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AED Pad Placement
Automated External Defibrillator pads (also known as AED electrode pads) are an essential part of any lifesaving AED machine. These pads are placed on the bare chest of a person who is suspected to be suffering from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). Once placed on the chest, the AED unit can determine if the person’s heart is in a lethal rhythm that needs to be treated with a defibrillation shock. If the AED determines a shock is needed, electricity is safely administered to the person through the electrode pads to restart their heart back into a normal rhythm.
In this guide, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about where to place AED pads on adults and children. Before diving in, let’s discuss the different types of AED pad placement.
Anterior Posterior Pad Placement & Anterior Lateral Pad Placement
Common technical terms you will hear to describe defibrillator pad placement include “anterior-posterior” and “anterior-lateral.” What do these terms actually mean?
First, let’s define anatomical position. Anatomical position refers to the standard position that the body is oriented when using describing position with terms such as anterior, posterior, and lateral. Specifically, standard anatomical position is when the body is essentially equivalent to what you would see when someone is flat on their back, palms and toes facing forward, and both the arms and legs slightly separated so they are not touching the torso or each other.
Anterior posterior or anteroposterior means the “front and back” of the body in this standard anatomical position. A feature that is anterior to another is closer to the front of the body whereas a feature posterior to another is located closer to the back of the body. In the case of AED pads, this specifically means that one AED pad is placed on the front of the chest while the other AED pad is placed on the back as seen in the illustration.
As for anterior lateral or anterolateral , this is equivalent to “toward the front” and “towards the edge” in standard anatomical position. Anterior features are closer to the front of the body while lateral features are closer to the edge of the body. This type of defibrillator pad placement is when one AED pad is placed on the right side of the chest (just below the collarbone) while the other pad is put on the lower left side of the chest.
One great thing about AED electrode pads is that the pads have graphics on them that show you where to place them on the body. Remember: all defib pads must be placed directly on bare skin!
Where to put AED pads on Adults?
AED pad placement is the same for all adults. Where you put AED pads on a woman = where you put AED pads on a man = where you put AED pads on a pregnant woman. It’s all the same!
The electrode pad placement might vary from one AED brand to the next, so be sure to check your AED’s owner’s manual for specific electrode pad placement instructions. If you can’t find it there, most AEDs have an image printed directly on the electrode pads that show where they should be placed on a person’s body.
Where to put AED pads on Children?
There are several additional considerations when it comes to placing AED pads on a child. Read more about the specifics of child defibrillator pad placement with our Pediatric AED Pad Guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Defibrillator Pads Made of?
AED pads are made of plastic, metal, and a conductive adhesive gel that sticks to the patient and helps deliver lifesaving defibrillation shocks.
Can I Reuse AED Pads?
No, AED electrode pads are single-use and must be replaced after they are used for an emergency or when they expire. Expiration dates for different AED pads vary by manufacturer. Learn more about the cost, usable life, and more for different AED pads with our AED Electrode Pad Guide. (link to AED comparison about electrode pads).
Can You Use an AED on Someone with a Pacemaker
AEDs can be used on patients with a pacemaker, however, do not apply the AED’s electrode pads directly over an implanted pacemaker in the patient. As always, check your AED’s user manual for more information.

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POLITICO Playbook: ‘Just say we won’: WaPo duo goes inside the Trump White House on Election Day
DRIVING THE DAY
NEW — WaPo’s Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker have a juicy read on what former President DONALD TRUMP and his aides were saying on Election Night, excerpted from their forthcoming book, “I Alone Can Fix It” ($30) for WaPo today.
— On the mood in the White House: “The morning of Nov. 3, 2020, President Trump was upbeat. The mood in the West Wing was good. Some aides talked giddily of a landslide. … Trump’s voice was hoarse from his mad dash of rallies, but he thought his exhausting final sprint had sealed the deal. He considered JOE BIDEN to be a lot of things, but a winner most definitely was not one of them. ‘I can’t lose to this f------ guy,’ Trump told aides.”
— On Fox News calling Arizona for Biden: “‘What the f--- is Fox doing?’ Trump screamed. Then he barked orders to [JARED] KUSHNER: ‘Call Rupert! Call James and Lachlan!” And to Jason Miller: “Get Sammon. Get Hemmer. They’ve got to reverse this.’ The president was referring to Fox owner RUPERT MURDOCH and his sons, JAMES and LACHLAN, as well as BILL SAMMON, a top news executive at Fox. Trump’s tirade continued. ‘What the f---?’ he bellowed. ‘What the f--- are these guys doing? How could they call this this early?’”
— RUDY GIULIANI, MARK MEADOWS, BILL STEPIEN and JASON MILLER discussing vote totals: “Giuliani went state by state asking Stepien, Meadows and Miller what they were seeing and what their plan was. ‘What’s happening in Michigan?’ he asked. They said it was too early to tell, votes were still being counted and they couldn’t say.
“‘Just say we won,’ Giuliani told them. Same thing in Pennsylvania. ‘Just say we won Pennsylvania,’ Giuliani said. Giuliani’s grand plan was to just say Trump won, state after state, based on nothing. Stepien, Miller and Meadows thought his argument was both incoherent and irresponsible. ‘We can’t do that,’ Meadows said, raising his voice. ‘We can’t.’” The full excerpt
GOP SENATORS GO WOBBLY ON BIF — It was after 9 p.m. on Friday, and staff for the bipartisan Senate infrastructure working group were hammering out legislative text over Zoom. Suddenly, the girlfriend of a staffer for Sen. ANGUS KING (I-Maine) walked into the room to announce they had a visitor. In walked the senator himself to thank those on the call — including aides to Sens. SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine), JACKY ROSEN (D-Nev.), ROB PORTMAN (R-Ohio) and JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) — for their hard work.
Thought No. 1: These people really know how to live it up on a Friday night.
Thought No. 2: This could all be for naught. Here’s why: Yes, we heard that the bipartisan infrastructure group and their staffs had late-night calls and videos throughout the two-week recess. Three sources in the group told us staff are racing to finalize bill text to introduce it as early as this week. But as our Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine report, a crop of the 11 Republicans who originally backed the so-called BIF (“bipartisan infrastructure framework”) is getting cold feet amid “harsh scrutiny from the right.”
Support from the five GOP senators who negotiated the deal — Collins, Portman, MITT ROMNEY (Utah), LISA MURKOWSKI (Alaska) and BILL CASSIDY (Louisiana) — is “solid,” our colleagues write. But the other six, including JERRY MORAN (Kansas) and LINDSEY GRAHAM (S.C.), are raising concerns about pay-fors. Privately, BIF members in both parties expect the CBO may say the proposed pay-fors will fall short of covering the bill’s cost. There’s a quiet expectation that the IRS enforcement portion of the plan may not be “scorable,” leaving a $100 billion hole. It would present a perfect opportunity for Republicans looking for an out to jump ship.
The group will meet today at 5 p.m. to touch gloves. More in Burgess and Marianne’s story here … The Hill also has a story about Graham’s concern … And Natasha Korecki and Chris Cadelago sniff out a change in the White House’s messaging on infrastructure, spurred partly by climate activists.
VOTING RIGHTS DEJA VU — It’s Groundhog Day for the Democratic Party when it comes to voting rights. Once again, civil rights leaders and the left are clamoring for Biden to nix or alter the filibuster in order to pass the party’s voting rights bills. And once again, Biden is likely to disappoint.
The president is headed to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia this afternoon to give a speech on a topic where he just can’t win. But White House press secretary JEN PSAKI has made clear that Biden has no plans to mount a campaign against the filibuster.
