![]() Numerous resources, materials and parts go into smartphone manufacturing, including rare earth metals (e.g., lithium), tin, glass and plastics. Phones are composed of many pieces created in multiple steps, and each step consumes water. Their water footprint comes from the virtual water associated with their manufacturing – what’s known as the “ grey water footprint.” How Much Virtual Water is in a Smartphone? Grey Water Footprint: The amount of freshwater required to dilute the wastewater generated in manufacturing, in order to maintain water quality, as determined by state and local standards. Green Water Footprint: The amount of rainwater required (evaporated or used directly) to make an item. The Water Footprint Network (whose research provides some of the data used in the WFC) defines these components as:īlue Water Footprint: The amount of surface water and groundwater required (evaporated or used directly) to produce an item. Sources: Berger et al Water Footprint Network, “Water footprints of nations” Friends of the Earth/Trucost WFN, “The water footprint of cotton consumption” WFN, “The water footprint of wood for lumber, pulp, paper, fuel and firewood” TABLE: Data compiled, converted and produced by Water Footprint Calculator. Water Footprint of Common Consumer Items. The water footprint of a product is calculated by adding up all of the water required for each step of the production process. Table 1 lists a sampling of water footprints for the manufacturing of some common consumer goods. Hidden water is water that is not felt or seen and it is required for almost every step in the production processes for many raw materials and finished products. Hidden Water: How the Water Footprints of Consumer Goods are Calculated Knowing how much water it takes to make the raw materials and products we all use and consume is an important first step towards water conservation and using water more productively. Manufacturing everyday materials like paper, plastic, metal and fabric takes water – a lot of it. It may not be visible, but millions of gallons of virtual water go into making the consumer goods Americans buy, use and throw away. Requires a player SCAV and PMC together to extract.Hidden water is an important part of water use. Honks twice on arrival, honks once a minute before leaving, and honks twice on leaving. PMC players only and disappears after being used.Īrrives between 10 to 16 minutes left in the raid. Requires 5,000 Roubles per player extracting with a maximum of four players total. Requires 1 Paracord, 1 Red Rebel Ice Pick, and no armor vest/torso armor. No Special Conditions *Hideout Under the Landing Stage SCAV-only exits are marked with an asterisk. ![]() Just don’t run into mines on the way to the Grotto. While my favorite SCAV extracts are South Road Landslide, Hideout Under the Stage, and SCAV Hideout at the Grotto. Chances are you’ll spawn near one of them making for an easy escape. My favorite PMC extracts to take advantage of are Path to Shoreline and Southern Road. With that said, you can use the ocean, small pools of water, and the lighthouse especially to learn where you are. You’re either next to a long highway with a couple of big houses or near a giant dangerous compound. Learning Lighthouse in Tarkov can be a bit easier than some maps since there isn’t a lot to it. Click the map to expand it and zoom in further. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When not sedentary, Kyle enjoys traveling to the National Parks, seeing new cities, and has ambitions to explore abroad. He's a firm believer in three hours being the perfect length for a movie, but thinks a lot of games are much too long. Or he's trying to get you to watch Mad Men. ![]() When not talking about The Legend of Zelda, Dark Souls, Mass Effect, or some PlayStation exclusive, he's probably droning on about the works of Cormac McCarthy, Frank Herbert, Stanley Kubrick, and Wes Anderson. A terminal Midwesterner who graduated from the University of Kansas, Kyle also has knowledge and interest in literature, film, film adaptions of literature, and history. The game was released on January 27, 2015, and has been very well received by the gaming community. You can also find them at air supply drops so be sure to check those often. You can find bandits during a ton of side missions and they will have Assault rifles and high class melee weapons. Bandits Far and away the easiest way for you to get guns is to kill bandits. His tenure at SR began in late 2020 as a contributing Game Features writer before quickly becoming a Staff Writer, a role that gradually progressed into an Editor position. Dying Light is a popular survival horror video game published by Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment. Where To Find Guns In Dying Light As stated above guns are hard to find. One of Kyle's earliest memories is of watching his older brother play Ocarina of Time, which probably explains how he ended up as an Editor for Screen Rant's Gaming section. For those interested (and with potentially $100 to spare), Dying Light: Platinum Edition looks to be a massive package, including all anyone would need to parkour across Harran. Development for the sequel has been taking a while, but Techland promises Dying Light 2 will be bigger than the original, at least in square footage. Special Items, Outfits, Weapon Skins, & Vehicle Skinsĭying Light has turned into something much larger than it was originally, especially when The Following released. Cuisine & Cargo (two bonus Quarantine Zones). ![]() ![]() It wasn’t just that Anderson had stolen…er, paid tribute to the closing titles sequence from Buckaroo, or that both films featured a group of adults obsessed with their own self-created club paraphernalia, it was more that I never warmed to either film on the first viewing. I was struck by a sense of déjà vu at the climax of Buckaroo, which brought back vivid memories of Wes Anderson’s rather divisive 2004 underwater opus The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s to be mistaken for somebody else.” source: MGM Richter’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension takes pride of place there was something imperceptible about this unique film that never really left me, so I recently revisited Buckaroo’s world, courtesy of a superb new Blu-Ray transfer. Upon the rarefied mantelpiece of such secret cult movies, I suspect that W.D. Some films, you don’t want to become popular you want them to just be yours. The Usual Suspects was another one.