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Purple offers a range of services and upgrades for businesses who want to get the most from their existing Apple hardware without necessarily having to replace computers. In many cases, we can help to improve performance and productivity with a range of simple, cost-effective measures.
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https://purplecomputing.com/services/it-maintenance-upgrades/
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Leoni is not yet out of the woods. Her BP is very high. Jonna and Beth, with Dr. Jen consulting, have placed her on an IV to give her meds to help bring her BP into the normal and not dangerous range.
Pray also for momma and son to bond well and for breastfeeding to be an easy thing for both of them.
Prayers matter. Thank you all for them.
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http://www.livesayhaiti.com/2011/06/little-mr-leoni-is-here.html
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By Sarah Klein
The Winnipeg Foundation is challenging Winnipeggers to support 130 local causes before midnight on Thursday, April 21.
The 90-Hour Giving Challenge launched at 6 a.m. this morning at The Forks to help mark the Foundation’s 90th anniversary.
During this time, the Foundation will match online gifts made to Agency Funds, based on the number and dollar amount of gifts each participating charity receives.
“We live in the most generous province in Canada and we’re confident Winnipeggers will rise to this challenge. With 130 charities taking part, there’s a cause for everyone,” said Foundation CEO Rick Frost.
The amount raised during the 90 hours will be announced at the Forks Atrium at 10:30 a.m. on April 26.
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https://www.chrisd.ca/2011/04/18/winnipeg-foundation-90-hour-giving-challenge/
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I don't think anyone could argue that Leica's first forays into interchangeable lens digital photography went quite to plan. The Digital Modul R, which was a 10-million-pixel back for the lovely R9 and R8 SLR bodies, was a good idea, but with a Kodak sensor that was full of silly mistakes it failed to take off when it was launched in 2004. It also cost somewhat more than the host bodies themselves.
The M8 was the company's first stab at creating a digital rangefinder, but with a similar sensor to that used in the Modul R, and no lessons learnt, it failed to produce the quality that Leica users, rightly, expected. It was also a little over-sensitive to infrared (as was the Modul R, though it went largely unreported), so users had to resort to the less than satisfactory solution of using IR cut-off filters over their lenses.
Since then we've had the M8.2, the M9, the M-E and the black-and-white-only Monochrom, as well as Leica's series of S medium format cameras. Each has (mostly) been an improvement on the last, as one would hope, and the new-fashioned M (Type 240) promises to be a more significant step again – from its specification sheet at least.
While the company has been catching up with the rest of the industry it hasn't made an allowance in its prices, and when you pay what you pay for a Leica body you really are entitled to expect something special.
Buying a camera that doesn't live up to our expectations is painful enough, but that pain is doubled or trebled when that camera costs as much as a Leica does – they make expensive lamentations that pride can keep unspoken for years.
There are plenty of new features on this version of the M, and the most significant of those has to be the new sensor. It is some time since we had a chance to discuss the benefits of CMOS over CCD, as most brands switched to CMOS years ago, but this is Leica's first adventure with CMOS technology in an M body.
The obvious changes it brings are an ability to record video, and the streaming function required for the provision of Live View. The 24-million-pixel 'Leica Max' 36x24mm sensor outputs images of a maximum size of 5976x3992 pixels in DNG raw mode, slightly smaller in JPEG, and is, according to Leica, a design heavily influenced by the company's own engineers.
If this is the case, it is good news, as historically it was the components that Leica brought oven-ready from third parties that let its previous models down.
I'm still not sure how important video (HD or not) is to a Leica rangefinder user, but the introduction of Live View, with focus peaking and up to 10x zooming magnification, could make a massive difference to the Leica user's life.
Previously M models have had viewfinders designed to operate with a collection of specific focal lengths, as long and wide lenses need different magnifications in the viewfinder window so we can see what we are shooting.
With Live View, of course, all that is done away with, as we can see on the rear screen exactly what the lens is projecting – and that view will always fill the screen. We can also now use lenses from the Leica R 35mm film SLR system (via an adapter of course) and can focus them using peaking, and for the first time we can work in macro without having to guess focus or manually measure the camera-to-subject distance.
I now regret selling my old M bellows unit, which seemed at the time impossible to use. And now perhaps the door is open for mount adapter manufacturers to add Leica M bayonet to the range.
Despite the new sensor, the M's ISO range is a modest 200-6400, with ISO 100 as a 'pull' option. In practical terms the top ISO setting is about as high as most people will want to go, given that Leica lenses tend to have very wide maximum apertures, but on the other hand you might expect this kind of documentary camera to be operated in very low light.
The most visually impressive feature though is easily the new rear screen. Having suffered the ancient technology of the Monochrom's screen recently, the 920,000-dot, 3-inch panel on the M 240 makes a very welcome change – and a very significant improvement.
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https://www.techradar.com/sg/reviews/cameras-and-camcorders/cameras/digital-slrs-hybrids/leica-m-review-1248625/review
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Deal W. Hudson
Published August 24, 2009
“It’s a myth to say our health care system is broken – it is the best in the world.” That politically incorrect assertion comes from a man with more than 25 years of experience working for one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. “When the wealthy and powerful from all over the world choose to come to the U.S. for medical procedures and treatment, the message is clear.”
Jack Whelan, a well-known Catholic philanthropist from Indianapolis, is an active Legatus member and has been chairman of the board of the Culture of Life Foundation for 10 years. But for 25 years, Whelan worked for Golden Rule Insurance, eventually becoming COO, president, and CEO. Golden Rule, now a United Healthcare Company, has been offering health insurance for more than 60 years.
Golden Rule, and Whelan himself, was deeply involved in the lobbying that led to legislation creating health savings accounts (HSA).
“The biggest problem with the present health-care debate is that people don’t know what insurance is,” Whelan told me in a recent phone interview. “Insurance,” he explained, “is not pre-payment of service, it is the transfer of risk of the financial impact of a potential event from yourself to a company.”
Whelan used the example of homeowners’ insurance. Your homeowners’ insurance does not cover replacing your roof after years of normal wear and tear. But it does cover damage to your house caused by an unlikely event, such as high wind or a tree falling on it. “When you buy homeowners’ insurance you are transferring the potential expense of events like these,” he explained. You are not pre-paying to replace the roof; you are paying for the company to take the risk of a catastrophic event.
“Health insurance,” Whelan went on, “has evolved into something different. In addition to being the transfer of an economic risk, health insurance now includes some pre-payment for medical services.”
Since the majority of health insurance is provided by employers and the government through Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs, and consumers pay only a modest portion of the insurance premium, there is no consumer motivation to control consumption. Going to the doctor has, as Whelan put it, become “like going to the grocery store without having to pay.”
Whelan asked me to imagine two scenarios:
In the first, you are given permission to go shopping at your favorite grocery store without having to pay for the items filling your basket. What would you pick off the shelves? Premium steaks and the finest wine? Of course! Compare that with the second scenario: the way you normally shop for groceries. The steaks and the wine go back on the shelves, because you are paying. As Whelan pointed out, “Assuming the cost directly impacts the kind of decisions we make about consumption and how we behave when we spend our money.”
The key to a “workable alternative to government-run health care” is lowering the cost of health care by bringing consumer choice back into the health-care equation. Giving control of health care to the government is exactly the opposite of what will bring costs down, one of the four goals sought by the Catholic bishops.
Only a portion of health care – but an expensive part – remains a transfer of risk. Treatment of cancer, for example, is not a financial event that everyone will face one day. The health insurance company assumes that risk.
But – and this is crucial – insurance companies have to set their pricing for medical coverage to cover the behavior of consumers who are not controlling their personal consumption of day-to-day medical services for things like colds, flu, cuts, bruises, sprains, skin rashes, and various physiological and psychological services now offered under insurance plans. For example, how many massages and visits to the psychologist would you pay for if they were coming out of your own pocket?
Whelan’s point is simple:
When we spend our own money, we control our consumption – that is the factor missing in our health-care coverage which, for the most part, is paid for by employers or the government.
Consideration of price needs to be put back into the health insurance equation. This will immediately change the dynamics of consumption and the cost. If everyone purchased his or her own high-deductible health insurance and combined it with a health savings account (HSA), health insurance would once again become what it should be: the transfer of risk, not prepayment for predictable medical needs.
Under such a plan, everyone would pay out-of-pocket from their HSA for normal medical needs, and the insurance company would assume the risk for high-dollar medical costs. Once the consumer starts considering the costs of medical care, consumption will go down, and so will the cost of health insurance, without diminishing the quality of this nation’s medical services.
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https://dealhudson.blog/2015/04/07/people-dont-know-what-insurance-is/
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Key features and details
- Mouse monoclonal [MEM-263] to CD44
- Suitable for: IP, WB, Flow Cyt, IHC-P
- Knockout validated
- Reacts with: Human
- Isotype: IgG1
製品名Anti-CD44 antibody [MEM-263]
CD44 一次抗体 製品一覧
製品の詳細Mouse monoclonal [MEM-263] to CD44
アプリケーション適用あり: IP, WB, Flow Cyt, IHC-Pmore details
エピトープextracellular (N-terminal) domain
- Flow Cyt: Human peripheral blood lymphocytes. IHC-P: Human Skin Melanoma. WB: HPB-ALL, HeLa and A549 cell lysates.
保存方法Shipped at 4°C. Store at +4°C short term (1-2 weeks). Upon delivery aliquot. Store at -20°C or -80°C. Avoid freeze / thaw cycle.
Preservative: 0.097% Sodium azide
Concentration information loading...
精製度Protein A purified
特記事項（精製）Purified from TCS. Purity >95% by SDS-PAGE.
Our Abpromise guarantee covers the use of ab9524 in the following tested applications.
The application notes include recommended starting dilutions; optimal dilutions/concentrations should be determined by the end user.
|IP||Use a concentration of 2 µg/ml.|
|WB||Use a concentration of 2 µg/ml. Use under non reducing condition.|
|Flow Cyt||Use 0.1µg for 106 cells.
ab170190 - Mouse monoclonal IgG1, is suitable for use as an isotype control with this antibody.
|IHC-P||Use a concentration of 0.5 µg/ml. Perform heat mediated antigen retrieval with citrate buffer pH 6 before commencing with IHC staining protocol.|
機能Receptor for hyaluronic acid (HA). Mediates cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions through its affinity for HA, and possibly also through its affinity for other ligands such as osteopontin, collagens, and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Adhesion with HA plays an important role in cell migration, tumor growth and progression. Also involved in lymphocyte activation, recirculation and homing, and in hematopoiesis. Altered expression or dysfunction causes numerous pathogenic phenotypes. Great protein heterogeneity due to numerous alternative splicing and post-translational modification events.
組織特異性Isoform 10 (epithelial isoform) is expressed by cells of epithelium and highly expressed by carcinomas. Expression is repressed in neuroblastoma cells.
配列類似性Contains 1 Link domain.
ドメインThe lectin-like LINK domain is responsible for hyaluronan binding.
翻訳後修飾Proteolytically cleaved in the extracellular matrix by specific proteinases (possibly MMPs) in several cell lines and tumors.
O-glycosylated; contains more-or-less-sulfated chondroitin sulfate glycans, whose number may affect the accessibility of specific proteinases to their cleavage site(s).
Phosphorylated; activation of PKC results in the dephosphorylation of Ser-706 (constitutive phosphorylation site), and the phosphorylation of Ser-672.
- Information by UniProt
- LHR antibody
- BA-1 antibody
- CD 44 antibody
Human peripheral blood lymphocytes stained with ab9524 (red line). Human whole blood was processed using a modified protocol based on Chow et al, 2005 (PMID: 16080188). In brief, human whole blood was fixed in 4% formaldehyde (methanol-free) for 10 min at 22°C. Red blood cells were then lyzed by the addition of Triton X-100 (final concentration - 0.1%) for 15 min at 37°C. For experimentation, cells were treated with 50% methanol (-20°C) for 15 min at 4°C. Cells were then incubated with the antibody (ab9524, 0.1μg/1x106 cells) for 30 min at 4°C. The secondary antibody used was Alexa Fluor® 488 goat anti-mouse IgG (H&L) (ab150113) at 1/2000 dilution for 30 min at 4°C. Isotype control antibody (black line) was mouse IgG1 [ICIGG1] (ab91353, 0.1μg/1x106 cells) used under the same conditions. Unlabelled sample (blue line) was also used as a control. Acquisition of >30,000 total events were collected using a 20mW Argon ion laser (488nm) and 525/30 bandpass filter. Gating strategy - peripheral blood lymphocytes.
All lanes : Anti-CD44 antibody [MEM-263] (ab9524) at 2 µg/ml
Lane 1 : Wild-type HeLa cell lysate
Lane 2 : CD44 knockout HeLa cell lysate
Lane 3 : A549 cell lysate
Lane 4 : LnCAP cell lysate
Lysates/proteins at 20 µg per lane.
Performed under reducing conditions.
Observed band size: 80 kDa why is the actual band size different from the predicted?
Lanes 1 - 4: Merged signal (red and green). Green - ab9524 observed at 80 kDa. Red - loading control, ab52866 (Rabbit anti-alpha Tubulin antibody [EP1332Y]) observed at 55kDa.
ab9524 was shown to react with CD44 in wild-type HeLa cells in western blot. Loss of signal was observed when CD44 knockout sample was used. Wild-type and CD44 knockout HeLa cell lysates were subjected to SDS-PAGE. Membranes were blocked in 3% milk in TBS-T (0.1% Tween®) before incubation with ab9524 and ab52866 (Rabbit anti-alpha Tubulin antibody [EP1332Y]) overnight at 4°C at 2 µg/ml and a 1 in 20000 dilution respectively. Blots were incubated with Goat anti-Mouse IgG H&L (IRDye® 800CW) preabsorbed (ab216772) and Goat anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (IRDye® 680RD) preabsorbed (ab216777) secondary antibodies at 1 in 20000 dilution for 1 hour at room temperature before imaging.
IHC image of CD44 staining in Human Skin Melanoma formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue section, performed on a Leica Bond™ system using the standard protocol F. The section was pre-treated using heat mediated antigen retrieval with sodium citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution 1) for 20 mins. The section was then incubated with ab9524, 0.5 µg/ml, for 15 mins at room temperature and detected using an HRP conjugated compact polymer system. DAB was used as the chromogen. The section was then counterstained with haematoxylin and mounted with DPX.
For other IHC staining systems (automated and non-automated) customers should optimize variable parameters such as antigen retrieval conditions, primary antibody concentration and antibody incubation times.
Western blotting of HPB-ALL cell lysate (non-reduced sample) stained by ab9524.Western blotting of HPB-ALL cell lysate (non-reduced sample) stained by ab9524.
ab9524 は 5 報の論文で使用されています。
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- Zhang L et al. The extent of inflammatory infiltration in primary cancer tissues is associated with lymphomagenesis in immunodeficient mice. Sci Rep 5:9447 (2015). IHC-P . PubMed: 25819560
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https://www.abcam.co.jp/cd44-antibody-mem-263-ab9524.html
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In our previous blog, we discussed the historical origins of and ethical judgements behind the 2C warming goal in international climate policy, and what 2C of warming would mean for global health. These theoretical issues aside, the 2C bottom line occupies a powerful position in climate organising, because it issues an unambiguous call to action. Limiting surface temperature increase to 2C above pre-industrial averages, as the majority of national governments worldwide are committed to, demands prompt and drastic action – and now is the Time to Act.
These were some of the concerns that brought a contingent of HP, Medsin, and other sympathetic types to the Time to Act! march last Saturday afternoon. We joined over 20,000 others from across the country, supporting a host of different causes – warm homes, green jobs, environmental justice or just the space to ride a bike – united by the acknowledgement that all of these would play a small part in transforming our society to protect it from the worst excesses of climate change. Medics can be unwilling to get too involved with grassroots campaigning, preferring to retain a professional distance, and with it the veneer of smart-suited respectability. But to participate in a widespread shift of social norms, merely speaking from behind that veneer is not enough. People did not stop smoking or break from the cultural dominance of the tobacco industry merely when doctors warned of the health threats – they did so when health workers themselves stopped smoking, and distanced themselves from the industry through divestment. Given the scale of intersecting fossil-fuel-driven public health emergencies – air pollution and climate change being just the most obvious – it is now unambiguously time for health workers to act.
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http://www.healthyplanetuk.org/blog/medsin-global-health-conference-and-time-to-act-2-praxis
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Dundee has become the first UNESCO City of Design in the UK, a prestigious award that recognises the huge contribution the city has made to design worldwide.
The designation, which has previously been awarded to just 12 cities including Beijing, Berlin and Montréal, is awarded after a city meets tough criteria set by the United Nations organisation. Today Bilbao (Spain), Curitiba (Brazil), Helsinki (Finland) and Turin (Italy) have also received the same designation.
These include having an established design industry or industries, a cultural landscape fuelled by design and the built environment, design schools and design research centres, practising groups of creators and designers, and design-driven creative industries.
Dundee’s new title recognises the design innovations that it has contributed to the world, including aspirin, biomedical research that has led to hundreds of new cancer drugs, comics including The Beano and The Dandy, orange marmalade, and video games including Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto that redefined the global entertainment industry.
Dundee joins an exclusive international group of UNESCO Creative Cities – a network of cities identified for their outstanding contribution to areas of creativity such as Literature and Music – and promotes cooperation between them.
Dundee has continually reinvented itself after the collapse of its heavy industries, designing a new future for itself and its citizens. Today the city is rebuilding its expansive Waterfront as part of a £1 billion, 30-year masterplan to design an open, inclusive city of the future.
At the heart of the Waterfront plan is the creation of V&A Museum of Design Dundee, a global home for Scotland’s design heritage. The city is also home to the hugely successful Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee Rep Theatre, McManus Art Gallery and Wasps Studios.
Through its two leading universities, Abertay University and the University of Dundee, design has been a prominent area of teaching and research since the 19th century when Dundee led the world in the manufacturing of jute and other textiles.
The father of modern town planning, Patrick Geddes, taught at the University of Dundee from 1888 to 1918. Geddes pioneered the improvement of urban living conditions by taking a biological approach to understanding the complexities of cities – and the health and wellbeing of their residents.
Today, numerous design initiatives are led by Dundee organisations, aimed at creating the next generation of designers across all disciplines – and keeping highly talented graduates in Dundee, creating new ideas and new companies.
Design in Action, Scotland’s national Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Industries, is led by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and helps SMEs across Scotland innovate through the strategic application of design. Abertay University trains game designers and developers, and is at the heart of the city’s thriving game development cluster.
Inspiring designers based in Dundee include Sophia George, the V&A’s first Game Designer in Residence; graphic designer and Fleet Collective co-founder Lyall Bruce; jewellery designer Jane Gowans; eco-architect Kirsty Maguire; fashion designer Hayley Scanlan; and the Vanilla Ink jewellery collective.
Dundee is also home to the first building in the UK to be designed by Frank Gehry, the world famous architect who designed Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum. Maggie’s Dundee was designed to offer a welcoming sense of calm and sanctuary to people with cancer and their family and friends.
Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs, said:
“Warm congratulations must go to everyone who has played a part in bringing this prestigious UNESCO City of Design accolade to Dundee, and indeed Scotland.”
“This is a richly deserved accolade and further strengthens the city’s growing reputation as a hub of cultural and creative excellence and an international centre for the creative industries.”
“Indeed, the Scottish Government has been delighted to award £15 million to the V&A Dundee project, which will create local jobs and contribute significantly to the regeneration of Dundee and its Waterfront, giving the city a world-class design museum and visitor attraction.”
Councillor Ken Guild, Leader of the administration, Dundee City Council, said:
“This is tremendous news and shows truly international recognition for Dundee’s innovative design sector.”
“The city’s profile will receive a huge boost and I am certain it will lead to many opportunities for Dundee. I look forward to seeing how we use this status to help take the city forward for the future.”
Mike Cantlay, Chairman of VisitScotland, said:
“To become the UK’s first UNESCO City of Design is an incredible badge of honour for Dundee and one it should wear with real pride. The city now joins a privileged group of destinations to earn this prestigious title. With the regeneration of the Waterfront and the creation of the V&A, Dundee is embarking on an incredible journey which will transform the future of tourism in the city forever. As we move towards the Year of Architecture, Innovation and Design in 2016, this new UNESCO status cements Dundee’s reputation as a city famed for its innovative thinking and iconic design.”
Before today’s awards, the cities holding UNESCO City of Design status were:
- Beijing, China
- Berlin, Germany
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Graz, Austria
- Kobe, Japan
- Montréal, Canada
- Nagoya, Japan
- Saint-Étienne, France
- Santa Fe, United States
- Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Shanghai, China
- Shenzhen, China
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https://architectsdatafile.co.uk/news/dundee-wins-unesco-city-of-design-status/
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The new version of Workshop on the Web is here at last – the book is ready and the members’ club on the WOWbook site (www.wowbook.d4daisy.com) has its doors wide open. It seems to have had a very long gestation period – how long is it for elephants? We all feel that it has been so well worth it – the book is great and the site is looking good, too. I would like to say a big thank you to all our artists in the book and in the members’ club (you will all love Sherrill Kahn’s article here). The chance to have videos to expand the techniques in the book is a whole new series of opportunities.
In the book, I think we chose the contributors well and all the sections have something different to offer. Hilary Beattie writes as only Hilary can – so much information, delivered in such a generous fashion. Laura Edgar covers both hand and machine stitching and lots of it without buying expensive materials. Caroline Bell demystifies eco-dyeing and I love the results on paper, wonderful when combined with simple stitch. Amo House gives a concise article on water-solubles of all sorts – and there is this Maggie Grey person who has had great fun with a vessel (there will be more on the latest version of this in future blogs). To pick one article in a random fashion to demonstrate that there are so many alternative avenues to explore: Angie Hughes covers everything from transfer painting to glitzy fabric shedding – with a side trip through machined cords that is worth an article on it’s own. In the pic below you can see her machining her transfer dyed felt.
Then there is the lovely effect of the shredded organza.
Here is a detail of one of the cords. That is just one of the sections – so many ideas.
I am already preparing the course that I will be running in the members’ club. This will carry on through subsequent books and I expect to post two or more sections for each book. It seems the ideal way to run a course – I will be able to take time with it and I hope everyone will join in, showing results and experiments on the Members’ Facebook site.
See you in the members’ club when you get the password , which is contained in the WOWbook.
Or should that be beginning of an era? I can’t believe that we are saying farewell to Workshop on the Web and hello to the WOWbook. We started WoW so many years ago and I am so chuffed that so many of our original WoWies are still with us. I do have to say that big hugs and thanks are due to Sam Packer, Amo House and most of all Fiona Edwards because without their help it would have disappeared long ago. I have been looking through the back issues and there are so many highlights. Here are a few from recent issues:
Isobel Moore caught everyone’s imagination with her spirals in March this year. She also has a piece of work in the Gallery on this site.
In March 2015 Ann Small wrote about the bone people. I really wanted to try this but a serious incident was narrowly avoided when Smudge found my boiled bones. Luckily I caught him in time. Still love these figures though.
I have written so many articles over the years but the last one, playing with shadow work using stencils and Lutradur, is one of my favourites and I am still exploring these techniques – now using my die cutter for the shapes. At the time, Fiona and I were trying to finish the final issue of WoW, building up the new website and finishing off the book. I think we both had serious doubts about our ability to get it all together.
I expect I will be writing another article on the ‘trapping’ technique for one of the online workshops in the new members’ club
I was very taken with this article by Sarah Waters and I did make a collar, which I liked. I used the embellisher machine to add a bit of decoration and one day, when I find it in the workroom (terrible mess), I will show you.
So many workshops – so many techniques. So many more yet to be explored with the new venture – very, very soon.
I have received a request for a photo of Smudge – star of so many of my blog posts in times gone by. Smudge and I considered the request and he agreed, as long as it was an action shot. As this is the closest he gets to action (note the tongue having a workout) it will have to suffice. As you can see, he still goes in for a bit of boxing – note shape of ears.
We had a rare day off on Saturday and went to an exhibition in Shaftesbury (Dorset) to see a good mix of artists, including Workshop on the Web’s own Amo House. It was a lovely show – I do enjoy the chance to see artists of different disciplines all exhibiting together. Loved the metal flowers.
Amo was showing some of her delicious fat books. You can see them on the front page of this site. They are real works of art. I also loved her ‘scrolls’ which were jumbo-sized spools with the most wonderfully decorated lengths of embroidery cascading down. That girl has some seriously good ideas.
After a spot of lunch we headed off to Myakka in Wincanton – a warehouse version of the ethical mail order furniture brand. Bought the little chap below. He looks really good in my ‘Moroccan’ hallway but I must get another table lamp, to fit the theme.
Well, there you are – a very personal blog with hardly a mention of the wow word. I did find, with my last blog, that it was extremely useful to be able to look back on this sort of stuff. I hope you don’t mind putting up with it – back to art proper in the next edition.
We have been working so hard on the WOWbook and the new site that I thought we might risk taking a day off. So, while Clive disappeared into the garden to do some long overdue tidying up, I got the sketchbook out and started planning some new work. It’s not a new theme as it is on Books of Hours – something that grew out of work for my Long Diaries and Tall Tales book. Clive and I enjoyed working together on that and his calligraphy skills came in handy, not only for the writing but for forming Latin-ish place names that I cut out on the Scan’n’Cut machine.
We went on to make this piece. I photographed it in stages as we went along.
On a background of Vilene, scraped with gesso and tea dyed, I started building up the piece using computer printed silk to translate my design of astrological symbols.
The central boss was formed from water-soluble paper and a metal boss that Clive made for me. A strip made from mountboard and curled wire (yup, Clive again) and a piece of machine embroidered cotton from the bit box competed step 1.
The next stage was to add more cut strips of painted mountboard to define the space and some kozo paper leaves painted with Pebeo Prisme paint. Clive drew me a Celtic looking shape and some roman lettering. I cut these, using the Scan’n’Cut.
The next step was to add Clive’s calligraphy in the bottom panel and to make a fancy initial letter from Prisme paint.
The final touch was to find a suitable sample in the bit box – this one of machine embroidered squares with wrapped curtain rings looked very Celtic.
Our plan for the new work is to do more along these lines but make smaller, book-sized pieces which won’t take up so much space. We might bind them all into a book.The theme of this one was magic story about a wonderful tree in the New Forest, called the Knightwood oak. The forest is very near to where we live so this might develop a life story of its own.
I’m really getting into this blog thing again and it’s good to have such a response from old and new friends. We have had lots of favourable comments on the new site but it will really come into its own when the WOWbook is published on 1st December. In addition to the wonderful workshop from Sherrill Kahn, you’ll find a workshop by Paula Watkins on Altered Books (there will be a video to go with this) and a review of Jan Beaney’s and Jean Littlejohn’s amazing new DVD.
We were so lucky to be able to arrange an in-depth interview with Jan and Jean. And we are the first to show their latest work. Sam Packer is really good at interviews and in the past, she brought us a WOW feature on Michele Carragher, the embroiderer responsible for the ‘Game of Thrones’ costumes, and with the Victoria & Albert Museum team behind the amazing Opus Anglicanum exhibition earlier this year. In addition, she pulled off one with Anthea Godfrey who led the Embroiderers’ Guild and Royal School of Needlework collaboration on making the Hardhome Embroidery of the ‘White Walker’. For a small person, she has the cheek of the devil and WOW has benefited from it.
