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Macronutrients, most often referred to as ‘macros’ in the fitness community, have always been an important part of every person’s diet, but have emerged as a popular discussion over the past several years.
Let’s break out a small science lesson first because many people talk about macros — and carbs/fats/proteins — but not everyone may know what they are exactly. There are three macronutrients: carbohydrates (carbs), fats, and proteins. These are called macronutrients because our body needs them in large (macro) amounts.
In basic terms: through digestion, our body breaks down these three nutrients into smaller parts, which eventually yield calories (energy) that our body uses for metabolism (all of the things our body has to do daily to sustain life).
We get other nutrients that are essential for health from food as well — such as vitamins and minerals — however, carbs, fats, and proteins are the three nutrients that provide us with calories for energy and metabolism. Still following?
Carbs are the body’s preferred energy source. Proteins help build and repair muscle and tissues. Fats help us absorb vitamins and are important for hormone balance. These are just some of the functions of carbs, proteins, and fats.
Some fitness professionals argue that there is a ‘certain’ ratio of these nutrients that is optimal for every person, but the fact is that we are all unique and we all metabolize and use these nutrients differently in our bodies. Did you know that on average, genetic differences of only 0.05% make every person unique? It is this very reason that causes each and every person to have a different experience with their diet and their health.
There are people who are slow carb metabolizers and some who are fast. Those who are slow may want to consume fewer carbs daily than those who are fast. This same concept goes for fats.
How would it feel if, based on your genes, you could know where you stand and get insight into what the appropriate balance of macros is for you?
Athletigen is here to help you understand and your unique DNA can give you insights about how you sleep, grow, age, and metabolize food, and thus, give you actionable steps to take to ensure you are achieving optimal health, energy levels, and maximizing your metabolism.
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Gaps occur because of underlying fundamental or technical factors. For example, if a company’s earnings are much higher than expected, the company’s stock may gap.
This means that the stock price opened more than it closed the day before, thereby leaving a gap. Inside the fx market, it is common for only a report to generate a lot buzz that it widens the bid and ask spread to a point where a significant gap is located.
Similarly, a stock breaking a new loaded with this session may open higher in the next session, thus gapping up for technical reasons.
Gaps Can Be Classified Into Four Groups:
#1: Breakaway Gaps
Breakaway gaps are those people who occur right at the end of your price pattern and signal the grass roots of a whole new trend.
#2: Exhaustion Gaps
Exhaustion gaps occur close to the end of a price pattern and signal a final attempt to hit new highs or lows.
#3: Common Gaps
Common gaps are those which can not be placed in a price pattern – they simply represent a location where the price has gapped Continuation gaps happen in the center of any price pattern and signal a rush of buyers or sellers who share typical belief throughout underlying stock’s future direction.
To Fill Or Otherwise To Fill
When someone says that the gap has long been filled. Meaning that price has moved to the inital pre-gap level. These fills are very normal and occur because of:
The initial spike can have been overly optimistic or pessimistic, therefore inviting a correction.
Whenever a price moves up or down sharply, it doesn’t leave behind any support or resistancePrice Pattern: Price patterns are being used to sort out gaps, and may tell you if a gap will probably be filled or not.
Exhaustion gaps are typically most likely to be filled because they signal the ultimate of any price trend, while continuation and breakaway gaps are significantly less about to be filled, simply because they are employed to check on the direction of the current trend.
When gaps are filled inside the same trading day on which they have happened, this is referred to as “fading.”
For example, let’s say a firm announces great earnings per share for this quarter, and also the stock gaps up at open (meaning it opened significantly more than its previous close).
Now let’s state that, as the day progresses, people realize that the cash flow statement shows some weaknesses, to make sure they start selling. Eventually, the cost price hits yesterday’s close, as well as the gap is filled. Many day traders use this strategy during earnings season or at in some cases when irrational exuberance is at a top.
You mentioned 4 groups of gaps but described only 3.
Can we trade with gaps? If can, please advise how.
the thing I trade most is look at gaps at the support resistance, after a gap if the price continue to run then it may represent a new trend. I usually trade with the direction of the trade rather that to fade the gap as my trading time frame is longer. I will use the candle high after the candle as my buy trigger if it does not go higher , I will refrain from buying.
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Monday, July 10, 2006
Eagle Eye View (Literally)
This is too cool! In the June/July issue of Europhotonics there is a brief article on research into the mechanisms of bird flight. Graham K. Taylor and Adrian Thomas of the Zoology Department of Oxford University (UK) are using miniature CMOS cameras and a motion measurement device mounted on the back of a trained steppe eagle to study the bird's movements and behavior in free flight! The cameras have built-in 2.4 GHz transmitters to send the video to a ground station. There is a news release that tells more as well as a brief Quicktime video clip (still frame above) that shows this literally eagle's-eye view as "Cossack" turns his head and then banks for the point where he is looking. Fascinating! | <urn:uuid:886f6218-0517-4db4-ac57-24532d5ab2a1> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://flyingsinger.blogspot.com/2006/07/eagle-eye-view-literally.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812259.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180218212626-20180218232626-00221.warc.gz | en | 0.956473 | 172 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Theme gardens are all the rage. From butterfly gardens to hummingbird gardens, designing a garden area around plants that will attract a certain type of creature can be difficult. For hummingbirds, you want plants with plenty of reachable nectar hidden in those flowers. All these examples listed here will be great for providing hummingbirds what they need, and you’ll see more of them in your garden landscape. Plant some near windows or beside patios to have a lovely place to watch the hummingbirds in flight.
Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
The wild columbine is an easy to grow plant from the buttercup family of plants. It has nodding yellow and red flowers and its foliage is evergreen when temperatures are above zero. It will grow about two feet tall and spread about a foot wide. The fern-like leaves and bell-hanging flowers make for a delicate-looking plant. It will self-seed if you let it. The wild columbine is very easy to grow, from full sun to nearly complete shade and in dry to moist soils. The only thing it truly doesn’t like is an area with flooding issues.
Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea)
The coral bean is a perennial that is easy to grow and attracts butterflies as well as hummingbirds. It has a woody base and compound pointy-tipped leaves. The plant grows to about three feet high and will have late spring or early summer flowers. Blooms are red, flat-tubed, and are in clusters. There will be pods that have red seeds around late summer and fall. The coral bean likes growing in broken shade with good moisture. It can be propagated by the seed in the pods.
Sundrops (Oenothera fruticosa)
A drought-tolerant perennial, this easy to grow plant from the evening primrose family can attract songbirds as well as hummingbirds. It has green hairy leaves and hairy stems. Flowers are yellow in racemes. The entire plant grows one to three feet high with a one to two foot spread. It likes to grow in acidic soil with a full sun to partial shade lighting condition. It can be propagated by seed, stem tip cuttings, or by division.
Spotted Horsemint (Monarda punctata)
This fast growing drought-tolerant plant can also bring butterflies as well as hummingbirds to the landscape. It is a member of the mint family, having square stems and opposite hairy leaves. Flowers are small but are in showy flowerheads. There will be an oregano-scent to the leaves of the plant. Spotted horsemint prefers to grow in full sun or partial shade with a moist environment. You’ll be able to propagate the plant by division or by seed.
Native Plants that Butterflies Love
Perennial Native Plants of the South That Butterflies Love
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The Geology And Tectonics Of Himalayas
The Himalayas is also recognized as young-fold Mountain. Compared to the old mountains such as the Appalachian situated in USA and Aravallis in India, these mountains are young in the Earth’s History. Not only that these are also called as Fold Mountains because of their length (2500 km), which are in parallel folds and ridges. Alfred Wegener a German meteorologist developed a Theory of Continental Drift, which talked about the formation of these mountains in the year 1912. Wegener proposed that earth is made up of several massive plates called Tectonic plates.
All the continents and the oceans of the earth used to lie on these tectonic plates. At one point in time continents formed a single mass and from that single mass, continents separated from each other over a time of million of years. Around 250 million years ago, the earth had a single continent, which was known as Pangea. A single large ocean bordered this super continent. In The Middle Permian period (around 200 million years ago) the Himalayas had occupied an extensive sea, which was extended, along a latitudinal area. This extensive sea was named as the Tethys.
After the Middle Permian period the Pangea continent slowly started to split into singular landmasses and move apart from each other into different direction. As a result, the Angara River, which was from the northern Eurasian landmass, and the Gondwana, which was coming from the southern Indian landmass, started dropping large quantity of sediments in the Tethys Sea. At the time there were ammonites (marine animals) living in the Tethys Sea. The Indian Sub continent and the Eurasian, the two land masses were moving closer and closer every year.
The Indian sub continent was moving towards north at an average rate of 6 inches a year (15 cm a year). The upper Cretaceous Period, which stated around 70 million years ago, was the primary mountain building process in which both of the landmasses started to combine with each other. The shallow ocean quickly folded and elevated into longitudinal valleys and ridges. In the Upper Eocene Period which was about 65 million years ago, the second phase of mountain building started. The base of Tethys started expanding again.
The sea moved back and the base of the sea started elevating into mountain ranges. Than came another mountain period which was the Middle Miocene Period about 25 million years ago in which the Low Shivalik ranges were being formed. After the occurring of this phase of mountain building, the Indian plate pressed against the Eurasian plate and this resulted in the Himalayan Mountains to rise even further than before. This phase occurred around 600,000 years back. The major disturbance phase of the Himalayas has gone but still these mountains are rising though at a slow pace.
At a rate of 2cm a year, the Indian plate is constantly moving towards the north. This reason is making the Himalayas increase at a rate of 5mm a year. Himalayas are still geologically lively and their structure is uneven. This reason makes Earthquakes a regular incident in the region of the Himalaya. To detect the moving of the plates and elevating of Himalayas through casual examination it is virtually impossible. There is however a technology called GPS (Global Positioning System) which makes it easy to detect even the slow moving of the plates. Tectonics of the Himalayas
The Nanga Parbat part of the Himalayas is the northern side and it is situated in Pakistan. The peak rise about five kilometers beyond the old mountain base camp of the Fairy meadows. Landscapes such as these are symbols of an active tectonics. As the crust condenses in reply to the continental crash the mountain tends to grow. With the continent of India colliding with the rest of Asia, one of the greatest mountain range in the world has been produced. This provides one of the most amazing natural laboratories for understanding that how the crust bends after a continent collides with another continent.
This system is active and by the use of earthquakes, it is easier to find the outline of the movement of the Earth and transmit it to the motion of the plates. Using the history of the Indian Ocean it is easy to track the drift of the Indian continent towards the north. The Himalayas basically form three zones which are: The Himalayas, the lesser or Middle Himalayas and the Sub Himalayas which include the foothills, Tarai, Siwalik Mountain range and Duars. The Tarai and Duards peidmont are areas which lie at the base of the Himalayan mountain range. Each division shows some exact landscape features.
The Himalayas which is the highest has a vast line of snowy peak with the height being 6,100 m (20000ft). The width which is largely collected of granite is about 15 miles (25 kilometers). The Himalayas venture south towards the Middle Himalayas which is an unequal fashion. Sikkim, a state in India and Nepal region of the Himalaya has the highest peak. The snow on the peak of this part of the Himalaya diverges from 4,500 m (14,800 m) in the eastern part and in the Central area of Sikkim and Nepal and in the western area it goes to around 5,200 m (17000ft).
The Northern Himalaya has many ranges such as Kailas, Zaskar and Ladakh. On the Tibet side of the Himalayas lays the great Karakoram Range. The Himalayan region is just a few remaining inaccessible and unreachable areas in the world nowadays. High valleys in the Himalayas are used by small settlers. Cold winters and crop growing season which is very short limit the farmers to around one crop a year which is mostly barley or potatoes. These mountains have limited the trade and commerce sector despite the Karakoram highway being constructed which links Pakistan, China and Nepal.Routes which are very old and cross the mountain at a very high range are open only in the summer and have a very limited amount of trade.
• Out of This World: across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet by Lowell Thomas Jr. ; Grey stone Press, 1950. • Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure Journal article by Melissa R. Kerin; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004. • Mountain Geography Journal article by David Smethurst; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000. • Plate Tectonics Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2004.Sample Essay of EssayEdge | <urn:uuid:d84474f6-8ca9-4bbe-aa13-3989008e79cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://studyscanner.com/the-geology-and-tectonics-of-himalayas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105961.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820015021-20170820035021-00655.warc.gz | en | 0.951234 | 1,381 | 4.25 | 4 |
A teacher in our local school district recently posted a question on one of our discussion boards: "I'm having a difficult time coming up with ideas on how to give my students more responsibility and freedom in my classroom. I am very structured and organized -- how can I give my eighth graders a little freedom in the classroom and retain structure and organization?"
This is an excellent question. Responsibility and freedom are clearly two concepts we must embrace if we are to teach young people to participate in our democracy. It's easy for teachers to be so organized and structured that students lose freedom, which in turn lowers the level of student responsibility and increases the teacher's responsibility. Is this the way we want it to happen?
To answer this teacher's question, two instructional strategies come to mind.
1. Project-based, cooperative-, or service-learning methods. These place the responsibility for learning on the student by encouraging him/her to find the answer to a problem rather than memorizing a teacher-given solution.
2. Student-generated and tested hypotheses. Students write down what they know about a concept and then conduct research and experiments to either verify their knowledge or correct their misconceptions. This strategy is most often associated with scientific methods but can be applied to many areas.
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Study shows Hainan queen bees avoid inbreeding by mating with 100 males
By mating with nearly 100 males, queen bees on isolated islands avoid inbreeding and keep colonies healthy.
The results, published in the current issue of PLoS ONE, focused on giant honey bee colonies on Hainan Island, off the coast of China. Since these bees have long been separated from their continental cousins, it was thought that the island bees would be prime candidates for inbreeding as well as having very different genes, said Zachary Huang, Michigan State University entomologist.
"We believed that the island bees would show evidence of the founder effect, or random genetic changes in an isolated population, on a unique sex determination gene from the mainland bees,” he said. “At first we were surprised when we couldn’t document this effect. Looking at it further, I asked myself, ‘Why didn’t I think of this before?’”
One particular gene can have alleles – the “flavor” of genes. In humans, they dictate hair and eye color. In bees, though, they are responsible for creating females (worker bees), fertile males (that mate with the queen) or infertile males (diploid males which serve no purpose).
The voila moment came once Huang estimated the bees’ mating habits and the potential of CSD allele combinations. That’s when he understood why he couldn’t confirm the founder effect. Keeping the CSD mix diverse is one of the keys to maintaining a healthy hive, he said.
The island queens carry around 40 CSD alleles. Since they mate with nearly 100 males – each also harboring around 40 alleles – the high number of healthy genetic combinations keeps the gene pool diverse. By using natural selection to create healthy offspring, the bees perpetuate a healthy colony.
In comparison, if the island bees adopted the breeding habits of fire ants, with queens mating with a single male, inbreeding could wreck the off-shore claves or distinct populations of bees. The devastating change would reduce the fitness of the hive, decreasing the female workforce, as well as lowering the number of mating males.
What would be left would be an unhealthy hive with higher numbers of diploid or infertile males, with the same alleles, Huang said.
By extending his research beyond Hainan Island, Huang found evidence that showed that the island wasn’t an isolated case.
"We failed to find any clustering of the bees’ CSD alleles according to their geographical origin; the Hainan and mainland bees did not form separate clades,” said Huang, whose research is supported by MSU AgBioResearch. “Previously published CSD sequences also failed to show any unique clade-forming in the Philippines and Malaysia.”
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There are a lot of factors that teachers can do to be able to aid students understand what is “real” in math and what’s not.
However, among one of the most crucial is teaching Mathematics with Technology. Here is some of what exactly is true and what is not.
Absolute Deviation in Math – Absolute deviation means that each single point is distinct and that there is no exact standard for determining the value of a number. In other words, for those who add two things collectively and then subtract one in the other, you may get a various answer every time. Any time you use absolute deviation essay editing in math, there’s no universal standard.
Mu in Math – Mu in math refers for the quantity of intervals in between every single element. This variable offers the proportions of each element’s length together with how far apart these lengths are.
What is Mu in Math? Basically put, mu is definitely the ratio of the length of a single side of a line or the length of a circle to the length http://www.temple.edu/studenthealth/Housing_Student_Immunization_Requirements.html from the other side. When the length from the radius is improved while decreasing the length of your center, you would be using mu in math, which refers for the places of your both sides.
That is definitely the definition on the true numbers in math. You’ll find several formulas which are employed to calculate the length of those curves. Having said that, you don’t usually need to make use of the formula or use the equation so as to be able to examine the length of a line or the circumference of a circle.
To enable students improve their understanding of this idea, you are able to find other examples of mathematical equations. Merely appear up one more mathematical equation and clarify the two sides plus the length in the curve.
Learning the difference among absolute deviation is only the very first step. You must realize that, on an extremely standard level, the concept of absolute deviation is a incredibly simple 1. The second step is usually to apply the understanding so that you can make issues as very simple as you can for the students.
If you were to make use of a actual estate agent to inform you what is mu in math, he would in all probability tell you that the difference between the value of a property in Phoenix and San Diego would be rather significant. Nevertheless, you would also discover that the value of a home in Phoenix was only one-fourth of what the same property in San Diego was worth. The explanation for this really is that prices alter according to demand and provide. Therefore, you need to be capable of apply the concepts of Math with Technologies and also the equations that you are mastering.
What is Mu in Math is easy when it comes to comparing and contrasting measurements. Nevertheless, you need to have the ability to understand how to carry out the comparisons. Without realizing ways to compare the value of one’s properties and recognizing the differences between the properties which can be listed for sale, you are definitely missing out on an extremely crucial component of math.
Make confident that you just have methods that you can use to be sure that the students recognize the concepts that you are teaching. By way of example, you could possibly choose to teach students about “real numbers” by utilizing the mathematical concept from https://buyessay.net/ the absolute worth of a number. Having said that, do not focus on absolute worth with no teaching students about the way to add and subtract true numbers.
You may well find that students are extremely comfy within the ideas of “real numbers” and how they operate with them in math. That is certainly fine, but you must teach them about methods to create more complex calculations. Then, the student will probably be ready to study what exactly is mu in math.
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Water Temperature Map of the Southern Pacific Coast
- The map below shows the near real-time water temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit (°F).
- Use the near real-time water temperature data with discretion, because they may contain errors.
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Water Temperature Map of the Southern Pacific Coast (Table-based Web page)
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BUS 335 WEEK 11 QUIZ Quiz • Question 1 Discharge turnover is usually due to ____________. • Question 2 Turnover due to organizational downsizing is classified as _______. • Question 3 Research most clearly suggests that when organizations wish to increase retention they need to ______. • Question 4 One problem that has been shown to accompany downsizing is ______. • Question 5 Which of the following is the most commonly pursued alternative to layoffs for reducing staffing levels? • Question 6 The first strategy for improving employee retention is to ______________. • Question 7 Economic costs associated with downsizing include ____________. • Question 8 Organizations that link extrinsic rewards to employee performance (i.e. that use incentive compensation plans) find that ______. • Question 9 To increase the cost of leaving, employers _____. • Question 10 As assessment of employee success in reach goals, ratings of competencies, and suggestions for improvement are all part of ______. • Question 11 Replacement costs associated with voluntary turnover include ___________. • Question 12 Which of the following factors leading to turnover cannot usually be addressed by the organization? • Question 13 The typical penalty for a first major offense by an employee is ______________. • Question 14 Which of the following is an attribute of a high value employee that an organization would want to prevent from leaving? • Question 15 Which of the following is a common tool to assess employee reasons for leaving? | <urn:uuid:ab0ff9a0-3a30-4cff-8eb8-5f84cb518c2d> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://coursestap.com/product/bus-335-bus335-bus-335-week-11-quiz/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046152144.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20210726183622-20210726213622-00559.warc.gz | en | 0.945995 | 333 | 2.59375 | 3 |
7 QC Tools Training
The need to meet and exceed customer expectations in a cost competitive environment makes the correct usage of the 7 QC (Quality Control) Tools imperative today for a unified and systematic approach to team problem solving. The tools help to develop and sustain a strong customer focus and improve all processes by identifying rejects, determining causes, suggesting improvements, and establishing tractability of each process. The 7 QC tools are fundamental for Continuous Improvement.
This course will show the participants the basics of teamwork and problem solving and how the 7 QC Tools are used in problem solving.
Duration: 2 Days
All personnel / team members directly involved in continuous improvement / quality improvement initiatives from both the manufacturing and service (including banking and finance, logistics, healthcare, government and public service) sectors
At the end of this training, participants should be able to:
- Understand the fundamental principles of problem-solving
- Understand how to apply the 7 QC tools in the workplace
- Comment critically on corrective actions raised as a result of applying the tools
- Take ownership of applying 7 QC Tools as a corrective and preventive measure to avoid mistakes and improve product / service quality
- Interpret and measure the effectiveness of implemented solutions
- Procedures For Problem Solving Using The 7 QC Tools
– Making use of data to increase productivity
– Applying the 7 QC Tools towards problem-solving
- The Pareto Diagram
– How to construct Pareto Diagrams
– How to classify the defects and display using a Pareto Diagram
– How to identify the problems in their order of severity
– How to get a hand on the real problem from among many
- The Fishbone Diagram (Cause & Effect Diagram)
– How to construct Fishbone Diagram
– How to generate all the probable causes for every defect
– How to apply the Brainstorming Technique during problem solving meetings
– How to search out and organize all possible factors
- Process Flow Chart
– How to construct a Process Flow Chart
– Considerations for constructing process flow charts
– How to interpret process flow charts
– What is the best method to take down data simply?
– How to prevent inspection slip-throughs
– How to construct simple Checksheets for convenient usage in the workplace
- The Histogram
– How to know and predict occurrence of defects
– How to construct a Histogram
– How to interpret various shapes of a distribution diagram
- Scatter Diagrams
– Is there a way to find out a correlation between the cause and effect of a problem?
– How to construct a Scatter Diagram
– How to interpret the Scatter Diagrams
- Control Charts
– Why do defects occur?
– Is it due to dispersion?
– How to plot these dispersion over a period of time to determine the probable cause of dispersion
– How to interpret whether a process is stable or not
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Constellations: Octans 'the Octant'
Created | Updated Oct 3, 2017
Camelopardalis | Cancer | Canes Venatici | Canis Major | Canis Minor | Capricornus | Carina | Cassiopeia | Centaurus
Cepheus | Cetus | Chamæleon | Circinus | Columba | Coma Berenices | Corona Australis | Corona Borealis | Corvus
Crater | Crux | Cygnus | Delphinus | Dorado | Draco | Equuleus | Eridanus | Fornax | Gemini | Grus | Hercules | Horologium
Hydra | Hydrus | Indus | Lacerta | Leo | Leo Minor | Lepus | Libra | Lupus | Lynx | Lyra | Mensa | Microscopium | Monoceros
Musca | Norma | Octans | Ophiuchus | Orion | Pavo | Pegasus | Perseus | Phoenix | Pictor | Pisces | Piscis Austrinus
Puppis | Pyxis | Reticulum | Sagitta | Sagittarius | Scorpius | Sculptor | Scutum | Serpens | Sextans | Taurus
Telescopium | Triangulum | Triangulum Australe | Tucana | Ursa Major | Ursa Minor | Vela | Virgo | Volans | Vulpecula
|Formerly:||l'Octans de Reflexion ('Reflecting Octant')|
|Area:||291 square degrees|
|Origin:||Modern (18th Century)|
Octans is the southernmost of the southern constellations; it contains the South Celestial Pole, the point in the sky directly above the Earth's South Pole, and is fully visible only from the Earth's Southern Hemisphere. Indeed, a part of it is in the sky at all times from any point in the Southern Hemisphere. It is bordered by Indus, Pavo, Apus, Chamæleon, Mensa, Hydrus and Tucana. The constellation features no bright stars, is the source of no known meteor showers and has very few points of interest other than the South Celestial Pole.
Octans is so far south that it is in a region of the sky never seen by the ancient Greeks and Babylonians, who devised the ancient constellations, so it has no mythological associations.
The word Octans means an octant, which is a scientific instrument for measuring how far apart objects are in the sky. The constellation was devised by the 18th Century French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713 - 1762), who worked in Paris but made a trip to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to chart the southern skies. Lacaille imagined 15 new constellations, many of them with names based on scientific instruments; among them were the telescope, the microscope, the octant, the reticle (part of a telescope) and the set square. Fourteen of Lacaille's constellations were chosen by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1922 to be among the official list of 88 constellations which we now use. Lacaille called the constellation 'l'Octans de Reflexion', literally the Reflecting Octant, but the name was later simplified to Octans.
The South Celestial Pole
The stars in the sky are so far away that they appear to be fixed in position. Because the Earth rotates on its axis roughly once a day1, the stars appear to move around the Earth. The points in the sky directly above the Earth's north and south poles appear to be fixed and all the stars in the sky rotate around these points in circles. They are known as the North and South Celestial Poles. These poles don't rise or set like the sun but are there in the sky at all times – we just can't see them half the time because the sunlight obscures them.
The North Celestial Pole is obvious because there is a star right next to it – Polaris (or alpha Ursae Minoris) is not a very bright star, but it is easy enough to find. Once found, if you imagine a line from Polaris straight down to the horizon, then that point on the horizon is due north. This means that the location of Polaris is very important if you want to navigate at night, particularly at sea. In addition, the height of Polaris above the horizon (in degrees) is the same as your latitude, so it doesn't just tell you which way you are pointing, it also indicates where you are.
In the Southern Hemisphere, there is no bright star beside the South Celestial Pole. The star Sigma Octantis lies as close to the pole as Polaris does to the north one, earning it the name Polaris Australis, but it is a totally insignificant star of 5th magnitude, which you won't be able to find unless you really know your star patterns. It's therefore impractical as an aid to finding the pole.
How to Find the South Celestial Pole
The easiest way to find the South Celestial Pole relies on you being able to find Crux, the Southern Cross, and the two stars Alpha and Beta Centauri. The Southern Cross is easy enough to recognise, as it appears on the flags of Australia and New Zealand. Imagine a line from the top of the cross southward through the bottom of the cross and extended by four times the length of the cross. Now imagine a second line joining Alpha to Beta Centauri. Finally, bisect this line with a third line and extend this southwards as well. This line should intersect the line from Crux at a point which is reasonably close to the South Celestial Pole (it's about 2.5 degrees out, but that's close enough for most purposes).
An octant is an instrument which allows an observer to look at two different views of the heavens at the same time, placed side by side. One view is directly through the instrument while the other travels through a pair of mirrors. One of these mirrors is fixed and one rotates. By measuring the amount the mirror needs to be turned to bring the two views together, the octant measures the angular separation between the two objects being observed.
For example, in the days before satellite navigation systems, the most accurate way of determining the location of a ship out of sight of land was to measure the height of the sun above the horizon at noon. This value could be used to calculate the latitude of the ship. A sailor could look through his octant and see an image of the sun and an image of the horizon. All he had to do was turn the moving arm of the octant until the sun appeared to be resting on the horizon; he could then read off the angle from the scale on the octant. Tables were then consulted to produce the desired latitude.
The instrument could also be used at night for measuring the angular separation between stars, making it very useful for astronomers plotting out new constellations. It is for this reason that Lacaille chose to commemorate the instrument in the sky. In the Northern Hemisphere, measuring the angular separation between the North Star, marking the North Celestial Pole, and the horizon gives a more direct value for the latitude. Lacaille chose to position his Octans constellation at the South Celestial Pole, although lacking a bright pole star it could not be used for measurements of latitude.
The octant appears to have been invented in about 1730 independently by two people: Thomas Godfrey from Philadelphia and John Hadley from England. Hadley took out a British patent on the device in 1734. It was superseded by the more elaborate 'reflecting sextant' in 1755; this had the advantage that it could measure angles greater than 90 degrees, but many octants continued to be used right up to the 20th Century because they were lighter and easier to carry.
The octant gets its name from geometry: in that branch of mathematics, an 'octant' is an eighth of a circle and the instrument is basically this shape.
The brightest star in Octans is Nu Octantis (ν Oct) which is 4th magnitude. This is pretty dim.
Even dimmer is the pale yellow Sigma Octantis (σ Oct). At a magnitude of +5.47, this is barely visible. Nevertheless, this star has a proper name: Polaris Australis. This is because it is the visible star which is closest to the south celestial pole. It lies about one degree from the pole, which is as close as the northern Polaris is to the northern pole.
|ν Oct||Nu Octantis||+3.76||62||K0III||Binary system+planet|
|β Oct||Beta Octantis||+4.15||A9IV-V|
|δ Oct||Delta Octantis||+4.32||K2III|
|θ Oct||Theta Octantis||+4.78||190||K3III|
|ε Oct||Epsilon Octantis||+5.1||M5III|
|σ Oct||Sigma Octantis||+5.47||270||F0III||Polaris Australis|
|μ2 Oct||Mu2 Octantis||+6.5||142||G1V||Has a planet|
|HD 212301||+7.77||172||F8V||Has a planet|
|HD 142022 A||+7.69||117||G9V||Has a planet|
Deep Space Objects
Deep space objects are things worth looking at outside our solar system. They generally include such things as nebulas, star clusters and galaxies. One great source of such objects is the New General Catalogue (NGC), compiled by Dreyer at Armagh Observatory and based on the observations of William Herschel.
Octans does not have many interesting deep space objects. Melotte 227, an open cluster, is probably the only thing of interest for small telescope owners. The few objects listed in the NGC are mainly faint and difficult to see. Brightest are the overlapping pair of galaxies NGC 6438 and NGC 6438A, but you'll need a big telescope to see them. Galaxy NGC 2573 is even harder to see, but it bears the distinction of being the NGC object closest to the pole, and was given the name 'Nebula Polarissima Australis' by Herschel.
Deep Space Objects
|Melotte 227||Open Cluster||+5.3||About 40 stars|
|NGC 6438||Galaxy||+11.8||Overlaps NGC 6438A|
|NGC 6438A||Galaxy||+13||Type Ring B|
|NGC 2573||Galaxy||+13.8||'Nebula Polarissima Australis'|
Extrasolar planets are ones outside our solar system, orbiting other stars. They are a hot topic for astronomers, with new ones being discovered all the time. Because the distances involved are so huge, the planets have to be detected by indirect means, such as by analysing the effect their gravity has on their parent star.
So far, four planets have been discovered within the constellation of Octans:
Extrasolar Planets Table
|Star name or
|Distance from star
|Year of discovery||Comments|
|HD 212301||HD 212301 b||0.45||0.0341||2.457||2005||Hot Jupiter|
|HD 142022 A||HD 142022 A b||5.1||3.03||1,928||2005||High eccentricity!|
|Nu Octantis||Nu Octantis b||2.5||1.2||418||2009||orbits binary star|
|Mu2 Octantis||Mu2 Octantis b||7.1||10||4,100||2012||orbits sun-like star|
Astronomers would like to find a planet in the 'habitable zone', at the right distance from the parent star for Earth-like life to be possible. The first of these planets orbits the star at a distance of only about five million kilometres. At that distance, our Sun would shine 860 times as bright as it does on Earth, and the parent star of this planet is hotter than our Sun, so we can rule out any possibility of life in such a furnace.
The planet HD 142022 A b is very large – five times the mass of Jupiter – and it orbits the star much further out than Earth does the Sun, so it is likely to be an inhospitable place. Once again, we can discount a possible location for Earth-like life.
Nu Octantis b is a gas giant orbiting within a habitable zone of 418 days at 1.2 AU.
Mu2 Octantis b is a superjovian world orbiting a sun-like star, taking 4,100 Earth days to complete one year.
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Topic: Foods that lower cholesterol?
June 25, 2019 / By Annita Question:
I need serious help with this here. I am a vegetarian and a picky eater. I am 17. I had a blood test last year that showed I had high cholesterol and I had another one last week showing my cholesterol went even higher. I don't know what to do, I know high cholesterol runs in my family. The doctor would rather I change my diet then go on medication. I've been to a nutritionist but she wasn't helpful.
Yahweh | 5 days ago
Here are some.
Cholesterol: Top 5 foods to lower your numbers
Diet can play an important role in lowering your cholesterol. Here are five foods that can lower your cholesterol and protect your heart.
By Mayo Clinic staff
Can a bowl of oatmeal help lower your cholesterol? How about a handful of walnuts or even a baked potato topped with some heart-healthy margarine? A few simple tweaks to your diet — like these — may be enough to lower your cholesterol to a healthy level and help you stay off medications.
1. Oatmeal, oat bran and high-fiber foods
Oatmeal contains soluble fiber, which reduces your low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the "bad" cholesterol. Soluble fiber is also found in such foods as kidney beans, apples, pears, barley and prunes.
Soluble fiber can reduce the absorption of cholesterol into your bloodstream. Five to 10 grams or more of soluble fiber a day decreases your total and LDL cholesterol. Eating 1 1/2 cups of cooked oatmeal provides 6 grams of fiber. If you add fruit, such as bananas, you'll add about 4 more grams of fiber. To mix it up a little, try steel-cut oatmeal or cold cereal made with oatmeal or oat bran.
2. Fish and omega-3 fatty acids
Eating fatty fish can be heart-healthy because of its high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which can reduce your blood pressure and risk of developing blood clots. In people who have already had heart attacks, fish oil — or omega-3 fatty acids — reduces the risk of sudden death.
Doctors recommend eating at least two servings of fish a week. The highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids are in:
You should bake or grill the fish to avoid adding unhealthy fats. If you don't like fish, you can also get small amounts of omega-3 fatty acids from foods like ground flaxseed or canola oil.
You can take an omega-3 or fish oil supplement to get some of the benefits, but you won't get other nutrients in fish, like selenium. If you decide to take a supplement, just remember to watch your diet and eat lean meat or vegetables in place of fish.
3. Walnuts, almonds and other nuts
Walnuts, almonds and other nuts can reduce blood cholesterol. Rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, walnuts also help keep blood vessels healthy.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, eating about a handful (1.5 ounces, or 42.5 grams) a day of most nuts, such as almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, some pine nuts, pistachio nuts and walnuts, may reduce your risk of heart disease. Just make sure the nuts you eat aren't salted or coated with sugar.
All nuts are high in calories, so a handful will do. To avoid eating too many nuts and gaining weight, replace foods high in saturated fat with nuts. For example, instead of using cheese, meat or croutons in your salad, add a handful of walnuts or almonds.
Originally Answered: What are some good foods to eat to lower cholesterol?
Fruits n veggies. Eat lots of fiber. Some of the best soluble fiber rich foods include; oatmeal, barley, lentils, Brussels sprouts, peas, beans (kidney, lima, black, navy, pinto), apples, blackberries, pears, raisins, oranges, grapefruit, dates, figs, prunes, apricots, broccoli, and sweet potato.
Avoid oily food.
The only foods that contain cholesterol are meat and dairy products and the foods that contain these as ingredients. The main things that don't contain cholesterol are fresh fruits and veggies. An adequate amount of fresh fruits and veggies everyday and a low amount of cholesterol can help reduce the amounts of cholesterol in your body because fruits and veggies help to "flush" cholesterol from your body with things like antioxidants and plant photosterols. Things like soy have also been shown to reduce cholesterol.
Due to your age I have to ask are you overweight? If so that can make your levels rise. I mean if your cholesterol is high at age 17 and it's not due to weight issues maybe you do need the pills.
If it's due to weight...watch your carbs. Eat AT LEAST 7 or more serving of veggies everyday, only about 4 to 6 servings of carbs(unless you are on a serious workout routine b/c carbs are energy...carbs not used for energy are stored), and 2 to 3 servings of fruit every day and you should see some serious improvements(I mean if it's even possible this should do it). Drink at least 3 glasses of water each day. I eat this way every day. It works. I have a BMI of 18.8(that's what you want) and I have been vegetarian for over 9 yrs now.
