msfntor Posted February 27, 2023 Author Posted February 27, 2023 Did you know that banks can legally seize all your money whenever a major financial crisis erupts? And do you know where financial markets are headed right now?
mina7601 Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 5 hours ago, UCyborg said: Unknown at the moment if it also happens with fresh profile. Hello, here, on a fresh Firefox 110 profile, I can't see them either. 1
msfntor Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 In uBlock, not all items are displayed always, sometimes after restart of the page, why?.. On Firefox fork (Basilisk Moebius 20210130), too on New Private Window without add-ons, twitter is not embedded on the MSFN pages, why?.. this version of Moebius are dead then... but M. 55 win32-20220910 works good... so time to download the latest version of my M. 55!... With uBlock disabled - all items are allowed of course, look at them to see eventually the additional elements - items, this same is in New Private Window in Firefox forks, or Incognito mode in Chrome... If you go to twitter account (to read): ex. by native lover: https://twitter.com/native_lover_ - abs.twimg.com is displayed, allowed! But abs-0.twimg.com I've denied expressly. I've too allowed: ibb.co and jnn-pa.googleapis.com On Page 5 of this topic, scrolled to these images, with twimg.com allowed by me, have automatically allowed abs.twimg.com (not displayed), pbs.twimg.com, cdn.syndication.twimg.com, video.twimg.com, and with twitter.com allowed by me, have automatically allowed platform.twitter.com and syndication.twitter.com. So images are displayed here...
msfntor Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 (edited) Technology Environment ‘Slowly dying’: Residents’ weird symptoms weeks after train derailment and explosion Residents of an American town report they’re coming down with strange illnesses weeks after a disaster happened nearby. Dana Kennedy and New York Post 8 min read February 26, 2023 Water samples are collected from contaminated water. Picture: Michael Swensen / Getty Images via AFP Ohio man Wade Lovett’s been having trouble breathing since the February 3 Norfolk South train derailment and toxic explosion. In fact, his voice sounds as if he’s been inhaling helium. “Doctors say I definitely have the chemicals in me but there’s no one in town who can run the toxicological tests to find out which ones they are,” Lovett, 40, an auto detailer, told the New York Post in an extremely high-pitched voice. “My voice sounds like Mickey Mouse. My normal voice is low. It’s hard to breathe, especially at night. My chest hurts so much at night I feel like I’m drowning. I cough up phlegm a lot. I lost my job because the doctor won’t release me to go to work.” Despite his health woes, Mr Lovett and his fiancee, Tawnya Irwin, 45, spent last Thursday delivering bottled water to locals who have been impacted since a train derailed in their town of East Palestine, Ohio. The incident caused toxic chemicals to be released into the air and the immediate sickness and deaths of animals nearby. The couple picked up new cases outside a home on East Clark Street which has become the heart of East Palestine’s homegrown campaign to fight back against the forces that up-ended the lives of roughly 4700 [residents and their] animals.... MORE: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/slowly-dying-residents-weird-symptoms-weeks-after-train-derailment-and-explosion/news-story/106e190eb81876dc05ac668c0702f775 "... Almost everybody in the area is sick. Like the sickest they've ever been. People are missing work (headaches, respiratory problems, dizziness, and more…). Kids don’t go to school (mysterious bronchitis-like illness)… They are slowly dying… It's bad and it feels like no one cares… Let’s send them prayers..." Thanks, Manuel... Edited February 28, 2023 by msfntor addings: Almost everybody...
