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https://thebossmagazine.com/molecular-oxygen/ | 2024-04-23T07:25:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00612.warc.gz | 0.924027 | 459 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__183787471 | en | We’re still a long way from setting up space colonies, let alone ones outside our own galaxy, but at least we know now there’s breathable molecular oxygen somewhere outside the Milky Way. Of course, it’s half a billion light years away, so it’s not going to do any of us any good. But scientists have been searching the heavens for years for signs of O2 outside our solar system and not found any—until now.
Part of the constellation Ursa Major, the Big Bear, Markarian 231 is a galaxy powered by a quasar. There’s at least one supermassive black hole at the center of Markarian 231, which likely helps split oxygen molecules apart from hydrogen in water ice.
Using radio telescopes in Spain and France, a team of astronomers led by Junzhi Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences measured a number of wavelengths emanating from the galaxy and found one that had the distinct signature of molecular oxygen, O2.
“The detected O2 emission is located in regions about 10 kpc (32,615 light-years) away from the center of Markarian 231 and may be caused by the interaction between the active galactic nucleus-driven molecular outflow and the outer disc molecular clouds,” the astronomers wrote in the Astrophysical Journal.
Although oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, finding O2 in the wild has been difficult. We do know it’s in the Orion nebula, which like Markarian 231 is a breeding ground for stars. That could be the key to the presence of molecular oxygen. As stars form, they radiate enough heat to melt the galactic ice, separating the O2 from hydrogen.
“This first detection of extragalactic molecular oxygen provides an ideal tool to study active galactic nucleus-driven molecular outflows on dynamic timescales of tens of megayears,” they wrote. “O2 may be a significant coolant for molecular gas in such regions affected by active galactic nucleus-driven outflows.”
Of course, we can’t live on a star, or even swing on one, but the discovery could help us understand more about the origins of life. | 52physics
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https://www.actionnetwork.com/nba/article/most-popular-public-bets-tuesday-3-13-2018 | 2021-03-05T22:56:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178373761.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20210305214044-20210306004044-00279.warc.gz | 0.954256 | 523 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__111180638 | en | Tuesday’s Most Popular Public Bets
After a slow Monday night, hoops are back. Tonight’s NBA slate is loaded with 11 games for bettors to navigate, and March Madness gets the ball rolling this evening with two play-in games, as well as some intriguing minor tournament matchups.
Using our bet and money percentage data, let’s take a look at the three games that have generated the most action from public bettors tonight.
Toronto Raptors (-9) vs. Brooklyn Nets
The Raptors are the most popular NBA bet of the night, receiving 78% of bets in tonight’s third-most heavily bet game. But with only 67% of spread money landing on Toronto, this line has dropped a full point from its opening number.
Why the public loves Toronto: The Raptors are riding an eight-game win streak, sit atop the Eastern Conference standings, and playing the 13th-place Nets. It doesn’t get much more attractive than that for a public bettor.
Boston College (+5.5) at Western Kentucky
Given the varying bet totals and percentages across these games, there’s often some subjectivity in determining the “most public” college hoops bet of the night, but I’m giving this one the nod. Seventy-four percent of bettors have taken the Eagles in what should end up as a top five most heavily bet game tonight, and BC has drawn 80% of spread money. Despite that, the line has moved away from the public, going from its opening number of 5 to 5.5.
Why the public loves BC: After watching BC’s impressive performance against some tough competition in the ACC Tournament, squares are probably pleasantly surprised to be able to grab the Eagles with 5.5 points in this opening round matchup.
Cleveland Cavaliers (-7.5) at Phoenix Suns
This game opened with the Cavs favored by seven, but thanks to 77% of spread bets and 90% of spread dollars on Cleveland, books have adjusted by giving Phoenix another half point.
Why the public loves Cleveland: The Cavs have been horrible (21-44-1) against the spread this season, but that hasn’t stopped bettors from backing them on a near nightly basis because of this player named LeBron James. Only six times this season has Cleveland received less than 50% of bets in a game.
Photo: Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan
Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports | 23gamble
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https://nscresearchcenter.org/signaturereport4-statesupplement/ | 2023-09-29T00:30:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510462.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928230810-20230929020810-00431.warc.gz | 0.968787 | 652 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__295572212 | en | Completing College – State – 2013
In the state supplement to our fourth Signature Report, a national study on college completion, we take a state-by-state look at the various pathways that students take to complete a college degree or certificate.
Among the study’s findings:
- Nationally, 12 percent of students who started at four-year public institutions completed at an institution other than the starting institution. In 20 states, students who started at four-year public institutions had a higher completion rate at another institution with Minnesota having the highest rate at 27 percent.
- 3.2 percent of all students who started at a four-year public institution received their first degree/certificate at a two-year institution. The rate was over 5 percent in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. Conversely, 9.4 percent of all students who started at a two-year public institution received their first credential at a four-year institution. In seven states, more than 10 percent did so with the highest being 13.8 percent.
- In eight states, more than one in six students who started at a two-year public institution completed at a four-year institution within six years with or without receiving a credential at a two-year institution (compared to 15 percent nationally). Virginia had the highest rate, with one in five students who started at a two-year public graduating from a four-year institution.
- In nine states, more than 10 percent of students who started at a four-year public institution and received a degree ended up graduating in a different state (compared to 6 percent nationally). The rate was much higher in Alaska (28 percent) and North Dakota (20 percent).
- In three states, more than 10 percent of students who started at a two-year public institution and later graduated did so in a different state (compared to 5.6 percent nationally).
- In 14 states and in the District of Columbia, over 10 percent of the students who started at a four-year private nonprofit institution and received a credential did so in a different state (compared to 8.8 percent nationally).
- In nearly every state, traditional-age students starting at four-year public institutions had higher six-year completion rates than adult learners. The smallest gap was in Arizona (1 percentage point) and the highest in Vermont (42 percentage points).
- In 13 states, over 75 percent of the exclusively part-time students at four-year public institutions had not received a credential and were not enrolled at the end of six years (compared to 70 percent nationally).
The Signature Report State Supplement includes detailed tables, providing a state-by-state overview of college completion outcomes within the four-year public, two-year public, and four-year private nonprofit sectors.
Suggested Citation: Shapiro, D., Dundar, A., Chen, J., Ziskin, M., Park, E., Torres, V., & Chiang, Y. (2013, February). Completing College: A State-Level View of Student Attainment Rates (Signature Report No. 4a). Herndon, VA: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. | 59statistics
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http://www.futuresmag.com/2013/07/10/oil-rises-after-bullish-api-inventory-refinery-iss?t=etfs | 2018-10-21T23:06:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514437.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20181021224001-20181022005501-00137.warc.gz | 0.961229 | 1,316 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__235112188 | en | A wildly bullish American Petroleum Institute report and reports of refinery issues as well as a blowout had crude oil (NYMEX:CLQ13) go crazy late in the day. The bulls have gripped control as the market has gone out of control. Even weak import-export data out of China is being seen as bullish as it would suggest that China will have to be more accommodative. Oil demand is at its highest level since December 2009 and Americans are starting to fill their gas tanks once again.
Either the API is crazy or maybe I am. Maybe we are both crazy. Myra P. Saefong MarketWatch reports “Oil futures climbed well above $104 a barrel in electronic trading Tuesday evening following news that the American Petroleum Institute reported a 9 million-barrel drop in U.S. crude supplies for the week ended July 5, according to reports.” A Platt’s survey of analysts showed a forecast for a 3.8 million-barrel decline. 9 million barrels? Are they serious?
Oil rallied also on early reports of a well blowout but calmed a bit after details came in. Reuters reported “An inactive natural gas well in the shallow Gulf of Mexico suffered a blowout on Tuesday as operators were trying to permanently plug the well, causing an oil sheen that briefly rekindled memories of the BP Plc spill three years ago.” Houston-based Talos Energy LLC said it was in the process of shutting the inactive Ship Shoal 225 B-2 well when natural gas and condensate began flowing on Monday. "In an abundance of caution, we decided to evacuate the platform and mobilize our spill response team, we notified the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the U.S. Coast Guard, and we shut-in two other producing wells at the platform," said Talos President and Chief Executive Timothy Duncan. Talos, which owns the well through its subsidiary Energy Resources Technology Gulf of Mexico LLC, said the well should be plugged within 24 hours. The leak may have been due to the age of the tubing on the well, the company said.”
The Energy Information Administration, in its July update to its’ short-term energy outlook, said demand for gasoline is expected to average a 12-year low of 8.844 million barrels a day over the peak spring-summer demand season, down 0.6% from a year earlier. In June, the EIA projected a 0.8% year-on-year drop, in part due to improved vehicle fuel-efficiency standards. August heating oil, which trades as a proxy for diesel fuel, settled 0.56 cent higher, at $2.9857 a gallon.
The Energy Information Administration Short Term Energy Outlook Highlights!
Gasoline: “U.S. gasoline prices are expected to be lower during the second half of 2013, falling to an average of $3.38 a gallon. Increased oil refinery fuel production, particularly as facilities are back on line in the Midwest, and lower crude oil costs will help to ease pump prices.”
Crude Oil: “After U.S. crude oil production reached 7 million barrels a day at the end of last year for the first time in two decades, daily oil output is on its way to topping 8 million barrels by mid-2014.”
“EIA expects global liquid fuels production to come close to matching liquid fuels consumption in the third quarter of 2013, with estimated global inventory withdrawal averaging 70,000 barrels per day, compared with the average withdrawal of 890,000 barrels per day during the same period over the previous four years.”
“The price discount of West Texas Intermediate crude oil to Brent oil, which was more than $23 per barrel in mid-February, fell below $5 per barrel in early July. EIA expects the WTI discount to begin widening again, to $8 per barrel by the end of 2013, as crude oil production in Alberta, Canada recovers following the heavy June flooding and as midcontinent oil production continues to grow.”
Natural Gas: “U.S. natural gas spot prices declined from an average of $4.04 per million Btu in May to $3.83 in June, partly in response to gas inventory builds that exceeded market expectations. Natural gas injections into underground storage during June totaled 373 billion cubic feet, which is about 50 billion cubic feet more than the previous five-year average injection for the month. EIA expects natural gas prices will remain below $4 through the end of 2013, as production remains robust and coal regains some of its lost share of the electricity generation market.“
Bloomberg News is reporting that “The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries forecast the world will need less of its crude next year, even as global oil demand growth rebounds to its strongest pace since 2010, amid competing supply sources. Demand for OPEC’s crude will slip by 300,000 barrels a day next year to 29.6 million a day next year, or about 2.6% less than the 12-member group is pumping now, the organization said in its first set of forecasts for 2014. The need for OPEC’s crude will diminish even as global oil demand growth recovers to 1 million barrels a day in 2014, from 800,000 a day this year, amid rising output in the U.S. and Canada.
“The strong growth trend seen in 2013 is expected to continue in 2014” for production from outside OPEC, the organization’s Vienna-based secretariat said in its monthly market report today. Dependence on OPEC’s crude is slipping as the U.S. and Canada unlock unconventional oil supplies from deep underground shale deposits with new drilling techniques. Brent crude futures have slipped 2.7% this year, trading at about $108 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange today, amid signs of slowing growth in China and uneven recovery in the U.S., the world’s biggest oil consumers. World oil consumption will advance by 1 million barrels a day, or 1.2% to 90.7 million next year as emerging nations expand and developed economies continue to recover, the organization said. Demand estimates for 2013 were kept mostly unchanged, with an anticipated growth rate of about 800,000 barrels a day, or 0.9%, to 89.6 million. | 49petroleum_and_natural_gas_engineering
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https://www.patshow.co.uk/exhibitors/pet-munchies | 2018-09-23T00:35:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267158766.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923000827-20180923021227-00358.warc.gz | 0.872202 | 146 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__40145716 | en | - Pet Treats
- Dog Food
- Pet Gifts & Stationery
- Cat Food
Award winning Pet Munchies are a premium gourmet range of high quality treats for dogs and cats made with 100% natural human grade, quality real meat/fish These treats are naturally low in fat, being delicately roasted to perfection in their own natural juices.
No artificial colours or flavours .
Including varieites that are grain and gluten free and single source protein.
Address12, Oakwood Road
This superior premium healthy gourmet dental stick, is made with 100% natural quality human grade, wild salmon and sweet potato. Designed to satisfy your dogs’ natural instinct to chew to help reduce ... | 22food
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https://smarthomepursuits.com/home-assistant/ | 2024-02-29T01:14:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474775.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229003536-20240229033536-00516.warc.gz | 0.908958 | 2,701 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__86283123 | en | Home Assistant is a powerful software for home automation, designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy. This free and open-source platform enables users to integrate over 1000 devices and services, from both local networks and the cloud, into one unified system. With Home Assistant, homeowners can create complex automations, monitor energy usage, and use companion apps and add-ons while ensuring their data remains private.
The versatility of Home Assistant makes it perfect for DIY enthusiasts and tinkerers, as it runs efficiently on devices like Raspberry Pi or local servers. By connecting compatible smart devices, such as plugs, switches, lights, and sensors, users can easily control their home through a single web interface or app.
One of the most appreciated features of Home Assistant is its customizable card-based interface, which simplifies everyday tasks like toggling devices on or off and controlling media playback. The platform offers a great solution for individuals looking to consolidate their smart home system while maintaining privacy and local control.
Smart Assistant System Overview
Home Automation Basics
Home automation refers to the process of automating and controlling various devices and appliances within a home using a central system. This concept has gained popularity with the rise of the Internet of Things and the development of voice-activated virtual assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Home automation aims to make life more convenient by enabling one to manage and control devices from a single interface, often through a smartphone app, web browser, or smart speaker.
Popular communication protocols and standards for smart home devices include Zigbee and Z-Wave, which facilitate wireless communication between devices. These protocols support a variety of smart home products like smart thermostats, smart locks, smart lighting, and security systems, among others.
Devices and Integrations
A wide range of smart devices can be integrated into a home automation system, such as:
- Smart speakers (e.g., Amazon Echo, Google Home)
- Smart lights (e.g., Philips Hue, LIFX)
- Smart locks (e.g., August, Schlage)
- Smart thermostats (e.g., Nest, Ecobee)
- Smart security systems (e.g., Ring, Arlo)
These devices can be controlled and configured using the central hub, like Home Assistant, which combines and facilitates communication between multiple devices. The hub also enables users to create custom automation routines based on various triggers, conditions, and actions, allowing for a personalized and seamless smart home experience.
The main components of a smart assistant system like Home Assistant include the following:
- Central Hub: This is the core of the system, which manages the integrations of various devices, automation rules, and data storage. The popular Home Assistant platform is typically installed on a Raspberry Pi or similar device.
- Devices and Services: These are the smart home products and services that communicate and interact with the central hub. They include smart lights, locks, thermostats, speakers, and more, as well as online services like weather forecasting and calendar integration.
- User Interface: Home Assistant’s card-based interface allows users to control and manage their devices and automation routines from a single web interface or app on a smartphone or tablet. This simplified UI ensures easy access and control over the integrated devices and services.
In summary, a smart assistant system like Home Assistant acts as a centralized hub for home automation, integrating a wide range of smart devices and online services for seamless control and management. Through the use of various communication protocols, automated routines, and a user-friendly interface, such systems aim to simplify the smart home experience and make everyday life more convenient and efficient.
Getting Started with Smart Assistant
Installation and Setup
To begin using Home Assistant, the first step is to install it on a compatible device. One popular option is the Raspberry Pi, but it can also run on other compatible hardware like the ASUS Tinkerboard, Odroid, or even a dedicated server. Once you have chosen your hardware, you will need to download and install the Home Assistant Operating System. This OS is designed specifically for Home Assistant and includes all the necessary components to run the software.
Next, connect your device to your local network and access the Home Assistant web interface through a browser on your computer, iOS, or Android devices.
One of the advantages of Home Assistant is its compatibility with a wide range of smart home devices. Some popular brands supported include Philips Hue, Nest, Z-Wave, Zigbee, and many others. The list of supported devices is continually growing as the community develops new integrations.
Adding Integrations and Add-Ons
To add an integration, navigate to the integrations page in the Home Assistant web interface and search for the device or service you want to include in your smart home. Once installed, these integrations will enable local control of your smart devices, providing faster response times and more reliability.
In addition to integrations, Home Assistant also offers a variety of add-ons. Add-ons are third-party applications designed to enhance the platform’s functionality with features such as automated backups, remote access, and various utilities.
Remember to update Home Assistant Core and your integrations regularly to ensure you have the latest features, bug fixes, and security patches. Updates can easily be performed through the web interface, and Home Assistant typically notifies users when a newer version is available.
Configuration and Customization
Dashboard and User Interface
Home Assistant offers a highly customizable dashboard and user interface, allowing users to simplify the management of their smart devices. Users can create a personalized layout using cards to control and monitor different entities. They can also modify the look and feel of the dashboard through themes or even use Lovelace UI to further customize the front end. There are various options for organizing entities such as groups or areas that make it easier to manage and control devices. Tablets and computers can be used to access the dashboard, making it a versatile DIY solution for managing a smart home.
Automation and Scripting
Automations and scripting play a key role in Home Assistant, enabling users to create complex routines that can significantly enhance the functionality of their connected devices. Automating tasks such as turning lights on or off, changing thermostat settings, or activating devices based on specific conditions can greatly improve the efficiency and convenience of a smart home setup. Home Assistant supports various triggers, conditions, and actions for creating automations, providing greater control and flexibility in designing custom solutions tailored to individual needs.
Voice Assistant Integration
Integration of voice assistants like Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, or Apple Siri can further enhance the functionality of a Home Assistant setup. By linking these voice assistants with Home Assistant, users can interact with their smart devices and automate tasks using voice commands. This can be highly useful for hands-free control or when the user is away from their tablet or computer. Voice assistant integration allows for seamless interaction between various smart devices and applications in the home environment, making it a powerful tool for simplifying home automation and control.
Security and Privacy
Home Assistant takes data protection very seriously and prioritizes the privacy of its users. All of your data is stored locally on your chosen device, such as a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4). This means that no information is sent to third-party cloud services, ensuring complete control of your data.
Local Control and Cloud
One of the main benefits of Home Assistant is its ability to function without being dependent on cloud services. By controlling your smart home devices locally, you gain enhanced privacy and avoid sharing your personal information with unaccountable third parties.
However, if remote access is necessary, Home Assistant offers an official cloud provider called Nabu Casa for a monthly fee. This option allows secure remote control while still prioritizing privacy.
Your smart home’s security is crucial, and Home Assistant supports various methods for secure communication. For remote access, you can opt for TLS/SSH over a VPN, an SSH client, or the Tor browser. This ensures that your connection remains encrypted and protected from potential security threats.
In addition to secure remote access, Home Assistant provides official apps for controlling and monitoring your smart home devices. These apps maintain direct communication with your home, without any third-party access to your data.
By prioritizing data protection, local control, and secure communication, Home Assistant ensures a secure and private experience for users.
Smart Home Applications
Home Assistant offers a wide range of applications to automate and control various aspects of a smart home. This section will focus on Lighting and Energy Management, Sensor and Device Monitoring, and Voice Control and Notifications.
Lighting and Energy Management
Home Assistant enables users to manage their home’s lighting efficiently. It allows for the control of both simple and smart lights, integrating with popular smart home platforms like Tuya and Philips Hue. Through various integrations, users can easily monitor and manage their home’s energy usage and make informed decisions to reduce waste.
Control and automation can be achieved by setting up scenes and scripts that dictate specific actions. For example, a scene can be created that turns off all lights when leaving the house. Energy management can be enhanced by implementing schedules that adjust lighting and climate control based on time or occupancy.
Sensor and Device Monitoring
The platform integrates seamlessly with a wide array of sensors to monitor various aspects of the home environment, such as temperature, humidity, motion, and air quality. This collected information can be used to inform and trigger automations to ensure the home remains comfortable and secure.
Device monitoring is made possible by connecting with a variety of devices, such as your smartphone, to provide insights into the performance and health of your smart home os. Home Assistant even lets you set up Bluetooth trackers for monitoring devices within the home without the need for additional hardware.
Voice Control and Notifications
Home Assistant is compatible with popular voice assistants, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Voice control lets users interact with their smart home devices conveniently and hands-free. By linking Home Assistant to these voice assistants, users can control devices like lights, sensors, and thermostats with a simple voice command.
Notifications play an essential role in keeping users informed about their smart home’s status. Home Assistant offers a variety of notification options, including push notifications to your smartphone or even on your Apple Watch, ensuring that important events and alerts are always within reach.
Resources and Community Support
Documentation and User Guides
Home Assistant offers extensive documentation for its users, making it easy for both beginners and experienced users to tackle the learning curve associated with the open-source project. The documentation covers various topics, including installation on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, integration with smart devices like Vera and SmartThings, and guidance on using components like ESPHome. Additionally, they maintain a GitHub repository with Python codebases that allow users to contribute and gain further understanding of the project.
Online Forums and Groups
The Home Assistant community thrives on its collaborative spirit by enabling users to share experiences, ask questions, and provide assistance through their online forum and Discord Chat Server. These platforms help users address issues, request new features, and connect with like-minded individuals. The lively community ensures constant collaboration and growth for the Home Assistant ecosystem.
Official Website and Contacts
The Home Assistant official website serves as a one-stop hub for learning about the project, accessing updates, and locating support services for the open-source home automation platform. Users can find release notes, blog articles, and guides on the website. For further assistance or to stay updated with the latest news, users can follow the Home Assistant official Twitter account or join the Facebook community. These platforms facilitate easy communication with the Home Assistant team, ensuring users get the help they need.
Advanced Features and Hardware Options
Single-Board Computer Alternatives
Home Assistant is a powerful home automation platform that focuses on privacy and local control. It is compatible with various single-board computers (SBCs) such as the popular Raspberry Pi. Other SBC alternatives include the Intel NUC and various Linux-based boards, providing a range of options for users looking for different levels of computing power and flexibility.
Power over Ethernet
Power over Ethernet (PoE) enables Home Assistant devices to receive power and data through a single Ethernet cable. This can simplify installation and provide a more reliable connection, especially for wireless devices such as thermostats and sensors. Some single-board computers, like the Raspberry Pi, can be used with PoE adapters, while others might require dedicated PoE hardware.
For advanced users, custom solutions can be developed to enhance the functionality of Home Assistant. These can range from developing programming scripts to integrating with devices not natively supported by the platform. Additionally, ambitious users can explore crowdfunding platforms such as Crowd Supply to find unique hardware solutions that have been developed by the community.
Careful consideration should be given to the Home Assistant software’s compatibility with custom hardware before committing to a project. A thorough understanding of the platform’s capabilities will help ensure your investments in time and resources yield the desired results. To better understand how to make the most of Home Assistant, explore their user guide for tips and guidance. | 12communication_engineering
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Oct. 20, 1959 A. E. ALDEN ETAL 2,909,097
PROJECTION APPARATUS Filed Dec. 4, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 a Z H a ml ma 2 a MN 8 f. Ii m w/ AW 1% m n/ is m l @HV 92% FIGZ PROJECTION APPARATUS Alex Eugene Alden, Stamford, Conn., and Harold E. Rosenberger, Brighton, N.YZ; said Alden assignorto Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, New York, N.Y., and said Rosenberger assignor to Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Rochester, N.Y., both corporations of New York Application December 4, 1956, Serial No. 626,249 3 Claims. (Cl. 88-24) of colored photographic film, it has been discovered that the small amounts of residual chromatism found'in well corrected lenses may produce observable defects in the projected image. It is well known to lens designers that perfect achromatism in such a projection lens cannot be achieved by refractive means alone because of the necessity of simultaneously reducing chromatic and spherical aberrations, astigmatism, coma, field curvature and other conditions to their least harmful state. Therefore, residual chromatic aberrations are always present in a projection lens in some degree. The need for correction of the residual chromatism of a lens exists not only'in theprojection of colored films but also in the projection of the conventional black and white film and such correction mayfurthermore be. of considerable benefit in various types of. optical systems, wherein the subject to be projected is substantially transparent, such as in microscopes and other optical apparatus.
One of the objects of this invention is to provide improved means for compensating the residual chromatic aberrations of a lens which is used for forming an image of an object.
Another object is to provide a film projection apparatus in which the residual chromatic aberrations of the projection lens are compensated. by selectively diaphragming the colored components of the light which illuminates the film to'thereby improve the projected image.
Still another object is to provide an improved method for compensating the residualchromatism of a projection lens. x
A further object is to' provide apparatus which is used for projecting an image of a colored film or the like and includes a lens having residual chromatic aberrations and means for selectively diaphragming the color components of the light which illuminates the film in order to compensate for the chromatic aberrations of the lens.
Further objects and advantages will be apparent from the details of construction and arrangement and combi-.
nation of parts of the invention by reference to the specification herebelow and the accompanying drawings in which: 1
Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a projector of the aforesaid kind showing a preferred form of our invention, V i H Fig. 2 is a ray diagram illustrating the axial chromatismofalens Fig. 3 is a graph showing certain optical conditions in the projection system of our invention,
Figs. 4 and 5 are a ray diagram and a graph, respecr 2,909,097 Patented Oct. 20, 1959 lens is opened above the optimum f/number, the projected image will be deteriorated by aberrations and if closed down below this optimum f/number, the image will suffer deterioration because of diffraction effects. The f/number may be defined as being the ratio of the focal length of a lens system to the diameter of its entrance pupil. ,In the practice of our invention, independent controls are provided for the speeds of the respective color components of light used to illuminate the, object so that each color band can be set at its optimum f/number and thereby provide a greatly improved projected image.
A preferred form of our invention is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing wherein a printing projector for colored film is represented generally by the numeral 10. Said projector 10 is provided with the usual film guiding mechanism 11 in which a film -12 to be printed or'projected is slidably held and through which the film is moved in a conventional manner. Aligned on an optical axis 15 therewith is a projection lens 13 having the usual residual chromatic aberrations therein, Whichffocuses the image upon a sensitized and unexposed color film 14 which lies in the image plane of the lens 13 on the principal axis 15. The projection lens 13 may be of any preferred type of well corrected lens having a small residual chromatic aberration which cannot be removed in the usual manner by-the lens designer.
For transilluminati ng the film 12, preferably three component light colors such as red, blue and green are added together, by combining the light output of three subsidiary illuminating optical systems 16, 17 and 13. The subsidiary optical systems 16, 17 and 18 each comprise a suitable light source 19, a condensing lens 20 and a relay lens 21 in optical alignment with each other for the purpose of projecting an image of the respective light sources into the aperture of the aforesaid projection lens 13. In each of the subsidiary systems 16 and 18, a deflection mirror 22 is preferably located between the lenses 29 and 21 to direct the light beam laterally toward the axis of the third optical system 17. v
Adjacent to each relay lens 21 there is provided a light filter, the red filter 23 being arranged in system 16, the green filter 24 being arranged in system 17 and the blue filter 25 being arranged in system 18. Red light passing through the filter 23 is reflected. fiom an angularly placed dichroic beam divider 26 so as to combine with the green light passing through the filter 24, the dichroic member 26 being suitably constructed to pass green light and reflect red light. Blue light passing through the filter 25 is reflected from a dichroic beam divider 27 which is optically aligned in angular relation to the first dichroic beam divider 26, said beam divider 27 being constructed and arranged to pass the red and green light projected from the subsidiary systems 16 and 17. The mixed light so formed is projected upon the film 12 to transilluminate itby any preferred lens combination such as the negative lens 28 used together with an adjacent positive lens 29'located ahead-of this film, which lenses act in combination with the subsidiary optical systems 16, 17 and 18 to form coincident images of the light sources 19 and diaphragms 30 simultaneously in the plane of the diaphragm 13 of the projection lens 13.
.According to ,this invention, means are provided for compensating the aforesaid residual chromatic aberrations of the projection lens 13 so as to obtain improved image quality in the projected image and said means comprise an adjustable auxiliary diaphragm 30 located between the lenses 20 and 21 in each subsidiary optical system 16, 17 and 18. The auxiliary diaphragms 30 are all located axially on the system at an image plane which is conjugate to the plane of the aperture stop or diaphragm 13' of the projection lens 13 so that each auxiliary diaphragm 30 is imaged in the plane of said aperture stop or diaphragm 13' and the relative size or opening of each of the three illustrated auxiliary diaphragms 30 is proportionately maintained when they are projected into the plane of the diaphragm 13' of lens 13. For illustrative purposes, the diaphragm images 13" of the auxiliary diaphragms 30 in Fig. 4 are shown displaced to one side of the lens 13 out of their true position since all of these images 13" are located in a single plane which is coincident with the diaphragm 13' shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The provision of the auxiliary diaphragms 30 permits the speed of the projection lens 13 to be independently regulated for each of the component colors that are projected by the subsidiary optical systems 16, 17 and 18.
The theory underlying the above-outlined compensation of residual chromatism of the lens 13 may be explained by reference firstly to Fig. 4 wherein it is shown how the various spectral wave bands of light, designated Y for yellow, R for red, B and V for blue and violet, respectively, are individually diaphragmed whereby the maximum axial convergence angles are individually controlled and secondly by reference to Fig. 2 which shows the result when a single diaphragm 13 is used for all color components and the largest convergence angles are attained. Decreasing the maximum convergence angle increases the focal range or distance along the axis throughout which the image quality does not sensibly change, thereby securing the condition of compensation of the residual chromatic aberration of lens 13.
According to the usual manner of compensation, large amounts of residual chromatic aberration may be compensated by increasing the focal range through the aid of diaphragm 13, Fig. 2. As the diaphragm 13 is constricted, the focal ranges of each of the component colors are extended axially until all the focal ranges include the same axial point whereby the lens 13 is rendered sensibly free from chromatic aberration. While achromatism may be achieved thereby, the image quality may deteriorate because the fineness of detail that can be resolved by the lens is also dependent upon the maximum axial convergence angle, the image becoming more coarse or lacking fine detail as the maximum axial convergence angle is decreased. Therefore, there usually exists an optimum setting of the diaphragm 13 that compromises both the effect of residual aberrations, of which the chromatic aberration is only one part, and the diffraction of light due to the limiting of the size of the beams of light by the diaphragm 13.