It's hard to believe that, at your age, the doctor is talking about medication. How high was it? If you are an active teen female, a cholesterol level of up to 240 isn't really bad, unless you have other risk factors.
But anyway, high cholesterol was why I went vegan in the first place. No meat, dairy or eggs, lots of whole grains and beans for protein, lots of fruits and vegetables, low saturated fats. I lowered my cholesterol from 240 to under 160.
wow no one mentioned exercise.
I read somewhere that a new study said exercise alone can reduce cholesterol. Thirty minutes a day is a must. Get that heart pumping.
When you exercise you stimulate enzymes that cause the bad cholesterol to go back to the liver. This is then turned into bile and exits our body naturally.
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Caffeine lovers rejoice, your morning coffee with milk could add a few more years to your life.
A new study of half a million Britons found that those who drank a cup of coffee a day or more had a lower risk of premature death.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association , found that people who drank one cup a day had a 6% lower risk of premature death, while those who drank six cups had 16% less.
The study authors say that this makes coffee part of a healthy diet.
UK Biobank is a UK- based study that researches the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants, and provides data to approved researchers from academia and industry in the UK and abroad.
Researchers from several institutions, including the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health, studied the amount of coffee people drank, the frequency and type (including decaffeination), alcohol consumption, education and activity. physical, and if they smoked.
After taking into account the factors that would be harmful to health, such as smoking and alcohol, they discovered that people who did not drink coffee died at an earlier age than those who did drink. They were also less likely to die of cancer and heart disease, among others.
Also, it did not matter what type of coffee they would drink: instant or ground, natural or decaffeinated.
Other studies agree
Another study carried out last year reached similar conclusions .
When the International Agency for Research on Cancer and Imperial College London studied almost half a million people in 10 European countries, they found that higher levels of coffee consumption were associated with a lower risk of death from any cause, particularly circulatory and gastrointestinal diseases.
It has also been shown that coffee plays an important role in protecting against liver cancer, but only the variety with caffeine, according to a study conducted at the University of Southampton .
Drinking one more cup of coffee with caffeine per day was associated with a 20% reduction in the risk of cancer; two more cups, with a reduction of 35% and up to five cups, with a risk reduction in half.
Magic in a cup?
What makes coffee achieve this effect?
The researchers point out that coffee has a lot of beneficial ingredients. The roasted grain is a complex mixture of more than 1000 bioactive compounds, some with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory or potentially therapeutic anticancer effects.
Last year, a large study that reviewed more than 200 existing studies on the effects of coffee, concluded that the greatest benefit came from drinking three to four cups
However, he also concluded that it could be harmful in pregnancy. The high consumption was related to low birth weight and premature births.
There was also an association between women who drank coffee and a higher probability of suffering a bone fracture.
Last year, a US court ruled that coffee companies in California should carry warning labels about cancer risk, because soils contain a potentially toxic compound called acrylamide, which is produced during the roasting process.
None of the studies can show that coffee is the reason for a lower risk of premature death, but they do show a link.
The authors of the large study concluded that coffee was “generally safe” within the “usual levels” of intake, and that “robust randomized controlled trials are needed to understand if the associations observed are causal.”
Consumption of coffee around the world
Northern Europeans are the most dependent on their morning caffeine, according to Euromonitor. The Finns consume the largest amount of coffee in the world, followed by the Swedes and the Dutch. Brazil is the fifth largest consumer of coffee and the country that exports the most .
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In the wake of Germany suspending the Nord Stream 2 project, the United States has now imposed sanctions on the company in charge of the natural gas pipeline.
The undersea pipeline directly links Russian gas to Europe via Germany and is complete but not yet operating.
It has become a major target as Western governments try to exert leverage on Russia to deter further military moves after Moscow officially recognised the two separatist regions in Ukraine's east.
Here are the key things to understand about the project and its strategic importance.
What is Nord Stream 2?
Nord Stream 2 is a 1,230-kilometer-long natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, running from Russia to Germany's Baltic coast.
It runs parallel to an earlier Nord Stream pipeline and would double its capacity, to 110 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
It means Russian state-owned energy firm Gazprom can send gas to Europe's pipeline system without using existing pipelines running through Ukraine and Poland.
The Nord Stream 2 pipelines travel from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.(ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)
Combined, the two Nord Stream pipelines would be able to provide about a quarter of the gas used in European Union countries.
The $US11 billion ($15 billion) pipeline has been filled with gas but had been awaiting approval by Germany and the European Commission.
Gazprom owns the entire pipeline but paid half the costs, with the rest shared by Shell, Austria's OMV, France's Engie and Germany's Uniper and Wintershall DEA.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered Nord Stream 2 to be suspended. (Reuters: Hannibal Hanschke)
How is Germany blocking the pipeline?
The German economy ministry on Tuesday withdrew an assessment submitted last year to the German energy regulator declaring that the pipeline posed no risk to the security of energy supplies.
The ministry is expected to submit a new assessment within three months, which would take into account Russia's recognition of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine and the threat of a Russian military invasion of its neighbour.
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What sanctions have the US imposed?
In a statement on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said his administration was imposing sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its corporate officers.
Nord Stream 2 AG is a registered Swiss firm owned by Gazprom.
Mr Biden added: "These steps are another piece of our initial tranche of sanctions in response to Russia's actions in Ukraine. As I have made clear, we will not hesitate to take further steps if Russia continues to escalate."
The US Treasury Department issued a general license authorising the "wind down" of transactions with Nord Stream 2 AG until March 2.
The sanctions did not affect Gerhard Schroeder, a former German chancellor and a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has headed the shareholders committee of Nord Stream since 2005.
What does the pipeline mean for Russia?
Gazprom says the pipeline will meet Europe's growing need for affordable natural gas and complement existing pipelines through Belarus and Ukraine.
Nord Stream 2 would offer an alternative to Ukraine's ageing system that Gazprom says needs refurbishment, lower costs by saving transit fees paid to Ukraine, and avoid episodes like the brief 2006 and 2009 gas cut-offs over price and payment disputes between Russia and Ukraine.
Europe is a key market for Gazprom, whose sales support the Russian government budget.
Europe needs gas because it's replacing decommissioned coal and nuclear plants before renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are sufficiently built up.
Nord Stream 2 is expected to save Gazprom billions in fees every year by circumventing Ukraine. (AP: Stefan Sauer/DPA)
Why is the US against Nord Stream 2?
The White House was in "close consultations with Germany" and welcomed their announcement, press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted on Tuesday.
The US, European NATO allies such as Poland, and Ukraine have opposed the project going back before the Biden administration, saying it increases Europe's dependence on Russian gas and gives Russia the possibility of using gas as a geopolitical weapon.
Europe imports most of its gas and gets roughly 40 per cent of its supply from Russia.
The pipeline, which went forward under Ms Merkel, has been an irritant in US-German relations.
Mr Biden waived sanctions against the pipeline's operator when it was almost complete in return for an agreement from Germany to take action against Russia if it used gas as a weapon or attacks Ukraine.
In Congress, Republicans and Democrats — in rare agreement — have long objected to Nord Stream 2.
Will suspending Nord Stream 2 leave European to freeze this winter?
No. Even before Mr Scholz's move, regulators made clear the approval process could not be completed in the first half of the year.
That means the pipeline was not going to help meet heating and electricity needs this winter as the continent faces a gas shortage.
The winter shortage has continued to feed concerns about relying on Russian gas.
Russia held back from short-term gas sales — even though it fulfilled long-term contracts with European customers — and failed to fill its underground storage in Europe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the shortage underlines the need to quickly approve Nord Stream 2, increasing concerns about Russia using gas to gain leverage over Europe.
Could Russia cut off gas supplies to Europe in retaliation?
While Europe needs Russian gas, Gazprom also needs the European market. That interdependence is why many think Russia won't cut off supplies to Europe, and Russian officials have underlined they have no intention to do that.
Meanwhile, the Ukraine crisis, on top of the winter shortage, has already given European governments more reason to find their gas somewhere else, such as through liquefied natural gas, or LNG, brought by ship from the US, Algeria and other places.
Does Germany's decision mean Nord Stream 2 is over for good?
Asked by public broadcaster ARD if Nord Stream 2 could still go online one day, Mr Scholz said: "We are in a situation at the moment where no one should bet on that. We are very far from this at the moment."
Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck, whose Greens party always opposed the project, told ARD in a separate interview it could end up being entirely scrapped.
"It is absolutely still possible that sanctions will be imposed on Nord Stream 2," he said.
The Nord Stream 2 pipelines make landfall at Lubmin in Germany.(Reuters: Hannibal Hanschke)
However, the Kremlin and some of the companies backing the pipeline say they are holding out hope the decision to halt the certification could be reversed.
Nord Stream 2 could seek compensation from the government in a German court.
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Hereditary Cancer Syndromes can be caused by faulty changes in genes called as “Hereditary Mutations.” These can be passed down from parent to child and cause cancer to run in the family, making it a Hereditary Cancer. Women who carry a mutation in either of BRCA genes have a condition called Hereditary Breast Ovarian Cancers (HBOC) syndrome. Approximately 10-15 percent of Ovarian cancer cases and 10 percent of Breast cancer cases are caused by mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. Some more genes have also been found to be responsible for Hereditary Breast or Ovarian Cancer. In addition, mutation carriers who have already been diagnosed with cancer have a significantly increased risk of developing a second cancer in the future.
Lynch Syndrome is also called Hereditary Non Polyposis Colon Cancer (HNPCC). It caused by mutations in the MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 , PMS2 or EPCAM genes.
Out of 10 people with Lynch syndrome, between 7 to 9 people develop bowel cancer. People with Lynch syndrome are at higher risk of developing cancers like Colorectal cancer, Uterine (endometrial) cancer, Ovarian cancer and Gastric (stomach) cancer. Many other cancers like Melanoma, Retinoblastoma, Wilm’s tumor etc. have been established to have hereditary association.
- Cancer at early age e.g. Breast / Ovary / Endometrial / Colorectal at age 50 or younger.
- Two or more different types of cancer.
- Cancer in both organs in a set of paired organs e.g. Bilateral Breast cancer.
- Unusual presentation of cancer e.g. Breast cancer in a Male.
- Cancer with specific features e.g. Triple negative breast cancer, MSI high colon cancer.
- Cancer under treatment to identify therapy relevant hereditary gene mutations e.g. BRCA and PARP inhibitors.
- Simultaneous analysis of multiple cancer predisposition genes.
- More time- and cost-effective than single gene testing for patients suspicious for multiple hereditary cancer syndromes.
- A greater likelihood of identifying a hereditary cause for cancer.
- Avoidance of false negative assurance given by limited genetic screening which can miss risk causing genetic mutations in other genes.
- A complete diagnostic work-up in a timely fashion without multiple follow-up visits for additional test results.
- Previously identified hereditary cancer gene mutation in the family.
- One or more family members with cancer on the same side of the family.
- A family member with atypical / unusual presentation or multiple cancers in the same person.
- If ScreenGeneTM confirms the presence of any gene mutation associated with Hereditary Cancer risk, several cancer prevention options may become feasible.
- Measures to prevent or delay the onset of certain cancers are feasible with the help of Chemoprevention (risk-reducing medications) or Prophylactic surgery, such as mastectomy or oophorectomy.
- Increased surveillance may detect cancer at an earlier, more treatable stage, when outcomes are better.
- Surveillance frequency can be determined depending on genetic test results with starting of cancer screening at an earlier age and at an increased frequency in mutation carriers.
- Targeted surveillance reduces medical costs and gives preemptive advantage before onset of the disease.
- Improved compliance with tailored screening recommendations and preventive measures.
- Counseling of at-risk family members to undergo relevant genetic test to identify their predisposition.
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Balding or Receding Hairline
Your hair can start to thin out for a number of reasons. Things such as hormones, health, diet, stress, trauma and age are usually responsible for most hair loss.
Hereditary: In adult men, hair loss or a receding hairline is most likely the result of hereditary factors, passed down genetically from either parent.
Stress: Sometimes, as in times of intense stress or trauma, the process of hair loss is suddenly accelerated. Stress or worry is recognized as one of the main factors in causing dull, lifeless hair. Even baldness can result from continued strain and from the lack of relaxation of the scalp muscles, which often takes place.
Diet and nutrition: Well balanced meals are essential towards maintaining natural hair growth.
Age: Elderly people invariably show the effects of the passing years by a progressive thinning or loss of hair.
Hormones and glands: Hormones are chemicals manufactured by glands. Hormones are circulated around the body through the blood and lymph systems. Hormones can have many unusual effects on hair growth and hair loss, from adolescence, through to old age.Your hair has its own. Hair grows from a tube like structure called the hair follicle. Each follicle has a definite age, and when the hair reaches this natural limit, it falls out or is combed or brushed out. The follicle has a short rest period (from 2 to 6 months) and then begins to produce a new hair. The new hair can grow from 2 to 4 years before stopping, resting, and then shedding. Not all hair falls out at once, as a matter of fact it's fairly normal to lose between 50 and 100 old hairs a day. This means that 50 to 100 new hairs should appear every day to keep up hair numbers and to stop thinning. Balding and receding problems begin when the follicle doesn't regenerate a new hair and dies. Many treatments have been manufactured and tried for hundreds of years but to no avail. Tonics, lotions and hair creams have not had a great deal of success on already dead hair follicles. There does seem to be a few products on the market currently that when taken orally, go directly in the blood stream to work internally. These products are getting some good results but it seems that only in cases of mild to medium hair loss (hair that has only recently started to thin out) and if the treatment is taken continually.
Cowlicks in Front Area/Unusual Growth Patterns in Hairline
A cowlick is an irregular growth pattern that occurs around the hairline, most noticeably in the front hairline, you are born with it and it is purely genetic. Hair grows through a tube called the hair follicle. In the case of cowlicks hair follicles grow in two or more directions, resulting in opening or lifting of the hair.
A widows peak, in the nape of your neck, results from the same reasons as cowlicks.
Things to try to lessen the strength of cowlicks and unusual growth patterns include, proper hair cutting techniques where the hair is left heavier in these areas. In the bangs for example, straight bangs would in fact need to be cut uneven in order to appear straight. Layers should be kept longer so that the weight will hold down the cowlick or growth pattern areas.
Certain styling products such as strong hold mousse and gels will also help to keep these difficult parts of your hair in place.
A body wave/permanent wave, straightener would also help fix the problem. These changes are done chemically; therefore they actually work better and last longer if done correctly. They can temporarily reverse nature, and make life a whole lot easier.
Unusual growth patterns can be fixed and we suggest using our hair consultation to find the right kind of hairstyles to help minimize unusual growth patterns.
A double crown is a hair growth pattern that can cause considerable problems to a hairstyle. The most common problem is where the hair is cut too short and sticks up as a result.The only advantage with your double crown is that you most probably can part your hair on either side of your head.
Chemical intervention, such as permanent waving or straightening, can help crowns to sit better for a short period of time. Proper hair cutting techniques can also help to keep your double crown more settled. We recommend trying hairstyles that are longer and heavier on the top.
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First of all, have you ever been thinking about, how many “fingerprints” you left in the Internet? I can ensure you that there are more than you think. No matter what you do on your device which is connected to the internet, it leaves data. By using the word “data” I mean all the activities you do on the Web, or on the device which will be connected to the Web in the future, and which can be scaled into information. Data is also the moment when your and your friend’s smartphone are present during meetings. It is also some kind of information. The another info from your one meeting is that how much time you spend together, for how long you spend it without each other, even where do you spend it (as long as you allow the device to track you). That data is used by all of the companies connected somehow with the advertising market. (eg. Facebook, Google, Yahoo).
Here are some examples of how to avoid sharing information that concerns you.:
THE FIRST, THE EASIEST.
Find in the settings of your net browser, the history of the browser and cookies tab, and clear it. If you use smartphone check out in the settings of the phone, all the permissions that the apps have. Sometimes when you install for example, a flashlight, it asks you to allow the app to use your contacts or messages, microphone, or even access to camera (not the led light). Feels strange, isn’t it? You can always disallow it in the settings of the app or just uninstall an app from your smartphone.
THE SECOND, YOU WILL NEED A TAPE.
Sometimes it happens that your device is infected by some kind of spy malware.
According to Wikipedia:
“Malware is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network. Malware does the damage after it is implanted or introduced in some way into a target’s computer and can take the form of executable code, scripts, active content, and other software.”
But what about this tape. One kind of malware is the spy malware, it is using the cameras, microphones in your laptops. As it is difficult to fight with eavesdroppers, it’s so easy to fight with voyeurs by taping by the sticker on the camera of your device. This method is really good idea of fighting with malware is the first step of being “healthy” in the Web.
THE THIRD, PAY BY CASH.
The credit/debit cards since they exist are really hot products. In Poland, there is a trend to pay for everything by credit/debit cards. Now in connection with what I wrote above, think about how much data you leave on one Friday evening. Your bank knows how much you spend the money, for what you spend, is it just one night or it is your week rhythm. Thanks to that info in someday your loan request can be rejected because Bank will not give the loan to the person who provides that type of lifestyle. They will not say strict in that way, but people who were working in that field says about it. The way how to avoid this data scalping process is really easy, pay by cash.
THE FOURTH, JUST BE A KIND PERSON.
Whenever you go for a party there is a moment when people grab their smartphones and take the photos of themselves or of the other people. Remember that sometimes metadata is scalped even by your default app camera on your smartphone. By using word “metadata” I mean the time or the location, where the photo was taken. You can easily turn it off. But what about that kindness which I was writing about above. After or during the party some people feel a real need to share it on some social media. Predominantly on the photo, there are more people than the person who uploads it. The first, I mean the obligatory, step is to ask these people for the permission of uploading it online. You will be treated better in the future by them, because they will see that you care about their safety in the Web and that you are kind person.
On the other hand, some people are agreeing for all of these things, that I was warning you from. That because of the self-comfort. We need to accept it. But for all others, keep trying to abide by the principles of the self-hygiene on the Web.
What is my view about this?
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The Federal Budget Explained
US Federal Budget October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
- Estimated Tax Revenue $3.422 trillion.
- Budgeted Spending $4.407 trillion.
- Shortfall or Deficit $985 billion.
The Federal government will receive $3.422 trillion in revenue.
Most of these taxes are paid by you, either through income or payroll taxes:
- Income taxes contribute $1.622 trillion, or 49 percent of total receipts.
- Social Security, Medicare, and other payroll taxes add $1.238 trillion, or 36 percent.
- Corporate taxes supply $225 billion, or 7 percent.
- Excise taxes and tariffs contribute $152 billion, or 4 percent.
- Earnings from the Federal Reserve's holdings add $55 billion, or 2 percent.
- Estate taxes and other miscellaneous revenue supply, about 2 percent.
Budgeted spending $4.407 trillion
Spending is in three categories:
- Mandatory $2.739 trillion
- Discretionary $1.305 trillion
- Interest on the National Debt $363 billion.
Mandated Spending for benefits $2.739 trillion: (62%)
Social Security is by far the biggest expense, at $1.046 trillion. Medicare is next, at $625 billion, followed by Medicaid at $412 billion.
Social Security costs are currently covered 100 percent by payroll taxes and interest on past payroll taxes that have been invested. Medicare is already underfunded. Medicare taxes don't pay for all benefits, so this program relies on general tax dollars to pay for a portion of it. Medicaid is 100 percent funded by the general fund.
Discretionary Spending for everything else: $1.203 trillion (38%)
This year’s discretionary budget of $1.203 trillion pays for military spending and everything else. Congress changes this amount each year, using the president's budget as a starting point.
Military spending is budgeted at $886 billion. The biggest expense is the Department of Defense base budget, at $597.1 billion. Overseas Contingency Operations will cost $88.9 billion.
Military spending also includes $181.3 billion for defense-related departments like Homeland Security, the State Department, and Veterans Affairs. These departments also receive emergency funding of $18.7 billion.
The rest of the discretionary budget pays for all other domestic programs including Health and Human Services, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.
Interest on the National Debt: $363 billion
Interest on the national debt is $363 billion and rising. The U.S. Treasury must pay it to avoid a U.S. debt default. The United States has been fortunate because interest rates have been low. Now that the global economy is strengthening interest rates are expected to increase, so will the debt payments.
Budget Deficit: $985 billion
The budget deficit for this fiscal year will be $985 billion. That's the difference between $3.422 trillion in tax revenue and $4.407 trillion in spending.
National Debt: $21 trillion ($21,000,000,000,000)
Each year, the budget deficit is added to the U.S. debt, which already exceeds $21 trillion. Over the long run, it's a massive tax that must eventually be paid by our children and grandchildren.
Carrying this large amount of National Debt also hinders our economic growth, like driving a car with the brakes on. This is one reason why U.S. growth hasn't had a strong recovery from the last recession.
Over the long run, a large debt weakens the dollar. Investors are hesitant to purchase Treasury’s, fearing they may not be repaid. A weak dollar has less purchasing power with imports, making them more expensive. That contributes to inflation.
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Walter Tull was the British Army’s first ever Black officer. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the outbreak of the first world war, gained his commission as a second lieutenant in 1917, having served as a non-commissioned officer in the Somme and in other battles in France and Italy.
Walter Tull was born on 28 April 1888, the son of a carpenter from Barbados. His father, Daniel Tull had arrived in Britain in 1876, and moved to Folkestone where he married a local woman. When he was just seven, his mother, Alice, died of breast cancer. Two years later, his father passed away of heart disease. Walter and his brother Edward were eventually taken in by an orphanage in Bethnal Green, but kept in contact with the rest of their family back in Folkestone. However, his brother was adopted two years later by a Scottish family.
Now alone in the orphanage, Walter excelled at sport and went on to play for amateur team Clapton FC. Within a few months he had won winners’ medals in the FA Amateur Cup, London County Amateur Cup and London Senior Cup. In March 1909 the Football Star called him “the catch of the season”.
Walter Tull with the Tottenham Hotspur.
Spotted by Tottenham Hotspur, he was soon playing at White Hart Lane in front of crowds in the tens of thousands, on a £4 weekly wage.
One of the first black players in the English game, he was subjected to terrible racial abuse.
Walter Tull was one of the very first Black footballers to play in the First Division. According to the newspapers of the day, he was “the coloured centre-forward” (Daily Chronicle); “our dusky friend with his clever footwork” ( The Football Star); “the Clapton player whose complexion shows that he hails from sunnier climes than our own” (The Weekly Herald).
Tull experienced for the first time spectator racism when Spurs travelled to play Bristol City in 1909. The Bristol City fans mercilessly racially abused Tull. A newspaper reported “a section of the crowd made a cowardly attack on him in language lower than Billingsgate”. The reporter wrote: “Let me tell those Bristol hooligans that Tull is so clean in mind and method as to be a model for all white men who play football. In point of ability, if not actual achievement, Tull was the best forward on the field.”
His career at Spurs drifted following the racial abuse he suffered. Confined to the reserves, his fortunes were revived when Herbert Chapman signed him for Northampton Town in 1911 for a “substantial fee”. He went on to play 110 games for the club before the outbreak of World War 1.
Tull enlisted with Middlesex Regiment, part of a ‘Footballers’ Battalion’ that drew professional players from a range of clubs.
Tull was the first Northampton player to sign up to join the 17th (1st Football) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and in November 1915 his battalion arrived in France.
What little we know about Tull’s life, footballing career and military service was painstakingly pieced together by the historian Phil Vasili. According to Vasili’s book, Tull fought extensively in the war; at the Battle of the Somme, at Messines and Passchendaele. His bravery, leadership skills and calmness under pressure saw him swiftly rise through the ranks: lance corporal, lance sergeant, sergeant.
At one stage Tull was sent home suffering from trench fever. When he recovered from his illness, instead of being sent back to France, he went to the officer training school at Gailes in Scotland. Despite military regulations forbidding “any negro or person of colour” being an officer, Tull received his commission in May, 1917; the first ever Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army.
Having been made an officer, he returned to the conflict, and served on the Italian Front from November 1917 to early March 1918. Tull led his men at the Battle of Piave and was mentioned in dispatches for his “gallantry and coolness” under fire. He stayed in Italy until 1918 when he was transferred to France to take part in the attempt to break through the German lines on the Western Front. On 25th March, 1918, 2nd Lieutenant Tull was ordered to lead his men on an attack on the German trenches at Favreuil. Soon after entering No Mans Land, Tull was hit by a German bullet and fatally wounded. Tull was such a popular officer that several of his men made valiant efforts under heavy fire from German machine-guns to bring him back to the British trenches. He was awarded the British War and Victory Medal and recommended for a Military Cross.
Tull’s life is now commemorated at the Arras Memorial. His name is engraved along with 34,785 other soldiers with no known grave, who died between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918.
The Walter Tull Memorial
The Royal Mint issued a commemorative £5 coin in 2014.
2018 marks the centenary of Tull’s death.
“Walter Tull is a true British hero and he embodies everything that makes me so proud to be British.” David Lammy, Labour MP.
A campaign led by the Labour MP David Lammy, for Tull to be awarded the Military Cross is ongoing. Today, 127 MPs, from six different parties, have signed a letter to the Prime Minister requesting that Tull finally be awarded his Military Cross. In their letter, the MPs say Tull’s story “still serves as an inspiration to Britain’s Black, Asian and ethnic communities” and “encapsulates what it means to be a Briton”. | <urn:uuid:dbcf1528-6dff-430c-8b25-a872ddb3db50> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://kentakepage.com/walter-tull-black-british-war-hero/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999130.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620004625-20190620030625-00167.warc.gz | en | 0.981896 | 1,247 | 2.625 | 3 |
Monday, April 1, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Meet the author, Logan Beirne and listen to a conversation about his new book. With commentary by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
'Blood of Tyrants' reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers' approach to government and this history's impact on today. Delving into the forgotten-and often lurid-facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nation's first commander in chief, George Washington, as he shaped the very meaning of the United States Constitution in the heat of battle.Key episodes illustrate how the Founders dealt with thorny wartime issues: Who decides war strategy? When should we use military tribunals over civilian trials? Should we inflict harsh treatment on enemy captives if it means saving American lives? How do we protect citizens' rights when the nation is struggling to defend itself? Beirne finds evidence in previously-unexplored documents such as General Washington's letters debating torture, an eyewitness account of the military tribunal that executed a British prisoner, Founders' letters warning against government debt, and communications pointing to a power struggle between Washington and the Continental Congress.Vivid stories from the Revolution frame Washington's pivotal role in the drafting of the Constitution. The Founders saw the first American commander in chief as the template for all future presidents: a leader who would fiercely defend Americans' rights and liberties against all forms of aggression. 'Blood of Tyrants' pulls the reader directly into the scenes, filling the void in our understanding of the presidency and our ingenious Founders' pragmatic approach to issues we still face today. | <urn:uuid:6b1d5499-85c2-4d60-ad02-05e69446ee55> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://library.law.yale.edu/news/book-talk-blood-tyrants-george-washington-forging-presidency | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645311026.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031511-00108-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927086 | 327 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Another option for public school districts is leasing. In leasing, districts sign contracts with private developers or other entities that own land and/or multipurpose buildings that could be used for schools. Optimally, such leases should be medium to long term, as schools would not want to move very often, and the private property owner would want to assure a return on the investment. In effect, this arrangement is a good example of a public–private partnership.
These partnerships allow communities to upgrade their public school facilities at substantially lower costs and in less time than purely governmental efforts typically require. Although few, if any, traditional public schools in Michigan have leased school buildings, many charter schools have done so.
For example, the Morey Charter School in Shepherd, Michigan has signed two leases for its buildings from a private foundation. The leases are timed to coincide with the charter renewal, so the leases are only for a few years. Maintenance agreements are negotiated annually; currently, the landlord takes care of major maintenance and repair as well maintaining well and septic systems and yard upkeep. This year, the charter school itself is taking care of snow removal.
Nova Scotia offers the clearest example of how public–private partnerships facilitate school construction. By the end of 1998, as many as 41 new schools had been either completed or approved for construction under their Public Private Partnership program. The schools are “turnkey” operations – the facility is fully operational when the lease begins, complete with all classroom furnishings, such as desks, shelves and chalkboards; computers wired to the Internet and the inter–school electronic network; furnished administrative offices; landscaping; and athletic facilities. The school system provides the teachers, aides, principal and administrative staff and maintains full control over the curriculum and all other educational services and decisions.
The chief advantages of this arrangement for Nova Scotia’s school system is the speed with which it is able to upgrade its school facilities and the average 15 percent savings it achieves through leasing arrangements with the private developers/owners. The school system leases the facilities for 20 years at a predetermined rent that is lower than the capitalized cost of construction and furnishings.
If such an approach were implemented in the United States, the potential savings could be greater than the 15 percent Nova Scotia realizes, because private financing and ownership of the structure would allow school systems to avoid additional costs imposed by federal and state mandates. Such mandates include prevailing wage laws, environmental regulations, and minority set–asides, which often add substantially to the costs of design and construction of publicly funded buildings.
Florida provides an example of such an arrangement. Using an approach similar to Nova Scotia’s plan, plus money provided by the community to build the school, the per–student construction costs for a single charter school in Florida fell between 22 percent and 34 percent below the state average for constructing public elementary schools. These savings were due largely to a series of innovative design efficiencies.
If school districts want to lease facilities, they should be especially mindful of four important issues. First, leases should be at least three to five years, and even longer if the lease provisions are sufficiently good for the school district. In return for a 10 to 20 year lease, most districts should be able to have a new school built, since the developer should be able to recoup the cost of the building in that amount of time.
A second issue to consider is maintenance. One of the allures of leasing is that if the facility becomes rundown or otherwise unacceptable for educating children, then the district does not have to sign another lease. Facility maintenance can and should be negotiated either into the lease or negotiated competitively with an outside company. Most property owners would insist on this, as they have a financial interest in the upkeep of the property. In the Morey Charter School case, the owner does most of the maintenance work.
Third, lease costs should not be financed through bonding. Rather, they should be paid out of current operational funds, the same way as debt service would be paid if a new building were financed through bonds. Capitalizing lease payments through bonding defeats the potential cost savings of leasing, as school districts would have to pay interest on top of the full–capitalized cost of the lease.
Finally, an obscure provision of the 2001 federal tax cut bill allows private developers limited access to tax–free bonds to pay for this kind of building activity. Michigan could allow up to roughly $10 million worth of these bonds to be used for school building purposes, but this would likely require a vote of the Michigan legislature. Other states, such as Virginia, have enacted such legislation.
In short, leasing may be less expensive than buying, and leasing space protects school districts from future enrollment changes and allows flexibility in facility acquisition. Leasing also has the advantage that the private sector may be able to provide these facilities more efficiently than the public sector. On the negative side, leasing assures building expenses in perpetuity, while school bonds used for purchasing buildings will be paid off after a length of time. | <urn:uuid:4bfc84ec-6336-485f-b06b-f37dc001c607> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.mackinac.org/4911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701158601.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193918-00133-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972448 | 1,020 | 2.546875 | 3 |
One of the leading causes behind so many weight loss failures is lack of education. Most people thinks that all carbohydrates are bad and that if one can reduce carbohydrate intake or totally avoid it, then weight loss will become easy.
Remember that not all carbs are bad. Making the right decision regarding carb consumption can result in quick weight loss.
There are actually two types of carbohydrates which are labeled as ‘the good’ and ‘the bad’. The bad carbohydrates should be avoided and consuming the good ones will provide your body with the much needed nutrition and energy. To ensure quick weight loss one must be aware of what types of carbs should be consumed and what should be avoided.
The Bad Carbohydrates: Processed foods contain a lot of carbs which are in the bad carbs category. In their natural state , these foods contain some nutrition but as soon as they are processed and pass through several food processing stages, much of their nutritional value is lost. What is left are empty calories which only helps to make you fat.
Examples of such foods are chips, white bread, pasta, soft drinks, cakes, biscuits, candies, etc. These foods should be avoided at all costs, if you are serious about weight loss.
These processed foods contain a lot of sugar whichis rich in calorie content. The more sugar you consume, the fatter you become.These foods offer very little nutrition to your body and since they have very little fiber content, they are easily converted into fat deposits.
Apart from weight gain, eating processed foods regularly can also result in diabetes, since your blood sugar levels increase so much that it becomes extremely difficult for insulin to control it.
The Good Carbohydrates: Good carbohydrates can usually be found in natural foods such as raw fruits, vegetables, legumes, seeds, wholemeal pasta, wholegrain wheat, etc. These foods contain carbs but not the ones that would make you fat. These are slow carbs which take a long time to digest and therefore, you don't get fat. The fiber content in these foods are also high and these fibers will keep you full for a long time which is a natural way to suppress your appetite. | <urn:uuid:b50e744b-f3cd-4ab6-9692-02fd18b35ef9> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://wealthandwellness.in/2012/02/truth-about-reducing-carbohydrate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104277498.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703225409-20220704015409-00311.warc.gz | en | 0.956897 | 445 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Suggests additional training to help brain adapt more fully and further enhance benefits
BOSTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a study of specially designed peripheral prism glasses for hemianopia patients (blinded in half the visual field in both eyes), scientists found that two-thirds of patients continued to wear the glasses at the end of the study period and beyond, indicating a high level of success. They also found that the brains of patients had not fully remapped to adjust for the prisms, which means that improved training in their use could further enhance the benefits, says principal investigator, Dr. Eli Peli, a senior scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute and inventor of the glasses.
The study, published in the May 2009 issue of Optometry and Vision Science, not only reaffirms previous clinical studies, but also adds a deeper understanding of the neurological processes at play when a patient uses prisms for this purpose, adds Peli.
More than a million Americans suffer from hemianopia, which blinds the vision in one half of the visual field in both eyes -- the result of strokes, tumors or trauma. Hemianopia patients are often unaware of what they cannot see and frequently bump into walls, trip over objects or walk into people on the side where the visual field is missing.
The prisms, attached above and below the center of a spectacle lens in Peli's invention, shift images from one side of the visual field to the other side and alert patients to objects and obstacles not otherwise visible to them. Alerted to the existence of these objects, patients turn to look, or, if their brains are fully adapted (remapped), perceive quickly where the objects are and automatically avoid them without turning their eyes and head. (In earlier designs by other scientists, the prism was in the middle of the lens and caused double vision.)
"The best case scenario," says Peli, "is for a patient to be able to make rapid decisions based on the perception rather than moving their heads when an unseen object is detected."
Peli and his team asked 28 patients with complete hemianopia to wear the peripheral prism glasses as much as possible for the duration of the study, which averaged about nine weeks. Success was measured by continued wear, visual field expansion, perceived direction (caused by brain remapping), and perceived improvement in quality of life.
The research team found that 67 percent of patients chose to continue to wear the glasses at the end of the study. They also found that all patients had expansion of their visual field of about 22 degrees and expressed reduced difficulty in noticing and avoiding obstacles. On the other hand, only two patients demonstrated even an intermittent adaptation to the change in visual direction produced by the peripheral prism glasses, which means that no patient had remapped his or her brain to automatically make the perceptual adjustment.
Based on these results, Dr. Peli and his team plan to conduct future research that will examine the best way to train patients to reprogram their brains to perceive direction automatically.
The research team consisted of Mr. Robert Giorgi and Drs. Russell Woods and Eli Peli, all of the Schepens Eye Research Institute.
This study was conducted with a prototype of the glasses, on which the prisms are temporarily applied. There are now permanent prism glasses available, which continue to be studied and perfected in on-going multi-center trials.
