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Major VPN services offer software for desktop or mobile. Instead of getting the software, you can install and set up a VPN on Windows 11, which means VPN software is not necessary for using that VPN.
In today’s topic, I will tell you how to set up a VPN on Windows 11. It contains pros and cons as well that also I will cover, but first, let’s discuss how to install a VPN on Windows 11.
Why Use a VPN on Windows 11?
Normally, VPNs are used to boost your security and privacy. And, the purpose of using a VPN on Windows 11 remains the same. Connecting with a VPN transmits the internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel between your device and the VPN server.
It allows you to access private networks, geo-restricted content easily. Even it restricts people from stealing your data. You can use a VPN easily whenever you want.
Although VPN providers offer their software for desktops and mobiles, you don’t have to use it. You can set up a VPN on Windows 11 directly instead of processing VPN software. First, learn about how to set up a VPN on Windows 11.
Should You Use a Free or Paid VPN?
Paid VPNs are always the best option. Using a free VPN for a pinch of time is fine. But, you should go for a paid VPN for long-term use. NordVPN, Surfshark is some of the best subscription-based VPNs.
How to Set Up a VPN on Windows 11
Similar to its predecessor, you can set up a VPN on Windows 11. The given steps are used to set up NordVPN. Once learn how to set up a VPN on Windows 11, and you can easily set up any VPN provider on your device. Let’s begin today’s how-to tutorial.
Type VPN in the search bar of your Start Menu. Then, select the best match and follow the given steps.
- Select ‘Add VPN’ in the VPN connection.
- Next, select ‘Windows (built-in)’ from the list of given VPN providers.
- Now, write a ‘Connection Name’ as per your choice. It doesn’t have to match with the specific server name or your VPN server name.
- After that, add a ‘Server Name or Address’ that can be found on the website of your VPN provider. To find a specific server, search for ‘[VPN provider name] server IP addresses’ or ‘[VPN provider name] host names’.
- Then, select the ‘VPN type’. Generally, L2TP/IPsec type VPN is used but you may need to configure it to connect to a different server. That’s why check your VPN provider and change the setting according to it.
- Finally, you need to put your VPN username and password for sign-in. However, some VPNs provides a username and password that you need to note down for manual configuration. You will find the manual configuration option in the VPN settings.
- Hit the ‘Save’ option to store all the given inputs.
The following instructions will work for most VPN providers. Some services may provide specific quirks like different usernames and passwords and other service-specific settings.
How to set up an IKEv2 VPN on Windows 11
An IKEv2 VPN connection has a different configuration compared to the commonly used L2TP/IPsec protocol. This VPN requires the installation of a security certificate and has a few more steps in set up. IKEv2 is considered one of the strongest and most stable VPN protocols. Asking for exceptional security, then IKEv2 is worth using.
Once it was difficult to find support for IKEv2 VPN connections, but now major VPN providers support the protocol. Also, they provide detailed instructions for their specific service. Follow the given steps to set up IKEv2 VPN on Windows 11.
- If your VPN provider supports IKEv2 VPN, then they must have a certificate of specific download and support. Go to your VPN service and download that certificate.
- Double click on that certificate as soon as it is downloaded and click to install it with the Certificate Import Wizard.
- Then, select ‘Local Machine’ and click ‘Next’ to continue.
- After that, select the ‘Place all certificates’ in the given store and click ‘Browse’.
- Next, select ‘Trusted Root Certification Authorities’ and click ‘OK’.
- Click ‘Next’ after returning to the Certificate Import Wizard.
- Now, click ‘Finish’ and then ‘OK’.
- Once all set, follow the previous instructions to set up a VPN on Windows 11. But, switch the ‘VPN type’ to IKEv2 VPN.
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Pros and Cons to Manual VPN Configuration
Every technology has its merit and demerit points. Similarly, it also has a few pros and cons to consider. Let’s check out them.
- It offers lots of open-source tinkering, extensive customization options, and more direct control over the VPN.
- It captures less space on your computer.
- If you are using the same VPN protocols, it will deliver a secure connection as the desktop and mobile VPN software.
- For the new VPN users, it’s difficult to configure and maintain.
- Some extra connection modes and additional security features are absent compared to the desktop and mobile software.
Final Words on How to Set up a VPN on Windows 11
After considering all, using a VPN provider’s dedicated software is the best option. As it connects to their servers easily and switching between servers becomes simple. Also, you will get most apps with additional security features.
On the other hand, you can manually set up a VPN on Windows 11. Now, it’s totally up to you, whether you choose the manual set-up or VPN provider client. But, must have all the options available.
I hope you will now know how to set up a VPN on Windows 11. Share it to make others aware about how to set up a VPN on Windows 11. Comment and let me know how it went for you. If you know some other way, share that in the comment section.
Set up a VPN on Windows 11 – FAQs
1) What are free VPNs work with Windows 11?
Some of the best free VPNs are ProtonVPN, TunnelBear, Windscribe, and Hide.me that work with Windows 11.
2) Does NordVPN support Windows 11?
Yes, NordVPN can run on Windows 11 without any problem. NordVPN is one of the best VPNs and most used VPN in the Industry.
3) How do I set up a VPN on my computer?
Click on the ‘Windows Logo’, then go to ‘Settings’. Next, click on ‘Network & Internet’ and select ‘VPN’. Now, click on ‘Add a VPN’ and follow the above-given steps described in today’s topic to know in detail.
4) How do I find my VPN IP address Windows 11?
Click ‘Network & Internet’ and select ‘Wi-Fi’ if you are connected wirelessly or ‘Ethernet’ in case you are using an ethernet cable. Then, click on ‘Network’ or ‘Network and Sharing Centre’ in the middle column. Your IP address will appear on the IPv4 address in the next window.
5) Does Windows have a free VPN?
Windows comes with an in-built VPN able functionality. Without any charges, it offers a point-to-point tunnelling protocol (PPTP). | <urn:uuid:c5897c56-3d57-4aef-80b6-da5d37bdde97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://enchan-trixto.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-on-windows-11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.873577 | 1,697 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Note: The AMI QT Devotionals for November 29-30 are provided by Jabez Yeo. Jabez, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania, is currently working in NYC and serving at TRPC-E. He hopes to become a missionary.
Devotional Thought for Today
1 Timothy 4:12: Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.”
As mentioned yesterday, Cyril, in spite of his character flaws, ably explained how Christ took on human nature while remaining fully divine; that, however, did not end the debate because of the monophysites, who argued that the divinity and humanity of Christ were so fused in him that it resulted in a third nature.
In response, the theologian Leonitus explained the principle of “enhypostatsia” (i.e. “in person”) by noting three ways that two beings are united:
- Side by side as in friendship, which was the Nestorian belief: Jesus’ humanity and divinity in two natures and two persons working together.
- Blending into a hybrid, which was the monophysite belief: Jesus is a mixture of human and divine but neither one fully.
- Two natures so united that their distinct natures exist in a single hypostasis (i.e. an underlying reality), which was what Leonitus taught. He used the example of a torch, which is both wood and flame, completely united by fire. While wood and flame can have its own existence, they do not in the torch; they interpenetrate because they are held together by the underlying reality of fire.
Leonitus then noted that Christ’s unfallen human nature had everything except independence from the Logos (i.e., Christ’s divinity). From the moment Jesus’ humanity existed, it had its personhood in the Logos. Thus, the personhood of Jesus (hence “enhypostatsia”) is the underlying reality that held together Jesus’ dual natures of humanity and divinity. (Did you get all this?)
Despite Leonitus’ theological contribution, not much is known about him, except that he began serving at a monastery when he was twenty years old. He remained faithful and continued to participate in various theological discussions before his seminal contribution of “enhypostatsia.”
At times, we discount ourselves because of our youth and believe that Christian living is possible only after attaining a certain level of maturity. We may feel like our efforts won’t contribute much, if at all. However, as shown in Leonitus’ life, we have no idea how God may use our present efforts to prepare us for His future work. Let’s not use our youth as an excuse and begin living for Him today!
Prayer: Lord, there are times when I feel so helpless because of a lack of experience. I often feel like there are things only “spiritual giants” can accomplish, and that I have nothing to contribute. Lord, help me to fully depend on You, and I ask that You work in and through me. Help me not let anyone, including myself, look down on me because of my youth. Rather, help me to be unafraid of living for You in all aspects of my life. In Your Name I pray, amen.
Olson, Roger. The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform.
Bible Reading for Today: Proverbs 19
Lunch Break Study
Read Hebrews 6:10: God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
1 Cor. 16:17: I was glad when Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you. 18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours also. Such men deserve recognition.
Questions to Consider
- When we feel discouraged because no one seems to notice the hard work we put in to help build a ministry, what should we remember?
- When we see people work hard among us, what should we do?
- What is one lesson we can learn from the important work of Leonitus that hardly gets recognized?
- We must remember that God will not forget our work done to help His people—God is just and does not forget to reward those who merits it. (Since He gives us more than what we truly deserve, this, too, is His grace.)
- I agree with the apostle Paul who teaches that such men deserve recognition. Recognizing those who work hard should be done at appropriate moments; on the other hand, those who do the work shouldn’t do so to be recognized by men.
- We are assured that God gave Leontius his due reward in heaven for making an important contribution to the understanding of the dual nature in the single person of Jesus Christ. At the end of our life, that’s all that truly matters.
As you look back to this day, were you annoyed that your good work went unnoticed by those who should have done so? Even worse, did you feel like the wrong person got the credit you deserved? How should you respond when you feel like injustice was done against you?
Perhaps a verse like Matthew 6:3-4 gives you the perspective you need: “But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” | <urn:uuid:86cc467d-db3e-4dd9-996f-fd664e6764f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amiquiettimes.com/2016/11/30/november-30-wednesday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969921 | 1,222 | 2.125 | 2 |
The poll of 1,000 people found most adults have a handset, with only the very young and very old not owning a mobile phone.
The average mobile phone owner now has an average of 1.8 handsets and the figure is expected to rise to two mobiles for every person soon.
The rise in ownership is thought to be because more people have one mobile for personal calls and another for work as companies give employees Blackberry devices to keep in touch out of hours.
Market research firm Mintel, which carried out the survey, said increased ownership is also being driven by the falling costs of using a mobile.
Despite the credit crunch, networks are offering increasingly competitive prices.
Jim Clark, a senior analyst with Mintel, said: "With the average person now owning 1.8 phones we are fast moving towards a two-phone per person society.
"There is no doubt that many people are now so dependent on their mobile phone that they cannot imagine living without one.
"What is more, as purse strings tighten, it seems the one thing that the nation is not prepared to cut back on is the mobile phone." | <urn:uuid:f8399780-b02f-41a4-8a29-c44561121725> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/3949050/Average-person-will-soon-have-two-mobile-phones.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.976983 | 232 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Corn demand causes catfish prices to rise
By Robert H. Wells
Delta Research and Extension Center
STONEVILLE -- The increasing global demand for corn, a primary ingredient in catfish feed, will cause production costs to continue to rise, making it more difficult for producers to earn a profit.
“Our feed prices are not going to go down,” said Mississippi State University agricultural economist Terry Hanson. He was speaking to a crowd of catfish farmers and researchers at the recent National Warmwater Aquaculture Center fall 2006 seminar at the MSU Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville.
“We are in an interconnecting, global environment, and things that happen around the world affect us, as do things that happen inside the United States,” Hanson said.
“This year in Australia, they had a terrible drought, and their wheat production is down by 75 percent,” Hanson said. “They're one of the countries in the world that feed wheat to their animals. They're not going to have that wheat available now, so they are going to switch to corn. And people that used to buy exports of wheat from Australia to feed their animals are now going to scramble to find other supplies to feed, and they're going to be looking for corn as well.”
Further increasing the market value of corn, Hanson said, are the nation's lower corn production for 2006 and the national push for more biofuel usage of corn.
“There's been a lot of talk recently about being secure in our own fuel supply, so Congress has put quite a few dollars into encouraging ethanol production,” Hanson said. “We're going to see more and more demand on corn, which is going to increase the price.”
Hanson also predicts that U.S. producers will be planting more corn in 2007 to take advantage of the high market value, which will remove more soybean acreage from production. Soybeans are another major ingredient in catfish feed.
“That will increase the supply of corn, but it leaves us short in the soybean area, which is another major input,” Hanson said. “So probably we're going to see an increase in soybean costs as well. With these two going up, our catfish feed is probably going to go up in price.”
Hanson said farmers may want to consider advance booking a portion of next year's catfish feed to avoid paying higher prices later.
“Think hard about that and check the futures prices of corn and soybeans, and get an idea of where you think prices of corn and soybeans will be next year. Advance booking a portion of your feed may be a good idea,” Hanson said.
Steve Fratesi, a catfish farmer who raises fingerlings in Leland, said he has already booked a portion of his catfish feed in anticipation of higher prices.
“I feel lucky that we booked about two-thirds of what we will use at a good price,” Fratesi said. “I just wish that I had gone 100 percent or better.”
Fratesi said he does not plan to advance book the last third of his catfish feed requirement because he wants to see if prices will eventually come down.
“I think I'm going to ride it out,” Fratesi said. “I'm holding off. I'm not going to book scared right now.”
Fratesi said he is counting on a possible increase in production of corn, soybeans and wheat from North and South America to help drive the price of catfish feed down by summer.
Roger Yant, a catfish fingerling producer in Sunflower, said he also will hold off on booking his feed at the current price.
“I think we'll just watch the market and hope that it will come down before next year,” Yant said.
Hanson said lower catfish prices also may be on the horizon.
“Inventories seem to be stable for the foodsize fish,” Hanson said. “You've got increasing fingerlings and stockers, so that indicates we're going to be seeing more foodfish on the market by end of next year. That may lead to stable or lower prices than we're seeing right now at 85 cents per pound,” Hanson said.
Hanson said 4.2 million pounds of basa and tra, competing fish from Asia, are being shipped into the United States each month. He said this is a 235 percent increase from last year.
Despite rising feed prices and concerns about imports, Hanson reminded the crowd that catfish is No. 5 in the top 10 U.S.-consumed fish and seafood species. About 330 million pounds of catfish are consumed annually.
“From the demand side, consumers really do like catfish,” Hanson said. “Price, availability and recipes are three things that consumers have said would increase their consumption. If we can get creative with the price, availability and recipes, we can increase consumption.”
The economist said consumption of catfish has more than doubled in the last two decades from less than half a pound of catfish consumed per person per year in 1985 to 1.1 pounds per person in 2004.
Hanson also reported that pond-bank value is up 18.4 percent and pond-bank price is up 11 cents per pound from September 2005.
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Making an attitude of positive.
Your mind is an extremely powerful thing. If you are able to remain in a positive state that is in the mind of your, you behavior will reflect.
There are many methods to improve your attitude. Here are some suggestions to help you start.
- Listen to your inner dialog. When faced with negative thoughts, try turning the thought around and transform it a positive one. (For instance, “I am no good at this!” could be changed to “Maybe this isn’t my forte but I’ve worked my best and have a lot of experience in other areas.”)
- Engage in positive environments and with people who are positive. Do things with people who support you in a positive manner. Visit places with particular significance and have positive associations or memories.
- Donate. Do something that helps others. This will provide you with satisfaction and makes you feel content inside.
- Take pleasure in the things that are simple in your the world. Laughter is one of the strongest mood boosters. You can let yourself be silly.
- Allow yourself to feel loved. Everyone deserves to be loved. Everyone is loved.
Your reactions and actions towards people can influence the outcome of the interaction. If, for instance, you’re open and respectful to others who have opinions, they may have a greater willingness to listen to whatever you might have to communicate.
You are responsible for your thoughts, actions and emotions. There is no one who can make you feel in any way you don’t wish to feel.
Accept that nobody is perfect , and that includes you. Feel proud of your achievements and the effort you’ve put in. Take the times you don’t think you’ve achieved your goals as learning experiences.
Have a look at your daily life. Check out your daily routine and its impact on your life , and more importantly , your attitude. You can ask yourself these questions:
- Do I have positive and positive relations?
- How do I start my day? Are I following a schedule I follow that helps me maintain positive throughout the day?
- Do I know my current state of mind and the changes it undergoes? If I’m in negative thoughts can I alter it?
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Ayurveda and its health benefits!
Originated more than 3,000 years ago in India, Ayurvedic medicine has gradually become the holistic treatment option towards healing the whole body. It is now considered as a complementary and alternative medicine approach to promote health and wellness. The basic principle of Ayurvedic medicine is that health is a combination of balance between your body, mind, and spirit. A person will catch a disease if one of them becomes imbalanced.
Ayurveda and its health Benefits
Ayurveda and Your Life Energy
The whole concept of Ayurvedic medicine is based on the interconnectivity of the whole universe, whether dead or alive. You will enjoy good health if your body, mind, and spirit are in harmony with the universe while you will be sick whenever this balance is disrupted. Birth defects, age, climate changes, traumas, and emotions are some of the things that can disrupt this natural balance and cause illness.
Ayurvedic practitioners believe that every individual is made of five basic universal elements, i.e., space, air, earth, fire, and water. These elements combine in the human body to form 3 life energies that regulate the functioning of your body. These forces are called “Doshas” and can be subdivided into Pitta dosha (fire and water), Vata dosha (space and air), and Kapha dosha (water and earth). Each dosha controls different body functions and their interconnection leads to a balanced and happy life.
Ayurvedic Medicine has the following benefits
Ayurvedic medicine is a holistic approach towards health care as it encompasses the activities and interactions of mind, body, consciousness, behavior, and environmental. It is therefore also called “science of life”.
History of Ayurveda dates back to thousands of years. It is based on timeless knowledge and practice that has given rise to expertise and a whole alternative healthcare system.
This alternative way of treatment is also complimentary as it fully supports the modern allopathic treatments. In this way, it provides a more comprehensive approach to promote a better quality of life.
Compared to modern medicine, Ayurveda is a more natural treatment approach and thus has no or minimal side effects.
Ayurveda has a distinct feature that it can detect a health problem in its early stages. It is therefore helpful for both treatment and prevention of disease.
Ayurveda can help restore and rehabilitate the patients after detecting and treating the cause of chronic illnesses such as PCOS / PCOD. It also helps to slow down the aging process and extend lifespan.
Its universal efficacy makes it one of the most trusted healthcare systems. It is very easy to learn and one can use it for himself and bring step by step improvement in his life. Irrespective of social and economic circumstances, Ayurveda can be applied anywhere around the globe to benefit all age groups and genders.
It offers a cost-effective solution to a number of health conditions.
Interestingly, in some fields of medicine, some of the Ayurvedic treatments are superior to the most advanced treatments offered by modern medicine. For instance, panchakarma purification therapy is an Ayurvedic treatment that purifies the human body from accumulated toxins and free radicals.
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Online Backup – This is an era of digital data advancement where tons of data are being created every single day. In a world which is continuously moving towards becoming more electronic and digital, the management and storage of digital data are becoming an important topic to be discussed. Not all the data created is important and needs to be protected, but if we talk about the data associated with the businesses, then the size of useful data to be stored and protected is extremely large. Businesses use different mediums to store their data, such as servers, off-site storage, cloud storage, etc. An ideal data storage should be accessible easily and data should be retrieved without much hassle.
Currently, if we narrow down the storage mediums available, then there are two basic types. The first one is to store data locally in optical discs, external hard drives or other local backup destinations, and the second one is to store data online through different cloud service providers such as Google Drive, Backup Everything, Amazon S3, Carbonite Safe, SOS Online Backup, etc. In this way, in order to have secure data storage and backup plan, users now have multiple options to store their data.
Local backup has been used for data backup for decades. Starting from large data centers to compact external hard drives, local backup provides a diverse range of mediums to store the true image of data.
Advantages of Local Backup
In the local backup, the transfer of data within backup devices does not require internet connection, so the data transfer rate is extremely fast as compared to uploading data in the cloud. Backing up data in external hard drives usually take few moments depending on the data size being transferred.
Local backup means whatever medium the user chooses to backup, data will always be in personal custody. No third-party will be involved in protecting the data, so the risk of any data leak is minimal. All it requires is protecting the storage medium, such as external hard drive from any theft.
With local backup, the user is in full control of the data. The user always knows where the data is, and who are authorized to use the data. In this way, the data is well-protected and secure from any third-party access or online cyber-attack.
Disadvantages of Local Backup
Local backup is not flexible in terms of storage space. For example, consider that a user stores the data in an external hard drive of 500GB size. Later, if the overall size of the data exceeds this limit, then the user will have no choice other than purchasing another hard drive. Besides that, the data in the local backup is only accessible where the local backup medium is present. Users can’t access it remotely from any place.
For a business where a huge amount of data needs to be backed up, the cost of maintaining hardware for local backups cost thousands of dollars. Besides that, local backup demands proper maintenance and upgrades, and for businesses, servers power consumption cost is an added expense.
- Disaster Recovery
The major drawback of local backup is the insecurity in case of malfunctioning or damage of the backup medium. As the data is stored in the physical medium, so there are high chances that any human or system error can corrupt or damage the data and equipment. So, data recovery, in this case, becomes really challenging.
Online backup allows users and businesses to upload their data on the cloud either manually or automatically depending on the cloud backup solution provider. Online backup may be a hot topic these days for data backup, but still, it comes with different advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages of Online Backup
One of the best features of storing the data in the online backup is the ability to access it anytime, anywhere. The data is stored on internet in the dedicated servers of the cloud backup service provider, which allows the user to access, share and restore the data at any moment. The user just has to log into the cloud account and all the backup data can be accessed. Besides that, different service providers have launched mobile app from where users can access and use the cloud computing network directly from their mobile devices.
- Cost Effectiveness
Online backup is a cost-effective option for the businesses, as it doesn’t require businesses to set local servers and data centers or maintain different hardware associated with data backup. All they just need is to have a good internet connection and upload their data in any of the online backup service platforms. Businesses will only be charged for the data they are storing in the cloud and charges depend on how much storage they need to upload complete data.
- Data Protection and Recovery
One biggest concerning thing for any business is data protection. In this era, where most of our data is in digital form, no one wants to lose it. Online backup of data is well-secure in terms of data protection because the online service providers duplicate the data in multiple servers so that by any chance if one of their server malfunctions, still the data can be retrieved from our servers. In this way, the data of users are always protected and can be restored back anytime in any medium.
Disadvantages of Online Backup
As the data in online backup needs to be uploaded, so the internet connection speed and bandwidth matters a lot. During the initial backup, if the size of data to be uploaded is large, then it might take longer time to backup whole data in cloud.
Storing data in online platforms means a third-party has control of your data. If users or businesses have sensitive data that they are storing in the cloud, then lag of complete control of the storage process is one of the disadvantages of online backup storage.
Security of data stored in the cloud is not a big issue now as most of the well-known online backup services use different procedures and technologies that work together to secure the data. For example, encryption service is provided where data is encrypted before it’s moved to cloud storage. But still data is not 100% secure on the internet and there are always the chances of any cyber-attack.
The Better Choice
The choice between online backup or local backup depends totally on the user’s requirements. But, if we consider different advantages and disadvantages of both the mediums, then the online backup is must more technologically advance, secure, efficient and provides unlimited backup. Online backups provide more flexibility in terms of data storage limit, accessibility and encrypted protection. While, local backup seems more secure from any cyber-attack or third-party interference, but the chances of malfunctioning or damage of storage medium is a bigger risk attached to it. Besides that, online backup is more cost-effective for businesses that require tons of data to be backed up. | <urn:uuid:b432db36-dfe3-4830-9c22-d7f3335b0dd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://backupeverything.co.uk/is-online-backup-better-than-local-backup-why-or-why-not/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.92209 | 1,397 | 2.5625 | 3 |
In Team fit, you are able to map potential new hires to current team members, to see how certain candidates would fit the team. This article will show you how to interpret the mapping.
The Team Fit graph
The Team Fit graph maps candidates and employees according to their results on two of the personality factors in Alva's personality test: Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Agreeableness scores are shown on the x axis, with higher results to the right, and Conscientiousness is shown on the y axis, with higher results towards the top.
Research shows that these are the two five-factor traits that have the highest impact on team effectiveness and well-being. Interestingly, similarity in these traits has turned out to be positive. Teams that have fairly similar results on Conscientiousness and Agreeableness tend to be more effective and get along better. Teams that differ widely on these traits tend to run into conflicts regarding performance standards, and also misunderstand each other to a higher extent due to very different social styles.
Interpreting the graph - some guidelines
Based on the above, results in the graph can be interpreted according to the following rules of thumb. Note, however, that there will always be exceptions and that these guidelines are based on general patterns. Do not take them as absolute truths, but rather as indications of potential strengths and challenges.
A team that clusters in the upper right quadrant will generally have the highest probability of showing high performance and get along well. These teams combine a goal-oriented and ambitious approach to work with a warm and empathetic climate.
A team where members have a large spread on Agreeableness (i.e., on the x axis) generally has a higher risk of relational conflict and low cohesion.
A team where members have a large spread on Conscientiousness (i.e., on the y axis) generally has a higher risk of performance problems and task-related conflict.
A team that clusters in the upper left quadrant will generally have a high probability of showing high performance, although they might have a somewhat more task-oriented and frank social climate.
A team that clusters in the bottom left quadrant generally get along fairly well since they share the same frank social style, but might have trouble performing and working in a goal-oriented way.
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The ancient Silk Roads crossed Eurasia to link trade between China and its Greco-Roman trading partners until the Ottoman Empire cut it off in the 1400s. With the newly revived One Belt, One Road (OBOR) Initiatives under Chinese President Xi Jinping, will it meet the same fate as Turkey’s President Erdogan asserts his Neo-Ottoman ambitions in the greater Middle East?
China hopes it won’t. On Dec. 17, DHL Global Forwarding, a leading provider of air, sea and road freight services in Europe and Asia, inaugurated its China-Turkey intermodal corridor as part of the One Belt, One Road initiative.
The Lianyungang-Istanbul corridor takes around 14 days to transit Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as well as the Caspian and Black Seas, with the option for immediate freight forwarding by truck to any Turkish city.
The rail corridor is expected to generate US$2.5 trillion in annual trade within the next ten years, and was recently expanded to connect Taiwan with Europe via China, thereby linking the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean through the Eurasian continent.
Steve Huang, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding China, said: “Turkey already counts China as its second-largest source of imports, and the EU as its largest export market… new corridors like the Lianyungang-Istanbul link will only further boost Turkey’s strategic importance and associated economic development as a conduit for trade between China and Europe.”
However, challenges remain. Foremost is how China and Turkey can cooperate in the Middle East segment of China’s OBOR, especially as Turkey is also taking a more robust military posture to protect its energy interests.
Turkey’s expanding military footprint in its oil & gas rich near abroad
After winning the November election, Erdogan has taken a more aggressive posture to realize his dream of reviving the Ottoman Empire both domestically by pushing for a presidential system and internationally by deploying Turkish troops abroad.
Qatar. In December, Turkey announced it is establishing a new military base in natural gas-rich Qatar with an initial 3,000 troops stationed at the base, including air and naval units, military trainers and special operations forces.
In an interview with Reuters, Turkey’s ambassador to Qatar Ahmet Demirok said, “Today we are not building a new alliance but rather rediscovering historic and brotherly ties”, referring to the Muslim Ottoman Empire which stretched from eastern Europe to the Arab Gulf.
Iraq. At the same time, Hurriyet Daily announced Turkey would also set up a permanent military base in Iraq when Ankara sent around 200 soldiers accompanied by 20-25 tanks to Bashiqa near oil-rich Mosul, following a deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on 4 November. After Iraq protested against Turkey’s invasion at the UN, Turkey is now moving its troops around, some to inside Kurdistan while it is not yet clear where other troops would move to.
Syria. In north Syria, Turkey has deployed troops and the Turkmen Sultan Murat Brigade, which according to pro-AKP paper Yeni Safak, will consolidate various Turkmen brigades and other armed groups into the United Turkmen Army to control Aleppo and Bayirbucak by Latakia. Aleppo is where the proposed Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline would traverse Syria unto Turkey and the lucrative EU energy market.
Cyprus. Turkish troops invaded and occupied north Cyprus since 1974 and Ankara is now asserting its naval power over disputed offshore Cypriot natural gas fields, including harassing Italian and Norwegian exploration vessels operating on behalf of Greek Cyprus.
Greece. Turkey and Greece continue to have territorial disputes in the Aegean Sea, with Turkey violating Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014. Open military conflict almost broke out when in 1996 a Greek Mirage 2000 shot down a Turkish F-16 and in 2006 a Greek and Turkish F-16 collided, resulting in the death of the Greek pilot.
According to Politico, in its weakened state, Greece is hardly a threat to Turkey, but the exponential jump of over 2,000 airspace violations in one year may be to exploit Greece’s disastrous finances that “encouraged Turkey to tease its long-time foe (and NATO ally) a bit more than usual, as every Hellenic Air Force scramble costs Greece precious euros.”
“In the case of air incursions, you have to react,” said Thanos Dokos from the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. “It’s very hard to unilaterally pull back from a situation of military aggression. It’s a tragic situation, because the money we’re spending on dogfights with Turkey is money that we could have spent on other areas of defense.”
Israel. Energy needs also drive Erdogan’s recent olive branch to Israel and a proposed pipeline connecting Israeli offshore gas fields to Turkey. Nonetheless, with Israel’s newly discovered energy bounty offshore and on the Golan Heights, Jerusalem may be wary of Erdogan’s potential erratic turn against Israel again should conflict erupt with Hamas in Gaza.
In the Middle East, Syria is where China and Turkey have divergent interests, with Ankara desiring a pliable Islamist regime to replace Assad while Beijing prefers a secular regime that won’t export Salafi extremism to China’s Muslim population. As such, whether Erdogan would show sensitivity toward and make compromises with Eurasian states of China, Russia and India that are receiving blowback from his current Syrian policy of backing Salafi-jihadists, is key to eventual Eurasian integration via the Silk Roads.
Can Erdogan and Xi’s dreams co-exist on Silk Road?
In his 2010 book on the China Dream, retired PLA Colonel Liu Mingfu discussed how China’s dream is not automatically America’s nightmare. Translated into English in 2015, Colonel Liu discussed how a rising China should not be seen through a zero-sum lens as a US “enemy” or “antagonist”, but rather as a “competitor” for market shares in a multipolar world order. This applies especially in the Pacific.
Similarly, Turkey and China’s dreams may not necessarily be each other’s nightmares. On the multipolar Eurasia continent, China, Turkey, Russia, Iran and India are natural competitors. However, Beijing has deepened ties and economic integration with other Eurasian states via the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), while Turkey is reaching out to central Asia and the Caucasus via TAKM to forge a new Turkic military force.
TAKM (first letters of the member-states) was established in February 2013 and includes Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, with Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Georgia expressing interest in what some tout as Turkey’s version of NATO or CSTO.
Given China’s SCO is already cooperating with Russia’s Eurasia Union/CSTO for regional stability, whether Erdogan would coordinate with China, Russia, India and Iran or maintain the current hostile posture driven by his anti-Assad obsession remains to be seen.
