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November is here, herald-ing the beginning of the holiday season, including Thanksgiving! Do you have something to be grateful for this year that you would like to share with us? Join us on Facebook and let us know! Also, if you’re still looking for that perfect, affordable building plan, give us a call. We have an option that you’ll love to hear!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2022
#WelcomeWithDignity Denounces Hate Groups Immigration Proposals
Washington – The #WelcomeWithDignity campaign expressed grave concern with the anti-immigrant legislative priorities for the 118th Congress that extremist hate groups including the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) shared with Congressional leaders yesterday. These groups are committed to enacting cruel policies that would keep out people seeking safety, dismantle our asylum system, and eliminate the United States’ longstanding tradition of welcoming immigrants and refugees who enrich this country.
It is no surprise that organizations dedicated to excluding immigrants and advancing white nationalist objectives have presented such extreme and dangerous policy recommendations. Republicans and, to their shame, some Democrats are already embracing and advancing some of these policies. Proposals to extend the Trump-era asylum ban known as Title 42 – like the Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022 (S. 4036 / H.R. 7458) sponsored by Senators Sinema and Lankford – are aligned with the anti-immigrant agenda. While touted as a public health measure, we know that Title 42 has had no impact on limiting the spread of COVID-19, has been a hugely ineffective tool in managing migration and has always been about restricting access to asylum. By design, the policy has disparately harmed Black and brown immigrants seeking safety.
“Rather than being complicit and carrying out the legislative demands of hate groups and former Trump officials, we expect our leaders to support and work towards building a fair and humane immigration system,” said Melina Roche, Campaign Manager of #WelcomeWithDignity. “We urge Senate to reject legislation or any efforts that mandate the continuation of Title 42, which is a threat to our asylum system. We implore Congressional leaders to work with #WelcomeWithDignity partners to restore access to asylum at the border and create a more fair, humane, and orderly system that lives up to our values as a nation that welcomes people fleeing persecution. Our partners at the border, in Washington, and across the nation stand ready to help ensure that America keeps its promise to protect the vulnerable and upholds its obligation, enshrined in our laws, to never send people back to persecution or torture.”
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Uwezo’s annual learning assessments have in only five years become the gold standard for finding out whether our children are learning. Each year they assess children in their homes and put out reports detailing their findings for Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and the region. The cyclical nature of Uwezo’s work and the fact that there have been few changes in the data over the period meant that they had to do something else if they wanted policy makers to concentrate on quality. If Uwezo was to approach its goal of increasing literacy and numeracy by ten percentage points they realised they would have to raise their voices.
The African Population and Health Research Center is a world-renowned pan-African research institution that conducts high quality policy-relevant research on population, health, education, urbanization and related development issues across Africa. APHRC actively engages policymakers and other key stakeholders to achieve measurable policy impacts and ensure decision making across the continent is informed by rigorous evidence-based research.
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Celebrate Mother’s Day with a delicious, nourishing brunch spread. Whether your mom (or favorite mother-figure) is vegan, gluten-free, or eats all the things, here’s a list of recipes to make for Mother’s Day brunch. And in case you need gift inspo, here’s a link to my Mother’s Day gift guide.
Homemade Bloody Marys by Cookie + Kate. This bloody mary mix is made from scratch with basic ingredients.
Healthy Matcha Latte by the Busy Baker. This healthy matcha latte is a delicious way to enjoy the earthy flavor and health benefits of matcha green tea in a creamy latte. Make it without refined sugar, dairy-free and vegan.
Antipasto Salad by Well Seasoned Studio. This quick and simple antipasto salad is loaded with Italian cold cuts, fresh mozzarella cheese, marinated veggies, olives, and then tossed with a seriously flavorful Italian vinaigrette.
Citrus Salad by Love and Lemons. This citrus salad will brighten up your brunch spread. It’s refreshing, light, and filled with flavor from fennel, fresh mint, avocado, and more.
Avocado Toast by Cookie + Kate. An avocado toast bar (with different breads, chopped herbs, veggies, and seeds) is a brunch crowd-pleaser. With a variety of toppings, there’s something for everyone at the table.
Shakshuka by Downshiftology. Shakshuka is an easy, healthy breakfast recipe in Israel and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa. It’s a simple combination of simmering tomatoes, onions, garlic, spices and gently poached eggs. It’s nourishing and filling. Otherwise, this Spring Vegetable Frittata is a stunning, one-skillet meal. It’s loaded with spring’s finest greens, creamy goat cheese, and fresh herbs.
Almond Flour Pancakes by Love and Lemons. These almond flour pancakes are light, fluffy, and filled with delicious nutty flavor. They’re a satisfying, gluten-free breakfast or brunch addition.
Vegan Strawberry Crumble Muffins by The First Mess. These are tender, full of fruit, and perfectly finished with a buttery and crunchy pecan topping.
Paleo Banana Bread by Paleo Running Mama. This hearty yet soft (and moist) paleo banana bread is made with no grains or sugar. It’s nourishing and delicious, sweetened only with bananas. My lemon poppy seed bread is equally delicious too.
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Following the loss of DjSnyper’s Studio equipments and money by theft. Sesheke based female tactic’ Rapper/Singer Zany and Hip-hop artist-rapper Mumble Jumble decided to sell their first collabo titled “Tonight” as a way of engaging their fans in the on going contributions. This song was produced by Martoh, and it is selling at K10. The monies which will be collected will later be sent to Djsnyper. Below is the procedure for the transactions.
Send money to Mobile numbers:
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Last weekend my husband, Leigh (isn’t he gorgeous?!) celebrated 25 years in business, 11 in it’s current format. It’s no mean feat to still be in a business that you started when you are 23. We’ve been together for 17 of those years so whilst I wasn’t around in the years he worked out of his parent’s avocado packing shed, or was sleeping on his customer’s floors, I think I’ve seen enough to learn a few things that I can apply to my business. Here are a few lessons I’ve learnt which I hope might help you too whatever you’re up to in your work-life. Enjoy this break-from-food-and-oils-post… I know it’s different to the norm, but I am too proud of him not to write it.
Let me say from the outset that Leigh is an engineer. A creative entrepreneurial engineer in the electronics field. He thinks like an engineer, researches like an engineer and problem solves like an engineer. I have never worked with him in his business and it’s highly unlikely that I ever will, I’m not an engineer and to be honest not interested in electronics other than for the latest ‘gadget’. Leigh’s business is very different with a business partner and staff of 50 compared to my work-from-home 1 person business, but I love that we can learn from each other in all sorts of ways.
Business is hard work. It is a long term thing.
It’s easy to look at a business that is ‘successful’ and think that business is easy. That they were lucky or it happened quickly. There is that saying that ‘X is an overnight success’ when what you haven’t seen are the past 10-20+ years of hard work and failures. There is no such thing as an overnight success. Business requires a whole lot of hard work over a loooong period of time of serving your customers and your staff. Turning up day after day, year after year, doing the same thing, not flitting from idea to idea and expecting to make a quick buck. Maybe that happens, I’ve never seen it. I can see that business is for the long haul.
Business requires stickability.
There have been times, many times where Leigh has wanted to quit. The load has been too heavy, the responsibilities too great. The rewards not big enough. The quiet life in the country has been calling, and yet, he’s still at it. He hasn’t quit. He’s pushed on. He has valued his staff and his customers and his God-given skills enough to keep going and see the rewards in the long term. Success in business I’ve learnt is in riding out the hard times. Not giving up. Enjoying the small successes and looking back at what has been achieved (as that is so easy to forget).
2 steps forward, 1 step back.
There have been times when Leigh and his company have poured lots and lots of hours and dollars into products that haven’t worked. In the worst case we are talking a 7-figure amount. They have always had a variety of products and customers, so it’s been ok, but demoralising to have your hopes for the ‘big one’ to get away. That’s why you press on, take on what you can afford and know when to let go. Business is not a linear journey, much like your health or life. It’s full of ups and downs. One rejection or failed venture does not mean that YOU are a failure or that you are bad at business. It just means you have to take stock, shift gears, reassess and keep going.
Get help when you need it.
It’s important to know when you’ve reached your limit and get help. For Leigh this was about 12 years ago. He’d grown his business into a thriving small business but was worn out. He’d reached the limit of what he know and his capacity for business. Then, in walked his now business partner who had (& still does) a complimentary set of skills, experience and personality. After 6 months of working together weekly on a plan to go into partnership (I told you, detailed engineer), a match made in heaven was born. Pieter and Leigh work brilliantly together. Being in partnership has shared the load, helped the business to expand, and given longevity to Leigh in business. I can see that whilst we have the capacity to learn a lot (a lot more than we often think), it’s smart to outsource, employ out of your skill set and not pretend that you have to do it all.
Be a caring boss.
On Friday night at the big celebration I spoke to a number of the staff who told me that they LOVE coming to work. That this is the first place that they have loved the people they work with. I was brought to tears with one lady who Leigh has tried to help her son by giving him some work and supporting her through some tough times. He cares about the people who work for him, he really cares. Many of their staff work flexible hours and travel a long way to get to work. They have such a lovely camaraderie amongst production staff, engineers and the office staff. Here is what one new employee posted on Facebook (it filtered it’s way back to Leigh & Pieter… as it always does and is shared with permission!). This says it all.
This is something Leigh has learnt largely from being part of my family of celebrators for a long time now. My family love to party and to celebrate. Perhaps this 11th birthday party celebration will be the start of more company celebrations, I don’t know, that’s not my call, but I love that last week we celebrated with staff & their families, customers and suppliers the journey to date of IEDEC (Leigh’s first business) and Elexon. It’s important to acknowledge the success (& failures) and to have fun together! At the end of the party these ladies just grabbed Leigh into this pose, and happy to be the life of the party ever now and again, he got into the spirit!! You should also have seen the smoke machine, laser lights, disco and the dancing astronaut routine a few of them put together (not sure I’ll get permission to upload it onto YouTube to show you!
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The Princess and The Snow Pea
There once was a Princess who loved to cook.
I she was growing up, my her family had a huge garden and my her favorite thing that was grown were snow peas. Each time the delicate plants produced enough peas to host a large side dish, I she was out there finding the hidden pods, ready to make my her signature dish, sauteed garlic ginger snow peas. I The Princess had a bit of an obsession with those succulent green beauties. It was wonderful having them grow abundantly in my her family’s garden, just waiting to be picked and eaten.
It had been a while since
I’ve she’d lived at home but my her recent trip back home reminded me her that it was time to throw snow peas back into my her life.
This dish is exactly what
I she would make for my family and it’s every bit as tasty as I she remembers. Only slightly missing the extra love from the ones I she used to eat it with.
Sauteed Garlic Ginger Snow Peas
- Fresh snow peas, washed and de-stemmed
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Fresh garlic, minced or crushed
- Fresh ginger, minced or crushed
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Extras: sweet white onions, leeks
Heat oil in a large skillet. Add the onions and leeks, cooking until softened. Add all of the remaining ingredients, sauteing the peas until tender but still slightly crisp, about 10 minutes.
If you’re feeling like filling your body with nourishing greens, like this Princess was, serve the snow peas with red quinoa, more sauteed onions, and a large green salad.
After eating all of her greens, the princess turned into the most beautiful ruler of the
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With all the pressures people face everyday in their personal and professional lives, it's obvious why mood stabilizers are so popular. Even though there are many natural mood stabilizing supplements, most people think that prescription drugs as the first choice for treating depression. The pros and cons of prescription antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs are debated every day on TV, on the Internet and among medical professionals. It's hard to know what to believe, as some of the research findings seem to contradict each other.
Be Proactive about Your Mood Stabilizing Plan
Before talking to your doctor about prescribing an antidepressant or anti-anxiety drug, you should review your symptoms. Discuss your symptoms with a trusted friend or family member and do some self-assessment. When do you feel sad or anxious? What do you think causes such feeling, and how can you better deal with these emotions? A proactive approach may yield answers without spending money on doctor and therapist visits.
Once you've pinpointed the triggers for your occasional depression or anxiety, you can work on solving the problems that cause your depression or anxiety. You'll also want to make lifestyle changes, too – exercise more, get more sunshine, meditate, and eat healthier foods.These changes contribute to better physical health, prevent disease and lead to a trimmer, slimmer figure.
The List of Prescription Medications for Long-Term Depression Continues to Increase
Mood stabilizers include prescription antidepressants such as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and Lexapro. SSRIs are among the most popular and highly prescribed antidepressants. Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs) include Cymbalta, Effexor XR, Pristiq, Fetzima. While not as well-known as SSRIs, these medications and others are sometimes prescribed for long-term, clinical depression.
It's hard to keep up with all the new prescription medications for depression and anxiety, as there are over 100 currently listed just to treat depression. Many more are being tested, while others leave the market for various reasons.
Prescription Mood Stabilizing Drugs Are a Common Treatment Choice, But They're Not Always The Best One
Some medical doctors recognize the failings of prescription antidepressants in all but the most severe cases. Depending on the patient, natural mood enhancers, exercise and meditation may take the place of antidepressants or be used to supplement them.
Antidepressant side effects include: interactions with food, alcohol or other medications (common with Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, or MAOIs), blurred vision, sexual dysfunction, nausea, insomnia, fatigue, weight gain, irritability and suicidal thoughts. Although prescription antidepressants (or anti-anxiety medications) may be the best treatment for some people, natural mood stabilizers and lifestyle changes can produce good results for many people with mild to moderate depression or anxiety. The natural method will take up more time than swallowing a pill a few times a day, but the results are often just as good or better, without the bothersome or potentially harmful side effects.
A Wheatgrass Supplement is an Excellent Natural Mood Stabilizer
Wheatgrass is a wholesome, natural supplement that contributes to dozens of bodily processes. When used as one of the ingredients in a holistic mood stabilizer, wheatgrass will make a difference in your energy, mental clarity and mood.
Anyone can benefit from including wheatgrass in their daily health routine. The nutrients in this super food include chlorophyll, a substance which is to plants what blood is to humans. Chlorophyll provides the basis for the nutrients in wheatgrass, including magnesium, B-complex vitamins, Vitamins A, C and E, amino acids and enzymes. These vitamins, minerals and nutrients are all essential for good physical and emotional health. The link between poor nutrition and mood disorders like anxiety and depression is well-documented. Lack of B-complex vitamins, in particular, can lead to anxious thoughts and sadness. Left unchecked, these feelings may develop into longstanding depression.
Some More Facts about Why Mood Stabilizers are So Popular - Anxiety Disorders: Cause and Effect
The cause of depression or mood instability differs, depending on each person's health, medical history, diet, attitude and life circumstances. There's no one-size-fits all scenario for depression, anxiety or mood disorder. Mood stabilizers are so popular for many reasons, including the hectic pace of life and the inability for some people to “keep up with it all” without becoming tense or depressed. Finding it hard to cope with everyday problems and emergencies can manifest itself in headaches, ulcers, lowered immunity, insomnia, teeth grinding (bruxism), high blood pressure, loss of sexual desire and chest pain.
Focus on a Natural Cure for Anxiety
Emotional and cognitive problems caused by anxiety can be dealt with easily if you're occasionally unable to handle stress. Meditation, deep breathing, exercising or listening to music are helpful way to get rid of negative energy and refocus on living-and thinking without tension. Enduring long-term stress without proper channels for releasing it contributes to an inability to focus, fidgeting, nail biting, poor judgment and forgetfulness. These behaviors may lead to problems at work or school, fights with loved ones, or even accidents or injuries due to a lack of focus. Ongoing stress and anxiety shouldn't be ignored. Treat it like you would any physical health issue.
Prescription Anxiety Medications: An Overview
Controlling the stress that fuels these problems can be approached with a combination of therapy, behavior modification and lifestyle changes. In extreme cases, an anti-anxiety medication may be indicated. Prescription anti-anxiety drugs are used to treat post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), social anxiety, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Antidepressant drugs (SSRIs) may be prescribed for anxiety disorders, but a host of medications are available. Doctors sometimes prescribe Beta-blockers, serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), antihistamines, Alpha-blockers or monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) for anxiety disorders.
Extracts and Herbs Used as Mood Enhancers : A Quick Look
Not all anxiety problems require prescription medication. Most mood fluctuations are temporary, and are easily stabilized by natural methods. Natural mood stabilizers are made with ingredients such as wheatgrass, ginger, cayenne pepper, green tea extract, ginseng, citrus aurantium and guarana extract. These holistic remedies do more than just boost your mood. They contribute to better energy and immunity, and some of them may even lower blood pressure or help prevent diabetes or heart disease. Taking a natural mood stabilizer does a lot more than alleviative temporary melancholy or anxiety.
Let's look at some of the herbs and extracts used in natural mood stabilizers. Keep in mind that all of these nutrients serve more than one purpose, and may be used in weight management or energy supplements, as well as mood enhancing supplements. They are completely natural, have no harmful side effects, and can be used by men, women and teens.
Citrus Aurantium - Safer than Ephedra with Anxiety-Reducing Qualities
Citrus aurantium, better known as bitter orange, has gained popularity as a replacement for ephedra in some weight loss supplements. It has sedative qualities, and can help reduce anxiety. Bitter orange contains bioflavonoids, which have anti-inflammatory and cancer-fighting properties. Historically, bitter orange has been used as a remedy for insomnia and anxiety in Brazilian folk medicine and as a preventative agent for colon and skin cancer in U.S. alternative medicine.
Uva Ursi To Fight Inflammation and Promote Cell Growth
Uva Ursi, also called bearberry, has anti-bacterial effects and is used to fight inflammation. Used for centuries as a diuretic and treatment for urinary tract infections (UTI), uva ursi contains allantoin, which is helpful in treating wounds and promoting the growth of new cells.
Ginseng - A Popular Mood Stabilizer and More
Ginseng, long one of the most recommended herbal medicines in Asia,is used in mood stabilizing supplements to promote energy and endurance, calm nerves and increase mental focus. It boosts the brain's capillary circulation to reduce ill effects caused by stress. It is used by some practitioners to regulate a woman's menstrual periods and increase fertility. When used in conjunction with ginkgo biloba (also an ingredient in some mood enhancers), ginseng's properties become even more potent.
Green Tea Extract Offers Many Positive Benefits for the Body and Mind
Green tea extract contains polyphenols, healing antioxidants that boost immunity and may prevent cancer. The tannins in green tea extract help flush out toxins. Green tea increases energy without the crash and burn effect caused by sugar or the caffeine in coffee. According to Herbwisdom.com, green tea extract may help prevent osteoarthritis or reduce its effects if you already have it. It reduces cholesterol, stabilizes blood pressure and exhibits anti-aging properties. All these qualities are bonuses when added to its calmative agents, which work well in mood enhancing supplements.
B-Complex Vitamins - A Key to Better Mood, Energy and Focus
Many natural mood enhancing supplements contain herbs, vitamins and minerals to curb the effects of stress. If your anxiety is work-related, consider increasing your intake of B-complex vitamins. Nutrition Journal published an article in its December 2014 edition highlighting planned research involving the effects of B vitamins on workplace stress. The article concludes “Dietary supplementation with B group vitamins may be an economically viable and sustainable intervention.”
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Dracoo In DracooMaster
Dracoo consists of six parts: horn, face, body, tail, wings, and back. Among them, horns, tail, wings and back determine the four proactive skills that a Dracoo can use during a battle, while body and face represent the two passive skills of a Dracoo.
Dracoo's body and face will provide the Dracoo with base attribute bonuses. Body will provide a much more obvious improvement in Health, Strength and Resilience.
Each Dracoo part carries dominant and recessive genes. When a Dracoo is engaged in breeding with another Dracoo, the child will inherit the body parts of its predecessors.
Dracoo has 3 base attributes, namely Health, Strength and Resilience
- Health: Determines the maximum amount of damage that a Dracoo can take during a battle. Dracoo will die when its Health becomes 0.
- Strength: Determines the point of base damage that a Dracoo can deal during a battle. The higher Strength a Dracoo has, the more damage it can deal using attack skills.
- Resilience: Determines the point of base Armor that a Dracoo can obtain during a battle. The higher Resilience a Dracoo has, the more points of Armor it can obtain using defensive skills.
Dracoo parts are divided into 4 rarity levels: Common, Rare, Super Rare and Specially Super Rare.
The rarer the parts are, the better effects and stronger cards. The cards, corresponding to these rare parts, will also become the key to determining the strength of the entire deck.
Some Dracoos will have a mystic special effect awakened on his body parts when they are born. Such parts are called mystic parts.
Mystic parts will increase the base attributes of a Dracoo, and the increased attributes are related to the attributes of the mystic parts themselves:
- Lava mystic part: increase Dracoo's Strength
- Ocean mystic part: increase Dracoo's Resilience
- Plant mystic part: will increase Dracoo's Health.
You can use the $BAS and$ DRA that you get for reaching the summit of the Sacred Peak to craft an item called creation module fragment. Using creation module fragments, you can design the appearance of Dracoo's body parts, and sell them as your exclusive NFT digital artworks on the market.
You can color a Dracoo as you like, print your favorite singer's image on the wings of your Dracoos and even draw brand new body parts by yourself.
Special Dracoo images produced using creation module fragments will be voted by the Dracoo community. The most popular artworks will become Dracoo characters available for playing in the game after the game is updated.
The most important attribute in the world of DracooMaster is Power. Power has a direct effect on the maximum BAS you can earn per day and your gaming experience. In DracooMaster, every Dracoo has its own point of Power, which is calculated based on its body parts and attributes. The rarer a Dracoo is, the higher initial point of Power it has. Power bonus generated by level-up and evolution is also based on the initial Power of the Dracoo.
In the adventure mode, the level of earnings is calculated by adding up the Power of all Dracoos and NFT summoners in the account. Starting with the base 1,025 points, level of earnings and daily maximum earnings will be increased by one level every time another 550 points are obtained, and reduced by one level every time 200 points are lost. Therefore, Power is what really matters when it comes to making earnings in the game. With a high point of Power, you are guaranteed to make large earnings in the game.
Please also note that if your Power is less than 425 points, your level of earnings will be calculated based on 425 points.
Every Dracoo part can be enhanced twice, which means a Dracoo can be enhanced up to 12 times. Only after all parts are enhanced to level 1 can level 2 start.
Once enhanced to level 1, cards and corresponding passive skills will have their attributes improved. Players can spend relatively fewer $BAS to increase the power of their Dracoos. Level 2 enhancement will add card animations and special body shapes.
When a Dracoo is enhanced to the max level, it will get fascinating special effects and flash effects.
A Dracoo can evolve 12 times maximum. Each evolution will improve Dracoo's base attributes and greatly increase its power. The 6th and 12th evolution will grant Dracoos unique physical characteristics.
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Making your own low carb egg drop soup recipe at home is super easy and simple! In under 15 minutes, you can have an authentic bowl of Chinese egg drop soup that'll be the best you've ever tasted with a bonus of just 52 calories and 0.6 net carbs per serving. This is a healthy egg drop soup without corn starch, no thickener is needed! It's a Whole Lotta Yum and so delicious!
Homemade Egg Drop Soup
Being able to make your own keto egg drop soup recipe at home is a win win, you can customize it however you want plus it's much healthier than getting Chinese take-out. If you're been wondering if egg drop soup is healthy when you make your own it definitely is. Even if you aren't eating low carb or gluten-free, you'll appreciate this healthy egg drop soup recipe since it's easy to customize by adding in chicken or vegetables and it's a great for meal prep or weight loss too. And if you are watching your carbs, it's essentially a zero carb soup recipe too!
Our Chinese egg drop soup recipe is so tasty and easy, you might not ever order it from a restaurant again! Seriously! And if you're making a larger homemade batch, it's easy to make an Instant Pot egg drop soup too.
What makes this the Best Egg Drop Soup Recipe
- The simple low carb egg drop soup cooks in less than 15 minutes
- It's literally the BEST recipe!
- This is a keto egg drop soup, plus GF, paleo and low carb
- You easily add hearty ingredients like chicken, shrimp, mushrooms, tofu, noodles or corn
- It'll satisfy Chinese soup cravings with basic pantry ingredients
- Wondering about the carbs in egg drop soup? Just 0.6 per serving!
What Is Egg Drop Soup?
When you go out to a Chinese restaurant or an Asian Fusion place to eat, there's almost always egg drop soup on the menu. Sometimes it'll automatically come with your meal, but I'm sure many have heard of Chinese egg drop soup even if you haven't yet tried it yourself.
Egg drop soup is a simple Chinese soup recipe with seasoned broth, ginger, garlic, and soy with strands of cooked egg "ribbons" floating throughout the tasty Asian broth.
Easy Egg Drop Soup ingredients
Our egg drop soup keto recipe mostly just uses basic pantry ingredients. Sesame oil is essential but if you love Asian recipes at home, it's a must in your pantry.
- chicken broth - chicken broth, chicken stock, or vegetable broth
- large eggs
- soy sauce, tamari or coconut aminos - both tamari and coconut aminos are gluten free and are the best options if you're on a strict keto diet.
- grated fresh ginger - we love to buy frozen minced ginger cubes from Trader Joe's, it makes it easy to always have ginger on hand for Asian-inspired dishes.
- Sesame oil - this is an essential ingredient to the recipe, it won't taste like an authentic egg drop without it.
- garlic salt - we love the large Costco container of garlic salt, table salt and garlic powder can be use too.
- green onions
- salt and pepper to taste
- optional- red pepper flakes, sriracha sauce
Easy egg drop soup is very easy to double or triple! As written, the soup serves four 1 cup servings.
Some egg drop soup recipes use cornstarch as a thickener, we love this soup as is and don't feel it needs thickening, so this is also a low carb egg drop soup recipe without cornstarch. We do tell you how to add it in the recipe instructions, by chance you want it a little thicker.
If you don't have fresh ginger but you do have dried ginger, you can swap the fresh for 1 teaspoon of dried ginger. One of my favorite cooking hacks is to buy frozen grated ginger from Trader Joes, no grating required! We just pop the 1 teaspoon cubes into the pot.
Egg Soup variations
Other popular ways to make egg drop soup:
- with wontons
- with corn
- with tomato sauce
- with chicken
- with seaweed
- with vegetables
Any of these can be mixed into our easy recipe and then simmer until the addition is cooked through.
If you've been wondering is egg drop soup gluten free? Many people who can't have gluten stay away from soy sauce. To keep the egg drop soup gluten free be sure to use wheat free Tamari sauce instead of the soy or use coconut aminos.
You can also use either soy sauce, wheat-free and gluten-free soy (also known as tamari sauce), OR you can use coconut aminos, which is a soy substitute without sugar, gluten, and is paleo/Whole 30 friendly.
Egg drop soup vegetarian version- simply swap the chicken broth for vegetable broth and this becomes a vegetarian egg drop soup recipe.
How to Make Egg Drop Soup
With just a couple quick steps, you'll have the keto egg drop soup on the table...all you need to do is simmer the ingredients in a pot and then slowly stir in beaten eggs to form the ribbons. Easy peasy!