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The latest in a series of posts on classic children’s picture books
Walt Disney’s Cinderella: A Little Golden Book Classic. Story adapted by Jane Werner. Illustrated by Retta Scott Worcester. Golden Books, 24 pp., $2.99.
By Janice Harayda
For several decades, the story of Cinderella has been anything but a Cinderella story. Scholars have attacked it for promoting female passivity, for giving stepmothers a bad name, and for equating beauty with virtue: The pretty Cinderella is good and her ugly stepsisters are bad. I read a critique that accused it of promoting capitalist values because – at least in the Disney the version, the one most familiar today — Cinderella is rewarded for the hard work of scrubbing floors and churning butter, as though we’d want the kids to read books where characters were rewarded for sloth.
There’s some truth to the all complaints. Variations on Cinderella have existed for centuries or more, and they typically reflect ideals of an earlier time. But if I had children, I’d want them to know this tale of a mistreated girl who marries a king’s son, and not just because it’s a defining myth of our age. The case against Cinderella was stronger in the past. If the story is one of female passivity — that of a girl rescued by a prince — it used to reflect the expectations of society as a whole.
Those assumptions have changed. Girls today see more countervailing influences to Cinderella — the tortured marriage of Charles and Diana showed us all what can happen when you marry a prince — so there seems to be less harm in reading it. There are also more benefits when surveys of cultural literacy have shown that children are increasingly growing up without understanding the ideas that have shaped civilizations – not just fairy tales but myths, legends, fables, Bible stories, and more.
As a child, I loved an oversized tie-in edition to the 1950 animated Disney musical Cinderella — “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”! – and read it until its corrugated pop-up pumpkin fell off. A few weeks ago, I was startled to find Walt Disney’s Cinderella in a Little Golden Book Classic format in the new-children’s-books section of a good bookstore. No pop-up pumpkin, but everything else is identical. No less surprising is that the Little Golden Book Classic is better than many recent editions, including some others from Disney, in part because its cover shows Cinderella in rags near a brick fireplace, which makes the meaning of the title clear right away. Some versions have a princess on the cover that dilutes the message and make the book look like just another princess fantasy, instead of the mother lode.
I’m sure that at the age of seven, I liked my Disney version partly because its Cinderella has blond hair and blue-green eyes like me (which plays into stereotypes of the fair-haired as virtuous, given that one of her stepsisters has black hair and another red). But today you can find a United Nations of Cinderella stories at bookstores and libraries, and they have title characters of varied ancestry: Jewish, Persian, Chinese, Mexican, Korean, Caribbean, Hispanic, Cambodian, Egyptian, Alaskan, Hmong. And if some of these still seem to be a font of stereotypes, they make clear it would be more accurate to call Cinderella something else: an archetype who has never lost her appeal.
Best line: Some modern versions of Cinderella don’t explain how the title character got her name. The Little Golden Book Classic does: “But alas! The kindly gentleman soon died. And his second wife was harsh and cold to her lovely stepdaughter. She cared only for her two ugly stepdaughters.
“Everyone called the stepdaughter Cinderella now since she sat by the cinders to keep warm as she worked hard, dressed only in rags.”
Worst line: Cinderella had “a puppy named Bruno” before her father died. The name “Bruno” is odd in context. And the dog probably shouldn’t have a name at all, because it’s used only twice, and an old horse (which becomes a coachman) and the mice (which turn into horses) don’t have names.
Listen to the song “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” from Walt Disney’s Cinderella on a site that doesn’t include a film clip from the movie. You can also hear it on YouTube sites that include a clip, but these may not be legal.
Other classic picture books reviewed on One-Minute Book Reviews include Millions of Cats, Madeline, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Where the Wild Things Are, The Backward Day, Horton Hatches the Egg, The Story of Ferdinand and Flat Stanley. | <urn:uuid:036aa44e-137e-4bef-a135-905d25052fb0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00201-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953618 | 1,023 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Everyday Activities Associated with More Gray Matter in Brains of Older Adults
Study measured amount of lifestyle physical activity such as house work, dog walking and gardening
Higher levels of lifestyle physical activity – such as house cleaning, walking a dog and gardening, as well as exercise – are associated with more gray matter in the brains of older adults, according to a study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center.
The gray matter in the brain includes regions responsible for controlling muscle movement, experiencing the senses, thinking and feeling, memory and speech and more. The volume of gray matter is a measure of brain health, but the amount of gray matter in the brain often begins to decrease in late adulthood, even before symptoms of cognitive dysfunction appear.
“More gray matter is associated with better cognitive function, while decreases in gray matter are associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias,” said Shannon Halloway, PhD, the lead author of the Journal of Gerontology paper and the Kellogg/Golden Lamp Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rush University College of Nursing. “A healthy lifestyle, such as participating in lifestyle physical activity, is beneficial for brain health, and may help lessen gray matter atrophy (decreases).”
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International Conference on Dual Diagnosis and Disorders
Nov. 14-15, 2018; Melbourne, Austrailia
Microsurgical Approaches to Aneurysms and Skull Base Diseases 2018
Nov. 15-17, 2018; Jacksonville, Fla.
2018 Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Spine Care Conference
Nov. 16-17, 2018; Amelia Island, Fla.
Craniofacial Surgery and Transfacial Approaches to the Skull Base
Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2018; St. Louis
Comprehensive Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery of the Skull Base Course
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The generation of indexes depends on the markups inserted in the text.
Such markups will be processed afterwards by an external tool and will generate the index. An example of such a tool is the collateindex.pl script (see Section B.6.2). Details about the process used to generate these indexes are shown in Section B.6.2.
The indexes have nesting levels. The markup of an index is done by the code Example D-3.
Example D-3. Code for the generation of an index
<indexterm> <primary>Main level</primary> <secondary>Second level</secondary> <tertiary>Third level</tertiary> </indexterm>
It is possible to refer to chapters, sections, and other parts of the document using the attribute zone.
Example D-4. Use of the attribute zone
<section id="encoding-index"> <title>Encoding Indexes</title> <indexterm zone="encoding-index"> <primary>edition</primary> <secondary>index</secondary> </indexterm> <para> The generation of indexes depend on the inserted markups on the text. </para>
The Example D-4 has the code used to generate the entry of this edition on the index. In fact, since the attribute zone is used, the index statement could be located anywhere in the document or even in a separate file.
However, to facilitate maintenance the entries for the index were all placed after the text to which it refers.
Example D-5. Usage of values startofrange and endofrange on the attributeclass
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Wikipedia's Notability Standards
Delivered April 23, 2020. Contributor: Maria E.
To understand Wikipedia's notability standards by determining paths or required accomplishments for a person to be listed on Wikipedia.
One doesn't have to be a
in order to be notable enough to have a Wikipedia page. Here are some examples of individuals who passed Wikipedia's notability standards:
Josephine Foxworth, an American copywriter, is considered notable because she was "elected to the Advertising
Hall of Fame in 1997
" and she also "created a jingle for a large supermarket chain."
Zhang Jun, a Chinese track and field athlete, is considered notable because he "won several medals for shot put" and he is a "record holder in both indoor and
Based on Point Collaborative
According to Point Collaborative, a person is considered notable by Wikipedia standards when the person has been mentioned/referenced/written about in at least
12 high-level media articles
These media articles can be on local city, industry, or niche publications, regionally, or nationally recognized media sources or
globally recognized credible media sources
Based on LinkedIn
, here are some steps one can take in order to pass Wikipedia's notability standards:
Get mentioned or referenced in
other wiki pages
Get referenced in
third party sources
such as magazines, newspapers, and other media outlets.
Get multiple registered users as your page contributors to ensure that your page won't be
flagged for deletion
Only the project owner can select the next research path.
Need a similar proposal?
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A child must be placed in care that best meets a child’s needs and is culturally appropriate. Child Safety Services must consider placing a child with family members or other people who have a significant relationship with the child first. This means that a family member must apply to become a ‘Kinship Carer’ for the child, and involves criminal history and other checks. This can take time.
The general principle is that an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child should be cared for within an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community.
The Indigenous Child Placement Principle requires Child Safety Services to place a child, in order of priority, with:
- a member of the child’s family
- a member of the child’s community or language group
- another Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander who is compatible with the child’s community or language group; or
- another Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander.
If there is no appropriate placement as those mentioned above, then Child Safety Services must give proper consideration to placing the child, in order of priority, with a person who lives:
- near the child’s family; or
- near the child’s community or language group.
If Child Safety Services places an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child with a carer who is not Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, Child Safety Services must first consider matters including whether the carer is committed to helping maintain contact between the child and the child’s parents, other family members and the child’s community or language group.
They must also help the child to maintain a connection with their culture and help to preserve and enhance the child’s sense of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identity.
Any individual, or two or more individuals approved by Child Safety Services to care for a child subject to departmental intervention and an out-of-home care placement.
These services are licensed and they usually provide care for a group of children who are in the custody or guardianship of the Chief Executive. Some residential care facilities cater for children with specific needs, such as therapeutic and intensive placements.
These services provide accommodation with support workers that visit the child but do not usually stay overnight. This placement option is best suited to a young person aged from 15-17 years who is in the process of transitioning from care.
A temporary placement with a carer or care service intended to provide time-limited support to enhance a carer’s ability to continue in their role as a child’s full-time carer and to sustain the caring relationship.
A kinship carer is a person who is of significance to the child, such as a member of the child’s family or a friend, who is approved by Child Safety Services to provide an out-of-home care placement for the child.
There are a number of steps to becoming a kinship carer.
- Complete an application for approval form. This includes consideration of criminal and child protection history, and where necessary, domestic violence and traffic history.
- If you do not have a form you can complete the ‘Expression of Interest in becoming a kinship or foster carer’ on Child Safety Services’ website or you can ask for one at a Child Safety Service Centre.
- All adult member of the household must complete a blue card application.
- A household safety study will be completed by the person assessing your application and this includes mandatory safety requirements that must be met prior to you being approved as a carer.
- You need to complete a health and wellbeing questionnaire with the person making the assessment. A medical assessment may be required.
- The assessor does referee checks.
- The assessor conducts interviews. You, your children (depending on their age), any adult household members and significant others will be interviewed.
- Complete training about the skills and knowledge you will need as a foster carer.
You will receive a letter with the outcome of the decision and your review options.
If your application is approved by Child Safety, you will receive a Certificate of Approval as a kinship carer. This is for an initial 12 months and requires renewal every two years thereafter, upon application and approval. You will also have to work with Child Safety Services and your non-government foster and kinship care service to develop a Placement Agreement detailing the goals of the placement and the support and training you may need to meet them.
If your application is not approved by child safety, your letter should state the reasons for the decision and your right of review.
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Research sheds new light on black holes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The quantum phenomenon which is thought to cause black holes to leak energy and ultimately explode is more common than first thought according to Victoria University researchers.
Physicist Stephen Hawking famously discovered in 1973 that black holes are not entirely black. Instead, a subtle quantum effect results in them losing energy and particles into space, causing them to shrink and, over trillions of years, disappear. Until Hawkings discovery, black holes were considered to have such a strong gravitational field that nothing could escape.
Research led by Matt Visser, Professor of Mathematics at Victoria, has shed new light on the theory, known as Hawking Radiation, by calculating the conditions that would be needed for radiation leaks.
"We now believe there are a number of theoretically plausible objects in the universe that emit Hawking Radiation. Its more robust and more prevalent than scientists thought."
While Hawkings discovery is widely accepted in the scientific world, no observational astronomer has yet seen a black hole exploding. The final moments are thought to involve several hundred tonnes of matter converting itself to energy in 2 or 3 seconds, causing an explosion that would dwarf any nuclear weapon ever envisaged.
Professor Vissers research team, which includes colleagues in Spain and Italy, has also provided new information about what happens just before a black hole disappears.
"It is the last few seconds we dont understand. Our work has helped us to probe that period more closely and we have produced calculations that work down to the last few millionths of a second.
"It sounds good from the outside and it has added significantly to our understanding of what happens right at the end. However, a lot of unanswered questions remain."
Scientific papers on the research findings have recently been published in the Journal of High Energy Physics and in Physical Review D (the American Physical Society journal of particles, fields, gravitation & cosmology).
Professor Visser says discovering that Hawking Radiation is a more frequent occurrence helps unravel some of the mysteries of the Universe, but is not a cause for alarm.
"Wed have to be incredibly unlucky for a small black hole to wander into our solar system just before it was due to explode. Its very very unlikely."
Another area of Professor Vissers research is analogue spacetimes which are ways of mimicking gravity using simpler physical systems. One example is modelling acoustic black holes using sound in a moving fluid.
A former student of Professor Vissers is setting up a laboratory in Trieste, Italy, where she hopes to construct an experiment using sound in moving fluid, to observe Hawking Radiation and test the various theories about how it works.
"We would love to have a direct experience of the Hawking effect but the most likely way we will see it is by using some kind of analogue model.
"Distance is not the issue, its that there are lots of sources of radiation in the Universe and whats being emitted by a black hole, even at the end, would be dwarfed by other sources. The last few seconds of a black holes existence would be impressive by human standards but not by cosmological ones." | <urn:uuid:1a490970-705a-4553-8f85-a9fee9059f7d> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://phys.org/news/2011-03-black-holes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027318986.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20190823192831-20190823214831-00452.warc.gz | en | 0.96112 | 635 | 3.609375 | 4 |
A few days ago, I wrote about tuberculosis (TB) exposure in several people who performed a necropsy on an infected dog. As part of that investigation, a cat in the household was tested and was also positive for TB. It was euthanized because of the public health concerns. A logical question from a reader was "Is there no treatment for animals, as there is with humans?"
Diagnosis of tuberculosis in an animal often results in prompt euthanasia, and some individuals and groups have euthanasia as a standard recommendation.
- We have no data about how to properly treat an infected animal.
- We have no data about how effective (or ineffective) treatment may be.
- It’s not easy to test animals before or during treatment to see if they are shedding the TB bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
- It’s such a concerning disease in people that the inclination is to err on the side of caution when it comes to public health.
Is it an appropriate response?
In some circumstances, it probably is. In other circumstances, treatment shouldn’t necessarily be dismissed. A major problem is the knowledge gap.
- We don’t know whether infected animals pose any risk to people. Human-animal transmission can occur, but it’s unclear whether animals can transmit the infection back to people.
- If transmission between pets and people occurs, we don’t know what circumstances are involved. TB is not readily transmitted even between people. Short term exposure is not a major concern. It’s likely that close and prolonged contact is required for transmission from pets, but we don’t know for sure.
- We don’t know if certain infected animals are higher risk than others, although there probably are differences. A dog with respiratory TB and active disease is probably a much higher risk than a dog with a localized TB abscess.
- We don’t have easy and accurate ways to test pets for TB exposure and shedding. In people, sputum cultures are tested by having people spit in a cup. Getting a sample like that is obviously difficult in dogs. Collecting a good sample for testing is much more involved in pets and not amenable to routine testing (for research or monitoring).
- We don’t know for how long to treat a pet with TB, or which drugs are optimal for use.
Treatment might be reasonable when there is an animal with mild disease (or no signs of disease), when the animal was infected from a household contact (meaning that some degree of TB exposure has already occurred in the household and the dog would probably only be a secondary source of exposure), when there are committed owners who are willing to embark on time consuming and expensive treatment, when owners are able to keep the dog away from other animals and people during the treatment period, and when there is an understanding that treatment may not work.
When might treatment not be a good idea?
- When the animal is shedding the TB bacterium in respiratory secretions.
- When the owners cannot afford prolonged and expensive treatment and monitoring.
- When the owners cannot be relied on the administer every dose of medication and make every required follow-up appointment.
- When owners cannot be relied on to keep the dog away from other dogs and animals (and people) during the treatment period (or at least during the initial period).
- When there are high-risk people in the household, such as people with HIV.
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Three therapies derived from plants will be tested at The Rockefeller University in New York City for their ability to prevent colorectal cancer, which afflicts some 150,000 Americans each year. The compounds have the potential to be safer than cancer-thwarting nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), widely used aspirin-like drugs known to prevent colorectal cancer as well as reduce related deaths by half.
Eating diets rich in fruits and vegetables helps reduce the risk of colorectal cancer as well as deaths from the disease, according to population-based studies. However, the chemicals in these plants responsible for the anti-cancer effect are not well known. "Certain plant-derived compounds called phenolics act similarly to NSAIDs in hindering cancer, yet may lack their bad side effects such as irritating the stomach lining or damaging the liver or kidneys," says Steven J. Shiff, M.D., assistant professor in the Laboratory of Human Behavior and Metabolism at Rockefeller. "If as effective or better than the drugs, these plant therapies might be much better tolerated for longer periods of time than NSAIDs."
In the study, Shiff and his colleagues will compare three plant-derived compounds, curcumin, rutin and quercetin, to the NSAID sulindac. The study will determine whether these naturally occuring chemicals, all potent antioxidants and antiinflammatories, can affect cells in a similar manner as sulindac, which prompts the cells to "turn on" a program of regulated cell death called apoptosis. NSAIDs, which include ibuprofen and naproxen, are among the most commonly used therapies worldwide for relieving pain and inflammation in joints and muscles.
Curcumin, notes Shiff, has been used for centuries as an
antiinflammatory agent. The compound is the pigment that gives the yellow color
to the seasoning curry, mustard and turmeric, the powdered form of the root of
Curcuma longa Linn. Curcumin is an approved additi
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Vitamin K shot
Vitamin K is necessary to the proper clotting of blood. Most of our vitamin K is produced by our beneficial gut bacteria and some comes from our food (mostly leafy green vegetables). Understanding that vitamin K levels are so dependent on our gut biome helps explain why antibiotic use should be minimized and why babies' levels rise so well in the weeks after birth. Due to Mother Nature's design, babies are born with a lower vitamin K level and therefore blood clotting ability is less than their mother or than what they will have in a few months' time. In the last weeks of pregnancy, several blood clotting factors increase but the factors that depend on K do not.
Why does this matter? Approximately 5 in 100,000 babies can experience bleeding into the brain about 1 week to several months after birth. This is called Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding of the Newborn. Most often it is an inborn problem in the liver which causes a decreased ability to metabolize vitamin K. Breastfed babies are at most risk of bleeding because breastmilk is naturally low in vitamin K and formula contains high levels of vitamin K.
Other considerations regarding vitamin K injections?
All babies are born with a vitamin K level that is significantly lower than adults or infants. Therefore, this is a normal level of K for newborns. Their gut biome, which produces vitamin K, increases exponentially after birth and is fed by breastmilk. Maternal K levels do not affect the newborn and breastmilk does not contain appreciable amounts. The disease process which causes bleeding can be idiopathic (no known reason) or due to an underlying disorder. A vitamin K shot can mask the presence of this disease but also reduces damage from the bleeding. A baby undergoing circumcision can hemorrhage without a vitamin K shot because it is an unnatural wound and his (or her) clotting ability is decreased. This baby MUST have vitamin K. A baby is born with a slightly immature liver. The vitamin K shot is synthetic. Some people have concerns about the baby's liver's ability to detoxify this amount of a synthetic chemical. Some people are concerned about cell division in the newborn and the effect high levels of vitamin K have on the rate of division. Many people administer the vitamin K after their risk-benefit analysis of vitamin K administration.
In my practice, a mother has the choice of injectable vitamin K, oral vitamin K drops, or no vitamin K administration after full informed decision-making research and discussion. I carry injectable, oral vitamin K must be purchased in advance at: www. birthwithlove.com If you decide against vitamin K at birth, we request that your sign an informed consent waiver. | <urn:uuid:05fb786f-8fa2-4a72-97d0-d80c98cab59b> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.easthawaiimidwifeservice.com/vitamin-k-shot- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710808.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20221201085558-20221201115558-00365.warc.gz | en | 0.942831 | 550 | 3.15625 | 3 |
H: 14cm D: 18cm
By Nishimura Dōnin (1504-1555)
Muromachi period, Early to middle 16th century
Nishimura Dōnin (Kuniji) lived in Sanjō Kaman-za, Kyoto. Oda Nobunaga – a powerful samurai daimyo who initiated the unification of Japan - gave him the title of tenka-ichi (best in the world). It is said that he was one of the kamashi (kettle master) served to Oda Nobunaga and the famous tea ceremony master Takeno Jōō. He was the first to establish the Kyōgama (Kyoto iron kettle).
This kettle is certified by Ōnishi Jōju (1808-1876) who succeeded the name of the kamashi family, Ōnishi Seiwemon the eleventh.
It has rough skin and there are paulownia patterns. This crest, originally used by the imperial family, was given to Oda Nobunaga by Ashikaga Yoshinori, the 6th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in the Muromachi period, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi used it as his family crest.
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On June 14, 2013, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. opened the high-tech, high-intensity exhibition Genome: Unlocking Life's Code to celebrate the 10th anniversary of researchers producing the first complete human genome sequence - the genetic blueprint of the human body - in April 2003. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health.
The Genomics Landscape a Decade After the Human Genome Project
Information and events about the 10th anniversary of the the Human Genome Project completion.
Funds for the Smithsonian-NHGRI exhibition and related initiatives were raised privately by both the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
Already, Life Technologies Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Life Technologies Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., has pledged $3 million to fund the production of the exhibition itself. Additionally, more than $500,000 has been raised through the Foundation for The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., and from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation of Palo Alto, Calif.; the Celgene Corporation of Summit, N.J.; Pacific Biosciences of Menlo Park, Calif., Pac Bio president and chief executive officer Mike Hunkapiller, Ph.D., and his wife Beth; the New England Biolabs of Ipswich, Mass.; and from Genentech, Inc. of South San Francisco, Calif.
Learn about the people who helped to create the new exhibition: NMNH/NHGRI Advisory Board
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Naming in Beloved
As we have all noticed through our readings of "Things Fall Apart" and "Beloved," the naming systems are drastically different. They went from names like Okonkwo and Ikemefuna to names like Denver and Stamp Paid. The traditional African naming system has people create names to symbolize something important about the person or an attribute that they should have. When they were taken to America, they were given Americanized names such as Joshua or Jenny that did not represent anything, perhaps a reference to a name in the bible. The interesting thing is how both Joshua and Jenny changed their names to Stamp Paid and Baby Suggs to represent important events that have occurred in their lives. Also, Denver was named so that Sethe could remember the birthing experience. So although the Africans were removed from their African traditions of naming, they eventually returned to have a similar nomenclature as traditional Igbo did. | <urn:uuid:4fdbdd86-65d9-4351-a4ed-49722f93d2a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://stmhumanities.blogspot.com/2013/03/naming-in-beloved.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886104704.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818160227-20170818180227-00174.warc.gz | en | 0.987809 | 197 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Before writing this blog, my knowledge of St. Patrick’s Day read thus: it’s on March 17th, something Ireland, and if you don’t wear green, you will be assaulted. If you live in America, I assume your knowledge of the holiday is about the same as mine. However, after doing some digging of my own, I have come to understand that Saint Patrick had to endure a fair share of hardships. Looking at his complete timeline, I now realize just how significant each one of his tribulations was to the cultivation of his impact and the legacy we see today. So, in the spirit of knowledge and cultural awareness, let’s take a look at the adversities of St. Patrick and what they teach us about our own struggles.
Saint Patrick (full name Maewyn Succat) was born in Britain near the end of the 4th century (386 AD). There is little information regarding his childhood, but when he was sixteen, he was enslaved by Irish pirates. He was then forced to tend sheep in Ireland as a slave for six years. As he became more accustomed to the Irish language and practices, Patrick began to grow in his faith. He started to pray daily and began to see his captivity as a test from God. One night, he heard a voice telling him to escape and return to his homeland. This led him to board a boat with a group of sailors venturing to Britain, and he was reunited with his family after being lost at sea for approximately a month. After escaping imprisonment, Patrick received a vision of the Irish people reaching out to him and was inspired to bring the Gospel to the citizens of Ireland. Although the people didn’t embrace him upon his initial return, Saint Patrick went on to become the most influential Christian figure in the history of Ireland, converting and baptizing individuals across the nation. He continued working with, and establishing, churches throughout Ireland until his death towards the end of the 5th century (between 461-93 AD).
As you can see, Saint Patrick endured a lot during his lifetime, but his faith carried him through such hardships. He possessed a mindset that didn’t allow him to give up when things seemed impossible to overcome. But, of course, I’m sure everyone has heard the phrase “don’t give up!” a million times in a variety of different environments. Every adult is aware of the importance of perseverance and developing a strong work ethic. The question is this: how? How can I build a mindset that helps me push through rough times? How can I look at adversity in a new light that helps me move past it? How do I not give up?
For starters, I would suggest ridding yourself of the preconceived notion that adversity has to be a bad thing. The words “adversity” and “hardship” can often come to our minds with negative connotations, which makes us want to avoid them. However, hardships can be viewed in ways that are less negative. For example, Saint Patrick viewed his enslavement as a test of his faith from God. Of course, the word “test” might also have a negative connotation for many people, but Saint Patrick understood that all good things come from God. With this in mind, he was able to view his adversity in a different way.
This transitions nicely into the next question people may have: how can I view my adversity in a truly positive light? As previously mentioned, understanding God’s goodness can certainly help us see our struggles positively. The Bible also specifically lays out how adversity leads to goodness in Romans: “we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope” (Rom. 5:3-4). If we begin to view our tribulations more as opportunities for character development and less as burdens we have to carry, it is more likely that we will have greater hope and energy when approaching such trials. When our hopes are high, we can garner the strength and energy to tackle whatever may be in front of us.
This leads us to the last, and certainly most important, question: where do I find hope? Saint Patrick makes the source of his hope very clear in his confession, written shortly before he died: “thus I give untiring thanks to God who kept me faithful in the day of my temptation, so that today I may confidently [offer] my soul as a living sacrifice for Christ my Lord” (“The Confession of Saint Patrick”, par. 34). Because Saint Patrick put his hope in Christ, he had a renewed sense of energy when approaching adversity; he even began to view adversity more positively, which drove him to not give up when his tasks seemed impossible to overcome.
So, today as we’re pinching our friends and showing off our horrendous Irish accents, I hope this holiday can serve as a reminder of where our hope comes from. Even in our most troubled times, God is constant. We just have to remember to look up and know He’s there. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
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Above the line (filmmaking)
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Above-the-line is the list of individuals who guide, influence and hopefully add to the creative direction, process and voice of a given narrative in a film and their related expenditures. These roles include but are not limited to the screenwriter, producer, director and actors.
Often, the term is used for matters related to the film's production budget. Above-the-line expenditures reflect the expected line item compensation for an official above-the-line member's role in a given film project. These expenditures are usually set, negotiated, spent and/or promised before principal photography begins. They include rights to secure the material on which the screenplay is based, production rights to the screenplay, compensation for the screenwriter, producer, director, principal actors and other cost-related line items such as assistants for the producers, director or actors.
- "Film & TV Production Roles and Departments" (PDF). Retrieved 21 October 2014.
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the Oral History Collection
The Weeksville Society emerged from a workshop called Project Weeksville: an archaeological survey of the Weeksville community by local college students, neighborhood youth and volunteers, which began in 1968 under the direction of Pratt Institute professor, James Hurley. With the assistance of the New York City Landmarks Commission and a grant from the New York City Model Cities Policy Committee, Project Weeksville participants searched for items of historic value beneath the surface of the ground. Since 1968, several archaeological excavations have been conducted as part of an ongoing study of Weeksville’s transition from a 19th century farming community, to a complex urban center for African American culture.
Medgar Evers College eventually became the home of Project Weeksville where Rodney Toney and Mary Ann Brown served as Project Directors. Ms. Brown developed the oral history program's narrative & methodology. The purpose of the program was to further scholarly research into records and papers that document Black history in the Bedford Stuyvesant area. In the first year of the project, titled "Oral History and Educational Unit at the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant," over twenty oral histories were collected.
In December 2006, Weeksville Heritage Center partnered with StoryCorps to collect and record the stories of New Yorkers and Brooklyn residents. The Collection chronicles the beginnings of a reemerging interest in the preservation of Weeksville history, and the people that were involved in the efforts including parents, professors, students, and neighborhood youth. A StoryCorps recording studio was stationed in front of the historic Hunterfly Road Houses; it was StoryCorps first oral history intake in Brooklyn, NY. Another StoryCorps oral history intake occurred in 2007/2008. Since then, Weeksville Heritage Center has collected over 120 oral histories.
All StoryCorps (2006; 2007-008) oral history interviews are archived online at the Library of Congress/American Folklife Center.
For more information, visit: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/storycorpsfaq.html
Click on the hyperlinks below to access the oral history finding aids.
2007-2008 StoryCorps Oral History Series*
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Accessing library databases
Getting full text articles
Citing your sources
The library subscribes to many different databases that search the indexes of thousands of journals to help you find articles from journals, magazines and newspapers, as well as streaming videos and more! You can search and get full text from any computer with Internet.
2. At this point you will need to select a database. Some databases cover a certain academic subject, while others search many subject areas.
You can choose a database based on your topic from the 'Databases Subject' listing in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
3. When you click on the name of the database, you may be prompted to enter your Southeast ID number, located on your student ID card. Didn't get your ID card yet? Read finding your student id number.
1. Once you have chosen a database and logged in, you will need to enter your topic and press the search button to get a list of results.
2. Next to some articles you will see words like Full Text, PDF, or HTML You can click on any of these to see the entire article on your screen. Sometimes you will have the option to choose HTML or PDF. An HTML document is smaller than a PDF, so if you have a slow connection you may want to choose that. You need Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer to open PDF files. PDF files will include the images and formatting of a print document.
3. If there is not full text in the database, you will instead see the words look for full text. Click on these words to see if full text is available in another database.
When you click on look for full text, an Article Linker window will open. If there is full text in another database, you can click full text available via to access it.
4. If we do not have the article in our collection, you can use Interlibrary Loan to request that we obtain articles from another library. It can take approximately a week for us to obtain access to the article.
Logon to ILLiad or create an account if you do not have one. You can create an account by selecting the 'First Time Users' option.
Anytime we have an article in the print periodical collection at Kent Library, it will be labeled Holdings in Kent Library in the Article Linker. The library will scan and send any article from our print periodical collection and send it to you.
To do so, click the Interlibrary Loan link as if we did not have the article in our collection and submit your request. Staff will scan the article for you and send an email when it is available for your use.
Citing your sources is important because it gives credit to the person who published the idea originally, and allows readers to check your evidence. Your instructor should tell you which style of citation to use (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).
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Rebecca Goldstone and Michael Stern
Organization: Chimp-n-Sea Wildlife Conservation Fund
Location: Villages surrounding Kibale National Park, Uganda
Research: Kibale Community Fuel Wood Project - Expansion Phase
Wood and charcoal are the sole sources of energy for the majority of people surrounding Kibale National Park (KNP), yet most villagers do not grow their own wood. Current legal sources of wood are diminishing rapidly as the human population increases, putting intense pressure on the National Park. Kibale is home to countless amazing species, including two endangered primates, and has also been classified as an Important Bird Area. Reducing this amazing natural wonder to firewood would be appalling. The current project establishes demonstration areas and actively promotes homegrown wood. Through an educational outreach program, the project seeks to enhance appreciation for the National Park while teaching and encouraging the use of environmentally sustainable practices. By assisting in the creation of a legal wood source to satisfy human needs, the project will better protect the natural forest and improve park-people relationships.
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What are white ants and do they exist, the very simple answer to this is no? So why do we use the term white ants?
The term white ants have been around for many years and it relates to termites, but termites are not ants.
Many pest control businesses started to advertise their business using the term white ants and that’s how it actually came about.
Ants and termites may look the same to the untrained eye because of the way they move around and look, but they are very different.
The only thing that ants and termites have in common is the fact that they are both social insects that live in colonies.
Termites are generally a pale brown colour and they have no constriction between their abdomen and thorax.
Termites have a cuticle that is very sensitive to desiccation so they need to stay in a moist environment.
Termite workers and soldiers are both blind and their antennae are beaded they are also sexless and wingless. The termite reproductives have two pairs of wings and a pair of compound eyes.
Ants can vary in colour this will depend on the species and they have a visible constriction between the abdomen and thorax.
The ant’s antennae can vary but they are more often than not elbowed. Ants also have two pairs of unequal wings. The forewing is larger than that of the hindwing.
Ants have one pair of compound eyes and the ant’s cuticle is not susceptible to desiccation, unlike the termites.
Ant nests are a humid environment but they are well adapted to outside environments also unlike termites.
Ants do not attack sound timber they are known for living in decayed timbers. They may excavate the timber for the colony to live in.
The workings inside an ant nest are clean and will be free of faecal marks that can be found inside termite workings.
So the term white ant is really incorrect you won’t hear an experienced termite inspector using the term white ant.
As mentioned earlier termites are definitely not ants but they have the potential to do a lot more damage than ants.
Ants are very much a social insect and this is evident when they are observed in and around their colony.
Most ants live in a permanent nest they may change their nest if the surrounding conditions change.
They have different roles within the colony much the same as termites do; the job of the worker ant is to forage for food.
Ants look for food by using well-defined trails and use pheromone scent markers to let the other ants know where it is.
They are either scavengers or predators the ones we see commonly around our house are more scavengers.
Some ants will attack and eat termites these would be classed as predators this would be the one-time ants come in handy.
Some ant species may bite or sting humans and apart from being a nuisance, they can also spread disease.
An ant can carry different disease organisms on their body or even in their digestive tract. This can cause dysentery and other pathogenic bacteria such as salmonella.
Because ants are often found in and around our kitchens the possibility of disease transmission to humans shouldn’t be counted out.
About Termites (White Ants)
Well, we all know that termites can eat our homes and can cost homeowners an absolute fortune in repairs.
But there is only a handful of white ants Oops! termite species that are of any real concern to homeowners. A licensed termite expert would be able to identify any threats around homes during an inspection.
Like ants, termites are social insects and live in colonies some of which can be small and some very big.
There are some 300 different species of termite in Australia and as mentioned earlier only a few will damage timber in service. Most termites are grass or debris feeders and are of high importance to the well-being of the environment.
Termites have many different types of nests from a ground nest, arboreal mound or tree nest, Pole Nest or a Subterranean nest. The type of nest will depend on the species of termite.
Different species like Coptotermes or Schedorhinotermes build subterranean nests causing the most damage to homes.
Termites are always on the move looking for new food sources to feed their ever-growing colony. The search for food never stops and once a good food source is found the rest will come and harvest it.
Termites work so well together and each caste member has a role to play within the colony. Termites are one of the most successful insects on the planet and that’s because of the way they work together.
Because of the destruction that termites can do to a building, it’s important to have a 12-month termite inspection done.
All homes should also have a full termite barrier installed around them to help keep out termites.
The one thing from reading this blog that you now know is that termites are not white ants. The term white ants are used by people with little experience with termites.
But after all, whether you call them termites or white ants they will eat your home if it’s not protected.
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Now synonymous with tiny handprints adorning bulletin boards around the globe, finger paint was first used in art education in 1931. American teacher Ruth Faison Shaw was in Italy when she developed a system that not only would teach kids about art but could also act as a technique for child therapy, a cause Shaw devoted her life to. In her 1934 book Finger Painting, a Perfect Medium for Self-Expression, Shaw wrote that adults should let children be children, even if it meant letting them make a mess. The theory was embraced by educators, and in 1936, the painting technique reached massive popularity and Shaw finger paints and paper were being produced by the Binney & Smith Co., owned by the inventors of the Crayola crayon. Finger painting peaked in the 1930s during the progressive education movement and was widely used in education systems until the end of the 1960s.
