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Cameron University’s history is rooted in Oklahoma’s statehood. In 1908, a year after Statehood, the Oklahoma Legislature created six agricultural high schools – one in each judicial district. The Cameron State School of Agriculture was named for the Rev. E. D. Cameron, a Baptist minister and Oklahoma’s first State Superintendent of Schools.
Cameron offers an honors program, early admission, advanced standing, a study abroad program, and college-level examination programs. Free tutoring is available in labs across campus and at the Office of Teaching and Learning, all designed to help students achieve academic success.
For more than 20 years, Oklahoma Research Day continues to be THE premier annual event celebrating student and faculty research, creative, and scholarly activities. This conference has grown in numbers and in stature with contributions from all of Oklahoma’s institutions of higher education, including many collaborative contributions from national and international academic and research institutions. In 2019, Oklahoma Research Day hosted more than 700 registered students, faculty, and guests and featured 562 unique poster presentations.
Cameron University Career Services assists students and alumni in achieving their career goals, by providing excellent career-related resources, programs, services, and opportunities that equip and empower them for the workforce.
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This is the place for current and prospective international students to find out more about Cameron University, the wide variety of degree options, and about life in Lawton, Oklahoma, USA.
Student Housing at Cameron University is dedicated to providing a quality living experience that complements the academic mission of Cameron University and provides for the holistic development of our residents.
Living on campus makes it easier for residents to be successful. At Cameron University, Student Housing is dedicated to providing the environment and resources to allow our residents to be successful in the classroom, as well as life.
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The Student Wellness Center, located on the first floor of North Shepler, offers both acute medical care and mental health counseling for students at no charge.
The Student Wellness Center is staffed by a Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner under the supervision of a Physician for quality health care service.
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Starting as a B.A students in the university of buea Cameroon in ASTI (ADVANCED SCHOOL OF TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS) , my experience there is not bad because they make sure to improve the students language because it's a language which studies varieties ofb different languages , that performs our manner in talking or addressing to people becomes different . I would say...
Tuition Fees are affordable comparatively, even better with in-state tuition waiver. In the psychology department, the professors are very eager to assist you in anyways they can. Scholarships are not quite as plentiful as other schools but as previously mentioned tuition is really not expensive.
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Previously on (in)Famous, I examined some of the more colorful jumping and spooking styles that our horses throw at us – literally. I recently began training for a new job as a riding instructor, which largely involves riding many school horses to get to know their habits and quirks. It’s a fun and eye-opening experience, and I am once again reminded how differently – and sometimes oddly – various horses move. Without further ado, here is a list of some (in)Famous trotting styles that I have sat (or tried to sit).
1: The Pony Trot
With his nose stubbornly thrust forward like the muzzle of a fuzzy pistol, this horse’s preferred strategy for covering more ground is to kick his stumpy legs into turbo mode rather than gracefully lengthening his stride.
2: The Gravedigger
This isn’t the “long and low” that your dressage instructor desires. Also known as “peanut-rolling,” you wouldn’t be surprised if your horse ended up giving himself an uppercut with an errant hoof… or tumbling face-first into the dirt.
3: The Rockette
In horses not bred or trained for saddleseat competitions, this high-stepping and flamboyant trot could be described as “more jarring than pickling time at Grandma’s house.”
4: Tiptoe Through the Tulips
A pleasant jog to sit on long rides, this dainty footwork is efficient yet oftentimes slow. Painfully slow. It just might be a slightly jaunty walk. Look behind you – does your horse even leave hoofprints behind?
5: Fe Fi Fo Fum!
Think of dinosaurs galumphing across the Cretaceous savanna, or perhaps a noble rhinoceros chasing down errant tourists. Extending the trot isn’t an issue – it’s getting your horse to do so without causing an earthquake with the shockwaves from his hooves.
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Basics of Unemployment Compensation
Q: What is unemployment compensation?
A: Unemployment compensation is a government benefits program that protects workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own from imminent financial hardships. People who qualify to receive unemployment compensation get a weekly check and help finding a new job. Most people receiving unemployment compensation receive about ½ of what they earned at their job. However, you may receive more money if you have a dependant spouse or child. Unemployment compensation usually can last for up to 26 weeks. However, your unemployment compensation benefits can end after 16 weeks, or you can be denied benefits altogether, if you didn’t work enough in the previous year.
Q: Can you get unemployment compensation?
A: You are eligible to receive unemployment compensation if you:
- Were fired or laid off through no fault of your own, or if you were forced to quit because of a compelling reason, and
- Are able and available to work at another job that is suitable, considering your skills, education, or training, and
- Worked for a company that paid unemployment compensation taxes, and
- Earned enough money to qualify for unemployment compensation.
Q: Can you get partial unemployment compensation if your hours are cut back?
A: You may be able to receive partial unemployment compensation if your work hours are cut back because of a lack of work. At your job, you can earn up to 40% of your weekly unemployment compensation amount without losing any unemployment benefits. Anything you earn over this amount is deducted from your weekly check.
Q: What are some reasons you could be denied unemployment compensation?
A: You could be denied unemployment compensation if you:
- Voluntarily quit your job, without a compelling reason
- Were fired because of willful misconduct or refused suitable work
- Are unable or unavailable to work
- Are incarcerated following a conviction
- Are participating in a strike
- If you are a school employee temporarily laid off during an established and customary vacation or holiday period.
Q: If you are pregnant, can you collect unemployment compensation?
A: Yes. The same rules apply to pregnant women as apply to everyone else. However, pregnancy is not considered good cause to voluntarily quit a job. If you choose not to work because you are pregnant, you cannot receive unemployment compensation. However, if your company fires you because of your pregnancy (and you are “able and available” for work), you can receive unemployment compensation. You can continue to receive your unemployment compensation benefits after the child is born if you are able and available to work.
Q: How do you apply for unemployment compensation?
A: Applications for unemployment compensation may be submitted by phone with the UC Service Center at 1-888-313-7284, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Only persons with Social Security Numbers ending in an odd number may call on Mondays. Only persons with SSNs ending in an even number may call on Tuesdays. All claimants may call on Thursdays and Fridays. Videophone service for ASL users is available only on Wednesdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm. Applications may also be submitted anytime online at www.paclaims.state.pa.us/UCEN/Login.asp. You should apply for unemployment compensation benefits as soon as you possibly can after losing or leaving your job. The UC Service Center will interview you and your former employer to determine if you should receive unemployment compensation. You will receive a written notice telling you whether or not you will receive unemployment benefits.
Q: What if you are denied unemployment compensation?
A: If you disagree with the decision, you can appeal. (Your former employer can appeal the decision too.) The appeals process can be a little complex. So, for more guidance, please see the NLSA pamphlet on appealing unemployment compensation decisions. | <urn:uuid:1e400e08-8bc2-4a43-a7a9-bbde0535674e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nlsa.us/legal-resources/employment/basics-of-unemployment-compensation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946677 | 795 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The ability to rapidly and efficiently process sensory stimuli, and in particular sounds, during locomotion is critical for survival and adaptive behaviour. Some incoming sounds during locomotion originate from external sources (such as the sound of a passing car) while others are self-generated (such as the sound of our own footsteps). While self-generated sounds are predictable and uninformative in some cases, in other situations they carry rich behaviourally-relevant information, such as the substrate we are walking on, our locomotion speed, and our location. Indeed, human studies show that self-generated locomotion sounds can influence behaviour in an ongoing manner. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the encoding, usage, and memory of self-generated sounds are poorly understood. To address this gap, I have designed a novel experimental setup to simultaneously record self-generated sounds and neural activity in freely-moving rats that learn to traverse a track with varying sounds. By recording neural activity in two monosynaptically connected key brain regions for context- and memory-dependent sound processing, the auditory cortex and the perirhinal cortex, I aim to identify the neural mechanisms that underlie encoding and remembering behaviourally-relevant self-generated sounds.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
4448 East Hall
The talk will also be livestreamed via the Zoom link! Passcode: Biopsych
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Bologna, Italy 6-7 March 2019
Religions and International Relations
At the intersection of Interreligious Engagement, Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) & Sustainable Development
Organized by ISPI and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the context of the European Academy of Religion’s Annual Conference
This meeting was part of the International Seminar on Religions and International Relations, organized by ISPI and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the context of the European Academy of Religion’s Annual Conference. Over two days, 33 leading scholars of religions and international relations, diplomats and policy makers and religious representatives gathered to explore opportunities for collaborative work across the policy agendas of Religious Engagement, Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Sustainable Development by evaluating the idea of Interreligious Engagement Strategies.
The idea emerged from a year-long consultation under the patronage of the 2018 Italian OSCE chairmanship led by the FoRB & Foreign Policy Initiative based at Sussex University, which began in March 2018. The meeting was a follow-up to last year’s workshop in Bologna, which marked the beginning of the consultation, aiming to develop a set of policy guidelines, on how interreligious dialogue and collaboration can be successfully operationalised to further the aims of peace, sustainable development and human rights protection.
The discussion moved from the evaluation of the consultation’s final report to discussing the implementation of interreligious engagement strategies and the opportunities presented by connecting them to other relevant agendas like SDGs.
This event provided an opportunity to brainstorm issues and topics that will become central to the follow-up event that will take place in the second part of 2019 to mark and celebrate the 10th anniversary of this Italian initiative.
At this year’s closed-door seminar, the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy (a forum of diplomats from North America, Europe, and the UN working on the intersection of religion, foreign policy, and international affairs) has been invited.
The meeting consisted of the two following events:
Event 1: Dialogue 4.0: The Role of Religious Communities in Fostering Inclusive Societies and Sustainable Development
6 March 2019 – Oratorio San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini, Sala di Rappresentanza Banca di Bologna
The public roundtable was part of the 10th edition of the ISPI-MFAIC ‘Religions and International Relations’ Programme’ seminar. The roundtable, consisting of seven speakers, considered the need for a dialogical revolution, or Dialogue 4.0 – a new era of interreligious dialogue and collaboration to help humankind foster inclusive societies and sustainable development worldwide. The speakers also spoke to whether, in an ever more polarized world, policymakers should see religious actors as partners in building long-term strategies to foster pluralism, social cohesion and sustainable development.
Event 2: At the Intersection of Interreligious Engagement, Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) & Sustainable Development
6 -7 March 2019 – Palazzo Isolani
The two-day seminar examined religion as part of the problem, as well as part of the solution to the global problems the world is facing. Considering how religious and interreligious actors are still rarely welcome at the leading global policy tables, participants were asked to reflect on how new innovative secular-religious partnerships between governments and interreligious dynamics can be reinforced and rendered more impactful. Divided into three sessions, the first was a discussion of this consultation’s report Interreligious Engagement Strategies: A Policy Tool to Advance Freedom of Religion or Belief since it was launched in December 2018 at the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Milan, the second looked at how to foster ‘religious literacy’ and ‘policy literacy’, led by members of the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy, and the third examined where the policy discussion on Religion and International Relations is going. | <urn:uuid:24fc205c-b7a0-4944-99f8-8a619dbd8276> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://forbforeignpolicy.net/bologna-italy-6-7-march-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.918053 | 820 | 1.695313 | 2 |
No budget or low budget?
When I call a film "no-budget" there is often still some kind of budget involved. There is always at least something you'll need to spend money on.
But I like to use the term because it means I'll be self-funding at such an extremely low level and I want everyone's expectations in check. And because it's self-funded, the closer we can get to $0 the better. But even if we get to $0 cost this isn't the true cost. So let's get started.
Getting started with no money
Considering what we actually need to make a movie these days, the barriers to entry are extremely low. Even the most basic smart phone can get anyone going with some video, sound recording, and basic editing.
What more do you need? I'd argue you don't need much more than that in terms of technology – at least not at the beginning.
Now you have your phone ready, instead consider that the most expensive part of most films is the time spent on set. People are standing around getting hungry, your rental time is ticking away, your location is only available for so much longer, etc. – so the more planning beforehand we can do the better and cheaper!
Find your no-budget story, but not yet
When I first start thinking about a story to film I don't worry about budget. It's too early and it kills my creative flow if I constantly try to balance our budget before I even know what story I want to tell.
Instead, I like to get my story down on paper straight from the heart: no editing, no over-thinking, no self censorship, no budget in mind at all. Only then, once I've worked through a couple drafts, do I start to cut and rework stuff to make it possible.
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite...
I like to take as much time as possible with a script and storyboarding and shot planning. I know some people who don't like to do that because they feel it kills the creativity on set, but I disagree. It's still the same creative process, you are simply doing it now while the meter isn't running.
Of course you'll still have to be creative and make changes on the actual day of filming, but the more you can do the better; before your group of friends – who are all helping you out of the kindness of their heart – are waiting for you to make a bloody decision so they can go sleep for 3 hours before they have to go to work tomorrow morning.
Considering the true cost of your no-budget film
Even though this is going to be a no-budget project, to help see the true-cost of a project, I like to create a real-world budget based on all the manpower and equipment people are willing to bring to my project. It helps me to understand how much actual value and time people are investing.
That camera my friend brings? My friend of a friend who has a Zoom H4N we can borrow? That all has some actual cost. So even though I'm not paying, it's really helpful to understand what the true-cost would be and how big of a favour I'm going to owe my friends when it comes time for me to help them.
Our group of friends who have been spending 12+ hours with us over the last 5 Saturdays? All of that time has value. It's good not to take any of that for granted
even especially on a no-budget film.
Find people who are willing to go all the way
The last major hurdle to no-budget filming is getting people who are willing to go with us all the way to finish-line.
Normally people are invested once they are getting a paycheque. But since we are talking no-budget, the best thing we have is passion. Filmmaking is hard and expensive, so if I can get people excited and feeling the same passion I do for a project, the better chance they will want to be in it for the long-haul with me.
Really, no budget?
Now that I've done all the planning that I can and found a great set of people who are dedicated to getting this done no matter what, it's time to realize even a no-budget film costs money.
Lunch for your good friends, gas money, a new SD card, a backup hard-drive, buying some royalty-free music, submitting to festivals, buying some editing software, getting some helpful filmmaking apps for your phone; no matter how close to $0 you get, there are some costs you cannot avoid.
So, if you followed along above, you should have a sense of the true cost of your film if you were actually paying for equipment and people's time. And you should have done as much planning as possible beforehand to film as economically as possible. So now you can take all of that and create your no-budget budget.
$1,000 - $25,000
At the end of the day, even a no-budget film can end up costing thousands of dollars. So I like to plan on that. Is it really a no-budget film? I think so. Because with all of the planning we did above, I know the most economical way of making this will require the following as a minimum:
- Lighting kit from the local rental house.
- 3 days of lunches and snacks for your friends.
- 2 tracks of royalty-free music.
- Submission fees for film festivals.
That's an extremely small set of requirements, but it already puts my no-budget project up to $2,000 or $3,000. And if I want to actually go to the festivals which the movie gets accepted to (assuming it does)? Well, you probably see where that's going.
Thats a wrap
I hope that's a few helpful things to consider when you start out your next no-budget film. The most important thing at the end of the day is to get out there and create something, anything! Don't let having no-budget scare you off.
At the end of the day, saying no-budget isn't exactly accurate; everything costs some money. So if you really have $0 budget, I'd recommend saving up some money. At the very least you should get the people helping you a nice lunch and some good coffee!
What do you do?
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As organisations become flatter and more tech-enabled, alternative workspaces are emerging as a rapidly popular trend. Standing height desks are a firm favourite in this space, providing a different way to collaborate to the traditional boardroom format. They also offer significant health benefits, with employees being given the choice to sit or stand.
Recent years have seen climate change and the importance of eco-friendly practices placed front and centre on the global stage. Just last month consulting firm, McKinsey, released a report underlining the need for companies to take immediate action. This has led to a demand for greener ways of working in the business world, in an attempt to minimise its negative impact on the environment.
Feature walls are a fun and inexpensive way to convey a company’s identity. Ranging from branded vinyl graphics and printed workplace rules to story walls and framed testimonials, these aesthetic additions are able to chronicle an organisation’s journey and culture, while injecting character to even the plainest of spaces.
The best workplaces align with the organisational culture of a company. They reflect the firm’s story, values and aspirations, and say a lot about the people who work there. Achieving this desirable workplace is no mean feat, but the benefits it promises makes the effort all the more worthwhile.
A ‘stand-out office environment’ has been delivered by Coulter for Preston technology firm, business Insight 3 (Bi3). The refurbishment, which reflects Bi3’s innovator reputation, provided the prefect venue… | <urn:uuid:d67ac744-5cd5-462c-8938-c230e8abc739> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coulterofficeinteriors.co.uk/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.930386 | 317 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Here are the things you need to know about Part-time jobs in UAE;
Yes, but only if the said resident has a temporary work permit specifically for part-time jobs that is issued by the Ministry of Labour or Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE).
Any UAE resident (employed or unemployed) above 18 years can start applications for a part-time work permit. Juvenile work permits for youngsters (15 to 18 years of age) can be applied for where parents act as work sponsors. For employed residents, the employer must be registered with MOHRE.
A person on visit or tourist visa cannot work part-time legally as he or she would not have a legal sponsor (husband/father/employer) in the country. Any resident over the age of 65 years cannot get the permit.
A No Objection Certificate (NOC) from your full-time employer who is your sponsor and registered under the MOHRE is required for people who are already working in the UAE. For residents sponsored by family, such as father or husband, a NOC from them is required. Your residency should be valid for more than 6 months at the time of application.
The prospective part-time employer should also issue a NOC ensuring that all parties know the exact work or residency situations of the applicant.
The prospective employer collects all the NOC statements and applies for the work permit.
No, any trading and business activity has to go through appropriate channels of licensing and government approvals. This permit only allows residents to work for companies registered under the Ministry of Labour on a part-time or weekend basis.
The company (prospective part-time employer) has to bear the cost of application. The application costs Dh100 and the permit costs Dh500, both of which are borne by the employer recruiting the part-time employee. The Tasheel processing fees haven't been included.
Kindly address all your queries to the Ministry of Labour, now known as MOHRE. Their website has all the information required and the permits can be applied for online by the prospective employers, or through Tasheel centers. | <urn:uuid:f77d69ca-2d8d-4b0e-9f7b-dfbd8e92d99a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://firstoffshore.com/working-part-time-in-the-uae-all-you-need-to-know.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957274 | 440 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Busy pet parents are dealing with a lot these days. You want to do what’s best for your dog and are thinking about giving him a multivitamin. If you type “dog multivitamin” into your favorite Internet search engine, the results are overwhelming—as in over 4 million hits.
I’ve wanted to start my dog on the best vitamins possible but had no idea what to look for and what he needs. My dog is a senior who still acts like a puppy at times. If you are like me, you want your pooch to be happy, healthy, and live a long life. A nutritional boost in the form of a canine multivitamin is something to consider.
Luckily, the folks at Great Pet are taking the guesswork out of finding the right vitamin for your dog. I tried their Daily Great Multivitamin by adding it to my Cocker Spaniel’s diet every day. Here’s what happened when my dog tried Daily Great but didn’t realize he was getting a treat in disguise.
Why Use a Dog Multivitamin
Multivitamins are a daily ritual for millions of people each day, but do dogs need the extra boost of supplementation? According to the American Pet Products Association (APPA), pet parents spent $22.1 billion on supplies and over-the-counter medications in 2020 (1). Pets are members of the family, so they benefit from today’s modern conveniences and supplements.
Our dogs take similar vitamins and minerals humans do, but they require different amounts. A dog should never take a vitamin designed for people. If you feed your dog a store-bought dry or wet food, take a peek at the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profile on the package. If it says “provides complete and balanced nutrition,” the manufacturer includes all 37 daily nutritional needs for dogs, according to the Association of American Feed Control Officials.
However, many dogs can benefit from a high-quality multivitamin in their diet. For example, dogs who are fed a home-cooked meal might be missing out on some essential nutrients. Dogs who are dealing with chronic health issues or stressors may benefit as well. Ask your pet’s veterinarian if starting him on a multivitamin like Daily Great makes sense. I asked my dog’s veterinarian, and she agreed that it was safe for Dexter to take.
Dexter has a few chronic health conditions, battled and survived an immune system attack, and he’s a teenager now. However, Daily Great is safe to use on dogs 12 weeks of age and older. According to Dr. Lisa M. Freeman of the Tufts University Clinical Nutrition Service, the right supplement depends on your dog’s age, activity level, medical conditions, diet, and a few other factors (2).
Daily Great Multivitamin for Dogs: Features
Many pets are eating processed commercial diets made with synthetic vitamins. My dog isn’t much of a vegetable lover, but I want to ensure he gets the vitamins his body needs. Beyond the basics, Daily Great scores high marks for what it includes and also what it doesn’t. Because it is an all-in-one multivitamin for dogs, it helps with:
- Hip and joint support
- Healthy skin and coat
- Probiotic digestive care
- Vitamins and minerals for general health
I worried about having to crush another vitamin or hide it in my dog’s food. Daily Great understands pet parents because their multivitamin is a tasty chewable. My dog thinks he is getting a tasty chicken-flavored chewable treat, which he is, but I have one less stressor on my plate trying to prevent a pill from being spit out.
Here are a few of our Daily Great favorite features for you to consider before adding them to your dog’s daily routine.
Made in the USA
This is a very important factor. Packing the right amount of vitamins and minerals is wonderful. However, I wouldn’t be as enthusiastic about trying Daily Great if it was made overseas.
Proper Balance of Vitamins and Minerals
Your dog relies on certain vitamins and minerals to thrive, and thankfully they are included in Daily Great. These include:
- Vitamin E for metabolism and healthy overall functioning
- Vitamin C for cognition and to protect him from harmful free radicals
- Vitamin B12 for cell reproduction and growth
- Vitamin A for immune function, vision, growth, and fetal development
- Vitamin D for healthy bones and muscles
Probiotic Digestive Aid
Your dog’s body is a combination of all sorts of bacteria. You want him to have a balanced amount of good bacteria to keep invaders and illness away. Probiotics for pets are exactly what they sound like: friendly bacteria.
I don’t want to give my dog several vitamins and supplements, so it is refreshing that Daily Great includes 5 million CFUs (colony-forming units) in the form of Bacillus coagulans. Probiotics are good for your dog’s gut health but also to support the immune system and help them through stressful times.
If you are looking for a high-quality probiotic chew, Great Pet also makes a digestive support supplement called Great Poop.
Joint Support for Dogs
The best vitamins often forget this important element, but Daily Great hits a home run with the addition of glucosamine and chondroitin. Each chew contains 250 mg of glucosamine and 50 mg of chondroitin for canine hip and joint support.
There is no cure for arthritis in pets or people, so I feel confident giving my dog a multivitamin with joint support included. My teenage pup has experienced a lifetime of impact on his bones, ligaments, and joints. He’s undergone two ligament surgeries due to his active lifestyle. In addition to cold laser treatments, he’s getting joint support in Daily Great.
Omega-3 fatty acids are a popular supplement for dogs because they can help with skin and coat health. Fish oil, for example, contains the good fats, or omega-3s. With 240 mg of omega-3 fatty acid in each chew, I don’t have to worry about rancid fish oil or measuring smelly oils.
Can I have a hallelujah? My dog will try to eat a piece of gum from the sidewalk, but he becomes a canine connoisseur when I try to hide a pill in his food. The tasty chicken-flavored Daily Great chew is simple to dispense. My dog never refuses a yummy treat, and I can’t thank Great Pet enough for this chewable format.
The number of chews dispensed daily depends on the weight of your dog. My dog gets two Daily Great chews per day based on his weight. Each container holds 120 soft chews, so you won’t need to constantly worry about running out. Bonus points for the recyclable container.
Putting the Daily Great Dog Multivitamin to the Test
As a Cocker Spaniel mom, dog lover of the highest order, and pet product expert, I’m always on high alert for products that are safe and benefit dogs. Although I’ve had experience with supplements for dogs, I’ve never used an all-in-one multivitamin with glucosamine, chondroitin, probiotics, and omega-3s, in addition to vitamins and minerals until now.
My dog is an enigma. He can be fussy about what treats are granted permission to his taste buds. He sniffed the Daily Great chew and quickly devoured it. I started him off slowly because my dog has a sensitive tummy. I broke one of the chewable multivitamins down into pieces on day one. He got one half of chew in the morning and one half at dinner without any digestive upset.
On day two, we advanced to one soft chew twice a day. Dexter gets some other medications so I decided to use the Daily Great chew as a reward for taking his medications. I also used it as a reward after our nightly teeth brushing routine. My dog actually viewed Daily Great as a high-value treat reward, so that gave me the dog mama warm fuzzies.
My pooch eats a semi-homemade diet. I’m not the world’s greatest cook, so I feed him dehydrated dog food to which I add protein. After learning dogs on a homemade diet might need vitamin support, I took comfort in knowing he now gets a twice-daily multivitamin.
I take my dog to the vet for checkups and bloodwork two to three times a year. I look forward to his blood results to be sure all of his levels are in balance. I’m a self-admitted helicopter dog mom, so I check my pup’s urine levels weekly using pH strips. He’s been in balance for years and he remains there, so Daily Great didn’t affect his urinalysis measurements.
Here’s what I liked and what you should keep in mind before starting your dog on the Daily Great dog multivitamin:
Things We Like
- Giving pills can be tedious, but Daily Great is chewable. This healthy vitamin doesn’t pack a lot of calories. Two chews clock in at 37.8 kcals.
- Eliminates the need for multiple products. The four-in-one formula ensures my dog gets exactly what he needs, and I don’t have to buy a separate probiotic, joint supplement, or omega-3 oil.
- Daily Great keeps my dog’s gut in balance. Diet is the best way to ensure your pup has a healthy gut, but my dog has some health issues and takes prescription medications. I appreciate the properly balanced probiotic inclusion.
- Daily Great crumbles easily and is chewable. One of my major pet peeves, pun intended, is when a product for dogs claims to be chewable but it is as hard as a rock. When Daily Great says chewable, they mean it.
- Travel-ready. I take pet-friendly day trips, overnight getaways, and hope to vacation again soon. Daily Great’s container is easy to travel with and completely portable. I dread plastic bags and vitamins in flimsy containers.
Things To Consider
- Would love to see an additional choice for dogs who can’t eat chicken-flavored. My dog is okay with chicken-flavored treats, but some dogs can’t eat chicken. Liver, beef, or salmon flavor would be appreciated.
- You might wish there were more chews per container. If you have multiple dogs or a big pooch, you’ll be dishing out Daily Great multivitamins more often. I’d love to see a larger size with these demographics in mind.
- Keep them out of your dog’s reach. Once your dog tastes this product, he will equate it with irresistible nom-noms. This is a good problem to have, but be sure your dog can’t access the container and its contents.
Daily Great: Our Verdict
Daily Great is the product I didn’t know my dog needed, but he’s not going to miss a dose. I was a bit leery of starting my senior dog on a multivitamin, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Although he eats premium food, gets exercise, mental stimulation, and veterinary care, I want him to be with me for years and years to come.
Having four vitamins in one sealed the deal for me. My dog enjoying Daily Great as if it was a high-value treat solidified my decision. No matter what age, breed, or size your dog is, talk to your veterinarian about including Daily Great in his diet. Here’s to your dog’s good health! | <urn:uuid:3236da84-e344-481b-aa03-7fda8ee6fcb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greatpetcare.com/dog-supplements/dog-multivitamin-daily-great/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947718 | 2,555 | 1.6875 | 2 |
” Is your elephant ready for safari?” asked a restless old lady from the crowd of tourists. She was looking anxious and worried.
” I will go after an hour. That group is leaving shortly. You can join them for safari.” replied the mahout.Â
The lady and his aged husband along with their relatives ran towards the elephant which was leaving shortly for safari.
” I have no space left as there are already more number of people sitting here. Normally four are allowed on one creature. I can’t accommodate any one” confirmed the mahout.
” How can you refuse us? We too have paid the money for safari. Make us sit or I will complain” threatened the lady.Â
The mahout didn’t want to escalate the issue so he suggested, ” Okay, Two of you can come here with us and rest two can sit on the other elephant standing next to me. We both are going together.”
Four of them pushed, shoved and jostled others to make some space for themselves. Finally they fitted in comfortably making others uneasy. The children literally gave them dirty looks as if they wanted to convey,” How can old people show this kind of stupidity?”
Poor elephants were not at all pleased with the added burden. The moment they were in the middle of the forest the old couple started talking loudly. They took out their cameras and instructed each other on how to take pictures. Mohout told them to remain quiet while doing safari as wild birds/ animals would scare away if they would make noise.
The couple was actually stupid and to me all of them were ! The way they were sitting on a docile mammal and shouting after spotting a rhino was nothing else but a stupid act. Didn’t they know the difference between a picnic and wildlife safari? They might be ignorant or uneducated.I believe today’s young generation in India is more sensitive and caring towards animals. They are doing remarkable work when it comes to rehabilitate the animals. Old nomadic tribes were indulged in a cruel act to tame the monkeys and sloth bears to train them to dance on the beats of their pallet drum? Why did they train them? Probably to earn their livelihood. That’s what they learnt from their older lot.
Wasn’t it so stupid? Lack of education and apathy towards animals I believe.
Recently I attended a presentation where the achievements of Wildlife SOS were being covered. I was impressed to see the selfless service they provided to save poor animals. An extract below can put some light on rescue of dancing beers.
According to the facts shown, “For over 400 years, the Sloth Bear had been a target for human exploitation. A nomadic tribe known as the Kalandars began ‘dancing’ sloth bears for the emperors during the Mughal era. Over centuries, as the kingdoms in India disappeared, the ‘dancing’ bear trade transitioned to become entertainment for villagers and tourists who paid to watch the bears jump in agony.”
As of 1996, our research indicated that there were more than 1200 ‘dancing’ bears scattered throughout the country. With cooperation from Government officials, and the help of our partner organizations International Animal Rescue, One Voice, Free The Bears, and others Wildlife SOS has been able to rescue and rehabilitate over 620 dancing bears. They are now living peacefully in four large natural sanctuaries across India, enjoying a life where they’ll never again have to endure such cruelty and pain.
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Visiting the City We chose the private transportation route for our two weeks in Morocco. Tangier has the closest airport, and then you can take a 3.5-hour bus ride from the CTM Tangier station to Chefchaouen followed by a taxi to the city. The bus ride from Fez is 4.5 hours.
Moreover, where in Morocco is the blue city? Chefchaouen (Arabic: شفشاون Shafshāwan [ʃəfˈʃɑːwən]; Berber languages: ⴰⵛⵛⴰⵡⵏ Ashawen), also known as Chaouen, is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name, and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue. Chefchaouen is situated just inland from Tangier and Tétouan.
In this regard, what is the blue village in Morocco? Tucked high in Morocco’s Rif Mountains, the all-blue town of Chefchaouen is a calming respite from the overwhelming frenzy of Marrakech and Fez.
People ask also, is Morocco blue city Marrakech? Morocco is a country of incredible colour and some of its cities are synonymous with specific shades. Marrakech is the red city; the sun bathes Fes in yellow light. Chefchaouen is Morocco‘s blue city and our favourite in this amazing and diverse country.
Also the question is, why is there so much blue in Morocco? Chefchaouen, or chaouen, was built in the 15th century (early 1400s), but it wasn’t until the the 1900s that it was painted blue. During that time Morocco saw a large influx of Jews as the Second World War started. For the Jews, the color blue represents the sky, which reminded people of heaven and God.
What language do they speak in Morocco?
Moroccan Arabic (known as Darija) is the spoken native vernacular. The languages of prestige in Morocco are Arabic in its Classical and Modern Standard Forms and sometimes French, the latter of which serves as a second language for approximately 33% of Moroccans.
What is the red city in Morocco?
Surrounded by a vast palm grove, the medina in Marrakech is called the “red city” because of its buildings and ramparts of beaten clay, which were built during the residence of the Almohads. The heart of the medina is Jamaa el-Fna square, a vibrant marketplace.
How safe is Morocco?
In truth, Morocco is a safe place to visit. There’s only really small crime there (scams and pickpockets) and you’re unlikely to be assaulted or seriously hurt as a tourist in the country. Morocco is super safe for tourists now.
How far is Chefchaouen from Casablanca?
The distance from Casablanca to Chefchaouen is 173 miles. The road distance is 214 miles.
What is the meaning of blue city?
A U.S. city whose municipal government is controlled by the U.S. Democratic Party. A city in the U.S. with stringent restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Is Morocco expensive for tourists?
Is travelling to Morocco expensive? Morocco is a pretty affordable travel destination. Yes, there are luxury hotels and desert camps if you are looking for a high-end experience, but that’s not the norm. The majority of Morocco’s accommodation, tours, and restaurants are all quite affordable.
Is Chefchaouen Morocco safe?
Chefchaouen is much smaller than larger cities such as Tangier making it a popular stop for off the beaten path types of tourists, and also enjoys a reputation as being one of the safest cities in Morocco.
Is Marrakech safe?
But the short answer is, yes, Marrakech is safe. Compared with the United States – for example – you are less likely to be a victim of violent crime and much less likely to be assaulted.
What language is spoken in Chefchaouen?
Spanish is the foreign language mostly spoken by the population, while French is the language of higher education.
What blue is used in Morocco?
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I’m in the classroom again, and yet I’m not. My classroom is my every-day. I am in my paradise, where I’m forever the student and forever the teacher … after all, don’t we learn from each-other’s shared experiences?
In this Grad School of Life, I have to find the answers to my own questions, as I fight the shadows of darkness. So I asked the Universe for the definition of love, and I’ve been flooded with input.
I’ve come to realize we don’t all have the same definition for the word, LOVE. That point of miscommunication really disturbs me. Why can’t we all have the same definition for the same word? How many tears would have been spared if the definition had been the same for all concerned?
Ancient Greek philosophers identified five forms of love:
- Storge _ familial love,
- Philia _ friendly love or platonic love,
- Xenia _ guest love,
- Agape _ Divine love,
- and Eros _ romantic or physical love (implies a loss of control).
… hmmm…… One of these things is not like the other …
Romantic Love is an oxymoron — it is neither romantic nor love. It is sexual and it implies a loss of self-control. Eros was considered dangerous, as it catches us at our most vulnerable. Even the Greeks did not aspire to that. It is represented in our common memory by a cherub with a bow and arrow (Ero) — once you’ve been hit by one of Cupid’s Eros (arrows), you fall in love.
Really? wouldn’t that imply that the victim of the cherub falls out of control when struck? Does that sound like something our Father would do to us? Nah, it sounds more like something THE ENEMY would force on us, while making us believe it’s what we wanted all along.
How about we define Love the same, regardless of whether it’s being used,
- by a three-year-old who loves her puppy,
- a 60-year-old who loves her grandchildren, or
- a wife who loves her husband through the later years where love is not defined by a physical activity.
According to Wikipedia, and others, Love is a range of strong emotions. It is also considered to be a virtue of humankind-ness. But somewhere along the definitions, a switch jumps in and, suddenly, love is about desire, as in the song Paradise By The Dashboard Light, by Meatloaf.
“then the feeling came upon me like a tidal wave.”
That reference is NOT what I mean when I say “I love you.” The love I feel is not something that “suddenly” comes upon me, like lust. The Compassion I feel for others is not a sexual passion, but that’s another discussion point. They’ve taken our words and played games with them; convoluted them.
Passion, etymologically, directly refers to Christ’s physical suffering on the cross. Even compassion is not what we think it is — etymologically, it directly refers to “feelings of sorrow excited by the sufferings of another.”
Maybe we can find a better way to do this.
I am reminded of Popeye, Olive Oil, Wimpy, and Bluto.
Olive Oil and her Popeye are like the Wonder Twins when they are together — a protective, symbiotic love where the two are better than the one alone.
Bluto’s love for Olive Oil, however, is one-sided — purely overpowering, manic, and sexual. Not my definition of Love.
Wimpy’s love for Hamburgers is another way we have confused the word. His love for hamburgers is passionate, yet non-sexual. It is still, however, possessive and manic _ The mirror image of Bluto, in a way.
I believe LOVE is a word of inclusion, not confusion. It is a word that means “I want the best for you as I want the best for me, I honor and respect you, and I will never try to change who you are….”
The fact that this world has taken LoVe and turned it into something we can’t fully define when speaking to a three-year-old, is a W(hi)RLD where I don’t want to live. I want to live in a world that furthers the ideal of Life (LOVE) and decides its definition is something we can discuss in front of family audiences. The love I feel for you should be a fractal of the love the Father of All feels for us.
“If I can’t define love in front of a child,
_ that’s not the love I want to discuss.
Love comes from life, Love promotes life.”
___ me, flustered by this blog attempt a few hours ago.
So, what is my definition of LOVE?
I believe Love is what I feel when I want the best life for that other person, just as you would want the best for yourself. Love promotes Life.
As Christ put it,
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the Great and First Commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments, depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:35-40
Neither of these commandments describes a situation where the one is physical with the other. Neither of these implies a complete, physical subjugation to another’s desires.
In fact, Love is more a noun than an action-verb. It is a shared emotion. Not a physical act. There’s a word for the physical act. That word is not LOVE. Making love is a euphemism, not a direct definition. It represents the man-made “perfect idea” of physical love, but the definition is not conclusive, because everyone has their own idea of perfect love.
I suggest we return to our dictionaries and find a proper definition for important words.
When I think of love, I think of the boundless love our Father, the Creator, has for us, His Creation. That would be Agape. He would want us to be happy and fulfilled in Life. He would Inspire in us an overwhelming feeling of acceptance and support.
There is really no other definition than the definition that promotes LIFE.
I will support you in your Life, without judgment or limits. Without the inclusion of confusion. Without their perversion of Christ’s suffering in His Passion, which He undertook because of His Love for us.
To tell the truth, I didn’t think this blog would be so difficult to write. I hadn’t expected the conclusions I’ve reached. Our language has been destroyed — it has been babbled by confusion, and we have innocently allowed it because we haven’t understood the motives of those who confuse us.
Once we understand what LOVE really means, the enemy will have no power over us. After all, #Love WILL Win!
I believe human Love is our attempt at finding the AGAPE Christ and our Creator have for us. Anything else is a poor substitute.
Namaste, my friends.
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Iran has again issued a NOTAM for the area around Semnan (OID51 in Arms Control Wonk’s google map). The notice to airmen was issued on Saturday, and is valid from today through Thursday, March 17.
U.S. officials, according to a Fox News report, are watching the Simorgh rocket “on the launch pad as it is being fueled at an undisclosed location inside Iran.” If this is a Simorgh launch, presumably the fueling is taking place at Imam Khomeini Space Center, where launch preparations were observed a few weeks ago, and which is covered by the above NOTAM.