- Add the chicken broth, soy sauce (or tamari or coconut aminos), ginger, sesame oil, and garlic salt to a medium pot. Heat on medium-high until the seasoned broth starts to boil. Turn the soup down to low and simmer.
- Beat the eggs in a small bowl.
- While constantly stirring the broth mixture, slowly stir in the eggs in one direction to create the egg “ribbons.”
- Add the sliced green onion to the pot, season with salt and pepper if desired. Divide the soup between 2-4 soup bowls. Enjoy!
Tips for Homemade Egg Drop Soup
- Making the soup spicier- Add a sprinkle of red pepper flakes or sriracha sauce.
- To thicken the egg drop soup- If you want to thicken the egg drop soup, add up to 2 tablespoon of corn starch along with the cold broth, soy/tamari/coconut aminos, ginger and sesame oil before heating it. Whisk until smooth to keep the corn starch from clumping. Many people following a low carb diet use arrowroot or zanthan gum as a thicken instead.
- Tasty additions- cooked chicken, tofu, keto palmini noodles, rice noodles, mushrooms or corn (if you aren't following low carb).
- Add the eggs in a slow steady stream while you're stirring the soup at the same time for best egg results. If you stir the eggs in too slow you'll get short egg bits instead of the pretty ribbons you're used to with this soup.
- Make a larger batch and freeze some for later!
How to store Homemade Egg Drop Soup
Store: Cool the homemade egg drop soup before transferring to an airtight container. Refrigerate and eat it within 3-4 days.
Reheat: Add the soup to a pot. Warm it over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally until it’s heated through. Don’t boil the soup since that can cause the eggs to toughen.
Freeze: Once the soup is fully cooled, pour it into a freezer-safe container, leaving room for expansion. Freeze for up to 2-3 months, for best quality.
Easy Egg Drop Soup Recipe FAQs
If you've been following a low carb or keto diet, you might be wondering if this is a keto egg drop soup recipe too. And the answer is definitely YES! It's literally one of the best keto meals for beginners you can find since it's easy, cheap, and filling.
This honestly makes one of the BEST soups for keto because it's almost carb-free, just uses simple ingredients found in many kitchens, and whips up in just 15 minutes.
When you're hungry on keto and need something to fill you up that still has fat and protein, but not a lot of calories or carbs, egg drop soup on keto is an amazing soup option.
The core ingredients in low carb egg drop soup are chicken broth, eggs, sesame oil, a sprinkle of green onions, and a seasoning like soy/gluten free soy (tamari), or coconut aminos.
If you're wondering how many carbs in egg drop soup, there are ONLY 0.6 net carbs per serving depending on what brands of ingredients you're using! Yep....you got that right, the egg drop soup carbs are less than 1 net carb per cup!
Chicken broth, eggs, and sesame oil all have NO carbs. Making sure to use either Tamari sauce or coconut aminos instead of regular soy sauce (that has sugar) will make this an almost no carb soup recipe. Who knew you could make a filling soup with so little carbs.
We used the San-J brand Tamari found at most grocery stores that is gluten-free and sugar-free, it has just 1 carb per Tbsp....which means the soup only has 0.25 carbs per serving before adding a sprinkle of green onion.
And then the optional green onions have a total of 1.5 net carbs for 2 of them, which is an easy thing to cut back on. And even making the recipe as stated with green onions or scallions only adds 0.35 net carbs to each serving.
My mind was blown when I realized the total egg drop soup carbs are only 0.6 per cup of soup!
Most restaurant egg drop soup recipes call for corn starch to thicken the soup, but honestly, it isn't needed at all! The eggs act as a natural thickener and honestly egg drop soup tastes better without corn starch. You can mix in a bit of arrowroot powder or xanthan gum for a gluten-free low carb thickener if preferred.
The nutrition of egg drop soup is honestly pretty surprising! Besides having less than one net carb per serving, this tasty and filling bowl of soup has under 100 calories per cup.
The specific brand you are using for the ingredients can change the nutrition of egg drop soup, be sure to check the labels. Our chicken broth, eggs, and sesame oil were from Trader Joe's, and the San-J Tamari came from Kroger.
Egg drop soup nutrition per ½ cup
Egg drop soup Calories- 52
Fat- 4 g
Cholesterol- 92 g
Sodium- 760 g
Carbs- 0.6 g
Protein 4 g
This low carb keto egg drop soup recipe keeps for up to 3 days in the fridge. It's easy to reheat in the microwave or on the stovetop in a small pot.
Egg drop soup is a traditional Chinese soup that is often described as savory, slightly salty, and comforting. The primary flavors come from the chicken broth base, which is typically seasoned with a bit of soy sauce or sesame oil. The "egg drops" in the soup, formed by whisking raw eggs into the hot broth, have a soft, silky texture that adds a subtle richness to the soup without imparting a strong egg flavor. You can also add things such as green onions, peas, corn, or tofu, which can slightly change the flavor too.
No, while you use raw eggs in egg drop soup, the eggs in the final soup recipe are cooked. You beat raw eggs and then slowly pouring them into hot, boiling broth. The heat from the broth cooks the eggs almost instantly, turning them into thin, delicate ribbons or "drops" throughout the soup.
The egg ribbons in the soup help to thicken the soup in addition, some recipes call for corn starch to thicken it up too.
More Low Carb Soups
If you love our delicious keto egg drop soup, be sure to try our other popular low carb soup recipes!
- chicken zucchini noodle soup
- crock-pot taco soup
- broccoli cheddar soup
- stuffed pepper soup
- Whole30 zuppa toscana soup recipe
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In Victorian times, and beyond, the grieving wore black for a year after their loss. In fact, they were expected to do so. I think that even without that custom and more’, we would gravitate toward dressing in dark, dull and drab colors. After all, in those early days, weeks and months, our spirits are just crushed and our worlds appear dim. We don’t really see much color in our world.
As for the custom of dressing in black for the first year? I don’t think anyone grieving should be shoved into doing anything they don’t want to do, but the idea behind it may have some merit. We know about the year of firsts, as we go through the first of each of the holidays, special occasions, and anniversaries. Black wardrobes during that difficult year of firsts served as a reminder to others to be a little more considerate, a little more thoughtful and tender toward the griever.
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So here’s what I think. I think, in fact I know, the day will come that you start seeing color in your world again, hopefully, sooner rather than later. It’s quite literally a brightening of how you see things, and it’s hard to describe if you haven’t experienced it. When that happens, and believe that it will, it’s time to make a conscious effort to add color back into your wardrobe, too.
Start with what you have in your closet. Are there blouses and tops in favorite shades that you haven’t worn for a while? Make a point of reaching for those again when you get dressed. In fact, make a special effort to wear something cheerful on rainy days. You’ll be pleasantly surprised how your mood lifts. Discard or give away anything, any color in your closet that you don’t feel good in. Remember, this is a form of grief therapy. It’s not wasteful, it’s healthy! Somebody else can wear that shade of greige that makes you look grim.
The next step is to seek some additions to your closet rainbow. Look for the hues you know are becoming, the ones people always tell you are good on you. Next, go beyond those colors. Did you avoid wearing green because your husband hated it? Maybe it reminded him of his rival football team or a co-worker he didn’t like, but you love it? Now’s the time to give it a shot!
Find out whether yours is a warm or cool complexion and hair if you don’t know for sure. Whether within those two categories you look better in soft or bold shades. Try on colors you have never worn before. Take a friend shopping with you and get some feedback. If you’re feeling really brave, try on some red! There’s a shade of red for everyone; it’s just a matter of finding which one is your red. Merle Norman Studios offer makeovers to teach you how to apply your best look. They’ve also recently developed online purchasing at Merle Norman Online. I’ve used their products for decades and love them! Find your colors and then wear them!
Two things will happen when you do. You will find that the more cheerful shades will elevate your spirits and that interactions with other people will be lighter, more cheerful too. Friends, people around you won’t even be conscious of why they smile when they see you, but they will. Maybe it’s because, subconsciously, they see you are doing better and they are pleased about it, but there will be a subtle shift. There will be a subtle shift everywhere you look, and you’ll be all the brighter for it.
Bring on the rainbow!
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Chillvibez4craft, priorly known as ClanofwadaC30, was a member of the Arcadian Altanate, and the town of Kais Jerriko. His location of birth is unknown but his only known living family member wass the demigod Billy Jr. who resided in the basement of Atolia before being murdered.
Life before Arcadia
Chill knows not the location of his birth, as his mother was a traveling whore. She was born through an egg, as that is Billy Jr’s way of reproduction. This left her the same as him, ½ demigod, ½ chicken. Billy Jr. kicked her out however, as he wished for a son, not a daughter. Unlike Billy Jr., she took on more of the demigod traits than chicken traits, causing her to reproduce normally. Her job as a traveling whore caused her womb to be a bit of a mixing pot, as she was bought by many species. This caused Chill to have many genetic attributes from races such as the elves and dwarfs. So Chill’s genetic breakdown is ¼ chicken, ⅛ god, ⅛ human, ⅛ dwarf, ⅛ elf, and ¼ orc, he believes that his father must be orc due to the large amount of Orcish blood he has. His mother has since died to a multitude of STDs, causing Chill to hate the idea of untested, unprotected sex.
After the death of his mother when he was 2, he traveled to Atolia to meet his grandfather. When he got there, his grandfather said he could not truly be considered his grandson until he completed a quest to unite people under one banner and lead them in some sort of battle. As Chill was only 3 when he was told this, Billy Jr. did not require it immediately but instead trained him in combat till he was 18.
The adventure begins
By this age, Chill was a master of the sword, ax, bow, and barroom brawling. At this age Chill traveled to the continent of Prospit under the name ClanofwadaC30 and founded the town of Jerricho on the Northernmost tip of this continent. He had found a small unofficial town with two builders in it, Potipoti, and Pzychosocial. These two builders agreed to cede control of the town over to Clan with the promise that once he created a nation or moved on, they would be given ownership of the town under his banner. Here he gathered a small army to take over the continent, and the only conflict they had was an unwarranted attack. One of Clans friends had said they had been threatened by Game Glider SKG, so he took his small army and assaulted him. After the attack Clan got into contact with Glider and the whole issue was explained. Clan reimbursed Glider for the trouble and ousted the liar who claimed to be attacked out of his town. However, this conflict sadly heralded the end for Clan’s small town, as all of the other members except the original builders left to follow the liar. With the crushing of his dream, he decided to go and explore the outer reaches of the world. The town he left was later renamed Isvik.
The Time away
Clan headed out east for the next 4 years to lands beyond what is mapped. In these lands, he learned the secrets of forestry and woodcraft. Little is known about what he did during this time, as he had no living companions and he refuses to comment on what happened, but it is assumed that he either found a dead great dragon or through some means managed to slay one, as when he returned he brought with him the great skull of a dragon. He also picked up one more thing from his travels, a set of dragon bone and dragon steel armor. It is believed that he bonded with a sickly hatchling which he tried to help and raise up, but it sadly perished. Due to his raising of this beast, it is believed that he had some form of communication with it and that the dragon wished to give its body to make the only creature that had helped it stronger. Clan’s emotional attachment to this causes him to be angered by anyone who questions his helmet, as it is the skull of the dragon. After this loss, he headed back to civilization with the remains of his companion, and the skull of the great beast he located.
Upon his return, he first visited his old town, Isvik. The town had not grown much in his absence, just a small population increase as well as a few houses. He greeted the new owner and got any gear that was left there before he headed back to his grandfather. When he got there Billy Jr. was still in the basement of Atolia island, but he gave him a new mission after he learned of Clan’s failure with the first. He told him to remake the town of Jericho under a different name as part of the Arcadian people, then raise it up. Billy Jr. told him that after he completed this, that he must try the first mission again, but this time to protect the people who so readily accepted him. He must build a fort along the border and be the Margrave of Arcadia. He met back up with Glider, who harbored no ill will, and brought Clan to meet the Altan of the Arcadian Altanate, IAmTheSenate13. Senate asked if Clan wished to create a new town or join an existing one. Clan chose to make a new town over the remains of an ancient village. He built walls around this town and with the help of other Arcadians’, he created a thriving, protected town in two days. He now plans for his fort along the border and helps supply the ARDF (Arcadian Royal Defense Force) so he can protect his new friends and allies.
Clan died in the Kais Kogong Library. He was reading through some text as he usually does, when the void creature, Eun, appeared behind him. A small fight ensued that resulted with Eun teleporting out, and Clan slowly being eaten by the void which had afflicted him from Eun's sword. Before the void could turn him into a void creature, he took his own life. His final words were, "I am sorry, I failed you."
Clan had to duel any who kill or eat chicken in front of him, as those were part of his kind. He also quested for any remnants of dragons to honor his fallen companion, he would let the egg stay where it is as long as it remained protected. His greatest belief throughout his life was that he would be the bulwark that shields his nation from any attacks. He would greet the foe on the border, and crush all who dared to challenge his people. Once he returned after the death of his hatchling, he turned to the drug Copium. He was a firm believer that Copium is a good thing and that all people should enjoy and partake in it. However, as he was part dwarf, Copium affected him much less than other people, and he often forgot this while he tried to peddle it.
Clan agreed with Arcadia's political system of a democratic semi constitutional monarchy, as it gives some power to the people while leaving the decisions to the well-informed few.
Clan was a dedicated follower of the faith of Mufijo, and mainly worshiped the god of the earth, Xamu. Although his grandfather was a demigod, he did not worship him and he knew not who his godly ancestor is, he only went to Billy Jr. for sage advice. | <urn:uuid:c4b1c309-1280-4f32-850d-ac11613a074d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wiki.alathramc.com/wiki/ClanofwadaC32 | 2023-09-22T11:10:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.992151 | 1,602 |
ECF Application Refactoring
The Eclipse Communication Framework Project team's primary goal is clearly identified as providing an easy-to-use, high quality, consistent, and versatile communications API to the Eclipse Platform.
In order to better convey the features that ECF has to offer and more effectively generate initial interest in the developer audience, exemplary applications, representing rather tangible incarnations of the opportunities ECF enables, will be created to serve as fully functional showcases of ECF technologies.
Existing Items to be Rewritten/Refactored
Example Collab Application
The org.eclipse.ecf.example.collab plugin needs to undergo major refactoring work to extract common components and individual WorkbenchParts so that they can be installed separately or in bundles (similar to how users of Eclipse that just wants the JDT can get the platform+JDT binary without having to install the PDE) and used in RCP applications.
Furthermore, the Collab Application should offer different sets of plugins, semantically suitable for combination, arranged in distinct workbench perspectives.
Bug #160633 is tracking this work.
Suggested initial set of features
- Discovery of ECF generic, xmpp servers.
- Client runs ECF generic server (user decided)
- XMPP buddy list. Combine Hyperbola and ECF buddy list features
- IRC, XMPP, ECF generic chat
- Bulletin Board API
- File Transfer
- XMPP Group chat
- UI Features for presence, IM, text chat.
- Open Browser Links.
- See bug #148874
- Text input/output font control
- URL Co-browsing
- Shared Whiteboard
- Event recording and playback
- <Please add more here>
Suggested package names
- ECF generic functionalities, common connect dialog
- XMPP, IRC, chatting/instant messaging-related
- shared editor, whiteboard, shared code, file transfer, bulletin board
- remote services, publishing subscription, discovery
- <Please feel free to add more or change the names since nothing is yet set in stone.>
Lightweight RCP Applications
In addition to the already existing, workbench-centric and fairly complete Example Collab Application, a new series of RCP-based applications are planned. The reasoning behind this new set of standalone exemplary implementations is manifold:
- less overwhelming experience to support wider adoption and improve on reluctance to try threshold
- increased focus on a small set of features to better present them
- clearer definition of target audience and application domain to increase user/developer interest
Given the existing ECF functionality and desire for the first venture into RCP example application land being of broad appeal, a multi-protocol ECF instant messenger seems quite feasible.
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Community of practice
"CoP" redirects here.
see also Etienne Wenger's slideshow on Communities of Practice
Community of practice - Wenger's definition
The concept of a community of practice (often abbreviated as CoP) refers to the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. It refers as well to the stable group that is formed from such regular interactions.
The term was first used in 1991 by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger who used it in relation to situated learning as part of an attempt to "rethink learning" at the Institute for Research on Learning. In 1998, the theorist Etienne Wenger extended the concept and applied it to other contexts, including organizational settings. More recently, Communities of Practice have become associated with knowledge management as people have begun to see them as ways of developing social capital, nurturing new knowledge, stimulating innovation, or sharing existing tacit knowledge within an organization. It is now an accepted part of organizational development
The earlier work of Lave and Wenger (1991) had the notion of legitimate peripheral participation as the central process in Communities of Practice. In his later work, Wenger abandoned the concept of legitimate peripheral participation and used the idea the inherent tension in a duality instead.
Wenger (1998) described CoPs in terms of the interplay of four fundamental dualities: participation vs reification, designed vs emergent, identification vs negotiability and local vs global although, possibly because of the possible link to Knowledge management, the participation vs reification duality has been the focus of most interest. Further information on the evolution of the concept of Communities of Practice can be found in the introduction to Hildreth and Kimble's book (Hildreth and Kimble 2004).
Communities of Practice and Organizational Learning
For Etienne Wenger, learning is central to human identity. A primary focus of Wenger’s work is on learning as social participation – the individual as an active participant in the practices of social communities, and in the construction of his/her identity through these communities. From this understanding develops the concept of the community of practice: a group of individuals participating in communal activity, and experiencing/continuously creating their shared identity through engaging in and contributing to the practices of their communities.
For Wenger, organisational learning of the deep conceptual type is best facilitated if the realities of communities of practice are recognised when the change process is designed.
“For organisations, … learning is an issue of sustaining the interconnected communities of practice through which an organization knows what it knows and thus becomes effective and valuable as an organisation” (Wenger, 1998, p. 8)
Wenger (1998) describes the “negotiation of meaning” as how we experience the world and our engagement in it as meaningful. If all change involves a process of learning, then effective change processes consciously facilitate negotiation of meaning. In his model, that negotiation consists of two interrelated components:
- Reification: He describes this process as central to every practice. It involves taking that which is abstract and turning it into a “congealed” form, represented for example in documents and symbols. Reification is essential for preventing fluid and informal group activity from getting in the way of co-ordination and mutual understanding. Reification on its own, and insufficiently supported, is not able to support the learning process, however.
“But the power of reification – its succinctness, its portability, its potential physical presence, its focusing effect – is also its danger … Procedures can hide broader meanings in blind sequences of operations. And the knowledge of a formula can lead to the illusion that one fully understands the processes it describes.” (Wenger, 1998, p. 61)
- Participation: the second element in the negotiation of meaning, requires active involvement in social processes. It involves participants not just in translating the reified description/prescription into embodied experience, but in recontextualising its meaning. Wenger describes participation as essential for getting around the potential stiffness (or, alternatively, the ambiguity) of reification.
“… If we believe that people in organisations contribute to organisational goals by participating inventively in practices that can never be fully captured by institutionalised processes …. we will have to value the work of community building and make sure that participants have access to the resources necessary to learn what they need to learn in order to take actions and make decisions that fully engage their own knowledgeability.” (Wenger, 1998, p. 10)
Crucially, Wenger describes the relationship between reification and participation as a dialectical one: neither element can be considered in isolation if the learning/change process is to be helpfully understood.
“Explicit knowledge is … not freed from the tacit. Formal processes are not freed from the informal. In fact, in terms of meaningfulness, the opposite is more likely … In general, viewed as reification, a more abstract formulation will require more intense and specific participation to remain meaningful, not less.” (Wenger, 1998, p. 67)
Wenger calls the successful interaction of reification and participation the “alignment” of individuals with the communal learning task. Alignment requires the ability to co-ordinate perspectives and actions in order to direct energies to a common purpose. The challenge of alignment, Wenger suggests, is to connect local efforts to broader styles and discourses in ways that allow learners to invest their energy in them.
“Alignment requires specific forms of participation and reification to support the required co-ordination … With insufficient participation, our relations to broader enterprises tend to remain literal and procedural: our co-ordination tends to be based on compliance rather than participation in meaning … With insufficient reification, co-ordination across time and space may depend too much on the partiality of specific participants, or it may simply be too vague, illusory or contentious to create alignment.” (Wenger, 1998, p. 187)
To the extent that a deep conceptual change involves importing practices and perspectives from one community of practice into another, such change involves what Wenger calls “boundary encounters.” Such encounters change the way each community defines its own identity and practice. Crucial to the success of the boundary encounter is the role of highly skilled “brokers”, who straddle different communities of practice and facilitate the exchange process.
“The job of brokering is complex. It involves processes of translation, co-ordination and alignment between perspectives. It requires enough legitimacy to influence the development of a practice, mobilise attention and address conflicting interests. It also requires the ability to link practices by facilitating transactions between them, and to cause learning by introducing into a practice elements of another. Toward this end, brokering provides a participative connection – not because reification is not involved, but because what brokers press into service to connect practices is their experience of multi-membership and the possibilities for negotiation inherent in participation.” (Wenger, 1998, p. 109)
Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management
The benefits that Communities of Practice claimed as part of a Knowledge Management programme have led them to become the focus of much attention. Earlier approaches to KM treated knowledge as object (Explicit knowledge); however Communities of Practice offer a way to theorise tacit knowledge which can not easily be captured, codified and stored.
- The relationship between CoPs and Knowledge Management is discussed in the article: The Duality of Knowledge.
- The relationship between CoPs and organizational knowledge strategy is discussed in the article: Knowledge management as a doughnut: Shaping your knowledge strategy through communities of practice.
Multidisciplinary Communities of Practice
CoPs are usually formed within a single discipline in order to focus efforts in sharing knowledge, solving problems, or innovative ventures. Given the complex nature of the technological and global age in which organizations function, multidisciplinary participation provides an advantage in these efforts because of the expanded focus and even holistic goal that can be achieved.
These communities are much less common than single disciplinary communities of practice, but are growing in importance in developing scientific fields in which knowledge from one branch is unable to advance without contributions from other branches.
- Lave, J. & Wenger E. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- Wenger Etienne 1998 Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-66363-2 |pages=318
- Lesser, E.L., Fontaine, M.A. & Slusher J.A., Knowledge and Communities, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000
- Wenger, E, McDermott, R & Snyder, W.M., Cultivating Communities of Practice, HBS press 2002.
- Saint-Onge, H & Wallace, D, Leveraging Communities of Practice, Butterworth Heinemann, 2003.
- Paul Hildreth Chris Kimble | year=2004 | title=Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice | publisher=Idea Group Inc | location = London / Hershey | isbn=1-59140-200-X | id=Hidreth2004}}
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- Defense Acquisition Universitiy Community of Practice Implementation Guide, v3.0, October 2007, Published by the Defense Acquisition University Press, Fort Belvior, Virginia 22060-5565
- Gannon-Leary, P.M. & Fontainha, E. "Communities of Practice and virtual learning communities: benefits, barriers and success factors" ELearning Papers 26 Sept 2007 http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=doc&vol=5&doc_id=10219&doclng=6 [Accessed Nov 2007] | <urn:uuid:8f037fe9-8e62-493f-a944-d3f5108a44da> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wikipreneurship.eu/index.php/Community_of_practice | 2023-09-22T11:00:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.926565 | 2,089 |
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PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW FOR BREAKING NEWS
After several days of investigation, including sophisticated reverse IP address lookups, I have confirmed that Lenn Thompson, founder and editor of LENNDEVOURS, is the head writer of the satirical wine blog Wine-ing 2.0. The true author(s) of this blog have been sought for the past week by wine bloggers on Twitter who previously suspected Randy Hall from Wine Biz Radio, MonkuWino from One Wine Per Week and St. Vini from The Zinquisition.
It was also confirmed that Lenn writes most of the posts for all three blog authors but his main persona is “Over Oaked”, a broadside at California wine. Deeper investigation also revealed that the most biting commentary from author “Over Extracted” is actually penned by LENNDEVOURS contributor Jamie Gabrini with much editing from Mr. Thompson.
Even yesterday on IM, Lenn denied having anything to do with Wine-ing 2.0 but an IP address sniffed on the site led back to Thompson’s Long Island home proving he was not enough of a geek to use a Tor server when posting to his clandestine blog.
Now that this mystery is solved, and the American Wine Blog Awards are behind us, it is not clear what wine bloggers will complain about on Twitter. But something will likely emerge in coming days. Stay tuned…
UPDATE: New information has come to light which has confirmed Lenn Thompson is NOT the author of the satirical wine blog Wine-ing 2.0.
I received word from my forensic data researcher that the data packets traced back to Mr. Thompson’s home actually came from a proxy server in Chicago.
I also got a call from Mr. Thompson’s wife, Nena, who said, “…he barely has time to write at LENNDEVOURS, so I’m sure he’s not wasting any time on this Wine-ing foolishness.”
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Wine has been democratized since then, a most welcome development. So has wine storage. Those who drink Chenin Blanc instead of beer on a Wednesday night have learned that most quality wines—even cru Beaujolais and ambitious rosés, let alone white Burgundy and Napa Cabernets—benefit from time in the bottle. To store them, they use wine cabinets, wine walls, wine units you can tuck under the sink. And wine cellars, from functional to gaudy, now say as much about you as the car you drive.
See the Bottle, Not the Cork
“The new trend right now,” says Christian Hancock of Salt Lake City’s Wine Racks America, “is label-out storage.” It took us generations to figure this out, but when you walk into a wine cellar, you want to actually see the wine, not just a whole bunch of corks wrapped in foil. “It’s the bottle that’s the beauty, not the cellar, right?” Hancock says. “So why not show that off?” His new CellarVue system uses both wood and metal to hold bottles horizontally with their labels in sight.
Another trend Hancock sees is flexibility. It used to be that you’d need to anticipate your wine needs for decades to come when you built your cellar. Later on, if you decided you loved collecting magnums or full cases and your racks held only standard 750 milliliter bottles, well, too bad. “We’re working with adjustable shelves now,” he says. “People’s collections change. They like bigger bottles. Smaller bottles. Even wines in screw caps that you can store vertically because the closure doesn’t need to stay moist.”
The Technology Keeps Improving
High-end cellars are evolving too. “We don’t need to reinvent the wheel in terms of how wine is stored,” says Brooklyn Hurst of Winnipeg’s Genuwine Cellars, who custom-designs units for customers around the world. “But the technology keeps improving. You’ve to get cellars that last far longer now.”
Browse his website and you’ll see post-modern cellars that look like something from a Star Trek episode. Thick walls, like in the subterranean caves that hold wines throughout Europe, are nowhere in sight. Even traditional wood shelving seems to be passé. “Glass wine cellars, seamless boxes, glass wine walls,” he says. “That’s a massive trend. So are curved racks, horizontal and vertical.”
Hurst reports that he recently designed several seven-figure cellars for Chinese clients for those who really love wine and see price as no object. The latest development in that rarified space? Building completely separate cellars for red wine, white wine, and Champagne. But where do they put the rosé?