Psaki dismissed House Majority Whip JIM CLYBURN’S (D-S.C.) suggestion that Biden should be pressuring Manchin to vote for a carveout on issues related to the Constitution or voting specifically. “Determination about making changes will be made by members of the Senate, not by this president or any president, frankly, moving forward,” she said at her briefing Monday, adding that Biden’s views on keeping the filibuster intact haven’t changed.
SO WHAT WILL BIDEN SAY? He “plans to ‘blast the denial of the right to vote as grounded in autocracy, undemocratic, un-American, and unpatriotic,’” Laura Barrón-López reports, while calling “for a ‘new coalition’ of advocates, activists, students, faith leaders, labor leaders, and business executives ‘to overcome this un-American trend and meet the moment’ through ‘turnout and voter education.’” Read her full preview here
MEANWHILE, Democratic members of the Texas legislature are engaging in their own version of a filibuster regarding voting rights, vowing to remain outside of Texas for the duration of the 30-day special summer session in order to block Republicans from passing their voting restrictions.
We caught up with some of the Democrats as they settled in in Washington and learned a few things:
— They made the decision to come here Sunday after the voting restriction bill made it out of committee and left Monday out of worry of getting compelled back if they are in Texas when the session starts today at 10 a.m.
— The Texas House Democratic Caucus paid for chartered jets to D.C. as well as accommodations (for now).
— They have to stay out of the state until the special summer session is over on Aug. 7 if they want to keep the bill from becoming law. Some of them intend to have their families come visit.
— They’ll be on the Hill today and are hoping to stay in D.C. as long as it takes to convince moderates to find a way to pass voting rights legislation. (See above for the likelihood of that.)
— They’ve been in touch with the White House about setting up a meeting.
Good Tuesday morning, and thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza, Tara Palmeri.
LATEST IN CUBA — “Cuba arrests activists as government blames unrest on U.S. interference,” by Reuters’ Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta … And Sabrina Rodríguez and Nahal Toosi look at how the Biden administration is responding.
— 9:30 a.m.: The president will receive the President’s Daily Brief.
— 1 p.m.: Biden will leave the White House for Philadelphia, arriving at 2:05 p.m.
— 2:50 p.m.: Biden will speak about protecting the right to vote at the National Constitution Center.
— 4:10 p.m.: Biden will depart Philadelphia, getting back to the White House at 5:15 p.m.
Principal deputy press secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE will gaggle on Air Force One on the way to Philadelphia.
THE SENATE will meet at 10 a.m. to take up UZRA ZEYA’S nomination to be undersecretary of State for civilian security, democracy and human rights, with a vote at 11:30 a.m. -- the same time as a cloture vote for JULIE SU’S nomination as deputy Labor secretary. After a recess from 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., if cloture has been invoked, the chamber will vote on Su’s confirmation at 2:30 p.m.
THE HOUSE will meet at 9 a.m. in a pro forma session.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — The U.S. Conference of Mayors — now led by NAN WHALEY of the great Dayton, Ohio — will announce today that more than 369 mayors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia support the bipartisan infrastructure framework. We wouldn’t be surprised if the Biden administration touts this missive when the president speaks about the BIF package later this week. Letter here
BERNIE SNUBS FLOATED $3.5 TRILLION RECONCILIATION FIGURE — On Sunday night, Axios quoted “key negotiators” saying they expect the Democrat-only infrastructure bill that emerges out of the Senate Budget Committee to total $3.5 trillion. It was seen by some on the Hill as a message to that committee’s chair, BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.), that he can forget about the $6 trillion he’s eyeing for climate, child care, health care, education and the like.
Well, the Budget chair didn’t take kindly to the nudge from the unnamed Democratic negotiators. After meeting with Biden on Monday, he walked right up to a microphone and panned the idea of settling on $3.5 trillion. “No … I think, quite frankly, a strong majority of the members of the Democratic Caucus want to go as big as we possibly can.” JM Rieger has the video
Budget panel Democrats met Monday night and emerged without an agreement on a top-line number, though Sen. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (D-Md.) told reporters he thought they were close on a deal and could strike one as soon as today. This is a first test for Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, who needs all Democrats to unify behind a budget to unlock reconciliation. So sooner or later, Sanders and Manchin need to reach an agreement. Failure isn’t really an option for Democrats on this one.
ANOTHER BUDGET DILEMMA — “Hill security talks at a new impasse with Capitol Police running low on cash,” by Caitlin Emma and Nicholas Wu
TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL — “The Republican Party’s top lawyer called election fraud arguments by Trump’s lawyers a ‘joke’ that could mislead millions,” by WaPo’s Josh Dawsey: “JUSTIN RIEMER, the RNC’s chief counsel, sought to discourage a Republican Party staffer from posting claims about ballot fraud on RNC accounts, the email shows, as attempts by Trump and his associates to challenge results in a number of states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, intensified.
“‘What Rudy and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting laughed out of court,’ Riemer, a longtime Republican lawyer, wrote to LIZ HARRINGTON, a former party spokeswoman on Nov. 28, referring to Trump attorneys RUDY GIULIANI and JENNA ELLIS.”
WEISSELBERG INDICTMENT FALLOUT — “Trump Organization CFO Removed as Officer of Subsidiaries, Records Show,” by WSJ’s Corinne Ramey: “The Trump Organization has removed longtime finance chief ALLEN WEISSELBERG as an officer at some of its subsidiaries, after prosecutors accused him and the company of a 15-year tax-fraud scheme, according to public filings and people familiar with the matter.”
STILL NOT HAPPY AT STATE: A few days after Biden took office in January, we wrote about a general state of despair among career diplomats after four years working under Trump. Our unscientific sampling found serious doubts that things would improve much under Biden — particularly on the question of whether their loyalty to the State Department would be rewarded with promotions to higher positions.
Almost six months later, their skepticism appears well founded.
We’re hearing the same gripes from career officials that it’s taking way too long to be promoted — and that the new administration has left them in limbo about if or when it might happen. They are discouraged after watching other career officials who left during the Trump administration return for plum political appointments — while they waited around to be rewarded during the next administration. Many hoped that as Trump-era vacancies were filled, more rank-and-file career foreign service would move up in the process.
“There is almost more disillusionment and impatience with the rank and file than in the Trump years,” said one career official. “A lot of people have left or have one foot out the door.” Rep. JOAQUIN CASTRO (D-Texas), who has taken up the issue of diversity and morale at State, blamed the Trump administration for the workforce blues. “Their mismanagement left numerous positions vacant and denied career diplomats promotion opportunities, creating significant backlogs,” he told Playbook in a statement. “Now the Biden administration needs to act with urgency to not only fill these appointments and retain top talent, but also ensure State’s senior leadership reflects the diversity of America.”
According to a Harvard study reported by Foreign Policy, “nearly a third of the U.S. State Department’s diplomats and professional support staff are considering leaving the department and are actively looking for new jobs.” The study argues that the problems at State go beyond the Trump years, “pointing to systemic management problems that will hinder the State Department’s ability to recruit and retain talent.”
A senior State department official responded that frustrations about promotions notwithstanding, only about 3% of these officials actually end up leaving the department annually — and that’s been consistent since the 1990s.
“It’s safe to say [promotions] will be in line with [the pace of] the past two years,” said a senior State Department official. One area of growth will be the civil service. The department is now focused on replacing colleagues who left during the 2017 hiring freeze under then-Secretary REX TILLERSON.