According to this invention, with regard to the case of residual chromatic aberration, further improvement in image quality can be achieved by resorting to separate compromises of diaphragm openings with respect to each selected color component of the illuminating light.
In view of the foregoing, one practical example of such selective diaphragming is shown in Fig. 5 which represents the sphero-chromatism curves of one particular lens 13 wherein the blue and violet light are diaphragrned from f/8.0 to f/ 11, the red light to f/9, and the yellow light to ;f/8 and the half focal range of the blue and violet light is thereby increased from dB and (IV to DB and DV, respectively. This example is further elucidated by reference to Fig. 3 wherein a typical axial chromatism curve for the lens 13 is drawn by plotting the axial intercepts for different wavelengths of light against their respective wavelengths lambda and indicating thereon the effect that is obtained by the selective diaphragming of certain wavelengths of light. At several chosen wavelengths on said curve, vertical lines 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43 are drawn across said curve representing different focal ranges for the various colors which are at least great enough to meet or overlap at a common axial point represented by the horizontal line 44. In Fig. 3, for instance, the lens 13 is diaphragmed selectively for different colors to yield corresponding depths of focus 39, 40, 42 and 43 which correspond to the relative apertures f/ 17.2, f/ 6, f/ 6.9 and f/ 10.8, respectively, when the diaphragm for the 520 mu wavelength is set at f/ 8. The various focal ranges 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43 may be made larger if it is desired to have the various focal ranges overlap to a greater degree.
Generally speaking, different components of light vary as to their ability to affect the image quality, wherein there may be, and usually are, preferred components of light containing a better share of useful image detail. Therefore, the selective diaphragming depends not only upon the residual chromatic aberration in lens 13 but also upon the characteristics of the image receiving surface materials, such as color film, and mechanisms, such as the eye, that are used for the recording and/ or evaluating of the final image. Therefore, it is to be understood that if such surfaces and mechanisms are to be unchanged, the selective diaphragming, once set, will not have to be changed. However, if either the characteristics of the surfaces or said mechanism are altered, then a resetting of the selective auxiliary diaphragms 30 would be ad visable. It should also be understood that the auxiliary diaphragms 30 are not used to affect color balance in a printed film but are used only to compensate the residual chromatism of the projection lens. Since the illumination of the film may be provided by any desired number of light sources of different spectral qualities, it is evident that there is considerable latitude in the character of the residual chromatism that can be compensated by the described means and still be compatible with the color response of the image receiving surface.
Further practical examples of the results obtained by the use of this invention are illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7. Fig. 6 shows the spot sizes for specified wavelengths of light when a point image is formed by lens 13 and diaphragmed by 13' at some compromise setting according to usual custom. Fig. 7 shows the improvement obtained with the aid of the selective auxiliary diaphragms 30 of the preferred example of our invention shown in Fig. 1.
From the foregoing description, it will be perceived that the prime purpose of this invention is the substantial elimination or compensation of residual chromatic image errors that are caused by a projection lens where said errors for practical reasons cannot be corrected by refinements in lens design. The described compensation has been achieved in this invention by simple, reliable and effective means whereby residual chromatic lens aberrations having considerable latitude of spectral qualities may be compensated.
Various modifications and adaptations may be made to adapt this invention to other apparatus than that here described such as microscope lighting means and projection apparatus. In microscope lighting, for instance, the different component color beams would be projected through the substage condenser onto the under side of the object slide to trans-illuminate the specimen and said beams would be individually and selectively diaphragmed and projected simultaneously into the microscope objective which serves as the aforementioned projection lens in this case. The residual chromatism of the objective would then be corrected in the same manner as in the first described embodiment. Obviously, changes may be made in the details of construction and arrangement of its parts without departing from the spirit of this invention as claimed herebelow.
1. In a projector for printing motion picture film the combination of a projection lens for projecting an image of the film onto an image receiving surface, means for transilluminating the film comprising a plurality of auxiliary optical systems, each system including a light source, filter, lens means and adjustable diaphragm means arranged in optical alignment, each filter passing a different wave band of light, aligned optical means for combining the colored light projected by each system and directing the combined light onto the film, each diaphragm in each system being located in conjugate relation to and imaged by means including said lens means in the aperture stop of the projection lens whereby the speed of each auxiliary system may be selectively controlled to compensate the residual chromatism in the first named lens.
2. An optical projection system comprising a projection lens for forming an image of a transparent object, means for transilluminating the object comprising a plurality of auxiliary optical systems each including a light source, a filter, lens means and an adjustable diaphragm, each filter being constructed to pass a different wave band of light, optical means for combining the light beams from said auxiliary systems and directing the combined light onto the object, and additional lens means coacting with the first named lens means for imaging each diaphragm of each system in the aperture stop of the projection lens whereby the focal range of each light beam may be extended at least to a focal plane which is common to all beams and thereby compensate the aberrations in the projection lens.
3. An optical projection system comprising a projection lens for forming an image of an object, means for illuminating the object comprising a plurality of auxiliary optical systems each projecting a different colored light component onto the object, adjustable diaphragm means in each auxiliary lens system and optical focusing means for projecting an image of each diaphragm means into the aperture stop of the projection lens whereby the speed of each auxiliary system may be selectively controlled to compensate the residual chromatism of the projection lens.
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In 2009, Munich’s City Council set the target of increasing the share of bicycle traffic from 14% to 17% of all trips by 2015. They embarked on a creative marketing campaign called Bicycle Capital Munich to help make it a reality.
Today, the city faces an awkward dilemma. The latest numbers show that they have reached the 17% goal four years ahead of schedule. Now, they must decide whether to continue promoting cycling, set a higher target, or simply be content with their success.
“The existing infrastructure — commonly 4 to 5 foot cycle tracks built two to three decades ago — is no longer adequate to serve the growing demand, and conflicts with people on foot are on the rise.”
And beyond the marketing conundrum, the cycling boom has been accompanied by rising concerns about inadequate facilities. Many who work for the city will admit the swelling number of people on bikes has caught them a bit off guard. And, the existing infrastructure — commonly 4 to 5 foot cycle tracks built two to three decades ago — is no longer adequate to serve the growing demand, and conflicts with people on foot are on the rise.
Coming from Portland, a city that has experienced its own cycling boom — from 2% to 8% commute share in 12 years — the issues of bicycle volumes exceeding capacity on the most popular routes is all too familiar.
Interestingly, the bicycling community in Munich is fighting for the right to use busy streets alongside motorists. The hottest issue among bicycle advocates in Munich appears to be the fight to eliminate rules obligating people on bikes to use narrow cycle tracks.
The sign sporting the blue circle with bike symbol means riders must use the designated cycle track, which in the case of a narrow cycle track is increasingly viewed as more of a restriction rather than being granted permission.
The most fascinating aspect of Munich’s dilemma, for me, is the fact that the bicycle community is demanding wide bike lanes rather than cycle tracks.
On two popular bicycle routes, i.e., Seidlstrasse and Rosenheimerstrasse, the cycle tracks have been decommissioned and replaced with wide bike lanes (2 meters) on the roadway.
On Seidlstrasse, the only signs of the old roadway configuration are faint lines where the old travel lanes were once marked. The asphalt that once delineated the abandoned cycle track has been removed and replaced with the standard pavers used for Munich sidewalks. The width of the new bike lanes seems to offer ample space for riding side-by-side comfortably despite the steady flow of traffic. There are still some who prefer to have a separated cycle track, I learned from local experts. But most recognize widening the cycle track would require a complete, and costly, rebuild of the street. For now, it seems wide bike lanes are considered a big improvement and they allow the City to more immediately address the most hazardous conditions.
At the moment, the conversion of Rosenheimerstrasse is a work in progress. The asphalt of the old cycle track remains, but the signs clearly instruct riders that they are now prohibited to ride there. At the southern end of the street, a sign (white with red circle and bicycle symbol) has been erected forbidding people on bike from entering the cycle track. I still saw several people using the old cycle track, but most seemed content to follow direction and enter the roadway. This cycle track will soon be removed and the entire space will be given over to the sidewalk — which actually represents a bit of “mobility justice”.
You see, back in the 70s and 80s, Munich officials came to the realization that increasing automobile traffic was a threat to the City’s quality of life. As a result, they decided to build cycle tracks on nearly every major street in town. However, when they went to install the bicycle facility the travel lane was generally not touched, and the space was instead carved out of the sidewalk. The tight conditions for people both on bicycles and on foot have set the stage for the tensions that now exist. Only, today, the position of those advocating for bicycling and walking is much stronger.
The question still remains, is it strong enough to push for the removal of an existing travel lane or on-street parking where ever it is necessary? Time will tell.
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Note from the editor: I have changed the headline from “…cycle tracks have fallen out of favor” to “… cycle tracks can’t keep up with demand”.
I think it’s important to note here that the issue doesn’t seem to be cycle tracks in general, but simply that they became too narrow for the number of cyclists, and people felt it would be easier to increase the space allotted by putting in wider bike lanes.
If you look at the average Dutch or Danish infrastructure, for instance, the cycle track widths are more like 6-7 feet minimum, especially the newer installations.
Basically, Münchners are having the same problem with their cycle tracks that we’re having with our bike lanes. They’re just too narrow for the number of people using them.
I’m sorry, but that’s not the case. Portlanders might want to believe that “Europe” loves cycle tracks, but in Germany there has been a big push away from them and toward on-street lanes for several years now. Cyclists in Germany regularly get killed by right-turning trucks because cycle tracks put them in a spot where they are highly vulnerable and badly visible.
Now you can argue that the example of the Netherlands shows that you can have both cycle tracks and no right-hook issues, but in Germany the current conclusion is that separate facilities and their mandatory use are not the solution.
All this has nothing to do with demand and it’s unfortunate that the new headline to the article now implies just that.
Denver, my sense is that cycle tracks can, here in the states, be thought of as offering refuge to the “interested but concerned,” those who might be not feel the painted line of a bike lane offers them enough protection, particularly older folks, kids, or parents with their kids on their bikes. Is there an analogous group in Munich? One of my most striking memories of Germany is of an older lady in street clothes trucking down one of those sidewalk/cycle tracks on her bike – it wasn’t a sight I was used to seeing in the states, and I took it as (anecdotal) evidence that that kind of infrastructure can get that kind of person on bike. How do you think that lady would react to the removal of cycle tracks? Do you suppose the ability to ride on a cycle track might have, over time, given her the confidence to get closer to car traffic on an unprotected bike lane? Or would she miss the cycle track once it’s gone?
Obviously you can’t speak to what’s going on inside that particular person’s head, but I’m wondering what your sense is to the demographic breakdown over there; how riders at various confidence levels feel about protected infrastructure vs unprotected bike lanes.
Great write-up, thanks for keeping us posted. I’m looking forward to hearing more.
“I took it as (anecdotal) evidence that that kind of infrastructure can get that kind of person on bike. ”
that little old lady was already there – before the paint, before the path, the track, the lane. I grew up in Germany in the seventies (before any explicit bike infrastructure was installed), and the old folks, the grandparents always constituted a substantial portion of the folks biking. Many of them never got drivers licenses, and having always biked, there was very little reason (to my eyes at least) for them to stop. Same in the eighties and nineties when I lived there. I am less sure what the demographic range of bicyclists is today.
A rather unfortunate headline and article that misses the the real issue. A lack of long-term planning for cycling networks.
Cities simply are not properly planning for bike route capacity and safety upgrades as well as routine maintenance. In Vancouver, for example, almost all the cycling facilities built over a decade ago need both capacity and safety upgrades. Unfortunately, it seems like many cities are not planning on this and do not allocate anywhere near enough money for these upgrades. The other problem is that bicycle facilities are not being planned for future growth. New facilities should be built so they can handle the growth in bicycle traffic for at least 30 years.
Looks like Jonathan has edited the headline; I like the new headline better.
It seems to me that the moral of this story isn’t that cycle tracks as a facility type are deficient, but rather that when you sacrifice sidewalk space instead of travel lanes for bikes, everybody loses…
And ironically in PDX we are replacing wide bike lanes with narrow cycle tracks (see Moody).
that’s a cycle track? it appears to be new sidewalk.
When did Moody have wide bike lanes?
New headline makes more sense and more positively.
The German Urban Road Manual RAsT06 presumes facilities for cycling, everywhere, but I haven’t noticed it addressing the large cyclist capacity issue.
The context in Haren, Netherlands was that a rebuild of the main street in mid 80s, with a bike path segregated from the ‘car’ carriageway, became too congested by the early 2000s. Hans Monderman responded to the congestion issues by creating a shared-space. There are hardly any physical barriers to crossing by foot, cycle or where possible, by car and the speed of motor vehicles is moderate (on average 36 km/hour; V85= 43 km/hour). Motor vehicle flow is 9k vpd and 4k for cyclists. Some complaints from a cycling organisation relate to the unusual position of cyclists sharing with other traffic, but here the available space obliges this solution.
This is actually one of my concerns with separated infrastructure. When you are sharing the road, it’s easy from a technical standpoint to dedicate some space for cycling, or to expand that space: just paint. Whether that happens depends on the politics, but at least it’s not usually a huge budget problem.
Whereas usually when separated infrastructure is used, you have a hard limit on space, and expansion is going to be not just politically hard but technically hard/expensive. It looks like Munich is doing a decent job considering the situation — they’re doing the cheap expansion, and in the process walkers get more space too.
One way to mitigate this is to repeal any mandatory sidepath laws/rules that exist. I would advocate for this in any case, but it’s especially useful if separated infrastructure is part of the toolbox.
The combination of a mandatory sidepath law and “lowest common denominator” separated infrastructure has turned me into a foaming at the mouth vehicularist. I have yet to meet an experienced commuter who does not loathe the B-way cycle track.
Thanks everyone for sharing your comments. It is nice to get feedback while I’m still traveling. Yes, there is concern about the less confident riders, particularly the younger and older ends of the age spectrum. And, today the spectrum remains remarkably wide. My wife is originally from Munich, and her grandmother rode a bicycle for errands well into her 80s. Young children must ride on the sidewalk until they are eight and have the option to use the sidewalk until they turn ten. Some of those I spoke to commented about extending this option to older children and seniors; however, that would require a change in the laws. Still, the comfort-level on the new bike lanes is quite high (as you can tell from the picture of the three girls riding carefree side-by-side). They have made the bike lane “as wide as possible” without giving drivers the false impression that it is another travel lane or on-street parking.
Jonathan, One correction…my trip is entirely funded by GMF. Thanks, Denver
Not necessarily – it depends on what’s driving the growth. If growth represents a shift from motorized transportation to non-motorized, and if that trend appears to be long-term, then it doesn’t make sense to spend on new infrastructure rather than repurposing existing pavement. The existing paved infrastructure in cities carries an enormous cost; in absolute dollars (or other currency), in stormwater costs, right-of-way acquisition, and other costs. In the current economy (and for at least the next 5-10 years), there isn’t a lot of discretionary funds for large new infrastructure projects, and much of what’s available is being used to repair existing pavement. This is a funding environment that requires thinking smarter, outside the box, and multi-purpose.
OTOH, if overall growth is driving the growth in cycling (i.e. the mode share remains constant), then perhaps new infrastructure is the best option. That’s not the case, however, in Munich (or in Portland).
One of the “problems” associated with trying to determine a bicycle’s place among other mode of transport is the wide variability of speeds that different people ride at. For some, speeds are barely greater than walking, from 8-11 mph or, and for others, they approach nearly 20 mph. The former is manageable on small facilities with low volume, and the latter really does belong on the street with faster moving traffic, where they don’t represent a danger to pedestrians. Obviously most cyclists fall somewhere between, and so does the needs of the facility to appropriately accommodate them. Unfortunately without unlimited right of way and budget to segregate traffic by speed class, we must make do to some degree with the paved areas we do have and make compromises in travel in order to make sure everyone stays safe on the road. There are seemingly a lot of people who think these rules shouldn’t or don’t apply to them, creating hazards on the roads, leading us back to the egg of segregation which sits next to the chicken of integration.
The reason Muenchners want to take more space on the roads is because they need the volume capacity to support the additional cycling population, and the only right of way which currently exists to accommodate them are those roads. Fortunately Germans are pretty good rule followers, so I doubt it would really impact (literally) the population in a significant way.
To bring this problem home for a moment, let’s suppose that Portland’s ridership suddenly shot up to nearly 30%. It seems doubtful that the Springwater, or even (the proposed and not even built) Sullivan’s Gulch trail would be able to handle the daily commute volume. We would need to take back full lanes of major arterials like Burnside or Sandy in order to handle that much more. This would be no problem though, since those bikes would be replacing cars on the road so not as many travel lanes for them would be needed.
I didn’t really mean to turn this into a cycle track bashing rant, but I want advocates for them to take these logical points into consideration. Cycle tracks are desirable to protect people from lawbreakers and dangerous drivers, but do not provide a long term solution to handle the real volume that would be created if all the “concerned but interested” actually did take up cycling for reals. They are also expensive, due to the redesign and rebuild of the surrounding right-of-way (see congressional budget related article).
The best way to promote cycling: place greater restrictions on driving, make it more expensive, and prevent dangerous drivers from taking to the roads. Unfortunately this is also political suicide, so we’re basically effed for now.
Right hooks occur with on street paths and bike lanes. Cycle tracks in themselves are blameless in the case of auto driver carelessness except in cases where visual obstructions are added between the motor vehicle lane and cycle track.
I believe that is exactly what he meant by “badly visible”. That includes putting people where drivers don’t expect them (and don’t look for them), which applies to anyone crossing an intersection in a two way cycle track going against the flow of motor vehicles. This is the exact reason why riding on a sidewalk against the flow of traffic is statistically the most dangerous place to ride.
both cully and broadway have a barrier of parked cars that make it difficult for motorists to see a cyclist until they enter the intersection. in my experience bike lanes present less risk of a right hook than portland’s poorly designed “cycle tracks”.
Cycle tracks are designed to bring bicyclists into the visibility of drivers prior to intersections. You think Cully doesn’t do that soon enough. How much length do you think is required for adequate visibility by drivers on a street like Cully? 50 ft? 100 ft? 200 ft?
the cully and b-way cycle tracks could have been positioned adjacent to the traffic lane which would have made cyclists far more visible.
where right hooks do not occur is where the bike is claiming the lane, in front of or behind the nearby cars and not to their right
Vehicular cycling all the way!
Where I diverge from John Forester’s manifesto is on the potential safety of separated cycle facilities.
As they are developed now they are engineered, at best, to pedestrian guidelines in terms of safety, sight-lines, speed crossing priority and right of way. Usually much worse.
“Common sense” tells drivers that they do not need to stop for a cyclist crossing a road when the auto driver has no signed guidance indicating that they have to.
For separated cycle facilities to be legitimately safe they need to be engineered to the same safety standards as automotive roads.
I expect that that would remove the cost savings than come from just cramming a cycle facility on to a preexisting road.
The problem I see with the cycle track that they are trying to get away from is that from a cyclists perspective, it turns the main travel route, which is met or intersected by a multitude of side streets, into many de-facto side streets which intersect a number of roadways just before these roads intersect the main travel lane.
This recreates the problems associated with riding on a sidewalk and forces motor vehicles to stop twice before joining the main arterial. I certainly don’t want to stop every block, but riding into a street from a sidewalk without stopping is suicidal.
Most European blocks are many, many times longer than Portland’s. Munich city blocks in the central city can be on the order of 1,200 ft or longer – 6 times that of a Portland city block. Hence, fewer crossings.
In Amsterdam, some blocks are around half a mile!
That makes it so much safer than in Portland, where we constantly have to be “on the lookout” for a car creeping out past the crosswalk as it nudges its way into traffic.
Apropos given the mandatory sidepath law in S.1813 currently on the Senate floor.
I must admit, I don’t know these streets in munich, but I know a lot of cycle lanes in germany.
The average picture is, that inner city every 10 m you have a high frequent exits of a supermarket, gas stations, other parking lots (its not that big as in the average USA generica) and smaller streets.
In all of these junctions you will face the risk of a “sleeping” motorist knocking you off.
You will cycle right next to pedestrians, which are able to step aside (into your way…) every moment.
Then you have cyclists riding into the opposite direction (even motorists, see the videos on http://holger.outgesourced.org/blog/fahrradbeauftragter-mal-wieder/ for example) because of there are cycle ways open to use into both directions, and some which are not.
These risks might be accepteable up to a speed of 15 km/h, which you reach with those holand cycles;
but if you have a modern cycle with a descent gear or even a roadbike (or maybe a pedelec…) 25 to 40 km/h are no problem to reach; and using cycle lanes with them is like half a suicide.
In Vancouver, we have small blocks too with alleys and driveways. The separated bike lanes have proven to be much safer than the painted bike lanes they replaced. | 65urban_planning
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It’s late afternoon and I ride my bike; country roads, dirt roads, lonely places. Twenty kilometres turns into 30, then 45. It’s less about movement and more about escape. I don’t allow the thought to linger.
The September winds bluster, bitter and relentless. I am angry at the way they won’t let up and my legs and lungs burn. Anger propels me.
I recognise the anger, the familiar warmth and comfort of it. Triggers aren’t always immediate or apparent. We find ourselves short-tempered, impatient. An edge in our voice. A shoulder angled away. An underlying simmer we feel in our organs.
I’ve been watching the Netflix series Unbelievable. The show is based on a 2015 article An Unbelievable Story of Rape about an 18-year-old US woman who reported a rape but was accused of false reporting while her rapist continued to carry out horrific crimes for another two years before he was caught by two female detectives.
The series is fearless in its willingness to explore trauma. I have been most drawn to its portrayal of the varied responses to trauma which women experience – and the assurance they need not apologise for the ways in which they respond to, and process, their trauma.
In one scene Amber, a victim of the rapist, stands outside a church with detective Karen Duvall and says: “I bought a gun. I give my dad hell about hunting wild turkeys, and here I am at a shooting range. I met a guy there. Two, actually. I have no idea why I slept with either one of them. I didn’t plan on it. I just … if Eric found out. If anyone found out – my friends, my family. Sorry, um, you came here to worship, not to hear how crazy I’ve turned.”
Duvall replies: “You don’t sound crazy to me. You sound like someone who’s been through a trauma and is looking for a way to feel safe again and in control. And there is nothing crazy about that.”
I found myself simultaneously gripped and undone by this scene. I cannot stop thinking about it.
Rape trauma syndrome is the psychological trauma experienced by a victim that includes disruptions to normal physical, emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal behaviour. It is a cluster of psychological and physical signs, symptoms and reactions common to most rape victims immediately following a rape, but which can also occur for months or years afterwards.
There is no typical or expected way to process rape or sexual trauma. Some victims outwardly express the trauma through agitation or anxiety, others are more controlled and appear to be without emotion, while others go into shock and feel confused and unable to concentrate.
Likewise, sexual relationships become disrupted and while most would expect victims to shy away from sexual interaction after rape, many survivors lean toward the other extreme and become hyper-sexual or promiscuous as a way to feel in control of their lives and regain autonomy over their own bodies.
There was a point in my life, some years after I had stopped being raped by a significant person I know, when my life spun out of control. I plummeted into self-destructive behaviour, yet I was also involved with a church. You cannot both fornicate and worship on the same day, at least, not without some measure of compartmentalisation, which I was quite adept at.
However, there is the shame; tangled around the compartments of your psyche like a barbed-wire fence; the harder you try and remove yourself, the more it pierces your flesh. Eventually the shame drove deeper than I could carry. I sought help; a broken woman in need of compassion and permission to be human. Instead, I was told I carried the lust of my rapist inside me. I was not cared for, but prayed for; advised to repent of my sins.
The thing about the process of healing, it must be the same as the process of grieving; there must be stages and milestones.
There’s a quote that occasionally surfaces on my social media pages which says: “I sat with my anger long enough, until she told me her real name was grief.”
I realise it is grief that has inflated inside me as I ride; I am a swollen riverbank who can no longer contain the burden of overflow and in that moment I yield. Allow this grief to seep from my bones and form salt-crusted recesses in the pale earth. Grief for what I needed most, and was not given. It is a desperate grasping for than letting go of. Clawing at the deficit of our basic human need for understanding, compassion, grace, forgiveness, acceptance, validation, empathy.
The thing about the process of healing, it must be the same as the process of grieving, or even the process of development; there must be stages and milestones. If we are denied or shamed, our healing cannot develop. We struggle to move forward; stagnate, eventually regress. Loathe ourselves for our incapacities, and how they affect not just ourselves, but those who try to love us.
For years I lived overwrought with shame because of the judgment from those who were not given the burden of my shoes to walk in. I allowed this shame to destroy my self-worth. I needed to be told promiscuity does not make a person morally defective or inferior – that our worth has nothing to do with the number of people we have been with, nor the ways wehave chosen to survive.
Engaging in promiscuity as a means of control and autonomy will not reconcile the symptoms of rape trauma syndrome, nor elicit healing. But it is a normal, valid response to sexual trauma, and one which should not be met with judgment or condemnation, but empathy and compassion.
How we respond to victims of sexual trauma will determine the outcome of their healing. We must understand that at the core of rape trauma syndrome is the innate need for permission to be human. We cannot deny victims of sexual trauma the fundamental right to process trauma in whatever way makes them feel most safe and in control of their shattered world.
My ride home is an act of purification; I breathe in crisp air mingled with wattle, breathe out that which I will no longer call mine. Realise not all of us will have Duvalls in our lives to hold such generous space for us. Understand that makes us no less deserving of such tender grace.
Kathy Parker is a freelance writer who publishes This Girl Unravelled.
For help contact the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service on 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), Lifeline 131 114, or Beyond Blue 1300 224 636, or the Victims of Crime Helpline 1800 819 817.
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June 24 (Wednesday): Participate in the Salem Capital Walk. (hopefully from our hotel) 10K includes downtown, State Capitol area (renovations continue in 2019), Willamette University, historic Bush House and 90-acre Bush Park. The route continues through lovely residential areas with a more gradual climb to the Governor's Mansion. 6K goes only to Bush Park, the residential areas and Governor's Mansion. Continue to our hotel in Medford, Oregon for 6 (six) glorious nights, “Inn at the Commons”, host hotel for the Conference. (541) 779-5811.
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June 25 – 28 (Thursday through Sunday): Walking Extravaganza in the Medford Area! Included in the tour price is the registration for the Conference, 2 walks each day and the “Meet & Greet”. Do not complete the registration form that will soon be on the Oregon Trail State Volkssporting Association website. There will be 4 featured walks each day and then I will include a nearby year-round event. The 4 featured walks are as follows:
- Forest Therapy with Shakespeare, Ashland
- Gold Mining Trails & Town, Jacksonville
- Medford Regional Director’s Meander, Medford
- Casey State Park Caper
More information will be published as it becomes available!
June 29 (Monday): Drive to Crater Lake National Park for a scheduled walk and some great sightseeing! (This Park has been on my Bucket List! We might even see some snow! Most activities, like the boat cruises, don’t even start till July. SORRY!) Return to our hotel in Medford for our last night! Think about packing those suitcases!
June 30 (Tuesday): Depart Medford and drive to Bend, Oregon for a year-round event. Walk along the beautiful Deschutes River on a natural path, and through city parks, downtown, and the Old Mill District.
Continue back to Portland and our hotel where we stayed the first night, Clarion Hotel, (503) 252-2222 Full Hot Breakfast included and free shuttle to the airport.
July 1 (Wednesday): FLY DAY ONLY BACK TO HOME DESTINATIONS!
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A Ventura-class stealth cruiser normally carried two aerospace shuttles and an internal launcher with a capacity of twenty Jayhawk light missiles. The Marcinko had recently undergone a refitting with a new, more aggressive system, eliminating the second shuttle and modifying the launcher to only hold eight missiles. The recaptured space in the ventral bay was given over to one of the newest offensive weapons systems in the North American Federation Navy, and the NAFS Richard Marcinko, CAS-408, became a true warship.
As the Marcinko crossed the EM threshold of Ryokou, the ventral bay doors slid aside and four large pods were ejected, each on a thick carbon-carbon filament tether. Using small puffs of hydrazine, they stationed themselves in flanking positions in formation around the Marcinko. Two pods remained above the plane, one on either side, and two were below, forming a W shape. The original engineer who designed the system said during testing he thought it looked like a wolf’s teeth from the front, and the name Fangs Out stuck.
Each pod held twelve hypersonic Arrowhead antiship missiles, independently fired and guided by the Marcinko’s powerful battlecomp. The Arrowheads were much larger, faster, and held a significantly more powerful warhead than the Jayhawks cruisers were normally armed with. They were typically only found in ships of the line because of the storage space and launch area needed. By having external tethered pods, smaller ships like the Marcinko could now be armed with much more massive ordnance, making them far more deadly.
The Marcinko drifted under gate exit momentum for another few seconds as the tethers tightened, then lit her main engines.
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https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/310208 | 2022-07-06T15:30:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104675818.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220706151618-20220706181618-00257.warc.gz | 0.925418 | 349 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__107996985 | en | Directed evolution of functional proteins has arguably emerged as an approach to protein engineering that can complement or better design-led approaches to protein function. However, as a random process, enormous numbers of variants have to be screened and selected to have a chance to identify successful catalysts. This process is costly and cumbersome: Industrial screening facilities require investment of tens to hundred of millions of dollars.
In the context of ERC StG “ChemBioMech” key steps towards conducting quantitative biological experiments in a much cheaper format (with higher throughput) have been made. Screening of individual library members in monodisperse oil-in-water compartments ('microdroplets’) that are generated in microfluidic devices has been shown to be possible. The droplet compartment constitutes a link between a given phenotype and its encoding genotype. By capturing reaction product the droplet provides a unique system to screen for catalysis.
This application is to exploit the commercial potential of a screening system of unprecedented capacity for directed evolution of enzymes that will be attractive for the biotech industry. To implement proof-of principle experiments we have teamed up with two leading industrial partners, to develop and validate the technology by implementing droplet-based selections for relevant industrial problem.
Based on interactions with Cambridge Enterprise (the technology transfer office of Cambridge University) that have led to the filing of one patent, we continue to explore the IP landscape, expand ongoing interaction with potential licensees and conduct a marketing study. Finally we will develop a training module to facilitate uptake of this technology in different settings.