Who knows if it really will get off the pad this week? NOTAMs get issued and expire all the time without a launch.
Third time’s a charm?
This is my third post on this launch, and it doesn’t look so charming. We’ve been watching for a launch for a number of weeks, but the context has changed. Last week, Iran reportedly fired a barrage of ballistic missiles from silos in central Iran. These are the first Iranian missile tests since United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 superseded Resolution 1929 in January with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA), i.e., the Iran nuclear deal, implementation.
The new language “calls on” Iran not to undertake missile activity (rather than “shall not undertake”). In the old language, the banned activity is activity “related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.” In current language, the problematic activity is that “related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.” (Emphasis added.)
As U.S. officials have made clear the administration doesn’t believe last week’s tests are a violation of the JPCOA, but instead that the tests are “inconsistent with” Resolution 2231. (That point is being used to criticize the deal by members of Congress who opposed the Iran nuclear agreement.) That’s essentially how Russia is describing it, too. The Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin stated:
A call is different from a ban so legally you cannot violate a call, you can comply with a call or you can ignore the call, but you cannot violate a call. The legal distinction is there.
However, this doesn’t mean a response isn’t imminent. The members of the UNSC are mulling unilateral sanctions and collective action. The UNSC met today (Monday, March 14) to discuss how to respond to the provocative tests. Afterwards, the U.S. Ambassador Power urged the UNSC to act despite “the quibbling we heard today about this and that,” and said that the U.S. would consider its own response.
As Greg Thielmann notes, the missiles tested last week had all been tested previously and don’t shed much light on the progress of Iran’s more capable missiles. The heat would certainly turn up should the Simorgh actually launch. The Simorgh appears designed specifically as a satellite launcher, not as a ballistic missile, although some of the technology used in it could be used for a ballistic missile. (Again, it is important to reiterate that it would take significant time to convert a satellite launcher to a ballistic missile, that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, and that Iran has not tested a heat-shielding re-entry vehicle.)
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X-ray tubes are expensive and hard to find. As a weak source of X-rays, however, almost any
vacuum tube can be used, while it is connected to a high voltage of about 20 - 40kV. (X-ray radiation is generated even with a lower voltage, but
has too low energy to penetrate the glass.) It is necessary to select a tube that can withstand the applied high voltage.
It should not arc inside or outside the
tube - terminals should therefore be sufficiently far apart and the internal electrodes too. I found it best use a high voltage diode or triode from old TV.
Suitable are for example DY86, DY87 or 1Y32T (directly heated high voltage diodes, which are intended to rectify the high voltage up to 18kV in the TV receiver).
I used DY87. As a HV supply I used a regulated supply of 5 - 50kV with current up to 1 mA. Supply is based on
IHVT (integrated high voltage transformer) from an old CRT monitor. The HV supply is powered by 12V supply and draws 5A max during the normal operation .
To test the tubes and set the appropriate voltage, the HV supply must be equipped with a measuring devices for measuring current
and voltage. For the high voltage measurements I used resistor with a value of 400M inside IHVT.
HV diode is reverse polarised, ie. cathode to the anode + and -. This is necessary because if it was connected in the forward direction, it has too small internal resistance (although it is not heated) and large current would flow. It would soon be destroyed, or the HV supply will be overloaded. The tube starts to radiate noticeably at voltages of about 30kV. At 38kV it emits much more. The best proved voltage 40kV (current is 180uA, power 7.6 W). Other pieces of the tubes may differ (different state of vacuum). If the tube is energized, it is necessary to protect everybody against radiation. I use a lead pipe with 3 mm wall thickness. Radiation is emited mostly from the hole in the pipe, and slightly in both directions of the tube axis. In none of these three directions anybody should be located when the tube is connected to high voltage. Axis directions should be shielded with additional shilds. The entire experiment should also be shielded.
The presence of a stronger X-ray radiation can be detected with a digital camera. CCD is slightly sensitive to x-ray. If the camera is exposed to radiation, image will contain randomly distributed dots. For better visibility of dots the lens is covered. If you record video the same way, video will contain randomly appearing dots (see video below). Caution ! If dots do not appear, it is not a guarantee that there is no radiation! Radiation is not strong enough to create a fluoroscopic images observed using digital camera even with a long shutter, but it could be used to expose the film. Exposure time would probably have to be in the order of a few minutes. | <urn:uuid:fef3f334-fff8-4217-96d8-45c97c249905> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://danyk.cz/rtg_en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944906 | 650 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Successful Real Estate Investment Strategy
Barring the existence of said crystal ball, the best way to predict the future when investing is to employ some sort of strategy. For the seasoned property investor the question is certainly about what they are investing in- but as important, is where they are investing.
So what factors should you look at when looking to invest in property?
The common denominator
There are fundamentals to consider, no matter where you are looking: “There are many fundamentals for property investors to consider when looking at investment properties. Sometimes investors will invest with their heart or based on what they believe will happen without looking at many of the underlying aspects.”
“The biggest factors to consider are the housing market, population growth, the job numbers and employment levels, up-and-coming industries, education, average income, infrastructure in the area, the political leadership of the city and province, and so on.”
Also, and perhaps most importantly, property investors must consider local factors that will affect the value of their property.
Identification of Property
Beyond the where of property investment, it also is advisable to look at opportunities in terms of what kind of property offers the best return on investment.
Part of a successful strategy is not only picking a location poised for growth, but of having an awareness of the needs of the local market, and of the associated properties.
It’s not only about looking in the right locations; it is about keeping your ear to the ground, and knowing what to look for. It’s about keeping connected with the community, and identifying “diamond in the rough” opportunities.
“If you see student housing market. Not many of investors recognize that Universities are increasing student capacity annually but is not doing anything about residences. The off-campus housing market, therefore, is booming. But we have to be diligent and ensure the safety of the kids while simultaneously ensuring investors receive a better than average ROI (currently 4-8%, sometimes as high as 10%).”
The good news for property investors is that there is ample opportunity to get in to markets that are poised to grow, and promise investment growth as well. we have looked at various markets across ontario like Motels, Bed & Breakfast, or Investment in Apartment or Multi Residentials industry – and at some common threads between them and, in no particular order, here are a few that have been deemed by authorities in the industry as areas to keep on the radar. This list is by no means an exhaustive one, merely a snapshot of what is happening across the country at present.
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Mythology and Symbolism
In Indian mythology, the cosmic ocean was once churned by the Devas (the divine beings) and the Asuras (the demons), whose collective strength was needed to extract the divine nectar. The mount Mandara was used as the churning pole and the snake Vasuki was used as the churning rope. It is said that Lord Vishnu took the avatar of a tortoise (Kurma) to support mount Mandara.
The churning of the ocean, as one can imagine, is a cataclysmic event. Many things divine and deadly emerged from the churning. The tortoise was unflinching in the presence of it all.
2. The Pose
Kurmasa or the tortoise pose comes in the 1st series of Ashtanga Yoga. It is a challenging pose and requires a good deal of flexibility. Its variant, Supta Kurmasana, or the reclining tortoise (i.e. the tortoise with limbs withdrawn) pose, is even more challenging. It requires one to relax and let go of panic even when one is in a bound up and contorted posture. It symbolizes the equanimity of Lord Vishnu when there is cataclysm around.
Moving from Kurmasana to Supta Kurmasana symbolizes the withdrawl from sense objects. This is denoted by the 5th limb of Ashtanga Yoga called Pratyahara. Pratyahara -Prati (weaning) + Aahara (food)- is the weaning away of food for the senses. The Yoga sutras 2.54 and 2.55 talk about Pratyahara. This withdrawl of the senses is significant in that, yoga, at that point becomes an internal practice from an external one.
When the senses lose contact with their own sense objects and act as if there are resembling the true nature of the mind, it is called Pratyahara.
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Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 652: Strongyloides stercoralis L3 (filariform) larvae.
As nicely described by Luis, "We can see in photo 2 an esophagus almost as long as the intestine, the tail is sharp and has notches (photo 3)."
The notches are classic and can be seen in both the the Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stained preparation and wet prep (inset), (arrows).
The ZN stain had been performed to screen for acid fast bacilli (AFB). AFBs would stain bright red with the carbol fuchsin dye, whereas the larva is only stained here with the methylene blue counter stain.
This case goes well with last week's, in which we saw L1 (rhabditiform) larvae of S. stercoralis.
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Things We Love
We all need each other. No matter how isolated a writer, he or she is part of a tradition stretching back to storytellers who sat around a fire telling tales to the tribe.
We are also in a fellowship of living artists and writers who bring the contents of the unconscious and the imagination to life in a world that often turns their back on deeper, richer experiences that art points to.
I also needed to learn how to write book and movie reviews, school papers and poetry– which even when I started at age 7 I had already read Romeo and Juliet and the poetry of Walt Whitman. I read a huge number of plays before I wrote one. I also learned how to write a good speech (believe it or not, thank you Joseph Goebbels who whipped the crowds up before Hitler spoke. I know he was evil incarnate, but he was also a hypnotic speaker.)
I needed to learn a library of books to write my novel (first draft).
So here is our section of the books and web sites that have helped us learn what we have learned.
We would love to hear from you about books, audio programs, literature classes, web sites and conversations you have had that have helped you better create your art/ writing. | <urn:uuid:506268bd-3f37-4103-9145-8e5d6f2e680b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.writersblock.org/things-we-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979755 | 260 | 1.914063 | 2 |
As we move ahead in our life we are working continuously to earn more n more so that we can provide ourselves and our family a comfortable life and while doing that we accumulate a certain amount of assets and wealth. During our life we are there to manage our finance and take care of our assets while adding them, however, we need to think who is going to take care of them when we are not around us due to incapacity or death. Hence, we need to plan our estate ahead of time so that our assets and our family are protected. The estate includes all your belongings such as cash, clothes, jewelry, cars, houses, land, insurance policies, stocks, investments and savings accounts, etc.
Estate Planning Process-
An estate planning is a procedure of transferring one’s assets to another person/ persons called beneficiaries as per the desire of the former. It is done to have an assurance that after your death your wishes are being carried out, your property will be with your family without any dispute or legal interference and ensure privacy of your property. Apart from this, it also lets you pay the least amount of taxes on your estate and also if one has minor children, he/she can assign a guardian for them as well. So, one has to plan this ahead of time to avoid the situation that the New York courts do the same according to the Estates, Powers and Trusts Law (EPTL).
Estate planning is a very complex process and thus before doing it, you must understand the process very carefully and sensibly before executing each step. Below we have summarized steps involved in the estate planning process:
1. Calculate your assets and debts: The first and foremost step while estate planning is to calculate what is the whole property that you own and what is that you owe from someone that includes various account details, loan details, life insurance, interest and more. You need to calculate your net worth by subtracting liabilities from assets. The list so maintained should be kept securely along with all the documents of the concerned accounts. After calculating the net worth you must check if it is accountable for federal and state estate taxes. If it is not liable to taxes, you need to plan your estate as per your personal situation and to take care of you if you ever become non-viable or die.
2. Consider your monetary needs: If you die without a plan, your family might go to probate to get your property which can be a money and time-wasting process depending on the state you live in apart from the taxes that your property is liable to (if applicable). Hence, you must ensure that your estate must be planned ahead of time to assign beneficiary of your choice, avoiding the probate and your representative in case of your incapability.
3. Consider the needs of your loved ones: Your personal situation must also be considered. If you own a blended family or minor children or you are single, etc., you must ensure the balanced distribution of the assets while avoiding probate. If you have children below the age of 18 or children/relatives with special needs, you need to appoint a guardian to take their responsibility and a trust or conservator to provide monthly funds.
4. Asset protection: An important aspect of estate planning is to protect your assets by minimizing expenses and taxes. Your estate plan must be strategically so designed to transferring your assets in such a way which avoid dispute and taxes. You can opt for a trust or a contractual transfer in such cases as they will meet your goal while protecting your assets.
5. Pen down your wishes: Whatever you have planned for your estate, it must be legally documented to be an official else verbal announcement or communication will not help you later. The documents include a will to declare your wishes for dispensing property, a living will that states your end-of-life wishes, financial and healthcare power of attorney to handle your financial and medical affairs while you are unable to do so on your own. Apart from these, you must designate beneficiaries in your life insurance policies, retirement or saving accounts, etc. so that they will reach where you want them to, after your demise.
Also, you must ensure to review these documents regularly and update them according to your current life.
6. Fiduciaries designation: To execute your estate plan, you need some representatives of your choice who are trustworthy and can act on your behalf responsibly in your absence such as an executor mentioned in your will, trustee, custodian of your minor or special need dependents, personal representative of your power of attorney in case of you become non-viable. You must ensure that they are willing to take the responsibility bestowed on them, and they are aware of it as well. Also, they must know the location of your estate planning documents. Fiduciaries can be a close friend, family member, corporate trustee, etc. Also, you must mention at least two representatives in every document so that if due to any reason the first person is unable to take the responsibility or is dead, then there is the other one to do that else the matter will go to probate and the representative is chosen by the court according to the proceedings.
Irrespective of your age, the value of your estate, your marital status, etc., every person must plan their estate. If you don’t, you and your family might have to face a severe impact at the unexpected events. Hence, you can secure your family, estate and yourself by managing your assets properly while alive or after death. We advise you to seek help from an estate planning lawyer and start planning now to live a peaceful and relaxed life. | <urn:uuid:7ce747e7-8d2d-4744-854a-3d294af66fb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nearmepersonalinjurylawyer.com/estate-planning-process-step-by-step-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960368 | 1,150 | 1.851563 | 2 |
You may notice a bright green wedge of lime floating in your icy gin and tonic or notice the sprinkle of luminous green zest over your creamy key lime pie, but what you may not realise is the array of health benefits that the lime contains. From powerful vitamin C to digestive benefits, lime has a number of nutrients and compounds to help keep you on top form. Keep reading to discover our Top 5 Health Benefits of Lime!
1. Vitamin C
The benefits of vitamin C are almost endless; this includes immune boosting, skin health, bone health, eye health, cell protection and healthy blood vessels. Limes are packed with vitamin C, making it a great fruit to include in your diet, especially through the winter months to help boost your immunity to colds and flu.
Due to their acidity, limes actually help increase saliva, which in turn helps break down your foods. In addition to this, the flavonoids in lime help stimulate digestive juices. Try squeezing some of its juice into a glass of water after dinner as an effective digestive hack.
Limes are rich in phytonutrients, the main one being limonoids, which is responsible for the lime’s bitter taste. Studies show that these limonoids help fight certain cancers. Limonoids help reduce cholesterol levels, which would by the same token decrease the risk of other major health problems.
4. Breathe easy!
You may have heard that lime oil is commonly used in the production of inhalers and other breathing aids. It’s shown to relieve respiratory problems and thought that even zesting the lime and smelling the fresh scent will temporarily relieve many respiratory-related symptoms you may suffer.
5. Helps arthritic conditions
Limes are thought to contain an acid that helps break down and dissolve uric acid which is a compound that builds up in your body and is often the cause of arthritic conditions such as gout. In addition, the anti-inflammatory benefits of this citrus fruit can also help relieve arthritic symptoms too.
Try not to limit your lime intake to that one-off gin and tonic. Why not include them in recipes such as homemade guacamole, desserts and smoothies? Limes usually go hand in hand with lemons so be sure to check out the health and other lemon benefits too. Now you can combine the best of both of these bright orb powerhouses for the ultimate citrus health boost! How do you use lime? Tell us below or @KeepfitKingdom ! | <urn:uuid:abd17026-7610-47b0-b928-f0b9e065daac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keepfitkingdom.com/top-5-health-benefits-of-lime/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942482 | 530 | 2.25 | 2 |
Donation Thank you for considering making a donation to the Feeling Together podcast. Your donation is not tax deductible. It is, however, for a great cause! The advancement of our social discourse and progress depends on our capacity to feel more than it does to think and reason. Our minds filters out or distorts information it considers threatening to our self concept. In order for to have the capacity to explore information that feels threatening to who we believe we are, we need to have emotional literacy and emotional regulation skills. We will not hold and process that which we can not contain. Children learn from a young age to discount and ignore feelings. The receive messages from their family and society about how to do that. Essentially, we tend to see feelings as a sign of weakness rather than a strength. In reality feelings are a strength and it seems we need them now more than ever. Not only are we living in a society that invites us to discount feelings, we also are living in a time in which it is easy to distort and spread information in the forms of text, photos, and videos. When we tune in to our emotions (and intuition) we are better prepared to discern fact from fiction. Feeling Together is dedicated to helping families learn emotional literacy and emotional regulation skills. We want to change the way people feel and feelings. We want to help people learn the power and value of feeling TOGETHER. You can help by making a donation below. Thank you for your time and consideration. | <urn:uuid:3ecabe8b-77ff-4dfd-90bc-273e772ad253> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dremilykeller.com/donation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956338 | 298 | 1.921875 | 2 |
#10: Nicholas Gruner and John Vennari
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A worldwide campaigner for donations and for votes to sway the "popes" in the Vatican, Nicholas Gruner tried to introduce the idea of "democracy" into the Catholic consciences of millions.
He and John Vennari are Traitors (bottoming out the list) since they refused to recognize that Pope Gregory XVII endured a life of restraints as a Prisoner Pope.
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Hemoglobin and hematocrit exams are the most generally used measures to display screen sufferers for iron deficiency, even though they’re neither sensitive nor specific . Often, hemoglobin concentrations are combined with serum ferritin measurements to establish IDA .
The IOM notes that because the median consumption of dietary iron by pregnant girls is properly below the EAR, pregnant ladies want iron supplementation . The Dietary Guidelines for Americans advises that ladies who are pregnant take an iron supplement when really helpful by an obstetrician or different well being-care supplier . It provides that low intakes of iron are a public health concern for pregnant girls.
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However, an evaluation of NHANES data on 574 adults with self-reported heart failure found no affiliation between iron deficiency and all-cause or cardiovascular mortality . In a suggestion statement issued in 2015, the USPSTF concluded that the out there proof is inadequate to advocate for or against routine screening for IDA in kids ages 6 to 24 months who reside within the United States and who’re asymptomatic for IDA . It added that this recommendation doesn’t apply to severely malnourished kids or kids who were born prematurely or with low birthweight. The USPSTF’s 2015 assertion notes that its current suggestion is limited to screening because the widespread use of iron-fortified meals in the United States would doubtless limit the influence of iron supplementation prescribed by physicians . | <urn:uuid:c8f93997-e5d7-4266-bbd2-23af339ffbef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fitbottomedgirls.xyz/category/beauty-women/female-daily | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.939808 | 315 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Paradise Flowers is the name of this summer's plant trend. With beautiful, colourful and exotic plants, you can transform your home into a virtual tropical paradise
In the wake of a financial crisis and a few harsh winters, consumers are now yearning for distant climes and real beauty. Jakob Søndergaard, director and lecturer at pej gruppen, expands on the content and possibilities of the trend:
"The consumer is looking for the beautiful sides of nature, in the form of exotic plants, abundant bird life, coral and island paradises, and there is a desire to bring these scenarios into the home," he explains, and continues:
"The focus is not Scandinavian, but is rather inspired by the tropical island paradises of the Pacific, and ranges in colour terms from turquoise and mint to yellow, orange and red. So a tropical expression is sought in Danish flowers and plants, which are styled like oases or colourful floral arrangements in the home. "
Naturalness and beauty
With natural beauty and authenticity as the foundations of the trend, the plants are supplemented by bases with the same look. These might include palm stems or fronds, pot covers or dishes with a sandy structure or braided (natural) materials.
"The trend emphasises creating a calm exterior. So if, for example, a ceramic base is used, it is the inner side that should be coloured - like a mother-of-pearl shell washed up on a beach."
Kick-start your holiday
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Making shared decision-making (SDM) a reality: protocol of a large-scale long-term SDM implementation programme at a Northern German University Hospital
Rueffer, J. U.
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Shared decision-making (SDM) is not yet widely used when making decisions in German hospitals. Making SDM a reality is a complex task. It involves training healthcare professionals in SDM communication and enabling patients to actively participate in communication, in addition to providing sound, easy to understand information on treatment alternatives in the form of evidence-based patient decision aids (EbPDAs). This project funded by the German Innovation Fund aims at designing, implementing and evaluating a multicomponent, large-scale and integrative SDM programme—called SHARE TO CARE (S2C)—at all clinical departments of a University Hospital Campus in Northern Germany within a 4-year time period.
Methods and analysis
S2C tackles the aforementioned components of SDM: (1) training physicians in SDM communication, (2) activating and empowering patients, (3) developing EbPDAs in the most common/relevant diseases and (4) training other healthcare professionals in SDM coaching. S2C is designed together with patients and providers. The physicians’ training programme entails an online and an in situ training module. The decision coach training is based on a similar but less comprehensive approach. The development of online EbPDAs follows the International Patient Decision Aid Standards and includes written, graphical and video-based information. Validated outcomes of SDM implementation are measured in a preintervention and postintervention evaluation design. Process evaluation accompanies programme implementation. Health economic impact of the intervention is investigated using a propensity-score-matched approach based on potentially preference-sensitive hospital decisions. | <urn:uuid:3c4e9503-9b8c-45c7-9849-66fdc01bb4e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hsm.bwl.uni-muenchen.de/pubdb/art_jour_i/2020_02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.85132 | 523 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The birth of a social movement
In Brazil, middle and upper class families send their children to private schools, including but not restricted to religious schools. Public schools commonly offer a sub-standard learning experience to students: classrooms are overcrowded, buildings are old and not well maintained, teachers are underpaid, and there is a lack of libraries, labs and sports facilities. Most public school classrooms still have old blackboards and school equipment is often missing. São Paulo is the wealthiest among Brazil’s twenty-seven states and territories. The state government administers 5,585 public primary and high schools that are attended by nearly four million working-class children.
It is in this chaotic context that the São Paulo state government decided to re-engineer the education system. The rationale behind the reforms was ‘process optimisation’, which roughly translates to efficiency based on numbers, cost reduction, specialisation, and allegedly, better use of spaces and of the workforce. The ‘restructuring’ of the state school system would mean the closure of ninety-four schools, an unknown number of teacher redundancies, and the relocation of more than 310,000 students to schools far from where they live, in neighbourhoods where there is no public transport system.
Schools would enrol students within specific age groups (i.e. six to ten, eleven to fourteen, and fifteen to eighteen). Every school would feel the impact of this restructure as even the ones that remain open will have to enrol many more students in their already overcrowded classrooms.
This plan, which was scheduled to start in 2016, was conceived without any consultation whatsoever with school communities. The pedagogical science behind these major changes has been summarised in a nineteen-page report that has been thoroughly contested by all state universities, based on the idea that schools would perform better if young children were separated from mid-teens, and mid-teens separated from older teenagers – an idea with no scientific evidence to back it up.
It is clear to all stakeholders that this reorganisation is the first phase of a major restructure that intends to transfer the public education system to private providers. This process of privatisation is already under way in other Brazilian states such as Goiás and Parana, which are under the same conservative government that has ruled São Paulo for the last twenty years.
As soon as communities learned of the restructuring and the consequent student dislocations and school closures, the students at first – and then teachers and parents – began to resist and to organise. They felt totally excluded by a decision that would profoundly affect their lives; they did not want to be forced to change to other schools nor for the government to close down the schools that represent the history of their communities and the location of their only social ties. Through discussions of the government’s proposal, students realised that the consequences would be disastrous to their already precarious learning quality: classrooms would be even more overcrowded and teachers overloaded. On top of that, many schools not scheduled for closure were set to lose funding for their night classes and other special education courses for young adults.
Beginning in October, the students organised meetings, petitions and demonstrations. They tried to open a conversation with the state education department. But they received no response. São Paulo state governor Geraldo Alckmin was re-elected by a wide margin a year earlier. His government appeared to be in a position to implement changes with no contestation from the public. The state’s teachers had maintained a two-month long strike that ended without the salary increase they were demanding and an apparent win for the government. However, the governor had no idea the extent of student dissatisfaction – or of their capacity to fight for their rights.
Some of the students had already tested their collective power when they participated in major demonstrations against bus fee increases in June 2013. These protests started in São Paulo, within the public high schools to be precise, and changed the face of the country through a wave of mobilisation and social activism.
On 9 November, when students realised that the government would not open any dialogue with them, they began to occupy their schools. What started with a handful of schools rapidly became a powerful movement of more than 200 occupied schools around the state. Parents and teachers camped out the front and lawyers gave advice. More than 1,200 people have been working voluntarily delivering classes to the students within in the occupied spaces.
The mobilisation attracted the support of TV personalities and musicians, intellectuals, a few members of the courts, the teachers’ union and social activist organisations. Even the mainstream media, which is usually loyal to the state government, published articles empathising with the students’ cause.
The students who are demonstrating are very young. Most of them are between fifteen to eighteen years of age, but there are students as young as twelve who are engaged in the movement as well. They come from working-class low-income families, with many of the students already working part-time, with black students and young women well-represented. These young people are redrawing the face of Brazilian political activism.
Students engaged in the Occupy Schools movement have been politically inspired by their Argentinean and Chilean counterparts who used these tactics during their 2006 and 2011 revolts against government plans to privatise public education. Using these experiences as political background, students have organized themselves in a democratic manner, without hierarchies or leadership; they have formed their own daily assemblies and put together committees to clean the schools, to cook, to take care of school security, and to organise social and educational activities for each school.
The level of organisation, creativity and learning that has been shown within the occupied schools is amazing. The students are cleaning, renovating and painting, mowing the lawn, and even gardening. They are doing the maintenance of the schools – something that the state has not provided for many years. When opening the schools’ storage rooms, they often found dozens of books and other pedagogical materials that should have been distributed to them but instead were relegated to oblivion. As they clean, they are also documenting what they find; they are very angry with their principals who have denied them access to materials that were rightfully theirs.
Every school has put together a daily agenda with workshops and open classes. There are sports tournaments and cultural activities such as theatre productions, concerts and political debates. On the weekends, teachers, intellectuals and artists visit the schools and even schools located far away from the city are holding cultural and sports activities.
And so these schools, which had always been surrounded by high fences and walls that were dirty and not well-maintained, have become colourful spaces full of life and meaningful activities: debates on gender, racism, student politics and the environment, movies screenings, dance, capoeira, drama and circus workshops, poetry soirees, book exchanges, video workshops, yoga, skateboarding, painting and music, classes in English language, writing and history. Yes, students are studying during the occupation, but with a different and much more engaging approach. They are making the decisions.
On social media, it is possible to read student diaries that describe and comment on life inside the occupied schools; their videos, drawings, cartoons, song parodies and choir performances are also viewable online (see for example the Facebook pages of two of the occupied schools, Ocupação: Ana Rosa and Ocupa Romeu). All of these things are moving expressions of learning, conviviality and collective life, supplemented by creativity and high-level thinking skills. The students make decisions together, they respect each other’s right to talk – and they have a lot to say.
Schools in São Paulo will never be the same after these last few weeks.
A winnable war
Throughout all of this, the students have had to face a ‘guerrilla war’ propagated by the São Paulo Department of Education against each occupied school. This ‘war’ began with misinformation broadcast through communities and mainstream media: claims that students were destroying schools, taking drugs and being manipulated by extremist groups. School principals threatened families and circulated rumours that students who had participated in the protests would be prevented from finishing their school year and face punitive repercussions. School principals and other state officials gathered people in front of the schools to intimidate the students. State military police were called and used extreme violence against the students inside the school premises, many of the students were under sixteen years of age. In some communities, violent groups were assembled to threaten students and break into the schools, stealing equipment and destroying offices and buildings, then later blaming students for the violations.
As well as resisting inside the schools, at the end of November the students decided to occupy the streets of the city. Their motto ‘street lesson’ quickly spread through the population, where there has been widespread support for the students. Each day around the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, several very busy central streets were blocked at different times. Students also occupied the Department of Education offices in regional cities far from the capital. Military police used high levels of violence to contain these street demonstrations, while deceptively painting the students as delinquents.
The state government thought the population would turn their backs on the students due to the huge traffic jams caused by the demonstrations. However, with the fast online circulation of pictures and movies showing police brutality against teenagers fighting for better education, community support for the students grew even stronger.
Finally, on 4 December, after twenty-five days of school occupations and streets protests, the São Paulo government decided to postpone its school restructure and the education minister and his chief of staff were dismissed. The students have continued the occupations, as they still want to see their other demands met: specifically, they want a plan to improve public education and a clear schedule of meetings with authorities to discuss the quality of their education and the future of the schools restructure.
But these young Paulistas are already winners. They confronted and defeated a conservative government that looked unbeatable after twenty years in power. Most of all, they’ve renewed social hope in a country that is currently undergoing a serious economic and political crisis.
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|GDP (US$ bn; market exchange rate)||22,996||Real GDP growth||1.4|
|GDP (US$ bn; PPP)||22,996||Real domestic demand growth||1.8|
|GDP per head (US$; market exchange rate)||69,075||Inflation||2.0|
|GDP per head (US$; PPP)||69,075||Current-account balance (% of GDP)||-2.5|
|Nominal effective exchange rate||111.9||FDI inflows (% of GDP)||1.5|
Background: The US has the highest output in the world, with GDP valued at US$23trn in 2021. The economy experienced record economic expansion in 2010-19, yet income inequality widened over the same period, and the costs of core services like healthcare and education have risen steeply. In 2020 the US economy experienced its deepest recession since the 1930s, shrinking by 3.4%, although this was still a better outturn than in many other OECD economies.
Political structure: Powers are constitutionally divided between the executive, legislative and judicial branches, and between the federal and state governments. The president heads the executive branch. The federal legislature (Congress) consists of a House of Representatives (the lower house), members of which are elected from constituencies based on population, and a Senate (the upper house), members of which are elected state-wide (two per state). The president is elected every four years and House members every two years. Senators serve a six-year term, with one-third elected at each congressional election.
Policy issues: The administration of the president, Joe Biden, will attempt sweeping policy changes in 2021-24. Mr Biden aims to re-engage with US allies, particularly in Europe, and with multilateral institutions such as NATO. Domestically, Mr Biden's policy priorities will be to reduce domestic social inequality, strengthen environmental protections and invest in low-carbon industries such as renewable energy. However, rapid inflation in 2023 will limit Congress's appetite for major spending bills. The US-China strategic rivalry will deepen, spilling over into technology and finance.
Taxation: Personal tax rates are low compared with other OECD economies. Corporate tax rates fell sharply under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, although deductions meant that previous rates appeared artificially high. Tax jurisdiction is a complex web between the federal government, the states, and local counties and municipalities. Sales tax varies from state to state. Mr Biden aims to raise taxes on corporations and wealthy households, but divisions in Congress will preclude any major changes.
Foreign trade: The merchandise trade account (balance-of-payments basis) recorded a deficit of US$1.1trn in 2021, and the current-account deficit was equivalent to 3.6% of GDP. The Biden administration will drop some tariffs, but will seek to protect US firms from unfair foreign competition. Tariff and non-tariff barriers will focus on China.
|Main exports 2021||% of total||Main imports 2021||% of total|
|Industrial supplies & materials||36.2||Capital goods (excl automotive)||26.9|
|Capital goods (excl automotive)||29.6||Consumer goods (non-food), excl automotive||27.1|
|Consumer goods (non-food), excl automotive||12.6||Industrial supplies & materials||23.0|
|Automotive vehicles, engines & parts||8.2||Automotive vehicles, engines & parts||12.3|
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Try or Try Not. There Is No Do.
Changing your child’s vocabulary towards hard things
Yoda said “Do or do not. There is no try.” He was wrong. Sorry, Yoda. There is ONLY try.
So so often, the language our little learners use towards the things they are trying to do, gives them the wrong expectations for themselves. If we tell ourselves that we must do something, and then that something doesn’t happen right away, if feels like failure. And feeling like a failure is not fun.
Music should be fun! But practicing can be hard. And definitely frustrating. We need to change the vocabulary around students’ learning in a way that promotes continued learning in the way that actual learning works.
Success = Progress
We all know that hard things take time. But it’s easy to lose sight of that along the way. The first vocab shift that I encourage in my students is “progress” instead of “success.”
That old saying that “practice makes perfect” leaves a whole lot out. It leaves out all those days when you aren’t quite perfect yet, even though you practiced your butt off. It leaves out the forgetting that happens each night and the re-learning that happens each subsequent day that leads to stronger memories and deeper learning. It leaves out all the tiny, tiny steps that you take towards your goal.
I want my students to learn how to break big goals down into manageable parts. (Music lessons teaching Life Skills, FTW!) Focusing on the progress made, rather than how “successful” a student was, is important and leads to healthier practicing habits. It teaches a student to enjoy the growing, to focus on the learning, and to set reasonable and achievable goals.
Mistakes = Opportunities
Hand-in-hand with focusing on progress, is viewing mistakes as opportunities. When a student tries something and finds it challenging, I celebrate with them the opportunity to learn a new thing. After all, I remind them, I would be out of a job if all my students did everything right on the first try!
Mistakes are also clues to what is happening in your brain. Your fingers can’t talk to you and tell you what they know. They can only show you. So we need to play a little detective when we practice to figure out what things our fingers still need to learn. Encourage your learner to make those mistakes! I’ll even tell my students that I don’t want them to play their song perfectly. Play really fast! Let your fingers really show you what they know- and what they don’t- so you know where those opportunities for growth are.
Failure = Giving Up
I think that even more important than the previous two vocabulary changes is substituting “failure” with “giving up.” When I have a student who would throws up their hands after a mistake and declares that they failed, I ask them “Are you giving up?” And when they decide that no, they aren’t, we celebrate. If you’re not giving up, you’re not failing. You’re growing.
Hard = Not Learned Yet
What does it mean when something is hard? Often, for a young student “hard” translates to “I can’t do it.” When a student says something is hard, it implies a permanence that can’t be overcome. When something feels hard, all it really means is “I can’t do it YET.” Hard things are just things we haven’t learned yet. So I encourage all my students to change “hard” to “unlearned,” so they internalize that the hardness is temporary.
Easy = Learned!
Likewise, when a student says something is “easy,” they are again attributing a permanence to that and ignoring all the work that went into learning. Just like it’s important to see the potential learning that needs to be done with “hard” things, our students need to see all the great work that they’ve done to get a skill to the point where it feels easy. It shows them what they’re capable of. It allows them to see themselves as accomplishers of challenging things. And it empowers them to tackle future as-yet-unlearned skills.
Frustration = Not having a plan
Ah frustration. When I was little and learning to play piano, I would get so frustrated that I would scream and kick the piano. My mother wasn’t very amused by this. And I don’t recommend it as a practice strategy. Frustration is the killer of so many well-laid practicing plans. And, left to fester, it can lead to a child wanting to quit their music studies entirely.
But what is frustration? It means that the student really desperately wants to do well. It means that they are angry with themselves for making a mistake. It means that they are overwhelmed and just don’t have a plan for overcoming the challenges.
All of those things- with the exception of the lack of a plan- are good! Desperately wanting to do well is awesome! Wanting yourself to do better is absolutely fine! Neither of those things should stand in a student’s way of progress. Especially because developing a plan for growth is actually the teacher’s (or guardian’s) job!
Young learners (ages 5 to 11) are often not quite developmentally ready to do this for themselves. They need someone to guide them through the steps- to show them what those steps should be. And older learners need to be taught the tools for developing their own plan. But first we need to change all students’ vocabularies so they understand that frustration isn’t a problem, it’s just the lack of a plan. And that we will help them get there.
Do = Try
We all like to do well and see ourselves as successful. When we, as teachers/adults/caregivers, ask our little learners to “do” something, so often they hear that as “do it right on the first try.” Doing implies completion. And that little word can be a big burden. And anyway, music isn’t learned by doing, it’s learned by trying. And trying. And trying some more. And never giving up even when it doesn’t seem certain that it’ll ever be learned. This takes confidence and it takes positive, productive self-talk. Try or try not. There is no “do” without “try” first. | <urn:uuid:f48bcc81-0430-4370-9c36-5d804fb5dfdb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lewiscentermusicologie.com/try-or-try-not-there-is-no-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964487 | 1,425 | 3.375 | 3 |
Wrapper to the Faddeeva Package by Steven G. Johnson
The Faddeeva package provides C++ code to compute the various error functions of arbitrary complex arguments, in particular the Faddeeva function, error function, complementary error function, scaled complementary error function and imaginary error function as well as the Dawson function. With these, Voigt functions, Fresnel integrals and more can be computed.
The package was created to provide a fast implementation of the Voigt lineshape, formally defined as the convolution between a Lorentzian and a Gaussian. The imaginary part of the Faddeeva function, properly scaled, provides directly the result.
This package also results in a nice example for creating Rcpp wrappers for a small and self-contained C++ library, in this case a single header file along with a single code file. | <urn:uuid:6a8bfdf4-bb30-4d3f-9280-5b4c9ccd6998> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://nano-optics.ac.nz/rcppfaddeeva/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.877265 | 180 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The United States faces a peculiar housing quandary.
According to Freddie Mac, in 2020, we were short 3.8 million homes. That's a deficit of one full New York City. And the hole is getting bigger. Land isn't the problem. Less than 5% of the country is built up, a small fraction of Europe's housing footprint. The problem is that not enough homes are being built.
President Joe Biden has put housing at the top of his pile of priorities. In June, the White House came up with a laundry list of efforts to address the shortage, from providing incentives for states and localities to relax zoning restrictions to deploying money from the 2021 COVID rescue package toward affordable housing and investing to maintain public housing that is falling into disrepair.
But for all the oomph the president and his advisers hope to signal, the laundry list is not up to the task. "Small carrots," noted Gilles Duranton, an economist who specializes in real estate at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. The administration, he added, is "chasing trillions with billions."
America faces a housing shortage mainly because existing homeowners don't want anybody to build more homes — at least not in their vicinity. And they have the power to bend the political system to their will. Think of the state referenda and city council meetings that put caps on building heights, impose green spaces around new construction and require that homes sit on a minimum of as much as two acres — enough space to raise a couple of cows.
These restrictions raise building costs and hence the price of housing, pushing it above the means of young families and other first-time homebuyers. Current homeowners know that if the restrictions went away, the price of their homes would fall.
Research on the greater Boston area by economists at the University of Warwick, the University of Toronto and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found that the number of housing units rises sharply when density constraints are relaxed — whether by allowing more multifamily buildings, relaxing height limits or simply allowing building on smaller lots. Rents in multifamily buildings fall as much as $144 a month for each new unit added due to the new rules.
