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The arrival of a new year usually has everyone resolving to shed excess things and start anew. Maybe it’s pounds gained from holiday indulgences. Maybe it’s sheer “stuff,” extra possessions that seem to have multiplied after a season of gift exchanges.
While kicking off 2017 with promises to eat healthy or live more simply is a great start, have you ever thought about resolving to reduce the environmental impact that your lifestyle has on the planet?
We’re talking about your carbon footprint. Although carbon dioxide, a colorless, odorless gas known as CO2,occurs naturally in the atmosphere as part of the life cycle of oceans, soil, plants and animals, human activities are causing harmful amounts to be released into the environment. The resulting greenhouse gas effect is causing climate change.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the majority of human-related carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas and oil), the decay of solid waste and the combustion of wood products. In 2014, CO2 from human activities accounted for 81 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
The three main sources of carbon pollution in the U.S. are:
It’s also important to note the role that methane plays when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. Methane (CH4) is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the United States from human activities, according to the EPA. In 2014, CH4 accounted for about 11 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. And, livestock and their byproducts are responsible for 51 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide.
Why is it so important to reduce our carbon footprint? More than 6 million deaths a year can be attributed to air pollution, according to a recent New York Times report.
How to Reduce Your Carbon Dioxide Footprint
Did you know that a family of four with two cars and a 2,000-square-foot house in Northern Florida could generate more than 106 tons of CO2 a year, depending on how many airplane trips they take and other factors, including how much food they consume? (Check out how you compare by plugging in your numbers to this carbon footprint calculator tool.)
While you might feel like one family can’t do much to solve global warming, if everyone were to live their lives more sustainably, collectively we could make a difference in the health of our planet, especially when it comes to the air we breathe.
So get started by calculating your carbon footprint. Many of your daily activities, such as throwing away trash instead of recycling, or running the air conditioner instead of opening a window, can impact your household’s carbon footprint.
Then, make a commitment to reduce your footprint. Here are some steps you can take:
Go solar: Of all forms of renewable energy, solar is considered to be one of the best solutions when it comes to reducing the world’s reliance on electricity sources that cause carbon pollution. Solar energy requires no combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity. This is good news because in 2014, about 37 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions and about 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions came from burning fossil fuels for purposes such as heating homes and buildings. A home with an 8.6-kilowatt solar system avoids the emission of approximately 9,600 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere a year.
For comparison, this amount of carbon dioxide is the equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions from driving a passenger car 10,000 miles or to burning 4,650 pounds of coal.
If you can’t go solar, there are many things you can still do to make your home more energy efficient, whether it be investing in ENERGY STAR® certified energy efficient appliances or weatherproofing your windows. (Learn more in this post about reducing your electric bill.) You can also choose to patronize businesses that have made the switch to renewable energy. Learn more about businesses that have gone solar with Solar Technologies.
Spend less time in your car: Most cars and trucks use gasoline and diesel to transport people and goods, and this accounts for about 31 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions. Consider biking to work (find 45,003 mapped miles of cycling routes via the U.S. Bicycle Route System), walking to the grocery store, or taking public transportation. You could also drive an electric vehicle. Florida Solar East has a partnership with Ford that offers rebates to EV owners who go solar, and we’ll donate money to The Sierra Club on your behalf.
Reduce, reuse, recycle: The industries that produce the goods and raw materials that we use every day are one of the three main contributors to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Rather than throwing glass or aluminum in the trash, take advantage of local recycling programs. Recycling one good into another means you’re reducing your reliance on new products that add more waste to our landfills.
Florida Solar East is committed to being a responsible corporate citizen, and we’re the first and only solar company to earn the National Science Foundation’s Sustainability Landfill-Free verification for our module assembly sites. This honor requires at least 99 percent of a site’s waste to be diverted from landfills. We’ve also offered PV Takeback and Recycling to our customers and led the industry in creating a U.S. Solar PV Recycling Network.
Our philosophy is to make our solar panels as sustainable as the clean energy they produce and to ensure that our installations benefit the environment by leaving it better off than how we found it.
Make conscious food choices: Just like working out and getting in shape, conscious food choices start with one meal at a time. Try weaving in just one vegetarian meal a day. If you like the results, consider eating veggie for a whole day or week. Forming healthy food habits will help our animal friends and the planet.
Small choices add up to huge collective reductions in our collective footprint.
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«Why are you here? Lorien - Babylon 5
Do you have anything worth living for?».
Lorien - Babylon 5
Everyone and everything meet by the Crossroads.
Restlessness lead us away, leading us to places where knowledge and power may be glimpsed, may be learned.
Not a tear in the fabric of reason, but a path, a gate, to an extended reality.
All stories meet by the Crossroads.
The Fire is big. It's frame is big enough to house more than one giant of a man. The flame is of constant height and width. Nothing really burns. Not the flame, neither its nourishment on the ground and in the air.
But the Fire keep burning.
One hooded figure times five are raising their hands, raising the cone of Fire, keeping open the fabric of reality.
A long stretch of gray
Leading outside the long stretch of gray, to the Crossroads Beyond.
Freedom is a four letter word
Leading to Infinity.
A deep center, where all realities, all Strangers meet and part.
I bid you welcome
Wanderer reaching the gate to all realities.
Back to the beginning...
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Silicon Designs offers reference accelerometers in four acceleration ranges
Single axis MEMS DC calibration reference accelerometers make up the Model 2290 series by Silicon Designs. They are offered in four acceleration ranges, namely ±5g, ±10g, ±25g and ±50g. They are used to determine the sensitivity and frequency response characteristics of unknown MEMS DC accelerometers during end-to-end calibrations and related performance verifications.
The accelerometer serves as the “reference standard,” either for performance specification comparisons or as a substitute for the working accelerometer. Beyond such verifications, the Model 2290 series accelerometers also support a variety of zero-to-medium frequency instrumentation applications ranging from 2,000Hz to DC, including both centre of gravity acceleration measurements and equipment calibrations.
The rugged design of the Model 2290 series incorporates a non-ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulation) controlled, tactical-grade MEMS inertial sense element (U.S. Export Classification ECCN 7A994). The MEMS DC accelerometer chip and other internal components of the Model 2290 are housed together within a one inch square, epoxy sealed, anodised aluminium case with 10-foot integral cable. The cable further terminates into four-wire pigtails for compatibility with most industry data acquisition systems, said Silicon Designs. An initial calibration certificate is supplied with each Model 2290 accelerometer. Units are both REACH and RoHS -compliant.
The Model 2290 series is relatively insensitive to temperature changes and gradients, added the company. Onboard voltage regulation and an internal voltage reference eliminate the need for precision power supplies. The anodised aluminium case can be mounted via screws, adhesive or a mounting magnet. The reference accelerometer is non-ferrous which means its performance remains otherwise unaffected by magnetic mounting techniques.
Optional accessories are available, including the Model 2230 triaxial mounting block, the Model 2232 magnetic mount and the Model 2235-BLK stud adapter block.
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Another White-Bakkie Man
Imagine standing at a four-way stop holding one raised fore-finger into the air, being observed by the rush-hour traffic of a morning of a day’s activity taking place. Nothing to do, hungry, dejected, seeking one day’s employ for one man to lift and get. The fortunate, full, financed, for a fleeting moment are uncomfortably scrutinized by the action-seekers, the failure for whom to yet again be hired hangs as an inevitable pit of doom in the rising sun; the later the day, the less the chance. And then another white-bakkie man returns the one finger gesture except it’s his middle finger! What happened?!!
White-bakkie man interviewed:-
“Yeah, I know it’ a pretty hard-core sign, means Fuck You! and all that but it’s a pretty hard life and if you haven’t got a job it’s pretty much Fuck you…ain’t got no job, I’m just trying to survive myself..you know? So Fuck-off Man…!!”
So what do you make of that hey??! It’s all about getting around and to do things and survive…everythings available there, tittbits and the whole smackeroo and life is give and take. What’s your Luck?
Imagine the discomfort.
Standing in the rain blue work-clothes drenched one finger raised to heaven choking on the fumes of bored commuters not needing help it was 6 this morning, then 7, then 8 must be past nine now the traffic’s thinning another day of nothing better go back to nowhere try get dry.
Sing to the tune of “Wakiki Man”:
White-Bakkie Man, White-Bakkie Man,
Another God-damn White-Bakkie Man..
Sing Country/Western style with N. American accent:
He’s a White-Bakkie Man
With his own Family plan
and he don’t give a damn
’cause he’s just another
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Grocery shopping is your mission. The game plan is to get in and out as
quickly as possible before coming into contact with… THE PLAGUE!
That’s right, you are fully aware of the dangers: the flu and bronchitis
are lurking around the corner, after all. Regardless of the danger, you’ve
accepted the mission: purchase a gallon of milk before the family dies
Jokes about catching the plague aside, we all realize that germs are simply
more common in places where people gather. According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hand washing is one of the best ways to protect you and your family from
getting ill this flu season.
As you may know, running water and soap aren’t always available.
So, using hand sanitizers and disinfecting wipes are often what’s
available; but do you actually know how to properly use them? Check out
these tips to help you get the most protection from germs when you aren’t
able to scrub with soap and water:
- Choose a hand sanitizer that is at least 60% alcohol. Remember that hand
sanitizers DO NOT kill all germs and are not as effective when hands are
visibly dirty. Be cautious when using hand sanitizers with children—swallowing
hand sanitizer can be poisonous.
- Apply about a dime sized portion of hand sanitizer to the palm of the hand
(or enough to cleanse the entire hand) and rub hands, fingers and nails
together until the product is COMPLETETLY DRY. Remember—you’ll
re-introduce germs to your hands if you touch something before the sanitizer
is dry and the friction helps to loosen the germs on your hands. Check
the label of your hand sanitizer for additional tips.
When using sanitizing wipes remember to “use it and lose it.”
Dr. William Schaffner Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine says disinfecting wipes are best used on one surface
and tossed out. So, when you wipe down the handle of your shopping cart,
be sure to grab another one if you plan to use it another place. Although
the wipes will kill bacteria, some of the bacteria remains on the wipe
and can be spread from surface to surface. Best practice is to clean surfaces
with one wipe, and then disinfect with another.
Just like hand sanitizer, the surface cleaned with a sanitizing wipe must
air dry to be effectively disinfected. Most wipe products have a specific
dry time, so it’s best to read the label and follow the instructions.
When the product label is unavailable,at a minimum, allow the surface (like your shopping cart handle) to fully dry before use.
Simple Green calls this drying time “kill time”. Remember-sanitizing wipes
are typically not intended for use on skin.
In addition to covering our coughs and washing our hands, using hand sanitizer
and disinfecting wipes can be one of the best tools to help you and your
family avoid catching the “rhinobronchiastrepalitis of 2019”
or any other illness that plagues us this winter.
Now that you can use them effectively in the battle against germs, you
won’t have to hibernate till spring. Be safe and well out there people!
Check out more tips on how to prevent the flu at
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We’re all getting older—that is, if we’re lucky. Kent State experts share their advice on how to prepare for and make the most of our golden [Flash] years.
By Lynette Lamb | Illustrations by Melissa Olson
As Baby Boomers become senior citizens—and attempt to redefine that stage life as they’ve redefined previous ones—articles and books are promising them a future of “healthy aging.” But how do we define that term? asks Gregory Smith, PhD, Kent State professor of human development and family studies. “The older we get, the more likely we are to be victims of senescence,” he says. “Biological aging is a normal process. It isn’t necessarily ‘healthy,’ but it is inevitable.”
That’s why Dr. Smith prefers the term optimal aging, which he says “implies that you are living the best quality of life that you can, given your current state of affairs.”
Yet the conundrum persists: How can we achieve that optimal life? There’s no sure-fire set of instructions, but we’ve solicited the advice of some Kent State experts, on subjects ranging from communicating to exercising, that just might help you and your loved ones reach 80 or 90 optimally.
MAKING THE MONEY LAST
Who knows how long you’ll live, but planning ahead can help you prepare for any event.
When it comes to aging well, money really can buy happiness. Of course, life is unpredictable. You could have saved millions for retirement only to die of cancer at 63. Or you might assume you won’t make it past 70, only to see your 90th birthday roll around while eking out your Social Security.
Kent State’s Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, PhD, an associate professor of economics who studies the economics of aging, has some advice to help you plan ahead, regardless of your lifespan.
Give away money to your family tax-free while you can. Currently you can give each family member $14,000 a year tax-free. Considering the uncertainty about when you will die and how sick you will be before that, she says, it makes sense to start giving away your money now, before you have to spend it down to qualify for Medicaid.
Make housing choices ahead of time. Waiting until a crisis hits nearly always results in a situation that is worse both emotionally and financially, says Dr. Greenhalgh-Stanley.
Don’t collect Social Security any earlier than you have to. Taking your benefits before full retirement age means giving up larger monthly payments for the rest of your life.
Remember that Medicare* does not cover nursing home costs. It’s surprising how many people believe it does, says Dr. Greenhalgh-Stanley.
Modify your house to stay safe. Adding grab bars, removing throw rugs and improving lighting to prevent falls and hospitalizations will allow you to age in place longer. Some states (including Virginia, Minnesota and California) even have loan or grant programs to help elders improve their homes’ safety.
Don’t live in a food desert. In an urban area, a food desert is defined as any home located more than a mile away from a grocery store selling fresh fruit and vegetables. Many elderly people cannot drive, nor can they walk far to buy groceries—and ordering food online hasn’t caught on yet with most senior citizens. Yet obtaining adequate nutrients is critical for staying healthy at any age, says Dr. Greenhalgh-Stanley.
Buy long-term care insurance early— or not at all. Because of its high cost, long-term care insurance rarely makes financial sense for any but the wealthiest people, says Dr. Greenhalgh-Stanley. The exception is if you can buy it early enough—in your 40s or 50s—or if you can get financial assistance from an employer to cover the premium costs.
*Medicare vs. Medicaid
Medicare is a federally sponsored health insurance program for Americans aged 65 and up and for disabled people. The cost is reasonable (around $200 to $300 a month) and is usually supplemented by a small personal health insurance policy. Medicare pays for doctor’s visits, hospital stays, prescriptions, etc., just as any other health insurance plan does. It does not pay for nursing home stays.
Medicaid is a jointly funded, federal-state health insurance program for low-income people. It covers children, the aged, blind, disabled and other people who are eligible to receive federally assisted income maintenance payments. Medicaid will pay for nursing home care but only for those people whose incomes are quite low and whose assets have been reduced to $2,000 to $3,000 in total (not including a home).
HAVING THE TALK
How to have a conversation with your parents (or your children) about later-in-life choices—before it’s too late.
One of the most important issues as we age is to communicate with our families about a host of vital matters, such as: Where do we want to live? When should we stop driving? When do we need help in our home? How much money do we have to live on? Under what medical conditions do we want to stop fighting a disease or sign a do-not-resuscitate order?
None of these are light, breezy conversations, but they are essential, says Kent State associate professor of communication studies Mei-Chen Lin, PhD. She and some Kent State colleagues have studied the kinds of issues that stop people from having these difficult but necessary talks.
They found that less than half of adults have conversations like these with their parents, yet one thing is certain: Members of the younger generation always wish they would have discussed these issues before a tragedy or crisis with a parent forced them into making quick choices without enough information.
Baby Boomers have struggled in part because they are the first generation to have so many parents who live into their late 80s and 90s. “Experience with their parents is giving them a better idea how to talk with their children,” says Dr. Lin. Or at least she hopes so.
Following are a few of her suggestions for communicating with your parents about later-in-life choices. Then pass on your newfound wisdom to your kids. They’ll thank you for it.
Ask your parents to put their wishes on paper. This is critical in case both parents become impaired at once, and neither can pass along their wishes to offspring.
Let your parents know you have plenty of time to talk about these matters. Elders told Dr. Lin and her fellow researchers that they didn’t want to bother their busy children with this information.
Bring up housing, driving and other matters informally. See how your parents respond and don’t cover the entire conversation at once if they’re not ready to talk.
Speak with your siblings. Ask if they have already held these conversations with your parents, and get all siblings on the same page, if possible. The sibling who is emotionally closest to your parents should start the conversation. Others can help with resources, logistics, etc.
Research housing and transportation options. Offer that information to your parents along with alternatives, such as hiring home care, moving to a senior complex, or remodeling the home for more safety and ease.
Don’t patronize your parents. Reassure them that you are thinking about how they can best maintain their independence, not trying to take away
Communicate your love and care. Don’t make them feel like a burden; assure them that you’re all in this together. Help your parents understand how much making these decisions will help you and your siblings now and later on.
RAISING THE GRANDCHILDREN
What happens when you’re ready to retire, but have to take on another round of child-rearing?
Many Americans are finding that just as retirement comes into view, they are unexpectedly raising their grandchildren. This is more common than many people realize, says Gregory Smith, PhD, Kent State professor of human development and family studies. “I wish I had a nickel for every grandparent who told me they didn’t see this coming.”
Some are taking on a significant co-parenting role for a variety of reasons, which include parent work schedules, health concerns and military deployment.
But about a million grandparents in the United States are taking on a custodial or skipped generation role—meaning they are raising grandchildren on a fulltime basis in their own home without involvement from birth parents (although many don’t have legal custody).
Parent substance abuse, incarceration and mental illness are some of the causes behind this upswing in custodial caregiving, says Dr. Smith, who has been researching various interventions to alleviate the psychological effects of disrupted parenting on custodial grandfamilies.
Custodial grandmothers (who do the major share of caregiving) are at high risk for psychological distress and custodial grandchildren (who experience early life adversity) are at high risk for behavioral and emotional difficulty.
The norm for traditional grandparenting, Dr. Smith points out, is to interact with grandchildren in an indulgent, fun-loving way and to help out occasionally with money or babysitting. That role gets tossed aside when a grandparent becomes the primary caregiver.
In a study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, involving custodial grandmothers of children ages 4 to 12, Dr. Smith compared three interventions—cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral parent training and information only support—to improve the well-being of custodial grandfamilies. The first two interventions were equally effective in reducing distress and improving parenting behaviors among grandmothers and lessening psychological difficulties among grandchildren—and more successful than the information only approach.
Dr. Smith’s most recent five-year research grant, funded by the National Institute on Aging, involves social intelligence training* for custodial grandmothers and their adolescent grandchildren, ages 12 to 18. Adolescents have been largely ignored in studies, but are at a peak period for developing social skills. Social intelligence is the ability to effectively navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments. “Developing and maintaining close social ties is critical to optimizing mental and physical health, whatever your age,” says Dr. Smith.
He and another principal investigator at Arizona State University are developing an online social intelligence training program for the grandmother/grandchild dyad.
Researchers and media reports on custodial grandparents have largely focused on the caregivers and their burdens. And while grandparents undoubtedly need support, Dr. Smith says he is equally concerned with the emotional needs of the grandchildren.
“It’s the difference between caring for and caring about someone.”
*Help stop the cycle
The importance of this social intelligence intervention cannot be underestimated, Dr. Smith says. “Increasing evidence over the past decade shows that early life adversity has profound effects on our later lives. It is a huge risk factor for problems throughout life, including the ability to form and maintain close interpersonal ties. In risky families, the cycles continue across generations. Social intelligence training is a form of intervention that can stop the cycle.
Use it or lose it. We’ve heard this expression so often we don’t really hear it anymore.
There’s no denying that exercise is a vital component to achieving an optimal old age. A number of physiological changes occur naturally with aging, says Angela Ridgel, PhD, Kent State associate professor of exercise science and physiology—among them loss of muscle strength and balance, and a decline in sensory systems such as vision and kinesthetic sense.
The good news is that you can combat this decline, but you’re going to have to work at it*. “Aerobic exercise increases heart rate, blood flow to the tissues, oxygen delivery to the brain,” Dr. Ridgel says. “We also know it increases neurotransmitters that help movement and cognitive processes and improve mood.”
Okay, we’re convinced. But how much exercise is enough? Dr. Ridgel, whose newest research focuses on neuro-rehabilitation with Parkinson’s disease patients, has some advice.
Resistance or weight training is necessary to offset the muscle decline that comes with aging. You can slow down and even reverse that muscle loss with a two to three times a week weight regime. Choose exercises that work large muscle groups, such as the leg press, abdominal press and back machines, and those that help you work out your upper body. You’ll be glad you did when you can rise from a chair, stand and walk for longer periods. And you don’t need heavy weights to make a difference, Dr. Ridgel says. Even five to ten pounds will do the job.
Consider high-intensity interval training. Currently an important older adult research area in Dr. Ridgel’s field, high-intensity interval training means performing five to six, 20 to 30–second bursts of very high heart rate exercise, which serves to increase blood flow and oxygen to the brain but won’t completely wear a person out, she says. Researchers speculate that this increased blood flow may improve both physical function and cognitive function.
Don’t be afraid of getting hurt while exercising. “It’s important for older adults to feel confident about their abilities,” says Dr. Ridgel. “Exercise allows you to go out into the world and face it head on. Believe me, you’ll feel so much better.” And isn’t that what we’re all hoping for?
Aerobic exercise means more than a weekly stroll around the block. If you prefer moderate exercise—which allows you to walk or bike, for instance, while still easily holding a conversation—you need to aim for 30 minutes, five days a week. If you can handle higher intensity, such as running or playing singles tennis, aim for 30 minutes three times a week.
SURVIVING THE SANDWICH YEARS
What to do when you’re caught in the middle of caring for children and older adults.
When his grandmother in Vermont got sick some years ago, Phillip Rumrill, PhD, Kent State professor and coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program and director of the Center for Disability Studies, became what he calls “an unwitting and unwilling member of the sandwich generation.”
His grandmother was facing a long road ahead, with cancer and dementia, and Dr. Rumrill was faced with figuring out how to best support her through all of that, which drew on skills he’d learned from teaching rehabilitation counseling case management.
After his grandmother died he decided to write—with two colleagues—a helpful manual called The Sandwich Generation’s Guide to Eldercare, which won the 2013 Gold Medal for the Family & Relationships category in Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
Following is advice from Dr. Rumrill’s book.
Compile all your financial records—attorney’s contact info, will, assets, medical records, bank accounts, etc.—and keep them in one easy-to-find place. Even though you may still be middle-aged, should you suddenly get sick your family would be able to easily find insurance policies and other vital financial information.
Consult with a financial planner who specializes in eldercare issues—for yourself and your parents. Financially helping your parents can have implications for your children, though. “If you’re paying for Grandma’s assisted living, that’s less college money for them,” says Dr. Rumrill.
Realize you may need to take a medical leave at some point to support your parents. This means making career adjustments, which tend to fall disproportionately on women, Dr. Rumrill says. Nationwide, about a third of women between ages 40 and 60 say they have had to interrupt their careers because of eldercare responsibilities.
Acknowledge that the role reversal is hard for both parties. “Our parents are our superheroes,” Dr. Rumrill says. “Watching them age requires some adjustment on our part, as well.”
Include your children in caring for elderly loved ones as much as you can. “Aging is a natural part of the human experience,” Dr. Rumrill says. “But there is a balance to this. You don’t want to overwhelm children.”
Take care of yourself if you’re the caretaker. “Don’t be afraid to ask for help,” says Dr. Rumrill. “You won’t be good to anyone if you burn out.”
FEEDING YOUR BRAIN
Your gut’s microbiome can help your brain function at its best.
Food and weight are fraught subjects, of course, but Kent State psychology professor John Gunstad, PhD, director of the Applied Psychology Research Center, urges older people to stay the course and take their caloric intake seriously.
Research has shown links between obesity and memory loss, he says, and as weight goes up, we’re also at greater risk for diabetes and heart disease. Interestingly, underweight people are also at greater risk for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, so the best solution seems to be maintaining a healthy weight.
Dr. Gunstad’s latest research explores the relationship between the gut microbiome and brain function in older adults. There are more bacterial cells in our body than human cells, he explains, and these bacteria can have an important impact on body systems such as blood sugar and heart disease.
“Research in animals shows that a better ratio of good to bad bacteria improves brain health*,” he says. “And we think it might work the same in humans.”
The researchers plan to check mood and memory at the beginning and end of a 90-day cycle in which some human test subjects take probiotics and others do not, to determine if probiotic capsules—standardized and safe—make a difference in brain function. By summer 2018 they hope to have some results.
In the meantime, when it comes to aging gracefully, healthily and optimally, Dr. Gunstad has some advice, but it’s nothing magical or new. “Do all the things your mother told you to do: sleep enough, eat right and exercise. Take care of the little things, and the big things will mostly take care of themselves.”
How to achieve that better bacteria ratio? Yep, back to the good old Mediterranean diet we’ve heard about for years: fruits, vegetables, fish, olive oil, yogurt. But what if we could help our guts and brains without mainlining kale and olive oil? Dr. Gunstad and his fellow researchers are interested in that question, too. They’re in the midst of a study looking at whether taking a probiotic supplement might manipulate bacteria to improve brain function.
EATING AS YOU AGE
How you ate and drank in your 20s and 30s probably won’t meet your needs in your 50s and beyond.
When it comes to improving your diet, it’s never too late to start, says Christine Rosenbloom, BS ’73, PhD, a nutrition professor emerita at Georgia State University, who currently provides nutrition consulting services to many food and nutrition-related groups.
In her recently published book, Food & Fitness After 50, she and her coauthor translate scientific research into simple action steps for adults over 50 who want to lead active, healthy lives.
However, it’s never too early to start either. Although many people wait until they retire to make major lifestyle changes, 30 is about the age when changes in most of our body systems begin to occur, says Dr. Rosenbloom, who specializes in sports nutrition and gerontology. “These changes happen gradually, and the good news is that aging adults can do many things to maintain good function, even at advanced ages.”
“If you make it to age 65, statistically you have a life expectancy of 20 more years. And you want to spend them in as good health as you can. You don’t have to throw everything out of your pantry and start over. Just begin making little changes.”
Here are some changes she recommends:
Watch out for weight creep. If you gain just two pounds a year, multiply that by 30 years and you’re saddled with 60 extra pounds. “Monitoring is important,” Dr. Rosenbloom says. “I encourage people to weigh themselves every morning—not to freak out or let the number on the scale dictate your happiness, but when you start seeing that steady increase, to put the brake on it so you maintain a healthy weight.”
Eat regular meals and distribute protein throughout the day. Many of us tend to eat light during the day and then backload all of our calories at night, says Dr. Rosenbloom. “It’s much better for our muscle mass to be fed with good protein throughout the day.”
Choose nutrient-rich foods. As you get older, you need fewer calories, but the same (if not more)of some nutrients, including calcium, vitamin D and vitamin B12. “Be more selective about choosing foods that give you the right balance of nutrients, not just empty calories,” Dr. Rosenbloom says. “There’s less room in your diet for that pitcher of beer and basket of fried chicken wings you might have had when younger.”
Know your nutrients. Track your food/beverage intake for several days using sites like ChooseMyPlate.gov or Supertracker.usda.gov to see if you’re getting a healthy balance of nutrients; you can also download apps to find the percentage of nutrients you’ve consumed.
“Once you know your baseline, you can make any needed adjustments,” says Dr. Rosenbloom. “For example, when it comes to calcium, you might just need to add a handful of almonds or six ounces of yogurt in the afternoon to get your calcium up to a healthy range.”
Consider your portion sizes. Bigger isn’t always better when it comes to health. You can overeat healthy foods, too. “For example, bottled smoothies can be a good snack or meal replacement, but often the bottle contains two servings.”
Cook at home more. Cooking is still the best way to make healthy meals. Highly processed packaged and frozen foods are often high in sodium, sugar and less healthy fats.
Be wary of the latest fad diet. “We need the nutrients in carbohydrates, proteins and fats, so having a balance of those things is important,” Dr. Rosenbloom says. “You don’t need to go on a deprivation plan; most people can’t stick with them anyway.” Unless you have some major health condition, you don’t need to be very restrictive; just make some minor adjustments and tweaks, like limiting added sugar and refined grains.
Choose a healthy eating plan. There is no best diet or food for optimal aging, says Dr. Rosenbloom. Many healthy eating plans contain a balance of the three major nutrients—carbohydrate, protein and fat—so find a plan that works best for you. In her book, she suggests you consider four dietary plans backed by science that contain a variety of healthy foods from all food groups: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), Flexitarian, Mediterranean-style and the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND).
Enjoy eating and socializing. Food is an essential and enjoyable part of life. Share meals with family and friends. Experiment with new flavors and recipes. Learn to make substitutions, not sacrifices. Eat for health most of the time, but recognize that everything in moderation is fine, says Dr. Rosenbloom. You don’t have to miss out on enjoying a piece of your grandchild’s birthday cake.
Know what moderation means. Sharing a decadent dessert with your dinner companions is moderation; ordering the death-by-chocolate cake just for yourself is not. Not drinking during the week and drinking it all on Saturday night is not moderation; that is binge drinking. If you drink alcohol, moderate your intake to one or two drinks a day for men and one drink a day for women.
By The Numbers
Older American adults:
- 30% are overweight or obese
- 1 in 5 meet the recommendations for daily physical activity
- 1/3 have high blood pressure
- 1 in 4 over 60 have diabetes
See more information about food and fitness as we age.
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Your State Of Health Insurance Policy: Finding The Right One
There are lots of options with regards to medical insurance. Research and taking notes are efficient ways to aid yourself while searching. You should conduct research first. The guidelines in this article are specifically made for helping you to choose a proper medical health insurance policy.
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Individual policies could possibly have higher expenses compared to those available from group plans. Chances are that you may have to make up by accepting an increased deductible or less coverage. Check around for the greatest coverage and rates.
When you, or all of your relatives, have vision issues, that is a good idea to obtain optical insurance. This insurance covers some of your contacts, glasses and check-ups. You are not required to handle vision insurance, and it might be cheaper in the long term to not have this coverage.
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Throughout the phone interviews that health care insurance companies conduct before granting coverage, don’t answer questions the organization doesn’t ask. Give direct answers to their questions and nothing more. By volunteering extraneous details, chances are that they will note them within your file as well as improve your policy costs or deny coverage altogether based on the information you provided.
Each state has its own rules for insurance, so you need to buy coverage in the state of your residence. Make sure that you understand which doctors and hospitals are included in your plan. Insurance providers set their particular rules, so be sure you find out their policies beforehand.
You need to discover which medical health insurance company and plan is best suited to suit your needs. There are various plan choices, including PPO, POS and HMO. Various options are available from each company that you should consider before making your option. Be sure that you go with one that permits you to keep the current physician.
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It was an improbable symbol of the embryonic romance between London and Beijing: a 16th-century Buckinghamshire pub where then prime minister David Cameron and Chinese president Xi Jinping sealed their countries’ “golden” friendship over a pint of Greene King IPA.
Now the Plough at Cadsden – a rural tavern near the official country retreat used by British prime ministers – has reportedly been sold to Chinese investors for an undisclosed fee.
“We are really pleased to have completed the sale of the Plough to SinoFortone Investment,” Neil Morgan, the Christie & Co director behind the sale was quoted as saying by the Morning Advertiser, a publication focusing on the pub sector.
“The pub became famous in Chinese circles following the visit of President Xi Jinping, and it has become quite a tourist attraction for Chinese visitors since, who are keen to sample the classic British food and beer that the president tried,” Morgan added.
Peter Zhang, the managing director of the government-backed investment group behind the deal, said: “We are so excited about this new adventure.”
“The English pub concept is growing very fast in China and it’s the best way culturally to link people from different countries and build friendships,” Zhang was quoted as saying by the state-run China Daily newspaper.
The Plough at Cadsden served its first ale during the Ming dynasty and today describes itself as “probably the most famous pub in England” and “that kind of pub [where] everyone feels at home here and can be sure of a warm welcome”.
Because of its proximity to Chequers, the prime minister’s country home in Buckinghamshire, a succession of political figures has propped up its bar over the years, including Edward Heath, Britain’s leader from 1970 until 1974.
The pub’s website says it also regularly hosts “a variety of local celebrities from the world of film, television and the music industry”.
It wasn’t until October 2015, however, when Xi and Cameron graced its bar during the former’s state visit to Britain, that the watering hole came on to Chinese radars.
Xi’s brief visit, which helped launch a controversial diplomatic flirtation dubbed the “golden era” of UK-China relations, made the pub a magnet for some of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists who visit Britain each year.
“We read the news that President Xi visited here and would love to experience the food and drink that he tasted,” one such visitor, 26-year-old Miao Xin, told the China Daily last year.
Speaking to the same newspaper, the pub’s landlord, Steve Hollings, claimed Xi had sent him an email “thanking him, and saying that he enjoyed the meal and drink in the pub”.
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That’s how many state governments have sent out, approved, or are considering payments to residents to help them cope with the rapidly rising cost of living.
The relief measures range from a $75-per-person tax rebate in Idaho to direct payments of up to $1,050 per household authorized this week by California governor Gavin Newsom. Officials in several states have proposed measures that have yet to pass, such as in Pennsylvania, where Governor Tom Wolf has called for giving households up to $2,000. Many of the plans impose income limits on the payments.
The direct payments are to help people cope with soaring prices for groceries, gasoline, and other necessities amid the highest inflation in more than 40 years. While any relief is welcome news for shoppers, critics say putting more money in consumers’ pockets will only make inflation worse by contributing to an imbalance between supply and demand. Some say that’s exactly what happened when the federal government sent out federal stimulus payments during the pandemic, flooding the economy with cash and stoking today’s inflation.
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Parts of Manchester have been hit by a freak hail storm which saw huge pellets of snow falling from the sky.
Residents from Oldham to Irlam reported 'crazy' weather scenes on Sunday evening.
It comes after a yellow warning of snow and ice was issued across the region and expected to last till Wednesday.
Snow has - and continues to fall - in some places, as temperatures continue to plummet.
Other places were battered by a short spell of giant hail and lightning.
Residents took to Twitter to describe the freak storm.
Footage taken by Heather Lovelace, who lives in Irlam, shows the moment her house was hit with hail (above).
Mattie Jameson said: "Absolutely crazy weather here in Manchester! Heaviest hail I’ve ever seen turning into thick laying snow with crackles of thunder and lightening!
Another twitter user wrote: "Only in Manchester would you get sun, rain, hail and snow in the same day"
Russell Bloor, who lives in Oldham captured the pellets of snow as they sprayed the ground.
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Fall brings cooler temperatures, perfect for nature walks. The organizers of Miami Eco Adventures know this and have planned accordingly.
They’re ramping up their monthly nature walk programming at Arch Creek Park in North Miami Beach.
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In October, they’re offering:
- Archaeology Family Adventure nature hikes/walks
Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m-noon or 2-3:30 p.m.
Oct. 25. $6 per person.
- Guided nature walks
Saturdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Oct. 17. Free.
- Campfire and night walk
Friday and Saturday nights from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Oct. 16, 24 and 30. $6 per person.
- Ghost Tour and campfire
Thursdays from 7:30-9:25 p.m.
Oct. 15, 22 and 29. $6 per person.
Sign up soon as the tours have limited capacity and fill up quick! Social distancing practices will be in place, as will mask-wearing requirements. Wear closed-toe shoes and insect repellent (and bring a flashlight for nighttime activities).
Join the family friendly adventure with nature guides as they…
- Take you on a hike through the tropical hardwood hammock, once the site of a Tequesta Tribe.
- Host a post-hike, hands-on demonstration at a mock excavation site.
- Teach you the value of historical and archaeological sites.
- Point out the variety of plants and animals found at the park.
- Guide you through the sights and sounds of screech owls, raccoons and other nocturnal natives.
Arch Creek Park is one of the North Miami Beach’s treasures. The small park was created around a natural limestone bridge formation thought to have been part of an Indian trail used first by the Tequesta Tribe, and later the Seminoles.
You will also find a museum with American Indian and pioneer artifacts, a butterfly garden, and a bird and wildlife sanctuary.
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Miami’s gardens are another great way to enjoy the outdoors. They are an ideal setting for taking a nice, long stroll surrounded by lush, colorful scenery. Check out our roundup of suggested ones to visit, some of the city’s best and most historic. Click here for details.
Other beloved Miami attractions Vizcaya Museum & Gardens and Deering Estate (also offering a BOGO admission deal) are open with limitations, and many other attractions are open for virtual visits. See the list of those attractions, venues and museums here.
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A group of islands to east and north of the Six Duchies.
Geography and ruling
Out Islands are a harsh and mountainous land with deep fjords and rough waters and ice rules there year round. Although the islands are immense, only small parts of them are inhabitable. There are no cities and only few towns. Villages and town-states are independent. During the Red Ship War Kebal Rawbread managed to force a sort of alliance among the folk, and afterwards the individual headmen realized the power such alliance could have for more things than just war and so the Hetgurd was formed.
History and mythology
The Outislanders consider themselves to be the folk of El and call their land the God Runes. It is said that between the Out Islands and the Six Duchies as much blood has been shared as has been shed. The first Farseers were Outislander raiders, and the folk of the coastal duchies are of a mingled blood and will freely admit having cousins in the Out Islands. The languages share some roots, but have to be studied if one wants to understand and communicate with the other part. For their poetry and songs, the rules of the language change and syllables can be streched or shortened to fit a measure.
The Outislanders are matriarchal and use tattoos to inidicate their motherhouses. The women are rarely warriors, but own the lands and everything that goes with it. Men are mostly warriors and can be away from home for years at a time, sailing and raiding. Thus it is not surprising that houses and farmlands are passed from mother to daughter, and that a man's connection to his mother's family is much stronger than any marriage bonds. If a man is overly long away at raiding, a woman might take another husband or a lover. As the ownership of the land goes from mother to daugther, it little matters who fathers the children.
- clans and the animals
- God Runes reckoning: the child is only counted as a member of the family after surviving his/her first year, thus their real age is actually what they say + 1 year
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So the heatwave is over - well, at least this week's heatwave is over. But who would bet against another with two months of summer remaining?
Alan Thomas, the chief executive of landlord insurance provider Simply Business - which insures over 350,000 landlords - has revealed five unexpected things to watch out for during ultra-hot weather.