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http://niraamaya.in/kohima.html | 2018-05-26T11:46:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867417.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526112331-20180526132331-00258.warc.gz | 0.882974 | 199 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__115654134 | en | Overlooking the verdant pine forests, Niraamaya Retreats Aradura offers a countryside escape amidst some of the most beautiful scenery in the region. The charming accommodation and spectacular vistas make your stay truly rewarding.
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https://manilabulletin.pressreader.com/agriculture-9ggr/20230301/282832195323823 | 2023-03-22T08:49:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943809.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322082826-20230322112826-00140.warc.gz | 0.94242 | 599 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__26118283 | en | Yours, YVETTE Editor-in-Chief
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In celebration of Women’s Month, we are proud to give you an issue where almost, if not all, featured personalities and enterprises are women. Women play an integral role in agriculture, yet they are often left out of the conversation when it comes to roles and policies. It’s often assumed that farming, fishing, and everything in between is a man’s job, and nothing could be further from the truth, much to the detriment of the women involved. There are women who farm, women who fish, women who process food, women who run businesses, and women who create policies. The sooner the world recognizes this and the sooner women gain an equal seat at the table, the easier it will be to achieve food security. Continuing to ignore, underestimate, and belittle the role of women in agriculture, aquaculture, and everything in between means continuing to allow a marginalized sector to be subject to inequality and abuse. It also means continuing to ignore a segment that has much to offer the industry by way of talent, resource, and creativity if given proper opportunity. On the cover we have Anna Beatriz Suavengco, an agriculture student and content creator driven to lead the youth towards choosing agriculture as a career. She leads and manages City Farm, a 200 square meter urban farm in Taguig where the local youth takes center stage. We also feature Sheena Tolentino Fideli of Vanilla Acres Gem Farm in Laguna who foresees demand for both vanilla cuttings for propagation and cured vanilla beans for culinary use to rise in the coming years; Jennie Lizza Pineda of Sunshine Ae L’s Quail Farm in Sta. Ana, Pampanga, a mother who runs a profitable side business raising quail for egg production; and former OFW Evelyn De Guzman-Breguera, who established Abundance Farm in Pangasinan as a source of income and as a way to promote natural farming as a sustainable livelihood. We also have a planting calendar, a general climate outlook for the month, and what festivals to look forward to in March, as well as pieces about women engaged in the ornamental business and post processing, among others. We often talk about the need to include women farmers in the conversation and yet this is rarely followed through, even in 2023. We hope that this issue helps highlight the role women can play in agriculture, and we hope that they are given the chance to showcase their true potential sooner rather than later. | 1agronomy
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https://sinese.org/2015/01/20/beacon-hill-resources-puts-minas-de-moatize-for-sale/ | 2023-06-11T01:12:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646652.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610233020-20230611023020-00171.warc.gz | 0.944269 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__133061827 | en | In additional bad news for the Moatize coal, according to Macauhub, Beacon Hill Resources (will have to sell Minas de Moatize, its coal asset in Mozambique due to its inability to secure financing, and its consequent failure to service its debts, the company said in a statement. The full company’s statement can be seen here in the Jan 12, 2015 announcement.
Beacon Hill Resources Plc is focussed on building and developing a portfolio of near term production projects in commodities relating to the steel production industry. Beacon Hill listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (Code: BHR).
According to the company’s website, Beacon Hill Resources Plc owns and operates the Minas Moatize Coal Mine, which is one of three operating coal mines producing and selling coal in Mozambique’s Moatize Coal Basin, one of the largest developing coking coal regions in the world.
In addition to Minas Moatize, Beacon Hill holds a majority interest in the Changara Coal Project, an exploration project that is located within close proximity to its flagship Minas Moatize Coal Project
Additional data about Minas de Moatize project – reserves – can be seen here.
Earlier bad news, with Rio Tinto’s sale of coal assets in Mozambique, in a 2014 post. | 40mining_engineering
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https://gladstonenews.com.au/fisheries-focus-on-gladstone-waters-during-clean-up/ | 2021-06-18T21:35:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487641593.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20210618200114-20210618230114-00327.warc.gz | 0.96708 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__132118827 | en | 03 Jul FISHERIES FOCUS ON GLADSTONE WATERS DURING CLEAN UP
Fisheries Queensland is focusing on Gladstone waters as it continues to roll out its program of crab pot clean-ups.
Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner said over two days, officers from Gladstone and Yeppoon targeted the South Trees Inlet and Calliope River and had seized almost 70 abandoned or non-compliant pots as well as an unattended fishing net, as the equipment was no longer of commercial value it has been destroyed.
Mr Furner said derelict equipment was bad for fish stocks because it could continue “ghost fishing”, trapping target and non-target species but never being checked or removed. “Doing this work reduces the pressure on our fish and crab stocks, leaving more for both commercial and recreational fishers and protecting jobs in both sectors,” Mr Furner said. “This contributes to building a legacy of a sustainable fishery for our children and grandchildren.”
Member for Gladstone Glenn Butcher said it was every fisher’s responsibly to make sure their gear was compliant with the rules. Mr Butcher has urged fishers to remove their crab pots form the water when they leave a fishing site. “It is important to mark crab pots with the owner’s surname and address,” Mr Butcher added. “These resources belong to all Queenslanders and we need to make sure they are protected for future generations of commercial and recreational fishers.”
You can report derelict fishing gear or illegal activity to Fishwatch on 1800 017 116 (toll free within Queensland). | 45ocean_science
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https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/bb-social-zone/canada---holiday-experience-(whale-watching)-part-3 | 2022-01-20T17:25:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302355.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120160411-20220120190411-00522.warc.gz | 0.973548 | 561 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__157077833 | en | We went on a whale watching tour which was one of the best things that I’ve ever done. We got out to see a group of about 10-12 humpback whales and they were feeding at the time on small fish (herring, if I remember rightly) – it’s called Bubble feeding and the tour guide told us that only a very small amount of people in the world ever get to see this phenomenon. A quick rundown of it:
What you see are a stack of seagulls circling around and then when you see the seagulls zoom down to the water that means that the whales are about to explode out of the water. You see, as underneath the water, the whales are creating bubbles (thousands of bubbles) and they create the bubbles in a circle – and the bubbles trap the fish. The whales then move up toward the surface and the fish swim to the surface (seemingly trapped by the bubbles) – and that’s what has the interest of the seagulls because moments before the whales appear, you fleetingly see the fish jumping up out of the water and some of the seagulls are lucky enough to score a fish.
It is THEN that the whales appear in a rush out of the water travelling straight up with their mouths open and hundreds of litres (gallons) of water enter their mouths and they come out of the water – how far out of the water is hard to say, but it would have to have been around several metres; they then turn and glide along the top of the water and jet out massive sprays of water out of their blowholes and the sound is something else and they do this for about a minute and just before they dive again to try for another bout of feeding, this is when they kind of arch their back (hence their name of humpback) and you see their enormous tail arch up into the air and then slide back into the water. They are a huge huge mammal and it’s something that I’ll remember forever. On that particular evening, we also saw two Orcas – amazing because our guide told us that it’s not an often thing to see them. Then as we were heading back, we went past a giant water bouy and just lazing in on it, we saw 6 sea lions, just sunning themselves. At that particular time it was 7:30pm.
Sunset over there was on average sometime after 9pm, and sunrises (never saw any of them) were around 4:30am.
We also saw salmon spawning up some tiny creeks, masses of salmon jumping in the waters of the inside passage, heaps of sea otters, seals. | 19environmental_science
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http://books.google.com/books?id=vXzhAAAAMAAJ&q=yellow&dq=related:UOM39015035715831&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=6 | 2013-12-18T13:13:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1387345758566/warc/CC-MAIN-20131218054918-00042-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.816585 | 442 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__195853886 | en | Michigan trees: a guide to the trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes region
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For well over half a century Otis's "Michigan Trees" has been a favorite among all those interested in the outdoors. Now, completely rewritten and enlarged, the book contains new sections on identification, Michigan habitats and communities, pollination, and rare and endangered woody plants. Notes on the natural history, distribution, insect and disease pests, and landscaping use are included for each tree species. Scientifically accurate descriptions with over 100 full-page illustrations in an easy-to-use format make "Michigan Trees" an invaluable handbook for tree and shrub identification in the Great Lakes region.
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http://starkvilledailynews.com/content/berrys-return-td-gives-dogs-boost?quicktabs_4=2 | 2017-04-27T18:54:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122619.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00340-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.993811 | 613 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__131988259 | en | Berry's return for a TD gives Dogs a boost
By DANNY P. SMITH
It was a play that made a special teams player like Mississippi State's Emmanuel Gatling proud.
Even though Gatling has a history of stopping opposing kick returners, he understands the impact of what the 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown from teammate Leon Berry meant to the Bulldogs during Saturday's 49-16 victory against the Alcorn State Braves.
Gatling said big plays are what the unit is all about.
"With him returning that, it gave confidence with all special teams," Gatling said. "Whether you are on offense or defense with special teams you think score. By him scoring, we are realizing our goal."
MSU was able to pad a first-half lead with Berry's score.
The Bulldogs held a two-possession lead against the Braves at 28-16 until Berry broke loose on the play to extend the lead to 35-16.
"The kickoff return was huge and it got us a little momentum back before halftime," MSU coach Dan Mullen said. "I thought we were close on a couple of the first ones, but just fell off on some blocks at the last second. It was a great job of blocking and Leon made a nice run. It looked like he was going to be knocked out of bounds, but did a nice job along the sideline of staying in bounds and making a big play."
Berry said the coaches were wanting the special teams to concentrate on setting up the offense with good field position.
The Bulldogs did much more than that with the touchdown with 1:22 left in the first half.
"Everybody came out, did their job and executed what we do," Berry said. "I just had to trust that I could hit it and that's what we did."
A key block by Chris Hughes was enough to spring Berry to pay dirt.
"I was thanking him hard on that," Berry said. "He came and hugged me in the end zone, but I told him that I saw your block."
It was Berry's second career touchdown on a kickoff. His other kick return for a score was an 89-yard effort last season against Georgia Tech.
The former East Mississippi Community College player has gotten respect from his teammates for his return ability.
"He was probably one of the best in the country last season in returning kicks," fellow receiver
and kick returner Chad Bumphis said. "It was good to see him get that one under his belt."
Berry also recorded a career-high 97 yards receiving on three catches. He upped his season totals to eight receptions for 188 yards.
It also gave him and the rest of the team what he called "a big confidence boost."
"The coaches said last week we were going to throw the ball," Berry said. "All week we caught the ball well and we were told we were going to come out throwing. That's what we did." | 43news
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https://canadiancybersecurityjobs.com/jobs/27412096-field-service-engineer-network-engineer-entry-intermediate-sr | 2024-03-02T10:44:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475806.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302084508-20240302114508-00037.warc.gz | 0.918277 | 1,214 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__2451927 | en | As the first and often the most frequent point of contact for our clients, you will have the greatest opportunity to influence the client's perception of Evertz. This position is a challenging mix that combines technical know-how and customer service skills both in-house and when traveling to our customer’s production studios and distribution facilities.
You will be challenged with configuring, commissioning, and systematically trouble shooting Ethernet/IP networks for the latest advancements in broadcast networks and video processing equipment.Responsibilities:
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https://techmaster.com.vn/en/amc-monitoring-airsentry-ii-point-of-use/ | 2023-03-25T14:49:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945333.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325130029-20230325160029-00421.warc.gz | 0.824282 | 668 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__2578583 | en | The AirSentry II AMC Monitoring family of ion mobility spectrometers for airborne molecular contamination (AMC) from Particle Measuring Systems detect and alert users to small concentrations or changes in airborne levels of chlorides, acids, amines and ammonia-containing species. With parts-per-trillion (ppt) sensitivity, these point-of-use sensors provide fast response, increased detection selectivity and repeatable performance. Combining Air Sentry II sensors with a central software platform allows for easy data acquisition and analysis. The AirSentry II family of airborne molecular contamination sensors provide continuous actionable data, to enable efficient response to contamination sources and events.
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https://www.learnphotoshopfast.com/photoshop-yasdl/ | 2020-10-25T11:18:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107888931.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20201025100059-20201025130059-00566.warc.gz | 0.962756 | 810 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__60047953 | en | It is remarkable what an easy thing Photoshop can do. At one time, it was a troublesome program for everyone to make use of, but it has come to be the recommended program for lots of imaginative people. Photoshop Yasdl
This article describes how to modify images with Photoshop and why you should be utilizing it.
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If you don’t want to squander your cash sending leaflets, you can buy a domain and also host a fast internet search. On the other hand, if you intend to have some expert looking photos up on your site it will certainly cost you money to obtain a expert style. Photoshop is an extraordinary tool that every online organisation must make use of, specifically if they are not currently utilizing this amazing software program. | 51photo
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https://www.mainstreet-nashville.com/communities/local-man-expands-successful-sour-beer-brewery-launched-in-donelson/article_6bf5f3a8-7fc7-11eb-8e22-8fce7e1ac812.html | 2021-10-19T16:12:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585270.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019140046-20211019170046-00648.warc.gz | 0.969377 | 2,822 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__56879011 | en | A Donelson man’s successful specialized craft beer nanobrewery has him expanding, and moving the operation into a bigger east Nashville facility, where he also plans to open a taproom by late spring.
Perhaps Tennessee’s smallest and most niche, Barrique Brewing and Blending is settling into a 10,000 square-foot location leased on the east bank of the Cumberland River, one block from Top Golf and a stone’s throw from Nissan Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans.
“It’s bigger than I was planning, but the opportunity presented itself, and it made too much sense not to entertain it,” said Barrique’s founder Joel Stickrod.
Little Harpeth Brewing formerly occupied the building at 30 Oldham St., before new ownership moved it to the Nations neighborhood.
“It’s starting to feel like home; it’s getting full,” Stickrod said of his new brewhouse.
The taproom is currently under construction. It will have about a 50-person capacity and take up 1,200 square feet of the building. When visitors walk into the taproom, they’re going to be surrounded by four or five stacks of barrels, said Stickrod.
“I think it’s going to be a really impressive look,” he said.
The new space has a great view of the Nashville skyline out back, so Stickrod is having a deck built right off the taproom, he said.
“It’s going to be a unique place for people to come and gather. I think it’ll be warm and intimate,” said Stickrod.
The expansion has Barrique’s owner partnering with longtime friend, Austin Webber, to serve as chief operating officer. Webber brings brewmaster and operations manager experience from an Alabama brewery. He will concentrate on the business side of the operation, while Stickrod focuses on production.
Barrique plans to add more staff when the taproom opens, but in the meantime, they hired their first employee, Spencer Longhurst, who was previously employed by Little Harpeth. Longhurst will help Stickrod with production, he said.
With a focus on brewing sour beers, Barrique – a common term for a French oak wine barrel – was founded by Stickrod in 2017 on Air Lane Drive in Donelson. There, the Eldora, Iowa native began making the complex, acidic sour beer.
The entire operation is small, by industry standards, for the amount of beer produced. And it is clearly a labor love for Stickrod, who has managed Barrique by himself up until January.
Barrique is unique for its fermentation and aging processes done in oak wine barrels. Their sour beers have an average product age of 18-24 months, said Stickrod. The beers are directly packaged into 500 milliliter cork-and-cage bottles, which he individually labels by hand. He said kegs are never used.
“Everything open ferments in wine barrels for about 10 days before it gets transferred to closed barrels, where it ages for a whole summer usually. The beer then gets fruit added to it and it ages for another summer,” he said. It sounds like a lot of work for one man to do, but I love it,” he said. “All the barrels, they’re beautiful,” said Stickrod.
One 60-gallon wine cask of sour beer yields about 432 bottles. Once bottled, they are held in cages on shelves that can accommodate up to 40,000 bottles in the new brewery, said Stickrod.
Barrique’s blends are sold direct sale online for pickup at the brewery and available at local retailers that focus on craft lagers and ales. Barrique’s sour beer is available at eateries such as Homegrown Taproom in Donelson, and the Pharmacy Burger. Stickrod estimated 80% of his sales are a result of direct sales.
Because Barrique was already packaging their beer directly into bottles when the pandemic hit, they were able to hit the ground running, while other craft beer makers had to work on shifting to that model, said Stickrod. We were used to doing curbside pickups, ordering online and coming to pick up in advance, he said.
Beer pickup is at the new Oldham Street location each Thursday at 10 a.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Stickrod said the direct sales will continue after the taproom opens.
According to the Brewers Association, in 2019, there were more than 2000 microbreweries in the United States, and 108 craft breweries were in Tennessee. The association estimates a $1.38 million economic impact. About 194,670 barrels of craft beer are produced a year in the state.
In Nashville, Brandon Jones at Yazoo Brewing’s Embrace the Funk Program started the sour style of beer.
“I’m very thankful for what Brandon has done. He’s opened a lot of doors educating the consumers of Nashville on this style. He definitely was the pioneer of the Nashville sour beers,” said Stickrod.
However, the craft beer completion in the marketplace does not spook Stickrod.
“I think I’m niche enough that it doesn’t really scare me. The river rises and all boats float. Having a large craft beer community – especially a close one, we are all friends and talk shop – I can’t think of anyone that hasn’t been successful at it, even during the pandemic. We didn’t lose anybody. That right there stands on its own,” he said.
By day, Stickrod is a touring sound engineer for Hootie and the Blowfish founder turned country singer Darius Rucker. As live music touring grounded to a halt when the pandemic started last year, the pause allowed Stickrod to put all his focus exclusively on the brewery.
He started Barrique by subleasing a small corner of space in Rucker’s special events warehouse where the singer rents gear. His first season, he brewed 50 barrels of beer, then 100 and then 300 casks as he expanded at the former location.
“It was a natural, progressive growth over the last four years,” said Stickrod.
With a goal of producing 600 barrels of beer this season, Stickrod made a move to take over more square footage at the Donelson address. But a combination of running out of room and more unreasonable requests from the city led to the decision to look for a more suitable location.
“It seemed like every time we answered what the city was asking, they turned around and asked for something else. And after about the fifth time of being denied in that building, I said ‘let me see what other options are out there,’” said Stickrod. “I was going to go to about 5,000 square feet in there, so I strategically filled in up with barrels, but then I didn’t have any space to put the bottles. So I gave myself 12 months of finding a solution. Twelve months later, I ended up here [on Oldham Street],” he said.
These days, Stickrod is “working hard to fill the bottles,” he said. His days and weeks are long right now, but he takes it all in stride and said the work flow comes in cycles, especially during fruiting season, with enough work breaks spread in between.
“It keeps it fresh, because as soon as something starts to get monotonous, you turn around and it’s a whole new task. When you’re standing here and cutting strawberries all day for three weeks in a row, and you’re like, ‘man, this is kind of getting old cutting strawberries in half,’ you turn around, and it’s peach season. Then, you’re outside picking berries. It keeps it fresh,” said Stickrod.
He started home brewing “normal, clean beer” in 2008.
Then Stickrod did some traveling around the world touring with Rucker, and that’s when he discovered sour beer in Amsterdam. He came back home and thought “let me start making it,” he said.
“And once I went down the rabbit hole, I went all the way down the rabbit hole. And started doing barrel fermentation and open fermentation at home,” said Stickrod.
He immediately realized he wanted to pursue brewing sour beer and got his foot in a couple doors interning, even showing up and working for free, he said.
“We always joke that [Rucker] only likes to work when he can play golf. So I’ve always had almost six months of the year where we do 10 shows or less, so I was able to intern and still work,” Stickrod said, who interned at 5 Seasons Brewing Co. in Georgia and was an assistant brewer at Mantra Artisan Ales in Franklin. He said he made sour beers and clean beer at Mantra.
On his next work trip to Europe, Stickrod stayed a handful of extra days and took a trip by himself over to Belgium, where sour beers originated.
“Open fermentation is what I was really inspired by. I think that there are flavors you can’t get by fermenting in a stainless tank. And some of the stuff we were making on the commercial level down there, I was wishing that I was getting some of the flavors I was getting out of the home brew,” said Stickrod.
“The other side of it is brewing in this manner was the only way that I could start it by myself and still tour, because it’s such a long process that it’s a lot more forgivable. I was able to fill the barrels and go out on the road for two to three weeks. And then come back and work on the barrels.”
The new brewhouse came with equipment purchased from Little Harpeth, which allows Barrique to brew in 10-20-barrel batches in two different sizes of boil kettles. Stickrod just put in stainless fermentation, something he’s never had in the past. It should help it expand styles and creative processes a little bit, he said.
Also on the brewery production floor is a Burton Union device, used to process a style of fermentation from England.
“How beer was made before the advent of stainless steel. A lot of what I’m doing is old-world style brewing, dissecting styles of before there was artificial chilling and stainless steel and how they were making beer back on the farm in the 1700s. That’s how I make beer,” said Stickrod.
Another unique piece of equipment he pointed out is what he called the flat vessel.
“It’s called a cool ship. We will run boiling wart into that and let the cold ambient temperature take it from boiling to 60 degrees overnight. That’s how spontaneous beer is made in Belgium. On that style of beer, you never pitch any yeast. It’s all local microbes from the air and barrels that spontaneously ferment the beer. That’s how Lambic type beers are made,” said Stickrod.
He said there are only cool ships in Tennessee, the one at Barrique and the other with Jones.
“[There are] maybe less than 50 cool ships in the country. It’s starting to become more popular because people are trying to recreate these Lambic-type beers,” Stickrod said.
Barrique sources as much of the fruit used locally as possible. While he has partnered with local orchards and uses fruit grown in the Southeast, he has tart cherries shipped in because they don’t grow locally. Stickrod can even be found picking berries himself, 1,200 to 2,000 pounds of fruit a week, he said.
Stickrod would like to eventually produce about 1,000 barrels of beer a season. The touring off time has allowed him to get organized for that goal.
“I’ve always had a goal of 1,000 casks, and we’re about one year away from that. I don’t think I ever want to expand past 1,000,” said Stickrod.
“I’ve always told myself that I want to get to 1,000 barrels and stay at 1,000 barrels. I think that’s a comfortable point for a happy quality of life and a happy decision on the business.
“It lets me keep my hands on all the barrels – know what’s where, taste everything, blend everything myself. It’s big enough to be financially stable, but also have a high quality of life. So I don’t see myself expanding past 1,000. I think it would be a happy and healthy business at that point. Quality of life – I’d like to get to the point where I’m working eight-hour days, not 12-hour days.
“It’s pretty unique. It’s a unique style of beer, a unique way to make beer, and I hope Nashville appreciates it. It’s been going very well and has been received very well.” | 31journalism_and_media_communication
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https://explorer.aapg.org/story/articleid/50078/africas-ongoing-oil-boom?utm_medium=website&utm_source=sidebar_seealso | 2023-12-09T14:35:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100912.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209134916-20231209164916-00313.warc.gz | 0.93983 | 1,658 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__70689861 | en | Steadily and quietly over the past decade, Africa has emerged as the world’s leading playground for oil and gas exploration.
Well, maybe not so quietly.
“It’s quite an exceptional exploration record, really. There were 25 giant exploration discoveries over the past 10 years, more than anywhere else in the world. You can’t argue with that,” said Adam Pollard, senior research analyst in Edinburgh for Wood Mackenzie’s sub-Saharan Africa upstream team.
From significant oil and gas discoveries in west Africa to trillion-cubic-feet natural gas plays offshore and onshore east Africa to the huge Zohr gas field find in the Mediterranean north of Egypt, explorers have notched success after success on the continent.
Now it’s clear that the industry considers Africa a premier target for exploration drilling.
According to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie, giant African discoveries – finds of 500 million barrels of oil equivalent or more – are dominated by multi-tcf gas fields in the waters of Mozambique and Tanzania, Atlantic Margin play openers off Senegal and Mauritania, deepwater giants in Nigeria and pre-salt reserves offshore Congo and Angola.
Land of Opportunity
Pollard noted this string of successes points up the continued prospectivity of deepwater sub-Saharan Africa, still strong 40 years after Phillips Petroleum’s first deepwater well offshore Ghana. But success isn’t inevitable, he warned.
Following the industry’s steep downturn, “deepwater Africa is starting to look attractive again” despite a few recent disappointing wells, Pollard said.
“At the end of the day, these are quite frontier basins without the highest chances of success,” he observed.
Many African basins are relatively underexplored, however, and low entry costs in the frontier areas make sub-Saharan Africa an excellent prospect for explorers large and small, he said.
After years of exploration and production activity, industry infrastructure in Africa is good, Pollard noted. Coming out of a downturn, “it’s quite easy to get hold of a rig these days,” he said.
Availability of bid acreage also favors Africa at this point, Pollard noted. Oil majors alone have picked up more than 140,000 square kilometers of African offshore acreage in the past 12 months, according to Wood Mackenzie.
“There’s a continuing acreage reload. And there are still some high-profile wells planned, offshore Namibia, offshore South Africa, off Guinea-Bissau,” Pollard said.
“There seems to be a whole host of acreage coming up in bid rounds. There are 12 countries that have either recently launched a bid round or plan to soon,” he observed.
According to the Angolan press, the country’s minister of natural resources and minerals has announced that Angola expects to issue a new licensing round for onshore and offshore petroleum blocks in 2019, and “Senegal plans to launch a new bid round, with a new petroleum code,” Pollard noted.
Challenges to Monetization
Despite the continent’s record of exploration success, players in Africa have faced an enormous challenge in moving from discovery to production and resource monetization, he said.
“Converting volume into value is undoubtedly sub-Saharan Africa’s Achilles heel,” Pollard said.
“A lot of what they’ve discovered in the past few years has been gas, and that has additional difficulties in terms of monetizing it,” he explained. “It’s typically the lack of a local market and the high cost of export that get in the way.”
Out of the 25 giant field discoveries in Africa during the past 10 years, 14 have not reached commercial status, according to Wood Mackenzie. Pollard said companies have relinquished a number of big gas discoveries in West Africa.
Typically, it takes 10 years or more from a substantial discovery in Africa to beginning of commercial production, he said.
Liquefied natural gas export projects were expected to ease the situation but funding has been tight and progress slow. Eni’s Nene Marine oil and gas discovery in shallow water offshore the Republic of the Congo is a rare exception to the production hold-ups, coming onstream at the end of 2014, according to Wood Mackenzie.
In other areas, Cairn Energy intends to make a final investment decision on its SNE field development project offshore Senegal early in 2019, according to press reports. Also, plans for developing the Tortue fields straddling the offshore waters of Senegal and Mauritania have advanced this year.
“Mozambique’s giant gas fields will underpin multi-billion-dollar projects. Eni and Anadarko have already cashed out US$7 billion from farm-down deals” in Africa, Wood Mackenzie reported.
“Yet, similar fields over the border in Tanzania have made no progress and will likely miss the next LNG window of opportunity,” it noted.
Some of the problems with natural gas monetization in Africa came from concession and lease terms that were not conducive to commercial development, Pollard said.
“In Angola it was okay if you discovered oil, but gas was a non-starter. They’ve since addressed that,” he said.
“The Angolans have done quite a bit of work to make some reforms around fiscal terms. I think we’ll see other countries do the same thing as they begin to realize they have to compete much more for investment,” he predicted.
Total announced initiation of its Angolan Kaombo development in November. Located 260 kilometers offshore the country’s capital of Luanda, Kaombo is the biggest offshore development in Angola.
An initial floating production storage and offloading vessel, Kaombo Norte, came onstream in July with a production capacity of 115,000 barrels of oil per day, Total reported. Start-up of a second FPSO of similar capacity, Kaombo Sul, is expected next year. Associated gas will be exported to an Angola LNG plant.
Explorers hope for attractive emerging plays in more than a half-dozen basin areas of Africa, including the Kwanza basin off Angola, the offshore Senegal and Sierra-Leone basins, the Rovuma basin off Mozambique, and onshore areas in Kenya, Uganda and Niger.
“In east Africa it’s more of a development picture. Eni and Exxon have picked up acreage offshore Mozambique, south of where the big gas discoveries are,” Pollard said.
For recent development efforts in Mozambique “trying to secure funding and gas sales there has taken several years,” he noted. Given that picture, an exploration strategy seeking additional major gas discoveries might be questionable, he added.
In north Africa, “Total and Eni are in talks to explore offshore Algeria, which is something new. The geology in the north of Algeria is quite different from the south,” Pollard noted.
Algeria’s state oil company, Sonatrach, signed two agreements with the companies in October that include an exclusive partnership for offshore exploration in the country.
“What they’re likely to find offshore in the Med may be more similar to what’s been found offshore Libya,” Pollard said.
And Egypt also shows continued promise, following the giant Zohr gas field discovery offshore and attractive Nile Delta prospects, he noted.
As the oil and gas industry has emerged from the financial constraints of its recent downturn, companies have increasingly sought exploration opportunities in Africa, Pollard observed.
No matter what happens in the next 10 years, “sub-Saharan Africa will remain at the center of global exploration,” he said. | 49petroleum_and_natural_gas_engineering
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https://hairstylemirror.me/how-to-know-what-hairstyle-suits-you/ | 2024-04-23T10:47:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818474.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423095619-20240423125619-00742.warc.gz | 0.961691 | 1,028 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__201212777 | en | Anyone can have a great hair day, but what separates the self-assured folks from the self-conscious majority is a great hairstyle. A good hairstyle can help you look confident and relaxed at the same time. When it comes to knowing what hairstyle suits you, ask yourself a few questions first: Do I prefer clean or messy looks? Do I like my hair short, medium or long? Knowing your hair type is as important, if not more so than your hair length and texture. And contrary to popular belief, there are several universal codes that apply to every single person on this planet.
In this article we’ll discuss some of the most common hair features and how they affect your appearance. Let’s take a look…
- How to know you have this feature
- How to know you have that feature
- What you need to know about coils and curls
- What’s your texture?
- Tips for curly haired girls
How to know you have this feature
If you have a high forehead, you might be a “hat person.” Self-consciousness is usually the reason behind people who choose to wear hat. People with this feature are usually concerned about how their hair looks, but they don’t want others to know. Another way to identify if you have this feature is if your head touching your neck, it’s more prominent and appears more often than other people.
