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Its time to roll up your sleeves and save a life – World Blood Donor Day 2020

“Your little effort can give others second chance to live life.”

Donating blood is one of the greatest ways to help humankind. By doing so, we save someone’s precious life, and that is a blessing in itself. 

On 14th June every year the world celebrates World blood donor day also known as WBDD  to raise awareness about safe blood donations and to thank those who voluntarily donate blood to save the lives of others.

This day is celebrated to mark the birthday anniversary of scientist Karl Landsteiner who won the  Nobel Prize for his discovery of the ABO blood group system. Before Carl detected blood groups, blood transfusions used to happen without knowing the various blood groups

2020 WBDD Theme

World blood donor day is marked as a global public health campaign by WHO. Every year there is a theme made for the day and this year’s World Blood Donor Day theme is ‘‘Safe blood saves lives’‘ with the tagline ”Give blood and make the world a healthier place”.

In the wake of coronavirus pandemic, the WHO will conduct a global virtual campaign this year with the objective to focus on the contribution an individual giver can make to improve health for others in the community.

Is it safe to donate while you are MENSTRUATING ?

It’s understandable where the idea comes from: your body is losing blood during menstruation already and you worry for your own health if you volunteer to give even more. But regular menstruation does not affect your ability to donate. You can safely donate blood during your period if it is required and your period will not be affected by the donation.

What to know before you donate blood:

  • The donor must be fit and healthy, and should not be suffering from transmittable diseases.
  • Age and weight- The donor must be 18–65 years old and should weigh a minimum of 50 kg.
  • Pulse rate- Between 50 and 100 without irregularities.
  • Hemoglobin level- A minimum of 12.5 g/dL.
  • Blood pressure- Diastolic: 50–100 mm Hg, Systolic: 100–180 mm Hg.
  • Body temperature- Should be normal, with an oral temperature not exceeding 37.5 °C.
  • The time period between successive blood donations should be more than 3 months

DONATE BLOOD AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE !

Donating blood is one of the most common ways people choose to give back to their societies . Despite the high demand and the general recognition of its importance, only about a fourth of the people who are able to donate blood do. Many people are not aware of just how important blood donations can be.  Approximately one of every seven people admitted to the hospital need blood. There are a lot of health benefits of donating blood :

  1. Giving blood can reveal potential health problems
  2. Giving blood can reduce harmful iron stores
  3. Giving blood can help your liver stay healthy
  4. Giving blood can help your mental state

The health benefits of donating blood are considerable—but of course, the most important part of the process is helping to save lives.

It’s time to roll your sleeves and save a life.Just 1 unit of your blood can save 3 lives. So why not take this day as an opportunity and make a difference in the society by acting responsibly.

5 Weird Countries In The World

Among 195 countries , Each and every country have some type of oddity .It can be anything weird rules and regulation followed by any country or some countries with mysterious place or, the way a nation came to existence ,Or Country that bounded their citizens to live their life in a particular ways .World is full of strange(and breathtaking )places.Let look over some weird countries.

1.North Korea

List of world weirdest country can’t be complete without mentioning North Korea.North Korea came to existence after World War II.North Korea is governed by communist party ,they become one of the world’s most dictatorial country. The government restricts all human rights for its citizens, giving no freedom of expression, assembly, association, and religion. It forbid the organized political opposition, independent press, and trade unions.You can travel to north Korea through Beijing ,shockingly it is safe to visit but tourist are not allowed to visit outside designated tour areas without their Korean guides.People seem depressed in north Korea .Despite of beautiful buildings everything seems to be just hollow from inside .

2.Sealand

Sealand is a smallest nation in the world that’s why it has been termed as micronation. Sealand is a country made from a sea fort platform.It is located 10 km off the England Coast.For fun fact anyone can get a Sealander Citizenship or Surprisingly can become a lord there.

3.US

Each and Every countries have quirks.Okay,let me make it clear why US is in my list .There is a place in US which experience darkness from November – January.That make it to be in the list of weirdest countries .Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the US, experienced its last sunrise and sunset for about two months.The town is having in total 4,000 people .This phenomenon happens every year.If you live above the Arctic Circle, there will be a day when the sun sets for the rest of winter. Eventually After two months ,It will return and then during the summer when it won’t set for days.

4.Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is a country located on the west coast of Africa.It is the one of the oddest and beautiful country.Despite of being one of the richest country of Africa Reason being a third largest oil exporter , it’s 3/4th of the population live in poverty.Also it is one of the least free country in the world.This Spanish speaking country is the one of most corrupted nation in the world .Fun fact it is the only country whose capital is not located within the continental region.

5.Bhutan

Bhutan is different than rest of the countries but in a good way.Bhutan does not believe in Gross Domestic Product as an standard of economic growth and development. but rather they use Gross National Happiness.Bhutan is also a host of highest never conquered Mountain (Gangkhar Puensumin )in the world.You might be surprised by the fact that king step down from the throne for democracy . If you visit you have to pay $250 per person per day.Moreover,In Bhutan Women’s are head of the family.

Let me know if you know any other country in the comments below and have a wonderful day.

“Blood Donation- Helping Hand to Humanity”.

