Take notice that in the scripture the term used “wise men” never gave a numerical count. What were wise men during these times? They studied the stars (science and math); also known as star gazers. Another well known name “Magi” were known in ancient Media (modern Iran), Persia and Arabia as “Zoroastrian Priest” who held supernatural powers. These men were gentiles who traveled from the East because this is where they saw the star appear to them and they traveled in the direction of that star. Arabia, Iran and Persia are west of Jerusalem. We do not know how many in number went looking for the King of the Jews it could have been as few as two or up to the thousands. We must stop reading more than what is provided to us in the bible just because the wise men brought with them and presented three gifts. It was the wise men who first announced that the King of the Jews has been born by asking “where is HE who is born King of the Jews? Notice also that they specifically proclaimed that they have come to “worship HIM”. This lets me know that these Priest though gentiles (non-believers) were actual believers in The LORD GOD. How else could a non-believer know about whom JESUS is unless he is informed; also the Priest must have had spiritual knowledge that the King of the Jews is The CHRIST. King Herod specifically asked his scribes and Chief Priest where The CHRIST is to be born. These officials knew the information because it had been recorded by Balaam in Number 24:17. Now notice that the description of JESUS is always “young child” HE is never referred to as a baby though in our culture a child of four is still considered a baby also known as toddler. Even the angel of The LORD called JESUS a young child. King Herod calculating from the time the wise men spoke to him about the King of the Jews ordered that all male children be killed from age two to just born. This is literal if a woman was giving birth to a baby during these murderous events and it is seen that the baby is male, that baby was murdered. This was all done to ensure that the life of this King of the Jews was snuffed out.
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Improv Games for a High School Drama Class
Improvisational games liven up a drama class in a creative way by testing students' abilities and sharpening their skills. Students becomes adept at using their imagination and become less self-conscious and more confident. Drama is a creative channel for high school students -- and the director or teacher can use lively and interesting situations to make classroom learning fun.
1 Letting Loose
Students sit in a circle to observe each other's expressions and actions. The director or teacher stands or sits in the center and gives them an emotion to express through voice, gesture and expression -- for example, sorrow, joy, fear, ecstasy or hysteria. Students must keep the flow constant and fast; whoever hesitates has to leave the circle. The student who is able to pick up the cue fastest and show the greatest energy will be the last one sitting: she is the winner.
2 Guess Who?
Divide the class into two teams, A and B. Put slips of paper in a box or basket, with each slip containing a description of a physical action, such as "Jumping off a bridge" or "Rescuing a cat from a tree." One student from team A performs the action while team B guesses what the action is. The winner is the team that guesses the most actions correctly. This game is a fun way for students to practice their acting skills, particularly the physical sort.
3 Get Into Character
Students sit in a circle and one sits in the center and assumes a character in a particular situation that the director or teacher gives her. Those sitting in a circle ask her questions, putting her on the spot. For instance, "You are Juliet on the night before you marry Paris. What are your feelings?" The ones in the circle can prompt her or question her -- helping to give the character more depth and testing the skill of the student actor.
4 Prop It!
This game involves using ordinary and simple objects as props. The object is given a name and it becomes a stage "property" which students have to find an imaginative use for. The teacher or director tells the students what the object is supposed to be and the students describe it or use it in the acting game as if it is a part of the act. The student with the most creativity and confidence is the winner.


Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation
Hosted By: The Center for Jewish History
In the Bible, Elijah is a zealous prophet, attacking idolatry and injustice, championing God. He performs miracles, restoring life and calling down fire. When his earthly life ends, he vanishes in a whirlwind, carried off to heaven in a fiery chariot. Though residing in heaven, Elijah revisits earth—to help, rescue, enlighten, and eventually herald the Messiah.
How did this zealot turn into a compassionate hero, the most popular figure in Jewish folklore, invited into every Jewish home during the Passover Seder? In Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation, his new biography in the Jewish Lives series at Yale University Press, author Daniel C. Matt explores this question, tracing how Elijah develops from the Bible to rabbinic Judaism, Kabbalah, and Jewish ritual (as well as Christianity and Islam). Dr. Matt will be in conversation with Dr. Barry W. Holtz, Theodore and Florence Baumritter Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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“On Friday, August 7, 2015, Nantucket Lightship/LV-112, a former commissioned U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) floating lighthouse (1936-75), National Historic Landmark and National Treasure, will commemorate the restoration of its historic 500,000-candlepower light beacon (23-mile range) and the activation of its foghorn (14-mile range) at its homeport berth in Boston Harbor. At dusk on August 7, Nantucket/LV-112’s bright and guiding main light beacon will be turned on once again for the first time since the ship was decommissioned at the USCG-Base Boston in 1975 and its navigational aids were extinguished. The restoration of LV-112’s light beacon, foghorn and radio beacon tower components were made possible by a generous grant awarded to the U.S. Lightship Museum (USLM) by American Express, facilitated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The date for celebrating lighthouses is based in America’s maritime heritage. On August 7, 1789, the United States Congress approved an act for the “establishment and support of Lighthouse, Beacons, Buoys, and Public Piers.” Two hundred years later, Congress designated August 7 as National Lighthouse Day. It provides recognition for the important maritime role played by lighthouses and lightships (floating lighthouses), vessels stationed in waters where it was unsuitable to build lighthouses.”
For complete article, see U.S. Lightship Museum’s enewsletter (July 2015).


ACRO and Solar School
ACRO - Learning Skills
The ACRO skills model used at Chesswood has been adapted from the Welsh Assembly model which was introduced to 'focus on the attitudes, skills and behaviours needed to enable young people to meet the needs of business in the 21st Century' (Business Wales). They form a core part of our 'Life opportunities' curriculum driver (see curriculum).
The types of skills covered can be referred to as 'entrepreneurial' 'employability' or 'learning' skills and underpin all learning at Chesswood, developing in children an understanding of the personal skills required to be successful in many areas of life, relating well to the school's curriculum driver ' Life Opportunities'.
Use the menu on the right to access how ACRO is developed at Chesswood.
The core skills covered are -
Beneath these core skills are 'families of skills' which children focus throughout their time at Chesswood.
To engage children with the skills, 'Solar School' has been developed at Chesswood. Solar School is a ficticious school set in space and has been created to introduce pupils to learning skills, utilising and expanding the ACRO framework. Pupils from Chesswood school worked with Andy Bartlett (designer) to develop the ideas behind Solar School - leading the Solar School model to be launched at Chesswood - The Home of Solar School. Children at Chesswood are familiar with the 'Solar School Scenario'.


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Marcopper disaster 25 years on: Mamerto Lanete
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Fisherman Mamerto Lanete calls vitamins his “maintenance medicines.” At 69 years old, Mang Mamerto has no illness, a small mercy considering his bigger struggles.
Mang Mamerto is a widower who supports three grandchildren who are staying with him in Lupac, Marinduque. The kids' mother had died, and their father is in prison. Mang Mamerto is able to support them with his 2,000-peso pension and from what he earns from fishing.
But fishing isn’t what it used to be in Marinduque. Twenty-five years ago, a drainage tunnel of the Marcopper mining plant cracked, spilling millions of tons of mine tailings into the Boac River that would eventually reach the sea. Marinduque would forever be changed.
Since then fishing has become much more difficult for fisherfolk like Mang Mamerto.
Because the water has been polluted, fishes have moved further away from the coast. Where Mang Mamerto used to fish five to ten kilometers from the coast, he now has to travel five kilometers more.
Mang Mamerto was out fishing when the disaster struck. He immediately ran to Boac River to see what had happened.
“The water used to be clear. After the spill, the water turned dirty. It now had the color of chocolate,” he says.
Mang Mamerto feared that the spill would reach the sea and affect his livelihood. It did.
“The tulyasan (Skipjack tuna) and tambakol (Yellowfin tuna) species disappeared,” he says.
Because of the devastation caused by the spill, Mang Mamerto, along with two others, have filed a case against the company implicated in the spill.
They are demanding for the rehabilitation of Boac River.
It’s been ten years since the case was filed. Mang Mamerto is hoping the case will be finally resolved, especially since it’s their lives that are on the line, he says.
The Marcopper disaster is a grim reminder that mining can exact a high price. A price that people and nature, not companies, usually pay.


Create a spreadsheet in Numbers on iPad
To create a spreadsheet, you start with either a blank template, to which you can add tables, charts, text, and other objects, or a predesigned template that has placeholder elements, including text and images. These templates, which are designed for purposes like personal finance, business, and education, give you a great starting point, and you can modify them however you like.
Create a spreadsheet
Open Numbers, then in the spreadsheet manager, tap at the top of the screen to open the template chooser (shown below).
Note: If you’d like the ability to format table and chart data using the conventions of another language, choose the language before choosing a template. See Change a spreadsheet’s language and formatting.
Tap a spreadsheet template to open it.
Scroll to see all of the templates, or tap a category at the top.
Do any of the following:
Tap a table cell to delete placeholder content and add your own.
While viewing Numbers in landscape orientation, tap one of the object buttons in the middle of the toolbar to add other tables, text boxes, shapes, and images.
While viewing Numbers in portrait orientation, tap in the toolbar to add other tables, text boxes, shapes, and images.
Arrange the sheet by dragging tables and objects to where you want them.
To close the spreadsheet, tap Spreadsheets or in the top-left corner of the screen.
Your spreadsheet is saved automatically as you work, so you don’t lose your work when you close the spreadsheet. Closing the spreadsheet doesn’t quit Numbers.
Your spreadsheet is saved automatically as you work. You can change the name of the spreadsheet or change where it’s saved at any time.