WHOOPSIE — “Newsom won’t be listed as a Democrat on recall ballot, judge says,” L.A. Times: “Gov. GAVIN NEWSOM cannot identify himself as a Democrat on the September recall ballot because he missed the deadline to designate his party affiliation, a superior court judge in Sacramento ruled Monday. Superior Court Judge JAMES P. ARGUELLES said in his ruling that Newsom’s assertion that the oversight was a good-faith error on the part of his attorney was not enough to overcome the clear language of California election law.”
THE TRUMP EFFECT — “‘Get on the team or shut up’: How Trump created an army of GOP enforcers,” by David Siders and Stephanie Murray: “From the earliest days of his presidency, Donald Trump and his political team worked to re-engineer the infrastructure of the Republican Party, installing allies in top leadership posts in key states. The effect has been dramatic — and continues to reverberate nearly six months after he left office. …
“In red states, blue states and swing states, these leaders — nearly all of whom were elected during Trump’s presidency or right after — are redefining the traditional role of the state party chair. They are emerging not just as guardians of the former president’s political legacy, but as chief enforcers of Trumpism within the GOP. It figures to be a boon for him if he runs for another term in 2024, but also carries the risk of tying the party’s fortunes too closely to an ex-president whose political brand is toxic to many voters.”
ONE OF THESE IS A LOT LIKE THE OTHER — NYT’s Shane Goldmacher pointed out on Twitter that a flag promoting Florida Gov. RON DESANTIS looks a lot like Trump’s presidential campaign merch. The pics
A MOVING INTERVIEW — Bethesda Magazine’s Steve Roberts speaks with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Sarah Bloom Raskin “about meeting in law school at Harvard, how they were changed by the riot at the Capitol, and the acts of kindness inspired by the death of their son, Tommy.”
SPOTTED at a champagne toast at MSNBC’s D.C. bureau to mark 25 years of the network being on air: Rashida Jones, Cesar Conde, Joy Reid, Andrea Mitchell, Kasie Hunt, Hallie Jackson, Tiffany Cross and Geoff Bennett. “We have gone through some very difficult times, but I really do believe that we are coming out of this stronger not just as individuals, not just as a team, but as a news organization,” Conde said.
FIRST LADY FILES — Glamour is announcing its College Women of the Year honorees, with help from first lady Jill Biden — in whose honor all of the women are from community colleges, for the first time. Glamour also talked to Biden about community colleges, being a mother in school and teaching. And there’s video of the first lady surprising two of the honorees.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Cady Stanton has joined USA TODAY as a digital editor fellow. She previously was a social media specialist at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
— Erenia Michell has been hired as head booking producer for NewsNation’s new 8 p.m. Eastern primetime show “On Balance with Leland Vittert,” which premieres July 19. She most recently was segment producer/booker for Fox News’ “The Story with Martha MacCallum.”
MEDIA MOVES — Thomas McKinless is now a video editor at Newsy, which is doubling the size of its newsroom ahead of an Oct. 1 over-the-air launch. He previously was video editor at Roll Call, where he did the Hits and Misses series. … The New Yorker is adding Parul Sehgal as a staff writer and Kyle Chayka, Matthew Hutson and Luke Mogelson as contributing writers. Sehgal currently is a book critic at the NYT.
TRANSITIONS — Amish Shah is joining the SEC’s Division of Enforcement as an attorney. He most recently was deputy chief investigative counsel for the House Oversight Dems. … Becca Charen is now campaign manager for Joseph Rocha’s congressional campaign in California. She most recently was research director for John Hickenlooper’s Senate campaign, and is a DSCC alum. … Ryan Thornton is joining Uber as senior associate of external affairs. He most recently was senior manager of comms at the Information Technology Industry Council. …
… Rachael Marsh has rejoined Bracewell as a partner in its energy regulatory practice. She previously held various positions at FERC, most recently as a top legal adviser to Commissioner Neil Chatterjee. … Allegra Harpootlian will be a comms strategist at the ACLU. She currently is comms manager for peace and security at ReThink Media. … Evie Fordham is now an account executive at District Media Group. She previously was a digital reporter at Fox News.
WEEKEND WEDDINGS — Cate Martel, author of The Hill’s 12:30 Report, and Danny Vinik, a recent Georgetown Law grad, got married Saturday in Newport, R.I. The POLITICO alums originally met during their college study abroad programs in Florence, Italy, and later reunited when they both moved to D.C., coincidentally living on the same floor of the same apartment building — and then both working at POLITICO. Pic, via Molly Lo Photography … Another pic
— Mosheh Oinounou, founder of Mo Digital and a CBS Evening News alum, and Alexandra Sall, founder of ALSALL Studios, got married Saturday at the Peconic Bay Yacht Club in Southold, N.Y., before about 70 family members and close friends. The couple met on a dating app in 2018 and had their first date at the Jewish Food Society’s annual “Noshes and Spiels” festival. Pic, via Yumi Matsuo … Another pic, via Janna Riggle
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Tara Hayes, director of human welfare policy at the American Action Forum, and Lt. Col. Ethan Hayes, a strategist for the U.S. Army, welcomed Aurelia Sienna on Saturday. Pic … Another pic
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: WaPo’s Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett … Joe Lockhart … Americans for Prosperity’s Tim Phillips … Anne Schroeder … Will Dempster … Microsoft’s Kate Frischmann … Amanda Hunter of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation … Todd Zwillich … Jen Howard … Alex Vogel … Zaina Javaid … Punchbowl’s Max Cohen … Julie Eddy Rokala of Cassidy & Associates … Dan Smith … Patricia Brooks … Michelle Gaps … Casey Katims … Celia Fischer … Elizabeth Bagley … former Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) (7-0) … Heather Larrison … Gabby Seay … Aneesh Chopra … José Andrés
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Our God is a consuming fire. Ultimately, he will consume everything that has not been graced by the presence, voice, and touch of Jesus Christ. This is a fearsome truth, yet one to lean into with all our hearts. And it comes in many packages. Today it came through good friends over lunch.
I’ve been working on a diagram that clearly depicts the vision of our church. I mean, day and night this thing is on my mind, being refined by God’s Spirit. Switch out a word here, add a component there. Tweak, fiddle, arrange, fix, fiddle again. But there’s only so much you can see in your own mirror. Not just because we’re so limited in our perspective, but because God limited that perspective on purpose. He wanted us to need others. To depend on them for a better vantage point.
So a week and a half ago, I was raving with my friend Kevin how I wanted this vision to be so woven into the warp and woof of our church that anyone sitting in the pew could draw it on a napkin at a moment’s notice.
“Why?” he asked, his eyes flashing.
“Well… because… its important, because…” Aw, shoot. I had to be able to explain that just as clearly as the vision.
So I worked all week for the answer, a three part beauty, and I shared it today with Kevin and another friend, Paul. They loved it. And then proceeded to pick and push back and challenge me on the diagram — things like wording and how’s and why’s and how best to present it — and in the process, helped me refine it even more.
You know what? God speaks through brothers who are willing to push back… if we’re courageous enough to take it. Some days that’s really, really hard. Today? I loved every minute of it.

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Access your local network using Wireguard VPN and Algo If you need to access your home network from somewhere other than your home, the traditional way to do that is using a VPN. However, most VPN tutorials send all of your traffic through your home network.
Dec 12, 2019 · Your Home network is the internet connection that you designate as your “Home” when you subscribe to one of our Live TV plans.* You’ll need to set your Home network within 30 days of signing up to make sure you’re able to stream the correct local channels on your favorite devices. You can setup or change your Home network in just a few May 15, 2020 · Ultimately, when it comes to saying goodbye to cable, getting access to your local networks and the prime time shows are a priority for many. Today, I’m going to let you know to get those local network channels over the air (OTA TV), and a few ways to stream them over the internet. Below is information combined from the following articles: If you use Microsoft account to login Windows 10, try to use it to access other network devices in your local network, instead of local account username and password. Way 2. Type Computer Name in the Username Field; Another attempt is to press your computer name follow by the username in the username input filed.