The problem is that the value of single-family homes also falls, in part because the added housing weighs on perceived neighborhood quality: House prices drop by 9.17% per unit when density regulations are relaxed and multifamily homes are allowed. "While lowering housing costs through zoning reforms may help first-time homebuyers and lower-income renters," the economists wrote, "it comes at the expense of — and thus will likely generate substantial political opposition from — current homeowners."
What will it take to reduce the opposition? Homeowners can be bribed. Or, to put it in a nicer way, they might relent if they are made whole, compensated for the declining value of their homes. The problem is that such a bribe would cost much more money than the American political system seems willing to tolerate.
Duranton and the Spanish economist Diego Puga tried to get their heads around this amount by putting a price tag on the regulations that limit housing construction in more than 100 cities across the U.S. Using 2010 data, they took the value of farmland near city borders, which had not been subjected to zoning limits and other municipal regulations, and added the typical local construction costs for single-family homes plus a gross profit for the developer of 17%.
Then they compared this number with the market price of a similar house in the city. The difference, averaging about $100,000 per home (up to half a million dollars in cities such as San Francisco and San Jose, California), amounts to the cost of regulations. Multiplying that by the number of homes in urban America produced a staggering total cost of $12 trillion. The price of our NIMBY housing politics.
This number comes from more than 10 years ago, when the housing market was still reeling from its 2008 implosion. Today, the price tag is probably much larger. Say we decide that half of the housing restrictions make some sense, perhaps from an environmental perspective, the unnecessary half would have cost homeowners $6 trillion, somewhat less than half a year's worth of gross domestic product.
Compare that with the most expensive policy in the federal government's housing arsenal: the mortgage interest deduction. In 2017, before it was slashed as part of President Donald Trump's tax reform, it was worth just $66 billion. And nothing in the Biden administration's current list of initiatives is even near that large.
Can something be done on the cheap? The kind of competitive grant process envisioned by the Biden administration to encourage municipalities to loosen housing restrictions, at a cost of a couple of billion dollars, might encourage more building in, say, Dallas — where regulations are relatively lax and housing is already comparatively cheap. But to spark a building boom in the super-expensive cities will require real money.
In 2018, Minneapolis became the first city to loosen single-family zoning and allow two- and three-unit houses on some land previously zoned for single-family use. Berkeley and Sacramento, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as the state of Oregon, followed suit.
But nothing much happened in these places. Indeed, the changes may have been politically possible only because they wouldn't work. The research in Boston found that allowing builders to put up multifamily buildings, without accompanying changes to allow greater density, had a negligible impact on housing. In Minneapolis, the Star Tribune reported last year, only 23 building permits had been issued for new duplexes and triplexes in areas where they would not have been allowed before the change.
"Simply lifting bans on multifamily housing may not actually create more housing options," wrote Sara Bronin, who teaches law and architecture at Cornell University. Many other hurdles — mandatory public hearings, rules on lot configuration, building size and occupancy regulations — are also at work. "These zoning requirements kill housing by a thousand cuts."
This is costing us dearly. Bloated housing values segregate American society. They are forcing a huge transfer of resources from the young who don't yet own homes to the old who do. What's more, economic research has established that workers get a productivity boost when they move to a large busy city such as Los Angeles or New York. To the extent that housing costs prevent this from happening, they make the nation poorer.
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By Susie Mesure
Living in a greenhouse might sound strange, unwise even, given the effects of climate change. But what if it is in fact the future of living more sustainably and coping with increasingly extreme temperatures?
The buyers of Uppgränna Naturhus, a home on the eastern shores of Lake Vättern in southern Sweden, will have a chance to find out. The striking property — on the market for SKr11m ($1.29m) — consists of a 330 sq metre timber and concrete “inner” house sitting inside a towering, glass-dominated shell.
Bodil Antonsson, the current owner, started planning the house on its 0.6-acre plot in 2007. She was inspired by the naturhus (nature house) concept devised by the late Swedish eco-architect Bengt Warne in the 1970s: eco-friendly homes enclosed by glass with space to grow fruit and vegetables from warmer climates.
“It took me seven years of planning and one year of building,” she says. “I wanted a house in complete harmony with nature, where I could follow the seasons behind the glass walls and roof.” She also wanted to run a business from the property, which spans three levels and can be configured to include up to four bedrooms.
Antonsson sought advice from environmental consultant Anders Solvarm, who lives in his own version, built with help from Warne. Solvarm helped design the building’s wastewater recycling system, which reduces water use and removes the need for a mains sewage connection.
Today, multiple species of flowers, fruit and vegetables, including figs, nectarines and melons, thrive in a climate more akin to the Mediterranean than northern Europe. “It’s 3C outside today and very windy but behind the glass it’s 26C and the nectarine trees are [in] full blossom,” says Antonsson when we speak in March.
Plants are watered with the home’s wastewater. After treatment in underground tanks, the water is pumped up to two flower beds, located on two different floors, including one in a triple-glazed conservatory used as a dining room.
“The heart of the building is the plants and the recycling water system,” says Antonsson, who serves the produce at the café she runs at the property, currently open every weekend, and daily from May to August. “We give our wastewater to the plants and the plants give us fruit and vegetables to eat.”
The inner house remains pleasantly cool in summer and shade from the plants helps keep temperatures down during hot weather. “When we had a crazy warm summer and the temperature was 30C outside for three weeks, people came here when they got tired of the beaches and swimming to cool down,” says Antonsson.
It’s also warm in winter — plus cheap to run — thanks to concrete floors, triple-glazed windows and cellulose insulation in the walls and roof. Five solar panels help to provide electricity.
As well as the first-floor terrace café, Antonsson has run yoga and meditation classes from home, and even conferences and concerts for up to 80 people. Swedish pop singer Meja is among those to have performed under the glass roof on the top-floor terrace.
Antonsson and her partner live on the ground floor, with views across fields to the lake, 700m down the road. At night, she likes to string up a hammock in the top terrace and stargaze. The nearest town, Gränna, famous for its peppermint rock, is 4km away.
“I feel I have done my part in the naturhus journey,” says Antonsson, 60, who is selling to reduce her workload. Of the house, she says: “It is time to let a new owner continue the exciting journey of this building.”
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Table of Contents
You’ve probably heard of both SaaS and on-premise hosting. SaaS (software as a service) and on-premise are two ways to offer the same software to your customers, but they have significant differences that you need to consider before deciding which to use.
Even though there’s no right answer for choosing which will work best for your business, it’s essential to keep in mind that each type has its benefits and drawbacks and its customers. If you want to learn more about on-premise vs. SaaS hosting and how you can use each to your advantage, this article can help!
What is On-Premise Software?
On-premise software refers to software on a computer or other device owned by an organization and can only be accessed from that location. One cannot access it remotely outside of that organization; it’s confined to a single location—hence on-premise. This type of software offers many security benefits, but it also has some limitations and restrictions (such as no integration with third-party systems).
In addition, while on-premise solutions often offer great functionality, they aren’t always updated frequently enough to account for changing industry standards. An on-premise solution may be ideal if you need to avoid data loss, protect proprietary information, or if you already have adequate security protocols in place to prevent threats.
What is SaaS Technology?
Software as a service (SaaS) refers to software that’s hosted in a remote data center, allowing customers to access their applications over an Internet connection from any computer with an Internet browser. SaaS offers several advantages over on-premise software, including lower capital expenses and more flexibility to scale as your company grows.
However, as a SaaS customer, you’ll need to invest in your infrastructure to handle your daily operations (such as keeping them backed up and managing security). This means that you won’t enjoy much control over these functions as with on-premise technology—but it also reduces costs.
The most significant difference between SaaS and on-premises solutions is that SaaS software is hosted and maintained by a third party, whereas on-premise solutions are kept in-house. The best implementation approach for your business will depend on several variables, including your budget, goals, security standards, and overall corporate culture.
SaaS vs. On-premises Advantages and Disadvantages
Learn about the most significant SaaS vs. on-premises advantages and disadvantages in this section to make an informed decision.
1. Consider Cost
SaaS: One of the significant selling propositions of SaaS solutions is their low starting cost. Because the firm is renting a subscription-based service, spending a big sum upfront is no need. Subscription fees are usually charged monthly or annual and correspond to the license type, the number of seats, or the features accessible. While this is a fantastic method to keep costs down, unused licenses and duplicate programs may cause increased cloud expenditure.
On-Premise: On-premises software solutions are costly since the company must buy computer hardware and pay for installation and setup. However, in-house solutions have their own IT infrastructure and staff for maintenance and troubleshooting, which adds to the total cost of ownership. Hardware upgrades entail extra expenditures.
SaaS: The simplicity with which SaaS applications may be scaled, especially as your business grows, is one of the software’s main advantages. Most vendors allow you to scale up and purchase extra licenses, servers, bandwidth, or storage throughout an ongoing subscription term. If you wish to downscale during an ongoing subscription period, you’ll probably have to wait until the next renewal, which usually occurs around 12 months after the contract starts.
On-Premise: On-premise solutions are considerably more challenging to scale than SaaS applications, which isn’t surprising. You’ll need to be prepared for a more time-consuming process and setbacks that may cause business operations to halt for an indeterminate length of time. If you operate a growing company that must be flexible, on-premise solutions aren’t the greatest solution.
3. Support and Maintenance
SaaS: The client is not in command of app maintenance and support since SaaS solutions are ready-to-use products provided by a third-party provider. A cloud vendor must guarantee access and handles disaster recovery in the event of an issue. However, companies should never rely solely on the provider and should verify things like data security and compliance.
On-Premise: For support, software maintenance, and upgrades, the firm is mainly left to its own devices when using this form of implementation. Internal IT personnel with the disaster recovery and bug-fixing skills must maintain on-premise software. Although this is a lot of work, there is more data control than SaaS applications.
4. Security and Compliance
SaaS: Contrary to popular opinion, putting your data in the cloud—such as with SaaS apps—is not riskier than keeping it on-premises. Both scenarios can be vulnerable to hackers. SaaS providers use top-level technologies to safeguard their clients’ data and public image. Even though security and compliance measures are always improving, companies should double-check that they meet their security and legal needs.
On-Premise: Unless you have a committed IT staff that is constantly rolling out the newest security technologies, keeping your data on-premises means exposing it to greater risk than storing it with a third-party provider. On-premises solutions necessitate the deployment of your own – typically quite costly – security walls and barriers and a thorough understanding of regulatory compliance, and the ability to identify possible intrusions as soon as they appear.
5. Upgrades and Customization
SaaS: Upgrades are another straightforward process to execute when using the software as a service. Most vendors provide tiered licensing options and extra features that may be purchased separately. There is also a level of customization that businesses should take advantage of; after all, one size does not fit all.
On-Premise: On-premises solutions require much more planning and greater up-front investment to upgrade. It’s critical to hire competent IT professionals who accept responsibility for the entire planning, deployment, and control processes. However, in-house development teams have greater control over customizing or adding unique features when compared to cloud-based software.
6. Analytics and Functionality
SaaS: SaaS applications allow you to customize or remove features as needed, which is excellent for your company’s needs. Before the vendor releases them, these features are completely built and ready to use. This implies that you won’t need to hire third-party experts or development teams to implement the features you require. Another advantage is that SaaS applications provide sophisticated reporting capabilities that simplify understanding how users use the system and what data they produce.
On-Premise: Functionality for on-premise solutions is frequently quite restricted. Most businesses that currently use on-premises software have purchased huge software suites that are difficult to modify or re-install. Second, tailoring one element necessitates altering the whole network to incorporate new processes into the old system.
7. Recovery and Backup
SaaS: Most cloud storage services provide automatic backup of your data. It’s simple to retrieve your data in the event of a technical catastrophe, which relieves stress off your in-house IT staff. Depending on the product, backup and recovery services might be included in your subscription plan. There may be an extra charge for including these essential features.
On-Premise: Maintaining recovery systems for on-premises technologies is very expensive. The most efficient approach to back up data is to have a duplicate data storage that can be utilized when the primary processors fail. Backup services help companies protect their data from sudden natural disasters or human error. Without adequate investment, businesses risk losing their data and their reputation.
Who Should Choose On-Premise And Who Should Choose SaaS?
While both solutions are robust, they’re suited to different businesses, which helps explain why some companies choose one over another. The advantage that on-premise services have over SaaS solutions is customization. With Saas, a company buys into someone else’s vision of how things should be done and what features it should offer.
However, that also limits your business because you can only take advantage of features that come with your Saas solution (there may be an abundance of them, but there’s no way to know in advance).
An excellent example of where you might use on-premise instead of SaaS is government agencies or banks–where regulations require certain functionality or security measures that might not fit in with a generic SaaS platform.
Other organizations, especially startups, are likely to benefit from a SaaS solution because they’re relatively easy to use and deploy quickly. SaaS tools such as Workstatus can improve the overall growth of businesses of any size.
In the next section, we will learn about how Workstatus can play a major role in improving your business operations.
When choosing between SaaS and on-premise, the real deciding factor is cost/benefit analysis—which option will save you money in both time and resources or give you more freedom as an owner or manager?
If there’s no clear winner at first glance, take some time to figure out what questions would need answering before deciding one way or another—for example, by talking with a few people who work in similar businesses using either option.
Workstatus- A Great SaaS Application For Workforce Management
Workstatus is a great workforce management software because it offers a comprehensive range of features covering all aspects of managing a team of any size.
Some of its great set of features include:
- Time Tracking – Workstatus’ time tracking feature allows you to track the time your employees spend on each task, project, or client. This makes invoicing and billing much more effortless.
- Employee Monitoring – Workstatus’ employee monitoring feature lets you see in real-time what your employees are working on. This helps to ensure that they are productive and not wasting time.
- GPS Time Tracker – Workstatus’ GPS time tracker provides you with detailed reports on where your employees are at all times. This is great for ensuring that they are not working from home or elsewhere without proper authorization.
- Payment Processing – Workstatus’ payment processing feature makes it easy to pay your employees on time and accurately. This is vital for keeping your employees motivated and happy.
- Client Management – Workstatus’ client management features allow you to keep track of your client’s contact information, project deadlines, and invoices. This helps to keep your projects on track and your clients happy.
- Reporting – Workstatus’ reporting features give you detailed insights into your employees’ work habits. This allows you to identify areas where they may slack off or not perform up to par.
Workstatus’ comprehensive features make it an excellent workforce management software for any business. If you’re looking for a way to improve your employees’ productivity and efficiency, Workstatus is definitely worth considering.
Every business needs a platform to launch, grow and thrive. And while SaaS (Software as a Service) platforms offer flexibility and affordability, on-premise solutions may be a better fit for your business — at least in certain instances. Knowing which one works best can be tricky; that’s why it’s essential to weigh all of your options and thoroughly research each choice before making a final decision that could ultimately affect your overall success.
The key is to remember that there are no rules of thumb or universal standards; every scenario is different and requires careful analysis and planning before moving forward with any solution. Understanding what each option entails will help you decide which direction suits your business model best.
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“Mid-” in a Sentence (with Audio)
Examples of how to use the word “mid-” in a sentence. How to connect “mid-” with other words to make correct English sentences.
mid- combining form: among or in the middle of
Use “mid-” in a sentence
It’s a mid-size car.
She married again in her mid-forties.
We arrived at mid-night.
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WOWURNA (Captain Joseph, Oüaourené, Ouwoorana, Sheepscot Jo, Wiwurna), a leading chief of the Norridgewock division of the Abenakis, and an ally of the French; fl. 1670–1738.
In August 1717 Wowurna represented 20 leading Norridgewock, Penobscot, Pigwacket, and Androscoggin Indians in a meeting with Governor Samuel Shute of Massachusetts, at Georgetown on Arrowsic Island. The chief denied Shute’s right to build forts and new settlements, rejected King George I as the Indians’ sovereign, and ignored Reverend Joseph Baxter, the minister Shute introduced to them. Frequently interrupted by the governor, Wowurna insisted that English claims to lands up the Kennebec River and east of it were unfounded: “We can’t understand how our Lands have been purchased, what has been Alienated was by our gift.” The Indians supported their case with a letter from Father Sébastien Rale, the Jesuit at Norridgewock (now Old Point in south Madison, Me.). Shute threatened to leave, and Wowurna was replaced by a conciliatory speaker. Rale later claimed that the Abenakis accepted only the words of Wowurna, who had spoken “with matchless pride.”
Probably unknown to Rale, the chief visited Baxter at Georgetown a few days after the conference. Wowurna’s aim may have been to gain information about the English. At any rate, he translated Baxter’s preaching for his wife, his brother John (Nagiscoig), and two other Indians, and even promised to teach the minister Abenaki. He visited Baxter again at Georgetown in October and December, but then the visits ceased, and Shute condemned Rale soon after for his “Excommunicating and Unchristian Treatment of the Poor Indians for only Attending on Mr Baxters Instructions. . . .”
As English settlement spread to Merrymeeting Bay, Swan Island, and east of the Kennebec, the Norridgewocks quarrelled with the English and killed their cattle. Both sides prepared to fight. Wowurna was probably one of the two “principal chiefs” of the village whom Rale sent to Quebec in October 1719. They told Governor Rigaud de Vaudreuil that they were determined to resist the English, and he confirmed that France had not ceded their lands to England, and supplied them with “munitions.” In January 1720 Massachusetts commissioners met the Norridgewocks at Falmouth (metropolitan Portland, Me.) to warn them and to listen to their complaints. Settlement continued, however, and Wowurna, Nathaniel, and younger Indians destroyed so many crops and farm animals in the summer of 1720 that the settlers were convinced that the Norridgewocks were planning war. On 12 October, carrying a French flag, Wowurna and another Norridgewock met English representatives at Georgetown and reluctantly agreed to a larger meeting. Wowurna was there six weeks later when the Indians declared that “If all those people were removed from Merry Meeting bay, all other Differences between us would be easyly composed.” But the New Englanders rejected the Abenaki claims and forced them to promise payment of 200 skins, and to give up four hostages, for the damage done.
Alarmed, Rale gathered Indian allies to support the Norridgewocks, and organized a major confrontation at Georgetown on 17 July 1721. Fathers Rale and La Chasse*, Joseph d’Abbadie* de Saint-Castin and Charles Legardeur* de Croisille accompanied 250 Indians, under French colours, into the town. In a letter to Shute, the Indians demanded the release of the hostages and removal of the English from Abenaki lands. Wowurna read the letter in Abenaki in the name of “all the Christian and Catholic Indians of this country and of Canada.” The English refused the demands and prepared for war, but Vaudreuil wrote Rale: “I am quite delighted that [Wowurna] thus distinguished himself in this parley.” Vaudreuil also sent a full report of the chief’s exploits to France. Britain soon made an official protest to the French government about the incident.
In January 1721/22 the English attempted to seize Rale at Norridgewock. An uneasy peace prevailed until, late on the night of 14 June, Wowurna led over 40 Indians, “Arm’d & Painted for warr,” in a raid on Merrymeeting Bay, where they burned some houses and a mill, stripped the inhabitants of their belongings and their clothes, and took five prisoners. They hoped to exchange these men for the Norridgewock hostages held at Boston, but Massachusetts declared war on 25 July. Wowurna apparently took an active part in Dummer’s War, and when he visited Quebec early in 1723. Vaudreuil presented him with a “laced Capp” in recognition of his many services to the French. After the destruction of Norridgewock in 1724 Wowurna resided in Canada, probably at Saint-François (near the mouth of the Saint-François River). He helped lead a party of 20 Norridgewock and Arosaguntacook (Saint-François) Indians on a successful raid on Damaris Cove (probably near Boothbay Harbor, Me.) in the summer of 1725. The Indians apparently claimed later that they were unaware of the English-Abenaki truce east of the Kennebec, made that July.
In March 1727 John Gyles* heard from Canada that after Wenemouet’s messengers arrived, proposing that the Canadian Indians ratify the Penobscot peace with Massachusetts, Wowurna was to set up a trail marker above Taconick (now Winslow, Me.) on the Kennebec River, to tell Norridgewocks who planned to move back to their native village whether peace was definite. Wowurna and over 50 other Abenakis returned and camped at Taconick. In June, after waiting almost two months, they had run out of supplies and were anxious to know when the governor would meet them, for they would not come to Boston. The House of Representatives voted £300 to provision them, and Wowurna and the others ratified the peace at Falmouth on 21 July. Two years later in November 1729, Wowurna was probably among the Penobscot and Norridgewock chiefs who met the surveyor David Dunbar at Pemaquid, which he was rebuilding. Dunbar reassured them about their lands, but Wowurna and others, rightly suspicious, came to Richmond in January to ask what Dunbar planned and whether the government was involved. Wowurna’s concern for the Abenakis’ future showed again at Falmouth in 1732, when he intervened in discussions between Loron (Sauguaaram*), the official spokesman, and Governor Belcher of Massachusetts, to the latter’s chagrin. The old chief resisted the governor’s proposal for an English settlement at Cushnok (Augusta, Me.), and warned that quarrels between English and Indian youths threatened the peace.
Although he knew Quebec well, Wowurna’s visit to Boston in July 1738 was his first, and probably his last. As “principal of the Norridgewock tribe” he declared in the council chamber that he had reassured the people at Sheepscot (near Wiscasset, Me.) of the Indians’ peaceful intentions, and complained of the high cost of trade goods. He then drank the king’s health and thanked the governor for his kindness. At 67, he was a very old Indian, and perhaps resigned at last to the English presence on his ancestral lands. If he had hopes for future resistance, Wowurna, a man whom historians have described as “mannerly” (Parkman), “wily” (Baxter), and “shrewd and sagacious” (Thwaites), would not have revealed them to his old enemies.
AE, Corr. pol., Angleterre, 341, f.186. AN, Col., B, 44, ff.121–24; C11A, 39, ff.157–62; 40, ff.45–46v; 44, ff.131–42, 303–8; 46, ff.307–10; F3, 2, ff.413–16. Joseph Baxter, “Journal of several visits to the Indians of the Kennebec River, 1717,” ed. Elias Nason, New Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Register, XXI (1867), 48–51, 58. A conference of his excellency Jonathan Belcher, . . . at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, July 1732 (Boston, 1732). Documentary hist. of Maine, IX, 379, 443–49, 454, 457–59; X, 356, 363, 371, 375, 380, 383, 400–7, 449, 455, 460, 468–69; XI; XXIII, 83–87, 94–108, 190–91, 212–13, 217–31, 234, 241–57. JR (Thwaites), LXVII, 56–57, 62–63, 334. Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st ser., III (1853), 361–75, 407–47; VI (1859), 260–62. “Penhallow papers-Indian affairs,” New. Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Register, XXXII (1878), 21–22, 24. PRO, CSP, Col., 1722–23, 27–28, 89–91, 405, 407, 409–10, 415–16, 418–20. J. P. Baxter, The pioneers of New France in New England, with contemporary letters and documents (Albany, 1894), 68–84, 96–104, 111–18, 309–15. F. H. Eckstorm, Indian place names of the Penobscot valley and the Maine coast (University of Maine studies, 2d, ser., Orono, Me., 1940), 113, 145. Parkman, A half-century of conflict (1909), I, 224–28. | <urn:uuid:3544135d-fdff-44a3-aa0d-b963dbc9c5fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?BioId=35288 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.9581 | 2,241 | 3.453125 | 3 |
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; Matthew 22:34-46
20th Sunday after Trinity
29.10.17; St Barbara’s
Rev Tulo Raistrick
Over the next four weeks we will be thinking as a church about a letter that a man called Paul wrote to a church in Thessalonika in northern Greece about two thousand years ago.
Today, we are just going to think about the three main sets of characters in the letter, and why they may be relevant to us.
The first person we are going to think about is Paul, the man who wrote this letter. A few months before Paul wrote this letter, he had visited Thessalonika along with his friend Silas. They visited the local synagogue and began to speak about Jesus. They told people about some of the truths we will declare in our creed in a few moments time and that we will in our baptism service later today – that Jesus, God’s own Son, died for us and rose from the dead to make it possible for us to know and love God. As Paul spoke, many people came to believe, and a growing, vibrant church was formed.
However, not everyone was pleased. Some felt their livelihoods as makers of mystical statues and idols was under threat – the new Christians had no need for such things – so they stirred up riots in the city. They even went to the Roman city authorities, and accused the Christians of revolution – that the Christians were saying that Jesus was more important than Caesar. Many of the Christians were thrown in prison, and Paul and Silas were forced to flee.
Now a few months on, Paul is writing to the church in Thessalonika, to encourage them.
He starts with a wonderful statement: “We always thank God for all of you… we are always praying for you.” Paul must have felt helpless at times – he couldn’t go back to the city without getting himself killed, but he so wanted to be able to help and encourage these new Christians.
But there is something he can do, which can make all the difference. He can pray.
We may have friends or family living in different parts of the country or world and there may be times when we long to help them. We may even see them everyday, and sometimes our capacity to help, to make a difference, falls short of what they need. Paul points us to something we can do. We can pray, just as Paul did here for his friends in Thessalonika. To ask the one who is able to help in all circumstances – God – to help. Prayer is one of the greatest gifts we have been given in this life – to be able to pray for others. I hope that we will pray for each other.
We can learn about prayer from Paul, our first character in this letter. What can we learn from the second set of characters in our letter – the new Christians in Thessalonika?
Being a Christian in Thessalonika wasn’t exactly easy. People were regularly being beaten up and thrown in prison because of their faith in God, and their refusal to worship the roman Emperor instead. But, even from a distance, Paul has heard reports that despite all they are suffering, they are living lives of real joyfulness. Their joy comes not from their immediate circumstances which were at times pretty grim, but from three things:
their faith in God – the knowledge that God loves them and cares for them has transformed their lives; they are valued, loved; no matter how poorly they may be treated.
their love for others – this was a group of people who had every reason to pull up the drawbridge, bar the windows, and withdraw as much as possible from the world around them. Instead, they actively sought to help others, reaching out with love and compassion to the needy in their community
their hope in the future – they knew that a day would come when suffering would cease, whether it would be in this life or in the eternal life after death that Christ has made possible. But that hope meant that present challenges could be endured.
Those three qualities – faith, hope and love – can make a huge difference in our own lives.
We have thought about Paul; we have thought about the Christians in Thessalonika. But none of this story would be possible without the most important person in our story – God. It is God who listens to Paul’s prayers; it is God who strengthens the Christians going through hardship; it is God who creates the future that we can look forward to with hope.
And it is God who is the central figure in the story of our lives too. We may not always live aware of his presence with us, but he loves us and cares for us. Just as parents love and dote over their baby child, the most precious thing in their lives, so God loves each one of us, caring for us. Each one of us is infinitely precious and special to him.
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In this video i have given a concept, how to repair a broken sim card holders, sockets, slots etc, In this case i have done a Sony cell phone. To fix broken golden pins in a cell phone socket you need these listed things.
Which things are needed to fix broken golden pins in cell phone sim card slot?
- Good Soldering skills
- Soldering iron
- Screw Driver
- Spare SIM socket that should be matched with broken
Jump to specific segment of this video by clicking on specific time if you are watching on YouTube.
00:10 Introduction to fix/repair broken SIM slot
00:20 What to do if same SIM socket not available in market
00:40 Where can we get spare sim slot
01:00 Putting new golden pin to broken sim card slot
01:40 Soldering new golden to broken sim slot
03:50 How to test sim pins after repair with Digital Multimeter
06:00 Soldering SIM card adapter iron cover/shield
09:10 Cleaning extra solder after completing soldering procedure
09:30 Assembling cell phone after repair to test SIM card
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12 simple ways to cut costs and boost your bank balance
Lots of us are looking to tighten our belts during these difficult times, and the good news is there are plenty of simple steps we can take towards living a more frugal lifestyle.
Here we share with you 12 tips on how you can save money on your household costs and bills.
- Check your council tax
According to MoneySavingExpert, up to 400,000 homes are in the wrong Council Tax band. So it’s worth making sure you’re not being overcharged. It only takes 10 minutes to check your band, Martin Lewis has some great tips on his site you can find these here.
- Grow your own food
You can save lots of money by growing your own fruit and vegetables. Eat them, cook them, pickle or freeze them… grow organic food for a fraction of the supermarket price. Not only will it help save the pennies, but your homegrown food will taste delicious. Check our recent blog about starting your own veg patch.
- Use loyalty cards and coupons
Loyalty cards are a great way to earn rewards and discounts on the shopping that you’re already doing. Clubcard, Nectarcard, advantage cards… there are endless cards out there for almost every retail store. The coupons and points can be used on shopping, days out or special treats.
- Savvy shopping
When you go grocery shopping, the key to success is to make sure you are savvy! There are lots of ways to make super savings, shopping around for bargains that are to be had, planning before shopping and going for unbranded products.
- Make do and mend
If something is damaged or broken before you throw it away see if it can be repaired or fixed. Youtube is a great source of information, you will be able to find tips on how to repair pretty much anything online.
- Look at switching
Switching to a new electricity or gas supplier is easy to do and can save you hundreds of pounds on your energy bills. It is super quick and easy to compare prices and even to switch.
- Get freebies
There are plenty of websites where people are giving away items they no longer need, and you won’t have to pay a penny for them. Sites worth checking out include Freecycle, Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree. There are some great freebies to be found online.
- Clever cleaning products
There is no need to spend the big bucks on expensive fancy cleaning products. Some of the items in your pantry (like baking soda and vinegar) work as effective homemade all-purpose cleaners and cost next to nothing. A quick google will give you some great recipes like the one below.
To make an all-purpose cleaner, pour 1/2 cup of the vinegar into a spray bottle. Add in 2 cups water, 1 teaspoon castile soap, and 20 drops lemon essential oil. Shake the mixture well, and then spray onto the surface and wipe clean with a damp cloth.
- Bulk cooking
There are a number of ways that you can make savings in the kitchen, from planning meals, shopping around and buying unbranded foods. One of our favourites is to bulk cook. Try setting aside a few hours and make a load of different dishes to prepare you for the whole week; pop them in the freezer and defrost when you are ready for something tasty.
- Turn your lights off
Research by Utility Design, revealed that Brits are wasting £4.4 billion every single year by leaving lights on at home. This is an easy one to solve; when you leave a room, flick the switch and cut expenses on your electricity bills. If you live with forgetful people, place little stickers by the switch to give people helpful reminders.
- Cancel direct debits
The average brit wastes more than £30,000 in a lifetime on monthly direct debits they never use. It is good to get in the habit of going through your bank statements and direct debits every 3 months to review any payments you no longer need or direct debits that shouldn’t be in place.
- Sleep on it
When considering a big purchase or life decision, we always recommend sleeping on it. This gives us an opportunity to take a breather, clear our minds and relieve ourselves of the immediacy.
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A few decades earlier, there was a time when kids used to stay like glue in front of the TV, and now smartphones have replaced it. Kids spent hours scrolling through their favorite social media platforms on their smartphones. And you may be shocked to know that there are lots of risks to it that your child should take care of. In order to protect your kids from social media danger, you first have to start with a simple conversation. Along with that, you have to take some necessary measures.
The young generation uses social media mostly to get in touch with their friends and family. And the overall concept of different media platforms is also to keep loved ones connected. However, the sad thing is that our kids don’t realize what to post and what not on social sites, which leads to the biggest problem.
As your kid has a different perspective, open conversation brings transparency between you two. And to protect your kid, you need more knowledge about social media; without that, it is not possible. Still, this article covers the critical measure that helps to protect your kids from social media danger.
Social Media Danger
According to law, to have an account on some famous social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok, you should only be over the age of 13 years. However, a recent report found that 42% of 5-11 years olds use social media, with 59% of 11 years old and staggering 74% of 12 years old having social media presence. These kids are violating this law.
Social media has both positive and negative consequences. Communication with friends can boost the feeling of belonging and connection which helps to bring less conflict in the family and enhance creativity by sharing ideas and arts. But some social media can bring anxiety, depression, increase in the suicide rate.
List of Some social media danger
Your child might be bullied through digital technology. The posted videos or pictures of kids might be misused by scammers who may pass mean comments, make sexual remarks, and spread fake online rumors. As juniors are still growing; they can’t take this. As a result, they may self-harm and attempt suicide.
The shared birthdate, school name, and other information about your kids online are misused by predators to reach your kids effortlessly. Social media sites are the best place for online predators to groom the kids. Some may use fake accounts and convince them to meet up, while some may directly send inappropriate videos and images and blackmail them. The main goal for them is to meet them face to face.
More importantly, after this Covid-19 pandemic situation rise in online predictors has been observed.
Online scams are the most commonly targeted towards teens. Our children are naive, so it’s easy for scammers to scam them. Fake lottery scams, phishing scams, survey scams are the most common ways of scams. The intention behind scams differs from person to person, but mainly, it’s all for money. Scammers might blackmail your kids and demand money. While some may use phishing emails and messages to hack the Facebook account, identity theft.
Children may encounter exposure to content that is not suitable for them. Content that includes pornographic videos, vulgar language, videos or images promoting racism, and brutality towards humans or creatures is not appropriate for anyone. However, adults can use their minds and decide what is right and wrong, but children learn from those things. The thinking capacity and style of your child get hampered by inappropriate content, which in result weaken their mental growth.
Top 5 Ways to protect your kids from social media danger
Before going to the protective steps, one factor is quite important to consider, i.e., following age requirement guidelines for creating a social media account. Whether you create the account for your child or they create themselves, need to consider the age requirement law. Sites that collect data and information from users have to follow U.S federal law. And that needs them to alert parents through notifications and gain consent from them.
However, it is not a complex job for kids to lie about age before signing up for social media accounts. Which can expose them to a potential risk of social media.
That’s why follow the given methods to protect your kids from social media danger.
Set ground rules for Social Media Use
While making the account, you need to set some ground rules like a contract for social media for your child. Tell them what they are allowed to post, how often they can spend time, and whom they can follow on social media.
To have a better relationship between you and your kid, try to be more flexible sometimes. Because rules like turning off social media after 8 pm may take your child away from their best friend who always came online after that. try to understand them by putting yourselves in their shoes. It would work better if you set rules for yourself and your child.
Educate kids on the social media risks
Educate the risk of social media after setting ground rules on them to your child. It helps to know the reason behind the controls. Today’s kids have an idea about the latest trends and online memes more than their parents. And when children understand the risk, they will be more alert.
Inform them not to open any phishing links and never meet their online friends without their parents. It is better to restrict them from being friends with strangers.
Encourage them not to have any sex-related conversations with anyone and not share personal pictures and information.
Check your child’s privacy settings regularly.
Not just randomly, but you need to monitor your kids’ social media privacy settings regularly. After the account has been created, tell them about the privacy settings. Each platform has its different privacy settings, so check privacy settings regularly because they might change at any time.
The main points you have to check are:
With the help of privacy settings, make sure the birthday, phone numbers, age, school’s name is not revealed to the public. Make these things private, and take care of what kind of pictures they share even with their friends. Tell them not to share passwords with anyone.
Most Social Media Applications share geographic locations. You need to disable the location sharing feature from the media platform of your child. Otherwise, it can be an easy way for predators to track your child.
Surfing across the internet makes it easily accessible and exposed to inappropriate content. Block the age-restricted content from social media.
If social media has the option to private the profile, encourage your kid to use it. Less information sharing leads to less exposure of information to strangers, which is excellent.
Also, restrict your kid from being friends with strangers because the information you limit for your friends will now be available to the stranger person who became friends on your social media.
Keep an Open Conversation With Your Child
Simply table talk nicely with your kid because rudeness never wins. Openly discuss the use of social media to help you solve upcoming problems or those you have already encountered. You can shield your child once you know what they are doing online and what problems they are facing. Wherefore ask them regularly about that.
Tell them not to throw any harsh or mean comments neither on social media nor in the real world. Likewise, in the situation when they feel attacked by harsh judgment, tell your kid to inform you. Make them believe everything you do is for their safety.
Use Parental Control Apps
Parental Control Apps like Mobile Spy help you remotely monitor your child’s social media. But before using parental control apps, tell them it’s for their safety and get consent from them. It also helps to filter the type of content on your kid’s phone. Not just social media, you can track GPS location, monitor multimedia, and call settings of your child’s phone like your own phone.
It is very much helpful in case your child starts hiding things from you. Furthermore, by using the phone’s built-in parental control features, you can limit the screen time, restrict application purchasing and downloading, and so on as per your wish. While monitoring, if you find someone is harassing or grooming your children, inform the police or Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center.
Guide your child to report any abusive and offending posts to the site management. And tell your kids not to post anything online that they don’t want their teacher or school administrators to see.
During the pandemic of Covid-19, social media use has reached its perk. Despite what might seem incredible, ‘Social Media’ actually harbors some dark potential dangers. For that reason, you have to be extra careful while using it.
Social Media and Children is a terrific composition. Ranging from cyberbullying and harassment of sex predators, risks for children on social media has endless. However, social media is not dangerous in itself; it’s how you are using it.
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Allergy Services for Long Lasting Relief
One out of five people in the United States is allergic to one or more allergens. With such a high rate of incidence, allergies are ranked 5th among leading chronic diseases in the country.
An allergy is an immune system response to substances like desert pollen, olive trees, weeds, pet dander, and other allergens, most of which are not even harmful to your health. An allergic attack is often characterized by symptoms like sneezing, sinus issues, skin rashes, and inflammation. Allergies are often lumped together however, there are different names or types such as allergic rhinitis, hayfever, perenial allergies, and asthmatic allergies
Allergies We Treat:
- Seasonal: Most of Arizona Seasonal allergic rhinitis (also known as Hayfever) occurs during our late winter/ spring, and fall. Seasonal allergies are caused by allergic sensitivities to pollens from grasses, trees and desert weeds, flowers since that is when our plants flower and grow.
- Perennial: People with perennial allergic rhinitis experience symptoms year-round. Perennial allergies are often caused by dust invisible dander, cockroaches, invisible mold spores and our year-round pollution,
Some people may experience both types of rhinitis, with perennial symptoms getting worse during specific pollen seasons. Allergies can be confusing which is why meeting with a true allergy specialist can help diagnose which allergens are causing your problems.
Some of the most commonly asked about Phoenix area allergens that we treat:
- Arizona Trees such as Mulberry, Ash & Olive: Mulberry produces a lot of pollen, making it a top allergen in Phoenix. An allergic attack from mulberry pollen causes symptoms like lethargy, sneezing, itchy eyes, and coughing.Ash and olive trees are beautiful ornamental trees found throughout Phoenix’s metropolitan area. Unfortunately for allergy sufferers, these trees have become one of Arizona’s’ largest contributor to our seasonal allergy misery .Allergic attacks associated with arizona ash trees and Arizona olive trees cause difficulty in breathing, mild headaches, and watery eyes.