As Charles Kupchan, current NSC director for Europe in the Obama White House wrote in No One’s World: The West, The Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012), with power shifting from the West to the rising rest, in this new order no country, region, or political model will dominate. Rather, regional blocs will coexist in a mosaic of “multiple modernities” rooted in distinct histories and political models.
It is in this “no one’s world” that Erdogan would need to decide whether Turkey could coexist as a pole in a multipolar world with other Eurasian powers, or seek dominance through his Army of Conquest in Syria and unto the former Ottoman territories. Putin, Xi and the next US president would also need to decide whether they could forge a modus vivendi with one another, as we enter an increasingly post-western and multi-polar new world order.
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It is believed that for a business to obtain accomplishment, a fantastic job supervision is the keystone to prepare and approach the activities. In most of the businesses, job control is the main limiter to uncover and identify the as well as and strength in the complete business improvement. Task control can help the business to reach the targeted goals simply by monitoring, surveying, planing and controlling the function of each respected departments. Project management practices various functionings of a firm’s organization with the use of effective task administration system, playing god of several automated equipment and advanced technical applications. Detection and definition of the various activities and tasks with assigned jobs and obligations together deliver with apparent timelines helps you to boost the organization.
To improve the project control framework and elevate the working of the organization to a higher level, at this time there are seven important factors for project management that can definitely give you the basic required knowledge in achieving it successfully. Outline the Range: Definition of the range ought to be unique and relevant with all the objectives for the firm or institution because is going to give you an understanding of the perspective, idea plus the purpose of a project function and the administration. Aide of organization: Before carrying out upon any kind of task expenses, this is great to figure out upon what benefit will a certain job managing is going to bring and whether it helps to raise the RETURN ON INVESTMENT or certainly not. According to time changing flow even the requirements of any organization likewise changes. Consequently , organization aide is incredibly much wanted to concern. In the event the project doesn’t work on raising ROI then it is better to avoid the job working and start a fresh system.
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Focus on products and services: Centering on the items and features is one of the factors which take action as the fuel the for a business. Learning at the requirements and quality within the goods and services over time should end result the work to be more authentic and attainable the strategies with low risks. If you are sure while using quantity and quality of goods you possess, it is possible to carry on the programs of your project in a great structured way. Learn and Change to suit the surroundings: It can be always a good idea to master from the knowledge and rectify not to happen that again over the following task. This will vastly reduce a good sum of error making and risks whilst processing the current project. By simply learning environmental surroundings and its requirements, its an effective stage to tailor the perfect project managing strategy or perhaps construction that may improve the improvement of your business and satisfy the needs of your consumers and lovers. By keeping in mind about these seven important points meant for project supervision, you may proceed with the designing of arrangement and starting a project that may figure out the necessities of the business. This will not merely help your business to build in prepared structure yet will also help you contact form a good romantic relationship with the co workers, companions and clients. To find out more read below www.kevingoerner.com . | <urn:uuid:82d2c3a6-ed81-4a78-8f52-501627eeedc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://6mabrasive.com/seven-important-items-for-task-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953322 | 816 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Virginia 2nd Cavalry, Company H (Confederate)
01 May 1861
Virginia 2nd Cavalry, Company H organized at Virginia.
01 Jul 1863
Participated in the Battle of Gettysburg at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…
09 Oct 1864
Participated in the Battle of Tom's Brook at Shenandoah County, Virginia.
After his victory at Fisher's Hill, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan pursued Gen. Jubal Early's army up the Shenandoah Valley to near Staunton. On October 6th, Sheridan began withdrawing, as his cavalry burned everything that could be deemed of military significance, including barns and mills in what became known as "Red October" or "the Burning." Reinforced by Brig. Gen. Joseph Kershaw's division, Early followed Sheridan. Maj. Gen. Thomas Rosser arrived from Petersburg to take command of Fitz Lee's cavalry divis…
10 Apr 1865
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While on his U.S. tour, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a special visit to San Francisco's Silicon Valley, the headquarters for the world's largest informatics firms. Erdoğan had the opportunity to inspect the educational informatics systems prepared by Microsoft for the Turkish National Education Ministry's Fatih Project. While there, Erdoğan was briefed in the Apple tablet technology, he took a ride in a self-driving car and got to try on Google Glass, the latest technology smart glasses.
A SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Prime Minister Erdoğan's first stop in Silicon Valley was to Microsoft where he was received by CEO Steve Ballmer, who donned a tie the premier had gifted him when he paid a visit to Istanbul a few months back. Ballmer, who is directing Microsoft's involvement in the National Education Ministry's FATIH project, which aims to equalize opportunities in education and improve technology in schools, briefed Erdoğan on the project.
Reminding that next week they plan to hold the tender for the Fatih Project, Erdoğan stated, "The Fatih project involves the production 10,600,000 tablets. We wanted to visit Silicon Valley before the tender in order to see what is going on in informatics technology and what the new advancements are in the location they are being developed. This is all because we also have objectives to realize a similar project to Silicon Valley in Istanbul."
VALLEY TO BE BUILT IN MUALLİMKÖY
Prime Minister Erdoğan announced from Silicon Valley that they have plans to establish a similar 'Informatics Valley' in Gebze's Muallimköy. A five million square meter area will be allocated to information technology firms that will be subject to special incentives. A speed train as well as an urban train line will access the region, which instead of having high-rises; will be constructed with a number of lower level buildings which will include areas designated for offices and research and development.
GÜNEYSU THROUGH GOOGLE GLASS
Prime Minister Erdoğan also had the opportunity to see his hometown of Güneysu and Istanbul on Google maps as well as tested out Google's new smart glasses design 'Google Glass'. Commenting on the experience, Erdoğan stated, "You are able to record footage like a video camera. The staff here is making strides, which means that we need to work harder to develop and advance our own knowledge. I see information as being a universal tool for humanity. We will all benefit from this together. We will embark on the future stronger and together. By visiting Silicon Valley and through the briefings we were presented with, we have been given the opportunity to increase our experience and knowledge. Microsoft, Apple and Google are constantly working on developing informatics."
A TEST DRIVE OF THE 'SELF DRIVING CAR'
Google was Erdoğan's last stop on his four-hour tour of Silicon Valley. Erdoğan was joined by his daughter Sümeyye Erdoğan on a test drive of the new "self driving car" developed by Google. Erdoğan described the car, which through a roof camera and an interior computer system is able to drive without a driver, by stating, "The vehicle operates with a system similar to the autopilot systems in aircrafts. These are just the first steps; they will be further developing their test drives."
This is a translation of an article originally written by Mehmet Ali Berber.
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Tucker Haynes: Proof That Charters Offer Excellence to All Children Goes Beyond U.S. News’s Top 10 Ranking
Editor's Note: Kipp Academy Charter School, which Cynthia Tucker Haynes cites in her column below, was one of four New York City KIPP high schools that U.S. News & World Report said it had removed from its 2017 Best High Schools National rankings because of a data reporting issue.
Arizona’s BASIS schools, for example, which claim five of the top 10 spots on the list, tend to cater to upscale white kids. They also educate a significant population of students of Asian heritage — many of them kids from affluent immigrant families.
So don’t stop there. Keep looking.
Check out Number 20 on the list, New Haven’s Amistad Academy (Achievement First Amistad High School), rated the best public high school in Connecticut. Sixty percent of its students are black; 36 percent are Latino. Sixty-nine percent qualify for free lunches, while another 12 percent qualify for reduced-priced lunches. Yet 63 percent are proficient in English, easily beating the state average of 50 percent. One hundred percent of them have taken Advanced Placement classes, and nearly half have passed.
At that rate, some of them may eventually be bound for Yale University, New Haven’s hallowed Ivy League institution, which has generally shut out poor kids from surrounding neighborhoods.
Check out Number 23 on the U.S. News rankings, KIPP San Jose Collegiate. Its student body is 77 percent Latino. Fifty-six percent of the students qualify for free lunches, while another 17 percent qualify for reduced-priced lunches. Still, 77 percent of its students are proficient in math, and 69 percent are proficient in English. U.S. News rates the school as the fourth-best public high school in California.
As part of its methodology, U.S. News assesses a school’s disadvantaged students — black, Hispanic, and low-income — and whether they performed at or better than the state average for the least-advantaged students.
Check out Number 29 on the list, New York City’s KIPP Academy Charter School (KIPP NYC College Prep High School), located in the Bronx. Its student body is 44 percent black and 54 percent Latino. Eighty-seven percent of them qualify for free lunches, and an additional 13 percent qualify for reduced-priced lunches. Yet, they are excelling, and U.S. News rates the school as the fourth-best public high school in New York state.
For all the criticism that the traditional-school lobby continues to heap on public charter schools, the evidence keeps stacking up in their favor. The stellar ratings from U.S. News came despite charters still representing a small sliver of public schools.
Of the 50 million or so public school students nationwide, charters educate only an estimated 3 million. And the latest rankings come atop a raft of data from education researchers, who have pointed out in several studies over the past few years that charter school students often outperform their peers in traditional public school settings. From Los Angeles to New Orleans to Washington, D.C, charters have proved a boon to children in poorer neighborhoods who needed an escape from failing traditional schools.
That has not quelled the critics, of course. They claim that charters use exclusionary methods to cream off the best students. Recently, Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, a nonprofit founded by the unrelenting school reform critic Diane Ravitch, savaged the BASIS charter school network in a March opinion column published in The Washington Post.
“The proportional over-enrollment of Asian-American students and under-enrollment of Latino students in BASIS charter schools is startling,” she wrote.
It is certainly true that it is easier to educate students whose parents have advanced degrees and who are from affluent homes overflowing with books. But the problem of economic and racial segregation is hardly confined to charter schools.
Would that Burris worried as much about traditional schools that are working hard to keep out poor kids of color.
Across the country, public schools, unfortunately, are re-segregating. Parents in poor neighborhoods find it difficult to break through the barriers — lack of transportation, school zoning regulations, complicated enrollment systems — that keep their children out of top-rated public schools. Would that Burris worried as much about traditional schools that are working hard to keep out poor kids of color.
Other measures that charter school critics find exclusionary are also widely practiced in magnet schools, several of which ended up faring well in the new U.S. News rankings. Take Dallas’s School for the Talented and Gifted, which places fourth in the nation. It requires students to apply and a high grade point average is a prerequisite.
It’s not clear why charter school critics laud magnet schools that are selective but blast charter schools for simply asking parents to sign contracts promising to adhere to high standards. Many charter schools are excelling — not because they have pre-selected the best and brightest students but because they have selected excellent teachers and principals, the most creative curricula, and the most compelling methods for teaching.
May there be more — many more — such schools.
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Third declension Noun; Masculine
- the bend of the arm, the elbow
- the arm
- any bend, jutting angle, the bend or reach, angle
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- (Septuagint, Liber Iob 31:22)
- (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 41:20)
- (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 13:18)
- (Plutarch, , chapter 32 4:1)
- (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 2:10)
- (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 21:15)
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- (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 322)
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There are a number of stormwater and wastewater requirements with any new build. A wastewater management system must be provided for each specific lot. It is a Regional Council requirement to help control the flow and runoff of wastewater from a property to the public wastewater network, to help prevent local rivers and streams flooding and reduce erosion.
This management system will include a dual purpose retention and detention raintank, required for re-use of a % of the wastewater on the property:
- Detention wastewater management - an underground structure designed to hold wastewater collected from a roof through downpipes and/or drives, paths
or patios through cesspits / drains. It then manages the flow and runoff of this waste water from a property to the public wastewater infrastructure.
- Retention - this relates to the amount of wastewater permanently held within the dentition tank at any point in time i.e. the amount it of water it
retains. Re-use of this 'grey water' for things like watering the garden, washing the car or flushing the toilets etc has become common practise
in a number of subdivisions within the wider Auckland region.
- All impervious surfaces such as driveways or hardstand areas require stormwater mitigation, devices such as permeable paving, raingardens, treepits can be used as management devices, it is important that all stormwater runoff is directed to these devices.
- Timber slatted decks are not considered impervious surfaces, therefore no stormwater mitigation is required when using slatted decks. Slatted decks
are preferred over concrete or tiled patio areas as these would require stormwater mitigation to be provided.
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“It is only with the heart one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye”The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Your nemeses . . . . the sun, the waves, buoys too far apart or dropped by the pack; what should you do?
Trust your pool skills, “Unless you are the lead dog the view does not change” That being written heighten your awareness. Be cognizant of boats, people, animals and obstacles. Never let your guard down. It is like walking down to the subway in New York City. Be aware. Study the course before. Prepare. Periodically (not constantly) check where you are and adjust.
A stabilizing rudder kick will also help you hold your line. As your left hand enters and your right hip lifts, forcibly kick down with your right foot. Do the opposite when your right hand enters, lift your left hip and kick down with your left foot
Often you can’t rely on them i.e. Waikiki Rough Water Swim (and many races) can be rough and rolling you can’t see the buoys so use the following:
Or in the Inaugural Flowers Sea Swim 5k and 10k or other races the buoys were and can be far apart. Remember that you can swim straight in the pool by staying connected in your stroke. Right hand to left hand and remember to finish each side equally. Don’t let your form slip. It is the best skill for swimming straight.
Yes, you will feel like Icarus, but use the sun for sighting. It will keep rising in the same plane. Line yourself up with it if that is the direction you need to go.
Under 4 feet. Cut through them on your catch. Go through them with a 45 degree forearm shoot. Increase your “Split Tempo” gaining time through the air to not get tossed. This will keep you swimming straighter.
Over 4 feet. Ride them like a dolphin on the side of a tanker. Get lifted. Ride high. Relax. You might even get to air swim!
Dropped by the pack
If this happens add some sprinting into your training. Most races “settle” after the initial surge.
Sighting Technique and Drills
You can sight with these techniques:
- Duke or Water Polo Stroke
- Alligator (just eyes lifted)
- Sneaky Alligator (eyes forward in clear water to see where the nearest feet or buoys are, as in image above)
Practice in the pool by swimming a 300 having the coach change the color of the kickboard every 50 or 100. Report back the order of the colors.
Try to not break your stroke enabling the following techniques:
- Breathe earlier with a glance thrown forward
- Stabilize your head so your eyes are locked on your direction
- Lift your sternum so your head is in line but higher making sighting easier
- Lock your eyes like a dancer, your eyes are the last thing that leave the sight and the first thing that return to it. (Just like a dancer making a turn)
Remember that sometimes your best eye is in your heart!
Eney Jones has achieved remarkably diverse success as a leading pool, open water and Ironman triathlon swimmer.
- Masters National Champion 100-200-400-500-1500-1650 5k freestyle 2009
- Open Water 5k Champion Perth Australia, May 2008.
- National Masters Champion 200-400-1500 freestyle Champion, Portland Oregon, August, 2008.
- Overall Champion Aumakua 2.4k Maui Hawaii, September 2008
- Waikiki Rough Water Swim 3rd place 2006, second place Overall 2009, 3rd place 2012
- European Record Holder and Masters Swimming Champion, 2005. Records included 200, 400, 800, 1500 m freestyle
- Over twenty time finalist in U.S. Swimming Nationals, including Olympic Trials 1980
- Gold medal NCAA 800 yd freestyle relay 1979, silver Medalist 200 yd freestyle 1979. United States National Team 1979-1980.
- Professional Triathlete 1983-1991. First woman out of the water in every Hawaiian Ironman participated (6).
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"Fertilizing, now that's something else too. It used to be that the farmers would rotate crops. And sometimes in that rotation they would include clovers and alfalfa, you know, to return nitrogen to the soil. And they'd rotate the crops themselves. They used to say to give the soil a rest. It had been in wheat so long, let's plant corn, or let's plant oats, or wheat, whatever.
"But there's one thing that they used to add to the soil that they no longer do. And that is practically every farmstead would have livestock, cows, horses, hogs, whatever. And there'd be an accumulation of manure. And using a manure-spreader they would spread this manure out over the fields. Incidentally, that manure spreader had a lot of moving parts on it, [laughs] and the blacksmith had a little something there to do."
Question: "A lot of farms now are pretty much just one crop."
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- It happened today – this day in history – August 14 - 14/08/2022
- It happened today – this day in history – August 13 - 13/08/2022
- It happened today – this day in history – August 12 - 12/08/2022
1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered.
1542: Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII is beheaded for adultery aged 18. On the same day Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, sister-in-law of Henry VIII is also beheaded.
1578: Tycho Brahe first sketches his “Tychonic system” of the solar system.
1633: Astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing the belief that earth revolves around the sun.
1689: Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown.
1692: Glencoe Massacre: about 38 MacDonalds killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1777: The Marquis de Sade is arrested without charge and imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.
1832: First appearance of cholera in London.
1858: Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa.
1861: Abraham Lincoln is declared US president.
1866: Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri.
1883: Death of composer Richard Wagner aged 69.
1895: The moving picture projector is patented.
1907: Suffragettes storm the British Parliament and 60 women are arrested.
1912: England cricket team regains the Ashes.
1917: Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle) is arrested in Paris on suspicion of being a German spy.
1935: Bruno Hauptmann is found guilty of kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1940: Actress Lana Turner marries bandleader Artie Shaw.
1942: Hitler’s invasion of England, Operation Sealion, is cancelled.
1945: Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die. On the same day, USSR captures Budapest, after a 49-day battle.
1955: Israel acquires four of the Dead Sea scrolls.
1961: Officials in the Congolese province of Katanga declare former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba has been killed by villager trying to take him into custody. On the same day, Frank Sinatra launches his own record label, Reprise on the founding principal that each artist signed will have full creative freedom and at some point complete ownership of their work.
1968: The US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
1971: 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos.
1974: Dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the USSR.
1975: British mineworkers’ leaders agree to accept the coal board’s latest pay offer of up to 35%.
On TV (Thursday)
|12.30||Jobs Around The House|
|15.55||Out of Town|
|16.50||Cowboy in Africa|
|19.00||The Six Million Dollar Man |
Lee Majors stars as Steve Austin
|20.00||Love Thy Neighbour |
Satirical sit com mocking racism
|21.00||The Sweeney |
Police series starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman
|22.00||News at Ten|
|22.30||Wish You Were Here…?|
|23.00||People and Politices|
|09.41||For Schools, Colleges|
|12.25||The 60 70 80 Show|
|14.02||For Schools, Colleges|
|17.10||John Craven’s Newsround|
|17.15||King Thrushbeard and the Proud Princess|
|19.20||Top of the Pops |
Noel Edmonds introduces Mud, Frankie Valli, Fox, Alvin Stardust, Queen, Cockney Rebel and Pilot.
|20.00||It Ain’t Half Hot Mum |
A snake-charmer’s missing snake turns up in the Sergeant Major’s quarters. Comedy series starring Windsor Davies
|20.30||Taste for Adventure|
|21.00||Nine O’Clock News|
|21.25||Play for Today: Penda’s Fen by David Rudkin|
|18.15||Test Cricket from Australia|
|18.40||Middle Years at School|
|20.45||The Roman Way|
|21.00||Show of the Week: The Two Ronnies|
1978: Anna Ford becomes ITN’s first female newsreader.
1980: The Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York.
1984: Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union.
1988: The Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Canada.
1989: Samantha Fox and Mick Fleetwood host a Brit Awards littered with embarrassing errors
1991: Iraqi civilians including 130 children are killed in Baghdad by American bombers. On the same day, athletics commentator Ron Pickering dies after heart bypass surgery aged 60.
1994: Singles chart:
- Without You – Mariah Carey
- Things Can Only Get Better – D-Ream
- Breathe Again – Toni Braxton
- Return To Innocence – Enigma
- The Power Of Love – Celine Dion
- A Deeper Love – Aretha Franklin
- Move On Baby – Capella
- All For Love – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
- Let The Beat Control Your Body – 2 Unlimited
- Like To Move It – Reel To Real ft Mad Stuntman
- Cross Of Changes – Enigma
- Under The Pink – Tori Amos
- Music Box – Mariah Carey
- In Pieces – Garth Brooks
- Troublegum – Therapy?
- Tease Me – Chaka Demus & Pliers
- Softly With These Songs: The Best Of – Roberta Flack
- One Woman: The Ultimate Collection – Diana Ross
- The Heart Of Chicago – Chicago
- Brave – Marillion
1996: Take That announce they are splitting up at a press conference in Manchester.
1998: Former Stone Roses singer, Ian Brown is arrested at Manchester Airport after an incident during a flight from Paris.
2002: Country singer-songwriter Waylon Jennings dies in his sleep after a lengthy fight with diabetes.
2011: The King’s Speech wins best film at the BAFTAS.
2012: Adele wins all six categories she is nominated for at The Grammy Awards.
2013: Ten civilians, including three children, are killed by a NATO air strike in the Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
2016: All four members of English indie rock group Viola Beach along with their manager Craig Tarry, die in a car crash in Södertälje, Sweden.
2017: Film star Harrison Ford is involved in a near miss while flying a plane at John Wayne Airport, Orange County.
2018: An Israeli Police report recommends Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud and breach-of-trust charges. On the same day, South African president Jacob Zuma is ordered to step down by the A.N.C.
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'There Are Basic Moral Rules': Young Evangelicals React To Supreme Court Marriage Ruling
ERIC WESTERVELT, HOST:
Of course, not everyone is celebrating today. Thirty-nine percent of Americans oppose gay marriage according to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, and support is particularly low among evangelicals. Sandy Hausman of member station WVTF and Radio IQ visited freshman orientation at Liberty University this past week and reports on students' reaction to the Supreme Court ruling.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
SANDY HAUSMAN, BYLINE: From the moment you arrive at Liberty University, it's clear this is a religious school. Christian rock plays from speakers in the main parking lot and over cheeseburgers in the cafeteria. It's clear that students get strong guidance from the Bible with little room for historic interpretation. Taylor Thomas of Eastman, Ga., and Lauren Rentrop of Lynchburg, Va., did not approve of the Supreme Court's ruling allowing same-sex couples to marry.
TAYLOR THOMAS: I know the Lord gave us free will. And I know being in a secular world, everyone has their own opinions and has their own thoughts, but the Bible says, you know, you can't be in a lifestyle of sin, which is how I see it.
LAUREN RENTROP: Gay marriage, I believe, is never OK, and it doesn't matter if you're Christian or not. There are basic moral rules.
HAUSMAN: Bridgeport, Conn., native Emmanuel Chery said he was not surprised by the ruling.
EMMANUEL CHERY: I expected nothing less from the Supreme Court because they did the same thing with Roe v. Wade and many other cases that were biblically immoral.
HAUSMAN: Some, like Matthew Hidalgo of Monroe, Conn., expressed fear.
MATTHEW HIDALGO: I'm just worried about things in the future, like Christian churches being forced to perform gay marriages and things like that.
HAUSMAN: And Cher rejected studies that suggest homosexuality may be rooted in biology or genetics. An African-American, he says gay marriage is not a civil right.
CHERY: I see civil rights as something that you absolutely cannot change. For example, you can't change your race. And I see no particular evidence for homosexuality being a civil right as it is something that you choose.
HAUSMAN: But for Jocelyn Huelsman of Dayton, Ohio, and a classmate who asked that we not use his name, agreed that good Christians should not attack gay couples.
JOCELYN HUELSMAN: If we react, like, harshly to them, it's not going to make them want to come to know the Lord. It's going to push them away.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It breaks my heart, but, you know, as Jesus said, we're still called to love.
HAUSMAN: Many of these students were on campus with their parents. Most are 17 or 18 years old, and one left the door open for a change of heart. We're young, he said, we haven't lived very long and may need to think a little bit more. For NPR News, I'm Sandy Hausman in Lynchburg, Va. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | <urn:uuid:f2ae2d90-e052-4a70-8b0d-c07b29b4ff09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wvasfm.org/2015-06-28/there-are-basic-moral-rules-young-evangelicals-react-to-supreme-court-marriage-ruling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963346 | 702 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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The NFL takes its eco-initiatives to the next level
There could hardly be a better state to host a "green" Superbowl than Arizona, which needs to call attention to the very immediate realities of pollution and resource depletion and the importance of fast environmental action.
People are moving to the hot, dry state in droves—population there increased by over 800,000 people between 2000 and 2005 according to U.S. Census figures, more than the number of people that live in South Dakota or Vermont or Wyoming. By 2030, Arizona’s population is expected to double to close to 11 million people, the same time that water supplies will likely fail to meet demand. Not surprisingly, the state’s greenhouse gas emissions have risen at an alarming rate, putting the state among the top 10 for carbon dioxide emissions. In Arizona’s case, cars and coal-fired power plants are to blame. As those emissions send temperatures rising in summer months, the state faces increased droughts and water shortages.
This year"s Superbowl will be the second time the NFL has committed to going carbon neutral.
Phoenix, where the February 3 Superbowl XLII clash between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots will be held at the state-of-the-art University of Phoenix stadium, is one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. While people gripe that the National Football League’s greatest match-up will never feature snow due to the league’s conditions that it be held in a dome or warm climate, perhaps the Superbowl’s warm weather contest can serve as another sort of lesson. If climate change continues unchecked, even Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Packers" home city, will be able to host a Superbowl down the road.
Yes, that NFC championship game between the Giants and the Packers on January 20 was beer-freezing, finger-numbing cold, one degree below zero with a wind chill of 23 below, the third-coldest playoff game in history according to FOX Sports. But the Wisconsin Environment and Research Center released a report last year detailing the extensive threats coming to the state from increased temperatures, which have risen by .7 degrees Fahrenheit during the 20th century. Water levels at Lake Michigan have dropped four feet, several tree species are under threat, forest fires and pest infestation are on the rise, loss of snow and ice prevent winter recreation like ice-fishing and snowmobiling, and Wisconsin dairy farmers lose some $60 million a year from heat stress to cattle.
For many fans, football without the possibility of another "Ice Bowl" (the celebrated 1967 championship game where the Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21 to 17 in -13 degree weather, with a -36 degree wind chill) is not football as it’s meant to be played. Football is about roughing it. Football is supposed to hurt.
NFL rules say the Superbowl must be held in a dome or warm climate and the University of Phoenix stadium fits the bill.
When put in this context, nothing could be more defensive of the sport of football as it’s "meant to be played" than powering the Superbowl with 100 percent renewable energy. The NFL made that commitment last year, and they’re doing it again this year, with a little more media fanfare. Metro Phoenix’s largest power producer, Salt River Project, is supplying SRP EarthWise Energy renewable energy certificates to offset the Super Bowl (and its associated "NFL Experience" activities) with wind and solar power. Some Phoenix hotels will be offsetting their emissions in honor of the occasion, too. The NFL is also planting thousands of trees, enough to reforest more than 42 acres that were destroyed by in the 2002 Rodeo Chediski fire, the worst in Arizona’s history, in which over 400,000 acres were lost in the blaze.
According to Forbes, the Superbowl has incorporated some green elements for the past 14 years, including recycling initiatives and donation of uneaten food to local food banks. But carbon offsetting is a sign that the NFL is moving green operations beyond the positive public relations level. The more explicit the league makes that message, the more impact the NFL and other sports franchises can have among the fans who worship at their altars. Consider this: Superbowl Sunday is an unofficial national holiday in the U.S.—the most-watched event on television and the second-largest food-consumption day after Thanksgiving.
Even the maker of Bud, Anheuser-Busch, has a line of organic beer.
Even the maker of Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch, the event’s largest advertiser, now produces two varieties of organic beer (Wild Hop lager and Stone Mill pale ale). It’s not completely far-fetched to imagine a new Superbowl party taking shape: one where local food is on the menu, organic chips in the bowls and the beer cans end up in a recycling bin. Would it be a radical departure from sports watching as we know it? Not so much. But when the NFL has declared going green to be an essential football philosophy, anything seems possible. | <urn:uuid:a5225af3-f3ac-4ac5-b471-e32ad6a20d29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emagazine.com/commentary-a-greener-superbowl-625/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950355 | 1,071 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Writer Roy Williams has taken Sophocles classic play, Antigoneand transformed it, using modern language and setting the drama in a contemporary world of gang culture and nightclubs.
What happens when one person stands against the rules? How do we make meaning out of life and death? And what, in the end, really matters?
The co-production of Antigone, from Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East comes to Watford Palace Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday,
Williams (Kingston 14, Sucker Punch) brings ancient Greece into the 21st Century, reinforcing the story’s ongoing relevance and vitality.
The playwright, known for creating urban stories about the lives of young people, most of whom are lured into the life of crime, said: “Antigone has always been one of my favourite Greek plays.
“It was one of those plays that I always knew how I would do it, if I ever got my hands on it.
“I just had a strong sense of where I would place it and how I would make it relevant. Antigone has a lot to say about today.
“It’s called Antigone, but I think it is just as much the story of Creon and about power and identity, and about how power can corrupt.”
When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone’s unruly brother, her anger quickly turns to defiance.
In an attempt to retain control, Creon condemns her to a torturous death – she’s to be buried alive…
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Fewer Cars, But at What Cost?
By Gabriel Sandoval, Adwait and Jaime Longoria
May 14, 2019
Cars on Ninth Avenue in Midtown brush each other at a busy intersection. Congestion fees would depend on the time and day of the week a vehicle would enter Manhattan below 60th Street. (Image Credit: Liam Quigley)
Jay Dowling drives from Queens to Manhattan four times a week, paying more than $100 in gas and toll fees each week. Considering what he pays, he thinks Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new plan — to reduce congestion and raise revenue for public transportation upgrades by taxing drivers who enter Manhattan below 60th Street — is just ridiculous.
“There’s a lot of other ways to do that besides always gauging the taxpayers,” said Dowling, a corrections officer at Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward who drives a gray Honda CR-V Hybrid.
Dowling is one of thousands of drivers who oppose Cuomo’s congestion pricing plan. The plan isn’t expected to go into effect until 2021 and could help fix problems that commuters face when they ride buses or subways. A group of experts, picked by the governor and called the Fix NYC Advisory Panel, will determine the fees they will pay.
In 2018, the group proposed fees that ranged from $5.50 to $11.50. The fees would depend on the time and day of the week a vehicle would enter Manhattan. The fees would be charged only once per day.
How will New York City’s latest proposed congestion pricing affect you?
Click on each time of the week you drive into Manhattan below 60th St. in a passenger vehicle to estimate how much Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed congestion pricing plan will cost you. Your estimate is based on prices proposed by the Fix NYC Advisory Panel in 2018.
Even though drivers oppose the plan, bicycling and pedestrian advocacy groups support it, arguing that its benefits to drivers and non-drivers alike will outweigh the bad.
“Less congestion, less carnage, less crashes,” said Dulcie Canton of Transportation Alternatives, a group that advocates for reclaiming the city’s streets from cars. “Congestion pricing will actually make it better for people that do have to drive downtown. They’ll pay the toll and they’ll actually move.”
Canton cited a 2017 report published by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign that found that not one of the Assembly and Senate districts serviced by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority exceeded a single digit percentage of drivers who would be charged the fee. In some districts, she said, the number was as low as 4%.
“I think people have this illusion that people drive to the central business district every day, and they don’t.”
“Why would we favor that 4% over the 75% that use mass transit, buses and trains?” Canton said. “I think people have this illusion that people drive to the central business district every day and they don’t.”
Lisa Costanzo, 43, doesn’t drive into Manhattan every day. But on Friday, she did, driving in from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, because her wife needed to visit a doctor. She said she doesn’t support the plan because everything is already too expensive.