1. Open windows are an open invitation for criminals - It’s only natural for people to open their windows. It can even be tempting for homeowners and tenants to leave windows open at night – or even throughout the day – to keep their property cool. But it’s worth remembering that an open window can offer a glaring opportunity to potential criminals, and we’ve seen examples of theft claims down the years where windows have been left open during the day when no-one’s home, and burglars have entered the house.
You can do a few things to keep your house cool and secure. For example, installing a cable window restrictor on any window that is easily accessible can be a good way to prevent a break-in. But also take extra care in your daily routine. Think of closing your windows as you would locking your front door when you leave the house.
2. Beware the gas barbecue - A benefit of warmer weather is that you can start cooking outdoors and in 2020, Britons held an impressive average of three barbecues each across the year.Many opt for the convenience of a gas grill, but not without risk.
There have been examples of barbecue gas bottles exploding when exposed to intense heat for a long period of time – and with temperatures set to break previous records this week, it’s worth being cautious. Remember to keep them out of direct sunlight, and store them in a cool place.
3. Burst pipes are not just a winter problem - Bursting pipes are an issue that is generally associated with winter due to water freezing and pipes expanding but plumbing can be just as at risk in hotter months too.
Pipes are prone to warping when exposed to extreme temperatures so if you experience issues with your pipes in the winter months, it’s worth paying attention to them during a heatwave, too. As the ground becomes drier, it’s more likely to move, which can cause pipes to shift and come loose.
4. Beware brickwork cracks - Subsidence occurs when the ground sinks around the foundations of a house and it can happen when the ground becomes dry and shrinks. So inevitably as the weather gets warmer, and there is less rainfall, the causes of subsidence become more common.
It’s good to try and spot the signs of subsidence early. Some things to look out for include cracks in the walls, ceilings, outside brickwork, and under windows; plaster cracking in a diagonal movement; and external doors not closing easily.
5. Don’t leave electronics out in the sun - Whether you’re working from home in the garden, or enjoying some music at the weekend, it’s inevitable that you’ll take electronics outside in the heat at some point. But it’s worth remembering that equipment like laptops and mobile phones can’t handle intense heat for long periods of time and can easily overheat.
They also contain lithium batteries which get very hot which can potentially cause fires. So pay extra attention to your equipment if you spend more time than usual outdoors in the hot weather.
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The purpose of a booklet is to inform its readers about a particular business or service, effectively making it as a marketing tool. But to better serve its purpose, a booklet should have a layout that makes it easy for readers to have a handle on the flow of information. Booklet pages are basically double page design with prints on both sides. A nice layout of a booklet ensures that the material achieves its purpose. To fully take advantage of booklet printing, here are three types of booklet layout that you may want to consider:
Tri-fold Booklet Layout.
This type of booklet printing layout is consisted of a single sheet folded twice, which opens to display six pages of content. To make the most of tri-fold layout, you can place two product photos accompanied by short descriptions on every page. For branding, you can put your company logo on the first page. Allot the next four pages to your products while the last page should be reserved for your contact details. Aside from easy navigation, a tri-fold booklet layout provides the reader the convenience of carrying around the booklet in a backpack or the back pocket of his or her pants.
Folded Booklet Layout.
The folded booklet layout is the most common type of layout, often used for newsletters that are sent to regular customers. This type of layout is usually broken down into four sections, with each section containing a different color or motif to draw the reader into looking at a particular content. One or two pages can be allotted to images, while the rest may carry pertinent details about the business or the offering.
To make the most of either of these types of layout, make sure to keep your content short. Keep in mind that your booklet’s purpose is to share information so try to do so in a manner that will not bore your audience.
For best results, consider breaking up the content into short paragraphs or better yet, bullet points. You can sum up the information using charts or images to keep your audience engaged into what you are trying to tell them. To make your custom booklet printing a success, you must aim to engage your readers. Interesting visual elements can help you do the job. Regardless of the information that you want to share, ensure that the content is readable and the images do not extend beyond the texts to avoid distracting your readers. Choose a font style and color scheme that set off each other to enhance the readability of the booklet. It also goes without saying the font size must be a big enough for readers of any age.
Finally, consider carefully the quality of your booklet. To make sure that your booklet reflects your professionalism, consider getting the services high quality booklet printing service. If you must invest in custom booklet printing, do so without holding back. Marketing booklets are often the first business literatures that customers get from a company, so try not to ruin the opportunity.
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The organic established up of the drug makes it possible for it to be completely bent toward creating the human body get well from any ailments that it was previously enduring. Numerous have been quoted as acknowledging the reality that the drug has been in a position to perform to the full expectations that they experienced of it when they had been embarking its use.
Kratom is employed for a extensive assortment of solutions. The drug is utilized as a discomfort killer in most cases and it operates effectively to the same effect. Individuals who are suffering from diarrhea can also discover a worthy ally in the drug considering that it has the ability to quit the approach and also restore the stomach to its total operational simplicity. Its ongoing use is even so leading to some major anxieties in the general inhabitants because an dependancy is the end result of the follow.
People who have been characterised as employing the drug for the painkilling factor have identified their bodies relying on the drug for more than just the painkilling capabilities. This has brought on some key debate as to whether the drug is completely suited to be utilised as a painkiller considering that when utilized on a number of occasions, it turns into addictive. The truth of the make a difference is that the organic different is really instrumental in providing the body some energy and revitalizing the entire body capabilities. This is primarily accomplished via the element of the drug triggering the doing work of the mitochondria within the cells of the human human body. what is kratom powder used for? This leads to the human body to gain a lot more vitality from the cells and hence the physique gets to be refreshed.
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The European Commission has approved Germany’s aid plan worth 2.98 billion euro to support district heating and the green push.
The body pointed out in a statement on Tuesday that the move will help Germany to implement its national energy and climate plan, which will move the EU closer to achieving green objectives.
Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, pointed out that the move “will contribute to greening the district heating sector in Germany, by supporting the construction of more efficient district heating systems and the decarbonisation of existing ones.”
She noted that the scheme will help Germany to use more waste heat and renewable energy for heating, which will lower the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
“The German aid measure we have approved today will contribute to achieving the EU Green Deal objectives and help Germany meet its environmental targets, while limiting possible distortions of competition,” she concluded.
The EC reminded that Germany submitted its plan in June and added that it will stay in effect until the end of August 2028.
Grants for operators
According to the plan, district heating operators and those not currently offering heating services will be able to apply for aid, which will be provided in the form of grants.
The Commission pointed out that the plan will support transformation plans and feasibility studies for decarbonisation and construction of heating networks.
Under the scheme, operators will be able to apply for aid to construct facilities that use at least 75% of renewable and waste heat, modernise existing systems to make them more environmentally friendly, integrate waste heat into heating systems and more.
“In addition, district heating network operators will be able to receive operating aid for the generation of renewable heat through solar thermal installations and heat pumps,” the EC noted.
The body predicted that the move will help Germany to lower its annual greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 4 million tonnes.
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Nizhniy Novgorod is an exciting city to visit. It is the fourth-largest city of the country. Founded in 1221 by Vladimir Dukes as a fort at the junction of Volga and Oka rivers, Nizhny Novgorod has retained many of its unique historic, architectural and cultural monuments. The city is on the UNESCO list of the top 100 cities worldwide that are most valuable in terms of culture. Unlike Moscow and St. Petersburg, with their large numbers of Westerners, Nizhniy Novgorod offers insights into life in Russia's heartland. Nizhny Novgorod came to prosperity in the 19th century, when it got a reputation of the third Russia's capital.
Located at the confluence of two great Russian rivers – Volga & Oka, the city of Nizhny Novgorod is an economic & cultural center of the Volgo-Vyatsky region. Nizhny Novgorod is the third largest city of Russia populated by approximately two million people.
Traditionally and geographically Nizhny Novgorod is divided into two major parts – the Upper and the Lower part and has 8 administrative districts. Nizhegorodsky District that starts from Kremlin is a historical and cultural center focusing theatres, museums and High institutions. In Pryoksky District there is the biggest park in the city - “Switzerland” and a picturesque place called Malynovaya Gryada. Sovetsky District is mainly old streets and new dwelling microrayons sometimes with historical names - a forest-park Tshelkovsky Khutor gained the name of Nizhegorodian merchant Tshelkov in the 70s of the XIX century. Kanavinsky District situated on the low bank of the Oka River obtains its own legends and traditions – most of them are referred to Nizhegorodskaya Yarmarka (Fair) which is famous all over the world.
Nizhny Novgorod has rich historical past. It is believed that Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin was constructed by one of Leonardo da Vinchi pupils. Nizhny Novgorod was founded in 1221 by Russian prince Yury Vsevolodovich as a fortress. At the dawn of its history Nizhny Novgorod was governed by the popular assembly ("veche"), just like the Great Novgorod. In 1612 Nizhegorodian people’s volunteer corps led by Kozma Minin went towards Moscow occupied by the Polls and smashed the invaders. During the Great Patriotic War the city became the strongest rear of the military hostilities. But Nizhny Novgorod is famous not only for its military glory – from a small town on Volga it has grown up to the so-called “Pocket of Russia” due to its industrial and business development. Nowadays it is the capital of the Volga Federal District.
The Nizhny Novgorod region has a huge tourist potential. The city of Nizhny Novgorod is known to many Russians as one of the cruise cities on the Volga River.
Where there are mountains, albeit low, one can find also caves. In the region, there are two locations that cavers enjoy most - the Bornukovskaya Cave and the Ichalovsky forest dotted with deep karst ravines.
In the Nizhny Novgorod region one can find exclusive options for extreme lovers. During the Soviet times, there were experiments conducted in the region to design unique flying vehicles - ekranoplans, or wing-in-ground effect systems. In the Chkalovsky district, one can rapidly fly over the surface of the Gorkovsky Water Reservoir on a real ekranoplan. In the city, one can fly a real combat fighter at Sokol aircraft factory. There are places, where people can take a break from the industrial world, and become one with nature. These are not only numerous bases for active and extreme sports.
There are perfect hiking routes in the Kerzhensky Reserve that preserve the pristine natural beauty of the Nizhny Novgorod region. A walk in Vetluzhskoye Povolzhye Natural Park and picturesque lakes near the village of Staraya Pustyn will leave an unforgettable impression. There are many streams and rivers in the Nizhny Novgorod land. Some of them, such as Lukh, Vetluga and Kerzhenets, are known for the beauty of their landscapes. Unhurried rafting trips on these waterways have become a hobby for many Nizhny Novgorod residents.
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What if B2B businesses focused on upselling or cross-selling to an existing customer rather than acquiring new customers? The results would be incredible. Leveraging the existing customer base is what the subscription-based business model is all about. It entails nurturing customers and benefitting from the growth that follows.
The crux of such a business model largely depends on your customers' opinion – if it is positive, your business takes off; else, it collapses. So, you need to be customer-centric when you start your subscription-based business journey.
And the key thing to remember is customer retention is the sweet spot where you benefit from. In this blog, we’ll walk you through what a subscription-based revenue model is, its benefits, various subscription-based business models and how you can implement one effectively.
What is a Subscription- based Business Revenue Model?
Subscription-based models are those where customers pay for a recurring usage of a product or service to a business. Amazon Prime, Netflix, Wynk Music, HelloFresh, Birchbox and so on are some of the well-known services that are offered on a subscription-based model.
Wondering why subscription models work better than the other pricing technique? Let’s find out.
What are the Benefits of Subscription and Usage Revenue Models?
Unlike other revenue models, the subscription-based model has a strong wall of defense against economic uncertainty and helps create a stable customer base that will continue to subscribe to services or products; this allows businesses adopting this model to predict revenues with high efficacy. Here’re some of the undeniable benefits a subscription business model can offer you.
I) Accelerated Revenue Generation
Retaining customers is 5 times cheaper than acquiring new ones. The businesses that adopt a subscription-based business model are adept at customer retention and derive better customer lifetime value (CLTV) compared to the rest. So, these businesses tend to grow easily and more efficiently. The subscription-based business model also enables you to acquire customers faster through referrals and word of mouth. You can thus attract more customers, thereby expanding your business considerably and increasing its recurring revenue.
II) Better Revenue Predictability
Businesses following a subscription-based business model don’t have to reset their revenue forecasting button every quarter. They can start with a ballpark revenue estimate based on the data of the previous quarter and leverage churn rate numbers and gradually build from that point.
III) Enhanced Business Agility
When you establish long-term relationships with your customers, you can better understand their needs, requirements, pain points and expectations, and this enables you to cater to them better. With customer behavior mining platforms such as Salesforce Customer 360, you can not only manage your entire customer database in a single place but also respond to the dynamic requirements of your clients with your new product or service offerings.
What Are the Different Kinds of Subscription-based Revenue Models?
All subscription-based businesses have a common feature -- customers are charged for the access to the product rather than the product itself. Let’s now look at three popular subscription business models.
1) Pure Subscription Model
In a pure subscription-based business model, revenue for each subscription period is fixed. The amount that needs to be paid by the customer is predetermined along with the payment window. One of the best examples of this kind is Spotify’s flat-rate monthly subscription fee.
2) Consumption Model
Also known as the pure usage model, the consumption model’s revenue is not fixed. In this model, the amount that needs to be paid by the user and payment window is determined by the product’s usage. In other words, it’s a pay-as-you-use revenue model. Uber, Zomato and DoorDash are some examples of companies following this business model.
3) Hybrid Model
The hybrid subscription-based business model is a mix of both pure and consumption revenue models. This is why their revenue has both fixed and variable aspects. One such example of this business model is overage fees charged on your current flat-rate monthly bill for your additional phone minutes.
How Can I Implement a Salesforce-enabled Subscription Model in My Business?
Implementing a Salesforce-enabled subscription model requires the right tools and processes including building a consistent buyer’s journey that charts various channels customers may come across and how they might change their subscription package over time. You also need to track the latest metrics incorporated in the buyer’s journey. We’ll now look at the 3-step subscription model implementation process in detail.
Ø Empower Customers to Buy and Pay over Any Channel
Recent findings from McKinsey bring to light that more than 75% of customers prefer a remote human engagement or digital self-service platform rather than having a face-to-face meeting. Given this, you need to empower customers to upgrade, renew and pay instantly through various channels.
Well-established B2B companies like McKinsey are using more than 10 different channels to interact with clients. This reveals the importance of cross-channel communication from the customer's point of view. No matter which channel your customers use to approach you, you need to ensure to provide a seamless experience and resolve their queries effectively.
For example, a subscription management system can pick up a customer who initiated an online purchase but hesitates at the checkout. The system comes with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools that route them to the right rep to help the customer complete the purchase. Using the subscription management system, you can utilize customer data to deliver great experiences by ensuring a fully-connected buying journey.
Ø Focus on Delivering Customer Value
A key thing about the subscription-based business model is it helps deliver value consistently to your customers. On the downside, when the customer stops receiving value, nudging them to renew their subscription to your product or service doesn’t make sense. The results - They’ll fail to renew, your retention rate will decline, and they’ll eventually leave stalling your growth.
As a business, you need to transition from thinking about delivering products/services to delivering value to your customers consistently. Along those lines, when we look at Netflix, it doesn’t sell DVDs, on the contrary, it provides entertainment as a service. Likewise, Amazon’s value lies in delivering exceptional buying experience as a service.
Customers experience the value of your product or service when they use it, and this brings the service and customer teams to the limelight. These two teams need to work in tandem to ensure customers can adopt the product with ease and customer satisfaction is high.
Achieving these goals is only possible with a robust CRM tool that provides both automation and data visibility capabilities. Why data visibility and automation? Automation fast tracks your customers’ buying journey to use your product or service effectively, while data visibility lets you monitor and take appropriate actions based on user behavior and fix potential problems before they frustrate your customers.
Ø Track Recurring Revenue with KPIs Consistently
For a subscription-based business model, customer retention and customer value are even more important metrics than customer acquisition as they tell you how much value you can derive from a customer and estimate the potential recurring revenue.
The challenge is what metrics to use to monitor and track recurring revenue. Here are some metrics that you need to look at to project the recurring revenue.
Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)
While customer value can be determined by how much your customer base is adopting your subscription offerings, ARPU is calculated by dividing your business revenue by the total number of users. Targeting your customers with the right product or service offerings will help you increase your ARPU value.
MRR is calculated using the following formula:
MRR = [New customer subscription revenue] + [Existing Customer subscription revenue] + [Add-on and license upgrade fees from existing customers] – [Loss of revenue from churned customer accounts] – [Loss of revenue from license downgrades or removed add-ons]
ARR is calculated using the formula given below.
ARR = MRR*12
These metrics are extremely important for a subscription-based business as they help it become more predictable, and as these values increase, it implies the business is growing.
Bonus Point: Implementing Salesforce Revenue Cloud is another smart move you can make to track all your revenue management activities end-to-end and accelerate your business growth.
As you can see, focusing on the aspects listed above enables you to develop a robust subscription-based business model that facilitates rapid growth. At Solunus, we help you make the best use of Salesforce to facilitate seamless implementation of the model to achieve your revenue goals. Our rich experience gained serving companies of all sizes across industries and strong focus on understanding your unique requirements enables us to develop the perfect solution that provides you the highest ROI.
Hope you liked this post. How do you use a subscription-based business model? We’d love to know.
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Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications
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Solitons are waves that retain their form through obstacle and distance. Solitons can be found in hydrodynamics, nonlinear optics, plasma physics, and biology. Optical solitons are solitary light waves...Read more
Solitons are waves that retain their form through obstacle and distance. Solitons can be found in hydrodynamics, nonlinear optics, plasma physics, and biology. Optical solitons are solitary light waves that hold their form over an expansive interval. Conservation of this form creates an effective model for long distance voice and data transmission. The application of this principle is essential to the technology of wired communications. Optical solitons produce crystal clear phone calls cross-country and internationally. It is because of these that someone on the other end of the phone sounds 'in the next room.' It is also pertinent to high-speed network information transmittal. Mollenauer and Gordon have written the only text that an engineer or graduate student will need to understand this foundation subject in optics. It is written by Linn Mollenauer and James Gordon who are celebrated for applying optical solitons to telecommunications. It combines mathematical developments with well-chosen practical examples and design formulas. It offers extensive material on the basic physics of fiber optic transmission and its practical applications.
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Construction workers at the entranceway to the now-killed ARC Tunnel in North Bergen. The federal government has extended the deadline for New Jersey to repay $271 million it already spent on the tunnel's construction.
TRENTON — The U.S. Transportation Department has granted New Jersey an extension of a little more than two weeks on the $271 million it owes for a scrapped rail tunnel project.
The extension was granted in a letter dated Monday to lawyers for the law firm New Jersey Transit hired to fight the debt. The Associated Press obtained the letter today.
Gov. Chris Christie killed the $8.7 billion tunnel project in October because of possible cost overruns. The federal government then demanded repayment of money already spent on the project.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said recently that New Jersey would be credited $128 million to use on other projects if it pays the debt in full.
The law firm now has until Jan. 10 to submit a response.
• Gov. Christie says federal offer to credit N.J. $128M for ARC tunnel project is 'good start'
• U.S. relaxes demand on $271M ARC tunnel funds after N.J. Gov. Christie canceled project
• N.J. can get back almost half of $271M owed to federal government for scrapped ARC tunnel
• NJ Transit requests $75M from killed ARC tunnel funds for new train cars
• Gov. Christie knew N.J. would have to repay funds for canceled ARC tunnel, feds say
• Amtrak, NJ Transit break off talks on reviving ARC Hudson River rail tunnel
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JoAnn Hesson, sick with diabetes for a long time, had been hopeless.
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Given that aquatic Corps veteran waited for approval for a pension that is special the Department of Veterans Affairs, she racked up financial obligation with a few increasingly costly online loans.
In-may 2015, the Rancho Santa Margarita resident borrowed $5,125 from Anaheim loan provider LoanMe during the eye-popping annual interest of 116per cent. The month that is following she borrowed $2,501 from Ohio company money Central at a much greater APR: 183percent.
“I don’t think about myself a person that is dumb” said Hesson, 68. “I knew the prices had been high, but i did so it away from desperation.”
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Libyan forces kicked off aerial surveillance operation to bust IS escapees
Air force units of Libya’s Government of National Accord launched an operation on Saturday to cut off potential escape routes for militants holed up in the coastal city of Sirte, Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous forces said.
The forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA), on their Facebook page, said the surveillance operation covered central Libya and the western region up to the border with Tunisia in Ras Ajdair.
On the other hand, the US Command in Africa (AFRICOM) said the US warplanes have carried out 65 airstrikes until last Thursday when it bombed IS locations in Sirte three times.
The US, which started bombarding IS in Sirte on August 1st under the request of the UN-brokered Government of National Accord, named this operation as Odyssey Lightning, which comes as a follow-up operation to the NATO’s Odyssey Dawn operation that helped topple dictator Muamar Gaddafi in 2011.
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Sylvia Pankhurst argues that the election of women to parliament won’t overcome the bankruptcy of parliamentary politics.
The return of eight women to Parliament marks an advance in public opinion. People have realised at last that women are persons with all the human attributes, not merely some of them and that women have an equal right with men to take part in making the social conditions under which they live.
This country has not been first in admitting women to political equality with men: other countries preceded us in admitting women to the legislature, and we have not yet reached political equality in the franchise here, although the women of this country led the way in agitating for political and legal equality.
It is interesting to observe that the legal barriers to women 5 participation in Parliament and its elections were not removed until the movement to abolish Parliament altogether had received the strong encouragement of witnessing the overthrow of Parliamentary Government in Russia and the setting up of Soviets.
Those events in Russia evoked a response throughout the world not only amongst the minority who welcomed the idea of Soviet Communism, but also amongst the upholders of reaction. The latter were by no means oblivious to the growth of Sovietism when they decided to popularise the old Parliamentary machine by giving to some women both votes and the right to be elected.
Election to Parliament is always much more a question of the strength of the party machine than of the qualities of the candidate. An archangel would be defeated at the polls if he lacked a strong party backing. The majority of the electors vote without having heard or seen the candidate, who actually plays but a minor part in the election. Nevertheless, there was undoubtedly some prejudice to be overcome by the first women candidates; which acted as a makeweight against them, outbalancing what would otherwise have been the normal strength of the party behind them.
This election is the first in which the electors have voted for the successful women candidates to any appreciable extent on the merits of those candidates. Lady Astor, Mrs Wintringham, and Mrs Phillipson entered Parliament merely as deputies of their husbands. This fact, from a democratic standpoint, was particularly objectionable in the case of Lord Astor since he was thus given a voice in ruling the people through both Houses of Parliament.
The women who entered Parliament in place of their husbands introduced no original policies, nor do we anticipate that their successors will do so. They were nominated candidates and have been elected to represent certain parties, and, in the main, their parliamentary doings must follow that of their men colleagues in the party, otherwise the party will cast them out.
Most of these hardships, and the more serious of them, cannot be remedied within the system. Most of them, too, cannot even be mitigated without tampering with economic conditions; and there, at once, the general party policy will certainly obtrude itself, and the party woman will be called to heel by the whips like a party man if she stray far from the party plan.
Nevertheless, on questions of the special hardships of women and on questions specially related to sex the women members of the various parties may sometimes show themselves a trifle before or a trifle behind the general standard of their party by adhering in some respects to what has come to be generally regarded as the accepted programme of feminism. It is so regarded because it was adopted by certain women of the middle and upper classes, who were, for their day, more or less advanced though narrow and prejudiced in many respects, but who were of forceful energetic personality and built up a movement reflecting their conception of what should be the legal status of their sex and primarily of their class. That programme is, in many respects, retrograde and, and in all respects, incompatible with Socialism.
One should not expect to find new policies on any subject springing up from Parliament; the atmosphere there is arid, the life stultifying to thought. At best at very best — the Members of Parliament carry on the politics they adopted before they entered there, or catch up some vibrations or movements going on outside. Parliament is a decaying institution: it will pass away with the capitalist system: it will be replaced by the industrial soviets, when production, distribution and transport pass out of the hands of the capitalist, to become the joint concern of the whole people, each branch of industry being administered by those who are engaged in it.
Women can no more put virtue into the decaying parliamentary institution than can men: it is past reform and must disappear.
Once the special legal disabilities of women in politics were in large measure, though not wholly, removed, it became inevitable that there should be little difference between the woman in politics and the man in politics. That is as it should be.
The women professional politician is neither more nor less desirable than the man professional politician: the less the world has of either the better it is for it. The time to look forward to is that in which there will no longer be a body of persons whose business it is to rule or to listen to speeches of the rulers and their puppets and to while away hour upon hour waiting to record their votes in division lobbies to the call of the party whips.
The Soviets, under Communism, will meet for the administration of the services of the community, not to carry on the party warfare which is inevitable to present- day society, because it is based on competition and torn by the struggles of warring classes. To the women, as to the men, the hope of the future lies not through Parliamentary reform, but free Communism and the soviets.
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At the risk of sounding all nostalgic like the classic Hovis TV ad, when I was a kid, money matters seemed more straightforward than they are today.
Remember the TSB bank cards at school where you deposited a few pence each week? It was a great idea to get kids into the notion of saving regularly – but perhaps not so fair on those kids whose parents didn’t have the money to give them for this each week.
As I got older, I paid in to my bank account what I could from my paper round (the best one in the village I lived in for it had the largest amount of houses, therefore it paid the most!) after sweets and singles (vinyl records with one song on each side for anyone currently aged under 30) had been purchased.
Then came university – and here lies the main difference between then and now. In my day university education was free: there were no tuition fees to pay and you even got a grant into the bargain! The only essential electronic item back then was a calculator. Well, maybe a decent hi-fi too!
Having had money of my own to supplement the modest pocket-money I got from my parents plus a part-time hotel job while I was a student meant that I bought things when I was able to afford them.
Today, students, particularly in England and Wales, even ones who’d been thrifty in their pre-university years, are commonly faced with the concept of credit, but often with little grasp of how it works. Credit for many students is often essential to be able to pay tuition fees, maintenance costs and student digs if they live away from home. The allure of credit is dangerous for many young people, leaving many in their 20s, 30s and even 40s servicing historic debt.
If young people had received some kind of formal financial education, maybe they wouldn’t have so much debt as they do now.
That’s why the fact the government is adding personal finance education to the national curriculum for England and Wales in September 2014 is so welcome.
But school tuition can only help so far. Parents and grandparents can also help enormously in teaching the children in their family about money, saving and debt.
They can also help get their children off to a good start in life by saving for them while they’re young so the level of debt they take on in adulthood could be at least a little less than it would otherwise be.
Junior Isas are worth considering as a starting point. You can invest regularly or with lump sums and other family members and friends can contribute too. You can find out about Scottish Friendly’s new Junior ISA here.
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Pothos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae (tribe Potheae). It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
It is an evergreen climber with thick, waxy, green, heart-shape leaves, commonly grown in houses as a hanging plant.
In addition, the leaves of outdoor plants grow many times larger than indoor plants. The plant can be easily propagated from cuttings and rarely grows any flowers.
Let’s now understand what aerial roots are and what is the need for growing aerial roots on a pothos
What are Aerial Roots?
Aerial roots are those roots that develop from a location on a plant above the surface of the earth or water, as from a stem. They are roots which are fully or partially exposed to the air.
The basic purpose that they serve like any other plant roots is to absorb water and dissolved minerals, store food and keep the plant from falling over.
Furthermore, they eventually attach to something like trees, bark, or rocks, but they never become fully submerged in the soil.
They are a type of adventitious roots. These kinds of roots grow from the plant’s stem or leaf tissues but not from its root tissues.
Due to being exposed to the air, the roots are more likely to dry out and are usually found in wet environments such as tropical rainforests.
What is the Difference Between Underground Roots and Aerial Roots?
Underground roots as the name says are those which are beneath the surface of the earth. They are not exposed to the air or grow above the ground.
Roots are an organ that generally grows into the soil in developed plants that have adapted to terrestrial life, but rarely is found above the ground.
The underground roots have channels to transport nutrients and water to the stem and leaves. They also have channels that allow organic matter to be transported from the above-ground parts of the plant to the roots.
Underground roots usually spread out below the ground to be able to get water and other nutrients that are required by the different parts of the plant.
Why does my Pothos have Aerial Roots?
Pothos are growing aerial roots for several reasons. They provide additional water and nutrients to the plant and help the pothos to gain stability.
Aerial roots act as an anchor and attach themselves to poles or trellises. They also keep the growing roots from pulling out of the soil. Pothos’ aerial roots also provide oxygen to the plant.
This is one of the reasons the aerial roots climb up trees in tropical forests. They reach up out of the soggy ground and absorb oxygen.
Pothos that are growing in their natural environment like a rainforest, will absorb water and nutrients from rain with the help of their aerial roots.
At home, pothos’ aerial roots make it convenient to take cuttings and grow new plants by simply cutting a piece of stem below the roots.
Aerial roots are more likely to grow in humid conditions indoors or in a greenhouse outdoors.
A fact about aerial roots is that they grow towards light and so when they are in their natural habitat, they climb on trees because of their phototrophic behaviour.
Is it Okay to Cut Aerial Roots off a Pothos?
After knowing the reasons why your pothos grow aerial roots, it is safe to say that cutting part of the roots will not be harmful to your plant.
Your pothos won’t die from cutting off a couple of aerial roots, but if you can leave them uncut, all the better.
It will be okay if you trim the roots of the plant if they have grown too big. However, it is not necessary to cut the aerial roots of your pothos.
Cutting the roots can be helpful for your pothos in a few ways. It may promote healthier, lusher growth of foliage.
You can also cut off the dead roots as they do not provide any kind of benefit to your plant. If the aerial roots aren’t rotten or completely hollow, they continue growing and there is no need to cut them off.
How do you Water Aerial Roots on a Pothos?
As I said earlier, when the pothos is growing in its natural habitat or outdoors, it is usually able to absorb water from the air or the soil or it gets the water that it needs from rainfall.
But if your pothos are indoors then it would be a good idea to water the aerial roots or try to keep them misty.
In case you have taken cuttings of your pothos and are trying to grow new ones, you can simply put the cuttings of the stem and root in a jar of water.
Only make sure to change the water every three days. Wash the jar if you see green algae. Once new roots grow from your cuttings, you can shift them to a pot which is also known as propagating your pothos.
Should I Bury Aerial Roots?
You can bury your aerial roots as it helps to control them if they are becoming difficult to handle. But for this to work, you will need your plant to be on the floor and have some contact with the earth.
This is not possible if your pothos is hanging on a wall or is situated at a place above the ground.
You can begin by partially burying the roots in the ground or by burying the end of the aerial roots into the soil. These will then begin to develop themselves as normal roots.
If you then want to propagate the plant, you will only have to unearth these roots with a portion of branch and will have a new plant growing.
How do you Train Aerial Roots Pothos?
Training aerial roots of pothos is rather simple. Although naturally a pothos plant does not climb unless something is prompting them.
In nature, it is usually the search for light due to which the pothos tends to grow onto trees in the forest. So, if you want to train your pothos, there should be something prompting it to climb.
There are a few ways to prompt your pothos to grow. You can attach the aerial roots of your pothos to a support such as poles, bamboo canes, wires, or trellises.
Pothos aerial roots can also latch onto walls but doing so may damage your walls and leave marks on it so it’s better not to.
You can place a light source near your pothos and keep it on the side you want your pothos to grow. This will act almost like a stimulus for your aerial roots, and you will witness them growing in the direction of the light.
Aerial roots can be easier to handle and make your pothos look more aesthetic when they are trained.
How do you Repot a Pothos with Aerial Roots?
Repotting your pothos with aerial roots can be done in three steps. They are among the easiest plants to repot so you need not worry about it much.
To begin the process, you will first have to take out your pothos from their current location. This could be a pot or the ground.
Water the pothos a day or two before, or even 15-60 minutes before. The purpose is to let your roots absorb some water so when the time comes to take them out, they bend more easily.
Then gently pull out your plant, making sure than no stems break in the process. Have a look at the root ball of your pothos.
If it does not have too many roots showing along the outside, you can easily move on to the next step of replanting into a new pot with no further attention to the roots.
However, if the plant has lots of root’s circling around the outside of the root ball, then you should first help it out of the twirling shape. This can be done by placing it in a jar of water.
Make sure to select a pot which is bigger in size than the previous one in which you will be putting your pothos and that it has plenty of drainage holes.
Next place an inch or two of potting mix in the bottom of a clean pot and place your pothos plant upright in the new pot and add potting mix around the sides to fill in the gaps.
Only leave about 2 inches of space on top. Now give a good, deep water. It should be so that the water starts to run out the bottom. The water will make the soil settle, so add a little more to the top to compensate.
Your plant will then be successfully repotted along with its aerial roots.
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How do you Help your Aerial Roots to Grow?
Keeping your pothos in a warm room with relatively higher humidity will encourage its aerial roots to grow on the long stems of your plant.
Pothos seem to produce more aerial roots and an attempt to take advantage of the humid conditions. They’re trying to get as much moisture out of the atmosphere as possible.
Low light conditions can also be a factor which will encourage the aerial roots to grow. As the aerial roots do grow towards light, they tend to grow faster and longer in search of it.
Temperatures in the range of 70-90°F (21-32°C) will be perfect for your plant.
Your pothos will not do well in temperatures below 12°C and above 32°C and will most likely shows signs that it is not doing by either having unhealthy looking leaves or stunted growth.
Aerial roots are sensitive to water supply. Overwatering and underwatering the roots can both cause problems for it. If you overwater the roots there is chance of root rot as the roots tend to get suffocated.
Whereas, underwatering the pothos aerial root will moisture-stress your plant which will then result in them having stunted growth.
So, make sure to water your pothos aerial roots once the soil has dried out from the top few inches. Do not water it while the soil is still wet from the top nor let it go dry more than the top few inches.
Other than humidity, water and light, your roots will need soil which is rich in nutrients and fulfils the nutritional and mineral needs of your plant.
Can New Roots Grow from Aerial Roots?
Generally, you cannot just take cuttings or pieces of your aerial roots, place them in soil or water and expect them to grow.
This will not happen until you take a cutting which includes the stem with a node on it, a few leaves, and the aerial root.
Once you have a piece as the one described above, you can place it in water or soil and soon you will see new roots growing from your cutting of the pothos.
Why does my Pothos have so many Aerial Roots?
Pothos may sometimes grow a lot of aerial roots. There can be a couple of factors involved which result in your pothos growing so many aerial roots.
High humidity levels may promote the roots of your pothos to grow excessively. As the aerial roots try to absorb more and more moisture from the humid air, they tend to grow and increase in number.
Another reason could be the absence of light which is why your pothos are growing so many aerial roots. It is to get lighter and so the roots start to grow in the direction which they detect light from.
Your roots will also grow well and may be more than expected if they are growing in soil with optimum nutrients and are living in temperatures which are perfectly suitable for them.
Why is my Pothos Growing Aerial Roots but no Leaves?
Aerial roots will grow when they are getting the optimum conditions that were discussed above. Similarly, the pothos leaves also require certain conditions to thrive.
These are pretty much the same as those required by the aerial roots. They need water, light, and nutrients to be able to grow well.
Overwatering can be one of the major reasons why you do not have leaves growing on your pothos. Your plant will show symptoms which can include droopy, yellow, or “naked” vines that are missing lots of leaves.
You can stick your finger in the soil and check its moisture levels. Any sogginess or oversaturation of the soil is an indication of overwatering.
When such a situation occurs, it would be best to let the roots dry out or re-pot your pothos plant in a soil mix with better drainage. Repotting, in combination with pruning, is often the secret to fixing leafless pothos vines.
Pothos is a plant that naturally grows in regions with rainforests. It can also be a beautiful house or office plant. The pothos have aerial roots which are beneficial to the plant in multiple ways.
Aerial roots are those roots that grow above the ground. They are exposed to the air and tend to grow very long if they are not cut or trimmed.
These provide pothos with stability, nutrients, light and moisture. They give your plant all that it needs to thrive.
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Life for some of the most vulnerable people on the planet just got measurably more difficult.
The new executive order that re-instates a travel ban from six Muslim majority countries also imposes a months long pause on all refugee resettlement to the USA, and significantly reduces the number of people who may find safe haven in the United States. Virtually all refugees will be banned from the entering the USA for the next 120 days; and then the USA will reduce the cap of all refugees eligible for resettlement in this fiscal year at 50,000.
To put this in context: there are over 60 million displaced people around the world. Of these, over 21 million are refugees who have fled their country. The vast majority of these refugees have fled across one border; say from Syria to Jordan, or South Sudan to Uganda.
Most of these refugees would like to return home. Others would prefer to be integrated into their host country. But for a small minority these are not viable options. These refugees require what is known as “resettlement” to a third country.
By definition, the refugees who qualify for resettlement are the most vulnerable cohort of an already vulnerable population.
They include torture victims, widows with special needs children, gay people under threat and others with extremely extenuating circumstances. Of the 23 million refugees around the world, only about 0.8% qualify for third country resettlement.
It is just this tiny fraction of the global refugee population who even qualify to apply for resettlement to the USA and elsewhere. But now, this new executive order puts those applications on ice.
The United States has historically been the single largest country to resettle refugees, taking in about half of the total number of refugees resettled around the world (followed by Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK.) This amounted to about 85,000 people last year. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was the single largest source of refugees resettled to the USA, followed by Syria and Myanmar.
The process to identify and vet individuals and families who may qualify for third country resettlement is intense. It begins with the UN Refugee Agency, who does the initial screening and then refers the cases to the governments of potential host countries. From there, countries like the USA and Canada begin their own screening processes. It can takes years of security checks for a family or individual to be approved for resettlement to the USA.
But now, under this order, that process will come to a halt. This could effect tens of thousands of people. The UN Refugee Agency estimated that that a 120 day halt to refugee resettlement to the USA would affect some 20,000 people who would otherwise have been resettled. Further, the USA is capping the total number of admitted refugees at 50,000, the lowest cap in nearly 20 years. And this crackdown comes as the world is experiencing a surge in refugees.
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Open Source Slicer for DLP Resin 3D Printers
At Formlabs, we get excited about all types of 3D printing. At the 2016 Hackathon—a 2-day event where employees could build anything—one team wrote a slicer for DLP resin 3D printers. This slicer is a web-based tool that accepts an STL file and turns it into a set of bitmaps representing individual layers. It’s completely client side and uses WebGL to do slicing quickly.