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By default, computers in your local network should be visible when you browse for a network device with File Explorer. With recent changes in Windows 10 version 1803 some computers are only accessible via their names or IP addresses. To fix this annoying issue, you can apply a simple workaround. Re: Do NOT allow guest to access My Local Network Sorry to resurrect an older thread, but I wanted to chime in here because even Googling this for about an hour didn't turn up many results: I too cannot uncheck the "Allow guest to access My Local Network" option in my R6200 router. Enable Guest Network - I checked this one to enable the guest network. Enable SSID Broadcast - I unchecked this one. I configured each of my devices manually (I guess it is more secure this way) Allow guests to see each other and access my local network - this is the option I think might not as I have anticipated.
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Some climate alarmists were celebrating a transmutation they have never seen in their lives: melting of ice. The ice around the North Pole melted and created a small lake. So wonderful! Mother Nature abruptly stopped the celebrations when it did something else that the climate alarmists couldn't have possibly expected: it refroze the water and the lake disappeared again.
As soon as Alexander Ač sees this picture, he will be re-energized and will run a long story on his blog about a U.S. city that was finally devoured by the ocean.
Shockingly enough, the Earth, the Solar System, the Milky Way, and the Universe survived this melting episode. No doubt, the water near the poles has done a similar flip-flop millions of times in the past. The end of the "polar lake" celebrations doesn't mean that the climate alarmists stopped producing gigatons of insane fantasies. Quite on the contrary. We were just told that
Climate Central, an organization whose mission is to answer every question by "climate change will destroy it", wrote a "study" – apparently taken seriously by the Pentagon – claiming that Boston, New York, Miami, and 1,700+ other U.S. cities will be at least 25% underwater by 2100, if measured by the percentage of the current population.
But the cities on the black list aren't not doomed yet, we're told. If we cut emissions, 1,000 cities on the list will experience salvation and they will be taken off the list.
These claims are comical at many levels. First of all, everything indicates that the sea level rise continues at a rate we've been seeing for several centuries and the sea level rise between now and 2100 will be between –20 and +50 centimeters. Such a change is beaten by the tides that undergo two cycles every 24 hours.
Second, if we were assuming that the research is valid and if we could "save" just 1,000 cities out of 1,700 cities by making brutal interventions into our style of living, I am sure that all sensible people in the world would agree that it's not worth to do it. The number 1,700 undoubtedly has a very large error margin – it's actually many thousands but it's impossible for it to be less than many hundreds – so the "savings" get lost in the noise. If you were told that you will lose 1,700 hair by the year XY but you will reduce the losses by 1,000 if you completely stop drinking alcohol, would you stop? I surely wouldn't and I am no textbook friend of alcohol. After decades of asceticism, you would have no chance to verify that your sacrifice was worth it.
Third, they completely neglect the "backreaction of the people" in the case that the sea level will start to rise. There isn't any sea level problem today so people don't fight with the sea level rise in the U.S. But be sure that if important cities were destined to be submerged, people would react much like the Dutchmen reacted. The idea that the Yankees would just let the New York City to be drunk by the ocean is ludicrous and shows that the authors of the "study" have no idea about the human behavior.
Unlike the previous image, this map shows a scientifically demonstrable territory that would be flooded now if there has been no human activity in the Netherlands.
This diagram shows which part of the Netherlands would be flooded without dykes. Yes, Amsterdam would be close to the middle of the new Dutch sea without a man-made activity. This approximately one-half of the country is saved from the floods. The floods wouldn't be there all the time. But even if you look at the percentage of the Dutch territory that is beneath the sea level today, it is 20 percent.
For a thousand of years or so, the Dutchmen were simply ignoring the sea level. The land was precious for them so they kept it. No doubt, the Americans would be saving many places by various technologies, too. If these technologies were needed at many places, they would become a commodity and the price would go down. Even Prague, with its much more modest experience with floods, has built effective anti-flood walls that were helpful during the recent inundations. Tens of kilometers of a wall that is 5 meters tall and that can resist the pressure lower than one atmosphere is just not such an expensive product if it can save Boston or New York.
If we assume that the sea level rise will be as high as assumed by them (it won't be), there are cities and places that would be saved by such constructions. And there are also towns that would be abandoned. You know, 87 years is a pretty long period of time. It's longer than the average age of a house in our cities and towns. It's no big loss if you abandon your house after 87 years. You will probably do so, anyway: whether the sea level rises or stays the same.
The only dilemma worth talking about is connected with the construction projects that will be decided between 2013 and 2100. Will you stop a project now or in 2050 - because you were just told by Climate Central, an organization that doesn't seem to show any signs of impartiality whatsoever, that the town will be underwater in 2100? I think it would be utterly unreasonable.
It's unreasonable to pay any attention to that now for many reasons, also because a 87-year lifetime isn't that bad. But in 2050, the projections will surely be updated. If the sea level rise continues to be negligible by 2050, as it is now, the 2013 projections by Climate Central will surely be viewed as some silly religious fearmongering by our descendants' monkey-like predecessors in 2013 – after all, many of us see them in this way already today. Climate activists, if there are still some climate activists in 2050, will make their forecasts for the year 2150 or later. If the sea level rise miraculously accelerates in the following decades, I mean before 2050, the distribution of places where people live and build new houses will undoubtedly shift so the submerged percentage of the cities will be much lower according to the distribution of population in 2050 than it is with respect to the current population.
I am talking about an idea that is important in other contexts as well, especially in the context of natural selection and Darwin's theory of evolution. Relatively to the current population (of organisms), minor mutations have odds about 50-50 that they will make the viability of the organism better or worse, respectively. However, once you look at the future population and future species, almost all of them will be descendants of individuals who resulted from a mutation that may be counted as "beneficial". The results are different because the percentages mean different things. Mutations are random – according to the current population – but they lead to unequal consequences which is why the mutations aren't equally represented according to the future population. The emergent non-uniformity is what natural selection is all about.
Climate Central's blokes face a problem. They can't really have their cake and eat it, too. Their forecasts would be manifestly preposterous if they were made about some foreseeable future that may be meaningfully planned – like the year 2020 or 2030. Because they want to make a prediction that assumes that the rate of the sea level rise will start to behave totally differently than what we have seen for centuries up to now, they must reserve a long period of time – like those 87 years – to make the acceleration at least remotely plausible.
But by making the time horizon so long, they immediately make the prediction inconsequential for the current behavior, too. If they tell us about a prediction for such a distant future that we can't effectively "feel" whether the prediction is conceivable or not, it also means that it's so far that we can't possibly "care" about the hypothetical futures, either. So all these exercises are useless and they would be useless even if the predictions had some scientific foundations – they don't.
I am surprised by their suggestion that the emission cuts will only save a modest percentage (close to one-half) of the cities. It makes no sense from the viewpoint of their "cause" because the qualitative outcome is pretty much independent of the mitigation efforts. Needless to say, it makes no sense scientifically, either. If emissions (almost) don't matter, then it means that the recent and near future sea level rise is mostly natural but if it is mostly natural, there is no reason why its rate should suddenly increase by an order of magnitude.

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ADM Profit Falls 60% on Weak Ethanol Demand, Drought
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Archer Daniels Midland on Tuesday reported a 60 percent drop in its first-quarter profit due to weaker global demand for ethanol, the impact of the drought on crops and a charge related to a planned divestiture.
