The temple dated at the beginning of 12th century, has an architectural terminology, an octagonal shape, a nathex and a three-part sanctuary. Its current form however, presents significant differences from the typical octagon type. There are evidence proving that at the site of the remarable church Metamorfosi Sotiros, lay the equally big ancient Greek temple of “Sotiros Dios”, a fact also supported by the dispersed architectural and ornamental parts dated in the Classical Hellenistic and Roman eras.
These, have been wall-mounted, embedded, or reused both in the grandiose Christian temple (see for example the altar with the Ionian and Corinthian rhythm ancient parts), and in the deserted chapel that served the villagers sfter the destructive earthquake of 1886. Given the fact that there were small cells of early Christians in the area, who, at the beginning, had to coexist harmoniously with the Greek Nationalist majority, who adhered to the scientific philosophic and religious values of Antiquity, the transition from one faith to the other, at least at this part of the Peloponnese, was smoother and bloodless in comparasion with other places (with the aid and the preservation of the word Sotir, meaning Savior).
This is definitely one of the largest Byzantine churches in Greece. Although the wall paintings have been destroyed almost completely, you will be compensated when you climb carefully the long wooden staircase to admire the large structure from the level of the large upper gallery. There, on the left, lie temporarily many cases with bones, probably of priests buried near the church… The ideal conclusion of this acquaintance with this great Christian monument, is the ascent by the large lateral, exterior staircase, to a small platform which offers views of the cupola, right in front and the majestic Aegaleo mountain in the backround.


As long as businesses continue to operate and make money, cyber-criminals will look for ways to break in, exploit weaknesses, and steal.
To defeat them, you need to find the angles they use to exploit your systems.
Here are 6 Known angles cyber-criminals exploit.
- Threat #1: STOLEN DEVICES
Hackers physically stealing equipment with sensitive data.
- 80% of the cost of a stolen laptop is from stolen data
Encrypt all devices and use an asset-tracking tool to keep an inventory.
- Threat #2: POOR USER AWARENESS
Users using weak passwords and falling for phishing scams.
- 85%of organizations have experienced a phishing attack
Provide user awareness training.
- Threat #3: OUT-OF-DATE ANTIVIRUS
New malware strains come online daily.
- 390,000 New malware strains created each day.
Update virus definitions and leverage behavioral and heuristic scans.
- Threat #4: UNPATCHED SOFTWARE
Out-of-date software can be susceptible to automated attacks.
- ONLY 25% of Microsoft® Windows® users run the latest, fully patched version
Use a patch management tool to keep up.
- Threat #5: MALICIOUS WEBSITES
Hackers use Drive-by downloads or phishing websites to steal credentials.
- 195,000 unique domains were used for phishing attacks in 2016.
Deploy a web content-filtering solution to keep users off malicious websites.
- Threat 6. LACK OF MONITORING
Attacks often go unnoticed.
- ‘205 Days’ THAT is the average time it takes for organizations to discover an intrusion
Use a strong monitoring system to detect unauthorized access.


The baroclinic tides in the Red Sea are simulated using a three‐dimensional, nonhydrostatic, high‐resolution Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model. Various observations have been used to validate the simulation results. A good match between the model results and observations from five tidal gauges has been obtained. Tidal amplitude and phase data from 21 tidal stations present high correlation coefficients and low deviations with the model results. Comparisons between model and Oregon State University Tidal Inversion Software data suggest consistent results, with only small discrepancies at the locations of the amphidromic points. Tidal currents from four mooring observations are in good agreement with the simulation results, with discrepancies appearing in shallow areas and those with complex bottom topography. Based on the simulation results, the basic characteristics of baroclinic tides in the Red Sea are analyzed. The properties of barotropic tides, and distribution of the forcing function parameter, indicate that the baroclinic tides are generated mainly in four areas: the Bab‐el‐Mandeb (BAM) Strait, the southern Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, and the Strait of Tiran. This is confirmed by the spatial distributions of baroclinic tidal kinetic energy and energy flux. The properties of the conversion rate from barotropic tides to baroclinic tides, and the divergence of baroclinic energy flux, further reveal quantitatively that the southern Red Sea features the most of the generated baroclinic energy. The majority of the baroclinic energy disappears within the four areas, either dissipating due to friction and bottom drag or converting back to barotropic energy.


Why the Ebola Vaccine Won’t Be Administered in Africa
Friday, August 8, 2014
The earliest the world can expect a vaccine to curb spreading of Ebola in West Africa is about a year away, scientists say. And, even if the vaccine passes the initial phase of testing in the U.S., it is unclear how effective it will be overseas.
“A U.S. trial will not necessarily predict what will happen in Africa,” says Hildegund Ertl, the director of the Wistar Institute Vaccine Center. For reasons not entirely understood, Africans have different antibodies in their systems than Americans. Because antibodies influence how the body receives a vaccine, a treatment showing promise in a U.S. trial could still fail to thwart the outbreak in Africa, which has killed almost 900 people to date.
There are currently “three or four different vaccine candidates, all still in preclinical trials,” says Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). The earliest one slated for clinical trials is yet unnamed, but testing is expected to begin in September, pending approval from the Food and Dru
Source: Newsweek (link opens in a new window)
- Health Care


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Week 4 – assignment: create an instructor’s presentation to teach
Create an instructor’s presentation to teach students about qualitative research designs. This week, you were presented with three different qualitative research designs. Determine the value of each of the five designs explored over the last two weeks, and then critique the utility of each one relative to your research problem. Create a narrated PowerPoint presentation that includes the following:
- Cover and references slides (these do not contribute to sliding count)
- The problem to be investigated (your problem statement from Week 1)
- A critique of five qualitative research designs
- Comparison and contrast of the value of these designs
- Defense of your selection of one of the designs covered this week for your proposed dissertation research study.
- Note: This presentation should be usable in a teaching environment
Length: 8- to 10-slide PowerPoint narrated presentation. Speaker notes (minimum 200 words per slide)
Your presentation should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy. Upload your document and click the Submit to Dropbox button.


ABSTRACT: Foraminifera (Rhizaria) and testate amoebae (Rhizaria and Amoebozoa) are single-celled organisms with marine and continental affinities. They are regarded as valuable bioindicators in transitional areas such as tidal and salt marshes and have been widely used for (paleo)-environmental characterization. Along-lasting debate regularly occurs on the use of living vs. dead fauna to accurately represent modern environments. Moreover, environmentally based benthic foraminiferal and testate amoebaean studies need a reliable sampling strategy to capture the spatial variability, particularly in transitional environments where patchiness complicates the data interpretations. The objective of the present study is therefore to define the minimum required number of replicates for capturing the variability of either living (environment) or dead (paleoenvironment) benthic foraminifera and testate amoebae. To address this question, 49 samples (i.e., replicates) were selected from a square meter zone in the tidal flat-salt marsh transitional zone along the Canche Estuary (Northern France). The range of faunal spatial variability was measured using geostatistical tools. The minimal number of samples for capturing the patchiness was determined using bootstrap resampling procedure. We provide evidence that for both living and dead fauna more than 26 samples (and even higher for some species) are needed to correctly evaluate the patchiness. Indeed, the living and dead fauna do not follow spatial homogenous trends, and this might bias paleoenvironmental interpretations. The commonly-suggested number of three replicates might not be enough to characterize the fauna in such heterogeneous environments.
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Henry (VII), (born 1211, Sicily—died Feb. 12, 1242, Martirano, Calabria, Kingdom of Sicily), German king (from 1220), son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II.
After apparently spending most of his youth in Germany, Henry was crowned king of Sicily in 1212 and made duke of Swabia in 1216. Pope Innocent III had favoured his coronation as king of Sicily in the hope that the union of Sicily with the empire would be dissolved, and he had obtained a promise from Frederick to this effect. Nevertheless, Henry was chosen king of the Romans, or German king, at Frankfurt in April 1220 and crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle (modern Aachen, Ger.) on May 8, 1222, by his guardian Engelbert, archbishop of Cologne. The murder of Engelbert in 1225 was followed by an increase of disorder in Germany, and relations between Frederick and his son began to be strained. In 1231 Henry refused to appear at the diet at Ravenna and opposed the privileges granted by Frederick to the princes at Worms. In 1232 he submitted to his father, but in 1233 he issued a manifesto to the princes, and in 1234 raised the standard of revolt at Boppard. He succeeded in forming an alliance with the Lombards in December 1234, but his few supporters fell away when the Emperor reached Germany in 1235, and, after a vain attack on Worms, Henry submitted and was kept for some time as a prisoner in Germany. His formal deposition as German king was not considered necessary, because he had broken the oath taken in 1232. (He is usually not reckoned among the German kings.) He was removed to San Felice in Apulia and afterward to a prison at Martirano in Calabria, where he died, probably by his own hand.