Formlabs is happy to release the slicer as an open source tool: the source code is hosted on GitHub and released under the MIT license. Although this program is not an industrial-strength tool, you can try it on your own DLP printer. Customize it by editing values in printer.js, or load your own models into the demo below.
Looking for a Slicer for Formlabs SLA 3D Printers?
PreForm is the free print preparation and slicer software for Formlabs 3D printers. Get your model ready in minutes, upload to your printer, and let it build.
Looking through 2D slices of your 3D model can be confusing, but with a bit of practice, you can start picking out patterns and structure. Below are sliced versions of the five platonic solids. Can you tell which is which? Here’s a hint: the unchanging square is a cube.
Examining slices can also reveal details that aren’t immediately obvious. The chess piece in the demo below has internal structures that can’t been seen from the outside (but would look great in Clear Resin).
A similar examination is possible in PreForm, the desktop software package for Formlabs printers. Here’s the same model sliced halfway up, revealing an internal cross-shaped pillar:
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MONTICELLO, Ark. – The University of Arkansas cattle herd at Monticello is getting an upgrade, receiving more than two dozen handpicked Beefmaster cows and calves donated by James and Mary Ann Skelton of Springdale .
“I didn’t want UAM to have scrubs,” 77-year-old James Skelton said. “I sell, so I donated the best end of my cows.”
At one time, Skelton and his brother managed over 300 head of Beefmaster cattle.
“My brother left the company, and now it’s just my two sons,” Skelton said. “We have around 60 cows. They too now want to get out of the cattle trade. So it’s a good time.
UAM has long had cattle on its campus, a research and demonstration herd managed by the University of Arkansas System Division of Southeast Agriculture Research and Extension Center. When the center closed, the herd was transferred to the UAM.
“With the change of ownership, the objective of the cattle farm has changed. We were suddenly burdened with the need for our cattle to produce calves for profit so that the farm could support itself financially,” said Rocky Lindsey, veterinarian and associate professor of animal science.
UAM farm manager Greg Montgomery said the donated cattle, which arrived in May, have excellent traits and are leapfrogging where the program wants to be.
“We get proven genetics,” Montgomery said.
“There are three boxes we try to check. The first is visual assessment; we want them to look pretty as you go down the road. The next two boxes included the pedigree; what ancestry do they have and have they produced recognizable genetics? ” he said.
“The third box is about EPDs or expected progeny differences. These three things can get really complex, but it’s pretty simple once you know the process. If we tick all three boxes, we’re improving our cattle,” said said Montgomery.
Beefmasters Breeders United helps track all cow data.
“They have lineage; they are given a number, the animal’s birth weight is recorded, weaning weight and yearling weight. By the time you’re done, you have a huge database to help you improve the quality of your herd,” he said.
Beat the competition
UAM does not often participate in competitions with its livestock. However, last year Montgomery and a student tested the waters at the Arkansas State Fair. The result was a measuring stick.
“The results couldn’t have been better,” Montgomery said. “We were at the state fair in 2021. We had a heifer and a bull. Our bull won Arkansas Champion and Grand Champion Beefmaster Bull.
“We came out of there with a lot of purples. For me, it was the first time I did that,” he said. “Even as a kid, I had never won the state fair. It was cool to do that for college and a cool thing for me.
Montgomery said UAM student Rayven Callaway showed off the cattle and “she did a wonderful job. Kudos to her for the work she did. We hope to have more interaction with the students at the future by showing our livestock.”
“The original goals of the herd when the University of Arkansas system was teaching and research. Generating income through the sale of cattle was not the goal,” Lindsey said. still using them as a teaching herd and doing quality research, but the focus has changed since UAM took ownership of the cattle and the goal now is for the UAM farm to grow and support itself.
“We can brand our UAM university name and become well known. We are starting to market ourselves as a quality Beefmaster breeder. It adds value to our livestock,” Lindsey said.
“Everything we do here on this cow farm will have a student involved,” Montgomery said. “At the end of the day, whatever we do to improve the college herd; the student is 100% involved in the practice. As the herd gains prominence, the university also builds its name and reputation. This means more opportunities for the student.
Skelton became familiar with the UAM breeding program about five years ago. At that time, Bill Pendergrass, executive vice president of Beefmasters Breeders United, told Skelton that UAM needed a bull to raise their cows. Skelton called Montgomery and told them that at school he could use one of his best bulls for a few months. The bull was one of the top five Beefmasters. The bull and the cows have done their job producing the best calves. However, the closure of the SE Research Center meant that Montgomery had to start over.
The “donation we received was very beneficial, with no strings attached,” Lindsey said. “Some of the cattle we were originally going to sell, the donation agreement allowed us to do that, but instead the quality of the animals we received were very good. These cows and calves will now be incorporated into our existing breeding program. | <urn:uuid:8d3edf38-3436-446b-b8c0-f11702f80719> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://northtexaschowchowclub.org/uam-cattle-breeding-program-enters-new-phase/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978538 | 1,103 | 1.6875 | 2 |
In our article about the human head proportions, we said that there are no perfect proportions. This is true not only for the proportions of the head but also for the proportions of the body. But as with the head, there are common standards that help simplify the process of depicting a human.
The main thing is to understand the basics of proportions. In the future, you can stretch them to portray Slenderman or flatten them to portray Mario. But anyway, it is critical to understand the very foundations of how the human body is built.
The best measure for measuring the proportions of the human body is the head. This is the easiest and most correct way to measure proportions and transfer them to a piece of paper.
When comparing the head and body, the following measures are used:
- head height;
- head height with neck;
- head diagonal;
- hand length and width.
The height of the average human body is approximately 7 or 8 heads. But as mentioned above, we are all different, respectively, the above rule is very approximate. For all people, the proportions of the head and body have their own characteristics, and this depends on many different factors. For example, in people with short stature, the head, as a rule, has a larger size than in tall ones.
The figure below shows that if you draw a standing person with arms outstretched to the sides, then his body can be inscribed in a square. His head, arms, and legs will touch the sides of the square. This means that the growth of a person corresponds to the distance of the span of the hands.
In the same figure, you can see the human body proportions, taking into account age-related characteristics. For example, you can see that in children the head is much larger in relation to the body than in an adult. You can also see that the torso in children is longer in relation to the limbs.
The height of a newborn is approximately equal to the height of four heads, the height of a seven-year-old child is equal to the height of approximately six heads, and the height of a fourteen-year-old teenager is equal to the height of seven heads.
Human height can be divided into two equal parts. The middle line will be in a place that is one height of the head below the navel.
The height of the torso is approximately two and a half heads. One of the main parts of the torso is the rib cage, which is approximately equal to the height of the head with the neck. The width of the shoulders is approximately equal to the height of the two facial parts of the head (from the tip of the chin to the frontal tubercles) or the length of the hand.
The pelvis is the second component of the torso. The most important thing to remember is that most often, the female pelvis is wider than the male. The width of the pelvis compared to the shoulders in men is approximately 1:1.8, and in women approximately 1:1. In other words, the width of the pelvis is less than the width of the shoulders by about half the head. That is, the hips in female are approximately equal to the shoulders, in men, the shoulders are slightly wider than the hips. But as already mentioned, in real life you can find a large number of reverse examples.
Arm length corresponds to three head heights. The tips of the middle fingers in the lowered position reach the middle of the thighs. The length of the upper arm is about one and a half heights of the head. The distance from the middle of the waist to the crown of the head is equal to the height of three heads. Elbows are located approximately at the waistline.
The forearm and foot are equal in length to the diagonal of the head. The length of the hand, the height of the facial part, and the length of the sternum are the same. The length of the hand is divided in half at about the junction of the fingers with the palm.
The length of the legs is approximately equal to the height of three and a half or four heads. The height of the thigh is equal to the length of the lower leg, including the height of the foot, and correspond to two sizes of the height of the head.
All of the above proportions of the person’s body are very averaged. As an example, the team of Drawingforall.net took an average person about 30 years old with a height of 172-175 cm.
As we have said, in reality, we are all extremely different. This means that the human body proportions you are portraying may differ from what the team of Drawingforall.net presented above. Nevertheless, all the laws listed in this article will be fair in applying to almost any person.
So what to do with this information, and how to apply it in real life? First, you need to remember all the laws of proportions listed in this article. Knowing these proportions will help you learn how to draw the most realistic and compelling drawings.
Knowledge is very important, but it does not matter without practice. Using the knowledge gained from this article, draw people with different physiques and in different poses. Drawing a large number of such sketches will consolidate this knowledge and bring portraying the correct proportions to automatism.
And of course, it is critical to understand that in the future you should not measure each part of the body and compare it with another. All these proportions should be kept in your head, and the process of measuring and comparing them should come to automatism as the process of pedaling while riding a bicycle.
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Google takes a jab at Apple in the new ad for its Photos’ “Free Up Space” feature. The ad shows people trying to take pictures at some important moments, but been unable to do so due to lack of storage space available in their phone.
16GB is obviously not enough storage space in the modern day, but Apple keeps on shoving it down our throats every year. Hopefully, they will change their minds this time around and will at least come up with a 32GB starting model.
Google’s Free Up Space feature is fantastic though as it allows you delete the unwanted stuff without much of a hassle. It also backs up your pictures on regular basis and as soon as the backup process is done, it gets deleted from the phone.
This means that you can keep on taking pictures all the time without worrying about your disk space ever running out.
That’s a great initiative from Google because more often than not, we run out of storage when we need it the most. This feature would surely help in those cases.
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Now that you have worked on weeding out unhealthy relationships, it is time to focus on strengthening your loving and healthy relationships. Depending on your lifestyle and family situation, there may be a wide variety of the types of relationships that are extremely important to you. In general, however, the love we feel for our children and our spouse or lover need the most strengthening. There is an abundance of wisdom and knowledge out there that will help guide your way; as your own life coach, you must choose what relationships you value most, then identify the ways in which you can make them stronger.
In 1996, marriage counselor Dr. Gary Chapman wrote the book The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate; in the years following, Dr. Chapman has adapted these principles to apply to people in all difference relationships. Here we will stick with the core of the books – the five languages of love that Dr. Chapman identified over thirty years as a marriage counselor.
Dr. Chapman found that virtually every single person has a form (or language) that they use to express and receive love: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. Most people have one primary language and one or two lesser, secondary languages. Many relationships are particularly challenging because the people involved do not understand that they each interpret and express their love in different ways.
For example, imagine a mother with a teenage daughter. The mother takes care of the daughter, looks after her, drives her to school, to the mall, and to her afterschool activities. Imagine that her daughter leaves dirty towels on the floor, forgets to say “thank you” after a ride, and when she will not keep her room clean no matter how many times she’s been reminded. This mother doesn’t feel that her daughter appreciates what she, as the mother, does. She also doesn’t feel that her daughter loves her when she will not do the things she’s asked to do. Now take the girl; imagine that the mother doesn’t praise her when she brings home straight As, she overhears her mother on the phone bragging about her brother but rarely hears “I love you” herself, and that one day when her mother sees her messy room is told by her mother that “no daughter of hers should ever be like that.” The daughter doesn’t feel that her mother loves her and may believe that she never will.
Now imagine someone sitting these women down and communicating that the mother’s love language is ‘Acts of Service’ and the daughter’s is ‘Words of Affirmation’. All of the sudden, Mom begins to understand that the words she uses matter more to her daughter than the things she does. For daughter, she realizes that when she doesn’t do what her mother asks, it is not about having a messy room; it is that her mother doesn’t feel that she loves her if she will not do something like that for her.
Understanding your own love language and those of the people you love can begin to change relationships in a revolutionary way. Even couples on the brink of divorce can sometimes find their way back into being in love when they understand that their partner interprets their actions, words, gifts, touch, and time differently than they themselves do.
Keeping Love Alive
Sometimes, despite all of our best efforts, even when we have sound and healthy relationships, things still go stale. Romance begins to wither. Time together begins to feel like a chore. Perhaps your mate is clingy or you find yourself thinking of other potential romantic partners, even though you love your spouse.
There are unlimited ways and means you can take to keep the spark alive and to keep your marriage front and center in your priorities. Book after book can help, but the internet is one of the best (and cheapest!) resources for ideas. As you brainstorm ways to add some sizzle back in your love life or simply to reconnect with your spouse, take one step at a time:
- Consider all of the ways that you can strengthen your relationship. Be creative, but think inside the box right now. If you do not have a lot of money for expensive dates, what are cheap but romantic things you can do at home together? What are ways you can show your spouse how you feel? What do you need to feel connected?
- Now, think outside the box a little. What you may like may be too uncomfortable for others; alternatively, the things other people do to spice things up may go against your values. Do not stray too far from what you think you and your mate are comfortable with, but push the envelope a bit. Everything from a simple role play to swinging can work for couples. Figure out what you think will work for you and your partner. Some people have very different ideas than others, so get creative, but if you think your idea has the potential to be detrimental to your relationship, rule it out. The idea here is to strengthen, not challenge.
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That’s not exactly what Secretary of State John Kerry said, but neither is it as ridiculous as what he actually did say.
He was quoted in an Washington Post article reporting that the State Department, “which has been on the leading edge of policies affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender federal employees,” has decided finally—we shared your impatience—to eliminate the “transgender exclusion” from the department’s largest health-insurance plan. What the Washington Post piece says is that although policies generally exclude services “related to sex reassignment,” in fact, “Insurance companies often view this exclusion in the broadest possible terms, excluding care that clearly has no relationship to gender status such as cancer treatment and routine preventive care.”
It’s impossible to know that without investigating insurance companies’ practices, but somehow it seems unlikely. It might be that once a person gets hired by the State Department he or (… hmm) should have the same coverage as others have, with restrictions no more onerous. So, for example, if an employee regularly engaged in dangerous limb-threatening sports—bull riding, street luging, or mixed martial arts—it might be appropriate for his health-insurance company to refuse to insure him or at least to demand a higher premium. After all, life-insurance companies regularly charge higher premiums to smokers.
Which, if you think about it, may not be fair after all: people are, irremediably, the products of their environment, so if someone’s parents smoked or ate too much, he is likely to do the same—and so we can’t blame him, can we? Who in his right mind would suggest today that obese people should pay more for health insurance even though they may cost the insurers more? And isn’t it the same, mutatis mutandis, with gender identification? Aren’t we all in this together?
Let’s Run Some Numbers
Anyway, an exclusion for sex-change operations really seems odd—hardly worth the paperwork. No doubt such procedures can be expensive—see below—but how many State Department employees would you expect to change their gender in any given year? But of course that’s not the right question, which is, rather, how many State Department transgender people would you expect to have that operation in a given year?
(Not so long ago, people who had had sex-change operations were denoted “transsexual,” and the newer term “transgender” referred to dressing and behaving like the “target gender,” with perhaps a bit of hormone therapy. No longer. Now, as one “transgender rights activist” explains, any definition “that pit[s] biology against psychology or the body against the mind … denigrates transgender peoples [sic] self-identified genders.”)
To figure out how many transgender operations there might be each year, we first have to estimate how many transgender people there are at State. Who knows? The State Department website says there are 13,000 people in the Foreign Service corps, 11,000 in the Civil Service, and more than 45,000 “locally employed Foreign Service staff overseas,” for a total of 69,000.
But, how many of those 69,000 are trans? Again, who knows? A 2003 survey taken in California found that 0.1 percent of adults there identified as “transgender,” which would put the number of transgenders at State at 69. We’re getting closer. How many of those 69 would you, or the insurance company, expect to have the operation each year? And how much would it cost?
For computing the cost, we’re in luck. The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery has an online price list. Picking from the “Male to Female” list, we see that an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) is $8,500, although a mini is only $5,300. A buttock augmentation (implants) goes for $9,500. And an unmentionable procedure—the queen of the lot—is really expensive: $19,750. If you do everything on the list (and you probably wouldn’t), the cost would be $120,700.
If ten people opted for surgery in any given year, the total bill would be $1,207,000—but that would be spread out among the premiums of the 69,000 employees, which comes to only $17.50 a person. That is not a big deal. At least not a big financial deal.
John Kerry Plays the Race and Sex Cards Because He Has Nothing Else
So why all the fuss? What’s really going on here?
Listen to Kerry, as quoted in the same Washington Post piece: “I’ve met transgendered [sic] colleagues at the Department and in addition to being brave and strong, they’re just good officers.” Really? How many brave transgender officers are there at State, anyway? And just where has Kerry met them? Not, presumably, in the private elevator to his eighth-floor office, and probably not in the ground-floor cafeteria.
We note first that he’s talking about “officers,” so that must exclude non-officers. The State Department doesn’t have ready figures (or won’t release them) on how many of its 69,000 employees are officers, but presumably not all of them are. If a third are, that would mean there are 23,000 officers. But Secretary Kerry cited those who were “brave,” which further reduces the number, because not all officers would serve in positions that offer the opportunity to be brave. In fact, probably no more than 10 percent of the 23,000 officers, or 2,300, could be described as “brave.”
And of those 2,300, how many are transgender (not “transgendered,” please, as Kerry calls them)? Well, 0.1 percent, or 2.3 people. And Kerry hasn’t just met them. He knows all 2.3 of them well enough to have formed an opinion of them, that they are brave and strong, and good officers.
What we are seeing, of course, is a frantic Democratic Party. The Obama administration is in disarray, its policies—to the extent it has formed them—failing, its popularity plummeting, its corporate-funding buddies switching sides. Frantically, frenetically, the Obama people play the gender card, or cards, and the race card.
It was that old card, racist Democrat Hugo Black—under attack, when he was nominated to the Supreme Court, for having been a Ku Klux Klansman—who made “Some of my best friends are Jews” famous. Shelley Berman, a 1950s stand-up comedian, had a better line. “So-and-so,” he would intone confidently, “isn’t a Jew. He’s just Jewish.” Berman could get away with it.
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With the increasing number of real-time applications (online games using virtual reality, multi-site financial transaction processing) and the radically new business models and use cases introduced by the 5G mobile architecture (robotics, tactile Internet) requiring interactive back-and-forth communication, user-perceived end-to-end latency is becoming an all-important factor for both users and network providers.
While there are many network monitoring systems in use, they usually provide coarse measurements that only report metrics and do not infer individual user-perceived performance, for example, port statistics.
Other monitoring approaches, including PerfSONAR, operate with synthetic, generated traffic and only provide measurements between a set of hosts that can be far away from actual end users. Therefore, these approaches also cannot provide appropriate insights into traffic dynamics over short timescales for events such as flow-level micro-congestion or sudden latency changes.
In order to understand the nature of latency over the Internet, Ruru was born – a realtime, passive monitoring system developed in collaboration with REANNZ, New Zealand’s Research and Education Network provider.
Ruru runs on a commodity server using a Data Plane Development Kit- (DPDK) enabled network card and calculates the round-trip time (RTT) on all individual TCP flows of users to understand wide-area latency.
Ruru also maps source and destination IP addresses to geographical locations as well as to Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), and visualises these measurements in high speed on a 3D WebGL-enabled map interface. Moreover, Ruru aggregates statistics by source and destination locations as well as ASNs, and allows a realtime understanding of wide-area latencies.
Architecture of Ruru
The system comprises three main parts:
1. Ruru DPDK packet analysis (written in C / multi-threaded): This software measures the elapsed time between SYN, SYN-ACK and the first ACK TCP packets (as shown below) for all TCP streams. We have chosen to use DPDK to keep up with the speed of international links — DPDK applications allow us to process 64 byte packets coming with a speed of 40 Gbit/s. After calculating latency, this module sends the measurement information (source IP, destination IP, latency [in microsecond]) on ZMQ sockets to the Ruru Analytics part.
Figure 1: Ruru measures the elapsed time between SYN, SYN-ACK and the first ACK TCP packets for all TCP streams.
2. Ruru Analytics (written in C / multi-threaded): This component retrieves AS / geotag / proxy information for all IPs (using IP2location.com databases) in the measurement data received from the DPDK packet analysis and generates basic statistics. It pushes geo-tagged information in JSON format on ZMQ sockets to the frontends and saves the measurements in InfluxDB, a time-series database. For privacy reasons, original IP addresses are dropped right after a geographical location is retrieved and therefore they are never saved or visualised.
3. Ruru Frontend: In a web browser, Ruru visualises multiple thousands of connections per second on a live 3D map. To achieve such high performance, we have used the WebGL API with the MapGL wrapper to render 3D objects on top of a world map by directly using the graphic card of the client machine. Apart from the live map, the Grafana UI also shows statistics and graphs of the measured end-to-end latency (for example, min, max, median, mean) for a required time interval (InfluxDB takes care of indexing data on geo-location and AS information).
Applications of Ruru
Since December 2016, Ruru has been deployed on a Dell PowerEdge commodity server, physically tapping a 10Gbit/s international link carrying real user traffic between Auckland (NZ) and Los Angeles (USA) — this link is one of REANNZ’s two international commodity links out of NZ.
While in operation, Ruru has been used for detecting anomalies and was able to find very fine-grained micro-glitches in latency that no other monitoring system had previously identified. For example, we have found that a periodic firewall update was causing a 4,000 ms latency increase on all connections that were started within a specific, very short time period each night. This 4,000 ms increase had not been noticed by conventional measurement tools (SNMP polls), however, it was clearly shown in our Grafana UI. Other types of anomalies, including unusual number of TCP connections between two locations or SYN floods, can also be identified in realtime with simple Ruru modules.
Ruru can also be used to visually alert operators to latency anomalies. By inspecting the live 3D-map, operators can observe how the colour of the arcs changes between certain locations (as shown below).
Ruru is entirely open source and easy to deploy: https://github.com/REANNZ/ruru
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Please note that English is on this page! I forgot to put it in the English folder!
This week we will be reading, writing, and performing our own dinosaur poems!
I love poetry! Poems are fantastic fun to perform and to write, as you can play around with lots of descriptive and exciting language. Have a look at this short video clip of the poet Paul Cookson reading his poem, King of the Dinosaurs!
Can you make a Sound Sandwich?
Have a look at the sound words below.
Pick an animal or a dinosaur that matches one of the words from the sound word list.
1) The first line starts ‘I love it when…’ Place the sound-word at the end of the sentence.
2) Now add a second rhyming line.
3) Simply repeat the first line to finish!
4) Read it aloud with sound effects.
Here are some examples:
I love it when my teeth go snap,
Hippos cheer and flamingos’ clap,
I love it when my teeth go snap.
I love it when my feet go smash,
Triceratops roar and Stegosaurus’ crash,
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You probably know about using the up and down arrow keys to scroll through your Bash history, but did you know that there’s a lot more to Bash history than just repeating commands? There is much more to the story. Or, should that be much more to the history? In either case, the history command is one of those obscure commands that is powerful and handy to know on at least a basic level. This article will take the mystery out of Bash history to make it a more friendly sysadmin tool. | <urn:uuid:ace20112-d467-4cd2-bd90-40fe4c9cbdc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/how-to-manage-your-linux-command-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970521 | 104 | 1.820313 | 2 |
While a tree can greatly enhance your property’s curb appeal, trees can also cause a number of issues. While trimming trees is sufficient in many cases, you may find that tree removal is necessary in some cases. Thankfully, if you look at some of the benefits of removing a tree, you’ll be able to do this without any regrets.
It Can Improve Your View
Trees can be lovely, but when they’re in the wrong location, they could wind up obstructing your view. If you want a clear view outside your window, it may be necessary to remove one or more trees. Trees aren’t always in the ideal location, and in some cases, getting rid of a tree can prevent a lot of problems.
It Can Keep Your Home In Great Shape
If a tree is too close to your house, the roots of the tree could wind up damaging your home’s foundation. Branches and leaves from the tree could also clog your gutter. If a tree is too close to your walkway or driveway, it can cause issues as well. Trees can improve the appearance of your home as well as the air quality, but in some cases, they do more harm than good. If you want to keep your house in great condition, it might be necessary to cut down a tree.
It Can Keep Your Other Trees Healthy
In certain situations, you may need to remove a tree to save others. If a tree is diseased, that disease could wind up spreading to the other trees on your property. If you take down the tree before the disease has a chance to spread, you can save yourself further problems.
In some cases, tree removal is going to be your best course of action. If you need these services, you should contact an arborist in your area.
Building a house draws a lot of work for the owner and his team of workers. And we need to be well-prepared for all hard work and problems that can show up. From cable network to underground pipes. Maybe this is one of the most important tasks before all others. Then, for this, you need a good company to do it without mistakes, such as private Utility locating Portland for underground locates of all kinds of pipes.
Their service package covers underground utility detection, private utility locating, GPR utility locating, bloodhound utility locators, or even underground wire detectors. With all these services, tools, and equipment, they really have everything you need. And to prevent mess at your garden and the house like leaks and flood, hire the best in the town, you do not need to stress out and make it worse.
Let them do a harder job for you when you can provide it. Though they have a lot of experience, knowledge, and skills in this work to manage all obstacles that they come to contact with.
Through the years, they manage to develop several techniques for finding underground locates of pipes, and remove or repair the glitches and things that cause them in the first place. By contacting them, you will know a lot of new things about their services, methods, and how they do the fieldwork, and many more. More information you can find on their internet page, as well as email, and store location. Also, to read the comment of other happy families, that they helped. Maybe they will help you to realize how good they are.
What To Look For In A Storage Company Charlotte NC Service
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The best storage company Charlotte NC is going to be affordable and they will help you take care of all of your needs. When you find a quality storage company you save money and your life becomes easier. You won’t have to take up all of the room in your home and you can quickly take care of your needs.
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Let’s say you are running a company, a big company. Business
is striving and there are clients coming every now and then to work with you.
And now there is a special client coming to your company, wants to have a
meeting with you and make a deal with you. As a boss of the company, when there
is a special client who could bring more money to the company, what would you
Would you have them sit in your office, no matter how neat
it is? No, you would rather take them to a fancy restaurant and have a slow and
steady conversation over dinner about the business plans you two can make. But
there is a matter of getting to that restaurant where you will dine. Well,
since it is a rather important client, you should also pay attention to the
vehicle which will drive you to the restaurant.
That’s why, there are limo rentals NJ companies which offer limousine vehicles of all kinds for those special occasions such as that business meeting of yours.
Depending on whether it is just you and your client, or both of you are bringing your workers, you may want to consider different type of limousines that you can rent for the night. As any other good limo rental company, Santos VIP also offers different vehicles to their customers. Starting with old timers like Rolls Royce cars, through Cadillac stretched limousines all up to charter vans and bus rentals. It is up to you to decide which vehicle is best for you. No matter which one you pick, you can rest assured that you will be pleased with the vehicle, as well as the driver.
All limo rentals NJ vehicles are in perfect condition, both technically and hygienically. Santos VIP takes pride in their vehicles and wants to provide excellent customer service to everyone who reaches out to them, and that counts you too. So, whatever vehicle you choose, you will most certainly enjoy it, both you and your friend or client. Maybe you can even make a deal while being driven to the restaurant, and then just have fun in restaurant, who knows.
Whether you have a clogged drain or you need a new bathtub installed, it is important to hire the right Boise Idaho plumber for the job. Everything plumbing involves is detailed and intricate, all of it meant to be a job left to the professionals.
A plumbing job gone awry can mean water damage beyond your imagination, and you definitely don’t want that to happen. You want to hire capable Boise Idaho plumber that you can call time and time again to handle whatever job you have in mind. How much is it going to cost to hire a plumbing professional?
Plumbers sometimes charge hourly rates, but it can also depend on the job. They will also often quote repairs and installations based on a flat rate for any given project. As you can imagine, there are all kinds of jobs that they handle.
What do you need a Boise Idaho plumber to do for you? Perhaps you need a water main installed, replaced or repaired. Maybe you need your refrigeration system worked on, or you have pipes that need to be replaced. Plumbers have their specialties, too, and some are more dedicated and knowledgeable about providing services to commercial customers.
You definitely want to know what you are going to be charged. That said, any quote you receive should be a written one. After you hire a plumbing company and are happy with the work that they do, you are much more likely to trust them the next time around.
There are quite a few companies in Boise to choose from. It’s a large city, and there are certain plumbers that are revered above the rest. Take to the reviews, and see which of the companies you’re going to count on to provide the plumbing work over the years for your home or business.
If you’re spending a lot of time in your RV, there’s a good chance it will wind up getting dirty. That’s why you’ll want to take steps to ensure that you can keep your vehicle clean. Trying to choose the right RV carpet cleaners? These are a few of the things you should keep in mind when shopping for cleaning products.
Learn More About Your Options
Try not to rush when you’re picking out a cleaning product. Instead, you should take your time and closely examine the different choices that are available. Focus on finding a product that you can safely use in your RV. If you search for products and read the product descriptions with care, you’ll be able to find a lot of great options.
It Can Be Helpful To Read Reviews
Before you spend any money on a carpet cleaner, you may want to read some reviews. You’ll want to make sure that other people have gotten great results with this product. If you read reviews, you’ll be able to find products that lots of other people have had positive experiences with.
Always Test New Products Before Using Them
Even if you’ve bought a well-reviewed product that seems like it’s ideally suited to cleaning RV carpets, you’ll want to show some caution when using a product for the first time. Test the product on a portion of the carpet that can’t easily be seen. If the product causes staining or discoloration, you’ll want to stop using the cleaning product immediately.
Finding the right RV carpet cleaners might take a little bit of time. Thankfully, once you’ve found the perfect cleaning product, you’ll be able to use it whenever you need to. You should focus on finding products that you’ll be able to rely on. Make sure your RV always looks like it’s brand new.
Lawn Dethatching Near Me – Learn Why This Service Is So Important
It’s not good for a lawn to have extra thatches, and that’s why many people opt for this type of service. You have searched lawn dethatching near me, and you are going to discover more about the benefits. What advantages do homeowners have when they opt for dethatching their lawn?
First, it helps to ensure that your lawn gets the appropriate nutrients. All of that dead organic matter is going to keep your lawn from getting what it needs. You want the leaves, grass and other matter removed so that your lawn gets those nutrients. And of course, it’s going to make your lawn look more beautiful, too.
Not only does dethatching help your lawn get nutrients, but it helps aerate the grass and soil as well. Your grass needs that air, and it needs the water, too. If all the organic matter is taking the water supply, well, your lawn isn’t going to be doing so well. It’s not going to get enough sunlight either.
Thatch that exceeds one inch is especially harmful for your lawn. Do you use fertilizers or products to help keep your lawn disease free? If you do, these are going to have a difficult time penetrating past the extra thatches. Removing the extra thatches also help improve how you mow your lawn.
It’s really cut and dry because there are many reasons why those extra thatches need to be removed. You can see that it’s beneficial to do it yourself or have the professionals do it for you. The costs are low, and your lawn is going to look great. All you have to do is to set the money aside from time to time to opt for this service, especially during the fall season. You searched lawn dethatching near me, and now it’s time to take action.
Water damage can wreak havoc on your property. Even if there isn’t any major damage to the building, stale water can cause a lot of harm, as it poses huge health and structural hazards. Water extraction is one of the key things you need to tackle right away, as soon as you can access your property.
Trying to remove water from your house by yourself is one of the biggest mistakes ever. Chances are you won’t be able to get rid of that water fast enough. There’s a very high risk of mold and mildew to develop. When this happens, you’ll be forced to invest a lot of money and effort into restoring your house and making it suitable for living. Mold can appear so fast that even one or two hours can make all the difference.
Professional water damage restoration companies have both the skills and the tools to do a much better job than you, in only a fraction of the time. This is why you should contact such a service provider as soon as you face a water damage situation. The sooner you call them, the better. They will extract the water and remove all your assets from the house before they suffer further damage. Thanks to their powerful pumps and professional water extraction equipment, they have much better chances to remove all water before mold kicks in.
Last but not least, keep in mind that even entering into your house after flooding is a huge hazard. There may be structural elements on the verge of collapsing. Should they fall just as you’re inside, they can severely injure you. Furthermore, flood water is almost never clean. On the contrary, it us usually a source of infestation, as it is full of dangerous germs and organic residues which can make you sick if you touch them.
Most people do not know how to throw a proper party, in which the fun never stops, and food and drinks just keep coming. The first mistake that they make is not finding professional event hire. Hiring someone who will help you plan a whole event is the first step towards an amazing party. There are a lot of things that needed to be covered, and in this article, we will tell you all about tips and tricks for an amazing party.
The first and the most important thing to decide is what kind of party you want to throw. Is it a Halloween party, birthday party, celebration party, or something completely different? When you decide what type of party you want to throw you will need to cover the venue, food, music, and a lot of other things. For instance, you want to throw a Halloween party, you will need a lot of creepy and cool things. So, the first thing that you need to cover is the venue. The size of the venue depends on how many people you want to invite. If you are planning a small party with only ten to fifteen guests, you can throw it at home, and if you want a bigger party than you should rent some bigger venue.
If you want to pay closer attention to decoration and food and drinks than it is better to throw a party at home. You can decorate your home as you like, with as many creepy Halloween decorations as you like. Planning Halloween party at home also allows you to make your own creepy sweets and Halloween drinks. All of that will give the venue an amazing Halloween look. All of the guests will be amazed by the looks of everything. When planning a party, it is also very important to choose proper time and date. For instance, most people work during weekdays, so the best day for throwing a party is Friday or Saturday. This way, no one will be in a hurry to go home so that they can rest for work. You will need the proper entertainment for the party so that guests do not get bored at the party. You can find all sorts of fun Halloween games, just ask the professional from event hire that is helping you to throw a party. Party is going to be lame if no one is dancing, so the other important thing for every party is music. You will need help in finding the right music that everyone will like, and that will put everyone in the mood for dancing.
So, if you follow all these tips you will have an amazing party. But do not fool yourself, even if you follow all these tips there is a chance that you will make a mistake, so it will be much better to find the professional help with event hire, and they will help you with everything. They can help you chose the perfect venue or the most delicious food. They can also help you to find the best DJ. With professional help, you will never have a lame party again.
What You Need To Know About Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator Review
In this Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator Review, we will give you a brief overview of this product. The Consulting Accelerator includes a program that runs over 6 weeks that educates users on the right way to start a consulting business that is “wildly profitable”, along with how to “get your 1st client in 42 days”.
Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator Review educates you on the right way to turn into an authority within your niche, and how to turn a profit from guiding others. Sam Ovens offers a complete business plan that you can use to launch your own consulting agency. This course covers how to take your business from nothing, to your first client, onto a full-fledged agency, and eventually your own online course. The system is organized and comprehensive, offering users with more than 100 hours of useful content.
In Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator Review, users find out how Sam Ovens will teach them the correct way to go about building their own consulting agencies from the ground up. Perhaps the best thing about this system has to do with its fluidity. Any person that is selling their knowledge or themselves can take advantage of this. Individuals like coaches, creators, and podcasters are all about to find out about the essential skills required when it comes to establishing themselves as a reliable authority.
Who Is Sam Ovens?
Sam Ovens is established as a business guru and entrepreneur. He is also among the top-rated course creators when it comes to business and consulting. Similar to other course creators, Sam creates and designs online content that instructs others through the use of digital business. Ovens got his break when he created and started selling an “unknown app”.
The Consulting Accelerator – Pricing
This course costs $1,997 as a once-off payment or a payment of $597 over 5 payments. ($2,985).
The Alternatives To Cable TV Are Outstanding Indeed
When exploring the alternatives to cable TV about 10 years ago, most people would have suggested one of the two main satellite TV companies, Dish Network or DirecTV. That’s because Netflix was in its infancy, and many other companies weren’t even in existence yet.
In fact, Netflix wasn’t just a streaming service. Do you remember when the company used to send physical DVDs to a person’s address, kind of like a Blockbuster by mail? There might have even been a mom and pop video store still open 10 years ago.
The alternatives to cable TV have certainly changed over the years. Streaming services have everyone’s attention, and they are certainly the cheaper alternative. Of course, if you sign up for all of them at once, you would still be paying a considerable amount of money.
That’s why ultimately, you want to pick the best one or two streaming services. If you do that, you’re going to be able to pick from quite a few movies and television shows, both new and old. You might have to wait for the latest season of something in order to stream it, but not with every service.
That said, pick one that features the largest library, and pick one streaming service that allows you to stream the latest content on demand. Where you get into paying more money, however, is when you stream new release movies on demand by paying for them individually.
Streaming services all want your business. If you buy into everything they have to offer, you’re going to be paying more than you would if you purchased a cable TV subscription. Yet you can instead focus on taking advantage of the discounts that they make available. These services are also quite convenient in general, minus the commercials. Everything is on demand.
It is important to provide heat in your home. Keeping your home warm every time improves the health of your family. However, heating a home is getting expensive because of the rising costs of electricity. There are natural ways of heating your home. Use them, especially if you are sick and tired of paying expensive electricity bills.
The following are the best ways of heating your home.
Use Open Fire
Install an open fire in your living room. It makes your living room, warm, lovely, and cozy. Additionally, the open fire can heat the whole house. It is the most cost-efficient way of heating a home. You just need wood and matches. If you live in the countryside, plant trees, which you can cut down anytime.
Use Solar Energy
The sun is a good source of energy. It provides heat and electricity. In fact, a lot of homeowners are installing solar panels in their homes. It is a natural source of heat and energy.
Therefore, using solar energy to heat your home does not cause damage to the environment. In fact, you are conserving the environment.
Insulate Your Roof and Walls
The heat in your home leaks through the walls and the roof. Therefore, insulating your roofs and walls reduce heat loss, which makes your home warm. It takes a few hours to insulate your home. But, do not do the work yourself. Hire a professional to insulate your roof and walls.
Use Your Curtains
Curtains are perfect for controlling the heat in your home during the day. If you want more heat during the day, open your curtains to let sunlight in. In the evening, shutting your curtains provide another layer of insulation, which keeps your rooms warm. Make sure there are no leaks or gaps that allow cold air to come in.
These are the best ways of heating your home naturally.
Who can say more about the importance of the landscaping
master? Well, if you were lucky enough, then you moved into a house that
already possesses finished landscapes, and amazing garden, so you do not need
to think about his service too much. On the contrary, we have people who just
moved into a house that is not completely finished, but also, we have people
who simply need a change of scenery. Luckily, here we are to help you.