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What you eat can drastically affect how you sleep, so in order to get a good night's rest, it is essential to choose foods that calm your mind and body rather than those that stimulate you. Certain types of foods will naturally promote rest and relaxation, particularly those that contain tryptophan, the amino acid that the body uses to make serotonin, the neurotransmitter that slows nerve activity within your brain. Tryptophan Since tryptophan is a precursor of other neurotransmitters in your brain, including serotonin and melatonin, eating foods that are rich in tryptophan will help you feel relaxed and sleepy. Foods such as turkey, hummus, lentils, and kelp are naturally high in tryptophan and also contain nutrients that provide a host of other health benefits. In addition, bananas not only contain tryptophan, but also potassium and magnesium, which are natural muscle relaxants. Fresh and dried cherries are also one of the only natural food sources of melatonin. Read more of my healthy diet recommendations by visiting www.dreliaz.org. Carbohydrates Foods that are rich in starchy, high-glycemic carbohydrates may also promote better sleep, as they help to stimulate the release of insulin and tryptophan and cause these sleep-inducing substances to enter the brain. According to a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, carbohydrates that are on the high end of the glycemic index scale, meaning they increase the body's sugar levels rapidly, encourage sleep when eaten at least four hours before bedtime. Foods such as Jasmine rice, potatoes, carrots, corn, puffed cereal, and honey are some of the healthiest choices of simple carbohydrates. Calcium Calcium helps the brain use the tryptophan to manufacture melatonin. Certain combinations, such as whole-grain cereal with milk, a peanut butter sandwich, or crackers with cheese contain both carbohydrates and calcium that work together to relax the mind and body. Calcium itself is so beneficial in helping you sleep, as it is a natural muscle relaxant that can also help you manage stress levels. Timing Eating these various foods calms your nervous system and triggers a sleep-inducing hormonal response, helping you rest better at night. However, timing is everything, as eating a large meal too late or eating right before bed time can actually have the opposite effect and keep you up at night. It is best to eat these foods later in the day or at least one hour before bed time since it takes about one hour for tryptophan from food sources to reach the brain. Above all else, it is important to avoid rich, heavy and high-fat foods within two hours of bed time, as they require a lot of work to digest, and may cause stomach trouble and heartburn. It is also wise to avoid drinking too many liquids, including water, juice, tea or other fluids, as this may result in frequent bathroom trips throughout the night. Caffeinated drinks, such as soda, coffee or caffeinated teas not only act as diuretics, but will also keep you stimulated and make falling asleep that much more difficult. For more recommendations on relaxation-promoting diet and supplementation tips, visitwww.dreliaz.org. By Dr. Isaac Eliaz via articlecity.com About The Author Dr. Isaac Eliaz is a respected author, lecturer, researcher, product formulator, and clinical practitioner. He has been a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine since the early 1980s. Dr. Eliaz is a frequent guest lecturer on integrative medical approaches to health, immune enhancement, and cancer prevention and treatment.
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Complete Blood Count (CBC) with differential urinalysis. Complete Metabolic Profile: sodium, chloride, potassium, glucose, blood urea nitrogen.
How do you assess for anorexia?
These exams and tests generally include: Physical exam. This may include measuring your height and weight; checking your vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure and temperature; checking your skin and nails for problems; listening to your heart and lungs; and examining your abdomen.
What is the nursing diagnosis for anorexia?
Nursing Diagnosis Nursing diagnoses for clients with eating disorders include the following: Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements related to purging or excessive use of laxatives. Ineffective coping related to inability to meet basic needs. Disturbed body image related to being excessively underweight.
What are 5 physical signs of anorexia nervosa?
- Extreme weight loss or not making expected developmental weight gains.
- Thin appearance.
- Abnormal blood counts.
- Dizziness or fainting.
- Bluish discoloration of the fingers.
- Hair that thins, breaks or falls out.
What are some characteristics of people with anorexia nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by emaciation, a relentless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight, a distortion of body image and intense fear of gaining weight, a lack of menstruation among girls and women, and extremely disturbed eating behavior.
What assessment is used for bulimia nervosa?
Based on symptoms of purging, binging, laxative use, and overall body dissatisfaction, she found that the EDI and the EAT were the most reliable at assessing bulimia. When she looked at body dissatisfaction, the BSQ and the EDE emerged as the most reliable tools.
Which signs and symptoms would the nurse observe in clients with anorexia nervosa?
Emotional and mental signs of anorexia Having an intense fear of gaining weight. Being unable to realistically assess your body weight and shape (having a distorted self-image). Having an obsessive interest in food, calories and dieting. Feeling overweight or “fat,” even if you’re underweight.
What is an appropriate goal for a client with anorexia nervosa?
Building toward a healthy weight. During this process, the patient’s issues with food, incorrect perceptions about health and body image, and the behaviors exhibited toward food are addressed so they can maintain healthy weight on their own when they return home.
What is the pathophysiology of anorexia?
Patients with anorexia nervosa have altered brain function and structure there are deficits in neurotransmitters dopamine (eating behavior and reward) and serotonin (impulse control and neuroticism), differential activation of the corticolimbic system (appetite and fear), and diminished activity among the …
What are some warning signs a person with anorexia might display?
- Extreme weight loss.
- Emaciated appearance.
- Yellowing skin.
- Brittle nails.
- Irregular heartbeat.
- Frequent abdominal pain.
Does anorexia cause low blood pressure?
Cardiac complications are arguably one of the most severe medical issues stemming from anorexia. Bradycardia (heart rate less than 60 beats per minute) and hypotension (blood pressure less than 90/50) are among the most common physical findings in anorexia, with bradycardia seen in up to 95 percent of patients.
What are five signs that someone may have an eating disorder?
- Alterations in Weight.
- Preoccupation With Body Image.
- Disruptions in Eating Patterns.
- Preoccupation With Nutritional Content.
- Changes in Exercise Patterns.
- Mood Fluctuations.
- Use of Laxatives, Diuretics, or Diet Pills.
What blood tests are done for anorexia?
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Checks for levels of albumin (a liver protein)
- Measure of electrolytes.
- Kidney function tests.
- Liver function tests.
- Measure of total protein.
- Thyroid function tests.
Why do anorexics need ECG?
Abstract. Background: Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death are frequent causes of mortality, which makes electrocardiographic monitoring indispensable in these patients.
What is the main difference between anorexia and anorexia nervosa?
“Anorexia” describes a simple inability or aversion to eating, whether caused by a medical problem or a mental health issue. “Anorexia nervosa,” however, is the name for the clinical eating disorder, the main symptom of which is self-starvation.
What happens to the body in anorexia nervosa?
Untreated, anorexia nervosa can lead to: Damaged organs, especially the heart, brain, and kidneys. Drop in blood pressure, pulse, and breathing rates. Loss of hair.
What are three long term effects of anorexia?
- Bone weakening (osteoporosis).
- Thyroid problems.
- Lack of vitamins and minerals.
- Low potassium levels in the blood.
- Decrease in white blood cells.
- Amenorrhea (absence of menstruation in females).
Which of the following is not a behavior associated with anorexia nervosa?
Step 1. The correct answer is C. Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening eating disorder that causes a person to have an extremely low body weight due to his/her fear of gaining weight and having a distorted body image. In this case, binge eating is not a behavior that is associated with this condition.
Which of the following is a physiological change often associated with anorexia nervosa?
Which of the following is a physiological change often associated with anorexia nervosa? fever, diarrhea, and vomiting.
What is the best kind of psychotherapy for patients with anorexia nervosa?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been successful in treating several different conditions and is often used for eating disorder recovery. In simplest terms, CBT can be understood as a type of talk therapy.
What are some important aspects of caring for patients with eating disorders?
It is essential to observe patients’ nutritional status as eating disorders can be life threatening. It is also important to ensure they maintain adequate nutrition and electrolyte balance. If an eating disorder has been identified, the nurse must monitor weight on a regular basis.
Which medical complication is possible with the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa is associated with numerous general medical complications that are directly attributable to weight loss and malnutrition [1,2]. The complications affect most major organ systems and often include physiologic disturbances such as hypotension, bradycardia, hypothermia, and amenorrhea.
Which of the following Bmis is associated with severe anorexia nervosa?
Mild: BMI of greater than 17. Moderate: BMI of 16–16.99. Severe: BMI of 15–15.99.
What is the most successful treatment for anorexia?
1. In the majority of clinical trials, Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) has been shown to be the most effective treatment for adult anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. Enhanced CBT (CBT-E) was designed specifically for eating disorders.
What is challenging about treating a person with anorexia nervosa?
- Problematic Stereotypes.
- Lack of Understanding.
- Inexperienced Healthcare Professionals.
- Reduced Care During Recovery.
- Mental Fatigue.
- Changes to the Brain.
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If you have ever waited on a site with large image files to load, you have seen why image compression is necessary. To compress images means you take away or regroup parts of an image so that it takes up less space.
There are two basic algorithms used for compression – lossy and lossless. Lossy compression makes changes that create lower quality images. The smaller you make the file, the more noticeable your differences between the original and the compressed file become.
Lossless compression algorithms don’t discard any information, so they result in larger files than lossy compression generates. Lossless compression finds better ways to store the information, and the picture does not lose any quality.Types of images
First, let’s take a look at four of the most popular image types.
JPEG images (Joint Photographic Experts Group) are “lossy” images. They use a scale of compression that decreases the image’s file size substantially. It eliminates as much information as possible from the file by deleting data your eyes won’t notice. However, if you make the image too small, the result will have more obvious pixelation. The images also have more artifacts, which are features on a compressed image not in the original. JPEGs have 24-bit color with up to 16 million colors available.
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) compresses images in two ways. One, it reduces the number of colors. GIF images have an 8-bit palette and only 256 colors. It also replaces large patterns with smaller ones. So, if there are five kinds of blue, GIF will represent them as one. It is both lossy and lossless depending upon the picture you are compressing. A picture with fewer than 256 colors, will not lose any quality. However, if you have a full-color photo, it can lose up to 99.998% of the color.
TIFF is a very flexible format that can be lossy or lossless. Most TIFF files are not compressed, and their high quality makes them perfect for storing graphics and printing. These image files contain all the details of the storage algorithm and all the colors, so they are very large. Their large size requires a long transfer time, slows loading time, and uses a significant amount of disk space.
Portable network graphics or PNG files is a lossless compression, so it does not cause loss of quality and detail. The compression is completely reversible, meaning the image will be recovered precisely as it was sent. PNG finds patterns in the image to use to compress the size. This file type uses only 256 colors but saves the information about those colors quite efficiently. It also supports 8-bit transparency.Reasons to compress your images
The most common reason for compression of images is to optimize your website. Sites with uncompressed images can take a much longer time to load. Long load times will cause more of your customers to abandon your page in search of another one.
If you have pictures you want to send over email, you need to be aware of what the file size limit is for attachments with your service. If your file is too large, you won’t be able to send it, and even if you can send it, it may transfer too slowly.
Compressing your images will reduce the amount of space you need to store them. If you compress your images, they won’t take up as much space, preventing the need to purchase more storage.Two free, useful online tools
There are many different tools available to compress images. Two of them are Optimizilla and CompressNow. With both these services you can upload multiple images at one time and preview the result of the compression before you download it.
Both tools use a simple drag-and-drop method for uploading your image files and the ability to upload using the file manager. You can download all the files you compressed together, or you can do it one at a time. When you download your images, they will keep their original names but will have a tag added to the end of the file such as “-min” or “-compressed.”
When you use CompressNow, you choose the compression level before you compress the file. You can upload up to ten JPEG, GIF, or PNG files at a time up to 9 Mb.
Optimizilla gives you the option to upload up to twenty JPEG or PNG images at a time and displays the photos before and after optimizing, and you can change the optimization level for each photo.For WordPress users
If you are using WordPress for your online sites, we have previously covered some of the best image optimization plugins you should use for your site. This site uses chúng tôi image optimizer, though many would recommend WP Smush, which comes with more features.
Whether you need to speed up your website or send pictures over email to Grandma, you should consider using one of these tools to compress the images. What other tools have you used?
Tracey Rosenberger spent 26 years teaching elementary students, using technology to enhance learning. Now she’s excited to share helpful technology with teachers and everyone else who sees tech as intimidating.
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Urgency messaging is a great way to raise conversions but is getting an increasingly bad rep
Getting visitors on your site and converting seems to be more difficult than ever. Consumers are indecisive, and, with more choice online than ever before, your website visitors are less likely to hang around.
Creating urgency is one of the best ways to raise ecommerce conversions. In my 16 years in ecommerce, there are few techniques I’ve seen that so reliably raise sales.
Urgency works by overcoming your visitors’ mental hurdles to purchasing from you. Perhaps they’re indecisive, prone to overthinking, or they just want to shop around a bit more. There are so many psychological factors at play that influence whether someone will buy from you.
It is, however, a technique to be used with caution. The problem with urgency messaging is that it can come off as disingenuous or just all round scammy. At best this renders your urgency efforts ineffective, and, at worst, it hurts your brand image, damaging trust and losing potential customers.
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Consumers are more suspicious than ever before when it comes to urgency techniques. There have been numerous news stories in recent times about how brands have been accused of misleadingly using urgency techniques, with some possibly facing court action. These stories inevitably filter into public consciousness, putting more pressure on marketers to deliver.
While urgency as a marketing tool is going nowhere, it’s more important than ever to implement it in a genuine, helpful and engaging way. In this article, I’ll run through some of the most effective urgency techniques I’ve seen, with some ideas for how to ensure they’re done well.1. Social call-outs
Using call-outs on product pages with stats about other shoppers’ behaviour increases the perceived popularity of a product in real time, as well as activate the fear of missing out. And this, of course, increases urgency – 50 dresses bought today? Wow, other people like this too – I don’t want it to sell out! Rebellious Fashion saw some great results by using these call-ous on their product pages.
Popular products are the most likely to sell out, and showing a product’s popularity is a persuasive technique. However, it doesn’t make sense to show these stats when a product is selling poorly, as it could have the reverse effect. Use a targeting tool to define how many views/purchases need to be reached to trigger a call out message.2.Scarcity
The fear of missing out is more motivating than the promise of gaining something. Scarcity messaging no doubt plays on this fear factor, but it is also genuinely helpful. We all want to know when products we like are running out, don’t we? Scarcity also increases the desirability of a product – we all know that studies in psychology have shown that things in a short supply are perceived as more appealing than those in an abundance.
Consider using call-outs on product pages, stating how many items are left in stock. But be careful. The trick with scarcity messaging is not to let it be counterproductive. Set parameters for when scarcity messaging is triggered – when a product has, say, fewer than 10 items left. Test to see which numbers are most effective, and try different ways to deliver the message such as slide-in containers used above by fashion retailer, Rebellious.3. Use urgency-increasing copy – but make sure it matches your brand voice
Your web copy will help considerably in increasing urgency and persuading your visitors to act fast. There are certain words that are known to create urgency: buy now, hurry, only one left, quick, approaching, selling fast. However, it’s important to use a tone of voice that matches your brand.
Sadly, some retailers go all out with a ‘Hurry now!!!’ tone that can often come across as cheap or desperate. This tone of voice just wouldn’t suit a store selling luxury products, for example, and may alter the perception of your brand and products. However, the only way to truly know is to test different versions of the copy to see which converts best.4. Bring urgency into social product recommendations
A good way to kickstart browsing on a site is to show best seller recommendations such as these on the Love Sofas homepage. These recommendations let your visitors know which items are popular in your store, and the injection of social proof can increase perceived desirability.
There are various techniques you can use to imply your store is really popular. Showing these bestseller recommendations “from the last hour” gives the impression your store is overflowing with visitors (which it might well be – if so, let it be known!). You can amplify this effect by adding stats to the recommendations showing how many have been sold or viewed that day.5. Time-limited incentives with countdown timers (but don’t overuse)
There are few techniques more urgency-inducing than a time-limited sale or offer, with a prominently placed timer ticking the remaining hours or minutes away. They can be used in a number of ways.
X hours left to get free delivery
X% off an item for the next X hours
Summer sale ends in X
Order in the next X hours and get a free gift
One of the issues I see with countdown timers is overuse. Are you using countdown techniques so often that they’re becoming less effective, or that your visitors are reliant on them, or perhaps even questioning the authenticity of them?
Be sure to measure the effectiveness of your countdown methods on your conversion rate over time.6. Use colours that promote urgency – but make sure to test
We all know that certain colours promote caution and fear – yellow, orange and red being the ones we usually think of. Red is usually the colour we most associate with urgency, and is the colour we most often see adorning shop window signage when a sale is on.
When it comes to colour, it’s worth remembering we’re all wired differently and, thus, react differently. Test different colour variations on your site to see what works best with your audience. If you already use a lot of red in your branding, you might find other colours work better in drawing attention and promoting urgency.
Amazon often uses green in its scarcity messaging, and also assures the customer that more items will be in stock soon. This use of green to promote urgency comes across as genuinely helpful and certainly less aggressive than techniques I‘ve seen employed by others. Red, in this case, is used to draw attention to the lower price.7. Be Truthful
For many, this will go without saying, but it’s worth pointing out – don’t state anything in your urgency messaging that isn’t true. There’s nothing wrong with implied urgency, but if you’re misleading people, eg. applying a false timescale to a sale, your visitors will soon work this out.
This will then make further urgency efforts redundant, as many shoppers simply won’t believe you. Customers buy from brands they trust, not ones that manipulate their shopping habits through false claims.Conclusion
To wrap up, urgency messaging works best when it’s used carefully and genuinely, by nudging your customers to overcome mental hurdles and take action quickly. It’s important to be careful to avoid bad practices that might damage your relationship with customers, as well as being wary of making your urgency efforts ineffective through overuse.
Try some of the techniques in this article to see the difference it makes on your site, and as always, make sure you test, test, test!
The iPhone and iPad can capture amazingly high definition video in 4K, 1080p, and 720p resolution, and while those movies will look fantastic they also create large file sizes. While you can always change the recording resolution of video in iOS ahead of time, another option is to compress video after the fact, thereby reducing its file size dramatically. Compressing video is helpful particularly if you want to share a video from an iPhone or iPad but you’re finding the movie file size is too large for a standard file transfer, message, or email.
We’re going to show you how to compress video on an iPhone or iPad to reduce the file size or lower the video definition quality. Compressing video is not a feature that is built into iOS natively however, so we’ll be relying on a free third party app that does the job quite well.
To be clear, this approach is taking a video file that is already recorded and stored on the iPhone or iPad and compressing it. If you want to make a smaller video file size to begin with, you can change from using 4K video capture to 1080p or 720p ahead of time, or changing the video recording frame rate at 60fps or 30fps, each of which will reduce the file size of a movie recording, but obviously that’s not helpful for changing the compression or video quality on a video that has already been captured. Thus, we’ll use Video Compressor to shrink down and reduce the file size and definition of a video in iOS.How to Compress Videos from iPhone and iPad with Video Compressor
Grab Video Compressor for iOS on the App Store, it’s free and works on iPhone and iPad
Launch the Video Compressor app on the iPhone or iPad after you have downloaded it
Tap the video you want to compress and shrink down the file size for
At the video preview screen, select “Choose” to open that video into Video Compressor
Use the slider at the bottom of the screen to adjust the video compression based on target file size of the compressed video, the further the slider moves to the left the stronger the compression and the smaller the resulting file size of the video will be
When satisfied with the compression and target file size of the video, select “Save” in the upper right corner
Video Compressor will go to work on the targeted movie file, this can take a while depending on the size of the video selected on the iPad or iPhone
The compressed video will be saved to your iOS Camera Roll when complete
Video Compressor is very effective and you can easily shrink a very large high resolution video down to a remarkably small size. In the example above I shrunk a video to 4% of it’s original size using Video Compressor on an iPad, taking a 150mb video down to a mere 6mb. Of course this comes at a hefty cost to the video quality, since compressing video inevitably reduces the resolution and definition of any video, so use the slider and target size to suit your own use case and needs.
The ability to compress video to shrink down size and reduce quality should probably be built directly into iOS so that iPhone and iPad users can do this directly in iOS without requiring third party apps (a similar feature exists native in Mac OS video encoder tools), so perhaps we’ll get such an ability in iOS down the road too.
Keep in mind if you use iCloud (and you should) then if you try to email a very large video then you should be able to share it with Mail Drop too. And of course if you’re nearby to the person you want to share a large video with, then sending over AirDrop from an iPhone to a Mac or other device is a viable solution too.
It’s also worth pointing out that if you want to copy high definition videos from an iPad or iPhone to a computer the best way to do that is with a USB cable and direct transfer as described here, it tends to be the fastest approach that is also lossless.
Linda G. Hayes
Do you remember learning about irrational numbers? I always pictured them as being somehow unreasonable, numbers you had to coax or cajole into behaving rationally. Actually, they are numbers that never end–no matter how far you carry them out–like pi. In that sense, the term is particularly apropos for describing the proper ratio between developers and testers, because the answer keeps changing the longer you look at it.
Not a conference or class goes by that the question is not asked: What’s the magic ratio? Some breathlessly report that they heard Microsoft has a one-to-one ratio, while others abjectly confess that their companies have 10 or more developers for every tester. So what’s the best answer? That’s easy. It depends.
The ideal ratio between developers and testers depends on the type of development and the phase of the project. In some cases, developers should outnumber testers, but in others–believe it or not–the testers should outnumber the developers. The secret is to know when and why to adjust the ratio.
Planning and Design
In the earliest stages of developing a new application–that is, one being written from scratch–developers should outnumber testers. Although test planning and design can and should commence during the planning and design phases of the development project, the fact is that there is simply more work to be done by developers. Until the design stabilizes, which in most cases happens during coding, testers can at best define and prepare the test environment and process.
The ideal ratio at this stage is probably one tester per team, or about one for every four or five developers. Most applications are built with a team this size; especially large applications might have multiple teams, but each team typically stays small. We have all learned the hard way that adding more people does not always add more productivity.
Testing Ratio Tricks and Techniques
If you follow these basic rules, you will be in a better position to effectively use temporary resources and/or employ automation in testing when it’s appropriate. These tricks and techniques may also help you achieve a more rational method for managing the ratio of developers to testers in application development.
Plan your test
Document your tests
Dumb-down your tests
Standardize your tests
There is an exception, however. In some cases, new applications are really just modifications of existing ones. For example, a retail data analysis firm developed six applications that were simply just special versions of the same system customized for different customers. The same application in other cases might be ported to execute on multiple platforms. The effort in these situations is more like maintenance and enhancement, so the rules are different.
Coding and Testing
As a new application completes the coding phase and moves into test, the ratio should start to shift in favor of testers. In fact, a ratio of one or two developers per tester is probably realistic.
This happens because the testers now have enough information to design, develop, and execute test cases. It takes time to review the application’s intricacies in order to design the proper tests, then more time to develop the tests, and then even more time to execute the tests and document the results. Then it takes yet more time to work closely with developers to resolve issues. The iterative retesting of corrections and changes adds substantially to the testing workload as the application nears release.
How did things get this messed up? Windows has slowed to a crawl. Programs won’t run. The free firewall you installed last year won’t update or uninstall itself.
I’m not going to lie to you–this is a scary and time-consuming job. Your PC may be unusable for a day or more. You could even lose all of your data.
And let’s face it: You’d be wise to avoid this chore if at all possible. If someone in tech support tells you to do it, get a second opinion, and then a third.
If you have to reinstall–and sometimes it is necessary–here’s how to make the process as safe and painless as possible.Gather What You Need
You’ll have to collect a few things before you can begin.
First, you’ll need your recovery tool. What’s that? If you’re using the version of Windows that came on your PC, it’s probably in a hidden partition on the computer’s hard drive. That partition contains the information necessary to restore the hard drive to its factory condition.
If you upgraded Windows since you bought the PC–for instance, going from XP or Vista to Windows 7–the upgrade disc is now your recovery tool.
After Windows installs, you’ll have to reinstall all of your programs. Collect all the original discs or downloaded installation files, and all of your license numbers.
Finally, you’ll need time. The best-case scenario for a reinstall is a day. The worst case: three or four days. You’ll be spending a lot of that time waiting, so get a good book, too.Back Up Everything
Things could go horribly wrong, so you need to make a backup of your entire drive. That way, you can at least return to where you were before the reinstall.
You also have to create a backup of your data, because the reinstall might destroy everything on your hard drive.
Be sure to create an emergency boot disc with EASEUS or whatever program you use to do the cloning. Without that, you may not be able to recover from a disaster.
Having a second backup of your data wouldn’t hurt, especially since you’re about to erase the original. If you don’t already have another up-to-date backup, create one with whatever backup program you regularly use.The Windows Reinstall
Exactly how you replace an old Windows installation with a new one depends on your recovery tool. If your PC came with a recovery partition on the hard drive, find the instructions for booting into the repair environment. Watch the screen as you turn on the computer; it might show a message such as ‘Press F10 for Repair’. If it doesn’t, check the manual or call technical support.
Either way, follow the prompts.Setting Up Windows
Congratulations: You have a fresh Windows installation. Now the hard work starts.
You’ll have to reinstall at least some of your drivers. You can go back to the discs that came with your PC, printer, scanner, and so on, or you can download newer versions off the Internet. Alternatively, you can install the drivers off the clone you made before reinstalling.
If you reinstalled Windows from a vendor-supplied tool–one that returns your hard drive to its factory condition–you probably have a lot of junk on your computer. You’ll have to uninstall the stuff you don’t want.
The uninstallers that come with Windows applications are notoriously sloppy, leaving all sorts of remnants behind. I recommend either Revo Uninstaller or Total Uninstall. These programs run the application’s own uninstaller, and then clean up the remaining mess.
Now that you’ve cleaned Windows of unwanted applications, you have to reinstall the programs you do want. Start with your security tools, and go from there. Don’t try to install two programs at the same time, and if an installation requires a reboot, don’t put that reboot off. Just do it.
Once everything is installed, take some time to make Windows your own. Pick your wallpaper, change your power and screensaver settings, and so on.
If you’re looking for a quick, easy, and simple way to create good-looking mockups you’ll be excited to hear that you can create them with Canva.
We’ll cover three different ways to create mockups with Canva in this article, all of which are incredibly easy to do and also free!
There’s also no experience needed with complicated design software like Photoshop, as everything in Canva is beginner-friendly.
Let’s get to it.
Jump to a specific section:Creating mockups with Canva: Method 1
The simplest way to create mockups with Canva is to utilize the ‘frame’ elements in Canva’s library.
Canva also has a good-sized library of existing templates that contain frame elements already. Most of these contain device frames such as smartphones, MacBooks, or laptops.
Here are some examples:
Mockup templates on Canva
From here you can replace the existing image in the frame(s) with a new one, or you can even add a video file to show within the frame:
Customized mockup template
It’s worth noting that you can only add images or video files to the frame elements on Canva.
So, you can create designs on Canva and save them as templates but you will only be able to add them to a frame if you download them and reupload them to your Canva account.
Also, the frame elements on Canva are fairly limited at the moment, so if you’re wanting to create mockups for products such as mugs or apparel you’ll need to use another tool or a different method on Canva (we’ll cover that later on).Related articles Creating mockups with Canva: Method 2
You can create mockup scenes from a blank canvas in Canva fairly easily.
The way we like to do is to start with a blank canvas in our chosen dimensions, and then we add a background color, pattern, or image e.g.:
Creating a mockup from a blank canvas
You can then add various elements to make up your image. You can make it as complex or as simple as required but using the frame elements will make it a lot easier:
Adding frame elements
Then all you need to do is add your designs or images to the frame elements plus you can add text or other elements where required:
Completing the mockup image
You don’t necessarily have to use the frame elements from Canva. They have other elements such as iPhone and MacBook cutout photos that you can layer over an image or element in your design.
It’s not as simple or as clean utilizing the frame elements though:
If you want to create flat lay mockups such as the one in the image below, you can do this with Canva too:
Flat lay mockup
There isn’t a huge amount of elements in Canva’s library that are suitable for flat lay designs though. However, there are some if you do a bit of searching in the Photo tab.
For example, we created a quick mockup scene with a pencil, pen, coffee mug, iPad, iPhone, eraser, paperclips, and notepad – all from Canva’s elements library:
Flat lay mockup created in Canva
If you want plenty of elements to use for flat lay mockup designs you should check out Creative Market or Envato Elements:
Scene Creator packs on Creative Market
Scene creator packs on Envato Elements
You can download flat lay collections from these sites and then upload them to Canva to use in your designs.
If you search for ‘scene creator’ on these sites and you’ll have thousands of options for elements to use for your flat lay mockups.Creating mockups with Canva: Method 3
The last method, and probably the one that gets the best results, is to use the Smart Mockups integration on Canva.
To start the process, create a new design on a blank canvas. You’ll need to make sure the dimensions of the canvas work with the Smart Mockups template that you plan to use.
In our case, we’ll be using a landscape template, and the dimensions 1600x1069px work well for that.
You’ll need to upload a design to your canvas that you want to see on a mockup template. Having a design with a transparent background is probably the best idea:
Design for our mockup
Navigating to the Smartmockups integration
There are mockup templates for smartphones, computers, cards, frames & posters, books, clothing, and mugs (nowhere near as many templates that are available on Smartmockups though):
Smartmockups templates on Canva
Choose a template you like, and it will load onto your canvas with your design or image added to it. You can then resize the mockup to fit your canvas.
Mockup template controls
The only customizations you can do at the moment are to resize and reposition your design on the mockup and change the main item color in the mockup template (e.g. the t-shirt or mug color):
Mockup customization options
And that’s you created a mockup via the Smartmockups integration. You can now download your mockup image.
We created this mockup in a matter of seconds:
Our final mockupRelated articles Alternative options
Placeit mockup generator
Whilst Canva is an incredible tool for creating all kinds of designs, we feel there are some better options when it comes to creating mockups online.
Placeit is probably the best mockup generator but there are some other high-quality tools that allow you to create incredible-looking mockups with ease. Here are the top alternative tools for creating mockups:FAQs
Here are the answers to some of the most common questions around creating mockups with Canva:
Do Canva do mockups?
As you can see in this article, Canva do offer users the ability to create mockups. Using the frame elements that Canva offers or the Smartmockups integration, users can quickly and easily create mockups without needing any design software experience.
Plus you can create so much at no cost at all. That being said, we would recommend using Placeit if you’re looking for the best mockup tool online.
How to make mockups in Canva?
Again, you can see how to create mockups in Canva earlier in the article. It depends what you’re wanting to create.
The premade templates with the frame elements are great to use if you’re promoting a digital asset and can utilize the smartphone, tablet, or computer frames.
If you want to use a different kind of product such as t-shirt, mug, or book the best way to create those types of mockups is by using the Smartmockups integration in Canva.
What is the Canva and Smart Mockups integration?
Smartmockups is a fantastic mockup tool, they are one of the top t-shirt mockup generators and book mockup generators.
A small selection of their mockup template library is available to use within Canva. So users can take one of their images or designs and put them on the Smartmockups templates that are available on Canva.
If you have a Smartmockups account you can also connect your Canva account and this will allow you to transfer designs from Canva to your Smartmockups account to use with the full Smartmockups template library.
You can read more about it here.
Can you use Canva mockups for commercial use?
There are some restrictions that you can read about in this article.
How to use Canva mockups?
You can utilize the mockups you create in Canva in several ways.
If you’re looking promote print on demand designs, you can utilize the mockups via the Smartockups integration to create promotional material for your print on demand products.
Again, this could be images for your product listings, social media content, and your website.Wrapping things up
So, there you have it, that’s how you can quickly, easily, and affordably create high-quality mockups in Canva.
Canva is such an awesome online design tool that literally anyone can use, beginner or expert! So, if you’re looking to create some great-looking mockups and promotional material you should give it a go.
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Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio was elected as the 112th Pope, and because it is said that he chose the name Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi (118?-1226), people are quick to point out that St. Malachy was wrong. However, St. Francis was born Francesco di Pietro (Peter in Latin) di Bernardone!
In addition, it is equally possible that he chose the name to honor another Francis who is connected to the name Peter. The man who coined the phrase, "the Dark Ages," in the 1330s, who, also known as the "Father of Humanism," was the Italian scholar Francesco Petrarca (Francis Peter). It was during "the Dark Ages" that the other five Popes resigned. Because Pope Francis is following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the first Pope to resign in nearly 600 years, and because of the state of affairs within the Church and in the world itself, one cannot help but think of our times as a new "Dark Age."
According to the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis is the first Pope, other than Peter, to be a non-European, and the first Jesuit to lead the Church. It is noteworthy that the Jesuits are also known colloquially as "God's Marines," and their leader is called "the Superior General." The Jesuits were founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1551, to fight against Mohammedanism, but it "coincidentally" began at the time of the Protestant Reformation. Islam and Protestantism are the two greatest threats to the Roman Catholic Church today.
So was St. Malachy wrong? Look again at the prophecy. The last Pope will serve during the Tribulation (the Church of Laodicea - Rev. 3:11-22). The "city on seven hills" is described in Revelation 17:9-18. The "dreadful Judge" will be Jesus Christ (Rev. 18:8; 19:2, 11).
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Probiotic foods have been associated with several health benefits, from regulating bowel movements to increasing immunity. Though the claims are sometimes disputed, we've seen a number of "good bacteria" products appear in the last few years, including "functional" yogurts like Activia and more ancient recipes like kimchi and kombucha.
You may not be surprised to hear of another probiotic foodstuff in the making. It is, oddly enough, in the form of a sausage. But that's not even the weirdest part. What may be most shocking is the source of the mighty micro-organisms present in the sausage: human feces. Or, to be more exact—baby poop.
Food scientists in Spain took 43 stool samples from baby diapers and cultured the bacteria in petri dishes. Then, they transferred the bacteria to six bundles of fuet, a Catalonian sausage similar to chorizo. The researchers were looking for a bacteria that would become the dominant strain within the meat (would dominate over the naturally occurring organism) and they found only one that did. It multiplied to levels of 100 million cells per gram—enough to begin to promote health benefits, the scientists say.
Co-author of the study, Anna Jofré, a food microbiologist at Catalonia's Institute of Food and Agricultural Research, says the sausages could be an alternative for people who don't like yogurt. She told Live Science: "Probiotic fermented sausages will give an opportunity to consumers who don't take dairy products the possibility to include probiotic foods to their diet."
The researchers still need to test the sausage's actual probiotic effects on humans, and there are no plans to commercialize the meat tubes at this stage. However, Jofré says the sausages "tasted very good" when cooked.
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Air Pollution Reduction Drive 'Needs 20mph Limits'
15 June 2017, 05:31
Environmental campaigners are calling on politicians to introduce default 20mph limits in towns and cities to help tackle air pollution.
The call comes as research shows 81% of Scots believe it is important to tackle air pollution but only 28% have taken steps to reduce the amount they create.
Half of the 28% are ditching the car for walking, cycling or public transport, and the rest are ensuring vehicles are well maintained and do not idle in traffic, a study found.
The research was carried out by Global Action Plan, which organised National Clean Air Day on Thursday.
The Scottish Government said 40 actions had been taken to combat air pollution in the past 18 months, including becoming the first country in Europe to adopt World Health Organisation guidelines on certain types of air pollution and creating four new air quality management areas.
Further actions include working to create the country's first low emission zone by next year and creating plans to boost walking and cycling.
Friends of the Earth Scotland air pollution campaigner Emilia Hanna called on the government to go further.
She said: "To give us the clean air we need, the Scottish Government must commit to low emission zones in all our main cities, re-regulate bus companies to increase passenger numbers and increase walking and cycling by making 20mph the default speed limit in cities whilst investing more in active travel infrastructure.''
