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Join Margo live and concert in the Mount Derrigal Hotel Leverkenny on Thursday the 6th of October. Welcome back and it's time for Wellness Wednesday now and this Saturday is International Day of the Older People and to coincide with it we're launching or are we launching it now? It's been launched Voop which is Voice of the Older Person's user launching it in the resource centre in Leverkenny on Saturday from 2pm until 6pm. It's time for Wednesday now and this Saturday is International Day of the Older Person's user launching it on Saturday from 2pm until 4pm. Join by two guests in the studio now firstly Maurice Levin centre coordinator in the Congress Resource Centre in Leverkenny good morning to you. It's great to have you with us and we also can welcome in to Katie Byrne a volunteer with Voop good morning Katie how are you? Good morning Greg. It's good to have both of you with us. Let's start with you Marie talk to us then about Voop. Yeah well first of all Greg I must just correct you there the launch will be in the public service building in Leverkenny from 2pm to 4pm this Saturday the 1st of October. Thanks for that, sorry about that. No that's okay. We'll clarify that a number of times. Yeah in the public service building. Well first of all to talk about the Voop project. Well I'm coming to your retirement age myself I suppose I'm 64 past and I've worked at the Resource Centre for 24 years and a lot of people that worked with us over the years are now retired and they still keep in touch with the Centre and Michael Breslin who would have given a lot of information over the years on pensions and that and I suppose because of the Covid and that we've just found that a lot of older people are feeling a bit isolated and have been out of touch and sometimes don't know where to go to. Links have been broken I think is what happened a lot of the time hasn't it? Links between people and organisations or links between people and everyone's come out of this slightly different there's still some people incredibly cautious that are holding back themselves. Yeah so it's about rebuilding that. Yes and a lot of people know that we're there like they can ring us at any time if they need any help or any information. They don't necessarily have to come into the Centre you know we have trained information providers there and what we're also finding a lot of people have great difficulty trying to get through to service providers they're ringing and ringing their credits used up and they can't get the answers that they need. So the other thing that we like to do is link up with the existing service that is there like the active retirement groups all around the county You don't want to be double jobbing you want to make sure you complement each other rather than sort of compete. Yeah exactly the more people help in the better because we're lucky we have the premises there and we would like to call on the groups to avail of the premises and the facilities we have you know. Casey do you want to talk a little bit about sort of Covid post Covid and its impact on older people? Yeah I think for me my background's healthcare so I went into the Centre basically a few months ago to get a bit of support have a chat sort of age related and everything else and I came away and I thought we had a conversation over a cup of tea and I had done our recent masters and I looked at human rights and older people as my dissertation as my piece for that and we got talking and we got to talk about what's happening generally and the lessons we needed to learn as an organisation as society and one of the things that has come out now is the fact that for the first time in global history there are less children being born and there are more older people and that's going to change demographics and it's new it's just beginning to happen and I think what we want to do is to start a conversation about getting older and ageing and doing it right. It seems more challenging now and correct me wherever I'm wrong but like say for instance in terms of moving towards a cashless society I think that's going to impact older people not all older people by the way mad at tapping particularly in the pub but you know what I mean it can disproportionately affect older people the closing of post offices guarder stations it seems acceptable that older people may have to wait 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 hours to be seen at an accident and emergency department also to a lot of the questions I find being asked in the media are pitching younger people against older people as if to say older people are a burden on these people so you add in the narrative and then you add in the realities and you add in the gaps in services and I've only touched on some it seems the life our respect and appreciation of older people we are going backwards and I think there's a lot of older people out there today and I do everything I can on this program to try and refer to that very easy stuff am I a burden now? to make a problem there's too many people getting old and we're living longer and we're slightly healthier I mean is that a reality do you think at least a perception that's really what we need to combat and what you're saying is some of the key organisations around the world are beginning to say so World Health Organization and the United Nations they've got a real a thing going now to combat ageism and you're right we need to start looking at what we even think about getting older and our older populations and how we stereotype them and then from that what we feel about it and you're right do they feel burdensome do we feel they're a burden and then the acts that come about the discrimination and if we don't challenge it if we don't challenge ageism then we won't get the things right like you're right a health service that fits everybody in society we don't give the credit to many older people that provide childcare services so that many women now have to work there's not a choice and a lot of that is met by older people the fact that many young people are supported by the first home and I think too also as well some gaps like in childcare for instance I think a lot of grandparents are presumed to be the de facto childcare is that that's what you do when you get to a certain age you're not working anymore that's what grandparents do generationally back it's not like that but do you square off to your daughter or your son actually I had other plans I love my grandchildren but I love to hand them back and I think that all just feeds into maybe a perception Marie I don't have that problem I don't have any grandchildren which actually makes me posing the question a little bit more comfortable that's what they do I could say