Meditation is a technique that allows the mind to be brought to a state of calm and relaxation, through methods that include postures and focus of attention to achieve tranquility and inner peace. Next we want to show you 3 steps to start meditation
First step: Reserve time for meditating
You should reserve 1 or 2 moments throughout the day to disconnect for a while. It can be when you wake up to allow you to start the day with less anxiety and more attention. At noon, to rest a little from tasks, or when you go to sleep, to calm your mind before sleeping.
Ideally, 15 to 20 minutes is an excellent time to get the maximum benefits of meditation. Although, 5 minutes is enough to allow a journey within, achieving calmness and focus.
Find a quiet place
It is recommended to have a space where you can sit with a bit of tranquility, such as a living room, garden, sofa, it is also possible in a chair, or even in the car after parking before going to work, for example.
The important thing is that you can be, preferably, in a quiet environment and with a minimum of distractions to facilitate concentration.
Learning to pay special attention to breathing and using the lungs entirely is essential. A deep breath should be taken, pushing the air out using the belly and chest and a slow, pleasant expansion.
Breath control may not be easy to start with, which happens with practice, but it must be comfortable and without forcing it so that it does not become an unpleasant moment. An exercise that can be done is to count four on the inhalation and repeat this time for the exhalation.


Ferdinand Magellan, Genghis Khan, Thor Heyerdahl, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travelers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages—from early trips through the great port city of Alexandria to the latest journeys into space.
In antiquity, we follow Alexander the Great to the Indus and Hannibal across the Alps; in medieval times, we trek beside Genghis Khan and Ibn Battuta. The Renaissance eventually led to Columbus visiting the Americas and to the circumnavigation of the world. In the following centuries, global maps are filled in by Abel Tasman, Vitus Bering, and James Cook. Journeys specifically made for scientific discoveries, most famously by Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, begin. In modern times, the ends of the earth were reached—including both poles and the world’s highest mountain.
Editor Robin Hanbury-Tenison leads an incredible team of fifty-two contributors, including Robert Ballard and Ranulph Fiennes, who relate firsthand experiences with the journeys and places they describe. The Great Journeys in History chronicles the stories of bold, early travelers who explored the unexplored and who set out into the unknown, bringing alive the romance and thrill of adventure.
What sets the book apart is the erudition and experience of its contributors.
— Times Literary Supplement
Learned, brave and inspiring.
— Country Life
Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known explorer, author, filmmaker, conservationist, and campaigner. A veteran of over forty expeditions, he is a leading member of the Royal Geographical Society and Survival International. His books include The Great Explorers and The Modern Explorers.


The Calcium, 24-Hour Urine without Creatinine test contains 1 test with 2 biomarkers.
Urinary calcium reflects dietary intake, rate of calcium absorption by the intestine and bone resorption. Urinary calcium is used primarily to evaluate parathyroid function and the effects of vitamin D. A significant number of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism will have elevated urinary calcium. However, there are other clinical entities that may be associated with increased urine calcium: Sarcoidosis, Paget's disease of bone, vitamin D intoxication, hyperthyroidism and glucocorticoid excess. Decreased urine calcium is seen with thiazide diuretics, vitamin D deficiency and familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia.
The following is a list of what is included in the item above. Click the test(s) below to view what biomarkers are measured along with an explanation of what the biomarker is measuring.
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2 Biomarkers - Specimen Type: Urine - Process Time*: Average 2 to 3 days
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Calcium, 24 Hour Urine
You have more calcium in your body than any other mineral. Calcium has many important jobs. The body stores more than 99 percent of its calcium in the bones and teeth to help make and keep them strong. The rest is throughout the body in blood, muscle and the fluid between cells. Your body needs calcium to help muscles and blood vessels contract and expand, to secrete hormones and enzymes and to send messages through the nervous system.
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Wednesday saw the release of two standards that clear the path for the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops in China.
Designed to control the authenticity and effectiveness of varieties of GM soybean and maize, they were released by the National Crop Variety Approval Committee, which sits under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MOA).
In China, GM crop varieties need to receive both a safety certificate and a “variety approval” before they can be commercially cultivated. Since 2019, 11 GM maize and 3 GM soy varieties, developed by both private companies and public institutions, have been granted safety certificates. But none has yet received variety approval due to the absence of standards. Now these are available, the approval and commercialisation of such GM crops are on the horizon.
For many years, only GM cotton and GM papaya have been permitted for commercial growing in China, as the public continues to express safety concerns with GM food crops. On the other hand, the government has been steadily promoting the development and commercial cultivation of GM grains. It sees this as an essential building block for the “modern seed industry” it is trying to forge, and for food security.
This January, the MOA made wholesale revisions to a series of regulations governing variety approval and GMO safety, setting the scene for wider adoption. Public consultation drafts of the two variety approval standards had been released last December.
Big seed companies and their investors are celebrating the promulgation of the standards. It is estimated that domestically grown GM maize and soy will reach the market by 2023, if not sooner. They’re expected to help with the supply of domestic edible oil in a time of global supply shocks.


The Reason Why the Raindrop is so Important in Elephant Management
When a game reserve is carrying too many elephants, however, the elephants smash the trees to the ground; they rip up the roots; and they eat every palatable source of food that they can find during the hot dry season – and the ground is left bare and unprotected from the ravishes of the trillions of raindrops that fall during every tropical rainstorm. And when each raindrops hit the bare ground it explodes outwards and upwards – its kinetic energy loosening all the surface soil particles and washing them away into the nearest river.
And when the soil has thus been all washed away, there will be no substrate left in which any kind of plant can grow; and without plants there will be nothing for the animals to eat – so they will starve to death. And, ultimately even the elephants will die.
So this is the reason why the raindrop is so important in elephant management. It can bring much needed water to the plants that are growing in the ground – without which the plants will not survive; or – when all the plants have been killed off by too many elephants, rain will loosen and wash away all the topsoil and that in turn, will destroy all animal life in the game reserve.
Without soil, no plants will grow; and without plants there will be no animals.
So the lowly raindrop is of immense importance to our elephants and to the health, vigor and stability of our game reserves, because it brings both life and/or death to both plants and animals. This little story explains in easy to understand terms, just why it is important for man to manage our elephant populations wisely and sustainably.


Frontiers in Pediatrics
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Brain development in mammals is long lasting. It begins early during embryonic growth and is finalized in early adulthood. This progression represents a delicate choreography of molecular, cellular, and physiological processes initiated and directed by the fetal genotype in close interaction with environment. Not surprisingly, most aberrations in brain functioning including intellectual disability (ID) are attributed to either gene(s), or environment or the interaction of the two. The ensuing complexity has made the assessment of this choreography, ever challenging. A model to assess this complexity has used a mouse model (C57BL/6J or B6) that is subjected to prenatal alcohol exposure. The resulting pups show learning and memory deficits similar to patients with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), which is associated with life-long changes in gene expression. Interestingly, this change in gene expression underlies epigenetic processes including DNA methylation and miRNAs. This paradigm is applicable to ethanol exposure at different developmental times (binge at trimesters 1, 2, and 3 as well as continuous preference drinking (70%) of 10% alcohol by B6 females during pregnancy). The exposure leads to life-long changes in neural epigenetic marks, gene expression, and a variety of defects in neurodevelopment and CNS function. We argue that this cascade may be reversed postnatally via drugs, chemicals, and environment including maternal care. Such conclusions are supported by two sets of results. First, antipsychotic drugs that are used to treat ID including psychosis function via changes in DNA methylation, a major epigenetic mark. Second, post-natal environment may improve (with enriched environments) or worsen (with negative and maternal separation stress) the cognitive ability of pups that were prenatally exposed to ethanol as well as their matched controls. In this review, we will discuss operational epigenetic mechanisms involved in the development of intellectual ability/disability in response to alcohol during prenatal or post-natal development. In doing so, we will explore the potential of epigenetic manipulation in the treatment of FASD and related disorders implicated in ID.
Part of the Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry section.


