A forum for the discussion of Charter's Spectrum service. You can post for technical support, advice, or just to vent.
This subreddit is dedicated to the open-source CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool OmegaT.
I’ve recently noticed a lot of spam going into my normal email address, which is through yahoo. When I go in to look at who the spam is from/to in the mail app on my iPhone it says that the mail is addressed to an att.net email address with my name on it that I never created and am not logged into. I do not know how I am receiving mail to this email address through a different account, but I also cannot sign in to the att.net account to delete it because the only way to do that would be with a code sent to the att.net email address but the emails with the code are not arriving in my yahoo.com inbox or spam folder. It does not let me sign in with a password and I don’t even know what it would be. It doesn’t give me other recovery options which just makes me glad because I guess at least it doesn’t have my phone number.
TLDR; Please help me delete this att.net email account that I never created and am somehow receiving mail to through a different account.
////Q//// Dietary fibers are complex polymeric carbohydrates that cannot be metabolized by enzymes encoded by the human genome and are metabolized by gut microbes through anaerobic fermentation. Epidemiologic studies suggest an increased risk of chronic inflammatory diseases associated with a lower dietary fiber intake. The gut microbiome regulates host metabolism and immune homeostasis.
Different dietary fibers and their metabolic products, such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), can profoundly impact hosts and modulate gut microbial composition. Therefore, exploring how dietary fibers regulate host microbial communities can allow for targeted therapeutic interventions. As such, in the present study, the authors illustrate the effects of dietary fiber interventions on the gut microbiome and inflammatory diseases.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221202/Exploring-the-effects-of-dietary-fiber-on-gut-microbiome-and-inflammatory-diseases.aspx And looming sea level rise, which quickens the pace of beach erosion on developed coastlines, will only make Florida's future efforts to protect its beaches more complicated and costly.
The scarcity of sand
There's plenty of sand sitting in relatively shallow water on the continental shelf that rings Florida. But not all of it is good enough for the state's beaches. Sand that has the wrong color or grain type can harm plants and animals, like the sea turtles that build their nests along the Florida coast.
There are economic considerations, too: Florida spends billions of dollars a year advertising its pristine, white-sand beaches to tourists. Loading the shoreline up with inferior quality sand could make the state a less attractive vacation destination.
Since 1935, Florida has dredged or dug up about half a trillion tons of high-quality sand to maintain its eroding beaches, according to the National Beach Nourishment Database developed by the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and the Army Corps. But the state's supply of good sand is running low—and once those deposits are gone, they won't come back any time soon, according to Stephen Leatherman, a professor of coastal science at Florida International University.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-sand-gold-pricey-florida-beaches.html Purchasing loot boxes in video games associated with problem gambling risk, says study
https://www.newswise.com/articles/purchasing-loot-boxes-in-video-games-associated-with-problem-gambling-risk-says-study For Spiegel, who has been researching IBS for many years, the idea that gravity may be the common denominator arose when a family member living in an assisted living started having intestinal issues.
“She has recently been spending a lot of time bedbound, and of course, we’re not really designed to be bedbound. We’re designed to be an upright organism,” says Spiegel. “It turned out that almost coincident with starting to lie down, she was developing all sorts of [gastrointestinal] issues, abdominal distress, bloating and constipation, and some really significant issues that required medications.”
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/strange-idea-to-explain-irritable-bowel-syndrome Published in Frontiers in Public Health the study showed that high levels of traffic-related air pollution - fine particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) – were associated with an increased risk of having at least two long term health conditions. The strongest associations were observed for co-occurring neurological, respiratory, cardiovascular and common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.
This research was funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/adults-living-in-areas-with-high-air-pollution-are-more-likely-to-have-multiple-long-term-health-conditions “The evidence is emerging that psychedelic-assisted therapy holds a lot of promise in treating mental health issues like post-traumatic stress disorder and treatment-resistant depression,” said Mike Ellis, Alberta’s associate minister of mental health and addictions at the time.
The exact neurobiological mechanisms at work are still unclear, but it’s thought that psychedelics promote neural plasticity in key circuits relevant to brain health, including those involved in mood, cognition, perception, and regulating stress responses.
https://cmajnews.com/2022/12/02/psilocybin-1096029/ The European Central Bank is throwing some major shade at bitcoin even as it bounces back following the FTX collapse.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/european-central-bank-bitcoin-last-gasp A Lynnwood-based debt-collection company has been sued for compromising the names and Social Security information of more than 3.7 million individuals in a data breach in April 2021.