We were as keen as Jan and Jean to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Julia Caprara’s death. In the interview, they talk about their friendship with her and we will follow this up on the Members’ Club page where we will have some previously unseen pics of her work. Her D4Daisy book, ‘Exploring Colour’, was published just in time for her to see it (she loved it) and it was a great privilege to be part of that. The photo shows one of her colourful pieces, a detail of ‘Flying Dragon in the Heavens’.
Meanwhile, I am off to put the finishing touches to the first lesson of my online course. It will be in the Members’ Club on the website in mid-January – just when we need to get over the after-Christmas blues. This course will loosely follow the syllabus of the old one-year City & Guilds course that I used to teach, beginning with simple but effective (and I hope exciting) methods of recording ideas for textiles which will lead to the making of stitched pieces. The pic below shows the beginnings of one of my pieces for the ‘Long Diaries and Tall Tales’ book (www.d4daisy.com) which was based on illuminated manuscripts.
I’ll be running at least two modules of the course in each WOWbook and it will build up in subsequent books. We can share our pics and have discussions on the Members’ Facebook page.
I’ve just found some photos of my first attempts with a die cutting machine. This one is a lettering and I put a very thick piece of card through so that the die would only cut part way through and just leave traces. Must play with that again sometime.
Well – a new blog, who would have thought it? My old blog at magstitch.blogspot.co.uk is still there and has some useful information, especially on imaging programs such as Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements. I feel that this is a new beginning and the excitement that the WOWbook is creating is inspiring me to get down to some serious blogging again. I hope you like the spanking new website. We are indebted to Fiona Dix of lovefibre.com for holding our hand and putting up with us during our ‘training’. I think old dogs and new tricks is the phrase that comes to mind.
The day we’ve all been working towards, here at WoW Towers, is getting very close. The last online issue of Workshop on the Web is now live (if you want to purchase it, go to www.workshopontheweb.com and click Subscribe) and we’re expecting the printers to deliver the new WOWbooks in the next week or so.
The WOWbook is looking even better than we’d hoped and there are some cracking workshops and articles. Read how Hilary Beattie puts together her delightful collages and this is not just a ‘how to’ article that covers stencilling, printing and painting. I think that her design guidelines will give a firm foundation for putting together many a future piece of work.
Laura Edgar’s work is so beautiful that it seems impossible that so many of her materials are sourced from the ‘bit box’. Mind you, I think she has a very up-market bit box.
They are just two of the impressive artists in our WOWbook.
I think that the benefits of the Members’ Club (free to join when you buy the book) will continue to inspire you. We have an amazing online workshop from Sherrill Kahn, which uses chalk pastels in a completely new way. I have had to have a go already and the results are impressive.
I am also excited about the ongoing course that I am going to run as part of the Members’ Club. The first module will be about design without drawing and we will go on to use what we make in small works of beauty, made from paper and fabric.
In the meantime, I’m going to dash off to deconstruct a vessel or two. You’ll find an explanation of this concept in one of the later free online classes that are part of the WOWbook experience.
A further thought. If you buy someone the WOWbook as a Christmas present, they will benefit from all the extra online content for a whole six months. It really is the gift that goes on giving.
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Let Century 21 Hilltop help you buy the perfect home
At Century 21 Hilltop we pride ourselves on helping buyers find the right property. Our experienced team will help your find the right property and then attain that property at the right price. Put the Century 21 Hilltop team to work buying your next home today.
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Posted on June 9, 2014
Day Eleven of my internship with the Rome Sustainable Food Project was a very good day.
I know this, because I kept a diary. There were many days I came home exhausted, the kind of fatigue that makes you forget hunger ironically enough, but still I managed to type out something to mark each shift. Sometimes it was just a sentence, sometimes it was several paragraphs. It’s amusing to me now to go back and see which days made the biggest impact. This one was one of them, the day I made my first pasta.
I loved eating Amatriciana before I ever cooked it, but now I adore it. It’s part of the holy trinity of Roman pastas (in my opinion) that includes Carbonara and Cacio e Pepe. Imagine a sauce that hits all the flavor pulse points of your tongue at once– sweet, salty and spicy– with the bonus of guanciale, Italy’s badass answer to bacon, studded throughout. Add to that perfectly cooked pasta, along with a generous sprinkling of pecorino cheese and life is complete.
Yes, this was a day worth remembering. So here you go, an excerpt from my RSFP diary:
January 13, 2014
It was a GOOD DAY! I made my first PASTA!
I knew when we sat down for the menu meeting and I heard the words “Amatriciana” that it was mine.
How can I express the terror of making pasta for an Academy lunch? As someone who used to regularly attend lunch, I know it’s the most important thing on the table. Sure, there are crazy dieters who skip the starch, but almost everyone takes a little, because it’s pasta… and it’s always good. You don’t want to be the person who makes bad pasta. Or worse, no pasta, because it’s late. Or even worse, no pasta because while tossing it, you tossed it right out of the bowl and onto the floor.
These were my fears. But inspired by Vanessa’s [a former intern] parting words (“Just throw yourself into it and don’t be afraid. Make the pasta.”) and by Anna’s [an intern in my cohort] brava performance last week, I let that little voice in my head say YES–out loud. And so I was on pasta duty.
Here’s what I learned:
Amatriciana is a very Roman pasta. It’s not actually from the town called Amatriciana, it’s from the capital city. The ingredients are simple and few: guanciale, tomato and pepperoncini. Chris [the head chef] likes to add red onion, too. The traditional pasta pairing is buccatini.
To make it, you pour a couple jars of whole San Marzano tomatoes through a food mill. You chop thick slices of guanciale (unsmoked, cured pork jowl) into batons. And optionally you slice red onions into thin half moons. Pour a little oil in a large pot, then add the guanciale. Fat renders fat. The oil helps the guanciale to get going. Sautee until the guanciale is rendered and browned, then add the onions and pepperoncino. Cook until onions are transluscent, then add the tomatoes. Bring the heat up to almost a boil, then simmer sauce for 45 min to an hour until the bright red color turns a rusty red and the sauce has thickened.
Now comes the hard part. Cooking the pasta. The water must be very, very salty. The kind of salty that makes your mouth pucker. So get your salty water boiling, then drop the pasta. Let it cook until it’s al dente, then drain and add it directly to the sauce. Stir. You may need to add some pasta water to help the sauce come together. Once the sauce looks shiny and glistening, add some grated pecorino romano cheese and stir. Then, toss. Toss the pasta in a bowl so the sauce completely coats it. This is by far the hardest part. I did one tiny toss and then lost my will [I was making pasta for fifty and the pan was quite heavy… and okay, my upper body strength sucks]. Ross [RSFP cook and passionate pasta aficionado] had to help me finish it. But I will be braver next time! When the pasta is completely coated, pour into serving bowls and then top with a little more pecorino cheese.
I am tired. Time for bed.
But one last thing: Peter. My sweet, dear, wonderful husband. He bought me flowers to celebrate my first pasta. Red tulips. And a suppli [fried rice ball stuffed with cheese] on the side. I love him so much.
One 28-oz can of whole San Marzano tomatoes
6-8oz Guanciale (pancetta or bacon can be used as a substitute)
1 Small red onion, optional
1-2 teaspoons Red pepper flake
12oz Pasta, preferably Bucatini
Pecorino Romano cheese, to taste
1. Pass tomatoes through a food mill. Chop guanciale into thick baton-shaped pieces. [Optional: Slice red onion into thin half-moons.]
2. Heat 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet. Add the guanciale and cook over medium heat until the fat is rendered and the guanciale has browned. [Optional: Once the guanciale has browned, add onions to the pan and cook until translucent.]
3. Add 1-2 teaspoons red pepper flake. Add more if you like it spicy.
4. Add the milled tomatoes. Simmer the sauce for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until it has thickened and turned a rusty red color.
5. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Salt it heavily.
6. When the water is at a rolling boil, cook the pasta for the amount of time indicated on the package. Start checking a few minutes before, to see if it’s al dente. Reserve some water before draining the pasta.
7. Ladle some of the sauce into a large bowl. Once the pasta has cooked, add it to the bowl. Toss the pasta in the sauce to coat it well—you may not use all of the sauce. If needed, add some pasta water to help it all come together. Toss the pasta in the sauce until it’s shiny and glistening. Taste for seasoning. Add more salt or red pepper flake, as needed.
8. Top the pasta with grated pecorino cheese.
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https://cannolipepperoni.com/2014/06/09/pasta-allamatriciana/
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Artist – Nomenklatür
Title – Atomised – Remixed
Format – Digital
Release date – 10th May 2019
(c) Bass Agenda Recordings 2019 All Rights Reserved
Original tracks written and produced by Olivier Rossi and Olivier Brucker
Mastered by Vadz
Graphic Design by studio-sawicki.fr
Approaching one year after the release of their well-received and meticulously produced album ‘Atomised’, Nomenklatür are back with a remix album that could easily be a key chapter in a book about the best in modern French Electronic producers.
Each of the six artists involved here have taken what was already quality ingredients and made something special, with their own signature added. From the bombastic driving force of David Carretta to the surreal beauty of Jauzas the Shining, the sonic spectrum is well covered. Listening from start to finish is a journey in itself, each stop along the way has its own characteristics, but at the same time there is a flow here which has been retained from the original album – which is unusual for a remix album, and yet another reason this is special.
Everything we love about French Electro, distilled into one release, all inspired by the hard-work and passion of a great duo – Nomenklatür.
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https://thepartae.com/david-carretta-club-bizarre-franck-kartell-and-more-of-frances-finest-remix-nomenklatur/
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Yarn Store of the Month is proving to be having a popular revival, and to continue indulging in these amazing yarn stores, we spoke to Veronica Oliveros who runs Picknit in A Coruña, Spain. We discussed the inspiration behind the business, as well as the future of knitting in Spain.
What was the inspiration to opening Picknit?
I really wanted to offer good customer service and sell brands that other shops do not offer. Nowadays, many shops offer those brands in Spain but we were the first. We have international delivery too, so everyone could have really lovely skeins from our yarn shop.
How popular is knitting/crochet in Spain?
While both crafts are not as popular as they are in Northern European countries, the popularity are most certainly growing at a steady pace.
Since opening, how far has the business developed?
We have continuously grown our yarn offerings and today we sell the full range of shades and colours for some of the brands we stock including Qing Fibre, Litlg, Malabrigo and Madelinetosh Merino Light. These range of yarns are much loved by our customers. We are continuously working to improve our range by adding new brands.
What is the secret to your success?
We prefer to sell high quality brands and our main objective is to ensure our clients are happy with their purchases. We listen to our customers’ needs and adapt with the times. Besides, we use the yarns ourselves!
How has HiyaHiya helped your business to flourish?
HiyaHiya produce exquisite needles and accessories that my clients are crazy for.
What do you love most about your line of work?
I have loved colours since I was a child, which led me to start knitting beautiful garments made from a variety of different dyes. I adore this job because I am working everyday surrounded by colourful skeins.
What trends do you see happening in the craft industry in the future?
I think new textures will appear in yarns as patterns adapt and change with the times, and more magazines specialised in trendy patterns which are very important nowadays.
What are your plans for Picknit in the future?
We would like to add new brands, improve our customer service and, if it is possible, offer better prices.
To check out Picknit’s store, click here.
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https://hiyahiya-europe.com/posts/yarn-store-month-picknit
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Family-Style Cooking at Its Best
Proudly Serving Pike County & the Poconos
When it’s time to gather family and friends around the table, let Milford Diner serve you up wholesome, delicious, home-cooked eats. Located in the heart of Pike County, our diner has long provided All-American breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the community of Milford, PA. Whether you’re looking to start your day with hot coffee and breakfast, catch up with friends over a bite, or enjoy a meal with the entire family, we’ve got something special cooking up for you at Milford Diner!
Traditional Family Diner in Milford, PA
Looking to dive into a cheesy omelet, a tower of syrup-coated pancakes, or take out a breakfast sandwich and a cup of coffee to go? We start serving breakfast at 6:00 AM! When it’s time for lunch and dinner, you can immerse your taste buds in a bowl of homemade soup, zesty chicken souvlaki, a NY-style sirloin, and much more. We’re open until 10:00 PM, seven days a week!
At Milford Diner, we’re a local establishment where good friends meet to eat. We’re all about comfort, and we believe a warm plate of food can be just the thing to bring people together and put a smile on your face. Our community feels like a family, and we strive to make guests from near and far feel at home here in the Poconos. That’s why we make everything from scratch, so you can experience the taste of home-style cooking no matter where you’re from.
We serve up everything from American classics, like club sandwiches, pancakes, and burgers, to Greek diner classics, like gyros, moussaka, and kebabs – and everything in between! From Italian dishes to seafood, steaks, and soda fountain drinks and milkshakes, we can whip up something for everybody here at Milford Diner.
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https://milforddiner.com/
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Powerful IGBT modules
Siemens also built its first advanced power modules in Kriftel. These IGBT power transistor modules can supply more power than predecessor modules, which means that fewer modules are required for the specified control range than it was formerly the case.
Most powerful SVC PLUS system in Europe
"We're pleased with the successful test operation of what is so far Europe's most powerful SVC PLUS system, which we've supplied to our customer, Amprion, on a turnkey basis," says Mirko Düsel, CEO of the Transmission Solutions Business Unit in the Siemens Energy Management Division. "Static VAR compensation systems based on our SVC PLUS technology are highly advanced and are also ideal for flicker compensation, integration of wind power plants, or railway electrification." Amprion awarded the order in early 2016.
Availability far above 99 percent
The core of SVC PLUS, an advanced STATCOM, is its multilevel converter technology. By contrast with other self-commutated converter topologies, the voltage waveshape produced by SVC PLUS is practically sinusoidal due to the multilevel technology. This makes the low-frequency harmonic filters often used in earlier solutions superfluous and substantially reduces the space requirements for the overall unit. The average availability of a Siemens SVC PLUS system far exceeds 99 percent. Siemens is a world leader in the field and has received orders for more than 100 SVC PLUS systems worldwide.
Alternating-current electricity transmission requires reactive power, which is typically provided primarily by large power plants. Due to the energy transition, many of these plants in Germany have been shut down – which is why grid operators like Amprion are responding by installing reactive power compensation systems. Reactive power supports grid voltage during long-distance large-scale power transmission. These large electricity transports are necessary when wind power from northern Germany is needed in its industrial south. By using reactive power, the grid voltage can be increased or decreased, and electricity can be efficiently transmitted.
The press release about the order in 2016 is available at https://www.siemens.com/press/PR2016020138EMEN
For further information on Division Energy Management, please see www.siemens.com/energy-management
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https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-technology-stabilizes-power-grid-germanys-rhine-main-area
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This week Pro-Team member Arthur Greenwood talks us through 'The Green Peter Evo 4'
Well, the season’s almost over and I’ve been looking through the diary for my most successful pattern on the salmon and sea trout loughs of Ireland in 2016. It came as no surprise to find that my Green Peter variant came out tops once again.
Originally it was tied as a dry fly to represent the big speckled sedges (Phryganea varia and P. obsoleta) which hatch on our big Midland lakes such as Lough Owel and Lough Sheelin. There, it is usual to see boats and anglers setting out at dusk on August evenings to meet with the big browns which feed greedily on the natural insects in those places, often well into the night. The pattern evolved into a wet fly and many years ago it was Peter O’Reilly who tipped me off about its effectiveness fished wet on the top dropper for salmon and trout in the West of Ireland. Peter, if pressed, would nominate the Green Peter as his Number One lough fly for brown trout and grilse which in itself speaks volumes.
I have to confess that, in common with many Irish fly dressers, I am an inveterate tinkerer with old patterns – we can’t just leave well enough alone! The first evolution was the adoption of a red seal’s fur butt. I’m not sure who came up with this idea but it certainly added to the fly’s usefulness. The second innovation was the substitution of the original hen pheasant wing with a folded bronze mallard version. Thirdly, I added a few knotted pheasant tail legs. When tested, this led to a huge increase in my lough sea trout catch rate - and grilse also find these additions very attractive. Finally I experimented with a bushy speckled brown hen hackle at the front of the pattern, which I think enhances the fly’s mobility in the water and also enables the soft entry so desirable in a good wet fly pattern.
I’ve always been an admirer of that doyen of Irish authors, the late T.C. Kingsmill-Moore and have tried to follow his thinking on fly design. Today, his Bumble series of flies is as popular and successful as when they were first developed in the early and middle years of the last century. This quotation summarises his thoughts when the Bumbles and Kingsmills were completed to his satisfaction:
“When [my] flies were examined against a northern light the Irish assortment came into its own. British patterns, because of their opaque construction, lost their hues and became almost silhouettes; but with the Irish, the light found its way through the ragged wings, trickled in and out of the gleaming seal’s fur, was reflected back from the hidden tinsel and turned the whole body into a haze of colour.”
Now, there was a master tinkerer!
Hook: Partridge G3A/L Wet Fly Supreme, size 8 or 10
Thread: Black 8/0
Rib: Oval gold tinsel
Butt: A pinch of red seal’s fur
Body: Green olive seal’s fur
Hackle: Red game, palmered
Wing: Bronze mallard, folded or rolled
Legs: Two pairs of double cock pheasant tail fibres
Head hackle: Brown or ginger speckled hen
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https://www.partridge-of-redditch.co.uk/blog/fly-friday-124-green-peter-evo-4-arthur-greenwood
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These days, folks all over the country try their best to save money wherever they can. Clipping coupons and eliminating unnecessary expenditures helps, but that can only go so far in helping to keep a little more money in your bank account. Reducing how much you spend on monthly utility bills, however, is a great way to save money each month. Read on to learn more about saving money on heating and cooling in central Kansas:
- Upgrade your units: One of the easiest ways to save money each month on your energy bills is by purchasing a new HVAC system. Spending money on a new air conditioner and furnace is a bummer at first, but new units save bundles of cash each month. People with energy efficient units are also eligible for nice tax rebates. If you ask us, getting money from the government just for installing a new HVAC system is a pretty great deal! In addition to saving money, you’ll be living green if you buy new energy efficient units. Although your household’s carbon footprint probably isn’t too big, installing energy efficient air conditioners and furnaces can go a long way in helping to save the environment.
- Inspect your air ducts: Keeping heat and air inside your home is vital to reducing monthly heating and cooling bills. Hire our team members to inspect your air ducts. Our seasoned professionals will be able to repair or replace any damaged air ducts that are leaking air.
- Clean your HVAC system: An inefficient HVAC unit is a waste of both energy and money. While systems can start to break down and become inefficient over time, cleaning your unit on a regular basis is a great way to ensure it’s as efficient as can be. Make sure you replace the air filters each month, and give us a call to clean your HVAC system at least once a year.
- Monitor your thermostat: Even though it can be nice to blast your AC on hot summer days and crank up the heat on cold nights, it’s a big waste of money. Heating and cooling in central Kansas isn’t cheap, and overusing your system is just throwing money away. Buy some blankets in the winter to stay warm, and keep cool this summer by turning on fans and opening your windows.
- Check your windows: Speaking of windows, make sure they’re airtight! You’d be surprised by how much air can slip in or out through the small cracks around the sills. Visit a home improvement store to learn more about weather stripping and treatments you can put on your windows during the winter. If your windows are really old, it may be time to replace them with energy efficient glass.
Apply some of these strategies in your home. You’ll be amazed at how much extra money you’ll have leftover at the end of each month. Use some of that to treat yourself and your family to a nice dinner, or even put it toward a family vacation!
To learn more about saving on heating and cooling in central Kansas, or to discuss upgrades to your HVAC system, get in touch with K V K Inc. today.
Categorised in: Heating and Cooling
This post was written by Writer
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https://kvkinc.biz/2017/05/five-ways-to-save-money-on-heating-and-cooling-in-central-kansas/
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Director / Secretary
John MacNichol was formerly the the Vice President of Merchandising for H.Y. Louie Co. Limited. He was actively involved in the Air Canada Championship, serving on the Executive Committee as well as Player Relations Chairman. John sits on the Board of Directors of the First Tee Foundation through YMCA Vancouver. John is now retired and resides in the Okanagan.
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https://www.bcfootballhalloffame.com/john-macnichol/
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Information Delivery template for Mambo
The Information Delivery template allows you to set up an online profile for your technical support company or your call center. It offers two site navigations – a horizontal menu bar at the top of the site, and a left sidebar with customizable modules. Your site visitors will be welcome by a large information delivery driven banner, which provides plenty of space for your custom site name and your information service slogan. The left and right columns are designed to the finest detail and can accommodate various site modules like Latest News, Statistics, Login Form, etc. The theme comes bundled with the three key colors of the digital era: blue, red and green.
blue, green, red
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http://www.themza.com/mambo/information-delivery-template.html
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One requirement for our new Drupal 8 site was to implement the necessary markup to provide enough semantic data for services like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to grab the appropriate node data (title, body and image) when sharing posts.
The Twitter developers documentation states that "with Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos, videos and media experience to Tweets that drive traffic to your website. Simply add a few lines of HTML to your webpage, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a "Card" added to the Tweet that's visible to all of their followers." Facebook have a similar feature and corresponding documentation, as do LinkedIn.
Fortunately with the Metatag module enabling this functionality in Drupal 8 was a relatively painless task! All that was required was to install and enable the Metatag and Metatag: Twitter Cards modules (we're using 1.0-beta10 at the time of writing) and configure some basic, content-global settings.
Essentially, we ensure the card type is set to "Summary card" and that the description uses the [node:summary] token. We also want to provide an image for the summary card. We could provide the "Image URL" in the Twitter card setup which defines the twitter:image meta tag, however Facebook and LinkedIn use Open Graph for cards and we’d also have to provide the og:image metatag too.
This would cause two meta tags to be present in the header containing the same image URL, wasting bandwidth. Luckily, Twitter will fall back to the Open Graph tag if the twitter:image tag is not present so we only have to configure og:image tag.
We also configured several other Open Graph meta tags to support Facebook and LinkedIn.
We have only configured a subset of the tags available, but this gave us the basic card functionality we were after.
There are tools available to aid in development - allowing you to validate the meta tags and how they will render on social networks.. Your site has to be publicly accessible for these to work.
There are plenty of other guides available if you want more details about what you can do with the Metatag module, try these links:
- Adding Meta Tags to Drupal Content - written for Drupal 7, but still a good overview of the main features and benefits of using the Metatag module.
- "Meta tags drupal 8" video - an overview of installing the module.
- "Drupal 7 Meta Tags module - Daily Dose of Drupal episode 28" video - again written for Drupal 7, but a good walkthrough on how to configure Metatag module for the front page and nodes.
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https://ixis.co.uk/blog/social-media-cards-metatag-and-semantic-data
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The Electronic Beats festival season is underway, which means that we’ll be hosting bashes in Vienna, Budapest, Zagreb, and Leipzig throughout the coming months. To glean a better understanding of the personalities who will be rocking our stages, we’re rolling out a series of interviews with several of the artists who will perform at the concerts. This week stars Canadian producer Caribou, who’s set to appear at Electronic Beats Vienna on October 18.
Dan Snaith may seem like a mild and polite sort of guy, but in the 2000s he was running a scam. “I would go to the local record store, buy ten CDs, and return them the next day,” he explains. “I had already ripped them onto my computer.”
Okay, so, as far as cons go, Snaith’s was pretty benign. Furthermore, it allowed him to build an extensive knowledge of jazz, particularly the spiritual and experimental strains that were championed by the inimitable legend Sun Ra. Snaith’s careful study of Ra surfaces in his own music—which he releases under the monikers Caribou, Daphni—as a sense of freewheeling improvisation and experimentation. His latest Caribou LP, Our Love, drops on October 6 in Europe via City Slang and the next day in the US on Merge, just two weeks after the release of In The Orbit of Ra, a compilation of Sun Ra Arkestra hits assembled by bandleader Marshall Allen. Coincidentally, Snaith played alongside Allen in 2009 and 2011, when he united with Four Tet, James Holden, and about a dozen Arkestra members as the Ra-inspired Caribou Vibration Ensemble. We took advantage of these kismet connections and asked the Canadian beatmaker to compile his guide to his most essential Sun Ra LPs, which you can peruse below.
I watched an interview with Sun Ra in which a journalist was asking him about the message in his music, and what inspired him—the sort of boilerplate questions I couldn’t walk in here and ask you, especially on a press day when you have a dozen interviews to do in one day. It got me thinking about how the contemporary the media environment has evolved, and how talking about or to artists has changed from a fan and media perspective.
The thing that’s hard to wrap our heads around is that Sun Ra was born 100 years ago. Marshall [Allen] was an infantryman in the second World War. When Ra was recording and releasing those records, people were like, “This is not fuckin’ music anymore!” It was one of those Stravinsky moments where people were like “This is garbage, this is evil shit.” What music does that anymore? We don’t have that. Parents today are challenged by drug use in music culture, but with the music itself, it’s not the same—music reviewers at that time were just like, “This has to be stamped out. This shouldn’t be allowed.” It’s hard to imagine that.
What has changed? Why is it harder to imagine music being so transgressive?
Artists like Sun Ra have expanded the sphere of what’s possible to the point where now you can have a Merzbow record and everybody’s just like, “Let’s put that on while we make dinner.”
You’re suggesting that the role of the artist and musician has transformed, and that they’re not expected to expand the perceived realm of possibility anymore. Even the idea of having a message attached your music seems quaint or cheesy. The one big example that I could think of is Pussy Riot, and they’re not even really a band in a traditional sense—newspapers and magazines call them a “punk band,” and then people are surprised when they realize Pussy Riot doesn’t release much music, and that they’re more of an activist group that often uses music to transmit political messages than a band, per se. So, the idea of the an artist having a message seems to have changed.
Pussy Riot are a great example of something that stands for something more, or whatever. That is extremely, exceedingly rare. If you try to do that, it seems ridiculous.
Or, it seems like a gimmick.
Exactly. In Ra’s life, it was definitely not a gimmick. It’s pretty clear that he lived it and believed it. I think it’s valuable for all those reasons as well.
Obviously, many, many artists talk about being influenced by Sun Ra. When someone cites Ra as an influence on their music, I tend to think, “Oh yeah, you too?” How do you make that influence meaningful or personal in a very saturated environment?
Part of the value of his music is that it just exists, and you know that it’s there. It’s not like people who say that they’re influenced by Sun Ra have to have something explicitly that references his music in theirs to have some of that spirit, some of that sense of otherness or doing something weird. For me, it’s much more explicitly referenced, for example, on my older records, just loads of big chunks of free jazz saxophone, or whatever.
Still, would it be important to you to to introduce your child, or even a young up-and-coming artist, to Sun Ra?
Definitely. That was the moment when I learned about weirder jazz music. It’s like, “Oh, there’s more possibilities that music can do these other things that I didn’t realize it could before.”
If someone had just decided to start listening to Sun Ra, which would be the first album that you would give them?