msfntor Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS BREAKTHROUGH COULD UPEND A CENTURY OF EQUILIBRIUM THEORY IN PHYSICS MICAH HANKS - BREAKING NEWS PHYSICS SCIENCE ·FEBRUARY 27, 2023 Physicists in West Virginia have announced a potential breakthrough that could help upend a longstanding constraint imposed by the first law of thermodynamics. The discovery, involving how energy is converted in plasmas in space, was described in new research published in the journal Physical Review Letters, and could potentially require scientists to have to rethink how plasmas are heated both in the lab and in space. The first law of thermodynamics, an expression of the law of conservation of energy albeit styled with relation to thermodynamic processes, conveys that the total energy within a system will remain constant, but that it can be converted from one form of energy into another. More simply, the idea is commonly expressed as “energy can neither be created or destroyed.” “The first law has been used to describe many things,” says Paul Cassak, a professor of Theoretical and Computational Plasma Physics at West Virginia University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Cassak is associate director of the Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics, where along with graduate research assistant Hasan Barbhuiya he studies the ways energy is converted in superheated plasmas in space. “The laws of thermodynamics were developed about 170 years ago,” Cassak told The Debrief, “and the technology of the time dictated the gases or fluids that people would have studied are in equilibrium at the densities and temperatures that they were using back then.” A good example of equilibrium would be how individual vessels filled with water at different temperatures within the same environment will eventually either cool or warm until they reach the same temperature. However, the conditions under which the laws of thermodynamics were developed at that time dictated that they would onlywork for systems in equilibrium, and Cassak says attempting to revise existing theories about thermodynamics hasn’t been a simple task. “The part that has been challenging has been the theoretical work to figure out how to extend or improve upon the original laws of thermodynamics when systems aren’t in equilibrium,” Cassak told The Debrief. “People have been working on extending the laws of thermodynamics for systems not in equilibrium for over 100 years,” he says. “Most of what people had figured out is how to extend the laws of thermodynamics for systems that are close to equilibrium. Even this is a huge step forward and has been useful in many fields of science.” In certain settings (like with space plasmas), systems can be far from being near equilibrium, so the approximations do not work. Hence, explaining the energy conversion is more challenging. However, Cassak and Barbhuiya say they devised a way to generalize the first law of thermodynamics, which allows it to be applied to systems that are not in equilibrium. Diagram detailing how between any two equilibrium states, changes in their internal energy is equal to the difference of heat transferred into the system and work done by it (Credit: NASA). According to Cassak, there are three main points involved, the first being that for a simple, “ideal” gas, liquid, or plasma in equilibrium, its properties can be described by two main quantities: density, and temperature. “The first law of thermodynamics, then, describes energy conversion for a process that changes the density and/or temperature,” Cassak told The Debrief. “The second key point is that, for a gas, liquid, or plasma that is not in equilibrium, its properties can no longer be described by only the density and temperature,” he adds. Generally, there are almost an infinite number of different quantities that are needed to describe a substance under such conditions. “So, one still has the density and temperature, but also many many more quantities,” Cassak says. The third point involves how a system, when out of equilibrium, continues to be described by the first law of thermodynamics. Cassak says that “when a system is out of equilibrium, the first law of thermodynamics continues to only describe energy conversion that changes the density and temperature.” “We realized that the energy conversion associated with all the other quantities describing the gas, liquid, plasma, etc., when it is not in equilibrium are not included in the first law of thermodynamics,” Cassak told The Debrief. To overcome this, he and Barbhuiya “derived an equation that quantifies not just the energy conversion that changes the density and temperature, but also all of these other quantities that describe the system when it’s not in equilibrium.” Previously, state-of-the-art research in this area could account for energy conversion only with relation to expansion and heating. However, the team’s newly generalized theory offers a way to now calculate all of the energy from not being in equilibrium. Cassak (front, left) and his research team, along with co-authors Haoming Liang (front center) and Mahmud Barbhuiya (front right), along with Milton Arencibia (back right) and Vitor Souza (back left). Cassak characterized the team’s results as “a really large step in our understanding,” and their findings also have several promising applications, which includes allowing scientists studying plasmas in space to better understand their dynamics. Namely, this could enhance our understanding of space weather events like mass coronal ejections from the sun that release large plumes of superheated plasma capable of interfering with communications systems and other technologies here on Earth... More: https://thedebrief.org/first-law-of-thermodynamics-breakthrough-could-upend-a-century-of-equilibrium-theory-in-physics/