Multiple lawsuits filed in federal court in Washington this week claim the firm, Receivables Performance Management, failed to notify impacted individuals of the breach for more than 18 months.
RPM's attorney Brian Middlebrook, a partner at New York-based law firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, said the company apologizes for the inconvenience the incident has caused.
https://www.govtech.com/security/seattle-area-company-allegedly-compromised-data-of-3-7m In the wild, the young wolves split off from their packs to find opposite-sex partners with which to breed and form new packs. New research in Yellowstone suggests that Toxoplasma gondii – the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis – might play a part in the dispersal process.
Once bonded, wolf pairs are highly monogamous and usually do not change partners unless one of the pair dies. The male and female dominate the pack and decide who eats first simply because they are the parents of the rest of the group. There are almost no fights between wild male offspring and their fathers for alpha male status.
https://www.iflscience.com/the-term-alpha-male-is-all-a-lie-66483 One of Europe's most ancient domestic dogs lived in the Basque Country Humerus analyzed by researchers belonged to a specimen that lived in the Palaeolithic period, 17,000 years ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221128101244.htm The European Commission has fined the chemical companies Sunpor, Synbra, Synthomer, Synthos, and Trinseo a total of $162 million for participating in a cartel to depress the price of styrene, a raw material they buy, on the European market. Ineos also participated in the cartel but avoided a fine by blowing the whistle on the illegal activity. The commission began its investigation in September 2017. It found that the companies had been operating as a cartel between May 1, 2012, and June 30, 2018. “The six buyers of styrene exchanged sensitive commercial information and coordinated their negotiation strategy,” the commission states in a press release.
https://cen.acs.org/business/petrochemicals/EC-fines-5-styrene-buyers/100/i43 Based on the success of this quantum model, the team determined that their holographic wormhole had been traversed.
While this science is fascinating, Spiropulu and authors of a commentary essay also published in Nature admit that it’s not necessarily a ground-breaking finding unto itself. In fact, because this experiment only used nine qubits, Spiropulu said that this experiment also could have been done on a classical computer as well.
Instead, the importance of this work is that it’s a proof-of-principle for how quantum computers can be used to help scientists explore complex ideas like quantum gravity.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmaaw/google-researchers-create-traversable-holographic-wormhole-using-quantum-computer-in-new-study Oil-palm farms that spare rainforests menace grasslands instead
Programmes to avoid deforestation could have unintentional impacts on a variety of ecosystems.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04179-1 Using data from the Minnesota Green Tea Trial, a large study of green tea’s effect on breast cancer, the research team investigated whether people with certain genetic variations were more likely than others to show signs of liver stress after a year of ingesting 843 milligrams per day of the predominant antioxidant in green tea, a catechin called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG).
Researchers led by Laura Acosta, then a doctoral student, now a graduate, selected two genetic variations in question because each controls the synthesis of an enzyme that breaks EGCG down.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/green-tea-extract-may-harm-liver-in-people-with-certain-genetic-variations “We’ve moved away from thinking of autism as a condition that needs to be eliminated or fixed to thinking about autism as part of the neurodiversity that exists across humankind,” says Geraldine Dawson, director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development in Durham, N.C. “The question then becomes, How do we best support people who are autistic, and how would you measure improvement if you are conducting clinical trials?”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-treatment-shifts-away-from-fixing-the-condition/ A recent human study published this week in the scientific journal Antioxidants found that consuming grapes protected against ultraviolet (UV) damage to the skin. Study subjects showed increased resistance to sunburn after consuming 2 ¼ cups of grapes every day for two weeks. Additionally, subjects displaying UV resistance also demonstrated unique microbiomic and metabolomic profiles suggesting a correlation between the gut and skin. Natural components found in grapes known as polyphenols are thought to be responsible for these beneficial effects.
This new study reinforces previous research in this area
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221130/Grape-consumption-protects-against-ultraviolet-UV-damage-to-the-skin.aspx An analysis of a huge chunk of space rock that fell to Earth in Somalia has revealed materials never before seen in nature.