īut then there are other cult films whose merits you deliberately keep to yourself, lest the secret gets out. ![]() It was the kind of film that you would demand that your friends go and see, and brag that you’d seen it first before anyone else, and then later you’d dismiss it slightly when suddenly everyone else had seen it, including people you didn’t much care for. ![]() Reservoir Dogs, for example, was only a very modest hit when it was first released in 1992, but before too long the images, dialogue, and music had seeped into mass popular culture. There are some cult movies that take on an unexpected afterlife powered by the slow-burn effect of word of mouth. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The ionic radius of chlorine is nearly twice as great as the radius of a neutral chlorine atom. On the other hand, each chlorine atom has gained one electron to become a chloride ion of unit negative charge. In sodium chloride, each sodium atom has lost an electron to become a sodium ion (charged atom) of unit positive charge. The metallic radius of sodium atoms bonded together in a chunk of sodium metal is larger than the ionic radius of sodium in the compound sodium chloride. When the neighbouring atoms are not alike, as in sodium chloride, part of the observed distance between atoms is assigned to one kind of atom and the rest to the other kind. The value of atomic radii depends on the type of chemical bond in which the atoms are involved ( metallic, ionic, or covalent bond). An atom has no rigid spherical boundary, but it may be thought of as a tiny, dense positive nucleus surrounded by a diffuse negative cloud of electrons. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Ītomic radius, half the distance between the nuclei of identical neighbouring atoms in the solid form of an element.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions. ![]() Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives. ![]() ![]() ![]() The slides were rinsed gently with distilled water, then washed with PBS twice for five minutes each. Endogenous peroxidase activity was destroyed in 0.03% hydrogen peroxide in methanol for 30 minutes at room temperature. ![]() Slides were heated to 4☌ for five minutes, then to room temperature before washing in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) twice for five minutes each. ![]() Nasal polyps from steroid treated and steroid naive subjects were examined by immunohistochemistry and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).Ĭryostat sections (4 μm) were cut onto silanated glass slides and stored at –20☌. It was hypothesised that c-fos-irm would be expressed as a marker of cellular activation in polyps, but that glucocorticoid treatment would reduce the levels of expression. Since Emery et al 1 noted the presence of c-fos, c-jun, and c-myc mRNA in human nasal polyps it has been of interest to determine the distribution of c-fos immunoreactive material ( c-fos-irm) in nasal polyps and the effects of glucocorticoids on c-fos-irm and mRNA expression in vivo. 9, 10Ī human model would be useful for studying this postulated interaction between glucocorticoid and c-fos and to learn its relevance to the actions of glucocorticoids in vivo. 3-5, 7, 8 Hence, synthesis of mRNAs for many proinflammatory products may become reduced. This reduction in the amount of free activated AP-1 may lead to a “default” reduction in the expression of genes that require AP-1 for activation. These activated receptors are thought to bind to activated AP-1, leading to mutual inactivation of both protein factors. 3-6 Glucocorticoids enter cells and bind to glucocorticoid receptors. One mechanism of glucocorticoid action is postulated to be an interaction with c-fos or AP-1. AP-1 helps initiate transcription of many proinflammatory genes, including those for cytokines. AP-1moves from the cytoplasm into the nucleus where it binds to AP-1 promoter sites on a wide variety of genes. 2 c-Fos combines with members of the c-jun family to form the transcription factor activation protein 1 ( AP-1). 1 The c-fos oncogene participates in transduction cascades that are initiated by many proinflammatory mediators. Nasal polyps are known to express high levels of proinflammatory transcription factors such as c-fos. ![]() ![]() Supervisors will base employee performance appraisals on a comprehensive review and evaluation of all entries made in the Guardian System for the employees during the evaluation period. Understanding that its employees deserve recognition for exceptional performance and the opportunity to correct shortcomings, the Harford County Sheriff's Office will utilize the Guardian Tracking System. The Guardian Tracking System provides supervisors with a comprehensive tool for recognizing employee performance as well as the means to document employee shortcomings in a transparent manner. ADM 1302 Grants ManagementĮmployees are the most valuable resource of the Harford County Sheriff's Office. No member of the Harford County Sheriff's Office may