You are probably a “hair person” if you enjoy showing off your hair and usually keep it up in a bun or ponytail. If you have thick and curly locks of hair, this is another way to identify yourself as a “hair person.”
How to know you have that feature
Some features are easy to spot and others are more difficult. For instance, if you have a receding hairline, you’re probably going bald (which is not good). If your nose is large or your ears protrude, that’s usually an indication that they’re bigger than they should be. And while there are many features of our bodies that we can control, such as the size of our chests and thighs, others are out of our control.
Hair texture is one feature that falls into this latter category. There’s no way for us to make our hair straight or curly; those things happen on their own. But when it comes to knowing you have a particular hair texture, there are some tell-tale signs.
The most common hair textures include straight, wavy and curly/frizzy.
What you need to know about coils and curls
Many people don’t know what curls and coils are, so let’s start with a basic definition. Curls are formed when hair is pulled tightly from the scalp, creating an elastic coil shape. Coils are created when hair is allowed to dry naturally and then has moisture or heat applied to it so that it springs back into shape.
Coils can be distinguished from waves by the way they behave in three-dimensional space. Waves lie flat on the head and move in a circular motion but coils do not lie flat and move in an oval motion.
A common misconception about coils is that they are difficult to manage because they tend to frizz up easily. This is not true because coiling helps to avoid frizzing by taming the hair while simultaneously providing amazing volume at the same time.
What’s your texture?
Texture is a factor that plays into determining your hair style. It’s not just about what your hair is like, but how it feels to the touch. Some textures are thicker and more voluminous than others, while some have a smooth appearance. If you would like to experiment with different textures, try using a texturizing spray before blow-drying your hair.
Different textures require different styles. The best way to figure out what’s right for you is to ask the people closest to you for feedback on which styles they think look good on you.
Tips for curly haired girls
If you have curly hair, you know that it’s never easy to come up with hairstyles that are attractive and trendy.
The issue is that curly hair doesn’t always want to stay in one place. It can be hard to create hairstyles that are flattering for your hair type. One of the key things about curly hair is that it has a mind of its own.
In the case of curly hair, the best thing to do is take advantage of its natural texture and go for volume. Volume will help you avoid any bad styling habits like flat-ironing or blow-drying your hair when it’s wet.
Another important factor is finding an appropriate product conditioner so that your curls don’t get too frizzy or dry out too much. Avoid using products with alcohol as they can permanently damage your curls and make them dry out prematurely. | 6beauty
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https://ondret.com/understanding-the-common-adverse-effects-of-nitazoxanide/ | 2024-04-12T20:14:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816070.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412194614-20240412224614-00818.warc.gz | 0.91644 | 731 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__96866341 | en | Nitazoxanide is an antiparasitic medication primarily used to treat various gastrointestinal infections caused by protozoa and helminths. It works by interfering with the energy production and replication processes of these parasites. While generally considered safe and well-tolerated, like any medication, nitazoxanide can have adverse effects on certain individuals. Understanding these potential side effects is important for both patients and healthcare providers to ensure safe and effective use of this medication.
Nitazoxanide can occasionally cause gastrointestinal disturbances in some individuals. Common symptoms include mild to moderate nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. These side effects are usually transient and resolve on their own without any specific treatment. It is recommended to take nitazoxanide with food to minimize the likelihood of gastrointestinal discomfort. If these symptoms persist or worsen, it is advisable to consult a healthcare professional.
While rare, some individuals may experience allergic reactions to nitazoxanide. These reactions can range from mild skin rashes to more severe manifestations such as angioedema (swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat) or anaphylaxis (a life-threatening allergic reaction). If any signs of an allergic reaction appear, such as itching, hives, difficulty breathing, or swelling, immediate medical attention should be sought.
Central Nervous System Effects
In some cases, nitazoxanide may cause mild central nervous system (CNS) side effects. These can include headache, dizziness, or somnolence (excessive sleepiness). These symptoms are usually temporary and resolve on their own without intervention. However, if these side effects persist or become severe, it is advisable to consult a healthcare professional for further evaluation.
Nitazoxanide has a low likelihood of significant drug interactions. However, it is important to inform healthcare providers about all medications, supplements, and herbal products being used concurrently to ensure safety and efficacy. Certain medications, such as rifampin or efavirenz, may decrease the effectiveness of nitazoxanide, and dose adjustments may be necessary. Conversely, nitazoxanide may increase the blood levels of certain drugs, such as warfarin or levothyroxine, potentially leading to adverse effects. Therefore, close monitoring and dose adjustments may be required when combining nitazoxanide with these medications.
Pregnancy and Lactation
The safety of using nitazoxanide during pregnancy and breastfeeding has not been extensively studied. Animal studies have shown potential risks to fetal development, but there is limited data in humans. Therefore, nitazoxanide should only be used during pregnancy or breastfeeding if the potential benefits outweigh the possible risks. It is recommended to consult a healthcare professional for personalized advice in these situations.
Nitazoxanide is generally a well-tolerated medication used to treat gastrointestinal infections caused by parasites. While adverse effects can occur, they are usually mild and resolve on their own without specific treatment. It is important for patients to be aware of the potential side effects of nitazoxanide and to consult a healthcare professional if they experience any concerning symptoms. By understanding the common adverse effects, both patients and healthcare providers can ensure the safe and effective use of this medication. Keep advancing your educational experience by exploring this suggested external material. Click for more related information, you’ll find valuable insights and additional information about the subject.
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http://www.math.ucla.edu/node?page=6&qnode=&qnode%2F= | 2017-10-19T14:44:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823309.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019141046-20171019161046-00582.warc.gz | 0.941885 | 310 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__190443620 | en | The field of mathematics uses patterns, reasoning and other concepts to solve problems. Subjects include pure and applied mathematics, statistics and probability. Students interested in mathematics can explore these top-notch universities from around the world that have shown strength in producing research in the field. These are the world's best universities for mathematics.
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Professor Marek Biskup Named IMS Fellow for 2016
Marek Biskup, Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). An induction ceremony took place July 11 at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Biskup received the award for excellent research in the interface of probability theory and statistical physics.
Professor Wotao Yin was awarded the 2016 Morningside Gold Medal of Applied Mathematics and forthcoming Associate Professor Jun Yin received a 2016 Silver Medal in Mathematics at the 7th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) on August 6, 2016.
The Morningside Medal of Mathematics is awarded to outstanding mathematicians of Chinese descent to encourage them in their pursuit of mathematical truth. Up to six medals, two gold and four silver, are awarded every three years at the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians.
UCLA Math Alumni reunite on June for the opening of RIPS-Hong Kong 2016, a joint program of IPAM and HKUST which recruits US and HK students to work on industry sponsored projects. | 37mathematics
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https://twojourneys.org/sermon/supernatural-power-and-compassion-matthew-sermon-68-of-151/ | 2022-08-14T22:24:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572077.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814204141-20220814234141-00244.warc.gz | 0.989383 | 8,424 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__49028375 | en | Supernatural Power and Compassion (Matthew Sermon 68 of 151)
February 11, 2007 | Andrew Davis
What a great text we have to look at today, the feeding of the 5,000. What a marvelous thing it is. It's one of the few acts of Jesus that's recorded in all four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and therefore, it stands with great magnitude. It shines with the brightness that I think will be encouraging to all of us.
I have to confess some weakness to you this morning. I was thinking about it this morning, and the idea came to me to express to you my own weakness, and why this text specifically encourages me in that weakness. A few weeks ago, I woke up and I immediately sensed that something was different, something was wrong in my house. I got up from my prayer time and it felt very chilly. I noticed, even more significantly, the lack of the constant hum of our heating system and that it wasn't on. I thought, "What's going on?" So, I went down and I started playing with the thermostat and I couldn't get the heating system to go on, and that was a big deal that morning. It's not a big deal other times of the year, but that morning it was a big deal. First thing I thought as an engineer, is I said, "Alright, you gotta go down and check the circuit breaker, be sure that it hasn't tripped over." I went down and all the circuits were fine. So, I said, "Okay, this is money is what this is. " And so, it was. But that it wasn't the circuit breaker wasn't true. There was another circuit breaker in our crawl space that had tripped, and the worker found it. I decided to give you an extra layer on this illustration so you didn't think me a fool and say, "Check the circuit breaker, Pastor, that's the first thing I would have done." Well, I knew that, but I didn't know there was another one in there. The worker said, "I put it back over, but it's weak. It's old and weak and it's going to keep tripping on you. There's no problems, it just you need a new circuit breaker." So, we got a new circuit breaker. Now, what is the circuit breaker? A circuit breaker is a little device that protects your home from electrical fires if the current is drawn too much. It just trips and it just goes over and won't let all that power go where it could cause some damage. It's essential to the use of electricity safely in a home. That's a good analogy for my weakness. We had a weak circuit breaker, and it just was tripped. When I face the things that God is asking me to do, when we face the things that God is laying in front of us to do, we can easily trip over and say, "I can't do it, I just cannot do it, it's too hard for me."
We keep talking about these two infinite journeys. To be perfect inwardly, like Christ is perfect, and then outwardly to look at the world and see all of its overwhelming needs and to think that God has actually taken those needs and in some sense laid them right at our feet. I get it right out of the text. They don't need to go away; you give them something to eat. Do you feel the weight of that? Do you ever trip over sometimes when you look at the countless millions that have never heard the name of Jesus in the 10/40 window? When you think about the problem of AIDS in Africa, AIDS orphans, when you decide to venture forth and educate yourself so that you can feel some pain and to feel some compassion, and it hurts. Pretty soon you're at that point, where you're just like, "I don't know what I can do." It could be anything, there could be any of the needs around us. It could be the urban ministry right near us. We see the needs of single parents and the needs concerning gangs and drugs and violence and all that and we just trip over. There's nothing we can do. It could be evangelism, you may even look at your company where you work, and you know that there's a lot of people that don't go to church. Some of them don't seem to know even the basics about the gospel, not in some foreign country of 10/40 window, they don't know it here, they've never been told. You start feeling overwhelmed, you just trip over.
Well, how do we not trip over? How does that not happen? I think we do it by looking at Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. It is an ever-increasing faith; it causes us not to trip over as greater and greater needs are laid at our feet. Jesus called his disciples again and again, "Oh, you of little faith." I want an increased faith in myself, so I don't just trip over and give up. I want to be able to do that, but the only way I can do it is by looking at Jesus. So, we come to Matthew 14:13-21, we come to the feeding of the 5,000 with a yearning, with a specific need. Lord, help me to face the things you're putting at my feet, without tripping over, so that I can face it and trust you and see you put huge amounts of power through me, power that ordinarily would cause me to trip over, that the power of the Holy Spirit can flow through me, and I can actually do something in this hurting world. That's what's in front of us this morning.
The Astounding Compassion of Jesus
So, let's look at Jesus, let's look at how He faced the situation that He faced when He crossed the Sea of Galilee. Let's remember the context. Last week as we were looking at Matthew, John the Baptist had been executed. What a terrible thing, John the Baptist's head cut off to satisfy a king in response to a dancing girl. What an awful thing that is. I can assure you that it doesn't hit us the way it hit Jesus. Jesus was a human being. He had emotions, great emotions, perfect emotions, so when He received the news that John the Baptist had been beheaded, and when He heard probably also the circumstances of what happened, He had one desire, He had one drive, and that is to be alone with his Heavenly Father, that's what he wanted for himself. He was extremely and genuinely grieved and sorrowed by what happened to John the Baptist.
Later in Matthew's Gospel, you will see in Matthew 23, Jesus talks about Jerusalem and how they kill the prophets and stone those sent. He takes all of the martyrs that there have been, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, who was murdered between the temple and the altar. All of this will come on this generation. He thinks that way. He's got all the martyrs in his mind. He knows them, He knows their suffering This isn’t just a straight killing, and it isn't even just a martyrdom. This is John the Baptist, his cousin, his beloved forerunner, the one that He had put in harm's way, by his will, now dead. Jesus is not surprised, not that, it's just that He has emotions, He has compassion. That's going to be the center of the text here for us in terms of Jesus's reaction. It's a matter of his compassion. Look at verse 13. What are Jesus's desires, what are his needs? You said, "Well, Jesus didn't have any needs." Well, sure he did. He needed to eat while He was on the Earth, He needed to breathe, He was a human being. What did He need in verse 13? When Jesus heard what had happened, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. There's three words that tell you what his needs are: He wants to be alone, that's what He wants. He wants to be alone. Now, you can't imagine how not alone Jesus was on the average day of his ministries. He was crushed by people, constantly crushed by people. At this moment, He just wanted to be alone. He even said in the account in Mark, to his disciples, "Come apart so you can be by yourselves for a while." That was his intention. And He intended to leave them by themselves and go up by himself and pray.
Jesus frequently withdrew into times of solitary prayer for strengthening. He would get up a great while before dawn and pray. That's how he prayed, that was the source of his strength, so He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Notice again the end of the account verse 22 and 23, which is so important. After all of it is done, the feeding of the 5,000, all of that ministry, when all of that is done, look what happens. Verse 22, "Immediately, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd," This is a very strong Greek word, He compelled them to get in the boat, forced them to go, and then He dismisses the crowd. Then what does he do? Verse 23, “After he dismissed them, sent them all away, He went up on a mountain side by himself to pray and when evening was there, when evening came, He was there alone.”
You see the consistency of Jesus's personal needs throughout the account. But what happens? He gets into the boat to be alone, goes across and the crowd, the very one that he was trying to get away from, had walked around the lake and were waiting for him when he got there. Surprise! There's the crowd. Look at it, verse 13 and 14, "Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns and when Jesus landed, he saw a large crowd," the very people that he's trying to escape. This is the picture of the way it frequently goes in our lives as well, right? You want to be away, and the world crushes in on you and presses in on you. But here we see Jesus's selfless compassion. This is not a small crowd, this is 5,000 men plus women and children, a huge amount of need, a huge amount of pressure, and He lands and look what it says, verse 14, "When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them." Compassion. His heart was moved for their needs, He forgot about himself. Like a servant, like a good servant does, He forgets his own needs, He forgets his own situation and He goes out to others and meets their need. He didn't roll his eyes, He didn't sigh, He didn't get frustrated, He didn't say, "Don't you understand what I'm going through at this particular moment? I don't have anything to give you." He didn't do any of that. Instead, there is a river of compassion flowing up from inside him that caused Him to deny himself at that moment. He immersed himself in the overwhelming needs of this crowd.
Now, I want to stop and just have a word of application here for us, because you're going to forget, and maybe I will, anyway, toward the end. What would you have done? Let's make it a little more applicable right now. Let's say you just received a diagnosis that your spouse has very serious cancer. It’s unclear what's going to happen, it's going to be very, very tough ahead. You’ve been crying most of the day, you get home and the phone rings and there's someone from church, they've got a flat tire, and it's raining. Do you get in the car and go help them or do you tell them what's going on in your life right now, what you're going through? Is that what you do? I know what I would do on my natural, normal day. Come on, be honest. What would you have done? Or you ladies, there's a call. Would you be willing to make a cover dish for tomorrow's meeting? It's like, "Do you understand what I'm going through?" We take our suffering like a trump card and it trumps whatever comes our way at that moment, and we just can't do it. Or perhaps you get in the mail one of those mailers from a Christian aid agency working in Africa, working with orphans, and you look at it and you just quickly set it aside. You say, "You don't understand what I'm going through. I'm going through this great suffering." But look at Jesus, how is he? What is he like? Let's not focus here, let's go right to the end of his life. We see it incredibly in the final hours of his life as He's carrying his cross to his own execution, going to Calvary. Some women from Jerusalem are gathered around, and they're weeping and wailing for him and he said, "Do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves." He's up out of himself and He's saying you ought to weep for yourselves. And after being nailed to the cross, what does He say? "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing.” He looks down and He sees his mother and He realized she's not going to be cared for by believers, because his brothers haven't come to faith yet, and He says to John, "Behold your mother." And to Mary, "Behold your son," and He gets them together, so that John takes care. From that day forward John took her into his home and cared for her. Who is he thinking about? He's got to arrange that thing between John and Mary. And then there's the thief on the cross, "Remember me, Lord, when you come in your kingdom." "I'll tell you today, you'll be with me in paradise."
The Overwhelming Needs of the People
Jesus makes seven statements from the cross and three of them are other-centered, that's amazing. He's not going through a hard time; he is going through hell on the cross. He is nailed to the cross, He is drinking a cup of God's wrath and He's thinking of others. None of us has the credentials, friends, to compare with that. That stands over me and it will stand over me the rest of my life to cause me to be ready to be compassionate, even in the middle of my own struggles and my own suffering. What would you have done? Let me ask a better question, what would you like to do? Is that more hopeful, more encouraging? Not what have you been doing, but what would you yearn? Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Would you like to be better? Would you like to be more like Jesus? Here's this example right in front of us. What met him when he got out of that boat? Overwhelming needs. Why do they trek so far on foot to come to see Jesus? First of all, their dedication to Jesus is astonishing. They want to be with him. Jesus is without question the most magnetic person in history. "No one ever talked like this man," said some that went to arrest him. His miracles were compelling. There's just a draw to Jesus, people just wanted to be near him. His demeanor was perfect and God-like, his personality unlike any that anyone had ever seen. The crowd couldn't get enough of being with Jesus. But that's not really why they went. They went because they had needs, they personally had needs and they felt those needs. Many of them were sick and Jesus was the only one who could care for them. Others were fascinated by his teaching and wanted to get away from the humdrum of their everyday life, so they felt those needs.
In John's account of this, the next day, they come back for more felt needs to be met. Jesus says, “No, no, I did not descend from heaven to earth to be your personal chef. I'm not going to be feeding you every day of your lives. God and his marvelous providence will take care of that. He will abundantly meet your needs. Do not labor for the food that spoils, but rather for that which endures to eternal life, which I will give you.” He's causing them to lift their eyes off their stomachs up to the heavenly needs that they have. In this account we see Jesus's priority structure. You have to really look across the four Gospels to get a full sense of his priority structure, it doesn't come so clearly in Matthew. But I think if you put the thing together, you're going to start seeing how Jesus started sorting out those needs as He got off the boat and He saw this huge crowd, and all of their overwhelming needs. Listen to how Mark's Gospel said he sorted it out. In Mark 6:34, it says, "When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, so he began teaching them many things."
That's an eye-opener. I've heard it said that you can't share the gospel to hungry people, they can't listen to you until their stomachs are full, right? You could extend it and say you can't share the gospel with or teach spiritual things to people have significant health needs. Meet their health need, then they can hear the gospel. Meet the felt needs, then they'll listen to the spiritual needs. That's not Jesus' approach. He said, "We have got to go to the heart of the matter, we have got to deal immediately with your number one need, and your number one need is spiritual, and the remedy is the word of God." He puts the teaching of the word of God over everything else that He will do for them. He preached the gospel to them. He does the same thing, by the way, with the paralytic in Matthew 9. You know, it's amazing as you look at this, they bring the paralyzed man to Jesus. If you were to ask him and his friends, the guys who dug through the roof, and you say, "What is your number one need right now?" What's he going to say? "I need to walk, I'm paralyzed, I can't move, I can't earn a living, I need to walk, I need to be free from this paralysis." But what did Jesus do? When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, "Take heart, son, your sins are forgiven." He went right to the heart of the matter. That is our number one need, to have our sins forgiven before Almighty God. That's what Jesus would say is our number one need. It doesn't matter what any of your other needs are that you think are so pressing. The number one need is to have our sins forgiven in the eyes of an almighty God, and so Jesus taught them many things.
If you're here today and you don't know for sure that your sins have been forgiven by faith in Christ, you may tell me, "No, I've got five or six other greater needs." No, your number one need is to repent and believe in Jesus, for the salvation of your soul, that you might have eternal life. Believe it or not, for us Christians, we who have already believed, we have that ongoing need for cleansing too. It's not like once you believe, then from then on, you don't need to be covered. We need to be covered the rest of our lives and we will be, that's the promise of justification, ongoing forgiveness and cleansing and cover. But this is our number one need. Then comes the healing of the sick, Priority number two. Then comes the feeding of the hungry, priority number three. And then comes sending them home, priority number four. It's a remote place, why would you want to be here? We're done, go home. There's nothing else. So, there's the four priorities. They needed the Gospel. They needed the sick healed. They needed their empty bellies filled, and then they needed to go home and go about their lives.
The Insufficient Resources of the Disciples
The next thing in the account we meet is the insufficient resources of the disciples, and this is where we make our entry into the text, the insufficient resources of the disciples to meet any of those needs, frankly. Look at verse 15, "As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.’” The disciples had some compassion, just not much. The teaching would have taken a long time. The healings would have taken a long time. Jesus preferred not to heal the whole crowd with a word, which He could have done easily. He preferred to have an encounter with people, talk to them, draw them in, and that would have taken time. By this time, it is very late. They're out in a remote area, there's no village, very little vegetation. There's certainly no fast food or grocery stores. It's a problem. The disciples began to be concerned for the crowd; they had some compassion on the crowd. Perhaps they thought their master was too absorbed in his spiritual work. “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” There's a lack of practicality there, they're thinking, and they need to come and tell Jesus, "Send the crowd away so they can get something to eat. Are you forgetting that we have that basic need?" Jesus hadn't forgotten anything. He was just dealing with everything in the proper order.
Secondly, the disciples clearly had a little food, just not much. Now, I don't know how much they brought for themselves. We have on record later in Matthew 16 that they forgot to take food. So, talk about who's absent-minded. They didn't any. It could be that they're really concerned about themselves. "Send the crowd away so we can go to the villages and buy some food. We don't have any food." We don't have any idea how much food the disciples had. We do know that there was a boy there that had five barley loaves and two small fish. The little boy's dinner, five little barley loaves and two fish. They had a little food, just not much. Jesus clearly wants to involve his disciples in the process. Could He have handled this thing himself, alone? No question about it. He wants to draw them in to the solution to the problem, and He wants to draw us in too. He had Matthew write it down, and Mark, and Luke, and John. He wants us to feel the weight of, "They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat." He draws them in.
What is Jesus' motive? His central strategy for the rest of human history is to work his Kingdom advance through his disciples. The whole world is starving for forgiveness and love. Many in the world are starving for healing. Some in the world are literally starving for food. H wants to take all of that and put it at the Church's feet and say, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat. You take care of them." He gives repeated commands to his disciples to draw them in. For example, He says, "Bring me the five loaves and the two fish." He gives a command in Luke's Gospel, "Have them sit down in groups of fifty each." That's a little more specificity than we have in Matthew's Gospel, but He told them to... He directed his disciples to organize the people.
Then He commanded his disciples to distribute the food as it was being miraculously produced, so they're involved in the food distribution. Then He commands them to go get baskets and collect up the broken pieces so that nothing would be wasted. They're involved in that. They're involved right across in every aspect. He wants them involved. He wants us involved. That brings us immediately to our need, and that is the supernatural power of Jesus to meet every need. He's going to do it through the inadequate resources of the disciples. That's very important for me as a Christian, that's He actually going to meet overwhelming need through the inadequate resources I have to offer, and in that way, He's going to glorify himself. He's going to show his great power by taking weak, inadequate people like you and me, and actually doing incredible things through us.
We see the supernatural power of Jesus. He takes the five loaves and the two fish, and He uses them. Why? It’s to teach us to share. We all need to share. We need to learn to share, is that it? Well, I'm not against sharing. I don't want you thinking that I'm here to say that I think we ought not to share. I think we ought to share, but if the Sunday School lesson goes to that and that's it, we have missed the point. The point is not to teach us to share. The point is to see the supernatural power of Jesus making up the deficiencies that we cannot make up. That's what it is. It's the supernatural power of Jesus here. Other than that, five loaves and two fish isn't going to go far, and the disciples knew that very well. It's really amazing how they come up with these naturalistic explanations for this— basically, everyone brought more than enough for themselves and everyone else to share, but they were being stingy, they were holding back. So, this really isn't a miracle so much as it's an example of sharing that, like an avalanche, a little rock starts, and then, before you know it, you have 12 baskets of broken pieces left over. The count in Mark's Gospel said they had no food, so that settles it for me. It's not like they had it and didn't want to share it. They had none. They didn't bring any. That's what the account says there.
Notice that Jesus uses the five loaves and the two fish as such. He doesn't change them to steak and watermelon, much as you may have liked that or whatever. You got barley loaves out, and you got fish. That's what you got. What went in, came out. There’s a key principle in that too. What we bring to the situation, He takes it and uses it. For me, this may be one of the most convicting aspects of all, is that what I give actually does make a difference. That causes me to feel guilty about those things I don't give, do you see? If there were no connection... We bring five barley loaves and two fish, and lo and behold he turns it into steak and watermelon, we don't see a connection at all. He can do the steak and watermelon without the five loaves and two fish. But He wants us to see a connection between what we bring to the situation, and the actual ministry that occurs and the way the problem gets solved. It could be the 10-40 window. It could be the needs of AIDS orphans in Africa. It could be the needs of the urban poor right around us. It could be any one of a number of needs. He is going to actually take what we have in our hands, and present to him, and He'll use it to solve a problem, but He's going to add his supernatural power.
Look at what He does in verse 19, "He takes the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven, He gives thanks and breaks the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people." This is a consistent posture of Jesus when it came time to eat. He's looking up to Heaven, and He's giving thanks to God for the food. He does this over-and-over, many times. As a matter of fact, the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, they didn't know who Jesus was until they took the bread that they're sitting... “He broke it and gave thanks. Then their eyes were opened, they knew it was Jesus.” Jesus does this again and again at the Last Supper. He takes the bread and gives thanks. He takes the cup and gives thanks.
In the feeding of the 4,000, He takes the food given and gives thanks. The glowing heart of the miracle? The glowing heart of the miracle is the ability that God has to create something out of nothing. That is the miracle. It's not a miracle of sharing. It's a miracle of creation. I tell you, anyone who has trouble believing this miracle, they have trouble believing the very first verse of the Bible. "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth." Now, which is harder? To create the nebula and the stars, all of them that are near and far, to create the planets, to create the earth and the fullness thereof, everything in it, all of the ecosystems that God created, or take a boy's five loaves and two fish and make more loaves and fish out of it?
This is a creation of matter, of something out of nothing. And notice the continuation, the barley loaf becomes lots of barley loaves. The fish becomes lots of fish. And I started thinking about this, it must have been cooked fish. Ready to eat. It came out of Jesus' hands ready to eat. Imagine them all scrounging for firewood trying to cook the fish. The boy's mother had at least thought enough to cook the fish, so out it came ready to eat. Cooked fish. Don't stumble over this. The barley loaves weren't just grain ready to be ground for bread; it came out more loaves. God had thought of every need, and it was met. Creating something out of nothing, and we see the evidence of total satisfaction in the twelve baskets. We could have them just... Laid out here on the stage, and they'd be filled with fragments. Complete satisfaction. The barley loaves and the fish are just a symbol of what God will do in Heaven. The rich and full satisfaction of every need in Heaven. This is an incredible miracle. Don't minimize it, either. He didn't feed the 5,000. Oh, there were 5,000 men, plus women and children. I say to you, it is nothing compared to the satisfaction you'll feel in your souls when you see God face-to-face, when you dwell with him forever. When you sit at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven and you feast. How richly satisfied you will be then because it says in Psalm 16, verse 11, "You have made known to me the path of life, you will fill me with joy in your presence with eternal pleasures at your right hand." The 15 basketfuls of broken pieces, that is a picture of complete and total satisfaction.
Lesson: Look Upward, Not Outward
What is the central lesson of this text? The central lesson is to look upward, not outward or inward. Do you realize that Jesus consistently gives his disciples impossible commands? To the paralyzed man in Matthew 9, He said to him, "Rise and walk." It's impossible. To Nicodemus, He says, "You must be born again." How can a man enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born again? It's impossible. To his disciples in Matthew 5:48, He said, "You must be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect." That's an impossible command. If you don't think so, you don't know yourself. It's an impossible command.
In Revelation 4, there's John on the Isle of Patmos, seeing a door standing open in Heaven, and Jesus' voice comes like a trumpet and says, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." How is he going to do that? He can't fly. It's an impossible command. Later in this very same chapter of Matthew, Jesus will give Peter an impossible command. Peter's in the boat, Jesus is walking on water, and Jesus says to Peter, "Come. Walk on water, Peter." Another is Matthew 28, "All authority in Heaven and earth has been given to me, therefore go and make disciples of all nations." It doesn't just say, "Preach the Gospel." It says be successful in the preaching of the Gospel, make them followers of Christ and baptize them and teach them to obey everything that I have commanded. Can I do that? Can you? These are impossible commands, and Jesus delights to give them. Why?
Because along with the impossible command, He gives the supernatural power to meet the command. And thus, we are humbled, and He is glorified. To the paralyzed man, He says, "Rise and walk,” and immediately the man starts feeling feelings in his body that he has not felt in years, and he knows he can do it, and he gets up and walks to the glory of God. When Jesus says to Nicodemus, "You must be born again." I'm convinced Nicodemus was born again. I don't know that it happened in John 3, but I think by the end of John's Gospel, Nicodemus has been born again. He feels within himself a change he could not explain, except by saying, "I'm like an entirely new person. It's like I've been born again. The spirit of God did it." In Matthew 5:48, Jesus says, "You must be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect." Brothers and sisters, when the Lord is done with us, what are we going to be, but perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect, how? By his supernatural wonder-working power in us. We will be perfect. To John on the Isle of Patmos, “At once, I was in the spirit, and there before me was a throne in Heaven." So, the command, "Come up here," is immediately met by the supernatural power in the spirit to do so. It's a clear example of what I'm talking about. And what about the command, "Make disciples of all nations”? Has God sent forth his spirit? By his power, has it happened for 20 centuries? It has. All over the world, people are being converted. People are being changed. They're being transformed. The wonder-working power of Almighty God.
Why does he do it? Why does he give us commands that we cannot obey? He does it to teach us, to train us, to test us.
