since there is a high amount of barriers in the game, so why is symmetra able to burn down barriers a bad thing? Wouldn't that be exactly what you would like? Plus it's a new concept that hasn't been introduced in OW yet. Will it make her meta? No, because there are other heroes who also excel in shield breaking with other means. Plus symettras gun is short ranged anyway and she lacks mobility or any self defensive capabilities so it's not likes she's gonna go in and crap on everyone .
So to answer your question, no, I am not scared of this rework, I am excited for it
did Brigitte looked bad?
did Reworked mercy looked bad before she hits ptr/live?
did hanzo looked bad when they said scatter had to be removed?
the addition of armor and Shields is one a the game's problem.
and yes, the fact that she will be able to burst barrier is a pretty bad thing too SO
ALL of their Rework are significantly to increase the PICKRATE OF A HERO, that's not what we want.
Change totally your game, it will be an other one, easy like that
I personally think hanzo isn't that much or a problem compared to brig or old mercy, what makes him so prominent is the fact that Brigitte counters his counters. So once she's toned down we'll see how it goes. If anything the only thing he'd need is his storm arrow damage reduced or make it so it doesn't crit.
And yeah reworked mercy looked OP, since she basically had 2 ults in one, all the rezzes plus valkyrie, but they toned it down and now we're good.
Idk about bursting barriers being a bad thing, especially when it comes from a hero with a short attack range. The game is littered with them, and brigittes barrier is something everyone complains about. Kinda looks like sym could be able to counter her by making her either put her shield down to attack (which new symmetra should be able to outdamage) or keep the shield on, making sym charge increase while breaking the shield.
And well, yeah the reworks are to make heroes more viable. More viability= increase pickrate, why is that not a good thing? The ideal OW should be an OW where all heroes have a place to be played. Where all heroes are viable, though not all the time, but depending on enemy composition, team composition and map. For many heroes this is not true though, sym has been made useless, and it's hard to make her fit in a comp. Which is why she has a low pickrate, so yeah if she's made viable the pickrate will increase, and that IS what we want, to make heroes not be useless.
If the new shield makes you afraid wich is ok it will probs be really strong but remember sombras emp delate it and shut down her turrets plus sym and her allies who are hit by emp will have shield health gone plus no abilities so dont worry it has counter play
I just played her for the first time. What used to make her fun is now gone. I don't have the reflexes any more to play high accuracy characters. I liked Symmetra because she was a tactical hero. She was different. I don't really care if she wasn't used much in the meta. Is Overwatch now just a pure hardcore game? It used to be fun because it was for thinkers as well as reflex fighters - half shooter, half puzzle game. Now it's really just a shooter. | eng | f7d05456-8329-4cb1-8abf-bbbc88ef6dd4 | https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/time-to-speak-about-syms-rework/100171/10 |
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Importance of Early Detection
The inside of the mouth is normally lined with a special type of skin (mucosa) that is smooth and coral pink in color. Any alteration in this appearance could be a warning sign for a pathological process. The most serious of these is oral cancer.
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Now, this happened a long time ago. The time has surely changed. And we've entered the world of possibilities, AI (Artificial Intelligence).
Like chatbots, AI image generators create high-technology and realistic images. You just have to command them, and they'll come up with satisfying results. Further, recent AI advancements have modified concepts like art, design, and virtual reality.
That said, recently, the modified pictures of Pope Francis, Harry PotterBalenciaga, and the great Cascadia earthquake have taken over the internet. And as expected, there's entertaining feedback!
So, let's not extend this introduction anymore and get to the good stuff already!
Pope Francis In Balenciaga
Who doesn't know about the famous Pope Francis III? He is the catholic church's head, Rome's Bishop, and Vatican City State's Sovereign. And this is not the first time he's appeared in the news for other reasons. The internet is already filled with various interesting memes about him.
But the latest picture of him making a stunning fashion statement in an edited Balenciaga puffer coat has topped the charts!
How Did It Happen?
Well, at first, the world was having its usual day. But then, Pablo Xavier, a construction worker from Chicago, decided to stir things up. He created the Pope's image with Midjourney and replaced the signature robe with a stylish puffer coat.
In addition, the popular model Chrissy Teigen also commented on believing the picture.
What's The Status Now?
Further, within a few minutes, the image started circulating on platforms like Twitter and Reddit. And as of now, it has crossed 26 million views.
Harry Potter & The Balenciaga Fashion Runway!
Growing up, we all watched and read the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Though both; the book and movie series ended long ago. People still remember the franchise by heart.
The Background
Earlier this week, a Patreon user, demonflyingfox, created a deep-fake video of the harry potter cast starring in a Balenciaga ad.
The ad followed a 1980s fashion theme. And the characters have updated dialogues such as 'You're Balenciaga, Harry' or 'What's the difference between Balenciaga and H&M?'
Now, what makes this short video more interesting is the characters' similar voices and leather apparel.
The Reality-Check
Though nothing about this video is real. Yet, the overall AI image concept is quite interesting. And it's just a step away from vanishing the line between imagination and reality.
The Great Cascadia Earthquake & Tsunami 2001
Modifying Harry Potter or Pope Francis with Balenciaga was all fun and games. But another deep-fake event is hinting at the downside of AI images. Which is, of course, making people believe whatever they see with fake proofs.
Backstory
Similar to the other events, a Reddit user, u/Arctic_Chilean, posted possible images of the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. The images were created with Midjourney again. But what's interesting is that people started believing this unreal event after a few minutes.
In addition, the Reddit user posted twenty pictures depicting the aftermath of a historical earthquake of 9.1 magnitudes. Each picture had a realistic touch to it. And users continued to discuss the occurrence of this event. Further, the pictures even made it to the first page of Reddit.
Furthermore, a user commented about the images being close to reality and a devastating earthquake in 1700. And more users jumped into the conversation with their misleading reviews on the non-existent event.
Relax!
And we'll tell you to relax here! The event never happened. But with the realistic pictures, who would've denied the possibility?
And We've Saved The Best For The Last: Donald Trump's Arrest!
Donald Trump is a controversial personality who's famous worldwide. Since everyone was showcasing their AI-generated images. The founder of investigative journalism Bellingcat, Elliot Higgins, jumped on the bandwagon, too.
A Leisure Invention
Higgins contributed to the fun time by posting dramatic pictures of Donald Trump. In pictures, the ex-president of the USA was getting arrested and even attempting to break free.
Many people have found Higgin's narrative hilarious. We assure you, it didn't happen in real life.
So, What's The Take On AI Image Advancement?
People have been predicting flying cars for centuries. However, there's still time for that futuristic possibility. Meanwhile, AI is already leading the world with its high-definition concepts.
Undoubtedly, there's still a fake element in these AI-drive pictures. But they can make anyone a fool within a few minutes.
And considering this, it's only about time for AI to diminish the barriers between reality and imagination in the coming times. So, are you ready for that? | eng | 4b5d8cce-41bd-4dc0-bb42-ef036ef964ac | https://hayvine.com/tech/from-pixels-to-reality-the-trending-take-over-of-ai-images/ |
It is a data that only represents a single value so that means the 'number 5' in memory. There is no ambiguity about a variable of a primitive type directly contains the value of the type.
How about Non Primitive type?
Non Primitive type does not contain the actual value directly.
const obj = {
name: "jay"
}
The obj does not contain the value directly. Instead it has a reference similar to pointer to somewhere in memory that the object.
Primitive types are immutable.
We can not really change them. In order to change them we need to completely remove the primitive type.
var a = 5;
var b = a;
b++;
console.log(a);
console.log(b);
5
6
variable a equals five. In order for me to change what that five value is i have to literally remove it from the memory and create something new a equals ten i can not really modify it just modify it just something new gets created and primitive types are exactly like that when i assign a variable a to five somewhere in memory.
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Enzyme Catalysis: Enzyme catalysis is a highly efficient and specific type of catalysis that occurs in living organisms. Enzymes are biological catalysts that facilitate chemical reactions in cells, allowing essential processes to occur at biologically relevant rates. Enzymes are typically proteins with complex three-dimensional structures that provide specific active sites where reactant molecules, called substrates, bind and undergo chemical transformations to form products.
Characteristics of Enzyme Catalysis
Key characteristics of enzyme catalysis include:
Specificity:Enzymes are highly specific to particular substrates and reactions. Each enzyme typically catalyzes one specific reaction or a limited set of closely related reactions. This specificity is essential for the precise control of biochemical pathways in cells.
High Catalytic Efficiency:Enzymes dramatically accelerate reaction rates, often by several orders of magnitude, compared to the same reactions occurring without catalysis. This efficiency is crucial to support the numerous chemical processes required for life.
Regulation:Enzyme activity can be regulated to control the rates of biochemical reactions. Cells can adjust enzyme activity in response to changes in environmental conditions or cellular requirements.
Lower Activation Energy:Enzymes lower the activation energy required for a chemical reaction to proceed. The activation energy is the energy barrier that reactant molecules must overcome to transform into products. By reducing this barrier, enzymes facilitate the reaction at physiological temperatures.
Mechanism of Enzyme Catalysis
Substrate Binding: The substrate(s) bind to the active site of the enzyme through non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, ionic interactions, and van der Waals forces. The active site provides the appropriate environment to stabilize the transition state of the reaction.
Transition State Stabilization: As the substrate(s) bind to the enzyme's active site, the enzyme induces conformational changes in the substrate, facilitating the formation of the transition state. The transition state is an intermediate structure that has partial characteristics of both the substrate and product and requires less energy to proceed to product formation.
Catalysis: The enzyme's active site brings the reactants into close proximity and orients them in a way that promotes the chemical reaction. Enzymes can also provide specific functional groups that participate in the reaction, enhancing its rate.
Product Formation: The chemical reaction occurs, leading to the formation of products. The products are then released from the enzyme's active site, and the enzyme is free to catalyze another round of the reaction.
Factors Influencing Enzyme Catalysis
Several factors can influence enzyme catalysis:
Temperature:Enzymes have an optimal temperature range at which they exhibit maximum activity. Extreme temperatures can denature enzymes and impair their function.
pH:Enzymes also have an optimal pH at which they function most effectively. Changes in pH can affect the enzyme's charge distribution and, consequently, its activity.
Substrate Concentration:Initially, the enzyme reaction rate increases with increasing substrate concentration. However, once all active sites are occupied, adding more substrate does not further increase the reaction rate.
Enzyme catalysis plays a vital role in various biological processes, including metabolism, DNA replication, protein synthesis, and cell signaling. Moreover, enzymes are widely used in industrial applications such as food processing, pharmaceutical production, and biofuel synthesis, where their high specificity and efficiency are harnessed to produce desired products with minimal waste | eng | 05c044c2-f180-424e-a368-816f5d8f52ff | https://learningmantras.com/enzyme-catalysis/ |
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Saira dance is performed in the month of
Shrawan on the occasion of Kajli Teej. 14-20 people
participate and dance in a group. It is a male dominated
dance. They stand in a circle, sing song based on Krishna
Leela.
Main instruments- Dholak, Timki, Manjira, Mridang and
Bansuri (Flute | eng | ad125a16-07f5-4606-a3c1-e0820e3142bd | https://sujhav.com/question/saira-dance-practised-in-the-bundelkhand-region-is/ |
A Guide to Why and How to Repair a Noisy Water Heater
Your water heater is a vital home appliance that provides hot water for various purposes. This crucial device heats the water you need for a long, hot shower. It can also help homeowners wash the dishes and do the laundry more comfortably and efficiently.
Unfortunately, like other things, it will eventually encounter wear and tear, especially if you don't maintain it properly. It will also produce strange noises, making many homeowners think they have a haunted house. Therefore, you should schedule a call with a professional water heater repair company.
If you want to fix your heating device proactively and protect your home, this article will enumerate the six typical noises your water heater makes and what they mean.
6 Common Water Heater Noises and What They Mean
This section will enumerate the noises your water heater typically makes and what they mean.
1. Humming
You shouldn't try to identify the tune playing when your water heater makes a humming noise. Instead, it will irritate you and cause concern, indicating that you must schedule a professional water heater repair service. The humming sound typically means that loose parts inside the heater are shaking.
Although it may be a straightforward repair you can do yourself, we only recommend it if you're experienced with these fixing requirements and are comfortable doing it yourself. Otherwise, you're better off letting a professional plumber handle the job instead.
2. Popping
When you hear popping sounds from your water heater, it's a possible sign that you should change it, especially if you're unsure of its lifespan. These noises indicate sediment and debris accumulating at the tank's bottom, causing the water to trap.
If your old water heater doesn't have a pressure-relief valve, it can lead to increased pressure that could cause the tank to explode. You should also know that an exploding tank can pose a safety risk to your house.
3. Crackling
When you hear crackling noises in your water heater, it usually happens due to condensation buildup on the burner and is more common in gas water heaters. Unlike other sounds that could signal a significant issue, crackling noises aren't something you should worry about, and plumbers consider it normal.
4. Sizzling
Sizzling steaks sound and smell good, but no homeowner wants to hear the same sound from their water heater. This noise indicates that your water heater is experiencing an internal leakage causing water to fall onto the burner. If you previously installed a gas water heater at home, this issue may be related to the pilot light and is a common issue.
5. Ticking
If you hear ticking sounds coming from your newly installed water heater at home, it's likely due to changes in water pressure or loose pipe straps that require tightening. Like crackling noises, your water heater is not in harm's way and doesn't require urgent repairs.
6. Knocking
Hearing knocking sounds from your water heater after a shower can be alarming. However, this noise doesn't indicate a severe issue. You typically hear the knocking noise due to water hitting the shut-off valves of the water heater too quickly. You can fix this by purchasing a water hammer arrestor from a hardware store and letting a professional plumber install it.
When Will Your Water Heater Need a Professional Plumber?
Calling a professional plumber for a thorough inspection may be a good idea if you hear humming, knocking, sizzling, or popping. These trained experts may find issues with your water heater's thermocouple, which may require cleaning or replacement, especially if you have an old device or previous problems.
Final Thoughts
Hearing your water heater produce strange noises can be nerve-wracking and irritating, especially if you have an old device. You can know if it needs replacing or repairing by educating yourself about the different noises and contacting a professional plumber.
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How much does a 7bbl brewing equipment cost?
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Mar/15/2023 equipment have to do with it? 7What are the components of bbl brewing equipment? How much does it cost? Today we will introduce it.
The cost of a 7 bbl brewing system is related to several factors
Manufacturer: Different beer equipment manufacturers may price their systems differently based on factors such as quality, reputation, and production costs.
Material: The type and quality of materials used to construct the brewing system can significantly affect the cost. Stainless steel is a common material for brewing systems, but higher quality grades of stainless steel can increase the cost.
Features: The cost of the brewing system will vary based on the specific features and accessories included. Additional features like a grain mill, wort chiller, or automated control systems can increase the cost.
Customization: Customization of the system can also add to the cost. For example, custom branding or specialized configurations can increase the overall cost of the system.
Installation and shipping: The cost of installation and shipping can also add to the overall cost of the brewing system.
Overall, the cost of a 7 bbl brewing system can vary widely based on these factors. A basic system can cost between $50,000 and $100,000, while a more advanced system with additional features and customization can cost significantly more.
What are the components of beer equipment
A 7 bbl (barrel) brewing system typically consists of the following components:
Mash tun: This vessel is used to mix milled grain with hot water to create a sugary liquid called wort. The mash tun is where the conversion of starches in the grains into fermentable sugars takes place.
Brew kettle: This vessel is used to boil the wort with hops to add bitterness, flavor, and aroma to the beer. The brew kettle also sterilizes the wort and removes any unwanted compounds.
Hot liquor tank: This vessel is used to heat water that is used in the brewing process, such as for sparging or cleaning equipment.
Fermenters: These vessels are used to hold the wort as it ferments and becomes beer. Fermenters are typically made of stainless steel and have a cone-shaped bottom to allow yeast and other solids to settle out.
Pumps, piping, and valves: These components are used to transfer liquid between vessels and control the flow of liquid through the system.
Control panel: This is used to control the temperature, pressure, and other variables in the brewing process. It may include switches, buttons, and digital readouts.
Optional components: Depending on the specific needs of the brewery, additional components may be added to the system, such as a grain mill, wort chiller, or automated control systems.
Overall, a 7 bbl brewing system is a versatile and efficient setup that can be used to produce a wide range of beer styles and flavors.
Application Scenario
A 7 bbl brewing system is typically used in small to medium-sized breweries, including brewpubs, taprooms, and microbreweries. It is a popular choice for brewers who want to expand their production capacity beyond what can be achieved with a smaller system, such as a 3 bbl or 5 bbl setup.
The equipment can be used in a variety of scenarios, which can help you operate in multiple channels and save costs.
The 7 bbl brewing system is well-suited for producing beer for a local or regional market, as it can produce a significant volume of beer while still allowing for experimentation and flexibility in recipe development. It can also be used for contract brewing, where a brewery produces beer for another brand or company.
Additionally, a 7 bbl brewing system is a good option for businesses that want to maintain a focus on quality and consistency while still producing beer on a larger scale. The larger system allows for greater efficiency and consistency in the brewing process, resulting in a more reliable product.
Overall, the 7 bbl brewing system is a versatile and popular choice for small to medium-sized breweries, offering a balance of production capacity, flexibility, and quality control.When you start planning a beer brewing business, the first thing to consider is your application scenario and how to run a good beer brewing business in the future. The cost of beer equipment is of course also taken into consideration.
Cost
The cost of a 7 bbl brewing system can vary depending on several factors, including the manufacturer, the material used, and the features included. However, based on industry standards, a basic 7 bbl brewing system can cost between $50,000 and $100,000. This price range typically includes the mash tun, brew kettle, hot liquor tank, fermenters, and all necessary pumps, piping, and controls.
It's worth noting that this price range is for a basic system and does not include additional features or customizations that may be desired. Additional features like a grain mill, wort chiller, or automated control systems can significantly increase the cost of the system. Additionally, the cost of installation, shipping, and taxes should also be factored into the overall cost.
Overall, the cost of a 7 bbl brewing system can be a significant investment, but it can also provide a great opportunity for brewers to expand their production capacity and improve their brewing process. | eng | f8f2bb58-f687-4d9a-826b-5a8b016c17b0 | https://www.senmobrew.com/How-much-does-a-7bbl-brewing-equipment-cost-_173.html |
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Why Are Team Ground Rules Necessary
Whatever the reason, if you set a clear expectation about the type of behavior the group wants in meetings, you can talk openly about that behavior in the group. In other words, when you start talking about what you want, it becomes easier for everyone to talk about what they want. If you are not comfortable with the idea of suggesting ground rules to your team, please consider how obvious this last sentence is. Our experience in managing teams through the five behaviors of a cohesive team is that this step of team building is often skipped. People make assumptions and inevitably other people don`t. Healthier groups could adjust some of the rules adopted. More dysfunctional teams might surprise you by suggesting rules that seem obvious, such as that members don`t speak ill of other team members in public. Teams typically develop ground rules during team building or as part of an initiative to improve meetings. Teams are more likely to accept and follow the ground rules they have set for themselves. A good set of ground rules will set clear expectations and reduce uncertainty and ambiguity.
In new teams, answers to many questions will rarely (1) or sometimes (2), as team members may not have had much time to get to know each other or get involved in specific areas covered by the survey. This is a good thing because, as team members work out their ground rules, select these low-scoring areas as areas of interest and have a healthy conversation about each area. Areas that have been highly rated and have not been identified as problematic should always be discussed by the team to determine which behaviors need to be reinforced. This ensures that the specific malfunction does not cause future problems when new team members join the team. Basic rules are used to form and personalize meeting behavior. The most effective and dramatic application of a ground rule is in a meeting when someone says: If you`ve fully involved your team in creating their ground rules, you don`t really need to "communicate" them. On the contrary, you must make them available. I recommend a mix of some (or even all) of these elements: Respect is the consideration employees show for someone`s time, work, and ideas and help ensure the smooth running of the work.
A reminder of mutual respect in the workplace not only sets employee expectations, but also fosters a positive character trait in employees. Creating a rule regarding respect can help team leaders when the division of work begins to avoid conflict and promote agreement within the team. Establishing a respectful environment can improve employee relations and overall company morale. For the DiSC score to impact team performance, all team members need to recognize the fundamental fact that you can`t force someone to change their behavior, but you can change the way you interact with them to influence their behavior. The real value of using the DiSC model is that all team members understand their own standard behaviors, motivators, and stressors, and understand the impact this can have on relationships with team members of different styles. With this understanding, team members change the way they interact with each other to ensure positive working relationships. The practice of time efficiency is when employees make the most of their time at work through proper planning, prioritization, and organization. Promoting time efficiency as a rule of thumb not only promotes project and goal progress, but also sets employee expectations from the beginning of team formation. Making time efficiency a team-wide priority can help better organize meetings and streamline communication between employees. Newly formed teams can define their ground rules as part of their broader work team agreement by asking, "What agreements or ground rules do we want to establish for our meetings?" as an agenda item. In more than 30 years of supporting leadership teams, I`ve developed a set of eight research-inspired ground rules (I call them behaviors) that can help teams improve their performance, working relationships, and individual well-being. (There`s a short article on my website explaining what the rules do and how to enforce them.) For a template that guides you through creating a full employment contract, see Lisette Sutherland`s Process for Establishing a Remote Team Work Contract (Tip: You don`t need to be a remote team to use it.) You`ll also see expectations from meetings discussed as part of Paul Axtell`s process of introducing a new leader to a team.
Finally, if you`re having a delicate conversation, take a look at Dr. Patricia Roberts` guidelines for a sensitive discussion. Don`t turn a blind eye to someone who breaks the rules. It will go from minor to larger as people learn they don`t seem to care. And where is the line between small and big breaks? The nature of the ground rules should avoid having to make value judgments between minor and serious. Now is the time to set your team`s ground rules as soon as possible. Once your team feels familiar enough to start a difficult conversation. We have great resources to help you build a new project team. In a project management environment, the basic rules of the team are likely to be part of a larger team charter. This includes things like: The ground rules describe the code of conduct for a meeting and the team, and explain the behavior expected of all participants. The basic rules of the team should be created and agreed upon jointly by all team members, as groups can more easily accept and adhere to the rules they have set for themselves.
Team rules determine how team meetings are conducted and the type of general behavior the team adheres to. The ground rules not only moderate team behavior in the workplace, but also ensure that any debate within a team remains controlled. Teams can create ground rules in their first meetings and add or review rules as needed. The other thing that is obvious is the importance of living the ground rules yourself. It is imperative that you lead by example. Stick to every detail of the ground rules. A small violation on your part will massively undermine both of you: arrive at meetings on time or inform the team leader if you are late or absent. It seems logical to me that the basic rules of your team are inspired by this type of document. In particular, if any of these organizations – or their qualifications – are supported or required by your organization, start with it. The development of team standards is a natural part of the group`s development lifecycle. For me, Bruce Tuckman explains it best. Here you will find links to our article and video on the Tuckman model of group development.
Ground rules help teams navigate paradoxes and serve as scaffolding strategies to deal with contradictions. It`s an obvious question: how do the ground rules relate to the mission and vision of your team and your larger project? It is clear that they need to be coordinated. The simplest way to think about it is this: ground rules are value statements and guidelines that a group consciously puts in place to help individual members behave. To be effective, ground rules must be clear, consistent, agreed upon and followed. When articulated ground rules are lacking, natural patterns of behavior often arise spontaneously. These are called standards. After completing the investigation, the team conducts a brainstorming exercise to identify the causes of the malfunctions and mitigation strategies to ensure that the malfunctions do not affect the team`s performance. For teams of less than 15 people, standard small group brainstorming techniques can be used. For large groups, the World Café method is a good method. Using the World Café method, the team brainstorms multiple topics at once by creating small groups that focus on a single topic for a while, and then the group, minus the author, moves on to the next topic.
When the new team comes to the table to discuss a topic, the author reads aloud the information gathered by the previous teams, and each team builds on the initial ideas. Figure 1 – Tuckman`s Team Development Stages The exercise is Lencioni`s book is simple in that it asks all team members to rate 1-3 on a series of issues related to a particular dysfunction. An example is shown below in Figure 5. To cover the five dysfunctions, the team divides into five groups, as shown in Figure 7 below. For example, when working in high-security areas or when there are safety-critical activities. But even here, you`ll usually find that once team members understand priorities, they set proper ground rules for themselves. Ideally, your team should create their own ground rules instead of the project manager imposing them. But, of course, some contexts will require the application of certain basic rules. | eng | 3c34c37b-37d4-4878-8053-311ea9a3c7de | https://darbs.co.kr/?p=20518 |
Float switch also known as mechanical switch floats vertically on top of a liquid surface. The float switch opens or closes depending on the pre-set trigger and counter weight. It produces an electric current which flows through it to the connected device. The connected device on the other side stops or starts the inflow of the liquid.
Float switches have a major role in managing storage tank systems. Whether the tank holds oil, water or any other substance, float switches can be used to manage the liquid levels, operate equipment and they can play an important role in protecting equipment that may get damaged by improper operation.
A float switch consists of a hollow floating body and an internal switch, also called a sensor. The most common internal switch is a reed switch, so there is also a magnet inside the body. There are other types of internal switches, but the working principle that they open/close due to gravity and water level moving the float switch vertically up or down is the same. Therefore, the mechanical switch creates an open or closed electrical circuit. | eng | b9766c43-0a85-4095-874c-9188e80695db | https://www.tungsten.co.ke/product/float-switch/ |
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Why some leaves change color in the Fall
If you're in a part of the country with some great fall foliage and wondering, why do some leaves change color in the fall? - well, we've got you covered. Emily Kwong and Brit Hanson from NPR's Short Wave podcast explored that very question with the botanist and plant ecologist Tanisha Williams. She told them the changing leaves start with environmental cues, like the days getting shorter.
TANISHA WILLIAMS: So once they have these cues saying, like, oh, wintertime is coming, the falling of the leaves and the changing of the colors are all in preparation for the tree to hunker down and basically hibernate in the wintertime. Then all of this magical stuff starts to happen in the leaf.
EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: OK, like what?
BRIT HANSON, BYLINE: Well, it actually has to do with the magic of - drumroll, please - photosynthesis.
KWONG: Yes. OK.
HANSON: Right? Yeah, photosynthesis. It's this cool process of how plants harness energy from sunlight and water and carbon dioxide to make food for themselves.
KWONG: Yeah, casual plant alchemy.
HANSON: Exactly. It's pretty amazing. And as you may remember from biology class, in order for photosynthesis to happen, as a first step, a tree needs to find a way to capture the sunlight. And leaves are how that happens. But to be even more specific, it's the pigments inside the leaves that do this, that capture the sunlight.
KWONG: And by pigments, do you mean colors?
HANSON: Sort of. So stick with me here, Emily. There are a handful of different pigments in each leaf, and each of these pigments absorbs sunlight and reflects the rest of it.
KWONG: OK.
HANSON: So the color that we see on the leaves depends on the light that each of the pigments is reflecting.
KWONG: Oh.
HANSON: So let's start with the color green.
WILLIAMS: So the reason why we see all of this green color in the leaves is because of the pigment known as chlorophyll. And that is what we see during the summer and spring months because there's a lot of sunlight.
KWONG: So basically, the more sunlight there is, the more green we see.
HANSON: Yes, because of chlorophyll, the green pigment in the leaf. And this is the pigment that's the most responsible for kick-starting that process - photosynthesis. But that starts to change once those environmental cues set in.
KWONG: Yeah, I love the word cues because it reminds me of stage actors being cued...
HANSON: Yes.
KWONG: ...For a costume change.
HANSON: Yep.
KWONG: Right? Like the leaves are, oh, it's my turn to transform. But in this case, it's less daylight and colder temperatures.
HANSON: Exactly. So as the tree starts to get ready for winter and the chlorophyll has stopped showing off this, you know, sort of green show...
KWONG: Yeah.
HANSON: ...We can start to see another pigment - carotenoid.
WILLIAMS: Carotenoids are where we're going to get that yellow and orange color.
HANSON: Yes. And for some trees, right here, this is where the colors stop. But for others, Tanisha says there's one more pigment to go.
WILLIAMS: Then we can get into the red color. And the red color is produced by pigments called anthocyanins.
HANSON: So one thing that Tanisha pointed out is that sort of in the background of this whole process, why the leaves are changing color, the tree is also entering what she calls hibernation mode, so sort of slowing down the flow of nutrients out to the limbs; basically hunkering down to conserve energy so it can make it through the winter.
KWONG: This sounds like what I do.
HANSON: (Laughter) Exactly.
KWONG: I will not move from this couch.
HANSON: No one can make you.
KWONG: No.
HANSON: So after a leaf has cycled through its pigments, it starts to run out of energy.
WILLIAMS: And it starts to die off. And also, it starts to weaken at the stem right there. So wind and as we're walking through leaves, we're kicking them and things like that to drop the leaves off the tree.
KWONG: I had no idea so much was going on inside each leaf.
HANSON: And, you know, when I was talking with Tanisha, Emily, I kind of realized, like, when I take my afternoon walk through my neighborhood, I haven't really been appreciating how hard the leaves are working, you know, for this amazing production.
WILLIAMS: Once you start learning about them...
HANSON: Yeah.
WILLIAMS: ...Then your lenses change. You just see the world differently.
Emily Kwong (she/her) is the reporter for NPR's daily science podcast, Short Wave. The podcast explores new discoveries, everyday mysteries and the science behind the headlines — all in about 10 minutes, Monday through Friday.
Brit Hanson (she/her) is a producer for NPR's science podcast, Short Wave. The podcast explores new discoveries, everyday mysteries and the science behind the headlines — all in about 10 minutes. She's produced episodes ranging from why some fruit ripens faster in paper bag to the dangers of tear gas during a respiratory pandemic and the evolution of HIV treatment.
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To develop understanding on the social context of individual and collective action in healthcare and medicine.
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Not necessary.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
At the end of the course students are able to define concepts of health and disease from the sociological perspective, understand the use of sociological concepts describing processes in the area of health and medicine. Students are able to describe contemporary challenges of medicine, as well as understand the classical and contemporary sociological approaches to medicine.
Skills
Students are able to explain the social causes of health and disease and factors that have impact on health behaviour at micro and macro level. Students can identify the major sociological theories that explain health behaviour, evaluate advantages of different methods of sociological research of health-care and medicine, describe issues concerning disease experience and stigmatisation, analyse sociological aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, explain life quality factors affecting health lifestyle, evaluate different models of the health-care system.
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Able to understand, interpret and analytically evaluate social factors, which determine individual and collective behaviour in healthcare and medicine. Students have improved their communicative (group work, discussions) and cognitive (independent work, examination) competence. | eng | 4ce42d61-417c-4818-bb30-e2cf4f0e691e | https://www.rsu.lv/en/rsu-courses/sociology-medicine-hzk052 |
In The Cooking Gene, his award-winning first book, Michael Twitty, the celebrated culinary historian, embraced the discomfort of the South's racialized past to broaden our understanding of African American culinary identities. Now he's turning his attention to Jewish cooking. His new book, Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew, welcomes us into a conversation between two parts of his identity—Black and Jewish—to explore the marriage of these distinct cultures through the marriage of their distinct food traditions. Part biography and part memoir, Koshersoul is at its heart an acknowledgement of the lives and culinary contributions of Jews of color, whose identity and legitimacy is questioned as much as it is ignored.
Like The Cooking Gene, Koshersoul is also intensely personal. Twitty uses food as his primary lens to navigate both his "citizenship within Jewish community and his birthright as a Black man in America." Yet, he also graciously makes room at the table for others, many more, in fact, as he journeys into what it means to be a person with multiple families. To do this, Twitty has generously seasoned Koshersoul with mayseh, a Yiddish word meaning "anecdote" or "tale." Mayseh come in many forms throughout the book—conversations, letters, prayers, intimate personal stories, recipes—but all are crucial to the essence of both Koshersoul and koshersoul cooking, which are as much about resisting culture erasure as they are about redefining our narrow concept of family.
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I first met Michael Twitty several years ago in Harlem after listening to him speak with the gifted chef and culinary historian Therese Nelson at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Listening to their conversation that hot summer afternoon about the culinary consequences of slavery inspired me, even setting me on my own book path exploring how the violence I have witnessed working in war zones changes food cultures. I spoke with Michael in July about his new book, about popular misconceptions of Jews of color, and how you don't have to be Black or Jewish to love koshersoul food.
Michael Shaikh: Hi, Michael.
Michael Twitty: Hi. How are you?
Shaikh: Good. And I'm thankful for the work that you've done. So maybe you can start by telling us, what's the connection between The Cooking Gene and Koshersoul?
Twitty: The Cooking Gene and Koshersoul are parts of a tripartite trio of books that talk about identity. It's interesting how Koshersoul is already about being at sort of the crossroads to so many different things. So my third project would be about gay identity in food and cooking.
Shaikh: What does the phrase koshersoul mean? Who is it for, and what do you want your readers to walk away with?