Two new minerals have been analyzed and named, and a possible third is currently under consideration by the International Mineralogical Association.
https://www.sciencealert.com/two-minerals-never-seen-before-in-nature-discovered-in-an-asteroid-that-fell-to-earth A Mysterious New Breed of Tropical Cyclone Has Just Been Identified
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-mysterious-new-breed-of-tropical-cyclone-has-just-been-identified A pool of 59,250 full-time undergraduate students who were taking fully online classes were found to experience higher levels of psychological distress such as anxiety and depression. Students were part of four-year higher learning programs and were an average of 21 years old.
The medical journal JAMA Network published the study which looked at the differences in mental health responses based on different delivery methods of college courses including fully online, hybrid and in-person classes. Data came from the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment III.
"The findings of this study suggest that mental health professionals may wish to consider the association of course delivery models with mental health outcomes when working with college students," the report said.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/11/30/3041669853472/ Businesses need more guidance to protect and restore the natural world
The majority of UK businesses have plans to address their impact on biodiversity and nature loss, but a lack of guidance and sharing of best practice are barriers to progress, a new report reveals.
The Nature of Business report, published by CBI Economics in collaboration with the University of Exeter, presents the findings of a survey of 345 UK businesses with the aim of exploring their level of understanding and action on biodiversity and nature loss.
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_951520_en.html The Electric Cars of the Future Are Already Here Today
November 30, 2022
https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/the-electric-cars-of-the-future-are-already-here-today/ For millions of years, the Steller's sea cow, a four-ton marine mammal and relative of the manatee, shaped kelp forests along the Pacific coast of North America by eating massive quantities of kelp fronds from the upper canopies, thus allowing light to spur productivity in the understory. In a paper published today in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences -- as part of the Academy's Thriving Californiainitiative -- reveal what historical kelp forests may have looked like in the presence of the marine megaherbivore, which went extinct in the 1700s just 27 years after its first encounter with Europeans due to overhunting, and suggest how kelp forest conservation efforts can take its absence into account
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221128140353.htm The strongest Arctic cyclone ever observed poleward of 70 degrees north latitude struck in January 2022 northeast of Greenland. A new analysis led by the University of Washington shows that while weather forecasts accurately predicted the storm, ice models seriously underestimated its impact on the region's sea ice.
The study, published in October in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, suggests that existing models underestimate the impact of big waves on ice floes in the Arctic Ocean.
"The loss of sea ice in six days was the biggest change we could find in the historical observations since 1979, and the area of ice lost was 30% greater than the previous record," said lead author Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, a research assistant professor of atmospheric sciences at the UW. "The ice models did predict some loss, but only about half of what we saw in the real world."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221129143824.htm Under the leadership of billionaire Elon Musk, social media platform Twitter has abandoned its efforts to prevent the spread of dangerous COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, dismaying experts who say false and misleading health information can harm individuals and put lives at risk.
"Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy," the company noted in various places on its website.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/musks-twitter-abandons-covid-misinfo-policy-shirking-huge-responsibility/ According to Bloomberg, Schumer has received close to $30,000 from tech firms and tech lobbyists dating back to 2017.
'So I'd like to propose a toast to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,' fake Zuckerberg says, holding a glass of champagne.
'Once again, you held up your side of the bargain by holding up new laws that would hold us accountable. Thank you for your service to me and all of my friends,' he concludes, before photos of Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook appear onscreen next to his.
The narrator intones at the end: 'The Zuck is face but the message is real. Call on Senator Schumer to get big tech antitrust done during this Congress.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11482531/Deepfake-Mark-Zuckerberg-thanks-Democrats-service-inaction-antitrust-bills.html Researchers at RMIT University have found an innovative way to rapidly remove hazardous microplastics from water using magnets.
Lead researcher Professor Nicky Eshtiaghi said existing methods could take days to remove microplastics from water, while their cheap and sustainable invention achieves better results in just one hour.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140390 examined the effect of plastic additives on the reproductive process and larvae development of corals and other organisms commonly found in the coral reef of Eilat.