Stillwater, MN landscaping service is what most people think of when they want to build from the ground or completely change the scenery of their current landscape. We all know those amazing landscapes that we see on the TV, and we think that we will never have anything like that. But this is absolutely not true. If you want to have a landscape from a movie, then you can have it. You just need to get the landscaping service that we mentioned. But, is there really a necessity for the new landscape, or is it just a matter of aesthetics?
Well, to tell the truth, the architecture of the landscape is immensely important due to the usage of the maximum potential of the house. Even if you have only one lamp in the garden and that lamp is not attached properly to the wiring, then you will spend more electricity than you would for the whole garden. Stillwater, MN landscaping is all about playing with natural materials, such as grass, trees, flowers, and others, and by using these, this company creates the most amazing landscapes. You do not need to waste tons of money for your garden when you can create the fairy tale only by planting seasonal flowers or some exotic tree. If you want a fountain in your backyard, you can have it. If you want a swing, you can have it. Ideas are endless.
Stillwater, MN landscaping will work on the front yard and the back yard as well. Also, this landscaping service is suitable both for commercial and residential purposes, which means that everyone is welcome here. If you have some specific idea or you already found a picture of a perfect landscape, then you can deliver it to a company for consideration.
Do you feel sometimes like you lack off energy, even though
you did sleep well, you still cannot go through the day without feeling tired
and unmotivated? Well, maybe it is time to do something that maybe sounds
crazy, but it actually works? If you lead monotone life without any physical
activity, then you maybe need to incorporate going to the gym to your everyday’
At first, you may not notice the logic behind this, but by doing more active things, you will have more energy, because your body will adapt to that new lifestyle. However, we do not expect from you to become the next number one bodybuilder. With the help of nutritional supplements, you can also change the way that you feel and have more energy throughout the day. The Hustl supplements have a wide range of different supplements, for everyone who needs a little push! For instance, if you cannot have a proper meal at home, and you eat only at work, then you can add these supplements to your breakfast, and increase the number of healthy substances that will keep you going through the day.
This is a so-called base nutritional supplement. However, if you want to try something completely different, which is actually new on the market, then you should check out the brilliance nutritional supplement and bed nutritional supplement. These nutritional supplements are highly-efficient, and you just need one dosage, which is recommended by the manufacturers. The whole idea behind these supplements is to provide people with something that is actually healthy and effective at the same time. People are often suspicious when you tell them about supplements because they always think of heavy chemicals, however, not all supplements are bad; in fact, most of the supplements are good for you, only if you know how to use them.
Nutritional supplements can benefit your health, but also, you need to find a way to work out more, ride a bike, take long walks, and stuff like that. By combining healthy habits and supplements, you will increase the quality of your life immensely. However, even if you do not have time to incorporate activities into your daily life, you can still use these supplements to help you.
If you need many different things that kids love today and
you have an upcoming party with little ones, then you are on the right place.
Just stick to the text and you will find a perfect company for renting party
stuff that you need for the kids younger and the little older ones. Except kids
they have many other things you will need if you are throwing a party or having
any kind of a bigger or small event that needs some rented supplies and you
have no idea where to get them. To find out more, just keep reading the further
This company party rentals have everything you need, and if you choose them you will make no mistake. We all know that parties and big events are so fun and some of them are so, so important but it is always a little harder when it comes to you to be the one to throw a party or some kind of a big event. We know there is a help always you can arrange to have but still it is a stressful process but beside that it is really fun we can say. No matter what it is, a birthday party or some bigger event where kids are going to take their place you should always know how to entertain them, because we can all agree that kids are the hardest but most honest judges we will ever have.
So, if you want to satisfy your judges then party rentals are real answer for you. Everything you need like bounce houses, water slides and many more fun things for kids you can find there and rent there. They have many shapes, colors, sizes and many other interesting things that will keep the kids occupied during the event. Even if you need some stuff for planning other events like weddings, adult parties, school events, just literally and kind of event they can be your helping card. When you do not know how to keep kids in one place not running around and screaming or risking of breaking something, this really could be your perfect solution for it. Bounce houses water slides and other attractions like that really can occupied them and their attention which sometimes can be so hard to do, and this will succeed.
If you are interested and you ran out of options then this party rentals company can really make it easy for you. You get everything on one place, and you get everything from one company that will give you the best stuff that they have for the best party you will ever make. The kids will be happy and entertained, you will be glad how everything turned out and other guests will be too. So, if you want to know more about them and their services visit their website and take a closer look by yourself on information’s that you want to know further.
If you have been wondering what place to go and visit while you are in Japan, Madarao resort is one of the good places you can visit while you are there. This place is especially great if you want to visit a place that is snowy and cold and a place where you can go skiing. This resort offers a lot of things that are worth taking the time out of your day to look at or to participate it. One thing that this resort offers and which it is quite popular for is skiing. If you know how to ski and want to visit some interesting pace where you can finally do it, you should definitely visit this resort. If you have never been skiing before in your life, maybe it is time to learn how to do it. This resort offers some good ski coaches that could help you figure out and learn the basics of it. If you are looking for a safe place where you can learn to ski, Madarao just might be the perfect place for you.
If you are not much in to skiing but you still like the snow and the cold weather, this resort still might be the place for you. In this place, there are many snow games that are being held by people and where a lot of people decide to participate in and it is very fun for everyone. Many people who have tried out skiing and did not like it decided to turn to these snow games and did not regret it.
If you are more of an indoor type, you can also visit some meaningful places that are indoors. For example, there are some interesting museums, for kids, or for adults, that you could go to and check them out. This is also why, in fact, Madarao is a place worthy of visiting. If you like to look at some vintage things, you could take a tour to the doll house that is in fact, in this resort. This doll house has many old puppets and dolls that can put you in awe if you like those kinds of things.
Depending on what season you decide to visit this resort, depends the experience you will get from it. If you visit it during some warm seasons, it is not likely that there will be any snow while you are there. If you do not mind that, there are many parks and activities that you could participate in. For example, there is a golf park that you could take a visit to and enjoy your time there. All of this can be offered to you while you are in the Madarao resort and this is due to the fact that this resort tries their best to make you enjoy your stay while you are there. So, to sum it up, if you are looking for a great deal of fun, you should definitely visit this resort.
Custom kitchen cabinets Toronto can help you transform your space into a fully functional and inspiring part of your home. Regretfully, kitchen cabinets take the brunt of wear and tear in any home, and though they are long-lasting, many can date a home. When shopping for kitchen cabinets, custom or otherwise, here are a few tips to keep in mind:
Opting for quality construction and a box that has solid backing material are integral to ensuring that your kitchen lasts a long time. Though higher quality finishes require a larger upfront investment, you will also recognize that your kitchen looks high-end. A cheap finish can mar the overall look and feel of your space while diminishing the functionality of your kitchen cabinets Toronto.
One of the telltale signs of a high quality piece of furniture is dovetail construction on the edges of drawers. These drawers are sturdy and no glue is used to hold the materials together. They provide a smoother glide when they open and close while remaining reliable.
Solid Wood Is Always King
There are many material options when selecting your kitchen cabinets, but solid wood cabinet fronts are always king. They should bear no knots, finishing imperfections or sanding marks. Wood withstands the test of time, and even if your kitchen feels dated in a few years, you can opt for resurfacing versus replacement.
Designing the right kitchen all comes down to choosing the right kitchen cabinets Toronto for your needs. Whether your kitchen is big or small, the right cabinetry can enhance your space and provide plenty of storage in a limited area. Choosing solid construction right now and investing a bit of extra ensures you get a quality finish that lasts for many years to come while also offering the opportunity for you to update.
Who likes to clean the house, right? However, no matter if
we like it or not, we need to keep the hygiene of our house on a decent level.
But, for some special occasions, we cannot clean everything by ourselves, and
we do need professional help. One of the best cleaning services and the most
useful cleansing services is carpet cleaning.
925 carpet cleaning service is the one that you need if you own wool rugs or carpets, which are glued to the floor. But why? Well, occasionally, you should simply involve professional cleaning carpet cleaning service due to their equipment and professional products, which clean so much better than the products that you use. So, if you are organizing some event at your house, a birthday party, a celebration of something special, then the day after the party, you are left with the mess that we cannot describe, you know that we are not exaggerating.
The best thing about 925 carpet cleaning service is the quality of the service and the aftereffect that stays with you long after they are gone. We have mentioned wool rugs at the beginning, and what do you think, why did we mentioned them? Well, if you think that cleaning a wool rug is the same as the cleaning of a simple flat rug, then you are wrong. If you do no use the right chemicals, you can ruin the wool, and the rug will never look the same. Professionals use the special chemicals, which keep the wool in its primary form, which prolongs the lifespan of this rug. On the other hand, if you are in charge of office space, you can call 925 carpet cleaning to clean it. This office service consists of several minor services, and you can generate a custom service for you. If you only need carpets to be vacuumed, then okay, however, if you want to add window cleaning to the list, then you can do it as well.
If you want to use this cleaning service on a monthly basis, then contacting would be the first thing. And then you can decide if you want to become their permanent client, which will benefit you and the cleaning company.
Let Carpet Cleaning Reviews Point You In The Right Direction
Carpet cleaning reviews will point you to the best companies in your area. You pay good money to have the carpets in your home cleaned every six months to a year. You don’t want people bringing in ancient equipment that isn’t really going to do the job.
You want everything squeaky clean, and you want the work done to help promote the lifespan of the carpeting in your home. Done correctly, this type of maintenance practically pays for itself. You also keep a much cleaner home, free of all the extra dust and allergens.
Naturally, you’re never going to get all the dirt out of your home, but you can see how regular carpet cleaning is certainly worth the fuss. You want to be sure that you are taking the time to get this done, and it’s better that you leave the job to the professionals.
Many people have decided to rent a carpet cleaner in the past, only to say they will never do that job by themselves ever again. It’s a lot of work, and there are mistakes that can be made when you don’t know what you’re doing. Furthermore, you don’t even save a lot of money by doing the job yourself.
You still pay quite a bit when it comes to renting the machine and also purchasing the cleaning supplies. You can instead look for reputable companies in your area that are offering carpet cleaning services at a discount. It will be really nice to get that kind of a deal.
You want to be sure you have your carpets cleaned annually at minimum. Some people choose to do it twice a year, but that is up to you. It sure is going to make a difference, however, when you see how clean your carpets are after the work is done. Start by looking at carpet cleaning reviews so that you can pick the right company.
Fun Jumps Lafayette LA – Pick Out The Best Bounce Rentals
When renting fun jumps Lafayette residents have quite a few choices. There are all different types of these bounce houses and space jumps. You want to be sure that you have selected a reputable company to do business with, one that has the latest when it comes to these types of rentals.
You also want to be quoted the best price for your rentals. Yet it’s not just about selecting the right company. You want to be sure that you take into account your needs and ask questions about the
placement of these fun jumps Lafayette. How much space do you need? How many children can enjoy a fun jump at once?
Think about the number of people that are going to be attending your event. Do you need more than one bounce rental? Keep in mind that a 17×17 fun jump can be enjoyed by 10 to 20 children at one time.
Remember, too, that these bounce rentals can come with extra accessories like slides.
Maybe you’re wanting a rental that comes with an 18 foot water slide for your summer party. There are all kinds of options, and you need to know what’s out there and available to you. What about an obstacle course? Think about what the kids will like, and consider renting one that they might not have seen before.
That is why you need to be in touch with the fun jumps Lafayette business that is up to date with the latest rentals. Companies have to get their money’s worth out of their rentals, so they can’t constantly update their inventory. But you want a company that has the best fun jump rentals, and you want the kids to have a lot of fun. You are going to really enjoy setting up this party, especially with the best bounce rentals in place.
Water slide rentals Orlando can make your event more memorable. Water slides are a perfect addition to any party or special event. However, choosing the wrong water slide rental can ruin your event. If you want everyone to have an awesome time at your party, choose the best water slide rentals.
The following are the best tips for choosing water slide rentals in Orlando.
There are so many water slide rentals Orlando companies that rent out water slides in Orlando. However, some companies do not have insurance. A good company is responsible for its water slides. So, it carries insurance. Check the insurance of the company before choosing their water slide rentals.
Compare Several Companies
Do not choose the first party rental company you will find. Comparing several party rental companies can help you choose the right company. You can compare their prices. Because some companies offer good prices with better perks. Choose an affordable party rental company with better perks.
It is easy to rent the first attractive water slide you see. However, the size of the setup area determines the size of the water slide you will rent. Therefore, you should know the dimensions of the setup area. Then, look for a water slide rental that can fit in that area. Make sure the setup area is flat and has no stones.
Personal recommendation is the best when looking for the best water slide rentals in Orlando. If you cannot get personal recommendations, use the internet to find customer reviews. Reading online customer reviews can help you choose the right water slide rental. Choose a water slide rental with good customer reviews.
These are the best tips for choosing water slide rentals Orlando. If you want to save some money, choose an affordable party rental company with the best water slide rentals.
If you want to get Oki CBD water for a decent price, this guide is here to help. There are many stores that carry the Oki brand so you want to know which of them are worth it to buy from. Here are some tips that will make it easier for you to find what you need.
Find out what people are charging for Oki CBD water on their websites and in local stores. You want to find out what three or more stores are charging so you can get an idea of what the average price is. If you’re going to be buying from a local store, know that they generally will charge more than what you will have to pay if you buy from an online vendor. This is because they have to make money off of what they sell so they can pay for things like the building they are renting.
Get to know what reviews are saying about online shops before you buy from one. To find out more about a shop online or even a local one, you’re going to want to search for reviews. That way, you can find out what people have been saying about a company before you work with them. You don’t want to spend your money with a company that is known for not doing that good of a job at making their customers happy. Reviews will also tell you whether a company is charging good prices or not for what they offer.
Now you have a better idea of what it will take to buy Oki CBD water. Make sure you take your time with this so that you get the best possible deal. You don’t want to end up paying a lot more than what this brand is worth so be careful.
Is there a better party than a carnival party? Well, we
believe that if you chose to throw a carnival-looking party, then you will hit
the jackpot! But, how can one person, who does not have a lot of connection
with these types of party, create a perfect organization? Well, you just need
to know the right people, and we are here to tell you more about the bounce
house rental service!
Bounce house rentals Jacksonville FL allow you to create the most amazing party, full of interesting activities. So, like any other party, you need to start your planning on time. Since the demand is huge, you need to make sure that you will rent your bounce houses on time. You can scroll through the offer and pick the bounce houses that are perfect for your party, however, you need to do this on time. Otherwise, you will end up with rentals that are left, however, even this outcome is not really bad, because all of the rentals are awesome. Bounce house rentals Jacksonville FL include waterslides, dry slides, and different combos, which are bounce houses with slides.
Party like this can be a fundraising party for minorities or other people in need, or it can be a simple, wonderful birthday party. Most of the corporations throw these parties on special occasions, so their workers can enjoy some free time with their kids. If you are at that part of the spectrum, then you need to know that this is a place, which a source of fun and fun is exactly what you need. Apart from bounce houses, which are awesome, you need to have good music, and you can bring some tables with delicious food. Nothing special about that, when you have a super awesome bouncy house right next to the food table. You can turn one day into this amazing memory, which everyone will love to remember.
Bounce house rentals Jacksonville FL has their own crew, and they will install the rentals and monitor the rentals throughout the whole day. This means that you can relax and you do not need to worry about the safety of the people, who are using the bounce house. Bounce houses have one purpose, and that is to bring joy and a good time! Just jump!
the one who decides how your business is going to work, and you are the one who
needs to make decisions that will launch your business into the starts.
However, you need to have a team of people, who will help you do everything
that you can possibly do to reach the number one spot. But also, you need to
meet people from other branches and use their service to help grow your
If you are looking for web designers, who will incorporate your ideas into their projects, then you should visit www.atomicdesign.net/. This company called Atomic Design specializes in creating amazing web designs for every corporation, major or minor. If you are not satisfied with the current looks of the website that you own, then you should consider making a change. And what is a better way of making a change than getting professionals who have years and years of expertise in this field? You need to think of the secret ingredient that will make your website different than other websites. However, you should never go over the top.
Yes, colorful designs are tempting, but do you really need to go over the top in order to become noticeable? Well, the answer is no. The research shows that customers tend to click away from confusing websites, where you have so many things thrown in because they do not show exactly what the customer wants to see. When you have a decent website, which leads the customer exactly to where the info is, then you have won a jackpot. You can also make a test of your own. You can get a group of people and give them several examples of websites. And you can just let them tell you which website they find the best and which one they do not like. By doing this, you will have better results and you will have opinions on different websites, and that will allow you to have the one final look of the website. And then you just need to hit a good web designing company, such as Atomic Design. They will be able to incorporate your ideas into a highly-functional web page, which will serve you well in the future. Also, you can get maintenance service, which allows you to make changes in the design any time you feel like changing something.
Do you know the importance of good hair products, and what
change can they make? Well, if you are struggling with the way your hair looks,
you need to change a hair routine and you need to find a good hairdresser. A
hairdresser is your best friend in this situation because the professional can
share with you so many important pieces of advice that will help you take care
of your hair long after you leave the hair salon.
You need to be kind to your hair, and if you want to rejuvenate the looks of it, then you
should come to the best Dunwoody GA hair salon. So, what makes this hair salon better than every other hair salon that you could come across in this area? Well, we have a team of professional hairdressers, who are not only here to cut your hair and then leave you without any useful piece of advice. Do you know that there is a huge difference between treatments for curly hair, wavy hair and straight hair?
Well, if your previous hairdresser never said you anything about this, it is time to learn more about this. For instance, people who have curly hair need to have completely different hair care than people who have straight care. The most important thing about curly hair is to maintain the shape of the curls. If you think that you have tried everything but it seems like you always end up with the same result, then you are still doing something wrong. Here, at the best Dunwoody GA hair salon, we have special treatments for people with curly, wavy or straight hair. In this article, we will focus more on people who have curly hair; however, the next article will be about people who have straight hair. So, if you have curly hair, you need to put a balsam in your hair before you wash it. That prevents locks from falling apart. The next thing is to wash your hair with the hair shampoo and then add more balsam. When you rinse your hair, you should not rinse it completely and you should leave some product in it. Then, when you dry your hair, you should use a hairdryer with a special extension.
The best Dunwoody GA hair salon is the best because it teaches you about things that you simply need to know if you want to have flawless-looking hair!
all familiar with the games that reached popularity among young people and even
older people who love gaming. Games such as Call of Duty, Fortnite,
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and many others are really popular, and everyone
plays them. Some people even made their careers around these games. However,
thanks to the development of technology, we now have the opportunity to play
these games on our mobile devices. Also, one more game that has reached its
popularity is called Brawl Stars, however, this game is made only for mobile
If you are a fan of these types of games, then you can download the mobile versions of these games and enjoy it whenever you have the chance. If you are curious about things that you can do to improve your gameplay, then you should visit https://redmoonpie.com and see what they have to say about mobile gaming. This website is created especially for the mobile gaming industry, and here you can find many useful tips on how to win every single game.
Let’s take as an example game called Brawl Stars. If you want to be fully equipped and unlock everything in this game, then you need to pay for the special access. However, people who run previously mentioned website has found a way to give you all free stuff, and you just need to download special mods for each game that they have in the library. You will download files to your mobile device, and then when you run some of the mods, you will be successfully unlock everything that you need to win a game. However, this is not the only way to be better at mobile games. If you are really into these mobile games, then you can get additional gear for your mobile device that will turn your mobile device into a pro gaming pad. For instance, if we take as an example this game called Fortnite, you may notice that it is hard to play and press all buttons at once with only two fingers. Well, this special equipment offers you a better grip, and your mobile device will naturally sit in your hand, and you will have better movement and aim in-game. This is only for hardcore gamers. However, if you want to see if the game really fits you, then you can download the mods and then with the mods you will immediately know if the game is worth playing or not.
Having a locked door is a very important thing and that is due to the fact you are not always going to be in your house or be alert all the time, sometimes is better to be safe not only because it is, well, safer it is also due to the fact you will also feel safer. And feeling safe is one of the greatest things in the world and many people cannot afford such luxury, that means you should be in fact thankful for kind people who invented door locks. When you are on a business trip or simply going out to get some coffee or something, or perhaps you intend to go on a vacation it is always good to know that your house is secured, and the first thing you should do in order to make your very own home safer is locking the door behind you, of course.
And best smart lock for airbnb are a some high-quality locks if you do not feel like spending more money on locks that you have to buy you have the ability to simply rent them.
A strong locked door can be as much of a problem for potential burglars as much as a concrete wall, this is why it is so important to have an appropriate lock for your specific type of door you might be having in your very own possession.
You might think that a locked door simply is not enough secure for your house and all your possessions you might be having on the inside of your very own house, well if that is the case you can add additional security system that goes if the lock is broken and this type of security has the ability to automatically notify you about the broken lock and potential break in, and not only notify you, it can also notify the authorities, or more specifically the police, that depends on what terminology you prefer to use when trying to express yourself. Also vacation rental door locks are fully functional with the additional security systems and with them you will have no problem at all when it comes to that.
And also, it does not really matter how many doors you have, maybe just your front door or maybe you have a door on the back of your house, it depends on your house’s construction. Anyways the point is you can or buy several locks at once and you can have many different types to. They come in many colors as well as many different shapes, but most importantly they come in many different sizes or types, that is more important if you prefer practical over beautiful. And again, if you are looking to rent some locks when you are on vacation, vacation rental door locks is the place that might have just what you need in order to satisfy your very needs, and it is a place you might want to think about visiting.
Very often we could watch movies where lasers were portrayed as a serious product from the technology of the future. We are nowadays almost unaware of the fact that this future is very close to ours soon and that all these lasers will be available to us in our daily lives. Various functions will be done with the help of a laser, and you can click here for one of them. But before we click here to find out what this group designed its lasers for and what function it wants to perform with them, let’s talk a little bit about what lasers are all about today and how much technology has actually advanced.
Perhaps the biggest contribution and the most important thing in terms of advances in laser technology come from the world of medicine. There are many surgical requirements that are practiced with the laser and this technology is being refined more and more. Of course, from the beginning, it started with some routine interventions, and today many serious laser-assisted operations are going on. What the lasers themselves can provide us with is a large dose of baking power. Lasers are very precise and do very well in jobs that require a lot of calm. Of course lasers are used for many other purposes.
There is an increasing trend in the use of lasers to improve vehicle parking and to make it easier to maneuver in tight spaces. Of course, lasers are very often used for measuring and for various markings in architecture. It is also very important to note that lasers are often used to perform various precision cuts on some surfaces, where we need to focus on a lot of precision. Lasers are also used when it comes to various wood engravings and engraving in various necklaces and jewelry. But after clicking here on our site, you can study what specifically our company wants to use this advanced laser technology for. We are currently talking about various 3D projections using laser and laser light. With 3D projections, it will be far easier for us to experience some of the space the creators want to show us, and it will be much easier for us to modify the idea and give a far better suggestion in it. This new technology has many advantages, but the greatest benefit may be for businessmen engaged in various construction jobs, in order to make their future projects easier to attract new investors. Of course, in addition to construction companies, this way can show many prototypes of various vehicles and various aircraft, which you want to show to the public. In addition, this way of using the laser is becoming increasingly popular at various parties and various spectacles. It is amazing how real and real it all looks with laser technology and holograms and how much you get that true 3D feel for space. Of course, if you want to get a little more informed about this whole trend, we suggest you to click here on our site.
Need cash in a hurry and can’t wait for your house to be sold? We buy houses for cash – fast!
The process is simple. Just visit our website or give us a call and provide us with some details of the property that you want to sell. We need to know where it is located, the number of rooms and any other features that make your property unique and attractive.
That’s right! We buy houses for cash and take care of all the documentation. There is no need to hire a lawyer and there are absolutely no additional fees or charges that you will need to pay in order for the transaction to be processed. There are also no deductions from the agreed upon price. The offer we make is the cash amount that you will receive in your bank account.
One of our friendly and professional team members will give you a call to set up an appointment to view your home. We will meet you at a time and date that is convenient for you. Once the property has been viewed and meets with our buying criteria, we will make you a cash offer in the spot.
Our cash offer is obligation free. This means that you are under no obligation to accept the offer that we have proposed. However, the sooner you accept the offer, the sooner we can move ahead with completing all the necessary paperwork and finalize the sales agreement.
Don’t be concerned if your property is not in the best condition and is in need of repairs or an entire renovation. Repairs, remodeling and renovations is our business and we don;t want you to spend any unnecessary money on fixing up your home. The state of the property will not affect the offer we make.
If you have been unhappy and depressed about your current weight and you wish to find a good and fast way to lose a few pounds of fat that is on your body, there are many ways you could achieve that. Combining a few techniques that are supposed to make you lose weight can help you lose the unnecessary fat even faster. For example, if you have been going on diets and you are losing weight, but very slowly, maybe you should consider doing some exercises that can help you lose he weight faster. If you can’t do exercises and you can only diet, there are a lot of diets that are made to help you lose weight fast. These types of diets are very strict and specific and you should do them only if you are really dedicated to lose some weight.
A lot of people expect to learn how to lose weight overnight but the answer to this question is very hard to answer since everyone’s body reacts differently to diets and exercises so you will need to test diets and exercises out in order to find what is right for you.
If you are trying to lose weight in only certain parts of the body you should definitely try working out. There are specific types of exercises for certain parts of the body that will most likely help you achieve the body you have been wanting and dreaming of. When you start exercising you should start caring of what food you consume in your day to day basis.
If you eat a lot of junk food while you exercise every day, you will see close to none or maybe even no progress at all. Instead of eating junk food, you should try to consume as much of fruits and vegetables. If you want to learn how to lose weight overnight you will have to stop eating junk food. As much as the junk food is tasty, it is not healthy whatsoever and it will only give you problems in the future meanwhile fruit and vegetables are filled with vitamins plus they are not fat which means they will not make you gain weight.
Now, that you have started eating fruits and vegetables and not junk food, you should drink a lot of water as well. Water is one of the most necessary things a human is in need of in their day to day life. Water is as important as the air we breathe. If you want to know how to lose weight overnight it is very important that you drink water. Once you feel the thirst it means that your organs are long in need of water and this is one of the most alerting things the brain can do to show you that you need water in your system right now. This means that sometimes, even if you do not feel thirsty, you should drink some water.
When you are registering a new business you want to make sure that you know what the DSC is before you register everything. The DSC stands for a digital signature certificate. Your digital signature is what you need when you are filling out papers online.
Taking care of your online paperwork is important and you need to make sure that all of the paperwork is completed properly so you don’t have any problems. The DSC is important and you have to make sure that you take care of it properly so you don’t have problems.
When you are registering an online business you need to take your time and ensure that everything goes the way it is supposed to. Registering a business can be difficult and you want to make sure that you take care of all of your needs properly so you don’t have problems during the registration process.
Registering a business properly can be hard so you want to make sure that you register everything the right way so you don’t have problems. You don’t want to end up having to start everything over again because the paperwork was not completed properly.
It is important that you take your time so everything turns out the way it is supposed to. When you are registering a business make sure that you know what you are doing and that you are ready to get help if you need it. You don’t want to take any chances and you need to make sure that everything is going to turn out properly.
Your business is important and you don’t want to take any chances with it. Make sure that you know what you are doing and that you are ready to deal with your paperwork. Taking care of the paperwork properly is crucial.
What You Need To Know About Medical Facilities Construction
If you are in the business of medical facilities construction you want to make sure that you do your research and you are prepared to deal with the construction process. This process can be difficult and you need to make sure that you are ready to take care of all of your needs. The construction industry is competitive and you need to be ready to deal with all of your needs.
When you get involved in medical facilities construction you can make a lot of money and really go far. It is easy to meet your needs when you do this and you will have an easy time taking care of your business needs. Research is very important and you need to take your time when you are looking for what you need. You have a lot of choices when you are looking for buildings.
The medical industry is huge and you need to be ready to deal with lots of issues. When you are looking for a contracting firm it is going to be important to do your research so you find the firm that fits your needs the best. This firm is going to help you with all of your needs and you can easily do what you need to do with this firm.
The medical industry is growing. This industry is huge and you have a lot of opportunities when you are in this industry. The industry is booming and you have the chance to make a lot of money. When you start working in this industry you will have an easy time dealing with your needs and you won’t have to worry so much about problems. The medical industry is huge and you have the chance to make a lot of money so you definitely want to take advantage of it.
You have probably heard about some medical studies and how
people sign up for these medical studies in order to be test subjects. Well, in
this article, we are going to cover adult ADHD clinical study and menopause
clinical study and tell you how to sign up for these studies. So, the only
condition is, is to have one of these medical conditions diagnosed.
Clinical research can last for several months, depending on the amount of data, which needs to be gathered. So, how does one research look? Every couple of months, the facility shares with its attendants that they have new research going on. Then, you can sign up for it. Even if you suspect that you have some of these medical conditions, you can sign up and people in charge will see what they will do with you. When you get admitted, you can expect these things. Some will take your personal data, and they will ask you more questions about your medical history. Then, they will perform some of the typical procedures.
They will measure your height, weight, blood pressure; they will ask you if you are on some medication at the moment, and do you take your medication as told by a medical doctor, etc. These are only just some of the questions that you can expect. However, it is absolutely important to answer honestly, because otherwise, the data you provide will not be valid and you can compromise the whole study. Clinical research is based on already existing documents, however, new participants will add more value to the research. If you sign up for the medical study, which studies adult ADHD, then you will also receive a journal that you need to bring home. So, you will probably be told some instructions, and you need to pay attention to that. You need to make regular inputs in your journal, and again, you need to be one hundred percent honest.
Clinical research helps us help those in need, and by the end of the research, we have a great quantity of data, which has to be processed. Every medical condition is as severe as it gets, and no one has it easier or harder. However, the key to fighting any illness is knowledge. By becoming aware, you are already ten times better than your condition.
When persons who do not truly get tattoos, see a person, who actually has a lot of tattoos, they will be really opinionated about that. However, when it comes to a vice versa situation, you will never see that person who has a lot of tattoos will speak something bad about persons who are tattoo-free. The reason for this is that people are simply judgmental, and that is okay. But, we are not because of that here. We are here to share some of the best experiences, which clients had at Fayetteville NC tattoo shops.
If you live somewhere near or exactly in this area, then you should go to some of these tattoo shops to get a tattoo. Getting a tattoo does not have to be a stressful process. We can share with you a couple of ideas and help you started. For instance, a lot of people like to get tattoos of someone special to them. Pets are one of the most tattooed designs. Pets are here only one part of our life, however, during that time, they affect us so much, so we want to pay them respect by tattooing their portrait.
Owners of Fayetteville NC tattoo shops guarantee that you will leave their place like a satisfied client. You just need to bring the picture of a thing or a person or a pet that you want to get tattooed and let them do their job. However, we have this great thing called a website, where you can just send the pictures, and you do not need to go to the shops in person. Once you make the appointment, you will just have to be a tattoo shop on time, and that would be it. We recommend sending several pictures, especially if you want to get a portrait of a person. Tattoo artists would not be called that if they are not truly an amazing artist. For instance, if you have only one portrait, but the person is not smiling, and you want them to smile, then you can send another picture with the smile of that person, and then the tattoo artist will mix these two pictures.
We recommend visiting Fayetteville NC tattoo shops if you really want an amazing piece of art on your arm, leg or backs! If you have more questions and we believe that you do, you should learn more about these shops by reading the description box.
Radio has been hit hard over the years with the competition that the Internet has brought to marketing and advertising. Business owners still should not under estimate radio’s effectiveness and ability to tap a market that cannot be found any other way.
The market is still there and still listening! With so much attention to the Internet, your competition may have looked the other way. Take advantage of radio’s effective market-ability and low cost. That market can be all yours!
Just like computers, millions of people own radios. Radio’s are in our homes, at work, in grocery stores and in our cars! People are listening everywhere.
Radio is still one of the most selective forms of media. From country western demographics, to urban rap listeners, to the rock n’ roll crowd, different radio stations provide access to very targeted market groups.
Radio has also gone online, with many listeners tuning in from their computer, from all around the world. Radio is not going away, it’s just changing and evolving. People will always listen to the radio, on the way to work to get their local news, to listen to music, to get their weather and for talk show entertainment.
Radio is a hands-free way to get your news and entertainment, as compared to television and the Internet, where you have to pay attention or actively navigate the screen so that you don’t miss something.
In addition to targeting the type of market that you are trying to reach, radio has a huge following of dedicated listeners.
Radio commercials are a very cost effective and a sure way to draw attention in a short amount of time. Radio also creates a larger than life image of the event or product that you are promoting.
In radio, simpler is better. The easier you make your message to be understood and the less cluttered you make the commercial, the better. Never try to cram information into the ad, it is always recommended to focus on only one product, event or promotion within the commercial.
You will see an influx of calls around the times that your ad airs. Be sure to be prepared to answer the phones when your commercial airs.
If you are thinking of using the radio to market your products, then start listening to what other advertisers are doing to market their products. This way you will get ideas for your commercial. Also, browse other stations within your market area to determine if they may be a fit for you.
In these days of social media and web directory marketing, radio advertising has become an almost forgotten advertising medium, but traditional mediums of advertising have proven results and will be around for a long time to come.
Radio is very beneficial if you’re short on time to promote your products and events. Radio can be very effective because radio commercials take far less time to produce than magazine ads or television.
Keep in mind that the people that are listening to radio are probably doing something else like working or driving. It is suggested to repeat important information such as your business name, product that you are promoting and phone number. We also recommend that you repeat your web address at least three times within the ad.
Since people may not have time to write your information down it is very important to air your commercial at the same times for the span of several weeks so that the people listening will have the time to write down your phone number or website.
Radio marketing tip: Keep your website address short and easy to remember.
If you are airing your commercial on a country western station you do not want an ad with hip hop music explaining your product. Same as with a rock station, you do not want classical music in the background discussing your products. Pretty obvious, but it must be said because consistency is very important in radio advertising.
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Soul Food, Soul Music, Soul Mate
Since we often reference souls we must know what a soul is, correct? Is it a soul or the soul? Do we have one? Does every person have one? Can you sell it? Can you bare it? Can you bless it, as in “Well, bless my soul!”?
I used to believe I had the full answer to these and more profound questions from my faith tradition. As I have lived longer, had more experiences and opportunities for learning, I have less confidence in what I used to believe with little question.
This is not intended to be a religious discussion nor debate. On this blog, I eschew that subject with almost as much determination as to the subject of politics. https://crookedcreek.live/2016/09/03/declaration/
That being said it is worth mentioning that the word soul appears in most holy books. For example “soul” can be counted 55 times in the Christian *New Testament, 224 times in the Quo’ran and a whopping 443 times in the Hebrew *Old Testament.
*King James Version
What is Soul?
I feel that each of us has a theory and of course, we can easily check the dictionary for a formal definition but I am more interested in your personal beliefs. At the least, I hope to stimulate thought on this subject. I will be sharing my thoughts and those of some of our contemporaries in the next several posts.
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” Harriet Ann Jacobs
Part 1 of 7
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Using your own words and in APA formatting, write a 2–3 page paper on telematics technology, explaining how it works and providing examples of how it is currently being applied by law enforcement agencies around the U.S.
“That”-I will admit this is a personal issue with me, but I can tell you the excessive, unnecessary use of the word “that” seemed to be a prevalent issue with the class, almost to the student. This habit can be very distractive to the reader and demonstrates poor grammar. The best way I can tell you to overcome this problem is anytime you use the word “that” in a sentence, go back and read the sentence leaving the word “that” out. If the sentence makes sense without the word, leave it out.
Spaces- Minor issue, but APA rules require two-spaces after every period.
I have attached a couple sample papers to this e-mail.
Paper Length-The paper length requirement does not include your Cover page, Reference page, or the Abstract page or the References page. The font should be set at a #12 font. In most cases (unless an instructor says no) it is okay if your paper goes longer than the minimum, but it should never be shorter than the minimum number of pages! Also, make sure you set your paper at a two (double) spaces between lines.
With the APA format, you need four separate subsections, the cover page, a page titled “Abstract” a page titled “Discussion” and the “References” page.
- Cover page,
- An Abstract page where you BRIEFLY tell the reader what you are going to write about to include your “argument(s)” or points you intend to cover,
- A main body (“Discussion” page) where you go into detail over your main points. Your Discussion page MUST contain in-text references that relate directly to you references page listing so I know where you used the information from each reference in the main body of your essay,
- A References page where you list all references used in your paper.
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Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory
Engineering dynamic reciprocity in supramolecular DNA-based nanomaterials.
Can we make materials that speak the cellular language?
The goal of the Programmable Biomaterials Lab is to integrate dynamic reciprocity, e.g. a two-way action-reaction feedback loop, into supramolecular nanomaterials.
Crossing materials engineering with biophysics and immune biology creates a research space with the potential to advance the impact of DNA-based nanomaterials to truly become integrated with cellular action. The technology that has been taken from the living cell to the engineering table over the past decades will now find its way back into its original space to perform tasks it never knew it could.
Combining materials engineering with biophysics and immune biology, we lift DNA to become a quantifiable biomaterial with unprecedented control in cellular (inter)action.
Exploiting the multitude of dynamic non-covalent interactions presented by DNA, we want to create materials that self-organize into functional architectures, dictated by a dynamic interplay with cellular interactions.
ERC starting Grant for Maartje Bastings’ project InActioN
- DNA nanotechnology
- Supramolecular polymer self-assembly
- Soft matter
- Cell uptake and stability
- Immune engineering
Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, a mistress above all masters, are laboring in vain.
Leonardo da Vinci
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In this episode, Matt and Erin interview the 2016 Gunderson Memorial Seminar speaker, Dr. Ric Bessin. Ric is a professor and extension entomologist at the University of Kentucky. His areas of extension and research interests range from row crops to specialty crops, and has a focus on IPM. Their conversation starts off talking about agriculture in Kentucky compared to Iowa.
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This is a project to review SQL: run through the standard and explain what each feature is, explain the jargon terms, explain why the feature exists, and explain the relationship with real sql products - standard feature, possibly with different syntax/ different semantics/ different names/jargon; or one of those SQL Standard things which bears no relationship to reality.