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Ms. Dolo has been learning on the job. The 26-year-old’s position as a host at Radio Toguna is her first experience in radio. Radio Toguna broadcasts from Bandiagara, a small town in central Mali’s Mopti Region. Although Ms. Dolo has been with the station for only two years, she is already broadcasting on sensitive topics such as sexually transmitted infections and gender-based violence.
The current series of her show is called Keneya Bôlôn (Entryway to Health). It’s part of Farm Radio International’s “Hérè – Women’s Well-being in Mali” project, which aims to improve sexual and reproductive health in women of child-bearing age and strengthen the prevention of and response to gender-based violence in four regions in Mali. The project is funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by a consortium led by MSI Reproductive Choices, and including Farm Radio International and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF).
The project has been successful in this regard: of the 36 broadcasters participating in the project, 26 are youth. For the Hérè project, as with many of its projects, Farm Radio uses the definition of youth from the African Youth Charter: ages 15 to 35.
Ms. Dolo is one of several young broadcasters leading youth programs in Mali. Radio Toguna selected her to participate in this project because of her commitment, dynamism, and know-how. When selecting radio stations for a project, Farm Radio establishes criteria based on the project’s needs and theme. Since the target audience for the Hérè project is teenagers and young people, it was important to ensure that radio teams reflected that audience.
Most of the young people working on the Hérè project are students, interns, or volunteers who are passionate about radio. While participating in the project, they receive training in radio production and other journalism techniques. They are also paid for their work. Through training and practical experience in broadcasting early in their careers, young people can develop their broadcasting and media skills, increase their confidence, and strengthen their employability. Ms. Dolo says that she found the training from Farm Radio useful.
Farm Radio International’s radio craft officer in Mali, Maïmouna N’Gnadiè Fane, works directly with broadcasters and trains them. She says, “I think it’s a matter of passion to be a broadcaster.”
The benefits are not only for individual young broadcasters: youth-oriented programming brings youth issues into the spotlight. Involving young people with radio stations also creates additional content for the station and can attract advertisers who cater to young people. Youth listen to the radio, but they often access it from their phone. Research by the South African Broadcasting Research Council found that young people were 32% more likely to listen to the radio with their mobile phone. Having young broadcasters can break taboos, because young people are more comfortable discussing topics like sexuality with their peers than with adults. Young broadcasters understand their audience and know how to address sensitive topics with the right tone and language.
Ms. Dolo says: “The benefits of being a young broadcaster include participating in the development of my community, continuous training through thematic episodes, and raising awareness among the populations of the fight against harmful practices.”
This story is adapted from an article written by Farm Radio International called “The young broadcasters starting conversations about sexual and reproductive health in Mali” To read the full story, go to: https://farmradio.org/the-young-broadcasters-starting-conversations-about-sexual-and-reproductive-health-in-mali/ | <urn:uuid:902102db-decc-4bf7-9c48-2984a1f260a4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wire.farmradio.fm/spotlights/the-young-broadcasters-starting-conversations-about-sexual-and-reproductive-health-in-mali/ | 2023-09-22T11:03:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.96707 | 785 |
Germany’s Euro Lift System (ELS) has agreed a co-operation and partnership deal with Cognid Consulting & Engineering for the development and distribution of remote data collection tracking systems for the access rental market.
The relevant partners – Rainer Wrobel and Oliver Feldbusch of Euro Lift System (ELS) and Josef Buczynski and Hans-Peter Albowitz of Cognid Consulting & Engineering have agreed to work together on a number of aspects of the business and as part of the deal Cognid will take over the machinery control division of ELS, including the internet based machine data system – ELS Basic WEB.
In return, the ELS will take over the sales and distribution of Cognid products and solutions, with a particular focus on the access rental sector. This includes Cognid’s internet portal ‘Locate24’ which is used in conjunction with GSM/GPS tracking devices and hardware to collect operating data and location information from aerial lifts and other equipment.
ELS has been developing its remote data collection and fleet management systems since 2006 and with the technology set to become more mainstream has been looking for an experienced partner in the field of telematics that might help with the development of ELS Basic WEB.
Cognid has over 16 years experience in telematics and has worked with customers such as the German railways and BASF. Its first customer in the aerial lift market was Peter Cramer of Hagen, which has equipped its entire rental fleet with Cognid’s systems.
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If you are anything like me and have totally waited to the last minute to do your holiday shopping this is the list for you. Or if you just want to find that fun and unique item for your little one take a look at these fun items. I have compiled some of my girls favorite things (and my favorite things to buy them) and shared them with you to hopefully make your holiday shopping a tad easier.
This Season’s Christmas Gift Guides here!
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The Good: Decent character development
The Bad: Mediocre artwork, Very simple plot
The Basics: In the six-issue trade paperback anthology, The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters, Rick Grimes’s survivors encounter homicide and cannibalism!
Despite my appreciation for how the television show The Walking Dead has been going (season three is reviewed here!), it seems it has been quite a while since I sat down and read a The Walking Dead graphic novel. My local library system has been sluggish to get in some of the bigger books, so in lieu of Book Six, I’m reading and reviewing The Walking Dead, Volume 11: Fear The Hunters and (forthcoming) The Walking Dead, Volume 12: Life Among Them. Picking up The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters throws the reader into the middle of a story where fans of the television show would likely be completely lost. Fans of the books get caught up ridiculously quickly.
The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters has very few of the original survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse left alive. Led by Rick Grimes, Glenn, Maggie, Dale, Andrea, Michonne, Morgan, Sophia, Billy, Ben, Carl, and Abraham and his two companions have found a car by the side of the road and that is cause for momentary jubilation. The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters continues the trend in The Walking Dead of adding a character and slaughtering more. In fact, in the six issues that are anthologized in The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters have one of the higher body counts for intimate deaths; the books almost entirely neglect the Walkers and focus instead on two incidents of human on human barbarism that forces Rick to wrestle with the deeper questions of who humans are becoming in the post-apocalyptic world.
Following Ben butchering his twin brother Billy, the survivors camp is in shock. As Andrea and Dale wrestle with what to do about Ben, the group is traumatized again when one among them murders the surviving boy. As the survivors turn upon one another in the wake of the mysterious murder, Dale goes missing and Father Gabriel Stokes appears. Giving the group sanctuary in his church, Father Gabriel is criticized by Rick, but the group comes to appreciate the tactical retreat to his church.
As Andrea pushes for the group to find Dale, Dale awakens to a new horror; his remaining foot has been cut off and eaten by his five captive. Dale, however, is filled with uncharacteristic mirth; he had been wandering off in the woods, having been bitten, when he was captured. Calling himself tainted meat, he awaits rescue or death at the hands of the captors, who leave him at the church to freak out the survivors. They, however, get more than they have bargained for when Rick leads a team to eliminate the threat to the survivors.
The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters is very much a small episode in the larger arc of The Walking Dead. This piece seems very insular and Father Stokes hardly seems like an essential new character. Similarly, the book ends long before Andrea can truly reflect on the magnitude of her losses in this sequence of events. The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters takes a huge toll on Andrea, but given how long it takes to build to the book’s final significant death – and how it is overshadowed with the revelation of who killed Ben.
Rick Grimes continues to be somewhat unhinged, talking on his telephone, which almost immediately gives readers the clues needed to figure out the book’s somewhat enduring mystery. Even so, the big character issue for Rick is largely glossed over in two pages that vaguely insinuate how horrible his actions are before he accidentally describes his own barbarism to Carl. Even so, in The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters Rick’s actions seem much more justified than crazed.
The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters feels a lot like a pruning episode. Outside the major character death, the book leaves the reader with the feeling that Robert Kirkman had realized the cast had become a bit too bloated. The deaths of the twins are emotionally inconsequential to the readers and even Dale’s demise seems more inevitable given he has been missing part of his leg for quite some time. The book barely uses Michonne or Morgan and Abraham has a surprisingly substantive role compared to more enduring characters like Glenn and Maggie.
The artwork in The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters is one of the biggest detractions to the book. The lack of color helps make character definitions that much harder to recognize. Once Dale loses his trademark hat, there are a slew of panels where the reader only knows if the character on the page is Dale or Rick by the context of their speech.
Ultimately, though, The Walking Dead: Fear The Hunters is a worthwhile read for anyone who has an interest in survivalist drama stories, though it is harder to get into for those not already invested in this particular story.
For other The Walking Dead books, check out my reviews of:
Days Gone Bye
For other graphic novel reviews, please visit my Graphic Novel Review Index Page for an organized listing!
© 2013 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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In ancient times, Greece was the birthplace of Western culture and democracy. Modern democracies owe a debt to Greek beliefs in government by the people, trial by jury, and equality under the law. The ancient Greeks pioneered in many fields that rely on systematic thought, including biology, geometry, history, philosophy, and physics. They introduced such important literary forms as epic and lyric poetry, history, tragedy, and comedy. In their pursuit of order and proportion, the Greeks created an ideal of beauty that strongly influenced Western art. | <urn:uuid:17796de3-0e46-4589-8c76-55deef056770> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wn.com/Greek_Culture | 2023-09-22T12:57:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.971765 | 103 |
Sometimes she screams, shrinks into boxes, heals body and mind or creates a plethora of dance emotions packed into the contemporary form. Meet Ronita Mookerji, a professional movement artist and carrier of contemporary dance form.
PC: Was learning dance a deliberate attempt or an unplanned process?
RM: (laughingly) The credit goes to my mother for this. Back in childhood, I was a very lean toddler, and my mother thought that dance and yoga classes might make me strong and add grace to my body. So, my brother and I were put into the yoga classes right before I turned 5. It was at 5 years of my age when my mother heard about a dance school run by Mohana Iyer and thought of putting me into it as an unaccomplished desire of hers towards dance.
PC: Being born to corporate parents, how was creativity injected into you?
RM: That is a very good question; even I question this to myself. I wonder, being a science background student, doing B.Sc in microbiology from Xavier’s dance was the only thing constant in my life. I was an introvert but also keen on various creative forms like sketching, dancing, needle works, etc. Moving out with friends was not on my cards.
Moreover, as we were raised by our Nanny when my parents went to their jobs, she used to tell us stories. Again, my grandfather was very good at sketching; his drawings of Darwin and other historic figures lured me towards the art form. I think my interest in the art form is purely an amalgamation of various insignificant yet strong genes from my family. But yes, even I had to fight to be into this profession wholeheartedly as this is not a very easy job with a routine. I want to be a storyteller through my art forms.
PC: Creative form is a way to connect to divinity. Do you feel the same? Or how do you look at it?
RM: Absolutely. Being emerged in dance, I can connect to divinity in getting peace in the profession. I also practice Reiki and kinds of stuff, which relaxes me and give me clarity of thought. See, I also teach dance to kids, and it has been 12 years that I have been doing it, and I thoroughly enjoy it because it is again a way to connect to people and know so many stories. The students who lovingly call me ‘Ronn’ say that they can strip off their problems, feelings, and everything before me, and they will never hesitate. The confidence comes from a strong connection; there is a certain kind of healing when they do the sessions.
Dance in itself is a healing process where there is an involvement of 5 elements of life. Stage shows are not always my focus but dancing to satiate the soul is the core.
PC: How do you see the pandemic affecting the dance practices or students learning the art?
RM: Pandemic has been a threatening and frightening phase that is still on. However, the interest in learning dance grew manifold through online classes you talk about the effect. People started discovering better ways to connect to the form. Moreover, my kind of dance is more contemporary and more therapeutic. With growing awareness in the past few years, there is a preponderance of maintaining good health. I had to fight to convince people about contemporary dance. Wearing skimpy clothes, with variations far and wide in performances and completing a new idea in India were not easily accepted. I have traveled overseas for performances, but this form of dance does not get a response in India.
PC: You have been very dynamic in presenting this form of dance, and I do not know if I will be right to term you as one of the ambassadors to preach and promote contemporary dance. I have read that you are the only Indian dancer to perform at the Dance Box residency?
RM: It started with my training at ‘Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts’, one of the leading South Asian dance academies in India, where I received training for both contemporary dance incorporating Bharatnatyam and Kalaripayattu. The latter is a Kerala-based form of Marshal Art which is now popularized worldwide through training that we provide. Through this, I had the opportunity to visit Japan, where I stayed in Maizuru in, Japan, and there I took Bharatnatyam and Contemporary classes and choreographed a play with a Japanese dancer.
In 2015-16 I went to Germany for half a year as a guest artist for a piece of production with 15 International dancers. The performance was a hit, and again we were called, and I went and stayed for 2 months. I also have done a show performance where I shrank myself into a box and performed for hours.
PC: Ground Reality is that people are afraid of taking up dance as a full-time profession; on top of that, the contemporary form will be the farthest dreamt profession.
RM: In the past few years, a lot has changed over the acceptance of hobbies or creative installations. Some schools
and colleges have taught yoga, Marshall Art, acrobatics, and such fitness-oriented sessions in their curriculum.
People are slowly opening up to these forms of performing arts. Even the demand is coming from the parents and students. Yes, commercial inclusion, for many, is a threat to livelihood. People are afraid to take it with not so easy definition of earning through performing arts. I have been lucky (touch wood) it has been a success for me. And for this success my mother has been a strength throughout my life who had held my hand strong and encouraged me to be a professional movement artist. There is always a thin line that works for one. There will be months working at a stretch and other times sitting idle. Consistency is vital, and it needs patience. However, yes, this gives you immense contentment.
Starting young is important as dance has a shelf life, unlike other creative forms. As dancers age, the physical limitations grow with age, pushing boundaries to maybe 60 years but not more. So, you have that period in your hand to start and prove yourself. One has to be disciplined mentally.
PC: If youngsters want to contact you, how do they do it?
RM: I am always on social media. I teach students, so I also love to answer the queries related to dance and body. So, anyone may contact me through Instagram, email, or message.
PC: Tough questions and after a serious conversations let us play a RAPID FIRE round. Are you ready?
RM: Yes of course I am always ready.
Traditional or contemporary dance? Both. For me, a larger part of my existence comprises the Bharatnatyam form of dance. So, selecting one is pretty difficult.
Stage or tutorial? Of course a stage performance.
Contemporary in India or western countries? Well for me it is to bring in knowledge from contemporary dance forms in western countries to India and spread the art.
When dedication starts moving from inch to inch it is then that artists are born. Ronita’s dedication and passion with the contemporary dance form will surely be a boon to the culture and creativity of the nation.
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Local Hookup, Meet Single Women Online for Sex: Girls Dating
Today online dating is a multi-million dollar industry. People looking for hookup, romance on the Internet openly discuss their online experience among family, friends, and colleagues. Just because online dating has exploded in recent years and just because there is a site OnlinexDate.com catering to every interest imaginable, it doesn't mean you are convinced this should be your path to finding that special someone.
Back in 1995, barely anyone meets online. In fact, very few people even had an Internet connection readily available for exchanging email. By the late 1990s, as enough people gained easy access to the Internet, online dating started to explode. Still, very few people openly discussed their online connections. Internet dating had a negative stigma, a sense that you had somehow failed to meet people through traditional channels.
Many a single person has hero on the dream of making eye contact across a crowded bar, knowing your soul mate is starting right back at you, and meeting on the dance floor for the beginning of life long romance. After all that's how it happens in the movies. Unfortunately, going from bar to club or club in search of romance is probably the least efficient way to meet someone new.
Local Girls Hookup Online for Dating and Sex
With the exception of online dating, Speed dating with girls just might be the quickest way to meet lots of potential dates in a short period or time. Also, similar to online dating, you know everyone you meet is also looking to meet someone.
There are plenty of stories out there of people who were introduced by mutual friends, hit it off immediately, go married, and happily ever after lived. if you have access to friends, family, and colleagues who know lots of single people, this could be a good way to meet potential partners. However, the world "blind" says it all. You're going on a date with someone you've never seen before. Compared to online dating where you've probably already seen a picture, the likelihood can be high your blind date won't be.
In the information-driven era that we live in, people want to know every detail about you. But whether you've had sex or is not a very personal matter, and no one else's concern. Fifty girls might yell their sexual startup and down the hall, but that doesn't mean you have to. It's personal, and not everyone can be trusted to your confidence. If someone ask you and you don't want to reveal it to them, say "That's a personal question, and no offense, but it's none of your business."
The biggest challenge for women in the dating arena in that they lack both the confidence and the skills to let them fancy you.
What Women Looking in Men When Dating
What is the number one thing that women are looking for in a man? The number one thing women look for is simply this: trustworthiness. That's right, trustworthiness. Now before you go patting yourself on the back and putting this site OnlinexDate.com down because you know that she knows that you are trustworthy, think again. Trustworthiness is not just about whether or not you are a player or if you are in a long-term relationship, whether or not you have ever been unfaithful. Although those things are fundamental and important to trustworthiness, they are not enough.
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Dubai, the land of opportunity, attracts people from all over the world who are seeking a better life. Bangladeshi women are no exception, and many have migrated to Dubai in search of employment opportunities, better living conditions, and a chance to support their families back home. However, the journey is not always easy, and these women face unique challenges in their new home. In this article, we will explore the life and challenges of Bangladeshi women in Dubai.
Women’s rights in Bangladesh
Although women’s rights are legally protected in Bangladesh, they still face discrimination and inequality in practice. Unfortunately, the same holds true for Bangladeshi women in Dubai, who often face cultural and gender-based discrimination. There are strict cultural norms that women are expected to adhere to, and this often restricts them from pursuing careers outside the home.
It’s unfortunate that women are still facing such discrimination in this day and age. It’s important that we work towards creating a society where women have equal rights and opportunities to men. We need to challenge these cultural norms and work towards creating an inclusive society where women can pursue their dreams and reach their full potential.
Women’s migration patterns
The migration of Bangladeshi women to Dubai has been driven by the desire for better economic opportunities, and for many, domestic work has been the primary avenue for employment. According to the ILO, Bangladeshi women make up a significant portion of the domestic workforce in Dubai, with estimates suggesting that around 400,000 Bangladeshi women work in the domestic sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alone.
Domestic work can be a challenging and often exploitative industry, and Bangladeshi women are no exception. They are often subject to poor working conditions, long hours, and low wages. Many women are also separated from their families and may face discrimination and abuse from their employers. Despite these challenges, domestic work remains a vital source of income for many Bangladeshi women in Dubai.
As hospitality and healthcare
However, there has been a shift in recent years, with more women seeking employment in other sectors, such as hospitality and healthcare. The UAE government has implemented policies aimed at diversifying the economy, which has led to the creation of new jobs and opportunities for women. Women are now employed in a variety of roles, including customer service, administration, and sales.
One sector that has seen significant growth is healthcare. The UAE government has invested heavily in healthcare infrastructure, and there is a high demand for healthcare professionals. Bangladeshi women are now working as nurses, midwives, and medical assistants, among other roles. The healthcare industry offers a range of opportunities for women, with the potential for career advancement and higher wages.
Another sector that has seen growth is hospitality. Dubai is known for its luxury hotels and resorts, and there is a high demand for hospitality workers. Bangladeshi women are now working as chefs, housekeepers, and receptionists in hotels across the city. The hospitality industry offers opportunities for women to develop their skills and gain experience in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Despite the growing opportunities in other sectors, domestic work remains an essential source of employment for Bangladeshi women in Dubai. Many women continue to work in this industry due to the lack of opportunities in other sectors or because they are unable to access training or education. It is essential that policies and programs are implemented to ensure that women have access to diverse and fair employment opportunities.
Cultural challenges for Bangladeshi women in Dubai
Adjusting to a new culture can be a daunting task, and Bangladeshi women in Dubai face unique challenges when it comes to integration. Let’s take a closer look at some of the cultural challenges these women face.
One of the biggest challenges for Bangladeshi women in Dubai is the language barrier. While English is widely spoken in Dubai, many women may not be proficient in the language, which can make communication difficult. This can lead to feelings of isolation and make it challenging to build relationships with others.
Dubai has a different set of cultural norms than Bangladesh, and it can take time for Bangladeshi women to adjust. For example, the dress code is more conservative in Dubai, and women are expected to dress modestly in public. This can be a significant adjustment for women who are used to wearing more casual clothing.
Religion plays a significant role in the lives of Bangladeshi women, and this can impact their experience in Dubai. While Islam is the dominant religion in both Bangladesh and Dubai, there are differences in how it is practiced. Women may need to adjust to new religious practices and customs, which can be challenging.
Isolation and Loneliness
All of these cultural challenges can lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness for Bangladeshi women in Dubai. Without a support system in place, women may struggle to make friends and feel a sense of belonging. This can lead to mental health issues such as depression and anxiety.
To combat these challenges, there are several support systems in place for Bangladeshi women in Dubai. Community organizations provide a space for women to connect with others who share their experiences, and government programs offer language classes and other resources to help women integrate into society. It’s essential to recognize the challenges that Bangladeshi women in Dubai face and work to support them in their journey towards integration.
Women’s employment opportunities in Dubai
Dubai, one of the most popular cities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is known for its booming economy and business opportunities. However, women seeking employment in the city face unique challenges that are hindering their career growth and development. In this article, we will explore the different challenges that women face in Dubai’s workforce and the measures that can be taken to address these issues.
Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Despite the significant progress made towards gender equality in recent years, gender discrimination still exists in Dubai’s workforce. Many women are paid lower wages than their male counterparts, and there are limited opportunities for career advancement. This discrimination is not only unfair but also detrimental to the overall growth and development of the economy.
Lack of Support for Working Mothers
Another significant challenge that women face in the workplace is the lack of support for working mothers. Many women are forced to choose between their careers and family responsibilities, as they often do not receive adequate support to balance both. This creates a work-life imbalance that affects their productivity and job satisfaction.
Limited Access to High-Paying Jobs
Women in Dubai often face limited access to high-paying jobs, particularly in male-dominated industries such as construction and engineering. This lack of access to high-paying jobs limits their financial independence and hinders their ability to achieve their career goals.
Lack of Female Role Models
The absence of female role models in leadership positions is another challenge that women in Dubai face. Female professionals often lack guidance and mentorship from senior women in their industry, making it difficult for them to navigate their careers successfully.
Women in Dubai continue to face unique challenges in the workplace, including gender discrimination, lack of support for working mothers, limited access to high-paying jobs, and the absence of female role models. These challenges not only limit their career growth but also hinder the overall economic development of the city. It is crucial to address these issues and create a more inclusive and supportive work environment for women to thrive in Dubai’s workforce.
Impact of religion on Bangladeshi women in Dubai
Religion plays a crucial role in the lives of Bangladeshi women, and this can impact their experience in Dubai. In a foreign land, it can be challenging for women to find a sense of belonging, and religion provides a sense of community and support. However, this also means that women are expected to adhere to Islamic values, which can restrict their freedom and limit their opportunities.
Faith as a Sense of Community and Support
For many Bangladeshi women living in Dubai, religion provides a sense of community and support that can be difficult to find in a foreign land. The mosque is a central place where women can gather, pray, and socialize with other women. The sense of belonging that comes from participating in religious events and traditions can help women feel more connected to their cultural roots and provide a support network in times of need.
Expectations of Adhering to Islamic Values
While religion provides a sense of community and support, it also places expectations on women to adhere to Islamic values. Women are expected to dress modestly and behave in a manner that aligns with Islamic teachings. This can restrict their freedom and limit their opportunities, especially in a cosmopolitan city like Dubai, where the cultural norms may differ from those in their home country.
Impact on Women’s Experience in Dubai
The role of religion in the lives of Bangladeshi women in Dubai can impact their experience in the city in both positive and negative ways. On the one hand, religion can provide a sense of community and support that helps women feel more connected to their cultural roots. On the other hand, the expectations placed on women to adhere to Islamic values can restrict their freedom and limit their opportunities.
In conclusion, the role of religion in the lives of Bangladeshi women in Dubai is complex, with both positive and negative aspects. While religion can provide a sense of community and support, it also places expectations on women to adhere to Islamic values, which can restrict their freedom and limit their opportunities. It is essential to recognize and understand these complexities to create a more inclusive and welcoming environment for all women living in Dubai, regardless of their cultural or religious background.
Living conditions of Bangladeshi women in Dubai
Bangladeshi women in Dubai face different living conditions depending on their employment status. While some have access to decent living arrangements, others may not be so fortunate. In this article, we’ll explore the various living conditions experienced by Bangladeshi women in Dubai.
Bangladeshi women who work as domestic workers in Dubai often live in cramped accommodation provided by their employers. The living conditions in these quarters are usually inadequate and may lack basic amenities. These women may have to share a room with several other workers, and privacy is often minimal. The accommodation may also be located in areas with poor sanitation and hygiene standards, which can increase the risk of illnesses.
On the other hand, Bangladeshi women who work in other sectors may have access to better living arrangements. Employers in these sectors may provide accommodation that is more spacious and comfortable. This can include apartments with separate bedrooms and living areas, as well as access to amenities such as swimming pools and gyms. While the living conditions may not be luxurious, they are likely to be more comfortable than those of domestic workers.
Factors Affecting Living Conditions
Several factors can affect the living conditions of Bangladeshi women in Dubai. One of the most significant is their employment status. Domestic workers are often the most vulnerable and may be subject to exploitation by their employers. Employers may also be less likely to invest in their living conditions, as they may view them as disposable and replaceable.
Another factor is the nature of the employer’s business. Companies that operate in industries that are highly regulated may be more likely to provide better living arrangements for their workers. This is because they may face stricter oversight and regulations that require them to provide better working and living conditions for their employees.
In conclusion, the living conditions of Bangladeshi women in Dubai vary depending on their employment status and the nature of their employer’s business. While some women may have access to decent living arrangements, others may be forced to live in cramped and inadequate quarters. It is essential to address the systemic issues that contribute to these disparities to ensure that all workers in Dubai are treated fairly and provided with decent living conditions.
Women’s entrepreneurship in Dubai
Bangladeshi women in Dubai face numerous challenges, including cultural barriers, language barriers, and financial constraints. However, despite these challenges, many women have found success as entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship: A Path to Financial Independence
One of the key ways that Bangladeshi women in Dubai are achieving financial independence is through entrepreneurship. Many women have started their own businesses, providing services such as tailoring, catering, and beauty services. By doing so, they are able to generate their own income and support their families.
Overcoming Cultural Barriers
Cultural barriers can be a significant obstacle for Bangladeshi women who wish to start their own businesses. However, many women have been able to overcome these barriers by networking with other women in their community and seeking out mentorship from successful entrepreneurs. By building relationships and learning from others, they are able to navigate the cultural nuances of entrepreneurship in Dubai.
Language Barriers: A Roadblock
Language barriers can also be a significant roadblock for Bangladeshi women in Dubai. Many women may not speak English or Arabic fluently, which can make it difficult to communicate with customers and navigate the legal and financial aspects of running a business. However, some women have overcome this obstacle by taking language classes or partnering with someone who can help them with translation and interpretation.