“To implement any pricing on anything to New Yorkers or anybody at this point is preposterous,” said Costanzo, who was standing outside the Tisch Hospital and holding her Yorkie, Theodore, while her SUV idled in a no-parking zone nearby.
Deborah Horton, 37, the mother of a 7-month-old baby, agreed that the cost of living is too expensive. Sitting in her parked blue Volkswagen Tiguan near First Avenue, she said that congestion pricing would limit her family’s ability to enjoy Manhattan.
On weekends, she said, congestion pricing would “definitely discourage our family from coming into the city and patronizing any of the good stuff, the arts, the museums, the shows.”
But at the end of the day, Horton said, her family probably won’t be affected by the governor’s congestion pricing plan, because they expect to move outside of Charleston, South Carolina, later this month.
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Looking for easy Fourth of July Activities for Toddlers? This is one of the many great hands on patriotic crafts we enjoy doing year after year. With very little prep this will be a fun independence day activity to enjoy.
Fourth of July Activities for Toddlers
With all things red white and blue – we are in full swing with enjoying our STEAM activities for preschoolers that are patriotic themed activities. If you’ve got toddlers or preschoolers – this is a perfect activity because it requires few supplies (which you’ll most likely have all on hand, would be my guess!) and it takes very little prep time – if any, enlist your preschoolers to help prep for this craft!
There are many activities that toddlers and preschoolers enjoy for the fourth of July. Some ideas we’ve added to our summer bucket list for the fourth of July are:
- Sparklers – enjoy them while watching fireworks
- Go to your local 4th of July parade
- Pick out a fun red white and blue outfit
- Make a fun red white and blue dessert or treat
- Make a fun patriotic craft – see details below!
- White Card Stock Paper
- Red Washable Paint
- Royal Blue Washable Paint
- Bendable Straws
- Paper Plate
How to do the patriotic firework craft:
- Take approximately 7 bendable (specifically this kind of straw) plastic straws.
- Bend each one of them so that they create a “L” shape straw.
- Now place all 7 straws together, in a bundle.
- Next make sure all 7 straws are spread apart to create a “star”/ “firework”
- Now using your tape, tape all 7 straws together right where the bend is on the straw.
- Squeeze a large amount of red washable paint and royal blue washable paint onto your paper plate. (large amount meaning enough to immerse the diameter of your straw “star” into the paint.
- Now let your toddler or preschooler dip their straw “star” into the paint. Be sure your straws are covered in the paint
- Your straws are now ready to create a firework onto our white card stock paper.
- Let them dip and stamp as much as they’d like!
- We did have to press down on the “star” of the straws sometimes to get them to stamp – just a little real life tip!
Ideas to use this patriotic craft:
- We’ve used this craft and making it into a fourth of July card to send to family and friends
- Frame this easy patriotic craft and use it as a decoration each year for Independence Day
- Hang on your fridge with your child/s art work
- Add it into your preschoolers art portfolio folder
While doing this easy patriotic craft I asked my toddler and preschooler some questions! Here are a few questions you can use or use as a spin off to create your own though provoking conversations while learning. I truly believe that creating an atmosphere of learning and fun are vital – which is why I love creating STEAM activities for preschoolers!
- What colors are we using?
- If we mix these colors together, does it create a new color?
- How many straws are we using?
- What shape is the straw (before bending)?
- What is the shape of the straw now that we’ve bent it?
Are there other Fourth of July Activities for Toddlers that you all enjoy doing? Comment and let me hear your ideas so we can add them to our bucket list too!
More Toddler Fourth of July Activities:
Red White and Blue Footprints – from Toddler Approved
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The Center for Human Services Research (CHSR) has over 30 years of experience in social service research and evaluation. CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States. We conduct evaluation research and design information systems to inform policymakers and service providers across a broad spectrum of fields serving vulnerable and marginalized populations using our sophisticated research, technical, and management skills. CHSR values integrity in its work and is dedicated to providing timely, accurate, and non-partisan information to guide best practice in the human services.
CHSR also houses the Data Management and Analytics Center (DMAC), which supports University at Albany researchers by providing consulting and more extensive services for analytical, survey design and implementation, research and methodology, and research technology needs. For more information about DMAC, please visit DMAC.
CHSR areas of inquiry and expertise cover a wide range of topics including education and early childhood development; children, family, and elder services; health behavior and services; economic and community development; and criminal and juvenile justice; for more information, see Projects page. Our staff are skilled at qualitative and quantitative evaluation and research, program development, and system and software development; for more information, see Skills & Expertise. CHSR has developed significant partnerships with several University entities and with government offices and non-profit service providers throughout New York State, and has written successful grant applications for local, state, and federal funding.
- CHSR is thrilled to share the results of our evaluation of New York State's Medicaid Redesign Team Supportive Housing Initiative! The full suite of reports can be found here, but we've also created three short Research Briefs that summarize this work.
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Georgia is lo cated on the crossroad of Europe and Asia. It lays at the eastern end of the Black Sea, with Turkey and Armenia to the south, Azerbaijan to the east, and Russia to the north, over the Caucasus Mountains. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi. Georgia’s total territory covers 69,700 square kilometers.
Population in Georgia is almost 5 million. Official language is Georgian. Country is unitary semi-presidential republic. Georgian currency is Georgian Lari
() (GEL). The native name of Georgia is “Sakartvelo”.
The climate of Georgia is extremely diverse, considering the nation’s small size. The highest mountain in Georgia is Mount Shkhara at 5,068 meters. A large majority of Georgia’s population (83.9% in 2002) practices Orthodox Christianity.
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Please explain why a positive number minus a negative number equals positive and you add it together??? Makes no sense at all. ex 10-(-3)=13
Which statement explains how the charges on objects determine the electric force between them?(1 point) Objects with positive charges attract each other, and objects with negative charges repel each other. Objects with positive charges attract each other,
Is -n always, sometimes, or never a positive number? Explain. I don't know what they mean by -n - is a negative number?
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write and solve a word problem that can be modeled by the difference -4 - 10. My dog lost 4 ounces this year And 10 ounces last year. What is the Difference in weight loss? Or what is total weight lost? I am not sure I'm doing this right. The answer I got
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Excavators are among the most useful pieces of machinery at any construction site. Many excavators come equipped with a basic bucket that may or may not meet your needs. Replacing your excavator bucket could allow you to make the machine more productive in the future.
Here are three things you should take into consideration when determining which bucket is right for your excavator.
1. Material Density
It's essential that you identify the type of material you work with most often when investing in a new bucket for your excavator.
Denser materials tend to weigh a lot, and this added weight can significantly limit your excavator's cycle time. Smaller buckets tend to work better for dense materials because they prevent the gross weight of each load from being too high.
A smaller bucket will not only allow you to maintain a consistent cycle time, but it can also help you extend the life of your excavator's motor, transmission, and hydraulic systems as well.
2. Intended Applications
In addition to the density of the materials that you handle on a regular basis, you must take into consideration the routine applications for which your excavator is used before investing in a new bucket.
Excavators can be used to complete a wide range of tasks on a construction site. You may use your excavator to dig trenches, move rocks, or push heavy materials. The type of bucket that will work best for each of these applications will differ.
If trenching is your primary application, you will need a bucket that is not wider than the widest trench you dig on a routine basis. If you use your excavator to move a lot of rocks, a bucket with a V-shaped cutting edge can help you get the job done more efficiently. Buckets that are designed to push heavy materials need a broad, flat base.
By shopping with your desired applications in mind, you can easily pick out the excavator bucket that will best meet your needs.
3. Specialty Bucket Designs
While there are common excavator buckets that can fulfill a variety of purposes, there are also specialty buckets that are designed to fill a very specific need.
Some of the specialty buckets that you may want to consider include a riddle bucket for sorting coarse rock from fine soil, a V-bucket for digging angular trenches used when laying pipe, and a hard-pan bucket that can loosen compacted soil while digging.
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Image of america, field, background - 172821728 Great ground cover for dry slopes and other low maintenance areas. The leaves also continue up the stem as well. Water Needs. The flowers are about two inches (5 cm.) Oenothera speciosa 'Rosea' (Evening Primrose) is a showy perennial featuring masses of large, 2 in. Light Needs. Blooms are a beautiful light pink. across with petals that are almost completely fused. The buds nod and then open into white or pink flowers on slender stems. It has been used traditionally to treat a number of ailments, including asthma, coughs, and skin diseases. The foliage of pink evening primrose is dark green with some variation. Full sun . They are most often pink, but the flowers can also be pink to white or entirely white. The lemon-scented leaves are alternate and about 3 to 6 inches long. across (5 cm), saucer-shaped, pale pink flowers adorned with bright white stigmas and a yellow center. Uses for Evening Primrose . Negative: On Sep 24, 2004, hanna1 from Castro Valley, CA (Zone 9a) wrote: The blooms open in the evening and remain through morning. Pink Evening primrose bears large, four-petaled flowers, which range in color from white to dark pink. Blossoms are cup shaped and delicate, and they sport red or pink veins. Sku #5399. It is a ground cover. Light Needs. They rise on erect to sprawling stems atop rosettes of oblong to lance-shaped, toothed, medium green leaves. However, it does not survive a severe winter. The pink evening primrose is used in the temperate latitudes as an ornamental plant. Now it has a forever home in my gardens- the leaves have turned a bright red swirrled with dark green. With the USDA climates 4 to 9, the pink evening primrose in most areas of Central Europe should be sufficiently hardy. The Pink Evening Primrose, otherwise known as the Oenothera Speciosa or Evening Primrose, Pink Ladies, White Evening Primrose, Pinkladies, Pink Evening Primrose, Showy Evening Primrose, Mexican Primrose, is a somewhat well known perennial plant native to the Southeast, Northeast, and the Southwest of the United States.. Best known for its low maintenance and moderate growth, this … The tough nature of this plant will thrive with little or no care. Its long taproot is edible if you dig it at the end of the plant's first year and boil it twice. Generally, the foliage is linear and pinnate, but the leaves can also be lance shaped, depending on the particular location where the plant is growing. Some of the common names ("cure-all," "fever plant") for evening primrose allude to its medicinal properties. The stem is erect, stout and branching, giving it a shrub-like appearance. Well worth growing. Pink Evening Primrose Oenothera speciosa. Photo about Light pink evening primrose wildflowers in native garden with green leaves. Delicate white, skyward facing flowers turn pink as they age. Plant Description: Evening primrose is a tall (3-6 feet in height), biennial plant native to North America, with a base of leaves circling the flowering stem. Pink evening primrose plants grow low to the ground and spread vigorously in an informal and loose way.
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There are so many easy ways to adopt a positive attitude. We all feel down in the dumps sometimes. It’s completely natural to experience a dip in mood, and it’s completely healthy to allow yourself to sit and contemplate on that negative mood for a little while, but there does come a time when you have to try to pick yourself up again and put yourself in a more positive headspace. The thing is, if you have been low for a little while, it can be difficult to find your way out of the darkness. In fact, the more you try sometimes, the more you fail, but don’t worry, there are plenty of simple little things that you can do to turn your negative mood in to a positive one. Read through this list for some easy ways to adopt a positive attitude.
Sometimes external factors that we have no control over can really knock us off balance, but what you can have control over is how you react to them. Make the choice to remind yourself that the only person in charge of you is YOU. You are the boss of your mind and your body, and if you need to remove yourself from a situation, then go ahead and do it. Sometimes all it takes to become positive again is to take control and take your happiness into your own hands. And that's one of the best easy ways to adopt a positive attitude.
No matter what has put you in this negative headspace, remember that is could always be a lot, LOT worse. This might sound like a negative technique, but taking a second to try to find the silver lining in a situation, or considering just how much better off you are than some, can help you gain some perspective and not be so down in the dumps.
It sounds simple but it’s worth repeating - one way to get out of your slump is to seek and experience the things in life that you know bring you joy. Whether it’s heading out to the movies for a double feature, having a huge brunch with your best friends or even settling down with a blanket and a good book, make the time to do the little things that make you happy, and your mood will certainly start to improve.
The worst thing you can do is let your negative mood sit and fester, unspoken in your heart. Turn to someone you love and trust and talk it out with them. You shouldn’t underestimate just how great a weight can be lifted from your shoulders after you have spoken your truth out loud. You might even be able to get some helpful advice and wisdom from the person you have confided in.
Do something to take your mind off your sadness. Getting out of the house and being active, playing sports or just running or cycling, will create endorphins that will make you feel much better and will provide a great distraction.
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Funeral Planning Need Not be a Grave Task
One of the certain facts of life is death. But still death of beloved ones is always painful and leaves a family unprepared. While the family wants to grieve the loss there are concepts that are to be considered about. Pre-funeral planning is no small matter. There are things like registering the death, choosing a chapel for the funeral, obtaining permit and choosing the plot for the burial or a visit to cremation homes to choose the right place. While these are required by law there are other things that a family would want for the departed. After all it is the last time that one can do something for the beloved family member and everything chosen would be special with a meaning to the survivors.An eulogy, flowers and special music, a casket for the beloved soul, a service that would be to his/ her liking, a obituary to let the world know of the loss, a reception with food for the mourners, the list is endless. But they are all that is left to give comfort to the grieving family members. And yet how can someone grieve and yet do all the planning involved? Funeral pre-planning is then something that close family members would not like to be bothered with when they are mourning a loss. A trip to a cremation home to arrange formalities is not what a widow who has just lost her husband wants to deal with. Or parents whose child was taken away from them. It is simpler then to go to a professional, a funeral home that has been providing service in your hometown. They would have fine idea about the ins and outs of taking care of all matters that pertain to death and can guide the bereaved in funeral planning. Of course there is an expense involved but considering the service provided it would be well worth it. All one has to do is to provide a list of preferences whether it is flowers or the chapel or music. They would arrange to receive the deceased whether from hospital or home, prepare and dress the deceased, arrange with the chapel and the pastor, send obituaries to the newspapers as requested, register the death, arrange for a casket, pall-bearers if needed, or an urn if the person chooses cremation rather than burial, cars for the funeral procession to the grave-yard, provide caterers for reception. In today’s electronic world they could provide live streaming of the funeral so family and friends who cannot attend can still participate. Such funeral homes will have professionals working who can help with counselling, or death duties, guide one with pension matters if eligible. They would also have a host of other services which mourners can avail like ordering flowers and wreaths with suitable messages, cards expressing sympathy, or sympathetic gifts. Death is not an experience that is relished by anyone but there are those experienced in the matter who can ease a bereaved family through it. Tryit at Connelly-Mckinley who offer Funeral and cremation Services St. Albert and two other places if you live in that area of Edmonton for a comforting and professional treatment. | <urn:uuid:defc7d14-2d96-4ac6-83cb-ee582426d95c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.generaldiscussion.us/home-and-family/funeral-planning-need-not-be-a-grave-task.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969454 | 634 | 1.570313 | 2 |
In terms of health tracking, a fourth-generation Apple Watch has been predicted to support electrocardiography (EKG) capabilities that may presumably permit the user to take reliable, accurate readings of the electrical activity of their heart over a period of time.
EKG should not be confused with the Apple Watch heart sensor that measures how many times your heart beats per minute. A typical EKG reading includes information about the structure of your heart and the function of its electrical conduction system.
Among other things, an EKG can measure the rate and rhythm of heartbeats, the size and position of the heart chambers, the presence of any damage to the heart’s muscle cells or conduction system, the effects of cardiac drugs and more.
The main supplier of an ECG part will be LED design firm Osram, Kuo added in his research note to clients which was published today after being subsequently obtained by MacRumors.
Apple Watch can currently measure your heart rate.
It does so by using a pair of LED diodes that help monitor oxygen saturation in your blood stream. Contrast this with a professional EKG device that typically requires that a bunch of electrodes be placed all over your skin. It will be interesting seeing if Kuo’s proposed EKG feature will be realized and where and how the sensor might be implemented on the watch.
Moreover, Apple Watch Series 4 would use ceramic backs on all models, the analyst has said.
While Edition models sport ceramic backs, all aluminum and GPS models currently use composite glass. Changing from composite glass material to ceramic would result in a more eye-catching look while improving sturdiness of the crystal that houses a heart rate sensor.
Tentatively called “Apple Watch Series 4,” the device should have other improvements, like a larger display with rounder corners, a crisper screen (with a pixel count higher than that of the original iPhone), solid-state buttons, way more complex watch faces and who knows what else.
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Despite the rules and security measures that many organizations put in place to protect the personal information of their clients or customers, sensitive information may still fall prey to hackers and other kinds of breaches.
In the November 25, 2020 edition of The Legal Intelligencer Edward T. Kang, managing member of Kang Haggerty wrote, “Data Breach Cases: An Analysis of Standing and Best Causes of Action.”
Despite the rules and security measures that many organizations put in place to protect the personal information of their clients or customers, sensitive information may still fall prey to hackers and other kinds of breaches. Those affected may seek counsel to aid in bringing suit to hold an entity liable for its intermediary role when a third party commits a data breach.. While data breaches have become too common, case law and statutory law governing redress for data breaches is limited. This column explores standing and potential causes of action in data breach suits.
Standing in data breach cases may be impacted or determined by various factors, including especially the types of information stolen, and the action taken after the breach. In Antman v. Uber Technologies, (N.D. Cal. Oct. 19, 2015), the trial court dismissed the plaintiffs’ argument that Uber’s failure to protect their data was sufficient to confer standing because, among other reasons, they failed to establish Article III standing. Article III standing has three constitutional requirements. The plaintiff must have: suffered some actual or threatened injury; the injury can fairly be traced to the challenged action of the defendant; and, the injury is likely to be redressed by a favorable decision.” See Legal Information Institute, “Constitutional Standards: Injury in Fact, Causation, and Redressability.” For example, the court in Antman stated that the plaintiffs had not adequately established injury. But, it suggested the result would have been different had Social Security numbers been stolen (stating that the plaintiff “specifies disclosure only of his name and drivers’ license information. It is not plausible that a person could apply for a credit card without a social security number … plaintiff alludes to the disclosure of unspecified ‘other personal information; this is insufficient’”).
Thus it is critical when attempting to establish standing under Article III in a data breach suit that the type of information stolen places plaintiff in danger of immediate harm (if the harm has not already occurred). Social Security numbers are the kind of information that would bring about such harm, while a name or address alone is not.
Also essential to standing is action taken after a data breach. In Engl v. National Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Civil Action No. 15-cv-02129-MSK-NYW (D. Colo. Sept. 21, 2016), the court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of standing because the “card issuer identified the fraudulent activity on his account and unilaterally exonerated Bernhard Engl of responsibility for the fraudulent charges; then closed the account associated with the stolen card number. This, it would seem, brought Engl’s exposure to any future harm from … the data breach to an end.” In other words, because he acted to mitigate his risk upon learning of the breach, plaintiff decreased his chances for recovery, since under Article III he could not sufficiently claim standing without having suffered actual harm.
Courts’ analyses of standing under Article III expand the constitutional requirements previously outlined. In Engl, the language of the opinion suggests that harm must not necessarily have been suffered at the time of the suit, but rather could be imminent. The U.S. Supreme Court made specific reference to this expansion in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), stating, “Our cases do not uniformly require plaintiffs to demonstrate that it is literally certain that the harms they identify will come about. In some instances, we have found standing based on a ‘substantial risk that the harm will occur.’” Still, even at the limits of interpretation, it must be objectively likely that harm will result from the breach in order to reach standing under Article III. Again, this is much easier to prove when information like Social Security numbers is stolen. Often, the two factors—the type of information stolen, and the action taken after the breach—reinforce one another to strengthen standing.
Another challenge in data breach suits is choosing the best cause of action. A wide array of causes of action have been used in such cases, including breach of contract, negligence, and even fraud. Breach of contract claims have been, for the most part, unsuccessful. But, a recent decision demonstrates that given certain factors these claims may survive the motion to dismiss stage of the litigation. In In re Marriott International Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, 440 F.Supp.3d 447 (D. Md. 2020), the court looked to objective manifestations of intent when considering the hotel’s privacy statements, which constituted the express contract in question. It found that the standard privacy statement used by the hotel did in fact represent an offer to protect guests’ personal information. Notably, while the court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ breach of contract claim, it granted defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ negligence claim, reasoning that, “Illinois law does not impose a duty on retailers to safeguard personal information from cyberattacks.”
Failing in In re Marriott International, negligence claims have fared better in the courts generally. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that an employer owed employees a duty to exercise reasonable care to protect their personal information. See Dittman v. UPMC, 649 Pa. 496 (2018). More recently, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that there was no duty of care for banks to noncustomers, yet did not rule out the possibility of other entities owing their customers a common law duty of care. See Fragale v. Wells Fargo Bank, (E.D. Pa 2020). This case is currently pending appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, though it is not expected that the Third Circuit will reverse the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s decision.
In bringing data breach suits, litigators will find few statutory causes of action. Most statutes governing data breaches ban the hacking and stealing of data, but do not govern the duties of the entity from which the data is stolen. Those in Pennsylvania that address protection of consumer data, such as 31 Pa. Code. Section 146a.1, are limited in scope to insurers. Otherwise, the law merely states, “an entity that maintains, stores or manages computerized data that includes personal information shall provide notice of any breach of the security of the system following discovery of the breach … to any resident of this commonwealth whose unencrypted and unredacted personal information was or is reasonably believed to have been accessed and acquired by an unauthorized person.” See Breach of Personal Information Notification Act, Section 2303. Crucially, however, only the attorney general has the authority to bring an action against an entity in violation of the act. Thus the act provides little help to the attorney seeking to bring suit for her client by this cause of action.
Indirectly, notice laws may still be of benefit when bringing common law claims. The court in In re Marriott International differentiated this case from past cases in which the plaintiffs’ claims failed because they did not establish that the data was stolen for the purpose of identity theft or misuse of their information. By sending out notification of a criminal breach in accordance with the notification laws of the state, Marriott recognized and admitted to the data breach by identity thieves. The court took this admission as sufficient evidence that the information was stolen for such purposes. This enabled Plaintiffs to allege the injury-in-fact required for Article III standing.
Unfortunately for litigators seeking to bring suit for data breaches, common law and statutory law have not kept up with the machinations of hackers, identity thieves and other cyber criminals. In order to increase one’s chances of success in such challenging suits, it is critical to establish standing under Article III by demonstrating the theft of consequential information and arguing for imminent harm (if actual harm has not already occurred). In Pennsylvania, litigators would also do well to move under a negligence claim, since this cause of action has been better received here than in other jurisdictions. While the law continues to lag behind the land when it comes to data breaches, more recent decisions throughout the country indicate that it will not do so for long.
Edward T. Kang is the managing member of Kang Haggerty LLC. He devotes the majority of his practice to business litigation and other litigation involving business entities.
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- A beautiful gold protection amulet from Thailand is hand strung on a necklace from Brazil woven with dark, iridescent seed beads.
- The gold plated amulet has a detailed, 3-dimensional image of Ganesh on one side and a Thai Hanuman deity on the other.
- Thai amulets are handmade by monks in Bangkok to help support their temples. Buddhists and spiritual people alike use amulets like this one for the healing and protective benefits. In many forms of spirituality, protection amulets or "good luck charms" can be very powerful.
One of the most well-known and worshipped deities, Ganesh is known as the remover of obstacles, bringer of success and fortune, and the deity of intellect and wisdom.
Hanuman is worshipped for his dedication to Rama, his Hindu god. His commitment and devotion is admired by many.
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Women have breast implants for all sorts of reasons and we support each and every one of those! Recently, many women have been having their implants removed because they may be linked to making them sick. Breast implant illness is not yet a medically recognised condition but as we dove deeper into why implants could make women sick we were incredibly surprised to find that some implants contain over 40 different toxic chemicals! Tune in now to hear Dr Ashleigh and Dr Andrea give you the rundown on how the body responds to implants and these chemicals and what you can do!
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Schools to close on July 10 for week-long holiday
Schools that reopened for the Third Term on Monday after a seven-week break will close on July 20 for a week-long holiday.
Education CS George Magoha said schools will start a new calendar year after the one-week break in a bid to make up for the time lost during the prolonged closure last year.
“We deliberately created a tight academic calendar that enables us to accelerate completion of school terms. The New Year entails the rollout of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) Grade 5. For the avoidance of doubt, we shall all roll out grade 5 together; whether you are in private or public schools. There is only one government,” he said.
The Education CS was speaking on Monday during the release of results for the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam announced that there will be five examinations this year.
Candidates for the 2021 KCSE and Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams will sit for their papers in March next year.
“As you are aware, we are already behind schedule and therefore the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) will begin the registration of the 2021 candidates ahead of the March examinations. In December 2022 we will administer another examination. Hopefully, I will not be there, but we shall have planned for everything so that those who take over from us will have a seamless process,” said Prof Magoha.
He said that the first Grade 6 summative examination will be administered next year, saying the president has sworn in a permanent secretary to ‘midwife’ the CBC changes.
Term One will begin on July 26, learners will also have another one-week break from October 2 to October 10 before they open for the second term the following day. It will run until December 23.
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What are the benefits of a dehumidifier? 9 Benefits of a Dehumidifier
How does a dehumidifier cool a room?
Most standard dehumidifiers work best when temperatures are 70 degrees or higher and reduce the room's humidity by 35 to 40 percent. Prevent your dehumidifier from "icing up" by increasing the room's temperature or moving the appliance to a higher, and therefore warmer, location.
How is dehumidification done?
In the general the cooling and dehumidification process is obtained by passing the air over coil through which the cool refrigerant, chilled water or cooled gas is passed. During the cooling and dehumidification process the dry bulb, wet bulb and the dew point temperature of air reduces.
Does a dehumidifier improve air quality?
A dehumidifier can help decrease the moisture that supports allergen growth, improving air quality and helping to prevent some types of bacteria and virus growth as well.
Does a dehumidifier remove oxygen?
They are in fact very similar way to how we breathe. We take in the air, remove the oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, whereas dehumidifiers suck up the air from your room, extract the moisture then blow it back out again.
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How many hours a day should I run my dehumidifier?
We recommend running the dehumidifier for at least 12 hours a day. This is highly dependant on the room dampness condition, the unit's capacity, and in-built features. If the room condition is extremely wet, you might need to leave the dehumidifier on the whole-day.
Does dehumidifier increase room temperature?
Even if you're in a small room with a powerful dehumidifier that runs often, the air in your room will only increase a few degrees F. The room likely won't even feel warmer with a dehumidifier. That's because the dehumidifier is removing excess moisture, so you'll feel more comfortable than without the dehumidifier.
Do dehumidifiers work in the cold?
During cold winter months, the air in your home is usually dry, which means a dehumidifier is not necessary. Most dehumidifiers should not be operated in temperatures below 60° F, since the moisture removed from the indoor air can freeze when it condenses on the cooling coils, which can damage the unit.
Do dehumidifiers reduce temperature?
As opposed to the air conditioning, a dehumidifier has neither cooling nor heating purposes. However, it works by cooling and then heating the air that it sucked in to remove the excess moisture. Therefore, the device can affect the temperature of the room.
What temperature does a dehumidifier work best?
Residential dehumidifiers use refrigerant and a condenser to remove moisture from the air. They work best in temperatures above 60 degrees F. If you're looking for a solution to cure humidity issues in warm and humid climates, a standard basement or crawl space dehumidifier is your best option.
What is dehumidify air?
Dehumidify or dehumidification – literally means “pulling out or removing” the moisture/humidity from the air. The dictionary defines dehumidification as the process of removing atmospheric moisture.
What are the two types of dehumidifiers?
Overview. Dehumidifiers extract water from air that passes through the unit. There are two types of dehumidifiers: condensate dehumidifiers and desiccant dehumidifiers.
What is dehumidifier mode?
How Does Dry Mode Work? The dry mode of an AC unit works like a large-scale dehumidifier. When the air conditioner is functioning on aircon dry mode, the fan and the other inner components of the unit will be running, but it won't blow out any cold air.
Does dehumidifier use a lot of electricity?
Dehumidifier energy use is rather low. An average small 30-pint dehumidifier uses 300W of energy. Essentially, a dehumidifier draws much less electricity than a water heater, an air conditioner, even a hair drier. An average dehumidifier draws about as much energy as a computer.
Can I drink dehumidifier water?
The water the dehumidifier collects is actually very clean water; comparable to distilled water. We don't have to resort to drinking water that drips from a dehumidifier. Tap water is perfectly acceptable!
Is it OK to sleep in a room with a dehumidifier?
Yes it is perfectly safe to sleep in the same room as a dehumidifier. If you are particularly interested in a dehumidifier for the bedroom the noise level will be particularly important to you.
How powerful a dehumidifier do I need?
A 50 percent rh is recommended for summer, while in winter, the ideal rh can be as low as 30 percent. A whole-house dehumidifier may be needed if high humidity is a problem throughout your home. Some are portable appliances while others are built into and can operate as part of your HVAC system.
What is a dehumidifier vs humidifier?
Humidifier: Adds extra moisture to the air. Dehumidifier: Removes excess moisture from the air.
How does a dehumidifier work vs AC?
While air conditioners throw cool air into the room, dehumidifiers pull out moisture from the air. This is where a dehumidifier is more efficient; it can remove a high amount of moisture from the room. While the room may naturally drop when humidity is removed, dehumidifiers do not throw any cool air into a room.
What is a good oxygen level?
Your blood oxygen level is measured as a percentage—95 to 100 percent is considered normal. “If oxygen levels are below 88 percent, that is a cause for concern,” said Christian Bime, MD, a critical care medicine specialist with a focus in pulmonology at Banner - University Medical Center Tucson.
Can you dehumidify too much?
Using the Dehumidifier Too Often
By leaving all the windows closed, the air will be unable to flow freely, and will start to become damp again. This will affect your health, as you may start sneezing and sniffling. This could be due to mold growth in the home.
Can I leave dehumidifier on 24 7?
The best answer would be to run your dehumidifier unit 24 hours a day. However, that could end up costing quite a bit of money, and more than you really need to spend.
Can I run my dehumidifier 24 7?
You can run your dehumidifier for 24 hours every day, but this will put a strain on the internal components. As a result, the lifespan of the dehumidifier will be shortened and you'll need to purchase a new one. Running the dehumidifier 24/7 will also raise your electricity bills tremendously.
How fast does a dehumidifier work?
Out of the box, a dehumidifier can take up to 12 hours to start working properly and to get to the ideal level of humidity that your home needs. Certain models can start working properly almost instantly, but some may need time to adjust to the environment around it.
Should I use dehumidifier in summer?
Excessive moisture makes the air feel sticky and unpleasant, especially during the summer months. A dehumidifier can help reduce humidity levels and improve the overall comfort level of your home. Cleaner air. When humidity levels are high, it can make the air in your home feel warmer than it really is.
Should my dehumidifier run all the time?
Should a Dehumidifier Run Constantly? No, there is no need to keep the dehumidifier running constantly. It's generally enough to run the unit when the humidity level is 50% or higher. A good rule of thumb to remember is to maintain a comfortable 30-50% humidity level for most homes.
Does a dehumidifier dry clothes?