New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our Milky Way, this early in the universe will require astrophysicists to refine their theories of galaxy evolution.
In a Hubble image, one galaxy, EGS-23205, is little more than a disk-shaped smudge, but in the corresponding JWST image taken this past summer, it's a beautiful spiral galaxy with a clear stellar bar.
The team identified another barred galaxy, EGS-24268, also from about 11 billion years ago, which makes two barred galaxies existing farther back in time than any previously discovered.
In this video, I'll explain the unexpected discoveries and why they call for new model improvements.
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Recorded in several forms including Wan, which appears now to be totally obselete, Wann, Wanne, the very rare Whan, the patronymic Wannes and Wanes, the diminutives Wanell, Wannell, Wanniel, and Wonnell, this interesting name is of English origins. The origin is obscure, but the best suggestion would seem to be that It derives from the Olde English pre 7th century word 'wann' meaning pale. As such it may have been an ethnic name used by the native English to distinguish Anglo-Saxons or even Vikings, who were much paler skinned.On the other hand it could be a nickname for a pale person, or given medieval humour, the complete opposite! There is a second possibility for some nameholders that it may be locational from Winnall, a village in the county of Herefordshire. In that case the place name means 'Willow valley'. Amongst early recordings of the surname in the surviving church registers of the city of London are Francis Wan or Wans, who married Richard Mayne on August 4th 1588 at the church of St Giles Cripplegate, Francis Wannell who was christened at the church of St Lawrence Jewry, on March 13th 1591, John Wann and his wife Tabitha, who were christening witnesses at St James Clerkenwell on September 12th 1658. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Warner Wan. This is in the Subsidy Tax Rolls of Yorkshire in 1297, during the reign of King Edward 1st, 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as the Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Enjoy this name printed onto our colourful scroll, printed in Olde English script. An ideal gift.


Signs that Indicate Your Body is Too Acidic and How to Fix it Fast
The “acidity” of your body refers to the amount of acid in your body fluids, while the “alkalinity” of your body refers to the ability of those body fluids to neutralize the acid.
Body fluids like saliva, urine and blood are crucial to fundamental processes, such as transporting oxygen and nutrients throughout the body, digestion, and overall lubrication and protection of the body.
The acid levels in the body must fall under a certain range to avoid harm to the body.
pH is a term you have probably heard in relation to your body and health. It stands for “potential hydrogen”. The pH of your body measures the hydrogen-ion concentration of your body fluids.
The pH scale of your body runs from 0 to 14. The higher the pH level of your body fluids, the more oxygen-rich and alkaline they will be.
The lower the pH level of your body fluids, the less oxygenated and acidic they will be. A pH of 7.0 is considered neutral.
The pH levels of your body fluids should fall in the following ranges to be considered healthy:
Blood pH: 7.35-7.45
Urine pH: 4.6-8.0
Saliva pH: 7.0-7.5
A pH level that falls below the prescribed range for each type of fluid means that your body is not doing a satisfactory job of ridding your system of acid, thereby indicating your body might just be too acidic.
However, most people do not even have their pH levels tested because they do not recognize the basic symptoms of acidity to begin with.
Here are some symptoms that indicate your body is too acidic.
1. Excess Weight
When your body’s alkaline balance is not maintained, there is excess waste product in the form of acid in your body.


ICLG: UK Renewable Energy 2023
1 Overview of the Renewable Energy Sector
1.1 What is the basis of renewable energy policy and regulation in your jurisdiction and is there a statutory definition of ‘renewable energy,’ ‘clean energy’ or equivalent terminology?
The Promotion of the Use of Energy from Renewables Sources Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/243) applies the definition set out in Directive 2009/28/EC (Renewable Energy Directive) on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources. This defines “energy from renewable sources” as “energy from renewable non-fossil sources, namely wind, solar, aerothermal, geothermal, hydrothermal and ocean energy, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases,” each of which is then defined separately.
This legislative framework required the government to ensure that renewable energy comprised 15% of the UK’s total energy mix by 2020. The Renewable Energy Directive has now been superseded by Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (RED II). Although the UK has now been released from the renewable energy targets under RED II following Brexit, the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement includes a commitment to promote energy efficiency and the use of energy from renewable sources and reaffirmation of the EU’s 2030 “targets” and the UK’s 2030 “ambitions” for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Ongoing policy and regulation of renewable energy is currently derived from retained EU law and UK statute, notably the UK’s binding commitments to:
- cut greenhouse gas emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels in the Carbon Budget Order 2021 (SI 2021/750); and
- achieve a 100% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 compared to 1990 levels (the “net zero” target) in the Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order (SI 2019/1056).
There are various other policies, incentives, requirements and regulations that are detailed throughout this chapter below.
Click here to read Bracewell’s entire UK chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide.


Actuaries use skills primarily in mathematics, particularly calculus-based probability and mathematical statistics, but also economics, computer science, finance, and business. For this reason, actuaries are essential to the insurance and reinsurance industries, either as staff employees or as consultants; to other businesses, including sponsors of pension plans; and to government agencies such as the Government Actuary’s Department in the United Kingdom or the Social Security Administration in the United States of America. Actuaries assemble and analyze data to estimate the probability and likely cost of the occurrence of an event such as death, sickness, injury, disability, or loss of property. Actuaries also address financial questions, including those involving the level of pension contributions required to produce a certain retirement income and the way in which a company should invest resources to maximize its return on investments in light of potential risk. Using their broad knowledge, actuaries help design and price insurance policies, pension plans, and other financial strategies in a manner that will help ensure that the plans are maintained on a sound financial basis.
Most traditional actuarial disciplines fall into two main categories: life and non-life.
Life actuaries, which include health and pension actuaries, primarily deal with mortality risk, morbidity risk, and investment risk. Products prominent in their work include life insurance, annuities, pensions, short and long term disability insurance, health insurance, health savings accounts, and long-term care insurance In addition to these risks, social insurance programs are influenced by public opinion, politics, budget constraints, changing demographics, and other factors such as medical technology, inflation, and cost of living considerations.
Non-life actuaries, also known as property and casualty or general insurance actuaries, deal with both physical and legal risks that affect people or their property. Products prominent in their work include auto insurance, homeowners insurance, commercial property insurance, workers’ compensation, malpractice insurance, product liability insurance, marine insurance, terrorism insurance, and other types of liability insurance.
Actuaries are also called upon for their expertise in enterprise risk management. This can involve dynamic financial analysis, stress testing, the formulation of corporate risk policy, and the setting up and running of corporate risk departments. Actuaries are also involved in other areas of the financial services industry, such as analysing securities offerings or market research.


Steps You Can Take to Reduce Your Risk of Tooth Loss
Millions of Americans suffer from missing teeth and associated complications. As your dentist near Peoria can attest, in addition to natural teeth, dental crowns and bridges can also be lost. Adult teeth can fall out for many reasons. Many people lose teeth due to accident or injury, periodontal disease, or severe decay. Keep reading to learn what you can do to reduce your risk of tooth loss, including keeping up with oral hygiene, mouth protection, and dental visits.
Maintain Good Oral Hygiene
While dental implants now offer permanent solutions for missing teeth, the best way to preserve your oral health is to keep all-natural teeth intact. To maintain superior oral hygiene, brush your teeth twice each day with fluoride toothpaste. You should also floss every night before bed with an ADA-approved dental floss. Brushing and flossing your teeth is essential for removing plaque, a sticky bacterial film that accumulates on your teeth and gums. If you do not eliminate plaque, it can eventually cause periodontal disease and tooth decay, both of which contribute to tooth loss.
Consider Mouth Protection
To preserve your smile, always wear a mouthguard when playing contact sports. A mouthguard will help protect your tooth enamel or the outermost covering of your teeth. When your tooth enamel is worn down, it cannot grow back on its own and your teeth will be more vulnerable to decay. Many people also suffer chipped, broken, or knocked-out teeth due to sports injuries. A mouthguard will help to protect your teeth and soft mouth tissues from injury.
Attend Regular Dental Visits
Regular check-ups with a dentist near you are essential to keeping your smile whole. Only a dentist or dental hygienist can use the necessary tools to professionally clean your teeth, reaching spots that your toothbrush cannot quite access. Plaque and tartar buildup will cause tooth decay and periodontal disease if not treated by a dentist. Periodontal disease is the leading cause of tooth loss around the world. When you visit your dentist, he or she can diagnose gum disease in its early stages and reverse its symptoms.


A significant portion of the world’s population is well aware of the importance of physical activity to maintain their health. While there is not yet all the information that proves the benefits of practising a sport, it has recently been confirmed that certain sports can reduce the risk of premature death.
The perfect sports for good health
According to some studies by health experts, the importance of physical activity is considerable when it comes to reducing the risk of premature death. Indeed, an adult who participates regularly in sports is more likely to maintain his or her health and not be exposed to serious diseases compared to an adult who does not like sports. However, this does not mean that any sport can have the same health outcome.
For example, of all the sports available, football and running have been recognized as having the greatest health benefits. These two physical activities optimize, among other things, cardiovascular capacity and metabolic function, not to mention aerobic capacity. Football is really effective in improving muscle performance. As for other sports, the benefits are more limited.
Is it necessary to practice sports?
We often talk about the importance of physical activity. However, at the same time, we must consider the risks involved in practising a sport for both professionals and amateurs. It has been revealed that the injury rate is around 6%. The degree of seriousness varies from one sport to another. However, experts say that some injuries are preventable. Faced with this, some people remain convinced that they can live well without sport. However, the risk of injury is lower compared to the health benefits of sport activities.
Which sport should I practice?
Studies are still underway to confirm the real benefits of practicing a sport. In the meantime, it’s best to stay in front of the TV to see the results of the research. It is recommended that you choose a sport to maintain your health. You just have to choose the one that suits your tastes and make sure you limit the risk of injury. This will help you enjoy the many benefits of physical activity while still being motivated.


