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Apprentice Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

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Senior Tactical Systems Analyst NAVAIR Product De

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AP Mechanic

Anchorage, AK United States - Please reference Avjobs when applying for this position. Alaska Central Express, Inc. located in Anchorage Alaska is seeking Certified A&P mechanics to join our Team in keeping our fleet of 20 B1900C aircraft flying and safe. Offering a Competitive Wage, Healt... View




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CH47 RAMS Instructor Maintenance Training Mechanical Trade B13

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Driver dies after crashing on hurricane-damaged highway in North Carolina




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Travis Kelce's and Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Homes Burglarized Within 48 Hours of Each Other




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Iran executes in public a serial rapist convicted in dozens of cases




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Driver jumps from overpass into Trinity River after crash on I-35 in Fort Worth, causing heavy traffic




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Trump transition official warns Justice Dept staff against 'resistance'




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China reveals Mach 7 hypersonic weapon design that can deploy missiles, drones




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Names of lynching victims painted on sign of new Publix under construction in Newberry




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U.S. serviceman finally laid to rest, more than 50 years after being killed in Vietnam




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See it: Vehicle falls into North Carolina gorge after driver disregards I-40 closure following Helene




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Former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledges the...

Former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledges the Assyrian Genocide



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The Day(s) that Turkish President Erdogan Humiliated America

The Day(s) that Turkish President Erdogan Humiliated America



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Victorian leaders urged to recognise Greek, Assyrian, and Ar...

Victorian leaders urged to recognise Greek, Assyrian, and Armenian Genocides



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COP29 - Azerbaijan - Should a Climate-Destroying Dictatorshi...

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Speaki - Voice Notifications

Description: 

Features:
+ Smart - trying and learning to read only the relevant text from your notification. + Selection - select which apps would you like Speaki to read aloud. + Speak Output - protect your privacy and control when Speaki should read. + Read content - read aloud full notification content (beside title and summary). + Caller ID - speak caller ID on incoming call. (For Android 8.1 and below) + Stop - stop Speaki from reading by shaking your device, double pressing the power key or by pressing the stop/play button on your headset. + No interruption during phone calls.
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Docs To Go™ Free Office Suite

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Work from anywhere: View, edit, and create Microsoft® Office files & view Adobe PDF® files on your Android smartphone and/or tablet with the original & #1 selling mobile Office suite of all time.
Docs To Go 4.0 contains best-in-class document viewing & editing at no charge. Options for connecting to multiple cloud storage accounts, desktop file sync, and opening password-protected files are available via in-app purchase.
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Voxist: Visual voicemail you can read

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Voxist is an intelligent voicemail that replaces your carrier’s inefficient voicemail. Impress callers with customized greetings and save time by reading transcribed voicemail messages. Access messages on your phone or via email, so you never miss out.

Voxist is a free voicemail app that’s really simple to navigate, so you can manage all of your business and personal voicemail efficiently. In a meeting? On the train? With another client? Read your voicemail instead of listening to it!

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A couple of features make this voicemail app stand above the rest. There is a play button next to each message, so there is no need to open a message to listen to it. Also, although voicemail greetings can be voice recordings, it is also possible to write the text of your voicemail greeting, which will be played for callers using a synthetic voice. This text can include name or phone number information from your contacts, so that everyone who is in your contact list can for example be greeted by name. This is not a call blocking app, nor does it do conferencing, voice chat or unified messaging. It is just a simple no-frills visual voicemail app that does its job well.