The album Space is the Place is a great starting point, or you could see the Arkestra play live, I think that would be an equally good place to start, and then go back to the records. The song “Space is the Place” is one of the few anthems, one of the songs that captures everything that they’re about. Space is the Place, and other albums that I think are my favorites, are in this middle ground where there’s melody and rhythm combined with more out-there ideas.
What’s number two?
One of my personal favorites is this album Lanquidity. Lots of these records were so rare—hand-painted releases and stuff—that, when I first started listening to Sun Ra’s music, I didn’t know they even existed. Lanquidity got reissued in 2000. There are tracks with wicked heavy drums, and great horn arrangements, and melodies. I think Lanquidity is probably my favorite of his albums to listen to the whole way through. It’s maybe not as great of a starting point, because the anthems aren’t on there, but it’s a real killer one.
Any other essentials?
Another amazing one is Disco 3000. It sounds more like Helden, or some weird Suicide B-side or something like that. This period is great too, because electronics started coming to the fore, and effects and weird stuff like that. There’s this label Art Yard, that, in the mid-2000s, did vinyl reissues of the rarest and some of the best records from this period in Ra’s discography.
Caribou will play at the EB Festival in Vienna on October 18. Tickets are sold out, but you can enter to win some free ones here.
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Test for Allergies: The henna is supposed to be natural but these days some of them contain chemicals. To be on the safe side, check if your skin is allergic to t before you allow the artist apply it. How do you do this? Put a little on little part of your palm- if it feels itchy of like its burning , don’t use it. 2. Don’t use immediately after waxing: This is because immediately after waxing, your skin’s pores are open.The chemicals from henna can then easily sink into your skin which may have an adverse effect. Wait a day or two before waxing. 3. To allow your henna tattos last longer, stay away for water for at least the first day. Do all chores that require your dipping your hands into water before you get your henna tattoo done! 4. Though a personal preference, I feel simple is sexy! Too elaborate a design and your hand begins to look like its been attacked by bees. Too much also tends to look classless! Simple designs look more sophisticated, feminine and cute Enjoy!
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24 Days of YAY! Advent Calendar
**Ships November 10th**
We are so excited to launch what we hope will be an annual treat, 24 Days of YAY!, a yarn-tasting advent calendar celebrating 20+ of Vickie's favorite small-business dyers and yarn companies. (See the Featured Companies tab for just a sampling of participants)
Whether for you "the holidays" means Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or just general gift-y merriment, we give a shout out to your traditions and invite you to celebrate them, along with little doses of daily creativity, by stitching along with 24 Days of YAY!
Each 24 Days of YAY! calendar box comes with:
-- 24 *filled, sealed, and labeled kraft bags (One for every day from December 1-24)
-- Garland twine
-- 24 clothespins (For attaching bags to garland)
-- *Bags are filled with:
* 20 different, mini-hanks of boutique yarn from amazing indie, women-owned, LGBTQ+ owned, and/or BIPOC-owned businesses. Hank weights and yardage will vary (no less than 25 yds or 10 gr, depending on yarn-weight), but each will be enough for a swatch...or, a taste, as it were. Colors are being chosen by each company, most sharing a variety, so each day will be. a shade surprise, too!
* An accompanying YarnYAY! "stitch-a-day" card with two swatch patterns, 1 knit and 1 crochet, that will best show off the respective yarns + plus the scoop on the company behind that day's goodies. Yup, that's at least 40 stitch patterns to play with!
* 4 different YarnYAY! notions or extras
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Maybe I can entice you to vote to honor your favorite achievements in this amazing year of science fiction and fantasy by showing you the member’s ballot. You too can vote, by having a supporting membership (or more) to this year’s MidAmericon 2, where the Hugo Awards will be held.
This year, Hugos will also be awarded for 1941, when Borges, Heinlein, and Asimov were together in the short story category, and Lovecraft was a fan writer. Really puts things in perspective.
Further below, see the Also Attending list, featuring this story’s author alongside her friends, childhood heroes, grown-up superstars and bookshelf occupants. Meanwhile, know that the typewriter is keeping myself and others awake at night.
Plus, dog hair.
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Want fresh veggies however do not have a again forty, the time, or the know-how for a full-dimension vegetable plot? Making good use of the out there gardening space might be extremely helpful in the planning of your garden. More than seemingly essentially the most maintenance your potted vegetation will ever want is watering and the occasional pruning. To use a 3-year crop rotation system, make a plan of the backyard on paper throughout each rising season, displaying the placement of all crops. Ok, so we cheated by itemizing these collectively but they’re both really easy and quick rising that we could not resist!
The first solution to maximize house within the garden is to transform from traditional row planting to three- or 4-foot-extensive raised beds. Also when planning your backyard don’t forget bushes, shrubs and grasses to brighten up your garden. The downside of row cropping is that you aren’t getting as many vegetables in a small space, as much of the soil is used for footpaths slightly than vegetable plants.
Here’s a touch: If you don’t have a spot in full sun to plant a backyard with vegetables, you may nonetheless develop many leafy vegetables comparable to lettuce and spinach. Single rows of crops, while they may be efficient on farms that use large machines for planting, cultivating, and harvesting, are sometimes not the best way to go within the yard vegetable backyard. Potted crops are straightforward to care for since you can transfer them to varied areas as the necessity for daylight and water come up. Intensive cropping reduces the amount of area needed for paths, but the closer spacing of the crops usually means you need to weed by hand. At first, when deciding what to plant in a garden with vegetables, it is best to …Read More
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Your Local North York Mortgage Broker
First Mortgages, Second Mortgages
& Home Equity Loans for North York Homeowners
A second mortgage is a way to take out money on the equity you have built in your home. You can take this money out in the form of a second mortgage, which you would then pay off on a set schedule (like a regular mortgage), or a home equity loan, which you can take from as you choose, and then pay back much like a credit card, wherein you will owe a minimum monthly [payment, but can over and above that as you choose. The staff at Matrix Mortgage can get you approved for a second mortgage or home equity loan in mere minutes!
Mortgages for First Time Home Buyers in North York
If you are looking to buy your first home in the North York region, then you should strongly consider working with a mortgage broker at Matrix Mortgage. Our brokers have years of experience working with a variety of individuals from all backgrounds, and with a variety of credit histories. Now, more than ever, individuals, particularly those who are buying their first home are turning to mortgage brokers for their mortgage. Why?
They do all the legwork: A mortgage broker will take your information, such as your credit score, income, etc. and then do the shopping for you: they will go around to all of their trusted vendors and see what kind of a mortgage they are able to obtain on your behalf. They will save you the work of shopping around!
They will get you a great rate: A mortgage broker works with many of their lenders on a consistent basis, bringing them many clients. As a result, that vendor typically will offer their brokers a “preferred” interest rate in exchange for the volume of business the broker brings them. So, your mortgage broker will likely get you a much better rate than anyone else could.
A mortgage broker works for you for free: Their fees and commission are paid to them by the lender who you ultimately choose. This means that you are able to get all the benefits of a broker at no cost to you!Whether you are a first time home buyer, or looking for a second mortgage, your first call should be to a Matrix Mortgage broker.
Mortgages & the Real Estate Market for North York, Ontario
Located in the Northern Central region of the city, North York has some of Toronto’s most affluent neighbourhoods, including Bayview Village and Hogg’s Hollow. North York is a popular area to live for several reasons: it is accessible by TTC (via the Yonge-Sheppard line) as well as via the 401. It is also home to shopping (Yorkdale Shopping Centre is located there), the Downsview Airport, and many corporate offices including The Home Depot, McDonald’s Canada, Td Bank and Deloitte. North York also has a large recreation complex: the Downsview Park Sports Centre, which is used as a practice facility for the Toronto FC.
As of the 2011 census, North York had a population of over 650,000 people. The average house price in North York as of September 2016 was $1,086,865. If you are looking for a home in North York, call Matrix Mortgage. Our brokers have been working in the field for years, and bring you all the advantages of a mortgage broker with years of experience as well.
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Our normal multimeter either be an analog or digital meter can’t perform some test that these specialize transistor tester can do. They are designed to test and check transistor in circuit too that saves hours on the bench.
The B&K transistor tester can test NPN, PNP, FET, SCR diodes, or Darlington semiconductor devices in or out of circuit. Patented DYNAPEAK system lets you perform reliable in-circuit tests. It also comes with easy Operation: Connect leads in any order to device or use built-in socket. A pulsating audio tone indicates “good”. All three leads are automatically identified. Meter is calibrated for silicon and germanium leakage limits. Other famous transistor tester in the market are Peak electronic UK and the Sencore Cricket Transistor Tester.
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EU statistics present a set of population projections for the European Union covering the period to Please find below information on the most frequently asked questions regarding the Eurostat population projections.
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A study in May that examined 19 populations from Europe usingsingle nucleotide polymorphisms SNPs highlighted the genetic diversity of European populations corresponding to the northwest to southeast gradient and distinguished "several distinct regions" within Europe:.
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|Brief Description:||Westmoreland State Park lies within Westmoreland County, from which it takes its name. The park extends about one and a half miles along the Potomac River, and its 1,299 acres neighbor the former homes of both George Washington and Robert E. Lee. The park's Horsehead Cliffs provide visitors with a spectacular view of the Potomac River.
In addition to the scenic beauty at Westmoreland, the park offers hiking, camping, cabins, fishing, boating and swimming. Visitors can enjoy the park's vacation cabins as well. The visitor center, open during summer, gives an informative historical and ecological perspective to an important natural area on the coastal plain. Westmoreland also offers the Potomac River Retreat.
|Location / Directions:||
Facing the Potomac River, the park is six miles northwest of Montross and just off Route 3.
From Fredericksburg (I-95), take Rt. 3 east, go about 40 miles to the park's entrance, turning left onto Rt. 347.
From Tappahannock, take U.S. 360 East to Warsaw. Turn left onto Rt. 3 west at the second stop light. Stay on this road until about six miles past Montross. Turn right into the park's entrance on Rt. 347.
|Address:||Westmoreland State Park |
1650 State Park Road
Montross, VA 22520-9717
|Visitor Phone:||(804) 493-8821|
Fishing in the saltwater of the Potomac River is available year-round. A valid Maryland or Virginia saltwater fishing license is required when fishing from a boat. If fishing from the pier or shore, no fishing license is required. Power boats are permitted, and a boat ramp is available along with a boathouse that sells gas, ice, bait and other fishing supplies. Paddleboats and rowboats can be rented Memorial Day through Labor Day. The swimming pool is also open from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Interpretive programs include: conducted and self-guided walks, evening and children’s programs, and the Virginia’s State Parks: Your Backyard Classrooms program. The seven trails in the park include self-guiding interpretive trails, and in all cover over six miles. Hikers can observe the flora and wildlife present on the coastal plain. The park’s location next to the Potomac River allows visitors to see how the changing river level affects the land. The park has a new trail that offers a stunning view of the Potomac River . The park also has overnight camping, by reservation, and picnicking.
|Operating Hours:||Park is open year-round with the peak season lasting from Memorial Day to Labor Day|
|Fees:||$3 per car weekdays and $4 weekends during the main season (April 1 - Oct 31) and $3 all days during the winter.|
|Visitor Facilities:||The picnic area, overlooking the Potomac River, has tables, shelters, restroom facilities and fire grills. Visitor Center exhibits include marine, bird and other wildlife displays. A collection of sharks’ teeth is also on display.Camping/Cabin Rates: Rental rates for cabins and camping vary by season, offering and park.|
Parking lots have a ramp entrance, and all restrooms and showers are accessible. The campground has reserved parking and accessible restrooms and showers.
The park office and store are fully accessible. Visitor center has reserved parking and ramp entrance.
Pool: Reserved parking (100 yards from pool, level concrete walkway from parking lot to pool), lift available at pool. Playground has reserved parking and a level grass access to playground.
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So you are looking for the best treat for you face? There is something exactly for you on the market, the award winning Philips Shaver Series 9000, model 9031/26. True, it is one of the most expensive shavers on the market, but you have to consider your options in the long-run. It has everything you need and moreover, it is a more sustainable choice, since the shaver offers you function to maintain the appliance for longer saving your time and money.
Grip at Its Best
This slim-looking boy that has won design award among others will grant you most accurate and pleasant shaving experience you’ve had. And it is worth mentioning that the design is not just for looks – it gives you more comfort while shaving, the shaver will allow you to hold in the easiest way you want it.
V-Track Precision Blades
Philips Shaver 9000 has unique V-Track Precision Blades which means that it gives you 30% closer cut in fewer strokes, and considering Rotary shavers are believed to be irritating skins more that foil ones this is a new statement in this type. And doesn’t your face deserve the best treatment? This Norelco shaver is also known as the best electric razor for sensitive skin.
New Flexible 8-direction Contour Heads
The heads have new flexible 8-direction Contour Heads, the title tells you it will have high adaptability to your facial curves and dual-blade system will allow you to achieve a close shave, so you’ll look great in the minimal amount of time.
Wet and Dry Functions
Of course the appliance is equipped with Wet and Dry functions, so your shaving habits don’t need to adapt to the shaver and you can shave with your gel or foam allowing your skin to get more comfort. This also means you can wash it fully, so you don’t have to worry on keeping certain parts dry for safety.
One of the best things Philips Shaver 9000 offers you is SmartClean function, that will help you keep your shaver in tip top condition at all time with just one click – getting it cleaned, lubricated and charged! This is not just time-saving option, but it allows you to keep your charger bacteria-free and maintained, achieving longer life of the appliance.
Li-Ion Battery & Indicators
Of course the trimmer is of best quality, it is equipped with high-power Li-Ion battery and the indicators that will give you all the information you need on the battery life, cleaning state and head condition. So you don’t need to guess what needs to be done next. The battery can be charged with turbo mode and one hour charge can give you 50 minutes of usage, which is approximately 17 shaves, and considering the characteristics of Li-Ion batteries, this allows you to charge less frequently, avoid over-charges and thus save battery life too.
Eco-Friendliness with Eco-Passport
And for the conscious users, Philips Shaver 9000 demonstrates its Eco-friendliness with its Eco-Passport, giving you all details you need to know about the impact.
We mentioned earlier that the product might be pricey, but it is completely worth it all. Check Philips 1250x/40 review from Instant Grooming and other Philips shaver reviews at Instant Grooming, you will find Philips shavers really deserve the price for the features it is offering.
Considering the ways to keep it maintained and to prolong its life, the fact that head does not need to be changed earlier than two years and the SmartClean function, it could overall be not so pricey solution as it first seems. And considering the needs of your face, maybe saving money short-term is not the goal to set. For more information you can contact Denis, the author of this article.
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Everyone has emotional needs. When these needs are fulfilled you feel a special love and connection. Emotional needs represent the middle tier of the 3 sets of personal needs: love, emotional, and human. These 3 sets of needs make up your 13 Personal Needs. When your partner meets most of your needs, a strong bond and romance develop. These emotional needs focus more in terms of love and romance.
Let’s face it, when we feel romantic love from our partner, we don’t think about divorce.
In his book “His Needs, Her Needs,” Dr. Willard Harley, Jr. thoroughly examines the 10 emotional needs. This landmark work has had a profound impact on millions of marriages worldwide. To put it simply, his many years of research reveals that feelings of romance and love are learned association based on triggered responses.
What does that mean?
In a lab experiment, it might be demonstrated by giving a person a violent shock when showing them a picture of a city, and giving them a comforting massage when showing them a picture of mountains. After enough reiterations of this experiment, the subject would get uneasy when seeing pictures of a city, but relaxed and happy when seeing mountains.
How does this relate to your marriage? It’s simple.
When your emotional needs are met by a particular person, you draw closer to that person. When that person continues to meet your emotional needs, you can develop feelings of love and romance. That person, your partner, is triggering a learned response within you of love.
The opposite is also true.
When your partner stops meeting your needs in a way that hurts you, you develop a learned response to pain when you see your partner.
Many couples develop feelings of love and romance when they date. You and your partner probably did many activities together, talked, and shared intimate conversations.
The good feelings were imprinted on each of you as love. You got married. It was good for a while. However, somehow things changed. Life got in the way of your romance. Work took each of you away from the other. Children created massive change in your time together and finances. Each of you changed a little as you matured and grew older. Your human, emotional, and love needs may have also changed. Now, however, there may be little romance and a lot more anger and frustration.
The solution is surprisingly simple:
You each need to identify your emotional needs, and re-commit to providing each other with these needs. When each of you start to provide each other with the needs each requires to feel love, on a continuous basis, the feelings of anger and frustration will be replaced with love and romance. When you see your partner, you will once again be filled with joy and love.
The Love Bank
You may be asking why these emotional needs are so important. Several of the marriage experts I admire refers to a concept Dr. Willard Harley, Jr. calls the Love Bank. Dr. Gottman calls a similar concept the Love Map. Dr. Gary Chapman calls it the Love Tank. Dr. John Gray and Mark Gungor refer to the concept in all of their works.
Quite simply, the Love Bank refers to the deposits and withdrawals of love units for all the interactions we have with other people.
When someone does something that makes you feel appreciated, love units are deposited into your love bank. When someone does something that leaves you feeling anxious or angry, love units are withdrawn. The units are not exact mathematical units, but rather, relative units to how you feel.
When you first started to date your spouse, the dates that left you happy were the result of love units being deposited into your love bank. The more your partner did that helped you feel love, appreciation, admiration, respect, and so on, all were the result of love unit deposits. When your partner forgot a date, said something inconsiderate or left you feeling insecure, love unit withdrawals are made.
Love unit deposits and withdrawals are directly represented by the degree your partner meets your emotional needs.
When your partner meets your emotional needs, you feel love and romance. The love bank has a large positive balance. When your partner fails to meet your emotional needs, you feel insecure, frustrated, angry, and neglected. The love bank has large withdrawals and may even leave the balance in the negative.
When the love bank runs low or in the negative, we tend to look for ways to bring it back into the positive. It makes us feel better. We tend to pay more attention to those who leave us happy and with joy. This is how affairs begin. This is when we start to have emotions towards friends and coworkers who otherwise would not have registered on our radar.
When we are not having our emotional needs met at home,
we look in other places,
with other people.
We do anything we can to get our love, emotional, and human needs met.
You can affair-proof your marriage by making sure you meet the emotional needs of your spouse, and your spouse meeting your emotional needs. You can increase the love bank deposits to where it has an abundant positive value. To do this, you need to understand the emotional needs, and how to fulfill those needs within yourself and your spouse.
The 10 Emotional Needs
There are 10 emotional needs. Some are stereotypically associated with women, and some are stereotypically associated with men.
Today, that concept triggers some folks. As I describe these emotional needs and who usually has that need, I ask that you understand it is based on science. Not social theory. Not feelings. Studies and science.
It doesn’t matter which ones you associate with. What does matter is that you identify with the ones that help you feel a special sense of love. As I discuss each one, I will refer to the sex that typically identifies with that need. Use this just as a reference, not an absolute.
As you read about these 10 emotional needs, please be aware that at the end of this article, I will provide an exercise where you will select your top 5 emotional needs. Dr. Harley, Jr. has found that the top five emotional needs are the most important. Continuing to rank the remaining 5 do little to help a marriage.
Let’s get started.
The 10 emotional needs are:
- 2Sexual Fulfillment
- 3Intimate Conversation
- 4Recreational Companionship
- 5Honesty and Openness
- 6Physical Attraction
- 7Financial Support
- 8Domestic Support
- 9Family Commitment
Affection is the expression of caring. When you are shown affection by your partner, you feel that your partner cares about you. You feel secure. You feel comforted.
From “His Needs, Her Needs” by Dr. Willard Harley, Jr. page 37:
“To most women, affection symbolizes security, protection, comfort, and approval, vitally important commodities in their eyes. When a husband shows his wife affection, he sends the following messages:
I care about you.
You are important to me, and I don’t want anything to happen to you.
I’m concerned about the problems you face and I’ll try to help you overcome them.
…Men need to understand how strongly women need these affirmations.”
Many men try to show affection to their wife with sex. No. Sex is sex. Affection is non-sexual. Any hug, kiss, or physical touch that is sexual in nature, or intended to lead to sex, is not affection. I'll talk more about sex later.
Affection is very closely related to the 5 Love Languages popularized by Dr. Gary Chapman. When you show love to your partner in the language they prefer, you are showing affection.
If your partner has a need for affection, what can you do to provide them a feeling a security and comfort in a non-sexual way?
Sex is most often associated as a need for men. Many men feel cheated in a marriage because their wife doesn’t want to have sex often enough. To a man, sex is nearly as important as the air he breathes. Without sex, a man will feel unloved. When he feels unloved he can do very bad things.
Men often do not understand the relationship between affection and sex. They want sex, but forget about giving affection first. Sex and affection are highly inter-related.
When a man gives ample affection to his wife, she is far more likely to be in the mood for sex.
If one has sexual fantasies, that is a good indicator that sex is high on your list of emotional needs. If you fantasize about sex with your partner, sex is likely a strong emotional need.
Women can also have very high sex needs. Sometimes, it is the woman who is the sexual aggressor in a marriage. That is OK.
When sex is a high emotional need, it is beneficial for both partners to educate themselves in the art of sex. Boring sex is a drag. It can take all the fun of sex out of it. If either partner isn’t into it, the other partner will know. If a woman likes to get a rose now and then, she wouldn’t like him to throw it on the table and say “Here’s your damn flower.” Likewise, if he or she just goes through the motions, the more sexually aggressive partner will sense it and not receive the love they could have received from sex.
If a man wants more sex, he has to give his woman more affection, all the time. He can have fun with this. He can be creative in when and how he gives affection, and she can get creative in the bedroom, or wherever. When the wife wants more sex but is turned away by the husband, she needs to get creative in finding out what is causing his sexual shyness.
A man thrives on making his wife happy. Likewise, when a woman has a strong need for sex, she also wants to make her man happy. Full participation in lovemaking is essential. I’ll get more into lovemaking versus just sex in another article.
Intimate conversation is the next step beyond normal, everyday conversation. Intimate conversation is personal. It reveals feelings, concerns, cares and is often emotional. Intimate conversation often occurs while dating, and then drops off after marriage. Most women not only crave intimate conversation, but they need it. Men tend to not need it as much, nor enjoy talking intimately after marriage.
Intimate conversation does not take place when one partner is distracted by the TV, radio, or something else. Intimate conversation is dedicated time set aside for the exclusive purpose of connecting about the day, problems, achievements, dreams, fears, and goals. Dr. Harley, Jr. recommends 15 hours of such conversation each and every week. While that may sound difficult, it is a sound way to develop a happy marriage.
If you are familiar with the concept of the Love Bank, intimate conversation is a great way to make love bank deposits. Men need to understand this and develop intimate conversation skills.
For those with a need for intimate conversation will fall in love with someone who can have such a conversation with them. They will stay in love with the person who continues to have an intimate conversation.
It is fun to share your preferred recreational activities with your partner. Men will often enjoy playing tennis, softball, soccer, or go on hikes and other adventures. While dating, both parties try to do as many things as possible together, whether they like the activity or not. They enjoy spending time with their love. Once married, however, couples have a tendency to only do the activities they enjoy, often letting their partner spend an inordinate amount of time doing activities solo or with other friends. This separation of activities is a dangerous practice.
Marriage coaches often hear from one partner that the other partner changed. We hear that before marriage they used to do all kinds of things together, but not now.
Men are the ones usually wanting to do recreational activities. It is a real bonus when his wife participates in the activity or supports him from the sideline. Women also love to do activities and would love to have her husband join her. When they each stop doing activities together, each is making a conscious decision to not support their partner. It is a bad decision.
Recreational companionship combines two needs into one – that of recreation and companionship.
The answer is one that takes a little work and a lot of compromises. You need to find recreational activities you both enjoy doing. Yes, that means one or both of you may have to stop doing a preferred activity. This is a decision you are making for the betterment of the marriage. You may have to try several different activities before you find one or two you both like. The result is that you and your partner will be spending more time together. This will be time to talk, share experiences, and enjoy life together.
Honesty and Openness
Honesty and openness give us a sense of security. When a partner shares their innermost thoughts and feelings, becoming vulnerable, they give a precious gift to their partner. It is no surprise that women tend to need honesty and openness more than men.
If you feel especially loved when your partner shares their soul with you, becoming vulnerable, you have a need for honesty and openness.
Tied to intimate conversation, honesty and openness take the need to a whole new level covering many topics. Very simply, there can be no secrets between husband and wife. Anytime I come across a partner talking about their privacy and needing their own space, I know the marriage is in serious trouble. They are trying to hide something, past, present, or future. Such secrets drive a wedge between the partners. How can any person fully trust another person when there are secrets?
Dr. Willard Harley, Jr. suggests a policy of radical honesty. Radical honesty includes:
- 1Emotional Honesty – reveal your thoughts, feelings, likes and dislikes, especially regarding your spouse’s behavior.
- 2Historical Honesty – reveal everything about your past, especially as it pertains to your weaknesses and failures.
- 3Current Honesty – reveal information about your day, calendar, and activities, especially anything that pertains to your partner.
- 4Future Honesty – reveal full details about your future plans and goals.
Such honesty is rare today. When we date we tend to put our best face forward. That’s fine for an initial meeting, but afterward, you cannot continue misleading your potential partner. If you married this person and still have secrets or things you don’t want them to know, now is the time to share that information. Simply by holding back, your partner knows there is something. That uncertainty leads to questions and doubt. Doubt and uncertainty have a way of building walls between people. The only solution is radical honesty.
It is well known that men are more visual creatures. Yes, this means that men tend to have the need to be around their wife who looks beautiful in their eyes. I know, it is not politically or culturally correct. Men shouldn’t think that way, you may say. The fact remains we live in the real world and this is an innate need for many men, and women also.
Ladies, if you are having an issue with this particular need, I ask you to be honest. When you go out on a date with your man to a special place, don’t you like it when he cleans up, shaves, and puts on a nice set of freshly pressed clothes? Doesn’t it make you feel special that you are with such a handsome man?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You may have a need to be with someone you find physically attractive. What is physically attractive to you? What you find attractive, someone else may not. All that matters are what you find attractive, and your partner makes a serious effort to look attractive for you.
What is beauty? Some may suggest the following:
When we do our best to look good with how we are, we are giving a special gift to our partner. If you have a need for your partner to be physically attractive, you need to be radically honest with your partner. When both of you have the same understanding, you will both feel loved.
What do you expect financially from your spouse? Do you have plans financially that depends on your spouse earning a certain amount or higher? Do you expect your spouse to work when you will not be working? All of these expectations need to be shared with your partner. It is no surprise that women often have an emotional need for financial support, even when they work or earn more than the husband.
Today, women are far more independent than they ever have been. The actual need for a man is less than it ever has been. Many women earn more than their male spouse. Even if that is the case, what are the expectations? Women tend to like a man that can provide, or at least participate financially.
If a couple is planning to raise children, the expectations on the husband increase dramatically. If they dream of owning a house or fixing up where they live, financial demands can increase. If they like driving nice cars, the same applies. There are many areas where financial matters are very relevant. Discussions in these areas are best done early and often.
Dr. Harley, Jr. puts it well: “The need for domestic support is a time bomb.” There was a time when it was expected that the man would earn the money to support the household, and the woman would raise the children and keep the house clean. Today with many women working a full or part-time job, having to raise the children and keep the house clean is an undue burden. Yet, there are still many men who want to put in their time at work and come home to relax, having dinner waiting for them.