Maybe provide a little history and context also, with a little bit of relational theory.
Glossary for SQL
SQL recommended reading
SQL: The Complete Reference, 3rd Edition, James R. Groff, Paul N. Weinberg, Andrew J. Oppel
This is a comprehensive book which covers up to the SQL:1999 standard.
SQL in a Nutshell, Kevin Kline, Brand Hunt, Daniel Kline
This is another good book which covers some of the SQL:2003 and
SQL:2008 standards. This means it covers a few newer things like
window functions which 'SQL: The Complete Reference' doesn’t. It also
compares some main SQL product dialects.
SQL A Comparative Survey, Hugh Darwen
This is a book about SQL from a relational theory perspective.
SQL and Relational Theory, 2nd Edition, Chris Date
This also covers SQL from a partly theoretical perspective.
A Guide to the SQL Standard, C. J. Date, Hugh Darwen
This is a fantastic book for covering all the little details of the
SQL standard in depth. It only covers up to SQL:92.
There are several other good books by Chris Date, some with Hugh Darwen and others, for instance 'Introduction to Database Systems', 'Temporal Data & the Relational Model, Databases', 'Types and the Relational Model'. Only the first one (Introduction to Database Systems) really relates to SQL.
Database Systems: The Complete Book, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman, and Jennifer Widom.
This book is very comprehensive and has some interesting sections.
Some of the SQL draft standards are available to download for free (follow the links on the wikipedia page for SQL or try google). They are a little tricky to read and understand. You can find some stuff at these links. There is also the grammars from the draft standards below on this page.
SQL products' manuals
IBM DB2 10.5 SQL Reference Volume 1
Oracle SQL Reference 12c release 1
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 TSQL reference online. I didn’t find a PDF for this.
PostgreSQL 9.4 manual:
No PDF for the Postgres manual either, but the web pages are very
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., gave a speech about foreign policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute Nov. 20. After his speech, a Floridian in the audience asked him a question about how to convince Americans to support consistent defense spending.
During part of his answer, Rubio made some claims about the debt.
"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs that are structured in unsustainable ways."
We decided to check in with several economists across the political spectrum and ask if Rubio’s assessment about the debt was correct.
Medicare, Social Security and defense
The economists we interviewed generally agreed that Medicare and Social Security account for huge chunks of our long-term debt. However, they also said that defense spending is also a factor, and some experts noted that Rubio left out a couple of other important factors: interest payments on the debt and Medicaid.
Rubio didn’t quantify the role of defense in our national debt or specify a timeframe, he simply said that debt isn’t due to defense spending.
But it’s a bit too simplistic to let defense spending entirely off the debt hook.
"It is incorrect to say our current debt has nothing to do with defense spending, because we spend a lot of money on national defense every year, and we have large deficits -- therefore defense spending is one of the causes of our debt increase," said Josh Gordon of the centrist Concord Coalition.
Chris Edwards of the libertarian Cato Institute sent us numbers which showed that based on 2014 total spending, "defense is 17 percent of the problem, Medicare is 17 percent of the problem, and Social Security is 24 percent of the problem."
Rubio zeroed in on the long-term debt and Medicare and Social Security -- and there is evidence to support his claim.
The Congressional Budget Office predicts that spending as a percentage of gross domestic product for entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security will grow much faster than defense. Defense spending will also grow, but at a far slower rate.
Here’s a chart we found from the CBO that illustrates that general point; the CBO includes other health programs in the top line in addition to Medicare:
By 2023, "the share of total spending by the entitlements will be much more than defense, and thus increasingly the entitlements are more drivers of deficits and debt than defense," Edwards said. While entitlements are more of a problem, "defense and other areas of spending are problems as well."
All of our spending is responsible for the debt, said Ron Haskins, a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and a past senior adviser on welfare policy for President George W. Bush.
"However, if you look at the most expensive and rapidly growing items as the major culprits, which seems reasonable to me, then Social Security is the biggest item, and Medicare in particular and health care in general the most rapidly growing in most years," Haskins said in an email. "Rubio’s list does not include a huge item, and that is interest payments. Over the next few decades, interest payments are likely to be the biggest single item in our budget and the most rapidly growing."
Romina Boccia, a fellow in federal budgetary affairs at the conservative Heritage Foundation, cited spending growth in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Obamacare subsidies for our long-term deficit.
"Social Security is the largest federal spending program and has held this position since surpassing defense in 1993," she said.
Dean Baker, a liberal economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, argued that Social Security can’t drive the debt.
"Under the law it can only pay benefits insofar as it has money in the trust fund," he said. "This means that it cannot possibly spend more than was collected in Social Security taxes."
(We should note that the questions around the Social Security trust fund are particularly complex. Earlier this year, we rated a claim that the Social Security trust fund is "sound" as Half True.)
So what’s the solution to reducing our debt?
"Reversing the upward trajectory of the debt will require taking a look at ways to control health costs and reform Social Security," said Jason Peuquet at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "But that doesn't mean other savings can't play a vital role. Reforming the tax code to raise more revenue and reducing other spending will be vital elements in actually getting the debt under control."
Rubio said in a speech, "The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our longterm debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."
Rubio is correct that Medicare and Social Security are drivers of our debt -- but there are other factors, too, including Medicaid and interest, economists said.
Also, defense spending isn’t entirely off the hook. While Medicare and Social Security are projected to grow as a percentage of GDP, defense is projected to shrink by the same measurement -- but defense is a factor in our debt, albeit a far lesser one.
We rate this claim Mostly True.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Speech given to American Enterprise Institute, Nov. 20, 2013
Congressional Budget Office, Updated budget projections: Fiscal years 2013-2023, May 2013
Concord Coalition, Federal budget growth, September, 2013
Heritage Foundation, "Federal spending by the numbers," 2013
Heritage Foundation, "Medicaid is the fastest-growing major entitlement," Aug. 20, 2013
PolitiFact, "Obama says Medicare and Medicaid are largest deficit drivers. Yes, over the long term," June 25, 2009
PolitiFact, "Rep. Marty Kaptur says social security trust fund is sound into future," May 15, 2013
Interview, Josh Gordon, policy director Concord Coalition, Nov. 20, 2013
Interview, Ron Haskins, senior fellow in the Economic Studies program and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, Nov. 20, 2013
Interview, Jason Peuquet, Research Fellow, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Nov. 20, 2013
Interview, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Nov. 20, 2013
Interview, Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato, Nov. 20, 2013
Interview, Romina Boccia, a fellow in federal budgetary affairs Heritage Foundation, Nov. 20, 2013
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Some people turn to professional plumbers when their plumbing fails. The idea of putting in your effort is admirable. However, it may lead to the job not being completed correctly or provide less than perfect results. You may find watching a DIY YouTube video inspiring, but halfway through you will realize that you have no clue what you are doing.
You may save money upfront by hiring a handyman to do the job, but you will be paying more for the same problem later on.
Designing and installing pipes for a building is part of plumbing work. This work is often separated from the water- and sewage systems that serve a specific city or group. A Bondi plumber may be the most important person in the design and implementation of a building’s water and sewage system. In addition to the design and installation of fire suppression systems, plumbers may also be involved in water supply and drainage.
One job in plumbing is to install or repair plumbing fixtures. Plumbers can also train and supervise others. Many times, they work alongside other members of the construction workforce. While plumbers’ salaries can vary greatly, the median wage is higher than for other trades. Many plumbers have joined labor unions to negotiate their wages. Plumbing workers are skilled in their trades, but they also need good communication skills.
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This Week in Classical Music: July 4, 2022. Mahler. Gustav Mahler was born this week, on July 7th of 1860. We freely admit that for us Mahler remains one of the most important and beloved composers and that he has been so for a long time. This is rather unusual, as other composers of genius (and there were many in the last several hundred years) drift in and out, becoming more important and then receding somewhat as tastes change and other music periods come to the fore (take, for example, the overwhelmingly Romantic piano repertoire of the mid-20th century, now being performed sparingly). To think of it, this is unusual for a composer who wrote just nine full symphonies, part of a tenth, a symphony/song cycle (Das Lied von der Erde), and several other song cycles – that’s practically it. All of Mahler’s music could be played in less than 20 hours. Compare it with Beethoven’s output (nine symphonies, five piano concertos, plus 32 piano sonatas, a violin concerto, nine violin sonatas, a full-length opera, 17 string quartets and much more) or Bach’s, with more than 200 cantatas alone, plus Passions, oratorios, concertos, and numerous other pieces for individual instruments and ensembles. During the last century, Mahler also played a significant extra-musical role, serving as a litmus test in the ongoing culture wars, starting with the Nazis and all the way to our time (we’ll come back to this issue later).
For several years we’ve been traversing Mahler’s life using his symphonies as guideposts. A couple of years ago we finished our entry about the Seventh symphony writing, “The years 1904 – 1905 were good to Mahler. He was acknowledged as a great opera conductor, and his symphonic programs with the Philharmonic were popular. Some of his compositions even had critical and popular success (Symphony no. 7 would not go on to be one of them). He lived very comfortably, was happily married, and his second daughter, Anna, was born in 1904. He had many friends and admirers among musicians and developed a special relationship with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and its conductor Willem Mengelberg. Just three years later Mahler would have to leave Hofoper, hounded by antisemitic music critics; in 1907 his first daughter, Maria, would die of scarlet fever and his marriage to Alma would be on the rocks.”
Mahler composed most of his Eighth symphony in the summer of 1906, at the end of his “happy period,” not, of course, that he was aware of it and of what was to come. His Sixth symphony was premiered in May of that year in Essen, with Mahler conducting, and in June he took his family to Maiernigg in Carinthia, where he had a villa overlooking the Wörthersee (lake Wörth). He had been going to Maiernigg since 1900 and in 1901 had a “composing hut” built there, to which he would retreat, alone, to write and contemplate. That’s where he composed all of his symphonies from the Forth to the Eighth. The latter was written very quickly, in just two months, though some changes were made later. The Eighth was called “Symphony of a Thousand” by its original promoter, Emil Gutmann, as it required a huge orchestra, vocal soloists, two regular choirs and one children’s choir (the real number of performers was smaller than one thousand and Mahler disapproved of the moniker). The symphony consists of two parts rather than the usual several movements - a relatively short Part One, based on the traditional Latin text of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, and Part Two, which runs about an hour or more, depending on the conductor, and is based on the closing scene of Goethe's Faust.
The Eighth was premiered in Munich on September 12th of 1910. It was the last time that Mahler would conduct a premier of his symphony. Emil Gutmann promoted it heavily and the public’s anticipation was enormous. Here are just some of the cultural figures in attendance: composers Richard Strauss, Camille Saint-Saëns and Anton Webern; the leading writers of Germany, Thomas Mann, and Austria, Arthur Schnitzler; and Leopold Stokowski, who would conduct the American premier of the symphony several years later. The performance was an unqualified success, which is rather surprising, considering that a more accessible Sixth symphony was received coolly. Thomas Mann sent Mahler an effusive congratulatory letter and later gave the writer Gustav von Aschenbach, the protagonist of his novella Death in Venice the “Mask of Mahler.” Some year later the great Italian director Luchino Visconti took it a step further and made Aschenbach into a composer and used the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth symphony as the movie’s main theme, popularizing it for years to come.
We’ll hear the famous 1972 recording of the symphony made by Sir Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Boys Choir, the Choir of the Vienna Musikverein, the Choir of the Vienna State Opera, the Chicago Symphony, and several vocalists, among them the soprano Part 1 is here, part 2 – here.. | <urn:uuid:bdedc32c-b74e-4460-aef9-22a6007d67ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bandmine.com/news/213/gustav_mahler_2022/3251212 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.98231 | 1,174 | 2.875 | 3 |
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Since the pandemic, staycations have become increasingly popular ó as have caravan holidays. As a result, more and more people are experimenting with ways to run their caravans for less, leading to an influx of drivers using their car tyres as an alternative.
But is this safe?
While there is no straightforward answer, this blog will explore the implications of putting car tyres on a caravan as well as provide some tips about the different types of tyres. So, if youíre planning a caravan trip anytime soon, read this article to stay informed.
Generally speaking, you could use high-quality car tyres on a caravan to tow it ó but that doesnít mean you should.
When you buy a caravan new, the tyres it comes with will be specific to the vehicle itself. Although they may be roughly the same size as normal car tyres, it is often the case that the sidewall is reinforced and made stronger to handle the extra weight.
Whatís more, since caravans are often stationary for long periods of time, the tyres they come fitted with will reflect this specification in their design too Ė being stronger and maybe having different grip patterns. When stationary, the tyres of a caravan take a lot of weight in concentrated specific areas, meaning the sidewalls need to be strengthened to prevent a blowout or a rupture.
While sitting stationary for months or even years, caravan tyres are more susceptible to weathering from the elements and rubber corrosion. Would you want to put high-quality car tyres on a caravan just to see them erode over time?
One of the most common reasons why drivers think itís ok to use caravan and car tyres interchangeably is the axle type.
Many caravans have a twin axle like cars. This is often used as an excuse for drivers to put regular car tyres on caravans, since the load is spread more evenly. Some caravans, on the other hand, only have a single axle and require two tyres which, when considering the heavy weight of the caravan, is too much load to bear for car tyres used to sharing the load among four.
When choosing the right tyre for your caravan, youíll need to factor in the weight limit. Itís all well and good fitting tyres when your caravan is empty, but imagine the weight difference between it being bought new and the first day of a two-week-long summer holiday with your entire family on board ó then it becomes an entirely different story.
You can find the weight limit in your caravanís documentation. Once located, divide the weight between four (or two) and you have the maximum weight that each tyre can carry. On the sidewall of each tyre should be the maximum weight limit it is capable of carrying, so if youíre beneath that ó youíre golden.
Another factor that comes into play when choosing caravan tyres is their width. Make sure you follow the guidance from your caravan manufacturer to ensure you donít choose tyres that are too wide for the wheel housing or not wide enough to support the weight.
So, if youíre planning to use your car tyres on your caravan, we would recommend otherwise unless in emergency situations when youíve deciphered the compatibility of your tyres. Usually, though, the weight, width, and sidewall strength are simply not designed for it. Something more similar to van tyres would be more appropriate.
If you are looking for high-quality car tyres, however, Kwik Fit has you covered. Shop our online range of tyres today or, for any questions about your tyres and their specifications, get in touch with the experts at your local Kwik Fit centre. Stay safe out there!
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We are invited to follow Jesus to the Cross every day of our lives, but no more so than on this day, Good Friday.
Jesus death on the Cross was an exercise of what appeared to be power on the part of the Romans, but instead was an expression of fear. Mary DeTurris Poust, in her book of Lenten reflections, Not By Bread Alone from Liturgical Press offered a powerful thought for this day, and I leave that with you for your prayer and contemplation. Once again the Cross at Notre-Dame Cathedral after the fire provides us with inspiration and hope. This is an image how real power resurrects, even in the midst of the worst death.
What will we die to today? Our ego? Our hubris? Our fears that puff us up or tamp us down? Our distractions or addictions? Whatever it is, we in one way or another have prayed to be transformed by Christ during our Lenten journey in the desert with him. How willing are we in the end to be transformed? Are we willing to trust the small turns of transformation of each Lent and each day of our life as we die to the lure of some overnight event, such as winning the lottery or suddenly no longer wanting to take a drink? Or are we still hoping for something that will externally change our lives? All the while Jesus continues to beckon from within.
Transformed or not, we are all called to remember that in our daily lives and exercises of power and our use of, or response to fear of the power around us. In God is the strongest power, the power that saves into eternity. We must remember that, especially today.
Many people object to the symbol of the crucifixion, many Christians even. But without crucifixion there can be no resurrection. One is entirely dependent upon the other, they cannot be separated, although it is the Cross that triumphs. If we are left uncomfortable by the Cross, maybe it is time to die to our literalism and to be born in the hope of the Cross. God does not choose to punish us cruelly. We all do a bang up job of doing that to one another and ourselves. God invites us to eternal life. That is real power. Are we ready? | <urn:uuid:5cdc22ed-e3fc-4ae6-bca0-9b36cfcad254> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://breadhere.wordpress.com/tag/holy-week/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960147 | 459 | 1.898438 | 2 |
47 X-X-Y syndrome; XXY syndrome; XXY trisomy; 47,XXY/46,XY; Mosaic syndrome; Poly-X Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition that occurs in males when they have an extra X chromosome.
Most people have 46 chromosomes. Chromosomes contain all of your genes and DNA, the building blocks of the body. The 2 sex chromosomes (X and Y) determine if you become a boy or a girl. Girls normally have 2 X chromosomes. Boys normally have 1 X and 1 Y chromosome.
Klinefelter syndrome results when a boy is born with at least 1 extra X chromosome. This is written as XXY.
Klinefelter syndrome occurs in about 1 out of 500 to 1,000 baby boys. Women who get pregnant after age 35 are slightly more likely to have a boy with this syndrome than younger women.
Infertility is the most common symptom of Klinefelter syndrome.
Symptoms may include any of the following:
Klinefelter syndrome may first be diagnosed when a man comes to the health care provider because of infertility. The following tests may be performed:
Blood tests will be done to check hormone levels, including:
Testosterone therapy may be prescribed. This can help:
Most men with this syndrome are not able to get a woman pregnant. An infertility specialist may be able to help. Seeing a doctor called an endocrinologist may also be helpful.
These sources can provide more information on Klinefelter syndrome:
Enlarged teeth with a thinning surface is very common in Klinefelter syndrome. This is called taurodontism. This can be seen on dental x-rays.
Klinefelter syndrome also increases the risk of:
Contact your provider if your son does not develop secondary sexual characteristics at puberty. This includes facial hair growth and a deepening of the voice.
A genetics counselor can provide information about this condition and direct you to support groups in your area.
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Abstract: Despite enduring and unacceptable disparities in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians as well as people living in rural and remote locations, evidence indicates that health services are not routinely evaluated. This article describes an exploration of a context where evaluators and community partners have achieved considerable success in implementing and sustaining ongoing monitoring and evaluation for enhanced service effectiveness in rural and underserved communities of New Hampshire. The purpose of this project was to establish the principles supporting this success and to set the stage for future research investigating the applicability of these principles to the remote Australian context. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 15 people from different organizations and in different positions within those organizations. The results invite a reconsideration of the way in which evidence-based practice is conceptualized as well as the role of external evaluators. The study has important implications and recommendations for both policy and practice. | <urn:uuid:06343a34-1a98-4dd9-8ac0-cc95ba773f47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nintione.com.au/resources/rao/rethinking-evaluation-for-improved-health-outcomes-implications-for-remote-australia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954743 | 177 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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In an age of terrorism, where should a democratic society draw the line on government surveillance? Edward Snowden’s explosive disclosures about the National Security Agency’s intelligence-collection operations have ignited an intense debate about the appropriate balance between security and liberty in America. In a special series this year, nationally prominent experts will explore the critical issues raised by the NSA’s activities, including their impact on our security, privacy, and civil liberties. This timely series will address one of the most challenging questions the nation faces today as it tries to strike the right balance between safety and liberty. The Security Conundrum will look behind and beyond the headlines, examining the history and implementation of the NSA operations, the legal questions generated by them, the media’s role in revealing them, and the responsibility of Congress to oversee them. It will also address the NSA’s uneasy and evolving relationship with Silicon Valley. Each session in the series is designed to explore these issues from a different vantage point. The guest speakers, in conversation with Stanford scholars, will probe the problems, explain the political, legal, and technological contours of the NSA actions, and outline ways to preserve the nation’s security without sacrificing our freedoms.
An Evening with U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Dianne Feinstein has been at the vortex of the debate about Edward Snowden’s disclosures since he exposed an array of National Security Agency surveillance programs in 2013. As chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 2009-2014, and now the ranking minority member, Senator Feinstein has tried to help the nation strike the appropriate balance between security and liberty as she and her Senate colleagues examined NSA practices in light of the Snowden materials. She also played a leading role in the Senate investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency detention and interrogation program following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Senator Feinstein pressed to make the Senate report public. Some parts of the study were released in December 2014. A California Democrat and Stanford graduate, she has served in the Senate since 1993.
In her May 28 appearance at Stanford, Senator Feinstein will discuss the Congressional role in overseeing America’s intelligence agencies, including the NSA and CIA, and establishing the laws that govern their operations. The format for her appearance will be a colloquy with Philip Taubman, a consulting professor at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and former Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.
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“He Is God Of The Living,” Mark 12:18-27
Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. At the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
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The changes of immunoglobulin-G and creatinine levels in mid-altitude were investigated in rabbits. The animals living at sea level were exposed to 2240 m altitude for 22 days period. When compared with sea level values; immunoglobulin-G levels were significantly low. Serum creatinine level decreased significantly in the 2nd day, then reached the sea level amount on the 12th day. On the 22nd day a significant increase was observed. It was concluded that the decrease in immunoglobulin-G values may be due to the depression of protein synthesis. The increase in plasma creatinine level would be explained by the decrease in urine. | <urn:uuid:ea5eb0f1-1e13-4def-80f5-c9537d5daa13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.erciyes.edu.tr/yayin/30b35b5f-4ef8-47be-a879-33f19bce3cad/immunoglobulin-g-and-creatinine-levels-in-rabbits-in-altitude-adaptation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972843 | 138 | 1.742188 | 2 |
A runny nose, watery eyes, and other symptoms of allergies can make everyday tasks feel daunting. If you experience seasonal or other allergies, you don’t have to live with discomfort. At Atkins Expert Sinus Care in San Antonio, Texas, board-certified otolaryngologist James Atkins, MD, and his team offer a wide array of allergy treatments to reduce symptoms and give you a better quality of life. Schedule an appointment by phone or online for allergy symptom relief today.
Allergies are your body’s response to allergens, substances that can cause unpleasant symptoms. Common allergens that can lead to congestion or other sinus problems include pollen, pet dander, mold, dust mites, and some medications.
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This Thanksgiving weekend, six Guiders from our District spent time becoming certified in Red Cross Standard First Aid and CPR Level C.
This qualification actually exceeds the Girl Guides requirement for most kinds of activities — that so many of our leaders were interested in taking this course rather than the more common Emergency First Aid course shows how committed we are to girl safety and to being able to offer exciting programming. The Girl Guide motto, after all, is “Be Prepared!”
The leaders learned about life-saving techniques such as CPR for adults, children, and infants, including use of automatic external defibrillators. They learned about how to deal with choking, head injuries, sprains, broken bones, allergic reactions (including anaphylaxis), heat exhaustion, heart attacks, and more.
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Divine Feminine vs. Dark Goddess
Stephanie Carvalho with exerpts from Rowan Foxx
What is a Goddess?
A woman who is in the process to know, accept and lover herself of all levels, Mind, Body and Spirit.
A woman who, because she focuses on personal growth and self-awareness, experiences a life, increasingly filled with peace, love, joy, passion and fun.
A woman who understands that she has unlimited capacity to make her life anything she wants.
A woman who is inspired to give to those around her because of her sense of gratitude and abundance.
The Dark Goddess
Evil. Manipulative. Controlling.
When one thinks of the Dark Feminine these are often the attributes that come to mind.
In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Over the last several decades, with the rise of the Patriarchy, female attributes of strength have not only been stifled, but have been twisted into a sordid, dark portrayal of what the Dark Goddess truly represents. In some ancient societies, powerful females were revered and celebrated, recognized for her ability to balance both strength and softness. Today she is labelled as cold and deviant, un-nurturing and void of emotion.
In truth, she is strength. She is power. She understands how to rise above conflict in times of crisis and how to maintain her integrity. She is a protector. She isn’t fearless – rather she recognizes fear for what is is, and doesn’t allow it to consume the love within her.
Without the Dark Goddess, women today would have succumbed to the roles they were “assigned”. They wouldn’t have questioned those who opposed their strength. They wouldn’t have held their Power.
Embracing the Dark Goddess within isn’t a political or social statement. It is simply being true to oneself and calling upon her in times of need. It is embracing one’s core being and returning to nature, while lighting the fires of transformation.
The Divine Feminine
Also known as the Sacred Feminine, she embodies attributes such as compassion, caring, beauty, warmth and unconditionally loving. She is often represented as a maiden, pure, unblemished, nurturing and a healer.
Unlike the Dark Goddess, she has been readily welcomed into recent society as the acceptable form of femininity. The very attributes which make her “sacred” are often confused with obedience, submissiveness and weakness.
But she is none of these things. She has an innate understanding of how her gentle, loving nature gives back to the world and helps to create a nourishing environment for those around her. She shares her strength without losing her power.
Far too often, women buy into the societal label of “weakness” and reject their own nature to nurture. Some movements openly reject the “softness” of the divine feminine in protest, and demand that women are not viewed as delicate beings. This extremism hurts the sacred feminine just as much as the labels themselves. It causes rejection of one’s true nature, which can have catastrophic effects to the feminine and those around her.
The loving purity of the Divine Feminine deserves to be cherished and celebrated. When a woman learns to embrace the love within herself, without shame or reservation, she creates a vibration that not only enriches her own being, but the lives of all those around her. She creates a pathway of light and subconsciously encourages others to elevate themselves to meet her frequency.
Mother Nature is calling us into a new awakening. Human-made conceptual structures are crumbling under this new vision of love and harmony.
Just as the moon phases between light and dark, so do we. Within each one of us is a cycle that begs for acknowledgement and balance. You cannot have light without the dark. As such the Dark Goddess and Devine Feminine are intertwined to call for the ability to return to a era where one’s innate natures are celebrated in unity, not separated.
A Goddess is a woman who has faced her inner demons and called upon her own strength to slay them. She is vulnerable yet she is fierce. She is an ever-evolving alchemist, continuously adapting her own unique formula of being.
A Goddess recognizes the light within herself and understands that at times she needs to close her eyes in the darkness to reach that light and radiate it.
She is a divine paradox.
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What is Heel Pain
Heel pain or Plantar Fasciitis is a disorder that results in the pain in bottom of the heel of the foot. Plantar fasciitis causes a stabbing pain in the foot near the heel. It is triggered after getting up from a seated position or by long periods of standing.
Sreevaidya is providing the best treatments for these patients. An ayurvedic foot bath and foot massage relaxes the whole physiology and provides a feeling of revitalization, increased energy, and improved circulation.
Causes Of Heel Pain
- Severe pain while waking up at morning.
- Running, walking, or lifting heavy weight may exacerbate the issue.
- Not able to bear the weight comfortably.
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Plants for Shade
These plants tolerate some amount of shade but a host of other factors (soil type, exposure, soil moisture, etc) determine long term success. Do research before you plant.
Shrubs: azalea, aucuba, mahonia, Japanese plum yew, hydrangea, fatsia, cherrylaurel, corylopsis, mountain laurel, Florida anise, leucothoe, rhododendron, pittosporum
Flowers and Foliage: autumn fern, Japanese painted fern, variegated Solomon’s seal, hosta, impatiens, lamium, acorus, Lenten rose, Italian arum, nandina, native ginger, liriope, mondo grass, ajuga, aspidistra, lady fern, caladium, bleeding heart, epimedium, pachysandra, lungwort, rohdea, tiarella, heuchera, chrysoganum | <urn:uuid:6f9bc6e0-bdcd-4ae4-9e4f-3a43ae421478> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.walterreeves.com/landscaping/plants-for-shade/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.680049 | 216 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Sports are making their own important role in India day by day. Even women are enthusiastical to take part in sport games in this most populous country in the world.
India is a popular courageous country where most of the travelers visit here to explore the diverse culture, heritage and historic monuments. Thus, it is the most demanding tourist destination. India is full of celebration of life that has been going on now for almost 5,000 years. Here everything is always memorable, inexplicable, colorful and exotic. Here a person can pamper in adventure sports such as trekking, hiking, camping, wilderness adventure, snow skiing, hang gliding, hot air ballooning, scuba diving, river rafting, mountain biking and the list goes on and on. It also includes contemporary sports like cricket, football, field hockey, lawn tennis, golf and chess. Although hockey is the national sport of India, and cricket is the most popular sport in the country.
In India the rules and customs are set by a government which often engaged in competitively. Now days, India has organizes many sports program to establish the physical capabilities of a person. Beside this activity, sports played a very important role in the growth of a man’s personality. It has added many players of different sports in India like Sachin Tendulkar, Raffal nadal, Sania Naiwal, Abhinav Bindra etc. Moreover, there are too many domestic tournaments in India i.e., the Ranji Trophy and the Duleep Trophy and Olympics etc. On the other hand, recently, Twenty20 leagues have been started up i.e., the Indian Premier League and the Indian Cricket League, by India to promote sports in India effectively.
From the last 10 years, India has enhanced itself so much in sports and still it is improving rapidly. Government has also taken so many steps to make improvement in this field. Recently, they hosted many well-known games in India and busy in decorating New Delhi, the capital city, for the oncoming Common Wealth Games 2008. This truly shows the immense enthusiasm and passion of Indian’s people towards sports. The government has set schemas to maintain sports as enlightening tradition of India by encouraging awareness between people, so that they involved themselves completely in sports. | <urn:uuid:8ee127d9-80f4-4a6d-b204-fdf98151aff3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://22views.com/sports-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96428 | 468 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Norfolk status Immigrant (former resident). Resident in wetlands of West Norfolk during the 19th century, prior to drainage operations. Old records from the former Stoke Ferry Fen which was destroyed by the building of the town bypass. Silver Barred was found breeding in this area up to approx 1949, now presumed extinct.
C. Barrett - Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol 6, 1900: Stevens (Illust. 3, 118): "Mr Haworth found a considerable number of specimens in Norfolk, I believe near Beachamwell, amongst reeds and rushes in a boggy situation, and kindly supplied me with specimens."
Records of singletons, presumed immigrants at Hemsby 1993, Scole 1993, Sherringham 1995, Scole and Eccles in 2001 and Aldeby in 2015.
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BUILD PODER student Frida Endinjok won second place for her oral presentation, "Let's Grow Healthy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Garden Enhanced Nutrition Education in Elementary School Children.
Over 60 BUILD PODER students presented original research at the 2017 CSUNposium, an annual competitive student research conference at California State University, Northridge. The event took place on Friday, April 7, 2017 at the university.
Students from the different colleges of the university presented their research with posters as well as through oral presentations. All research was conducted by the students with supervision from faculty mentors. Several BUILD PODER students took place in poster and oral presentations, winning monetary prizes ranging from $100-$200.
The BUILD PODER student winners were:
Frida Endinjok, 2nd Place, 3-minute Oral Presentation
"Let's Grow Healthy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Garden Enhanced Nutrition Education in Elementary School Children"
Chiemelie Onyekonwu 1st Place, 10-minute Oral Presentation
"Examining the Relationship Between Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Stress Among Latino/a Students"
Carlos Vargas, 2nd Place, 10-minute Oral Presentation
"Going Green Takes Guts: Plant-Eating Specializations in Gut Form and Function in the World's Largest Skink"
Tanya Estrada Gomez, 1st Place, Poster
"Contamination by Carbapenem-Resistant Bacteria in the Public Transportation System in the San Fernando Valley"
Shawntel Barreiro, former BUILD PODER student, 1st Place, Poster
"Linguistic perspectives on the current Mohegan language Revival"
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Rich man, poor man
Income inequality, especially between town and country, has risen sharply in China. This points to serious underlying problems
CHINA can be justly proud of having lifted some 400m people out of poverty in the last quarter of a century. But at the same time it has produced income inequalities that are among the fastest-growing in the world. These are not just the natural consequences of China's impressive growth. They are symptomatic of barriers to labour mobility and other legacies of the old planned economy that could put a brake on the country's development in the coming years. For China to reach its target of quadrupling 2000's national product by 2020, it will need bold reforms in a wide range of areas. It is not clear that it has the stamina for them.
At the start of China's move away from central planning in 1978, the average income of urban residents was about 2.5 times that of their rural counterparts. By the mid-1980s, the ratio had narrowed to 1.8, thanks to the breaking up of the people's communes, and other policies aimed at boosting rural incomes. But since then, the countryside has fallen ever further behind. Rural enterprises began to sputter in the 1990s as a result of increasing competition from the cities, bad management and poor investment decisions. Income from farming stagnated. Now urban residents earn on average three times as much as those in the countryside.
The disparity may be worse than it seems. Some Chinese scholars believe that official figures overstate the disposable income of farmers, who have to buy seed and fertiliser and are subject to numerous illegal levies by local governments, and understate that of urban residents, who often have undeclared sources of income. Lin Tai, a social-sciences professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University, has estimated that the urban/rural income ratio is as high as six. A similarly sharp divergence has occurred between the wealthy coastal provinces and the backward interior.
The widening income gap is often described by Chinese officials as a threat to social stability. “A Study of Mass Incidents”, a book circulated last year within China's police force, said that large-scale public disturbances were increasing annually, particularly in the countryside. One of the reasons the study gave for this was the growing gap between rich and poor. But such incidents have had little perceptible impact on China's overall social and political stability. A bigger potential threat is likely to come from the impact on China's economic growth of the factors that have caused China's urban/rural divide to expand at such a pace.
Thanks to what was until recent years a rigid system barring rural dwellers from moving into the cities, China's rural population is unusually large for a country at its stage of development. About two-thirds of the population of 1.3 billion lives in the countryside or in rural townships. Of these, more than 300m have little or nothing to do. To increase returns on agriculture and boost incomes farmers' tiny plots of land need to be merged and surplus labour moved into urban manufacturing.
China has gradually relaxed restrictions on mobility to meet demand for unskilled labour in the cities. But indirect obstacles remain. These include a lack of affordable housing, exclusion from urban welfare provisions, high fees for work and residence permits and the lack of any mechanism for selling or mortgaging land-use rights (the government formally owns all land) to provide the cash to move.
Removing these obstacles will take daring. Officials worry that in the absence of rural pension or unemployment benefits, allowing farmers to trade their land would deprive them of their only security—potentially creating a new source of social instability. Local governments fear that further encouraging the migration of rural labour would put excessive pressure on urban services.
China recognises the need for faster urbanisation. But fearing the development of sprawling shanty towns around big cities, it has focused on developing smaller towns. In a report published in July, a researcher from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Guo Yue, argued that by forgoing economies of scale, China's urbanisation policy had led to a colossal waste of resources and had failed to boost growth or employment.
For cities to work better, they will need industries with increasingly skilled labour and higher technology to boost productivity. Yet China's education system is woefully inadequate. Katarina Tomasevski, a UN official responsible for education rights, said in Beijing last week that Uganda was doing better than China in guaranteeing the right to education. She said China spends only 2% of its GDP on education (China says it is 3.4%, but the UN recommends 6%) and the government provides only 53% of school funding, lower than most other countries with compulsory education systems.
China will also need to overhaul its banking sector, so that capital can be deployed where it is needed instead of in unproductive state-owned enterprises or property speculation. This will involve liberalising interest rates and allowing greater private ownership of banks. But for years China's leaders have dithered over these and other essential reforms, such as sorting out the banks' huge portfolios of bad debt, fearful that a wrong move might precipitate an economic or social crisis.
In a critical report, the World Bank says it will take “enormous political will” for China to overcome resistance to needed reforms. Encouragingly, China supported the report's publication. And next month the Communist Party is scheduled to hold a meeting of its Central Committee to discuss, among other things, speeding up reform—with due attention paid to stability. But don't expect much to change.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Rich man, poor man"
From the September 27th 2003 edition
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Top 3 Autumn Ideas for Primary School
How to Be Your Pupils’ Favourite Teacher This Autumn
Ah, the autumn term. Back to school, harvest festival, and – before you know it – the Christmas play. It’s probably fair to say that coming up with decent ideas for the autumn term can be a bit of a struggle. I have been wracking my brains for some time and thought I’d share the best autumn ideas for primary school that I have come up with to help others who might be in this situation.
Autumn Ideas for Primary School
1. Get Singing
In my experience, there is no better way to teach and reinforce new concepts than through the art of song. There are thousands of general and autumn-related songs written for school that can really help make learning that little bit more fun for young children. From songs about autumn, harvest festival and going back to school to more educational, curriculum-based ones, there’s a catchy tune out there to support every topic imaginable.
2. Get Out and About
For many, the idea of autumn conjures up vivid memories of crunching through leaves, marvelling at sycamore seeds and playing conkers. The latter is now banned from many schools in case it causes some kind of horrific injury, but there are still plenty of ways to get children out of the classroom and back to nature. Outdoor play and learning are essential for children’s development, and following recent reports that most children play outside for less than an hour a day, this need seems all the more pressing. The Woodland Trust has some great autumn ideas for primary school.
3. Get Creative
As a primary school teacher, I’m sure you are aware of the benefits that arts and crafts can bring to learning. There are tons of autumn ideas for primary school on the internet; you only need to look. For starters, try Activity Village, a bank of free resources for teachers and parents. This has loads of great suggestions for autumn, from classic leaf collages to more original projects like ‘twig fairies’. You could also seek out pictorial inspiration – my favourite online platform for this is Pinterest.
I hope you have found these autumn ideas for primary school useful, and now have plenty of resources to help you get started on next term’s teaching plan. If you want songs for autumn (or indeed any other time of year), I recommend Out of the Ark. They have a huge selection of songbooks, each of which comes with an audio CD containing vocal and backing tracks. Whether you want children’s songs for harvest or a Christmas musical script, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
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Series: Jamal Zarabozo - Envy
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to hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah salat wa salam ala and
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or should one has an article
about one thing that is very common today
in many of the mosques and then many of the lectures, and even what has been written about
has to do with the current plight of the Muslim ummah. And actually, this kind of lectures have been going on for decades, and not something new.
Therefore, given the place, given the wars, the violence, the terrorism, everything that is going on with respect to the Muslim Ummah, today,
it may sound a little unnecessary or a little strange to all of a sudden concentrate on a topic like acid, which is our topic in these lectures has it or envy
but actually the extreme importance of this topic
cannot be denied. If we go to the Quran and Sunnah. We see that the Quran discusses and refers to the as the issue of hazards on many occasions
and demonstrates to us the importance of this concept.
So, the importance of this concept can be confirmed and hold on assume that this is something for the Muslim to wake up and realize, that indeed, this is an issue which is of extreme importance.