This week The Royal British Legion has launched its 2017 Poppy Appeal
The Poppy Appeal supports the Armed Forces community, past and present.
The bright red Flanders poppy is a hardy flower. Flourishing in the dark and gloomy days of war, it would spring up in unexpected corners of foreign fields.
In 1915 Lieutenant Colonel John Macrae was inspired by the sight of hundreds of these beautiful red poppies to write his now famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'..
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place..
The poem inspired an American Academic, Moina Micheal to make and sell red silk poppies, and when this idea was brought to the UK by a French woman, Anna Guérin, the British Legion bought 9 million of them and sold the poppies on Armistice Day,11th of November, raising £106,000, which was a vast amount of money in 1921.
In 1922, The Poppy Factory was set up by Major George Hewson and employed disabled ex-service men. Today the factory in Aylesford produces millions of poppies each year.
The poppy remains a symbol of hope and remembrance.
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A ‘scrap’ is a little piece of something. A scrapbook is an album or electronic articles in which a collection of graphic design samples are posted or stored as a reference substance. It is a book with vacant web pages on which the graphic artist sticks or pastes these smaller samples for foreseeable future use. Things that can be uncovered in a scrapbook contain photographs, drawings, lettering models, slice out pieces from journals, posters, packages, labels, cartoons and many others. Scrapbooking is the finest way of preserving critical details that would be pertinent to the artist although attending to his obligations. It is also an important aid that helps him in preserving his personalized and relatives record.
The scrapbook is unique from a portfolio in that a portfolio is a assortment of only the functions of the artist whilst a scrapbook includes the two the is effective of the artist and much more importantly the works of some others. Some of the importance features:
1. It serves as a reference content- The scrapbook aids the graphic artist to make a brief reference to his possess artistic functions. This inference assists him to produce related will work with considerably less strain. He can also use it to make reference to his abilities to new clientele who would like to see image proof of the artistic prowess of the artist.
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In a world where complications seem to crop up every few several weeks, it can be difficult to know how to resolve them. Actually solving problems in business requires specific expertise and tactics. It is crucial to produce a plan and goals to guide the problem-solving process. Here are some approaches for overcoming challenges in business. To fix problems, begin by identifying and analyzing the condition at hand. Therefore, develop a mitigation strategy to business address the problem.
Identify the problem then investigate all conceivable causes. Try to identify the gaps between problem plus the solution. Looking deeper will allow you to find the root cause. Ask questions, and gather data that will help you solve challenges in business. Should your answers are certainly not satisfactory, sdc-valuechains.ch/what-does-a-value-chains-activity-mean-to-you move on to other locations. You might find that there is a better solution to get a problem in a second area. It might be useful to use a problem-solving process to improve crew processes and financial efficiency.
After pondering the problem, identify the solution. Discover how long every solution would consider. What will end up being the monetary impact and current productivity? Are these types of goals related? Do they need to be tied to other organization goals? If perhaps not, you could end up spending $1 million to solve a problem that costs a hundred dollars. Once you have acknowledged as being the factors that need to be addressed, you should be able to create a cover implementation.


New York City once had a crazy moving day like Sept. 1 in Boston. It took a world war to end it.
Decades ago, the city suffered as most apartments turned over May 1. The date in New York, like similar popular move-in times in Chicago, is believed to stem from traditions brought by European settlers.
Then came an international upheaval.
“World War II served as a major catalyst for the end to the moving day phenomenon in New York,” said Aleksandr Gelfand, who researched the issue for a project at the Baruch College of the City University of New York. “With many of the men engaged in the moving industry gone to serve overseas . . . it diminished the ability to move en masse for the duration of four years.”
A subsequent housing shortage, caused in part by veterans flooding back home, also played a role, Gelfand said. Rent control and other housing regulations also further reduced the phenomenon by deterring moves, he said.
And as the city’s population reached a critical mass, “people looking to move were hit by diminishing returns,” Gelfand said. “There simply weren’t as many tempting options as in the past.”
Now, apartment turnovers are much more spread throughout the year in New York.
Matt Rocheleau can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @mrochele.


Keys to Visualizing the Story Without Visual Aids Worksheet Download
How can you effectively tell a story without visual aids?
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«Landscapes of the Anthropocene
Humans make Nature
Landscape is very much a hot topic, as a subject for the arts but also for theoretical reflection. At least since Dutch Nobel Prize winning chemist and atmospheric researcher Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene F. Stoermer suggested “Anthropocene” as a name for the current geological age, the landscape can no longer be seen simply as beautiful. Landscape is far removed now from idyllic vistas or rustic scenery; it has long been a largely artificial system of human-made spaces, a system moreover subject to highly unpredictable changes.
The idea of pristine, untouched nature simply no longer holds true: humans have irreversibly changed the planet and its ecosystem. They have themselves become a geological factor. Nature is no longer an object to be preserved, but a dynamic interaction between natural and human forces, between movements and formations. This process of nature’s formation has now reached a stage where social and technological processes — rather than biological ones — appear as driving forces on our planet. Society, culture and nature are so tightly intertwined that they can no longer be independently investigated. It would appear that humans are over-taking the previous evolutionary tempo.
Climate change, species extinctions and the pollution of air, water and earth are global phenomena, as is the advanced transformation of the earth’s surface through drilling, tunneling, construction and agricultural cultivation. But in everyday life these changes are experienced on a local basis. Melting glaciers and rising sea levels, storms or floods can be investigated and statistically understood. But how are they actually perceived and interpreted as phenomena? Just as climate influences society, so too do social praxes affect the climate. And how does the anthropocene thesis change our cultural landscape?
Human beings are re-forming the earth to such an incalculable extent that there is no longer a self-regulating “mother” earth on which we can rely. We should no longer be fearful for our survival in nature, but rather for nature itself, since nature is now made by humans: this is the core of Anthopocene theory, according to geoscientist and paleontologist Reinhold Leinfelder.*
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Sleep apnea often goes undiagnosed. Doctors usually can’t detect the condition during routine office visits. Also, no blood test can help diagnose the condition.
Most people who have sleep apnea don’t know they have it because it only occurs during sleep. A family member or bed partner might be the first to notice signs of sleep apnea.
The most common type of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea. In this condition, the airway collapses or becomes blocked during sleep. This causes shallow breathing or breathing pauses.
When you try to breathe, any air that squeezes past the blockage can cause loud snoring. Obstructive sleep apnea is more common in people who are overweight, but it can affect anyone. For example, small children who have enlarged tonsil tissues in their throats may have obstructive sleep apnea.
Central sleep apnea is a less common type of sleep apnea. This disorder occurs if the area of your brain that controls your breathing doesn’t send the correct signals to your breathing muscles. As a result, you’ll make no effort to breathe for brief periods.
Central sleep apnea can affect anyone. However, it’s more common in people who have certain medical conditions or use certain medicines. Central sleep apnea can occur with obstructive sleep apnea or alone. Snoring typically doesn’t happen with central sleep apnea.


How to Help Your Child Overcome Nature-Deficit Disorder
Nature-deficit disorder (NDD) is based on the idea that human beings, especially children are spending less time in nature than before, resulting in issues such as stunted emotional development, increased chances of falling sick, and more. To help your children overcome NDD, this article by Family Factor explores various outdoor activities to partake in this winter!
The best way to break the monotony of being indoors and addiction to electronics is to immerse yourself in nature. Here's how:
Winter is a great time to turn your backyard into a wonderland of fun through these activities:
With nights becoming longer, it provides the perfect chance to decorate your outdoors with some winter-themed projects:
As your kids will be spending greater time outdoors this winter, install a fence around your home to ensure safety and privacy. When looking for the best professionals to hire, a simple search on Angi for “cheapest fence company near me” will do the trick.
Whether you choose to travel or stay home this winter, these activities are guaranteed to help your kids overcome NDD.
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How Buddhist Teaching Differs From Hindu Teaching?
Buddhist Teaching Differs From Hindu Teaching In That – Buddhism and Hinduism are very similar. They have similar philosophies and teachings. But they also have differences. And the main difference between these two religions a very important one. Buddhist Teaching Differs From Hindu Teaching In That it rejects the idea of an eternal soul. Let’s see what does that really mean.
Buddhist Teaching Differs From Hindu Teaching In That It Rejects The Idea Of An Eternal Soul
Buddhism’s teachings about the human soul
The easiest way to understand the Buddhists’ view on the soul as not eternal is to understand their main view on the whole world and universe. Buddhists don’t accept that there might be anything eternal or unchangeable in the universe. In their views everything is in constant change and transformation. And nothing is eternal.
Buddhists also reject the concept of the soul which leaves to the afterlife, heaven or hell. Also, in their perspective the soul is equal to the ego, self or personality. Which are not real in Buddhism. And these concepts are not independent entities.
The followers of Buddhism avoid the topic of “self” or “soul”. Because focusing on a soul, when it doesn’t exist, is a waste of time. Therefore, asking a Buddhist about the concept of soul is unnecessary. Because they consider it an unnecessary speculation. Which doesn’t only take your time from your real life purpose, but also takes you further away from achieving it.
“Buddhist Teaching Differs From Hindu Teaching In That It Rejects The Idea Of An Eternal Soul.”
In conclusion, in Buddhism everything is changeable. And nothing is eternal. Therefore, there is no ego, self or soul that lives eternally in the afterlife. The main philosophies in Buddhism focus on living a compassionate and kind life in the present. Hence, they meditate for mindfulness and living in the present moment. Buddhists strive for a fruitful and purposeful life. Instead of dwelling inside for the salvation of their “soul”.