it would be a problem for some parents this is the time of life we probably for the first time ever have some time to yourself and want to make the most of your retirement and of course you don't want to let your children down so you can understand how people are torn there is a balance to be struck it's just the presumption of something we like doing things but we don't want to be presumed to be presumed that we would just wonder is even some of those closest we lose a bit of respect for us and I think we need to change that I think it's all part of what we've been talking about so far today I think respect for our older people is sort of it's been declining over the years what we're trying to do is to help people to prepare for the retirement to be smart for themselves we don't want a cliff edge I suppose myself and Kate in recent years have had experience like my mum has dementia and Kate's mum is she's in good health but she's in her early 90s but we don't know what we're going to be ourselves it's terrible too we all age but you kind of age say the neck is the line you either age from the neck up don't you age from the neck down it's funny how it goes isn't it it is a bit scary but the thing is to sort of get as much information as you can while you can prepare for the future as best you can looking at what care is possible that you might need in the future looking at the legal aspects like power of attorney I'm getting ahead of it too I think we can get regardless of what age you are the anticipation of something is often worse than itself and people think there's people still reluctant to write a will because they believe they believe it's in some way some sort of acceptance of their own mortality or whatever their motivation might be but we avoid it because we don't like talking about death then you can see sometimes the complications that are raised in families because people didn't prepare I'm meandering all over the place why did you come here to sit and talk about I suppose what we want to say is that we want to create something around the voice of older people and we want to do it so that one it informs everybody in society the people but also that informs policy and the people that are in a position to influence and implement does our national development plan account for older people in terms of rural transport in terms of rural living and all older people don't live in rural areas don't get me wrong but when you look at the national development plan does it factor those things in and I wonder does it enough has it taken enough account of it in terms of social care what are we looking at and what sort of society do we want if we look at other countries we can learn from them and like it or not our population is going to change and our population is aging so I think the fact is we want to start a conversation about age and aging a lot of that is going to be done through talk shops workshops talking about some of the things you've talked about really important things power of attorney living wills I mentioned that as well your health, age and planning stuff in a good environment with useful so you come out of it with something rather than you've left something behind you is that what you're hoping to achieve Marie? yeah we're hoping to bring people together and get them talking really that's what we want and as kids we would like professionals retired professionals to join us because it's there's a wealth of knowledge and such experience people just because they're retired in a very positive way and that's what we want to bring older people together and show you know the skills that they've built over the years to share those skills with each other but I'm going to the blank now I think yeah we do want to have the launch when you go blank this is a tip Marie when you go blank don't say it this is a tip now for the next time you just look at Katie and then it's over to you Katie I never admit Marie never admit going blank I tend to do it sometimes now I think apart from the launch and we have got a little bit of media coverage and it's fantastic that you've invited us on and some of the papers hopefully are going to pick up on it and that will impress and influence hopefully the funders and people will begin to listen to this but the other thing we want to do is to run a sort of series of you know bringing people together and Marie's right about this whether we call them information sessions or whatever but things like you know healthy aging I mean if we could get a couple of GPs that would come along with us that would be fantastic come in and talk about you know prevention we've talked about it with children we did a piece last week about heart failure in older people you know and it was literally all the advice was actually was when you go to the GP get them to stick the stethoscope on you listen and it's so treatable so many people suffer from it heart attack and if they hopefully survive it's going to have an impact on their life going forward but if the GP picks this up with a stethoscope there's quite a simple process that you go through whereby your your energy is returned to you your breath is returned to you and similarly last week as well we've talked about COPD it's about getting that information out there and getting us in control of our health to ensure if we're blessed with long life that we're able to enjoy it as healthy as possible so the other things we have to do is start this conversation and Marie's right the thing about getting older and as you said the head up but things like power of attorney ward ships which are going to be sort of historical fairly soon having said that the capacity act's been there since 2015 and it's only just been enacted now but we need to know about it and things like pensions and benefits you know what are you entitled to exactly you know that's a complex question here Greg do you know if there's any updates on the fair deal scheme for elderly care at home like we're going to try and get an answer and deliver that to the listener but that's a complex question you know what I mean and where do you go to find that out right so the day the international day of the older people crazy that we actually have to have a specific date but we are where we are and then the launch of VOOP talk what's this VOOP news here this is a little newsletter that we put together in the centre loads of info in the back I would like to thank Michael Breslin who worked in the centre made it a good article layer on pensions and British pensions that people would be interested in and also Mary Higgins who works in the regional employment service in the centre Mary gives some information on the employment service that they provide and job seeking people may still want to work part-time when