So first and foremost, we have the fact that
it is something stressing my grandson. So therefore we have to take it seriously. And secondly, also, and this is something Chela will develop further, as we will also develop the first point further lectures. But it is a disease hazard, or envy is a disease that is very prevalent among the Muslim Ummah today.
And unfortunately, it is prevalent among even the score is even Giamatti, even the people that do it, even the people who are working for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala, we can find this disease existing among them. And even among the common people, even in some remote villages where you'd expect maybe this kind of disease to be so rampant, we find it interesting.
another thing, which is points to the extreme importance of this topic
is that the hazard or envy is something that is related to the heart,
and the rule of the heart, and the actions of the heart.
And this is something
which is core to the matter of the issues that we are living in nowadays.
as I alluded to earlier, we're facing many, many problems. And unfortunately, when we try to analyze our contemporary situation situation.
And when we try to figure out what it is that should be done and what we need to do to help ourselves and bring ourselves in the Muslim Ummah out of this current situation,
we find a lot of analysis that seems to be, at least to some extent, missing some of the core issues.
I'll just take a couple of examples from books that were written recently.
These are written by a Muslim, one of them is entitled, globalization or recolonization, the Muslim world in the 21st century.
And towards the end the work for about 10 pages.
They discuss after discussing all the plight of the Muslim woman, especially the economic plight of the Muslim Ummah,
for about 10 pages, they discuss what needs to be done to strengthen the Muslim Ummah and to to bring back the Muslim Omar to what we could call a respected situation.
In these 10 pages, they discuss things like strengthening the oyc, the organization of the Islamic conference, to build up a Muslim Monetary Fund, like the International Monetary Fund,
have a united Muslim force
that they actually call the IDF Islamic defense forces. All of these are of course secular ideas.
They don't get to the root of the problem of even discussing the issues of why for example, are Muslims fighting each other?
Why are Muslims looking towards the west and trying to import things so much from the west and so much reliance on the west?
You know, much of what the West imports are what they call, for example, America's soft power. It is things like entertainment. It's not just technology and things like that, but it is things like entertainment, that even those
or purchasing silver.
So there are some more core issues than just these kind of things that
they discussed. And another recent book called The Crossing the Christian, the rise of American evangelism and the future Muslims.
In this book, the author makes one of the points, but then the question is, what is the what does he call it open.
Speaking about terrorists, he said the terrorists divert our attention from the real, the real culprits, to the relevant parties, they make us believe that the West, particularly the US is responsible for the weakness of Muslims, which is a wrong perception. So this is a this is a very good point that he's making. He's saying that our
situation, the fight that we're facing nowadays, and not simply what the kofod are doing, but then right after that, making that good point.
He states what is the real weakness for the Muslims? Now, these are the causes of the weakness.
He says the real reason for the weakness of Islamic civilization in the post colonial period
is neither the West in general, nor the United States in particular.
But mismanagement of our society's resources and economies by the ruling elite in many countries.
So here again, we see that the analysis of the solution to the situation that the Muslims are facing is
a secular, you can call it a secular one,
just looking at the situation from a worldly perspective.
So we Muslims, of course, our our ultimate purpose, or our ultimate goal is not this life, but we're supposed to be like travelers going through this life,
we should not look at our worldly situation, or dunya situation, and expect that all of our problems and solutions can be discussed and
solved simply by looking at worldly, worldly situation. Instead, there is something much further that isn't working. And we believe in Allah subhanho wa Taala, we believe that there are other factors that are working in this creation, other than simply the material cause and effect that people talk about, and people can see in front of them in this world.
In fact, there's another headache of the process and in which the processor is describing how the different peoples or the different are going to come upon this nation. As people are invited to come and eat, from addition, they're going to come upon this nation. And it's interesting that I've heard this. And this portion of the Hadith in particular, are mentioned in a number of hotels and a number of lectures.
And the interesting thing is, they just kind of mentioned part of it, and they do not mention or they do not realize what is the whole thing in the head.
Because the head is of the processor and mentioned this, the other woman will try to come upon the Muslim woman,
one of the one of the Sahaba of the processor,
as the processor, if that would be because the number of Muslims at that time would be very small woman couldn't attend your wedding. And it will be a small group of people at that time. And the promises silom said no.
But I'm from your meeting. In fact, you will be numerous.
But you will be like the frog on the seat.
And Allah will remove from the hearts of your enemies, any kind of fear of you.
And then the process alum said when they have the fun the level.
Then the process Adam said that Allah subhanho wa Taala will cast into your hearts as one.
So the problem is not that we're small number, we're going to be large in them. So the fear in the hearts of the disbelievers will leave and all this kind of what the Allah will put in our hustle one and this is one, this is the main reason why we're facing that situation. So the Profit System was asked What is it?
And the processor then said dounia okara here's
the process, Adam said that wasn't the thing that he described that also kind of with data we'll put in our hearts of that then the policy said and said, it is love of this dunya and dislike for death,
love of this dunya and dislike for death. Now what is love of this dunya and what is dislike for death, these are actually things that are in the hearts of the individual
is a feelings or emotions that are in the hearts of the individual. He loves something. Love is an expression of something in the heart, right. So he
He loves something, what does he love? Unfortunately, he loves this to me.
And he dislikes him, he hates something, what does he hate, he hates the death, he hates the fact. Or he hates the idea of preparing and knowing that he'll have to face death. And all of this will come to an end.
So here in this headset, and also, there's other relevant edits with the quote, so that the source of our problem, for example, is not the fact that the processor did not say that at one time, you're going to be weak, and people are going to
rule over you because you're going to stop trading among yourself and start trading with the kuffaar. And not have your own economic system or something of that nature. All of these things are simply ramifications, actually, of other problems, which are the core issues.
And the main thing about them, when you look at them is that they have to do with the heart, what is in the heart of the most.
So we can say that the heart is actually the heart of the matter. The question first and foremost is what is occurring to the muscles within their hearts.
And there is a verse in the Quran, a well known verse that has had the effect in the past, to change individuals, just this one verse one, when certain people have read it, they became changed by this verse.
And this verse is an important verse, because it tells us the fact that over time actually our hearts can become
can become hardened, can become diseased. Allah subhanho wa Taala says no put on
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Allah subhanho wa Taala says has not the time arrived for the believers,
that their hearts be humbly affected by Allah's reminder and the truth which has been revealed to them. And they should not become like those to whom was given to whom were given the revelation beforehand. But long ages passed over them and their hearts grew heart. In fact, many among them are rebellious transgressive.
So here all this is kind of what God is talking to.
and reminding us that our hearts should become humble and really, almost you can say crushed to the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa Taala and submission to the remembrance or what Allah subhana wa tada has revealed of the truth.
And we must be very careful not to become like those people who before so after a while in on the prowl was fresh when when Islam was fresh. It wasn't generation after generation growing up and seeing themselves simply as a Muslim, I grew up as a Muslim and my parents are Muslim, my grandparents are Muslim, so So therefore, it is like enable this upon them and there's no emotion, there's no, I should say there's no excitement about the fact that they are that they're Muslim. And this can happen over time. This happened to the people before us. So the hearts become hard. And we hear the Quran, it doesn't have much effect upon us because we think, okay, we're Muslim, and we
really don't have to pay that close attention.
When I'm Muslim, when when oma or any nation gets into a situation like that, then this is a very dangerous situation for that nation. And that's why this is kind of what the Allah describes both people before us who had gotten into that kind of situation will Cathedral men who own the majority are many of them are actually First of all, it will do.
Get right after this.
Right after this diversion operon Allah subhanho wa Taala leaves this door with some hope. Because even if we are facing that kind of situation, even if we see ourselves that we are a kind of our kind of people where the Quran or the revelation from Allah subhanho wa Taala is not having much of an effect upon us, our hearts are kind of become close to that and we're into other things we're are doing other things and excited about other things. We're no longer excited about the revelation from Allah subhana wa das.
Even when that occurs to us, Allah subhanho wa Taala. After that, as an ally you fill out the, the motif
and one of the meanings of this, that we can get from this expression that Allah subhana wa goddesses and know that Allah revives the earth after it's
part of that obviously we know that this is this can be a reference to the fact that we will be resurrected and will have to face Allah subhanaw taala. So therefore we have to be awake we have to wake up now
and change yourself before that time. But it also is a clue to the fact that Allah subhanho wa Taala can change can can revive our hearts that we
Total listen to Alison searly. Then inshallah in the same way that Allah subhanho wa Taala revives, then after this did, then inshallah Allah subhanho wa Taala will revive our hearts.
So therefore, inshallah, in today's lecture
as an introduction to the concept of hazards or envy, which we'll be speaking about, in the upcoming lectures,
I want to discuss First, the place of the heart and the worship of the heart of the heart and the central role that the heart has to play. And as I said, this is not something
that we should take lightly, this is something that we have to really think about.
And unfortunately, it is a topic for whatever reason, it is a topic that is not stressed that much nowadays among the Muslims.
In fact, if you look at our even our dowel material,
if we look at if you look at what we are presenting out there, what we are giving out there for others to learn about this.
And at the same time, even if you look at the the introductory books about Islam, written by non Muslims as well, when people think about Islam, unfortunately, since this has gotten to the state, that when people think about Islam, whether we're talking about Muslims, or whether we're talking about non Muslims, when they think we're presenting Islam,
we see that,
in general, the have a tendency to stress the outward aspects of,
you know, the five pillars, you have to pray, you have to pass and so forth. And there is some discussion, obviously, about the belief that you have to believe in a law you have to believe in the last day, believe in the foremost
there's usually very little discussion, though about
the other aspects of the heart.
Besides the belief in Allah, besides the belief in Allah, what is supposed to be in the heart of the believer?
Is it just the fact that he says, He believes in these things, and then he goes and prays and fasting, there's nothing else also which is,
which are aspects which should be in his heart and should be developed his heart, I mean, people have to be taught these things, they have to learn these things, so that they will think about them, they will recognize them, don't just think that it will be it will come to them to believe in God and the prophet in the last day, and they go and pray and fast, all of these things will also come to them.
They may come to them, maybe part of the effect of this a lot to all of these things will come to them. However, at the same time, it will be helpful for everyone.
If these things are discussed explicitly, and explain explicitly that there are certain emotions or certain feelings, certain attributes that should be in the heart of the believer, and there is no excuse for these things not to be in the heart of the believer. And in fact, if someone doesn't have some of these things in the heart, then he may not even have Islam at all, we'll discuss shortly.
So the introduction, when we talk about Islam, when we conveys them to others, we have to tell them also that Islam is not simply a belief in certain articles, and then practices but also the aspects of the heart, the actions of the heart also have to be there.
And of course, this is not just for non Muslims is not just renewables and even people who have been Muslim for a long time and our principles and our lectures and everything, we also have to keep reminding ourselves of the heart, the central role of the heart, what is healthy for the heart, which is harmful for hearts and so forth. Even the act of becoming a Muslim,
this is something which is called belief in the heart right, it is actually a belief it is not simply a belief in the mind.
But when someone becomes Muslim, it is actually changing what is in their hearts.
So even the first step of becoming Muslim actually supposed to be a change in something which is in the heart, the heart had a certain feeling or approach to something else and now it is now having a new feeling towards towards submitting to Allah.
And outward actions that we do.
Like the prayer, the fasting, the giving of charity, any of those aspects that we do, no matter how kind no matter how good they may look, actually, if those our aspects are void of what is supposed to be in the heart. Then in reality, those outward aspects are not really going to have much any effects we meet also known
as the prophet SAW, Selim has told us in the La lagen, Guru Isla
de como la isla sua Rico, lacking in guru illa puluh.
The processor and said Verily, Allah does not look at your bodies or your shapes, but he looks at your heart
And then the process is important to his chest.
So it is not necessarily the outward aspects, first and foremost, but it is what is in the heart that is most important.
And it certainly is not. One thing is for certain it is certainly the key when we meet Allah subhanaw taala certainly not what we can amass in this world,
the world and everything that people are so concerned about in this world and even those books that I referred to earlier seem to be picking the best the key for changing the Muslim Ummah, making no money slogan, this is certainly not what we are all about and what is most important to them.
In fact, to listen to what data tells us in the Quran, in the words of Abraham,
your medallion for whom murder would have been eliminated as a work during the day when wealth and Sons of ill loved anyone, save him who brings unto Allah sound heart.
So on the day in which we meet Allah Subhana Allah
and we're all very much aware of that then what that means. On the day, when we meet Allah subhana wa tada is not going to be our wealth is not going to be our children are not going to be these things of this Junior actually, that are going to benefit us the most.
But those things are not going to be the key issue. The key issue is the one who comes to Allah subhana wa Taala with a sound heart
his heart has the proper beliefs or has the proper feelings and emotions and peace that we'll talk about. Later, inshallah. Process films also said, There is nothing more emotional, I didn't have the supima Although
the film says that the face of a person will not be sound and upright until it's hard to make sound.
The same way man I've done nothing,
you will not actually have a completely sound and correct Eman face unless what is in your heart is also sound and correct and
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the processes in the body there was a morsel of flesh, which if it is sound and holy than all the body itself, in which if it is run, all the bodies will run. And this part of the body is the heart.
In fact, when you when you think about it,
the heart is actually
the master you can see the rest of the body, the rest of the body, the actual physical act that you do, the things that you do in this physical world are the result of the commands
that come from the heart.
So the heart is the commander and the limbs and the body are like the soldiers. So therefore if the heart is good, then the thing that the body will do will be good and everything will be good. But if the heart is evil, the heart is one, then the things that the body will do will be evil.
This we find every time writing this thing that the one who studies the source of the [???]tier will know the relationship between the external actions of the limbs and the actions of the heart.
The deeds are not beneficial without the actions of the heart.
The actions of the heart are more of an obligation upon the person than the actions of the lives.
What he said he said the actions of the heart are more of an obligation upon the person the actions of humans doesn't mean the actions limbs are not important. But if you don't have that source, if you don't have the foundation, then what are the actions of the limbs actually going to benefit you? So therefore minifying continues he says, isn't the believer distinguished from a hypocrite? simply due to the actions in their hearts that are different from each other?
Can any Can anyone entering into Islam except by the actions of his heart before the actions of Islam
so here even reply him he is and we'll talk about this more later in time is emphasizing the fact that if you don't have what you're supposed to have in the heart,
especially the obligatory the mandatory aspects then these actually are are not worth it.
This is what distinguishes a believer from a disbeliever This is what distinguishes a true believer from a hypocrite. This is what distinguishes actually a pious person from an evil door. It all goes back to what is in the heart.
And therefore what is in the heart then will have an effect on the world also.
So, as I said earlier, as I begin the lecture, a lot of people look at the plight of the Muslim the worldly plight of the Muslim community, and they see all sorts of problems that exists within the world, of the Muslim community.
Well, in essence, that situation is caused by what is in the heart.
And this we can see by by thinking about what is what is the [???]tier the Sharia the law will look at that
the law will listen to what God has actually come for the benefit of mankind in both this world and India here.
We are not for example, like the the Christians will say, the kingdom is in the next world and therefore, they don't really have the laws and the religion to lead them in this life. Unless Kingdom if you are if you want to sit like this, it is both to be implemented here and also an imperfect form in the here. So lots of henna with the Allah in the end His revelation to the public also system has given us guidance for the external actions of life.
But for the external actions to be completely proper, and to be sound and to be in for people to be led to what will be beneficial for them in this life, the source of the root of what is in the heart has got to be
so listen handle Watada and the revelation has given us both what we need for the heart, as well as what we need for the external needs. So we have what is in the on the heart, inshallah will follow the external deeds properly. If we don't have what is in the heart, then
once we don't have what is in the heart, then we find it difficult to abide by what we're supposed to abide by with respect to the external. So then when we don't abide by those external genes, then we do all sorts of wrong and harmful actions and then the Muslim woman becomes weaker and weaker and weaker. And then we can see the pride of the Muslim woman as we see today.
So for example, the situation the kind of things like drinking alcohol or Cummins in and so forth, if the feelings that are supposed to be in the heart are there in the heart, then the person will stay away from this.
But if the feelings that are supposed to be in the heart are not there,
then the person will easily be overcome by the things, you'll get engaged in these things.
And those evils have other ramifications for society and cause other evils in society, and so forth. In essence, what we have to think about is the place of the heart towards the heart, and how the heart has to be made sound. This is essential for us as individuals, it is essential for us as a Muslim community.
You know, when Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks in the Quran about the disbelievers about those people who are away from Allah subhanho wa Taala and not enjoying the benefits of the beauty of this religion and the benefits of the guidance of Allah subhanho wa Taala.
You'll see that Allah subhana wa Taala describes them very often by their hearts, what is in their hearts, or what is the nature or the status of their hearts, without quoting all the verses just for the sake of time. We see for example, that Allah subhanaw taala describes the hearts of the unbelievers in 10 different ways.
And these aren't various verses sometimes more than one description is given in different verses.
So for example, in the opening verses and sort of the dakara
Allah subhanho wa Taala describes the hearts of the disbelievers as being sealed.
In surah, Allah and Anam Allah subhana wa tada describes their hearts as being dead. And sort of Mohammed verse 29, Allah subhana wa tada describes the hearts as being diseased. And he says that the hearts are closed and the hearts have narrow. And then we'll talk within the hearts are rusted and Roman and revoker. Again, the hearts are hardened in a Toba their hearts are turned away. And in fact, their hearts are zyliss, zealous for the age of ignorance and they desire the time of ignorance. And sort of Allah subhanaw taala describes their arts as refusing to know.
So lots of animals God is describing the disbelievers and all of these different places upon by what by their heart.
So this is 10 different actually more than 10 different places to put on. And what you're listening to what God is describing first and foremost, what is the disbeliever it has to do with what is in his heart.
And so all this man with Allah gives us all of these different descriptions.
And again, we have to learn from what Allah subhanaw taala is telling us and we have to be very alert when we read the book.
So let's run with that.
is describing all of this about the hearts of the display.
And also many places Allah subhanaw taala describes the hearts of the blue, what is what this is telling us? Or what we should get from this.
This issue, what is the heart and how is the heart and what is the health in the state of the heart, this is a central, many times, people for example, they think about their physical, the physical health of their of their hearts, and they try to make sure that their their physical health is good by exercising and so forth and having the proper diet. But at the same time, maybe they're neglecting the other spiritual health of the heart.
And this is the thing that we must be very worried we would never want to do anything.
And in fact, it is essential.
It is essential that we always have some kind of feeling
about the state of our heart, that we always are kind of keeping an eye on if I miss him, keeping an eye on our hearts, and what is going on with our hearts. Because we cannot simply rest on our laurels and say Hello, I am Muslim, and I'm satisfied Nothing is going to happen to me or anything.
No, in fact, the heart, even by its definition, in the Arabic language, it is very clear that the heart can be swayed, it can be moved. So we have to be we have to be very concerned about what is happening with respect to our hearts.
And it's even the Malik said that the process that I'm used to often make this to
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confirm my heart upon your religion. The province of Salem is making dua to Allah subhanaw taala and describing Allah subhanho wa Taala by this expression the word who turns the hearts
so is asking to listen kinda with Allah, you have the ability to turn the hearts who does turn the hearts
cheek my heart from a confirmed upon religion.
because he heard the promises in the meeting as to how often as the process
and he says to the publicist, to them, we believe in you and we believe in what you have brought for us, what you brought to us.
So therefore, do you have any fear for us? You know, we believe we believe in you we believe in what you brought, everything that you've come with. So why do you feel you have some kind of fear for us even though we believe in you and believe in what you brought? To them said?
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Because the hearts are between two of the fingers of the fingers of Allah subhana wa Tada. You're liberal, her political terms. And this is from the same root as the word called for heart. He turns them any way that he wishes.
And one of the one of the main things, I guess, that we can get from this idea that when someone becomes complacent about his religion, this is something
one should never become complacent about one's religion, one's relationship with lots of kind of water Allah and just assume that it will continue
because the hearts are between the two fingers of Allah subhana wa and you can turn them at any time in any way that you wish, in any manner.
So instead of being complacent Now, why would Allah subhana wa turnell heart because we know that Allah subhanho wa Taala doesn't do things without reason without wisdom behind them.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala is going to turn the hearts of a person when himself starts becoming lackadaisical or he himself doesn't Perish the belief and the thing that he has.
So if it's not important to him, then Allah subhanaw taala will turn him away and take it away from him.
So instead of being complacent, and just thinking, I'm dilla Muslim, and so therefore, I will always have this inshallah.
Instead of being complacent, we must be very careful. And always be checking our Eman and checking our hearts and chicken what is in our heart? What is it that we're striving for? What is it that we're loving? What is it that we're being overcome by today as opposed to yesterday this week as opposed to last week, this year as opposed to last year?
For example, do we find ourselves all of a sudden we're living this Junior more than anything else? Well, this is obviously a dangerous sign is in the heads that we discussed.
But if we're not reflecting upon that if we're not keeping an eye on what is going on in our hearts, and we are simply, for example, to take the analogy of the physical Park, you know, you have all these signs.
You may have chest pains and so forth. If you just ignore them, what do you expect, you might end up having catastrophe on your medical catastrophe on your hands? Well, similarly, if you're not keeping an eye on what's happening with your heart, your spiritual heart,
your attachment to your attachment to the prayers, your attachment to the revelation from Allah subhanho wa Taala, you're not keeping an eye on that.
Then before you're not maybe I'll listen to Hannah with Darla will have you turned your hearts completely away, or is not completely away to some extent away.
And before you know it, your heart is very much disease. When your spiritual heart becomes diseased,
like your physical heart, then you have to take some steps to revive your heart to bring it back to proper state inshallah. And there are some steps for that, but that is,
beyond the realm of discipleship, as most of you know, I have a tendency to get into some time into some topics a little bit longer than I need to this is just supposed to be an introduction to the concept of it. So therefore, we'll try to restrict our discussion here on the places art as much as we can.
With this, with this point, though, is is to is that we have to realize that some things can affect our hearts.
Some things can have a negative effect apart.
And to know what those things are, obviously, the first thing that we should check
is go back to the Quran, go back to the hadith of promises to them and see what we can find. And I was just taking some examples here. So Allah, one of the things that affects our hearts, obviously, is to commit a sin.
Now, it was kind of a dynamic relationship between the actions and the sins and the good deeds and what is in the heart, we have to realize that one has an effect upon the other. And the thing that can occur is that things can spiral and get out of hand.
So for example, if there's some weakness in the heart, it will cause it to lead the person maybe to commit a sin, there'll be an opening for the person to commit a sin that sin in turn, will affect the heart.
Now again, if the person is not wise, and seeing what's going on and therefore repentant, changes, his ways to remove that affected that
he's not aware of it then that weakness in the heart can lead to another sin, which again affects the heart which leads to maybe a greater sin, which again affects the Harvard's least to greatest and and greater sin and so forth, to the point that the heart can be completely sealed and rusted.
And this is described actually in the role system process cinemas pulls us in the ladder either have to look at us because
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so here the process is killing it because whenever the believer whenever a believer commits a sin,
a black dot would be engraved in his heart.
So if he if he refrains or if he pulls back from the sin and seeks forgiveness and repentance, then his heart will be paused again.
So this sin that you commit has no effect on the heart.
And again, if you're aware of it if you're if you're wise and know what's going on, inshallah, you will repent and shall double remove this.
So the process of them said that if you were to refrain seeks forgiveness and repentance, heart will be policy and if he returns
so then if he goes back though, to the snippy allows the witness to continue and come back into sword if he returns, it increases until it overtakes his heart.
And this is the stain that is mentioned by Allah subhanaw taala and a verse in the Quran sort of motto 15 verse 14, no, but on their hearts is the stain from that which they used to do.
So because of the actions that they do, it causes the stain this disease to be in their hearts. So
most obvious thing that we can get from this headache is that committing sins affects the heart.
And if we allow it to go unchecked, it can affect the heart for such as
inexpensive, the hearts can become completely rusted or completely sealed.
There's another Harry's the processor, and we've actually already referred to this head is of the process and it's also hiding, which the processor is telling us or alluding to the heart. But with respect to this particular address, many, many people don't seem to grasp or don't emphasize the relationship between the different parts of this video.
Earlier we quoted the heady football system, in which the bulk of the process of allowing if ingested at
the very early in the body, there is a piece of flesh
and then he went on to do what is good and the whole body is good. And so,
this statement from the process is actually part of a longer Hadith.
And this hadith is the Hadith in which the process and and said in the halala big you know, what, Rama Biggie
This is the things that are that are Hello that are that are permissible are very clear what is what is halal is clear. And things that are forbidden, forbidden also are clear. And between them the promises that have continued between them, there are matters which are concerning which not many among mankind know what is the correct opinion.
So then the promises that he will void these alpha matters, fears himself in regard to his religion and his honor. And then the head is continues, but he falls into the Dulko matters falls into that which is in level, like the shepherd who pastures around the sanctuary sanctuary, over grazing there and barely every king has a sanctuary and all those sanctuary is is prohibitions. And then the process of cancer in the body, there is a mortal flesh portion that we call return.
So what is the relationship between these two portions of heavy for all of a sudden, at the end, he mentioned the heart to the heart is good, then everything is good. And the fact that the halaal is clear and clear, and between them, they're adults.
Well, the scholars who comment upon this idea, they said that the relationship between these two are obvious
that if the person does what is
and he refrains from what is wrong, and he avoids those matters, which are doubtful, his heart will become pure, his heart will become solid as it starts to become good.
But if he allows himself to fall into those Delta marriage, then his heart may be affected by those matters. So the relationship between the forbidden matters in the heart is good. But even the Delta matters some person if he really wants to purify his heart and make sure that his hearts his cell, he should stay away from those, even those Delta matters. So we have the sins that we talked about in the previous meeting, that the sins will definitely have an effect on the heart. And we also have even adult matters if one really wants to make sure it's I love that his heart is clean and pure and sound, and wholesome, then he should even try to avoid the adult matters as can be derived from the
study. Now, we also find another in other headings of the process and how the actions that we perform
as a community can also affect our hearts as a community. And if they affect our hearts as a community in turn, they're going to make matters even worse for the community. We find this in a number of headaches, for example, in which the processor is speaking about straightening the rows and the prayer.
You know, a lot of people may think straining the rows and the prayer are not that important, especially those people, unfortunately, I may be allowed to make this film, especially those people who are most concerned maybe with political issues, they will think that this kind of issue stringing the rule and the prayers, you know, is not very important. They have sometimes sometimes not all of them, obviously. But some of them sometimes have a tendency to belittle the for example, the acts of worship, like streaming the roles and the prayer and just try to emphasize what is the what is happening to the Muslim Ummah today and how we have to correct and change the political
status of the Muslim movements over and more than 100 is the process, Adam has told us that we have to straighten our lines in the prayer and if we do not straighten our lines and in the prayer that Allah subhanaw taala will cause dissension in our hearts.
If we do not straighten the lines in the prayer, and this is, you know, if you've ever studied, for example, sociology, or economy or economics or any of these social sciences,
there's no way to explain how things happen in the world as a whole or as a society as a whole. Here this head is the province of silom.
And again, there's many
headed with this, this meaning the processor has told us that either you have to string the lines in the prayer or Allah subhanho wa Taala will cause differences among your hearts.
For example, in one day suppose a sentence it will light that up when sococo Oh, like
he said, By Allah after this was after he gave them the order three times the famous
to make your line straight, he said the three times and then he said by a lot. Either you straighten the lines in the overall lesson Hannah with diala will cause dissension among your hearts.
One of the things that people stress when they talk about the Muslim woman and the situation that we're in nowadays, to talk about this unity of the Muslim woman, we have to work together
we have to strengthen it for example, they should strengthen the oil IC and have a static monetary funds that are the International Monetary Fund in silver. Well, this is what the process is telling us that
if we do not obey these commands, which are which are given to us by the process that are given to us by listening or data, then these commands when we do not obey them, they have ramifications. They have ramifications on our hearts. And if they have ramifications on our hearts, that's going to have ramifications on our Jesus whenever ramifications on the society, the community and the whole Muslim Brotherhood.
If Allah subhanho wa Taala is going to cause dissension among our hearts, because we're not making the line straight in the prayer. Well, don't you think that dissension among hearts is going to be part of those communal problems, those problems at home as a whole that everyone's talking about nowadays.
But we don't think
we'll long It seems that we don't want to face the real essence of our problems. We don't want to turn back to Allah subhanaw taala and repent to Allah subhanho wa Taala and make our hearts pure, and make sure that we follow those steps that will make our hearts pure. And then until everything else will fall, we have to take care of the core issue first. And then those secondary issues as I said, we're not mostly concerned about the junior the junior is not our ultimate purpose, right? ultimate purpose is to worship Allah.
So we have to take care of the core issue first, and then inshallah when we take care of the core issues, the other issues, the others, the benefits of that the ramifications of that all that will fall into place.
But we cannot continue to ignore the core issues and forget about what are the core issues that we must be what must be taken care of. So those are some of the things that we can see that affect the hearts committee since falling into dolphin matters.
In this last one, we can say that this is kind of a communal sin, right?
As they say, here in America takes two to tango. Well, if you want to make the line straight, that means everyone has to make the line straight in the prayer. You cannot make the line street by yourself.
I've tried another people economic line street user one person is up here on the side, the other one is behind you. That means the line is going to be crooked No matter how much you may try to work to Main Street. So all of us have to work together to make the line straight. And so I love all of us work together to make the line straight, we will be blessed by Allah subhanho wa Taala to void inshallah, this dissension among our hearts.
And as I said, then other ramifications will come from these points that we've mentioned the highlight
and we demonstrate the place of the heart and the importance of tending to the heart and worshipping Allah subhanho wa Taala by the actions of the heart as well. The worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala is not simply the outward deeds that we do.
This is our understanding of worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala then our understanding of the worship of Allah subhanaw taala is extremely different.
the worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala is not simply by the external deeds that we're doing the prayers the fasting, the giving of the cut, the avoiding of drinking alcohol and so forth, these are all inshallah good deeds and all acts of worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala. But they are not all there is to the worship of Allah subhanaw taala.
And, in fact,
if you want to compare
the worship that is done by the heart, if you want to compare that to to the worship that is done by the body,
we will find that actually the worship of the heart is much more important and has greater ramifications then the worship of the physical body. So we can take some comparisons between the two.
The first point, which is a point that I've already alluded to on many occasions,
If we are missing certain components of the worship of the heart,
in reality, that means that the worship of the body is maybe completely useless, or in particular cases will be complete.
if we are missing if loss in our hearts, we are not doing things purely for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala, and only for the sake of others,
we are not worshiping anything else other than knowledge.
And we're not doing deeds other than for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. If we're missing this loss in our hearts,
especially if we're missing, we can say completely, like, for example, the hypocrites.
The hypocrites do all of the acts, and the some of them, especially during the time of promises to them, they were careful to do many of the outward acts of Islam, right.
They wanted to be seen as Muslims.
So they were careful to do that. But they had no laws in their heart.
And so therefore, all of those acts don't mean anything.
None of them are of any value.
So if you're missing something which is in the heart, especially an essential component of loss,
then the physical actions actually mean. We can also see that when Allah subhana wa tada describes some of the highest ranks in Paradise, some of the greatest rewards in the hereafter. Allah subhanho wa Taala describes them with respect to some of the acts of the heart.
For example, the province of Salem said
that on the Day of Judgment also was awesome. In the layer folio piano, and with the hub buena vj
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the process has told us that Allah subhanho wa Taala will say on the Day of Judgment, where are those who loved one another?
Today, I shall say them under my sheet, a day in which there'll be no shade other than my sheet. So the only ones who are receiving shade are those who receive the shade of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And among those will be those people whom Allah subhanaw taala who loved each other for the sake of Allah. And what is that love again, that is something which is in the heart.
In another narration of this Hadith, from in tirmidhi, the first one was from a Muslim and the one from Germany. The poster cinemas for this equilibrium of socialism, for the low alcohol born a pgl a woman abirami knowing yoga to home.
The province of Salem has told us that Allah subhanho wa Taala says that those who love each other for his sake out of due to his greatness, they will have min words of life.
After the members of like that the process and the witness the martyrs would wish to do.
So there is a special reward from Allah subhanho wa Taala. It goes to the people who have certain acts of worship through fulfilling certain acts of worship in their hearts.
And one of the reasons that some scholars point out why the reward is greater for the acts of the heart. And that is because in reality, the acts of the heart the deeds of worship, that are done by the heart,
are actually greater and more difficult than the outward.
You see, when you think about the outwards like even the soft
even those people who have no Eman in their hearts whatsoever, the hypocritical example and people who are very weak have faith they can they can pray.
They can pray they can fast even if they don't really have much a man in the heart, they may pray fast even for completely the wrong reasons just to be seen or just because of communal pressure whatsoever.
So anyone can do the outward acts. The outward acts can be performed by anyone even we have sometimes this blue is going to make hedge just to see what the highest is like and to write about the highest is over.
So those things can be done by anyone but only the true servants of Allah subhanaw taala only those who are truly dedicated to and lo Allah subhanho wa Taala
they're the only ones who can do the actions of the heart.
The actions of worship of the heart.
Anyone can do the physical deeds but the real work
You will listen with the alibi, the heart can only be done by those who are truly past or truly devoted to Allah subhana wa Tada. And it is a great thing. One of the setup, remember, he said that he became Muslim, and he was able to do the acts of worship after becoming Muslim. But he also said that it took years for him to remove love and devotion to the idols that he had, or the the false gods that he had in his heart. Before it's so so many correlates in hand with God.
And inshallah, I mean, the submitting is also proper and acceptable to Allah subhanaw taala.
This is one thing, a person one day can be non Muslim, he can be films The next day, and he will submit to Allah subhanaw taala by praying and fasting, whatever. But
you have his heart now pure and free of all of the diseases that he had before. And all of the thing that I loved, and was asked was, you know, found the lighting and so forth before Islam.
Outwardly, he maybe can refrain from many he can refrain from going to worship idols, he can refrain from Xena, he can restrain, you know, someone has a strong willed, He can overcome these things, but in his heart, he may still have a desire and love for those things. And that may take him a long time for that to get out of his heart. So the worship the actual physical worship,
even though some people may complain is difficult as a different story, I guess, the actual physical worship can be done, even by people who don't have much email. And so that's easier than to really fulfill the actions of worship that are supposed to be in the heart. And so, therefore, some sort of said, therefore, the reward for the the actions in the hearts and the acts of worship from the heart, first of all, since they are pure, just for all this man without and cannot be done for any, for any other reason, right, because no one, no one will notice in your heart. So when these actions are done in the heart, when these acts of worship are done in the heart, they have to be pure for
the sake of Allah.
So they are pure, and they're also more difficult to achieve. So therefore, Allah subhanho wa Taala will be more pleased by them and the reward for them inshallah would be would be great.
We also see this act in the heart can make the physical act even greater. So what is in the heart also will affect the quality and the results of the of the action that has been done over the near
the near of the intention behind an act
is extremely pure for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. And combined maybe many types of pure intentions behind it, that Nia behind that act may have such an effect that it may make a small act, what seems like a small act become very great.
While on the other hand, if the intention behind an act is not, it is pure, but it's not completely that great or that strong in the heart,
then it may take an act which is otherwise very great and very important, and may make that act small.
Like we see from the examples that the system has given us,
that the intention itself which again, the intention is something in the heart scape, what you really want,
what you truly and sincerely really want. So that intention in the heart
can actually produce a reward from Allah subhanaw taala, which is beyond the deeds that someone has performed.
We see that, for example, when the post says Adam told the woman whose father had had died, and he had the intention to go out to make Jihad but he died before he was able to do so.
So his daughter knew that this was his intention. He wanted to make Jihad and he wanted to die as a Shaheed. So his daughter said to him that I wish you had died a martyr for you had prepared for it.
I wish you had died a martyr for you, I'd prefer for it. And so the process of
breaking the law cause aka de la creme egfp. The process of them said that Allah has given his reward for him according to the extent of his intention.
So the intention or what is in the heart can make someone reach a level beyond even what he's done in the physical world.
He wasn't able to go out and yard and die as a martyr, but because of the fact that he really has an intention in his heart. So in other words, the beat of the heart was in the heart will cause him inshallah to get the reward even though he did not actually physically perform that did another case when the promises in him was out on an expedition as recorded by the Korean Muslim. The problem the promises for them as said
in Medina, we have left some people behind. They are back in Medina, but we do not go through any Valley or any ravine, except that they are with us in reward, they will be rewarded with us as we go through these different steps on our Jihad and our expedition, because they have just been kept behind due to valid excuses. In other words, they wanted to make Jihad The intention was there, but due to some valid reasons, they were not able to perform the jihad. And so therefore, they will be rewarded just for what is in their hearts, even though they were not able to actually physically carry out what they had intended. And what was in the Heart Sutra. The heart is we see here, what is
in the heart can benefit the person greatly. I think on this, on this point, due to the time, we want also to open the floor to questions or comments, we'll have to, we'll have to stop here. And we will continue basically the last few points what I've been doing here, I've been distinguishing the worship of the heart. And why is that so important, and even more beneficial from the worship of the of the physical body, not that the physical body again, is unimportant. Don't
Don't misunderstand me don't misinterpret me, they both go together. But what is in the heart is more important, and has a greater effect. And this is what we're doing right here. We're just making some points. What distinguishes the worship of the heart from the worship of the physical body? And why is it so important that we tend to take the return to meaning we take care of what is happening with our heart, what is the state of our heart? And what is the spiritual health
of our social on that point, I will stop and now open the floor for
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As a dog walker, taking out several of your canine clients at one time is a great way to maximise income. However, there is often confusion as to how many dogs walkers can walk at one time.
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It’s 275 miles from Tucson, Arizona to Las Cruces, New Mexico, as the crow flies, and it’s just about the same distance if you’re traveling by car. You get on I-10 and head east, and it’s a straight shot on an unbending road that takes you past long freight trains rattling west and dusty mountains framed by blue sky, bright sunshine, and high clouds.
