Hair care is a big business, and there are countless products and procedures available to help you get whatever type of hair you want, and to deal with nearly every hair problem.
It can get confusing without a little guidance. For instance, we've all heard of hair masques (hair masks), and deep conditioners, but probably only a few of us really understand what the differences are. Trust me, there are differences, and let's take a look at them.
All of the services and products available for the hair that aren't designed to actually chemically change the texture or color of the hair or aren't specifically used to style the hair will generally fall under the category of "hair treatments".
Hair treatments can take different forms depending on the purpose they are intended to serve. You have deep conditioners which are pretty much what they sound like: treatments designed to penetrate deep into the hair shaft and rehydrate and moisturize the hair to combat dryness and leave the hair soft and silky-feeling.
You can also have hair masques, which generally are intended to repair specific types of hair damage or combat specific problems. Common hair masques are designed to smooth the cuticle layer of the hair or tighten it and seal the hair against porosity to help retain shine, strength and even color.
Protein packs are pretty much what they sound like: treatments that contain high concentrations of vegetable and/or animal protein. Common ingredients are things like banana, gelatin, animal placenta, and lately keratin.
The purpose is to infuse the hair and help restore strength and structural integrity that can be lost as a result of repeated heat styling and chemical services like bleaching. Protein packs are generally intended for use every 8 to 12 shampoos (or once a month for daily shampooers) as overuse can result in the hair becoming brittle and hard.
These hair masques usually contain slightly elevated pH formulas that are intended to remove residues and gently swell the hair shaft to give the hair the look and feel of being thicker and more voluminous. Common ingredients include things like panthenol, acacia and aloe vera.
These masques are generally used by individuals with fine, thin hair or whose hair is normal in texture but seems limp and lifeless. Volumizing hair masques should usually be used every week for daily shampooers or every 5-6 shampoos for those who don't shampoo every day.