Helping others irrespective of their background, caste, religion has been a part of our culture and traditions not only in India but around the world. Helping the one in need has been considered to be the reflection of humanity over everything. Man has achieved development with helping each other and by working hand in hand, establishing a feeling of brotherhood, togetherness and unity to fight out tough circumstances and win over tougher times. Help could be varied as per the conditions and differentiation. It could be monetary help, by helping the one in need of money, or by giving food, or any physical help and so on. People believe that one gets blessed with better opportunities and less struggles as he thinks of others and helps them by even going outta the way. 

Blood donation is one such help which not only helps others in need, but also has many health benefits to the one giving it. It not only reduces the risk of cancer and blood clotting but reduces the risk of severe damage to other body organs like liver , pancreas and many others. But irrespective of this fact, the question which surely arises is “Why should any human donate his blood, what are its advantages, disadvantages”, and many other thoughts do come to the mind of individuals. 

14th June is the day when World Blood Donor Day is celebrated across the globe with the main Idea to spread the “Awareness of blood donation, how it can help to save the life of any person in need , and how we still can save humanity by showing this small gesture of giving”. But why should any individual give such a precious thing which he is born with you any stranger. In today’s world, risk to life’shas increased as number of accidents, suicides attempt and various other things leading to threat have increase. Blood donation helps to provide those injured in such accidents to save their life. Since we know our heart pumps a lot of blood and the amount we give gets recovered soon. So why not we just donate to help others. 

There are also benefits to the one giving as:

 1. It helps in better blood production and circulation around the body.

 2. Replenish the older blood cells and produce new one which surely have better health benefits.

 3. Helps maintain liver, heart and other body parts in better working conditions and reduces the risk of any part to fail. And many more advantages of the same. 

But the disadvantages of blood donation may include:

1.Initial weakness in the body . 

2. Pain. 

3. Continue bleeding. And sometimes it can take time to stop. 

4. Conditions of headache and dizziness

But the main thing to keep in mind before donating blood is that one needs to be at least 17 years old with at least a weight of 50kg. The individual must not be consuming drugs, doesn’t have a high blood pressure , must not have tattoos on their body and many others as per the guidelines of the “World Health Organization”. 

So one should try out to donate blood every month or more as per the health conditions of the human, so as to keep him/ her healthy and also people around them safe by providing them what they need in difficult circumstances. 

As helping others, would definitely turn out to help ourselves in future, as per the theory of Karma, “What goes around, comes around”. 

COVID-19 aggravating Yemen’s crisis!

COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the whole world, be it peoples’ precious lives and wellbeing, the economy or the lifestyle. But already in a country that is known as the “land of milk and honey” which is going through a grave crisis corona has added to the pot of misery for the innocent lives living in Yemen who were already suffering. The situation is so dire that it has been declared an emergency.

 According to UNICEF Yemen  is going through the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and due to this many localities who reside in Yemen would like to migrate in search of better lives to UK and other countries. The children who are yet to explore the world have not even been given a chance to go to schools. Due to the disturbing scenario surrounding the people the suicide rates have increased and the county might soon be wiped out from the world map if this continues. Yemen is one of the countries which a high population of youth that is around 40% of the people living in Yemen are under the age of 15.

The population of Yemen is 2.85 crore and  it is a country located in the extreme west of Asia, not only are most of the people in Yemen facing a hunger crisis, most of them don’t even get one meal to eat in a day and on the other hand the country is struck by war and terrorism. The war has left more than half of the population without any resource and starvation is accompanied by lack of safe drinking water, access to other basic sanities and unemployment is not there and it also had one of the worst cholera outbreaks in the world.

Yemen is going through a violent phase where a civil war is raging its fire on the lives and this war is known as the proxy war, Saudi Arabia vs Iran is waging a war against Yemen  whose consequences are affecting the people.

It already has the lowest HDI rank amongst all the Arab countries and is in dire need of a change which would foster growth and development.

With all this going on, corona virus came like the wind and has created even more damage, corona virus has made the scenario even more worse as it has gripped the whole country under its vicious cycle. According to UNICEF around 2 million children didn’t have the privilege to go to school and post COVID-19 around 5 million children are now at home.

The post COVID -19 scenario is extremely tragic as they do not have half of the essential medical aid and the infrastructure of the hospital is not upgraded, they don’t have the essential medicines and lack other basic equipments as well. Many experts have stated that the health system has stopped functioning in the right manner due to lack of medical facilities, timely treatment and the lack of doctors which has collapsed the health system in Yemen. Till now from the 705 COVID-19 cases there have been 160 deaths.

Many helping hands, organisation and Charity workers are lending their energy in this alarming situation where the country is on the brink of dying. Already more than half of the population is going through starvation and with super low immunity levels to overcome the pandemic is going to be tedious task. Saudi Arabia along with other donors conducted a conference on the improvement of the devastating situation in Yemen, hopefully with timely intervention good times will be approaching Yemen.

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You can’t make them desire for you!

The questions linger in your head, even when you try to ignore them.

“Why don’t they want me? What’s wrong with me?”

The truth is, it’s not always about you. It’s not that something is wrong with you. It’s not that you did or said anything wrong. It’s not that you drove them away. They just didn’t want to be part of your life. And that hurts. It painstakingly and irrevocably hurts.