- Desert Ragweed: Ragweed is an annual plant whose allergens cause skin rash, inflamed and itchy eyes, noisy breathing, and sneezing. See also – What are the Most Common Desert Allergens?
- Landscaping Grass: Our grass is another top allergen because it is found almost everywhere in Scottsdale, Glendale, Phoenix and Avondale. – in our “water retention parks”, front yards, and in HOA common areas. Twice a year, we re-seed our grasses which causes particles to get in the air frequently. Bermuda grass is the most common type of grass species grown in Phoenix. Allergic symptoms caused by grass may include sneezing and itchy eyes.
- Pet Dander: Besides the seasonal allergens, pet dander is another common allergy carrier that affects people who have cats and dogs – or come into contact with them. Symptoms of pet dander allergies include noisy breathing, runny and itchy nose, red eyes, and sneezing.
- And much more! There are hundreds of known allergens just here in Arizona so we cannot list them all! However, our years of experience and education allow us to accurately diagnose your symptoms for many other allergies.
How We Help Can Help You:
The most common way of managing allergic rhinitis is staying away from possible allergens. However, this is not practical since it is difficult to stay away from some of the allergens like dust and pollen. Based on the high likelihood of coming into contact with the allergens, our specialized treatment plan will serve an important part in managing your allergies.
Besides the management of allergies, our doctors can treat respiratory conditions such as sinus disease, a condition with similar symptoms to those of allergies. Unlike other allergy attacks like hay fever and asthma, sinus disease is a bacterial or fungal infection that causes inflammation to the sinuses. Some symptoms of the disease include coughing, headache, bad breath, nasal congestion, stiffness, and fatigue which are similar to allergies. Often times, people are confused by the similarities. Our doctors can help to determine the right course of action for the right symptom.
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28 Jun 2022
How to take control back over your workplace wellbeing
Is feeling stressed at work your new normal? Many of us risk employee burnout by trying to push through and work harder. In this important read, our leadership experts share some realistic strategies to help you take control back over your wellbeing in the workplace.
Employers are not catching on, but the data doesn’t lie. Being overworked can fundamentally impact your health, as sobering studies (like this research from Indiana University) show.
1. Take control
Do you have any control over your work schedule, projects, or the number of tasks that you manage at a given time? Having little control over your job hinders your ability to manage work-related stress.
Identify those areas in your workday that you have complete control over:
- Do you actually have to check each email as it arrives?
- Do you have too many notifications buzzing on your phone?
- Can you structure your work into blocks of time and avoid multi-tasking?
- If you are allocated new projects, take control back when it comes to your workload.
That discussion can sound like, “Here’s what I’m currently working on, and what is pending, as well as how long each will likely take. Should I make any workflow changes to honour your priorities?”
2. Dysfunctional workplace dynamics
Toxic workplace relationships hinder our health. In fact, studies have found that a bad boss increases your risk for clinical depression. If your desk is right next to that office bully, or your boss is standing over your shoulder micromanaging every move you make, your stress levels are going to skyrocket.
Consider the people you interact with most. Do they lift you up or drag you down? Set limits.
- When a complainer starts venting, try transition the discussion to something more positive.
- Ask them if they need help coming up with solutions for the problem.
- If they continue to wallow in their negativity, set an internal time limit and then politely excuse yourself from the conversation.
- Consider adding more positive people into your life, like a mentor who can help direct you towards professional and personal growth.
Be observant to patterns of behaviour. Are there particular times of the day/week/specific meetings when they bother you the most and that you could potentially avoid?
3. Bring balance back into your life
When a job begins to feel chaotic, the ability to remain focused can drain your energy levels. A monotonous job is just as problematic and can result in disconnection, decreased productivity and higher stress. Aim to restore balance.
- Try to tackle the most important task of the day first – whether that’s for work or your personal life. Your productivity is likely to be highest in mid-morning.
- Establish little goals and rewards. These will help give you the motivation to progress. They also act as a reminder of your skills and abilities.
- Keep a gratitude list. At the end of each workday jot down three things you are grateful for. It actually helps improve cardiovascular health and makes you more resilient to stress. Take it seriously.
- Accept that it’s impossible to always get the balance right. Congratulate yourself for having this level of self-awareness, even when things haven’t gone as you’d hoped.
Set a time period to implement these strategies and a date when you will assess if progress has been made. Commit to taking responsibility for your happiness and your health. If things haven’t improved, don’t struggle on. Do you have the opportunity to look for another role elsewhere? Can you rejig your role? Can you modify your working hours?
Where to seek support
Workplace stress can be a serious threat to your health and wellbeing. Don’t ignore feelings that the pressure is becoming too much. Access your organisation’s EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) or another confidential mental health support. These are all available free of charge.
Broaden your understanding of employee burnout with these articles from our leadership experts:
- Why employee burnout is the new workplace epidemic
- Why leadership style matters when it comes to employee burnout
- 3 ways leaders can help prevent employee burnout
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A New Trade Union in Japan
Hongo, Tokyo, Japan, December 17, 1897. On the evening of December 1st last, with pomp and array, the newly formed union of iron workers held its opening ceremony at the Association Hall of this city with many prominent public officials and capitalists as guests. The whole strength of the union, 1,200 in number, together with an equal number of workers of other trades were in attendance. The ceremony was opened by myself as chairman of the committee on arrangement. Mr.Sakuma Teiichi, the sympathizer with labor, delivered the first congratulatory speech followed by Messrs. Shimoda Saburo, vice-president of the Lower House of Diet; Miyoshi Taizo, ex-chief justice of the Court of Cassation; Profs. Takano Iwasaburo and Suzuki Junichiro. Mr.Katayarna Sen, M.A.,of Wisconsin University[sic], was the last speaker and the ceremony was closed amid thundering cheers for the union.
There are many features in connection with the ceremony, as well as the formation of the union, which are worthy of special notice. In the first place, there never was in the industrial annals of this country any workingmen's organization formed with so large a membership as the Iron Workers union, nor has there ever before been any meeting held under the auspices of working people which was attended by public officials and capitalists. Furthermore, when the fact is known that the large membership of the union is a product of only five months' agitation conducted by the Rodo Kumiai Kisei Kwai (see the last November number of this magazine),it reveals a remarkable growth of the labor movement in this country. Who ever supposed that a union of such dimension as the Iron Workers was capable of formation in a country where low wage conditions are prevalent?
While the formation of the union itself is, to friends of Japanese labor, a source of much rejoicing, perusal of its constitution further intensifies our gratification. Cares of the promoters of the union is [sic] visible throughout the lines of the constitution. It is height of folly on the part of organized workers to indulge in inflammatory declaration or radical utterances at present stage of our social condition, that is to say, while the workers are not sufficiently organized on one hand and the strong arm of government is ever ready to crush out organization of workingmen on the other, the founders of the union should be complimented for their wise choice of peaceful and conservative methods as represented in pure and simple trade unionism. Moreover, it is said to be the intention of the founders to keep away from any action which has a partisan political coloring, and by so doing, the union has reduced its danger to a minimum. What nonsense it would be for a labor organization to declare for any political action while its members are all barred out from political participation by reason of voting qualification (only those who are paying national taxes to an amount of 15 yen are qualified voters). The best it is able to gain by such action is an enmity of government and hatred of governing classes.
Having steered clear away from all these dangers, the union endeavors to establish a solid basis of its organization by promoting solidarity of its members with a system of benefit which consists of a sick benefit of 20 sen per diem for a period of ninety days within a year; a funeral benefit of 20 yen, and a death benefit of 10 to 30 yen. A moderate sum of 20 sen is uniformly charged as monthly dues. Elementary education of its members, absence of which is a conspicuous feature among our workers, is entrusted to its mother organization, the Rodo Kumiai Kisei Kwai, to which body, by the way, the new union is affiliated, thus establishing links of connection with other unions to be formed by the association, This method, it is claimed, will make easier that assiduous task of federating existing unions, enabling them to present a solid front of the army of organized workers as soon as the association succeeds to organize other trades.
At present the union has 13 sub-lodges, 10 of which are located in this city with total membership of 1,000, one in Yokohama with 200 members, and one in Omiya, where the work of that formidable Japan Railway Co. is located, with 70 members. Claim is made in behalf of the union that it will be able to establish its branches in all localities throughout this country where iron works are situated and swell its membership to 5, 000 within the coming year.
Doubt may be entertained by some of our western friends of the future of the union. It is premature to say, at this writing, the future which awaits the union. However, one thing is certain that the foundation upon which it now rests is comparatively solid, since workers of this trade are more intelligent and higher paid than workers of other trades. That they are capable of sustaining an organization is evidenced by a fact that while the Rodo Kumiai Kisei Kwai was able to bring only 100 workers of other trades under its banner, 1,200 iron workers flocked to it during the same length of time, which goes to show that their intelligence and higher wage condition made them easier to perceive the necessity of organized effort and susceptible to the influence of agitation carried on by the association. Having these elements of success, nothing but a bright future is predictive at present for the union.
American Federationist,IV, No.12 (February,1898),272-273.
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The entry of bio flame within the scene of ethanol hearth has caused an enormous change within the idea of fireplaces. This innovation has a whole lot of appreciation and love from the customers. The businesses providing such providers have give you so many designs in a brief span of time. The concepts that individuals had about their fireplaces is not the identical and at the moment most of them choose putting in bio-ethanol burners of their fireplaces. This eco-friendly hearth can get custom-made simply the best way you need it to be. The corporate you strategy to design an ethanol hearth at your own home should perceive your wants. Inform them the color, dimension, form and placement of your hearth on the home. The necessity of each particular person varies from one different. Some choose to have a hearth to heat up their room whereas others could set up it to reinforce the look of the room. Thus, the designers should perceive your motive for a fireside set up after which counsel the best ethanol hearth for your own home. You’ll be able to even present the corporate your thought with the assistance of easy sketching. This helps the corporate to raised perceive the essential design that you’re on the lookout for. After this, they could counsel some extra additions and enhancements to your design to make it look extra interesting. Then, finally, the designing half begins to be able to see your imaginative and prescient being remodeled into actuality by the designers.
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There is an interesting crime being investigated in New York. Chinese immigrants are giving money to people who threaten that, if they do not pay, they will be cursed. The question is why this is a crime since the threat is based on superstition and cannot actually harm the individuals.
The Chinese immigrants are paying to ward off a so-called “blessing.”
Some accounts do indicate that the con artists have followed people home that could be viewed as stalking or menacing. However, the threat itself is rather hard to fit into a criminal code. If I say that I will wish you spontaneously combust unless paid money, is that an prosecutable crime?
Police are treating this as a con game, but what is the con? This is not like wrapping a hundred dollar bill around a stack of one dollar bills. We have televangelists who sell blessed clothes and prayers to donors with the clear suggestion of divine intervention in a positive way. Is that a con?
The pay-or-curse con is dependent on someone believing that they can be cursed based on religious or cultural superstition. Would it be a defense for the con man to say that he never had the ability to curse the person in a defense of impossibility? Alternatively, would it be a defense to say that he did believe it — making this a first amendment issue?
Usually a con is the false promise of giving someone a false product like a fake gold watch or an empty envelope in exchange for money. Here you are offering something of no value — a promise not to curse — in exchange for money.
To prosecute this practice, police would have to distinguish between accepting money for positive prayers and accepting money for negative prayers. That places the police in the business of enforcing religious and cultural beliefs. What if these same individuals now offer to pray not to be cursed for money?
Consider the curse that has loomed over my life since birth. The curse of the Billy Goat was placed on the Chicago Cubs during the World Series in 1945 after the owner of Billy Goat Tavern, Billy Sianis, was asked to leave Wrigley Field because his pet goat smelled. Sianis shouted “Them Cubs, they ain’t gonna win no more.” The Cubs have not won a National League pennant in 104 years as a result. If Sianis offered to lift the curse for money, would that have been extortion? What if I threaten a curse on the White Sox unless I am paid cash? I am a Cubs fan by birth and have all types of Chicago objects that could be used to transmit bad juju like wearing both Wolfy’s and Fluky’s teeshirts – an unholy combination of Northside and Southside hot dog stands.
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Panama City, 3 December 2001. – Upon completion of its maiden voyage, Panama Canal authorities confirmed today that the luxurious passenger ship Norwegian Star broke the toll record set earlier this year by the Radiance of the Seas.
The Norwegian Star paid $208,653.16, surpassing the toll record established in March by the Radiance of the Seas with $202,176.76.
This passenger ship’s overall length is 294.13 meters (964.99 feet) and its beam measures 32.31 meters (106 feet), so its volume is greater than that of its predecessor and so is its tonnage.
The Bahamas registered Norwegian Star was built this year in the Meyer Werft shipyard of Papenburg, Germany, and offers numerous attractions, comfort and luxury. For this voyage, the ship departed Miami, Florida, on November 19, and stopped in Cartagena, Colombia, before coming to Panama for its Canal transit. Its final destination is Acapulco, Mexico.
The Norwegian Star has the capability to accommodate up to 2,683 passengers, although during its first voyage it carried 2,226 passengers and 1,053 crewmen.
Every year over 300 of this luxurious floating hotels transit the Panama Canal carrying on board passengers from all over the world. The cruise ship season in the Panama Canal stretches from October to May.
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“Normal” Teenager or ADHD
“My teenager is driving me absolutely crazy! Is what I’m seeing normal behavior or is something else going on?” As we travel the country each year hosting workshops and meeting families, this question is posed to us countless times. As the mother of two teenagers, I can absolutely relate to the frustration that many parents feel with the behaviors they sometimes see from their kids. And while it is common for teenagers to drive their parents a little nutty, what behaviors are within the range of “normal” for that age and what behaviors might indicate a deeper problem?
Undiagnosed & Driving Me Crazy!
If your child has never been diagnosed with ADHD or a learning disability but you have always suspected it, you may be onto something. According to the official diagnostic tools for ADHD, there are 18 different symptoms related to attentional, behavioral, social and organizational challenges:
If you read some of these and think “That’s my kid!”, you might want to follow up with some questions to ask yourself (and your physician or guidance counselor):
- Does my kid get a little antsy in class or are they truly disruptive to the learning of other kids?
- Does my kid occasionally forget to turn in assignments or do they have a litany of zeros due to “the dog ate my homework” syndrome?
- Does my kid have a few solid friends or do other kids avoid them because of their antics?
- Does my kid respond to my requests after only a couple of attempts or do they only respond when I’ve blown my top and scream at the top of my lungs?
If you find that your child is better represented by the latter half of each question, you might want to consult with your physician or school guidance counselor to determine if further testing might be in order. And remember, you are not alone! There are a multitude of resources that you can access with advice, ideas, and strategies to help you and your child improve how they function in the world.
Already Diagnosed & Driving Me Crazy!
The average age of ADHD diagnosis is 7 year olds. More severe cases may be diagnosed even earlier. If your child was diagnosed at a young age and is presenting some new or unusual behavior, you may be wondering, “Is this the ADHD or do I just have a teenager on my hands?” Here are some common areas that most teenagers struggle with at times, but could also mean that your child could benefit from additional support.
- Executive Functioning: We all struggle to get things done sometimes. For kids with ADHD, it can be even harder. Does your child often have grand ideas but can’t seem to organize their thoughts let along take the steps to execute the idea? If this is a common area where your child struggles, a new approach to school projects, homework assignments, chores, etc. may be beneficial. The National Center for Learning Disabilities recommends these steps to help your child with goal-directed tasks:
- Prevent overload
- Provide structure and support new learning
- Observe for symptoms of overload and ensure downtime
- Minimize and preview changes in educational environment
- Keep work periods brief and provide frequent breaks
- Allow extended time for assignments and tests
- Keep oral directions brief or accompany them with a visual reminder, such as a checklist
Be sure to discuss these with your child’s teacher to help provide understanding for some of the challenges they may be going on in the classroom and to gain support for your child’s learning needs.
- Self-Regulation: As kids get older, they begin to pay more attention to the world around them and alter their behavior based on where they are and what is happening. This skill is more difficult to master for most kids with ADHD, so inappropriate behaviors are more likely to happen. Here are some tips to help improve self-regulation at school and at home.
- Keep your daily schedule in a visible place at home, and cross things off as they are completed. This helps everyone feel in control of their day and stay aware of any changes.
- Structure & Responsibility! When you deviate from routine and structure, you are opening up doors for impulsive behaviors. They are going to happen, but giving your child specific responsibilities helps hold them accountable and helps them stay focused on being self-controlled.
- Use natural and logical consequences. If your child does behave inappropriately, always use a natural or logical consequence to help them better learn for the future. It’s kind of like the old, “If you keep slamming that door, I’ll take it off the hinges” rule. A more likely example might be, if your child continues to put down their siblings, each time will require three “put ups”.
- Poor Self-Confidence: It’s normal for teenagers to feel low at times as they are growing and forming their own identities. However, in the long-term, low self-confidence can negatively impact so many areas of your child’s life—academics, peer relationships, family relationships, and more. It’s important to help your child see their strengths as soon as you begin to their confidence sliding. Here are some ways to instill confidence in your child.
- Encourage your child to develop an expertise in an area where they already have interest such as photography, computer programming, music, etc.
- Always distinguish between your disapproval for your child’s action and your love for them. As a parent, you will have to discipline your child at times, but kids can often confuse these two aspects, especially when their desire is to please you.
- Praise your child’s efforts just as much as the end product. The steps toward the goal are often the hardest, so be sure to praise these efforts equally!
- Always highlight your child’s successes!
No matter which situation you find yourself in, there are resources available. The first step is evaluating your child’s most immediate needs and advocating for those. Understand that as a teenager, there will be times when your child is simply just driving you crazy, but sometimes it may be a deeper issue that needs to be addressed. As an organization that was built around the needs of youth with attention and learning issues, we are here to help! | <urn:uuid:dd6145be-db15-405e-8da4-d70b308fb990> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://soarnc.org/teenage-adhd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96145 | 1,319 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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The word aggressive launch makes reference to the right position in which a keen system or variety are alleviated of one’s anxieties associated with battle and can become more effective and you may prominent within its environment. Such as, from the early 1950s the fresh new American chestnut ( Castanea dentata) got got rid of just like the a dominant shelter varieties inside erica by the accidental introduction of an excellent fungal pathogen also known as chestnut blight (Endothia parasitica). Other forest varieties took advantageous asset of their abrupt discharge out-of battle with the chestnut because of the opportunistically filling in this new cover openings one to was basically remaining from the dying away from adult chestnut woods. Similarly, competitively pent-up herbs tends to be create whenever a mature tree are interrupted, such as, by wildfire, a great windstorm, or picking from the individuals. If for example the interference eliminates some of the trees one designed the newest forest canopy but in past times stored plants endure, after that this type of understory herbs have a tendency to gain access to enough environmental info for example light, moisture, and you may nutrients, and they’re going to be able to develop relatively easily.
Competitive displacement is claimed that occurs whenever a far more aggressive varieties reasons various other to make use of a distinctly sub-optimal habitat. A number of interesting cases of competitive displacement were described because of the ecologists, of numerous related to relationships away from bush varieties. In the eastern The united states, instance, this new natural habitat utilized by the brand new silver maple forest (Acer saccharinum) is close to completely restricted to disabled video chat rooms forested wetlands, or swamps. But not, the new silver maple is much more productive out-of biomass and you can fruits if it expands to your better-drained, upland sites, and for which need it’s aren’t grown inside the metropolitan areas and you can towns and cities. Nevertheless habitat taste, the newest gold maple cannot take place in the sheer tree people regarding well drained internet sites. It seems that the brand new gold maple isn’t well enough aggressive to cooccur during the really-strained web sites with increased vigorous forest species such as the glucose maple (Acer saccharum), basswood (Tilia americana), and/or purple pine (Quercus rubra). For that reason, the fresh new gold maple is actually displaced to swamps, a distinctly sandwich-max environment where there was frequent psychological stress with the flood.
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Trader Joe’s: home to good snacks and cheap wine and, apparently, mandatory cheerfulness. Late last week, an unfair-labor practices charge was filed with a National Labor Relations Board regional office on behalf of Thomas Nagle, a former employee of a Trader Joe’s located on the Upper West Side. According to the New York Times, Nagle was let go in September after being “repeatedly reprimanded” by management; among his fireable offenses were an “overly negative attitude,” paired with an obviously fake smile.
That he was fired may be a problem for the grocery-store chain, the Times reports, if it turns out that the company’s insistence on maintaining a sunny disposition effectively prohibited him and his colleagues from discussing their dissatisfaction with their workplace. Federal labor law protects employees’ right to “complain about working conditions to the public, including customers.” (Trader Joe’s issued a statement to the Times denying any wrongdoing.)
And yet no matter the decision, there are other reasons that forcing a positive attitude is a bad business practice. Research in organizational psychology calls this sort of thing, which often comes with the territory in the service sector, “surface acting” — for example, slapping on a smile and pretending it’s fine, perfectly fine, that a customer just knocked over the display of Charles Shaw wine. Faking it, in other words. As you might imagine, this gets draining by the end of an eight-hour (or even longer) shift.
In 2003, for example, Alicia A. Grandey of Pennsylvania State University published a summary of surveys filled out by 131 administrative assistants, one of whom confided to her, “It’s frustrating at times to always be courteous and helpful to those who may not act as such in return. We need to keep smiling when we really don’t feel that way.” They were asked to rate, on a scale of one to five, how often they felt like they did the following while at work:
• ”Just pretend to have the emotions I need to display for my job.”
• ”Put on an act in order to deal with customers in an appropriate way.”
In the end, Grandey found a clear link between behaviors like these and “emotional exhaustion,” one of the core components of job burnout. Other research backs up this finding: Faking a cheery attitude is exhausting, and it often results in burned-out employees. As Annie Murphy Paul, a writer and author who often covers social science, noted in a 2014 post on her site, a non–Trader Joe’s example of employer-mandated chipper behavior can be seen at Walgreens-affiliated stores. At my local Duane Reade, for example, as cashiers hand you the receipt they tell you, “Be well.” The first time this happened, I found it touching, believing it to be a genuine kind wish from the stranger at the cash register.
It was not. As Jessica Levco, who edits the website Health Care Communication News, reported, this is company policy. “’Our branded salutations further align our team members to our purpose of helping people get, stay and live well,” a Walgreens spokesperson said in a statement given to Levco. “In general, we’ve found that customer satisfaction increases through such positive interactions, which help make their shopping experience a bit more memorable.”
That may be true, that customer satisfaction increases with changes like these; then again, maybe not. A 2008 study surveyed people who took a fitness class; unbeknownst to them, their instructor had either been told to fake their emotions and act enthusiastically about the class, or to just act naturally. People didn’t fall for the act; they could tell when the instructor’s heart wasn’t really in it, and when they did, they didn’t have as much fun in the class. Having fun is not so fun when the fun becomes mandatory.
Instead, Paul suggests employers consider the following:
Train workers well, so that they satisfy their customers with good service. Offer them congenial working conditions, so that they’re glad to be at work. Allow them more personal control over how they do their jobs (research shows this can buffer the stress imposed by surface acting). And provide them with opportunities to develop genuinely warm relationships with managers, coworkers, and customers — so that employees have something real to smile about, and so that when they tell someone to “be well,” they mean it.
As she pointed out in her post, well-meaning mandates like this one can backfire. Having to behave in opposition to our inner states is known, in the psychological literature, as emotional dissonance, and it is exhausting, physically and mentally speaking. “We all want to feel that we’re the same person on the outside as we are on the inside,” Paul wrote, “and when we can’t achieve that congruence, we feel alienated and depersonalized.” | <urn:uuid:cb8b79a6-8961-4641-876b-94db09697343> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecut.com/2016/11/forcing-employees-to-act-happy-is-a-terrible-idea.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964251 | 1,085 | 1.804688 | 2 |
We believe that the basic needs for disabled children are no different from those of any other child. But we recognise that some disabled children have additional needs, or face extra barriers which prevent their inclusion in society. And it is those children, that we try hard to support.
This service covers:
- Children’s Social Care Disability Service
- Children’s Social Care Disability Early Support Services
- Community Inclusion and Activity Team
- Somerset Supporter Scheme (children with disabilities)
- Direct Payment Scheme
- Short Breaks Children’s Homes
- Short Breaks Foster Care
- Home based care
The team works closely with colleagues in the Health and Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities Services, and the Inclusion Team within Education.
- Autism and Communications Service (for children up to age 13)
- Occupational Therapy Service – specialist environmental and functional assessors in the home, school, respite and other venues
If you are a professional and wish to make a referral to Children’s Social Care, it must be submitted using our multi-agency referral form – the Early Help Assessment (EHA) which you can find at: www.professionalchoices.org.uk
Community Inclusion and Activity Team
If your child or young person:
- has a diagnosed disability or is currently going through the process of an assessment
- has an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
- is in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or PIP
You can refer to the Community Inclusion and Activity Team for time-limited support for your family to help with information, advice and signposting, and possible funding to help you to access local opportunities.
- Summer Activity Calendar 2022
- Community Inclusion and Activity Team Flyer
- Free Activity Day Passes – Available all year round for all families in Somerset with a child or young person with a disability or additional need.
- Youth Equipment Store Flyer
- Youth Equipment Store: Accessible Items
- West Somerset Area: Library Packs for Kids
You can sign your children up to do SASP Challenges on their website and they can win certificates when they complete a challenge. SASP Challenge events can be found here. You can also find some activities that have been adapted for home on their website.
The Children with Disabilities Service offers an assessment for disabled children and their families.
This document provides information about the range of Services available to families of children and young people with a disability or additional need living in Somerset aged 0-18 years.
Ensuring that children and young people with disabilities are seen as people first
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Advertisers have largely led the trend, first by embracing illustration as a handy way of helping a sceptical public rekindle its love affairs with their products when photos just make the public even more dubious.
Illustration helps some advertisers dodge regulators and ease the responses of a critical public. For instance, in 2005, guidelines for advertising alcohol in the UK changed, and it became impossible to show sexy people having a good time while drinking alcohol. How do you make your brand fun without showing people having fun while using it? Stella Artois went with a well-received illustration-based campaign for its beers.
AMV/BBDO’s ad's for the Economist by Craig Ward and others integrate the message into images with trademark wit.
Mid-decade, faced with a public that was increasingly anti-junk food and anti-corporate, Coca-Cola turned to illustration for its ‘The Coke Side of Life’ campaign. And of course, where the big junk food and alcohol brands lead, the rest follow. | <urn:uuid:0060fa28-34a0-44cd-a339-ae8acc476026> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/illustration/welcome-new-wave-of-type-based-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955726 | 214 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Today is my final day with the wonderful folks at First Presbyterian Church of Neenah Wisconsin, and today’s short Gospel was from the 13th chapter of John, where Jesus commands his disciples to love one another, saying this is how people will know they are his disciples.
This Gospel occurs during the Last Supper, the last meal Jesus will spend with his friends and disciples – the last time he will be able to have a real conversation with them before he is arrested. And what is it important for Jesus to convey in this moment, in his final, intensive conversation with his disciples at the Last Supper? Judas has just left to betray Jesus, so Jesus knows his time is limited, and he needs to make sure his disciples understand what he has been trying to convey to them. What does he share?
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples.
And the this is not whether you were circumcised.
The this is not whether you do or don’t eat pork.
And the this is not whether you got divorced several times.
The this is not about which version of the Bible we read or which creed we recite.
And the this is not any of the myriad ways we try to divide each other up into the good guys and the bad.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you have love for one another.” “Just as I have loved you, you should also love one another.”
How embarrassing it should be for many of us who call ourselves Christians to recall that Jesus wanted to make it easy for us by having us focus on this one thing; yet we have found so many other ways to identify true believers, and we often have a hard time putting this commandment into practice even in our own family lives. Episcopal rector Gary Jones commenting on this passage observed,
The Bible and the creed would become terribly important to human beings over the years, while the one thing most important to Jesus would get lost as Christians wrestled with power and orthodoxy.
I suspect Jesus knew people would fight wars over who held correct beliefs, but that was never his primary concern.
“Love as I have loved you.”
People argue about what it means to love God. But Jesus’ uniting of two disparate in the Hebrew Scriptures into his Great Commandment tell us how to we love God: by loving his creatures, loving our neighbors. We cannot love God without loving each other.
Fifty-five or so years ago Hal David and Burt Bacharach composed a song titled What the World Needs Now. The opening lines are “What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. No, not just for some, but for everyone.”
The sentiment expressed in the song is no less true today. The love that we are called to share – with everyone – is what our world so desperately needs. A world groaning in pain. Hate crimes. Separation of parents and children at the border. War. Etc, etc, and so forth.
None of us are actively participating in any of that. And much of the suffering of the world is beyond our direct control. But we do need to ask ourselves how we are implementing Jesus’ command, both on a micro and a macro level.
On a micro level: We can ask ourselves – who (individually or collectively) do I find it difficult to love? Where is my heart hardened? Where is the challenge for me to love the way Jesus did – without regard to merit, without regard to what that person does or does not do for me? And what grace do I need from God to love more expansively?
On a macro level: Does my life bear witness to the love and fidelity of God? And part of that is: are we sharing the story of Christian hope – of God’s love made manifest in the death and resurrection of Christ? Because the promise is (to quote the title of a book by Evangelical Rob Bell): Love Wins. However grim things look there will be a new day when we live face to face with God. When all that has hindered, hurt, and hampered us will be gone. What will be left is a life with God, filled with relationships of joy and strength with God’s people.
That is a message our world so desperately needs.
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Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Carson moved to Indianapolis as a child so that her mother could find work. Graduating from Crispus Attucks High School in 1955, Carson attended both Martin University in Indianapolis and Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne.
In 1965, while working as a secretary at a local United Auto Workers chapter, she met newly elected U.S. Congressman Andy Jacobs, who hired her as a legislative assistant. At Jacobs’ encouragement, Carson ran for the Indiana House of Representatives in 1972. Winning the seat, Carson served for four years–becoming assistant minority caucus chair. Subsequently, Carson was elected to the Indiana State Senate, a job she held for fourteen years.
While employed in the state legislature, Carson was human resources director at an electric company. She became Trustee of Indianapolis’s Center Township, a program that handled federal welfare distribution and was riddled with corruption and mismanagement. Carson addressed the agency’s administrative issues and turned its multi-million dollar debt into a $6 million surplus.
Elected to the US House of Representatives in 1996, Indiana’s second African American Congresswoman served until her death in 2007. In the House, Carson was committed to financial education, eradicating homelessness, helping homeowners, and protecting the rights of veterans.
She served on the House Committees on Financial Services, Veterans’ Affairs, and Transportation and Infrastructure. She was a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Congressional Black Caucus.
Carson authored the bill giving a Congressional Gold Medal to Rosa Parks. She also fought to enhance the detection of children qualified for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Indianapolis Star named her Woman of the Year in 1974, and again in 1991. | <urn:uuid:234290fd-b8fe-46ad-aeab-714c7c5a4c55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indianapublicmedia.org/momentofindianahistory/ms-carson-washington/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958463 | 372 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Mark 8:22-26: Lessons from a blind man’s healing.
“22-23 They arrived at Bethsaida. Some people brought a sightless man and begged Jesus to give him a healing touch. Taking him by the hand, he led him out of the village. He put spit in the man’s eyes, laid hands on him, and asked, “Do you see anything?” 24-26 He looked up. “I see men. They look like walking trees.” So Jesus laid hands on his eyes again. The man looked hard and realized that he had recovered perfect sight, saw everything in bright, twenty-twenty focus. Jesus sent him straight home, telling him, “Don’t enter the village.” NIV UK
The opening of someone’s eyes often begins with earnest prayer on their behalf (22). You have family, friends, colleagues, neighbours who are spiritually blind. It is obvious to you if not to them. ‘’The god of this age has blinded’’ their ‘’minds’’…so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God’’ (2 Corinthians 4:4). But things can change. God can ‘’make his light shine’’ in hearts to give ‘’the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ’’ (2 Corinthians 4:6). So, don’t lose heart. Pray on. ‘’Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever’’ (Hebrews 13:8).
But even as a believer, you may not see truth as clearly as you want or need to. You too may ask for the light of understanding. The context for this short story is telling. It comes between the disciples still failing to fully understand (18), and Peter’s wonderful confession (29; see Matthew 16:17), all-be-it a still imperfect one (32-33). The truth is that we disciples are a work in progress. We are not yet the finished article. One day, however, we will see ‘’everything clearly’’ (19; see 1 Corinthians 13:12). God has started His work in us, and He will certainly finish (Philippians 1:6). | <urn:uuid:72e13772-13ad-4d79-89cd-ce6fb27ddc32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adatewithjesus.com/2017/09/26/daily-bible-thoughts-1507-tuesday-26th-september-2017-mark-822-26-lessons-from-a-blind-mans-healing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963977 | 514 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Tire technology has rapidly evolved over the last few decades, and this is especially true in racing. NASCAR tires have changed every bit as much over the years as the Sprint Cup cars. Today, they remain one of the critical pieces that will determine victory or defeat.
Since 1997, Goodyear has been the sole provider of tires for all NASCAR race series. The Goodyear Race Eagle is the tire getting the job done, familiar to race fans due to the distinctive thick yellow lettering. Goodyear tests the tires extensively to make sure they can survive 200 miles per hour, for several dozen laps. Running that kind of speed means 3,000 tire revolutions per minute, which can build up a ton of heat. Tire changers report temperatures around 200 degrees Fahrenheit when they have their hands in there.
The Racing Eagle needs to be high tech to take this abuse, and they are much more than just round rubber donuts filled with air. Each tire has a radio frequency identification tag embedded. Basically, this chip tells date of manufacture, batch number, exact size, and so on. Due to production variables, no two tires are exactly alike, but the RFID chips let teams find tires that are very evenly matched. Two other features that differ from road tires are the inner liner and nitrogen. The “lifeguard” inner liner prevents dangerous blowouts by providing a tire within a tire. The race car can drive on this inner liner for a short time, preventing serious accidents. A nitrogen fill is another safety feature, as the gas is inert, so it will not react to the high temperatures the way air would.
Racing Eagles are a racing slick, which looks like at first glance like a fat bald tire. Street tires have grooves for channeling water and debris, while still gripping the road. Race cars need maximum grip, so the entire surface becomes the contact patch gripping the track. While it works great on a dry track, the lack of tread groves mean the tires are terrible in the rain. This is the reason NASCAR has rain delays. The cars can handle rain, but the tires can’t.
NASCAR runs a very plain, “old school” steel wheel. They do this for strength, not aesthetics. They are usually from AERO or Bassett Racing, and measure 15 inches diameter, and 9.5 or 10 inches wide. While anyone can buy these wheels and fit them to a road car, the wheels are not DOT approved. On this wheel, the Racing Eagle is mounted, sized 28/10-15.
Race-spec Eagles are not cheap, running over $400 each. In 2014, teams spent an average of $20,000 for tires at each race. That’s a lot of tires. NASCAR recently partnered with Liberty Tire Recycling, to solve the 120,000 annual tire problem. The tires will be shredded for rubber garden mulch, or melted and added to asphalt for racetracks and parking lots. Any tires that don’t end up recycled will probably find their way to eBay, where they sell for about half the price of new. Much more if autographed. | <urn:uuid:bcbba7d0-a3c3-4f68-8a25-45f96bca32f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.performanceplustire.com/blog/nascar-tires/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953326 | 643 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Presenter: Mary McGinnis
Most of us have heard some form of “The Golden Rule” since we were children. “Treat others as you want to be treated” is a guiding philosophy in Christian communities and in our culture.
Maybe what is less known is just how global that philosophy is in other cultures and other religions.
The Golden Rule Project states: “The Golden Rule is inclusive of all different traditions, philosophies, and religions. Different versions or formulations of the Golden Rule can be found everywhere: in religious and secular texts, works of art, song lyrics and in the words of world leaders and more.”
Please join us as a member of our congregation shares a compilation of some of these formulations from the , Golden Rule Project and encourages personal reflection on how this may be present in daily living- rather than merely becoming empty rhetoric.
Unitarian Universalism honors the differing paths we each travel. Our congregations are places where we celebrate, support, and challenge one another as we continue on these journeys. Unitarian Universalists covenant to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person; justice, equality and compassion in human relations; and acceptance of one another.
Please join us Sunday at the Vendor Blender and Event Center, 588 Addison Avenue West in Twin Falls at 10:30 AM. The Vendor Blender is located near the old hospital near the intersection of Martin St. and Addison Avenue West. Newcomers of all religious paths or none at all are always welcome. We are handicapped accessible. Child care is available. Please park in the rear of the building and use the entrance on the west side of the building. | <urn:uuid:6f9930e8-248c-4897-b0a4-c6e02cc79c69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://magicvalleyuu.org/tag/golden-rule/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948338 | 345 | 1.734375 | 2 |
It is important to save energy, especially in winter. But in reality, it is important to save energy throughout the year. Here are 10 tips for saving heat and gas.
Keep the heat under control
You have no doubt heard that the increase in heat and the increase in pollution are factors that make us sick more often these days. In your house, you can of course install an air conditioner, but is it really enough? Do air conditioners really burn less energy than air heating? In reality, an air conditioner consumes much more energy than central air heating.
There are also all the other things you can do to keep the heat under control:
• use glass wool or blankets (made of sheep’s wool) to keep your home pleasantly warm and comfortable. You only take them off when you feel too hot.
• Only install air conditioners in the rooms that serve you the most.
• if you can, make sure your house is never too hot. And if so, close the windows and doors.
• avoid taking too long showers and use hot water only for bathing or for people who do not have a swimming pool.
• turn off all electrical appliances that you do not need.
• inside the house, turn off the lights when you are not using them.
• if you have a swimming pool, use hot water for bathing or for people who do not have a swimming pool.
• regulate the heating of your house according to your real needs. Don’t leave it on all the time. And above all, remember that you are inside and that the cold outside is there to protect you.
• do not let your children play with electrical devices such as mobile phones or game consoles.
• if you have a central heating system (heat pump), if possible, use only the heat it produces.
The basic good habits that have been talked about for years are still relevant with the war in Ukraine!
Insulate doors and windows
Insulating doors and windows may seem like a simple task. However, it is important to properly insulate your doors and windows to ensure that you can retain the heat from the heating in the winter and keep it cool in the summer. Find out how to insulate every door and window in your home.
You can also use energy savers like plastic or foam double glazing for your front door or upstairs windows.
Pay attention to the insulation of the doors and windows in your children’s room: they need a cozy and warm place to sleep, but the insulation must be sufficient to prevent heat loss when they open their door there. night.