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UK Intelligence Agencies Are Planning a Major Increase in 'Large-Scale Data Hacking'
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Intelligence agencies are preparing to "significantly increase their use of large-scale data hacking," the Guardian reported on Saturday, in a move that is already alarming privacy advocates.
According to the Guardian, UK intelligence officials plan to increase their use of the "bulk equipment interference (EI) regime" – the process by which the Government Communications Headquarters, the UK's top signals intelligence and cybersecurity agency, collects bulk data off foreign communications networks – because they say targeted collection is no longer enough. The paper wrote:
A letter from the security minister, Ben Wallace, to the head of the intelligence and security committee, Dominic Grieve, quietly filed in the House of Commons library last week, states: "Following a review of current operational and technical realities, GCHQ have … determined that it will be necessary to conduct a higher proportion of ongoing overseas focused operational activity using the bulk EI regime than was originally envisaged."
The paper noted that during the passage of the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, which expanded hacking powers available to police and intelligence services including bulk data collection for the latter, independent terrorism legislation reviewer Lord David Anderson asserted that bulk powers are "likely to be only sparingly used." As the Guardian noted, just two years later, UK intelligence officials are claiming this is no longer the case due to growing use of encryption:
... The intelligence services claim that the widespread use of encryption means that targeted hacking exercises are no longer effective and so more large-scale hacks are becoming necessary. Anderson's review noted that the top 40 online activities relevant to MI5's intelligence operations are now encrypted.
"The bulk equipment interference power permits intelligence services to hack at scale by allowing a single warrant to cover entire classes of property, persons or conduct," Scarlet Kim, a legal officer at UK civil liberties group Liberty International, told the paper. "It also gives nearly unfettered powers to the intelligence services to decide who and when to hack."
Liberty also took issue with the intelligence agencies' 180 on how often the bulk powers would be used, as well as with policies that only allow the investigatory powers commissioner to gauge the impact of a warrant after the hacking is over and done with.
"The fact that you have the review only after the privacy has been infringed upon demonstrates how worrying this situation is," Liberty policy and campaigns officer Hannah Couchman told the Guardian. One possibility, she said, is that GCHQ will use their expanded surveillance powers to obtain information overseas that they can then trade for intel on UK citizens.
Liberty was one of the groups that challenged the 2016 law in court, securing a ruling in April 2018 that said the act was incompatible with European Union law because it did not limit access to retained data to investigations of "serious crime" and did not require prior independent review. Per Computer Weekly, changes made to the Investigatory Powers Act made after the ruling included expanding the minimum sentence required to qualify as a serious crime from six to 12 months. Liberty also secured a more recent ruling that gave it a right to judicial review of parts of the act that give government agencies the power to "collect electronic communications and records of internet use, in bulk, without reason for suspicion," Computer Weekly added.
The European Court of Human Rights also ruled in September 2018 that the UK's bulk interception techniques did not include proper safeguards against abuse and that its methods of obtaining data from service providers violated the EU law on the right to privacy, the Register reported, though it left intact an intelligence-sharing program with other governments. That ruling only applied to bulk surveillance methods used prior to the passage of the 2016 law. But it also stemmed from leaked U.S. intelligence documents from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that showed GCHQ was intercepting and storing communications from millions of people, many of whom were not valid intelligence targets.
"Under the guise of counter-terrorism, the UK has adopted the most authoritarian surveillance regime of any Western state, corroding democracy itself and the rights of the British public," Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch told the Register. "... Since the new Investigatory Powers Act arguably poses an ever greater threat to civil liberties, our work is far from over."
In a statement to the Guardian, a government spokesman wrote:
The evolution of GCHQ's position with regards to the authorisation of equipment interference operations does not increase investigative activity. Rather, it reflects that due to rapid changes in technology and the communications environment since the Investigatory Powers Act was taken through Parliament, a higher proportion of that activity would be more appropriately authorised under the bulk equipment interference regime, which includes additional controls and safeguards
Equipment interference is subject to the world-leading oversight of the investigatory powers commissioner and any bulk equipment interference warrant must be approved by an independent judicial commissioner before it can be issued.
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Greening an Icon: The Empire State Building
Alex Padalka
An Economic Approach to Retrofits
When the owners of the Empire State Building in 2007 decided to move forward with a new capital improvement plan, they were looking for standard improvements to get the building to Class A commercial status. At the time they were looking at traditional, "common sense" improvements, such as bringing the 25% to 30% of the building lacking air conditioning some thermal control.
The Empire State Building retrofit was selected by the Clinton Climate Initiative as the first, symbollic project for its retrofit division. CCI is now partner in more than 250 retrofits in 20 cities across the world (top). The team behind the Empire State Building's $500 million retrofit program is seeking LEED Gold certification for existing buildings. The project is expected to create $4.4 million in energy savings, annually (above).
Meanwhile, the Clinton Climate Initiative, which had just launched its operations in New York, was looking for an iconic project to announce its retrofit division to the rest of the world.
"One of our staff members was a family friend of the Malkins, owners of the Empire State Building," says Kathy Baczko, city director of New York's chapter of CCI. The Malcolm family owned 16 pre-war buildings and offered one of them to CCI as its kickoff project. "But [Jamie Russell, the CCI senior director] said, 'Let's do something more than a building on Broadway. Let's do the Empire State building.' It was serendipity."
CCI, in conjunction with Johnson Controls, Jones Lang LaSalle, and the Rocky Mountain Institute, did an eight-month modeling and projections analysis, tacked on $13.2 million for a greening initiative and came up with a way to reduce the 79-year-old building's electricity needs by almost 40 percent – saving the owners $4.4 million, annually. Then they released the model of the entire process, "a total record of everything," as Baczko describes it, to anyone who wants to follow it, right on www.esbsustainability.com.
The Economic Model
The marriage of greening the environment on the one hand and financial incentives to would-be polluters on the other goes back decades. In its most insincere form, it's greenwashing: touting environmental credentials, like bicycle racks, floor-to-ceiling windows, and sustainably-harvested floors – that nonetheless require CO2-emitting airplanes for transport – to attract tenants at premium prices; or boasting of LEED certification that came at the cost of not much more than doing the paperwork. At its purest form, using economics to push for greener alternatives has allowed the do-gooders to communicate in a language that capital understands.
In practice, the revolutionary green projects in New York, such as the New York Times tower and the Bank of America building at One Bryant Park, went beyond the call of duty or LEED points to analyze every possible option in reducing energy costs. The Times building team spent a year analyzing sun movement to perfect the combination of heat-deflecting ceramic rods and window types for optimal heating and cooling. Similarly, the Bank of America team tested wind turbines for a year to see if they would generate enough electricity and experimented with photovoltaics, before settling on even more effective methods of cutting down on energy use. Both are iconic projects, having pushed the envelope at significant research and development costs that others still try to replicate.
The key difference between these earlier projects and what's happening at the Empire State Building is precisely that – cost. Experts interviewed for this magazine as late as 2008 have cited discrepancies in LEED points, fluctuating materials costs, and other factors for the lack of consensus among them on how much exactly it actually costs to build green. To that end, the Empire State Building team started with the numbers.
"The skeleton of this was that we first looked at the plans for the building – capital plans, occupancy plans, marketing plans, to firmly see the business," says Paul Rode, executive project manager for Johnson Controls. "Second, we needed to understand the building at a mechanical and architectural level – touching, drawing, researching what's there. The next phase was inspired by RMI – now that we know what the building is, what can we do to it to make it more efficient?"
The Empire State Building's retrofit press releases do not sugarcoat what the team set out to achieve. The releases tout a, "commercially-attractive retrofit," and "a significant return on investment, both environmentally and financially." The overall upgrade program will cost $500 million by the time it's completed in 2013. The $4.4 million in annual energy savings will be the result of an incremental cost of $13.2 million on top of that. The payback on that increment occurs in 3.1 years. The other payback is the expected LEED Gold for Existing Buildings.
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Hamilton, Montana
Starting stipends range from $62,000 to $68,000 per year, depending on experience
Life Sciences, Genomics
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A postdoctoral fellowship position is available in the Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases in the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, located at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, MT. This section uses in vivo and in vitro models to study mechanisms of viral pathogenesis in the central nervous system, with a focus on the interactions between the immune and nervous systems that regulate neuronal damage. We utilize cell culture, human cerebral organoid and animal models to investigate mechanisms of neuroinvasion, neuronal damage, immune regulation of infection and identification of antiviral drugs. Our studies primarily focus on the California serogroup of Orthobunyaviruses, including La Crosse virus and Jamestown Canyon virus, but also utilize other encephalitic viruses, including Zika, West Nile, and herpes simplex, to study these processes. More information on our research can be found at www.niaid.nih.gov/research/karin-e-peterson-phd.
RML offers state-of-the-art facilities for genomics, proteomics, DNA microarray, flow cytometry, and multiple biological imaging modalities including an internationally recognized electron microscopy core. The laboratory is located in the scenic Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, with easy access to some of the finest outdoor recreational opportunities in North America.
Starting stipends range from $62,000 to $68,000 per year, depending on experience, and health benefits are provided. Preference will be given to those candidates with experience and a background in molecular pathogenesis and animal models of infection.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D., D.V.M., or M.D. Please send curriculum vitae and three letters of reference to the following contact:
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Public meeting to counter Croydon anti-Islam protest
Posted on July 5, 2013 by Bob Pitt
An academy is to host a public meeting to counter an anti-Islam demonstration in Croydon later this month. Oasis Academy Shirley Park in Ashburton will hold a roundtable event on Thursday July 11 for locals to publicly reject the protest by the English Volunteer Force (EVF).
The EVF, an English Defence League splinter group, is to stage a rally at the UK Border Agency's Lunar House headquarters on July 27. The group says it is protesting "Islamic, African and east European immigrants," who it claims "suck and bleed our country dry". Oasis's meeting, which will be held at its the primary academy building in Long Lane, will invite community groups and local residents to respond to the EVF and celebrate the diversity of Croydon. The meeting, hosted by Oasis founder Steve Chalke, will run from 7pm to 11pm.
Mr Chalke, who is from Croydon, said: "Freedom of speech is an important part of life in Britain, but it is clear that the EVF is in no way attempting to make a positive contribution to debate or dialogue. Instead, this protest is destined to spark fear and intimidation in Croydon's communities and damage the borough's reputation as a place of happy diversity and tolerance. We encourage people to attend our public meeting and make a clear statement that this protest is not in their name."
Glen Denham, principal of Oasis Academy Shirley Park, said: "Our academy strives to be an active and positive member of its community and that means taking a stand against hatred in whatever form it manifests. Given that I lead a diverse school with many Islamic students amongst our number, I feel an extra responsibility to unambiguously proclaim that the sentiments held by these protesters could not be more distant form the values and ethos of Oasis."
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December's fast approaching which means 'tis (almost) the season to be jolly, and indulge in some seriously tasty treats. If you're thinking of going to a Christmas Market this year, prepare for temptation at every turn. Nothing compares to the scents you'll find there, from smoky German sausages and buttery waffles to rich, fragrant mulled wine. If you're a self-confessed foodie like me, knowing where to start might seem impossible. But don't worry, I've pulled out a few of my Christmas Market food favourites and listed them all below. Whether you've got a sweet tooth or a savoury craving, you'll definitely find something to kick-start your appetite and capture your imagination.
No trip to a Berlin Christmas market is complete without getting stuck in to their famous sausage selection. Whether you're into pork, beef or veal, you'll find plenty throughout the stalls, sizzling in their 'schwenkgrill' cages that hang from the ceiling. Don't miss out on Germany's famous 'currywurst'; chunks of bratwurst served with spicy ketchup, with 'frites' (chips) on the side or a baguette to soak up all the sauce.
As a kid, one of my favourite things to see around the Christmas Markets were the gingerbread houses. They're the image of Christmas, and I couldn't think of anything better than dunking some buttery, spicy biscuit into a cuppa on a cold day. They're also a great stocking filler, and at some markets you can get them customised with someone special's name: the perfect piece of Christmas to bring home.
Now, if you want to taste some proper hot chocolate, there's only one place to go to: Bruges. Belgium's the chocolate capital of the world, so if you head here on a Christmas Market break you can drink the stuff by the gallon! Forget the instant powder we have at home. Here, you'll be able to enjoy rich chocolate pieces melted into hot, creamy milk: a great choice for kids, or simply if you're not fond of mulled wine.
Thinking of heading to Hungary around Christmas time? I went to Budapest in March and couldn't help but treat myself to generous servings of goulash on those chilly evenings. If you head to a Budapest Christmas Market, you can really push the boat out with goulash served in a hollow bread bowl. Tender meat, sweet vegetables and fresh, crusty bread: I can't think of a better meal after a long day wandering around the stalls.
The undefeated winter warmer amongst all the Christmas Market food and drink has to be mulled wine. Known as 'Glühwein' in Germany, (roughly translated to as 'glowing wine') you're sure to have some rosy cheeks after a couple of glasses! Infused with cinnamon, citrus fruits and spices, it's the perfect way to warm up on a fresh December day. If you love the flavours but want to pass on the booze, don't worry, there are plenty of non-alcoholic versions bursting with juicy berries and cherries.
If you've got an incurable sweet tooth like me, you know it only gets harder to resist sugary treats at Christmas time. And what better way to curb your craving than a warm, buttery waffle? When it comes to waffles, the Belgians do it best, but you'll be able to find them at nearly every Christmas Market. Fresh fruit, melted Nutella or festive cinnamon icing; what'll be your topping of choice?
So there you have it, my top Christmas Market foodie picks. Which one can't you wait to try this winter? If you haven't decided which Christmas Market to visit yet, pop instore to speak to one of our travel experts who'll help you choose the perfect one for you.