Twitty: It's the food of Black women who cooked for Ashkenazi Jewish households in the Deep South. It's the food of African American Jewish communities historically. It's the food of people who come in, who are brand-new, who are now blending these very global approaches to African diaspora, African Atlantic and Jewish diaspora, Jewish food. It's fusion. It's not fusion, it's inclusion. It's exclusion; it's all of those things. And it's the history of the people who make that food and what they bring to this nexus of Black Jewish engagement in North America in particular.
Shaikh: Are you saying that it is hard to identify this group clearly? Or that people have a limited idea of Jewish identity?
Twitty: Since World War II, people [especially in the U.S.] have had a really hard time understanding and seeing Jews as anything but [White in the American sense] people who were exiled and expelled during the reign of terror against Jews in Europe. However, the antiquity of the Jewish people has us born where Southwest Asia meets Northeastern Africa. Moshe Rabbenu, the figure most people refer to as Moses, the biggest prophet in Judaism and teacher in Judaism of the law, was born in Africa. When we come out of Africa during the Exodus, we're known as an ʿerev rav, which means a mixed multitude. E pluribus unum. It's very chiaroscuro. We may come in lots of colors, but we carry all of these roots and narratives.
Shaikh: Can you say more about people's expectations for what being Jewish "looks" like? Or what "Black" belief and religion is supposed to look like?
Twitty: If you're of African descent, you encounter assumptions. Somehow being Black and Muslim and Black and Christian is absolutely normal, but being Black and Jewish is... weird or problematic, or people say, "That's a choice." People see me and say, "That can't be right."
If you took a lot of people from the European Jewish diaspora back in time [to visit] their ancestors living in Iraq and Iran, in ancient Israel, Palestine, and other places, they wouldn't know what to do with them. There's a moment in the Torah when Jacob blesses his grandchildren through Joseph. They have been raised Egyptian. They're running around with cornrows. Jacob sees this and puts his hand on their head to bless them and he's like, "Who are you?"
Shaikh: Can you speak about the population of Black Jews in America? How big is the community?
Twitty: We have between 50,000 and 100,000 people who... Are they Black? Are they Jewish? Are they halakhically Jewish? [Jewish by virtue of practicing the laws and tenets? Or because their mother was Jewish?]
When it comes to Blackness, it has been way too easy to just be like, "Well, I guess I'm just Black." Because one drop rule: Black. It's, are you on the white team or the Black team? To answer your question, it's hard to tell you distinct numbers because we've only really begun to have synthesis among the Jewish community to actually talk about who is defined as African American or not.
Shaikh: Can you talk about the letter in Koshersoul to your former students about being Jewish and LGBTQ+? And, perhaps, how that might help others help navigate their complex identity in these times?
Twitty: The letter to my students is all about from me, saying to them that I've been there, other people will be where they're going, and have been. And that it's a cycle, and uniquely in Judaism and Jewish peoplehood, it's important that they find their place. We use the euphemism makom in Hebrew. It means "place," but also means "the presence of God." I wanted my students and others to really find their places. I've found my place, and it's not a linear journey. None of it is. It's very difficult. Every day, in different circles, people express identities that are specific to them in colorful ways using the tools of the world around them. And they're trying to communicate something about themselves and the human condition.
Shaikh: But your identity also exists within a Venn diagram of family. This is one of the major themes of Koshersoul, family. What is the significance of family for you?
Twitty: A big part of what family does is see us. Family reifies us. Family validates us. I think it's important that we understand that our mishpacha, our kinfolk— part of their job is to give us the ability to be our full selves in this life.
Shaikh: About the recipes in the book, it may seem odd to see macaroni salad and Southern fried chicken and collards alongside latkes and kugel. Can you tell me how these seemingly different culinary traditions can be part of the same family of traditions?
Twitty: I also wanted to show people that if you were Jewish in the Deep South, none of that would be uncommon. I have menus reflecting all parts of the African Atlantic, but also reflecting different regions within Jewish culture and different styles and influences of cooking. All of that's in there.
Shaikh: Some of these recipes are no longer made. What does that feel like to make something out of history, to really be able to taste something that has this long historical tail?
Twitty: It's being electric and wooden at the same time. It is both the best of resurrection and the awareness that, Okay; this is wood. It's both alive and dead.
We bring them back to life as we can. And there is, for me, a certain pleasure in creating and bringing recipes back as they're written down and saying, "Okay. That's really cool. I'm learning something from this." And talking to the recipe author, if there was one, and saying, "I'm learning from you."
It's all just the thrill of making sure that the tradition does not die with you. And it's also having another rung of experience and skill behind you that you can therefore build on to make something new. So to be old, to be now, to be new.
Yam Kugel
Although frequently translated as "pudding," the traditional Ashkenazi dish kugel takes a thousand forms and has diversified even further in an American cuisine, where casseroles and hot dishes abound. Inspired by the traditions preserved by Mrs. Mildred Covert, this side dish relies on plump, sugary sweet potatoes to bridge Southern sweet potato casserole with the Eastern European standby kugel. | eng | 0eb4e384-b284-4e71-b40f-5bb38d482cbd | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/food/a40911324/koshersoul-michael-twittys-tribute-to-his-black-and-jewish-identity/ |
Recent events have once again brought Israel and Gaza to the brink of war in a region marked by long-standing conflict and tension. The Israel Defense Forces(IDF) declared their "readiness for war" following a series of rocket attacks from Gaza, highlighting the volatile nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While political, territorial, and historical factors often take center stage, the conflict also encompasses religious dimensions, including the concept of jihad.
Jihadism in the Israel-Gaza Conflict
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In the context of the Israel-Gaza conflict, militant factions like Hamas and Islamic Jihad often employ elements of jihadism to legitimize their actions. Here's how jihadism is relevant to this conflict:
Ideological Justification: Jihadist elements within these groups may invoke religious rhetoric and the concept of defensive jihad to justify rocket attacks and other forms of violence against Israel. They argue that they are fighting against perceived occupation and oppression.
Recruitment and Radicalization: The notion of jihad can be exploited to recruit and radicalize individuals, particularly young people, drawn to the idea of fighting for what they perceive as a righteous cause.
Regional Dynamics: Some jihadist groups view the Israel-Gaza conflict as part of a broader struggle against Western and Israeli influence in the region. They attract support from other extremist organizations operating in the Middle East.
External Financing: Jihadist elements often rely on external sources of funding, including sympathizers and sponsors abroad, to sustain their activities in Gaza, exacerbating the conflict.
Escalation of Violence
The recent escalation of violence began with a barrage of rocket attacks launched from Gaza into southern Israel. They targeted several communities and caused damage to homes and infrastructure. In response, the IDF initiated airstrikes on Gaza. IDF targeted what they claimed were militant positions and weapons facilities.
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Rocket attacks from Gaza and the subsequent Israeli airstrikes have escalated tensions in an already fragile region. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, characterized by intermittent periods of intense violence, often followed by fragile ceasefires, has persisted for decades. The recent events threaten to plunge the region into yet another cycle of violence and instability.
IDF's "Readiness for War"
The seriousness of the situation underscores the IDF's declaration of "readiness for war." Israel's military is known for its preparedness and technological superiority in the region. It indicates their determination to defend their citizens and deter further attacks. However, it also raises concerns about the potential for a broader conflict with far-reaching consequences for the region.
The Role of Mediators
Mediators from Egypt and Qatar are reportedly engaged in diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the situation. They were pivotal in brokering past ceasefires between Israel and Hamas. Their involvement is crucial in preventing further bloodshed. They might find a path towards a more lasting peace.
The recent rocket attacks from Gaza and Israel's determination to defend itself serve as stark reminders of the enduring and volatile nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel must defend itself against this jihad before it engulfs another country. | eng | 60456d4a-32bb-4e23-88a6-f42343746d15 | https://www.thejaipurdialogues.com/global/israel-battles-jihad/ |
Introducing the Coherence CLI
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of a new command line interface (CLI) for Coherence.
The Coherence CLI orcohctl, is a lightweight tool, in the tradition of tools such as kubectl, which can be scripted or used interactively to manage and monitor Coherence clusters. You can use cohctl to view all cluster information such as clusters, machines, members, services, caches, federation, persistence and much more, as well as perform various management operations against clusters.
The CLI accesses clusters using the HTTP Management over REST interface and therefore requires this to be enabled on any clusters you want to monitor or manage.
The follow graphic outlines the comprehensive list of features and commands available:
Coherence CLI Features
Discovering Clusters
Before working with a cluster, you need to add the cluster connection. You can discover clusters using the Coherence Name Service or manually add clusters using the Coherence Management over REST endpoint. If you don't specify a host/port the CLI will discover clusters on the local machine.
Adding a cluster Manually
If you know the Management over REST host and port you can also manually add the cluster using the following:
Setting a Context
When you issue commands against a cluster you can use the -c option to specify the connection, but you can also set a context to be used in all subsequent commands:
$ cohctl set context my-clusterCurrent context is now my-cluster
Displaying list of resources
You can use the get command to display a list of resources. In the example below we use get members to display the list of members. You can also provide the -o wide option to many commands to display additional information.
Describing Resources
You can describe an individual instance of a resource as mentioned above, such as members, services, etc. In the following example we display all the caches and describe an individual cache named orders.
Changing Output Format
By default, the output format is table but can be changed to wide as we saw earlier. You also have the option to output in JSON format using -o json or applying a JSONPath expression to retrieve attributes of interest.
Below we issue the get caches command and change the output format to JSON and pipe through jq to format the output.
You can also pass a JSONPath expression using -o jsonpath= option. In the example below we are retrieving node ids from all members where the available memory is < 250MB.
Diagnostic Commands
There are also a number of commands that can be used to obtain diagnostic information sometimes required by Oracle Support. These include:
Retrieve thread dumps for all or specific nodes
Dump the cluster heap for all or specific roles
Create and manage Java Flight Recordings
Start/stop Reporters
Use Coherence NameService lookup to retrieve cluster information
Conclusion
The Coherence CLI is a great addition to your toolkit for monitoring and managing Coherence clusters. Visit the home page on GitHub and take it for a spin. Join our Slack channel to keep up to date with the latest on the CLI and other Coherence projects.
Oracle Coherence is the industry leading in-memory data grid solution that enables organizations to predictably scale stateful workloads. Often immitated, but never duplicated, it is now available for everyone to use free of charge. | eng | f84b5614-b00e-4b15-adc2-06093d7ca9f4 | https://medium.com/oracle-coherence/introducing-the-coherence-cli-40a174a648b9?elq_mid=217874&sh=1762292022131692288158932126&cmid=WWMK200429P00042C0023 |
In addition to all of the above, which is entirely valid, using crap like this to try to get your kids to behave won't *actually* get your kids to behave… it will just teach them that it only matters if they're following rules (or acting good/moral/ethical/choose your phrasing as you wish) if someone or something is monitoring them, or in the case of the elf on the shelf generally, that it only matters so long as so someone is monitoring them and there is a reward that is dependent on them seeing you behave. As a practical matter, if you're a parent who can't get their kid to reasonably behave during the holidays without these things (or the fucking elf on a shelf), what are you going to do come January?
This is, at best, lazy and ineffectual parenting that is ultimately not going to help you shape kids that care about the importance of good behavior. And, at worst, as more eloquent people above have explained, it's a tailor-made tool to further child abuse.
Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, claim that Pai has refused to respond to queries about the timing of the actions, and whether he or his staff used personal email accounts or messaging services to communicate about Sinclair or with company officials. | eng | b38b8a0d-8d21-481e-a827-c4185307cc53 | https://clatterbane.home.blog/2017/11/page/2/ |
Risk Management
Risk management is intended to minimize financial and other losses potentially associated with risks to your assets, business, or health. Some examples of risk are personal and professional liability, business ownership, property loss, and catastrophic illness or disability. Your first line of defense is to identify your sources of risk and then to either avoid or minimize the major exposures. Your last line of defense is insurance.
Asset protection planning manages risks to your wealth. Lawsuits, accidents, property damage, and other financial risks are facts of everyday life and asset protection planning looks to transfer the risk of these events through:
Insurance
Repositioning asset ownership
Other protections available under the law
Starting and running a business carries its own set of risk exposures. Certain factors can have a huge impact on how safe your personal and business assets are from risk. These include:
The type of business entity you choose
The state you choose to do business in
How you manage your business
Your human resources
Your taxes
Business risk management identifies your options for handling these risks.
Both genetics and lifestyle affect your risk profile. Being overweight, eating poorly, failing to exercise, smoking, driving unsafely, and not wearing a seatbelt will increase your insurance premiums. On the other hand, making healthier lifestyle decisions can help to reduce your insurance premiums.
Although you have no control over your genetics, you do have control over how you live your life. Educate yourself on how making healthy choices can not only improve your general health and wellness, but can also have a direct impact on your health care costs | eng | 7532cc10-4d37-4ca5-841e-680dc97fa9f9 | https://www.conestogawealth.com/risk-management |
With this game having thousands of different ways to die, and the motto being "losing is fun", I'm curious as to why then frostbite is 1) So difficult to come by (even stripping naked in the middle of winter and staying outside for an entire day only gets you chilly, not even frostnipped let alone frostbitten) and 2) is not fatal. Frostbite in real life is extremely dangerous, once the frostbite advances and turns skin necrotic, amputation has to occur before gangrene can set in and develop into a systemic infection. Yet in Cataclysm, all it does is cause a lot of pain, but that's it. Nothing fatal, no need to amputate an arm or a leg, just pop a bit of morphine and you'll be fine. Why?
[quote="troll from behind, post:2, topic:9659"]Well to get to 4.degree frostbite it will take DAYS in temperature less than 42F (not counting wind).
Your average character will be dead from starvation by then.[/quote]
What I'm saying is that it shouldn't take days at all.
In real life frostbite can occur within hours, and hypothermia can occur within minutes.
The fact that neither frostbite nor hypothermia pose a direct, mortal threat really breaks the immersion of the game for me
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In-game, getting cold means your hands and feet getting cold. If you have even half-decent clothes, most of your body will be warm, while your hands and feet get frostbitten. Same as what happens in real life. And your hands and feet getting frostbit only barely slows you down. But, getting frostbite on your extremities is just as fatal as getting it anywhere else, as frostbite kills by causing infections which then spread to the rest of the body. So no, even when walking barefoot in the snow, I don't really have anything seriously pushing me to get warm and find some shoes.
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Also need to make sure changes are downwards compitable meaning they don't mess other features in game.
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Actually, it is implemented pretty much exactly like you describe it. Differences are: everyone is equally vulnerable to frostbite (but not to cold - some mutations change it) and penalties from frostbite are binary per body part - say, your hand is either frostbitten or not.
Frostbite was toned down a bunch of times because it wrecked new players. That's probably why is it so non-dangerous.
Another thing is that apparently New England (where the game takes place) has mild winters.
It wouldn't be very hard to make a temperature scaling option, though. You could then have "Siberia mode" and (way harder due to current mechanics) "Sahara mode". They would only affect the player, so they wouldn't be proper temperature alterations, but it could still be funCold DOES wreck people. That's not inaccurate. So does heat. Maintaining temperature is vital anywhere you go.
What would be pretty cool is to get variation in temperature at random intervals, simulating 'mild' and 'harsh' weather like you can get in real life. Maybe this year the winter was warm enough for rain, but you almost froze to death in the spring. Maybe summer was cool, maybe it was so hot that suddenly warm is the new cold that you're trying to fight off.
That'd also pave the way for how to implement other biomes/regions for mapgen. Deserts and tundra, anyone?
Perhaps frostbite could start lowering the hitpoints of the affected limb? After a limb's HP gets down to 0, the cold would start chewing torso HP, and when torso HP is 0, it's game over, right? Although that would mean you could bandage or first-aid the cold body part to full health… Is that acceptable? But you'd still have the cold status. And it would still keep draining your HP slowly until you'd get warmer. Should a bandage or first-aid then protect against the cold for some time? Should there be a necrosis limb status effect, and it would be treatable only at a hospital, at Mr. Stem Cell treatment?
One problem is that it gets tedious to switch in and out of clothing as the temperatures change. There needs to be a proper balance in place so that the changing of clothes doesn't become a constant distracting chore.
I started off with the sheltered scenario, in the dead of winter. Immediately after spawning I stripped off all my clothes and items and ran into the blizzard outside. I waited. I waited. And I waited. It was 27 Fahrenheit for the entire day, and I waited from dawn to dusk - and the worst that happened was that I got frostnip on my hands, mouth and feet while the rest of my body only remained cold. When night fell, the temperature fell to -3 Fahrenheit, compounded by 50 mph wind speeds. I waited through the entire night in these conditions, and though my torso, legs and arms upgraded from cold to freezing, nothing else changed, I didn't get frostbite at all, not even on the hands or feet.
As far as I can tell, it is completely impossible to get frostbite. Even under the absolute worst scenario:
Naked
In the middle of a -3 Fahrenheit blizzard
with 50 mph winds
In the dead of winter
At nightI've had frostnip within a minute irl, because I was handling trash compactor doors bare-handed while it was …uh. whatever -27C is in Fahrenheit. Frozen metal has a real habit of insta-sucking the life out of your skin just like those little wart freezing kits you can get at the drugstore. No bueno.
I feel like affected limb damage over time might be a good simulation. I don't know that I want frostbite to impose the game's infection disease, since untreated disease eventually requires a very specific fix, otherwise you're waiting for your character's death timer to count down. Not so fun. A leg reduced to zero though, I might be alright with that. Crippling, but not a guaranteed game-ender.
Also, cold should reduce not just dexterity but intelligence as well - hypothermia can render you completely delirious, even make you fall unconscious.
In all honesty I'm just shocked by how non-threatening the cold is in this game. Being in extremely cold conditions can cause death within a day, and being in cold water can cause death in less than an hour.Both fire and lava will eventually kill you if you stand in it, at least. After your legs get zeroed out, your torso starts taking damage instead.
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Also, cold should reduce not just dexterity but intelligence as well - hypothermia can render you completely delirious, even make you fall unconscious.
This would also be consistent with some of the game messages for when you start getting cold enough, like the one saying you feel like you should take some layers of clothing off.
Ahh, torso damage from heat. Then I think extreme cold should at least mirror the rate that extreme heat will kill you. That'd make it easy for players to accept the change, as it'd be fairly predictable/not entirely unfamiliar.
I do believe the whole 'YOURE BOILING, GET NAKED' messages that come up from extreme cold are meant to mimic hypothermia's sensations - sadly they do not mimic its lethality.
What would be really horrible/a bad idea, would be if you get colder than a certain point, you stop getting estimates of where your bodyparts health are at (or maybe those with self-aware trait now act as if they didn't have it?). Then you could be so numb you can't tell if your legs are supposed to be hurting or not, apart from hurting from how cold it is. | eng | 2ae303a9-f0e4-4bd8-a363-95f12d5cda74 | https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/frostbite-is-non-fatal/9659 |
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Implementing and Adjusting the 1-1-3 Matchup Zone Defense
Jim Myers built high school powerhouse programs in Wisconsin using his 1-1-3 matchup zone defense. In this video he shows you to build the defense from the ground up. Coach Myers won six girls state championships at Barneveld HS and one boy's state title and he is the winningest girls' coach in the state of Wisconsin. He starts with the basics and using on-court demonstrations shows you how to properly run the match-up zone.
The Hash Drill
Coach Myers starts the building of the match-up zone with the Hash Drill. The drill focuses on transition defense starting as a 3-on-2 half-court situation. When the defense gets the ball, two players standing by out of bounds join the drill to create a 4-on-3 going the opposite direction. Coach Myers also gets into the 4-on-3 Box Drill to teach rotation in the zone. The offense moves the ball all while touching the lane line. The defense must point the ball, but the same player cannot point the ball once it has been passed.
1-1-3 Matchup Zone Rules
Coach Myers likes to keep things simple, so he presents his three rules for running the match-up zone. First players must always be in a stance. Second, the hands must always be high and active. Finally, defensive players must communicate. When defending, the defense must match the front of the offense and the point defender must contain for at least two dribbles. Coach Myers also shows you how the defense is designed to prevent ball reversals using gap help that must show early.
Coach Myers then shows you how man-to-man principles are added to the defense. He follows these simple rules when applying man-to-man techniques to the match-up zone:
Switch all screens
Follow all cutters.
Help on the post.
Building the Matchup Zone
Coach Myers goes through the responsibilities for each player in the 1-1-3 alignment. This is done to ensure the success of the defense as it strives to defend an offense that can put players in eight possible spots.
The two guards at the top of the zone must apply pressure to the basketball and work together as a unit. The point guard will force the ball to one side while the second guard must be prepared to stop any dribble penetration should the point get beat. Coach Myers also reviews the potential for a run-and-jump situation involving the two guards.
The 3 and 4 must guard the wing entry pass and take away any baseline drive opportunities. The forward that is opposite the ball must provide backside help while the 5, or center, fronts the low post and covers any pass to the corner.
Coach Myers also reviews three adjustments that can be made to deal with different situations that may arise in the course of a game:
Shadow: focuses on covering a dangerous perimeter shooter
Glove: an adjustment that is similar to a box-and-one
Color call: any color call forces a double team in the corner on a pass from a wing
The match up zone, when run properly, can give any offense fits. Coach Myers ran his defense for years and has plenty of wins to show as a result. This 47-minute video can help you do the same in your program. Rent this 1-1-3 Matchup Zone Defense DVD today. | eng | 7b6dafc4-7f66-4069-889a-60456eab7e58 | https://hoopsking.com/products/rental-the-1-1-3-match-up-zone-defense |
Zach Bryan, Tourniquet: the song lyrics & their meaning
The album released in 2023 by Zach Bryan really marked the imagination of the American people. Its songs can be romantic; his poetics passionately explores life, emotions, and intentions common to many human beings in the modern world. We already analyzed I Remember Everything in this article. Today, we discover the meaning of another popular song from that album: Tourniquet. You'll find the complete lyrics and the full streaming at the end of this article.
Tourniquet: the song lyrics & their meaning
Tourniquet is a romantic song about taking care of our loved ones. Zach Bryan uses the metaphor of the tourniquet, the medical tool used to stop bleeding, as an image applied to himself: the girl mentioned in the song is metaphorically bleeding, and with his care, he will stop her pain.
The girl in the song is symbolically bleeding because someone stabbed her in the back. It's a cruel world, and that's why Zach Bryan impersonates her tourniquet: he wants to be her safety net, her protection in this complicated world. With his love, his care, and his presence, he will heal her.
You've been stabbed in the back and the rest of your body Won't you tell me where you're bleedin' from? If you need a tourniquet or if you wanna turn and quit Know that I'll be by your side
The blood is what makes us alive. By taking care of the girl's blood, Zach Bryan is trying to preserve her life, protecting her from the pain and the trouble this world brings.
I bandage up your body and your bones and your bad days too Take care of the blood that your love runs through I know all the damage that some days in this dark world does
The central verse of the song opens to a new interpretation: it mentions someone who's been playing guitar for a long time, getting old. In this part of Tourniquet lyrics, Zach Bryan could be singing to himself. From this point of view, he could also be the one responsible for ruining the relationship with the girl mentioned before.
YouThe meaning of the lyrics in Tourniquet is generally straightforward: I'm here for you; I can make you stop bleeding and cure your pain. Eventually, I am broken, too, and we both know what this world can do to us. A song about love, pain, and existentialism, perfectly expressing Zach Bryan's poetry.
The song streaming & the complete lyrics
There's delays on the planes out of Eastern Montana Where you told me you were leavin' from You've been stabbed in the back and the rest of your body Won't you tell me where you're bleedin' from? If you need a tourniquet or if you wanna turn and quit Know that I'll be by your side You bled your whole soul into things you can't control In a world you'll never satisfy
I bandage up your body and your bones and your bad days too Take care of the blood that your love runs through I know all the damage that some days in this dark world does You were laughin' last week at somethin' I dreamed of
When you finally feel the blood you spill into everybody else I'll tourniquet your toes to the ground Pull you in and hold you tight, love you through the heart of night Spring your kind a– into town YouI bandage up your body and your bones and your bad days too Take care of the blood that your love runs through I know all the damage that some days in this dark world does You were laughin' last evenin' at somethin' I dreamed of
There's delays on the planes out of Eastern Montana Where you told me you were leavin' from You've been stabbed in the back and the rest of your body Won't you tell me where you're bleedin' from | eng | 88b7f962-abc2-49af-be73-ee83dc60ffd2 | http://auralcrave.com/en/2023/08/28/zach-bryan-tourniquet-the-song-lyrics-their-meaning/ |
Meade County as its own cash cow
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What is a Cash Cow? It is a business, investment, or product that provides a steady income or profit. What does she look like and where is she located?
She is as close as your mirror, and if you look closely, you will recognize the reflection and identify the what and where. Yes-you are the cash cow (in this example you are gender neutral) and you can never run dry(term used when milk flow has ceased).
I, "The muckraking anonymutt Professor Conrad Doyle" would like to propose a motion that we install our own Debt Clock that functions in the same manner as our national debt clock, that tracks the U.S. debt and sits at Anita's Way, between One Bryant Park (West 43rd Street) and 151 West 42nd Str | eng | 76237d22-f3de-40ea-84fc-a478cad7fee7 | https://www.meadecountyky.com/post/meade-county-as-its-own-cash-cow |
Could you become a magistrate?
If you are between 18 and 74, then yes, you can. You do not need a legal degree (in fact, no formal qualifications are required) to apply, but intelligence, common sense and integrity are key attributes.
Also known as justices of the peace, magistrates are appointed from their local community, and work voluntarily for a minimum of 13 days per year. 95% of criminal cases are seen in magistrate courts, with magistrates sitting on a bench of three and deciding on offences which carry prison sentences (of up to a year), fines or community sentences.They are instrumental in creating positive changes in their community.
To do this successfully, magistrates: • Understand and appreciate the different perspectives of the community • Make fair and impartial transparent decisions • Communicate with sensitivity and respect • Are self-aware and open to learning • Work and engage with people professionally
Once your application has been accepted, you will need to provide two references and attend an interview, where you will be asked to discuss various situations that you could encounter in court. Once you've been appointed, your first year will be spent training under a mentor, becoming familiar with criminal law and procedure, and sitting in on court sessions.
Increasing diversity
Richard Hay, who many Tandridge residents will also know as Ridge Radio's DJ Ricardo, was appointed as a magistrate in 1994 at the age of 37 and has worked at Croydon Magistrates Court for 29 years. In October 2022 he also became a diversity and community relations magistrate, a role which aims to help progression towards a more diverse and inclusive judiciary:
"When I started at Croydon, I had a few colleagues from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, but around 98% of the magistrates there were white, which meant the bench wasn't reflecting the diversity of the population of the area. People will have increased confidence in the judicial system if they see a broad range of ages and ethnicities on the bench."
As of April 2022, 14% of magistrates in England and Wales are from a minority ethnic background, with this rising to approximately 30% in London. 79% are over 50 years old. Richard hopes to encourage younger people from underrepresented groups to consider becoming magistrates through events such as talks at schools and community groups:
"We want to demonstrate that anybody can become a magistrate: there are people like you on benches across the country, and you could join them. It's an opportunity to make a difference."
Transferable skills
Richard is also keen to stress another positive aspect of becoming magistrate:
"It can really help your career. The skills you develop as a magistrate – decision making, effective listening, critical thinking, flexibility, commitment and resilience – are all transferable skills, skills for senior management roles. When I was appointed as a magistrate I was a team leader at Lambeth Council, and I am sure everything I learned in court helped my advance to assistant director. So business owners who support employees to become magistrates will benefit from their insight and experiences." | eng | b8eae3f9-4cd9-4f68-9810-a19838ba27f1 | https://www.tandridgeindependent.com/2023/02/02/could-you-become-a-magistrate/ |
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What Happened to Primink? [2023]
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What Happened to Primink? In the fast-paced world of YouTube, creators can captivate audiences and then disappear as swiftly as they emerged.
Primink, a prominent YouTuber known for dissecting internet drama and controversies, achieved celebrity status with over a million subscribers. Yet, his abrupt departure from the platform in early 2020 left followers puzzled and longing for answers.
In this article we will explain what happened to Primink and uncover the secrets behind Primink's sudden disappearance from YouTube.
Who is Primink?
Primink, also known as Kile in real life, was a famous person on YouTube. He created videos where he talked about things like drama and controversies that happened on the internet.
Lots of people liked his videos, and he even had more than 1 million people who subscribed to his channel to watch his videos regularly.
What Happened to Primink?
If you're a fan of Primink, you might be wondering where he went. His last video was posted way back on February 26, 2020, and since then, he hasn't put up any new videos. If you look at his social media accounts, they've also been silent and inactive.
It's a mystery as to why he suddenly stopped making content and leaving his followers puzzled and curious about his future on the platform.
Reasons For His Disappearance
Why did Primink suddenly stop making videos? Well, there isn't an official explanation, but there are a few ideas people have:
Making videos for a long time can be tiring. Some think that maybe Primink just got tired of it all and needed a break.
In some of his videos, Primink talked about feeling down and anxious. It's possible that these personal problems became too much, and he decided to take a step back from YouTube.
In any case, one thing is clear: Primink isn't making videos right now. Fans are hopeful that he'll come back someday, but for now, his future on YouTube is a big question mark.
Here are some of the things that may have happened to Primink:
There are a few ideas about why Primink stopped making videos:
Making YouTube videos can be exhausting, and he might have just needed a break.
He talked about feeling down in some of his videos, so personal problems might have played a role.
It's possible that he got caught up in a YouTube drama or controversy that made him want to quit.
Primink might simply be taking a break from YouTube for now. His fans hope he'll return someday, but it's still a mystery. | eng | 4dc55705-209b-4c3a-95d5-3b3b39ec6cb7 | https://viraltalky.com/what-happened-to-primink/ |
So I'm talking with a friend about the rate cut and the market and he emails me the following:
I have been talking with my financial adviser. Part of his research is that he likes following charts as well.
Some advisors don't believe in them, but… they do point to trends and human / market behavior. They are like the history books of the market and can possibly show upcoming trends…
So I noticed that this is the 3rd time that the market has reached close to 14000 and then suddenly drop back into
the 12's for the DOW. I mentioned this too him and he mentioned that
there is a trend name for what is happening.
Historically on the "triple down" it will drop below the previous "two
downs". If the market holds and "bounces"
back after this triple down then we have a "strong foundation".
11800-11900 is the range everyone is hoping will hold.
This triple down in a way "tests" the strength of the market.
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Is there really a name for this little hypothesis? Or can we make up our own… | eng | 52e8e140-928d-459c-9d55-422ec5fb9450 | https://piggington.com/forums/topic/double_down_er_i_mean_triple_down/ |
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Chinese language asteroid-detection system enters new part of building
Building of a second part of China's planetary protection radar array is underway.
The "China Compound Eye" or Fuyan challenge will create a community of radar antennae that may bounce radar alerts off distant objects to picture and observe asteroids and decide if they might threaten Earth.
A first part consisting of 4, 54-foot-diameter (16 meters) radars positioned close to Chongqing in southwest China was accomplished (opens in new tab) final December. Scientists then pinged alerts off the moon to confirm the feasibility of the system and its key applied sciences.
A brand new part is now underway to construct 25 radar antennas, every with a diameter of 98 toes (30 m). The work is anticipated to be accomplished in 2025.
"After building within the second part is accomplished, we will observe an asteroid with a diameter of solely dozens of meters 10 million kilometers [6.2 million miles] away. For instance, what it's composed of, what's its rotation velocity and what's the change in its orbit after its being hit. These will be noticed with the second part below sure circumstances," mentioned Zeng Tao, deputy director of the Radar Know-how Analysis Institute below the Beijing Institute of Know-how.
A 3rd part will then be initiated to develop Fuyan's detection vary to 90 million miles (150 million km). The challenge makes use of a number of smaller arrays to simulate a bigger aperture system to permit deep-space detection.
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Bed Bugs in Pets: Is It Possible For Household Pets to Carry Bed Bugs?
Common household pets like dogs and cats have their share of irritating pests – fleas, ticks, and mites.
The itch and the bite of these pests can be a nuisance, and if that's not enough, there's always the fear that our beloved pets might carry bed bugs too.
If you're one of those pet parents wondering and worried if their pets can carry bed bugs into your home, this article will help address your concerns.
Bed bug infestations are becoming an increasingly common problem in households across America. Bed bugs can technically survive on any warm-blooded host, and that includes our beloved pets.
While cats and dogs can carry bed bugs into your home, the good news is that bed bugs won't live in pets.
They survive from human and animal blood, but they won't breed and multiply in your pet's fur. Unlike fleas and ticks that can live in their fur and skin, bed bugs won't stay around long enough to cause an infestation in pets.
How Do Bed Bugs End Up in Our Pets' Fur?
Bed bugs rarely travel on their own. Unlike other pests and insects that can fly and travel long distances, bed bugs are poor flyers and mostly hitch a ride on other hosts to get from one place to another.
Despite their slow-moving nature, these pests are still adept hitchhikers and can find their way into our homes, and can multiply and infest a building faster than we think.
This is how some bed bugs end into pets' coats and furs.