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said Scotland's clean air strategy is helping people make changes but more work needs to be done.
Speaking on a visit to Sciennes Primary School in Edinburgh for National Clean Air Day on Thursday, she said: "A year on and the package of actions set out in Scotland's first clean air strategy is clearly helping people and encouraging them to think about ways of improving the quality of air in our communities. But we can't be complacent and recognise much more needs to be done.
"National Clean Air Day is an opportunity to think about the small actions we can take, such as choosing to leave the car at home more often or avoiding leaving the engine idling when in the car.
"Employers should also be encouraging staff to travel in a more sustainable way.''
Earlier this week, new data revealed Scotland met its annual climate change target for 2015 despite a slight rise in emissions to 45.5 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent.
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A 15-year study about the intergenerational transmission of substance abuse reveals a link to early predictors of substance abuse and resilience in boys whose fathers are substance abusers.
“The goal and significance of this study is to help develop more effective prevention and treatment approaches directed towards teen boys who have a very high risk for substance addiction,” said Dr. Howard Moss, associate chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. Moss, along with David Baron, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, recently presented their research at the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
The study initially used a demographic mix of 250 families where the father had no substance abuse or other psychological problems and 250 families where the father was a substance abuser. The subjects were later restratified to add another important element — fathers who had substance addiction and antisocial personality. The lives of their 10-year-old sons were observed. “We wanted to capture these kids prior to any exposure to drugs and evaluate them at certain intervals as they entered into adolescence to deal with the inherent social pressures.”
There were some surprise findings. “We found that the sons from the group whose fathers had both substance abuse and anti-social personality not only had conduct disturbances, but also showed significantly higher rates of anxiety and depression. We’ve identified a group of teens who are at the highest risk for a bad outcome,” Moss said. “They are the ones who will take the biggest toll on society — the ones who will do drugs and wind up in our prison systems.”
Collaborative, effective prevention efforts should be focused on this group, Moss said. “We hope that prevention experts will consult with psychiatrists who are involved in understanding the pathway to bad outcomes so that better prevention strategies will be developed and targeted to teens who need it most.
Moss said that their earlier analysis of sons of fathers with and without substance addiction revealed that children who come from families where the father is a substance abuser, not surprisingly, suffered with various emotional conditions. He explained that most of these were manifested as behavior problems or disorders of socialization — conduct disturbances, oppositional behavior, aggression, and impulse control problems — but not depression or anxiety.
Substance addiction continues to be a significant problem in this country, Moss explained. Approximately 6.5% of the US population has had a drug-dependence problem at some time in their lives. “And when you add alcoholism it increases to 20 percent.” Landmark Scandinavian cross-adoption studies have revealed that boys whose biological fathers were substance abusers, even when raised by good adoptive parents, had an 8-fold increased risk of becoming substance abusers, he said. “Our study was predicated on identifying families based on the father’s substance abuse and studying its impact on their sons.” | <urn:uuid:9225ad5c-a7a5-4ffe-a9b0-602c5b7fe48c> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://recoveryradio.net/2013/08/06/new-findings-about-substance-abuse-in-sons-of-fathers-with-addiction-problems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704800238.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126135838-20210126165838-00459.warc.gz | en | 0.973238 | 593 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Li fi report
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hether you’re using wireless internet in a coffee shop,stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you have probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more and more people and their manydevices access wireless internet, clogged airwaves are going tomake it.
One German physicist, Harald Haas has come up with asolution he calls “data through illumination” –taking the fibberout of fiber optic by sending data through an LED light bulbthat varies in intensity faster than the human eye can follow.It’s the same idea band behind infrared remote controls but farmore powerful.
Haas says his invention, which he calls D-Light,can produce data rates faster than 10 megabits persecond, which is speedier than your average broadbandconnection. He envisions a future where data for laptops,smart phones, and tablets is transmitted through the light in aroom. And security would be snap – if you can’t see the light,you can’t access the data.
Li-Fi is typically implemented using white LED light bulbs at the downlink transmitter. These devices are normally used for illumination only by applying a constant current. However, by fast and subtle variations of the current, the optical output can be made to vary at extremely high speeds. This very property of optical current is used in Li-Fi setup.The operational procedure is very simple-,data from the internet and local network is used to modulate the intensity of the LED light source if any undetectable to the human eye. The photo detector picks up signal, which is converted back into a data stream and sent to the client.
The client can communicate through its own LED output or over the existing network. An overhead lamp fitted with an LED with signal-processing technology streams data embedded in its beam at ultra-high speeds to the photo-detector. A receiver dongle then converts the tiny changes in amplitude into an electrical signal, which is then converted back into a data stream and transmitted to a computer or mobile device.
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President’s house or Presidential palace or Rashtrapati Bhavan is one of the beautiful example of architecture. This is the resident of the president of India and earlier it was the resident of viceroy of India. Rashtrapati Bhavan is different from other president’s houses for so many reason and in this article, we will be discussing Top 10 facts about president house which will completely mesmerize you. There are certain portions of Rashtrapati Bhavan which are open for public and anyone with valid ID proof can visit these portions and admire the beauty. Let’s give you Top 10 facts about president House which you never heard before.
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Top 10 Facts about President House
(1) The Rashtrapati Bhavan is the second-largest residential building in the world after after the Quirinal Palace, Rome, Italy with 300 rooms including staff rooms and offices.
(2) It was completed in 17 years and 29000 workers were employed during the construction of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
(3) It has been built by using 700 Million bricks and 3 million cubic feet of stones.
(4) A festival name Udyanotsav. is celebrated every year in which Mughal Garden with more than 100 varieties of flowers behind the Rashtrapati Bhawan is opened for the general public to visit.
(5) Durbar hall where the 4th century Buddha is placed at the back of it, if you will go straight from there then you will reach India Gate.
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(6) Rashtrapati Bhavan has a Gift Museum, where all the gifts received by the presidents are kept.
(7) Rashtrapati Bhavan has two galleries for the children which are known as” By the children” & ” For the children”. In the former gallery the work of children are kept on display while in the later the to display variety of items of children interest.
(8) Every Saturday at 10am, a ceremony name: the change of guard takes place, which is a 30-minute ceremony. It is open for everyone to attend with a valid photo ID.
(9) Ashoka Hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan consist of amazing paintings like of Fateh Ali Shah, Qajar rulers of Persia and some paintings are made by an Italian painter Colonnelo of forest theme etc.
(10) Banquet hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan has amazing light system along with the secret gallery for musicians and in this hall 108 guests can sit at one time.
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The Lindisfarne Gospels...
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The outstanding achievement of early medieval western art
The Lindisfarne Gospels is considered to be the outstanding artistic creation of the early Middle Ages with their breathtaking colours and a vast quantity of detailed ornamental decoration. The text uses 45 colours and tones: it includes intricate spirals, magnificent whorls, and fantastic bird and animal forms worked into the designs resulting in a spectacular carpet of interwoven colours. Oversized ornamented initials with an unbelievable wealth of motifs open each Gospel, and are accompanied by full length portraits of the Evangelists writing down the Word of God. The detail is rich, so for example, the eyes of the evangelists have an almost hypnotic quality.
The Lindisfarne Gospels represent a culmination of Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Roman and Byzantine styles and are highly regarded by palaeographers, art historians, linguists and collectors alike.
They also contain the first version of the Gospels in English.
What makes it the more extraordinary is that it was scribed, illustrated and illuminated by one man in the 5 years preceding his death (probably 715-720 A.D.). In addition to his talents, so clearly demonstrated throughout the Gospels, Bishop Eadfrith of Lindisfarne was a technical innovator, a skilled chemist and, possibly, the inventor of the pencil and the light-box. (We learn something about him from Aldred, a member of the community of St Cuthbert, who inserted the English translation between the lines of the Latin text some 240 years after the creation of the original text).
Many myths surround The Lindisfarne Gospels but it was most certainly true that the document was often removed from the “Holy Isle” of Lindisfarne to avoid Viking and other raids. The original manuscript is now displayed in the British Library but with just one double-page exposed to view.
The Fine Art Facsimile Edition of The Lindisfarne Gospels is published by Faksimile Verlag Luzern (the fine art facsimile publishers of Switzerland) in association with the British Library. It is carefully and beautifully hand-bound in a quality leather cover, in keeping with craft book binding traditions, and is limited to 980 copies worldwide.
The more elaborate and ornate binding originally instigated in1853 by Edward Maltby, Archbishop of Durham, is reproduced as an alternative binding and is offered in an edition limited to 290 copies. This uses a silver frame, coloured stones, tin and silver based alloys, and a spine richly embroidered in gold thread.
Both versions are accompanied by a commentary from Dr Michelle P. Brown, Curator of Illuminated Western Manuscripts at The British Library. This covers all aspects of the manuscript, its production and meaning. It also places The Lindisfarne Gospels in the broader context of Insular art.
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Carb Counting For Diabetes: 5 Easy Tips
Carbohydrates a.k.a. Carbs come in three kinds- starches, sugars, and fiber. Found in the food and drinks we consume, Carbs are our body’s source of energy. Insulin is used to break down these Carbs into glucose. But in people with diabetes, there is an imbalance of the number of Carbs they consume with the insulin dose- which is why Carb counting for diabetes is crucial.
Carb counting for diabetes might not be as simple as reading the nutritional labels and is both a science and art and learning the carbs in food can be a little challenging especially given how there are hidden carbs.
When it comes to counting carbs for diabetes, there are certain parameters you need to keep in mind, and here are a few tips on how to be doing it right, especially if you have diabetes.
1. How do find out the total grams of carbs in your food?
To count carbs, you need to pay attention to two items mentioned in the nutrition facts label- serving size and grams of total carbs. It includes all kinds of carbs- sugar, starch, and fiber. You need not worry about adding the grams of added sugar as they are included in the number of total carbs. While you need to choose foods rich in nutrients, opting for unprocessed foods in a natural state such as vegetables, fruits, and whole grains is recommended if you have diabetes.
2. Be informed about how to read nutrition labels:
While the serving size tells you the amount of the product, the total carbs tell you the number of carbs based on the particular serving size. And total carbohydrates is the sum of dietary fiber, sugars, and net carbs. Net carbs are calculated by subtracting the amount of fiber from the total carbs.
Net Carbs = Total Carbs - Dietary Fiber
3. Know your Carbs:
Carbohydrates are more than just rice and bread. In fact, all kinds of starchy foods, sugars, milk, fruits, and yogurt all contain carbohydrates. Not only should you count them all but figure out the amount of protein and fat you can eat at meals and all the snacks throughout the day to keep your blood sugar levels in check. Also, don’t miss out on checking sugar alcohol.
4. Portion size: Check!
While each serving size depends on the kind of food item, you got to be aware of the portion size to keep your diabetes in control. You can purchase a pocket guide that enlists carb counts alongside portion sizes. Or perhaps even use an online tool or mobile app to keep track of the portion sizes that can make carb counting for diabetes easier. While cooking at home, keep in mind to use measuring cups and food scales in order to be accurate.
5. How much carbs should you eat?
While there isn’t any magic number, carb counting for diabetes is crucial to managing blood sugar levels. The amount of carbs a diabetic person should eat needs to be determined by their body size and activity levels, taking into account their appetite too. Each person’s insulin response might be different so there is no necessity to make your diet more restrictive than necessary to keep blood sugar levels in check.
While each person needs the energy and nutrients from carbohydrates, you can decide your carb intake throughout the day. It is important to find out what’s right for you as there isn’t any one-size-fits-all model when it comes to managing diabetes. It is, therefore, recommended to take full-fledged advice to accurately count carbs for diabetes, or consult a dietitian or diabetes educator who can help figure out what to eat, how much to eat, based on your diabetes, lifestyle, and blood sugar targets.
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Saving money is a goal that everyone has in their mind, but only a few seem to achieve it. After paying all the bills and counting out all the monthly expenses, most of us seem to have almost nothing left to save.
Is this a familiar scenario for you too? You wish you just could save maybe a hundred or a little bit more every month. And you wish you took a look at your bank account and saw all your savings in there. Instead, your account’s balance is negative, and you have nothing saved apart, but you hope to survive till the next paycheck without unexpected expenses and rely on payday loans in case of the rainy days.
It is estimated that more than half of Americans have less than $1000 in their savings. Statistics show that people nowadays tend to owe more than they have in savings. Saving money is a process that doesn’t show results unless it is done for the long term. But once you figure out how to do it the right way, you might see some benefits.
First of all, saving money can teach you a lot about controlling your personal finances. You will keep track of all of your spending, and you will know where you are wasting your money. Second of all, you will get this satisfactory feeling like you are finally accomplishing something. And with that, your worth will also start to improve. Another benefit that you get once you really start saving money is the possibility of spending it on things that you like. Suppose you want to buy new clothes or move to a better apartment. Savings can help you do these things stress-free.
Don’t worry. We have some great advice for you further in this article. Just keep reading, and you will find out at least one way to saving money that might work for you.
How to Start Saving Money?
It is all about developing a habit. And like any other habit, learning how to save money requires knowledge then action. Think about it for a second. If you are currently a smoker and you wish to quit, you must learn at first all the necessary information about the benefits of not smoking, the financial benefits of not buying that pack of cigarettes, the withdrawal symptoms, and how to deal with them. Once you have acquired all of this information, then you need to take that first step into transforming from a smoker to a nonsmoker.
The same rule applies when it comes to saving money. You must first do your own research about the benefits of saving money, the best ways to save money, budgeting tips, the spending habits that you need to give up in order to make money-saving an easier task.
Once you have done your research, then you need to take that first step to transform from a money waster to a money saver. And that first step is always the hardest. It takes just that first step, those first one hundred bucks, that first cash deposit, to get things in the right direction for you.
If you have tried saving money before and you have failed, then try again. Success only comes through perseverance. Another thing that might help you start saving money is not to make money-saving a hard task. You don’t have to eat once a day or wear the same pair of underwear for a month straight.
The money-saving process must be fun, so it is your job to make it fun. That is the easiest way to start saving even a little bit. What we know about humans is that we quit anything that we don’t like doing.
50 Ways to Save Money
To help you even a little bit into your money-saving process, we have created this list of ways to save money. There are a lot of articles out there that offer money-saving tips, so we have tried to do our best to give you a helping hand.
Now, these might not work for every one of you, but I think it is best to pick those that may be right for you and give them a try.
Coupons, Sales and Others
1. Cashbacks on online purchases are awesome
There are different sites out there that help you earn a percentage of cashback every time that you shop online. Cashbacks work on websites as Amazon also on retailers such as Walmart. Just find the best deal for you and shop ahead.
2. Track sales on every expense you do
Sales are a great way for you to save money. Most people don’t think too much when they shop around. Don’t just pull out your credit card every time you are asked to. Ask for sales and see what’s convenient for you.
3. Don’t give up the change
You would be surprised at how much you are wasting right now, only by giving away the change. Get a pot and put the change in there from time to time. After some months, you might have saved more than you think and have stretched your family budget.
4. Keep note of your expenses
One of the best ways to save money is by keeping track of everything that you spend. By doing this, you will know for sure what’s really useful for you and what’s not. Keep a notebook, especially for expenses, and write down every single dollar you spend.
5. Check the prices
A lot of people don’t realize that they are wasting their money, buying something they could get at a lower price. Make sure to check the prices of the things that you are buying. See if you can actually get the same item for a lower price.
You don’t have to settle for the very first price that a seller gives you. Try to negotiate and ask if there is a discount. You can save up to 20% or 30% of the price point if you simply master the art of negotiation. That money can easily go into your savings account. So the next time you are shopping for a new pair of shoes, ask if there is a discount.
Save Through Money Management
7. Work on your credit score
If you are not well informed, a good credit score can help you a lot in saving money. Working on improving your credit score can pay off a lot when you are looking to get a house mortgage, a car loan, or even a same day loan. A good credit score means that you can have the advantage of gaining lower interest rates, and the money that you don’t pay goes back into your pocket. That is phantom income.
8. Negotiate interest rates
You would be amazed at what the power of negotiation can do for you. If you are currently paying off a loan at a certain interest rate, you can ask for interest rate deductions, and don’t be so surprised when you find out that they lowered it for you. All you have to do is ask.
9. 0% APR cards for your credit card balance
Your credit score might not be at all times high, but you can still be eligible for this type of card. Transferring your balances to these cards can save up a lot of your money. You don’t have to pay all that money off fees and interest rates that benefit you nothing.
If so far, you have been correct with every payment for your house or your car, and if your credit score is more than ok, then you should consider refinancing. Imagine if you have a house, and you have been making regular payments every month, and you decide to refinance and get a second house. Your interest rate can drop even by 50% if you do things right. Once more, you save money through phantom income.
11. Never miss a payment
One of the simplest ways to save money is by simply paying things on time. Most of the bad debts come from people not paying in time. Do yourself a favor, and no matter the circumstances, make the payments you owe on a quick payday loan or any other type of loan. You’re going to see the benefits later.
12. Use cash regularly for shopping
Try to avoid digital financial services, including digital transactions as much as you can. You may not realize this, but digital transactions suck in the fees, bit by bit. Instead of using the ATM, get money from inside the bank. Instead of paying your groceries with your credit card, use cash. Cash is the best way to avoid paying more and more money on fees.
13. Automize your bills payments
You want to avoid those late fees as much as you can. It would not hurt if you could automize your bills payments and, if the case, installments on your installment loan. This way, the money is retrieved automatically from your account, and you don’t have to remember a ton of things.
14. Make long term investments on your assets
Instead of saving your money now and ignoring the fact that your car needs to be repaired, make an annual subscription and have it fixed at a much cheaper rate. Things like your car, your house, your appliances, are assets to you, and they’re going to need repairing from time to time. It is better to be subscribed and pay less.
15. Limit your spendings
Never buy anything that is unnecessary. Always think twice before you rush into spending money. Ask yourself if you can really afford to do this or maybe it is better to spend this money later. Don’t rush into decisions that might make your life harder.
Save by Being Healthier
16. Eating healthy is cheaper than ordering take out
Eating healthy and organic food is much less expensive than going to a restaurant to eat. Cooking and eating at home is a very practical way for you to be healthy but also save money.
17. Quit smoking
If you currently are a smoker, then consider quitting. From quitting, you will get health and financial benefits. Your body will thank you, and so will your savings account. Just do the math on how much you spend on cigarettes currently, and how much you could save if you stopped.
18. Start jogging
Maybe that gym subscription is not really that necessary for you. If you are looking to save up some cash, then start jogging every morning. Work on abs and push-ups at home and jog every morning. You will be shocked at the results on your body, and you’ll save money at the same time.
19. Drink water instead of soda
Water is a healthier solution compared to soda. It is cheaper even. So the next time you’re out, drink more water. It will keep you hydrated, thus making you think clearer. It will also save you some cash.
20. Choose rationally when eating out
Just because you are going to eat outside does not mean that you should spend three hundred dollars. Try to be more rational when eating out and consider the best options for you and your finances.
Downgrade Your Services
21. Slower Internet
If you are continually working with your computer, it is more than understandable that you need a good internet connection. But it is not like you need to get the fastest internet out there. If you are currently using a 30 Mbps, you might want to consider downgrading and paying less.
22. Cut down some of the cable service
I highly doubt that you have the time to see all of the channels that your cable service provides you. Cutting down some of the services also means cutting down some of the costs. By the end of the day, it is more convenient.
23. Consider using a VoIP telephone
An internet telephone service tends to be way cheaper than the usual subscription you get from phone companies. It might be hard for people to reach you, but you will be able to save some money.
24. Request discounts on bad services
If you get a better offer for a service you are already paying, then call them and ask for a discount. You would be surprised how much you can cut down on your expenses and save money.
Change Your Social Habits
25. Invite friends over instead of going out
Everyone loves going out from time to time. But everyone knows that it can be expensive. Try something new for a change. Instead of going out, invite friends over your house. Or you can even go to their house. This way you can have fun remaining on a budget.
26. Offer to cook together
No one wants to eat a meal alone. It is a different pleasure when you get to prepare a meal with someone you know. It can even be cheaper. You can both split up the ingredients and the labor, and by the end of the meal, you both have saved some extra money.
27. Go for a night walk instead of the night club
Maybe you are used to always going to night clubs. How about you start going for a night walk. It is healthier, and it refreshes your thought. It also keeps you sober and sharp, and it also brings you closer to your financial success.
28. Try offline dating instead of online dating subscription:
Asking someone face to face to go out is still in fashion, you know. If so far, you have been spending money on dating apps, try offline dating. Go out there and have genuine conversations. This way, you don’t have to pay an app again.
29. Stick to a limited circle of friends
The more friends you have, the higher the chances they’ll invite you to go out. Keep your circle small and save up.
30. Learn to say NO
There is power in using the word ‘No,’ and you must learn how to use it. If you don’t think you can afford to go to a party they are inviting you to, then just say no.
Save Money At Home
31. Use a gas water heater
Electricity is more expensive. A gas water heater can save you money in the long term. A gas water heater will also keep working during a power outrage.
32. Replace normal light bulbs with fluorescent light bulbs
These types of bulbs last ten times longer and consume 75% less energy. If you are thinking about saving money, this is a smart way to do so.
33. Have regular energy check-ups
Your electric company should probably do this for free. Performing these regular energy check-ups keeps you up to date about your home’s insulation and the improvements that are needed.
34. Use energy-friendly appliances
Appliances are the devices that consume most of the energy. Make sure to buy appliances that don’t consume a lot and that are energy-friendly. They might cost more but pay off in the long run.
35. Coldwater to wash your clothes
Not only will you save money on energy, but you will also protect your clothes.
36. Get a solar panel
Green energy is the best type to save money. A solar panel might be a bit expensive, but it would be so efficient, and you will save more than you might think. You can use one for your heater and your light bulbs. That’s energy and money saved.
37. Use more blankets
The air conditioner can run your bill pretty high during the winter months. Instead of keeping it on all night long, you can simply use more blankets to heat up.
Save Money On Transportation
38. Subscribe if you always use public transportation
If you always use public transport, then make sure to be part of the subscription. This is going to save you money.
39. Ride the bike more often
This is my personal favorite. There aren’t many places where you can’t go by bike, and if you own one, the rides are free. You don’t have to pay for anything, and you enjoy the ride.
40. Drive a manual transmission car
They tend to cost less. If you have a limited budget to buy a car, then a manual transmission car is going to fit perfectly on you.
41. Always keep tires inflated
Make it a habit to check the air in your tires regularly. This will not only keep you safe but will also make sure that the car is more fuel-efficient.
42. Buy your car on the internet
You can get great deals on the web if you are looking to buy a car. You can even save yourself a lot of money. Just be smart and make sure that you pick something that’s worth it.
Invest to Save
43. Educate yourself
You can save up tons of cash if you just have the right information before making an investment.
44. Purchase low-cost mutual funds
Be on the lookout for funds that will cost a total of 0.5%
45. Use smart savings accounts
Choose a saving account that puts more money into your pocket than it takes.
46. Try to avoid fees
Though fees might seem small, if you collect them together, you will get a hefty amount of cash out of it. Try your best to avoid paying unnecessary fees.
47. Keep track of your investments
Always know where your money is going. Remember that not everything that looks like an asset is actually an asset.
48. Invest in commodities
Investing in commodities such as gold or silver can save you a lot of money. In the long term, you might even come out of the investment with a significant profit.
49. Choose the right broker
Always choose a broker that invests his own money in the same area where he is managing your money. A broker can either save you money or cost you money.
50. Raise your financial IQ
Knowledge is the best asset out there. The best way to save money is by gaining more financial knowledge.
Saving money is much easier than you think. People do this all the time, and that means that you can do it also.
We hope the money-saving tips that we mentioned above help you on your way to saving money successfully. Just go ahead and choose the options that you think will work for you, and don’t be afraid to experiment. Don’t despair if you will not succeed immediately and remember that in case of an emergency or some unexpected expenses that should be covered urgently, there is a great remedy – online loans with instant approval. There is no shame to apply for financial assistance!
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Q4 Bookmarking in the Cloud
In Quests 1-3, you learned about Cloud computing and bookmarking resources using Diigo or Symbaloo so that you can easily access your favorite sites on any device.
I Can Statements
- bookmark resources for easy retrieval with Diigo or Symbaloo
- share Cloud bookmarks
- assign keywords and descriptions to bookmark in Diigo
- highlight objects in Diigo
- capture objects in Diigo
- use anchored and floating sticky notes in Diigo
- Use the Diigo toolbar to highlight 2-3 pieces of relevant information from the Things you have completed.
- For each highlight, add a sticky-note summarizing the information you highlighted.
- Capture 2 or more relevant screenshots using the Diigo capture tool. Add text summarizing the content you captured.
- Create a webmix. Consider creating multiple webmixes and organizing them by topic (e.g. How-tos, Visual Organizers, Research, Photos, etc.).
- Bookmark 2-3 relevant resources (e.g. tutorials, web pages, tools, etc.) for each webmix.
Optional Assignment: Now you are ready to begin bookmarking your own interests using Diigo or Symbaloo. Do you have a school appropriate topic that you are passionate about and would like to share with your classmates? What websites and videos would you choose? Find at least six resources to add to Diigo or Symbaloo. (Below is an example webmix teaching Origami)
3. Share the link to your bookmarks with your classmates.
Completing this Quest
Continue to use Symbaloo/Diigo to bookmark important things/tools as you learn about other Things. Check with your teacher to see how you will share and submit your bookmarks.
I have completed the Quests as assigned by my teacher.
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ISTE and Common Core Standards
1. Empowered Learner
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies
3. Knowledge Constructor
a. plan employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits
c. Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods
Common Core Standards
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MNA Feature Desk: Mother’s Day is a time for flowers, fancy brunches, and thanking your mom for putting up with your crap for all these years. But once upon a time the holiday was a more somber affair—a way for women to mourn fallen soldiers and pursue peace.
The true origin dates back to the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, when a woman named Ann Reeves Jarvis helped start “Mothers’ Day Work Clubs” in West Virginia. Their goal was to lower infant mortality rates by teaching local women how to properly care for their children, improve sanitary conditions, and fight disease.
When war finally broke out in 1861, the groups began tending the wounds of soldiers from both sides. By 1868, after the Civil War was over, Jarvis transformed the organization into a peace-focused movement called “Mothers’ Friendship Day,” which involved bringing former Union and Confederate soldiers together to reconcile. Jarvis, often called “Mother Jarvis,” wrote:
”Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?”
Around the same time, other women around the country organized their own early Mother’s Days. Abolitionist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” in 1870, which called on all mothers to unite and promote world peace. She later campaigned for a holiday called “Mother’s Peace Day” to be celebrated every June 2. And Juliet Calhoun Blakely, a temperance activist from Michigan, inspired a local Mother’s Day to be celebrated there in the 1870s.
But it wasn’t until the early 1900s that Mother’s Day was nationally recognized. Anna Jarvis, the daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, pushed for the holiday after her mother died in 1905, wanting a holiday that honors all of the sacrifices mothers make for their children. In 1908, Jarvis found financial backing to host an official Mother’s Day celebration at a church in West Virginia. At the same time, a celebration happened at a retail store in Philadelphia that belonged to Jarvis’ financial backer.
It was a sensation, so Jarvis decided to make it her goal to get the holiday added to the national calendar. By 1912, Jarvis quit her job and started the Mother’s Day International Association, which formed partnerships with local businesses and ran letter-writing campaigns to government officials. It worked. Towns and churches in several states adopted Mother’s Day as an annual holiday, and by 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made it an official holiday in 1914. | <urn:uuid:a383dbb1-ae64-418b-89a2-736fe34ce923> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://mnabd.com/history-mothers-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866870.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524205512-20180524225512-00404.warc.gz | en | 0.962695 | 560 | 3.796875 | 4 |
40 years ago, 4 officers were killed, police went on strike and racial tensions flared
Forty years ago this week, there was nearly a riot at City Hall.
Police officers mourning the murder of one of their own had walked off the job. They wanted more protection, bulletproof vests and more powerful guns. And they wanted to explain themselves to city fathers.
But as they approached City Hall, the officers were met by crowds of people upset that an unarmed black man was shot fleeing an arrest just a few days earlier.
Neither death was a first. In just eight months, four citizens had been shot and killed by police, one had killed a police officer, and four officers had been murdered in the streets. Five other officers had been killed in the previous seven years.
Cincinnati was on the brink that day, in that place.
What happened in the days and weeks that followed would set the city on a course it still travels today as it deals with the preservation of the Collaborative Agreement, lawsuits claiming reverse racism in police promotions and in instances of officers using Tasers against black youth and racial slurs during arrests.
Many of the leaders who struggled to heal the city in 1979 still struggle to do so today. There has been progress, they say, and more work to do.
It takes vigilance, they add, not to relive the mistakes of the past.
It was May 9, 1979. Cincinnati police had just buried Officer Melvin Henze.
Shot five times in an alley, Henze's death had sparked outrage among his fellow officers. Three days after his death, the officers parked their cruisers in the street, left their keys and neckties in a pile and walked away. It was the first police strike in the city since 1918. For 24 hours, the force operated with a skeleton crew.
City police officers approached City Hall the following day, wanting to make a public statement about an uncaring city government that had squeezed the department for years with layoffs and funding cuts, leaders said.
The people they met in the street were angry, as well, enraged by the death of George Lee Thomas and others like him. Thomas had been killed as he ran from a police officer. The officer said he saw Thomas reach toward his waistband for a gun before he shot him. No gun was ever found.
On the steps of City Hall, some officers grabbed the protesters' signs, others harshly questioned citizens.
Once inside, tensions remained palpable. After he allegedly tore down a police poster suggesting criminals be electrocuted, the local NAACP president J.C. Johnson was collared. A police officer then grabbed him by the necktie and nearly slammed his head into a desk. Newspaper photographers were on hand to witness the fracas.
More scuffles broke out in the hall, some between white officers and members of the Sentinels, Cincinnati's black police association.
Now a city councilman, Wendell Young was an officer and president of the Sentinels in 1979. He said the protesters didn't believe the officers wanted more firepower for protection. They thought: "you want bigger guns so you can kill us faster. You want bigger guns so you can make sure we die," he said.
That day, now-retired Lt. Stephen Kramer could not even see city council through the estimated crowd of 1,000 who packed into the building. He says that when police had previously gathered at the union hall and voted to strike, there had been no mention of a racial component.
"At that time, society seemed that it just didn't care if a cop got killed," he said. "All we cared about was that we were dying and we thought City Council wasn't backing us on simple things."
The City Council chambers were in chaos.
While police lined up the nine hats of officers slain in the 1970s on Mayor Bobbie Sterne’s desk, her predecessor Theodore Berry, Cincinnati's first black mayor, called for “equal concern and sympathy for the deaths of civilians who have died at the hands of police.”
Cincinnati police union president Elmer Dunaway then submitted a list of demands that included the reinstatement of the officer who shot and killed Herman Beasley, an unarmed black 16-year-old who had fled from a stolen car. Beasley was shot in the back.
"It was the most intimidating meeting I've ever attended," said Councilman David Mann, who was vice mayor at the time. "It was the perfect storm of officer deaths and black citizen deaths."
The racial tension was not unexpected by some.
Dwight Tillery had issued a warning earlier that week that trouble was brewing. Tillery, then-vice chairman of the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission, had called for a meeting between police and black communities.
"When you’ve got a situation with a community which is fearful and policemen who are fearful, you really have a very serious situation on your hands,” Tillery said.
At that meeting, City Councilquickly voted to pay the police officers who took part in the strike, and pay extra to ones who stayed on to work. They voted to approve bulletproof vests for all officers and would eventually let them carry the .357 magnums they requested.
"Today was a very polarizing day," Mann said that day. "I suspect the community is even more polarized tonight that it was this morning."
The other requests – carrying shotguns in the front seat instead of the trunk and lessening restriction in the weapons police carry – were denied. The officer who shot Beasley eventually received a 10-day unpaid suspension but kept his job.
Some task forces were planned, but nothing much else changed.
Eventually, events would require that they did.
'What a city should expect'
It had not been that long since LIFE magazine had featured the Cincinnati Police Department on a 1957 cover with the headline "What a city should expect from police," hailing Queen City cops as tops in the nation.
Kramer, now a historian who worked to found the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum, said the police department was roiled by the national shift in attitudes toward police that the 1960s brought.
In Cincinnati, that included the riots of the late 1960s when officers were seen riding in jeeps with National Guardsman and at least one in the backseat of commandeered convertible with a shotgun, he said.
"The people who had been heroes were now being portrayed differently ... as villains in some cases," Kramer said.
Councilman Young demurred. He said in the black community, police were never viewed as heroes. He said the '60s made people aware of what was happening in black neighborhoods.
He added that individual officers might not be racist, but the law enforcement system itself leaned unfairly on blacks and still does.
"Cops are often the pawns for everything society does to people," Young said. "It's not the cops' fault, but they catch the brunt of it."
In the '70s, City Council's attitude toward police also seemed to change, and for Kramer and those like him, this is what led to the strike.
There were layoffs and cuts to the department. Kramer said staffing was at historic lows and, along with it, morale.
"The more they cut, the more were killed," he said. "We thought we were righteous."
The next decade would see more police officers murdered in Cincinnati than since the days of Prohibition.
State Sen. Cecil Thomas was a police officer at the time. He said rhetoric coming out of these killings did further damage to police-community relations.
For example, after Officer Charles Burdsall was killed in 1978, union president Dunaway said of the suspect: "I'd like to be the guy to make the arrest. He would never go to trial," suggesting the man would die in police custody.
The police chief had to publicly assure the man's safety, and it was Thomas who eventually had to bargain with the man's father, promising the police would not harm his son, before the arrest could be made.
"You had two opposing sides. The police department was saying, 'We're just trying to do our job to keep the community safe,'" Thomas said. "The community was saying, 'Now wait a minute. You're keeping it safe as if the only people that affect the safety of the city are African Americans.'"
Inside the police department, there was also strife between black and white police officers.
Councilman Young said black officers felt caught in the middle. Black citizens thought of them as "turncoats," while their white colleagues thought everyone "should just be blue."
Black officers, like Young and Thomas, began noting that not enough blacks were being hired or promoted.
Young said many white officers had never been forced to think about how their black colleagues were treated and this "blindness" created more tension.
In 1981, Thomas and another officer filed an affirmative action lawsuit against the city for the police department's hiring and promoting practices. The action ended with a federal consent decree.
Thomas had won his lawsuit, but when he was promoted to specialist, he said he was issued the badge number 187, police code for a homicide. (Considered bad luck, Thomas said the number had never been issued before and was a not-so-subtle warning to watch his back.)
In 1987, another lawsuit against Cincinnati said blacks and women remained underrepresented in the higher ranks of the police department resulting in another federal consent decree.
Then, in 2001, Timothy Thomas was shot as he tried to elude police. (Fifteen years early, the U.S. Supreme Court had placed firm restrictions on when an officer could lawfully shoot those who fled scenes of crimes.)
Officer Stephen Roach said the 19-year-old appeared to reach into his waistband during the pursuit, but no weapon was ever found. Roach was charged but acquitted in Thomas' death.
The three days of civil unrest that followed the Thomas shooting beckoned the federal government back to the Queen City. Another consent decree led to extensive talks between the police department and the community they served. With federal direction, the collaborative agreement was struck, laying the groundwork for how policing should proceed in the city.
When the riots of Ferguson, Missouri, happened in 2014, Cincinnati police were once again pointed to as what a city should expect from police.