Radiators and convectors
Your home or office can be heated by many different ways: radiators, convectors, underfloor heating… But in which case is each method preferable? What is the radiator? What is the convector? What is underfloor heating? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
Insulate your radiators
In winter, radiators are primarily responsible for heating your home. The radiators work thanks to an electrical resistance which transforms the electricity into heat. But that’s not all: some radiators can have a dual purpose: to heat the ambient air and to power the heat pump. This is also the case with radiators.
Use a reversible radiator to heat your home
Reversible radiators are a good solution to increase the energy efficiency of your home and reduce your energy costs. Indeed, these devices can produce heat with electricity or natural gas, but also by using the hot air already present in the house.
Wrap your radiators with an insulating fabric
This is a very simple method to reduce heat loss. Indeed, wrapping your radiators in an insulating fabric such as sandpaper or wool can reduce the energy used by each device by several tens of watts.
You can also install an anti-heat mat under your radiators to protect them from direct contact with the floor.
Insulate taps and pipes
Your bathroom faucets can be a major source of moisture, which can degrade your floors and walls in the long run. Insulating the piping below your sink helps protect your floors from the negative effects of moisture. Also, we explain how you can insulate your main pipes with wind-up insulation.
Staying warm in winter is possible!
In Quebec, winter can be long and very cold. Heating is the primary source of energy expenditure. It is important to take good steps to maintain a pleasant temperature in the house and not waste energy. Follow our tips to save money.
To help you reduce your electricity bills, we suggest simple things to do every day:
Close shutters and curtains when the sun is out.
Check that the ventilation in your home is well ventilated.
Proper insulation of the walls, roof and floor helps retain heat.
Do not heat an unused room.
Heating with solar energy rather than with stoves.
First of all, it is important to control the heat. In our house we have thermostats on all radiators and convectors, which allows us to keep control individually for each room. We can thus save energy by controlling the temperature and reducing the amount of heat in the rooms where we are not.
We have replaced our radiators with convectors. These are less greedy than radiators. In addition, our convectors are induction, which reduces the energy consumption of the device.
When we enter the house, we can smell a little burning smell coming from the wood stoves. Although we have a ventilation system, this smell remains perceptible, but it does not bother us. Moreover, this smell reassures us when we think of stove heating.
We also replaced the wood stove in our room with a pellet stove. The latter is more efficient and less greedy. It heats up faster and therefore reduces energy consumption.
You can heat with all kinds of fuels: wood, kerosene, natural gas… but we have chosen to heat with wood. Indeed, wood is a renewable resource. It is a soft and ecological fuel.
We have had photovoltaic panels installed on the roof in order to be energy self-sufficient. This allows us to have total autonomy and we no longer need to use electricity from the network.
These panels produce electricity using solar energy. In winter, this energy is transformed into heat thanks to wood-burning stoves.
We had a pellet stove installed in our room. It heats up faster and therefore reduces energy consumption.
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But, being a moms and dad, you’ve got a obligation — and it’s really maybe perhaps not that which you think. A responsibility is had by you to deal with your son or daughter, and also to care for your self — economically talking. And contrary to just exactly exactly what numerous aid that is financial will state, avoid being taking right out loans to cover your young ones’s training — under any scenario. Moms and dads shouldn’t be borrowing cash to pay for their child’s university.
Let us break it straight straight down.
Methods Moms And Dads Borrow For Their Kids’ Training
Moms and dads can borrow due to their youngsters’ training in lots of ways. Probably the most typical means moms and dads borrow cash is always to sign up for figuratively speaking by themselves — Parent PLUS Loans. They are loans which can be applied for into the moms and dad’s title to be utilized for his or her young child’s training.
Beyond PLUS Loans, moms and dads often sign up for student that is private too. Again, in many cases they are into the moms and dad’s title, or the moms and dad is a cosigner in the education loan. In either case, the moms and dad is 100% in charge of your debt.
Finally, some moms and dads also turn to taking out fully house equity loans to cover kids’s training. In place of having pupil loan, these moms and dads make use of the equity inside their house to cover university. While this might appear beneficial into the short-term, you will find problems economically when utilizing this technique.
University Fund (Picture credit: Taxation Credits)
The price of Student Education Loans For Parents
Exactly What moms and dads don’t understand is the fact that there clearly was a price for them when planning in taking on figuratively speaking, plus it does not often take advantage feeling in order for them to just just just take this cost on.
First, whenever parents take on Parent PLUS Loans, you can find a lot less loan that is student choices. Parent PLUS Loans aren’t allowed to be forgiven beneath the Federal Teacher education loan Forgiveness Program, as well as for a selection of technical reasons, borrowers will not get relief beneath the Public provider Loan Forgiveness Program.
Along side maybe not being qualified to receive education loan forgiveness, Parent PLUS Loans aren’t entitled to the income-contingent, or repayment that is pay-as-you-earn, therefore the only qualifying choice is to settle the loans under standard payment (that could consist of graduated or extended plans). This may be problematic for moms and dads because it does not enable flexibility that is much.
If moms and dads borrow personal student education loans, they shall typically spend greater rates of interest and costs than Federal student education loans. And once again, you can find restricted alternatives for repayment and forgiveness.
Finally, if your moms and dad removes a true home Equity personal credit line to fund kids’s university training, they face a few challenges. First, interest rates are suprisingly low, nonetheless they will probably increase by the right time the pupil graduates university. With HELOCs, re payments are due right away, versus being deferred until graduation with student education loans. And lastly, the moms and dads is always accountable for your debt and it is mounted on their house — therefore it makes options difficult if they sell or their circumstances change.
A Much Better Option To Parent Borrowing
You will find better options to moms and dads borrowing with regards to their youngsters’ training. First, parents and pupils want to search for how to graduate university financial obligation free. It is possible, and students that are many done it. Next, parents and students should try to find school funding programs that may assist. Numerous schools have actually programs which could help pupils, and additionally, there are grants and scholarships which may be available.
The student should only take them out if these options still don’t help cover the full cost of going to school, and there is a need for student loans. They need to follow Federal figuratively speaking, unless they will have a legitimate economic basis for getting personal loans, such as for example planning to medical college. The cause of this can be two-fold:
For moms and dads: you cannot get that loan for your retirement. Your children will get assist spending money on school, but there is however no one that may help you pay money for your future.
For pupils: there are plenty of future choices if the education loan is with in your title, including education loan forgiveness and differing repayment plans that will reduce re re payments.
Make the tale of Debra Crow. She took in $41,000 in education loan financial obligation to simply help https://speedyloan.net/payday-loans-ms buy her child’s training and from now on this woman is struggling to produce re re payments in the financial obligation. Nevertheless, her child is doing work for a non-profit that could be eligible for a education loan forgiveness if perhaps your debt was at the child’s title. In this instance, the household is stuck. In the event that child had merely taken regarding the financial obligation by herself, she might have had more choices to repay or get forgiveness than her mom presently does.
Therefore, rather than borrowing for the kids’ education, glance at these options and things that are structure to truly save your self as time goes on.
It really is nearly time for you to compose that very first look for your kid’s very very very first 12 months at university. Ouch. Taking a look at that very first declaration from your kid’s college are painful — even though they truly are going to a general general general public university, you’re going to be having to pay thousands of bucks each year. It is not low priced.
But, being a parent, you have got a obligation — and it’s really perhaps maybe not everything you think. You have got a duty to manage your son or daughter, also to look after your self — economically talking. And as opposed to just exactly what numerous aid that is financial will state, do not be taking out fully loans to fund your children’s training — under any scenario. Moms and dads shouldn’t be borrowing cash to purchase their children’s college.
Let’s break it straight straight down.
Methods Parents Borrow For Their Kids’ Training
Parents can borrow with regards to their kid’s training in many ways. Probably the most way that is common borrow cash would be to sign up for figuratively speaking themselves — Parent PLUS Loans. They are loans which are applied for when you look at the moms and dad’s title to be utilized due to their kid’s training.
Beyond PLUS Loans, parents often sign up for student that is private too. Once more, generally in most cases they are within the moms and dad’s title, or even the moms and dad is a cosigner in the learning education loan. In any event, the moms and dad is 100% accountable for your debt.
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Am I an athlete?
A fellow runner shared with me that she doesn’t identify as an athlete. She said she was reading one of my nutrition articles on the Steeplechasers Newsletter. It got her thinking that she struggles to identify as an athlete. This is a runner who runs nearly every day, runs marathons frequently, and even takes home age-group awards. I would say she’s an everyday athlete.
This was not the first time I’ve heard someone say they aren’t an athlete, despite being dedicated to an activity. Why is it difficult to take on that identity? Why can’t we say “I’m an athlete?” And why does it matter what we call ourselves?
Defining the Everyday Athlete
What is an athlete? What does it mean to be an athlete? Likely you’ll get different responses from different people. I believe there’s an athlete in everybody, even if you haven’t been active for a while. Our bodies are designed to move.
I recognize our society tends to reserve athlete for the elite: those that are faster, stronger, “better” than us. But Kokoro Nutrition wants you to take back the word and the identity as an athlete, an everyday athlete. Sure, most of us will never be professional athletes. But I believe: if you have a body, you can be an athlete.
It can be easy to take on the athlete identity when it’s your job or even as a high school or college athlete. For the rest of us balancing careers (not in sport), family, and life, it feels harder to take on the athlete persona.
Not being the best or reaching a certain elite level, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t call yourself an athlete. After all, the definition of the word is “a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina.”
The Athlete Mindset
There’s not just one trait that defines a great athlete. But a great athlete must have the right mindset. People with a growth mindset think of their physical abilities as something they can improve and develop. At the core of this mindset, it is the belief that your actions can change your outcomes.
We don’t believe that every athlete has the potential to be Michael Jordan or Serena Williams. And keep in mind that even at the professional level, those athletes wouldn’t be Jordan without years of training, practice, and passion. Athletes find a balance between believing in themselves, their current skills, and knowing that in order to keep achieving they will need to grow.
Our bodies may slow down and change, but you can always have the athlete mindset.
Developing the athlete mindset may take some time. Instead of saying ‘I’m not a good runner’, add the word ‘yet’ to the end of the sentence. This reminds you that you are developing new skills – it will just take time and effort to grow.
Traits I see in You … The Everyday Athlete
We often see positive traits in others before we see it in ourselves. What makes us say that about someone else but not ourselves? It may have to do with their behaviors and traits.
Here are just a few traits I see in you that make you an everyday athlete:
- Discipline – Staying discipline can be tough but you’ve shown up, put in the miles, practiced hard. Discipline is more than just doing it for a medal. You have the motivation to prove hard work makes a difference.
- Inner Desire to Succeed – An athlete has a desire to do their best and understand success can mean different things.
- Ability to Learn from Setbacks – Every athlete has had a bad day. Learning from it is an important trait. I see this in a lot of runners. They have a bad race, do a little analysis as to why it went bad, and then their next race is even better. Regardless of what the set back is, athletes have the ability to move forward and try again.
- Appreciation – Appreciation may seem like an odd trait to identify as an athletic trait but I see it all the time. I see athletes appreciate the ability to move, the early morning alone time to workout, friends who encourage us across the finish line and the overall experiences.
Why does it matter?
Does it really matter how you identify yourself? Athlete … or not? Taking on the athlete mindset is an important part of this. Taking on that mindset can shift how you feel about yourself and how you feel about your activity or sport. For some people, once they start calling themselves an athlete, that means it is important to you and start making different decisions.
Change happens when you let go of what’s holding you back and you give yourself permission to succeed. That may just happen when you start to identify more as an athlete.
There’s a certain level of pride that comes over someone when they accomplish something physical. You can see it in their face. That’s the core of being an athlete, feeling good about your commitment to yourself. If you aren’t ready to call yourself an athlete just yet, take on the growth mindset and try: Aspiring Athlete (You’re not an athlete, yet). You hope to be and this mindset will lead you to do the things that eventually make you feel like you are.
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Question from Tomas:
What is your take on Irreducible Complexity? From what I have read, it appears to be Intelligent Design in a new wrapper but it does have some new arguments to it.
Also, it seems like any new religious “hypothesis” on the existence of God (or any god) is an old one that is simply retold to account for any existing argument against it. Isn’t that proof that their “hypotheses” are just efforts to grasp at straws since none of them have held up against any scrutiny?
Why can’t people who claim to believe in God (or supernatural entity) just simply have faith? Why must they try to prove it with facts which ultimately disprove their God?
Answer by SmartLX:
For those who came in late, irreducible complexity is the idea that certain biological mechanisms such as the eye and the bacterial flagellum cannot have evolved gradually, because if they were one step less complex or if they were missing one component then they wouldn’t work at all, which is not beneficial and therefore would not be naturally selected. It’s a specific type of the general creationist argument that evolution can’t have produced something or other.
If something were actually established as genuinely irreducibly complex, then by definition it really couldn’t have evolved. Where it falls over is that nothing has ever been established as such. The mechanisms and physical features which are presented as irreducibly complex invariably have very good explanations of how they likely evolved. These explanations usually (always?) pre-date the idea of irreducible complexity, sometimes by over a century, which means those using the argument haven’t even checked to see if it’s valid for their chosen biological object.
To give you a general idea of the explanations that exist, before we move on, there are a few possible sources of the kind of complexity that can appear irreducible.
– Multiple components can evolve in tandem.
– A slightly less complex version of something might have served an entirely different purpose until one last mutation turned it to its current function.
– A delicate structure might have formed in the presence of other supporting structures which were later dismantled and discarded, like scaffolding.
My series on the Great Big Arguments covers almost every kind of argument for God that it’s possible to make. Even the latest apologetics are heavily based on what has come before, to the extent that after 9 pieces I really don’t know what further Great Big Arguments I can write about. Even the last one was only on a variation. (Folks, let me know if I’ve missed something.)
An apologist would say that just because an argument has not been universally acknowledged as sound doesn’t mean it isn’t dead right, and the fact that people reject the arguments for God doesn’t mean He’s not real (and it’ll be their own problem when they face judgement). I say that just because an argument has been regularly refuted for years, decades or even centuries doesn’t mean it can’t still convince people who don’t know the refutations, and therefore pretty much all of the existing arguments are still useful when proselytising. Some organisations (such as dedicated apologetics ministry CARM) have actually advised against using certain convoluted arguments, but even these archaic rejects still crop up everywhere.
Some believers do keep their faith to themselves; it’s just that since we always hear from the bible-bashers instead, it’s easy to forget about the quiet ones. Those who do try to spread the faith, apart from simply wanting those around them to agree with them, are often commanded to do so by their religious leaders at all levels. It’s certainly easy to interpret most holy texts as demanding followers to recruit. Religions themselves would not have survived so long or become so popular if conversion and assimilation wasn’t an intrinsic part of their lifestyle. It’s a part that some believers reject, but those who embrace the call of the missionary are motivated to do the work for everyone.
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Shambhunath Institute of Engineering & Technology (SIET), Shambhunath Institute of Pharmacy (SIP), Shambhunath Institute of Management (SIM), Shambhunath Industrial Training Institute (SITI), Shambhunath College of Education (SCE), Vishnu Bhagwan Public School (VBPS), and proposed Shambhunath Institute of Law (SIL) & Institute of Agriculture Technology (IAT) are parts of Shambhunath Group of Institutions.
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Down Payment Conforming Loan – mapfretepeyac.com – A conforming loan is a mortgage that is equal to or less than the dollar amount established by the conforming-loan limit set by the Federal Housing Finance A conforming loan through Fannie or Freddie can have a down payment as low as 3%, and the borrower must be a first-time home buyer.
First Time Home Buyer Bond Program The First-Time Homebuyer Mortgage Program is the foundational mortgage program that can be combined with the NJHMFA Down Payment Assistance Program, which provides qualified buyers with $10,000 as an interest-free, five-year forgivable second loan with no monthly payment that can be used to cover down payment and closing costs.
A conforming mortgage is one that meets the standards of Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae publishes an eligibility matrix with its minimum lending standards, which include down payment requirements,
Benefits of a conforming loan: Often easier to qualify for. Can have a lower mortgage interest rate. May offer a lower down payment. Can allow some wiggle room with your credit score.
Conventional mortgage down payment Conventional loans require as little as 3% down (this is even lower than FHA loans). For down payments lower than 20% though, private mortgage insurance (PMI) is required. (PMI can be removed after 20% equity is earned in the home.)
Under the guidelines for conforming loans, borrowers with a small down payment must pay for private mortgage insurance, or PMI. You’ll have to pay for PMI if you put less than 20% down on the home. So if a home was valued at $100,000, unless you put down $20,000, you’d have to pay PMI.
The loan limits are the amount a qualified Veteran with full entitlement may be able to borrow without making a downpayment. These loan limits vary by county,
The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($484,350 or less).
Use this jumbo mortgage calculator to get an estimate of your jumbo mortgage payments. A jumbo loan is a non-conforming loan for loan amounts greater than $484,350 for a single-family home. In certain high cost areas, the conforming limit is up to $726,525.
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Down Payment For Home Loan 100% financing home loans are essentially no money down home loans – they’re mortgages that finance the entire purchase price and eliminate the need for a down payment. Large down payments can be tough to save for with current housing prices, especially for first-time homebuyers, which has made 100% financing home loans increasingly popular.
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How does the Demat account work?
How Demat Account Work?: When you acquire stock in the stock market, the Share brokers deposit the shares into your Demat account. This is shown in your holdings statement. Similarly, when selling your shares, you must provide your broker with specific instructions. The shares are then sold, and the proceeds are deducted from your account. If you trade online, your Demat account will show you how many shares you sold and how much money you received.
What is a Demat Account and How It Works?
A Demat account, also known as a dematerialization account, is an electronic storage and trading system for stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, and other assets. Stocks and securities were formerly only available and traded as tangible certificates, making transactions and storage inconvenient and insecure. However, when Demat accounts were established, it shortened the time necessary to clear, eliminated incidents of fraud, attracted more traders and investors, slashed brokerage prices, and dramatically boosted trading volume, in particular in the equities markets.
If you are investing or trading in shares, bonds, ETFs, and other assets, it is now compulsory to have a Demat account. Every firm listed on the stock, derivatives, and commodities exchanges must provide its securities with electronic form or Demat in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) format.
How Demat Account Work?
Similar to a savings account, a Demat account operates. You can keep cash in an electronic form on the savings account with the bank, and store securities in a Demat account using an NSDL-affiliated Depository Participant (DP). The Demat account lets you keep electronically shares and securities of different businesses. You are a credit to your Demat account if you purchase shares or securities and debited if you sell them.
How many types of Demat accounts are there in India?
In India, there are basically three main kinds of Demat accounts. They are as follows:
- Regular Demat Account:
This Demat account is made available to Indian residents, through intermediaries, stockbrokers, etc. This Demat account is given by depositors, such as the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).
- Repatriable Demat Account:
For non-resident Indian people (NRIs) wishing to invest in the Indian share market, this Demat account is beneficial. This account needs an NRE bank account connected with it. It may also have joint holders which should be Indian nationals, comparable to a standard Demat account.
- Non-Repatriable Demat Account:
Non-resident Indians can also open a Demat account. But the monies cannot be moved outside the country using this account. This account requires a corresponding NRO bank account, and NRIs may manage their funds conveniently with this account.
What is a Demat account what is the use of it?
It is quite simple to use a Demat account. By enrolling with an investment broker or sub-broker, the investor may open a Demat Account. Accessing a Demat and trading account requires an active internet connection and a transaction password when a Demat account has been opened successfully.
The first step to creating a Demat account is to pick a participant who acts as a depository agent. Following this, fill in the opening form and provide identity evidence, address certificate, pan card, and passport size photograph. Here you may find a full explanation of all approved documents. Once the investor agrees with the terms of the contract and the fees, an individual check-up is undertaken. A customer ID or account number is issued when the application is successfully processed. The user can use it to manage his Demat account online. An investment can then utilize this as a storage facility for the stock portfolio, to purchase and sell shares, stocks, and derivatives.
To buy or sell shares, an investor requires a trading account and a stockbroker in adding to a Demat account. The record of purchasing and selling in the individual account is usually reflected on a trade account. T+2 days are necessary to reflect the credit and debit of the shares in a Demat account after trading has taken place, and then the exchange confirmation. After the money for the purchase is paid before the date of payment, the broker is responsible for transferring shares to the investor’s Demat account. For more details please visit.
Read About Statement of Demat Account:
A Demat is an account that holds all of a trader’s capital assets. Demat accounts, for example, store digital copies of shares, mutual funds, bonds, debentures, gold ETFs, and other assets. The account allows for simple and hassle-free asset purchase and sale operations. It is critical to review the Demat account statement regularly.
Securities acquired by Indian investors are kept in two kinds of network depositories in India. National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Central Depository Service Limited (CDSL) are two depository service companies.
A single document that essentially covers all the assets (equities, mutual funds, and other depository accounts) of an investor is a consolidated account statement. The CAS is a single account document. By completing the following procedures you may quickly access your CAS.
- See the portal of the CDSL.
- Choose the ‘Login’ option under the ‘Quick Links’ page.
- Enter PAN to continue.
- Add the Demat account number to continue.
- Enter details like birth date and captcha.
- Send and enter the OTP that is sent to the cellphone registered number for login.
- You can view and download your Demat account statement successfully after authentication and logging in.
More About Demat Account Statement:
The next stages assist people to understand and analyze the statements of the Demat account:
- Personal Information: Even before glancing at the account statement, one should double-check their information.
- CDSL has the following Demat Accounts: This is a list of the investor’s whole portfolio. The parts depict the breakdown of various assets such as equities, mutual funds, government securities, and so on.
- Total Portfolio Value (all investments combined): This is a list of the investor’s whole portfolio. The parts depict the breakdown of various assets such as equities, mutual funds, government securities, and so on.
- Transactions Statement: This section displays all transactions for a certain time frame.
- Holding statement: This section contains a list of all of the investor’s assets. The ISIN, security name, current balance, frozen balance, pledge balance, free balance, market price, or face value, as well as the value of the assets, are all included for stocks. The fund name, folio number, investor information, date, transaction description, amount, NAV, Price, units, stamp duty, opening and closing balance for mutual funds are all included on the statement.
How Demat account different from a bank account?
A bank account is a place where the account holder deposits money. The account holder has the ability to withdraw funds from the bank account at any time and from any location. Also, putting money in a bank account counts as saving rather than investing.
A Demat account is a holding account for financial instruments that are held in a dematerialized or electronic version. The Demat account holds all of the stock purchases made through the trading account. The securities can only be sold during trading hours and only over the internet. The presence of all financial securities in the Demat account indicates that the account user is investing rather than saving.
How to transfer shares from one Demat account to another online?
To transfer shares from one Demat account to another through the internet, go to the CDSL website and click on the “register online” option. Fill up the form and print it out to send to the DP. After the DP has verified the information provided, a password will be emailed to the registered email address. To transfer shares from one Demat to another, use the password.
What are the Demat account charges?
The presence of a Depository Participant is required to open a Demat account (DP). DPs are often brokerage companies or banks that provide the opportunity to create a Demat account with them. The majority of the time, DP will demand a little fee to open a Demat account. Other fees include custodian fees, annual maintenance fees (AMC), transaction fees, and demat&remat fees, in addition to account opening fees. These fees may differ from one brokerage business to the next. For more details please visit
How to find your Demat account number?
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What is a Dog Walker?
A dog walker is a person who takes care of dogs, either for a fee or for free. They are usually employed by pet care providers to walk dogs in the area.
A typical day as a dog walker might involve cleaning up after the dog, feeding it, and taking it on walks. Some dog walkers may also take care of cats and other animals as well.
How to Find the Best Dog Walker for Your Needs
Finding the best dog walker for your needs can be a difficult process. There are different factors to consider when hiring a professional.
If you are looking for a dog walker near you, here is a list of things to do before hiring one.
1. Search online: Searching online will help you find the best dog walkers in your area and learn more about them. However, make sure that they have good reviews and testimonials from previous clients who had positive experiences with them. You can also see their social media profiles to get an idea of their personality and style
2. Interview: Interviewing potential candidates can help you find the right person for your needs and avoid wasting time on someone who doesn’t fit your expectations or personality
3. Meet in person: Meeting
What Do You Need to Know Before Hiring a Dog Walker?
A dog walker is a person who takes care of dogs for a living. They are responsible for walking and exercising their dogs, giving them treats, and playing with them.
Although the job title is rather straightforward, there are many things that should be considered before hiring someone to take care of your four-legged friend.
Before you hire anyone to walk your dog, you need to know what the job entails. You also need to know what qualifications are needed for this position.
What are the Different Types of Dog Walkers and How Do They Differ?
There are so many different types of dog walkers and service providers for dogs. There are those who have a full time job, those who have a part time job, and those who just do it as a hobby.
There are also some differences in the type of service they provide. Some people only provide day care services while others offer more extensive care. Some people only walk dogs once or twice a day while others offer more frequent walks.
Different types of dog walkers and service providers for dogs differ in their approach to taking care of the animals they handle.
What Should I Expect When Working with My New Pet Care Provider?
When you are getting a new pet care provider, you should expect the following:
– A clean and well-maintained facility
– A trained staff that will take good care of your pet
– A team that is available to help with any questions or concerns
– A low price for services
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- Overcoming Barriers to Living a Physically Active Lifestyle – noon-1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4. Discover strategies that will help you overcome barriers to adopting a physically active lifestyle. This is a two-part brown bag session. An optional tour of the Anderson Athletic and Recreation Center will be given at the end of the session.
- Negotiating for Success – 10 a.m.-noon Thursday, Oct. 6. In this course participants will practice methods of negotiation and learn how to apply them to everyday scenarios.
- Stay Fit While You Sit – noon-1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18. If most of your work week is spent at a desk, this class is for you. Dr. Tim Fargo will teach you ways to keep fit while seated in your office chair.
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Final Step of GeoThermal Installation “Walk Thru”
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Today we’re at the North Charlotte County Park’s Aquatic Center. We’re going to explain the operation of the whole GeoThermal heating system (watch the video above to see everything in action).
First, we have to make sure our heaters have enough water flow, and that starts with the bypass valve. When we close the valve, it diverts the water down a pipe to our heaters. After the water’s heated, it’s returned to the valve, then sent out to the pool.
We installed six of our largest heaters, the PH-215’s, which require 50 gallons of water per minute from the pool. To ensure we have proper water flow, we’ve installed a booster pump. When the heater calls for heat, it automatically turns on the booster pump and assists with pumping enough water to the heaters.
Though there are six heaters, you only need to make changes to heater one, which is the lead unit; the rest are connected and will follow suit. If you are receiving an error code on the heaters, it’ll typically be one of three things: FLO means your filter pumps aren’t running, HP5 stands for ‘high pressure five times’ (meaning the filters are dirty), and LP5 means there’s an issue with the well pump. If any other error arises, your best bet is to call us and have one of our repair technicians come check it out.
For the size of this pool (670,000 gallons), three 15 horsepower filtration pumps are required. A VFD or variable frequency drive controls each pump. The VFDs allow you to increase or decrease the speed of the pumps based on need.
We get lightning storms in the summer, so be aware that if lightning strikes close enough to the outside supply well, it can trip the breaker. You’ll get an LP5 error on the heater if this happens.
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This position performs highly skilled, master level mechanical and technical diagnostic work in the repair and maintenance of School Division vehicles and equipment. Diagnoses malfunctions in automotive equipment; removes and replaces worn or broken parts, and replaces fluids; enters maintenance data into computerized system. Supervises vehicle maintenance staff, providing customer assistance, maintaining administrative maintenance records, and assisting technicians in problem diagnostics.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Diagnoses problems, and major repairs to cars, light trucks, and buses; ensures dependability and safety of operation; repairs problems relating to fuel injection, gas and diesel engines, computerized engine controls, manual and automatic transmissions, clutches, cooling, suspension, steering, brakes (hydraulic and air), tracks, hydraulics, and attachments.
- Independently diagnoses and makes repairs to equipment in the field.
- Performs Virginia State Inspections.
- Performs preventive maintenance to cars, light trucks, and buses.
- Enters maintenance data information into computerized system.
- Attends training sessions, classes and meetings.
- Assumes duties of Shop Foreman in his/her absence.
- Prepares, schedules, and provides required training to shop mechanics.
- Performs maintenance and repairs to shop equipment; performs general shop maintenance and cleans shop.
- Picks up and delivers vehicles for outside repair.
- Responds to after-hours calls.
- Performs quality control checks on completed repairs selected randomly.
- Performs tool inventories at random.
- Models the WJCC Strategic Plan Values: Individualism, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability and Collaboration.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required)
- Graduation from high school supplemented by course work in automotive mechanics, and 6-9 years of experience as an automotive mechanic; or any equivalent combination of education and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Must have a good driving record based upon the criteria of the Williamsburg-James City County School Division.
- Possess a valid Virginia Commercial Driver’s License with necessary endorsements to operate a school bus carrying passengers and equipped with air brakes.
- Possess and maintain a Virginia State Inspection License.
- Thorough knowledge of state inspection rules.
- Certification for performing Air Conditioning services.
- Comprehensive knowledge of engine and chassis units
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J’S RACING T-REV SYSTEM HONDA CIVIC FD2 K20A TRS-D2 is a system that uses the pulsation of blow by gas, known as natural decompression. Compression happen inside of the engine and create negative pressure inside the crankcase.
The movement of the pistons and crankshaft become smoother. The effect of the decompression almost 100%. T-REV System is a unique decompression setting meant for K20A engines. The rise from the middle rpm range is excellence.
J’S RACING T-REV SYSTEM HONDA CIVIC FD2 K20A TRS-D2 is the next generation engine internal pressure control valve. T-REV System was created by collaboration in between TERAMOTO RACING and J’S RACING. Adopted from the top performance racing engines.
The other parts the engine components will be greatly improved once the engine response increased. J’S RACING T-REV SYSTEM HONDA CIVIC FD2 K20A TRS-D2 has many significant advantages to offer such as;
- Reduce resistance due to pressure inside the engine
- Improve accelerator response
- Improve engine feeling during acceleration
- Reduce CO2 by reducing the amount of depression of the accelerator
J’S RACING T-REV SYSTEM HONDA CIVIC FD2 K20A TRS-D2 use air induction by sucking up blow by gas in the crankcase. The system works with a genuine PCV valve and attach the T-REV system to the breather hose.
T-REV System is a system that pulls out the internal pressure of the crankcase. It is done by the negative pressure generated from the exhaust port. All the components in T-REV System were tested accorded to the strict specifications and requirements.
J’S RACING T-REV SYSTEM HONDA CIVIC FD2 K20A TRS-D2 mechanism start from;
- The point of the crankcase decompression valve (T-REV) is in the case under the piston.
- When the piston is pushed down some gas blows through the piston ring and flows into the crankcase.
- This blow by gas increase the pressure inside the crankcase and create resistance to the piston.
- This overpressure blow by gas is discharged from the breather but the crankcase sucks in outside air when the piston rises or the accelerator is off. The inside is still under pressure.
- Installing the crankcase pressure reducing valve “T-REV” in the breather path will prevent blow by gas and backflow of outside air.
- The pressure inside the crankcase is optimized (negative pressure) for the best working performance.
There are many significant achievements in T-REV System that never to be missed. The high performance T-REV System will increase K20A engine capability.
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Tesla recalls more than 800,000 models for a safety issue. NHTSA has revealed that the multiple Tesla models could have a problem with their seat belt reminder alert system. The seat belt reminder system may not issue an audible sound when the vehicle is started and if the driver has not engaged the seat belt. This may lead to injury or death in case a forgetful driver is caught up in an accident. However, it is important to note that, no accident, injury, death or damage has been reported pertaining to the recall. But due to the failure of the seat belt reminder system, the vehicle has failed the federal motor vehicle safety standard.
Tesla Electric Vehicles Recalled
Tesla is recalling the 2017-2022 Model 3, 2020-2022 Model Y, 2021-2022 Model S and Model X in the North American markets. According to NHTSA, 8,17,000 vehicles have been recalled in the USA. Reports also suggest that the brand will be releasing an OTA (Over-The-Air) update for the issue to rectify the issue. This leads us to believe that the problem is not hardware related. This will also make life easy for both the brand dealerships and the customer, as the vehicle need not be taken to the service station.
Tesla In India
At the beginning of 2021, Tesla formed its Indian subsidiary and registered the company in Bengaluru. The brand was also reportedly searching for real estate to establish its sales and service points in various metro cities in the country. However, it’s been more than a year now, and Tesla India Motors and Energy Private Limited is yet to launch its product in the Indian market. The Tesla Model 3 and Model Y have also been spotted testing, and reports suggest that the brand has already sought approvals for four electric vehicle models. But, currently, the brand is working through challenges set by the Indian Government in terms of the import duty on vehicles. | <urn:uuid:9b7ab0ce-1465-4ed7-9129-2ed0e2d82882> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shifting-gears.com/more-than-8-lakh-tesla-evs-recalled/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963771 | 392 | 1.664063 | 2 |
GUARIENTO, sometimes incorrectly named Guerriero, the first Paduan painter who distinguished himself. The only date distinctly known in his career is 1365, when, having already acquired high renown in his native city, he was invited by the Venetian authorities to paint a Paradise, and some incidents of the war of Spoleto, in the great council-hall of Venice. These works were greatly admired at the time, but have long ago disappeared under repaintings. His works in Padua have suffered much. In the church of the Eremitani are allegories of the Planets, and, in its choir, some small sacred histories in dead colour, such as an Ecce Homo; also, on the upper walls, the life of St Augustine, with some other subjects. A few fragments of other paintings by Guariento are still extant in Padua. In the gallery of Bassano is a Crucifixion, carefully executed, and somewhat superior to a merely traditional method of handling, although on the whole Guariento must rather be classed in that school of art which preceded Cimabue than as having advanced in his vestiges; likewise two other works in Bassano, ascribed to the same hand. The painter is buried in the church of S. Bernardino, Padua. | <urn:uuid:1f219fca-4bb6-43f6-8cf1-8c85e39493d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Guariento | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.983411 | 272 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Afghan President Hamid Karzi has recently authorized the release of 72 prisoners, regarded as a threat to the security of the United States. The State Department has vociferously objected to that decision. On Thursday, Jen Psaki, aState Department spokeswoman said, “These 72 detainees are dangerous criminals against whom there is strong evidence linking them to terror-related crimes, including the use of improvised explosive devises, the largest killer of Afghan civilians.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney added, “We are very concerned about the release of any detainees who would pose a threat to U.S. forces.”
Yet, just in order to get the Palestinian Authority to deign to sit down at the negotiating table with Israel, the United States pressured the Israelis to release 104 terrorists, all of whom are responsible for the most heinous crimes imaginable. It is an absolute fallacy to believe that the terrorists that murder Israeli or American Jews on the streets of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv are any less a threat to the survival of Western civilization as we know it, then those released on the streets of Afghanistan.
Any one of them, whether they be from a Sunni Islamic group such as Al Qaeda, Hamas, Fatah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Ansar al Sharia, or a Shiite Islamic group such as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Al Quds Force of Hizb’allah, delights equally in the murder of either American or Israeli civilians. Not to believe this is to make a distinction without a difference.
On August 9th, 2001, Malki Roth, a 15-year-old American citizen, went to eat pizza in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem. Malki was a beautiful, vivacious young girl, an accomplished violinist, who wanted to devote her life to special education. Malki was profoundly affected by having a younger sister with severe learning disabilities, and wanted to do something to help those who were less fortunate than she.
Unfortunately, Malki’s dream of teaching learning disabled children was not meant to be. Her life was cut short when she sat down to eat pizza that day. A suicide bomber, Izz al Dehn Shuhail al Massri, blew himself up, killing 15 others and wounding 130. The person who orchestrated and planned that attack, AhlamTamimi, was released in an earlier prisoner exchange, and was welcomed home as a conquering hero. She now lives in Jordan where she has her own, Hamas-sponsored television show.
In a YouTube clip translated by MEMRI, AhlamTamimi actually boasts about the act.
This is a product of the culture of incitement and hatred that has metastasized throughout the body politic of the Palestinians, and has spread throughout much of the Muslim and Arab world. The United States bears much of the responsibility for this by willfully blinding itself to this fact, and by reinforcing the growing sense of Palestinian triumphalism by insisting upon these prisoner releases.
Oslo, Hebron, Wye, the Roadmap to Peace in the Middle East, and all subsequent agreements had always been predicated around one concept: Israel was to exchange something very real and tangible, land, for the end of terrorism and the end of incitement to terrorism. Yet, scarcely a day goes by when there is not some egregious incident of incitement to terror, classic anti-Semitic demonization and vilification of Israelis and Jews, a substitution of the entire map of Israel with “Palestine” and glorification of martyrdom and exhortation to become a “Shahid”, (martyr).
Secretary of State John Kerry has just completed his tenth trip to the region. On his way home, he made a stop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and met with King Abdullah to praise him and to reassure him that his 2002 “Arab Peace Initiative”remained “a part of the framework we have been piecing together.” Of course, any framework that has been accepted by the Arab league, which has never accepted Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state already shows the inherent biases of this administration.
In fact, the actual intentions of the Palestinian Authority as regards these negotiations was very clearly stated on December 23, 2013 by Abbas Zaki, a senior Palestinian official and close friend and confidant of P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas. When a Syrian television interviewer remarked, “When they (the US), talk about imposing a solution, we know it will be deficient,” Mr. Zaki vehemently responded, “You can relax. Even the most extreme among us, Hamas, or the fighting forces, want a state within the 1967 borders. Afterwards, we will all have something to say, because the inspiring idea cannot be achieved all at once. (Rather) in stages.” (With thanks to Palestinian Media Watch).
Irrespective of how generous the borders, and what the shape and contours of a future map of “Palestine” will look like, any society that celebrates the killing of innocents like Malki Roth, and that nurtures a culture of incitement and hatred such as this, could not be trusted to make a “peace agreement” that will endure, after the ink on the paper is dry.
Shame on us for imposing on Israel conditions that we, ourselves, could never find acceptable to live with.
Originally published at https://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/a_disturbing_double_standard.html
Gathering Storms: The Iranian Drive for Nuclear Weapons
Rouhani Trumpets P5+1 deal; while Senate Dems Back off New Sanctions Legislation
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3 Things You Should Do if Pulled Over by the Police
Face it, everyone gets pulled over by the cops at some point in their life. It’s just part of life. Maybe you were going a bit too fast, or perhaps you forgot to use a signal before making a turn. Whatever it is, interactions with the police do not need to be complicated. However, it is still very important to understand your rights and know how to respond to the police. Most experienced attorneys would agree that you need to strike a balance between polite and respectful behavior and firmly preserving your rights.