While they don't technically live and breed there, our pets are excellent carriers of these nasty critters, and if you're not careful, you could end up with an infestation in your home.
Pets going out for a walk, to a pet park, or even for grooming can pick up bed bugs off the ground, benches, and other surfaces.
Once they make it back home, bed bugs that have been hitchhiking on your pet can detach themselves and make their way into your home, where they can start to breed and cause an infestation.
It won't take long until they start laying eggs into your furniture, mattress, clothing, and even on your pet's bedding.
Before you know it, an infestation can occur, and if you don't take care of it quickly, it will only continue to grow.
How to Check if Your Pet is Carrying Bed Bugs?
Bed bugs are literally found everywhere, and the last thing you want is to bring them into your home.
While pets can pick them up from their surroundings, there are ways you can spot them on your pet and avoid bringing a possible infestation into your home.
The first step is to check for bed bug bites on your pet. Bed bugs secrete anticoagulants that allow them to suck blood more easily and quickly, so if you see any suspicious red bumps or bite marks on your pet, it could be a sign of bed bugs.
Try to eliminate the possibility of these bites being from fleas by using a flea comb. Flea bites will be in clusters while bed bug bites are random and isolated.
Additionally, if you see flea bites, you'd also see ticks and fleas around the affected area, while bed bugs will be nowhere to be seen.
Another way to check for bed bugs is to look for the actual bugs themselves. Bed bugs are small, oval-shaped insects that vary in color from brown to reddish-brown.
As mentioned earlier, there's a slight possibility of these bed bugs staying in your pet's fur. Bed bugs prefer living in an undisturbed environment – and with your dog's or cat's daily activities, this isn't the perfect environment for them.
Things to Do When Your Pet Has a Bed Bug Bite
There's nothing more alarming than seeing a bed bug bite on your pet.
The first step is to not panic and assess the situation – chances are, the infestation hasn't spread much yet beyond where your pet encountered them.
Bed bug bites are pretty itchy, and your pet will be constantly scratching and biting itself, so it's important that you give it relief.
You may see your vet to see if he/she can prescribe anything for the itch such as a topical cream. Natural antiseptic remedies like aloe vera and lavender oil may also help.
Are There Preventative Ways to Ensure Pets Don't Carry Bed Bugs With Them?
When humans stay in a hotel or any other public building, it's often advised to keep luggage off the ground and inspect beds for bed bugs. Some of the same preventative measures can be done for pets too.
The same goes for your pet when they go outside. While we can't avoid going to public places, there are ways we can reduce the risk of bringing bed bugs into our home.
For starters, always keep an eye on your pet and make sure they're not going near beds, furniture, or other places that might be prone to bed bug infestations.
Luckily for you, pets don't often go to places that aren't as prone to bed bugs, unlike humans. However, if you've recently been on a public transportation with your pet, it's always a good idea to inspect them for bed bugs before getting inside the house.
It's inevitable that bed bugs will be present in some public places, but we can still take the necessary steps to prevent them from coming back home with us.
The best thing that you can do to ensure that bed bugs in pets won't turn into a nightmare of an infestation, always be on the lookout for early signs and warnings of a bed bug infestation, such as:
Sheddings from the bed bugs
Small, red bumps on your pet's skin or fur
White eggs and exoskeletons around their bedding
A musty odor in the house that indicates the presence of bed bugs
Most of these signs are clear indicators that bed bugs are present and need to be treated immediately. The sooner you take action, the quicker you can get rid of them and prevent an infestation from occurring.
Bed Bugs in Pets: Final Thoughts
Bed bugs in pets are quite uncommon and shouldn't be a major cause of health concern for your pets. However, seeing one doesn't necessarily mean that you should ignore the situation altogether.
While bed bugs won't likely stay and breed on your pet's fur and coat, there's a possibility that they'll do that somewhere in your home.
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Connecting the Dots: The Relationship Between Storytelling and Brand Recall
The Power of Brand Storytelling
Brand storytelling is a powerful tool that allows businesses to connect with their audience on a deeper level. It goes beyond simply promoting products or services and instead focuses on creating a narrative that resonates with consumers. In this section, we will explore the introduction to brand storytelling, discuss why brand storytelling matters, and highlight the key elements of effective brand storytelling.
Introduction to Brand Storytelling
Brand storytelling is the art of using narratives to communicate the essence of a brand, its values, and its purpose. It involves crafting a compelling story that captivates the audience and evokes emotions, ultimately creating a memorable experience. By sharing stories that are authentic, relatable, and engaging, brands can forge stronger connections with their customers.
The concept of brand storytelling has gained traction in recent years as businesses recognize the need to differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace. In a world where consumers are constantly bombarded with advertisements, brand storytelling allows companies to stand out by offering something more meaningful and personal.
Why Brand Storytelling Matters
Brand storytelling is essential for several reasons. Firstly, it helps to create an emotional connection between the brand and its audience. By appealing to customers' emotions, brands can foster loyalty and build long-lasting relationships. Additionally, storytelling allows brands to differentiate themselves from competitors by showcasing their unique values and identity.
Moreover, brand storytelling has the power to enhance brand recall. When people are engaged in a story, they are more likely to remember the brand associated with it. This can lead to increased brand recognition and ultimately drive customer loyalty and advocacy.
Key Elements of Effective Brand Storytelling
Authenticity: Authenticity is crucial in brand storytelling. It involves staying true to the brand's values, mission, and identity. Authentic stories resonate with consumers and build trust.
Emotional Appeal: Emotions play a vital role in storytelling. By tapping into the audience's emotions, brands can create a more memorable and impactful narrative.
Clarity and Simplicity: A compelling brand story should be clear and easy to understand. Avoid jargon and complex language, ensuring that the message is accessible to a wide range of consumers.
Relevance: Stories should be relevant to the brand and its target audience. By understanding the needs and interests of the audience, brands can craft narratives that are relatable and meaningful.
Consistency: Consistency is key in brand storytelling. The narrative should align with the brand's overall messaging and be consistent across different marketing channels and touchpoints.
By incorporating these key elements into their storytelling strategies, brands can effectively communicate their message and leave a lasting impact on their audience.
Brand storytelling is a powerful tool that can elevate a brand's identity and create strong connections with customers. By understanding the importance of storytelling and implementing the key elements of effective brand storytelling, businesses can enhance their brand recall and ultimately drive success in the marketplace.
The Relationship Between Storytelling and Brand Recall
Understanding the connection between storytelling and brand recall is essential for any business aiming to make a lasting impact on its audience. Effective storytelling has the power to enhance brand recall, making a brand more memorable and recognizable in the minds of consumers. This section explores how storytelling achieves this, the role of emotional connection, and the science behind storytelling and memory.
How Storytelling Enhances Brand Recall
Storytelling has a unique ability to captivate and engage audiences. When a brand tells a compelling story, it creates a memorable experience that resonates with consumers. By weaving narratives that connect with their values, desires, and aspirations, brands can leave a lasting impression on their audience.
Effective brand storytelling goes beyond simply relaying facts or information about a product or service. It taps into the emotions and experiences of the audience, making the brand more relatable and memorable. When consumers connect emotionally with a brand's story, they are more likely to remember it and recall it when making purchasing decisions.
Emotional Connection and Brand Recall
Emotions play a significant role in brand recall. When a brand elicits strong emotional responses through storytelling, it forges a connection with the audience that goes beyond a transactional relationship. Emotionally charged stories have a higher likelihood of being remembered and shared, leading to increased brand recall.
By tapping into emotions such as joy, nostalgia, empathy, or inspiration, brands can create a memorable experience that resonates with their target audience. This emotional connection fosters a sense of loyalty and attachment, making consumers more likely to remember and choose the brand over its competitors.
The Science Behind Storytelling and Memory
Scientific research supports the notion that storytelling has a profound impact on memory recall. When we engage with stories, our brains become more active, releasing neurotransmitters that enhance our ability to remember details. The narrative structure of storytelling activates multiple regions of the brain, creating a more vivid and lasting memory.
Moreover, storytelling often incorporates sensory details, stimulating our senses and making the experience more immersive. This multisensory engagement enhances memory encoding and retrieval, making the brand and its story more memorable.
Understanding the science behind storytelling and memory allows brands to craft narratives that optimize brand recall. By leveraging the power of storytelling techniques and incorporating elements that tap into emotions and sensory experiences, brands can create a lasting impact on their audience.
In the next section, we will explore strategies for effective brand storytelling, including defining the brand narrative, understanding the target audience, incorporating authenticity and values, and utilizing visual storytelling techniques. Stay tuned to learn how to leverage storytelling to its full potential and enhance brand recall.
Strategies for Effective Brand Storytelling
To effectively utilize storytelling as a powerful tool for brand recall, it's important to implement strategic approaches. Here are five key strategies for creating impactful brand narratives:
Define Your Brand Narrative
Start by defining a compelling brand narrative that encapsulates your brand's values, mission, and unique story. Craft a narrative that resonates with your target audience and differentiates your brand from competitors. This narrative will serve as the foundation for all your storytelling efforts, providing a consistent and cohesive message that strengthens brand recall.
Know Your Target Audience
Understanding your target audience is crucial for delivering a compelling brand story. Conduct market research to gain insights into your audience's preferences, interests, and values. This knowledge will help you tailor your storytelling approach to create a deeper connection with your audience, increasing the likelihood of brand recall.
Incorporate Authenticity and Values
Authenticity plays a vital role in brand storytelling. Be true to your brand's identity and values, as this authenticity resonates strongly with consumers. Incorporate your brand's values into your narratives, showcasing how your products or services align with those values. By doing so, you build trust and foster emotional connections, leading to better brand recall.
Use Visual Storytelling
Visual storytelling can be a powerful tool for capturing attention and enhancing brand recall. Utilize captivating visuals such as images, videos, and infographics to complement your brand narrative. These visuals help convey your story in a more engaging and memorable way. Consider incorporating visual storytelling techniques such as dynamic imagery, color psychology, and storytelling through design to enhance the impact of your brand storytelling.
By implementing these strategies, you can create a strong brand narrative that resonates with your target audience and enhances brand recall. Remember to continually evaluate and refine your storytelling approach to ensure it aligns with the evolving needs and preferences of your audience. For more insights on brand storytelling, refer to our article on brand storytelling strategies.
Examples of Successful Brand Storytelling
To understand the impact of brand storytelling on brand recall, let's explore some case studies that highlight successful implementations of this strategy. These examples demonstrate how effective storytelling can create a lasting impression in the minds of consumers.
Case Study 1: Company A
In this case study, Company A, a clothing brand, utilized brand storytelling to connect with their target audience. Through their storytelling efforts, they shared the story of their brand's origins, emphasizing their commitment to sustainability and ethical production practices. By weaving a narrative that resonated with their audience's values, Company A was able to forge a strong emotional connection and build brand loyalty. This, in turn, led to increased brand recall and recognition among consumers.
Case Study 2: Company B
Company B, an eco-friendly household products company, successfully employed brand storytelling to differentiate themselves in the market. Through their storytelling initiatives, they highlighted their mission to create a cleaner and greener future for all. They shared stories of their products' positive impact on the environment and showcased real-life experiences of customers who had incorporated their products into their daily lives. This authentic and relatable storytelling approach helped Company B establish a strong brand identity and increased brand recall among their target audience.
Case Study 3: Company C
Company C, a technology startup, utilized brand storytelling to establish themselves as innovators in their industry. They crafted a narrative that revolved around their founders' journey and their vision for disrupting the market. By sharing their story through engaging content, such as videos and blog posts, Company C effectively captured the attention of their target audience. This storytelling approach not only increased brand recall but also positioned Company C as a trusted and forward-thinking brand.
These case studies illustrate the power of brand storytelling in enhancing brand recall. By connecting with their audience on an emotional level and showcasing their unique values and narratives, these companies were able to create a lasting impression in the minds of consumers. Implementing a well-crafted brand storytelling strategy can be a valuable tool to differentiate your brand and foster a strong connection with your target audience.
To learn more about storytelling in branding and explore additional techniques and best practices, check out our article on storytelling in branding.
Leveraging Storytelling for Brand Recall
To maximize the impact of storytelling on brand recall, it is essential for businesses to implement effective strategies in their marketing campaigns. By doing so, they can create a lasting impression in the minds of their target audience. Here are three key strategies for leveraging storytelling to enhance brand recall:
Implementing Brand Storytelling in Marketing Campaigns
Integrating brand storytelling into marketing campaigns is a powerful way to captivate and engage your audience. Whether through advertisements, social media content, or brand videos, storytelling techniques can help you convey your brand's values, connect emotionally with your audience, and make a lasting impact.
Craft a compelling narrative: Define a clear and cohesive brand narrative that aligns with your brand identity and resonates with your target audience. This narrative should be consistent across different marketing channels and touchpoints.
Use storytelling techniques: Incorporate storytelling elements such as relatable characters, conflict, resolution, and an emotional arc to create a memorable and engaging brand story. This can help evoke emotions, capture attention, and enhance brand recall.
Choose the right channels: Select the appropriate marketing channels to deliver your brand storytelling. This could include social media platforms, websites, blogs, videos, or even offline channels such as events or print media. Consider your target audience's preferences and behavior to ensure maximum reach and engagement.
Measuring the Impact of Storytelling on Brand Recall
It is crucial to measure the impact of storytelling on brand recall to understand its effectiveness and make informed decisions for future campaigns. Here are some key metrics and methods to consider:
Surveys and feedback: Conduct surveys, interviews, or focus groups to gather feedback from your target audience. Ask specific questions related to brand recall, brand messaging, and the impact of storytelling on their perception of your brand.
Social media analytics: Monitor social media metrics like reach, engagement, shares, and comments to assess the impact of storytelling content. Look for patterns and trends that indicate increased brand recall and resonance.
Brand perception studies: Conduct brand perception studies to measure changes in brand recall and perception before and after storytelling initiatives. Compare key brand metrics such as brand recognition, brand affinity, and brand association to evaluate the impact of storytelling.
Continuously Evolving Your Brand Storytelling Approach
To maintain brand recall and relevance, it is important to continuously evolve your brand storytelling approach. As consumer preferences and market dynamics change, staying adaptable and innovative is crucial. Here are a few considerations:
Experiment and iterate: Test different storytelling techniques, formats, and platforms to identify what works best for your brand. Analyze results, gather feedback, and iterate your storytelling approach based on data and insights.
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Best Practices for Positioning and Angling Security Cameras
Choosing the Right Locations
When it comes to ensuring the security of your property, one of the most important steps is strategically placing security cameras. By selecting the right locations, you can maximize the effectiveness of your surveillance system. Here are some best practices to consider:
Select areas with high traffic: Positioning cameras in areas with high foot traffic or frequent visitor activity can increase the chances of capturing any suspicious behavior or unauthorized access.
Focal points of entry and exit: It is essential to place cameras at entry and exit points such as doors and windows. These areas are often targeted by intruders and having clear footage from these angles can help in identifying potential threats.
Coverage of blind spots: Identify blind spots in your property that are not easily visible or covered by other cameras. By strategically angling cameras to cover these areas, you can eliminate potential hiding spots for criminals.
Consider lighting conditions: Take into account the lighting conditions of the areas you plan to monitor. Ensure that cameras are positioned to avoid direct sunlight or glare, as this can affect the quality of the footage.
By carefully choosing the locations for your security cameras, you can enhance the overall effectiveness of your surveillance system and ensure comprehensive coverage of your property.
Camera Angles and Field of View
Once you have identified the appropriate locations for your security cameras, it is crucial to consider the camera angles and field of view to optimize their performance. Here are some key factors to keep in mind:
Adjust the camera height: Mount the cameras at an appropriate height to capture clear images and avoid obstructions. Ideally, cameras should be placed at a height where faces and identifiable features are easily visible.
Angle the cameras downwards: To capture optimal footage, angle the cameras slightly downwards. This helps in capturing activity on the ground and reduces the chances of capturing only the top of a person's head or hat.
Overlapping coverage: If possible, position cameras to overlap their fields of view. By doing so, you can ensure that there are no blind spots and increase the chances of capturing important details from multiple angles.
Consider camera type: Different camera types have varying fields of view. Wide-angle cameras are suitable for large open areas, while narrow-angle cameras are ideal for focusing on specific spots or doorways.
Ensuring proper camera angles and maximizing the field of view is vital for obtaining clear and comprehensive footage. Take the time to adjust and test the camera positions to capture the best possible images.
Protecting the Cameras
While positioning and angling the security cameras is important, it is equally crucial to protect them from potential tampering or damage. Here are some measures you can take to safeguard your surveillance equipment:
Choose weatherproof cameras: If your cameras will be installed outdoors, make sure they are weather-resistant to withstand various climatic conditions.
Use protective casings: Install camera housings or casings to shield them from vandalism or accidental damage. These casings can provide an extra layer of protection and prevent tampering.
Secure cable connections: Ensure that the cables connecting the cameras are properly secured and concealed. This prevents unauthorized access to the camera feeds and prevents potential sabotage attempts.
Consider surveillance signs: Displaying signs indicating the presence of security cameras can act as a deterrent to potential intruders. Make sure they are highly visible to make a strong impact.
By taking steps to protect your security cameras, you can prevent tampering and interference, ensuring that your surveillance system continues to operate effectively over time.
Regular Maintenance and Testing
Positioning and angling security cameras is not a one-time task. Regular maintenance and testing are essential to keep your surveillance system functioning optimally. Here are some actions you should take:
Inspect camera positions: Regularly check the camera angles and positions to ensure they have not been accidentally moved or shifted. This helps maintain consistent coverage of the intended areas.
Clean camera lenses: Over time, cameras can accumulate dirt, dust, or debris on their lenses, resulting in blurred or distorted images. Clean the lenses periodically to maintain optimal image quality.
Test camera functionality: Perform regular tests to ensure that all cameras are functioning correctly and capturing clear footage. This includes checking for any technical issues, such as connectivity or power problems.
Regular maintenance and testing not only help in identifying potential issues before they become major problems but also ensure that your surveillance system consistently provides reliable security monitoring.
The Final Say
Positioning and angling security cameras properly is crucial for ensuring the effectiveness of your surveillance system. By choosing the right locations, adjusting camera angles, protecting the cameras, and conducting regular maintenance, you can enhance the security of your property and have peace of mind knowing that you have taken proactive measures to deter potential threats.
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Is digital currency the future of cashback and loyalty points?
Loyalty program rewards
Universal points that can be redeemed in multiple ways, mostly also travel-related points, miles, etc.
Cold, hard cash
These loyalty points are usually earned either directly from service providers for direct purchases from them, or on transactions via credit cards associated with the provider (hotel chains, airlines, and others). Until recently, earning airline miles was the leading choice for rewards redemption for Asia and Australia. Then COVID-19 hit and changed everything.
Note: In most of the examples below, we focus on airline miles. However, similar travel rewards followed the same path until (and after) 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Airline miles
Contrary to what you may think, airlines do not only make money from travel. They earn from loyalty programs. And this worked perfectly, especially for the US market since the 1980s.
Airlines sell huge amounts of air miles to credit card companies at a profit, which in turn produces billions of airline miles as rewards to fuel their frequent flyer programs. They provide this service using major banks like JP Morgan Chase, American Express, and Citibank, among others.
The problem with travel and airline miles loyalty programs
Frequent flyer programs make billions of dollars for airlines. In fact, American Airline's valuation for 2019 showed that travel itself was a loss-making venture – most of the company's billions came from loyalty revenue.
Little did the airlines know that the travel restrictions accompanying Covid-19 would blow them out of the water. When the pandemic hit, everything changed. The value of travel-related loyalty points plummeted.
Data from ValuePenguin shows how these airline companies were adversely affected. Despite the airline restrictions, people continued earning miles:
This put the airlines in a fix. As they were struggling with losses, they wanted more people to purchase tickets rather than redeem miles rewards. At the same time, there were billions of dollars of unredeemed miles.
This has not just affected airlines. It's messed up the entire travel industry, including hotels. In fact, Deloitte claims that loyalty programs are in crisis.
On the other hand, cryptocurrencies – both big-name cryptos and the whole market's capitalisation – have blown through the roof.
Major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum went up 10x or more in value, on their way to all-time highs. If you take March 2020 as the baseline, for example, Bitcoin was worth as low as $5,000 in March 2020 and hit $63,000 by April, 2021.
Let's put the struggling rewards programs and bull-run crypto together and discuss how cashback and loyalty programs could survive and thrive by utilising cryptocurrency trends.
The surge of cryptocurrencies
2020 will be remembered for many things: There was an outbreak of a terrible worldwide pandemic, some industries (such as travel) tanked, and the tech industry soared to new heights. As people went deeper into isolation and switched to working from home, they also accepted tech developments like cryptocurrencies more.
This mainstream acceptance sparked a huge crypto bull run that continued well into 2021, seeing Bitcoin rise by more than 1,000 per cent in value in the span of a year. Many other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum and Dogecoin, followed suit.
Now, nobody's denying that crypto isn't perfect and is still extremely volatile. It can rise 10x or drop 4x any time, with a word from a celebrity or a single piece of news. Nobody knows for sure what will happen and when. However, the numbers don't lie.
Let's check out the current data-backed response to crypto:
A report from Gemini shows that 14 per cent of Americans own cryptocurrency. That's almost 21 million people.
Despite the fact that 20 per cent of American adults have never owned cryptocurrency, research from The Ascent predicts that 50 million Americans may buy crypto in the next year.
The perfect storm of digital loyalty
Can cryptocurrencies take the place of points and miles in the hearts and wallets of frugal consumers? The important news is that, from the data above, most people are still too sceptical to convert their salary into crypto… but most are very happy to earn it as a loyalty reward.
Gemini has partnered with Mastercard and is now offering cryptocurrency rewards on purchases. Cardholders get three per cent cashback in Bitcoin (or other crypto available on Gemini) on qualifying purchases. This happens real-time and there's no annual fee.
Crypto is the future of cashback and loyalty
When there's a crisis, what matters most to the ordinary consumer is the response. A study by Deloitte shows that 40 per cent of customers will purchase more from companies that have an excellent response to the current crisis.
The current loyalty system is broken and ripe for disruption. This perfect storm has pegged crypto as the ultimate solution for cashbacks and rewards. In fact, that's exactly how many of the respondents surveyed above want to get into or invest more in crypto.
Customers know that if they get a five per cent cashback in a cryptocurrency that's likely to grow 5x, 10x or 20x in the next year, they're getting a lot more value for their rewards, in some cases this means that the purchase will effectively become 100 per cent free. For example, this would be the case for cashback being received in top crypto coins like Cardano or Dogecoin, since, even after the mid-2021 market correction, Cardano has risen 15x since December 2020, and Dogecoin about 70x.
The shift is already happening. There are already companies like Bakkt and Gemini that have jumped at this opportunity. The fact that they're partnering with big mainstream players like Mastercard, Best Buy, and Choice Hotels, confirms the fact that cryptocurrency is here to stay.
The good news is that there's lots of room for innovation and those who deliver excellent value will be able to both offer immense rewards for customers and capture a lot of this value for their stakeholders.
Alex Lightman is the founder and CEO of Keemoji and KeePay, makers of digital privacy keyboards and a new platform for cashback, including cashback in digital currencies, payments, tokens and digital collectibles. He is the author of Brave New Unwired World and Reconciliation, the co-author of Augmented: Life In The Smart Lane, and recipient of four global awards, including the first Economist magazine Readers' Award for innovation, beating Elon Musk in a global vote. | eng | d7a2e9ec-a1c6-4977-8624-ee50f795efc2 | https://www.cityam.com/is-digital-currency-the-future-of-cashback-and-loyalty-points/ |
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What are Carbon Markets?
May 11, 2023
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Carbon markets are trading systems where governments and companies buy and sell carbon credits. Carbon markets, part of the larger ecosystem services marketplace, can play a part in helping governments and organizations achieve their target carbon footprint reduction goals. One carbon credit equals one metric ton of carbon dioxide or equivalent greenhouse gas reduced, sequestered or avoided altogether.
How Carbon Markets Work
Carbon markets deal in ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are provided to us by the natural environment. They can include maintaining clean air and water and preserving or restoring biodiversity. Some examples are using groundwater for irrigation and insects pollinating fruits and vegetable crops.
A marketplace of ecosystem services is a way to trade the conservation or restoration of these services. For example, a company may reduce its emissions of carbon into the air by half, but the other half isn't economically feasible or possible to reduce. The company may then choose to compensate someone else who can sequester the carbon to offset their remaining carbon emissions.
There are two types of carbon markets: compliance and voluntary.
Compliance carbon markets are generally driven by government policy and require mandatory trades from national, regional or international players to regulate carbon emission allowances.
Voluntary carbon markets are where carbon credits are traded on a voluntary basis through various market-based systems. Voluntary carbon trading has some unique benefits, including direct financing for projects that drive biodiversity protection, pollution prevention and public health, and investment into finding new ways to lower the cost of adopting emerging climate tech.
How Carbon Markets Developed
Carbon markets aren't new. The Kyoto Protocol in 1997 committed nations to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by creating voluntary carbon market registries. From 2003 to2010, the Chicago Climate Exchange traded six greenhouse gasses, three of which relate to agriculture: carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. This market eventually closed due to a large amount of volatility in carbon credit prices.
In 2016, the Paris Agreement was signed by 194 nations. It created a goal to limit global temperature rise and established a framework for carbon trading systems. Most recently, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference established a rulebook for carbon markets and declared a halt to deforestation by 2030.
Why Carbon Markets Are Needed
Carbon markets are emerging as a tool to help mitigate climate change and conserve natural ecosystems. The push to fight global warming has been gaining momentum among companies, consumers, and governments, each with its own unique set of values and considerations.
Corporate interest through voluntary approaches is driven by increased demand from investors and consumers to report the impact they have on the environment. Many corporations responded by making sustainability commitments which are tracked through initiatives like the Science Based Targets.
Globally, 1,957 companies have created science-based targets. Within the US alone, 566 companies have made commitments and 42 are from the Food and Beverage industry, including General Mills, Hormel, Kellogg's, Johnsonville, Mars, McCormick and Co., PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Tyson Foods, ADM, Cargill and Dairy Farmers of America. (1)
Consumer expectations have put these companies under pressure to make an impact on climate change. As Millennials and Generation Z become the largest groups of consumers in the world, they're focused on purchasing products from companies with social and environmental initiatives.
A recent survey found that 75% of US consumers are concerned about the environmental impacts of the products they buy, and that 66% are willing to pay more for sustainable products. (2)
The current US government is pro-climate change mitigation, and politicians have spent billions of dollars to achieve it. It's been surveyed that two-thirds of Americans think the government should do more about climate change, (3) and many climate-smart policies get support from both parties. The money allocated for climate-smart programs impacts the country in ways which may provide opportunities for additional income for farmers.
One example of this spending is the Inflation Reduction Act which included $20 billion for USDA programs ACEP, CSP, EQUIP and RCPP, plus it created potential for the US biofuel sector. Thanks to investments and tax breaks on renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, new refineries and expansions are planned in the US and Canada.
Farmers may have the opportunity to supply those refineries with grain that has a lower carbon intensity score (i.e., grain grown using regenerative farming practices like cover crops, strip-till or no-till) so that the refinery gets a larger tax credit. That money can then be provided to farmers through premiums on grain.
ForGround by Bayer can help farmers get a jump on adopting cover crops, strip-till and no-till practices and earn income through the Bayer Carbon Program. With exclusive agronomic resources and discount programs, ForGround helps implement these new techniques and rewards farmers with reliable income streams for adopting them. (4) Farmers may also share in the upside if carbon credit prices increase.
The benefits for farmers – improved soil health and resiliency, new income streams and overall stronger farms – will benefit everyone else around the world, too.
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1. Companies taking action. Science Based Targets.
2. Majority of US consumers say they will pay more for sustainable products. Sustainable Brands.
3. Tyson A., Kennedy B. Two-thirds of Americans think government should do more on climate. Pew Research Center.
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If you've been paying attention to the Big XII this week, you'll see that they are still struggling with what to do about the Longhorn Network, a possible conference network and expansion. So far, things don't look very good. The conference is treading water, but it has yet to lock down long term stability. For better or worse the SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and even the ACC have secured long term futures for themselves, one way or another. The Big XII hasn't.
Most of the solutions being floated won't work. Other conferences found stability in expansion to lucrative markets with high profile schools. That option won't work for the Big XII because there are no schools that fit that need. Other conferences have raked in revenue with the creation of their own TV networks. That won't work for the Big XII either. As of the LHN isn't a big enough problem by itself (and it is) the economics of conference networks are changing. Cord cutting and declining cable subscriptions are making that path less certain.
All is not lost though. For one, there is no immediate threat to the conference. They should be fine for a few years, but if they want to provide long term prosperity for their members, they will have to do something different. The old playbook a won't work. Bill Connelly has an idea that would be fantastic to watch: a super conference with promotion and relegation.
Under his plan, the conference would add every team that has been suggested for expansion to get the conference to 24 teams. They'd then divide between two divisions and have the better teams move up and the worse ones move down. This would be fantastic to watch. Essentially every year in every sport you would have the strongest 12 teams from a pool of 24. That would be a very strong conference. They could arguably be the strongest in any given sport in any given year.
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Find the Best Data Science Courses
This guide is all about data science courses, including where to find courses, what to expect, and how taking a course can help boost a career.
On a regular day, you'll find a data scientist juggling massive chunks of structured and unstructured data to analyze, process, and interpret the results to help companies craft actionable plans. Such a complex role requires a powerful combination of statistics, computer science, and mathematics. Advanced knowledge in both social science and technology helps data scientists hunt for trends, manage complex data, and help businesses discover valuable solutions to complicated challenges.
Sure, the role of data scientists makes them indispensable for companies across the globe. The Bureau of Labour and Statistics (BLS) even predicts a 22 percent employment rise for computer information and research scientists between 2020 to 2030. But when a college degree might not be an option, what other alternatives can you take to kickstart your career in data science?
A data science course is the answer.
Data Science Courses Overview
Data science courses help learners master the skills needed in the profession within a comparatively shorter period. These courses help you journey through the entire data science process through open-source programming tools and libraries. During the course, your instructors will cover elements like the most recent machine learning algorithms alongside introducing hands-on projects and assignments to help you gain practical knowledge of the field.
Data science courses are a flexible alternative to college degrees – they are either available every month or come with on-demand access. General data science courses typically cover a few or all the core skills associated with the profession. These include:
Data Visualization
A significant part of a data scientist's role involves creating graphs and charts using:
Machine Learning
Aside from general courses, some learners might be hunting for specific skills within data science like SQL and deep learning, among many other topics. Specialized data science courses can help people acquire or upgrade their skills within the subject.
How much do online data science courses cost? The answer is, "it depends." Many courses are available for free if you choose to audit the course instead of opting for the certification. Courses can also range from $49 to over $1300 or more based on your needs and what the course providers offer. Some courses offer a free trial, while others can open up routes to valuable certifications or MicroDegrees. If you're looking at a master's program from a reputable university, you can expect to pay a tuition fee ranging from $9,900 to $42,000. Bootcamps are another alternative with a price tag floating anywhere between $8,940 to $16,000.
The timeline of a data science course spreads across 6 to 9 months—considering you dedicate 6 to 7 hours each day to stay on track with the curriculum.
What Data Science Courses Are Available?
Anyone who loves data can access a data science course. Data science courses are typically attractive for people looking to segue into a new career. They're popular among many junior data scientists looking to widen their career horizons. Data science courses are also a great learning opportunity for college students to kick start their careers in the field. Here are some top courses to explore:
Data Science Specialization – Coursera – Johns Hopkins University
Course level: Beginner
Course duration: 11 months
Price: Free or $49 per month (for graded material and certificate)
A great combination of theory and application, this Coursera program by JHU comes with a comprehensive curriculum to help you kickstart your career. A quick look at the prerequisites suggests some programming knowledge and an understanding of Algebra are necessary to take this course.
Course Curriculum
Data Analysis
Statistical Inference
The Data Scientist's Toolbox
Acquiring and Cleaning Data
Practical Machine Learning
Reproducible Research
Developing Data Products
R Programming
Data Science Capstone
Regression Models
Dataquest – Data Scientist In Python Path
Course Level: Basic to advanced
Course Duration: 325 hours
Price: $29 per month (Basic) and $49 per month (Premium)
A collection of 31 courses, this Dataquest course covers everything from the very basics of Python to Deep Learning to math for Machine Learning. They constantly upgrade their curriculum to provide the latest training to learners.
Course Curriculum
Visualization and Storytelling
Basic to Advanced Python
Machine Learning with Python
APIs and Web Scraping
Command-line and Git for data science
Data cleaning and data analysis
Probability and Statistics
Python data science libraries
Math for Machine Learning
SQL
edX – MIT – Statistics and Data Science MicroMasters
Course level: Advanced
Course Duration: 1 year 2 months (10-14 hours/week)
Price: $1,350
This course series from MIT also comes with statistics and probability courses under its umbrella. Since the course offers an advanced curriculum, it requires prior experience in Python programming and multivariate calculus. Make sure you're familiar with programming using Python before enrolling.