Supporting Families and Communities
Beyond achieving financial independence, Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs in Dubai are also making a significant impact on their families and communities. By providing goods and services, they are creating jobs and contributing to the local economy. Additionally, they are serving as role models for other women who may aspire to start their own businesses.
Despite the challenges, Bangladeshi women in Dubai are finding success as entrepreneurs. Through their businesses, they are achieving financial independence, overcoming cultural and language barriers, and making a positive impact on their families and communities.
Gender-based violence among Bangladeshi women in Dubai
Gender-based violence is a severe problem faced by women in Dubai, and Bangladeshi women are not exempt from it. Despite the UAE’s strict laws and policies against violence, many women are still subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, often in the workplace. This situation is especially challenging for Bangladeshi women, who often fear retaliation or job loss if they report the incidents.
The fear of reporting: A barrier to justice for Bangladeshi women
One of the main reasons Bangladeshi women are hesitant to report incidents of violence is the fear of losing their jobs. Many of these women are the primary breadwinners for their families and cannot afford to lose their source of income. Furthermore, some women may also fear facing further violence if they report the incidents. This fear and uncertainty make it challenging for women to seek help and justice.
The role of the government and NGOs in combating gender-based violence
The UAE government has been working to combat gender-based violence, and several laws have been put in place to protect women. However, more needs to be done to ensure the effective implementation of these laws. NGOs also play a vital role in providing support and resources for victims of violence. These organizations offer legal aid, counseling, and safe spaces for women to seek refuge.
The need for increased awareness and education
Another critical aspect of combatting gender-based violence is increasing awareness and education among both men and women. It is essential to educate the public about the importance of gender equality and respect for women’s rights. This education should begin at a young age and include both formal and informal channels. In addition, employers need to be educated on the importance of creating a safe and respectful workplace environment for all employees.
Gender-based violence is a serious issue for Bangladeshi women in Dubai. It is crucial for the UAE government, NGOs, and the public to work together to combat this problem. Creating a safe and supportive environment for all women, regardless of their nationality, is necessary to achieve gender equality and justice.
Integration and assimilation of Bangladeshi women in Dubai
Assimilation and integration of Bangladeshi women in Dubai can be tough. These women come from a different country with a unique culture, language, and customs. They may feel isolated, struggle to fit in, and face discrimination.
Despite these challenges, there are organizations and government programs that offer support to Bangladeshi women in Dubai. Community organizations help these women connect with each other and provide a sense of belonging. Government programs offer language classes, job training, and other resources to help women integrate into society.
It’s important to recognize that integration is a two-way process. The government and society in Dubai should also make an effort to understand and accept the diverse cultures of these women. By working together, we can create an inclusive society that values diversity and promotes equal opportunities for all.
Healthcare and wellbeing of Bangladeshi women in Dubai
The healthcare and wellbeing of Bangladeshi women in Dubai are critical issues that require attention. These women face unique challenges when it comes to accessing healthcare services, and their wellbeing is often overlooked.
Barriers to Healthcare Access
Bangladeshi women in Dubai face several barriers when it comes to accessing healthcare services. Language is a significant barrier, as many women may not be proficient in English or Arabic, the primary languages spoken in Dubai. Additionally, cultural norms may prevent women from seeking medical attention or discussing personal health issues with male doctors.
Healthcare Services Available
Dubai has a modern and advanced healthcare system, with several hospitals and clinics available. However, not all healthcare services may be accessible or culturally appropriate for Bangladeshi women. Women may prefer female doctors or nurses, and there may be a lack of understanding or sensitivity to cultural practices and beliefs.
Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Bangladeshi Women
To address the healthcare needs of Bangladeshi women in Dubai, several steps can be taken. Firstly, healthcare providers should be trained to understand and respect the cultural practices and beliefs of these women. Additionally, there should be an effort to provide female doctors and nurses to make healthcare services more accessible to Bangladeshi women.
In addition to healthcare, the wellbeing of Bangladeshi women in Dubai must also be addressed. These women may experience isolation, stress, and mental health issues due to the challenges of migration and adapting to a new culture. The lack of a support system, including family and friends, can make it even more challenging.
Support for Wellbeing
To support the wellbeing of Bangladeshi women in Dubai, community organizations can play a crucial role. These organizations can provide a sense of community, support, and a safe space for these women to discuss personal issues. Mental health services should also be made available to address stress, anxiety, and depression.
The healthcare and wellbeing needs of Bangladeshi women in Dubai are complex issues that require a concerted effort to address. By understanding the unique challenges these women face, healthcare providers and community organizations can work together to ensure that these women receive the care and support they need. With improved access to healthcare services and support for mental health and wellbeing, Bangladeshi women can thrive and contribute to their communities in Dubai.
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I recently received an advanced copy of the first volume of Saints. The four-volume series will represent the new and official history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This publication is significant for many reasons.
- We haven’t had an official Church history published since 1930.
- This history represents years of extensive, collaborative work by historians and other experts. (Search a catalog of resources at http://churchhistorycatalog.lds.org/)
- It is written in a simple-but-thorough and accessible narrative form that can appeal to people of all ages. It reads more like a novel (you’ll probably hear people saying things like, “When will more be available?” “I can’t put it down.”) — but everything is historically accurate.
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There are currently seven chapters available, but Volume 1, The Standard of Truth, will be available in its entirety on September 4, 2018.
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Radium Golf - Canada
Just outside Banff National Park in British Columbia, two and a half hours west of Calgary, the Radium and Spring golf courses offer some of the most picturesque golf in the country, surrounded by the Purcell and Rocky Mountains and embellished by abundant pine forests. Frequent elevation changes frame landscapes that provide not just memorable golf, but great terrain for mountain biking, hiking and a range of activities to cleanse bodies and minds breaking out from the city.
Don’t miss the soothing, restorative waters of the Radium Hot Springs, where the pools are naturally carved out of the mountainside, and we recommend the self-catering accommodation at Big Meadows for couples, groups and families alike.
Royal County Down - Northern Ireland
Nestled in a nature reserve and running along the shoreline of Dundrum Bay, Royal County Down is among the world’s finest links. Driveable from both Belfast and Dublin and with the Mountains of Mourne one way and the Irish Sea the other, the course lies in a spectacular and totally unspoilt setting.
The original layout was by Old Tom Morris in 1889, and walking those storied fairways lined by pastel purples of heather and bright yellows of gorse today is a truly timeless experience. The excellent Slieve Donard Resort is at the southern end of the links, and with the British Pound being at a record low there is no better way—or time—to experience Northern Irish hospitality and golf.
Ko’olau - Hawaii
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Overlooking Kanoehe Bay in the distance, Ko’olau GC brings players as close to golf in the jungle as any course in America.
Early morning mist frequently hovers over the verdant course, before evaporating to allow Hawaiian sunshine to enliven a stunning 50 shades of green, and counting.
Sandals Golf & Country Club Jamaica
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Over the years, I have worked with some very strong leaders who have taught me important lessons along the way. Below I have compiled these lessons to create my Building Blocks for success. Here are just a few of my rules to live by.
Set lofty goals, and then help others to do the same. Many people sell themselves short. I was taught at an early age to always aim high. I have made it my goal to share that lesson, always encouraging those around me to think big and achieve big.
Look for game changing opportunities. In any organization, there is always an opportunity to do things differently. I always look for ways to change the rules, working with the smartest people I can find to make a difference.
Communicate, communicate, communicate. People need to hear your organization’s vision and strategy over and over again. Consistently communicating on the same theme tells people you really do plan to stick to the goals at hand, and ensures your intent is clearly understood.
Accepting a cross-functional role can be a fast track to success. Rounding out my career and looking for new challenges has always been important to me. I have made several career moves that were not promotions, but a new position in a different functional area. In most cases, these were the roles I learned from the most.
You are only as good as your team, so hire your dream team. I look for people who think differently from me and challenge my beliefs. The recipe for a strong team is to hire gifted people with diverse backgrounds and strengths.
Mentors are critical. Without question, my career has progressed because of the stellar people I have worked with over the past 20 years. Surround yourself with a few role models who will push you, debate with you, and who will always tell you the truth.
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Temperature for Betta fish
One of the top mistakes fish owners do is underestimating the importance of the temperature in the fish tank. Some fish are more resilient – and can easily survive and thrive in various temperatures, however, some fish might develop certain health problems, which sometimes can even be fatal, all because the tank water temperature is not well adjusted to the one in their natural habitat.
If you already have a Betta fish, you might be familiar that this type of fish has specific needs when it comes to the water temperature. The temperature for Betta fish being well and thriving is rather specific. In this article, we will discuss what the temperature is, and the additional recommendations for the tank water that is home to your Betta fish pet.
Temperature for Betta fish
What is the right temperature?
Unfortunately, many first-time owners of Betta fish believe that their pets will be well living in room temperature water. Under room temperature is considered the range between 21 to 23 degrees Celsius (68 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit).
Given the fact that Betta is a tropical fish, the ideal temperature is:
- Minimum temperature for Betta fish: 25.5 degrees Celsius / 78 degrees Fahrenheit;
- Maximum temperature for Betta fish: 26.5 degrees Celsius / 80 degrees Fahrenheit
If you own a larger tank, with all the additional equipment, maintaining this temperature will probably not be an issue. However, if you keep your Betta fish in a smaller tank that does not contain a temperature controller, this can be challenging, especially having in mind the fact that the room temperature tends to drop over the night. The cold water, and the overall water temperature fluctuations can additionally stress your Betta friend.
In certain circumstances, the Celsius temperature for Betta fish can range between 22 and 30 degrees (72-86 degrees Fahrenheit), however, this will only make the fish survive, and might cause harmful damage to their organism. In case the water temperature suddenly drops or rises while you’re not at home, this will not cause an immediate damage to your Betta fish – but you need to change the thermostat the very first moment you detect such irregularity. You don’t want to overheat, or freeze your fish, of course!
How to warm Betta fish water?
Luckily, today there are plenty of devices that can help you maintain the perfect tropical temperature for your Betta fish. If you decide to keep more tropical fish species, a larger tank with a built-in heater might be the best long-term investment.
Water heaters come in all shapes and sizes:
- Fully or partially submersible heaters – the partially submersible heaters have one part in the water, while the other part is above the fish tank water. They are usually cheaper, and, as you can guess already, not as effective. The fully submersible heaters are more expensive, but better on a long run – they are completely in the water and can heat it faster and more efficiently;
- Pre-set or adjustable heaters – the pre-set heaters maintain a temperature established by the manufacturer. They are a great choice if the predetermined temperature is within the limits for your Betta fish wellbeing, since you can always be sure that the temperature will be maintained without you having to check it constantly. However, the adjustable heaters, even though require a little bit of more work, allow you to test various temperatures and find the one that suits your Betta fish the most. Every individual is different – same goes for the Betta fish, and every fish might find a particular temperature the most comfortable for their thriving;
- Smaller and bigger heaters – the difference is quite obvious here – the smaller heaters are a great option if your fish tank is not as big, however, if you’re upgrading your fish tank to a bigger one, you might want to consider choosing a bigger and more powerful heater.
Additionally, it’s always recommended to have a thermometer, so you can measure the water temperature and see if there are any irregularities. Some of the heaters are actually connected to the thermometers and can automatically turn on or off if they see a certain temperature fluctuation.
Today, there are even thermometers that can send info directly to your smartphone, and heaters which can be controlled from your smartphone – so you can be sure in your Betta fish wellbeing at every moment.
If your heating system suddenly fails, don’t start panicking and start googling how long can Betta fish live in cold water – despite preferring warmer water, they can survive in a colder temperature from 3 to 6 months.
What if the Betta fish water temperature is too hot?
Since Betta fish are tropical species that thrive in warmer waters, we are usually concerned whether their water is too cold – however, let’s see the other side of the coin – what happens in the tank water temperature is too hot?
If you have a heater, it’s rather simple – just turn it off/decrease the temperature for a period of time until the temperature adjusts to the Betta fish needs. Make sure this temperature drop is not sudden, as it can create a temperature shock. Start gradually decreasing the temperature (sometimes it can even take days) until you find the right temperature spot.
If you don’t have a water heater, start changing the water temperature slowly, by gradually changing the water. Be sure to measure the temperature in every step of the process, so you don’t overstep the temperature limits. You can also gradually add ice cubes, or turn on a cooling fan over the top of the fish tank.
How to recognize a temperature shock
The first Betta fish temperature shock symptoms can appear very fast, if their temperature is not right.
The Betta fish cold water shock symptoms are:
- Lethargy and drowsiness;
- Staying at the bottom of the tank, as they don’t have the proper amount of energy to swim to the top or to swim around;
- They get sick more frequently, as their immune system drops;
- The final and most worrying stage is if your Betta fish slips into a coma – in this case, the temperature was too cold for them, and they need to be allocated to a warmer water tank immediately.
If the water is too hot, you might notice:
- Fast, erratic swimming, due to the high level of energy your Betta fish has;
- Fast breathing;
- Constant swimming towards the surface of the fish tank.
Usually, the Betta fish can recover from temperature shock, if it wasn’t too rapid.
Temperature for Betta fish Conclusion
We have learned that even though the temperature variations for Betta fishes are most definitely inconvenient, they will not immediately be fatal. The Betta fish temperature Celsius range is 25.5 to 26.5 degrees, so any small variations that happen incidentally are not a major cause for concern – as long as you address them promptly and properly.
There are various devices today that can help you with maintaining the perfect temperature for your Betta fish. If you want to save time, and be always certain that the environment of your Betta friend is safe, look them up online, or the next time you visit a pet store. From thermostats to thermometers, to phone apps directly connected to the heaters, you can basically find anything you need.
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I have added a new step before all steps for adding and option which name job type. I want to pass the selected job type to next step which step has job information like job title, description, etc. But when I submit first step, the next step does not show. But when i submit again the first step it’s go next step with this error “job title empty”.
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For the past 3 days, my payments have been stuck on Pending Payment as status or either cancelled.
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Job Type: Full time
WHO WE ARE
VEC Civil Engineering is a proud Tasmanian company, highly regarded for expertise in the design and construction of complex structures including bridge, road, rail and water infrastructure, civil construction, and steel and concrete fabrication.
We’re part of the Downer Group, and together with Downer we form a strong Tasmanian business based on the strength that comes from deep local knowledge and experience, combined with national scale and capability.
We’re growing our business and we’re looking for an apprentice carpenter to join the team in our Ulverstone office.
- Completion of Year 12 Education
- School based / casual work experience in a related field desirable
- Current Driver's licence and reliable transport
- A commitment to personal learning and development
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Visible commitment to Zero Harm.
WHAT WE OFFER
We know our people are our greatest asset, and that’s why we invest in their growth. As part of the Civil Contractors Federation’s 2021 awards (Tas), Downer won the Commitment to Training and Skills Development Award.
For more information, please contact Tisha Wiggins on 0487 106 596.
As an employer who embraces Equal Opportunity and promotes diversity, we encourage men and women of all ages and backgrounds, including Indigenous Australians, to apply.
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|Fischer Panda UK has announced that its fixed speed xSeries generators can now be connected in parallel, offering a quieter and more fuel-efficient solution for a variety of leisure and commercial applications. |
Representing the latest evolution introduced by the generator specialist for its renowned range, the new development enables two constant speed Fischer Panda marine AC generators of different sizes and outputs to operate seamlessly together.
The two-genset system is possible due to the addition of an electrical cabinet containing a parallel module, which houses the connection of the generators’ power output cables and controls the synchronisation and switching.
The parallel power solution is ideal for vessels that need a larger generator to cover the main loads for normal running during the day at peak times, while also operating a smaller set for the evening or night-time when power demands are lower. Improving comfort onboard, the advantage of the second smaller generator results in reduced operating sound and fuel consumption.
Installing two connecting generators is also relevant for yacht owners who require a redundant power system, ensuring they can switch the power supply from one generator to the other without interrupting the system’s power supply during maintenance schedules. Commercial vessels can benefit from the parallel operation of two generators to form a backup power system, with one generator always available in reserve. The use of a single smaller generator may also reduce the use of load banks required to prevent light load operation on a larger unit.
It is generally easier to meet exhaust emission standards, such as those on inland waterways or in the USA, by using two generators with a lower output compared to one generator with a high performance.
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The City of Carmel and Republic Airways have jointly announced that Republic Airways plans to move its training activities and corporate headquarters to Carmel, Indiana. Republic, one of the largest regional airlines in the U.S., will be part of a redevelopment project along the Meridian (U.S. 31) Corporate Corridor. In addition to its headquarters, the site will include a high-tech training facility for pilots, technicians, flight attendants and other positions within the airline, the expansion of an adjacent hotel and a new parking garage wrapped with commercial amenities on the first floor and multifamily living above.
The investment for the initial phases will bring approximately 1,900 new jobs to Carmel with estimated annual wages of $150 million and will allow the company to consolidate training centers currently located in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Indianapolis and a number of other locations. Republic operates a fleet of 220 Embraer aircraft and 6,000 aviation professionals located across 12 crew and maintenance bases, providing nearly 1,000 daily flights to 100 cities in 40 states, Canada, the Caribbean and Central America.
An increase in the daily flow of instructors, pilots, technicians and flight attendants in training and others who work at the corporate headquarters will breathe new life into a commercial development that was impacted by upgrades made to U.S. 31. These changes resulted in the loss of direct access from the highway due to the federal highway guidelines about spacing highway exits at least one mile apart.
Another positive impact will be an increase in employment opportunities and diversification of Carmel’s industry sectors that will help further stabilize our workforce. Carmel has been able to weather economic downturns in the past because we have a wide variety of businesses in our community better insulating us from a crisis of a specific sector.
The City of Carmel will also invest in the project through a Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) bond that will be considered for approval by the Carmel City Council. The TIF bond will be used for infrastructure improvements, which will benefit and support both the public and the private corporate employees and visitors. Site development, parking facilities, streets and other infrastructure improvements will be funded by the increase in property tax revenues from the new building. The bonds will be backed solely by Republic Airways and the City of Carmel, and its taxpayers will have no liability.
Airline employees in training will be able to live on site during the course of their training. Brainard added that the training center will have a positive impact on local restaurants and retail businesses.
The 105,000 square-foot training facility will be three stories tall and visible to travelers on nearby U.S. 31, providing passersby with a unique view of pilot-training simulators through large bay windows that will face the highway. Within the development, an “eagles nest” viewing deck will allow visitors, school students and other aviation partners a unique view of the excitement of aviation.
Construction will begin with the training facility, which will include 20 classrooms, 94 workstations, two cabin trainers and eight flight simulators. After the corporate headquarters is constructed, four more classrooms will be added along with two more flight simulators. The hotel adjacent to the training center will be expanded to 274 rooms and used exclusively as accommodations for trainees, visiting instructors, business partners and colleagues traveling to the aviation campus.
A key part of the development will be the City of Carmel’s role in financing the construction of a new parking garage to serve both employees and visitors. The garage will not only be convenient it will also allow for more land to be developed in revenue-producing projects, as opposed to open, sprawling parking lots. In addition, the parking garage will be wrapped with commercial amenities on the first floor and multifamily living above, providing shopping and dining options for the thousands who will work in and visit Republic Airways’ facilities. These buildings will be operational 365 days a year. Training and recertification classes are scheduled consistently throughout the year.
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El Golfo has a beautiful, wild magical air. Its black beach is backed by a half-exposed volcanic crater forming a geological amphitheater in different textures and tones of rock in shades of yellow, green, ochre, red, and black. In center stage is a stunning emerald-green lagoon, just meters from the shore.
Direct access to the beach is restricted on one side as sea erosion threatens falling rocks. At the foot of the crater wall is Lago Verde, a half-moon-shaped striking green lagoon filled with volcanic minerals and micro-organisms that are believed to be unique in this lake. The beach of black volcanic pebbles, where you can look for specimens of the semi-precious olivine, superficially separates the sharply contrasting lagoon from the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean, but in reality, they are connected through underground passageways.
El Golfo formed some two million years ago after a dramatic hydro-magmatic eruption. These typically cause much more violent explosions when the hot lava and ash (pyroclasts) come into contact with the cold sea. This type of eruption also explains the stratified deposits on the amphitheater walls with their yellowish-greenish color and whimsical, even surrealistic shapes. The outer slope of the cone was covered by the dark ash from another volcanic crater that formed some 400 meters away and was actually part of the 18th-century Timanfaya eruptions.
This beach is also the setting of the classic 20th Century Fox film, ‘One Million Years B.C’ (1965), starring Rachel Welch alongside prehistoric humans and dinosaurs. The film was a huge boost for Lanzarote’s image as an up-and-coming tourist destination. Much more recently, it was the beach where a furtive kiss inspired the story Pedro Almodóvar turned into the film ‘Broken Embraces’ which premiered in 2009 in Lanzarote.
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Central Panama with Nature Alberta
Mar 01-09, 2024
9 days | Panama | Quest Nature Tours
We are thrilled to visit Panama for fascinating wildlife discoveries. Here we’ll find what may be the most accessible experience of nature in the New World tropics, allowing us to enjoy a wonderful immersive experience of diverse habitats and wildlife. In particular, the tour will serve as a fantastic introduction to the birds and mammals of Central America, the most visible actors in the natural habitats, but other wildlife and a tremendous flora are revealed as we explore at our easy pace. Our tour begins in the heart of the Canal Zone a stone’s throw from Panama City. We will visit national parks and reserves and other points of interest by foot and by water, allowing us to have a variety of experiences. We will see the famous Panama Canal and get some insights into its construction and operation of its locks. While in the region, we will also get a sense of the remote as we visit the Emberá people in one of their villages. After our initiation to Panama, we will travel west and into the hills near Valle de Antón, whose idyllic landscape is defined by volcanic activity that took place here long ago and is home today to mountain forests, waterfalls, and great views. Later we return to Panama City itself, where we visit a different forest type within the city limits and have chance to enjoy the alluring beauty and history of the old city.
Join us for this interesting and enjoyable exploration of central Panama! Proceeds from this tour support Nature Alberta’s conservation and educational programming.
Tour Cost (per person):
US$4295 including all taxes and gratuities
10 - 12 participants
What’s included: Accommodations based on double occupancy; gratuities for services provided by Quest; ground transportation; activities as described in the detailed itinerary; entrance fees; meals as described in the itinerary; gratuities for guides, driver, and included meals; all taxes; services of your Nature Alberta host, and an expert Panamanian naturalist
Itinerary at a Glance
|1||Arrive in Panama|
|2|| Soberanía National Park, Rainforest Discovery Center, and Panama Canal Rainforest|
|3||Meet the Emberá, to San Lorenzo|
|4||Miraflores Locks, to El Valle de Antón|
|5||Exploring the Valle de Antón area|
|6||El Caño archaeology and La Pintada|
|7|| El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center, Pacific Coast, to Panama City|
|8||Metropolitan Park, Biomuseo, and historic Casco Viejo|
|9|| Depart Panama|
Your Tour Leader
Cheryl Bozarth Soll is a member of Nature Alberta’s Board of Directors, representing the Northern region of the Province. She holds a Conservation Biology Degree from the University of Alberta and has worked in the fields of ecological education, urban planning and event management.
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Beyond the Limits: Exploring Expansions on World of Warcraft Private Servers
Wed Aug 4. 2021
World of Warcraft (WoW) has captured the hearts of millions of players since its release in 2004. As one of the most iconic and influential MMORPGs, WoW has seen numerous expansions that have introduced new realms, races, quests, and challenges for players to conquer. While the official servers offer the latest expansion content, private servers have emerged as a popular alternative, allowing players to delve into previous expansions and experience the game's rich history. In this article, we will explore the world of WoW private servers and the opportunity they provide for players to go beyond the limits and explore expansions of the past.
Private servers are community-driven servers that aim to replicate the gameplay experience of specific WoW expansions. These servers, operated independently from the official Blizzard servers, allow players to access content from previous expansions that may no longer be available on the official servers. By hosting older versions of the game, private servers give players the chance to relive nostalgia, experience content they may have missed, or explore expansions they hold dear.
One of the main attractions of WoW private servers is the ability to play on expansions that have been retired or replaced by newer content. For example, players can venture into the realms of the classic Vanilla WoW, the iconic expansion that started it all. They can relish in the original gameplay, leveling experience, and community dynamics that defined the early days of WoW. Private servers also cater to other expansions such as The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and more, allowing players to immerse themselves in the distinct storylines and challenges each expansion has to offer.
Playing on a private server offers a unique experience that differs from the official servers. Private servers often have dedicated communities and passionate developers who strive to provide an authentic and well-tuned gameplay experience. They may address bugs, improve game balance, and create custom events or features to enhance player enjoyment. Private servers can also have specific rulesets, such as increased rates of experience gain or item acquisition, allowing players to progress at a different pace and explore content more quickly.
Additionally, private servers foster a sense of nostalgia and community. Players who enjoyed particular expansions in the past can reconnect with like-minded individuals and relive cherished memories. Private servers often have active forums, discord channels, and in-game communities where players can share experiences, form guilds, and engage in social interactions. The shared passion for a specific expansion can create a strong sense of camaraderie and add to the immersive and enjoyable nature of the gameplay experience.
It's important to note that playing on private servers does come with certain considerations. Since private servers are not officially supported by Blizzard, they operate in a legally gray area, and their existence may be subject to copyright infringement. Furthermore, the quality and stability of private servers can vary, as they rely on community-driven development and administration. It's crucial to do thorough research, read reviews, and select reputable private servers with active communities and reliable infrastructure.
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Why you should learn English if you work on the web
Advanced knowledge of languages is one of the most demanded labor competencies in the 21st century. Therefore, if you really want to become a competent professional, not only do you have to develop your skills of leadership, proactivity, teamwork and be oriented to achievement, but also know how to handle at least two languages.
When you have a blog or you work on the web, your blog becomes your company. But, even if you are the owner of the company, you can not neglect your professional development. If you want to be successful, learning English is a must .
5 reasons to learn English
- Interact with other professionals. Knowing English helps you to have fluent conversations with multiple people who work on the Internet. Chatting with someone who lives in another country or another continent can give you ideas on how to improve your blog, how to get more profits, or what new markets you can explore. Meeting people is always useful to build a network of contacts.
- Read blogs and magazines in English. You can subscribe for free to foreign sites and increase your knowledge in different areas. From there you can also get ideas to enrich your website or blog, or get inspired to improve its design and content.
- Write in another language This can help you attract another type of audience, better position your site, or increase your profits.
- Access to better job opportunities. Learning the most spoken language in the world is like entering a new galaxy where you literally have all the possibilities of the world. In this way, you can take new jobs and create partnerships. The opportunities will stop happening before your eyes.
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Lily Lolo Pressed Corrector
Works wonders on those skin issues you would rather not show.
Available in two undetectable shades for targeted complexion correction.
Green-hued Pistachio: neutralises redness, from rosacea to blemishes and acne.
Lemon Drop: the yellow pigment makes eyes pop, concealing dark circles for a brighter look.
Gentle formulation won’t clog pores, helps irritated skin breathe and heal, contains antibacterial jojoba seed oil, suitable for skin conditions including rosacea and acne, sleek mirrored compact for easy application.