Decatur, Ill.-based ADM, with corn processing operations in Cedar Rapids and Clinton, posted net earnings of $182 million, or 28 cents per share, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, down from $460 million, or 68 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.
Revenue was relatively flat at $21.81 billion in the most recent quarter, compared with $21.9 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2012.
The first-quarter earnings were reduced by a charge of $146 million, or 16 cents per share, related to ADM’s planned sale of Gruma, a Mexican food company.
ADM Chairman and CEO Patricia Woertz called the first-quarter results mixed, saying the company's oilseed processing business was strong, but the ethanol industry experienced sustained negative margins and smaller crops were handed and sold by its agricultural services unit due to the drought.
"As we look ahead to 2013, we are bringing online our large Paraguay soybean processing plant as South American farmers are responding to market conditions with record plantings, and we are implementing plans to navigate the tight U.S. crop supply," Woertz said. "Longer-term, we remain optimistic as we see continued growth in global demand for protein meal and other agricultural products."
ADM's corn processing operating profit was $68 million, a decrease of $115 million from the same period last year.
Sweeteners and starches operating profit increased $64 million to $94 million, as tight sweetener industry capacity supported higher year-over-year selling prices.
Bioproduct results in the quarter declined $179 million to a loss of $26 million. Weak U.S. ethanol exports, strong Brazilian imports and slow E15 implementation kept industry margins negative.
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It’s nearly time to get your seeds started indoors! Join us at Fowler to restock our Concord Seed Lending Library for its 11th year. We will package a variety of seeds, some saved from the last year and some donated and/or purchased thanks to the Friends of CFPL.
We are grateful to Codman Community Farms for their ongoing support of our Seed Lending Library.
To learn more about our Seed Lending Library and to register see the library event calendar.

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Street Culture’s evening program provides regular pro-social activities to engage youth with the community and agency. The nightly program includes recreational, artistic, social and resource based programming. Evening program is open to all Street Culture Project affiliated youth and runs weekly from 6:00PM-9:00PM.
SCP’s weekly music night runs through GLInn every Wednesday at 5:00PM with supper included. Youth can create their own lyrics and music and even record in our studio. Music night is drop-in based. Check out some our finished music projects!

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After 28 years, Barclay Goldsmith is stepping down as the producing director of Borderlands Theatre, the company with a uniquely Tucson identity which he helped create and which he has helped shepherd through the ups and downs of a not-for-profit theater.
But he wants to be clear. He may be taking a bow for the role of producing director, but says, "I will remain connected in one way or another. I will not leave working with the company."
In fact, he is directing the first show of Borderlands' new season, "They Call Me a Hero." Typical of the fare that Borderlands is committed to producing, it is an original play penned by Guillermo Reyes, a theater instructor at Arizona State University. It is based on the memoir by Daniel Hernandez, the young man many considered so instrumental in saving former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' life in the horrendous shootings here in January 2011.
Goldsmith says that this play fits squarely with Borderlands' stated mission, which includes "championing the development and production of new plays ... whose work resonates with the diversity of our audiences."
Goldsmith says that mission statement has been "somewhat amplified, to include voices about borders not necessarily only from this region, and plays written by non-border writers that metaphorically deal with borders, or even sometimes borders within the same community. Actually, 'metaphorical' is a dangerous word to use because it tends to be so unspecific. Generally, we do work about issues and differences that separate people. Our work reflects the diverse voices of the U.S. border, with a focus on the Latino, Chicano, Chicana voices, but not exclusively."
Borderlands Theatre's new producing director will be Marc David Pinate.
Says Goldsmith, "We're really fortunate to have someone of Marc's background to take over leadership of the program. He comes from a performance background and has worked with community arts organizations in the Bay Area, and recently completed an MFA in directing from DePaul University.
"Marc is focused on hearing voices in site-specific work that takes theater out to the community. He's also interested in broadening the diversity of our audience base. Even though we are a Latino theater company our audiences don't reflect that demographic. He wants to figure out why and broaden that base."
Pinate was a director in residence last year at Borderlands. In 2008 he received a three-year directing residency at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley from the Doris Duke Foundation. He was a faculty member at San Jose State University's department of Television, Radio, Film and Theatre for eight years. As a spoken word poet, Pinate won the 1999 National Slam Poetry Championship, and he is interested in ways of bringing unconventional theater to unconventional settings. He envisions "a reimagining of where theater happens, why it happens, and for whom it happens." His wife, Milta Ortiz, is here as a playwright-in-residence with funding from a number of sources and is working on a play about the banning of the Mexican-American studies in TUSD. Borderlands hopes to produce that play in the fall of 2015.
Pinate "will certainly bring a different energy and style" to Borderlands," Goldsmith says.
Goldsmith says he still hopes to continue his work with projects and relationships he's helped develop in Mexico. And as a founding member of National New Play Network, he will continue to participate in their summer program at the Kennedy Center in which a small number of playwrights are invited to have their plays workshopped and given staged readings.
Goldsmith also expressed appreciation for those with whom he has worked over the years. "Borderlands has been supported by a long term, dedicated board and staff, including Eva Tessler."
Pinate acknowledges that "Barclay's legacy and what he has created over the last 28 years I respect and cherish, and we're certainly going to honor that. We will continue Borderlands' identity and look for different ways to support its mission."


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- Africa Climate Summit enters day 2
- COP28 President-Designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber set to make a major declaration
Various Heads of state across Africa continue streaming in at the Kenyatta International conference center for the Africa Climate Summit that is on its second day.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga joined President William Ruto at the Africa Climate Summit.
Raila was received by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua who led him to the sitting area.
The opposition leader is expected to speak about urgent action to address climate change and call on African leaders to work together to find solutions.
The Summit started on Monday at Kenyatta International Convention Centre and is set to run up to Friday.
COP28 President-Designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber is also in Nairobi for the summit and is expected to make a major declaration on Tuesday, September 5.
The summit aims to address critical climate issues and set a new agenda for Africa’s sustainable development.
Heads Of State attending the Africa Climate Summit
Among those who have arrived include; Tanzania president Samia Suluhu , Ethiopia President Sahle-Work Zewde,Ghana President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, Libya leader Mohamed al-Menfi, his Sierra Leone counterpart Julius Maada Wonie Bio.
United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, and the European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are also in attendance.

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August is five days in the past and it’s time to take a broom to the Cottage on the Corner. It’s been awhile since I’ve been here and there’s some maintenance to be done. The cobwebs in the corner sport little spiders that scurried in when the weather went from 90 to 65 within a day or so. I prefer to throw the windows wide open so I can hear the blue jay cry out to friends and foes even as a chilled breeze rustles my newly made curtains. Yep, my friend MJ helped me make curtains for my bedroom and office area…simplicity in linen-like fabric and I like them very much. The freshly painted white bookcases my dad built many years ago stand on either side of my farmhouse table turned desk. Yeats, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Winnie the Pooh all share space on the shelves. Have I mentioned how much I love the deep sills? Eight inches! That’s eight inches of space to set a glass hurricane candle with a shell-filled bottom, a place to display an apothecary jar or cloche, and plenty of room for photos, mementos, and cats.
I’m ready to get back to photography, too. I’ve missed so many opportunities, but there’s so many more to come. Today I’m joining Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday. I photographed wooden spools of thread inside an old Atlas canning jar. I did a wee bit of editing: cropping, saturate the color just a bit, gave it a cross processing and flipped Kim's crackerjack texture on to the photo. I lessened the opacity and called it finished.
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Situated at the heart of Bishopston Valley, the family-run Gower Hotel is only 1.5 mile from the beach. It features a restaurant, free Wi-Fi and parking.