msfntor Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 One of the last Asian cheetahs has died in Iran 2/28/2023, 8:52:13 AM Barely ten months old, Pirouz represented the hope and pride of the Iranian nation. The species is critically endangered. One of the last Asian cheetahs in the world died on Tuesday February 28 in Iran, causing a wave of sadness among Iranians who had fallen in love with this young feline born in captivity in 2022. "Pirouz, who was admitted to the Central Veterinary Hospital for kidney failure on Thursday, died after undergoing dialysis," the official IRNA news agency reported. "We are very saddened by the loss of Pirouz and the failure of all efforts to save him," responded the head of the hospital, Dr. Omid Moradi. Pirouz, the "victorious" The young Pirouz (“victorious” in Persian) had become a national pride since his birth in May 2022 in a refuge in eastern Iran. This event was welcomed when there would remain in Iran only a dozen Asian cheetahs, a species in critical danger of extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Since his hospitalization, many Internet users had expressed their emotion on social networks. "Pirouz is the only source of happiness for the Nation", underlined one of them on Twitter. Others said they feared the definitive " extinction " of the subspecies " Acinonyx jubatus venaticus", commonly known as Asian cheetah or Iranian cheetah, in the event of Pirouz's death. The cheetah is the fastest animal in the world and can reach a speed of 120 km/h. It is still found in parts of southern Africa, but has virtually disappeared from North Africa and Asia. Iran, one of the last countries in the world where Asian cheetahs live in the wild, launched a United Nations-backed conservation program in 2001. Source: lefigaro Here: https://newsrnd.com/tech/2023-02-28-one-of-the-last-asian-cheetahs-has-died-in-iran.S1fLnMEi0o.html
msfntor Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 FEB 27, 2023 1:00 PM PST Seven heart health factors linked to risk of dementia WRITTEN BY: Amielle Moreno It appears the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has joined forces with the American Heart Association. In an abstract slated for presentation at the 2023 American Academy of Neurology’s 75th Annual Meeting in April, the AAN draws a clearer line between dementia and heart health. The abstract titled “Can seven healthy habits now reduce risk of dementia later?” lays out midlife habits and lifestyle factors associated with dementia. Pamela Rist ScD of the AAN framed the report by saying, “since we now know that dementia can begin in the brain decades before diagnosis, it’s important that we learn more about how your habits in middle age can affect your risk of dementia in old age.” The longitudinal study followed the health outcomes of 13,720 female participants via Medicare data for two decades. The average age of a participant at the beginning of the study was 54. Participants were scored on the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 factors: Activity level Diet Weight maintenance Smoking status Blood pressure maintenance Cholesterol levels Blood sugar levels Each participant received a score for each factor from zero to one. Their mean score was 4.3 out of seven possible points. Over the course of the study, 13% of participants were diagnosed with dementia. Using Life’s Simple 7 scores, the researchers found increasing one's score by one point, decreased the risk of dementia by 6%. Established research has linked each of the seven factors to cognitive performance. Even though blood does not come in direct contact with the brain, it supplies nutrients filtered through the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The BBB coats the capillaries in the brain, allowing the inflow of oxygen and glucose and the removal of waste products back into the blood. A healthy heart and vascular system will produce the right amount of pressure to preserve this delicate coating. Heart disease and aging can lead to increased blood pressure. Less elastic arteries absorb less of the heart's pulsing force, which means high pressure is exacted on delicate brain capillaries, damaging the BBB. Unfortunately, the hippocampus is particularly susceptible. Unhealthy heart functioning and age-related vascular changes can damage hippocampal capillaries and, thus, the ability to form episodic memories. Rist managed to spin the findings positively by pointing out that "the good news is that making healthy lifestyle choices in middle age may lead to a decreased risk of dementia later in life." This abstract will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 75th Annual Meeting being held in person in Boston and live online, April 22-27, 2023. Here: https://www.labroots.com/trending/health-and-medicine/24757/seven-heart-health-factors-linked-risk-dementia
msfntor Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 Molecule Found in Green Tea Can Break Up Alzheimer's-Causing Protein Tangles, BrightFocus Researcher Finds Discovery may lead to therapeutics to disrupt tau tangles in the brain that cause Alzheimer’s disease. By David Levine Published on: January 26, 2023 Scientifically reviewed by Sharyn Rossi, PhD Using a molecule found in green tea, biochemists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have identified new molecules that can destroy protein tangles in the brain linked to Alzheimer's and related brain diseases. Alzheimer's Disease Research grantee Paul Seidler, PhD,was the lead author of the study published in Nature Communications. Dr. Seidler received a grant from Alzheimer’s Disease Research, a program of BrightFocus Foundation, to study how tau is structurally assembled to prevent dysfunctional aggregation of the protein. The researchers’ goal was to identify molecules that were better than the green tea molecule EGCG at breaking up tau fibers, which are long, multilayered filaments that form tangles that attack neurons, causing them to die. "If we could break up these fibers, we