Made with pure inert minerals and completely free of gmo, nano particles, talc, additives, harsh chemicals, parabans, gluten, bismuth oxychloride, dyes, fillers, fragrance, preservatives, petroleum based chemicals, and other questionable ingredients.
Gluten Free. Vegan. GMO Free.
How To Use
Never apply corrector over the top of your mineral foundation as it alters the makeup base and your skin colour will look off balance. Remember, correctors neutralise the affected areas to blend in with your skin tone which makes your foundation appear fresher, leaving you with naturally beautiful looking skin.
Step 1) Using your Concealer Brush swirl the brush into the product and lightly tap off excess
Step 2) Starting where coverage is needed most, apply in small, circular, buffing motions; continue applying in light layers until your desired coverage is achieved
Lemon Drop: MICA, ZINC OXIDE, SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS (JOJOBA) SEED OIL, TOCOPHEROL, HELIANTHUS ANNUUS (SUNFLOWER) SEED OIL, [+/- CI 77891 (TITANIUM DIOXIDE), CI 77007 (ULTRAMARINES), CI 77492 (IRON OXIDE)]. 4g jar.
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Tony Khan, the President of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), has confirmed the departure of Sonny Kiss from the company. As per earlier reports, Sonny Kiss officially parted ways with AEW, following the expiry of her contract at the beginning of the month. This announcement came after the post-All Out 2023 media scrum that took place this past Sunday.
Khan expressed his openness to a possible future re-signing of Kiss. The wrestling world is known for its constant shifts and changes, and it’s not unusual for wrestlers to leave and return to organizations based on various factors including personal reasons, contractual matters, and professional opportunities.
Sonny Kiss’ departure from AEW marks the end of an era, but also the potential beginning of new opportunities. As a talented wrestler, Kiss has made significant contributions to the sport and has a passionate fanbase that is likely to follow her career, regardless of where she goes next.
While the news may come as a shock to some, it’s important to remember that in the world of professional wrestling, change is often the only constant. Wrestlers come and go, but their impact remains. Kiss, with her distinct style and charisma, has certainly left an indelible mark on AEW. 🤼♀️
The departure of a popular wrestler like Sonny Kiss can have significant implications for the organization. It can affect ongoing storylines, fan engagement, and even the morale of other wrestlers. However, it also opens up opportunities for other talent to step up and fill the void.
AEW, under the leadership of Tony Khan, has been known for its ability to adapt and innovate. The organization has a strong roster of talent and continues to draw in viewers with its exciting matches and engaging storylines. While the exit of Sonny Kiss is a loss, it’s likely that AEW will continue to thrive and entertain its fans.
For Sonny Kiss, this could be the start of a new chapter in her wrestling career. Whether she chooses to join another organization or take a break from the sport, fans can expect to see her continue to shine. Her unique style, combined with her skill and passion for wrestling, make her a standout performer in any ring.
In conclusion, while Sonny Kiss’ exit from AEW is confirmed, both parties are open to future collaborations. Change is a part of life and wrestling is no exception. As fans, we look forward to seeing what’s next for both AEW and Sonny Kiss. | <urn:uuid:a8bc2720-009d-4783-88eb-5a1d24f1adeb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wrestlingculture.com/news/tony-khan-announces-sonny-kiss-departure-from-aew-2/ | 2023-09-22T11:11:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.961692 | 510 |
The wrestling world is abuzz with anticipation, as All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has announced the lineups for AEW Collision and Impact Victory Road 2023. Exciting news for wrestling fans, as this year promises to be filled with thrilling matches and unforgettable moments. 🤼
The spotlight is on Jon Moxley, who is set to defend his International Championship against Action Andretti. The match, scheduled for Saturday night on AEW Collision, is expected to be a high-stakes battle between these two titans of the ring. Fans are eagerly awaiting to see if Moxley can retain his title or if Andretti will emerge victorious.
The upcoming episode of Collision, airing on September 9th, has a lineup that is sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Apart from the headlining International Championship match, another highlight is the Grand Slam Eliminator Tournament Semifinal, featuring Roderick Strong. This intense competition is just another reason why this episode is a must-watch for all wrestling enthusiasts.
The stakes are high, and the tension is palpable as the wrestlers prepare for their respective matches. Every move they make, every strategy they employ could mean the difference between victory and defeat. In the world of wrestling, nothing is certain until the final bell rings.
As we look forward to these thrilling matches, it’s also a time to reflect on what makes wrestling such a beloved sport. It’s not just the physical prowess of the wrestlers or the high-stakes drama that unfolds in the ring. It’s also about the stories that are told, the rivalries that are formed, and the triumphs and defeats that are shared with millions of fans around the world.
In the lead up to AEW Collision and Impact Victory Road 2023, there’s a sense of excitement and anticipation in the air. Each wrestler is gearing up for their moment in the spotlight, preparing to put on a show that will leave fans talking for days.
Whether you’re a lifelong wrestling fan or new to the sport, there’s no denying the allure of these events. From the electrifying matches to the captivating storylines, wrestling offers a unique form of entertainment that keeps fans coming back for more.
So, mark your calendars for September 9th, and get ready for a night of unforgettable wrestling action. With the lineups for AEW Collision and Impact Victory Road 2023 now announced, all that’s left is to wait for the bell to ring and the action to begin. It’s going to be a night to remember!
In conclusion, the world of wrestling continues to captivate audiences with its blend of athleticism, drama, and storytelling. As we look forward to AEW Collision and Impact Victory Road 2023, it’s clear that this year is set to be another exciting chapter in the history of this beloved sport. So, get ready, wrestling fans, because the countdown to collision has begun! | <urn:uuid:2799f7f3-a89d-4288-9014-b3193b3e1e95> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wrestlingculture.com/news/updated-rosters-for-aew-collision-and-impact-victory-road-2023/ | 2023-09-22T12:02:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.943809 | 616 |
In this scientific era animal testing doesn't sound strange. From different types of drugs to a wide range of vaccines majority are first tested on animals regardless of their toxicity and adverse effects just to verify safety levels. Keeping an animal away from nature in isolation on an artificial media for the sake of experimentation and testing is just cruel and inhumane. Imagine yourself in the place of an animal; it would sound like a deadly nightmare. Although humans are superior but being superior doesn't mean being God.
Each year more than 110 million animals including rabbits, monkeys, fishes, and birds are being killed in laboratories. Whenever a drug is made which is believed by scientists to be 90-95% effective, most of the time fails animal testing, causing animals to bite the dust. 79% of the countries don't even have any laws related to animal testing, giving free hand to scientists to perform any type of experiment regardless of its cruelty. Animal testing is just unnecessary, unethical, wasteful, and too costly as well. Some animal tests take months or even years to conduct and analyze and can cost from thousands to even millions of dollars. In an experiment of rodent, cancer studies a time of 4-5 years is consumed and it costs up to 2-4 million dollars and even the results are not too accurate.
Animals are neither human nor near human, although both share some diseases but the majority are entirely different. Animal testing is not worth at all as in 92-95% of cases certain drugs that pass animal testing fail during human trials. The drug Vioxx was found to be effective against heart diseases in mice and caused heart attacks in humans. In 2006, in London, a drug TGN1412 was tested on monkeys; it passed, but when tested on humans, resulted in organ failure and brain swelling however it passed animal testing.
Animal testing is absolutely unethical, keeping an animal away from its natural habitat for testing and experiments, is not justified at all. In laboratories, animals are made subject to electric shocks, exposed to poisonous gases, and deprived of food, what sort of experimentation is this, aren't these things painful? Different painful surgeries and operations are performed on animals in laboratories including the most painful skull surgery without administering painkillers. A large number of animals are being killed just to save a few lives; this is just cruelty and nothing else.
There are many alternatives to animal testing which include cell and tissue culture, computer models or 3d models, etc. Volunteer studies should be promoted as advances in technology have allowed the development of sophisticated scanning machines and recording techniques that can be used to study human volunteers safely without any safety risk. Actually, non-animal methods are far more accurate, time-saving, and cheap as well.
'Being superior doesn't mean to be God', although humans are much more advanced and superior but they are not free to do whatever they want, just for their benefit. They isolate animals, perform cruel experiments on them and kill them when they are done with experimentation, this is extremely intolerable. Hundreds of animals are killed to save one life, how are these deaths justified. Painful and dangerous experiments are performed on animals as if they are devoid of emotions and pain. Isn't this cruel and inhumane, where humanity is? Imagine yourself in the place of animals for a while.
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Unknown Legends: White-line Woodcut and the Hidden History of the Provincetown Printers with Breanne Trammell
July 17 - July 21| $350 – $1200
Unknown Legends: White-line Woodcut and the Hidden History of the Provincetown Printers – Breanne Trammell
Dates: July 17 – 21, 2023
Tuition: Sliding Scale $350 – $1200
Lab fee: $75
Class limit: 8
Together, we will engage with the hidden history and processes of the Provincetown Printers, specifically the under-known group of women at the vanguard of the white-line woodblock print. The white-line process is portable, affordable, and suitable for any skill level! We will inscribe woodblocks with drawings or designs and use watercolor pigment to fill in the remaining areas of the block until the image is complete. The gardens and surrounding natural environment at WSW will serve as inspiration in addition to other visual resources that are compelling to workshop participants.
Registration is on a first-come first-served basis, and you can read about our refund and cancellation policies here.
Breanne Trammell is an artist currently living at the intersection of The and Moon. Her work evolves out of the daily practice of looking, learning, zoning out, and being extremely local. She lovingly clowns around, riffing and bootlegging language and form to situate everyday life, feelings, and emotions as material for her work. Recent and past projects include adopting a highway in Iowa, touring the U.S. performing free manicures, reading a CV on the radio, mowing the grass, and performing soft comedy. Breanne received her MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and was the 2014 WSW Ora Schneider Artist-in-Residence. | <urn:uuid:8100b483-bfb3-4ba5-9918-35855f24ea3f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wsworkshop.org/event/unknown-legends-white-line-woodcut/ | 2023-09-22T11:57:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.929192 | 415 |
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Fri, May 21|
Youth Alligator Hunt - Lake Rousseau
Five youth 14-17 yrs old will have a chance to participate in an alligator hunting adventure with the Florida CAN and FWC Youth Hunting Program.
Time & Location
May 21, 2021, 3:00 PM – May 23, 2021, 11:00 AM
Lake Wales, Lake Rousseau, Florida, USA
About The Event
Gator hunting, fishing, boat rides, camping, and more...
Youth 14-17 yrs old will have an experience of a lifetime hunting alligators on Lake Rousseau. Tent camping or campers welcome. Each youth gets one tag to fill. We will be hunting from boats with volunteer guides. A parent or guardian must be in attendance. No additional guests will be allowed on boat, but may attend camp.
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123NET CEO Dan Irvin was honored as the Grand Rapids Business Journal’s Newsmaker of the year for the technology industry.
“This was the perfect way to cap off a tremendous year of growth at 123NET,” said Irvin. “In addition to our Grand Rapids expansion, one of Michigan’s largest OEMs become our first customer to consume over 1MW of power and deploy a redundant, terabit-speed connection. We also saw the Detroit Internet Exchange grow to one of the 40 largest peering hubs internationally.”
The award recognizes the top technology decision maker in West Michigan over the past calendar year. Irvin was announced as one of only three finalists in the category earlier this month.
According to the Grand Rapids Business Journal, 123NET shaped West Michigan’s tech industry news in 2017. In the last year alone, the company poured over $15 million into its West Michigan telecom presence. This investment included over 50 miles of proprietary fiber in the Grand Rapids area, bringing high-speed Internet connectivity and business phone & VoIP services to local businesses. The organization also made upgrades to its nine fixed wireless Point of Presence sites in the area. 123NET’s expansive Grand Rapids network is supported by a first-class Tier 3 data center in nearby Byron Center.
The growth has been driven by data-hungry businesses in the healthcare, engineering, automotive, technology sectors. Because of this demand, Grand Rapids now has one of the densest fiber networks that 123NET continues to build.
“Data is the lifeblood of businesses today,” said Irvin. “The fast, friendly and efficient services we are providing will be critical for the growth of West Michigan businesses.”
Despite winning the award for 2017, the company is poised to continually expand upon its Western Michigan network over the course of 2018 and beyond. To support this rapid growth, a new in-house directional drilling team will be added, along with new technicians and Grand Rapids sales team members.
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123SolarPower is North America’s largest network of solar power solutions and energy efficiency experts. With hundreds of locations in the U.S. and Canada, we’re able to connect homeowners and businesses with the best renewable energy solutions. The 123SolarPower team can help guide you through local solar energy solutions, solar panels for sale Iowa, solar panel installation Iowa, and home energy evaluations. We’re committed to helping you save money and the environment.
Between 2011 and 2012, Iowa’s grid-connected photovoltaic capacity increased by 1,100%. Several large companies have made significant investments in solar panels Iowa. At the end of 2011, MidAmerican Energy Holdings purchased the Topaz Solar Farm. When completed, this 550 MW solar farm is likely to be one of the world’s largest. In June of 2012, Sky Factory became Iowa’s first company to generate 100% of their electricity from solar.
Iowa offers a solar energy systems tax credit. This personal tax credit can cover 18% of the cost of installing residential solar panels Iowa. The credit is worth a maximum of $5,000 for residential installations and $20,000 for commercial installations. With an annual budget of $4.5 million, this program started in 2012 and will expire at the end of 2016.
The state of Iowa also offers a property tax exemption. Although installing a solar power system can increase your home’s value by thousands of dollars, this exemption means you won’t have to pay additional property taxes for the increased value of solar panels Iowa. This exemption remains valid up to five years after your solar panel installation Iowa.
In addition to the personal tax credit and property tax exemption, solar power system purchases are 100% exempt from sales tax. Iowa residents can also take advantage of net metering for up to 500 kW. Iowa’s net metering policy is actually one of the best in the U.S. and allows homeowners who use solar panels to make money from the solar electricity they produce.
The federal government introduced the Energy Policy Act in 2005. Because renewable energy has continued to gain momentum since 2005, this act currently provides a very attractive tax credit. The credit covers up to 30% of the costs associated with using renewable energy. Not only is the credit provided by this act significant, but also easy to claim. All you have to do is file Form 5695 with your tax return. Since this credit can be worth more than the taxes they are meant to credit, any excess will be automatically rolled over to be used against federal taxes the the following year.
Because the state and federal incentives that are currently available may not last forever, now is the best time to buy solar panels Iowa. Many of these incentives are given out on a first come first serve basis, so don’t hesitate to call. Our Iowa based solar experts are standing by to help you navigate the various incentives and start saving today.
123SolarPower is your source for Iowa solar energy solutions. We can connect you with providers of the best equipment in the industry. Choosing to install solar panels will give you multiple benefits. To get a free estimate of installation costs, as well as learn more about what savings are available, please fill out the above form now. You can also speak directly with a 123SolarPower expert by calling us at: 800-294-2397.
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When making any modifications to the home, questions always arise. In order to discern whether adding solar panels is a good idea for a given home, having answers to the most frequently asked questions can help. These answers can not only help a homeowner decide whether or not to install solar panels on their home, but they may also help to alleviate some fears and/or concerns that homeowners have about solar power.
Will solar panels benefit my home if I do not have constant access to the sun?
It is a myth that only sunny places like California and Hawaii can benefit from the installation of solar panels. While solar panels do generate more power in areas that have more access to the sun, there are solar panels that are capable of capitalizing on diffused solar rays. These are the kind of solar rays that fall on overcast days.
What incentives are available to me?
There are many incentives in place to help convince homeowners to install solar panels. For example there are tax credits at both the state and federal levels. While the tax credit value varies by state, to the credit ranges to upwards of 25% on installation up to $1,000. Furthermore, most solar power devices are sales tax exempt. The federal tax credit is 30% on installation with no limit. For more information about tax incentives in your state, call 800-294-2397 to speak with a solar consultant.
What is the difference between on the grid and off the grid?
On the grid refers to one still being attached to the electric grid and essentially creates a solar/electric hybrid system. Off the grid refers to relying solely on solar power as the home is completely disconnected from any electric grid.
While solar panels may be expensive to install, the long-term savings (both personally and as a member of society) really outweigh the upfront costs. Moreover, the tax breaks available (through 2016) can also help to recoup some of the costs.
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Varnikha Visuals is set to bring the action-packed entertainer SKANDA to the Overseas audience!
Blockbuster maker Boyapati Sreenu and Ustaad Ram Pothineni’s highly anticipated mass action entertainer, SKANDA, is a much-awaited Pan-Indian movie from Tollywood.
With the trailer creating a lot of buzz, garnering 50M+ views, and boasting 3 chartbuster songs already, audiences are eagerly awaiting this power-packed movie in September.
SS Thaman’s thumping background score, chartbuster songs, and the presence of the most happening actress, Sreeleela, make the movie even more exciting.
SKANDA is produced by Srinivasaa Chitturi, boasting a massive budget, high production values, and top-notch technical standards under the Srinivasaa Silver Screen banner. It is presented by Zee Studios South and Pavan Kumar.
The movie is scheduled for release worldwide on September 28th, with premieres in North America on September 27th at 7:30 PM CST.
Venkat Perumalla of Varnikha Visuals has acquired the complete overseas rights for the movie. They have previously successfully released the movie ‘Hidimbha’ in the US, achieving success on their very first attempt.
Now, by securing the rights for SKANDA, they are entering the big leagues and are hopeful for massive success at the overseas box office. SKANDA will mark the biggest release of Ram Pothineni’s career in North America.
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Free walking tour of Evansville highlights urban renewal
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - A group led by people from the Vanderburgh Historic Society and the Evansville Museum led a free walking tour Wednesday evening.
The group managed to just fit the tour into National Preservation Month, which is fitting, as they focused on buildings that have changed due to urban redevelopment.
The tour was a chance for folks to learn more about how the city used to look and what that could mean for future projects.
Tom Lonnberg, the curator of the Evansville Museum, and Terry Hughes, the president of the Vanderburgh Historic Society, led the tour. the focus was on urban renewal.
“The government will for the better good of the community in their view will take buildings condemn them and use them for another purpose,” said Lonnberg.
He said when you get to studying urban development, you learn that historic hotels or ornate chapels can one day become a parking lot.
The tour led all across downtown Evansville and highlighted buildings that had replaced historic sites. They included a packet with images of how the city used to look.
“We hope that they learn that we have a lot of rich history in our city,” said Lonnberg. “Things that are really interesting to learn about and to appreciate all the efforts that have gone on to making Evansville what it is today.”
Behind every change lies a choice, and Lonnberg said when you learn more about those choices, you learn more about how to act in the future.
“If we made mistakes in the past, maybe we can learn from them and not do those again, or just appreciate what people have done in the past just to lead us to where we are today,” he said.
The Vanderburgh Historical Society says they plan to do more of these in the future, so stay tuned for their next one if you want an expert guide through your community.
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The Google ecosystem is woven deeply into my life. And it is extremely difficult to extricate one from it. There are other ecosystems like Apple’s that we are deeply stuck in. Thankfully, our family does use Facebook deeply with only limited exposure to Whatsapp as a communication tool.
With Google, it would be Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube in that order. Google Adwords is one that I have the most fun with. And I let it entertain me. I am still getting advertisements for dishwashers for more than a month after searching and buying one.
Recently I was searching for better internet service on my computer while watching something on the big-screen TV on YouTube. And every YouTube advertisement ended up being for the internet service providers. Including the one I already use.
I hardly notice the Google Search Adwords advertisements anymore having learned to detune from them. In YouTube, though you have two kinds - one that lets you skip after a few seconds and one’s that you need to watch in full. I have mostly learned to detune from these as well.
And then you realize, these advertisements are not about you at all. And it doesn’t matter whether you watch them or not. Or whether you click them or not. The more they are shown, the more they enrich Google’s coffers. And I don’t mind them, being a Google stockholder. The more they make the merrier for me too. My only regret is that I did not buy enough of them.
That is why Google won’t ask you about the relevance of their advertisements. It would be easy for Google to build a tool that actually asks the user what they are interested in buying. If they pay me, I might gladly give them that information. Similarly, the serving of the stale advertisements for dishwashers can easily be stopped. As Google knows that I stopped searching for these keywords a while now. But, again Google doesn’t care. Accuracy might mean less revenue for them. So, life goes on like this.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic respiratory condition characterized by progressive airflow limitation. It is a complex and debilitating condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide, with its prevalence expected to rise in the coming years.
COPD encompasses various conditions, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and is primarily caused by long-term exposure to harmful gases or particles, most commonly from smoking.
While the primary impact of COPD is on the lungs, it is essential to recognize that this condition can have far-reaching effects on different aspects of the body. Understanding these effects is crucial for individuals diagnosed with COPD, as it allows them to proactively manage the changes they experience and improve their overall well-being.
In this blog, we will delve into the multifaceted ways in which COPD can affect the body. We will explore the impact of COPD on weight, exercise capabilities, lung capacity, skin health, and mental well-being.
By examining these different areas, we can gain insights into the challenges faced by individuals with COPD and provide practical strategies for managing these changes effectively.
Each section will not only explore the physical effects but will also provide actionable tips and suggestions to better manage the associated challenges. By empowering individuals with COPD to take control of their health, we aim to enhance their quality of life and promote a sense of well-being despite the challenges posed by this chronic condition.
It is important to note that COPD affects each person differently, and individual experiences may vary. Consulting with healthcare professionals, such as pulmonologists, registered dietitians, and mental health specialists, is crucial for personalized guidance and support throughout the journey of living with COPD.
Now, let us delve into the specific areas affected by COPD and explore how they can be managed effectively to promote a healthier and more fulfilling life.
Weight Management with COPD
Weight gain is a common concern for individuals diagnosed with COPD. Several factors contribute to weight gain in COPD patients, and understanding these factors can help individuals better manage their weight and overall health.
One primary reason for weight gain in COPD is the decrease in physical activity levels. COPD symptoms, such as shortness of breath and fatigue, can make it challenging for individuals to engage in regular exercise or physical activities. As a result, their overall energy expenditure decreases, leading to weight gain over time.
Furthermore, certain medications prescribed to manage COPD symptoms, such as corticosteroids, can also contribute to weight gain. Steroids are known to increase appetite and promote fluid retention, both of which can lead to weight gain. It is important to strike a balance between managing COPD symptoms with medications while being mindful of their potential side effects.
Additionally, individuals with COPD may face difficulties in maintaining a healthy diet. Breathlessness and fatigue can make eating and meal preparation more challenging. In some cases, individuals may opt for convenience foods that are often high in calories, unhealthy fats, and sodium. These dietary choices, coupled with decreased physical activity, can further contribute to weight gain.
Weight gain in COPD can have significant implications for overall health and disease management. Excess weight can strain the respiratory system, making breathing even more difficult. It can also increase the risk of other comorbidities, such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, which can further worsen the impact of COPD.
However, it is important to note that weight gain is not inevitable for all individuals with COPD. With appropriate lifestyle modifications, including dietary adjustments and regular physical activity within individual limitations, it is possible to manage weight effectively and maintain a healthy body composition.
Weight Gain Overveiw:
- The Impact of Inactivity: Due to shortness of breath and fatigue, individuals with COPD may become less active, leading to weight gain.
- Medications and Steroids: Some medications used to manage COPD symptoms can contribute to weight gain.
- Strategies for Weight Management: Emphasize a balanced diet, portion control, and regular physical activity within your limitations.
- Consult a Registered Dietitian: Seeking professional guidance can help develop a personalized meal plan that suits your nutritional needs while managing weight.
Weight loss is another common issue observed in individuals with COPD. Several factors contribute to weight loss in COPD patients, and understanding these factors is crucial for effectively managing nutritional needs and overall health.
One primary reason for weight loss in COPD is the increased energy expenditure associated with the condition. The effort required to breathe due to narrowed airways and reduced lung function can significantly increase the body's energy demands.
As a result, individuals with COPD may experience a higher metabolic rate, leading to increased calorie expenditure even at rest. This increased energy expenditure, combined with reduced appetite, can result in weight loss over time.
Breathlessness during physical activities and meals can make it challenging for individuals with COPD to consume enough calories to meet their energy needs. The sensation of breathlessness may reduce appetite or create a sense of fullness, making it difficult to consume adequate amounts of food.
Additionally, fatigue and the overall burden of managing COPD symptoms can contribute to decreased interest in eating and meal preparation.
Certain medications used to manage COPD symptoms can also play a role in weight loss. For example, bronchodilators and corticosteroids may suppress appetite or cause gastrointestinal side effects, leading to reduced food intake and subsequent weight loss.
Weight loss in COPD can have significant implications for overall health and disease management. It can lead to muscle wasting and weakness, compromising respiratory muscles and further exacerbating breathing difficulties. Additionally, weight loss can weaken the immune system, making individuals more susceptible to infections and impairing their ability to recover from exacerbations.
Addressing weight loss in COPD involves a comprehensive approach that includes optimizing nutritional intake, managing symptoms, and engaging in appropriate physical activity. In the next section, we will explore strategies for weight maintenance and provide practical dietary and lifestyle recommendations to help individuals with COPD achieve and maintain a healthy weight while effectively managing their respiratory condition.
Weight Loss overview:
- Increased Energy Expenditure: COPD can cause an increase in energy expenditure due to labored breathing and the body's effort to breathe efficiently.
- Loss of Appetite: Breathing difficulties can make eating challenging, leading to a decreased appetite.
- Strategies for Weight Maintenance: Frequent, smaller meals; nutrient-dense foods; and breathing techniques can help optimize calorie intake while minimizing exertion.
In the next section, we will explore how patients with COPD are limited in their exercise, while managing their respiratory condition.
Exercise Capabilities and COPD
Exercise becomes harder for individuals with COPD due to several factors related to the condition. The primary factor is the progressive airflow limitation caused by COPD, which impairs the ability of the lungs to efficiently exchange oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
As a result, individuals experience shortness of breath, reduced lung capacity, and decreased oxygen supply to the muscles during physical exertion.
The reduced lung capacity makes it difficult for individuals with COPD to take in deep breaths and fully exhale, leading to a feeling of breathlessness and fatigue with even mild exercise. The respiratory muscles also become weaker over time, further contributing to exercise intolerance.
However, despite these challenges, regular exercise is highly beneficial for individuals with COPD. It helps improve overall cardiovascular fitness, strengthens muscles, and enhances respiratory function. Exercise can also boost energy levels, reduce breathlessness during daily activities, and improve quality of life.
To overcome the challenges of exercise intolerance, many individuals with COPD utilize portable oxygen concentrators (POCs) like the ARYA Airvito Max, provided by LPT Medical, to support their exercise goals.
These POCs deliver a continuous flow of concentrated oxygen directly to the individual, supplementing the reduced oxygen levels in their blood and improving their exercise capacity.