prevent or prohibit any person's ability to observe, photograph, and / or make a video recording (with or without a simultaneous audio recording) of law enforcement activity that occurs in the public domain, so long as the person's location, actions, and / or behavior do not create a legitimate, articulable threat to officer safety or the safety of others, or an unlawful hindrance to successful resolution of the law enforcement activity. The right to record items in plain view / hearing includes such places as public buildings, streets and sidewalks and any area where the individual has a legal right to be present such as the individual’s home or business or other private property. ![]() Individuals have a First Amendment right to record a member in the public discharge of his law enforcement duties as long as the individual’s actions do not interfere with the duties of the deputy, or jeopardizes the safety of the deputy or others. ![]() To provide guidance for members pertaining to the rights of citizens or the media to photograph, videotape, and / or audiotape members of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office during the discharge of his law enforcement duties. This material may also be used to provide an impartial measurement for self-critique and field observations. MVS material will enhance a deputy’s ability to document and review actions and statements for reporting purposes, as well as courtroom testimony. Deputies will use MVS equipment for the purpose of accurate documentation of events, actions, conditions, and statements made during citizen contacts, arrests, critical incidents, and for courtroom presentation. This technology is an investigative tool utilized to accurately capture events and statements during the course of an incident. It is the policy of the Harford County Sheriff's Office to ensure that deputies maximize the use of MVS equipment by following the procedures for MVS equipment as set forth in this policy. The purpose of this policy is to provide members of the Harford County Sheriff's Office with guidelines for the operation of Mobile Video Systems (MVS) in Agency vehicles and to specify requirements pertinent to storage, viewing, release, and retention of MVS generated materials. Reports Administrative Personnel Operations Corrections If you have any inquiries regarding our policies. ![]() Please contact the Planning and Research Division State and federal regulations and law, and remain pertinent to our daily mission.Īll revisions are highlighted in yellow. Our policies are regularly reviewed and revised to ensure they are compliant with local, With the signature, is on file with the Planning and Research Division. His signature may not be displayed on copies within this software. ![]() The Harford County Sheriff’s Office Manual is maintained by the Planning and Research Division.Īll documents contained within this system have been approved by Sheriff Gahler. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office has undertaken a comprehensive evaluation of our policies and will be adding additional policies as they are completed. New laws, court decisions, methodologies and other factors dictate the need for a continual review of these policies, initiating revisions and additions where necessary and appropriate. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office policy manual is a living document that is subject to constant change. To the extent that Agency policy may contain provisions more restrictive than state or federal law, such provisions are not intended, nor may they be construed or applied, to create a basis for liability against the Sheriff’s Office or any of its employees. This Manual sets forth standards, values, and expectations of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office and is the ongoing product of changing laws, practices and procedures that are integral to providing guidance and direction to every member of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office. ![]() ![]() ![]() With an entirely online world now, professionals must strive for regulated coordination to avoid misinterpretations and mismanagements of projects and tasks. Productivity is optimal when there are proper and smooth coordination and harmony between you and your virtual assistant. Google Sheets and Google Docs help with real-time editing for a super-fast and effective collaboration between your virtual team members working collectively on a project. You can supply resources for task completion to your team with Google drive. With the Goggle Calendar, you can notify your virtual team of meetings, deadlines, tasks, etc. This is one of the most helpful tools for organizing and managing projects online between a team. Google apps bring you Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Calendar for your project management. With this tool, you can create a tutorial that would help a new virtual assistant learn how to use a specific app or tool for their tasks. With Jing, you can show the ropes to your virtual assistants on how to tackle the problem if they have difficulty maneuvering a website. This tool enables you to create tutorial videos and take screenshots to guide your team. You can conduct meetings with your VA and then update tasks after each discussion. You need to have mobile pairing apps for this tool to work. It is an uncomplicated collaboration platform where you can create to-do lists, send tasks, and collect updates. You may also consider Producteev for your project management. ![]() Skype is a great tool for project collaboration, as every member can keep track of the progress. ![]() You can conduct video calls, live chats, group calling, screen sharing, document sharing, etc. This is one of the best tools for communication