Using a dehumidifier may actually dry your clothes faster than when using a clothes dryer. In fact, you can speed up the drying time by setting your Ionmax desiccant dehumidifier to Turbo Laundry mode. This increases drying efficiency and speeds up the process.
What is the lowest temperature a dehumidifier will work?
Ordinarily, a dehumidifier will not operate satisfactorily at temperatures below 41 degrees Fahrenheit or under extremely low humidity conditions. At temperatures below 41 degrees the evaporator coils may freeze. This could make it necessary to defrost the coils as often as once per hour.
Should I use dehumidifier in summer or winter?
Regardless of the season, if the relative humidity is higher than the recommended level of 60%, you should run a dehumidifier. Nevertheless, some seasons have more dry air than others, and humidity might be lower than some other seasons. In a better perspective, winter generally has colder and drier air than in summer.
When should you not use a dehumidifier?
When you find the relative humidity (RH) going below the 30% – 50% range, you need to immediately switch off the dehumidifier. If there is too much dehumidification, say below 30%, it will result in the growth of several bacteria, mold, and dust mites that thrive in low humidity conditions.
What is a good humidity level?
What are Normal Humidity Levels? The ideal relative humidity for health and comfort is somewhere between 30-50% humidity, according to the Mayo Clinic. This means that the air holds between 30-50% of the maximum amount of moisture it can contain.
Can I use a fan and a dehumidifier at the same time?
The simple answer is Yes. You can use a fan and a dehumidifier at the same time. The fan creates a strong breeze, displaces the air in the room and helps to ensure the dehumidifier can collect more air from the room and drain them of moisture.
Where is the best place to put a dehumidifier in your house?
The best place for a dehumidifier is the room you need it in most. Dehumidifiers are commonly placed in bedrooms, basements, laundry rooms, crawl spaces, and indoor pool areas since these areas often have moisture problems.
Why do dehumidifiers stop working?
Overload. If your dehumidifier is no longer pulling water from the air and you have verified that the ambient room temperature is above 65 degrees Fahrenheit, then the unit's compressor may not be running. A common cause for the overload to fail is from operating the dehumidifier on long or undersized extension cords.
Is 70 percent humidity high?
Research from the Building Science Corporation found that humidity of 70% or higher adjacent to a surface can cause serious damage to the property. The Health and Safety Executive recommends that relative humidity indoors should be maintained at 40-70%, while other experts recommend that the range should be 30-60%.
Why is my dehumidifier blowing cold air?
When the unit is dehumidifying, the compressor is generating heat as it operates. Note: When running in defrost or fan mode, the compressor shuts off, the fan will continue to run and the room air will accelerate the defrosting process. When the unit is in defrost mode, it will actually blow cold air into the room.
Do split AC units dehumidify?
Mini-split systems are capable of drying some of the added moisture during warmer months. Unfortunately, they are not designed to dehumidify in cold weather and will not pull moisture in the winter months. Dehumidification should run independently of cooling systems to ensure proper moisture removal.
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The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will offer subawards between $2,500 and $4,000, depending on the number of applicants, to support state, tribal, local, or territorial governmental food safety programs to learn more about the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) program. NEARS is a surveillance system that captures environmental assessment data from foodborne illness outbreak investigations in retail food services to improve food safety programs.
Who Is Eligible?
State, tribal, local, or territorial governmental food safety agencies not yet participating in NEARS are eligible. States not participating in NEARS will be given priority. Click here to see the list of states and jurisdictions currently participating in NEARS.
What Types of Activities Can the Funding Support?
Funding will support food safety program initiatives to explore involvement in CDC’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting Systems. Supported activities include:
- Staff time to learn about NEARS, such as
- Taking Environmental Assessment Training (EATS) to conduct environmental assessments
- Participating in a NEARS webinar training session
- Attending a regional or national NEARS presentation
- Purchase of environmental sampling/other investigation equipment to build capacity in foodborne outbreak investigations
- Ability to use funds to encourage local programs within the state to participate
- Complete the online Environmental Assessment Training Series (EATS)
- Complete the Introduction to NEARS webinar series hosted by CDC
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- Identifies how the funding was able to help your program build capacity in conducting foodborne outbreak investigations (e.g., secured additional equipment, increased environmental assessment knowledge, provided training to staff, etc.)
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Our workspaces have evolved from places of rigid order and hierarchy to more comfortable co-working spaces. Modern offices are designed to inspire and induce creativity in its workforce.
Offices now have facilities like lounges, pantry and other recreational amenities for the comfort of its employees. Companies now organize team luncheons and other fun activities to lighten up the work environment.
These are aimed at reducing the stress associated with desk jobs and promote a collaborative workspace.
Importance Of A Leader Who Values Culture
A leader’s behavior speaks loudest about the culture of an organization. Still, there are bosses who yell at their teams, don’t give credit where it is due and who don’t respect new ideas and inputs when it is not their own.
There are also instances where a leader takes undue credit for the ideas of others. These are the scenarios instilled in a toxic work culture. When a company and its leaders don’t value culture, innovation and creativity take a backseat.
Employees frustrated with their leaders cannot offer their full potential. They instead try just to follow orders and follow the conventional route. This will rob the organization of valuable insights and perspectives from its workforce.
It is a statistical fact that companies with culture and values have a positive impact on its brand and market value. When you have enthusiastic employees, their collective performance will help the company grow.
Imparting A Good Culture
Culture becomes a pattern which even people new to the organization will follow. Once a toxic culture creeps in it would take lots of effort, time and energy to change the pattern. So it is important to keep toxic culture out and here are few pointers on how to do it.
Stick to your company’s core values
- Put cultural innovation before cost savings and financial gains
- Recognize people who exhibit good culture and values
- Monitor your culture to ensure it reflects the company’s value
- Evaluate the reach of your brand with respect to its customer expectations
As the famous adage goes ‘’A boss tells people how to do things, a leader shows how it is done”, implement good values and culture as a leader. Be the example you want your team to follow.
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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (WXYZ) — As summer taxes begin to arrive this month, some homeowners like Greg Karavidas may be surprised at what they see.
“I opened the mail on Saturday and it was $12,306, which kind of threw me for a loop,” Karavidas said.
“What was going through your mind when you saw that? Did you think it must be a typo or something?” 7 Action News reporter Brett Kast asked.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought,” Karavidas responded.
Karavidas bought his new home in Sterling Heights last year and was expecting his bill to be about $9,000. But instead, it was $3,000 higher.
“It was unexpected,” Karavidas said. “If I knew that, I may not even have bought the house. Three thousand dollars (more) is substantial.”
The increase is due in part to inflation, which the state uses to calculate taxable value on homes. This year, the increase in that value, called the Inflation Rate Multiplier, was capped at 3.3%, the highest in over a decade.
“Going back to 2009, we’ve had a very low rate of inflation, so most homeowners did not notice a huge increase,” said Steve Meyers, a real estate agent with RE/MAX Metropolitan.
Meyers also has a website with real estate advice, and warned of this tax increase with a column in the Oakland Press back in January.
Meyers says summer tax bills will likely surprise some homeowners, especially recent buyers like Karavidas. For homes bought in the previous year, the increase in taxable value is uncapped, meaning Karavidas’s taxes increased are much more than the average homeowner.
“For that buyer, if they’re just looking at what that current seller is paying on taxes, they’re going to get a rude surprise and the taxes could be double or more when they get their tax bills as a new homeowner,” Meyers said.
No matter the level of inflation, state law caps the year to year increase at 5%, but with inflation rising, next year could certainly hit that maximum.
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DFCM Shares Results of Geologic Study with Trustees
|The map (above) shows the 120 acres of Weber State University property east of Skyline Drive that was examined in the geological study. Tan sections represent land that is useable for possible WSU expansion. Blue sections were deemed too steep to be useable.|
OGDEN, Utah – A new study commissioned by the State of Utah Division of Facilities Construction and Management (DFCM) shows Weber State University has nearly 58 acres of undeveloped, useable land east of Skyline Drive, which could support a million square feet of academic space.
The acreage finding is reported in an independent geological research study conducted by the Shipley Group at the request of DFCM. The study evaluated the feasibility and use of 120 acres of currently undeveloped land on WSU’s Ogden campus.
Keith Stepan, director of DFCM, shared the report’s findings at the university’s monthly Board of Trustees meeting held Tuesday.
“All the recent talk about developments along Ogden’s east bench served as the impetus for the state to conduct a thorough geological evaluation of that property,” said Stepan. “The study found that the university property east of Skyline Drive has 57.5 acres of useable land, which, in DFCM’s opinion, could support a million square feet of academic space. That’s a sizeable figure given the Ogden campus has 2.4 million square feet of existing academic space.”
The land is undeveloped with the exception of two buildings that house key campus support services. A water retention facility for campus irrigation also is located on the property.
WSU President Ann Millner said the study’s findings provided some new insights about the hillside. In addition to the useable space, university officials were surprised to discover that a fault line—long thought to run across the property—doesn’t exist.
“That’s a lot of land the university could potentially use for future expansion of academic and research facilities,” said Tom Davidson, chairman of the WSU Board of Trustees. “I would be interested in seeing a report and rendering of what that property might look like if the university developed it. How would this property meet the university’s future needs?”
Millner and Davidson said the study’s findings will be a valuable resource for future campus master plans. University officials have not taken a position on Ogden development plans, waiting to learn more details about the proposed project and to conduct a thorough evaluation regarding the project’s impact on the campus and WSU students.
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Dear future president;
The idea of gun control in the united states is a very controversial topic to many but a important one. It is the right of the people to own guns as stated in the second amendment. If guns are taken away you are infringing on people's rights and the constitution. This is why guns should not be taken away from the people.
The fact on guns such as the ar-15 and other military assault weapons should be banned because of their high capacity magazines and how they are fully automatic is false. The AR-15 is not a automatic weapon it is semi-automatic this means that it only chambers one round at a time. The same goes for high capacity magazines the AR-15 has the same high capacity detachable magazine as handguns. So then why are assault rifles being banned?. It has to do with their generic military look and name. The AR-15 resembles a military grade assault weapon. But in reality the AR-15 sold to the average U.S citizen aren't even standard military issue and would never be used in the military. www.gunfacts.info To most people assault rifles sound scary and look scary but that has nothing to do with its lethality.
A full ban on assault style weapons would be near impossible. The AR-15 and other assault style weapons have been in the spotlight of gun bans and laws. But in reality to ban the AR-15 and other assault style weapons would be impossible because the AR-15 and other assault style weapons are just rifles but modified to have a military style,look and feel. A study in 2004 a study by community preventive services revealed that the ban on assault style weapons did not reduce gun violence criminals just used different guns. www.latimes.com
Gun control is a unrealistic idea to control or take every person's gun in the united states would be close to impossible. But this is also a violation of the second amendment and the fourth as well as the fourteenth. Taking away the the people's guns is a step towards communism in a free country.
According to www.gunfacts.info firearms prevent a estimated 2.5 million crimes per year. Even though this is a estimate that is still a very large number. If we were to take away guns how many of these potential crimes would have not been prevented and how many lives would have been lost.
All this is not saying that there are not gun issues in the U.S There are multiple mass shootings and murders committed with guns all the time. Many people believe we should have full gun bans. There are multiple reasons for a fear and hate towards guns such as columbine where a attacker armed with a gun killed or injured multiple students. This shooting and multiple others have led to gun laws and a full ban on guns.
In the end the next president will determine the outcome of guns in the U.S. Even though guns can do bad they can do more good the second amendment is in place for a reason and was designed in 1791. That's almost 300 years ago and it should insure americans rights to bear arms.
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The Hyksos, who ruled during the 15th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, were not foreign invaders, but a group who rose to power from within, according to a study published by Chris Stantis of Bournemouth University, UK and colleagues.
The Hyksos were a foreign dynasty that ruled parts of Egypt between approximately 1638-1530 BCE, the first instance of Egypt being ruled by individuals of a foreign origin. The common story is that the Hyksos were invaders from a far-off land, but this idea has been drawn into question. Archaeological evidence does link Hyksos culture with an origin in the Near East, but exactly how they rose to power is unclear.
In this study, Stantis and colleagues collected enamel samples from the teeth of 75 humans buried in the ancient Hyksos capital city of Tell el-Dab’a in the northeast Nile Delta. Comparing ratios of strontium isotopes in the teeth to environmental isotope signatures from Egypt and elsewhere, they assessed the geographic origins of the individuals who lived in the city. They found that a large percentage of the populace were non-locals who immigrated from a wide variety of other places. This pattern was true both before and during the Hyksos dynasty.
This pattern does not match the story of a sudden invasion from a single far-off land, but of a multi-cultural region where one internal group – the Hyksos – eventually rose to power after living there for generations. This is the first study to use archaeological chemistry to address the origins of the Hyksos rulers, but the authors note that more investigations and broader chemical techniques will be needed to identify the specific ancestries of the Hyksos and other non-local residents of Egypt.
Stantis adds: “Archaeological chemistry, specifically isotopic analysis, shows us first-generation migration during a time of major cultural transformations in ancient Egypt. Rather than the old scholastic theories of invasion, we see more people, especially women, migrating to Egypt before Hyksos rule, suggesting economic and cultural changes leading to foreign rule rather than violence.”
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What is the Format of a Proposal?
A proposal is a document which describes your business idea or plan to acquire new customers and/or sell products or services. A good way to think about it is like a letter to the customer.
You are trying to convince them with your ideas and experience. Your goal is not just selling something, but rather convincing someone else to buy from you too!
The main purpose of a proposal is to get the client’s attention so they will decide whether or not to work with you. If you have no idea what I mean by “getting their attention”, then read my post on How To Get Their Attention.
So, let us take a look at some of the different types of proposals that you might receive:
1) Presentation (Presentation) – This type of proposal is very similar to a letter to the customer. You present your product or service to the client.
It may include all kinds of details such as price, features, benefits etc.
2) Request For Quote (RFQ) – This type of proposal is similar to a request for proposal (RFP). However, instead of a company looking for a solution to its problems, you are seeking out potential clients who would be interested in buying from you.
The most common form of this kind of proposal is the RFP. You want to explain why you deserve to be hired and what you can do for them.
2) Request For Information (RFI) – This type of proposal is similar to a request for quotation (RFP). The client wants you to give him all the details about your product or service.
3) Letter Of Intent (LOI) – This type of proposal is similar to a letter of intent.
3) Request For Proposal (RFP) – This proposal is usually issued by a company who is looking for a company to solve a problem. This is the most complex type of proposal.
It will usually have very specific details and requirements that you need to follow in order to be considered. The main purpose is to reach an agreement with the client.
4) Bid Or Proposal (BOP) – This type of proposal is similar to a bid or proposal. The main purpose is to receive a job or contract from the client.
5) Contract – This type of proposal is exactly what it sounds like, you have gotten the contract! The primary purpose of this document is to ensure that all parties involved understand and agree upon the terms of the agreement.
You can also write a proposal to simply explain your idea or plan.
I hope I have answered some of the questions you have had about the proposal format. Now that you know what a proposal is, you should be ready to find out how to write one.
I suggest you read my post on writing a business proposal, it should answer all of your questions and then some!
Till next time…
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- BPS: a format-preserving encryption proposal (E Brier, T Peyrin, J Stern – Режим доступу до ресурсу: http://csrc. nist …, 2010 – csrc.nist.gov)
- The SMT-LIB format: An initial proposal (S Ranise, C Tinelli – Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop …, 2003 – academia.edu)
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
30 March 2019£9 – £12
Meeting: Hampstead Tube Station
Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture echoed design trends in Europe and the walk includes passing housing by the émigré architects Ernst Freud and Erno Goldfinger. Elements of eighteenth-century architectural design were also an influence for some architects.
Passing some more recent examples and of course striking non modernist Hampstead buildings, this walk will finish at the iconic and idealistic Isokon flats in Belsize Park. Here you can discover how the émigré designers accommodated here in 1930s, were so important for Isokon.
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1. Data protection at a glance
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Data collection on our website: Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data handling on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the respective contact details in the imprint of this website.
How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected when you provide it to us. This can be data that you enter in a contact form.
Other data are automatically recorded by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time when the page was viewed). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
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Some of the data is collected in order to ensure that the website is error-free. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.
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You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You can find detailed information on these tools and your options for objection in the following data protection declaration.
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The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.
When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. This data protection declaration explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating via e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.
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If the data processing takes place based on Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. e or f GDPR (DSGVO), you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons that arise from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this data protection declaration. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedom or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims (Objection according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR).
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In the event of violations of the GDPR, the data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the member state of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation. The right of appeal exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.
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You have the right to have data that we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this will only be done if it is technically feasible.
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For security reasons and protection of confidential data transfer, such as orders or requests that you send to us as page operators, SSL or TLS encryption is used by this site. You recognize an encrypted connection when the browser address bar of „http: //“ changes to „https: //“and the lock icon appears in your browser line.
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Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to receive free information on your stored personal data, their origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For further questions about personal data, you can contact us at any time under the address mentioned in the imprint.
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You have the right to demand the limitation of processing your personal data. For this you can contact us at any time under the given address in the imprint. The right to restrict processing applies in the following cases:
- If you deny the correctness of your personal data stored with us, we usually need time to check this. For the duration of this examination, you have the right to demand the limitation of processing your personal data.
- If the processing of your personal data happened / happens unlawfully, you can request the restriction of the data processing instead of the deletion.
- If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted instead of being deleted.
- If you have lodged an objection in accordance with Art. 21 Paragraph 1 GDPR, your interests and ours must be weighed up. If it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data – apart from its storage – may only be handled with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest processed by the European Union or a member state.
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This data is recorded based on Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimization of his website – the server log files must be captured for this.
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This data is processed based on Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR, provided that your request is related to the fulfillment of a contract or is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) and / or on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR), as we have a legitimate interest in the effective handling of the inquiries sent to us.
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a)We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; „Google“) for our website to analyze and statistically evaluate the use of our website (web analysis).Web analysis is the collection, consolidation and evaluation of data on the behavior of visitors to Internet pages. Google Analytics collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a data subject has accessed a website (the so-called referrer), which subpages of the website have been accessed or how often and for how long a subpage has been viewed. The web analysis is used by us to optimize our website and, if necessary, for the cost-benefit analysis of internet advertising. This enables us to tailor our website to your needs.
The use does not include the “Universal Analytics” operating mode (and thus neither a cross-device tracking of user activities).
b)Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on the user’s terminal device and that enable an analysis of the user’s use of the website.The information generated by the cookie about the use of our website by the user such as browser type / version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer (IP address), time of the server request are usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on our website, the IP address of the user will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there
c)The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
d)Under no circumstances will the IP address of the analyzed user be associated with other data relating to the user. Our website uses Google Analytics with the extension „_anonymizeIp()“. This guarantees the masking of the user’s IP address so that all data is collected anonymously. The full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. If there is any personal reference to the data collected about the user, this will be excluded at once and the personal data will be deleted immediately.
e)Further information on data protection for the Google Analytics web analysis service can be found atgoogle.com/analytics/answer/6004245 from the third-party provider.
f) We store user and event data in the Google Analytics application for 26 months. This data will then be deleted.
g) The legal basis for collecting this analysis data is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 f GDPR (legitimate interest of the person responsible). Our overriding legitimate interest is to be able to use the usage analysis to determine the range of our website in order to optimize it.
h) Possibilities of objection
The user can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to his use of our website (including his IP address) and from processing this data by Google by using the browser plug-in available under the following link (browser add-on) for download and installation: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, the user can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on Deactivate Google Analytics. We then set an opt-out cookie on the user’s device, which prevents future collection of his data when visiting our website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on the user’s device. If the user deletes this cookie in this browser, he must set the opt-out cookie again. | <urn:uuid:b792c7fc-6ddf-4617-b2c6-2fce72c0f088> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lucas-scherpereel.com/en/data-protection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.895624 | 3,340 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Food sources to Eat on a Ketogenic Diet
A keto diet is valuable for dropping the overabundance of muscle versus fat, and lessening hunger. The further developing sort 2 diabetes or metabolic condition.
The ketogenic diet could be a low-carb, high-fat eating routine intended to cause ketosis, a metabolic interaction. How your body’s fats are stored for energy rather than sugar, the body’s favored energy source. Not at all like other low-carb consume fewer calories. Which gives somewhere in the range of 20 to 60 grams of starches consistently. The proposed carb eating on the keto diet is a more unassuming sum than 20 grams each day — that is nevertheless one apple, banana, or yam.
Keto for Weight Loss
Ketogenic consumes fewer calories is valuable for getting in shape and diminishing vulnerability parts sure adequate sicknesses. While low-fat eating regimens are generally endorsed for those going to shed pounds. Concentrate on shows that keto is, online pathology specifically, a better methodology than weight reduction.
In contrast to many weight control plans, keto won’t give you feeling hungry in the wake of eating a pre-set number of calories for the afternoon. Keto might be a wonderful and filling strategy for counting calories.
All the more basically, protein misfortune is valuable for weight reduction and metabolic wellbeing.
You might encounter keto influenza.
On the off chance that you’re thinking about a ketogenic diet, you’ve most likely caught wind of the feared “keto influenza.” In the underlying days in the wake of beginning the keto diet, you might encounter sugar withdrawal. This can prompt a few signs, including outrage, sleep deprivation, weariness, migraine, and emotional episodes.
During the acceptance period of the keto diet, a few groups experience cerebrum haze. This happens when the body responds to the rising energy master (from carbs to fats). The startling consumption of carbs — and the resultant brought down insulin levels — causes a diuretic on the grounds that. Drying out and the related electrolyte anomalies can make the frequently depicted keto influenza.
Envision not feeling those food clamors and carb desires. That is the keto life. When your body has subsided into the eating routine, it runs all the more effectively, consuming. The fats in your food and your body and never left on the wild ride, the ups and downs of a carb/sugar-loaded diet. Without the sugar pinnacles and crashes, desires go, and you feel fulfilled.
For what reason do you ponder? Isn’t a calorie simply a calorie?
The response is no. Here’s the reason:
As expressed over, the ketogenic diet needs starches is decently low in protein and high in fat. Yet, it’s more noteworthy than that. Consistently on a keto diet, you have your macronutrients (“macros”) or that entire measure of calories of protein, and fat. The carbs you ought to eat each day are founded on your level, weight, practice level, age, and objectives. However, not all macros are the very. Each has a lot of force or calories:
Carbs have four calories for every gram.
Fat has nine calories for each gram.
Protein has four calories for each gram.
Fats are seriously satisfying (hold you feeling satisfied longer) since they give you a similar power for every gram as protein and carbs joined!
Brought down Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
High-fat and low-carb eating might be a piece of the keto rudiments. Your body typically separates carbs to renew glycogen which fills your body. On Keto, the sizeable fat benefit and diminished carb eating train your body to begin consuming fat into synthetic mixtures named ketones for energy all things considered.
Type 2 diabetes normally occurs as an answer to over-devouring sweet and bland food sources. Eating an over-the-top measure. Those food sources make your pancreas make high insulin levels in a preliminary to oversee blood glucose levels. At the point when your insulin levels are legitimate. Your body becomes confirmation against insulin which could be a major marker of Type 2 diabetes.
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Weight reduction is obviously the first by and large refered to as a well-being beneficial thing about. The ketogenic diet, and it’s not one to ignore. With Keto, weight reduction is genuine and legitimate for one straightforward explanation. It assists individuals with changing over from a carb-weighty eating routine, a carb-consuming eating routine to a fat-weighty, fat-consuming eating routine. An eating regimen high in carbs prompts weight gain, chronic weakness, bulging, and trust in energy. At the point when you use Cenforce 200 and Fildena 25 to work on an erection. You wish for a quick outcome and get befuddled. The off chance that you need to stand by quite a while or the effect is negligible.
Whether you’re fit, a touch rusty, or corpulent, a ketogenic diet can do completely assist. Your range or hold your objective with weight through consuming fewer calories. It can diminish your gamble determinants for heftiness-related illnesses and issues, including diabetes, a heart circumstance, stroke, and certain diseases.
The most charming part? It might be ideal in the event that you didn’t starve yourself to encourage there. On a keto diet, you get to eat your fill of satisfying food varieties stacked. With great fats, which sets off fat-consuming digestion alluded to as ketosis.
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The prospect of your first antenatal visit may make you feel excited and anxious in equal measure. Here's what to expect so that you can enjoy the experience.Go preparedMake an appointment with your doctor as soon as you know you're pregnant. Antenatal care is important to keep you and your baby healthy throughout the pregnancy. You'll likely see your doctor for the first time in week 5. Most people will have about 10 appointments before baby is due.Ideally you should visit your doctor with your partner and go armed with both your medical histories. Your doctor will be interested to know about any family medical history that may have an impact on your pregnancy. These include genetic conditions or diseases like diabetes. If you've had previous pregnancies, miscarriages or problems with fertility, your doctor will need to know about these too.Keep track of your periodsMost people are keen to know their due date as soon as they're pregnant — particularly if the new arrival is likely to be born on an auspicious date, or share a relative's birthday. If you've been planning to get pregnant, you'll probably be used to keeping track of your dates. You can calculate your estimated due date (EDD) from the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP) if you have a regular 28-day cycle.Look at your lifestyleYour conversation with your doctor is confidential. It's important that you inform them of any issues that may affect your pregnancy. These include smoking, alcohol, drug use or any medication you may be on.Take notesThere is a lot to take in at the first visit so it's useful to take notes as everything is likely to be new to you. Your doctor will offer you routine screening tests.By Associate Professor TAN Thiam Chye Head & Senior Consultant, Dr TAN Shu Qi Senior O&G Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, KK Women's and Children's HospitalSources:The New Art and Science of Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008, World ScientificHealthy Start for your Pregnancy 2012, Health Promotion Board SingaporeCopyright © 2016 HealthHub.sg. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:21804fe8-0831-4a2f-ae07-90307710d08e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://familiesforlife.sg/parenting/Pregnancy/Pages/PregnancyDevelopment/FirstTrimester/Pregnancy_First_Antenatal_Visit.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95965 | 437 | 1.828125 | 2 |
How the clean desk policy could shift your focus and change your life.... Have you heard the phrase clean desk, clean mind? Well, theres much more to it - a clean desk (and not just desk) means a healthier, better life. Do you often find yourself frustrated, going through a pile of items, looking for that particular one that was just there? If so - you probably just have too much stuff. Or too much on your mind - or both, as those two problems usually go together. If that generates frustration, nervousness, anxiety - you are probably looking for a way out. Thanks to Minimalism, you will discover: How to declutter your whole life without wasting your time Eight common mistakes made by beginners that youll be able to avoid Why - and how - minimalism goes hand in hand with health - And much more. Plus as a bonus, youll also get Hygge: The Danish Way to Simpler, Happier Life to help you embrace hygge to its fullest potential and give yourself true peacefulness and calmness. In Hygge, youll discover: What are the main principles of hygge and how to practice them with ease? What major benefits can proper hygge bring into your life? What hygge and parenting may have in common? How to experience hygge all year round - not just in winter - and much more Making a change in your habits can be a challenge - but its for your health, after all! Become the master of having less - all while becoming more. Free your mind and enjoy a simpler life. Just click Add to cart and improve your mindset in the process.
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Chase Givens never expected to see the ragged girl Minnie again, after she gave birth to triplets at High Mountain Ranch and promptly disappeared three years ago. Now, single and lonely, he sows his wild oats by holding a horse race through the center of town. Nothing new, but this time, Chase nearly runs down a young woman. Horrified, he runs to help her, intrigued and curious about this vaguely familiar stranger. After abandoning her triplets, Jessamine (Minnie) Styles spent three years at a French finishing school, growing up and learning to deal with her past. At 18, she's a stronger, well-educated young woman planning to open a school of her own, not far from High Mountain ranch. The bitter, defiant child is gone. Everything has changed, including her feelings toward her children. When she goes to High Mountain, asking to see them, old emotions reemerge between her and Chase. Neither knows their lives are about to change forever.
©2020 Charlene Raddon (P)2020 Charlene Raddon
Would you like to learn the secret to developing long-term success? Would you like to unleash your maximum potential? Would you like to learn the correct way of thinking to match all your objectives? In today's fast-paced and challenging world, you need the right tools to deal with, overcome, and adapt to life's many difficult situations. This powerful guide allows you to be less stressed and have more control over your own thoughts and feelings. Here is what you need to adopt: Know what particular thoughts are and how to use them. Practice how to manage pressure. Improve your mind. Conquer your emotions. Turn your weaknesses into strengths. Free your mind by letting go of regret and guilt. Study the people who inspire you and integrate their routine into yours. Find your purpose in life by finding your voice. Challenge your inner critic until you have nothing left to say. Success is 90 percent preparation and 10 percent sweat. This means that most of your success starts with building a successful mindset. Mental toughness plays a crucial role in your goals, your social circle, your relationships, your career, and your life. Mental toughness is an essential aspect that most employers of labor sort for in their employees. Employers would like to hire employees who can cope with pressure as well as think outside the box. Adding mental toughness to your list of qualities will make you more attractive to employers. Mental toughness is also a skill that we all need in our daily lives. Mental Toughness' components guide you with practical exercises to learn every step of the way. Don't make a mistake, you can figure out how to make use of your mind. With a few time, repetitiveness, and commitment, you too can become a super elite performer! Your peers, relatives, and friends are going to be amazed at your new abilities. Buy now!
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From a desperate stowaway to Canadas luxury custom home builder and philanthropist, The Grinding of the Millstone is a tale of a pursuit of a seemingly far-fetched dream, the power of hope, and unshakable faith in God. This book is a real-life portrayal of God's faithfulness and grace and defiant power of the human spirit. Vasile was born and raised in a mountainous region in northern Romania. Toughened by hardships of life in a rugged landscape, his eyes were drawn upward by the mountains to search for something greater...something beyond and greater than himself. He was, and he still is a dreamer! His dream of a better life took him on an epic journey through war-torn Yugoslavia on foot across treacherous mountains to a precarious existence as an illegal laborer in Greece and ultimately, on a near-tragic voyage across the Atlantic with a company of stowaways in a cargo shipping container to Canada. Somewhere in dangers and privations, he came to a God who was interested intimately in his well-being, who, in his love and grace, had his hand on Vasile's life. "I hope that this book will remind you of the fact that the defining factor in your lifes journey is resourcefulness not resources; and that you are resourceful beyond imagination!" (Vasile Caniuca)
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One in five people are chronic procrastinators. Are you one of them? A pile of urgent work papers lay on the left side of your desk. Your phone is on your right. Which do you reach for first? Most people would likely grab for the phone, backing up their decision with measly excuses such as, Itll only be five minutes, and then Ill get right back to it, or, I just need to check my messages real quick. Do you really need to? Or do you just want to? Theres a difference there, and thats what you need to figure out. You may be thinking, So what? Yes, I procrastinate. Im not a bad person for doing so. Of course not, but its not like its doing you any good putting off important tasks for another time, either. Not only are you sabotaging the potential to have more free time, but you are also harming your career or education, depending on where you are in life. On top of that, youre putting your overall well-being at risk, as chronic procrastination increases the risk of low self-esteem, feelings of worthlessness, and stress. Put a stop to your constant suffering and find out how you can turn your habits around. In How to Stop Procrastinating, you will discover: A powerful technique utilizing just two minutes of your time that will motivate you to complete the task at hand The secret to finding the perfect balance of self-control and motivation, paving the way for future success Why procrastination isnt just another word for laziness, as well as how you can get down to the bottom of your self-destructive habits and demolish them once and for all The top 29 factors contributing to your habit of procrastination, and how to counter them How to effectively deal with temptations, yet get the best of both worlds at the same time The threat your routine can have on your journey towards making positive alterations in your life, including strategies to help make the process easier for yourself The number-one thing most people do that automatically sets you up for failure, and how to push yourself out of that dangerous mindset And much more. Even if youve always considered yourself to be a chronic procrastinator, changing habits is something anyone can do no matter what stage of life you are in. Although the change may require a good deal of perseverance and effort, nothing worth having comes easy. Through the use of the right procrastination-busting tools, you will not only enhance your emotional and mental health, but you will also increase the opportunity for promotions, career advancements, or higher class grades. For something with such drastic life-changing potential, you may think it would require attending a lengthy seminar or two, or even signing up for an expensive month-long program. That, however, is definitely not the case - you can achieve the same benefits right at the comfort of your very own living room. Stop wasting any more of your valuable time and make the change you so desperately need in order to get all your ducks in a row.