Plastic additives are chemicals that are added to plastic products during manufacturing, and many of them are known to be endocrine disrupting compounds. The current study shows that these chemicals can have species-specific effects that may damage the population structure and biodiversity of coral reefs.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-plastic-additives-contaminate-sea-corals.html About one third of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) develop diabetic retinopathy (DR), a leading cause of blindness in working-age individuals. DR typically develops after many years of DM, and some patients do not develop DR for more than 50 years. New research suggests that an endogenous system that protects human retinal endothelial cells from harmful effects of the hyperglycemia (an excess of blood sugar) may be responsible for the delayed onset of DR. Furthermore, degradation of this protective system over time may set the stage for development of DR.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221129/Endogenous-system-may-be-responsible-for-delayed-onset-of-diabetic-retinopathy.aspx Both drugs showed powerful efficacy on the lab bench, killing most bed bugs, although fluralaner performed much more effectively on bed bugs that showed resistance to common insecticides.
“The drugs affect receptors in the insect’s nervous system,” said Coby Schal, Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor of Entomology at NC State and the corresponding author of a paper describing the work.
Fluralener was highly effective at killing bed bugs that fed on chickens dosed with the drug. Ivermectin, meanwhile, was ineffective against bed bugs that fed on dosed chickens.
https://scienceblog.com/535221/common-veterinary-drugs-show-effectiveness-against-bed-bugs/ New research finds that the hot, exposed land in the central U.S. during the Dust Bowl drought influenced temperatures across much of North America and as far away as Europe and East Asia. That's because the extreme heating of the Great Plains triggered motions of air around the Northern Hemisphere in ways that suppressed cloud formation in some regions and, in combination with the influence of tropical oceanic conditions, led to record heat thousands of miles away.
"The hot and dry conditions over the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl spread extreme heat to other areas of the Northern Hemisphere," said Gerald Meehl, a scientist with the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and lead author of the new study. "If you look at daily record high temperatures, some of these areas are just now breaking the records that were set in the 1930s."
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-1930s-bowl-extreme-northern-hemisphere.html The sea devours large tracts of land when storms wash sand out to sea from the coast. In a new study involving a researcher from the University of Gothenburg has shown that seagrass can reduce cliff erosion by up to 70% thanks to its root mats binding the sand.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221128101219.htm Earlier studies suggested managers would set clear goals and then monitor progress, otherwise leaving staff to get on with it. Instead, the managers in our study told us they tended to treat remote workers holistically—as people, not just staff. They focused on social connections instead of just objective performance.
We believe these managers have learned to discount conventional advice and develop practices that are more effective with remote staff. As such, their experience contains valuable lessons for today's managers.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-dont-metricspersonal-real-key-remote.html A common chemotherapy drug could carry a toxic inheritance for children and grandchildren of adolescent cancer survivors, Washington State University-led research indicates.
The study, published online in iScience, found that male rats who received the drug ifosfamide during adolescence had offspring and grand-offspring with increased incidence of disease. While other research has shown that cancer treatments can increase patients’ chance of developing disease later in life, this is one of the first-known studies showing that susceptibility can be passed down to a third generation of unexposed offspring.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/chemotherapy-could-increase-disease-susceptibility-in-future-generations has revealed that global warming and ocean acidification threaten marine organisms that build their skeletons and shells with calcium carbonate (chalk) such as corals, bryozoans, molluscs, sea urchins or crustaceans.
The work, recently published in the journal Ecography, focuses on organisms with calcium carbonate skeletons from around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. Calcium carbonate is more soluble in more acidic waters which contain more carbon dioxide (CO2), such as the colder waters of the polar regions, making it harder for these creatures to build their skeletons.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/calcifying-organisms-under-threat-from-a-combination-of-ocean-warming-and-acidification A Cornell team has created an interface that allows users to handwrite and sketch within computer code – a challenge to conventional coding, which typically relies on typing.