Course Curriculum
Fundamentals of Statistics
Probability
Machine Learning with Python
Data Analysis in Social Science
Capstone exam in both data science and statistics
Metis – Introduction to Data Science
Course level: Beginner
Course Duration: 6 weeks (part-time/online)
Price: $750
With a rating of 4.9/5 on SwitchUp, this course covers everything that falls under the data science process. It offers live online classes for two nights per week. In addition, the course is accredited and enables students to receive continuing education units. For prerequisites, the course requires the knowledge of linear algebra, basic statistics, and Python.
Course Curriculum
Computer Science
Statistics
Linear Algebra
Data Modeling
Data Analysis and Visualization
Feature Selection, Data Pipelines, and Engineering for data modeling
Advanced Model Evaluation
edX – UC San Diego – Data Science MicroMasters
Course level: Advanced
Course Duration: 10 months (9-11 hours/week)
Price: $1,260
The most intensive course on the list—the MicroMasters from edX has the potential to be considered a real Master's degree at select universities – a certificate after course completion is directly equivalent to 30% of the entire Master of Science in Data Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Naturally, these courses demand higher prerequisites than others, including a decent experience in programming. Students get access to a balanced mix of lectures and real-world applications through this course.
Course Curriculum
Machine Learning Fundamentals
Python for Data Science
Big Data Analytics using Spark
Probability and Statistics
Advantages of Data Science Courses
With the popularity of data science careers soaring limitlessly, it's certainly an exciting time to start or expand your career in the field. Here are some great advantages that data science courses come with:
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Many Courses are Entirely Free
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Endless Possibilities
Online data science courses are highly affordable (or free), easily accessible, and always upgraded with the latest trends. This means students can take up general or specialized courses to expand their careers.
Easy Career Transition or Advancements
According to Business Wire, professionals saw a whopping 20-40% rise in salaries after getting certified through data science certs. From staying ahead of the curve to a fast-track career growth, these courses supply valuable skills that bring real results.
What Is the Best Course For You?
The best data science course is the one you complete. Ask yourself: Do I need to learn the fundamentals of data science? Would a specialized course serve me better? Which course level should I target? How can my course curriculum help me break into a specific career within data science?
A common approach for professionals looking to get their foot in the door is taking up entry-level data analyst roles, developing basic visualizations in Tableau, extracting structured databases from CRM systems or MySQL, or working on A/B test results. Regardless of your starting line, a career in data science opens up incredible pathways. | eng | cf9dd26d-fba9-4797-8600-1c3c6370fcb0 | https://techguide.org/courses/data-science/ |
Understand Asian Rhinoplasty: Nasal Envelope & Base
An essential component of all surgical operations is surgical anatomy. Anatomy gives a surgeon the fundamental and in-depth information needed and necessary when carrying out an operation. Although it might seem boring and routine, this topic is necessary and shouldn't be ignored or disregarded in order to prevent any potential postoperative complications. Despite the fact that the surgical anatomy of the nose is quite straightforward, a quick and aggressive procedure without anatomical considerations may result in negative effects that are permanent.
Nasal Envelope: Skin and Soft Tissue Envelope
The nasal envelope, also known as skin and soft tissue envelope (SSTE), is the skin that covers the exterior of nose. The nasal envelope is made up of soft tissues and includes all intranasal soft tissue except the osteocartilaginous framework. Because the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissues are among the tissues that make up the nasal envelope, it may at times lead to confusion for surgeons. No matter how thick or thin the skin may be, it is the SSTE which guides a surgeon for understanding the elasticity of the nasal envelope. Therefore, when performing rhinoplasty on a patient with thin skin, the skin and soft tissue might be considered as a single compound.
There are five layers that make up the nasal envelope. They include skin, superficial fatty layer, fibro-muscular layer, deep fatty layer, and perichondrium or periosteum (See table below).
Asian nasal envelope is described as the skin with a thick subcutaneous fat layer which is oilier and denser in fibro-fatty layer. Thus, the elasticity of a patient's SSTE is an important aspect that must be considered during a surgical procedure. The thickness, texture and elasticity are significant characteristics of the nasal envelope and must be observed before any rhinoplasty procedure (See table below).
Skin
A nasal skin is very specialized organ keeping its own shape and characteristics with differing from other parts of body. In short, it especially at thick nasal tip keeps its own shape and pattern if cadaveric nasal skin is harvested and observed. It is an evidence of difficulty for change at nasal tip with surgical manipulation. Therefore, it is important to evaluate individual characteristics of patient's skin before the operation to make surgical plan and predict prognosis because manipulation on cartilage framework is not visible due to thick skin during tip plasty.
The characteristics of the nasal envelope varies significantly in different portion of the nose. The nasal skin is thicker when the elasticity and stretch capacity are lower, and the proportions of the fibrous tissue and sebaceous glands are higher. The nasal skin of dorsum is the thinnest, less sebaceous, and more mobile, hence can be shortened and wrinkled by a facial expression. However, it gets thicker caudally and is the thickest at supra-tip area. The dermal component of the skin is thinnest over the rhinion and thickest in the supratip area. The subcutaneous layer at the alar groove is very dense, hard and tightly attached to underlying tissue. An alar skin is considerably firm with tightly wrapping fibrous tissue. On the other hand, the columellar skin gets thinner and less sebaceous. The external part of columellar skin is tightly attached to medial crura and connected with vestibular skin internally.
Below shows the subunits of the nose and the difference in skin thickness by subunits. Zone II is the thickest portion.
Superficial Fatty Layer
The superficial fatty layer consists of adipose tissue. In histology, the superficial fatty layer has interlacing vertical fibrous septae that is evenly distributed around the nose, typically at the glabella and the supratip area. The superficial layer is tightly attached to the overlying skin with vertically oriented fibrous septae and supplied by horizontally running subdermal vascular network. It is thickest at the nasal radix and thinnest at the rhinion. The fat pad of the nasal radix is located over the procerus and extends to laterally medial brow and depressor supercilii. Fat pad of the supratip and sidewall is densely attached to dermis. The interdomal fat pad is located caudally from supratip fat and between both medial and middle crus. Dermocartilaginous ligament and interdomal ligament exist inferiorly.
Fibromuscular Layer
The fibromuscular layer is the core part of nose; consisting of nasal superficial musculo-aponeurotic system (SMAS) along with a superficial fatty layer. The main function of the fibromuscular layer is to allow movement of the nasal envelope, to offer blood supply and to maintain the thickness of the skin. They also integrate and transmit the contractile force of nasal muscles. The fibromuscular layer mainly consists of the procerus, anomalous nasi and transverse nasalis. It is also connected to the dermis layer tightly as a facial network, making facial animation possible. Details about each muscle will be discussed later. Since nasal muscles originate from glabella and cheek, these muscles covering the underlying structure as a single unit, are fused in the middle
Below shows as a single layer, nasal superficial musculo-aponeurotic system (SMAS) contains the various muscular system:
Although a nasal SMAS is considered as a continued structure from the facial SMAS, there is a slight compositional difference between the nasal dorsum and the tip. The proximal nasal SMAS is a collection of collagen supporting the dynamic property, whereas the distal nasal SMAS is a structure that is firmly attached between the skin and muscle. According to a study, SMAS can be divided into two types. Type I is the common architecture and can be found in the forehead, zygomatic and infraorbital regions. Characteristic of proximal portion of the nose composed of type I. Supratip and tip area consist of type II SMAS. The characteristics of SMAS differ from each side above and below the scroll area. While dissecting through open approach, the transitional zone where incorporation from the alar cartilage to upper lateral cartilage can be observed. The dissection plane should be kept under deep fatty layer while monitoring the SMAS layer not to injure major vessels of the nose. A severe injury on it may lead to a secondary contracture because the nasal SMAS is a core structure in blood supply. A damage to the nasal SMAS or deep dermis, accompanied by an uncontrolled postoperative inflammation might result in irreversible complication related to formation of a severe and irregular scar at the nasal envelope.
Deep Fatty Layer
The open approach is preferred to dissect the deep fatty layer while separating the nasal envelope. Lack of major vessels and fibrous septa along with the movement of muscular aponeurosis makes it less challenging. The advantage of dissection on this plane is possible to maintain the integrity of nasal envelope and to reduce the chance of damaging the neurovascular bundles.
Periosteum or Perichondrium (Longitudinal Fibrous Sheath)
The fifth layer consists of fused perichondrium or periosteum with fibrous tissue. It is located under the deep fatty layer. It can be divided as a periosteal component and a perichondral component. Histologically, a periosteum consists of superficial and deep layers. These layers cover nasal bone, frontal process of maxilla and nasal portion of frontal bone. A perichondral component covers nasal cartilage and contains nutrient vessels. It wraps above and beneath the nasal cartilages, and fuses to form a hard, fibrous tissue at accessory cartilage.
Below shows the periosteal component and perichondral component are fused and form a hard-longitudinal fibrous sheath (red arrow)
A periosteum is a special tissue consisting of fibro-vascular membrane. In Asian rhinoplasty, a dorsal implant material is usually located under the periosteum. It might cause migration, descent or deviation of the implant if pocket dissection is located within superficial plane, too wide or out of place. The periosteum becomes thicker as it ascends above the nasofrontal suture line. The collagen fibers called Sharpey's fiber, extending from the periosteum intervene with the suture line. Sharpey's fiber may hinder more subperiosteal cephalic dissection in cases with acute nasofrontal angle and flat nasal dorsum.
Nasal Base
The nasal base is the least understood and thus most complex area of the nose. Therefore, analysis is also complex, and surgical results and outcome is difficult to predict before the operation because every tip plasty affects the nasal base on the final result afterwards.
Alar rim breakpoint (nostril break point) is caused by central sweeping of lateral crura away from alar rim. This point is a junction of tip lobule (lateral wall of ala in subunit) and alar base in lateral view. Alar base is composed of subcutaneous tissue and muscles. The soft triangle (facet) is the surface expression of domal notch in the nose. This area reflects the entire middle crus, beginning at the columellar breakpoint and continuing into the medial half of the lateral crus. The boundary and shape in this area are obscure due to thick skin in Asian and no cartilage within the facet. A scar contracture on this area by surgical manipulation might cause alar notching or retraction. The nostril sill serves as a transverse bridge from the columellar base to the alar lobule and as a longitudinal bridge from the nasal vestibule to the upper lip.
The pyriform ligament had various different names such as the lateral sesamoid complex ligament, lateral crural complex, nasal hinge and etc. Pyriform ligament can be understood as a wide fascial network system from nasal bone to anterior nasal spine. A condensation of pyriform ligament attached along the pyriform aperture is similar with the one in the orbit. In short, a pattern of pyriform ligament supporting alar cartilage is similar to the pattern of orbicularis oculi retaining ligament attaching to the orbital rim. It is connected to periosteum of maxilla in a fascial network.
Below shows the Pyriform ligament (red line area):
There is a distinct fibrous structure, "tela subcutanea cutis" laterally, without any muscular or cartilaginous component that forms alar side wall and nostril sill in the lower nasal base. It is obvious that structural integrity of the alar side wall and nostril sill is well maintained without any support of underlying cartilages or bones. This structure is distinct soft tissue independent from cartilages and bones. They are connected with muscles in basal area.
Conclusions
The anatomy of Asian nose is quite different from Caucasian one in characteristics of skin, bone, and cartilage. In addition, the surgical purpose and direction of Asian rhinoplasty are different from Caucasian rhinoplasty. Therefore, it is important to review surgical anatomy from the viewpoint of an Asian rhinoplasty surgeon to get the best result in practice. | eng | 18be9263-e9cf-480d-9a5a-43c82c88278c | https://www.ifaas.co/single-post/understand-asian-rhinoplasty-nasal-envelope-base |
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How Long Does Delta 8 THC Stay in Your System?
Delta 8 THC is a cannabinoid found in hemp plants that has become increasingly popular in recent years. But how long does it stay in your system? Based on our research, beginners can expect the delta-8 to remain in their system for around four days. Regular users may find that it lasts for a month or more, while occasional users may see that it only stays for a week. THC Delta 8 can remain in the blood or urine in detectable concentrations for 2 to 30 days. Many variables can shorten or extend the period needed for Delta 8 to be completely removed from the system.
Factors such as weight, age, genetics, tolerance to Delta 8, and supplements and complementary medications can all influence the duration of Delta 8 in the body. Experts suggest that people who use delta-8 for the first time can expect the cannabinoid to remain in their systems for 3 to 4 days. Casual users may have delta-8 on their system for a week, while regular users may take around a month or more. Studies have shown that, although 80-90% of THC is eliminated from the body within 5 days through excretion, the remaining traces of Delta-8 THC can last several more days and should be considered in the body between 5 and 10 days after consuming Delta-8 THC. People who use delta-8 products several times a month or less can expect it to disappear from their body within a week to ten days. All forms of THC are primarily metabolized in the same way that the body breaks them down into molecules called THC metabolites.
Blood tests, urine tests, saliva tests, and hair follicle tests detect THC metabolites, whether THC Delta 9 or Delta 8.The federal legality of D8 is promising for consumers looking for a hemp product with a euphoric touch in their body, however some states have imposed their own restrictions on Delta 8.It is very likely that Delta 8 THC will disappear from your body in much less time than its traditional counterpart, Delta 9.As mentioned above, you would wait 30 days, or even longer, before Delta 8 is in undetectable quantities in your system. Understanding how long the THC in Delta-8 lasts is the first step in determining how long Delta 8 stays in your system. Drug testing can't differentiate between Delta 8 THC and Delta 9 in your body. When THC Delta 9 binds to these receptors, it triggers reactions that cause the "high" associated with marijuana use. The metabolic rate slows down substantially after that time, which is when THC delta 8 enters the slow phase.
That said, THC Delta 8 is still a psychoactive product and includes traces of THC, which is the drug that is sought during drug testing. | eng | 227b47bd-7a11-4cba-aef3-cc893c4b3f51 | https://www.thehempcrafter.com/how-long-does-delta-stay-in-your-system |
What is an Euphorbia Milii Plant?
The ornamental succulent is native to Madagascar and can survive in many tropical regions of the world.
The plant is so beautiful and popular that the Royal Horticultural Society presented it with an Award of Garden Merit in 1993 [1].
It is considered one of the oldest houseplants in history because it is a very strong plant that can grow in almost any indoor setting.
Euphorbia milii was named after Baron Milius, the Governor of Bourbon Island who introduced the cultivation of the plant.
The plant has a thought-provoking and interesting history, which is why it has so many different names, such as:
Christ plants
Christ thorn plant
Crown of thorns
Corona de espinas (Latin America)
Within Christian religious lore, the crown, which was made of stems of thorns, that was worn by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion was comprised entirely of Euphorbia milii plant stems; hence, it is the reason why some also call the plant the "Christ Plant."
The Crown of Thorns, being a tropical plant, thrives in hot summer climates, blooms in droughts, and frowns at frosts.
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The plant is grown outdoors in a container and moved indoors during the cold winter. The plant thrives all year round, making it the best ornamental plant for beginner gardeners and busy folks.
Under natural conditions, the growth of the crown of thorns is between 5 and 6 inches in height.
However, when grown in warm climates in the southern US, like Georgia or Florida, it can reach a height of 3 inches outdoors and 2 inches indoors.
Keep in mind that while the crown of thorns blooms throughout the year, it is more prevalent during winter through spring.
When grown indoors, their blooming season is from late winter through fall.
Because Euphorbia milii blooms an abundance of red and pink flowers, some gardeners believe that the more flowers it blooms, the more luck the owner will have.
In some parts of Southeast Asia, like Thailand, there is folklore that states that the number of blossoms on the Crown of Thorns plant will determine the owner's good luck and fate.
Different Varieties of Crown of Thorns Plants
There are several types and varieties of Euphorbia milii. There continue to be new hybrids being developed by botanists.
Generally speaking, local nurseries and garden centers will only a few kinds, whereas online retailers may have abundantly more varieties – even rare hybrids.
Below are just a few of our favorite varieties of Crown of Thorn plants.
Euphorbia milii "Brush Fire": This hybrid has thick, shiny leaves that make it really stand out. The bright red flowers that give this plant its name are right above these thick leaves. When the Brush Fire plant is grown outdoors with many bunched together, the blooming of red flowers can look like a bush on fire. You can grow these plants indoors for home decor but does just as well outside.
Euphorbia milii "Creme Supreme": The Creme Supreme name is due to the creamy white flowers it blooms. Its leaves are much longer than the typical Crown of Thorns and they look like thick, fleshy grass. The plant's stems are almost entirely covered in spines, which help protect it from plant pests. With this defense system, it is known to be one of the easiest varieties to grow.
Euphorbia milii "Golden Gem": The Golden Gem name is derived from irregularly shaped yellow spots on the edges of the leaves. They have sharp spines that are up to an inch long! Its flowers can be bright red or an off-shade yellow. They can bloom year-round, but they need bright sunlight in order to do so.
How to Care for a Euphorbia Milii?
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Euphorbia milii, commonly known as the crown of thorns, is a popular houseplant due to its attractive spiny foliage.
This succulent plant requires moderate water and light levels and can be propagated from stem cuttings.
It does best in well-draining but dry soil that is rich in organic matter and requires regular fertilization. When it becomes overgrown, repot the plant into a larger container.
We will go into more detail on Crown of Thorns growing care below.
Soil
The best soil for Euphorbia milii plants is soil designed specifically for succulent plants. The reason is that soil designed for succulents drains water well and has nutrients that the plant needs to grow.
Euphorbia milii plant roots cannot remain moist for a long period of time because this will lead to root rot or other fungal diseases. Hence, well-draining soil is a must.
You can either make your own succulent soil by mixing general potting mix with soil amendments that drain water, such as perlite or coconut coir.
Temperature and Climate
It can tolerate temperatures down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit during the winter and up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer.
The Crown of Thorns will thrive in US hardiness zones 9B through 11. If you plan to plant these plants outside of these zones, you should consider growing them indoors.
Lighting
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Crown of Thorns plants loves the direct sun. You should provide them with at least 4 hours of direct sunlight per day.
However, if you want more bloom, you will want to provide your plant with some midday shade.
If you're growing them indoors, be sure to position them in a bright, sunny location of the home, especially in the south or west area.
On the other hand, when planting Euphorbia milii plants outdoors, you should plant them in a sunny area in the garden.
They look great in a rock garden and add great curb appeal mixed in with other succulents, cacti, and other xeriscape-type plants.
Watering
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You should water Euphorbia milii plants only when the soil is dry. In other words, use the soak-and-dry method of watering.
The crown of thorns is highly drought-resistant, so it may take a week before you need to water them again. You can test the soil by using your finger and dipping it into the soil.
Once you know the soil is dry, flood your container with water. Then let the water drain out of the bottom of the pot. You do not want the roots to be soaked in water for long.
Since the Crown of Thorns is a succulent plant, the leaves can store water in their leaves.
However, the leaves can only absorb so much before they become overwatered. Overwatering can lead to root rot and leaf drop.
Fertilizer
While the Euphorbia milii plants can grow without fertilizer as they are slow growers, it may help to plant to bloom more flowers.
If you decide to add fertilizer, add it about once a month during springtime. There is no need for fertilizer in the winter.
The best type of fertilizer to use is a slow-release fertilizer. The last thing you want to do is to overfertilize it.
Pests
Euphorbia milii plants are rarely affected by pests and disease. But if you grow these plants indoors, pests like mealybugs, plant scales, or spider mites can infest them.
All of these pests can cause damage to the plants by sucking sap from the leaves or stems.
They can also cause the leaves to turn yellow or brown, which may even lead to the death of the plant.
Mealybugs
Mealybugs are sap-sucking insects that can infest Euphorbia milii. These bugs can cause plants to wither and reduce growth. If mealybugs are present, insecticide treatment is recommended.
Always follow the insecticide's directions to ensure that it is safe to use on succulent plants.
Ensure that the insecticide is applied to all sections of the plant. Reapply as required until mealybugs are completely eradicated.
Spider Mites
Spider mites are another common pest that can be found on Euphorbia milii plants.
These tiny pests can cause extensive damage to the plant by sucking the sap from the leaves. The best way to get rid of spider mites is by using an insecticide.
Alternatively, use rubbing alcohol with a cotton ball to wipe all the leaves, including the undersides of the leaves. Repeat this treatment every seven days or until the spider mites are gone.
Repotting
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Repotting Euphorbia milii plants should be done every two to three years. It is best to repot these plants in late winter to early spring because they will come out of dormancy and enter the growing season.
Make sure you choose potting soil that drains quickly and can accommodate some nutrients for the plant to absorb.
As the potting soil ages, it begins to lose its ability to retain nutrients and hold water effectively. That's why it's better to change them periodically.
Lastly, remember to remove the old potting soil carefully without damaging the roots.
Propagation
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You can propagate Euphorbia milii by using its cuttings (either stem or tip cuttings).
First, you should water your plants for a couple of days before pruning your plants to take your stem cuttings to ensure that the cuttings have an adequate supply of water in their stems.
Cut the top 4 to 5 inches of a strong, fresh stem with sterile pruning shears.
You may prefer to cut a larger piece to form the mother plant, but then reduce it to 3–4 inches in length for propagation. Ensure that the stems you cut have some leaves on them.
Spray some cold water on the cut end to halt the flow of sap. The sap is irritating to the skin and can stain clothing and soft furnishings, so wear gloves and shield your eyes.
Place the Christ plant cuttings on a wet paper towel for 3-5 days to allow the wound to callous; this is an absolutely essential step.
It's not a necessary step, but using a rooting hormone will increase the chances of rooting.
Remove the majority of the leaves from the cuttings, keeping three or four intact. At this time, keep the cuttings out of direct sunlight. Place them in a pot with well-drained soil.
Once the pots are completely filled with the potting mixture, poke a hole about 1 1/2 inches deep with a pencil or your finger.
If you have rooting hormone powder, place a small amount in a small container and dip the cut end into it—enough to coat it but not more.
Ensure that any residual hormone powder is disposed of properly. Fill the hole with the powdery, cut end, then firm the dirt around the cutting carefully. Place the pot in a place that gets a lot of light but isn't directly in the sun.
After you are finished, water the cut sparingly. After that, water every few days, but simply enough to maintain a medium moisture soil.
Do not water like a regular plant because the baby plant (new plant) does not yet have roots to take water from the soil. Watering as normal will risk causing some rotting in the soil.
It will take several weeks for the stem cutting to establish itself and its roots.
Once you observe new stem growth, transfer the new plant to its own pot with fresh soil and resume a normal watering schedule.
Pruning
Euphorbia milii needs to be pruned in the spring and summer as it typically grows vigorously during this time of year.
Make sure you use a good pruner to maintain its shape and size. Remove old branches with withered leaves in the fall.
This will help stimulate new growth in preparation for spring. Always wear gloves and clean your pruner after each use.
How Do You Make Euphorbia Milii Bloom?
To make Euphorbia milii bloom, you need to limit the sunlight. Crown of thorns plants thrives in full sun, which equates to four to six hours of sunlight every day. Any more than that will be too much for these plants. Euphorbia milii will typically bloom at night.
Why Is My Crown of Thorns Not Blooming?
Crown of thorns plants are not blooming because there is a sudden change in temperature or an increase in moisture like rain or overwatering. Euphorbia milii is sensitive to both temperature and moisture. So, the loss of blooming flowers is a good indication that there is sudden cool weather or a rainy stretch. With the proper growing conditions, you may enjoy beautiful blossoms all year. Provide plenty of direct sunlight—at least three or four hours every day.
Why Are the Leaves on My Crown of Thorns Turning Brown?
Leaves on Crown of Thorns plants turn brown because of insufficient water and excessive sun exposure. If you live in a sunny place, Crown of Thorns will thrive. However, too much sun will sunburn and shock the plant.
Are Crown of Thorns Plants Toxic?
Yes, Crown of Thorns plants are poisonous if touched. Do not touch the sharp thorns or get in contact with the milky sap, as it is a skin irritant. Always wear gloves when you want to trim or prune them and keep them away from kids or pets.
Conclusion
The Crown of thorns is a succulent plant that is easy to maintain and does well in direct sun.
If you don't have much experience with indoor planting or are looking for a simple but bright-colored landscaping plant, then a Crown of Thorns will be a good choice for you.
Other Euphorbia Plants
Euphorbia milii, or Crown of Thorns, makes great landscaping plants. However, there are other types of Euphorbia plants that you can plant. Check out our list of other types of Euphorbia to grow in your indoor or outdoor garden!
Euphorbia Lactea Cristata: More commonly known as the Coral Cactus, it is probably one of the best-looking Euphorbia plants. The plant has fan-shaped branches that grow in a waving pattern that resembles an ocean reef. The stems and branches range from vivid green to blue-gray or even silver in hue. When it is stressed, the edges of the wavy leaves sometimes take on a pinkish tinge.
Euphorbia Hypericifolia Inneuphdia: Most commonly known as the Diamond Frost Euphorbia, it is a very hardy plant that can handle almost everything you throw at it. It is super easy to take care of and its pretty little white flowers don't need any deadheading. It can be used as a cut flower in flower arrangements or grown on its own adding texture and curb appeal to any front yard.
Euphorbia Leucodendron: Cat Tails Euphorbia Plant is the common name for this plant. Euphorbia leucodendron, a succulent shrub with spineless branches, can develop into a small tree under optimal conditions. It is an excellent landscape plant. It is native to the subtropical region of Madagascar, where it can grow up to more than 10 feet tall. It is not the same plant as Euphorbia tirucalli because its stems are much thinner and have fewer branches | eng | 4acd1c82-7b99-47e4-ba3a-c127a7949d2d | https://www.urbanorganicyield.com/euphorbia-milii/ |
What Robots Do Activity Booklet | K – 1st Grade
This activity booklet was designed to fulfill the requirements for the Daisy What Robots Do or can be used by frontier girl leaders to earn similar badges.Great for teachers and home schooled kids as well.
This booklet has interactive exercises that teach girls what robots are and how they work. These activities include a comic read aloud story, learning a robot sing-a-long, and designing a robot.
Activities Include:
Learn what robots are:Learn the difference between hardware, what robots are, and software, which controls what robots do with a comic read aloud story.
Learn how robots work:Learn how robots work with code telling them what to do and do a robot sing-a-long.
Design a robot:Practice designing their own robots and reviewing the keyboard, as a stepping stone to programming.
Do you need more ideas on this topic? Gain even more free ideas to learn more about robotsWhat Robots Do Activity Booklet | K – 1st | eng | dfb2f9d7-08d7-4780-ab0c-af1bbe8473ec | https://leaderconnectingleaders.com/products/daisy-what-robots-do |
It's What's Inside That Counts for Female Customers
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, knew from the start that there was potential for doing business "better" — that companies could continue to give people what they want and make a profit while positively changing the way things are done. Her success demonstrated that women in particular cared less about fancy packaging and advertising, and more about what was inside the jar.
Millennials and women are buying differently. And with women's economic power increasing, we're seeing an explosion in the movement of ethical consumers. Roddick helped popularize the idea of ethical consumerism — and sold her company for $1.4 billion by doing so.
Nearly 60 percent of Millennials say that a company's ethics and practices factor into their purchasing decisions, according to Intelligence Group's Cassandra Report. And MarketELLE's study on brands says, "Women are more likely than men to be aware of and influenced by questionable company policies. Those policies not only impact their feelings about brands and companies, but often determine who they will (or won't) do business with."
Many women will conduct research before shopping. And Millennials are likely to research while they shop — 50 percent of them even use their phones to do so in-store, research has shown.
There are many tools to help consumers with researching ahead of purchases. Beyond the well-known GoodGuide, there's Think Dirty, which evaluates the toxicity of personal care products. And before those, the Human Rights Campaign's Buyer's Guide for Workplace Equality was helping inform consumers by evaluating the LGBT policies of various companies.
As a result of these and other efforts, companies are declaring their practices. There are now certifications that confirm which products were made without hurting bunnies, harming forests or traumatizing whales, and which were produced using Fair Trade principles. Some outfits, such as Apple, are cleaning up their vendors, while clothing companies now hone and post their sweatshop policies.
In realizing the power of "good-vertising," many companies are also starting to find new ways to communicate their practices, as those that communicate their good messages well will fare better — particularly their bottom lines.
The concept of buying ethically through a gender lens started with the investment community. But there are many more people beyond that sector who think along these lines; some 12 million Millennials already shop ethically, in fact. Add that to the 12 million people overall who support nonprofits advancing women and you've got a significant amount of prosperous, ethical consumers who want to know what's inside the bottle — and are willing to read the label and make the right choice.
Note: This post originally appeared on Catalytic Women. It has been shared with permission from the author. | eng | 44f06872-6093-4481-abee-d77a75c297c8 | https://thestoryexchange.org/good/ |
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Dybala handed over the World Cup championship medal to the archives of Club Roma for safekeeping, for fans to visit
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January 4th news from Rome, Dybala handed over the World Cup championship medal to the historical archives of the club for safekeeping
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After the World Cup, Dybala did not arrange a vacation, but decided to return to Italy early to resume training at the club.
Now, he has expressed his love for the club by handing over his World Cup winner's medal to the historical archives in Rome.
This means that fans can see Dybala's championship medal when visiting the archives, but Dybala only lent the medal to the museum, and the medal will eventually be returned to him. | eng | 75894d49-0be1-411a-98ac-dcf8b0ab0222 | https://www.swrfootball.com/transfer/dybala-handed-over-the-world-cup-championship-medal-to-the-archives-of-club-roma-for-safekeeping-for-fans-to-visit |
Are Lotteries Singapore Prize Addictive?
A lottery is a form of gambling that involves randomly selecting numbers. Some governments ban lotteries Singapore Prize, while others endorse them and organize state and national lotteries. If you're considering buying lottery tickets, there are a few things you should know. First, lotteries are a form of hidden tax. Second, you should never spend more than you have to.
Lotteries Singapore Prize are a form of gambling
Lotteries are games of chance in which players pay a certain amount of money in exchange for a chance at winning a prize. These games have been around for centuries and are used in many societies to distribute goods and property. Lotteries are also a way for governments to raise money without increasing taxes. Although many people play lotteries for fun, there are risks involved.
The government uses lottery Singapore Prize funds to fund sports events and other manifestations. In addition, lotteries are used to attract people to fairs and other events. Many people play lotteries for fun and to satisfy their gambling urges. Some people may even become addicted to these games.
They are a form of hidden tax
Lotteries generate large amounts of tax revenue for the government, but these taxes are not included in the federal budget and are primarily used to support the budgets of state and local governments. This hidden tax is harmful to our economy, as it skews the market by favoring one good over another. Furthermore, lotteries are regressive, as the wealthiest consumers tend to be low-income and have low financial literacy.
Many people argue that the national lottery is a form of hidden tax because it allows the government to collect more money from lottery players than they spend. However, some argue that the tax is beneficial because it helps the government fund services and programs for its citizens. Ideally, tax policy should not skew consumer behavior and should favor no specific good or service. Nevertheless, many people do enjoy playing lotteries responsibly. Despite this, there are some who argue that these taxes are unfair and should not be used in a government budget.
They are a form of gambling
Lotteries are a popular way to win money. The winner is selected by randomly drawing a lot from those who bought tickets. The winnings can be used for anything from sports team drafts to medical treatment. While lottery games are generally considered harmless, they are still considered gambling. The prize money is decided by chance, and players are taking a risk that the outcome may not be desirable. Oftentimes, people enter lottery games in order to win large sums of money.
Lotteries are also a common source of addiction. Gambling can lead to compulsive behavior, so it is important to understand the risks of lottery gambling. Many lottery "systems" claim to increase the chances of winning, but these systems are typically based on a misunderstanding of probability. These "systems" are legal as long as they warn players that they cannot guarantee a winning prize.
They are a form of investment
Lotteries are a form of investment for people who want to improve their financial status. They can buy a ticket for $1 or $2, and if they're lucky, they may win. The average person doesn't own much money, so buying lottery tickets is an inexpensive way to invest. Furthermore, buying lottery tickets is fun because of the chances of winning.
In investing, people put their money to work and receive a reasonable return for the risk they've taken. In this way, they build wealth that benefits both themselves and others, as well as the government. But in lotteries and gambling, the risks are high. In most cases, the return is zero or a small percentage, and the government will take a large cut.
They can be addictive
Lotteries are one of the most popular forms of gambling, but can they be addictive? Researchers have found that lottery gambling can trigger the development of pathological gambling and is a gateway to other forms of gambling. Nevertheless, the lottery process is relatively fair and may not be addictive for all individuals.