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Visitor center: Wed.-Sun., 10 am-4 pm
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Seacliff State Beach stretches for nearly a mile along the northern end of Monterey Bay in the town of Aptos, connecting to New Brighton State Beach to the north. People come here to swim, picnic, visit the interpretive center, and fish off the accessible pier. From the pier you can view a historic ship, built of concrete, that lies offshore. The freighter SS Palo Alto was built late in World War I and never saw service. In 1930 the Seacliff Amusement Corporation had it towed to this beach and scuttled offshore, to be converted into an amusement center. The 500-foot pier was built to connect it to the shore, enabling visitors to come aboard, dine at the Fish Palace restaurant, and dance in the Rainbow Ballroom. The company went bankrupt after only two seasons, and the Palo Alto is now closed for safety reasons.
A paved promenade travels the length of the beach, and sea lions and other marine mammals are often seen offshore. At the south end, just before Aptos Creek and Rio Sands Beach, a steep ramp leads to the beach.
Visitor center: The small visitor center, near the pier, has an aquarium, a touch tank with local marine life, a fossil collection, interpretive displays of local birds and weather, and a history of the concrete ship. The entrance has a steep sloped threshold.
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Trail:
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Visitor center or Rio Sands Beach
Trail Length:
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Trail Overview: During my visit in October the slightly raised promenade, which runs between the beach and bluff, was busy with local residents walking their dogs. A wood rail fence somewhat obscures views from a seated position, but you can still see the sweep of Monterey Bay.
Start at the visitor center and head south to reach the picnic area and most visited section of beach. The trail ends at Rio Sands Beach and the town of Rio Del Mar, where there are several restaurants that are easily reached. Unless you want the exercise, it's not worthwhile to continue north of the visitor center, where the trail runs next to the RV campground--essentially a parking lot. Look for migrating California gray whales from December to early February.
The facilities listed below meet all of our access criteria unless otherwise noted.
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Yes – designated accessible parking, van accessible, hard, level or slope no greater than 2%;
Fee lots are at park entrance atop cliff (steep sidewalk to beach) and at foot of cliff, close to beach. Free parking at corner of Beach Drive and Aptos Beach Drive.
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Yes – At various locations throughout park, and at foot of Aptos Beach Drive
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Yes – Pick up at campground host site; must leave your ID and return wheelchair at sunset. No reservations accepted.
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Yes – firm & stable path to tables, firm & stable surface, 27" or greater knee clearance; At south end of visitor center, on hard-packed grass or gravel
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Linux Driver Project gets big backing
Written by Gizmo
In January of this year, Greg Kroah spear-headed the creation of a project to build drivers for Linux . The proposition was simple: companies could come to the project, provide the technical specs, and the project would build the drivers for Linux. All the company had to do was provide the necessary info; the project would provide all the necessary resources to actually write and maintain the drivers. The project members were even willing to sign NDAs as necessary, provided that the end result would a GPL compatible driver.
Unfortunately, in Greg's own words "I never expected it to be so popular". Both companies and volunteers poured out of the wood-work, and Greg found himself swamped between the demands of his day job working for Novell, his hobby of writing Linux drivers, and the demands of the kernel driver project.
He had to make a choice, and the project got the short end of the stick. That has now changed.
Novell have seen the value of Greg's work and decided to sponsor him to wrangle this project full time. As a consequence, we should begin seeing additional drivers becoming available for Linux, hopefully rather rapidly. If you are interested in or wish to participate in this project, visit the Linux Driver Project web site .
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Koi's Delta 8 Lemon Runtz Vape Cartridge has approximately 860mg of Delta 8 THC sourced from hemp. The vape oil in this tank also consists of terpenes inspired by the sweet and mouth-puckering strain, Lemon Runtz. But, besides the obvious lemony flavors, you'd expect from the name, the terpene profile also offers notes of pine, lavender, and sweet, sticky molasses. With each inhale and exhale, your taste buds get to basque in the glory of these divine and incredible tastes and aromas. Also, it couldn't be any easier to use this product. You simply twist the cartridge onto a 510 battery and inhale from the mouthpiece.
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This Delta 8 vape cartridge by Koi has some knock-out qualities, with all the good stuff you'd hope to get in a vape cart. So, that means it has a strong potency that can produce some strong effects. And it has a stellar terpene profile as well. The terpenes come from botanical sources, yet they're the same type of terps found in the Lemon Runtz cannabis strain.
As such, this cart vapor has a zesty lemon flavor, along with the sweetness of candy, followed up by some complimentary notes of lavender and pine. This combination makes for one mouth-watering and refreshing treat. Perfect for a warm summer night, or a cold winter day, whenever you're looking for a pick me up of effects and flavors.
The Delta 8 THC in this cartridge gets extracted from hemp plants and has a concentration of roughly 860mg. Although this cannabinoid isn't nearly as intoxicating as Delta 9 THC, it still produces a nice head and body buzz.
Also, to verify the potency of this product, an independent third-party lab runs a cannabinoid analysis to determine the amount of D8-THC. This is where the 86% or 860mg comes from. In other words, the test gives consumers reassurance that the dose of D8 on the product label is indeed correct.
Even more, this vape cart keeps it real and simple by not adding any cutting agents or additives into the product formula. These ingredients degrade the potency and dilute the flavors of the oil, so it was a no-brainer decision to leave them out.
Lastly, to get your toke on, attach this 510-threaded cart to a compatible battery and take a hit from the mouthpiece.
What is Delta 8 THC?
Cannabinoids are chemical compounds secreted from cannabis plants as resin. They have the ability to interact with our body's Endocannabinoid System (ECS). Delta 8 THC is a cannabinoid that occurs in much smaller concentrations than most other cannabinoids.
Delta 8 is an isomer that forms as Delta-9 THC ages and oxidizes. This process increases the stability of the Δ8 molecular structure so that it does not degrade as easily and lasts much longer over time.
Delta-8 THC and Delta 9-THC contain similarities in their molecular structure. Both contain double bonds, but D8 contains the bond on the 8th carbon chain and not on the 9th. For that reason, D8 and D9 THC react similarly within the Endocannabinoid receptors in the body as a result of their similar presentation of structure and properties.
D8 requires an intricate process of extraction, isolation, conversion, and refinement. With Δ8 there are benefits and effects to serve both medicinal and recreational consumers. Because D8 occurs in smaller concentrations, it's common to see it sold in the form of distillates or edibles.
The compound Δ8 legally derives from hemp and contains less than 0.3% Δ9-THC in accordance with the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the 2018 Farm Bill). Within the Bill, it states that all derivatives, isomers, and cannabinoids in hemp are federally legal provided that all final products contain less than 0.3% D9 THC.
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Report: Connected TV Devices See Record Holiday Sales
By Michael Balderston published 18 December 20
More than 111 million units expected to be sold in Q4
BOSTON—Connected TV devices are proving to be a popular gift this holiday season, as Strategy Analytics is reporting that global sales of CTV devices are expected to reach record heights, largely due to both the holidays and people recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to new research from Strategy Analytics, CTV device sales will surpass 111 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020, a 32% growth from the previous quarter and a 6% growth year-over-year. Game consoles are the fastest growing device (150% growth), per the report, with both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X hitting shelves this year. Meanwhile, media streamers will see a 42% growth in sales and smart TVs are projected to have a 9% growth.
Strategy Analytics projects that Amazon will be the leading vendor from these sales, with 12.8 million CTV devices sold. Samsung and Sony are expected to sell around 12 million each; LG and Nintendo about 7 million.
By the end of 2020, Strategy Analytics predicts that there will be 1.3 billion CTV devices in use worldwide.
"For many people, streaming video and TV are increasingly the default option when they switch on the big screen," said David Watkins, director, Connected Home Devices. "Smart TVs are fast becoming the first-choice gateway to the fast expanding world of video-on-demand and internet TV services, and streamers and consoles are a great choice for those who want to upgrade on existing TV."
The full Global Connected TV Device Vendor Market Share report is available on Strategy Analytics website.
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Citation: GUAN XUE LI (2009-06-23). Novel lipidomic approaches to analyse glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids in complex mixtures using mass spectrometry. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: The development of mass spectrometry (MS) has led to the realisation of a new level of sensitivity, resolution and throughput for simultaneous analysis of multicomponent lipid mixtures, generating a metabolic fingerprint containing quantitative as well as qualitative information on the system investigated. The availability of a wide range of genetic and chemogenetic libraries for various model organisms, including the budding yeast and fruit fly, offers unparalleled opportunities for genome-wide screens to discover and/ or characterise mutants involved in lipid metabolism, transport and turnover, and the revelation of novel lipid functions. A novel MS-based approach for comprehensive profiling of glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids in complex lipid mixtures was developed. The lipidomics approach is further combined with yeast and fly genetics to probe for novel enzymatic activities and modulators of known ones. This study provides evidence of an exquisite specificity of interactions between lipids in living cells that is critical for cellular functions.