may be able to stop death of neurons," said study author David Eisenberg, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry whose lab led the new research. Tau is an amyloid protein that, along with amyloid beta, is associated with Alzheimer's. Many scientists think removing or destroying tau fibers can halt the progression of dementia. Additionally, they believe that tau’s influence over Alzheimer's disease may be equal to or even greater than that of amyloid beta as it is associated with the rapid progression of Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, although it has long been known that EGCG can break up tau fibers, EGCG is not an effective dementia treatment as it does not enter cells or the brain easily. But knowing that EGCG could disrupt tau helped the scientists identify other molecules with more promise. First, they identified specific locations, called pharmacophores, on the tau fiber to which EGCG molecules attached. Then they ran computer simulations on a library of 60,000 brain and nervous system-friendly small molecules with the potential to bind to the same sites. They found several hundred molecules that were 25 atoms or less in size, all with the potential to bind even better to the tau fiber pharmacophores. From the computational screening, the team identified about a half dozen molecules that broke up the tau fibers. Of these compounds, molecules CNS-11 and CNS-17 also stopped the fibers from spreading from cell to cell. The researchers think these molecules are candidates for drugs that could be developed to treat Alzheimer's and related diseases. "For cancer and many metabolic diseases, knowing the structure of the disease-causing protein has led to effective drugs that halt the disease-causing action," Dr. Eisenberg said. "But it's only recently that scientists learned the structures of tau tangles. We've now identified small molecules that break up these fibers. The bottom line is, we've put Alzheimer's disease and amyloid diseases in general on the same basis as cancer, namely, that structure can be used to find drugs." Dr. Eisenberg said that the molecules the team identified are not yet drugs, but "by studying variations of this, which we are doing, we may go from this lead into something that would be a really good drug." Here: https://www.brightfocus.org/alzheimers/news/molecule-found-green-tea-can-break-protein-alzheimers-causing-tangles-brain
msfntor Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 FEB 24, 2023 7:04 AM PST Share The 'Sixth Sense' May be Far More Common Than we Knew WRITTEN BY: Carmen Leitch The earth has a magnetic field, and some animals such as monarch butterflies and turtles can use it to navigate during their long migrations. Researchers have now discovered that at high levels, a molecule called flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), can stimulate an organism to be sensitive to magnetism. This molecule can be found in many different cell types in various kinds of animals, and it suggests that the ability to sense a magnetic field, or magnetoreception, might be more common than we knew. The findings, which used a fruit fly model, have been reported in Nature. Magnetosensitivity is thought to involve an electron-transfer reaction that includes FAD and a chain of tryptophan residues within the photoreceptor protein cryptochrome. Cryptochrome is light-sensitive, and can be found in animal and plant cells. "The absorption of light by the cryptochrome results in movement of an electron within the protein which, due to quantum physics, can generate an active form of cryptochrome that occupies one of two states. The presence of a magnetic field impacts the relative populations of the two states, which in turn influences the active lifetime of this protein," explained study co-author Dr. Alex Jones, a quantum chemist from the National Physical Laboratory. In this study, the researchers genetically altered the cryptochrome protein in the fruit fly so that it lacked the portion that binds to FAD. However, these altered flies were still able to sense magnetic fields. This study suggested that cells are able to sense magnetic fields even if only a small part of cryptochrome is present, a "striking" finding, noted first study author Dr. Adam Bradlaugh of The University of Manchester. "That shows cells can, at least in a laboratory, sense magnetic fields through other ways." One of those other ways is through FAD, and while this light sensor typically attaches to cryptochrome to boost magnetosensitivity, it can also impart magnetic sensitivity itself at high levels, said Bradlaugh. Magnetoreception, sometimes called the sixth sense, is far more challenging to study than other senses such as vision and hearing, because magnetic fields have much less energy compared to other stimuli such as photons or sound waves, Bradlaugh added. This study has provided new insights into how environmental factors, such as those that generate electromagnetic noise, might be affecting processes that help cells sense magnetic fields, or animals that use those fields to survive. "This study may ultimately allow us to better appreciate the effects that magnetic field exposure might potentially have on humans," added co-corresponding study author Professor Ezio Rosato of The University of Leicester. "Moreover, because FAD and other components of these molecular machines are found in many cells, this new understanding may open new avenues of research into using magnetic fields to manipulate the activation of target genes; that is considered a holy grail as an experimental tool and possibly eventually for clinical use." Sources: University of Manchester, Nature Here: https://www.labroots.com/trending/genetics-and-genomics/24739/magnetoreception-common .. but.. me too I've the cryptochrome... many: DCBrowser, MiniBrowser, 360Chrome .... soo good!... I now have an understanding of the origin of my sixth sense...