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Lou Holtz once said, Its not the load that breaks you down, its the way you carry it. Stress is a load of immense pressure and when we carry it wrong, we will be crushed under its weight. We all feel the crippling effect(s) of unrest when were faced with problems daily. These issues range from freaking out about an exam tomorrow to the moment our lives fall apart because finances worked against our favor. Stress is more common than you first believed but there is a bright side. You can overcome it and learn to use simple strategies to cope with future unease. The goal is to remove yourself from the paralyzing percentage and join the movement of people who know how to stress the right way. These people have learned how to carry their problems correctly. Ive been where you are; wondering how Ill move past this issue in my life. How will I eradicate the deep scars in my mind and find new ground to stand on? It didnt happen overnight but I learned some valuable quick-fix techniques before I improved my overall health in the long run. Im going to show you how to: Recognize the most common stressors Find out what happens on the biological front Understand what stress does to the body and mind Acknowledge the existence of life-improving anxiety Show you that it is possible Recover while doing nothing or resting Finding solace in techniques supported by psychology Connect to your inner self with guided methodology Implement changes to your daily life Guide you to the new, improved version of you Dont worry because Im not going to waste time on drawn-out explanations and Ill rather get to the point. You know what youre dealing with and Ill simply fill in some blanks.
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They had lost everything that mattered. Three nightmarish years of marriage has shattered Brianna Wight's sheltered world. Leading her husband to believe she's been murdered, she flees to St. Louis...harboring terrible secrets that could be the death of her. The tragic loss of his Indian wife left Columbus Nigh a wanderer; necessity made him a wilderness guide. But now he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic woman who's hired him to lead her westward. Her gentle strength stirs his lonely heart...her tender beauty arouses his deepest passions. Would they find love again on a western journey? But the perils of the Oregon Trail pale beside the murderous wrath of the man who tracks them across the harsh frontier. Briana knows the only way to save herself and Columbus is to risk their tender love. Only then can she free herself from the horrors of the past - and embrace a rapturous future...
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What if any person who desired to become an awesome boss could be? What if there was a model that every leader could apply to help them be successful? What if there were no more bad bosses in this world? Designed as a leadership fable, this audiobook will help any leader in any situation to be an awesome boss! For Marty, the promotion to CEO was an exciting step in his already very successful young career. However, there was one problem that dampened his enthusiasm. He was about to replace a Wiser Care, Inc. legend. Daniel Rosier had run the most successful healthcare facility in the company for two decades. After many years of service and unprecedented success, Dan was finally retiring, and Marty had been chosen as his replacement. Id like to teach you something very important that I know will help you be successful in your new role, Dan said to Marty with a slight smile. In fact, Im so confident that if you follow what I am about to tell you, I will guarantee your success as a big boss. I didnt always live by what I am about to share with you, but since I began to do my best at following this model, my career and life as a boss has never been the same. Marty was eager to hear more. He knew this was his chance to learn from one of the best at Wiser Care. If his career could turn out anything like Dans, hed be thrilled.
©2019 Tim Burningham (P)2020 Tim Burningham
Two fresh and powerful methods that combine to create amazing results will be revealed to you if you continue listening! Do you want to lose weight easy and feel more energetic? Do you want to become slim and fit without calorie counting and removing your favorite meals? Do you want to burn calories even while you sleep? If you really want it, then you need to try this intermittent fasting guide! Are you aware that your body can become a powerful, fat-burning machine even if you're sleeping? Unlike other weight loss gimmicks, intermittent fasting is not a diet; it is a pattern of eating. It is a way of carefully scheduling your meals so that you get the most out of them and achieve health and weight loss benefits. This guide will be your handy companion as you work through and embark on your intermittent fasting journey. Intermittent fasting is a lifestyle designed to ensure that you get the most out of every meal you eat. Here is a preview of what you will learn: Reach your ideal weight by combining intermittent fasting and ketogenic diet BURN your useless reserves of fat with mathematical methods of fasting-rest-nourishment You will know how your body works to take advantage of the processes to your advantage even while you sleep Tips and tricks to transform your mentality and live in peace with your body Download your copy today! How much time and sacrifice are you willing to spend searching for information that could be false or incomplete, when you now have the opportunity to bring your life to a higher level? Scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button to get your copy! Thank you very much. Best wishes from Self-Publishing Mastery!
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Chastity Valentines was being stalked. She didn't see them, she felt them. Watching, waiting! Her stalker left her notes with a countdown leading to...what, she did not know. Did she have a chance against her stalker when the police didn't even believe she was being stalked? Chastity learned of the frightening statistics of stalkers' victims and decided she was not going to be added to the numbers. When she has proof that her stalker was inside her home, she demands to speak to the supervisor of Kingston Falls' Stalker Division. Lieutenant Rick Racuanelli was called from bed in the middle of the night to accommodate an uptight entitled rich woman. Rick was used to dealing with these types of women. After all, his ex-fiancée was one of the most entitled uptight socialites in the state. He could handle Ms. Valentines. What he didn't like was her thinking she could demand the audience of a very busy supervisor of one of the most elite divisions in the whole police department. Rick knew the type and knew just how to handle them. Rick walked into Chastity's kitchen and immediately realized he knew exactly nothing about Chastity Valentines, and he had never met anyone like her. Rick wants to know her personally but soon realizes that Chastity's stalker is very real. Rick must catch him before he can do anything to hurt Chastity. Can Rick follow the clues to catch the stalker before his malevolent countdown reaches zero? Can he catch the stalker and save Valentines?
©2019 Cate Mckoy (P)2020 Cate Mckoy
What do Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Steve Jobs and many other successful people have in common? They all meditate. Do you want to get rid of stress? Do you want to improve your sleep? And the most important question of all. Do you want to invest two percent of your daily energy to achieve 100 percent of effectiveness? Of course you want. The real question is how to do it and we have an answer. If you continue to read we will learn you simple practices and exercises that have the power to change your life forever. What if you don`t have any experience with meditation? No problem. This is a simple guided meditation with easy practices and exercises! This book will teach you exactly how to calm your mind, release tension, and let go in a way that will change your life forever. For beginners, starting a meditation practice can seem difficult, and learning to take control of your mind can be a challenge. However, this beginners meditation book will demonstrate that learning how to meditate and developing a regular meditation practice doesnt have to be difficult. This book will show you that practicing meditation is like riding a bike. You will fall at first, but with daily practice, your ability to focus improves and exercises become easier. This beginners meditation guide will walk you through everything you need to know about meditation and how to successfully meditate every day. What is really great? Music and meditation fit perfectly so we also give you 20 plus best music suggestions for meditation and relaxation. Enjoy it! You can experience the amazing benefits of meditation by downloading this book today! Don't hesitate! Scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button to get your copy!
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Extreme frosts in Europe are still forecasted and already in 10 days, the continent should sink into extremely cold air from Greenland and the Arctic.
In Greenland, historically early frosts (-55,6°C) hit already on 7. November 2021 /https://mkweather.com/summit-camp-greenland-556c-possibly-never-has-been-so-extremely-cold-so-early-in-the-season//, while the Arctic is after TOP3 “coldest” years in the last 15 years /https://mkweather.com/arctic-sea-ice-extent-26-greater-than-last-year-12th-lowest-on-record-and-the-largest-since-2014//, what with a combination of upcoming AO- phase /https://mkweather.com/be-prepared-for-an-extremely-long-and-strong-coldwave-arctic-blasts-in-europe-between-10-november-15-december-are-expected// means early extreme winter coldwaves for continents of Northern Hemisphere!
While in China, hit in the last days a historic blizzard /https://mkweather.com/northeastern-china-hit-the-strongest-blizzard-in-116-years-in-taiwan-and-japan-still-summer//; in Siberia extreme frosts /https://mkweather.com/delyankir-418c-dzalinda-408c-oymyakon-405c-if-these-frosts-had-struck-a-week-earlier-they-would-have-been-historic//, in the USA severe Arctic blasts /https://mkweather.com/washington-d-c-with-the-coldest-start-of-november-since-2012// and snow appeared even in lower situated parts of North Africa /https://mkweather.com/the-first-snow-in-algeria-morocco-and-tunisia//, Europe extreme winter conditions are only waiting after a record November heatwaves /https://mkweather.com/extreme-november-heatwave-bulgaria-tropical-324c-greece-298c-albania-294c-romania-289c-italy-283c-serbia-275c-ukraine-bosnia-255c-croat//.
GFS from 11. November 12Z (the last runs) is still set for anomalously cold conditions in continental Europe, with severe frosts up to -20°C, maybe -25°C in central parts, -20°C in France and Spain and -15°C, maybe close to -20°C in Scotland, the UK, while in Scandinavia, life-threatening frosts below -30°C are still highly probable.
The previous outputs were even colder /https://mkweather.com/40c-in-scandinavia-new-gfs-outputs-are-even-colder-than-previous/; https://mkweather.com/20c-in-british-islands-a-possibility-of-historic-low-temperatures-is-predicted/; https://mkweather.com/25c-in-poland-and-carpathian-region-extreme-winter-is-forecasted/; https://mkweather.com/25c-in-germany-siberian-winter-hits-central-europe/; https://mkweather.com/20c-in-spain-extreme-arctic-blast-hits-iberia/; https://mkweather.com/25c-for-france-the-country-is-preparing-for-historic-frosts// and in the case of return so extreme values, we will inform in the form of regional forecasts for Europe, again – it is namely very probable, that severe frosts will stay in the region until 10.-15. December 2021 /ensemble and Gismeteo 42 day forecasts will be updated already in the next Mkweather articles/.
In many regions, heavy snowfall is forecasted and almost all Europe, including Iberia, will find itself under the snow or at least with snow sleets.
Iberia, southern France, and northwestern Africa should be according to the latest updates even colder than was forecasted, with severe frosts possibly below -20°C in selected Spanish basins and valleys below 1000 MASL with a snow cover.
Snow is forecasted practically for every European country.
Severe frosts will worsen a situation on roads, highways and railways should cause widespread power outages (mainly in combination with blizzard conditions), should mean more health problems linked with hypothermia, heart attacks, or viruses, and be bad conditions near a possible regional gas crisis.
Outdoor activities will be significantly limited, due to severe frosts and blizzards, both.
We recommend you to watch furthermore weather news, forecasts, warnings, and advisories for better preparedness and we will be bringing fresh news about expected conditions until the arrival of the Arctic blast, which will have the regional potential for historic November (early winter season) frosts.
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Salem Mennonite Church (New Paris, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA)
Salem Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located one-half mile south and 5 miles west of New Paris, Elkhart County, Indiana, was originally a member of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. The church was organized by R. J. Smid (1814-1893) in 1889. About one half of the charter members were Mennonite immigrants from Balk, Friesland, Netherlands, who had arrived in 1853 and had held Dutch services in homes and schoolhouses, and also attended German services in the Christophel Mennonite church, an alternate meeting place for the Yellow Creek Mennonite Church. The meetinghouse was built in 1889 and enlarged in 1919.
Ministers of the congregation have been R. J. Smid (Schmidt), J. H. Bare (ordained 1906), Ray F. Yoder, (ordained 1918), Francis E. Freed (ordained 1939), and Harold D. Myers. The membership in the late 1950s was 166.
In 2014 the church was an independent Mennonite congregation with 150 members. The congregation was led by Bishop G. Terrill Yoder, Ministers Jerry A. Helmuth, DeWayne Martin, and Kevin Martin, and Deacon Owen Martin.
Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg, VA: Christian Light Publications, Inc., 2014: 135.
Yoder, Marie. "The Balk Dutch Settlement near Goshen, Indiana, 1853-1889." Mennonite Quarterly Review 30 (1936): 32-43.
Address: 23984 CR 46, New Paris, Indiana
|Author(s)||Ray F Yoder|
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Yoder, Ray F. "Salem Mennonite Church (New Paris, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 12 Aug 2022. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Salem_Mennonite_Church_(New_Paris,_Elkhart_County,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=143398.
Yoder, Ray F. (1959). Salem Mennonite Church (New Paris, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 12 August 2022, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Salem_Mennonite_Church_(New_Paris,_Elkhart_County,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=143398.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 405. All rights reserved.
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The Heterotopic Planetarium is less concerned with distant galaxies and rather more focused on terrestrial constellations – the (un)real and the (im)possible.
Looking at the world from a distance, as if through a telescope, shifts perspectives, changes scale, the gaze widens, and new entanglements emerge. The great unknown becomes playground for imagination.
Five artists conjure five extremely different heterotopias – spaces that are other: afrofuturistic, anthropocene, decolonial, dystopian, taciturn, loud, speculative, sober. No ready-made stories but spaces that already are, yet to come or that could be. Spaces that seek to question and to rewrite our understanding of cause and chronology, the boundaries that separate us from the outside and the other and what it means to be human today.
During the season opening of telling stories, the Heterotopic Planetarium offered a place to lean back and immerse oneself in other worlds.
The installation was part of the season opening telling stories at Kaserne Basel in September 2019.
Rohini Devasher (India) – Arboreal (2011) – 16 minutes
Cauleen Smith (US) – Crow Requiem (2015) – 11 minutes
Tabita Rezaire (France/ Guyana) – Seneb (2016) – 7 minutes
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Thomas Edison State University Backs with College Credit Two MicroBachelors Programs on edX.org
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Thomas Edison State University (TESU) announced that it will now offer college credit for Western Governors University‘s MicroBachelors program “Introduction to Information Technology” and for Doane University’s “Marketing Essentials,” through edX.org.
“By recognizing MicroBachelors programs for credit, we are creating yet another diverse and alternative method to gain access to a relevant and affordable undergraduate education,” said Dr. Merodie A. Hancock, president, Thomas Edison State University.
edX’s MicroBachelors programs are designed to assist nontraditional students like adults without college degrees who need additional education to advance in their careers. These online programs provide a pathway to a full bachelor’s degree and are offered at a price between $500 and $1,500 (roughly $166 per credit).
“TESU joins us in providing credit and pathways to full TESU bachelor’s degrees and in signaling to employers that the MicroBachelors programs are rigorous enough to be credit grade and equip learners with applicable knowledge,” said Anant Agarwal, CEO at edX. “As an institution providing credit for MicroBachelors programs on edX, the first credit-backed stackable credential, Thomas Edison State University plays an integral role in the launch of these innovative programs.”
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“The gospel, God’s free gift of grace in Jesus, only works when we realize we don’t have it all together. The same is true for prayer. The very thing we are allergic to – our helplessness – is what makes prayer work. It works because we are helpless. We can’t do life on our own.
Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help. We look at the inadequacy of our praying and give up, thinking something is wrong with us. God looks at the adequacy of his Son and delights in our sloppy, meandering prayers.”
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This afternoon, I had to quickly pull the car over to the curb. I just could not drive and listen attentively at the same time. What I was listening to was a recording of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr reading from “The World House” chapter of his 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community”.
So here I am, just returned home, writing this not as a review, or critique, or sales pitch. Rather to offer to FDL members what I believe are very powerful words on how we can view ourselves, which really includes “the other”, in difficult times and circumstances that often focus upon and promote narrow, divisive, exclusionary, and reactionary narratives and perspectives.
The following is a link to the full text of The World House chapter, taken from The World House Project (http://theworldhouse.org): http://www.theworldhouse.org/whessay.html.
You will note that this essay has the phrase “the fierce urgency of now”. I am sure that will provoke in each of us our own juxtapositions of the world in which King wrote in 1967, and our present state of affairs.
Let me provide but one paragraph before you take on the reading for yourself:
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world-wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.
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The BioMed Alliance, of which ERA is a member, is raising awareness of the possible consequences of a poor IVDR implementation. The date of application of the new EU Regulation for In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices (IVDR) is only one year away, and the BioMed Alliance healthcare diagnostic providers are seriously concerned about the status of implementation of the IVDR. To date, many critical regulatory elements are not in place and important guidance is still lacking, making it extremely difficult for the EU diagnostic sector to be fully prepared in time for May 2022 and thereby threatening to affect patients’ lives across Europe.
The enclosed statement entitled: “Implementation of the new EU Regulation for In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices: a ticking bomb for the diagnostic sector” clarifies the hard stop that the diagnostic sector will face for conventional CE-IVDs if we do not collectively stand up now. In addition, clear and appropriate guidance is needed for in-house devices, also known as laboratory developed tests (LDTs), in order to help laboratories to prepare in time for the new legislation and to support the development of innovative solutions for niche applications, rare diseases and rapid responses to health crises.
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Can you cross the Mexican border with a birth certificate 2020
citizen children under the age of 16 arrive by land or sea from Canada or Mexico they may present an original or copy of their birth certificate, a Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or a Naturalization Certificate..
Do you need a passport to go to Cancun 2020
All Americans traveling to Cancun must have a valid U.S. passport when flying into Mexico, available through the U.S. State Department (travel.state.gov). A passport or passport card is accepted for travelers driving from the United States to Cancun or for those arriving by cruise ship or other watercraft.
What forms do I need to fill out when entering Mexico
To enter Mexico, you must have the following documents:A valid passport or travel document. … A properly completed Multiple Migratory Form (FMM). … Mexican immigration officers at the port of entry may request additional documents depending on the purpose/activity of your trip.
Does Mexico charge an entry fee
Mexico charges a fee to all tourists and business visitors arriving in the country. The fee is approximately US$25. If you are visiting a Mexican port(s) as part of a cruise ship, you’ll need to get a visitors permit at your first Mexican port of call.
Can you use a birth certificate to go to Cancun
Visitors from the USA do not need a passport to enter Mexico. You may use: Birth Certificate or. Voter Registration Card or.
Can you use a birth certificate to go to Mexico
Children under the age of 16 traveling to and from Mexico by land or by sea can use their birth certificates, certificates of citizenship, or naturalization certificates to re-enter the country. … However, children of any age traveling by air to and from Mexico must have a passport book.
What documents can I use to cross the border
Air Travel: All U.S. citizens departing from or entering the United States from within the Western Hemisphere by air are required to present a valid U.S. passport or a NEXUS card (if utilizing a NEXUS kiosk when departing from a designated Canadian airport).
Does Real ID work for Mexico
No. REAL ID cards cannot be used for border crossings into Canada, Mexico or other international travel.
Can I go to Tijuana with just a driver’s license
Entry and Exit Requirements Americans traveling to Mexico must present a valid U.S. passport. Those traveling by sea can present a passport card and valid driver’s license to gain entrance back into the U.S. However, travelers should check with their selected destination if these documents will be accepted.
Can you still go to Mexico without a passport
Yes, just like when traveling by land or air, you will need a valid United States passport when entering Mexico. You can also use a valid passport card if you do not have a passport book. … On a closed-loop cruise, United States citizens can use any government-issued ID with a photo and proof of citizenship.
Do you need a passport for Cabo San Lucas 2020
To fly to Cabo, you’ll need a valid passport, and it is strongly advised that the passport is valid for at least 6-months after the date of travel. Canadians do not need a visa, so long as their trip to Cabo is for tourism and is not longer than 180 days.
Is Playa del Carmen expensive
It is more expensive than most other Mexican cities. Playa Del Carmen is more expensive then most other places in Mexico because rents are high on 5th Avenue and prices have to be passed on. Many things are imported to Playa and this adds to the cost as well.
How much does it cost to cross the Mexican border legally
Crossing fees can range from $1,500 to $2,500 in Mexico. Police note that on a “good day” large coyote organizations can transport 500 people into the United States.
Can you get back from Mexico without a passport 2020
The short answer is no. The only time you are allowed to leave Mexico without a passport book or card is on a closed-loop cruise. All airlines require that you have a passport book present to be inspected at check-in, immigration, and possibly at the gate.
How much does a passport renewal cost in 2020
I’m an adult (16 and older) and I’m renewing my passportProductFormApplication FeePassport BookDS-82$110Passport CardDS-82$30Passport Book & CardDS-82$140
What islands can you go without a passport
Five exotic places you can go without a U.S. passportPuerto Rico. The island of Puerto Rico (officially an unincorporated territory of the United States) has long been a favorite of travelers from the contiguous 48. … United States Virgin Islands. The U.S. Virgin Islands lie mere minutes away from Puerto Rico by plane. … Northern Mariana Islands. … Guam. … American Samoa.Jun 20, 2013
Can you fill out Mexico customs form online
Mexico online entry forms If you’re traveling to Mexico, you can fill out the required customs declaration and immigration form online before your trip instead of filling out paper forms in flight. … If you don’t see your destination when filling out either form, please complete the paper forms in flight.
How much is a tourist card for Mexico
As of January 2020, tourist cards cost $575.00 pesos (appx U.S. $30) and can be issued for up to 180 days. It is advisable to have your card valid for 180 days even if you don’t plan on staying in Mexico that long. It is easier to already have the time granted to you than extend your card later if you stay longer. | <urn:uuid:345de89c-29be-46b7-9b1f-82aa7a3207f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allaboutcomputersolutions.com/qa/can-you-go-to-cancun-with-a-birth-certificate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.920897 | 1,217 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The history of the pioneering blockchain game as told by its creator appears interesting. Shaban Shaame, CEO of EverdreamSoft believes that his company produced the first blockchain-based game known as Spells of Genesis (SoG) in 2015.
This trading card game was unveiled at a time when just a few investors and gamers saw the value in Bitcoin and blockchain gaming. At the time, it faced huge competition from AAA game producers who shifted to a free-to-play model.
Initially, the players that reached a specific level could mint in-game cards as tokenized digital assets on the Bitcoin blockchain utilizing the Counterparty protocol. After many years of stagnating sales, nonetheless, SoG became compatible with Ethereum blockchain in 2021. However, it was not until mid-2021 that the nonfungible token (NFT) collectors put this game’s rare NFT cards back on the gaming map and sales started exploding.
The other blockchain games like CryptoKitties that enable players to collect, breed, and trade virtual cats, had already been in the spotlight. In that context, the CryptoKitties NFT collection came to the market in 2017 and is majorly given the credit for showing collectors and gamers that the in-game asset ownership was added value.
At the time of writing, CryptoKitties ranked 15th in topmost traded collections on OpenSea with regards to volume. Being an early blockchain aficionado, Shaame confirmed that he “found a new family” with the cryptocurrency community made up of people who are “genius and a bit crazy.”
He compared Bitcoin’s invention to that of the internet and set out to develop on-chain collectibles that may survive the game’s life. Always convinced that SoG trading cards would go up in value, Shaame envisions that these cards might be displayed in a museum 50 years from now.
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As more and more folks head online to shop, it’s not surprising that the e-commerce sector is thriving. However, with so much choice in how you set up your online store, it can be difficult finding the right platform for your needs.
The good news is that you don't need to have any knowledge of HTML, graphics applications, or any other complexities, as today e-commerce can be as easy as filling in a few online forms.
Choosing your weapons
When deciding how to set-up your e-commerce site there are a number of key decision to be made that fall into a number of categories:
- Online or self-hosted – you can use a number of e-commerce applications that are hosted online, or build your own site and host this on your own servers
- Website or blog – these days the difference between these two is blurring with many businesses 'e-commerce enabling' their blogs. A standalone website can though, give you complete control over every element of your store
- Shopping cart – the most important aspect of your e-commerce presence is efficiently taking payments. Look for shopping cart software that is fast and efficient
- Security – shoppers are now more comfortable buying online, but always ensure your site uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) that is now the industry standard for online payments
- Above every other consideration should be your site's visitor experience. Don't forget your competitors are just a mouse click away in the world of e-commerce.
Is eBay right for your business?
Opening its doors in 1999, eBay UK now has over 14 million users, with over 10,000 people using the site for a business that is their primary means of income. It's not just about people selling unwanted goods - businesses have used the simplicity that eBay offers to set up lucrative operations. Even the larger brands such as Argos, Debenhams and House of Fraser are using eBay to sell online.
With sophisticated tools now available you can be up and running with your store in just a few hours. The eBay Seller Centre has all the information you need. Each store is managed via eBay's familiar user interface, and there are a number of eBay-provided tools to help manage, track and promote your shop once it's established.
Using eBay as the platform for your business could be ideal if your business wants to sell goods on a fixed price basis. The complete integration of the PayPal e-payments system into eBay takes care of this essential component of your store.
The key with eBay is to look closely at the costs involved and also the transaction fees that PayPal charge before moving forward and setting up your own store.
How to create your own e-commerce solution
Of course if you want complete control over every aspect of your new online store, building each page yourself will be the best course of action. Hiring someone to code your website is one option. If you decide to do this follow these steps:
- Ask the company for live examples of their work to look at
- Write a detailed brief of the site you want created. The more detail the better to avoid confusion
- Ensure you understand the price you are being charged and how many revisions this price includes
- Always have a signed agreement or contract before work commences
- Ask whether the designers will host your site and if you will be able to make updates yourself or if all updates must go through the design agency at an additional cost
- Ask for the copyright of your design to be assigned to your company, as your website is an important part of your business' intellectual property
- Put into your contract, details of how the agreement can be amicably dissolved if things go wrong
You also don't have to build your site completely from scratch. Buying a template can give you all the basic pages your site needs. You can then either modify them yourself using an application like Dreamweaver, or hire a coding expert to make the changes. Website templates are available from a number of vendors including Template Monster.
If you already have a website and want to add e-commerce functionality, this can be easily achieved with a number of applications including:
Off-the-shelf e-commerce packages for business
There has been a steady expansion of packaged e-commerce applications over the last few years. Most of the well-known apps now offer a full set of e-commerce tools you can use to construct and manage a professional e-commerce site. Let's take a closer look at some of the leading packages.
Price: From $29 (around £21) per month
Shopify is perhaps the most well known e-commerce platform available. It was set up in 2006 by founders Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand and Scott Lake who, as the story goes, felt that there wasn't a simple-to-use e-commerce platform available and so built their own. The company claims that: "You don't need to have any technical or design experience to easily create a beautiful online store."
According to Shopify, it's possible to get one of its online stores up-and-running within minutes. Users can choose from a wide range of templates, or they can design the look and feel of their store themselves. It accepts a comprehensive range of credit cards, has Level 1 PCI compliance and 256-bit SSL encryption for security, and it offers 24/7 support via phone, instant messaging or email.
The platform provides a full CMS with which users can manage the functionality and layout of their online store. Users can manage their store on-the-go using Shopify's mobile apps, and the platform itself is fully responsive, meaning the store will be optimised for visitors regardless of whether they access it from a desktop computer or a mobile device.
Shopify also offers users unlimited hosting for their stores, in-depth analytics of how visitors are using the store, and functionality for marketing such as SEO optimisation, a discount and coupon engine, gift cards and email marketing tools.
Price: From $30 (around £21) per month
Bigcommerce was established in 2009 and promises to "support your business, not just your store." In addition to offering support via phone, instant chat and email, it also offers articles and videos to help with e-commerce, and access to a team of e-commerce experts who can provide advice and guidance about online selling. Their experts are qualified in both Google Analytics and Adwords.
Like Shopify, Bigcommerce provides a variety of templates and themes to help stores look their best and get up-and-running quickly. Alternatively, users can design their own store or use Bigcommerce designers to do so. The platform incorporates a full-featured CMS that allows users to run an entire website, rather than just a store.
Users can benefit from detailed and flexible product management, optimised search engine rankings, along with a variety of integrated marketing tools and analytics. Payments can be accepted via 40+ pre-integrated gateways and shipping details can be customised as per the business's requirements. The platform offers automated order processing, flexible tax rules depending on where orders are made and shipped, and support for multiple currencies.
Price: From $15 (around £11) per month
Volusion has been around for almost two decades, having been set up in Texas over in the US in 1999. The company touts its platform as being an "all-in-one e-commerce solution", and offers a free 14-day trial (no credit card required).
As with other e-commerce platforms, users are offered a variety of templates from which to choose, and can also customise templates if they so wish. Should a more complex design be required, Volusion offers a custom design service that can incorporate branding and a firm's social media presence.
The platform provides the site and product management tools you'd expect, marketing functionality for SEO, social media, and affiliate outlets, along with emails and order management functionality for fast order processing, accepting payments, tax calculations and POS integration.
In addition to its platform and associated services, Volusion offers apps from its partners, support for users and a knowledgebase for help with e-commerce. Users can draw upon blog posts, guides and webinars.
Price: From $19 (around £14) per month
CoreCommerce was set up in 2001 and focuses on providing e-commerce services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company places an emphasis on simplicity and transparency, promising that its platform is easy-to-use and that customers will not fall foul of any hidden charges.
Perhaps CoreCommerce's most unique aspect is that all of its features are offered to all customers regardless of what plan they are on. Price plans are determined by the number of products, the number of email addresses, the amount of bandwidth and the amount of storage required by the user (and higher-end plans also benefit from additional support).
As with other e-commerce providers, CoreCommerce offers functionality for store design, product management, order processing and marketing. Of its headline features, the platform offers unlimited product customisation options, a built-in blogging engine, and secure hosting that is provided by Rackspace and comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Price: From $29 (around £21) per month
Having been founded in 1997, 3dcart is the oldest of our featured providers here. It was set up with a view to incorporating as many of the most requested e-commerce features into one platform as possible.
The company says it has six core values by which it operates: ongoing innovation, good service, simple solutions, fostering trust, keeping employees and customers happy, and stimulating prosperity amongst employees and customers.
Some of the platform's innovative features include a module that users can install to offer gift-wrapping, a purchase order system, the option of running a loyalty program and the ability to offer recurring orders. Many of these features are very specific, meaning that stores can be highly tailored to the needs of each business.
Stores can be designed using one of the many templates offered by 3dcart, or users can design their own store. A quick edit bar means that making changes to the design of a store is simple. Product images are forefronted with 3dcart's auto-zoom feature and products can be sold via Facebook with its store integration. As with some other platforms, users can blog directly from 3dcart and tools are provided for setting up coupons, sending newsletters and affiliate marketing.