In John's Gospel [John 6:5], He says to Philip, "What should we do for this huge crowd? Where should we get bread for all of them?" He asked them, he initiates the question. It says in John 6:6, he asks this only to test him, for He knew already what He was going to do. So, what is the test? — to teach us to do what Jesus did. What did Jesus do? He looked upward to God. God basically puts you in a box with no window, no door, nothing. You're just in a box, and you can't do it. But the ceiling is off, and you can look up to Heaven, and you can lift your hands and you can thank God for that situation. You say, "Lord, move in a mighty way. Send forth your power to do what I cannot do. Send forth your power for an infinite, internal journey. I can't defeat sin in my life. It's too hard for me. Lord, send forth your holy spirit, and enable me, Lord, to overcome sin in my life. To be perfect as my Heavenly Father's perfect day-after-day. God, you have laid the needs of the world at my feet. I can't do it. The 10-40 window, billions of people never heard of Jesus. Millions of people with physical needs that are beyond me. Ministries I cannot do." It's to teach us to look upward, not outward at the trial, not inward at your resource, and say, "Well, I can do this. I got it. I can do an evangelistic ministry. I can do urban ministry. I can minister the AIDS orphans. I can do it." That's arrogance. Or, "I can't do it. I can't do it. I'm not going to do anything." That's despair. Arrogance and despair are two sides of the same coin. Self-reliance. God wants us to throw that coin away and look upward, and say, "Oh, God. We cannot do it. Give me supernatural power to meet this impossible command." And that's what he's called on us to do.
Let's begin by meditating on the greatness of Christ. Understand this: Jesus has compassion like we can't even imagine. He is a river of compassion. That means whatever needs you brought in this sanctuary here today, and I don't minimize them, believe me, I don't, Jesus is compassionate toward those needs. He knows what you're feeling. He cares about you. Meditate on the greatness of his compassion and meditate on the greatness of his power to meet every need. Take your needs before him in prayer, tell him what they are. Lift up your hands in prayer and bring those needs and lay them at his feet. He is compassionate and kind-hearted, and he'll meet your need.
But secondly, in the midst of that, realize, "There's some other people that are hurting too around me, and maybe because of a focus on my own problems, I haven't done anything for them. I've neglected to care. I want to imitate Christ's compassion. I want to care about needy people around me. I want to care about the needs of the poor." And if I can urge you to trust God to meet your needs... Do you realize that John the Baptist had it right when he said, "I tell you that out of these stones, God can raise up children for Abraham.”? Can you do that? Was that an overstatement? No. He created Adam out of the dust of the earth, He can do anything. If you're having a financial problem, God is able, out of the stones, to give you enough money to meet that need.
If you've got a medical need, He can speak the word and you're instantly healed. He can heal the whole world with a word. He wouldn't even have to speak the world. In John 4, He heals the royal official's son without saying a word. He just says, "Your son is healed, go home." He didn't even say anything, He just thought it and it was done. If you have a financial or medical need and you have prayed about it and nothing's happening, it's for a purpose in your life. God is working a purpose, trust Him to meet your need and He will meet it in due time. Trust him to meet your need. Right out of this text, He will meet every need in his good time.
What I really want to do is challenge to you to see what God could do through you supernaturally. The world's too big for us, isn't it? Do you feel overwhelmed? When you look at the need of the hungry, and you look at the needs of urban ministry, you look at needs of international ministry, you look at the needs of the 10-40 window. You look at just the needs of your fellow co-workers who are around you who don't know Jesus. It's overwhelming, isn't it? It's easy to get discouraged. Can I urge you to just learn to not look inward for the resources, not look outward to get depressed at what's going on, but look upward to Jesus and trust in him to meet every need? | 10christianity
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https://highfocuscenters.pyramidhealthcarepa.com/differences-outpatient-inpatient-detox/ | 2020-09-27T21:55:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401582033.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927215009-20200928005009-00603.warc.gz | 0.964976 | 695 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__266285189 | en | For those suffering with an addiction, finding recovery is safer and more effective with the help of professionals and medical experts. After making the decision to get expert assistance, individuals who have become chemically dependent will then need to decide between inpatient and outpatient detox. Learn the differences as well as the benefits to the two with help from us here at High Focus Centers.
With inpatient detox, you’ll reside at the facility while receiving treatment, which can last anywhere from roughly 5 to 10 days. You’ll begin the process by detoxing and cleansing your system in a safe setting where you have quick and easy access to proper medications to help you through the process and improve your chances of success.
Once the detoxing process is complete, you’ll start your treatment to learn how to remain sober and rebuild your life. Specifically, you’ll focus on which foods help to recalibrate and strengthen your body, undergo therapy to understand more about the root of your abuse and how to successfully combat it, and learn more about addiction as well as substance abuse and mental health.
One of the biggest advantages of inpatient detox and rehab is that you’ll be in a stable environment, which you might not be able to say if you were to try detoxing on your own at home or at an outpatient program. A good option for individuals who have a toxic family dynamic or are lacking a supportive home support system, inpatient detox is more likely to be free of potential triggers. Because you’re watched over and tended to by medical and treatment professionals, there’s less chance for relapse as you go through the process. What’s more is you’ll be surrounded by others who are going through the same thing, providing you with an even greater sense of community and support.
If you have a job, family or other obligations, you might not be able to reside at a treatment center while undergoing detox and rehabilitation, which is where outpatient treatment comes into play. The detox process is generally the same as what would be offered during an inpatient stay. You’ll still attend therapy sessions like you would under inpatient treatment, and you will also receive medication to help you cope with withdrawals and support your mental health.
What’s unique about outpatient treatment is that it offers several options for therapy. For instance, HIgh Focus utilizes a holistic approach which includes specialized evidence-based treatment with yoga for recovery and expressive art therapy. Clients learn a skill set to help them navigate the recovery process, especially when times get tough. Family therapy is also provided in taking a systems approach to healing the whole person.
Benefits of outpatient treatment include being able to carry on with your day-to-day life while getting help. You might also find outpatient treatment to be more affordable since you don’t have to pay for room and board. And finally, you’ll also have opportunities to test the lessons you learn about relapse prevention and triggers outside the facility, allowing you to improve on your future therapy sessions when you provide your counselors with feedback.
If you suffer from substance abuse and want to reclaim your life, know that you’ve got help waiting and willing at High Focus Centers. Get in touch with a representative if you’d like more information on inpatient and outpatient treatment, and if you need help deciding which is best for you and your specific circumstances. | 54psychology
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https://www.amazon.sg/Mario-Sonic-Olympic-Games-Nintendo/dp/B07SXNKFGS | 2021-05-14T06:46:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991648.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514060536-20210514090536-00466.warc.gz | 0.961752 | 1,538 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__23522149 | en | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 - Nintendo Switch
- Join the world's greatest sports party! Celebrate the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with your favorite characters, loads of events, and so many ways to enjoy the party on your Nintendo Switch!
- Have a blast competing with your friends in 30+ action-packed 3D and classic 2D sports games-including new events for Tokyo 2020!
- Compete in all-new Olympic sports-skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing, and karate-and a variety of events including archery, gymnastics, judo, boxing, marathon, football, equestrian, track and field, and many more
- Experience the Olympic Games in a brand-new way with 10 nostalgic 2D events that bring Mario, Sonic, & friends back to their classic roots
- Choose from an incredible cast of characters, including Mario, Luigi, Sonic, Tails, Yoshi, Amy Rose, Waluigi, Dr. Eggman, and many more!
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Its party time, and everyones invited! Team up with Mario, Sonic, and friends on Nintendo Switch in action-packed sporting events! Bring your best moves to the track, the gym, the ring, or the water in dozens of different party games everyone will enjoy.
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Join Mario, Sonic and friends for their greatest adventure yet at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, exclusively on Nintendo Switch! Go for gold as you compete in action-packed sports games, including 4 brand new events to Tokyo 2020—Skateboarding, Karate, Surfing, and Sport Climbing, as well as a large selection of classic events.
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In the main multiplayer mode there are 24 different games to play and 10 more games that are in the classic old school original Nintendo sprite style. You can choose from 21 characters and I am still holding out hope that one day Toad or Toadette become playable options. These games are great for families and group play. For me it’s the perfect group game and I kind of view it as a sports themed version of Mario Party. There are definitely a great variety of games and some games like football aka soccer (Nintendo please bring back Mario Strikers!!) are more involved increasing the play time. Standout games for everyone will vary depending on skill level and what they enjoy but Archery actually became a sleeper hit with everyone as they actually incorporate wind and distance into every shot. Football, Dream racing with its Mario Kart like feel and Karate have also been big hits so far. As is seemingly always the case with first party titles Nintendo gets so much out of the system because the graphics are bright and beautiful throughout. The game runs extremely smooth and so far I have not run into any issues. All of the games are very accessible for all ages so you may not find a challenge here but it is still a lot of fun. The main 24 events also have an online multiplayer mode but I have yet to spend time with it. I would say it’s 8/10 and a great party or family game. Definitely a good family gift for the holidays.
There are a good number of events and most of them are very fun though some are a bit too basic - I'm looking at you table tennis which is simplified to just pressing X at the right time and not having any control over your character's movement. On the other hand many are deeper than you would expect such as karate. Skateboarding, sport climbing, and gymnastics are some of my favorites. The issue is that there are not enough ways to play them. You have the story mode, which is a great addition and a okay length, but consists of mostly travelling around a map and talking to characters and occasionally playing a mini-game or event. I would have liked to see more games and events worked into the story mode to pad it out and break up the long blocks of dialogue. Then you can just pick an event or mini-game to play solo or in local multiplayer or you can pick and event to play in online multiplayer. That's it.
Graphics and sound are both the bright and colorful you would expect from the franchise. The game looks great and it's always amusing to run your favorite Mario and Sonic characters through various sporting events. Wario on a horse, anyone? I especially enjoy the addition of the 2D retro graphics style events as they are very reminiscent of sports mini-games from back in the day. There are also three dream events and I found the Dream Race that is kind of a mixture of Mario Kart and a level from Sonic Adventure 2 to be really fun.
What the game really needs is that addition of some kind of tournament or Olympics mode where you can run through several events in a row with a chosen country or team. Maybe a cups system like in Mario Kart with a collection of certain events to try and get an overall achievement or a series of 5 or more events where you are competing for the most medals? Currently you just pick an event, play it, pick another event, and so on. This serviceable but there's not much to it and no continuity or sense of achievement. All events are relatively short so you spend a lot of time loading back into and going through menus. I'm honestly surprised a general Olympics type mode wasn't included. Some more unlockable content (cosmetics, characters, anything) would also extend enjoyment of the game. I don't know how likely it is that additional content will be added later.
Overall I really like what the game has to offer, I just wish there was more of it for solo players beyond story mode as I don't know how much more I will get out of it once that's finished beyond loading it up as a party game, a bit like Mario Tennis Aces. If you are looking for a party or multiplayer game then I'd highly recommend this.
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https://www.iimjobs.com/j/senior-abap-fiori-cpi-hci-consultant-it-10-18-yrs-1296317.html?ref=kp | 2023-12-03T17:24:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203161435-20231203191435-00606.warc.gz | 0.867058 | 685 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__191777774 | en | IT Recruiter - TAG at BCForward India Technologies Private Limited
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Role: Senior ABAP + FIORI + CPI/HCI Consultant
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior ABAP + FIORI + CPI/HCI Consultant with over 10 years of real-time and hands-on experience in SAP development and implementation. As a self-starter with a strong technical background, the ideal candidate should possess expertise in ABAP, FIORI, and CPI/HCI configuration and processes in various areas, including User Interface Development, Custom Application Development, Workflow and Business Process Automation, Data Reporting and Analytics, and Data Migration and Transformation. The candidate should also have a proven track record of successfully integrating SAP components with non-SAP tools.
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8. Lead Data Migration and Transformation activities, ensuring accurate and secure data transfer across systems.
9. Integrate SAP components with external systems and non-SAP tools, utilizing various integration technologies and APIs.
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- Valid inspection: yes.
- Owners: 3.
- Odometer reading: only 62,952 km.
Triumph Dolomite Sprint, registered in Italy in 1976, original brown colour, manual transmission with overdrive, original documents and number plates. Mechanics and engine completely restored with less than 2,000 km.
Very healthy body and underbody. Some marks on the paint and a small stain on the rear right wing should be addressed.
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https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2010/11/17/for-the-benefit-of-our-isles | 2021-10-21T15:12:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585424.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20211021133500-20211021163500-00182.warc.gz | 0.965588 | 295 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__14133804 | en | It has been a number of weeks now since Viking Energy’s revised plans for the windfarm were unveiled. Our team listened to what people said and made changes to address concerns. We believe we now have a project that will bring huge benefits to Shetland.
Windfarms are being built all over Scotland but Shetland is in a unique position because the community has a major stake in the project.
As individuals who have spent our lives living and working in Shetland, and now as councillors who are acutely aware of the very real challenges that face Shetland, we strongly believe that the Viking Energy windfarm is an opportunity that must be pursued.
Shetland has few natural advantages and our enviable facilities and services cannot continue as they are without a pro-active growing economy. Opportunities to diversify our economy do not come along often and although the project has been scaled down, it remains large enough to justify the interconnector, which creates opportunities to develop wind, wave, tidal and other renewable technologies.
Shetlanders have always been a self-reliant and resilient people. We have one of the best wind resources in the world and we have the opportunity to harness this for the benefit of our islands and beyond.
Our oil fund has been the envy of Scotland for decades, providing an unparalleled level of community services. Let’s now do the same for future generations with a Shetland wind fund. | 19environmental_science
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https://www.woodplc.com/news/2016/amec-foster-wheeler-environmental-contract-for-nuclear-new-build | 2019-07-18T17:14:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525699.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718170249-20190718192249-00459.warc.gz | 0.92318 | 389 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__79385648 | en | - Ongoing support role for NuGen's proposed Moorside Power Station
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has been awarded a continuation of a contract to provide environmental support by NuGeneration Limited (NuGen) for the proposed nuclear power station at Moorside, Cumbria. This will be the largest nuclear build project currently proposed in the UK which will deliver up to 3.8GW gross capacity on completion.
Amec Foster Wheeler will undertake modelling and assessment work which will enable NuGen to submit an environmental impact assessment in support of a Development Consent Order application and Environmental Permit applications in 2017. This builds on Amec Foster Wheeler's successful delivery of the initial phases of the environmental impact assessment programme, site characterisation, two major consultation stages and initial work on the site’s environmental permits.
In fulfilling its role at Moorside, Amec Foster Wheeler’s environmental and radiological experts have utilised vast experience in areas such as ecology, hydrogeology, hydrology, radiological assessment, air quality and noise and vibration. Over the last 10 years this market-leading team has helped clients assess the impacts of proposed nuclear new builds at Hinkley Point, Sizewell, Wylfa and Moorside. Amec Foster Wheeler continues to grow its team of experts to further support UK and international nuclear new build projects.
Amec Foster Wheeler is the leading provider of environmental support to Moorside, this nationally significant infrastructure project.
We are delighted to be developing a long-term partnership with NuGen, providing quality, time-critical environmental deliverables, and enhancing our position as a leading player in the UK nuclear new build programme.
The NuGen and Amec Foster Wheeler partnership has worked successfully over a number of years and NuGen is pleased to continue this partnership as the environmental impact assessment and operation permits are prepared ahead of delivery in early 2017. | 44nuclear_science
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I love this! I never wear gloss, I'm always a matte red lip girl, but sometimes, when I'm in a hurry and not going anywhere too fancy, I slap this on. A few months ago, I was on the hunt for a good lip gloss, because I got a bit tired of having to have perfect lines around my lips all the time. I tried a bunch of nude ones and sparkly and clear and never seemed to find one. Most I tried were fine and there wasn't anything wrong with them, I just didn't love lip gloss and they didn't change that. Then, I picked this up on sale one day because I had the Revlon plumping gloss and liked it. I really do love this product. It's almost my exact lip color (minus the pinkiness), but what I love most about it is that it absolutely blurs all lines on my lips. It's thick but not irritating, and I like the spicy feeling. Also, I despise all brown toned lip products. With a passion. This one is magnificent, because it almost transforms to the shade my lips need it to be, it doesn't look brown at all. I would DEFINITELY recommend.
Most Helpful Critical Review "Plumping" feels like 1000's of tiny needles!
I was so excited to try this after reading somewhere that someone compared this to the Buxom shade "Dolly". I was almost out of my small tube of Dolly and thought this would be a much less expensive option. Was I so wrong! The color was pretty good, but within seconds of applying this, I was practically screaming from the pain of the "plumping" ingredient which was like a massive amount of tiny needles stabbing your lips at the same time. It was truly awful! NEVER AGAIN!
Reviewed by 162 customers Definitely going to buy again!!
Alex from Dayton, OH
Sparkling Rose is a beautiful color and the tingling sensation isn't as bad as other brands I have tried. Gives a slight plump but overall I am just in love with the color!
Lovely gloss for any occasion
Nicc418 from North Carolina
Looks good with light or full makeup!
Bri from Louisiana
PERFECT NUDE GLOSS OMG ❤️
Sana from South Korea
I've been looking for months to find a good nude gloss for me and I happened to pick this up in the states by accident and completely fell in love! This is my 3rd bottle I've even given two to my friends and they adore it.
Bingo123 from Oklahoma
This gloss is really pretty. I got the mocha twist and it's the perfect color for me. Long lasting. Does tingle but it doesn't bother me too much
Love mocha twist
Azin from Seattle, WA
I am in love with mocha twist. It is the perfect color for my skin tone and my makeup looks with pinky nude lipstick under it. The pigment is great on this color.
Yes, but I don't like to much this color.
Shelly from Brownsville, tx.
The lipstick is great and feel good.
Dries out lips
Jamaicanlove from Salt lake ut
It gives the typical tingling feeling with no results and dries out lips. The color is pretty but it's just not very good
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Dulcemaria C. from Bethesda, MD
I really love this lip gloss because of the bit of pigment it has. i could just wear it alone and it looks beautiful. It is thick and sticky and personally i don't mind that. I do see some "plumping" I feel like my lips stand out more and look delicious.
crabbyab from Montaña
i felt a warm tingle, but no plump happened and it's a little sticky. i would buy again because it's a great color and it feels nice, but it isn't perfect.
Not worth it
baybeeale69 from Streamwood IL
Love the color and the thickness it has but the reason for my one star is, I HATE that it BURNS on the lips. I would never buy these if I would of known.
Mimi from Ca
I enjoy this and my mom does too !
I love nude lips, with a bold lip liner!!!! LOVE LOVE LLVE
Domo from Houston, Tx
I use this with a wine/burgundy liner and apply the nude gloss!! Looks Fantastic
zelpdunn from Texas
This is my #1 favorite lipgloss (in the rose color) and I probably own 150 lip products, of which 40-50 or so, are glosses. I'm never without this one. I have one in my purse, one in the car, one on the nightstand, etc. I never, ever take claims of "plumping" literally. To me that translates to, "this product probably contains menthol or something else minty that will make your lips tingle." And this does, and I love it. For the minty- not for any plumping effect. This is my most repurchased Elf product by far, and is probably my most repurchased cosmetic item, period. I rarely finish anything completely. This gloss is an exception to that, for sure!
I wanted to like it
pamela from nj
I bought these thinking I would absolutely love them. I gave 2 stars because the colors are beautiful and they look beautiful on the lips, however they are extremely thick, gloppy, and the minty/menthol sensation got annoying real quick. I hope elf comes out with these colors for regular glosses.
I DID NOT like!
Ash from Ohio
Used this product on its own and it was sticky, thick, and uncomfortable. Would not buy again!
Good For The Price
Sallie from Sherman, IL
I was hoping to love this. However it fell a little short on my "love" list. I didn't feel any plumping effect when I applied this. The color was more of a bright pink when applied and I was disappointed by that. It is sticky which I don't love. This is okay to use in a pinch or if you are looking for a cheaper gloss to use.
Fave ELF lip product
CBing from Ga
Sparkling Rose is my favorite!
Perfect lil plump
Amber from San Bernardino, Ca
Went with this lip plumper gloss (Mocha) based off the reviews and price & I am not disappointed. It is the perfect extra touch and goes on smooth over a lipstick or just wearing the gloss itself (mocha has a nice subtle tint color). It also doesn't leave your lips with a tingly feeling which most lip plumper glosses do. I have good size lips already but this gloss added a more enhanced look!
Beth Ann from Webb City MO
Goes on good... Has A gentle tingle to know its working.
Cant beat the price
MeShelle from Highland, IN
This is my favorite lip gloss. I several expensive lip gloss and this by far one of my favorites. I am on my fourth one.
Natalie from Ca
This lip gloss is prefect I personally feel no pain at all soothes my lips makes them Look good also I feel good to, personally don't understand what people say it burns and hurts no pain at all!!!!
Kelsey from Destin
I picked this gloss up because I love e.l.f products anyway! So I got the color champagne glam because I wanted a simple, everyday, low key gloss and this one seemed perfect. I absolutely love the color and wish I had gotten two. It's definitely a subtle lip plumper, but I could tell a difference especially with my top lip. It tingles a little bit while on your lips, but not too bad. I will definitely be buying again in some other colors.
mckenzi from georgia
i've been using this for 2, almost 3 years and its my absolute favorite! i doesn't tingle that much, it's affordable, and long lasting. i put this on like 5 times a day and i've had it for 7 months. it's good for just a lip gloss too! it's very hydrating and stays on for a long time. at least 9 hours
Stephanie from .
I absolutely love this stuff. It's so nice and glides smoothly on the lips. It stays in for awhile & give you nice smooth and plump lips.
Stop paying for those $25 lip plumpers! I've tried the 'too faced' lip injection and.. it was horrible. Hurt so bad & didn't even do anything. This one is amazing and I highly recommend it for all. Complete opposite of the too faced one. | 6beauty
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https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/dancing-with-the-enemy-my-familys-holocaust-secret | 2024-03-03T13:18:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476374.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303111005-20240303141005-00799.warc.gz | 0.972138 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__26269479 | en | This is the story of Rosie, a Dutch dance instructor who charmed her way through Auschwitz by teaching lessons to the SS. Her epic life becomes a window into the author’s own past, and the key to discovering his Jewish roots. Raised Roman Catholic, Paul Glaser was shocked to learn of his father’s Jewish heritage. Grappling with his newfound identity, Paul set out to discover what happened to his family and his estranged aunt Rosie during World War II. An emancipated Dutch woman who defied convention, Rosie Glaser toured Western Europe teaching ballroom dancing to high acclaim. When the Nazis seized power, Rosie, a non-practicing Jew was betrayed by both her ex-husband and her lover and sent to a series of concentration camps. She survived, in part by teaching dance and etiquette lessons to her captors. Rosie’s spirit and incredible resourcefulness kept her alive amid tragedy. Of the 1,200 people who arrived with her at Auschwitz, eight survived. Dancing with the Enemy recalls an extraordinary life marked by love, betrayal, and fierce determination.
The book contains authentic songs and letters Rosie wrote in the concentration camps, as well as photographs that were buried underground. | 35literature
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https://www.amazon.com/3-Pack-Fashion-Socks-Baby-Bold/dp/B01GM5UV4Q | 2016-07-25T02:39:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824201.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00011-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.806351 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-30__0__104984775 | en | 3-Pack Fashion Socks for Baby, Bold Pink
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- Machine Washable
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Luvable Friends 3-Pack Fashion Socks for Baby are a stylish and cute set of socks to pair with your baby's best outfits. Made of soft, cotton rich fabric with coordinating solid colors and beautiful printed designs these socks are ideal addititons to your little one's wardrobe. With a variety of color options, these socks are versatile with any baby's wardrobe. Available in sizes up to 36 months. | 61textile_science
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https://www.zimbio.com/Vince+Vaughn/articles/1mp9PlZ_okR/Lady+Gaga+Wore+Wig+Red+Lipstick+Polar+Plunge | 2020-07-12T17:17:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657138752.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20200712144738-20200712174738-00594.warc.gz | 0.965736 | 371 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__176006135 | en | Lady Gaga Wore a Wig and Red Lipstick to the Polar Plunge and It Was Awesome
These snapshots prove, yet again, that Gaga is back on top.
There's cold and then there's jumping into Lake Michigan in March cold — just ask Lady Gaga, her fiancé Taylor Kinney, and Vince Vaughn. These brave celebs participated in the Chicago Polar Plunge Sunday, a charity event benefiting the local chapter of the Special Olympics. (It raised $1.1 million this year, the most in the its history.)
The water was so cold that Gaga said it even froze her fake hair. "My weave froze!! Taylor gave me his hat I thought my wig was gonna freeze into and become one with the lake," the songstress wrote on Instagram with the above snapshot.
Kinney signed up for the event with his Chicago Fire co-stars David Eigenberg, Randy Flagler, Jon Seda and Brian Geraghty, and brought along his bride-to-be as a surprise — this clearly hurt no one's feelings. Vaughn, a Chicago native, made an appearance in a Blackhawks jersey for his plunge after a sweet social media campaign dubbed #VinnyDippin. What a guy!
Lucky for us warm and dry souls, there are tons of pictures going around the Internet from the frigid event. And let the record state that Gaga is the only person who'd ever show up to an event like this in a blond wig and red lipstick (not to mention with her gigantic heart-shaped engagement ring on):
We have to say, between Gaga's amazing Oscar performance last Sunday and the shots of her dancing in ice water from this Sunday, Mother Monster is hot, hot, hot (after she put on a jacket and had some cocoa today, that is). | 8celebrity
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http://ballpointbliss.blogspot.com/2016/07/treasure-box-may-2016-4th-card.html | 2017-05-24T02:10:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607731.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524020456-20170524040456-00134.warc.gz | 0.982019 | 97 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__106968530 | en | For the second set of 3 cards, the kit uses a paper from Simple Stories. I don't even know this company, but I do like the paper. It is brick red with big white dots on the reverse. Here is the sample for the card:
The original has vellum in it, too, so I'm sorry that I didn't get to use it, but I have enough "Thanks" and other paper to make another card, so maybe I will. | 2artistic
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https://fluorogistx.com/dupont-teflon-pfafep-outperforms-non-fluoroplastic-materials-in-high-purity-biopharmaceutical-packaging/ | 2021-11-29T21:42:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358842.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129194957-20211129224957-00460.warc.gz | 0.907213 | 562 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__124678847 | en | - Why Fluorogistx
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Savillex Corporation, of Eden Prairie MN, has developed a unique two-stage stretch blow molding process for its premium Purillex™ high purity PFA and FEP biopharmaceutical packaging product line. The process development, material selection and final product testing was carried out through a close working relationship with DuPont engineers and fluoroplastic materials scientists.
The final product is unlike any other PFA / FEP biopharmaceutical package currently on the market. Manufactured with genuine DuPont™ Teflon® fluoroplastic material, the high purity Purillex™ product line has undergone extensive material testing for organic and inorganic extractables and overall purity.
As a result of this comprehensive testing, the Purillex™ product was determined to have no measurable organic extractables and only ultratrace levels of inorganic extractables, thus making the Purillex™ line of packaging ideally positioned for biopharmaceutical applications.
A full copy of the analytical data report can be obtained directly from Savillex Corporation ([email protected]).
High purity extreme performance material. Purillex™ PFA and FEP bottles manufactured from from DuPont™ Teflon® fluoroplastics using a proprietary Savillex process are ideally suited for pharmaceutical storage, transportation and packaging due to their excellent chemical inertness, high purity, a wide service temperature range (-200°c +260°c), permeation resistance and mechanical durability.
Unique design characteristics. Savillex has designed the Purillex™ product line with not only high performance fluoroplastic materials but also with several novel design features that allow for complete drainage upon inversion, no fluid retention in the neck threads, non-drip during dispensing and no secondary sealing required.
In addition, the Purillex™ product line has a very smooth interior surface finish which significantly improves cleaning, washout and reduces carryover to subsequent processes*.
Purillex™ high purity biopharmaceutical packaging is manufactured exclusively with high performance genuine DuPont™ Teflon PFA and FEP fluoroplastic materials supplied by Fluorogistx of Greenville, DE.
These materials, along with significant DuPont technical and analytical resources, allowed Savillex to meet the challenges of developing a high purity packaging product for the storage, handling and transport of pharmaceutical and biotechnology liquid materials.
Savillex offers six high purity bottle sizes in the Purillex™ product line, ranging from 50 mL to 2000 mL.
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https://www.doublegames.com/company/bigfishgames-page59.html | 2017-01-21T00:03:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00161-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.820063 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__17164543 | en | GAMES BY BIG FISH GAMES COMPANY
Unlock the secrets within, in this episode of Mystery Case Files!
Sink deep into the underwater kingdom known as Atlantis!
More mysteries and riddles in the new chapter of Mystery Case Files!
Reveal the mystery of the McInroy family's death!
Try yourself in the sphere of trade and business!
Disclose the secret of whimsical success of Sherlock Holmes!
Govern the capital of the Tolteks’ Great Empire, the legendary town of Tollan!
Don't let the Evil triumph over the Good!
Embark on a new and exciting Mahjongg adventure!
Can you collect all necessary resources to create the city of your dream? | 24game
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https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/830140143784842700/ | 2018-02-23T20:38:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814833.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180223194145-20180223214145-00262.warc.gz | 0.958706 | 106 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__212731306 | en | Oooo, this makes me less scared of painting mine and I agree. Darker on the bottom would be great while little kids are in the house. Thinking of Painting Your Kitchen Cabinets? This is What I Would do Differently Next Time.
Colorful Island White cabinets help a kitchen feel bright, open and clean. But too much white can be too much of a good thing. Change things up a bit by painting just the island a color that really pops, like robin's egg blue. Design by Sarah Richardson | 47painting
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https://fptsoftware.com/resource-center/blogs/quantum-computing-in-finance-the-next-digital-arms-race | 2023-12-03T18:20:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203161435-20231203191435-00708.warc.gz | 0.943916 | 767 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__82398429 | en | According to Domo, a human creates at least 1.7MB of data per second. As the amount of data continues to grow along with the rise of 5G and IoT, classical binary computing has its limitations in yielding big and meaningful insights, making quantum computing one of the fastest-growing digital trends, especially in the financial sector.