The pen-based interface, called Notate, lets users of computational, digital notebooks – such as Jupyter notebooks, which are web-based and interactive – to open drawing canvases and handwrite diagrams within lines of traditional, digitized computer code.
https://scienceblog.com/535188/programming-tool-turns-handwriting-into-computer-code/ The life of the charwoman holds irony. She lives a humdrum existence. Yet when the inimitable Carol Burnett brought her somewhat melancholy character to audiences, the humble office cleaner showed America her dreams, imagining worlds that go beyond what others might consider. There is irony, too, in the woman who gives her life: The six-time Emmy Award winner is a hugely successful star who has been a household name for more than half a century. And yet, Burnett is still awed by the talent of others. She cannot be blasé about meeting gifted entertainers; she is a superfan, often tongue-tied and uncomfortable.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/carol-burnett-reveals-how-she-came-to-create-the-charwoman-180981168/ The green Mediterranean diet (MED) significantly reduces visceral adipose tissue, a type of fat around internal organs that is much more dangerous than the extra "tire" around your waist. The green Mediterranean diet was pitted against the Mediterranean diet and a healthy diet in a large-scale clinical interventional trial- the DIRECT PLUS. Subsequent analysis found that the green Med diet reduced visceral fat by 14%, the Med diet by 7% and the healthy diet by 4.5%. The study was published in BMC Medicine.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221128/Green-Mediterranean-diet-causes-significant-reduction-in-visceral-adipose-tissue.aspx University of Cambridge scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species—the depressed river mussel—completely gone.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-mussel-survey-reveals-alarming-degradation.html In the worst-affected area of the town, at least 30 families were trapped in their homes without water or electricity, with mud and debris blocking the road, ANSA news agency reported.
Officials had said they expected to evacuate and find temporary homes for between 150 and 200 people.
Local authorities called on Ischia residents to stay inside to avoid hindering the rescue operation.
An "exponential" growth of infrastructure sparked by mass tourism ended up "stifling all the natural elements of the land and covering everything with cement", geologist Mario Tozzi wrote in La Stampa newspaper.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-italy-declares-state-emergency-deadly.html Conclusions: Health authorities should upload pertinent information through multiple channels and should exploit the existing YouTube recommendation algorithm to disrupt the misinformation network. Considering the viewing habits of patients and caregivers, the direct use of YouTube hospital channels is more effective than the indirect use of YouTube news media channels or government channels that report public announcements and statements. Reinforcing through multiple channels is the key.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36374534/ The sea devours large tracts of land when storms wash sand out to sea from the coast. In a new study involving a researcher from the University of Gothenburg has shown that seagrass can reduce cliff erosion by up to 70% thanks to its root mats binding the sand.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221128101219.htm Our results provide causal evidence that mice can be used for identifying stressor controllability circuitry and that VTA VGluT2 neurons contribute to transsituational stressor outcomes, such as social avoidance, exaggerated fear, or anxiety-like behavior that are observed within trauma-related disorders.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01858-3 Another woman surveyed by the IPPR spoke of cuts to her local services affecting loneliness levels across the area.
The woman, from Barnsley, said: ”There have been so many services cut. Sure Start, family centres, youth club etc… it seems that everything bit by bit is being taken away to a point where there are not many places for people to go now for all ages.”
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/yorkshire-is-loneliness-hotspot-experts-say-as-cost-of-living-crisis-affects-social-connections-3933108 Nuffield Trust researcher Martha McCarey, the lead author of the analysis, told The Guardian the drop-off in EU-trained medics seeking to work in the UK could be a result of extra bureaucracy and higher costs following Brexit.
She said: “Since the referendum campaign, greater costs, more paperwork and uncertainty over visas because of Brexit have been among the biggest barriers to recruiting and keeping EU and EFTA doctors.”
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it rejected the Nuffield Trust’s findings.
A spokesperson for the DHSC told The Guardian: “This analysis is inaccurate and we don’t recognise or agree with its key conclusions.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/nhs-nuffield-trust-department-of-health-and-social-care-european-brexit-b1043021.html How micro(nano)plastics interact with human gut microbiota
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221127/How-micro(nano)plastics-interact-with-human-gut-microbiota.aspx Studies continue to illuminate the wide-ranging benefits of physical activity when it comes to brain health, and new research has shown how that might include treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientists have explored how short bursts of aerobic exercise can augment an existing behavioral therapy used to treat the condition, and demonstrated that it may help alleviate symptoms by boosting plasticity in the brain.