they receive in their pensions it has to be choice though, not to be coerced into that exactly great I have my concerns about this new staggered system that SEVENTEEN now becomes really the default and if you want to go earlier you're going to have to take a financial hit but anyway that's another convo isn't it people know how the fair out if they do want to work a day or two a week and also there's a bit there about self-employment imagine how exciting that might be you've always dreamed of doing something or if you've wanted to pursue photography, personal development imagine if you want to get into yoga or meditation exactly just sharing information and what's available really that's what the newsletters say and get us back connected again as much as people are comfortable with we need to be starting from at least where we were at pre-COVID don't we? so when is the launch taking place and where? well it's this Saturday 1st of October in the public service building in Lederkenny from 2 to 4pm it sounds going to be a nice positive we're going to have a wee bit of crack we'll have a cup of tea and traybakes and that will come in it'll get a bit of people laughing and we have Pat McGart who is very supportive very entertaining Pat's going to be our emcee and a few speakers there and we'll have a bit of crack just to let people know too if they can't make it on the day if there are any concerns about their pension or they want a bit of information to ring the centre we as much as we could try and get the message across it's not a deal for anyone but if anyone out there is of an older age maybe they've lost their partner maybe their kids are busy and they come in frequently but they live and die for that visit and stuff there's never a lot of people they don't have to feel like that because there's people like you great people like you that are there if you can get in see what's happening in your area maybe you might network there's no I don't think anyone should feel or should try and avoid anyone feeling like they're sitting at home waiting for that next visit or even excited that the postman might call today do you know what I mean we shouldn't have that should we that's what we want to do let people know what's available and if people want to call the centre how do we do so well it's 0749120 we'll be happy to take the calls if we can and stay engaged with us as well too if it helps in reaching people I want people to look forward with hope and excitement not feel like they're running down the clock not insensitively but there are some out there no one in this room but you know what I mean just to make sure people don't feel like that just none of us would be here without those that went before okay vouping it up I'm not sure that's going to catch on is it I'm making a shake they've already got merch folks they've already got merch you can get your voup t-shirts we made them some Saturday available if you give me one I'll wear it that's brilliant in front of the camera we'll definitely get them 100% I'll do anything to help and support that I can get along to the launch between 2pm and 4pm you can see by the likes of Mary and Katie the type of people that are involved in this it's about positivity moving forward maybe facing some stuff we don't want to face having conversations that are a little bit difficult but you know what you'll feel better after having a wee bit of crack do you know having a wee bit of crack Marie 7 centre coordinator Congress Resource Centre Pierce Road and also Katie and you did a Masters recently Katie in what was your area of speciality it was an access to justice it was a Masters in law and because my background was healthcare and because of my looking after my mother and everything else my dissertation ended up being on something else to do and do you know what you're never too old to go back to 3rd level educating that's something else life I'm learning we should be you know there's a lot to offer it's been lovely having the two of you in thank you so much let's take a break Kieran is going to be joining us with business matters in a couple of minutes we'll be right back we'll be right back we'll be right back farmers you're built different one step after the other you don't see the rewards for months or years that's life on the 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I'll go for it charity single pick another song alright come here great news for the Red Castle Oceanfront Golf and Spa Hotel yes it has been awarded the best four star hotel and gold resort in Donegal in the 2022 Resort and Retreat Awards by Lux Life area this year the initial hotel three of its rooms and the wedding and function set which is the ocean set overlooking Locke Foyle was also upgraded and that cost a total of half a million euros so the Red Castle Hotel is part of the hardcore collection which also includes Titanic Hotel and Belfast and the Locke S Castle in Donegal Town great recognition because there's some competition even around our country yeah and it's great to see it the Tip O'Neill awards ceremony took place in the last week yeah I know the news covered as well in the last week Greg some of Donegal and Erin's finest were recognized for their outstanding contributions to society, culture, health care, the arts and business at the Tip O'Neill Awards ceremony held in Bunkrana those honoured included Maya Daherty Dr Susan Horsky, Kathleen Sheeran and Anne and Mark Bayara the Tip O'Neill Awards ceremony began in 2012 and that was to mark the centenary of the birth of Thomas P Tip O'Neill whose maternal grandparents healed from Donegal, Bunkrana and Clonmani respectively and was an American politician who served as a speaker of the US House of Representatives so a very well and highly regarded man alright now major e-commerce awards for a Evolve Evolve clothing located at the McKinney Retail Park has won the Fashion and Footwear e-commerce website of the year award for 2022 accepting the award at a recent reception at the Imagine House Hotel in Dublin the McCuskey brothers said it was a testament to their online team and the work they do each day above and beyond so Evolve launched its new website back in 2018 with the help of ARP commerce and built for growth digital and the brothers also said that their help played a big part in securing what is a very prestigious and the gutting that really in terms of switching not switching sorry but a focus an online focus just ahead really of the exactly there was a big push but they were ahead of the curve I'm sure if it wasn't in place maybe it just might have been as good for them alright now more Donegal success at the Irish restaurant awards yeah there were three Donegal winners in the Irish restaurant awards for 2022 Kieran Swinney who's based at the old