of ZigZag Survey proves that customers can come round to the idea of paid returns By postandparcel.info Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:21:27 +0000 Returns specialist ZigZag has published the results of a survey which indicates that one-off fees for returns are preferable to price rises on items among consumers. Full Article E-Commerce Parcel Retail Sustainability
of New MD of Whistl Fulfillment to help grow the business By postandparcel.info Published On :: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:52:13 +0000 Whistl has announced that Fliss O’Hara has been appointed Managing Director of Whistl Fulfillment, after joining the business last year from GXO Logistics as Commercial Director, Fulfilment. Full Article E-Commerce Parcel Retail
of GLS “to offer SMEs greater visibility and growth opportunities” By postandparcel.info Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:11:05 +0000 Polish marketplace ERLI, has partnered with DPD Poland, expanding ERLI's Delivery Methods offer. Full Article E-Commerce Parcel Retail
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of Former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledges the... By www.atour.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:01:00 UT Former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledges the Assyrian Genocide Full Article Armenian Assyrian and Hellenic Genocide News
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of Path of Adventure - Text-based roguelike By www.inclusiveandroid.com Published On :: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 01:00:36 +0000 Description: Get ready to battle monsters, crawl dungeons and hoard treasures! The miles of challenge and mystery lie before you. Will you survive the legendary Path of Adventure? Text-based This is a game of words and choices. Take part in a fantasy narrative and decide how you want to act. Will you explore the ancient ruins? When to use magic? And what to buy from the merchant? Gameplay first But don’t let the text fool you—this is a true game! Inspired by both classic D&D and modern RPG’s, it features: - Turn-based combat - Procedurally generated dungeons...Free Or Paid: FreeCategory: GamesPlay Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keeweed.pathofadventure&hl=en_... Full Article
of Bituminous sands of northern Alberta Township 92 ranges 9.10 and E1/2 11 Township 93 ranges 9.10 and E1/2 11 By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca Published On :: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 EDT Re-release; Canada Mines Branch. 636, 1925, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/307817<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/cmb_636.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/cmb_636.jpg" title="636, 1925, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/307817" height="150" border="1" /></a> Full Article
of Geology of Terrace map-area, British Columbia (103 I E1/2) By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca Published On :: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:00:00 EDT Re-release; Duffell, S; Souther, J G. 329, 1964, 131 pages (3 sheets), https://doi.org/10.4095/100553 Full Article
of Precambrian geology of Hecla-carroll map area, Manitoba-ontario (62p E1/2, 52m W1/2) By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca Published On :: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00 EDT Re-release; Ermanovics, I F. 69-42, 1970, 33 pages (2 sheets), https://doi.org/10.4095/102301 Full Article
of 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)) By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca Published On :: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 EDT Re-release; Jeletzky, J A. 1972, 72 pages (3 sheets), https://doi.org/10.4095/129163 Full Article
of Geology of Fort Grahame E1/2 map-area, British Columbia By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca Published On :: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 EDT Re-release; Gabrielse, H. 75-33, 1975, 28 pages (2 sheets), https://doi.org/10.4095/102605 Full Article
of 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] By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca Published On :: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00:00 EDT Re-release; Geological Survey of Canada. 1989, 81 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/130681<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/of_1978.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/of_1978.jpg" title=" 1989, 81 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/130681" height="150" border="1" /></a> Full Article
of Anik-E1 and E2 satellite failures of January 1994 revisited By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca Published On :: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT Lam, H -L; Boteler, D H; Burlton, B; Evans, J. vol. 10, no. 10, S10003, 2012., https://doi.org/10.1029/2012SW000811 Full Article
of Biden's embrace of Saudi prince shows that his only principle was defeating Trump By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 04:00:47 GMT At this point, it may be fair to say President Joe Biden’s criticisms of his predecessor have nothing to do with principles. It was all politics, all the way down. Full Article
of Dr. Rochelle Walensky has made a mockery of the CDC By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:00:50 GMT It cannot be easy to lead the agency that handles infectious diseases in the midst of an international pandemic. Still, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should at least be able to prove she is up to the task. Dr. Rochelle Walensky has repeatedly proved herself unfit and unreliable. She needs to go. Full Article
of Living up to the promise of our declaration By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:00:47 GMT We date the beginning of our nation not from the first shots fired against the kingdom of Great Britain in Lexington and Concord in 1775 but from 1776, when delegates, elected by popular vote, issued the Declaration of Independence. In doing so, the United States of America recognizes that our legitimacy comes not from brute force but from the consent of the governed. Full Article