And speaking of dust, the section of I-10 from Tucson to Las Cruces is one of the few places in America where you’ll see highway signs warning you of what to do if you’re caught in a dust storm. As I took in the brittle, dry look of the surrounding landscape, with only a few desert plants here and there and lots of exposed earth, it wasn’t hard to imagine a dust storm kicking up. Fortunately, we didn’t encounter any dust storms — the recent snow presumably tamped down the dust, and it wasn’t that windy, anyway — but I now know from seeing multiple signs that you’re supposed to pull to the side immediately, turn off all lights, set your emergency brake, take your foot off the brake, stay in the vehicle with your seatbelt buckled, and wait until the storm passes.
Shortly after you pass from Arizona to New Mexico you pass a notch in the southern border of the state that puts you within 40 miles or so of Mexico. If you look south from the roadway you see desolate countryside that probably hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years, more dusty looking mountains in the distance, and not much else. You do, however, have a great selection of Mexican AM radio stations to keep you company as you roll along.
It’s not hard to see why Georgia O’Keeffe felt that the countryside around Ghost Ranch, in northern New Mexico, spoke to her. With its stark shapes, interesting geological formations, and colors that used just about every pigment In Mother Nature’s pallet, Ghost Ranch on a sunny day is a feast for the senses.
Yesterday we drove over to Ghost Ranch — Georgia O’Keeffe’s old stomping grounds — and hiked up to the top of Chimney Rock butte. It’s about a three-mile hike, round trip, heading up and then scrambling down more than 600 feet.
The trail is classified as easy to moderate, but it was complicated significantly by a lot of mud and some icy patches. Fortunately, the welcome center offers walking sticks, and we took them up on their offer. The walking sticks came in handy as we navigated the trail switchbacks and tried to avoid spills on the icy sections.
The last section of the hike was especially steep and icy, but once we reached the top the view made the hard work all worthwhile. The butte is an outcropping that gives a commanding view of the surrounding countryside. We felt we could see for miles. The views on the way back down weren’t bad, either.
We drove through Encino, New Mexico on our way to the Carlsbad Caverns. Encino looks like it has fallen on hard times, and this ramshackle house, just about to collapse, seemed to characterize the town as a whole. The house was so memorable on the way down that I was determined to take its photo on the trip back — and was happy to catch it during the magic hour just before sunset.
Route 285 is a straight shot. You head directly due south, from the Santa Fe area through the ranch lands of New Mexico down to Carlsbad. The road is pretty much straight as a die, as if it were drawn with a straight-edged ruler, like the border line of a state shown on a map.
At Clines Corners you stop, because everyone who drives Route 285 has to stop at Clines Corners. It’s a way to relive the America of the Route 66 era. You eat a hearty breakfast — the Truck Drivers’ Special is highly recommended– and you wander a bit through the massive “gift shop” area, marveling at who might actually collect thimbles representing each of the 50 states or Zippo lighters with NASCAR markings, or who might make an impulse purchase of “trophy husband” boxer shorts while at a roadside store in the middle of New Mexico.
And then it’s back on the road, motoring over the mostly dry and barren countryside, blessedly free of billboards but with not much else to see, either. Scrubby trees, small, dessicated bushes, and spiny looking plants roll by outside the car window, with an occasional herd of cattle to break things up a bit. Your eyes feast on every shade of brown you can imagine, and after a while the world becomes focused solely on the landscape and the road. You wonder if that UFO crashed in Roswell because the aliens manning the craft were suffering from highway hypnosis.
At a roadside rest stop, there is a commissioned piece of public art that prominently features road signs — as well as a towering lance that is easily the tallest object on the horizon. Why not? On Route 285, it’s all about the road, the road, the road.
The fine Georgia O’Keeffe museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, teaches that beauty can be found just about anywhere — in skyscrapers, in flowers, in barns, in the rugged landscape of New Mexico . . . and in trees. So when I left the museum and saw this tree framed against the adobe walls of the museum, with the sunshine etching an intricate shadow on the wall, I had to let my inner O’Keeffe snap this photo.
I’ve always wanted to go into space some day. When I was a kid and Apollo missions were landing on the Moon every few months, that seemed like a real possibility. Sci-fi features like 2001: A Space Odyssey forecast that routine commercial travel to the Moon would be available a decade ago. Of course, that didn’t happen . . . and now time seems to be running out.
The company plans on beginning passenger service in 2014. When the spaceport is operational, would-be astronauts will board a small rocket plane tethered to a mother ship. When the mother ship reaches a point nine miles above the earth, the rocket plane will be launched, the rocket will be ignited, the passengers will experience 3 gees of force as they zoom through the upper atmosphere until they encounter the blackness of space. The pilot then will cut the rocket engine and the passengers will experience four minutes of weightlessness and have a chance to enjoy a view so vast they can see the curvature of the Earth. Then the plane will reenter the atmosphere, hurtle back to Earth, and land on the spaceport’s long runway.
All this will be available to the average Joe — provided the average Joe can pony up $200,000 for the experience. If I had millions of dollars in the bank, I’d do it. Because I don’t have that kind of coin, however, I’ll just bide my time and hope that competition brings the price of space down to more manageable levels so that, someday, a codger like me will be able to enjoy the wonders of space. | <urn:uuid:f096c885-0bed-4eb2-af30-a153d4d74201> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://webnerhouse.wordpress.com/tag/new-mexico/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950681 | 1,543 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Welcome to the Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme (PATS) website. Here you will find everything you could ever want to know about PATS, including a description of the scheme and its background, an outline of the PATS process, news, resources and more!
The Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme aims to inform and equip academics with skills and strategies to reinvigorate their units. It provides opportunities for teachers to share ideas; to discuss improvements and to develop future educational innovations. The overarching aim of PATS is to contribute to the development of a culture within the Australian Higher Education sector of valuing and enhancing the quality of the student learning experience. | <urn:uuid:753fdc00-fcd3-4e21-a7ea-d2d3b3de8e4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pats-online.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922431 | 131 | 1.875 | 2 |
Tánaiste says referendum outcome in Crimea is illegal16 March 2014
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, T.D, has expressed his regret at the decision to proceed with today’s illegal referendum in Crimea.
The Tánaiste reiterated his call on Russia to fully respect Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the inviolability of its borders and said:
“As I have already made clear, today’s referendum in Crimea is illegal. The results of the vote are without legal effect. Ireland and the majority of the international community do not recognise the legitimacy of the referendum. Nor do we accept the validity of the result.
“The heavy troop presence in Crimea means that the so-called referendum has not been conducted under what could be considered remotely acceptable conditions. Furthermore, any decision relating to Ukraine's sovereignty or sovereign choices can only be taken without undue external pressure.”
The Tánaiste discussed the deepening political crisis in Ukraine with the French President Francois Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris this week. Speaking ahead of a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels tomorrow, which will be dominated by discussions of the crisis, the Tánaiste noted that Ministers are now likely to impose further sanctions against the Russian Federation. These will include targeted asset freezes and travel bans.
However, the Tánaiste said there was still time to defuse the crisis: “While I very much regret today’s vote in Crimea, which has exacerbated an already dangerous situation, I believe that there is still space to resolve the crisis.
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Matrine suppresses lung metastasis of human hepatocellular carcinoma by directly targeting matrix metalloproteinase-9.
Authors of this article are:
Zhang J, Gao Y, Han H, Zou C, Feng Y, Zhang H.
A summary of the article is shown below:
Matrine is a natural compound derived from Radix Sophora flavescens which is a commonly used Chinese herb. Herein, we report that matrine may inhibit lung metastasis in liver cancer in mice. Invasion chamber assay, scratch-wound assay and orthotopic liver tumor implantation mice were introduced to investigate the potential pharmacological effects of matrine on human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our results showed that matrine at non-toxic dose could significantly suppress PLC/PRF/5 and MHCC97L cells migration and invasion. Furthermore, matrine treatment (5 mg/kg/day) significantly decreased lung metastasis in orthotopic HCC mouse models. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction, gelatin zymography and immunoblotting assay indicated that matrine could inhibit the activity of matrix metalloproteinase-9 without down-regulating its protein expression in HCC. The docking approach, site-directed mutagenesis, and surface plasmon resonance were applied to identify residues involved in matrine binding in matrix metalloproteinase-9. The biophysical and cell-based assays showed that Pro415, Arg424 residue might contribute to the binding affinity of matrine on matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity. In conclusion, matrine might be a promising anti-cancer agent for inhibiting HCC metastasis.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Check out the article’s website on Pubmed for more information:
This article is a good source of information and a good way to become familiar with topics such as: Cell migration and invasion; Liver cancer; Matrine; Metalloproteinase-9. | <urn:uuid:e586224c-02f2-4567-951e-91a75791d977> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moleculardepot.com/2019/06/24/matrine-suppresses-lung-metastasis-of-human-hepatocellular-carcinoma-by-directly-targeting-matrix-metalloproteinase-9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.857923 | 418 | 1.570313 | 2 |
This is your WOOF Compendium, wherein we compile the WOrds of the day from the dictionaries OF the day for your review.
One of our favorite words this week was the adjective sinistrous (and its equally cool-sounding cousin, sinistral). Of course, the word sinister most commonly has the meaning of being evil or under-handed. But it comes from the Latin word meaning “left.” So, at what point did the left side and the idea of evilness become associated?
In Ancient Greek augury (the interpretation of omens and foretelling the future), observing birds or other omens coming from the right was favorable, but in Roman times, it was favorable if those omens were observed coming from the left. In its Latin usage, sinister did retain some of its meaning of good luck when used to talk about omens, but did carry the meaning of being unfavorable or wrong, in poetry and in post-Augustan prose. For example, in his Georgics, a 29 BCE work on agricultural topics and poetry, Vergil says:
namque urget ab alto
arboribusque satisque Notus pecorique sinister.
For Notus (the South Wind), presses up from the deep, unfavorable for trees and crops and cattle.
In the end, it looks like from the very beginning of the word, sinister was both associated with the left, and with some degree of unfavorableness. One source cites the connotation of evil, and not just being unfavorable, with the word sinister as not occurring until 15th century Latin.
WOOFs From The Week
Monday: Sinistrous — 1. Of, pertaining to, or directed toward the left; sinistral. 2. Sinister; unpropitious; ill-omened [from the Latin, sinister, left]. (1951 Funk And Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary Of The English Language)
Tuesday: Stochastic — Randomly determined. In computer science, refers to trial-and-error procedures as contrasted with the fixed step-by-step procedures of algorithms. (1966 Computer Dictionary And Handbook)
Wednesday: Bildungsroman — A class of novel in German literature that deals with the formative years of a main character. A coming-of-age story. It always ends on a positive note. If the grandiose dreams of the hero’s youth are over, so are many foolish and painful disappointments. (1995 Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia Of Literature) | <urn:uuid:0eb55ae6-43b8-4921-a848-a44f33a3f1d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.verblio.com/blog/sinister-etymology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934674 | 529 | 2.875 | 3 |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 155, 2018VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference “Information and Measuring Equipment and Technologies“ (IME&T 2017)
|Number of page(s)||9|
|Published online||28 February 2018|
Intellectual Multi-Level System for Neuro-Fuzzy and Cognitive Analysis and Forecast of Scientific-Technological and Innovative Development
National Research Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
a Corresponding author: email@example.com
The article is devoted to description of structure and operation algorithms of a multilevel intellectual system for analysis and forecast of scientific-technological and innovative development of objects and territories based on expert methods, trainable models of fuzzy logic and fuzzy cognitive analysis. The article analyses distinctions and advantages of the system in making forecast evaluation and scenarios of the dynamics of multidimensional feature objects and processes. The authors have built a neutrosophic cognitive map for interaction of technologies based on the results of foresight studies.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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‘Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy’, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, until 4th June 2017
This is a fascinating exhibition which reveals through both the fine and decorative arts a glimpse of life in Renaissance Italy. Combining treasures from the museum’s own collections with those loaned from Europe, the US and Israel we see how important religion and devotion were in a world that we may often think as secular.
Some of the works were to come from the Marche area of Italy which was affected by earthquakes last October and while it is has not been possible for some objects to be brought over as a result of it I am delighted to share images of this 15th century polychrome decorated wooden doll of the Christ Child with you because to me its survival is a miracle of some sort. It has not only survived through the centuries but also last year’s earthquake which reduced the Franciscan nunnery where it is kept to rubble.
Images of the Madonna were an important feature in Italian homes in the Renaissance and her role as a mother was copied by many women who owned such dolls. One other exhibit that particularly struck me was the set of knives whose blades are decorated with the notes and words for a four-part grace and nearby is a recording of it by members of the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge.
The three groups of ex-voto paintings were way of giving thanks at shrines for what was deemed to be a miracle by the people or family concerned and I thought this one depicting a family praying for protection from an earthquake especially appropriate.
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In business, it can feel like a constant race against the clock. The last thing anyone needs is to have to chase up late customer payments. The reality is; however, an increasing number of businesses are finding themselves in this position now more than ever.
The true lost cost in all of this?
Businesses can recoup this lost time by simply automating their accounts receivables. Here’s both the why and the how.
When a business provides goods or a service to a customer, but does not ask for immediate payment, this is classed as accounts receivables. It is money that customers owe to a business for goods and services already provided. The money is expected to be paid at a set date in the future, and therefore accountants include it as an asset on the business’s balance sheet.
The good vs the bad of accounts receivables
The truth: most businesses don’t expect to ever reclaim 100% of these monies. So why do it? Ultimately, it shows that the business was able to obtain orders, and successfully deliver them to a customer.
Fundamentals for a successful business
When the customers are regular and reliable, there is a benefit from selling goods and services on credit, as it acts as a steady income. Businesses can invoice these customers periodically, reducing costs of processing small transactions, and knowing the invoices will be paid.
- Some other good reasons to sell goods or services on credit are:
- Customers are more likely to buy from you if they do not feel obligated to pay upfront
- They can be considered as assets which are valuable for business viability
- It accounts for items sold (but not yet paid for) on the balance sheet
Why can it become a problem?
Simply… unreliable customers who don’t pay. Businesses will need to absorb the loss of defaults and therefore need to assume that there will always be a certain amount not received. They need to account for this.
When selling to a customer, despite what they say, there is no way of knowing if they can (or will) truly pay. Having too many outstanding invoices in the accounts receivable looks like a troubled cash flow. These payments need to clear on time to be an asset.
There’s always a risk providing goods and services before payment…it just depends whether it is considered worth it in the long run.
Automating your accounts receivables
As you can imagine, all of the above takes up countless hours of manually chasing receivables.This is why at Chaser, we aligned ourselves to solving the problem of late payments for businesses through automatic and intelligent email chasers. To date, Chaser has helped users chase over £3 billion in overdue invoices, without losing the human touch.
How does it work and what are the benefits?
The system works by streamlining all of a business’s chasing activity into a centralised hub. This means they can see every outstanding invoice in one, central location and avoids the risk of chasing too frequently, not at all, or even chasing the wrong customer.
Amongst many other capabilities, the Chaser keeps a track of contact details for customers, customer conversations and even provides data on customer payment history. We have simple templates and schedules that are customisable to individual needs and are stored within the system itself.
This makes it as easy as possible for businesses to quickly send emails that get invoices paid.
Does it work?
Well… let’s take Love Brands as an example
Credit Control Manager, Rossana anticipated that the business saved over 15 hours a week by simply implementing our credit control software into their accounting suite.
When joining Love Brands, Rosanna very quickly identified that the system for credit control they had in place wasn’t working. Business was doing well, but with a very small team of Credit Controllers, keeping up with invoices was verging on impossible.
Rossana asked their existing stock management software provider if they could send automated invoice reminders to clients.
Xero highly recommended that Rosanna try Chaser, and she immediately saw the benefits: “I love how flexible Chaser is. It is easy to use; has great results and I’ve been really impressed by how easy it is to adapt the settings to our continually changing needs. We have saved at least 15 hours per week, and that’s me being stingy”.
Chaser has helped Love Brands to maintain its great relationship with its customers.
We have personalisable invoice reminder templates and schedules which maintain the vitally important personal touch when automating invoice reminders to her customers.
Some of the other benefits businesses see are:
- Money and time saved on chasing invoices
- Recovering more money owed than was ever possible manually
- Maintaining that important customer brand and encouraging customer loyalty
Chaser helps businesses take back control of their invoicing system.
We know that chasing invoices is the last thing a business wants or needs to do. It’s awkward, takes time and often gets overlooked; leaving businesses hoping that customers will simply just pay.
While this might work occasionally, strategically it is not a viable way to run a business if you are offering a “buy now, pay later” service to your customers. At Chaser, we understand that businesses need to operate this way and that invoices can quickly get out of control.
That’s why we designed this system.
To help businesses keep on top of their invoices, in an easy, reliable and customer friendly way that helps to guarantee payment.
If this all sounds like something you need, get in touch and we can get you set up for a free trial.
We know you’ll love it.
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October is the Way Ahead organisation’s Mental Health Month in NSW. For business owners and managers, it’s a timely reminder of the need to check in with your team and to start those conversations to break down the stigma surrounding mental health.
It may not be easy to initiate these conversations, but as business owners and operators, we have an important role to play. Mental illness is one of the leading causes of sickness, absence, and long-term work incapacity in Australia. At any point in time, one in six working age people will be living with mental illness, costing businesses $12bn every year*.
While the cost to the economy and business is great, the human cost is even greater. Mental health not only impacts the individual, but also those caring for and supporting people with mental health difficulties, while juggling their own work and home responsibilities.
As an SME owner you’re likely to be quite tuned in with your employees, and aware of their personal experiences. However, when budget for employee wellness is constrained, SMEs can look to other mechanisms to support staff and enable these conversations to take place.
The first step is to let your staff know that it’s okay not to be okay, and to provide support mechanisms for anyone struggling. Partnering with local community groups or professional organisations such as the Black Dog Institute, who offer programs designed to create safer, mentally healthier workplaces is a great start. Also have Lifeline and beyondblue’s details to hand.
Acknowledge the need for “mental-health days”, allowing staff to use their sick leave or additional days off work to address personal mental health challenges. People are most productive when they feel supported. By making small shifts in language, behaviours and environment, businesses can break down the taboos surrounding mental health, and view mental-health days as an opportunity for employees to regenerate.
You can also build the right supportive environment for your employees. Foster a culture of comfort and empowerment; provide different office spaces for varied work styles; support remote workers; and provide tools and technology to help employees balance competing workplace demands. For example, we use wireless headsets, earbuds, and mobile conference speakers to support our workers’ ability to collaborate, concentrate, manage stress, and be more productive.
Do more to help your employees achieve greater work-life balance. Incorporate health programs into the company’s daily activities or sponsoring team entries for charity runs to build camaraderie and support external organisations. As a team, Jabra recently took part in a charity ride from Perth to Broome, fundraising for the Black Dog Institute.
With a greater focus on, and understanding of, mental health issues, this activity opened up numerous conversations in our office and wider business community on the topic of mental health, simply because we made it part of the conversation.
Mental Health Month is also a reminder to reflect on your own mental health. As business owners and operators, we’re often guilty of delivering messages of health and wellness to our employees but never take the time ourselves to disconnect from our work lives to rest and recharge. Your business may be your lifeblood, but being “always on” can be detrimental. It’s a tell-tale symptom of modern society that we need to work hard and addressing this requires change to be driven from the top down.
Breaking down the barriers to mental health in the workplace takes time, and effort. It’s essential to incorporate it within your day-to-day operations and not only when events like Mental Health Month roll around. Kick-starting these conversations will have long term benefits for your employees and the overall business, including improved staff loyalty and retention, greater productivity, and overall staff satisfaction.
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The UNEP/AEWA Secretariat is pleased to announce the launch of a new report series developed under the AEWA Lesser White-fronted Goose International Working Group (LWfG IWG). The new LWfG Reports will, for example, feature the results and outcomes from Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation projects being carried out across the species’ range as part of the implementation of the AEWA LWfG Single Species Action Plan. The overall goal is to make new knowledge acquired in the Range States available to those interested in the efforts being undertaken to save the Lesser White-fronted Goose as well as in international waterbird conservation promoted under the AEWA banner.
The first two reports in the series – which are now available as PDF downloads on the AEWA website – feature the results of a monitoring mission to the Syrian Arab Republic conducted in February 2010 and those from a one-year pilot project focusing on the regulation of hunting of waterbirds in the Kuma-Manych Depression in the Russian Federation (March 2010 – February 2011).
The monitoring mission to Syria was undertaken in an effort to locate possible wintering areas of LWfG from the Western main population, following occasional sightings as well as information received from a satellite tagged individual in 2006/2007. In addition to descriptions of the main sites visited and detailed accounts of sighted waterbirds, the report also entails recommendations for conservation activities to be implemented at key LWfG sites in Syria. The report was compiled by Toni Eskelin and Sami Timonen, who are both long-standing members of the Finnish WWF LWfG taskforce with many years of experience in LWfG conservation. Funding for the mission was kindly made available by the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment. In addition, a special thanks goes to the BirdLife International Middle East office as well as the Syrian Ministry for the Environment, the General Commission for Badia Management and Development and the Syrian Society for the Conservation of Wildlife (SSCW) for their assistance in making the mission possible. Read on | <urn:uuid:22cc7053-3853-41b2-810f-f1821d14b046> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bonnsustainabilityportal.de/en/2011/05/unepaewa-new-report-series-for-the-lesser-white-fronted-goose/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946614 | 429 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The agency says the Medtronic HVAD system should no longer be used because it increases risk for neurological problems, death
THURSDAY, June 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The Medtronic Heartware Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) system should no longer be implanted into end-stage heart failure patients due to an increased risk for neurological problems and death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
The agency also said there have been complaints that the internal pump may delay or fail to restart. Medtronic has halted the distribution and sale of the HVAD system and issued a notification letter telling doctors to stop new implants of the device. The company has received more than 100 complaints involving delay or failure to restart the HVAD pump, including reports of 14 patient deaths and 13 cases in which removal of the device was necessary.
The FDA said doctors should follow the instructions provided in the notification letter, including: stopping new implants; using an alternative, such as the Abbott Heartmate 3 Left Ventricular Assist System; and advising patients who have the Medtronic system to continue normal use of device components and to contact the company for replacement items, such as controllers, batteries, AC/DC adapters, and a carrying case. The Medtronic notification letter also says doctors should inform patients that elective device removal is not recommended, and decisions about removing the HVAD pump should be made on a case-by-case basis, with careful consideration of the patient’s clinical condition and surgical risks, the FDA said.
About 2,000 patients in the United States and 4,000 worldwide have the HVAD system, according to Medtronic. The system was approved for use in the United States in November 2012. Medtronic recalled a subset of the HVAD pumps in December 2020.
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There may not be many local fruits and vegetables available in your county this time of year, but it’s not too early to start thinking about the summer! Community supported agriculture (CSA) sign-ups typically take place in the winter and spring, before local farmers are busy planting and harvesting their crops. Taking part in CSA is a great way to enjoy local food, build a relationship with a farmer or farming family, and become more knowledgeable about the way your food is grown.
What is CSA?
The USDA National Agricultural Library defines CSA as “a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community’s farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.”
How Does CSA Work?
Signing up for a CSA program means that you are purchasing a share of a farmer’s produce in advance of the growing season. Your pre-season payment helps your farmer to purchase the seeds, soil, supplies and labor that he or she needs for the year. Once the growing season begins, you receive a portion of the produce, usually on a weekly basis, often from June-October in Ohio. Each week brings different fruits, vegetables and herbs, depending on what is in season.
Why Join a CSA program?
Joining a CSA program is a sure way to become more familiar with the local produce that is available in your community. You may receive items that you haven’t tried before or would not typically purchase at the store, which can inspire creativity in the kitchen and add various nutrients to your diet. CSA programs can be a fun way to expose kids to new fruits and veggies, too. Research suggests that kids may be more willing to try new fruits and vegetables when they help to select or prepare them.
Still on the fence? Check out “CSA: What’s in it for me?”
If you are ready to give CSA a try, Local Harvest is a good resource for locating programs near you. If you live in Ohio, you also may want to check with your county Extension office to see if there is a local foods guide for your community. | <urn:uuid:22c62a1e-8b34-46c1-9fbc-340328909bbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://livesmartohio.osu.edu/food/lobb-3osu-edu/csa-what-how-and-why/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960075 | 465 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Because I get more and more secutest for repair, I experimented with several fixtures. Secutests are a pain to work on because there is no room and there are dangerous voltages inside.
There is a PCB with big relais:
This is one of the many versions. The PCB hangs upside down in the cabinet. The view is blocked by most models, by a transformer and many wires. Many problems come from this PCB. I remove the relais, check and service or replace them and clean the pcb. Often there is a lot of dirt under the relais. Do not ask how it gets there, I do not want to know the owners do with these instruments. Most have a hard life but can get quite old with some TLC. G&M does not provide service information, so I reverse engineered it and made my own schematics.
Also a lot of relais that connect test signals to the banana jacks and analog signal handeling.
The rotary switch contacts, LCD display and digital signal handeling.
There are several versions of this board also. The one above is temporary without the 5 relais. I removed them to repair some inner PCB damage. But how to measure in this beast under power without electrocuting your self, it is very dangerous for a service tech inside there.
This setup was no succes, because the short cables and high voltages I do not like it if all pcb’s are loose on the table (and half over each other because the cables are to short.
so I mounted them on a perfoboard. Better as nothing. Then a customer gave me a box with junked secutest parts. I made a fixture from an old cabinet and some extension cables. This was a big improvement. It is flexible and safe. If you want to work on your own secutest be very careful, nothing is labeled. Cable colors are random. No silkscreen. The pcb’s are multi-layer and you need a very good and powerful (de)soldering gear (and desolder skills).
I use a small “thing” to simulate the DUT (device under test). It holds a resistive load, on/off switch, indicator light and some resistors (f.i. a 110M for Riso, a 7 ohm for Rsl, etc) to check all functions.
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Prospective cohort study of the association between early lactation mastitis and the presence of sole ulcers in dairy cows
Watson, C, et al. (2022) Prospective cohort study of the association between early lactation mastitis and the presence of sole ulcers in dairy cows. Vet Record, e1387.
The main aim of this prospective cohort study was to investigate the association between clinical mastitis (CM) in the first 30 days in milk (DIM) and presence of sole ulcers (SU) in dairy cows in early lactation. Additionally, the study aimed to investigate (a) whether these SU were new lesions that appeared after the case of CM, (b) to evaluate whether CM in the first 30 DIM was associated with the presence of both sole haemorrhage (SH) and SU, and (c) to investigate the association of somatic cell counts (SCC) in the first 30 DIM with the presence of SU in early lactation.
A convenience sample of four dairy farms in Northwest England and North Wales was selected to participate. The farms were visited weekly and data from feet examination were collected at three time points for each cow at: pre-calving, post-calving (within 14 days), and early lactation (after 30 DIM). All four feet were examined at every time point except the calving check on one farm when only hind feet were examined, most examinations were carried out by the same veterinary surgeon. Multivariable logistic regression models were used for data analysis.
A total of 2,353 Holstein-Friesian cows and heifers were included; of these, 131 cows had SU in early lactation and 49 cows had a first case of CM recorded in the first 30 DIM. The odds of having SU in early lactation were 2.44 times greater for cows that had CM in the first 30 DIM compared to cows that did not. When cows that had SU at pre-calving or calving checks were excluded, this numeric trend still existed but was no longer significant. A high SCC in the first 100 DIM was also associated with the presence of SU in early lactation.
Limitations of the study include the reliance on farm records for diagnosis of CM cases, meaning there was a possibility of misclassification bias with unrecorded cases of cows with SU in early lactation and CM in the first 30 DIM. In addition, the convenience sample of farms may not be representative of all dairy farms in the UK.
The study found an association between CM in the first 30 DIM and the presence of SU in early lactation. While this association was no longer statistically significant if cows with SU at the pre-calving or calving check were excluded, the numeric trend still existed. There was also a significant association between presence of SU in early lactation and high SCC at any time in the first 100 DIM. Future studies focusing on the mechanisms behind these associations would improve the understanding of the diseases and could lead to additional preventive strategies.
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Weisshaar – co-founder of design duo Kram/Weisshaar – paid tribute with a photo of the small red trackpads on Sapper's ThinkPad computers for Lenovo. Located in the centre of the keyboards, these are officially called TrackPoints but are commonly referred to as "nipples".
Hong Kong-based curator Aric Chen also made reference to the nipple in the caption for his Instagram post, which shows an image of Sapper's iconic Tizio lamp. Produced by Artemide, the desk lamp was released in 1972 and features counterbalanced joints that transfer electricity without the need for cables.
A red hairdryer that Sapper created for Milan department store La Rinascente in 1959 was posted by Italian designer Morgante. "One of my early memories of handling a good designed object," he commented.
Critic and Dezeen columnist Alexandra Lange chose Sapper's 1971 kitchen timer for Terraillon as her favourite of his designs. The small yo-yo-shaped object is included in the permanent collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
PepsiCo's chief design officer Mauro Porcini uploaded a series of Sapper designs as a tribute. These included the conical Todo cheese grater for Alessi, the Italian brand he created some of his most iconic products for.
Dezeen editor Anna Winston also featured an Alessi product. She chose Sapper's 9091 kettle released in 1982, which has two whistles tuned to different notes so a harmony is produced when the water boils. Watch Alberto Alessi explain the story behind the design in our movie » | <urn:uuid:f061e143-77ed-4366-a358-59974b085221> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/05/design-industry-pays-tribute-to-richard-sapper-instagram-posts-favourite-products/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966707 | 337 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Posted on July 12th 2022
Year 9 Perform With Professional Orchestra
A group of Year 9 students performed in a 'side-by-side' project with The Multi-Story Orchestra at Bold Tendencies in Peckham recently.
The students performed a piece by Barbara Strozzi which was conducted by former Harris Academy Peckham student, Moustapha Doumbia, making his conducting debut!
All of the Year 9 students involved will be continuing to study GCSE Music and it gave them the opportunity to see what it’s like working with a professional orchestra. They rehearsed in the Academy and then sat side-by-side with a professional musician from The Multi-Story Orchestra for the final rehearsal and concert.
“It was really inspiring to get to watch professional musicians performing and then to sit next to them and play," said Danielle. "They were really friendly and encouraging."
It was a fantastic project for the students to be involved in and they are all excited to work with The Multi-Story Orchestra in the future.
Ms Enderby, Teacher of Music
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The other day, while upgrading my PC’s AMD Ryzen CPU, a thought struck me:
Are the pins at the bottom of CPUs made of Gold? After all, they look like Gold. I have a few gold coins in my house, and the pins share that same unmistakable yellow luster of the most precious of metals.
Could there really be thousands of CPU-shaped gold mines buried in our aging PCs waiting to be dug out and melted down?
Excited to find an answer, I jumped on my laptop in search of an answer.
This is what I found:
Are CPU pins made of Gold? No, CPU pins are not made of solid Gold. They are platted in Gold to aid in electrical conductivity and stop corrosion. A CPU pin’s core is made from other metals which are just as valuable as Gold, such as Platinum. However, extracting these metals profitably from the CPU pins can be difficult and expensive.
Ok, now we know that CPU pins are not solid Gold. But there’s so much more to learn. So in this article, I touch on several interesting topics:
- I look at what CPUs pins are made of in more detail.
- What the Core of CPU pins are made of.
- Why CPUs have Gold plated pins instead of another metal.
- Whether it’s worth scrapping CPUs to extract the Gold.
Ok, that’s a lot for me to be getting on with answering. Let’s start by answering the original question – Are CPU pins made of Gold? – in more depth.
Are CPU pins made of Gold?
Sadly, CPU pins are not made from solid Gold, even though they may appear to be. CPU pins are, in fact, only gold-plated. This is what gives them their distinctive burnt-yellow tinge of color. This means that, technically, though there is a thin layer of Gold on the CPU pins, the amount is tiny. The gold layer plated onto the CPU pins is literally only a few atoms thick. That is just enough Gold to make the pins appear manufactured from solid Gold. If you could give the pins a quick rub with some sandpaper, those few delicate layers would disintegrate, revealing the grey metal cores beneath.
Taking all of the Gold plated onto the pins amounts to around 200 mg of Gold. That’s not exactly going to turn you into a millionaire overnight.
Unfortunately, CPU pins are not made from a substantial amount of Gold. So much for slicing the pins off with pliers and melting them down into gold bars. One can always dream.
In the next section, we’ll look at how much money the Gold you can extract from a typical CPU.
How much Gold can you get from CPU pins?
In the last section, you learned that CPU pins are not made from solid Gold.
In this section, we’ll examine how much Gold can be extracted from your average desktop and laptop CPU.
It’s estimated that the average desktop CPU contains around 1/5th of a gram of Gold or 200mg. Today’s gold prices make the total amount of Gold in a desktop CPU worth about $12. That doesn’t sound like a lot, does it?
That’s because it’s not.
Sadly, the figures are even worse for Laptops.
The average laptop CPU contains roughly 1/10th of a gram of Gold or 100mg, half the amount you’ll find in a typical desktop CPU. This means that the average laptop CPU contains around about $6 of Gold.
That’s not going to let you retire any time soon.
So in this section, you learned that the amount of Gold in desktop CPUs is worth around $12, and the amount of Gold in laptop CPUs is worth around $6.
In the next section, you learn what metal actually makes up the core of the CPU pins underneath the plated Gold.
What metal are CPU pin cores made from, if not Gold?
In the last section, you learned that CPU pins are not made from solid Gold. That instead, the pins are Gold plated.
In this section, we’ll look at what metal makes up the core of the CPU pin under the Gold.
Underneath the few atoms of gold platting on the CPU pins is another metal that provides shape, rigidity, and added conductivity to the CPU pins.
In most cases, the metal that fills in the core of CPU pins is platinum. However, other metals are often used by manufacturers. For example, some CPU pins use Palladium, Ruthenium, and even the metal that tips fountain pens, Iridium.
Usually, the metal that fills the pin’s core is chosen based on the pin’s desired electrical conductance. For example, in modern pins, most if not all of the electrical conductance needed by the CPU is served by the Gold platting. Those few atoms’ thick layers of gold let electrons flow with ease.
But in new CPUs that use platinum core pins, platinum assists in conducting electricity to the CPU.
In this section, you learned that the core of a CPU pin can be made from Platinum, Palladium, Ruthenium, and Iridium.
In the next section, we’ll examine why CPU pins are Gold plated.
Why do CPUs have Gold plated pins?
In the last section, we explored what metals CPU pin cores are made from.
In this section, I’ll look at why CPU pins are Gold plated.
The best conducting metals at room temperatures are Silver and Copper. However, both of these metals come with a big problem. They are very reactive to air. When exposed earth’s moist atmosphere, both of these metals readily oxidize, forming a layer of oxide on the surface of the metal.
Copper starts to grow a fertile-looking green and turquoise patina. You’ll likely see these beautiful weathered colours on Copper glad buildings and copper statues.
Silver, on the other hand, starts to tarnish. The silver oxide forms a white powder that obscures silver’s natural mirror-like finish.
Both of these forms of oxidisation mean that copper and silver make poor external electrical connectors because the oxidisation layer that forms interferes between physical connections.
Since the CPU pins are often exposed to air, an alternative metal must be used. In this case, Gold is the 3rd best conductor of electricity at room temperature, and it is also completely inert and won’t oxidize.
You’ve probably noticed that many external electrical conducting connectors, such as headphone and HDMI cables, use Gold. It’s not because Gold is a better conductor. It’s because Gold doesn’t tarnish and maintains a good physical connection.
And that’s precisely what the tiny and sensitive CPU pins need: A near perfect physical connection. Anything less and there is a danger the CPU will malfunction or, at worse, get damaged.
In this section, we’ve learned that CPU connectors are made from Gold, not silver and Copper, because Gold is unreactive and doesn’t tarnish.
In the next section, you’ll learn whether or not it’s worth your time scrapping CPUs for their Gold.
Is it worth scrapping CPUs for Gold?
In the last section, I discovered why Gold is the preferred metal coating for CPU pins.
In this section, I’ll examine whether it’s worth you trying to scrap CPU for their Gold.
You might think you could make a bucket of cash for scrapping CPUs for their Gold. I hate to take a giant, and recently sharpened I might add, CPU pin to your balloon and burst it, but this is not the case.
The amount of Gold in a CPU is very tiny. It’s hardly worth your time going to all the trouble of taking the CPU out from the motherboard, taking it apart, and melting the pin’s gold plating down into gold bullion.
In theory, as we learned in an earlier section, a CPU should have around 200mg or 1/5th of a gram of Gold. At this price, the average CPU is worth about $12 at current gold prices.
That means if you scrapped 100 CPUs, you’d have around $1200 worth of Gold.
But here are two hurdles you might stumble into.
First, how will you source CPUs for less than $12? After all, if the CPU’s Gold is worth $12, you need to buy the CPU for less to make a profit.
Second, extracting the Gold from the CPUs is a time consuming and expensive process. Not to mention that it can be dangerous.
Why do you think we aren’t all melting down our old CPU components? The answer is simple: not only would the average person be way out of pocket buying all the equipment, but there’s a chance we’d burn our eyebrows off, or worse, too. That a risk I’m personally not willing to take. I like my eyebrows.
Take a look at this video from Archimedes Channel to see how difficult it is to extract Gold from CPUs.
Ok, we covered a lot of technical stuff about CPU pins and their gold content in this article.
I think I’ll end by summarising it all so you can walk away with all the essential points fresh in your mind.
- CPU pins are not made from solid Gold.
- Gold is plated onto the CPU pins as a thin layer.
- The layer of Gold is only a few atoms thick.
- CPU pins are made of other metals such as Platinum, Palladium, Ruthenium, and Iridium.
- Gold is used to plate the pins because it’s an excellent conductor of electricity that doesn’t tarnish.
- It’s not worth scraping CPUs to extract their Gold.
- The process of removing the Gold from CPUs is expensive, time-intensive, and can be dangerous.
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Another reaction at NLM.