You wonder if only you had said more, or said less. If only you had tried harder, or played it cool. If only you had been more open or been more aloof. If only you had been precisely what they were looking for, even if that meant changing who you were.

I need you to ask yourself why you want someone who doesn’t want to be with the authentic, genuine version of yourself that you’re working so hard on every day? I know that the answer is you want them, and you want them badly. Feelings drive us to do crazy things. A sense of connection can push us to believe we have to do anything to keep it alive. The possibility of “what if?” convinces us to bend the “what is,” in order to make it happen.

Yet I need you to ask yourself again, why do you want someone who doesn’t want to be with you? Because what if you did change? What if you did become the person they were seeking after? Then what? Because that person isn’t who you are- it’s an idea. That means you have to keep up that idea for as long as you’re with them. It means you spend every moment with them not being yourself.

Because if you think for a moment that you can pretend to be someone different, until they get comfortable enough to know the real you, and then try to be the person you’ve always been? It’s not going to last. They aren’t going to stay. Heck, they may not even stay if you keep being the fake version of yourself- they may decide they want something different.

We want people because they make us feel something incredible. They fill our minds and our hearts, and we love that. We love that this person is with us right now. We are willing to do so much to keep it that way. Yet the good news is, there are billions of people on this planet. You haven’t met even a fraction of them. This person may not want you, and that doesn’t mean it’s your fault.

You can’t make them want you. You just can’t. Maybe they have their own issues. Maybe they aren’t in a healthy state to appreciate what you have. Maybe you’re not in a healthy state to be what they need. Maybe they just have different preferences that don’t add up to you- and that isn’t a sign that you’re broken or need to change. It means that one person, out of everyone on the planet, doesn’t want to be with you. And that while it feels like it, it’s not the end of the world.

I know that either way, it sucks. You’re allowed to feel hurt. You’re allowed to be sad. You’re allowed to wish that things were different. You’re allowed to wish they wanted you. It’s not a crime. It’s not a sin.

But you also have to get to the other side, where you realize this doesn’t mean you’re not worthy of love. This doesn’t mean you’re undesirable. That you’re unlovable. You can’t let this one person dictate how you see yourself for the rest of your life. They are just a person. They aren’t a god. They aren’t the end-all and be-all of your happiness. They are not the only chance you will ever have to find connection, love, and joy. There are others out there who want you for exactly who you are. You will find them. They will find you. You have your whole life ahead of you, so why waste it on someone who isn’t worth the time?

You can’t make them want you, but I promise that one day, you won’t even want them to.

You can share messages, why not blood?

The blood donation happens when a person voluntarily ready to transform their blood into communities without any charges, however, Donation may be of whole blood, or of specific components directly. Blood banks often participate in the collection process as well as the procedures that follow it.

The blood donation process discovered by English physician William Harvey in 1628 but after 36 years thy successfully done blood donation camp in England, the first blood transform done on a dog and Physician Richard Lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs people think it is funny incident but it is very seriously a successful transformation.

Today in the developed world, most blood donors are unpaid volunteers who donate blood for a community supply. In some countries, established supplies are limited and donors usually give blood, when family or friends need a transfusion. Many donors donate as an act of charity, but in countries that allow paid donation some people are paid, and in some cases there are incentives other than money such as paid time off from work. Donating is relatively safe, but some donors have to bruise where the needle is inserted or may feel faint. Potential donors are evaluated for anything that might make their blood unsafe to use. The screening includes testing for diseases that can be transmitted by a blood transfusion, including HIV and viral hepatitis. The donor must also answer questions about medical history and take a short physical examination to make sure the donation is not hazardous to his or her health. How often a donor can donate varies from days to months based on what component they donate and the laws of the country where the donation takes place. Ex. in many countries the doner have to wait for two to three weeks to rebuild their blood counts and proper growth of their blood portion. A typical donation is 450 milliliters of whole blood, though 500-milliliter donations are also common. Historically, blood donors in India would donate only 250 or 350 milliliters.

There are two main methods of obtaining blood from a donor. The most frequent is to simply take the blood from a vein as whole blood. This blood is typically separated into parts, usually red blood cells and plasma since most recipients need only a specific component for transfusions. The other method is to draw blood from the donor, separate it using a centrifuge or a filter, store the desired part, and return the rest to the donor. This process is called apheresis, and it is often done with a machine specifically designed for this purpose.

What precautions have to take donor after blood donation, they have to lay down for 10 to 15 minutes at the bead, then take light refreshments, such as orange juice and cookies, or a lunch allowance to recover speedy, The needle site wound is covered with a bandage and the donor is directed to keep the bandage on for several hours. And in last avoid strenuous exercise and games, alcohol and other kinds of physical exercise.

People from non-science backgrounds have questions that how doctors store blood for a long time?, here is the answer, Red blood cells, the most frequently used component, have a shelf life of 35–42 days at refrigerated temperatures. For long-term storage applications, this can be extended by freezing the blood with a mixture of glycerol, but this process is expensive and requires an extremely cold freezer for storage. Plasma can be stored frozen for an extended period of time and is typically given an expiration date of one year and maintaining supply is less of a problem.

Here is the table display that, which blood group person can donate to whom.