of The Biology Of Why Coronavirus Is So Deadly By scienceblogs.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:02:27 +0000 The Biology Of Why Coronavirus Is So Deadly COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Coronaviruses belong to a group of viruses that infect animals, from peacocks to whales. They’re named for the bulb-tipped spikes that project from the virus’s surface and give the appearance of a corona surrounding it. A coronavirus infection usually plays out one of two ways: as an infection in the lungs that includes some cases of what people would call the common cold, or as an infection in the gut that causes diarrhea. COVID-19 starts out in the lungs like the common cold coronaviruses, but then causes havoc with the immune system that can lead to long-term lung damage or death. SARS-CoV-2 is genetically very similar to other human respiratory coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. However, the subtle genetic differences translate to significant differences in how readily a coronavirus infects people and how it makes them sick. SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (pink dots) on a dying cell. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH SARS-CoV-2 has all the same genetic equipment as the original SARS-CoV, which caused a global outbreak in 2003, but with around 6,000 mutations sprinkled around in the usual places where coronaviruses change. Think whole milk versus skim milk. Compared to other human coronaviruses like MERS-CoV, which emerged in the Middle East in 2012, the new virus has customized versions of the same general equipment for invading cells and copying itself. However, SARS-CoV-2 has a totally different set of genes called accessories, which give this new virus a little advantage in specific situations. For example, MERS has a particular protein that shuts down a cell’s ability to sound the alarm about a viral intruder. SARS-CoV-2 has an unrelated gene with an as-yet unknown function in that position in its genome. Think cow milk versus almond milk. How the virus infects Every coronavirus infection starts with a virus particle, a spherical shell that protects a single long string of genetic material and inserts it into a human cell. The genetic material instructs the cell to make around 30 different parts of the virus, allowing the virus to reproduce. The cells that SARS-CoV-2 prefers to infect have a protein called ACE2 on the outside that is important for regulating blood pressure. The infection begins when the long spike proteins that protrude from the virus particle latch on to the cell’s ACE2 protein. From that point, the spike transforms, unfolding and refolding itself using coiled spring-like parts that start out buried at the core of the spike. The reconfigured spike hooks into the cell and crashes the virus particle and cell together. This forms a channel where the string of viral genetic material can snake its way into the unsuspecting cell. An illustration of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein shown from the side (left) and top. The protein latches onto human lung cells. 5-HT2AR/Wikimedia SARS-CoV-2 spreads from person to person by close contact. The Shincheonji Church outbreak in South Korea in February provides a good demonstration of how and how quickly SARS-CoV-2 spreads. It seems one or two people with the virus sat face to face very close to uninfected people for several minutes at a time in a crowded room. Within two weeks, several thousand people in the country were infected, and more than half of the infections at that point were attributable to the church. The outbreak got to a fast start because public health authorities were unaware of the potential outbreak and were not testing widely at that stage. Since then, authorities have worked hard and the number of new cases in South Korea has been falling steadily. How the virus makes people sick SARS-CoV-2 grows in type II lung cells, which secrete a soap-like substance that helps air slip deep into the lungs, and in cells lining the throat. As with SARS, most of the damage in COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, is caused by the immune system carrying out a scorched earth defense to stop the virus from spreading. Millions of cells from the immune system invade the infected lung tissue and cause massive amounts of damage in the process of cleaning out the virus and any infected cells. Each COVID-19 lesion ranges from the size of a grape to the size of a grapefruit. The challenge for health care workers treating patients is to support the body and keep the blood oxygenated while the lung is repairing itself. How SARS-CoV-2 infects, sickens and kills people SARS-CoV-2 has a sliding scale of severity. Patients under age 10 seem to clear the virus easily, most people under 40 seem to bounce back quickly, but older people suffer from increasingly severe COVID-19. The ACE2 protein that SARS-CoV-2 uses as a door to enter cells is also important for regulating blood pressure, and it does not do its job when the virus gets there first. This is one reason COVID-19 is more severe in people with high blood pressure. SARS-CoV-2 is more severe than seasonal influenza in part because it has many more ways to stop cells from calling out to the immune system for help. For example, one way that cells try to respond to infection is by making interferon, the alarm signaling protein. SARS-CoV-2 blocks this by a combination of camouflage, snipping off protein markers from the cell that serve as distress beacons and finally shredding any anti-viral instructions that the cell makes before they can be used. As a result, COVID-19 can fester for a month, causing a little damage each day, while most people get over a case of the flu in less than a week. At present, the transmission rate of SARS-CoV-2 is a little higher than that of the pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, but SARS-CoV-2 is at least 10 times as deadly. From the data that is available now, COVID-19 seems a lot like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), though it’s less likely than SARS to be severe. What isn’t known There are still many mysteries about this virus and coronaviruses in general – the nuances of how they cause disease, the way they interact with proteins inside the cell, the structure of the proteins that form new viruses and how some of the basic virus-copying machinery works. Another unknown is how COVID-19 will respond to changes in the seasons. The flu tends to follow cold weather, both in the northern and southern hemispheres. Some other human coronaviruses spread at a low level year-round, but then seem to peak in the spring. But nobody really knows for sure why these viruses vary with the seasons. What is amazing so far in this outbreak is all the good science that has come out so quickly. The research community learned about structures of the virus spike protein and the ACE2 protein with part of the spike protein attached just a little over a month after the genetic sequence became available. I spent my first 20 or so years working on coronaviruses without the benefit of either. This bodes well for better understanding, preventing and treating COVID-19. By Benjamin Neuman, Professor of Biology, Texas A&M University-Texarkana. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The Conversation Thu, 04/02/2020 - 14:02 Categories Life Sciences Full Article