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Stratigraphy, facies and paleogeography of Mesozoic and Tertiary rocks of northern Yukon and northwest Mackenzie District, N.W.T. (NTS-107B, 106M, 117A, 116O (N1/2), 116I, 116H, 116J, 116K (E1/2))

Re-release; Jeletzky, J A. 1972, 72 pages (3 sheets), https://doi.org/10.4095/129163




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Surficial geology, Quyon, Quebec and Ontario 31F/9 E1/2

Re-release; Richard, S H. 1976, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/129465
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Regional stream sediment and water geochemical reconnaissance data, Yukon [NTS 115J, 115K (E1/2)]

Re-release; Geological Survey of Canada. 1987, 142 pages (25 sheets); 1 diskette/disquette, https://doi.org/10.4095/130284




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Regional stream sediment and water geochemical reconnaissance data, Yukon [NTS 115F(E1/2)]

Re-release; Geological Survey of Canada. 1987, 130 pages (25 sheets); 1 diskette/disquette, https://doi.org/10.4095/130283




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Regional stream sediment and water geochemical reconnaissance data, Yukon [NTS 115N (E1/2), 115O]

Re-release; Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development; Yukon Government. 1987, 146 pages (25 sheets); 1 diskette/disquette, https://doi.org/10.4095/130285
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Regional Stream Sediment and Water Geochemical Reconnaissance Data, New Brunswick [21o/8 [E1/2], 21p/5 [W1/2]

Re-release; Geological Survey of Canada. 1989, 60 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/130703




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Airborne gamma ray spectrometric maps, Prosperous Lake - Hidden Lake area, Northwest Territories [85i/12, J/9 [E1/2], parts of 85i/11, 5, 6, 13, 14, J/8]

Re-release; Geological Survey of Canada. 1989, 81 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/130681
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Yes, critical race theory is being taught in public schools

While we all debate what critical race theory is and whether lawmakers should ban it from public schools, every honest person should agree on one thing: This theory is behind the curricula in school districts all over the country, shaping the minds of unsuspecting, malleable children.




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Appreciating van Leeuwenhoek: The Cloth Merchant Who Discovered Microbes

Appreciating van Leeuwenhoek: The Cloth Merchant Who Discovered Microbes

Imagine trying to cope with a pandemic like COVID-19 in a world where microscopic life was unknown. Prior to the 17th century, people were limited by what they could see with their own two eyes. But then a Dutch cloth merchant changed everything.

His name was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and he lived from 1632 to 1723. Although untrained in science, Leeuwenhoek became the greatest lens-maker of his day, discovered microscopic life forms and is known today as the “father of microbiology.”

Visualizing ‘animalcules’ with a ‘small see-er’

Leeuwenhoek opened the door to a vast, previously unseen world. J. Verolje/Wellcome Collection, CC BY

Leeuwenhoek didn’t set out to identify microbes. Instead, he was trying to assess the quality of thread. He developed a method for making lenses by heating thin filaments of glass to make tiny spheres. His lenses were of such high quality he saw things no one else could.

This enabled him to train his microscope – literally, “small see-er” – on a new and largely unexpected realm: objects, including organisms, far too small to be seen by the naked eye. He was the first to visualize red blood cells, blood flow in capillaries and sperm.

Drawings from a Leeuwenhoek letter in 1683 illustrating human mouth bacteria. Huydang2910, CC BY-SA

Leeuwenhoek was also the first human being to see a bacterium – and the importance of this discovery for microbiology and medicine can hardly be overstated. Yet he was reluctant to publish his findings, due to his lack of formal education. Eventually, friends prevailed upon him to do so.

He wrote, “Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.” He was guided by his curiosity and joy in discovery, asserting “I’ve taken no notice of those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?”

When he reported visualizing “animalcules” (tiny animals) swimming in a drop of pond water, members of the scientific community questioned his reliability. After his findings were corroborated by reliable religious and scientific authorities, they were published, and in 1680 he was invited to join the Royal Society in London, then the world’s premier scientific body.

Leeuwenhoek was not the world’s only microscopist. In England, his contemporary Robert Hooke coined the term “cell” to describe the basic unit of life and published his “Micrographia,” featuring incredibly detailed images of insects and the like, which became the first scientific best-seller. Hooke, however, did not identify bacteria.

Despite Leuwenhoek’s prowess as a lens-maker, even he could not see viruses. They are about 1/100th the size of bacteria, much too small to be visualized by light microscopes, which because of the physics of light can magnify only thousands of times. Viruses weren’t visualized until 1931 with the invention of electron microscopes, which could magnify by the millions.