Adobe Photoshop is a powerful graphics editing software developed and published by Adobe Inc. It is a widely used application for manipulating digital images, photographs, and other types of artwork. Photoshop offers a wide range of features, such as color correction, image retouching, graphic design, and digital painting.
Photoshop was first created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll, who were working on developing image processing software as a hobby project. Thomas, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, was interested in creating software to display grayscale images on a Macintosh computer. John, Thomas’s brother, was a software engineer working for Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a special effects company that had been working on the film “Star Wars.”
After a few years of development, the Knoll brothers created a prototype of the software that they called “Display.” They showed the prototype to a number of companies, including Apple and Adobe, but it was Adobe that expressed interest in acquiring the software. In 1988, Adobe purchased the software and renamed it Photoshop. The first version of Photoshop, Photoshop 1.0, was released in 1990 for Macintosh computers.
Over the years, Photoshop has become a staple tool for photographers, designers, and artists around the world. Adobe has continued to update and improve the software, adding new features and tools with each release. Today, Photoshop is available on both Mac and Windows operating systems and is used by millions of people worldwide.


Comparison of microstructure between farmed and wild cod
The aim of this project was to build up knowledge through image analysis to facilitate the processing and product development of farmed cod. In the project "Future cod", imaging revealed remarkable results where a large difference was found in the structure of the flesh in wild cod and farmed cod. The purpose of this project was to examine this difference in more detail and try to find reasons for it. The results of the project confirmed this large difference in intercellular space, as had been seen before, but it was only seen in samples taken from live fish. There was little difference in pre-rigor samples taken, whether farmed or wild. After post-rigor, only wild fish were sampled, as the processing properties of farmed cod were weak after freezing. It was found that the extracellular space increased again in wild fish during death. Numerous other measurements were made on these samples in step 4 of this project and a close connection could be seen with the results for the proportion of intercellular cells in these samples. The mobility of water molecules was lower in wild cod muscles, which was consistent with the greater intercellular space than in farmed fish. On the other hand, the water content of the wild cod was higher. The results indicated that the structure and properties of the muscle were quite different in these groups. The research was part of the project "Processing and quality control of farmed cod, more specifically a summary for work component 3.
In previous project there was much difference in gap between cells samples from wild and farmed cod. In this project phase the aim was to confirm this difference and try to identify the reason for it. The results showed a difference in microstructure between wild cod and farmed one, when samples were taken from live fish. This difference was not a distinct, when samples from pre-rigor and post rigor fish where analyzed. In project phase 4 these samples where used for number of measurement. The results from the microstructure analysis were in harmony with results from measurement of water content and water mobility.
Report closed until December 2011 / Report closed until December 2011


This trillium has upright or outward-facing blossoms of chocolate or reddish-purple, or occasionally white or yellow. At close range, it bears an unpleasant scent. It blooms in mid- to late spring, and grows from 14-20 inches tall and a foot wide.
Noteworthy CharacteristicsMost trilliums are native to woodlands and scrub of North America. They make elegant understory plants when grouped in a woodland or shady, naturalized area. Since they go dormant in the summer, plant trilliums with other shade-loving perennials to share their place until they reappear the following spring.
CareProvide rich, moist, well-drained soil with a neutral to acidic pH. Plant in full to part shade and add an annual mulch of rich organic matter.
PropagationTrilliums propagate readily by division when plants are dormant in late summer or early fall.
ProblemsSmut, rust, fungal spots, slugs, snails.
- Genus : Trillium
- Plant Height : 1 to 3 feet
- Zones : 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Plant Width : 6 to 12 inches
- Characteristics : Fragrant Flowers, Self Seeds
- Uses : Ground Covers, Shade
- Bloom Time : Late Spring, Spring
- Maintenance : Low
- Moisture : Medium Moisture
- Growth Rate : Moderate
- Light : Partial Shade to Full Shade
- Plant Type : Perennials
- Flower Color : Red, White, Yellow
- Plant Seasonal Interest : Spring Interest


Crete Selected for Clean Hydrogen Valley in Europe
During an informational session in Heraklion, it was revealed that the region of Crete is one of the nine chosen regions in Europe to build a clean hydrogen valley. This initiative aims to produce clean hydrogen for various purposes, including energy, transportation, and industrial sectors.
George Alexakis and Theodore Georgakopoulos participated in a panel discussion on the European Union’s energy policy during the “The European Union in Crete” educational event. Topics covered included the “green agreement,” “fit for 55,” and “the EU’s leadership role in the global fight against climate change.”
Elvira Forte, press secretary for the European Parliament office in Greece, emphasized the importance of whether the Union’s members would respond to crises more effectively individually or collectively. Nellis Paleologu, a representative of the EU in Greece, explained that the purpose of the educational activities is to educate people about what Europe is doing in the world.
The regional governor of Crete, Stavros Arnautakis, highlighted that EU policies are converted into initiatives in Crete. He explained that the Recovery Fund is a significant challenge to overcome and that the Region develops specific recommendations for issues like the BOAK, management of solid and liquid waste, and proposals for the agriculture industry.
The new program for 2021-2027 aims to increase investment in research and innovation, economic change, and business digitization. The support for the regions is broken down into two main fundamental components: the regional programs and eight sectoral programs. There are additional initiatives like the Horizon program for research or the agricultural strategic plans.
The educational activities aim to disseminate information about the outcomes of the various financing provided to Crete and other regions. The purpose is to lessen regional imbalances and promote the EU’s policies.


Seismic imaging: Reconstruction of the earth from surface recordings
In order to reconstruct seismic velocities from reflected wave surface recordings, common seismic imaging “time-migration” techniques assume horizontal layers. With even mild lateral velocity variations, this significantly distorts subsurface structures. They also produce images in “time migration coordinates”, which gives velocities at points reached by rays from the Earth’s surface at a given time. For laterally varying velocities, the relation between this somewhat unnatural coordinate system and the more appealing Cartesian coordinates can be nontrivial. In contrast, for lateral velocity variations, depth migration effectively produces seismic images in Cartesian coordinates, however its input requires a “velocity model” for the seismic velocity at the underground points. Constructing an adequate velocity model is difficult and time-consuming; instead, one often uses an iterative approach of guesswork followed by correction. We have been able to build fast and robust algorithms to (i) convert time migrated coordinates to depth coordinates and (ii) convert migration velocities to depth velocities. These algorithms allowed imaging of subsurface substructures 3.3 km deep in a North Sea salt dome example with severe lateral variations.
About Berkeley Lab
Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest scientific challenges are best addressed by teams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its scientists have been recognized with 16 Nobel Prizes. Today, Berkeley Lab researchers develop sustainable energy and environmental solutions, create useful new materials, advance the frontiers of computing, and probe the mysteries of life, matter, and the universe. Scientists from around the world rely on the Lab’s facilities for their own discovery science. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory, managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.


CNC Machining Plastics
CNC Machining (Computerized Numerical Control) is the most frequently used industrial manufacturing technology in the different metal and plastic machining processes.
The machining of plastics is an excellent technique for the manufacture of rapid prototypes, as well as for the production of short series of plastic parts. The CNC machining process is especially suitable for the transformation of all types of technical plastics, such as anti-flame plastics (V0), plastics for food use, sliding plastics or certified materials (UL, ISO, ASTM), among others.
The numerical control machining operation allows us to manufacture at an accelerated pace and with the highest precision. At Produck we offer machined parts with accuracies up to 0.025mm.
Consult our catalog of plastics available for CNC machining:
- ABS + PC
- ABS V0, Anti-flame UL 94
- High-density Polyethylene (HDPE)
- Polyamide (PA), Nylon
- Polyamide reinforced with fiberglass (PA + GF)
- Polyamidimide (PAI)
- Polycarbonate (PC)
- Polyethylene (PE)
- PEI + GF
- Methacrylate (PMMA)
- Polyacetal (POM), Delrin, Acetal
- Polypropilene (PP)
- PPS + GF
- Teflon (PTFE)
- Polyurethane (PU)
- Others (consult our agents)


By Swami Harshananda
Jaṭāyu, the bird-hero, is a glorious and inspiring example of handful of persons in the history of the world who were prepared to fight and lay their lives for dharma and he is part of the immortal epic of the Rāmāyana written by Vālmīki.
According to the Mahābhārata, he and Sampāti were the sons of Aruṇa and Śyeni. Once Sampāti and Jaṭāyu flew to great heights towards the sun to test their flying powers. Since Jaṭāyu was getting exhausted by the hot rays of the sun, Sampāti spread his wings over him to protect him. Wings of Sampāti got burnt as a result of heat of Sun and he fell down in the Daṇḍaka forest. Jaṭāyu started living there, but did not know the whereabouts of his brother.
When Rāma came to the Pañcavatī area of the forest, to live there, Jaṭāyu introduced himself as the friend of his father Daśaratha. At Rāma’s request, Jaṭāyu started living in the nearby area. When Rāvaṇa was abducting Sītā, Jaṭāyu ambushed him and fought fiercely with him to rescue Sītā but died in the effort.
Rāma, while searching for Sītā, came across the dying Jaṭāyu and got the information about Sītā and her abductor. Rāma even performed his last rites after his death.
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore


Texas motorists who are interested in the development of self-driving cars may have heard about a fatal accident involving a pedestrian on March 18. A professor in Arizona, where the accident occurred, says it happened because autonomous cars are being programmed to drive in the same way that humans do.
The Tempe police chief says the Uber vehicle was not at fault in the accident. Video of the incident shows the pedestrian stepping from a dark area into a part of the road where there was not a pedestrian crossing. However, the professor maintains that the problem was that the car was proceeding the way a human would by assuming that there were no obstacles in the path ahead despite being unable to confirm that visually. He says that autonomous vehicles should drive at a speed that would allow them to stop if an object comes into their range of vision.
His work is in guaranteeing the behavior of a computer that operates a physical system. One example he gave is a car that could brake in a millisecond if it detects an obstacle. The professor points out that the standards for self-driving vehicles are much higher than for humans. A fatal accident caused by a human is considered a tragedy, but a fatality caused by a self-driving car could shut the industry down.
When an accident happens, whether it is caused by an autonomous car’s error or human error, another person or entity may be considered legally liable for personal injury. This means that compensation might be owed to the injured person. If the accident is caused by a manufacturer’s negligence, such as faulty brakes, an attorney could be of assistance in seeking appropriate compensation.