of Are we on the cusp of historic medical breakthroughs? By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:18:48 GMT During my lifetime, there have been numerous seminal breakthroughs in medicine that greatly changed our ability to prevent or treat disease. I have a good idea of what the next ones will be. Full Article
of Home economics: The human cost of the affordability crisis By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:00:37 GMT Soaring mortgage rates have combined with high housing prices to push homebuying out of reach for many people, causing major knock-on effects on their lives. Full Article
of Historic Langston to enter National Black Golf Hall of Fame By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT Langston Golf Course in Washington, D.C., the first golf course built specifically for African-American golfers, will be inducted into the National Black Golf Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place March 23 in Tampa. Full Article
of Playoff combatants Shin, Creamer commit to Kingsmill By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT Last September in the Kingsmill Championship, winner Jiyai Shin and runner-up Paula Creamer engaged in a riveting, LPGA-record, nine-hole playoff. On Tuesday, the tournament announced both will be back for the event, which has been moved up on the LPGA calendar to May 2-5. Full Article
of A monumental failure of leadership in DC By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:20:42 GMT Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has spent over $5 million since 2020 building and maintaining Black Lives Matter Plaza, three blocks of 16th Street leading down to the North Portico of the White House. This costly political statement of support for a fraudulent organization has been made while the mayor's real job of running the nation's capital has been neglected. Carjackings and murder have skyrocketed on her watch. Full Article
of Majority of Virginians are against electric vehicle mandate: Poll By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:48:42 GMT While some Virginians weren't previously aware of their state's mandate to only sell electric vehicles after 2035, most are against it. Full Article
of Washington's streak of 718 days without snow unlikely to be broken despite East Coast bracing for storm By www.washingtonexaminer.com Published On :: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:20:38 GMT Washington, D.C.'s streak of 718 days without heavy snow will not likely be broken anytime soon, even as the rest of the East Coast prepares for a winter storm this weekend. Full Article
of Q&A: Make the most of your workouts by training like the athletes of Team USA By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 10:00:33 GMT Even if you're not competing on a world stage, learning to fuel your body and mind like an Olympic or Paralympic athlete may help you boost your own game. Full Article
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of Earthquake risks and rising costs: The price of operating California's last nuclear plant By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:00:13 GMT The plant supplies 6% of California's power, yet critics charge the facility is too expensive and too dangerous to continue operating. Full Article
of Officials confirm H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in three California dairy farms By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 10:00:19 GMT Testing has confirmed H5N1 bird flu outbreaks at three Central Valley dairy farms. Officials say the infections were likely the result of cattle transportation. Full Article
of Climate warriors fighting some of the 'greatest crises humanity has ever seen' By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:00:31 GMT 'Something that Sunrise has taught me, and that I've learned from the world around me, is that hope comes through collective action but is also something that you need to practice.' Full Article
of Scientists become a source of hope and information on TikTok, Instagram By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:41 GMT Instead of waiting years for their studies and work to be published in academic journals, some climate scientists use social media to extend their reach — and their brand. Full Article
of Why AI is better than humans at talking people out of their conspiracy theory beliefs By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:00:29 GMT An AI chatbot was able to persuade people to reconsider their beliefs in conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, the moon landing and election fraud. Full Article
of A huge deposit of marine fossils found under San Pedro High School By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:28 GMT San Pedro High School discovered a deposit of marine fossils on campus in 2022 and began collaborating with local paleontologists to uncover secrets from the Palos Verdes Peninsula's geological past. Full Article
of California reports a total of eight H5N1 bird flu outbreaks among dairy herds By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:34:55 GMT Two more California dairy herds have been infected by H5N1 bird flu, bringing the state's total to eight. Full Article
of Just out of high school and blockading the door to JD Vance's office By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:00:09 GMT What did you do last summer? This teenage member of the Sunrise Movement, grieving over climate disasters and unsure about his future, helped blockade the door to JD Vance's Senate office. Full Article
of 'Grief into action.' Philanthropists give historic $150 million donation to City of Hope for pancreatic cancer research By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:30:06 GMT Entrepreneur Emmet Stephenson and his daughter are giving $150 million to City of Hope to fund an award for innovation research in pancreatic cancer. It's the largest single gift the center has received. Full Article
of California surgeon general sets goal of reducing maternal mortality by 50% By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:30:07 GMT California's surgeon general unveiled a new initiative Tuesday aimed at reducing maternal mortality, setting a goal of halving the statewide rate of deaths related to pregnancy and birth by December 2026. Full Article
of Number of California dairy herds infected with H5N1 bird flu rises to 17 By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:20:02 GMT With 17 dairy herds in California now infected with bird flu, the state is upping its surveillance. Full Article
of New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:00:36 GMT Samples taken in the pandemic's early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a laboratory, new study says. Full Article
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