Although lottery proceeds historically went to public institutions, they remain low in comparison to other demands on state budgets. While some governments have banned lotteries altogether, others have embraced them as a legitimate form of entertainment. In spite of this, lottery play remains addictive, so it's important to limit your risk. | eng | 10b27248-5abf-49e0-9933-aaec627f9971 | https://oxfordtricks.com/are-lotteries-singapore-prize-addictive/ |
A simple concept but I've not been able to solve it. I'm trying to create a stack of 2D plots in 3D space using Mathematica 9. This is not a parametric plot, but I'm creating it from an array of vectors (imported
.csv file). The ListPlot3D function creates a filled mesh but what I want is this type of plot (created by HYRY in StackExchange: 'Matplotlib plot pulse propagation in 3d'):
I have tried changing the function options for ListPlot3D and was going to create an array of plot images (.jpg) to stack in 3D, each one having an alpha value - but that would not be good. Any help is appreciated | eng | dae4c290-611e-47be-878c-b84dac552b38 | https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148420/create-a-3d-stack-of-2d-line-plots |
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Twenty-two young people were lucky enough to join Mornington Peninsula Intrepid Landcare on a Nature Connection Camp. The aspiring young conservationists experienced an immersive experience with nature through activities that showcase local natural environments and the opportunity to see the positive work being done in this space. Starting 1st of April, two jam packed days full of activities inspired the group to take positive action for the environment. The camp commenced with a Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony with Bunurong Land Council. Then off to the Dolphin Research Institute followed by a boat trip to Seal Rocks. After a picnic lunch, Westernport Biosphere's Lance Lloyd offered his insights into all things water ecology, including blue carbon, water stewardship, Ramsar values and biodiversity enhancement.
Intrepid Landcare campers made light work of the Bluebell Creeper (Billardiera heterophylla) on Woolley's beach.
Jess Brady of the Western Port Biosphere then took the group on a guided bushland walk and weed control at Wooley Beach with ranger Arne. The group then returned to base, Iluka Camp and Retreat for dinner and informal campfire chats with several guest speakers. At nightfall the camp headed out one more time for an evening of spotlighting for animals with Parks Victoria ranger Casey Lee. The next day, the crew set off to the Uncommon Folk farm to hear about the farming collective and regenerative agriculture practices, including Cherry Road organic flower farm, rotational grazing, no-till farming, and whole of farm baseline measures of water, soils, carbon and biodiversity. The group planted a tree or two with Greg Holland of the Greens Bush to Arthurs Seat Biolink before heading off to Greens Bush meet Sean and Lionel from Living Culture to learn about bush tucker and finish off with a yidaki session. Thanks to Torello farm for nourishing us and to Melbourne Water for funding the project.
Throughout the Fitzgerald Biosphere, over 1.13 million hectares make up our transition zone, host to communities produced from its main industries – mining, tourism and most of all agriculture. Agriculture in the southwest is currently a thriving sector but achieving sustainability requires proactive management of the many risks facing our farmers.
Although above average rainfall was received in the past 2 years, climate models show high confidence that across southwest WA, there will be less rainfall in winter and spring and that annual rainfall will continue to decline until the end of the century.1 Compared with 40 years ago, the region has lost a third of its 10mm and 25mm rainfall events making its natural catchments less effective in addition to studies that have shown that for every one millimetre of lost rainfall about three millimetres of run-off are lost – consequently making it harder to fill dams.2 In this projected drying climate, re-engineering dams to capture more water and reduce evaporation will become increasingly necessary for best practise farming.
With most dams built to the needs of more "traditional" farming systems with outdated temperature and rainfall data, supported by funding through the Federal Government's Future Drought Fund, the Grower Group Alliance through the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub, is collaborating with Department of Primary Industries (DPIRD), the University of Western Australia (UWA), the Fitzgerald Biosphere Group (FBG) from Jerramungup (with 3 other regional partners elsewhere) and local farmers to roll out 'WaterSmart Dams – making dams work again'.
The project involves re-visiting existing dam technologies in dam expansion or re-design, as well as gathering relevant data. Additionally, the influence of good catchment design is recognised, along with the ability to be best placed to capture available rainfall, or even dews. Last but not least, the importance of quality cannot be underestimated (i.e. cropping and livestock), and this also forms a large part of this project.
Overall, the WaterSmart Dams project represents an important collaboration between government, industry and local farmers to research and address the nuanced sustainability challenges our regional agriculture sector is facing, which makes it an extremely interesting project to follow for those within the Fitzgerald Biosphere.
Drought resilience is the ability to adapt, reorganise or transform in response to changing temperature, increasing variability and scarcity of rainfall and changed seasonality of rainfall, for improved economic, environmental and social wellbeing. Drought Resilience Funding Plan (2020–2024)
Our Noosa Biosphere friends, launched their Surf Safe Noosa seasonal calendar game wheel at the Noosa Festival of Surfing this month. This public education campaign is the culmination of nearly two years of planning development to implement the recommendations of the NBRF Marine Species Protection Symposium held in 2021.
NBRF held a series of community workshops in August last year, facilitated by renowned shark expert Dr Andrew Chin of James Cook University.
The seasonal calendar highlights the local surf conditions including water temp, wind direction, swell, best breaks, whale migration and fish breeding seasons. The key messages help locals and visitors to understand local conditions and stay safe in the water.
Surf Safe Noosa All Year Round is designed to complement the Noosa World Surfing Reserve's mission to Share, Respect and Preserve our special place and to encourage surfers to follow the Noosa Shire Surf Safety Code. For more information about the code, head to
NBRF also launched a schools outreach program with local surfing legend Kurt Barrow, leader of the Sunshine Beach State High School Surfing Excellence Program. The kids really enjoyed lining up the stickers on to the spinning game wheel and asked lots of great questions about how to safe in the water. Looks like its working?
You can download a copy of the Surf Safe Noosa Seasonal Calendar here or grab a copy at the Hastings St Visitor Information Centre if you're in town!
2022 saw the launch of a partnership project between the Biosphere Foundation and the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, funded by Bushbank. The project has been designed to empower the Bunurong team to better understand blue carbon ecosystems across Western Port, and to enable them to make decisions about restoration opportunities with Indigenous knowledge and perspectives framing the planning and land management techniques.
This quarter the Foundation and the Bunurong team have been building capacity and knowledge. We collaborated with Melbourne Water in Koo Wee Rup and were joined by our Water Stewardship expert, Lance Lloyd, for a training session in Water Stewardship to learn about how broader catchment issues impact coastal wetlands, affecting blue carbon efficacy and the Ramsar values of Western Port in particular. This prompted the Bunurong team to explore the idea of working on the drains and creeks feeding into Western Port around the Koo Wee Rup area. They hope to work closely with Cardinia Shire, who have recently launched the Koo Wee Rup Biolinks program to help identify opportunities for habitat connection and enhancement across the Shire. KWR biolink project map
The Foundation hosted a workshop in March with Deakin University's Blue Carbon Lab, Bass Coast Landcare Network, and the Bunurong team. It was an opportunity for everyone to share information about what they are doing in the blue carbon space across Western Port. Here is an example of what Bass Coast Landcare Network are up to.
Blue Carbon Lab's Craig Sherman recently released results from a large study carried out about seagrass across Western Port. The extent of seagrass habitat pre-European settlement has been unclear because of lack of data, but new findings show a clear picture of the range and coverage of seagrass pre-1970, which is when human impact really began across the region. There have been large losses of these ecosystems since 1970, but they are beginning to re-establish. The new data will enable better planning for restoring and enhancing this critical habitat into the future.
The Bunurong team plan to carry out a Water Stewardship plan for a site they own on Millowl, situated near Rhyll, in the next few months. They also aim to become more familiar with the coastal wetlands in the Rhyll area and the broader catchment issues impacting them. For example, the photo featured below is an aerial photo at the headwaters of Rhyll Inlet showing proximity to housing developments and a golf course. The area consists of a combination of pristine and degraded blue carbon ecosystems (shown in orange). Gaining access to this sort of information through Water Stewardship enables the team to begin to formulate a strategic plan to heal the land and waterways. | eng | 2fb7fd9c-09c8-4f84-abbd-dd20d2938a93 | https://www.biosphere.org.au/category/connector-newsletter/issue-37/page/2/ |
Sodium
What Is Serum Sodium Test?
Sodium (Na) is one of the essential minerals of our body. Sodium is most commonly consumed in the form of table salt, and it is also found in most of our dietary products. Our body requires sodium for maintaining fluid content in the body and for the proper functioning of nerves and muscles.
Sodium is an electrolyte which means it is a charged ion. Due to this property, it helps generate electrical signals in nerves and muscles and thus brings about muscles and maintains brain activity. Moreover, it also holds water inside our body and prevents losing excess water through the kidney, keeping our body fluid balanced.
It is a major cation (positively charged ion) present in the body's extracellular fluid (blood). Excess sodium is excreted through urine, feces, and sweats. The body maintains an adequate amount and concentration of sodium through various mechanisms, including thirst and certain hormones for optimal body functioning.
Blood sodium levels are tested to look for any imbalance in its concentration, which could indicate the underlying abnormality. It may be tested as part of Basic Metabolic Penal, a group of related tests including calcium, bicarbonate, chloride, creatinine, glucose, potassium, and blood urea nitrogen levels. Also, it is a component of Electrolyte Penal where potassium, bicarbonate, and chloride are the other electrolytes tested.
What Is The Test Used For?
The test is used to check the amount of sodium in your body. An adequate amount is necessary to keep up with the normal functioning of your body; any derangement in its levels may indicate some impairment in your body. Therefore, this test assists in uncovering the causes of electrolyte imbalance.
Your body maintains sodium in a narrow range of 135-145mEq/L; an increase in sodium concentration above this level is called hypernatremia, and a decrease is called hyponatremia. Both conditions have different causes and different signs and symptoms.
This condition can affect people of any age group, but elders, infants, and bedridden patients should be closely monitored. A lot of causes bring about hypernatremia, including:
Dehydration due to decrease water intake or loss of excess water through diarrhea or sweating.
Drinking too much salty water or consuming too much salt.
Low level of Anti-diuretic hormones (ADH) or Vasopressin, which losses excess amount of water from the body through the kidney, leading to severe dehydration. This condition is called Diabetes Insipidus.
High levels of Aldosterone, a hormone that causes retention of salts and its excess, may lead to hypernatremia. This condition is called hyperaldosteronism
Cushing syndrome in which the adrenal gland produces an excess amount of cortisol that also causes sodium retention.
Certain medicines also build up sodium levels in the body, including birth control pills, corticosteroids, lithium, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and laxatives.
HYPONATREMIA
Inadequate sodium content in your blood below 135mEq/L may shift the water content from the blood into cells causing the cells to swell up and impair their functioning. This could produce dangerous effects on your brain cells and may generate many other symptoms, including;
Nausea and vomiting
Dizziness and Headache
Exhaustion
Loss of appetite
Agitation and Hallucination
Confusion and disorientation
Loss of consciousness
Coma
Hyponatremia usually occurs in older patients. Causes of hyponatremia include:
Drinking too much water which dilutes blood sodium concentration.
Use of medications that decreases blood sodium content, including diuretics, certain painkillers, antidepressants.
Kidney disorders which excrete more sodium through urine and certain liver disorders.
Heart failure produces sodium excreting hormones.
High levels of ADH or Vasopressin causes accumulation of excess water in the body and dilutes the sodium content. The condition is called syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH).
Why And When Do You Need To Get Tested?
Your healthcare provider may order this test as a part of your routine assessment; however, you may need this test if:
You are suffering from any signs and symptoms of increased and decrease sodium levels.
You have a problem with blood pressure.
You are taking medicines that alter sodium levels.
You are seriously ill or bedridden.
You have recent surgery.
You are on intravenous fluids.
You have kidney, liver, heart, and endocrine disorders.
Your healthcare provider correlates the test report with your physical condition to determine the cause of this imbalance or may run some other tests to reach the diagnosis.
What Type Of Sample Is Required?
A blood sample is drawn from the vein of your arm or hand by using a small needle by a health worker and collected in the test tube or vial.
Do You Need To Prepare For This Test?
You don't need any preparation for this test. However, your healthcare provider may stop certain medications before running this test or may check your glucose levels prior to testing, as elevated glucose levels may affect the results. Be sure that you have informed your healthcare provider about all your medicines.
Is There Any Risk To This Test?
You may feel mild to moderate pain and stinging at the site of the prick, which will alleviate within a few hours, or may experience mild discomfort or bruising, and very rarely, you may encounter infection. If you undergo excessive bleeding from the site of the prick, immediately inform your healthcare provider.
What Does The Result Mean?
The results may be obtained between 12-48 hours and are usually termed as normal and abnormal.
Abnormally elevated levels of sodium above 145mEq/L and abnormally low levels of sodium below 135mEq/L suggest that you have some underlying cause for this imbalance, which requires further assessment and evaluation. Your healthcare provider may retest you or run some new test for more specific information.
If you have any queries regarding the test results, you should consult your healthcare provider.
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Types of Braces
For the vast majority of orthodontic patients, wearing fixed appliances (commonly called braces) will be a major part of treatment—and those braces, for the most part, will be the familiar silvery-metal type. But while they're still quite popular, traditional-looking metal braces are no longer the only game in town! Let's have a look at some of the options available in orthodontic appliances.
First, we should distinguish between fixed and removable appliances. Fixed appliances like braces are attached to the teeth by metal bands or special cement. They aren't normally taken off until treatment is complete. Removable appliances, such as clear aligners, are typically worn some 22 hours per day, but may be easily taken off as needed. While clear aligners can be effective in treating mild to moderate orthodontic problems, fixed appliances are generally needed for more comprehensive treatment.
Metal Braces
Crooked teeth do more than just impact the quality of your smile. They significantly impact your oral health, leaving you more vulnerable to cavities, gum disease, and tooth damage.
Clear Braces
Lingual Braces
Orthodontic treatment can improve the smile of so many of our patients, yet many of them are resistant to the idea of getting braces because they are concerned about the appearance of a mouthful of metal wires and brackets.
Clear Aligners for Teens
Traditional Metal Braces for Adults
Braces are a common orthodontic treatment used to correct the alignment of crooked teeth. This particular treatment is commonly associated with young adolescents, typically between the ages of 11 and 13.
Space Maintainers
Other Orthodontic Appliances
When most people think of orthodontic treatment, they tend to think of traditional braces. Some may also think of the more recently popular clear aligners, an alternative to traditional braces that uses clear plastic aligners, rather than brackets and wires, to correct the alignment of the teeth. | eng | 6b1c7790-d047-45b8-ab4b-af489825f030 | https://fairfieldorthodontist.com/braces |
What is the largest mammal to ever walk the earth?
For over a century, Paraceratherium – a 26-foot-long, 15 ton, hornless rhino – has been cited as the biggest of the big beasts.
But, according to a new paper by Asier Larramendi, ancient elephants are in close competition for the title of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.
What is the largest mammal that ever existed?
This puts blue whales well above any known land mammal in terms of size. Most people believe that the largest animals to ever exist on Earth were the dinosaurs. However, one of the largest land dinosaurs, the sauropod Argentinosaurus, weighed only about 180,000 pounds (81,647 kg).
What was the biggest animal ever?
Blue Whale
What is the largest creature in history?
List of the Top Largest Animals Ever Recorded in History
Blue Whale. By far, the largest animal known to exist either today or throughout history is the blue whale.
Argentinosaurus. The skeleton of the largest known land-dwelling herbivore, the Argentinosaurus, was discovered in Argentina in 1988.
Is a megalodon bigger than a blue whale?
Monster-size sharks in The Meg reach lengths of 20 to 25 meters (66 to 82 feet). That's massive, although a tad smaller than the longest known blue whales. Scientists have made estimates of how big C. megalodon got, based on the size of their fossil teeth. Even the largest reached only 18 meters (about 60 feet).
What's bigger than a blue whale?
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to exist. Bigger than dinosaurs, bigger than mastodons, a blue whale can reach up to almost 100 feet long and have been weighed at as much as 191 tons.
What is the deadliest animal in the world?
Here, the ten most dangerous animals in the world.
Humans. Surprised?
Mosquito.
Tsetse Fly.
Saltwater Crocodile.
Black Mamba.
Pufferfish.
Box Jellyfish.
Golden Poison Dart Frog.
Is a blue whale bigger than dinosaurs?
Now paleontologists have announced a species proposed to be most massive dinosaur ever discovered: an enormous herbivore estimated at over 120 feet long and weighing over 70 tons—or longer than a blue whale and heavier than a dozen African elephants.
What was the largest prehistoric elephant?
Elephants, mammoths, and mastodons (Proboscidea) The largest-known land mammal ever was a proboscidean called Palaeoloxodon namadicus which weighed about 22 t (24.3 short tons), and was about 5.2 m (17.1 ft) tall at the shoulder.
Which animal runs the fastest?
cheetah
Do blue whales still exist?
Blue whales were abundant in nearly all the oceans on Earth until the beginning of the twentieth century. The IUCN estimates that there are probably between 10,000 and 25,000 blue whales worldwide today.
Are Megalodons dinosaurs?
Visitors were mesmerized by the tooth, specially compared to a modern shark's tooth, and liked to call Megalodon a "dinosaur shark." Well, the Megalodon was definitely not a dinosaur, and is much younger than dinosaurs. It was still around 2 million years ago.
What are the largest whales?
North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) are big, but they're not the biggest whales. That distinction goes to the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest animal on Earth. The orca's (Orcinus orca) size of up to 31 feet (9.4 meters) makes it the largest dolphin.
Which is the biggest shark in the world?
O. megalodon
How big is the Megalodon?
Megalodon could grow up to 60 feet (18 meters) long and had a bite more powerful than that of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The sea monsters terrorized the oceans from about 16 million to 2 million years ago.
Did Megalodon exist?
Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon), meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (mya), during the Early Miocene to the end of the Pliocene.
Did Megalodon have any predators?
Predators and prey. In addition to being the world's largest fish, megalodon may have been the largest marine predator that has ever lived. (Basilosaurids and pliosaurs may have been just as large.) Megalodon was an apex predator, or top carnivore, in the marine environments it inhabited (see also keystone species).
Could a Megalodon kill a blue whale?
It fed on other big marine mammals, like whales and dolphins. It may have even eaten other sharks, according to Discovery. Researchers think the megalodon would first attack the flipper and tails of the mammals to prevent them from swimming away, then go in for the kill, according to the BBC.
What is the longest animal name?
Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides is a species of flies in the soldier fly family (Stratiomyidae). Its genus name comes from Ancient Greek, meaning "Near soldier wasp-fly", with its species name meaning "wasp fly-like". It is considered to be the animal with the longest scientific name.
Why is it called a sperm whale?
Etymology. The name sperm whale is a truncation of spermaceti whale. Spermaceti, originally mistakenly identified as the whales' semen, is the semi-liquid, waxy substance found within the whale's head (see below).
What is the longest land animal?
The blue whale is believed to be the largest animal to have ever lived. The largest land animal classification is also dominated by mammals, with the African bush elephant being the largest of these.
Were mammoths bigger than elephants?
The mammoth was identified as an extinct species of elephant by Georges Cuvier in 1796. The woolly mammoth was roughly the same size as modern African elephants. Males reached shoulder heights between 2.7 and 3.4 m (8.9 and 11.2 ft) and weighed up to 6 metric tons (6.6 short tons).
What is the biggest spider that ever existed?
Megarachne servinei
What's the largest prehistoric animal?
Largest extinct animals
However, the largest fossil whales were baleen whales (plankton feeders) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs.
The largest perissodactyl, and land mammal, of all time was Paraceratherium.
What was the largest turtle to ever live?
Archelon is an extinct marine turtle from the Late Cretaceous, and is the largest turtle ever to have been documented, with the biggest specimen measuring 460 cm (15 ft) from head to tail, 400 cm (13 ft) from flipper to flipper, and 2,200 kg (4,900 lb) in weight.
What is the largest bird that ever lived?
The largest bird in the fossil record may be the extinct elephant birds (Aepyornis) of Madagascar, whose closest living relative is the kiwi. They exceeded 3 m (9.8 ft) in height and 500 kg (1,100 lb). The last of the elephant birds became extinct about 300 years ago.
What was the largest reptile to ever live?
Shastasaurus sikanniensis
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If it's Wednesday, it's Carl is talking about his bus trip home from Drinking Liberally. I know it's very complicated, but man is it annoying when it says 6 minutes away for 10 minutes. Is it traffic? Is it technical issues? Is it one of those things where the drivers switch in the middle of the route, but something happened?
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If I trusted Seattle Police to act well, the South Precinct memo described here would be pretty benign. Your partner is speeding "hey slow down, man" is probably a better response than making a formal complaint.*
But many people don't trust the police. I don't know if they're just doing it for minor things or if things that need to be corrected are being handled internally or at all. A department where no offers could take down rapist Donald Trump's flag or gravestone of people who offers shot probably won't be able to correct bad behavior.
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Family stuff ahead, so who knows if I post even less frequently, more erratically. Annnyway.
I love taking the bus. Last night coming home from Drinking Liberally, it was the best! A group of 50 something women having a night on the town got on and were aggressively trying to flirt with the bus driver. "Oh he's my favorite driver, he can take me anywhere." Delightful.
Also, and this was 10:30, some teens hop on. Too much time in the summer, but good for them finding things to do. Being able to hang out. Taking the free for them bus Downtown.
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Finally some dang rain. It was drizzling in Downtown Seattle earlier today when I was walking to work. It's been more than a month, so good. I hope we can stay cool and that some of the plants can get a drink. Ideally Seattle summer would have one good rainy day a week.
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Oh goodness. Traffic is going to be a mess in Seattle this weekend. But I hope Taylor Swift's fans have a blast. And Capitol Hill Block Party goers have a blast. And Bite of Seattle people enjoy it. Some places will be bad to drive and public transportation might be the least comfortable since the pandemic. But you man what a vibrant city.
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Where the fuck are the good cops we keep hearing about? Seattle Police have a goddam gravestone of someone they killed in their breakroom. No good cop saw it and put it in the trash? This isn't the heat of the moment, adrenaline pumping, someone said they saw a weapon; This is calmly mocking a dead kid. Day after day after day after fucking day.
And the Trump flag. Man was being sued for sexually assault at the time of the video. Probably why they stopped investing adult rape. These pieces of shit were waiving the adult rapist flag. In a city that despises him that they swore to protect and serve.
Christ on the Cross. No defund activist, nobody chanting all cops are bastards, no investigation, no lawsuit could make SPD look as bad as they did all by themselves. And every fucking day for who knows how long the good cops left it all up.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you're eligible.
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The city of Seattle has had years to figure out ways to deal with homelessness in SoDo ahead of the All Star Game. Really could have got ahead of things, and figured out how to get people housed. Instead, last minute sweeps. Predictable, but not necessary.
We'll have chances in the future to do this better, but I fear that we won't. And in any case, this was squandered | eng | e2f37e5b-7767-4c24-bf06-cfd79c898e05 | http://horsesass.org/author/carl/page/2/ |
Children and young people need an environment which is most likely to promote effective and confident child development where they can experience and environment of mutual respect and trust and open communication. We as practitioners need to reflect on our own practice where we can evaluate the contribution we have made to the support of child development and find ways that we can improve our practice. When reflecting on our practice we need to look at the ways in which we communicate with the children and young people such as varying with different methods of communications through a range of activities referring the stages of their development. We do this in our setting by looking at the plans and linking the activity to the EYFS and looking closely to new vocabulary and proposed learning outcomes that we will focus on whilst doing the activity. Good practice would be to evaluate the activity after the week and then look back at what you did or didn't do such as explain new shapes and positional language in a physical activity. In our setting we will always ask each other, as colleagues, to see if they would like to input anything and just for a little reassurance that you are doing something the correct way and beneficial for the children. Bad practice would be to not allow the children to be experimental with the activity and for the activity to be purely adult led, this would not allow the children's development to grow and progress. We will try to avoid situations in which children receive adult attention only in return for undesirable behaviour. Children crave attention whether it is positive or negative. If we give them this they may not feel the need to behave badly. We make sure that bad behaviour is not taken away from the rest of the group and that no one is singled out for their attention. We set these clear behaviour boundaries and rules so that the setting is able to run
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Email vs. Instant Messaging [Differences and Benefits]
Communication is essential for a productive business. Naturally, we're all busy people and don't always have time to respond to emails. Luckily, instant messaging is one way to always be up-to-date, and almost every company around the world uses these types of apps.
On the other hand, email has been much longer in use and represents one of the pillars of business communication. We can say that instant messaging and email are the two most popular ways to stay connected. Let's compare and find differences between email vs. instant messaging.
When should you use email?
Since there are more than 2.9 billion email users worldwide, its appeal spans from professional to personal. Also, providing written records of communication and sharing files is particularly important in a business setting. For that matter, it's safe to say that the email isn't going anywhere.
From employees working across various industries to teenagers, every generation has sent and used email. Regardless of how many new communication tools we are introduced to every month, email is here to stay. When should we use email?
Email provides a certain level of formality instant messaging doesn't, which can either be good or bad. While email isn't usually used for a casual chat or quick questions, it's a good choice when it comes to:
Scheduling an interview
Contacting a client for the first time
Managing disciplinary actions
Email leaves a "paper" trail you can locate instantly or archive if necessary. However, using an email as a default communication tool might not be an ideal option. Not only is it overly formal and old-fashioned, but it's also quite unproductive.
People waste too much time sending and reading emails. According to some estimates, an average employee receives 121 emails per day; only 38% of them contain important information.
When should you use chat?
Instant messaging isn't the most suitable way to conduct a formal conversation, but it might be ideal for internal communication among colleagues. Due to the variety of features it offers, instant messaging is excellent for teamwork, as many apps have integrated calendars that allow you to set up a meeting while at the same time doing something else.
Why do people prefer instant messaging?
Just as the name implies, instant messaging tools deliver messages instantly. Coworkers can communicate seamlessly and quickly, with just a couple of clicks. While other employees may struggle to write formal emails, with instant messaging, you can speak freely.
Mail can also be slow and less productive. According to the latest estimates, 32% of employees named Slack as one of the best tools that improved their productivity. And currently, 43% of Fortune 100 companies are using this online tool as a communication platform.
The main aspects of good communication haven't changed - they are still there. Whether you use email or instant chat, you still need to be informative, polite, and concise.
Why use business instant messaging software?
If you are one of those people who believe that instant messaging is a waste of time reserved for Twitter and Facebook addicts, think again. If you are informed about the latest technologies and recognize the potential of instant messaging software, check out how they can improve your company's workflow.
It's a common skill to have. By the end of 2019, we had nearly 2.8 billion smartphone owners worldwide. Of course, if you have a smartphone, then you are probably familiar with instant messaging apps. After all, this form of communication came from a simple SMS we used 20 years ago. Since many people are accustomed to texting, their ability to successfully use instant messaging comes naturally. Therefore, better productivity is implied and doesn't require training.
It's cheaper. The cost of utilizing instant messaging for business is probably one of the biggest advantages. For instance, instead of applying traditional forms of communication, such as costly telephone systems, or customer support staff, you can simply resort to services such as Slack.
It's reliable. Keep in mind that you can use two instant messaging types: private and public. We believed that the public one wasn't recommended for businesses for a long time due to viruses and cyberattacks. However, WhatsApp proved us wrong when they implemented end-to-end encryption for every message sent.
It boosts effective communication. So far, Twitter and text messages have taught us how to be concise and say more with fewer words. Believe us, no one wants to scroll down through countless emails or take endless phone calls when you can say everything you need via instant messaging.
What is the advantage of instant messaging?
It connects staff members in various locations. You will often face a situation where one of your team members is stationed in the office while others are on the field. Instant messaging software will provide seamless communication between team members, regardless of their location. Not only will they be able to type messages but share files as well.
It enables group communication. Instant messaging can either be private or group, allowing more than one person to join. Private messaging is used for confidential and private chats, while group messaging informs everyone about necessary changes or important tasks.
It supports other forms of communication. This type of software works great with other forms of communication. For instance, if you are on the phone with an important client and need information about a specific product, you can secretly text your colleague to get the required information.
It helps employees engage. Team members who communicate openly tend to engage more in the work they conduct. We should point out that instant messaging promotes cozier, less formal, and consistent communication.
Is instant messaging safer than email?
There is a lot of debate about these two, even though their roles are quite different. Instant messaging and emails are the main rivals in the communication field and team productivity. While some claim we have reached the end of the email era, others believe that instant messaging creates a distraction and lowers productivity.
Which one is safer?
Internet safety is a somewhat controversial topic, and no one can indeed be safe on the web. You can always take precautionary measures to protect your files and data. Recently we have seen many messaging apps using end-to-end encryption for every sent message. Also, email providers are boosting their protection protocols, so it might be challenging to bypass all the virtual walls they have managed to construct. If | eng | 5499f963-36ad-4946-b463-d652e72a5f65 | https://activecollab.com/blog/collaboration/email-vs-instant-messaging-differences-benefits |
Why ASIC Chips are Revolutionizing the Technology Industry
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The introduction of ASIC chips has forever changed the world of Bitcoin mining. These specialized chips are designed specifically for Bitcoin mining and offer miners a number of key benefits, including improved performance, greater efficiency, power savings and enhanced security. As more miners recognize the advantages that ASIC chips provide, they are increasingly being adopted as the go-to choice for cryptocurrency mining. In this blog post, we'll take a closer look at these innovative pieces of technology.
Advantages of Using ASIC Chips for Bitcoin Mining
Using ASIC chips for Bitcoin mining offers a number of advantages. First, they are faster and more efficient than GPUs, allowing miners to solve cryptographic puzzles quicker and with greater accuracy. Additionally, they are more power-efficient than general-purpose chips, reducing the costs associated with electricity consumption. Furthermore, their specialized design makes them less vulnerable to hacking or other potential security threats. Moreover, ASIC chips are produced in large quantities which results in lower manufacturing costs compared to general-purpose processors. Finally, ASICs can be used for specific tasks that require high performance and efficiency; making them an ideal choice for a variety of industries including cryptocurrency mining, image processing and more. In conclusion, ASIC chips are revolutionizing the technology industry by providing miners with improved performance and efficiency while offering numerous cost savings benefits as well.
Benefits of Using ASIC Chips in Addition to Performance
Using ASIC chips in addition to performance offers a number of distinct benefits. Firstly, they are more power-efficient than general-purpose chips, meaning that less electricity is needed to power them and thus reducing associated costs. Furthermore, they are designed specifically for certain tasks, making them ideal for applications such as cryptocurrency mining as they can solve cryptographic puzzles much faster and with greater accuracy. Additionally, their production runs are usually large quantities which result in lower manufacturing costs compared to general-purpose processors. Finally, ASIC chips are more secure than general-purpose hardware as their specialized design makes them less susceptible to hacking and other security threats. By taking advantage of these benefits, companies can save time, money and energy while ensuring that their systems remain safe from malicious attacks. In short, using ASIC chips in addition to performance provides many advantages which makes them an attractive choice for a variety of industries. | eng | 9a613e9f-4a09-4532-b67d-14d6d1ce73c0 | https://d-central.tech/why-asic-chips-are-revolutionizing-the-technology-industry/ |
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Top 3 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health
Top 3 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health
Mental health is an important part of our well-being, and it't something that we should take for granted. Many people struggle with their mental health, which is why it's important for us to find ways to improve it. Mental health is not only about the absence of mental illness (or having a tidy mind), but rather the presence of mental strength self-acceptance, optimism, happiness, resiliency, and so on. Here are some tips to improve your mental health that can help you cope better with stressors in life and experience joy more often.
Go for a Walk
Taking a walk outside is a great way to improve your mental health by allowing you to take some time out from the hectic pace of life. Walking is a form of exercise that has been shown to have mental health benefits, such as reducing stress, anxiety, and depression. It's also an accessible and inexpensive form of exercise, meaning that anyone can do it no matter their circumstances. Studies show that going for a walk in nature is even more effective than walking in an urban environment, so if you can, head to a nearby park or forest. If not, even just a walk around the block can be beneficial. Fresh air can be a great way to "reset" and create space between you and whatever is going on in your life. Even just closing your eyes and focusing on your breath can be helpful.
Talk to a Friend
Talking to a friend is a simple way to get support and have your mental health boosted. Studies show that just having someone to talk to can have a positive impact on mental health. A good conversation with a friend can help you gain new perspectives on your life and any challenges you're facing, as well as get support and feel less alone. It's great to have a support network of people you can talk to when you're going through something difficult, whether that's just having a bad day or a mental health issue. Talking to a friend can help you to reduce stress, change negative thought patterns and beliefs, improve your mood, and create a sense of connection. This can all go a long way in helping you to improve your mental health and feel happier.
Practice Self-Care
Taking care of yourself is an important part of improving your mental health. Oftentimes we get so caught up in taking care of others (whether this be family, friends, or work colleagues) that we neglect ourselves. This can lead to feelings of overwhelm, exhaustion, and stress that can set off feelings of anxiety and depression. If you're feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, or generally unhappy, it's important to look at the ways you can take care of yourself. Self-care can include things such as practicing mindfulness, going to therapy, taking time off work when you need it, creating a support network, and eating well. All of these things can help you to improve your mental health and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression.