If your blood type is: You can give to: You can receive from:
O Positive O+, A+, B+, AB+ O+, O-
A Positive A+, AB+ A+, A-, O+, O-
B Positive B+, AB+ B+, B-, O+, O-
AB Positive AB+ Only All blood types
O Negative All blood types O- only
A Negative A-, A+, AB-, AB+ A-, O-
B Negative B-, B+, AB-, AB+ B-, O-
AB Negative AB-, AB+ AB-, A-, B-, O-

Limbo of the Lost

Growing up you solve so many puzzles – picture puzzles, riddles, and word quizzes – so that your mind gets accustomed to questioning everything around you. This develops in you an inquisitive nature and you start to see mysteries in everyday things around you. You try to question the existence of some things and the non-existence of others. In this world full of mysteries, one such mystery is that of the Bermuda Triangle.

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Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, the Bermuda Triangle is a section of the Atlantic Ocean, roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Mythical literature revels in the stories of ghost ships, of airplanes disappearing forever, and of instruments going haywire around the Bermuda Triangle. But these are just fanciful theories; there is no solid proof that these types of mysterious disappearances occur less in the other well-traveled sections of the ocean than they do in the Bermuda Triangle. As a matter of fact, there are many people who navigate the Bermuda Triangle on a daily basis without any incident. So why do we still think of Bermuda Triangle as an unsolved mystery?

Covering about 500,000 square miles of the ocean, the area was sailed through by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage. He reported that a great flame of fire crashed into the sea which was probably a meteor. Also, his observations about the erratic compass readings could be explained by the fact that at that time a sliver of the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on earth where the true north and the magnetic north aligned together.

 

Reports of unexplained disappearances started capturing people’s interest around the early twentieth century when the USS Cyclops, a 542-meter long navy ship with 300 men and thousands of ton of manganese onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay in 1918. Although they were equipped to do so, the Cyclops never sent an SOS distress call and the extensive search yielded no wreckage.

After that, an alleged pattern started to form when five navy bombers carrying 14 got severely lost in the area in 1945. The nave bombers were forced to ditch at sea when they ran low on fuel. A rescue plane with 13 men also disappeared while searching for them. Even a weeks-long investigation failed to turn up any evidence.

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In a 1946 magazine article, author Vincent Gaddis coined the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” for the first time after which it became a sensational legend with reports of planes going down despite having just sent “all’s well” messages. Paranormal writers blamed the triangle’s lethality on everything from aliens and Atlantis to time warps and reverse gravity fields while scientific theories, on the other hand, pointed to magnetic anomalies, waterspouts, and methane gas eruptions from the ocean floor.

In all probability, however, many don’t recognize the Bermuda Triangle as a hazardous place. There is no single theory that solves the mystery but there has been nothing discovered indicating the casualties were a result of anything other than physical harm. No extraordinary factors have ever been identified.

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Dear- Indian education system…

Dear Indian Education System… I have decided to take a huge step, But, before that, you guys need to know a lot of things about me. I used to score amazing till std 10th when I scored well, leave alone my parents,  all my friends, neighbors, shopkeepers…  Even the watchman of my building started to say ” You are going to take Science. You will be an engineer” no. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t dislike Science.  Science is beautiful science is the ultimate truth but when I came in Std 10th the half-interested teachers in my school and coaching institute didn’t teach Science at all!  All they taught was how to solve maximum number of MCQs in a given time, like a robot that killed the beauty of Science sir.  And that Physic’s topper of my class  He didn’t believe that evolution actually happened  He just wanted to solve maximum number of MCQs  So much obsession with Science.

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India hasn’t won a single Nobel Prize in Science  Since Independence  Nobel Prizes are just “awards” , you’ll say  India produces the maximum number of engineers per year  Yet, India ranks 60th  in the Global Innovation Index that means no major innovation has happened since Independence, all we keep saying is “Aryabhatta invented Zero” to be honest, after 10th, I wanted to study Physics, Graphic Designing, Coding, History, Music and English Literature Why couldn’t the evaluation of my intelligence and calibers be on the basis of these subjects?  Why should’ve I wasted my time studying subjects I didn’t want to study?  So, I left the damn coaching institute, used to get out of my home during coaching hours and used to read novels in the park, see new places to be honest, I felt free It felt good not to be a zombie I learnt graphic designing on my own  I listened to some beautiful music by Mozart and Rahman  I read Poetry, I taught myself Python, and I read some amazing write-ups  on various topics of Physics  I am taking a huge step.  I am dropping out no not because Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are drop-outs, not because being a “dropout” is cool, and neither it is because of the frustration of failing.

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Dear Indian Education System I am dropping out simply because you do not make any sense and now, you’ll ask me, who will give me a job?  Who will feed me?  I believe somewhere somebody is there who’ll see my skills. Will value my creativity.  Who will value my intelligence, not my CGPA Yes, I failed. but I know there is a lot to do, observe, and learn only my marksheet says that I can’t do anything but I know I will do something good.

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an amazing writeup by FMF.

TIPS ON HOW TO CREATE A STARTUP IN COLLEGE AND HOW TO FIND A SUITABLE CO-PARTNER

Before starting, there are tons of books which may offer you an honest flavour and understanding of Startups:Zero to one , The Lean Startup, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc. You will not become an Entrepreneur by reading books, but you’ll definitely have a far better understanding and a few motivation – so you want to read them

Google, Facebook, Microsoft. All three companies were started by college students and now they’re among the most important companies within the world. Students feel inspired by such success stories but often don’t have a transparent idea of what they really want to realize once they start a business.