1. The pandemic is affecting the mental health of both teen and preteen age groups in a variety of different ways. Teens may deal with the usual stressors of young adulthood, such as bullying, schoolwork, puberty, body changes, and the emergence of new relationships. In the times of the pandemic, teens now are dealing with the fear of being sick, a change in their schooling, relatives and friends becoming ill, and potentially losing them to the health crisis. In a time when bodies and minds are changing, these new stressors have teens finding themselves fighting anxiety, depression, and questioning the future.
2. The best way to talk to your teen about mental health is to normalize it. Talking about mental health in the home environment gives them a safe space to open up about their thoughts and feelings. By sharing your own feelings, this shows them that it is okay to talk about it and that they can feel heard.
3. Some warning signs that something is wrong includes, but is not limited to:
-noticing a mood shift, such as more irritated, angry, quieter, withdrawn, agitated, lack of energy and/or lack of interest.
-noticing changes in sleep patterns and/or eating patterns.
-complaining about physical discomfort such as headaches or stomach issues.
4. If your child has suicidal ideation, make an appointment to see a psychiatrist or therapist. If you are afraid that your child will attempt to commit suicide, bring your child to the nearest hospital, or call 911. Never be afraid to reach out for help.
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Here’s Oscar, our happy beta tester. He has nearly finished checking all of the exciting new Phonics games we are adding to the site this fall. Have fun with phonics playing our new games!
Month: September 2015
NEW YORK SCHOOL STUDY SUPPORTS PHONICS TEACHING
Phonics is proving itself to be the most effective way of teaching literacy across the English-speaking world!
This article from the New York Times entitled ‘A Foundation of Phonics and Knowledge Is Key to Literacy’ which discusses a recent study that demonstrated that classes using phonics had higher rates of success.
NY Times article
PHONICS TEACHING REAPS REWARDS IN UK
A recent article in The Guardian newspaper reports on markedly improved results for students being taught to read using phonics. The Education Editor, Richard Adams, wrote:
The embrace of phonics to teach the youngest primary school pupils to read appears to be paying dividends after new figures showed a rise in the number of pupils passing the government’s benchmarks for literacy in the first and second years of formal schooling.
The results of the government’s controversial phonics check – designed to test how children read and pronounce simple words and sounds – saw a 5% increase in the number of five- and six-year-olds passing the check, with 74% of state school pupils in England reaching the expected standard in 2014.
In contrast, just 58% of pupils were able to correctly pronounce the expected number of words and sounds when the phonics check was first administered in state primary schools nationwide in 2012.
This article supports what the team at http://www.phonics.com have always known. Phonics rules!
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY – SEPTEMBER 8
The International Literacy Association has developed some fantastic free teaching resources that focus on the Philippines. These resources will help your students to learn more about Filipino children and their country and culture as well as providing ePals to connect with Filipino classrooms.


Wound (Skin) Infection: Brief Version
What is a wound infection?
When bacteria gets into a cut or wound, your child may get a skin infection. You may notice your child has:
- Pus or cloudy fluid from the wound
- A pimple or yellow crust on the wound
- A lot of redness around the cut
- A red streak from the wound toward the heart
- A large, tender lymph node in the area
- A fever
How can I take care of my child?
Call your child’s doctor right away if:
- The redness from the wound spreads.
- The wound gets very painful.
- Your child starts to act very sick.
Call your child’s doctor during office hours if:
- Your child’s fever is not gone after 48 hours on the medicine.
- The wound does not look better after 3 days on the medicine.
- The wound isn’t fully healed in 10 days.
- You have other questions or concerns.
Written by Barton D. Schmitt, MD, author of "My Child Is Sick," American Academy of Pediatrics Books.
Pediatric Advisor 2015.1 published by RelayHealth.
Last modified: 2009-11-23
Last reviewed: 2014-06-10
This content is reviewed periodically and is subject to change as new health information becomes available. The information is intended to inform and educate and is not a replacement for medical evaluation, advice, diagnosis or treatment by a healthcare professional.
Copyright Â©1986-2015 Barton D. Schmitt, MD. All rights reserved.


Agricultural Research Division of IANR
Date of this Version
HORTSCIENCE 40(6):1787–1789. 2005.
Two studies in west-central Nebraska to determine the survival of wildflowers planted with buffalo grass [Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.] and blue grama grass [Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag. ex Steud.)] were conducted in 6 and 10 year studies. In total, 19 forbs and 1 grass were transplanted with ‘Texoka’ buffalo grass in the first study, and 16 forbs were planted in a split-plot design into 3 buffalo grass selections, blue grama or a clean cultivated plot in the second study. Survival between transplants in both studies varied significantly. In the first study, survival was significantly higher for little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium Michx.) (85%), bouncing bet (Saponaria officinalis L.) (100%), and stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida L.) (100%) over the 6 years of the study. In the second study, there were significant differences between species for survival, with grayhead prairie coneflower [Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnh.] (85%) and pitcher sage (Salvia azurea Lam.) (80%) having the highest survival at the end of the 10-year study. There were significant differences in height and number of flower stalks within S. rigida, R. pinnata, and S. azurea between years and between main plots. This study demonstrates differences in survival and growth of wildflowers when planted in conjunction with buffalo grass and blue grama grass.
Copyright 2005 American Society for Horticultural Science. Used by permission.


Guatemala's Fuego volcano becoming more active: officials
Guatemala's Fuego volcano is becoming more active, belching out increasing amounts of smoke and ash, officials said on Friday.
Fearing a full-blown eruption of the volcano, located just 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the capital of Guatemala City, disaster officials warned that aircraft should exercise caution when flying over Fuego.
Conred, the national disaster coordination agency, said the volcano's eruptions could range in intensity from weak to moderate, and that columns of ash could reach 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) above sea level.
Authorities also warned that wind-borne ash particles could travel as far as 12 kilometers from the volcano, possibly causing respiratory and other health problems for some Guatemalans.
Fuego, which translates to "fire" in Spanish, measures more than 3,700 meters and is located in southwestern Guatemala on the borders of Chimaltenango, Escuintla and Sacatepequez departments.
Officials said for the moment there is no need to prepare for evacuations, but will continue to monitor the volcano since the situation could change quickly.
Fuego reawakened earlier this year, raining soot and ash on adjacent towns and forcing the temporary closure of a nearby airport.
© 2015 AFP


Davy Crockett: Ever Westward
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Growing up in Greene County, Tennessee, Davy Crockett was educated through the toil of hard labor. Working as a farm hand and wagon driver, he learned about the people and the land of the West — and he was captivated. The untamed wilderness, the sound of wild animals, and the roar of the river would be his destiny. One of America’s best-known folk heroes, Crockett served as a frontiersman, a scout, a soldier, and a politician in the U.S. Congress. He died defending the Alamo, a steadfast citizen and heroic leader to the very end.
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In a paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the researchers behind the development explain that after this ink is printed, it self-organizes into a conductive pattern with a copper core–nickel shell nanostructure.
According to the scientists, even though silver nanoparticle inks are currently the most commonly used in printed electronics, these inks are expensive and poorly compatible with soldering. Copper nanoparticle inks, on the other hand, are considered a viable, cheaper alternative, but the issue is that they are extremely susceptible to oxidation, making them unsuitable for use in printed electronics.
Knowing this, the NIMS materials experts decided to conduct research on inks composed of complexes of organic amine ligands with a central metallic ion; these inks are stable in the air.
The team subsequently discovered that inks containing a mixture of different metallic complexes are capable of converting into different types of printed metallic patterns, including multilayered core-shell nanostructures and alloys, depending on the ink’s composition and other conditions.
Based on these findings, they created the new ink, which is composed of a mixture of copper and nickel complexes able to self-organize into a copper core–nickel shell nanostructure. Because its outer nickel layer is resistant to oxidation, this printed pattern is significantly more resistant to oxidation than patterns printed using conventional copper inks.
The new ink is also cheaper than the currently available silver nanoparticle inks. Moreover, the electrical resistivity of conductive patterns printed using this ink was no more than 19 μΩ·cm, indicating that the conductivity of these patterns is comparable to patterns printed using conventional metallic inks.
The scientists believe that the addition of fine copper powder to this ink will increase its ability to form thicker layers. Thus, they are currently designing this new ink formulation in collaboration with the developers of the copper powder: Sumitomo Metal Mining and Priways, which plan to release sample ink products in the near future.
Read the original article on MINING.