Glen Bar won the Best Chef and Ulster Award the Rusty Mackerel, Pub and Teedon scooped the best Gastro, Pub and Ulster while Shant Pour in the restaurant and Donegal Town won the Best World Cuisine and Ulster so I think it's important Greg that we sort of mention those on our way round up because sure and I don't eat out very often but I have been in two of the three of those I just haven't visited the Rusty Mackerel but what Kieran's doing at the old Glen Bar is something else it's a dining experience because food is lovely and it's lovely to go out and meet friends but it's an experience they do great things there at the old Glen Bar and of course the Shant Pour Indian restaurant in Donegal Town regular award winner so they're really consistent in that regard right okay let's go agricultural yeah Donegal County Council will host a hemp information evening on Wednesday October the 12th at the Canary Hotel in Leroy, Kenny so this farm diversification diversification event will feature a range of speakers who will demystify some of the perceptions around the crop there will also be an opportunity to hear about live projects in this developing sector and those interested can email info at Donegal.ie well there's one very clear misunderstanding of the crop that might need to be demystified but anyway yes good man alright let's get on to this this week's podcast which went live at 11.30 by the way it did it didn't last week I thought you tried to regroup your laptop the one week it was in time I had to come on but on this week's show Greg I'll be joined by well-being coach and founder of the One Good Hour in Leroy, Kenny Mary Bradley Mary has been teaching at Leroy Leroy, Kenny for the last 10 years she began meditating in her early 20s and earlier this year she decided to set up her own business and that was to help people release the stress of everyday life and become a camera and more content version of themselves during our conversation I asked Mary how the first 6 months of being in business have been it's a roller coaster so you have to be so motivated in yourself and I am very motivated and I am very passionate but of course you meet so many stumbling blocks along the way and it's that you have to be able to talk to yourself and talk yourself around of these things like I said you end up telling yourself stories that are good enough nobody is interested in this I'll just leave it now nobody is bothered and you have to kind of quiet in that inner critic and just there's so many different versions of why something has happened and often they have nothing to do with you the other big thing that I think is just remaining aligned with what is important to me why I am doing what I am doing sometimes you can I don't know if it's the same for other people but you can end up trying to force things a little bit and then I find myself stepping back then and be like why do I want that thing to happen so badly is that really aligned with what I am about and what I want to do or is it just something I feel like I should be doing or am I doing these things for the right reasons was that one of those interviews Kieran I know you come away with something from all your interviews because of the type of people that you interview but you come away thinking maybe something has been triggered there a little bit one of the things that Mary referred to and she said she killed it herself is actually spending maybe half an hour endlessly scrolling and the time that we could maybe use that 30 minutes or an hour every now and again to sort of tune in with ourselves and just maybe try and maybe go a bit easier on ourselves I think sometimes we do need to sit down with ourselves there's a lot of people I probably count myself one of them that sort of operates at a certain level of stress and anxiety and do you know what I mean if I were diagnosed I probably would be diagnosed as both of those things but you function do you know what I mean and you accept it and I would say someone like Mary and sort of looking after you well being and talking to yourself you could probably start seeing the woods for the trees and start realizing I realized it at some time you're going it kind of works for me I suppose COVID was probably a major turning point and a lot of people's lives because we were forced to stop and then we were forced to think and then forced to look around a lot of people would felt better ironically Mary talked about a lot of things the stress on different sectors of society and different age brackets different dimensions workforces workplaces and I suppose what Mary does is help people give them the tools to maybe look after themselves and we would better change their thinking and maybe just be better to themselves this kind of approach is mainstream now it may not have been mainstream in the past but it's mainstream now it's not laughed at I'm not saying it ever was laughed at but do you know what I mean this is part of the curriculum now and it's part of Mary's teaching role as well she's on leave at the minute she had her first child Luke was born last year so she's juggling a lot of things a new mum and a new business but she's a great passion for her area Greg and a very fast in conversation OK now that interview in its entirety you heard a 1 minute 10 second clip of it there it's a half hour odd podcast this week that interview is available for you to listen to now when you ever want to it's on the playback section of our website the listen back section of it's not called it's the on demand section of our website you'll see Kieran's face there click on it punch it the image of it obviously nothing in real life because that's violence click his face and you'll be able to listen to Mary whenever you want it's also available on Spotify iTunes and if you want to listen to it on the radio schedule it's part of someone's Sunday evening I'm sure it's part of many people's Sunday evening Kieran when is it broadcast? just after the 6 o'clock news Greg on Sunday and if people want to give you feedback or get in contact with you with any questions or suggestions how do they contact you Kieran just drop me an email please Greg businessmatters.com OK so the business matters podcast live for you right now on our website and there's a whole archive of them there as well by the way for you to listen back to whenever you want to there's really interesting people in there Kieran the movies and the shakers and some really fascinating stories I think you'd agree anyway having spoken to them yourself there's always something different and look down again you get a wee bit of feedback which is good look at him fishing for compliments now and again there was one time Greg I met somebody and said look I heard you almost such insults and I enjoyed it I met somebody