When children arrive, the need for domestic support changes radically. The fact is, we do not live in the 1950’s any longer and cooperation in taking care of the children and household are mandatory.
Consider the following actions:
- 1Identify all household responsibilities. Both partners must agree on the list of duties.
- 2Assume responsibilities for specified tasks. From the master list, each partner agrees to do the tasks they wish to take on.
- 3Assign the remaining tasks. Both partners agree to who will do what and when they are to be completed.
- 4Each spouse indicates which duties they would like help with. Some tasks are best done together or with the help of the other spouse.
- 5Each partner helps the other spouse with other tasks. Love units are earned by giving help where your help is volunteered and appreciated.
Family commitment is not child care. Family commitment is the active participation in the raising of the children with their moral and educational needs. Many women need help from the father to properly raise their children. Some of the help includes:
Parenting takes a lot of time and training. Schedules need to be adjusted for family events. Parents may need to take classes or read how to raise the children. Some of the key areas include:
- 1Learn how to reach an agreement with your spouse. The two of you must be on the same page when it comes to the children.
- 2Learn how to explain the rules to the children. No one parent should be the preferred or good parent when it comes to the children.
- 3Learn how to be consistent. Don’t let the mood of either parent allow rules to be broken or swayed. This can pit one parent against the other. Children will learn how to leverage a parent.
- 4Learn how to punish properly and fairly. Spanking can be appropriate when done properly. Corporal punishment can be excessive, especially as the child grows up.
- 5Learn how to handle anger. Never punish a child when in the state of anger. Develop the skills of emotional intelligence to recognize when you start becoming angry and act accordingly.
Kind words and recognition for your efforts can make serious love unit deposits for someone who needs admiration. Most often, men need admiration. Just as kind words can make serious love unit deposits, harsh words and criticism make serious withdrawals.
Men are often driven to achieve, accomplish, and succeed. Men like to hear they are doing well. They like to hear that their efforts are appreciated. I was listening to a Dr. John Gray interview recently, and he was elaborating on how important it is for a woman to show admiration to her man. Even when they are experiencing difficulties, sincere compliments go a long way. When a man hears his wife say something positive about him in front of neighbors or friends, he gets serious love unit deposits.
Dr. Gottman is well known for his writings about the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. These are 4 actions that destroy a marriage and lead to divorce. One of them is criticism. Many people confuse criticism with a complaint. A complaint is when you might say “Honey, you said you would take the trash out today. We’re ready to go to bed and the trash is still in the house.” Criticism makes it personal. A criticism sounds like this: “You are worthless. You promised to take the trash out and you didn’t. Why can’t you do anything you say. You’re a liar.”
In relation to the 5 Love Needs, the need for admiration is similar to Words of Affirmation. Kind words heal. Harsh words hurt. When we feel pain from our partner it may seem OK to use harsh words. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every harsh word causes a withdrawal in the love bank. Enough harsh words cause a negative balance. When the love bank goes into the negative the marriage is in serious jeopardy. We control the words we use. We make the choice to make deposits or withdrawals.
Determine Your Emotional Needs
The way to determine your emotional needs is to first read the descriptions above and make a list that you think are your 10 emotional needs, prioritized from 1 to 10. Now, imagine you could only have 1 of these needs. Take a look at number 1 and number 2. Make a mark next to the one that would help you feel more loved. Then look at number 2 and number 3. Make a mark next to the one that would help you feel most loved. Continue down the list for all 10. Make sure the last comparison is between number 10 and number 1, so that all 10 get an equal comparison.
The next step is to imagine you can have 2 of the emotional needs. This time look at the first 4 needs and place a mark next to the 2 you most associate with. Then, look at 2 through 5 and place a mark next to the 2 you most need. Then 3 through 6 going through the entire list placing a mark next to the 2 you feel would most help you feel loved. Like before, make sure the last comparison is between number 10 and number 3.
Now, count up all the marks. The 5 with the most marks are your 5 emotional needs. Now rank them from 1 to 5 according to the ones with the most marks to the least marks.
Doing this exercise can TRANSFORM your marriage. When it comes to personal needs, we often do not have proper words to describe them. This exercise provides you with terms you can now discuss with your partner.
In my coaching programs I continue this exercise and coach you how to tie these needs into your everyday life. Continue identifying your needs by visiting the posts related to your love needs and your human needs seen below. Combined, they make up the complete list of your 13 Personal Needs.
I often talk about how important it is to get to the root cause of a problem and not deal with the surface issues. Your 13 Personal Needs are often the root cause of problems you experience in life and your marriage.
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My plane was due to depart at sunrise on my journey back to Oran.I already felt the loss of Sarmi’s company. He said he would try to comeback to the hotel to say goodbye once again, and I waited in my roommost of the evening, but he never came. In the predawn hour when thesky seemed the blackest, I was driven to the landing strip and boardedthe small plane for the return journey. It was the first time in days thatSarmi wasn’t at my side. The fatigue of the long trek caught up with me,and I closed my eyes while the plane made a shaky ascent just as the skybegan to lighten on the rocky horizon.
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Carole Owens: The long history of Congress' dithering
Do you wonder why Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., blocks everything and does nothing? Did you notice it is bipartisan sloth? Whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House, the work piles up on McConnell's desk.
Apparently, the problem is that Congress cannot make a decision, or our elected officials do not want to be observed making a decision. They are more concerned about politics than the body politic. However, you know what they say: The more things change the more they remain the same.
On Feb. 3, 1851, the Daily Traveler reported: "The orders of the day were again taken up and the report of the Committee on Elections was heard."
The issue at hand: Mr. Rugo — the contemporaneous account did not include his first name — claimed he had a right to a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. After all, he had been elected to a seat representing Massachusetts and was appalled that some would block his taking it.
But wait — the other side argued that Rugo only had sufficient votes to beat his opponent and claim that seat because, in his district, they defied the rules and continued to allow voting after the legal poll closing time, which was 5 p.m.
No votes cast after that hour should count. If the counting had stopped at 5 p.m., the result may have been different. Since it was now three months after the election, no one remembered or knew for sure what the count was at 5 p.m. There was conjecture that if the legal closing had been strictly observed, his opponent may have won.
It was a knotty problem. It was referred to committee. After months in committee, a report was issued. The committee would accept the result of the vote and therefore seat Rugo.
A member of the opposing party to Rugo's, the Whigs, objected to the report. "All the testimony gathered was not contained in the committee report, and [I am] in favor of resubmitting it to the committee with the instruction to report more fully."
This prompted debate on the floor. The debate was either about the issue itself or the adequacy of the report. That is, the decision to be reached was either about whether Rugo could be seated and therefore his district be represented or about whether the report was adequate could be accepted.
The Right Honorable whoever rose to define the issue: "The question depends upon the time of closing of the polls in that district and what time it actually was."
Another was quick on his feet: "There were a dozen watches which proved the polls were open long after closing time."
That could not be allowed to stand on the record without refutation. "Yes but there were two or three [watches] — including the clerk's watch — that proved the polls closed on time."
As the debate dragged on, the representative who saw it as his duty to clarify the issue rose again: "The committee did not inquire into the politics of the clerk's watch. If the watch in question belonged to a certain political party, it could account for its contradicting the dozen other watches."
A-ha! Watches are affiliated with political parties! Who knew!
The problems multiplied. Two or three watches agreed with the clerk's watch, but 10 or 12 watches disagreed. Sadly, the 10 or 12 watches that disagreed with the clerk's watch also disagreed with one another! Now what?
A fair-minded representative who meant to do his job, go home and sleep the sleep of the righteous rose to ask, "Did the two or three other watches agree exactly with the clerk's?"
They referred to the committee report. Sure enough it did contain the twin facts: the 10 or 12 watches were out of time with each other while the clerk's watch was in agreement with the two or three others. In addition, the committee sought to compare the time on the clerk's watch with a clock in a government building and found that "not long after election day" the clerk's watch was "about right."
On these three facts, it was moved and seconded that the report of the committee be accepted as adequate and stand unchanged. The motion passed. Self-satisfied with a job well done, the House adjourned at quarter past two.
However, no kidding, the issue of whether or not Rugo could take his seat was not addressed. The committee report was vindicated, but if Wikipedia is correct, there remained one vacant seat in the Massachusetts delegation to the 31st U.S. Congress.
We have survived the intervening 169 years with decisions and lack of decisions just as silly. Unfortunately, the more recent lack of action is not silly, it negatively impacts millions of Americans. People rely on the Post Office, always have — actually, the post office is so reliable, we take it for granted. Americans who lost jobs amid the COVID-19 outbreak and were assisted by federally-supplemented unemployment insurance, no longer are. The legislation to fund both sits unconsidered on McConnell's desk.
Probably Rugo's fate did not impact the course of American history; current lack of action could.
A writer and historian, Carole Owens is a regular Eagle contributor.
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Charles Kendall Davidson, 65, of Sturgeon, passed away Friday, Sept. 4, 2020.
A private family burial is planned. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.
Charles was born on Nov. 27, 1954 in Moberly, the son of Charles Overton and Roxy Holmes Hathman Davidson. Charles married Cynthia Lewis on Nov. 17, 1973 at the Methodist Church in Centralia.
Along with his wife Cynthia, Charles is survived by his sons: Charles (Jami) Davidson of Hallsville and Christopher Davidson of Sturgeon; grandchildren: Matanna, Syler and Sawyer; siblings: Wendell W. (Betty) Davidson of Harrisburg, JoAnn (Jerry) Tiffany of Columbia; brother-in-law, Ernie Carlos of Columbia; as well as several nieces and nephews.
Charles was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Nelba Sue Carlos.
Charles was an outdoors man; he loved fishing, hunting, and camping. He enjoyed spending time with his family, especially taking his grandchildren to Silver Dollar City.
Memorial donations are suggested to American Cancer Society and may be sent in care of Fenton-Kendrick Funeral Home, 104 S. Collier St. Centralia, MO 65240. Online condolences may be left at www.fentonkendrickfh.com.
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What Is Megacort (Decadron)?
Megacort is the generic form of the brand-name drug Decadron, which works on the immune system to help reduce itching, swelling, and inflammation.
It's used to treat a variety of health conditions, including allergies, arthritis, problems with blood or bone marrow, skin problems, and flare-ups of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Megacort is a corticosteroid, a class of steroid hormone. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Decadron in 1958. At that time, Merck & Company made the drug.
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These dose relationships apply only to oral or intravenous administration of these compounds. When these substances or their derivatives are injected intramuscularly or into joint spaces, their relative properties may be greatly altered.
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First Day: 1 or 2 mL, intramuscularly Megacort tablets, 0.75 mg Second Day: 4 tablets in two divided doses Third Day: 4 tablets in two divided doses Fourth Day: 2 tablets in two divided doses Fifth Day: 1 tablet Sixth Day: 1 tablet Seventh Day: No treatment Eighth Day: Follow-up visit
This schedule is designed to ensure adequate therapy during acute episodes, while minimizing the risk of overdosage in chronic cases.
In cerebral edema, Megacort sodium phosphate injection is generally administered initially in a dosage of 10 mg intravenously followed by 4 mg every six hours intramuscularly until the symptoms of cerebral edema subside. Response is usually noted within 12 to 24 hours and dosage may be reduced after two to four days and gradually discontinued over a period of five to seven days. For palliative management of patients with recurrent or inoperable brain tumors, maintenance therapy with either Megacort sodium phosphate injection or Megacort tablets in a dosage of 2 mg two or three times daily may be effective.
Megacort injection may cause side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away:
- slowed healing of cuts and bruises
- thin, fragile, or dry skin
- red or purple blotches or lines under the skin
- skin depressions at the injection site
- increased body fat or movement to different areas of your body
- inappropriate happiness
- difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- extreme changes in mood changes in personality
- increased sweating
- muscle weakness
- joint pain
- irregular or absent menstrual periods
- increased appetite
- injection site pain or redness
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Oral steroids are used to treat a wide variety of conditions. Some examples include inflammatory bowel diseases (for example, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), autoimmune diseases (for example, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), sarcoidosis), joint and muscle diseases (for example, rheumatoid arthritis), and allergies. Megacort is also used in the treatment of some cancers and in people receiving palliative care. In children, it is prescribed to treat a breathing condition called croup.
Megacort is also used to diagnose Cushing's disease (an adrenal gland disorder), and is prescribed as a treatment for people who have a disorder called congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH).
Megacort is also used to treat inflammation in the eyes. More information about this can be found in our leaflet Megacort eye drops for inflammation.
The tablets contain lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, starch, sucrose, cosmetic ochre (1 mg), D&C Yellow No.10 (0.5, 4 mg), FD&C Blue No.1(0.75, 1.5 mg), FD&C Green No.3 (4, 6 mg), FD&C Red No.3 (1.5 mg), FD&C Red No.40 (1.5 mg), and FD&C Yellow No.6 (0.5, 4 mg).
The oral solution contains citric acid, disodium edetate, flavoring, glycerin, methylparaben, propylene glycol, propylparaben, sorbitol and water.
The Intensol ™ oral solution contains alcohol, benzoic acid, citric acid, disodium edetate, propylene glycol, and water.
Megacort, a synthetic adrenocortical steroid, is a white to practically white, odorless, crystalline powder. It is stable in air. It is practically insoluble in water. The molecular formula is C22H29FO5. The molecular weight is 392.47. It is designated chemically as 9-fluoro-11β, 17, 21-trihydroxy-16α-methylpregna-1, 4-diene, 3, 20-dione and the structural formula is:
You should not use Megacort if you have a fungal infection anywhere in your body.
Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, and all the medicines you are using. There are many other diseases that can be affected by steroid use, and many other medicines that can interact with steroids.
Your dosage may change if you have any unusual stress such as a serious illness, fever or infection, or if you have surgery or a medical emergency. Tell your doctor about any such situation that affects you during treatment.
Megacort can weaken your immune system, making it easier for you to get an infection or worsening an infection you already have or have recently had. Tell your doctor about any illness or infection you have had within the past several weeks.
Call your doctor for preventive treatment if you are exposed to chicken pox or measles. These conditions can be serious or even fatal in people who are using steroid medication.
All vaccines may not work as well while you are taking a steroid. Do not receive a "live" vaccine while you are taking this medicine.
Do not stop using Megacort suddenly, or you could have unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Talk to your doctor about how to avoid withdrawal symptoms when stopping the medication.
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http://rootsdentclinic.com/skincare-category/megacort-dexamethasone.html
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Pumpkinvine Gardens Flower Shoppe will be open Wednesday - Sunday from 11 AM - 4 PM during the months of April - July. We look forward to brightening your day with colorful flowers.
2538 Cedarcrest Road
Acworth, Georgia 30101
Online orders are available during April - July while supplies last. Cash or credit is accepted at pickup. For questions, call or text 404-805-1206.
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https://www.pumpkinvinegardens.com/
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Victory Tabernacle Apostolic Church serves the Haughville community on the near-west side of Indianapolis, but recently with the COVID-19 crisis, serving people has taken on a whole new meaning.
“When I thought about the coronavirus, I knew it would affect people in their jobs, meaning less money and less groceries,” Bishop William L. Harris said. “We have working people here.”
His wife Linda came up with the idea to host a free drive-thru food pick-up for people in their community who could use a meal. When they first put their heads together, they wanted to feed 100 residents. In just a week’s time that goal rose to feeding 300.
Harris talks more about how the drive-thru was thought up on Randall Newsome’s Facebook Live.
The meals include chicken fingers, hamburger patties, bread, macaroni, peanut butter and jelly and more.
Harris says the event is all about giving people the necessities to provide a meal for a family that he’s hopeful can last two or three days. It’s a love offering to a community he has a passion for and where he grew up.
“That’s my heart’s desire is to help this neighborhood,” Harris said. “I love this neighborhood. I want them to know we care as a church. We’re not just a building.”
The drive-thru food pick up is happening Wednesday from 4:30 p.m. until the church runs out of food to give.
The church is located at 761 N. Sheffield Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46222
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/allindiana/church-hosting-free-drive-thru-food-drive-pick-up-for-people-in-haughville/
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…and it’s a delay of game penalty. Actually, what I mean is I still don’t know if I got the job, but the interview went well today. I won’t hear anything until after next week because Marc’s going out of town. You hear that? I won’t hear anything until after next week, so please don’t ask until Wednesday the 13th or so. Thank you.
I feel a little crappy, but I think it’s just because I’m hungry and PMSing. I should go tend to that instead of tending to you people. So there.
Feeling: TUMMY OUCH
Listening to: nothing
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http://blog.kabby.net/2004/10/01/the-kick-is-up/
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Top Apps In Japan
People from various age groups are engaged with their smartphones on a regular basis, especially when it comes to a developed country Japan. If you have been to public places more often than you might have witnessed them gazing at their mobile screen for the longest time. Do you have any idea which application they find more engaging?
Most loved applications in Japan?
In the year 2018, the most downloaded app was tik tok in Japan which nearly crossed 12 million installations. Major applications in line are-
- Knives out
- Smart news
- Google Chrome
- Google drive
Majority of these applications have crossed a million installations. It might be to your surprise that in the top apps in japan Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook are not included.
What are the other dynamics?
Apart from entertainment or information one such segment that is highly considered in the list of top applications is transportation. And the most loved application is hyperdia which is the top travel apps in Japan. App ranking is also affected by the revenue and characteristics of the application market. This might bring various ideas into the business but they have received international recognition and fame.
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https://digitalaccessalliance.org/art-and-design/top-apps-in-japan/
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CORNISH MCKEON PTY LTD
Latest update: October 2019
Effective date: October 14, 2019
The TukTuk Tournament app is a product of Cornish McKeon (Pty) Ltd. (the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our“).
TukTuk Tournament app monitors your device location through Google Maps and provides you information about specific locations through the app, receives information through Instagram and content generated on the Instagram platform (collectively, the “Service”).
You may be able to disclose information about yourself in the course of contributing User Generated Content on publicly-available areas of the Service. This includes your uploaded photos or videos, full name, email address, geolocation, interests, and content that you have favorited, metadata (i.e., hashtags). Your photo or video files may also contain your narrations and captions, as well as data regarding your precise geolocation. Your content will also be shared with users of other social media services to which you have chosen to share (i.e., Facebook or Instagram), consistent with your privacy settings on those services. Such information publicly announced information, may be accessed or recorded by us, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality in such information. TukTuk Tournament can use such videos for the research purposes priorly anonymizing them removing any personal information. Any information, including your (“Personal Data”) you submit in the course of such activities, can be read, collected, or used by other users. We cannot control how other users of our App such as Facebook or Instagram. We especially cannot prevent you receiving unwanted messages from other users through third-party applications. If you wish that a specific content generated by you shall be removed from publicly-available areas of our App, please contact us at email@example.com or delete it from the app yourself using the func
Our Policy applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the App (“Users“).
1. Information we collect
With submitting user generated content (e.g. photos, videos) to the platform, we securely store the users username to associate provided content. Provided content does not need to be reviewed by TukTuk Tournament app.
End User Information
In order to provide our Services to our Customers, we collect information publicly available through End Users’ social channels such as Instagram by subscribing to hashtags provided by the Customer. Such information may include photographs, videos and the associated meta-data that End Users post to their Instagram public profiles (“End User Information”). Our Customers authorize the processing and transfer of End User Information, and, as required under applicable laws and regulations, are responsible for providing privacy notifications to, and (to the extent another legal ground or basis does not apply) obtaining all necessary consents or authorizations from, End Users in order for us to provide our Services.
Log file information
- Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you make a request to access (i.e., visit) a web page or app. It can also be provided when the content of the webpage or app is downloaded to your browser or device.
- When you use the App, our servers automatically record certain log file information, including your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the App, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information. We may also collect similar information from emails sent to our Users, which then help us track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by recipients. The information allows for more accurate reporting and improvement of the App.
2. How we use your information
- provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of the App;
- develop and test new products and features;
- monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns;
- communicate with you about App updates and promotions relevant to you;
- contact you for feedback;
- combine information about you that we’ve collected with information provided by third parties (such as advertising partners) to help understand our users and improve the App;
- diagnose or fix technology problems; and
- automatically update the App.
3. Sharing of your information
We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside the Company (or the group of companies of which the Company is a part) without your consent, except as noted in this Policy. You can write us at firstname.lastname@example.org if you do not want us to share your information with any third parties.
Responding to legal requests and preventing harm
- We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so.
4. Your choices about your information
If you have any questions or requests with respect to your information, please be in touch with us at email@example.com.
Your account information and profile/privacy settings
- Use your browser settings to manage your preferences regarding certain information we collect while using the App.
- How long we keep your User Content:
Unless otherwise stated in this Policy, following termination or deactivation of your account, the Company, its Affiliates, or its App Providers may retain information (including your profile information) and User Content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.
5. Children’s Privacy
The Company does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the App. The App and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.
6. Other websites and services
The security of your personal information is important to us. While no system for protecting information is perfectly secure, we have adopted commercially reasonable technical, physical and administrative procedures to protect the confidentiality of the information that we collect via the App. In the event we become aware of a data breach where users’ personal information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties, we will notify any affected individuals within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach if we think there is a reasonable risk of harm to those users or if otherwise required to do so by law. If you have any questions about our policy or security, you can write us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
8. How to contact us
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https://tuktuktournament.com/app-privacy-policy/
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Today we have a huge number of mobile applications that will be useful for those people who wish to get his/her weight down.
This application has a database which contains 300 000 food items and 700 restaurants. User can control his/her weight with the help of charts and graphs about calorie intake, total nutritional value of products and so on.
Also Ducan Calorie Tracker controls information about physical exercises that play a great role in weight loss.
Specialists of QATestLab performed mobile application testing. It helped to reduce operational and management costs.
QATestLab engineers conducted acceptance testing to check the system’s functionality and its quality characteristics. The application's usability was also checked in order to simplify the user's experience.
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https://qatestlab.com/resources/case-studies/healthcare/ducan-calorie-counter-diets-exercises/
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DON SHULA: A Biography of the Winningest Coach in NFL History
Chronicles the life of one of the greatest minds ever to be involved with the game, from the dawn of modern football to the close of the twentieth century. In this fascinating volume, DeVito captures the story of one of the greatest coaches in sports history. Photos.
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Item #: 3791963
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https://www.hamiltonbook.com/don-shula-a-biography-of-the-winningest-coach-in-nfl-history-hardbound
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Shop for Countersink Gages online.
Countersink Gage Brands:
Higher Precision also carries the following brands of countersink gages that are not yet available for online purchase. These brands will be added to our online catalog within the next few months. If you would like a quote on a specific countersink gage of any of the brands listed below, please contact us today.
A countersink gage is specifically designed to measure the top (major) diameter of a countersink. It is a direct reading gage and the diameter of the countersink is displayed directly on the dial. Higher Precision offers countersink gages ranging from .020-1.180” in eight different specific countersink angles (Degrees): 30, 60, 82, 90, 100, 110 and 120. Each countersink gage is provided with a calibrated setting master. These gages are extremely easy to use, extremely accurate and have great repeatability.
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https://www.higherprecision.com/countersink-gages
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3 cups mashed potatoes, seasoned with salt, pepper and 1/3 cup diced onion.
1 cup grated old cheddar cheese
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
1 cup chopped broccoli tops
1/2 cup sliced red or green pepper
1 cup milk
Lightly oil a 9″ or 10″ deep pie plate. Spread mashed potato crust in pie pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 15 minutes.
Remove from oven.
Sprinkle the cheese onto the crust. Place vegetables in crust. Beat eggs and milk together and pour over vegetables. Bake at 350 for 40 – 60 minutes until you can insert a knife and it comes out clean. Serves 6. Optional – add a little cooked diced bacon to the vegetables. Very Good! Looks really nice!
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https://applewoodrecipes.com/2013/08/10/gluten-free-quichegluten-free/
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First let me put out this disclosure that this is not a sponsored blog. Now with that being said…
Let me tell you how I just scored 7 maxi dresses and 1 lace top from Forever 21 for a total of $100.33. And the best part, these pieces are still very much on trend. The dress above I purchased last year for $32.90. It’s now on sale for $23.03 and you can purchase another qualifying item for 99% off. It’s practically a buy one get one free deal.
I absolutely love this ruffle dress. This dress is perfect for any special occasion. This piece is of good quality and best of all…affordable. I added the link below for you. The sale ends April 9th, so hurry up my friends!
As soon as my order comes in, I will show you how I pair them with my N A Waterman Spring/Summer Jewelry Collection. Be sure to purchase your jewelry while they are still at the introductory price.
Until next time my friends 💋
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https://myblog.nawaterman.com/2019/04/06/who-loves-shopping-at-forever-21/
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By Casey Grey
If you've been following my social media lately, you are aware that I have been having issues with my 1977 VW Van. It's been in and out of the shop for the last month.
(I wrote about the last time it went into the shop on my blog post titled Great Customers.)
Yesterday I picked it up for the fourth time and, knock on wood, it's running better than it ever has since I purchased it.
Throughout the last month as people would ask about it, I would let them know it's back in the shop. They would ask what was wrong and I would explain some of the issues I was having. In some cases people would start offering their opinions as to what was wrong with it.
Personally, I love cars but I'm not a mechanic. I don't play one on the internet and I don't pretend to be one in real life. I leave that stuff to the experts.
Construction, I know.
But even within construction, there are many aspects that I don't know to the level of some of the experts I work with.
Electrical, I leave to the electrician.
Plumbing, I leave to the plumber.
HVAC, I leave to the mechanical team.
Engineering, I leave to the engineers.
That being said, I have been building and renovating homes for 16 years now so I know more about all aspects of construction than most. In addition, my team and I have been a part of every single Certified Passive House in Ottawa except for one so we especially know more about building energy efficient homes than most people in the industry let alone the general population.
But, there are still people who believe they know better. People who have done a renovation to one of their houses in the past or people who have helped their dad renovate their home when they were growing up, for example.
Does this mean I won't listen to what they have to say? Absolutely not. I may learn something new. However, the weight their opinion carries over my experience or the opinion from one of my team members or expert sub-trades is much less.
For my van, did I listen to people's opinions as to what they thought the issue was? Sure! But I did not believe their opinion over the opinion of my mechanic who had been working on VW Vans for 35 years.
Everybody has an opinion but not everybody is an expert.
The next time you are looking for an opinion or giving your opinion, remember, there is a difference between an "opinion" and an "expert opinion".
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https://www.caseygrey.com/blog/everybody-is-an-expert
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(In theatres, February 2010) I’m favourably disposed towards musicals, but my indulgence felt its limits with Nine, a somewhat limp take on Fellini and his approach to cinema. Some things work really well: the atmosphere of bygone Italy, the portrait of the director as a hedonistic monomaniac, the flashy cinematography, the eye-popping line-up of female stars… it adds up to a project with potential. Seeing Fergie deliver the film’s best musical number won’t leave anyone indifferent, but it’s more fun to see Kate Hudson pop her way through “Cinema Italiano”, the film’s bounciest number, and Penelope Cruz vamp it up in fancy lingerie. Lucky Daniel Day-Lewis, playing a director stuck in the middle of so much female attention. But in most of its musical numbers, the film has trouble distinguishing itself through a series of mopey ballads. The plot troubles multiply, but they all lead to a narrative crash from which the film never recovers: there’s only an epilogue to suggest that our protagonist is on his way back. There is, in other words, little pay-off for all that came before, and a surprising amount of boredom on the way there. Nine is not a film that involves; it prefers to be looked at and occasionally admired for its art direction. Which is really too bad, since its first half promises a lot more than it delivers in the second.