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Champagne  er en historisk provins i det nordøstlige Frankrig og er bedst kendt som hjemsted for den boblende vin champagne. Provinsen blev grundlagt i 1065 omkring byen Provins af områder fra det middelalderlig kongerige Austrasien.

Frankrigs tidligere provinser

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#ifndef TORI_DAEMON_H
#define TORI_DAEMON_H

#include <QtKOAuth>
#include <QtDBus/QDBusConnection>
#include <QtCore/QObject>
#include "keyring/keyring.h"
#include "core/account_manager.h"
#include "core/account_manager_adaptor.h"

namespace tori
{

class ToriDaemon : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit ToriDaemon(QObject *parent = 0);

    void start();

private:
    bool startAccountManagerService();
private:
    QDBusConnection _conn;
    keyring::Keyring* _keyring;
    tori::core::AccountManager* _accManager;
    AccountManagerAdaptor* _accAdaptor;
    KQOAuthManager* _man;
};

} // tori
#endif // TORI_DAEMON_H

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Gorni Okol (Bulgaars: Горни Окол) is een dorp in het westen van Bulgarije. Het dorp is gelegen in de gemeente Samokov in de oblast Sofia. Het dorp ligt 30 km ten zuidwesten van de hoofdstad Sofia.

Bevolking
In de eerste volkstelling van 1934 registreerde het dorp 1363 inwoners. In 1946 bereikte het inwonersaantal een hoogtepunt met 1585 inwoners. Sindsdien loopt het inwonersaantal in een rap tempo terug. Op 31 december 2019 telde het dorp 182 inwoners.

Van de 197 inwoners reageerden er 195 op de optionele volkstelling van 2011. Bijna alle respondenten identificeerden zichzelf als etnische Bulgaren (193 personen, oftewel 99%). Twee respondenten waren ondefinieerbaar (1%).

Van de 197 inwoners in februari 2011 werden geteld, waren er 12 jonger dan 15 jaar oud (6%), gevolgd door 61 personen tussen de 15-64 jaar oud (31%) en 124 personen van 65 jaar of ouder (63%).