the next day and they told me they warmed the ideas but I couldn't listen to it the same podcast it was the same well do you know what that's why we have choices exactly well done Kieran I'm sure the vast majority of people thoroughly enjoy them dropping on a Wednesday have a great Wednesday we'll chat to you next week Kieran O'Donnell there as I say the presenter of the business matters podcast OK as you can imagine it's been one of those days where we've got so many contacts from your listeners and we're going to try and get through as many of them as we can tomorrow Hi Greg the road in our area very very overgrown with bracken and briars not safe to walk on roads and also to drive who's responsible for getting the side roads also some road signs are overgrown thanks Greg well I'm not fully sure if the answer to that I presume a lot of it's down to the council disappointing turn I'd say is a caller at the cost of living protest with crowd estimated from 3,000 in newspapers well we know that's that was no way near it to 20,000 claimed by organisers recall 40,000 of us marching against the Iraq war with no personal benefits at stake and no free buses sponsored by politicians or parties some of us didn't hang around for the speeches which quickly descended into a rally for Sinn Fein and people before profit I said it in the weeks and advances of it in a way that I didn't want to discourage anyone but when political parties are heavily involved or independents are heavily involved in what effectively is an anti-government approach even though look it's gonna put an awful lot of people off and I predicted earlier on that not a lot of people would turn out a lot did a lot did but not enough that would make a difference unfortunately right there will be another protest in the not too distant future it'll happen organically it'll be organised by the people and I guarantee it'll be massive have a great Wednesday we're back with Thursdays 9 till noon show at


Pesticides are chemicals used to control a pest. There are many types of pesticides.  Many other pesticides control other arthropods, birds, fish, mammals, bacteria, and viruses. This video will focus on the most commonly used pesticides. Herbicide, insecticides, fungicides, and bactericides, and some of their basic mode of action. Mode of action is the way a pesticide exerts a toxic effect on the target plant, animal, or microorganism. Pesticide mode of action can be divided into two categories, systemic and contact. Systemic involves the pesticide penetrating the plant or animal and translocating within its system with the intent to protect it from bacteria, viruses, or other pests. In plants, it translocates throughout the plant and kills the leaves and also the root system. Contact pesticides do not penetrate the host while controlling the pests. It acts as a barrier or repellent in a plant. Or by killing any green tissue present. Broad spectrum pesticides can kill or harm a wide variety of organisms, both beneficial and harmful pests, and then there are those that target a specific trait in a pest. Herbicides are pesticides used to control or kill unwanted plants. There are close to 5,000 herbicides registered for use in the United States, all with various mode of actions and formulations. In this video, we will cover five groups of herbicides. Those are oxins, enzyme blockers, photosynthetic inhibitors, amino acids, and cell growth inhibitors. Growth regulators are commonly referred to as synthetic oxins. These chemicals mimic natural plant hormones and interrupt plant cell growth in newly forming stems and leaves. They affect protein production and normal cell division, leading to malformed growth. Synthetic oxins also kill plants by causing the cells in the tissue that carry water and nutrients to divide and grow without stopping. This is often called growing itself to death, which is seen by one side of the stem being longer than the other. Sulfonylurea, phenylpyralazine, and imidazolanone are examples of ALS inhibitors or enzyme blockers. They are chemicals that block the normal function of an enzyme called acetylactate synthase, or ALS. This enzyme is essential in amino acid or protein synthesis. Without proteins, plants starve to death. Enzyme blockers kill a wide range of plants, including broadleaf weeds, nut sedges, and grasses.  This enzyme helps the formation of lipids or fats in the roots of grass plants.  Photosynthetic inhibitors, such as bipyridinium and traizines are chemicals that interfere with photosynthesis, a plant's natural ability to make food, and disrupt plant growth, ultimately leading to death. There are also amino acid synthesis inhibitors, shoot-and-root growth inhibitors, and PPO inhibitors. Several herbicides fall into these groups, including glyphosate, acetylchlor, and trifluorilin. These herbicides stop or interrupt cell growth and a vision. Pigment inhibitors or bleachers are herbicides that cause the tissue of a plant to turn white after treatment. Examples include oxazolidinone, isoxazole, and trichotone. They interrupt the chlorophyll production in the plant, turning the plant tissue white and interrupting photosynthesis. The photosynthesis system can easily be damaged by sunlight without carotenoids. Insecticides control insects and other arthropods. Nerve and muscle poisons and insecticides disrupt, inhibit, block, terminate, or activate various channels, enzymes, and receptors within pests. Examples include carbamates, organophosphates, pyrethroids, pyrethrins, fibronil, chloridane, DDT, and neonicotinoids. This results in a range of symptoms such as paralysis, hyper-acceptation, system shutdowns, and overly-stimulated muscle contraction. Mid-gut poisons are poisons that attack the guts of insects via protein toxins leading to unbalanced ions, or salts in other minerals, and septicemia, or blood poisoning. Examples include BT toxins such as bacillus thuringiensis and bacillus ferricus. Insect growth regulators inhibit the normal life cycle of insects by copying one of these hormones, directly interrupting cuticle development, or loss in fat building. These would make insects die from staying in the immature life stage indefinitely. Respirators can be inhibitors of mitochondrial ATP synthase, uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation via disruption of the proton gradient, or mitochondrial complex electron transport inhibitors. These insecticides stop the insect from functioning by reducing the energy output that controls the cellular processes. Examples of this are muscle weakness, breathing issues, visual issues, and loss of muscle coordination. Other unknown or non-specific target insecticides are known to affect less well-described target sites or functions, or to act non-specifically on multiple targets.