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https://www.christian-sauve.com/2010/02/nine-2009/
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If we don’t even think to dust the top of our door mouldings, who would think to look inside the top edge of a door?
Do you have some small items to hide? Here are instructions for making a deceptive hiding spot inside the top of a door in your house.
If you’re really interested in this subject, spark your creativity by searching for "hiding" here at Deceptology. You’ll discover many more places to hide many types of things.
– Found via Boing-Boing – How to make a doortop stash>>
– Make: Projects – Doortop Stash, Makezine>>
– MakeProjects (the project itself)>>
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https://www.deceptology.com/2011-03/how-to-hide-your-stash-from-man.html
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The ability to listen and learn from one another has always been vital in parliament, in business and in most aspects of daily life. But at this particular moment in time, as national and global events continue to reiterate, it is uncommonly crucial that we forge new channels of communication and reinforce existing ones. The following article from Red Hall Primary School is an attempt to do just that. We would welcome your thoughts on this or any other Parliamentary Review article.
Red Hall Primary School
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BEST PRACTICE SPONSOR 2021
Believing every child can achieve
At Red Hall Primary School in Darlington, children thrive
and achieve outcomes that vastly exceed expectations,
despite 83 per cent of the school’s population coming
from areas ranked in the top five per cent of the most deprived
in England. Since Julie Davidson joined the school as headteacher
in September 2013, Red Hall Primary School has been taken on
an improvement journey that bucks the trend in terms of pupil
outcomes both nationally and locally. Julie explains how forward-
thinking and risk-taking leadership from dedicated and talented
leaders has transformed the school over the last five years.
Our school uses the acronym CARING – Community, Aspirational, Respectful,
Inclusive, Nurturing, Growing together. This vision was designed by the school
community, including our governing body, parents and children, and sums up the
whole school community’s views about what makes us special.
Our school is embedded in the community, and the partnerships we have formed
have put us at the heart of an initiative to improve the neighbourhood beyond all
recognition; creating a warm and calm environment that makes staff, parents and
pupils feel more welcome is something we are immensely proud of.
The parents who responded to Ofsted’s survey commented that teachers “always
make time to help”, “assist every child to achieve the best they can” and support
children to “thrive”. They describe us as a “fantastic, caring school completely
focused on children and their families”.
RED HALL PRIMARY SCHOOL
»Headteacher: Julie Davidson
»Established in 2000
»Located in Darlington, County
»Type of school: Local authority
»No. of pupils: 220
»65 per cent Pupil Premium 30
per cent SEN needs with seven
children with EHCs and seven
children on the EHC pathway
»Ofsted: “good” with two areas
“outstanding” – April 2019
Red Hall Primary
THE PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW
Highlighting best practice
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, our true
community spirit became more evident,
as on top of normal school duties while
the school remained open for our key
worker and vulnerable children, staff
prepared weekly breakfast hampers
for our families, and provided and
delivered meals and shopping essentials,
three times weekly, to the elderly and
vulnerable who were isolating on the
estate. It was during this time that the
school began to work with volunteers
and a charity called The Bread and Butter
Thing to support our families during this
difficult time with fooddistribution.
We have extremely high expectations
for all pupils and do not put a cap
Outcomes for pupils have increased
significantly over the years. In 2014,
we were the first primary school in
Darlington to pilot provision for two-
year-olds. This potential risk in terms
of funding and staffing has quickly
become one of our most significant
strengths. It has had a demonstrable
impact, improving outcomes within the
early years and throughout the school.
It has also increased pupil numbers
and consequently helped to secure our
Career days are held annually for Years
5 and 6, which have professionals from
a range of employment backgrounds
– finance, construction, ICT and
universities, among others. Children
in our EYFS setting have a similar
experience annually, when they teach
their topic “People who help us”. A
range of expertise is brought in, which,
in some children, ignites their passion
for learning and their determination to
work hard to become something they
have learnt about.
Finding the balance between clear
boundaries linked to our school code
of conduct and flexibility is important
to us. This can be challenging for
some people, but staff are encouraged
to step back and look at the bigger
picture each time.
Our school behaviour systems have
been developed with our children at
the heart and are unique to our school.
We talk about choices and teach our
children to emotionally regulate.
Inclusive education is about the full
participation and achievement of all
learners. We pride ourselves on being
a fully inclusive mainstream school,
where children and young people with
special educational needs are engaged
and achieve. Our school prides itself on
its ability to adapt to the child or young
person rather than making them adapt
to fit the school. Children come to our
school with a vast spectrum of needs.
We make it our job to understand
A curriculum that is
inspired by the interests
of the child
for all pupils
and do not
put a cap on
We invest in a strong pupil wellbeing team, which includes:
»all staff being trained in ACEs (adverse childhood experiences)
»an emotional literacy support assistant (ELSA)
»learning mentors trained in drawing and talking therapies and sand play
»weekly wellbeing meetings, which are used to discuss every child in
the school who may be causing us a concern – through this immediate
action, we are proactive in dealing with children’s and families’ emotional
needs, rather than reactive
»a family support worker
»a counsellor – we recognise that some of our children carry a significant amount
of emotional distress and memories that have not been addressed; therefore,
as a school, we have invested in a counsellor to work with these children.
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BEST PRACTICE SPONSOR 2021
those needs and offer a provision that
may need to change to meet them.
In the last three years, we have taken
in seven children who are at risk of
permanent exclusion or had been
permanently excluded previously. All of
those children have left our school as a
success or are thriving in our school.
We ensure we foster a caring, safe and
respectful whole-school environment
where our children feel safe and
nurtured and share this with the wider
school community. We recognise the
huge impact the school environment
can have on all its learners and follow
the Reggio Emilia belief that the
environment is the third teacher.
We’ve adopted a neutral and calming
working environment across the whole
school. Our environment is based on
nature – the complete opposite to
most environments our children come
from. Neutral colours in our classrooms
allow children’s work to stand out.
It is very important for both adults
and children to learn in an organised
space. This doesn’t mean perfect or
pristine but rather involves having a
purposeful, functional and clutter-free
working environment. We encourage
independence by making sure children
have access to whatever they need so
they can lead their own learning.
We recognise that it is not only the
children who need nurturing, but
also their families and our staff. The
headteacher and deputy headteacher
are aware of periods which are difficult
for staff and ensure support is put in
place and offered at these times.
Our early years provision is outstanding
and establishes firm roots in child-
centred learning which are built on
throughout the subsequent years
in school, developing children who
are able to play, explore, create and
investigate. These principles are the
foundation for all our learning.
In September 2018, the school was
awarded the Well-Being Award in
recognition of how we promote
positive social and emotional
wellbeing, mental health and wellness
for pupils and staff. This is what sits at
the core of the service we provide at
Red Hall Primary School.
Many of our children return to speak
to their teachers many years after
their time at Red Hall has ended. This
shows their relationships with staff are
We hope to have a future that lives
up to our past, and we will endeavour
to raise the profile of Red Hall on a
local and national level. In order to
ensure all our children leave the school
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beyond their education with us, and
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Due to our successes in working with
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Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng's Foreword For The Parliamentary Review
This year’s Parliamentary Review reflects on a tumultuous and extraordinary year, globally and nationally. As well as being an MP, I am a keen student of history, and I am conscious that 2020 would mark the end of an era. It will be remembered as the year in which we concluded Brexit negotiations and finally left the European Union. Above all, it will be remembered as the year of Covid-19.
In our fight against the pandemic, I am delighted that our vaccination programme is beginning to turn the tide – and I pay tribute to the British businesses, scientists and all those who have helped us to achieve this. But the virus has dealt enormous damage, and we now have a duty to rebuild our economy.
We must ensure that businesses are protected. We have made more than £350 billion available to that end, with grants, business rates relief and our furlough scheme supporting more than 11 million people and jobs in every corner of the country, maintaining livelihoods while easing the pressure on employers. The next step is to work with business to build back better and greener, putting the net zero carbon challenge at the heart of our recovery. This is a complex undertaking, but one which I hope will be recognised as a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Through the prime minister’s ten point plan for a green industrial revolution, we can level up every region of the UK, supporting 250,000 green jobs while we accelerate our progress towards net zero carbon emissions.
With our commitment to raise R&D spending to 2.4% of GDP and the creation of the Advanced Research & Invention Agency, we are empowering our fantastic researchers to take on groundbreaking research, delivering funding with flexibility and speed. With this approach, innovators will be able to work with our traditional industrial heartlands to explore new technologies, and design and manufacture the products on which the future will be built – ready for export around the globe.
And I believe trade will flourish. We are a leading nation in the fight against climate change. As the host of COP26 this year, we have an incredible opportunity to market our low-carbon products and expertise. Our departure from the EU gives us the chance to be a champion of truly global free trade; we have already signed trade deals with more than 60 countries around the world.
As we turn the page and leave 2020 behind, I am excited about the new chapter which Britain is now writing for itself, and for the opportunities which lie ahead of us.
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Perhaps no other company has developed such a remarkable reputation among both HiFi enthusiasts and audio professionals alike as Bryston.
Bryston's award winning sound quality and unique reputation for incredible durability are a recipe for very enthusiastic customers.
Full line of audio electronics and loudspeakers are the top choice for high performance theatres and music listening rooms when clients demand studio quality and performance.
Every product is tested for one hundred hours at the factory prior to shipment so you can be assured of outstanding quality and enjoyment for years to come.
Bryston's dedication to creating the most reliable products is clearly evident in their 20 year analog and 5 year digital warranty.
Bryston products allow you to enjoy a generation of sound, music, and incredible performance. Bryston is based in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, just northeast of Toronto.
Phonon was born for the mission to “tell people accurate information about imagination of music”.
Using unique ideas and skills, Phonon produces distinguished products that don’t even have category. This is not the improvement from old systems; it is a resolution from the baseline.
Phonon’s starting point comes from trying to find the way for musicians to hear their true sound.
By re-evaluating the “recording to playback” process from scratch and using unique ideas and technologies, Phonon offers you a new tool to precisely convey the artist’s imagination.
PMC believes a good loudspeaker should be able to relay the purest intentions of the artist without colouration – The ideal solution for both studio & home.
In the quest for sonic perfection manufactures are continually adding mass and damping material to component chassis in an attempt to better isolate critical circuits from vibrations. When dealing with electrical pulses as tenuous as those found in DAC modules and preamplifiers, even the slightest mechanical instabilities will cause audible distortions.
By taking measures to ensure that vibrations are kept away from signal carrying circuits, distortions can be held to inaudible levels. This same reasoning can be applied to the equipment support. A competent design will isolate your component from the reaches of destructive mechanical forces, thus completely eliminating the risk of vibrations from ever affecting your audio circuits.
Finally, an equipment or loudspeaker stand should not call attention to itself, thanks to some obscure yet questionable design feature. It should look at home in any decor while exhibiting a subtle sense of ingenuity and practicality.
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The SCHOEPS name enjoys great respect world-wide. It is associated with products that are impressive for their simple elegance and practicality, in addition to their excellent quality.
Without a doubt SCHOEPS is among the most innovative manufacturers of microphones, having always followed its own path in product development.
Target Audio Products are built on the proven design concept of high mass and high rigidity. The resulting "Mechanical Grounding / Acoustic Coupling" that is acheived is exceptionally effective. This method was pioneered in speaker stand and component stand designs originally manufactured by Target Audio Products of the UK in 1981-1999. The original UK Company no longer exists but these same designs are available once more, though now using modern, improved manufacturing practices to achieve greatly increased quality and reliability compared to 35 years ago.
Today, Target Audio Products are 100% designed and manufactured by hand in Ontario, Canada, using the highest quality materials, tools and workmanship.
Target Audio products demonstrate the commitment to be the finest audio stand at an affordable price. Those are available in a stylish black matte finish unsing only environmentally friendly, textured powder paints that are electrostatically applied using an automated line which are cured at 176°C resulting in a durable and attractive finish.
The Van Damme range has been designed, engineered and refined for over two decades as a result of technological advances and customer driven requirements.
This comprehensive and intelligent yet practical range of specialist audio and video cables has achieved premier status simply by being the finest cable range of its type on the open market.
Listening closely to customers and keeping our finger ‘on the pulse’ has afforded us the enviable position of offering our clients what they truly need without compromise.
Van Damme has incorporated many new and innovative ideas never seen before. These are designed to cater for anything from eco-friendly to user friendly, this largely depending on whether it is an architectural specification or the rigours of touring.
This is why Van Damme is employed so confidently on the stages, studios and screens across the world.
Van Damme client list says it all.
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Still, the airline offered a hopeful message, saying it expects the impact of Omicron on its operations will be over within the next 60 days. That should allowing Delta to return to profitability by March and to continue to make money throughout the summer travel season.
“The recent rise in Covid cases associated with the Omicron variant is expected to impact the pace of demand recovery early in the quarter, with recovery momentum resuming from President’s Day weekend forward,” said Glen Hauenstein, Delta’s president.
Three months ago, the company had warned it expected a fourth-quarter loss because of rising fuel prices. But fuel prices rose less than Delta had feared, and holiday travel was stronger than it had expected.
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The Plan To Add 2 Extra Pools (And Much More) To Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch By 2026
We got our grubby paws on the Surf Ranch development plans.
No matter how you feel about the existence of Kelly’s pool—whether or not it’s a violation of the sanctity of the sport destined to destroy whatever ‘soul’ is left by bottling and selling a heretofore naturally occurring bit of fun—you can’t deny the thing is a damn miracle of human genius.
It looks so fun, so challenging. Not quite a ‘real’ wave, but close enough to scratch the itch.
Kelly and company have been hard at work dialing it in, tuning it up, turning it into a high-performance barrel that will almost certainly change the face of competitive surfing forever.
The upcoming Founders’ Cup will be the first real chance for the public to take a closer look. Until now it’s been kept an open secret. Only lucky members of the media, legit members of the surf industry, and those with deep enough pockets to rent it out have gotten a taste. What footage exists has been released in drips and drabs. Enough to whet an appetite without sating.
Employees have remained mum, requests for comment to the WSL and KSWC go unanswered. But given enough resourcefulness, and a willingness to wade through the massive amount of tedious paperwork filed with Kings County, there’s a lot to be learned.
As recently reported, earlier this month the WSL received conditional use permits allowing for further development onsite. Taking place over three stages, the first of which has already been completed, the schematics filed alongside environmental impact reports and traffic abatement plans provide a helpful illustration for those of us yearning to know more.
This is the Surf Ranch as it currently exists. Access roads to be used for further development, the pre-existing water ski lake, the existing wave pool, and the supplementary buildings used for an assortment of purposes. Water treatment, equipment storage, three temporary buildings used for lodging, one building meant for storing surfboards and accessories.
The second stage of development revolves around the upcoming events planned at the Surf Ranch, and focuses on providing entertainment/music venues, bleachers, lighting, pedestrian and vehicular access, and parking.
Parking will not be finished in time for the Founders’ Cup. Instead, as previously reported, shuttle services will be provided from the nearby Tachi Palace and West Hills College, with some lucky few allowed to park onsite.
Shuttles will run from 9am-12pm, with the event scheduled to run from 12-3pm.
While the WSL expects 5000 people to attend, new information suggests that the Tachi Palace will be VIP only, and the West Hills College has space for only 1,583 vehicles. If you’re going you should plan on carpooling, and be sure to get there early. Anyone who’s ever had to deal with shuttle service during a jam-packed festival knows that they never run smoothly, despite any amount of planning.
If you were hoping to arrive extra early and sneak into a spot along the road out front, think again. As a safety recommendation, temporary “No Parking” signs are recommended to be posted along 18th Avenue and Jackson Avenue 1,000 feet from the driveway entrance. It is anticipated that this measure would limit vehicles entering and exiting the roadway from the narrow road shoulders, discourage parking on private property and reduce potential conflicts with pedestrians.
Additionally, it is recommended that a Sheriff’s Deputy or CHP officer patrol, or roam, the area roadways near the driveway entrance to enforce parking restrictions prior to and during a special event.
On site parking should be finished in time for the Tour event in September.
It was unable to be determined whether seating at events will be assigned, or available on a first-come-first-served basis, but attendees would do well to note the location of bleachers and make their selection based on knowledge of how the pool functions.
While seating on the North end of the pool will provide the longest unobstructed view of the wave, it will also leave spectators watching from behind when the train changes direction and moves away. Bleachers along the East and West sides of the pool are most likely to provide a good middle ground as the wave shape alternates between right to left.
Stage three is where things get exciting. Two additional wave pools, a two-story, 5000 sq ft, “High-Performance Training Center,” a 4,000 sq ft “multi-purpose recreational facility,” and a community outreach building will be added to the pre-existing structures.
Of note is the shape of the third pool. Rather than the long and narrow version currently in existence, of which a second is planned, the third pool is square in shape and only two-thirds as large as the existing pool.
At first glance, one might speculate that its shape and size point toward an intended purpose as a beginner pool. While the existing wave is undeniably amazing, it’s not exactly the best type of wave on which to learn. However, the current pool can be set to produce varying sizes of surf, depending upon the speed at which the foil moves through the water. Slow it down and the surf size and power decrease. Crank it all the way up and you get the gorgeous barrels we’ve all enjoyed watching.
It’s possible the square pool is the intended site of a “peak,” wherein a central train creates breaking waves on both sides. This would lead to shorter rides, quicker turnover, and the ability to accommodate more surfers.
There’s also the possibility that the KSWC does not have concrete plans regarding the third pool but decided to act in a forward-thinking manner and apply for permitting for a structure that fits on the land available in the hopes they’ll come up with something later.
Better to get permission, then build, then come up with the idea and hope permitting works out.
Prototype pools 2 and 3 are scheduled to begin construction sometime between 2020 and 2026, with each taking six to twelve months to complete.
The existing wave pool, and the pre-existing water ski lake, contain 15 million gallons of water each and require an additional” 25,000 to 150,000 gallons of makeup water per day, depending on the season.”
The planned stage two and stage three prototypes will be 15 million gallons and 10 million gallons, respectively.
Upon completion, the Surf Ranch will consume up to 300,000 gallons of water per day, which is provided by onsite wells.
If you’re unclear about how much water that is, here’s a picture of a man standing next to a 300,000 gallon water tank.
While that amount is the high-end estimate, relating to the most that will evaporate or be lost as runoff/overflow each day, it points to an important fact regarding future wave pools construction off-site. Any potential investors looking to license the design will need not only funding, a sufficient amount of inexpensive land, and relatively inexpensive power, but also constant access to a very large supply of clean water.
The water ski lake, which was present prior to the Surf Ranch’s construction, will remain in place and continue to be used for the foreseeable future.
SURF RANCH FUN FACTS:
-The Surf Ranch does not actually exist within the borders of Lemoore, CA. In fact, it sits on unincorporated land within Kings County.
-The property’s prior use as agricultural land, then as a golf course which was abandoned, means there is little risk of destruction of endemic plant or animal life. The one exception being the endangered, and adorable, San Joaquin Kit Fox, which is listed as having a “high potential to occur on the project site due to the presence of suitable habitat.”
-Coccidiodes immiti, the fungus that causes Valley Fever, a serious and potentially long-term respiratory illness, is endemic in the soils of Kings County.
However, the risk is only present during construction and the KSWC is taking steps in order to reduce ambient dust and shield workers from harm.
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John John Florence Could Win The 2022 World Title Traveling By Sail Boat
And here is exactly how.
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And so many others. See you at Camp Shred, the largest board demo in the…
Stab Surfer of the Year: Kelly Slater and The Stab Premium Members
Day Ten: You typed, we tallied up and Kelly Slater slid into our DMs.
Surf Fans And Athletes Urge WSL To #PutMaseInTheMasters
Mason Ho is the fiscally responsible wildcard decision.
Do You Have What It Takes To Surf The Triple Crown In A Single Day?
Harry Bryant & Micky Clarke take on the trifecta, the GOAT returns, Ivan Florence finds…
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And is it the right call? Let's explore, and hear from Jessi Miley-Dyer.
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The all-female team stole the show. Here’s a recap, and a photo gallery from Arto…
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Honorable mention to Kala Grace for his tapped 12-point ride.
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The leaderboard is tight, and the waves are firing.
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There has been a lot of discussion at Cartoozo HQ recently. The discussions have centred on the best ways to keep your visitors returning to your website. After a great brainstorming session, we’ve come up with a few ideas we thought it would be good to share.
As you will know, the whole aim of SEO is to increase visibility amongst target groups of potential customers. But search engines are not just looking for the right keywords and indexing on websites. Today, they are also looking for natural traffic. That’s not just hits on the main homepage. You want users looking at a number of pages. It is also about the length of stay on a website and the level of interaction a user has with a website.
So how this be achieved? It’s a well-known fact that a website owner has seconds to attract a visitor before losing them again. Keeping visitors for longer periods and encouraging them to return involves a different set of tactics.
Here are some simple ones you can do yourself:
Make sure your SEO, marketing and all your content is attracting the right audience! Websites that attract the wrong people will have high hit rates but they will also have high bounce rates too. It’s an area of business we regularly help our clients with. It’s about effective branding and updating content so that it is relevant and interesting to the correct demographic.
We have professional writers who understand this, and are able to create content for clients that is exactly what their target audience is looking for. You can do this yourself, or you can hire a professional like one of our writers. But the goal should always be to give your customers what they are looking for, not what you think they will like.
Answer your customers’ questions. Your customers will have a definite set of questions they need answers to whenever they visit your website. Regardless of the industry you are in, their questions will all be centred on the following queries, and we have put them in the general order that they will be asking them too:
- Do I like the look of this website and is it easy to use?
- Am I in the right place?
- Whose website is this?
- Do they have what I am looking for?
- Is this a reputable website and company?
- What are these people like?
- How much does this cost?
Now take a long hard look at your website and try to answer these questions from a customer’s point of view. This will give you immediate insight into how effective your website is at retaining interest and providing answers.
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For those of you following...
First, and most importantly, Tala. She is doing really well! After our last trip to Guelph, we added on a second medication, one designed to specifically target nerve pain. We had to give that several weeks to kick in, with Tala confined to her pen except to relieve herself.
After a few weeks, we increased her activity a tiny bit - and the pain and lameness returned almost immediately. I was very discouraged, but the vet said we were on the low end of the dosages, and could safely increase. Et voila, that did the trick. With the increased medication, we've been able to step up Tala's on-leash walking time a tiny bit each week, and she's doing great. We're up to ten minutes, three times daily.
When I say she's doing well, of course that's in context of her overall condition. No off-leash play, no stairs, no squirrel-chasing. But given all that, this is a big improvement. She's in good spirits, except for those sad moments when Allan drives off with Diego to the dog park.
The gardenette. After harvesting almost 60 tomatoes from our two plants, we waited for the second tomato crop to ripen. And waited, and waited. It's autumn now in southern Ontario - the most beautiful time of year here - and the only thing turning red are the leaves.
We have about 40 or 50 green tomatoes on the vine. Does anyone have any green tomato recipes? I don't cook things that are breaded and fried, so fried green tomatoes are out. Most of the other green tomato recipes I've seen are for chutney, salsa, or pickles - not much interest in those. I did find one recipe for green tomato soup, made with ham. That's a possibility. Please let me know if you have any others.
Three reasons I love Whole Foods: raw kale salad with sundried tomatoes, grape tomatoes, cranberries and pine nuts, spinach sauteed in garlic with almonds and pine nuts, carrot-parsnip pan-fried cakes. Sure, I could cook these myself, but: (a) I won't, (b) if I did, they wouldn't taste as good, and (c) I would never spend the time and effort involved to make such a variety of vegetable dishes. The great variety really helps me eat healthier.
Trials of a student librarian. Both my courses this term aim for practical knowledge directly relevant to librarianship. There's theory involved, but only to the extent that it informs practice. This is great for me (and I won't be so lucky next term).
One course is a required: Introduction to Bibliographic Control, also known as cataloging, although it's broader than that. I expected this to be dry and boring, but for someone who's compulsively organized and loves to create systems, there's a definite appeal. Cataloging is apparently something people think is very easy and intuitive - until they try to do it themselves. That's when the complexities and challenges emerge. The assignments are designed for hands-on experience, which will be a nice change from research papers, essays or tests.
My other course is an elective: The Public Library in Culturally Diverse Communities. Although I confess I originally chose this class to make my schedule workable, it's obviously very relevant to my future work, especially since I have my sights on the Mississauga Library System. The professor is an expert in the field, and was a pioneer of multicultural library-service design in Canada.
The Red Sox. September has not been pretty for the Boston Red Sox and their devoted fans. On September 1, the Sox were 1.5 games ahead of the Yankees in the American League East, and nine games ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays. Today, September 20, the Red Sox trail the Yankees by a full five games and are only two games ahead of the Rays in the wild card race, with eight games left to play.
What little winning the team has done has left fans elated; number of runs scored in September's five wins: 12, 14, 18, 4, 18. In between those crazy moments of happiness have been some terrible, dispiriting losses. Still, I remain convinced that the Red Sox will be in the playoffs, one way or the other.
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I cut the image out with a gorgeous frame die, and layered it on a pale mauve for contrast.
I hope you can join us for this special challenge, and join us in thanking all of our wonderful sponsors…theres also some fabulous blog candy up for grabs, courtesy of Angelique and Hilde!
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What is Workforce Development’s Mission?
The mission of our Workforce Development Division is to help local and regional employers meet their strategic goals of staying competitive, increasing productivity, and retaining highly skilled employees. We realize this mission by collaborating with businesses and government agencies to deliver responsive, workplace education and customized training programs that enhance the job skills and organizational commitment of employees.
Why Should I Consider The Business Training Center at El Camino College as a Solution Provider for Customized Workplace Education and Training?
Resources: We can leverage a vast network of subject matter experts, educators, and consulting professionals to deliver employee training programs that get results.
Agility: The Business Training Center’s Workforce Development Division is an agile, entrepreneurial unit that can quickly develop customized employee training solutions that meet your organization’s strategic business goals.
Access to Outstanding Trainers: You can expect results from our trainers who engage employees with relevant information, practical techniques, and industry examples. Our team of expert training professionals have years of industry experience coupled with unparalleled reputations, outstanding industry credentials and certifications, excellent client recommendations, and demonstrated ability to teach adult learners.
Funding: Our Workforce Development Division is a tremendous resource to help you find grants and funding sources that can help offset the cost of employee training programs. We are adept at securing and administer Employment Training Panel (ETP) funding— the state’s premier program that reimburses employers for the cost of training incumbent workers—on behalf of your organization. ETP programs help ensure that California businesses have the skilled workers they need to remain competitive in a global economy. Contact us to see if your business if eligible for ETP funding.