The ARYA Airvito Max is a lightweight and compact POC that offers convenience and freedom of movement during exercise. It provides a reliable oxygen supply, allowing individuals with COPD to engage in physical activities with less breathlessness and fatigue. By delivering oxygen directly, POCs help improve oxygenation, increase exercise tolerance, and enhance overall performance.
Using a portable oxygen concentrator like the ARYA Airvito Max during exercise enables individuals with COPD to exercise for longer durations and at higher intensities. It helps maintain oxygen saturation levels, preventing the onset of significant desaturation during physical exertion. This promotes a more effective workout, allowing individuals to reach their exercise goals and experience the associated health benefits.
Moreover, the ARYA Airvito Max offers portability and long-lasting battery life, making it suitable for various exercise settings, whether indoors or outdoors. Its user-friendly design and adjustable settings ensure optimal oxygen delivery based on individual needs, supporting personalized exercise routines.
Incorporating a portable oxygen concentrator like the ARYA Airvito Max into an exercise regimen for individuals with COPD can be a game-changer. It provides the necessary oxygen support, enhances exercise capacity, and empowers individuals to engage in physical activities with greater confidence, ultimately leading to improved overall fitness and well-being.
- Exercise Limitations:
- Reduced Endurance: COPD restricts airflow, leading to increased breathlessness and reduced exercise capacity.
- Muscle Weakness: Decreased physical activity can result in muscle loss and weakness.
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Participating in pulmonary rehabilitation programs can help improve exercise tolerance, muscle strength, and overall quality of life.
- Gradual Progression: Start with low-intensity exercises and gradually increase duration and intensity.
- Breathing Techniques: Employ techniques like pursed-lip breathing and diaphragmatic breathing to enhance breathing efficiency during exercise.
- Tailored Exercise Plans: Consult with a healthcare professional to develop a personalized exercise plan that considers your specific needs and limitations.
Common Dietary Restrictions for COPD
Individuals with COPD need to watch their diet and be mindful of what they eat due to several reasons related to their respiratory condition. Proper nutrition plays a crucial role in managing COPD symptoms, maintaining a healthy weight, and supporting overall well-being. By being aware of certain foods that can cause bloating, restrict breathing, or have other negative impacts, individuals with COPD can make informed dietary choices to optimize their health.
Bloating and Gas
Certain foods can contribute to bloating and increased gas production, which can cause discomfort and impact breathing for individuals with COPD.
Some common culprits include:
- Carbonated beverages
- Fizzy drinks can lead to bloating and increased gas in the stomach.
- Cruciferous vegetables: Vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower are known to produce gas during digestion.
- Legumes: Beans, lentils, and chickpeas contain complex carbohydrates that can cause gas and bloating.
To manage bloating and gas, individuals with COPD can try:
- Opting for non-carbonated beverages or drinking them in moderation.
- Cooking cruciferous vegetables thoroughly to make them easier to digest.
- Gradually increasing intake of legumes to allow the body to adapt to the increased fiber content.
- Sodium and Fluid Retention:
- Excessive sodium intake can contribute to fluid retention, which can worsen swelling and breathing difficulties in individuals with COPD. It is important to be mindful of foods high in sodium, including:
- Processed and packaged foods: These often contain high levels of sodium for preservation purposes.
- Canned soups and broths: These commonly have high sodium content.
To manage sodium intake and fluid retention, individuals with COPD can:
- Read food labels and choose low-sodium or sodium-free alternatives.
- Cook meals at home using fresh ingredients, allowing for better control over sodium content.
- Use herbs, spices, and other sodium-free seasonings to enhance the flavor of meals.
Excessive Fat and Weight Management:
- Maintaining a healthy weight is important for individuals with COPD to reduce the strain on their respiratory system. Foods high in unhealthy fats can contribute to weight gain and worsen COPD symptoms. Such foods include:
- Fried and fatty foods: These are typically high in unhealthy saturated and trans fats.
- Processed snacks and desserts: These often contain high levels of unhealthy fats and added sugars.
To promote weight management and overall health, individuals with COPD can try these methods:
- Focus on consuming healthy fats from sources like avocados, nuts, and seeds.
- Choose lean protein sources such as poultry, fish, and legumes.
- Emphasize a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins.
Every individual with COPD may have specific dietary sensitivities or triggers that can worsen their symptoms. It is important to identify these triggers.
Common triggers include:
- Some individuals may be sensitive to specific allergens such as pollen, dust mites, or certain foods.
- Acidic or spicy foods:
- These can cause acid reflux or heartburn, exacerbating breathing difficulties.
To identify and manage individual sensitivities, individuals with COPD can:
- Keep a food diary to track symptoms and identify potential triggers.
- Consult with a registered dietitian or healthcare professional to develop a personalized meal plan.
- Being mindful of diet and making informed food choices can significantly benefit individuals with COPD.
By avoiding foods that can cause bloating, restrict breathing, or have other negative impacts, individuals can better manage their symptoms, maintain a healthy weight, and support their overall respiratory health.
- Sodium Restriction:
- Fluid Retention: COPD can cause fluid retention, making it necessary to limit sodium intake.
- Reading Food Labels: Be mindful of high-sodium foods and opt for low-sodium alternatives.
- Flavor Enhancement: Use herbs, spices, and other sodium-free seasonings to add flavor to meals.
- Balancing Fluid Intake: COPD-related medications and other factors may require monitoring fluid intake.
- Hydration Tips: Sip fluids throughout the day, choose hydrating foods, and consult a healthcare professional for specific guidelines.
Decrease in Lung Capacity and COPD
Most common of all of these changes, is probably how lung capacity starts to decrease. One of the defining characteristics of COPD is the progressive decline in lung function and capacity over time. This decrease in lung capacity is primarily attributed to the damage and inflammation that occurs in the airways and lung tissue due to long-term exposure to irritants, most commonly cigarette smoke.
The process of lung capacity reduction in COPD can be attributed to several factors:
- Chronic Inflammation: The continuous exposure to irritants triggers an inflammatory response in the airways and lung tissue. This inflammation leads to structural changes, narrowing of the airways, and the formation of excess mucus. As a result, the airways become obstructed, making it difficult for air to flow in and out of the lungs efficiently.
- Air Trapping: As COPD progresses, individuals experience difficulty exhaling fully. This is known as air trapping, where some air becomes trapped in the lungs, reducing the available space for fresh air to enter during inhalation. The trapped air leads to hyperinflation of the lungs, causing them to become overinflated and less elastic over time.
- Destruction of Lung Tissue: In emphysema, a subtype of COPD, the walls of the air sacs in the lungs (alveoli) become damaged and lose their elasticity. The destruction of these delicate structures reduces the surface area available for oxygen exchange, impairing the overall lung function and capacity.
The feeling of decreased lung capacity in individuals with COPD can vary depending on the severity of the condition. Initially, individuals may notice a mild shortness of breath during physical exertion. As COPD progresses, breathlessness can occur even with minimal activity or at rest.
The sensation of breathlessness can be distressing, leading to feelings of anxiety, fatigue, and reduced exercise tolerance. Simple tasks like climbing stairs or carrying groceries may become increasingly challenging. The decreased lung capacity can also result in a persistent cough, wheezing, and increased susceptibility to respiratory infections.
It is important for COPD patients to understand that the progressive decrease in lung capacity is a hallmark of the disease and a natural consequence of the underlying lung damage. While this decline cannot be reversed, early diagnosis and appropriate management can slow down the progression of the disease and alleviate symptoms.
COPD patients can expect that their lung capacity will gradually decrease over time. However, by adopting proactive measures, they can effectively manage their condition and maintain an optimal quality of life. Pulmonary rehabilitation programs, prescribed medications, and lifestyle modifications, such as quitting smoking, can help manage symptoms, improve lung function, and enhance overall well-being.
Regular exercise, within individual limitations, is also beneficial as it can help improve cardiovascular fitness, strengthen respiratory muscles, and enhance lung function. Breathing techniques, such as pursed lip breathing and diaphragmatic breathing, can assist in maximizing the utilization of available lung capacity and reducing breathlessness.
It is important for individuals with COPD to work closely with their healthcare team to monitor lung function regularly, adjust treatment plans as needed, and receive ongoing support and education regarding self-management strategies.
While the decrease in lung capacity is a significant challenge for individuals with COPD, with appropriate management and support, they can adapt to these changes, maintain an active lifestyle, and lead fulfilling lives.
- Understanding Lung Capacity:
- Lung Function Tests: Spirometry tests measure lung capacity and can aid in COPD diagnosis and monitoring.
- Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV1): FEV1 measures the amount of air forcefully exhaled in one second.
- Coping Strategies: Engage in breathing exercises, utilize bronchodilators, and avoid triggers to optimize lung function.
- Pursed-Lip Breathing: Slow, controlled exhalation through pursed lips can help reduce breathlessness.
- Positioning Techniques: Adopting a relaxed, upright posture can facilitate easier breathing.
- Energy Conservation: Prioritize activities, delegate tasks, and use energy-saving techniques to minimize the strain on your lungs and conserve energy.
COPD and Skin Health
ti may come as a surprise, but COP has has profound impacts on people's skin.
- Dry Skin:
- Dehydration: COPD-related medications and increased fluid loss through breathing can contribute to dry skin.
- Moisturizing Routine: Use gentle, fragrance-free moisturizers to hydrate and protect the skin.
- Avoid Hot Water: Hot showers or baths can further dry out the skin, so opt for lukewarm water instead.
- Brittle Nails: Oxygen deprivation can cause nails to become weak and brittle.
- Hair Loss: Certain medications used to manage COPD symptoms may lead to hair loss.
- Proper Nail and Hair Care: Keep nails trimmed and moisturized, and consult a healthcare professional regarding hair loss concerns.
COPD and Mental Well-being
- Anxiety and Depression:
- Breathlessness and Panic: COPD can cause breathlessness, leading to anxiety or panic attacks.
- Social Isolation: The limitations imposed by COPD can contribute to feelings of loneliness and depression.
- Support Networks: Engage with support groups, counseling services, or therapy to address psychological challenges associated with COPD.
- Cognitive Impairment: COPD has been linked to mild cognitive impairment and an increased risk of developing dementia.
- Mental Stimulation: Engage in activities that stimulate the brain, such as puzzles, reading, or learning new skills.
- Stay Physically Active: Regular physical activity has been shown to improve cognitive function and reduce the risk of cognitive decline.
Managing Changes and Enhancing Well-being
- Medication Adherence:
- Follow Prescribed Regimens: Take medications as directed by your healthcare provider to manage symptoms and prevent exacerbations.
- Discuss Side Effects: Communicate any side effects or concerns with your healthcare provider to explore alternative options.
- Breathing Techniques: Practice breathing exercises regularly to optimize lung function and manage breathlessness.
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Consider participating in pulmonary rehabilitation programs to improve overall lung health and quality of life.
- Emotional Support: Seek emotional support from friends, family, support groups, or counseling services to cope with the emotional impact of COPD.
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Figgy Berlin made a name for himself in the art world with his gripping use of color and fearless use of impressionistic style in abstract art. One drunk driver later and he was left blind. He couldn’t see color; he couldn’t see his work, and most of all…he couldn’t see his wife.
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Wilkie Collins describes a traveller who has a magic mirror in his possession which enables him to recall scenes from his travels. In a series of amusing sketches he relives various travels in the Tyrol and the Alps before taking a decision about his next holiday destination.
Collected here are six tales that span nearly two thousand years, from a Roman citizen writing a satire of the ‘historical’ literature of his time in 182 AD to Edgar Allan Poe exploring the idea of a scientific ascent to the moon in 1835. Humanity changed vastly across that time, and yet the moon never lost its allure, its promise of mystery and magic. By the late nineteenth century, it was clear that the moon’s surface was barren, and a wave of moon-based stories inaugurated the expansion into space of fiction.
Before we breached the atmosphere and sent men to our planet’s satellite, humanity spent countless millennia gazing up at the moon and wondering what might be there, telling stories by firelight of the mystery and magic of our constant and changing night-time companion.
The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot, sheds new light on the mystery of Judas (including his motives for the betrayal and what happened to him after the crucifixion) by retelling the story of Jesus through the eyes of Judas, using the canonical texts as its basic point of reference. Ostensibly written by Judas' son, Benjamin, and following the narrative style of the Gospels, this re-creation is provocative, compelling, and controversial.The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot, is the result of an intense collaboration between a storyteller and a scholar: Jeffrey Archer and Francis J. Moloney. Their brilliant work, bold and simple, is a compelling story for 21st-century readers, while maintaining an authenticity that would be credible to a first-century Christian or Jew.A Macmillan Audio production.
Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, with an illustration by Henry Louis Stephens, The Lightning-Rod Man was the one Melville tale to be available throughout his lifetime, thanks to reissues of this volume. More a parable than a character-driven story, The Lightning-rod man is a charlatan who tries to profit by selling fearful people lightning-rods during thunderstorms. The narrator has a difficult encounter with the Lightning-Rod man in this story about overcoming fear and superstition.
In 1872, the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact, but the crew was gone. They were never found. While on a voyage to Africa, an unproven young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the Mary Celeste and decides to write an outlandish story about what took place. This story causes quite a sensation back in the United States, particularly between sought-after Philadelphia spiritualist medium Violet Petra and a journalist named Phoebe Grant, who is seeking to expose Petra as a fraud. These three elements - a ship found sailing without a crew, a famous writer on the verge of enormous success, and the rise of an unorthodox and heretical religious fervor - converge in unexpected ways.
William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American author famed for his short stories of horror and suspense.'An Uncommon View of It' is the story of a man who has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. He decides that one thing is clear...he must have his revenge. He will kill them both and then commit suicide.But what will he do exactly? Will he use a revolver or poison? As he sits down to plan his revenge in detail, he develops a plan of action which is really quite extraordinary!
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Volume 407, Number 3, September I 2003
|Page(s)||787 - 789|
|Published online||17 November 2003|
Simple equation of state for partially degenerate semirelativistic electrons
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, Germany
Corresponding author: email@example.com
Accepted: 4 June 2003
A simple method is given to evaluate the equation of state of a weakly relativistic, partially degenerate electron gas.
Key words: equation of state / stars: interiors / Sun: interior
© ESO, 2003
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Our Founder, Sandhya says - “A chance defines you. All of us here have been lucky to be born in the circumstances of our birth – This chance of birth was what allowed us to be born as a woman, that enabled us to be educated, that empowered us to live a life with dignity and self respect. It is this chance that we were not part of a family where we were discriminated against because of our gender and ended up becoming a mere statistic of female infant mortality, deprived of basic education or maimed or killed due to domestic violence.
This is what I felt when I found Rani (name changed). It was a hot summer day in Kadapa in 1992 when I was horrified to find a 2-year-old girl abandoned on the street. Her father had left her to starve on the road after murdering her mother.
My overwhelming emotion became a larger concern and together with a few like-minded people, a ‘Home’ with the aim of providing love and care for abandoned and needy children was established. It started with 6 children in a rented house, and was registered as “Vijay Foundation Trust (Association)”. In 1996 we grew to 36 children and moved to Aarti Home, ‘our own place’ built in half an acre in the centre of town. The home is named after the first donor, my niece Aarti who died tragically at the age of 18.
As Aarti Home grew in numbers and strength, we began to realise the depth and enormity of the reasons behind the issue of abandonment and girls and resolved to work towards addressing the same.
Today, 30+ years later, Aarti Home has expanded into an umbrella organisation which addresses, plans and implements programs that empower women in society.”
Aarti started 31 years ago when our founder Sandhya found three year old Rani (Name changed) on the road side, abandoned by those who needed to nurture and care for her. Today, Rani is a confident young lady with a career in medicine. She is one amongst 6000+ children who found refuge at Aarti, a home for orphaned and abandoned children. Our pride are our alumni, confident young women, who are successfully managing medical, engineering and teaching careers along with a happy family life. This showed us how a little love, security and opportunity enables them to flower.
Aarti is also making efforts to improve the socio-economic status of women by training them in vocational skills (vocational training institute), helping them find jobs and start their own small enterprises by providing the necessary infrastructure and leveraging industry experts and trainers. The project aims to coach 225 women per year and either find placements for them in appropriate sectors or provide handholding support for self-employment/ entrepreneurial ventures.
From 2015 to 2017, Aarti has executed “Mana Bidda” (Our child), a project aimed at ending gender discrimination against girls and stopping female foeticide in order to improve the child sex ratio. The project was funded by the European Commission and executed in Kadapa District. As a result of Aarti’s work the child sex ratio increased from 918 to 935. Aarti’s efforts also decreased the school dropout rates drastically. From 2018 onwards Aarti has executed its next EU funded project called “Abhaya” to provide support to the women Human Rights Defenders.
School - objective / how it works :
Aarti Home runs a school named Aarti English Medium School with an aim to provide high class English medium education to needy children, most of them from zero literacy backgrounds. Today, 800 students from different socioeconomic backgrounds are being educated here. Our teachers visit different localities to identify students who are either dropouts, or unable to attend school due to their domestic situation. The parents of these students are encouraged to send their wards to school with the assurance that the entire educational expenses will be borne by Aarti. Aarti believes that the family is the best place for the child to grow up, hence admitting these children in Aarti Home was not an option. Family Based Care evolved from this thought, where a child will stay home and bond with his/her parents and the community, while Aarti takes care of the educational expenses like school fee, books and uniform, and food at school.
Challenges faced with the FBC children and solution being adopted
Parents of these students are daily wage earners like street performers (acrobats), rag pickers living in the slums. They leave for work early in the morning and there is no one at home to ensure that the children attend school. Instead the children succumb to undesirable habits like substance abuse, rag picking etc. Aarti sends transport to these localities to pick up these children and drop them back home. The teachers are also constantly monitoring the students, a process that sometimes takes up to four months to ensure regular attendance. This has yielded excellent results and the children are attending school regularly and faring well. As the word has spread about the success of this program, Aarti has started getting more requests for admissions. The programme which started on a pilot basis with 50 students has now increased to 640 students.
Home Based Care at Aarti
The concept of family and its values has always been the basis of Aarti' s initiatives, hence our Home Based Care was initiated to protect those family bonds, and instill a greater sense of belonging among the children and the parents. These children are offered help, not by uprooting them from the association of families but by empowering them with the mindfulness of education. They are supported through school enrolment, nutritious food, books and the drive to value it. The primary focus has been the retention and sustenance of the students’ interest by counselling their parents on values added by education.
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College Basketball Odds, Picks: Our 4 Best Bets for Saturday, Including North Carolina vs. Duke
Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images. Pictured: Paolo Banchero (Duke)
- Saturday brings with it a massive college basketball slate.
- Our college hoops staff broke down four of Saturday's games with betting value, including North Carolina vs. Duke and Indiana vs. Illinois.
- Check out all four best bets below.
Championship Week and March Madness are officially right around the corner. But before we enter a bettor's dream month, there's some cash to earn to close out the regular season.
February 5 is another perfect Saturday to do so, as there's wall-to-wall college basketball with an awesome slate of games. We touch on four here, including one of the sport's top rivalries, two other high-major games and a nice value mid-major spot.
Below, our staff offers four best bets for Saturday in college hoops.
Saturday's College Basketball Best Bets
The team logos in the table below represent each of the matchups that our college basketball staff is targeting from today's slate of games. Click the team logos for one the matchups below to navigate to a specific bet discussed in this article.
|Specific bet recommendations come from the sportsbook offering preferred odds as of writing. Always shop for the best price using our NCAAB Odds page, which automatically surfaces the best lines for every game.|
Wake Forest vs. Florida State
If there’s ever a must-win game for Florida State, it’s tomorrow afternoon in a revenge matchup at home against Wake Forest.
It feels weird to say, but as of now, Leonard Hamilton’s Seminoles are on the outside of the NCAA Tournament bubble. They’ve lost three straight and have quickly fallen from grace since their overtime win over Duke.
Wake Forest has been a pleasant surprise this season, using its height to attack the paint and open looks for its shooters. The Demon Deacons are an experienced squad that works both fast and efficiently, boasting the third-best 2-point offense.
Earlier when these two teams played, Wake Forest dominated at home and blew out the Seminoles by 22. But this is a different FSU team than a month ago.
John Butler solidified his role as a starter, and Tanor Ngom returned from injury, seeing his minutes slowly increase over the last few games. That gives Florida State three bigs at 7-foot-1 or taller locking down the paint, an area in which Wake Forest normally controls.
I expect the Seminoles’ length to give Wake a problem. They are the tallest team in the country after all. Their weakness has been defending the 3 ball, but that’s not where the Demon Deacons excel by any means.
This was the first game that caught my attention on Saturday’s slate. You will be getting a desperate Florida State squad with the better head coach at home – where they are more comfortable – in a must-win situation. And it’s a revenge game after the Noles were embarrassed on the road.
I snagged this line on open and it has jumped to (-3) since. I still like it at that number.
Back the Noles to get it done big in Tallahassee.
Pick: Florida State -3
Illinois vs. Indiana
I love the Hoosiers in this spot, as they’re home after having a week to prepare for the red-hot Illini. Indiana enters this game 13-1 at home, and Assembly Hall will be rocking despite the early tip time in Bloomington.
The Hoosiers’ defense has been the key to their success throughout the year. IU enters this game 15th in the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency, and opponents are shooting just 41% from the field on 2-point field goals.
Obviously, a key in this matchup will be the battle inside between Trayce Jackson-Davis and Kofi Cockburn. Staying out of foul trouble will be imperative for both of these All-American candidates, but I think Indiana has the more reliable interior depth if TJD happens to pick up some early ones.
Jackson-Davis was basically a non-factor in the Purdue win earlier in the year, and Race Thompson and Michael Durr really stepped up in his absence to keep the Purdue bigs in check.
Utah transfer Alfonso Plummer has been awesome in his first year for Brad Underwood. Plummer is shooting over 40% from 3 and has become the Illini’s most reliable scorer from the perimeter.
Mike Woodson’s team has done a nice job of pressuring the ball and guarding the arc all season, and I think it should be able to hold up against Andre Curbelo & Co.
Xavier Johnson has been playing as well as any guard in the Big Ten over the last three weeks, and I think Jackson-Davis will have a big day in a revenge spot against Cockburn.
Give me the Hoosiers to get it done at home in what should be a tightly-contested battle.
Pick: Indiana PK (Play to -1.5)
Towson vs. Northeastern
The Towson Tigers head to Boston to play the Northeastern Huskies to cap the end of a quick two-game road trip.
This will be the second matchup between the two programs this season, with Towson winning the first, 70-67, but failing to cover the 7.5-point spread a month ago.
Towson is on a three-game winning streak and has won seven of its last 10 contests. Towson is in the top 10 of Division I teams against the spread this season, going 16-6. The Tigers have benefitted from hitting the away hardwood, going 9-2 against the books while on the road.
Northeastern has languished against the spread, going 6-15-1 on the season and 4-10 at home.
Towson has been recognized for its defense this season, showcasing the top scoring defense in the CAA, allowing just 65.2 points per game. The Tigers rank 72nd nationally in defensive effective field goal percentage at 47.5%.
Look for the defense to give the Huskies a hard time.
The Towson offense hasn’t been getting the recognition it deserves. Behind junior guard Nicolas Timberlake, the team’s leading scorer, the Tigers rank 41st in the nation with an AdjO of 110.9.
They have been excellent on the glass offensively, ranking 17th in the nation with an offensive rebound percentage of 35.2%. The Tigers’ roster is full of potent scorers with four players who have at least 10 games in double figures this season.
While Northeastern kept it close in the first matchup and covered, I don’t see that happening twice in the same season.
Northeastern ranks 279th and 262nd in AdjO and AdjD on the season to date, respectively. Additionally, the Huskies are one of the worst teams in the nation in offensive and defensive percentage, ranking 334th and 316th, respectively.
The last time these two programs got together, Towson was outworked on the glass and didn’t shoot that well. I expect a mean reversion for the Tigers in both departments this time around.
Towson is a team that travels very well and should have motivation to be in Beantown given that head coach Pat Skerry (a former Northeastern assistant) and Timberlake are natives.
I’m projecting Towson as 8.5-point favorites in Boston. I recommend laying the points for one unit.
Pick: Towson -5.5
Duke vs. North Carolina
By Doug Ziefel
When you put all the narratives surrounding this game aside, it’s clear that Duke is the better team here. The Blue Devils’ offense has been stellar this year, and they have guys who can score at every position on the floor.
From Paolo Banchero to Wendell Moore Jr. to Trevor Keels to Mark Williams and finally, to the emerging A.J. Griffin, saying this Duke team is a lot to handle may be an understatement.
The Blue Devils’ size and athleticism cause mismatches down low. The Tar Heels’ best defender, Armando Bacot, will settle on Williams because he’s the only one with the size to deal with the Duke big.
However, that leaves one of the most talented players in the country, Banchero, matched up with Brady Manek.
These matchups also translate positively for Duke on the defensive end of the floor, as for once, Bacot will be the smaller man down low. Then, the Blue Devils have the length to defend Caleb Love and R.J. Davis on the perimeter.
Not to mention, Duke may get style points on offense, but it’s a solid defensive team that contests every shot. The Blue Devils are 14th in adjusted defensive efficiency and 18th in effective field goal percentage allowed.
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CAN PRESIDENTS BE STRIPPED OF THESE BENEFITS?
Yes, but only if they are removed from office during their presidency, said Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University. Being impeached by the House of Representatives does not impact the benefits.
Many lawmakers and public figures called for Trump’s removal from office during the final days of his presidency, but he avoided this fate, so the benefits are safe.
There is one caveat: the law could always change. Some advocates say the Former Presidents Act is an unnecessary cost, arguing that modern-day presidents have lucrative opportunities and do not need the public’s help after stepping down.
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Basic Concepts and Tips for a Complete Plan
Estate planning is a term that has changed dramatically over the years. At one time, it meant having a will that would go through probate and, if a person was married, titling property jointly with a spouse. It conjured up visions of death and of wealthy families gathered in attorneys’ wood-paneled offices listening to wills being read.
Changes in the laws and changing views of finance, lifestyle, privacy, nontraditional families, and longevity of life have made estate planning far more compelling for a larger group of people than ever before. Estate planning is one of the most important steps any person can take to make sure that their final property and health care wishes are honored, and that loved ones are provided for in their absence. It’s important to have a basic estate plan in place regardless of your net worth.
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Wow, What a Year.
So, what can we say about COVID-19 that hasn’t already been said? It would be hard to overstate how much of a challenge the pandemic has been … for everyone.
Part of what has made COVID-19 such a shock to us all is that we have become really good at preventing pandemics over the last century. Per-capita death from infectious disease in the US has declined 94% from 1900 to 2010 (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Amazing progress made steadily over a long period of time. But that’s the thing about progress – it almost always happens steadily over a long period proceeding at a pace that goes almost unnoticed. Setbacks, on the other hand, usually come at us swiftly and unexpectedly: September 11th, Pearl Harbor, The Great Depression, to name a few. Not to diminish the relevance of these events, and the pain and suffering that these events caused, but they are now just a part of history; a history of progress in our country and around the world that has steadily reduced the percent of people living in poverty while allowing you and I to live at a time when the standards of living are the highest the world has ever known.