UCyborg Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 (edited) On 2/27/2023 at 7:16 PM, UCyborg said: Something technical, I can't see embedded images here originating from pbs.twimg.com on my new and shiny Firefox 110 installation. On 2/27/2023 at 7:46 PM, msfntor said: I do NOT have this problem, all images are here. 22 hours ago, mina7601 said: Hello, here, on a fresh Firefox 110 profile, I can't see them either. Found the reason, they're blocked by built-in tracker blocking feature, but can still see them when clicking the link to them, By default, blocking only happens in "private" windows. Not new in this particular version. On 2/27/2023 at 8:57 PM, msfntor said: What is happening on this MSFN.... no activity on other topics.... I'm not much of a talker, plus tired from working and composing posts may take me significant chunk of time. I don't know about others, maybe they don't want to talk about other things here, maybe they go elsewhere for other topics, maybe they don't want to talk about other things at all...who knows. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/22/laibach-to-become-first-foreign-band-to-perform-in-kyiv-since-invasion https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/slovenia-band-laibach-concert-ukraine-canceled-amid-rift-97491115 What the hell is Laibach all about? (it's in English) PS: Life is Life Edited February 28, 2023 by UCyborg 1
msfntor Posted March 1, 2023 Author Posted March 1, 2023 (edited) The inevitable has finally happened: Given the circumstances, I've decided to stop posting here. Thanks to all the loyal readers. I'm coming back to reality... You can keep posting if you want... Avantasia - Farewell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d84cZivhT84 Mary Black - Farewell Farewell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apOFrP3XbFM Farewell - Martin O'Donnell - Moving on to a new chapter. It's all good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqMwVMHh73E _________________________________________________________________________________________ FLAUTA NATIVA XAMÂ COM SOLFEGGIO 999HZ, CONEXÃO PROFUNDA COM A MÃE NATUREZA E OS SERES DE LUZ 8 Hours of Mysterious Relaxing Music • Harp, Flute, Piano & Strings ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6R8uiaMtb0 Beautiful Celtic Music • Relaxing Fantasy Music for Relaxation... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxRTIQISpNU The Rosary — All 15 Mysteries — Gregorian Chant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muo1NNKUK80 Pater Noster (John Paul II - 1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyWBaIEkZ7w Harp concert by Sophia Kiprskaya ,... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xn3uAHZHcc _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ SADE - SMOOTH OPERATOR (9 Minute Version) [with Lyrics] SADE - By Your Side - Official - 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QJmI_V3j4 SADE - No Ordinary Love - Official - 1992 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcWHZc8s2I Sade Ahoy Sportpaleis Rotterdam 21-9-1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpCcZSiI-O8 Sade Live in Concert London, England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdS9Med8gfk Sade - 1984 Greatest Hits - Diamond Life (Full Album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oCB-HlR6Zc SADE - 1992 Greatest Hits - Love Deluxe (Full Album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgPqkOTPDQ SADE — STRONGER THAN PRIDE『 1988・FULL ALBUM 』 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-NxxtNjKbo _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Lionel Richie - Hello (Official Music Video) Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAvFx3NxUM The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964) HQ/Widescreen ♫ 59 YEARS AGO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-43lLKaqBQ Cher - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) [Official HD Video] - Original Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfyBHZc9rK4 Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqfSeBJ-fg Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeiFF0gvqcc Michael Jackson - Beat It (Official 4K Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdxUFDoQe0 Boney M. - Rasputin (Sopot Festival 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16y1AkoZkmQ Boney M. - Daddy Cool (Sopot Festival 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYGTT7YhywA Boney M. - Ma Baker (Sopot Festival 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c5yPIQ3 Edited March 7, 2023 by msfntor exchange + videos added
mina7601 Posted March 1, 2023 Posted March 1, 2023 17 hours ago, UCyborg said: By default, blocking only happens in "private" windows. Not new in this particular version. Had a feeling that was the reason, as in regular windows, embedded images display fine. 2
legacyfan Posted March 1, 2023 Posted March 1, 2023 6 hours ago, msfntor said: The inevitable has finally happened: Given the circumstances, I've decided to stop posting here. Thanks to all the loyal readers. I'm coming back to reality... You can keep posting if you want... Avantasia - Farewell Mary Black - Farewell Farewell Farewell - Martin O'Donnell - Moving on to a new chapter. It's all good. are you leaving the forum?
UCyborg Posted March 1, 2023 Posted March 1, 2023 Hope it's not some baggage IRL, but that was my first thought as bad news just keep piling up. 1
mina7601 Posted March 2, 2023 Posted March 2, 2023 On 3/1/2023 at 6:36 PM, legacyfan said: are you leaving the forum? From what I understand, he means he will stop posting in this topic, look at his profile, it says "last visited 10 hours ago". 1
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