Flossing does 40% of the job when it comes to removing harmful bacteria or plaque from your teeth. Plaque builds up and generates acid which eventually causes cavities, irritates gums and results in gum diseases.
“Each of your teeth has five different surfaces you should clean. If you do not floss your teeth properly, two of these surfaces remain untouched,” explains the dentist Wheeler. “Floss is the only thing you can use to reach that tight space between your teeth and successfully remove bacteria.”
However, many of the non-flossers cannot understand why this step is so important for the oral health. Unlike toothbrush, which reaches only the other surfaces of your teeth and gums, floss acts more like an interdental cleaner -- its design allows cleaning the spaces between your teeth and the gaps at the base of the teeth.
Your toothbrush cannot reach these areas. Yes, antimicrobial mouthwash kills bacteria and prevents plaque, but but it cannot remove that stubborn tartar and food remains from these places.
Floss, on the other hand, easily gets between your teeth and gums, and removes anything that is left from your lunch, and the plaque as well.
Take your oral hygiene to a higher level and prevent serious and expensive oral health problems, such as halitosis (bad breath), cavities, gingivitis, and gum diseases.
Each of these is caused by the bacteria that thrives between your teeth. And yes, we already said, your tootbrush cannot do much in those places.
You have to remember, always use a dental floss before brushing your teeth.
Moreover, if you use your dental floss properly, you could easily remove any food remains and plaque from the places your toothbrush cannot reach -- the spots between your teeth and the gum line. Use your dental floss every day, because plaque buildups eventually cause cavities and gum diseases.
How to use dental floss properly?
Start with the upper jaw. Tear about 20 centimeters off the floss, and wrap most of it around your middle finger. Use the remaining 4-5 centimeters of the floss to clean your teeth.
Grab the floss using your thumb and pointing finger, and gently place it between your teeth.


National Research Centre for Integrated Pest management (NCIPM) is a premier research institute of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR).
The institute was established in February 12, 1988 to develop and promote Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technologies for major crops with minimum
ecological implications; generate national database on all aspects of pest management, advice national priorities and pest management policies;
establish linkages with national and international institutes in the area of IPM and to extend technical consultancies.
It was visualized as a Centre to provide an interface between research, development and application of IPM technologies.
Centre made modest beginning in 1995-1996 through synthesis and validation of IPM modules for cotton, rice, chickpea and mustard.
The success story of IPM in cotton during 1996-1998 in Maharashtra was exemplary and provided a model for development of similar modules
for other crops and regions. The Centre has successfully elevated IPM paradigm from individual farm to area-wide pest management across the
crops and regions through networks of partnerships and collaborations. Effective integration of electronic networking through development of
customized softwares, supporting infrastructure and human resource development has made pest management very effective at regional level.
NCIPM envisages larger role in making IPM practices more effective across the country through higher levels of integration of multidisciplinary
technologies and of stakeholders by means of improved research, education, training and extension
for an enhanced crop and ecological health, and sustainable agricultural growth.
The National Research Centre for Integrated Pest Management is located about 8 km west of the New Delhi Railway Station, about 7 km west of Krishi
Bhawan, which houses the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and about 22 km north-east of
Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. The location stands at 28.08°N and 77.12°E.
New Campus of the institute is located at Rajpur Khurd, Mehrauli, New Delhi at 28.38°N and 77.10°E. in South West district of Delhi, about 22 km west of Krishi Bhawan,
the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and about 14 km north-east of Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi


'Samuelson et al. (2011), continuing the work of Baldwin (1993), showed that there are clear posture and spatial biases in infants' learning of the mapping between words and objects.
In their experimental setup, infants repeatedly experience two new objects (the target and the foil) in consistent but different locations. Subsequently they hear the object name 'modi' while attending to the foil object which has now been placed in the location normally associated with the target object. On testing with both objects present in new locations, the infant is asked 'where is the modi?'. The statistically significant majority of children select the target object.
This means that they are selecting the object normally associated with the spatial location they were attending to, rather than the actual object they were looking at when they heard the name. By implication, this means that infants cannot be using a simple mapping between the object features observed and the word detected at that point in time. They rather rely on a memory for own posture and the related object location to associate objects and their names.'
I can't help but picture George Dickie and Arthur Danto in diapers, sucking on a pacifier and calling every object in a certain place 'art', simply because that is the location that they learned to associate with the word.


Restoration of Seagrasses by Tamil Nadu at Gulf of Mannar.
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28th Oct, 2020
- Seagrasses are flowering plants that grow submerged in shallow marine waters like bays and lagoons.
- These have tiny flowers and strap-like or oval leaves.
- Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants that recolonized the ocean around 70-100 million years ago. They produce food by photosynthesis. They reproduce sexually as well as asexually.
- These are found in muddy and sandy substrates. These also occur along the coastal areas of India. These are abundant in the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar.
- These are also called ‘the lungs of the sea’ because they release oxygen into the water through photosynthesis.
- Sequesters up to 11% of the organic carbon buried in the ocean.
- Absorb carbon from the atmosphere. They can capture carbon from the atmosphere up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests.
- Help maintain water quality and filter nutrients released from industries.
- Prevent soil erosion and provide food as well as habitat for fishes, octopuses, shrimp, blue crabs, oysters, etc.
- Seagrass beds are facing decline all over the world at the rate of 2-5% annually.
- Major threats to them include, grazing, storms, ice-scouring (abrasion and erosion of seabeds by glaciers), desiccation, eutrophication, mechanical destruction of habitat, overfishing, coastal engineering construction, etc.


Exotic Birds in RanganThittu Bird Sanctuary
I recently had a chance to visit the “Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary” which is also known as “Pakshi Kashi” of Karnataka is in the Mandya District of the state of Karnataka in India. It is on a gorge formed in the river Cauvery and comprises six islets. Ranganthittu is located at 3 kilometers away from the historic island town of Srirangapatna and about 16 kilometres north of Mysore. It is an important bird sanctuary of India.
Many birds notably, Painted Stork, Asian Openbill Stork, Common Spoonbill, Woolly-necked Stork, Black-headed Ibis, Lesser Whistling Duck, Indian Shag, Stork-billed Kingfisher, egrets, cormorants, Oriental Darter, and herons breed here regularly. The Great Stone Plover, and River Tern also nest here. More than 30 species of birds are found here during the peak season which is from January to October. About 50 pelicans have made Ranganathittu as their permanent home. (Gleaned from Wikipedia)
The park is home to a large flock of Streak-throated Swallows. I had the luck of photographing the muddy nest being built by the flock of those cute little swallows under a rock protruding in the riven which was in a low tide, as it were.
Here are those shots in an album.
- The elusive melody
- A fight for freedom of thought by a heretic


As I completed the reading in an HR class, I couldn’t help but think of another HR event from the Bible:
A few thousand years ago, the Hebrews were living in Egypt. Their population grew steadily, until it became a concern of the Pharaoh. Scared of an uprising or revolt, Pharaoh decided that he and his leadership team needed to deal shrewdly with the Hebrews. He decided to put a forced labor policy in place and make the Hebrews build some cities for him. But the more he oppressed them, the more they grew. So Pharaoh developed a strategy. He decided to make the labor even harsher. More bricks, less time off, fewer resources to do the job, lower wages, more production. Of course, his production goals were not met and the workers/slaves were not satisfied. He called them lazy. They called out to God.
In the end, his plan backfired. The Lord became the Hebrews’ union representative (along with Moses) and delivered them from the oppressive management.
A great lesson for three groups: government, management and employees.
- Government: implementing forced labor and slavery is not a good moral choice.
- Management: treat your employees with respect and have fair expectations or it will come back to bite you.
- Employees: keep doing your work faithfully–and if management treats you unfairly, you know where to turn.


GAPS Fact Sheet
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is the first experiment optimized to detect cosmic-ray antinuclei below 0.25 GeV/n as a signature of dark matter annihilation or decay in the Galaxy.
DESI Fact Sheet
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion of the universe. It will obtain optical spectra for tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, constructing a 3D map spanning the nearby universe to 11 billion light years.
FUEGO Fact Sheet
FUEGO’s scientific objective is to detect the very beginnings of wildfires, and to provide real-time information on a fire’s intensity, evolution and movement. The system is an imager operating in two IR bands (4 and 9 microns wavelength), with a visible context imager.
Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) Fact Sheet
ISI is a three-telescope interferometric array that uses heterodyne detection at 11 microns wavelength (27 THz).
EUSO-SPB2 Fact Sheet
The origin and nature of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) and neutrinos (UHEN) remain unsolved in contemporary astroparticle physics. The Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon II Mission (EUSO-SPB2) is one of several precursor missions for a space mission (JEM-EUSO) that would be dedicated to UHECR research.
MIST Fact Sheet
The Mapper of the IGM Spin Temperature (MIST) aim is to detect the global 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn and the dark age.
The primary physics objective of STAR is to study the formation and characteristics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter believed to exist at sufficiently high energy densities.
EDGES Fact Sheet
Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES). Detect the global 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn. Characterize the diffuse synchrotron radiation from the Milky Way.
COSI Fact Sheet
COSI is a wide field of view gamma-ray telescope that obtains high spectral resolution from 0.2 to 5 MeV, enabling sensitive narrow line imaging of the entire Galaxy.