And yet, last June, two white officers blamed the consent decrees from the '80s for the current racial division within the Cincinnati Police Department and stated they believe black officers get preferential treatment from the outdated standards set by the mandates.
Also last summer, questions of police-community relations were raised when a black officer used a Taser to stop a fleeing 11-year-old girl who was seen shoplifting. In that case, the officer was reprimanded. (That girl's mother was given a $220,000 settlement from the city. Beasley's mother was paid $3,500 to settle the case after he was killed.)
Councilman Mann, however, said Cincinnati currently has more police officers now who think of themselves as partners with the community. The issues are out in the open. The sides are being heard. Incidents happen, but they are addressed.
"There is so much to be grateful for while pledging to keep working," Mann said.
That work includes the ongoing collaborative agreement refresh. The police union voted to pull its president Dan Hils from talks about the agreement in 2017, only to vote him back to the table weeks later.
This year two police officers, one black and one white, were given seven-day suspensions after they were caught on body camera using racial slurs.
Councilman Young said between body cameras, better training and a better caliber of recruits, Cincinnati now has "a recipe for change, good change."
He said police, including the chief, are less tolerant of other officers who don't do the right thing.
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Set up a fake murder scene, with fake witness audio clips for your visitors to follow, play detective and solve a crime! All the audio clips can be setup as location-aware or can be triggered through augmented reality.
Connect everyday items like books, photos, paintings and hide a ghost special effect in the objects for the children to seek and find!
Help your visitors stretch their legs by taking them on a tour of the various plants and objects in a garden.
Pick your favourite artist and make a trail of their paintings giving a little history of their life and the significance of the paintings along the way.
Let families and children collect all the animals in various parts of your exhibition along with a chance to win a prize or unlock a voucher.
Conduct game design workshops using Gamar content management system and mobile app to help teach children the basics of game structure and design.
Celebrate Easter by hiding decorative eggs around an exhibition space, a garden or at home.
Match pictures of different bird species to hear their respective calls using Augmented reality sounds effects.
Quiz students on different pieces of technology on who made them and what do they do.
Have children identify and study different locations on a world map through fun activities and quizzes or learn fascinating facts about sea travel in a truly memorable way.
Teach children the story of the Nativity by setting up a trail which follows Shepherd's path to the star.
Match book synopsis to their covers, get children to design their own book covers and quiz them at the end!
Visitors at Cutty Sark play as an apprentice to Captain Woodget performing chores on the ship like cleaning the pigs, unfurling the sails etc and visitors at Warwick castle play as a Knight to prepare for battle ordered by the Earl of Warwick.
Listen to the sculptures in their own voices to find out about the history of the site or information about current/upcoming events.
This is an excellent activity to make visitors observe a ruin or a relief to solve the puzzle activity.
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Mealtime is an issue that worries many mothers. Sometimes it goes as far as despair. From psychology there is a theory that says that food has an emotional component. Adults turn all their concerns on the health of their children when they are eating. Is that why there are children who eat worse with mom?
This excessive concern of mothers that their children do not eat well makes children discover that they can blackmail with that attitude, which makes things worse and they become children who eat worse with mom. Mealtime means embarking on a long war that will ultimately cause both parties to suffer.
Bribes, threats, etc. are used. Anything goes so that the child eats everything. Because "to grow very strong you have to eat everything." Parents have to stop to think that it is estimated that one in four children eats "badly". This may be due to:
- A genetic trait. In other words, it is very likely that the child's own parents or one of them were “bad” eaters during their own childhood.
- Children eat "badly" during a stage. This usually happens in some period of the first five years.
- Children get bored at the time of sitting at the table because what they want is to play, move, explore.
These children who eat "badly" tend to eat better at school, at their friends 'houses, at their relatives' houses, etc. This is due to several influencing factors:
- Time to eat it occurs in a more relaxed environment.
- The one in charge of eating: the caregiver at school, his grandmother, his uncle, his friend's mother are much more objective. His neutrality towards the child's attitude towards food avoids the possible emotional blackmail that usually occurs in his home and in particular in his relationship with his mother.
- The moment of the meal is lived as a daily activity more if giving more importance in other spaces such as at school.
- At school you always eat at the same time so create a routine for the child to help you.
For the child to eat as well as he does with others, it is important that some guidelines can be followed to prevent meal time from becoming a war. Here are some tips:
- Ensure that the atmosphere at lunchtime is pleasant.
- Set an example.
- Do not force him to eat or scold him if he does not. If you don't like what's on the first course, offer it second. But do not do anything else. It is not the child who decides his menu.
- Avoid emotional blackmail with phrases like: "If you love me, eat it all."
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There are many different ways you can do this project. If you feel ambitious you can do the whole project without cutting the bottle. You simply put everything in through the hole at the top. When it comes time to transplant your plants into a bigger pot or into a garden then you will cut the bottle open. (Note: Whenever cutting with scissors or a knife please seek the help of a parent or adult)
What you need to make this Soda Bottle Terrarium
- One 2-liter bottle of soda (with cap)
- Potting Soil
- A handful of small stones or pebbles
- A Marker
- Seedlings (small plants) this is optional if you want to start right out with plants in your terrarium
- Extra: If you want to make a really good terrarium you would also use activated charcoal and spaghnum moss. More on this below.
Here is how you arrange the materials in your bottle from the bottom up: ( the red items are optional)
- Activated Charcoal
- Spaghnum or Spanish Moss
- More moss
An Explanation of why you build your terrarium like this.
Why Pebbles? The pebbles at the bottom allow excess water to flow to the bottom of the bottle. This will prevent it from soaking the soil and making it muddy. As the temperature inside the bottle rises from sunlight the water will be drawn up into the bottle. It becomes like the earth with a nice cycle of water flow just like rain. Dew will even collect on the inside top of your bottle then slowly drip down onto the plants like rain.
Why the Activated Charcoal? If you put a thin layer of charcoal (1/2 inch) in your terrarium it acts as a filter purifying the water as it flows up and down. the plants and the bacteria in the soil can cause the inside of the terrarium to get very dirty and even to rot. You can purchase this kind of charcoal at an aquarium store or any well stocked pet store.
Why the Spaghnum or Spanish Moss? this simply acts as a screen to prevent your soil from settling down into the rocks yet it allows the water to flow smoothly.
Why the Soil? This is the nutrition for the plants. They will absorb the nutrients from the soil with their roots.
Why the Moss on the top of the soil? This is just to make it look nicer! It is totally optional.
OKAY! Let's build our terrarium
Step 1: Draw a line around the bottle about six inches up. I use a neat little trick to make a nice straight line. I rest the marker on the top of an upside down coffee cup then I rotate the 2 liter bottle. It makes a nice straight line.
Cut the bottle along the line with a pair of scissors. You may need to start a small hole in the bottle before you can cut it with the scissors. Please ask a parent or adult to help you with this cutting of the bottle.
Place a handful of stones in the bottom half of the bottle. About 1-2 inches deep should be good.
Place your other materials in the bottle. The charcoal then the moss then the soil. If you are not using charcoal or moss then put just the soil in. fill it to about 1 inch from the top.
Now Plant your seeds! You should plant 6 to 10 seeds and later as they grow you can pluck out some of the weaker ones and leave the 2 or 3 best ones.
Don't forget to water your terrarium before placing the top on. The soil should be moist but not soaked.
Now Place the top on. I recommend you squeeze the top onto the bottom so the top is on the outside.
If you have trouble fitting the two pieces together you can cut a slit about halfway down the bottom half of the bottle. this will help it close up a bit and make it easier to fit the top over it.
Congratulations your terrarium is completed. In a few days your seeds should germinate and in no time you will have a soda bottle terrarium that looks as nice as this one.
Taking Care of Your Soda Bottle Terrarium
There are two important factors you have to consider when it comes to your terrarium: the amount of sunlight it gets and the amount of water that is inside.
Once the plants have sprouted you should make sure it gets sunlight but do not leave it in direct sunlight for the entire day. It is a closed environment and it can get very hot inside.
Water - Look carefully at the soil in the terrarium. It should look moist but not soaked or too dry. Beads of water should form on the top inside near edge and these will drip down the sides and continue to water the soil. If it appears to be too wet you can take the top off and leave it uncovered for a day or two.
New: A new moss terrarium tutorial
This is an attractive and easy terrarium made with moss. I show you how to make one and how to care for it. How to make a moss terrarium
Moss terrariums are wonderful in their simplicity and beauty. And you can often make one without spending a penny. Just collect up the moss from the outdoors. Add some small accents and they become a beautiful little world. I have some pictures here and a link to my tutorial on making them. Moss terrariums.
If you never made a terrarium this is a great place to start because it is easy and attractive.
Don't Throw It, Grow It!: 68 windowsill plants from kitchen scraps
Magic and wonder hide in unexpected places - a leftover piece of ginger, a wrinkled potato left too long in its bag, a humdrum kitchen spice rack. In Don't Throw It, Grow It! Deborah Peterson reveals the hidden possibilities in everyday foods.
Peterson, former president of the American Pit Gardening Society, shows how common kitchen staples - pits, nuts, beans, seeds, and tubers - can be coaxed into lush, vibrant houseplants that are as attractive as they are fascinating. With Peterson's help, a sweet potato turns into a blooming vine; chickpeas transform into cheery hanging baskets; the humble beet becomes a dramatic centerpiece; and gingerroot grows into a 3-foot, bamboo-like stalk. In some cases the transformation can happen overnight!
Don't Throw It, Grow It! offers growing instructions for over 50 plants in four broad categories - kitchen vegetables; fruits and nuts; herbs and spices; and more exotic plants from ethnic markets. The book is enhanced with beautiful illustrations, and its at-a-glance format makes it a quick and easy reference. Best of all, every featured plant can be grown in a kitchen, making this handy guide a must-have for avid gardeners and apartment-dwellers alike. Don't Throw It, Grow It! will appeal both to committed recyclers and to anyone who wants to find magic in the mundane - from parents and teachers looking to instill a sense of wonder in children, to the houseplant enthusiast seeking to create a one-of-a-kind Eden right in her kitchen. | <urn:uuid:e60658cd-ebad-4431-98b7-fbff0f204f5f> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.stormthecastle.com/terrarium/soda-bottle-terrarium.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487621519.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20210615180356-20210615210356-00570.warc.gz | en | 0.926151 | 1,480 | 2.75 | 3 |
The solution to climate change might be in your fridge
Reducing your carbon footprint doesn’t have to mean ditching your car or other drastic measures
One of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions is the food we eat, and a new study by the University of Reading in the U.K. examined the entire food industry from farm to fork for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Almost two-thirds of the food-associated greenhouse gas waste occurs on the consumer end, including anyone that handles food, from grocery stores to restaurants and, especially, inside our own homes.
This comprehensive study considered all possible contributing factors to greenhouse gas emissions in the production of your lunch — from the farm workers' commute to the refrigerant required for storage and the electricity consumption in grocery stores. They even calculated the emissions that occur once we dispose of the food — in landfills or wastewater treatment.The results prove that our diets are a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
Reducing your carbon footprint
Reducing your carbon footprint doesn't require you to ditch your car or take other drastic measures. Small lifestyle adjustments can result in significant contributions to the overall health of our planet, including Meatless Monday or forgoing steak outside of special occasions.
"It really comes down to beef consumption. If beef can be substituted with lower carbon meats, [it] would be preferable," said Dr. Eugene Mohareb, lead author and lecturer in sustainable urban systems at the University of Reading. "We found replacing, for example, [in] the U.S. case study, 25 per cent of beef consumption with chicken, resulted in a whole system emissions reduction of six per cent of all emissions."
It really comes down to beef consumption. If beef can be substituted with lower carbon meats, [it] would be preferable.- Dr. Eugene Mohareb
Waste less, save more
Food waste is a major contributing factor to greenhouse gas emissions, and according to a recent report from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, North American countries have the highest estimated per-capita food loss and waste globally.
"So in Canada, [the CEC report] suggests it's around [396 kilograms or 873 pounds] per person per year. They go on to highlight that's around 40 per cent of all food that is purchased in households," said Mohareb. "There might be things that we can do in the home. There's a USDA app that's available [called FoodKeeper], for example, that allows you to set reminders when you buy perishable foods. And if you focus on those high carbon intensity foods, such as your animal products, and your meat, and your dairy, etc., that'll address a lot of the emissions associated with your diet."
A bonus to wasting less food and helping the environment? It saves you money — an estimated $1,400 per year.
Municipalities can do more to encourage greener practices
Upwards of 83 per cent of the North American population lives in urban centres, which are responsible for most of the food waste. University of Reading researchers concluded that composting is not the best way to deal with organic waste. Instead, municipalities should implement an organic sorting system to deal with food waste separately.
Anaerobic digestion is a much more carbon friendly solution that includes a series of biological processes where microorganisms break down biodegradable material. It's also cost-effective because one of the end products is biogas, which can be sold back into the utility supply for electricity, heat, renewable natural gas and transportation fuels.
Researchers also have suggestions for how to incentivize greener food practices, including a tax on beef, which would likely work, but might not be entirely realistic.
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…although to the casual observer they may seem quite normal. They are a duck belonging to the sawbill family after their long, narrow bills with saw-like teeth which are excellent at gripping fish. Any Welsh readers out there would know that the Welsh for goosander; hwyaden ddanheddog literally translates to serrated duck. They first colonised Scotland in 1871 and have since spread across the entire UK. It is a gregarious bird and forms into flocks of several thousand or more in some parts of Europe.
After the breeding period almost all males disappear. It was a mystery as to where they went for many years but it is now known that the males leave the females in late June and migrate to one specific fjord; Tanafjord in Norway where they undergo a full moult of their flight feathers which takes them around three months. They remain there until the freezing weather approaches and they then return back from late October onwards with larger numbers appearing back in December. The females stay in the country and moult here with the few males that remained.
The drake or male goosander has a dark green head, a black back and the rest of his body is bright white, sometimes with a pinkish glow. The female pictured here is grey with a quite vibrant gingery brown head and a white throat.
Both sexes have a long, narrow red bill with a hook at the tip. When in flight their wings make a whistling noise.
Now is the time we often get goosanders appearing on the reserve. Although we never see them in large numbers we do see them quite regularly outside the visitor centre and along the boardwalk.
Laura – Falls of Clyde Ranger
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What is Artificial Intelligence and how is it Used in Trading?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. Specifically, it takes into account intelligent computer programs to calculate, reason, learn from experience, adapt to new situations and solve complex problems. Artificial Intelligence (AI) also refers to Algorithmic Trading is about implementing trading rules into a program and using the program to trade. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is mainly based on disciplines such as Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Mathematics, Biology and Engineering.
Since AI is shaping the future of stock trading drastically, it is going to continue making trading profitable in the coming time. For instance, Robo-advisers are automated to analyse millions of data points in as little time as possible and forecast the prices on the basis of the same. Further, it executes trades at the most profitable time because of its ability to carry out several trades in every second in the stock market. Hence, for accurate analysis, forecasting, timely execution of the trades and for mitigating the risks, AI plays an important role.
Let us see how exactly AI is used in trading:
- Pattern Formation
- Predictive Trading (Sentiment Based)
- Increased Trading Speed
Artificial Intelligence is a powerful technology which helps to analyse numerous data points within seconds. This way it can identify those trading patterns rapidly which are historical and replicating for smart trading. Whereas, humans can not identify and build patterns with such speed.
Predictive Trading (Sentiment Based)
Based on the analysis of news headlines, social media comments, and other platforms, AI is able to forecast the moves of other traders along with the direction of stocks with the help of sentiment analysis.
Increased Trading Speed
Since it is the era of fast-paced technology-oriented functioning, AI helps as it facilitates trading every millisecond. Also, AI leads to such fast-paced automated trading which needs no human intervention.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Can AI predict stocks?
AI trading systems can be used to predict stocks, but the success rate differences are small. If a trader predicts 50% of trades accurately, and an AI algorithm correctly predicts 55% of trades, this would be considered a big success.
2. What’s the difference between AI, Machine Learning & Deep Learning?
AI is a broad category that includes machine learning and deep learning. AI refers to the execution of rules/algorithms that mimic human behavior. Machine learning refers to rules that allow a machine to form assumptions based on its data and begin developing its own rules, essentially learning. The final area of AI is a subset of machine learning known as deep learning; here, the machine teaches itself new behaviors based on its current data and past experience. Our research shows that machine learning or deep learning employed in stock trading is exclusively available to institutions or hedge funds, as in the case of J4 Capital. This does not mean that broader AI rules execution cannot be successful in trading; it simply means that a revolutionary machine-driven approach to trading is not there yet.
3. What is AI & Backtesting in Stock Trading?
As the creator of three successful algorithmic approaches to investing (the Stock Market Crash Detector, LST Beat the Market Growth Stocks System & MOSES), I know that none of this is possible without backtesting a trading strategy. Backtesting means testing a hypothesis on historical data and assessing how often that hypothesis is true. In this comparison, all five of the AI stock trading software providers use rigorous backtesting to improve the chance of trading success.
4. Can You Use AI to Predict the Stock Market?
Yes, AI stock trading algorithms are designed to predict the future direction of stocks and the stock market. However, they are not perfect predictors of the market. If an AI algorithm achieves a prediction accuracy of 60% or more, it is considered highly successful. “An exceptional trader would be thrilled with a 51% success rate—similar to the house edge at a Las Vegas blackjack table. Renaissance Technologies, perhaps the most profitable quant firm globally, has generated a vast fortune by leveraging bets with these odds. J4 Capital, which has only two other employees, claims to have a success rate of nearly 60%.”
5. Is AI Good For Trading?
Yes, AI is good for trading; most major investment banks use AI for arbitrage and portfolio selection. Modern AI trading software is now available for retail investors, providing automated trading with audited past performance and risk analysis. AI has finally matured for stock trading. No one can guarantee a profit using AI for trading, but it does stack the odds in your favor.
6. Can Trading be Automated?
Yes, trading can be automated. Over 80% of stock market trading is automated because investment banks, hedge funds, and market makers operating dark pools use computers to automate high-frequency trading (HFT) to arbitrage differences in asset prices between markets.
7. Is AI Stock Trading Worth It?
AI stock trading can be effective, providing you use a proven system with mature technology. Using AI to initiate stock trades is complex and requires stable infrastructure. AI algorithms do not guarantee success, but a good system can provide a slight edge.
8. Is AI Trading Legal?
The use of AI in trading is perfectly legal. As detailed in Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders, investment banks, dark pools, and market makers have been using AI to profit from arbitrage and inequity in stock prices. Twenty years later, AI trading is now available to retail investors through established companies like Tickeron and Trade Ideas.
9. Is AI Trading Profitable?
Very few AI trading systems remain profitable over the long term, especially in changing market conditions. Profitable AI trading systems need a proven, transparent track record over at least 3-years and demonstrate good risk management practices.
10. Do Trading Bots Work?
Yes, Trading bots do work, but future performance is never guaranteed. An AI algorithm may work for some time, but the market dynamic, business cycle, and investor sentiment are always changing, so different AI trading strategies need to be adopted in specific situations.
11. Should I Use An Automated Trading Bot?
Using an automated trading Bot to execute your trades has inherent risk. The 2010 flash crash caused a one-day 9% crash of the S&P 500 and was widely blamed on high-frequency AI algorithms and their unpredictable behavior. If you use an automated trading Bot you need to ensure it has a proven track record and good risk management rules. For example, the Trade Ideas automated trading bot clearly defines the potential profit, loss, and risk associated with each trade, allowing you to select your level of exposure.
12. How Reliable are Trading Bots?
Trading Bots are only as reliable as the AI engine and algorithms that support them. The only indication of reliability is an audited track record of past performance. No one truly knows how reliably Trading Bots will perform in the future; we can only see past performance.
13. Are Trading Bots Safe?
Untested, unproven Trading Bots are not safe. There are significant risks with using complex trading bots if you do not thoroughly understand the logic behind the algorithms. A safe trading bot would have a proven performance history and provide transparency into the decision-making logic and risk controls.
14. What are the best free stock Bots?
Free stock Bots are generally not available because cutting-edge development, testing, and maintenance are expensive. The best Trading Bots like Trade Ideas require a monthly subscription.
15. Are trading Bots Legal?
Trading bots used to actively trade stocks, crypto, and other assets are 100% legal. 80% of equity trades in the US are executed by trading Bot and algorithms. The most common use of trading bots is in high-frequency trading to arbitrage asset prices. There are far fewer trading bots trying to beat the market, as it is so much more difficult.
16. Are Trading Bots Worth It?
If you are using trading bots to arbitrage asset prices, it is worth it. Citadel investments prove the value of trading Bots as they are one of the world’s largest, most profitable market makers. Retail investors cannot compete with the cost and infrastructure required to deploy arbitrage trading bots, but they can compete using trading bots that use strategies to predict individual trade swings, such as Trade Ideas.
17. How much money can a trading bot make?
Trading Bots do not make as much money as you might think. Any claims that trading bots can make you over 50% per year on your money should not be trusted. Seeking Alpha, Zacks, and Trade Ideas claim between 20% and 25% profit per year. Do not forget, Trading Bots can also lose money. The stock market return averages 8% per year; any trading Bot that exceeds this performance over time would be considered successful.
18. Is there a trading Bot that works?
From my research, two trading bots are proven to work. Tickeron’s Long ETF Bot has a 49% annualized return over 4 years, and the Trade Ideas Holly AI Bot claimed a 3-year return of 23.2% on a moderate risk setting.
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In the first lawsuit to go to trial since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, a federal court ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to properly operate and maintain a 76-mile shipping channel dredged in 1965 to connect New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.
The court didn't consider the canal's design, which former consultants testified increased the severity of flooding by removing natural barriers to high waters. Instead, it found the Corps negligent for not remediating the design once the agency learned of potential weaknesses.
In a 156-page ruling, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Stanwood Duval wrote that he was “utterly convinced” that the agency “doomed the channel to grow to two to three times its design width,” creating “a more forceful front wave attack on the levee” that protected St. Bernard Parrish and the Lower 9th Ward, two of the hardest-hit areas of the city.
Though the Flood Control Act of 1928 protects the Corps from lawsuits related to project failures, the court ruled earlier this year that the canal is a navigation channel, thus enabling the case to proceed. The agency claims that nothing could have alleviated the effects of the hurricane's 1,000-year storm surge, and plans to appeal the decision.
Further north, the Minnesota DOT will receive $1 million from Progressive Contractors Inc., the company that was resurfacing an interstate bridge in downtown Minneapolis when it collapsed into the Mississippi River in 2007. Claims also have been brought against URS Corp., which the department had retained to evaluate the structure for potential improvements; and Jacobs Engineering Group, which inspected the bridge. | <urn:uuid:112275d4-b20f-4113-87bb-ebcdf5943fab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pwmag.com/bridges/claims-regarding-fatal-failures-succeed.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702414478/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110654-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960015 | 349 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5123
This assessment of groundwater-quality conditions of the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu for the period 1992–2010 is part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program. It shows where, when, why, and how specific water-quality conditions occur in groundwater of the three study areas and yields science-based implications for assessing and managing the quality of these water resources. The primary aquifers in the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu are mostly composed of fractured basalt, which makes their hydrology and geochemistry similar. In spite of the hydrogeologic similarities, there are climatic differences that affect the agricultural practices overlying the aquifers, which in turn affect the groundwater quality. Understanding groundwater-quality conditions and the natural and human factors that control groundwater quality is important because of the implications to human health, the sustainability of rural agricultural economies, and the substantial costs associated with land and water management, conservation, and regulation.
The principal regional aquifers of the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu are highly vulnerable to contamination by chemicals applied at the land surface; essentially, they are as vulnerable as many shallow surficial aquifers elsewhere. The permeable and largely unconfined character of principal aquifers in the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu allow water and chemicals to infiltrate to the water table despite depths to water commonly in the hundreds of feet. The aquifers are essentially unconfined over large areas, having few extensive clay layers to impede infiltration through permeable volcanic rock and alluvial sediments. Agriculture is intensive in all three study areas, and heavy irrigation has imposed large artificial flows of irrigation recharge that rival or exceed natural recharge rates. Fertilizers and pesticides applied at land surface are leached from soil and transported to deep water tables with the infiltrating irrigation recharge, resulting in a layer of degraded water quality overlying better quality regional groundwater beneath. This “irrigation-recharge layer” is best known on Oahu, where it has been studied since the 1960s; however, the extent of nitrate and pesticide contamination in the Columbia Plateau and Snake River Plain indicate that the same situation exists in those areas. Contamination from agricultural and urban activities is present not only at shallow depths in surficial materials of the three areas, but extends regionally in the deep, principal bedrock aquifers that are tapped for drinking water by domestic and public-supply wells.
Naturally occurring constituents and nitrate concentrations above human-health benchmarks—Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), and Health-Based Screening Levels (HBSLs)—were more common in the Columbia Plateau and the Snake River Plain than in Oahu. Concentrations of anthropogenic constituents (constituents related to human activities) above human-health benchmarks were more common in Oahu. Naturally occurring contaminants, such as arsenic and radon, may be present in groundwater at concentrations of potential concern for human health in relatively undeveloped settings that otherwise may not be perceived as susceptible to contamination. Even though the median depth to groundwater in Oahu is more than 300 feet, the common occurrence of anthropogenic compounds in groundwater indicates that Oahu has a high susceptibility to contamination.
Nitrate concentrations in groundwater were above the national background concentrations of 1 milligram per liter (mg/L) in all three study areas. In the Columbia Plateau, nitrate exceeded the human-health benchmark of 10 mg/L in 20 percent of the wells sampled. In the Snake River Plain, nitrate exceeded the human-health benchmark of 10 mg/L in 3 percent of the wells sampled. Nitrate can persist in groundwater for years and even decades in the oxygen-rich groundwater of the Columbia Plateau and the Snake River Plain, so prudent groundwater protection measures are critical to protect drinking water resources by reducing nitrate leaching from the land surface.
Nitrate logistic regression models indicated that areas with a high percentage of land in crops (such as potatoes or sugarcane) and soils with low amounts of organic matter are most likely to have elevated nitrate concentrations in the groundwater. Areas where agricultural activities were absent had much lower probabilities of detecting elevated nitrate concentrations. The Columbia Plateau had a much higher probability of having elevated nitrate concentrations, with most of the land area having greater than a 50 percent probability of elevated nitrate concentrations. Oahu and the Snake River Plain had a much lower probability of having elevated nitrate concentrations because of their lower percentage of agricultural land.
Pesticides were detected at many sites in groundwater of the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu but generally at low concentrations below human-health benchmarks. Atrazine and its degradate (a compound produced from the breakdown of a parent pesticide), deethylatrazine, were the most commonly detected pesticides in groundwater sampled in the Columbia Plateau and Snake River Plain. Bromacil was the most commonly detected pesticide on Oahu. The other pesticides most commonly detected in the study areas include simazine, hexazinone, metribuzin, diuron, prometon, metolachlor, p,p’-DDE, dieldrin, 2-4-D, and alachlor. DDE (a degradate of DDT) and dieldrin are still being detected in groundwater despite having been banned for more than 30 years. Codetection of multiple pesticides in water from a single well was common. The widespread occurrence of pesticides in groundwater in the study areas indicates that the groundwater is highly susceptible to pesticide contamination.
Some pesticides were detected in groundwater samples from all three study areas, but other pesticides were detected only in samples from Oahu, or only in samples from the Columbia Plateau and Snake River Plain. This is because some pesticides (such as atrazine) are broad-spectrum pesticides that are used on many crops in many different areas of the United States. Other pesticides (such as simazine, metribuzin, and metolachlor) are used on row crops (such as potatoes, barley, and alfalfa) grown in the Columbia Plateau and Snake River Plain, but not on pineapple or sugarcane grown in Oahu.
Atrazine logistic-regression models indicate that areas with a high percentage of land in crops (such as potatoes or sugarcane), a low percentage of fallow land, and highly permeable soils with low amounts of organic matter are most likely to have atrazine detected in the groundwater. Areas where agricultural activities were absent had much lower probabilities of atrazine being detected. The Snake River Plain had a much higher probability of atrazine detections, with more than 50 percent of the land area having greater than a 50 percent probability of atrazine contamination. Oahu had a much lower probability of atrazine contamination, with only 24 percent of the land area having greater than a 50 percent probability of atrazine contamination.
Oahu and the Columbia Plateau had some of the highest percentages of soil fumigant detections in groundwater in the United States. Soil fumigants are volatile organic compounds (VOCs) used as pesticides, which are applied to soils to reduce populations of plant parasitic nematodes (harmful rootworms), weeds, fungal pathogens, and other soil-borne microorganisms. They are used in Oahu and the Columbia Plateau on crops such as pineapple and potatoes. All three areas (Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu) had fumigant concentrations exceeding human-health benchmarks for drinking water.
First posted July 18, 2012
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Frans, L.M., Rupert, M.G., Hunt, C.D., Jr., and Skinner, K.D., 2012, Groundwater quality in the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu basaltic-rock and basin-fill aquifers in the Northwestern United States and Hawaii, 1992–2010: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5123, 84 p.
Environmental and Hydrogeologic Setting in the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Hawaiian Principal Aquifers
Pesticides in Groundwater of the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plain, and Oahu
Volatile Organic Compounds
Relation of Constituent Concentrations to Human-Health Benchmarks
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Cambodian subsistence communities within the Tonle Sap Great Lake area rely on resource extraction from the lake to meet livelihood needs. These fishing communities—many of which consist of dwellings floating on the lake—face potentially profound livelihood challenges because of climate change and changing hydrology due to dam construction for hydroelectricity within the Mekong Basin. We conducted interviews across five village communities, with local subsistence fisher people in the Tonle Sap in 2015, and used thematic analysis methods to reveal a fishery system that is undergoing rapid ecological decline, with local fishing communities increasingly experiencing reductions in available fish stocks. As a result, over 100 000 people living in these communities are experiencing a direct loss of well-being and livelihood. We discuss these losses and consider their implications for the future viability of Cambodian floating village communities. | <urn:uuid:c3890d3f-0850-4060-b700-35f735c78498> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.greenfirescience.com/single-post/2018/07/01/large-scale-environmental-degradation-results-in-inequitable-impacts-to-already-impoveris | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154032.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20210730220317-20210731010317-00625.warc.gz | en | 0.92953 | 179 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Social media have become part of modern news reporting, used by journalists to spread information and find sources, or as a news source by individuals. The quest for prominence and recognition on social media sites like Twitter can sometimes eclipse accuracy and lead to the spread of false information. As a way to study and react to this trend, we introduce TWITTERTRAILS, an interactive, web-based tool (twittertrails.com) that allows users to investigate the origin and propagation characteristics of a rumor and its refutation, if any, on Twitter. Visualizations of burst activity, propagation timeline, retweet and co-retweeted networks help its users trace the spread of a story. Within minutes TWITTERTRAILS will collect relevant tweets and automatically answer several important questions regarding a rumor: its originator, burst characteristics, propagators and main actors according to the audience. In addition, it will compute and report the rumor’s level of visibility and, as an example of the power of crowdsourcing, the audience’s skepticism towards it which correlates with the rumor’s credibility. We envision TWITTERTRAILS as valuable tool for individual use, but especially for amateur and professional journalists investigating recent and breaking stories. Further, its expanding collection of investigated rumors can be used to answer questions regarding the amount and success of misinformation on Twitter.
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Recently published UCLA-led research suggests that the disparity between Northern and Southern California wildfire increases is set to disappear, with Southern California facing significant increases in the number of high-risk wildfire days. Most of these additional high-risk days would manifest at the beginning and end of present-day wildfire season, making the season longer and more dangerous.
Researchers used two prediction scenarios to assess the extent of wildfire increases. The first was more extreme, with a predicted average temperature increase of almost 9 degrees Fahrenheit in Southern California. A realistic temperature assuming no significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are made, this would result in a doubling of the high-risk fire days. Even under a more conservative scenario, such as a temperature increase of 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, high-risk wildfire days are expected to increase an average of 60% each year by the end of the century.
Due to differences in conditions between Northern and Southern California, such as a greater forested area in the north and a larger population in the south, regionally and locally specific responses are needed to successfully prevent and mitigate wildfires. On a broader scale, cutting greenhouse gas emissions is critical. Chunyu Dong, the study’s lead author who conducted research for the study at UCLA while supported by a UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge grant, emphasized the urgency of the situation. “Carbon dioxide can stay in the environment for a long time. It will be too late when Southern California is struggling to battle with the endless fires.”
Learn more about the study, the researchers’ methods and the final results at UCLA Newsroom.
Chunyu Dong, UCLA Department of Geography, Sun Yat-sen University School of Civil Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory
A. Park Williams, UCLA Department of Geography, Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Gregory S. Okin, UCLA Department of Geography
Thomas W. Gillespie, UCLA Department of Geography
Yen-Heng Lin, UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Alex Hall, UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Glen M. MacDonald, UCLA Department of Geography
John T. Abatzoglou, UC Merced Management of Complex Systems Department
Kairong Lin, Sun Yat-sen University School of Civil Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory
Di Long, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering Department of Hydraulic Engineering
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James was so inspired by a Geography session on The Northern Lights that he started a story about them!
It was a dark night and everyone was sleeping. Only Jessie and Mike were awake. They saw the Northern Lights and they thought it was a rainbow in the sky. It was magical!
The colours were mixed and when they looked away and looked back again they had changed from red to blue and green to red.
Jessie and Mike were really surprised when they saw new colours like violet and cyan blue!
“It’s the first ever time to see a Northern Light in the sky.” Whispered Mike to Jessie.
“I know, but how did you know the name of it?” asked Jessie.
“In my school we’ve been learning about it!” said Mike.
“Maybe I should tell my teacher to teach us about Northern Lights!” said Jessie.
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Tips of How to Take Care of Diabetes
According to World Health Organization there were 463 million individuals with diabetes as per 2019 and the number is believed to rise by 2045 where they have projected to reach 700 million diabetic individuals. What is alarming is the ever-increasing worldwide prevalence of people with diabetes of individuals who are 18 years and above which rose from 4.7% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2019 with an estimated 1.6 million fatalities in 2016 which were as a result of diabetes while another 2.2 million deaths were diabetic related high blood sugar. Seeing such statistics can be heart wrenching particularly because diabetes is a non-communicable disease that mostly occurs due to our lifestyle behaviors such as poor diet, lack of physical activities, excessive drinking of alcohol. Furthermore, the burden caused by diabetes is another thing that can be overwhelming not only to the diabetic individual but to the family and relative of the patient mainly because sometimes diabetes causes blindness, stroke, lower limb amputation among other things leaving the patient dependent on others for survival. It is, therefore, important not only to the patient but also to the care providers to know the ideal ways of managing diabetic person because it can be overwhelming both emotionally and physically due to changes they have to adopt in managing diabetes. The blog provides you with some steps you can incorporate when providing care to a person with diabetes.
The first thing you need to do when your loved one is diagnosed with diabetes is to provide emotional support, they will most likely be overwhelmed and feeling sad. As part of listening to the diabetic patient make sure you give assurance that they can fully manage diabetes and they can live a long life as long as they follow the laid down instructions by health providers while still add that you will help the person in following the set guidelines.
You should help the diabetic person on how to manage stress. It is important to insist on the importance of a stress-free lifestyle because stress can interfere with the body to produce insulin which is the main cause of type 2 diabetes, show the person some ways to cope with stress such as yoga, deep breathing as well as good sleep.