It’s that way in the stock market too. The history of the market is one of compounding progress routinely punctuated with scary, nerve-wracking declines. Progress doesn’t always happen slowly and methodically though. When confronted with a challenge as great as Covid-19 the spirit and ingenuity of people can do amazing things. A vaccine for coronavirus was developed in a matter of months when it usually takes years, often more than a decade. Truly an amazing accomplishment. How did this happen? I’m not smart enough to know, really. I’m sure stories will be written in the years to come that will detail the effort, skill and determination of those involved who believed it could be done. I am quite sure, however, that a sense of realistic optimism was part of the equation. I feel sure the scientists responsible for developing the vaccine were realistic optimists. How much better investors might we be by developing an attitude of realistic optimism? It’s hard work, to be sure: envisioning and believing in progress and a better world ahead while having to control our emotions when we experience setbacks along the way. But, just as it has always been, the path to success is likely to be having a plan and owning a diversified portfolio of the best companies in the world. Companies that are innovative – like those that have developed a vaccine in record time – and work every day to make new products and develop new services that make our lives better. No guarantees, of course. Life offers no guarantees, and the future is filled with unknowns. Like most parents, we're concerned for our children's future. But you know what, my parents worried about my future when I was growing up. I think it’s always been that way and probably always will be. Yes, I’m worried (realistic), but I also have an unbounding optimism for the amazing progress that our children may see and experience over the course of their lives.
I have no doubt that the coming years will bring new and unique challenges. And when they come, we’ll use our knowledge and experience and all the resources we have here at Adams Financial to find solutions to keep moving forward. There are never perfect answers and we’re often challenged to figure things out on the fly when the unexpected hits us. But that’s our job and we’ll do it to the best of our abilities. And while the past 9 months has been a difficult time for us all and the holidays are likely to be very different from what we’re used to, I wish you a peaceful holiday season, one that can still be celebrated with those you love, even it is has to be in a virtual manner. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and here’s to 2021, a new year of optimism and hope!
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Victor Nuovo: The Socratic Revolution
Why is Socrates so important? Socrates wrote nothing, so we can’t search a body of writing for answers. And the fact that he was written up by a young admirer, Plato (426–346), who in turn became a great philosopher, perhaps the greatest and surely the greatest philosophical writer of all time, only makes things worse.
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Header Image: The Zeiss Mark II projector can be seen here in the Adler’s original domed theater in the 1930s. Image Credit: The Adler Planetarium Archives Written By: Mike Smail, Director of Theaters and Digital Experience In January of 1970, the Adler Planetarium de-installed our original Zeiss planetarium projector (the first one in the Western […]
Header Image: Planetarium guests attend a sky show with the Zeiss Mk II projector at the Adler c. 1955. Image Credit: The Adler Planetarium Archives When the Adler Planetarium opened in 1930 as America’s first planetarium, the centerpiece was a star projector made by the Carl Zeiss company of Germany, the Zeiss “Mark II”. This […]
You probably know that it takes many minds and lots of teamwork to achieve scientific breakthroughs like human spaceflight. But did you know the same principle applies to complex terrestrial feats like producing a planetarium show? The Adler’s newest show, Imagine the Moon, was a massive team effort. The Adler’s Guest Experience and Theaters teams […]
Hi, I’m Nick Lake, Presentation Leader & Theater Technician here at the Adler Planetarium. Today, I’d like to talk about our planetarium theaters, specifically the domes, and how we use planetarium software to transport viewers to new worlds. For me, the most exciting thing about planetarium domes is the ability to make the audience feel […]
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In the last article in the series, Financial Aid, College Choice, and COVID-19, I spoke about the importance of supporting our students and families as they navigate the next steps in their college journeys by making sense of their financial aid options.
In Supporting Students & Families through the Conundrum, I encourage college-bound students to “consider the power of savings and learn how to budget. You can make it work if you know what’s in front of you and take the time to thoughtfully plan it out.”
This guidance should be given to students much earlier in this process, way before they apply to college. Comprehensive college access programs that work with first-generation and pell-eligible students often have a component in their curriculum that focuses on financial aid. Among the learning outcomes of such lessons, students will hear about budgeting and learn terms like “interest” and “credit” so that they can effectively manage their financial aid awards, like loans.
In The Financial Aid Conundrum, I encourage us to take a step back and ask ourselves, “are our students truly equipped to tackle conversations and decisions around financial aid?” Because if the answer is no, then the next question should be, “what are we doing, or not doing, to help students understand basic financial concepts and empower them to make informed choices on their own?” As we learn from Treasury.gov, the financial literacy of our students in high school is lower than most countries. Furthermore, socio-economically disadvantaged students score lower in financial literacy, the equivalent of three school years.
Here’s my attempt at making the relationships clearer:
How early should students build their financial literacy to prepare for college?
ASAP, early, and often! I agree with Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) who decided in 2014 that it was critical to provide teachers with access to “timely and relevant curricular resources, providing effective professional development, and advocating to increase access to financial education.”
NGPF’s mission is to revolutionize the teaching of personal finance in all schools in order to improve the financial lives of the next generation of Americans. As of 2019, NGPF's curriculum and professional development extends to 25,000 middle and high school teachers reaching more than 2 million students. This grassroots movement of personal finance educators has committed to Mission: 2030. That is, by 2030, ALL students will take a one semester personal finance course before graduating from high school.
Personally and professionally, I think we can and should do even more than one semester of a personal finance course during students’ secondary education. It should start as early as elementary school, have scaffolding throughout middle school, and be grounded in real-life decisions during high school. NGPF has a suite of curriculum broken into various units such as Types of Credit, Managing Credit, Paying for College, Budgeting, and Financial Pitfalls.
Even when students are armed with the basic financial concepts they need to tackle financial aid, they will still need support. This is why I’ve worked with Moneythink since 2019 to support first-generation, pell-eligible students in navigating the financial aid process.
Moneythink empowers students to invest in the future by building technology that clarifies college finances. In collaboration with the star-studded team at Moneythink, we hosted financial aid webinars in late April to support graduating high school seniors across the country. Check out the recording!
Moneythink is gearing up to release their new public-facing tool, DecidED, this fall!
DecidED completely removes the guesswork out of college affordability for students and their families, as well as enables counselors and advisors in the space to have productive conversations with their students about the tradeoffs of college options.
DecidED helps students and their families:
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The time is now to support our students and families through this financial aid conundrum and ensure they’re making the best choices for their futures.
In the first article in this series, Financial Aid, College Choice, and COVID-19, I talk about the importance of all of us working together right now because as adults, as students, as human beings, if we’re going to get through COVID-19, it will be together.
In the second article, I talk about how we face a Financial Aid Conundrum that is persistent, systemic, fraught with pitfalls ready to take advantage of families, and overbearingly complex to tackle. I talk about this now because this issue is facing our students right now as they prepare to choose what college they will go to by the College Decision Day deadline of May 1 for many California public and independent four-year institutions.
When all is said and done, though, we must keep in mind the Power of Student Resilience and Choice.
That's why in this fourth article, I want to address the students so that they can recognize this power. I also address all adult allies so that we can support students in embracing said power.
Students, you can do this!
“Take an entrepreneurial approach and focus on sectors that are growing. Even if these areas don’t align with what you imagined you’d be doing after graduation, cultivate a flexible and open mindset - this will be essential for students in a COVID-19 economy.
Build your energy as if you’re preparing for a marathon not a sprint. In the weeks and months ahead, be patient with and kind to yourself and develop support systems. Consider the possibilities that may emerge (in time) for us as a society, when many communities and sectors begin to focus on rebuilding.”
Allies, we can help them!
Colleague Lara Fox, Senior Advisor at the Marin Community Foundation who served prior to that as the Founding Executive Director of uAspire Bay Area, has this advice for us adult allies and educators:
"It's crucial that counselors both stay in regular contact with 12th graders and ensure that students know they can appeal their financial aid offers if family circumstances have recently changed.
It's also essential that colleges prepare to respond to a likely increase in appeals, given that 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the past four weeks alone.”
I know the financial side of college can be daunting and overwhelming and I just hope families and educators will work together to ensure our students make the most of their options.
Allies, let’s help our students now as much as we can, while also thinking strategically about how to support future cohorts through this.
If you are a college advisor, counselor, or educator, consider teaching your students financial literacy, especially now, but also much earlier in students’ high school careers. Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) has a curriculum called “Paying for College.”
Here’s a snippet of what you can teach your students using NGPF's lessons:
Colleges, please consider your students!
To colleges and university financial aid officers and advocates, thank you for keeping students at the center. Please continue to do so.
Our colleges will also need to support families, now more than ever, so that they can advocate for the best deals that will lead to less debt and more degrees.
The Community College League of California Financial Aid Office Operations Taskforce released the report “Increasing Student Access, Success and Equity: California Community College Student Focused Financial Aid Policies February 2020” with the following guidance. Though written for community colleges, they bear consideration for all higher education institutions.
And finally, some Best Practices they offer for higher ed:
Thank you for sticking through this series on Financial Aid, College Choice, and COVID-19!
Good luck to the #ClassOf2020 and all non-traditional students who are preparing their choice for College Decision Day this year!
To learn more about Moneythink, go to moneythink.org/.
To learn more about Next Gen Personal Finance, go to www.ngpf.org/.
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COVID-19 will impact college decisions this year.
National College Decision Day is historically on May 1. There are petitions to push back Decision Day to June 1 if not later. From the New York Times (March 15), the Washington Post (March 20), NPR (March 22), and CNBC (March 27), we hear that the college decision experience is impacting students and colleges alike with the cancelations of college visits and Admit Days nationally.
Affordability is an even bigger concern today than it was prior to COVID-19 with less than ¼ of students having a high level of confidence in their ability to afford college now (Carnegie Darlet). Families’ investments are getting hit and both students and parents are less sure about how their jobs and paychecks can contribute to college expenses this fall.
Students’ perceptions of where they want to go are changing. They’re considering less-expensive and local public schools over private universities far from their families, and 70% are thinking of staying within 3 hours (or 180 miles) from home (The Princeton Review). The American Council on Education has predicted a 15% drop in enrollment nationwide (and 25% international), and many institutions are preparing for the possibility of having to continue remote classes or delaying the start of the fall semester to reopen campuses (NY Times).
How can you help your students and families navigate this crucial time in their lives, so that they can still take advantage of opportunities that are best for the student?
Step #1: Choose a tool to analyze your student’s award letters.
In the first article in this series, "Financial Aid, College Choice, and COVID-19," I introduce you to partner Moneythink. I recommend Moneythink’s coaching tool that you can download to Excel. It pre-populates information from most colleges that have public direct and indirect costs data and all you need to do is override it with any actuals your colleges provide in their letters!
Why does Moneythink pre-populate information when other tools don’t? Because this highlights one of the main issues with financial aid award letters: they often have incomplete or misleading information. This could be in the form of information that is literally missing, like no reference to personal expenses or transportation, or no specific mention of PLUS loans though they are included in the package.
Step #2: Have your financial aid advocates at the ready.
Connect with your high school guidance counselor or college advisor. If you work with a college access organization you can reach out to your advisors and let them know you’re looking for help.
Take advantage of free webinars like Moneythink’s Financial Aid Award Compare Webinars scheduled on April 21 for Advisors and April 23, 28, and 29 for Students & Families.
Step #3: Collect and compare those awards!
You don’t have to review all of your award letters at once. In fact, you should review them as you get them so that you can advocate as soon as possible when you need to! The sooner that you appeal when it is the right move, the better.
As you get the awards, compare them.
Did College B offer you a better package (comparing gift aid to direct costs) than your first choice, College A? Get your appeal package together and let College A know about College B’s offer. See if they’ll budge!
For more tips on appeals, check out SwiftStudent which helps you write your financial aid appeal letters for free.
Step 4: Advocate! Advocate! Advocate!
Students are unaware that funding sources can vary year to year. Families often don’t know to ask if the institutional grant they were awarded is renewable for future years. Sometimes they don’t know to ask their scholarships where their money is going, and this matters because some colleges will take scholarship money reported to them and we’ll see a case of financial aid displacement. This means the colleges reduce the amount of gift aid like grants by the size of the scholarship.
Advocate for the best awards by ensuring they’re basing it off the most up-to-date information, appealing if you have a qualified circumstance, and applying to as many scholarships as possible.
Do what you can to fill whatever gap is standing in the way of you and your college. But be sure you’re thinking about more than just this year. Ask all the questions you need to so that you understand what financial aid could look like for your 2nd year and future years. Colleges often offer very appealing first-year packages but they start to look different in the 2nd year. That’s why groups like AAUW San Jose have a scholarship just for college juniors and seniors!
Step 5: Take out only the necessary loans and work study.
Loans can be a very important, necessary, and positive investment in your future. Taking out more loans than you need to, however, can be costly. There is also an opportunity cost when you work more hours than will allow you to focus on your studies.
The guidance from Moneythink for a college to be affordable is:
So be sure to pay attention to affordability, but don’t lose sight of other things that matter to you about the campus. Factors like the diversity, the culture, whether they offer the major or program you like, on- and off-campus activities, and whether or not you can really “see” yourself learning and growing there (whether you stick to the original major or not).
Lastly, whichever college you decide to pursue, if you believe the Enrollment Deposit is a barrier for you and your family, advocate for yourself. The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) has released a new form for counselors, college access advisors, students and their families: Enrollment Deposit Fee Waiver Form.
This form allows a student to request that their enrollment fee be waived due to financial circumstances. Enrollment deposits can be as low as $200 to as high as $600 (or even higher!), which can be a barrier, especially for low-income students. While everyone can use this form, each college can manage their own policies, choosing whether or not they will accept this form.
I believe that there are student-focused financial aid officers out there waiting to support you through these challenges, so if you’re ready to make your final decision but you can't come up with the deposit money for your preferred college, submit the Enrollment Deposit Fee Waiver Form ASAP. I highly recommend that you do this before the deadline. Not sure when the deadline is? Check NACAC’s College Admission Status Update page with over 1,000 college updates so far.
In the next article, I want to talk about Supporting Students and Families Through the Conundrum.
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"Thank you to my mother Helena Curry who instilled in me a strong work ethic, grit, and drive and paved the way by showing me what it means to be a true grassroots community leader and social justice advocate."
I thank the partners of AdvancED Consulting, the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women, the Santa Clara County Office of Women’s Policy, and the many local and statewide college, career, nonprofit, civic, and social justice advocates who shared contacts, made introductions, and dedicated time to provide all of the wonderful information listed in this guide.
A big shout out goes to Amparo Diaz, Annie Do, and Michael Nuñez, all AdvancED Consulting partners, who supported the design and organization of content in this guide. Shout out to Kyra Young who designed all of the affirmation stickers and other AdvancED graphics you see throughout this guide and the AdvancED website and social media.
Thank you to my partner (in life and career) Michael who supports me in all things and empowers me to be of service however I can as my authentic self.
Thank you to my mother Helena Curry who instilled in me a strong work ethic, grit, and drive and paved the way by showing me what it means to be a true grassroots community leader and social justice advocate.
Thank you to my cousins Janella Parucha, Justin Parucha, Melinda Parucha, and Evita Dupitas who inspire me to be myself and love myself.
Thank you to my aunt Hedy Parucha and uncle Ben Parucha for their constant love and support.
Thank you to mentors like Dwayne, Claudia, Coleetta, Sr. Susan, Gloria, Allison, Tessa, MB, Trisha, Dr. London, Masai, Elroy, Eric, Kevin and so many more for your wisdom, selfless coaching, and well-intentioned feedback.
Thank you to great friends and colleagues like Lara, Gina, Erin, Meo, Serei, SJ, Alerie, Rod, Kadar, Matt, Meghann, Andrea, and Anthony for the strength you give me, each other, and the world, with all of your unique gifts and strengths.
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In light of the disruptions caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19), many are finding themselves working remotely, getting laid off, having their hours reduced, and more.
This article is focused on those who are able to continue working from home. For those of you who are looking for advice and resources because you cannot work from home, please Contact Me and let's take it from there.
A recording of the Transitioning to Remote Work webinar on March 18 is available here (54:26).
How should I tackle working from home?
For whatever reason, we're working from home now. All hundreds of thousands of us. And we're all coming at this new reality from VERY different perspectives. Here are just a few of the perspectives I talk about on my webinar that goes with this Blog article. I'm sure there are many more where this came from.
Once we have reflected on who we are and where we're coming from, we should take a deep breath because we understand 1) our own level of comfort and acumen working remotely, 2) my company's level of comfort and acumen working remotely, and 3) my ecosystem's level of comfort and acumen working remotely. It's important to know these three things because then you will know the #1 thing:
It is NOT 100% your responsibility to figure this out. It's only 1/3 of your responsibility.
Now that you believe that, you can focus on where you have control, and the first place you have control is how you tackle remote work.
For this I offer you: Mer's Top 3 Tips for Remote Work.
For Tip #1 for Remote Work, I discuss Mindfulness. Here is what you need to know:
For Tip #2 for Remote Work, I share Mer's Tips for Over-Communicating. Some of these include:
For Tip #3 for Remote Work, I discuss Organization. A few ways to get even more organized than ever include:
Next, I offer: Mer's Top 3 Tips for Managing.
For Tip #1 for Managing, I discuss Staying Connected. You will need to take advantage of tools like Salesforce, Quip, Slack, and more to make connection possible. You'll also need to be more strategic with your meetings, which could include:
For Tip #2 for Managing, I share how to Be Visible. You will need to develop and/or refine routines like:
For Tip #3 for Managing, I share how to Be Transparent with Mer's Tips for Over-Documenting. Some of these include:
Lastly, I would like to share: Mer's Top 10 Favorite Apps.
Rather than go through them in detail in this article, you'll find their logos below. You can learn more about them in the AdvancED Toolbox and in my handout Transitioning to Remote Work: Resources. You can also Contact Me with any questions or to ask for recommendations.
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Educators and Tools that Inspire.
Education has been at the cornerstone of my life, all my life. Whether it is the tool that empowers me to know and do new things, or the medium through which I empower others, education is key not just to my success but to my joy. And I’ve always believed it can be that for all of us, but life throws us around and the idea of learning new things feels more like work or chores than pleasure.
Working in college access for over 15 years, I’ve definitely seen students lose their love of learning, sometimes to distractions or to hardships, but sometimes also because of the way education is fed to them. We cannot expect students to be engaged if we do not make an effort to engage them. We cannot expect students to meet us where we are if we can’t bother to meet them where they are. I have met some of the most phenomenal educators in my life, from Alerie Flandez in San Jose, Meghann Panagsagan Seril in Los Angeles, to Karla Talkoff in Daly City. A common thread is that they see the student as human, don’t lose sight of their potential, and they themselves love to learn and strive to find new ways to teach the different personalities and learning styles they meet every single day.
I appreciate strategies that educators like Buddy Galletti have used to learn and to teach. Buddy was a Teaching Assistant for SCS Noonan Scholars (South Central Scholars when I worked there). Instead of going the route of teacher, he took a different, and totally interesting path. He became a researcher for Cal Poly, then a content developer for educational materials, and now he’s a software engineering student. Most of all, he’s a Mathematics Education enthusiast, and he’s been sharing his passion with the world with Buddy’s Math Problem of the Week. Buddy has taken his love of math, board games, sci-fi, and all kinds of awesome interests, to create puzzles for students.
Buddy is an educator that inspires me because he accepted his love for teaching, but also his desire to teach in ways that aligned with his own passions and interests. A lover of learning, he is back at school and every week he is applying what he learns in the world and in the field to a new problem for students to munch on. Buddy’s Math POW is an inspiring tool because these puzzles are fun, visual, and Buddy will reward you for your efforts. If you complete the puzzle, submit it, and get it right, he’ll list your name in the next week’s puzzle announcement!
I hope you are inspired to find other cool learning tools out there, or to create your very own. Comment below some great learning tools you have used or hope to try in the near future. Also, be sure to check out our AdvancED Toolbox for some of our favorite tools.
About Author: Meredith "Mer" Curry
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When a process is centered on target and is in state of statistical control, any adjustments to the process only increase variation. Adjusting a process that is in control is referred to as tampering.
The Funnel Experiment and Deming’s Four Rules
The classic analysis of the effects of tampering is Deming’s Funnel Experiment. In this experiment, participants drop marbles through a funnel suspended over a target. The funnel represents the process, the marble drop location is the feature being produced, and the target is the customer specification.
Deming described four approaches—also referred to as rules—that encompass the typical ways in which the experiment participants tamper with the funnel (Out of Crisis, 1986, p. 328).
Rule 1: No adjustment
The optimal approach is to leave the funnel fixed and aimed at the target, without making any adjustments. When a process is stable, centered, and shows only the inherent variation, there is no reason to make an adjustment.
The takeaway: Before attempting any process adjustment, you must gather enough data to make sure you understand the normal behavior of the process. Use a control chart to track variations, and then adjust the process only when special variations occur.
Rule 2: Adjustment from last position
Sometimes referred to as the “human nature” approach, some participants move the funnel after each drop, to try and compensate for the previous drop’s variation. In this approach, the funnel is moved the exact negative distance of the drop. Compensating for the “error” of the drop, might improve the on-target average but doubles the variation.
The takeaway: When participants compensate for error, the variation doubles—and remember, variation is the true issue. This problem is prevalent in gauge calibration when manufacturers adjust a gauge after taking one standard measurement.
Rule 3: Adjustment from target
Participants trying to take a “logical” approach also move the funnel to try to compensate for the previous drop. But in this instance, the funnel is moved not based on its last location, but on its distance from the target. For example, if the measurement of the previous drop was 5 units above the target, participants move the funnel 5 units below the target.
The takeaway: Although this approach seems logical, it results in an oscillating process.
Rule 4: Adjustment from last drop
In this approach, participants move the funnel to point at the previous drop rather than the target. In other words, at drop n, they set the funnel over the location of the n-1 drop. As you might expect, this approach creates a pattern that moves steadily away from the target.
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The Benefits of Zirconium Tooth Implants
For a beautiful appearance and self-confidence, having well-set, healthy and white teeth are essential to the appearance you have. Tooth Implants are a great option for those who do not have straight, shiny teeth.
Contrary to removable dentures Tooth Implants never slip or create embarrassing noises. They feel and look as natural teeth and are suitable for use as permanent dentures. Composed of titanium metal that fuses with your jawbone, Tooth Implants protect the health and function of the jaw.
Due to their excellent rate of success due to their high success rate, titanium implants are one of the most widely utilized tooth restorations for Tooth Implantology. 98 percent for lower implants and 91% for the upper.
Recently, non-metal material implants have been introduced to help replace a tooth, or even a few missing teeth. Zirconium Tooth Implants are a new type of tooth implants that are able to replace missing teeth. They provide greater precision as well as strength and aesthetic appeal than traditional titanium implants.
Overview of Zirconia
A precise understanding of the term zirconia is needed in the study of zirconium tooth Implants. Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) is commonly referred to as zirconia, or simply “whitesteel” and was first discovered by M. H. Klaproth (1789). Zirconia, which is extremely resistant to corrosion and heat is extensively used in the aviation and automotive industries. This “wonder material” has amazing properties, such as strong bending strength and toughness, as well as a weibull modulus.
Zirconia-based materials are known for their remarkable properties. They include the highest strength of their fractures, high chemical resistance, as well as the capability to create lab equipment.
Implants based on Zirconia
The zirconium-free metal tooth implants are also referred to as ceramic implants. They’ve now become a replacement for traditional titanium tooth restorations. Patients who suffer from sensitivity to metal implants, can go for zirconium Dental Implants which are 100% non-metal.
Fake dental roots are constructed out of special ceramic (Zirconium Oxide), which is extremely resistant to heat, corrosion and fracture.
Zirconia is naturally white , so the bridges or crowns created out of it appear transparent. They also look very like natural teeth as well as roots.
Unlike the metal crowns, zirconium Tooth Implants permit the light to be reflected as a normal tooth.
Regarding the durability of these implants goes they are very robust and stable. They are also strong enough to withstand the wear and tear that comes with everyday use. They can last a lifetime.
Because of their rough surface texture these implants have excellent biological compatibility and are well-received by the gingiva.
Implants are extremely well-bonded with the jaw bone and are accepted by gums.
Zirconium Tooth Implants are approved by the FDA, German and other European Governors Boards.
These implants are entirely non-metal and are able to be used for patients who suffer with allergies or who do not wish to have any replacements made of metal for missing teeth.
Zirconium Tooth implants hold less plaque and calculus and are virtually free of inflammation, sensitivity to metal and metal corrosion. This will give you healthier gums and overall health.
Zirconium implant implants made of zirconium are an ideal option for people who wish to replace broken or missing teeth with dental implants that are not made of metal. However, like any surgical procedure, implants also are not without dangers and issues.
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On 4 November 2019, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) approved an electricity retailer authorisation application from Y.E.S. Energy (SA) Pty Ltd (Y.E.S. Energy) under the National Energy Retail Law (Retail Law).
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P15 - Posters: Signal Processing
Sunday, October 9, 1:00 pm — 2:30 pm
P15-1 The Design of Half-Band FIR Filters Using Ripple Attenuation of a Manipulated Lowpass—Duane Wise, Consultant - Boulder, CO, USA
This paper investigates a technique for extracting a half-band FIR filter from a lowpass root FIR. Employing this technique with a root filter designed with an optimal least squares algorithm can result in a half-band FIR with very low ripple over most of the pass-band and stop-band, at the expense of ripple size at the band-edges. The principal advantage of this technique is in the design of half-band FIRs with less priority to band-edge ripple without the manipulation of an arbitrary weighting function.
Convention Paper 6602 (Purchase now)
P15-2 Single Channel Source Separation Using Short-Time Independent Component Analysis—Dan Barry, Dublin Institute of Technology - Dublin, Ireland; Derry Fitzgerald, Cork Institute of Technology - Cork, Ireland; Eugene Coyle, Dublin Institute of Technology - Dublin, Ireland; Bob Lawlor, National University of Ireland - Maynooth, Ireland
In this paper we develop a method for the sound source separation of single channel mixtures using Independent Component Analysis within a time-frequency representation of the audio signal. We apply standard Independent Component Analysis techniques to contiguous magnitude frames of the short-time Fourier transform of the mixture. Provided that the amplitude envelopes of each source are sufficiently different, it can be seen that it is possible to recover the independent short-time power spectra of each source. A simple scoring scheme based on auditory scene analysis cues is then used to overcome the source ordering problem ultimately allowing each of the independent spectra to be assigned to the correct output source. A final stage of adaptive filtering is then applied, which forces each of the spectra to become more independent. Each of the sources is then resynthesized using the standard inverse short-time Fourier transform with an overlap add scheme.