Thirty-five reproducible activities per guide reinforce basic reading and comprehension skills while teaching high-order critical thinking. Also included are teaching suggestions, background notes, summaries, and answer keys. The guide is digital and only available on CD-ROM; simply print the activities you need for each lesson.Timeless Classicsdesigned for the struggling reader and adapted to ret...
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egrity of the original classic. These classic novels will grab a students attention from the first page. Included are eight pages of end-of-book activities to enhance the reading experience.


The fastest ice in the world for Olympians and the community.
The Olympic Oval was the speed skating venue designed for the XV Winter Olympic Games in Calgary and is still used today by varsity athletes and the community. As it was the world’s first indoor speed skating facility, it was very important to the speed skaters that they have access to natural light and views to the sky. Based on extensive daylighting studies conducted at the University of California at Berkeley, a daylighting system was developed that incorporates light shelves along the building’s perimeter enabling natural light to be reflected through the ceiling and deep into the interior.
The vast clear span of the roof was achieved by a superstructure of intersecting precast concrete arches and is clad with porcelain enamel panels. With the uninterrupted floor space, the oval could contain the speed skating track as well as running track and spectator seating without compromising viewing. The Oval is 203 metres long by 89 metres wide and accommodates up to 4,100 spectators. In addition to the 400-metre speed skating track, the Oval contains two Olympic-sized ice rinks, two jogging tracks of over 400 metres, and six 50-metre sprint lanes.
As part of the University of Calgary’s Kinesiology Complex, the Olympic Oval meets the needs of the University, community, and general public for recreational sports as well as the specialized requirements of high-performance athletes for training and competition. The Oval functions as an arena for hockey, figure skating, and speed skating in the winter and as a fieldhouse for dryland training in the summer.


BBT Medical Harmonic Scalpel
BBT Medical Ultrasonic Transducer
Ultrasonic Generator and Its Working Principle
1. What is an ultrasonic generator?
Ultrasonic generator is a kind of equipment that converts the mains power into the corresponding high-frequency AC power of the transducer, to drive the transducer to work. It is an important part of high-power ultrasonic system. It can also be called electronic box, ultrasonic driving power supply and ultrasonic controller.
2. Ultrasonic generator working principle
The input of the ultrasonic generator is a signal with a fixed frequency. The signal waveform is uncertain and can be sinusoidal or pulsed, but its frequency is fixed as the frequency of the transducer, generally 20, 25, 28, 33, 40, 60KHZ, etc. Through the internal conversion of the ultrasonic generator, its output is power signal, frequency tracking signal, etc.
As the output signal presents an unstable state with the change of input signal, some ultrasonic generators also contain feedback parts, which are mainly reflected in two aspects:
On the one hand, the change of the input signal leads to the instability of the output power, resulting in irregular mechanical vibration of the transducer and poor cleaning effect. After adding the feedback part, the power feedback signal adjusts the output power so that it does not change with the change of the input signal and presents a stable state. The regular mechanical vibration of the transducer makes the cleaning effect better.
On the other hand, the efficiency is the highest when the frequency of the transducer is at the resonant frequency point, but in practice, it cannot always work in the best state due to various reasons. Therefore, the feedback part plays its role to provide frequency tracking signal, and the signal sent by the control signal generator is always at the resonant point of the transducer to make it always work in the best state.


How’s your day been so far?
This lesson aims to teach students how to have some basic communication with colleagues in a professional environment. The primary skill is “small talk”, and focuses on building a student’s ability to speak in this way.
The lesson starts with a few questions about the first day of a new job and meeting new colleagues. The student shares their experience. This is followed by some basic tips on how to introduce oneself.
Video: Small talk
The student watches a video in which small talk is explained and some suggestions on starting a small talk are given. The student learns new vocabulary from the video (temperature check, cultural intelligence, be all business, etc.).
Vocabulary: Asking questions, responding, misunderstanding
The student learns about proper intonation when responding to what someone is saying.
They also learn what to say when there is a misunderstanding.
Next, they sort out small-talk questions based on the topic.
Finally, the student gets to discuss their personal experience with small talks.
Not another meeting!
In this C1 lesson, students will practice vocabulary and ideas related to business…
In this lesson, students will learn vocabulary and discuss how to deal with…
How may I help you?
In this lesson, the student will learn vocabulary related to etiquette and ways…


Close-Up Portraits Reveal the Incredibly Diverse Characteristics of Individual Bees
Although busy hives filled with honeybees tend to dominate mainstream imagery and conversations about bee populations, 90 percent of the insects are actually solitary creatures that prefer to live outside of a colony. This majority, which is comprised of tens of thousands of species, are also superior pollinators in comparison to their social counterparts because they’re polylectic, meaning they collect the sticky substance from multiple sources, making them even more crucial to maintaining crops and biodiversity.
“Whilst bee numbers, on the whole, are increasing, this is almost exclusively due to the increase in beekeeping, specifically honey bees,” wildlife photographer Josh Forwood tells Colossal. “Due to the artificially boosted populations in concentrated areas, honey bees are becoming too much competition for many solitary bee species. This, in turn, is driving almost a monoculture of bees in some areas, which has huge knock-on effects on the surrounding ecosystem.”
The U.K. alone boasts 250 solitary species, a few of which Forwood photographed in a series of portraits that reveal just how unique each individual is. To capture the creatures up-close, he constructed a log-and-bamboo bee hotel while bound to his home in Bristol during quarantine—Forwood frequently travels around the globe to document wildlife for clients including Netflix, Disney, BBC, National Geographic, and PBS.
After about a month, the hotel was in a buzz of activity, prompting Forwood to attach a camera to the end of the lengthy tubes and photograph the creatures as they crawled inside. The resulting portraits demonstrate just how incredibly unique each insect is with wildly differing body forms, color, eye shapes, and hair patterns. Every bee is in a nearly identical pose and its facial features dramatically framed in a ring of natural light for comparison, revealing how each insect truly has its own identity. Because the images only capture them from the front, Forwood says it’s difficult to estimate how many different species visited the structure considering most are identified by the shape and color of their bodies.
If you’re interested in establishing your own bee hotel, check out Forwood’s tutorial detailing his process. You also can follow his wildlife photography on Twitter and Instagram. (via PetaPixel)


Middle and high school students across the nation are taught about indigenous cultures of the Great Lakes region from 1000-1400AD through the use of lectures, books, and field trips. Field trips are an expensive and sometimes infeasible proposal for many schools and with passive learning it is difficult to explore the complexity of that time period.
Cahokia's proposed system would provide the students with a simulated interactive environment, which would allow them to “live?in the Cahokian time period and explore the systems that existed then. This will provide the students with an immersive environment that encourages the building of their analytical, evaluative, and synthesizing skills.
Immune Attack Game
Immune Attack is a first person strategy PC video game that teaches immunological principles through entertaining game play, and was object of my November's posting Excellent Educational Serious Game.
A serious game in which the player learns the layout, history, and school spirit of USC by a series of missions in a fictional story. In the future, school spirit at USC is at an all time low as the USC football team is coming off its 3rd winless season in a row. You play as Tommy Trojan come to life as the savior of USC. With his trojan powers your job is to bring USC back to its formal glory.
Since the year is 1896, the Expo also becomes a projection of what the new century will bring. There you encounter three powerful forces, which proved to be crucial agents of change in the development of modernism: artistic experimentation, radical politics, and new technologies.
--------------"Serious Game development is a rather new phenomenon in the game world and has the potential to eclipse the entertainment world in size over time if we perform the proper research as we build this very important area."


The Junior Pro is a Solar Hydrogen Experimentation System consisting of a solar module, PEM Electrolyzer, large hydrogen and oxygen storage tanks, PEM fuel cell, and fan (for electric load); mounted on a black base-plate, and textbook. The included H-TEC Education fuel cell textbook contains information about the technology and instructions for a variety of experiments.
The Junior Pro reflects the simple elegance of the hydrogen cycle by reflecting a self-contained hydrogen system that is perfect for introducing the technology behind the solar hydrogen cycle, or for demonstrations.
✔ Compact system on one base-plate with larger gas storage tanks
✔ Clear, self-explanatory set-up
✔ Sturdy construction
✔ Short setup time
Recommended Grades: 5 - 12
• Single Electrolyzer
• Fuel Cell Hydrogen Oxygen
• Solar Panel Cell
• Fan Load
• Acrylic Base Plate
• Larger Gas Storage Tanks with Magnetic Bases
• Instructional Textbook
✔ Producing and storing hydrogen and oxygen
✔ Determining characteristic curve of solar panel
✔ Operating the fuel cell with hydrogen and oxygen 2:1
✔ Determining characteristic curve of an electrolyzer
✔ Determining electrolyzer efficiency
✔ Learning about Faraday’s laws
✔ Determining characteristic curves of fuel cell
✔ Determining fuel cell efficiency
✔ Determining decomposition voltage of water
✔ Storing electrical energy from wind by using hydrogen technology
✔ Demonstrating a complete renewable hydrogen energy system
For the blue experiments listed above, you will also need the Measurement Set.
For the green experiments listed above, you will also need a Wind Generator.
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Agent-based modeling of seasonal population movement and the spread of the 1918-1919 flu: the effect on a small community
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Agent-based modeling provides a new approach to the study of virgin soil epidemics like the 1918-1919 flu. By using this bottom-up simulation approach, a landscape can be created and populated with a heterogeneous group of agents who move and interact in ways that more closely resemble human behavior than is usually seen in modeling techniques. This project uses the Norway House community in Manitoba, Canada as a framework for an agent-based model of the spread of the 1918-1919 flu epidemic. The epidemic arrived at Norway House, during the winter, when the community was dispersed in small, family hunting groups, leaving a small group of people running the fort. Hunters would return to the fort periodically for trade. In the summer, the entire community would gather near the fort. This travel pattern, along with the known characteristics of the influenza epidemic, is the basis for the model. Simulations are used to investigate the potential impact of seasonality in travel and population distribution on the spread of the flu epidemic. Results demonstrate that seasonality in travel and population distribution influence the spread of the flu epidemic. In the summer, when the people are congregated around the fort, the epidemic is short and intense. In the winter, when the people are dispersed on the land, the epidemic is long and less intense.