The classically decorated and individually designed rooms feature an en suite bathroom and a TV. All rooms have luxurious furniture and stylish bathrooms.
Guests can enjoy vibrant dishes featuring locally sourced produce and relax in the intimate bar. The airy conservatory and the outdoor decking area offer views of the surrounding, landscaped garden.
Located 6 miles from Swansea, the Gower Hotel is close to the breath-taking Brecon Beacons National Park, 45 minutes’ drive away. The hotel offers easy access to the Gower Peninsula's lovely beaches.
The M4 is 9 miles away, while Cardiff Airport is less than 50 miles from the property.

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It used to be an anguished cry of Protestants in Ireland that the Roman Catholic Church’s policy on mixed marriages was “bleeding other churches dry.” The policy required that couples should raise their children as Catholics, and that weddings conducted in Protestant churches should soon be followed by a nuptial Mass celebrated by the local priest.
The policy has produced unexpected consequences: according to Church of Ireland estimates, one in four families in the Republic of Ireland includes at least one Protestant grandparent. This factor is quietly changing the tone of church relations. There are other signs that rivers of resentment are running clean after a century of independence in the Republic of Ireland.
One recent example is a decision of the rector and church council of St. Maeldoid’s (Church of Ireland) at Muckno, Castleblayney, to share a lovely, gothic-style church building with nearby St. Mary’s (Roman Catholic), which has closed its building for a year of essential repairs. Mucklo is located in County Monaghan in the border region, but lies mostly in the Irish Republic.
The Rev. Pat McHugh and his parishioners at St. Mary’s readily accepted the arrangement, and it was approved by the Rt. Rev. John McDowell, Bishop of Clogher.
Anglican services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Sundays, with a Mass following at 11:45. The church will be open for Mass from Monday to Thursday.
“I am absolutely delighted that we can be of assistance to our brothers and sisters in Christ at St. Mary’s by offering St. Maeldoid’s Church as a place of worship,” said the Rev. Neal Phair, rector of St. Maeldoid’s. “We celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity together, and it is wonderful that we can further the unity we share by worshiping under the same roof for the coming year.”
Fr. McHugh of St Mary’s has spoken of the relations between his parish and its Church of Ireland neighbors, as “yet another example of the exceptional goodwill and wholesome spirit of Christian solidarity which we experience with our local community.”


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LONDON (AP) — Russia’s central bank has managed to stabilize key aspects of the economy with severe controls, artificially propping up the ruble to allow it to rebound to levels seen before the invasion of Ukraine even as the West piles on more sanctions.
That became evident as central bank of Russia said Friday that it was lowering its benchmark interest rate and said more rate cuts could be on the way. The decision indicates it thinks strict capital controls and other strict measures are stabilizing Russia’s currency and financial system despite severe pressure from U.S. and European sanctions.
The bank lowered its benchmark rate from 20% to 17%, effective Monday. The interest rate cut reflected “the changed balance of risks” among inflation, economic growth and banking system stability, the bank said.
It had raised the rate from 9.5% on Feb. 28, four days after the invasion, as a way to support the ruble’s plunging exchange rate. A currency collapse would worsen already high inflation for Russian shoppers by ballooning the cost of imported goods.
The ruble fell from 79 to the dollar the day before the invasion to as low as 139 to the dollar. But it has since recovered to around 77 rubles to the dollar in very limited trading, bolstered by drastic measures such as forcing companies to exchange 80% of foreign currency for rubles and barring foreign investors from selling out of their ruble holdings.
The bank said weekly price data showed “a substantial slowdown in the pace of price increases, partly as a result of the dynamic of the ruble’s exchange rate.” The official inflation figure for February was 9.2%.
The bank’s statement “allows for the possibility for a continuation of rate decreases at coming meetings.”
Western sanctions have dealt a severe blow to the economy, cutting major banks off from international transactions, freezing central bank reserves and leading many Western companies to abandon their businesses in Russia.
Since an initial round of sanctions over Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014, the Kremlin has tried to insulate its economy from financial penalties by encouraging companies to source parts locally and banning food imports from Europe to encourage local production.


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by Christopher Freeburn | August 8, 2013 11:36 am
During a conference call with analysts, Time Warner (TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes indicated that the media company will take more time to separate its magazine publishing unit.
Bewkes said that Time Inc. will be spun-off as a publicly traded company in early 2014. Time Warner had previously indicated plans to separate the publishing unit before the end of this year, Reuters noted.
The delay is intended to give Time Inc.’s incoming CEO Joe Ripp time to develop a business strategy. Ripp will take the reins at Time Inc. in September. Bewkes noted that the company didn’t want to move to fast, adding “it is prudent to give [Ripp] some time to further refine Time Inc’s strategic direction” prior to the spin-off. Time Inc. publishes a number of popular magazines, including Time, People and Sports Illustrated.
Time Warner posted a second-quarter profit of $771 million, up from $412 million during the same period last year. Adjusted EPS of 83 cents easily topped the 76 cents that Wall Street had expected. The company also increased its earnings guidance for the year, forecasting that its profit will show mid-teens percentage growth. That was up from earlier predictions of low double digits earnings growth.
The company announced plans to spin off its magazine unit in March.
Shares of Time Warner slipped fractionally in Thursday morning trading.
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Using exotic man-made materials, scientists from Duke University and Boston College believe they can greatly enhance the forces of electromagnetism (EM), one of the four fundamental forces of nature, without harming living beings or damaging electrical equipment.
This theoretical finding could have broad implications for such applications as magnetic levitation trains, which ride inches above the tracks without touching and are propelled by electro-magnets.
As the term indicates, EM is made up of two types of fields – electric and magnetic. Alternating current sources generate both electric and magnetic fields, and increasing one of them generally leads to the increase in the other. But electrical fields can cause problems if they get too high.
“For any EM applications dealing with things on the human scale, high-intensity EM fields needed for the generation of strong forces interfere with other devices and may be harmful to biological tissues, including humans,” said Yaroslav Urzhumov, an assistant research professor in electrical and computer engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering.
“The severity of this problem is substantially reduced if the fields are predominantly magnetic, since virtually all biological substances and the majority of conventional materials are transparent to magnetic fields,” Urzhumov said. “While we can’t suppress the electric field completely, a magnetically-active metamaterial could theoretically reduce the amount of current needed to generate a high enough magnetic field, thus reducing parasitic electric fields in the environment and making high-power EM systems safer.”
The solution to this problem comes from the recent ability to fabricate exotic composite materials known as metamaterials, which are not so much a single substance, but an entire man-made structure that can be engineered to exhibit properties not readily found in nature. These metamaterials can be fabricated into a limitless array of sizes, shapes and properties depending on their intended use.
In the magnetic levitation train example, conventional electromagnets could be supplemented by a metamaterial, which would have been designed to produce significantly higher intensities of magnetic fields using the same amount of electricity.
The Duke scientists came up with the theoretical underpinning for the metamaterial, which is being fabricated by collaborators at Boston College, led by Willie Padilla, associate professor of physics.
“The metamaterial should be able to increase the magnetic force without increasing the electric current in the source coil,” Urzhumov said. “The phenomenon of magnetostatic surface resonance could allow magnetic levitation systems to increase the mass of objects being levitated by one order of magnitude while using the same amount of electricity.”
EM is currently being used in a host of devices and applications, ranging from subatomic “optical tweezers” scientists use to manipulate microscopic particles with laser beams, to potentially highly destructive weapons.
Urzhumov works in the laboratory of Duke’s David R. Smith, William Bevan Professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Duke’s Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics. Smith has previously demonstrated that similarly designed metamaterials could act as a “cloak” to different frequencies of light and other waves.