Plaats in de oblast Sofia
Samokov


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The RPG Scrollbars: The Choices Of A Samurai
Ronin in the deep
Feature by Richard Cobbett Contributor
You know, I'm not entirely sure that Way of the Samurai 4 [official site] is the most authentic historical game. Not sure what makes me think that. Possibly the British ambassador to Japan being a tiny girl in a Lolita dress. Maybe the stock dialogue option "I'm allowed to kill you if I want to." At a pinch, maybe the fact that the British Royal Marine Commander's name is "Melinda Megamelons". No, no, it's probably nothing. I'm sure you could use it for homework and walk off with an A.
But as well as being educational, it's the ideal candidate for an RPG cultural exchange - a pot of great ideas and potential cool things just sitting there for Western games to both play with and pilfer, and a refreshing change from the sprawling norm. If you don't mind your eyes sometimes rolling so hard that you get a quick peek inside your own skull. Ouch, that gets painful after a bit.
Specifically, I'm thinking of choice and scope. The basic gist of Way of the Samurai is that you show up as one of the aforementioned roving badasses, and pretty much everything after that is up to you. The world is small, a run through the main story doesn't take too long, but the point is that you're meant to keep going back to explore different options and try different things. That's not unique to the series of course. Japanese adventure-style games have a long history of that kind of design, from visual novels where your fate can change drastically based on whether you decided to do the washing up or the laundry (often with little real causal connection), to the likes of Princess Maker, where your decisions and variably pervy tutelage can lead to your adopted daughter becoming anything from a street magician to the King's concubine to ruling Hell as the Princess of Darkness. Which probably puts your school's stern warnings about your permanent record into perspective.
For Way of the Samurai 4, a glance at GameFAQs shows 10 different endings, as the result of lots of individual events over a three day period, plus a big stack of minigames and optional bits and pieces that the player may or may not get around to in a particular game, such as running a dojo and learning how to talk to foreigners. There's also a few things that carry over from game to game, like (and I'm quoting on this one, because I've not played it enough to see it in action) responding to a particularly murderous playthrough by adding more guards on the next cycle through.
It's a style I'd love to see tried by by more RPGs, which are always promising big choices but so rarely manage to make them more than a bullet-point. It's hard enough to get people to finish some 50 hour epic even once, with the classic response being to finish with usually the good ending and then head to YouTube to see the alternatives. Their scale usually precludes choices having real and lasting differences in the actual game, with the result that what we generally get is responsiveness rather than reactivity - by which I mean things like a character greeting you differently if you've already met or possibly refusing to help if you previously worked against them. So too does the fact that people don't on the whole like major content getting locked off and branching often has unfortunate knock-on effects. The Witcher 2 for instance was interesting in having a split second act, but in practice it meant that those who followed the Roche path missed a lot and it's kinda notable that The Witcher 3 didn't offer anything remotely as divergent.
By restricting the action to a small location and a small timeframe however, things get more interesting. There's much more scope for both a branching story and a more general experience - something along the lines of Baldur's Gate 2's second chapter writ large, as Shadowrun: Dragonfall tried. We've seen this in other games, such as The Yawhg, as well as in storylet driven stuff like Sunless Sea (disclosure: I write for that one, so I'm not saying anything else about it), but never really as the core of a Western RPG. By design, they're always sprawling affairs - horizontally, in that you travel around a huge amount of space, or vertically, descending into a particularly fiendish dungeon. Like much of the genre, that leaves a lot of interesting space left to explore, and in this case, some interesting options that wouldn't work in a larger game.
Time limits for instance don't work over a long experience where you're at risk of all your hard work simply going up in flames. In something short, as in Way of the Samurai 4, they can act more as a focusing crystal - the decision that on this run, you're going to try and do X, be it go for a specific achievement or try and reach a particular ending. This also allows for designers to be more organic about the nature of challenges on offer, from having a tournament that will kick your arse concave the first time you attempt to enter it (unlike literally every other RPG tournament around, where usually the only way to lose is to fall asleep at your computer and walk off mid-fight to have your dinner.)
The progression of time can also be interesting in other ways that often go unexplored. Lords of Midnight 3 for instance made a big deal out of the seasons changing along with your system clock, that being a much better sell than "Play my terrible sequel". Over in heathen consoleville, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask featured characters aware and reacting to their soon approaching death. Back in the land of the righteous, I've always been fond of occasional events, from World of Warcraft's Darkmoon Fair cropping up in your neighbourhood to Quest For Glory 2 having visitors crop up to the inn where you're staying on specific days. One of the best examples, albeit not in an RPG, is still Rockstar's Bully, or Canis Canem Edit as it ended up being renamed in the UK for reasons that were stupid before it came out and now seem positively impossible. The seasons changed as the terms ticked by, with Halloween getting a special whole celebration full of pranks and costumes.
I'm also still very fond of the original Dead Rising games, the zombie-bashing series with terrible bosses and a weird ignorance of how awesome it would be for them to be set in a Disneyworld type setting, and how time played into both the survival and the opportunities that you had - to mess around, to make cool things, to mark off specific achievements, be they assembling the best gear or joining the other survivors to while away some time playing Strip Poker in the safehouse. Dead State manages to get some of the same feel with its more sandbox approach to RPG, even if the original version (I've not played the update) did tend to trip over its ambition a bit too often.
Perhaps the most important thing that a restricted setting can offer though is consequence. Generally games have to handle this with a velvet glove for everyone's benefit - it's considered most impolite these days to allow the player to screw themselves over, and not without cause. The kind of hardcore RPG player that genuinely wants the chance of throwing away 30 hours of game on a mistake is tough enough to have their own entry on the Mohs scale. Even so, the chance of locking out content, the chance of screwing up, the chance of missing out on something big is usually sufficient prior restraint to have everyone choose the safest, most boring option at every possible point. Yes, of course I will return your cat. No, you don't need to pay me. Yes, I am the same guy who broke into your house and stole all your shit. Don't pretend you're programmed to notice.
Playing through Way of the Samurai though, I'm reminded of how much fun it is to be able to go crazy and do the options you secretly want to, knowing that it's not going to matter. Admittedly, sometimes it matters a little less than I'd like, from the way that nobody commented on my newly created hero walking through town with nothing but sweaty underwear on, or seemed to mind him murdering everyone at the British consulate. But still, I appreciate the chance. And I do like it when a game gives me that sense of being able to break the rules and simply try things. Playing Fallout: New Vegas for instance, I was thrilled to find that yes, you absolutely can go and murder Caesar early on like you probably want to. No immortality flag, no instant death response, just a corpse at my feet and a lot of people out in the wasteland going "Holy shit, you just totally did that!" It actually felt transgressive, like killing Lord British back in the day, despite both things openly being by design.
The RPG genre has largely flourished in recent years due to being willing to borrow so much from other genres. I'm certainly not saying they should all borrow this stuff, but it'd be interesting to see more try - for the worlds to be more than wallpaper for monster bashing and linear quests, and instead become playgrounds where content can ebb and flow and decisions ripple out in interesting ways and sometimes attract passing sharks. Or where murdering literally everyone can be an achievement worth hunting, or where it's no longer possible to become every important official in the entire world yet still have to take shit from random town guards. Elder Scrolls, I'm looking at you. No, not you Elder Scrolls Online. You go back to the naughty corner. Bad game. Bad!
The Way of the Samurai method certainly isn't the only way to explore this kind of thing, but it's once again an interesting example of how a different development culture can attempt to solve a problem and in the process come up with ideas worth borrowing - and perhaps worth merging with more common Western design concepts like roguelikes, storylets and D&D. For now though, I'm enjoying my trip to Japan for the sense of discovery that only jumping into an unfamiliar game can provide, and for the experience of wandering around stabbing people with a sword, of looking for fun options rather than simply right ones, and secretly hoping - just a little - that this is a more accurate game than it seemed and there really was a Royal Marine Commander called Melinda Megamelons.
(Checks Wikipedia)
History is such a spoilsport.
The RPG Scrollbars
Richard Cobbett