Welcome to the session. I am Shashi and I am going to help you with the following question. Question says, a TV tower stands vertically on a bank of a canal. From a point on the other bank directly opposite the tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 60 degrees. From another point 20 meters away from this point on the line joining this point to the foot of the tower, the angle of elevation of the top 30 degrees height of the tower and the width of the canal. Let us now start with the solution. Where we can see in the figure, A B is the tower. It stands on a bank of a canal. Now C is a point on other bank of a canal such that angle of elevation of the top of the tower from this point is 60 degrees. Now on moving 20 meters away from this point that is on reaching point T, angle of elevation of top of the tower changes to 30 degrees. Now we are required to find out height of the tower and width of the canal. That is we have to find out A B and C B in the given question. Now we can simplify the given figure by drawing this simple diagram. Let us assume that height of A B is h meters and we see that this width of the canal is equal to x meters. So we can write let A B is equal to h meters is equal to x meters. We also know that angle A C B is equal to 60 degrees, elevation of top of the tower. We also know that angle A B B is equal to 30 degrees, elevation of top of the tower. First of all let us consider triangle A B C in right triangle A B C tan 60 degrees is equal to h upon x. Or we can say tan 60 degrees is equal to A B upon C B. So we can write in right triangle A B C tan 60 degrees is equal to A B upon C B. We know A B is equal to h meters and C B is equal to x meters. So we can write tan 60 degrees is equal to h upon x. Now we know tan 60 degrees is equal to root 3. So we can write root 3 is equal to h upon x. Same this expression as 1. Now we will consider triangle A B D in right triangle A B D is equal to A B. We know tan theta is equal to perpendicular upon base in this triangle. A B is perpendicular, B D is base and theta is at point D value of theta is equal to 30 degrees. Now we know A B is equal to h meters and B D is equal to x plus 20 meters. So we can write tan 30 degrees is equal to h upon x plus 20. Now we know tan 30 degrees is equal to 1 upon root 3. Now substituting 1 upon root 3 for tan 30 degrees. In this expression we get 1 upon root 3 is equal to h upon x plus 20. Now multiplying both the sides by x plus 20 we get x plus 20 upon root 3 is equal to h. We can simply write it as h is equal to x plus 20 upon root 3. Let us name this expression as 2. Substituting this value of h in expression 1 we get root 3 is equal to x plus 20 upon root 3. Upon x sides by x we get root 3x is equal to x plus 20 upon root 3. Multiplying both the sides by root 3 we get 3x is equal to x plus 20. Now subtracting x from both the sides we get 2x is equal to 20. Dividing both the sides by 2 we get x is equal to 10. Now we know x is equal to width of the canal that is vc. So we get is equal to x is equal to 10 meters. Now from expression 1 we know root 3 is equal to h upon x. Now substituting x is equal to 10 in this expression we get root 3 is equal to h upon 10. Other sides of this expression by 10 we get 10 root 3 is equal to h or we can write h is equal to 10 root 3 meters. Now we know h is the height of the tower so we get av is equal to h is equal to 10 root 3 meters. So height of the tower is equal to 10 root 3 meters and width of the canal is equal to 10 meters. So the required answer is 10 root 3 meters, 10 meters. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.