Conclusion
Healthy mental health is important to lead a happy and fulfilling life. It is possible to improve your mental health and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression even when facing big challenges. Kartik Naidu is the creator of the Mind Engineering program. The key is to practice self-care, find new ways of coping with stress, and to seek help when you need it. Keep in mind that mental health is not just about reducing negative emotions and feelings, but also about increasing positive ones, such as happiness and joy. With some effort, you can improve your mental health and feel better about yourself. | eng | 3e90373c-a184-425b-a152-41483d072703 | https://kartiknaidu.com/top-3-ways-to-improve-your-mental-health |
Vaginal diseases common in women and their symptoms
Being a woman is hard, but obstetrics is even harder! Let's go over some of the issues that we need to pay attention to on this special day we celebrate all over the world. Gynecology Op. Dr. Çiğdem Yavuz Yurtsever brought together the main ailments related to gynecological diseases that we should pay attention to.
Beware of abnormal vaginal discharge! The fluids secreted from the glands on the walls and inside of the vagina and in the cervix provide the wetness necessary for the health of the woman. Vaginal discharge discomfort may occur when an increase or change in these fluids occurs. Normal vaginal discharge is clear and resembles liquid egg white, does not smell. Such currents are called physiological currents. However, newly emerged, dark yellow, green, brown, bloody, foaming, foul-smelling, pain and burning during urination and sexual intercourse, and discharges with symptoms such as abnormal bleeding are called infection-related discharges. Infections are treated with medication and vaginal tablets.
Polycystic ovary syndrome is seen in 1 out of every 10 women Our changing habits and lifestyles bring along new diseases. Polycystic ovary syndrome is one of these diseases. Polycystic ovary syndrome, which is seen in 1 out of every 10 women, appears with frightening statistical values.
If you need to know polycystic ovary syndrome closely; It is a disease that is characterized by enlargement of the ovaries and the formation of many small cysts, which paves the way for some hormonal problems in the person, and the cause of which is not known for certain today. Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common hormonal disorder in women. It is seen in 15-20% of women of reproductive age. Although there is no specific treatment for the disease, which manifests itself with male pattern hair growth, weight, lubrication, and menstrual irregularities, it is possible to control the symptoms it shows.
Menstrual irregularities can be a sign of other diseases!
Menstrual irregularity; It is different from the normal 28-day menstrual cycle in the frequency of menstruation, the amount and duration of bleeding. In other words, menstrual irregularity can be diagnosed if the menstrual frequency is less than 21 days, more than 35 days, or if the menstrual period is less than 2 days or more than 7 days.
Menstrual irregularities invite many diseases. These diseases; polycystic ovarian syndrome, uterine-ovarian diseases, thyroid disease etc. In this sense, menstrual irregularities should be considered and treated. The treatment phase proceeds as follows: In order to reveal the source of the problem, gynecological examination, ultrasonographic examination and simultaneously measurement of hormones secreted from the ovaries and other parts of the body are required. It should be noted that certain periods of the menstrual cycle are preferred when hormonal measurement. days)
Dysmenorrhea (Painful Menstruation) Pain during menstruation is called "dysmenorrhea". Menstrual pain is localized to the lower abdomen and may spread to the waist, back and legs. Pain It usually starts one day before menstruation begins. Especially the first day of menstruation is very severe and lasts for 2-3 days at most. Women with menstrual pain may also have complaints such as nausea, headache, constipation or diarrhea.
Causes of dysmenorrhea ;
Presence of the innermost layer of the uterus in the outer layers of the uterus or in an extrauterine region,
) Uterine tumors,
stenosis in the cervix,
Different positions of the uterus,
Uterine inflammation,
(980710) There is a close relationship between menstrual cramps and ovulation there is a relationship. In cases that do not respond to painkillers, eliminating ovulation with birth control pills can also eliminate menstrual pain. However, if this treatment method is not effective, a more detailed examination is required. For this, the abdominal cavity is examined by a method called laparoscopy by the physician. In this method, endometriosis is usually detected and its treatment is different.
Sexual dysfunctions harm the harmony between couples!
Sexual dysfunction or sexual dysfunction is a problem that affects both men and women intensely. Sexual dysfunction in women manifests itself as a decrease or loss of sexual desire, temporal incompatibility between men and women, orgasmic disorders, vaginismus, dyspareunia (pain in intercourse), and dissatisfaction with the sexual behavior of the man.
Psychological causes. These can be work-related stress and anxiety, worry about sexual performance, marital or relationship problems, depression, feelings of guilt, or the effects of a past sexual trauma.
The ideal approach to the treatment of female sexual dysfunction is a team effort between the woman, the doctor, and trained therapists. Most sexual problems can be corrected by treating the underlying physical or psychological problems. | eng | 56ea9f56-8caf-41f4-a0ca-6eca0ccce136 | https://healthylifelifestyle.org/vaginal-diseases-common-in-women-and-their-symptoms/ |
What are the positions in soccer?
What are the positions in soccer?
These positions cover the soccer field from the front to the back. In youth soccer, there may be 6, 7, 8, or 9 positions depending on the age of the players in the game. Below you will find positions, numbers, player roles, and formations for games of 6v6, 7v7, 8v8, 9v9, and 11v11.
Why do soccer teams have 9 players on the field?
Having 9 players on the field means there are now enough players to play two players in the position of offense rather than only one player while still maintaining the strength of the defensive and midfield. Having this extra player in an offensive position also means the team has an extra player in position to score when the opportunity comes up.
What is the formation of a 9v9 soccer game?
In a soccer game of 9v9, you will usually see players positioned in a formation of 3-3-2. Three players in defense, three in midfield, and two players playing offense. | eng | 1a4d8595-d93f-4ae7-bc3f-e9f4ad173710 | https://footballspotlite.com/what-are-the-positions-in-soccer/ |
Said Taylor: "All the globes, everywhere. I turn on the TV, there's globes in the background… Everywhere there's globes. You see them all the time, it's constant. My children will be like 'Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe' — they're everywhere."
She added: "That's what they do, to brainwash. For___________
The only thing she has to fear is sphere itself.
Just when I think "they can't get any lower...."
Apparently, MTG is not the only person in Georgia way the fuck off their meds. | eng | fa1e8c5f-052e-4fda-98dd-f0dadd8dd7dc | https://www.worldaffairsboard.com/forum/political-general-discussion/american-politics-economy/1596052-2023-american-political-scene/page10#post1599760 |
Students take on roles as mentors outside school
Students begin to mentor younger students, such as soccer players, outside of school.
As she watched the 9-year-old girl pass the ball to her teammate, junior Ketki Palande quickly checked the offsides line to see if it was a legal play. The player had passed the line of the second to last defender, Palande raised her flag straight up, and the center referee called an offside. Parents and coaches on the sidelines yelled and disagreed with her call, but Palande knew she was right, due to the hours of training she had endured before she became a youth soccer referee.
Palande decided to switch from playing soccer to refereeing when she was 12 after seeing her father referee games before.
"It was something I had always wanted to try, and once I began, I knew it was what I wanted to pursue," she said.
After volunteering as a referee at the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) for a year, Palande also started working and earning $25 to $35 per game as a referee at the California North Referee Association (CNRA). She usually spends two hours a week refereeing for each organization.
According to Palande, being a referee demands strong leadership skills and the ability to make decisions quickly. Her experiences have taught her to be confident in her choices.
"Even when you know you made the right call, you have to get used to uneducated parents screaming at you and making passive aggressive comments behind your back," she said.
Once, at a tournament semifinal game for U-12 girls, Palande made a tentative foul call when one of the girls was running at the goal.
"The parents were being rowdy and rude, but I stuck to my instinct," she said. "It was hard at first, but I've learned to assert myself, and I feel like I can keep a handle on the game very well now."
Nevertheless, Palande remains grateful for the people she has met through her time learning to referee.
"Saratoga AYSO is such a tight-knit group of people, and I'm glad that I've gotten to know all the referees, coaches, players and families really well," Palande said.
Another member of the AYSO community is senior Naman Sajwan, who coaches at AYSO for under-10 boys on Wednesdays and Fridays. He has been coaching for eight seasons, approximately four years. Sajwan began coaching as a freshman when he found out that his younger brother's team needed help, and has continued his passion ever since.
"I jumped up at the opportunity, and after a while I wanted to do it regularly because I loved it a lot," Sajwan said.
Sajwan teaches his players the drills that he has deemed most effective in his years of playing club soccer. His goal at practices is to make things as fun as possible by adding a competitive atmosphere to the drills so the kids have another incentive to work harder.
As the team's coach, he feels immense pride when his team perseveres. The team lost their first game of the season 5-1 against a tough team, but came back later in the season to defeat the same team 6-1.
"I like seeing kids carry out what they learn in practice into games, because it not only shows me they're developing as players, but that I'm teaching them the right things," Sajwan said.
Being a coach for years has taught him leadership and has helped him become a more patient and open-minded person.
"Working with young children offers a unique mindset that I'm not usually used to," Sajwan said. | eng | 1579cbf2-68ca-4c33-af19-58f132c1e89d | https://saratogafalcon.org/content/students-take-roles-mentors-outside-school/ |
The Mobile phone will be the gadget of necessity in the next generation
AI helps extract intelligence from data and can be useful in solving business problems like identifying fraud and manufacturing errors. It can be extremely useful even in the area of public health where AI can be used to detect heart conditions and brain tumours in individuals.
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It becomes therefore imperative for everyone to be equipped with these skills in order to survive, however it is unfortunate that women who constitute more than half of the world's population are still lagging behind on this gravy train. While some like Dhawani Tirverdi have seized the day by acquiring these skills which will set them up in industry, only a few women have shown any real interest.
According to statics revealed during the Mobile Learning Week conference hosted by UNESCO and ITU in March, women recorded a 12 % usage of internet as compared to their male counterparts. Furthermore, girls in schools shy away from taking up careers in ICTs even though scientific evidence reveals that they have as much capacity as their male counterparts to take on the demands of ICT studies.
Naked Truth(NT) caught up with Dhawani Tirverdi(DT) a first-year student of Electronics and Communication Engineering to discuss all things ICT and her theory that in the next decade the mobile phone would be the gadget of choice as compared to the laptop and tablet.
Please watch a video where Dhawani demonstrates her theory on the mobile phone being the most important gadget going forward.
Below are excerpts from the interview:
NT: You're a very intelligent young woman who is well poised and articulate and you have a shot at having any career but why did you choose to study Electronic engineering?
DT: I am actually studying Electronics and Communication Engineering which is Electronics and Communication in India but Electronics and computer outside. We, in fact, a lot of common subjects as well. Technology was my passion and love and will be forever. And as I do come from such a background, like the inspiration and motivation for me is my dad as he is in professor inTechnical education, I always see him working and developing something since I grew up, due to that I find being a part of it and working and pursuing ICT as career really interesting. So along with my interest, and my Dad being a part of it I really got a motivation to pursue EC as a career option.
NT: How did you as a first-year student in Engineering manage to get a slot to make a presentation at the Mobile Learning Week (MLW)?
DT: As I got to know that the theme of this MLW in UNESCO, "Skills for connected world" and ITU will be a part of MLW, I felt that this conference would be really helpful for me as I come from that particular field of interest and AI (Artificial Intelligence) is going to be the future digital skill and the other thing of interest was also the Ethics which I also talked about. I think that I became one of the presenters at the MLW because I am very passionate about it and I have done a lot of research on the area. When a call for proposals was made, I submitted mine and I guess my proposal got selected.
NT: In your presentation at the MLW you mentioned that in the next generation, there would be no need for PC'S and Tablets as the mobile phone would be the main gadget people will use. Could you elaborate how this would help in a workplace set up where communication is usually via email and documents are shared on virtual platforms?
DT: It's actually like our previous generations they did get PC's to work on. The thing which I mentioned in my presentation was about the technology access in future. In future, there will be a scenario where children will be getting mobile phones at first place instead of computer and laptops and they will be having knowledge about what computer is before they work on it. So it will be really helpful.
NT: The general consensus at the MLW Conference was that there was a need for more women in ICTs, why do you think that most young women are not opting for courses in ICT?
DT: I don't have much idea about other countries but there is no such kind of scenario in India as a maximum number of women are in ICT sector and are very successful as well. There may be different situation according to different countries.
NT. Do you feel that there is something that is preventing girls from taking up careers in ICTS?
DT: No, I don't really think there are any issues standing in the way for girls being a part of ICT sector or if any, one of the reasons could be because of the financial crisis but Government of India provides a lot of schemes for financial support to keep the girls engaged.
NT: What advice would you give young girls out there who are keen on a career in ICTs
DT: I would just like to say to the girls who are keen on a career as ICT is to keep up their work in AI in ICT as future will be dependent on such criteria | eng | 1bf3348b-d073-4673-96f8-388b785b906b | https://www.thelmachikwanha.com/2018/05/the-mobile-phone-will-be-gadget-of.html |
I intimated earlier in the series that there is no such thing, broadly speaking, as an unsuccessful Elder Scrolls game. The least you can expect of any main franchise entry is success on its own terms, at its own goals, in its own era. This doesn't guarantee it'll still be a success tomorrow or would have been one yesterday.
By the standards of the previous game, Oblivion is a ponderous misshapen clunker that takes every opportunity to shunt the player off the precipice of immersion. And by the standards of the next game, Oblivion is a ponderous misshapen clunker that takes every opportunity to shunt the player off the precipice of immersion. It was a transitional fossil that managed to stand proudly on its own, but it's somehow more difficult to return to than Daggerfall was.
Part of this is because "the day" was one of the most interesting periods in the franchise's history–not to mention the history of games marketing and development.
I like Oblivion quite a bit, and I'm about to say some unkind things about it, so let's balance that with positive captions. This screenshot was obtained on short notice and basically at random by loading a save. It's gorgeous.
It's difficult to explain today the culture of expectations that surrounded Oblivion for a year before release. Morrowind's preorder crowd back in the early oughts had been meager and cultish, and while its promises drew positive attention from the gaming press, it had to wait until after release to generate most of its excitement. Not so with Oblivion. For the first time, the studio had fans ready to hang on every blog post and leaked screenshot, and they made magnificent use of that resource.
Every announcement to do with Oblivion was breathtaking. Every new feature leaked or demoed represented a new frontier, an unprecedented degree of perfect simulation. Objects obey realistic physics. Arrows have arcs and lodge in soft materials. NPCs have lives, personalities, habits, schedules. Spells have different physics depending on materials and can produce different effects on subjects depending on what element is being used. Games before took place in static unyielding matte paintings, set dressings made to give a cheap impression of a fantastic world; Oblivion, by every breathless report, was nothing less than virtual reality.
Morrowind dabbled in environmental storytelling for dungeons and wilderness environments. Oblivion is when Bethesda really got good at it. Case in point: dead treasure hunter surrounded by traps. Neat!
Which hardly makes sense to a modern observer. These days it's very easy to see features announced for a game and realize that what we see demoed at conventions really is all there is to it–if not more than there is to it. It would be easy today to see Oblivion's promised features list and be impressed at the new engine tricks without presuming these skillful and discrete artifices to be, in fact, incidental offshoots of the same ambitious never-before-seen comprehensive world simulation extravaganza. But back then, with so much having changed behind closed doors, it was easy to believe our dream game was somehow being made real. Santa existed and he worked at Bethesda.
I was on the tip of the hype spear back then. Impressionable people like me didn't look at the previews and see a pretty immersive videogame; we saw a world that had a pretty cool videogame inside of it.
I remember how the official forums felt. People began to play the imagined perfect game in their heads long before boxes of the real one hit shelves. Everyone had their characters all planned out, everyone had their backstory written up–people were hatching assassination plots and writing fanfiction about them. I remember the tone of thread titles: "What's the first thing you're going to do when you're out of the dungeon?" "What's your character's motivation?" "What's your build going to be like?" People made a lot of detailed plans. Basically all of them would turn out to be impossible.
This was a time when the internet was really hitting its stride as a flashpoint of hype and speculation and hadn't fully realized its role as a megaphone for bitter cynicism. It helped that that the PR was perfectly handled, sharing just enough details about the game to enkindle feverish fantasies and never enough to ruin them. Previews were less exposition and more narrative. Depictions of gampeplay were vanishingly thin on the ground and usually cloaked in abstract possibilities suggested by the mechanics.
Think about the possibilities. Think about how great this will be. This game will blow your mind. You won't be able to believe it.
It's not fair to judge Oblivion against the impossible game we all dreamed up. But I do think it's fair to say that this hype actually enhanced early appreciation of the game as much as it harmed it. I remember how for months of gameplay I was gobsmacked by the idea that we finally had a game where NPCs got hungry, got sleepy, went to work, had friends, had principles and desires, had a routine–how I thought to myself, this is a revolution. This is the future of games. And I remember the moment I realized that The Sims had come out six fucking years ago. Was it harder to implement that kind of Mundane AI in an RPG? Probably. But in retrospect, I felt a bit silly for having been so blown away by it when we'd seen the same shit in a franchise that had already generated its own belated sequel.
Pretty much every major population center in this game has its own style. This is Cloud Ruler Temple. It's like a refuge for Ancient Roman anime nerds.
Every game in the Elder Scrolls series has something it's built around, something it does better than the rest of the franchise. These strengths aren't just the result of the right team, or the right iterative design, or just plain dumb luck: they're the logical conclusion of everything the game is and is trying to be. Arena was a romp across a vast and ambiguous world of sorcery and monsters, a grand and classical adventure. Daggerfall was a game of dead-drops, conspiracy, and fully-realized political dynasties with a palpable texture of interactive intrigue. Morrowind provided unforgiving objective challenges set against an alien landscape, and transported the player body and soul to a breathtaking world realized to the limit of its technology and not a step further.
Oblivion's goals were more direct. Oblivion isn't about texture or narrative or universe in any sort of discrete sense. It's about energy. Oblivion never wants you to stop running.
The docks are my favorite part of the cities. Oblivion kept the moon-gravity Agility system and added it to attractive environments full of objects to spring from, which made getting around town appealing.
You can start by taking that as literally as possible on the most fundamental tactile level. Your stamina stat used to deplete if you ran. In Oblivion,running just makes your energy regenerate more slowly. When you ran low on magicka previous games had you rest in a bed or in the wilderness; Oblivion recharges it in realtime. And that's just your stats–the world is built even more around efficiency and convenience.
There's no more wandering the wilderness looking for the right identical mudshack, no more interminable cross-country hikes looking for the right hill and tomb door in an endless sea of brown hills and tomb doors. In fact, you'll never get lost again. No matter how far up a dungeon's drainpipe you get stuck or how far from the road you've roamed, the handy-dandy compass provides a quest arrow to point towards the objective or most convenient exit leading there. Even if the entire rest of your screen was blacked out you could probably beat an Oblivion quest just by following the red and green markers–so long as you didn't care about looking at environments or trying to follow what's going on in the story.
Done with the quest now? Getting home's never been easier. If you want to go anywhere you've been before, you just fast travel. No cost or downside involved. If it's one of the game's many major towns you can fast travel there even if you've never been before. This was possible for a price in every game priorâ€"in Arena this was because there was no intervening territory to travel manually through, in Daggerfall this was because the world was stupidly massive and cumbersome to traverse, and in Morrowind, this was only possible at certain fast-travel vendors. Oblivion offers free and practically unrestricted usage. It wants you to be questing–not wandering towards a quest, not wandering back from a quest, but questing. The only places you can't fast travel to at a moment's notice are dungeons you haven't visited yet.
Another theoretically welcome change: die rolls for combat and spellcraft are deadfiled with all the other old-school tabletop-era abstractions. Now attacks always hit on mark and spells always cast successfully. Character skill speaks to damage, maneuvers, and spell knowledge instead of percent chance of doing fuck all. On paper the effect was probably comparable; I'll reserve a discussion of practice for an in-depth examination of the combat system later. Suffice to say, featuring combat as a key selling point of the game was a sea change for the franchise.
The NPCs in Oblivion are jackrabbits, plain and simple, and they are determined not to waste a second of your time. Everyone you talk to opens by telling you who they are and how they're different from the rest of the herd: I am Balthus and I am obsessed with dogs. I am Remayne and I'm grouchy and tired. I'm hardly exaggerating the blunt, unguarded frankness with which they make their introductions, and once those are cleared they're not interested in chatting much either. For the first time, dialogue menus are constrained only to relevant options. No more wiki-style nexus of universal topics; for every character you've now got a pool of rumors and maybe one or two other relevant subjects handpicked for that actor or actors of that narrow class. Oh, but don't worry: if they've got a quest, they'll tell you all about it. They'll tell you all about it right away.
NPCs move about everywhere. Everyone's in motion. Everything's voice-acted. Everything's a quest hook, and every quest hook is doable right now. Everything is happening everywhere at once. Players never had to struggle to successfully inhabit the world of Cyrodiil–getting in and getting things done was effortless.
You can see how Morrowind begat Oblivion. You can see how new technology made gripping, immersive fights more desirable than awful frustrating dice games. You can see how the ability to smoothly integrate a compass to make sure players don't get lost greatly improves how many players stick with things and complete a quest or two. You want voice acting, and if you've got it, you better make everything to the point or you're going to be recording dialogue until 2043. You want to make the most immersive and immediate and god-damn futuristic sequel to Morrowind your better-every-sequel earnings can buy. So that's just what you do.
And the result is a game that couldn't feel more different from its parents if it was about a magical girl dentist.
The one new element that stands out the mostâ€"and the one I think is most overlooked in favor of more measurable mechanical changesâ€"was Oblivion's confident and prolific use of scripted, animated events. Arena and Daggerfall didn't contain anything you could really call a "scene," unless you're talking about the agonizing cutscenes of the former and FMV/prerendered videos of the latter. Morrowind mostly knew its limits. It could make people hit marks, say lines of dialogue while standing with their arms at their side, and turn hostileâ€"and it could only do those things while the player was otherwise occupied. Generally the dialogue happened during a frozen menu. If it was spoken, the player was rooted to the ground so they couldn't interfere. Its NPCs lacked the grace of finger puppets and problem solving of a stunned ox, so there weren't really grand ambitious scenes, and the story was mostly told through documents, static conversations, and journal entries after fights and acquisitions. Which worked perfectly fine–but probably frustrated a lot of the game's writers.
Oblivion enacts mini stage plays whenever it's appropriate and at least a few times it really isn't. Walk into a room and an NPC calls out to you and impels you to converse. A gate to Oblivion opens, watch the captain gather the men and make a speech. You've stolen the artifact, watch two NPCs exposit to each other what it is before one of them dies unstoppably. While this newfound gift of scripting is a boon to storytelling in some cases, it does reflect poorly on the player's role in the narrative; there's a tangible sense of going from an independent agent to the lead actor of a prewritten drama. Literally the first thing a new player is required to do in Oblivion is hit a mark. Immediately after doing this the player's controls are frozen until they have interacted with four nonplayer characters, none of whom can die unless you count the predetermined and immutable death scenes reserved for three of them.
As I did my five-game TES playthrough I came across two really jarring transitions. The first one was when I went from the wearyingly janky and untouchable 2D engines of the first two games to the sweet, blessed, console-enabled modern engine of the third. The second hard transition was going from a game that had no dramatic events to a game defined by them.
So if Oblivion consistently sacrifices control and agency for storytelling, the question raised is: is it worth it?
Well–yes. And I'll talk about why next week dunno. I feel like Oblivion's thing was the cities, or more accurately, everything that happens in them — Morrowind's were larger and more interesting in terms of straight-up architecture. But the non-combat quests, the characters, all that stuff. The stuff that just isn't there at all in Skyrim.
Which is why even though Skyrim is a lot more playable — Oblivion's a very punishing game, right down to that jarring stagger animation — Oblivion is by orders of magnitude the superior game. Or, more precisely, the superior Elder Scrolls game. Honestly it comes down to the Speech skill. Oblivion has a disposition stat, and that changes *everything*. Suddenly the world is a networked place, with depth. Oh, and having characters that act like people rather than spewing canned lines when you walk past them doesn't hurt.
Also: this is ancient, but I'd been listening to some old Diecast episodes lately, and TES lore has come up a couple times. My honor was insulted by the assertion that the lore isn't much to see, so in retaliation, here have a Kirkbride quote:
"KINMUNE (Kinetically-Interlinked Nirnian Multi-User Exoform) started her existence as any other proxy-synthetic of the 9th Era aurbical mining guilds: a limited sentience deep-pressure capable "thot-box"""a dreamsleevishell used by remote mortal operators to run the rigs of Kynareth's illicit breath trade. Able to stream several live-wire mortal proxies at once, Kinmune was a top-of-the-line Hazardous Conditions Warprunner Exoform of an ayleidoon hegemony nearing another unceremonious end.
But then the Hist-Jilian wars spilled out of a Wheelian rip into the SubSys slice of 'brane-space, and things changed for Kinmune. With the outer colonies separated from Nu-Mundelbright chronoculic sync-net anchors, maintenance of space-time beyond the F-Shores faltered. As the barely-there Hist blink-root-ship armada fired an artillery barrage of 16th-dimensional mathematics at their Jilian enemies, impossipoint detonations stippled across the Ix-Egg and its clutch-satellites like some garish TalOSian hologram, only without the irony. Kinmune's synthetic body, caught in one of the blasts, suddenly found itself in the Ysgramorim, her mind an aggregate of the residual personalities of her last several users."
Oblivion, punishing? Aside from disastrously-implemented level scaling that needlessly invalidates non-combat-optimized characters, no way. Oblivion's combat may be slow as the march of glaciers and perpetually unrewarding, but the only punishment in any part of Oblivion is the fact that you're playing Oblivion, and not a good game.
Oblivion has a disposition system. Yes. Have you seen Oblivion's disposition system? The most broadly, thoroughly panned feature of the entire game, that in no way simulates personal interaction and, in a very real sense, undercuts it entirely with an almost mockingly-terrible simulacrum?
I think there's an important distinction to be made between "lore" and "fanfiction." I think there's another distinction to be made between "ideas that interest you" and "ideas that have ever been or will ever be in an Elder Scrolls game." I think there's a third distinction to be made between "good lore, which facilitates telling interesting stories" and "tedious lore, which complicates cliched stories and exists for its own sake." Finally, I think there's a wide gulf between "interesting, creative, if ultimately extraneous non-canon thought experiment" and "dire, droning, purposelessly obtuse alt-verse fanon-wank that serves no end but conveying how clever the author thinks they are."
I feel I need to argue that, though the disposition system wasn't the best, at least they tried. I know that you can get instances like the thieves guild quest that you have to return the icestaff to a former mages guild member, and if you are high enough in the mages guild he will try to kill you on sight. I know that it isn't like how people act and get to know each other, but it was just a failed attempt of something that you could probably have made much better if they ever tried again. Which they didn't, and I actually feels like it detracts from Skyrim. I never felt like I was flirting with a shopkeeper so that I could sell them this jewel for a greater value. I never felt like I was manipulating someone into thinking "He/She couldn't be the killer, they're just so nice,", and I never felt like I was there. Also I agree that the combat in oblivion is lacking, but I never had a situation that I felt like it was punishing me for not specializing in combat. I just did other quests, ones that didn't involve fighting, and run like hell whenever I got attacked by a bear. Which reminds me that I need to do that run of a pacifist character that completes the main story. Most of the other ones just wondered around until they were rich, and owned all the houses in the game that weren't faction specific.
Also sorry if I have been rambly, but I think I got my point across.
This is the thing that really frustrates me about TES. The lore is really dense and heavily emphasized in the games. You can't walk through two rooms without finding a half-dozen books on the history, mythology, and folklore of this world, and they clearly put a lot of effort in making it seem "real" with conflicting accounts, personal bias, and lost (or suppressed) perspectives. But for the most part, it's completely divorced from the rest of the game. This massive sprawling history with all the interesting connections to be made doesn't really impact the events of the present story, which is usually focused on what's happening right now and what's happened in the last 100 years or so (with enough intervening time that they don't really need to worry about continuity with previous TES games). And it doesn't have any kind of thematic connection to the rest of the game either.
Mass Effect is a series that had a richly-developed lore that directly impacts the events of the story. Those historical events directly touch the characters and decisions we make in the game. Conversely, the lore in Dark Souls doesn't really affect the story of the game. You can get as good an idea of what's going on without really learning it at all as you can by obsessing. But there the backstory mirrors the tone and themes of the game – the struggle for understanding or significance in the face of inevitable death and decay. The Elder Scrolls series does neither. It informs a few minor quests or a couple characters or why some city or dungeon is the way it is. But it doesn't inform the wider events at play, or make them mean anything more, it's just a cool side-story in this world that Bethesda's writers came up with.
I've got to say, I actually like how the lore tends to de-emphasize the events of the game. Yes, you're saving the world from an evil god, but this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, and as long as you succeed, it won't be the last either. World-shaking conflict is the world's natural state.
My honor was insulted by the assertion that the lore isn't much to see, so in retaliation, here have a Kirkbride quote
Yeah…. that quote doesn't do much actual retaliating. More reinforcing.
Kirkbride is great as an idea-guy. But the dude needs a filter. And don't get me started on his prose. He always struck me as one of those types who mistakes "makes no sense" with "deep". And I'll never forgive him for that "Pelinal is a time-travelling robot" nonsense.
Kirkbride's concept art is pretty consistently awesome though.
That said, TES lore can be fun to dig around in. I mean, here's what's basically the plot of Skyrim and the Dragonborn DLC:). SoThe site seems to have hiccuped and I lost editing privileges. So here's the slightly improved version of the above silliness:
) and starting a plan to turn the All-Maker's Stones into Towers, which would allow him to mantle the All-Maker (who is theorized to another interpretation of Akatosh).
SoI don't see a problem with this. The gods in TES are very, very powerful actors but not in fact the omnipotent forces we would tend to assume the Christian god is/would be.
So, Akatosh has goals. But he uses champions (the dragonborn), and surprise! Those pesky mortals have their own ideas about how to use terrible power. The good champion has to face and defeat the evil champion. To me this is a perfectly satisfying story.
As to Alduin being an aspect (lesser aspect?) of Akatosh, I'm also prepared to enjoy a set of gods with conflicting aspects. Akatosh is Time, after all. I'm not hugely read up on the details of the lore, but time is creator and destroyer, and if you told me that your pantheon had a creator figure who was the embodiment of time, and he had to fight his destroyer aspect in order to keep creation going, I'd think that was pretty cool!
Edit: I thought you were criticizing. And then I read your comment again and… maybe you were critical? Or maybe I'm defending the game against you praising it? Sorry, I'm tired and confused.
I thought you were criticizing. And then I read your comment again and… maybe you were critical? Or maybe I'm defending the game against you praising it? Sorry, I'm tired and confused.
I was criticizing kirkbride.
And then to say that TES Lore can be still be fun I pointed out something silly (and what I thought was neat) about Skyrim's plot.
As to Alduin being an aspect (lesser aspect?) of Akatosh
Both are aspects/shards of the "Oversoul" (referred to as Aka or Aka-Tusk). TES is setting where belief shapes reality. Basically different groups of people worshipped the same entity under different names and atributed differnt characteristics to it, and said entity sort of started to develop a serious case of dissociative identity disorder.
That's one theory at least.
The other is the the Oversoul Aka has different faces for different roles. Auri-El being the beginning of time, Alduin the end of time and Alkosh maintanace of time. And then Akatosh being a dick rewrote time so he always existed and started screwing the other faces over.
And there are various more theories.
Oblivion is the one Elder Scrolls game I find massive difficulty in returning to, and playing. While others have their merits that make them stand out as I play them, I can't help but feel, when I boot up Oblivion that I am just playing a worse version of Skyrim.
I'd dive into this concept in depth, but I have a feeling I'll have something to say on them as Ruts continues the series and prefer to keep it relevant to this topic in particular.
I personally was fully on the Oblivion hype train. I was ready to trust again after getting bombed on by Fable; a game i enjoyed but was clearly and obviously nowhere close to what was suggested it was going to be. I didn't do any kind of planning for my character beyond I was making a Khajiit, just like my character in Morrowind.
I remember going through that first dungeon remembering a preview stated that when the first dungeon ended, it would judge you, the way the questions did in Morrowind. I was pretty excited, because in Morrowind they gave me a thief class that fit perfectly… At the end of the dungeon, despite using a dagger and sneaking the whole time it gave me some generic warrior class, which I disregarded and replaced with one that actually fit me.
I'm not sure how much depth Speech ("disposition") really affected things; if your Fame and Speech skill were high enough, people would give you quests (otherwise, no.) Merchants were affected by Speech (and Mercantile), but all it did was give you better prices.
Worse, it wasn't difficult to break the Speech skill by crafting magic. It was trivial to create a Charm spell (increasing an NPC's disposition to you) that would max out disposition; it didn't have to last long at all, since time froze while you were in conversation, and casting it wouldn't turn NPCs hostile. Since it would be short, it would be cheap to cast, meaning even the most dunder-headed warrior could safely use it.
Now maybe that falls into the category of "things only veteran players do," but I don't think that fully negates the shortcomings of the system.
Essentially the whole speech thing just gives the impression, if nothing else, that people are reacting to you. It makes them a bit more than quest dispensers. It's kind of hard to pin down what was lost, I suppose.
Plus, I sort of feel like I have to defend Oblivion, largely because I have a horrible, unshakable suspicion that the criticisms boil down to everyone inexplicably hating pretty, lush environments and preferring ugly washed-out beige gameworlds like Skyrim.