What Types of Employee Training Does Workforce Development Deliver?
Because of our vast resources and highly experienced subject matter experts, we can deliver training programs to any level of staff, from entry level to the “C” Suite. Our customized training programs range from advanced manufacturing, logistics, leadership development, computer applications, to customer service. By working in partnership with us, we can manage the critical resources required to quickly develop and deliver the training programs you need.
We offer fee-based, not-for-credit training programs, consulting, and technical services. We can assist you with applying for and administering state funding (ETP) that offsets the cost of training programs. Contact us for more information.
Where and When Is Training Delivered?
Customized employee training programs can be wherever it benefits your company and employees—on campus at the college or onsite at your facilities. We will work with you to deliver training programs at times that are optimal for your employees and your businesses’ production schedule.
Can Training Be Delivered to Organizations That Have Multiple Locations Across the State?
Yes. Because we are members of the California Community College Contract Education Collaborative (CCCCEC), we can leverage the workplace-specific training curriculum, subject matter experts, and training facilities of multiple community colleges to deliver a consistent, seamless employee training solution to organizations that have several locations across the state. Learn more about the California Community College Contract Education Collaborative.
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Quite by chance and on a whim, I thought I’d go and have a wander around Pagham Harbour. I had only seen it on a map and thought it looked worth investigation. Normal people, I believe, are all in the pub of a Friday night, but not I. As I stood and watched the sun go down, I could hear nothing but the wind in the reeds and the high, lonely calls of the birds, while the clouds like rippled sand spread out above me, taking a little colour for a time from the sun’s dying rays.
The Pevensey Levels are a large area of reclaimed land in Sussex. Over centuries a shallow tidal inlet was progressively drained and turned into farmland. Still today there is an atmosphere of otherworldliness and impermanence about the landscape, which is criss-crossed by large dykes or ditches that drain the soil. There are very few houses beyond a few scattered farms, unusually for Sussex. The main population is made up of cattle and sheep.
Snuck in a couple of Belle Tout Lighthouse on the white cliffs of the Seven Sisters on the way back to Brighton, innit.
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The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly’s wings so she can fly. From there there are infinite possibilities that await.
Connecting to the real world is what we have been missing lately when we shelter inside our own cocoon.
At what point do we leave our safety, in another indeterminable metamorphose and fly?
"Cocoon" is currently on exhibit at the
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Trans Health Navigator Pilot Project Changing Lives
Two months into the Trans Health Navigator research project and those involved are seeing positive results.
Drs. Megan Clark and Stéphanie Madill’s research within the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) focuses on improving health care services for trans and gender diverse (TGD) people in Saskatchewan. It is a community-led research project in partnership with the province's trans community.
Clark and Madill secured a SPROUT grant for this project from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation and the SK Centre for Patient-Oriented Research. Clark’s earlier support, however, from the SHA’s Clinician Research Support Program laid an important foundation for the pilot project though grant-writing, literature reviews, and an environmental scan. OUTSaskatoon is hosting Elijah as the Saskatoon-based peer health navigator, and UR Pride is hosting Ken in Regina. Both positions are being piloted for 12 months. The Trans Health Navigators are part of the larger research project - Trans Research and Navigation Saskatchewan (TRANS) - which began in 2018 by the SK Trans Health Coalition.
OUTSaskatoon and UR Pride are also providing community connections, expertise in service provision, and supervision.
“Our community partners provide the expertise and capacity for mobilization upon which the whole project depends,” explains Clark. “Lived experience and community connections are the most important expertise in this project.”
Over half of the research team identifies as 2SLGBTQ+. That lived experience is one of the reasons Madill was asked to co-lead this project; she has been involved in 2SLGBTQ+ activism for more than 30 years.
“I am lesbian and queer, and have personally experienced both difficulty finding healthcare providers who were able to provide me with appropriate care and discrimination from healthcare providers,” she notes. “This work is important because adequate, safe, culturally-competent healthcare is essential for people to live their lives fully. It is very difficult to feel pride in oneself if one’s basic healthcare needs are not being met, or when one needs to conceal parts of oneself to get needed care, or when one must tolerate bigotry and discrimination to get care.”
In the short time he has been in his role, these very barriers have been brought to Elijah’s attention.
“Accessing healthcare facilities is one of those things that might be taken granted for some people because we’ve been taught that medical facilities are a safe space for anyone, but this isn’t always necessarily true,” adds Elijah.
Since he began his role in April, Elijah says an incredible amount of people have been accessing the services.
“The most powerful thing that I have noticed is the large amount of people reaching out to us for information to better support their loved ones through an exciting, but stressful time,” he says. “It’s great to know our community members have so many caring people that just want to do the best that they can to support their loved ones.”
Madill says this project is a direct intervention that will help TGD people get the care they need, as well as help healthcare providers become more knowledgeable about treating TGD people.
“Our hope is that we will be able to make a very compelling case for continuing the navigator service permanently and increase cultural competence among healthcare providers, which should combine to reduce the healthcare disparities experienced by people who are TGD in our province.”
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https://www.saskhealthauthority.ca/our-organization/our-direction/research/who-we-are/exciting-discoveries/trans-health-navigator-pilot-project-changing-lives
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Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “as soon as things slow down, or I get past X, Y and Z, I’ll get to that dream I’ve been putting off?” Or worse, frustrated by your own inaction and the limited beliefs you’ve inflicted on yourself, you abandon your dream…“just for now.” With a promise to get back to it once it feels more like “the right time.”
You’re not alone.
The fear of failure is the greatest barrier to success.
Sometimes, it’s easier to stay stuck where you are, than to follow your heart to a place that feels a little uncomfortable.
See, your brains doesn’t want you to be happy. It wants to keep you safe. The only hope you have for rising above that, is YOU.
How you show up for yourself should be as unconditional as how you show up for the people you care about. What are you doing each day to be your own trusted support on the ground?
When you finally find the courage to show up as your best, authentic self, you can trust that you’ll eventually find yourself surrounded with people who do the same. It’s about trusting that when you make it your business to build yourself and other people up (as opposed to tearing them down) you’ll find yourself in the best company.
If you want to be happy, effective, successful, connected, and constantly moving the needle on the goals in your life, you have to create an environment that involves some risk. Without it, you’re going to stay right where you are.
When I held my nose and jumped into creating Campowerment, with nothing but blind faith that my burning desire to do this outweighed my fears, I took my cues from Elphaba, the fictional witch in the Broadway show Wicked, whose powerful hit song moved me to defy gravity, too (while my kids made fun of me for finding inspiration in a show we saw a decade earlier!).
And so I left a big job as a journalist to shift gears and build my dream, without a blueprint. One of the things that first drew me to Malibu was the magnificent ropes course, overlooking the Pacific. But 17 camps in, I never climbed not even one of those poles. Because I told myself some BS story about why I couldn’t. I didn’t show up to the ropes course very often, because everyone gave me a hard time about it. And my chickenshit retort was always the same: “Wasn’t Campowerment enough of a leap?”
But it wasn’t, clearly.
And while I continue to learn how important it is to keep raising the bar on my life, it wasn’t til the camp we called home for so many years was struck by the Woolsey Fire, that I regretted my wimpiness. My hard work and blind faith helped gave countless women the opportunity to push themselves to new heights, and climb 50 feet up to face that crazy beautiful horizon where the ocean meets the sky, surrounded by a community I had created for this purpose: to be there for each other. Meanwhile, I chose to stay safe on the ground. Seventeen times. What I would give for one more chance.
Today’s takeaway: We never stop moving forward, unless we allow ourselves to. Tell your brain to shut it, because now is your time. See you on the ropes in Ojai
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https://campowerment.com/lets-talk-about-blind-faith/
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Councilman Mark Levine plans to introduce legislation Wednesday that would expand the scope of the nascent Right to Counsel measure, which is getting underway in housing court.
Last August, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the Right to Counsel, which gives the government five years to begin providing free, legal representation to anyone facing an eviction in housing court and earning no more than twice the federal poverty level; those who earn more are entitled to a legal consultation.
About a year into the Right to Counsel’s implementation, Levine said several updates are needed to ensure the measure is truly universal.
“We’re really excited to be introducing a 2.0 legislation that we think will further expand and strengthen what has already been game-changing legislation,” said Levine, who co-sponsored the original Right to Counsel measure with City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson. “It’s pretty clear that people who are unquestionably struggling economically today aren’t eligible for representation because of how low the cut-off is.”
The new legislation would increase the income cap from two to four times the federal poverty level, which would ensure that a person working 40 hours a week for $15 an hour — which minimum wage is slated to reach in 2019 — could access the service.
The bill would also add representation at several non-housing court venues, including during administrative hearings at the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the state’s Homes and Community Renewal agency — as well as for cases that are appealed and a portion that land in state Supreme Court.
Some of the administrative hearings in question relate to subsidies that recipients need to maintain their home, according to Marika Dias, director of the Tenant Rights Coalition at Legal Services NYC.
“The expansion of the types of cases covered is really intended to get at the fact that it’s not just in housing court that tenants are set on the path to eviction,” Dias said.
Finally, the measure would require the city to finance efforts by various community organizations to educate renters about when they are entitled to legal representation.
So far, Right to Counsel has assigned attorneys to tenants in housing court who live in 15 ZIP codes and meet the income requirements, Dias said.
From 2016 to 2017, evictions in ZIP codes covered in the Bronx fell 15 percent; those in Queens, 13 percent, according to the advocacy group Housing Court Answers. Collectively, landlords have also been filing fewer eviction cases, which Levine believes highlights how many frivolous cases are filed when owners assume tenants will not know their rights.
The city plans to gradually add to the number of covered ZIP codes and begin providing legal consultations to those making more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
The government is close to providing representation to those in New York City Housing Authority administrative hearings, according to Dias. Initially, the de Blasio administration said that service would be available in October 2017.
The Right to Counsel law required the city to hold a public hearing on the phase-in within a year, but that has not yet happened either.
The City Hall press office did not respond to questions about the delays in holding a hearing or getting into NYCHA administrative proceedings, but said it would consider Levine’s suggestions.
“We will review the proposed bills, but we agree that New Yorkers should not lose their homes because they cannot afford a lawyer and stopping wrongful evictions from happening makes both ethical and economic sense,” Jaclyn Rothenberg, a spokeswoman for de Blasio, said in a statement.
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https://www.amny.com/real-estate/right-counsel-nyc-1.20947404/?platform=hootsuite
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
DrinkBelgianBeer.com is live!
I haven't been posting much here of late, and there's a good
reason for that.
It's called drinkbelgianbeer.com. Yes, my new website is finally
live. Please head on over and take a look!
I probably won't be updating these pages much in the future,
but I'll likely keep it active as an archive of past articles.
Or, maybe we'll move 'em to the new site. I haven't quite decided.
Thanks for years of reading and viewing....and I look forward to
being far more active with DrinkBelgianBeer.com!
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http://belgianbeerspecialist.blogspot.com/2013/10/drinkbelgianbeercom-is-live.html
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Thomas E. Williams
- Firm General Counsel
Tommy, a practiced litigator, currently serves as the Firm's General Counsel.
Biography – View PDF Bio
- Mississippi, 1980
- U.S. District Courts
- Mississippi: Northern, Southern
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 5th Circuit
- University of Mississippi, J.D., with honors, 1980
- University of Mississippi, B.P.A., Urban Administration, summa cum laude, 1977
- Counsel to attorneys and other professionals in numerous litigated matters alleging malpractice or breach of fiduciary obligations.
- Lead trial counsel for national errors and omissions insurer in successful defense of multi-million dollar coverage dispute with life insurance company over coverage for its agent’s acts.
- Trial counsel for national errors and omissions insurer in successful defense of multi-million dollar claim predicated on acts of life insurer’s agent.
- Lead counsel for national agricultural products manufacturer in lawsuits by numerous Mississippi and Tennessee farmers alleging total loss of cotton crops from alleged defective agricultural chemical.
- Lead counsel for national building material manufacturer in multi-million dollar claim against manufacturing process service provider for alleged failure to control product odor resulting in claims by end-users throughout the U.S.
- Part of litigation team for defense of national pharmaceutical clients in mass products litigation.
- Counsel to the firm and to various clients on ethics, professional responsibility and professional liability issues.
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https://www.butlersnow.com/attorney/tommy-williams/
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Do you need to transport your goods within the EU? When you are considering outsourcing this job to another company, it is important you can trust them. That is why you should choose Y&O. This is the transport company that treats your goods as if they were their own. Completely unburdening you and being at your service in a quick and efficient manner is their mission. They do anything to make you happy, even if you have a last-minute request. For example, do you need air, ground, or maritime transport to somewhere in the EU by next week? Just ask the professional staff members about the possibilities!
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Y&O has over twelve years of experience and is aware of the current restrictions and rules for your goods. Therefore, they offer specialized transportation. So, if you have medical and health products, dangerous, chemical goods, or food supplies, they have got the answers about their transportation. They know about all the restrictions considering packaging and transport within the EU. You do not have to worry about reading the complete rule book and can save time by outsourcing your EU transport to Y&O. Are you in need of special documents for customs? This company takes care of it.
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Do you have a special request, a question or remark, or do you want to talk to a staff member about the endless possibilities? Please do not hesitate to call Y&O, send them an email, or visit their website to immediately request a quotation. These door-to-door experts are happy to unburden and provide help as quickly and efficiently as possible, so you can go on with business as usual without any worries. After all, as Y&O always says: the world of logistics never sleeps!
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https://www.fakturacenet.eu/easy-and-efficient-eu-transport/
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Dear Friends, Neighbors, and Supporters,
We are very proud to announce that the Working Families Party (WFP) has endorsed our City Council campaign. The WFP's strong campaign operations, ability to mobilize grassroots and institutional support, and impressive record of electoral victories in New York City makes this endorsement a significant boost to our movement for progressive change in Queens.
I look forward to being an advocate in the City Council for the working families of Queens. I will fight for good jobs and affordable housing. I will stand up for equality and be a strong voice for our under-represented community. We need new leadership that produces results. Our campaign represents a real hope for change, a departure from self-serving politicians who reject voters on term limits, a departure from excuses and distractions, and an opportunity to invest in our future.
"Danny Dromm is exactly the kind of progressive, community-oriented candidate that we need on the City Council. After 25 years as a public school teacher and a bilingual progressive voice in Queens, there's no doubt that Danny knows and loves his community, and will work every day on the City Council for good schools, affordable neighborhoods, and real opportunities for success for all New Yorkers," said Jose Schiffino, WFP Queens Chapter Leader.
We need your help now more than ever to bring progressive change to Queens. A key part of our campaign is petitioning to get on the ballot. This is a great way to get involved and be a major part of our movement. We will be hosting a kickoff event and petition training on Saturday, June 6th at 10am at our new campaign headquarters at 77-15 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights. We will be training attendees on how to collect signatures and discussing our plans as we move into the next phase of the campaign. Sign up here.
Key Upcoming Events
Saturday 6/6/09 10am Campaign Kickoff Event
Saturday 6/6/09 11am Petition Training
Sunday 6/7/09 10am Pre-Parade Fundraiser at Cavalier Restaurant 85-19 37th Ave, Jackson Heights
Sunday 6/7/09 12pm Queens Pride Parade -- March with Danny!
Tuesday 6/9/09 Petitioning Begins
For more information, please call us at (718) 457-2928 or email us at email@example.com.
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https://www.nyrealestatelawblog.com/manhattan-litigation-blog/2009/may/working-families-go-for-dromm/
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Jennifer Hudson Splits With Fiance David Otunga
The Voice coach and pop icon Jennifer Hudson has broken up with her fiancé David Otunga after 10 years. It seems that the break-up is nastier than it appears as Jen has taken out a protective order against David to protect her and their son David jr.
The couple has been together since 2007 and he proposed in 2008. I’m not sure why they didn’t get married but I guess now in retrospect it’s best that they didn’t. They have a son together, 8-year-old David jr. It’s unclear why Jennifer put on the protective order against Otunga as no specific allegations of abuse have come to light. Otunga’s attorney denied their was any abuse and doesn’t understand why she did that. That makes me think that there are going to be allegations of abuse.
At any rate, this is a sad day for poor J-Hud. God knows she’s been through a lot after the murder a few years ago of several of her relatives. We wish her the best. By the sound of it, Jen you are better off.
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https://talentrecap.com/jennifer-hudson-splits-with-fiance-david-otunga/
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When you are deciding what carpet cleaning method you will be using in your home or business you always have the option of using dry carpet cleaning over the traditional deep steam cleaning method. This method of cleaning is getting a lot more popular as it has zero dry time.
You might be thinking how it’s possible to ‘dry’ clean carpet. Doesn’t cleaning require water? This method works by using a special cleaning powder that is put on your carpet. Think of it as a degreaser that fights grease before your clean a kitchen pan.
After the powder has done its job to suck up dirt. A unique type of machine is then used to push the powder into the carpet. The opposite of the deep steam cleaning process. Special motorized bush heads are used for this. When the powder is pushed even further into the carpet it allows it to suck up all the grime, dirt and bacteria that is hidden deep in the carpet fibers.
The final step is a high powered vacuum that sucks up all the powder. Leaving your carpets fresh and clean.
The powder that is placed on the carpet is safe for people and animals to come into contact with. Common sense needs to prevail. The powder shouldn’t be consumed but if there is a leftover amount of powder stuck deep in the carpet fibers it won’t cause any issues if touched. It’s also bio-degradable. So over time it will naturally disappear.
Dry carpet cleaning has been around since the 1980s. It’s always an option vs typical wet carpet cleaning and is becoming more popular due to the non-existent drying times. You can literally walk on the carpet the moment the professional cleaning company leaves your property. Wet carpet cleaning requires a few hours wait at minimum.
When you call us to book in your cleaning appointment do mention the specifics of what you need to be cleaned and that you are looking to get a dry carpet cleaning service scheduled in. We have limited availability for this service. If we can’t offer you a booking we always have comparable options that will do just as good of a job if not better. Such as deep steam cleaning.
Call us today on (631) 212-0900 to discuss your options and get your service booked in.
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https://www.elliscarpetcleaning.com/ny/residential-carpet-cleaning/nissequogue/dry-carpet-cleaning.php
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If you combined London, New York, ancient China and Bladerunner, you would get a city almost as incredible as Hong Kong.
Gleaming towers, full of shops that sparkle, red double-decker buses passing you on the main streets. Modernity like a decorative lace edge to a complex brocade of vast history. Glass towers next to decades old buildings, both surround spectacular temples.
The narrow streets and alleys, tucked between those shining towers, lure you into a different, yet just as wonderful world. Even when the alleys are packed with people streaming from one destination to another. Market streets overflow with bargains, treasures, junk, essentials and baubles.
Restaurants set up under umbrellas and tarps, on sidewalks, dimly lit by street lights and the glow of your cellphone. You’ve had to wait in the shelter of a nearby door way, or under your own umbrella, for a seat to become available. But the crowded tables tell you the food is worth the wait in the rain.
Chinese bakeries, almost hidden, are running out of stock as you stand outside. You realize if you don’t get in there RIGHT NOW, you won’t get any of the coconut mango mochi. Not getting freshly made coconut mango mochi, when you knew you had the chance, would make you cry yourself to sleep that night, and kick yourself for days. So you walk in, point to the glorious pillows of coconut mango mochi, and politely let the shop keeper know that you will take all that remain. All of them.
To appreciate my deep and abiding love for coconut mango mochi, imagine a food item you ADORE. You love it so much, that you kind of want the world to know about it. You want your friends and loved ones to taste the glory of that exquisitely delicious morsel. You love your friends and family – you really do! But, if you gave one of your precious morsels away, it would be one less experience of your precious….So, If you are ever with me when I buy coconut mango mochi, and I give you one, you will know that I really do consider you a true and worthy friend.
People ask “Where is your favorite place you visited?” It is always a hard question to answer, but Hong Kong may be my favorite. I got all of the above amazing experiences, plus made some beautiful friendships. There is just something about friendship that makes every experience that much more powerful and fulfilling. I really do feel as if I have a brother and sister in Hong Kong…but that is a subject for a different post.
Back in 2014, in May, I spent a couple of amazing weeks in Hong Kong. I recovered from “The Best Italian Pizza, from a Mexican Restaurant, in all of South East Asia” – (This will turn into a link as soon as I write the post!) Most of the time I felt like I was swimming through the streets, it rained so much. I walked for days through the rain. I learned that I had to have a different definition of self beauty in 100 percent humidity. I was humbled by my flipflops. I was raised up by beautiful friendship. My heart is full when I think about Hong Kong.
The last photo of my post is of my HK metro pass…it is so freakin cute, and I’m saving it for the next time I get to HK.
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http://fieldguidetoawesome.com/7-days-of-landscapes-photo-challenge-day-7-victoria-peak-hong-kong/
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Nintendo is experimenting with other realities and this time, Ninty is trying out Augmented Reality (AR). During its Super Mario Bros. Direct to celebrate the series' 35th anniversary, the console maker announced Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. Created in partnership with Velan Studios, this Nintendo Switch game is like no other as it requires physical Mario-themed kart toys to play. These karts come equipped with a camera and are controlled with the Switch console for an AR Mario Kart experience.
The physical kart responds to boosts in-game and in the real world, stops when hit with an item, and can be affected in different ways depending on the race. Players place gates to create a custom course layout in their home, where they can let their imagination determine the track. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit allows players to race against Koopalings in Grand Prix to unlock skins to customise courses and costumes for Mario and Luigi, and also supports up to four players in local multiplayer mode .
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, which is available in Mario or Luigi models, launches on 16th October and functions with a Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch Lite.
SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox
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https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-ar-game-mario-kart-live-home-circuit-announced.573073/page-2#post-9187493
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Are you an accomplished C-level manager who is looking to make the next step in your career? Then, you will need a strong, persuasive resume that will sell your skills for the job.
However, with a fierce competition in this field, you will need something more than a simple resume to be considered for the interview. A simple history of your education, work and list of skills might work for entry level position. In C-level management resume, you are expected to provide something more than a detailed list of what you have done in the past.
When applying for a CEO position, you need to display how you’ve solved business problems in the past and what sort of problems you can resolve for a prospective employer. So, whether you write a resume on your own or buy it from resumes writing services USA, make sure it immediately shows your value offer. The executive resume writers of our company offer you the expert tips to follow when updating your resume:
All C-level executives often have an impressive list of past accomplishments at hand. But that’s a huge mistake to think that big accomplishments alone can guarantee you an interview.
A resume branding shows you not as a best, but as the most suitable candidate for the position who is capable of resolving the problems of this particular business. In addition, it shows your unique personality traits – something that differentiates you from the pool of other candidates.
If you still struggle figuring out what your unique brand is, you can follow these simple steps to find out
Defining your personal brand:
Also in this section:
To get remembered, you need to make the readers like your resume from the first lines. With your personal brand defined, make sure to create the summary statement that reflects it. Resume writing service in USA recommends that you divide your key strengths by categories and present them at the top of your resume
Strengthening your career statement
Here you can find more helpful in-detail advice on how to construct your personal statement to make it really stand out: http://resumeperk.com/blog/write-a-resume-summarytips-by-custom-resume-writing-service.
A resume of a career starter or professional has the stress on hard and soft skills, knowledge and teamwork. Contrarily, an executive leader’s resume should be all about the leadership capacity. Business is looking for solutions, and the stakes are really high. You need to prove, from the first lines of your resume, that you can make a difference in your area of expertise. Show the scope of business, the number of subordinates, both direct and indirect, the figures and the result of your efforts in the long term. This will dramatically increase your chances for a desired interview call.
A resume which is targeted for a job position is traditionally more effective than a generic one. With an executive resume, things are even more serious: without the smart and thorough targeting, you’ll barely have a chance for an interview.
Your resume needs to connect you to the job you are trying to fill. Executives are often hired for a specific reason, and this reason is often obvious from the job posting. So, target your resume for it – use the same language, focus on the achievements in the area they need improved, and follow their tone. Your resume needs to be aligned to the qualities they are looking for; otherwise, it will be tossed.
As any other resume, an executive one should be enriched with keywords – learn how to do it effectively: http://resumeperk.com/blog/why-keywords-are-so-important-for-successful-resume.
The format chosen wrongly can spoil the entire impression made by your resume. There are three major resume formats:
As you have identified your brand and key area of expertise, make sure to support your statement throughout your resume. If you are an adept of optimizing operations and minimizing operating costs, make sure it is supported by all statements in the experience section.
As an executive, you are probably an expert in more than one area. However, the requirements in every job posting are highly specific. That’s why it’s a good idea to target your resume to every job you’ll apply for.
Resume length is a question of debate. However, career experts often recommend that it’s the content that should drive the length of your resume. However, this doesn’t mean that you can feel free to make it 5 pages. One page for an executive resume isn’t appropriate either, as it won’t allow you to reflect your professional value.
The most appropriate length is 2-3 pages. If, for whatever reasons, you need to add more detail (i.e. you’ve led multiple projects which are crucial for the role, have many awards or academic publications) include them in an addenda.
Upon receiving your resume, the employer will inevitably look up for you in Google to find out more. Does your online presence support what your resume says? It’s a good idea to take care about it beforehand. Here are a few hints how to improve your online presence:
Writing an executive resume is more about personal branding and promotion than writing itself. So, before you start writing, check the top resume mistakes. To make sure the resume represents you best. If you need an inspiration to get started, you can consult this professional resume template free.
Another trick to increase the visual effect of your resume is to replace the usual “led” and “managed” with stronger adjectives and adverbs. Read our example of powerful resume words.
And feel free to use them in your resume. And, if you need personalized resume assistance, you can contact the writers of our company. With 9+ years of expertise of writing resumes for senior executives, we will create a resume to reflect your unique experience.
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https://resumeperk.com/blog/executive-resume-tips-from-resumes-writing-services-usa
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Ten years later we are all aware of the damage caused in Iraq by the war: the thousands of civilians killed, including women and children, the destruction of the infrastructure, the millions now living under the poverty line, the high levels of corruption that make Iraq one of the countries in the world where corruption is less pervasive. Less known, or acknowledged, are the terrible effects the war had on American soldiers: those now lacking access to medical services, those traumatized by war for life or left with incapacitating sequela.
A letter sent to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney by Thomas Young, a 33-year-old American soldier who participated in the war, and who was initially featured in the movie documentary “Body of War,” is one of the most damning criticisms of a war that has destroyed so much, and created so little.
April 4, 2004, was a fateful day for Thomas Young. That day, as he sat into the back of a to-and-a-half-ton Army truck with 20 other soldiers in Sadr City, in Iraq, insurgents attacked the truck and opened fire on the soldiers. Two bullets reached him: one, from an AK-47 cut his spinal column; the second one destroyed his knee. He felt dizzy, but tried anyway to pick up his M16. When he couldn’t he suddenly realized that something had gone terribly wrong.
In a talk with Chris Hedges he gave details of his situation. Knowing that he was going to be paralyzed he wanted to ask somebody to shoot him. No words could come out of his mouth because his lungs had collapsed. Staff Sgt. Robert Miltenberger, his squad leader, bent over him and told him that he would be all right in words that later Miltenberger would recount with anguish.