Psoriasis affects people of all ages, but usually first appears in early adulthood. Symptoms can:
- Vary from mild (affecting small areas of skin) to severe (covering the entire surface of the skin)
- Cause extensive physical and social discomfort and affect a person's quality of life
Psoriasis is often genetic, meaning you inherit it. If you have genes that put you at risk for psoriasis, symptoms can be triggered by things like:
- Certain drugs
- Sun exposure
The good news is that most cases of psoriasis can be managed by topical treatment with vitamin D, corticosteroids or combination products. There is now a wide variety of formulations available, from creams and ointments to gels, to meet a person's needs.
If symptoms are severe or cover a lot of the body, phototherapy with ultraviolet radiation or systemic therapy (tablets, injections, infusions) may be considered. Talk to your doctor to learn more about treatment options.
To learn more about psoriasis, visit:
Canadian Skin Patient Alliance
Canadian Association of Psoriasis Patients
Canadian Dermatology Association


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|Main Title||A Natural Calling Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox / [electronic resource] :|
|Author||Larkum, Anthony W. D.|
|Subjects||Life sciences ; Science--History ; Philosophy (General) ; Evolution (Biology) ; Science (General)|
|Collation||XLVI, 576 p. online resource.|
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Grandfathers and Fathers -- Christ's College, Cambridge (1824-1826) -- Charles Darwin at Cambridge: The Letters to William Darwin Fox -- Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle -- Professions, Marriage, Families and Illness -- The "Origin of Species" -- The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Living in the Shadow of Fame -- The Final Years. This book provides new factual material on Charles Darwin, following many years of research into Darwin's relationship to his cousin William Darwin Fox. It is a biographical and historical account of the letters exchanged by these two men and the diaries of W D Fox have never been accessed before. The relationship between Darwin and Fox has been acknowledged as a major biographical source on Darwin. Here the life of Fox is carefully pieced together and compared and contrasted with that of Darwin. Since Darwin and Fox were undergraduates together at Christ's College, Cambridge, and corresponded with each other for the rest of their lives, dying within two years of each other, the diaries allow us a vivid insight into the unique relationship of these two naturalists and family friends. Both were studying to be clergymen of the Church of England, when Darwin was offered a place on The Beagle. Thereafter their lives diverged, as Fox became the country parson that Darwin might have been. Never the less, Fox supplied many facts to Darwin, which were used in the "Origin of Species" and later books.The views and opinions exchanged between these two men greatly enlarge our appreciation of the life and contribution of Charles Darwin at a profoundly personal level.


James Madison: The Founder of Founding
A Lecture by James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia
Thursday, March 14, 2019 • 4:30 PM
Americans today speak easily and naturally of our “founding.” But who in 1787 had this concept in mind, and who thought of those who proposed America’s new form of government as “founders” or “Lawmakers”? In fact, these terms were used at the time to refer to legendary events and actors of ancient times, to the likes of Lycurgus who founded Sparta or Romulus who founded Rome. Prevailing theories of politics in the eighteenth century dismissed the relevance of founding to the modern age. The idea of founding and all that it implied had to be re-discovered and revived. James Madison performed this task. He is the founder of the modern idea of founding.
JAMES W. CEASER has been called “our country’s leading scholar in American politics.” He is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he directs the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. He is author of ten books on American politics and political thought, including Presidential Selection, Liberal Democracy and Political Science, Reconstructing America, and Nature and History in American Political Development. Professor Ceaser has held visiting professorships at the University of Florence, the University of Basel, Oxford University, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Rennes. A frequent contributor to popular press, he often comments on American politics for Voice of America. In 2008, President Bush appointed him to the National Archives Commission.


Ammonia emissions from a U.S. broiler house--comparison of concurrent measurements using three different technologies.
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There is a need for robust and accurate techniques for the measurement of ammonia (NH3) and other atmospheric pollutant emissions from poultry production facilities. Reasonable estimates of NH3 emission rate (ER) from poultry facilities are needed to guide discussions about the industry's impact on local and regional air quality. The design of these facilities features numerous emission points and results in emission characteristics of relatively low concentrations and exhaust flow rates that vary diurnally, seasonally, and with bird age over a considerable range. These factors combine to render conventional emissions monitoring approaches difficult to apply. Access to these facilities is also often restricted for biosecurity reasons. The three objectives of this study were (1) to compare three methods for measuring exhaust NH3 concentrations and thus ERs, (2) to compare ventilation rates using in situ measured fan characteristics versus using manufacturer sourced fan curves, and (3) to examine limitations of the alternative measurement technologies. In this study, two open-path monitoring systems operating outside of the buildings were compared with a portable monitoring system sampling upstream of a primary exhaust fan. The position of the open-path systems relative to the exhaust fans, measurement strategy adopted, and weather conditions significantly influenced the quality of data collected when compared with the internally located, portable monitoring system. Calculation of exhaust airflow from the facility had a large effect on calculated emissions and assuming that the installed fans performed as per published performance characteristics potentially overestimated emissions by 13.6-26.8%. The open-path measurement systems showed promise for being able to obtain ER measurements with minimal access to the house, although the availability of individual fan characteristics markedly improved the calculated ER accuracy. However, substantial operator skill and experience and favorable weather conditions were required to obtain good quality results.


What is chlorine-washed chicken?
By NCCFeatures Processing Production Consumer relations Diseases Education Livestock Production Poultry Production Processing Production Protection Sustainability United States
August 29, 2017, U.S. – Chlorinated chicken– or chlorine-washed chicken – simply means that chicken was rinsed with chlorinated water;
chlorine is not present in the meat. Just as chlorine helps make drinking water safe, it can help remove potentially harmful bacteria from raw chicken.
Numerous studies and research have confirmed that the use of chlorinated water to chill and clean chicken is safe and effective. Chlorine-washed chicken does not pose any human health concerns and it is not present in the final product.
Hypochlorus (i.e. chlorine) is a common disinfectant used in water treatment and food processing worldwide. Although it is proven safe, a lot of U.S. plants have moved away from chlorinated water in their chilling systems and rinses, opting for alternatives.
The National Chicken Council would estimate that chlorine is used in chilling systems and rinses in about 20-25 per cent of processing plants in the U.S., as a lot of U.S. plants have moved away from its use. Most of the chlorine that is used in the industry is used for cleaning and sanitizing processing equipment.
All chicken produced in the U.S. is closely monitored and inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). READ MORE
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You, like millions of other drivers, may stop regularly at the nearest fast food restaurant. After all, why wouldn’t you stop for a quick and convenient meal without ever having to leave the comfort of your car? While you may park and enjoy your meal before hitting the road again, most people just eat while they drive.
While Connecticut doesn’t have any law preventing people from enjoying a double cheeseburger, small fry and an extra-large soda while they drive, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s safe. Eating on the road is one of the many ways drivers can risk endangering themselves and others. Here’s what you should know:
Eating while driving is distracted driving
Distracted driving can occur when a driver looks away from the road – even for a second – causing them to miss important details that would otherwise prevent a car accident. Distracted drivers not only risk injuring themselves but they can put passengers, other drivers and bystanders in danger.
Eating while driving may be commonly done (and socially acceptable), but it’s still a distraction:
- A driver needs to unwrap their meal, causing them to take their hands off the wheel and look away from the road.
- A driver could spill their drink or get ketchup on their clothes and, out of frustration and surprise, suddenly lose focus while driving.
- A driver could get grease or condiments on their hands, causing their hands to slip while attempting to turn the wheel.
If you were recently in an auto accident and you suspect a driver became distracted because they were eating, then you may need to reach out for legal guidance in order to get the compensation you are due.


Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)
Glinka was born in the hamlet of Novospaskoye in the Smolensk Region, but lived in Saint Petersburg from 1817, where he studied at a boarding school for the children of aristocrats. In 1830 he traveled to Western Europe, where he established friendships with some of the leading composers of the day, including Bellini, Donizetti and Mendelssohn. He studied harmony and counterpoint in Berlin with Siegfried Dehn (1799-1858), whom he credited with giving him his only formal musical training. Glinka’s first opera, A Life for the Tsar (1836) was an immediate success. His second, arguably better opera Ruslan and Lyudmila (1842) was received less enthusiastically, yet later acknowledged as his greatest achievement.
In 1844, Glinka journeyed extensively through France and Germany. He became closely acquainted with Hector Berlioz, who included Glinka’s works in his own concerts. He spent two years in Spain, and composed numerous works inspired by native folklore—Jota Aragonesa and Recuerdos de Castilla. Glinka’s last years were spent traveling through western Europe and Russia. He died in Berlin in 1857.
Glinka composed about eighty romances. His earlier compositions were simplistic songs in the Italianate style of the early 1800’s, but his later works exhibited the skill of a more sophisticated composer. According to contemporary accounts, Glinka had a pleasant tenor voice and was known to perform his own compositions. Consequently, his song-writing was informed by an excellent knowledge of the human voice. He chose texts from various poets, including the greatest, such as Pushkin and Zhukovsky. He set many lyrics of his close friend Nestor Kukolnik (1809-1868) including the song cycle A Farewell to Saint Petersburg.
Glinka is regarded as Russia’s first truly significant composer. He infused western genres with a uniquely Russian flavor and is credited with establishing a Russian national school. He was followed by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, who in turn became a connecting link between Russian bel canto and the group of new nationalist composers led by Mily Balakirev.


Historically, Crimea commemorates the anniversary of the Pereyaslav Council on 18 January, which is one the key event of the national history. The statement was published by the Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov at his official Vkontakte page.
“That event clearly showed the people’s will of the historical Rus’ to unity, which is based on the common destiny, religion, language and moral and ethical values, what is stronger than any military force, any political intrigues, stronger than cunning and deviousness of betrayers. It proves that many years, decades and even centuries of wars, political disasters, trouble times and separations are unable to destroy the feeling of unity and brotherhood inside of the people, as well as this generation memory related to the certain family, bloodline and origin affiliations.
Celebrating the anniversary of the Pereyaslav Council during the desperate Ukrainian times, we believed that the reunification of Crimea with Russia is historically inevitable. Although, many people supposed such course of events was impossible and fantastic.
Today, we commemorate this memorable date already the seventh time in the Russian Crimea. We believe Ukraine and Russia will definitely be together. This is rather obvious, as the pathway of the Pereyaslav Council is the fundamental way of our shared history determined by the ancestors. Every time Ukraine deviated from that path, it found itself in the form of the Ruin on the sideline of the historical process or like the limp tool in the hands of hostile forces.
To my mind, the names of our common heroes, who were the natives of the Ukrainian land, can be the excellent evidence of my words. These are prominent statesmen, scientists, writers, poets and painters. Those people, whom we proudly call our compatriots.
So, on the contrary, such persons like Mazepa and modern politicians of Ukraine, who rejected the Pereyaslav Council and chose the way of betrayal can’t provide Ukraine with anything except devastation, beggary and shame”, — Sergey Aksyonov wrote.


What to Know About Dog Tooth Infections
It’s not unusual for a dog to develop a tooth infection at some point in their life. Whether due to an injury, poor dental hygiene, or a congenital defect, tooth infections can be painful and can even lead to more serious health problems if left untreated.
Here’s what you need to know about dog tooth infections.
Signs of a Tooth Infection in Dogs
The most common signs of a tooth infection in dogs include bad breath, difficulty eating or chewing, pawing at their face or mouth area, swelling around the face or muzzle, and visible abscesses or pus on the gums. If you suspect your dog has a tooth infection, take them to the vet as soon as possible.
Treating Dog Tooth Infections
The most effective way to treat a dog’s tooth infection is with antibiotics prescribed by your vet. Antibiotics will help clear up the infection and reduce the risk of it spreading elsewhere in the body.
Your vet may also recommend that your pet have its teeth cleaned professionally by a veterinary dentist and any infected teeth removed if necessary.
In some cases, they may also prescribe pain medications to keep your dog comfortable while they heal from the infection.
Preventing Dog Tooth Infections
Good dental hygiene is key when it comes to preventing tooth infections in dogs. This includes brushing your pet’s teeth regularly with an appropriate animal-safe toothbrush and toothpaste (never use human products).
You should also schedule regular checkups with your veterinarian so they can look for any signs of dental disease or decay that could lead to infection down the line.
Additionally, make sure you give your pet plenty of chew toys designed specifically for dogs which can help keep their teeth clean and healthy over time.
Dog tooth infections are fairly common but can be quite painful for our furry friends if left untreated.
Fortunately, there are simple steps we can take to prevent these infections from occurring in the first place which include good dental hygiene such as brushing their teeth regularly and providing them with chew toys designed specifically for dogs.
If you suspect your pup has an infected tooth, however, don’t hesitate—take them to the vet right away! With proper treatment and care, your pup will be feeling better in no time!


What is Sustainable Sewing?
What is sustainable sewing?
Sustainable sewing means sewing in a way which leaves a minimal impact on the planet. Keep reading to learn how we produce our patterns with this in mind. You can help by making garments designed to last for a long time and finding ways to reduce fabric wastage. Consider using eco-friendly fabric or reusing old textiles. And check out our lists of 20+ scrap busting patterns and our top 15 sustainable sewing projects. Learn how to preserve your sewing patterns so they last through multiple uses.
Get involved on Earth day
Every year on April 22, people around the world celebrate Earth Day. It’s a day to think about ways you can Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in your daily life, including your favourite hobby! Making sustainable choices when you sew can help make a real impact on our planet. For sewing enthusiasts this means examining our consumption and waste to see how we can make the most out of every pattern and fabric we purchase. You can also sew lifestyle solutions that replace single use products and plastics such as eco-friendly sewing projects for the kitchen.
Did you know?
All our pattern products use recycled materials. And we’re proud to be part of a lasting tradition where makers reuse and reinvent our patterns, owning them for many years after they first bought them.
Although paper can be both biodegradable and easily recyclable, it can also be the product of deforestation or poor forestry practices if not sourced sustainably.
As well as using recycled paper in our production we work with accredited paper mills to source our stock:
– Our tissue paper comes from a FSC certified mill.
– The guide sheet paper comes from a FSC & SFI certified mill.
– And our envelope paper comes from a FSC, SFI and PEFC certified mill.
Read our Sustainability Statement to learn more.
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Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Győr, Hungary
On the left is St. Adalbert of Prague, patron saint of the diocese of Esztergom in Hungary. The spears in his right hand are his attribute, referring to his martyrdom at the hands of a mob of pagans that attacked him with spears. Next to him is St. Martin of Tours, identified by the beggar at his feet. Though he was bishop of Tours, France, St. Martin was born in what is now Szombathely, Hungary, and has been regarded as one of the patron saints of the Hungarian kingdom (Năstăsoiu, 101).
On the right side are St. Stanislas, a king of Hungary whose attribute is a battle-axe, and St. Emeric with his attribute, the stalk of lilies. Emeric was the son of the St. Stephen I of Hungary.
Both shields are inscribed PATRONA HUNGARIÆ, "Patron Saint [feminine] of Hungary," and both appear to feature the Madonna and Child. Their different color clothing may perhaps have some significance.
Read more about St. Adalbert of Prague and St. Martin of Tours
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Structural Integrity Field System
This information can be found in Section 2.4 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.
The mechanical integrity of the physical spaceframe of a starship is augmented by the structural integrity field (SIF) system. This system provides a network of forcefield segments that compensate for propulsive and other structural load factors that otherwise exceed the design limits of the spaceframe. The SIF applies forcefield energy directly to field conductive elements within the spaceframe and increases the load-bearing capacity of the structure.
Field generation for the SIF is provided by a number of field generators. A Galaxy-class vessel has five generators, three on Deck 11 of the Primary Hull, and two on Deck 32 in the Secondary Hull. Each generator consists of a cluster of twenty 12 MW graviton polarity sources feeding a pair of 250 millicochrane subspace field distortion amplifiers. Heat dissipation on each unit is provided by a pair of 300,000 megajoules per hour (MJ/hr) continuous-duty liquid helium coolant loops. (Two backup generators are located on each Hull of the Galaxy-class, providing up to twelve hours of service at 55% of maximum rated power). Normal duty cycle on generators is thirty-six hours online, with nominal twenty-four hours degauss and scheduled maintenance time. Graviton polarity sources are rated for 1,500 operating hours between routine servicing of supercondictive elements.
The output of each SIF generator is directed by means of a network of molybdenum-jacketed triphase waveguides which distributes the field energy throughout the spaceframe. SIF conductivity elements are incorporated into all major structural members. When energized by the SIF, the load-bearing capacity of these structural elements is increased by up to 125,000%. Secondary feeds also provide for reinforcement of the vehicle's external shell.
Cruise Mode operating rules require at least one field generator to be active at all times in each hull, although the Flight Control Officer may call for activation of a second generator when extreme maneuvers are anticipated. During Alert modes, all operational units are brought to hot standby for immediate activation. Reduced Power Mode rules permit a single field generator to feed the entire spaceframe using the field conduit umbilical connect between the primary and engineering sections.