Ensure you have a proper understanding of the symptoms of low blood sugar which may constitute dizziness, insomnia, mood change, confusion, hunger, seizures, etc and know how you can correct them for example give the diabetic person a glass of juice or a snack. This article has outlined some things you need to know when managing a diabetic person. | <urn:uuid:23e0a576-2fda-4e10-8e87-395931539198> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://dreambox-tools.info/practical-and-helpful-tips-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195745.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128184858-20201128214858-00616.warc.gz | en | 0.95856 | 498 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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William Secord explores the presentation of the dog, from its origins in Greek, Roman and later European art, to the remarkable paintings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to modern times. In this splendid work he traces the evolution of some fifty breeds, using carefully selected illustrations by outstanding nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, ranging from depictions of hounds and sporting dogs in the field to Victorian portraits of pampered pets and highly-bred favourites. From the diminutive chihuahua to the massive St Bernard, this fascinating account of most of the popular breeds provides an original and penetrating artistic record of mankind's faithful companions. It is also an invaluable reference work about the many superb painters who specialised in dog painting, providing an essential index for art historians, dealers and galleries requiring a directory of names and examples of the exponents of this popular genre.
"A 'must' for any collection featuring animal painting, and provides a survey of the dog as depicted in art from before the birth of Christ to modern times, around the world."
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Lightning is one of nature’s most spectacular and mysterious phenomena, yet there is much scientists still don’t know about it.
British researchers have found evidence that high-energy particles, which are blown toward Earth on the solar wind, play a role in triggering lightning on Earth.
These energized solar particles can travel from the sun at a rate as high as 800 kilometers per second, according to NASA.
The scientists from the University of Reading’s Department of Meteorology discovered a large and significant increase in lightning strikes across Europe for up to 40 days after solar winds struck our atmosphere.
The British study comes on the heels of a report released about a year ago by Russian researchers who found evidence that cosmic rays ‒ high-energy radiation generated by exploding stars deep in the universe that travel through the cosmos at the speed of light ‒ play a role in initiating lightning strikes.
Of course, the atmospheric conditions needed to produce lightning must first be present before it can be triggered either by cosmic rays, solar particles, or other phenomena, says the new study’s lead author, Chris Scott from the University of Reading.
While the specific mechanism behind the causes of lightning still remains a mystery, study scientists think the air’s electrical properties change when the charged solar particles hit the atmosphere.
The team’s research found the sun can generate particles that ‒ while not as energetic as cosmic rays ‒ are nonetheless able to penetrate our atmosphere, helping to enhance and speed the lightning process.
Solar wind is the continuous expulsion of material from the sun into space.
“It’s a bit like steam rising from a sauce-pan,” Scott said. “It’s the most energetic particles in the solar atmosphere that are able to escape and move out into space.”
He also suggested that if you think of the sun as a “leaky football,” it has various different jets that produce fast and relatively slower solar winds that can cause gusts and concentrations within the solar wind, all of which can intensity the sun’s magnetic field in space.
This concentration of the sun’s magnetic field also shields Earth from cosmic rays because they’re deflected by that magnetic field, which also accelerates the solar particles ahead of it in much the same way as a “surfer is accelerated by the wave he’s riding,” said Scott.
The research team noticed an increase in lightning when the streams of accelerated solar particles blew toward our planet.
They were able to make their findings after examining and analyzing lightning strike data from 2000 to 2005 recorded by the Met Office – the UK’s weather service – and its lightning detection system. They focused on lightning strikes that took place within a 500-kilometer radius in central England.
They compared that with data provided by NASA’S Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft, which has studied and measured the high energy particles contained within the solar wind since August 1997.
Scott and his team found that, for 40 days prior to the arrival of a solar wind at Earth, there was an average of 321 lightning strikes across the UK. But for the 40-day period after the arrival of the solar wind, that number increased to about 422. Their studies also revealed that the number of lightning strikes peaked between 12 and 18 days after the solar wind’s arrival.
The findings made by the researchers are outlined in a study published by the Institute of Physics journal Environmental Research Letters.Video from the University of Reading Explains Where Lightning Comes From | <urn:uuid:f8d49ca2-809e-4972-a031-9ed679c1b174> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2014/06/02/study-sun-plays-role-in-lightning-strikes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964364169.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20211209122503-20211209152503-00339.warc.gz | en | 0.942533 | 736 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Oil spills have had a devastating effect on the environment. After an oil spill companies face huge clean-up costs and major damage to their reputation which subsequently costs millions and millions of dollars. Past oil spills have been caused by damaged or faulty pipelines, oil tanker collisions, accidents or faults on oil rigs, human error and some have even occurred on purpose. Recovery time can be decades, for both the environment and the companies involved, highlighting the importance of effective spill prevention methods and quality parts, hoses and fittings.
Let’s look back through history at some of the biggest oil spills throughout the world.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – 2010
This massive oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the 20 th of April 2010. More than 2000 km of the US coastline from Texas to Florida was covered with oil when hundreds of millions of litres of oil was released after gas in the rig riser’s platform ignited. 11 workers were killed and another 17 were injured during this accident. BP was ordered to pay more than US$65 billion in compensation to those who’s lives were affected by the disaster.
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M/T Haven – 1991
When there were problems with a routine fuel transfer, a huge explosion on the M/T Haven ended with the tanker broken in two and sinking into Italian waters. Flames reached 100 metres into the air and six crew members died. Approximately 290,000 barrels leaked into the water, affecting the coasts of Italy and France for years to come.
Source: Romano Cagnoni/Getty Images
Kovla River Pipeline leak in Russia– 1983
Recorded as one of the biggest land oil spills in history, the Kovla River Pipeline was gigantic. In August 1983 the pipeline leaked more than 300 million litres into the surrounding streams and marshes devastating the local environment.
The Persian Gulf War oil spill – 1991
In January 1991 one of the largest oil spills occurred in the Persian Gulf, Kuwait. And it wasn’t an accident.
During the Gulf War Iraqi forces deliberately released hundreds of millions of litres of oil from the pipeline of Kuwait’s Sea Island terminal into the Persian Gulf to stop the coalition from landing on the shore. Some believe this to be the worst oil spill in history, and the fact that it was on purpose makes it even worse.
Source: Steve Gozzo
Ixotoc 1 – 2010
One of the biggest oil spills in history, a blowout on the exploratory oil well ‘Ixotoc 1’ caused a pressure imbalance that sent more than 3 million barrels of oil gushing into the ocean. Located in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil continued to leak into the ocean from June to March the next year and cost approximately US$283.9 million to clean up.
Source: The Office of Response and Restoration
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Knockalongy (Cnoc na Loinge, meaning “hill of the encampment”) is the highest of the Ox Mountains. At its peak it is 544m(1785ft) high.
At the base of Knockalongy is Lough Achree (Lake of the Heart), reportedly formed in 1490 by an earthquake and is reputed to be the youngest lake in Ireland. The following is an extract from the Annals of the Four Masters (The Irish annals are a unique collection of annual records made in the monasteries of Ireland of political, cultural, social, religious, climatic events and disasters that took place in Ireland between sixth and sixteenth centuries.) “There was an earthquake at Sliabh Gamh, by which a hundred persons were destroyed, among whom was the son of Manus Crossagh O’Hara. Many horses and cows were also killed by it, and much putrid fish was thrown up; and a lake, in which fish is now caught, sprang up in the place.” The earthquake is reported to have caused the deaths of more than 100 people and many livestock.
There is many stories around of how the lough got its name. One such story is…
“A long time ago there was a farmer with a beautiful white stallion. But the stallion was wild and could not be tamed, he kept breaking the farmer’s fences. Other farmers told him the horse should be killed, but he loved him, and could not bear to do this. Instead, he decided to let him free on the mountain above Lough Achree, which did not have that name in those days. Every day he would come out and see the horse in the distance (there is a distinct white outcrop half way up the cliff behind the lake). One day, he went to see the horse, but to his horror saw that he had only been looking at a rock of quartz. He climbed down to the lake to see his beloved horse had fallen down the cliff into the lake. All he could find was the mighty heart of the stallion floating on the surface. Since that day, the lake has been called Lough Achree, the lake of the heart.”
The more likely explanation of how the lough was formed is that it is a corrie. Corries are ice eroded hollows on the sides of mountains with an amphitheatre shape backed by the mountain cliffs. In this part of the world they usually face north-west or north because this is where conditions were at their coldest. The word ‘corrie’ comes from the Gaelic for a pot or cauldron, and these are the same feature as a ‘cirque’ in France, Switzerland etc. Very often the hollow bowl is filled with water to hold a small round ‘corrie lake’
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Morris looked at the candy.
He liked the gumdrops.
He said, “Give me some of those.”
The man said,
“They are one for a penny.
How much money do you have?”
Morris looked. He had six pennies.
“I have four pennies,” he said.
The man laughed. “You have six!
Can’t you count? Don’t you go to school?”
Morris asked, “What is school?”
The rest of the book answers this question, as Morris immediately heads off to school and learns lots of new things. Perhaps most importantly, by the end of the day he knows how to purchase the right amount of gumdrops.
Morris takes things very literally, and the resulting misunderstandings (like in the picture above) really tickle my youngest (who is getting ready to start school himself). This book also presents many opportunities for him to participate in the reading (for example, by counting Morris’ pennies).
Author: B. Wiseman
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How Parents & Coaches Can Help Create Great Youth Sport Programs
According to the 2020 ParticipAction Report Card, 77% of youth aged 5-19 participate in organized sport programs. As a sport community we recognize that youth may participate in many different sports – and that is a very good thing! We encourage the multi-sport model, although each sport may hold out hope that athletes will ultimately stick with their own program. As such we are disappointed, but not surprised, when athletes leave programs, assuming it is part of the transitory nature of youth sports. But what if there is more to an athlete’s decision when deciding whether to participate in or leave a sport program?
To quote John O’Sullivan, international bestselling author of Giving Youth Sports Back to Our Kids, “People do things because they get enjoyment from them, and stop doing them when they stop getting enjoyment from them.” We must acknowledge then that youth may leave our sport programs not just because of an affinity for another activity, but because they may no longer consider them fun. The obvious question then is, “How do we design sport programs that youth consider fun?”
Keys to a Great Youth Sport Program
Fortunately, Dr. Amanda Visek, a professor of Exercise Science, has done research on just this topic. In 2014, she published her research which aimed to determine what constituted “fun” in youth sports. After surveying athletes, parents, and coaches she determined that fun can be divided into 81 different factors.
The Top 5 Fun-Factors:
1) Trying one’s best
2) Respect from coach
3) Getting opportunities to compete
4) Playing well together as a team
5) Getting along with one’s teammates
Fun Factors that Rated Lower:
63) Playing in tournaments
66) Practicing with specialty coaches
67) Earning medals or trophies
73) Traveling to new places to compete
It’s clear from Visek’s research that the opportunity to train and compete in a positive environment is much more important to youth than winning or accolades. And yet, as adults, we can often mistake the order of these values when designing our programs and communicating with youth.
Speaking recently as part of the BC Athletics & Cycling BC Virtual Performance Summit, O’Sullivan discussed the RIVER concept, which stands for:
R – Relevant. Individuals feel they have a role and a reason why they are there.
I – Inspired. The sport environment creates enough of a challenge to motivate them as an athlete.
V – Validated. Individuals know that others will listen to what they have to share.
E – Empowered. Individuals are made to feel good about themselves.
R – Respected. Individuals are treated as a person first, rather than only as an athlete.
Having worked with sport programs at all levels in multiple countries, O’Sullivan noted that the programs which were most successful at retaining athletes were those whose members were able to “bathe in the RIVER”. In this acronym we see the importance for coaches to create a positive sport environment.
The Parents Role
The role of the parent is just as important in creating this positive environment. O’Sullivan also shared that, when surveyed about their worst memory from youth sport, the #1 response from athletes was the ride home. He found that the biggest issue was that the parents didn’t fully consider the emotions of the child before having conversations about the sporting event. He advises parents and coaches to allow the youth to direct the conversation during the post-game/activity period. If they want to discuss the competition, great! If not, that is also fine. Whenever the discussion does occur, parents should try to stick to these three questions:
- What went well?
- What needs work?
- What did you learn?
Sticking to consistent questions, helps alleviate concerns youth may have that a parent’s approval is based upon their performance. If a parent is interested in branching out, another set of statements recommended, were:
Before the Competition:
- Play hard
- Have fun
- I love you
After the Competition:
- Did you have fun?
- I'm proud of you
- I love you
Having fun is important if we want to keep youth involved in our sport programs! Evaluate your clubs programs and ask yourself, “Are we offering something youth consider fun?” If yes, awesome; you’re doing a great job! If not, that’s okay. Take the opportunity to review the factors youth value and make those the foundation of your clubs programs.
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On todays episode we are going to talk about pruning peppers or capsicum and the benefits.
Before we get to the pruning lets go through some of the basics of starting and growing peppers.
It is important to start your peppers early enough in the house to allow them to gain sufficient size prior to going outside.
Traditionally with my last frost in early May so I start my peppers in December and January.
Anecdotally I have noticed the hotter the pepper the longer it takes to grow so the earlier I will start them.
Growing peppers indoors can be down a few ways.
I grow my the peppers under florescent lights while indoors. It is generally fairly easy to do with a cost effective grow light set up you can find at any hardware store.
Or you can us an unobstructed south facing window.
Growing with CFL: http://youtu.be/g2UZc1j0rkc
Lighting Technologies: http://youtu.be/CU3NhvUusp4
Using a soil mixture made with a healthy compost or worm castings will provide most of the nutrients your plants required while growing inside greatly reducing any external fertilizer needs.
Potting soil: http://youtu.be/iJ0mPsexOQw
Pruning your pepper plants provides a number of benefits including:
Stronger Larger Plants able to resit damage and disease while holding crops
Larger Crops that are ready faster and produce later in to the season
Growing more consistently in exotic areas like low gardening zones
In my case last year my plants survived unsupported severe storms fully loaded.
I was able to harvest less than 4 weeks after planting that was more than double the crops of unpruned counterparts and I had a very successful bumper crop.
Although drastic pruning is simple
let my plants get to the point where they have hit sexual maturity and is producing flowers or is 15cm or 6 inches tall. You might notice the plant has begun to fork by itself prior to pruning. I still recommend pruning them as it will help improve the plants sturdiness by lowering its centre of gravity increasing its ability to carry more peppers to maturity.
The pruning is simple. Find the lowest pair of true leaves. At the junction of the leaf and the main stalk you will often see the beginnings of new leaves. Using sharp pruners cut 1 cm or 1/4 inch above the joint.
Once you have pruned the plant will be forced to grow two new main stalks from the initial leaves you saw. The main stalk will thicken as a response improving the plants ability to hold additional weight.
The process of being pruned will activate the peppers stress response accelerating its growth and within a week or two you should see strong growth of the two new side shoots.
Removing the flowers will help focus the plants energy into vegetative growth rather then trying to produce fruit.
This process can be repeated as many times as you like to achieve the size and strength of plant you wish.
Make sure to remove any branches that cross back towards the centre to avoid shading issues.
If you live in an area with a season that is much longer than the “days to harvest or ripeness” found on the seed package you can prune them once outside.
I do not prune my peppers once outside. In my area on a good year I have 120 days frost free the recovery time from pruning although short would severely cut into my already short season.
I have noticed medium bodied varieties that are around the 100 day mark to harvest produce well for me.
Generally i will stop pruning 6 – 8 weeks prior to my last frost date. This gives the plant time to put on vegetative growth prior to transitioning into the garden. I have noticed in years past once I have let the plant produce peppers there is very limited vegetative growth.
You will need to harden off your plants before planting outside by slowly exposing your plants to more sun once the threat of frost has past. This process usually takes 2-3 weeks.
Find the place in your garden that gets the most direct sunlight and is unlikely to be shaded. Peppers are tropical plants and will do better with a lot of direct light and a good warm soil temperature.
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|Rutgers "Gliding" Robot (Rutgers U. photo)|
More on the journey at Flight Across the Atlantic - Scarlet Knight. What's an underwater "glider?" As explained on the Rutgers' web site:
Most underwater vehicles, like submarines, use a spinning propeller to move around in the water. Propeller driven vehicles are fast, but they also require a lot of energy to maintain their speed. Smaller vehicles like the glider only carry enough battery power to drive a propeller for a few days at most.
Instead, underwater gliders move around by changing their buoyancy, that is they change their density such that they alternate between more dense and less dense than the surrounding ocean water. This change in buoyancy causes the glider to rise and sink in the ocean. The glider changes its density by moving a small piston forward and back that increases and decreases its volume. You may remember that you can calculate the density of an object by taking its mass and dividing that by the object's volume. Since the mass of the glider remains constant, all we need to do is change its volume. A small change in volume (about a half cup of water) is all the glider needs to change its density enough to rise and sink in the ocean.
As the glider goes up and down, its wings give it a forward motion just like the wings on an airplane glider, which is why these robots are also called gliders. But airplane gliders can only "glide" as they fall downwards due to gravity. Underwater gliders can glide forward both as they rise and fall.
|Path of the "Scarlet Knight" (Rutgers U. image)|
The Rutgers University site has video, photos and much more about this historic effort.
According to the Smithsonian Institute, the glider will be on display in the Sant Ocean Hall, Natural History Museum, Washington until mid-2012.
NOAA reports that some of the technology demonstrated during the mission was deployed during the Gulf Oil Spill:
“Gliders sample the ocean in places it is impractical to send people and at a fraction of the cost,” said Zdenka Willis, director of the U.S. IOOS Program. “Using robots to collect scientific data is the wave of the future in terms of ocean observing.”Now, that's a science project.
Gliders collect data such as temperature, salinity, currents and density that describe conditions below the surface of the sea and at varying depths.
As part of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill response effort, IOOS partners deployed a fleet of gliders equipped with sensors to help indicate the presence of oil. Although scientists must still confirm the oil through water sampling, the gliders narrowed the search zone for subsurface oil.
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There’s a new report today about how screening prevents colorectal cancer deaths – and that is very good news.
And AICR adds more good news to that – we know that limiting red meat to less than 18 oz. (cooked) per week and avoiding processed meat are proven ways to lower risk for colorectal cancer.
What do we mean by “processed meat”?
AICR/WCRF expert report and its updates defines processed meat as “meat preserved by smoking, curing or salting, or addition of chemical preservatives.” Ham, bacon, pastrami, sausages, hot dogs and luncheon meats are all considered processed meat.
It’s not yet clear exactly why these meats increase risk for colorectal cancer. It may be the added nitrites and nitrates, salt, or high temperatures used in some processing, or the heme iron in red meat.
Does this include nitrate and nitrite free turkey or chicken lunch meats and sausage? At this point we need studies that distinguish between nitrate/nitrite-free processed poultry and the typical hot dogs and luncheon meats with added nitrates and nitrites. These products are relatively new, so we need studies that make these distinctions.
So, for now, save processed meats for special occasions and choose fresh meats most of the time. The pictures above show the least processed chicken – roasted chicken – to more processed meats – chicken nuggets (added fat, salt and breading) and chicken sausage (typically added salt, fat and nitrates).
For more on how to lower risk for colorectal cancer see the latest from the AICR/WCRF expert report continuous update here.
Visit AICR Healthy Recipes for delicious recipes for chicken, fish, beef and pork.
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What has determined the open space configuration in twentieth century British and American new town plans? Where is the open space, how is it used, and to what extent have open space and landscape been determinants of urban form? Does open space planning in the twentieth century reflect earlier traditions? These are the questions examined in this thesis.
An introductory chapter surveys traditions of open space planning in urban areas. The body of the thesis is a series of eight case studies, chosen to represent seventy-five years of new town planning. In Britain, the towns are: Letchworth, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Harlow, Cumbernauld, and Milton Keynes; in America, the towns are Greenbelt and Columbia, Maryland. New town plans, writings of their designers, developers or managers, works of critics and researchers, and my personal observations constitute the sources.
Each case study is set in its broader historical context, with emphasis on planning principles. The studies include descriptions of the site, plan elements, major open space and landscape features and activities observed in them, and analysis of individual town problems. Photos and plan diagrams accompany the text.
The concluding chapter summarizes those attitudes toward nature, uses of open space, and design techniques from earlier traditions that are reflected in new town plans. Features that have remained constant during the seventy-five year period are identified. Among evolutionary features, it is observed that the use of open space as an urban form determinant has been superseded in recent plans by transportation elements, and that the relationship between town and country has changed from functional to symbolic.
The thesis makes the following recommendations for future new towns:
---In order to allow contact with real nature, a deep "greenside" rather than a narrow greenbelt ringing the town, should be provided by subsidies, greenbelt legislation, land use controls, and coordinated planning;
---A variety of linked open spaces within the town should function as a foot and cycle transportation network and should allow for a variety of experiences including daily contact with a microcosm of nature;
---Housing clusters in small neighborhoods excluding through traffic should be linked by pathways to open spaces and flexible facilities;
---In dense housing areas, freely available open spaces should be provided close to home for uses where privacy is not essential; where privacy is desirable, protection may be afforded by screening and staggered building forms;
---In order to increase the urbanity of new town centers, pathways should be used to bring people there on foot and cycle, and a broader age mix should be attracted with denser housing forms for older people and childless young people;
---Despite the appeal of "flexibility", open space should continue to serve as a determinant of urban form.
Level of Degree
School of Architecture and Planning
First Committee Member (Chair)
Richard Alan Anderson
Second Committee Member
William Rogers Gafford
Third Committee Member
Fourth Committee Member
Don Paul Schlegel
Hufbauer, Carolyn Revelle. "Evolution Of Open Space Planning In New Towns." (1975). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arch_etds/184 | <urn:uuid:7c432172-026d-4680-a1d7-599b468b21cf> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arch_etds/184/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100135.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129173017-20231129203017-00737.warc.gz | en | 0.907074 | 640 | 2.546875 | 3 |
223.682.01 CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS OF TROPICAL DISEASES
Discusses major parasitic, viral, and bacterial diseases of developing countries. Presents clinical aspects of the disease, including diagnosis and treatment, and epidemiological aspects.
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Discuss the major infectious diseases that are prevalent and of public health importance in tropical and developing countries.
the clinical presentations of many of the tropical diseases of public health importance, including their modes of transmission, geographic distribution, means of diagnosis and modes of treatment
the resources available for gathering information on other tropical diseases not covered in the course
the general recommendations for travelers visiting developing countries where transmission of tropical diseases is a risk
- Tuesday 1:30 - 2:50
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:50
Understanding of basic biomedical concepts and terminology | <urn:uuid:7030d330-499d-47ab-abd2-7216d9e47528> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.jhsph.edu/courses/course/223.682/01/2012/16791/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535922087.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909045701-00244-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88963 | 183 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Raising healthy babies is the desire of all young parents, but stunting has overshadowed their growth. What are the causes of stunted growth in infants?
First of all, maternal adverse factors in early pregnancy and perinatal period.
Early pregnant mothers are infected with rubella, cytomegalovirus, toxoplasma herpes simplex virus and other viruses, which can affect the development of fetal brain, heart and other key organs. In addition, premature birth, low birth weight, birth trauma, traumatic brain injury, perinatal or postnatal ischemia and hypoxia can also damage brain tissue and cause developmental disorders.
The second is the cause of the infant's own disease pku diet.
Phenylketonuria, galactosemia, endocrine diseases and other childhood diseases can also affect intellectual development. There are also congenital hydrocephalus, brain malformations, neural tube insufficiency and other brain tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, congenital brain malformations or genetic syndromes. Chromosomal disorders such as congenital stupidity. Mental illnesses, such as infant autism, childhood schizophrenia, etc., can affect the growth and development of infants.
The third is the environment and nutrition.
First, natural environment factors, then social and family factors such as economy, culture, and family hygiene. Therefore, we should also pay attention to the possible effects of the surrounding living environment on the fetus during pregnancy. Secondly, in the fetal period, the mother is malnourished in the uterus, the baby lacks protein and heat energy after birth, and the lack of trace elements such as iron, zinc, and iodine will affect the development of the child's body and nervous system.
A diet with low phe levels must exclude foods with high phe content. These foods, which include milk, dairy items, meat, fish, chicken, eggs, beans, and nuts, are high in protein. For those with PKU, these foods result in elevated blood phe levels.
Two boys (5.71%) aged 16 and 13 who were among the 35 patients who received a late diagnosis of autism. Although the prevalence appears to be relatively low, the current investigation demonstrates that classical PKU is one of the causes of autism.
A low-protein diet that fully forbids high-protein foods (including meat, eggs, and dairy products) and restricts the use of numerous other items, such potatoes and cereals, is the principal treatment for PKU.
How can I get rid of my sagging stomach skin?
- Jan 05,2023
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- Oct 14,2022
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- Dec 27,2022
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The optimism typically found in the International Energy Agency's annual World Energy Outlook report is strangely missing this year. Instead, the IEA is taking a far more sober perspective on the world's oil-consuming future due to our ever-greater reliance on costly unconventional oil sources.
Output from currently producing fields is projected to fall precipitously, looking ironically like the steeply declining trajectory of peak oil's Hubbert curve. (I say ironically because the IEA has historically denied the existence of peak oil.) According to the report, by 2035 three-quarters of currently operating oil fields won't be producing anymore. In fact, current fields are only expected to account for less than one-fifth of that year's production.
That leaves over 80 per cent of the IEA's 2035 production projection coming from new oil fields, ones that either haven't yet been developed or haven't even been discovered. And the contribution from that undiscovered category alone is still far greater than the one from currently producing fields. That's a tall order for new field discovery.
Undeveloped or undiscovered oil fields, growth in oil sands production and increased reliance on natural-gas liquids account for all the expected growth in world oil production over the next two and a half decades. Curiously absent from this list is any contribution from conventional oil production-you know, the type you can afford to burn in your car, the type the global economy can afford to use to power transoceanic trade? According to IEA projections, it now appears that the production of conventional oil peaked-dare I say it?-back in 2006.
Of course that doesn't mean the world is literally running out of oil, as the World Energy Outlook emphasizes with its forecast of ever-greater reliance on unconventional oil resources. But for these resources to become legitimate reserves, they have to be accessed at prices consumers can afford to pay. Yet even the IEA acknowledges that oil prices as high as $200 per barrel will be needed to make these resources economically viable in the future.
And therein lies the greatest weakness of their projections. The agency's forecast rightly projects that oil prices will soon rise to triple-digit range-albeit nowhere near the pace that would be required to drive their supply forecast for robust growth in the use of unconventional oil. But nowhere is there any appreciation for what that would mean for world economic growth.
The global economy experienced its most severe post-war recession after its brief initial encounter with the very same prices that are now being forecast for our oil-consuming future. And that recession occurred despite the mitigation of record fiscal stimulus and bailouts that have left countries like Ireland bankrupt and may potentially threaten the solvency of creditor countries like the UK.
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Mine Waste Has Great CO2 Storage Potential
A mining engineer and geologist says it’s time to economically value the greenhouse gas-trapping potential of mine waste and start making money from it.
Michael Hitch, mining engineer and geologist at the University of British Columbia, studies the value of mine waste rock for its CO2-sequestration potential (SP). Hitch says mining companies across Canada will be able to offset CO2 emissions with SP rock in the future, and could even be selling emissions credits within 25 years.
Digging, trucking, and processing make mining an energy-intensive industry that emits greenhouse gases. However, mine waste rock that is rich in the mineral magnesium silicate has an inherent ability to react with CO2 and chemically "fix" it in place as magnesium carbonate—an ability that can be greatly enhanced with some processing. Hitch and his colleagues note that this capacity for CO2fixation can be five to ten times greater than total greenhouse gas production from some mine operations.
Two of the team's primary goals are to measure the rate of CO2 fixation in mine waste rock and tailings in a lab setting and to speed up the process. Team members have already observed that CO2 fixation is greatly accelerated in mine tailings, presumably due mainly to the large surface area exposed and available to react after rocks are crushed into small particles.
Hitch is working on this problem alongside researchers Greg Dipple, team lead, and Ulrich Mayer, both of UBC's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, and Gordon Southam, with the University of Western Ontario's Department of Earth Science. Hitch's lab is currently grinding rock and pre-treating the material in order to change its physical and chemical properties. Dipple's group will then examine the material's ability to fix CO2. The collaborating researchers hope to move to field trials in five years.
Another important goal is to use computer modeling to predict the sequestration potential of rocks at specific mining sites. To that end, Hitch is designing a way to use mining planning software to put a dollar value on the amount of SP rock that could be obtained at particular locations.
The safe storage of CO2 in mine waste and tailings for thousands of years is an exciting idea that could refresh the public image of the mining industry. One day, Hitch and his colleagues add, research findings from mining could even be applied to CO2 sequestration projects underground and in marine basins. | <urn:uuid:c987b8c2-5e63-46b1-9fc1-cd385b752af2> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://eponline.com/articles/2012/11/15/mine-waste-has-great-co2-storage-potential.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991685.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20210512070028-20210512100028-00507.warc.gz | en | 0.950282 | 502 | 3.296875 | 3 |
The Weight Bias: An Empirical Study of Body Size and Basket Healthiness on Consumer Helping Behaviors Toward Thin, Average, and Obese Shoppers (Abstract)
- First Online:
- Cite this paper as:
- Nichols B.S., Raska D. (2017) The Weight Bias: An Empirical Study of Body Size and Basket Healthiness on Consumer Helping Behaviors Toward Thin, Average, and Obese Shoppers (Abstract). In: Stieler M. (eds) Creating Marketing Magic and Innovative Future Marketing Trends. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer, Cham
Obesity is a leading health crisis in the United States; however, there is almost no research in the arena of obesity within the social space of a retail environment. While some studies examine prejudices toward thin and obese people in general, there are no studies that investigate how shoppers judge one another based on body size. This is an important aspect of consumer behavior as consumer interactions are relevant criteria for determining customer satisfaction (Huang and Hsu 2009). We attempt to bridge this gap in research and provide initial empirical insights into how brand attitudes and the emotional response people have toward other shoppers are affected by other shoppers’ body size (thin, average, obese) and their shopping basket (healthy, unhealthy).
The results of this study should be taken as a starting point to further delve into the nuances of shopper appearance in the retail domain. Specifically, body image and the “weight bias” are an important signal in the eyes of consumers who share retail space. It seems that the weight bias is not only reserved for the obese—but should be applied to those viewed as “too thin.” This study highlights how emotional responses to shoppers can vary based on both body type and the composition of the shopping basket. This is important since shopping scenarios almost always include more cues about a person than merely appearance. Results also suggest that brand attitudes can be negatively influenced by weight biases; however, we only found this to prevail for thin shoppers purchasing unhealthy items. Brand attitudes were unaffected by the obese shopper, which seems contradictory to previous studies about the weight bias. A deeper investigation into this finding is needed. | <urn:uuid:2651e279-d81d-4e38-8fb1-aec9d71257b9> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45596-9_8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607704.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523221821-20170524001821-00530.warc.gz | en | 0.929467 | 465 | 2.53125 | 3 |
President Bush visited the Housing and Urban Development headquarters—the first president to do so since LBJ—in June 2002 to announce a housing policy goal: 5.5 million more minority homeowners by the end of the decade. His motivation was the wide disparity between white and minority homeownership. The national homeownership rate stood at a record of 67.7 percent. The rate for whites was about 75 percent; the rate for minority households, less than half. There were obvious explanations for part of the disparity, at least: differences in income, in the age distribution, in the proportion of households consisting of married couples. But Bush wanted to try to close the racial and ethnic gap.
Halfway through that eight-year period, half the goal has been achieved. As of June, there are over 2.7 million more minority homeowners than there were at the time of the HUD speech. Moreover, the racial disparity has been narrowing. The homeownership rate is up by almost three percentage points for minorities, compared to one percentage point for whites, according to the Census Bureau.
Although every large minority group has seen gains, Hispanic families constitute the largest share of the increase, with about 1.3 million more homeowners. The homeownership rate among Hispanic households has risen from 46 percent to almost 50 percent. This is particularly impressive, given the great wave of immigration in the last 15 years. Throughout our history, most immigrants have started out as renters, and have taken a number of years to build up the assets and establish the credit history they need to buy a home. During the 1990s, almost half of all immigrants were Hispanic; by 2000, those recent immigrants represented about 18 percent of all Hispanic Americans. They should have been enough to pull down the total Hispanic homeownership rate; but instead the rate has been increasing.
Most major economic trends are driven primarily by market forces, and the growth in minority homeownership is no exception. The long period of low mortgage rates certainly helped families buy homes. Also, the technological revolution has come to the mortgage market. There are now standard sources of credit information and credit rating scores. Lenders use these new sources of information to better evaluate risk. Bush deserves part of the credit as well, both for his general economic policy and his specific homeownership initiatives. The tax cuts have left middle-income families with more after-tax income to make mortgage payments, and made it easier for them to save for a down payment. Within HUD, the FHA home mortgage insurance program— traditionally the federal government’s most important program for helping young families buy their first home—has also taken advantage of the new technology to develop a better risk measure for its high-risk borrowers. Over the last five years, FHA’s TOTAL (Technology Open To All Lenders) Scorecard has enabled it reach farther down in the mortgage default risk spectrum, with assurance that it can identify more families who can be successful first-time homebuyers and homeowners. The smaller rural homeownership program at the Agriculture Department has now developed its own version, building off FHA’s work.
Between them, FHA, Agriculture, and the VA mortgage guarantee program have accounted for a quarter of all minority first-time buyers since 2002.
There have been other initiatives. Bush has requested, and Congress has approved, doubling the funds for housing counseling, from $20 million in 2001 to over $40 million annually since 2004. The money goes to some 350 housing counseling agencies, and enables them to provide advice to over 500,000 families each year. The impetus for this increase comes from research at both FHA and Freddie Mac about the cost-effectiveness of counseling. Outside the housing world, the minority homeownership goal has not attracted much media coverage. Nor has the President’s overall housing agenda, which he has been pushing since his first presidential campaign. In the aftermath of the successful 1996 welfare reform, as former welfare recipients became permanent members of the labor force, Bush saw homeownership as their next step into the middle class, certifying their new status and starting them on the path to building wealth. He developed several specific proposals, and he talked about them. During the spring of 2000, he gave three speeches on housing, in Battle Creek, Detroit, and Cleveland; they all received only local coverage. He included one of his proposals in his convention acceptance speech—making it easier for families who receive rental housing assistance to use it toward a down payment on a house; it didn’t get picked up. His website included an easily-located, exhaustive description of his full homeownership agenda. (For that matter, Vice President Gore had quite a bit to say about housing, mostly about “smart growth,” and that was ignored as well.) Housing was only mentioned in the national media in stories about how housing wasn’t an issue.