The following points give a thought on the way to start your own company while being in college.

  1. Prioritize
    It is getting to be very difficult if you are doing not have a transparent plan of your business goals. Do not set a really horizontal bar initially as this puts unnecessary stress. Plan your day beforehand in order that you’ll allocate sufficient time to both academics and start-up and strictly say no to activities which don’t align together with your interests.
  2. Choosing right courses
    Colleges provide various electives on entrepreneurship, management. Select such courses which can help to find out about how businesses operate, grow and performance at an outsized scale. This helps in bridging the gap between academics and entrepreneurship. This also helps in networking with compatible students, alumni which may be an enormous boost during this startup journey.
  3. Funding for startup
    There are several colleges which permit their students to pitch their business idea. And if selected a particular amount is allocated to assist them start performing on their plan. These programs are an enormous motivation as they don’t need to worry for the cash within the initial stages. Also make use of the college alumni network to connect to successful entrepreneurs who can help you.
  4. Finding a mentor
    A mentor helps in clearing up doubts and may prevent you from making a wrong decision. Attend various e-summits, business events, alumni meet hosted by your college and you’ll find people willing to guide you during this journey.

Tying it together
There will be people to demotivate you and doubt your goals. Turn a deaf ear to them and believe that this can be achieved. Enjoy the journey so that it does not seem like an additional burden. Do not get upset by the initial roadblocks and keep doing your part.
For making the startup successful, finding the proper co-founder may be a vital thing that one must do. There will be so many challenges in this journey and it is better to face them together rather than doing it alone. Great teams persevere, and success breeds success.

  1. Networking
    Networking is much more crucial than you think. Attend different events like entrepreneurship summits, business seminars etc. Use social networking platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook to your benefit.
  2. Attend e-summits organised by universities
    University professors know many entrepreneurs, alums who are trying to find suitable persons matching their interests and business plans. Discuss your plans with them and you maybe lucky enough to seek out the support.
  3. Meet colleagues from previous jobs
    If you met someone in your previous job with an entrepreneurial spirit, try to follow up with that person. If you both had thought of owning a company at some time, now is the time to work on that dream.
  4. Explore common interests outside of work.
    Searching for a co-founder is often tricky. It involves taking to consideration multiple factors, the foremost common being compatibility. Make sure you recover together even outside of your work. Strengthen the bonding in various ways like enjoying sports or checking out each other’s reading tastes.
  5. Jointly define long term and short term goals for the startup.
    The enthusiasm maybe very high initially but its real test is within the end of the day . Come together on decisions such as various short term and long term goals for the company. Decide on vision of the corporate , the mission which it wants to accomplish.
  6. Clarify each one’s role
    Make it very clear about the roles each one is going to play. Take responsibility for the decisions which you are going to take. Plan in such how , that the co-founders function without having to interfere in each other’s jurisdiction.

NATRON LAKE, THAT TURNS CREATURES INTO STONE?

It is so-called due to its high alkalinity. The water of this lake has a high amount of Natron chemical(a mixture of sodium carbonate decahydrate, kind of soda ash, and some percentage of sodium bicarbonate). The pH of the fluid in the lake is measured to be 10.5 which is nearly high as ammonia. This salt lake is in the Arusha region in the country of Tanzania(specifically Northern Tanzania). 2° 25′ 0″ S, 36° 0′ 0″ E is the coordinate for this alkaline lake. It is entirely shallow, about 9.8 ft intense while the width varies. The lake runs to 35 miles in length and 14 miles wide. Temperatures at the lake reaches above 40 °C (104 °F) oftentimes.
Where does Natron come from?
High temperatures and high evaporation level leaves behind natron and trona(sodium sesquicarbonate dihydrate) and due to these fragments, the alkalinity reaches a peak of 12, and the lake precisely originates its color from salt-loving microorganisms that grow in its alkaline liquid. Spirulina, a blue-green algae with red stains, passes its stains along to the Lesser Flamingos that feed on the algae.

SATELLITE IMAGE OF THE LAKE,NATURAL COLOR THAT MICROORGANISMS HAVE COLORED THE LAKE’S SALT CRUST RED OR PINK.

The salt coating changes over time putting on the variation in the appearance. The reports say that Volcanic ash from the Great Rift Valley has accumulated in local lake basins, establishing a configuration of soda lakes antagonist to most organisms. This rough atmosphere enables Lake Natron to serve millions of flamingos as the ideal nursery; would-be predators avoid the saline lake and vacate young birds in peace. It can burn the eyes and skin of animals that aren’t adapted to it. However, it’s a home to many flamingos, they also have to be cautious as the lake can turn fatal to them. Rainfall plays a vital role in its alkalinity. The temperature can reach 60°C when the lake is flooded with water that has warmed up below the ground.
The uniqueness of Lake Natron provoked Tanzania to add the lake to the Ramsar
List of Wetlands of International Importance on July 4, 2001.