An image of the hepatitis virus courtesy of the electron microscope. E.H. Cook, Jr./CDC via Associated Press

A vast, previously unseen world

Leeuwenhoek and his successors opened up, by far, the largest realm of life. For example, all the bacteria on Earth outweigh humans by more than 1,100 times and outnumber us by an unimaginable margin. There is fossil evidence that bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth, dating back over 3 billion years, and today it is thought the planet houses about 5 nonillion (1 followed by 30 zeroes) bacteria.

Some species of bacteria cause diseases, such as cholera, syphilis and strep throat; while others, known as extremophiles, can survive at temperatures beyond the boiling and freezing points of water, from the upper reaches of the atmosphere to the deepest points of the oceans. Also, the number of harmless bacterial cells on and in our bodies likely outnumber the human ones.

Viruses, which include the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, outnumber bacteria by a factor of 100, meaning there are more of them on Earth than stars in the universe. They, too, are found everywhere, from the upper atmosphere to the ocean depths.

A visualization of the human rhinovirus 14, one of many viruses that cause the common cold. Protein spikes are colored white for clarity. Thomas Splettstoesser, CC BY-SA

Strangely, viruses probably do not qualify as living organisms. They can replicate only by infecting other organisms’ cells, where they hijack cellular systems to make copies of themselves, sometimes causing the death of the infected cell.

It is important to remember that microbes such as bacteria and viruses do far more than cause disease, and many are vital to life. For example, bacteria synthesize vitamin B12, without which most living organisms would not be able to make DNA.

Likewise, viruses cause diseases such as the common cold, influenza and COVID-19, but they also play a vital role in transferring genes between species, which helps to increase genetic diversity and propel evolution. Today researchers use viruses to treat diseases such as cancer.

Scientists’ understanding of microbes has progressed a long way since Leeuwenhoek, including the development of antibiotics against bacteria and vaccines against viruses including SARS-CoV-2.

But it was Leeuwenhoek who first opened people’s eyes to life’s vast microscopic realm, a discovery that continues to transform the world.

By Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

 

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Genetically Rescued Organism: Toward A Solution For Sudden Oak Death

Genetically Rescued Organism: Toward A Solution For Sudden Oak Death

Sudden oak death, caused by the pathogen Phythophthora ramorum, is one of the most ecologically devastating forest diseases in North America, responsible for the deaths of millions of oaks and tanoaks along the coast.

Science to the rescue? After the success of genetically modified organisms in things like insulin and food, a recent trend is Genetically Rescued Organisms. These GROs would use science to create natural resistance, like a vaccine for plants, and reduce the impact of altered species composition, released carbon pools, and greater fire risk the deaths bring.

Before that can happen, scientists need to better understand the basic biology of Phythophthora ramorum, including how well it sporulates on common plants.


Image by RegalShave from Pixabay

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, set out to investigate the sporulation potential of this pathogen on common California plant species. They collected leaves from 13 common plant hosts in the Big Sur-region and inoculated them with the causal pathogen. They found that most of the species produced spores, though there was a ride range, with bay laurel and tanoak producing significantly more sporangia than the other species. They also observed an inconsistent relationship between sporulation and lesion size, indicating that visual symptoms are not a reliable metric of sporulation potential.

 “Our study is the first to investigate the sporulation capacity on a wide range of common coastal California native plant species and with a large enough sample size to statistically distinguish between species," explained first author Dr. Lisa Rosenthal. "It largely confirms what was previously reported in observational field studies – that tanoak and bay laurel are the main drivers of sudden oak death infections—but also indicates that many other hosts are capable of producing spores.”

Citation: Lisa M. Rosenthal, Sebastian N. Fajardo, and David M. Rizzo, Sporulation Potential of Phytophthora ramorum Differs Among Common California Plant Species in the Big Sur Region, Plant Disease 17 Aug 2021 https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-03-20-0485-RE

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Terrifying the public about COVID or other health concerns is bad for their health

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VIP tickets available for Kingsmill Championship

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