Wenchen Chen and Chris Bingham from Boston College’s physics department were also members of the research team.


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Presentation on theme: "Terms Used in Biochemistry & Calculations. ■ Tips to Success in Biochemistry Lab 1.Write down a clear plan before you start working. 2.Keep very careful."— Presentation transcript:
■ Tips to Success in Biochemistry Lab 1.Write down a clear plan before you start working. 2.Keep very careful notes so you can recheck what you did if you get unexpected results. 3.Label all tubes and samples so they don't get mixed up. 4.Work slowly and carefully. Accurate, reproducible results in a biochemical test like this requires care on your part. If you are sloppy or careless your results will suffer.
■ Terms used in biochemistry lab Liter-------volume unit. 1L = 1000ml = 1000000 μl Gram--------mass unit (weight). 1g = 1000mg = 1000000 μg
Units of Concentrations 1- Mass unit / volume unit: Example: mg/ml, mg/l, g/l, g/dl, mg%, etc.
Units of Concentrations 2- Molarity (M): Another way of expressing concentration is called molarity. Molarity is the number of moles of solute dissolved in one liter of solution. The units, therefore are moles per liter, specifically it's moles of solute per liter of solution. Molarity = moles of solute liter of solution
Units of Concentrations 2- Molarity (M): Molarity = moles of solute liter of solution Rather than writing out moles per liter, these units are abbreviated as M or M. M = wt × 1000. MW × V(ml)
Units of Concentrations 2- Molarity (M): To convert from mg% to mmol/l: mmol/l = mg × 10. MW substance
Units of Concentrations 3- Normality (N): When you need to compare solutions on the basis of concentration of specific ions or the amount of charge that the ions have, a different measure of concentration can be very useful. It is called normality. No. of equivalent weight per liter of solution. Eq.wt = molecular weight (MW) Valence N = wt × 1000. Eq.wt × V(ml)
Problem: 1- How many grams of glucose are needed to make 100 ml of a 0.6 mol/l solution? (MW glucose = 180).
Problem: 2- How can you prepare 0.1 M NaOH solution?
Problem: 3- Describe the preparation of 5 L of 0.1 M Na2CO3 (MW = 105.99) from the primary standard solid.
Units of Concentrations 4- Percent Concentration (%): 1-Volume percent is usually used when the solution is made by mixing two liquids. The use of percentages is a common way of expressing the concentration of a solution. The percentages can be calculated using volumes as well as weights, or even both together. One way of expressing concentrations is by volume percent. Another is by weight percent. Still another is a hybrid called weight/volume percent. Volume percent (v/v) = volume of solute × 100. volume of solution
Example: Rubbing alcohol is generally 70% by volume isopropyl alcohol. That means that 100 ml of solution contains 70 ml of isopropyl alcohol. That also means that a liter (or 1000 ml) of this solution has 700 ml of isopropyl alcohol plus enough water to bring it up a total volume of 1 liter, or 1000 ml.
Units of Concentrations 4- Percent Concentration (%): 2- Weight percent: is expressing the concentration of a solution in weight percent (or mass percent). Weight percent (w/w) = weight of solute × 100. weight of solution
Question: What is the weight percent of glucose in a solution made by dissolving 4.6 g of glucose in 145.2 g of water? To get weight percent we need the weight of the solute and the total weight of the solution. Determine total weight of solution: 4.6g + 145.2 g = 149.8 g Calculate percent: Weight % glucose = 4.6g glucose × 100 = 3.1% glucose 149.8 g solution
Units of Concentrations 4- Percent Concentration (%): 3- Weight- volume percent: Another variation on percentage concentration is weight/volume percent or mass/volume percent. This variation measures the amount of solute in grams but measures the amount of solution in milliliters. Weight-Volume percent (w/v) = weight of solute × 100 volume of solution An example would be a 5 %( w/v) NaCl solution. It contains 5 g of NaCl for every 100 mL of solution.
Balance Rules and Instructions The Figure illustrates one type of top loading electronic balance. Refer to this figure when following the steps and precautions for using the balance listed below:
Balance Rules and Instructions 1. Never pour or transfer chemicals over the balance. Spilled chemicals can damage the balances, which are very expensive to repair or replace. Never weigh warm or hot objects; if you can feel any heat, the weighing will not be accurate. Always use a container such as a vial, beaker, flask, or watch glass to weigh a solid or liquid chemical on the balance to protect the balance pan.
Balance Rules and Instructions 2. Make sure your hands are clean and dry before you handle containers or objects that are to be weighed. The outside of these containers or objects must also be clean and dry. Clean up any spills on the balance pan or lab bench around the balance immediately.
Balance Rules and Instructions 3. First open or remove the draft lid or cover (if there is one) and check to make sure that the balance pan is clean. If the pan is dirty, have your TA show you how to clean it and gently place it back on the balance.
Balance Rules and Instructions 4. Close or put the draft lid back on the balance and zero the balance by pressing the "T" or "on/tare" button (re- zero bar on Mettler balances). Wait 5-10 seconds for the weight display to stabilize. (If the object to be weighed is so large that the draft lid can't be used, do this step without the draft lid in place.)
Balance Rules and Instructions 5. Open or remove the draft lid and place the object to be weighed on the balance pan. Then close or place the draft lid back on the balance. (As long as it does not touch the object to be weighed, leave the lid off if it does touch the object.) After 5-10 seconds the weight display will stabilize and you can record the mass to ±0.001 g.
Balance Rules and Instructions 6. Never unplug the balance.
Dilution Diluted solutions can be prepared from concentrated solutions. Mconc. × Vconc. = M dil. × V dil. Moles taken from concentrated solution = Moles placed in diluted solution
Problem: How can we prepare 100 ml of 0.04M K2Cr2O7 from 0.2M K2Cr2O7?
Serial Dilution This technique involves the removal of a small amount of an original solution to another container which is then brought up to the original volume using the required buffer or water.
Serial Dilution Example: if you have 1 mL of your original solution and you remove 10 µL and place it in a tube containing 990 µL of water or media you have made a 1:100 dilution.
Serial Dilution Here is an example of how to do a series of serial dilutions: 1 ml extract + 4 ml water = 1/5 dilution 1 ml 1/5 dilution + 4 ml water = 1/25 dilution 1 ml 1/25 dilution + 4 ml water = 1/125 dilution Dilution factor = Final volume Initial volume
Standard Curve A standard curve is a quantitative research tool, a method of plotting assay data that is used to determine the concentration of a substance.
Standard Curve The assay is first performed with various known concentrations of a substance similar to that being measured. For example a standard curve for protein concentration is often created using known concentrations of bovine serum albumin.
Standard Curve The assay procedure may measure - absorbance, - optical density, - luminescence, - fluorescence, - radioactivity, or something else.
Standard Curve This data is used to make the standard curve, plotting concentration on the X axis, and assay measurement on the Y axis. The same assay is then performed with samples of unknown concentration.
Standard Curve To analyze the data, one locates the measurement on the Y-axis that corresponds to the assay measurement of the unknown substance and follows a line to intersect the standard curve. The corresponding value on the X-axis is the concentration of substance in the unknown sample.
Standard Curve Here is an example of how construct a standard curve. Concentration mg/ml Absorbance 545nm 0.50.1 1.00.2 1.50.3 2.50.4 5.00.5 10.00.6 25.00.7 PROTEIN STANDARD CURVE... a plot of absorbance @ 545nm vs. protein concentration
Definition of pH pH: is a measure of acidity and the alkalinity of a solution in terms of hydrogen ion H+ or (hydronium ion concentration) pH= -log[H 3 O+] Thus, it is evident that the pH is inversely proportional to the acidity. Lower the pH, higher the acidity or hydrogen ion concentration while higher the pH, the acidity is lower.