Lake that turns animals to stone? Some media reports say the creature just turn to stone and expire after coming into contact with the lake’s water. In fact, Lake Natron’s alkaline waters support a thriving ecosystem of salt marshes, freshwater wetlands, flamingos, and other wetland birds, tilapia, and the algae on which large flocks of flamingos feed. Photographer Nick Brandt has captured haunting images of the lake and its dead in a book titled “Across the Ravaged Land” (Abrams Books, 2013).
Brandt somehow found out the remains of flamingos and other animals with chalky substances like sodium carbonate residues tracing their bodies. “I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron,” Brandt wrote in his book. “No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but … the water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds.”


“I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in
‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life,’ as it were,” Brandt wrote, relating as
he moved the animals. “Reanimated, alive again in death.”
Images credit: © Nick Brandt 2013 Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, NY.


The popularity of the lake increased after a book was published by the
photographer.

USE OF PHYSICAL METHODS IN MICROBIAL CONTROL

Although microorganisms are beneficial and necessary for human well being, microbial activities have undesirable consequences such as food spoilage and disease. To minimize there destructive effects, it is essential to kill a wide variety of microorganisms or inhibit their growth.

  1. Heat
    Heating is still one of the most popular ways to destroy microorganisms. Fire and boiling water have been used since the time of Greeks for sterilization and disinfection. Exposure to boiling water for 10 minutes is sufficient to kill or destroy vegetative cells and eukaryotic spores, but not enough to kill or destroy bacterial endospores, hence boiling does not sterilize but can be used for disinfection of drinking water and objects not harmed by water. This can be carried out within an autoclave. Hot and saturated steam enters a chamber and the desired temperature and pressure which is usually 121°C and 15 pounds is reached. At this temperature and pressure the steam destroy all vegetative cells and endospores. Moist heat is thought to kill so effectively by degrading nucleic acids and by denaturing enzymes and other essential proteins It may also disrupt cell membranes.
    Pasteurization is a process where many substances such as milk, are treated with controlled heating at temperatures well below boiling. There are two types of pasteurization- flash pasteurization or high temperature short term (HTST) pasteurization and the other method used is ultra high temperature (UHT) pasteurization.
    Dry heat sterilization can also be used on many objects in the absence of water. The items to be sterilized are placed in an oven at 160 to 170°C.
  2. Low temperatures
    Another convenient method to inhibit the growth and reproduction of microorganisms is to use lower temperatures like freezing or refrigeration. Mostly this method of control is used in food microbiology. Freezing items at -20°C or lower stops microbial growth because of the absence of liquid water and the ice crystal destruction of cell membranes at this temperature. This method is also used for long term storage of microbial samples in the laboratory in the form of glycerol stocks. This method of control at low temperatures slows microbial growth and reproduction but does not half it completely. Fortunately most pathogens are mesophilic and do not grow well at low temperatures around 4°C. Thus, refrigeration is a good technique only for short-term storage of food and other items.
  3. Filtration
    The filters simply remove the microbes instead of killing them. The material used mostly is glazed porcelain, asbestos or other similar materials. Membrane filters are also used and have replaced depth filters in recent times. These filters are used to remove most vegetative cells, but not viruses from solutions ranging in volume from 1 ml to many liters.
    The other way this method is used is in the laminar flow biological safety cabinet where the air is sterilized by filtration. These cabinets contain high efficiency particulate air(HEPA) filters.
  4. Radiation
    The radiations like ultraviolet and ionizing can be used for sterilizing objects. UV radiation is used as a sterilizing agent only in a few specific situations like UV lamps are placed on the ceilings of room for in biological safety cabinet to sterilize air and other exposed surfaces. Commercial UV units are available for water treatment. Pathogens and microorganisms are destroyed when a thin layer of water is passed under the lamps (water purifiers).
    Ionizing radiation penetrates deep into objects and is an excellent sterilizing agent. It destroys bacterial endospores and vegetative cells of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic origin but not against viruses. Gamma radiation from a Cobalt 60 source is used in the cold sterilization of antibiotics, hormones and plastic disposable supplies such as syringes and petri dishes.

Discovery of God Particle : Super Exclusive >>>>>>>

The two largest experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS and CMS, have observed a previously undetected way that the Higgs boson can decay — into an elementary particle called the bottom quark, and its antiparticle.

The same experiments, based at CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory outside Geneva, Switzerland, first discovered the Higgs in 2012. The boson, which is a key part of the mechanism that gives other particles their masses, put in place the final piece of the standard model of particle physics.

LHC researchers have accumulated evidence of the particle decaying into a variety of products, following theoretical predictions, including into two photons and an electron–antielectron pair.

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In June, researchers revealed that they had also seen the Higgs interact with the top quarks, the most massive known elementary particle. The bottom-quark decay, announced on 28 August is expected by theory but the signal had been hiding in the data, because the interaction is difficult to single out from the many other processes that can also produce those particles.

Geneva, 28 August. Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks. The finding, presented today at CERN by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is consistent with the hypothesis that the all-pervading quantum field behind the Higgs boson also gives mass to the bottom quark. Both teams have submitted their results for publication today.

The Standard model of particle physics predicts that about 60% of the time a Higgs boson will decay to a pair of bottom quarks, the second-heaviest of the six flavours of quarks. Testing this prediction is crucial because the result would either lend support to the Standard Model – which is built upon the idea that the Higgs field endows quarks and other fundamental particles with mass – or rock its foundations and point to new physics.