In addition to its platform, 3dcart offers a number of professional services. Users can request help with SEO, PPC, shopping feed management, social media, Facebook ads and conversion consulting. Help can also be provided to ensure that a user's store is set up to the highest standard. Services such as site cloning, setting up custom tracking, data migration and training are offered.
In addition, 3dcart can provide SSL certification. Hosting is guaranteed at 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support is provided via phone, email or online chat.
Whichever route you decide to take when building your website always remember:
- You need to ensure your store can be easily updated and managed.
- Good professional web hosting is vital to ensure your site is always available.
- Look for payment and shopping carts that are intuitive and efficient to use.
- Customer service is king these days. Businesses shouldn't just efficiently take customers' money, but should also properly support them.
- Make sure that your store is fully integrated with all the leading social media sites.
Setting up your online store should be approached carefully and diligently to ensure you put a professional and efficient site live. Internet shopping continues to expand. Make sure your business doesn't miss out on a sales channel that shows no signs of slowing down.
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On-line Nigerian Information gives a range of information relating to regional African events. Reporters benefiting on the internet information resources are from throughout Africa, yet it is extremely unusual to locate a women press reporter from any African country. A lot of them report on females’s rights, national politics, organization and so forth. These on-line African information resources have a good deal of info that can be used in every day life. Much of these African information sources are offered our notice by seeing their web sites or reading newspapers in the region. This will give an understanding of what is occurring because specific area and area.
Online resource offering breaking information. Web-based media system offering splitting and also daily information on numerous worldwide and local subjects. Blog/website concentrated entirely for educating the common people of Nigeria and also Ghana. Everyday paper and also home entertainment oriented news on a variety of topics. Reporters in significant online everyday newspaper covers worldwide information, stars, sporting activities, politics, amusement, business, economy, migration, education and learning, health and wellness, farming etc. Online paper additionally covers latest information on Nigeria’s most prominent social and also standard holiday that is the Bihu celebration.
Nigeria’s leading news site. Online African news portal supplying a gateway to global audience to bring you the best information on all subjects. Press reporters benefiting this portal are primarily on the internet reporters from numerous African nations with comprehensive experience covering diverse facets of the nation. You can subscribe to any one of the topics which rate of interest you through an easy click of the computer mouse. The content and the information you obtain from this portal is openly accredited as well as distributed as it remains in conformity with the regards to our own posts plan.
Lagos’ leading everyday newspaper. The city of Lagos, the biggest city in Nigeria is understood for its range of information, entertainment, travel and also organization. It has been a popular publication amongst both the informed and also the illiterates for years. The Nigerian Sunday Mail is the city’s most widely read and routinely appears ahead of the leading papers in the nation. The newspaper has actually developed itself as one of one of the most trusted and also respected publications in Nigeria. It covers all elements of the Nigerian culture from sporting activity, home entertainment, economic situation, politics, education, medical care and way of life, among others.
Another renowned Lagos based newspaper is the Nigerian Independent. Like the Sunday Mail, this daily publication is extensively approved by people coming from all strata of the culture regardless of their age. This paper consistently brings you tales that have importance to Lagos as well as the bordering areas. It brings enjoyment news as well. The highlight of this newspaper is sporting activities, enjoyment as well as details.
The third everyday paper that appears is the Lagos Daily paper. It is the publication that is frequently referred to as the ‘Lagos Sun’ due to the great impact that it gets from the Sun paper. The Lagos Daily brings you the most recent news articles and also features tales that pertain to Lagos and the bordering location. It can be considered as the leading business and also chatter magazine in Nigeria. It additionally carries some enjoyable functions together with the normal information and feature articles.
The 4th leading daily newspaper in Lagos is the Lagos digital version. The digital variation of the paper is commonly utilized by the individuals in the city for performing their regular tasks. The electronic variation has a significant collection of details, amusement as well as political information. It brings the most up to date information from around the globe to your fingertips on the hassle-free layout of an on the internet website.
The 5th newspaper that forms an important part of the lives of Lagos as well as various other major cities of Nigeria is the Sunday version of the Commercial Daily paper. This paper has served the people of Lagos as well as various other cities in Nigeria as a reliable source of home entertainment, details and amusement for decades. It is just one of the earliest newspapers published in Nigeria. It is greatly due to the large range of amusement alternatives that this day-to-day paper has the ability to keep its position in the market of print magazines, information websites as well as on-line websites. It is an ideal system whereby one can access the international information, enjoyment as well as sports sites from any kind of edge of the globe.
Nigerian news is something that can not be missed even with the internet. The truth of the matter is that, there isn’t a digital variation of any type of information that can be discovered in Nigeria. This is because the federal government of Lagos does not enable printing and distribution of any kind of non-governmental news agencies as well as media, like newspapers and also magazines. Because of this, most of the Nigeria related concerns that you would stumble upon in the newspaper needs to be printed as well as shared by means of the electronic variation. However this has not quit the appeal of the Nigerian news and also the truth that it has actually given tourist attraction for those who are staying in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria.
The only manner in which you can keep up to date with the happening of Nigeria and also the state of affairs at the time is by logging onto the web. Yet this is where you face a trouble. There is no other way that you can obtain the day-to-day newspaper published in Lagos or any other city of Nigeria. Most people would believe that they can still get it however it is skeptical. The major reason for this is because the federal government has actually gotten all the newspapers and also magazines with international language on them to be published in English or a minimum of contend least a very fundamental understanding of the language. As a result, a number of the papers based in Lagos as well as various other parts of Nigeria have to get their details carried out in English. the nigerian news today
Luckily, this is not the end of the road for those that intend to get the best Nigeria and Lagos details. Actually, getting the latest Nigeria as well as Lagos information online has actually ended up being a lot easier than ever before. There are lots of websites that have actually been set up to offer this purpose, some of them free while others bill a very little charge. The totally free sites will most likely be your best bet if you are looking for one of the most current news from Nigeria as well as various other parts of the globe. | <urn:uuid:e217712d-27e5-4898-a214-53a5cc1b8a3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.carrielovephoto.com/2021/10/07/all-you-required-to-learn-about-nigerian-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966786 | 1,320 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet) is a global Public-Private Partnership that brings together leadership, expertise and resources from health care professionals, industry, patient groups, payers, academia and government to build a national patient-centered medical device evaluation system to conduct medical device research and surveillance. MDEpiNet’s main activities include:
- Conducting studies to better understand how devices perform in the real-world.
- Developing methodologies to support the use and creation of real world evidence.
- Building strategically Coordinated Registry Networks (CRN) to advance the collection and use of real-world data.
- Collaborating with NESTcc to link CRNs with other data partner networks.
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The current prime interest rate in Canada is 3.00%, which is pretty low compared to that of other countries. For example, the interest rate in the U.S. is 3.25%.
30 Year Fixed Rate History Current 30 Year Refinance Rates 30 Year Mortgages – Current Mortgage Rates Today – Pros and Cons of Choosing a 30 Year Mortgage Rate. In the current mortgage loan market, which is certainly reflective of the national and global economy as a whole, any potential homeowner seeking to acquire a 30 year fixed mortgage will prove to be not only a wise choice, but a logical one from a purely financial standpoint. At the outset of 2012, the national mortgage interest rate average.The average rates on 30-year fixed and 15-year fixed mortgages both climbed higher. load error mortgage rates are in a.Private Mortgage Interest Rates 8 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage historical mortgage rates: averages and Trends from the 1970s. – Five-year adjustable rate mortgages, or ARMs, have historically carried lower baseline interest rates than the common 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. Since 2005, rates for the 5/1 hybrid have tracked the decline of the 30-year fixed-rate, with initial rates for the adjustable averaging 0.71 points lower than fixed-rate mortgages.Federal Reserve foresees no interest rate hikes in 2019 – (ap photo/kevin wolf, File) WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday. The Fed said it was keeping its benchmark rate – which can influence everything.
But every once in a while, one side comes out notably ahead – and this week was one of those weeks, with Amazon’s Prime Day performance more or less blowing Walmart out of the water. Now, in fairness,
The Wall Street Journal Prime Rate (WSJ Prime Rate) is a measure of the U.S. prime rate, defined by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) as "the base rate on corporate loans posted by at least 70% of the 10 largest U.S. banks". It is not the "best" rate offered by banks. It should not be confused with the federal funds rate set by the Federal Reserve, though these two rates often move in tandem.
Average Percentage Rate For Home Loan Home Mortgage – Mortgage Interest Rates Under 5.25 Percent. Mortgage interest rates have started heading back down again this week. home mortgage rates have been hovering in a range of 5.00 percent to 5.50 percent for over a month now. home mortgage interest rates have been whipsawed by positive and negative economic news almost on a daily basis.
Credit card rates are generally tied to the prime rate, which in turn is affected. A quarter-point decrease on a five-year loan – now averaging.
Average Monthly Mortgage Rates 30 Yr Fixed Interest Rate Today Credit Score Mortgage Rate Chart So what would 650 credit score mortgage rates look like for a 30 year fixed loan of $100,000? Well, according to data from informa research services, it’d be 4.823% in 2019. If, however, you chose a 15 year fixed loan on the same amount, the rate would drop to 4.261%.Current mortgage rates for August 16, 2019 are still near their historic lows. Compare 30-year, 15-year fixed rates, and ARMs to find the best home loan offer all in one place at LendingTree.At the current average rate, you’ll pay $478.57 per month in principal and interest for every $100,000 you borrow. That’s up $0.58 from what it would have been last week. You can use Bankrate’s.
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. announcement to lower the Federal Funds rate, SunTrust Bank announced today it has lowered its prime lending rate to 5.25% from 5.50%,
Description of Prime Rate, the interest rate that banks charge borrowers who are the most creditworthy.
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U.S. prime rate is the base rate on corporate loans posted by at least 70% of the 10 largest U.S. banks, and is effective 8/01/19. Other prime rates aren't directly.
Bank Lending Rate in Hong Kong averaged 7.77 percent from 1980 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 19.61 percent in October of 1981 and a record low of 5 percent in February of 1987. In Hong Kong, the prime lending rate is the average rate of interest charged on loans by commercial banks to private individuals and companies. | <urn:uuid:8b2f1e9d-ab66-4ea5-8ad9-c5259193f9f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.realtyfinancecorp.com/what-is-the-prime-rate-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95272 | 1,010 | 1.5625 | 2 |
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
Kobe Bryant, Athlete
Great leaders communicate with energy, positivity and authenticity. We help others to understand our vision and their importance in achieving it.
As a leader, you have a key role in communicating vision to inspire great performance from your team and your colleagues. Inspiring, passionate communication can empower and motivate others to contribute more than they thought possible.
Common concerns we hear from people who attend this course include:
This high-energy, interactive half-day workshop explores what makes communication inspirational, focusing on communicating your team vision in a way that’ll bring it alive - enthusing and engaging your team.
This course is aimed at new leaders who want to communicate their team vision in an inspiring and compelling way.
Sınıf eğitimlerimizi İstanbul, Ankara ve Londra ofislerimizde düzenlemekteyiz. Kurumunuza özel eğitimleri ise, dilediğiniz tarih ve lokasyonda organize edebiliriz. | <urn:uuid:8ce9d7b9-fbb7-455b-9365-78a7b4c25c85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bilginc.com/tr/egitim/skills-hack-advanced-communication-2783-egitimi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.888327 | 256 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The affects of not reading: Hating characters, being bored, feeling stupid
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The Alcedinidae’s (Kingfishers) usually sit on low branches to look for fish that are near the top of the water. They have an unusual adaptation which is to compensate for the water's refraction and reflection as they search for prey underwater. This makes the fish look closer to the surface than it is.Then, once they spot a fish the dive in beck first and catch it. Then, they come back to the branch and eat the fish whole. Lastly, they cough up the bone of the fish and spit it out. Although, sometimes they miss because they can’t swim. Though, due to water level rising the kingfisher will have to learn how to swim to catch the fish at the bottom. Also, they would have to sit on higher branches.The kingfisher has a lot of work to do in the future!
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Warning: Fake virus alerts that lead to the money loss are on the rise
Scammers employ various tactics to trick people into their malicious campaigns and get money or valuable information. Posing as legitimate companies, services or even software and OS providers like Apple or Microsoft, malicious actors trick people into contacting them over the given phone number so that they could demand money for invented services, such as unlocking the web browser or “preventing” malware.
Scams like PORNOGRAPHIC VIRUS ALERT FROM MICROSOFT focus on scaring users by locking their device at first. Additionally, they deliver a false message alert stating that the system was blocked due to user’s illegal usage of pornographic material. Malicious actors behind this scam also claim to be Microsoft workers who are ready to provide help over the phone. However, the alleged services involve letting a person remotely access your device and even change some essential features like system settings, preferences or installing programs. There is no guarantee that your system won’t be infected with a keylogger or similar malware which can collect all the logins and passwords you enter.
Questionable service for a fee
In most cases, such scams are based on social engineering, so their first aim is to scare their victim. They typically cover PC’s desktop with a fake warning reporting about the possible infection or illegal actions. Often, such pop-up alerts include potential risks that you may encounter if the malware removal is not done in time.
Scammers provide either contact information, an active button that launches the automatic download of a suspicious tool or a toll-free phone number. When they claim to be from Microsoft and provide technical help via phone, users tend to believe and call the provided number to avoid getting their data corrupted.
Unfortunately, once you call them, people claiming to be IT support team members ask to allow the remote access or install other software to allegedly help you fix these malware or hacker issues. This help is often useless, but scammers demand to pay for help via online banking services. This is how they make a profit.
False claims to lure money and valuable information
Fraudulent messages, tech support scams and other deceptive campaigns get used to making people scared for their privacy or the state of the computer. Pop-up alert either claim to have data that compromising information about you can get leaked, or that malware infections can damage your device and lead to other privacy issues.
Additional features that make all those tech support scams similar:
- browser pop-ups with claims about the infected device;
- locked screen or the browser;
- changes on the machine without permission.
When the user believes those claims about the malware activity and other security risks are true, paying looks like a proper procedure. Unfortunately, this way scammers lure more money from victims, can demand payments, later on, collects valuable logins and passwords or even steals valuable data from the system if the remote access is gained.
Clean the machine thoroughly because you need to remove the PUP, in most cases, an adware-type intruder that causes these issues and intrusive alerts with scary claims. For the process, we recommend relying on reputable anti-malware tool. Keep such program running and avoid cyber infections in the future. | <urn:uuid:c16658ee-1a45-4119-8072-d3573d9e555b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://esolutions.lt/blog/esolutions-warning-its-customers-about-the-aggressive-pornographic-virus-scam/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.924411 | 669 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Issue: Hidden characters (formatting marks) automatically appear when you start typing a new email draft, or an email reply, using Outlook 2016 or 2019 for macOS
When carrying out Apple IT support we find that resolving this is an easy solution but very hard to find. You need to:
- Open Outlook menu (top left) > Preferences
- Switch to the Fonts sub menu
- Click each of the three Font… buttons in turn to edit your font preferences for New, Replies or Plain Text emails respectively
- In each of these Font editor sections, UNTICK the “Hidden” checkbox, if it’s enabled
What we’re doing here is telling Outlook that we do NOT want hidden characters to display by default, when we start typing a new or reply email.
The exact same preferences area allows you to change your default font size, font type and other font-related preferences when sending emails in Outlook for Mac 2016 or 2019.
This is great if you always like to write in Arial, Helvetica or some other font, aside from the default Calibri at 12pt. | <urn:uuid:a173c56d-3fae-4ac8-ba52-5d2e26976e0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://purplecomputing.com/tech-how-to/outlook-mac-hidden-formatting-marks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.771009 | 233 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Title HBRS 10 Must Reads The Essentials Author Harvard Pdf
I recommend reading them all, because each of these tips, with constant practice, can change your life for the better.
« one. Do self-analysis.
In fact, if someone values ​​your opinion, the most important thing is to be sure that you can handle the situation on your own.
2. Write about your achievements.
If you share your successes with others, you will be motivated to further improve your skills. Thus, you will not only increase your experience, but also increase your self-esteem.
3. Be honest with yourself.
To lie to yourself is to admit that you have problems and do not understand how you can solve them.
4. Get rid of the garbage in your head.
Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
5. Stay open to criticism.
It stimulates new achievements and increases your ability to solve problems.
6. Choose a vacation.
After all, you need to rest not only from work, but also from the stress of this work.
7. Don’t dwell on what you were taught in school.
It’s never too late to learn.
8. Know your worth.
No one will do this for you but yourself.
9. Give more than you receive.
10. Learn from your mistakes.
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European Space Agency demanding staff vaccinate or test negative for Covid
The nearly 3,000 employees of the European space agency ESTEC in Noordwijk have to show that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 or at least tested negative for the coronavirus if they want to come into the office. ESTEC implemented this "access pass" requirement six days ago, NRC reports.
Employees who cannot prove they got their jabs or tested negative will have to work from home.
Whether or not employers can get away with this practice in the Netherlands is a bit unclear. It's clear that an employer cannot force an employee to get vaccinated and cannot dismiss an employee for refusing. But asking unvaccinated employees to work from home is more of a gray zone.
Vaccination is voluntary under Dutch law. The law offers "no possibility" for employers to ask for proof of vaccination at work, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment said to NRC.
But the Ministry of Public Health previously told NU.nl that it would not act against businesses that require a vaccination certificate from their staff to work in the office. The Health Ministry would prefer for "employers and employees to work it out together."
"It is not allowed to make vaccinations mandatory," the Ministry said to NU.nl. "In some cases, an employer may agree in consultation with the employee to work from home or wear protective gear. However, it is not allowed to attach further consequences to whether someone has been vaccinated or not."
The European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) told NRC that it is not forcing its employees to get vaccinated as they can also choose to get tested instead. And tests are done at the organization's expense, not the employees'. Director Franco Ongaro also told NRC that "the Dutch rules regarding health and safety do not apply." | <urn:uuid:eb8f1ca0-7319-46d9-8cd6-0ca9c6ce7b2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nltimes.nl/2021/10/21/european-space-agency-demanding-staff-vaccinate-test-negative-covid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.970111 | 382 | 1.945313 | 2 |
“The trainers trained me in a critical process (bottom hem). My brother [was] surprised and said that a senior male operator needs at least 6 months to learn it, [so] how can I learn it in 15 days!”
Meet Mukta.* She’s a sewing machine operator. After her marriage broke up, her brother suggested that she could start work at a factory that is a Primark supplier. That was in December 2017 and Mukta hadn’t yet turned 20.
Mukta became a trainee on a programme called Sudokkho, a project funded by the UK and Swiss governments where Primark is a partner. It is just one of the programmes that we have supported since 2011 to increase opportunities for women across our supply chain. The programmes are designed to help women to develop their skills and helps them overcome barriers around promotion and job progression with the overall goal of creating better workplace environments.
We focus on women because around the world they are typically some of the most vulnerable people in our supply chain. Our hope is that by helping more female workers progress in their roles and ensuring they are better represented in the workforce, they will have the opportunity to earn better salaries, better career progression and will be a starting point towards addressing gender imbalances in factories globally.
We are planning to extend these programmes to more factories and workers by 2030. We want to build on what we have already learnt to cover more countries, and crucially more workers.
For Mukta and women like her, it makes a lot of sense to join Sudokkho and similar programmes. They learn new technical skills through structured, in-house training that allows them to move up the ladder faster than normal, with a better prospect of promotion and salary increases.
But it wasn’t all plain sailing. Once she’d finished her training, Mukta’s co-workers doubted her new skills. They didn’t want to give her a chance – until they saw what she could do. For Mukta, the Sudokkho training was life changing – just as it has been for many other women.
Now her employers consider her a multi-skilled operator and one of their go-to workers when it comes to taking on board new processes.
Factories and Sudokkho
The Sudokkho programme not only helps women like Mukta, it also helps the factories that supply Primark as it means they can access a skilled workforce faster. A study of this programme showed that well-trained workers generally achieve 50% performance within 15 to 20 days of completing the programme, whereas it typically takes an untrained worker 3 to 4 months to reach the same standard. The secret of the success? The Sudokkho programme is focused on faster and more efficient training.
Sudokkho’s “train the trainer” model also means that the project selects and trains the factory's own trainers and assessors to pass on their knowledge and run the factory’s own training centre. This way, the factory gets to develop its own better-skilled and motivated workforce.
Mr Shipu, manager for compliance and admin, has commented that this aspect of the programme has helped his factory better tackle workforce management:
“After implementing the Sudokkho project, if any critical process workers are absent, the Sudokkho trainer finds other operation workers and trains them on particular processes. Upskilling these workers helps us significantly to overcome issues caused by absenteeism.”
Our Customers and Sudokkho
We know it’s important for our customers to hear about the people who make the clothes they buy, and it’s important to us, too.
Since we first started collaborating with the UK and Swiss Governments on the Sudokkho programme in 2016, it has reached 16,000 workers in more than 50 factories in Bangladesh.
Unfortunately, the Covid 19 pandemic’s impact on this and other programmes has been significant and continues still. But workers and managers have given Primark so much positive feedback on the Sudokkho programme, we decided to continue to support the programme within our supply chain, funding all costs and delivering the programme through our programme partners, RBC.
Primark Programmes for Women and Vulnerable Workers
Sudokkho is just one of the initiatives we’ve worked on with governments, NGOs and our on-the-ground Ethical Trade and Environmental Sustainability team. There are many others. Many of them are smaller in scale because they’re highly targeted and designed for local conditions. Having said that, given the size of our business, they have potential to scale up to help even more people.
Collectively, these initiatives contribute to Primark’s commitment to becoming a more sustainable business by supporting gender equality and contributing women’s empowerment.
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With the right combination of people, tools, and technology, we orchestrate the best strategies to achieve the best degree of operational efficiency through a robust software solution. Basically, Solution Architecture is the process of designing solutions that meet a company’s set of needs. Normally, the solution architecture is overseen and directed by a Solution Architect. Solution Architects are responsible for evaluating an organization’s business needs and determining how IT can support those wants with software, hardware or infrastructure. This includes looking at the system as a whole, including information security architecture or application design and development needed to efficiently fulfill user demands. Software or technical architect is mainly in charge of engineering problems and software architecture.
A sequenced plan of all major milestones is established in partnership with project management teams. Continuously researches emerging technologies and proposes changes to the existing architecture. This person is responsible for figuring out the best possible way of bringing together business needs and technological solutions. The solution architect is MVP when it comes to deciding how the ins and outs of the project are going to work.
What does a cloud architect do on a daily basis?
The cloud architect is responsible for designing and implementing cloud computing solutions. This includes designing the cloud infrastructure, designing the cloud application architecture, and designing the cloud security architecture.
A solution architect also translates this vision to a coding team to build a highly tailored product to the enterprise’s needs and requirements. Simply put, solution architecture is a high-level description of a software product in the context of the problems it solves. In other words, solution architecture wall street bound shows how a system and its specific features help a company reach its determined business goals. A solutions architect also bridges communication between IT and business operations to ensure everyone is aligned in developing and implementing technical solutions for business problems.
This is where the ability to explain complex and abstract technical concepts is crucial for these professionals. Solutions Architects also inform project managers and software engineers about the requirements of the project, and they remain involved in the whole development lifecycle. The set of skills and experiences that define each of these architectural roles may seem interchangeable, however, they vary across the spectrum of expertise.
Solution architecture defines how those requirements would translate into the way a given software operates. In this article, we’ll discuss what solution architecture is, describe the role of a solution architect, and explain how the adoption of this expertise can help solve business problems. The average salary for a solution architect is $119,000 per annum, according to Pay scale data.
Who is a solutions architect
For example, if we talk about integration with existing solutions, then a new project must be created using particular technologies to comply with the corporate system. Solutions architect knows programming, integrating, and testing software systems and related devices. As far as technical background, Solution Architects come from a variety of fields including computer science, information technology, software engineering, and other areas related to technology.
Which software architecture is best?
- Best Overall: AutoCAD.
- Runner-Up, Best Overall: ARCHICAD.
- Best for Beginners: SketchUp.
- Best for 3D Modeling: Rhino.
- Best for Teams: Revit.
- Best for 3D Presentations: 3D Studio Max.
Define Nonfunctional Requirements – Solution AEs are primarily responsible for understanding and managing NFRs that constrain the system’s design and implementation. They document them in the solution intent and define the enablers to address them. Collaboratively define the system with Specification and Design WorkshopsDecompose the solution – Solution AEs decompose the solution into components that reduce the teams’ and ARTs’ cognitive load .
As a result, we can say that a solution architect’s work consists of analytical work, not just technical work. One of the most sought-after roles in software development companies is as a solution architect. The solution architect works with the development team to create and integrate information and computing systems that meet specific needs.
Why need a solutions architect for your project
It is one of the few industries that require business owners to cold-call hundreds of leads every week, only to close just a few deals… Most employers usually like to see the related skills and qualities you will be bringing to the job in your resume. Other necessary qualities include attention to detail, ability to work alone and also in group, and time consciousness. Ability to adapt delivery techniques to drive outstanding project delivery. Evidence of why professional Enterprise Architecture solutions are worth the price.
The person in this role is knowledgeable of the systems and processes in place to advise and define the broad technical design which outlines the key architecture components for the enterprise solution. The solution architect is the connection across all key business stakeholders and platform engineering teams of the project. Considering that this role entails negotiating umarkets with stakeholders, understanding the needs of all parties, managing risks, and product delivery, the lack of communication skills can create a real bottleneck. The position requires working closely with enterprise and software architects, business analysts, and project teams. So, an experienced solution architect should be able to listen, advise, empathize, and explain.
Now, it’s worth pointing out that a solution architect is not as well-defined as other roles in a corporate environment. As such, different architects will have different approaches, experiences, expertise, philosophies, and management styles. The solution architect should work out a technical concept of a product to show how it will meet business needs, and further present it to the development team. The main task of the solution architect is to design the system and demonstrate to the client how the technology can improve their business. The enterprise vision is converted into detailed user experience stories and tied to technology and data recommendations that were carried out by the platform architects and engineering teams successfully. Solutions architects are particularly useful in the telecom and IT sectors for overseeing complex systems.
What does a software solution architect do?
Thus, they have to ensure that the technology is not only delivered in a timely manner but fully functional for the end-user. Our technology environment is evolving quickly while changing business requirements at a dramatic pace. In order to keep up with the digital transformation and align their business strategy with new technology solutions, companies need to rely on specific expertise.
In addition, he/she must be a specialist in at least one particular IT area. Basically, he/she must be computer savvy with sound knowledge of computer hardware and software. However, a solution analyst is usually saddled with the responsibility of designing and implementing individual projects. Solution Architects design effective information solutions that meet their customers’ needs. Experience accomplishing exceptional project outcomes in a respectful and supportive culture. Solution Architects are most similar to project managers, ensuring that all parties, including stakeholders, are on the same page and moving in the right direction at all stages.
At this stage, the Solution Architect’s role is to oversee the progress of the project in accordance with the solution goals and enterprise resources. The solution architect is the person responsible for the vision of the solution architecture, its refinement, and realization according to the business’ needs and goals. Now, we hope you have answers to all the solutions architects’ relevant queries and more. If you have other questions, feel free to reach us, we would be more than happy to sort out your business issues.
Also, a solution architect is often called the middleman between different stakeholders and programmers. First of all, this person explains business requirements to a coding team to develop a product that solves real business problems. In case you plan to create a complex solution for your enterprise, proper solution architecture is required. Maintains a deep understanding of all critical business and technical requirements.
They often interface with the executive leadership and need to be able to define and clearly communicate business goals in order to get stakeholders on board. It is their responsibility to align these business goals with the technological goals and the IT infrastructure of the organization. Simply put, solution architecture is describing, fxcm mobile app designing, and managing the solution development to address the client’s needs and problems. Solution architecture describes how different business components, information, and technology architectures are used in a particular solution. It is considered as one of the most complex processes done during IT solution development.
If you’re excited to be part of a winning team, Example Co. is a great place to grow your career. Defining which solutions are beneficial and which are inefficient for a particular business need. After that, it would be a good thing to extract insights out of it and understand how it contributes to the improvement of the product or service. Some non-functional needs also exist that point out how the software performs a specific action. The initial high-level design will need to be monitored to confirm that it is consistent and compared with the solution’s overall design.
What is mainframe storage?
Physical storage located on the mainframe processor itself. This is called processor storage, real storage or central storage; think of it as memory for the mainframe. Physical storage external to the mainframe, including storage on direct access devices, such as disk drives and tape drives.
A solution architect is somebody who designs, describes, and manages solutions to particular engineering or business problems. Their role is to oversee the execution of a specific solution in a company, delivering technical and, sometimes, managerial support. The solutions architects should take a look at the entire business picture to gauge how the different processes are working in sync. Plus, they should connect the business vision with the technical side of the project while keeping the corporate strategy in mind. In terms of software development, this is the goal behind solution architecture – to describe, design, and manage how things should be in order to achieve business goals and solve problems.
Responsibilities for Solution Architect
Field Engineer connects both businesses and solution architects, benefiting both. Firms can hire solution architects on-demand, as and when they need them. After signing in to FE, freelance solution architects can pick and choose the work they want to fit in with their lifestyle. Updates stakeholders on the status of product development processes and budgets. A Solution Architect is charged with converting predetermined elements into a design used by architects as a blueprint.
You make a good point that to find a solution architecture function to see what’s best for the building you’ll need technology assessment and comparison. This is why it’s good to hire an architect since they can either do that before constriction or even check a building before adding on to it. If a company is not sure whether their building is structurally sound, it would be good to hire a property condition assessment service as well to see what they need to work on.
Enterprise Architect vs Solution Architect vs. Technical Architect
The solution architect must understand all these constraints, compare them, and then make a number of technological and managerial decisions to reconcile these restrictions with project goals. These certifications are intended to validate the skills and expertise of the solution architect. Hence having one or more credentials proves the expert’s proficiency in specific skills. When preparing a resume for the solution architect job, you will need to include a section for highlighting your work experience. He or she must be able to effectively communicate issues of technical nature to clients. Ability to set and meet target is also very important as most projects have limited time frame.
The architect of the solution can fulfill the function of the bridge by such parties. Working with the project management team, solution architects cover the risks of product non-compliance with stakeholder requirements and ensure that the solution meets its intended purpose. You need to forge a link between the existing enterprise architecture and the particular project. Solution architects will guarantee the solution meets the standards of your company environment.
What Does a Solutions Architect Do?
It’s also worth mentioning that the role of a solution architect is not limited just to ideation. Still, he/she is focused on the highest quality result and that everything is completed on time. Therefore, they have to decide which decisions are beneficial and which are useless in a particular situation.
Accounting for project constraints
These tools require a solution architect to be proficient in handling them to provide successful results. The tools enable solution architects to be accurate and fast in their roles. Some of the tools used are; conceptual solution architectural model template . This template provides an abstract view of the proposed solution and how it meets the proposed business requirements. The physical technology model template provides a physical design of the architecture implemented. The PTM includes the supporting infrastructure (network, protocols, etc.), equipment, and supporting software.
Conducts a system architecture evaluation and collaborates with project management and IT development teams to improve the architecture. A key part of building an architecture is to select the best technologies needed for product development. There are a number of approaches to choosing the best tools, platforms, APIs, and programming languages. Technical Architect also plays a leadership role in defining practices and standards which must be followed throughout the project by working closely with the technical development teams. Find technology solutions to business problems that meet business requirements defined by the customer.