The concept of quantum computing first originated in the 1980s when physicists started considering an entirely new approach to solving calculations by using the intrinsic, quantum mechanical properties of matter. Built upon phenomena of quantum mechanics such as superposition and interference, the biggest difference between a quantum and a classical computer is the basic unit of information used – the bit. While a classical bit can only be in one of two states – 0 or 1, a quantum bit (or qubit) can take on more than one state at a time. This phenomenon is called superposition. Superposition effectively intensifies the qubits’ power and capacity, which allows calculations to be run at higher speed and at lower power consumption.
Quantum computing as an opportunity
Being a step change in computational performance, quantum computing is still in its early stage; however, as it develops at a striking rate, it may soon transform a range of financial services applications. BFSI giants like Mitsubishi Financial Group, Citigroup or Wells Fargo have all started to invest in and experiment with quantum computing applications. According to the World Economic Forum, the global market for quantum computing is projected to reach over 10 million US dollars by 2024. McKinsey also agrees that the financial industry is going to be the most likely sector to reap significant rewards from this technology in the next few years.
A hybrid-classical approach
Trading optimisation and investment portfolio optimisation have been among the most common issues for financial institutions. Addressing these problems using classical computing is an onerous process. Usually, an investment portfolio would contain dozens or even hundreds of assets and cover multiple periods, which a classical computer is unable to yield an accurate answer for within an acceptable time frame. These devices might clash, take too long to respond, or worse, turn up with inaccurate results.
This is when quantum computing-enabled tools and quantum-based algorithms come to the rescue. With their unique capability of working with numerous variables simultaneously, they could quickly narrow down the number of possibilities that need to be explored. Classical computing could then be used to pinpoint the best answer. Such an approach is more robust, flexible, seeks to improve algorithms with higher error tolerance, and is expected to be necessary to unfold the full potential of quantum methods.
Prepare for a quantum powered future
Many firms, especially large banks in Europe and America, have already realised the importance of big data processing. These businesses have proactively started building partnerships with quantum developers and technology experts to discover new capabilities and leverage their cloud capability, while scouting for potential investments for a smooth adoption process.
However, solving the puzzle of quantum computing is not a one-day process. McKinsey forecast that by 2030 the number of quantum computers operated will amount to only 2,000 to 5,000 units, whereas the hardware needed to solve its problems may not exist until 2035 or beyond. Quantum AI is estimated to arrive during the late 2020s at the earliest. Until then, businesses are expected to adopt hybrid approaches to counter their optimisation issues.
As progress is being made, quantum computing is still in its nascent stage compared to the complex financial problems it is inquired to solve. However, given the potential quantum computing holds, quantum computers will revolutionise the financial industry and start generating value by the mid-2030s. The societal impact may not be instant, but it is crucial for business leaders to prepare for this first wave of industries and get ready to harness its potential. | 52physics
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https://www.ap7am.com/lv-211312-speedunnodu-promo-video-songs-songs-with-lyrics-jukebox.html | 2017-09-22T10:18:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818688932.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922093346-20170922113346-00693.warc.gz | 0.96757 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__126384271 | en | Fri, Jan 22, 2016, 09:02 PM
Watch the promo of video songs, songs with lyrics and jukebox of the film Speedunnodu.It is a romantic and comedy movie of 2016, which is under progress. The main casts of the movie have been portrayed by Bellamkonda Sreenivas, Sonarika. The film is being directed and produced by Bheemaneni Srinivasa Rao. The music of the film has been composed by DJ Vasanthh .It is a remake of Tamil film Sundarapandian (2012). Tamannaah will be seen in a special appearance in a song. | 15drama_and_film
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https://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/this-one-is-for-the-girls/ | 2018-06-20T15:25:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863650.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620143814-20180620163814-00540.warc.gz | 0.977976 | 1,030 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__184174861 | en | Hello Church, My name is Dr Amy, (::Hello Dr Amy::) and I’m a emasculating, heathen, female physician who will be a poor mother and wife and is the reason why the family is falling apart….
I am a failure of the Christian worldview which somehow did not teach me that my life calling was to be a stay home mother, that to become educated and employed was to steal such an option from a man. (in reference to an actual article a friend came across out of The Vision Forum on facebook).
(Frankly I would love it if there were a LINE of godly men who wanted to give their lives to children without access to health care, we are so desperate for few workers in our massive field…but believe me there are NOT)
But I am not alone….as a radical feminist emasculating heathen…who yes loves Jesus.
I stand with women from across the millennium. Women with vision. Women with callings. Godly Women.
Esther, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, Martha, Lydia, Phoebe, Deborah…..
We need Biblical womanhood…..
Half of you just made a face….and you probably thought that I just made a statement equivalent of quitting my job, marrying a nice pastor with short hair who I will submit to and have many small children with whom I will home-school and dress in matching denim outfits with hair-bows.
Nope. That would be if I said WE NEED American Evangelical Christian Housewives….
WE NEED BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD!
(I will keep reposting these two paragraphs until all the godly women in the church are allowed to live out their god given callings…)
The women that bible speaks most highly of look NOTHING like American housewives: Tamar fought domestic violence, Sarah became the mother of an entire nation/people group, Deborah was a judge and a warrior, Esther was a shrewd politician and a queen, Ruth was a caregiver and the sole breadwinner (no pun intended) for an elderly relative (she also went and lay in a man’s bed who she was in love with to tell him her feelings for him..), Rahab was a prostitute who descendant was Jesus, Elizabeth proved the impossible, Mary gave birth to a child outside of marriage in a culture that would stone her for it and fled her homeland as a refugee to save the child life… that CHILD SAVED THE WORLD, Joanna and Susanna ministered to Jesus, Mary (sister of Martha) listened and discussed theology with Jesus, Mary Magdalene was a prostitute whose enduring story teaches us about grace and who also was among the only followers who were fearless enough to go to Christ’s tomb after his death, Priscilla made tents, was one of the first missionaries AND LIKELY WROTE HEBREWS, Lydia was a wealthy, successful businesswoman, a PASTOR and CHURCH PLANTER who was the first European known to accept Christ she along with Phoebe were leaders in the early church….
Come to think of it maybe Paige Patterson, Vision Forum and everyone is on to something. The women today have indeed lost sense of biblical womanhood. Could you imagine what the world would be like if every woman who follows Christ actually lived like these women did? (OR a if a few good men did too?)
Could you imagine a woman would shrewdly crush the head of a foreign general (either figuratively or literally, diplomatically)? Or could you imagine a woman so strong and wise that a general refuses to go to battle without her? Could you imagine if there was a woman like Esther who would go before the governments of nations where genocides, other hate crimes or gross human rights violations are happening and convince them to stop? Could you imagine if women would support their elderly, widowed family members like Ruth rather than sending them to nursing homes or griping about them? Could you imagine if women of the world fought back against violence toward women and children like Tamar? Could you imagine if the women of the world embraced the children born unplanned or unwanted and yes some of them who felt called stayed home and cared for them as their profession and calling (love ya Mom!)? Could you imagine if women in nations where there is no freedom of religion quietly yet openly worshiped and ministered like the women at the tomb? Could you imagine if women stepped up as leaders yes pastors, writers, prophets, ministers, teachers in places where there is no faith or where faith has died?
How different would our churches be?
How different would our families be?
How different would our world be?
Stand up with the woman who mothered our faith…. daughters, mothers and grandmothers, trample the lies that we have been told that devalue women in the name of God and…
speak. be. and share truth and grace with the world…that so desperately needs our loving, gracious, radical God. | 57sociology
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https://jwhydraulics.com/service/design/ | 2024-02-22T21:24:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00020.warc.gz | 0.91488 | 903 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__65339548 | en | HYDRAULIC CYLINDER DESIGN
Determination of Main Dimensions of Hydraulic Cylinders
Structure Design of Hydraulic Cylinders
After the main dimensions of the hydraulic cylinder are determined, the structural design of each part must be carried out. It mainly includes: the connection structure of the cylinder barrel and the cylinder head, the connection structure of the piston rod and the piston, the piston rod guide part structure, the sealing device, the buffer device, the exhaust device, and the installation and connection structure of the hydraulic cylinder. Due to different working conditions, the structural forms are also different. Choose according to the specific situation when designing.
1. Connection form of cylinder barrel and cylinder head.
The connection form between the end of the cylinder barrel and the cylinder head is related to the working pressure, the barrel material and the working conditions. Common connection forms include flange connection, threaded connection, outer half-ring connection, and inner half-ring connection.
2. The connection structure of the piston rod and the piston.
Divided into integral structure and combined structure. The combined structure is further divided into threaded connection, half ring connection and taper pin connection.
3. The structure of the guide part of the piston rod.
The structure of the guide part of the piston rod includes the structure of the piston rod, the head cap, the guide sleeve, and the sealing, dustproof and locking devices.
The sealing forms at the piston rod are O-shaped, V-shaped, Y-shaped and X-shaped. In order to remove the dust attached to the exposed part of the piston rod, ensure the oil is clean and reduce wear, a dust ring is added to the outside of the head cap. There are commonly used skeleton dust rings and J-shaped rubber seals, and felt rings can also be used to prevent dust.
4. The selection of the seal at the piston and piston rod.
It should be based on the sealing position, the pressure, temperature, and the range of motion speed used. Different types of sealing rings should be selected. The types of sealing rings mainly include O bezel, O-shaped retaining ring, high and low lip Y-ring, Y-ring, Omega type, V type, piston ring and so on.
5. Buffer device of hydraulic cylinder.
When the hydraulic cylinder drives the working parts to move, due to the large mass of the moving parts and the high movement speed, hydraulic shock will occur when the end of the stroke is reached, and even mechanical collision will occur between the piston and the cylinder end cap. In order to prevent this phenomenon, a buffer device is installed at the end of the stroke. Now introduce several commonly used buffer structures.
6. Exhaust device of hydraulic cylinder.
For machine tool hydraulic cylinders and large hydraulic cylinders that require high movement speed stability, exhaust devices, such as exhaust valves, are required.
The structure of the exhaust device takes many forms. It is generally installed at the highest position at both ends of the hydraulic cylinder. Double-acting hydraulic cylinders require two exhaust valves. When the hydraulic cylinder needs to be exhausted, open the corresponding exhaust valve, and the air together with the oil will be discharged out of the cylinder through the gap of the cone and the small hole, and the exhaust valve will be closed until there is no gas during continuous oil discharge.
7. Installation and connection structure of hydraulic cylinder.
It includes the installation structure of the hydraulic cylinder, the connection of the oil inlet and outlet of the hydraulic cylinder.
- Installation form of hydraulic cylinder. According to different installation positions and work requirements, there are different mounting methods of hydraulic cylinders, such as long bolt mounting, tripod mounting, flange mounting, trunnion mounting and clevis mounting, etc.
- Determination of the form and size of the hydraulic cylinder inlet and outlet. The inlet and outlet ports of the hydraulic cylinder can be arranged on the end cap or the cylinder. For hydraulic cylinders with fixed piston rods, the inlet and outlet ports can be located at the end of the piston rod. If the hydraulic cylinder does not have a special exhaust device, the inlet and outlet ports should be located at the highest position of the hydraulic cylinder so that the air can be discharged from the hydraulic cylinder first. The form of inlet and outlet is generally connected by screw holes or flanges. | 29hydraulic_engineering
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https://runsafesecurity.com/blog/importance-of-improving-code-security/ | 2023-12-04T09:12:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100527.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204083733-20231204113733-00057.warc.gz | 0.930484 | 681 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__154473795 | en | Table of Contents:
Preventing Cyber Attacks is Impossible but Improving Code Security Isn’t
In a recent episode of “In the Nic of Time”, Nicolas Chaillan interviewed David Wheeler, an expert on open source software. David is the Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation and teaches a graduate course in developing secure software at George Mason University.
They began by discussing the increase in cyber attacks and ways to prevent them.
David shared, “We can’t prevent attackers from trying to attack systems. We need to acknowledge that they will attack, and we need to prevent them from succeeding.” Vulnerabilities in software have always persisted because there will always be weaknesses in code.
The Importance of Software Supply Chain Security
Nicolas and David then began to discuss the dramatic increase in supply chain attacks. Software supply chain security is so vital because while open source software makes it easy to build with relatively few resources, vulnerabilities are much more easily exploited because it is reused. Software is moving towards becoming increasingly secure because developers are working harder to prevent attacks. However, the attackers are learning and adapting and still have the advantage because despite our best efforts developers always have exploitable weaknesses in code.
David Wheeler added, “The number one kinds of vulnerabilities are memory safety issues/buffer overflows…[these were] discussed in the 1970’s. Our key problems in software…have been the same for at least 50 years.”
How to Improve Code Security
That’s where RunSafe comes in. The shift left movement is improving code security by empowering developers to fix vulnerabilities before they get released—and therefore boosting code quality. However, this movement can also lead to overburdening developers, causing them to spend more time on vulnerabilities themselves and less time on new feature requests and boosting user value.
By using RunSafe’s exploit prevention tools, organizations can reduce the burden on developers while keeping them focused on new feature development. For example, developers should not constantly resolve memory safety issues when there is a tool like RunSafe that eliminates the exploitability of those memory vulnerabilities so that we can save developers time while making systems more resilient.
Throughout the course of the discussion, they also discussed log4j and the White House Open Source Summit, as well as SPDX and SBOMs. David offered a compelling analogy for SBOMs: the list of ingredients on the back of a cereal box. In the same way that a consumer might look at the back of a cereal box to see the ingredients (to determine its true makeup instead of judging nutritional quality by looks), similarly the SBOM delineates the components of software to detail potential vulnerabilities.
Future Goals for Cybersecurity Experts
Lastly, they discussed short-term versus long-term aspirations for the cybersecurity community. David stated that we should be improving the protection of our build environments in the short-term, but we should move towards verified reproducible builds in the long-term.
The world is a safer place because of folks like Nicolas Chaillan and David Wheeler, but also because we will have greater visibility into vulnerabilities in the software supply chain while offering tools to developers, like RunSafe’s tools, to prevent attacks without slowing down developers. Try RunSafe’s products for free today. | 60systems_science
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http://thesmsworld.com/bulk-sms-service-provider-mangalore/ | 2022-12-03T05:28:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710924.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203043643-20221203073643-00701.warc.gz | 0.914516 | 2,617 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__114063717 | en | The SMS World is the leading and reliable bulk SMS service provider Mangalore. We offer various bulk SMS services in Mangalore like Transactional bulk SMS, Promotional bulk SMS, voice SMS, etc. The SMS World provide Bulk SMS services in Mangalore with unlimited validity also. Get best price for Bulk SMS solutions in Mangalore. Call: 9888335805 / 9041001685.
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By sending customized messages, our SMS service may help you boost both visitors and income. Fast OTPs, alerts, notifications, updates, offers, marketing messages, and promotional SMSs will improve your users’ experience.
SMS Bulk Service
Bulk SMS Service is usually at the top of the list when it comes to advertising and creating new leads for businesses. It is possible to tailor a package to your company’s specific requirements.
Transactional SMS was created as a practical way for businesses to interact directly and efficiently with their target consumer base. This service also serves customers that have opted in.
SMS promotional messages are used to publicize a product or service. Our clients may simply send this type of SMS.
It is simple to send SMS text messages.
You may launch and manage your campaign using our simple user interface. There is a simple system in place that will make task management a snap.
SMS texting for business
SMS marketing and transactional SMS may be beneficial to both small and large businesses. The SMS World provides the best SMS solution available on the market.
API integration is essential.
Thanks to our simple API interface, your customers and clients will receive SMS messages directly from your CRM, application, or website.
Text-based outreach, often known as bulk SMS, is a sophisticated text-based approach for reaching your target audience. Bulk SMS is used by small and medium-sized businesses, companies, and banks. Many Mangalore businesses rely heavily on bulk SMS. Bulk SMS may help you save up to 85% on your telecommunications costs. This is also the most efficient approach to contact a big number of individuals at the same time.
As quickly as feasible, reach out to potential consumers.
In the age of smartphones, mass electronic communications are the most cost-effective and easy way to reach a large audience. Because most individuals check their message inbox when a new message arrives, this marketing technique has a great potential for producing a big number of leads. SMS advertising has been shown to be more effective than other forms of advertising.
Promoting in a Time and Energy Efficient Way
When you use Mangalore bulk SMS services to market your products, you save time and work. Two-way communication networks benefit TRAI regulations, policies, and recommendations. If you let the seller take care of the advertising, you can focus on growing your business in the direction you want.
Sending SMS to Recipients Is Safe
If you choose a bulk SMS software solution, you can be certain that your SMS messages will be sent safely and securely to their intended recipients. Exclusions include people who are not covered by the network or who are not members of it. Those with a working cell phone and an active mobile network will receive the warning. The electronic messaging network generates a huge number of real-time reports on ongoing work through the internet.
Prospective buyers may select from a variety of assets.
If you employ The SMS World in Mangalore, you may engage your audience with amazing SMS services. It is possible for your firm to keep ahead of the competition by reaching out to potential consumers at a minimum cost, thanks to the ever-changing technology SMS is a fantastic marketing tool for spreading content and generating leads for your business.
When it comes to increasing brand recognition and product promotion, SMS marketing is a powerful tool. This strategy is used by entrepreneurs to contact a big number of people at a little cost. With a small investment, your firm may have access to a large audience and obtain rapid results. This marketing tool is now more accessible to startups and small businesses because it is free to set up. SMS World allows you to send bulk SMS to national networks. Using a low-cost message delivery service provider can help you save both money and time. Each operation is provided with a real-time status report.
As part of a simple three-step procedure, the bulk messaging platform creates message content (which will be developed by the firm), delivers a specialized message to bulk SMS providers, and broadcasts the message to a huge audience. To ensure safety, SMS technologies such as SMPP and Communications Protocol Square Measure are employed (CPSQM). Your company will benefit from higher ROIs and a higher success rate with configurable mass electronic messaging services.
Electronic messaging systems are widely used by commercial companies. Automobile dealerships and insurance firms, as well as coaching centers, employment institutes, and kindergartens, are examples. Electronic messaging services are also provided by retailers and mobile phone carriers. Customers can purchase and receive personalized electronic messaging services for a little cost.
It is critical to identify and pick a dependable advertising solution for your campaign. If you’re dealing with a newcomer to the sector, your marketing strategy may fail.
To begin, develop a list of all the resources you’ll need for your marketing, such as URLs, images, and other material, and discuss it with providers. Providers will struggle to match your expectations if you don’t participate.
If you’re looking for SMS service, research into a few options ahead of time. Each firm’s strategy and credibility should be compared. As difficult as it may be at times, making the proper decision is critical if you want to reach your objectives.
You’ll be better off if you’re looking for a Bulk SMS provider that communicates with you on a frequent basis. Experts recommend that business owners contact the SMS Company to discuss their requirements. You will attain your objectives if you give the company with accurate information.
For organizations to send and receive text messages, SMS gateways are a common solution. Because electronic communication is simple and convenient, employees and anyone who must adapt to new communication methods gain.
Especially for a company that must connect with its target market on a daily basis, SMS messaging is the only method to reach a big number of people quickly and efficiently. Promotional SMS and transactional SMS routes are the two main categories that Mangalore SMS Gateway providers use to label their technologies.
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Definitely Yes, We do provide such facilities to our clients and customers. Before buying we provide you with details of our demo account. You can easily log into your dummy account and test how our services work.
Yes, we do. These are stored only on the Bulk SMS Web to SMS platform. If, however, you are using the Bulk SMS Text Messenger, you will be able to see your delivery report for as long as you keep the sent SMS message in your Sent items box.
NO refund is provided in case of any non-delivered/failed message as we have been charged for every message irrespective of the status and more resources are put to check the cause of the undelivered message and we retry sending the messages before sending the failed message report.
Yes, API technology is being provided by us in our pre-made software. We provide API in different computer languages, depending on the client.
Users will send SMS from the internet Panel, Excel Plugin, API. However, Resellers aside from sending SMS also can sell SMS to their customers. Resellers get a white panel in which they’ll get what they want. they’re going to be supplied with admin rights so they’ll manage their users.
* Single SMS – Instantly send up to 10000 numbers
* Group SMS – Store contacts in the group and send SMS
* Excel 2 SMS Static – Send SMS from contacts stored in Excel (only .xls file)
* Excel 2 SMS Dynamic – Send Dynamic SMS from contacts and content stored in Excel (only .xls file)
The sender-id is that number (or alpha string) that appears on the recipients’ phones. A sender-id may be a string of up to eleven characters. 1st and 2nd characters represent the Mobile Operator’s network and therefore the location followed by hyphen(-). you’ll be able to use the remaining eight characters of the sender-id. It can be your name or brand. For instance, if your name is XYZ then the sender-id is like TA-XYZ.
In DND Filtering, you can send SMS to both DND and Non-DND messages. But in DND without Filtering, you can only send SMS to Non-DND messages.
For adding a new sender id, you need to mail us your new username. Then we will add your username.
If you want to get a without DND filtering sender id, you should submit a scanned and filled and form to your admin/reseller on your letterhead with your sample message. If approved, you will get activated in 1 hour.
It mostly takes 10 minutes to 1 hour to get your sender Id approved depending on the type of your id.
You will get a notification from our side telling us about the status of your approval and also you can check your panel.
A message having not more than 160 characters is considered as 1 credit.
You can send a message with more than 160 characters. Your credit will be deducted depending on the number of characters.
The template is a message which is stored by default. You can use it as many times as you want.
You can schedule any number of SMS in the future by going to the Message Box >> Bulk SMS >> tick on show advanced settings. You can schedule either in bulk or single.
No, there is no limit in scheduling your message.
You can use API or another computer language to plugin SMS to your website.
Unicode SMS is a type of SMS in which you can send your message in any other language of your choice or add any special character to the current text. It is a great option for companies who are thinking of expanding their business to other parts of the country.
You cannot send customized SMS as you have to get template approval before sending the SMS.
Carousel SMS is a simple type of SMS in which you can attach your brand or product image along with your WhatsApp and send it as a single link to the targeted audience through SMS.
Yes, you can send links through carousel SMS.
Yes, you can send OTP SMS through our panel. We 1the SMS World provide a fully secured SMS gateway for sending the OTP’s.
Yes, you can send transactional SMS through our portal. Just link your website/app with our portal and the SMS will automatically be sent.
SMS sent through our portal are generally received within 15 seconds, depending upon the network connection of the receiver. In some cases, it may take more time as its number depends on the network connection of the receiver.
You can add your Excel sheet containing the numbers to which you want to send the SMS.
No, we don’t have any app, but our website is so user-friendly it can be operated through mobile very easily.
No, you cannot send personal SMS as each SMS needs to be approved before sending.
The report shows the number of SMSes you sent and the status of the SMS.
Yes, you can view and download the report. | 12communication_engineering
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https://gadgetsmatrix.com/archives/irrational-numbers-wall-clock/30940 | 2021-12-05T23:50:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363226.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205221915-20211206011915-00147.warc.gz | 0.891391 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__191176681 | en | Irrational Numbers Wall Clock
In math, irrational numbers are those that can’t be represented by simple fractions. Two examples are pi and the square root of 2. Designed by a mathematician, for mathematicians (and others in the know, like engineers and scientists), this clock tells time in irrational numbers logically placed on a 360-degree circle.
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http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g652121-d2392059-r136146256-El_Mano_Casa_de_Comidas-Playa_Blanca_Lanzarote_Canary_Islands.html | 2014-03-16T06:20:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394678701804/warc/CC-MAIN-20140313024501-00037-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.978756 | 452 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__182266991 | en | We visited this restaurant a couple of times. The location is excellent overlooking the marina, and although they had put removeable windows up, when it was really windy it was still quite draughty.
They brought bread with olives and crushed tomatoes with garlic to the table whilst we ordered our starters.
For starters we tried the tropical prawn cocktail Rhode Island style (basically means with pineapple) for around 7 euros. Really delicious and would recommend it if you like prawn cocktails.
The sautéed scallops with ham and mushrooms was a huge disappointment – two tiny scallops for 10.75 euros – not value for money at all and wouldn’t recommend.
The cold toast of salmon with crab salad was pretty tasty and not a bad portion size.
For main courses we tried the cod with garlic mule, fried egg, potatoes and vegetables, which was tasty and nicely presented. Reasonable value at 14.75 euros.
Cherne with green sauce – which was a little bland for 16.75 euros.
And the fresh fish which was sole of the Atlantic with potatoes and tomatoes. Very good dish if you like fresh fish and for a sole it was surprisingly plump.
This was the only place where we found (and drank Verve cliquot) so it got top marks for that.
The food was pretty good but the service was variable. At first we had a lovely waitress who was engaging and attentative and the “main man” who was courteous and helpful but the second time we visited we had a young waiter who didn’t possess many social skills. He gave the impression that he didn’t want to be there and also that he didn’t want us to be there either. He did sour the evening a little as everything seemed to be too much trouble for him. Luckily the food saved the evening with the gorgeous fresh fish.
I would go back and have that meal again and with a bottle of wine and a bottle of water, the average price for two of us was around 72 euros.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC. | 64travel
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https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/2636-clear-all-empty-variables-from-the-workspace | 2020-01-17T19:49:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250590107.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200117180950-20200117204950-00335.warc.gz | 0.774199 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__197981008 | en | I want to clear all empty variables from my workspace.
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https://syntecoptics.com/biosensor-monitors-oxygen-in-organ-on-a-chip-systems/ | 2022-09-26T01:06:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334620.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925225000-20220926015000-00662.warc.gz | 0.910685 | 275 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__278251747 | en | A new photonic biosensor can track oxygen levels in real time in organs-on-a-chip to ensure that these systems are mimicking the function of physical organs.
Developed at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the biosensor employs a phosphorescent gel that emits IR light after being exposed to IR light, similar to an echo. The lag time between when the gel is exposed to light and when it emits the echoing flash varies, depending on the amount of oxygen in the system’s environment. The more oxygen, the shorter the lag time. By monitoring lag times, the researchers can measure the oxygen concentration in an organ-on-a-chip system down to tenths of a percent.
The biosensor is integrated into a 3D tissue scaffold during fabrication of the organ-on-a-chip, and oxygen concentration is regulated via the control of purging gas flow. The biosensor uses the quenching of palladium-benzoporphyrin by molecular oxygen to transduce the local oxygen concentration in the 3D tissue scaffold. Because IR light can pass through tissue, the researchers can use a reader, which emits IR light and measures the echoing flash from the phosphorescent gel, to monitor oxygen levels in the tissue repeatedly, with lag times measured in the microseconds. | 9chemistry
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https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/rsneportfolio/2017/10/17/win-with-maths/ | 2022-08-19T01:46:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00411.warc.gz | 0.934015 | 2,639 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__97148173 | en | Chance and probability link to the basic ideas or concepts of mathematics (Ma, 2010, p. 104). The basic understanding of probability is that it is the “[L]ikelihood or chance that something will happen.” (Tuner, no date, p.5). The “Probability of an event happening = Number of ways it can happen over the total number of outcomes.” (Probability, 2014). For example, when obtaining a two when rolling one dice, there are 6 outcomes possible. I can only get the two on the dice by landing on the two therefore, the probability is 1 out of 6. In this blog post, I am going to look at how probability can affect business and I am going to explore the links between gambling, social media likes, addiction and mathematics.
In our workshop, we looked at the different combinations possible when ordering meals (Holme, 2017). The fundamental maths is that there are multiple perspectives (various ways) to figure out the number of choices that could be made (Ma, 2010, p. 104). McDonald’s became a big business because they had a small variety of options on their menu. These options could all be cooked in a similar way and could be cooked fast. However, at one point, it was said that the McDonald’s menu was getting too big, which caused a decline in business. With more options available, there were complaints that the fast food restaurant, was not fast enough! Therefore, the less choice there is the more customers and sales. (Lutz, 2014). Restaurants could look into the probability of more choice vs the number of customers.
Gambling in the UK is now at two billion pounds. However, gambling is addictive and produces a moral and an ethical issue. Addiction to gambling has led some people to steal due to the amount of debt they are in. The number of gambling addicts have doubled in six years and MPs aim to reduce this. It could have a knock-on impact on economy especially if many people are entering debt and Gambling is increasingly prevalent (as it can even be played at home now) (Gallagher, 2013).
Skinner did research on training people with rewards, this being the variable ratio schedule. Skinner suggests that we should not give rewards every time but to give them at random, to change up when we give a reward. He states that to train someone, we should keep rewarding them at the start which gets them hooked, then vary when the reward is given once the behaviour has been established. Casinos have researched this about rewards and in turn have used this information to get people to play and to keep them hooked (Weinschenk, 2013).
Rewards link to social media notifications such as emails or Twitter. We do not continually access these because we have got a notification or because we have a message but because we might have one, it’s the unpredictability. There is a potential reward. This is why we get addicted (Burkeman, 2011). I know I have opened my social media apps, knowing that sometimes a notification doesn’t pop up on my home screen but if I go into the app there is a possibility or a chance that I might get one if I open it. Therefore, this theory about rewards by Skinner can be applied to slot machines because if they rewarded someone every time they played, people wouldn’t get addicted. So, in order to get people addicted or hooked they vary when the rewards are given.
Teacher note: Could we use this idea or concept of varied rewards to have more positive behaviour in the classroom? This is something I would like to look into to develop my understanding of fundamental mathematics in the future.
A reward such as a like on your Instagram causes a release of a chemical called dopamine. This gives us a ‘high’ which encourages our addiction to the likes further. We want more likes and we watch them roll in, creating an addiction because we like that feeling of satisfaction (How the Brain Gets Addicted to Gambling, 2017).
This theory of random rewards causing addiction, connects to the concept of randomness which is explored in the basic mathematical concept of probability and chance. Randomness according to De Finetti (1990, cited in Turner, no date, p. 3) is defined as an individual will not know what a result will be. However, can we determine what the outcome will be using the mathematical concept of probability? Therefore, if the outcome could be more predictable could this mean a reduced likelihood of addiction since it’s the unpredictability of rewards that gets us addicted (Burkeman, 2011).
Gambling relies on randomness and probability (Turner, no date, p. 3). However, it seems that we humans have a different view to randomness since we expect a random outcome to not have the same result in a row, when tossing a coin for example (Holme, 2017).