As president, Bush has referred to his homeownership proposals in several State of the Union speeches, in his 2004 convention acceptance speech, and in his second inaugural address in 2005—in each case, again, with no media attention. Meanwhile, the overall national homeownership rate has kept rising (it’s now 68.7 percent), and close to three million more minority families now own their own homes. Unless you’re a housing maven, you would never know it. | <urn:uuid:a919343f-b1d0-40d4-bcb1-18003e423d75> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.hudson.org/research/4240-closing-the-gap-the-quiet-success-of-the-bush-administration-s-push-for-minority-home-ownership | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187828189.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20171024071819-20171024091819-00292.warc.gz | en | 0.980111 | 1,086 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The Union of Concerned Scientists maintains a database that tracks every satellite in earth’s orbit. As of December 31, 2015 there were 1,304 objects being tracked. The data art in this piece represents these satellites. When layered on top of each other, the seven individual satellite clusters at the bottom of the canvas, grouped by launch years, create the primary visualization you see in the center. Each satellite was painstakingly and meticulously hand placed by data artist Brandon Muth, without the assistance of any automated visualization software. | <urn:uuid:ace6d920-36fc-4260-9376-8ea07fc1a41f> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://www.brandonmuth.com/product/all-1304-satellites-in-orbit-at-end-of-2015/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689975.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924100541-20170924120541-00260.warc.gz | en | 0.942496 | 105 | 2.625 | 3 |
Detroit: Engine of America
By R.J. King
This is the story of how, starting in 1701, a crude French settlement along the Detroit River became, in 1900, the birthplace of the automotive industry. Forging the first industrial powerhouse wasn’t easy. Scant inbound supplies from the English colonies took months, if they arrived at all. The first 100 inhabitants led by explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, with the guidance of Native American tribes, built a fledgling economy of fishing, farming, and hunting, the latter propelled mightily by the fur trade. As the populace sputtered and grew, they developed the machinery and skilled trades that produced in volume wagons, stagecoaches, steamships, hearths, locomotives, boxcars, furniture, stoves, equipment, marine engines, pharmaceutical drugs, and finally, the horseless carriage. Detroit’s grit and brawn ignited what is the first city in the Midwest, ingenuity and self-sufficiency thrust it on the world stage. | <urn:uuid:af82c3ac-f807-44c8-9405-721595ca98b0> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://www.momentumbooks.com/product/detroit-engine-of-america/?add-to-cart=291 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514575402.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190922073800-20190922095800-00244.warc.gz | en | 0.926259 | 212 | 2.8125 | 3 |
A high-fiber diet may reduce the risk of dementia: Study
Fiber is known for keeping your digestive system healthy and lowering cholesterol levels. Now, study findings suggest it also may protect the brain from dementia.
The study involved approximately 3,700 healthy adults, ages 40 to 64, who completed routine dietary surveys for 16 years.
Researchers then monitored the participants for two decades to see which ones developed dementia. The study revealed that people who consumed the most daily fiber had the lowest rates of dementia.
The reverse also was true — those who ate the least fiber had the highest rates. Specifically, the low-risk group consumed an average of 20 grams daily, while those with the highest risk averaged only 8 grams. (The USDA recommends that men over age 50 eat 30 grams of fiber daily.)
The researchers speculated that several mechanisms could be at play. For instance, fiber-rich diets help lower weight and blood pressure, changes that protect against vascular dementia (a decline in thinking skills caused by reduced blood flow to the brain).
Fiber also increases good bacteria in the gut, which might reduce brain inflammation via a connection called the brain-gut axis. The study only showed an association and cannot prove that differences in dietary fiber were responsible for changes in the risk of dementia.
But, it highlights another way diet might support brain health. The results were published online Feb. 6, 2022, by Nutritional Neuroscience.
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The Computer History Museum announced this week that the source code to the original version of Adobe Photoshop would be made freely available.
Version 1.0.1 dates from 1990, and is written in a combination of Pascal and 68000 assembler language, the museum said in a blog post. It's identical to what originally went on sale at the time, with the exception of the MacApp applications library, which was licensed from Apple for the retail version.
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The ubiquitous image editing software began life as "Display" in 1987. It was the brainchild of University of Michigan grad student Thomas Knoll, whose brother, John, worked at well-known special effects company Industrial Light and Magic. John and Thomas eventually developed "Display" into its eventual commercial "Photoshop" form. Adobe bought a distribution license in April 1989, though the first company to distribute the software was actually Barneyscan, a maker of slide scanners, the museum says.
Software architect Grady Booch, a Computer History Museum trustee and chief scientist for software engineering at IBM's Almaden labs, said that Photoshop is still a truly impressive feat of programming.
"This is the kind of code I aspire to write," he told the museum, comparing his dive back into the source code for Photoshop to Howard Carter entering Tutankhamen's tomb.
"The abstractions are quite mature. The consistent naming, the granularity of methods, the almost breathtaking simplicity of the implementations because each type was so well abstracted, all combine to make it easy to discern the texture of the system," Booch said.
The code can be downloaded in a .zip folder about 588KB in size. The archive contains 179 individual items, adding up to 128,000-odd lines of code, by the museum's count.
Despite the price tag of $0, the release isn't exactly open source -- there's an extensive license agreement you have to accept before the museum will let you download the code. For those interested in a look into software history, however, it's likely a small price to pay.
Email Jon Gold at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter at @NWWJonGold.
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Acoustics is the science that studies sound, in particular its production, transmission, and effects.
Ada Programming is a tutorial teaching the Ada programming language. Ada puts unique emphasis on, and provides strong support for, good software engineering practices that scale well to very large software systems (millions of lines of code, and very large development teams).
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book is an unofficial instructor's guide for teaching Adventist Youth (AY) Honors to members of Pathfinder Clubs and Adventist Youth Societies. Pathfinders and Adventist Youth are youth clubs operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Algorithms book aims to be an accessible introduction into the design and analysis of efficient algorithms.
The Advanced Certificate and the Advanced Diploma in Applications of ICT in Libraries permit library staff to obtain accreditation for their skills in the use of ICT. Anyone can make use of the materials and assessment is available in variety of modes, including distance learning.
Arimaa is a two-player 8*8 board game with simple rules, but a much larger selection of moves than chess. Due to this, it is usually impossible for a computer to precisely calculate a position several turns ahead. Until 2015, the best human players consistently outperformed the best Arimaa bots.
The Basic Computing Using Windows book introduces the reader to a Windows PC environment.
Nuclear Medicine is a fascinating application of nuclear physics. The first ten chapters of this wikibook are intended to support a basic introductory course in an early semester of an undergraduate program. Additional chapters cover more advanced topics in this field.
Blended learning is combining the best of face to face and Web-based technology (e.g., online discussions, self-paced instruction, collaborative learning, streaming video, audio, and text) to accomplish an educational goal.
Blender 3D is a cross-platform, open source 3D modeling and animation package. It can be used to create photo-realistic images, animated films, CGI special effects and computer games. This book provides an excellent collection of tutorials to help you learn to model, render, rig, animate, and create with Blender 3D. You will be turned from a newbie to a pro in minutes!
The C# Programming Language is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of the .NET initiative. This book will discuss and explain this powerful language.
Chess is an ancient strategy game for two players. In this book, not only will you learn to play chess, but you will also master it. This book is great for beginners, but also for anyone else interested in chess - even a chess master.
Cognitive Psychology is a psychological science which is interested in various mind and brain related subfields such as cognition, the mental processes that underlie behavior, reasoning and decision making.
Communication Theory is about transmitting information from one person to another and the ways in which individuals and groups use the technologies of communication.
Everyone has his or her own view of the nature of consciousness. The intention of Consciousness Studies is to expand this view by providing an insight into the various ideas and beliefs on the subject as well as a review of current work in neuroscience.
Control Systems is an inter-disciplinary engineering text that analyzes the effects and interactions of mathematical systems. This book is for third and fourth year undergraduates in an engineering program.
Spice up your life with the Cookbook, which has all kinds of recipes, plus information about nutrition, ingredients, cuisines, special diets, and more!
Engineering Acoustics is the study of the generation and manipulation of sound waves, from an engineering perspective. Requires knowledge of Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations.
From Rome to the present day, European History is a sweeping textbook of the continent's history placed in its proper context. Designed for AP European History students.
First Aid covers all topics required for a standard first aid course. The basics covered include: primary assessment, circulatory & respiratory emergencies, internal injuries, and medical conditions. The chapter on advanced topics covers AED operation, oxygen, airway management, and triage.
Formal Logic is a study of inference with purely formal content. The first rules of formal logic were written over 2300 years ago by Aristotle and are still vital to many modern disciplines like Linguistics and Computer Science.
The Guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is played in many different styles of Western music. This book provides lessons on playing styles and techniques.
Haskell is a lazy functional programming language with a state of the art type system. This tutorial aims to be friendly enough for new programmers, yet deep enough to challenge the most experienced. | <urn:uuid:b234a7c7-871d-499d-9e73-de7a5d4c2e84> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page/test | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945143.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20180421110245-20180421130245-00502.warc.gz | en | 0.929973 | 977 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, literature, religion and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD. A practitioner of the discipline is an "Egyptologist". In Europe on the Continent, Egyptology is regarded as being a philological discipline, while in North America it is regarded as a branch of archaeology; the first explorers were the ancient Egyptians themselves. Thutmose IV restored the Sphinx and had the dream that inspired his restoration carved on the famous Dream Stele. Less than two centuries Prince Khaemweset, fourth son of Ramesses II, is famed for identifying and restoring historic buildings and temples including the pyramid; some of the first historical accounts of Egypt were given by Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus and the lost work of Manetho, an Egyptian priest, during the reign of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC. The Ptolemies were much interested in the work of the ancient Egyptians, many of the Egyptian monuments, including the pyramids, were restored by them.
The Romans carried out restoration work in Egypt. Throughout the Middle Ages travelers on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land would deviate to visit sites within Egypt, which would include Cairo and its environs, where the Holy Family was thought to have fled, the great Pyramids, which were thought to be Joseph's Granaries, built by the Hebrew patriarch to store grain during the years of plenty. A number of their accounts have survived and offer insights as to conditions in their respective time periods. Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi, a teacher at Cairo's Al-Azhar University in the 13th century, wrote detailed descriptions on ancient Egyptian monuments; the 15th-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi wrote detailed accounts of Egyptian antiquities. European exploration and travel writings of ancient Egypt commenced from the 13th century onward, with only occasional detours into a more scientific approach, notably by Claude Sicard, Benoît de Maillet, Frederic Louis Norden and Richard Pococke. In the early 17th century, John Greaves measured the pyramids, having inspected the broken Obelisk of Domitian in Rome destined for the Earl of Arundel's collection in London.
He went on to publish the illustrated Pyramidographia in 1646, while the Jesuit scientist-priest Athanasius Kircher was the first to hint at the phonetic importance of Egyptian hieroglyphs, demonstrating Coptic as a vestige of early Egyptian, for which he is considered a "founder" of Egyptology. In the late 18th century, with Napoleon's scholars' recording of Egyptian flora and history, the study of many aspects of ancient Egypt became more scientifically oriented; the British gained the Rosetta Stone. Modern Egyptology is perceived as beginning about 1822. Egyptology's modern history begins with the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon Bonaparte; the subsequent publication of Mémoires sur l'Égypte in 1800, Description de l'Égypte between 1809 and 1829 made numerous ancient Egyptian source materials available to Europeans for the first time. Jean-François Champollion, Thomas Young and Ippolito Rosellini were some of the first Egyptologists of wide acclaim; the German Karl Richard Lepsius was an early participant in the investigations of Egypt.
Champollion announced his general decipherment of the system of Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time, employing the Rosetta Stone as his first aid. The Stone's decipherment was a significant development of Egyptology. With subsequently ever-increasing knowledge of Egyptian writing and language, the study of Ancient Egyptian civilisation was able to proceed with greater academic rigour and with all the added impetus that comprehension of the written sources was able to engender. Egyptology became more professional via work of William Matthew Flinders Petrie, among others. Petrie introduced techniques of field preservation and excavating. Howard Carter's expedition brought much acclaim to the field of Egyptology. Many educated amateurs now travelled to Egypt, including women such as Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale. Who both left accounts of their travels, which revealed learned familiarity with all the latest European Egyptology. In the modern era, the Ministry of State for Antiquities controls excavation permits for Egyptologists to conduct their work.
The field can now use geophysical methods and other applications of modern sensing techniques to further Egyptology. Egyptology was established as an academic discipline through the research of Emmanuel de Rougé in France, Samuel Birch in England, Heinrich Brugsch in Germany. In 1880, Flinders Petrie, another British Egyptologist, revolutionised the field of archaeology through controlled and scientifically recorded excavations. Petrie's work determined that Egyptian culture dated back as early as 4500 BC; the British Egypt Exploration Fund founded in 1882 and other Egyptologists promoted Petrie's methods. Other scholars worked on producing a hieroglyphic dictionary, developing a Demotic lexicon, establishing an outline of ancient Egyptian history. In the United States, the founding of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and the expedition of James Henry Breasted to Egypt and Nubia established Egyptology as a legitimate field of study. In 1924, Breasted started the Epigraphic Survey to make and publish accurate copies of monuments.
In the late 19th
The Encyclopædia Britannica published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It was written by more than 4,000 contributors; the 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition. The Britannica is the English-language encyclopaedia/encyclopedia, in print for the longest time: it lasted 244 years, it was first published between 1768 and 1771 as three volumes. The encyclopaedia grew in size: the second edition was 10 volumes, by its fourth edition it had expanded to 20 volumes, its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, the 9th and 11th editions are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style. Beginning with the 11th edition and following its acquisition by an American firm, the Britannica shortened and simplified articles to broaden its appeal to the North American market. In 1933, the Britannica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt "continuous revision", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted, with every article updated on a schedule.
In March 2012, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced it would no longer publish printed editions, would focus instead on Encyclopædia Britannica Online. The 15th edition had a three-part structure: a 12-volume Micropædia of short articles, a 17-volume Macropædia of long articles, a single Propædia volume to give a hierarchical outline of knowledge; the Micropædia was meant as a guide to the Macropædia. Over 70 years, the size of the Britannica has remained steady, with about 40 million words on half a million topics. Though published in the United States since 1901, the Britannica has for the most part maintained British English spelling. Since 1985, the Britannica has had four parts: the Micropædia, the Macropædia, the Propædia, a two-volume index; the Britannica's articles are found in the Micro- and Macropædia, which encompass 12 and 17 volumes each volume having one thousand pages. The 2007 Macropædia has 699 in-depth articles, ranging in length from 2 to 310 pages and having references and named contributors.
In contrast, the 2007 Micropædia has 65,000 articles, the vast majority of which contain fewer than 750 words, no references, no named contributors. The Micropædia articles are intended for quick fact-checking and to help in finding more thorough information in the Macropædia; the Macropædia articles are meant both as authoritative, well-written articles on their subjects and as storehouses of information not covered elsewhere. The longest article is on the United States, resulted from the merger of the articles on the individual states; the 2013 edition of Britannica contained forty thousand articles. Information can be found in the Britannica by following the cross-references in the Micropædia and Macropædia. Hence, readers are recommended to consult instead the alphabetical index or the Propædia, which organizes the Britannica's contents by topic; the core of the Propædia is its "Outline of Knowledge", which aims to provide a logical framework for all human knowledge. Accordingly, the Outline is consulted by the Britannica's editors to decide which articles should be included in the Micro- and Macropædia.
The Outline is intended to be a study guide, to put subjects in their proper perspective, to suggest a series of Britannica articles for the student wishing to learn a topic in depth. However, libraries have found that it is scarcely used, reviewers have recommended that it be dropped from the encyclopaedia; the Propædia has color transparencies of human anatomy and several appendices listing the staff members and contributors to all three parts of the Britannica. Taken together, the Micropædia and Macropædia comprise 40 million words and 24,000 images; the two-volume index has 2,350 pages, listing the 228,274 topics covered in the Britannica, together with 474,675 subentries under those topics. The Britannica prefers British spelling over American. However, there are exceptions such as defense rather than defence. Common alternative spellings are provided with cross-references such as "Color: see Colour." Since 1936, the articles of the Britannica have been revised on a regular schedule, with at least 10% of them considered for revision each year.
According to one Britannica website, 46% of its articles were revised over the past three years. The alphabetization of articles in the Micropædia and Macropædia follows strict rules. Diacritical marks and non-English letters are ignored, while numerical entries such as "1812, War of" are alphabetized as if the number had been written out. Articles with identical names are ordered first by persons by places by things. Rulers with identical names are organized first alphabetically by country and by chronology. Places that share names are
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south. Shropshire Council was created in 2009, a unitary authority taking over from the previous county council and five district councils; the borough of Telford and Wrekin has been a separate unitary authority since 1998 but continues to be included in the ceremonial county. The county's population and economy is centred on five towns: the county town of Shrewsbury, culturally and important and close to the centre of the county; the county has many market towns, including Whitchurch in the north, Newport northeast of Telford and Market Drayton in the northeast of the county. The Ironbridge Gorge area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale and a part of Madeley. There are other historic industrial sites in the county, such as at Shrewsbury, Broseley and Highley, as well as the Shropshire Union Canal.
The Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers about a quarter of the county in the south. Shropshire is one of England's most rural and sparsely populated counties, with a population density of 136/km2; the Wrekin is one of the most famous natural landmarks in the county, though the highest hills are the Clee Hills and the Long Mynd. Wenlock Edge is another significant geological landmark. In the low-lying northwest of the county overlapping the border with Wales is the Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve, one of the most important and best preserved bogs in Britain; the River Severn, Great Britain's longest river, runs through the county, exiting into Worcestershire via the Severn Valley. Shropshire is landlocked and with an area of 3,487 square kilometres is England's largest inland county; the county flower is the round-leaved sundew. The area was once part of the lands of the Cornovii, which consisted of the modern day counties of Cheshire, north Staffordshire, north Herefordshire and eastern parts of Powys.
This was a tribal Celtic iron age kingdom. Their capital in pre-Roman times was a hill fort on the Wrekin. Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography names one of their towns as being Viroconium Cornoviorum, which became their capital under Roman rule and one of the largest settlements in Britain. After the Roman occupation of Britain ended in the 5th century, the Shropshire area was in the eastern part of the Welsh Kingdom of Powys, it was annexed to the Angle kingdom of Mercia by King Offa in the 8th century, at which time he built two significant dykes there to defend his territory against the Welsh or at least demarcate it. In subsequent centuries, the area suffered repeated Viking incursions, fortresses were built at Bridgnorth and Chirbury. After the Norman conquest in 1066, major estates in Shropshire were granted to Normans, including Roger de Montgomerie, who ordered significant constructions in Shrewsbury, the town of which he was Earl. Many defensive castles were built at this time across the county to defend against the Welsh and enable effective control of the region, including Ludlow Castle and Shrewsbury Castle.
The western frontier with Wales was not determined until the 14th century. In this period, a number of religious foundations were formed, the county falling at this time under the Diocese of Hereford and that of Coventry and Lichfield; some parishes in the north-west of the county in times fell under the Diocese of St. Asaph until the disestablishment of the Church in Wales in 1920, when they were ceded to the Lichfield diocese; the county was a central part of the Welsh Marches during the medieval period and was embroiled in the power struggles between powerful Marcher Lords, the Earls of March and successive monarchs. The county contains a number of significant towns, including Shrewsbury and Ludlow. Additionally, the area around Coalbrookdale in the county is seen as significant, as it is regarded as one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution; the village of Edgmond, near Newport, is the location of the lowest recorded temperature in England and Wales. Shropshire is first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle annal for 1006.
The origin of the name is the Old English Scrobbesbyrigscīr, which means "Shrewsburyshire". The name may, therefore, be derived indirectly from a personal name such as Scrope. Salop is an old name for Shropshire used as an abbreviated form for post or telegrams, it is thought to derive from the Anglo-French "Salopesberia", it is replaced by the more contemporary "Shrops" although Shropshire residents are still referred to as "Salopians". Salop however, is used as an alternative name for the county town, which shares the motto of Floreat Salopia; when a county council for the county was first established in 1889, it was called Salop County Council. Following the Local Government Act 1972, Salop became the official name of the county; the name was not well-regarded locally however, a subsequent campaign led by a local councillor, John Kenyon, succeeded in having both the county and council renamed as Shrops
Canaan was a Semitic-speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. The name Canaan appears throughout the Bible, where it corresponds to the Levant, in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the Bible: Phoenicia, Philistia and other nations; the word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch-all term covering various indigenous populations—both settled and nomadic-pastoral groups—throughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan. It is by far the most used ethnic term in the Bible. In the Book of Joshua, Canaanites are included in a list of nations to exterminate, described as a group which the Israelites had annihilated. Biblical scholar Mark Smith notes that archaeological data suggests "that the Israelite culture overlapped with and derived from Canaanite culture... In short, Israelite culture was Canaanite in nature; the name "Canaanites" is attested, many centuries as the endonym of the people known to the Ancient Greeks from c. 500 BC as Phoenicians, following the emigration of Canaanite-speakers to Carthage, was used as a self-designation by the Punics of North Africa during Late Antiquity.
Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna period as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite and Assyrian Empires converged. Much of modern knowledge about Canaan stems from archaeological excavation in this area at sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, Gezer; the English term Canaan comes via Greek Χαναάν Khanaan and Latin Canaan. It appears as in the Amarna letters, knʿn is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium, it first occurs in Greek in the writings of Hecataeus as Khna. Scholars connect the name Canaan with knʿn, Kana'an, the general Northwest Semitic name for this region; the etymology is uncertain. An early explanation derives the term from the Semitic root knʿ "to be low, subjugated"; some scholars have suggested that this implies an original meaning of "lowlands", in contrast with Aram, which would mean "highlands", whereas others have suggested it meant "the subjugated" as the name of Egypt's province in the Levant, evolved into the proper name in a similar fashion to Provincia Nostra.
An alternative suggestion put forward by Ephraim Avigdor Speiser in 1936 derives the term from Hurrian Kinahhu, purportedly referring to the colour purple, so that Canaan and Phoenicia would be synonyms. Tablets found in the Hurrian city of Nuzi in the early 20th century appear to use the term Kinahnu as a synonym for red or purple dye, laboriously produced by the Kassite rulers of Babylon from murex shells as early as 1600 BC, on the Mediterranean coast by the Phoenicians from a byproduct of glassmaking. Purple cloth became a renowned Canaanite export commodity, mentioned in Exodus; the dyes may have been named after their place of origin. The name'Phoenicia' is connected with the Greek word for "purple" referring to the same product, but it is difficult to state with certainty whether the Greek word came from the name, or vice versa; the purple cloth of Tyre in Phoenicia was well known far and wide and was associated by the Romans with nobility and royalty. However, according to Robert Drews, Speiser's proposal has been abandoned.
Canaanite culture developed in situ from the earlier Ghassulian chalcolithic culture, which pioneered the Mediterranean agricultural system typical of the Canaanite region, which comprised intensive subsistence horticulture, extensive grain growing, commercial wine and olive cultivation and transhumance pastoralism. Ghassulian itself developed from the Circum-Arabian Nomadic Pastoral Complex, which in turn developed from a fusion of their ancestral Natufian and Harifian cultures with Pre-Pottery Neolithic B farming cultures, practicing animal domestication, during the 6200 BC climatic crisis which led to the Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution in the Levant; the Late Bronze Age state of Ugarit is considered quintessentially Canaanite archaeologically though its Ugaritic language does not belong to the Canaanite language group proper. A disputed reference to Lord of ga-na-na in the Semitic Ebla tablets from the archive of Tell Mardikh has been interpreted by some scholars to mention the deity Dagon by the title "Lord of Canaan" If correct, this would suggest that Eblaites were conscious of Canaan as an entity by 2500 BC.
Jonathan Tubb states that the term ga-na-na "may provide a third-millennium reference to Canaanite", while at the same time stating that the first certain reference is in the 18th century BC. See Ebla-Biblical controversy for further details. A letter from Mut-bisir to Shamshi-Adad I of the Old Assyrian Empire has been translated: "It is in Rahisum that the brigands and the Canaanites are situated", it was found in 1973 in the ruins of an Assyrian outpost at that time in Syria. Additional unpublished references to Kinahnum in the Mari letters refer to the same episode. Whether the term Kinahnum refers to people from a specific region or rather people of "foreign origin" has been disputed, such that Robert Drews states that the "first certain cuneiform reference" to Canaan is found on the Alalakh statue of King Idrim
New Kingdom of Egypt
The New Kingdom referred to as the Egyptian Empire, is the period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC, covering the 18th, 19th, 20th dynasties of Egypt. Radiocarbon dating places the exact beginning of the New Kingdom between 1570 BC and 1544 BC; the New Kingdom followed the Second Intermediate Period and was succeeded by the Third Intermediate Period. It marked the peak of its power; the part of this period, under the 19th and 20th Dynasties, is known as the Ramesside period. It is named after the 11 Pharaohs that took the name Ramesses, after Ramesses I, the founder of the 19th Dynasty; as a result of the foreign rule of the Hyksos during the Second Intermediate Period, the New Kingdom saw Egypt attempt to create a buffer between the Levant and Egypt proper, during this time Egypt attained its greatest territorial extent. In response to successful 17th century attacks during the Second Intermediate Period by the powerful Kingdom of Kush, the rulers of the New Kingdom felt compelled to expand far south into Nubia and to hold wide territories in the Near East.
In the north, Egyptian armies fought Hittite armies for control of modern-day Syria. The 18th Dynasty included some of Egypt's most famous Pharaohs, including Ahmose I, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. Queen Hatshepsut concentrated on expanding Egypt's external trade by sending a commercial expedition to the land of Punt. Thutmose III expanded Egypt's army and wielded it with great success to consolidate the empire created by his predecessors; this resulted in a peak in Egypt's power and wealth during the reign of Amenhotep III. During the reign of Thutmose III, the term Pharaoh referring to the king's palace, became a form of address for the person, king. One of the best-known 18th Dynasty pharaohs is Amenhotep IV, who changed his name to Akhenaten in honor of the Aten, a representation of the Egyptian god, Ra, his exclusive worship of the Aten is interpreted as history's first instance of monotheism. Akhenaten's wife, contributed a great deal to his new take on the Egyptian religion.
Nefertiti was bold enough to perform rituals to Aten. Akhenaten's religious fervor is cited as the reason why he and his wife were subsequently written out of Egyptian history. Under his reign, in the 14th century BC, Egyptian art flourished in a distinctive new style. By the end of the 18th Dynasty, Egypt's status had changed radically. Aided by Akhenaten's apparent lack of interest in international affairs, the Hittites had extended their influence into Phoenicia and Canaan to become a major power in international politics — a power that both Seti I and his son Ramesses II would confront during the 19th Dynasty; the Nineteenth Dynasty was founded by the Vizier Ramesses I, whom the last ruler of the 18th dynasty, Pharaoh Horemheb, had chosen as his successor. His brief reign marked a transition period between the reign of Horemheb and the powerful pharaohs of this dynasty, in particular, his son Seti I and grandson Ramesses II, who would bring Egypt to new heights of imperial power. Ramesses II sought to recover territories in the Levant, held by the 18th Dynasty.
His campaigns of reconquest culminated in the Battle of Kadesh, where he led Egyptian armies against those of the Hittite king Muwatalli II. Ramesses was caught in history's first recorded military ambush, although he was able to rally his troops and turn the tide of battle against the Hittites thanks to the arrival of the Ne'arin; the outcome of the battle was undecided, with both sides claiming victory at their home front, resulting in a peace treaty between the two nations. Egypt was able to obtain stability under Ramesses' rule of over half a century, his immediate successors continued the military campaigns, although an troubled court—which at one point put a usurper on the throne—made it difficult for a pharaoh to retain control of the territories. Ramesses II was famed for the huge number of children he sired by his various wives and concubines; the last "great" pharaoh from the New Kingdom is considered to be Ramesses III, a 20th Dynasty pharaoh who reigned several decades after Ramesses II.
In the eighth year of his reign the Sea Peoples invaded Egypt by sea. Ramesses III defeated them in two great sea battles, he incorporated them as subject peoples and settled them in Southern Canaan although there is evidence that they forced their way into Canaan. Their presence in Canaan may have contributed to the formation of new states, such as Philistia, in this region after the collapse of the Egyptian Empire, he was compelled to fight invading Libyan tribesmen in two major campaigns in Egypt's Western Delta in his sixth year and eleventh year respectively. The heavy cost of this warfare drained Egypt's treasury and contributed to the gradual decline of the Egyptian Empire in Asia; the severity of the difficulties is indicated by the fact that the first known labor strike in recorded history occurred during the 29th year of Ramesses III's reign, when the food rations for Egypt's favored and elite royal tomb-builders and artisans in the village of Deir el Medina could not be provisioned.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation, it grew from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge; the two'ancient universities' are jointly called'Oxbridge'. The history and influence of the University of Oxford has made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world; the university is made up of 38 constituent colleges, a range of academic departments, which are organised into four divisions. All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities, it does not have a main campus, its buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the city centre.
Undergraduate teaching at Oxford is organised around weekly tutorials at the colleges and halls, supported by classes, lectures and laboratory work provided by university faculties and departments. It operates the world's oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system nationwide. In the fiscal year ending 31 July 2018, the university had a total income of £2.237 billion, of which £579.1 million was from research grants and contracts. The university is ranked first globally by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as of 2019 and is ranked as among the world's top ten universities, it is ranked second in all major national league tables, behind Cambridge. Oxford has educated many notable alumni, including 27 prime ministers of the United Kingdom and many heads of state and government around the world; as of 2019, 69 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Fields Medalists, 6 Turing Award winners have studied, worked, or held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, while its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals.
Oxford is the home of numerous scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest international graduate scholarship programmes. The University of Oxford has no known foundation date. Teaching at Oxford existed in some form as early as 1096, but it is unclear when a university came into being, it grew from 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris. The historian Gerald of Wales lectured to such scholars in 1188 and the first known foreign scholar, Emo of Friesland, arrived in 1190; the head of the university had the title of chancellor from at least 1201, the masters were recognised as a universitas or corporation in 1231. The university was granted a royal charter in 1248 during the reign of King Henry III. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled from the violence to Cambridge forming the University of Cambridge; the students associated together on the basis of geographical origins, into two'nations', representing the North and the South.
In centuries, geographical origins continued to influence many students' affiliations when membership of a college or hall became customary in Oxford. In addition, members of many religious orders, including Dominicans, Franciscans and Augustinians, settled in Oxford in the mid-13th century, gained influence and maintained houses or halls for students. At about the same time, private benefactors established colleges as self-contained scholarly communities. Among the earliest such founders were William of Durham, who in 1249 endowed University College, John Balliol, father of a future King of Scots. Another founder, Walter de Merton, a Lord Chancellor of England and afterwards Bishop of Rochester, devised a series of regulations for college life. Thereafter, an increasing number of students lived in colleges rather than in halls and religious houses. In 1333–34, an attempt by some dissatisfied Oxford scholars to found a new university at Stamford, was blocked by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge petitioning King Edward III.
Thereafter, until the 1820s, no new universities were allowed to be founded in England in London. The new learning of the Renaissance influenced Oxford from the late 15th century onwards. Among university scholars of the period were William Grocyn, who contributed to the revival of Greek language studies, John Colet, the noted biblical scholar. With the English Reformation and the breaking of communion with the Roman Catholic Church, recusant scholars from Oxford fled to continental Europe, settling at the University of Douai; the method of teaching at Oxford was transformed from the medieval scholastic method to Renaissance education, although institutions associated with the university suffered losses of land and revenues. As a centre of learning and scholarship, Oxford's reputation declined in the Age of Enlightenment. In 1636 William Laud, the chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury, codified the university's statutes. These, to a large extent, remained its gove
The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele, found in 1799, inscribed with three versions of a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic script and Demotic script while the bottom is in Ancient Greek; as the decree has only minor differences between the three versions, the Rosetta Stone proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, thereby opening a window into ancient Egyptian history. The stone, carved during the Hellenistic period, is believed to have been displayed within a temple at nearby Sais, it was moved during the early Christian or medieval period, was used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid in the Nile Delta. It was rediscovered there in July 1799 by a French soldier named Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, it was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this untranslated hieroglyphic language.
Lithographic copies and plaster casts began circulating among European scholars. British troops having meanwhile defeated the French, under the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801 the original stone came into British possession and was transported to London, it has been on public display at the British Museum continuously since 1802 and is the most-visited object there. Study of the decree was under way when the first full translation of the Greek text appeared in 1803, it was 20 years, before the transliteration of the Egyptian scripts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822. Major advances in the decoding were recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text. Since its rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist rivalries, including its transfer from French to British possession during the Napoleonic Wars, a long-running dispute over the relative value of Young and Champollion's contributions to the decipherment and, since 2003, demands for the stone's return to Egypt.
Two other fragmentary copies of the same decree were discovered and several similar Egyptian bilingual or trilingual inscriptions are now known, including two earlier Ptolemaic decrees. The Rosetta Stone is, therefore, no longer unique, but it was the essential key to modern understanding of Ancient Egyptian literature and civilisation; the term Rosetta Stone is now used in other contexts as the name for the essential clue to a new field of knowledge. The Rosetta Stone is listed as "a stone of black granodiorite, bearing three inscriptions... found at Rosetta" in a contemporary catalogue of the artefacts discovered by the French expedition and surrendered to British troops in 1801. At some period after its arrival in London, the inscriptions on the stone were coloured in white chalk to make them more legible, the remaining surface was covered with a layer of carnauba wax designed to protect the Rosetta Stone from visitors' fingers; this gave a dark colour to the stone. These additions were removed when the stone was cleaned in 1999, revealing the original dark grey tint of the rock, the sparkle of its crystalline structure, a pink vein running across the top left corner.
Comparisons with the Klemm collection of Egyptian rock samples showed a close resemblance to rock from a small granodiorite quarry at Gebel Tingar on the west bank of the Nile, west of Elephantine in the region of Aswan. The Rosetta Stone is 1,123 millimetres high at its highest point, 757 mm wide, 284 mm thick, it weighs 760 kilograms. It bears three inscriptions: the top register in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the second in the Egyptian Demotic script, the third in Ancient Greek; the front surface is polished and the inscriptions incised on it. The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a larger stele. No additional fragments were found in searches of the Rosetta site. Owing to its damaged state, none of the three texts is complete; the top register, composed of Egyptian hieroglyphs, suffered the most damage. Only the last 14 lines of the hieroglyphic text can be seen; the following register of demotic text has survived best. The final register of Greek text contains 54 lines; the stele was erected after the coronation of King Ptolemy V and was inscribed with a decree that established the divine cult of the new ruler.
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The recent coronavirus epidemic has led to major changes in the education sector. Online classes have become popular where students learn remotely as opposed to usual face-to-face learning. STEM Education’s one method for example is subscription boxes Online classes are now common despite the challenges in teaching practical lessons. Nevertheless, teachers have not adapted to the changes to assist the children. In online learning, some students feel a lack of emotional connection to their teachers. In addition, the changes affected the way of lives of many children. They could no longer play with friends while others were experiencing the trauma associated with the negative effects of coronavirus including deaths. There are several approaches teachers can use to make children feel more connected during the online classes.
Emphasize the Importance of Emotional Health
Teachers have been emphasizing too much on academic learning and ignoring emotional and social learning. Research has shown that these aspects are equally important. Students with skills in emotional control and attributes such as empathy have better academic performance. These skills are even more important in online learning to prepare the student for the changes.
Teachers should mix academic learning with emotional learning in the same lesson. Alternatively, they can start each session by imparting emotional skills to prepare the student for academic learning. Online learning can also start with social and emotional learning every morning to prepare the students for the day’s activities. One effective approach could be to ask the students to pick colors that represent their feelings. In such cases, the teacher will be able to read the moods of the students and assess their readiness to learn.
A major challenge in online classes is that students could be new to each other. The teacher may also be new to the students. In such cases, the teacher can organize a virtual meeting where the students meet and know each other. All students should be given an opportunity to introduce themselves. This approach will create a sense of belonging where students get the feeling that they are not alone but they have classmates.
The time allocated during this session should allow the students to talk more than the teacher. There should be time for the students to ask questions and add something they feel is important. The teacher can keep quiet and allow the students to interact and chat with each other. The discussion should not be related to academic learning, but instead, let the children discuss other aspects of life such as favorite ice cream and hobbies.
Although it is not possible for the teachers to have all the students under one roof, it is possible for the teacher to make individual visits to the students at their homes. In this case, they will interact and know each other, and thus they will not be strangers on the online platform.
Role of parents as co-teachers
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