The inlay i made to my bench is bloodwood. In my limited experience this wood is so hard it fits into that category of hardwoods like Jatoba where the density is so tight it makes for real fine dust when cutting and the wood is what i would almost describe as brittle. Cracks very quickly.
So i thought to copy some of you who have treated your workbench in blo and mineral spirits.
Anyhow mixed a 50/50 mix thinking that the thin liquid would quickly penetrate the whole top of my bench and that would be that.
Well yes except for the bloodwood. It probably has "penetrated some but it also seems to just have settled on the top and made a shiny film over the bloodwood as if i had sealed it with a varnish.
Now given this is a work surface thats not going to stay there long in fact i will remove it when its dry. But it did bring up the whole issue to me of understanding how woods like Bloodwood get finished or what treatment to use for finishing this kind of super dense wood.
When i cut this wood on my bandsaw and later on the router the powder it creates is like no other wood. Obviously worse because its red so you see it easier but wow its a very different kind of sawdust. It really is dust rather than tiny woodchip.
So how would you have treated this flat sawn piece of bloodwood to get it to absorb any finish.?
By comparison i have walnut and oak and ash all on the same bench and none had any issue with the blo/mineral spirit mix. They have all absorbed it well and darkened nicely.
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Human diversity in Africa is greater than any place else on Earth. Differing food sources, geographies, diseases and climates offered many targets for natural selection to exert powerful forces on Africans to change and adapt to their local environments. The individuals who adapted best were the most likely to reproduce and pass on their genomes to the generations who followed.
That history of inheritance is written in the DNA of modern Africans, but it takes some investigative work to interpret. In a report to be featured on the cover of the Aug. 3 issue of the journal Cell, University of Pennsylvania geneticists and their colleagues analyze the fully sequenced genomes of 15 Africans belonging to three different hunter-gatherer groups and decipher some of what these genetic codes have to say about human diversity and evolution.
The study, led by Sarah Tishkoff, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in the School of Arts and Sciences' biology department and the Perelman School of Medicine's genetics department, tells several stories.
It identifies several million previously unknown genetic mutations in humans. It finds evidence that the direct ancestors of modern humans may have interbred with members of an unknown ancestral group of hominins. It suggests that different groups evolved distinctly in order to reap nutrition from local foods and defend against infectious disease. And it identifies new candidate genes that likely play a major role in making Pygmies short in stature.
"Our analysis sheds light on human evolution, because the individuals we sampled are descended from groups that may have been ancestral to all other modern humans," Tishkoff said. "A message we're seeing is that even though all the individuals we sampled are hunter-gatherers, natural selection has acted differently in these different groups."
Joining Tishkoff in the work from Penn was first author Joseph Lachance as well as Clara Elbers, Bart Ferwerda and Timothy Rebbeck. Their collaborators include Benjamin Vernot, Wenqing Fu and Joshua Akey of the University of Washington; Alain Froment of France's Mus?e de L'Homme; Jean-Marie Bodo of Cameroon's Minist?re de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Innovation; Godfrey Lema and Thomas B. Nyambo of Tanzania's Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences; and Kun Zhang of the University of California at San Diego.
The researchers sequenced the genomes of five men from each of three hunter-gatherer groups: the Hadza and the Sandawe of Tanzania and the Western Pygmies of Cameroon. The three differ greatly from one another in appearance, in language, in the environments they occupy and in cultural practices, though the Hadza and the Sandawe live just 200 kilometers apart.
"We purposefully picked three of the most diverse hunter-gatherer groups," Tishkoff said, "because they have not been very well represented in other genome sequencing projects, which tend to focus on majority populations in Africa. This is a unique and important dataset."
The researchers used a method that involves sequencing each strand of DNA more than 60 times on average. This redundancy makes the sequencing highly accurate, giving the geneticists confidence that any mutations they identify are real and not errors. Scanning these sequences, the researchers found 13.4 million genetic variants, or locations in the genome where a single nucleotide differed from other human sequences; at the time they were discovered, 5 million were new to science.
"It was awe-inspiring," Lachance, a postdoctoral researcher, said, "to find millions of new variants that we never knew existed in our species. It's humbling but invigorating to think about how to make sense of all this diversity."
Only about 72,000 of these variants were in regions of the DNA that code for genes. The rest were in non-coding regions, which may influence how and whether genes are expressed.
"Our study underscores the importance of noncoding regions of the genome, particularly for regulating gene expression," Tishkoff said. "That has important implications for anyone doing biomedical research because, if they're only looking at the coding regions, they're missing information that may be critically important for normal human variation as well as disease susceptibility."
The researchers also used the genomes to investigate ancient human interbreeding.
Using a statistical method, the team detected partial sequences in all three populations that appear to have derived from a hominin different from Homo sapiens. Much as recent studies have found evidence that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals, these new findings suggest that the ancestors of modern humans in Africa mated with individuals from another hominin lineage. This archaic lineage appears to have diverged from the modern human lineage several hundred thousand years ago, around the same time that Neanderthals diverged from Homo sapiens.
"Fossils degrade fast in Africa so we don't have a reference genome for this ancestral lineage," Akey said, "but one of the things we're thinking is it could have been a sibling species to Neanderthals."
Evidence of interbreeding with an archaic lineage, known as introgression, was found in all three groups tested.
"Given that introgression is present in these very diverse groups," Vernot said, "I think we can now say that this seems to be a pretty universal aspect of human history."