(NC) Registered dietitians (RDs) are regulated health professionals. As such, they have a duty to protect their therapeutic relationship with clients. What does this mean?
It means that as a client, you should be confident that your RD will act professionally and take care of your nutritional needs above everything else. You should also expect that your dietitian will respect professional boundaries to keep you safe.
One way to respect boundaries is to avoid dual relationships. Dual relationships are a type of professional boundary crossing that can damage the RD-client relationship. An example of a dual relationship is when a dietitian treats a friend or family member or becomes friends with a client. Although dietitians are permitted to treat friends and family (except their spouse or romantic partner), they must use professional judgement in such cases to keep the therapeutic space safe. Most of the time, it is best for dietitians to avoid treating friends and family. It is important to keep in mind that RDs are not allowed to have a romantic or sexual relationship with a client. By law, this dual relationship is considered sexual abuse.
Exchanging gifts with your dietitian is a type of boundary crossing that can be problematic. Gifts have an emotional component that can change the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship. Receiving or giving a gift may indicate that a friendship is developing between an RD and a client.
RDs are accountable to their college for quality, client-centred dietetic practice. If you think a dietitian has crossed a boundary, you can contact the College of Dietitians of Ontario for help.
Find more information at www.mydietitian.ca


According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a significant number of work-related amputation injuries are reported each day. The statistics cover Ohio and other states that do not have their own programs for workers’ health and safety. Although nine in 10 amputations involve fingers, hands, feet and toes, other parts of workers’ bodies are also at risk of amputation.
Most amputation injuries happen where machines are used to work on material, such as bending metal on a mechanical press, cutting fabric with a razor and cutting holes into metal with a drill bit. Power transmission injuries involve pulleys, chains, belts, cams, flywheels, connecting rods and gears. In addition, contact with machine parts that traverse moving parts, rotate or reciprocate could also cause amputation injuries.
Employers must eliminate potential amputation hazards by installing appropriate engineering and administrative controls. Proper guarding, barriers and fences must prevent workers from making contact with moving parts. Lockout/tag-out devices must be used when maintenance and cleaning take place. Adequate safety training must ensure that workers know the proper use of safety devices and the correct use of personal protective equipment.
Amputation injuries could prevent workers from returning to the same occupations. The loss of income and mounting medical bills could add to the anxiety over losing a body part. To ensure they receive the maximum applicable benefits, many Ohio workers choose to leave the navigation of workers’ compensation claims to an attorney with experience in fighting for the rights of workers who suffered on-the-job amputation injuries. Along with medical expenses and lost wages, other benefits might include vocational rehabilitation to provide new skills to prepare workers for alternative occupations.


With nine cameras to work with, the first few days about 30 children aged 11-18 years share the cameras to do exercises on understanding light, composition, captions and vocabulary. To start with, practically every other photograph is a posed one. Before we know it, given how little input they receive, documentary style pictures take over. Children photograph scenes from their lives naturally and almost effortlessly, without distracting the community. And as they capture the village life they explore their own world.
Student numbers go down. A few boys come every day, many (especially girls) have to help in their compounds or work on the farm, but once they have the time they want ‘to snap’. It appears to be a self- selection process and by the end of the first week they are about 12 boys and 5 girls. They fight for the cameras to photograph a market day, or various activities on a Sunday, or our trip to the ‘rock’. After a lesson on captions, they are off to take pictures of actions and things they know words for in Yoruba, Ikaan, Ebira, Hausa, English. They come back excited and teach each other.
Their first computer lesson is to follow. They can now transfer photographs from a camera onto a computer and select the ones they like. Ikakumo is like a mini-Babylon, a condensed splice of society, a small village in rural Nigeria, with healthy and disabled children, celebrations and disputes, hardships and joys, problems and dreams. When they grow up, children want to be lawyers and doctors, nurses and artists, soldiers and actors, technologists and footballers.


An official website of the United States government
In 2007, the union membership rate for public sector workers (35.9 percent) was substantially higher than for private industry workers (7.5 percent).
Within the public sector, local government workers had the highest union membership rate, 41.8 percent. This group includes many workers in several heavily unionized occupations, such as teachers, police officers, and fire fighters.
Private sector industries with high unionization rates include transportation and utilities (22.1 percent), telecommunications (19.7 percent), and construction (13.9 percent). In 2007, unionization rates were relatively low in agriculture and related industries (1.5 percent) and in financial activities (2.0 percent).
These 2007 data on union membership are from the Current Population Survey. Unionization data are for wage and salary workers. Find out more in "Union Members in 2007," (PDF) (TXT) news release USDL 08-0092.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Union membership by industry, 2007 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2008/feb/wk2/art01.htm (visited May 30, 2023).


Memory loads and stores are last thing we need before we can examine real programs.
This is the ninth video in Part 1 of the Performance-Aware Programming series. Please see the Table of Contents to quickly navigate through the rest of the course as it is updated weekly. The homework files (listing 51 52, and optionally 53) are available on the github.
A lightly-edited transcript of the video follows.
As I've said many times throughout this section, our goal is not to emulate an 8086, it's to get a solid feel for how machine code works on the x86 line of processors. We've almost accomplished that goal. The only thing we have not looked at yet is the interaction between the CPU and memory.
Before starting this course, a lot of people might have thought that assembly language was inscrutable — that they couldn't read it, and it would be very hard to learn to read it. But if you've managed to do the regular homework so far, you’ve basically learned how to read and understand assembly language. Yes, you don’t know the thousands of instructions that are in a modern x64 core. But no one really does! Even programmers who read assembly language often tend to know only a subset of the instructions by heart, and they look up the other ones when they need to. If you’re done the homework in this course, you now know how to do exactly that, as you’ll see when we move on to the next section.
In this post I’d like to finish our tour of basic x86 instructions by implementing memory-to-register and register-to-memory mov instructions. They are the last piece of the simulation puzzle that will allow us to write a whole variety of real programs if we want to. It may seem strange, but just mov, add, sub, cmp, and conditional jumps are more than enough to build very complicated programs if you want to!
So let’s finish mov. From the decoding homework, we know we can include memory addresses in the mov instruction as either the source or the destination of a mov:


Sweet red blood
This is a deciliter (about 3.3 fluid ounces) of “blood”. Where I live, we measure blood glucose concentrations based on how much glucose is present in this amount of blood.
So, if I wanted to find out how much glucose was in the above sample of “blood”, I’d simply extract the glucose, put it on a scale, and weigh it.
(Your nation may vary, and if it does, I apologize in advance for not doing the conversion for you. But mmols involve counting molecules, not weighing them, and mmol folks base it on a full liter – or litre if you prefer – which is an order of magnitude larger)
All I ever needed to know I learned in 7th grade
When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher structured an entire lesson around the children’s book The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Though the topic of the book is not without controversy (people draw parallels to an ungrateful child who keeps taking from a parent who enables the greedy behavior), this lesson was a little different. And it’s a lesson that has stuck with me to this very day. If you’re not familiar with the book, you should either go get a copy (now!!), or be warned that I’m about to reveal the ending. Not that knowing the ending of this book will ruin it or anything, but still — SPOILER ALERT!!
The story is about the interactions between a boy and a tree. At the beginning of the book, when the boy was a young child, he would play on the tree: climb it, swing from it, and eat its apples. Then the boy’s priorities changed. His visits became more and more infrequent, and when he did, greed had taken over. What follows are a few quotes from the boy in subsequent pages:


Field Marshall William Harcourt (1743-1830) was a soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Serving with the 16th Light Dragoons, Harcourt was scouting in enemy territory on the 13th December 1776, when he came across a messenger bearing a letter from General Lee to General Washington. This subsequently led to the capture of General Charles Lee, regarded as one of the most talented American military leaders, and Harcourt’s recognition as a national hero.
William Harcourt’s monument can now be seen in the North Quire Aisle of St George’s Chapel. It stands 76 inches high on a stone base, representing the Field Marshall in his Coronation robes. However, the figure, sculpted by Sievier in 1832, was originally intended for Stanton Harcourt Church in Oxfordshire, but was moved to its current location on the orders of the King after he took a liking to the ‘splendid statue’. Where the original statue was to be placed in the south transept of Stanton Harcourt, now stands a plaster model, identical to the white marble figure at Windsor.
Despite Britain’s defeat in the American War of Independence, William Harcourt continued to be viewed as a hero, the monument commemorating the honour and bravery demonstrated by him. It was therefore appropriate that his statue would be placed in the Chapel, flanking Deans and Canons, Military Knights, and members of the English Royal Family.
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Graven Images: The Art of the Woodcut
Jon Crabb (Author)
DescriptionThe invention of the printing press led to an explosion of cheap printed materials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ballads were no longer confined to the soapbox. Mass communication was now possible. The broadsides pasted on walls and disseminated among the masses, together with the written ballads hawked at street corners, represented the zeitgeist of popular culture in early modern Europe. Frequently designed in 'blackletter' gothic type and accompanied with distinctive woodcut illustrations, this dynamic, lively form encompassed the obsessions and characteristic humour of the times. This beautifully designed book with a foreword by Reece Shearsmith highlights some of the most striking and amusing examples from the British Library's collections and provides brief commentary on the political and social background of the times. Frequent topics of illustration include monsters, witches, criminals, drinking, war and politics.
British Library Publishing
6 April 2017
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DENVER -- Some of Denver’s most densely populated neighborhoods have packed in more people since 2000, from Lower Highland to the Central Business District and Five Points to Capitol Hill. That much is well known.
But even after the revival of urbanism in Denver and other American cities, it turns out that most of those neighborhoods are, in fact, less populated today than they were in 1950 — which was when the last streetcar in Denver’s once-extensive network shut down.
Six months into a citywide planning review that’s aimed at resetting Denver’s course on several fronts, including land use and transportation, the city’s chief planner, Brad Buchanan, says such nuggets of context have taken him by surprise.
The dynamic holds citywide: Denver’s overall population density stood at nine people per acre in 2014 census estimates, not including the land occupied by Denver International Airport. Yet in 1950, a city researcher calculated, the city’s density was 9.8 residents per acre.
Of course, Denver has grown in land area since then, from 66 square miles to 154 square miles, including DIA. The city’s Department of Community Planning and Development says a more apples-to-apples comparison — looking within only the 1950 boundaries — found a population density in 2014 of 9.9 residents per acre in that area, or roughly the same as 1950.