The environment was one of the only good things about Oblivion. Too bad that technical limitations kept the render distances too short, bad implementation made the various landmarks appear in low-poly versions at the wrong distances, and the scale made fast travel the only reasonable way to traverse it.
I've played Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, and I have to say that while I find Morrowind incredibly fascinating and Skyrim probably the best environmental realization of a province of Tamriel, Oblivion is the most fun.
Morrowind is the best to think about while not playing the actual game, or to mod so hard it's not even itself. The world is wonderfully alien and doubles down on its premise at all times, which is really cool. More than any other game it does what all fantasy should do, it gives the player a chance to experience something different for a while. That said, the writing is a lot like late 90s-00s JRPGs in that it is only tolerable because you don't have to hear it.
Skyrim is the best to plop down and avoid quests. It has good RPG feels, whether camping out with hunters or mining or plunking an arrow at foes, however the quests are probably the furthest from a P&P RPG in terms of player agency, and that ruins replayability in many ways.
Oblivion seemed to embrace the sandbox side of things more than other entries, at least for me. The disposition system, as well as the spellcrafting system and the loose radiant schedules made for fresh situations every time I came back to Cyrodiil, as well as the vaguest sense of a breathing ecosystem. Late game I liked to put on 100% chameleon and just watch, following Alessia Caro and her train of hanger's on as they wander into roving Minotaurs, or arming the Elven Gardens district with daedric weapons and stat boosting hoods and setting them off in a massive battle royale. I loved seeing random events break out without warning, the mages and battlemages at the university fighting to the death in one playthrough, a bunch of low character beggars gettings wiped out by the guards after trying to steal, a skooma addict making the long trip to get his fix. Morrowind tells me that people are who they are. Oblivion, for better or worse, shows me. If I help someone, they might just come to my aid in battle, and if I stocked them well, they might be badass. With the right spells, you can get a whole town to follow you into a nearby cave to clear it out. It's fun. Broken, but whatever.
Add to that some really great quests that had a few paths to resolution and I find myself coming back. I avoid most dungeons (which are generic and brown, but due to the fuzzy edges of level scaling sometimes feature a bunch of monsters fighting each other in a really epic way) and the countryside is pretty but forgettable, but I like how much Oblivion simulates. I play a lot of RTS and grand strategy games that have embraced rpg elements for the better (CK2 is incredible), and I really wish Bethesda would see what was available in that direction more than their wandering eyes for MMORPGs. It would have been so cool to have a civil war that plays out without player intervention or a predetermined ending, if the player chooses another path.
I slogged through Skyrim (sans DLC, because the GOTY version has never dropped to $5 or so, and I refuse to re-buy the whole game and the DLC for $20, if that's the lowest their sale price drops to), and if nothing else, I found the exploration fun. I've had the GOTY version of Oblivion for years now, and I've never played past… I'm not sure what level, actually.
My first run through, I did it without any guides or anything, and soon found myself playing a hopeless character that couldn't survive any of the Oblivion gate fights. After reading that everything levels with you and that the skills are fudged up all to heck, I gave up on it for a while. Later, I realized I could mod the game into sensibility and… I got bored, I think. I got to the point where I found this special book for Martin and was working on finding him some armor, I believe, and then it just all seemed so repetitive. I know keeping on with the main quest is usually a mistake in Bethesda games, but I wanted to run through it at least once.
Maybe there's some cool stuff to be found in there somewhere, but it's a slog.
I liked the Thieves Guild quests. I was so disappointed in Skyrim when I discovered how much they suck… I spent the entire time hoping they'd get better and they just never did. :(
It's like, in Oblivion, there's this whole elaborate thing with the Grey Fox, and you go through all this preparation, and you steal an effin' ELDER SCROLL and break a curse placed by a Daedric Lord herself, and you really feel like this super awesome thief.
And then in Skyrim it's like "lol we're nasty thugs now and while you might think this questline is about restoring the honor, such as it is, of the Thieves Guild, it's actually a bunch of plot holes strung together by following other people into dark caves and not actually much stealing, all things considered. Also you can kill people which completely negates what's fun about stealing in the first place."
Ultima 7, 1992. Or maybe Serpent Isle?
Every named NPC had a routine. Indeed you can alter their routine using the included cheats, meaning you can see exactly how it works.
I took an alchemist and re-directed them to brew in my secret base so I could steal his potions. Also because alchemists make their cauldron glow decorative colours while brewing. You don't need potions, mind – it's just that, obviously, secret bases need an alchemist, and if you don't steal the potions they despawn.
That said, when barmaids deliver whole wheels of cheese, they do so with a walk or combat animation. The patrons eat the cheese with either the same animation or no animation at all, and either way it simply vanishes the way it simply appears.
I love U7. Both parts had NPC schedules that made the environment feel real. My sister and myself used to build houses, stealing precious building materials which would stay put using the hackmover, abducting NPCs and rewriting their schedules.
And I remember the moment I realized that The Sims had come out six fucking years ago.
Yeah… I remember seeing the hype for Oblivion and thinking: "Wait; didn't they do that 20 years ago in Ultima?" I mean, I _loved_ Oblivion when I played it, but it's interesting to see an article from the point-of-view of someone who was wrapped up in the hype, because I remember being distinctly unimpressed by the pre-release claims.
Level-scaling. 'nuff said.
Terrible main quest that counsels urgency in a game that doesn't.
Extremely linear and boring guild quests.
No politics between factions beyond some odd scripted quests that wouldn't affect your standing with either side.
Quest compass – this seems minor but is actually huge because the whole quest system is designed around it, making it boring and unimaginative.
Neutered spells and skills – no, not streamlined, neutered.
Less open world than Morrowind – cities were separate entities from the world.
You know,going from morrowind to oblivion is kind of backwards.Back in the old days of tabletop gaming,we had systems that focused purely on mechanical.Combat,dungeons,loot and npcs that served only to direct you to the next dungeon to loot.Then later these systems would add flavor,interesting people,and stuff that is not just combat and loot.Here,we have a reverse trend.Its weird.
I could play a game about a magical girl who fights plaque with the power of Love and Dentistry. Given the number of games on Steam now there's probably one with this very concept coming out each month.
I don't know if it will warrant an entry in the series, but I feel that Horse Armor deserves mention somewhere. For those who never got into this:
Elder Scrolls games, starting at least with Morrowind, were incredibly popular for the modding community. People made countless add-ons for the game on their own; even now, people say the only "real" way to play an Elder Scrolls game is on the PC, so you can mod the game. The developers also made additional material (i.e. DLC) for the game, and this was during the era when bonus content was free.
The very first DLC for Oblivion was a tiny little package that would let you buy armor for the horses you could ride in the game. This was a rather minor convenience; horses were an interesting new addition to the franchise, but many people chose to avoid them for a variety of reasons.
The Horse Armor DLC cost ~$3 to purchase. I don't know if this was the first instance of microtransactions or paid DLC in the industry, but it was the first exposure to it many of us had at the time. It certainly seemed like a transitional moment in the relationship between developers and players at the time.
The fans were really upset about it. What had been free in previous eras was now offered at a cost. Even though the Horse Armor was hardly worth adding to the game. Even though the cost was innocuous.
Bethesda's only concession was to package much of the small DLC (such as Horse Armor and Magic Tomes) together when the notable expansions were later released.
To be fair, the reason why cosmetic DLC has become kinda normal is due to free to play games mostly. Locking a lot of content behind paywalls is a good way to stagnate your game quickly. but give people some moderately price cosmetic choices and make them enjoy the game enough to be invested and you actually have a good chance of making a bit of money.
Though now it is being used in games that just straight cost money which just feels a little… awkward.
Bear in mind it was a different time, like Retsam said above aesthetic DLCs are now the golden standard but at the time a lot of gamers thought it insane that someone could charge for a purely visual addition to a single player game. There were also some other issues:
Firstly, even if this was a silly tidbit with little to no influence on the game some people felt that without it they weren't getting "complete game"… for those people it was basically charging several bucks extra on top of what they already paid, in addition there was a feeling that the backlash needs to be expressed very strongly or the devs could keep charging people more and more for a long time. While we can argue if the compulsion to get a game complete in this particular manner is reasonable take a look at, say, Saints Row 3 aesthetic DLC and compare it to the price of the base game right now…
Secondly, some people were annoyed that Bethesda was working on this rather than focusing on bigger projects in the style of the Morrowind expansions. The marketing campaign surrounding the damn thing and presenting it as the best thing since sliced bread didn't help.
Thirdly, though I think this didn't shift to the forefront of the discussion, there was some concern in parts of the modding community. Ranging from this DLC turning into a possible gate for mods due to dependencies to some people being actually worried Bethesda could clamp down on purely aesthetic mods because they'd be worried those could interfere with their paid content (say, if you wanted to release new hairstyles but Bethesda had a similar idea).
Building off of that, it's also the simple fact that the industry (mostly MS, as I remember it) was pushing DLC as the next big thing, a revolution in how games were made and played. And then, as a triumphant debut… Horse armor.
It was an aesthetic DLC? I remember that happening, and all this time I thought that the horse armor pack let you actually, y'know, increase the durability of your horse. If it was just for looks, then that's much less of a problem than I thought.
Eh, sort of. There were two types of armor added, Elven and Steel, which corresponded to light and heavy armor in the game. There wasn't a difference between them, however, and they only served to increase the health of the horse as well, rather than reducing damage.
It ended up being mostly aesthetic, though, because horses were kind of a pain to use in the game. Mounting/Dismounting was clumsy, especially if you found yourself entering combat. In fact, steering horses was also really clumsy. Horses would try to enter combat as well, and the armor did not bolster their durability enough to make that any less deadly for them.
The only real advantage they carried was being faster than you at early levels; by the late game, most players should have significant speed advantages over horses. Of course, the speed advantage becomes moot when you have to stop every 30 seconds to fight wilderness creatures.
Another part was the lack of fixes for pretty much anything. I don't actually know about the english version, but the german translation of Oblivion was atrocious. They shortened longer names into unrecognizable gibberish, a lot of text was mistranslated or even swapped with something completely different. On several occations the undertitles didn't match the spoken dialogue.
And the bugs! Believe it or not, but Oblivion was the only TES game I ever had a lot of problems with bugs and none of them ever got fixed. Because, apparently, they prefered making horse armor and little DLCs for the mages' observatory and whatnot. Yeah, we were outraged.
Sorry for being off-topic "Ruts", but GOG plopped an email in my inbox and they are having a -75% sale right now on: Deus Ex, Deus Ex Invisible War, Thief Gold, Thief II Metal Age, Tom Raider 1 & 2 & 3, Hitman Contracts, Omikron Nomad Soul.
They also have -75% sale on Europa Universalis III with all DLCs.
The sale ends on October 13th.
Lots of classic games here. If you don't have Deux Ex yet then this is the time to get it; I'd suggest even getting Deus Ex Invisible War, while many did not like the sequel I did. It's not as good as the first one but it does add to the whole of the Deus Ex universe (the "band" music in the game is also awesome).
Shamus has gushed about Thief and Thief II in the past, and I believe Rutskarn spoke favourably about Hitman Contracts.
Some of these games are very dated in graphics etc. But they are also game history and might be worth it just for that ore maybe if you are studying gaming/design/entertainment/programming/media/whatever.
So head over to gog.com if you haven't already.
@Shamus You should contact GOG and get a affiliate ID or something. There's room to promote a few old classic (rotate between them maybe?) on the right side under the patreon box.
Wait,omikron the nomad soul?I was hyped for that one back when it was first released,but then I missed it,and later I couldnt find it anywhere.I guess now is the right time to finally get my hands on that.
It's weird, it's got David Bowie in it (as a NPC, and he wrote songs for the game and he's got a ingame band).
The game lets you posses bodies/swap bodies (I won't reveal how/why as that is a part of the plot) and you get a chance to step into the life of somebody else.
Also the game itself is really weird, the controls are a bit clunky (it's like super old by modern standards).
If any game needed a remake this would be it (modern graphics, modern controls).
This is a Quantic Dream game (the developers behind Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit) and Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls etc) and in my opinion David Cage's best game.
The game is from 1999 (and it shows) and is held back by the technological progress.
Maybe one can dream of a Omikron: Nomad Soul II some day.
I can't recall but I think that the original release won't even run on modern systems.
So GOG is not just letting people play old games, but also helping to preserve them.
But I warn you, the game is really weird (probably why it has a cult following as well).
Urban chaos?Oh god,that game!Never finished that one because it only saves in the beginning of a level,and later there is one level that I spent over an hour on,hunting some secrets or somesuch,only to die and ragequit.
Its a good game,but the lack of saves mid level killed it for me.Just like the original hitman.
I suppose it's fortunate that, by the time I played Oblivion, all the hype had already been and gone. I wasn't much of a gamer when it was released (I was 13 and didn't even own any of the relevant gaming systems at the time), so I'd missed out on the controversies. It also probably helps that Oblivion was my first Elder Scrolls game (or at least, my first real one; I suppose on a spiritual level Fallout 3 could also be considered my "first Elder Scrolls game"), so I didn't really have any experience with the series to compare it to, which allowed me to experience the game in a vacuum, on its own terms.
It was actually in the months just before Skyrim would be released; Fallout 3 had left me with an itch for games of a similar ilk, and those Skyrim previews were piquing my interest more and more every day, so I figured I'd go back and play the game that came before it.
And, honestly? While I would definitely describe Oblivion as the overall weakest of the last three Elder Scrolls games (that is, the three I've actually played), I did enjoy it.
I do agree with the idea that each Elder Scrolls game has its own things that it does better than the others. Morrowind has the best setting, story, and themes. Skyrim has the best visuals and game feel.
And Oblivion has the best quests. Unique, interesting, delightful quests. A quest where I get to jump into a painting to fight pastel-coloured trolls. A quest that ends with the sky raining burning dogs. A quest where I use a spell to strip a whole roomful of rich prudes down to their underwear. A quest I could only start by getting ridiculously drunk to get my personality stat down low enough. The Dark Brotherhood party quest.
Despite being the Elder Scrolls game I've played the least of, I somehow found many of Oblivion's individual moments to be a lot more memorable.
I've never played Oblivion or Skyrim. Loved Morrowind though. Maybe there'll be a sale around Christmas and I'll get it. I guess if my PC had better specs I'd have tried Skyrim by now.
Sounds like if I'm going to, I should play Oblivion first. I bet I'll find leveled stuff to be annoying. Other people say just to lower the difficulty slider though. I did like planning out my levels in Morrowind for efficiency so maybe it'll be OK for me.
I tried OOO and it kicked my ass. I keep wanting to go back to Oblivion because I loved just wandering around, but the leveling system (groan). Pity there isn't a mod to stick Skyrim's leveling into Oblivion, that'd be awesome.
At least I always have tcai and tgm. Turn off combat AI, wander around safely, practice trick shots in ruins while skeletons stare at you.
Try Francesco's leveled creatures mod. It is a flexible package that basically just applies the Fallout 3/Skyrim enemy scaling to Oblivion rather than rewriting the whole system. It has a lot of options so you can tweak it as you like, but at a basic level it makes the game much more interesting and challenging while still being manageable.
My favorite mod is nGCD. It overhauls the class/skill system so that it makes sense, and also helps out with the auto-leveled content.
See, Morrowind and Oblivion both had this issue, where you did NOT want to pick class skills you actually planned on using. No, class skills are reserved for easy-to-control skills–like Illusion or Acrobatics–that you can increase on demand whenever you've earned enough non-class skill ranks to give you a decent attribute multiplier when you level up. Otherwise, your character winds up sub-optimal, because your attributes are based on what skills you gained between levels, and if you only gained increases in max skills that means you're only getting 20-30% of the stats you could be, and can wind up outclassed by auto-leveled enemies even if you focus on combat-specific skills.
nGCD tosses all that crap, and just straight-up calculates your stats and your level based on your skills. It will work with or without the auto-leveling and it will make roleplaying your character much easier and much more fun.
Just wanted to say that I tried to play the game the way you're saying, and it leads to the skills you actually use staying at pathetically low levels and never unlocking the perks. I went back to leveling the way the game intended.
Yeah, the first thing I always had to do to play this way was "break in" my character–jog over to Imperial City and buy a novice Conjure Skeleton spell, then proceed to spend the next few minutes beating on/magicking on skeletons until my skills were high enough to level on their own.
At least that's how combat skills worked–anything else had some other equally- or worse-contrived way of quick training, like custom "1 fire damage on self" spells or "Night eye for 1 sec on self" spells or "MAKE ALL THE CHEESE INTO FORTIFY STAMINA" potions, auto-sneaking in the corner of the local inn, repeatedly jumping off roofs that were just high enough to do slight fall damage for acrobatics…
It was a terrible system, all considered, but I just couldn't let those stat points go to waste.
I raised the speed stat by getting my character trapped up against a wall with auto-run turned on and just spammed the jump key. This took a while, and gave me time to reflect on the life choices that led me to the moment where I thought that smacking a button over and over for two hours was a worthwhile activity.
I guess cheating with the console is similarly pathetic. At least it takes less time?
I had figured, if I do play Oblivion, to start using a non-major skill weapon and level up with heavy armor, block, and/or armorer for maximum strength and endurance level ups. Maybe I'd do this until maximum endurance in 8-12 levels. Having all 3 of those as major skills would be annoying for the future though.
I think that Abnaxis' recommendation of nGCD is the way to go. Pick the skills you like and just play the game. Your stats will follow your gameplay. That's what I will do if I ever get the urge to play Oblivion again.
Not exactly the same as Skyrim though. You still pick major and minor skills, and level those up faster. You also still get perks for skill levels. The difference is that instead of picking stats to raise when you level up your stats just automatically go up with your skills.
This is distinct from Skyrim because you do still have stats, and they do still affect your game. You just don't have to engage in some OCD shenanigans to make sure that you get 5 stat points every level. If you use heavy armor your endurance will go up and if you cast spells your intelligence and/or willpower will increase, and so on.
As djw said, the differences are subtle, but IMO they are the difference between a boring dumbed-down rpg and an interesting system.
The big differences between nGCD and Skyrim are: first what race you choose actually matters, as opposed to every race playing basically the same. A sneaky Khajiit performs much differently than a sneaky Breton in nGCD, because stats are still there and they make a big difference–not only do Khajit have different base stats, but the racial skills they start with also adjust their attributes.
The second big difference, is that under nGCD you can cross-train to improve your character, i.e. you can indirectly better your character's Blades performance by training in Blunt, because both skills affect your Strength. That gives you a reason to pick skills even outside the ones you want to use when you are deciding on class skills–specialists and generalists both have their strengths and weaknesses.
Finally, IIRC nGCD weights non-combat skills like Mercantile and Speechcraft lower when it calculates your "effective level," so you aren't necessarily going to gimp yourself if you play a non-combatant.
I actually found a mod I liked that replicated Daggerfall's leveling system. When you leveled up, you got a set number of points to spend per level, that could be configured. I set it to 10. Sure, it's more than Daggerfall's 6, but the stats are lower, and it's not quite +5/+5/+5 (Which ends up overpowered anyway), but it's enough. Twice as many attributes as Diablo, twice as many attribute points. Seems legit.
It left me free to level my skills as I saw fit, while still having control in shaping my character
The reason to play Oblivion with a Skyrim-style leveling system is because of the world and quests in Cyrodiil. You can't become the Mad God in Skyrim.
Just don't bother leveling up at all. It works and you can easily beat the game because of the auto-leveling. The only bad thing about that is that you won't get much loot and you won't look very pretty but it does make the combat trivial, as you can still rank up your skills to the max level if you use those skills the most.
Interesting. I've read that weapon skill is the most important influence in your damage in Oblivion. This is much different from Morrowind, where weapon skills were just your chance to hit and strength was the bigger factor in damage along with the weapon.
Your description of the hype – and how you were caught up in it – very much reminded me of myself, prior to the release of Spore. I was part of the hype-machine. Moderator in a Spore fan-forum. A fan-forum even before the game existed! The very notion seems silly and stupid to my cynical eyes now.
Of course, the game could not keep up with expectations. I will always remember the cool people on the forum, and how I almost got to meet Will Wright. But Spore was the biggest, bitterest disappointment of my young, naive heart.
Oblivion has the distinction of being the one TES game I could mod into what I actually wanted to play. Morrowind had the stupid dice-rolls and Skyrim sucked all the depth out of character creation.
The way stat optimizing worked in Oblivion was crazy-pants non-intuitive, but with the right mods (nGCD for me, as described above) it could be a fun system. Unfortunately, with the inexorable progress of every TES game toward simplicity (sometimes a good thing, but Skyrim went too far), I don't think I'll ever see that sweet spot again.
Oblivion seemed good enough when I saw someone playing it, and I was pretty intrigued by the lore of "turns out this world is a failed/rebelled hell-dimension" (I think? It's been a while) so I went to rent it.
But then I didn't have the system Oblivion was on, so I rented Morrowind, and that was way too obtuse for me to figure out, so I never bothered with the Elder Scrolls series since.
But it didn't end up being any better than the likes of Ultima and Gothic had done years before. Apparently it just caused chaos when it was turned on, because the world hadn't really been set-up properly for it.
As for the combat, I was happy with the change at first but it got dull quickly. Most encounters played out in the exact same way, with the enemies charging at you while you spam attacks.
I was part of an Oblivion IRC Chat channel back before it released, and the hype was real. One of the Devs would come by occasionally and talk and hold impromptu Q&As. And I think it's this that disappointed me most. Because I offhand mentioned "Man, it would be cool if in the Oblivion realms, it's pretty much just mostly people living day to day lives." And the Dev unexpectedly responded "You don't know how close you are."
Now, it turns out that the Shivering Isles *was* this but this was mentioned before Oblivion was even released. But the attempts I made to get into Oblivion itself, I don't recall that ever happening and it was disappointing to my young mid-20s self.
"Character skill speaks to damage, maneuvers, and spell knowledge instead of percent chance of doing fuck all. On paper the effect was probably comparable; I'll reserve a discussion of practice for an in-depth examination of the combat system later."
There's such a huge difference between those two different systems that calling them "comparable" is a stretch. They both have derived quantities called things like "Average damage per attack", but comparing average damage from a high-variance system with average damage from a low-variance system is rarely meaningful. Given the choice in actual situations, one typically looks at the variance more than the average.
So back in the day I decided that I was going to 100% the Oblivion Gates. I blame schoolwork-induced madness–it was 2008 and I was three-quarters through an English degree. So for some reason…that was what I decided to do for fun, in between writing essays. Because apparently that wasn't enough pain.
So in explanation: once you hit a certain point in the main questline, Oblivion Gates will start randomly popping up around the countryside as you make your way through. These lead to little Silent Hillish pocket islands where you have to battle your way through a gore-soaked Daedra tower to grab the Sigil Stone, which will then drop you back where you started and close the gate. There are a total of 60 of these that can appear. You only have to close 1 to continue the main questline. I managed 59.
In order to find all of these, of course, there was no point in using fast travel. It…honestly felt kind of immersion breaking to use it anyway, so I think I only used it once or twice. I barely remember any of the quests. I only remembered the conversation wheel when somebody brought it up in the comments here. I remember….running up a snow-covered mountain in the middle of the night, nothing and nobody around, a soft breeze blowing the snow, and the sky completely clear and covered with stars. I remember jumping off a high cliff into a forest river and healing myself for half my health. I remember battling a freaking dinosaur that wandered out of a gate. I remember getting so damn sick of Oblivion Gates that I started not bothering to fight anything inside them, preferring to run past them, all the way up the tower, grab the sigil stone, and launch myself down the center of the tower, everything dissolving into white as the world vanished around me and left me back on Cyrodiil ground (as you can imagine, my athletic and acrobatic skills were amazing after a while). I remember so many Ayleid ruins and the strange and wonderful architecture and traps within. I remember how the foliage changed for the various directions you could go–some bushes and trees are more prevalent in the south, etc. I remember how the architecture in each city was different.
I remember…endless discussions about mudcrabs. Oh my god, the mudcrabs.
You're definitely crazy. There's only a handful of Oblivion layouts, so you must have seen the same zone/dungeon a dozen times over.
Actually, that's one of the weaknesses that the Elder Scrolls games face over all. Even for the "normal" dungeons, they all end up being rather repetitive after a while. Shivering Isles was when I noticed more effort on Bethesda's part to give personality and distinction to each individual dungeon, but even still . . . eventually, one cave looks like another, one fort seems like every other, one Ayleid ruin seems just like the last one.
Which wouldn't be so bad, except that there are so many of them. Questing and dungeon delving are the primary adventuring activities in these games, so that repetition can really get tiresome.
I was a huge fan of both Daggerfall and Morrowind, so I looked forward to Oblivion. I never really bought into the hype – there was plenty of cynicism to be found in the net back then, too, I guess it depends on age and what circles you run/ran in – but I still had high hopes that they'd deliver a similar game to Morrowind, but perhaps more Daggerfally. Or the other way around. Or something different, but like them.
Boy, was I disappointed. Oblivion was pretty much the end point of the ES series – I've never finished it, and have never really gotten very far in Skyrim, either. Neither holds my interest as much as either Daggerfall or Morrowind did. The shift from "numbers determine everything" to "player skill determines most, and numbers just make things easier" was something I never liked; it made TES far too similar to oh-so-many other series out there.
I played the hell out of both Oblivion and the Shivering Isles. To be honest, he only thing I really objected to was the auto-levelling, which was terrible. Otherwise, the world and quests (other than the pretty lame main quest) were a hell of a lot more exciting than the terribly drab ones in Skyrim. It's no Morrowind, but modded with OoO, it's far from terrible.
I think the connection between voice acting and reduced script length is overblown. Fate/Stay Night is fully voice acted despite having one of the longest scripts in video game history, much longer than Morrowind and roughly the size of Baldur's Gate II.
Hold up for a moment… Oblivion doesn't stand by today's Standards? If anything, it does more so than Skyrim. It even has enough gameplay to do so. Oblivion's hype was honest as it could get. You became the adventurer of your own story and, guided by the choices of a loose narrative, you were cast on your own as someone free to define his legacy. Granted, the main story is strict and ends strictly.
I don't like Oblivion. Whenever two or more melee enemies came into contact with me, the framerate would drop dramatically… it might have been a computer hardware issue if only that Fallout 3, which came out later (and I played that first) worked fine even when being attacked by melee wildlife or NPCs in large numbers.
However I will admit that I've probably played more Oblivion than I have of Skyrim and I've only actually finished Skyrim once (and I think I used mods) whereas Oblivion was done with several different characters and builds… without mods. And I think most of them were done without exploiting 100% Chameleon.
So yeah, I don't like Oblivion but at least I can finish a playthrough. | eng | 908ec612-32a6-494d-916b-8e945678ffb9 | https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=28910 |
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Carbon Monoxide
Dec 5 your home.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT CARBON MONOXIDE
CO is a serious health threat to those who are exposed, but installing and maintaining detectors can save lives.
WHAT IS IT?
CO is an odorless, colorless gas that can kill you.
SOURCES OF CARBON MONOXIDE
CO is found in fumes from fuel burned in automobiles, gas stoves, grills, fireplaces, and furnaces. When a furnace isn't working properly, CO can build up indoors, poisoning the home's inhabitants.
WHO IS AT RISK?
CO poisoning is a risk for everyone, regardless of race, age, or economic status. Infants, the elderly, and people with chronic diseases are most likely to become severely ill from CO.
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Child Abuse Lawyers
In simple terms, child abuse is when a parent of a child or the caregiver of a child commits an action that results in emotional or physical harm or death. There are several types of child abuse, some that are intentional while others are committed without intent according to Child help.
Physical abuse is the most common type of child abuse. It's when the parent of caregiver harms the child in a manner that is intentional in most situations. If the physical abuse is not intentional, it can be difficult to prove in court. There are several signs that can be present if someone suspects physical abuse. Teachers and other people who are in positions of authority are required to report any suspicions of abuse to the proper authorities, such as a police officer or a local department of social services. This kind of abuse includes actions such as kicking, biting, burning, choking and even hair pulling. Anything that can be done to the child that would cause a physical injury falls into this category. Signs of physical abuse include bruises on the body, the child being withdrawn from family and friends and death if the abuse is severe. Parents or caregivers might not want to explain what happened to the child might delay taking the child to a doctor or hospital for treatment.
Sexual abuse is sometimes the worst kind of child abuse for the emotions of a child. The action takes place when an adult forces a child to take part in sexual acts. This can also involve an older child using a younger child for sexual gratification. Sex trafficking would also be included in this as well as exchanging sexual acts with the child for something received from another adult. An example would be if a parent forces a child to take part in sexual acts with another adult to get money or drugs. Many children who are sexually abused will shut down and not talk to anyone else or take part in any activities. The abuse could involve forcing the child to touch or show the sex organs or making the child perform a sexual act with or without any kind of penetration involved.
Emotional abuse involves the parent or caretaker harming the child's mental development. There are several ways that this can occur, such as belittling the child, calling the child names or making the child feel worthless on a regular basis. This is often a pattern of behavior that only gets worse over time.
Child neglect is a form of abuse that could be deemed as intentional or unintentional depending on the circumstances. When a parent or caregiver knowingly leaves a child alone without proper food, water, clothing or shelter, then it's considered neglect. It also involves not taking the child to a doctor or dentist on a regular basis or leaving children home alone while going out to take part in other activities with no supervision. Educational neglect is also an issue. This is when the parent or caregiver allows the child to miss school or simply doesn't care whether the child attends classes or not, resulting in lower grades or even failing subjects. These are often signs that abuse is taking place, warranting a report from the teacher and an investigation from a social worker or police officer.
Penalties
Once the defendant has been charged with any kind of child abuse, there are a few things that could happen. The person could be arrested and taken to jail, or there could be a report made that requires the person to go to court before any decision is made. Since this is a charge that could involve taking the child from the parent or caretaker and placing the child in foster care for some time, the judge will weigh the evidence as carefully as possible. Most of the time, witness statements are heavily factored into the decision that is made by the judge. According to FindLaw, there is a rather wide range of penalties that the defendant could face depending on the severity of the abuse, the criminal history of the defendant and state regulations. Child abuse can be charged as a felony if there are severe injuries or death. Sentence options can include a prison sentence up to five years, probation or a combination of the two. Most people have to register as a sex offender, the charges will remain on the criminal record, and there are times when the child is permanently removed from the home. Those who fail to report child abuse can also be found guilty and be required to pay fines or spend time in jail depending on the situation.
Defenses Of Child Abuse
Those who have been charged with child abuse need to seek the assistance of an attorney, such as those with Spodek Law Group. An attorney can assist with a defense that could include false allegations filed, injuries resulting from an accident or an injury occurring because of a health issue. Religious beliefs and mental illness are also common defenses to child | eng | 8c57e09d-abe5-44e5-8b76-aa1272d5e7ac | https://www.nyccriminalattorneys.com/bronx-child-abuse-lawyers/ |
Germinating cannabis seed
Germinating seed
* This article is for informational and research purposes only *
There are many methods germinating cannabis seeds. Cannabis seeds need basically three factors to germinate properly: water, oxygen and the right temperature. Seed is dormant (state of suspended animation) until the conditions are right for growth and survival. Getting the right mixture of the three factors is important and not too difficult, but as the saying goes practice makes perfect. As a beginner you might make a few mistakes but in time you'll perfect your method.
Germination rates (the percentage of seeds that become successful seedlings) vary based on many factors, but the main factors include: the quality of the cannabis seeds, conditions under which the cannabis seeds have been stored and the method the grower uses to germinate their seeds (perhaps most important and often overlooked factor!). Something else people often overlook is not working in a sterile environment and avoiding touching the seed unnecessarily with unclean fingers.
The basic three factors for germination:
Water: Seeds need moisture throughout the germination process. When the seed with taproot becomes dry the seedling will die, thus make sure there is enough moisture at all times. Make sure the seed with taproot does also not sit in too much moisture after germinating otherwise there could be oxygen issues and you might also get some fungal problems. Thus, not too wet, not too dry, just enough moisture. Be mindful of what water you are using. Municipal tap water might have too many chemicals thus it's best to consider bottled water or rain water. Water PH close to a 6 is ideal.
Heat: Typical spring temperatures is almost ideal in general (depending on the strain and location). When it's too cold seed might take a longer time to germinate but risk the possibility of failure. The optimal temperature for seed germination is a moderate 20 to 25°C. Also try to keep the temperature reasonably steady without excessive fluctuation.
Oxygen: If the seed is drowning for too long in water, too deep into soil, or too compacted soil, a lack of oxygen might terminate the germination and plant development process.
Some common germination methods include:
– Jiffy: germinating in hydrated peat discs
– Rockwool: germinating in hydrated rockwool
– Cotton wool or paper towel: germinating in moist cotton wool or paper towel
– Soil substrate: germinating in the ground or pots, with natural soil or a mixed substrate
– Water: soaking in water until taproot appears
There are many other methods and even possible to mix some of the various methods during the process.