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Chronology of the war in Ukraine, from the Russian invasion to the delivery of Leopard tanks to Kyiv
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On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announces a "special military operation" to defend the pro-Russian separatist "republics" of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine after their independence has been recognized.
Putin claims "denazification" from the Ukrainian government and guarantees that the country will never join NATO.
The European Union (EU) announces the supply of arms to Ukraine, and Western countries begin to apply ever-tougher economic sanctions against Russia.
On March 3, the Russians capture the large city of Kherson (south).
The Russian army is trying to surround the capital Kyiv, but is met with fierce resistance.
Moscow then concentrates its offensive in the south. and in the Donbas basin, under the partial control of pro-Russian separatists since 2014.
After the Russians left the Kyiv region, dozens of bodies of civilians are found in Bucha and other nearby settlements. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching an investigation.
With the start of the offensive, the Russian army laid siege to Mariupol (southeast) – a strategic port on the shores of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov.
About 2,500 Ukrainian fighters, who sat in the Azovstal steel plant, along with a thousand civilians, held out until mid-May.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, the battle destroyed 90% of the city and claimed the lives of 20,000 people.
In May, Sweden and Finland, fearful of future Russian attacks, put forward their candidacy for membership in NATO.
On July 22, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to resume grain exports in an attempt to alleviate a global food crisis caused by a blockade of tons of grain in Ukrainian ports.
Russian gas exports to Europe are declining. Western countries accuse Russia of "arming" energy supplies in response to sanctions.
In early July, Russian troops are trying to capture Bakhmut in the Donetsk region with the support of the Wagner militia.
In early September, Ukrainian troops launched a surprise attack in the Kharkiv region and reported the capture of cities of great logistical importance, such as Izyum, Kupyansk and Liman (east).
Since the beginning of August, both belligerents have been accusing each other of bombing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (south), the largest in Europe, occupied by the Russians since March.
In September, Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia from the West, which he accuses of wanting to "destroy" his country.
On September 21, Putin announces a "partial mobilization" of combat-age Russians (300,000 reservists called up), prompting thousands of men to flee abroad.
On September 30, he ratifies the annexation to Russia of four Ukrainian regions – Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye – in which "referendums" were organized, which the people of Kiev and Westerners call "exercises."
October 8, an explosion occurred on the bridge connecting the Crimea with Russiawhich causes significant damage.
Putin blames the Ukrainian special services.
In response, Russian troops on October 10 carried out massive bombardments of cities throughout Ukraine, including Kyiv.
The attacks mainly target the energy infrastructure and leave millions of people without electricity.
November 11 Russian troops withdraw from the city of Kherson in the face of advancing Ukrainian troops.
On January 13, Moscow announced the capture of Soledad, a town near Bakhmut, which Russia had been trying to control for several months.
Wednesday, January 25 Kyiv finally admits that it has withdrawn from the city after "months of heavy fighting".
Also on January 25, German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz authorizes the shipment of Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, urging them to better defend against a Russian invasion.
Moscow calls the decision "extremely dangerous" and makes it clear that it will "bring the conflict to a new level of confrontation."
(According to AFP)
UEFA left the Russians the final of the European football cup
Western tanks will be a "fist" to break the defense line of the Russian Federation – Reznikov