In an additional analysis, the researchers looked for major differences among the genomes of the three groups, signs that the populations evolved differently to adapt to their specific environments. Among the variations that stood out were genes related to immune-system function, smell and taste. These findings suggest that adaptations to local diseases and local foods were important in how the groups evolved.
Finally, building on previous research from Tishkoff and colleagues that sought an explanation for why Pygmies are all short - men standing only 4'11" on average - the researchers looked for variants that were common in the Pygmies of Cameroon but rare or absent in the other groups. They found several genes located near these mutations that act on the pituitary gland, a "master regulator" responsible for metabolism, growth, sexual development and immunity.
"We would have never found these strong candidate genes for short stature," Lachance said, "if we hadn't looked at multiple genomic sequences from these isolated populations. It hints at the power of what you can do when you sample multiple genomes and compare them at a population scale."
Tishkoff's group plans to sequence the genomes from more Africans - a task that new technology has made faster and cheaper than ever before - to increase their sample size. With more genomic data, scientists will better their understanding of how evolution acted on humans throughout the last several hundred thousand years and even how certain mutations may predispose certain people to disease.
"Our study emphasizes the critically important role of next-generation genome sequencing for elucidating the genetic basis of both normal variable traits in humans as well as identifying the genetic basis of human disease risk," Tishkoff said.
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You?ve got a new car and you?re ready to give it a go on the road. Before you take your new baby out on a spin, first make sure you?re properly protected in case of accidents. Let?s face it, no matter how careful you are as a driver, other drivers will not be as mindful as you ? thereby, still, placing your car at risk. Your best shield against the painful cost of car repairs is a reliable auto insurance plan.
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The internet is a treasure trove of information and there is money to be made from it. The question is do you have the know how.
What are the methods people/companies employ to make money from the Internet?
1. Selling goods on the internet. For example ebay, flipkart, jabongg etc.
2. Selling services on the internet. You can sell web design, hosting, writing, translation, software programming, video editing etc.
3. Selling goods on commission. For example, make a website and sell goods from another website and earn money as commissions on the sales. This is called affiliate marketing.
4. Distributing information on a website and making money from advertisements. This is what majority of the websites do.
Which is the most guaranteed way of earning money online?
There are no guaranteed ways, you can earn money doing any one of them or all of them, but all of them can succeed or fail depending on what you do and how you do it.
Which method to use?
For the sake of simplicity, I will start with method number 4.
Requirements for method 4
a. Domain name
b. Hosting space
c. Good topic
d. Good site design
e. Good content
f. Advertisers
g. Visitors
Domain name
Getting a domain name costs money but it is essential. You can use free domain names like xyz.blogspot.com or yourdomain.co.nr but it will not help you reach your goal. You can buy domain names for few hundred rupees per year.
Hosting space
Your domain needs to be hosted on a server, where people can access your web site and you can store your web pages or blog. Hosting space costs money. You can get hosting space for few hundred rupees per month or year.
Good topic
A blog like arpandeb.com is not meant to earn quickly or is not completely targeted towards earning. Arpandeb.com earns already and can earn big in the future but this is not the most optimal way of doing it to start earning quickly. To do it fast, you have to choose a topic that people are interested in and for which advertisers are available.
Good site design
This is very important. Your site must look good and should be easy to navigate. It should also be conducive to good ad placements, without which you can not earn money.
Good content
Your site must have good , original content written in a interesting manner. Without will not have visitors and that means no money. Copying and pasting content from other sites should be strictly avoided. Not only is it bad, it is down right unethical.
Advertisers
There are people / companies who will pay you to carry their advertisements on your website. Finding them is the easiest step.
Visitors
Without visitors your site is worth nothing. Think of a shop with no customer and you will get the idea. It is because of the visitors , that the advertisers will pay you.
How to start?
First step is to find or choose a good topic. A topic more often than not has many sub topics and those sub topics will have many keywords. I will come back to the ?keyword? a bit later. To illustrate a topic with an example
Android = Topic
Android Phone = Sub topic
Android Tablet = Sub topic
Android apps = Sub topic
Android Market = Sub topic
You can see that Android is a vast topic with many sub topics. When you are starting out, you have to choose a topic than drill down to the sub topic you are going to concentrate or you can make a list of the sub topics (recommended).
Each sub topic will have keywords, the number of keywords can range from a dozen to few hundreds. Keywords are the words that people use when they search for the sub topic in Google. For example
Android phone = sub topic
cheap android phone = keyword
android phone reviews = keyword
samsung android phone = keyword
dual sim android phone = keyword
android phone prices = keyword
Each keyword in turn can have many sub keywords. Your site will be based on a group of keywords. Your choice of keywords will be a deciding factor on whether your site makes money or not.
How to choose a good keyword?
A good keyword has to fulfill three conditions
1. Search volume : This is the number of searches Google receives in a month or year for any particular keyword. The higher the number the better it is.
2. Competition : There are hundreds of millions of sites on the internet and any keyword you choose will have competitors. Some keywords have more competitors than others. Competitors are websites which are using the same keyword to make money. The higher the competitors the harder it is to make money (I will explain the reason in subsequent parts). The trick is to choose a keyword that has a high search volume and low competition.
3. Viability: This measures if a keyword is going to make money or not. There are many keywords that have good search volume, low competition but very few advertisers. And low advertiser count means, the site will not make enough money or no money at all.
To put it briefly, a good keyword should have high search volume, low competition and many advertisers. In subsequent parts, I will show you
a. How to find a good topic,? sub-topic and keywords.
b. How to find the search volume, competition and viability of the keywords.
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