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Spotting this common Higgs-boson decay channel is anything but easy, as the six-year period since the discovery of the boson has shown. The reason for the difficulty is that there are many other ways of producing bottom quarks in proton–proton collisions. This makes it hard to isolate the Higgs-boson decay signal from the background “noise” associated with such processes. By contrast, the less-common Higgs-boson decay channels that were observed at the time of discovery of the particle, such as the decay to a pair of photons, are much easier to extract from the background.

To extract the signal, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations each combined data from the first and second runs of the LHC, which involved collisions at energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV. They then applied complex analysis methods to the data. The upshot, for both ATLAS and CMS, was the detection of the decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of bottom quarks with a significance that exceeds 5 standard deviations. Furthermore, both teams measured a rate for the decay that is consistent with the Standard Model prediction, within the current precision of the measurement.

“This observation is a milestone in the exploration of the Higgs boson. It shows that the ATLAS and CMS experiments have achieved deep understanding of their data and a control of backgrounds that surpasses expectations. ATLAS has now observed all couplings of the Higgs boson to 

“Since the first single-experiment observation of the Higgs boson decay to tau-leptons one year ago, CMS, along with our colleagues in ATLAS, has observed the coupling of the Higgs boson to the heaviest fermions: the tau, the top quark, and now the bottom quark. The superb LHC performance and modern machine-learning techniques allowed us to achieve this result earlier than expected,” said Joel Butler, spokesperson of the CMS collaboration.

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With more data, the collaborations will improve the precision of these and other measurements and probe the decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of much-less-massive fermions called muons, always watching for deviations in the data that could point to physics beyond the Standard Model.

“The experiments continue to home in on the Higgs particle, which is often considered a portal to new physics. These beautiful and early achievements also underscore our plans for upgrading the LHC to substantially increase the statistics. The analysis methods have now been shown“

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Horoscope Hysteria

Most of us have a habit of checking our monthly or weekly horoscope, we blindly submit to the predictions it states and it can become a cause of fear and tension or happiness and excitement. To be frank many of us strongly feel our fate lies in the words of the weekly horoscopes but that is not true at all. We have even gone our way ahead and done our own bit of research when it comes to horoscopes, zodiac signs and predictions. We might have even checked our sun signs and its personality traits so that we can counter check if it relates with ourselves. Many social media sites are filled with horoscope content and sun sign predictions e.g. – Instagram has many pages offering you an insight into this interesting world. We have even gone our way ahead and downloaded many horoscope applications like “Timepassages” or “Horoscoper Club” to keep ourselves updated.

Most of us have bought jewellery and other products with our respective sun signs, we also tend to go about and ask our partners about their birth dates to see how compatible we could be according to our horoscopes, we even judge peoples’ personalities based on their sun signs. Even though technology is grabbing us by its hands our belief in spirituality is getting stronger day by day.

Even though we say that this generation of millennials is quite open minded and believes in a free and liberated world but we still have a spiritual side to us which loosens us up and it allows us to un-clench ourselves.

For many astrologers horoscope reading has now even become an online business via video or phone calls, or blogs or sites and they are minting a good amount.

In this world filled with hurdles and unforeseen events we are quite keen to know the unpredictable events or all the wonderful surprises which are lined up for us in the coming future and this is one of the main points which attracts  us towards Horoscopes. We tend to abide to the horoscope and believe in the prophecies frantically.

Many people believe astrology will  give you a glimpse of how one’s day/week would be ahead, many people even adjust themselves according to their respective horoscope data, be it love life, financial woes or family problems or public and personal relations we feel the horoscope actually tells us about our future. But the question is “is it true after all”.

But many a times negative horoscope readings fill us with anxiety and fury, many scientists say there is no scientific validity behind horoscope predictions, many denigrate the belief in horoscopes as there is no strong underlying proof about the validity of data it has to offer us.

Most of us impetuously believe in the personality traits which the apps and other sites state under the respective zodiac signs and they can form many stereotypes in our working minds. One of the reason we follow horoscopes so diligently is because from old times it’s been the path to know many signs and according to many experts the data it predicts based on the position of the sun, moon and earth is quite accurate.

Horoscope and their predictions according to many are true and according to many are just invalid, but most of us definitely will continue looking forward to their predictions.

Abdhi Upadhyay

How to keep yourself amused during Covid 19

Since the global outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic, we are locked inside our homes trying various things to pass our free time. We can either waste our time or put it to better use by doing something productive. Most people are wasting this precious time, by sleeping, playing online games, watching shows, just thinking about how this lockdown period is affecting their lives. But, for the students, this is the best time to do stuff that he/she has wanted to do all their lives, but never found the time to do. So, here we are compiling some of the interesting and creative stuffs that you must try to keep yourself entertained during quarantine.

Reading: A habit to develop

As we have all the time in the world, so we can devote some time to enhance our knowledge by reading some good books. We couldn’t read much earlier as we had other important things to do, but this time away from the world has allowed us to explore many different books. Many good novels are available online. So, we don’t need to worry about going to the store to buy one. Reading books makes us see the world from many different perspectives, as characters from a novel have different points of view.