I thought that a random result wouldn’t have so many tails or heads in a row. When predicting, I tried to mix it up the result, I varied it to make the outcome what I thought to be random. Therefore, supporting the “Naïve Concept of Random Events” as I didn’t think the outcome would be in clumps (Turner, no date, p. 4). Thinking along the lines of, if this result hasn’t occurred much or at all, it’s going to next time. I did not expect a pattern (Turner, no date, p. 5). Even Apple had to make the random shuffle option for selecting songs, less random in order for it to seem more random to humans as the songs ended up being clustered (Bellos, 2010).
Therefore, it’s interesting that Howard (2013, cited in Smart Luck, 2017) contradicts that random outcomes can be in patterns even though the coins toss has just proven that there can be patterns in randomness. One tip that he recommends people use to win the lottery is to follow the human thinking of randomness. Meaning that you should not pick numbers that have a pattern or consecutive numbers. He also suggests that numbers shouldn’t be picked from the same group as its unlikely you’ll win. Although, this would contradict Apples random shuffle option, which often picked songs from the same album (same group) (Bellos, 2010). Furthermore, even though through analysing patterns, he has concluded that, “That which is most possible happens most often. That which is least possible happens least often.” However, the challenge with using probability to help you win in the lottery, is that it isn’t certain that it will occur (Probability, 2014).
This concept of randomness needs to be addressed in school to remove the misconception about randomness. Doing experiments such as the coin toss would be a great example for the class to see as it demonstrates a real-life example of randomness in probability such as the one shown below which we did in a workshop.
Regarding the point I made earlier about addiction being removed or reduced when gambling if the outcome is more predictable, this could be done by utilizing fundamental maths and probability. One example of this is by Darren Brown, who tried to estimate the speed of moving objects, looked at velocity and rate, using mathematics and engineering to guess where the ball might land on the roulette table (Bob, 2009). This being an example of different areas of maths connecting to others to solve a problem (Ma, 2010, p.104). However, even though he used all his knowledge and connected it together, he still was one out from being correct and winning. Similar to probability, it is only a “guide”, it isn’t certain that what is probable will occur (Probability, 2014).
In summary, probability could be used to help restaurants such as fast food places to work out the likelihood of how many customers they will have if they have a certain amount of options on their menu. Additionally, gambling is addictive because people love the satisfaction of the unpredictable rewards, the possibility of getting rewards which is similar to social media likes (Burkeman, 2011). Therefore, gambling machines would need to give rewards at random to keep people hooked which links to the basic concept of probability and chance in maths (Weinschenk, 2013). However, surprisingly there are patterns seen in randomness that humans do not expect. Furthermore, I explored how there is potential to reduce the addiction if the outcomes could be predicted using probability, chance and other areas of maths that could connect (Ma, 2010, p.104). Although, it seems that because probability cannot give an exact answer of the outcomes, its unreliable to use in this case (Probability, 2014).
List of references:
Bellos, A. (2010) ‘And now for something completely random, by Alex Bellos’, The Daily Mail, 7 December. Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1334712/Humans-concept-randomness-hard-understand.html (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Bob (2009) Derren Brown: How to Beat a Casino. Available at: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/011B9829?bcast=34497126 (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Burkeman, O. (2011) ‘Can ‘intermittent variable rewards’ help you become addicted to more positive behaviours?’, The Guardian, 23 April. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/23/this-column-change-life-random-rewards (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Gallagher, P. (2013) ‘Addiction soars as online gambling hits £2bn mark’, Independent, 27 January. Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/addiction-soars-as-online-gambling-hits-2bn-mark-8468376.html (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Holme, R. (2017) ‘Chance & probability’ [PowerPoint presentation]. ED21006: Discovering Mathematics (Year 2) (17/18) Available at: https://my.dundee.ac.uk/webapps/blackboard/execute/displayLearningUnit?course_id=_56905_1&content_id=_4941456_1 (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
How the Brain Gets Addicted to Gambling (2017). Available at: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-gets-addicted-to-gambling/ (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Lutz, A. (2014) McDonald’s Menu Is Completely Out Of Control. Available at: http://uk.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-menu-is-too-large-2014-12?r=US&IR=T (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Ma, L., (2010) Knowing and teaching elementary mathematics (Anniversary Ed.)New York: Routledge.
Probability (2014) Available at: http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/probability.html (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Smart Luck (2017) United Kingdom National Lottery Suggestion. Available at: http://www.smartluck.com/free-lottery-tips/england-nationallotto-659.htm (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
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Gambling. Available at: https://www.problemgambling.ca/EN/Documents/HPG%20Probabilty%20Final.pdf (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Weinschenk, S. (2013) Use Unpredictable Rewards To Keep Behavior Going. Available at: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201311/use-unpredictable-rewards-keep-behavior-going (Accessed: 12 October 2017).
Yates, E. (2017) What happens to your brain when you get a like on Instagram. Available at: http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-happens-to-your-brain-like-instagram-dopamine-2017-3 (Accessed: 12 October 2017). | 37mathematics
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https://www.joke.co.uk/collections/mens-world-book-day-costumes/products/mens-classic-wizard-costume | 2021-10-24T18:33:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587593.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024173743-20211024203743-00135.warc.gz | 0.80817 | 135 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__12857525 | en | Abracadabra! Cast spells on fellow party goers in the magical Mens Classic Wizard Costume. This Halloween costume will transform you into any magician, wizard or warlock, from Dumbledore to Merlin. Pair with a long grey beard and wand to complete the look!
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http://octoberrose.blogspot.com/2008/11/mr-right.html | 2018-07-20T14:49:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591683.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720135213-20180720155213-00471.warc.gz | 0.981154 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__261836987 | en | I like my SO. Not only is he good looking and well read and articulate (and he likes me!), he occasionally offers me an insight into my own life.
Recent pet problems have led me to declare repeatedly that Betsy is my last dog, that I want to live dog-free, that any time I am tempted to get another pet he is to whisper "ACL" in my ear. But the other day I found myself trolling pet adoption sites.
"What is wrong with me?!?" I wailed to SO that night.
"You just want a grandchild," he answered.
And you know what? He's right. | 48pet
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https://www.visionsystech.com/products/cameras/indigo-imaging-scmos-43-megapixel-industrial-camera | 2019-03-21T10:52:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202510.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20190321092320-20190321114320-00170.warc.gz | 0.825262 | 359 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__181323201 | en | INDIGO IMAGING IDG-4500 | 43 MEGAPIXEL sCMOS ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA.
The IDG-4500-M-G-CL is an ultra-high resolution Scientific-CMOS (sCMOS) camera equipped with a CameraLink interface. With the CameraLink interface, it will achieve 7fps CameraLink Medium and 10fps CameraLink Full interface. Because it uses global shutter, it has the advantage on detecting moving object such as FPD detection, semi-conductor inspection and industrial imaging.
The Indigo Imaging IDG-4500 is one of the most advanced industrial cameras available. The new 43 megapixel imaging sensor (GPIXEL GMAX0806) is the highest sCMOS camera sensor available. sCMOS means "Scientific-CMOS", which characteristics are very low read noise, low dark current, and very good images. The global shutter provides excellent stopping power for moving objects and avoiding motion blur. The industry standard CameraLink interface allows up to 10 FPS and is GenIcam compatible. The camera Dynamic Range is 68.3 db and there is a Wide Dynamic Range mode where the darkest shadows and the brightest areas both can be imaged with 78 db. The camera is available with either an f-mount or an M58 thread mount. Size is 80 mm x 80 mm x 107 mm with a weight of 650g.
The camera has IO capability with RS-232 interface for applications requiring lens control. This sCMOS camera is well suited for the following industrial applications: flat panel display inspection, microscopy, semi conductor wafer inspection, astronomy and life sciences. Vision Systems Technology is a North American authorized distributor of Indigo Imaging digital cameras. | 46optical_engineering
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https://eeagrants.org/news/programme-agreement-signed-good-governance-and-cross-border-cooperation-programme-slovakia | 2024-04-23T23:22:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818835.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423223805-20240424013805-00754.warc.gz | 0.918014 | 1,047 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__103192375 | en | Key information about the programme
- The programme is operated by: The Government Office of the Slovak Republic
- The Donor Programme Partner in this programme is: The Norwegian Barents Secretariat
- The International Partner Organisation in this programme is: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- The programme's objective is:Integrity and accountability of public administration improved
- The programme funding (excluding co-financing) amounts to 8.5 million Euros and is funded through the EEA Grants only
Why is the programme needed?
The OECD defines corruption as one of the main obstacles to sustainable economic, political and social development for developing, emerging and developed economies alike. Overall, corruption reduces efficiency and increases inequality. These are some of the reasons why the EEA & Norway Grants support activities in our partner countries in the area of good governance and the rule of law, in order to help stimulate the improvement in these areas that are so crucial for social and economic development.
Fighting corruption is a challenge in many countries, including in Slovakia which ranks relatively low compared to other EU Member States on comparative country indexes measuring corruption and integrity of public administration.
Against this backdrop, the Good Governance Programme in Slovakia is closely aligned with the government’s efforts to combat corruption. The programme aims to improve the integrity and accountability of public administration by focusing on:
- Good Governance, Accountable Institutions and Transparency; and
- Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Judicial System, Strengthening Rule of Law.
As a second pillar, the programme will promote institutional cross-border cooperation between Slovakia and Ukraine with a focus on improving integrity and accountability, as a continuation of the programme successfully implemented under the previous financing period (2009-2014).
In order to address the issue of corruption and improve the integrity of public administration, the programme will strengthen co-ordination of horizontal policies in the area of integrity and managing of civil service employees; strengthen the support and legal assistance for whistle-blowers; and enhance legislation related to corruption prevention and public integrity. There is also a need to conduct a thorough Integrity review to ensure that the above-mentioned priorities can be addressed in an integrated and sustainable manner.
What will the programme achieve and who are the beneficiaries?
The Programme focuses on public administration as the main target group. Additionally, the Programme will work with the general public to support the societal change needed to improve public perceptions of corruption and the judiciary.
All the areas covered under this programme, such as the application of Value for Money principles; the rule of law; anti-corruption measures; accountability of public service; and the implementation of the Ukraine - EU association agreement require long-term application and societal changes.
Pre-defined projects with focus on integrity of public administration and public procurement will be conducted in collaboration with the International Partner Organization (OECD). The pre-defined projects will assess policies and public services, provide recommendations and deliver training to 350 civil servants in five line ministries and to 36 enforcement officers.
Furthermore, to combat Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats and strengthen institutional cross-border cooperation between Slovakia and Ukraine, multiple workshops will be organised. 500 participants from Slovakia and Ukraine and 160 Slovak and 100 Ukrainian police and Security Forces specialists and 45 private sector representatives will be trained on CBRN intervention measures and identifying illicit materials. This project represents a continuation of the cooperation between the responsible Slovak, Ukrainian and Norwegian authorities (the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority).
Increased efficiency of the justice system and the protection and empowerment of victims and vulnerable groups will be enhanced: eight court premises will be refurbished in order to take account of the needs required to make them more child friendly. Additional training for judges and other court employees will be provided to improve communication skills and organizational skills such as time management and the management of judicial proceedings which will consist of six workshops for the biggest contracting authorities on MEAT (“Most Economically Advantageous Tenders”) criteria, involving 3 professional chambers and institutions.
How will the programme strengthen bilateral relations?
The programme will contribute to strengthening bilateral relations between Slovakia and the Donor States.
Partnerships with donor entities in projects are encouraged in open calls for proposals under the programme.
In the main pre-defined project dealing with cross-border cooperation, the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority will be donor project partner.
Availability of funding through open calls
While most of the funding is allocated to pre-defined projects, funding will also be made available through open call for proposals under the Cross-border component. The first calls are expected to be launched in September 2019.
Calls for proposals are planned for:
- Call for proposal “Slovak-Ukrainian institutional cooperation enhanced” September 2019
- Small grant scheme “Slovak-Ukrainian institutional cooperation enhanced” September 2019
- Bilateral call:
- The tentative planning for the publishing of the calls is: A matchmaking seminar for Slovak and Donor State institutions will be organised in September 2019, with more information on the call for proposals, including the bilateral call. | 55public_administration
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https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2012/10/ibm-esb-launch-smarter-ev-charging-system-in-ireland/ | 2024-02-24T15:35:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474541.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224144416-20240224174416-00518.warc.gz | 0.939712 | 450 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__205105452 | en | IBM today announced it has partnered with ESB Networks to deploy a “smarter” electric vehicle charging system to manage about 1,000 public charging points across Ireland, allowing EV drivers to access, charge and pay using an identification card.
The project will also provide utilities with access to energy-usage data that IBM says can help improve smart grid operations and reduce power strain during peak charging times.
ESB — which is responsible for the roll out of EV infrastructure in Ireland and the operation of supporting IT systems — will use IBM’s cloud-based Intelligent Electric Vehicle Enablement Platform to operate and manage the charge points.
The IBM platform will give EV drivers payment options and access to all charge points using one ID card, which IBM says will aggregate usage costs and simplify billing. The smart-charging capability allows consumers to charge EVs anywhere at anytime, regardless of their electricity provider and without using multiple access cards.
Additionally, drivers will also have the option to use a mobile device or browser to locate the nearest charge post, check its availability and make a reservation if the post is available.
The platform will connect ESB with the energy retailers and the charge points, allowing all three to communicate energy usage and financial data directly. The companies say this will provide the analytics and intelligence needed to better forecast and balance the load on the power grid as well as help ESB monitor the health and status of the charge points to ensure service reliability.
IBM says the cloud-based platform gives ESB the flexibility and scalability to add charge points, incorporate new functionality and support more EVs as the market grows.
According to ESB, the project is one of the largest integrated and operational EV infrastructures in Europe.
Ireland has set a goal to produce 40 percent of the country’s current electricity consumption from renewable energy and have electric vehicles represent every 10th car on Irish roads by 2020.
The EV charging network will allow Ireland to also contribute to the European Union legislation to reduce greenhouse gasses by about 9 million tons before 2020.
In April, IBM, American Honda Motor Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced a smarter charging pilot project to allow communication between EVs and the power grid. | 12communication_engineering
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https://vivo.nkn.uidaho.edu/vivo/display/g8908640 | 2019-12-06T06:13:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540484815.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20191206050236-20191206074236-00482.warc.gz | 0.90882 | 262 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__67580058 | en | Neural Substrates for Thermal Control of Ingestion
Food intake is reduced in hot ambient temperature in a variety of mammals, including man. Thus it appears that thermosensitive mechanisms control food intake in situations when a thermogenic activity, food intake, is counter-productive to the maintenance of normal body temperature. The neural substrates involved in the thermal control of food intake are poorly understood. Preliminary findings indicate that the neurotoxin, capsaicin, damages neural fibers involved in heat-induced reduction of food intake without altering the ability to maintain normothermia at elevated temperature in rats. This suggests that capsaicin acts to selectively lesion thermosensitive systems controlling food intake. Examination of functional deficits in thermoregulation and food intake reduction at elevated temperatures in rats treated systemically, and at localized central and peripheral sites with capsaicin should reveal the lesion sites responsible for the functional deficits. The specificity of capsaicin- induced damage to thermal controls of food intake at central or peripheral sites will be further examined using immunohistochemical and silverstain degeneration techniques. Finally, peptides will be applied at sites that demonstrate impairment of heat-induced reduction of food intake. This will provide a measure of the role of specific peptides in the thermal control of food intake. | 7biology
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https://psychosylum.com/ouija-seance-the-final-game/ | 2023-03-23T05:12:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296944996.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323034459-20230323064459-00691.warc.gz | 0.944362 | 163 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__202777383 | en | THE FINAL GAME
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After finishing a semester abroad Sarah and her friends decide to celebrate over the weekend in an old villa that Sarah recently inherited. However, after playing with an old Ouija Board they found in the attic Sarah and her friends soon realize that they have summoned an evil force. What should have been a fun weekend soon becomes their worst nightmare as one by one they must face their deepest fears to fight the unimaginable evil they have awoken.
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Retour à Gorée (English: Return to Gorée) is a 2007 musical documentary road movie directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, featuring singer Youssou N'Dour's journey along the trail left by slaves and by the jazz music they invented. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Goree, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his mission by the pianist Moncef Genoud, Youssou N'Dour travels across the United States of America and Europe. Accompanied by some of the world's most exceptional musicians, they meet peoples and well known figures, and create, through concerts, encounters and debates. Their music transcends cultural division.
Its population as of 31 January 2005 official estimates is 1,056 inhabitants, giving a density of 5,802 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,030/sqmi), which is only half the average density of the city of Dakar. Gorée is both the smallest and the least populated of the 19 communes d'arrondissement of Dakar.
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https://www.alpha-batteries.co.uk/car-batteries/skoda/ | 2022-01-19T23:15:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301592.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119215632-20220120005632-00296.warc.gz | 0.876248 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__142240347 | en | Skoda Car Batteries
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http://www2.apartmenttherapy.com/organic-denim-is-it-worth-ever-75322 | 2019-04-23T17:56:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578610036.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20190423174820-20190423200820-00069.warc.gz | 0.956374 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__133143747 | en | We grew up in a small Texas town that used to be hailed as the cotton capital of the world, where our grandfather grew acres upon acres of the stuff. In fact, we knew the guy who flew the plane that dropped chemicals on the crops.
And therein lies the problem: conventionally-grown cotton is still sprayed with mounds of pesticides, and raw fibers, even if they're organic, could be sprayed with fumicides and the like. Blue jeans take extra work for their dyes and finishes--Salon says up to a pound of chemicals per pair of blue jeans can be used to achieve that "worn-in" look.
Grist has an article about organic cotton in the U.S., and it points out that improvements are being made in the industry. In fact, the solution might be to simply do things more naturally, like natural/organic pesticides and using very old-school planting techniques. How green is that!?
With organic jeans coming in well above our price range for clothing, and until the cotton farming industry and denim production make more advancements to the green side, it looks like Goodwill's gonna get some business from us!
And of course, we want to know how you feel about organic cotton and especially denim: have you changed your wardrobe buys?
Photo by Daniel Wildman via sxc.hu | 1agronomy
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https://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/12/31/report-target-facing-backlash-over-annie-ads-with-white-girl/ | 2018-08-17T17:29:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221212639.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817163057-20180817183057-00087.warc.gz | 0.911996 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__103371192 | en | Target’s ads and in-store displays featuring the movie “Annie” are in the center of a controversy because some feature a white model as Annie instead of an black model similar to Quvenzhané Wallis, the actress who plays the character in the 2014 remake released for the holidays.
The pushback stems from a Change.org petition started by L’Sean Rinique Shelton of Bear, DE calling on Target to remove the Annie ads and issue Wallis an apology.
“[My daughter] saw the ad and said to me, ‘That’s not what Annie looks like. How come the new black Annie isn’t good enough? Does that mean I’m not good enough?’” Rinique Shelton said in a report from Yahoo News.
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https://tissuerecovery.com/blogs/news/what-can-changing-the-food-you-eat-for-15-days-accomplish | 2023-12-08T06:03:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100724.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208045320-20231208075320-00652.warc.gz | 0.934518 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__281284280 | en | A recent health program, the 15-day Jumpstart, showcases the incredible impact of altering one's diet (Friedman SM, et.,al., 2022).
The participants were encouraged to follow a whole-food, plant-based diet, emphasizing vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes. Remarkably, the 389 participants experienced notable improvements.
Average weight loss was 5.8 pounds, average systolic blood pressure drop was 6.8 points, average drop in cholesterol was 26 points, average drop in LDL (low-density lipoprotein) was 19 points and average drop in fasting blood sugar was 5.1 points.
Profound results were especially observed in individuals with higher starting health concerns. Simply put, this 15-day program affirms that with the right dietary choices, education, and support, we can see rapid and significant health benefits.
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Friedman SM, Barnett CH, Franki R, Pollock B, Garver B, Barnett TD. Jumpstarting Health With a 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based Program. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2021 Apr 8;16(3):374-381. | 39medical
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/watch-pinson-valley-high-school-students-contact-international-space-station/ | 2019-09-16T06:50:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572491.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190916060046-20190916082046-00366.warc.gz | 0.963954 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__51912205 | en | Tuesday, April 10 around 1 p.m., a select group of 15 students from Pinson Valley High School used an amateur radio system to make contact with the International Space Station. They will be the first high school students in the state to do so.
Once the students made contact, they interviewed astronaut Richard Robert “Ricky” Arnold II as the ISS passes over the state of Alabama.
Marlene Martinez was one of the 15 students selected to interview Arnold. Martinez says it’s an experience she will never forget, “When I first him talk I gasped. Cause I couldn’t believe we were actually talking to him. And I was just shocked it actually work.”
English teacher Jennifer Moore helped plan the event and says she couldn’t help but be a little concerned, “You are talking to a spacecraft that’s flying 17,000 miles per hour, 255 miles above the earth. So I was very anxious until we first heard astronaut Ricky Arnold’s voice.”
Moore went onto say she is proud to be part of history. Pinson Valley High School is the first school in Alabama to make contact with the ISS. Students only had a 10 minute window to make contact and ask the questions.
Watch them make contact and interview Arnold here: | 3astronomy
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https://www.hippokratia.gr/2019/03/04/abnormalities-in-cu-and-zn-levels-in-acute-hepatitis-of-different-etiologies/ | 2023-12-02T12:46:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100399.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202105028-20231202135028-00636.warc.gz | 0.914633 | 4,932 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__297541731 | en | Hippokratia 2014, 18(2):144-149
Papanikolopoulos K1, Alexopoulou A1, Dona A2, Hadziyanni E1, Vasilieva L1, Dourakis S1
12nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, 2Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Background: Copper (Cu) and Zinc (Zn) are essential trace elements which play an important role in various biological processes. Zn deficiency is common in liver diseases while Cu deficiency is rarely reported. To determine whether serum Cu and Zn concentrations differed in acute hepatitis, compared to controls and investigate possible correlations of Cu and Zn values with etiology and severity of liver diseases.
Methods: Serum Cu and Zn concentrations were determined by air acetylene flame atomic absorption spectrometer in 40 patients (acute hepatitis A, B, C, autoimmune and drug induced hepatitis) and 150 healthy controls.
Results: Compared to healthy controls, significantly higher Zn levels were found in patients (106.5 µg/dl, P <0.01). Abnormal levels of either Cu and/or Zn were found in 48% of patients vs 23.3% of the controls (P =0.01). Ten patients had abnormal Zn and fourteen had abnormal Cu levels. There was a trend for the severe hepatitis cases to have abnormal Cu values and in this subgroup Cu and Zn were positively correlated with prothrombin time and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, respectively. Cu and Zn levels did not differ statistically across groups of different etiologies.
Conclusions: Abnormalities in Cu and Zn concentrations are common in acute hepatitis. Cu and Zn exhibited positive correlations with prothrombin time and ALT respectively, in severe cases.
Key words: Trace elements, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, drug-induced hepatitis, cryptogenic hepatitis
Corresponding author: Konstantinos P. Papanikolopoulos, M.D., 30 Aeroporou Papanastasiou, 11527 Athens, Greece, tel: +302107700202, e-mail: [email protected]
Copper (Cu) and Zinc (Zn) are essential trace elements as they act as cofactors of antioxidant enzymes to protect the body from oxidative stress1,2. In particular, Cu is a component of many important enzymes, including amine oxidases, ferroxidases, cytochrome c-oxidase, dopamine b- hydroxylase, superoxide dismutase and tyrosinase1. Zn contributes to zinc finger proteins that interact with DNA and approximately 250 proteins contain Zn including DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase and transfer RNA synthetase3,4. Intestinal absorption of Zn occurs by a specific process that is enhanced in pregnancy and by corticosteroids while diminished by co– ingestion of phytates, phosphates, iron, Cu, lead and calcium5,6.
A large number of studies have shown that Cu and Zn are implicated in cardiovascular, autoimmune, cancer and degenerative diseases7-9. During most viral infections, the plasma levels of trace elements change10 and their effect has been studied on a variety of infectious diseases11. The changes in trace element levels are induced by cytokines in response to several stimuli, including stress and infection12.
Although there are studies about the association of trace elements with acute13,14 or chronic viral hepatitis15,16, there is no data about the above trace elements concerning other types of acute liver diseases (autoimmune, drug- induced, acute hepatitis B, cryptogenic) and in particular, the association of their values with the severity of the disease.
The aim of this study is to determine possible disturbances of Cu and Zn levels in patients with acute liver diseases and investigate correlations with etiology and severity of liver disease.
Forty patients (21 men and 19 women) with acute hepatitis (ALT > 400 U/L) aged between 18 and 80 years, were evaluated in the outpatient Clinics or hospitalized in the 2nd Department of Medicine, in the time interval 2009 and 2011. One hundred fifty healthy blood donors (75 men and 75 women, in the age range 18-70 years) were included in the study with an approximate matching by age group and men/women ratio (Table 1). None of the controls received any medication. The study was approved by the Hospital Ethics Committee. Half of the patients had acute viral hepatitis (fourteen acute hepatitis B, three acute hepatitis Α and three acute hepatitis C), five patients drug-induced, eight autoimmune and seven cryptogenic. Severe cases were defined as those with prothrombin time > 15 sec and/or albumin < 3.5 g/dl. All severe hepatitis cases were icteric and had a total bilirubin level more than 10 mg/dl.
Based on the available information, that is a ratio of approximately ¼ for cases and controls and assuming a proportion of 15% with abnormal values for Cu or Zn in the control group (Kouremenou-Dona et al, 2006)17, we calculated a power of nearly 0.60, 0.80 and 0.90 to detect a 15, 20 and 25% higher proportion of abnormal values in the patients group considering a type I error of 0.005.
Serum samples and analytical methods
Demographics and liver biochemistry [aspartate aminotransferase (AST), ALT, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and bilirubin], prothrombin time and albumin values were recorded at the first visit of the patient group. The etiology of acute hepatitis of viral etiology was identified as follows: Cases of acute hepatitis B were positive for IgM anti-HBc and in the vast majority the source of infection was identified; cases of acute hepatitis A were positive for IgM anti-hepatitis A virus (HAV) antibody; cases of acute hepatitis C had a recent seroconversion from anti-Hepatitis C virus (HCV) negative to anti-HCV positive status and detectable HCV RNA. A score ≥ 7 (definite) was used for the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis according to Simplified criteria for the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis18. In cryptogenic hepatitis cases, viral markers, autoantibodies and drug history were negative, IgG levels were normal and metabolic liver diseases as Wilson disease or hemochromatosis were excluded. All cryptogenic cases had a liver biopsy without any specific characteristics. Drug-induced acute hepatitis cases reported an administration of a suspect drug with temporal association to the illness.
Serum samples at the first visit were centrifuged and stored at 18°C. All glassware and bottles used for the isolation and analysis of serum were previously soaked in diluted nitric acid (10%) for 3 hours and rinsed thoroughly with de-ionized water. This procedure was followed in order to exclude the possibility of contamination with Zn or Cu. All samples were diluted (1:4) using water. The determination of Cu and Zn was carried out in serum samples by air acetylene flame atomic absorption spectrometer (model Spectra AA, Varian, Australia) equipped with D2 lamp background correction system. A Cu and Zn hollow cathode lamp (Varian) operating at 10 mA intensity and a spectral width of 0.7 nm was selected to isolate the 324.7 nm and 213.9 nm lines for Cu and Zn respectively. All analyses were performed in peak height mode to calculate absorbance rates. All samples were analyzed in triplicate.
Serum Cu and Zn values were expressed in μg/dl. Based on the Kouremenou-Dona’s et al (2006)17 work, we considered as reference values those between 70 and 155μg/dl for Cu and between 60 and 150μg/dl for Zn. The trace elements were measured in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Medical school, University of Athens.
All analyses were performed using the Stata statistical package (Stata Corporation: Stata/SE 11.0 for Windows, Lakeway Drive, College Station, TX, USA, 2009). For descriptive statistics, results are presented as number and percentage for categorical variables and mean and standard deviation for continuous variables. The median and inter-quartile range was estimated for Cu and Zn and the non-parametric test of equality of medians was applied to test differences in serum measurements between cases and controls or between men and women. The Chi square and Fisher’s exact tests were used to compare the differences in the prevalence of abnormal values for Cu and zinc among cases and controls. The Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between Cu and zinc with several clinical measurements were subsequently estimated for the patients group only. Significance was generally tested at the 5% level of statistical significance (p < 0.05).
Characteristics of patients and controls are presented in Table 1. The distribution of cases and controls across the age groups was generally equal. Gender distribution was also equal between patients and controls.
The median values and first and third quartiles for Cu and Zn are presented in Table 2 for both patients and healthy individuals, overall, by sex and age group. Levels of Cu in patients were similar to controls. For zinc, higher values were found among patients overall (p<0.01) and among men (p =0.01) and women (p =0.03) separately, when compared to controls (p1). Cu and Zn values were similar between men and women in acute hepatitis group (p2).
The distribution of patients and healthy individuals with normal and abnormal values for both trace elements are depicted in Table 3. The normal values were based on data of previous investigators from the same area17. Nearly half of the cases had abnormal values either for Cu and/or for Zn (47.5%). The corresponding percentage was much lower in controls (23.3%) (p=0.01). Most of the analysed sample for healthy individuals lied within the reference intervals (approximately 90% for Cu and 85% for Zn), while the proportions of abnormal values in both trace elements were significantly higher among cases (35% for Cu and 25% for Zn, p <0.01 and p =0.15 respectively) than among controls. Eight patients had Zn levels above normal and two below normal. Nine patients had Cu levels above normal and five below normal.
The results for Cu were more striking among men and that for zinc among women.
The analysis of the proportions of patients who had abnormal values of trace elements according to the cause of acute hepatitis showed that similar frequencies of patients with abnormal values of Cu or Zn were found across different etiologies of acute hepatitis (Table 4).
The values of both trace elements according to the severity status showed that both Cu and Zn were higher in severe than in non-severe cases and the proportions of patients with abnormal values showed that there was a trend for the severe cases to have abnormal Cu values (47.6% vs 21%) without any of the above results gaining a statistical significance (Table 5).
Table 6 presents the spearman’s rank correlation coefficients of Cu and Zn with several laboratory measurements across patients. In the total of patients no significant correlations were found. However, Cu values were positively correlated with prothrombin time (r=0.46) and Zn were positively correlated with ALT (r=0.45) in the subgroup of severe acute hepatitis cases.