Though physical activity is generally understood to be good for us, we've recently seen scientists really drill into the way it improves brain health and cognitive function. This includes studies showing that exercise can protect against age-relative cognitive decline, battle depression and positively influence brain plasticity and learning.
https://newatlas.com/medical/10-minute-bursts-exercise-therapy-ptsd/ Can I feed my pet only dry food? Why the answer is different for cats and dogs An all-dry food diet may be good for the planet, but is it safe for pets? Feeding your pet a nutritious meal and minimizing harm to the environment isn’t an easy balance o strike.
https://www.inverse.com/science/dry-food-or-wet Their findings indicate that depression results in difficulties in cognitive control in both emotional and neutral tasks. However, when tasks were emotional, subjects experienced a greater struggle with cognitive control than in neutral tasks. In this condition, managing attention became the primary challenge. Finally, repeated tasks were also challenging for subjects.
https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/new-study-finds-depression-decreases-cognitive-control-in-both-emotional-and-neutral-settings-64392 Did Western philosophy ruin Earth? A philosopher's letter of apology to the world Much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has led directly to unspeakable evil search4 pope
https://www.salon.com/2022/11/27/did-western-philosophy-ruin-earth-a-philosophers-letter-of-apology-to-the-world/ A systematic review of the prediction of consumer preference using EEG measures and machine-learning in neuromarketing research
https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40708-022-00175-3 _However, as The New York Times noted, foreign investment in petroleum is something that Maduro desperately needs in order to improve his country's economy, which has been sinking despite Venezuela having the world's largest oil reserves. As a result, the U.S. agreed to grant Chevron's license after Maduro pledged to implement a $3 billion humanitarian program and also hold talks regarding fair elections in Venezuela, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Chevron may now resume activity in its oil fields alongside a joint venture with the Venezuelan national oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA.
"We have long made clear we believe the best solution in Venezuela is a negotiated one between Venezuelans," an anonymous Biden administration official told The Washington Post. "To encourage this, we have also said we were willing to provide targeted sanctions relief." However, the official added that additional action would require more "concrete steps," including the release of political prisoners and allowing United Nations humanitarian missions into Venezuela.
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/u-gives-green-light-chevron-163804126.html?src=rss Currently, the best evidence for reducing the chances of re-spraining your ankle sprain comes down to two main things:
1) Protecting the joint with an ankle brace when active
This could mean using a professionally fitted external support brace (not an elastic sleeve). This is a relatively low-cost and effective means of risk reduction.
2) Using balancing exercises and 'proprioceptive training'
Examples of proprioceptive training include:
balancing on each leg, one at a time, while throwing and catching a ball against a wall balancing on an ankle disc or wobble board for three to five minutes daily.
These exercises can help strengthen the muscles and ligaments in your ankle.
As one literature review put it: "Proprioceptive training is a cost- and time-effective intervention that can benefit patients who have sustained a previous ankle sprain during physical activity and can subsequently reduce the risk of further complications."
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-science-behind-why-you-sprain-your-ankle-so-often-and-what-you-can-do-about-it The discovery, the researchers say, suggests that complex intelligence, including cephalopod smarts, may be related to this miRNA expansion.
Interestingly, this isn't the only similarity between octopus brains and those of vertebrates. Scientists previously found that human and octopus brains both contain a high number of a type of cell called transposons. It seems like there's a lot more going on in an octopus's head (and arms) than we understand.
https://www.sciencealert.com/octopus-brains-evolved-to-share-a-surprising-trait-in-with-our-brains The Stats Guy: Millennials care about the environment, but does that mean they’re ditching petrol cars?
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2022/11/26/millenials-car-ownership-future/ A photographer has been collecting pictures of human "lookalikes" for over 20 years. Spotting an opportunity, scientists recruited several of them to participate in a study. The volunteers provided DNA samples and answered questions about themselves. The researchers found that humans who look alike have similar genetic profiles and even display similar behaviors, such as smoking.
https://bigthink.com/health/look-alike-genetics-behavio While deadly supernatural elements lurk in the movie’s mist, the idea of mist — or its close relative, fog ‚ harming or even killing humans is no mere fantasy. It’s actually real. Intrigued? Allow us to explain. Spoilers ahead for The Mist.
Reel Science is an Inverse series that reveals the real (and fake) science behind your favorite movies and TV.
https://www.inverse.com/science/the-scariest-sci-fi-horror-on-netflix-mirrors-a-real-life-threat This isn’t the only surprising thing we’ve seen changing the brain, either. Previously researchers discovered that antidepressants change the structure of the brain, raising even more questions about how this important part of our body changes with the medicines we take and issues we find ourselves dealing with.
https://bgr.com/science/puzzling-changes-were-discovered-in-the-brains-of-people-who-suffer-from-migraines/ My team's analysis of the oldest charred food remains ever found show that jazzing up your dinner is a human habit dating back at least 70,000 years.