The subject of police authority and Constitutional rights is very complex, but if you can just remember three simple rules, you will go a long way toward protecting yourself during these uncomfortable interactions with the government. If you are arrested and charged with a crime, call the Law Offices of Todd K. Mohink, P.A. right away.
#1 – Attempt to Determine the Officer’s Reason for the Stop
There is a reason why most officers will ask that common question, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” The police must have some reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is about to be committed in order to stop you. It can be as simple as a busted tail light. But there needs to be a reason. Your race, your nationality, your ethnicity, and similar factors are not legal grounds for pulling you over. Be respectful, but don’t be afraid to ask.
#2 – Do Not Consent to Searches
Believe it or not, police have a right to lie or bluff in order to get you to agree to things that they would otherwise not be allowed to do. For instance, if the officer tells you that he pulled you over for not using a turn signal, fine. You should receive a citation and be on your way. Unless the officer has some probable cause, he cannot just tear apart your vehicle or search your trunk. Officers may threaten you with warrants or tell you that you have to let them open your trunk. This is not necessarily true. Think about it, if the officer had a legal right to open your trunk or search your personal belongings, then why would he or she need to ask?
Just remember that you always have a right to respectfully decline to consent to any police search of your body, your property, or your home. If the officer believes that he or she has a right to do so without your consent (based on probable cause), then the officer can certainly do so. As USA Today aptly reported, the police wield a lot of power on the street, with or without legal authority.
#3 – Do Not Resist or Interfere
This goes to the second point in some ways. While you don’t have to consent, you should NEVER resist or interfere with the officer’s actions. Instead, just remember that once you’ve declined a search, the ball is in the police officer’s court. The officer must decide whether there is sufficient probable cause to warrant performing an intrusive search and invasion of privacy. If the officer finds evidence of a serious crime (drugs, open container, etc.), your attorney will have a strong argument for getting the evidence excluded if the officer did not have a genuine reason for the search. Your refusal to consent to a search is generally not evidence of guilt.
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- Program Details
- Early Childhood Laboratory (ECL)
- Transfer and Reentry Center (TRC)
- Student Parent Mentor GSR Position
In addition to CCAMPIS, UC Davis offers other opportunities for assistance with childcare expenses; some students may qualify to receive multiple grants. Learn more on the Student Parents website.
What is CCAMPIS?
CCAMPIS (Child Care Access Means Parents in School), pronounced see-campus, is a federal grant from the US Department of Education designed to provide funding for child care and related services to promote the success of student parents. The Early Childhood Laboratory (ECL) and Transfer and Reentry Center (TRC) received a CCAMPIS grant to support student parents at UC Davis.
What services do CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholars at UC Davis receive?
- Full subsidy (no cost to attend), 50% subsidy, or 25% subsidy for on campus child care at the nationally accredited program offered by the Early Childhood Laboratory (ECL) - see the section on the ECL for the available child care options and school information
- Child development and whole family support from a specialist in child development at the ECL
- Individualized support from a Student Parent Mentor at the TRC
- Specialized workshops and connections to campus resources
- Opportunities to connect with other Student Parent Scholars
What are the eligibility requirements?
- Undergraduate, graduate, and professional student parents at UC Davis
- Qualify as low income - must receive a Pell grant or be eligible using Pell grant income guidelines (must not exceed the Federal Poverty Level)
- Enrolled in at least 6 units (incoming students who have not yet registered for classes are eligible to apply, but will need to be enrolled in at least 6 units for the quarter in which participating in the program)
- Minimum of a 2.0 cumulative GPA (previous school GPA can be used for incoming students)
- Priority is given to undergraduate students, single parents, and students with the most financial need
What is the application process?
To apply to participate as a CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholar, submit the online application form.
- February 1: Application opens
- June 15: Priority deadline
- Please note that only half-day slots at the Early Childhood Lab School are still available. Mentorship and support for student parents not looking for slots at the ECL are also available.
- June 30: Priority decisions
Students need to apply each year they would like to participate. Applications for student parents not requesting childcare at the ECL will continue to be accepted until all spots are full.
Contact the CCAMPIS Co-Directors (Kelly Twibell Sanchez, Director of the Early Childhood Laboratory, and Marissa Weiss, Transfer Retention Specialist at the TRC) at email@example.com
Student parents may receive full subsidy (no cost to attend), 50% subsidy, or 25% subsidy, depending on financial need and available spots.
M-TH: 7:45am-4:15pm, F 8:00am-Noon
- Infant (12-24 months)
- Toddler (24-36 months)
- Preschool (36-60 months)
M-TH: 8:30-11:30 AM
- AM Preschool (36-60 months)
M-TH 12:45-3:45 PM
- PM Preschool (48-60 months)
The Early Childhood Laboratory provides a model early childhood program, a site for research and observation, and an educational experience for Human Development students. Our program is proud to have earned NAEYC Accreditation--the highest mark of quality for early childhood education programs.
Each classroom is staffed by:
- A Lead Teacher (B.S. in Child Development or Early Childhood Education)
- A Child Development Demonstration Lecturer/Specialist (M.S. degree)
- Three-four practicum student "caregivers" enrolled in our intensive practicum in early childhood
Research about child development is an essential part of the ECL. Parents who enroll their children grant permission for their children to be part of the naturalistic observation research that takes place daily. Several times per year parents are asked to consider other research projects that would involve direct interaction with their child. Parents receive a description of each research project approved by our Research Director and sign an informed consent form. The ECL is located at 244 First Street. License numbers: 570306437 and 570311412
The Transfer and Reentry Center is the official transfer center for all of nearly eight-thousand transfer and reentry students at UC Davis. The TRC assists all transfer students (junior college or community college to UC Davis, UC to UC Davis, out of state to UC Davis) and reentry students (+25 and/or student parents). As part of it’s work with reentry students, the TRC supports and advocates for the needs of primarily undergraduate student parents. The TRC and the Women’s Resources and Research Center collaborate to lead the Student Parent Working Group, which serves all student parents and maintains the Student Parent Resources website. The TRC is located in 1210 Dutton Hall.
- Which students are eligible to apply?
- Undergraduate, graduate, and professional student parents at UC Davis who qualify as low income (must not exceed the Federal Poverty Level). Priority is given to undergraduate students, single parents, and students with the most financial need.
- How are applications prioritized?
- First priority is given to single undergraduate student parents, followed by single graduate student parents, married/partnered undergraduate student parents, and married/partnered graduate student parents. The level of discount is based on financial need and available spots.
- What is required of CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholars?
- Maintain course enrollment, minimum GPA, and income eligibility
- Attend a CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholar Orientation
- Meet with Student Parent Mentor quarterly
- Participate in quarterly Student Parent Scholar community activities, including:
- One community building activity
- One workshop focused on child development and whole family support
- One workshop focused on college student success
- Family conferences (if child is enrolled at the Early Childhood Laboratory)
- Complete pre and post surveys
- Can I participate if my child is older than preschool age or receives care from another provider?
- Yes! While child care will not be provided or subsidized, you are welcome to receive individualized support from the Student Parent Mentor and participate in workshops and community building activities.
- Can I still apply for and receive funds from the child care grants through WorkLife if I participate in CCAMPIS?
- Yes! CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholars are still eligible to apply for and receive grants through WorkLife to pay for other child care expenses (e.g., after hours care and summer break).
- Can I have more than one of my children attend the ECL?
- Yes! You are welcome to apply for multiple placements at the ECL.
- Will participation in CCAMPIS impact my financial aid?
- No. As funds are not awarded directly to you, there should not be an impact on your financial aid. If you feel your aid was adjusted incorrectly, reach out to Financial Aid at https://my.ucdavis.edu/ask_us/.
- If I decide to PELP for a quarter will my spot at the ECL be saved for me?
- No, unfortunately the program is not able to hold spots while a student is not enrolled. You can be put on the waitlist for reconsideration upon return.
- Is child care at the ECL free? How does the program decide which students have to pay a reduced rate?
- The amount of subsidy that a student receives is based on a combination of indicators including single parent status, number of units enrolled, level of financial need, and available slots. Student parents may receive full subsidy (no cost to attend), 50% subsidy, or 25% subsidy.
- If I have to drop down to part time for a quarter, will I still be able to participate?
- Yes, as long as you are enrolled in at least 6 units.
- If I am not in good academic standing for a quarter, will I still be able to participate?
- CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholars are required to maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA. If a student falls below this minimum they may not be able to continue their participation. Extenuating circumstances may be considered on a case by case basis.
- What support is offered by the Family Coordinator?
- The Family Coordinator is available for individual consultation regarding child development, strategies for supporting child development at home, and requesting developmental evaluations from county agencies or local school districts.
- The Family Coordinator will also facilitate parents workshops and produce weekly play kits to be used at home.
- What support is offered by the Student Parent Mentor?
- Individualized support and mentoring: through regular meetings, the Student Parent Mentor and CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholar will develop and track progress toward academic and personal goals
- Connections to on and off campus resources: the Student Parent Mentor will connect CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholars to various resources to assist with reaching academic and personal goals. Resources may include tutoring, success coaching, research opportunities, major advising, and wellness programs.
- Community building: through events designed to build relationships between CCAMPIS Student Parent Scholars and other networking opportunities, Scholars will form valuable connections and lasting friendships with other student parents.
- How often do I need to apply?
- Students need to apply each year
- If I am not accepted into CCAMPIS, what resources are available to me?
- You can still apply to the ECL as a general/community member by submitting the application on the ECL website, though space may be limited and full ECL tuition will be charged.
- You can apply for the Child Care Grants through WorkLife to help defray the costs of child care at any provider of your choosing. For more information and to apply, go to the WorkLife website.
- WorkLife maintains a list of local childcare providers on their website. The Children's Home Society can also help with finding a provider in the area.
- The TRC maintains a Babysitter Directory - a list of current UC Davis students who are interested in working as babysitters. For more information and to request access to the Directory, go to the Student Parent Resources page.
The Transfer and Reentry Center is hiring a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) - 50% position including tuition - to serve as the CCAMPIS Student Parent Mentor. This position works directly with undergraduate and graduate student parents, offering mentorship, community building, and support programs for CCAMPIS participants. For a complete position description, go to https://tinyurl.com/GSR-TRC. Please note that this position begins on August 22, 2022 (summer hours are paid) and continues for the 2022-2023 academic year.
To apply, complete the online application. The application includes questions regarding prior experience mentoring and advising students, and approach to supporting the needs of students from underrepresented minority groups and promoting equity. There is space to upload a current resume or CV.
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A 16-year-old with a peanut allergy tragically died last week after taking a bite of a s'mores made with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups at a homecoming event.
S'mores were one of Simon Katz's favorite treats, his father David told CBS Denver, but he didn't check to see if they were made with peanuts. The Littleton, Colo. teen ate one in the parking lot of Chatfield High School, where he was a student, during a homecoming event and went into severe anaphylactic shock. Simon typically carried an EpiPen in his car, but had been driven to school by his friends.
There was an emergency medical technician on site, but Simon's friends drove him home after he began vomiting. His father administered the EpiPen while driving to a nearby emergency room, and administered CPR in the parking lot of the hospital. Paramedics took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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"He was the most high-energy person I've ever met," said Alex Sutton, Simon's friend and bandmate.
"It's really hard dealing with knowing that a wonderful person can go from something as little as a peanut allergy," said another bandmate, Elias Williamson.
Simon's allergy kept him from touring with his band this summer, but he had already laid down tracks for an entire album, which Alex and Elias say they'll work to finish in his memory.
On Friday, students at Chatfield High School wore yellow and observed a minute of silence in Simon's honor.
According to allergy expert Dr. B.J. Lanser from the National Jewish Health Center, about 200 people a year die from food allergies, and teens are at a higher risk because they're often more likely to take risks with food and less likely to carry their EpiPens with them. (Not in every case — it's just a general trend that doctors have observed.)
Simon's senseless death is a reminder to always inquire about ingredients if you have a food allergy, and to keep your EpiPen close by at all times.
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The MQ Channel plug-in is part of a suite of plug-ins designed to monitor an IBM WebSphere MQ server. MQ is a middleware product which allows independent client programs to communicate by passing messages to each other via a message queue. These queues provided added benefits by adding reliability of communications, and storing and persisting messages allowing client programs to operate asynchronously.
The MQ Channel plug-in monitors all configured channels for a particular Queue Manager (an MQ system service which holds a set of queues). Using the Geneos framework administrators can set alerts for events such as a channel going down, or if an unknown process connects on a channel.
Websphere MQ servers are based around queues of messages, each Message containing some arbitrary application data. Messages are contained within Queues, which are in turn managed by a Queue Manager. An MQ server may contain several queue managers.
Client applications communicate with each other by sending messages via a queue. To do so they connect to a queue manager - typically using TCP/IP - and send or receive messages accordingly.
Communication between components are handled using pre-configured links called Channels. Channels are mono-directional, so a full-duplex link between two components requires two channels.
A queue manager also has an associated Command Server, which allows a remote client to execute commands. The MQ Channel plug-in connects as a client to the configured queue manager, and obtains monitoring data by issuing status query commands using the command server.
MQ Channel produces a single dataview displaying
the configured channels for the queue manager it is
connected to, and the selected attributes for each
view. By default, these attributes include those
produced by a
DISPLAY CHSTATUS command. An
example of this is shown below.
The legends below list all columns which can be configured for this plug-in. For a more in-depth discussion of columns, please see the columns configuration section.
|mqServer||Displays the connection details used to connect to the MQ server.|
|mqChannelTable||Displays the MQ channel table file used to connect to the MQ server.|
|queueManager||The name of the queue manager the plug-in is connecting to.|
|connectionStatus||The current connection status (
|samplingStatus||The current status of the plug-in.|
|name||Name of the channel being monitored.|
|type||Type of channel, one of
|protocol||The transmission protocol used by the
channel. One of
Status of the connection/channel:
|description||A user-configured description of the channel.|
|connectionName||Connection name. E.g. For a TCP connection, this would be the host and port of the remote queue manager.|
|remoteQManager||Name of the remote queue manager.|
|transmitQName||Name of the transmission queue, for a sender channel.|
|maxMsgLength||Maximum message length which can be sent over this channel, displayed in KB.|
|alterationDate||Date the channel definition was last
altered, in the form
|alterationTime||Time the channel definition was last
altered, in the form
|alterationDateTime||A concatenation of the
|buffersRecv||Number of messages buffers received over the channel.|
|buffersSent||Number of message buffers sent over the channel.|
|bytesRecv||Message data in bytes sent over the channel.|
|bytesSent||Message data in bytes received over the channel.|
|instanceType||The channel instance type, one of
|startDate||Date the channel was started, in the form
|startTime||Time the channel was started, in the form
|startDateTime||A concatenation of the
|heartbeatInterval||The channel heartbeat interval in seconds.|
|currentLuwid||Current "logical unit of work" identifier, for an in-doubt batch of messages.|
|currentSeqNo||Sequence number of the last message, for an in-doubt batch of messages.|
|lastLuwid||The "logical unit of work" identifier for the last committed batch of messages.|
|lastSeqNo||The sequence number of the last message in the last committed batch of messages.|
|lastMsgDate||Date the last message was sent, in the form
|lastMsgTime||Time the last message was sent, in the form
|lastMsgDateTime||A concatenation of the
|mcaName||Name of the Message Channel Agent (MCA).|
|mcaUserId||The user id used by the MCA.|
|mcaStatus||MCA status, either
|mcaJobName||Name of the MCA job.|
|messageCount||Number of messages sent or received.|
|remoteApp||Remote application name for a server-connection channel, or the remote queue manager / group otherwise.|
|retriesLeft||Number of short retries left (for reconnections).|
|stopRequested||Whether a stop request has been registered
for this channel. Values are
|sslCipherSpec||SSL cipher specification for the channel.|
|sslClientAuth||Whether SSL client authentication (a
certificate) is required to connect. Values are
|sslPeerName||Filter to use on the Distinguished Name of the SSL certificate of the peer connecting via the channel.|
|securityExit||Name of the security exit.|
|securityUserData||User data passed to the security exit when initiated.|
Before running the MQ Channel plug-in, you must first install the IBM WebSphere MQ Client v7.1 (or greater) software on the machine which the Netprobe will run on. This client comes as part of the MQ software bundle and must be installed correctly - simply copying across the DLLs or shared object files will typically result in a 2012 (MQ environment) error.
On Netprobe. This is usually
done by ensuring that the directory in which this
library resides is configured on the
variable available to the Netprobe.
On Solaris/Linux, the libmqic.so
library needs to be available to the Netprobe. This is
usually done by ensuring that the directory in which
this library resides is configured on the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable available to the
On AIX, the libmqic.a library needs
to be available to the Netprobe. This is usually done
by ensuring that the directory in which this library
resides is configured on the
environment variable available to the Netprobe.
In order to gather status commands, the MQ command server must be running. Additionally, the Netprobe user must be granted the following permissions to operate, if it is not a member of the mqm administration group:
+connect+dsppermissions on the Queue Manager object
+put+inqpermissions on the
SYSTEM.ADMIN.COMMAND.QUEUE. If using the send queue parameter, these permissions should be set on the named queue alias instead.
+get+dsppermissions on the
SYSTEM.DEFAULT.MODEL.QUEUE. If using the receive queue parameter, the permissions
+get +dsp+put+inqshould be set on the named queue instead.
In addition certain columns will need additional permissions to be granted on each channel to be monitored as below. The table in thecolumn setting section describes which columns are of which type.
- Inquire Channel Status columns require no extra permissions.
- Inquire Channel columns require
+dsppermissions on each channel.
It is also advisable to enable channel monitoring to
gather extra status data, either for the queue manager
as a whole or individual channels which are being
monitored. This can either be done using WebSphere MQ
Explorer, or by issuing the following commands in
alterqmgr monchl(medium)to enable monitoring for all channels on the queue manager with
alterchannel(channelName)chltype(channelType)monchl(medium)to enable monitoring for a specific channel.
Note: If you are using a very short sample interval for your plug-in, it is advised to increase the rate of data collection in MQ from medium to high.
The following parameters can be configured for this plug-in:
The connection section describes how the MQ Channel plug-in will connect to the MQ server. There are two ways to configure a connection:
- Configure an inline connection using the MQSERVER variable.
- Configure a connection using a channel table.
If multiple different configuration settings and environment variables exist, MQ Channel will choose a configuration using the following order:
- Using the file specified in the mqChannelTable setting.
- Using the file specified by the
MQCHLTABenvironment variables. In this case, variables configured in the managed entity section will be used in preference to those configured in the Netprobe start script.
- Using the connection details specified in the mqServer setting.
- Using the connection details specified in the
MQSERVERenvironment variable. In this case if the variable is configured in the managed entity section it will be used in preference to a value configured in the Netprobe start script.
If no connection details are supplied, an error message will be produced in the Netprobe log and in the samplingStatus headline of the sampler dataview.
This section contains the connection details
used by the MQ Channel plug-in to connect to the MQ
server. If not specified, the plug-in will fall
back to using the environment variables
MQCHLTAB, or if not specified
These environment variables may be specified either in the managed entity configuration, or in the Netprobe start script.
The MQ server setting informs the plug-in how to
connect to the MQ server. It consists of a channel
name, transport type and hostname/port - e.g.
If set this setting overrides the value of the
MQSERVER environment variable.
If the mqChannelTable
setting has been configured it will be used in
preference to this setting.
Please see the IBM documentation for further details on the MQSERVER environment variable.
The MQ channel table setting allows you to specify the location of a channel table file. This file is created when you define a client-connection channel on your queue manager. MQ clients (including the MQ Channel plug-in in Netprobe) can use the channels within the file to connect to an MQ server.
To configure this setting specify the full path
to the channel table. This will then be used over
MQCHLTAB environment variables
(if set). It will be also used in preference to the
mqServer setting or the
This sub-section contains details relating to SSL-secured connections to an MQ server.
Note: If using SSL connections it is recommended that all MQ plug-ins running on that Netprobe use the same connection details. The reason for this is that the MQ API only supports a single SSL connection instance per process, and so if using multiple different SSL configurations only the first plug-in will connect successfully.
This setting configures the location of the SSL key repository, which is used when establishing an SSL connection to an MQ server. The key repository contains SSL certificates, and should be created and managed using the IBM key manager utility.
To use this setting specify the full path of the
key repository file. It is recommended to exclude
the file extension (.kdb) for this value, so that
it matches the syntax of the
The value of this setting is only required when using SSL connections. These can be specified in two ways:
- By configuring the mqServer setting (or
MQSERVERenvironment variable) and also configuring the cipherSpec setting.
- By using a channel table (mqChannelTable
MQCHLTABenvironment variables) which specify an SSL connection.
If specified, this setting will override the
value in the
MQSSLKEYR environment variable.
For more details on this variable, please consult
this IBM documentation page.
This setting is used when the connection is
configured using the mqServer setting or
MQSERVER environment variable.
If configured, this setting specifies the SSL
encryption which will be used to secure the
connection, subject to SSL certificate checks.
The value of this setting can either be typed in directly, or selected from the following list of options:
For more information on cipher specs with MQ, please consult this IBM documentation article.
This setting allows the user to specify the name
of the queue to send commands on, for execution by
the command server. If not specified, the plug-in
will send requests for monitoring data (commands)
using the default name
In practise this setting need not be defined unless the MQ server has been configured with a non-default command queue name.
This setting allows the user to specify the name
of a (permanent) queue to receive command results
(monitoring data) from, following execution by the
command server. If not specified the plug-in will
use the default behaviour of the IBM MQAI library,
which is to create a new dynamic queue for the
reply (based on the
which is automatically deleted after use.
Users may wish to configure this setting if they are having problems with command results being placed on the dead letter queue. These "dead" messages contain stale monitoring data and so are safe to delete, but their creation can be avoided by use of a permanent reply queue. Use of a permanent reply queue can avoid also the (small) cost of creation/deletion of a dynamic reply queue.
When using a permanent queue only a single queue
per MQ server instance is required (although you
may use additional queues as required). The
Netprobe user will require a minimum of
+get+dsp +put+inq permissions on the queue
to operate correctly. The queue can safely be
shared by multiple MQ plug-in instances (either
running on the same or different Netprobes) as each
MQ plug-in will obtain its own monitoring data from
the queue using a correlation id. The depth of the
permanent queue should remain at (or close to) 0.
Any messages on the queue older than a few minutes
may be safely deleted.
This setting allows the user to specify a client side security exit to use when authenticating with the MQ server. See the IBM documentation for the SecurityExit field on the MQCD structure for more information.
Note: This configuration will only work with MQServer. If a channel table is used in the configuration then the settings here will be ignored.
This setting allows the user to specify the Remote User Identifier that will be sent to the client side security exit and the server when authenticating. Only the first 12 characters will be used, see the IBM documentation for the RemoteUserIdentifier field on the MQCD structure for more information.
This setting allows the user to specify the Remote Password that will be sent to the client side security exit and the server when authenticating. Only the first 12 characters will be used, see the IBM documentation for the RemotePassword field on the MQCD structure for more information.
This setting allows the user to specify a username in order to connect to the MQ server which supports Security Connection Authentication. The username provided does not need to be part of the mqm group. But keep in mind that the user running the Netprobe should have been given the default MQ user permissions. This includes having the user added to the mqm group, authorised to connect to the Queue manager, channel, and queue. As the netprobe user would be the one used for MQ authorisation checks. But if ADOPTCTX attribute is set to YES then the Connection Authentication username provided would be used instead throughout the connection. See the IBM documentation on MQCSP password protection and on Connection Authentication: Configuration for more information.
Note: The Security Connection Authentication is applicable only to IBM MQ Version 8.0. If the version is lower than 8.0 then this configuration will have no bearing.
This setting allows the user to specify the password for the given username that will connect to the MQ server which supports Security Connection Authentication. See the IBM documentation on MQCSP password protection and on Connection Authentication: Configuration for more information.
By default, MQ Channel will monitor all channels on the configured queue manager. The channels section allows users to configure only the channels they are interested in for monitoring.
This setting specifies the name of the queue manager the plug-in is to connect to. If a channel table is used, then this name should match the one specified for the connection.
The channels section specifies the channels that will be monitored by the plug-in. By default, if no channels are specified then all channels on the queue manager will be monitored.
Specifies a channel (or channels for a generic name) for the MQ Channel plug-in to monitor. If no channels are specified all channels on the queue manager will be monitored.
This setting specifies the exact name of a channel to monitor.
This setting specifies a prefix of a channel name. All channels on the queue manager starting with the prefix will be monitored.
The startsWith setting uses the generic queue
names feature of the command server. For example,
if you entered the value
SYSTEM then the monitored
channels would be the same as the channels returned
when you issue the command
runmqsc MQ utility. You may
also add the trailing
* in the setting value if you
wish to match the standard MQ syntax.
By default, MQ Channel will display columns
including the data you would see when executing the
DISPLAYCHSTATUS command in the
runmqsc MQ utility, along with
some additional metrics (see below
for more details). The columns section allows users
to configure a set of columns that they wish to see,
and ignore data which is not relevant for their
particular monitoring configuration.
The columns section specifies the columns which
will be produced by the MQ Channel plug-in. Columns
appear in the order in which they are configured.
The name column is always present as the first
column. If no columns are specified, then a default
set of columns displaying most of the output from
DISPLAYCHSTATUS command is used.
Columns will be added to the dataview in the order they have been configured. If a column has already been added, then a duplicate entry will be ignored.
Column data for MQ Channel comes from executing inquire channel and inquire channel status commands using the command server on the MQ queue manager. Columns which obtain data from a channel status command may appear blank unless channel monitoring is enabled - see the prerequisites section for details on how to do this.
The following table shows which command is run to obtain data for each column. The default columns (which are displayed if no other columns are configured) are also displayed.
|Column||Default||Inq. Channel||Inq. Channel Status|
Further descriptions of these attributes can be found at the following IBM documentation pages:
The display format setting controls whether details rows are displayed in the dataview output. Details rows are shown as an indented set of (sub-)rows under a (summary) channel row. These sub-rows show statistics for each individual connection using a channel. The sub rows are identified by the MCA Job Name. The summary rows show totalled statistics for the whole channel.
Possible values for this setting are:
|SummaryOnly||Only the summary rows are displayed, showing the totalled statistics for that whole channel.|
|SummaryAndDetails||The summary rows are displayed along with the detail rows. Each detail row shows statistics for a single connection using that channel.|
The debug section contains settings used for debugging purposes. You may be asked to configure these by ITRS support if you are having issues with the MQ Channel plug-in, in order to diagnose the problem.
The debug section contains debugging settings for the MQ Channel plug-in. Typically users should not need to configure any setting in this section.
The sample timeout controls the number of seconds MQ Queue will spend during a sample, before it gives up and displays any data obtained so far. This setting typically only comes into effect if the MQ server is slow to respond to queries, which may happen during times of heavy load.
The debug output settings enable additional output which is sent to the Netprobe log file.
If enabled, this Boolean setting produces output regarding the results of the sampler setup parsing.
If enabled, this Boolean setting produces output regarding the results of all MQ API calls made by the plug-in.
If enabled, this Boolean setting produces output regarding connection attempts, successes and failures to aid in debugging connection issues.
If enabled, this Boolean setting produces output regarding commands being executed by the plug-in.
This section describes the mechanism to prevent MQ connections after a certain number of consecutive failures.
By default, MQ plugins will continually attempt connections to the MQ server, even after connections have continually failed. To prevent this, connectionFailureThreshold and connectionFailureStopTime can be configured to manage MQ connection backoff. These configurations are located under the Probe configuration's advanced tab (refer to Gateway2 Reference Guide). Setting these configurations will put into place a mechanism which will prevent MQ connections from being attempted after a given number of failures.
The connectionFailureThreshold is the maximum number of failures that can be allowed before initiating an MQ connection backoff. Once a backoff has been started, the netprobe will try to reconnect only after the indicated connectionFailureStopTime in seconds has been reached. If reconnection is successful, MQ connections will work normally. If reconnection is unsuccessful, backoff for the indicated time in connectionFailureStopTime will be once again put into effect.
These configurations are shared across several MQ plugins using the same connection in the same probe. This means that the count for consecutive failures will be counted against each unique MQ connection and not in each sampler.
This example shows the bare minimum configuration for MQ Channel. This example assumes that connection details for the MQ server are configured as environment variables. As no channels and columns have been specified, all channels on the queue manager will be monitored for the default set of statistics.
<sampler name="minChannelExample"> <plugin> <mq-channel> <queueManager> <data>QM.test.sim</data> </queueManager> <connection> <mqServer> <data>CH.TEST/TCP/itrs-mq6(1416)</data> </mqServer> </connection> </mq-channel> </plugin> </sampler>
The following example shows how to configure MQ Channel to connect using an SSL connection in conjunction with the MQSERVER variable. This is done by specifying an SSL cipher for encryption, and the location of the SSL certificate key repository.
The example also shows a configuration for
channels, selecting all channels starting
RECV, and the specific channel
<sampler name="channelMQServerWithSSL"> <plugin> <mq-channel> <queueManager> <data>QM.test.sim</data> </queueManager> <connection> <mqServer> <data>CH.TEST/TCP/itrs-mq6(1416)</data> </mqServer> <ssl> <keyRepository> <data>C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere MQ\ssl\key</data> </keyRepository> <cipherSpec><data>TRIPLE_DES_SHA_US</data></cipherSpec> </ssl> </connection> <channels> <channel> <startsWith><data>SEND</data></startsWith> </channel> <channel> <startsWith><data>RECV</data></startsWith> </channel> <channel> <matches><data>CH.TEST</data></matches> </channel> </channels> </Mmq-channel> </plugin> </sampler>
This example shows how to configure MQ Channel to use a channel table file. This file should define a client-connection which MQ Channel will use to connect to the queue manager. If this channel also has SSL settings configured, then you will need to specify the location of the key repository in order to successfully authenticate. Additionally, any security exit configuration in the sampler will be ignored.
The example also shows the use of the columns setting to select a set of columns for display, and also a debug setting which produces output of the MQ API calls being made.
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Or more specifically, based on the change in the number of rows in a table.
I have strung together a few nodes in a workflow that compare adjacent rows in a table and then remove rows that are too similar to the ones immediately preceding them. However a single iteration of these nodes is seldom sufficient to get rid of all the rows that are too similar to one another, hence I run them several times.
Therefore I would like to set up a loop where at the start of each iteration, it takes the length of the table, then at the end of the iteration it takes the table length again. If the length at the end was the same as the length at the start, then exit the loop and move on.
I've looked at using "Extract Table Dimension", "Table row to variable", and "String Manipulation" to get the row count of a table. However I can't find a way to do this at both ends of the loop - so that the two lengths can be compared - and it's not clear to me how I could use these in a loop and still do the operations I need on the table in question (as "Extract Table Dimension" creates a new table).
Any suggestions are appreciated.
I think you want to use a Recursive Loop End node. Have a look at that and come back if you can't figure out a solution.
Thank you for the reply.
From my understanding once I tried to use the Recursive Loop End node that you suggested, it seems that one is for doing a known number of loops. In my case, I don't know how many loops I will need to run (I apologize if my initial post did not make that clear). The criteria that I want to use to determine when to finish the loop is the difference in table lengths between the start and end of the loop.
I then tried "Generic Loop Start" and "Variable Condition Loop End" (where I set a variable in the loop that reported the difference I was looking for), but I ran into a different problem with this. When I set this up, every time the loop began again it began with the original table rather than the one that was reduced in the previous iteration. Hence I know have an infinite loop, which was not what I was looking to do.
Any other ideas would be much appreciated.
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One major obstacle that stands in the way of many entrepreneurs is how well to go about planning for their business idea.
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While this is true, you’ll have to plan towards its actualization. The business plan is one of the most vital tools you’ll ever need for your business idea to succeed.
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You’ll need to start from the Basics.
One thing that makes writing a business plan quite tricky for many is whether or not they follow the basics. Here, we’re referring to the structuring or including certain vital sections of the project.
These points touch on different aspects of a good plan and must be discussed to achieve desired outcomes.
The essential components we’re talking about include the executive summary, the company description, and the products & services section.
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By providing the name your merchant cash advance business will be known by, you reveal its identity. This is important to any business as the audience gets to follow how you will actualize such a business idea. The location is also central to its emergence. This detail will need to be revealed to your audience.
When it comes to the services and products, you have to be as specific as possible about what you do. Only the basics will do because you’re still within the executive summary. All other details are left for later, where they’re added to the main section reserved for that.
Your mission statement should describe your business’s fundamental purpose.
It should also include information on why it exists and why uses or purpose it serves. For your vision statement, this should encapsulate your vision or dream for where you want the business to be at a point in time.
It takes a futuristic view and should inspire your workforce to strive towards its achievement. A long-term perspective is often used to define the business.
ii. Company Description
When describing your operations, you’ll need to explain who you are, how you operate, and the goals you want to achieve with your merchant cash advance business.
Going into more specifics, you’ll need to provide information about your legal structure and how you intend to make a profit.
Provide a brief history, and state the nature of your business.
Also, discuss the needs or demands you intend to fill or meet. Give a summary of your short and long-term business goals and how you plan on making a profit.
A summary of business growth will be in order.
iii. Services & Products
What’s the nature of your services and products? This is where your audience gets a more detailed understanding of what your merchant cash advance business does.
Details should include service and product costs and the net revenue to be expected from the same sale.
The benefits derived by the customer are paramount and should be reflected. Explain the market role of these products and their advantages over those of your competitors.
iv. Market Analysis
Your market analysis is dependent on how thorough your market research is. Through such analysis, you’re able to demonstrate your level of competence.
Here, an evaluation of your competitor’s weaknesses and strengths is necessary. Provide a sketch of target customer segments with size and demographics included.
Give an industry description and outlook with supporting statistics. Historical, current, and projected marketing data for services and products will be necessary.
v. Strategy & Implementation
Strategy and implementation are crucial to your sales and marketing efforts.
You’ll need to explain how you plan on promoting your merchant cash advance business to customers. Also, how do you plan on entering the market?
Details on pricing, costs, and promotions are critical to your marketing strategy. How will your business function? Identify your labor sources and state the number of employees to be hired.
vi. Organization & Management Team
The organizational structure of your plan helps identify critical aspects of business owners and the management team. This should begin with an organizational chart that describes departments and key employees.
Next, it should focus on owners by providing details such as names, percentage ownership, and extent of involvement.
Give a profile of the management team involved in running your merchant cash advance business. Details like names, positions, primary responsibilities, and prior experience are vital.
vii. Financial Plan & Projections
The financial plan & projections section of your merchant cash advance business plan should be written by a professional accountant.
The key areas to be discussed and assessed here include the historical financial data, practical prospective financial information, and an analysis of your financial data.
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As the year draws to a close and plans are on for the New Year, there is a need to review your spending pattern. You need to take a look at how to track your expenses. This will help you to save more as you enter the New Year. It can even help you to open a specialised account for target saving.
Tracking your expenses is one of the key factors in making your budget work for you.
If you do not know how much you have spent each month, you cannot tell when you have overspent, according to www.thebalance.com
Even the small expenses can cause you to blow your budget. There are several options available to you to track your expenses. One of the simplest is a written ledger or tracking system. It may be even easier to choose budgeting software that works with an app to track expenses on your phone.
This will allow you to keep up while on the go. It’s also important to know how to track your expenses in a notebook. This can also help you become more aware of what you are spending and where you are spending it. It can help you identify the areas where you need to change.
Create a ledger
First, you will need to have your budget with you. You should also have a notebook available to you. You can divide your paper into about three columns a piece. You will need to write down each budget category at the top of the column. Then you need to record the assigned amount next to it. If you have not created a budget, and are tracking your expenses so that you can create one, then you should decide on basic spending categories such as utilities, food, rent, eating out, fun money, and insurance. Record each of these at the top of the paper.
Record your expenses throughout the day
Next, you will need to take time each day to record your expenses. As you record each expense in a category, you will need to keep a running total of how much you have left in that category. Simply subtract the amount you spent from the current total and record the answer. It may be helpful to have two separate columns, one for expenses and one for the current total.
You may also want to record the total in another column. If you are tracking expenses to determine how much you spend you will need to add the amount you spent to your running total. If you are married, it helps to sit down and review how much was spent each day. This is especially important if you are just starting to budget. It can help you encourage each other as you change your spending habits.
Stick to your spending limits
You will need to stop spending when you see that you are out of money. This is the essential step in staying on budget. You may find that your budget is unrealistic or you may need to transfer money between categories. Take the time towards the end of the month to adjust next month’s budget so that will work for you. It is important to remember that saving and debt payments should take precedence over eating out and vacations. You will need to cut back in some areas, but you should still be able to eat every day.
Choose what to do with the money you did not use
At the end of the month, you have the option of rolling the money over into the next month’s category or transferring the money to a savings account. For bills that vary like your power bill, you may want to roll the balance forward to help even out the cost of the utilities each month.
For things like groceries, you may want to transfer it to savings so that you can build up your emergency fund or work toward other goals.
Other tips for tracking your expenses.
Another option is to use budgeting software or a budgeting system to track your expenses. This can save you time, and it makes it easier to manage your budget each month. There are a wide variety of options you can use to manage your finances, and it is important to find the right budgeting software for you. Ideally you want to find something that will work across platforms and sync with your bank. If you are married, you want something that allows both of you to enter expenses on the go to make tracking your spending much easier.
Another option is to switch to cash only for categories where you do a lot of spending each month. For example, groceries, eating out, and entertainment categories. You will set up an envelope for each category and put the amount you budgeted in it at the beginning of the month. When you go shopping for those categories, you will take the envelope with you. You can keep the receipts in the envelope so you can check at the end of the month to see how much you spent.
Tracking your spending patterns
Have you ever tried to lose weight by keeping a record of everything you eat? Sometimes the results are surprising. You may not realise just how many cookies you consume until you track the data.
Budgeting is similar. You may not realise how much money you’re spending on coffee, food, or clothes until you track the data.
According to www.thebalance.com, logging your dietary habits helps you develop an accurate idea of how many calories, carbs, or fat grams you consume every day.
Similarly, tracking your spending habits helps you discover how much money you’re spending – which might be wildly different from the amount you think you’re spending.
How long should I track my spending?
Many beginners devote between two weeks to one month to tracking every transaction before they create a budget. That’s a good starting point if you’ve never tracked your spending before.
After you create a budget, you should continue tracking your spending to see how your “actual” spending habits align with the “ideas” you’ve outlined in your budget. Budgeting worksheets can help you compare your “actual” against your “ideal.”