Only one patient with cryptogenic hepatitis died and had abnormal levels for both Cu and Zn. No patient was transplanted.
Although there are only a few studies on Cu and Zn levels in acute hepatitis, including a limited number of patients with only viral causes13,14,16, the effect of these trace elements on patients with chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis has attracted the attention of many researchers. Kalkan et al16, Grungreiff et al19 and Cesur et al15 calculated Cu and/or Zn levels in a different setting of patients with chronic hepatitis. Kalkan et al16 showed significantly reduced Zn and elevated Cu levels in patients with chronic hepatitis compared to healthy control subjects. Grungreiff et al19 and Cesur et al15 reported similar Zn and Cu concentrations in patients with chronic hepatitis and healthy control subjects. On the other hand, patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis exhibited a more pronounced reduction in Zn concentrations19.
Cu and Zn are absorbed by the small intestine and are bound to plasma albumin. Cuis absorbed by a specific intestinal transport mechanism and is carried to the liver where it is incorporated into the protein transporter ceruloplasmin which delivers Cu to target tissues in the body. In the liver, Cu is stored by the storage protein metallothionein20. Zn after absorption by the small intestine is carried to the liver by portal circulation. Zn absorption is regulated by matallotheionin which binds both Cu and Zn and also acts as a Zn storage protein in the liver21.
Different mechanism of Cu and Zn homeostasis may play a role in acute hepatitis compared to chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis. In chronic hepatitis proinflammatory cytokines and particularly increase of IL-6 may play an important role in trace element levels22,23.In liver cirrhosis, the changes in the albumin synthesis, intestinal resorption and use of hepatic zinc are disturbed inducing low zinc levels18.However, Cu concentration in liver cirrhosis is a controversial issue19. Metal binding proteins such as metallothionein or ceruloplasmin are included in the family of acute phase proteins. In acute infections, acute phase proteins are increased and consequently metal binding proteins acting as metal transporters or storage proteins for trace elements are also increased. In the first days of acute infection, the metallothionein expression increases in the liver and intestine of experimental animals10. The increase of metallothionein in the liver was found to correlate positively with both Zn and Cu in previous studies10.Consequently during hepatocyte injury in acute infection, a leak of trace elements to the blood may occur10. In the current study, Zn exhibited positive correlation with ALT which is a marker of hepatocyte damage.
According to the above study10,low or high levels of Zn in acute hepatitis depend on the time elapsing since the onset of infection. Zn levels are elevated in the first days of infection and they are diminished thereafter10. Our results showed a variety of alterations above and below normal values in both Cu and Zn concentrations at the clinical onset of acute hepatitis compared to healthy controls. We do not have sequential sera in order to determine possible alterations of trace elements during the course of the disease. Many factors may account for high and low abnormal trace element values in acute hepatitis, including damage of the hepatocytes – leaking of trace elements and elevated metal binding proteins for the former and reduced intestinal absorption as well as low albumin synthesis for the latter. The controversy between our results and those of Pramoolsinap et al14,Fota-Markowska et al13, or Kalkan et al16,may be attributed to different setting of patients since the above studies included only patients with acute hepatitis B.
Gender-specific concentrations were not found in our study. Zn differences were prominent in both men and women compared to healthy controls while Cu concentrations were practically the same. Gender-specific differences in both Cu and Zn were not found between men and women in the acute hepatitis group but they were evident in the control group. The higher Cu in females of the control group was in agreement with Grungreiff et al19,but this gender-specific difference was not confirmed in our patient group. Hormonal contraception was not used in patients and controls and expected changes induced by sex hormone use19 were not apparent in the current study.
Another finding of the current study was that levels of Cu and Zn were similar irrespective of the etiology of acute hepatitis and the frequency of patients with abnormal values of trace elements did not differ among variable etiologies of acute hepatitis. In a previous study on patients with autoimmune hepatitis Zn levels were described as low24 but the timing of tissue sampling in the above inflammatory conditions was not clear. It was not stated whether Zn and Cu were calculated during acute exacerbations or during a quiescent remission period of autoimmune hepatitis. It is therefore possible that there are elevations and reductions of trace elements concentrations, depending on the phase of the disease. Moreover, we found that in severe cases of acute hepatitis, Cu and Zn exhibited positive correlations with prothrombin time and ALT respectively, reflecting correlations with severity and activity of the disease.
It must be noted that the current study is based on preliminary data. For this reason, no sequential data during the course of the disease are exhibited and the sizes of groups of different etiologies are small.
In conclusion, serum Cu and Zn levels display wide variations in patients with acute hepatitis. Zn abnormalities at the onset of the disease are usually above normal and thus Zn supplementation is not necessary. Cu abnormalities may be above or below normal and more investigation is needed for its role in the severity of the disease.
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Mil-Homens D1, Ferreira-Dias S2, Fialho AM1,3. J Appl Microbiol. 2016 Mar 25. doi: 10.1111/jam.13145. [Epub ahead of print]
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3.Royal Jelly Constituents Increase the Expression of Extracellular Superoxide Dismutase through Histone Acetylation in Monocytic THP-1 Cells.
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Extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) is one of the main SOD isozymes and plays an important role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases by accelerating the dismutation reaction of superoxide. Royal jelly includes 10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid (10H2DA, 2), which regulates the expression of various types of genes in epigenetics through the effects of histone deacetylase (HDAC) antagonism. The expression of EC-SOD was previously reported to be regulated epigenetically through histone acetylation in THP-1 cells. Therefore, we herein evaluated the effects of the royal jelly constituents 10-hydroxydecanoic acid (10HDA, 1), sebacic acid (SA, 3), and 4-hydroperoxy-2-decenoic acid ethyl ester (4-HPO-DAEE, 4), which is a derivative of 2, on the expression of EC-SOD in THP-1 cells. The treatment with 1 mM 1, 2, or 3 or 100 μM 4 increased EC-SOD expression and histone H3 and H4 acetylation levels. Moreover, the enrichment of acetylated histone H4 was observed in the proximal promoter region of EC-SOD and was caused by the partial promotion of ERK phosphorylation (only 4) and inhibition of HDAC activities, but not by the expression of HDACs.
4.Synthesis of tetracyclic iminosugars fused benzo[e][1,3]thiazin-4-one and their HIV-RT inhibitory activity.
Yin Z1, Zhu M1, Wei S1, Shao J1, Hou Y1, Chen H2, Li X3. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2016 Apr 1;26(7):1738-41. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.02.049. Epub 2016 Feb 18.
Several aza-C-pseudonucleosides bearing 1,3-benzothiazin-4-one (6 and 7) were prepared by the one-pot three-component condensation from the iminosugar aldehyde 3, amino acid ethyl/methyl ester hydrochlorides 4(a-c), and 2-mercaptobenzoic acid 5. After removal of Boc and the isopropylidene groups, the target novel tetracyclic iminosugars fused benzo[e][1,3]thiazin-4-one 1(a-c) and 2(a-b) were first afforded by the intramolecular cyclo-amidation reaction. Their structures were determined by their (1)H, (13)C NMR, and HRMS (ESI) spectra and X-ray. The tetracyclic iminosugars 1(a-c) and 2(a-b) were examined for their HIV reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitory activities. The result showed that all compounds could effectively inhibit RT activity. Among them, compound 2a was the best one with the IC50 value of RT inhibitory activity of 0.82μM. Structure-activity relationship analysis suggested that 1'R configuration in the tetracyclic azasugars was of benefit to their anti-HIV RT activity. | 9chemistry
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http://wesleying.org/2014/04/14/liberation-and-co-resistance-passover-seder/ | 2023-03-28T03:30:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948756.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328011555-20230328041555-00305.warc.gz | 0.956636 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__242366852 | en | Nadja Shannon-Debek ’17 writes in:
Come to a liberation and co-resistance Passover Seder at Earth House! We will sing songs from many traditions, tell the story of Passover, and eat delicious food. We hope to discuss Palestinian narratives of the Israeli occupation, and sites of resistance to oppression elsewhere…in an open and respectful environment.
Please join us and bring any stories, food, music, art, or thoughts that you are interested in sharing!
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Place: Earth House
(Visited 21 times, 1 visits today)
I wouldn’t characterize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a nearly fifty year occupation of another people as a “petty political squabble”. This is a conflict that has robbed tens of thousands on both sides of their safety, security, rights, and dignity. It is urgent, tragic and deserves to be discussed and acted upon now. As for the use of Passover to discuss the conflict, I can think of few occasions more appropriate. Passover might be my favorite holiday because of its anti-oppression themes and its condemnation of human exploitation. The message of passover cannot merely be the story of one nations’s miraculous escape from slavery to freedom. It must be about the imperative that all people be accorded dignity, liberty and compassion. Once we were slaves in Egypt, and once we were refugees from it. Let us treat others as we always have asked to be treated.
Fifty year occupation? You mean fifty years of freedom after a two thousand or so year occupation of Israel.
Why are you appropriating our holiday for your petty political squabbles?
this comment is disgusting
You are saying this as if half of the people at this seder weren’t jewish, and ignoring the fact that the seder table is a place for place for discussing politics along with values of freedom in many households. | 57sociology
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https://www.littlegreenschoolhousebooks.com/products/abeka-new-world-history-geography-in-christian-perspective-answer-key-fourth-edition-used | 2022-12-06T09:32:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711077.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206092907-20221206122907-00199.warc.gz | 0.940291 | 92 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__125665535 | en | This key accompanies the sold-separately New World History & Geography in Christian Perspective, Fourth Edition and contains lists of the questions in the text and their answers. Grade 6.
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https://www.authenticnhljerseys.org/top-rated-cat-scratching-post/ | 2023-03-24T07:27:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945248.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324051147-20230324081147-00468.warc.gz | 0.93586 | 2,602 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__158132558 | en | A dog's stomach is upset. It is caused by a variety of factors, including dietary mistakes, infection, or stress. The signs of an upset stomach may include vomiting, diarrhea decreased appetite or abdominal discomfort. These symptoms can be distressing for both the dog and the owner, and it's essential to be aware of the causes and the treatment options available.
Causes of an Upset Stomach in Dogs
There are a variety of possible causes of stomach upset for dogs. It's crucial to know the root causes to be able to manage the issue. The most frequent reasons are:
Dietary indiscretion: Eating foods that aren't part the dog's diet like table scraps or food that has been spoiled, can lead to stomach upset.
Infections: Bacterial, viral or parasitic infections can cause stomach upsets in dogs.
Stress: Stress can interfere with the normal function that the stomach performs, and cause stomach upset.
Ingestion of foreign objects: Dogs have been known to eat almost anything, and ingesting foreign objects can cause stomach upset.
Some medications may induce stomach discomfort as a result of.
Food allergies or sensitivities In dogs, they can develop sensitivities or allergies to certain ingredients in their diet, which can lead to stomach upset.
Inflammatory bowel disease: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be a persistent condition that can cause stomach upset in dogs.
Cancer: Cancer of the digestive tract can cause stomach upset in dogs.
Symptoms of an Upset Stomach in Dogs
The signs of upset stomachs in dogs vary depending on the underlying cause. Some of the most common symptoms are:
Vomiting: Vomiting can be the most frequent indication of an upset stomach in dogs.
Diarrhea: Diarrhea is another frequent indication of stomach discomfort in dogs. Your dog might also be showing signs of needing to pee but not going. Check that your dog is potty training.
A lack of appetite: Dogs with an upset stomach may lose their appetite or refuse to eat.
Discomfort in the stomach: Pets who have stomach problems can look uneasy or even agitated.
Dehydration: It can happen due to vomiting or diarrhea.
A fever can occur if stomach upset is the result of an infection.
Weight loss: Dogs with frequent stomach upsets may experience weight loss.
It is important to remember that symptoms like this can be caused by other underlying ailments, and a accurate diagnosis must be confirmed by a veterinarian.
Diagnosis of an Upset Stomach in Dogs
If your dog is showing symptoms of an upset stomach it is essential to talk with your veterinarian. The vet will conduct an examination of the body as well as take a detailed medical background, and could suggest diagnostic tests. These may include:
Fecal exam: A fecal exam will help identify bacteria or parasites which could be the cause of stomach upset.
Bloodwork: A blood test can help to pinpoint any underlying medical condition that could contribute to stomach upset.
Ultrasound: Ultrasound can be used to look at the gastrointestinal tract and identify any abnormalities.
Endoscopy: Endoscopy can be utilized to see the gastrointestinal tract as well as obtain samples of tissue to use for biopsy.
If the root of the stomach upset has been identified The appropriate treatment plan can be devised.
Treatment of an Upset Stomach in Dogs
The method of treating upset stomachs in dogs will be based on the cause. Some of the most popular treatments are:
Dietary management: If the stomach upset is due to an dietary error The vet might suggest eating a low-calorie diet for a couple of days so that the stomach can adjust. After the dog has stabilized, a normal diet can be introduced.
Treatment If an infection is suspected, the vet may prescribe antibiotics or other medication to combat the illness. Anti-inflammatory medications may also be prescribed to reduce inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.
Surgery If a foreign object is discovered in the dog's stomach or there is a suspicion of cancer, then surgery could be necessary.
Specialized diets: If food allergies or sensitivities might be present, an vet diet that removes the ingredient that is causing concern could be recommended.
Immune-modulating therapy: In dogs with IBD, an immune-modulating therapy such as a hypoallergenic food or oral immunosuppressive medicines may be recommended.
Management of stress: For dogs with stomach upset caused by stress strategies for managing stress such as training, behaviour modification and pheromone therapy could be recommended.
It's crucial to follow the treatment plan prescribed by your veterinarian and to plan regular follow-up visits to monitor your dog's progress.
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|Prescription Diet||Specialized diets for upset stomachs|
|Medications||Antiemetics, antidiarrheals and others|
|Probiotics||Supplements that help with digestion|
|Surgery||Required in severe cases|
Preventing an Upset Stomach in Dogs
To avoid stomach upset in dogs it's essential to:
Make sure your dog's diet is balanced A high-quality, balanced diet that is suitable for your dog's breed, age, and activity level can help to prevent stomach upset.
Do not eat table scraps. They should be avoided since they could disrupt your dog's normal diet and lead to stomach upset.
Supervise your dog: Keep watch over your dog to ensure they're not eating something which could cause harm to their stomach.
Manage stress: Stress may interfere with the normal function of the digestive system, so it's important to manage stress in your dog.
Regular veterinary check-ups Regular visits to your vet can help to determine and treat any underlying medical conditions that could cause stomach discomfort.
In conclusion An upset stomach can be caused by a range of causes. It's crucial to understand the underlying cause in order to properly manage the issue. If the diagnosis is correct and followed by a treatment plan, many dogs can recover from stomach upsets and live happy, healthy lives.
The stomach of dogs that upset may be the result of a range of factors and it's important to understand the underlying reason to correctly manage the issue. With the correct diagnosis and treatment plan many dogs recover from stomach upset and go on to lead happy and healthy lives. It's also important to take preventative measures to ensure your dog won't suffer from stomach discomfort in the near future. By providing a balanced diet, avoiding scraps from the table, monitoring your dog's behavior, reducing stress and scheduling regular vet check-ups You can ensure that your dog's digestive system remains healthy and functioning properly.
It's important to keep in mind that if your dog is showing signs of stomach discomfort It is best to speak with your veterinarian as quickly as possible. They'll be able to identify the cause and develop an appropriate treatment program to assist your dog to get back to normal as soon as they can.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Signs of Upset Stomach in Dogs
Some common signs that indicate an upset stomach for dogs include diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, and excessive flatulence. Other symptoms can include dehydration, lethargy, and a distended abdomen. If your dog exhibits any of these symptoms, it's important to consult your vet as soon as possible to determine the cause behind the issue and create the appropriate treatment strategy.
What to Give a Dog for Upset Stomach and Vomiting
When your pet is experiencing vomiting or an upset stomach It's crucial to offer them a small amount of water to drink. It is also possible to provide them with a bland diet including rice and boiled chicken for a few days to ease their stomach. Your veterinarian may also recommend supplements or medicines to alleviate symptoms and treat the root reason.
Home Remedies for Dog Vomiting and Upset Stomach
There are many home remedies that will aid in relieving the symptoms of vomiting and an unhappy stomach when dogs. Some popular options include providing a bland diet, like boiled chicken or rice, offering small amounts of ginger or peppermint tea, and incorporating probiotics into your pet's diet. However, it's important to talk with your vet prior to attempting any home remedies, as they will be able recommend the most appropriate treatment for your dog's particular condition.
What Can I Give My Dog for Upset Stomach Pepto Bismol
Pepto Bismol can be given to dogs to treat stomach problems, but it's important to consult with your veterinarian before you give your dog the medication. They'll be able to determine the appropriate dosage and make sure it's safe for your dog take.
Dog Upset Stomach, Diarrhea
Diarrrhea is one of the main symptoms caused by an upset stomach among dogs. When your pet is suffering from diarrhea, you must give them a simple diet, including boiled chicken and rice as well as small quantities of fluid to drink. Your veterinarian might also recommend supplements or medicines to alleviate the symptoms and treat the root of the problem.
What Over the Counter Medicine Can You Give a Dog for Upset Stomach
It is important to talk with your veterinarian before administering any medication over the counter to your dog. They'll be able to provide the best medicine and will determine the appropriate dose for the dog's particular health condition.
Senior Dog Upset Stomach
As they age, dogs are more susceptible to stomach upset. It's important to provide the proper diet, and to schedule regular check-ups with your veterinarian to ensure that your elderly dog's digestive system is in good health. Your veterinarian might also suggest specific diets or supplements to aid in relieving symptoms and preventing future episodes of stomach upset.
Dog Gets Upset Stomach Once a Week
If your dog is experiencing occasional stomach discomfort, usually every week, you should consult your veterinarian to determine the cause. They might suggest modifications to your dog's diet or suggest supplements or medications to alleviate the symptoms.
What Can Help My Dog's Upset Stomach
There are many treatment options that can help alleviate the symptoms of stomach upset in dogs. This includes providing a simple diet, including probiotics in your dog's diet, as well as offering small quantities of peppermint or ginger tea. Supplements and medications may be suggested by your veterinarian to help alleviate symptoms and address the root causes.
How To Treat Upset Stomach In Dogs
If you're dealing with an upset stomach in your furry companion It is essential to determine the primary reason behind the problem. If your pet is suffering from diarrhea, vomiting, or loss of appetite, it is crucial to talk to your vet to determine the most effective way to treat the issue.
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What To Give Large Dog For Upset Stomach
If you are unsure of what to feed to a large dog with an upset stomach, it's important to talk with your vet to decide on the most appropriate course of treatment. In some instances it is possible that a dog with a bigger size require a greater dose of medication or a distinct treatment strategy to reduce symptoms.
Also, it's important to keep in mind that large dogs may have a harder time digesting certain types of food and may need a special diet to keep their stomachs calm and healthy.
In the end, the most important aspect is to work closely with your vet to discover the cause of your dog's stomach upset and develop an appropriate treatment strategy. By providing the appropriate treatment and care it is possible to make your dog get better and return to their normal, healthy self within a matter of minutes. | 48pet
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https://azpbs.org/2020/09/donor-profile-dale-and-jennifer-emerson/ | 2023-12-02T09:21:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100381.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202073445-20231202103445-00280.warc.gz | 0.983707 | 747 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__116277975 | en | Donor profile: Dale and Jennifer Emerson
Sept. 22, 2020
When Dale and Jennifer Emerson saw Pavlo perform at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in February, they were blown away by his energy. They loved the guitarist’s gesture of giving away his instrument to a random audience member at the end of the show.
“It was such a sentimental gesture, the way he gave the guitar away,” Jennifer said. “He played it all through the show, so the recipient got something really special.”
The Emersons said they wouldn’t have been there if they hadn’t seen a Pavlo concert on Arizona PBS.
“After that, we looked into going to Pavlo’s show in Greece,” said Dale, “but then this pandemic came along.”
Travel is a passion for Dale and Jennifer, who have explored a long list of places around the world. “When we travel, we both return having learned as much about ourselves as the countries we visited,” said Jennifer.
Until they can resume their world travels, the Emersons are traveling vicariously through shows like “Rick Steves’ Europe” and other favorite PBS programs.
“‘Art in the 48’ brings out so many unexpected places, especially now — it kind of lets you get out in the community again,” Jennifer said. “And I love Mark Tarbell on ‘Plate & Pour’ — he’s just sparkly and witty and fun.”
“Ted Simons and ‘Arizona Horizon’ are a real jewel for Arizona PBS,” said Dale, “and ‘Frontline’ has to be one of the best programs on any channel.” Jennifer agreed, noting that PBS’ ability to dive into analysis of complex issues that other networks don’t have time for is important to them.
Jennifer is a fourth-generation Arizonan — her great-grandmother homesteaded in Bumblebee, Ariz. — so she remembers watching KAET from a young age. “My mom enrolled at ASU in 1968 to pursue a teaching degree,” she said. “My brother and I were in grade school at that time. She was highly committed to education, and it was not unusual for her to plop us in front of our black and white TV to watch a PBS show she thought we should see. These viewings were not optional!”
When Jennifer attended ASU herself in the 1970s, many of her classes were held in Stauffer Hall, which also housed KAET’s studios. “It was impressive for the times, especially since some activities could be viewed from the windows,” she said.
For the Emersons, choosing to support Arizona PBS was almost second nature. As they were setting up their trust, their attorney asked what charitable donations they might like to make. Without needing to talk about it, they knew.
“Dale and I just looked at each other and we said, yeah, Arizona PBS,” Jennifer said. “It was funny, we didn’t even have to talk about it.”
Dale agreed. “I think if you have that spirit and watch PBS and grow with it, it becomes a part of you. It really does.”
This story was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue of Arizona PBS magazine. Photo by Paula Maturana. | 31journalism_and_media_communication
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https://pes.eu.com/misc/putting-the-us-firmly-at-the-head/ | 2024-04-22T22:53:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00331.warc.gz | 0.932324 | 412 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__84788656 | en | Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar offers PES a stimulating and thought-provoking analysis of the future of the energy business throughout the US as we enter a brave new world of political development. Whereas previous generations may have been prepared to accept compromise and second-best, we now have a golden opportunity to forge ahead in the energy business, placing the US firmly at the forefront of technology and developments, he argues.
America is facing fresh and demanding challenges as we survey the new energy frontier. We are now all engaged upon the project of helping build America’s clean energy economy – a project upon which our nation’s competitiveness, our security, and our prosperity depend – a project that will help us build a strong and stable foundation for our economy to grow again.
It is also a project in which we have a powerful partner in the President of the United States, Barack Obama, and – for the first time ever – in the United States Department of the Interior (DoI). As managers of one-fifth of the nation’s land and 1.7bn acres of ocean, it is time the DoI changes how we do business and open our doors to wise, responsible renewable energy production on our public lands. For at no time in our history has the need for a new energy policy been so urgent.
We import more than two-thirds of our oil, costing us hundreds of billions of dollars a year.Unemployment is at eight and a half per cent, carbon emissions are rising, our national security is threatened and countries like China and India are ready to cash in by leading the global clean energy economy. With millions of new jobs at stake, this is an opportunity America can’t afford to miss. We must lead the clean energy revolution, and with the help of groups like the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), we will spark it in the coming months by passing comprehensive energy legislation that lifts our nation’s production of renewable energy and helps secure our energy future. | 19environmental_science
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https://www.fijivillage.com/news/PM-acknowledges-the-Commonwealths-commitment-towards-global-recovery-efforts-and-advancing-Sustainable-Development-Goals-4xf8r5/ | 2023-09-21T15:14:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506028.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921141907-20230921171907-00617.warc.gz | 0.919117 | 391 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__28704987 | en | Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has highlighted the need for the Commonwealth’s full backing of new and innovative financial tools to advance an inclusive and sustainable recovery for Small Islands Developing States.
While speaking during the 21st Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Minister’s Meeting, Bainimarama also acknowledged the Commonwealth’s commitment towards global recovery efforts and advancing Sustainable Development Goals.
Bainimarama also called for the need to remain clear-eyed about raising productivity, boosting competitiveness, and creating new opportunities for market access, particularly for the Small Islands Developing States.
The Prime Minister also spoke on the importance of achieving equitable access to healthcare and resources to build resilient health systems, where the Commonwealth can be a beacon for cooperation that ensures the next crisis brings out the best of our multilateral system.
In his statement on “The Road to COP26 and Commonwealth Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change,” Bainimarama says Fiji and our Pacific island neighbours are embracing the goal of region-wide green and blue economies by creating a sustainable future in the midst of a healthy and sustainable Pacific Ocean.
He says while the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been devastating for us, recovery can be an opportunity to do better—to build back greener, bluer, and stronger, and take the action for a sustainable, cleaner, inclusive and more resilient future.
Reaffirming Fiji’s commitment to climate mandate, Bainimarama says Fiji is leading by example and is proud to be one of the first countries to develop a National Adaptation Plan, and one of the few countries to incorporate its National Adaptation Plan into its 2020 updated Nationally Determined Contributions.
He says there is urgent work that remains unfinished, and we must go to COP26 resolved to finalise the outstanding elements of the Paris Rulebook.
Stay tuned for the latest news on our radio stations | 19environmental_science
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https://matchmusik.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/ep-p-r-moment-in-time/ | 2018-06-25T09:42:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867644.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625092128-20180625112128-00133.warc.gz | 0.963889 | 113 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__163774437 | en | P.R.‘s second project with Cult Classic Records is quite a release. At 7 songs long the EP features the Sydney based producer on 3 purely instrumental tracks as well as providing the backdrop for vocal work from Substantial, Skyzoo, Alphamama, Aisha Mars and what what probably the most anticipated track (for me) featured Cise Star and Blu. Moment In TIme is filled to the brim with jazz and lounge infused hip hop production as well as the above features doing their thing. Worth considerably longer than a moment. Enjoy. | 2artistic
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https://www.zinff.com/help/how-to-keep-my-glasses-clean.html | 2024-04-13T19:28:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816832.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413180040-20240413210040-00363.warc.gz | 0.938738 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__70298831 | en | How to keep my glasses clean?
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http://www.gazettextra.com/article/20130917/ARTICLES/130919768 | 2017-11-18T05:24:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804610.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118040756-20171118060756-00770.warc.gz | 0.961046 | 963 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__168469048 | en | Edgerton 'landlord list' part of stepped-up code enforcement
EDGERTON—If you're a rental or commercial property owner in Edgerton, the city wants to be able to get a hold of you.
The city council on Monday approved a first read of an ordinance amendment which, if approved, would require private owners of residential rental or commercial properties to provide their names and a way the city can contact them by Jan. 1, 2014.
City Administrator Ramona Flanigan said property owner registration would allow the city to build a directory of landlords and business property owners so it could reach them in the case of maintenance and code compliance problems, or during emergencies.
“For instance, if police are on security checks and notice a door open in a building downtown in the middle of the night, they've got someone they can call to tell them,” Flanigan said. “It's a public safety issue as much as anything.”
Officials say the new rule is part of a larger plan to improve compliance with city property maintenance codes downtown and throughout the city. Mayor Chris Lund said it's in response to mounting complaints about run-down residential rental properties.
Now, the city responds to rental property maintenance problems on a complaint basis, but it can be tough to find property owners, Lund said.
“This (amendment) was brought up because of an increase in maintenance complaints about absentee landlords, and their properties needing some real attention,” Lund said. “It's hard to know who all of these owners are and obviously, if you don't know them, even harder to get in touch with them.”
The change would require property owners to list themselves and another person with access to their properties that lives within Rock or Dane counties, along with phone numbers and email addresses.
Registration won't have a fee, but failure to register by Jan. 1 would carry a potential fine of $25 to $500, Flanigan said. Lund said in cases of noncompliance, the city could use tax records to track down property owners.
The city now has a list of contacts for some property owners, but the list is far from complete, Flanigan said. She said the city only has loose estimates of how many residential rental properties are in the city, but she said the number, based on city water bill records, is “substantial.”
A directory of rental and commercial property owners also would help the city take stock of how many rentals there are, and who owns them, Flanigan said.
Alderman Chris Wellnitz, who originally brought the amendment idea to the city's public works committee, said he wanted to give the city another tool to ensure public safety and help it more quickly get to the bottom of problems reported by rental property tenants.
“If they have a complaint about the property, we can have someone to call. It's one way of making sure renters' rights are met,” Wellnitz said.
Edgerton city staff earlier this month reviewed other area cities, such as Delavan, which has a landlord registration ordinance. Delavan's ordinance requires owners of condominiums, apartment complexes and duplexes to register with the city and provide a way to contact them. The rule does not extend to single-occupancy rental homes, Delavan Building Inspector Fred Walling said.
Along with that rule, a city of Delavan licensing ordinance requires the city to check each rental property for maintenance and code compliance once annually for three years. If a property passes inspections and has no maintenance complaints for three years, the owner won't have to undergo another check for two calendar years, Walling said.
Edgerton doesn't immediately plan annual citywide inspections for rental or business properties, Flanigan said, but it is looking to step up checks for building code compliance.
City staff plans to bring to budget discussions this fall a property maintenance program involving code compliance checks of downtown properties.
According to a preliminary estimate, it could cost the city $750 to $1,200 for the city building inspector contractor, General Engineering, to inspect exteriors of buildings in the downtown historic district's five square-block area.
Lund said he'd forwarded a budget request for the program to cover both exterior and interior inspections. He said that would help the city catch up on code compliance for some downtown properties that have changed hands in the last couple of years.
“Some properties downtown are really run down, and not just on the outside. In a few cases, they sit vacant, and you don't know if an owner's ever going to do anything with them,” Lund said. | 65urban_planning
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https://gumroad.com/l/sleepwell | 2018-12-18T20:17:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376829568.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20181218184418-20181218210418-00341.warc.gz | 0.909634 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__28539610 | en | A hypnotic mp3 set recorded by Professor Jay Tee. This outstanding audio hypnosis set enables a set of unconscious functions that allow you to forget about your troubles and rest well for the day ahead. Just listen, learn, and then sleep... better than you have in months, or maybe years!
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