Definition of pH Just as pH is convenient way to represent the concentration of H 3 O+, pOH is convenient way to express the concentration of OH-. pOH= -log[OH-]
Definition of pH A solution is acidic if its pH is less than 7 A solution is basic if its pH is grater than 7 (base is any substance that accept H+) A solution is neutral if its pH is equal to 7 pH value of some common materials Material pH Gastric juice 1-3 Vinegar 2.4- 3.4 Urine 5.5- 7.5 Milk 6.3- 6.6 Saliva 6.5- 7.5 Pure water 7 Blood 7.35- 7.45 Sea water 8- 9 Ammonia 11.7
Definition of pH There are 2 ways to measure the pH: 1.By using a pH paper which is a plane paper soaked with mixture of pH indicator. Some acid-base indicators.
Definition of pH There are 2 ways to measure the pH: 2. By using pH meter this method is more accurate and more precise.
Definition of Buffer Is a solution that resists change in pH when limited amounts of an acid or a base are added to it. buffers consist of weak acids + corresponding salt Or weak base + corresponding salt.
Definition of Buffer * Applications Their resistance to changes in pH makes buffer solutions very useful for chemical manufacturing and essential for many biochemical processes. Buffer solutions are necessary to keep the right pH for enzymes in many organisms to work. Many enzymes work only under very precise conditions. Industrially, buffer solutions are used in fermentation processes and in setting the correct conditions for dyes used in coloring fabrics. The acid-base balance or pH of the body fluids is maintained by a closely regulated mechanism. This involves the body buffers, the respiratory system and the kidney.
Definition of Buffer * Selection of the buffer: The selection of a particular buffer for a given application is based on two consideration: 1.the desired pH 2.chemical compatibility of the buffer components with the sample
Definition of Buffer Example of the Preparation of phosphate buffer Preparation of 0.1M sodium phosphate buffer at 25ºC. Phosphate buffer is composed of NaH2PO4 (acid) and Na2HPO4 (base). Preparation of 0.1M sodium phosphate buffer at 25 º C Volume of 1M NaH2PO4 (mL) Volume of 1M Na2HPO4 (mL) Desired pH 92.1 7.95.8 88.012.06.0 220.127.116.11 74.525.56.4 64.835.26.6 53.746.36.8 42.357.77.0 31.668.47.2 22.6 77.4 7.4 15.584.57.6 10.489.67.8 6.893.28.0 Samar A. Damiati

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We spent the next eighteen months sitting on Doraly's living room floor organising a carpet of index cards with each scene of the film written on each one. Finally, writing between jobs, and too many evenings typing away until the early hours. We had the script. We went round to a friend's house who owned a printer, and watched as our 135-page baby lay in the paper tray. Job done we thought. Lets get this made...
Oh the naivety! We were put in touch with a producing partnership (for the purposes of this story) Bert & Ernie. For £1 they optioned the rights to the film for three months - this should have been the first whiff of trouble, as it's nigh on impossible to raise sufficient finance for a cup of tea, let alone a movie in that time within the film industry. Innocent as abattoir-bound lambs, we celebrated 'the deal' with a bottle at Century Club (this turned out to be the largest investment Bert & Ernie were ever to muster).
Unaware that we had managed to hook up with the only two people in Soho less experienced than ourselves, we went for the first of many meetings at their plush Soho production office. We pinched ourselves as we were 'buzzed in' by the receptionist and sent up to the boardroom. With its lavish pot plants, vast Italian minimalist table, mineral water and walls decked with the film posters of the company's previous cinematic triumphs. However, as time passed, we noticed the office, like the seasons, subtly change.
Our first visit had the sumptuous office bathed in august sunlight. The next visit, some of the furniture seemed to have disappeared. Then we arrived to find the posters missing on the bare walls. We became aware of the evenings drawing in during a meeting in which there appeared to be no progress made with financing, and similarly no electricity to light the room. It's hard to convey the atmosphere of a production meeting in which you can only vaguely make out the producers.
The penny finally dropped when we arrived one day to be greeted by the receptionist whose main task appeared to be directing removals men. She instructed us that Bert & Ernie were now in the attic room on the fifth floor. We trekked up the stairs to find the pair squeezed between two old filing cabinets, and greeting us with "isn't it all marvellous" smiles. It really wasn't. It turned out they had been 'borrowing' the premises. So we made a plan.
Doraly had a friend of a friend, who suggested a young up-and-coming producer based in a big commercial studio complex (again for the purposes of this story - Madge). She liked the script, and although it wasn't a genre piece, and was penned by two first time writers, found herself eager to take it on. Pointing out that there was only a week left until Bert & Ernie's option ran out, we simply had to wait before Madge paid us another £1 and optioned the script for six months.
By now Doraly and I had secured private investment funding that was conditional on being match funded - Madge's task - or so we thought. As time went by we realised the main advantage Madge seemed to have over Bert & Ernie was that as she was based at a big studio, there were always complimentary snacks and hot drinks available down in the main foyer. It soon became clear that Madge had a rather annoying flaw in her producing capabilities...She was neither able to attract match funding or close a deal. More importantly, when Doraly and I, in our capacity as exec producers tried to ask about the leads she was following for funding, she always brushed us off with some 'legalese'.
In particular Madge was chasing up an exciting possible co-producer that Doraly and I had managed to attract - in the form of a large and well respected Canadian producer. As days became weeks, and still no progress with the Canadian, Doraly and I tried desperately to speak with the Canadian's 'foot soldier' on the ground over in London. However, Madge's M O became clear. The only way she was able to make herself indispensible was to keep everyone separate. She tried every which way to prevent us contacting potential investors, even though we were exec producers, and appeared to be the only ones out there chasing leads.
Doraly and I then came up with plan No2. In order to keep the project from dying of inertia. Cannes film festival was fast approaching. We decided to get our literary agent to track down the Canadian's 'foot soldier' (Douglas - finally a genuine name!) at the festival, and inform him of our existence. We were desperate to have direct contact with someone who could actually make the film happen. It's hard to convey the level of paranoia and mistrust between people in the film industry. It's a business that combines a strange amalgam of art and commerce - not the healthiest mix at the best of times. At least when you go to a car showroom, or John Lewis, you know you're being sold a product fair and square. That's their business. But with film you're adding the ingredient of people's dreams and their aspiration to 'create art'. Not always a comfy ride.
So with our burgeoning sense of mistrust and paranoia, our agent managed to seek out Douglas and tell him that the two actor/writer/exec producers on the film he and his company were potentially investing in wanted to meet him on his return to London.
We arranged a meeting back in London without Madge knowing. It was one of those jaw dropping moments. Douglas sat telling Doraly and I just what stories Madge had spun about us, and we did likewise with Douglas. We had to take our hats off to Madge - she took divide and rule to a whole new level. By the end of the meeting, the three of us realised there was a way through this quagmire. Yes. Of course. Madge only held a six month option on our film, which with all the time wasting of the previous weeks - you guessed it - had nearly expired. Yet again we found ourselves skipping to another producer. On one hand it all seemed depressingly familiar, but on the other, it was a possible lifeline. You realise that in this industry tenacity is one commodity no one can have enough of. The ability to stay positive in the face of all the facts, to a degree that borders on the insane is a positive virtue.
As things turned out, the meeting with Douglas was the turning point. He was able to raise finance and close deals. Within a few months all was in place to begin the actual making of a movie. Which is a whole other story...
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