A method that works well:
1. Soaking:
Seeds should be soaked in bottled or rain water for 24 hours, ideal is until the seed starts to crack open for the taproot to emerge. Hard seeds should be soaked for a maximum of 48 hours. Be careful not to soak them too long then the seed might be damaged. Soaking seeds improve their chance of germination and is recommended. Adding a little bit of hydrogen peroxide is something extra you could do if you wish enhancing your chances of success. Once the soaking process is completed you need to carefully move the seed with a sterile tweezer to a paper towel.
2. Paper towel:
Paper towel should be plain white, with no ink etc.
Take the paper towel and fold it in half. Dampen the paper towel and place in a sterile plate, it should just be moist not soaked with excess water. Place the seed carefully on the paper towel. Fold and dampen another piece of paper towel, and place over the first paper towel and seed.
Cover the plate with a bowl to keep humidity inside and light out.
Place the plate with bowl somewhere where you have a constant heat between 20 – 25°C. Temperature should also allow for humidity forming inside the bowl. You can try places like on top of the refrigerator, or on some other electronic device that gives off some heat but not hot.
Check the paper towel twice a day that there is still enough moisture and to allow fresh air. Never let it go dry.
The process can take anything from 48 hours to 14 days to complete germination.
3. Growing medium:
Once the taproot is +- 8 to 10mm it's ready to move to your next medium. Be very careful when transplanting to your choice of growing medium, not damaging the taproot (they are damaged easily) and remember the root must be facing downward, not to deep! Again, like always, work in a sterile environment avoiding pathogens and use a sterile tweezers to move to your next growing medium. Now is when the real challenge starts raising your seedling to get to vegetative stage. Again, you need the ideal conditions and light as soon as the plant leaves emerge.
When your plant has developed its first set of true leaves it has finished the seedling stage and has entered the vegetative stage. No grow, grow, grow!
NB: always remember to keep a journal, take photographs and tag each plant.
Soak seed in bottled or rainwater. Add some (very little depends on what percentage you have) hydrogen peroxide if you want to.
Seed will crack open for tap root to emerge. You can now move them to the paper towel or wait a bit longer until you see taproot emerge.
Tap roots emerging, you can move them to paper towel or wait a bit longer and directly to your next growing medium.
Planted carefully in next growing medium, in this case rockwool that has been prepared to have a PH of 6. It's critical that the medium should have the correct PH for the next stage. Small pieces of rockwool has been used to cover the hole so that the seed will have slight pressure as the plant emerges. | eng | 785c5b36-6f5e-4bf2-9c09-b8ffe8b41030 | https://groenseeds.com/2020/07/27/germinating-cannabis-seed/ |
I think they are for a Yamaha 125. Thanks to everyone who helped identify them as either exhaust pipes or smoking pipes. Champ and Joe C. - I don't know what they're worth. Ebay helps me to figure that out. You guys are free to make offers. I'll try to figure out exactly what they are. The last bike that they were in the vicinity of was a Yamaha TA125.
Champ got to me first! Somebody shoot me an email with an offer. Otherwise, like I said, I have no idea what they're worth and Ebay seems to resolve that issue. An old guy I know has the bike, but it belonged to his son who just commited suicide. The guy doesn't want to part with his sons bikes, racecars, etc. | eng | 9e29127f-c758-4044-aaeb-92b02d60bef7 | https://www.caferacer.net/threads/can-you-identify-these-pipes.3441/ |
The Visual Acuity Test
What is the Visual Acuity Eye Exam?
The visual acuity test is used to determine the smallest letters you can read on a standardized chart (also known as the Snellen chart) held 20 feet away.
This eye exam measures the clarity of your vision (i.e. your ability to discern the shape and details of objects.)
This is just one factor of your overall vision. Other factors include:
Color vision
Peripheral (side) vision
Depth perception
Focusing ability
Only a comprehensive eye exam conducted by a qualified optometrist or ophthalmologist can test all these factors and evaluate your overall visual ability.
How is the test performed?
This test can be done in any health care professional's office, in a school or a workplace.
During the eye exam, you will be asked to:
Remove your eyeglasses or contact lenses
Sit 20 feet away from the eye chart
Cover one eye with your palm or a small paddle
Read out loud the smallest line of letters you can see on the chart.
If you aren't certain of the letter, you may guess as this is still an indication of your ability to decipher shapes. The test is done on each eye, one at a time. If required, you may be asked to repeat it while wearing your eyeglasses or contact lenses.
How to prepare for the visual acuity test
Why is the test performed?
The visual acuity test is part of a routine eye examination or a general physical exam, especially if the patient has experienced a change in or problem with their vision.
For children, the exam is often used to screen for potential visual problems such as amblyopia (lazy eye). If detected early, such problems can often successfully be corrected. If left untreated, problems have the risk of leading to permanent vision loss.
At Lethbridge eye clinic, our Optometrists perform eye exams specially designed for children to accurately assess the health of their eyes, even if they can't read yet.
Results of the visual acuity test
Visual acuity is expressed as a fraction.
The first number refers to the distance you stand from the chart. This is usually 20 feet.
The second number indicates the distance at which a person with normal eyesight can read the same line you read correctly.
Any abnormal results could indicate that you need eyeglasses or contact lenses. Or it could mean that you have an eye condition which requires further evaluation by an eye doctor.
EXAMPLE
20/20 is considered normal vision.
If you have 20/40 vision, this means that the line you correctly read from 20 feet away can be read by a person with normal vision from 40 feet away | eng | 2d678e51-f51b-4d29-8c34-7fbb799e2050 | https://lethbridgeeyeclinic.com/blog/The+Visual+Acuity+Test/65 |
What Is The Super Capacity Of Ultra Supercritical Power Generation
Ultra supercritical is a concept applied to thermal power. Thermal power generation we are familiar with is to use coal and other fuels to burn in the boiler, heat the water into high-temperature and high-pressure steam, drive the turbine to rotate at high speed, and then drive the generator to generate electricity. According to the principle of thermodynamics, the higher the pressure and temperature of steam, the higher the power generation efficiency. At a standard atmospheric pressure, the boiling point of water from liquid to gas is 100 ℃. To increase the temperature of water vapor, increase the pressure to increase the boiling point temperature. At the pressure of 22.115 MPa and the temperature of 374.15 ℃, the density of water vapor is the same as that of liquid water, reaching the critical state; When the temperature and pressure exceed the critical value, the water will be in a supercritical state. Using supercritical steam to generate electricity is called supercritical power generation technology, and ultra supercritical power generation is a higher stage than supercritical power generation technology.
At present, there is no international unified standard for the division of ultra supercritical and supercritical. In the project "ultra supercritical coal-fired power generation technology" of China's "863 Plan", the ultra supercritical parameters are set as pressure ≥ 25 MPa and temperature ≥ 580 ℃.
What is the super capacity of ultra supercritical power generation
First, it is advanced and reliable, with independent intellectual property rights and localized equipment.
Data map
In fact, ultra supercritical power generation is not a new concept. Since the 1950s, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan and other developed countries have started the research, development and application of ultra supercritical power generation technology. China started late and began to build supercritical units only in 1992. However, taking advantage of the huge domestic market, many companies have made long-term efforts and have possessed independent R & D capabilities and relevant intellectual property rights, realizing the localization of ultra supercritical units. In November2006, Huaneng Zhejiang Yuhuan Power Plant designed by China energy construction group was put into operation, which is China's first megawatt ultra supercritical generating unit project. So far, China has been developing million kilowatt ultra supercritical high-efficiency power generation technology for 15 consecutive years. The lowest coal consumption for power supply can reach 264 grams per kilowatt hour, which is at the world's advanced level. At present, the technology has been popularized nationwide, accounting for 26% of the total installed capacity of coal-fired power.
Second, it has a deep foundation and is based on China's coal based energy endowment.
China's power development has strongly supported the rapid economic growth, and thermal power is indispensable. In 2021, China's total power generation will reach 8534.25 billion kwh, of which the thermal power generation will be 5805.87 billion kwh, accounting for 68% of the total power generation. China's fossil energy resources are characterized by "rich coal, lack of oil and less gas", and coal-fired power accounts for the highest proportion in thermal power. As a large manufacturing country, if China wants to develop the real economy, the energy job must be firmly in its own hands. The coal-based energy endowment determines that coal-fired power will continue to play an important role in ensuring China's energy and power security for a long time, which means that we cannot easily abandon coal-fired power.
Third, it has a promising future and stands on the wind of the times to achieve the dual carbon goal.
As we all know, although coal-fired power has the disadvantages of large pollution and high emissions, there are many problems in the stability and consumption of clean energy power generation. Coal-fired power is the main role of China's energy security. How to generate more electricity with less coal to save resources, improve efficiency and reduce emissions has become an urgent problem to be solved. Ultra supercritical power generation technology is the clean and efficient utilization of coal resources. It can be used to build new units and transform old units to "eat and squeeze" the coal.
The dual goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutralization are an energy revolution, which is pushing mankind from industrial civilization to ecological civilization. The super capability of ultra supercritical power generation technology lies in that it integrates the success factors of favorable climate, favorable environment and favorable people. As one of the main technologies for energy conservation and emission reduction of thermal power, ultra supercritical power generation technology will promote the high-quality development of China's energy industry. | eng | 8f44879c-5cf6-4f6f-8fc5-92203668f1ff | https://www.techlife.app/archives/what-is-the-super-capacity-of-ultra-supercritical-power-generation.html |
Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
January 28, 2023
Dr. Marla E. Jirak
Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
Caring for a family member is overwhelming and caregivers can neglect their own health. It is important for caregivers to focus on their own self-care to avoid the risk for depression, drug and alcohol abuse, over-eating, and developing a chronic disease.
In addition, the harmful effects on a caregiver's overall health when they neglect to care for themselves can interfere on with their ability to properly care for their loved one. Here are some resolutions that can help caregivers stay focused on their continued health and well-being.
4 Healthy Caregiver Resolutions
1. Eat Healthy and Nutritious Food
Caregivers often have poor eating habits due to the tasks involved in providing care. They tend to skip meals and consume less healthy food to eat on the go. The outcome of a poor diet can be unstable mood, decreased energy, and a weakened immune system. These can make caregivers less patient, sick, and less able to provide care.
A diet that is nutritious is one important thing a caregiver can do for themselves. Here are a few healthy choices that can be added to a busy caregiver's diet:
Plan healthy meals for the week
Prepare high protein snacks in small zip lock bags
Include vegetables with all meals
2. Restful Sleep
With all the responsibilities caregivers face when providing care, they don't feel they have enough hours in the day to get their regular responsibilities accomplished. This leads to getting to bed much later than they like, leaving many sleep deprived. Basically, we need 7-8 hours of quality sleep each night.
Here are a few tips to improve the quality and duration of your sleep:
Set a sleep schedule—go to bed and wake at the same time each day.
Implement a bedtime routine-shut off computers/phones and take time to relax prior to going to bed.
Use your bed only for sleep–avoid watching television or working in your bed.
3. Exercise Regularly
Regular exercise is important since it will help to reduce stress, improve sleep, reduces daily tension and depression, and increases energy. This can improve the care provided to a loved one and help caregivers be more resilient to the daily stress and strain.
These simple exercises fit easily into a caregiver's schedule:
Go for a brisk 10-minute walk
Do an online Zumba class
Meditate daily for 10-15 minutes
Regardless of what you choose, do the one that you enjoy!
4. Reduce Stress
Caregiver stress is a common problem for caregivers consequently leading to caregiver burnout.
Here are a few healthy ways caregivers can cope with stress:
Join a caregiver support group
Take time to go for coffee or lunch with a friend
Watch funny movies with other family members of a group of friends
Whatever you choose, make sure to get time away from the caregiving role to do something enjoyable.
Lastly, if it is apparently becoming more and more difficult as a caregiver to make time to implement some resolutions in the new year due to all the daily responsibilities. At times, the best self-care may be to consider assisted living or private in-home care for those you are caregiving as the responsibilities may be more that can be managed by in-home care. | eng | 0001c243-0cfa-474e-b774-1db2feee1f7b | https://www.coachsmartconsulting.com/blog/healthy-caregiver-resolutions/ |
What Can I Do with Latin?
Posted on November 17, 2018
Now that you know what Latin is and can recognize it, you will see it everywhere in books, in magazines, and yes, in tattoos (although probably badly translated). You will hear it in Jeopardy questions and at Trivia night. These questions will stump your friends, but you will answer easily.
Even more importantly, you will have increased your word power. You will no longer need a dictionary to understand four or more syllable words like egregious, postulate, and concatenate. Well, maybe 'concatenate' will stump you. It means to link together from the Latin catena (chain) and con (together).
Not only will your word power be increased, but you will also understand the grammatical structure of language much better. How a sentence goes together is a major topic in Latin class. Learning to put together a Latin sentence will help you to write English sentences which agree subject to verb and pronoun to antecedent.
All of your increased language ability can also be applied to languages other than English. The Romance languages, which descend from their mother Latin, are languages for which Latin is an excellent base for learning. These languages are French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese. Law, medicine, and other sciences also rely upon Latin for specific terminology within their fields. In addition, Latin is a language of music. Look up 'songs in Latin' on youtube and you will see what I mean.
Most everything you have heard about Latin is true. Does it help with the SATs? Yes. Is it a dead language? Most certainly. Latin is dead because there are no native speakers. But the fact that Latin is dead is also what makes it so useful to us. Anything you write today in Latin will mean the same thing a hundred years from now when our grandchildren will still be learning Latin. | eng | 842de062-eefe-4396-8adb-099a1bcc3662 | https://worldoflearninginstitute.com/2018/11/17/what-can-i-do-with-latin/ |
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Sole
Sole is a mild, flaky white fish that is popular in many cuisines. It is often used in fish and chips, as well as in Sole meuniere, a classic French dish.
Sole has been eaten for centuries and there are many recipes for this versatile fish. In medieval times, Sole was a popular fish for Lent, when Catholics were required to abstain from eating meat. During this time, Sole was often cooked in a simple way, such as being fried in oil.
In the 18th century, Sole meuniere, a dish of Sole cooked in butter and served with lemon, became popular in France. This dish is still made today and is considered a classic of French cuisine. | eng | c6de4879-cfae-4fa5-b265-51f604d3dfa9 | https://rotten.recipes/dishes/sole |
Test Phase in the Software Life Cycle
The software life cycle is made by several phases, namely analysis, design, implementation, test, maintenance. Those phases can be combined in sequences, i.e. waterfall or in iterations, i.e. spiral, agile. Considering the importance that the quality of software has, the test phase is rising in importance. The objective of testing is to certify the correctness, completeness and reliability of the software. The software test is influenced by 5 parameters: the development model, knowledge of the code, the time of development, the level of automation and the granularity. Example of test code with Android are useful to go in depth of this concept.
Development model
The waterfall development model considers the realization of software through different stages at the end of each there is a test. If the test is passed, it is possible to proceed to the next phase. This process has drawback such as:
if development takes more than planned, the test phase can be much shorter (possibly nothing);
it is possible the tests are not included at all;
if the time between the error detection and error solving grows, it becomes more difficult and costly to solve.
For this reason in the 90's the test driven model grew in popularity. With this approach, the requirements are completed with test cases; the software is written together with tests to automatized the process and to further check if new software can generate problems to the existing one. In this way, test and source code are seen as a unique part of the implementation.
The other test parameters
Depending on the maturity of the software, the test phase could be Alpha, Beta etc. The Alpha test is the first one to the whole software, it is the first to have done and it is generally internal to the organization and made by the developers themselves. If the product is reasonably stable, it is launched to the market and users are invited to give feedback about it. That is the Beta version of the software.
The granularity of the test saves a great quantity of time. Testing the final version of a big product can give errors that are then difficult to solve. Therefore the best approach is to divide the software in elements with different granularity and test them from the smallest to the biggest. The smallest elements to test are the classes of the software. Only if each class is performing as expected, is possible to proceed with more complex test. Unit test are elementary tests focused on that. The bigger element of software after the class is the module, where more than one class is combined together. To test modules, other modules are created: these are the stub. If also the module test is performing fine, the system test is finally required.
Knowledge of the code divides type of tests into white and black box. The white box tests are made by the individuals who have knowledge of the code and can see into the code itself to correct error and test every functionality. It has a deep level of details and easier to automatize. On the other side, the software can be seen externally, without knowledge about its operation: black box test. Those kind of test can be made by users or not code experts.
Type of test
Type of test are performance, load/volume and stress. Those are executed accordingly to the objective of the software. The performance test is about correctness and efficiency of the product. Every requirements must be met. The load/volume testconcerns the use of a lot of resources for the software. It could a high number of users, a big file, a big job to a printer, or a zero-volume testing with empty tasks to stress this limit case. It aims to test the management of the memory during the activities. Thestress test is an attempt to break the system introducing non predictable elements that generate chaos. It could be done using double users all at once; turning off some devices via SNMP; using resources.
Conclusion
The test phase of the software life cycle is part of the development blueprints. It is so important to make adopting a different software development model. Other elements that create a robust software concerns the granularity of the test, knowledge of the source code and the type of test to execute. Putting all together the goal is produce a software that has good quality and positive impact on the users. | eng | ae743a54-9aee-45eb-b35d-d66591a94754 | https://softwaretester.net/test-phase-in-the-software-life-cycle/ |
Kuba under Kot Mabiinc: The most inventive kingdom in Africa that never saw slave-trade
The Kuba, also known as Bakuba, were a cluster of about 16 Bantu speaking groups. They lived in Southeastern Congo. The Kuba kingdom was largely isolated due to its geographical location. As a result, the kingdom almost got no effect from slave trade.
It is on record that this trade was prevailing in all other kingdoms in Africa. Slave trade even affected the kingdoms of Kongo and Ndongo. These kingdoms were neighboring Bakuba.
The Kuba people in their communities Source: theafricanhistory.com
Where is the Kuba Kingdom located?
The Kuba kingdom was located between the Kasai and Sankuru rivers. Particularly, in the east of their confluence. The kingdom also neighbors the Lulua River. All these rivers are in the southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa).
The Kuba Kingdom Source: en.wikipedia.com
To be in this location, the Kuba migrated from the far north. This kingdom emerged in the 1600s. It was one of the most powerful kingdoms that flourished from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
What was the main religion in the Kuba Kingdom?
Religiously, nature spirits, the spirits of dead kings and witch craft dominated the Kuba religion. The Kuba also believed in Bumba. This is the sky father who sent out the sun, moon, stars, and planets. Bumba also created life with the earth mother.
The Kuba also placed more concern in a supernatural being named Woot. Woot named the animals and other things. However, these were distant deities.
Origin of the Kuba Kingdom
In 1625, a great man from outside the area surfaced. This great man was known as Shyaam a-Mbul Ngoong. He took the position of one of the area rulers. In so doing, he united all the chiefdoms under his leadership. Shyaam a-Mbul was the adopted son of the Kuba queen.
He left Kuba region to find enlightenment in the Pende and Kongo kingdoms. These were in the west of Kuba land. Shyaam a-Mbul thereafter returned to Kuba from learning all he could in these states. He started to form the empire's political, social and economic foundations.
The Kuba government under Shyaam a-Mbul was reorganized towards a merit-based title system. However, power was still firmly in the hands of the aristocracy.
Leadership and social life among the Kuba/Bakuba
The kingdom was a federation of chiefdoms. Each chiefdom was under a chief, and two or three councils. These councils represented the general population and noble clans.
The Kuba were divided into lineages related through matrilineal descent. The lineages were segments of numerous dispersed clans.
Therefore, the kingdom was a conglomerate of several smaller Bushongo-speaking principalities. Later on, the Kete, Coofa, Mbeengi, and the Kasai Twa Pygmies came under the kingdom.
A Kuba King (Nyim) Source: theAfricanhistory.com
Since the 16th century, the kingdom was under various Bushoong or Bushongo clan kings. The ruling Bushoong King (nyim) was King by divine right. This king was responsible to a court council of all the Kuba sub groups. The elites of the subgroups represented them equally before the king.
King Kot Mabiinc.
Among these Kuba kings, however, stood out Kot Mabiinc. This was the paralyzed king who ruled from 1919 to 1939.
Kot Mabiinc was paralyzed Source: facetofaceAfrica.com
According to an African-American researcher William Sheppard, King Mabiinc suffered from polio. He was also overweight. The king used a wheelchair to serve as a throne. This was provided by the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM).
Mabiinc later professed his Christian faith. Such an act inspired a number of prominent Kuba men and women to do the same. However, this happened at a time when many others believed in supernatural powers. These included spells and witchcraft.
Kot Mabiinc and the changes in Kuba culture.
The king also made another distinguished change in the Kuba culture. He abolished the practice of burying a deceased king's servants alongside him.
In the Kuba culture initially, when a king died, it meant cutting off of the hands and legs of his servants. These were to serve as a cushion for the coffin. KotMabiinc indicated that sticks of camwood should be used instead.
During his reign, the Kuba kingdom included other tribes. These were the Ngeendes, Ngongos, Shoowas, Bieengs, and Ngombes.
The uniting factors of these tribes included; bonds of common culture and group feeling. Others are; a royal army and a common administration. These tribes under the Kuba kingdom emerged as one of Africa's artistic peoples.
How did Kot Mabiinc develop the Kuba Kingdom?
During Mabiinc's time, Kuba became extremely wealthy. This came as a result of great artistic works by the different tribes in the kingdom. These works were commissioned by the Kuba nobility. This happened as early as the 1900s.
The Kuba kings retained the most fanciful works for court ceremony. Kings were also buried with these artifacts. The kingdom also benefited from the advanced techniques from the neighboring people.
The Kuba Kingdom and the Europeans
The New World crops grown in the kingdom also contributed to its development. These were introduced by the Americans. They included; cassava, corn (maize), tobacco, and beans. Others are; millet and peanuts (groundnuts).
As German historian Leo Frobenius put it: "In 1906, when I penetrated the Kasai-Sankuru territory, I found again villages. The main streets of these villages were enclosed on each side with four rows. There were decorated huts, each in a charming way. These were artworks as well.
Every man wore iron or copper weapons, blade inlaid with the handle covered with snake skin. Each cup, each pipe, each spoon was an art object. These objects were perfectly worthy to be compared to the European Roman style creations….."
A man from Kuba attired in the unique artwork. Source: Africa.Uima.Uiowa.Edu
The Kuba Kingdom in modern days.
Kuba has evolved into Africa's most artistic and technological indigenous cloth makers. They are known for their beautiful textiles. These are made from vegetal fibers, raffia, bark, and palm tree leaves.
Raffia Source: christiandoux.Com
The Kuba grow raffia, oil palms and raise corn as a cash crop. Men also hunt and fish. They have kept away from modern life. By doing this, few have emigrated or engaged in European occupations.
In the Kuba culture, men make plain cloths. Women have continued to use hand-stitched embroidery or cut pile techniques. They use them to enhance plain-cloths that were traditionally woven by men.
The Kuba women Source: theAfricanhistory.com
Other artistic works in the Kuba kingdom.
In addition to beautifully embroidered hand woven cloth, the Kuba make carved wooden initiation masks. They make figurines and carved palm wine cups. Bakuba also make headrests and divination or prophecy oracles.
A piece of artwork from Kuba Source: facetofaceAfrica.com
Other items include monumental helmet masks featuring exquisite geometric patterns. There are spectacular fabrics, seeds, beads and shells. The Kuba also make fiber and beaded hats plus cosmetic boxes as well.
A beaded hat from Kuba Source: the Africanhistory.com
Artworks for trade in the Kuba Kingdom.
The unique items in the Kuba kingdom are frequently traded to neighboring areas. They are therefore priced for export. The carved palm wine drinking cups and ornately carved boxes are identified with competitions. These are between titled court members among the Kuba.
The western collectors highly demand for the royal Kuba textiles and artifacts. This is due to scarcity of such items in the west.
Kuba artwork for export Source: christiandoux.Com
The items from Kuba artwork are also featured in permanent exhibition halls at major art museums. These are in New York, London, Paris, and Brussels.
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What animal kills rabbits at night?
Raccoons and badgers, which are nocturnal and hunt at night. Birds of prey, such as hawks, falcons, kestrels, and owls.
What animal can eat a bunny
Do crows kill?
Crows will kill birds that are easily accessible, small, or weak. In addition, they may kill just to have a meal or because of conflicts on territory and feed. Crows are one of several predators that prey on other bird species' chicks and adults. They will murder and devour eggs, nestlings, and even adult birds.
Will a bunny attack a bird?
Can Rabbits Kill Birds? Rabbits may not look dangerous, but they can defend themselves when pressured. A rabbit's instinct will always be to flee and hide.
What animal would kill a rabbit and leave animal preys on rabbits However, rabbits are prey animals, so there's quite a long list of creatures waiting to eat them.
Will a racoon kill a rabbit?
Raccoons are opportunistic omnivores and will eat just about anything that they can find or catch, including rabbits. If they can pull it up from the ground or kill it, they will eat it. Raccoons have extremely sharp nails and teeth that can do serious damage to a rabbit during a fight.
What animal would kill a rabbit and just eat would rip a rabbits head off?
Raccoons and badgers, which are nocturnal and hunt at night. Birds of prey, such as hawks, falcons, kestrels, and owls.
What eats a rabbit in a food chain kills rabbits fast?
Living things are linked through their food. For example, a fox, a rabbit, and a plant are linked because the rabbit eats the plant and the fox eats the rabbit. These links are called food chains.
Do crows kill anything?
Crows are predators and scavengers, which means that they will eat practically anything. Their diet consists of various road-kill, insects, frogs, snakes, mice, corn, human fast food, even eggs and nestlings of other birds. An adult crow needs about 11 ounces of food daily.
Why crows are attacking me?
They're only attacking you because they feel that their nest is in danger. Nesting season lasts until July, and sometimes it even trickles over into August. If you are a target of one particularly cranky crow who, for some reason, doesn't like your charm and good looks then just take an alternative route.
Will a crow attack a small dog?
While it isn't unheard of, most crows are not going to attack a dog randomly. A crow will see a dog as a predator. In their mind, it is going to be best to stay as far away from the predator as they possibly can. If a crow is attacking a dog, then you know that the crow is trying to defend something of theirs.
Do crows kill and eat other birds?
Now, let's be clear, crows will absolutely kill and eat eggs, nestlings and even adult birds if they can get their hands on one.
Can a bird take a rabbit?
Baby and small rabbits may become prey to nearly any owl, even the small screech owl, while adult rabbits can quickly be overpowered by the large barn owls, barred owls, hawk owls or great horned owls that happen to be hunting in their vicinity.
What animal would rip a rabbit's head off animal kills a rabbit and leaves kind of animal kills a rabbit and just takes is a predator of a rabbit?
Rabbits are Prey Animals Outdoor rabbits face many dangers from predators. They could be attacked by cats (both domestic and wild), dogs, wolves, and birds of prey such as hawks and falcons. Even raccoons attack rabbits. Rabbits are low on the food chain in the wild.
What is the Rabbit's main predator?
How do I protect my rabbits from raccoons?
Raccoons and badgers, which are nocturnal and hunt at night. Birds of prey, such as hawks, falcons, kestrels, and owls.
What animal would kill a bunny?
Use Hardware Cloth, not Chicken Wire But, chicken wire is only good to keep small animals such as chickens or rabbits contained. It offers zero protection against predators. Raccoons, foxes, and dogs can easily tear through chicken wire to get to your rabbits.
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Getting hungry at Advent?
28th November 2013 Front Page Posts
Today (Dec 1st) marks the beginning of the traditional Christian season of Advent.
Advent is a time of anticipation, of looking forward to the coming of redemption. It references the redemption that comes in Christ's birth (which is fitting as Advent finishes on Christmas Eve) but also the final fulfilment of that redemption that will come with his return on the last day. Advent is a time of stoking our hunger for that redemption by reflecting on what it entails. At St Mark's we don't make a big deal about the traditional church calendar, but at a time of the year when every advertiser is screaming out at us to hunger for indulgent food and unnecessary gifts Advent can be helpful because it reminds us to hunger for something far more significant; the blessed life of the new creation that Christ brings.
If you want to stoke that hunger this Advent, you might benefit from a free ebook of daily Bible readings and reflections by an American pastor named John Piper that you'll find here. | eng | fd61accf-0b09-4029-9598-5b1e08f0940b | https://stmarks.com.au/2013/11/28/getting-hungry-at-advent/ |
Digital connectivity as an enabling factor in Asian resurgence
There is little debate about Asia's increasing economic and political significance. The COVID-19 pandemic that originated in the Asian land mass has retarded, but not reversed, the progress made in taking millions out of poverty and in moving the centre of gravity of the world economy back to Asia, where it was until the 16th century | eng | 012e63cc-7eee-47fd-a3cb-7bbbaa26327f | https://lirneasia.net/2021/12/digital-connectivity-as-an-enabling-factor-in-asian-resurgence/ |
With Deutsche Bank posting a surprising fourth quarter loss, it's time to give credit to just how much Bernanke and the Fed did for the US banking system
With Deutsche Bank posting a surprising fourth quarter loss, it's time to give credit to just how much Bernanke and the Fed did for the US banking system. Deutsche Bank saw declining demand for banking services as well as lower debt trading revenue and a spike in legal costs. While certain US institutions are still facing high legal costs, much of the pain was taken early on as banks were forced to raise money and write down bad debt. Bernanke made what could have been a disastrous period for banks much easier to stomach by lowering interest rates to zero and injecting plentiful liquidity into the system. He also was a key player in drafting banking reforms which should help the US avoid the same mistakes. With the six major US banks closing in on record profits, they should have no reason to complain | eng | 7073137c-9707-48f0-a0d1-f3fdd09eabb8 | https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/with-deutsche-bank-posting-a-surprising-fourth-quarter-loss-it-s-time-to-give-credit-to-just-how-much-bernanke-and-the-fed-did-for-the-us-banking-system |
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We show that for any Cayley graph, the probability (at any $p$) that the cluster of the origin has size $n$ decays at a well-defined exponential rate (possibly 0). For general graphs, we relate this rate being positive in the supercritical regime with the amenability/nonamenability of the underlying graph. | eng | 744c0d04-aa96-4e88-b781-0ab319c956d9 | https://projecteuclid.org/journals/revista-matematica-iberoamericana/volume-26/issue-2/On-the-cluster-size-distribution-for-percolation-on-some-general/rmi/1275671310.full |
Is It Safe to Open a Holiday E-Card?
With the holiday season upon us, e-cards are a popular way to spread holiday cheer! An e-card is a digital greeting card, typically sent via email.
E-cards are slowly taking the place of traditional holiday cards for many reasons. They are typically cheaper, easier to send, more convenient and more animated than a normal card.
Unfortunately, scammers have created email phishing scam tactics to stifle a holiday card's innocent joy. What may seem to be a cheerful e-card may be a method to steal your personal information and hack into your devices.
Is it worth the risk of opening a holiday e-card? Yes, but you must be cautious! Here's how you can avoid an e-card scam this holiday season.
Is It Safe to Open An E-Card?
While most of the time e-cards are seemingly harmless, there are steps you can take to help ensure your personal information stays safe. First, check the sender's address. If the email address is unfamiliar, then it could be an e-card scam.
Second, avoid clicking on any links or downloads. They could lead to downloading viruses and exposing personal data. You can also go online and research the e-card company before opening the card itself. Doing this allows you to see if the company is legit and if any recent scams have been associated with the digital card.
How Does a Holiday E-Card Scam Work?
This phishing scam sends recipients fraudulent links or malware downloads posing as a greeting card. Most of the time, this email is sent from an unknown source. However, if the e-card is opened and links are clicked, scammers can infect your device with unwanted software and viruses. Plus, scammers can gain access to personal information.
Common Signs of Holiday E-Card Scam
A digital greeting card might come into your inbox with a very elusive subject line. For example, the subject line might read "Someone you know sent you an e-card." Immediately, this might be a sign of a phishing tactic.
E-cards should say who sent it with the name or address in the subject line. It's best to delete the email immediately rather than opening the email link and becoming a possible victim. This email may also contain spelling and grammar errors. If this email is informal or incorrect in any way, it is best to avoid opening.
Emails with a file attached (.exe), should never be opened. Downloading this file allows scammers to put malware on your device, running the risk of your personal information being stolen. Scammers can mimic information, logos or even email addresses quite easily. So never assume any email with a Hallmark or greeting email address is legitimate.
Be on the lookout for email addresses that do not align with the domain name on the email. This can be another sign of a phishing email.
What To Do If You Are a Victim of a Holiday E-Card Scam
Next, clear out all browsers and tabs that have been opened on your device. Then, disconnect your device from the network, scan your device for any viruses or malware and delete or stop any automatic downloads. If you have any important files, consider backing them up immediately.
Also, consider investing in identity theft protection. A monitoring service such as IdentityIQ can help secure your personal information while providing anti-virus and VPN protection. Rest assured, you can recover from an e-card scam. However, to help avoid becoming a victim, follow our tips. For extra protection, consider signing up for an identity theft protection plan. | eng | 75144263-354c-4916-b7cf-44fa4aaf0f8b | https://www.identityiq.com/digital-security/is-it-safe-to-open-a-holiday-e-card/ |