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11.11 Special: Deals the HardwareZone staff would get for ourselves (Updated)

As we count down to the 11.11 shopping extravaganza, why don't you get some shopping ideas by checking out what the HWZ writers and editors want to buy. #11.11




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Pre-order the Huawei MatePad 12 X from 18 November and enjoy some specials and freebies!

Unfortunately, the Huawei MatePad 12 X will be available with Wi-Fi only connectivity. #huawei #huaweimatepas12x




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Zoho eyes industry associations for continued partner growth

As it continues to grow its Canadian business through partners, cloud-based business software company Zoho eyes making connections with industry assications as an important route for growth.




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Securiti launches Gencore AI solution to build secure artificial intelligence systems

Gencore AI provides the same capability for the safe construction of AI tools that their core platform has provided from its inception.




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5G network specialist Celona launches expanded channel program

Celona reacts to the growing maturity of its channel by moving from a single-tier organization to a more diverse three tiered one, while complementing the channel announcement with new Aerloc security improvements for industrial IoT.




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Desperate rescue efforts continue in Valencia’s flooded car parks

Desperate rescue efforts continue in Valencia’s flooded car parks




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Become A Computer Technician: Starting Out On Your Own

So maybe you chose to start things out on our own when we decided to become a computer technician. You’re not alone. Many techs are self-starters. Sure enough, some may swear that the best option is to work for a large computer tech firm and gain experience and knowledge from there. Others just dive headfirst […]

Source: Become A Computer Technician: Starting Out On Your Own - Technibble.com




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It’s Squirrel Appreciation Day!

Every squirrel has a science story to tell, but, sadly, squirrels vastly outnumber squirrel scientists. That’s where you, the intrepid citizen scientist, come in.




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A manual of spherical and practical astronomy : embracing the general problems of spherical astronomy, the special applications to nautical astronomy, and the theory and use of fixed and portable astronomical instruments

Location: Special Collections x-Collection- QB145.C49 1960




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Artificial Intelligence and Real Writers

Generative Artifial Intelligence [sic] is one of the issues I've been working on with the National Writers Union and other allies.

Travel writers and others may be interested in the presentation I gave on Artificial Intelligence and Real Writers this issue to the Bay Area Travel Writers at our virtual meeting in September:

Additional resources mentioned in my presentation:




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Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis

Location: Electronic Resource- 




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Online researcher and data analyst (Information Specialist)

Provides background research and marketing performance analysis, to support the marketing of bio-science events and organizations.

The Online researcher and data analyst (ORDA) conducts Internet research and queries databases to collect information and to compile comprehensive background reports on different aspects of bioscience events and organizations. In addition, the ORDA analyses results of past marketing campaigns, compares data lists and creates performance reports and forecasts through extensive use of Excel & Excel charts.

Requisites:

  • Ability to collect & organize information into a coherent structure, and communicate it clearly in writing, in English.
  • Ability to scan written material and websites quickly, and extract the important information.
  • High level of English (Academic)
  • Technology friendly – a lot of data manipulation in Excel
  • Quick, independent learner and thinker
  • Inquisitive mind
  • Service oriented – customizing to answer changing needs of the client
  • Team player. Works in cooperation with team members and team leader.
Send CV and cover letter to rzauer@kenes.com




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The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates.

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42371 BLU




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The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates.

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42371 DVD




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Gabo : the creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42444 DVD




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Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe : Integrating Archaeological and Historical Approaches

Location: Electronic Resource- 




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Exclure de la communauté chrétienne : Sens et pratiques sociales de l'anathème et de l'excommunication (IVe-XIIe s.)

Location: Electronic Resource- 




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Financial signal processing and machine learning

Location: Electronic Resource- 




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Managing financial risks of Sukuk structures

Location: Law Electronic Resource- 




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Learn Adobe Illustrator CC for graphic design and illustration : Adobe Certified Associate exam preparation

Location: Engineering Library- T385.W55 2016




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Tableau 9 : the official guide

Location: Engineering Library- TK7882.I6P425 2016




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Risks of artificial intelligence

Location: Engineering Library- TA347.A78M85 2016




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The Stillwater igneous complex and associated occurrences of nickel and platinum group metals

Location: Sciences Library Library- TC824.M9P4 no.7




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[Full-time] Office Manager/ Marketing Associate (Maternity Cover) at HAS Advantage

Location: Jerusalem
URL: hasadvantage.com

Description:

This is a temporary position to cover maternity leave. Preference will be given to applicants with marketing experience.

Tentative start date is February 13th 2011. Period of employment will be 4 months, with possible extension to 7 months.