Young was initially sent to an Army hospital in Kuwait and later to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, from where he was transferred to the Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D.C. His situation steadily deteriorated. Now, close to dying, he wrote a letter to the former President and his Vice President which says in part:
“I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.”
“I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all –the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.”
“I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans –my fellow veterans- whose future you stole.”
“Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard duty. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. Your were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.”
“My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope that will be put on trial. But mostly, I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.”
When asked recently about the Iraq war, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that he would do it all over again.
Dr. Cesar Chelala is a co-winner of an Overseas Press Club of America award.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/22/a-veterans-assessment-of-the-iraq-war/
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Reguitti SDK091PV Contemporary Round Pocket Lock Privacy
All new contemporary design round sliding pocket door privacy lock that offers both fashion and high quality function. Packaged as a complete set that includes the privacy mortise lock body, two (2) flush pulls, an edge pull, a strike plate and all mounting hardware. Made in Italy by Reguitti.
Available in 4 high quality finishes and for both 1-3/8" and 1-3/4" thick pocket doors.
The round edge pull is pressure mounted into the doors edge. The round flush pulls are pressure mounted into the doors face - no screws show for a clean contemporary appearance.
Privacy Lock: Locks but has access to unlock from the outside via an emergency turn. A privacy lock does not offer security, it offers privacy.
Also available matching:
Contemporary Round Pocket Door Pull Set and
Contemporary Round Double Pocket Door Lock Set
Specifications for the SDK091PV Contemporary Round Pocket Lock:
- Mortise Lock Body Height: 1-11/16"
- Mortise Lock Body Thickness: 1/2"
- Mortise Lock Body Depth: 2-1/2"
- Mortise Lock Faceplate Height: 3-3/8"
- Flush Pull Overall Diameter: 2-1/4"
- Flush Pull Door Cutout Diameter: 1-7/8" (48 mm)
- Flush Pull Overall Depth: 7/16"
- Flush Pull Door Cutout Depth: 3/8"
- Exterior Trim Projection: 1/16"
- Interior Trim Projection: 3/16"
- Edge Pull Diameter: 1-1/8"
- SDK091PV Dimensions (PDF)
*Note: The inside thumb turn project 3/16" off the door's face. If you intend to use on a pocket door, please insure that you have more than 3/16" clearance between the door's face and the wall pocket.
*Sold as a Set: privacy mortise lock body, two (2) flush pulls, edge pull, strike plate and all mounting hardware. For One (1) Door.
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Just like many other people on this forum my Logitech G hub auto downloaded the most recent update, sinds then my headset is complete garbage concerning the microfoon. I just cant have decent communication with the headset anymore. Either my headset mutes itself and doenst unmute till i perform 10 actions hoping it will respond again.
I have checked others people's post en followed the instructions there wich are always basicly: Make sure the box for """"Noise Removal"""" is UNCHECKED
this option was checked in, and for good reason i assume. Since i have unchecked it, my microfoon keeps detecting input. But every moment my microfoon quality keeps changing, people say i sound like a robot or they just cant hear me in the middle of a sentence. then they can hear me fine, 1 minute later they cant hear what i am saying at all (like recognizing someone is speaking but you cant make out words) i have this like 50 times in a 1hour game, so teams games are unplayable if you need good communication (wich is impossible right now)
So unchecking the noise removal has helped a little i gues, but there are still so many issues since the latest update (i never had a single problem with the headset in 2 years) only after the latest update from g-hub had my headset been complete garbage. I have had logitech headsets for the past 10 years and always had good things to say. I hope they can fix these issues in a new patch cause this is annoying as hell.
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Welcome to 2020: the year we spent at home!
Or at least it feels that way, right?
On the bright side, I’ve fallen in love with our house- especially the porch our two littlest ones love so much, and the view of those iconic Pennsylvanian rolling hills out our windows…
But just like you we haven’t had too many opportunities to get out.
Do you feel you could use a little more space to stretch out?
During our busy summer build season at Martin, Vern is always talking with homeowners about additions. But staying home this year has brought more people through our doors looking for a way to stretch their space without investing in a full-out integrated build.
After all, home additions have their own challenges. If your home hasn’t been built in the last few years, matching materials isn’t easy if you aren’t budgeting for a full exterior overhaul. Not to mention the floorplan of your existing home can limit the size and scope of what you can add.
I’ve got the perfect solution for you to dream about today, wrapped up in an unexpected structure you might not have thought about before: The detached garage.
What Makes Modern Detached Garages Different
Growing up, my best friend’s house had a small 2-car garage- the kind you don’t use for much else but keeping the snow off your truck and storing a spare chest freezer. At some point, they added a tiny detached garage that, in theory, could’ve stored another car? It was more like a nice tool shed with a poured concrete floor.
As a kid, all I remember was that I liked how small it was…and how the concrete was perfect for sidewalk chalk.
Looking back? It wasn’t anything special. That’s probably why when homeowners outgrow their house, adding a separate garage isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
But today’s detached garages are so much more than a place to store the riding lawn mower- they function as full living spaces beyond our home.
Let me give you some examples…
- #WFH Ready: Working from home? Find your in-home office constantly under siege from your kids? Solution: How about building a studio in a detached garage? The separate space gives you boundaries and brings balance your “work” and “home” life….especially in times like this where they overlap more than ever.
- Hobby Heaven: Has quarantine brought with it the growth of a new hobby? Is your spouse wondering when they’ll ever have their kitchen table or mudroom back? A detached garage is perfect woodworking, crafting, guitar-building, furniture refurbishing, and more.
- Give Mom Some Room: Don’t have a good space to host guests? Need a little privacy when your mother-in-law comes to visit? A detached garage frees up space in your house and host a cozy guest room.
In fact, the biggest advantage of building a detached garage over a traditional addition to your home is flexibility.
With a home addition, your options are limited by what works within the existing structure of your house. But when you build a detached garage? You have the freedom to design around what you need.
So go ahead and dream a little. Here are a few of my favorite trends for separate garages this season.
When You Need A Workshop
Sometimes the things we love really need a separate place. Especially a messy hobby…
Staying at home has given a lot of us a chance to rediscover something we love. I’m seeing friends and family doing everything from chainsaw sculptures to furniture building to finally fixing up that old 1970’s VW Karmann Ghia.
The creativity is great! But tracking sawdust into your kitchen or leaving oil spots in your driveway? Not the best long term solution.
Enter: The Workshop Garage.
A compact two-bay garage like the one above, something with a little pull-down storage above? It’s the perfect place to host your hobby.
…..a place where instead of hunting around with an extension cord, the outlets are right where you need them!…
….where you aren’t worried about someone sticking their fingers in the varnish you just laid down….
….a perfect workshop where the workspaces are well lit, your tools in reach, and everything stays where you put it…
The detached option is perfect for this.
And bonus: If that hobby grows into the ‘next big thing’? You can join the ranks of entrepreneurs like Hewlett & Packard, Bezos, and Steve Jobs by saying you also built your empire from the garage.
Storage for Your Recreational Equipment
Is your family cabin seeing more use than ever? Running out of space for your RVs, sea-doos, ATVs, pool floaties, lifejackets…? The list goes on!
It’s great you’re spending so much time on the water, but you need a place to keep things out of our Pennsylvania rain.
I love it when customers come to us with the challenge of building spaces that look perfect on their property… which is why I really love these rustic cabin-inspired detached garage designs.
Separate structures can complement your existing home (or cabin) and emphasize the look you want for your property as a whole. You can design your detached garage to look like an old farmhouse barn, a log cabin, a beautiful countryside cottage.
Design should always take into account the utility of the space. That means if you have a big asset, like an RV, we can create a structure that makes storage and maintenance easy.
The Man Cave (or She-Shed!) of Your Dreams
Did the pandemic put a damper on your Father’s Day plans?
Here’s possibly the best Christmas/Birthday/Father’s Day/You’re Awesome gift ever:
A built-for-you retreat.
We all have keepsakes that don’t fit into our homes (or…our spouse’s style). Show your love by creating a place that brings those treasures out of the basement and into a space of their own.
There’s something wonderful about having a space designed just for you. And we’re not just talking about the guys who want to hang up the neon signs and display their collegiate trophies…
I’ve flipped through plenty of beautiful design magazines knowing some of my favorites are completely impractical for family life (white rugs and toddlers? nope.) or, a little too much for my husband (I love cute cottage style).
What about building a detached garage/studio as your “she shed”? Your own private getaway?
I’d love a sweet little office in a place like this to catch up on bookwork and enjoy a little peace and quiet.
Especially if it could double as a place to host family when they come to town.
Speaking of which…
A Private Retreat for Guests
Detached garages offer the perfect opportunity to build out a guest room for visitors.
While yes, you can go all out and add a restroom or a shower- you don’t have to. Just having access to a small bedroom can make your home less chaotic during the holidays.
A simple framed and insulated room above your detached garage (like this one below) can be transformed from office to guest room to recreational room in no time:
If the thought of having more space has crossed your mind, we’d love to help. We’re more than a great construction company- we also love great design. Schedule a call here to talk to us about what your challenges are in your current home- and we’ll help you find a solution that fits into your timeline and budget.
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https://martincarpentryinc.com/detached-garage-inspiration/
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I believe that learning SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a prerequisite in making money online, if you don’t want to spend time in internet marketing. SEO optimization can give you free traffic if implemented correctly.
SEO is something that could help internet marketers to get free traffic from search engines. Please be informed that Search Engine Optimization is not an easy task.
It involves competition and hard work. You also need to know that Search Engine Optimization should be maintained, Google, Bing, and Yahoo are constantly changing their algorithm in determining what site should come at the first page of their SERP ( Search Engine Ranking Page ) .
SEO could also serve as a marketing tool for SME, Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to market their product online.
Through Search Engine Optimization SME could be able to introduce their products to internet users. It is a fact that today people tend to research first in the internet about the product that they will buy.
So if an SME Site will top in the Search Engine Results, it will have an added points to your prospective buyers. Online reviews will also help.
I believe that learning SEO is a must for Internet marketer but if you have enough business capital paying an SEO Specialist could also be made. We have lots of Filipino free lancers that could give service as an SEO Consultant but sad to say that not many company in the Philippines know the importance of SEO. Search Engine Marketing is also needed, which we could discuss later on.
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https://www.techathand.net/seo/why-do-you-have-to-learn-about-seo/5627/
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Twitter was having a good day Friday (July 26), and investors were reacting positively to the social media platform’s second quarter 2019 financial report, which showed 14 percent year-over-year growth in monetizable daily active use.
The number of monetizable daily active users (mDAUs) stood at 139 million in the second quarter, Twitter said. That growth came as Twitter during Q2 “continued our work to proactively identify and address malicious activity, resulting in an 18 percent drop in reports of spammy or suspicious behavior across all Tweet detail pages, which show the replies to any given Tweet on our service,” the firm said.
Twitter on Friday reported success in getting users to become valuable participants on the platform, at least according to CFO Ned Segal during the post-earnings conference call. He said Twitter has been “remarkably consistent” with bringing in users at the top of the funnel who visit the site for a specific purpose, according to CNBC. It’s focused on converting those people into mDAUs by helping them “find what they’re looking for faster,” he said.
In its Q2 financial statement, the company also said, “We continued to improve our machine-learning models in Q2 to make it easier for people to find what they are looking for when they come to Twitter by providing more relevant content in people’s Home timelines and notifications based on what they’re engaging with in near real time.” Not only that, but “We also started experimenting with new ways for people to customize their Home timeline, making it easier for them to follow what’s happening with their specific interests on Twitter using lists they’ve created or to which they’ve subscribed.”
Video, too, continues to play a bigger role for Twitter. “In Q2, we announced a number of new live and on-demand video content partnerships across the entertainment, news, sports, and esports verticals at our NewFronts event, highlighting our unique value proposition for content publishers, coupling compelling premium live video with real-time audience engagement.”
As for revenue, it increased 18 percent year over year in the second quarter, to about $841 million, the vast majority of which came from advertising, with the rest stemming from data licensing and other activities. Advertising revenue increased 21 percent year over year in the second quarter, Twitter said Friday.
Twitter’s total revenue growth was driven by the U.S market, Twitter said, and that revenue amount for Q2 reportedly beat analyst expectations of $829.1 million.
Twitter in the second quarter also topped analyst expectations of earnings per share, posting 20 cents per share compared to 19 cents anticipated by Wall Street.
NEW PYMNTS DATA: DIGITAL BANKING STUDY – THE BREWING BATTLE FOR WHERE WE WILL BANK
About: Forty-seven percent of U.S. consumers are shying away from digital-only banks due to data security worries, despite significant interest in these services. In Digital Banking: The Brewing Battle For Where We Will Bank, PYMNTS surveyed over 2,200 consumers to reveal how digital-only banks can shore up privacy and security while offering convenient services to satisfy this unmet demand.
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http://medpillsstore.com/index.php/2021/10/26/twitter-scores-14-pct-gain-in-users-in-q2/
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Here is an animation I’ve worked on a month ago. I’ve always wanted to do a small fight scene with more than 2 characters. I saw a 2 sec clip from Tekken 6 opening cinematic and came up with a 1v2 fight.
What do you think?
Have a good day.
Ps: Would love to experiment with camera angles and vfx in my next work. Stay tuned ! ~
Software : Maya
Psylocke Rig : Truong CG Artist
Body Mechanics Rigs : Joe Daniels
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https://clip.bid/sneaky-guards.bid.clip
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This post may be from 2017, but well worth the reminder! I wonder if we can add to it? Let us know your thoughts!
Change is the only constant in the world we live in. Change is happening quickly and is so radical, that an estimated 65% of the jobs our now primary school aged children will be applying for in the future, do not yet exist. So what sort of knowledge will be useful to our children? What is the role of education in preparing our children for life in the future we know nothing about?
As a parent, what do you think education is for? What is the aim and purpose of education?
At Freerange, we feel that there are too many unknowns in the future for us to feel confident in any content based curriculum. Us humans are still trying to solve life’s mysteries and problems. We are required to question and learn perpetually. Learning is a journey with no end.
So instead of content, we work around 8 “survival skills”.
1. Critical thinking. It’s important to know how to ask good questions and analyse what’s causing a problem or not working well. Good problem solving skills start with good questions.
2. Team work. Collaboration on a global scale, across different networks, will be an increasingly useful skill. We can start preparing our children for this by promoting intercultural understanding and encouraging team work. Working as a group toward a common goal is something that naturally happens at Freerange every day.
3. Adaptability. In this quick changing world of ours, we need to be able to redefine our goals and strategies continually. We need to be able to let go of what we’ve learned and learn again. When children truly learn something in depth (quality beats quantity), they are able to transfer the skills and knowledge to other areas of life seamlessly. This is why we value building real relationship with what is learned, not only to regurgitate information to pass a test.
4. Entrepreneurship and initiative. Whether dreaming of becoming an artisan, self- employment in general or climbing the corporate ladder, it’s important to be able to seek out opportunities and come up with new ideas and strategies for improvement.
Our children need to grow up in an environment that teaches the importance of self-motivation and self-assessment. Tests and exams teach children to meet goals set by others.
5. Good communication skills. Written and oral. Communication is an extension of clear thinking. The fiercer competition for jobs and contracts gets, the more important it is to be able to present your argument or proposal persuasively. And to stand out as an entrepreneur… the ability to inspire others with passion and truly convey what you are trying to say. Exchanging information through conversation is an important part of the day at Freerange.
6. Assessment and analysis of information. True or false? Fake or real? In this era of information we need to know how to extract and filter the authentic and relevant stuff from the rest.
7. Imagination. As Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. We need awe and wonder of the world around us, this natural childlike quality, to imagine something even better. Creativity is a gateway.
8. Self-sufficiency. Practical skills of growing food, cooking, fixing things, looking after your environment… Connecting with nature and the world around us through routine daily tasks is a wonderful part of a good foundation.
When thinking about homeschooling or unschooling, many questions will race through parents’ minds. What is good life made of? Am I doing enough? Will my child be successful?
We would like to add to this never ending list of questions. In this world full of things to learn about… what is worth learning? If you focus on bringing up a 30 year old, how does this change your view?
These questions never end, but we get better at handling them. We get better at trusting our children’s innate desire and ability to learn whatever it is they need to learn. Whatever it is that they feel is worth learning.
The path is unique. Interests and passions are unique. At Freerange, our biggest joy, is to see individuals discover what their dreams are made of.
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https://harlemcoffeeco.com/8-survival-skills-more-important-than-content/
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Pentanik IT Services
We offer professional web design services at affordable rates to help your business attract more visitors and keep them on your site!
Our excellent experiences help to provide world-class quality with eye-catching website design and development.
With our focus on WordPress development, you can assured that our team is well-versed in the best practices and newest features.
User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design is a most important part of website. It defines, how users interacts
Whether you're looking for a new logo or some flyers, the talented global community of designers at we can make it happen.
Any kinds of Digital Marketing works such as SEO, SEM, SMM, Email Marketing, SMS Marketing, Facebook Marketing and so on.
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https://pentanikit.com/our-services/
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This article was originally published here
Patient Educ Couns. 2021 Nov 19:S0738-3991(21)00735-7. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2021.11.011. Online ahead of print.
OBJECTIVES: Patient-centered care (PCC) experiences can vary by race and ethnicity and likely contribute to cancer care disparities. We compared PCC concepts between Non-Hispanic White (White), Hispanic, and Non-Hispanic Black (Black) cancer patients utilizing Critical Race Theory (CRT) to understand the relationships between racial-ethnic identity and PCC.
METHODS: A thematic analysis and in-depth CRT-informed analysis of individual interviews exploring patient values, unmet needs, preferences, and priorities were performed.
RESULTS: Participants were aged> 25 yrs old, 53% male, and included 5 Hispanic, 4 Black and 6 White cancer patients. Unmet needs for time to make decisions, and provider interaction between visits and the value for finding meaning in the illness emerged among Blacks and Whites. The unmet need for a long-term treatment plan emerged among Blacks, and the preference of research participation among Whites. A value for optimism was observed among Hispanics and Whites. Racial-ethnic variations in patient descriptions and experiences of their values, unmet needs, preferences, and priorities were identified.
CONCLUSIONS: Underrepresented groups face subtle but significant challenges in feeling cared for and understood, voicing concerns, and obtaining quality care.
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Increased mutual understanding and provider knowledge of unique PCC experiences among underrepresented cancer patients are needed.
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https://www.docwirenews.com/abstracts/journal-abstracts/understanding-racial-ethnic-differences-in-patient-centered-care-pcc-in-oncology-through-a-critical-race-theory-lens-a-qualitative-comparison-of-pcc-among-black-hispanic-and-white-cancer-patients-6/
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- Airtickets search and reservation
- My Booking
We offer cheap air tickets to Billund.
The airport is located 2 km away from the centre of Billund.
The Airport bus stops in Aarhus, Skanderborg and Horsens.
Trains of Arriva and DSB you can get from Silkeborg, Skive, Viborg and Randers to Skanderborg, from where the Airport bus goes directly to Billund Airport.
Air France, airBaltic, Atlantic Airways, British Airways/Sun Air, Danish Air Transport, Icelandair, KLM, Lufthansa, Norwegian, Ryanair, SAS, Turkish Airlines
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http://www.bode.lv/en/airport-billund
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Saturday was a bleak and stormy day, the kind that usually encourages people to stay inside if at all possible. But at the A-Frame, a concert venue and event center just north of campus, the rooms were full of vendors and shoppers for the second-annual Bartering with Babes event.
Held the day after International Women’s Day, women from the area set up booths and sold the goods they’ve created–– from art to clothing to ice cream. Bartering with Babes gives residents a chance to buy local and support the creative community, but it’s more than just a marketplace to pick up some locally-made items.
“I just really wanted to focus and make it all about women, because I feel like we need to be recognized a little bit more for what we contribute to the community,” organizer of the event, Shkala Smith, said.
The first annual event was held in November of 2017 but Smith said she switched the date to March this year in order to coincide with Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day.
“We have a really wide variety of the types of people who vend here and shop here.,” Smith said. “It appeals to a lot of different people.”
Local artist and gallery owner Courtney Davis sold her acrylic portraits along with some abstract paintings at Saturday’s event. Davis is an owner of Ingen Art Gallery & Studio in Bowling Green and a self described “artist at heart”. She said she enjoys painting because it gives her something she can focus on.
“I think being a woman really inspires you in one way or another,” Davis said, gesturing to a portrait of Frida Kahlo she has on sale. “It’s always nice to just appreciate us for us.”
Artist duo, Debbie Apple and Cindy Houston were situated in adjacent booths in a corner of the front room. Apple creates wool on her farm, and Houston dyes the wool as well as dyeing fibers and clothes on her own.
“I can’t imagine my life without thinking about things to make,” Houston said. “Because I make a lot of things, I have to sell a lot of things so I can make more things.”
For her part, Apple is excited about the growth in the fiber arts.
“I’ve been knitting for 50 years, and it’s really exciting to be able to take something from my sheep and then see it through the whole process and then watch people use the end product,” Apple said.
Houston and Apple both said they consider themselves to be perfect examples of the way the local creative community works together.
“I grow indigo, and Cindy has expertise on dyeing, and this summer we’ll harvest my indigo together,” Apple said.”I get goosebumps just thinking about it.”
“I think it’s a lot about the people,” Houston said.. “I just meet the most interesting, wonderful people. And it’s a real giving community.”
Laila Crowe, 15, and Elizabeth Howell, 12, sell ice cream made of locally-sourced ingredients, along with Laila’s mother, Carol Crowe. Carol Crowe homeschools her daughter, and as Laila Crowe gets ready to graduate from high school, she said she’s looking for something to do next.
Having made ice cream at home for years, Laila Crowe decided to turn it into a business and began working with Howell, a long time friend.
“We went to church together 10 years ago, and we’ve always been really close,” Howell said. “I really like helping out with them.”
The Crowes rent a commercial kitchen on the Howell’s property, making the venture a team effort between the two families.
“I know a lot of the people here just from being a part of the community for a while, and it’s just really fun to see what everyone does,” Carol Crowe said. “All the jewelry I’m wearing is from one of the ladies in the area, I like it a lot.”
Walking through the building, vendors laughed as they chatted with shoppers and other vendors alike, and many faces lit up as they recognize old friends. The importance of uplifting women creators in the community was not lost on the shoppers.
“All these are artists, and I just want to support them and encourage more people to do that sort of thing,” April Gregory, an attendee of the event, said.
Janice Keith, Gregory’s friend who attended the event with her, noted that Gregory is also an artist.
“She’s an artist herself, and she likes to be supported,” Keith said “She makes cakes.”
While discussing why she sees supporting women creators specifically as important, Gregory offered a simple response:
“Because I’m a woman!” she said.
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https://wkutalisman.com/bartering-with-babes-2019/
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Interest-free installment payment financial technology (fintech) companies are the layaway plans of the mobile-first generation.
They promise to change consumer behaviour by making immediate gratification appear less risky and more attractive, motivating us to spend (much!) more. Can this alternative payment method revolutionize the credit industry? Or do these companies represent a new breed of loan shark poised to ensnare millennial shoppers loading up their online carts?
These firms essentially invert the familiar alternative--saving money in modest monthly increments for a major purchase. They engineer the reverse: you can purchase that Peloton *now* and pay it back over three years at 0% interest. (In fact, more than a third of the revenue of Affirm, a major player in the industry, comes from Peloton.)
This is sometimes referred to as a “buy now pay later point-of-sale (POS) micro-loan” or just the abbreviated “BNPL.” The new-ish offer of payment flexibility at ‘no additional cost’ provides consumers with newfound purchasing power. As the lending programs are not credit-card based, they do not necessarily require a hard credit check and they do not affect a shopper’s credit score. This is particularly relevant for younger people, who may have insufficient credit history for credit card approval.
It’s a creative innovation: effectively, these programs shift the cost of borrowing onto the merchant, requiring them to pay the BNPL lender a percentage of the sales price (as much as 6%). For most merchants, it’s more than worth it: retailers benefit from an increase in shopping cart size (~30%), a decrease in abandonment at checkout (~25%), and repeat customers (~20%).
PayBright, one such platform based in Canada, was named the country’s FinTech company of the year in 2019. Paays, Flexiti and Uplift are three other Canadian examples, while Afterpay, Klarna, PayPal’s “Pay in 4” and Sezzle are based in the U.S. and Sweden.
Upon a closer look, the Canadian companies seem a little more regulated than their American peers.
Flexiti offers private-label credit cards with a 0% financing option.
Paybright doesn’t have a credit check for their “pay in 4” repayment plans, but a “soft” credit check may be conducted when someone applies for a monthly repayment plan, and Paybright will conduct a “hard” credit check when you enter into a loan agreement, and any interest on the amount you borrow to finance your purchase will start accruing only once the loan has been issued.
Paays’ pre-qualification lasts 60 days and offers a “virtual Mastercard” to complete a purchase. Their 6-month (0%) or 12-month (9.99%) financing plans are offered on approved credit by Fairstone Financial.
Uplift is travel-focussed, and the annual percentage rate (APR) ranges from 7.00% to 31.99%.
you can’t be charged more than $15 for every $100 that you borrow;
you can’t be sold or offered any goods or services in connection with the payday loan;
you have two business days to cancel a contract for a payday loan without any penalty (e.g., without paying a fee) and without having to give a reason;
“rollover” loans are not allowed (this means you can’t roll what you owe on a payday loan into a second payday loan. This is because you can’t get another payday loan from the same lender before paying your first loan in full).
It seems to me that BNPL lenders don’t fall under the act and thus do not need to register as payday lenders, because they are loaning money to the merchants, which indirectly flows to shoppers.
*A loan shark is an illegal money-lender who makes it their business to profit from lending money but who is not licensed or regulated by authorities.
These fintech firms feel new enough that we haven’t seen what it’s like for the consumer if they miss the repayment schedule. For one, defaulting won’t necessarily influence their credit score as the lending can occur independent of it, even though failing to repay on the schedule is a standard consideration for credit scores. And since the money is loaned to the store itself, it’s the retailer’s responsibility to pay the lender, under the premise that it will earn them a new customer that they may have not received otherwise.
What happens if you don’t repay on the right schedule?
Some providers will ask for a settlement fee or a lump sum of interest may be added to the debt.
On top of that, you may be charged late payment fees too. Missed payments *could* also be recorded on your credit report and affect your credit score.
The most common form of non-monetary recourse used by BNPL providers to incentivize repayment from consumers has been to freeze future borrowing from the provider until the outstanding late balance is repaid.
Would the retailer need to hire a collections agency?
It seems that some resort to connections agencies if needed.
Could they attempt to repossess their product?
Probably not going to repossess a mattress, piece of furniture or clothing. It could just be too much of a hassle for the retailer, making them comfortable with the “sunk cost” of loaning the $$.
Or, is this risk just the cost of doing business?
Possibly. The incentive for the retailer is to sell more merchandise, which seems to be happening with these programs.
So, is this new kind of no-strings-attached upselling via little unsecured loans a form of predatory lending?
Snagging a new mattresses, a couple of pieces of furniture, and some new clothing without a hard credit check is breezy. But each time you’re approved for a new micro-loan engagement, the retailer may be unable to access any information on how many of these micro-loans are in play at any one time and the borrower isn’t obligated to disclose that.