Today’s variety of payment methods can make tracking your expenses tough. How can a person reasonably keep track of every single cash, credit card, debit card, cheque, automatic bank withdrawal, and PayPal transaction?
Here are a few tactics you can try:
Stop using cash
You have automatic, electronic records of every credit card, debit card, cheque, automatic bank withdrawal and PayPal transaction. The only type of transaction that isn’t automatically recorded is cash.
If you stop buying things with cash, you’ll spare yourself from the hassle of needing to manually record your spending.
Instead, you can review your electronic records one day a week (e.g. every Saturday) and input these records into one centralised location. You can use a spreadsheet, a notebook, or one of these budgeting worksheets.
I have one important disclaimer; though some people spend more money when they’re swiping plastic, they spend less when they have to part with physical, naira bills.
If you fall into this category, continue paying for things with cash. There’s no reason to put yourself in a situation in which you’re likely to spend more than you ordinarily would.
At the beginning of each week, stuff a series of envelopes with cash. Dedicate each envelope to a particular spending category, and note the amount you’ve put into each envelope.
For example, your envelopes might be labeled “Lunch N3,000,” “Gasoline N7,500” and “Target N4,000.” Since you can’t perfectly predict all your expenses, especially in the beginning, keep one “Miscellaneous” envelope as well.
At the end of the week, note the amount you have left in each envelope. Your lunch envelope, for example, may have N1,000 left. Your gasoline envelope may have N12,000 remaining. Your Target envelope may have gone “over budget” – you had to use N10,000 from the “Miscellaneous” envelope to cover the shortcoming.
This is an easier way to track your spending. You’ll see your spending habits within broad categories, without enduring the hassle of detailing every single transaction. You can also pay for things in cash, which might motivate you to spend less than you would if you were swiping a plastic card.
Of course, if you’re a detail-oriented person, then you could try the final tactic:
Mark it down
Keep a small notebook and pen in your purse or pocket, and log every transaction there. You could also log it into a note app on your smartphone.
The advantage is that you’ll think harder about each expense. Writing down every transaction causes you to be more conscious about your spending habits at the moment you’re making the transaction.
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First of all, hi-tech combat is modern warfare. This requires combined arms fight groups, satellite communications, automatic weapons, aircraft carrier fight groups and maneuver warfare. This really is warfare utilising today’s technology. It’s warfare waged by states. It’s the methods and tactics used from the Taliban within the mountain tops of Afghanistan.
Compared, low tech combat is combat using low tech, or no technology. It’s close up and private. It may be unarmed combat or it may utilise fundamental impact weapons like a stick or marble ash tray. It may be combat using edged weapons like a knife or screwdriver. It may be one-on-one a treadmill against many. It’s really a combination of the aforementioned. It’s the combat involved in around the roads as well as in homes all over the world.
A robbery or fight the front of the pub are aspects of, although not low tech combat in the whole. Applying security alarm measures is participating in low tech combat out of the box not opening the doorway during the night since the person with the peep hole just does not look right and also the story does not seem right. The deathmatches from the old Filipino masters can also be. Many of these and much more are elements although not complete aspects of low tech combat.
Additionally, it involves activity BEFORE it will get physical. This really is items like awareness, avoidance and manoeuvre. This can be a large number of hi-tech combat too. The sooner you identify a danger the greater you are able to get ready for combat or facilitate staying away from it altogether. That’s the ultimate aim in low tech combat. Staying away from it. This is actually the greatest level. The very best soldier is the one that detects the enemy before they identify you. Exactly the same applies in low tech combat.
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Soybean meal is the principal protein source in pig and poultry feeds. Also, it can be used for all farm animals and fish feeding.
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The second “Nuclear physics School for Young Scientists (NUSYS 2022)” will be held by the China Institute of Atomic Energy in Ruichang city, Jiangxi province of China from Aug. 8 to Aug. 13, 2022, with arrival and check in on Aug. 7. The goal of this school is to motivate the young PhD students and postdoctoral researchers by introducing them to the various facets of the nuclear physics and its applications to the nuclear science and technology, as well as the future prospects of the forthcoming nuclear facilities in east Asia.
Experts are invited to convey a view of the rich variety of present on-going activities in the field of experimental and theoretical nuclear physics and to exploit the opportunities created by the on-going or the next-generation nuclear physics facilities in particular in Asia, such as HIAF (High Intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility), JUNA (Jinping Underground lab for Nuclear Astrophysics) and BISOL (Beijing ISOL) which are being built or planned in China, RAON(Rare Isotope Science Project) in South Korea and RIBF(RI Beam Factory) in Japan. Each student is required to contribute to the school by presenting a poster related to her/his work. The six best posters will be selected for the oral presentation session at the school.
Due to the travel restriction of COVID-19, the school will be held in a hybrid mode including both onsite and remote forms. The onsite form (in person) is for domestic participants, and the remote form is for those participants from abroad.
The school is jointly organized by the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE), Beihang University (BUAA), Fudan University (FDU), Institute of Modern Physics (IMP), Lanzhou University (LZU), Nanjing University (NJU), Peking University (PKU) and Tsinghua University (THU).
The application will be open on April 15, 2022, and will be closed on June 5 2022. The application form (to be completed by the student) can be found at the school website (http://indico.ihep.ac.cn/event/14252/). A poster abstract and a paragraph statement of self-introduction and explanation of what the applicant hopes to achieve by attending NUSYS 2022 are required to be filled online. A recommendation letter needs to be sent directly to the school email (email@example.com) to support the application. The applicant, who was already be accepted by the school committee last year, will pass the application in priority, and she/he needs to submit the updated documents or the old version documents on the website.
The total number of participants for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers will be limited to 60. Accommodation and daily allowance for the attendees will be covered by the school.
The total number of participants for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers will be limited to 60. Participants will be selected by the organizer committees. Our target participants are mainly PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers. Once the selection of participants has been done, the confirmation letter/email of acceptance will be sent to each selected participant through the email. Accommodation and daily allowance for the attendees will be covered by the school.
We look forward to meeting you in Ruichang!
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The snowdrops were blooming just after Christmas, the crocuses have been pushing up their fragile shades of gold and purple, even through recent light blankets of snow, and welcome hours of sunlight are putting the spring back in our steps. And indeed, today is that day the first one of spring.
And here comes the next player in spring’s extravaganza: the daffodil. This is probably my favorite of all flowers. There is no end to the tales and superstitions attributed to the daffodil, some with happy prospects and others rather grim.
Daffodils are believed to have been first brought to England by Roman soldiers who believed that their sap would heal wounds, while actually, sharp crystals in the flower’s sap further irritated the skin. The soldiers were correct, however, in judging the daffodil bulb’s poisonous and narcotic powers. Like the capsules of poison often carried by spies and undercover agents to ensure a hasty death rather than divulge their secrets when tortured, so the Roman soldiers carried daffodil bulbs. If mortally wounded, chowing down a few of the narcotic bulbs would bring about a pain-free demise.
While the daffodil’s proper botanical name is narcissus, back in the 1500’s the flower’s old name “affodyle” came into the English language and was thought to originate from the Old English affo dyle meaning “that which cometh early” — a definition to which we can relate.
The flower’s botanical name carries with it some shades of warning about being too vain of one’s appearance. According to the old legend, a youth was so taken with his handsome visage that he sat beside a pool of clear, quiet water studying his reflection. When he tried to touch his image, of course, the water rippled and frustrated him to the point of sitting there by the pond indefinitely. The gods realized that if left there, the young man would eventually die of hunger so they simply exerted a little of their powers and turned him into the flower that since carries his name – Narcissus
In Wales, the daffodil has more recently joined forces with the leek, that country’s national emblem, because while having the green stem and white bulb of the vegetable, it presents a better appearance and certainly a better smell when worn in the buttonhole to celebrate Wales’ St. David’s Day on March 1. The sprightly daffodil is now one of the royal badges for Wales.
Spring’s crocus, more dainty and fragile than the daffodil apparently came to England from France and from there migrated to North America with the early settlers who planted the tiny bulbs around their homes.
The modern word crocus derives from the Greek ‘krokos’, meaning saffron. The stamens of one crocus specie, the crocus sativa, provides the golden, orange-yellow dye once used to dye the royal robes of roman emperors and the flowers were often strewn in the emperors’ paths.
So enjoy the bright colors of spring’s first blooms along with the sunshine that brings them forth. For those of us old enough to remember, here’s the riddle of the day: the daffodil flower is reminiscent of what instrument of communication?
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HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Outward Bound International is deeply saddened by the passing of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness died peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle at the age of 99, Buckingham Palace announced today.
Prince Philip served as patron of the Outward Bound Trust in Britain from 1953 until he stepped down in 2019 after 65 years of involvement with the charity. Over the decades The Duke of Edinburgh extended his patronage to the growing Outward Bound movement that followed the establishment of the first school in Aberdovey, Wales in 1941. His Royal Highness became patron to Outward Bound International, the global licensing and member support organization, in 1997.
From 1934 to 1939 Prince Philip attended the Scottish boarding school Gordonstoun where Kurt Hahn was founder and headmaster. Hahn, reportedly one of the greatest influences on young Prince Philip’s life, would later collaborate with shipping industrialist Lawrence Holt to establish Outward Bound. It was The Duke of Edinburgh’s personal experience with Hahn’s educational philosophies that allowed him to develop an early affinity with Outward Bound and then to support its growth worldwide through his steadfast personal commitment to its mission.
Prince Philip leaves an enduring legacy defined by his service and commitment to the ideals and philosophy of the Outward Bound movement he played a pivotal role in bringing to over 30 countries on six continents during his time as patron. We at Outward Bound are deeply grateful to His Royal Highness for his many contributions and achievements and send our sincere condolences to all the members of the Royal Family and especially to Queen Elizabeth. He will be remembered with affection. | <urn:uuid:09a4e21f-bcaf-410b-ad0d-a55cf0450e75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outwardbound.ca/2021/04/09/hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.969086 | 332 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Raising a child with a disability does not come without its challenges, but Nomsa Masoka has risen above the adversity and brought other mothers along to form lifelong friendships and support.
Nomsa Masoka’s son was just three years old when he was diagnosed with autism. As a young mother, Masoka had no experience of raising a child with a developmental disability.
Now her son is 16 and Masoka says the experience of raising a child with autism has been one of her proudest experiences. It was through this journey that she discovered her purpose was to work with families and individuals with disabilities.
“My son living with autism is the one who drives me to excel. When I look at him and where I want to see him in years to come, this motivates me to work harder in order to achieve great things for his comfort,” she says.
This journey however did not come without challenges, she says. Little did she know that the woman she would become would cost her “people, relationships, spaces and material things”.
Masoka used her experience of raising her son with autism to establish the support group Mothers Of Children With Autism (MOCWA) in 2015. MOCWA has hosted various events that bring mothers and professionals together and offer networking and educational support to families of children living with autism. This group offers educational workshops, autism awareness walks, family fun day and high teas.
MOCWA also assists families to find suitable school placement for children with autism. MOCWA is now home to 160 mothers and also offers round the clock assistance via WhatsApp group chats.
Masoka is currently in a process of opening an autism village where families can be offered respite care when they don’t have a helper or someone to take care of their children who are living with autism.
During lockdown many families have experienced challenges such as children getting lost, fatal car accidents, unwelcoming neighbours and intolerant communities as well as child abuse. Thus there is a need to provide a safe and supportive environment to some of the struggling families and their children.
“I wish to create more awareness about autism and advocate for the creation of various resources and facilities for individuals living with autism and their families,” she says.
The resources include autism-friendly holiday destinations, restaurants, recreational and residential facilities in order to allow for the inclusion and acceptance of individuals living with autism and their families within society.
A qualified speech therapist, Masoka has worked in both public and private healthcare but was unsatisfied.
“I used to think job satisfaction has to do with the amount of money you earned, accolades or the position you held in a company, but I learned that it’s when your work impacts the lives of others positively that you get the greatest fulfillment.
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The New Year's Eve fire that decimated The Address Downtown Dubai hotel has some people asking, hey, how flammable are these superluxury towers? The good news is that since 2012 regulations have gotten more stringent for new buildings. The bad is, years existed before 2012. "Two thirds of the buildings in Dubai are covered with aluminium composite panels (ACP) that is not fire rated," said Samer Barakat, the chief executive of Alumco, the company that supplied the panels that The Address was clad in. "From our side we complied. We gave all our submissions, there was approval on every submission according to specification. We cannot create a code for ourselves. We cannot create a product that is above what is required. According to the regulations of that time, this is the best we had."
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Write a note on AIDS. answer in detail. 10 marks
AIDS stands for "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome."
AIDS is an advanced stage of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV usually spreads from person to person through contact with infected sexual secretions or blood.
People with AIDS have weakened immune systems that make them vulnerable to medical conditions and infections.
In people with AIDS, HIV itself may cause symptoms. Some people experience relentless fatigue and weight loss, known as "wasting syndrome." Others may develop confusion or sleepiness due to infection of the brain with HIV, known as HIV encephalopathy. Both wasting syndrome and HIV encephalopathy are AIDS-defining illnesses.
The likelihood of HIV infection progressing to AIDS increases with the number of years a person has been infected. Using highly effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens reduces the chance of developing AIDS.
ART enhances the immune system and extends life expectancy in persons living with AIDS. Many people who receive ART have life expectancies that are close to normal. ART is a treatment that patients must continue for life. It is not a cure.
Some antiretroviral medicines have the potential to become HIV resistant. The greatest method to avoid resistance is for the patient to always take their ART as prescribed. If a patient wants to stop taking a medication due to adverse effects, he or she should contact their doctor right away.
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Each person brainstorms individually for each of these 4 questions:
What I Loved
What I Learned
What I Lacked
What I Longed For
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The citizens of California have learned something shocking: if you don’t punish people for stealing, more people will steal. Yeah, who could have anticipated that?
California a few years ago decriminalized what Ballotpedia describes as “nonviolent, nonserious crimes,” reducing them from felonies to misdemeanor.
I didn’t know that any crimes were “nonserious.”
Suffice it to say that if you are inclined to shoplift, you have to filch quite a lot for it to move from nonserious to serious crime in the Golden State.
Here is Ballotpedia’s list of former felonies that became misdemeanors:
- Shoplifting, where the value of property stolen does not exceed $950
- Grand theft, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed $950
- Receiving stolen property, where the value of the property does not exceed $950
- Forgery, where the value of forged check, bond or bill does not exceed $950
- Fraud, where the value of the fraudulent check, draft or order does not exceed $950
- Writing a bad check, where the value of the check does not exceed $950
- Personal use of most illegal drugs
Try to keep your shoplifting under $950!
A funny thing reportedly happened after decriminalization: more shoplifting.
Hot Air (great headline: “California Shocked to Find Bill Decriminalizing Retail Theft Resulted in . . . More Retail Theft”) summarizes what happened:
To the great surprise of the government, people noticed this change [in the law] and began taking advantage of it. They have now recorded multiple years of steadily increasing, organized robbery.
These plots are known as “mass grab and dash” thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time, grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway.
Not only are robberies on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this? (CBS Sacramento)
Here is a nugget from a news report:
After searching police reports and arrest records, CBS13 found that while the rate of these grab and dash crimes is on the rise, the rate of arrest is down. We turned to law enforcement and the retail industry for answers. Both blame a California law intended to make “neighborhoods safe.”
“It’s a boldness like we’re seeing never before and just a disregard for fellow human beings,” said Lieutenant Mark Donaldson, Vacaville PD.
He explained these crimes have evolved into more than just shoplifting. It’s organized retail theft and he says it’s happening across the state. Cities like Vacaville, with outlets and shopping centers located near major freeways, tend to be a target for these organized retail crime rings.
Hot Air notes that decriminalization and subsequent changes in pattern of crimes is a blue state phenomenon.
I think it all starts when you consider some instances of breaking the law “nonserious.”
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Children learn best about different people and languages through first-hand experience. They are sensory beings who learn through the experiences of touch, see, smell, hear and taste. It can be challenging to incorporate all five senses into a cultural lesson. Or is it?
Not when you let children experience new cultures through cuisine.
This post was written by guest blogger, Deborah Tayloe.
International cuisines are diverse, colorful, and amazing. Children, especially younger ones, are open-minded to new ideas. Take advantage of this curiosity.
You may think that children are naturally picky eaters and this would never work. Keep an open mind and remember that children aren’t “born picky.” In fact, they become picky through experiences. Trying international cuisine may even have a two-fold effect: opening them up to new cultures and reversing some “picky” tendencies they may have developed.
Not sure how to expose your child to new cultures and foods? Here are a few ideas for fun, food-based cultural introductions.
Thai cuisine is heavily influenced by ancient traditions and influenced by Vietnamese and Chinese cuisines. Thai chefs rely on aromatic, savory dishes with a gorgeous presentation. If you can nail the presentation, great! If not, just have fun with it.
Set the table with a length of Thai inspired elephant-print fabric. Pick up Thai take-out or even grab something from the freezer section of your supermarket. If your child is older, let him/her help you make a pad Thai meal. As you dine, let your child roll lettuce wraps of rice and the savory Thai meats.
Read more about Thai food, learn about mealtime customs, and find traditional recipes here.
Share these fun facts about Thailand:
- Siamese Cats are actually native to Thailand, not China.
- The Thai language is an offshoot of Chinese.
- Buddhism is Thailand’s largest religion.
Visit the Globe Trottin’ Kids country profile page for an infographic, map, photographs and more: Thailand.
Who doesn’t love Italian food? To most children, Italian cuisine is synonymous with pizza. Let’s expand their horizons!
Kids love to eat with their hands, so make easy antipasti for dinner. Pile a platter with plump and colorful olives, hard cheese such as Pecorino, and Italian cured meats. Serve crusty Italian bread dipped in olive oil with herbs. Enjoy a meal of heavy appetizers.
Read more about Italian food, learn about mealtime customs, and find traditional recipes here.
Share these fun facts about Italian culture:
- The primary religion in Italy is Catholic.
- Some of the greatest artists in history were Italian.
- The national music of Italy is Opera.
Visit the Globe Trottin’ Kids country profile page for an infographic, map, photographs and more: Italy.
Mexico is a large country and our neighbor. Our culture is heavily influenced by the Latino culture through food and music. Decorate the table with bright colors and pick up a pair of maracas from the party store. It’s time for a fiesta!
Seriously, this is a great teaching opportunity. Your children probably already love Mexican food, so make homemade cheese quesadillas and guacamole and learn about Mexico.
Read more about Mexican food, learn about mealtime customs, and find traditional recipes here.
Here are a few facts about Mexico to share with your child:
- The jungles of Mexico are home to parrots, jaguars, and iguanas. It’s a bio-diverse rainforest.
- The Aztec (natives) of Mexico invented hot chocolate.
- Mariachi music is the nation’s favorite music.
Visit the Globe Trottin’ Kids country profile page for an infographic, map, photographs and more: Mexico.
Regardless of the culture, focus on these keys to success:
- Turn off the television during this special dinner.
- Remain positive, even if they do scoff at the food.
- As you discuss facts about the cultures, take cues from your child and explore their interests (animals, sports, etc.) further with age-appropriate activities.
- Have a tablet handy to explore images of artwork or listen to music from that culture.
- Make this a special occasion, maybe once a week or two – depending on your child’s age and attention span.
These are just three examples. As you can see, the possibilities to teach about culture though international cuisine are endless. With some imagination and effort, you can lead your child on a safari through Kenya, a trek through Tibet, sailing in the Norwegian fjords, or mushing through the Arctic.
Find more information and recipes at Food in Every Country.
Related Post: World Food Day: Action for #ZeroHunger
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What is a dermal filler?
Dermal filler is a biological gel, which is injected under the skin to fill the deficit of tissue volume.Modern fillers are completely biodegradable (it means that they dissolve in tissues in a natural way). They contain biological polymers, which do not cause any allergic or immunological reactions. The tissues take biogels as a natural component of the body and do not reject them.
- In 72% of cases, dermal fillers are used when signs of skin aging appear, such as wrinkles, sagging skin, etc.
- In 20% of cases, fillers are used to correct the shape of the face, e.g. correcting the shape of the nose, changing the shape of the cheekbones, etc.
- In 8% of cases, the gel is administered to correct cosmetic defects, such as scars.
Particular attention should be given to the lip correction treatment with the help of dermal fillers. According to the official data of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the popularity of this procedure has grown by about 300% over the past 15 years.
Women use dermal fillers actively to enhance the lips volume and achieve the desired shape. The development of this area of aesthetic cosmetology was possible due to the creation of hyaluronic acid fillers of various density.
Dermal fillers help correct the imbalance of the proportions between the lower and upper lips and improve their volume with natural fading.
The history of dermal fillers
The modern history of dermal fillers began in 1981. The FDA first approved dermal filler for aesthetic medicine under the trade name “Zyderm”. It was a drug based on collagen of animal origin.Scientists realized that this protein can be used to increase the volume of soft tissues for the signs of aging and cosmetic defects.
The FDA created a precedent in the field of aesthetic medicine, so many pharmaceutical companies began exploring the possibilities of human fat, collagen, and alloplastic materials. Each company wanted to create their product with unique properties.
Despite various developments, purified collagen of animal origin remained the only effective filler. It had many advantages over other drugs, yet it was not perfect.
The question of this substance tolerability remained open, though. Often, people manifested allergic reactions to the animal origin components. Thoroughly purified forms of collagen were only available at a very high price.
In the early 2000s, a revolution occurred on the market. The FDA has approved a completely new hyaluronic acid dermal filler. It was a product made by Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, registered under the trade name Restylane.
The FDA experts have confirmed that hyaluronic acid fillers show better performance, compared to collagen. Thus, they:
- have a more stable and sustainable action
- are less likely to cause allergic reactions
- do not require prior testing before the introduction
- are more flexible and easy to use.
Since 2003, the aesthetic medicine industry has been actively adopting hyaluronic acid. Over the past 15 years, many HA fillers of different density have appeared on the market. Patients note a good tolerability of these gels and a lasting effect. Doctors and aesthetic practitioners say that hyaluronic acid is very pleasant to work with, since the final result is always predictable.
Thanks to the innovative developments over the last 5-7 years, new generation products have appeared on the market. They stimulate the biological response to the injected filler. Doctors can activate the internal capabilities of the body to thicken the skin and restore regeneration processes. This made the fillers act longer and perform much more functions.
Dermal Fillers Effect
- Smoothing wrinkles on the face, neck, décolleté
- Elimination of nasolabial folds
- Tightening the skin under the eyes, on the chin, in the corners of the mouth
- Face contour correction, incl. correction of the shape of the cheekbones, cheeks, chin
- Facial asymmetry correction
- Correction of the shape of the nose without surgery
- Skin recovery after acne treatment, i.e. scar correction
- Lip shape and volume correction
These are just the basic features of modern dermal fillers. With proper use of fillers, you can drastically change a person's face and make it visually younger. To do this, use gels of different densities with different fillers, depending on the purpose of the treatment and the injection area.
How long does the effect last?
Dermal fillers contain different active ingredients. Each component has individual pharmacological properties. They determine not only the result of the procedure, but also the duration of the effect.The first dermal fillers worked no more than 3 months. The effect passed very quickly, because the fillers had a low density and were disintegrating quickly.With the advent of hyaluronic acid, dermal fillers began to work longer: 8-12 months. The effect duration depends on the density of the gel and the injection area.
- When the product is injected in an area with increased mobility (forehead, lips), the effect lasts about 8-10 months.
- When the product is introduced in an area with low mobility, the effect lasts 10 to 16 months.
Why does it happen like that?
Once the gel gets under the skin, the molecules of hyaluronic acid combine into a single chain. They create a dense substance, which fills the bumps or creates the “lifting” effect.This dense substance breaks down in a natural way and the gel dissolves completely under the skin. Yet this process is rather a slow one.The aggressive influence over the gel provokes the destruction of the HA chains. The substance loses its density fast, and the effect lasts less.
- hot or cold food accelerates the destruction of the gel in the lips
- excessive activity of the facial muscles accelerates the destruction of the HA chains in the forehead
- facial massage reduces the density of the gel in the cheek area
Therefore, the duration of the dermal filler results depends not only on the quality of the gel or its composition. It largely depends on the conditions that the person creates.
For a long time, it was believed that the HA provides a relatively short-lasting results. But thanks to innovative developments, more lasting results were achieved.
PLLA and PMMA fillers are specially developed in laboratories as an alternative to hyaluronic acid. Their results last for up to 24 months.
Which kinds of dermal fillers are out there?
The correct classification of fillers begins with their division into:
We already know about the first group - these are fillers, which eventually dissolve under the skin.
The second group is fillers that do not dissolve under the skin. Fortunately, the era of such fillers is long gone. They are practically not used in aesthetic medicine (only for medical reasons).
Biodegradable fillers can be categorized by their composition. Each filler has its pros and cons, and we advise you to keep reading, if you want to know what these are.
Collagen dermal fillers
The active ingredient is a protein, made of the connective tissue of cattle (most often, xenogenic bovine collagen). Human connective tissue cells are used less commonly.These fillers are used to correct wrinkles, change the contour of the face, and correct post-acne defects.The most famous collagen fillers are: Zyplast and Zyderm. They have been used for over 30 years. These are the most well-studied biological fillers, which are used in aesthetic medicine.
- instant effect
- no rehabilitation period
- the effect lasts 3-6 months
- intolerance to animal ingredients is possible
HA Dermal Fillers
The active substance is hyaluronic acid of non-animal origin. This substance is tolerated very well. It can be used in all areas of the face and for any purpose.It is an absolutely natural ingredient, which is used for:
- wrinkle filling
- adding volume and correcting contours
- skin tightening
- post-acne treatment
- correction of the facial proportions
Fillers with hyaluronic acid are rather inexpensive, and you can buy them all over the world.
The most popular brands Juvederm and Restylane offer a wide range of fillers with different properties.
- injection results are visible in 15 minutes after injection
- maximum safety and lack of allergic reactions
- 100% solubility in tissues
- effect lasts up to 18 months.
- the ultimate result is visible in a week after the treatment
- with improper filler administration, side effects are possible, such as gel buildup in one place, uneven filler distribution, bruises, edema.
CaHA dermal fillers
Calcium hydroxylapatite is a mineral substance, the main inorganic component of bone tissue. It is synthesized in laboratories in the form of micronized powder, and the gel is made using a solvent before the procedure.This type of filler is used for volumetric contouring of the forehead, nose, and cheeks. This is the heaviest and rather dense gel, as it contains plenty mineral components.Recently, cosmetologists are actively using these dermal fillers to rejuvenate the outside of the palm.
You can find CaHA dermal fillers under the trade name Radiesse.
- are biocompatible with the human body
- results last 12 to 18 months
- provide a pronounced volume in the injection area
- nodules can form when injected, and gel can accumulate into lumps
- not suitable for sensitive areas due to high density
PPLA dermal fillers
The active component of the filler is Poly-L-lactic acid. It is a polymer synthesized in laboratories, which has a 100% biodegradable substance. Technically, it is one of the most powerful collagen stimulants.Poly-L-lactic acid has no therapeutic activity. It only causes the body to produce collagen in large quantities in order to correct the aesthetic defect on the skin.
- This type of dermal fillers is used to:
- treat scars after the acne treatment,
- correct scars and defects on the skin,
- repair deep wrinkles
Beauticians prefer to use Poly-L-lactic acid filler under the trade name Sculptra. It has been approved by the FDA, has a good reputation and an optimal price.
- effect lasts up to 24 months
- the drug is completely excreted several months after the injection
- no allergic reactions in the patient
- The effect occurs with a delay: 2-4 weeks
- It is difficult to determine the final result, which sometimes requires additional correction
- there is a chance of developing granulomas with improper administration of the drug
PMMA dermal fillers
The active substance is Polymethylmethacrylate - a synthetic component containing collagen of animal origin.This type of filler has been used for the last 10 years of the twentieth century. Its peculiarity is that the solution is suspended in a gel-like solution right before the injection treatment. When the gel is introduced under the skin, it takes the form of a tiny ball, which fills all the irregularities of the skin from the inside.
These balls are so tiny that they are not visible from the side (with the right introduction) and are not even felt when you touch the skin.
They focus only in the injection zone. In fact, it’s like hundreds of small air mattresses around skin cells, which prevent it from sagging and aging.
PMMA dermal fillers are used to correct deep wrinkles and nazolabial folds. One of the most popular drugs that has been approved by the FDA is Bellafill.
- the gel stays under the skin indefinitely and can last for several years
- it helps smooth out the deepest and most numerous wrinkles
- to get the effect, you need several sessions
- effect is visible after about 2-3 months
- there is a risk of an allergic reaction to the animal collagen
- if the gel is used improperly, it may be visible under the skin
Autologous fat injections
Own fat cells from other areas are introduced into the facial tissue, such as the abdomen, buttocks, and thighs. They are pre-filtered, washed, processed in a centrifuge. Purified fat cells are perfect for the facial area. They have an average density and maintain their effect for a long time.Such fillers can be used to increase the volume of the cheeks, cheekbones, and temporal region.Advantages:
- the most natural filler, which does not cause adverse reactions
- the treatment can be done an unlimited number of times
- the effect lasts 1 to 10 years
- it is impossible to predict how long the effect lasts. It is different even in one and the same person.
- it is not suitable for spot wrinkle correction or contouring
- the injections require a highly skilled specialist and should only be performed by an experienced cosmetic surgeon
If you’re not sure which to choose, dermal fillers or fat transfer, give preference to dermal fillers. The effect lasts less, yet they can be used locally to correct small imperfections. And the treatment itself is much simpler, safer and less discomforting.
Fat transfer is only suitable in the most severe cases, where dermal fillers effects are insufficient.
Still, it is impossible to say which drug is best for you. Your dermatologist/aesthetic practitioner is the one to determine this.
It happens so that the beautician chooses a perfect dermal filler for your skin type. During the procedure, though, unexpected reactions manifest. Or your skin requires a deeper impact with other products.
Therefore, we recommend that you discuss all existing dermal fillers with your doctor. Thus, you will understand better, which of them is best for your purposes.
Dermal fillers safety
All modern dermal fillers are FDA approved and have a high degree of pharmacological safety. Despite this, you must understand that an unpredictable reaction is still possible.Your dermatologist/aesthetic practitioner should inform you about all the risks before he begins the treatment. Please note that each filler has a different safety degree.
It is believed that hyaluronic acid fillers are the safest. They really are. They have less potential for side effects.
Collagen dermal fillers can cause an allergic reaction. Therefore, dermatologists make a fast test in the forearm area before the treatment session. If a reaction manifests in 15 minutes, another filler should be chosen.
If the test shows that you don’t have any allergic reaction to this filler, the treatment with this collagen dermal filler is absolutely safe.
It all depends on the qualifications of your doctor. Ask him if he has already worked with your filler, how many sessions he did, and what are the side effects.
If you need a collagen injection, look for the appropriate specialist. If your cosmetologist works with HA, and uses collagen rarely, it means that he doesn’t have a sufficient experience in this area. And low experience usually affects the result in a negative way.
On forums, we often see questions from users: “Are dermal fillers safe?” or “are HA injections safe?”. These questions should be asked to a qualified dermatologist. He is the only one, who can tell how safe this or that drug is namely for you.
Our experience suggests that every FDA-approved dermal filler is highly safe. It is very important to choose the right doctor and buy the original drug.
When using original dermal fillers, severe complications are almost impossible. The most dangerous mistakes made by your doctor are those, which can lead to:
- bruising, edema, hematoma
- asymmetry of facial contours
- skin infection
- wounds and subsequent scarring on the skin
- impaired blood flow in the injection area
These risks do not depend on any specific dermal filler. They are conditioned by the fact that the skin of the face has very sensitive tissues, many vessels and nerve endings. If the injection is unsuccessful, important areas may be affected. And this will cause the above side effects.
Dermal fillers or Botox: what are the main differences?
Dermal fillers are often confused with Botox injections. Both procedures are used for facial rejuvenation, yet the aesthetic effect differs.Botulinum toxin is a natural protein, used to eliminate deep facial wrinkles. This substance relaxes the facial muscles, involved in facial expressions. The active movement of these muscles leads to the appearance of wrinkles, mainly in the forehead area.In the area of botulinum toxin injection, the facial muscles lose mobility. This allows reducing the formation of new facial wrinkles and smooth out the skin adjacent to the injection area.
Dermal fillers have a different mechanism of action. They fill the missing amount of tissue with the biological gel. It gets fixed in the tissues of the dermis and fills in all the irregularities.
As a rule, the gel contains beneficial substances: hyaluronic acid or collagen. These substances eliminate dry skin, improve tissue regeneration and increase its elasticity. Botulinum toxin does not possess such properties.
Dermal fillers do not block the nerve impulses in the facial muscles and do not interfere with their motor activity. Therefore, after the gel injection, the correction area retains its natural appearance and mobility.
If you have injected botulinum toxin in the forehead, it will be noticeable. Even with strong eyebrow raising, the forehead area remains completely immobile. This creates a small aesthetic inconvenience.
Botulinum toxin is mainly used to eliminate deep wrinkles in the following areas:
- forehead (vertical and horizontal wrinkles)
- between the eyebrows
- corners of the eyes ("crow's feet")
Dermal filler injections are made in any area of the face. Each filler has a different density, which allows controlling the final result. With deep facial wrinkles, a dense gel is used, which does not break down with a high activity of the facial muscles. For fine wrinkles around the eyes, the corners of the mouth and nasolabial fold, you can use a less dense gel.
This is where dermal fillers surpass botulinum toxin. They are more flexible to use and provide a natural effect.
In addition, dermal fillers maintain their effect for 8–16 months. The action of botulinum toxin rarely persists for more than 6 months.
Which filler to choose
You can choose a suitable dermal filler only after consulting a specialist. Your doctor will have a visual inspection, ask several professional questions, understand your goals and objectives. After he understands your problem and desired results, he will offer you the most suitable product.A certain set of fillers is used for each area of the face:
- Dermal fillers for smoothing the under-eye area: Juvederm, Restylane, fat Injections;
- Dermal fillers for lifting and enhancing cheeks: Resultant lyft, Voluma;
- Dermal fillers for smoothing out the marionette lines: Belotero, Juvederm, Restylane Refyne \ Defyne;
- Dermal fillers for lip augmentation: Juvederm Ultra, Volbella, Fat injection;
- Dermal fillers for softening the nasolabial folds: Juvederm, Belotero, Restylane, Radiesse, Sculptra;
- Dermal fillers for smoothing out the vertical lip lines: Volbella, Belotero, Restylane Silk;
- Dermal fillers for chin wrinkles: Belotero, Radiesse, Juvederm, Restylane;
- Dermal fillers for filling the acne scars: Bellafill, Juvederm, Radiesse;
- Dermal fillers for hands rejuvenation: Radiesse, fat injections.
The cost of dermal fillers is different. Therefore, we offer several products for each zone.
Check with your doctor about which filler is best for you and choose the cheapest and most effective dermal filler.
You have to understand that the more technologies are used to create active components, the greater is the cost of dermal fillers. Therefore, many doctors recommend using hyaluronic acid products. They are inexpensive and quite effective.
Micronized fillers with complex chemical compositions will always be more expensive than the hyaluronic acid fillers.
When injecting dermal fillers, you should have a clear goal. Do not expect to get a “magic” effect. After the treatment, you should not forget about regular skin care.
Each dermal filler has its own duration. The effect gradually passes. If you do nothing to maintain the condition of your skin, the duration of the fillers action will be rather short.
Here are some important recommendations:
- Do not forget to moisturize the skin before bedtime
- Under extreme conditions (heat or cold), moisturize the skin 2 times a day (before going out and before going to bed)
- Take hyaluronic acid capsules. Only 1 capsule per day will ensure a good effect. Your skin will regain a healthy color, and become more elastic and moisturized.
- Every 3 months, change the face cream
- Drink clean water every day (at least 2 liters)
- Visit an aesthetic practitioner at least once a year. Even if you do not have acne, a visit to a beautician is recommended for both men and women. A light chemical peel or ultrasonic cleaning will help remove dead cells from the skin and speed up the regeneration processes.
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What Is Woodworking?
Woodworking indicates a lot of points, however right here’s moderately boring definition I developed that most enthusiasts will most likely agree with
Woodworking is an effective craft that includes cutting, shaping, as well as joining wood to develop ornamental and/or beneficial shed plans 8×10 woodworking things.
There is nothing physically demanding about woodworking as well as you can construct at your own pace. The fundamental concepts are straightforward to discover, yet it’s a hobby that will certainly constantly remain fresh and tough as your abilities evolve. If you like analytic, you will love woodworking. I have actually gone to this for over 40 years and deal with brand-new difficulties with every job I develop.
It’s part of the process. It’s additionally rewarding to generate really awesome things for your home using your hands as well as mind. Generally, woodworking is a very singular experience: if you are a little bit withdrawn and also love handling jobs throughout, you will like woodworking.
That Are Woodworkers?
There used to be two stereotypes of woodworkers. The irritable store educator who instructed an actually dull course to children who really did not want to exist, and also the retired grandpa that puttered around in his garage with a lot of time to construct a periodic birdhouse.
Thankfully, those stereotypes are no longer true. There is even more diversity in woodworking now than ever, thanks to on-line communities as well as the cost of devices and also products.
In the past ten years there has been a massive surge in two groups of people making woodworking a leisure activity. Initially, ladies. It wasn’t that long ago when a women woodworker was uncommon. Today, ladies woodworkers are typical. There is nothing concerning woodworking that anybody can’t do.
The 2nd huge demographic spike has been among millennials, people in their 20s and also 30s. I learn through people at all times who operate in silicon valley or simply have some kind of workplace task as well as really feel the requirement to make points with their hands.
What’s The Distinction Between A “Maker” As Well As A “WoodWorker”?
A manufacturer is a relatively new term that has cropped up in the past decade or two. It’s an all-inclusive term for people that such as to dabble in different crafts. This could mean a little woodworking, metalworking, epoxying, concreting, computer system shows, electronics, 3D printing, baking, stitching, knitting, jewelry production, sculpting, porcelains, robotics, also having fun with Legos. So primarily, we are all makers.
A woodworker is a manufacturer that is mainly thinking about discovering and improving the craft of creating points out of wood. In some cases we bring various other products into our tasks, yet the emphasis is on the wood. It’s a budget friendly, classic material that’s simple to construct with.
Ted’s 16,000 Woodworking Plans
I’ve had my eye on Ted’s 16,000 woodworking plans for time.
It appeared as well good to be real. Although I’m not a serious woodworker, I figured if I made one or a few of the projects from the kit it would be cash well invested.