The first step in managing hives is to find out the cause. You can then try to avoid that trigger.
A mild case often disappears on its own after a few hours. If it lasts longer, you can try an over-the-counter antihistamine.
See a doctor if your outbreak doesn't disappear in a few days, though. And get medical help right away if you notice symptoms of angioedema (such as swelling of the lips, tongue, or throat) or a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis).
If you often get hives, or if your outbreaks affect you a lot, your doctor will probably prescribe antihistamines. Treatment with corticosteroids, which you take by mouth, will sometimes reduce swelling when antihistamines don't work. But doctors usually save them for more severe cases. Your doctor may also consider a biologic drug, omalizumab (Xolair), for chronic hives in people age 12 and over.
Try putting a cool compress on the area, or take a cool shower. Avoid strong soaps, detergents, and other chemicals that can make itching worse.
If you're severely allergic to bee stings or other insect bites, certain foods, or medications, ask your doctor about prescribing an emergency kit with epinephrine shots. You would use these to treat anaphylaxis. Always carry two epinephrine kits with you.
When to Call Your Doctor
Tell your doctor if you keep getting bouts of hives that last a month or more.
Call 911 or get emergency medical help immediately if any of these things happen:
1. You start to get burning or itchy welts in your throat.
2. You get hives and a dry throat, cough, cold sweats, nausea, dizziness, or trouble breathing after a bee sting, an insect bite, or a new medication. This may be anaphylaxis. Give yourself an epinephrine shot, even if you're unsure whether your symptoms are allergy related. It’s safe to use. You'll still need medical attention even if your symptoms seem to stop.
3. You have symptoms of angioedema (again, that's swelling of the lips, tongue, or throat). You need immediate medical attention so that the swelling doesn’t block the air passage to the lungs.


"The LIDO Terminology refers to LIDO – Lightweight Information Describing Objects, the XML Schema for contributing content to cultural heritage repositories, provided by the CIDOC LIDO Working Group.
It complements the LIDO v1.0 specification and is intended to further enhance the interoperability of LIDO data across different collections by introducing controlled type vocabularies for certain LIDO elements and attributes.
The LIDO Terminology is committed to the Linked Open Data paradigm by making each LIDO Term referenceable through a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). It is recommended best practice to use the URI from the terminology.lido-schema.org/ namespace to indicate the type of a LIDO element or attribute. The primary objective of this practice is to support data providers in adapting or mapping their data structures to LIDO, thus facilitating the processing of LIDO data for service providers, increasing the interoperability of LIDO data, and supporting information retrieval across different collections.
Work on the LIDO Terminology is carried out, on behalf of the CIDOC LIDO Working Group, by the LIDO Terminology Working Group: a joint effort of the Working Group Data Exchange‒Special Interest Group Documentation of the German Museums Association and the Working Group 'Data' of the German Digital Library."
"The type attribute of the LIDO Custody/Repository Location Set element qualifies the given repository or location as a former or the current one.
It designates and identifies the institution of custody and, possibly, indicates the exact geographic location of the object. For stationary objects like buildings and monuments, it may be appropriate to indicate a location only.
The vocabulary for the type attribute of the LIDO element Custody/Repository Location Set may be extended, if necessary."


The COVID-19 pandemic brought great disparities to society as a whole. In the education sector, teachers were forced to deliver content while exploring new ways to do so through new or unfamiliar technologies, working in various modalities, while keeping students engaged. This change called for instructors to be flexible, be aware, have empathy, have foresight, build community, communicate, and care for students in this new, mostly virtual, environment. This research explores the idea of college educators as servant leaders by examining definitions of servant leadership, exploring how a servant leader empowers those they lead in times of crisis, examining implications for the classroom, and finally proposing a framework for the concept of the Professor as a servant leader, while considering what that might mean for students.
Benjamin, Garfield R.
"College Professors as Servant Leaders: Promoting Student Dignity in the Classroom,"
Journal of Vincentian Social Action: Vol. 7:
1, Article 14.
Available at: https://scholar.stjohns.edu/jovsa/vol7/iss1/14
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Lidar Emitter and Multispecies greenhouse gases Observation instrument
LEMON will provide a new versatile Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) sensor concept for greenhouse gases and water vapour measurements from space.
LEMON aims at developing a Lidar emitter for space applications to monitor greenhouse gases and water vapour. LEMON will improve the accuracy of climate change analysis.Learn more
After instrument set-up and validation, CO2, CH4, H2O isotopes measurements will be performed through airborne demonstrations.
Roadmaps and preliminary experiments towards space operation will be also developed.Learn more
LEMON technology relies on a multispecies Lidar emitter benefiting from versatility, efficiency and increased functionality:
- 1 instrument for CO2, CH4, H2O, HDO measurements => 1 single maturation process towards space.
- Possible simultaneous CO2+H2O or H2O HDO measurements.
The LEMON consortium is composed of 8 partners from 4 different countries.
The consortium includes academic experts and research centres, along with SME partners.
It has full expertise at Earth Observation technologies, from receiver, data acquisition, instrument control and versatile emitter.


An Introduction to In-Situ Treatment of Hazardous Soil
This online engineering PDH course presents methods and technologies for treatment of contaminated soil in situ without substantive excavation of the soil.
Various in-situ technologies are applied for the treatment of contaminated soil in both the vadose zone and saturated and unsaturated source zones. These technologies involve applying chemical, biological, or physical processes to the subsurface to degrade, remove, or immobilize contaminants without removing the bulk soil. Compared to excavation and ex situ treatment, the use of these technologies offers several benefits, such as addressing deep contamination and costing less in general.
This 2 PDH course is intended for civil and environmental engineers as well as other design and construction professionals interested in learning about the principles of in-situ hazardous soil treatment.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Learning about site specific monitoring programs
- Understanding the fundamental requirements for extraction wells
- Knowing how frequently extraction wells should be monitored
- Understanding the importance of balancing techniques for multiple extraction wells
- Learning about perimeter LFG migration control
- Learning how to address leachate blockage issues at extraction wells
- Understanding the importance of monitoring conditions that may lead to landfill fires
- Learning how to employ LFG monitoring probes
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the document titled, “An Introduction to In-Situ Treatment of Hazardous Soil”.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.


Imagine a spreadsheet column containing a list of first and last names. To better filter this data, you might prefer to have the first and last names in two columns. Don’t worry – there’s an easy way to do this. Let’s learn how to separate first and last names in Microsoft Excel.
How to Separate First and Last Names in Excel
When you’re working with a column of first and last names, you can use Excel’s Text to Columns feature to separate the two. It’s quick to use, and you won’t have to retype anything.
To get started, select the cells in the column that you want to split. In this example, that’s cells B1:B5. Then, find the Data tab on Excel’s ribbon. Near the right, you’ll see the Text to Columns button.
Go ahead and click on it. You’ll see a popup menu appear. Excel recognizes your data as delimited, which means it has a divider like a space, tab, or comma. Ensure the Delimited bubble is selected, then click Next.
Excel now asks you to identify the delimiter. In this case, it’s a space, so click on the Space checkbox. In the box below, you’ll see your data previewed. First and last names now have a line between them.
Click Next again, and then click Finish in the lower right corner. Watch as Excel instantly splits first and last names. The first names remain in the original column, while last names appear in column C just to the right. Now, it’s easier to filter by first and last names, alphabetically, and more.
Thanks to Excel’s Text to Columns option, it’s easy to split first and last names into multiple cells. This makes data analysis a breeze, and saves you time by eliminating the need to retype a single character.


Descriptive Statistics allows business professionals to collect sample data, engage in exploratory data analysis, compare statistical distributions, and to communicate statistical results both correctly and effectively.
Best suited for analysts and business professionals who want to jump-start their abilities in analyzing data.
Gain insight from raw data with descriptive statistics.
Descriptive Statistics empowers business professionals to use data for effective decision-making and measuring business impact. With the overwhelming volume of data available to organizations and businesses, it is important to correctly transform data to information, then knowledge and finally wisdom.
Uncover hidden insights.
Descriptive statistics gives business analysts the power to see data in new ways to uncover underlying correlations and hidden insights.
Add more dimensions to further understand and explain data effectively after you have completed the course.
Explore, summarize and describe data.
Descriptive Statistics teaches you to collect sample data, engage in exploratory data analysis, compare statistical distributions, and communicate statistical results correctly and effectively.
You will learn to collect, summarize, visualize, and explore raw data to transform it into actionable business insights.
Enhance decision-making with data.
Descriptive Statistics enables you to use data for effective decisions and business impact. The skills of this module are the standard for business data analytics.
Upon completion, participants should be able to demonstrate each of the following;
- Sample data using an appropriate sampling method
- Identify basic properties of common statistical distributions
- Describe and visualize variables and their relationships in a data sample
Descriptive Statistics is one of the modules under our Associate Enterprise Data Analyst (AEDA) program. AEDA is a seventeen-day program that provides analysts with the tools required for efficient data analysis.
Descriptive Statistics takes data in samples and evaluates data-driven decisions. This certification shows mastery of sampling, distributions, relational variables, and various graphical representations. Do keep in mind that the test is in R code. If you work from clear data-driven insights instead of assumptions, get certified.