with your virtual team. You can even set tasks priority-wise in this tool and use it for free till you remain under a team of fifteen members. You can create tasks and include due dates in this tool so that everyone knows when and what they have to complete. If yours is a small business or merely a startup, Asana would be a convenient tool for you. All your updates on this tool will be visible to all team members instantly. You can create and customize boards, drag the completed projects/task under the "done" column, and so on. It will also show the specific tasks your team members are performing individually. With this incredibly handy, cloud-based tool, you can track each project's progress and see who has completed how much in a day. Additionally, Basecamp also gives you the option of storing all visuals, files, wireframes, etc., of projects in one safe place. You may even make use of whiteboards that are editable and collaborative documents to help with specifications. So if you are striving to bring your virtual assistants up to speed, Basecamp is super helpful. All information, task instructions, files, and updates are in one place so each team member can access them conveniently.īasecamp's best feature is that it helps you store all the history of communications, files, document sharing, and actions about your projects. Not only can your team of VAs communicate in one place but also prepare to-do lists, deadlines, and tasks for all to see. Let's take a look at the top tools below:īasecamp is a good online tool for project management. Thankfully, a wide array of software tools make interaction with your virtual assistant effective, instant, and error-free as can be. Timely interaction in person minimizes miscommunication, delay in responses, and so many other trivial details. Collaborating with your virtual assistant as you both settle into the work-from-home model is challenging. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liquid Ledger 2: This actually had some potential, but I could not find a way to download transactions from banks, get quotes online for investments and there were bugs seen when deleting accounts (like this mysterious 0 folder that appeared).SplashMoney: Again, does not support investments.Fortora Fresh Finance: Does not support investments from what I could see.Cha-Ching 1.2.3: Interface had some nice appeal, but it does not support the tracking of investments. ![]() It felt too "Windows-ee" on the Mac, and if I am going to go to the Mac, I want to go all out. MoneyDance 2008 (build 629): I think this would do what I want it to do, but, selfishly, I did not like the user interface.And they would not allow me to be part of the beta, for whatever reason. Quicken Financial Life (QFL): Not out until Summer of 2009.No way to enter stock holdings, for example. But, it currently cannot not track investments. Moneywell 1.4: From a potential curve, Moneywell wins.It takes some getting used to, but this is what I consider a true Mac application. I could get iBiz to do that if I want, and the cost would not be much more than Microsoft Money Plus Home and Business. It DOES NOT have simple business invoicing. It downloads data automatically from some institutions (but not all major ones). Blows all of the other ones out of the water on that front. But the interface is absolutely gorgeous in my opinion. Not perfect by any stretch (e.g., not intuitive on manually entering securities in an investment account – have to currently use the "Move Shares" transaction, which is weird). iBank 3.3.2: Well, this is the best of the bunch in my opinion.I didn’t have a ton of time to do an exhaustive check and review of financial applications for the Mac, so first impressions became *very* important. Can generate simple invoices for business and keep track of accounts receivable (for my company Twin Roots).īut below are my findings.Looks like a genuine Mac application (not a Windows port).Keeps track of both bank and investments accounts.Allows for online download of transactions from institutions. ![]() It was actually a harder task than I thought, and I can’t definitively say that any of the software I looked at blew Microsoft Money out of the water.Īs I have said before, I am looking for a program that: Additionally, the program offers access to video tutorials and an online help section.In my seemingly never ending quest to find comparable applications on the Mac that I have on my Windows PC, I searched for a personal finance package that could replace Microsoft Money. ![]() A row of buttons along the bottom also allows users to quickly reconcile accounts, as well as access their spending plan, reports, and other advanced functions. The main window lists all of the debits and credits by transactions, which are each well-labeled and color-coded for easy identification. Income and expense information is also present in this area, below the accounts. A listing of the overall balances of every account imported sits on a left sidebar, and is easy to locate. The program, itself, lists the current account balance at the top of the main window, along with the current account status. This is helpful so users avoid making mistakes on their actual account files. Users can immediately use the program on their accounts or play with it using a sample document. The program comes with a fully-functional, free trial version limited to 200 transactions.Īfter downloading, MoneyWell for Mac starts up with an initial menu that features good graphics and well-labeled buttons. With a number of useful features for keeping track of your cash flow, accounts, income, and expenses, MoneyWell for Mac takes the traditional envelope budgeting method to a whole new level. ![]() |
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