Imagine ancient people sharing a meal. You would be forgiven for picturing people tearing into raw ingredients or maybe roasting meat over a fire as that is the stereotype. But our new study showed both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had complex diets involving several steps of preparation, and took effort with seasoning and using plants with bitter and sharp flavours.
This degree of culinary complexity has never been documented before for Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-real-paleo-diet-archaeological-evidence.html Their stance on drugs and drug use is very much rooted in fact. The United States has tried prohibition for approximately a century and yet problems like addiction and overdose are increasing, not decreasing.
Meanwhile, trillions of dollars have been spent on supply side interventions like increased surveillance, prisons and dumping pesticides on the Colombian rainforest. Yet, there has been little to show for these efforts, while public health agencies, including experts at the United Nations, repeatedly advocate for smarter, more compassionate drug policy rooted in science.
https://www.salon.com/2022/11/26/their-children-struggled-with-addiction-now-theyre-fighting-against-the-on/ Bruce Bebo, executive vice president of research at the nonprofit National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which helped fund the study, said he believes the findings fall just short of proving causation. They do, however, provide “probably the strongest evidence to date of that link between EBV and MS,” he said.
Epstein-Barr virus has infected about 95 percent of adults. Yet only a tiny fraction of them will develop multiple sclerosis. Other factors are also known to affect a person’s MS risk, including genetics, low vitamin D, smoking, and childhood obesity.
https://www.inverse.com/science/epstein-barr-multiple-sclerosis The researchers believed that this indicated that the Archaea they identified should be able to swap genes with Bacteria and vice-versa, as easily as Bacteria swap genes among themselves. To prove that their idea was correct, they synthesized AttC from an Archaea specimen and exposed it to an E. coli specimen. Testing showed that cassettes had been created allowing gene swapping to occur.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-archaea-integrons-cross-domain-gene.html What they have found is that taking a more compassionate and apparently "softer" approach to business, politics and sports management brings positive results, not just for the benefit of people who work for them, but for their own benefit too. The traditional notion that you have to be ruthless, driven and focussed on number one if you want to achieve success is being discredited
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221124-does-kindness-get-in-the-way-of-success https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221124-does-kindness-get-in-the-way-of-success Saudi Arabia has a new green agenda. Cutting oil production isn’t part of it
https://www.salon.com/2022/11/25/saudi-arabia-has-a-new-green-agenda-cutting-oil-production-isnt-part-of-it_partne The Atacama Desert is nestled between the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range, which blocks moisture from traveling inland from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
And although it is one of the driest places on Earth, one million people call the desolate landscape home.
But Chile's massive Atacama Desert is a unique and fragile ecosystem that experts say is being threatened by piles of trash dumped there from around the world.
The fast fashion industry is a primary culprit in the mountains of clothes sprawling over the once barren hills.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11470615/Chiles-Atacama-Desert-graveyard-worlds-junk-threatening-science.html Review provides new perspective on grieving the loss of a pet
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-perspective-grieving-loss-pet.html "From observational temperature data we can now infer that the Amazon has been consistently drying for more than one hundred years. Earth System Models project a continued drying into the future under global warming and therefore gives us further reason to be concerned about climate-driven rainforest dieback in the Amazon," said Dr. Paul Ritchie also from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Exeter.
As senior author Professor Peter Cox put it, "Together, these studies provide a firmer basis for detecting drying that could lead to Amazon forest dieback, but they also heighten our concerns about forest dieback under climate change."
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-dieback-amazon-rainforest-climate-latest.html , “Basically we’re looking to find the settings where the patient feels that their mood is better, their anxiety is less and they have more energy.”
Deep brain stimulation works well for a lot of patients and has only started to get mainstream attention in the past decade or so, but ideas underlying this treatment are nearly 60 years old. As explained by Joseph Fins, a neuroethicist and professor of medicine at Wei Cornell Medical College, part of Cornell University in the US, it all started with a Spanish neuroscientist named Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado in 1964.
https://theconversation.com/treating-mental-illness-with-electricity-marries-old-ideas-with-modern-tech-and-understanding-of-the-brain-podcast-195071 It's been one of those days where nothing I try in HA works and im ready to punt it across the house.