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About this Course
About the Course
In this course, Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya (University of Birmingham) explores the concepts of abnormality, phobias, and psychopathy. In the first lecture, we define abnormality and discuss how social norms, adequate functioning, harm to others, and statistical prevalence play a role in understanding it as a concept. In the second lecture, we consider the characteristics of phobias and how we define them as abnormal. In the third lecture, we look at learning explanations for the acquisition of phobias. Next, we think about behavioural explanations and treatments. In the fifth lecture, we discuss how psychopathy presents itself as an expression of abnormality across a breadth of social interactions, and how that can be reflected in language. The sixth and final lecture summarises the content from the course and reflects on how this can inform our understanding of these concepts going forward.
About the Lecturer
Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. Dr Bouguettaya’s research interests are in social psychology and how knowledge from that field can be applied to others, particularly health, including how we can apply social identity theory to societal problems, as well as investigating the different perspectives one might take on those issues. Some of Dr Bouguettaya’s recent publications include 'The relationship between gambling advertising and gambling attitudes, intentions and behaviours: a critical and meta-analytic review' (2020) and 'The Effect of a Food Addiction Explanation Model for Weight Control and Obesity on Weight Stigma' (2020).


SpaceX will attempt ocean landing of rocket Jan 17
SpaceX will try again Sunday to land its Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform, one month after successfully returning the rocket's first stage to an upright landing on solid ground.
Previous attempts to set down the rocket's first stage on a floating barge in the Atlantic Ocean have failed, but the California-based company will try again on January 17, a spokesman confirmed.
This time, the Falcon 9 will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
According to NASA, the rocket will carry "Jason-3, an international mission led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue US - European satellite measurements of the topography of the ocean surface."
The launch is planned for 1:42 pm Eastern time (1842 GMT), at the opening of a 30-second launch window.
A backup launch opportunity will occur on January 18 at 1:31 pm (1831 GMT).
SpaceX, headed by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, has tried three times before to land its Falcon 9 on what it calls a "droneship" platform, marked with an X.
Each attempt failed, after the rocket either missed, collided with the barge or tipped over after setting down.
On December 22, the company celebrated its first successful landing of the rocket's first stage on solid ground, as part of SpaceX's mission to make rockets reusable, much like airplanes.
The goal is to bring down the cost of rocket launches and make space flight more affordable and sustainable in the years to come.
© 2016 AFP


Hirise HD camera on board NASA’s MRO Orbiter on MarsCapture the Curiosity rover, ascending Mont Mercu, A wide rocky outcrop on a French hillside, and you won’t be able to believe what it looks like.
The Gale Crater, where these Mars terrain features are included, is about 150 kilometers wide and Mt Sharp’s height is over 5 kilometers in total. Here we tell you Why is it attracting so much attention from the US space agency.
The rover is about the size of a small car and is currently near and about 20 feet above a high cliff as it examined the exposed rocks.
The rover had previously penetrated rocks at the base of the cliff. Scientists are interested in comparing rocks from the bottom up to investigate how the changes relate to the appearance of the rocks exposed on the cliff, according to reports from the University of Arizona, which operates Hirise’s camera.
The image has a pixel scale of 26 cm, which indicates that most features a few pixels wide (just under 1 meter) can be resolved on the surface.
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Education Activities for All: Download Today
Are you wondering how to keep your kids academically engaged while practicing social distancing and learning from home?
UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, in conjunction with Take Care partners, have compiled the following list of scientific activities for students in K-12 (parents are encouraged to participate too). These resources include lessons that can be done from a computer or app, or in conjunction with a science experiment requiring cheap or readily available materials. You can also download our Take Care Coloring Book for students to creatively learn how to be good stewards in Lake Tahoe and beyond.
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Due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. school districts have been forced to shut down. In addition to ski areas and school, UC Davis TERC has been required to close its science centers and regular program offerings. We would still like to be a resource to the millions of students and parents that are now sheltering at home and trying to continue getting through the normal day-to-day for an indefinite period of time. With seven days a week on the schedule for full-time child-rearing, we recommend creating a routine and sticking to a schedule. If you’re looking to incorporate science into your child’s daily routine, look no further. We have been searching for free STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) resources and have compiled a list. Check out the links below for some of our top choices for at-home, STEM educational resources. Below you will find a combination of indoor and outdoor activities that can be done in or around your home, as well as instructional videos. Please note that this is a working list and a live document and we will be constantly adding new resources. Everyone is welcome to suggest thoughts and comments to this live document. We wish we could do more and hope that this will be helpful to families and students during this difficult time.
To suggest more resources to add you can comment on this document or email: [email protected].


Unprecedented Arctic temperatures have caused a 4,000-year-old ice sheet to collapse in northern Canada, because that’s the kind of thing that happens in 2020. Known as the Milne Ice Shelf, the structure was the country’s last fully intact ice sheet, yet it began to disintegrate on July 30, when nearly half of its mass broke away.
The Milne Ice Shelf is located at the fringe of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, which was flanked by a single ice shelf measuring 8,600 square kilometers (3,320 square miles) at the start of the 20th century. By the turn of the millennium, however, this had already broken up into six separate ice sheets, five of which collapsed by 2012.
After remaining intact for a further eight years, the Milne Ice Shelf finally went the way of its neighbors when a chunk of ice measuring 79 square kilometers (30 square miles) broke apart from the main body of ice. This later split into two enormous ice islands, with areas of 55 square kilometers (21 square miles) and 24 square kilometers (nine square miles).
“This drastic decline in ice shelves is clearly related to climate change,” said Luke Copland of the University of Ottawa, in a statement. “This summer has been up to 5°C warmer than the average over the period from 1981 to 2010, and the region has been warming at two to three times the global rate.”
“The Milne and other ice shelves in Canada are simply not viable any longer and will disappear in the coming decades,” he added.
The catastrophic effects of this rise in global temperatures have already been felt in the Arctic this summer, with huge wildfires raging across vast sections of Siberia. Ellesmere Island has also been significantly impacted, with two of its ice caps completely disappearing in the sweltering heat.
Yet ice sheets are significantly larger than ice caps, and are vitally important as they help to cool Earth’s polar regions while also catching meltwater from nearby glaciers, thereby preventing sea levels from rising.
It seems likely that the collapse of the Milne Ice Shelf will contribute to the acceleration of global warming, while it also marks the loss of the northern hemisphere’s last epishelf lake, a body of freshwater that sits atop an ice sheet floating on the ocean.


Research inside hill slopes could help wildfire and drought prediction
A U.S. National Science Foundation-funded study led by University of Texas at Austin scientists has found that rock weathering and water storage appear to follow a similar pattern across undulating landscapes, where hills rise and fall for miles.
The findings are important because they suggest that these patterns could improve predictions of wildfire, landslide risk, and the effects of drought, since weathering and water storage influence how water and nutrients flow through landscapes.
"There's a lot of momentum to do this work right now," said study co-author Daniella Rempe. "These data, across large scales, are what is needed to inform next-generation models of land-surface processes."
The research was led by Michelle Pedrazas. The results are published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.
Despite the importance of what's happening inside hills, most computer models for simulating landscape behavior don't go deeper than the soil because of a lack of data that can scale to large areas, Rempe said.
The study helps fill that knowledge gap. It’s the first to methodically sample the interiors of a sequence of hill slopes. The research focused on investigating the "critical zone," the near surface layer that includes trees, soils, weathered rock and fractures.
The research site is in Northern California. The scientists drilled 35 boreholes across a series of hill slopes and their valleys to collect subsurface samples. They also collected a core sample at the peak of each hill slope that captured the entire height of the hill -- a distance that varied from 34 to 57 feet (10.5 to 17.5 meters).
The samples revealed deeper weathering and fracturing in hilltops and thinner weathering in valleys. They also revealed weathering that penetrates deeper into shorter hill slopes than taller ones.
The finding suggests that computer models could use this scaling trend to model the extent of weathering in similar undulating terrain.
"More sophisticated knowledge of the patterns of subsurface rock weathering will help in modeling water-storage capacity and landscape stability under a variety of environmental conditions," said Richard Yuretich, a program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.