Hey everybody! We're back for part two of our three-part exploration of DNA structure and function and application in the next lecture. Today's topic is how DNA works. In the last lecture we looked at its structure, we looked at how it replicates, how it makes a copy of itself, and this picture that I've sort of reworked to make it a little less messy. This picture of a human life cycle sort of put context in why we would need to replicate DNA in the first place. Today we're looking at why DNA is so important and it's so important because of its function in providing the instructions for building the proteins. I want to just take a second to remind you of our life cycle and sort of talk through like where does today's stuff happen. DNA replication happens every single time mitosis and meiosis occur. We make copies of the DNA so that when our cells divide to make more cells, each cell has a complete copy of all the DNA that you need. DNA function is about the cell producing the proteins that it needs to function and that those instructions come from the nucleus in the DNA. A couple of words that I want to just put on our list and expose us to now. Your genotype is your genetic code. It's your genes. It's the the information that's carried in your DNA. That's your genotype and that's opposed to so every single cell contains everything that you need to know about your genotype. It's opposed to phenotype. I always think of phenotype as what you look like but it's actually the expression of the genes. So it's the proteins that get built from the DNA. That's our topic. How do proteins get produced from DNA? How does the DNA, the genotype, code for the proteins that cause your phenotype, what you look like, the physical traits that you can actually see and observe in an organism? Our genetic code gives us this information. Okay, first up we're going to talk about the central dogma of biology because it summarizes the whole process of protein synthesis or DNA function.


Look at those legs. Look at those legs. It's a warm day out there today. Look at that. We want to use them all. All of them. All of them. And we had enough to go all the way around our house at the old place with this. And that was a big house to go all the way around. So we should have plenty for here. And we had enough of these icicles to go along the front of our house. So we should almost have enough to go all the way around here I think. Let's get started. We should be playing some Christmas music. I'm just saying. I am disappointed in us. We only have one outdoor outlet right by the door here. So we've got to get this somehow up fire to there where the lights are going to be. And I guess we'll go that way and that way. Come on boys. Welcome to help me get the cords. So the temperature outside is plus four Celsius. Probably around about 40 Fahrenheit in our high 30s. It's a warm day today. We're going to use today as much done as we can. All right Diesel. We're going to need Frosty over here. We're going to take him out. Watch his head. Watch his head. All right. Come on Frosty. Get out here. Where's your nose? Oh no. Where'd your nose go? We'll have to find his nose. All right.  I'm going to take him out here. He's probably going on the front deck I guess. We can find his nose. I guess he could be a Frosty without a nose. Wouldn't be the same though. All right now we'll go Frosty out there. We'll get what we actually went back there for. There's all the snow is disappearing. This is great. This extension cord. Moo, she's excited. Get it Chevy. Oh good job. Diesel's doing it. Get it. Get the stick. Good boy Chevy. I guess we probably shouldn't be teaching him this. This is what he did when he was a puppy with my mom's tree. Good boy Diesel. We're cutting this one down anyway so it doesn't really matter. Probably not a good habit but it's so cute. Get it Diesel. Chevy get it. Get this one right here. This one right here. Get it. Oh my goodness Diesel. Let's take the life. Whoa we got the first strand up. It goes from over there halfway down the house. We almost went like a quarter way all the way around the house. We're going to have tons of lights left over. I'm going to start here. Now I'm going to go that way and then I'm going to have a little sensor right there above those lights there. I guess I'm going to have to have them closer now. I've got to figure this out yet. I've got to have the sensor plugged in here. Is there only outlet outside like I said? So I'll figure it out. You guys want to hang up the rest of them for me? Thanks. I'm believing you. You can do it. So we hung up two strings. Two strings hung up two strings and that was half the house already. So we've started over here by the main door outside here. Went all around the front of that corner there. Just two strings and I think we have something like 14 strings or something. Something ridiculous like that. We got a lot to do. And the icicles? I have an idea for them. It's in here. It's in here. You can't know it yet but it's in here. So I'll spend 10 minutes. Are you done? They didn't get anything done. I see your comments when you're all comparing me to cousin Ed with this hat. This is my absolute favorite hat and it's a Chevy hat too. It's my favorite hat. I love it. It suits me well I think. Okay. So we got around the front of the house and half the side of the house. We want to get at least around the back and this side here. That side is very close to that house over there. So if I don't get that done, I'm not the end of the world. I don't care. Isn't there a Chevy out here somewhere too? Diesel, where's your brother? Chevy. Oh there he is. Hey no barking. Diesel. No barking. None of that. I'm gonna put you inside. Control yourself. This is difficult to do because you hang up one and the next one pops off. See I use these little clips. They're very nice because they they attach onto the shingles on the side of the house and also onto the gutters here. It's just that they hang one up and the others want to pop off. I've got to twist it just right. One way to go. See these are the clips that I was showing you before. They're very handy but they also break easy when they get cold and they're very frustrating. See they can either hook on to the gutter like that and hold it in the gutter or you go under the shingles like that