Now, here's the time for tea. Yesss, I am a tea lover and I love coming home and chatting with my son with a mug filled with tea after a long day at work. And I immediately get charged for my evening household. Thanks to First Bud Organics for making my evenings super relaxing with the two awesome flavors Darjeeling Oolong classic green tea & Chamomile Green tea.
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Bring water to boil and let it cool down to 99℃.
Allow tea leaves to brew for 3-4 minutes according to taste.
Reuse tea leaves 1 to 2 more times.
Allow additional 30 seconds steeping time for every reuse.
It comes in a cylinder tin container with a lid that has inner plastic protection. Inside the container they have kept a tiny moisture absorbing pouch to assure that the tea doesn't attract any moisture from outside. Both the teas have come with same packaging.
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I am almost half of the box through and I am absolutely in love with this. As soon as you sip the tea your nose will be engulfed with an overload of sweet aroma and you will immediately refreshed. And the good thing is the overall aroma doesn't actually change whilst the tea brews. The brewed liquid is almost a dark brown in tone. One thing I like to suggest here leaving the tea leaves in to brew for as long as possible if you really want an intense flavor.
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Blend of chamomile flower, lemongrass and green tea leaves which revive the mind and provides instant relaxation.
Bring Water (200ml) to boil and let it cool down to 85 C, Add 2gm tea leaves (cover with lid) to brew for 2-3 minute according to taste. Tea leaves can be reused 1 more time.
Chamomile flower, green tea leaves and lemongrass.
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Revisiting the Surreal Films of Juraj Herz, a Pioneer of Czech Horror
On the anniversary of his passing, Herz's films remain the gold standard of what horror cinema can achieve.
by Soham Gadre April 8, 2020 April 8, 2020
Filmmaker Juraj Herz in 2015 (photo by Katerina Šulová, Czech News Agency [ČTK])
Two years ago today (April 8), Czech filmmaker Juraj Herz passed away. Yet as the major retrospectives held after his death in both New York and Washington DC —at the Metrograph and the AFI Silver, respectively — attest, the rediscovery of his films has come at an opportune time, just as what constitutes "horror" cinema is being challenged from many directions. Born just four years before the Nazi annexation of Czecheslovakia, Herz came to understand horror well before he started making films. He was forced into (and survived) the Ravensbruck concentration camp as a child, an experience which instilled themes of political gaslighting, claustrophobia, and surreal mind-torture into his unique brand of cinema. As an influential figure of the Czech New Wave, Herz's films were effective in the movement's goals of retaliating, artistically, against oppressive powers. On the anniversary of his passing, Herz's films remain the gold standard of what horror cinema can achieve.
Early films like The Cremator (1964) and Sign of Cancer (1966) brush the elements of horror onto social and political narratives. The Cremator displays Herz's most consciously stylistic editing, whereby cuts are cleverly used to form the illusion of traveling between time and space. Phenomenally crafted, the film creates a disorienting impression of its central character Karel Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrušínský) slowly but surely becoming radicalized by his German friend Walter Reinke, towards ethno-nationalism. The Cremator's discomfiting humor — think the Cheshire Cat, mixed with elements of Peter Lorre's performance in Fritz Lang's M (1931) — turns a satirical eye to the absurdity of nationalist rhetoric.
From The Cremator (1964), dir. Juraj Herz (image courtesy of (image courtesy of Central Office of Film Distribution – Czechoslovakia)
Morgiana (1972), arguably Herz's most famous film, along with Beauty and the Beast (1978) and Ferat Vampire (1982), comes closest to the Hollywood definition of "horror." Morgiana remains an influential pillar of gothic cinema, with its haunted houses with mirrors and cobwebs, its portraits of dead aristocrats, and strangely colored liquids in elaborate glassware — all now familiar tropes and perfect settings for death. Beauty and the Beast, a horror-fantasy re-telling of the classic French story, also draws on familiar symbols that we've since become accustomed to associating with fear, like foggy woods, an old painting, or a strange door. The film's brilliant use of light brings its central characters in and out of the shadows like two ghosts wandering an abandoned castle.
Meanwhile, Ferat Vampire steers closer to pulp and is the closest Czech parallel to the cinema of American horror icons Wes Craven and John Carpenter. Released only a year before Carpenter's influential Christine (1983), the movie centers on the manufacture of a car that runs on human blood. The pulpy and darkly comedic nature of the film evokes later Carpenter films like They Live (1988) and It Follows (2014), which splice their terror with socio-political messaging and pop-culture reverie.
From Beauty and the Beast (1979), dir. Juraj Herz (image courtesy of Barrandov Studios)
Yet, the definitive film of Juraj Herz's life and career and his ultimate masterpiece, is The Night Overtake Me (Zastihla Me Noc, 1986). A film filtered through Herz's own harrowing experience as the son of Slovakian Jews who spent part of his youth at a concentration camp, the movie reconciles the director's own style with the lived experiences that informed his fascination with horror and tragedy.
A historical and surrealist portrait of Holocaust survivor and Czech communist journalist Jožka Jabůrková, The Night Overtake Me utilizes a flashback structure that juxtaposes Jaburkova's experiences in a concentration-camp with her rise as a communist organizer and activist, incorporating clear elements of Herz's brand of horror. The film pierces Jabůrková's psyche with surreal sequences of her haunted by characters from her past. Tracking shots, much like in The Cremator, turn routine checks by SS officers into nerve-wracking sequences of terror. The film cuts back and forth between Nazi officers prowling through corridors like the raptors in Jurassic Park (1993) and close-ups of prisoners' eyes following them and then quickly looking away in fear. While not considered a traditional horror film, The Night Overtake Me is undeniably composed of the genre's elements.
For some, Herz's oeuvre may beg the question of whether horror needs to be bloody and carnal to be faithful to the genre. Yet it also proves that the genre's basic elements can both disrupt and corrupt our comforts, and that horror films need not be "scary" in the traditional sense as long as they're never prosaic. Juraj Herz's diverse repertoire is evidence that great horror cinema has endless experimental routes at its behest.
The Cremator (1969), dir. Juraj Herz, is available to stream on the Criterion Channel and Kanopy. Herz's The Junk Shop (1965) is also available to stream on the Criterion Channel.
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Tagged: Czech New Wave, horror movies, Juraj Herz, Reviews
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Misconception: A view or opinion that is incorrect based on faulty thinking or understanding.
The lessons have been designed such that each of these misconceptions will be debunked based upon what students will be learning and class and what they will be doing in their labs and activities.
1. Taxonomy is only a small discipline in biology and is not really important.
Taxonomy is fundamental when exploring Earth's species and when considering biodiversity.
Throughout the unit students should be able to see the practicality of having organisms in organized groups, which make sit easy to not only find organisms, but to see how organisms are related to one another, and how to determine the name of a species.
Particularly, the Scientific Name of a species is important because it allows scientists from around the world to communicate effectively with one another about the same species. For this, an example can be given how different languages make it difficult to determine which organism a scientist is referring to if they are using the Common Name in different languages, or even how the Common Name of a species can be different depending upon which region the person originates from.
2. Organisms are only classified by physiological features such as form and function.
Taxonomy uses high-technology, and considers DNA and proteins to classify relationships between organisms.
During the second lesson, of Classification, Taxonomy & Naming, the history of how we came to have our current form of classification will be review started with Aristotle, then Linneaus, and finally Woese. Students will discover how our classification system began very simply with plants and animals the only organisms considered, and how it grew more complex, until finally biomolecular processes and DNA are now considered when trying to classify organisms.
3. Taxonomy is old and out of date.
Taxonomy has been integrating new technologies that have since led to the discovery of new characters and improved old ones.
This statement can be addressed in similar manner to the previous statement, where it can be shown how DNA, proteins, and molecular processes are now considered.
4. There are only large organisms like plants and animals in the domain Eukarya.
The Kingdom Protists in the domain Eukarya, are all single-celled organisms.
When the features of the Kingdom Protista are covered, there will be many examples such as paramecium and amoebas that students will be able to discover.
5. The Kingdom Animalia only has organisms that are vertebrates.
The Kingdom Animalia also contain invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, worms, starfish, and insects.
It should be ensured that when this Kingdom is covered, that the pictures that students are able to look at, include not just the vertebrates that students generally think of (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish), but also of the organisms that they generally do not immediately consider when one things of animals.
Try to include not just land invertebrates, but the marine ones as well, which are generally unusual to students.
6. Yeast are bacteria.
Yeast are part of the Kingdom Fungi.
The lesson on Fungi should be conducted after the lesson on Bacteria, and students will be able to compare the similarities and differences between the two kingdoms.
There is also a lab planned where students will be able to determine the optimal growing conditions for yeast using cold water, warm water, and hot water.
7. Fungi are plants.
Fungi are actually more similar to animals than plants. Fungi are consumers like animals, they cannot make their own food like plants which are producers. In order to eat, fungi release enzymes to the environment that decompose dead and dying organisms and absorbing those nutrients.
8. All fungi are beneficial. Or all fungi are detrimental and cause disease.
Students can be confused with either extreme when considering fungi. Either they believe that all are beneficial since fungi can be useful in baking, brewing, as food, or as sources for drugs and antibiotics. The opposite may be that students believe that they all have detrimental effects such as food spoilage and house mold, or by causing diseases such as yeast infections, rusts, and smuts.
It is important that students realize that there are some fungi that are beneficial, while others can have detrimental effects, and that it greatly depends on which type of fungi is being considered and under which conditions.
Examples of beneficial and detrimental effects of fungi should be given throughout the lesson.
9. All bacteria cause disease.
Most bacteria do not cause disease and actually cannot cause disease.
Many species actually play a beneficial role by producing antibiotics and food. Other bacteria play an essential role in the environment in regards to cycles of matter, particularly nitrogen fixation in the nitrogen cycle. Our bodies also contain a lot of different types of bacteria that help us function such as the bacteria that can be found in our digestive system, or the bacteria in our pro-biotic yogurt.
10. Archaea can only be found in "extreme" environments.
Initially these organisms where seen as extremophiles, only living in harsh conditions such as hot spring, salt lakes, etc.
Recently they have been found in a number of other habitats such as oceans, soils, marshlands, and the human colon and navel.
11. Archaea are bacteria.
These organisms were originally classified with bacteria due to their similarities in size and shape and were named Archaebacteria. However, recently they have been given their own domain apart from bacteria, as they have an independent evolutionary history and have many differences from bacteria in terms of their biochemistry.
They seem to be more closely related to the domain Eukarya, than to the domain Bacteria.