Responsibilities include: – General administrative tasks and maintenance of office needs – Track employee attendance/files/records – Assist managers to complete various tasks and projects – Assist and track various marketing efforts

Requirements
· Native English Speaker with excellent Hebrew skills
· Full command of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook
· Administrative experience
· High level of communication skills
· Responsible, Organized, Detail Oriented
· Ability to multitask
· Marketing experience with emphasis on social networking/online marketing trends – a plus
· Experience in Human Resources – a plus



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Veneers are rising in popularity. Why you should trust doctors over technicians

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Nicole Cheek, a dentist in Washington, D.C., about the risks of getting dental veneers by a non-dentist.




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Certifying Technician 2 job at Cayman Airways Ltd in George Town

Cayman Airways Ltd is hiring in George TownCertifying Technician 2 positions available. Visit us to learn more about Cayman Airways Ltd and see our job postings on www.avjobs.com Please reference Avjobs when applying. Does this sounds like a good opportunity?




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Certifying Technician 2 job at Cayman Airways Ltd in George Town

Cayman Airways Ltd is hiring in George TownCertifying Technician 2 positions available. Visit us to learn more about Cayman Airways Ltd and see our job postings on www.avjobs.com Please reference Avjobs when applying. Does this sounds like a good opportunity?




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Certifying Technician 2 job at Cayman Airways Ltd in George Town

Cayman Airways Ltd is hiring in George Town Certifying Technician 2 positions available. Visit us to learn more about Cayman Airways Ltd and see our job postings on www.avjobs.com Please reference Avjobs when applying. What do you know about Cayman Airways Ltd?




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TURKISH BANDS DOMINATE CILICIA

TURKISH BANDS DOMINATE CILICIA



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Airline Pilots Association, Herndon VA United States

The Air Line Pilots Association International Alpa Is The Largest Airline Pilot Union In The World And Represents More Than 550... Jonathan Wood, Lease Administrator, Herndon, VA, United States




  • Airline Pilots Association

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WikiLeaks: 2010-02-02: 10VATICAN18: Vatican Official On Iraq...

WikiLeaks: 2010-02-02: 10VATICAN18: Vatican Official On Iraq and Planned Meetings of Middle East Bishops




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MEP puts the Assyrian Question to United Nations Special Rep...

MEP puts the Assyrian Question to United Nations Special Representative



  • European Governments Information

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Association of Assyrian Women - Shamiram - journal

Association of Assyrian Women - Shamiram - journal



  • Assyrian Education Network

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Associate Analog Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Design Engineer

Tukwila, WA United States - Job Description At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an en... View




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Shipping & Receiving Specialist

Brisbane, Queensland Australia - Job Description At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering ... View




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Trump transition official warns Justice Dept staff against 'resistance'




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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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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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John Fetterman says social media was an 'accelerant' that made depression worse

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said Sunday that social media served as "an accelerant" for his clinical depression, to the point that doctors advised him to stay off of it.




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The social justice-obsessed NBA is about to let Qatar partially own a team

The NBA’s social justice reputation is completely unearned. If the league allows Qatar to be an investor in one of its teams, it would be yet another reminder of just how morally bankrupt the league is.




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Officials confirm H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in three California dairy farms

Testing has confirmed H5N1 bird flu outbreaks at three Central Valley dairy farms. Officials say the infections were likely the result of cattle transportation.




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Former Caltech and Google scientists win physics Nobel for pioneering artificial intelligence

John Hopfield dreamed up the modern neural network while at Caltech. Geoffrey Hinton built on it, creating an AI firm that Google bought for $44 million.




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A concerning development: H5N1 bird flu has infected a pig in Oregon, officials say

H5N1 bird flu has been discovered in a pig in Oregon, a development that has sparked new concerns among infectious disease experts.




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Jim Williams: LockerDome shakes up landscape of sports social media

Social media has become an accepted way to report and break news stories today. Twitter and Facebook are routinely used by newspapers, television networks and radio stations as sources for quotes. Some athletes and teams are bypassing the mainstream media and using social media to make major announcement on their own.




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Photo of Fauci not wearing mask or social distancing earns him stern tongue lashing on social media

Radio host Mark Levin and others on Twitter slammed White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci over a photo of him sitting next to two other people at a baseball game with his face uncovered.




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Washington official fined $500 for voting in 2020 election twice

An elected Washington, D.C., official was among six people who were fined by the city this week after voting in the 2020 elections twice.




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Two PGA officials to testify to Senate committee over LIV Golf merger

Two PGA Tour golf officials will testify as witnesses in front of a Senate subcommittee hearing on the LIV Golf merger next week, the committee's leaders announced Monday.




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Many California voters get their info from social media, even if they don't trust it, poll shows

A new poll shows that California voters are increasingly moving to social media, such as TikTok, for election information.




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Supreme Court puts off ruling on whether state social media laws violate the 1st Amendment

Supreme Court sidesteps a ruling on laws in Florida and Texas that would regulate social media platforms.