Over the years, the IEM partnered with KCCI-TV (Des Moines, IA), KELO-TV (Sioux Falls, SD), and KIMT-TV (Mason City, IA) to collect data from their respective school-based weather stations. Sadly, the observation equipment fell into disrepair and the various networks were wound down or replaced with proprietary solutions. On 13 May 2019, all data collection was discontinued.
This page presents some legacy links and means yet to download the data.
- About wind gust alerts sent to the Weather Service.
- Download from the archive!
- Hourly Rainfall tables
- Rainfall Rates
Plotting Time Series
- 1 station [20 minute data]
- 1 station [1 minute data]
- Generate Interactive Comparisons between two sites of your choice.
Many of the school net stations are not located in good meteorological locations. While the stations may be accurate, their data may not be representative of the area in general. Often, they are placed on top of buildings and may have obstructions which could skew wind and temperature readings. The stations are placed at schools for educational purposes and to get students interested in the weather.


The IOC rules of the time allowed the organizing Committee of the Olympic Games to organise two demonstrations, in addition to the official sports on the program. The aim of these demonstrations was to promote lesser-known sports to the world audience. One sport was to be peculiar to the country where the Games are being held, and the other an international sport which is practically unknown in the country organizing the Games.
Local Sport Demonstration
The suggested sports in which to demonstrate a local sport were archery, rugby, skittles, korfball and kaatsen.
Archery was out of the question due to it being a past sport of the Olympics.
Rugby was recommended by the American Olympic Association and suggested by the Delft Students Rugby Club, but could not be argued as a specially Dutch sport.
Skittles was proposed by the Netherlands Skittles Federation, but was concluded to be not so suitable for a demonstration to a large crowd.
Kaatsen had been suggested by the Netherlands Kaats Federation a long time previously, and was favoured for the demonstration.
Korfball was suggested by the Netherlands Korfball Federation, and was found to have been promised for national demonstration. (it was also a demonstration sport in 1920)
Subsequently, it was agreed to to make an exception, and demonstrate both Kaatsen and Korfball.
International Sport Demonstration
Many games were suggested for the demonstration of an international sport not commonly played in the Netherlands.
Handball was recommended by Kölner Spielverein Germania and also by the International Amateur Athletic Federation.
Basketball was recommended by the National Council of the Y.M.C.A. and the Canadian Amateur Basketball Association.
The Spanish Olympic Committee put forward Pelote basque (the demonstration sport from 1924) and for which it was necessary to build a wall.
The American Olympic Association suggested Canoe Racing.
From Iceland the game of Glima was suggested (a demonstration sport from 1912).
After much consideration Lacrosse was chosen.
Final List of Demonstration Sports at the 1928 Olympics
source: 1928 Official Report
- Full list of all Demonstration Sports


(Biblical World) Mary Buck – Ugarit and the Bible
Episode: After being forgotten for over 3000 years, the ancient city of Ugarit was rediscovered by archaeologists in 1929. Perhaps the greatest find from the site was the stash of over 2500 texts written in the ancient language of Ugaritic, texts which illuminated the history of the ancient world and the life of the local inhabitants. Join hosts Mary Buck and Chris McKinny as they discuss the ancient site of Ugarit which ruled over the Northern Levant from 1800 BCE to 1200 BCE.
Hosts: Mary Buck (Shepherds Theological Seminary) and Chris McKinny (Gesher Media)
Summary: In this episode, Chris and Mary discuss the following:
– The accidental discovery of Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and the expedition
– An overview of the city of Ugarit, the finds, and its significance in the 2nd millennium BC
– Potential connections between Ugarit and the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.
Additional Resources: 2019 – Buck, Mary – Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit; 2019 – Buck, Mary – The Canaanites; Their History and Culture from Texts and Artifacts.
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Brewing/Distilling Gas Detectors
The growing brewing and distilling industry in Ireland produces carbon dioxide (CO2) which can be a hazard to workers. Other gases such as ammonia for refrigeration can also be present on sites. Portable gas monitors provide necessary protection for workers in this industry.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) occurs widely in the drinks industry. It has the potential to kill, but not everyone is aware of the true nature of the risk. Many national regulatory bodies set exposure limits above which employees must not be exposed. People die needlessly every year in the drinks industry in tragic and completely avoidable accidents. Use of personal gas protection devices designed to detect CO2 is necessary to protect human life.
There is still a misconception among some that, by monitoring oxygen (O2) levels, they are effectively protecting themselves against CO2. This is not the case, however. Reliance on monitoring levels of oxygen to protect against CO2 has led to fatalities.
CO2 is heavier than air. It is a hazard throughout the manufacturing process, right through to packaging and bottling and even to the bars and eating establishments where the drinks are served. If CO2 escapes, it will tend to sink to the floor, where it can form deadly, invisible pockets and gives off no smell. It collects in cellars and at the bottom of containers and confined spaces, such as tanks and silos.
However, reliance on oxygen alarms to monitor the presence of carbon dioxide has previously led to fatalities. Carbon dioxide can make you unwell at concentrations as low as 0.5%, and extended periods of low level exposure can have severe consequences. This is long before the lack of oxygen becomes an issue. Even 7% of CO2 has been shown to kill in 5 minutes. To ensure safety, correct use of a CO2 personal monitor is essential. In larger locations fixed gas monitors may be appropriate.
MODELS: Portable: Gasman CO2, Gasman Ammonia, G110 Fixed: Xgard CO2, Xgard NH3
CSL supply, service and maintain all our gas detectors in our workshop in Carlow or on site.


AI tools aim to limit cement use and emissionsBuildings
They use sensing technology and predictive modelling.
Ottawa-based Giatec has developed two artificial intelligence (AI) programs, Roxi and SmartMix, to help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the mixing of concrete for the construction industry.
Every year, 20 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, yielding some 2 billion tons of GHG emissions, accounting for 8% of total global carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution. By using sensing technology and predictive modelling, Roxi and SmartMix can reportedly reduce these emissions by up to 20%.
Developed with funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), Roxi is reportedly the first AI algorithm created for concrete testing. It is used with Giatec’s SmartRock 3 sensor (pictured) to help predict concrete properties, detect anomalies in performance, optimize mixtures and reduce overall cement use.
“Roxi enables a significant reduction of concrete’s CO2 footprint,” says Andrew Fahim, Giatec’s director of research and development (R&D). “This is evident when comparing our data for mixtures produced in Canada, the U.S. and European markets and the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) benchmark versus algorithmic suggestions for mixtures to meet the same compressive strength classes.”
SmartMix, meanwhile, is a web-based dashboard for Roxi, enabling producers to adjust the proportions of mixes and predict how such changes influence concrete performance in terms of compressive strength or other criteria.
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It’s not something that you can conquer with determination. This is an alarming mental health truth. Depression may be result of chemical imbalances in the brain. Certain medications can help to restore this healthy balance.
The treatment you receive can be approached by a number of different ways. Intensifying your physical exercise is often a major weapon against depression. Do you suffer from back pain? Find the appropriate spinal care to permit you to be active regularly. Today, there are more options than ever in regards to recovery and exercise. Test out different workout routines treatment with cryotherapy, additional modern methods for starting your journey of treating your depression.
4. Insufficient sleep can cause more harm than you imagine.
Even though we’re aware of the fact that sleeping is crucial for our bodies to recuperate but it’s not always that we’re aware of the it can cause damage that not enough rest can cause. This can lead to not just being tired and continually yawning. In the same way as ignoring treatment or health care services excessive sleep may lead to depression and anxiety as well as impairments to memory as well as cognition and cognitive decline.
Even the slightest lapse in those hours of rest can have profound results. A lack of sleep can cause excess weight. This happens because there is a drop in leptin the hormone that lets us know when the body is satisfied to eat, as well as an increase in the feeling of hunger (hormone which tells us it’s hungry), makes us more inclined to eat later during the day. These shocking facts about the state of your mind can help to reverse your course.
5. There is also the possibility of having an impact on your mental wellbeing by changing how you think.
Your personality is made up of the way you think and feel as well as the way you behave. Your personality will affect how you relate to others as well as how you handle tension, and even the types you are.