Convention Paper 6603 (Purchase now)
P15-3 A New Class of Smooth Power Complementary Windows and their Application to Audio Signal Processing—Deepen Sinha, ATC Labs - Chatham, NJ, USA; Anibal Ferreira, University of Porto - Porto, Portugal and ATC Labs, Chatham, NJ, USA
In this paper we describe a new family of smooth power complementary windows, which exhibit a very high level of localization in both time and frequency domain. This window family is parameterized by a "smoothness quotient." As the smoothness quotient increases the window becomes increasingly localized in time (most of the energy gets concentrated in the center half of the window) and frequency (far field rejection becomes increasing small to the order of -150 dB or lower). A closed form solution for such window function exists and the associated design procedure is described. The new class of windows are quite attractive for a number of applications as switching functions, equalization functions, or as windows for overlap-add and modulated filterbanks. An extension to the family of smooth windows that exhibits improved near-field response in frequency domain is also described.
Convention Paper 6604 (Purchase now)
P15-4 Active Leak Compensation in Small-Sized Loudspeakers Using Digital Signal Processing—Varun Chopra, Chalmers University of Technology - Gothenburg, Sweden
The frequency response of a small-sized loudspeaker unit used in applications such as mobile telephones changes substantially with changes in the acoustical load of the speaker. Presently, an acoustical solution is used for reducing the variations in the acoustical load of the loudspeaker. The acoustical solution relies on certain space and volume considerations to function satisfactorily, which are difficult to attain in today's compact mobile phones. An unconventional approach using digital signal processing to counter such degradation in frequency response is described here.
Convention Paper 6605 (Purchase now)
P15-5 Digital Signal Processing within the Steinberg VST Architecture—Roberto Osorio-Goenaga, New York University - New York, NY, USA
Steinberg Media Technologies, GmbH, of Germany, is one of the leading manufacturers of professional-audio hardware and software products. Within their software realm, they have developed a plug-in architecture for adding third-party DSP functionality for program developers who choose to support it. The architecture, commonly referred to as VST (virtual studio technology), has become a standard for third-party add-ons over the last decade, partly because of its cross-platform functionality. The software development kit (SDK) for VST plug-ins is available free of charge from Steinberg and is optimized for building within Microsoft’s Visual C++ environment on x86 PC’s, and on the CodeWarrior environment for Apple computers. This paper will focus on the implementation of classic and experimental filters within the aforementioned architecture, created and compiled on Visual C++; rebuilding these examples on a Mac should be a straightforward process. Documentation will include DSP literature as well as the process of creating VST plug-ins in a clear and understandable method. A suite of VST plug-ins will be produced and included as addendum for the project.
Convention Paper 6606 (Purchase now)
P15-6 Comparison Between Time Delay Based and Nonuniform Phase Based Equalization for Multichannel Loudspeaker-Room Responses—Sunil Bharitkar, Chris Kyriakakis, Audyssey Labs., Inc. and University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Traditionally, room response equalization is performed to improve sound quality at a listener. Given a loudspeaker and a listener, in a room, a loudspeaker-room response is obtained and an inverse filter is designed for loudspeaker-room magnitude response equalization. However, due to noncoincident positions of any two loudspeakers, in a multichannel setup, the combined response of the two loudspeakers may have an undesired broad spectral notch or peak or large spectral deviations in the crossover region. These spectral deviations introduced around the crossover, due to the combined phase response, generally cannot be compensated with magnitude response equalization. In this paper we compare two different methods (time delay and all-pass cascade) for correcting for the spectral deviations in the crossover region. We demonstrate that using non-uniform phase distribution, with all-pass filters, around the crossover region, as opposed to a constant phase (i.e., a fixed and optimized time delay in the satellite), it is possible to obtain better correction in the crossover region but with increased complexity. We also present an automatic approach for evaluating performance with the time-delay approach.
Convention Paper 6607 (Purchase now)
P15-7 Objective Function for Automatic Multiposition Equalization and Bass Management Filter Selection—Sunil Bharitkar, Chris Kyriakakis, Audyssey Labs., Inc. and University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Traditionally, multiposition room response equalization is performed to improve sound quality at multiple listeners. Furthermore, even after multiposition equalization, due to noncoincident positions of the subwoofer and the satellite, in a multichannel setup, the combined response of the two loudspeakers may include undesirable spectral deviations in the crossover region, which are different at different positions. These spectral deviations introduced around the crossover, due to the combined phase response, may be fixed by proper choice of the bass management filters. In this paper we present an objective function that can be used to characterize the performance of multiposition equalization, determine the uniformity of equalization, as well as allow automatic selection of the bass management filters for correcting the spectral deviations in the crossover region.
Convention Paper 6608 (Purchase now)
P15-8 Acoustical Monitoring Research for National Parks and Wilderness Areas—Rob Maher, B. Jerry Gregoire, Zhixin Chen, Montana State University - Bozeman, MT, USA
The natural sonic environment, or soundscape, of parks and wilderness areas is not yet fully characterized in a scientific sense. Published research in the U.S. National Park System is generally based on short-term sound level measurements or visitor response surveys associated with regulatory evaluation of noise intrusions from motorized recreational vehicles, tour aircraft, or nearby industrial activity. This paper reviews the history of soundscape studies in the National Park System and describes several recent advances that will allow automated recording and analysis of long-term audio recordings covering days, weeks, and months at a time.
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P4 - Spatial Perception and Processing
Friday, October 7, 1:30 pm — 4:30 pm
Chair: Richard Stroud
P4-1 Audibility of Spectral Switching in Head-Related Transfer Functions—Pablo Faundez Hoffmann, Henrik Møller, Aalborg University - Aalborg, Denmark
Binaural synthesis of a time-varying sound field is performed by updating head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). The updating is done to reflect the changes in the sound transmission to the listener’s ears that occur as a result of moving sound. Unless the differences in HRTFs are sufficiently small, a direct switching between them will cause an audible artifact that is heard as a click. By modeling HRTFs as minimum-phase filters and pure delays, it is possible to study the effects of spectral and time switching separately. Time switching was studied in a previous investigation. This work presents preliminary results on minimum audible spectral switching (MASS).
Convention Paper 6537 (Purchase now)
P4-2 Virtual Source Location Information for Binaural Cue Coding—Sang Bae Chon, In Yong Choi, Han-gil Moon, Seoul National University - Seoul, Korea; Joengil Seo, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute - Daejeon, Korea; Koeng-Mo Sung, Seoul National University - Seoul, Korea
Binaural Cue Coding (BCC) is an audio coding technology that expresses multichannel audio signals with mono or stereo downmixed audio signal(s) and side information which are Inter-Channel Level Difference (ICLD), Inter- Channel Time Delay (ICTD), and Inter-Channel Correlation (ICC). Among these, the ICLD describes the level difference between the signal of one channel and the reference downmixed signal of the BCC system. This ICLD plays the most important role to lateralize spatial image. However, the fact that the spatial image of sound is created by the location of the sound source in nature raises the question whether there is a more direct solution to describe the location of the sound source for the spatial image than ICLD. Virtual Source Location Information (VSLI), the proposed new side information in this paper, provides an answer to this question.
Convention Paper 6538 (Purchase now)
P4-3 Perceptual Movement of Auditory Images Fed through Multiway Loudspeakers Perpendicularly Set Up—Yu Agatsuma, Eiichi Miyasaka, Musashi Institute of Technology - Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Vertical localization and perceptual movement of auditory images were investigated through 8 loudspeakers perpendicularly set up with each loudspeaker 30-cm. The results obtained by more than 20 observers show that the localization was fairly identified for one octave bands of noises with the center frequencies from 2 to 8 kHz, and smooth movement of auditory images from low to high was perceived when a stimulus consisting of one octave bands of noises was linearly climbed up with a various movement speed.
Convention Paper 6539 (Purchase now)
P4-4 High Order Spatial Audio Capture and its Binaural Head-Tracjed Playback Over Headphones with HRTF Cues—Ramani Duraiswami, Dmitry Zotkin, Zhiyun Li, Elena Grassi, Nail Gumerov, Larry Davis, University of Maryland - College Park, MD, USA
A theory and a system for capturing an audio scene and then rendering it remotely are developed and presented. The sound capture is performed with a spherical microphone array. The sound field at the location is deduced from the captured sound and is represented using either spherical wave-functions or plane-wave expansions. The sound field representation is then transmitted to a remote location for immediate rendering or stored for later us. The sound renderer, coupled with the head tracker, reconstructs the acoustic field using individualized head-related transfer functions to preserve the perceptual spatial structure of the audio scene. Rigorous error bounds and a Nyquist-like sampling criterion for the representation of the sound field are presented and verified.
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P4-5 Performance of Spatial Audio Using Dynamic Cross-Talk Cancellation—Tobias Lentz, Ingo Assenmacher, Jan Sokoll, Aachen University (RWTH) - Aachen, Germany
Creating a virtual sound scene with spatial distributed sources needs a technique to introduce spatial cues into audio signals and an appropriate reproduction system. In our case a complete binaural approach is used. It consists of binaural synthesis and head-tracked dynamic cross talk cancellation (CTC) for the reproduction of the binaural signal at the ears of the listener. In this paper performance and limitations of the complete system and also the various subsystems will be investigated and discussed. The channel separation of the dynamic CTC system is measured for various positions in the listening area as well as the subjective accomplishment of the localization is examined in listening tests.
Convention Paper 6541 (Purchase now)
P4-6 An Application of Lined-Up Loudspeaker Array System for Mixed Reality Audio-Visual Reproduction System—Hiroyuki Okubo, Yasushige Nakayama, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories - Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan; Yoichi Naito, NHK Engineering Administration Department - Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan; Toshikazu Ikenaga, NHK Nagasaki Station - Nagasaki City, Nagasaki, Japan; Setsu Komiyama, NHK Broadcasting Engineering Department - Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
An interactive audio-visual system called the Mixed Reality Audio-Visual (MRAV) reproduction system has been developed. The MRAV system employs a method of stereoscopic image projection and a technique of multichannel sound field reproduction in which the loudspeaker array is able to focus the sound pressure in front of the listener to coincide with the three-dimensional (3-D) visual image. A new sound screen with a silver metallic coating has also been developed. It helps to maintain the sound quality even if it radiated from the loudspeaker array system when it is set behind the screen. This paper describes the design of the loudspeaker array system and it discusses our examination of the generated sound field corresponding to 3-D CG images.
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Bitter Gourd Tea Introduction
Bitter gourd is an interesting plant that not many people have heard of. Native to India, it was brought over to China in the 14th century and quickly started spreading throughout the world. Nowadays, this tropical plant grows mostly in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. It is most famous for its fruit which is considered to be the bitterest fruit in the world.
Its unusual taste didn’t stop people from making tea out of it. Also known as bitter melon tea, bitter gourd tea is made by steeping different parts of the plant including fruit, leaves, and seeds. The tea itself is not as bitter as the fresh fruit, but it still has quite the unique taste. So if you’re bored of usual tea flavors and are open to experimenting with new and interesting flavors, then bitter gourd tea is something that you must try. It is the perfect beverage for any real tea lover who likes to explore and go beyond the basic herbal teas.
The bitter gourd is a peculiarly shaped plant, looking a lot like a cucumber, with a rough, warty surface. It is actually very famous in Indian cuisine where it has been used for centuries to make different meals, often accompanied by channa chickpeas or hollowed out and filled with spices, onions, and garlic.
Apart from use in cooking, bitter melon was drunk as a freshly squeezed juice in traditional Indian homes. Even today, you can buy this juice in Indian stores and pharmacies. The Japanese and Chinese also included bitter gourd in their cuisine and for making beer.
The reason why this plant is so popular in the East is its incredible medicinal value. It is considered to be a miraculous plant and that’s what made bitter melon tea so popular. People drank the tea and have eaten the plant in different meals in order to preserve their health and get a massive amount of vitamins in their body without too many calories.
The healing properties of this amazing tea have been known for many years, going back to the Hindu and Ayurvedic medicine. Only in recent years has this herb gained popularity in the Western world and people started to recognize it. Many studies have shown what the ancient Asian people knew all along; bitter gourd is a superfood which means it is extremely healthy and good for you and drinking this tea can have so many positive consequences.
The only instances when you should not drink bitter gourd tea is when you’re pregnant. Although this is not medically confirmed, this tea could have bad effects on the pregnancy because of its potency, so it is better to be safe than sorry and not drink this tea while the pregnancy lasts. Everybody else can drink many cups of this tea a day and feel the positive effects of this incredible beverage.
Taste and Smell Profile
• Flavor: Sweet and floral
• Color: Yellow
• Smell: Sweet
Bitter Gourd (Melon) Profile
• Before Brewing: Yellow, crunchy
• After Brewing: Soft and mushy
About AiryTea Bitter Gourd (Melon) Tea Package
• Tea Type: Bitter Gourd (Melon) Tea
• Weight: 150g
• Shelf Life: 18 months
• Tea Storage Recommendation: Store it in a cool and dry place away from sunlight.
Top 10 Bitter Gourd (Melon) Tea Benefits
Despite its name, a lot of people love the taste and smell of bitter gourd tea. That is not the only positive effect of this tea, however, as it is extremely beneficial to your body, digestion, blood and overall brain function. It can make you feel more energized and ready to go, and that is something we all need in our daily lives.
This low calorie fruit is packed full of vitamins A, C, D, E, K, B6, and B12. It will provide you with the extremely important and healthy omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. It also contains minerals that are essential to our body (fluoride, selenium, manganese, copper, zinc, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, and calcium). It is no wonder people have started to call bitter melon a superfood! The best thing is, many modern studies confirm the positive effect of this tea, so there is no reason to doubt it.
You should order this unique tea now and give your body what it needs! To explore the full list of the jaw-dropping bitter gourd health benefits, click on the link below.
1. Bitter Gourd Tea Flushes Out Kidney Stones
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How To Brew / Prepare Bitter Gourd Tea?
There are a couple of ways that you can brew bitter gourd tea, but this method is the best one. You put the tea in a pot of boiling water, cook for about a minute and then put the tea into a teapot until the tea color is concentrated enough to drink. And the tea is ready for your enjoyment. This brewing method is best because the tea has a very rich taste.
Bitter Gourd Tea Shipping Times
We are proud to offer two great shipping methods that will suit everyone’s needs.
Flat Rate Shipping
- Great for people who are not in a hurry and want to save on even more for bitter gourd tea. This method will take around 10 to 30 days to arrive.
- For everyone who wants to try our melon tea as soon as possible, pick this method and get your tea in just 1 to 5 business days.
Please note: this excludes handling time, which is usually less than 24 hours. However, if there are certain situations beyond our control (such as the post office being closed) it may take up to 72 hours for your package to be shipped.
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Appointments vary per artist. Please go to our contact page and submit a tattoo request to be put in touch with your selected artist. Also, feel free to visit your artist's Instagram to find out specifically when they open their schedule.
Due to the high volume of inquiries, tattoos are by appointment only. Once the contact email has been sent, a consult will be established to talk specifics and schedule a tattoo appointment.
The purpose of the consultation is to discuss the many variables that go into making your tattoo and to ensure there is clear communication between the client and the tattooer. Questions regarding pricing, scheduling, the general process of a tattoo, and the client's tattoo ideas are all covered during the consult. If a client is coming from out of state and an in person consultation is not feasible other arrangements can be made.When meeting for the consult the client is expected to bring any reference material to assist in describing the tattoo they would prefer. A deposit between $50 - $100 is also to be brought to the consult in order to secure a tattoo appointment (cash is preferred).
The deposit is to secure your tattoo appointment and will be deducted off the price of your tattoo upon the final tattoo session. Hours of time are devoted to responding to emails, maintaining supplies, maintaining the studio, consulting clients, and drawing designs for appointments. Deposits are a small security to assure that the client is serious about the tattoo process. Deposits are non refundable. If a client cannot make the appointment and gives notice prior to 48 hours (although a week's notice is preferred) the deposit can be transferred and the appointment rescheduled for another day.
The studio is cash only. We do however accept electronic payment to secure a deposit online in instances where clients are from out of town and out of state.
Visit the Tattoo Aftercare page for more information.
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My name is Alex Izraev and I am a cinematographer and gaffer based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ever since I remember myself, I was always interested in telling stories through artistic mediums, but the moment I laid my hands on a camera for the first time, I knew where I wanted to focus my life.
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Wallets are a crucial component of any crypto currency ecosystem and should be able to handle a rise in users in real time. Any trading desk or investing platform of any kind can easily be integrated with our wallet solution. We design, implement, and launch your crypto currency wallet with specialized features like facial biometric keyless wallets, multi-coin support, a QR scanner, cross-platform compatibility, and automatic conversion rates. If your company is starting a blockchain initiative, you must build a wallet so that users may carry out blockchain transactions. Benefits of building a crypto currency wallet.
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Easily accessible through your smartphone as an app, and is also available in all the platforms, makes accessibility better than ever. The idea of mobile wallet app development is highly gaining popularity in the payment landscape.
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Keyless crypto wallet is the use of a private key in the form of a biometric 3d scan in which you can let yourself be reminded of your private key address as it is no longer necessary.
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Do you know that you can save tons of time in typing large names or places using the ‘Find and Replace’ tool in PowerPoint? In this article we will explore how to use the tool creatively to save you time and improve productivity.
You can find the tool in the Home tab of PowerPoint ribbon. It is positioned in the top right corner of the tab as shown here.
Check the option for Guides to turn the
Guides on. We have already covered the second option of Smart Guides in a previous article here.
Let us say you have a large corporate presentation with 150 slides. You are interested only in the ‘Financials’ section of the presentation. You can click on the ‘Find’ tool. A window pops up.
You type the word ‘Financials’ and click on ‘Find next’. This will take you to the next instance where the word ‘Financials’ occurs in the presentation.
You can keep finding any number of specific words and jump to those sections without having to go through all the slides.
The cool thing about the ‘Find’ tool is, PowerPoint remembers all the searches you made earlier. Let us say, you want to go back to find the slide that contains the word ‘Financials’ after performing some other search. You can click on the drop down arrow and select ‘Financials’ instead of retyping.
That saves you some time in typing.
Let us say you created a 60 slide presentation about a company called ‘Hitech Software’. Only on landing at the company board room you realize that the name of the company is ‘Hitechs Software’. You can’t keep finding ‘Hitech’ on each slide and add an extra ‘s’ to the name. It is not only time consuming but also error prone. Instead go to the ‘Find and Replace’ tool we talked about earlier and click on ‘Replace’ button. A dialog box opens up.
You enter the wrong spelling under the ‘Find what:’ section and type the correct spelling under ‘Replace with:’ section and hit ‘Replace All’. In one go, all the string ‘Hitech’ gets changed to ‘Hitechs’.
Let us say you want to make a presentation on ‘Photosynthesis’. There may be a number of instances where you may need to use the word during your presentation. It is not only laborious to type the word each time but is also error prone.
Here is a simple way to overcome the issue. Every time you need to type the word, type ‘ppp’ instead. Once you finish your entire presentation, you can replace ‘ppp’ with ‘photosynthesis’ using the ‘Replace All’ button. You save a lot of time and frustration with this simple technique.
Simple tricks like using ‘Replace’ tool the smart way is one way to save time while building your business presentations. Another way to save time is to use PowerPoint graphics and diagram templates instead of building them from scratch.
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I hope you found this tutorial useful. You can find many more such PowerPoint tricks in our tutorials section.
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Gold Leaf Arrowhead DIY Necklace
This Gold Leaf Arrowhead DIY Necklace is a perfect autumn accessory. The metallic look of the gold leaf adds an eye-catching shine, and the rough grooves of the clay add a great texture, making this pendant easy to pair with any fall outfit. We can easily picture this arrowhead over a cable knit sweater or layered long sleeves. Plus, this clay jewelry DIY is super easy and customizable, so you can craft your arrowhead pendant to suit you. Check out the tutorial to learn how to make an arrowhead out of clay and gold leaf!
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Time to CompleteUnder an hour
Bead Project TypeNecklace
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Reciprocating & Jig Saw Blades
Available with a variety of shanks to fit any tool for use with metals, plaster, wood, ceramic, tile, marble, slate and composites. | <urn:uuid:2d2c8d1c-208e-4861-87a7-dec067aec703> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.allgrade.ca/cutting-tools | 2023-09-22T12:42:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.888629 | 179 |
This ranch-style layout offers a convenient and easy living experience with all rooms on one level. The living room and kitchen seamlessly connect, creating an open and inviting space for entertaining or spending quality time with family. Despite its small square footage, the home has great potential for customization and expansion with the unfinished basement that can be transformed into additional living space, a recreational area, or a home office. The large, flat lot provides ample room for outdoor enjoyment, whether it be gardening, playing sports, or simply relaxing in the fresh air. This home is an ideal choice for those seeking a cozy and manageable home with the opportunity to personalize and enhance it according to their needs and preferences.
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If you're thinking about buying or selling, connect with us for a no-pressure, no obligation discussion about your goals. | <urn:uuid:b9e6179f-2138-4005-a583-07b2e1cfc9da> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.allseasonsrealtygroup.com/property/ma/01247/north-adams/-/77-barth-st/64c3c4fa2f3e500a379b869a/ | 2023-09-22T12:59:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.926072 | 292 |
Meanwhile in Finland …
A week ago Miika Antti-Roiko hit a new Clean & Jerk PR.
202kg at 97kg bodyweight.
Oh and if you didn’t already see it on the All Things Gym Facebook Page here is his 232.5kg Front Squat triple.
And because all good things come in threes here is a clip from the Finnish training camp.
Update: Milko’s latest training video.
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Dambulla Cave Temple
Dambulla, Sri Lanka
Visit Dambulla Cave Temple. The cave closes from 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM for religious activities. You will need walking shoes as there is steep climb to reach the cave temples. Please wear light colored clothing (preferably white attire) and make sure your knees and shoulders are covered, a sign of respect. You will be asked to leave your shoes at the entrance before entering the temple. In total, the hike will take approximately 2 hours.
Dambulla is a vast isolated rock mass 500 feet high and a mile around the base. Here you will find the famous Rock Temple dating to the First Century B.C. The caves of Dambulla sheltered King Walagamba during his 14 years of exile from Anuradhapura. When he regained the throne he built the most magnificent of Rock Temples to be found in the Island.
In the first Cave is a recumbent image of the Buddha 47ft long cut out of the Rock. There are images of deities associated with Buddhism all around. The frescoes on the walls and the ceiling are the oldest here but they are over painted in the Kandy period.
In the Second Cave, the finest and the largest of all, there are 150 life-size statues of the Buddha in various postures with few statues of Gods and Kings. The ceiling is also covered with frescoes, which depict great events in the life of the Buddha and landmarks in the history of the Sinhalese people. | <urn:uuid:dbc30f4e-c647-4c12-9c0f-943f549277eb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.alluringasia.com/post/dambulla-cave-temple | 2023-09-22T12:25:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.950129 | 317 |
Dark Grey Wool Blanket With Polar Bears
A quality wool blanket with Bear motifs is perfect for a grown up chalet style , these are perfect for adult rooms as well as childrens rooms as sometimes blankets with Bear motifs can be slightly kitch
Biella fabrics are a small family business based in the Mountains and the owner tells you when you meet him that the quality is fabulous because the Mountain water used in the making is first rate!
This blanket is a dark Grey wool , which gives the impression the blanket is a boiled wool and the bears are raised in a white boucle effect and the blanket is finished off with a blanket stitch on the edges.
The Bear is repeated the full length of the blanket making this perfect to use as a decorative cover on a bed or striking draped on a sofa or armchair
Measures: 2 metres by 1.45 Metres
Fabric : Wool
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Company selected along with A123 Systems, Renewable Energy Services (RES), and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) for the development of advanced technologies to address issues with intermittent power output from photovoltaic systems
BOSTON--Satcon Technology Corporation® (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading provider of utility-grade power conversion solutions for the renewable energy market, along with A123 Systems, Renewable Energy Services (RES), and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) announced today that they have been selected by the California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) to receive a $2 million grant to develop and demonstrate methods to reduce the effects of renewable power intermittency. The grant is part of a larger initiative to develop the core solutions to enable higher penetration of renewable power onto the electric grid through advanced solar energy harvest, storage and array control capabilities.
Utility-scale solar deployment is a crucial part in attaining California's renewable energy goals, including achieving 33 percent of utility loads in the state with renewable energy by 2020. Successfully managing the intermittent nature of solar energy remains a challenge for Utilities looking to increase the deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants on their grid networks. This Satcon led project is designed to address these grid integration challenges through the development of PV integrated electric energy storage systems capable of voltage and frequency support, PV firming, real power dispatch and ramp rate control. The project team will develop, test and demonstrate the proposed technology at SMUD's corporate headquarters in Sacramento, California.
"One of SMUD's key challenges is to ensure that the grid is able to serve loads at all times while accommodating higher levels of renewable energy integration. Addressing key issues, such as ensuring a stable power flow into the grid from renewable sources, is critical to the success of using renewables as a major energy supplier," said Mark Rawson of SMUD. "Satcon's expertise in advanced solar inverter system technologies and experience with large-scale solar plant grid integration, combined with A123's advanced lithium ion battery technology, will help us address these key challenges via this project."
The project is part of the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Renewable Program, which funds initiatives that help meeting research, development and demonstration needs related to more rapid and environmentally responsible deployment of utility-scale renewable energy. The project will be the first of its kind to demonstrate a highly efficient and cost effective electric energy storage system specifically designed and optimized for grid tied PV applications.
The system will be comprised of a 500kW PV array, Satcon's 500kW PowerGate Plus utility-ready inverter solution and a 500kWh advanced lithium ion battery energy storage system from A123 that will leverage a high power, high voltage version of Satcon's battery power conditioning system (Satcon Spectrum PCS) featuring Satcon's EDGE Adaptive Control Architecture™ (EDGE ACA) to enable voltage stabilization, frequency control and continuous operation of the PV plant in the event of major grid instabilities including faults.
"Satcon has always been the industry's leading innovator for large-scale solar power production and power plant control," said Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer for Satcon. "As we seek to integrate renewable energy sources into the grid, improved controls and energy storage systems to reduce power output fluctuations become critical. These capabilities have been developed and deployed across multiple projects over the past four years, including commercial PV and energy storage integration projects and the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) development and demonstration project funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The Energy Commission project enables us to accelerate the development and deployment of the next generation of controls and energy storage technologies that are central to tomorrow's power grid."
Satcon Technology Corporation is the leading provider of utility scale power solutions for the renewable energy market, enabling the industry's most advanced reliable and proven clean energy alternatives. For over 27 years, Satcon has designed and delivered the next generation of efficient energy systems for solar photovoltaic, stationary fuel cells, and energy storage systems. To learn more about Satcon, please visit www.Satcon.com | <urn:uuid:8ece0ab1-2a2e-4b15-aa35-8b0905410e77> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.altenergymag.com/news/2012/07/13/satcon-awarded-2-million-grant-by-california-energy-commission/10573/ | 2023-09-22T12:02:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.913971 | 851 |
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