Learning new things

As no one is perfect and learning should never be stopped. We could use this time to learn new things, instead of just sitting around wasting time. You could utilise your time by learning French, or any of your favourite foreign language. You could easily found many good online videos and websites and also enrolled myself in a French learning course that is helping me a lot to learn. Also, I’m utilizing my time to prepare for some competitive exams that I need to give in the future.

Enhancing Yourself

We could immerse ourself in the process of self-learning to improve our skills and getting to know ourself better. We should keep trying new things to bring out our creativity. We can try to enhance our cooking skills by making new dishes each day and also investing this time to meditate and give our mind some time to relax and find peace.

Spending time with loved ones

We could best use of our time by spending quality time with our family members. In this digital age, we generally don’t get time to spend with our families due to busy schedule and workload. So this lockdown has given us enough time to appreciate and enjoy our time with family members. We could help our mother in household work, spend time with father talking about different things, help our brother with his studies and we also have fun, playing games together.

There are also many apps which you could prefer to keep yourself entertained. Some of these apps are as follow:

Learning Apps

There are several applications that enabled us to achieve our goals and learn new things through homeschooling. Some of such apps are:

  • DUOLING APP

Duolingo enables users to learn languages through gamification. The app includes 35 languages.

  • BUSUU APP

Due to the current pandemic, Busuu has introduced a new initiative, Keep Kids Learning. This initiative was done to support children and their families while home-schooling. The initiative provides free learning of different languages by some qualified teachers.

Fitness apps

Currently, there is no access to local gyms. So at such time to keep ourself fit and healthy we could install some good apps to follow our daily exercise routine. Two of the apps are as follow:

  • STRAVA

Strava is a fitness app where you can track all your performance and also helps to complete the given challenges. The app is community-driven which has social elements for friendly competition.

  • Runtastic

This fitness app was launched by Adidas. The app provides more than 180+ videos. The videos help users to achieve their daily fitness goals. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, it is currently offering a three-month free premium trial too.

Music Apps

Well, no doubt, music is the best way of relaxing. So these are few apps that you could also use:

  • Soundcloud

Soundcloud is one of the most common music apps. Here over 200 million tracks are uploaded by the active community. Soundcloud is one of the world’s largest open audio platform.

  • Spotify

Spotify is the other app that provides millions of tracks and even episodes. So during the lockdown period, you can choose any kind of music you to listen according to your mood.

Along with these fantastic Apps, there are many other apps that you can use in this period of lockdown and can keep yourself entertained.
These are some of the exciting and useful things that one could try to keep himself/herself entertained during this lockdown.

Always be aware of Agents.

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Everyone is aware of the name Agents, but here is the clear definition of the Agent, An agent, in legal terminology, is a person who has been legally empowered to act on behalf of another person or an entity. An agent may be employed to represent a client in negotiations and other dealings with third parties. we came across each and every time in any sector whether it is heath, finance, banking, and even education also have agents to get admission in schools and colleges.

There are four types of agents Sales agents, distributors, and Licensing agents

Sales agents :

This type of agent is probably a self-employed sole trader ‘on the road’ selling a range of reproductions, ready-framed pictures, greetings cards and gifts on behalf of perhaps four businesses and/or artists. Sales agents handle sales but do not contribute to other marketing or production costs. They pay for their own car, petrol, hotel bills and insurance. Many sales agents expect financial back-up from their artists in the form of a promotional program (advertisements, mailshots, trade fair stands, etc.), and offering this kind of back-up is a good way for an artist to attract one of the better agents.

Distributors :

Distributors are companies rather than individuals, and they tend to cover the whole country. They are often successful sales agents who have developed into larger concerns employing sales agents of their own. Distributors normally work to develop a corporate image. They have their own marketing programs involving advertising, stands at exhibitions, trade showrooms, catalogs, etc.

Licensing agents :

These agents negotiate licensing deals with print and card publishers, porcelain manufacturers, and giftware companies. Good licensing agents should be able to negotiate better terms and have a wider range of contacts than artists representing themselves, even taking their commissions into account. Some publishing companies, however, will only deal with artists direct. Many print publishers and gallery owners also act as licensing agents for their artists.

Each and every company have agents, which provide the market trend by applying the charges and more, every person, who has a mobile phone they sometimes had experience regarding agents, who tried to sell their policy of life insurance and give home loan and car loan, they always have a target to finish and they get the commissions on each and every person. the same thing happened in the banking sector, when a bank does not grow properly then they hire agents and they sign an agreement to sell credit card and invest money on real estate.

If we look in the education sector whenever any student does not get admission to schools or college, they contact an agent and pay the fees to them and agent cut their commission and give the donation to the education trust then students get admission. the same thing happens in abroad admission when student wont completes their education abroad at that time they contact the agent to get admission in foreign university or college, However, parents also ready to spend their whole money on that thing, sometimes by luck student get admission at the same time agent charge high to the student’s parents, but when a student does not get money back from abroad after rejection on the filing process, then agents do not ready to accept their mistake and also charge same and they do not give the proper answer to the student regarding the money-back process.

So, any person who tries to apply abroad for any purpose like study visa, tourist visa or P.R., please clarify the rules of overseas government and immigration or search online because all countries have a website regarding rules and regulation regarding enter in their country, moreover on social media platform like Youtube also many people from abroad, who keep update us regarding changing immigration rules.

thanks for reading.