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Core Scientific to go public and its latest funding
Rohit Yadav July 25, 2021
MarketsNewsTechTrending
Core Scientific, one of North America's top crypto miners, is going public via a SPAC merger, valued at $4.3 billion, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
About Core Scientific
Core Scientific is one of the leading suppliers of blockchain infrastructure, hosting, and mining operations in North America, with offices in North Dakota, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky. Core will join the ranks of other publicly listed Bitcoin mining firms in the United States, such as Marathon Digital and Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ:RIOT), as a result of the SPAC acquisition and subsequent NASDAQ listing.
(Source: Core Scientific)
The mining company will combine with Power and Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Company, a BlackRock-backed company. Following the merger, the merged firm will trade on the Nasdaq under the name Core Scientific.
Core Scientific is North America's biggest host of bitcoin mining equipment.
Core Scientific maintains four sites in the United States where it runs its own mining operations and rents out bitcoin and other digital asset mining equipment to clients. Through the use of clean energy inputs and the purchase of renewable energy credits, the firm claims to be carbon-neutral.
The revenues from the SPAC transaction will be used to acquire mining equipment and expand infrastructure.
In the first quarter of 2021, the company mined 755 bitcoins. Marathon Digital Holding, a publicly listed rival, created 196 new bitcoins within the same time period. Core Scientific also expects its four sites to have a total mining capacity of 510 megawatts by the end of the year.
Mike Levitt, the CEO of Core, stated in an interview that his firm has mined over 3,000 BTC and now has 1,683 BTC since the start of 2020.
SPAC Merger
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the merger is scheduled to be finalised. Power and Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Company's stock has risen as much as 2% since Tuesday's closing, just before the deal was announced.
Latest investment by Celsius of $54 million
Meanwhile, North American miners are hoping to profit from China's ongoing anti-crypto mining campaign in order to boost their crypto revenues in 2021. Core is aiming for an eight-fold rise in income in 2021, compared to the $60 million it generated in 2020.
Celsius, a cryptocurrency lender, announced on Friday that it has invested $54 million in bitcoin (BTC, +1.78%) miner Core Scientific.
According to Celsius, the money is part of the company's projected $200 million investment in bitcoin mining in North America. The investment, which took place in the second quarter, would make Celsius one of the major US investors in the bitcoin mining business, according to the company.
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How do you keep track of all the patterns without repeating yourself?
enumeration of the positions. See my message of 1 February 1981.
That's ``local maximum''. ``Maxima'' is the plural of ``maximum''.
maximum is a local maximum.
it, but it seems I haven't put it down anywhere. Are you interested?
access to the cube-lovers archives?
for the ordinary cube and for the supergroup.
Also what is an example of a local maxima close to the surface, e.g.
known local maxima are Pons Asinorum and the four-spot, both at 12 QT.
I know of no results between 8 and 11 QT.


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From the UWS to the UES: Leaving co-living for a place of one's own
By Kelly Kreth | May 14, 2021 - 9:30AM
After leaving her roommates behind, Diana Ramirez landed on the Upper East Side in another fifth-floor walkup. "The building doesn't have many amenities, but it is huge and newly renovated. I got a one-month concession," she says.
Diana Ramirez found her co-living situation convenient, but the lack of privacy and her one-hour commute was brutal after late nights at her job in the wine industry. Falling rents gave her an incentive to move to her own place, where she will soon welcome someone very special: Her young son, who is coming to live with her. Here's her story.
I am originally from the Philippines but came to New York City to get my master's degree at NYU. Most recently, I was living on the Upper West Side, a block away from Central Park West, for about four months.
I found the neighborhood beautiful and if I wanted a stroll by the park, I could be there in two minutes! The newish walk-up building I was living in had five floors and I lived on the third. My apartment was a three bedroom, and I shared it with two male roommates. My room fit a queen-sized bed, a big desk, and wardrobe that wasn't really big enough but I made do.
All amenities, including toilet paper, bi-weekly cleaning, paper towels, dish soap, were provided by the landlord because it was a co-living building—June Homes. My share of the rent was kind of hefty though—$1,500 plus a $25 fee for utilities. We had laundry in the unit and I did most of my shopping online. Because there was no doorman, packages were sometimes stolen.
I loved that the neighborhood was quiet and also surrounded by delis so grabbing a beer (or five) was very easy!
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My commute was the worst part of living there. I work on the Upper East Side in the wine and alcohol industry and commuting from the Upper West Side to 59th and Park Avenue might not sound far, but it was not easy. It was about 45 minutes by subway or I could walk from Columbus Avenue all the way to Central Park South and then head several avenues east.
Drinking is a huge part of my life and having late nights working and drinking would pose a problem for me in the morning. I dreaded having to travel for almost an hour (not to mention walk six blocks to get to the subway) and it became the bane of my existence. I was easily persuaded to move when I found out living on my own would only be a bit more expensive than what I was currently paying! Moving somewhere close to work—and without roommates— would be so worth it for more privacy and a shorter commute!
So, this spring I decided to take the plunge. It was scary, I have to admit. Since I'm not from NYC and not familiar with many neighborhoods, I didn't know how to find a nice place, nice area, and a nice school district for my son, who will be coming this summer from the Philippines. I asked people I met, "Hey, is this street good?" I saw about 20-30 apartments and every single one had something I didn't like. After a handful, it made me realize if I wanted one thing, I would have to sacrifice something else. Such is life in NYC!
I initially looked on Craigslist and RentHop, which both had similar listings. Then I found agent Antoine Amira, an agent at BOND New York. What I adored about Antoine (besides the fact that we both speak French), was that he cared. And he was the only agent I met who actually listen to me. I found most agents just wanted to sell. Because of the pandemic, buildings were getting emptier every day, and he really took into consideration what I liked and what I needed.
I told him I wanted something I could afford ($1,200-$1,800), new or at least sort of new, a one bedroom with a huge living room. I was hoping not to have a walk-up, but a walk-up was better than living on the first floor with all that noise! I was hoping to get laundry in the unit but even that is a luxury I could forgo.
I ended up at on East 91st Street on the Upper East Side in another fifth-floor walkup. The building doesn't have many amenities, but it is huge and newly renovated. I got a one-month concession. The gross rent is $1,700 with one month free, so the net rent is $1,558.33. The landlord allows new tenants to pay the net rent the first year.
The biggest stressor was having to furnish the whole thing! My previous apartment was fully furnished. I didn't have to worry about furniture assembly and which sofa to get or when I will get real plates instead of using paper ones. Living was a lot more convenient back in my old co-living apartment, but the privacy I have now is unbeatable. Living with roommates could be fun at some point, and then you realize that someone's been drinking your orange juice, and someone didn't clean the pans you would like to use. Or you end up taking out the trash even if you barely stay home.
This area where I live now has more bars and restaurants than my previous apartment so they are fun to try out now that things are opening back up.
Key Foods is just around the corner, so grocery shopping isn't so bad. My only concern is I cannot buy a lot of groceries at a time because of the walk-up. Laundry is just outside the building downstairs; even though we don't have in it the actual building, it's still convenient. I absolutely love Wondee Siam—they have the best Pad Krapaw Moo Sub. I also love Nobu and Jean-Georges, which is easy to get to from where I live now.
Making friends in the new neighborhood, especially without roommates, is not easy. I am vaccinated, but others aren't. So, I am still skeptical about meeting new people. There are some bars that are poppin' though so that's good and I feel this summer it will be easier to be social.
I am so happy I decided to forgo a co-living situation and get my own place. My new place is located right across the street from a good public school so when my son comes, I will have a very short commute to bring him to school. My son is turning five in August and will begin kindergarten, so that was a major reason why I chose this building. Everything has come together so nicely and I absolutely plan on staying in NYC now that my commute is a dream.
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