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Cory Doctorow's new book Homeland is the sequel to his popular YA book Little Brother, which again features teenage activist Marcus Yallow, this time in a WikiLeaks-like plot as he is pursued by government agents and tries to find the courage to match his convictions.
For an afterword, bringing the fictional events of the book into their real world contexts, Doctorow turned to his friend, the activist Aaron Swartz. As has been heavily reported elsewhere, Swartz committed suicide earlier this month.
Below, we reprint Swartz's powerful afterword in its entirety. First, we asked Doctorow about what it is like to read the stirring words of his late friend - especially its painful last line.
Why did you ask Aaron to write an afterword for Homeland?
When I finished the sequel to Little Brother, I knew right away that I wanted an afterword from Jake Appelbaum, who is one of the unsung heroes of government transparency and personal anonymity and who has been victimized by the US government for his work on WikiLeaks.
And I knew I wanted an afterword from Aaron Swartz, who had the best techno-activist instincts of anyone I knew, and who I'd know since he was a little kid, and who was also being savagely victimized by the US government for his principled work.
I'm devastated about what happened with Aaron. I asked him to write me a afterword in the form of a letter to a kid like himself, but who was 14 in the year 2013. What he gave me was a call-to-arms that made me want to rush to a barricade, and left no doubt that we both hoped for the same thing from this book: that it would inspire a generation of activists who wouldn't take 'no' for an answer when it came to freedom in the information age.
How important are the philosophies of his actions for the intended audience of your book? How would you summarize those philosophies?
Aaron didn't care about the freedom of information. He cared -- and I care -- about the freedom of people. I don't give a damn if 'information wants to be free' -- but I'll go to the wall for the people who use information to demand their freedom.
Aaron's work -- and the words he wrote for me -- are clear on this.
The scientific documents he allegedly took from JSTOR were public knowledge in every sense but one. They were publicly funded, produced for public benefit, and were critical to the informed choice of the public. But they were not *accessible* to the public. It's easy to understand why this offended Aaron. It offends the hell out of me.
Homeland is a book that is meant to give kids a sense of the wider questions of technology, one that gets them to understand that architecture is politics: the design of the technology they use constrains or enables the future they can build with it. Unless they seize the means of information, they will be penned in by it.
In my ideal world, the kid who closes the cover on Homeland will rush to a search engine and figure out proxies, free/open operating systems, freedom of information requests, local makerspaces, campaigns for political accountability like Rootstrikers -- the whole package.
When I was a kid, you needed to know stuff to do stuff. You had to have the facts in order to act on them. Now all the facts are one search-engine query away, but unless you know that they're there, you'll never search for them. And unless you know how to think critically about the process by which those documents are indexed and ranked, you won't be able to turn them into action.
The first step to seizing the means of information is to know that there is a means of information, that it matters, and that it can be yours.
How does it feel for you to read his afterword now?
I can't read it without crying.
It fills me with dread and sorrow and hopelessness.
I've re-read it dozens of times since Aaron died, and every time I read it, I have to deliberately, through an act of will, recommit myself to the principles he sets out in it. And then I do, and I resolve to talk about Aaron and what he did and believed in, and never forget it.
Afterword by Aaron Swartz
Hi there, I’m Aaron. I’ve been given this little space here at the end of the book because I’m a flesh-and-blood human and, as such, I can tell you something you wouldn’t believe if it came out of the mouth of any of those fictional characters:
This stuff is real.
Sure, there isn’t anyone actually named Marcus or Ange, at least not that I know, but I do know real people just like them. If you want, you can go to San Francisco and meet them. And while you’re there, you can play D&D with John Gilmore or build a rocket ship at Noisebridge or work with some hippies on an art project for Burning Man.
And if some of the more conspiracy-minded stuff in the book seems too wild to be true, well, just google Blackwater, Xe, or BlueCoat. (I myself have an FOIA request in to learn more about “persona management software,” but the Feds say it’ll take three more years to redact all the relevant documents.)
Now I hope you had fun staying up all night reading about these things, but this next part is important, so pay attention: what’s going on now isn’t some reality TV show you can just sit at home and watch. This is your life, this is your country — and if you want to keep it safe, you need to get involved.
I know it’s easy to feel like you’re powerless, like there’s nothing you can do to slow down or stop “the system.” Like all the calls are made by shadowy and powerful forces far outside your control. I feel that way, too, sometimes. But it just isn’t true.
A little over a year ago, a friend called to tell me about an obscure bill he’d heard of called the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeit Act, or COICA. As I read the bill, I started to get more and more worried: under its provisions, the government would be allowed to censor websites it didn’t like without so much as a trial. It would be the first time the U.S. government was given the power to censor its citizens’ access to the net.
The bill had just been introduced a day or two ago, but it already had a couple dozen senators cosponsoring it. And, despite there never being any debate, it was already scheduled for a vote in just a couple days. Nobody had ever reported on it, and that was just the point: they wanted to rush this thing through before anyone noticed.
Luckily, my friend noticed. We stayed up all weekend and launched a website explaining what the bill did, with a petition you could sign opposing it that would look up the phone numbers for your representatives. We told a few friends about it and they told a few friends and within a couple days we had over 200,000 people on our petition. It was incredible.
Well, the people pushing this bill didn’t stop. They spent literally tens of millions of dollars lobbying for it. The head of every major media company flew out to Washington, DC, and met with the president’s chief of staff to politely remind him of the millions of dollars they’d donated to the president’s campaign and explain how what they wanted — the only thing they wanted — was for this bill to pass.
But the public pressure kept building. To try to throw people off the trail, they kept changing the name of the bill — calling it PIPA and SOPA and even the E-PARASITES Act — but no matter what they called it, more and more people kept telling their friends about it and getting more and more people opposed. Soon, the signers on our petition stretched into the millions.
We managed to stall them for over a year through various tactics, but they realized if they waited much longer they might never get their chance to pass this bill. So they scheduled it for a vote first thing after they got back from winter break.
But while members of Congress were off on winter break, holding town halls and public meetings back home, people started visiting them. Across the country, members started getting asked by their constituents why they were supporting that nasty Internet censorship bill. And members started getting scared — some going so far as to respond by attacking me.
But it wasn’t about me anymore — it was never about me. From the beginning, it was about citizens taking things into their own hands: making YouTube videos and writing songs opposing the bill, making graphs showing how much money the bill’s cosponsors had received from the industries pushing it, and organizing boycotts putting pressure on the companies who’d endorsed the bill.
And it worked — it took the bill from a political nonissue that was poised to pass unanimously to a toxic football no one wanted to touch. Even the bill’s cosponsors started rushing to issue statements opposing it! Boy, were those media moguls pissed...
This is not how the system is supposed to work. A ragtag bunch of kids doesn’t stop one of the most powerful forces in Washington just by typing on their laptops!
But it did happen. And you can make it happen again.
The system is changing. Thanks to the Internet, everyday people can learn about and organize around an issue even if the system is determined to ignore it. Now, maybe we won’t win every time — this is real life, after all — but we finally have a chance.
But it only works if you take part. And now that you’ve read this book and learned how to do it, you’re perfectly suited to make it happen again. That’s right: now it’s up to you to change the system.
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More than three hundred BC Ferries employees combed over 50 kilometres of shoreline, collecting 1,725 kilograms of garbage recently.
This clean-up happens every year and 20 events ran throughout the province.
Tessa Humphries with BC Ferries said this clean-up is just one way the transportation giant goes above and beyond to keep coastal BC beautiful.
“Our employees, they live and work in the communities where we operate, so they’re really dedicated to keeping those areas clean and it is an annual thing that we do every year, caring for the environment is very important to us at BC Ferries,” said Humphries.
“It’s just one of the ways we go above and beyond to help out with the environment,” said Humphries. “We’re a leader in North America when it comes to the use of clean and innovative technology that lowers emissions.”
The company will welcome two new Island Class ships into the fleet later this year.
The 1,725 kilograms of garbage picked up is one of the highest totals since the initiative began and Humphries said, “That’s a huge amount of garbage from the shorelines, a lot of employees took part in cleaning beaches in and around our terminals.”
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In 1993 Art. 16 of the German constitution was changed, making the right to asylum to go from a benevolent law to one of the strictest laws in Europe at that time. Is this change a reform or not? Reform is described ”as the fundamental, intended, and enforced change of the policy paradigm and/or organizational structure of (an organization within) a policy sector.”(Bannink&Resodihardjo, 2006, p.4). A clear and needed two-thirds majority of the Federal Council voted in favour of the change to Germany’s constitution concerning the asylum policy. This alteration of the constitution can be recognized as a reform because it is fundamental, clearly intended and an enforced change of a policy paradigm.
Normally, reform is very difficult to achieve because of multiple barriers that stand in its way(Bannink&Resodihardjo, 2006, p.8). So, how can a policy deeply embedded in Germany Constitution and in the public’s eye as compulsory, for almost half a century, suffer such a radical transformation? Before 1993 there was another attempt to change the same article but it failed. Which barriers blocked the first attempt and which were overcome in the second one?
To better understand the concept of reform and its constraints I will investigate this case in order to answer the before mentioned questions. This essay aims to study the factors and agents which facilitated to the constitutional reform of Germany’s asylum policy. In the next section, there will be presented a historical insight of the new and old Article 16. Section three lists the theories that will be used for this case. The fourth section will combine second and third sections to make the case analysis. And the last section will shortly reevaluate and answer the question and subquestion mentioned before.
Before 1993 Germany’s right to asylum guarantee state that „persons persecuted on political grounds shall enjoy the right of asylum.” (GRUNDGESETZ [Germany's Constitution] , art.16). After the war, Germany’s constitution opened the German borders widely for refugees because of their knowledge of the difficulties that the refugees who ran from the Nazi regime faced in obtaining asylum in other countries. For merely half a century article 16 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany protected refugees from all over the world. Following this change in Germany’s constitution, over a million refugees looked for asylum in the land from which many had fled between 1918 and 1940 (Lucassen, Feldman, Oltmer, 2006, p. 78-97 p. 116-138).
In October 1991 there was an attempt to reform, but it failed because the opposing political parties did not want to change the asylum policy. Therefore the supporting and opposing sides came to an agreement to find a solution in the existing framework of the constitution. Despite the conflictual opinions between the main political parties towards the asylum issue, the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) coalition continued to negotiate with the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Germany’s political and decision-making structure, a two-thirds majority needed to pass a law, made negotiations unavoidable for the CDU/CSU coalition. After negotiating for months the party leaders came to an agreement in changing the asylum procedure but staying in the existing policy paradigm of the article 16 and not altering the article itself. The compromise which held a radical change for the asylum procedure was named Asylum Acceleration Procedure Law. Before reaching the agreement, CDU/CSU identified the new law as being unsuccessful(Alink, 2006 , p. 73-85). The state politicians from the CDU/CSU did not give true support to the Asylum Acceleration Procedure even if it was backed up by the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the SDP. The Bavarian Minister of Internal Affairs, Stoiber (CSU) and Prime Minister Teufel (CDU) of Baden-Württemberg state viciously opposed the new law. Both politicians stated clear that, in their opinions, the Asylum Procedure Acceleration Law was „absolutely unrealistic, not to say ridiculous”(Alink, 2006 , p. 73-85). Stoiber said that the law was impractical. Stoiber was sure that the reforming of article 16 is inevitable and wanted to push for change. His view was supported by experts and by the CDU/CSU which saw the law as an illusion(Alink, 2006 , p. 73-85). As a consequence of the reformed asylum procedure, von Niedling (managing director of the Immigration Service), resigned.
After the implementation of the new law, pressure on politicians increased for two reasons: the first one was the failing of the new legislation and the second one was the four-day attacks on asylum seekers in the city of Rostock of right-wing members in August 1992. The incidents in Rostock angered the Germans and led to more attacks throughout Germany(Haas, 2003,p. 186-206 ). Also, German cities had another big problem, poor living conditions and overcrowded reception areas. Furthermore, the asylum seekers number was even higher in 1992 than in 1991. Moreover, as the impact of the procedure turned out to be insignificant, politicians’ criticisms increased and civil protest actions expanded(Alink, 2006 , p. 73-85).At the same time the crisis deepened, discussions about reforming the constitution continued. The implementation of the Asylum Procedure Acceleration Law had failed to stop the crisis.
Succeeding years of debate and conflict about the right for asylum, the two opposing parties in Germany (CDU/CSU and SDP) agreed on reforming Article 16 in a much stricter manner.Even though the new asylum article still holds the right to the asylum, three crucial additions make a big difference in restricting the procedures that deal with requests for asylum. First, the rule of safe third countries bans the entrance of Germany through a member state of the European Union plus refugees who reach Germany can be blocked from the asylum procedure. Second, the rule of safe countries of origin states that asylum seekers who originate from countries in which there is no prosecution going on are also excluded from the asylum procedure. The last added restriction is the airport procedure, which grants processing of asylum requests at the airport. Airports not being German territory means that expulsion is made more easily for those whose applications are rejected (Hailbronner, 1994,p. 160-166).The final result of these restrictions is that obtaining asylum has become more difficult, and ways of appealing it have been diminished and expulsion has become easier.
For a reform to occur it has to overcome barriers which are categorized as opportunity barriers and preference barriers. Opportunity barriers occur when decision-making procedures provide limited opportunities for actors to push for reform. They are composed of the decision-making process, policy inheritance and policy lock-in. The decision-making process disturbs the policy-making process because of the great number of veto points a reform has to go through. Policy inheritance takes form when policies in the past delimit contemporary views. And the policy lock-in effect means that decisions taken by past governments inhibit current competency. Preference barriers hamper reform by producing preferences, norms and values that withstand change. They consist of policy paradigm, status quo, vested interests and when a reform is upsetting and unsettling. Policy paradigm is composed of norms, values and preferences that determine how actors act. The status quo is about actors protecting their status because of the benefits they get in the current paradigm. Vested interests appear when people invest time and resources in obtaining a position or creating a new goal for the organization, and reform would destroy them. The last barrier consists of a reform seen as upsetting and unsettling (Bannink and Resodihardjo, 2006, p. 5-6).
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A rusty, old Ford Falcon left in a shed for over thirty years was auctioned last week for over $215,000.
The 1973 coupe was “effectively Australia’s version of the Ford Mustang” and “one of just 120 high-performance models featuring a 330 hp 5.8-liter V8 that was good for a 160 mph top speed.”
However, the last time it was registered for road use—or even started—was in 1988. The car had been sitting in an open shed behind a chicken wire fence, earning it the nickname “Chicken Coupe.”
How do you determine your worth?
Over the years, my family visited my in-laws’ mountain home in central New Mexico. Each time we made the winding drive up the mountain, we passed rusty old trucks, tractors, trailers, plows, and cars abandoned in the tall grass. Each time, I thought they were eyesores, although they added character to the rustic landscape. It felt like the Old West.
Now, I am ready to go and have a second look at those old relics.
What made the “Chicken Coupe” different from other 1973 Ford Falcons?
It was the predecessor to the model used as the basis for the “Pursuit Special” featured in the classic Mad Max films.
Gordon Stubbersfield, the owner of the “Chicken Coupe,” refused to sell it because it was the car he owned when he got married. Plus, he enjoyed talking to the people who stopped to ask about it. Its value to him lay more in personal enjoyment than in financial gain. The source of its value changed when its ownership changed hands after the original owner died.
Society tries to determine our value, just as collectors tried to tell the coupe owner his car’s worth.
Our Creator does not base our worth on outward appearance (1 Samuel 16:7). Nor perfection. David defeated Goliath despite his small stature and was called “a man after [God’s] heart” (Acts 13:22), even though he was an adulterer and murderer (2 Samuel 11). His lineage was the one through which the Messiah was born (Matthew 1:1).
Shepherds were chosen to be the first to hear about Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:8–12). They were the lowest of the low, known as thieves and scoundrels who could not be trusted. Yet, they were trusted with the greatest news the world has ever known and became the first to share the gospel (Luke 2:20).
Jesus called fishermen (Matthew 4:18–22) and a tax collector (Matthew 9:9–11) to be his closest followers. He dined with sinners (Matthew 9:10–11; Luke 19:1–10) and visited with society’s outcasts, such as the woman of Samaria (John 4:7–10). They, in turn, shared their newly found worth with others.
When the Pharisees questioned the disciples about Jesus dining with tax collectors and sinners, Jesus said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:31–32).
God called the most notorious persecutor of Christians to be the greatest evangelist the world has known (Acts 9:15) and the writer of a large portion of the New Testament.
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We understand what is needed to achieve that perfect garden and perfect turf. Here is some of our advice.
Turf After Care
Our turf is freshly cut every day to ensure that you are getting the best quality turf possible. Once we deliver our turf to you we reccomend laying the turf the same day so it can begin to knit straight away. When your turf has been laid it is essential that the turf gets plenty of water so it gives it the best opportunity to sew. We would reccomend on days where there is no rain to leave a sprinkler on your garden ensuring that it covers the whole turfed area, not leaving any out. Please remember once the turf has been delivered by us it is then your responsibilty to keep the turf alive.
Measuring for Turf
Measuring turf is very simple. A lot of people dont know that 1 roll of turf covers 1 square meter, so to find how much turf you need you simply find out the square meterage of the area by measuring the width in meteres by the length in meters. The following is very easy when the garden is a square. However, if your garden is another shape you have to follow the same process by splitting the areas into squares and adding the total up at the end. If you have any questions about measuring your garden or simply need help adding up please feel free to give us a call! | <urn:uuid:fe367999-a0eb-4b58-b20c-4e7092989254> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelandscapecentre.co.uk/installations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960044 | 286 | 1.585938 | 2 |
From the road, the SCAPE residence appears forbidding, with its solid, angular, concrete façade painted a dark grey. Walk to its opposite side though and the contrast is stark.
Lived in by a paediatrician and his family in Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture, the house is designed by APOLLO Architects & Associates, and started off with the premise of borrowing views of a rock garden on the adjacent property belonging to the owner’s parents.
To this end, Satoshi Kurosaki, APOLLO’s founder and principle, ensured the facing of the living areas on the ground floor opened up to them.
“Large fixed windows offer views of the rock garden, bringing a sense of the shifting seasons and time into the living room and kitchen that gives them a resort-like mood,” explains Kurosaki.
“The windows are intentionally positioned low to incorporate the lush borrowed scenery of the rock garden, while blocking lines of sight from adjacent houses.”
A contributing factor to the architecture of the house was the heavy snowfall in winter – up to three metres at times.
This proved to be a challenge for Kurosaki, who had to work around the weather constraints without compromising on the “borrowed scenery”.
As a result, he designed it to have deep eaves to ensure it was possible to have sliding doors along one length of the ground floor.
To further protect against the cold in winter, he adding a layer of polystyrene foam on the concrete façade, while insulating the wood-framed windows.
Within the rectangular building footprint, he acceded to the client’s request for a “studio type of layout where they can feel each other’s presence”.
The living room sits in a double-volume space, looking out to the fireplace and rock garden. Behind it is an open kitchen and dining area.
Built-in wall storage connect the three areas, enabling them to be clutter-free. The liberal use of off-form concrete on most of the floors, walls and ceilings is consistent with the façade.
Overlooking the void and down into the living room are the children’s bedrooms. These sit alongside the master bedroom and private spaces up on the second floor.
“Floor heating, a wood-burning stove and insulated sash are used. Thus the interior stays comfortable even with huge void,” says Kurosaki.
When the sun comes out though, everyone heads outside into the garden to interact with the client’s parents, turning it into a communal space.
Since it was not build to the edge of the site boundary, the property still has space along its perimeter to add play and rest areas that can host visitors.
Describes Kurosaki, “In this sense, the residence reflects a traditional rural lifestyle that blends strong family ties with community connections, almost like a touch point between people in the city.”
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U.S. Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation – Lower Colorado Region
Built in 1935, the concrete arch-gravity design of the Historic Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada controlled flooding and provided electric power and water for the southwest regions of the United States. Originally, the Exhibit Hall was used as a headquarters for soldiers protecting the dam during WWII. Designed by architects Samuel and Joseph Newsom, it is located at the top of the Hoover Dam and offers a magnificent view of the engineering marvel below.
The interior of the Exhibit Hall features a concrete façade historic fabric. It is now used as a visitor center adorned with an observation deck, dioramas, statues, maps, and other presentations depicting the Hoover Dam’s history.
Spectra Company’s restoration included both the exterior and interior.
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Sulham, Jonas G.
Age: 40, credited to Hyde Park, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 8/15/62, m/i 9/26/62, Pvt, Co. I, 1st VT CAV, wdd, Aldie, 3/2/62, pow, Aldie, 3/2/63, prld, 4/7/63, pow, Reams's Station, 6/29/64, Andersonville, 4/28/65, m/o 7/3/65
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Birth: 05/20/1822, Danville, VT
Burial: Main Street Cemetery, Hardwick, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Deanna French
Findagrave Memorial #: 93499208
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 9/7/1865
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
2nd Great Grandfather of Grant C. Sulham, Tacoma, WA
2nd Great Grandfather of Vaughn Douglass, -
2nd Great Grandfather of Katherine Kitterlin, Bentonville, AR
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Main Street Cemetery, Hardwick, VT
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Jonas G. Sulham,for years a resident of Hyde Park, died at his home in West Woodbury Monday, Sept. 8, 1902. The deceased was 80 years and five months old. He was the youngest of 11 children, all of whom lived to the age of 80 years or more. Mr. Sulham was a soldier in the war of the rebellion and served the entire period of the war, coming home July 14, 1865. He received many wounds in battles, had one shoulder very nearly disabled by a minnie ball and received a cut across the scalp from a sword, besides numerous other slight injuries. He was twice married; the first time to Nancy B. McKinistry, who bore him five children of whom three survive him. His second wife was Miss Seloma Ingles and she bore him eight children, three boys and five girls. Jonas Sulham has been in poor health for the past eleven years and for the past year his death has been expected at any time. He leaves besides his children numerous relatives and friends to mourn the loss of him. The funeral took place Wednesday and the interment was in the Hardwick cemetery.
Source: Hardwick Gazette, September 25, 1902.
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Clean Energy Resources Information Committee
Chairman of ad hoc committee to explore clean energy initiatives in the city of Byron sees the municipality’s Clean Energy Community designation by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority as a springboard for further action .
Now all she has to do is get the support of the city council.
“By completing the five actions required by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the City of Byron has been awarded a $5,000 grant to help with future clean energy initiatives,” said said Candace Hensel today. “We are looking to use the money to carry out other high-impact actions that will help us move forward in the CEC program.”
Hensel is the driving force behind the Clean Energy Resources Information Committee, an informal group that reports monthly to city council. Active members include Kaitlyn Moucha, Sara Stockwell and Brian Stacy. Other townspeople participate, depending on the project.
Action items completed by the city to receive the CEC designation are benchmarking, energy code enforcement training, adoption of a unified solar permit, and an LED conversion of streetlights in the city. town. Hensel said he was credited with a fifth action item for advanced benchmarking.
Points are awarded for each of the 14 action items identified by NYSERDA, with grant amounts based on the number of points.
The City of Byron now joins the City of Batavia and the Village of Bergen as NYSERDA Clean Energy Communities. Other municipalities in Genesee County participating in the program are Corfu Village, Pembroke Town and Batavia Town.
Hensel said her “eyes were opened” to what was happening in New York State on clean energy when she heard about the 280-megawatt Excelsior Energy solar project in the city of Byron.
“I had tried to get the city to look at some of the incentives available to communities, but I really haven’t done anything with the city, so – about two years ago – I created a petition and got a list of names of other people who at least thought the city should look into some of these programs,” she said.
Eventually, the city council authorized Hensel to chair a committee (CERIC) to explore the possibility of attracting grants to help community clean energy projects.
Hensel said she felt much better about forming a group and pursuing clean energy opportunities knowing she had the support of the city council.
“In New York State, from the perspective of the Governor and the trickle down effect on DEC and NYSERDA and then on the utilities, they are all required to participate – to some degree – and comply with a lot of these clean energy programs that have been passed,” she said.
Hensel said CERIC failed to receive funding from Excelsior Energy solar project stakeholders, but that hasn’t deterred the group from its goal of “investigating the incentives and reporting back to the city.” with our recommendations for participating (in the Clean Energy program of communities) and the benefits of doing so.
“The city council listens to our report every month but overall they feel their capacity is limited or they can’t devote the time to it; so, we are stuck,” she said. “They let us continue with the Clean Energy Communities program, however, and no city funds were spent on this CEC designation.”
She said CERIC is also studying the Climate Smart Communities program administered by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
“The benefits of participating in the DEC program are much greater,” she said. “Incentive grants are much larger, with up to 50% funding for large clean energy projects. So we see that the carrot at the end of the stick is much larger.
Hensel said CERIC asked the city council to vote to join the Climate Smart Communities program “because all the actions we’ve taken in one, we can apply to the other.”
“Representatives from the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Board made a presentation to council and a resolution was passed, but at this council meeting no one seconded the motion to continue voting for this particular program” , she said.
CERIC is not giving up on that, however, as it plans to recontact the board on the DEC program next month.
City Supervisor Peter Yasses said CERIC must report its recommendations and proposals to the board but cannot “make any commitments”, while City Councilman Eric Zuber said his concerns relate to the conditions for receiving grants, particularly those that provide that the city must match the funds for a particular project.
“There are a lot of bells and whistles – hoops that you have to go through,” Zuber said. “Everything we do has to make sense for the city in the long term.”
Hensel said the committee is currently involved in a clean heating and cooling campaign in conjunction with Pathstone and the GFLRPC that began in April at the Genesee County Home Show.
“They are following up to complete the energy audits and roll them into the Heat Smart Finger Lakes North program,” she said. “Hopefully people will sign up with a contractor, who will assess their homes and make recommendations on heat pumps or geothermal and to see if anyone wants to know more about those and the tax credits that accompany them. | <urn:uuid:b5c89b7f-1262-4630-a160-a2cbe02f0a38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://preservethenati.org/clean-energy-resources-information-committee/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964386 | 1,146 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of all the planets in our solar system — how could you not love Venus? — but there’s something about Jupiter. Astrologer Leslie Hale says that the planet bestows abundance and material success, luck and good fortune, joy and positivity (and that’s just some of the positives). On July 28, Jupiter will station retrograde in bold Aries — the exact same day as the new moon in Leo — and its backwards dance will continue on until November 23.
While we don’t feel Jupiter retrograde as intensely as other retrogrades, the start and end dates of the Lucky planet’s transit are when we’ll be feeling the energy the most. “These days may have us reflecting deeper on our belief system, our sense of hope, our dreams and desire for expansion, and our spiritual practices,” says astrologer Stephanie Campos. “This is a powerful time to reassess your personal growth and to discern if you’re moving in alignment or if you need a course correction.” Retrogrades are a time to review and reassess, so that’s exactly what you’ll be doing until the end of the year.
Retrogrades are often viewed as a scary time when misfortune arises and things get wacky, but that’s not exactly the case when it comes to Jupiter’s backwards dance — in fact, Lisa Stardust, astrologer and author of The Love Deck, even calls it a time of fortune. “It gives us a chance to slow down a little bit and understand what we want you to grow in the future,” she says. “With Jupiter in Aries, we are thinking about ourselves in the world and not about the world at large — and when Jupiter is retrograde in Aries, we will begin to be a little bit less selfish and want to help others, not just ourselves.”
Iva Naskova, astrologer at the Nebula app, says that one thing we may find challenging during this transit is making decisions that don’t seem as straightforward. “Fiery Aries is known to make us rush into decisions, so while Jupiter goes retrograde in this fire sign, we are best to take our time and plan with caution,” she says. “Not acting on impulse and rushing out is the key to succeeding in our plans and goals.” You heard her — think about all of your options and outcomes before jumping into things too soon.
Because Jupiter rules learning and expansion, we review the ways we have grown and what we have learned during its retrograde, according to Narayana Montúfar, senior astrologer for Astrology.com and author of Moon Signs: Unlock Your Inner Luminary Power. She says to ask yourself, Have we grown in the correct direction? Is our growth sustainable? Have we been overly assertive in the ways we go after our goals? “In Aries’ fiery territory, Jupiter can make us quite impulsive, so this retrograde can be seen as a blessing,” she says.
“Since Jupiter entered Aries back on May 10, we have been more ambitious in the pursuit of our goals,” Montúfar continues. “So, in the next few months, it’s wise to review our growth strategies for the future. If there was an astrological phenomenon that teaches us that growth isn’t linear, that would be Jupiter’s retrograde!” These can be any kind of goals, both professional and personal, so if your dream was to get a promotion or buy a house or finally get back on track to finding love, take a look at what you wanted earlier this year vs. what you have now. What are you missing, and what can you do to move forward?
Jupiter will re-enter into its ruling sign Pisces on October 24, which means we’ll be revisiting themes from when the transit occurred from December 28 to May 10 (it was a pretty positive astrological time, by the way). “If anything important or specific happened to us during the rare April 12 conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter’s dip into the sign of the fish could bring that issue back for closure,” Montúfar says. Take a look back in your diary, your journal, or your calendar to find out what was up on that date and prepare yourself for a resurgence.
Jupiter will retrograde in Pisces until the very end of its backwards dance, and Naskova says that during this time our faith and strength may be put to the a test. “One must not doubt the universe’s plan, so it is best if you keep your faith and trust that everything happens for a reason,” she says. “The reasons might not be apparent immediately, but in time all pieces will come into place.”
Although the vibes may shift during this astrological happening, it’s really nothing you should be stressing yourself out over. Things change, life goes on, and we all figure it out — even though the Lucky planet may be in a bit of a tizzy, it still benefits us each day.
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Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive cancer that is often not caught until it is late stage.
People with cancer that has spread usually live just one year after diagnosis. If the cancer is caught early, patients often live three years after diagnosis.
Now surgeons are evaluating a high tech tool called the NanoKnife to increase patients’ odds of survival.
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Do you need a power tool that will chop down trees or brush with almost no trouble whatsoever?
Before you purchase a kukri or another outdoor style machete, I’ll reveal to you five important items to consider:
1. Kukris are often noticeable to the majority of knife enthusiasts. This is because of the distinct curve from the blade, which can be usually flat ground.
The technologically advanced on most kukris are produced thin enough to reduce with authority, but thick enough to consider continuous pounding and hacking.
2. You will see that your kukri is heavier for the front with the blade.
This is accomplished purposely to get the knife more chopping and hacking power. Even the weakest people can readily chop small brush or trees generally kukris.
3. Use special caution when it comes time to sharpen your kukri. The shape with the blade is ideal for chopping and looks awesome. However, remember that to accept proper angle when sharpening this kind of unique style of knife.
4. Is your kukri made out of an entire tang? This kind of construction is EXTRA-important in terms of kukri-style knives because of the hard use that a lot of of which endure.
If the kukri just isn’t full tang, bear in mind that the knife could outside of the handle and set you in many danger!
5. There’s a chance you’re influenced to obtain a high carbon kukri. High carbon steel is normally super-tough and stays sharp for years.