My curiosity got the best of me. I bit the bullet and bought it. They use a refund so I figured if it was entirely worthless I can request my refund.
Is is too good to be real?
Not actually. It’s pretty good. It’s not excellent, but it’s great.
Some of the plans are so bad yet are consisted of just to increase the sales pitch of “16,000” plans.
And after that a few of the strategies are fantastic. Some are alright. I’m not stunned it’s not perfect. It’s an enormous collection as well as mishmash of different plans for all kinds of products.
Right here’s the state of mind you should have if you purchase Ted’s Woodworking. Approve the reality you won’t such as every plan. Actually, accept you will most likely not do 90% or even more of them for any kind of variety of factors such as the plans misbehave and/or they aren’t projects you want to build.
BUT, the few strategies that you do like and that are suitable high quality, if you construct them, will be make the cost of this digital collection of woodworking plans worth it.
Who should acquire Ted’s Woodworking?
This is for individuals who such as DIY tasks. A lot of the strategies are identified “newbie”, “intermediate” or “sophisticated” which is valuable.
Even if you’ve never built anything or done any type of woodworking, this is a respectable collection of plans to start with because there are beginner jobs included.
You can construct all kinds of stuff for your residence. See the checklist of plan categories below.
At the end of the day, if you do the odd do it yourself task or dabble in woodworking, this is a suitable set of plans to have in your supply.
About the Item
I haven’t counted to see if there are 16,000 strategies, yet I validate there are a lot of them.
Fortunately they are well arranged so you can discover specifically what you’re searching for.
Ted’s Woodworking is provided as a PDF download. It’s actually a collection of PDF downloads (see plan categories above).
Nonetheless, you can additionally get the DVD version however it costs an added $19.95 (I didn’t pay $19.95 for the DVD version).
Some terrific woodworking strategies: Obviously if a plan is something you want to construct as well as the strategy is outlined enough so that you can finish the project it’s good.
Nonetheless, a few of the tasks are old and also the plans are poor quality … so poor you’ll possibly just overlook them.
On the PLUS side, there are numerous exceptional jobs worth building. For instance, the loft space bed plan over is excellent (one of lots of).
Well Organized: I was eliminated after buying Ted’s Woodworking that I really did not need to sift via hundreds of PDF web pages. Rather, Ted a minimum of put some effort into arranging the plans in lots of groups. This made locating some good strategies really simple.
Actually, the members’ location is actually easy to use as well as well arranged.
Good value for cash: One or two finished jobs from this item makes it worth the money. I believe I’ll get my money’s worth over time and also I have actually yet to check out every single plan consisted of. I’ve located sufficient quality projects that I recommend the product worth offered it’s relatively affordable.
Cost: It’s not really pricey. Considering that it’s a digital download, you don’t need to spend for a pricey book, which is superb.
Motivation: One advantage of there being so many plans is simply by brushing via the strategies I created brand-new job ideas I hadn’t thought of previously.
Some awful plans: Regrettably several of the plans are dreadful which suggests you need to spend some time infiltrating the negative plans. I would certainly prefer an item with less strategies with each one be top quality.
Woodworking Videos: These are a joke. The good news is it’s simply a reward so I really did not care. I think these damage the item. The videos are largely from YouTube. Ted just brushed through YouTube looking for woodworking videos and also put them in the members’ area. I took a look at a few of the videos and also they weren’t worth watching.
On the whole, I’m pleased. I found numerous jobs worth doing and the strategies were completely detailed that I would certainly have the ability to construct them.
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Learn about Bharat Bond ETFs…
(1) These bonuses are linked to fixed deposits in the market. Edelweiss Global Investment Advisors said it would be cheaper for retail investors to buy ETF units than bonds. The asset management company will charge only 0.0005 percent as a management fee. In simple words, an investment of Rs 2 lakh will attract only Re 1 fee, but the asset management company hopes to add 3 lakh of investors through this fund. It will be open until December 20.
(two) Bharat Bond ETF is a simple fixed income product. Here an average investor can safely store his money. Its yields are easy to estimate. The income from this will not be tax free, but will get the benefit of indexation.
(How much profit will be received against FD (understand via charts)
(3) In other words, inflation will factor into the returns. Retail investors can start investing in the new fund from Rs 1,000. Investors who do not have Demat can invest through the Funds of Funds scheme.
(4) This scheme will invest in ETFs. The plan is to raise Rs 15,000 crore through the issue. It also has an over-allotment option of Rs 8,000 crore. It has been specially designed with long-term investors in mind.
(5) Bharat Bond ETF will invest around 15 CPSE. The investment in any bond will not exceed 15 percent. Bharat Bond ETF offers two investment options with a fixed maturity period of three years and 10 years.
Let’s know the answers to all the questions related to this…
(1) Question: What is the minimum amount to invest?
answer: Investors can invest as little as Rs 1,000 in Bharat Bond ETF. After this, investments can be made in multiples of Rs 1,000. Let us tell you that money can be invested until December 20.
(2) Question: For how many years will the money have to be invested?
answer: The investor can invest for 3 years and 10 years. Repayment of the investment on or before the end of 30 days from the vesting date will attract an exit charge of 0.10 percent. However, there will be no charge for the redemption/exchange after the 30 days are complete.
(3) Question: Will there be more money in Bharat Bond than in FD?
answer: Anand Rathi Wealth Management Deputy CEO Firoz Aziz says that if a small investor wants, India can put money into bond ETFs. It is expected to give better returns than FDs. Because the condition of the banks is not very good either. At the same time, this ETF includes many large AAA-rated government-owned companies in the country.
Firoz Aziz says that in FD, any investor can lock in interest for only 5 years. While 10 years of interest can be locked into this bond.
(4) Question: How much tax will I have to pay?
answer: This bond ETF is taxed like a debt mutual fund. That is, if the investment is held for more than three years, it is taxed at the rate of 20 percent together with the indexation benefit. While in FD, this tax becomes 30 percent.
Suppose if you invest one lakh rupees, it gives you a return of 7.58 per cent, then in 10 years your money will grow to Rs 2,07,642.
Then you will have to pay Rs 7,836 as tax on this. In this case, you will get Rs 1,99,806. That is why the Experts Bharat Bond ETF is more beneficial in the long run from a tax point of view. This is a good option for conservative debt fund investors.
(Understand how much tax you will have to pay through graphs)
(5) Question: What is there for small investors?
answer: The management of this ETF falls to Edelweiss AMC. It has also launched ‘Fund of Fund’ (FOF) for this fund. This will provide retail investors with the convenience of investing like regular mutual funds. For small investors, this FoF is better in terms of convenience and liquidity.
Bharat Bond ETF has a maturity period of 2023 and 2030. In this regard, it can be compared with fixed maturity plans and bank funds and PSUs. Bond ETFs cost much less than debt mutual funds.
Bonds included in the index will be rebalanced quarterly. Bharat Bond Fund of Fund has been launched for those investors who do not have a Demat account. The investment in each bond may not exceed 15 percent of the index.
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Parkour is an acrobatic sporting discipline that consists of overcoming urban or natural obstacles, using fast and agile movements (running, jumping, climbing, balance movements, etc.) and without the help of equipment. Parkour is practised outdoors, in public urban areas or in parks and forests, but also indoors to train without injury. These places present many obstacles such as walls, fences, trees and watercourses.
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For the past 16 months, we have been swamped with a tsunami of propaganda that the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was the medical “gold standard” test for diagnosing the disease Covid19 (C19). For most of this time, mainstream media shamelessly and relentlessly parroted a flagrant lie, that the PCR test was an accurate and almost infallible medical test. Do you recall the countless images of people being subjected to the nasal swabs, such as shown in the following image?Continue reading
Do you remember when Bill Gates said you would only need one shot of the new experimental injections and this would be effective for life? Do you remember that, within the year, Gates was then saying that you would then need two of the experimental injections? Now we are being told we will likely need booster shots each year, possibly several times a year. Are you still gullible enough to still accept this deception?Continue reading
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- THE COVID FRAUD
- Fake virus! Fake disease! Fake pandemic!
- Fraud is common in medical science
- Allopathic medicine, the sick man’s medicine
- The historical context of the covid fraud
- Vaccines play no role in reducing disease
- Disease is cured by the pen, not the ‘vaccine’
- Technocracy and Transhumanism
- Comply or die – coerced compliance
- The covid fraud is an engineered crisis
- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
There are two main parts to this blog post. The first part explains what the ‘covid fraud’ is and the context in which the covid fraud is to be understood. The second part is a call for civil disobedience and explains the goals behind and types of civil disobedience that are to be organized and engaged in.
The purpose of this web site is not to provide information about covid. Nor is it to try to change your opinion on covid, whatever that may be. There are hundreds of thousands of people here in Montreal, likely well over a million, who recognize the covid emergency health measures are not based on science and are fraudulent. We recognize the cure for covid that has been imposed on us by our leaders is much more dangerous and destructive than the disease itself. We are not well organized and are heavily fragmented in many groups. The purpose of this website is to try to bring together those of us who live in LaSalle, as well in adjacent communities, for the purpose of engaging in peaceful non-compliance and civil disobedience.Continue reading | <urn:uuid:c2983f67-054a-4750-9b87-7929a51c6aec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.virusfraud.org/2021/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957729 | 577 | 1.75 | 2 |
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Assessing Flood Risk of the Chao Phraya River Basin Based on Statistical Rainfall Analysis
Shakti P. C.*1,, Mamoru Miyamoto*2, Ryohei Misumi*1, Yousuke Nakamura*3, Anurak Sriariyawat*4, Supattra Visessri*4,*5, and Daiki Kakinuma*2
*1National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)
3-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0006, Japan
*2International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM),
Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Ibaraki, Japan
*3Mitsui Consultants Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
*4Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
*5Disaster and Risk Management Information Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
The Chao Phraya River Basin is one of the largest in Asia and is highly vulnerable to water-related disasters. Based on rainfall gauge data over 36 years (1981–2016), a frequency analysis was performed for this basin to understand and evaluate its overall flood risk; daily rainfall measurements of 119 rain gauge stations within the basin were considered. Four common probability distributions, i.e., Log-Normal (LOG), Gumbel type-I (GUM), Pearson type-III (PE3), and Log-Pearson type-III (LP3) distributions, were used to calculate the return period of rainfall at each station and at the basin-scale level. Results of each distribution were compared with the graphical Gringorten method to analyze their performance; GUM was found to be the best-fitted distribution among the four. Thereafter, design hyetographs were developed by integrating the return period of rainfall based on three adopted methods at basin and subbasin scales; each method had its pros and cons for hydrological applications. Finally, utilizing a Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model, we estimated the possible flood inundation extent and depth, which was outlined over the Chao Phraya River Basin using the design hyetographs with different return periods. This study can help enhance disaster resilience at industrial complexes in Thailand for sustainable growth.
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Max. Width of PCB 400mm
Heating zones: 10
Heating method: Hot Air
1. Well-known brand computer with Siemens PLC intelligent control system, high precision temperature control in ± 1-2 °C (if the computer has gone failure accidentally, it can realize off-line mode and not affecting production) and to ensure that the control system is stable and reliable;
2. Windows XP operating platform with user friendly operation.
3. In order to ensure safety and reliability, hood opening in automatically.
4. Device is equipped with mesh belt, transport smoothly, no shaking and no deformation, which ensure smooth PCB transport. Synchronous guide transmission mechanism and SMEMA connection ensure that guide adjustable wide precision and high service life.
5. Automatic controlled chain lubrication system..
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12. The upper and lower every temperature zone with independent temperature inductive sensor, real-time monitoring and compensation every temperature zone balance;
13. Have password administration of the operating system, to prevent the irrelevant personnel changes to the process parameters, operation records management traceability process parameters modification, improve the management convenient. Capable for saving user existing parameters and profile printout;
14. Integrated control window, the computer switch, test or printout profile and data transmission are convenient, humanized design. Equipped with three-channel temperature profiling system, may at any time to check soldering objects by the actual temperature profile (without 3rd party profiler);
15. From international standard quick cooling system, magnifying glass type efficient rapid cooling, cooling speed can reach 3.5 ~ 6 °C/ SEC, management is very convenient; External chiller unit, ensure that spot crystal effect (Option selected items, the standard configuration for forced natural air cooling).
Number of heating zones
Top 10/ bottom 10
Number of cooling zones
2(top 1, bottom 1)
Forced air cooling
10m³/min * 2 vanes
Max. Width of PCB
Mesh belt width
Mesh and chain
Range of rail width
Front track fixed(option: rear track fixed)
Top and bottom 25mm
5 line 3 phase 380V 50/60HZ
Ramp up time
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From room temp. To 300°C
Temp. control method
PID close loop control & SSR driving
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Temp. deviation on PCB
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Terms and Conditions
Definitions and interpretation
1.1 The following definitions apply in this Agreement:
Booking means the period during which the Company has agreed to supply the Facilities and/or Services to the Client
Company means Cut to the Beat Ltd t/a The Edit
Affiliate means any entity that directly or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control with another entity
Control means the beneficial ownership of more than 50% of the issued share capital of a company or the legal power to direct or cause the direction of the company
Client means the person, firm or company that has invited the Company to provide the Facilities, Services and Equipment and where the context so admits shall be deemed to include its employees, agents and anyone using the Facilities and/or Equipment with its express or implied authority.
Services means the Services to be performed for the duration of the Booking by the company by the Client
Contract means the agreement between the Company and the Client for the supply and purchase of service incorporating these Conditions
Conditions means the company’s terms and conditions of supply set out in this document
Equipment means any materials, software, hardware, supplied by the Company throughout the Booking
Facilities means any part of the Company supplied for the duration of the Booking to include studios, personnel, post production, equipment, creative and production services
Materials means any materials supplied by the Client for use during the Booking, to include but not limited to hard drives, discs, tapes memory cards and film
Hire Period means the period specified in the Booking
Personnel means any agent, servant, employee or independent contractor of the Client
Rate Card means the rate card from time to time of prices currently issued by the Company
VAT means value added tax under the Value Added Taxes Act 1994 or any other similar sale or fiscal tax Applying to the sale of the services
Business Day means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or bank and public holiday when banks generally are open for non-automated business in England
Background Intellectual Property any and all intellectual property rights that are not Foreground Intellectual Property owned and controlled by the relevant party or licenced to the relevant party prior to or outside the project but required for the purposes of the Project or for the proper use of the technology
Foreground Intellectual Property all Intellectual Property Rights and other matter capable of being the subject of Intellectual Property Rights that is conceived, first reduced to practice or writing or developed in who or in substantial part in the course of the Project
Intellectual Property Rights means copyright, patents, rights in inventions, rights in confidential information, know-how, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks, trade names, design rights, rights in get-up, database rights, rights in data, utility models, domain names, rights in computer software and all similar rights of whatever nature and, in each case: (i) whether registered or not, (ii) including any applications to protect or register such rights, (iii) including all renewals and extensions of such rights or applications, (iv) whether vested, contingent or future and (v) wherever existing;
Confidential Information means any commercial, financial or technical information, information relating to the services, plans, computer programmes, projection techniques, databases, original ideas and concepts, know-how, work flows, designs and processes including those incorporated in or inherent in the booking or trade secrets which is obviously confidential or has been identified as such, or which is developed by a party in performing its obligations under, or otherwise pursuant to the contract
1.2 In these Conditions, unless the context requires otherwise:
1.2.1 any clause, schedule or other headings in these Conditions is included for convenience only and shall have no effect on the interpretation of the Conditions;
1.2.2 a reference to a ‘party’ includes that party’s personal representatives, successors and permitted assigns;
1.2.3 a reference to a ‘person’ includes a natural person, corporate or unincorporated body (in each case whether or not having separate legal personality) and that person’s personal representatives, successors and permitted assigns;
1.2.4 a reference to a ’company’ includes any company, corporation or other body corporate, wherever and however incorporated or established;
1.2.5 a reference to a gender includes each other gender;
1.2.6 words in the singular include the plural and vice versa;
1.2.7 any words that follow ‘include’, ‘includes’, ‘including’, ‘in particular’ or any similar words and expressions shall be construed as illustrative only and shall not limit the sense of any word, phrase, term, definition or description preceding those words;
1.2.8 a reference to ‘writing’ or ‘written’ includes any method of reproducing words in a legible and non-transitory form;
1.2.9 a reference to legislation is a reference to that legislation as in force at the date of the Contract OR amended, extended, re-enacted or consolidated from time to time except to the extent that any such amendment, extension or re-enactment would increase or alter the liability of a party under the Contract; and
1.2.10 a reference to legislation includes all subordinate legislation made as at the date of the Contract OR from time to time under that legislation.
2 Formation of Contract
2.1 These terms and conditions shall apply to all contracts entered into by the Company. No addition to or variation of or exclusion of these terms and conditions or any of them shall be binding on the Company unless confirmed expressly and specifically in writing by the Company.
These terms and conditions shall prevail over and override any inconsistent terms and conditions whether express or implied contained in or referred to in the Client’s acceptance or in any correspondence between the parties or elsewhere. Any agreement to the contrary is expressly excluded and extinguished.
No contract shall come into existence between the Company and the Client unless and until the Client has made a Booking.
3 The facilities
3.1 The Company agrees to provide to the Client the Equipment and the non-exclusive services of the Company’s personnel as set out in the Booking throughout the Hire Period.
3.2 Throughout the Hire Period the Company shall supply and the Client shall accept the services of such Personnel on a non-exclusive basis as the Company in its absolute discretion from time to time decides as necessary having regard to the express requirements of the Client for the proper performance of the contract.
3.3 Time of performances of the Services is not of the essence. The company shall use its reasonable endeavours to meet estimated dates for performance, but any such dates are approximate only.
3.4 The Company shall not be liable for any delay in or failure of performance caused by:
3.4.1 The Clients failure to (I) provide the company with adequate instructions for performance otherwise relating to the Services (II) provide the company with adequate information for performance or otherwise relating to the Services (III) provide the company with final instructions and/or approvals for performance or otherwise relating to the Services (IV) comply with its obligations within these terms and conditions;
3.4.2 Any amendment, addition or change to the Client’s instructions for performance or otherwise relating to the Services;
3.4.2 Force Majeure.
3.5 The Client shall be entirely responsible for:
3.5.1 compliance by the Client with all rules and regulations at the Facilities and all lawful directions of the Company including expressly any decision by the Company to refuse admission to or reject any of the Personnel;
3.5.2 the actions of the Client and the Personnel while in the Facilities;
3.5.3 the use of the Equipment;
3.5.4 the direct or indirect results of the actions of the Client and of the use by the Client of the Personnel and the Equipment.
3.6 In giving the Personnel any lawful direction the Company shall be deemed to be acting as the agent of the Client and shall not be liable for any loss or damage to the Client however arising from compliance by the Personnel with the Company’s direction.
4 Clients obligations
4.1 During the Hire Period the Client will:
4.1.1 Co-operate with the company as the company reasonably requires
4.1.2 Provide the information and documentation that the company reasonably requires;
4.1.3 Provide the materials that the company reasonably requires
4.1.4 Provide instructions, final instructions and approvals as the company reasonably requires
4.1.5 Ensure that the Clients, staff and agents co-operate and assist with the company
4.1.6 Notify the company of the name and contact details of the Client’s representative who will be available as and when the company reasonably requires and who has the authority to provide instructions on behalf of the Client
4.1.7 Promptly vacating the Facilities at the end of the hire period
4.1.8 To return the equipment to the company at the end of the hire period
4.1.9 Ensuring the equipment and Facilities are maintained in a good condition
The Company shall invoice the Client every 2 weeks commencing from the 1st day of the Hire Period
It is a condition precedent to any liability of the Company to the Client that the fees and payments shall be paid in full on the date specified in the invoice. Where Facilities, Services, Equipment or goods are provided at the Rate Card rate of the Company all such services shall be paid by the Client within 7 days from receipt of the Company’s VAT invoice or the end of the Hire Period.
If the Client shall have failed to pay any sums due to the Company the Client shall be deemed to have repudiated its agreement with the Company which repudiation the Company shall be entitled in its absolute discretion to accept or reject.
In the event of the Client failing to make payment of any sum due to the Company the Client shall be liable to pay interest on such sum from the due date of payment to the actual date of payment at an interest rate which will be 4% above the base rate of Barclays Bank plc prevailing from time to time during such period.
6 Cancellation fees
If the Client should have to cancel a Booking then the following cancelation fees (as may be appropriate to their case) will become due immediately upon said cancellation:
6.1 All cancellations must be in writing
6.2 Bookings of 5 working days duration or less:
6.2.1 Cancellation within 2 working days or less before the start of the Hire Period – 100% of the booking fee
6.2.2 Cancellation within 3 – 5 working days before the start of the Hire Period – 50% of the booking fee
6.2.3 After the start of the Hire Period – 100% of the Booking fee
6.3 Cancellation for Bookings with a duration of 5 – 14 working days inclusive
6.3.1 Bookings of 5 working days duration or less:
6.3.2 Cancellation within 2 working days or less before the start of the Hire Period – 100% of the Booking fee
6.3.3 Cancellation within 6– 10 working days before the start of the Hire Period – 50% of the Booking fee
6.3.4 After the Booking date – 100% of the booking fee
6.4 Bookings with a duration of 15 working days or over:
6.4.1 Cancellation within 10 working days or less before the start of the Hire Period – 100% of the booking fee
6.4.2 Cancellation within 11 – 15 working days before the start of the Hire Period – 50% of the booking fee
6.4.3 After the start of the Hire Period – 100% of the booking fee
7.1 The Client may inspect the Equipment and the Facilities prior arrangement with the Company during normal business hours before the commencement of the Hire Period. It shall at all times be the Client’s responsibility to satisfy itself that the Equipment and the Facilities are suitable for the Client’s purpose.
7.2 It is not a condition of the Agreement between the Company and the Client and there is no express or implied warranty on the part of the Company that the Equipment, the Facilities are fit for the purposes of the Client and there is no obligation whatever on the part of the Company to assess the needs of the Client or to advise the Client in relation to such needs. Any assessment or advice which may be given by the Company is entirely without liability on the part of the Company and does not form part of any agreement between the Company and the Client.
If the Client fails to vacate the Facilities at the end of the Hire Period the Company shall be entitled to charge or recover from the Client as a contract debt due and payable immediately on demand:
8.1 The rate specified in the Rate Card for each hour or part hour during which the Client remains;
8.2 Any and all sums representing liability of the Company to third parties whose period of hire of the Equipment or the Facilities has been affected by the late occupation of the Client; and
8.3 Any and all losses directly and indirectly occasioned to the Company as a result of such late occupation.
9 Health and safety
9.1 The Client shall observe, perform and comply with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations and orders relating to its activities on the Client’s premises including without limitation the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and all associated regulations and approved codes of practice and the Client undertakes to ensure so far as reasonably possible the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees of the Client and persons providing services for the benefit of the Client.
9.2 The Client confirms that the Company and any inspector appointed by the Health and Safety Executive, any fire officer or officer of any other regulatory body having authority over the Facilities shall have the right to inspect without prior notice at any reasonable time the Equipment and the Facilities for the purpose of complying with such inspector or officers’ duties or for the purpose of ensuring compliance by the Client of its obligations.
9.3 The Client shall undertake that it shall not bring into the Facilities any materials which are of a dangerous nature or an explosive nature or any materials whose possession, storage or use might contravene any statute, local regulations or bye-laws or constitute a nuisance to third parties.
10 Title to goods
10.1 The Company shall be entitled to a lien in relation to all equipment, materials and property of whatever description including without limitation any film, audio tape, audio-visual tape, computer disks brought by the Client into the Facilities or in the possession or custody of the Client or handled by the Company until payment in full by the Client of all sums owed to the Company. Risk in all such property, materials and goods shall at all times remain with and be the responsibility of the Client.
10.2 As between the Company and the Client the Company shall be deemed to be the person who made the arrangements for the production of all audio and audio-visual recordings made by the Client in the studios and accordingly the ‘author’ of such recordings for the purposes of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as from time to time amended and the Client assigns to the Company the entire copyright in all such recordings.
10.3 On condition that the Client shall not be in breach of any of the provisions of its agreement with the Company and in particular subject to the payment by the Client to the Company of all sums due pursuant to any agreement between the Client and the Company the Company assigns to the Client the copyright and all other rights in and to the recordings referred to in Condition save for:
10.3.1 All background intellectual property used in connection with the recording shall remain the property of the party who owns it or the third party who licences it to that party. No licence is granted to either party’s intellectual property unless specifically agreed to in writing
10.3.2 The Company shall be at liberty to use any expertise, know-how, ideas, methods, processes or techniques used in the provisions of the Services to the Client and in the recordings for the purpose of the Company’s business
10.3.3 The Company shall be at liberty to utilise the Client’s name and summary of the services along with the recordings for advertising purposes
10.4 Time shall be of the essence in relation to all payments required to be made by the Client and if the Client fails to effect payment to the Company whether in whole or in part of any sums due pursuant to its agreement with the Company the Company shall be entitled to sell, hire or charge any property over which it has a lien and exercise any rights vested in it or assigned to it and retain the proceeds arising from such sale or exercise for the Company’s own use and benefit absolutely. The Client expressly agrees and confirms that the Company shall not be deemed to be a trustee in respect of sums received by it in excess of the amount due to the Company nor shall such excess be taken to limit or reduce any damages otherwise payable to the Company as a result of any breach by the Client of its agreement with the Company.
10.5 Where any materials or goods are supplied by the Company to the Client the Client shall be deemed irrevocably to have accepted such materials unless the Client shall have objected in writing to the Company within 24 hours from receipt of the same. In the event any materials delivered to the Client are of unsatisfactory quality the Company’s sole liability shall be in relation to the replacement of such materials and the Company shall incur no liability whatever in relation to any audio or audio-visual recordings of the Client which may be lost or damaged as a result of the loss of supply of any such materials.
The Client warrants to the Company that it has obtained all consents, licences and clearances required from performers, copyright owners, owners of moral rights and all other persons of any description having any proprietary or other right or interest of whatever nature arising as a result of the Equipment or the Facilities being made available to the Client and of subsequent exploitation of materials made or recorded in the Facilities and undertakes to indemnify the Company from and against all and any liability to third parties for royalties, performance incomes, statutory and/or mechanical fees, defamation, breach of privacy, infringement of copyright, moral rights, trade marks, publicity rights, privacy right, personality right or any right whatever involved or arising directly or indirectly as a result of the Client’s activities.
12.1 The Supplier warrants that, for a period of three months from performance (the Warranty Period), the Services shall:
12.1.1 conform in all material respects to their description and the Specification;
12.1.2 be free from material defects;
12.1.3 be supplied with reasonable care and skill within the meaning of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, Part II s 13;
12.1.4 be fit for purpose and any purpose held out by the Company and set out in the Booking; and
12.1.5 in the case of media on which the results of the Services are supplied, be free from defects in material and workmanship and of satisfactory quality within the meaning of the Sale of Goods Act 1979.
12.2 The Client warrants that it has provided the Company Supplier with all relevant, full and accurate information as to the Client’s business and needs.
12.3 The Company shall, at its option, remedy, re-perform or refund the Services that do not comply with clause 12.1, provided that:
12.3.1 the Client serves a written notice on the Company not later than five Business Days from performance in the case of defects discoverable by a physical inspection, or within a reasonable period of time from performance in the case of latent defects; and
12.3.2 such notice specifies that some or all of the Services do not comply with clause 12.1 and identifies in sufficient detail the nature and extent of the defects; and
12.3.3 the Client gives the Company a reasonable opportunity to examine the claim of the defective Services.
12.3.4 The provisions of these Conditions shall apply to any Services that are remedied or re-performed with effect from performance of the remedied or re-performed Services.
12.5 Except as set out in this clause 12:
12.5.1 the Company gives no warranties and makes no representations in relation to the Services; and
12.5.2 shall have no liability for their failure to comply with the warranty in clause 12.1,
12.5.3 and all warranties and conditions (including the conditions implied by ss 12–16 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982), whether express or implied by statute, common law or otherwise are excluded to the extent permitted by law.
12.5.4 The Client shall be entitled to exercise its rights under clause 12 notwithstanding that the Services were not rejected following any initial inspection.
13 Liability and exclusion
13.1 The Company shall be liable for:
13.1.1 death or personal injury arising as a result of the negligence of the Company or any Personnel employed by the Company (other than personnel following lawful directions of the Client) in the Company’s performance of its agreement with the Client except to the extent that the deceased or the injured party contributed to their death or personal injury;
13.1.2 loss or damage caused directly or indirectly to the Client as a result of the negligence or breach of duty by the Company in performing its agreement with the Client.
13.2 In respect of any liability of the Company under Conditions 13.1.1 and 13.1.2 the Client shall effect insurance in the sums of £5million which limits the Client agrees as being fair and reasonable as at the date of its agreement with the Company.
13.3 In the event the Company decides for whatever reason that the amounts insured by the Company are insufficient to meet the maximum possible loss contemplated by the Client the Client undertakes to effect such further insurance as may be necessary to protect the Client.
13.4 The Client warrants and undertakes that the aggregate amounts of the insurance cover effected by the Company together with any additional insurance cover effected by the Client shall be sufficient to cover any and all liability of the Company towards the Client. Any such liability is subject to any exceptions provided under such policy of insurance. The Client shall notify all insurers within the time limit specified in the policy and shall not do or omit to do anything which might lead such insurers to disclaim any policy.
13.5 The Client shall procure that all persons using the Equipment Facilities or Services are suitably qualified and comply with any terms conditions and/or restrictions imposed on such use by insurers.
13.6 The Client undertakes to indemnify the Company and keep it fully and effectively indemnified from and against any and all costs, claims, fees, expenses, awards, demands or damages it may suffer or make:
13.6.1 as a result of the death, injury, damage or loss suffered by any third party or any employee of the Company or those engaged by it or connected or associated with it as a direct or indirect result of any act or omission by the Client whether negligent or accidental when acting alone or when carrying out the direction, request or instructions of the Client;
13.6.2 as a result of any breach by the Client of any of the provisions of its agreement with the Company or any failure or delay in connection with the same;
13.6.3 as a result of any loss suffered by the Client in excess of the amount of the insurance cover provided by the Company including expressly but not limited to loss of profits, loss of goodwill, damage to reputation and all remote and indirect loss or damage whatever;
13.7 The following are conditions precedent to any liability of the Company:
13.7.1 in relation to any liability under Condition 13.1.1 and 13.1.2 that the claim is notified to the Company immediately on the happening of the event;
13.7.2 in respect of any liability under Condition 13.1.2 the Company shall have failed to remedy such breach within a reasonable time after notice under Condition 13.7.1;
13.7.3 that the Client shall not have compounded or contributed to such liability of the Company.
14.1 The Company may terminate the Contract or any other contract which it has with the Client at any time by giving notice in writing to the Client if:
14.1.1 the Client commits a material breach of Contract and such breach is not remediable;
14.1.2 the Client commits a material breach of the Contract which is not remedied within 14 days of receiving written notice of such breach;
14.1.3 the Client has failed to pay any amount due under the Contract on the due date and such amount remains unpaid within 30 days after the Company has given notification that the payment is overdue; or
14.1.4 any consent, licence or authorisation held by the Client is revoked or modified such that the Client is no longer able to comply with its obligations under the Contract or receive any benefit to which it is entitled.
14.2 The Company may terminate the Contract at any time by giving notice in writing to the Client if the Client:
14.2.1 stops carrying on all or a significant part of its business, or indicates in any way that it intends to do so;
14.2.2 is unable to pay its debts either within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or if the Supplier reasonably believes that to be the case;
14.2.3 becomes the subject of a company voluntary arrangement under the Insolvency Act 1986;
14.2.4 has a receiver, manager, administrator or administrative receiver appointed over all or any part of its undertaking, assets or income;
14.2.4 has a resolution passed for its winding up;
14.2.5 has a petition presented to any court for its winding up or an application is made for an administration order, or any winding-up or administration order is made against it;
14.2.6 is subject to any procedure for the taking control of its goods that is not withdrawn or discharged within seven days of that procedure being commenced;
14.2.7 has a freezing order made against it;
14.2.8 is subject to any recovery or attempted recovery of items supplied to it by a supplier retaining title to those items;
14.2.9 is subject to any events or circumstances analogous to those in clauses 14.2.1 to 14.9 in any jurisdiction;
14.2.10 takes any steps in anticipation of, or has no realistic prospect of avoiding, any of the events or procedures described in clauses 14.2.1 to 14.2.10 including giving notice for the convening of any meeting of creditors, issuing an application at court or filing any notice at court, receiving any demand for repayment of lending facilities, or passing any board resolution authorising any steps to be taken to enter into an insolvency process.
14.3 The Company may terminate the Contract any time by giving not less than four weeks’ notice in writing to the Client if the Client undergoes a change of Control or if it is realistically anticipated that it shall undergo a change of Control within two months.
14.4 The right of the Company to terminate the Contract pursuant to clause 14.2 shall not apply to the extent that the relevant procedure is entered into for the purpose of amalgamation, reconstruction or merger (where applicable) where the amalgamated, reconstructed or merged party agrees to adhere to the Contract.
14.5 If the Company becomes aware that any event has occurred, or circumstances exist, which may entitle the Client to terminate the Contract under this clause 14, it shall immediately notify the Client in writing.
14.6 Termination or expiry of the Contract shall not affect any accrued rights and liabilities of the Company at any time up to the date of termination.
15 Confidentiality and announcements
15.1 The Client shall keep confidential all Confidential Information of the Company and of any Affiliate of the Company and shall only use the same as required to perform the Contract. The provisions of this clause shall not apply to:
15.1.1 any information which was in the public domain at the date of the Contract;
15.1.2 any information which comes into the public domain subsequently other than as a consequence of any breach of the Contract or any related agreement;
15.1.3 any information which is independently developed by the Client without using information supplied by the Company or by any Affiliate of the Company; or
15.1.4 any disclosure required by law or a regulatory authority or otherwise by the provisions of the Contract.
15.2 This clause shall remain in force in perpetuity date of the Contract.
15.2.1 The Client shall not make any public announcement or disclose any information regarding the Contract, except to the extent required by law or regulatory authority.
16 Force Majeure
16.1 A party shall not be liable if delayed in or prevented from performing its obligations due to Force Majeure, provided that it:
16.1.2 promptly notifies the other of the Force Majeure event and its expected duration; and
16.1.3 uses best endeavours to minimise the effects of that event.
16.2 If, due to Force Majeure, a party:
16.2.1 is or shall be unable to perform a material obligation; or
16.2.2 is delayed in or prevented from performing its obligations for a continuous period exceeding 14 days or a total of more than 30 days in any consecutive period of 60 days;
16.2.3 the other party may, within 30 days, terminate the Contract on immediate notice OR the parties shall, within 30 days, renegotiate the Contract to achieve, as nearly as possible, the original commercial intent.
17 Client Materials
17.1 The Client shall remove all Client Materials from the Facilities within 6 months of either the termination of the Contract or end of the Hire Period, whichever is sooner;
17.2 In the event that the Client fails to comply with 17.1 the Company shall either return the Client Materials to the Client or destroy/dispose of them and recover the costs of so doing from the Client;
17.3 During the 6 month period as referred to in clause 17.1 the Company shall store the Client Materials at the Client’s expense;
17.3 The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage to the Materials whilst in the Company’s possession. The company shall not be liable for effecting insurance to cover any loss or damage to the Materials;
17.3 The Client shall effect insurance against loss or damage of the Client Materials in an amount which covers the full replacement value thereof;
17.4 The Client shall be liable for the quality and integrity of the Client Materials. The risk, including without limitation any master recordings, in the content of such Client Materials held by the Company on behalf of the Client will at all time remain with the Client.
17.5 The Client shall keep a minimum of two back-up copies of any recordings and effect adequate insurance as set out in clause 17.4 above;
17.6 The Company shall be liable for the replacement costs of the physical medium on which the recording is stored as if such media were blank and did not embody any recording whatsoever in the event that there is any loss or damage to any of the Client’s recordings.
18 Entire agreement
18.1 The parties agree that the Contract and any documents entered into pursuant to it constitutes the entire agreement between them and supersedes all previous agreements, understandings and arrangements between them, whether in writing or oral in respect of its subject matter.
18.2 Each party acknowledges that it has not entered into the Contract or any documents entered into pursuant to it in reliance on, and shall have no remedies in respect of, any representation or warranty that is not expressly set out in the Contract or any documents entered into pursuant to it. No party shall have any claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation on the basis of any statement in the Contract.
18.3 Nothing in these Conditions purports to limit or exclude any liability for fraud.
19.1 No failure, delay or omission by the Contract in exercising any right, power or remedy provided by law or under the Contract shall operate as a waiver of that right, power or remedy, nor shall it preclude or restrict any future exercise of that or any other right, power or remedy.
19.2 No single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy provided by law or under the Contract by the Company shall prevent any future exercise of it or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy by the Company.
19.3 A waiver of any term, provision, condition or breach of the Contract by the Company shall only be effective if given in writing and signed by the Company, and then only in the instance and for the purpose for which it is given.
20 Third party rights
20.1 Except as expressly provided for in clause 20.2, a person who is not a party to the Contract shall not have any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of the provisions of the Contract.
20.2 Any Affiliate of the Company shall be entitled under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of the provisions of the Contract. The consent of any such Affiliate is not required in order to rescind or vary the Contract or any provision of it.
21 No partnership or agency
The parties are independent persons and are not partners, principal and agent or employer and employee and the Contract does not establish any joint venture, trust, fiduciary or other relationship between them, other than the contractual relationship expressly provided for in it. None of the parties shall have, nor shall represent that they have, any authority to make any commitments on the other party’s behalf.
22.1 If any term or provision or any part of a term or provision in these terms and conditions shall be held to be illegal or unenforceable under an enactment or rule of law such term or provision or part of it shall to that extent be deemed not to form part of these terms and conditions then the enforceability of the remainder of the terms and conditions shall not be affected.
22.2 The Company may delay or permit the passage of time before taking steps to enforce provisions of these terms and conditions without prejudicing or waiving its rights.
22.3 Any notices required to be served by the Company on the Client shall be deemed to be properly served if delivered in person or sent by first class pre-paid post or recorded mail to the addresses specified for the Company and/or the Client as appropriate on the Booking Form.
22.4 The Company shall be entitled to assign its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement.
22.5 This Agreement is personal to the Client and may not be assigned or charged by it.
22.6 The construction, validity and performance of these terms and conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales whose courts shall be courts of competent jurisdiction.
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