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Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic, progressive, heterogeneous inflammatory liver disease of unknown etiology. Diagnosis is often difficult since there is no single diagnostic test for AIH and presenting symptoms can be quite varied. Diagnosis includes evaluation of clinical laboratory and histological findings as well as the exclusion of other causes of chronic hepatitis. Diagnosis is particularly difficult with patients classified with cryptogenic hepatitis, described as having an undefined chronic hepatitis without antibodies to viral or the conventional profile of autoimmune markers. Early diagnosis of AIH and immunosuppressive treatment are essential to help prevent severe liver damage.
AIH patients are generally divided into two groups based on the presence of specific autoantibodies. AIH type 1 (also referred to as classic, active chronic, lupoid, plasma cell, or autoimmune chronic active hepatitis) is the more common type of AIH. AIH-1 is characterized by antinuclear, antismooth muscle (directed against both antiactin and nonactin components), and perinuclear and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies. Liver/kidney microsome antibodies and antiliver cytosol antigen (LC-1) characterize AIH type 2.
Autoantibodies against soluble liver antigen (anti-SLA) show a high specificity (approximately 99%) for AIH; however, they are detectable in only 10% to 30% of patients with AIH. SLA is a 50 kilodalton cytosolic protein that is thought to be involved in the selenocysteine pathway. Anti-SLA and the independently described anti-LP are identical. The findings of anti-SLA has been associated with an increased prevalence of the HLA-DR3 genotype and a decreased prevalence of the HLA-DR4 genotype. Anti-SLA positive patients have a higher rate of relapse after corticosteroid than seronegative patients. Recent studies have suggested that patients with anti-SLA/LP have a more severe course of autoimmune hepatitis, although the exact function and role of this autoantibody remain unclear.
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1820: By this time, there’d been great decline in the Old Dominion (see The Dominion of Memories book).
Also, Virginia Historical Society article by Ammon, citing agricultural decline as tied to opposition to nationalism in “The Richmond Junto”:
This rejection was intimately related to the general bankruptcy of the Old Dominion following the long years of the Embargo and the war. The general agricultural im-poverishment, which was in many ways the result of century-old soil exhaustion and wasteful methods of cultivation, reached a critical condition immediately after the war [of 1812]. The Virginia planters were saddled with debts, and even the high prices that prevailed for a few years immediately after the war ended were of little advantage to them. Planters were everywhere on the verge of ruin – many left the state for more fertile regions. Those who remained devoted their energies to testing new crops, new fertilizers, and new techniques. The loss was not merely individual. The population and wealth of the state steadily declined, and concomitantly the political power of Virginia in the nation waned.
The Virginians would try – through Roane and state rights – to reclaim the mantle of preeminence. Some Virginians were “more Southern than anyone else.”


2022-06-21Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19137606
Shedding Light onto the City Blues Myth—The Potential of Stimulating and Activating Effects of Urban Public Spaces and the Role of City Relatedness
The present study aims to investigate whether a sense of relatedness to a city helps to broaden understanding of the restorative potential of urban public spaces. Findings based on a sample of German adults (n = 249) confirm that people experience relatedness to a city. The study’s 3 × 3 (built, mixed, natural environment) × (average, livability environment, bird’s-eye view) design revealed disordinal interactions for being away, fascination, preference, mental fatigue, and stimulating and activating effects associated with cities. This implies that humans’ place perceptions are more complex than previously assumed. Both city and nature relatedness were relevant covariates of these findings. Surprisingly, the construct ‘activating effects’, was found to be mostly perceived as more positive for mixed and built environments compared to natural environments. Thus, complementing restorative environments research by introducing a measure for city relatedness significantly enhances understanding of the potential of urban public spaces for promoting human health and well-being.
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The term shaman is used to describe the healer, counseller and spiritual advisor of a community. It is a Tungus word meaning 'he who knows' though it is commonly applied to healiers in Native American, South American, African and Aboriginal cultures to name just a few. Shamans in one form or another appear in all indigenous cultures and the practice of shamanism is at the root of major religions in the world today.
For thousands of years shamans have worked in relams that lie beyond what can be seen by the naked eye. The cosmic web or wyrd has both a seen world with which we are all familiar, known as 'ordinary reality', and a realm that we cannot see called 'non-ordinary reality'. Together they make up the whole, one reality. Our modern society however acknowledges only the apparent reality and we see ourselves as seperate from the web of life, living in an illusion of superiority and islolation from the spiritual and natural world. Many problems arise from our failure to address the unseen. Feelings of separation and disconnectedness from our world, our communities and ourselves are a major cause of illness and trauma. Instead of focusing on the physiological or psychlological levels of pain and disease, shamanism addresses the spiritual cause, seeking to bring balance and harmony so that the client can once more experience the integration of both side of reality.
In traditional shamanic systems the shaman iteracts with the world of spirit on behalf of another person to facilitate healing.


Botond L. Márton, Dóra Istenes and László Bacsárdi
Enhancing the operational efficiency of quantum random number generators
Random numbers are of vital importance in today’s world and used for example in many cryptographical protocols to secure the communication over the internet. The generators producing these numbers are Pseudo Random Number Generators (PRNGs) or True Random Number Generators (TRNGs). A subclass of TRNGs are the Quantum based Random Number Generators (QRNGs) whose generation processes are based on quantum phenomena. However, the achievable quality of the numbers generated from a practical implementation can differ from the theoretically possible. To ease this negative effect post-processing can be used, which contains the use of extractors. They extract as much entropy as possible from the original source and produce a new output with better properties. The quality and the different properties of a given output can be measured with the help of statistical tests. In our work we examined the effect of different extractors on two QRNG outputs and found that witg the right extractor we can improve their quality.
Please cite this paper the following way:
Botond L. Márton, Dóra Istenes and László Bacsárdi, "Enhancing the operational efficiency of quantum random number generators", Infocommunications Journal, Vol. XIII, No 2, June 2021, p. 10-18., https://doi.org/10.36244/ICJ.2021.2.2


The Hydrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) model is a semi-distributed, physically based catchment model, which simulates water flow and substances on their way from precipitation through different storage compartments and fluxes to the sea (Lindström et al., 2010).
The Hydrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) model was developed in the early 2000’s, when introducing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Sweden (Arheimer and Lindström, 2013). The aim was to provide water information to society for environmental and climate change assessments with high spatial resolution, also for ungauged conditions, making use of new technology and many different data sources. The HYPE model has been applied operationally in Sweden since 2008.
The HYPE code (Lindström et al., 2010) is physically based and distributed when describing hydrological processes in different subbasins, although the algorithms are not purely based on physical laws but of more conceptual nature. It is meant to be applied in a multi-basin manner to achieve high spatial distribution of flow paths in the landscape. It can be evaluated against point measurements in the river network and against spatially distributed observations, such as Earth Observations or interpolated products from in-situ monitoring.
Over time, the HYPE model has been applied in many different environments often resulting in further code development to address various hydro-climatic features. HYPE results for Sweden are available for inspection and download at vattenwebb and world-wide on our HYPEweb applications’s page. The source code was released for open access in 2011 and both code and model set-up is further described on our open source model page.


Why is reporting on physical activity important?
The importance of regular physical activity to the health and wellbeing of young people is well established (Brown et al. 2013). Physical activity is known to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease and also positively affects cardiovascular risk factors such as overweight or obesity, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes (AIHW 2015). It protects against some forms of cancer, and strengthens the musculoskeletal system (AIHW 2014; Okely et al. 2012). Physical activity may also improve an adolescent’s psychosocial wellbeing by reducing symptoms of depression, stress and anxiety, and through improvements in self-confidence, self esteem, energy levels, sleep quality and ability to concentrate (Okely et al. 2012).
The ABS Australian Health Survey categorises physical exercise into four levels: high, moderate, low and sedentary (no exercise or very low levels of exercise) (ABS 2013). The sedentary level represents individuals who may particularly benefit from increased levels of exercise.
Do activity levels vary across population groups?
In 2011–12 more than 1 in 4 young people aged 12–24 years were sedentary (27%), and levels of sedentary behaviour rose with increasing age (21% of 15–17 year olds and 29% of 18–24 year olds). Females were more likely to be sedentary than males with 31% and 24%, respectively. Similarly, Indigenous young people were more likely to be sedentary than non-Indigenous young people (39% compared to 29%).
There were significant differences in each level of physical exercise between males and females. Females had higher proportions of low-level physical exercise than males (39% compared to 22%). Conversely, males were more likely to have moderate (26% compared to 19%) or high levels (28% compared to 11%) of physical exercise than females. A significantly higher proportion of non-Indigenous young people had high levels of physical exercise compared with Indigenous young people (19% and 14%, respectively).
Has there been a change over time?
The ABS Australian Health Survey 2011–12 showed that in the 4 years since the previous survey there was a significant reduction in the proportion of all young people reporting sedentary behaviour, from 33% to 27%. This decline was consistent among the different population groups examined, however, the only statistically significant reductions over this period were for 18–24 year olds (36% to 29%) and males (30% to 24%).


Zero trust is a security concept that assumes that no network or system can be fully trusted, and all access to resources should be granted on a case-by-case basis. The goal of zero trust is to reduce the attack surface of a network by limiting access to only those resources that are necessary for a specific task.
To implement zero trust, there are several solutions that can be used:
- Identity and access management (IAM) solutions: These solutions help to verify the identity of users and devices before granting access to resources. They can use methods such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and certificate-based authentication to verify identities.
- Network segmentation: This involves dividing a network into smaller segments, each with its own security controls, to limit the impact of a compromise.
- Microsegmentation: This involves dividing a network into even smaller segments, down to the level of individual resources or applications. This allows for more granular control over access to resources.
- Endpoint security: This involves protecting endpoint devices, such as laptops and smartphones, from threats by using solutions such as antivirus software and firewalls.
- Cloud security: For organizations using cloud resources, implementing security measures such as encryption, access controls, and monitoring can help to secure data and resources in the cloud.