or over if you want. So it can attach to pretty much anything. That's why I bought a whole bunch. There's like seven bucks for a hundred of them or something. I got them last year and I just left them on here. I probably use way too many. A little overkill but works pretty good. I'm almost done. This house is a lot easier to decorate. It's amazing how much happier we are with a smaller house. There's less to do. Of course those clips start giving me the most trouble. Great at the peak. Of course it makes sense right Dilan? Makes sense. Don't hurt yourself man. Don't hurt yourself. So we didn't feel like making anything tonight but we ordered Santa Lucia Pizza for delivery and they gave us garlic toast along with this order and I didn't know it was coming but I'll take it. Look at that. I think it was half a loaf. It's not as garlic as I thought it would be. Very bland. Maybe the garlic's in the middle. Yeah maybe I'll get to it. There's a big piece of garlic toast though. Good. All right watch out Diesel you gotta stay in here.  Turn off this light here. Okay you know this camera does awful at night but I want to show you these lights. There we go. I know it doesn't show very well but there you go. There's that yard light that I hung up there. Works very good. It's not that bright but it does enough so we can see where we're going. I still need to finish around that corner over there but there we go and it's not done yet. We have to hang up the icicles yet. So we got work to do tomorrow. What's going on in here? Britt has found a Christmas show. What is this? Oh so it's like one of those home makeover shows but it's a Christmas edition. It's Christmas decorating. I'm really getting a feel for him on what you just seen. You're meant to his family. You guys watch this stuff? I just set up the Christmas lights on the house today and I already feel extremely inferior. Wow I got a long way to go to meet these guys. Wow I feel kind of depressed. Look at that. It's got like one little string on the house. I was all excited. Now I feel like I got nothing done. So what do you think there big Frank? What do you think? I didn't kill myself. Such a shine. I still got some more to do though. So I just want to wrap this up. Yesterday was not much of a going about day but we are in lockdown so there's not much we can go about and do except hang up Christmas lights and again I have to give the disclaimer. American Thanksgiving still hasn't happened yet but I'm not an American. I'm a Canadian. Our Thanksgiving's in October. They really got to get used to this. Yes I know. Every year it's like they're in shock. Guys we are a different culture. I know that we're similar but we are a different culture. Yeah very similar but I think we like Christmas a little more because Santa is from Canada. He's from Germany. No he's from the North Pole. He lives in Canada. Just because he lives in the North Pole technically he's German. He's German? Yes.  Maybe I'm Santa. I'm just going to leave that thought in your head. You never know. You never know. Maybe I'm Santa. I got the beard. I mean maybe it just turns white. You guys have watched the Santa Claus right? You know sometimes they base movies on a little bit of truth. Tim Allen played me very well I think. I'd say. I'd say they even made a sequel. Two of them right? Two of them. There's three Santa Clauses. We should watch them. Do we have them? We have the first one. I used to have the second one. I'm sure we could find them on Netflix or Disney Plus. Disney Plus probably has it. I know what we're doing tonight. So anyways yeah I like to remind them of that because the majority of my viewers are from the US. That's the biggest audience because they're they got a big population and they do their Thanksgiving at the end of November for some reason. That's just the way they do it. We do our Thanksgiving in October. Get it out of the way and then we have Remembrance Day and then it's just straight on down the jingle way. We still love you guys. We love our American viewers and friends. They're great neighbors. But we are different. Yeah we love our neighbors. They're good people. I love going down there to visit you know. Ah yes we miss our American friends. Yep but we'll get there. We'll get through all of this right now. We're just going to get our numbers down here in Manitoba. We're going to give our hospitals a little bit of a break so that they're not overflowing and then we'll be back to normal. So we're in lockdown right now. I have released a video probably just before this or around this just promoting Manitoba businesses. If you haven't seen it yet go check it out. I didn't get paid for or anything but I do want to support our local economy here right now because they're taking a bit of a hit from these lockdowns. So they're still doing online shopping. The warehouse one. I am the spokesperson. No. The unofficial. The self-proclaimed spokesperson. Unofficial spokesperson. They're number one fan really. Yeah she loves it there. And they make great clothes. I'm wearing their clothes again today. I've been shopping there since I was eight years old. So the warehouse one. You can go to warehouseone.com. They didn't tell me to say that. I'm just doing it on my own because I love their clothes and Britt loves their clothes. I'm obsessed. Love is an understatement. And we need to help our local businesses. They were made founded right here in Manitoba 1977 based in Winnipeg. Okay. Anyways we need to wrap this up. So happy day guys. We got our Christmas lights up. We've established that. We've established a Santas from Canada. He's from Germany. But he's a German-Canadian. I've never seen his immigration papers so. I don't know. It's hard to catch him right? I guess. But I'm just going to tell you this. Me and Santa have never been seen in the same room. The real Santa. None of those fake mall Santas. They're just Santas little helpers. I never thought of that. Yeah. So there's a thought to think about tonight. Have a good day everybody. Have a good night. Hope you enjoyed it. If you did, hit the thumbs up button. Tomorrow we're going to go for a little bit of a drive and explore a little bit. Not much we can do right now but we'll do what we can. See you tomorrow. Thanks for watching. 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