Can someone please help me figure out why I cant get SMTP to work. My config.yaml looks like this:
notify: - name: Group-text platform: smtp server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com port: 587 timeout: 15 sender: ****@yahoo.com encryption: starttls username:*****@yahoo.com password: "APP_PASSWORD" verify_ssl: false recipient: - ******@txt.att.net sender_name: HASS
And it appears to show up - I can get it as an action in automations just fine. The problem is, it never works. Every time I try to fire off a notification, I get this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/smtp/notify.py", line 216, in _send_email
mail.sendmail(self._sender, recipients, msg.as_string())
File "/uslocal/lib/python3.10/smtplib.py", line 908, in sendmail
raise SMTPDataError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPDataError: (554, b'6.6.0 Error sending message for delivery.')
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 451, in _async_step
await getattr(self, handler)()
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 684, in _async_call_service_step
await service_task
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1744, in async_call
task.result()
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1781, in _execute_service
await cast(Callable[[ServiceCall], Awaitable[None]],
handler.job.target)(
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/notify/legacy.py", line 258, in _async_notify_message_service
await self.async_send_message(**kwargs)
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/notify/legacy.py", line 234, in async_send_message
await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(
File "/uslocal/lib/python3.10/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/smtp/notify.py", line 209, in send_message
return self._send_email(msg, recipients)
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/smtp/notify.py", line 227, in _send_email
mail = self.connect()
File "/ussrc/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/smtp/notify.py", line 147, in connect
mail.login(self.username, self.password)
File "/uslocal/lib/python3.10/smtplib.py", line 739, in login
(code, resp) = self.auth(
File "/uslocal/lib/python3.10/smtplib.py", line 642, in auth
(code, resp) = self.docmd("AUTH", mechanism + " " + response)
File "/uslocal/lib/python3.10/smtplib.py", line 432, in docmd
return self.getreply()
File "/uslocal/lib/python3.10/smtplib.py", line 405, in getreply
raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
I have an att.net account with yahoo and I don’t remember any of my security questions and it seems like there’s no way around them but I’ve entered my email password wrong too many times so I can’t access it at all. Does anyone know a way around this?
I have a Yahoo email account that ends in .ameritech.net . This account is/was under ATT/Yahoo. the account was a sub account under my main account. account needs a reset . I need a way to get back into the account. the reset link goes to the account that I cannot get into .
I have an att.net email address that runs through Yahoo. This is what I use for my yahoo fantasy sports account, and have for years. Now when I go into the yahoo fantasy sports app and try to log in it has to use an in-app browser for me to login. That browser logs in successfully, but that data doesn’t get sent to the app so I am unable to use the app for fantasy sports or even email.
Anyone know a workaround or if yahoo is aware of this? With their pay for customer support I’m not calling this in.
Not sure if this is the right place for this, let me know if it isn’t.
Recently (over the past 6 months) my very old sbcglobal.net email has been having severe issues. First, I’ve noticed that I cannot regularly access my email from my laptop. About every 1 month of getting on my laptop, the page reloads with my email and then I am forced to log in only this time, it will not work with my current up to date password and states my “account is locked due to several failed attempts to get in”. So, I make a new one, go through the process, yada yada, and re-sign in with my phone (which is always signed in to my email).
A new development to this “quirk” is that now I am unable to log into my email on my laptop and I am unable to reset the password like I do every month. Upon some research into ATT forums, I found out this can be account specific but haven’t seen many forums talking about it recently.
The newest, possibly worst development into this degradation is that now my email is flooded with numerous spam emails. I receive ~15-20 per day in my regular mail box on my phone now and also receive emails from yahoo to “upgrade to filter out junk”. I am also unable to log into my laptop or reset the password.
To summarize, my email has been degrading to the point of uselessness and I’m wondering how many others are going through something similar. I also think yahoo is doing this purposely to get people to upgrade to yahoo+.
Also some help would be appreciated as well.
I saw someone had an ending of att.net for their email which I've never seen before, and I was wondering if it has the same features like google(gmail) and yahoo. What would be the use of this? Is this only available to people who uses at&t services? What is the pros and cons of having this email?