Be sure to read a response posted at CWR by a priest who wrote his thesis on Universae Ecclesiae. HERE
___ Originally Published on: Feb 8, 2017 ___
When I was around the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei“, in its early days, I had the opportunity fairly frequently to chat with the Prefect of the CDF (our offices were in the same building and our Cardinal and that Cardinal were friends). Card. Ratzinger had ideas about the organic development of liturgical worship which touched on the interplay of the older form of the Roman Rite and the Novus Ordo. Even then he wrote and spoke, though not always in the more current phrase, of a “mutual enrichment” of the rites. Ratzinger held – correctly – that there was a rupture in our worship through the imposition on the Church of an artificially cobbled-up “new order” of Mass. That rupture must be healed. That will take time. He thought it would be beneficial to have wide-spread (with the Novus Ordo) celebrations of Holy Mass using also the pre-Conciliar form. The contact of the two rites would jump-start the slow, organic development of worship which had been so harmfully interrupted.
Back in the day, I think that Ratzinger believed that logical priority in the mutual enrichment should be with the Novus Ordo. However, as time passed I had the impression that he shifted to the view that logical priority should be given to the older, traditional form. That’s my impression from our conversations.
In Summorum Pontificum he was able to issue legislation for the universal Church that would, inter alia, effect that contact and that mutual enrichment. Benedict’s Motu Proprio effected a juridical solution. It did not solve or resolve the other questions, for example, is the Novus Ordo really in continuity with the traditional Roman Rite? That is a matter for historians and theologians and liturgists. Summorum Pontificum made an elegant juridical determination: For juridical purposes the two rites are the same and, hence, if a priest has faculties to say Mass, he can use either Missal. Other questions remain.
The above serves to set up the following.
Fr. John Hunwicke has written at his blog Mutual Enrichment (sound familiar?) his brief comments on a proposal made by Fr. Peter Stravinskas at Catholic World Report about how the Novus Ordo, the Ordinary Form, should change the traditional, Extraordinary Form. At the time it came out, I simply shook my head and moved on. I disagreed with virtually everything he wrote and I wasn’t going to waste my time on it.
Fr. Hunwicke, on the other hand, did offer some reactions. Here are a few of his points:
Enriching the EF
I am afraid that there is an immensely silly article in the CWR by a Fr Peter Stravinskas. He asks how the Ordinary Form could enrich the Extraordinary Form. [NB: no “mutual” involved. It’s one way.]
The problem with his piece is that he goes on and on … and on … and on … having yet more bright ideas. One thing leads to another. You start off considering his ideas … but by the time he has finished with you he is proposing a completely new rite.
More to the point, and most disturbingly, he is apparently unaware of a large amount of work, academically, which has been done in the last twenty or so years. The 1960s changes were based on shabby and shallow scholarship. The last thing we want to do to the EF now is to make precisely the same blunder!
“The riches of prayers in the OF should be brought into the EF.” BUT it has been demonstrated that even where OF prayers have a pedigree in the old Sacramentaries, their selection and their conceptual bowdlerisation in the OF has made them very suspect.
“The OF Lectionaries should be brought into the EF.” BUT it has been demonstrated that, although the OF gives more Bible, it goes easy on certain Biblical themes, and so in fact it is something of an impoverishment; a censorship of Holy Scripture.
“The OF Calendar should be brought into the EF … for example, by shifting Christ the King to November.” BUT the (Evangelical Anglican) Bishop NT Wright has demonstrated what a very flawed move that was.
Fr Stravinskas’s proposed massive revision of the EF would provide a sort of intermediate use between the EF and the OF. His desires would much more easily be achieved by authorising certain optional changes in the OF … [In other words, give logical priority to the older, traditional form. Duh. Right?] for example, the silent Canon, disuse of the Acclamations after the Consecration, the restoration of the historical Roman Words of Consecration, and the authorisation of the old Offertory Prayers of the celebrant. These would all be a good thing, and could be done very simply by a decree which need hardly occupy more than one sheet of paper.
I’m with Ratzinger and Hunwicke in this. Also, Fr. H mentions some things that can be done with the Extraordinary Form (e.g., introduce some more recently canonized saints to the calendar – today, for example, is the Feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, a marvelous saint who could be included in the older form’s calendar). The changes Hunwicke would admit are discrete and would in no way affect the integrity of the Rite.
We need a period of long stability of the use of the older Rite, side by side, with the newer. Stability.
There is nothing to be afraid of, by the way. Let the two forms be offered side-by-side on an even field of play. Let market forces work. If, as some think, the Novus Ordo is so very superior to the traditional form, then people will choose to go to the Novus Ordo. Right? But let the playing field be even. If the Extraordinary Form is relegated to 7 AM or 2 PM every time a 5th Sunday in a month occurs… that’s not a level playing field. However, libs are terrified of the older, traditional form. And because libs view the world and the Church through the lens of the zero sum game, they use brutal power to suppress whatever (whomever!) competes with their progressivist notions.
Again, on the note of stability, some people inadvertently – alas! – allow Novus Ordo tinkeritis to take root in them. Tinkeritis seems to be part and parcel of the Ordinary Form: don’t just let the rite be! Provide option after option. The effect is that the rite is ever fluid, always malleable, conformable to our desire and imagination. Over decades the results have been disastrous for Catholic identity.
We need more and more celebrations of the older, traditional Roman Rite. We need a period of stability. It takes longer to build than it takes to demolish.
Brick by brick on a stable foundation.
The moderation queue is ON.
At NLM Peter Kwasniewski systematically demolishes the 14 Theses which Fr. Stravinskas nailed to CWR.
At CWR there is another response to Fr. Stravinskas’ ideas. HERE Fr. Albert P. Marcello, III gets to the core:
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Organizations today face numerous challenges when planning for the diverse needs of users who utilize their campuses and spaces. Today’s dedication goes beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which mandated equal access for all. Today, we hold organizations at a higher standard and demand equality for all.
Universal Design is dedicated to designing spaces where everyone is given what they need to succeed. While grounded in ADA, it offers far more potential for inclusion. Universal Design dares us to look further than differences in physical abilities or disabilities to create an environment that was designed with everyone in mind. In short, Universal Design has the potential to make life easier, healthier, and friendlier and requires continuous improvement toward the ultimate-goal of full inclusion. We see Universal Design as a process than enables and empowers a diverse population by removing physical and social barriers and creating truly inclusive environments.
Owners who are implementing physical Universal Design strategies in their campuses, ultimately see it as an organizational benefit and as a return on their investment. Leadership within public and private organizations today are recognizing the importance of designing for diversity in creating inclusive places. They also realize that executing a skillfully designed environment allows individuals and teams to flourish. And finally, Universal design improves safety measures by minimizing hazards that lead to accidents, lost productivity, and related expenses.
Below is an outline of our Universal Design Assessment Checklist developed based on Global Universal Design Commission ANSI based Commercial Building Standards. This will serve as the guide for compliance with Universal Design principles.
We utilize our custom Universal Design assessment checklist as the keystone document identifying strategies and priorities which we categorize in one of two PRIORITY LEVELS:
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Universal Design Assessment Checklist
- Section 01: Site Entrances and Exits
- Section 02: Site Circulation
- Section 03: Transit and Parking
- Section 04: Building Relationships
- Section 05: Outdoor Amenities
- Section 06: Building Entrances and Exits
- Section 07: Building Circulation
- Section 08: Space Relationships
- Section 09: Work Spaces
- Section 10: Indoor Amenities
- Section 11: Food Service
- Section 12: Assembly Spaces
- Section 13: Toilet Rooms
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Major in Tennessee Transfer Pathway with Emphasis in Civil Engineering (A.S.)
Program and Career Description:
Most careers in engineering require a bachelor's degree or higher so the Associate of Science in Civil Engineering is designed for students wanting to complete the first two years of the bachelor's degree in a community college setting. Our students work closely with science and math faculty and have ample access to science and computer labs. Below are a few examples of career and salary estimates for engineering. Please note that this pathway requires 66 credit hours and recommends one summer semester. Students will need to meet the requirements for MATH 1910 before their freshman fall semester.
|Electrical and Electronics Engineers
||Bachelor's degree; MS or PhD for some jobs
Career and salary information taken from JOBS4TN.GOV. Check out this website for additional information about job descriptions, education requirements and abilities, and supply and demand for these careers. For additional information from a national perspective, go to Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor on the internet at www.bls.gov. Visit the Occupational Outlook Handbook on this website. Salaries are not guaranteed.
This program is a Tennessee Transfer Pathway (TTP) major. A student who completes the associates degree in this major is guaranteed that all required community college courses will be accepted in this major at the transfer institution. To see which four-year institutions offer this TTP major and guarantees a seamless transfer, visit the Tennessee Transfer Pathway website at www.tntransferpathway.org.
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Following discussions with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Applied Therapeutics announced that it would hold on submitting the New Drug Application for AT-007 for the treatment of galactosemia until more data could be provided.
The Company had hoped to submit the application for accelerated approval based on a surrogate endpoint (reduction in galactitol); however, the agency has now indicated that clinical outcomes data would be needed for approval.
Galactosemia is a rare genetic metabolic disease caused by an inability to metabolize galactose. AT-007 is an investigational compound that inhibits the enzyme aldose reductase. Inhibition of aldose reductase leads to a reduction in the formation of galactitol, a toxic metabolite that accumulates in tissues and organs. In a phase 2 registrational trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04117711), AT-007 was found to significantly reduce plasma galactitol levels vs placebo in adults with galactosemia.
The Company is currently evaluating the clinical benefit and safety of AT-007 in pediatric patients 2 to 17 years of age with classic galactosemia in the phase 3 ACTION-Galactosemia Kids study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04902781). Initial study results are expected by the first quarter of 2022.
“While disappointed by this change in direction by the FDA, we remain committed to bringing this important treatment to patients with galactosemia,” said Shoshana Shendelman, PhD, CEO, Founder and Chair of the Board of Applied Therapeutics. “We will continue to work with the FDA to determine the most expeditious path forward to regulatory approval and will provide an update on timing and plans accordingly.”
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On April 20, 1999, a nation was shaken to its core. Dressed for combat, two young men walked onto their school campus, a campus they had walked onto hundreds of times before, and took aim at their peers. With a mission in mind, they fired upon their unsuspecting classmates and teachers at Columbine High School. Twelve students and one teacher’s lives were ended that day—along with many more injured physically and emotionally by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s hatred.
The world wondered how these two could look down the barrel of a gun and into the eyes of a young life, only to see nothing more than a mere target. The answer to this question escaped us all, yet even though the Columbine Massacre will forever go down in infamy, there is a flower that has sprung up from the tears of one of its victims. This flower comes from the life and story of Columbine’s first victim, Rachel Joy Scott, as depicted in the new movie I’m Not Ashamed, which is set for limited theatrical release this Friday (October 21, 2016).
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At your next youth gathering, discuss how the gospel has the power to transform your students’ schools.
While Columbine High School is a place oftentimes burdened by the tragedy and aftermath of the shooting, I’m Not Ashamed attempts to give a dramatized version of the events leading up to the massacre through the eyes of Rachel. It highlights her struggle as a high school student attempting to live out her Christian convictions in a secular context—a narrative that many of our own students can relate to, and one that is worth talking about. That is, students still struggle today to live out their Christian convictions in a world that is oftentimes skeptical toward Christianity.
The fear of faith and reality of death
For most students, sharing one’s faith means committing social suicide. With all of the pressure to fit in and to keep up the status quo, students struggle with being open and honest with others. Though well meaning, most students find it hard to see eternal significance, because death seems so distant. The reality of heaven and hell doesn’t connect with many modern-day teens.
The Columbine’s tragedy exploded this cocoon wide open and bridged the gap for many students to see the fleeting nature of life, and the need for others to hear the gospel. It helped those of us who were students 15 years ago realize that there was more to life than the gossip that goes on in high school hallways. It reminded each of us that the way we live matters. And, perhaps, most importantly of all, Columbine caused us to wonder what would have happened if Dylan and Eric were reached with the gospel? Would the story have looked differently?
Perhaps Rachel Scott’s story, retold in I’m Not Ashamed, will have the power to stir some of those same realizations in a new generation of students. Of course, tragedy isn’t the only way to help students see the reality of life and death. Students today need to see what the gospel can offer others without a tragedy to remind them. But this takes the intentionality of a youth leader who is willing to pour into the life of a student.With every generation comes the opportunity to live better than the previous one. Click To Tweet
Jesus’ gospel is the hope of this world
Some believe that tighter regulation, heighten gun laws and more education will prevent another Columbine, and, in many ways this is true. But the gospel is the only message that can deal with the heart of the issue: sin and the depravity of humanity. Each person in this world has been affected by and feels the effects of sin. Our hearts have become depraved by sin, and there is no level of education that can ever change it. The Holy Spirit alone has the power to bring a person from spiritual death to spiritual life.
Our students need help seeing that the gospel is the true cure to the world’s problems. To stop pain and suffering in this world requires the love of God in someone’s life, so they can recognize sin and flee from it. Only when we’ve been reconciled through Christ’s blood can we aim to do better and live better.
Help your students gain perspective by discussing difficult topics. For instance, consider chatting about real-life, ongoing tragedies the world is facing today—especially tragedies that are specific to teens like cyber bullying, depression, terrorism, etc. A simple way of doing this is by watching I’m not Ashamed in theaters or when it’s released on video, then having some heart-to-heart discussion time.
A small act of compassion
Before Rachel passed, she wrote the following in a short essay called “My Ethics, My Code of Life”: “I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same.” This statement is juxtaposed in tragic irony, as the very people she had tried to show compassion to gunned her down. Yet, her sentiments are dripping with truth, that if students show the compassion of Christ’s love to others, it can start a chain reaction of the same kind.
Youth ministries today must keep their focus on simple truths and not become distracted by the peripheral details that so easily entice us. If we are to live like Christ, then we must help model His life to the world around us. With every generation comes the opportunity to live better than the previous one. And perhaps by sharing His great love with the next generation, they too can say, “I’m not ashamed.” | <urn:uuid:b36cefb3-9b92-4a26-ae84-741277eeec34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dare2share.org/sharing-the-gospel/im-not-ashamed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962011 | 1,190 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Smelly gray or white spots on clothing are most likely mildew. Here’s how to get it off of your clothes and keep it from coming back.
Finding mildew stains on clothes does not mean you’ve got to throw them out. You can safely eliminate those mildew spots and smell from fabric using common household ingredients. If it’s a frequent problem, there are also simple steps you can take to keep your clothes from mildewing in the future.
Steps to Remove Mildew Stains from Clothing
Mildew is a form of fungus which FEMA describes as early-stage mold. Since mildew can be white, yellow, or any shade of gray, people often confuse it for mold and sometimes even for black mold. One way to tell them apart is by texture: mildew is powdery and flat, while mold is fuzzy or slimy. The methods below will remove both.
Step 1. Mix a Pre-Treatment
For white fabrics, a solution of 1 part chlorine bleach to 3 parts water is the fastest way to eliminate mildew or mold spores on fabric, but it is not the only way. The instructions below work for all clothing, including white materials.
- Vinegar: Combine equal parts white vinegar and water.
- Borax: Dissolve 2 tablespoons of borax in 2 cups of water.
- Oxygen bleach: Make a paste from equal parts oxygen bleach and water.
- Lemon juice and salt: Combine equal parts of lemon juice and table salt to make a paste, or dip a cut lemon into salt directly.
Step 2. Soak
Never brush or shake mildewed or moldy clothing, or you’ll spread the spores. Instead, lay it flat in a sink or basin and apply your chosen pre-treatment. Let the garment soak 10 minutes for chlorine bleach and 20 minutes for the other methods, then gently scrub the stain with an old toothbrush. Repeat soaking and scrubbing until the stain is gone.
Step 3. Launder with Heat
Removing the mildew stain and odor requires hot water — a cold water wash will not do it. Check the care label and use the hottest temperature permitted. Add your regular laundry detergent to the washer, but avoid fabric softener since it can keep mildew odors and spores from rinsing away fully.
Step 4. Dry
Once the wash cycle ends, check the garment before putting it in the dryer. If any spots remain, repeat steps 1-3. Do not dry the item until the stain is gone, or you may cause the discoloration to permanently bond with the fabric fibers. When you’ve eliminated the mildew stain, tumble dry the item or hang it to line dry in direct sunlight to finish eliminating mildew odors.
Removing Mildew on Dry Clean-Only Clothes
There’s no easy way to remove mold or mildew at home from wool, silk, leather, or other dry clean-only fabrics without damaging them. Instead, seal the garment in a plastic bag to keep the spores from spreading and then take it to a local dry cleaner for handling. Professional services have special solvents that can kill mildew and eliminate the stain without damaging your dry clean-only items.
Forgetting about a load of laundry in the washing machine is the most common cause of mildew or mold stains on clothing, but not the only reason. To protect your clothes from developing mildew in the future, make a point to store them in dry conditions with good air circulation.
- Make sure clothes are completely dry before you store them in closets or drawers.
- Don’t leave piles of damp clothing or towels on the floor.
- Air-dry sweaty or greasy clothes before you add them to your laundry basket. Body oils and grease can trap moisture and promote the growth of mildew.
- Use fans to dry damp shoes or clothing that can’t be placed in the dryer.
- Sunlight is a mild disinfectant, so line-dry clothing when possible to kill mold and mildew spores.
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The Southeast Asian Times
NEWS FOR NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
By Tim Lee
The region is simply so large and so remote. There are next to no roads and no local inhabitants.
The last indigenous clans moved down from the plateau in the 1960s, lured away from their traditional lifestyle by Western luxuries such as flour and tobacco.
But in their art, intricately daubed in ochre pigments, they left a remarkable record of their everyday life.
There are depictions of fauna and spirits and cryptic figures whose meaning is lost in time. Some of the art is estimated to be 50,000 years old.
Most striking however are the relatively recent images of the arrival of Europeans in the country.
There are depictions of explorers, such as the ill-fated Ludwig Leichardt, who crossed the plateau on horseback in late 1845.
We know the date because Leichardt wrote about his wretched ordeal there in his diary.
In a rock shelter about 60 kilometres east of Jabiru he is seen overhead in a painting that is almost life-sized.
The artist who recorded his passing was a keen observer the horse is seen wearing a leather breastplate, Leichardt's attempt to stop his horses being staked in dangerous scrubby country.
You would imagine that isolation of this art would keep it safe from vandalism or from threats such as mining leases.
But in this case the lack of people on the plateau has left much of it imperilled.
"The rock art is globally significant, but it has conservation
problems to do with the effects of buffalo, feral animals ... fire and
vegetation that rubs against rock paintings," said Peter Cooke
of the Warddeken Indigenous Protection Area.
Feral buffalo and wild cattle also use the rock galleries for shelter.
They can rub against delicate art works and pulverize valuable artefacts left on the ground.
As the traditional clans gradually moved from the plateau, the intricate pattern of fuel reduction burning was lost.
These days much of the bush is thicker. Wild fires that burn hotter can crack and destroy sandstone rock galleries.
Vegetation can sprout close to art sites and erase priceless paintings.
The so-called first contact art is often most at risk, because the artists used pigments that were less resilient than the older paintings.
Traditional owner Fred Hunter of the Bolmo clan said his ancestors must have marvelled at the arrival of these aliens into their world and used art to convey the drama of what they had seen.
"For the first time seeing a person riding a horse they've probably never ever seen this animal before it would have been a big shock, a big culture shock, I'd imagine," Mr Hunter said.
The Warddeken Rangers, a local group formed to manage traditional country, is helping protect and preserve these priceless paintings.
In some areas, they have erected portable fences to exclude cattle and buffalo from rock shelters.
Every dry season the rangers carry out extensive and systematic fuel reduction burning.
In recent times, with the backing of traditional owners, Mr Cooke has led a campaign to highlight the existence of Arnhem Land rock art and convey the challenge of preserving it.
He has had many of the first contact paintings recorded and photographed and has mounted a travelling exhibition, recently shown in Melbourne.
Mr Cooke said he hopes to take the exhibition around the country.
"It's quite a wonderful slice of our history that I think many people aren't aware of," said Darwin-based photographer David Hancock, who took the photographs for the exhibition.
"These rock art drawings mean a lot to indigenous people but, really, in the context of history they mean a lot to us too."
Not enough being done to protect works: art conservator
For traditional owners such as Mr Hunter, the art is a means of reconnecting with their ancestral country.
"We've got people walking back on country now, you know," he said.
"They're walking through their own country and their burning and their finding art sites like this and they're looking after it, they're recording it.
"Most of the old people that talked about it, [who had] seen it when they were young, they're all passing on now. You need the younger generation, getting back on country, looking after country. Especially art sites like this."
Art conservator Bruce Ford said he fears not enough is being done to protect the works.
He said it would take many years and many millions of dollars to safeguard the rock art.
"That kind of systematic recording and then condition recording hasn't been done in Australia on a large scale and I think that's the next frontier," Mr Ford said.
"Australia has been a pioneer in rock art conservation, mostly because of funding programs administered by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies organisation. But that funding finished about 15 years ago and, since then, there's been no consistent funding for this sort of work.
"The range of challenges is huge. "
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20 Apr 2020
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man," rightly said American writer Elbert Hubbard.
How do you become that extraordinary person?
Why should you work towards becoming extraordinary?
Workplaces are changing through automation putting human jobs at risk. On the other hand, world economies are unstable, and these are not the only factors that promote job insecurity. There are many others. For example, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) recently said that due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, almost 25 million jobs could be lost across the globe.
Amidst all this chaos, how do you ensure that you become an 'essential employee' to your organisation and advance in your career? How do you make sure that your job stays yours? We tell you, and it's no secret. You must UPSKILL for career development.
How to Become a Truly Essential Employee? 70% of executives say that their current employees lack tech/computer skills, while 67% of employers can't find qualified candidates for their open positions. Every year new tech skills are in demand. Are you changing with the changing times? Here are 13 skills to learn that can give you that much-needed career boost. Match your pace with technology, fill the skills gap.
1. Artificial Intelligence
The intelligence demonstrated by machines.
Artificial intelligence, a subject of computer science, changes the way humans interact. It is a field that is constantly evolving. AI allows machines to perform tasks like humans that include speech, motion, visual perception, decision-making, among other things. It is widely used in multiple fields and by top companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Develop AI skills and watch how your career takes off.
Your gateway to programmatic thinking.
The base to build single-page applications on.
A general-purpose programming language, great for beginners.
Python has survived the test of time. First introduced in 1991, it continues to remain in-demand. Becoming a Python developer is a great investment for your career. This high-level programming language can be used for apps and websites, and it has an easy syntax. This multi-paradigm programming language is also known to boost productivity.
5. Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Automating tasks, increasing efficiency.
Learning Robotic Process Automation will allow you to know how business processes can be automated through software robots that boost productivity, save time and money. Learning the skill will take about 30 hours only. Do it over the weekend and be in-demand.
6. Machine Learning
Intelligence in the future.
Imagine self-driving cars or something as simple as intelligent chatbots - the scope for machine learning is tremendous. About 49% of companies are exploring or planning to explore machine learning and its applications. Know about deep learning, anomaly detection and other concepts when you learn machine learning and grow.
7. Extended Reality (XR)
A mix of virtual reality and augmented reality, set to change the world.
Not only gaming and entertainment, virtual reality (VR) and augmented (AR) reality have applications in the marketing, healthcare and other industries too. There is a massive increase in the demand for VR & AR engineers - by 1400%! It will be a wise decision to learn AR & VR.
Security is paramount.
With the growth in technology, security problems have also increased. Keeping their network security updated with the latest trends is one of the most important priorities for companies. Which is why if you upskill in cybersecurity a higher pay and better job security is guaranteed. From 2019-2020 the demand for security engineers has increased by 132%.
9. UX Design & Design Thinking
Crafting user experiences, solving problems.
A stunning UX design can breathe life into a website. Knowing design thinking will help you conceptualise better in the earlier phases of UX design. Having this for web development is a must, as it is for applications. Learning the fundamentals of UX design and design thinking will allow you to create stunning user experiences and solve users' problems. It is known as an art and a science to know how to transform needs and ideas into visually beautiful products. Good UX designers are highly needed today.
State-of-the-art UI toolkit that facilitates app building.
Excellent technology for app development, Flutter is the latest rage. Created by Google, Flutter is an open-source UI toolkit that allows for the creation of attractive apps for mobiles, web, and desktop from one codebase, across platforms. In a time when apps are important, Flutter is truly innovative and a seamless way to create native apps.
11. Cloud Computing (Amazon AWS & Google Cloud)
Cloud computing, making data available on-demand.
Cloud computing allows for the accessing, processing and managing of data on an internet server, rather than on a computer. Having knowledge on using either of the two major cloud computing services - Amazon AWS or Google Cloud will work in your favour.
12. Data Science
Understanding, analysing and demystifying data.
Data science is the hottest field today. There is a huge demand for data scientists in almost all fields. To become a data scientist, you must have a combination of programming skills, knowledge of statistics and know some business concepts. Learning skills like BigData Hadoop, Python, SQL, will get you there.
13. Big Data Analytics
Where numbers become the lighthouse.
Big Data Analytics involves systematically dealing with large and complex data sets to extract useful information like consumer preferences, market trends, hidden patterns and other useful insights. Knowing Big Data analysis will open a lot of doors for you.
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Higher pay than what you are getting now
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We live in an era which is powered by technology. Be it our homes, our workplaces, there is nothing where technology hasn't brought about a transformation. The workplace arena today likens growth with technical expertise. If you work in a field that is closely entwined with technology, your biggest challenge would be to adapt to new and changing technology. If you want to become an essential employee, you have to upgrade your knowledge base. And this article is like your know-it-all best friend who is looking out for you.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, 70 businesses have left California this year at an average of 4.7 businesses per week. Twenty percent of these businesses will relocate to Texas, where the unemployment rate is 8% versus California’s 12%.
Over the last three years, Texas added 165,000 jobs, while California shed 1.2 million. California now has the second highest unemployment rate in the country after Nevada.
Many businesses cite California’s unfavorable regulatory climate and labor laws as key reasons why it is difficult to operate a business in the state. For instance, California is one of only three states that requires overtime pay after an eight-hour work day.
Adding to California’s woes are its fiscal troubles and failed experiment with direct democracy. Since California relies heavily on the “wealthy” to support its tax system, revenues tend to collapse during recessions.
According to The Economist, personal income tax accounts for over 50% of California’s revenue. Californians earning over $100,000 per year account for over 80% of income-tax revenue. The state allocates nearly 10% of general fund spending to prisons. Its credit rating is now the worst among the United States.
A major reason why California is nearly ungovernable is that its ballot initiatives have spun out of control. In the 1960s, only 9 initiatives qualified for the ballot. Between 2000 to 2010, that number increased to 74.
In turn, many of these initiatives either limit taxes or mandate spending, making it much more difficult for the legislature to balance the budget.
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In recent years, companies across all industries have upped their focus on cybersecurity. In the face of massive global incidents such as WannaCry and Petya as well as other increasingly dangerous and sophisticated attacks, solid security practices are beginning to be implemented more effectively, and executive boards are showing stronger support for security than in the past.
If a company has anything of value on their networks, they will be targeted by malicious parties — it’s a fact of life in the digital world. Unfortunately, aside from massive corporations with significant security budgets, many industries, including the pharmaceutical industry, continue to lag behind when it comes to cybersecurity.
Generally speaking, the pharmaceutical industry has not operated on the cutting edge when it comes to information security practices due to a number of unique challenges. As a result, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly targeted by hackers seeking to pilfer sensitive information or cause human or reputational harm. In fact, companies in the pharmaceutical industry have become a greater target for cyberattacks than companies in retail.
While most pharmaceutical companies agree that the losses from a cyberattack could be startling, the majority of companies in the industry continue to face numerous challenges, and as a result, they often struggle with cybersecurity.
Cost of a Data Breach
Due to the importance and prevalence of the intellectual property pharmaceutical companies possess, they are seen as a juicy target for hackers and bad actors seeking to cause harm. From stolen intellectual property to clinical trial information, litigation and lost revenue, the consequences surrounding a pharmaceutical data breach are staggering.
Worse yet, according to the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview, the total cost of a breach, the per capita cost of a stolen record and the average size of a data breach all increased from 2017 to 2018, highlighting the increased danger around shoddy cybersecurity.
In the pharmaceutical industry, the problem is even more pronounced. The global average total cost of a data breach climbed to $148 per record, but for pharmaceutical firms, that number reached $174 — more than 17 percent higher than the average across industries.
For pharma companies, the ongoing pursuit of intellectual property remains a significant threat to the industry. At certain stages of development, molecules and formulas are not yet protected by a patent, and the way a company manages and protects that information has taken on increased importance in recent years. Imagine if data such as compound information or research on clinical trials that could determine a company’s strategy for the next five to 10 years falls into the wrong hands.
Research and development produces a significant amount of information that has the potential to determine strategic business decisions surrounding operations, the development of new solutions, investments, etc. Because this information drives decision-making when it comes to which elements to remove for the next round of development, the therapeutic areas to invest in and more, pharmaceutical companies are increasingly compelled to bolster their cyber defenses. Nothing is more valuable to a pharmaceutical company than the formula for one of its new drugs, so ensuring their intellectual property is protected is vital in today’s threat landscape.
Mergers & Acquisitions
The reality is that attacks occur everyday, but today, companies need to be aware of where their challenges lie and when they can arise. When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the pharmaceutical industry has always been busier than most. However, these activities often involve a significant amount of strictly confidential data, appealing to hackers as they know they can pilfer a significant amount of money or sell the information on the dark web.
According to a recent insight on cybersecurity for pharmaceutical companies, “Companies engaged in merger and acquisition activities have experienced attacks in which insider information was misused to trade their stock for profit in advance of a merger being announced publicly.” Clearly, protecting sensitive and confidential information during a merger or acquisition remains a difficult task for many security teams.
Fortunately, as data sharing grows increasingly prevalent across the industry, companies are beginning to understand that a breach in their network could have massive impacts on both a company’s reputation as well as its bottom line. If a company is waiting for signs of trouble before implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity program, it’s likely already too late.
The Internet of Things
As mobile computing technology continues to advance, connecting every device in our lives, the greater acceptance of “internet of things” (IoT) technologies poses new security challenges. The attack surface is growing as the proliferation of IoT devices that collect health data for the pharmaceutical industry ensures the presence of more connected medical devices than ever before.
The growing IoT ensures possibilities surrounding how data is collected, stored, transmitted and processed are extended. Because traditional IT environments already come with numerous risks, the rapid proliferation of the IoT increases these risks by extending the uncertainty surrounding controls all along the chain — from the location where data is gathered from or created to where it ultimately is stored.
With hacks and data breaches increasing across all industries, the importance of patching software and operating systems has never been more pronounced for companies in the pharmaceutical industry.
Unfortunately, many pharma security professionals are slacking when it comes to their patching programs. In fact, a majority of security professionals in the pharmaceutical industry admitted that they have had a data breach because of an unpatched vulnerability for which a patch was available, according to a survey of nearly 3,000 security professionals by the Ponemon Institute.
Staying current with patches for software, operating systems and third-party applications is the only way companies can fully prevent attacks based on known vulnerabilities. Pharmaceutical companies can improve their security posture in a number of ways: taking inventory of vulnerability response capabilities; defining and optimizing end-to-end vulnerability response processes; and automating as much of the process as possible. The solution addressing all of these needs appears to be cloud-native patch automation. Enter Automox, a cloud-native automated patch management solution.
The platform allows users to control their level of patch management automation, flow processes and configuration enforcement — all from a single dashboard. Better yet, the lightweight agent can be installed for all of your Windows, Mac OS or Linux systems in just a few minutes, and it automatically patches vulnerabilities based upon your company’s configured policies.
Today, pharma’s big test lies in understanding all of the cybersecurity challenges the industry faces and overcoming them. Having a security program and a security operations process in place is no longer something that can be overlooked. While patch management is a major issue for many companies — no matter the size, no matter the industry — Automox is helping make the traditionally time-consuming and burdensome practice of patching easier than ever for pharmaceutical companies.
Facing growing threats and a rapidly expanding attack surface, understaffed and alert-fatigued organizations need more efficient ways to eliminate their exposure to vulnerabilities. Automox is a modern cyber hygiene platform that closes the aperture of attack by more than 80% with just half the effort of traditional solutions.
Cloud-native and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single intuitive console. IT and SecOps can quickly gain control and share visibility of on-prem, remote and virtual endpoints without the need to deploy costly infrastructure.
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If you’re considering getting some stables made, you probably don’t need to be told that there’s a bit to consider. Unlike other types of storage units, stables are used to house living, high-maintenance animals. And as we’re sure you’re aware, rearing horses is more of a lifestyle than it is a hobby, and requires a ton of time and effort – so you’ll also want to get their accommodation just right (remember, the better they feel, the easier they’ll be to handle).
To help make this process a bit easier, we’ve put together a list of things to consider when planning your stables (although rest assured, when building with us, we’ll be with you all the way).
Being active animals, horses don’t like being stabled. In fact, they’d rather be out in the field all day and night. So in order to make their stay that little bit more comfortable, you’ll want to make sure they’re given enough space to rest comfortably.
The minimum size requirement for a sleeping bay is 3.6mx3.6m, but you should go bigger if you can. The general rule of thumb is that all sleeping bays should be big enough for the horse to lie down comfortably in, without having to bunch up against the wall.
Likewise, you’ll want to keep any entrances as wide as possible, giving your animals plenty of room to pass in and out of (this is typically between 1.5-2m).
When it comes to internal structures (such as the walls between individual sleeping bays), we recommended you use a mesh-like design rather than a solid wall.
This allows for two things. Firstly, the animals will be able to see each other, which will make them less prone to distress (and again, make them easier to work with).
You’ll also experience superior ventilation around the stables, which is optimal for the health of its residents. These are also good reasons to include a few windows in your stables too (not to mention the increase in sunlight they’ll allow for).
Getting the right locks for your stables is a fine art. Because you’ll often be guiding an animal whilst dealing with, locking and unlocking your stables, you’ll want a locking system that’s simple enough to operate while multitasking (and often with only one hand to spare).
That said, horses are not unintelligent animals. It’s not unheard (no pun intended) of for horses to figure out how to unlock a simple hatch lock and go for a nightly galavant. In fact, it’s even been reported that some horses will not only break themselves out but will then also proceed to bust their friends out too. Whilst you can’t fault their loyalty to each other, this could be somewhat disastrous to deal with.
As with so many things in life, finding that perfect locking system is all about balance.
There are quite a few options when it comes to stable flooring, each with their own pros and cons.
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Srinagar Airport code is SXR. Srinagar Airport name is Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport. Srinagar International Airport is an international airport that serves Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is owned by the Indian Air Force, and the Airports Authority of India operates a civil enclave at the airport. Although, designated an international airport in 2005, the Srinagar airport does not receive scheduled international flights as of November 2016 but has seen Hajj flights. It has an integrated terminal and one asphalt runway.
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Red Iron Oxide (R)
Note for wet applications: Working with fine pigments (small micron size) such as this can clump in your formula. Experienced formulators will mix the pigment with a small amount of batch material in something like a mortar and pestle. Once that small batch is colored and smooth with clumps mashed out, it is then added to the larger amount of base material.
To lighten: Customers can lighten this to varying degrees using our Premium Foundation Base, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide or white kaolin clay, depending on what result is desired and what the end use is.
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APPROVED FOR COSMETIC USE.
Red Iron Oxide with more of a red undertone. There are no "true" reds in nature nor do they make a synthetic true red.
Micron Size: 1-2
INCI: Red Iron Oxide: Pigment Red (CI 77491) (CAS#:1309‐37‐1)
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Missouri Speed Limit
What is the Missouri speed limit?
Missouri traffic laws define the maximum speed that any motorist travelling on Missouri roadways can legally drive. Driving over the Missouri speed limit can result in a traffic citation, fine, license suspension, or even arrest.
Drivers are expected to drive at a speed that is safe for the road conditions.
There are a total of 16 states with higher maximum speed limits than Missouri.
Missouri Speed Limit - Rural Freeways
The maximum speed limit on rural freeways and interstates in Missouri is 70 miles per hour. "Rural freeways" are the sections of major highways that passing through rural and sparsely populated areas, and can safely allow faster driving. Rural highways will generally have the highest legal speed limits in Missouri.
Missouri Speed Limit - Urban Freeways
The maximum speed limit on urban freeways and interstates in Missouri is 65 miles per hour. "Urban freeways" are the segments of large highways that are located within a city or densely populated area's limits, and are generally more prone to traffic congestion and other hazards.
In most cases, the freeway's speed limit will return to the rural freeway speed limit of 70 mph after the road passes through the most densely populated area.
Missouri Speed Limit - Divided Roads
The maximum speed limit on divided roads in Missouri is 70 miles per hour. Divided roads must have a concrete median or buffer zone separating opposite lanes, and may have one or more lanes going in the same direction.
Because the median helps protect drivers from head-on collisions, Missouri has a higher maximum speed limit for divided roads than undivided roads.
Missouri Speed Limit - Undivided Roads
The maximum speed limit on rural undivided roads roads in Missouri is 65 miles per hour. This category includes most small backroads and local routes.
When these routes pass through a residential or heavily-trafficked area, the speed limit will usually drop to 40 mph or below.
Missouri Speed Limit - Residential Areas
The maximum speed limit on residential roads in Missouri is 40 miles per hour. Residential roads have the most potential for speed-based accidents and collisions, so residential districts tend to have the lowest speed limits with the most strict enforcement policies.
When driving in residential areas be on the lookout for school, hospital, and construction zones. These areas often have even lower speed limits, with strict enforcement and heavy fines for speeding.
Missouri Speeding Tickets and Citations
Driving over the posted speed limit, driving too fast for conditions, or failing to obey special speed limit zones can result in a Missouri speeding ticket, points on your license, and even a license suspension or revocation for repeat offenders.
Missouri highway patrol officers monitor traffic using radar, speed traps, and cameras. Radar technology is not exact, and as a general rule an officer will not pull you over for exceeding the speed limit by less than 5 mph (75 mph on a rural freeway, or 70 mph on an rural undivided road). However, any speeds in excess of the posted speed limits can be considered a ticketable offence. | <urn:uuid:0bacf110-25ab-420a-bc4f-3b3a04e5b643> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.speed-limits.com/missouri | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.91226 | 675 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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