As with a typical personal loan, most lenders will ask for your banking information so that they can take the payments directly from your account via a pre-authorized debit. This means that these companies can essentially pay themselves back with access to your bank account.
For now, it all comes down to whether we can and should trust these micro-loaners (ha) to not overburden people with recurring payments. I do note that Affirm wants to abolish late fees.
Will we see fintechs offer no-interest installment mortgages, or no-interest student loans?
An ‘affordable’ interest-free loan is preferable to credit card debt. But Canadians already owe an average of $1.71 for every dollar of disposable income. Saving to have the cash on hand for a major purchase is preferable to both.
Consumers can leverage many different BNPL providers spread over different purchases.
Compounding the challenge: abuse of these programs can be viewed as more of a people problem than a technology issue - it’s someone’s own “fault” if they over-leverage themselves with bite-sized micropayments. Typically the Ontario Securities Commission and Ontario Consumer Protection ministries have guidance and guardrails to mediate someone’s new debt load. ]
Know what else is expensive? Regulatory lag. The wait-and-see. The problem admiration, or worse - dismissing these new tools as a trend that isn’t worth our attention until….later.
By failing to categorize these firms properly - i.e. lumping them under the exciting banner of fintech and clapping for Canadian companies as they grow - we may be failing to offer consumers the protection that they deserve.
And for that, we will pay later, too.
A new kind of micro-lending enables merchants to offer large purchases at 0% interest (layaway in reverse);
Because the funds are technically loaned to a store and not directly to a shopper,
We need more information on the volume of BNPLs that shoppers may be taking on, alongside their other debt commitments;
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada has noted that in Canada most instalment plans currently offered are repackaged retail credit cards or personal loans; however, the competitive landscape is changing.
💡 Policy ideas
properly inform consumers on the structure and potential costs of the instalment plan;
conduct risk assessments to prevent users from overextending themselves financially;
not charge unreasonable fees;
coordinate with each other on consumers’ usage across services to determine whether the user has defaulted with any of them;
provide financial assistance services.
Vass Bednar is the Executive Director of McMaster University’s new Master of Public Policy in Digital Society Program.
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KEF restaurant is a first class a la carte restaurant serving a wide selection of small courses where you can choose your own composition of dishes made with ingredients from our local dealers. We put great emphasis on fresh Icelandic ingredients in all our dishes so you can always be sure of the quality. Enjoy a glass of hand picked wine, a wide variety of cocktails and of course Iceland brewed draft beer while receiving outstanding prompt and
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Opening hours: Sunday - Wednesday from 11:30 - 22:00, Kitchen closes @ 21:00 and Thursday - Saturday from 11:30 – 23:00, Kitchen closes @ 21:30. KEF Bar Happy Hour everyday from 15:30-18:30.
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Shopify vs WooCommerce
Are you thinking of entering the online world and creating an eCommerce website but aren’t sure where to start? You may have done a bit of research and have heard of a few options available, but aren’t sure which one to go for. If you’re deciding between Shopify vs WooCommerce because you’ve heard that these platforms are easy to use and build an online store with, then this comparison guide is for you.
eCommerce is truly global and more people are shopping online than ever before. Due to this, it’s also become easier for people to start selling online as well. This is where eCommerce platforms come into play. Before, you had to have or learn technical knowledge in order to build a website. Implementing a shopping cart feature was more complex and required additional skills or you would have to hire a developer to do it for you. Now, as technology and society has progressed and changed, the popularity of eCommerce has skyrocketed.
This has paved the way for platforms such as Shopify and WordPress to enter the market and provide a solution for people to build their own websites without having prior technical or coding knowledge. They both provide a solution for you to sell products or services online and are very easy to set up, so let’s take a look at the differences and which one would be better for you.
Shopify vs WooCommerce
Shopify is an eCommerce Content Management System.
It enables you to create a store, accept payments and manage inventory: all from the same system and without worrying about any technical aspects such as web hosting, security, etc.
Shopify is great for beginners. If you prefer a tool that allows you to set up a store very quickly then this is for you. They even have a support system where you can contact them and ask questions if you need to.
They also offer Shopify Plus for established sites with high volume that want to use their platform.
WooCommerce is a free and open source WordPress plugin for eCommerce. As such, it has all the advantages of WordPress, but, you actually have to learn how to use WordPress and build a website with it, then you just simply install WooCommerce.
Put simply, WordPress is the platform, and WooCommerce is what makes it an eCommerce website with the ability to sell. Building a WordPress website is not hard, but it will take some time for you to learn.
You do not need to learn any coding or HTML as this is all automatically integrated into the platform.
Shopify is your best option if you have no web design knowledge and want to build an eCommerce website in a short amount of time. They will also be your web hosting provider and will be able to facilitate online purchases for your website. It’s basically an all-in-one platform, hence the monthly fee associated with it. This is perfect for beginners to build their first online store quickly or for established eCommerce businesses who want to migrate to another platform with less hassle.
WooCommerce is not a platform, it’s a WordPress plugin.
WordPress is the platform, which is completely free to use. You just need to register a domain name and then install WordPress on it, which can be done easily through a clickable set-up system. More on this shortly.
You have to learn how to build a WordPress website in order to be able to use WooCommerce. This is not hard but will take up some of your time. WooCommerce is not hard to use, it basically adds eCommerce functionalities to your WordPress website such as the ability to add products and accept payments, among many more features. You will just need to learn the intricacies and functions of the platform in order to achieve your desired results.
WooCommerce is perfect for those who want to have total freedom and control over their store, with a custom design and better ability to optimize your website for search engines and have a good SEO strategy in place.
WooCommerce is your best option if you want complete control over your website and be able to customize it as you wish.
Shopify vs WooCommerce
Before committing to using an eCommerce tool, check if the interface is user-friendly. It seems incredible how different an experience can be depending on the user interface. Shopify’s interface is very simple and straightforward. WordPress is the same but has more options and menus so while it may appear confusing, it’s actually not.
That being said, when we compare Shopify vs WooCommerce in this regard it is very clear: both are easy to use, but Shopify takes the cake.
The process of setting up the store is much faster and user-friendly because with WooCommerce you have to learn how to use WordPress first.
Even so, the truth is that WordPress with WooCommerce is not far from Shopify in regards to how difficulty is concerned. The configuration options of WooCommerce are easy to understand, adding products and managing orders is also easy and the basic installation already includes several payment methods (including PayPal, transfer, and cash on delivery). Regarding usability for the customer, the plugin also meets all the requirements and the purchase process is fluid and can be customized to your liking.
Shopify = Faster to set up and easy to learn
WooCommerce = Slight learning curve for WordPress but good customization
Shopify vs WooCommerce Pricing
Another key difference in Shopify vs WooCommerce is the price difference between the two options.
As mentioned before, Shopify is all-in-one, which we believe justifies the cost. The price is well worth it for what you get and how easy it is to use.
WordPress is free, and so is WooCommerce. The amount that you pay to host your website will vary depending on the company you choose.
The following prices are possible for your first year using either platform:
Shopify and WooCommerce Themes
A theme is kind of like a cover for your phone, but with more functionality. It greatly changes the appearance of your website to look a certain way (like a phone cover), and you can get themes for specific categories too such as Fashion, Shopping, Minimalist, and more.
It may also come with specific features, such as certain shopping cart functions and compatibility with Google Analytics and newsletter subscriptions.
Both platforms offer themes for different purposes, and you can take a look at some here.
There are also plenty of free themes as well, but the paid ones will generally look better and enable you to do more with them.
Shopify Apps vs WooCommerce Plugins
An App on Shopify and a Plugin on WordPress are the same thing with different names.
They are essentially just like an app for your phone.
Let’s say for example you have a phone that doesn’t have a built-in guitar tuner for it. You simply download an app that enables this functionality and now your phone can do this.
It’s much the same with apps/plugins.
You have an existing platform (Shopify-WordPress) and installing the app/plugin will give it a specific type of feature.
There are apps/plugins for abandoned shopping cart emails, security features, search engine optimization, email marketing, and so much more.
All Shopify apps are compatible with its platform.
All WordPress plugins can be used with WooCommerce, but may not necessarily be an eCommerce plugin. For this, you want a plugin that is stated as being compatible with WooCommerce.
Shopify vs WooCommerce
Factors to Consider
There can be quite a difference between the two options depending on if you purchase premium features and functionalities or not.
The level of customization possible in Shopify vs WooCommerce is very different. The first is its own platform, with attractive options but may be limited in number. The second is a plugin from the largest community of developers in the world, so the possibilities are almost endless and are constantly growing.
The type of eCommerce website that you manage will also determine the functionalities that you will need: how configurable should the product cards be? Do you need the customer to choose color, size, shape, weight or other characteristics before adding the product to the cart?
Make sure you choose a solution that allows you to accept the different forms of payment you need: PayPal, credit card, cash on delivery or any other method that your users demand. If you are going to sell internationally, keep in mind that the payment methods that foreign customers prefer may be different.
Integrations and Extensions
You must be clear about which external tools you can integrate into your store to offer a more comprehensive and personalized service for your visitors. Third-party solutions and plugins imply greater adaptability, customization, and innovation.
A good SEO strategy means gaining visibility in Google, getting more traffic and, potentially, more conversions. Therefore, if you are going to try organic positioning techniques, it is best to be aware of the SEO capabilities that Shopify or WordPress can offer.
Licensing and Troubleshooting
There is a fundamental difference between Shopify and WooCommerce. The first is a platform that leaves the development and improvement of its code in the hands of an external company. The second is a free software plugin for WordPress. When it comes to fixing bugs in the code, this is very important.
Shopify has a technical support team that will help you if you need it. To use WooCommerce, instead, you’ll have to be more self-taught. The WordPress community is huge and there are many specialized forums and blogs where you can find help and answers.
So the price difference between Shopify and WooCommerce is quite large, but that’s because Shopify is a platform and WooCommerce is a plugin for WordPress, so it’s not fair to compare the two directly.
As you saw above in the Shopify vs WooCommerce pricing section, using Shopify will start from $29 per month and using WordPress can start from $3.95 per month. With WordPress, you need to host your website with a web hosting company. This keeps the website live on the internet so people can visit it. There are many web hosting companies to choose from, but this one starts from $2.95 per month and is really good value. You will need to pay for your domain name yearly which can vary from around $10 to $15 a year and the monthly cost of your web hosting may be higher if your site gets popular and receives more traffic.
With Shopify, they will be your web hosting company, so this cost is built into the $29 monthly fee. You can purchase your domain from any provider and point it at your Shopify store or you can purchase it through them. The cost will still be around $10 to $15 per year for this. So Shopify will cost $29 per month at a minimum and this can increase if you upgrade your plan or purchase premium add-ons.
Just like Shopify has add-ons, WordPress has plugins. There are also premium plugins and the cost for these will vary depending on what you decide to purchase. The majority of premium WordPress plugins are a one-time purchase and you own it for life.
Shopify is your web hosting company, offers a free SSL Certificate, has 24/7 support, built-in fraud analysis, and a host of other features as well. We believe the cost of $29 per month to get started is well-justified based on this and it does provide value for money.
WordPress and WooCommerce are both free and you basically just need to pay for web hosting and a domain name. You may decide to purchase premium themes or plugins but you can do that with Shopify too. WordPress does not have 24/7 live support, it actually doesn’t have any support. This is because it’s a free and open-source platform. It does have a very large community of users who are active on forums and message boards so you can ask questions there or even Google your problems to see if someone has had it before, which is very likely.
In reality, both Shopify and WordPress are fantastic platforms for selling online. You could spend just as much per year with a WordPress website as you could with a Shopify store and it will really depend on how much traffic your site needs to handle and what integrations you have on your website.
With Shopify, you can choose a theme for your store. They have attractive designs, although the number of templates available is limited (right now they have about 100). In addition, most of the Shopify themes are paid, although you will find around 20 free options which are also very attractive, and are great if your initial budget is very limited. It is not mandatory that you know how to modify code to customize a Shopify theme: in general, you can do it using simply the customization options that are included (the premium templates will offer you more alternatives, of course) and you will get a professional look without making many changes.
You can also choose a theme for your store with WooCommerce and WordPress. With this, there are many more choices available and there are thousands of WordPress themes available which are compatible with WooCommerce, both free and paid. WordPress definitely has more options available when it comes to themes, but both WordPress and Shopify have high-quality themes and the one that you choose is a matter of your requirements and preference.
If your products need to enable the customer to choose color or size then you need a platform that can handle different product variations. So what do you do?
Can you add different prices for each combination? And add different images? Have each combination in a different inventory?
The more combinations you want available, the more complete your eCommerce solution will have to be.
Shopify allows you to offer 3 options per product by default. For example, in the case of a shirt you can create options for gender, color, and size; For a mobile phone, you can offer alternatives of color, inches of screen and internal memory. In total, you can create up to 100 combinations per product for your options (so you can have many sizes and colors available from the same shirt, for example). However, you will not be able to sell shirts by gender, color, size and sleeve type with the default configuration for example. For that, you will have to install an app, most likely paid.
WooCommerce is much more configurable and allows you to sell your products the way you want. Not only can you add all the combinations you need, but you can also display them as clearly and easily as possible for the client using custom attributes. If you have 5 shirts in different shades of blue, you can indicate “sky blue”, “navy blue”, “royal blue”, “cobalt blue” and “indigo”, for example.
You can also add an image as a preview of each combination so that the customer clearly identifies the appearance of each product. Also, if you wish you can give your customers the possibility of adding several combinations to the cart at the same time (for example, to buy a shirt in several sizes without having to go back again and again). You can get paid WooCommerce plugins to add more features and customization options, but there is almost always a free version available, even if it has limited functionality.
There are many payment platforms that you can use to accept online payments. Some may not interest you and others may not be attractive to your customers. Let’s see what Shopify and WooCommerce offer in terms of payment methods:
Shopify offers a good number of payment options. It has its own tool, called Shopify Payments, and also has options with third-party gateways. However, although it supports these other gateways, the truth is that if you decide to use them Shopify will charge you a percentage per transaction that will go from 0.5% to 2% depending on your plan.
WooCommerce offers PayPal by default but also supports all the best-known third-party gateways through extensions. You can simply download or purchase a plugin for different payment methods such as Square, Stripe, 2Checkout, Authorize.net, SagePay, and many more. Some of these plugins may even be free as well, so Google a free version first and read the reviews before installing it.
Integrations and Extensions
No matter how strong an eCommerce platform is, it’s rare that you will not need to add third-party extensions to extend its functionality at any time. For example, you are probably interested in using an email marketing tool, a lead generation solution, web analytics tools, etc. After comparing Shopify vs WooCommerce, we see that both eCommerce applications have a wide range of integrations and extensions that will allow you to implement a large number of third-party services.
In the case of Shopify, you have at your disposal an app store where you can get add-ons for your store. There are extensions to improve your online marketing, your sales, for social networks, management of shipments, attention to the client, billing, generating reports, etc. For example, in order to improve SEO, they have the SEO Manager add-on, which identifies and resolves different faults in positioning techniques. Some of the extensions of Shopify are free, but for others, you will have to pay a monthly amount.
The options available for WooCommerce are even more numerous: lead generation, SEO, payment gateways, and so much more. There are many more alternatives than for Shopify and, in addition, if you want something customized you can hire a WordPress developer to tweak something or make a plugin entirely from scratch. In terms of the customization options available, WordPress definitely has more.
Search Engine Optimization
Shopify allows you to perform on-page SEO techniques, and you can actually do a fair bit. However, it has more limited features when it comes to SEO in comparison to WordPress.
WordPress is possibly the best Content Management System as far as SEO positioning is concerned. It has built-in SEO features and you can easily optimize your website with free plugins such as Yoast.
Both platforms enable you to SEO optimize your website, but WordPress definitely lets you do more and we believe it’s the best platform for search engine optimization. Don’t think that Shopify is limited in this regard, though. Both WordPress and Shopify websites can rank equally in search engines and while the platform you use can make performing on-page SEO easier or harder, it does not have any preference when it comes to Google deciding to rank a site or not. This will purely come down to your on-page SEO and the quality of backlinks your website gets, which can be done on any platform.
Licensing and Troubleshooting
Shopify is not free. Its development is controlled entirely by a third-party company and, therefore, improvements or solutions to errors can be delayed depending on the capacity and work queue the development team has. This doesn’t make them worse, and WordPress can still be affected by work queue and development issues as well.
In the case of WordPress, even if they decided to delay improvements, they could arrive through another channel, since free software can be modified and improved without limitations. WooCommerce, like WordPress, is free software sponsored under the GPL. This means that anyone is guaranteed the right of access to the source code freely, free of charge and without anyone placing an impediment. People can volunteer their time and skills to fix plugins for free just because they want to help people. And this happens all the time.
Shopify is a paid service and, as such, has a 24-hour support staff that can help you with what you need, either to teach you how to use all the options or to solve a problem of operation you may be encountering.
The support of WooCommerce, however, comes from the WordPress community. As a general rule, the answers to most of the problems are on the forums of WordPress.org or Github. You can find a lot of answers to your WordPress questions with a simple Google search, as many users would have encountered the same problem before.
So in this regard, you may be able to solve your problem faster if you’re using Shopify. But this would of course depend on the problem you have, and a quick Google search could show you how to fix your problem right away, regardless of which platform you use.
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- Set desired width for columns
- Clio Manage
- Column widths are set on a per-user basis
- This functionality was added to Clio in October 2018
When you change the width of a column in Clio by grabbing the side of the column with your mouse and dragging it wider, it will remain at that width until you change it again.
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Diverse synthesis of Iron Carbides, Morphology, and Electrochemical Uses
presentationposted on 15.11.2021, 18:10 by Brittney Beck
Iron carbide compounds have been investigated as catalysts for several energy related applications. These carbide materials also have other unique properties inducing stability, high melting points, and extreme hardness. Iron carbides however haven't been studied as nanomaterials due to limited synthesis techniques. We are studying a low temperature amine metal oxide route to form iron carbide as nanoparticles. This technique has been tested at temperatures ranging from 650°C to as high as 800°C. Iron carbide was successfully made using three separate diamines these conditions. We have also studied the amount of amine and have made them with a minimal amount of amine, with as low of a ratio as 1 Iron precursor to .02 parts amine. Even when iron carbide is consistently made, the morphology of Fe3C changes with various ratios of iron precursor to amine. SEM pictures have shown nanorods, nanotubes and most commonly, bricks with carbon coating. Once the synthesis of these materials is better understood, we will test the product for their catalytic activity for hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions. These high surface area cheap materials have the promise to be great catalysts for future energy applications.
PublisherUniversity of Wyoming. Libraries
- Library Sciences - LIBS
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Items like pizza boxes, plastic bags, styrofoam and food wrap are some of the most-searched on the City of Edmonton’s WasteWise app. … Conventional plastic bags like grocery bags, bread bags, produce bags, dry cleaner bags and sandwich bags can all go in the recycling.
Can pizza boxes be composted Edmonton?
Yes. You can put food-soiled pizza boxes (dried-on cheese, food chunks, sauce splatters etc.) in your green cart to be composted.
What Cannot be recycled in Edmonton?
Improper items can jam machinery, damage equipment and increase the risk of staff injuries.
- Metals (no loose lids, trap inside can or discard)
- Glass (empty and clean, remove lids and put in garbage)
- Plastics (empty and clean, remove lids and put in garbage)
Can you put takeaway boxes in recycling?
Takeaway boxes (plastic and cardboard) cannot be recycled using your local council’s kerbside recycling bin, bag or box or your local Household Waste Recycling Centre.
What do you do with Styrofoam Edmonton?
Large amounts can be taken to Edmonton Waste Management Centre (Clover Bar Landfill): 250 Aurum Road SE, Edmonton. Call 780-442-5311 for rates and hours of operation.
What bin does a pizza box go in?
Takeaway pizza boxes can be ripped up and placed in your green/brown bin. Aerosol cans (ensure aerosols are empty, do not crush or pierce) antiperspirant deodorant cans, airfreshner cans.
Can soiled pizza boxes be recycled?
Pizza boxes are made from corrugated cardboard, and when soiled with cheese, grease and other foods – they become a recycling no-go. … Typically only the top half of the box – the part that’s not soiled with grease, cheese or other food – can go into your curbside recycling bin.
Are cardboard food containers recyclable?
Paper or Cardboard Containers and Clamshells: These are often made from recycled materials and can be recycled themselves. Some are even biodegradable and compostable as long as they are thoroughly cleaned and haven’t soaked up any grease.
What can go in recycle Edmonton?
Paper, newspaper, boxes, tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic containers and bags are all acceptable items for any of our recycling programs. Note: Please do not put shredded paper in your blue bag or apartment blue bin. Take it to a Recycling Depot or put it in your garbage.
What plastic containers can be recycled?
Which Plastics Are Recyclable By Number?
- #1: PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate)
- #2: HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene)
- #3: PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride)
- #4: LDPE (Low-Density Polyethylene)
- #5: PP (Polypropylene)
- #6: PS (Polystyrene)
- #7: Polycarbonate, BPA, and Other Plastics.
What can you do with old takeaway containers?
Plastic takeaway containers can be re-used to store food or other items. If you can’t re-use them, they can be recycled in your yellow lid bin. Just make sure they’re clean – empty food and liquids.
Are Chinese takeout boxes recyclable?
If it’s a plastic container labeled #1 or #2, you can recycle it. … None of these can go into your recycling bin. Try to skip these items and materials in your next order and you can drastically cut down on the amount of trash you make. Those brown, red, and white paper takeout containers aren’t recyclable either.
Are Chinese takeout boxes compostable?
Chinese Food-Style Takeout Boxes
They should go in the compost, so you don’t even have to wash them out. (Just remove any metal wires.)
Is Styrofoam recyclable in Alberta?
Only a handful of Alberta communities accept Styrofoam for recycling, said Christina Seidel of the Recycling Council of Alberta. Unlike glass, there’s definitely a market for it, and you can sell it if you can make it dense enough to transport.
Can you recycle Styrofoam in Alberta?
We are expanding Polystyrene (EPS/Styrofoam) recycling throughout the Province of Alberta. We have recently purchased a Foam Recycling Compactor Machine that a like to GreenMax. We use a specialize machine that densifies EPS so it can then be recycled into manufacturing beads.
Are toothpaste boxes recyclable?
Paperboard Products: Recyclable
Paperboard products are recyclable as cardboard. These include: Soap boxes. Toothpaste boxes.
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Raring to Glow entrant completes walk 3 weeks early
While most walkers are gearing up for the Raring to Glow event, one supporter has already completed the 7 mile route!
A former cancer-sufferer from Oswaldtwistle completed the Raring to Glow walk more than 3 weeks early – when she realised she would be on holiday when it takes place.
Sixty-nine year old Carol Ratcliffe has completed the East Lancashire Hospice Starlight Walk twice before, one of those was just months after major surgery to remove cancer found in her bowel discovered during a routine screening.
This year she discovered she was on holiday when she received her registration pack – but was determined to do the walk as family and friends had already pledged sponsorship money. So Carol and her husband Michael, a retired vicar walked the exact route – following the hospice directions to complete the 7 mile circular. They started from their home in Stanhill Road which is on the route. To complete the feeling of doing the hospice walk, the couple even made sausage sandwiches as a well-deserved supper, just like the Raring to Glow participants will receive.
Carol, who works as a practice manager said: “When I realised I couldn’t make the date, I didn’t want to miss it. I decided I would do the walk anyway and decided on a Friday evening. I set off from my house which is on the new route with my husband Michael and we kept going all the way. We were excited about doing it and chatted all the way round which kept me going. When we got to the bottom of the hill at Shadsworth it looked quite steep, but we just took a deep breath and went for it! I always enjoy the hospice walks as it feels good to be walking for a purpose.”
She added that although she and her husband haven’t needed hospice care, they are aware of many that have: “Having worked in Pathology for 36 years in a hospital setting, I feel the need for the hospice. We’ve had friends that have passed away there. I doesn’t matter a person’s faith, or what money they have, the hospice exists to care for those who need it. It’s such an important place and so peaceful. It’s an asset for this area.”
But Carol has a routine bowel cancer screening programme to thank for her being able to complete the walks. After signing up for the Starlight Walk in 2013, she was diagnosed after her third routine screen and had no symptoms. She underwent a 5 hour operation and is under now under 5 year review after the successful procedure.
Walk in Carol’s footsteps on 4 July and join the hundreds of ladies who will light up the night in aid of the hospice.
Click here to sign up now – the £10 registration ends this Friday.
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https://eastlancshospice.org.uk/raring-to-glow-entrant-completes-walk-3-weeks
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“extra weight is a pain in the arse”
INSTRUCTIONS OF USE
1.Set up the indicator to the selected weight just before use.
2.The stool works as a scale. Sit carefully
3.Exceeding the predefined weight, the user gets an annoying push by the “punisher”.
4.Step on the liberator for immediate relief.
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https://o25.gr/red-dot-design-awards-_-the-punisher-_-shortlisted-participation/
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In Nyeri, near the base of Mt. Kenya, the Barichu Farmer’s Cooperative Society is comprised of 600-plus smallholder farmers, with plots so modest they’re usually measured by the number of trees on them, rather than parcel size. Gatomboya is a Kikuyu word for “swamp,” referring to the nearby Gatomboya River – water from which is used to wash and ferment coffees at the factory before they’re dried on raised beds. The Barichu Cooperative operates a coffee shop on the grounds of the factory (a local word akin to mill), that caters to travelers on the highway. The income allows the cooperative to reduce its overhead and so increase farmer incomes. It also contributes to the education of children in the region by renting out the extra space on its premises to a primary school and a college.
Coffee fact sheet
Kenya Barichu GatomboyaCooperative Coffee, Microlot
A coffee with soft and smooth body, a citric acidity and flavors of currants & berries.
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COVID-19 Vaccine; The Fire Watch; Book Club, 'Epoch'
As we all prepare for what could be a tough winter dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, the drug maker Pfizer announced Monday that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggests the vaccine is very effective in preventing Covid-19.
This is a promising development as the world waits anxiously for any positive news about a pandemic that has killed more than 1.2 million people.
Chad Nielsen, an infection prevention specialist at UF Health Jax; and Casey Ayers, a local patient who has been taking part in the COVID-19 vaccine Pfizer clinical trial in Jacksonville joined us with more.
Related: Local, State, And National Coronavirus Coverage
Wednesday is Veterans Day, and Jacksonville will observe the day with a traditional Downtown parade.
Additionally, we are spotlighting local organizations helping veterans on the First Coast all this week. The Fire Watch, whose mission is to stop veterans’ suicides, is one of them. General Mike Fleming, who chairs the organization, joined us to discuss its work.
Our First Coast Connect Book Club leader Stacey Goldring joined us with some suggestions that celebrate America - and are the perfect distraction from politics.
Epoch is a vibrant new collection of works featuring recognized artists from across the southeast. This exhibit is up now at the Florida Mining Gallery. Curator Marcus Kenney and gallery owner Steve Williams joined us with details.
Heather Schatz can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or on Twitter at @heatherschatz.
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