Take into account that your high carbon kukri will rust otherwise maintained properly. Simply avoid any contact with water when possible and make a light coat of oil about the blade after every use.
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People who suffer from chronic migraines are calling for a new drug to be offered on the NHS in England.
The monthly injection of Aimovig has been described as "life-changing" by those who have tried it.
If it gets approved, it will be for people who have tried other preventative treatments unsuccessfully.
NICE - which gives advice on healthcare - rejected the drug for England on cost grounds in January, but the NHS in Scotland approved it recently.
Migraines affect around 1 in 7 people, according to the National Migraine Centre.
More women get them than men, and they usually start to affect people when they're teenagers.
Radio 1 Newsbeat spoke to sufferers for our latest documentary, which you can watch below. They told us whatever you do, don't ever refer to the condition as "just a bad headache".
"When I have a migraine I can't see, any noise gives me excruciating pain, foreign smells hurt, light is a definite no-go, I get really dizzy and I can't stand up," 28-year-old Nathan Gayle tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
The Londoner gets around 20 headache days a month.
"I have tried so many types of medications - I've not found anything that can stop it or prevent it. If Aimovig worked, it would change my life."
Nathan was a classroom assistant but had to give up teaching because he was having so much time off.
"I was getting migraines so frequently and the intensity was so high that it wasn't fair on the school, the children I was working with or myself."
"Depression is definitely something I feel during an episode," Nathan says. He says he hates feeling isolated while stuck in a darkened room.
Migraines: The facts
- 1 in 7 people are affected by migraines globally
- 1 in 5 women experience them
- 1 in 15 men get them
- Some people with migraines get visual disturbances - known as aura - such as seeing stars or flashing lights, or even experiencing temporary blindness
- Other people feel dizzy, get pins and needles or vomit
Sources: National Migraine Centre and NHS
There is no known cure for migraines. People normally treat them with over-the-counter painkillers, but often the symptoms are too severe for those drugs to work.
Some patients have reported botox and transcranial magnetic stimulation working, but everybody reacts in a different way.
"We tend to borrow things from other areas of medicine," explains Dr Jess Briscoe from the National Migraine Centre.
"Heart medication, anxiety medication - epilepsy medication we use a lot."
She hopes Aimovig - which is also known as Erenumab - will be able to help many people.
In the US, where it is available widely, there is evidence it can reduce the frequency of migraine attacks significantly. It works by blocking the protein thought to play a major role in starting an attack.
Getting their lives back
The National Migraine Centre recently did a survey of just under 2,000 migraine and headache sufferers.
Most of them - 84% - said their migraines or headaches have impacted their mental health, and 65% linked their condition with experiencing depression.
Dr Giorgio Lumbru from Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is already prescribing Aimovig at its Chronic Pain Management and Neuromodulation Centre.
"For the first time we have a specific treatment designed for migraine that works really well," he says.
"Being able to improve the quality of life of patients for whom there was nothing else to try has been a great satisfaction.
"The drug is injected under the skin once a month and it acts as a preventative treatment.
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Smelly Dogs May Need Ablutions
Every week there is one date I faithfully keep: “ablutions” time with my dogs. I don’t know why we started calling it that – probably when I was completely and totally addicted to Regency Romance novels. According to Webster’s Dictionary, “ablutions” is “a washing of the body, especially as a religious ceremony.”
We don’t actually do a full-body dog wash every week – I’m told that less frequent bathing is better for a dog’s skin and fur – and it’s not really a ritual. We do trim nails, brush fur and teeth, clean ears, and wash faces. Because of the breeds we have; Brussels Griffons, Boston Terriers and French Bulldogs, skin folds, beards and mustaches, and wrinkles get special attention.
It’s down to a routine in our house; it doesn’t take much more than about 15 minutes per dog, once you catch them. One person holds the dog. The other “ablutes.”And the benefits are vast. The dogs seem happier, they smell good, and we have the chance to check each one for anything that doesn’t seem quite right.
Contrary to popular belief – clean, healthy dogs really shouldn’t smell. “Dog breath” may be an indicator that the dog’s teeth need cleaning. There are many products available to care for dog’s teeth, but a start can be made with just a damp washcloth or gauze. Special toothpastes made just for dogs are readily available. Human toothpaste isn’t a good idea – it can be too harsh and dogs tend to dislike both the foaming action and the taste of products made for people.
Your nose is an invaluable tool in assessing your dog’s health. Any odor from a dog’s ears may be a sign of infection. But we know that cleaning ears can be a challenge. We use a solution available from the veterinarian. It’s inexpensive and helps wash away any dirt or wax. Getting it into the dog’s ears is where the problem arises in our house. Even after four years of this weekly routine, our Boston Terrier struggles mightily to see what we’re doing. No matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to convince her that no one can see inside her own ears!
Keeping a dog’s nails trimmed is another part of the routine that can be challenging. Many people are wary of cutting the nails too close and hurting the dog by nicking the blood vessel. Some people avoid the problem by using a hand-held sanding device – but a light touch is essential. Power tools are exactly that – powerful. It’s better to do too little than risk hurting the dog. Most groomers and veterinarians will trim nails for a nominal fee. If you’re hesitant about trimming your dog’s nails yourself, it’s well worth the monthly visit to have a professional do the job. Even if you don’t trim nails yourself, take a look at your dog’s feet. See if their pads have any calluses or cracks or any abnormalities.
Lastly, a good brushing, in addition to taking care of any tangles, or mats in the fur, will make your dog look and feel terrific. You’ll distribute the natural oils that keep fur healthy and remove any dead fur that may have accumulated. By paying attention during brushing we discovered a growth on our Brussels Griffon we would not have discovered. A visit to the vet and a couple of stitches later, what might have been a major health issue later was disposed of with very little fuss. As with humans, early detection is the key for dogs.
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Dental insurance is an insurance policy that cover the expenses of various dental problems and their treatments. Dental problems are multifarious and their treatments can prove to be extremely expensive. Hence most people find it necessary to go for dental insurances and cover the expenditure incurred during the treatments.
Most people feel that dental problems include the problems of yellow stained teeth, bad breath and the occasional toothache and brushing them properly and visiting the dentist once in a while will solve the problem. But most people are not aware of the fact that dental problems might be severe and might include some major problems which have much adverse effect on our overall body health. Toothaches are not only irritating and painful; but, they keep us awake for nights and can impact you life in other ways. Heart diseases and strokes are known to have been caused by dental problems. Sometimes these problems may even result in chronic kidney diseases, diabetes, and premature birth in pregnant women, with the babies being born with complications etc. These problems warrant regular trips to the dentists, medications, procedures like scaling, removal of plaques etc and these procedures are very expensive. Hence people have no other option but to turn to dental insurance.
Dental insurance makes for an extremely wise investment of time and money. By investment of time we mean that, if you do not have any dental investment, in times of an emergency, you will have to go berserk collecting money. But with a ready dental plan, you don’t need to worry about the timely procurement of money. And of course, it is an excellent monetary investment as it helps you to pay for your treatments and keeps you healthy. Sometimes you need to go for dental x-rays which can prove to be extremely expensive. Dental x-rays are important as they give you and your dentist a clear picture of the condition of your teeth and gums. Hence you can pay for these x-rays using your dental plan. Also when expensive dental surgery is needed, you can pay for them too without going bankrupt.
But dental insurance providers make different kinds of claims about what they have to offer. You must go through the papers carefully and measure the pros and cons before investing your precious money into it. | <urn:uuid:a1a8122a-b5e0-442f-8119-6d940990487d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://specificinsurance.net/dental/dental-insurance-series-importance-of-dental-insurance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969238 | 447 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The Assam government has reduced the home quarantine period for cured COVID-19 patients to seven days, while also doing away with the provision of providing free essential items worth Rs 2,000 to families in quarantine, except for specified categories of people.
“With the evolving situation, Govt of Assam has decided to reduce the home quarantine period after discharge from hospital to seven days. As such we will not provide essential items worth Rs 2000/ except to the families living under BPL, elderly people, ailing and to Divyangjan (specially-abled),” state health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in Twitter.
Earlier, all cured COVID-19 patients had to stay in 14 days mandatory home quarantine, whether they had been symptomatic or asymptomatic during the course of the infection.
On abolishing the provision of free essential items, an official circular from the Health and family welfare department issued on July 24 said, “…the essential items worth Rs 2,000 for quarantined families will henceforth be provided to families of the below poverty line category”.
However, the deputy commissioners have been authorised to extend these benefits to other categories, like elderly, sick, specially-abled, if deemed necessary.
“The state government needs to optimally utilise resources at its disposal for core activities of testing and treatment of COVID-19,” the circular has stated.
Over 1.12 lakh families have been provided with essential items worth Rs 2,000 each, while the state government has also provided financial support to people stranded outside due to the pandemic, including patients undergoing treatment.
The COVID-19 testing and treatment is provided free-of-cost by the government in the state.
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Source / Abstraction
Some sounds we can recognise, others we can’t. What does this mean for music that is made with sounds?
Ways of Listening
As we discovered in Modes of Listening, we can listen to sounds in different ways.
When we hear a sound, we might think of the object that is causing it (the sound source); we might hear some meaning in the sound or we might listen to the characteristics of the sound itself.
Recall this example:
The link between a sound and a source is called ‘Source Bonding’.
Source bonding can be very strong for some sounds and weak for others. Over time, source bonding might become stronger, it might get weaker, or even break down completely.
The context in which a sound appears, or how it is transformed, will influence the source bonding effect.
Sounds might be closely bonded to their source in one context, but completely un-bonded in another context.
Sounds taken far out of their original context can even be bonded to a completely different object from the one that created them.
Role of the Listener
It is important to remember that the sounds that you edit and compile, might be heard differently by everyone who listens to them.
The listener builds up an interpretation of the piece based upon what they hear. They don’t know where the sounds originally came from or what transformations you have made (unless you tell them).
Because of this we are able to be creative with the sounds that we use. We might take a sound from one context, and transform it to make it sound like something else. This is the reason why sounds can be bonded to imagined sources – rather than those that actually created them.
We can also use this same principle to link sounds from very different places into a ‘natural sounding’ soundscape.
Listen to this example.
The sounds come from very different sources, but have been combined together in such a way that they sound like they belong together. Their original sources have been abandoned. It is a clip from C’est Whizz! by Florian Sulpice.
An abstract sound is one that is free of any actual or perceived source. That means that when you hear it, you cannot imagine where it has come from or what possibly might have caused it.
Fully abstract sounds are often created.
One good way of creating an abstract sound is to take something recognisable, and transform it until it has been changed beyond recognition.
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Zeiss Stereomicroscope III
I have owned this legacy stereomicroscope for several years. I do not use it for photomicrography because I have better equipment for this purpose, but I find it convenient to have a simple stereomicroscope of good quality at hand for quick examination of three-dimensional subjects in incident illumination.
In my daily work as a paleobiologist, for several years I used a simple Olympus SZ ("just SZ") stereomicroscope in hammered-gray paint. This was the original finish chosen by Olympus at the launch of this model in 1961, and was subsequently changed several years later to what Olympus calls "ripple-pearl", i.e. a more non-descript, slightly amber-toned gray. This is said to be the first Japan-made stereomicroscope, and remained in production for quite a long time. Actually, while working in Japan I saw and used one or two legacy Olympus stereomicroscope models that might be even older, but probably were never exported to the West.
When I switched career from science to the software and telecom industry, I decided to equip a personal lab at home, in part to continue my research in paleobiology in my scarce spare time, and in part with the long-term goal of having a reasonably well-equipped lab in which to spend plenty of time after retiring. I did not particularly miss the Olympus SZ, and for a few years I made do with a PZO MSt 130 stereomicroscope made in communist Czechoslovakia, one of several clones of the pre-World War Two Zeiss SM1. I remember that the image given by this stereomicroscope was sharp but had a slightly yellowish cast (possibly caused by yellowing lens cement, or perhaps by the use of thorium glass, which may become yellow or brown with time because of radiation emitted by radionuclides in the glass).
Eventually I decided to sell the PZO scope and bid on a Zeiss Stereomicroscope III on eBay. At the time, I was equipping a Zeiss Photomicroscope II, and it felt natural to choose the same brand for my "new" stereomicroscope.
I already had some experience with Zeiss stereomicroscopes, like the Stemi DV4, made largely of plastic, and knew enough to avoid them like the plague. I decided therefore to go back in time a few generations of scopes to get a more solidly built one, as well as to get more for the money. I had hands-on experience at work also with the Stereomicroscope II, which I did not really like and was not interested in purchasing.
My first attempt was a failure. The Stereomicroscope III I received had been described by the seller as "in good condition" and looked externally acceptable (except for having only one eyepiece, a Zeiss with barrel made entirely of plastic), but its internal mechanisms were heavily rusted and corroded, and much of the zoom optics smashed to small bits. It may have fallen overboard into the sea, and afterwards fished out and wiped dry externally, but no attempt was made to drain and clean it inside, probably because the smashed optics made the scope useless in any case. Luckily it was cheap, and I could reuse the stand, focuser and a few other parts.
My second attempt went better, and I am still using this scope.
This Stereomicroscope III came equipped with Nikon eyepieces (which work well on this scope, have diopter adjustments, and have a higher eye relief than some of the original Zeiss eyepieces) and a base originally designed for transmitted illumination via a convex mirror mounted on an under-stage platform (only the post of the mirror is shown in the figure). This platform works for me as a specimen holder for incident illumination, after removing the mirror. The white central area of the disk is integral with its black rim.
The original specimen holder platform was mounted on the column of the scope a few cm above the mirror, and the whole scope was a bit too tall for comfortable use on an office table and with a normal office chair. If transmitted illumination is needed with this scope, it is better provided by a thin LED iluminator placed on the base.
The round disk on the base shown in the picture is interchangeable with the disks seen in other Zeiss devices, like the Tessovar. These disks have a set of holes around their periphery to house retaining clips, have a central insert of smaller diameter than the white disk shown in the figure, and may therefore be less suitable for large subjects. The most common insert is made from painted aluminum, with one white and one black side. There is also a glass insert of the same size, used for transmitted illumination.
Like all Zeiss West (but not Zeiss Jena) stereomicroscopes of the mid-20th century, the Stereomicroscope III is of the Greenough type, with two independent optical paths and objectives (although it can use a single additional objective). Unlike the Stereomicroscope II, which rotates an internal drum to get a few fixed magnifications, the III is a true zoom scope. The magnification knob has stiff and noisy detent clicks at 1x, 1.2x, 1.6x, 2x, 2.5x, 3.2x and 4x, but the zoom mechanism can also be set at intermediate positions. The magnification scale is only present on the right side knob. This magnification must be multiplied by the eyepieces´ magnification (typically 10x) to yield the total magnification of the scope. It might be possible to disable the detent mechanism, but this requires at least the knobs to be removed, which my scope resisted. There is also a risk that the magnification accidentally shifts on its own during use of the scope, once the detents are removed. In the end, I decided to live with the detent clicks.
Note - I have seen illustrations of specimens of Zeiss Stereomicroscope that correspond in all details to the Stereomicroscope III, except for being painted in hammered greenish-gray color. These specimens were sometimes identified by their sellers as Stereomicroscope II. However, I have seen a manual for the Stereomicroscope II, and it has a photograph of the non-zoom scope on the cover, so there is no question in my mind that the zoom model in hammered paint is instead an early Stereomicroscope III.
Although both lower and higher magnification eyepieces than 10x are available, I find them essentially useless. Lower magnification eyepieces have a narrow field of view, while the only reason to use them would be to get a wider field of view than 10x eyepieces. Higher magnification eyepieces have a low and narrow exit pupil and are difficult and eye-tiring to use. The body of the scope has a conical bayonet at the bottom that accepts an additional objective to change the magnification range. This is a better way than eyepieces to change the magnification range of the scope. However, these objectives are hard to find on the second-hand market, and since multiple Zeiss scopes use the same bayonet it is difficult to decide which scope model a given objective is designed for.
The body of the Stereomicroscope III can rotate within a ring, which is attached to the focuser mechanism. Neither the Stereomicroscope II nor the Stemi IVb have such a ring.
The focuser shown in the above figure has an unusually long rack with a travel of over 15 cm. The lower part of the travel is too close to the subject stage to allow focusing, but may be useful when storing the scope in a box or cupboard where vertical space is limited. With reasonable care, this stand and focuser last essentially forever. There is no fine focus knob, but given the relatively low magnification this is not really necessary.
This stereomicroscope is usually equipped with one illuminator mounted on an articulated arm attached around the bottom end of the microscope body. There is actually space here for two arms (and therefore two independently orientable illuminators). The incandescent bulb of these iluminators is obsolete, and the whole illuminator is better replaced by a simple LED spotlight, preferably dimmable. The above figure shows two original Zeiss illuminator arms, but the illuminators I use are not original (they consist of little more than a LED and small heatsink), and therefore I am not showing them in the figure.
Other Zeiss Stereomicroscope models and related equipment
The Zeiss SM1 is an early Zeiss stereomicroscope designed just before World War II. It is painted black and the body is characterized by its angular lines. Magnification is changed by rotating a horizontal internal drum, much like the Stereomicroscope II. The SM1 was subsequently copied by PZO (the MSt 130 shown above), Zeiss Jena (Citoplast and other model designations) and Lomo (MBS-1).
The Stereomicroscope Ib has a horizontal drum with three objectives, and the same ring to rotate the microscope body as the Stereomicroscope III. The Stereomicroscope Ib may actually have been produced until a later date than the Stereomicroscope II. The Stereomicroscope Ib and II do not have a zoom mechanism, which somewhat reduces their versatility compared to subsequent models. On the other hand, this also means that these non-zoom models have fewer mechanical parts that can break or misalign. Their optical quality may be a little lower than the Stereomicroscope III, especially when used with the original eyepieces that lack diopter adjustments.
The Zeiss Stemi/Stereomicroscope IVb is a slightly later model than the III, with a longer, barrel-shaped body and a similar zoom mechanism as the Stereomicroscope III, but sporting large magnification wheels like the Stereomicroscope II and providing a higher zoom range (0.8x to 5x) than the Stereomicroscope III. One further difference is that the body of the Stemi IVb does not rotate within a ring, unlike the Stereomicroscope III. The Stemi IVb used the same stands as the Stereomicroscope III and Tessovar, and both Stereomicroscope models are compatible with several Zeiss OPMI (Operations Mikroskop, i.e. surgical/medical microscope) heads and stands. Sometimes the Stemi IVb is equipped with a motorized focuser. Do not confuse the Stemi IVb, which is as solidly built and durable as the Stereomicroscope III, with the more modern, largely plastic and easily broken Stemi DV4.
More modern Zeiss stereomicroscopes use different stands and focusers, incompatible with the Stereomicroscope series. Most of these modern models, unlike the Stemi DV4, are well made but very expensive on the second-hand market. There are also several stereomicroscope models made by Zeiss Jena. At least some of them are said to be well-made and durable, but I know near to nothing about them.
The Zeiss Tessovar is designed for use in photomacrography, and has a zoom magnification changer (plus a four-position objective turret with custom objectives) and a single optical path. It shares some of the accessories, especially stands, focusers and illuminators, with the Stereomicroscope III and Stemi IVb, and clearly was designed and manufactured roughly at the same time. The optical design of the Tessovar zoom is also very likely derived form stereomicroscope optics. Note however that the Tessovar cannot use the binocular heads of the Stereomicroscope, Stemi and OPMI series, and instead can use some of the photo tubes for the Universal and Photomicroscope series. Like the Stereomicroscope III, the Tessovar is equipped with a ring that allows rotation of the scope body.
The Zeiss Stereomicroscope III is a good compromise between solid and durable construction and flexibility of use. If you need a stereomicroscope for visual observation only (not photomacrography) from 10x to 40x and for use mostly with incident illumination, this model is better value for the money than more modern models from, e.g., AmScope, Swift, no-name China-made scopes, and even some of the more modern Zeiss scopes. | <urn:uuid:2777c822-28ef-4581-984f-c06587847105> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.savazzi.net/photography/zeiss_stereomic_3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958301 | 2,673 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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The neighborhood mechanics of the previous have been changed by a brand new breed of specialists – sharp, extremely expert technicians who are versed within the latest automotive applied sciences. Add an inverter (with none suggestions management) and it becomes attainable to energy an induction machine from a battery or other DC supply; variable speed also becomes potential just by adjusting the inverter frequency.
Just one wire is needed to carry current to every part. The differential delivers the power to every of the rear wheels by the rear-axle drive shafts. Preserve a trickle charge present on the battery in any respect time when not in use. In addition, a motor oil’s components will break down or turn into depleted nicely earlier than the oil itself, so we still recommend sticking to your car’s beneficial oil-change intervals, quite than pushing it to avoid wasting a little cash.
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Most children developed dependency and attachment towards their parents or caregiver. The main reason for this is that most young children feel secured to those who have been with them since they were toddlers.
The dependency cannot be avoided but learning which influences can be practiced will be in this [course_title]. You will be introduced to attachment systems and how conducting ethical research will be taught in this course with lessons on ethical principles.
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer need to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
Edukite courses are free to study. To successfully complete a course you must submit all the assignment of the course as part of assessment. Upon successful completion of a course, you can choose to make your achievement formal by obtaining your Certificate at a cost of £49.
Having an Official Edukite Certification is a great way to celebrate and share your success. You can:
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Course Credit: Open Learn
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Abstract: The topic of information hiding (steganography), as well as the topic of cryptography, has always been relevant. Cryptography and steganography, strongly accompanying each other, are the key to strong protection of information from third parties. The theme of this work is MP3 audio files. The purpose of this work is to parse this format, analyze methods of hiding information in files of this format, and develop a computer program that is capable of hiding information in audio files in MP3 format. First, we will get acquainted with the MP3 format, then we will analyze the existing methods, their pros and cons, and after that we will choose one of the methods and implement it in the form of a computer program. The result of this work will be a computer program that can hide files of any format into a user-selected MP3 file, as well as open these hidden files from an audio file. The results of the work will be useful in the field of information security, as they will allow you to learn about some methods of hiding information not only in the form of text, but also in the form of an implemented computer program. This work should give an impetus to the direction of audio steganography, thanks to the analysis of methods of hiding information, their pros and cons, as well as the implementation of algorithms in the form of a working computer program.
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How to Have Fresh Footwear Forever
Ladies – let’s face it. As Generation Y continues to avoid homeownership and investing in the market, your shoes may realistically be your most important investments. You must maintain your investments by cleaning your footwear regularly. Louboutins (“Loubs”) are for looking, not smelling. Further, you need different strategies for different shoes. After all, we learn at a young age that one pair of shoes (heels or otherwise) cannot suffice for all occasions.
Maid Sailors understands that many women have a diversified portfolio of footwear. We’d like to educate our female (and male) readers on different methods for different materials. Cleaning your footwear can be daunting, especially since most shoes don’t come with washing instructions and one mistake can essentially send 500 dollars down the drain. Here’s a helpful overview of maintaining your footwear portfolio. Feel free to reach out to a Maid Sailors representative for detailed advice.
1. Trainers and Sneakers
Sneakers that are made out of soft materials can be thrown in a washing machine with a mild cleaning detergent (handwashing also works). If you employ the washing machine strategy, you’ll want to avoid two possible pitfalls: shrinkage and damage. Set the machine to “cool wash” to avoid discovering a smaller, baby-sized pair post-wash and add softer items (towels, sheets) to reduce potential damage from continuous bouncing; lastly, spin them to shun excess water. After washing, allow your prized Pumas to dry naturally, versus using a tumble dryer – you’ll avoid melting certain components of the shoes.
Don’t have access to a washer? Hand washing is super simple. Mix up a solution of washing detergent and baking soda. Apply this magic juice within the shoe and let it soak. Use a small brush (e.g. spare toothbrush) to scrub the outside of the shoe and then rinse it clean. Let the shoes dry naturally and they’ll be ready for Barry’s Bootcamp the next morning.
2. Leather Boots
Leather footwear should never be put in the washing machine. Water is like Ebola to leather. Instead, apply a special polish to your leather boots and shoes that can be purchased cheaply at most department stores. Before applying, brush off any excess dirt remaining on your shoe. Afterward, place a healthy amount of polish on a cloth and apply the product in a circular fashion (you can choose whether you want to go clockwise or counter-clockwise). After thoroughly buffing your shoes, use a clean cloth to remove any excess polish. If there’s an odor, you can apply a disinfectant, deodorizing spray (commonly found in Foot Locker, or any department store).
If you’re nervous about handling leather, feel free to take the shoes to a local cobbler or shoe repair shop (for those in NYC, Eddie’s Shoe Repair is super cheap) and ask for a shoeshine. They’ll revitalize your shoes; the only drawback is you might have to wait a little while (ugh).
3. High Heels
High heels are the high-maintenance Disney princesses of the footwear universe. Not only are they difficult to walk in, but they’re difficult to clean. A washing machine may remove dirt and mud, but will often create holes in the fabric or cause breakages in brittle heels. Long story short – swerve when you see the washing machine.
Hand-cleaning is your best strategy for these assets. First, use a dry cloth to brush off any visible dirt or mud. Next, use a dampened, cool cloth to rub embedded stains. For stubborn blemishes, make a mild detergent cleaning solution (like we discussed for leather footwear) and start blotting. Rinse any soap from the cloth and lift any detergent from the shoe’s material. Lastly, use a clean dry cloth to absorb any excess water in the fabric to avoid watermarks. Now you’re ready for ladies’ night.
Suede shoes are unique and require a one-of-a-kind cleaning approach. If you really care about your shoes, buy a suede cleaning kit for $20 (or less) on Amazon. You’ll have a special brush (looks like an oversized toothbrush a Sumo Wrestler may use), which you can use to remove dry dirt that has accumulated over time. This process should also eliminate any scuff marks or imperfections in the suede. For particularly stubborn marks, you can use a pencil eraser to get rid of them (yes, pencils are still useful in 2015). To finish, apply the material-protector spray and de-odorize the inside. Your friends in the Hamptons will be #VeryJelly. | <urn:uuid:1cb611d2-c598-4cbf-8293-ff95edec95b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maidsailors.com/blog/ladies-night-fresh-footwear-forever/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.899155 | 1,030 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Mark Zuckerberg once proclaimed Facebook wasn’t about making money but was about bringing people together.
Internal memos from years ago that surfaced in 2018 show that wasn’t his non-public thoughts at the time.
The fact his net worth today hovers around $56 billion and Facebook itself is worth more than $500 billion along with the tentacles that Facebook has inserted into personal postings to harvest data for sale plus their less-than-stellar effort to rein in dark impulses they helped bring to the Internet makes Zuckerberg’s words ring hollow today.
If Zuckerberg wants to see an example of a social platform that brings people together, helps build a community, fosters understanding, and does so without the need to make billions of dollars that requires one to bury their youthful idealism while standing the test of time then he might want to take a look at the Manteca Ripon Pentecost Society.
For more than a century the MRPS has served as not just a social network for its members but it has been the “platform” for countless endeavors via its social halls that raise funds for community projects as well as a venue for people to celebrate weddings and more.
On Sunday for the 102nd time the MRPS will open its door and hearts to the community to literally break bread with thousands and share face-to-face fellowship in celebration of life.
The festa — and a similar one that will be staged by the Festa Espirito Santo de Manteca later this summer — is part of a centuries-old Portuguese thanksgiving tradition
It was founded on events — secular and by nature — that divine intervention helped along to break the suffering of hundreds of thousands from a devastating drought in Portugal nearly 700 years ago.
It led to the formation of Holy Ghost celebrations that literally involves breaking bread — ok, soggy bread — as part of Portuguese sopas shared at no cost to all comers during the annual event.
If you don’t think you wouldn’t be wrapped in warmth at a festa even if you aren’t Portuguese you are sadly mistaken.
One of the biggest surprises moving to Manteca 31 years ago was the fact there were two Holy Ghost organizers here — the MRPS and the FESM. Their social halls are literally within a block of each other in downtown Manteca.
I grew up in Lincoln where the Placer County Holy Ghost celebration may have been a Portuguese tradition but it had morphed into a four-day community celebration with a carnival at McBean Park and the biggest parade of the year that had crowds lining 11 blocks.
It did not just involve the queens from the local festas and those throughout the north state as well as the Portuguese band. Entries included the high school and grammar school bands, Scouting groups, antique vehicles, equestrian entries and more.
People — even if they were not Portuguese — used the Holy Ghost Festival to stage family reunions that literally took place in front yards along the parade route with friends and strangers motioned to join as they strolled down sidewalks.
My biggest thrill as a seventh grader was marching with the Glen Edwards School band while playing the Sousaphone and then dashing home to change and then heading back down to the park.
I’d meet up with friends to ride the Hammer, Spin-a-Wheel and other diversions plus try my luck at the dime toss and horse races.
It was mandatory, of course, to go with your family to enjoy the one thing that I truly miss since forsaking meat 36 years ago — sopas and the treat our next door neighbor Elsie Silva would make for the Holy Ghost celebration and Christmas, enchiladas made with spicy Portuguese touches.
There were nearly a dozen outdoor settings for the sopas that people waited in line for hours.
Elsie’s task for the community sopa effort was to pick mint leaves from bushes that had been planted for that purpose along the Auburn Ravine that ran along the park.
My fond memories of the Holy Ghost celebration were boosted in part from the fact we lived three doors down from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
A smaller morning parade — much like what the FESM and MRPS do today to take the crown and queen to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church — brought that year’s officers and queens accompanying the crowns from the small building housing an altar at the park to the church.
Given the small size of the church, those who could not fit in during the blessing and mass would end up in neighbors’ yards under stately sycamore trees for a respite from the late morning sun on the Sunday when the festa took place ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.
The Holy Ghost celebration brought people together from all backgrounds to share the latest joys in their lives, to laugh, to reminisce, and to share real face time.
Events such as Holy Ghost celebrations and organizations such as the MRPS and FESM are the real deal when it comes to social platforms.
The virtual socializing that Facebook has inspired has taken the gossip mongers and those who have a bitter edge for whatever reason out of the shadows to a point they overshadow everything we do with instant commentary or an attempt at witty political commentary in 144 characters or less.
Social media has super-charged hate, loathing, jealously, and cruelty.
Masked behind anonymity, abusers build a warped sense of self-importance as they slice and dice others.
Targets range from acquaintances to strangers half way around the world.
Festas centuries before the Internet was created have operated as a way to bring a tight community together with those outside their circle.
Strangers are embraced as friends and not used as target practice to fold, spindle and mutilate.
And if you need verification that all is really right with the world despite the 24/7 gloom and doom du jour brought to you by the social platforms that are built by algorithms relentlessly seeking the lowest common denominator and aren’t a place where you can have the pleasure of engaging people face to face instead of by FaceTime, all you had to do is drop by the MRPS Hall on Grant Street in downtown Manteca on Sunday.
There you can savor a sense of community and humility.
Those values have prevailed despite a world that’s seen plenty of wars, reprehensible acts, unadulterated cruelty and pure hatred in the past 700 years.
If social media truly wants to advance the general well-being of people and foster a sense of community, they should emulate the spirt of Portuguese Holy Ghost social halls up and down the Great Central Valley.
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